Year: 2010

Sarah Palin needs help with her legal bills

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I received this via e-mail:


Dear Pat,

Time is running out.

Since the first frivolous ethics charges were filed against Sarah Palin two years ago, legal bills for the Palin family have mounted into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Last year, friends of the family set up the Alaska Fund Trust to help pay legal fees. They used the words “official legal fund” so that supporters would know it was the fund trusted by the Palins.
But now — because Governor Palin used the word “official” —  an independent counsel decided that Sarah Palin “violated” the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act when she served as governor of the state.
Funds donated to the Alaska Fund Trust were immediately frozen until the legal challenge was sorted out.
Governor Palin has now agreed to send the money back to the donors. This means that not a single dollar of the trust fund went to pay the Governor’s massive legal fees.
On June 24, 2010 a new legal defense fund — The Sarah Palin Legal Defense Fund — was created to pay these urgent legal bills.
We set up the new fund to cover the Palin’s legal bills for past, present, and future attacks.
The fund has been set up by friends and trusted advisors of Governor Palin.
Let’s help Governor Palin with this incredible burden that no citizen should have to bear and  free her to speak out on behalf of conservatives all across this great country.
Will you help us relieve Governor Palin of this burden?

Pat, as a supporter of Governor Palin, help us with the legal fees stemming from those frivolous charges against Governor Palin.

Yours truly,

Tim Crawford

Trustee

The Sarah Palin Legal Defense Fund


 The Sarah Palin Legal Defense Fund | www.SarahPalinLegalDefenseFund.org | info@sarahpalinlegaldefensefund.org

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Now, I will tell you this; I was never really a huge Palin fan. But I thought the gal got a raw deal with the liberal media and from idiots that put this Lady through the mill. I am asking those who actually read this blog to help Palin out. Further more, because of hateful bastards like these twits here, I am asking that you double your support for Palin.

The main reason why I even wanted to get involved with this; is this fact right here:

They called it the Alaska Fund Trust, the “official legal fund” for Governor Palin.

In fact, they added the words “official legal fund” so that supporters would know it was not just approved by the family, but that it complied with disclosure requirements, had professional management, created limits on who could donate and how much could be donated, and a variety of other restrictions that made it a very conservative and limited trust.

Further, the word “official” was used to distinguish the Alaska Fund Trust from other legal defense funds that were starting to pop up and no one knew if these would comply with disclosure laws, lobbyist restrictions, etc.

But now – because she used the word “official” – an independent counsel decided that the Trust “violated” the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act and now requires the Trust to send back every single donation raised by the defense fund while she was governor.

The left-wing media wants you to think Gov. Palin is an “ethics violator.” But they ignore the actual findings that Gov. Palin acted in good faith and relied on a team of expert trust lawyers to set it up.

They ignore that Gov. Palin stated one overriding principle: if the trust fund could be lawfully set up, she would support it. That is hardly the action of a person bent on skirting the law, contrary to the hysterical commentaries. But they ignore the truth and prefer to propagate lies about Sarah Palin.

They DON’T want you to know:

  • The National Democratic Committee used its Alaska chapter, the Alaska Democratic Party (ADP), to create a website with one stated goal: “Keep Sarah Palin Out of Public Office.” To this day, the Democrats use this website to publicly seek donations for funding bogus “legal challenges involving issues related to Sarah Palin.”
  • The ADP’s “Keep Sarah Palin Out of Public Office” campaign used our own legal system to sponsor more than two dozen ethics complaints against Governor Palin. Out of the 27 complaints, 26 were dismissed!
  • The so-called “independent counsel” who started this investigation was an attorney from President Barack Obama’s law firm.

The money in the Alaska Fund Trust has been frozen and bills gone unpaid.

You see the part up there, that I put in bold, underlined and colored red? That, my friends, is the reason why I even bothered to post this here. This crusade against Sarah Palin is nothing more than a 21 century lynching against a Conservative Christian Woman.  Admittedly, John McCain’s campaign did do some stuff wrong; at least I feel anyway… — but the bulk of blame goes towards the Democrats, who relentlessly hounded this woman to death and still continues to do so.

Which is just one, in a litany of reasons why I will never vote for anyone representing the Democratic Party, ever again.

Now, I ask you; as a Christian, as someone who believes that the Republican Party does, in fact, embrace the Tea Party values and does want to see a strong, secure America. * I ask you to help Sarah Palin pay down these legal bills, so that she can be free to enjoy the rest of her political and personal career, as she sees fit. Please, do not allow these liberal bastards to bring someone like Palin down or allow them to win the battle. Fight back, with the best weapon possible — your pocketbook. I know times are hard; In fact, I am going through tough times myself. But, all donations, no matter how big or how small will help her out.

Thanks for reading. 🙂

-Patrick

* – Disclaimer: I have never, nor will I ever, be a member or affiliated with the actual Republican National Committee. I have never as much sent them a dime. So, before you call me a Republican, please note this.


ACTION ALERT!: Sarah Palin HATE GROUP on facebook

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Not a long entry this weekend. But…

There is a facebook group named “Sarah Palin is the BIGGEST LIAR in America”

If you would kindly. Go join the group and tell this troll what you think of his group and then click on “report group.” Select Hate Speech, as this group is brimming with anti-Palin hate speech.

So, go now and take some action!

Judges rule against Obama administration on offshore oil drilling ban

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Here’s one I missed:

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late Thursday afternoon against the Obama administration in the ongoing legal battle over a moratorium on drilling for oil in offshore waters. The quick ruling came as a surprise, since Judge W. Eugene Davis had told the overflowing courtroom at the conclusion of the hearing that the decision would be handed down early next week.

The Department of Interior was petitioning to reinstate its ban on new offshore oil-drilling leases at sites in water more than 500 feet deep. At issue was the June 22 order by Judge Martin Feldman of the Eastern District Court in New Orleans overturning the moratorium. Feldman in ruled in Hornbeck v. Salazar that the drilling moratorium was over-broad and illegal. The case was brought by a coalition of businesses affected negatively by the drilling ban, led by Hornbeck Offshore Services of Covington, La. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was petitioning for a stay of Feldman’s decision, an order which would keep the moratorium in place pending a full appeal before the court several weeks from now.

Justice Department attorney Michael Gray, appearing on behalf of the Interior Department, told the court that the District Court had “abused its discretion” in overturning the moratorium. Gray went back and forth with the panel over how much harm the plaintiffs in the case could expect if the stay was granted, and if the Interior Department would suffer “irreparable harm” if the stay was denied.

via Judges rule against Obama administration on offshore oil drilling moratorium | The Daily Caller

But don’t think that the Obama Administration is going to give up.

In the 2-1 decision, the court turned down the administration’s application for the stay, saying “Secretary [Salazar] has failed to demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable injury if the stay is not granted; he has made no showing that there is any likelihood that drilling activities will be resumed pending appeal.”  The latter comment was a reference to the de facto moratorium which has been in place since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April.  The decision allowed for the federal government to apply to the court for emergency relief should any deep-water rigs actually commence drilling before the full appeal is heard on an expedited calendar in the week of August 30.

They will never give up; committed socialists never do. Remember this come November.

Quote of the Day

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I’ve just received the top-line numbers of Democracy Corps’ most recent poll. From a Democratic standpoint, there’s hardly any good news. Here are the essential findings among likely voters:

· right track/wrong track: 31/61

· the economy: has bottomed out and is starting to improve (40); is at the bottom and is not yet getting any better (22); has not yet bottomed out and will still get worse (34)

· Obama approval/disapproval: 45/51

· Obama shares/doesn’t share your values: 46/51

· Obama is/isn’t on your side: 45/52

· Obama is/isn’t too liberal: 57/38

· Obama is/isn’t a big spender: 61/34

· Obama is/isn’t a socialist: 55/39

· Obama has/doesn’t have realistic solutions to the country’s problems: 43/55

· Mean Republican/Democratic Party ratings: 46.0/43.3

· Mean Congressional Republican/Democrat ratings: 43/4/40.7

· Generic Republican/Democratic Congressional support in November: 48/42

As if all this weren’t bad enough for Democrats, the survey reveals that they’ve lost control of the narrative. For example:

“The best way to improve our economy and create jobs is to invest more to put people to work, develop new industries, and help businesses grow in expanding, new areas.”

OR

“The best way to improve our economy and create jobs is to cut government spending and cut taxes so businesses can prosper and the private sector can start creating jobs.”

FIRST STATEMENT: 43

SECOND STATEMENT: 50

I doubt that anything that will happen between now and election day (or anything Democrats can say) will substantially alter these views; history suggests that by now, they’re too entrenched. And Obama’s ratings, though higher than those of congressional Democrats, are hardly robust. It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that in this year’s contested races, Democrats who can’t win based on local issues or opposition research will probably lose.

Late Night at the PB Pub: Ozzy Osbourne

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What? You are expecting Lawrence Welk? 😛 I’m a Conservative, not an dried up old guy… 😀

For all the “Conservative Christians” who might be offended; I got one thing to say. You get all the crap out of your Churches and start actually acting like Christians, with some sort of actual separation from the World and such; and then I will clean up the content on the blog. Until then, I will continue to post music that I like. That is all.

A short note of thanks

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To Doug over at American Power for the link love from His Blog and Right Wing News.

My warmest welcome to the readers of these blogs.

The story is this; Doug was not on BlogAds and I got him an invite to join it. Doug and I don’t agree on everything. But he is a decent person. So, as someone who’s gotten my share of breaks in the Conservative Blogosphere; I thought I would help him out.

So, to the readers of both of these fine Blogs. I simply will tell you this. I might not be the perfect image of what some of you might consider a “Perfect Conservative”; but I am definitely not what I was, politically, about ten or so years ago or even maybe back in 2006, when I first started into blogging. Also, I will say this; I am not a partisan blogger, I do not and will not ever, carry water for a political party. I will always speak the truth, as to what I feel about a subject.  I will tell you what I feel, even if it means that I may just chase some readers off. I would rather you know how I feel and you decide that this blog is not for you; than for me to hold back or even lie; just for the sake of your readership and you maybe clicking my ads. Being true to one’s self is more important than any sort of profit to be made on a blog.

Again, welcome to my little humble abode, read the comment rules, and please feel free to speak back to me. 😀

To Doug I say: Merci, bedankt, tak, dankie, falënderim, hvala, and so on….

Stick a fork in Mel Gibson, he is done!

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Holy Hell! 😯 (H/T to HotAir, who needs a little lesson is ripping code from websites! 😉 )

More at Radar Online…

A partial transcript:

“You go out in public and it’s a f*cking embarrassment to me. You look like a f*cking bitch in heat. And if you get raped by a pack of ni**ers it will be your fault. Alright? Because you provoked it. You are provocatively dressed all the time with your fake boobs that you feel you have to show off. I don’t like it. I don’t want that woman. I don’t want  you. I don’t trust you. I don’t love you.”

HotAir is doing a poll. I voted; Gibson is done. There is no way he can recover from this one. I mean, this is the second time he has done something like this. He career and any sort of credibility that he had is gone. I mean, this guy did a Christian movie and then this? He is done; he’s gone.

Erick Erickson is a hypocritical twit

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Pot meet kettle….

Erick Erickson on Bob Inglis….:

Hogan mentioned Bob Bennett’s comments earlier. Bennett thought it beneath him and outside conservatism to think the constitution may limit him, a senator, from legislating.

Well, over in South Carolina, Daniel Foster points out another example, defeated Republican Bob Inglis.

Inglis, defeated in a Republican primary by tea party activists, has shared what he really thinks of conservatives — they are racist, bigotted, and easily led by villains like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.

The soon to be former congressman loathes the term “death panel” and thinks people who criticize Barack Obama are racists, just like those tea party activists who, on the day they were throwing Bob Inglis out of office, were putting in office an Indian lady and a black guy down in Charleston.

I guess they are blind racists. Somebody ask Bob Inglis to confirm.

Now just a few days ago, on Michael Steele:

I have heard Michael Steele’s comments regarding Afghanistan and the President.

I have read the RNC’s statement on the matter.

The RNC statement is indecipherable in the context of what Michael Steele actually said.

The war in Afghanistan is not a war of Barack Obama’s choosing. It is a war of Al Qaeda and the Taliban’s choosing. We responded.

Michael Steele must resign. He has lost all moral authority to lead the GOP.

That part I underlined, is the talking-point of the Wilsonian, Statist Republicans and Conservatives who believe in a perpetual war in Iraq and Afghanistan and any other damned where they think terrorists might be hiding. The truth is that nobody knows for sure, where Osama Bin Laden is even at anymore; further more, anyone who has tried to build a Nation in Afghanistan, has failed at it, but that means nothing to people like Liz Cheney and  Erick Erickson. People like these two want war — forever or as along as it is profitable to big businesses like the one’s that Dick Cheney and the Bush Family owns.

So, yeah, I am calling out Erick Erickson for his blatant hypocritical crap here.  How dare he call someone else a Statist? When he himself has made the same damned type of statements —- But just on a different subject.

Lawlessness at the DOJ?

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Unreal:

I was at the Voting Section of the Justice Department for over five years. This office is responsible for enforcing most federal election laws which do not involve criminal matters. My previous articles at Pajamas Media have spoken of the DOJ’s lawless abandonment of race-neutral enforcement of voting laws, and other outrageous conduct. I will continue to publish here at Pajamas Media more instances of failure to enforce the law equally by the Department.

One such instance relates to the Motor Voter law, and will shock Americans who care about integrity in the electoral process.

The “Motor Voter” law was passed in 1993 to promote greater voter registration in the United States. It did this — most Americans now know from visits to the DMV — by requiring states to offer voter registration materials whenever someone had contact with a variety of state offices. These included welfare offices, social service agencies, and motor vehicle departments.

A lesser-known provision also obliged the states to ensure that no ineligible voters were on the rolls — including dead people, felons, and people who had moved. Our current Department of Justice is anxious to encourage the obligations to get everyone registered, but explicitly unwilling to enforce federal law requiring states to remove the dead or ineligible from the rolls.

In November 2009, the entire Voting Section was invited to a meeting with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, a political employee serving at the pleasure of the attorney general. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Motor Voter enforcement decisions.

The room was packed with dozens of Voting Section employees when she made her announcement regarding the provisions related to voter list integrity:

We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.

Jaws dropped around the room.

via Pajamas Media » Lawlessness at the DOJ: Voting Section Told Not To Enforce Purging the Dead or Ineligible from Voting Rolls.

I think it is time for revolution; by all means necessary. 😡

McCarthy was right; and the damned Communists are now in our Justice Dept.

Nephew of Chief Justice Clerance Thomas Beaten and Tazed by Hospital Security

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The Video:

The Story by television Station WNGO-TV in New Orleans:

MARRERO – Family members of Derek Thomas, nephew of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, are alleging that the younger Thomas, was punched and tazed when he was admitted to West Jefferson Hospital Thursday.

The family says the use of the taser caused Thomas to have a seizure.

According to at statement from the family, Derek Thomas, who is epileptic, refused to put on a hospital gown and tried to leave his examination after a possible suicide attempt. They say security “punched him in his lip, pulled out more than a fistful of his dredlocks and tasered him to restrain him.”

Doctors knew about Thomas’ epilepsy, but ordered security officers to use the taser anyway, instead of sedating him, the family says.

The family is trying to have Thomas transferred to another facility.

Justice Thomas is expected to travel to New Orleans as soon as possible to check on his nephew.

This is awful, no matter what your politics are. I will not speculate on whether this was racially based or just a bunch of overzealous security officers. But my thoughts and prayers are with the Chief Justice and his family.

John Stewart makes a very fine point

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The money part comes at the 5:39 mark; I know he is a liberal, but he makes a very Barry Goldwater’ish point. Watch:

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The Reality Report #52

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If you can get past the tin foil hat sounding stuff in this video —– It is actually pretty good.

Enjoy: (source)

Drudge gets it wrong

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Once again, Matt Drudge is posting misleading headlines:

Spooky headline, right?

Wrong.

Actually, the headline is about a story, that is actually a good thing, securing our power plants and so forth.

The story is reported by the Wall Street Journal:

The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program.

The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government’s chief eavesdropping agency, would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack, though it wouldn’t persistently monitor the whole system, these people said.

Defense contractor Raytheon Corp. recently won a classified contract for the initial phase of the surveillance effort valued at up to $100 million, said a person familiar with the project.

An NSA spokeswoman said the agency had no information to provide on the program. A Raytheon spokesman declined to comment.

Some industry and government officials familiar with the program see Perfect Citizen as an intrusion by the NSA into domestic affairs, while others say it is an important program to combat an emerging security threat that only the NSA is equipped to provide.

“The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government…feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security,” said one internal Raytheon email, the text of which was seen by The Wall Street Journal. “Perfect Citizen is Big Brother.”

Raytheon declined to comment on this email.

A U.S. military official called the program long overdue and said any intrusion into privacy is no greater than what the public already endures from traffic cameras. It’s a logical extension of the work federal agencies have done in the past to protect physical attacks on critical infrastructure that could sabotage the government or key parts of the country, the official said.

U.S. intelligence officials have grown increasingly alarmed about what they believe to be Chinese and Russian surveillance of computer systems that control the electric grid and other U.S. infrastructure. Officials are unable to describe the full scope of the problem, however, because they have had limited ability to pull together all the private data.

Perfect Citizen will look at large, typically older computer control systems that were often designed without Internet connectivity or security in mind. Many of those systems—which run everything from subway systems to air-traffic control networks—have since been linked to the Internet, making them more efficient but also exposing them to cyber attack.

The goal is to close the “big, glaring holes” in the U.S.’s understanding of the nature of the cyber threat against its infrastructure, said one industry specialist familiar with the program. “We don’t have a dedicated way to understand the problem.”

The information gathered by Perfect Citizen could also have applications beyond the critical infrastructure sector, officials said, serving as a data bank that would also help companies and agencies who call upon NSA for help with investigations of cyber attacks, as Google did when it sustained a major attack late last year.

So much for that big scary headline eh? But when you are Matt Drudge. The facts mean nothing; as long as you have an agenda to fulfill. As a Conservative; I believe that securing our infrastructure is a good thing. The only people who have to fear from something of this nature, are the people who are using the internet to break the law. So, if you are law abiding citizen, you have absolutely nothing to fear at all.

Also, it should be noted, that the Government did something similar to this, under the Bush Administration. That until the liberal media ran with it, and the courts decided that Bush needed a warrant to spy on people. So, this little narrative is quite silly.

Now, can someone please tell me why the heck Matt Drudge’s site is so popular? It cannot be because of his factual reporting. 🙄

Blue versus Blue: MSNBC Bans Markos from it’s shows

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Seems that Joe Scarborough at MSNBC got into a bit of a twitter war with Markos Moulitsas over at DailyKos. The exchange is as follows:

JoeNBC: The Sestak story is as unbelievable a cover story as Nixon throwing little Checkers under the bus. A farce on it’s face. Luckily for the White House, the media has been negligent on this story since Day 1. The press will let this laughable story slide.

That was too much horseshit for me. If there was someone who had ZERO ground to stand on whining about media bias, it was Scarborough. So I shot back:

markos: Like story of a certain dead intern. RT @JoeNBC: Luckily for the White House, the media has been negligent on this story since Day 1.

Markos: But if you want to talk about bullshit “scandals”, @JoeNBC, there’s this one about Joe Sestak and the White House you might’ve heard of.

It degenerated from there.


JoeNBC: @markos Unbelievable. You have a long history of spreading lies suggesting I am a murderer. This is the 3rd or 4th time by my count.

Markos: @JoeNBC, I’ve never suggested you’re a murderer. I’ve noted media hypocrisy in going after Gary Condit. But he was Dem. You aren’t.

JoeNBC: Anyone in media who interviews @markos, know that you’re extending your credibility to someone who regularly suggests that I’m a murderer.

Markos: A bit touchy, @JoeNBC? Links for where I accuse you of being a murderer please.

Well, after all that; Markos gets a e-mail from the President of MSNBC:

Markos,

Blog if you must, but here is my on the record statement to you which I ask that you print in full:

Yes, after I became aware of the ugly cheap shot  you  took at Joe on Twitter, I asked the teams to take a break from booking you on our shows for a while. I found the comments to be in poor taste, and utterly uncalled for in a civil discourse.

I’m hoping this will be only temporary and that the situation can be resolved in a mature fashion, but until then I just don’t know how one could reasonably expect to be welcomed onto our network while publicly antagonizing one of our hosts at the same time.

The DailyKos community has been among the most supportive of MSNBC, and we continue to appreciate that support.

Markos goes on:

I’ve criticized Chris Matthews before, sometimes harshly, and it never led to me being banned. This was not about criticizing some random MSNBC host, but about criticizing the network’s token conservative, a man who wilts in the face of the awesome power of Twitter and its 140-character limit. Morning Joe happens to be Griffin’s pet project at MSNBC. He’s staked his career on it, and as such, lets Scarborough call the shots — to the point of having its least successful host dictate the guest list of its most successful one.

Greg Sargent over at the Plum Line makes an observation:

It’s funny. I don’t recall the chief of MSNBC publicly banning Liz Cheney from appearing on the network when she cut an entire Web video “publicly antagonizing” Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews for allegedly being too frightened to debate her about terrorism.

Video in question:

Markos also observes:

That’s pretty much it. Had I criticized Rachel or Keith or Ed, nothing would’ve happened. I’ve certainly criticized Chris Matthews in the past, and nothing happened. I’ve got confirmation from one producer of a prime time MSNBC show that there isn’t any network-wide prohibition on Liz Cheney appearing on the air.

This is about Joe Scarborough, and the media double standard that allows you to criticize liberals all you want, but conservatives are off limits. Just ask Dave Weigel.

Update: MSNBC tried to talk me out of going public with this, between Griffin and another exec. But here’s the thing — neither Keith Olbermann nor Ed Schultz reached out. That spoke volumes to me, since they have my number, and I’m sure Griffin would’ve loved for them to intervene. But they didn’t. What’s that tell me? That they’re fighting the good fight from the inside and have zero interest in doing Griffin’s dirty work for him. They won’t be able to comment on this for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean they’re not engaged.

However, Jack Moss AKA MacRanger the owner of Macsmind Blog; who is a Republican, Says the following:

Markos (Screw ‘em) Moulitsas Zúñiga is whining that he’s been banned from MSNBC. So I emailed someone at the network I went to school with to ask if this was true. The reply.

“It’s bogus. He’s not ‘blackballed”, he’s old news, non-contributory and completely irrelevant to our focus. Nuff said”

I will admit, I am not overly a big fan of Joe Scarborough. He just the token Conservative over at MSNBC. I never watch MSNBC anymore; especially since they went hard left. I mean, some of the people over at Fox News annoy the crap out of me. But I would rather hear critical reporting of the President and his activities, then watch a bunch of hired hacks spout the talking points of the White House.

As for Markos, I have nothing but contempt for him, for this:

Let the people see what war is like. This isn’t an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush’s folly.

That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.

‘Nuff Said. I mean, I was not a big fan of the Iraqi War. But…. Screw them? Sorry, no excuse. He’s an anti-American. Not to mention a dago prick… (that’s right, I called Markos a DAGO… because that’s what he is…. a prick)

Update: Fixed rather hilarious headline error…. banned Markos from his own blog?!?! WOW! Not enough coffee!

Update #2: You Know, now that McCain mentions it, this here is a rather funny Video clip from Morning Joe:

Between that and Joe dropping the F-Bomb on live air; that show does have some funnier moments.

Way too fast

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I say this, at the risk of sounding like a crusty old curmudgeon:

The Bugatti Veyron

The Bugatti Veyron is, once again, the fastest production car on the planet.

Bugatti says an orange-and-black Veyron 16.4 Super Sport achieved an average top speed of 267.8 mph at the hands of test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel. Stop and think about that for a moment. That’s more than 393 feet per second and almost 4.5 miles per minute. Even Bugatti’s engineers were surprised.

“We took it that we would reach an average value of 425 km/h (264 mph),” chief engineer Wolfgang Schreiber said in a statement. “But the conditions today were perfect and allowed even more.”

Raphanel made his record-setting run at Volkswagen’s test track in Ehra-Lessien, Germany, in the latest version of the greatest automobile ever made. He had one hour to make back-to-back runs in each direction. The speedo hit 427.933 km/h against the wind and 434.211 with it. That came to an average of 431.072, which by our math is 267.8 mph.

And that was more than enough to take the title back from Shelby Super Cars and the Ultimate Aero, which had held the record since peeling off an average of 256 mph in 2007. Raphanel set the record on June 24; Bugatti announced it on July 4. Bugatti says Guinness was on-hand to verify the record, and we imagine the guys at SSC will not take this sitting down.

As the name suggests, the Super Sport is a hot-rodded version of a car that already has too much of everything. The 16-cylinder engine has been tweaked and tuned with bigger turbochargers (four, count ‘em, four) and intercoolers. Bugatti says the engine is good for 1,200 horsepower and a staggering 1,106 pound feet of torque.

via King of All Cars Tops 267 MPH | Autopia | Wired.com.

I’m sorry, but 267 miles per hour is just way, way, waaaaaay too fast. I mean, I am all for the idea of going fast; in fact, I love going to Milan Dragway here in Milan, Michigan. But for a street car, 267 miles per hour? Hell no. Too fast. Reason I say that is because if you happen to be in one these contraptions, and you happen to hit an inanimate object going that fast — forget calling the ambulance; call the farking morgue. Be sure to tell them to bring a big spatula, to scrape your greasy spot off of whatever you hit.

Do not misunderstand me; it is a nice car — To look at and say, “Yeah, I bet that thing goes really fast!” 😉

Living Proof that President Obama is more interested in his socialist agenda, than he is protecting our borders

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This is insane….:

The Justice Department has decided to file suit against Arizona on the grounds that the state’s new immigration law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, law enforcement sources said Monday.

The lawsuit, which three sources said could be filed as early as Tuesday, will invoke for its main argument the legal doctrine of “preemption,” which is based on the Constitution’s supremacy clause and says that federal law trumps state statutes. Justice Department officials believe that enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility, the sources said.

A federal lawsuit will dramatically escalate the legal and political battle over the Arizona law, which gives police the power to question anyone if they have a “reasonable suspicion” that the person is an illegal immigrant. The measure has drawn words of condemnation from President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and opposition from civil rights groups. It also has prompted at least five other lawsuits. Arizona officials have urged the Obama administration not to sue.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton first revealed last month that the Justice Department intended to sue Arizona, and department lawyers have been preparing their case, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the government has not announced its plans. The filing is expected to include declarations from other U.S. agencies saying that the Arizona law would place a undue burden on their ability to enforce immigration laws nationwide, because Arizona police are expected to refer so many illegal immigrants to federal authorities.

The preemption doctrine has been established in Supreme Court decisions, and some legal experts have said such a federal argument likely would persuade a judge to declare the law unconstitutional.

But lawyers who helped draft the Arizona legislation have expressed doubt that a preemption argument would prevail. The law, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer (R) in April, is scheduled to take effect later this month.

via Justice Dept. expected to sue Ariz. on immigration, citing ‘preemption’ grounds.

If this is what Obama calls “Hope and Change”, I fear for America.

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May God Bless Huffington Post for publishing this

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This is a very interesting read:

Much has been said in the Cuban regime’s official media about my son Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a young black man. Many lies have been told, and it has been said that my son was a criminal, and that he was not simply allowed to die. The truth is that my son was murdered. The truth is that my son was allowed to die on a hunger strike he held to demand respect for his rights, and to demand freedom for his people. Today, I would like to tell you just who Orlando Zapata Tamayo was: a defender of human rights, and my beloved son.

via Reina Luisa Tamayo Danger: Zapata Lives!.

This article is a very good read, it is truly hard to believe that Huffington Post would actually publish that on a Liberally biased site. After all, are not Liberal Socialists at least sympathetic to the communist cause?

What saddens me, is that the Huffington Post actually advocates the kind of Government that this woman’s son died under; Big Government. Which is, in fact, socialism, which is, one step away from actual communism.

I think it took courage to post that, considering some of the comments on that posting. Which is not too surprising for that crowd.

One the other hand, Huffington Post did crop a photo of the President of Israel to give him devils horns. Which tells me, not everyone over at Huffington Post shares in the ideals of freedom for everyone; including Israel.

Sad Personal Story: U.S. Coast Guard Suspends search for missing N.C. Boater

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This is so awfully sad:

The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a boater who disappeared Thursday near Myrtle Beach.

A boat belonging to Thomas “Andy” Richmond of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., washed ashore near 60th Avenue North late Thursday night, sparking the search. Searchers spent all day Friday and Saturday and much of both nights scouring the sea for Richmond after his 28-foot boat, “Heads or Tails,” was found on the beach just before midnight with its engine still running.

Agencies involved in the search included the Coast Guard, S.C. Department of Natural Resources, State Law Enforcement Division and Horry County. The search covered an area the size of the state of Rhode Island, according to a release from the Coast Guard. Rescue crews searched for approximately 48 hours covering 1,783 square nautical miles, the release said

via Coast Guard suspends search for missing fisherman off Myrtle Beach coast – Breaking News – TheSunNews.com.

The reason why I even know about this is because I usually talk to the man’s cousin named Ed on 3.865khz on the 75 meter Amateur Radio Band. It is with a group called “The Moonrunners” that meet from 4:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. EST. I will not print his callsign for privacy reasons But I can really tell by this man’s voice that this has devastated this poor man to know this his cousin has had this horrible thing happen to him. 🙁 😥

My prayers go out to the Richmond Family, and all of the extended family as well.