Month: January 2011

NYT: Az Shooter plotted to kill

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The info begins to trickle out….

Via NYT:

TUCSON– Prosecutors accused Jared Lee Loughner, a troubled 22-year-old college dropout, of five serious federal charges on Sunday, including the attempted assassination of a member of Congress, for his role in a shootout that left 20 people wounded, six of them fatally, on Saturday morning.

Court documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix indicated that evidence seized from Mr. Loughner’s home showed that he had planned to kill Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Found in Mr. Loughner’s home, F.B.I. special agent Tony M. Tayler Jr. said in an affidavit supporting the charges, was an envelope with the handwritten words, “I planned ahead,” “My assassination,” and “Giffords.”

The details of the envelope were not disclosed.

The court documents say that Mr. Loughner purchased the semiautomatic Glock pistol used at the shooting at Sportsman’s Warehouse in Tucson on Nov. 30. The documents also indicate that the suspect had previous contact with the congresswoman. Found in the same safe was a letter from Ms. Giffords thanking Mr. Loughner for attending a 2007 “Congress on Your Corner” event, like the one she was holding on Saturday morning when she was attacked.

Along with being accused of deliberating trying to take Ms. Giffords’ life, Mr. Loughner was charged with the killing and attempted killing of four United States government officials, among them U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, who was killed; a congressional aide, Gabriel Zimmerman, who was also killed; and two congressional aides, Pamela Simon and Ron Barber, who were wounded.

Something tells me, that this kid and I call him a kid; because he is 22 years old — will be seeing the inside of a gas chamber real soon.

Such a tragic thing to happen to kid that young. But we must remember — he chose this path. Just like Tim McVeigh.

A perfect example of the disconnect of politics

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I write a blog posting about what is happening with the political discourse in America and the loonies come out.

Case in point, a comment to this posting, that I did not approve. But wanted to share with you all:

Author : swift boater (IP: 173.78.120.18 , pool-173-78-120-18.tampfl.fios.verizon.net)
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You have seriously lost your mind.

The physical political violence is strictly a leftist phenomenon for say the last, hmmmm 150 years, starting with John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln (wonder which one was the Dem?)

We can leave out the acts of domestic terrorism perpetrated by the KKK (From the Dem Solid South) as to numerous to mention.  Lets go to Lee Harvey Oswald ( a card carrying Communist, lived in Cuba-or tried to- shot JFK cuz he was not leftist enough), James Earl Ray (card carrying Dem, proud one til the day he died) and Sirhan Sirhan (Palestinian who shot RFK cuz he did not sympathize enough with his cause).

Now this Leftist shot Giffords cuz he was disappointed Giffords did not support Pelosi and voted against her for Speaker, the final straw in his–and Kos–book.

America is starting to slowly catch on to the MSM lie and deceit.  Unfortunately there is enough of the population who just don’t care that they are being lied to.

😯

Wow…..Just Wow….. Not sure whether to have Alex Jones or Rush Limbaugh to call their offices. The disconnect in that comment to reality boggles the mind.

To this I simply ask —- just who the hell was Timothy McVeigh?

Let’s allow his fans to answer that….

Here are comments from Timothy McVeigh’s Wikipedia entry, from the talk section:

He was a TRUE AMERICAN HERO and then the HOMELESS VETERAN was framed by the crooked government. The article says McVeigh is a terrorist. I agree. However, Mir Aimal Kasi did not have any ties to any organization (like McVeigh) and he was determined not to be a terrorist as a result. Furthermore, the mass murder at the access road to the CIA was determined not to be a terrorist act because of this.

In case you’ve forgotten, McVeigh did this:

and this….

and said this:

Finally McVeigh left his rent-a-cop job and the Buffalo area saying, “I gotta get out of this place, it’s all liberals here.”  Then, early in 1993, he took off with everything he owned, and began driving around America, hoping to find some meaning in his life.

But he began by looking in all the wrong places.

Was McVeigh a Christian? It depends on whom you believe and where you read. Some places say yes and some say No. I cannot sit here and pretend to know what the Religious leanings of McVeigh actually were; so, I will not try. What I will say is this:

Folks, McVeigh was one of ours. A lone wolf yes. But what is known about the man was this — He had a profound hate of the Government, He was enraged of the raid gone bad, of the religious compound in Waco, Texas. In fact, he was down there in Waco, Texas, when the raid went down. No amount of spin, denial or counter-blame will ever change this.

Not that there is anything wrong with not liking Big Government. It is what you choose to do with that disliking. At some point, McVeigh’s thought process became clouded, whether with sickness produced by the war or by some sort of extremist views fueled by extremist right wing propaganda. All of that really does not matter — what really matters is what he choose to do and that was murder innocent people.

Further more, this very idea that violence is a strictly a product of the left; is idiotic at best and I am sorry, but that is just plain stupid. I will not sit here with blinders on and allow some knucklehead to not only insult me personally — But also sit here and write out right lies in the comments section of my blog.  The truth is, politically motivated violence happens and both sides of the political divide have produced their own fair shares of crazies.

The whole crux of the problem is that we have never allowed these acts of terror, these crimes, carried out by political extremists or mentally impaired persons — to make us stop and reflect for just a moment on what it is that we actually print or even say. All that ever happens is that the right likes to blame the left and the left points to the right. How about both sides to just accept responsibility and say to ourselves, “Yeah, we blew it here badly….”? That however, would require that both sides would have to admit at least some sort of culpability.

….and because this, a 9 year old girls life was cut short, a 22 year old man is in jail for murder — and six families are burying their dead this week.

We must do better than this. Our lives depend on it.

The very best thing said about the shooting in Arizona so far

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Thank You to this man for saying it…..

But even so, the tragedy wouldn’t change this basic fact: for the past two years, many conservative leaders, activists, and media figures have made a habit of trying to delegitimize their political opponents. Not just arguing against their opponents, but doing everything possible to turn them into enemies of the country and cast them out beyond the pale. Instead of “soft on defense,” one routinely hears the words “treason” and “traitor.” The President isn’t a big-government liberal—he’s a socialist who wants to impose tyranny. He’s also, according to a minority of Republicans, including elected officials, an impostor. Even the reading of the Constitution on the first day of the 112th Congress was conceived as an assault on the legitimacy of the Democratic Administration and Congress.

This relentlessly hostile rhetoric has become standard issue on the right. (On the left it appears in anonymous comment threads, not congressional speeches and national T.V. programs.) And it has gone almost entirely uncriticized by Republican leaders. Partisan media encourages it, while the mainstream media finds it titillating and airs it, often without comment, so that the gradual effect is to desensitize even people to whom the rhetoric is repellent. We’ve all grown so used to it over the past couple of years that it took the shock of an assassination attempt to show us the ugliness to which our politics has sunk.

The massacre in Tucson is, in a sense, irrelevant to the important point. Whatever drove Jared Lee Loughner, America’s political frequencies are full of violent static.

via Interesting Times: It Doesn’t Matter Why He Did It : The New Yorker.

Amen and Amen.

This sums up why I backed off blogging, because the level of the stupid on my side of the fence, was just to the point where I could not handle it anymore. There comes a point, when one has to excuse himself from the stupidity and I did just that. I admit, readily, that I got caught up in some of that stupidity myself; and I very much regret that. What my friends on the right and left need to realize that there are people out there, who do not have the ability to differentiate between rhetoric and reality.

I believe that at this point; trying to place blame on one side or the other; quite frankly, is stupid. I think the best thing that we can all do — all of us, is just stop and take a step back and realize that we need to all calm down. we also need to realize that there is more to this life than politics. Government is not our lives man. Because the obsessive nature of those of us, who cover politics, this little lady is now dead:

That is Christina Greene:

Greene’s family says she was vibrant, excited about life, and she was the “best daughter in the world.”

Born September 11, 2001, Greene was excited about the political process, was on the student government, and went to the Giffords event Saturday to learn more about the political process, family members say.

Greene attended Mesa Verde Elementary School. She was the only girl on the Canyon Del Oro baseball team. She loved the sport, as well as horseback riding and swimming. She wanted to be a veterinarian.

We all are responsible for her death —- right and left. Think about that tonight, when you look at your own Children, if you have any.

It is, truly, a sad day. 🙁 😥

On the subject of Rhetoric

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Of which VDare makes a very good point:

  • I know how the “tea party” people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their “Obama Plan White Slavery” signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads. — The Washington Post’s Courtland Milloy
  • White folk done took this country. You’re in their home, and they’re gonna let you know it….You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk and if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble. –
    Jeremiah Wright
  • The proper channels have failed. It’s time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism.If you’re one of those who believe that this is not just necessary but also possible, speak to us. Let’s talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like. If you’re one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.   And we be many, but you be few. — Greenpeace, on their blog
  • Here’s to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare—the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it. — Chris Hedges

and of course….:

Well, keep it up boys, just keep it up, um except for one thing: you rat bastards are going to cause another Murrah federal building explosion, you are. And then – what is Beck – maybe at that point Beck will do the honorable thing and blow his brains out.

Maybe at that point, Limbaugh will do the honorable thing and just gobble up enough – enough Viagra that he becomes absolutely rigid and keels over dead.

Maybe then O’Reilly will just drink a vat of the poison he spews out on America every night and choke to death! Because that’s what’s gonna to happen, that’s what they are pushing these right-wing, nut case, fringe, militia jerk-wads to doing! — Mike Malloy

…and they say Sarah Palin is to blame? Please. 🙄

The truth is folks, BOTH sides are to blame. But, I happen to believe that in this case; this all would have not mattered. This dude  was mentally ill and I believe this guy would have pulled this stunt no matter what the rhetoric. The man was sick and this poor senator and judge just happened to be in the way.

It is a sick and sad fact, but it is true. 🙁

As I was saying….

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These people are not patriots, they are crazy. Believe it or not — I slept through this one. I’ve been sick here the last few days. Ny-Quill and much sleep.

Anyhow, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN are all reporting about the shooter in AZ. HotAir.com also has an excellent round up, as does Memeornadum.

You can expect that Fox News and the rest of the liberal media outlets will spin this as left or right. Truth is, it is neither — it is our sick media driven society that is causing this sort of a thing. The sick part is; nobody wants to admit the fault.

Quoting myself this morning, before this shooting occurred:

Again, in closing, having a political stance and opinion is fine — even acceptable. However, when one decides to hurt other people to express that opinion — you stop being a patriot or even an American and you become a terrorist and a criminal. There is a difference and I believe that more Bloggers on the right ought to be saying this.

I was, of course, referring to the people who sent the package bombs — but, I do believe this applies here as well. This guy was a nut from what I read and his actions were driven by this media society we live in. Of course, look for the corporate media to spin this in every direction possible and to obsess over it for the next week. As it has been a slow news week.

Again, more of that sick media society that I mentioned.

My Stalker has returned again

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This guy is not only a stalker, he is a bit of a jerk too.

Nothing new… I’m used to his type.

Par for the course.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
(Matthew 5:10-12 KJV)
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If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.  — (John 15:18-19 KJV)

Not to mention the fact that he has no reading comprehension skills. Go read his entry and see what he links to; but that is par for course, for his ilk.

For the record, I do not support this sort of nonsense

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Normally, I would not touch a story like this; but this one sticks out a bit:

WASHINGTON (AP) — First, fiery packages sent to top officials in Maryland were opened, revealing an angry message complaining of the state’s terrorism tip line. Then, a mailing addressed to the nation’s homeland security chief ignited with a similar flash of fire and smoke at a D.C. postal processing facility.

While authorities have not said if the latest parcel contained a note, they did say the three packages were alike. The targeting of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also seemed to echo anger expressed by the mailer of the first two.

Napolitano launched a nationwide “see something, say something” campaign in July, and her recorded voice can be heard in Washington-area subway stations, reminding commuters to report suspicious behavior. The program expanded last month to include more than 230 Walmarts across the country.

The Maryland packages had an explicit message, railing against highway signs urging motorists to report suspicious activity by calling a toll-free number. The message read: “Report suspicious activity! Total Bull—-! You have created a self fulfilling prophecy.”

Authorities fear there could be more packages.

via Fiery package addressed to Homeland Security chief | The Daily Caller

This is one of those blog entries that I do not like having to write —- but because I am Christian and because I happen to believe that anarchy is wrong — I feel the need to write about it.

Contrary to what most radicals might want you to believe, sending package bombs to Governmental offices and targeting Governmental officials is NOT Patriotic! Nor is it cool or even remotely acceptable. In this great Country of ours, we have a perfect system of protest against existing Governments. It is called the Ballot box. We also have the first amendment, which allows us to peacefully assemble and protest against the actions of our Government. You saw that during the Tea Party protests this summer, and because of those protests and because of the media coverage of them, there was a landslide victory by the Republicans in the House and parts of the Senate as well.

Those who stoop to violence towards our Government have given up hope on the political system and on the process of elections. Violence solves nothing at all; it just causes the other side of the political fence to blame those of us, who are peace-loving Americans, who do not agree with the big Government polices of the liberals in Congress and in the White House — for this sort of ungodly nonsense. When in all honesty, it is not our fault.

I want it to be publicly known that this “right of center” political blog and it’s owner condemn this sort of terrorist actions in the highest terms possible and it is my personal hope and prayer that they catch the person or persons responsible for this and that they prosecute this godless vermin to the fullest extent of the law. Further more, I believe that if Fox News, and every other Conservative outlet out there has ANY sort of integrity at all; these organizations would come out and say the same exact thing.

Unfortunately, among the more Paleo-libertarian crowd, this sort of extremist action is seen as heroic and even justified — which is, of course, asinine.  Acts of violence, in a civilized society, such as ours, to make a political point, is right on par with what Al-Qaeda and other such Jihad groups wish to do here in America. In other words, this is nothing more than straight up terrorism and should be treated as such.

Again, in closing, having a political stance and opinion is fine — even acceptable. However, when one decides to hurt other people to express that opinion — you stop being a patriot or even an American and you become a terrorist and a criminal. There is a difference and I believe that more Bloggers on the right ought to be saying this.

Update: Dan says I am renouncing myself. Which is idiotic at best. I simply am saying that those, like Lew Rockwell, that find this sort of a thing to be chick are not patriots. But, TERRORISTS…. Period, FULL STOP.

For the record, this does bother me

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I usually, as a rule, do not link to WorldNetDaily — But this story here stands out a bit….

Via Farah’s Site:

WASHINGTON – Another headache has emerged for the largest annual gathering of conservatives slated for next month.

With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a homosexual activist group called GOProud and for a financial scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Gaffney, a leader of the conservative movement for the last 30 years, charges that CPAC has come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is working to bring America under Saudi-style Shariah law.

Gaffney, deputy assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, is founder and president of the Center for Security Policy and co-author of the new book “Shariah: The Threat to America.” He told WND that Islamism has infiltrated the American Conservative Union, the host of CPAC, in the person of Washington attorney and political activist Suhail Khan and a group called Muslims for America.

Khan is a member of the ACU board and, according to Muslims for America, will assist the group’s presence at CPAC during the 2011 meeting Feb. 10-12.

Gaffney also accuses another ACU board member, leading conservative political organizer Grover Norquist, of helping the Muslim Brotherhood spread its influence in the nation’s capital.

After serving as a Republican congressional aide in the late 1990s, Khan joined the White House staff of the George W. Bush administration as a liaison to conservative and veterans groups. He was transferred to the Department of Transportation after the Sept. 11 al-Qaida terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, when it was reported that Khan’s father, Mahboob Khan, leader of a large mosque in Santa Clara, Calif., had allowed Osama bin Laden’s No. 2 man, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, to raise money there.

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Gaffney told WND that Norquist got Khan into the Bush White House.

Paul Sperry, author of “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington” and “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” says Khan is running “an influence operation on Capitol Hill that’s quite sophisticated and slick.”

“Suhail is the firstborn son of the late Mahboob Khan, a founding father of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in America,” said Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow. “Suhail has been a consultant to CAIR [The Council on American-Islamic Relations] and served on committees at ISNA [the Islamic Society of North America], both of which the government says are fronts for Hamas and its parent the Muslim Brotherhood.”

The Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Islamist revivalist organization founded in Egypt in 1928 to establish Muslim theocracies around the world, by means both violent and non-violent. The group is banned in Egypt, where its members have a long history of political violence capped by the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian president who signed a peace agreement with Israel.

Sperry says some members of Congress and their staffs have no idea Khan is “a Muslim activist with direct connections to Muslim Brotherhood groups implicated by the government in a conspiracy to raise millions of dollars for terrorism right here in America.”

“The Brotherhood’s stated mission,” says Gaffney, “is to destroy Western civilization from within. Their agenda for the U.S. and the world is the triumph of Shariah law worldwide under a ruler known as a caliph.”

Gaffney describes Norquist, who, ironically also serves on the board of the controversial GOProud, as the enabler for Muslim Brotherhood associates, providing them with access into the highest reaches of the conservative movement and the Republican Party through his many contacts. Norquist, the founder of Americans for Tax Reform, hosts a weekly political organizing meeting attended by many of the leading conservatives in Washington.

I personally do find this disturbing. How is it, that one of the oldest Conservative political action committees is now allowing Muslims; the very people that attacked us on 9/11 to a part of its annual get-together? I think I can answer that. It is all about money. It seems that CPAC has had some money troubles and these Muslims most likely have loose cash to burn. They also are able to answer the right questions and give the right speeches to assure us, that they are on our side. But this Conservative is not fooled, I know the real agenda of these fools and that of GOProud. The agenda of GOPproud and of this Muslim group is to subvert the Christian roots of our Nation in favor of a secular libertarian stance. In other words, they want to remove the two legs of the stool of the Conservative movement. The Muslim group is very disturbing; to do what this group is doing, is to remove all memory of what happened on 9/11. MUSLIMS attacked us, not just Arabs — but MUSLIMS — for us to forget that would be essentially pissing on the graves of those who died on September 11, 2001.

I find it morbidly sickening that the Conservative movement is cozying up to those who want to destroy the very principles that this country was founded upon.

Others: The Jawa Report and iOwnTheWorld.com

Things I want to accomplish this year

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Read the Bible through in a year

It is something that I have done in the past. But, for the last five for so years; I kinda hung out on the wilderness. I was a bit ticked off at the whole Church/Christianity thing. I was stabbed in the back by a Pastor and a few of his furry friends. That was five years ago; I believe it is time to move on and get back to the business of being a Born-Again Christian. Not to worry, this is not going to become a raging flying Fundamentalist Blog or anything like that. 😛 I have my beliefs and I tend to keep them to myself. However, as a Christian, and those of you, who truly are — will understand this — I need to read the Bible. To those of us, who are truly converted, it is more than just a book with words. It is manna for our Souls. I know it sounds corny, but it is true. I do not, nor have I ever completely understood the deep spiritual reasons for this — all I know is that it is very true.  The Bible is what got me through the truama of 9/11 and was the thing that kept me out of the nut house. I should be able to do this, it is only three chapters per day and additional study as needed. I think I can do this one.

Find a Job

This one might be a little harder to pull off, outside of a Miracle from the Lord.  I have, admittedly, been out of the workforce since 2005. Quite bluntly, I have the world against me on this one. But I remain hopeful. Praying helps too.

Buy a car of some sort

Another one that I hope to accomplish. That is tied in with the other one. I had to send my old clunker to the junk yard, too many issues. Besides, it was a Ford! 😉 Anyhow, it’s gone for good. 😥 But hopefully, I can get something else. Having no wheels sucks… 🙁

Well, that’s it for me!

What about you?

Oh Yeah, Happy New Year….

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I sort of forgot to do a New Year posting and sorta didn’t.

Meaning, I really was not interested in writing about it. Another year, big whoop.

Anyhow, Hope everyone’s new year’s shindigs were fun. As for me, we didn’t do squat. My parents were both sicker than dogs; Dad had a cold and my Mom was puking. So….. No wine and cheese for me. 🙁

Anyhow, the Holidays are finally over. Thank Goodness. 😀

Now back to normal, please.

That is all…