Neck is better, But I’m not much in the mood today to write novels. So, it’s short stuff with links to stories.
Enjoy.
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Neck is better, But I’m not much in the mood today to write novels. So, it’s short stuff with links to stories.
Enjoy.
A rare nighttime landing for the shuttle, first the video:
The Story: After long mission, shuttle calls it a night (via MSNBC)
The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Wednesday, making a rare nighttime touchdown to wrap up "a two-week adventure" at the international space station.
The shuttle swooped through the darkness and landed on NASA’s illuminated runway at 8:39 p.m., an hour after sunset.
"Welcome home, Endeavour," Mission Control radioed. "Congrats to the entire crew."
Congratulations to our fine space explorers on a job well done. Good show guys.
Cross-posted @ My Tech Blog, Tech in a Box
Bronze: Bill O. over the Roland Martin flap
Silver: James Dobson for his Family Research Counsel.
Walmart: For Suing Debra Shank, after she was in accident.
I won’t be Blogging much today.
I got a pain in the neck. Literally.
Sometimes, when I sleep, I tend to get in a weird position and it aggravates a nerve, a muscle or something my neck region and it hurts like hell.
When it hurts like this, I cannot focus worth a crap. The pain is bad.
So, until it quits hurting, I’m on hiatus.
Keep me…and my neck in your prayers.
Someone made a big fat boo boo!
Article: Pentagon Admits Mistake in Arms Shipment (via AP)
The U.S. military’s mistaken delivery to Taiwan of electrical fuses for an intercontinental ballistic missile raised concerns Tuesday over U.S.-China relations and triggered a broad investigation into the security of Pentagon weapons.
While the shipment did not include nuclear materials, the error is particularly sensitive because China vehemently opposes U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Four of the cone-shaped fuses were shipped to Taiwanese officials in fall 2006 instead of the helicopter batteries they had ordered.
Somebody somewhere is either out of a job or in some seriously hot water.
Needless to say the big wigs at the Pentagon are not amused.
"I can not emphasize forcefully enough how strong the secretary feels about this matter and how disconcerting it is to him," Henry told reporters. He added that in an organization the size of the Defense Department there will be mistakes, but that "they cannot be tolerated in the arena in strategic systems, whether they are nuclear or only associated equipment, as was in this case."
In a comment directed at the Chinese concerns, Henry said the error does not suggest that U.S. policies on arms sales to Taiwan have changed.
You don’t think that the pentagon bosses were a little upset, do you?
I was on there, and now the site isn’t scanning me, again.
Ah well, The site really isn’t that important. I do get traffic. but the referrals are nice. I just do not think that it is fair to pass me up. just because I do not write a novel, when I comment on the top day’s stories.
I just figure that if you cannot convey your thoughts in 3 or less paragraphs, you don’t need to be a writer.
Of course, there are those that think that Memeorandum and it’s sister sites promote blogging snobbery. Which it kind of does. But it has existed before Memeornadum ever got started.
I’ve learned, since I’ve started blogging, that if you don’t suck up to the right people, and I’ve been blogging since February of ’07, you will be basically ignored by the general Blogging public. I am not a suck up, hence my Blog traffic.
It’s sad too, Mr. Gabe has a great site, he just excludes many people, good writers. because they won’t suck up.
It sucks, but such is life.
What utter Stupidity!
The Article: Clinton: Wright ‘would not have been my pastor’ (via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor made.
"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
Oh, So now that she is slipping in the polls, she now is trying to play the "Holier Than Thou" game. Sorry, I am not buying it, You lied about going to Bosnia. You lied and said you went under the sniper fire and that was proven to be a flat out lie.
As far as I am concerned, anyone who lies about her experience, anyone who lies about her trips overseas, anyone who’s attempt to get a national healthcare program, was a abysmal failure. Is not ready to lead on day one. Plain and Simple.
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Of course, the Hillary people are screaming, "Bias!" But, it is the truth, I think anyway…
Article: The Long Defeat by DAVID BROOKS (via New York Times)
When you step back and think about it, she is amazing. She possesses the audacity of hopelessness.
Why does she go on like this? Does Clinton privately believe that Obama is so incompetent that only she can deliver the policies they both support? Is she simply selfish, and willing to put her party through agony for the sake of her slender chance? Are leading Democrats so narcissistic that they would create bitter stagnation even if they were granted one-party rule?
The better answer is that Clinton’s long rear-guard action is the logical extension of her relentlessly political life.
I hate to say it, but this article really does set it out for Hillary. It speaks truth to power about her.
I just do not understand her at all. She would rather destroy the Democrat Party and cause another 1968 Convention. I know, I wrote some rather mean stuff about her yesterday. I admit it, I cannot stand her. Her husband disgraced the White House, and I haven’t forgotten about it.
Her husband signed off of on a immoral invasion of a "Cultist" Christian commune, based on bad information and as a result, Seventy-six people, including 21 children and two pregnant women, along with their leader died. I haven’t forgotten about this either.
Yes, I know the leader was nutcase, however, that stand off could have ended peacefully. But no, the President stood back idly and allowed the ATF and FBI massacre those people, and their children, and when the fire trucks arrived, the FBI and ATF, refused to allow them in to put the fire out. Instead they allowed them to burn alive. I haven’t forgotten about that.
I also happen to know that, Hillary Clinton AND Bill Clinton, ruined the life of a well known financier, who came to rescue of Stan Lee, when marvel comics fired him. Bill Clinton turned right around and stole the very person, who could have saved Stan’s career. If that wasn’t enough, Bill Clinton pulled strings and basically ruined a man’s life. That man was Peter F. Paul. I haven’t forgotten about this either.
I could go on and on, but I’d rather not waste my bandwidth and my writing talent on this feckless woman. She’s truly not worth it.
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I am really beginning to believe that this lying thing is quite common among Democrats.
Article: Clinton Misspoke About Bosnia Trip, Campaign Says (via The Caucus, A New York Times Blog)
The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady.
She has been using the episode as an example of her foreign policy bona fides.
“I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia,” she said last week. “There was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady.
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
She has been using the episode as an example of her foreign policy bona fides.
“I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia,” she said last week. “There was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady.
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
(snip!)
But her account has been challenged, first by Sinbad, the comedian, who traveled with her, and then by news organizations, most notably the Washington Post, which awarded her four “Pinnochios” which it gives for major “whoppers.
(snip!)
Helene Cooper, The Times’s diplomatic correspondent, reports the following:
I spoke with William Nash, who was the commander of U.S. troops in Bosnia and was at the Tuzla airport with Hillary Clinton. He said there was no threat of sniper fire at the airport during her visit. He said that Mrs. Clinton was gracious during her visit and took pictures with the soldiers, but “she never had her head down. There was no sniper threat that I know of.”
and now for the damning video:
This is, as far as I am concerned, nothing short of a boldfaced lie. As an independent voter, I have lost any and all respect, which was not much to begin with. I do not see this as an isolated incident. I see this as a pattern amongst Democrats. First it was Bill Clinton, during his time in the White House, then it was Elliot Spitzer, and Mayor Kilpatrick of Detroit.
Is this all the Democrats are good for? Lying their way through life? Whatever happened to just telling the goddamned truth? Whatever happened to honesty in Politics? Whatever happened to Integrity in Politics? It seems to be that it has been replaced by cheap thug bastards, who would rather lie their way through the White House and collect a paycheck to do a job, that they really did not deserve to obtain. Which is about what one could say about Hillary Clinton. Truth is, that this lying feckless bitch was only elected, because the people of New York felt sorry for her and she used her mantra of "feel sorry for me, because my husband fucked around on me." to get elected. I am personally sick and tired of seeing this goddamned closet lesbian tearing the Democrat party apart. I really wish that she’d drop out of the Presidential race and just go away and preferable die of aids or something.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but fucking aye already!!! Enough is enough, from racism, to fear mongering and now just fucking out right lying out her goddamned ass to make herself look good. Does this feckless bitch have any fucking shame at all?
Can you tell I am just a fucking wee bit annoyed?!?!?
Maybe I will get lucky and the blogging world will see this and Keith Olbermann will name me worst person in the world, as if I’d give a remote fuck about what asshole commie closet fag would think.
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Update:
The Booking Photo…. Aren’t they such a sweet couple?
VIA WXYZ-TV:
State leaders ranging from U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow to Gov. Granholm Granholm are weighing in on the charges filed against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff.
REP. CANDICE MILLER
"I listened closely to the statement by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and today everyone was put on notice that no one is above the law." – Rep. Candice Miller, a Republican from Macomb County’s Harrison Township
L. BROOKS PATTERSON
"What we are witnessing is the 21st-century rerun of a classic Greek tragedy: fallen heroes, lost opportunities, unfulfilled promise." – L. Brooks Patterson, Republican Oakland County executive
GOV. GRANHOLM
"As the former attorney general and a former federal prosecutor, the governor realizes as well as anyone that it’s important the legal process be allowed to work." – Liz Boyd, spokeswoman for Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a fellow Democrat
SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW
"This is very disturbing and I hope that it is resolved as soon as possible." – U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
Additionally, The Governor of Michigan, said she will NOT remove the Mayor of Detroit, unless he in convicted of these charges. I guess Party loyalty goes a long way. Plus, she is possibly worried, that she could be perceived as a white woman, persecuting a black man. Identity Politics? You decide.
Via WXYZ-TV:
These are the listing of charges against the Mayor of Detroit.
Count 1: Conspiracy to obstruct justice, up to five years in prison.
Count 2: Obstruction of justice, up to five years. He’s accused of firing Detroit Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown as part of an effort to illegally hamper a criminal investigation and committing perjury to hide the firing of Brown or a relationship between the mayor and Beatty.
Count 3: Misconduct in office, up to five years. He’s accused of firing Brown to hamper a criminal probe of Kilpatrick’s personal conduct or the conduct of his security unit and committing perjury to hide the firing.
Count 4: Misconduct in office, up to five years. He’s accused of authorizing the city to settle a whistle-blowers’ lawsuit with the motive of preventing the release of text messages showing the mayor and his aide lied under oath.
Count 5: Perjury in court, up to 15 years. He’s accused of lying under oath in August 2007 by saying he didn’t fire Brown, didn’t know Brown was investigating him or a rumored party at the mayor’s official residence and testifying falsely as to other circumstances surrounding the termination of Brown.
Count 6: Perjury in court, up to 15 years. He’s accused of falsely testifying in August 2007 that he didn’t have a romantic or sexual relationship with Beatty.
Count 7: Perjury outside court, up to 15 years. He’s accused of swearing falsely before a notary public in June 2003 as to the circumstances surrounding the "un-appointment" of Brown.
Count 8: Perjury outside court, up to 15 years. He’s accused of swearing falsely before a notary public in October 2004 as to the circumstances surrounding the "un-appointment" of Brown.
I will posting any and all details regarding this case, as it get them.
It is being reported that Detroit’s Mayor former chief of staff, Christine Beatty has turned herself in. Beatty turned herself in at the Wayne County Sheriff’s facility in Westland on Henry Ruff Road.
Finally, there is a list of counts against her, These charges include:
Via WXYZ-TV:
Charges Against Beatty….
Count 1: Conspiracy to obstruct justice, up to five years.
Count 2: Obstruction of justice, up to five years. She’s accused of firing Brown to hamper a criminal investigation and committing perjury to hide the firing of Brown or a relationship between Beatty and the mayor.
Count 3: Misconduct in office, up to five years. She’s accused of firing Brown to hamper a criminal probe of Kilpatrick’s personal conduct or the conduct of his security unit and committing perjury to hide the firing.
Count 4: Perjury in court, up to 15 years. She’s accused of lying under oath in August 2007 by saying Brown wasn’t fired, she didn’t know Brown was investigating the mayor or a rumored party at the mayor’s official residence and testifying falsely as to other circumstances surrounding the termination of Brown.
Count 5: Perjury in court, up to 15 years. She’s accused of lying under oath in August 2007 that she didn’t have a romantic or sexual relationship with the mayor and that she didn’t use her communication device to send or receive messages of a sexual nature to the mayor.
Count 6: Perjury outside court, up to 15 years. She’s accused of swearing falsely before a notary public in December 2003 that she didn’t know Brown was investigating the rumored party. She also is accused of swearing falsely as to the circumstances surrounding Brown’s termination.
Count 7: Perjury outside court, up to 15 years. She’s accused of swearing falsely before a notary public in December 2003 that she wasn’t aware of the mayor’s "philandering."
I am working on getting a detailed list of charges against the Mayor. Stay tuned.
Oh Man, I bet this dude is paying for this, big time.
Via Political Punch (ABC News Blogger)
In his blog, Fischer writes:
"B. Clinton questions Obama’s patriotism. In repsonse (sic), an Obama aide compared B. Clinton to Joe McCarthy. This is patently unfair. To McCarthy.
"When Joe McCarthy questioned others’ patriotism, McCarthy (1) actually believed, at least aparently (sic), the questions were genuine, and (2) he did so in order to build up, not tear down, his own party, the GOP. Bill Clinton cannot possibly seriously believe Obama is not a patriot, and cannot possibly be said to be helping — instead he is hurting — his own party. B. Clinton should never be forgiven. Period. This is a stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper, than the one on Monica’s blue dress."
D’oh!
He went there, he really went there. He has since removed it. But dang, that was a low blow. Big time. Ouch.
Although, James Carville’s comment about McCarthyism is totally uncalled for. Turns out that McCarthy was somewhat right about his notions on Communism. He was, however, a bit out of control, and also had some self destructive personal habits.
I believe before it is over with, the Democrat Party is going to be so broken, they won’t be able to win anything.
The November Election is going to be an interesting time.
Memeorandum has more coverage.
Does this feckless woman know any bounds?
Clinton Backer Points to Electoral College Votes as New Measure (via New York Times)
Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.
He suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won.
“So who carried the states with the most Electoral College votes is an important factor to consider because ultimately, that’s how we choose the president of the United States,” Mr. Bayh said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
In a primary, of course, electoral votes are not relevant, but the Clinton campaign is trying to use them as an unofficial measure of strength.
So far, Mrs. Clinton has won states with a total of 219 Electoral College votes, not counting Florida and Michigan, while Mr. Obama has won states with a total of 202 electoral votes.
How silly! Desperate actions from a desperate feckless woman, who knows damn well, that she cannot win the Presidency, at all, and now she’s grasping at straws. She’s also throwing out the kitchen sink also.
This woman is absolutely determined to destroy the democrat party, just so she can win the Nomination for President. The sick and sad part, is that the leadership of the Democrat Party, Howard, "I’m a screamer!" Dean, flatly refuses to do anything about it. What a waste! If I were a member of the Democrat Party, I would be demanding his resignation. Those people pay Howard Dean to lead that party, to make the hard decisions, and what has he done? Nothing! But sit there at look like an idiot. He needs to go and someone take the helm and take control of the situation.
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The hands of justice have moved and it was not pretty at all.
The Mayor of the City of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick and his former Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty, have both combined, been charged with a 12 count indictment.
The Article Via MSNBC:
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and as Detroit’s youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old mayor with obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.
Former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick shared a romantic relationship in 2002 and 2003, was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.
In all, Worthy authorized a 12-count criminal information.
It is truly a sad day in Detroit. I was born and raised in that fine city. I am 35 years old. I have never, ever, in my entire life, seen anything like this in this town, ever. It is truly amazing.
I honestly thought, that this case would be dismissed. I really did not think that the prosecutor would charge him at all. Thankfully, I was wrong.
There is live coverage from all the networks here in Detroit.
WXYZ-TV is providing full coverage, including live streaming.
WDIV-TV is providing full coverage, including live streaming
WJBK-TV is also providing full coverage, including Live Streaming
I am now Live Blogging the event, I will post update as information, as I get it.
and by the way…. Kilpatrick is a Democrat!…
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Update: I also forgot to put in this report, that the Mayor and Beatty are expected, by Prosecutor Kym Worthy, to turn themselves in by 7 a.m. Tuesday. Kilpatrick has said that he will not resign. However, I personally think that he will resign, seeing the circumstances. However, I would be wrong.
Update 2: The AP is now Providing coverage. Posted a Breit Bart’s site. How convenient.
The Mayor is supposed to hold a Press conference at 12 Noon.
Update 3: 12:30 still no presser. Still waiting……
Update 4: Don Surber says name that party!
Update 5: The press conference finally happened, The Mayor read a prepared statement, His attorney said he advised the Mayor NOT to resign. Said the Mayor will not me tried in the Media, but in a court of law, that there will be jury trial. Although, there are rumblings that the city counsel will pass a resolution forcing him to resign. I quite frankly, wish that the Governor of Michigan would force him out. However, seeing that both in the same political party, I highly doubt this will happen. Local coverage just ended here. It should be interesting around here. I will be Blogging it all.
Update 6: For those wanting to know, I do not live in Detroit proper, I used to, I moved away in 1989. I now live in the southern suburbs of Detroit. I will take any and all interview requests or emails at tpblogeditor at gmail dot com.
Update 7: Memeorandum has full coverage on this story. and my Buddy Ryan, who is a Blogger from Ann Arbor, has an entry too.
Update 8: According to the Detroit Free Press, this is nothing new:
Two previous Detroit mayors have been charged with felonies, both after leaving office.
Mayor Richard Reading, mayor in 1938-40, was sentenced to 4-1/2 to 5 years in prison after being charged with conspiring with 80 policemen to protect Detroit’s numbers racket. Mayor Louis Miriani, mayor from 1957-62, was sentenced to one year in prison for income tax evasion after leaving office.
So, nothing new here, corruption goes back, way back….. I also knew about the numbers racket charge from the 1940’s. I wasn’t aware of the Tax Evasion charge, Wow, learn something new everyday. I also know that Detroit Former Mayor, Coleman A. Young, was very much known to be connected to corruption in the 1980’s. Nothing was ever proven, there was the rumor that Young had the investigators on the take. Again that was rumor and nothing was proven.
Update 9: The Detroit News reports a detail account of the charges:
Kilpatrick faces a total of eight counts — one count each of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice, both of which are five-year felonies. He is charged with two counts of misconduct in office, two counts of perjury in a court proceeding and two counts of perjury other than a court proceeding. Those charges are 15-year felonies.
Beatty is facing seven counts — one count each of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. In addition, she is charged with two counts each of perjury in a court proceeding, a 15-year felony, and perjury other than a court proceeding, also a 15-year-felony.
Also, Mayor’s lawyer has said he will attempt to get the text messages thrown out of court, because the messages were, supposedly, obtained illegally.
Live Blogging is complete, But I will continue to follow the story and I will post on what I know.
You know, with all this talk about Racism on Blogs. I think it’s just high time, that I spoke my Mind…..
Without further ado, I present:
Proud To Be White
Someone finally said it.
How many are actually paying attention to this?
There are African Americans, Mexican Americans,
Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc.
And then there are just Americans.
You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.
You Call me ‘White boy,’ ‘Cracker,’ ‘Honkey,’
‘Whitey,’ ‘Caveman’ … and that’s OK.
But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head,
Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink …
You call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you,
so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund.
You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Black History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Yom Hashoah.
You have Ma’uled Al-Nabi.
You have the NAACP.
You have BET.
If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) we’d be racists.
If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
If we had White History Month , we’d be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites to ‘advance’
OUR lives we’d be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber
of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that?
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American
pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.
If we had a college fund that only gave white students
scholarships you know we’d be racists.
There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges
in the US. Yet if there were ‘White colleges’ THAT
would be a racist college.
In the Million Man March, you believed that you were
marching for your race and rights. If we marched for
our race and rights, you would call us racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and
you’re not afraid to announce it. But when we announce
our white pride, you call us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a
white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats
up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a
threat to society, you call him a racist.
I am proud.
But you call me a racist.
That’s right folks.
Via WorldNetDaily:
Just days after it was announced the U.S. would transfer $150 million directly to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ government, members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, the declared military wing of Abbas’ Fatah party, were told they would receive cash grants, WND has learned.
According to Palestinian militant sources familiar with the issue, earlier this month, 20 members of the Brigades leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah complained to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad they did not have enough money to pay their bills, including, for many of them, rent for their apartments.
Last week, according to the informed sources, Fayyad told the complaining Brigades leaders he would provide them with a one-time grant of $3,000 each, or $60,000 to the Ramallah-based Brigades leadership.
The sources said after Brigades leaders in other West Bank cities, including Hebron and Nablus, heard of the grants, they also demanded pay increases.
"Some of the other fighters accused Fayyad of favoring the Brigades leaders in Ramallah since that’s where Fayyad lives," said a militant source. "So he gave grants also to other cells."
Unreal. Can the lies and deceptions, from this feckless administration, be any clearer?
I guess Ron Paul was correct.
Unlike some in the Blogging community, who think we should just turn tail and run, without finishing what we started. Well, I am not among that crowd.
The Article: U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 4,000 (via msnbc.com)
A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000.
The grim milestone came on the same day that rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone, underscoring the fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups despite an overall lull in violence.
A Multi-National Division — Baghdad soldier also was wounded in the roadside bombing, which struck the soldiers’ patrol vehicle about 10 p.m. in southern Baghdad, according to a statement.
4,000. That is now the new number of dead in Iraq, since the war started. It is indeed a sad reminder that freedom is not free and the, quite frankly, war is hell.
However, I believe that if we leave Iraq, before the job is complete, before we fix what we broke, we will dearly pay for it later.
I realize, like many of my Liberal counterparts on the left and far left, that we did go into that country on some bad information. However, unlike them, I realize that we’ve been there too long now, and that country is leaning on us, for us to just walk away and leave them poor people holding the bag, would be tragic mistake of Biblical proportions.
I believe if we left Iraq too fast, it would become a death trap for those people, they need us. We are just now making headway, and if we don’t continue the path we are on, our nation will pay for it, one way or another.
Thoughts and Prayers go out tonight, on this 31 degree night here in the United States, to some very brave Men and Women, who are fighting, so we can have the freedom to blog, to argue, and just general be truly free.
God Bless our troops.
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I am expanding my horizons a bit.
I admit it, I am getting bored of writing about just Politics and I need something different to write about, I’m not leaving or anything, just want something else to write about.
I’ve started a new Blog, called "Tech in the Box".
It is very new, got a decent looking template. I’ve got a bit of a working knowledge of Electronics and a passing interest in Technology.
Should be interesting….
Click here to check it out.
May the Games begin!
The Story: In Easter Sermon, New Obama Pastor Charges Rev. Wright Victim of ‘Lynching’ (via FoxNews.com)
The new pastor of Barack Obama’s church delivered a defiant defense of its retiring reverend Sunday, comparing media coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. to a modern-day lynching that resembles Jesus’ death at the hands of the Romans.
In a sunrise Easter sermon, Rev. Otis Moss III never mentioned Wright by name, but implied that his mentor, who has delivered sermons in which he likened the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and declared it damned for its “state-sponsored terrorism,” is facing the same challenges Jesus did.”No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching,” Moss said.
I’m sorry, did the mental midget Olympics begin and I not get the Memo or what?
Good grief, can you say race baiter? I knew you could!
If this keeps up, I got a funny feeling that the Democrats are going to lose and I mean lose hard.
Lynching. Yeah, Lynched by his own damn rope. Kind of like the Mayor of Detroit.
This ignorant stupidity gets any deeper, I’m going to have to buy some hip waders.
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Not to mention on Easter Sunday, at that!
Good Lord Almighty!
Is it just me or does the Blogosphere just need a big fat group hug or something????!?!
I guess, from what I can follow, Glenn Greenwald saw something that Glenn Reynolds linked to. I am assuming it was this.
Well, I guess Glenn was snooping around on that site and saw this here, and is now having a hairy fit about it.
Good Lordy people! Time out! Let’s all not get so danged ugly on a Sunday here! It is after all, A Holiday.
Of course, Everyone and their uncle is Blogging about it. Go here and read it all.
Goodness, I thought I was only uppity person around here…
Can we all just get along?
Oh, and BTW, I wouldn’t use the N-Word of those listed, Race-Baiters maybe. But….
Update: Oh good grief, this has turned into a huge thing now…. here’s the links: JustOneMinute, Open Left, The RBC, The Impolitic, Orcinus, Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Liberal Fascism, The Smirking Chimp, American Power, Little Miss Attila, Unfogged, Liberty Street, The Anonymous Liberal, American Street, The Newshoggers, First Draft, INSTAPUTZ, Sadly, No!, Mercury Rising, RADAMISTO and all the rest via Memeorandum