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Check this bunch of nonsense out here.
This is why I did not support Ron Paul; because he attracted the nuts and the flakes. I guess the same is true about his son.
Hats off to barefoot and progressive, as much as it pains me to say that; for finding this stuff out. We need a new political movement, but not with crazies like that in it.
Others: Eye on 2010 and Lawyers, Guns and Money
Update: AP reports that Rand Paul’s Spokesman has quit.
Flakes?
To Air is Human?
This makes me ill. But, hey, it is the truth. I have to agree with AllahPundit; India might just be our only hope of getting out of there.Which is pretty strange coming from a Hawkish Red Fascist like me.
First read this article from Stars and Stripes:
Even the best Afghan units lack training, discipline and adequate reinforcements. In one new unit in Baghlan Province, soldiers have been found cowering ditches rather than fight. Others routinely steal U.S.-supplied fuel, equipment and weapons. And a few are suspected of collaborating with the Taliban against the Americans.
“I do not feel I am a mentor here,” said Capt. Jason Douthwaite, a logistics officer with the 73rd Troop Command of the Ohio National Guard who has tried to stop rampant pilfering by the Afghan soldiers his unit is training. “I feel like I am an investigating officer. It’s not, ‘Let me teach you your job.’ It’s more like, ‘How much did you steal from the American government today?’”…
During a Taliban ambush, gunfire was coming at the Americans and their Afghan counterparts from three sides. But the Afghan National Army soldiers of the 209 Corps, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Kandak (battalion), fresh out of training in Kabul, were not ready for a fight.
So after returning initial fire, the Afghan soldiers simply lay in a ditch, refusing to budge.
“They don’t have the basics, so they lay down,” said Capt. Michael Bell, who is one of a team of U.S. and Hungarian mentors tasked with making this young kandak battle-ready. “I ran around for an hour trying to get them to shoot, getting fired on. I couldn’t get them to shoot their weapons.”
Now, watch this video, which is about 6 months old; but still, holy hell. If we’ve got this much problem. Maybe we should just get India to come in and get the hell out of there.
The Video:
Having said all that, I do not agree with the comments over at HotAir; that we should just carpet bomb the place. That is idiotic. But America needs to take a LOOONG look at this and make a decision. Hopefully, it is made soon.
Wow. I guess Sanders is not happy at all. Not only did he pull his amendment, he is not voting for the bill.
Video:
Partial transcript:
I’m struggling with this. As of this point, I’m not voting for the bill. … I’m going to do my best to make this bill a better bill, a bill that I can vote for, but I’ve indicated both to the White House and the Democratic leadership that my vote is not secure at this point. And here is the reason. When the public option was withdrawn, because of Lieberman’s action, what I worry about is how do you control escalating health care costs?
Popcorn anyone? 😉
It appears that Mr. Vance is just playing stupid or is, in fact, stupid. He says that I did not answer him.
Dude, I wrote a fucking 1139 word article answering you and your brain-dead bullshit that you heaved at me. If you did not get anything out if it; that is your fucking problem asshole.
I’ve got better things to do, that fucking deal with fucking brain-dead leftists like you.
Now go fuck yourself and have nice day.
That is all.
I saw this, and I just could not let it fly… So, I recorded a short video:
So, Yes, I created a video… I had to… Enough is enough…:
Lovely eh? 🙄
Update: If that was not bad enough, the Democrats broke a rule, when they withdrew the bill! Good Lord. 🙄
Others: The Corner on National …, RedState, Hot Air, Instapundit, National Review, and Power Line
I write this piece to answer the libertarian leftist Laurence Vance’s smear piece against me. An article for what it is worth has only brought 143 visitors to my blog, as of this writing. For a man, who is supposedly an authority on all things libertarian; not to mention all things Austrian economics —That my friend is quite amusing, I guess Lew Rockwell and company are legends in their own minds — at best.
I will not sit here and pick apart this entire ridiculous article, which is filled with in inaccuracies about me, who I listen to in talk radio, and all the other silly assumptions that those of the idiotic leftist mentality believe about us, who happen to respect and support our Military. Nevertheless, I will correct this leftist imbecile on some issues.
First off, whom or what I listen to on television: I guess Mr. Vance assumes that Fox News Network in my Television when I am awake. This is a gross fallacy; I only watch Fox News during the daytime; that is, if and when, I decide to turn the blasted thing on. I think I may watch an hour of Television at most, as for during the opinion hour at night, the only person I can stomach on Fox News is, in fact, is Bill O’Reilly. I find Sean Hannity most annoying. Why is that? Because Sean Hannity is a water carrier, a talk points repeater. Quite bluntly, Sean Hannity is an idiotic gasbag — Not to mention he looks and dresses like a closeted gay twink. Sean Hannity is, in fact, a Republican. He spouts Republican talking points — all the while claiming to be a Libertarian. One thing I can tell you, Sean Hannity is not a libertarian, he is not even close. Even I, the most hawkish man in the blogosphere can tell you that. Sean Hannity, to me, represents the Bush-era Fox News. Which has since changed, they stopped with the stupid Bush-era talking points and moved on. Sean Hannity, well, not so much. As for Limbaugh, I respect the man for building such a large business around his, well, ego. However, I do not listen to him on a regular basis, and I will tell you why. Rush Limbaugh strikes me as someone who is love with his own voice — something that I find most highly annoying. Therefore, I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh for that reason. Like anyone else, I catch the clips online when he says or does something remarkably stupid. As for Glenn Beck, Beck peddles paranoia; I am not much into that sort of a thing really. Glenn Back believes that communism is still a real threat. I disagree; I believe that radical socialism is a real threat. However, staunch communism is not and has not been for many years — McCarthy saw to that little feat — and yes there is a big difference between socialism and communism, it even says this on the communist party USA’s website. I ought to know, I did look it up. I do not make a habit of yowling about things that I have no clue about, unlike some in this idiotic political blogosphere.
Therefore, yes, I do watch Bill O’Reilly; why, you ask — Because Bill O’Reilly is fair and yes, balanced. Anyone who actually watches his show knows that Bill does not carry water for the President, ever. Bill also is fair to the President; he does not just hate President Obama, because he is a socialist, much to the chagrin of those on the far right. Bill O’Reilly, like me, has a strong disliking of the socialist far left. This is because we both happen to know that socialism is a threat to the free capitalistic system in this country — this is why I respect the man. Another thing that made me begin to watch him at Bill O’Reilly was the fact that he stopped the policy of shutting people’s microphones off, that disagreed with him. I noticed that he was doing that, and because of this, I refused to watch O’Reilly. As much as I disagree with much of what the left has to say; I do believe that anyone in this Country, as long as they are not planning to overthrow or cause harm to anyone in this Nation, have the right to freedom of speech. This is what got Senator Joseph McCarthy into a great deal of trouble, this is why people like William Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell Jr. (not to be confused with his son, Brent Bozell III) abandoned McCarthy. Because McCarthy wanted to exert thought police on the American people, that which is, sadly, a tactic of the far left. Because O’Reilly abandoned this practice of shutting microphones off, I began to watch him. I also starting watching Fox News and frankly stopped watching CNN and MSNBC because of the blatant partisanship of MSNBC and to a lesser extent CNN. I am all for a diversity of opinion, but when you actually stoop to the level of insulting your viewers, that is when I decided that the bus stopped here and I got off. (So to speak)
Getting back to the subject at hand here, Laurence Vance also accuses me of not being able to separate the Military from the Government. Which is most amusing, because his posting at Lew Rockwell’s Blog; he accuses the Military of occupying Iraq, which was done on the orders of the George W. Bush Administration — Which is something I pointed out in one of my previous postings. Therefore, to Mr. Vance I say — Project much, friend? But then again, when talking to a leftist, one can only expect so much — because to them, up is down and left is right, and the world is a very bizarre place; which is why I tend to avoid reasoning with them. After all, the Bible says; “If any man be ignorant, let them be ignorant” and I do try to follow the Bible as much as I possibly can.
While I am on the subject of Iraq, I feel the need to clear something up. If Mr. Vance or anyone else happens to believe that I am some sort of a Bush-supporting Republican, please be advised that this about as far from the truth that one can get. I did not vote for President George. W. Bush, at all, either time. During that time, I was firmly in the Democratic Party column. This pre-dated my blogging days. I was a left of center — albeit quite the “half-assed left of center,” but I digress. Further, I did support the Iraq war, until the reports came out and the White House admitted that they were wrong about Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In fact, it was that little incident, that triggered me to start blogging in February of 2006 as a “left of center” blogger. I will explain the reasons why I switched sides for another posting, as this one is getting very long.
Finally, to answer Mr. Vance’s charge of being a “Red State Fascist” — If loving America and in loving America; knowing that in order to maintain the peace requires strength. If knowing that the United States Military is a valued treasure in this Country and should be highly respected — If wanting to see the United States of America protected from terrorists; both foreign and domestic, makes me a Red State Fascist — I plead the only thing I that I will ever plead to a charge as this — guilty as charged.
May God Bless the United States of America and May God Bless the United States Armed Forces. Further more, Thank God for our Military and Thank God for the privilege of being able to debate those who I disagree with, without the fear of being criminally persecuted for it. We live in a wonderful Nation and I will always defend her from those who would want to slander her. I feel that it is the most that I can do.
My, what the Democrats will not to pass their idiotic socialistic healthcare bill! Captain Ed over at HotAir.com alerts to the fact that Michael Goldfarb has a source up on the hill; what he is telling Michael is unbelievable:
While the Democrats appease Senator Lieberman, they still have to worry about other recalcitrant Democrats including Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. Though Lieberman has been out front in the fight against the public option and the Medicare buy-in, Nelson was critical of both. Now that those provisions appear to have been stripped from the bill, Lieberman may get on board, but Nelson’s demand that taxpayer money not be used to fund abortion has still not been met. According to a Senate aide, the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn’t fall into line.
Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a “naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson’s vote.” They are “threatening to close a base vital to national security for what?” asked the Senate staffer.
Indeed, Offutt is the headquarters for US Strategic Command, the successor to Strategic Air Command, and not by accident. STRATCOM was located in the middle of the country for strategic reasons. Its closure would be a massive blow to the economy of the state of Nebraska, but it would also be another example of this administration playing politics with our national security.
I will be straight and honest with you. During the 2008 election, I thought Michael Goldfarb’s outlandish behavior was asinine; I still do. However, this was one hell of a good catch. Goodness, what a better way to fuel the conspiracy theory idiots like Orly Taitz, who still believe that President Obama is some sort of a covert Muslim or whatever the hell it is that they think about him now.
I will say this, this story, if true, reeks of desperation. The Democrats are obviously desperate to pass this healthcare bill. Why is this? Because they know that if this bill goes down in flames, the Democrats are sunk. They already know that the 2010 elections are not going to be kind to them; the deep sixing of this bill will only make that worse. The problem is, seeing that the public option was stripped out; you have people like Markos Moulitsas saying that the bill should be killed. Either way, this is going to be a huge disaster for the Democrats. They promised change, they promised healthcare for everyone, they overreached like nothing I have ever seen before and now, they are going to pay for it dearly. Frankly, I could not be happier; you oversell yourself and promise the moon, the stars, unicorns and rainbows, and then do not deliver — then you suffer the wrath of the voters come election time.
The point to this blog entry is this; do not make promises that you cannot keep. If you do, you will pay and it is obvious to me and every other blogger out there that the Democrats made all sorts of promises to the American people, during the election of 2008 and now they cannot deliver. Because of this, they are stooping to desperate measures. Measures which will hurt our National Security, for this the Democrats will pay come 2010 and 2012.
You can file this one under the tab of “politically correctness” gone horribly amuck. Seems some idiot school out in Taunton, MA suspended and ordered an 8-year-old child to undergo a psychological evaluation for drawing a picture of Jesus. Yes, that is right folks, for drawing a picture of Jesus.
Quote:
A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.
The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.
It does make sense that the Church community is quite upset over this, Fox News Radio reports:
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League agreed, telling FOX News Radio: “We’re going to question the mental state of the child for simply drawing a picture of Christ crucified? There’s something serious going on this school.”
I am going to be totally honest with you; there have been times when I have totally disagreed with Bill Donohue and I have, in the past, thought that his tactics were a bit thuggish in nature —- This, is not one of them times. I totally agree; something or someone at this school, made a rather bone-headed judgment call.
It also appears that the city is not too happy about it either:
Castro said city residents are outraged over the story. The mayor, who is on vacation in Florida, was immediately notified once the story broke. “It’s obvious this was not handled properly by school officials,” he said.
Castro said the school district has been ordered to reimburse the family for the psychological exam as well as implement procedures to “make sure similar incidents are avoided in the future.”
The superintendent, who answers to the mayor, did not return calls for a comment.
Call it a hunch, but I do believe that this superintendent is going to be looking for a new job very soon.
Others: Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, FOX News Radio and Stop The ACLU
Looks like Crooks and Liars and Think Progress’s Wonk Room are both whining over this Parody.
The Audio:
Partial Transcript:
Illegals in my yard.
Illegals in my yard.
Illegals in my yard.
Sixteen arrive in a stolen car[…]They’re getting free organ transplants this Christmas.
They’re going to have anchor babies this Christmas.
They’re going to scream “sí, se puede” this Christmas.
Those illegals in my yard[…]They’re going to spread bubonic plague this Christmas.
They’re going to bring me lots of bed bugs this Christmas.
They’re going to pass tuberculosis this Christmas.
Those illegals in my yard.
Wonk Room and C & L proceed to decry this as some sort of horrible thing. There is only one problem with that; what about the racism on the left, among the liberal Democrats?
Case in point: (Via NewsBusters)
Transcript:
BILL O’REILLY: The reason that Limbaugh is not going to be able to buy into the NFL is because a bunch of made-up stuff became legend, and he got hammered.
WARREN BALLANTINE: OK, we won’t look at the made-up stuff. Let’s look at him playing “Barack The Magic Negro”, and we’re going to say that’s just funny, that’s just a joke, that’s not racial either. It is racial to real black people.
JUAN WILLIAMS: Hey Warren, you were saying my argument was a red herring. Maybe you should do some research, go back and find out that it was an article written by a black person, headlined “Barack The Magic Negro.”
BALLANTINE: He made it a song and played it on his show.
WILLIAMS: So what? He was making fun of it.
BALLANTINE: You can go back to the porch, Juan. You can go back. It’s OK.
O’REILLY: All right guys: good debate, good-spirited debate.
Bill, of course, missed it, but Juan Williams did not and the next day, he was on the air:
As you can most likely see by now, the Democrats are very hypocritical when it comes to race and racism. Heck, the Democrats promoted segregation in the south for years. In case you are wondering, here is the point of reference on the comment made to Williams:
Just a short memo to the Democrats and the Liberal Bloggers; clean the mess up in your own backyards, before you try to criticize the mess in ours. Because nothing says hypocrite more than people who scream racism, when you have some in your own damned ranks. Now as for the recording? Was it offensive? Sure. I would have never allowed to be published. However, I find it very hard to believe that the Liberals are complaining about this, seeing that have Black Bigots like Warren Ballantine in their own ranks.
What is it that AllahPundit says over at HotAir? Oh, right… Nuance.
Lew Rockwell’s little weasel friend by the name of Laurence Vance is still at it slandering our Nation’s finest and best Military. Mr. Vance writes over at Lew’s Blog the following smear against the United States Military:
Obviously, this picture and story are supposed to counter the negative things I have said about the U.S. military. While I applaud the actions of Lt. Hickman and his fellow soldiers, I’m afraid it doesn’t counter anything. The U.S. military unjustly invaded and still occupies Iraq. This has directly and indirectly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. It doesn’t matter how many Iraqi children are helped by the U.S. military. There is nothing these benevolent soldiers can do to make up for what the U.S. military has done to Iraq.
Mr. Vance’s inability to write a sentence with proper grammar structure aside, this is nothing more than a leftist slander against our United States Armed Forces. It is in fact true that our Armed Forces did invade the Country of Iraq. They did so BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, GEORGE W. BUSH. In other words, these fine brave young men and women were just doing their jobs and following orders; as one is supposed to do when in the Armed Forces. Not that Laurence Vance would know anything about serving our Country, he is too busy peddling his stupid religious books, and books that slander other Presidents —like FDR. Silly books that float the conspiracy theory that FDR purposefully allowed the ships to be attacked at Pearl Harbor and other such stupidity — Which is quite typical of the idiotic libertarian left and their idiotic twins the Paleo-Conservatives.
Some of you might wonder why I am going after Lew Rockwell and Vance. I will explain this; my family served in the United States Armed Forces, my uncle pulled a tour of duty in Vietnam. Luckily, he got out there alive. My grandfather’s two brothers pulled a tour duty in Germany during World War II. When Lew Rockwell and Laurence Vance insult the United States Armed Forces, they are insulting my family, and that my friends, I take very seriously. My family who spilled blood on foreign soil, just so these two jackasses can run a blog, which is for the sole purpose of insulting our United States Military. I am for the idea of freedom of speech and I would not dare try to stop these two thugs from speaking their mind. Nevertheless, I will counter their idiotic accusations and general stupid slanders against our Armed Forces, no matter the cost and no matter how many people e-mail me and try to intimidate me into stopping. I will not stop, ever.
I am, in essence drawing the line in the sand here and saying, “This will NOT stand!” I will not allow two leftist thugs to slander our United States Armed Forces and get away with it unanswered. The American Military is treasure to America and I will not let it be slandered. Call me a “Chickenhawk,” call me whatever you want, but I will NOT allow this to happen unchallenged. Because those brave and woman out of the front lines deserve better than this and if I have to do it alone, I will.
To my readers, I ask you this, where do you stand? Are you with the United States Military or are you against it? The decision is yours.
It seems that Senator Joe Lieberman is keeping his promise to vote against the current Healthcare reform bill, in its present form. Susan Mandrak over at Crooks and Liars calls Lieberman a “spiteful little toad” and to be quite honest with you, she is not that far way from the truth. Joe Lieberman, I believe anyhow, is doing all of obstruction for one reason and one reason alone — To get back at the Democratic Party for his tossing overboard by the Democratic Caucus in 2006. For all of his bluster about loving America and for wanting to save America for the huge debt that we going incur from this disastrous bill by Lieberman, I believe that it is nothing more than political retribution.
The truth is about this healthcare bill by Harry Reid is that it is nothing more than a disaster. Even the party leaders themselves do not even know what it is this bill. So, how are they going to vote on it? In fact, the White House is now saying to Reid to cut a deal with Lieberman, which may in fact happen. But then again, if Lieberman says no deal and some of the more moderate Democrats do not play along, this bill could be, in fact, dead in the water. This, from my political standpoint would be a good thing.
Reading the round up of the political blogs, it seems that the far left and even the no so far left, wants Lieberman’s head on the platter. It does look like Joe is going to be the “sacrificial Jew” for the good of America, which could get him elected in the 2010 elections or whenever Lieberman is supposed to run again. Needless to say, this story far from over, and it should be interesting to follow.
This series of videos is from the Hoover Institution. This interview series is with French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science René Girard.
Enjoy!
The following picture and caption that I am about to show you, comes from the libertarian leftist blogger Lew Rockwell. I present this personal exhibit as to why I left the Paleo-Conservative/libertarian ranks in favor of the Conservative, Pro-military ranks:
Hey Marines, how about some toys for this tot in Afghanistan:
I present this as “Exhibit A”, to the fact that the libertarian movement has been infiltrated by Anti-War leftists who hate America, our Military and why they should be stripped of their citizenship and deported out of our fine Country and into another country; like say, North Korea, Venezuela or maybe even Communist China. Not to be rude about this, but it just so happens, that if that dumb kids fellow Countrymen had not giving refuge and comfort to those who would seek to destroy America — Namely Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda; the damned kid would still possibly have his damned leg. Not to mention the fact that on September 11, 2001, our Country was attacked by Islamic terrorists who did more than just destroy a leg. It killed 2,996 of our people.
However, of course, you cannot tell this to the likes of Lew Rockwell and his bastard gang of leftists who hate this damn Country; they still believe that George W. Bush ordered those planes into the trade center towers. What really troubles me, is that the author of this posting is none other than Dr. Lawrence Vance, who is supposedly a Born-Again Christian. How anyone can harbor such hatred for this Country and our Nation’s Military and still claim to be ANY kind of a Christian is beyond me.
When I still was on the left; as little as that was, in terms of what I believed the Democratic Party to be about, I was always under the impression that Iraq was the war that was very unjustified and that Afghanistan was in fact, the good war that we were fighting to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden. I heard that from the left and I believed that myself. As it turns out, that was nothing more than a damned lie and the far-left knows it. The good majority of the far left either believes that George W. Bush ordered the attacks, to win his popularity or to justify going into Iraq. The rest believe that we had it coming or deserved the attacks because of our evil capitalistic society. This picture and caption are living proof of this; which is why, I left the liberal left and stopped voting for the Democratic Party.
Just to let everyone know, I said my piece on this and I am not interested in debating it. Therefore, I am shutting the comments off; because I want this posting to stand on its own.
Update: After reading this entry again, I realize that I did leave out one important thing. My apologies for that, I do sometimes forget to include stuff pertinent to the entry at times; A.D.H.D. does that to a fellow. Yes, I am serious about having that little disability. Anyhow, the thing I forgot to include in this little shoving of the hatred of the libertarian leftists, into their faces, is the following:
There is one unifying cause that the libertarian leftists and the socialist liberal left is their inbred hatred of war and of anything military. Further more, the libertarians and liberals hate the current state of the Government, albeit for very different reasons. The libertarians hate the size of the Government and the fact that it has become too large, and too regulatory — Which is something I can identify with myself. The socialist left, however, is angry because they cannot control that large Government. The Socialist left does not mind big Government, as long as they can control it. A perfect example of this can be found here.
So, again, the reason why I lump the libertarian leftists in with the socialist is this, not because they are one in the same, they are not, even I know this. However, it is because the libertarian leftists are totally “In bed” with the anti-war socialist leftists who resent any sort of American values or capitalism or defense of the Republic. This has been proven many times with the vile acts at the Military recruiting office in Berkley California and such matters. Same goes for the Paleo-Conservatives, They too are “in bed” with the socialist left, when it comes to foreign policy. It has been that way for years and will continue to be that way. The difference between a Paleo-Conservative and a libertarian is one thing —protectionism. This is what the Democratic Party believed in, before globalists like Bill Clinton came on the scene and passed NAFTA. It should be noted, however, that the NAFTA agreement did not pass until the Republicans took back the Congress, and Clinton became an instant moderate.
Nevertheless, my feelings toward these libertarian leftists, their Paleo-Conservative counterparts, and their cousins the Anti-War socialist left remain unabated.
First this one here:
My friend, the wonderful sf writer Peter Watts was beaten without provocation and arrested by US border guards on Tuesday. I heard about it early Wednesday morning in London and called Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She worked her contacts to get in touch with civil rights lawyers in Michigan, and we mobilized with Caitlin Sweet (Peter’s partner) and David Nickle (Peter’s friend) and Peter was arraigned and bailed out later that day.
But now Peter faces a felony rap for “assaulting a federal officer” (Peter and the witness in the car say he didn’t do a thing, and I believe them). Defending this charge will cost a fortune, and an inadequate defense could cost Peter his home, his livelihood and his liberty.
Peter’s friends are raising money for his legal defense. I just sent him CAD$1,000, because this is absolutely my biggest nightmare: imprisoned in a foreign country for a trumped-up offense against untouchable border cops. I would want my friends to help me out if it ever happened to me. —- Read the rest at Boing Boing.Net
I am not sure why, but something is fishy about the man’s story. The truth of the matter is, when a border officer tells you to do something; you are supposed to do it and not ask questions. I hate to say it. But this sounds like one of those stories that is common among the libertarians; where a border agent tells the person to do something, and they keep giving agent shit, until they finally have to use force to get the person to do what they are told. Here is a perfect example. I might catch hell for saying this; but I think this guy got what was coming to him for being stupid enough to not comply with the border agent’s commands.
Also, from the stack. A story from the far right online publication WorldNetDaily:
An international human rights organization today announced it will pursue a civil lawsuit on behalf of parents who want to control their children’s education and withhold them from explicit sex education and play-acting classes required by the German government.
Joel Thornton of the International Human Rights Group told WND the government in Salzkotten, Germany, is sending the fathers of the children to jail for terms of one week because they have refused to turn their children over to school officials for mandated sex classes.
According to a report from Richard Guenther, European director for the IHRG, eight families of Christians have decided to withhold their children from required sex education classes in Salzkotten.
Sex education classes in Germany are explicit, and the issue is one of the major reasons why families – and not just Christian families – choose to homeschool their children even though the government has maintained its illegality since the days of Hitler.
As much as I would like to dismiss this a far right propaganda; I cannot. I have been following the stories about Germany’s treatment of people who choose to home school their kids, and quite frankly, some of the stuff that I have read is downright frightening. I highly suggest that you read the rest of this article, because it is an interesting read.
I will be very honest with you; I really do not care for Sarah Palin. That is because I believe personally that she embodies the rather idiotic lukewarm evangelical Christianity nonsense that I fled back in 2004, when I left the Pentecostal sect of Christianity, in favor of more traditional or some would say actual real Christianity. However, I will be brutally honest with you; she totally owned this little piece right here. However, I will say that the fan boy comments over at HotAir.com were a bit much — Having said that, she did very well here in this video. Some people forget, she did have experience as a Sportscaster at a TV Station in Alaska. Therefore, she is no stranger to Teleprompters and she is actually good at it.
Again, I must hand it to the gal — She did really well here.
Here is the video: (Thanks to R.S. McCain)
Count me as someone who is very disgusted with this sort of disgusting bile that is now being shown on Wonkette. Whoever wrote this should be fired.
It has been over a month since Teabaggers from across the nation visited Capitol Hill to tear up physical copies of legislation and sit around Nancy Pelosi’s office like schmucks, because of her plans to create another Dachau. But next Tuesday it will be the Senate’s turn! Folks’ll walk into Senate office buildings and pretend to die, because they’re pussies, and won’t die for real.
Oh, it gets better:
This should be pretty funny. Probably a good 75% of Senators will see presumably dead bodies on the ground and do what they usually do, which is try to fuck them before they go cold. Try keeping your death gag up during that, lie-mongers.
Here the screencaps before Wonkette tries to remove the offensive posting or rewrites it:
and….:
The reason why this bothers me so bad is this is the same damn group that went after me, when I lost my cool and said something on twitter that I should not have said. However, it is okay for Wonkette to write something like this? It is a double standard and it is wrong. Something should be done about it. However, because we all know that liberals can get away with such nonsense and we Conservatives cannot, nothing will be done.
I just have to wonder, what does Obama think of such rubbish and does he endorse it?
(H/T Stop the ACLU)
I believe that Mrs. Sanford is doing the right thing and leaving Mark Sanford. Mark Sanford, in my eyes, is worst than any corrupt politician in Washington D.C. Not only because of what he did to his wife. In addition, because of what he did to those of us who actually supported Mark Sanford. There were actually some of us, who actually believed that Mark Sanford might be an excellent alternative to the likes of Wilsonian Republican hacks like Lindsey Graham and John Boehner. However, it was quickly revealed that Mark Sanford was nothing more than a morally and fiscally corrupt political leader.
Therefore, to Jenny Sanford, I give her the old “You Go Girl!” cheer. Because whatever of his that she decides to go after, is totally fine with me. I mean, this feckless bastard had a pretty wife and four darling little boys; and instead of being a model husband, this idiot was playing “sex doctor” in Argentina. I mean, let us not even get into the blatant hypocrisy that comes to mind here. I mean, this idiot was all about Conservative fiscal restraint and supposedly about Christian morals. So much for all that, I suppose.
Personally, I believe that Jenny Sanford is entitled to EVERYTHING of value that Mark Sanford owns. Mark Sanford should left a damn pauper when she is done with him. Jenny Sanford deserves to live like a queen; Mark Sanford deserves to be taken to the outskirts of town, shot, and left for dead. You ask what about Christian forgiveness? Oh, I forgive him. However, forgiveness has nothing to do with Mark Sanford profiting from moral infidelity while in public office, not to mention that fact that he lead on many people into believing that he was something that he was not —That my friend is unforgiveable. Mark Sanford should lose every damned bit of wealth that he owns and it should be given to Jenny Sanford. Before anyone asks; No, I do not think that this should be the standard for every divorce case. However, in this case, it is entirely appropriate.
I am sorry friends, but there is just absolutely no excuse for this sort of immorality while in public office and also there is just no excuse for this sort of public deception. Mark Sanford did this and for it, he should be held highly accountable.
Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers “at the expense of hardworking Americans.” Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it's not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.
Then he got elected.
This is sad story and I do mean that in quite the big way. It appears that Editor & Publisher, which has been in business since 1884 is going out of business; that is unless someone steps forward, buys the magazine, and begins to sell it. There are a number of things, which one could blame — bad economy, changing times, and so forth. I guess some of you might think that I am delighted to see this happening. Well, let me publicly say that nothing and I mean nothing could be further from the truth. As a Conservative, I believe in the first amendment — even when I do not agree with those who do not share my political stance and views. Editor & Publisher has fought for the first amendment right of publishers for years, and I commend them for the service to the media community.
It is has been said by those in the establishment and corporate media world, that bloggers like me do not respect those in the mainstream media. This, in my case, at least is not true at all. Truth is folks, if it were not for the Fourth Estate; we bloggers would have nothing to write about, at all. Therefore, it does bring me great sadness to hear that one of the trade publications for the old media is closing its doors for good. I am very hopeful that someone out there, who is in a position to buy this trade publication out and enable it to continue for many years to come. Because allowing E & P to slip into the sundry bounds of historic memory would be, I feel with the greatest of convictions, a grave tragedy.
I wish all of the editors and staff of E & P all of the very best and I hope that somehow, someway that E & P is able to remain with us.
I really was not going to blog about this subject; seeing that I already made my feelings known. I read a bit of the speech and I was not overly impressed or shocked, some on the right liked the speech and some that outright hated the speech; some even thought it sounded a bit Bush-like.
I will have to agree with Ed here however, Obama was smart enough include a reminder that the United States of America has not avenged attacks on our Country, but has also stood up and went after those who sought to eliminate a class of people; namely Hitler’s Germany. This is why I cannot allow myself to be painted as a “Paleo-Conservative.” Because it is the Paleo-Conservatives, who feel that FDR going after Hitler was, in fact, wrong. This is because they did not, and still no not believe in Foreign Interventionism. Let me be the first to say, that there a good number of Jewish Republicans who are, to this very day, very grateful for FDR and his decision to get involved in the situation in Germany.
Another point as well, Obama was thrown a curve ball here and The President did what anyone else would do in his situation. President Obama knew what this award essentially was, and that was a slap in the face to President George W. Bush. President Obama did what any other civilized human being would do. He accepted the award, acknowledged that he did not really deserve such an honor, and went home. This is why I do not buy into the whole Sean Hannity idiotic talking point that he should have refused the award. I also will commend the President for essentially telling the Norwegians, “Thanks, but no thanks” to their offer for him to bask in the victory of getting the award. This shows them how President Obama really felt about getting the award in the first place. Some Conservatives may want to criticize him for doing this; I will not be one of them.
So, in closing, I simply say to the President —- good job. Thank you for reminding the rest of the world, why it is, that America is still called the greatest Nation on earth. — And please, Mr. President more speeches like this, praising America — instead of apologizing for it.
For one so nothing illegal gets posted here, plus it keeps the trolls away and so no stupid liberal blogger will use what is posted in the comments section against you.
Unbelievable. 🙄
Having said all that; this is just totally unacceptable:
I am not a fan of the socialist President, and I have made that point quite clear; but that comment is over the line. Someone ought to lose their job over at HotAir.com because of it too. Michelle, Allah, Edward; that is pathetic and I am very disappointed, in all of you, that anything like that would be permitted to stand —For any period of time.
Update: I thought it necessary to update this posting with a bit more reasoning why this display of nastiness bothers me so badly. Some of you, who have read this blog for a while might well remember, that yours truly found my personal self and my blog in a load of trouble with the left for producing a rather untactful graphic. I admit it; I screwed up in a big way. I also paid for it monetarily; the ultra-liberal left went after my advertisers and complained, and as a result, I lost a few ad companies on my site. As much as it pains me to admit it, the left was totally right for doing what they did. It was a free market solution to what I did, holding the advertisers feet to the fire and made them decide to sever ties with me. No, I am not going to play that whole Liberal Fascist line in this situation. The line of offensiveness was crossed, with my graphic, as well as, with what HotAir has done here. I feel that anyone who finds that comment offensive should contact HotAir.com’s advertisers and complain; you do have that right.
As for some idiotic freedom of speech argument, that is totally non-sequitur here. There is a line between freedom of speech and offensive speech, and it was crossed. I know, I have crossed it in the past and I have paid for it dearly. HotAir.com should NOT be allowed to get off without repercussion because they are a well-known blog either. If anything, they should be the one’s that are criticized the loudest; because they are supposedly professional bloggers.
Again, I say this, not to hurt Ed or Michelle or even AllahPundit. Nevertheless, there needs to be a standard set and this is one of them. Gentle poking of the left over policy and their idiotic identity politics and many other examples of literalistic idiotic nosense is one thing, but outright racism is inexcusable. If the left goes after HotAir; they will have absolutely no one to blame — but themselves.
