Just a reminder

As we get closer to the end of George Bush's term in office I want to point out one thing: You may not agree with Him or what he did while he was in office. That's your right. You may not have voted for him or like him. That's your right. You may have disagreed with how things were conducted after 9/11. That's your right. However, for those dishonest enough to hold on to the "Bush Lied" meme: There was yellow cake Uranium in Iraq. 1. 2. 3. 4. "Oh, but it's not weaponized..." I've heard that before and it's weak sauce. Irradiated material, especially 550 metric tons, somewhat exceeds the prescribed amount of "0 metric tons" that Saddam was supposed to have according to the UN. And you don't get that much of it to build really dense spoons. Of course, he wasn't supposed to have Sarin or mustard gas either. Still, some people say "Yes, but Iraq didn't have any nuclear weapons. In fact, they weren't pursuing any either." I disagree with that. Iran didn't start a nuclear program because of us. Sure, they'd love to have that as a preventative measure but they had been in a war with Iraq, for quite some time. So, one would ask, did Iraq have any nukes? It seems they did. Of course, the ones in Syria are less of a problem because the Israelis, along with new bunker buster missile from the USA, took care of that a while back. No wonder, there was minimal outcry from the Syrians over that. Why, it's almost like they were hiding something. What's my point? My point is that it's all fine and good to play politics, to have a good rant, to have a few anti-war protests and to make everything in the world one persons fault. You can do that. It's your right. However, Obama is going to have to lead us in the exact same world that George Bush is leading us in now. He's going to have to make hard decisions and these decision are going to have to be based in intelligence and we're all going to have to live with the consequences of his actions. As a result, I'm hoping to see some of you back on the Pro-Defense side of the fence because real problems are happening elsewhere that directly effect the safety of people over here and for too long you guys have been fucking around with politics and leaving one party to carry the burden of defense. Now that you have the reigns, I hope you take it seriously because, no matter what you say, George Bush did and his actions have likely saved more American lives than they have cost.

I keep having flashbacks to 1968 ....

.. and the clip below ressurecting the "cult of personality" brings that creepy feeling again. Pierre Elliot Trudeau ... Trudeau was interested in Marxist ideas in the 1940s and his Harvard dissertation was on the topic of Communism and Christianity. At Harvard Trudeau found himself profoundly challenged as he discovered that his "... legal training was deficient, [and] his knowledge of economics was pathetic." Thanks to the great intellectual migration away from Europe's fascism, Harvard had become a major intellectual center in which Trudeau profoundly changed. Despite this, Trudeau found himself an outsider - a French Catholic living for the first time outside of Quebec in the predominantly Protestant American Harvard University. This isolation deepened finally into despair and led to his decision to continue his Harvard studies abroad. In 1947 he travelled to Paris to continue his dissertation work. Over a five week period he attended many lectures and became a follower of personalism after being influenced most notably by Emmanuel Mounier. The Harvard dissertation remained undone when Trudeau entered a doctoral program to study under the renowned socialist economist Harold Laski in the London School of Economics. This cemented Trudeau's belief that Keynesian economics and social science were essential to the creation of the "good life" in democratic society. ... His rise to power was dubbed "Trudeaumania". The story will be eerily familiar to you now. 1968-1974: Liberal leader Pierre Trudeau becomes prime minister in 1968. His government expands social welfare programs and increases the size of government. After a close election in 1972, Trudeau is forced to form a minority government with the NDP [ed. the far left]. Deficit spending and state intervention in the economy alienate opinion in the Western provinces. The 1969 Languages Act enshrines bilingualism. 1975-1983: The Trudeau administration institutes wage and price controls in 1975 to fight inflation in the wake of the global oil crisis. A National Energy Program is established to control oil prices and to expand Petro-Canada, the government energy company. National debt skyrockets during the Trudeau era. The separatist Parti Québecois suffers defeat in a 1980 provincial referendum on Quebec independence. 1984-1988: High inflation and unemployment doom the Liberals in the 1984 election. Conservative Brian Mulroney becomes prime minister. Deregulation dismantles the NEP and the Foreign Investment Review Agency, and state-owned Air Canada and Petro-Canada are privatized. Canada and the United States sign a free-trade agreement in 1987. Trade dominates the 1988 elections, which the Conservatives win. My bold. Sound like fun? History has a way of biting itself in the ass.

Creepy ...

Evan Thomas by dollarsandsense123 Now they tell us. via

A blast from the FIU past

Darius was one of the first bloggers grabbed when FIU consolidated the bloggers that had been created around the now defunct and offline Terrorxchange.com website. He lives in the Detroit area and eventually life didn't have room for blogging so he left. Well he sent Rob and I an email today with the request to put it up. Done and done! Here's a dispatch from the field... I don't really have an outlet for this kind of thing any more, but I'd like to say "Hi" and ask if maybe you could post something for me? "What the Democrats Have Taught Me Over the Last 8 Years..." I couldn't imagine a more Divisive figure in the Whitehouse than Barack Obama and his crew of Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers, Rahm Emmanuel, and assorted other quasi-Socialists. Given that, if the Republicans can unite behind the proper leadership- we can do what the Dems have done to Bush over the past 8 years and just DESTROY his reputation among the moderates- most of whom didn't vote for him anyway... The Democrats have been Very Successful the last 8 years and a lot of their success comes from the hate they've spewed on Bush over that time. Here's what I've learned fromthem, and what I think Republicans should do to replicate their behavior with regards to Obama and Biden. #1- If Obama says anything that's remotely incorrect or sounds funny or there's a funny picture of him somewhere- Circulate it around the internet, and to EVERYONE you know; it seems to help if you make up a funny nickname for him and if you call him a stupid ass AD NAUSEUM- for the entire term of his Presidency. Return the kind favor that the Democrats have shown Bush over the last 8 years... #2- All wars are BAD! If Obama doesn't immediately pull us out of Iraq, he is a liar- and has reneged on his campaign promise for immediate withdrawal. If he gets us into another conflict elsewhere- put a "End the War" sign out on your lawn, and don't take it down until the last US troops are out of the war. Getting us into a conflict anywhere immediately makes Obama a war-criminal, and any and all tactics used to ensure a US victory are only ever responsible for killing innocent civilians and destroying our civil rights. Oh, and if any US troops do anything stupid like take funny pictures of enemy combatants- this is automatically Obama's fault, regardless of how much he despises what has been done. Do this in memory of the ridiculous claims made about Bush, and all the stupid crap the Democrats tried to pin on him during his administration; such as Abu Ghraib... #3- If Obama doesn't immediately improve the economy, he is a liar and hasn't brought us the CHANGE (or whatever new stupid slogan he creates) he promised us. If he doesn't bring us to 1% unemployment, record low inflation, and record high growth by the end of his term, he is a LIAR and hasn't fulfilled his campaign promises. Hey, IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID! If the average Americans lot in life hasn't improved SIGNIFICANTLY under his rule, and ESPECIALLY if he doesn't immediately revoke every tenet of the Patriot Act- we should hold mock impeachment hearings and refer to him as a Fascist Dictator; like the Democrats have done with Bush... #4- Since Obama has relatively little experience in foreign policy compared to his Vice President, we should refer to Joe Biden as the REAL Brain in the Whitehouse, and just refer to Obama as the stupid puppet while Biden sits controlling the situation as the puppet-master; just like the Democrats have done with regards to Dick Cheney for 8 years. Also, we should revel in all of Biden's medical problems and post in internet forums far and wide just how much we think Biden is an evil bastard, and that we hope he will die soon- just like the Democrats have been doing for 8 years at websites like the Democratic Underground and the Daily Kos. Oh, almost forgot... If Biden should have an accident that results in someones serious injury, we should pray that the person dies so that Biden will get "frog marched out of the Whitehouse" and arrested on murder charges; this is exceptionally funny if the person who almost dies is an ideological ally of Biden. #5- We should applaud any attack that any reporter makes on Obama, especially if it originates in the foreign press. We should do our best to export our feelings about Obama to the citizens of the world, so that they have a slanted one-dimensional view of Obama's party. #6- We should avoid logical debate in any internet forum when dealing with Democrats and just attack their leader with AD HOMINEM attacks; if the Democrats have seen so much success with so little actual skill in debating point by point, we can probably follow their lead and just get by with flimsy insults... If they actually try to debate you, just ignore their logical points and fall back to rhetoric. #7- We should patronize movies made by hateful Rightists who use unfair documentary techniques to make Obama look like a bigger idiot than he really is. If he doesn't immediately react like an action hero whenever confronted with a crises- springing into action- we should encourage people that he's an inept idiot who doesn't know how to handle a true emergency. I'd like to give special credit to Michael Moore for totally eradicating the concept of objectivity in documentaries, re-introducing the artform of Leni Riefenstahl, and insuring that we have one more tool in our political arsenal against Obama. ...More to come. This concludes the first dispatch. These dispatches will continue until Obama leaves the Whitehouse... Ouch, baby... ouch.

I'm sure, by now, that y'all are familiar with that guy who calls himself "Ace" ...

He's actually quotable sometimes ... There was no idea of McCain beyond McCain himself. And ultimately, he lost. No man is greater than an idea.

Oh .. My .. God!

Why didn't you tell us? h/t Jay

Sigh .....

"Why dogs bite people ...."

"CAN YOU HEAR ME .... NOW?"

"Internet use is 'good for the brain' "

Yuri Bezmenov Uploaded by onmyway02 .... and you thought the cold war was over. Bwaaaaaahahahahahahaha ...... h/t sda

Welcome wagon ....

Plus... igloos!!!!

Vague, unchecked talking points...

I've heard on more than one TV, radio or web interview with Obama's spokestools where they use the generic line of "eight years of failed Bush economic policies" as a resounding zinger against specific, detailed, names-named charges that link Democrats and Obama to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their employees who've become rich and donated millions to Democratic pols. What the fuck. Seriously. That's all you have? "... eight years of failed Bush economic policies..." What policies, specifically? Let's dive in. Alas, no interviewer has done so, thus far. They just call it good and move on. I also love the reason "Hello!! The Republican's controlled congress from 1994 to 2006!!" And? If that's all it took then what the hell happened to social security reform? Is it possible that a minority can prevent a majority from running roughshod? Yes it is. It's called filibustering. I'm pretty sure there are other procedural ticks that can kill legislation, too. Bottom line is that, like Obama's policies - they're thick with populism and thin on specifics.

A camera is always rolling

Ninety-five percent of all Americans will get a tax cut under Obama... blah, blah, blah. Yet 33% of Americans don't pay taxes. But don't delve into specifics with the Democrats - that doesn't help the children. It's no surprise to me, but it is sorta surprising, in general, to hear Obama talk about so nonchalantly. Shouldn't he be more discrete?

San Francisco education

Here's a reason to home school: A group of San Francisco first-graders took an unusual field trip to City Hall on Friday to toss rose petals on their just-married lesbian teacher - putting the public school children at the center of a fierce election battle over the fate of same-sex marriage. .... But there was a question of justifying the field trip academically. Jaroflow decided she could. "It really is what we call a teachable moment," Jaroflow said, noting the historic significance of same-sex marriage and related civil rights issues. "I think I'm well within the parameters." .... Creative Arts administrators and parents acknowledged that the field trip might be controversial, but they didn't see the big deal. Same-sex marriage is legal, they noted. "How many days in school are they going to remember?" asked parent Marc Lipsett. "This is a day they'll definitely remember." Hey, I like that idea. I remember field trips. I remember going to DFW airport and to the Mrs Bairds bread factory and to the Coca Cola bottling factory and to the grassy knoll where JFK was shot. Somehow I missed the lesbian teacher wedding field trip. At least they showed the class of not letting the kids come on the honeymoon. But you know what as long as they follow this up with "take the kids to a wounded vet hospital day" to see the cost of their freedom.... Oh wait, that would be indoctrinating the children. Ok, well, if they took the kids to visit with the military recruiters, or to a local Christian theological seminary for a nice discussion about conversion, i might consider it ..... No, No, I heat that's disrespectful of people's beliefs. Well, they have a plan for some balance, right? Nope, we both know that's not gonna happen. Taking them to see an abortion preformed might be instructive: "Little Timmy, you need to be good because your mommy didn't even have to have you." or "Here, this jar is all of your little friends that you'll never get to meet." Of course, that will never happen because it's "too shocking." It would also expose the monstrosity of the crap liberals do before the kids got indoctrinated. But no, parents, we won't take up showing your kids the things that might endorse a view contrary to ours. We won't show them the repulsive sides of our views either. That's a no-no. Forcing gay marriage on your kid? That's just peachy because it's legal.

Why Obama Terrifies Me

Just a short list: Throngs of adoring fans who worship him with almost fanatic zeal, a la Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Chairman Mao, Fidel Castro and other violent or repressive leaders. Liberal parents brainwash their kids into singing hymns about Obama. The utter lack of substance, or logic in any "solutions" he offers to today's political problems. None of his supporters seem to notice that he can't express himself very well without pre-programmed responses or a teleprompter. His funding sources. The number of groups/communities/individuals he has had to distance himself from in order to keep political traction, and the fact that liberals give him a pass on this (Jeremiah Wright, Trinity United Church, Bill Ayers, ACORN, and others). The fact that he can't do basic math. 40% of Americans already pay nothing in taxes after refunds, yet he wants to give tax cuts to 95% of Americans.

O!

VIA

"... chains on your brain..."

Buckle up ... it's gonna be rough .....

This is really, really, really creepy ...

It reminds me of an old classic Hepburn/Tracy flick "Keeper of the Flame" (1942). ALL HEIL! All shall be revealed. O!

Oopsie .....

h/t Jay

He is not amused ....

ROVE ... YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!

10 Minutes Well Spent

The media have dictated how they're going to report on the banking and credit mess. Their reporting history selectively only goes back to 2001 (if that far) and doesn't really give a shit on "root causes." But Hotair has embedded a nice YouTube video: Financial crisis in 10 minutes or less. Give it a shot. It'd have been just as factual and truthful without the McCain advertisement at the end of it. Ed Morrisey's commentary is solid, as well.

FIRE UP THE GRILL!!!

MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain - with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. I KNEW IT!

So what is the problem?

Ok I just needed to get this off my chest... Over the past month or so I have read numerous articles/posts, heard politicians deliver speeches and heard Television "News" dismissing the idea of opening up more offshore drilling as "just a stop-gap measure". First it was the flat out lies about it taking ten years before any of these blocks would be drilled and thirty years before these measure would affect gasoline prices, now it is just a stop-gap measure and hence is a foolish endeavor. My question is "so what is the problem?" No, opening up offshore drilling is not going to solve our country's energy needs, be an environmentally perfect "alternative fuel", or completely absolve us of any dependence on foreign oil suppliers. No one says it will. But it can help. Recently we have all been suffering from sticker shock of the high oil and gasoline prices, but those with less flexible finances have suffered much, much more. Opening up more offshore US drilling blocks would help them immediately. As most of us know oil price, like that of any other commodity (gold, oranges, etc, etc), is based on not only strict supply/demand economics, but also speculation on how that will change in the future. Therefore if the US government voted to open up more offshore drilling blocks it would have an almost immediate impact on the oil price, and shortly afterwards the gasoline prices. No, it would not be a perfect long-term solution but it would be a stop-gap measure that would help alleviate suffering right now and would cost the US Government nothing. We spend millions and millions of dollars on imperfect solutions and stop-gap measures such as medicare and wellfare that are not the final solution but help those in need right now. So why not take similar action for this problem especially if it is free? While opening up more offshore US drilling blocks is not a prefect environmental solution, it can help there too. US and foreign companies are going to spend money, time and manpower exploring for oil. By allowing some of this time and investment to happen within the US (or US waters) we force these companies to follow strict environmental rules and regulations. Very strict, in fact, compared to the environmental rules and regulations these companies will face in most other parts of the world. If there are environmental regulations there at all. So by keeping some of the exploration and production under our control we are actually helping ensure less global pollution and environmental impact. At some point in time fossil fuels and hydrocarbons will have to be replaced as primary energy sources. However, in 2008 we are not even close to being there yet. We are going to continue to explore for, produce and use hydrocarbons as our primary energy source at least for the near future. Why not make the choices that help cause the least environmental damage right now? Lastly the amount of oil we will produce from these additional offshore blocks is never going to end all dependence on foreign oil. There is no chance. Not even close. But it will 100% for sure reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and both political parties agree that is a good thing. I am sure there are some viable draw-backs to opening up more offshore US drilling blocks, all I am saying is that I have not heard any of them yet. By refusing to even allow debate and a vote on this issue in Congress, slamming it with nonsensical arguments, and ignoring it as a viable course of action our government and our media are selling this country short and short-changing the people they are supposed to be working for. Fileitunder is a pretty conservative blog and usually are pretty pro-Republican, anti-Democrat with most of our posts. However this issue should not be a partisan issue at all. It is not adding to or removing government bureaucracies or expenses and is not a battle of human rights versus public or human safety. It fits both parties goals, as it helps increase the free-market economic base and also would add millions of tax dollars that could be used to help fund government programs to help our people. So what is the problem?

I must admit...

I did not see this coming: Everything you need to know about the Troopergate investigation of Sarah Palin in a three minute read. Non-partisan? You betcha!! h/t pw

Can you smell that?

It smells like a slow, steady, yet growing trickle of votes turning towards the McCain campaign. You see, Palin's kids are all wild, drug-addicted whores. OBAMA-BIDEN 2008!

BWahhahahahhhahah!

Now even I have hope!

Well ... I'm impressed

h/t

McCain veep talk

Right now it looks very much like it's Palin, the Gov of Alaska. Personally, she's my top choice. She's more conservitive than McCain, good on energy, good on fighting pork and has a lot of intangibles. She'll help to attract the female vote, she very pro-life and a great family set. This from wikipedia: Palin was born as Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Charles and Sally (Sheeran) Heath.[2] Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant.[3] Charles Heath was a popular science teacher and coached track.[3] The Heaths were avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family would regularly run 5k and 10k races.[3] Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla, Alaska, when they won the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982; she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play.[3] [4] She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.[3] Palin, who was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.[3] In 1984, Palin was first runner-up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college.[3][5] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality. Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[6][7] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[8] Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics. She briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd, her high school sweetheart.[3] One summer when she was working on Todd's fishing boat, the boat collided with a tender while she was holding onto the railing; Palin broke several fingers.[3] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[9] and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times.[3] The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated college; when they learned they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two residents from the old-age home down the street.[3] Todd is a Native Yup'ik Eskimo.[3] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[10] On September 11, 2007, the Palins' son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin's five children.[10] Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7.[11] On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome.[12] She returned to the office three days after giving birth.[13] Palin refused to let the results of prenatal genetic testing change her decision to have the baby. "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"[13] I think that nails down a fair amount of the concerns among the base supporters. Add to that, as a gov, she has more executive experience that Obama, Biden or McCain. Ridge and Liberman are still out there, waiting to yank the football away like Lucy with Charlie Brown, but considering that they've tracked a large Republican donors private plane going from the Anchorage airport to a smaller airport in Ohio, where McCain is scheduled to announce the pick, I feel better. I sent the Maverick money a while back because Obama losing IS that important. However, I'm still under the limit. If McCain picks Palin, he can expect more money from me. Today. If it's Liberman or Ridge, a pox on both houses. Update: Fox and CNN both say "It's Palin." Of course, it's not official till the Maverick says it but I'm pretty stoked. She has the one quality I look for in a veep: If McCain punches out and moves on to the next world, could I stomach the veep choice. In this case, HELL YEAH I COULD. This is shaping up to be a good day. She and Jindal, the Louisiana gov, are what i hope becomes the new face of the Republican party. They're bright, young, unapologetic conservatives.

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Now that Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate, go on over to National Review Online and give this Jim Geraghty article a nice scanning! This should be fun. We'll see how fun the McCain campaign makes it. A choice example: Assessing Obama’s Iraq plan on September 13, 2007: "My impression is [Obama] thinks that if we leave, somehow the Iraqis are going to have an epiphany” of peaceful coexistence among warring sects. “I’ve seen zero evidence of that." That's a great point, Joe! But criticizing Obama's shitty "plan" for Iraq is questioning his patriotism!!! Fortunately Barack's views on Iraq are becoming more like McCain's everyday. Read them all...

O! ...... um .... rocks?

Rob + Photoshop =

Barack revises Samuel L. Jackson's role in Shaft Shift... Y' damn right... for now...

Here's this year's #1 election issue

Ok, everyone and their dog has asked me about the price of gasoline. Knowing that I'm in oil and gas they assume that I have the inside scoop on what's happening. I always tell them "It's going to go up." It's not news that anyone wants to hear but it's the truth. It's a limited resource, we get from other people and more people are using it. It's the classical case of supply and demand. No matter what else is said, that's the long and short of it. Worse yet, our country hasn't had a comprehensive plan for dealing with energy. For lack of a better point, we simply haven't had leadership that was willing to make a stance when things were stable. It's only when there is a problem that the government was willing to react, prior to that they followed the government plan of throwing money at it in the hopes that it will fall of the public radar. Well, the problem is here now and on the public radar in a big way. Both McCain and Obama are way off base when they present the options that America has. I don't fault them for it because neither has experience with energy. However, someone who has a lot of experience has stepped up and drawn out a pretty good plan. This morning T Boone Pickens was on Squawk Box touting his energy plan. He's rolled out a national effort, he's funding by himself, to encourage the government to change the way we use our energy. Best of all, the plan makes a lot of sense, it's better for the enviroment, it keeps more money in the US, it uses American fuel to create American jobs, it encourages clean energy research and it's bipartisan. The link for his website is www.pickensplan.com. or you can follow the button. Critically speaking, I see no downside to this and we've got to get off our tail and do something.

ABCWMDs

George W Bush has grown so powerful in recent years that he can now create 550 metric tons of enriched Uranium just to cover himself. The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. Thoughts from American Thinker The AP does not say alleged nuclear program. It does not add "according to military experts." It simply says "Saddam Hussein's nuclear program." That's pretty big news, isn't it? From slashdot It appears that when George W. Bush, the CIA, and Tony Blair said that Saddam Hussein had yellowcake uranium, which was a violation of the UN resolution after the Gulf War, and one of the reasons why the USA and UK invaded Iraq to start the war, they were speaking the truth. 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium was found recently in Iraq, that Saddam had hidden for over five years from UN weapons inspectors, and sold to Canada recently. That rascal Bush... he's now such an idiot that he has figured out how to go back in time and plant enriched uranium.

NPR Grills Clark

The Right isn't a big fan of NPR, claiming it's a publicly funded outlet for Democratic talking points. Maybe there's some truth to that. But what I heard yesterday on All Things Considered made my head turn. Clark Holds Firm On McCain Comments : NPR Michelle Norris, host of ATC eviscerates Clark. She doesn't play softball with his blatantly obvious double standards when it came to his own and John Kerry's service (it was essential and critical, natch) versus his stance on McCain, where all of sudden it isn't worthy. The link has a radio interview right at the top and it's just under seven minutes long. Give it a listen and try to see if you can make any sense out of Clark's "nuance." Good luck! In other news: Barack Obama, Ghetto Lord

Boy Toys!

Everybody seems to want one.

Aptly named

Sick.JPG Nothing says "Democrats make it feel better again" like Head Saint Al Gore's carbon footprint... which is probably the size of 20 average U.S. families. Sick, indeed. Via Carin

So...

Foreign fighters, not in uniform, captured on foreign battlefields now have access to U.S. civilian courts... So... how are things in your neck of the woods?

Worth a read

American Thinker: The Audacity of the Democrats Until recently in our history, a President Barack Obama would have been an impossibility. But given the political and ideological climate that exists today in America, the ascension of a leftist like Barack Obama into presidential politics makes perfect sense. Beliefs like domestic terrorist William Ayers's and racist, anti-US preacher Jeremiah Wright's are no longer met with utter scorn or a trip to behind the woodshed, but are embraced, promoted and defended by many Americans. Think MoveOn, International ANSWER, think hordes of young neo-communists and their indoctrinating, puppet-master Marx-spouting professors. Think Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill and his acolytes. Think NYU, Columbia, The New School and Harvard. Most importantly, ponder the makeup and direction of the Democratic Party leadership. Like Barack Obama and his radical friends, it is appallingly far Left. Read the whole thing. Then, check this out. So save some of that Hope for the Republicans. All is never lost.

Democrat sponored bill: Let's raise gas prices!

Amidst all of the moaning and groaning of high gasoline prices, the doomsday sayers telling anyone who'll listen how $200 oil prices will kill us all, many of the Democrats in the Senate are trying raise gas prices. That is right, they are trying to push a bill through that would require many refineries to purchase pollution allowances, be overhauled, or shut down. Of course these costs will be directly paid for by the consumer in their gas price, and these same Democrats will yell even louder about the conspiracy between Republicans and "Big Oil" to raise global oil prices. Once again I wonder if they just don't bother to look at the effects of the legislation they propose, don't really care, or just expect these bills to either get blocked in Congress or vetoed by Bush so they can yell about the Republicans being the bad guys. There is a great disturbance in the force.

I thought I'd share ...

BUNNIES!! Claimer: Terry "Aislin" Mosher is married to my cousin, so I occasionally take liberties.

Isreali "Appeasement-gate" and Obama

In case you live under a rock or, slightly worse, consider us news, the media is crapping it's collective pants because of comments that the President made yesterday. On the 60th anniversary of Israeli independence, the President said, in his address, "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement." Almost instantly, the democratic spin machine shot into full outrage and circular kinetics. Joe Biden called it "bullshit." I'm not kidding. “This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset and make this kind of ridiculous statement.” “The President’s saber rattling is the most self-defeating policy imaginable. It forces Iranians who despise the regime to rally behind their leaders and spurs instability in the Middle East, which adds to the price of oil, with the proceeds going right into Tehran’s pockets. “The worst nightmare for a regime that thrives on isolation and tension is an America ready, willing and able to engage. And by the way, since when has talking removed the word “no” from our vocabulary? It’s amazing how little faith this administration has in the power of America’s ideas and ideals." I guess Joe forgets about when Nancy Pelosi wanted to go to Syria and we said "no" or when Jimmy Carter wanted to go there and talk to Hamas and we said "no" or when Democratic senators went to Iraq just prior to the invasion after we said "no." It seems that the Senator forgets even his own party has shown us what persistent idiots do when you simply tell them "no" and think that's enough. However, this didn't die there. Several other senators and spin agents and analysts have opined about this percieved slap at Obama. Of course, he wasn't mentioned by name. The reference could have been to the countries of Europe that are caving to Islamic pressure everyday, but some people are a little too egocentric to buy that. So today, the Obama-messiah addressed the issue in a speech. What I noticed is that for all the complaining and bitching and positioning and feigned offense, you never see him respond with the words "He's wrong. I won't." Why? Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Now is the time to pressure Iran directly to change their troubling behavior. Obama would offer the Iranian regime a choice. If Iran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization, economic investments, and a move toward normal diplomatic relations. If Iran continues its troubling behavior, we will step up our economic pressure and political isolation. Seeking this kind of comprehensive settlement with Iran is our best way to make progress. That's what it says on his website. So what is Bush supposed to do, "Captain Hope?" Tell Israel "Congrats on surviving this long. By the way, we're going to have a couple of sit downs with that nut ball that pays terrorist to kill your citizens and wants to nuke you. But, just so you know, it's not personal or anything. We just thing there might be some intellectual wiggle room that will make everyone back home feel better while allowing for the chance that all those bombings and terrorist funding and nuke building is just a misunderstanding. " Obama is a dolt.

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Rezko Trial Witness Says Rove in on Talks to Remove U.S. Attorney in 2004 If I had the Drudge Siren I'd fire it off. Rove. What isn't that evil bastard involved in? Don't you get the feeling that before it's said and done this Rezko trial will have involved just about everyone? "What do you mean everyone?"