Tag: Politics

Bush insiders prove to be hostile witnesses

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As if the country needed any further proof that the Bush Administration engaged in unconstitutional, not to mention unlawful, behavior, this little fine nugget of information drops today in the media.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post reports that the hearing yesterday failed to produce any substantive information, but rather exposed the parties involved for the heartless, condescending, disdainful people that these men really are.

Consider a couple snippets:

Could the president ever be justified in breaking the law? "I’m not going to answer a legal opinion on every imaginable set of facts any human being could think of," Addington growled. Did he consult Congress when interpreting torture laws? "That’s irrelevant," he barked. Would it be legal to torture a detainee’s child? "I’m not here to render legal advice to your committee," he snarled. "You do have attorneys of your own."

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He had the grace of Gollum as he quarreled with his questioners. In response to one of the chairman’s questions, he neither looked up nor spoke before finishing a note he was writing to himself. When Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) questioned his failure to remember conversations about interrogation techniques, he only looked at her and asked: "Is there a question pending, ma’am?" Finally, at the end of the hearing, Addington was asked whether he would meet privately to discuss classified matters. "You have my number," he said. "If you issue a subpoena, we’ll go through this again.

[…]

However, that was just a warm up of things to come, It also become very testy as the hearing went forward:

He sat slouched in his chair, scratching his mustache, as Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Constitution subcommittee, warned about "the unaccountable monarchy" before offering Addington five minutes to make an opening statement. Addington spoke for a minute and 12 seconds — most of which was devoted to correcting two errors in Nadler’s introduction.

"Is that the entirety of your statement?" the chairman asked.

"Yes, thank you," Addington replied. "I’m ready to answer your questions."

He sure was. When John Conyers (D-Mich.) inquired about Addington’s pet legal concept, a "unitary executive theory" that confers extreme powers on the president, Addington dished out disdain.

"I frankly don’t know what you mean by unitary theory," Addington replied.

"Have you ever heard of that theory before?"

"I see it in the newspapers all the time," Addington replied.

"Do you support it?"

"I don’t know what it is."

The usually mild Conyers was angry. "You’re telling me you don’t know what the unitary theory means?"

"I don’t know what you mean by it," Addington answered.

"Do you know what you mean by it?"

"I know exactly what I mean by it."

[….]

Addington’s insolence appeared to embolden another witness, his former administration colleague John Yoo. Yoo took Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on a semantic spin when asked about whether a torture memo was implemented.

"What do you mean by ‘implemented’?" Yoo asked.

"Mr. Yoo," Ellison pressed, "are you denying knowledge of what the word ‘implement’ means?"

"You’re asking me to define what you mean by the word?"

"No, I’m asking you to define what you mean by the word ‘implement,’ " the exasperated lawmaker clarified.

"It can mean a wide number of things," Yoo demurred.

After several such dances around the questions (whether, for example, the president could order somebody buried alive), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) offered his grudging respect: "You guys are great on ‘Beat the Clock,’ " he said.

"I don’t play basketball," replied the 41-year-old Yoo.

"That was a game show," Cohen explained.

As you can see, convicting these guys on charges that they broke the law, and violated the Constitution is not going to be an easy task. Because obviously, these guys are not going to cooperate with Congress or with any other sort of criminal investigation. Lew Rockwell, a fellow Libertarian minded person, says, “Maybe now they’ll impeach them”.  Lew, I respect your work and writings, but I highly doubt that the impeachment or any sort of criminal hearings will take place, until after the November election and until the next President is in office.

Living Proof that Socialized Healthcare does not work

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I saw this tonight and I just about fell out of my chair.

Finally, some solid proof that the Socialized healthcare in Canada is not the solution to the Healthcare crisis .

This comes from my fellow Amateur Radio Operator buddy Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com, who gets paid to do, what I do, for free. (The lucky bastard…)

Unlike Ed, I’m quoting this whole thing, hopefully, I won’t get sued… It comes from Investors Business Daily, check it out, especially the bolded parts:

As this presidential campaign continues, the candidates’ comments about health care will continue to include stories of their own experiences and anecdotes of people across the country: the uninsured woman in Ohio, the diabetic in Detroit, the overworked doctor in Orlando, to name a few.

But no one will mention Claude Castonguay — perhaps not surprising because this statesman isn’t an American and hasn’t held office in over three decades.

Castonguay’s evolving view of Canadian health care, however, should weigh heavily on how the candidates think about the issue in this country.

Back in the 1960s, Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province of Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country — adopt government-administered health care, covering all citizens through tax levies.

The government followed his advice, leading to his modern-day moniker: "the father of Quebec medicare." Even this title seems modest; Castonguay’s work triggered a domino effect across the country, until eventually his ideas were implemented from coast to coast.

Four decades later, as the chairman of a government committee reviewing Quebec health care this year, Castonguay concluded that the system is in "crisis."

"We thought we could resolve the system’s problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it," says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: "We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice."

Castonguay advocates contracting out services to the private sector, going so far as suggesting that public hospitals rent space during off-hours to entrepreneurial doctors. He supports co-pays for patients who want to see physicians. Castonguay, the man who championed public health insurance in Canada, now urges for the legalization of private health insurance.

In America, these ideas may not sound shocking. But in Canada, where the private sector has been shunned for decades, these are extraordinary views, especially coming from Castonguay. It’s as if John Maynard Keynes, resting on his British death bed in 1946, had declared that his faith in government interventionism was misplaced.

What would drive a man like Castonguay to reconsider his long-held beliefs? Try a health care system so overburdened that hundreds of thousands in need of medical attention wait for care, any care; a system where people in towns like Norwalk, Ontario, participate in lotteries to win appointments with the local family doctor.

Years ago, Canadians touted their health care system as the best in the world; today, Canadian health care stands in ruinous shape.

Sick with ovarian cancer, Sylvia de Vires, an Ontario woman afflicted with a 13-inch, fluid-filled tumor weighing 40 pounds, was unable to get timely care in Canada. She crossed the American border to Pontiac, Mich., where a surgeon removed the tumor, estimating she could not have lived longer than a few weeks more.

The Canadian government pays for U.S. medical care in some circumstances, but it declined to do so in de Vires’ case for a bureaucratically perfect, but inhumane, reason: She hadn’t properly filled out a form. At death’s door, de Vires should have done her paperwork better.

De Vires is far from unusual in seeking medical treatment in the U.S. Even Canadian government officials send patients across the border, increasingly looking to American medicine to deal with their overload of patients and chronic shortage of care.

Since the spring of 2006, Ontario’s government has sent at least 164 patients to New York and Michigan for neurosurgery emergencies — defined by the Globe and Mail newspaper as "broken necks, burst aneurysms and other types of bleeding in or around the brain." Other provinces have followed Ontario’s example.

Canada isn’t the only country facing a government health care crisis. Britain’s system, once the postwar inspiration for many Western countries, is similarly plagued. Both countries trail the U.S. in five-year cancer survival rates, transplantation outcomes and other measures.

The problem is that government bureaucrats simply can’t centrally plan their way to better health care.

A typical example: The Ministry of Health declared that British patients should get ER care within four hours. The result? At some hospitals, seriously ill patients are kept in ambulances for hours so as not to run afoul of the regulation; at other hospitals, patients are admitted to inappropriate wards.

Declarations can’t solve staffing shortages and the other rationing of care that occurs in government-run systems.

Polls show Americans are desperately unhappy with their system and a government solution grows in popularity. Neither Sen. Obama nor Sen. McCain is explicitly pushing for single-payer health care, as the Canadian system is known in America.

"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care program," Obama said back in the 1990s. Last year, Obama told the New Yorker that "if you’re starting from scratch, then a single-payer system probably makes sense."

As for the Republicans, simply criticizing Democratic health care proposals will not suffice — it’s not 1994 anymore. And, while McCain’s health care proposals hold promise of putting families in charge of their health care and perhaps even taming costs, McCain, at least so far, doesn’t seem terribly interested in discussing health care on the campaign trail.

However the candidates choose to proceed, Americans should know that one of the founding fathers of Canada’s government-run health care system has turned against his own creation. If Claude Castonguay is abandoning ship, why should Americans bother climbing on board?

Gratzer is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a physician licensed in both the U.S. and Canada, where he received his medical training. His newest book, "The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care," is now available in paperback.

Liberal Socialized Healthcare advocate and suspected Homosexual, Michael Moore was unavailable for comment.

SCOTUS overturns DC Gun Law, and Obama Flip Flops…….again….

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There is some hope for America as the Supreme Court of the United States basically struck down a ruling by the DC court, banning Guns. 

Of course, the Obamassiah, flip flopped, again.

A while back it seems that Obama said that DC gun law should be upheld. Now he’s saying that it was an “inartful attempt to explain the Senator’s consistent position.”   I have to hand it to ol’ Barry, he’s even very artful at his back peddling. He will fit in quite well up in the White House. God knows we have had quite a few Presidents who were good at spin, back peddling and outright lying, this current administration being a very good example.

What stunned me, was the reaction to the ruling by some of the commenters over at Crooks and Liars, one of the most Liberal Blogs outside of DailyKos. It seems that most liberals feel that the gun issue is a non-issue anymore, and that other more important issues are at hand. That is very surprising.

Overall, I believe this ruling is a good thing, we still have our rights to own guns, this means that the liberals have not totally destroyed our courts yet.

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You know, I do not know what is worse…

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The idiots at the New York Post, printing the untrue bullcrap about Keith Olbermann or that Hillary worshiping Shumuck Larry Johnson over at No Quarter for even Blogging about it. Of course, we all know now that Larry Johnson was the one who floated the rumor about the "Whitey" tape, but is still yet to release said tape.

You know, when Michelle Malkin says that you’re unreliable, that’s pretty freakin’ bad.

Oh, and by the way, Here’s Keith’s "Worst person in the World" from last night basically letting people know that the Post’s Page six is, as always, full of it.:

More fruits of Liberalism

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Here are the fruits of Liberal President Bill Clinton and the soon to be fruits of B. Hussein Obama.

The death penalty is unconstitutional as a punishment for the rape of a child, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

The 5-to-4 decision overturned death penalty laws in Louisiana and five other states. The only two men in the country who have been sentenced to death for the crime of child rape, both in Louisiana, will receive new sentences of life without parole.

The court went beyond the question in the case to rule out the death penalty for any individual crime — as opposed to “offenses against the state,” such as treason or espionage — “where the victim’s life was not taken.”

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said there was “a distinction between intentional first-degree murder on the one hand and non-homicide crimes against individual persons,” even such “devastating” crimes as the rape of a child, on the other.

The decision was the third in the last six years to place a categorical limitation on capital punishment. In 2002, the court barred the execution of mentally retarded defendants. In 2005, it ruled that the Constitution bars the death penalty for crimes committed before the age of 18. – Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape – NYTimes.

Remember folks, this is what the Democrats want. Slap on the hand to people who rape and kill children.

That’s your Liberals for you.

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A good sign that we Bloggers are making a difference…

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I was looking in my logs here and I noticed this:

So, I take comfort in knowing what I write is being watched in Washington DC by our congress. This is a good thing.

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More Neo-Conservative Imperialism

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My friends, this is what happens, when you elect a President for all the wrong reasons.

The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week.

The document, which ended up in e-mail limbo, without official status, was the E.P.A.’s answer to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that required it to determine whether greenhouse gases represent a danger to health or the environment, the officials said. – White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail – NYTimes.com

This my friends is a classic example of being so blinded by your personal ideology, that you refuse to listen to those, who might just know a little more about the said subject that yourself.

An Example:

Both documents, as prepared by the E.P.A., “showed that the Clean Air Act can work for certain sectors of the economy, to reduce greenhouse gases,” one of the senior E.P.A. officials said. “That’s not what the administration wants to show. They want to show that the Clean Air Act can’t work.”

The Bush administration’s climate-change policies have been evolving over the past two years. It now accepts the work of government scientists studying global warming, such as last week’s review forecasting more drenching rains, parching droughts and intense hurricanes as global temperatures warm (www.climatescience.gov).

But no administration decisions have supported the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act or other environmental laws.

This is where I will give John McCain, his first and possibly only pass on this Blog. At least John McCain realizes that there is a problem with Global Warming, although his solutions to the problem, fall far short of the solutions purposed by the Democrats in congress and by the EPA.

This sort of willful blindness to the problems that we are facing as a Nation, and by the World as a whole, is what will put the Republican Party in the minority for a long time to come.

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Telcom Companies gave $8K to Democrats who changed their vote on FISA

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I do believe that if Keith Olbermann doesn’t do a special comment, he will do a segment on it tomorrow.

Quote:

Last week, on June 20, the House of Representatives approved a compromise bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). The bill sets new electronic surveillance rules that effectively shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits resulting from the government’s warrantless eavesdropping on phone calls and viewing of emails of private citizens in the U.S. Approximately 40 lawsuits have been filed with potential damages totaling in the billions of dollars.

On March 14 of this year the House passed an amendment that rejected retroactive immunity for phone carriers who helped the National Security Agency carry out the illegal wiretapping program without proper warrants. Ninety-four House Democrats voted in favor of this measure–rejecting immunity–on March 14, then ‘changed’ to vote in favor of the June 20 House bill–approving immunity.

“Why did these ninety-four House members have a change of heart?” asked Daniel Newman, executive director of MAPLight.org, “Their constituents deserve answers.” – SPOTLIGHT: Telco PACs Gave $8K to Dems Who Changed Their Vote on FISA – (via MAPLight.org)

This does not surprise me in the least. Special interest has been a part of Politics and Washington D.C. for a long time. Obama claims that he is fighting against this, but I somehow doubt it.

The List of sell outs is:

1

29500

Clyburn, James

SC-6

2

29000

Hoyer, Steny

MD-5

3

28000

Emanuel, Rahm

IL-5

4

27500

Boucher, Frederick

VA-9

5

26000

Meeks, Gregory

NY-6

6

24500

Crowley, Joseph

NY-7

7

24500

Pelosi, Nancy

CA-8

8

24000

Bean, Melissa

IL-8

9

22500

Edwards, Thomas

TX-17

10

22100

Baca, Joe

CA-43

11

21500

Engel, Eliot

NY-17

12

19000

Bishop, Sanford

GA-2

13

18500

Moore, Dennis

KS-3

14

18500

Spratt, John

SC-5

15

18500

Thompson, Bennie

MS-2

16

16000

Melancon, Charles

LA-3

17

15500

Cuellar, Henry

TX-28

18

15500

Stupak, Bart

MI-1

19

15000

Ackerman, Gary

NY-5

20

14800

Butterfield, George

NC-1

21

14300

Tanner, John

TN-8

22

14000

Kind, Ronald

WI-3

23

13500

Barrow, John

GA-12

24

13500

Gordon, Barton

TN-6

25

12500

Costa, Jim

CA-20

26

12500

Ross, Mike

AR-4

27

12000

Green, Al

TX-9

28

12000

Hinojosa, Rubén

TX-15

29

11000

Cardoza, Dennis

CA-18

30

11000

Schiff, Adam

CA-29

31

10000

Boswell, Leonard

IA-3

32

9000

Boyd, F.

FL-2

33

9000

Tauscher, Ellen

CA-10

34

8500

Skelton, Ike

MO-4

35

8000

Ellsworth, Brad

IN-8

36

7500

Gutierrez, Luis

IL-4

37

7500

Rahall, Nick

WV-3

38

7000

Harman, Jane

CA-36

39

7000

Langevin, James

RI-2

40

7000

Lipinski, Daniel

IL-3

41

7000

Reyes, Silvestre

TX-16

42

6500

Matheson, Jim

UT-2

43

6500

Scott, David

GA-13

44

6500

Wilson, Charles

OH-6

45

6000

Cleaver, Emanuel

MO-5

46

6000

Etheridge, Bob

NC-2

47

6000

Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie

SD-0

48

6000

Salazar, John

CO-3

49

5500

Hastings, Alcee

FL-23

50

5500

McCarthy, Carolyn

NY-4

51

5500

McIntyre, Mike

NC-7

52

5000

Davis, Artur

AL-7

53

5000

Murtha, John

PA-12

54

5000

Ortiz, Solomon

TX-27

55

4500

Brown, Corrine

FL-3

56

4500

Donnelly, Joe

IN-2

57

4000

Berman, Howard

CA-28

58

4000

Bishop, Timothy

NY-1

59

4000

Dicks, Norman

WA-6

60

4000

Lowey, Nita

NY-18

61

4000

Mahoney, Tim

FL-16

62

3000

Murphy, Patrick

PA-8

63

3000

Smith, Adam

WA-9

64

2500

Arcuri, Michael

NY-24

65

2000

Altmire, Jason

PA-4

66

2000

Castor, Kathy

FL-11

67

2000

Chandler, Ben

KY-6

68

2000

Giffords, Gabrielle

AZ-8

69

2000

Higgins, Brian

NY-27

70

2000

McNerney, Jerry

CA-11

71

2000

Mitchell, Harry

AZ-5

72

2000

Pomeroy, Earl

ND-0

73

2000

Sherman, Brad

CA-27

74

2000

Sires, Albio

NJ-13

75

1000

Berkley, Shelley

NV-1

76

1000

Boyda, Nancy

KS-2

77

1000

Gillibrand, Kirsten

NY-20

78

1000

Kanjorski, Paul

PA-11

79

1000

Kildee, Dale

MI-5

80

1000

Klein, Ron

FL-22

81

1000

Perlmutter, Ed

CO-7

82

1000

Rodriguez, Ciro

TX-23

83

1000

Space, Zackary

OH-18

84

0

Baird, Brian

WA-3

85

0

Berry, Robert

AR-1

86

0

Marshall, James

GA-8

87

0

Peterson, Collin

MN-7

88

0

Richardson, Laura

CA-37

89

0

Ruppersberger, C.A.

MD-2

90

0

Sestak, Joe

PA-7

91

0

Snyder, Victor

AR-2

92

0

Taylor, Gene

MS-4

93

0

Udall, Mark

CO-2

94

0

Yarmuth, John

KY-3

Unbelievable. So much for the Democrat’s idea of new politics, all this talk of hope and change, is nothing more than a well orchestrated sham.

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Jaw dropping cool Obama Video.

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I know the most of you have heard the song, “Black President”, by NAS.

Well, here is supporter made video for it. Note, this is not the official Video. This was made by someone with Video Editing software.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzQgAdhWT1E&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]

I hate to say it, but John McCain doesn’t have a prayer in hell in winning this election.If this video is indication of the desire for change in this country, and If the current polls are any indication, I do not look for a Conservative to be in the White House for a very long time. Thanks to Bush and his Neo-Conservative idiotic nonsense, Conservativism is being run to the rat holes.

Thank you George W. Bush, you bastard.

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From the Dept. of "Ya Think?"

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A new report says what Keith Olbermann and many other “Liberal” media types said long ago…

This should be enough cause to Conservatives to NEVER, EVER pick a Neo-Conservative for a Presidential candidate.

Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.

The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration.

“Many qualified candidates” were rejected for the department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, “constituted misconduct and also violated the department’s policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”– Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department – NYTimes.com

Now, I’m just waiting for some person from some Conservative Blog to come here and tell me I’m wrong.

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Blogs 4 Borders! 06/23/08

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It’s time for the Blogs 4 Borders VBlog.

In this weeks edition…

The Other War: As Mexico melts down are we next?

100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders. When will the madness end?

John Monti’s false accusers take a second bite at the apple, we report and tell you what you can do to help!

Download for your ipod here.

As mentioned in the final story our friend John Monti is facing yet another bogus legal challenge (learn more here) and he could use our support. Make sure to join his Facebook group and hit the tip jar!

If you’d like to sponsor a show contact us here.

This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs
For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border
security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join find out how right here.

Speaking of Illegal Immigration, check out what our feckless
Government is doing, instead of deporting the Criminal Illegal
Immigrants, they’re deporting Catholic Priests, and Protestant pastors: (via WorldnetDaily.com)

U.S. immigration authorities have stepped up
deportations, but rather than pursue illegal aliens, they have chosen
to evict America’s church ministers from the country instead.

Honesty could cost Christian pastor Keith Thomas his citizenship
because he cooperated with immigration officials, disclosing two minor
marijuana convictions he incurred when he was a young man in England 33
years ago.

Thomas, 53, is working without pay, fearing deportation from the
U.S. and separation from his family. He was denied a green card based
on convictions that were expunged in 1982. Thomas told WND he has
documentation to prove his clean record since the 1975 conviction and
that he has always been truthful with officials, but he doesn’t
understand why people who enter the country illegally are allowed to
stay when he is facing the citizenship battle of his life.

“They’ve let 12 million illegals into the country, yet somebody has
been doing some good, paying taxes, came in legally and has been
married to an American for 27 years and has two American kids, and
they’re going to kick him out?” Thomas asked. “I told the truth. Nobody
called me out on my past. If I had not even owned up to my record, the
government would not have been able to find any of it.”

Nice… your Tax dollars at work!

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Memo to Self Righteous Idiot James Dobson: Will you please shut the hell up!?!??!

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Go Read.

I won’t quote it here, because of my Boycott of the AP. But I will say this, If Dobson spent as much time trying to lead others to Christ, as he did sticking his idiotic self-righteous nose into politics, he might be doing something.

He is, as far as I am concerned, a classic textbook example of a Self Righteous, White, Christian pig.

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More Blantant Neo-Conservative Stupidity…

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David Brooks proves the depth of his blatant stupidity…

The arguments floating around the op-ed pages and seminar rooms were overwhelmingly against the idea of a surge — a mere 20,000 additional troops would not make a difference. The U.S. presence provoked violence, rather than diminishing it. The more the U.S. did, the less the Iraqis would step up to do. Iraq was in the middle of a civil war, and it was insanity to put American troops in the middle of it.

When President Bush consulted his own generals, the story was much the same. Almost every top general, including Abizaid, Schoomaker and Casey, were against the surge. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was against it, according to recent reports. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki called for a smaller U.S. presence, not a bigger one.

In these circumstances, it’s amazing that George Bush decided on the surge. And looking back, one thing is clear: Every personal trait that led Bush to make a hash of the first years of the war led him to make a successful decision when it came to this crucial call. – The Bush Paradox by DAVID BROOKS (via New York Times)

Here’s the problem with that ol’ Davie Boy. The move to the “surge” was made about 5 years too damn late. Not even to mention the multiple moving of the goal posts for the very reason of this war. This is just another rather lame attempt to justify this unconstitutional war.

Others: Commentary, Martini Revolution, GINA COBB, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Pundit, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Betsy’s Page, Connecting.the.Dots and The Mahablog (via Memeorandum)

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The New Don Imus Non-Controversy

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It seems that Don Imus said something to ruffle the feathers of the Race Hustling crowd. People like Tax cheat Al “Interloper” Sharpton.

Of course, Mister “I’m a eternally oppressed negro.” Isn’t really known for his truthfulness.

Of course, Imus has explained himself, But we all know that will not stop the Liberal Race hustlers from trying to take him out or at least make a scene of the whole thing.

More fall out from the Civil Rights Bill of 1968, if you ask me. Had we’d done that right, this would not even be an issue.

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Sorry Feith, A screw up, is a screw up!

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Douglass Feith attempts to justify a screw up.

Everyone now knows that the CIA’s intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was deeply flawed. (It was a diplomatic and political disaster that Rice and all the other top Bush administration officials relied on erroneous intelligence – though they did so in good faith.) Rice deserves credit for stressing here the gaps and uncertainties in U.S. intelligence – The Corner on National Review Online

The only thing rice deserves credit for is knowingly disseminating bad (some say false, but I digress…) intelligence to the American people.

In other words, A screw up, is a screw up, is a screw up. There is NO justifying it at all. Period.

Others:
Think Progress, The Washington Independent, Sadly, No! and Attackerman

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Anti-Obama attack Ad.

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John McCain’s flunky Michael Goldfarb says that there’s no Conservative 527’s?

Well, exactly do you call, this?

If that isn’t a 527 attack ad, can someone please explain to me, what is?

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Francis H. Powers Staten Island G.O.P. Candidate Dies

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This via the Corner:

This comes via the NYT:

The candidate endorsed by Republican leaders to run for a Congressional seat being vacated by Representative Vito J. Fossella died on Sunday morning at his home in Staten Island, party leaders said.

The candidate, Francis H. Powers, a board member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was a retired Wall Street executive and an active contributor to Republican candidates. Mr. Powers, 67, died in his sleep of natural causes, family members said.

“As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family,” Mr. Powers’s son, Brian, said in a statement. “We would appreciate privacy at this time as we make the necessary arrangements.”

Mr. Powers had been selected to run in the November election to succeed Mr. Fossella, who has held the seat since 1997 but who decided not to run for re-election after a personal scandal emerged. Mr. Fossella is the only Republican representing New York City in Congress.

And of course…:

National Democratic leaders have made it clear that they view winning the seat, which has been in Republican hands for 28 years, as a priority. Earlier this month, Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, visited New York to say his party would do “whatever is necessary to win this campaign.”

I wonder what that would be? Maybe like make up lies and smear people and publish pamphlets with false info on them?

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Where the hell is Memeorandum?

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Anyone know? I’ve had to go over to Blogrunner to even see what everyone is talking about.

Only reason I am asking, is because Gabe’s other two sites, WeSmirch and TechMeMe are still running.

Seriously, what the hell?!??!

Gabe, get your stuff together and get the site back up, PLEASE! You have any clue how hard it is to Blog with that site?!?!? Holy Hell!

Thank You.

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Some Sad News from Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty

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This is truly some very sad news.

Quote:

The Ron Paul family received some truly sad news yesterday. Eric Davenport, one of the Presidential Campaign’s most important volunteers, was tragically killed in a traffic accident over the weekend. Eric and his young wife, Danielle, spent countless hours working in the South Florida RP ‘08 headquarters. Together, they made hundreds of calls, stuffed thousands of envelopes and walked neighborhoods tirelessly supporting liberty. They even took an extended leave of absence from their jobs so they could support Dr. Paul full time.

The Davenport’s committment to the campaign was hard on the families pocketbook, and Eric’s untimely death leaves Danielle and their two small boys facing tremendous financial hardship. We can’t bring Eric back, but we can help these good people in their time of need.

Dr. Paul and Carol today sent Danielle a personal check. This money is a nice start, but your help is also needed. Any contribution, large or small, would be tremendously appreciated.

For privacies sake, I am not posting the families address on our website. Please either mail contributions to 837 West Plantation Drive, Clute, TX 77531 and we will forward them, or call our office at 979-265-3034 to get the address from our staff. Checks should be made out to Danielle Davenport.

Thank you for reading, I hope you can help – Freedom lovers in need -  (Via Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty)

Thoughts and Prayers to the Davenport Family and to those in the Ron Paul campaign that knew them.

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Obama says G.O.P. will play race card, and this is news?

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Barry had better get off this crap or The Democrats will look like idiots, just like they did in 2000 and 2004.

As far as the race card goes, you ain’t heard none of McCain’s surrogates saying crap like, “God Damn America” or “America’s chickens are coming home, to roost.” not even a week after 9/11.

You see, this is why we screwed up in 1964. When we gave the Black Race the special law that we gave them, which my favorite senator and Hero, Barry Goldwater Sr. refused to sign, saying that one could not legislate morality. Not satisfied with that, we gave them their own Holiday, to honor a Communist sympathizer, and immoral degenerate. Now they, being the Black Race, want to rule the damn country, and will ride into the White House, and if ANY conservative tries to bring up his liberal record or any of his polices. They will be painted as a racist bigot. Yeah, I said it, I’m proud of it. We gave them freedom, and they now they want the White Race to shrink in fear. A classic example of “Give ’em an inch, they’ll take a damn mile….”

Sometimes I truly believe, that Trent Lott was absolutely correct.

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Obama introduces new logo and might be breaking the law… Maybe.

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Via CNN:

newseals.ap.wh

Of course, He might be breaking the law:

18 USC Sec. 713 …
(a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

(b) Whoever, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register, knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells, or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof, except for manufacture or sale of the article for the official use of the Government of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Of course, The Ramones used one, on a tour once:

ramones

The difference is, that the Ramones are not running for President and Barack Obama is. So, that might make a difference.

I guess it is up to the Government to decide if they want to enforce the law or not, which you know that they won’t, and face all that backlash? I don’t think so.

Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World

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The Bronze: John Bolton for saying that Sept 11’th was on Clinton’s Watch. (it wasn’t, it was on Bush’s watch…)

The Silver: Chris Wallace for saying that Bill O. and the other Opinion people over at Fox, do not handle election coverage, when they do. (duh!)

The Gold: The idiots over at The New York Post’s Page Six Dept. who are going to write idiotically untrue statement about Olbermann.

You know, I know, some of you are thinking, “What the hell are you posting these videos for?" For one, I like Olbermann’s show, because I happen to think that George W. Bush is the biggest flippin’  idiot President, that this Nation has EVER had, anyone that disagrees with that, mostly likely has their ass planted so far up George W. Bush’s ass, the G.O.P.’s ass, that they cannot see reality, or is just being willfully ignorant. (which is what 90% of Fox Noise’s viewers are….Willfully ignorant)