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Most of the left is pissed, saying that it’s the same law that was rejected before. The Right seems to be pleased.
Should be interesting, to say the least.
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My reaction?
It can be summed up in 3 words….
Big Honking Deal!
John McCain is going to get his Anus handed to him on a silver platter come November, so, this, is not going to matter, to the General Public at all.
So, while principles are very important, being separated from George W. Bush and a new Direction in Iraq, A New direction for our Nations economy is much, much, more important than this.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Opinon, Barack Obama, John McCain, Campaign Finance, Election 2008, Election 08
Quote:
Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.
Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.
The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations.
The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India. The contracts, which would run for one to two years and are relatively small by industry standards, would nonetheless give the companies an advantage in bidding on future contracts in a country that many experts consider to be the best hope for a large-scale increase in oil production. –Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back – NYTimes.com
When I first read it, I thought…”So?” and then here’s the Moonbat line in the story:
There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract. The Bush administration has said that the war was necessary to combat terrorism. It is not clear what role the United States played in awarding the contracts; there are still American advisers to Iraq’s Oil Ministry.
Nice Accusation, with, of course, Zero Proof.
This should be interesting to watch, and watch the Liberal Democrat use this an excuse to Nationalize the United States oil industry.
(via Memeorandum)
Technorati Tags: Big Oil, Politics, Opinion, Big Oil, Business,
As rule, I do not publish much from Cybercast News Service, because they are a Conservative Propaganda outfit, and not a hard news organization. But I thought this one was quite interesting.
Because I blog about Conservative-related issues, I am signed up with NewsMax, which is owned by Conservative tycoon, Rupert Murdoch. I was constantly getting these advertisements for some big oil in Montana and North Dakota that was worth investing into.
Well, turns out, that little pipedream, is just that, A pipedream!
The Cybercast News Service Reports:
Reports circulating on the Internet tell of an oil field spanning parts of western North Dakota and eastern Montana where 400 billion barrels of oil supposedly are just waiting to be tapped. However, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) tells Cybercast News Service that those huge estimates are "a myth."
A USGS report issued in April estimates that there are between 3 billion to 4.3 billion barrels of oil in what is referred to as "the Bakken Formation" — well below the 400 billion barrels discussed on the Web, but up from the previous estimate of 151 million barrels made in 1995.
Richard Pollastro, Bakken Formation task leader at the USGS, said the myth stems from a 1999 draft report — never published — by a now-deceased USGS employee, Leigh Price. Price estimated that the Bakken Formation holds up to 400 billion barrels of oil. To put that in perspective, Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has about 260 billion barrels of known oil reserves.
Price, however, died in 2000, before his study could be peer-reviewed and published, and the Bakken Formation became the fool’s gold of the oil industry.
"Unfortunately, in many instances, we are still trying to explain and defend our assessment versus the inappropriate and irresponsible posting of Dr. Price’s ‘draft report,’" Pollastro told Cybercast News Service.
According to Jonathon Kolak, a USGS scientist and information specialist, the discrepancy between Price’s 1999 estimates and the agency’s 2008 findings arises from the fact that Price was trying to assess the "oil generation potential" of the oil found in the pores of rocks and shale in the Bakken field, as well as the total content of how much oil might be pooling up – or "oil in place."
"What Dr. Price was looking at was ‘oil generation potential,’ and then, from that, trying to make an estimate of ‘oil in place,’" said Kolak. "Those terms are very distinct from ‘undiscovered technically recoverable resources.’"
The latest study, which was commissioned by U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), is an estimate of how much "technically recoverable" oil and gas is available — i.e, how much oil can actually be recovered using today’s technology.
Kolak also explained that the 25-fold increase between the 1995 estimates and the 2008 assessment is due to two factors: an improved understanding of the geology and advances in drilling technology.
"Our understanding of the geology improved significantly because of the time difference between the studies," he said. "There has been some drilling since then, there has been a lot more information that has come out, other people have conducted studies, and also USGS researchers have conducted studies."
Moreover, drillers are utilizing directional drilling in the Bakken fields, a way of drilling at an angle to tap previously unrecoverable reservoirs.
"If you’ve been out to western North Dakota, you don’t need a USGS report to know that there’s oil there because you can see from all the drilling activity that there’s a lot of energy development going on in western North Dakota," Dorgan spokesman Justin Kitch told Cybercast News Service .
Kitch admits that comparing Price’s 1999 study to the April USGS study is like comparing "apples and oranges."
"But certainly it’s nice to have an up-to-date assessment of the amount of oil that’s technically recoverable in the Bakken," he said.
In 2006, Marathon Oil bought 200,000 acres in the Bakken to drill over 300 wells. This past May, after the report was released, Texas-based XTO Energy bought 352,000 net acres in the Bakken Shale for $1.9 billion.
The federal government, meanwhile, said only a small proportion of the oil available with today’s technology is economically viable for recovery.
"If you’re drilling the Bakken, it’s pretty easy to drill somewhere in there and at least see some oil, but the question is: Is there enough there to get out and actually be economically recoverable?" Kolak asked.
At the end of 2007, about 105 million barrels of oil had been produced from the Bakken Formation.
The USGS, meanwhile, considers any release or dissemination of Price’s unpublished report to be "inappropriate and irresponsible."
Glad I did not invest it that little pipedream, and I’d bet there are some pretty ticked off investors right now.
You know, people will blanch or laugh when I say this, but here’s the proof. Welcome to the new Che Nation, thanks to the God-less Commie Liberals.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Oil Industry, Congress, Liberals, Democrats,
It seems that Larry Sinclair, the guy who is, in fact, a convicted criminal, who has made some pretty wild and quite unbelievable accusations against Obama. was arrested yesterday after a circus-like press conference yesterday.
Reason Magazine was there and reports:
How did Sinclair hold up? Rather terribly. He started with a lengthy statement that admitted most (not all) of his crimes and dispatched Sibley to run around the room with a microphone. As Seth Colter Walls recounts, most of the questions were legalistic and (somewhat) credulous. Sinclair was asked who funded the event (donors, over the internet), how he made his living (he’s on disability), and whether Obama was “well hung” (I’m not going to dignify his answer here). The only new “evidence” he presented was the name of a limo driver and the bar where he claimed to have met Obama (who, in Sinclair’s story, used his real name and job title as he rendevouzed with a cruising criminal he’d never met before).
It also seems that the ending of the Press Conference didn’t not go so well either:
“Thank you.” Sinclair moved on and Sibley refused to let me ask another question. Why didn’t I wait until the end of the press conference and rush up to the accuser? The second Sinclair stopped taking questions, he fled the room and reporters were denied access to anyone but Sibley. I was a little disappointed until I heard the reason. Larry Sinclair was arrested after the press conference and is being held by the Washington, D.C. metropolitan police. He’s been charged as a fugitive from justice; one of his warrants can be seen here.
So much for making a big impression of the Main Stream Media. Anyhow, I predict that this will be yesterdays news by later today. Although, it did kind of strike me as quite funny that the Police would show up and have the man arrested, Although, from what I read, a couple of talk show jocks were behind that.
I also noticed something else, AmericaBlog Reports:
In his post about Larry Sinclair, the now-jailed (again) guy spreading bizarre rumors about Obama, Ben Smith notes the following:
At the Press Club, Avi also ran into Will Bower, a sometimes-Huffington Post blogger who founded “Party Unity, My Ass” – a group for die-hard Clinton supporters that are now backing McCain – and was invited by the McCain campaign last weekend to meet with the presumptive Republican nominee, and called Sinclair’s story “worth exploring.”
And from Ben’s post 4 days ago, we confirm that Will Bower was in fact invited, and did attend, a private meeting with McCain last weekend. Anyone else find it interesting that McCain is wooing a guy who is telling the media that Sinclair’s smears are “worth exploring”? I’d love to know what the McCain campaign’s involvement is here, whether they talked to Bower about this story, whether Bower told them he was going to the press conference, whether they’re now prepared to reject and denounce Bower for trying to push this story? It’s just a bit sleazy finding John McCain’s name mixed up in all of this.
Now that would be some news, McCain springs the guy out and lets him tell his story to the McCain supporters. Although, I highly and seriously doubt that McCain’s people would even touch this story or this guy. Because if he is largely discredited, and McCain used this, it would blow up in his face. Hell, even Huckabee even said if the G.O.P. tried to demonize Obama that they would pay for it dearly.
Like I said, this rather silly story will be yesterday’s news by noon today.
Technorati Tags: Larry Sinclair, Barack Obama, Politics, Opinion, Election 2008, Election 08, democrats, Liberals,
The Politico reports:
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
The campaign has apologized to the women, both Obama supporters who said they felt betrayed by their treatment at the rally.
“Although we welcome the Obama campaign’s apology, we are extremely concerned about the level of Islamophobia in our society that would prompt other minorities to view Muslim supporters as potential liabilities. We hope that Senator Obama will personally apologize to the two women and that he decries the current Islamophobic climate in our nation that is not only attacking him but has even jaded some within his own campaign.”
Seriously people, what further proof do we need that this man isn’t ready to be president.
Update: Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this or not, But if John McCain’s staffers had pulled something like this, the level of outrage would be deafening, and He would have been shamed out of the race. But when Barry’s people does it, it is no big deal and will be yesterday’s news by tomorrow.
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Just one thing to say there, you Commie Liberal Fascist Asshole.
Fuck Off….
If you’re Blog is any indication of the intelligence level that runs in your family. I can certainly see where you got it from.
I can also see where you get your disrespectful attitude too.
Now go play pivot boy to your circle jerk Liberal Boyfriends and have a nice day.
NEXT!
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Senator Barack Obama claims to be the Senator of Hope and Change, and of New Politics.
If this is the case, then what the heck do you call this? Click here, Please.
I mean, I can see people not liking the site, But threats? Foul Language? Why can’t Obama supporters handle criticism of their so-called “messiah?”
I mean, what else do we need to see, to finally figure out, that this man is nothing more than some sleazy Chicago politician?
At this point, he could be promising a million bucks for every US Citizen, I still wouldn’t vote for him. Not because he is black, but because he’s a fake, offering false hope, and pipe dreams, idealism and smoke and mirrors. All the while taking your money and laughing behind your back.
If that Bastard gets elected, I fear the direction that this country will take. He must be defeated. There is no more question about, he must be defeated at ALL costs.
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This is from the same party, who highlighted John Kerry on a wind sail, which was flipping back and forth, and they used that, as one of the biggest examples of his leadership.
This is the same party which claims that “staying the course” and not giving up, in Iraq, is the only solution to the supposed, “War on terror”.
Now, Who’s the flip flopper?
Technorati Tags: Politics, Opinion, Republicans, John McCain, McCain, Bush, White House, Congress, Offshore Oil Drilling, Gas Prices, Opinion,
A severed human foot was found washed up on an island on the western coast of Canada this week, the fifth detached foot found in the area in the past 11 months, according to local police and media reports.
The foot was found Monday on the shore of Westham Island south of Vancouver, according to Constable Sharlene Brooks of the Delta Police Department in British Columbia.
The severed left foot, which was in a shoe, was taken to a coroner for DNA tests, she added.
The foot was one of five found in area recently, she said.
“Our first step is to establish identity,” Brooks said. “It is a little mysterious, but we don’t know if it is linked to others.”
According to the Vancouver Sun newspaper, the other four feet found in the area since August were right feet.
Exit question: Now they’re cutting off the feet of people in Canada, who get sideways with the Human Right Tribunal? Yikes!
Some have Obama on top, some have McCain on top… it’s crazy… go read it and figure it up. Chuck Todd, I’m not.
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The reason is, because sheer stupidity of it all, is about deafening.
When Obama comes out with some specifics of HOW exactly he is going to change this country from this stiff veer that it is taking off this Bush-made cliff, then I might have something positive to say about him, but all I ever hear is vagueness, idealism, and smoke and mirrors.
I don’t want to be told to “Just go to Obama’s Website”, I want to hear it out of HIS mouth, of how HE intends to change this country, I want to hear specifics. Not just fluffy speeches, but cold, hard, facts.
Until I hear this, he’s nothing more, to me, than just some inexperienced, empty suit, Idealist politician.
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Let me repeat this, one more time:
I will not approve comments that are insulting to me in nature. Please, do not waste your time or mine, leaving comments that are insulting to me.
That is all…
You know, I am all for copyright enforcement and respecting of other people’s intellectual property and all that kind of stuff, but this is just downright stupid and will end up costing the AP readership in the end.
I will continue the boycott of quoting or linking directly to AP articles until this stupidity stops.
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As some of you know, I have some detractors who think that I am nothing more than some unemployable loser, who everyone in America hates, while I tend not to listen to what people say or think about me, it is comforting to know that there are people, who think much like me, reading this thing.
Again, I thank you for the readership and I will strive to bring you, my opinions on this election, right up till the bitter end. I might not be one of the bigger names in this business, but I will never compromise, nor will I ever sell out. I will always tell you what I feel about a particular subject, no matter unpopular that opinion might be. I will not sell out my opinions to special interest, ever. You have my word on this.
Thank You again for your most faithful readership.
-Chuck
Quote from the New York Daily News:
Hillary Clinton will join Barack Obama for a joint appearance in Washington next week to persuade her donors to begin giving to the Democrats’ nominee, the Daily News has learned.
It’s the first known plan to bring together the victor and vanquished from the Democrat primary race and put their pledges of unity for the fall campaign into action.
Jonathan Mantz, Clinton’s national finance director, sent top Clinton fundraisers an e-mail today inviting them to the event on June 26.
“As we move forward, we invite you to join us for a National Finance Committee meeting with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Thursday, June 26th in Washington, D.C., to discuss how we can work together to support Barack Obama and the Democratic Party,” Mantz wrote.
“Hillary ran for President because she wants to put this country on the right track,” Mantz wrote. “She continues to fight and stand strong for our values and priorities and will do everything she can to unify the party and to elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States.”
I just wonder how much Racism, fear mongering and Republican style attacks will be used at this little get together? I wonder if Hillary will whine publicly about how she was entitled to the Presidency, because she was a woman?
It is to wonder….
Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Conservative, Democrat, Democrats, Election ’08, Election 2008, Funny, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Humor, Liberal, Liberals, News, Obama, Opinion, Politics, Stupidity
John over at AmericaBlog News has more:
Expect the Republican party to do absolutely nothing about the racists in its own midst. The national Republican party in Washington has contacts all the time with its state parties. I’m sure there’s money involved, and you’d better believe that when John McCain visits the states, he meets with local party officials. At what point do we hold John McCain responsible for fraternizing with racists? You don’t see John McCain ever saying that he’s no longer going to meet with, fundraise with, any state parties that promote or tolerate racism (like the folks in NC and TN). All McCain and that national party does is say "gosh, that’s so bad, stop that now." McCain and the GOP have the power to punish the racists in their midst. So when will they? Oh, and for all of you in the media who will of course say that this has nothing to do with the GOP: What would you say if racist pins were being handed out at the Democratic National Convention?
Centrist Justin over at Donklephant, weighs in on this:
Many things have been labelled as “racist” in this campaign season, and most of them don’t come anywhere close to qualifying.
However, this button is absolutely, 100% out of line, and I hope that once the state GOPers find out about it, they’ll demand this vendor leaves. I mean, this is a convention where Mike Huckabee was speaking. I wouldn’t imagine he’d be pleased to find out that he could be associated with something this vile.
Count me in as someone that thinks that this is totally out of line. I mean, you don’t like Obama, nail him on his positions and his Politics, not on his skin color.
More via memeornadum
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Dana Milbank at the Washington Post wrote a rather humorous column about Juan McSame. Well, it seems that the self righteous Kool-Aid drinking Right Wingers at NewsBusters took issue with a line in Dana’s Column.
The line in question:
If John McCain keeps dancing like this, he’s liable to break a hip.
Well, that was not acceptable to the supporters of the former womanizing, coke headed, alcoholic, known to the rest of the world, as President of the United States of America.
They sniffed profusely:
While it is fair to note McCain’s delicate balancing act in reaching out to liberal-leaning independents while working to secure and retain the base conservative Republican vote, the "break a hip" snark is rather uncalled for.
But this same Blog/Website/whatever you want to call it, it’s lame anyhow, by Web 2.0 standards, praises Ann Coulter for her columns and remarks.
Here is a good sampling of Ann Coulter’s Quotes:
Sourced
* I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.
o Her column; December 21, 2005
o Governmental responsibility* We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.
o Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story (1998), pg. 183* If Americans support abortion, let’s vote. . . Just this past term, in Stenberg vs. Carhart, the court expanded the apocryphal abortion right to an all-new right to stick a fork in the head of a half-born baby.
o Her syndicated column, 12/28/2000* Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You’re for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax hikes pass their lips.
o Her syndicated column, February 2, 2002* Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.
o Her syndicated column, September 28, 2001Jersey Girls (A group of 9/11 Widows)
* These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis… These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them… I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.
o Excerpt which caused media controversy Godless: The Church of Liberalism June 2006[1][2]Al Gore
* If Gore had been elected president, right now he would just be finding that last lesbian quadriplegic for the Special Forces team.
o Fall Fashion Preview: Cowboy Boots In, Flip-Flops Out; October 14, 2004
* I don’t know if [former U.S. President Bill Clinton is] gay. But [former U.S. Vice President] Al Gore – total fag.
o Media Matters; July 26, 2006* The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don’t want to suggest that Al’s getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me — we have to do something about saving the polar bears."
* Never mind his carbon footprint — have you seen the size of Al Gore’s regular footprint lately? It’s almost as deep as Janet Reno’s
Al Sharpton
When referring to Al Sharpton is a, "fat, race-baiting black man with clownish hairstyles"[1]
Airport security
* Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
o This Is War; September 12, 2001* Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.
o AnnCoulter.com; November 22, 2006* We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.
o This Is War; September 12, 2001Bill Clinton
* Bill Clinton "was a very good rapist"; "I’m getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties"; "I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.
o New York Observer, January 10, 2005
Canada* [Canadians] better hope the United States does not roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.
o Fox News; Hannity & Colmes, November 30, 2004Christianity
* The Episcopals don’t demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages — it’s much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments — or "Moses’ talking points" — but hasten to add that they’re not exactly "carved in stone."
o The Jesus Thing; January 7, 2004* Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of ‘kill everyone who doesn’t smell bad and doesn’t answer to the name Mohammed’).
o From her column; March 4, 2004* "Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it."
o Godless: The Church of Liberalism, p. 21
Court-ordered desegregation of schools
* Few failures have been more spectacular. Illiterate students knifing one another between acts of sodomy in the stairwell is just one of the many eggs that had to be broken to make the left’s omelette of transferring power from states to the federal government.
o Ashcroft And The Blowhard Discuss DesegregationDan Rather
* What are the odds that Dan Rather would have accepted such blatantly phony documents from, say, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?
o C-BS; September 16, 2004Darfur conflict
* These people can’t even wrap up genocide. We’ve been hearing about this slaughter in Darfur forever — and they still haven’t finished. The aggressors are moving like termites across that country. It’s like genocide by committee. Who’s running this holocaust in Darfur, FEMA? This is truly a war in which we have absolutely no interest.
o [3]; April 4, 2007Democrats
* a question on reparations has got to be confusing when you’re half-white and half-black. What do you do? Demand an apology for slavery and money from yourself? I guess biracial reparations would involve sending yourself money, then sending back a portion of that money to yourself, minus 50 percent in processing fees — which is the same way federal aid works.
(regarding Barack Obama)
* There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats.
o Interview with Brian Lamb; August 11, 2002* Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of covert signals to identify one another, much like gay men do. My allies are the ones wearing crosses or American flags. The people sporting shirts emblazened with the "F-word" are my opponents. Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side, most of them barely able to conceal their eye-rolling.
o On the 2004 Democratic Convention; July 26, 2004* The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats’ behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle. They fill the airwaves with treason, but when called to vote on withdrawing troops, disavow their own public statements. These people are not only traitors, they are gutless traitors.
o New Idea for Abortion Party: Aid the Enemy; November 23, 2005* In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today’s Democrats. It’s as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.
o Fork replaces donkey as Democratic party symbol; January 12, 2006* I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word "faggot", so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.
o Speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Washington, DC, March 2, 2007
o Coulter’s Slur Against Edwards Stirs Outrage. WNBC.com (March 4, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-03-05.* In fairness to Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew. (Answer: George Soros.)
o May, 3, 2007;* For six years, the Bush administration has kept America safe from another terrorist attack, allowing the Democrats to claim that the war on terrorism is a fraud, a "bumper sticker," a sneaky ploy by a power-mad president to create an apocryphal enemy so he could spy on innocent librarians in Wisconsin. And that’s the view of the moderate Democrats. The rest of them think Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks.
o The ‘Bumper Sticker’ That Blows Up; July 18, 2007* In anticipation of their surrender strategy becoming substantially less popular in the wake of another terrorist attack, the Democrats are all claiming that the threat of terrorism was nonexistent — notwithstanding 9/11, the Cole bombing, the bombing of our embassies, the bombing of the World Trade Center, the Achille Lauro, etc. etc. — until George Bush invaded Iraq.
o The ‘Bumper Sticker’ That Blows Up; July 18, 2007* Now our forces are killing lots of al-Qaida jihadists, preventing another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and giving democracy in Iraq a chance — and Democrats say we are "losing" this war. I think that’s a direct quote from their leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, but it may have been the Osama bin Laden tape released this week. I always get those two confused.
OK, they knew what Petraeus was going to say. But we knew what the Democrats were going to say. If liberals are not traitors, their only fallback argument at this point is that they’re really stupid.
*
o From the halls of Malibu to the Shores of Kennedy; September 12, 2007Enviromentalism
* The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that’s the Biblical view.
o Oil Good; Democrats bad; October 12, 2000* God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’
o Fox News; Hannity & Colmes; June 20, 2001
o (References to Genesis 1:28. See also Dominionism)European Union
* The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims.
o May, 2, 2007 [4]Evolution
* I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions, like the Cargo Cult of the South Pacific. Practitioners of Cargo Cult believed that manufactured products were created by ancestral spirits, and if they imitated what they had seen the white man do, they could cause airplanes to appear out of the sky, bringing valuable cargo like radios and TVs. So they
constructed “airport towers” out of bamboo and “headphones” out of coconuts and waited for the airplanes to come with the cargo. It may sound silly, but in defense of the Cargo Cult, they did not wait as long for evidence supporting their theory as the Darwinists have waited for evidence supporting theirs.
o Exclusive Interview: Coulter Says Book Examines ‘Mental Disorder’ of Liberalism; June 6, 2006Freedom of speech
* They’re [Democrats] always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let’s do it. Let’s repress them. Frankly, I’m not a big fan of the First Amendment.
o University of Florida speech; October 20, 2005George W. Bush
* The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America’s greatest presidents.
o June 11, 2008 [5]Gun Control
* Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can’t shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic "Gun-Free School Zone" laws.
* From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?
o Let’s Make America a ‘Sad-Free Zone’!; April 18, 2007Homosexuals
* And why is it "homophobic" for Senate Republicans to look askance at sex in public bathrooms? Is the Times claiming that sodomy in public bathrooms is the essence of being gay? I thought gays just wanted to get married to one another and settle down in the suburbs so they could visit each other in the hospital.
o [6]; September 5, 2007Immigration
* I’d build a wall. In fact, I’d hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here. […] It’s cheap labor.
o Fox News; The O’Reilly Factor; Transcript via Media Matters; April 14, 2006
o On illegal immigrationIraq War
* I was not enthusiastic about the last Gulf war. Of course, it goes without saying, I rooted for our team once the shooting started. But I wasn’t for that war. I was also against sending Americans to the Balkans. My point is, I’m genuinely against America deploying troops without a really, really good reason. I just can’t imagine anyone not seeing 9/11 as a really good reason for wiping out Islamic totalitarians.
o [7]; May 17, 2003* When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we’re up against absolutely insane savages.
o [8]; August 16, 2004
o War on Terror v. Cold War
+ It was this idea (Be nice!) that fueled liberals’ rage at Reagan when he vanquished the Soviet Union with his macho "cowboy diplomacy" that was going to get us all blown up. As the Times editorial page hysterically described Reagan’s first year in office: "Mr. Reagan looked at the world through gun sights." Yes, he did! And now the Evil Empire is no more.
# [9] Are videotaped beheadings covered by Geneva? September 20, 2006* … as for catching Osama, it’s irrelevant. Things are going swimmingly in Afghanistan.
o Responding to assertions about problems with Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan
o Fox News; Hannity & Colmes, August 24, 2006. videoIslam
* We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
o [10]" September 12, 2001* Point one and point two by the end of the week had become official government policy. As for converting them to Christianity, I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels. I mean perhaps that’s the Peace Corps, perhaps it’s working for Planned Parenthood, but I’ve never seen the transforming effect of anything like that Christianity.
o The Drudge Report; June 26, 2002
o From an interview with Katie Couric* Bumper sticker idea for liberals: News magazines don’t kill people, Muslims do.
o [11]; May 18, 2005* One [cartoon] showed Muhammad turning away suicide bombers from the gates of heaven, saying "Stop, stop — we ran out of virgins!" — which I believe was a commentary on Muslims’ predilection for violence. Another was a cartoon of Muhammad with horns, which I believe was a commentary on Muslims’ predilection for violence. The third showed Muhammad with a turban in the shape of a bomb, which I believe was an expression of post-industrial ennui in a secular — oops, no, wait: It was more of a commentary on Muslims’ predilection for violence … Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back.
o Calvin and Hobbes – and Muhammad; February 8, 2006
o Regarding the cartoon controversy* I think our motto should be, post-9-11, ‘raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.’
o At CPAC Conference; February 10, 2006* You know, ok. I made a few jokes — and they killed 3000 Americans. Fair trade.
o At CPAC Conference Q&A; February 10, 2006
o In response to using the term "raghead"* The amazing part of the great Danish cartoon caper isn’t that Muslims immediately engage in acts of mob violence when things don’t go their way. That is de rigueur for the Religion of Peace. Their immediate response to all bad news is mass violence. That’s a "dog bites man" story and belongs on page B-34, next to the grade school hot lunch menu and the birth notices. After an Egyptian ferry capsized recently, killing hundreds of passengers, a whole braying mob of passengers’ relatives staged an organized attack on the company, throwing furniture out the window and burning the building to the ground. Witnesses say it was the most violent ocean liner-related incident since Carnival Cruise Lines fired
Kathie Lee Gifford. The ‘offense to Islam’ ruse is merely an excuse for Muslims to revert to their default mode: rioting and setting things on fire.
o Muslim Bites Dog; February 15, 2006
o Regarding the cartoon controversy* Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.
o Muslim Bites Dog; February 15, 2006* Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.
o What Can I Do to Make Your Flight More Uncomfortable?; November 22, 2006John McCain
* If he’s our candidate, then Hillary’s gonna be our girl, Sean, because she’s more conservative than he is…I will campaign for her if it’s McCain.
* On John McCain’s then-possibility of being the 2008 Republican Party nominee for President [12]
Judaism
* No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. … That’s what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. …That is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews. We believe the Old Testament. As you know from the Old Testament, God was constantly getting fed up with humans for not being able to live up to all the laws. What Christians believe — this is just a statement of what the New Testament is — is that that’s why Christ came and died for our sins. Christians believe the Old Testament. You don’t believe our testament.
o From "Jewish Groups Condemn, Boycott Ann Coulter", said on Donny Deutsch’s CNBC show "The Big Idea"; October 8, 2007
o Interview transcript; October 8, 2007Law
* The presumption of innocence only means you don’t go right to jail.
o Fox News; Hannity & Colmes; August 24, 2001Liberals
* Vester: You say you’d rather not talk to liberals at all?
Coulter: I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days.
o (FOX News Channel, DaySide with Linda Vester, 10/6)* When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.
o Conservative Political Action Conference; February 26, 2002* A couple [of] alleged males attempted to sucker punch a 100-pound woman and missed. And they ended up with their faces smashed in and spending the night in the Pima County Jail, where I’m sure — being good liberals — their views on gay marriage will serve them well.
o The Sean Hannity Show; October 22, 2004
o Her feelings on having 2 protestors throw pies at her during a speech* The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.
o Online promotional material; June 6, 2006; accessed June 17, 2006* So for those of you who haven’t read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.
o [13]; June 28, 2007; accessed June 29, 2007* Ironically, for all of [liberals’] love of conspiracy theories — the rigging of the 2000 election, vote suppression in Ohio in 2004, 9/11 being an inside job, oil companies covering up miracle technology that would allow cars to run on dirt, Britney Spears’ career, etc., etc. — when presented with an actual conspiracy of Soviet spies infiltrating the U.S. government, they laughed it off like world-weary skeptics and dedicated themselves to slandering Joe McCarthy.
o [14], November 8, 2007Media
* Would that it were so! … That the American military were targeting journalists.
o CNBC; Kudlow & Cramer; February 7, 2005* "Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president"
o (Version of her February 23, 2005 article, "REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY!" at her website
o Universal Press Syndicate edited this line for distribution, changing the phrase "that old Arab Helen Thomas" to "that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas."* I have to say I’m all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the ‘hood to be flogged publicly.
o MSNBC, 22 March 1997
o Quoted in "The Wisdom of Ann Coulter", The Washington Monthly, October 2001. URL accessed on 2007-04-09.Miers, Harriet
* Harriet Miers isn’t qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing, let alone to be a real one.
o "This is what ‘Advice and Consent’ means"; October 5, 2005Military
* Southerners are truly our warrior class.
o ["McCain and the Flag"; February 15, 2000Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.
* [15]’Pretend to be all you can be’ October 3, 2007
New York Times
* My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.
o New York Observer article; August 26, 2002* Of course I regret it. I should have added ‘after everyone had left the building except the editors and the reporters.’
o rightwingnews.com; June 26, 2003
o On her (above) statement concerning Timothy McVeigh* [Learning difficulties are a cover for] rich parents with dumb kids…That’s why ‘Pinch’ Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia – because he’s retarded.
o The Independent; August 16, 2004
o Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of New York TimesPrincess Diana
"Her children knew she’s sleeping with all these men. That just seems to me, it’s the definition of ‘not a good mother.’ … Is everyone just saying here that it’s okay to ostentatiously have premarital sex in front of your children?"…"[Diana is] an ordinary and pathetic and confessional – I’ve never had bulimia! I’ve never had an affair! I’ve never had a divorce! So I don’t think she’s better than I am."—MSNBC 9/12/97 [16]
Republicans
* You don’t want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?
o In response to a student’s question: "You don’t want the Democrats in power, so does that mean you want a dictatorship?"
o Liberals Are Wrong About Everything; Indiana University, February 23, 2006Social security
* Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal.
o WorldNetDaily; December 10, 2003, "Vegan computer geeks for Dean"Spying
* Which brings me to this week’s scandal about No Such Agency spying on ‘Americans.’ I have difficulty ginning up much interest in this story inasmuch as I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East, and sending liberals to Guantanamo.
o Live and Let Spy; December 21, 2005Stevens, Justice John Paul
* We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’s creme brulee. That’s just a joke, for you in the media.
o Philander Smith College January 26, 2006 [17]Terrorism
* If Chicago had been hit, I assure you New Yorkers would not have cared. What was stunning when New York was hit was how the rest of America rushed to New York’s defense. New Yorkers would have been like, ‘It’s tough for them; now let’s go back to our Calvin Klein fashion shows.’
o [18]; May 17, 2003Women
* I think [women] should be armed but should not vote…women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it…it’s always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.
o Comedy Central; Politically Incorrect; February 26, 2001* It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.
o [19]; May 17, 2003* I think the other point that no one is making about the [Abu Ghraib] abuse photos is just the disproportionate number of women involved, including a girl general running the entire operation. I mean, this is lesson, you know, number 1,000,047 on why women shouldn’t be in the military. In addition to not being able to carry even a medium-sized backpack, women are too vicious.
o Fox News; Hannity & Colmes; May 5, 2004* Girl-power feminists who got where they are by marrying men with money or power — Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Arianna Huffington and John Kerry — love to complain about how hard it is for a woman to be taken seriously. It has nothing to do with their being women. It has to do with their cheap paths to power. Kevin Federline isn’t taken seriously either.
o I am woman, hear me bore; January 24, 2007Voting
* I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
o Fox News; Hannity & Colmes; August 17, 1997Quotes from books
* Liberals’ only remaining big issue is abortion because of their beloved sexual revolution. That’s their cause: Spreading anarchy and polymorphous perversity. Abortion permits that.
o Slander (2002); ISBN 1400046610* "Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can’t stand the competition."
o Slander (2002) ISBN 1400046610, p. 194* Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. They don’t have the energy. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now.
o Slander (2002) ISBN 1400046610, p. 5-6* Ozzy Osbourne has his bats, and I have that darn "convert them to Christianity" quote. Some may not like what I said, but I’m still waiting to hear a better suggestion.
o Treason (2003); ISBN 1400050308* "We’ll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy."
o How to Talk to a Liberal (2004); ISBN 1400054184 p. 147* "Finally, all the candidates are willing to sell out any of these other issues in service of the one burning desire of all Democrats: abortion on demand. If they could just figure out a way to abort babies using solar power, that’s all we’d ever hear about."
o How to Talk to a Liberal (2004); ISBN 1400054184 p. 49* The only standard journalists respect is: Will this story promote the left-wing agenda?
o How to Talk to a Liberal (2004); ISBN 1400054184* The Times was rushing to assure its readers that ‘prominent Islamic scholars and theologians in the West say unequivocally that nothing in Islam countenances the Sept. 11 actions.’ (That’s if you set aside Muhammad’s many specific instructions to kill nonbelievers whenever possible)
  o How to Talk to a Liberal (2004); ISBN 1400054184
* Like the Democrats, Playboy just wants to liberate women to behave like pigs, have sex without consequences, prance about naked, and abort children.
o How to Talk to a Liberal (2004); ISBN 1400054184* Our book is Genesis. Their book is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax.
o Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006); ISBN 0978602412* We are simultaneously supposed to gasp in awe at teachers’ raw dedication and be forced to listen to their incessant caterwauling about how they don’t make enough money. Well, which is it? Are they dedicated to teaching tomorrow’s future or are they in it for the money? After all the carpiing about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching procession for the big bucks, aren’t they too stupid to be teaching our kids?
o Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006); ISBN 0978602412* I’m here, I’m not queer, and I’m not going away.
o Lou Dobbs Tonight
o On Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006); ISBN 0978602412Quotes about Ann Coulter
* She’s a fascist party doll!
o Objecting to Bill Maher’s imminent tele-interview with Coulter
o Richard Belzer, Real Time with Bill Maher [2.22] (episode 42), October 29, 2004; panel discussion with Maher, Kevin Costner, and Wesley ClarkUnsourced
* Conservatives believe man was created in God’s image, while liberals believe they are gods. All of the behavioral tics of the liberals proceed from their godless belief that they can murder the unborn because they, the liberals, are themselves gods. They try to forcibly create ‘equality’ through affirmative action and wealth redistribution because they are gods. They flat-out lie, with no higher power to constrain them, because they are gods. They adore pornography and the mechanization of sex because man is just an animal, and they are gods. They revere the UN and not the U.S. because they aren’t Americans — they are gods.
* Liberals refuse to condemn what societies have condemned for thousands of years – e.g., promiscuity, divorce, illegitimacy, homosexuality.
* This is the way addled liberals really think. Even as they champion sucking the brains out of little babies, they think of themselves as indelibly compassionate because they favor an overweening, behemoth federal government.
* Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.
o Cornell Review, 1984, reported in Time, April 2005, unspecified article* Canada has become trouble recently. It’s always the worst Americans who go there. We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They’re the only good parts of Canada.
* Because they speak French.
* No wonder you guys lost.
o MSNBC, 1996, unspecified date, , unspecified program/segment
o To disabled Vietnam veteran Bobby Muller who made the incorrect statement that 90% of American soldiers "blown up" by landmines in Vietnam had hit American landmines. Coulter claimed that Muller was appearing by satellite and that she did not know he was disabled* My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that’s because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.
o MSNBC; February 8, 1997, unspecified program/segment* If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one [teenage] gunman. … Don’t pray. Learn to use guns.
o Politically Incorrect; December 18, 1997
o Heath High School shooting (where a gunman killed 3 students at a prayer meeting at the school). When she said "Don’t pray," Coulter may have been asked whether she approved of praying in school* [A] cruise missile is more important than Head Start.
o From a speech, November 2001, rebroadcast by C-SPAN in January 2002, unspecific date, unspecified program/segment
o Education spending vs. defense spending* In a war on terrorism, I could care less about regulating who sleeps with who.
o On homosexuality* We’ve been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy…We’ve gone from a representative democracy to a monarchy, and the most appalling thing is – even conservatives just hope like the dickens the next king is a good one.
I just wonder, how many of these quotes has NewsBusters taken issue with? It is to truly wonder.
I know, it’s a silly headline, but it serves it’s purpose. 8^D
Quote:
Perhaps one day someone will write a chapter about Al Gore in a new book titled “Profiles In Uncourage.”
Democratic presumptive Presidential nominee Barack Obama finally got what he and former rival Senator Hillary Clinton had pined for all these months — THE endorsement from former Vice President Al Gore.
But it came so late in the game that the person who’ll be most impressed with it will be Tipper Gore.
Did anyone think that after the smoke had cleared and the choices became Obama and GOPer John McCain that Al Gore would announce: “I am here to say that I am throwing my considerable weight behind John McCain for President of the United States!!”
Gore’s endorsement — which will generate lots of news stories, sound bytes and blog posts (like this one) is the biggest anti-climax since reporters started wondering if Ralph Nader would run for President again, and Nader announced he would. — Obama Gets "The" Endorsement: The Lousy Timing of Al Gore by JOE GANDELMAN (via The Moderate Voice)
I see Joe’s point, but my goodness, I don’t believe Joe could have been more “towel snapped on naked ass” about it, if he wanted to be.
….and I thought I was a jaded blogger.
I had resisted Blogging about this, because I felt like my little insignificant Blog would not make much of a dent.
But here it is:
Scott Loper, a U.S. citizen living in Canada, was a good cop, highly trained in surveillance and criminal investigation.
On the verge of exposing a police-run narcotics ring in Durham, Ontario, Loper was discovered by the ring and imprisoned for four years on trumped-up charges. There, he was tortured to the point where he often questioned his ability to make it out alive.
Those he had been about to expose were after the evidence – audio and video recordings Loper had made of their illegal operations. They also wanted him to keep quiet.
The Canadian government originally said the whole thing, including Loper’s arrest, never happened, denying that Loper had ever lived in Canada, let alone been incarcerated there.
Had Loper been unable to produce evidence of his imprisonment, the denial would have succeeded. Loper had that evidence, which he had stuffed into his jeans as he was being released.
Caught in their lie, the Canadians want the whole ordeal swept under the rug. The U.S. government, rather than protecting its citizen, is complying with the cover-up.
Now free, and living in the United States, Scott Loper’s main goals are involved with putting his life back in order and more importantly, to find his son Eddy, now 11 years old. Scott has not seen or heard from his wife and son since his arrest.
Article 36 of the Vienna Convention, signed by 164 nations in 1967, states that those nations are bound to notify foreign nationals, when arrested, of their right to contact their embassy or consulate, allowing that embassy or consulate to assure that citizen is treated properly.
The Canadian government says Scott Loper waived those rights. However, they could produce no document as proof of this statement. The reason, says Loper, is that no such signed document ever existed.
In an attempt to prove their lie, the Canadians finally came up with an unsigned document that holds absolutely no credibility. To add to the absurdity, the document is dated three years after Loper was arrested. Hardly the requirement of notice "without delay" as described by Article 36.
The ongoing series of articles on the right are written by World Net Daily staff writer Bob Unruh. They contain an amazing story of U.S. officials and Congressional representatives going to bat for Scott Loper, only to turn tail when the going got rough.
The Canadian government does not want this story to be told. The U.S. government seems happy to oblige.
There is a larger issue here that affects the safety and well-being of every U.S. citizen who ventures into another country. If the U.S. Government is unwilling to expect its neighbor to the north to comply with the Vienna Convention, what protection can we expect from our government when our rights are violated by other, less friendly countries.
The only resolution here is to force our government to do what it is supposed to do; to protect its citizens. In the case of Scott Loper, the U.S. needs to demand of the Canadian government the admission of illegal imprisonment and torture as well as compensation and help in locating his lost son.
You can read more about Scott Loper’s heart wrenching story, by going to his official website.
In the outside chance that the Media does pick this up, I do have Scott Loper’s contact information. If you need it, contact me at tpblogeditor at gmail. dot com and I will forward it to you. We need to put pressure on Washington DC and force them to get this straightened out, once and for all.
Obama appeared here in Detroit tonight. No, I did not go. I did watch it on the Internet. It was the same ol’ stump speech, with all it’s idealism and lofty promises, with zero substance as to how he plans to do all these things, he says he will do. Which comes of no surprise to me at all, we are talking about Democrats here. One thing to realize, Hitler made promises too.
In other news, A former Hillary staffer was hired by Obama’s campaign, some are calling this a big time slam to Hillary. I hold off on calling it that. The chick was looking for a job, I say, if she can do it, let her. I doubt she will be doing senior staff duties.
As you all can see, I have yanked the AP Videos.
I realized that those video are authorized by the AP and are made available through Clip Syndicate. But the AP has, in my opinion, committed the unpardonable sin. They have imposed restrictions on how Bloggers can use their stories. So, until the AP changes their polices, I will not be quoting from the AP and I encourage all bloggers to do the same.
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