Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy

My wife's family fished the sea since before the Turks sacked the village burning the old church in 1477. Thus, the new church was built, they think, in 1478.

Pictured is a fishing stand, as an example, used for centuries by the people on the Adriatic.

Upon visiting with my wife and father-in-law, they were both recognized immediately and we could want for nothing for our entire visit.

Gawker, kos, Wonkette Knowingly Post Fake Palin SAT Docs

Gee, why haven't we heard the outrage from the Democrat Party and their PR firm, the mainstream media, about the constant barrage of lies and forgeries from the Dan Rather School of "Truthiness"?

Nutroots use my SAT scoresheet to forge 'Palin Grades'

These guys win nothing with their constant lies. Any victory is hollow.

They shame themselves, but they don't care. They have no soul.

Damn Global Warming

I blame Bush Gore.

Boise gets earliest snow on record

McCain Tried To Clean Up Democrat Made Fannie/Freddie Crisis

I guess Obama was too busy with ACORN, Rezko, et al for this change. So was Pelosi, Reid, Meeks, Schumer, Dodd, Biden, and the other Democrats that cried racism as the market fell apart.

If It Is A New Day, Andrew Sullivan Must Be Lying As Usual

Maybe Andy's husband ought to stop beating him or whatever he is doing to make her lie pathologically.

"We have been given a clear warning about the vice-presidential nominee for the Republican party. We already know she is a pathological liar. We already know she refuses even basic transparency and accountability, refusing to hold a press conference as veep nominee for the first time in modern American political history and refusing to provide even minimal documentation of her fifth pregnancy. Barely into her first year as governor, as one might expect of such a person, she abused her power as governor of Alaska to persecute a former family member:"

We "know" she is a pathological liar? No we don't. We know you are Andy.

We "know" she is refusing to hold a press conference? No, we don't you don't either. It's not her call since she is part of a campaign.

She is "refusing" documentation on her fifth pregnancy? Maybe, but then you don't release your viral or proctologist's reports either, so I guess that it's a wash, so to speak.

She "persecuted" a former family member? How is he persecuted when he still has his job, his badge and still carries a gun, has threatened to kill family members, appears to be drunk most of the time and just for fun tasered his 10 year old step-son.

I think the bearded Andy is just mesmerized by a uniform and a good looking guy with a long barreled pistola.

ACORN's Obama & Brunner Killing Representative Democracy In Ohio

The basis of a free society is an informed electorate, not voters bought and paid for, not drunks, the insane, the homeless nor students that sheepishly do what their professors tell them to do.

That Obama, his ACORN and their allies in crime like Jennifer Brunner, Ohio SOS, are killing fair voting is the ultimate goal of community organizers. The organizing is not to help, not to improve nor solve a problem, but is organizing to game the system, get what they want - rules and laws be damned - and to take power at the local level, then the state level and so with the federal level.

Key to this organizing is a long term commitment and lying through your teeth every step of the way.

Is ACORN Stealing The Election?
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Election Fraud: A radical group Barack Obama used to work for is committing voter-registration fraud in several states, ahead of the election. What does Obama know about this scam?
...

What does all this have to do with Obama, besides the fact that he'd be the beneficiary of most, if not all, of these new votes?

For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for "advance work.")

What's more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN's voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago's South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.

The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal "Motor Voter" law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.

Obama downplays his ties to ACORN, and his campaign denies coordinating with ACORN to register voters.

Meantime, New Orleans-based ACORN maintains that it has no control over volunteers who are falsifying application forms, that they're like employees who steal from the store.

But the fraud is widespread and not isolated. It also turns out that some ACORN execs allegedly are involved in a $1 million embezzlement cover-up at their headquarters. Representing them in the case is none other than Michelle Obama's old law firm in Chicago.

ACORN's corruption is not just out in the field, as they claim. There's a pattern of corruption from the top down.

McCain would be wise to start preparing a challenge to voter registration rolls should he lose the race in a close contest. He'd be crazy not to contest the results in light of these events.

The media will not explore this problem because they are part of the problem.

Media Try To Complete Democrat Financial Crash

Formula seems to be, Democrats start a crisis, blame Republicans with help of media and deny they had anything to do with it, cry racism and then run around screaming "the sky is falling".

DOW LOSES 18% FOR WEEK...Crisis becomes global crash...
Swagger turns to shudder a year after market high... 'MAY DROP 50% FROM TOP'... World finance chiefs grasp for solutions in firestorm...
FOOD RATIONS IN CUBA AS CRISIS GROWS...
Stocks Drop in Rollercoaster Session; Dow Average Swings 1,000 Points... Bush says anxiety feeding market instability... EUROPE STOCK ROUT...London shares bloodbath... Carter slams Bush on market crisis...WASH POST: The End Of American Capitalism?
BERLUSCONI: LEADERS MAY CLOSE WORLD'S MARKETS...White House dismisses...
Putin gets tiger cub for his birthday...

But, even though Bush caused a world financial crash, the fall of American authority and the death of capitalism, Putin has such a cute little Siberian Tiger cub. Isn't that sweet that a leader we should be so lucky to have has such kindness in his heart for such a cuddly little killer?

Palin's Troopergate Condensed

This is well put and states what the media will not state. Palin didn't abuse anything, the trooper is nuts and should be gone and, even in the face of facts, Democrats will outright lie about this report. Typical.

Branchflower report on Tasergate: Just one guy's opinion that contradicts itself and ignores the relevant facts and law

This report changes absolutely nothing, except that it will be manipulated politically by Obama supporters and Palin haters in an attempt to drive more potential voters into taking sides with Trooper Mike Wooten — a proven child abuser (Tasered his own 10-year-old stepson on a lark) who's been conclusively determined by his own department to have also engaged in drinking and driving in his squad car, and to have used a deadly firearm to violate the very fish-and-game laws he himself was specifically assigned to enforce. "It is nearly certain," wrote Col. Julia Grimes, then then Director of the Alaska State Troopers Division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety, "that a civilian investigated under similar circumstances would have received criminal sanctions." The only real question in Tasergate remains why Trooper Mike Wooten is still not only uncharged for his confessed crimes, but carrying a badge and gun — to the continuing shame of the good and decent people of Alaska.

Obama Supporters: Election Fraud, Terrorists & Caused Financial Crisis

4,000 'dead people' found on voter rolls in Houston... Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration...1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS: ACORN PAID ME IN CASH AND CIGS...

VIDEO: Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking'... UPDATE: McCain questions Obama's link to radical Ayers ... Palin: Obama not telling 'total truth'...

What They Said About Fan and Fred

Laughable Liberal Lies or Staying On Script

This is a piece put up at De Magno Opere which steps on its own laugh lines with laugh graphics.

McCain - The Bankers Candidate

First, it was the liberal bureaucracy that set this up for big investment/banking/insurance houses, made possible by Clinton, to make loans, that were insured beyond reason, to people that never should have received any loan at all for which the big investment/banking/insurance houses paid back the liberals through large contributions to their campaigns and favorite wack-job organizations.

What is it with John McCain and bankers?

Between the Savings and Loan/Keating Five deals and his mortgage plan that benefits banks at the expense of taxpayers, I'd like to think that makes him more knowledgeable about economics than he would like to admit.

What is it with Liberals and lying?

McCain was cleared of any wrong doing with the four other Democrats that made up the Keating Five, in fact McCain should never have been charged, but what the hey, continue to lie and use The Nation and ThinkProgress as your sources. Two strikes.

Mind you, it's not the kind of economics that will help keep this country afloat, more like the kind of economics that allows you to cheat on your taxes.

But economics nonetheless...

Then throw out a bogus charge, tax evasion for gambling, and back it up with another group even a mother couldn't love or believe, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, (CREW) and you have strike three for gutter politics brought to you by liberals.

Oh, Oh, for an extra helping of this laughable post, check out the graphic they include:

"No honor, no integrity, cowardice." This is the great work of one who has, "a massive desire to destroy Dominionists and Theocratic liars whenever I see them pop up, it seemed appropros to use a biblical term for that purpose."

Little men hate great men thus they justify their hate to allow them to attempt to vilify what they can never be. Little men are good for a laugh though. That's something.

IMPEACH BRUNNER?

I'd say remove her from office immediately. She is obviously a partisan hack as well as not being very bright which are two very clear reasons for her to be ridden out of town on a rail.

Breaking News: Court Rules Brunner Violated Federal Law
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith called the identification breakdown "a serious problem" and ordered Brunner to immediately comply with federal requirements to match voter registration data with the information in the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration databases. The court accused Brunner of failing to provide county election administrators with "an effective way to access and review mismatches." She immediately appealed the ruling.

Speaking with an associate from the illustrious state of New York a few days ago the subject of election/voter law came up. I pointed out that Brunner and her cronies were purposely tanking Ohio for Obama to which he replied, "Not to be rude, but maybe you Ohio putzes should feel what it feels like to be on the losing side, you guys stole two elections for Bush." Somewhat embarrassed for him to have made such an incredibly ignorant statement I moved onto business and then rang off.

To me, this is supposed payback by liberals for voting irregularities they believe occurred in 2004 and 2000. Poppycock. The Cleveland-Youngstown -Akron area has been known as mafia/union/Democrat corrupt since before I was born. My father grew up in Akron, I have done a tremendous amount of business throughout the area and spent a great deal of time there. I don't even believe highway signs there, I believe it is so corrupt. If there were voting irregularities in 2000 and 2004, it was an irregularly low amount of double and dead votes that didn't get counted. Brunner is trying to correct that shortfall by the Democrats this time around. I'm surprised that Brunner hasn't ordered free bus passes for tombstones for all of Cuyahoga, Summit and Mahoning Counties since, in her (liberal) mind, everyone should have a vote. Even those that do not have that right.

She is breaking the law. She knew she was breaking the law before she ordered ballot corruption. Now she, and those that bitched the loudest last election, will cry racism.

I got yer racism right here....

That Brunner thought she would get away with this, without being called on it, proves she is too stupid to be in her position.

Impeached, removed, recalled, resigned, doesn't matter. Get rid of her.

If You Ain't Working To Elect McCain You Ain't Right In The Head

A few of Obama's Friends:

Bill Ayers
Bernadine Dohrn
"Rev" Wright
Michael Pfleger
Rezko
Farrakhan
etc.

Obama Politics:

Progressive
New Party member
Socialist

If you need more than that to make you want to work to defeat Barack Hussein Obama, well, maybe you should not vote, since I think you fail the brain test for entering the voting booth.

Of course, if you sit on your "principles" and do nothing, you'll have cast a vote for Obama.

It is one-man, one-vote and the two party system. Anything else is self righteous B.S. at this point.

Obama, A New Party Socialist

Barack Obama, His Membership in the “New Party,” and His Connections to Socialists

Barack Obama, Socialist?

How unsurprised am I? The media and liberal/progressives have worked hard to use charges of racism to hide Barack Hussein Obama's real agenda which is an a agenda that is incredibly dangerous for the United States of America.

"Islam is the light" Say Fisher-Price "Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo" Doll

At least it didn't say "Obama is the light", we have that to be thankful for, I guess.

When Gary Rofkahr from Owasso heard there was a baby doll on local store shelves that said, "Islam is the Light," he didn't believe it.

He bought the Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo doll to see for himself and he was shocked to hear the words, "Islam is the Light" among other baby gibberish including "Mama."

There is no indication whether the doll comes with a dull knife for beheading infidels or stones with which to kill women who "allowed" uncles to rape them while held down by cousins who wished to regain their honor.

Fisher-Price did say that any person who heard anything, but gibberish from the doll was projecting their own fears and prejudice onto a cuddly warm doll who personified the religion of piece and blood, thus the dolls would stay on the shelves for all of us 'haters' to get for Christmas.

ACORN: DON'T LOOK AT US YOU RACISTS!

ACORN - a community organizer group- is a socialist organization that has been fleecing the American public for years, cheating in the political arena, costing tax payers billions of dollars and is a group that works everyday to undermine our political system helping the Democratic Party. They are working for Barrack Obama because Barrack Obama used to work for them.

Their immediate goal is to steal elections all across the nation.

They steal elections through voter fraud, voter intimidation and raise money by shaking down business. Just like the mafia.

Their long term goal is the redistribution of wealth in America. Just like communists.

Obama helped ACORN in its lawsuit to impose President Bill Clinton’s 1993 National Voter Registration Act, nicknamed “Motor Voter,” according to Chicago ACORN leader Toni Foulkes. "Motor Voter", arguably a total fraud, has been one-upped in many swing states with the new instant registration/instant vote scheme designed to pump up votes for Obama by dragging the homeless, bums, drunks and students in to vote for Obama immediately because they are unreliable and won't show up on election day. A typical ACORN tactic. A typical fraud.

It is not racist. It is ballot integrity.

Let's see, pointing out voter fraud is racist. Pointing out financial fraud by Democrats is racist. Pointing out where one disagrees with Obama is racist. Not wanting to pay for fraudulent mortgages is racist. But treating blacks as if they are incapable of voting, getting a mortgage and deciding who to vote for is not racist, it is the liberal love of sensitivity for those less capable than them. Ahem, that is racist.

Of the 19 foreign terrorists who struck America on 9/11, 6 were registered to vote.

ACORN was caught in their registration fraud through a verification process by the board of elections and because each registration form was identified by serial numbers the fraudulent forms were traced back to ACORN. Watch for ACORN to cite privacy and ballot integrity to have any registration form identification removed to prevent their fake registrations from being traced back to them. Hell, they've already made it illegal to ask for voter identification because it might suppress the vote of minorities and illegal voters. Of course, it also suppresses the graveyard vote which is a major concern for Obama and other Chicago politicians.

Obama has called us racists. Barney Frank has called us racists. Maybe the Democrats can ask Sen. Bob Byrd, D-WV, to take off his KKK hood long enough to call us racist.

Debate: Obama Says ................. NADA, But Says It well !!

Obam speaks in empty tongues. He answers nothing, but offers pleasant tones of emptiness and wonderful solutions that will "work for you" except he didn't say a damned thing.

Bill Ayer's Obama: An Opossum From Chicago

Opossum: Solitary and nocturnal: usually slow moving; when frightened and unable to flee may fall into an involuntary shock-like state, "playing 'possum"

The Ayers Question

Very soon after she was picked to be McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin was attacked by Obama campaign spokesmen and a Democratic member of Congress for once being seen wearing a Pat Buchanan button. She had an answer and the campaign offered it. Yet now we are asked to believe that it’s somehow inappropriate to inquire why Barack Obama’s political career began in the home of an admitted and unrepentant domestic terrorist of the radical left? “Who is Barack Obama?” is not an irrelevant question given the job Obama is seeking, and it’s a question he has sought mightily to avoid answering. The veil of secrecy he has thrown over his past (journalists have been denied access to his state legislative office records, documents about state earmarks he distributed in Illinois, a list of his legal clients, his state bar application, billing records related to Tony Rezko, medical records, academic records — all of which are the sort of documents candidates routinely make public) forces the question all the more.

The Obama campaign’s response to the question appears to be to raise John McCain’s connection to the Keating Five scandal. It is by no means out of bounds to raise the issue. McCain received campaign funds from Keating, his wife’s company had been involved in investment ventures with him, and he once met with federal regulators about Keating’s bank — though the Senate Ethics Committee found that unlike three other senators involved in the scandal, “Senator McCain’s actions were not improper.” The committee said only that he had exercised bad judgment by being involved with Keating at all and not seeing what others were doing. In fact, Bob Bennett, who was the Democratic lawyer selected by the committee to investigate the Keating Five, says in his book that he recommended that McCain’s name be dropped from the investigation because there was no evidence against him but, for political reasons (the other Senators were all Democrats), McCain’s name was left on the list.

McCain’s response to that scandal should certainly be compared with Obama’s Ayers explanations. McCain has spoken and written about every detail of the Keating mess, has expressed open contrition for allowing himself to be drawn into it even tangentially, and devoted years of his career to combating corruption as a result. He even badly overreacted and pushed for vastly excessive regulation of campaign financing. He has said (in a book in which he details his and others’ actions in the matter) that merely the appearance of impropriety involved makes his involvement with Keating “the worst mistake of my life.”

Had Obama done and said something similar regarding the sort of radicalism Ayers represents, he would now have an answer to offer. Instead, he has worked with Ayers, supported his causes, and denied any significance to the links between them. That, too, makes this a legitimate question about a man who would be president.

Yeah, Obama and his enablers including his publicity team, the main stream media, are all playing 'possum' on this, shocked that it is of concern and unable to run from it, just hunker down, and ignore it.

Obama is friends with terrorists, racists and outright wackjobs. If elected, will Obama have a Jacksonian nightmare where all of his friends swarm the White House to fawn over their new leader and looking for favors? Probably.

Of course, Soros and his minions may sneak in the back door with promises of oodles of cash if only their way is the only way. Either that or they'll just pick up the phone and give Obama his marching orders.

Obama's Bernardine Dohrn: A Pig From Hell

I think it's pretty common knowledge that Obama, after 21 year of knowing Ayers and Dohrn, is fibbing big time about what he knows about them as subhuman beings, but I read a piece that gives more insight to what a pig from Hell Dohrn is.

Ayers-Dohrn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed

Since terrorism, bombing and murder fade after a few years, a few tidbits to show how time has made her acceptable to Obama and Democrats:

For those of you unfamiliar with Dohrn and her special love of violence in the name of radicalism, one need look no further than her December 1969 rant celebrating the brutal Tate-LaBianca murders with the exhortation, “Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in their bellies. Wild!”

and:

A Chicago district attorney named Richard Elrod was seriously injured in the Weatherman riot that erupted during the Chicago “Days of Rage” in October 1969, and he was paralyzed for life as a result. Dohrn later led a celebration of Elrod’s paralysis by leading her comrades in a parody of a Bob Dylan song — “Lay, Elrod, Lay.”

and:

That the Weathermen tried to murder a judge and his family with fire bombs was somehow not mentioned at all, nor were later Weathermen-related bombings that occurred through Barack Obama’s continuing political radicalization during the early 1980s.

And just where was Barack Obama during the early 1980s?

Mocking the dead and the disabled seems to be so common place to liberals that what Dohrn is is not reprehensible.

Of course, if McCain had been her friend and pal....

Intellectual Liberal Effeteness That Makes The Marquis de Sade An Acceptable Dinner Partner

Or a David Duke.

How about discussing women's rights over some goose foie gras with President Puny, Mamadou Abadinijad?

What is the Significance of Obama's Ties to Ayers (and Wright?):
In short, Obama's ties to Ayers and Wright suggest to me NOT that Obama agrees with their views, but that he is the product of a particular intellectual culture that finds the likes of Wright and Ayers to be no more objectionable, and likely less so, than the likes of Tom Coburn, or, perhaps, a Rush Limbaugh. Not only that, but he has been in his particular intellectual bubble so long that he was unable to recognize just how offensive the views of a Wright are to mainstream America, or how his ties to Ayers would play with the public, especially post-9/11.

After dinner there could be apertifs in the private salon with Stalin to discuss the educational needs of the children of the Ukraine. Music will be performed by the Children's Stringed Up Quartet.

Obama Youth

TEENS PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO OBAMA...



Obama Youth. Maybe they're practising to be part of the palace guard with Louis Farrakhan's security unit.