Lib Heaven: Fix The Election AND Screw The Troops

This Ain't Hell has this story and it makes one's blood boil. It isn't enough for Obamatrons to look down on soldiers and talk out both sides of their mouths about honor, duty and sacrifice, now they have improved their ability to deny soldiers the rights of a Democratic Republic even as those soldiers protect it.

Overseas troops to be screwed by largely Blue States

Mr Wolf sent us a link to a story out of Colorado this morning that some states, mostly Democrat-leaning states, are planning to screw absentee voters (read that: active duty soldiers serving overseas) out of their right to have a voice in the government that sends them to war;

Spokesman Rich Coolidge said the ballots will still be mailed, but some soldiers in remote battlefields might not have enough time to mail them back, even though the state will give them an extra seven days after the election. He said they can also send them by e-mail or fax.

Coolidge blamed late primaries and petition deadlines. He said ballots for the Aug. 10 primary also went out under short notice, but the 45-day deadline doesn’t apply to those elections.

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FOUND! Where Matt Drudge Stole His Idea For The Drudge Report.

Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

The Cape Cod: The Original Levittown House

A Cape Cod house is a modest symmetrical style that originated in colonial New England and became popular again in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Today, examples of the Cape Cod style can be seen across the United States. The name was coined by Yale President Timothy Dwight when he traveled through the region in the 1790s, says Architecture Week.

According to the Library of Congress, Cape Cod houses are sometimes also called "Cape-style houses." Originally, Cape Cod houses had just one story and two rooms, situated side-by-side. When the style enjoyed a resurgence in the 20th century, Cape Cod house plans became larger with more rooms. The homes generally have a simple rectangular frame, often clapboarded, with a ridge roof that can allow for attic living, and a large chimney in the center of the roof, directly above the front door.

 

Cape Cod houses have served their purpose as sturdy, economical dwellings for centuries, says About.com. It is easy to tell the difference, however, between colonial Cape Cod houses and modern ones. Telltale giveaways are any adornments, like shutters and dormers, which are protrusions from the roof.

Then in the late 1940's came the man who understood that American society had been changed by WWII and the men and women who had left home to fight. Out with the old and in with the new and part of the new was a new house which was not shared with parents. Abraham Levitt and his sons, one of whom was serving in the Navy, understood that 16 million men and women were returning and wanted homes. Thus began Levittown. The new town got variances for no basements, no foundations and other time and money saving variances from the old town of Hempstead and were built in an assembly line fashion. Levitt and Sons did things differently, but used quality product, few floor plans and had 1,000 of the 2,000 planned units sold or rented before construction began. Each house was planned to be a starter home which could be modified or added onto later. By the end of 1951 Levitt and Sons had built 17,447 homes in Levittown and the surrounding area. No other private builder had ever achieved such a feat.

Almost every house built there is still standing. Most have been enlarged, modified or changed in some other way. When first built many scoffed at the rubes that had rented (most were originally rented) or bought. Whole new communities of upwardly mobile ex-servicemen sprang up creating huge economic waves. Relatives or the dubious began to scoff less and look more at the neighborhoods of cute and well maintained "cottages", many moved to the new neighborhoods continuing to make the houses more valuable.

Today, as in all towns, there are nicer areas of town, but overall Levittown is a close knit community where neighbors know and take care of each other. Some additions were poorly thought out, but most were done very well for newer tastes and growing families. Currently, Levittown is once again going though changes utilizing new design techniques and new building technology. If for no other reason one should visit during the Christmas season where you will see displays that are unbelievable. Last year there were groups of carolers that roamed neighborhoods, especially to visit with the house bound, sick or just alone. The carolers knew which houses needed a little extra love. That's a neighborhood.

Emergency: Save Stogie!

The Other McCain has an appeal up to help a good man. I did and hope you will as well as pushing McCain's message onto your blog for others to see and react to..

With All Due Respect Madam Speaker

Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

ON GIBBS’ ASSERTION THAT DEMOCRATS COULD LOSE THE HOUSE: “With all due respect -- I don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about what the president's employees say about one thing or another.”

ON PELOSI'S ASSERTION THAT GIBBS IS AN IDIOT: "With all due respect - - I don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about what a whacked out liberal district's super rich and pampered got no real world experience employee says about one thing or another."

Good Lord, I would bet that Pelosi's "birds and bees" talk with the kids was assisted by her personal second chef describing the act of assembling of ecargot as a visual aid.

Che Schme Guevara

Ernesto Che Guevara is one of the false gods of socialist/communist world history. That he was a coward and a fraud is well known. Through friends of my parents, exiled Cubans, we heard of the "good" work that Fidel Castro and his band of losers had done in Cuba. Quite frankly, I didn't know whether to believe the stories that I heard as a young boy. When I entered college I had the great fortune to have an American History professor who recommended many other books on various subjects. Knowing the "intellectual" love affair many students were having with the image of Che one of the books he suggested concerned the Cuban Revolution. The stories and events lined up with what I had been told as a youth.

The apotheosis of Ernesto Che Guevara is arguably the biggest historical scam of the 20th century. Aided and abetted by a gaggle of journalists and academics, this swaggering, narcissistic opportunist, devoid of genuine accomplishments, and so utterly incompetent at practically everything he set his hand to that Fidel Castro finally had to find a way to get rid of him, was magically transformed into a courageous and inspiring warrior, a Christ-like revolutionary hero. Humberto Fontova’s superb demythologization, Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, is a large bucket of cold water thrown into the rapturous faces of Guevara’s unthinking admirers.


Go read the rest of the above entry (click on the link). It is informative and gives details of Che's "bravery."
 
As a young girl my daughter wanted a Che poster to be like her friends. I told her that she could have one if she spent 30 minutes with me going over Che's real history. Ten minutes into the conversation she told me that didn't want the poster or one of anyone like Che.
 
The following year while visiting an art gallery we all had the pleasure to see and discuss Charles Willson Peale's portrait "George Washington at Princeton, 1779". She asked for and got that poster.
 

"Gunga, gunga, lagunga"

The Dali Lama loved it and repeated the line to other people.

"Caddy Shack" is 30.

I got that going for me.

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Chris Matthews & Howard Dean-Identical Braintards

Chris Matthews. What does one say? Ethics? Professionalism? Smarts? Don't need to say a word when he opens his mouth.




Howard Dean gets taken apart by Chris Wallace and decides to throw some more you know what out there and gets taken down again. Maybe Howie will go for three.

1954 JAGUAR XK 120M

Second car I ever drove was my Dad's Jag. His was white and he made the state police wealthy. Once, in a rush to get to an emergency at the hospital a new policeman in town stopped him for speeding. He told the policeman he had forgotten a specific surgical instrument so he'd better add an illegal u-turn and another speeding ticket and took off. The cop tried to follow him into the emergency room. My Dad later saved his life after a shooting telling him, "you better not die you SOB because I did 80 out Central Street to get here." They remained friends until my father's death.

The first car I ever drove was a refurbished WWII Willys Jeep which I promptly drove into a ditch. The third car I ever drove was my parents 1956 Lincoln Mark ii which I backed over a large rock. I wasn't 14 years old yet.

I was told I'd never see 15 if I got behind the wheel again without permission.

My Health Care Plan For America

ObamaCare Plan

My Health Care Plan For America

Will You Be Better Off Next Year?

It appears that a lot of people really really don't think so.

Like most Americans I am preparing in my own way for more of the disaster called the Vision of Obama/Reid/Pelosi and the Far Left. We can't control the weather and we have no control over the earth, but we can vote in November.

Clinton Judge Allows Illegals To Roam More Freely

The recap which the Clinton appointed judge may have missed is that there is a 10th amendment, Arizona is being invaded by illegal aliens, crime in Arizona is soaring due to drug cartels and other criminals and the federal government isn't doing its job of protecting our borders in general and specifically Arizona's border with Mexico. Ah, but then she would have agreed that the definition of "is" isn't settled.

Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law

The overall law will still take effect Thursday, but without the provisions that angered opponents — including sections that required officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws.

The judge also put on hold parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places.

Undocumented workers, actually illegal aliens breaking the law by being here and seeking employment illegally to the detriment of unemployed Americans, are now allowed to seek employment for which they will be protected by the courts. Americans losing their homes will have to pay for a lawyer.
 
Time for the courts and the federal government to shut up and do their jobs. To say they have in this instance hardly makes it so. They haven't.

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A Liberal Boot On America's Neck Passes In Massachusetts

Our entire system of governance is based on balance. This balance is seen in the separation of powers by the congress, the executive and the court. The balance is also seen in the Electoral College. The EC was formed to protect and balance the interests and the powers of larger states versus smaller states.

Now there is a movement to render much of America's voters worthless. That a smaller state such as Massachusetts passed it tells you which current political party would benefit. No more Gores.

Mass. Legislature approves plan to bypass Electoral College

The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote.

Liberals are slowly altering the vision on which our country was formed and they are altering that vision to their favor. What the vote in Massachusetts portends is an America ruled by large urban centers which will have no real interest in the wants and the needs of more rural and more conservative areas. See here for a list of states that have voted on this idea.

Abolishing the Electoral College will place control of America in the hands of the wealthiest urban centers thus it will also place that control in the hands of the few. Beginning with the presidency the few will begin to dominate the congress and eventually the courts completely upsetting the national balance of power.

That's not America.

Rangel Wrangling Like A Greased Pig To Get Out Of Bind

I'm sure none of this has anything to do with the fact that his ethics committee's trial is to start this Thursday.

Rangel, ethics committee in last-minute bargaining

If they can't find Charlie Rangel guilty they would've let Charles Manson walk.

High Food Costs, High Govt Handouts, Too Many Farmers

This has got to stop, but who has the guts and the ethics to do so?

Pigford v. Glickman: 86,000 claims from 39,697 total farmers?

I’m confused.

If there are only 39,697 African-American farmers grand total in the entire country, then how can over 86,000 of them claim discrimination at the hands of the USDA? Where did the other 46,303 come from?

Now, if you’re confused over what the heck I’m even talking about, let’s go back to the beginning of the story:

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Harry Reid States We Will Have A Public Option

Screw the voter. Who cares about them. It is all about what Harry, Nana and Barack and of course the nutroots crowd want. Together they represent what? About 21% of the people. To them that's a majority.

Go to 16:43 to hear the disdain for the people as he condescends to the audience.

E.J. Dionne: Dreamer Of Dreams Never Dreamed By Father Fact

I watched E.J. Dionne on the conservo blast bash "Meet the Press." During the Roundtable the lies piled high. Rick Santelli tried to speak the truth, but was ignored like the one kid in class that had actually completed his homework. It was E. J. Dionne that won the pointy hat for class dunce though. He spouted outright lies, spun politics like Carville on crack and blustered like a spitting fool.

E.J. Dionne worked himself into such a lather he pre-empted his Monday opinion column without a fact in sight. it was actually interesting to watch the last shreds of decency and journalistic integrity fall away from the tip of his wildly waving finger tips.

Quin Hillyer of the American Spectator takes E. J. Dionne like a cheap suit.

E.J. Dionne, Prevaricator Extraordinaire

E.J. Dionne has not only devolved from a thoughtful columnist into a left-wing hit-man, but he has devolved even further, into the realm of a flagrantly dishonest left-wing hit-man. Today's column contains falsehood after falsehood. First, he says the Sherrod flap grew out of a "doctored video pushed by right-wing hit man Andrew Breitbart." Truth: The video was not doctored (it was an excerpt), and wasn't even excerpted by Breitbard himself. And Breitbart himself used it in a way meant not to attack Sherrod but to note the applause by the listeners, which was a legitimate point. It was the NAACP and the Obama administration that over-reacted; conservatives, to our credit, asked for more context, and also provided fulsome, generous (perhaps even overly generous) testimonials to the unfairness done to Sherrod.

Read the rest for a truly beautiful take down.

E. J. Dionne actually makes the members of Journolist appear to be almost honest.