Pelosi Toasts Bonds-Pelosi Bonds Toast

Finally, Pelosi Toasts Bonds And His "Rightful Place Among Sport's Immortals"

Yeah, well, botox, steroids, whatever.

Secret Shoppers Needed in Toledo Government

From Thurber's Thoughts

More unnecessary spending

And then there is the concept that our mayor is spending tax dollars to
evaluate local businesses. To further add insult to injury, he publicly chastizes them because they don't 'measure up.' If I were a prospective visitor who'd just read this article, I'd be looking for a hotel in Perrysburg, as the mayor certainly didn't cast our hotels in a positive light.

I can't help but wonder - after he's finished with the hotels, what
will be next? Will he turn his attention to local restaurants? retail outlets?
movie theaters?

Perhaps everyone would be better served if he turned those secret
shoppers on the city departments and agencies...especially since he has direct
authority over those entities - and that's what he was elected to do.

I think this is a great civic idea. The Mayor doesn't seem to listen to the citizenry. Maybe he'll listen to his own "truth squad". Did he say anything about "The Kaptur Inn"? I must have missed that.

HT to Carnival of Ohio Politics via the always cool, never nerdy, "Run BAK" aka, Ben Keeler.

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A Michael Totten Must Read

Via Crusader Rabbit

An Iraqi Interpreter’s Story
By Michael J. Totten

MJT: Anything you want to say that I didn’t ask you about?

Hammer: Because of the few bad Iraqis who work as interpreters for
the U.S., no one trusts us. But if you give me a gun I will fight harder than
the Americans. You can go home. I can’t. I have to live in this country. If the
Americans don’t give a Green Card to me and my family, I have to stay in this
prison.

At Camp Taji the First Cavalry Division thinks interpreters are the
enemy. They decided that interpreters who aren’t American citizens have to take
the American flag off their uniforms before they are allowed to enter the dining
facility.

I cried that day.

I wasn’t supposed to, but I complained. I said It’s okay for me to
die outside wearing the American flag, but I can’t eat wearing the American flag
with Americans? That was the worst day of my life with the American
Army.

I’ll tell you what I tell my family. If I die here, wrap me in the
American flag when you bury me. I don’t want to be wrapped in the flag of Iraq.

Hammer is looking for employment in and permanent relocation to the
United States for himself, his wife, and his son. If you can sponsor him for a
Green Card and help save his family, email him at superlink_par@yahoo.com and superlink_70@yahoo.com

Making The World A Better Place One House At A Time

It’s a Female Dog, or Worse. Or Endearing. And Illegal?

I have banned the words "butch" and "hoe" not only in my house, I have extended the ruling to the boundaries of my yard.

We had to fire our gardener, O'Donnell. You have to break a few eggs for the omelet, eh?

If Loving You Is Wrong...

we've been right about everything the last five years

So laugh at their increasing irrelevance. 2006 was a vindication of
everything we've worked for those years, and 2008 won't be any
different.

So says the Kos. If you don't want to read the whole rant, the summary is "Nanny-nanny poo-poo."

Got relevance? I guess the white street boys yearly get together with Kosmo didn't go diversely well this year.

Stick a fork in it Kosmo. You're ranting.

The Most Perfect Building Ever Built?

Militaristic Democrats Get More Troops Killed

HT to Webutante

UPDATE: I am hat tipping Webutante because her site is very cool. I do most of my hunting in the meat and fish section of Krogers (a regional grocery store), but I have always loved deep sea fishing and I have had an affinity for learning and doing fly fishing. This very fine lady knows her stuff. I am enjoying, but also learning from her site. Plus, I love big sky country though my area is down in the 4 corners area as well as Taos.

I Got Your Union Bug Right Here

Left-Leaning Bloggers Debate Forming Labor Union

Sitting at a panel titled "A Union for Bloggers: It's Time to Organize"
at this week's YearlyKos Convention for bloggers in Chicago, Burgard said she'd
welcome a chance to join a unionized blogging community.

"I sure would like to have that union bug on my Web site," said
Burgard, a blogger who uses the moniker Bendy Girl.

NYTs Smaller Pages--Smaller Lies

Honey, They Shrunk The ....Times? Smaller 'NYT' Coming on Monday

Angkor Wat

I love B&W photography. It is my preference, but this site is impressive.
Each of the 23 towers of Angkor Thom, one of the largest sub-cities inside Angkor Wat, is covered with these faces. Like many of the remaining ruins, this one was built by king Jayavarman VII, whose face has been combined with Buddha's throughout the city to create a combined royal and religious imposing presence that permeates the city.
www.stuckincustoms.com

Ron Paul's Presidential Victory Margin Grows

Who do you think won the Republican debate?

Ron Paul 19,680

Mitt Romney 3,039

Rudy Giuliani 2,545

Nobody. I'm waiting for Fred Thompson or Newt Gingrich to enter the race. 2,333

Nobody won. I'm voting Democratic. 2,050

Mike Huckabee 1,805

Sam Brownback 950

Tom Tancredo 541

John McCain 515

Tommy Thompson 354

Duncan Hunter 334

Total Vote: 34,146

Ron Paul has increased his Presidential vote lead submitted by his hand picked staff of 30 to 19,860 which breaks down the multiple voting and the dead vote to an average of 656 votes per person, depending on how long each voter has been dead or how long the semi-alive voters could concentrate during one session at the computer.

It is reported that Hoffa delivered the increased dead vote, but Hoffa did not return phone calls in reference to this story. Youngstown police also had no comment nor did the turf at Giant's Stadium.

Daily Kos supplied the necessary voters in the semi-alive/conscious column, but was too busy scrubbing comments detrimental to American soldiers and the kos cause to comment for this story.

Favorite son, Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson, former President, stated that Paul would be supported financially whole heartedly by Brown and Root if Lady Bird heard the singing and if, a big if, Brown and Root got the final "okay" from cough VP Cheney who now mentally controls Halliburton, the present owner of Brown and Root. Johnson was not available for comment for this article, but unnamed sources in Iraq stated it is all a "corporate profit scheme" that supports the war. The same source stated that Building 7 was imploded by unnamed operatives from Israel.

Developing....

Roma

Gods of Rome but not Roman Gods

Trey Ratcliff

Roman Forum Temple Ruins

By Weinerd

Paul--Never a Reason To Go To War

GOP Hopefuls Generally Agree on Iraq

Republican presidential contenders sparred over abortion on Sunday but
generally agreed the United States must remain in Iraq as part of the war on
terror.

"Just come home," countered Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the lone dissenter
on a debate stage when it came to Iraq. He said there had never been a good
reason to go to war in the first place.

"Has he forgotten about 9/11?" interjected former Massachusetts
Gov. Mitt Romney.

I beg to differ. Let's just discuss one war, WWII. Evil is a weed that must be destroyed all the way to its deepest root. To ignore evil is to acquiesce in evil.

To not help people that are being slaughtered, tortured and held in political bondage is an evil. An unthinkable evil that stuns me coming from Americans who have enjoyed so much freedom and now have become so selfish as to not help others.

Selfishness becomes stupidity for those unwilling to defend themselves, especially those who close their eyes and deny even the necessity.

Ron Paul Wins Debate, Wins Presidency

Brownback 22% 6,634

Giuliani 15% 4,530

Huckabee 3% 887

Hunter 2% 488

McCain 2% 490

Paul 40% 11,760

Romney 12% 3,639

Tancredo 3% 796

T. Thompson 2% 504

Total Votes: 29,723

President Elect Paul enthusiastically thanked all 30 of the people that voted for him 392 times each, "With campaign workers such as you, the "will" of the people will be realized throughout my next 6 terms as president."

Democrats Raise Price of Gas & Food, Worse than OPEC

House Approves Taxes on Oil Companies

Declaring a new direction in energy policy, the House on Saturday approved $16 billion in taxes on oil companies, while providing billions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives for renewable energy and conservation
efforts.


Republican opponents said the legislation ignored the need to
produce more domestic oil, natural gas and coal. One GOP
lawmaker bemoaned "the pure venom ... against the oil and gas industry."

The House passed the tax provisions by a vote of 221-189. Earlier it
had approved, 241-172, a companion energy package aimed at
boosting energy efficiency and expanding use of biofuels, wind power and
other renewable energy sources.

"We are turning to the future," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Yep, Nancy, we are headed in a new direction and it has little to do with energy policy except for you to pander to the enviro wackos for their votes. As usual, Congressional liberals don't really want to look at the effects of their policies such as bio and the rising cost of food in the wake of their feel good legislation.

Result, higher food prices, higher gas prices including home heating fuel and more taxes to the government and less money to actually solve problems that we, as a nation, face.

The right direction would be more domestic drilling and the building of more refineries, Congress won't accept that.
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Somebody should tell Congress that they are doing work on behalf of the pricing department of OPEC right here in America, but then I believe they already know that.

Barack, Arugala and Adel Iowa

Via Bloodthirsty Liberal

How not to campaign in Iowa

"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff." --Barack Obama, Friday in Adel, Iowa

Couple of problems here:

1) There are no Whole Foods stores in Iowa, so chances are no one from
Adel had "gone into" one lately.

2) Iowa grows mostly corn. Agricultural commodity issues are vrey
important here, but arugala isn't likely as critical to Iowans
as corn.

Maybe next time barACK can say it right. It's a Vejh. It. Ah. Buhll.

Pelosi, Most Stupid Statement of the Year

House Forms Special Panel Over Alleged Stolen Vote

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused Republicans
of blatant obstructionism.

"They've just been deluged by the success of the Democrats on behalf of
the American people," she said.

I've heard that Ahmadinejad actually believes the crap he spouts. Maybe the San Francisco Treat does too.

I mean, how does she say that with a straight face? How can 16 words be so wrong on so many levels?

Translation: I'm a delusional dame deluged by a do-nothing Congress being devoid of depth.

UPDATE: It is also the most laughable.

Black Muslims Murder Editor Because of Stories About Their Murder Record

Murder, mayhem, smashing other's inventory, sodomy, rape and a neighborhood bakery.

7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor

A day after a prominent newspaper editor was shot to death downtown,
the police here on Friday arrested seven men and seized several weapons that
they suspected were used in his killing and those of two other
men.

Oakland police officials said they suspected that the men were part of a group operating “a very violent criminal enterprise” out of a neighborhood bakery.

The arrests came after a predawn raid by SWAT teams at the bakery,
the Your Black Muslim Bakery, and three bakery-owned properties, where the
police found several firearms, including the gun they believe was used to kill
the editor, Chauncey Bailey, of the weekly Oakland Post.

Mr. Bailey, 57, was shot several times at close range on Thursday
morning at a busy intersection near the Alameda County courthouse here. He had
been working on an article for the newspaper about possible links between the
bakery and several killings in the area, said Walter Riley, a lawyer for the
newspaper’s publisher, Paul Cobb.

I love the smell of baked goods in the morning. It smells like victims.

The Surge, Liberal Lies and Their Desperate Effort to Not Lose the Loss They Need

Via This Ain't Hell

At the "screw'em" YearlyKos konference on skrewing the kountry and Irak.

AN ODD CLOSE. As the Military and Progressives panel came to an end, a
young man in uniform stood up to argue that the surge was working, and cutting
down on Iraqi casualties. The moderator largely freaked out. When other members of the panel tried to answer his question, he demanded they "stand down." He demanded the questioner give his name, the name of his commander, and the name of his unit. And then he closed the panel, no answer offered or allowed, and stalked off the stage,

Wes Clark took the mic and tried to explain what had just occurred:
The argument appears to be that you're not allowed to participate in politics
while wearing a uniform, or at least that you shouldn't, and that the questioner
was engaging in a sort of moral blackmail, not to mention a violation of the
rules, by doing so. Knowing fairly little about the army, I can't speak to any
of that. But it was an uncomfortable few moments, and seemed fairly contrary to
the spirit of the panel to roar down the member of the military who tried to
speak with a contrary voice.

Liberals respond with their usual aplomb.

Five bucks says the guy was a plant.
Posted by: Farinata X August 3, 2007 11:45 AM

I'm with Farinata on this one. Read Greenwald's post today to get
an idea of how hard the Bushies are working on properly propagandizing this war.
They know they've lost, now it's just the apportioning of blame.

"Since when is it a progressive principle to act as the "thought police"?"

Shut up, troll. you have become tiresome.
Posted by: brewmn August 3, 2007 12:10 PM

Simply put, the success we are now seeing in Iraq could be the end of liberal hope of destroying Bush and condemning Conservatives to the back benches.

They practice the freedoms our soldiers defend, but they wouldn't understand freedom if it bit them in the butt.

I agree with you brewmn, trolls have become tiresome, so why don't you shut up.