December 05, 2007
What he said!
After nearly a year on hiatus, Sir Banagor is back! Here's a bit from his latest titled "Ron Paul is an anti-Semitic Nazi Asshole Fuck":
Anyone who goes around courting neo-Nazis, Islamists, 9/11 conspiracy theorists and other lunatics who basically hate Jews, Jews, Jews, really needs a kick in the balls. And even if he doesn’t actually court them, he’s not repudiating them either.
It’s not his war stance which upsets me as much as his followers. They’re nuts. They’re insane. They’re fucking lunatics who can’t shut up, hate Israel, hate Jews, hate Bush, hate anyone who likes Israel, Jews, and Bush, and won’t stop telling everyone about it. They’re so fucking dumb that they even think that spamming online polls will actually make a difference in a real election.
and...
Listen up, fuckfaces (that’s another one that I can use - means the same thing as “Ron Paul Supporter”): Ron Paul isn’t about tax reform, liberty, abortion, or anything else you think Ron Paul is about. Ron Paul is about what his most extreme core supporters are about: hating Jews, Jews, Jews, and anything to do with them. If you’re voting for Ron Paul because you think you’re going to show how dissatisfied you are with the system, then you might as well vote for whomever else Stormfront decides to openly support. That makes you a Nazi supporter as well. And until your messiah against the Jews comes out and lashes like a madman against all those assholes who are courting his agenda with money and attention, then that makes you party to the same cause as well. It doesn’t mean shit if you’re black or brown or Jewish or left-handed Lithuanian because the tag “Useful Fucking Idiot” trumps all of those labels if you’re going out and supporting Ron Paul at this point.
and...
If there is one thing I am grateful for towards Ron Paul, it’s that he showed (and is currently still showing) everyone where most of the anti-war activists belong: in bed with Neo-Nazis, extreme leftists who love Hugo Chavez and hate our country, David Duke, 9/11 conspiracy idiots, Islamists, and all the other morons in this country who think that the Patriot Act is somehow about their pathetic and fucking boring little lives.
and...
By the way, Paulites: I want you to hate me. I revel in it. I enjoy it. I want you to loathe me in the same way that I loathe you as well. Please do. Please make my day. Hate me. Really hate me. I can’t help but laugh at your hatred. I also can’t help but laugh at the fact that Ron Paul will never be president, and you’re all wasting your time and money on him. It feels good knowing that the enemy is going to lose. It’s a foregone conclusion.
dayum! That was awesome, and that's just the highlights. There's more here!
Welcome back Sir Banagor. This faithful fan has missed you!
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December 04, 2007
Augh! I almost missed it!
Coming soon...
Slogans! We need slogans!
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A Day for Mourning
On this day in 1945, by a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945)
It has been said that an alien observing the United Nations' debates, reading its resolutions, and walking its halls would conclude that its principal purpose is to censure, condemn and destroy first the country of Israel and second, the United States of America, and that its way to accomplish its purpose is through the protection and nurturing of terrorism throughout the world. That is most certainly true.
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November 29, 2007
Paultards on Parade
OMG! Remember my post a few days ago about the World Wide Election internet poll that was overrun by paultards?
I can't believe this tard actually thought I was serious! ahahahahaha!
Oh my.
and... DoubleU, I don't know WTF is wrong with these people. dayum!
UPDATE: It appears someone hit Jim "I knew it all along" ODonnell with a cluebat. Ha!
P.S. "Who would the World Elect" is not my website. And its Mossad, not Mussad.
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November 28, 2007
Illegal Voting
On November 28, 1872, a U.S. deputy marshall came to Susan B. Anthony's door and arrested her. The crime: on November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony cast her vote in the Presidential Elections. The charge: Illegal voting.
The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1868, had declared that all people born in the United States were citizens and that no legal privileges could be denied to any citizen. Anthony decided to challenge this amendment. Saying that women were citizens and the amendment did not restrict the privilege of voting to men, she registered to vote in Rochester, New York, on November 1, 1872. Four days later, she and fifteen other women voted in the presidential election. All sixteen women were arrested, but only Anthony was brought before a court.
Her trial, United States v. Susan B. Anthony, began on June 17, 1873. The presiding judge opposed women's suffrage and wrote his decision before the trial even had started. Refusing to let Anthony testify, he ordered the jury to find her guilty, then sentenced her to pay a $100 fine. She refused to pay "a dollar of your unjust penalty," and no further action was taken against her.
Anthony spent the next fifty-plus years of her life fighting for the right to vote. She would work tirelessly: giving speeches, petitioning Congress and state legislatures, publishing a feminist newspaper--all for a cause that would not succeed until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment fourteen years after her death in 1906.
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The right to vote.
On November 7, 2006, I voted a straight Republican ticket, despite my misgivings about the direction the Republican party has taken, despite the fact that it has abandoned every one of the conservative values that are the core of my political agenda. I cast my vote based on one issue, the War on Terrorism, despite the fact that I have seen this administration make concessions to and negotiate with terrorists. I did this because anything is better than the cut and run appeasement policy that the democrats stand for. I cast my vote for people who want to do things I am dead set against, such as pro-amnesty Charlie Crist, who, thanks to my vote, is now Governor of my state.
I was not alone in this and although I shared their feelings, I was horrified at the number of conservatives, and the number of republicans, who stayed home. None of the democrat wins were really big wins, races were decided by a few thousand votes, but in the end, it was a big win, and they won, because we stayed home. If you think your one vote doesn't matter, look at the numbers on the Webb/Steele race.
And now, I watch President George Bush fawn over the leader of the most active terrorist group in the world, all a flutter on the chance to reward them for their constant and continuous terror attacks with a state of their own, mapping out an appeasement strategy, even while their minions were busy killing innocents in Israel.
Either the entire world has gone crazy, or I have.
And now I'm supposed to believe that a stark raving liberal who believes that Americans have the wholesale right to kill babies and that they should be able to do so at the taxpayers' expense, a man who believes that I should pay for healthcare for criminals who sneak across the border, a man who believes in taking away my right to bear arms, is the great white hope for this Country and for the conservative movement. Sorry, but I don't believe it and I am already so damm sick of having Rudy shoved down my throat, what will next few months be like?
I owe something to people like Susan B. Anthony, who tirelessly and endlessly sacrificed for my right to vote, and I realize that the perfect candidate is not going to ride out of the sunrise on a white horse anytime soon. I know there will never, ever be a perfect candidate.
But how much compromising on my personal beliefs am I supposed to do?
I considered it last November, but now, for the first time ever, staying home truly seems like a viable option.
and I hate that!
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November 20, 2007
Tuesday Snark
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November 08, 2007
We see you for what you are
Special thanks to one of my readers, Lisa, who pointed me to this story via email:
BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) - Barack Obama complained on Wednesday about an Internet photo that claims the Democratic presidential candidate didn't hold his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance.
"This is so irritating," Obama said when asked about the photo in Muscatine, Iowa.
The photo, which has circulated widely on the Internet, was taken in September during Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's annual Democratic fundraiser. A message accompanying the photo claims Obama didn't observe the pledge.
Obama said the photo was taken during the singing of the national anthem, not the pledge.
Yeah well. Read the United States Code Obama, and specifically, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171:
During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart.
The man who would be president. Bah!
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November 07, 2007
On this day
in 1874, this cartoon by Thomas Nast appeared in Harper's Weekly:
Titled “The Third Term Panic,” the cartoon commented on fears that Grant would run for a third term as President which led some Republicans to vote with the Democrats.
Although the first use of an elephant by the Republican Party is believed to date from a printer’s cut (pre-made pictures kept ready to use as illustrations when needed) of an elephant used by an Illinois newspaper during Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 presidential campaign, this appearance is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party. Nast continued using the elephant thereafter, and gradually it became the Republican icon as it was adopted by other cartoonists.
The elephant has been a symbol of strength since Roman times. Thomas Nast was a staunch Republican, and he deliberately chose the elephant as a symbol for his own Party because of the animal’s great size, intelligence, strength, and dignity.
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November 04, 2007
Crime of the Century
In the United States of America, it is not a crime to burn our Nation's flag. In fact, you can do damn near anything you want to it, including defecate on it in public, its all well and good and part of your free speech.
However, it appears that in the United States of America it is a crime to burn the Mexican flag:
It caused some controversy, but it was supposed to. Now, one man is headed to municipal court for burning a Mexican flag in protest in front of the Alamo.
The city is charging 46-year old David Bohmfalk with burning without a permit, even though no one gives permits to burn a flag.
All the rallies and talk of amnesty for undocumented immigrants in May 2006 lit the fires of patriotism for Bohmfalk, he said.
"I just got angry," he said. "I decided I had to do something, make my statement, and that's what I did."
Bohmfalk had his own protest in front of a building known for revolution, where Davy Crockett and James Bowie made a stand. So did Bohmfalk but he used a lighter instead of gunfighter. Park police cited Bohmfalk for illegal burning of rubbish, even it was a Mexican flag he set ablaze.
"Because of what it's made out of, it took a little while to burn it. It took me two minutes, but I got it lit."
Bohmfalk says while he was detained by police, he was harassed, his life was threatened, and he was even assaulted by some tourists who spit on him. Ironically, all these offenses are punishable by law. Jakob says flag burning is not.
"In America, every day we see people burning the American flag and it's become desensitized," Jakob said. "If we can allow that, we can certainly say that the Mexican flag can be burned."
As a former Texas police chief and military veteran, Bohmfalk says he knows his rights, and is fighting for them.
"Why should a foreign flag get any better protection than the American flag?" he said.
An interesting tidbit from Bohmfalk's description of what happened that day:
"At this point, the two officers, both Hispanic, began talking to each other about what felonies they could charge me with, and asking me questions, although I had not been advised of my rights under Miranda v. Arizona. The male police officer, I believe his name was Ramirez, advised me that I had not only committed arson, but that I had violated several state and federal Homeland Security laws and that I should now consider myself a “domestic terrorist”. Numerous times while he was questioning me, he repeated that I had committed an act of domestic terrorism, due to post-9-11 laws.
Domestic terrorist? For burning the mexican flag? WTF???
First thing Monday morning, I'm sending a check to his lawyer, to help pay for his defense.
UPDATE: Once the story made the news, the City dropped the charges.
His attorney, Jason Jakob, says officers detained the former peace officer that May Day trying to find something to charge Bohmfalk with. All the while, he says, his client took some heat of his own.
"They tried to call him a domestic terrorist. They tried to get him for arson. They detained him for an hour and a half worth of his time. They allowed him to be spit on," Jakob said.
His brush with the law and his attorney's fees now have Bohmfalk considering more legal action against the city.
Good. If he decides to go forward against the city, I'll support it.
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October 30, 2007
Why Jew-haters love Ron Paul
When you want an answer to a question like that... well, you can only get an answer from the 110th Congress:
H CON RES 21
BILL TITLE: Calling on the United Nations Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the United Nations Charter because of his calls for the destruction of the State of IsraelFinal Vote: 411 YEAS, 2 NAYS, 11 “PRESENT,” 8 NV.
Who are those two “nays?” None other than Congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.
H RES 548
BILL TITLE: Expressing the ongoing concern of the House of Representatives for Lebanon’s democratic institutions and unwavering support for the administration of justice upon those responsible for the assassination of Lebanese public figures opposing Syrian control of Lebanon.Final Vote: 415 YEAS, 2 NAYS, 15 NV.
Who are those two “nays?” Again, Congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.
H RES 557
BILL TITLE: Strongly condemning the United Nations Human Rights Council for ignoring severe human rights abuses in various countries, while choosing to unfairly target Israel by including it as the only country permanently placed on the Council’s agendaFinal Vote: 416 YEAS, 2 NAYS, 14 NV.
Who are those two “nays?” You guessed it–Congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.
I found that over MVRWC, where Beth asks... "So is Ron Paul anti-Semitic? Racist?" and answers... "Maybe, maybe not. He sure votes like someone who is, but that may be purely coincidental."
Beth has more. Run over and read it, and don't miss the comments.
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October 26, 2007
Wild Pigs
Hmmm...
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back And stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, ' Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward communism/socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, farm subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops, welfare, medicine, drugs, free medical care, etc. - while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.
One should always remember, "There is no such thing as a free lunch!" Also, you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably not tell anyone about this post, but God help you when the gate slams shut!
Hillary Care, anyone?
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October 24, 2007
UN-Happy Birthday
It was sixty-one years ago on October 24, 1945 that the United Nations came into existence as an instrument of peace with a vision to make the world a better place for succeeding generations - a world where nations are at peace with one another, where people's human rights are protected, where the equal rights of men and women are guaranteed, where the rule of law is observed and respected, and social progress and better standards of life are ensured for all.
Sadly, the United Nations has not only failed miserably, but has become a protector of terrorists and a supporter of the regimes which breed them.
When the President of the United States spoke to the United Nations in October of 2004, he spoke of the need for change and called for a new course of action against the threat of terrorism, to stop the killing of school children in Russia, the beheading of construction workers in Iraq, the murder by suicide bombers. He spoke of how, rather than engineers, doctors, scientists and social workers, the Muslim world has become the world's largest exporter of hatred and murder. He spoke of how Muslim equality for women has emerged under the guise of female suicide bombers. He spoke of the consequences of terrorism that have been perpetuated by the Muslim world for over a decade in New York, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, and Bali, Jakarta, Moscow, Madrid and Istanbul.
The President urged action against terrorism, admitting that "for too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability." He promised to implement the radical changes that would lead to freedom, to take the fight to the enemy instead of waiting for them to come to us. He acknowledged that it would not be easy and he urged the world to unite in the effort.
What effect could such powerful words have when most of those oppressors, most of those violators of human rights and decency, most of those dictators that our President was referring to in his speech sat before him as members in good standing of the United Nations?
Sitting on UN Commission on Human Rights are some of the world's worst mass murderers and violators of the very human rights they are supposed to protect, including Cameroon, China, Congo (DRC), Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. The Chairman of the Commission is one of the worst human rights offenders, Libya. These are the very same human rights violators that the Commission is supposed to investigate and expose.
No wonder, then, that the UN has failed to even criticize China's human rights violations, failed to even discuss slave labor when the former Soviet Union existed, failed to even consider the sale of white women and children in Saudi Arabia, failed to investigate the denial of the most basic human rights to women in Asia and Arab countries, and failed to examine the slave trade in Arab countries.
The Commission voted against "special observation" of Zimbabwe's violations of human rights; and voted for the upgrading of the human rights status of Sudan, even while its dictatorship committed genocide against its southern black Christians, carried on slavery, and approved of systematic rape.
Consider the actions of Commission member Cuba. Castro had thrown into prison seventy-five dissidents, including journalists and librarians; and it had executed three men who hijacked a ferryboat to escape from this communist hellhole. No matter. The Commission reelected Cuba to another three-year term, "undoubtedly a recognition of the Cuban Revolution's work in human rights in favor of all our people," so Cuba proclaimed.
Ever careful to protect itself and its member dictatorships, the UN went so far as to terminate its relationship with the free speech organization Reporters Without Borders after it criticized the UN's human rights record. Reporters Without Borders had the audacity to suggest reforms that included the restricting of voting by dictatorships and claimed "that granting the chair to Qadhafi's [Libyan] regime has been a disgrace to the commission." The Commission voted 27 to 23 to suspend its relationship with the organization. All of the democratic members voted against it.
As Victor Davis Hanson said in the Wall Street Journal, "It is not the same United Nations of decades past, helping the poor nations with hunger, and sending troops around the world to keep the peace. Gone are the days when UNESCO and UNICEF provided selfless service around the world to fight disease and famine. Now it is a political body with a different agenda. Its membership is rife with tyrannies, theocracies and Stalinist regimes."
Immediately prior to the President's speech, Kofi Anan declared the Iraq War illegal to a BBC reporter. No surprise, considering that at the time of Iraq's blatant defiance of the United Nations resolutions on its weapons of mass destruction, one of Saddam Hussein's henchmen chaired the May sessions of the UN Conference. No surprise considering Kofi Anan's participation the Oil for Food scandal currently under investigation. No surprise considering the UN was silent while Saddam Hussein starved, tortured, maimed and murdered his own people.
Indeed, the UN was silent while Slobodan Milosevic methodically practiced ethnic cleansing in his country. The UN was silent while the Taliban systematically murdered their own people, repressed all human rights, and enslaved women. The UN was silent while in Rwanda and Burundi, half a million lives were lost in civil war.
The UN was silent while 800,000 people were murdered in 1994 during a systematic genocide organized by the Hutu government, and carried out against the Tutsi minority by its troops, police, and specially trained death squads. In 1999, an independent report condemned the UN's reluctance to accept evidence of a genocide, and reluctance to act once the genocide was undeniable.
The UN was silent while in North Korea hundreds of thousands have been murdered in the last decade, and possibly three million have been starved to death in a government created famine.
The UN was silent while 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered in Srebrenica, Bosnia, during the Bosnian war of 1995. Another UN commissioned report on this asserted that the UN peacekeepers stood by while Serb troops massacred those to whom the UN had promised protection. The UN had refused to reinforce their peacekeepers with enough troops, and even then severely restricted the action of those that were there.
The UN was silent while over three million were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with UN peacekeepers standing by and watching.
And the UN remains silent through the genocide in Sudan.
By its own admission in the Report of the Panel on UN Peace Operation, the UN recognized that its peacekeeping efforts have failed. It undertook peacekeeping in only a third of the conflicts during the 1990s, and when the UN did do something, it failed or was not effective.
And yet, the UN raises its voice, loud and clear, in consistent and constant condemnation of Israel. In the last few decades, more than half of the UN resolutions passed were against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel scores as high as the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom on political rights. On civil liberties, Israel scores much higher than the dictatorship members of the UN.
Consider the dictatorships of Algeria, China, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, all of whom are members of the UN Commission on Human Rights. The dictatorship of Egypt is a member of all six UN committees concerned with human rights treaties. The dictatorships of Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan participate on the Governing Council of the International Labor Organization. The bloody dictatorship of Iran is on the five-member UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Dictatorships who treat women as second class citizens or slaves like Egypt, Iran, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates are all members of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
"So Americans' once gushy support for the U.N. during its adolescence is gone. By the 1970s we accepted at best that it had devolved into a neutral organization in its approach to the West, and by the 1980s sighed that it was now unabashedly hostile to freedom. But in our odyssey from encouragement, to skepticism, and then to hostility, we have now reached the final stage--of indifference. Americans do not get riled easily, so the U.N. will go out with a whimper rather than a bang. Indeed, millions have already shrugged, tuned out, and turned the channel on it." - Victor Davis Hanson
The United Nations is still investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by its staff and soldiers in the Congo. The charges include accusations of pedophilia, rape and prostitution, some of which have been recorded on videotape.
"I am afraid there is clear evidence that acts of gross misconduct have taken place," said Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
It has been years since the UN promised a full investigation and to hold those involved accountable, the fact is that the UN has never been open or honest and has been known to ignore evidence in the past – including accusations of rape and murder by "peacekeepers."
In a June 21, 2004 speech at the Conference on Confronting anti-Semitism: Education for Tolerance and Understanding sponsored by the United Nations Department of Information, human rights scholar and activist Anne Bayefsky made the following points:
- There is only one entire UN Division devoted to a single group of people: the United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights (created in 1977).
- The only UN day dedicated to a specific people is November 29, the annual UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
- There is only one refugee agency dedicated to a single refugee situation: UNRWA (in operation since 1950).
- The General Assembly operates through six committees of the whole. One of them, the Fourth Committee, routinely devotes 30 percent of its time to the condemnation of Israel.
- The General Assembly emergency sessions... began in 1956, and since then six of the ten emergency sessions ever held, have been about Israel. The 10th such session began in 1997 and has been reconvened 13 times. One might think that a million dead in Rwanda or two million dead in Sudan might have warranted one General Assembly emergency session.
- The UN's primary human-rights body is the UN Human Rights Commission. 30% of the resolutions condemning specific states ever adopted over 40 years are directed at Israel.
and finally...
UNIFIL (United Nations Forces In Lebanon) announced yesterday that it will be compelled to [try] to shoot down Israeli reconnaissance jets flying over Lebanon as a violation of "the deal." The flights have revealed the extend to which Hizbollah is re-arming in Southern Lebanon and from where the ballistics are coming.
It has been said that an alien observing the United Nations' debates, reading its resolutions, and walking its halls would conclude that its principal purpose is to censure, condemn and destroy first the country of Israel and second, the United States of America, and that its way to accomplish its purpose is through the protection and nurturing of terrorism throughout the world. That is most certainly true.
UN-Happy Birthday United Nations, may this one be your last.
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October 22, 2007
A thousand words about Barack Hussein Obama
According to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171:
During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart.
Disrespectful, to say the least. This is a man who would be president? A man with nothing but contempt for our traditions, our values, and our country?
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One term - $274 Billion Dollars
After Only 9 Months on the Campaign Trail, Hillary Has Pledged to Spend Over $724 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars.
Hillary's Health Care Plan Would Cost $110 Billion Per Year, Multiplied By 4 Years (One White House Term) = $440 Billion. "Clinton's price tag is $110 billion a year, but analysts say her [health care] plan will cost a lot more than that." (Donald Lambro, Op-Ed, "Health Care Nightmare," The Washington Times, 9/24/07)
Hillary Pledged To Create A "$50-Billion Strategic Energy Fund." "As president, Clinton said she would ... Create a $50-billion strategic energy fund to research ways to boost energy efficiency and reduce reliance on fossil fuels." (Beth Fouhy, "Clinton Would Fund Stem Cell Research," The Associated Press, 10/4/07)
Hillary Has Proposed 401(k) For All Americans, Funded In Part By The Government At A Cost Of Up To $25 Billion Per Year, Multiplied By 4 Years = $100 Billion. "Hillary Clinton unveiled her second-biggest proposal of the campaign so far - after health care -- a plan to make 401(k) retirement savings plans available to all Americans. ... Clinton's 'American Retirement Accounts' would cost about $20 to 25 billion each year, Clinton's advisors said yesterday." (Marcella Bombardieri, "Clinton Targeting Middle Class," The Boston Globe, 10/9/07)
Hillary's Baby Bond Proposal Would Give $5,000 To Each Of The 4 Million Babies Born In The U.S. Each Year, Totaling $20 Billion Per Year, Multiplied By 4 Years = $80 Billion. "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said ... that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 'baby bond' from the government ... Approximately 4 million babies are born each year in the United States." (Devlin Barrett, "Clinton: $5,000 For Every U.S. Baby," The Associated Press, 9/28/07)
"It Would Be Expensive -- About $20 Billion A Year -- And Clinton Offered No Way To Pay For It." (Editorial, "Clinton's Baby Boondoggle," The Chicago Tribune, 10/2/07)
For Public Transit, Hillary Would Spend $1.5 Billion Per Year, Multiplied By 4 Years = $6 Billion. "[S]he proposed spending $1.5 billion per year for public transit ..." (Christina Bellantoni, "Democrats Can't Afford '08 Promises," The Washington Times, 9/20/07)Hillary Would Spend $10 Billion On Bridges Over 10 Years, Equal To $1 Billion Per Year; $1 Billion Multiplied By 4 Years = $4 Billion. "After the Minnesota bridge collapse last month, she proposed ... $10 billion over 10 years to redesign and reconstruct ailing bridges." (Christina Bellantoni, "Democrats Can't Afford '08 Promises," The Washington Times, 9/20/07)
Hillary Plans To Spend $1 Billion For At-Risk Mortgage Borrowers. "She has proposed $1 billion to help at-risk mortgage borrowers avoid foreclosure." (Christina Bellantoni, "Democrats Can't Afford '08 Promises," The Washington Times, 9/20/07)
Hillary Would Commit $10 Billion For Education In Developing Countries Over 5 Years, Equal To $2 Billion Per Year; $2 Billion Multiplied By 4 Years = $8 Billion. "Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants the U.S. government to commit $10 billion over five years to get young children in developing countries into school ..." (Amy Fagan, "Hillary Seeks 'Education For All,'" The Washington Times, 5/2/07)
Hillary Pledged $300 Million For "Second Chance Education." "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, vowing to 'stop the revolving door from the streets to prison,' pledged to invest $300 million as president into public-private programs for 'second chance education' and reintegrating ex-offenders into communities." (Peter Hecht, "Clinton Vows To Back Programs For 'Second Chance Education,'" Sacramento Bee, 10/1/07)
Hillary Committed $36 Million For School Phys-Ed Programs. "Smaller-ticket items ... [include] $36 million for school physical-education programs." (Christina Bellantoni, "Democrats Can't Afford '08 Promises," The Washington Times, 9/20/07)
Hillary's Universal Pre-K Would Cost $5 Billion The First Year, And Over The Next 5 Years Annual Expenditures Would Increase To $10 Billion, Meaning At A Minimum It Would Cost $5 Billion Per Year Over The First 4 Years; $5 Billion Multiplied By 4 Years = $20 Billion. Hillary Clinton's "Fact Sheet" On Universal Pre-K: "The federal government will allocate $5 billion in the first year to states to establish and administer universal Pre-K. Over the next five years, the federal commitment will increase to $10 billion as states increase their commitment to Pre-K." (Hillary Clinton For President Website, hillaryclinton.com, Accessed 9/28/07)
Hillary Would Increase The Number Of National Science Foundation Fellowships And Increase The Size Of Each Award, At An Annual Cost Of $378 Million; $378 Million Multiplied By 4 Years = Over $1.5 Billion. "Triple the number of NSF fellowships and increase the size of each award by 33 percent. ... It is estimated that this would increase the annual cost of the program from $122 million to $500 million." (Hillary Clinton For President Website, hillaryclinton.com, Accessed 10/10/07)
She Would Double The NIH's Budget Over 10 Years - An Additional $28 Billion, Equal To $2.8 Billion Per Year; $2.8 Billion Multiplied By 4 Years = $11.2 Billion. "At a recent cancer forum, Mrs. Clinton said she would 'double' the National Institute of Health's $28 billion budget ... over 10 years." (Christina Bellantoni, "Democrats Can't Afford '08 Promises," The Washington Times, 9/20/07)
And Would Double The National Cancer Institute's Budget Over 10 Years - An Additional $5 Billion, Equal To $500 Million Per Year; $500 Million Multiplied By 4 Years = $2 Billion. "At a recent cancer forum, Mrs. Clinton said she would 'double' ... the National Cancer Institute's nearly $5 billion budget over 10 years." (Christina Bellantoni, "Democrats Can't Afford '08 Promises," The Washington Times, 9/20/07)
Now, where do you suppose that money would come from?
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October 18, 2007
Why I don't watch TV
Because of people like Rebecca Aguilar:
She ambushed a 70-year-old man who was forced to do something he never wanted to do when, over a three week period, criminals broke into his home to steal, and he shot both of them, in separate incidents, on separate days. One of them, the last one, died.
"Are you a trigger happy kind of person? Is that what what you wanted to do? Shoot to kill?"
Talk about unfair and unbalanced reporting from a woman who was just named one of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Broadcast Journalists of the Year. I guess the second runner up was Giraldo.
I take little to no comfort in the fact that she has been suspended from her job for her behavior during this interview, suspended ain't fired and it means she'll be back to do it again.
I have no desire to hook up that TV again.
UPDATE: The video is dead because, In an orgy of shame, the station is demanding its removal from the internet.
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October 16, 2007
Children's Health Fact of the Day
From the Republicans' House Energy and Commerce Committee Website:
A few other Schipp facts:
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that 50 percent of the upper-income enrollees added to SCHIP under the Democrats’ proposal currently have private health insurance but will drop their current health insurance coverage and shift these costs to the taxpayers.
and...
People who broke the law to come to America aren’t eligible for welfare, including Medicaid and SCHIP, and nearly everyone thinks that’s a good idea except Democrats in Washington. They want an SCHIP extension bill that removes the pesky requirement for checking the identity and citizenship of people who apply for Medicaid and SCHIP benefits.
H.R. 976 says that simply writing down a Social Security number is good enough to prove you are a citizen, although the commissioner of the Social Security Administration says emphatically that Social Security numbers are laughable as proof of citizenship because thousands are issued every year to non-citizens. Moreover, the Democrats’ SCHIP bill doesn’t even require that an applicant flash an ID to demonstrate that he or she could be the actual owner of the number.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that erasing the mechanism that reserves welfare for Americans instead of illegal aliens will cost U.S. taxpayers an extra $3.7 billion in federal spending and $2.8 billion in added state spending.
No need to make a fuss over $6 billion in American taxpayer dollars for healthcare for illegal immigrants, by golly, let's get some free government health care going here... because pulling your own teeth with a pair of pliers sure does sound like fun!
Yeah! Let's do it for the children!
According to the states’ budget projections, 13 will spend more than 44 percent of their SCHIP funds in 2008 on people who are neither children nor pregnant women.
Michigan tops the list with 71.6 percent of its SCHIP money earmarked for adults who have no kids. In New Mexico, 52.3 percent of the state’s SCHIP dollars will be spent on childless adults.
Let's do it for the poor children...
Census Bureau data (2004-2006) show that 1 in 5.5 children living under 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level don’t have health care coverage even though they’re eligible for government programs.
Republicans propose requiring states to cover at least 90 percent of these neediest kids before trying to find any more. The Democrats’ plan has no requirement to cover the poorest kids first. Instead, it just leaves them behind.
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Name that Presidential Contender
National polls place him in the GOP's bottom tier, with between 1 percent and 2 percent support. His base partly consists of -- in no particular order -- people who want prostitution legalized, taxpayers who oppose paying taxes, a white supremacist running for the Florida state House, and those who think the Sept. 11 attacks were a government conspiracy.
*snort*
Go Ron Go!
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October 10, 2007
Yup.
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October 07, 2007
Happy Columbus Day!
Okay, I'm a tad late... but I bet ya didn't realize that Christopher Columbus was the world's very first democrat. Yup.
Really, consider this: Christopher Columbus had no idea where he was going, when he got there, he had no idea where he was, so he went home not knowing where he had been. And he did it all on government money!
Later, he was credited for doing what he did not do for Columbus was not the first to discover America, nor was he the first European to land at America. In fact, that Columbus never even saw North America.
However, Columbus was the first to exploit, enslave and slaughter the Arawak Indians of Haiti, and syphilis was introduced into Europe by his crew.
So. A democrat for sure!
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September 30, 2007
Polish Politics
Women from a new Polish political party have stripped off in a controversial poster campaign ahead of national elections.Seven candidates from the Women's Party are featured posing behind a billboard that reads: "The party of women. Poland is a woman."
The attention-grabbing move is making waves in staunchly Catholic Poland, where the ruling Kaczynski twins have pushed a fiercely conservative agenda.
Writer Manuela Gretkowska said she founded the party as the Polish government considered tightening already strict controls on abortion.
"It is the straw that broke the camel's back," she said, adding that Poland's political scene was usually run by men for men.
"This poster is intended to shatter stereotypes in the anachronistic world of politics, which is more often dominated by uncommunicative men with their black tie outfits," she said.
"We are beautiful, nude, proud. We are true and sincere, body and soul. This is not pornography, there is nothing to see in terms of sex, our faces are intelligent, concerned, proud.
"We do not have our mouths open nor our eyes closed," she said.
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Hmmm... I bet they wouldn't do that if they looked like hillary clinton or nancy pelosi or [shudder] barbara boxer. Still, it brings to mind the Kerry/Edwards campaign... "Vote for us, we have better hair."
It took the threat of limited abortions to get their clothes off. Its amazing the extent some women will go to be able to kill their children.
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September 27, 2007
Tryphorgetin
I don't know what's funnier, the video or the comments.
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September 19, 2007
Why vote for Hillary
When you can have the real thing?
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September 15, 2007
Good News for Ron Paul Fans!
Its a World Net Daily Exclusive that should have been titled "Ron Paul is no longer in last place."
One can only assume that the ass-kicking he received during the senate race against Obama has filled Alan Keyes with confidence. He couldn't beat the guy that can't beat Hillary, but I'm sure he'll collect some cash anyways. And he'll likely leave a trail of unpaid debt for this campaign too, in the end, that's what he does best.
Ain't that just what we need... another loser in the mix.
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Fred!
I visited with Fred this past week during his Grassroots Tour at the Versailles Restaurant in the Little Havana section of Miami. The complete video of Fred's talk with us is posted at Blogs for Fred Thomspon.
Of course, it was in little Havana, and I was one of the few non-hispanics in attendance that were not part of the “show,” and I was most certainly the only Jew. I had prepared a question for him, but decided not to ask it at that moment, in that place, for of course, my question concerned Israel, and I considered the audience.
Fred was very well received by the hispanic community, even while he spoke out against the immigration bill. Although really, that should come as no surprise, considering that the immigrants in the room immigrated the legal way, some of them caught in a decade of paperwork and red tape. They earned their citizenship and are deeply resentful of those who cheat the process.
I did have a moment with Fred, after he tasted some authentic Cuban pastries. When we spoke, I held in my hand a blue metal bracelet made in support of the three Israeli soldiers who were kidnapped over a year ago, and who remain in terrorist hands. It has their names, and the words "Free Our Soldiers" on it.
He looked directly into my eyes, as I said "I have a gift for you Senator Thompson, from South Florida's Jewish Community." and I showed him the bracelet. He looked down and I'm sure he could see clearly what it said. I expected him to take it from my hands, and instead, he held out his arm in invitation, and I placed the bracelet on his wrist with my own hands. He thanked me, and that was that.
It you look closely... since you know its there, you can just barely make out the bracelet on Senator Thompson's left wrist, next to his watch, while he's joking on the bus...
I was thrilled to be there, to stand face to face with Fred Thompson, to look into his eyes, and place that gift on his wrist. I came away with very positive feelings. It was a moment of class, dignity and friendship for the Jewish people, and one I will never, ever forget.
Since SondraK threw this out there, I guess I will too:
Yours truly, on the right, center. I'm the lady without the scowl. I had a front row seat! (Sorry we missed each other Vince!)
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August 24, 2007
Opus Censored?
It would appear so.
Note to Opus readers: The Opus strips for August 26 and September 2 have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus' host paper The Washington Post. The strips may be viewed in a large format on their respective dates at Salon.com.
Why? Well. Take a wild guess what the topic is:
and just think.... Breathed has done over a hundred toons about the suppression of free expression because of Bush and the Patriot Act, and not a single one was suppressed. But... do a toon about islam... and the MSM suppresses it.
Irony is so... ironic.
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August 12, 2007
Say what?
In this wacky world, sometimes its difficult to tell the nut jobs from the nut jobs simply by what they say. Sometimes... they sound almost rational. And sometimes, they sound exactly alike, regardless of how different their views are from one another.
Many of you think Ron Paul is a nut job. Many of you think Ron Paul supporters are the nut jobs.
Run over to Beth's place, and play Name that would-be Ron Paul Supporter.
You'll see what I mean.
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July 12, 2007
The Real Rudy
Calling himself "America's Mayor," Rudy is looking to climb to the top on his 9/11 record. In this video, firefighters speak out about that record, and what Rudy is responsible for, pre-9/11 and post-9/11.
They want to call this "swiftboating" like its a bad thing. If "swiftboating" means finding a way to get the truth out to the American public, then this is swiftboating at its finest.
I wasn't planning on voting for Rudy before I saw it, and I have been against a Rudy presidency right from the get-go.
I'm no fan of unions, I was married to an IBEW member, I know what they're about and I know how they operate. I'm sure the union has its own agenda in releasing this. But, whatever the union's agenda is, its either true, or its not. If it is true, then it stands as a indictment against Rudy Guliani, who I believe is a liar, and a cheat. If its not true, then Rudy should be able to shut it down quickly and have the statements retracted. I remember all too well watching Rudy brush off emergency workers to give his attention to the media, and I remember when he made them stop looking for the fallen. I think it is true.
Reality is, we no longer have to rely on the distortions, errors and omissions of the mainstream media when it comes to information. Now we get to know what we need to know to make an informed decision.
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July 11, 2007
There's always room for improvement
and Rodger is a genius when it comes to improving things...
I read him every day. and I mean every day.
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July 10, 2007
By the way...
Giuliani has the support of 30% of “Republicans and Republican leaners,” vs. 28% a month ago; Thompson comes in with 20%, vs. 19% in June; McCain has 16%, vs. 18% a month earlier.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney remains in fourth, at 9% vs. 7% in June.
The current numbers for the rest of the Republicans included in the survey: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, 6%; former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, 2%; Rep. Duncan Hunter, 2%; Rep. Tom Tancredo, 2%; Sen. Sam Brownback, 1%; Sen. Chuck Hagel, 1%; former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson, 1%. Neither former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore nor Rep. Ron Paul registered any support.
Neither former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore nor Rep. Ron Paul registered any support.
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July 09, 2007
Conversations with a Ron Paul Republican
So, my sister met a guy. "He's a republican," she said.
For the record, politically, my sister is not much like me, I think of her as a centrist, somewhere in the middle of the road. We had more than quite a few "discussions" during the 2004 election. She didn't like Bush, and she didn't like Kerry either. But, for the most part, we leave politics out of our conversations and, she worries about my activism, the street protests and what not. Although she denies it, I believe she thinks of me as a "right wing nut job." And if she does, well, she's probably right.
So, she meets this guy, and politics came up, and lo... he says he's a republican. Except... he's not really, he's a Ron Paultard. "Oh no," said I. "He's not a republican, he's a freak" and I could almost hear her thinking... "right wing nut job." and she said "I told him about you."
Next thing I know, he's writing me.
It started out normal enough, he visited this place, and wrote to say "Heard all about you from your sister Laura, interesting website." I said "I hope I didn't scare you," and off we went. We discussed Hannity, and Rush, and discovered that we had a common interest, investments and commodities, so we talked about that for an email or two.
I'm thinking, okay, this is not so bad, he sounds normal enough. and then somewhere in the middle of all that... he slips in "Basially I've been politically active since 1991, was born and raised a liberal Long Islander (20 years), staunch republican (15 years), realized that both parties are one in the same about 7 years ago." Uh oh.
and then he popped the question. "Had to ask you, what do you think of Ron Paul...or why are you not a fan? Inquiring minds want to know."
I was torn between the short answer, which begins with "Ron Paul is one brain cell shy of being a moron" and the long answer, which is a detailed explanation of why Ron Paul's political platform is an impossibility in this modern world, just facts, with no bad words, and no insults. When dealing with Paultards on the internet, I prefer to use the short answer because it discourages dialogue with them. If I've learned one thing about talking politics over the years, it is that you should only try to sway the uncommitted, and never try to sway the should be committed. Ron Paul supporters fall into the second category, and while its fun to poke them now and again, mostly, its just tedious.
Still, because my sister was kinda involved, I opted for the long answer, ending my email with...
"To return to those less complicated days of Monroe and Jackson is a lofty idea, but the world is much more complicated now then it was then. What worked then will not work now.
When thought through, Paul's platform and his goals are unsustainable in the modern world and as to foreign policy, they amount to national suicide. If he gets elected, that power vacuum will be filed by our enemies, who would then destroy us.
On a more basic level, I am deeply troubled by his "blame America" attitude. I simply do not believe that if we withdraw from the rest of the world, they won't come here looking to kill us.
I am also deeply troubled by his relationship with the truthers. It reflects an unsoundness of mind and thought process.
In my humble opinion, he is the republican version of kucinich, and if he had a chance to win, he would be a very dangerous man.
But, he has no chance to win. So, I anticipate that he will be nothing more than an amusement during this election cycle."
and as expected, I received in return a long ramble of Ron Paul talking points, which conveniently talk only about what should be, and never mention what the consequences would be if those ideas come to fruition.
So, losing patience, I cut to the chase and asked... "with all due respect, what you have written here has absolutely nothing to do with the reality of what a Ron Paul presidency would mean to this country. Talking points aside, really, do you believe the 9/11 truthers? Do you believe that if we withdraw from the international community, we will be safer? Do you believe that we should dismantle our military and trust our safety to a few surface to air missiles? I don't."
And in reply I received more talking points about the divide between the rich and the poor, and WMDs not in Iraq, and Ron Paul being a "put American first" patriot and his candidacy being about waking people up to the inconsistancy of both sides.
And mixed up in the middle was this little gem:
As far as the 9/11 truth movement, I absolutely agree with them, just as I agree that the 2 unexploded bombs pulled out of the Murah building Oklahoma City were put there by criminals inside our government at the time.
I immediately went into "Ack" mode, actually, I went into "Ack Ack Ack" mode and forwarded it to my sister... with sirens blaring. "Dump him! Dump him!" said I, and then sat back in my chair thinking... whew. I should have just used the Ron Paul short answer.
But, perhaps it was worth it, as my sister replied "OMG! What a yutz!"
Ah. I just love Yiddish, it's just so... expressive!
As for a Ron Paul Presidency... well... That's not going to happen. And I'd bet every cent in my pocket too!
and... this just in on a tip from DoubleU...
heh. I love Frank J.
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July 06, 2007
Friday's Not-so-Funny Funny
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Dogs Against Romney
Hello to all you dogs out there.
As I am sure you know from listening to your humans, there is a very important election coming up in 2008, to decide who will be the president of these United States of America that we live in. There are quite a few men running, and one very scary woman. But, my human is working her fingers to the bone to keep that scary woman out of the White House, and as dogs, well, for now, all we have to do is remember to pee on any cars with her bumper sticker on it.
That said, there is this other guy though, from mAssachusetts, who wants to be president, his name is Mitt Romney. Although he looks human to me, my human calls him a rhino and she spits every time she hears his name. I don't think she is just marking her territory and I admit to being a little confused about that, although anyone from mAssachusetts is persona non grata in my territory just on general principles.
But then I found out what Mitt Romney did to his dog! He stuck the poor guy in a crate and then he tied the crate to the roof of his car and then he drove for hundreds of miles without letting the poor guy out for a rest, and then somewhere along the way, he got a hose and sprayed the poor guy with water and then he kept going! And his family bragged about it later! What a bastard! Me, now, I wouldda bit him but I could certainly understand if his dog was too beaten down from the drive to bite the bastard himself.
Anyone who has a decision making process that includes this kind of torture of a helpless animal is not fit to be in charge of garbage collection, much less the entire country. Of course, he is from mAssachusetts, so I guess its no more than what we can expect of him.
So. We are dogs and because we are dogs, you might think that there is nothing we can do to keep this man out of the White House. Well, we may be dogs, but we are American dogs! and, I am happy to tell you that there is something we can do to help save this Country from a Mitt Romney Presidency.
I am writing to urge you to raise your voice against this man and become a Dog Against Romney. It may not seem like much, but it is something that we dogs can do to help. A really good dog named Rusty started this thing, and its growing in leaps and bounds as dogs throughout America stand up for what's good and right for this Country and its dogs. I'm joining up and you can too, its easy.
All you have to do is get your human to post your picture and your feelings on Mitt Romney, and link the post back to Dogs Against Romney. Hopefully, they will post it for the world to see.
Please join me in the campaign to keep Mitt Romney out of the White House! Spread the word!
I am MuShu and I approve this message.
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July 03, 2007
Joke of the day
No. Fucking. Way. I wouldn't give them 61 cents. But... he might get a blank card with one of these tucked inside:
I've got a long memory. And I never forget a betrayal.
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July 02, 2007
Earth to Hillary... Earth to Hillary...
I can't believe she opened that can of worms:
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Taking a swipe at a potential GOP presidential rival, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized Fred Thompson for suggesting illegal Cuban immigrants pose a terrorist threat
"I was appalled when one of the people running for or about to run for the Republican nomination talked about Cuban refugees as potential terrorists," Clinton told Hispanic elected officials. "Apparently he doesn't have a lot of experience in Florida or anywhere else, and doesn't know a lot of Cuban-Americans."
Yeah. Except... we remember all too well how the Clinton Administration treated Cuban refugees:
And... thanks to the internet, we can hear from Fred himself about Cuba, a full two days before Hillary's remarks.
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June 11, 2007
In case you missed it
Dennis Miller sums up Harry Reid.
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June 03, 2007
Ron Paul
Just think... if he had just one more brain cell, he would qualify as a moron.
click for a closer look
sheesh.
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May 31, 2007
Let the games begin
Its gonna be one hell of an election year!
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Georgia Democrat, may seek the Green Party nomination. She was interviewed Friday on New York radio station WBAI:
"You know, I have on my kitchen table, I have a button that was printed in 2000. And it was printed by the Green Party, they were talking about me running as a Green. So I have had a very long relationship with the Green Party. And I think, honestly, with the failure of the Democratic majority in Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act, to repeal the Secret Evidence Act, to repeal the Military Tribunals Act, to not institute immediately actions of impeachment against this illegitimate, illegal and immoral administration, stop the war, I have to seriously question my relationship with the Democratic Party. I know that the very learned listeners of WBAI have long been interested in how to have a truly independent voice. I understand now that with the current Democratic majority in Congress that's not possible. ....
So, you know, 2008 has not been ruled out, some kind of effort. Certainly now it is questionable as to whether that effort would come under the banner of the Democratic Party. There's no way that with the current crop of candidates who are all supporting a military action against Iran and who none of them support impeachment. They can not speak for me any longer."
Yep. That's what she said.
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Yannow, she just might give Ron Paul a run for his money when it comes to the truther vote. What a debate that would be.
Oh Please. Please Cynthia. Run. Run Cynthia Run. ahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Oh my! ahahahaha.
Whew. I really needed that laugh.
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May 29, 2007
Its a witch hunt!
Ahem....
Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.
Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, he maintained.
"We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said.
"It is time to attack the myth of global warming," he said.
Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect, an effect which was vital to keep the world warm, he explained.
"If we didn't have the greenhouse effect the planet would be at minus 18 deg C but because we do have the greenhouse effect it is plus 15 deg C, all the time."
The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent.
However, carbon dioxide as a result of man's activities was only 3.2 per cent of that, hence only 0.12 per cent of the greenhouse gases in total. Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs etc made similarly minuscule contributions to the effect: 0.066, 0.047 and 0.046 per cent respectively.
"That ought to be the end of the argument, there and then," he said.
"We couldn't do it (change the climate) even if we wanted to because water vapour dominates."
"The Greens are really going to go after you because you put out 49 per cent of the countries emissions. Does anybody ask 49 per cent of what? Does anybody know how small that number is?
"It's become a witch-hunt; a Salem witch-hunt," he said.
To most of us, its already a joke.
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May 24, 2007
Yadda Yadda
What a difference a campaign makes...
Giuliani's days as a crusading anti-gun mayor are behind him now that he's running for president, and Wednesday he staked out a simple test for concealed-carry permits, which are tightly controlled in New York. He asked two questions -- Are you a criminal, and have you ever been institutionalized? -- and to the laughter of the audience, rendered his verdict when she said no to both.
"As far as I am concerned, you can have a concealed weapon," he said. "The Constitution of the United States in the Second Amendment gives you an individual right to bear arms; that individual right is as strong as your individual right to free speech, free assembly, being safe against unreasonable searches and seizures."
Yadda yadda Rudy. What was it you just told Hannity...
GIULIANI: It's not only -- I mean, it's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You've got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.
HANNITY: How do you feel about the Brady bill and assault ban?
GIULIANI: I was in favor of that as part of the crime bill. I was in favor of it because I thought that it was necessary both to get the crime bill passed and also necessary with the 2,000 murders or so that we were looking at, 1,800, 1,900, to 2,000 murders, that I could use that in a tactical way to reduce crime. And I did.
Piss off Rudy. This weekend I'm off to Naples for a gun weekend and this time, we're using liberals for target practice. Along with Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Kennedy, Murtha and the Clintons, I've printed up a couple of dozen of these...
I expect they'll be very popular.
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May 22, 2007
Dueling RINOs
Referring to Romney's stance, McCain said: "Maybe I should wait a couple of weeks and see if it changes because it's changed in less than a year from his position before."
Then, with a chuckle, he made his cutting quip that referenced two embarrassing episodes for Romney in the past six months.
McCain: "Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn."
Romney has faced criticism for calling himself a lifelong hunter even though he joined the National Rifle Association in August and officials in four states where he has lived said he never took out a hunting license. Defending himself, he said in April, "I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter, small varmints, if you will."
Also, The Boston Globe reported late last year that several illegal immigrants, including at least one from Guatemala, worked at the lawn care company that worked on Romney's two-and-a-half acre property in a Boston suburb for a decade. His aides have said that Romney was not aware of the workers' status, and that the owner was in the country legally.
Sigh. Sorry, but that's funny stuff.
and... as long as we're on the subject of varmints...
Talk about out of touch, the man has no sense of reality.
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Bend over America
The House and Congress finally got something done and no one told you about it. Buried under a media blitz about an immigration bill that isn't even written yet, lies the largest tax hike in U.S. history:
"With all the other news this week, the media barely noticed that Congressional Democrats passed a budget outline that envisions more than $200 billion in tax increases over five years."
Yes, you read that right, $200 billion over five years coming out of your pocket and you can be sure the media did notice, they just didn't tell you.
The Associated Press account never mentions tax increases. The Wall Street Journal’s headline cautiously refers to a “partial lapse of tax cuts.”
Not a single Democratic senator voted against the tax-increasing budget -- not even Nebraska's Ben Nelson, who often departs from the party line and who supported the Bush tax cuts.
and
... no Republican member voted for the budget, while 13 Democrats opposed it. Of the defectors, left-wing Rep. Dennis Kucinich voted no because he said the budget would fund President Bush's Iraqi war effort throughout his term.
Kucinich will do anything to lose the war, but still, the "budget" has been passed in both the House and Senate, and now, the only thing standing between your wallet and the Congressional pickpockets is President Bush.
Beth has more on this, a lot more, so go read it. and weep.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:13 AM | Comments (0)
May 17, 2007
I Confess!!
Posted by LindaSoG at 05:11 AM | Comments (3)
May 14, 2007
True dat!
and... true dat!
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:55 AM | Comments (0)
May 08, 2007
Proof positive
That liberalism is a mental disorder:
The next Ambassador at Large, should Mrs. Clinton become president, has gone on record in the belief that the main victims of a nuclear strike that destroys Israel would be Muslims, suffering from fallout.
William Jefferson Clinton:
"Maybe some Iranian leader would think, maybe I can nuke Israel ... but we can handle that with a phone call," he said. "If a nuclear bomb ever exploded in the Middle East, even if it wiped out Israel, the main victims eventually would be all the Muslims around it who would be killed in the nuclear fallout."
Handle it with a phone call? Yeah? Who you gonna call, Jimmy Carter?
G-d help us.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:20 PM | Comments (3)
May 03, 2007
Debutantes of Defeat
This just in from Russ Vaughn, via Old War Dogs:
Debutantes of Defeat
In 2003 they came to the Ball,
For some merry martial dancing;
Girlishly giggling in the Capitol hall,
Finding chords of war music entrancing.
Filled with excitement, throwing care to the wind,
DebiDems wanted Bush to be tough,
So the ladies signed on for a Ball with no end,
Without thinking it just might get rough.But the dance card of war began to reveal,
That some people really were dying.
What? Death and violence are part of the deal?
That dumb cowboy must have been lying.
Lifting their hems, they ran for the doors,
Their hypocrisy blatantly stunning;
Shrieking defeat, they fled the dance floors,
Belles with no Balls, flat-out running.Once hypocrite Hillary swirled the war floor,
Out-jingoing flat-footed Kerry;
Now Hil is shrilling she knew not the score,
Like whiney-voiced, tap-dancing Harry.
They went to the ball to advance their schemes,
They had planned, should the Martial Ball sour;
Lose the war, destroy Bush, fulfill their dreams,
They’d become the dance masters of power.Hillary’s hip-hopping, Reid’s tapping like mad, club-footed Kerry’s still schlubbing,
And Pelosi in Damascus cornered Bashar for some old-fashioned, hot belly-rubbing.
and in other news... Democrats Back Down On Iraq Timetable.
Just pass a friggin bill that will fund our troops and support the mission. Leave all the politics and the favors and pork and the bullshit off the table, and do the right thing.
Posted by LindaSoG at 11:28 AM | Comments (1)
April 25, 2007
La la la...
Yeah, Rodger made CNN. That's way cool, but... who watches CNN?
Okay, so I'm number two, but I'm still proud!
wwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:05 AM | Comments (2)
April 15, 2007
Christ Killa
Thanks to ever alert TUA, the one and only SondraK broke the story about Christ Killa, a video game where you get to shoot down the evil Jesus, over and over again. Michelle Malkin picked it up, and now everyone is talking about it.
I stumbled on a video of what the game is really like, if you're interested...
It opens with an arabic accent claiming "All of the false prophets must die" and there's a lot more to it then just killing Jesus, Evil Jesus is trying to kill you too. and... gamers are treated to photos of George Bush with Evil Jesus, burning American flags and there's a good bit of that arabic accented voice over throughout. I'm sure there are other subliminal messages that I didn't focus on, and I don't care to watch it again. Once was enough.
Ultimately, it is a not so subtle message that targets our youth, and it extends beyond hatred of Christianity.
Brought to you by the enemy within.
Posted by LindaSoG at 10:43 AM | Comments (0)
On the Media Elite...
and the politics of war...
Was McCain Really an Early Advocate For "Counterinsurgency?" Actually - Yes!
This essay by Dafydd ab Hugh sums up exactly what is wrong with news coverage of the war in Iraq.
No, its not all about John McCain, its only a little about John McCain, and when you read the part that is about John McCain, you might be as surprised as I was (I still won't support a McCain Presidency, but I was surprised at what I read). Once you get past John McCain, you'll see, its really about the media, and how it treats the war.
No, I won't excerpt it, it needs to be read in its entirety. So, go read it. Read every word.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:32 AM | Comments (2)
April 13, 2007
and Suddenly...
After 20 plus years of Don Imus, all of a sudden people are offended?
Don Imus has been bad mouthing Jews and blacks throughout his career. He has praised the KKK and joked about KKK lynchings, and he has joked about the holocaust, about lampshades and soap made from dead Jews. Just last month he went off on Jews as money grubbing, beanie wearing scum.
It's called free speech and its guaranteed by the government. You can say whatever you want without fear of the government. But alas, as Imus just discovered, there are no protections against social backlash.
So, why did it take 20 years and a nappy head comment to shut down Don Imus? There's a simple answer, people listen to Imus, they like him and they have supported 20 years of racist jokes and innuendos, because they agree with what he says. That says more to me than anything. Don Imus is one man, but his listeners are many.
I don't think Don Imus should be forced off the air, in a perfect world, he would have been off the air because no one agreed with his views on Blacks and Jews.
Still, people are full of contradictions. After 9/11, the same Don Imus who joked about dead Jews being made into lampshades and soap said "We support Israel because it's the right thing to do."
And, if Don Imus was black, and he called these women "nappy-headed hos," he would still have his job. Sometimes, its not about what was said, its about who said it.
So now, the witch hunt begins, spearheaded by the worst offenders. How ridiculous it all is. Imus should have just said he was drunk, and checked into rehab for a week or two.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:35 AM | Comments (4)
April 07, 2007
Hacking John McCain
I'm sure heads rolled at McCain Campaign Headquarters when one of the staffers used a template designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson. Mr. Davidson gave the template code away to anyone who wanted to use it, but asked that he be given credit when it was used, and told users to host their own image files.
Except, McCain’s staff used the template, deleted the credit to Davidson, and then hotlinked images from his server, meaning he has to pay for the bandwidth used from page views on McCain’s MySpace.
So: a little switcheroo and.... instead of McCain's contact information, the following statement appeared:
Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage…particularly marriage between two passionate females.
Now, how much fun is that you ask? Well, I can tell you from personal experience, its a lot of fun.
And you thought MySpace was just for kids...
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:21 PM | Comments (1)
March 25, 2007
I love Jackie Mason
and I love Penn & Teller.
and... I love my Mossberg.
FMCDH!
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:44 AM | Comments (4)
March 22, 2007
Today's Racist Post
Brought to you by... The LA Times:
AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.
But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro."
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .
He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.
Despite my Jewish sense of responsibility, I don't feel any white guilt whatsoever, except... maybe I should for posting this little ditty:
nah. If Rush can do, so can I! Thanks Paul, for the song! and thanks Ken... for the tip!
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:01 PM | Comments (2)
March 18, 2007
Tastes like...
Kool Aid:
Dayum. Harsh, but true.
Posted by LindaSoG at 03:05 PM | Comments (3)
March 14, 2007
Just Damned
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:28 AM | Comments (3)
March 11, 2007
Should you Vote?
It seems that a good many people shouldn't
People should Vote, but only AFTER they have educated themselves on the policies and individuals for which they are voting. Voting should be considered a privilege and exercised with responsibility and discretion. Just like a final exam, responsible voting requires self-education and thought. When the time comes to cast your ballot, if you don't know for what or whom you're voting, then DON'T VOTE.
I didn't think I'd do this well... I missed Paris Hilton!
Posted by LindaSoG at 10:25 AM | Comments (7)
March 05, 2007
Okay, I'm Offended.
Enough emails. My official opinion:
I have said things about John Edwards, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the democrats that are certainly offensive and that make Ann Coulter sound like a nun. I speak for myself, and not the republican party, or conservatives. As does Ann Coulter.
I note that in the video you can hear a good many of the conservatives who were in the room at the time applaud her "offensive" remark.
There is now a petition for bloggers to sign that seeks to bar Ann Coulter from future CPAC events. Are they going to bar all of the conservatives in the audience who applauded too? And what do you want to bet that at least some of those conservatives who applauded Ann's little barb have now signed that petition?
I am more offended by the "conservatives" at CPAC who welcomed and applauded a gun-grabbing liberal candidate for president who is so pro-abortion that he thinks our tax dollars should pay for them, who is pro-gay rights, who is so pro-amnesty for llegals that he not only worked tirelessly to create a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants but gave them free healthcare at the taxpayers' expense, than I am offended by Ann's comment.
I am more offended by the "conservative" bloggers at CPAC who applauded a liberal candidate for president who supports mccain-feingold than I am offended by Ann's comment.
But then, that's just me.
UPDATE: Turns out not everyone is signing on the outrage. Emperor Misha issued a bitch slap! and I agree, Ann directed her comment to the wrong candidate. Whoa, at Cold Fury, Mike is furious, and so is Joe! PoliPundit thinks its all about the money honey!
Mike at Cold Fury makes this point:
... a year from now, all of this — every last bit of it — will be forgotten, and it will have all the lasting impact on future elections of…last year’s CPAC. Anybody remember the significance of that one? Anybody remember anything at all about it?
Besides Coulter’s “raghead” remark, that is.
So there!
Final Update: The icing on the cake!
Posted by LindaSoG at 12:49 PM | Comments (3)
Wish I had a watermelon
MIAMI, United States (AFP) - A prominent Miami developer was arrested Friday for allegedly skimming official funds to buy himself a 150,000-dollar sculpture of a giant watermelon slice.
Raul Masvidal turned himself in to authorities after he was charged with organized fraud and grand theft.
Masvidal had obtained millions of dollars from the Miami-Dade county to build new offices for the Housing Agency, but used part of the money to buy the sculpture by artist Julio Larraz, according to an affidavit filed in court.
The sculpture, called "Mars", portrays a huge watermelon slice that has been bitten.
To hide the purchase, he allegedly asked an art broker to write a fake invoice that listed only a sculpture of stacked cups that was to grace the new building, but charged for both artworks.
The Cuban-born Masvidal had gained prominence in Miami as a political advisor, philanthropist and businessman.
"What a great disappointment," said State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. "He turned on his community. He turned on his friends."
Masvidal is pleading innocent, and claims he was framed by the artist, who was his childhood friend. It should be interesting to see how he explains away the fact that he used the watermelon sculpture as collateral for a $125,000 ''personal loan'' -- listing the item as his personal property.
Both sculptures were found at the Medley storage yard of Delant Construction -- the contractor on both the Hometown Station project and on renovations to Masvidal's Coral Gables home.
Here's a coincidence: Masvidal had a brief stint as a watermelon farmer.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:31 AM | Comments (1)
Hillary Panders to the South
Complete with a phony Southern accent...
"I just want to begin by giving praise to the Lord Almighty," said Mrs Clinton, 59, with a Southern twang not normally detectable in her speeches, as she announced she had come as "a sister in worship and a grateful friend and beneficiary of what happened in Selma 42 years ago".
"I don't feel no ways tired..." so said herself...
Ah but who can forget when she spoke to the NAACP: "And youse know wha I'ma a talkin 'bout!"
Fiddle-dee-dee!
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:57 AM | Comments (3)
February 28, 2007
Ohfercryinoutloud!
This is some happy horseshit for sure:
Democratic State Legislator Bernard Gladstone whimsically hit upon an idea to solve the fiscal crisis. He introduced a bill to abolish the income tax and instead exact a $2 levy upon every act of sexual intercourse performed in the state.
Banking on either gallantry, male chauvinism or both, Gladstone suggested that only men should pay, and on a voluntary basis. Otherwise, he speculated, tax inspectors might find the law difficult to enforce. By some inscrutable formula, Gladstone announced that for every male Rhode Islander, his tax would bring in $2 a week.
Before long the outcry against Gladstone's "bad taste" was loud enough to force him to withdraw his modest proposal.
what a friggin' moron.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:41 AM | Comments (3)
February 23, 2007
The 110th Congress is "all about the children"
If only those San Francisco Values wouldn't get in the way:
"Since 1994, medical experts have known how to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. “Baby AIDS” can be virtually eliminated if expectant mothers with HIV are identified and treated with AIDS drugs. Infants whose mothers’ HIV status is unknown may also be protected if HIV antibodies are detected soon after birth and treatment is promptly administered. With treatment, the risk of transmission from mother to child can be reduced to less than one percent. Without treatment, 25 percent of children born to mothers with HIV will become infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This may be perhaps the single most significant achievement in the battle against HIV/AIDS."
In 2006, Congress established a $30 million HIV early intervention grant program—funded out of CDC’s HIV prevention budget—to provide financial incentives to assist other states eliminate baby AIDS.
So what happened? Defunded. By the 110th Congress.
The Democratic Congressional leadership didn't get nearly the kicking around it deserved for one particularly despicable provision in the fiscal 2007 spending bill: a clause which canceled funding for a program to prevent unborn babies from contracting HIV from infected mothers.
Where does the money go? Well, it reverts back to the CDC, and used on other projects, such as:
In Our Prime: Men For Hire
Thursday, April 10, 2003
Location: STOP AIDS, 2128 15th St.Joseph Itiel presents practical tips and covers the seven guidelines for safe and friendly relations with escorts. This is an event you won't want to miss!
Other projects that the 100th Congress considered more worthy than protecting babies from AIDS:
Got Love? #2 - Flirt / Date / Score
February 10, 2004
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
STOP AIDS Main Office
2128 - 15th StreetPart two of our four part series. Want to flirt with greater finesse and date with more confidence? Who doesn't? Share your expertise in this interactive conversation and you'll hear how others are successful in meeting guys today.
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Dirty Thoughts, Part 2
Saturday, April 5, 2003
Location: EROS
Event starts at 4:00 pmA new 4-part erotic writing workshop. Start by exploring your fantasies and get support for you creative writing process. Open to all skill levels. Limited space, register now. Attendance required at all 4 workshops. Supplies and snacks provided.
and... there was the Asian Pacific Islanders Drag Contest, funded in part by CDC dollars.
Oh well.
"May God bless our work, and may God bless America... for these children, our children, and for all of America's children, the House will come to order." Madame Speaker's acceptance speech
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:59 AM | Comments (1)
February 22, 2007
Ouch
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:38 AM
February 19, 2007
Danger! Children at Play!
Schools declare themselves 'war toy free zones'
Toy soldiers, model war planes and wrestling figurines have been banned in schools across the state in a politically correct crackdown.
Primary schools and kindergartens have declared themselves "war toy free zones" and outlawed traditional toys and playground games that have even a tenuous link to war.
All schools contacted by the Sunday Herald Sun said they had a policy banning war toys.
Children at primary schools and kindergartens are also forbidden from playing "war-like games" such as cowboys and indians and poison ball.
Okay, you can't play tag, or dodge ball, there will be no game winners in any game. You can't carry a bible or wear religious jewelry. No medications, unless its ritlin and, if you don't have ritlin, well, they'll probably give you some. If you miss a parent-teacher conference, you'll go to jail and if your kid doesn't come to school one day, they'll charge you.
Child psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Greg said the war toy ban had no logical basis.
"There is no evidence playing with toy soldiers or wrestling figurines in any way, shape or form has negative effects on the child's psychological development," he said.
They don't need no steenkin' logic, they're educators.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:03 AM | Comments (9)
Monday Morning Snark
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:37 AM
February 17, 2007
Egyptian Commentary
on what the Democrats have to offer this year:
Shamelessly stolen from the Memri Blog.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:30 PM | Comments (2)
February 13, 2007
He said what he meant
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois said Monday that he had misspoken when he suggested that the lives of more than 3,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq had been “wasted.”
Wasted???
As he arrived in New Hampshire, Mr. Obama said he would “absolutely apologize” to military families if they were offended by a remark he made in Iowa while criticizing the Bush administration’s Iraq policy.
You "would" apologize "if" they were offended? It was offensive and you know it, you just won't admit it and that is NOT an apology.
“What I would say — and meant to say — is that their service hasn’t been honored,” Mr. Obama told reporters in Nashua, N.H., “because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery, and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed.”
A New Hampshire reporter asked Mr. Obama whether he regretted the remark, made at a rally on Sunday that “we ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”
“Even as I said it,” Mr. Obama said Monday, “I realized I had misspoken.”
It's you who haven't honored their service Obama, you and your party of appeasement. It's your cut and run strategy and your protection of terrorists that handcuff our troops, it's your party that demands terrorists be given rights, privileges and protections never afforded to the enemy before.
That would be you, Obama. You're not fit to be elected dog catcher.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:43 AM | Comments (1)
Laugh if you think its funny
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:10 AM
February 12, 2007
Look Mom! No Hands!
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful, is shown
on a chair spinning in a circle, saying he was doing something no other candidate can,
during a campaign stop, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007, in Keene, N.H.
Yes, folks, it takes a real man, and a real candidate, to stand on a chair and spin.
sigh.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:57 AM | Comments (3)
Monday Snark
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:50 AM | Comments (1)
February 10, 2007
Hey Mom! What's for Dinner?
In the socialist paradise known as Venezuela... Chicken Feet.
CARACAS, Venezuela - Meat cuts vanished from Venezuelan supermarkets this week, leaving only unsavory bits like chicken feet, while costly artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar, and many staples sell far above government-fixed prices.
President Hugo Chavez's administration blames the food supply problems on unscrupulous speculators, but industry officials say government price controls that strangle profits are responsible.
Shortages have sporadically appeared with items from milk to coffee since early 2003, when Chavez began regulating prices for 400 basic products as a way to counter inflation and protect the poor.
Yet inflation has soared to an accumulated 78 percent in the last four years in an economy awash in petrodollars, and food prices have increased particularly swiftly, creating a widening discrepancy between official prices and the true cost of getting goods to market in Venezuela.
"Shortages have increased significantly as well as violations of price controls," Central Bank director Domingo Maza Zavala told the Venezuelan broadcaster Union Radio on Thursday. "The difference between real market prices and controlled prices is very high."
Gonzalo Asuaje, president of the meat processors association Afrigo, said that costs and demand have surged but in four years the government has barely raised the price of beef, which now stands at $1.82 per pound. Simply getting beef to retailers now costs $2.41 per pound without including any markup, he said.
Now why do I get the feeling that hugo ain't dining on chicken feet? He looks like he hasn't missed a meal in years:
"They say there are no shortages, but I'm not finding anything in the stores," grumbled Ana Diaz, a 70-year-old housewife who after eight hours, had managed to fill a bag with chicken, milk, vegetable oil and sugar bought at official prices. "There's a problem somewhere, and it needs to be fixed."
Yeah, the problem is... you voted for socialism Ana, and you got it! So, quit complaining and start looking for some chicken feet recipes.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:29 PM | Comments (1)
February 08, 2007
I call that "Infringement"
If I lived in Cook County, Illinois, in four days, I would become a criminal:
Owners of such firearms or large capacity magazines have until February 12, 2007 to either remove the affected guns and remove any large capacity magazines from Cook County or surrender them to the police for destruction.
What firearms and magazines are affected by this county wide ban? Over 60 firearms are specifically listed as being illegal, including the deer rifle popular in many Midwest states, the SKS with a detachable magazine. Popular self defense weapons like the Mossberg 500 pump, and popular target shooting semiautomatic AR-15 are also illegal. In addition, all magazines that can hold more than 10 shells are banned.
FMCDH!
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:09 AM | Comments (2)
February 07, 2007
Welcome to my world
Lunch time conversation:
co-worker: I think its time for a woman president and I hope we get one.
me: Maybe it is, but not that woman.
co-worker: why? what's wrong with her?
me: What's right with her? did you hear what she said earlier this week?
co-worker: about taking money from the oil companies? hell yeah I heard and its about time!
me: Really? So you think we should take money from corporations and give it to the people?
co-worker: Yeah, they make too much money and the people don't.
me: Really? and who do you think owns the corporations?
co-worker: filthy rich people who are destroying the earth with their greed.
me: No. Those companies are traded on the stock market. regular people own shares in those companies.
co-worker: No. rich people own those companies.
me: so you think its a crime to be rich?
co-worker: when other people are poor, yes.
me: so you're a communist?
co-worker: no
me: but that's what you just said
co-worker: no. I'm not a communist. I'm a socialist.
me: same thing.
co-worker: don't be an ass. its not the same thing.
me: no? then what's the difference?
co-worker: its not the same thing
me: so what's the difference?
co-worker: socialists are for the people
me: really? that's what the communists say
co-worker: its not the same thing.
me: so what's the difference?
co-worker: there are a lot of differences
me: so name one
co-worker: stop pushing me. you're not listening to me
me: I am listening to you, you're not saying anything. what's the difference?
co-worker: I'm not talking to you about this anymore
me: why? because you don't know the difference between communism and socialism?
co-worker: oh and you do. so you tell me.
me: I told you, there is no difference.
co-worker: fuck you.
me: well. that settles that.
How was your day?
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:00 PM | Comments (12)
February 06, 2007
Ronald Wilson Reagan 1911 ~ 2004
Ronald Reagan was the first President I voted for, he made me the Conservative that I am, and that I will always be. Mr. Reagan was a true leader who knew no boundries. There was nothing he would not do for America.
Today would have been Ronald Reagan's 96th birthday.
From the NYT:
To a nation hungry for a hero, a nation battered by Vietnam, damaged by Watergate and humiliated by the taking of hostages in Iran, Ronald Reagan held out the promise of a return to greatness, the promise that America would “stand tall” again.
Mr. Reagan lived longer than any United States president, spending his final years in seclusion as he coped with the mental debilitation of Alzheimer’s disease.
By Peggy Noonan
In his presidency he did this: He out-argued communism and refused to accept its claim of moral superiority; he rallied the West, rallied America and continued to make big gambles, including a defense-spending increase in a recession. He promised he'd place Pershings in Europe if the Soviets would not agree to arms reductions, and told Soviet leaders that they'd never be able to beat us in defense, that we'd spend them into the ground. They were suddenly reasonable. Ronald Reagan told the truth to a world made weary by lies. He believed truth was the only platform on which a better future could be built. He shocked the world when he called the Soviet Union "evil," because it was, and an "empire," because it was that, too. He never stopped bringing his message to the people of the world, to Europe and China and in the end the Soviet Union. And when it was over, the Berlin Wall had been turned into a million concrete souvenirs, and Soviet communism had fallen. But of course it didn't fall. It was pushed. By Mr. Know Nothing Cowboy Gunslinger Dimwit. All presidents should be so stupid.
He pushed down income taxes too, from a high of 70% when he entered the White House to a new low of 28% when he left, igniting the long boom that, for all its ups and downs, is with us still. He believed, as JFK did, that a rising tide lifts all boats. He did much more, returning respect to our armed forces, changing 50-year-old assumptions about the place of government and the place of the citizen in the new America.
What an era his was. What a life he lived. He changed history for the better and was modest about it. He didn't bray about his accomplishments but saw them as the work of the American people. He did not see himself as entitled, never demanded respect, preferred talking to hotel doormen rather than State Department functionaries because he thought the doormen brighter and more interesting. When I pressed him once, a few years out of the presidency, to say what he thought the meaning of his presidency was, he answered, reluctantly, that it might be fairly said that he "advanced the boundaries of freedom in a world more at peace with itself." And so he did. And what could be bigger than that?
"Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way." ~ Ronald W. Reagan
LIFE
I wonder what it's all about, and why
We suffer so, when little things go wrong?
We make our life a struggle,
When life should be a song.
Our troubles break and drench us,
Like spray on the cleaving prow
Of some trim Gloucester schooner
As it dips in a graceful bow.
Our troubles break and drench us
But like that cleaving prow,
The wind will fan and dry us.
And we'll watch some other bow.
But why does sorrow drench us
When our fellow passes on?
He's just exchanged life's dreary dirge
For an eternal life of song.
What is the inborn human trait
That frowns on a life of song?
That makes us weep at the journey's end,
When the journey was oft-times wrong?
Weep when we reach the door
That opens to let us in,
And brings to us eternal peace
As it closes again on sin.
Millions have gone before us,
And millions will come behind.
So why do we curse and fight
At a fate both wise and kind.
We hang onto a jaded life
A life full of sorrow and pain.
A life that warps and breaks us,
And we try to run through it again.
Ronald Reagan
February 6, 1911 ~ June 5, 2004
"Let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future." ~ Ronald Reagan, 1994
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The official Tributes are here and Remembering Ronald Reagan is another wonderful site. The Reagan Cartoon Collection is here.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:42 AM | Comments (3)
Today's Snark
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:42 AM
February 05, 2007
George Soros
100% Guilt Free
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:20 AM | Comments (1)
Yup
Funny how even the looniest leftists that I know all say they won't vote for herself.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:14 AM
February 04, 2007
Yay! Rich people are gonna pay for our health care!
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards on Sunday said that he would raise taxes, chiefly on the wealthy, to pay for expanded healthcare coverage under a plan costing $90 billion to $120 billion a year to be unveiled on Monday.
"We'll have to raise taxes. The only way you can pay for a healthcare plan that cost anywhere from $90 to $120 billion is there has to be a revenue source," Edwards said on NBC's Meet the Press news program.
The 2004 vice presidential nominee and former North Carolina senator said his plan would "get rid of George Bush's tax cuts for people who make over $200,000 a year."
But wait... there's more:
"We should have brokerage houses report the capital gains that people are incurring because we're losing billions and billions of dollars in tax revenue," Edwards said.
Some of us remember John, when you took "only" $360,000 of salary from your S corporation law practice, and took the remaining $26 million or so as S corporation distributions. S corporation distributions are not subject to the federal FICA and Medicare tax, so you scammed your way out of paying about $738,000 on the 2.9% medicare tax.
Tax professionals have named the single-member/S Corp tax avoidance scheme the "John Edwards Tax Shelter."
You're not just an asshole, you're a hypocrite too.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:32 PM | Comments (2)
The Ultimate Political Strategy
Achieving virginity though sexual intercourse.
Makes perfect sense, just like working to win the hearts and minds of the heartless and mindless.
Posted by LindaSoG at 02:27 PM
Hope Rides Alone
Sgt. Eddie Jeffers writes from Iraq:
In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn't fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.
I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the word boys and girls, because that's what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.
People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy's brutality because it's against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward’s war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation's news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes...only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society...and they are becoming our enemy ...
The left's demoralizing of our troops is taking its toll, I spotted this at Post Secret just this past week:
But... more from Sgt. Jeffers:
Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.
It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.
America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It’s not like World War II, where people rationed food and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a servicemember, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you
Read the rest, and please, pass it around. This is a must read for every American.
Thank Rodg, for the tip!
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:20 AM | Comments (3)
Pinch me!
I must be dreaming...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said Friday that his party would unite to block Senate debate next week on a bipartisan resolution opposing President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq unless the Democrats allowed votes on at least two Republican alternatives.
Mr. McConnell said even Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who is the chief author of the bipartisan proposal, and other Republicans backing his plan had agreed to prevent the resolution from reaching the floor Monday if Democrats did not agree to that demand.
and this from Harry Reid:
Mr. Reid responded that the Republican leadership was essentially filibustering a debate of Iraq policy to avoid a judgment on Mr. Bush.
“This obstruction is an abdication of their responsibility to the American people on the most important issue facing our nation today,” Mr. Reid said in a statement.
You have a responsibility Harry to the American people not to waste our time and money on stupid non-binding resolutions for the sole purpose of political power and which will, in the end, demoralize our troops and embolden the enemy.
Posted by LindaSoG at 01:12 AM | Comments (1)
February 02, 2007
On the campaign trail
Them joos are a tough audience:
February 2, 2007 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew grumbles at a pro-Israel dinner in Times Square last night when she encouraged "engaging" with Iran before taking stronger action to keep it nuke-free.
Clinton said she wasn't sure "anything positive would come out of it" and she didn't know if it was "the smartest strategy to take," but added, "There are a number of factors that I think argue for some attempt to do what I have suggested."
She called for a better understanding of how Iran "really functions," warning actions beyond sanctions could increase danger in the region.
"I also want to send a message, if we ever do have to take more drastic action, to the rest of the world that we exhausted all possibilities," said Clinton, who earlier rapped President Bush for refusing to engage Tehran.
Clinton's remarks at the Marriott Marquis were met with little applause, and after she left the stage, several people said they were put off by the presidential candidate.
"This is the wrong crowd to do that with," said one person at the dinner, noting the pro-Israel crowd wanted to hear tougher rhetoric.
Yup. It's hard to maintain an anti-war stance in front of people who recognize a clear and present danger. I think it will soon become obvious how much the media has distorted public opinion.
For those of you who have been wondering what it would take to finally turn American Jews away from the democrats, we may have our answer.
Posted by LindaSoG at 01:24 PM | Comments (2)
January 31, 2007
This is interesting
and not what I expected to see:
I voted for Duncan Hunter. Click the pic to chime in.
Yannow, that kinda sorta cheered me up.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:40 PM | Comments (2)
January 09, 2007
There's No Need to Fear
The Democrats are here to help:
Video: Clueless Democrats
I spotted this over at The Prirate's Cove, but the genius behind it is The Bullwinkle Blog.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:02 AM | Comments (3)
January 01, 2007
Yeah, its the first day of 2007
But 2008 will be here soon enough.
Check his track record. and think about it.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:49 AM | Comments (2)
December 23, 2006
Tis the Season
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:15 PM | Comments (6)
December 20, 2006
Lifestyles of the Rich and Fascist
They're quirky, vibrant, and they march to the beat of their own military drums, when they're not off committing crimes against humanity. Since time immemorial, autocrats, absolute monarchs, dictators, and less than savory heads of state have shown a penchant for the unconventional and over-the-top, in both their personal lives and political careers.
According to one journalist, however, details indicate that when it comes to his well-known visitors, the commander likes to watch—via hidden surveillance devices, that is. Among those allegedly caught on tape were Nicholson and Campbell, whose purported Cuban sabbatical with her travel companions, Kate Moss and Leonardo DiCaprio, was rumored to cause intelligence services to up the surveillance level to "priority." When Castro attempted to blackmail director Pedro Almodóvar, testified a former Cuban intelligence officer, the Spaniard was nonplussed, adding that everyone already knew he was a "maricón."
Everything you ever wanted to know, and more.
Posted by LindaSoG at 01:43 PM
December 05, 2006
Tuesday Morning Snark
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:11 AM | Comments (1)
December 04, 2006
Dammit
Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White House said Monday.
and in his place, we get George Mitchell?
Posted by LindaSoG at 02:07 PM | Comments (1)
Worst President Ever
Yes, Mr. Carter, thank you for making me a Republican—because of your incompetence in handling the Iranians, and inflation and…your cozying up with every dictator, thug, and Islamic terrorist there is. And more importantly, I find it to be vile because of in your blackest heart, because you're an anti-Semite. And let me explain why I think you're a bigot and a racist and an anti-Semite, no holds barred...Host interrupts: I think, caller, that the name-calling is fine—is enough. But look, these are the strong questions that are coming from people…
Why won't he just shut his Jew-hating pie hole?
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:07 AM | Comments (2)
December 01, 2006
Question of the day
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:13 AM | Comments (2)
The light at the end of the tunnel
true dat!
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:10 AM
November 28, 2006
Alcee-ya-later!
With little to no fanfare, Nancy caves:
Sure Nancy, he has served our country well, except that little bribery thingie that got him impeached.
Posted by LindaSoG at 03:38 PM | Comments (1)
November 22, 2006
Quote of the day
Its not what you think, but in order to find out what it is, you'll have go there and read that.
Posted by LindaSoG at 01:28 PM | Comments (3)
November 20, 2006
I don't do blogwars
But ignorance abounds and sometimes I just get so damn angry at uninformed people who talk about things they know nothing about and don't bother to research.
The slimebag is you Dean, for passing judgment on a movement based upon the actions of one individual, with no regard as to whether those actions are representative of, or endorsed by, the movement as a whole. You have become the laughing stock of the internet for attacking anyone who condemns islam, screeching into the void that its unfair to condemn islam because of the actions of what you call a few extremists. And then you turn around and do the same thing to Reb Kahane.
You have two separate standards for terrorism Dean, one for the poor oppressed islamists and one for the evil Joooos.
You asshat!
and G-d Bless the Emperor, who sums up nicely here.
Posted by LindaSoG at 11:17 AM | Comments (5)
Oh Happy Day!
This is only one reason why Curmudgeonly & Skeptical is one of my daily reads:
Hallelujah! Now that Democrats have taken control of Congress, we can expect:
• Gas prices to drop to $1.25, because Republicans will no longer be able to feather the nest of Big Oil with obscene profits.
• Cars to run on hydrogen, corn syrup and refried beans, because Republicans will no longer be able to control the laws of physics.
• The wage gap to become non-existent, because differences in intelligence, drive, determination, personal responsibility and common sense will be outlawed.
• Unemployment to drop to zero when the minimum wage increases to $22.35 per hour, because the demand for labor increases when the cost of labor increases, and not the reverse, as ignorant, mean-spirited Republicans had stupidly claimed.
• Test scores of below-average students to skyrocket to above-average levels, because Democrats will outlaw the Republican-invented Bell curve.
• The Dow to hit 18,000 in 2007, because it's an economic fact that the best way of growing an economy is to penalize risk-takers, innovators and the industrious.
• The price of medicine and health care to plummet, because it's another economic fact that when you give people free stuff, demand goes down.
• Foreign investors to swamp the country in capital, because they really don't care about the return on their investments, as the Republicans had led us to believe.
• Government to control even more of the economy, because government is clearly better at allocating scarce resources, as the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and France have proven.
• Single-parent households to grow exponentially, because Republicans won't be able to spread the lie that such households are the primary cause of poverty, crime and school dropouts.
• Wal-Mart to go out of business, because Republicans won't be able to perpetuate another myth that people prefer low prices to high prices.
• Muslim extremists to stop killing Americans and enslaving women, because their extremism was caused by Republicans, who never understood the glories of multiculturalism and the fact that all cultures are equally good, except the American culture.
We have a lot to look forward to, don't we?
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:56 AM | Comments (1)
November 19, 2006
Ha!
Posted by LindaSoG at 12:56 AM
November 16, 2006
Ohfercryinoutloud
What a load of happy horseshit this is:
A Republican-led legislative panel claims in a new report on illegal immigration that abortion is partly to blame because it is causing a shortage of American workers.
Okay, so now the mexicans are doing the jobs that dead American babies can't do?
I read that article and found myself agreeing with the democrats.
Sigh.
I think I need to take a break from politics for a while.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:21 AM | Comments (2)
In case you missed it
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:03 AM
How do you spell Hypocrite?
A South Dakota state senator who's under investigation has resigned his current term, but plans to show up for the new session that starts in January.
Democratic state Senator Dan Sutton of Flandreau has been accused of acting improperly with a high-school student who served as a page during last winter's legislative session. One of Sutton's lawyers has said Sutton did nothing wrong.
Sutton was re-elected last week with 57 percent of the vote.
The father of a high school page during the 2006 session says Sutton sexually groped the page. It seems the former page's father filed a formal complaint alleging that Sutton invited the page to stay overnight in his motel room and then groped the young man. The incident was reported in October, but it seems they managed to keep it quiet. In a letter dated today to Governor Rounds, Sutton resigned for the rest of this term but did not step down from the 2007 session. The plan is to avoid dealing with the present senate and wait till the next senate is in:
His lawyers say the issue should be handled by the next Senate and not by the current lame-duck chamber.
One of Sutton's lawyers -- Patrick Duffy of Rapid City -- says the resignation means the special session planned for November 27th over the allegation will not be held. That means the senators who take office in January will have to decide whether to seat Sutton or otherwise discipline him.
Why is no one talking about this? Where is media outcry on this? Where is the outrage?
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:05 AM
November 15, 2006
What if?
So. Let's say the democrats manage to impeach Bush, and Cheney.
Nancy Pelosi becomes the next President.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:14 AM | Comments (2)
November 14, 2006
Be careful what you pray pay for
'Cause you just might get it.
CREW Blasts Pelosi Endorsement of Unethical Murtha for Majority Leader
Washington, DC - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) questioned soon-to-be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) commitment to eradicating corruption with her endorsement of one of the most unethical members in Congress, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), to be Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.
Rep. Murtha was listed in CREW's report Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch). As reported in the study and by the news media, Rep, Murtha has been involved in a number of pay-to play schemes involving former staffers and his brother, Robert "Kit" Murtha.
CREW is nothing but an acronym for George Soros, the billionare behind the democrat agenda. Soros personally spent millions trying to put the democrats in charge and now that he has some success, he is obviously not happy with the end results. Bummer George!
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:24 AM
November 10, 2006
Coming soon
To a Congress near you...
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:01 AM
November 09, 2006
The final word on all that
I've received way too many emails asking for my thoughts on the election. I've tried to put it into words, but found it difficult to express myself. Now, I find my good friend Vinnie, in expressing his own thoughts, has also expressed mine. Perfectly.
That is all.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:26 AM
November 07, 2006
Kindred Thoughts
I visit Shining Full Plate and a Full Broadsword several times a week, looking for enlightenment. After a month's worth of silence, Sir Banagor has penned a piece called Exasperated. I devoured it this morning with my coffee.
I am pissed off, you see. I’m pissed off because I’m tired of listening to the wonders of the Arab world, if only they were given a chance with freedom. I’m not buying it. We’ve been burned before. Remember Iraq? I was one of the few people who came out and wrote that it was about the oil, in part, but it was also about breaking the back of the Muslim world before anything else. And I was one of the few people who said on my side that democracy mattered less to me than defeating them first. I’m all for democracy, after we defeat them. And by defeat them, I mean unconditional surrenders of entire nations, Imams, and whatever else passes for authority in that decaying swamp of religious and fascistic despotism.
Here we are, three and a half years after the Iraq war, and we’re still fighting this crap. I’m not going to put this entirely on Bush because it isn’t entirely his fault. He’s to blame for some of it, but our entire collective societies are to blame as well. We’re too fucking soft for our own good. We think, for some unknown reason, that the way to succeed in the world is to have universal love and adoration. What we don’t appear to understand is that nobody loves you, or anyone else, in the world. It’s a cold and hard world out there. It has always been this way. That’s what is called nature. This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone out there trying to make it in the business world, or even politics. But, some time ago, we figured that when it comes to getting power and using it, different rules would apply.
What a dumbass mistake that was.
Amen! (I know, funny thing to say to an atheist but... well, Amen!)
We’ve been burned in Iraq because we don’t understand this basic point: before you can rebuild an enemy, you have to defeat them. I’ll explain for those whose minds are reeling right about now with the novelty of this idea: we’re not fighting Iraq, guys. We blew up the Iraqi army and disbanded it. That isn’t our problem. We didn’t go to Iraq just to take out Saddam’s army. In fact, we said we weren’t aiming to just take out his army. We, in fact, told them to stand aside and that they wouldn’t get shot at if they did. We did this in a deliberate attempt to show that we are not out to get the Iraqi army, or mostly anyone else’s army.
So, for those brainless fools out there who still don’t understand: if we’re not fighting the Iraqi army, then what the hell are we fighting?
Well, we’re fighting Islam. I’m sorry to say it, but it’s true. We’re fighting the entire Islamic world. Before anyone suggests a comment along the lines of “Not all Muslims are terrorists”, I’ll say that I agree - not all of them are. But according to all the deaths on the ground, one hell of a lot of them are. And since we’re fighting something over in Iraq, and it isn’t Saddam’s army, I’d say it’s high time we recognize what the hell we are doing over there.
It's a long read, what I've posted here is just the tip of the iceberg, but if you want to be enlightened, take the time to read every word.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:13 AM | Comments (2)
November 06, 2006
The Price of Pork
If you want to know what we'll get if the Democrats take over, you really have to look at what they propose... and what they propose is 90 time more pork on useless and stupid socialist crap.
The nonpartisan National Taxpayers Union has the facts on spending:
* Potential Democratic Chairmen in the House of Representatives propose to spend over 90 times what their Republican counterparts propose. The average Democratic Chairman has a net annual agenda that would increase spending by $931 billion, compared to an average net agenda for a Republican Chairman of only $10 billion (even if the GOP retains control, new Chairs would be named due to retirements and term limits).
* In the Senate, the numbers are far lower, yet potential Democratic Chairmen still have endorsed over $40 billion in new outlays, in contrast with $12 billion for potential Republican Chairmen.
Will Franklin destroys the myth of a Republican Congress engaging in out-of-control spending: Would-be Democratic committee chairs have proposed, on average, 90 times the spending their Republican counterparts have proposed. Read it, and VOTE!
If you're sitting this one out to send a message, the only message the American media will hear is that you are ready for a left-wing agenda, with higher taxes and much higher spending, in this country.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:50 AM | Comments (4)
November 01, 2006
The defining moment for 2006
In 10 seconds, just 10 seconds, John F. Kerry did more for the GOP than they have done for themselves in the last 3 months. All the rest of his bluster... it's just the icing on the cake.
and... the Troops have a little something to say about it...
clickie click to enlarge!
Photo Credit: 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division !!! Yay!
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:30 AM | Comments (5)
October 30, 2006
Has anyone seen Karl Rove?
Rut roh....
Several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones that appeared on the review screen -- the final voting step.
Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale. Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen for gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis, a Democrat, but the review screen repeatedly registered the Republican, Charlie Crist.
ooops. At least it a little more subtle than this:
Posted by LindaSoG at 03:55 PM | Comments (2)
Brilliant Ad
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:21 AM | Comments (1)
October 27, 2006
Indeed!
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:59 AM
October 26, 2006
An October surprise!
"'The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy's penis in his mouth'... "
From Webb's book, "Lost Soldiers."
Whoa. Kinda leaves you speechless, don't it?
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:43 PM | Comments (1)
October 24, 2006
More of these boobs
Unemployed, armed with her GED, and campaigning on her cleavage, the founder of the Alabama Marijuana Party is now the Libertarian Party's write-in candidate for governor of Alabama.
Loretta Nall's campaign is offering T-shirts and marijuana stash boxes adorned with a photo of her with a plunging neckline and the words: "More of these boobs." Below that are pictures of other candidates for governor — including Republican incumbent Bob Riley and Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley — and the words: "And less of these boobs."
Her boobs, by the way, have been dubbed by the candidate as "the twins." Her Web site has a cartoon of someone stuffing bills down the front of her low-cut top. And for $50 donation she apparently offers to show a cartoon of herself flashing her breasts.
Nall is calling for the withdrawal of the Alabama National Guard from Iraq, tax credits for sending children to private school and home schooling, opting out of the No Child Left Behind Act, legalizing marijuana, and not complying with the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act.
She also entertained readers of her campaign Web site with lots of information about her personal life, including a discussion of why she doesn't wear panties, and the oh so interesting story about how it nearly kept her and her mother (who also doesn't wear panties) from visiting her brother in prison.
Don't miss the Loretta Nall "Greatest Hits" page, where you will find entertaining stories about her boobs, her panties (or lack thereof), her run-ins with the police, and the visit to her home by the FBI in connection with an internet threat to shoot a judge. Don't miss her trials and tribulations piece about her failure to get on the ballot (its all just so unfair!), but be warned, she uses very colorful language.
The story of Loretta Nall seems amusing on its face, but in the end, its just another example of liberals abusing our political process and mocking our government. Voting for Loretta would be the equivalent of voting for Mickey Mouse, except, Mickey Mouse is a more likely and better qualified candidate.
Cross-posted at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:13 AM
UN-Happy Birthday
It was sixty-one years ago on October 24, 1945 that the United Nations came into existence as an instrument of peace with a vision to make the world a better place for succeeding generations - a world where nations are at peace with one another, where people's human rights are protected, where the equal rights of men and women are guaranteed, where the rule of law is observed and respected, and social progress and better standards of life are ensured for all.
Sadly, the United Nations has not only failed miserably, but has become a protector of terrorists and a supporter of the regimes which breed them.
When the President of the United States spoke to the United Nations in October of 2004, he spoke of the need for change and called for a new course of action against the threat of terrorism, to stop the killing of school children in Russia, the beheading of construction workers in Iraq, the murder by suicide bombers. He spoke of how, rather than engineers, doctors, scientists and social workers, the Muslim world has become the world's largest exporter of hatred and murder. He spoke of how Muslim equality for women has emerged under the guise of female suicide bombers. He spoke of the consequences of terrorism that have been perpetuated by the Muslim world for over a decade in New York, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, and Bali, Jakarta, Moscow, Madrid and Istanbul.
The President urged action against terrorism, admitting that "for too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability." He promised to implement the radical changes that would lead to freedom, to take the fight to the enemy instead of waiting for them to come to us. He acknowledged that it would not be easy and he urged the world to unite in the effort.
What effect could such powerful words have when most of those oppressors, most of those violators of human rights and decency, most of those dictators that our President was referring to in his speech sat before him as members in good standing of the United Nations?
Sitting on UN Commission on Human Rights are some of the world's worst mass murderers and violators of the very human rights they are supposed to protect, including Cameroon, China, Congo (DRC), Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. The Chairman of the Commission is one of the worst human rights offenders, Libya. These are the very same human rights violators that the Commission is supposed to investigate and expose.
No wonder, then, that the UN has failed to even criticize China's human rights violations, failed to even discuss slave labor when the former Soviet Union existed, failed to even consider the sale of white women and children in Saudi Arabia, failed to investigate the denial of the most basic human rights to women in Asia and Arab countries, and failed to examine the slave trade in Arab countries.
The Commission voted against "special observation" of Zimbabwe's violations of human rights; and voted for the upgrading of the human rights status of Sudan, even while its dictatorship committed genocide against its southern black Christians, carried on slavery, and approved of systematic rape.
Consider the actions of Commission member Cuba. Castro had thrown into prison seventy-five dissidents, including journalists and librarians; and it had executed three men who hijacked a ferryboat to escape from this communist hellhole. No matter. The Commission reelected Cuba to another three-year term, "undoubtedly a recognition of the Cuban Revolution's work in human rights in favor of all our people," so Cuba proclaimed.
Ever careful to protect itself and its member dictatorships, the UN went so far as to terminate its relationship with the free speech organization Reporters Without Borders after it criticized the UN's human rights record. Reporters Without Borders had the audacity to suggest reforms that included the restricting of voting by dictatorships and claimed "that granting the chair to Qadhafi's [Libyan] regime has been a disgrace to the commission." The Commission voted 27 to 23 to suspend its relationship with the organization. All of the democratic members voted against it.
As Victor Davis Hanson said in the Wall Street Journal, "It is not the same United Nations of decades past, helping the poor nations with hunger, and sending troops around the world to keep the peace. Gone are the days when UNESCO and UNICEF provided selfless service around the world to fight disease and famine. Now it is a political body with a different agenda. Its membership is rife with tyrannies, theocracies and Stalinist regimes."
Immediately prior to the President's speech, Kofi Anan declared the Iraq War illegal to a BBC reporter. No surprise, considering that at the time of Iraq's blatant defiance of the United Nations resolutions on its weapons of mass destruction, one of Saddam Hussein's henchmen chaired the May sessions of the UN Conference. No surprise considering Kofi Anan's participation the Oil for Food scandal currently under investigation. No surprise considering the UN was silent while Saddam Hussein starved, tortured, maimed and murdered his own people.
Indeed, the UN was silent while Slobodan Milosevic methodically practiced ethnic cleansing in his country. The UN was silent while the Taliban systematically murdered their own people, repressed all human rights, and enslaved women. The UN was silent while in Rwanda and Burundi, half a million lives were lost in civil war.
The UN was silent while 800,000 people were murdered in 1994 during a systematic genocide organized by the Hutu government, and carried out against the Tutsi minority by its troops, police, and specially trained death squads. In 1999, an independent report condemned the UN's reluctance to accept evidence of a genocide, and reluctance to act once the genocide was undeniable.
The UN was silent while in North Korea hundreds of thousands have been murdered in the last decade, and possibly three million have been starved to death in a government created famine.
The UN was silent while 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered in Srebrenica, Bosnia, during the Bosnian war of 1995. Another UN commissioned report on this asserted that the UN peacekeepers stood by while Serb troops massacred those to whom the UN had promised protection. The UN had refused to reinforce their peacekeepers with enough troops, and even then severely restricted the action of those that were there.
The UN was silent while over three million were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with UN peacekeepers standing by and watching.
And the UN remains silent through the genocide in Sudan.
By its own admission in the Report of the Panel on UN Peace Operation, the UN recognized that its peacekeeping efforts have failed. It undertook peacekeeping in only a third of the conflicts during the 1990s, and when the UN did do something, it failed or was not effective.
And yet, the UN raises its voice, loud and clear, in consistent and constant condemnation of Israel. In the last few decades, more than half of the UN resolutions passed were against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel scores as high as the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom on political rights. On civil liberties, Israel scores much higher than the dictatorship members of the UN.
Consider the dictatorships of Algeria, China, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, all of whom are members of the UN Commission on Human Rights. The dictatorship of Egypt is a member of all six UN committees concerned with human rights treaties. The dictatorships of Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan participate on the Governing Council of the International Labor Organization. The bloody dictatorship of Iran is on the five-member UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Dictatorships who treat women as second class citizens or slaves like Egypt, Iran, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates are all members of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
"So Americans' once gushy support for the U.N. during its adolescence is gone. By the 1970s we accepted at best that it had devolved into a neutral organization in its approach to the West, and by the 1980s sighed that it was now unabashedly hostile to freedom. But in our odyssey from encouragement, to skepticism, and then to hostility, we have now reached the final stage--of indifference. Americans do not get riled easily, so the U.N. will go out with a whimper rather than a bang. Indeed, millions have already shrugged, tuned out, and turned the channel on it." - Victor Davis Hanson
The United Nations is still investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by its staff and soldiers in the Congo. The charges include accusations of pedophilia, rape and prostitution, some of which have been recorded on videotape.
"I am afraid there is clear evidence that acts of gross misconduct have taken place," said Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
It has been years since the UN promised a full investigation and to hold those involved accountable, the fact is that the UN has never been open or honest and has been known to ignore evidence in the past – including accusations of rape and murder by "peacekeepers."
In a June 21, 2004 speech at the Conference on Confronting anti-Semitism: Education for Tolerance and Understanding sponsored by the United Nations Department of Information, human rights scholar and activist Anne Bayefsky made the following points:
- There is only one entire UN Division devoted to a single group of people: the United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights (created in 1977).
- The only UN day dedicated to a specific people is November 29, the annual UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
- There is only one refugee agency dedicated to a single refugee situation: UNRWA (in operation since 1950).
- The General Assembly operates through six committees of the whole. One of them, the Fourth Committee, routinely devotes 30 percent of its time to the condemnation of Israel.
- The General Assembly emergency sessions... began in 1956, and since then six of the ten emergency sessions ever held, have been about Israel. The 10th such session began in 1997 and has been reconvened 13 times. One might think that a million dead in Rwanda or two million dead in Sudan might have warranted one General Assembly emergency session.
- The UN's primary human-rights body is the UN Human Rights Commission. 30% of the resolutions condemning specific states ever adopted over 40 years are directed at Israel.
and finally...
UNIFIL (United Nations Forces In Lebanon) announced yesterday that it will be compelled to [try] to shoot down Israeli reconnaissance jets flying over Lebanon as a violation of "the deal." The flights have revealed the extend to which Hizbollah is re-arming in Southern Lebanon and from where the ballistics are coming.
UN-Happy Birthday United Nations, may this one be your last.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:04 AM
October 23, 2006
Viva la Révolution!
So, my good friend Beth has been dumpster diving over at DU and Kos, and reports that in these last few days before November 7, paranoia reigns and BDS is rampant. So, I did my own swamp dive into the dumpster known as Huffington Toast, and came up with this little nugget from Lyn Davis Lear:
Here are some questions: Are these guys simply narcissistic idiots Rove-ing around in some never-never land bubble or do they know something we don't? Have they planned a grab bag nose punch of an October/November surprise? Or have Diebold, ES&S, and local state secretaries assured them that they will do "whatever it takes" to get a Republican Congress elected again? Or are they just planning to outspend us?
But, not to worry... Lyn has the answer...
But whether it is hubris, loony tunes, or both, the White House's freakish calm about the elections makes me as nervous as the hell we seem to be headed for. Therefore we should all be on alert. If for whatever reason we don't win back Congress in November the only real answer will be to take to the streets.
Yes! Be on alert! and then... Take to the streets! and then... what? Did you forget that we have all the guns???
Hahahaha. I keep flashing back to all those cry baby pictures after Bush won in 2004, this time around, it should be even better.
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October 20, 2006
Who lied?
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:04 AM
October 19, 2006
Uncle Jimbo Sums Up
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October 18, 2006
Why Vote Republican?
Can't argue with the facts, but Lord knows they try.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:53 PM | Comments (3)
October 10, 2006
Telling it like it is
You won't see this on TV:
It was deemed "too hot" by GOP strategists all across Washington, DC and they have refused to use it! Too bad!
I found it at Theodore's World.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:34 PM | Comments (3)
October 09, 2006
Happy Columbus Day!
Bet ya didn't realize that Christopher Columbus was the world's very first democrat. Yup.
Really, consider this: Christopher Columbus had no idea where he was going, when he got there, he had no idea where he was, so he went home not knowing where he had been. And he did it all on government money!
Later, he was credited for doing what he did not do for Columbus was not the first to discover America, nor was he the first European to land at America. In fact, that Columbus never even saw North America.
However, Columbus was the first to exploit, enslave and slaughter the Arawak Indians of Haiti, and syphilis was introduced into Europe by his crew.
So. A democrat for sure!
Posted by LindaSoG at 05:00 AM
October 08, 2006
They'll be coming for me soon
YouTube is slowly but surely cleaning out those of us who are Anti-Jihad, Anti-Terrorist, Pro-America and Pro-Israel.
I guess they'll be coming for me soon, as I'm told that "Three Days in Israel" is on You Tube's video "hit" list.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:48 AM | Comments (4)
October 04, 2006
About November 7
The Emporer has a most excellent thread going about the November 7 elections. If you read my post here, then you know I have been struggling. The struggle is not about who to vote for, because if I vote, it will be for republicans. I will never vote democrat. The struggle was whether to vote at all.
I read every word on that thread, and I carefully considered every opinon. They were varied, and I found that I was not the only one struggling this year.
In 2001, I said I didn’t care if President Bush bankrupted this country to fight this war, I meant it then, and I still mean it. If we give up over there, our enemies will come here sure as the Good Lord made apples. Thank G-d for our Military and those who serve. But I also believe our enemies are here already, and plotting against us. And I believe their numbers are growing.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy nut, I also believe that there have been attempts and incidents. For example, a couple of years ago, they closed a concourse here at Miami International. People were getting violently sick. Eventually, they reported that it was the result of a cleaning fluid spill and it was only reported on the local news level. No big deal, until you find out that right about the same time, the same thing happened in Texas and the same reason was given. No big deal if you knew about one, but when you know about both, you wonder.
So, our ports are important and so are our railways. Immigration is critical, if we survive the islamic threat, our immigration policies will destroy this country in 50 years anyway.
Still, I have decided that on November 7th, I will go out and vote for republicans.
I will vote for the republicans who allow our enemy to control our ports and our railways. I will vote for republicans who continue to allow us to be overwhelmed by immigrants and who will give them amnesty and tax breaks. I will vote for republicans who make alliances with terrorists.
And while I do that, I will tell myself that the democrats would be worse for this country.
But what I really think is that the only difference between the two is that with the democrats, our worst nightmare will only happen faster. Sooner rather than later.
And maybe thats good enough, if we have more time, maybe something will happen that will change our fate. I hope so.
And in the meantime, I guess I will load up on the ammo, maybe buy a new rifle, go to the range more and pray more.
G-d Bless America!
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:00 AM | Comments (3)
October 01, 2006
Out of Options
10/03/06 UPDATE: Of course, I posted this before Frist opened his dhimmi mouth, and what he said just proves my point. I have to agree with e-Claire, she says it better than I could and, yes, a tomato sandwich sounds good right about now.
“I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” -- Ronald Reagan
Coming up into the November elections, I'm watching the democrats pull their usual pre-election crappola, such as false accusations of racism against George Allen, while ignoring the admitted slurs by his democrat opponent. The next few weeks will be more of the same, fake news stories, fear mongering, and attempts to give the false impression that the democrats are really strong on Home Security, and not the party of cut and run. They sicken me.
I could not ever vote for a democrat, but what's left? Where have all the Republicans gone? Here in Florida, I'm stuck with Charlie Crist, who stands for something I am dead set against, amnesty for criminals who have invaded our county. Can I cast a vote for this man next month? Right now, I have to say no.
Immigration? Guest Worker Program? Amnesty? What a crock of shit. I pay an American to cut my grass and he does a damn good job. There ain't no one to pick the lettuce because the lettuce growers refuse to pay a living wage and now, the illegal immigrants that have already snuck into this country won't pick the lettuce either, why? Cause it don't pay enough now and they're taking over the higher paying construction jobs. What makes anyone think they will pick the lettuce after they get amnesty? I guess if we want lettuce, we'll need new illegals to replace the ones we gave amnesty to.
We don't need new immigration laws, we just need to enforce the laws we have. Why do we give financial aid to people who are in this country illegally? Make it a crime, a real crime with real punishment to house the criminals who have invaded our country. Make it a crime, a real crime with real punishment to hire the criminals who have invaded our country. Close our public schools to all those who are not citizens. No driver licenses, no welfare, no food stamps, no medical care. Stop giving them everything, they'll leave.
On a national level, well, there are worse things.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice personally intervened Friday to prevent Congress from passing a bill that would impose further economic sanctions on the Palestinian Arabs.
Congressional leaders are angered over the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority's continued refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist and renounce the use of terrorist violence.
The PA's defiance over these issues would seem to place it in the category of "terrorist entity" as defined by President George W. Bush following the September 11, 2001 attacks on America.
Rice reportedly argued that the increased sanctions would tie the administration's hands in its efforts to deal with so-called "Palestinian moderates."
and, I'm sorry to say, there are even worse things.
The United States has once more done an about-face and is now willing to work with a Palestinian Authority containing a strong Hamas component – members of the terror group responsible for the murders of hundreds of Israelis, and deeply devoted to the total destruction of the Jewish state.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice – the consummate diplomat – denied what was blatantly obvious to observers everywhere, saying there had been no shift in her government’s policy.
She proceeded to “explain,” however, that if there was going to be any move forward with the stalled land-for-peace process, then the “Palestinian” government had to have international support.
As much as I would like to, I can't blame Condi Rice for these policies. In the past, I blamed Colin Powell, but over the past few years, there can be no doubt, Condi Rice sounds just like Colin Powell. I have to blame the Bush Administration for this betrayal. This is a terrible thing for my country to do, and I feel shame, shame that I have not felt since the Clinton years.
In the War on Terror, this Administration is choosing to support terrorists. Because these particular terrorists are in Israel, are we not supposed to care? We have betrayed our best ally in the Middle East in order to placate our worst enemies in the Middle East.
But this Administration's support of terrorists does not end with the support of the terrorists in Israel. This Administration has put Home Security secondary to building relationships with terrorist nations.
I live about 20 miles from the Port of Miami. The Deputy Director of The Port of Miami is Khalid Salahuddin, a former member of the Nation of Islam, and a current member of the Islamic Society of North America. ISNA is an organization that serves as "an umbrella group" for hundreds of Islamic organizations in North America, some of which promote the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Salahuddin is featured on a video distributed by ISNA along with Maulana Shafayat Mohamed, the spiritual leader of Darul Aloom, the Islamic center where “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla worshipped and where Imran Mandhai and Mossa Jokhan are said to have plotted attacks on a National Guard armory and South Florida electrical power stations.
This radical Islamist, who openly supports terrorism, is the Deputy Director of the Port of Miami. Care to guess who backs him up?
The Dubai ports deal is out of the newspapers, but Dubai World Ports is in charge of the Port of Miami. That's right, Dubai, a country whose crown prince went hunting with Osama bin Laden six months after he bombed the United States Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, in August of 1998. Over 220 people were killed and 4000 wounded in these attacks. Al Qaeda uses Dubai for money laundering. At least one Dubai-based company owned by the Iranian government has been used by Tehran's defense ministry to procure a key component needed for the production of nuclear weapons. The notorious AQ Khan smuggled nuclear bomb making plans and equipment out of Pakistan, through the port of Dubai and into Iran and Libya.
Speaking of Pakistan, well, Pakistan is the world's second-largest Muslim country and is considered by this Administration to be our ally. Yet, Pakistan has led the hyperproliferation of nuclear weapons technology; Pakistan is protecting bin Laden in Waziristan, Pakistan is the headquarters of al-Qaeda and the Taliban; Pakistan recently released thousands of al-Qaeda terrorists, Pakistan gives al-Qaeda money and Pakistan has signed an agreement granting al-Qaeda terrorists sanctuary.
With allies like that, who needs enemies?
Let's talk about CSX Railway, a major freight carrier along the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. Did you know that Dubai Ports World bought the CSX railway? Well, they did. CSX serves Alabama, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Terrorists are now privy to each and every security measure that this Country undertakes in our ports and our railways to keep us safe. Terrorists run our major ports and a major freight carrier railway. These are the same people who consider us the Great Satan, the same people who make daily calls for Death to America in their streets, their mosques, their schools and in their government run media.
Call me crazy but, with this kind of Home Security, I just don't feel safe. Its just a matter of time before there is another major terrorist attack here in the United States, and it will be a direct result of these policies.
The blatant disregard for our safety that I see from both sides horrifies me. Our politicians, no matter which side of the fence they are on, do not seem to care. I don't trust the democrats to maintain our security, and it seems obvious that I can't trust the republicans to do so either. I can't vote for one and I can't vote for the other.
It appears that the Republican Party has left me.
And I'm out of options.
Posted by LindaSoG at 05:40 PM | Comments (7)
September 21, 2006
What a crock..
So... Hugo Chavez mouths off some democrat talking points over at the UN and what happens?
Nancy Pelosi went so far as to say Chavez humiliated himself with his anti-Bush remarks. What amazing commentary from a woman who has been attacking Bush for years, and went so far as to say he is mentally unstable. Rangel has said worse, much worse. Democrats call Bush evil all the time, they've accused him of genocide in Iraq and murder of American civilians here in the United States.
Why the sudden change of heart? Well... there is a election coming up and I think my friend Janette has hit the nail on the head...
"Go forth and decieve the masses. Appear to be patriotic for the elections shall soon come. For I say unto you, one day of flag waving shall buy you good will in November."
And lo, the sheep flocked to the microphones and declared their support of Bushchimphitler with the hope that they would soon defeat him.
As soon as I read that, I knew she was right. Dang but we lost something when Janette stopped blogging.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:46 PM | Comments (5)
July 11, 2006
It's called Free Speech
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The FBI will look into an online video that shows two men shooting a Quran with a military rifle and then leaving the bullet-riddled holy book at a Chattanooga mosque.
The video shows the man purchasing a Quran at a bookstore, going to a wooded area and shooting the book, then throwing it on the ground outside the door of the Chattanooga Islamic center.
Excuse me, but does free speech only apply to stinky assed hippies and muslims? We all saw the video of muslims stomping the flag on a New York City street, while they pledged to make this country muslim. Why is shooting the koran any different than burning the flag?
Why is the FBI investigating the shooting of a koran?
FBI agent Tim Burke said the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Justice Department to investigate the incident.
Oh. I see. The FBI is investigating the shooting of a koran because CAIR wants them to. Why is the FBI doing the bidding of a terrorist organization dedicated to the implementation of Sharia law in America and the destruction of our way of life? What a bunch of crap this is. I can do anything I want to a koran that I own, I can piss on it, I can flush it down the toilet, I can shoot it, I can burn it, I can wipe my dog's ass with it.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." - Omar Ahmad, Founder of CAIR
What can we expect if they attain their goals? The answer is here: Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:27 AM | Comments (9)
Oh well.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:20 AM
June 27, 2006
Tuesday Morning Snark
and...
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June 15, 2006
Can a girl be an Insufferable Prick?
Yeah, I think I qualify.
It’s Time To Take A Stand
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:32 AM
June 05, 2006
Ronald Wilson Reagan 1911 ~ 2004
Ronald Reagan was the first President I voted for, he made me the Conservative that I am, and that I will always be. Mr. Reagan was a true leader who knew no boundries. There was nothing he could not do, or would not do for America. I miss him evey day.
From the NYT:
To a nation hungry for a hero, a nation battered by Vietnam, damaged by Watergate and humiliated by the taking of hostages in Iran, Ronald Reagan held out the promise of a return to greatness, the promise that America would “stand tall” again.
Mr. Reagan lived longer than any United States president, spending his final years in seclusion as he coped with the mental debilitation of Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Reagan lived longer than any United States president, spending his final years in seclusion as he coped with the mental debilitation of Alzheimer’s disease.
By Peggy Noonan
In his presidency he did this: He out-argued communism and refused to accept its claim of moral superiority; he rallied the West, rallied America and continued to make big gambles, including a defense-spending increase in a recession. He promised he'd place Pershings in Europe if the Soviets would not agree to arms reductions, and told Soviet leaders that they'd never be able to beat us in defense, that we'd spend them into the ground. They were suddenly reasonable. Ronald Reagan told the truth to a world made weary by lies. He believed truth was the only platform on which a better future could be built. He shocked the world when he called the Soviet Union "evil," because it was, and an "empire," because it was that, too. He never stopped bringing his message to the people of the world, to Europe and China and in the end the Soviet Union. And when it was over, the Berlin Wall had been turned into a million concrete souvenirs, and Soviet communism had fallen. But of course it didn't fall. It was pushed. By Mr. Know Nothing Cowboy Gunslinger Dimwit. All presidents should be so stupid.
He pushed down income taxes too, from a high of 70% when he entered the White House to a new low of 28% when he left, igniting the long boom that, for all its ups and downs, is with us still. He believed, as JFK did, that a rising tide lifts all boats. He did much more, returning respect to our armed forces, changing 50-year-old assumptions about the place of government and the place of the citizen in the new America.
What an era his was. What a life he lived. He changed history for the better and was modest about it. He didn't bray about his accomplishments but saw them as the work of the American people. He did not see himself as entitled, never demanded respect, preferred talking to hotel doormen rather than State Department functionaries because he thought the doormen brighter and more interesting. When I pressed him once, a few years out of the presidency, to say what he thought the meaning of his presidency was, he answered, reluctantly, that it might be fairly said that he "advanced the boundaries of freedom in a world more at peace with itself." And so he did. And what could be bigger than that?
"Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way." ~ Ronald W. Reagan
LIFE
I wonder what it's all about, and why
We suffer so, when little things go wrong?
We make our life a struggle,
When life should be a song.
Our troubles break and drench us,
Like spray on the cleaving prow
Of some trim Gloucester schooner
As it dips in a graceful bow.
Our troubles break and drench us
But like that cleaving prow,
The wind will fan and dry us.
And we'll watch some other bow.
But why does sorrow drench us
When our fellow passes on?
He's just exchanged life's dreary dirge
For an eternal life of song.
What is the inborn human trait
That frowns on a life of song?
That makes us weep at the journey's end,
When the journey was oft-times wrong?
Weep when we reach the door
That opens to let us in,
And brings to us eternal peace
As it closes again on sin.
Millions have gone before us,
And millions will come behind.
So why do we curse and fight
At a fate both wise and kind.
We hang onto a jaded life
A life full of sorrow and pain.
A life that warps and breaks us,
And we try to run through it again.
Ronald Reagan
February 6, 1911 ~ June 5, 2004
"Let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future." ~ Ronald Reagan, 1994
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Wild Thing at Theodore's World has a tribute up, saying "Today June 5, 2006 is the anniversary of the death of President Ronald Reagan. He walked the high ground and stayed the course." She also has a compilation of some of Ronald Reagan's best quotes, you won't want to miss it.
Tammy at A Mom and her Blog is also saluting Ronald Reagan, she tells us: "Today marks 2 years since the death of Ronald Reagan, in my opinion one of the greatest presidents ever." Tammy shares her favorite Ronald Reagan quote.
The official Tributes are here and Remembering Ronald Reagan is another wonderful site. The Reagan Cartoon Collection is here.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:27 AM | Comments (1)
May 09, 2006
In case you missed it
Posted by LindaSoG at 04:41 PM
April 24, 2006
Foolish is as Foolish Does
In an amazing show of style, grace and class, Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) stormed out of a press interview because they asked about her assault on a police officer.
On her way out, with the mic still clipped on, she called one of her senior staff members a fool.
Then she came back out and demanded that her comments be kept off the record.
The entire fiasco was captured on film.
YCMTSU! What a fool.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:34 AM | Comments (6)
April 13, 2006
Smackdown in Palm Beach!
Imagine a newly elected government official who refuses to take the Oath of Office because it supports the Federal Government.
In March, Basil Dalack was the only qualifying candidate for an open Tequesta Village Council seat. He ran unopposed, and of course he won. Now, he refuses to take the Oath of Office and has gone so far as to sue the City of Tequesta to have the Oath declared unconstitutional.
His lawsuit against the municipality claims that he does not support the government and therefore, the village charter oath to support the state of Florida and the United States governments conflicts with his constitutional rights of free speech.
Seventy-six-year-old Basil Dalack, a newly elected Tequesta village council member, is suing Tequesta to have the oath of office declared unconstitutional because it supports the federal government, something he says he doesn’t do. He also wants the words "and government" removed so the oath doesn't reflect that the government must be supported.
Unbelievable. An elected official, a member of the Government, who refuses to support the Government.
Interesting, Dalack took the oath without objection in 1999 when he was first elected to the council. He was defeated in his reelection attempt in 2003 and ran uncontested in February for a seat on the council which had been vacated by a death.
The asshole goes on to complain that his right to freedom of speech is being violated by the oath and if he reads it he would have... "the blood of all those Iraqi and American kids on my hands."
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks gives Dalack the official smackdown, ruling that the Tequesta Village Council has the power to name someone other than Basil Dalack to its fifth seat if he doesn't take the oath at tonight's council meeting.
"You've got to come to your own conclusion about the oath," Middlebrooks said at the emergency hearing in West Palm Beach. In ruling against Dalack's request, he said the village oath refers to government process and not a particular office holder or policy.
"I don't think there's a likelihood of success based on the merits of the case," the judge said.
Finally, a Judge who knows the law, who'dathunk such a thing existed in liberal Palm Beach County.
State law is very specific that if a public officer does not take and file his oath of office he in essence refuses to serve and vacates the office as a matter of law.
In Florida, prior to performing the duties of public office, the public officer must take and file an oath of office which states that “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States and the State of Florida”.
No oath, no office.
It would be good to get this guy gone. During a council meeting last March, Dalack proposed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for alleged war crimes. He also proposed a council resolution for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
I tell ya, it gives me hope for my home state.
H/T Government Zoo
UPDATE: It takes a village to smackdown a moonbat:
TEQUESTA — A packed Village Council meeting erupted into applause Thursday night when Councilor-elect Basil Dalack was not allowed to substitute his own version for the village oath of office, which he is claiming in federal court is unconstitutional.
Councilor Pat Watkins called the resolution "an affront to the memory of Col. Ed Resnik," a deceased decorated U.S. Marine whose seat Dalack would fill. "We have a moral responsibility to our troops," Watkins said. "I hope he can explain how this will benefit the village of Tequesta."
In return, the peace loving Dalack has declared war on the Village:
"It is hard for a peacemaker to make war," Dalack said. "I would have loved to have solved this peacefully."
Dalck's version of war is economical, he vows to make the Village pay for their decision in attorney's fees, all the way to the Supreme Court.
I don't suppose anyone would ever be able to explain to this asshose the hypocrisy behind that last statement. I'm not even going to try. Its not worth the effort.
Posted by LindaSoG at 11:01 AM | Comments (7)
April 05, 2006
RaceCard Madness
The RaceCard is now part of a commercial message issued by the HipHopRepublican.com (Republicans while Black) - complete with customer testimonials!:
Are you Black and got pulled over going 40 in a 25 mph speed limit? Then the RaceCard may be just the thing for ya! Have you ever found yourself walking while Black? Eating while Black? Or perhaps mugging someone while Black? Hitting an officer while Black? If so, child, you have come to the right place! Get your RaceCard today!
It's a free product, so hurry while America still feels your pain! Don't take our word for it - read customer testimonials!
The testimonials are a riot, don't miss them...
H/T to The People's Cube
UPDATE: My RaceCard has been farked! Scroll down... way down...
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:37 AM | Comments (4)
April 03, 2006
Here it comes...
Posted by LindaSoG at 04:03 PM | Comments (3)
April 02, 2006
Al Gore for President
I've been thinking about '08 a lot yannow, and this could be a really good thing...
Draft Al Gore For President Petition
I'd love for the dems to give Al the nod, think of all the fun we could have...
They have 2,819, their goal is 100,000. Help 'em out, mkay?
Posted by LindaSoG at 02:47 PM | Comments (2)
January 19, 2006
Warning! Warning! Warning!
France is on full alert!!!!
“The leaders of states who would use terrorist means against us, as well as those who would consider using in one way or another weapons of mass destruction, must understand that they would lay themselves open to a firm and adapted response on our part.” So sayeth Jaques Chirac
Uh oh. Guess we know what that means...
I would comment on this if I could stop laughing long enough to do so.
Maybe later.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:52 AM | Comments (2)
January 10, 2006
Affirmative Action at Work
Oh for crying out loud....
A black police bodyguard who protected the Duchess of Cornwall has won $70,000 compensation after suing Scotland Yard for “over-promoting” him because of political correctness.
Sgt Leslie Turner—the first black personal protection officer to guard the royal family—will receive the “racial discrimination” payout after reaching an out-of-court settlement with London’s Metropolitan Police.
Hmph. Sounds like he was passed over for promotion because he was black, don't it? Well, actually, the opposite was true.
His representatives argued he landed the prestigious job as Camilla’s bodyguard only because he was black.
Turner was promoted into a job he was completely unqualified and unable to do, simply because he was black. Of course, Turner wasn't upset about getting a job he was unqualified to do. Turner wasn't upset about being promoted over others who were qualified simply because he was black. No. Turner was upset because they reassigned him for screwing up.
It was claimed that as a result of being over-promoted and not receiving proper training and support, Sgt Turner made mistakes which led to him being re-assigned
So, like most affirmative action beneficiaries, Turner was unfairly advantaged. Turner sued and collected some hush money because we can't have the Royal Security Secrets aired before the public.
Jesse Jackson would be proud.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:11 AM
December 20, 2005
Good Fence - Bad Fence
In 2004, the United Nations and the European Union launched an attack against Israel's security fence, resulting in a ruling by the International Court of Justice that the fence was illegal and should be torn down. Although America vetoed the resolution, the veto was not a statement in support of the fence. Rather, America's objection was that the resolution was 'unbalanced' and 'failed to draw attention to 'Palestinian terrorism'. Yup. "Palestinian terrorism."
Never mind that there is a clear correlation between Israel's construction of it's fence and a drop in the number of terrorist attacks. Never mind that in September of 2004, Shin Bet reported that there had been an 84% decrease in the number of Israelis killed in terror attacks since the completion of the first portion of the security fence between Salem and Elkana. The Bush administration, along with the EU and many others around the world, has been, and continues to be, highly critical of Israel's fence.
In what can only be called a shameless display of hypocrisy, just one month after the ICJ ruling, the EU announced it's plan for a separation fence of its own to separate two of its members - Poland and Hungary - from its new neighbors - Russia, Belarus and Ukraine - to prevent illegals from crossing country lines. To add insult to injury, the EU invited Israel to participate in the construction.
And now, the United States is planning a fence of its own to prevent illegals from entering the country from Mexico.
There is no doubt that none of those migrants from Poland, Hungary or Mexico come equipped with an explosive belt and none of those migrants are hell-bent on murder, mayhem and chaos. Those illegals sneak in seeking jobs.
The EU fence will keep illegals from entering the EU and therefore, is good. The American fence will keep illegals from entering America and therefore, is good.
The Israeli fence will keep arabs with explosive belts strapped to their bodies from entering Israel and killing Jews, and therefore, is bad.
The end result: more of this.
Cross-posted at IsraPundit
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:14 PM | Comments (2)
December 16, 2005
Quote of the Day
Shamelessly stolen from SondraK:
Democrats lose another election......... in Iraq!
- Rush Limbaugh
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:49 AM
December 05, 2005
Guard Our Borders!
We need troops on the border. That fact is quite simple to say, and perhaps more important than anything else the government can do.
What is the basic function of government? To provide for us? To clothe us and take care of our children? To send us welfare checks and tell us that it's okay if we feel like having children we can't provide for instead of getting a job? No. Government exists solely to protect and defend us, and to give us a place where we can engage in the trading of goods and services, right? It's not our mom, our nursemaid, our caretaker. It is, however, the government's job to ensure that we are safe and protected from enemies and those who would do us harm.
So, if all of the above is true, why isn't the government putting troops on the border? Does that not come under the idea of "protecting and defending its citizens?" Is it not dangerous to have millions of illegal immigrants who have no allegiance to our flag or our laws pouring into our nation? The bottom line here is that the people coming across the border are pften dangerous criminals. The number of drug cartels and gangs using the border to run their drug trade are well-known, and the violence resulting from their dealings elsewhere is well-documented.
Do you really believe that the majority of illegal immigrants are just "poor people looking to come to America so they can work hard and have a better life?" Guess what? You'd be wrong.
MEXICO CITY - The four men sit bruised, bloody and bound on the floor before a curtain of black garbage bags. Prodded by an unseen interrogator, they coolly describe how they enforce the rule of Mexico's Gulf cartel: Enemies are kidnapped, tortured and shot in the head, their bodies burned to ashes.Among those killed, the men say in a video sent to The Dallas Morning News, were a radio reporter who "didn't want to work anymore" for their cartel and a chamber of commerce leader who called too loudly for federal help against the drug gangs. "Break him because he is causing controversy," was the order from his cartel boss, says one of the men.
After six minutes of such confessions, a 9 mm pistol held by a black-gloved hand enters the picture and fires a bullet into the head of one of the self-proclaimed killers.
So begins an article from the November 30 Dallas Morning News. These are the people coming into our country.
Authorities on both sides of the border said the interrogation video appears genuine, offering a rare and extraordinary look into the Gulf cartel's inner workings and its well-armed allies, known as the Zetas. They also said the crude home movie raises unsettling questions about the cartels' possible reach into Mexico's government, military and media - though a government spokesman said that impression could be misleading.
So not only do we have gangs like MS-13, we have the cartels and their allies like the Zetas, who are made largely up of former military special operatives, wreaking havoc and running drugs.
A senior official in Mexico's intelligence service, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the video "essentially confirmed some of our worst concerns. Corruption is endemic, as is the collusion between organized crime and regular residents."
Asked how credible the video is, another law enforcement investigator said: "Credible 100 percent. A guy gets his brains blown. You can't make that (expletive) up."
Perhaps the most disturbing part of this article was the parallels to Islam:
Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, head of the anti-organized crime division of the Mexican attorney general's office, said the video is being investigated, but he disputed the captive men's allegations that high-ranking law enforcement officials were cooperating with drug gang leaders.He said he believes their statements were coerced. "When you look at the video, the men, after answering a question, constantly look to someone for approval. They were tortured, we believe, precisely so they could make certain statements," he said.
Sound familiar? The prisoners were tortured and made to make potentially false statements, and then executed , just with a gun instead of a sword.
We need troops on the border. It cannot be said enough, but it's not enough to just say it. We need to get it done. People like the Zetas are already coming into this country--and they're bringing al-Qaeda with them.
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This has been a production of the Guard the Borders blogburst, brought to you every Monday by Euphoric Reality. The purpose of Guard the Borders is to raise awareness about the illegal immigration problem. If you care about our borders and want to join the blogburst, send your blog name and URL to kit.jarrell at gmail dot com.
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Posted by LindaSoG at 05:53 PM
November 26, 2005
ABH Democrats
2008 looms just over the horizon and "One More Term" just ain't gonna happen. Speculation runs rampant even this early in the game. Who's it gonna be?
From the murky swamps of DU'h emerges the ABH Democrats...
Anyone But Hillary!
The DU'h top three alternatives.... Clark, Edwards and Gore.
Hillar-ious!
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:01 AM | Comments (2)
November 25, 2005
Public School Hell
Vermont high school teacher Bret Chenkin gave his students a quiz.
The quiz asked students to pick the proper words to complete sentences. One of the questions on the quiz:
"I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes."
"Coherent" was the right answer.
But teacher Bret Chenkin said his quizzes are being taken out of context. While he admits he isn't as conservative as some other teachers, he insists that he doesn't inflict his political views on his students.
Really?
"It is frightening the way the extreme Right has (balled, arrogated) aspects of the (U.S.) Constitution and warped them for their own agenda.""The governor (of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger,) should have been (excoriated, coherent) by the press for calling Democrats 'girlie-men' but instead was invited to speak at the Republican convention; it only goes to show what kind of people they are."...
I asked the principal "why does this man still have his job?" I won't hold my breath for an answer. What do you expect from a man who would name his daughter Maple Grey?
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:24 PM | Comments (1)
November 18, 2005
The Murtha Showdown!
So, we vote on whether or not to vote, and we decide to decide.
I support our Troops and their Mission.
Stay the course and finish the job.
God Bless America!!!
Updates at Euphoric Reality!
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:10 PM
November 16, 2005
Did Bush Lie?
Click on the graphic to learn the answer.
I stole it from Nickie Goomba who stole it from Michelle Malkin. Please feel free to steal it from me.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:13 PM | Comments (2)
November 14, 2005
Never Again!
To the President of the United States: France is overrun with militant muslims and is on the brink of surrender. Should France request help, I urge you to take one of these two options: (1) Stay up that night to watch live coverage of the surrender, or (2) Tape it and watch it the next day.
According to the American Battle Monuments Commission:
- There are 26,255 Yankee dead from World War I buried in 4 cemeteries in France.
- There are 30,426 American dead from World War II buried in 6 cemeteries in France.
These 56,681 brave American heroes died in their youth to liberate a country which is guilty of shameful unspeakable behavior in the 21st century. That's more than enough American blood spilled for those ungrateful, selfish bastards.
Q. How do you say "Give me liberty or give me death!" in French?
A. I give up.Q. How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
A. Nobody knows. It's never been tried.Q. What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up?
A. The French Army.
Let France reap what it has sown.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:38 AM | Comments (12)
November 12, 2005
Teach Your Children Well Open Post
What happens when two regular boys named Tommy and Lou dream of starting a lemonade stand in order to earn enough to buy a swing set? Well, their dream goes quite well until liberals like Congresswoman Clunkton, Mayor Leach and Mr. Fussman attempt to tax and regulate their dream away.
Help Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed is written by by Katharine DeBrecht, a self-proclaimed "Security Mom for Bush" and featuring hilarious full-color illustrations by a Reuben Award winning artist, it is certain to be one of the most talked about children's books of the year. Click the pic for more.
NOTE: This post has been made by me "for the children" on a totally voluntary basis, no compensation was promised or paid to me in any way, shape or form on behalf of the author, publisher, or anyone else connected with this book.
The rest of this post is Open Trackbacks so, it you have an interesting post up this weekend, have it folks.
What is an open trackback? Well, you trackback here and your link shows up at the bottom of this post. If your blogging software doesn’t have built-in trackbacks, then you can use the Whizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger. There is a slim chance that your trackback might get tagged by my de-spammer and stuck in my junk folder. As soon as I see it, I will de-junk it. Failure to link back to this post in your post will result in the deletion of your trackback. Finally, I do not accept advertisements on my site so if you're trying slip in a business advertisement via a business blog post, it will be deleted even if you trackback here.
So? Pimp that blog!
Jo's Cafe has Saturday Specials; Wizbang has the Carnival up; Random Numbers has an Open Post Weekend; MacStandbury has an Open Post; The Political Teen has an Open Post; Third World Country is having an Saturday Open Trackback Festival; My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has a SuperDick Open Post; Don Surber has Dean.com Bust and Open Post; Stop the ACLU is having a Weekend Party and so is bRight and Early. I also defiantly linked to Point Five's Weekend Open Trackbacks: Delete All Trackbacks Edition!
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:19 AM | Comments (6)
November 08, 2005
Projecte Quel Dommage Open Post
This just in from Llama Butchers... yes, its the weather report from France:
Bummer! I so sympathize with the french, all those rioting muslims and sharia law right around the corner, as soon as the expected surrender is complete. I think of how much they are suffering, and I yearn to express that sorrow, as am I sure you do too.
Thank goodness for Six Meat Buffet, who provides those of us with a will, a way...
It’s time to show our friends across the Pond how much we stand with them! Let’s reciprocate the love and honor their commitment to celebrating diversity, multi-culturalism and, of course, Socialist values.Now is your opportunity to take part in this historic bridge-building exercise! If you’re a blogger, simply put up your own “Sorry France!” post and trackback to this one. Just like all our trackbacks, they’ll appear underneath the post just like a linky-link.
If you’re not a blogger, don’t worry. You can still be sorry too. Send your pictures to Gordon or Preston and we’ll put it up.
Okay then Preston, here's mine...
The rest of this post is Open Trackbacks so have it folks.
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Link Fest Links: Adam's Blog; Mudville, Jo's Cafe, Basil's Blog, The Political Teen, and Stuck on Stupid.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:06 AM | Comments (2)
November 07, 2005
Guard Our Borders
This is what immigrants should be told when they come into our country.
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
The terror in France this week by Muslim gangs has to do with their “political correctness” and the “salad bowl” theory, that people don’t have to assimilate in order to live in France. This “political correctness” has permeated our culture, too. And you need only look across the pond to see the disastrous results of multicultural liberalism.
Beyond both of these issues related to immigrants, is the border control problem. From Cal Thomas at Townhall:
The Bush Administration would have us believe that most illegal immigrants (or “undocumented workers” in the lingo of political correctness) are merely looking for a better life and taking only those jobs that Americans do not want.Kerry Morales isn’t buying that line. “Maybe 20 years ago the illegals were innocent, hard-working people,” she tells the San Antonio Express-News. “Not any more. Now they’re extremely dangerous. They mean violence.”
Morales, a South Texas rancher, says illegal immigrants have cut down her fences, stolen her pickup truck and broken into her home, once invading her bedroom and nearly strangling her. She says they fled after she reached for her gun.
Rather than complain to authorities, who seem unable or unwilling to stem the tide, Morales joined hundreds of other volunteers from across the country along a 20-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border where they intend to help the Border Patrol spot illegals and reduce their number.
It’s a dangerous policy to allow our borders to go unprotected and unchecked. We should be standing vigilant and guarding our borders.
Terry Dillard has a great video he made regarding this issue over at Right Track blog.
This has been part of the Guard the Borders blogburst. GTB hits Euphoric Reality every Monday, and seeks to promote awareness about the illegal immgration epidemic that our country is facing and the desperate need to curb the problem before it’s too late. If you’d like to join the blogburst, send an email to kit.jarrell@gmail.com with your blog’s name and URL.
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Posted by LindaSoG at 05:47 AM | Comments (4)
November 04, 2005
Democrats for Mutilation
This just in from the party of peace and tolerance:
The mayor of Las Vegas has suggested that people who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television."In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes," Mayor Oscar Goodman said Wednesday on the TV show "Nevada Newsmakers." Goodman said the city has a beautiful highway landscaping project and "these punks come along and deface it."
"I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb," the mayor said. "That may be the right thing to do."
Goodman also suggested whippings should be brought back for children who get into trouble.
Interesting idea from a former criminal defense attorney with a drinking problem.
Looks like the self-proclaimed “happiest mayor in the world” is gonna give Teddy some competition.
Linked at: Cao's Blog
Posted by LindaSoG at 12:31 PM
November 03, 2005
Attn: VRWC Members
As a card carrying member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, its my duty to tell you that Hizzoner Karl Rove has once again conceived of the perfect plan to once again make a laughing stock out of the left and insure that our candidate gets elected in 2008.
All VRWC Members are called upon to do your part to further the VRWC Agenda.
Not a member? Join up here.
< / evil laugh>
Linked on: The Political Teen, and Stuck on Stupid.
Posted by LindaSoG at 05:59 AM
October 29, 2005
Sick of SCOTUS
That's right.
All of my favorite places in the blogosphere have been yammering on and on and on for days and days and days on the same tired old subject, passing around the same rumors and analysis, pissing and moaning from one side or the other, for or against, until I am so sick of it that playing in traffic sounds like a good idea.
And now, the cycle begins again. Who will the nominee be? Well, whoever it is, I won't be posting about it.
This month, my blog was a Harriet Miers Free Zone. It is now a SCOTUS Free Zone.
Steal this graphic - or - steal the white one if you prefer.
Meanwhile, I've joined Beth's Weekend Link Whorage Open Trackback Post Covered Fest Carnival Dish, Wizbang's Carnival of the Trackbacks XXXV, The Weekend Trackback Party at Stop the ACLU, and I've linked to the Mudville Gazette who reminds to wish Lady Liberty a Happy Birthday.
Now I think I'll go play pick up sticks with the debris Wilma left in my back yard.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:47 AM
October 24, 2005
UN-happy Birthday
It was sixty-one years ago on October 24, 1945 that the United Nations came into existence as an instrument of peace with a vision to make the world a better place for succeeding generations - a world where nations are at peace with one another, where people's human rights are protected, where the equal rights of men and women are guaranteed, where the rule of law is observed and respected, and social progress and better standards of life are ensured for all.
Sadly, the United Nations has not only failed miserably, but has become a protector of terrorists and a supporter of the regimes which breed them.
When the President of the United States spoke to the United Nations in October of 2004, he spoke of the need for change and called for a new course of action against the threat of terrorism, to stop the killing of school children in Russia, the beheading of construction workers in Iraq, the murder by suicide bombers. He spoke of how, rather than engineers, doctors, scientists and social workers, the Muslim world has become the world's largest exporter of hatred and murder. He spoke of how Muslim equality for women has emerged under the guise of female suicide bombers. He spoke of the consequences of terrorism that have been perpetuated by the Muslim world for over a decade in New York, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, and Bali, Jakarta, Moscow, Madrid and Istanbul.
The President urged action against terrorism, admitting that "for too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability." He promised to implement the radical changes that would lead to freedom, to take the fight to the enemy instead of waiting for them to come to us. He acknowledged that it would not be easy and he urged the world to unite in the effort.
What effect could such powerful words have when most of those oppressors, most of those violators of human rights and decency, most of those dictators that our President was referring to in his speech sat before him as members in good standing of the United Nations?
Sitting on UN Commission on Human Rights are some of the world's worst mass murderers and violators of the very human rights they are supposed to protect, including Cameroon, China, Congo (DRC), Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. The Chairman of the Commission is one of the worst human rights offenders, Libya. These are the very same human rights violators that the Commission is supposed to investigate and expose.
No wonder, then, that the UN has failed to even criticize China's human rights violations, failed to even discuss slave labor when the former Soviet Union existed, failed to even consider the sale of white women and children in Saudi Arabia, failed to investigate the denial of the most basic human rights to women in Asia and Arab countries, and failed to examine the slave trade in Arab countries.
The Commission voted against "special observation" of Zimbabwe's violations of human rights; and voted for the upgrading of the human rights status of Sudan, even while its dictatorship is committing genocide against its southern black Christians, carrying on slavery, and approving of systematic rape.
Consider the actions of Commission member Cuba. Castro had thrown into prison seventy-five dissidents, including journalists and librarians; and it had executed three men who hijacked a ferryboat to escape from this communist hellhole. No matter. The Commission reelected Cuba to another three-year term, "undoubtedly a recognition of the Cuban Revolution's work in human rights in favor of all our people," so Cuba proclaimed.
Ever careful to protect itself and its member dictatorships, the UN went so far as to terminate its relationship with the free speech organization Reporters Without Borders after it criticized the UN's human rights record. Reporters Without Borders had the audacity to suggest reforms that included the restricting of voting by dictatorships and claimed "that granting the chair to Qadhafi's [Libyan] regime has been a disgrace to the commission." The Commission voted 27 to 23 to suspend its relationship with the organization. All of the democratic members voted against it.
As Victor Davis Hanson said in the Wall Street Journal, "It is not the same United Nations of decades past, helping the poor nations with hunger, and sending troops around the world to keep the peace. Gone are the days when UNESCO and UNICEF provided selfless service around the world to fight disease and famine. Now it is a political body with a different agenda. Its membership is rife with tyrannies, theocracies and Stalinist regimes."
Immediately prior to the President's speech, Kofi Anan declared the Iraq War illegal to a BBC reporter. No surprise, considering that at the time of Iraq's blatant defiance of the United Nations resolutions on its weapons of mass destruction, one of Saddam Hussein's henchmen chaired the May sessions of the UN Conference. No surprise considering Kofi Anan's participation the Oil for Food scandal currently under investigation. No surprise considering the UN was silent while Saddam Hussein starved, tortured, maimed and murdered his own people.
Indeed, the UN was silent while Slobodan Milosevic methodically practiced ethnic cleansing in his country. The UN was silent while the Taliban systematically murdered their own people, repressed all human rights, and enslaved women. The UN was silent while in Rwanda and Burundi, half a million lives were lost in civil war.
The UN was silent while 800,000 people were murdered in 1994 during a systematic genocide organized by the Hutu government, and carried out against the Tutsi minority by its troops, police, and specially trained death squads. In 1999, an independent report condemned the UN's reluctance to accept evidence of a genocide, and reluctance to act once the genocide was undeniable.
The UN was silent while in North Korea hundreds of thousands have been murdered in the last decade, and possibly three million have been starved to death in a government created famine.
The UN was silent while 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered in Srebrenica, Bosnia, during the Bosnian war of 1995. Another UN commissioned report on this asserted that the UN peacekeepers stood by while Serb troops massacred those to whom the UN had promised protection. The UN had refused to reinforce their peacekeepers with enough troops, and even then severely restricted the action of those that were there.
The UN was silent while over three million were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with UN peacekeepers standing by and watching.
And the UN remains silent through the genocide in Sudan.
By its own admission in the Report of the Panel on UN Peace Operation, the UN recognized that its peacekeeping efforts have failed. It undertook peacekeeping in only a third of the conflicts during the 1990s, and when the UN did do something, it failed or was not effective.
And yet, the UN raises its voice, loud and clear, in consistent and constant condemnation of Israel. In the last few decades, more than half of the UN resolutions passed were against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel scores as high as the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom on political rights. On civil liberties, Israel scores much higher than the dictatorship members of the UN.
Consider the dictatorships of Algeria, China, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, all of whom are members of the UN Commission on Human Rights. The dictatorship of Egypt is a member of all six UN committees concerned with human rights treaties. The dictatorships of Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan participate on the Governing Council of the International Labor Organization. The bloody dictatorship of Iran is on the five-member UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Dictatorships who treat women as second class citizens or slaves like Egypt, Iran, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates are all members of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
"So Americans' once gushy support for the U.N. during its adolescence is gone. By the 1970s we accepted at best that it had devolved into a neutral organization in its approach to the West, and by the 1980s sighed that it was now unabashedly hostile to freedom. But in our odyssey from encouragement, to skepticism, and then to hostility, we have now reached the final stage--of indifference. Americans do not get riled easily, so the U.N. will go out with a whimper rather than a bang. Indeed, millions have already shrugged, tuned out, and turned the channel on it." - Victor Davis Hanson
The United Nations is still investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by its staff and soldiers in the Congo. The charges include accusations of pedophilia, rape and prostitution, some of which have been recorded on videotape.
"I am afraid there is clear evidence that acts of gross misconduct have taken place," said Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Although it promises a full investigation and to hold those involved accountable, the fact is that the UN has never been open or honest and has been known to ignore evidence in the past – including accusations of rape and murder by "peacekeepers."
Look on the bright side Kofi: at least no one was forced to wear panties on their heads. Now that would be an outrage!
UN-Happy Birthday United Nations, may this one be your last.
Posted by LindaSoG at 01:16 AM | Comments (3)
October 10, 2005
Happy Columbus Day!
Bet ya didn't realize that Christopher Columbus was the world's very first democrat. Yup.
Really, consider this: Christopher Columbus had no idea where he was going, when he got there, he had no idea where he was, so he went home not knowing where he had been. And he did it all on government money!
Later, he was credited for doing what he did not do for Columbus was not the first to discover America, nor was he the first European to land at America. In fact, that Columbus never even saw North America.
However, Columbus was the first to exploit, enslave and slaughter the Arawak Indians of Haiti, and syphilis was introduced into Europe by his crew.
So. A democrat for sure!
Posted by LindaSoG at 05:24 AM
October 08, 2005
What He Said!
This blog is now, officially, a Harriet Miers Free Zone.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:39 PM
October 01, 2005
No Surprise
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Posted by LindaSoG at 09:28 AM | Comments (7)
September 26, 2005
Name that President!
I read a little something over at Delftsman's site, Emigre with a Digital Cluebat. It concerns Presidential Legacies.
So. How many clues before you can "Name that President?"
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
I'll give you a hint... it ain't George Bush.
Speaking of the Clintons, Delftsman also notes that in the wake of her challenge to Hillary Clinton to go public with opposition to the war in Iraq, and her demand for a meeting with a meeting with her, Mother Sheehan best not take any walks in Ft. Marcy Park. After all, we remember what happened to Vince Foster.
Grieving Mother Cindy Sheehan
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:15 AM
September 14, 2005
Imagine!
Rather than allow the National Guard to rescue people in such dire circumstances, Louisiana's democrat Congressman made them go rescue his "stuff."
Amid the chaos and confusion that engulfed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck, a local congressman used National Guard troops to check on his property and rescue his personal belongings — even while New Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from rooftops, ABC News has learned.
Who would do such a thing? Why none other than... Rep. William Jefferson, an eight-term Democratic congressman.
Although Jefferson claims "I did not seek the use of military assets to help me get around my city," reality is that Jefferson put the safety and well-being of his people behind the rescue of "a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator," all of which the enlisted men loaded up into the truck.
But wait... there's more!
You see, the truck got stuck, and more military assets were required to rescue the Jefferson rescue team. A Coast Guard helicoper was signaled, and circled for 45 minutes, using up precious fuel, before Jefferson decided to stay with the truck.
"Forty-five minutes can be an eternity to somebody that is drowning, to somebody that is sitting in a roof, and it needs to be used its primary purpose during an emergency," said Homeland Security Expert Jerry Hauer.
Why would Jefferson do such a thing? Well... one can speculate that it might have had something to do with evidence...
... authorities recently searched Jefferson's property as part of a federal investigation into the finances of a high-tech firm. Last month FBI officials raided Jefferson's house as well as his home in Washington, D.C., his car and his accountant's house.
The "authorities" are, of course, the FBI, and Jefferson has recently set up a special trust fund for contributions to his legal defense in light of the investigation.
A senior federal law enforcement source tells ABC News that investigators are interested in learning if Jefferson moved any materials relevant to the investigation. Jefferson says he did not.
Yeah. Right. That's democrats for ya! CYA, always, first and foremost! Okay kiddies, let's all say it together... "Jefferson lied and people died."
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:53 AM | Comments (2)
September 03, 2005
God Punished New Orleans for Voting for Kerry
That makes about much sense as the nonsense coming from the left.
Apparently the left is simply telling a bunch of lies.
First, even while people are still dying, the left is making unsupported allegations about "cuts" in flood control spending for the Corps of Engineers.
Flood control funding: FY2004 and FY2005. $320 million for both years.
Another one of their lies is that President Bush somehow held a gun to the head of people in Louisiana and forced them to stop working on the levees.
Levee Failures: Another Leftist Lie.
It looks like we'll have to go over this again and again because the liberals are refusing to admit they lied about funding for the Corps of Engineers.
Corps of Engineer Funding (because liberals refuse to admit they lied).
And oh boy, wait till the left gets wind of this...
The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:55 AM
September 02, 2005
Nuff Said
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:12 PM
August 13, 2005
I saw it on the Internet...
So it must be true...
"Stepping up to the forefront of politics is a new type of leader, motivated by his love for his country, not special interest groups. His distinct image and captivating voice you already know, and now it's your chance to make him the leader of the people, for the people, by the people. That's right... Christopher Walken is running for President."
Christopher Walken 2008
"Our great country is in a terrible downward spiral. We're losing jobs, losing benefits, and losing lives. We need to focus on what's important-- paying attention to our children, our environment, our future. We need to think about improving our underbudget educational system, making better use of our resources, and helping to build a stable, safe, and tolerant global society. It's time to be smart about our politics. It's time to get America back on track."
Cowbell jokes are much too easy, so I ain't saying nothing.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:12 AM | Comments (2)
August 08, 2005
Keep on Talking
I could almost feel sorry for the progressive left. As if Howard Dean wasn't enough... they have this...
Harry Belafonte Calls Black Republicans 'Tyrants'
Celebrity activist Harry Belafonte referred to prominent African-American officials in the Bush administration as "black tyrants" at a weekend march, and he also compared the administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Of course, Belafonte said this at Saturday's march in Atlanta commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. As a featured speaker, Belafonte was almost as inspiring as he was in 2002 when he likened then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to a "house slave."
But wait! There's more:
Civil rights activist Dick Gregory almost outdid Belafonte with his trashing of the United States, calling it "the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet."
I say almost, because Belafonte still stole the show with this gem...
When asked specifically who was a "black tyrant" in the Bush administration, Belafonte responded to this reporter, "You." When this reporter noted that he was a Caucasian and attempted to ask another question, Belafonte abruptly ended the interview by saying, "That's it."
Yep. That's it.
Gotta love them progressive democrats.
Posted by LindaSoG at 02:00 PM
July 27, 2005
Time to Pay the Piper
Breaking news from Miami -- Suspended Miami Commissioner Art Teele shot himself in the Miami Herald building late this afternoon.
Early reports indicate that Teele survived the shooting, and was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center. Witnesses said that Teele has one gun shot wound to the head and he had lost a great deal of blood. Employees of the newspaper said they heard one shot and the Herald Building was immediately evacuated.
Rumor has it that he pulled a gun from a bookbag and shot himself in the mouth, with the bullet exiting from the back of his head. Miami rescue workers said that Teele was conscious while being transported to the hospital, and when asked to blink his eyes, he did so.
The former commissioner has faced a myriad of troubles over the past few years, including federal charges for money laundering and mail and wire fraud.
Teele was convicted in March of threatening a Miami-Dade police officer. He is awaiting trial on other fraud charges in state court.
In the most recent charges, Teele is accused of helping a minority company win more than $20 million worth of electrical contracts at Miami International Airport, when the work ended up actually being done by a much larger, non-minority company.
If convicted on the federal charges, Teele could face up to 20 years in prison.
Now, I don't care much for the Miami Herald, but why inflict them with your suicide Art? It's not like they made you do what you did. All they did was put it on the front page, where it belongs. Sooner or later, it was bound catch up with you.
I'm glad you're alive to face the consequences of what you have done over the years, but sorry that we will now have to pay for your psychiatrist, as well as your three hots and cot while you rot in prison.
UPDATE: Arthur Teele is dead.
His epitaph:
"Art Teele is a man of very big appetites, and because of them he is now in very big trouble ... the once-powerful politician is possessed of a seemingly insatiable craving for all things illicit -- adulterous sex, illegal drugs, bribery and extortion." - Francisco Alvarado, Miami New Times
His legacy:
July 28, 2005: Tales of Teele: Sleaze Stories
July 14, 2005: Art Teele Faces Federal Charges
April 4, 2005: No New Trial For Teele
March 2, 2005: Verdict In For Former Commissioner
January 6, 2005: 'Crazy' Police Tapes Reveal More About Arrest
October 1, 2004: Commissioners To Discuss Teele's Position At Public Meeting
September 29, 2004: Commissioners Unsure What To Do About Teele
September 28, 2004: Commission To Discuss Replacing Suspended Politician
September 21, 2004: Police Demand Records From Commissioner's Office
September 15, 2004: Teele Pleads Not Guilty
September 10, 2004: Teele Addresses Commission After Arrest
August 27, 2004: Volatile Miami Commissioner Arrested
February 26, 2003: WPLG Editorial: Miami Commissioner Arthur Teele Has A Lot To Explain About Little Haiti Park Project (2/25/03)
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:58 PM
July 18, 2005
A Travesty of Justice
On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard; passenger Mary Jo Kopechne died.
"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law?
Or is there one system for the average citizen
and another for the high and mighty?"
- Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973 -
What happened that night and why is it a travesty? This site contains extensive coverage of the circumstances.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:31 AM | Comments (1)
July 02, 2005
Junk Bonds?
Guess what kiddies? The democrats have figured out a way to steal raise money, by selling you nothing for something...
Your 'Democracy Bond' is a commitment to make a monthly donation to the Democratic Party in order to:* Reform the political process by building a political party beholden only to the people, not the special interests
* Build the Democratic Party from the ground up in every precinct so that we can compete everywhere
* Win elections in every state and territory of the United States, at every level of office
'Democracy Bonds' are about building a community of Americans with a stake in our common future -- locally, nationally, and globally. They will bond together a person in Alaska and a person in Missouri in common cause for a political process where parties are accountable to ordinary people and their concerns.
With a 'Democracy Bond' you don't get any money back -- but you do get your country back.
Democracy Bonds are not to be confused with donations, it's an investment for crying out loud! And so, for any of you who are thinking of "investing" in the future...
LindaSoG hereby kicks off the LindaSoG Bonds initiative right here and right now!
Your 'LindaSoG Bond' is a commitment to make a monthly donation to LindaSoG in order to:
* Reform LindaSoG's personal finances by building a big old bank account for her use and her use only.
* Build LindaSoG a great big old house way off the beaten track where no one in their right mind, or even the Supreme Court, would want to put up a Dunkin Donuts.
LindaSoG Bonds are about building a safety net for America, or, well, at least one American, giving you nothing in return but a warm mushy feeling of having made a difference, at least to one American.
With a LindaSoG Bond you don't get any money back -- but she will send you a really really nice thank you note.
heh. Also available for purchase... one bridge in Brooklyn... just think, you could collect a toll...
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:04 PM
June 24, 2005
Foreign Invaders Win Again
The Bush administration acknowledged yesterday that it prefers to provide healthcare to illegal foreign invaders of this Country, rather than provide healthcare to those men and women who served this Country in the United States Military.
That's right. According to recent news articles, the administration is short at least $1 billion for covering the healthcare needs for our Veterans this year, while it spends the same $1 billion to provide healthcare to illegal immigrants. Yup, we are spending that money to provide illegal immigrants with free healthcare and short changing our Veterans to do it.
But, if you think that this is bad, the reality is worse, much worse. It seems that the administration is touting legislature that would provide a $1.6 billion increase in VA healthcare spending. Sounds good? Well, reality is that $1 billion of the so-called 'increase' will come from cutting other VA medical accounts: $533 million from the medical administration account, $417 million from medical facilities and $9 million from medical and prosthetics research.
This is our tax dollars at work, and it really pisses me off.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:10 AM
June 22, 2005
Let 'em eat cat food!
This week, the Florida Democrat Party sent a strong message to Florida's seniors:
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Yes, under the leadership of former Florida Democratic Party President and wanna-be Governor Scott Maddox, $900,000.00 has mysteriously disappeared, leaving Florida's Democrat party unable to pay its Social Security obligations, as well as its payroll taxes. And so, the IRS has put liens on the measly $98,000.00 left in the account after the disappearing act.
Leon County committeeman Jon Ausman, who is also a member of the party's budget and finance committee, said the party's 2003 year-end audit showed $609,032 cash on hand. He said it netted $586,986 in 2004 when it raised about $18 million.
I don't know how you start out with $609,000 and raise a net of $586,000 and end up with $269,000," he said. "It's very important that we reassure our donor base and all the Democrats that we're on top of this situation," Ausman said.
Not to worry, State vice-chair Diane Glasser is right on top of that, with these reassuring words: "We've had these problems before," Glasser said.
and... Glasser has the solution... "I think that everything will resolve itself. Karen has already got commitments for money that is going to be coming into the party."
There you have it! Don't worry Florida, The Democratic Party has a plan!
Meow.
Posted by LindaSoG at 11:19 AM | Comments (1)
June 02, 2005
Guest Worker Program
Not to be confused with the Guest Terrorist Program:
Feds believe man brought 60 from terrorist state into U.S.
A smuggling ring specializing in bringing Iranians into the U.S. over the Mexico border has been broken up in an FBI sting operation.
A 39-year-old Iranian with permanent legal residency status who is suspected of having smuggled 60 other Iranians into the U.S. was arrested Thursday in Mesa, Ariz., according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The FBI began investigating Malhamdary after a source told immigration officials that Malhamdary had sought help getting false Mexican visas so he could bring Iranians into Mexico and then across the border into Arizona.
Federal prosecutors say Malhamdary had previously smuggled about 60 Iranians into the United States.
Let's just forget the fact that the 9/11 hijackings were done by 19 people.
Let's just forget the fact that this guy has smuggled three times as many Iranians into the country as it took to fly those planes into the World Trade Center and kill thousands of Americans.
Malhamdary flew to Tehran, Iran, in March, allegedly to get the passports of the Iranians he planned to smuggle into the United States through Mexico, Kellerman said in the statement.
In late March, the undercover agent was given three passports.
Malhamdary allegedly told the undercover agent in May that he had eight more people who wanted to be smuggled into the United States.The undercover agent on Thursday met with Malhamdary and agreed to pick up three Iranians in Mexico City and then to bring them to Nogales, Mexico, and arrange to have them smuggled across the border, Kellerman said in his statement.
Never mind the fact that Zeayadali Malhamdary used fake Mexican visas to bring the Iranians to Mexico, and never mind the fact that our open border policies made it possible for them to stroll across the border into the United States along with the thousands of mexicans.
Never mind the fact they likely got tips on how to do so from the Fox government and that we likely provided them water in the desert, just in case the crossing made them thirsty.
FBI officials said they had no reason to believe there were any terrorist connections to the case.
Hey now, let's just forget the fact that Iran has long been designated a terrorist state by the U.S. State Department and FBI.
Forget all the facts and just accept that the President's Welcome Mat for Terrorists, er, Guest Worker Program will help illegal immigrants, er, terrorists, um... Guest Workers like Mohammed Atta, who are armed and dangerous, er, a threat to society, um... hell-bent on destroying this Country and killing Americans, er... decent, hard working, energetic, ambitious, and optimistic people. They came to this country to fly planes into buildings, er, kill Americans, um... destroy this Country from the inside out, er... help make America a stronger and better nation.
Yeah. That's the ticket. Move along now. Nothing to see here.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:21 AM | Comments (1)
May 22, 2005
I am a Right Wing Radical
Are you?
You Might Be a Right-Wing Radical If . . .
According to Senate minority leader Harry Reid and his friends, Democrats must block the constitutional appointment process in order to protect you from right-wing radical judges. They say they use the filibuster only in the most extreme situations, to block confirmation of extremely dangerous radicals to the bench for sake of all mankind.
Heroes they are really, at least in their own minds.
I can almost see their point, too. Who would want some extreme right-wing wacko deciding justice in America? I mean, what if judges actually just stuck to the written law and constitution and applied them to cases without any re-draft from their own personal agenda? Can you imagine what chaos it might cause if our judges left all the legislating to our legislature? Who would single handedly thwart the will of the masses if not a judge?
In order to understand what Mr. Reid and his friends mean by this assertion, we must first understand what they mean by “right-wing radical.”
Let’s begin with the simple stuff. If you believe Teddy Kennedy is a drunken coward who should have gone to prison for leaving his girl friend to die in the icy waters of Chappaquiddick as he ran and hid from authorities, you are right. But if you believe this voids his credibility as a national leader, you are a right-wing radical and you are sadly mistaken.
If you believe Bill Clinton should have done more to protect this nation by strengthening the military and our intelligence community rather than destroying them while he focused his attention on using the White House as a personal play-pen, you are right again. But if you believe America was weakened by Larry Flint Lite living in the White House, you are a right-wing radical.
If you believe John Kerry should have produced real evidence to support his claim of war hero status instead of simply attacking the honor of decorated veterans and POW's who called him a traitor, you are once again right. But if you think America should reject a traitor for president, you are a right-wing radical.
Now for the basics: If you believe that the taking of innocent life for the sole purpose of personal convenience, not in self defense, is murder and therefore, not a constitutional right, you are correct. Just look it up under murder. But if you believe you have the right to call murder by its name, you are a right-wing radical.
If you believe that America’s greatness is a result of freedom instead of free-stuff, you are an evil rich selfish snob who happens to be right. But if you believe you have a right to your own earnings, a right to determine your own financial future, a right to work harder or smarter and receive the fruits of your labor and sacrifices – or that you even have a right to risk failure in pursuit of your own happiness, you are a right-wing radical.
If you still believe America is the land of the free and home of the brave, that America’s strength rests upon the inner strength of its people, and that it is threatened by a growing internal weakness among its masses, you are a right-wing radical.
If you believe that morals matter and that every action has a natural inescapable well-deserved consequence, then you are brilliant - and you are a right-wing radical.
If you believe that judges should read laws, not write them, you are a genius by today’s standards and you, too, are a right-wing radical.
If you believe that freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion and that freedom of religious speech does not include Jim Jones, David Koresh, or Muslim extremist who preach killing innocent people as the center-piece of their doctrine, then you are highly intelligent and you, my friend, are a right-wing radical.
So see, if you said yes to one or more of these qualifications, you are exactly the kind of extremist the Democrats are trying to save this nation from. You are a right-wing wacko extremist whom this nation will no longer tolerate.
If you believe in the concept of right and wrong, good and evil, self-reliance and self-governance, the constitution as it was written, personal responsibility, the rights endowed by our creator as established in the Declaration of Independence, then you are no longer part of the “mainstream” in America, according to today’s Democrats.
You must be stopped from running roughshod over the masses, who have adopted the ideals of “mainstream” Americans like Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Franks, John Kerry, Hillary, Al Gore, Michael Moore, Larry Flint, Alec Baldwin, Howard Dean, Babs, Whoopie, Franken, and Soros.
Old Democrats like Joe Lieberman or Zell Miller must be sidelined because they, too, can say yes to most if not all of these qualifications. By today’s standards, that makes them just as dangerous to the DNC agenda as all you right-wing wackos.
You are an extremist, a right-wing ideologue, and here is the latest class title for people like you: an “absolutist.” You are in the eyes of the “mainstream,” simple minded, but no less certain about the difference between right and wrong and as a result, you are dangerous.
As such, you are no longer welcome in America. You represent a larger threat to America than Bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin, and Marx combined, according to Democrats.
So you must realize that it is vital to keep people like you off the bench. So vital to America’s future, that Democrats must be allowed to filibuster the constitutional appointment process in order to save America from right-wing radicals like you.
If you were a hardcore card-carrying socialist, you would already know all of this. Since you are a right-wing wacko, I figured I had better explain it to you in terms you can understand.
Your ideas harm the progressive agenda of an open society where all are equal, and I do mean all. How dare you think that America should be the best country on earth? America should be just like every other country on earth, equally poor, equally tyrannized by its government and equally miserable. As long as we’re not, we will not be appreciated in the world community and what’s more important than that?
If you believe the founders got it all wrong, that America is one big feeding trough for the world, that the U.N. is more trustworthy than the U.S., that our weaknesses are our strengths and that only Democrats can save you from yourself, you are NOT a right-wing extremist.
If your idea of national security is negotiating away your freedom to avoid a fight, you could never be a right-wing extremist - you just don’t have what it takes.
But you can pass the DNC litmus test and you my friend, can be a judge… No filibuster for you!
'Nuff said.
Posted by LindaSoG at 01:24 AM
May 10, 2005
Illegal Immigrants Granted National Health Insurance
Our government is now endorsing illegal immigration by providing illegal immigrants with free health care, one billion dollars worth, courtesy of American taxpayers.
This is just plain wrong.
Posted by LindaSoG at 11:36 AM | Comments (1)
March 20, 2005
Where have all the moonbats gone?
Activists dwindle in South Florida anti-war groups
During the past two years, South Florida's various activist groups -- the Broward Anti-War Coalition, the Palm Beach County Peace and Justice Coalition, both counties' Green Parties, Pax Christi and Peace South Florida among them -- have continued with demonstrations and educational programs. They have bused to a rally in Washington, D.C., picketed a recruitment center and held monthly, and now weekly, demonstrations in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
But their numbers have thinned and, for some, so has their enthusiasm.
Delgado, 31, said it's "frustrating" to be an activist in a nation that's taken a distinct shift to the right. "I think I'm living in the Twilight Zone," she said. "It's surreal."
Meaning: It’s tough to be on the wrong side.
"Truthfully, we're very, very disheartened at the [Bush] re-election," said Jim Worl, 82, a Fort Lauderdale World War II Army vet. "There was a great letdown, a great letdown."
Meaning: President Bush keeps proving us wrong faster than we can change directions.
The movement has also spread out to encompass other matters. "We've tried to address other issues related to foreign policy, civil liberties," Lefrak said. People tackling those issues are taking less visible courses, such as writing or e-mailing politicians, creating Web sites and blogs, or petition drives.
Meaning: We keep slinging sh*t hoping something will stick.
Cara Campbell of Fort Lauderdale, co-chair of the Broward County Green Party, advocates boycotts rather than protests. "This is all about consumption," she said.
Meaning: Park your car and walk, well everyone except me.
Whatever the approach, Delgado said activists need to keep their spirits up. "If we take an attitude of being fatalistic and hopeless, then we're setting ourselves up for more failure," she said. "We have nothing else left at this point than to hope."
Meaning: We have no point at all.
South Florida Protest Warrior is making a difference! (Extra commentary there contributed by MeasureMan at MightyRighty.com). Thanks MM for the clarifications!
The fact is that the anti-war crowd is intimidated by our presence, they do not like being confronted with the truth, they cannot defend their views or their actions, and many of them avoid these demonstrations because of our presence. The anti-war crowd is very distressed about this, to the point where they attempted (unsuccessfully) to get the ACLU involved to block us from exercising our rights to free speech.
Protest Warrior Rocks!
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:46 PM
The Free Speech Pledge
Amendment I - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I am making The Free Speech Pledge:
If the FEC makes rules that limit my First Amendment right to express my opinion on core political issues, I will not obey those rules.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:32 PM
March 15, 2005
Yoo Hoo... John....
Unbelievable but true! It's Tuesday again and you know what that means:
On January 30, 2005, The Great Pretender once again promised to sign his 180, this time on NBC News’ Meet the Press.
MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?
SEN. KERRY: Yes, I will.
Well. Forty-four days, yup, forty-four days have passed and still, no 180.
Prediction: John Kerry will never sign the 180, never! Why? Because he is a low-life scum sucking piece of shit liar. Still, I have taken a vow to never let the low-life scum sucking piece of shit liar forget that promise to America. I will write that low-life scum sucking piece of shit liar every Tuesday for the rest of his lying scum sucking piece of shit life.
I will send the low-life scum sucking piece of shit liar an email with a link to the form every Tuesday for the rest of his lying scum sucking piece of shit life.
Feel free to join in... and... if you are a blogger, join us in spreading the word every Tuesday.
Sign the 180 Senator. Sign the 180.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:24 AM | Comments (1)
March 14, 2005
Once was not enough!
Many adults in the United States retain their political allegiances four months after the last presidential ballot, according to a poll by Zogby International. 46 per cent of respondents would vote for Republican George W. Bush in a new election, while 42 per cent would support Democratic nominee John Kerry.
Polling Data
If the 2004 presidential election took place again, who would you vote for?
46% George W. Bush (R)
42% John Kerry (D)
7% A third party candidate
As Chrissie would say... La la la...
This is interesting when you consider that U.S. media coverage of last year's election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush than Democratic challenger John Kerry, according to a study released Monday.
Yep. According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator. Only 20 percent were positive toward Bush compared to 30 percent of stories about Kerry that were positive, according to the report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The study looked at 16 newspapers of varying size across the country, four nightly newscasts, three network morning news shows, nine cable programs and nine Web sites through the course of 2004.
Kerry still lost and he would lose again.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:07 AM
March 11, 2005
Off the deep end
Meet Nathan Alan Winkler:
Nathan was "apparently enraged by a Bush-Cheney sticker on a woman's sport utility vehicle and now faces felony charges after chasing her for miles, allegedly trying to run her off the road."
"He told our officers that he just got mad at her, so he went after her," said Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin. Winkler had a sign in his Nissan sedan that read, "Never Forget Bush's Illegal War Murdered Thousands in Iraq." "Maybe he has that sign with him so he's prepared any time he comes up against a Republican," Durkin said.
His father, 59-year-old John Winkler, said it didn't sound like his son. "I know that he's very anti-Bush. But I don't see him doing anything like that," said the elder Winkler. "He's the least aggressive person I know."
Well pop, sounds like you don't know many people for comparison. I hate to be the one to tell you but it appears that your son is a certified freak as well as a danger to society. What he did was not the actions of a reasonably sane person. That woman had children in her vehicle.
I was in the Tampa area not too long ago, and attended a counter protest to the weekly St.Pete for Peace anti-war demonstration at Baywalk. My sign said "Help! I am surrounded by America Hating Idiots."
One of the St. Pete regular protestors was very abusive to the passer-bys who thanked me for being there. He told people to fuck off, called one woman a filthy slut, and he told me "when the revolution starts, I'm coming for you."
Well, in case Nathan's actions means the revolution has started, you can find me tonight outside of the Miami Teachers Union Hall, protesting the Miami forum on dissent. Speakers include CodePinko's Medea Benjamin. You know, the same Medea Benjamin who was recently in Iraq to donate $600,000 to the support "other side" in Fallujah. Also on the agenda tonight is terrorist lawyer Lynne Stewart, who was recently convicted of aiding and abetting her terrorist clients. Deserter Camillo Mejia will there to complain about a world that actually expected him to honor his oath and complete his contract.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:34 AM
March 08, 2005
Sign the 180 Senator
It's Tuesday again and you know what that means:
On January 30, 2005, The Great Pretender once again promised to sign his 180, this time on NBC News’ Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: Many people who’ve been criticizing you have said: Senator, if you would just do one thing and that is sign Form 180, which would allow historians and journalists complete access to all your military records. Thus far, you have gotten the records, released them through your campaign. They say you should not be the filter. Sign Form 180 and let the historians…
SEN. KERRY: I’d be happy to put the records out. We put all the records out that I had been sent by the military. Then at the last moment, they sent some more stuff, which had some things that weren’t even relevant to the record. So when we get–I’m going to sit down with them and make sure that they are clear and I am clear as to what is in the record and what isn’t in the record and we’ll put it out. I have no problem with that.
MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?
SEN. KERRY: But everything, Tim…
MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?
SEN. KERRY: Yes, I will.
Well. Thirty-seven days have passed and still, no 180. Jeepers. The Great Pretender must have forgotten all about it! So? You should consider it your civic duty to remind The Great Pretender to keep his promise to the citizens of the United States of America.
Send the Senator an email with a link to the the form. Have your friends do so too. and... if you are a blogger, join us for the Tuesday Blogburst.
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Sign the 180 Senator. Sign the 180.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:29 AM
March 01, 2005
Sign the 180 Senator
On January 30, 2005, The Great Pretender once again promised to sign his 180, this time on NBC News’ Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: Many people who’ve been criticizing you have said: Senator, if you would just do one thing and that is sign Form 180, which would allow historians and journalists complete access to all your military records. Thus far, you have gotten the records, released them through your campaign. They say you should not be the filter. Sign Form 180 and let the historians…
SEN. KERRY: I’d be happy to put the records out. We put all the records out that I had been sent by the military. Then at the last moment, they sent some more stuff, which had some things that weren’t even relevant to the record. So when we get–I’m going to sit down with them and make sure that they are clear and I am clear as to what is in the record and what isn’t in the record and we’ll put it out. I have no problem with that.
MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?
SEN. KERRY: But everything, Tim…
MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?
SEN. KERRY: Yes, I will.
Well. Thirty days have passed and no 180. Jeepers. The Great Pretender must have forgotten all about it! So? I consider it my civic duty to remind The Great Pretender to keep his promise to the citizens of the United States of America.
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Posted by LindaSoG at 09:25 AM | Comments (1)
February 23, 2005
Hold Muh Beer...
Looks like this guy might one day give the killer senator from Mass a little competition...
MIAMI, United States (AFP) - A state prosecutor in Florida's island city of Key West is under arrest after he allegedly ran naked and drunk across a parking lot and hopped into the wrong car.
Albert Tasker of the local state prosecutor's office told police he had been drinking with friends and thought it would be funny to take off his clothes and run to a friend's car in the parking lot, according to the Florida Keys Citizen.
But Tasker, 28, apparently got into the back seat of the wrong car, much to the distress of the woman in the vehicle.
Probably seemed like a really good idea at the time.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:05 AM | Comments (1)
February 22, 2005
Howard's In Charge!
Okay Karl. I'm in and I'm alone. What should I do first?
Heh. I got it by email and thought I'd share!
Posted by LindaSoG at 10:19 AM | Comments (1)
February 14, 2005
EasonGate
"Did Eason Jordan, chief news executive of CNN, actually say the American military has deliberately killed journalists covering the conflict in Iraq?"
Someone who was there answers the question:
By chance, I was in the audience of the World Economic Forum's panel discussion where Mr. Jordan spoke. What happened was this: Mr. Jordan observed that of the 60-odd journalists killed in Iraq, 12 had been targeted and killed by coalition forces. He then offered a story of an unnamed Al-Jazeera journalist who had been "tortured for weeks" at Abu Ghraib, made to eat his shoes, and called "Al-Jazeera boy" by his American captors.
Here Rep. Barney Frank, also a member of the panel, interjected: Had American troops actually targeted journalists? And had CNN done a story about it? Well no, Mr. Jordan replied, CNN hadn't done a story on this, specifically. And no, he didn't believe the Bush administration had a policy of targeting journalists. Besides, he said, "the [American] generals and colonels have their heart in the right place."
By this point, one could almost see the wheels of Mr. Jordan's mind spinning, slowly: "How am I going to get out of this one?" But Mr. Frank and others kept demanding specifics. Mr. Jordan replied that "there are people who believe there are people in the military" who have it out for journalists. He also recounted a story of a reporter who'd been sent to the back of the line at a checkpoint outside of Baghdad's Green Zone, apparently because the soldier had been unhappy with the reporter's dispatches.
And that was it -- the discussion moved on.
Will we ever see a transcript? Maybe in ten years one will surface, maybe not. CNN is very good at covering their tracks. So, Eason Jordan is unemployed. Ward Churchill, on the other hand is still employed on the speaking circuit. Lynne Stewart is convicted of what amounts to but is not called treason. John Kerry is free. Howard Dean is the DNC Chair.
George W. Bush is in the White House.
and... There is still time to vote.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:41 AM
January 14, 2005
Yellow Journalism Indeed
So. CBS dumps four people as a result of Memogate, and rightly so, since it was all a fabrication. But Dan survived the axe, why?
As RatherGate.com noted earlier this week, anchorman Dan Rather has also refused to acknowledge that the memos are fakes. Quoting from the Panel's report:
Rather informed the Panel that he still believes the content of the documents is true because "the facts are right on the money," and that no one had provided persuasive evidence that the documents were not authentic.
No "persuasive evidence"? Dr. Newcomer's evidence is beyond persuasive; it's conclusive: The Bush "Guard memos" are forgeries. (The link is via Charles Johnson, who also has a long list of related posts here.)
If Danny had any integrity at all, he would resign, and not just from the evening news but from 60 Minutes too. But Danny has no integrity, and he would rather let the ladies to take the blame for what he did. How low can a man go and remain a man?
Dan, you make me sick.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:06 AM
Shhh... Its a Secret
Here’s one story you won’t find on tomorrow’s front pages: "The U.S. Budget Deficit Is Shrinking Rapidly." The headline would be accurate, but the mainstream media is much more interested in talking down this booming economy than telling it like it is.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:51 AM
December 31, 2004
Are you a Liberal?
Ed Lynch reveals the the early warning signs. Best go check it out, just to be sure.
You might be a liberal if …
You think that if someone is getting richer, someone, somewhere, must be getting poorer.
You think that Rush Limbaugh’s listeners are mindless "dittoheads," but you have never doubted anything that you heard from Michael Moore.
You believe in global warming today just as firmly as you believed in global cooling back in the 1970s.
You believe that there was never, ever a problem with biased news coverage until Fox News went on the air.
You think that Dan Rather got a raw deal.
You think that the phrase "separation of church and state" is in the Constitution.
You are worried about how the French view Americans.
You believe that nativity scenes should be banned from public view, but that anyone objecting to pornography “only has to look the other way."
Those are just my favorites, there's more. Read the rest!
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:54 AM
December 25, 2004
Kerry Kissmas
If you haven't been following John Kerry closely, get ready to hear of surprising developments. The vote-defrauded, potential president-in-waiting has just indicated through his lawyer that the validity of George Bush's reelection is no longer a given.
Woo hoo and whoopie do! The author of this ridiculous bit of journalism covers his ass with a subheading that states: "Election Challenge likely on Jan 6th" but the frenzy over at DUmmie Land has begun:
"Now THAT'S what I want for Christmas! BTW - a very, very lovely pool shot. Mmm...Mama Teresa has got her one FINE man there!" -RevCheesehead
and
"Isn't she the luckiest? Dang it!!! Kerry divorce Theresa for me!! Just kidding! Theresa's a great woman, just very fortunate, that's all!" and "That's a mighty fine piece of art work God did there on that man!" -TexasChick
gak! I don't think you have enough money TexasChick but thanks for sharing.
This bit of breaking news has whipped the DUmmies into a frenzy both sexual and demented, complete with "Kerry Kissmas" fantasies. They are literally foaming at the mouth again as "Kerry Prepares the Grounds to Unconcede" on Monday, when all their dreams will come true.
Now that's entertainment!
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:38 AM
December 17, 2004
Merry Christmas Cuba
HAVANA - Cuba retaliated for the U.S. diplomatic mission's Christmas display supporting Cuban dissidents by putting up a billboard Friday emblazoned with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a "Made in the U.S.A" stamp.
The U.S. mission, headed by James Cason, rejected a demand this week to remove Christmas decorations that included a reference to dissidents jailed by Fidel Castro's government. The trimmings included a Santa Claus, candy canes and white lights wrapped around palm trees — and a sign reading "75," a reference to the 75 Cuban dissidents jailed last year.
James Cason, who cannot not be bothered to visit or to even inquire after the health and well being of American Walter Van der Veer, imprisoned in Cuba since 1997. For James Cason, and Fidel Castro, I have two words: Fuck you!
Walter is an American citizen, abandoned by his country, sentenced to 15 years of hell in a Cuban prison, forgotten by everyone but his family. and me.
Posted by LindaSoG at 03:26 PM
December 14, 2004
Leaning Right...
This just in from Gallup
In Gallup's latest poll this month, those identifying themselves as Republicans jumped to 37% of the public, with Democrats now clearly trailing with 32%.
Well golly! Surprise surprise.
Democrats have long held more party members than Republicans. During the Clinton years, the bulge was about 5% to 6%. As recently as late-October of this year the Democratic edge was 37% to 34%.
Hmph. Clinton bulge? Freudian slip? Who writes this stuff?
Post-election shifts in partisanship after presidential elections or midterm congressional elections are not routine, but are also not uncommon.
Huh? Not routine but not uncommon? Oh well, I imagine that Mr. Taranto over at Best of the Web would have a field day with that one but I'll just move right along...
According to the Independent Student Newspaper at the University of Illinois, Conservatism is on the rise in young voters:
The mass influx of liberal votes from college campuses has become a myth, said Carrie Donovan, the youth director for the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
"I think a lot of people still assume that college students are very liberal based on how young people used to be," Donovan said. "It's definitely not like that; the difference is only maybe five percentage points, not 30."
Take that P. Diddy.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:39 PM
All Communist Legal Union
ACLU. Destroying America one lawsuit at a time.
ACLU targets state's abstinence website
EXTORTION! How ACLU is destroying America
ACLU Calls On Lawmakers to Stop Spending Taxpayer Dollars on Dangerous Abstinence-Only Sex Education
The ACLU, the Homosexual Agenda and The Church
Goodbye to the ACLU
Pull Plug on ACLU
ACLU sued Pentagon because group requires belief in God
ACLU: The Devil's Advocate: The Seduction of Civil Liberties in America
Send your letter to the ACLU
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU
The ACLU's War on Homeland Security
Conservatives Charge ACLU 'Has No Moral Compass' -- 11/19/2004
The ACLU A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Decades of Shame - A Short History of the ACLU
ACLU threatens to file lawsuit over abstinence program
Jailed Terror Suspect Helped ACLU Draft Schools' Anti-Christian ...
"The Most Obnoxious Group in America: ACLU
ACLU Demands LA County Remove Cross From Official ...
Department Of Defense Caves To ACLU’s Anti-Boy Scout Agenda
ACLU Goes Postal on HolyBears®
Merry Christmas, ACLU
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:08 AM
December 10, 2004
Ho Ho Ho
This just in: Santa is a Democrat!! So sayeth John Zogby - so it must be true. (heh)
A plurality of likely voters say that longtime Christmas fixture Santa Claus is a Democrat, a new Zogby International poll reveals. The same survey found voters even more sure of the political leanings of two other Christmas icons: Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch are likely Republicans.
Oh well. No surprise since we already knew Santa is an atheist.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:52 AM | Comments (1)
December 02, 2004
Speaking of the Intellectual Elite
Michael Moore was on the Tonight Show. The event is noteworthy for several reasons. First, the rumor is that not only to Mikey appear to have recently bathed, but he was clean shaven and, wonder of wonders, he was wearing a suit.
But wait! There's more! Michael Moore imparted the following pearls of wisdom:
Asked why Democratic hopes went up in smoke on Election Day, Moore said simply, "I think Bush got more votes."
"The Republicans - I'll give them this - they had a story to tell," the Bush-bashing filmmaker conceded. "The Democrats, oftentimes, aren't very good at telling a story."
Moore explained: "And the [Bush] story was: Out of the ashes of September 11 rose one man. And he stood on the rubble of lower Manhattan with a bullhorn and he said, 'I will protect you.'
"And he did," Moore added, as the audience began to applaud. "And we were never attacked again."
Amazingly coherent for Michael.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:34 AM
The Intellectual Elite
Over at Dissecting Leftism John Ray makes the observation:
The Leftist idea of themselves as an elite can get pretty amusing. Take this sentence from the top Leftist blog:
"The conservative bigotted position is untennable. It has no basis in fact or reason. Arguments against gay marriage are predicated entirely, 100 percent, on emotion. And the vehicle for those emotional appeals are the word "marriage". A mere semantic."
If the writer of that is a truly elite person, how come he has the English language skills of a dribbling idiot? "Bigoted" has one t. "Untenable" has one n. And the singular subject "vehicle" should be followed by the singular verb "is". And what he means by calling marriage "A mere semantic". I have no idea at all. And Leftists lap up such illiteracy at the rate of hundreds of thousands of hits every day! His wisdom must be profound. Too profound for me, certainly. If I were as prone to spelling and grammar mistakes as Kos is, I would at least use a spellchecker and grammar checker. But to do that I guess you have to be humble enough to admit your limitations. And humble is just what Leftists are not.
Now now John Ray! Don't you realize that it's not his fault? Didn't you know that The Republican Right Wing Smear Machine zapped their spell checker? Of course we did! We can do that, you know!
Sigh. There is just nothing quite like a little wisdom from a mental midget to start the day. Thanks John Ray, you nailed that one!
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:57 AM
December 01, 2004
Dear DUmmies
Why did Kerry lose? Well, besides the obvious facts that he is a lying political opportunist and a war criminal with no clue about what this country wants or needs?
Larry Elder has something to tell you about that, but we know you won't listen. You are too busy screaming recount and Diebold and voter fraud to face the truth. I got two words for you - Stop Whining!
Fact is that you are so filled with bitterness, hate and anarchy that there is no room for honesty or decency inside any one of you.
Thanks for the entertainment over the past few days.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:07 AM
November 30, 2004
Castro Sucks up to the EU
From today's Miami Herald:
The Cuban government released at least three political prisoners in a move widely viewed as a ploy to smooth strained relations with the European Union.
Experts said the action may provide Spain with an opportunity to lobby neighboring heads of state to soften their stance on Fidel Castro's government when the EU Council meets in Brussels in mid-December.
"It's obvious that it's a result of behind-the-scenes negotiations or exchange of conditions," said Joaquín Roy, director of the University of Miami's European Union Center.
This brings to mind that jackass Jimmy Carter who went to Cuba and played baseball with Castro, who could not be bothered to visit or or even inquire after the health and well being of American Walter Van der Veer, imprisoned in Cuba since 1997.
For Jimmy Carter, and Fidel Castro, I have two words: Fuck you!
FREE WALTER!!
Walter is an American citizen, abandoned by his country, sentenced to 15 years of hell in a Cuban prison, forgotten by everyone but his family.
Don't mention Walter's name to the "brave and honorable Cuban Exiles" here in South Florida, for they don't like to be reminded that they too have abandoned Walter and left him to a fate worse than death.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:33 AM
November 28, 2004
Greeting DUmmies
Guess what?
George W. Bush is the President of the United States of America.
George W. Bush is going to be the President of the United States of America for four more years.
George W. Bush is my President and if you are an American, George W. Bush is your President too! That's right!
Don't like it? Move to France.
John Kerry lost the election. That's right. John Kerry is a loser.
Hahahahahahaha!
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:34 PM
TechieVampire Rules!!
You have to read this, you have to, you must.
The Goddess says so, so hurry along and do it.
Do it now.
Posted by LindaSoG at 04:48 PM
November 22, 2004
It was the Jooos!!
We tried to keep it quiet but the ever-so-smart people at the Islamic Sydney forums have discovered our secret: the US presidential election was rigged. That's right! The voting machines were controlled by the evil Zionists!
- Diebold, Sequoia, and Election System & Software (ES&S) are three private companies that counted US votings. They are exclusively Zionist Jewish-owned/controlled. Two of these companies are owned by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich .
- Americans can do and vote in their meaningless process as much as they like, as long as the Zionists get to announce the computer voting results!
Jeepers. What evil act will we think of next? Hmmm...
- This electronic voting system allows anyone with access to the machines to add and delete votes without detection,
- This sophisticated electronic voting technology depends on concealment and secrecy and public oversight.
- Integrity of this electrinic voting system is unchallenged and unscrutinised, being controlled by few large corporations.
But wait! There's more! There's always more!
- This election voting process even got these Russian observers shocked!
Controlling elections and shocking russians too?!?! Oy! [insert evil laugh]
But never fear, those ever-so-smart Sydney Muslims were also smart enough to think of the perfect punishment: "May every Zionist be cut-off at the elbows and develop a lifelong itch in their shorts that they're not able to scratch... damn them all.... "
Indeed!
Here is some breaking news for the Muslims... George W. Bush is still in the White House, Arafat is still dead and Israel still lives on.
Cross-posted at IsraPundit
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:33 AM
November 13, 2004
Still Not Sorry
As much as it pains me to say it, the folks over at Democratic Underground are right. We did steal the election. Jeepers.
But, like dude, listen, its still like a secret so dude, like, don't tell anyone - 'kay?
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:39 AM
November 12, 2004
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
1. Are you absolutely outraged that George W. Bush was re-elected President of the United States?
2. Have you decided that you just can't stand living in a country that would elect such an obvious idiot?
3. Is the thought of four more years of "W" more than you can stand?
DON'T WORRY! WE CAN HELP!
In return for your irrevocable renunciation of your United States citizenship, and a sworn statement that you will never return, we will provide free one-way transportation to one of our politically matched recommended countries on one of the jets we have chartered to provide this service.
So. What are you waiting for? and.. don't let the door hitcha...
Posted by LindaSoG at 05:14 AM
November 09, 2004
7-Election Results
The results are in and the unofficial, unscientific 7-Election Presidential Coffee Cup Poll proved just as accurate as many scientific ones with candidates George W. Bush and John F. Kerry in a statistical tie heading into Election Day.
Final 2004 7-Election cup counts tracked within a few percentage points of actual poll results in many states, including key swing states.
Casting their "votes" in participating 7-Eleven stores across the country during the month-long promotion in October, customers served up these results:
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 |
| 51.08 % | 48.92 % |
Heh.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:05 AM
November 06, 2004
Help for Liberals!
Reuters is reporting that many of you liberals out there have been flocking to Canada's immigration website to find out what it takes to get out of Bush Country. In fact, the average number of 20,000 people "rocketed to 115,016 on Wednesday" before settling down to 65,803 on Thursday. Looks like it ain't gonna be easy to get in that way.
Good news for all you liberals. A select group of Canadians have banded together to help you get out of Bush Country and into Canada without all that pesky immigration paperwork. You can escape by marrying a like-minded Canuck. Yup! Its true! What could be easier?
From the "Marry an American" website:
They Americans, sick of the political climate of their homeland, have long sought refuge within Canadian borders. And let's face it, when compared to the United States, Canada is a liberal utopia & we have universal healthcare (in two languages!), gay marriage, free marijuana for everyone, and we don't like guns.
Already, our American counterparts are fleeing the U.S. in droves and buying up land along our borders. We envision a movement where everyone wins: Freedom of expression and a politically convenient marriage with love and igloos for all.
Canadian singles, tired of the dating scene, are willing to act for love or just plain pity. Let's drop our borders/inhibitions/commitment issues, set a date, pick out our china patterns and wed a sexy American liberal.
So, what are you waiting for? Sign the pledge now, submit your profile and pack your bags. and... don't let the door hitcha...
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:35 AM
Thank G-d Bush Won!
I received this link by email. Someone thought I would be interested in the opening post. It was interesting, but the rest of the thread was even more so. If you can get past the spelling and gramatical errors, perhaps you will think so too.
Be sure to read post number 36.
They write such things, they think such things, and they wonder why they lost in such overwhelming numbers.
Get out of my country.
Posted by LindaSoG at 05:36 AM | Comments (1)
November 05, 2004
The Fact is...
I like facts.
In the 37 elections since 1860 -- the first won by a Republican -- Democrats have won only 14. Only twice in 15 post-World War II elections has the Democratic nominee achieved 50 percent of the vote.
Oh very yes indeed. I like that fact. Thanks George!
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:19 AM
November 04, 2004
The Enemy Within
I did all I could do to help re-elect President George W. Bush. I did all I could do to help defeat John F. Kerry. Did my humble efforts change anything? Maybe, maybe not. But I tried. I tried my very best.
In the end, America made it's choice, and George W. Bush will have four more years. Kerry will return to obscurity, rejected by an overwhelming majority of Americans.
But the fight is not over, the cancer infecting this great Country lives on. The left continues to spew vile hatred of everything we hold near and dear, doing what it can to destroy us from within.
From the cesspool of society:
Poll question: What is more depressing . . 9/11/01 or 11/3/04? What happened on 9/11 or what happened the day after Election Day, 2004?
| Poll result (149 votes) | |
| 9/11/01 | 
(43 votes, 29%) |
| 11/03/04 | 
(106 votes, 71%) |
Some of the more repulsive responses:
Big Blue Marble - "Because a lot more people are going to die because of 11/3/04 than have died during and after 9/11. 11/3/04 is truly the day that will live infamy all around the world. I have lived 61 years, lost my parents and my sister plus many many pets and this is the darkest day of my life." -- Big Blue Marble
zulchzulu speaks of assasination: "We can only hope that Bush doesn't make it through four years. The day Bush is no longer president before the term ends will be a national week-long holiday in my World." -- zulchzulu
Mike L says "No contest-- 11-3-04. It means that more than 3,000 people will die in the next 4 years."
Peak_Oil accuses our troops of acting like... John Kerry: "The US army killed an order of magnitude more people in Iraq than died in the WTC. Is that enough yet? Can we stop now? Or do we need to kill more women and children?"
Kitka thinks "11/3/04. Because though a group of people thought killing thousands of people was justified on 9/11, millions of people thought killing hundreds of thousands of people was justified and voted for Bush."
These people are the very heart and soul of what is wrong with America, and they would destroy this Country. I thank G-d that they have been defeated.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:31 PM
October 29, 2004
The Question
The question you must ask yourself
As you head off to your poll,
Is who you trust to lead us now
That survival is our goal.
We tread the path of Jihad’s wrath,
Where misstep could spell doom,
And future times of horrid climes,
In Holocaust’s gray gloom.What then again I’ll ask of you,
Should be our true agendas,
Privilege and prosperity
Or ways to best defend us?
Affluence won’t concern us much,
Other problems will confound us,
When our cities lie in smoking ruins,
With destruction all around us.What sort of man I ask you now
Do we really want to lead us?
A nuanced pol, who talks and talks,
While Jihadis grimly bleed us?
Or a fighter, who will walk the walk,
Take the battle to them there,
Force their hand and make them stand,
Destroy them in their lair?This veteran says let’s fight them there;
Lure all those fanatic fools,
To where they face armed fighting men,
Not children in their schools.
I know how I shall vote this time,
I’ll vote to win this war;
Not to let John Kerry lose it,
As he did mine long before.Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
Posted by LindaSoG at 11:50 AM
October 25, 2004
Wake Up America
The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah praise John Kerry for criticizing the President, noting that terrorism has struck fear into John Kerry's heart, and that his election would signal that terrorism is working.
Praise be to Allah, it increased the joy in our hearts that John Kerry, the presidential candidate criticized the Bush government for taking so long in making this declaration. The one who may be president of America [John Kerry] is already struck with terror by our brothers from the Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement [Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group]. The repeated attacks that have targeted the evil Bush are now echoing on Kerry, even though he is not yet a president. This is what Allah means when he commands us to 'terrorize your enemy and the enemy of Allah."
And then they cut off the head of an Iraqi man accused of collaborating with U.S. forces and post pictures of the killing on the Internet. Pictures are here if you can stomach it.
Who do the terrorists want as the next president of the United States of America? It seems pretty obvious that the terrorists are all for Kerry. Of course they are.
Terrorists know that Kerry will give them what they want and they know that Bush will give them what they deserve. If you were a terrorist, who would you vote for?
I'm voting for Bush!
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:03 AM
October 23, 2004
Terrorist Union
My office is in the same building as the local office for the Terrorist Union. For the last month, I have been finding little notes on my car. The first one was a somewhat incoherent and rambling indictment against my President, George W. Bush. The last one simply called me an asshole.
That's okay, I can take it, I've been called worse, but quite frankly, these people scare me. They scare me almost as much as they scared three year old Sophia Parlock.
This is the United States of America, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. They won't scare me into taking the Bush/Cheney sign off of my truck.
They are nothing but a union of terrorist wanna be thugs and they are the heart and soul of what is wrong with America today. There is no rationalization or justification for what those animals did to Sophia Parlock.
To terrorize a three year old for the crime of holding up a Bush/Cheney sign is despicable. It is beyond my comprehension that any American can support Saddam Hussien and terrorize a three year old girl and yet, they do just that.
That is their vision for America. It ain't mine.
Now, they are at the polls in my state, and probably yours too, using intimidation tactics, and threatening physical violence to those who oppose their agenda.
Watch for those purple shirts people. They represent domestic terrorism and they symbolize the end of America as we know it.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:51 AM | Comments (2)
October 22, 2004
Dogs For Bush
Hello all you dogs out there.
As I am sure you know from listening to your humans, there is a very important election coming up. There is an evil man named John Kerry who wants to be President of the United States, and he is running against a very good man named George Bush. Of course, we are dogs and because we are dogs, you might think that there is nothing we can do to help Mr. Bush.
Well, we may be dogs, but we are American dogs!
I am happy to tell you that there is something we can do to help this Country!
I am writing to urge you to raise your voice for George Bush and become a Dog For Bush. It may not seem like much, but it is something that we dogs can do to help. I joined last nite and you can too, its easy.
All you have to do is send your picture and the reasons why you support George Bush by email. If your message is approved, they will post it at Dogs for Bush for the world to see. My message is there you should read it!
Please join me in the campaign to keep George W. Bush in the White House for 4 More Years!
I am MuShu and I approve this message.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:25 AM
October 20, 2004
Reading is Fundamental!!
From Opinion Journal's the Best of the Web: Red Kids Read, Blues Watch Boob Tube
As if the conflicting polls of "registered voters," "likely voters" and "national adults" weren't confusing enough, now we have a pair of surveys of American children that show contradictory results:
Senator John Kerry has been declared the winner of Nickelodeon's "Kids' Vote" according to kids nationwide who exercised their voting power in the network's presidential poll held online Oct. 19. . . . In this year's vote, Sen. John Kerry received 57% of the vote, and President George W. Bush received 43%.
But Scholastic, a children's publishing company, gives victory to Bush:
In the 2004 Scholastic Election Poll, George W. Bush received 52 percent of the votes and the Democratic contender, John F. Kerry, received 47 percent. Rounding out the vote, 1 percent of students.
Apparently kids who read favor Bush, while those who watch TV prefer Kerry. Hmm, whose parents are more likely to vote?
And there is this:
"I fought for the 9/11 Commission, something George W. Bush, the man my husband Ron and I voted for, didn't think was necessary. And during the Commission hearings we learned the truth, we are no safer today."--9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser in a Kerry campaign ad released yesterday
"Because of offensive actions against al Qaeda since 9/11, and defensive actions to improve homeland security, we believe we are safer today. But we are not safe."--executive summary, 9/11 Commission Report
Okay. According to the truth that we learned in the Report, we are not safe, but we are safer. What part of that do you not understand?
I am sorry for your loss Kristen, but do us all a favor and get a library card.
Posted by LindaSoG at 04:33 PM
Stop The Vote!
Now here is an idea whose time has come and one worthy of the highly coveted © Goddess Seal of Approval:
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Much like the left's many get-out-the-vote efforts (i.e. Rock the Vote, Voters for Choice, blah blah blah), my newfangled KEEP HOME THE VOTE campaign will erase the gains made by these socialist groups and keep uninformed, worthless voters from screwing things up for the rest of us. Most thinking people will agree that it is far too easy to vote in this country - not just for illegal aliens and the deceased, but for the brain-dead government-cheese-eating daytime-soap-watching handout generation.
How does the campaign work? Three simple steps, Sway, Misform and Distract. Nothing could be more simple. Click the pic to find out how you can help keep idiots out of the voting booth this November. We may only stop a few hundred nitwits from voting, but remember that Bush only won Florida by 537 votes in 2000 - every stopped vote counts.
Posted by LindaSoG at 03:23 PM
Banjo the Democrat Clown
According to the Broward New Times, Poor Banjo the Democrat Clown took quite a bit of abuse at John Edward's campaign stop in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Banjo, all dressed up in a star-spangled Raggedy Andy outfit, complete with a top hat, did a little magic trick and pulled an American flag from his clenched fist.
The magic trick caused a Junior Achiever volunteer thug to issue a cease and desist order to Banjo because, "all signs and flags are outlawed at the event." That's right. John Edwards has banned the American Flag from his Campaign events.
But wait! There's more. Along comes another Junior Achiever volunteer thug who demanded the removal of Banjo's top hat because he was blocking the view.
But wait... there's more! Along comes yet another Junior Achiever volunteer thug who banished Banjo to the back of the room. It appears that the 6 ft tall Banjo was also in violation of the Campaign height rule.
I guess John Edwards doesn't like clowns at his campaign events. Probably doesn't like the competition.
Posted by LindaSoG at 01:08 PM
Alternative Election History
Consider if Bush had not invaded Iraq:
Democrat Presidential nominee John Kerry delivered a speech today condemning President Bush for failing to invade Iraq in the follow-up of military action against the Talaban and Al Qaeda in Afghanastan. "Leaving this tyrant in power in contravention of numerous United Nations resolutions is unconscionable," Kerry told the Veterans of Foreign Wars. "He has left available a base of operations and a source of supply and money."
Kerry went on to criticize the war against terror as "stalled" while the real threat to America, "Saddam Hussein’s Iraq goes untouched." Kerry said, "People are murdered daily in Baghdad and throughout the country. Rape rooms are a tragic reality. Torture chambers are full as Saddam’s sons carry out their sadistic impulses on the helpless and hapless victims of this regime. President Bush has done nothing as this brutal dictator takes the money from the Oil for Food to build palaces while his people go without food...
"There can be no doubt of Saddam’s ties to our terrorist enemies. We know that in 1998, after bin Laden issued his public fatwa against the United States, two al Queda members went to Iraq where they met with Iraqi intelligence. Within weeks, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden and extend to him safe haven in Iraq. Bin Laden remained with the Talaban, but the invitation from Saddam was always there. Al-Zarqawi has long received refuge in Iraq. The terrorist Forouk Hijazi is known to train his forces there. Abu Nidal has safe haven in Baghdad as he plots murders. Abu Abbas, who planned the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, lives in safety in Iraq. And at Salman Pack, just south of Baghdad, terrorists train using the fuselage of a commercial jet airline. The trail of evidence revealing Saddam Hussein’s ties to terrorists is self-evident to all but those in the White House.
"Our own intelligence organizations and those of Great Britain, France and Germany, agree that Saddam is aggressively pursuing weapons of mass destruction. For all that, he has been left free to further develop his weapons of mass destruction which he can deliver into the hands of those who make war against us at any moment. Saddam Hussein has trained, financed and armed terrorist who attack and murder us, yet our President stands stalled on the border of Iraq, preoccupied with wiping up the last remnants of the Talaban in Afghanistan. To leave this cancer in the midst of the Middle East is to have assured defeat in this so-called war against terror. We need fresh leadership, a President with the vision to remove those who support our enemies from power. To have not invaded Iraq, when the whole world acknowledged the necessity, is to leave a job undone and is the height of arrogance and criminal stupidity."
I found this here, check it out!
Posted by LindaSoG at 12:22 PM
A Vietnam Veteran's Final Act
The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that a Las Vegan's last act before dying was to vote for George W. Bush. But they got it only partly correct. The headline should have read "Vietnam Veteran's Uses His Final Act to Vote for Bush."
Voting was a patriotic responsibility that Las Vegan Alton Lee Overton did not take lightly.
Fifty years ago, he voted for the first time when he turned 21. While serving in the Air Force in Vietnam, he voted by absentee ballot. As a Las Vegas resident of 17 years, he walked across the street from his home near Nellis Boulevard and Desert Inn Road each Election Day to vote at a school.
Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer this past summer, Overton, a Republican, was determined to vote for President George W. Bush if it was the last thing he did.
It pretty much was.
Overton awoke Sunday and asked his wife for his mail-in ballot, filled it out, signed it, sealed it and asked a family member to immediately take it to a nearby mail box and drop it in. Six hours later, he died, three months to the day after he was diagnosed with cancer. He was 71.
Gertrude Anne Overton, Alton's high school sweetheart and wife of 54 years, said "It was his last wish to vote in this election," she said. "When he fulfilled that final wish yesterday, you could see it was such a great weight off of him. He died peacefully in his sleep."
Thank you Alton Overton, for your service to this Country in the Vietnam War. Rest in peace.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:58 AM
October 19, 2004
Republicans and Democrats Don't Mix
Reuters reports that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Monday that his speech backing President Bush at the Republican Convention in August resulted in a cold shoulder from his wife, Maria Shriver, a member of the famously Democratic Kennedy family.
"Well, there was no sex for 14 days," Schwarzenegger told former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta in an on-stage conversation in front of 1,000 people.
Sigh. Here I am, single, conservative, Republican.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:56 PM | Comments (1)
Are you satisfied?
A recent study shows that Republicans have better sex than Democrats.
Survey said:
Of those involved in a committed relationship, who is very satisfied with their relationship?
Republicans - 87% and Democrats - 76%Who is very satisfied with their sex life?
Republicans - 56% Democrats - 47%
Hmmm... Republican family values at work, keeping people more satisfied?
The poll analysis also reveals who has worn something sexy to enhance their sex life:
Republicans - 72% Democrats - 62%
Hmmm... Republicans are willing to go that extra mile to make it better and Democrats are not.
That's all very interesting... but this... I thought this was very interesting....
When asked whether they had ever faked an orgasm, more Democrats (33%) than Republicans (26%) said they had.
So. Sex and politics do go hand in hand, and Democrats are more likely to lie about both. Why am I not surprised?
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:23 AM
October 12, 2004
Jimmy Carter, eat your heart out.
You know there is something seriously wrong with the world when things like this happen.
On Sunday, Libya awarded its annual Moammar Gadhafi Human Rights Award.
How can there be a "Moammar Gadhafi Human Rights Prize?"
What's next? The "Adolph Hitler Religious Tolerance Award?"
What the heck do they know about human rights in Lybia? It would be funny were it not so ridiculous. But, then again, Libya is one of the chairs of the UN Human Rights Commission.
Scary ain't it?
So. Who gets the award? Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Surprised? Why? Previous winners include Cuban President Fidel Castro and South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:24 AM
September 28, 2004
How F*cking American Are You
I took the test and here's the answer:
Heh. That was fun. Your turn...
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:34 AM
September 21, 2004
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
I bet you can't guess who said this:
If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate Kerry is and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate -- he's a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they even lose the elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up the ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don't run -- and neither do you or I. People like Kerry run.
Yes, OF COURSE any of us would have run a better, smarter, kick-ass campaign. Of course we would have smacked each and every one of those phony swifty boaty bastards down. But WE are not running for president -- Kerry is. So quit complaining and work with what we have. Oprah just gave 300 women a... Pontiac! Did you see any of them frowning and moaning and screaming, "Oh God, NOT a friggin' Pontiac!" Of course not, they were happy. The Pontiacs all had four wheels, an engine and a gas pedal. You want more than that, well, I can't help you.
Yup. If Kerry is a Pontiac, well then... Bush is a Cadillac. It's true!
So. Who said it?
Would you believe.... Michael Moore? Yup. It's right here at "Mike's Words : Mike's Message" only at MichaelMoore.com.
But wait! There's moore:
Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us. Do you ever see them cry, "Oh, it's all over! We are finished! Bush can't win! Waaaaaa!"
Ya know Mike, now that you mention it, I realize that there has been an awful lot of that over at DU.
[Republicans] are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they just simply never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself "Republican," yet the Republicans own it all -- the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and the majority of the governorships. How do you think they've been able to pull that off considering they are a minority? It's because they eat you and me and every other liberal for breakfast....
Oh yeah. We make them cry too!
Look at us -- what a bunch of crybabies.... Suddenly it's like, "THE END IS NEAR! THE SKY IS FALLING!"
Hey Mike, can you say "girlie-men?"
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:54 AM
Sumner Sells Some Stock
This is interesting.
It seems that Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of CBS owner Viacom Corporation exercised his option to sell 341,500 shares of Viacom stock.
On September 14, 2004. When the stock was at $35.00. He sold them at $35.00.
Viacom Stock went as low as $33.92 today and closed at $34.04.
So. It makes you wonder. What did Sumner know and when did he know it?
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:53 AM
September 17, 2004
Bloom Country Circa 1984
Amazing how some things never change.
Posted by LindaSoG at 12:01 PM
The Illegal Immigrant Union
Now this just plain pisses me off. Take a look at three-year-old Sophia Parlock, crying after having her Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va.
Now take a look at the "lady" in the background, the one with the purple shirt, who can't seem to close her mouth. I recognize that shirt. Oh yes I do. I see them every day.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is the union which represents the most unskilled and lowest paid workers. It is the largest and fastest growing union in the AFL-CIO, representing a high percentage of immigrant workers, many of whom are in the United States illegally. Imagine that! The largest and fastest growing union in the AFL-CIO happens to owe much of its growth to the recruiting of illegal aliens. Dues paying illegal aliens.
The SEIU stresses the need "to build a powerful, new immigrant electorate." Their strategy? Complete amnesty for illegal aliens. They rejected Bush's plan for earned legal status through employment because it doesn't provide full and immediate political rights.
Political rights are a main issue for the SEIU. Why? Because the SEIU carefully grooms its members to vote for an agenda farther to the left than that of today's democrats. Of course, unskilled and low-paid workers are prime fodder for the leftist agenda. Those who can afford their own homes and send their children to college are not.
SEIU members are urged to participate in politics even if they are not citizens and even if they are not legal residents. On its website, the SEIU tells them "If you can't vote, you still have a voice."
Imagine the effect of an influx into our political system of millions of illegal aliens working as janitors, kitchen helpers and day laborers, all carefully groomed to vote to the far-left.
Oh. By the way, at its national convention this year, the SEIU adopted foreign policy resolutions such as a call for "An end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq." It also issued a statement claiming "the goal of our foreign policy must be to promote a safer and more just world" and "must give high priority to improving the lives of people around the world. Yet, at the same time, the SEIU believes that forcefully removing Saddam Hussein from power violated these principles.
So. The policies of Saddam Hussein promoted a safer and more just world? The millions of people brutally mutilated and murdered by Saddam Husein should consider their lives improved?
The purple shirt? One of theirs.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:05 AM
Votergasm
Okay. Head over to Votergasm.com, a website that aims to combine two of the freedoms that make America the best country on earth: voting and effing.
Take the Votergasm pledge: Citizens withhold sex from any non-voters, while American Heroes will only do another voter on the 2nd and will withhold sex from non-voters for the next four years. Sure, it's asking a lot, but c'mon... Do it for your country.
Warning: this website does, in fact, feature some models wearing "Manties".
Get the word out and tell your friends. It can only help your chances come Nov. 2nd (literally).
Hat tip to Michelle
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:56 AM
September 16, 2004
About those Memos...
The Washington Post this morning: "Rather Concedes Papers Are Suspect." It seems Dan Blather acknowledged for the first time yesterday that there are serious questions about the authenticity of the documents he used to question President Bush's National Guard record last week on "60 Minutes."
About time Dan.
We also have this: CBS Guard Documents Traced to Tex. Kinko's
How important are the Memos anyway? Rassmussen Reports:
September 14, 2004--Twenty-seven percent (27%) of voters believe that the CBS Memos concerning President Bush's National Guard service are authentic. However a Rasmussen Reports survey also found that 38% believe the memos are forgeries.
Among voters who are following the story very closely, 56% believe the memos are forgeries and 27% believe they are authentic. Overall, 38% of voters say they are following the story "very" closely and 34% say they are following it "somewhat" closely.
Only 16% of voters think questions about President Bush's National Guard service are "very" important. That view is held by 27% of Democrats, 13% of unaffiliated voters, and 6% of Republicans.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:52 AM
September 10, 2004
Solidarity
There are less than 53 days until the election, an election that will decide the next President of the United States. The man elected will be the president of all Americans, not just the Democrats or the Republicans.
To show our solidarity as Americans, let's all get together and show each other our support for the candidate of our choice. It's time that we all came together, Democrats and Republicans alike.
If you support the policies and character of President George W. Bush, please drive with your headlights on during the day.
If you support John Kerry, please drive with your headlights off at night.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:45 AM
September 04, 2004
Liberal Litmus Test
Dennis Prager asks: How Liberal are you?
You say you are a liberal. Do you believe the following?
1. Standards for admissions to universities, fire departments, etc. should be lowered for people of color.
2. Bilingual education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion in English, is good for them and for America.
3. Murderers should never be put to death.
4. During the Cold War, America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze.
5. Colleges should not allow ROTC programs.
6. It was wrong to wage war against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.
7. Poor parents should not be allowed to have vouchers to send their children to private schools.
8. It is good that trial lawyers and teachers unions are the two biggest contributors to the Democratic Party.
9. Marriage should be redefined from male-female to any two people.
10. A married couple should not have more of a right to adopt a child than two men or two women.
11. The Boy Scouts should not be allowed to use parks or any other public places and should be prohibited from using churches and synagogues for their meetings.
12. The present high tax rates are good.
13. Speech codes on college campuses are good and American values.
14. The Israelis and Palestinians are morally equivalent.
15. The United Nations is a moral force for good in the world, and therefore America should be subservient to it and such international institutions as a world court.
16. It is good that colleges have dropped hundreds of men's sports teams in order to meet gender-based quotas.
17. No abortions can be labeled immoral.
18. Restaurants should be prohibited by law from allowing customers to choose between a smoking and a non-smoking section.
19. High schools should make condoms available to students and teach them how to use them.
20. Racial profiling for terrorists is wrong -- a white American grandmother should as likely be searched as a Saudi young male.
21. Racism and poverty -- not a lack of fathers and a crisis of values -- are the primary causes of violent crime in the inner city.
22. It is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, "God bless you" at their graduation.
23. No culture is morally superior to any other.
So? Those are all liberal positions. How many of them do you hold?
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:53 AM