Admittedly, this not my first band of choice. This is what I call “Chick Rock” from the 1980’s. But the theme fits perfectly.
Enjoy:
I have to confess, that I very highly doubt that this sort of Pro-American imagery would have flown in this day and age of Anti-Americanism in the entertainment industry today.
MADISON, Wis. — Police said they have found live ammunition scattered on the ground around the Wisconsin Capitol.University of Wisconsin Police Chief Susan Riseling said 41 rounds of .22-caliber ammunition were found Thursday morning scattered at several locations outside the Capitol.The revelation came as state attorneys asked a Dane County judge to order the Capitol closed for a security sweep. The judge made no immediate ruling on the request.Authorities said that most of the bullets were found near the State Street entrance to the Capitol and around the King Plaza.
and….:
Madison — State officials plan to ask a Dane County judge this afternoon for a court order that would allow police to remove all unauthorized people inside the State Capitol.
The judge, Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Albert, did not rule on the order.
The draft order states: “By 3 p.m., DOAĀ shall order that all unauthorized people, including those who have remained in the State Capitol past the building’s closing, exit the building at its closing time and that no unauthorized people shall be allowed to remain in the building after its closing time from now on.
“DOAĀ shall take such steps as are necessary to conduct a security check of the State Capitol building and grounds.”
The draft order says that, if unauthorized people don’t leave, police can fine, remove or arrest people.
The draft order also requests that the Department of Administration be allowed to remove unauthorized materials posted or hung on walls inside the Capitol. The proposed deadline for removing materials would be 6 p.m. Thursday.
The stated purpose of the proposed order is to conduct a security check of the building and grounds.
The proposed order says the state would report back to Albert by noon Friday with a status report and with a plan regarding access to the Capitol.
The request came after University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling said in a Dane County courtroom on Thursday that police this morning found 41rounds of .22-caliber ammunition outside of the State Capitol.
Riseling said 11 rounds were found outside the State St. entrance, 29 rounds near the King St. entrance and one round near the Hamilton St. area.
She testified that, “I don’t like to see live ammunition when I see significant crowds,” she said before Dane County Circuit Judge John Albert. “The presence of that doesn’t thrill me.”
The disclosure came as organized labor continued its legal effort to force the state to provide more access to the Capitol.
Later, Michael Huebsch, secretary of the state Department of Administration, said that officials had approached protesters inside the Capitol on Wednesday night, asking them to leave.
He said that Riseling told him that she had approached all of the protesters and asked them to leave. He said she told him that they declined the offer, though some offered varying timelines for when they might leave.
Huebsch also said that Riseling told him that some of the protesters still in the rotunda had mental-health problems.
I have $20.00 in my pocket that says that the live ammo was left by a pro-walker protester in a attempt to get the protesters out of the building. Ann? How could you? š
I somehow doubt quite highly that any pro-union protester would leave live ammo like that; it just does not sound right. I could be wrong and quite frankly; I hope I am. But I just do not buy that some union goon would be that stupid.
If I am wrong, then so be it; I will take my lumps. But until then, I don’t buy it.
The reason why I am posting this, is because I feel it needs to be shown. Andrew Sullivan and Digby the owner of the progressive blog Hullabaloo say this is hate and by definition, yes it is. However, I think more broadly, it is simply blowback; which is an C.I.A. term, from what happened on 9/11. Not only that, these people are simply fed up, with all the recent acts of terrorism happening in America and elsewhere, people are just simply fed up to their wits end.
Again, I do not justify these actions, at all. I simply think progressive liberals need to understand, that people are just fed up.
More than anything else, this just gets up my libertarian nose a bit. What if those were blacks? Ya know? I’m just sayin’
I ask that you forgive me for my extended silence today. I really do not like to write, when I am uninspired.Ā However, I believe that I now have found a reason to put forth words. Ā I have been grappling with the feeling, that Islam is a threat to American Democracy and an Enemy of freedom.Ā However, being the measured person that I am, I do not like to case forth judgments, because I am not much interested in being painted by the left, as being a reactionary.Ā However, I will fully concede that there are times when my emotions get the best of me and I do lash out in print.
Islam, the very name conjures up images in the recesses of my rather mid-aged mind.Ā Some good and some that are horrifying. Ā At some point, one becomes numb to the constant news of terror attacks; in fact, there was one again today —in Germany, of all places. Ā It is the usual affair, man reaches into a bag, gets a gun and screams, āGod is Great!ā and proceeds to inflict carnage upon those around him.Ā However, one cannot think that all Muslims are murders, that is reactionary thinking, that is what the terrorists want me to believe, so that I can hate all Muslims.Ā At least that is what they tell me and I keep telling myself repeatedly.Ā Therefore, I have to remember that, I cannot allow myself to be sucked into that extremist mindset.
Shahbaz Bhatti was Arab man from Pakistan, he was not a Muslim, — he was a Roman Catholic. Today Shahbaz Bhatti was killed —- well, actually the man was killed brutally and viciously by Muslims.Ā Extremists, so they say. Ā This seems to be the argument coming from the likes of the Center for Islamic and American Relations.
The Corner, a Blog over at the National Review Remembers the man:
He had waged a strong campaign ā inside the government as a minister and outside it in cooperation with human-rights groups ā for the repeal of the countryās draconian blasphemy law, which mandates the death penalty for insulting Islam. The 42-year-old was a Roman Catholic, the governmentās only Christian minister, and the longtime head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, a non-governmental organization promoting national unity, interfaith harmony, social justice, and human equalityā¦
Death threats were a constant in Bhattiās life for many years. He once told me that he had never married because he did not think it would be fair to a wife and children to subject them to this concern. His work was his life: At the end of each day, he left his government Cabinet office and headed over to his office at the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, where he continued to help Pakistanās persecuted minorities until late into the night.
āI personally stand for religious freedom, even if I will pay the price of my life,ā he had said when he received the USCIRF award. āI live for this principle and I want to die for this principle.
I ask humbly that you watch this video where Mr. Bhatti speaks of the threats against his life. Ā I also ask to look at this video to see what these —- animals did to this servant of the Lord.Ā Horrifying and disgusting to most sane rational people.
Now back to my original thought.Ā I keep hearing this same line from the majority of America that not all Muslims are terrorists and that we need to co-exist and accept them as normal people.Ā The problem is, that the reality of what is going on here in America and around the world; the noise of that, is making it harder and harder to ignore the reality and remember what one is told.
(H/T to HotAir, who I railed on earlier… hey, just because I holler at ’em, does not mean that I do not like ’em! š )
Okay to set this properly. I will simply say this. We cannot prove for sure that something like this did happen. However, we cannot really prove that it did not happen either.Ā That is the crazy part.
The PJ Tatler has the highlights from a very long document:
Evidence outlined in a Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations, contributed to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system.
The unclassified 2009 report āEconomic Warfare: Risks and Responsesā by financial analyst Kevin D. Freeman, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, states that āa three-phased attack was planned and is in the process against the United States economy.ā
While economic analysts and a final report from the federal governmentās Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission blame the crash on such economic factors as high-risk mortgage lending practices and poor federal regulation and supervision, the Pentagon contractor adds a new element: āoutside forces,ā a factor the commission did not examine.
āThere is sufficient justification to question whether outside forces triggered, capitalized upon or magnified the economic difficulties of 2008,ā the report says, explaining that those domestic economic factors would have caused a ānormal downturnā but not the ānear collapseā of the global economic system that took place.
Suspects include financial enemies in Middle Eastern states, Islamic terrorists, hostile members of the Chinese military, or government and organized crime groups in Russia, Venezuela or Iran. Chinese military officials publicly have suggested using economic warfare against the U.S.
In an interview with The Times, Mr. Freeman said his report provided enough theoretical evidence for an economic warfare attack that further forensic study was warranted.
āThe new battle space is the economy,ā he said. āWe spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems each year. But a relatively small amount of money focused against our financial markets through leveraged derivatives or cyber efforts can result in trillions of dollars in losses. And, the perpetrators can remain undiscovered.ā
If you would like to dive in and look at 111 pages of this document, feel free.
Now Ed Morrissey. is a good guy, when he is not writing bogus headlines, like me; is not so convinced — I’ll quite just a snippet here of his response:
The report is very useful in underscoring the potential vulnerabilities in our system, especially in relation to sovereign-wealth funds, and should get attention from policymakers in protecting the US from financial wars.Ā However, just because something is possible doesnāt mean it happened.
Which is true; but I think we need to look at this much closer and maybe even look at this report and consider the info in it.
The Rev. Grant Storms, the Christian fundamentalist known for his bullhorn protests of the Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, was arrested on a charge of masturbating at a Metairie park Friday afternoon.
The Times-Picayune archiveThe Rev. Grant Storms is hit by confetti as he leads his anti-Southern Decadence parade in the French Quarter in 2003
Storms, 53, of 2304 Green Acres Road in Metairie, was taken into custody at Lafreniere Park after two women reported seeing him masturbating in the driver’s seat of his van, which was parked near the carousel and playground, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office report said.
The first woman told deputies she was taking her children to the playground and parked next to the van at about noon. As she was walking around her own vehicle, she noticed the van windows were down and the occupant was “looking at the playground area that contained children playing, with his zipper down…,” the report said. The woman noted that he was masturbating and quickly ushered her children out of her car.
She told a second woman, who walked to the van and also spotted the man masturbating, the report said. The second witness told deputies that the driver saw her and tried to conceal the zipper area of his pants with his hand.
The two women flagged down a park employee who notified the Sheriff’s Office. The employee detained the man, later identified as Storms, until deputies arrived.
Storms told deputies he was having lunch at the park when he decided to urinate using a bottle instead of the restroom, the report said.
Now that he’s caught, he admits he’s got a problem!
NEW ORLEANS — The conservative pastor known for his condemnation of the Southern Decadence Festival was tearful and apologetic Tuesday in discussing his recent arrest.The Rev. Grant Storms called himself a “hypocrite” because of his Friday arrest on accusations of masturbating in a public park. Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies charged him with obscenity after two women claimed they saw him touching himself while watching children on the playground at Lafreniere Park.Storms said in a news conference Tuesday that he was not watching the children, but he did have his hand in his pants. He apologized to those he has hurt, and he said he was sorry for targeting Decadence, an annual gay festival in the French Quarter.Storms said he is seeking help for a problem with pornography, which he called a recent issue. He also said he is not living at home — he held the news conference from a motel — and he asked for the media to respect his privacy.
I mean, I hate to sound cynical; but, why is it that people who are ate up with what other people do and feel it is their God-given duty to stop people from doing what they feel is wrong — always turn out to have a problem like this? It’s crazy. I heard a Baptist preacher say once, that Christianity was a “Bug-light” for the weirdos and the “hard cases.” He does not know how right he was!
I like these guys; but when they resort to lies, I most expose them.
Ron Paul gave an interview with the News Real Blog, which is owned by the Neo-Conservative goon David Horowitz; who also, by the way, was a former far-leftist. Some would argue that he still is. Anyhow, It appears that this blog wanted to do a follow up.
Here is what Ron Paul really said about Israel:
NRB: David Horowitz and others have been critical of the effect that your foreign policy would have upon Israelā¦ How would you describe a libertarian vision for alliance that could support democracies where people want to determine their own course while under threat by external forces?
Ron Paul: Weāve been involved a long time, since World War II, especially since weāve inherited or developed our empire. We strongly supported all the dictators that surround Israel, and sometimes we buy peace and pay for it. But itās unstable. And that instability has always been a threat to Israel. Now, when itās coming apart, and our financial systemās coming apart, Israel is in worse shape than ever because of our so-called protection.
I believe in non-intervention. I believe we should treat all other countries alike, and that we should be friends. Israel is very, very powerful. If we werenāt in there, they could do what they want to protect themselves, and they wouldnāt have to ask us permission, and we would never have to be dragged in if something happens over there. I think theyād be much better off, and that would be a constitutional position.
NRB: Is there a point where the existence of Israel being under threat would compel even a libertarian to take action to protect her?
Paul: First off, theyāre under threat because weāre there. Weāre a greater threat to them, and our polices, because they have assumed that weāll [intervene] if they donāt do the right things for themselves.
I donāt know of anybody who can militarily threaten them. They have 300 nuclear weapons. Nobodyās gonna touch them. This notion that we have to support them over the Palestinians ā we shouldnāt favor one over the other. Itās a very different problem over there. If youāre a Palestinian-American, you might not like [America’s position on Israel]. Iām not saying you should support the Palestinian side or the Israeli side. Iām saying let them work it out.
Ron Paul: We shouldnāt favor Israel over the Palestinians
Thus proving what I have believed about Neo-Conservatives since I have been blogging. That nothing matters to them, as long as the agenda of defending Israel to the death is followed —– even telling the truth. Ron Paul simply said, “Treat them all the same.” The way that headline was written, one would think Paul was anti-Israel or even Anti-Semitic.Ā To be fair, I disagree with this part here myself:
I believe in non-intervention. I believe we should treat all other countries alike, and that we should be friends. Israel is very, very powerful. If we werenāt in there, they could do what they want to protect themselves, and they wouldnāt have to ask us permission, and we would never have to be dragged in if something happens over there. I think theyād be much better off, and that would be a constitutional position.
The problem here is, there are more Arab nations and Israel is one small Country. If all these Arabs Nations were to decide to gang up on Israel; the results would disastrous. Now that, would not be a good thing to any normal, sane, rational person. That is, unless you are some sort of White Nationalist or Jew-Hater — and a good amount of Ron Paul followers are Jew-Haters, Conspiracy Kooks and just plain old weirdos. I personally, if Ron Paul were running, would not vote for him. Ron Paul is not going to run to actually win the election; he is running to spread his message. Some of Ron Paul’s biggest supporters admitted that to me. Plus, I do not agree with Paul’s strict isolationism.
My point here is this; I can understand someone not agreeing with Ron Paul’s policy stance; but when you resort to writing bogus headlines to make someone look like someone that they are not, you lose any sort of credibility. I also will say that HotAir is not the only blog to do this; it happens everywhere in the right wing Blogosphere. I try and shy away from that. Link baiting is a easy cheap way of getting hits. But the harder way is to write good content; I try to stay with the latter.
Black lawmakers on Monday said GOP-proposed budget cuts would move the countryĀ in the opposite direction of the civil rights movement.
The lawmakers, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, used the last day of Black History Month to argue the GOP-backed cuts would fall hardest on black Americans.
“It’s really especially poignant that this year during Black History Month, the Republican leadership has proposed a budget for fiscal year 2011 that will fall most heavily, mind you, on the backs of the most vulnerable in our society: African Americans, Latinos, and poor, those who have been shut of the American dream,” saidĀ Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who described the cuts as ill-timed and destructive.
“At a time when we should be remembering and uplifting the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans, to the history, culture, civil rights and economy of America, we are literally during this month debating steps that will severely undercut and undermine that legacy,” she said.
Lee also criticized Republicans for saying “so be it” when asked their reaction to the idea that cuts to government spending might hurt U.S. job growth. “So be it,” she repeated. “That’s not what the Civil Rights movement was about.”
I cannot fathom how they are making that stretch. But they are.
Beleaguered Bay State drivers could be staring down the barrel of $5 a gallon gas in a matter of weeks, if the political firestorm raging in the Middle East keeps spreading to more oil-rich, autocratic nations, energy experts warned yesterday.
āImagine what would happen if Saudi Arabia goes offline ā $5-a-gallon gas is not out of the question,ā Mark Williams, an energy risk expert at Boston University, told the Herald, noting that gas prices have already spiked 25 percent this year even though only a handful of small countries have slowed oil production.
Middle East watchers are keeping a nervous eye on the tightly controlled kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where there have been grumblings of discontent, including a reported Internet call for a āday of rageā next week in the wake of bloody popular power struggles in Egypt and Libya, violently suppressed demonstrations in Bahrain and protests in Yemen.
āThe major oil-producing countries have been largely untouched up to now,ā said Jonathan Haughton, an economics professor at Suffolk University. āThe country to watch is Saudi Arabia. If political disruption occurs there, then weāre talking $5.ā
Bay State gas prices hit an all-time high in the summer of 2008 at $4.11. But in the past week, prices have jumped a whopping 17 cents to an average of $3.30 for self-serve regular, according to AAA Southern New England.
Mary McGuire of AAA Southern New England said the political disruptions in the Middle East and North Africa are definitely driving oil prices up. āOil markets do not like instability and uncertainty,ā she said. āAnd we have both in play in Libya, North Africa and the Middle East, because there is concern the political turmoil will spread to other more key oil-producing nations.ā
This will continue as long as the Obama Administration continues to BLOCK drilling attempts. Again, more prayer please.
DETROIT — Rock is being honored at the Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, sponsored by the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People’s Detroit chapter.
Chapter president the Rev. Wendell Anthony said at that Rock will get the group’s Great Expectations Award at the 56th annual dinner at Cobo Center on May 1.
Anthony says Rock is “a champion” for his community and says the Michigan musician has started businesses in the city and “heralds the positive side of Detroit.
Great. An artist who’s much overrated; is being honored by an organization that is lived much past its shelf life.
Michael Reagan, a political consultant and commentator, urged Americans to pray for their president regardless of political differences.
āIt’s easy to pray for your friends. It’s hard to pray for your political opponents,ā wrote the son of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in a commentary for Fox News. āBut that’s just what Jesus tells us to do: Love your enemies and pray for them. We disobey our own Scriptures if we don’t pray for our political opponents.ā
Reagan reminded Christians to put public interest before personal favoritism, especially when presenting their opinions.
āWe need to keep our dialogue focused on issues, not personalities,ā he urged. āYes, we still oppose and expose the harm our opponents are doing to our country. I want to critique my opponents without hating them.ā
Referring to 1 Timothy 2:2 ā where apostle Paul asked believers to pray “for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives” ā Reagan urged Christians to pray for President Obama even though they may not share his political view.
In the light of the unrest in Egypt amongst other nations in the Muslim world, Obama is now facing enormous challenges around the globe, Reagan pointed out.
āI pray for President Obama, while I oppose his agenda,ā he wrote. “In fact, our prayers have never been more urgently needed than right now.”
I happen to agree with this; I admit, it is kind of hard to keep a Christian perspective about all of this. There are times, when I lose my perspective about all of this. Anyhow, yes, we as Christians ought to keep the President in our daily prayers.
However, it is a little hard to do that, when you have stuff like this going on. From WorldNetDaily a story on a city official trying to take a Church’s tax exempt status away, for a lack of cleanness?:
A New Hampshire city official has taken the old saying “cleanliness is next to godliness” one step too far in a battle now raging over the tax status of a church building, determining that cleanliness is godliness, according to a legal team in the midst of the fight.
The dispute concerns Liberty Assembly of God, now called Destiny Christian Church, over its decision to use its building to feed the hungry and help the needy, and the resulting impact on its building.
It appears a city official didn’t like clutter, and concluded the church couldn’t be religious with it there.
It was several years ago that the foundations of the problem were set in place, when Concord, N.H., officials decided that if the church used its building to house the homeless and meet missionaries’ needs, it would no longer be a church because those weren’t “religious” purposes.
A subsequent room-by-room inspection of the facility was conducted by city officials, and their determination was that such activities were not religious, so the legal experts with the Alliance Defense Fund jumped into action. They now have pending a tax appeal for the church’s 2008 taxes as well as a lawsuit over the 2009 taxes.
A ruling in the 2008 case could be coming any day, but it’s uncertain whether that will resolve the complications that arose following comments from Kathryn Temchack, the city’s director of real estate assessments, who said the church must be stripped of its full tax exemption because its rooms were not clean.
Stuff like the above, can really mess with a person’s perspective. Although, I do believe it is a good thing to continue to prayer for our Government and our Country as a whole. When we give up on the power of prayer, we have lost the battle.Ā So, pray for your leaders, daily.
We’ve been getting the low end of the electric-only range, usually between 23 and 28 miles, undoubtedly due to this winter’s deep freeze. The car’s electric range is very susceptible to cold weather, primarily because the heater runs on electricity. We also found that an extended highway cruise shortens the electric range.
The Volt’s appeal in terms of fuel economy depends largely on your driving pattern. The more often (and farther) you travel beyond the electric range, the closer your overall energy use drops toward 30 mpg. That’s what we’ve been getting when the gasoline engine is running.
Counting just the energy used, not its cost, the Volt has been averaging close to 2 miles per kilowatt-hour, which, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, is the equivalent of 65 mpg. But that’s for the first 25 miles or so, when the car is running on battery power alone.
It is typical to see artificially high mpg numbers on the car’s trip computer. For example, let’s say you make five trips in a week. Four of them are 25 miles without needing the gas engine. On the last trip, 55 miles, the car uses 1 gallon of gas beyond the 25-mile electric range. The trip computer would calculate 155 miles on 1 gallon of gas, or 155 mpg. That might contribute to the feel-good factor, but the figure is misleading because it doesn’t count the electricity used.
GM says that recharge times are about 4 hours with a 240-volt supply and 10 to 12 hours with 120 volts. Our Volt has been taking in almost 13 kWh in about 5 hours every time we charge. We suggest that Volt buyers purchase a 220-volt (or Level 2) charger.
At the national average rate of 11 cents per kWh, the Volt would cost about 5.7 cents per mile in electric mode and then 10 cents a mile beyond that (assuming gas is $3 per gallon). By contrast, a Toyota Prius costs 6.8 cents per mile, and a gas-powered Honda Fit subcompact costs about 10 cents a mile in gas. But its price is less than half of what the Volt costs.
In some regions, such as the Northeast, you might pay a lot more for electricity. In Southern California, where rates increase with higher electrical consumption, there are special plans for EV owners that lower rates to as little as 11 cents per kWh.
There are evident compromises in passenger comfort as a result of the Volt’s battery layout. Because the battery takes up the center rear-seat area, the car can hold only four people. Also, the rear seats are tight and the sloping roofline can make it easy to bump your head while getting in. Our engineers complained that the air from the heater was tepid, leaving them uncomfortably cold. The electric seat heaters help, but not enough. When the temperature dips below 26 degrees, the engine will turn on even during the electric portion of a trip to produce more heat.
The dashboard has a center screen that houses the standard navigation system, and slick graphics display various energy-use information. The center console consists of small, touch-sensitive buttons on the dash that control the climate and the radio. We found them hard to tell apart.
Letās seeā¦ taxpayer money is being dumped into a car that the public canāt afford and/or doesnāt want. Demand for the expensive product is to be created by high gas prices combined with goading the public into buying one by scaring them with a mythical crisis pushed by an enviro-hypocrite who goes around in a private jet telling everybody the oceans are going to rise and flood the same coastlines where he recently invested millions in a seaside mansion. In a nutshell, the theme park impresarios who proposed āSix Flags Over Chernobylā had a more solid business plan.
The Volt is in part the brainchild of politicians who expect everyone to believe that we need to spend money to keep from going bankrupt, so was the āeconomic senseā of the thing ever really in question?
They say itās called the āVoltā because āMassively Expensive Union Bailoutā wouldnāt fit on the hood. If the batteries continue to perform poorly in cold weather, donāt look for the Volt to be scrapped, but rather for several billion taxpayer dollars to be spent on a āWinning the Futureā extension cord program.
Last Friday…. after the Assembly voted to engross the Budget Repair Bill, Hintz turned to a female colleague, Rep. Michelle Litjens and said: “You are F***king dead!”
An Oshkosh Assemblyman apologized to a colleague Monday for comments he made on the floor of the Assembly last week immediately following a vote on a contentious budget repair bill.
Rep. Gordon Hintz, D Oshkosh, apologized to Rep. Michelle Litjens, R-Winneconne, for shouting out an obscenity that included the words āyouāre deadā that Litjens and other witnesses heard in the chaotic scene after Republicans approved the bill.
Litjens said she accepted the apology, but has asked the Assembly leadership to discipline Hintz.
Of course, being the trooper and classy lady that she is,Ā Rep. Michelle Litjens is trying to cut the man a little slack:
āEveryone was exhausted. We were on the floor 58 hours. (But) there is still no excuse for his comment,ā Litjens said.
Litjens said she did not believe Hintzā comments were meant for her personally. Rather, the comment was directed at the Republican Party as a whole for moving ahead on the governorās bill.
āWe should be able to civilly discuss issues we are passionate about without feeling threatened,ā she said.
Sorry, Rep. Litjens, but threatening someone with violence is just unacceptable; and if this asshole cannot control his emotions, he should be removed from his job.
Update: Okay, I removed the crap that you fascist liberals were going crazy over. You idiots happy now? š
Whatever happened to freedom of damned speech in this Country. You commie idiots can go to hell.
I still think someone ought to confront the guy. I will leave to to your imagination as to how. Seeing we got speech Nazi’s in America nowadays, called LIBERALS! (and Neo-Cons too…)
First of all, to those who keep e-mailing me and asking how I come I don’t go kick the guys butt. Guys, I am not in Wisconsin; plus, he is not worth it to me.Ā But I figured that everyone would like to know what this asshole looks like, in case anyone was up there and wanted to see what this asshole looks like. I also thought that it should be known, that his and her pics were posted on another site. So, before anyone gets any crazy ideas, I simply copied pasted and stuck my own two cents into it.
Second of all; I do not know who the coward is, who linked into my blog, using a URL redirect service. But, the way I see it, if you that big of a coward that you have to use a URL redirect — you are a bigger damned coward that the idiot who threatened this woman. Stand behind your link! If you’re linking in; be a man about it and link directly! Don’t be a puss puss and hide behind a URL Redirect. Anyhow, thanks for the traffic, whoever you are — puss puss.
Frank Woodruff Buckles - February 1, 1901 ā February 27, 2011
Frank W. Buckles died Sunday, sadly yet not unexpectedly at age 110, having achieved a singular feat of longevity that left him proud and a bit bemused.
In 1917 and 1918, close to 5 million Americans served in World War I, and Mr. Buckles, a cordial fellow of gentle humor, was the last known survivor. “I knew there’d be only one someday,” he said a few years back. “I didn’t think it would be me.”
Mr. Buckles, a widower, died on his West Virginia farm, said his daughter, Susannah Buckles Flanagan, who had been caring for him there.
Flanagan, 55, said her father had recently recovered from a chest infection and seemed in reasonably good health for a man his age. At 12:15 a.m. Sunday, he summoned his live-in nurse to his bedroom. As the nurse looked on, Flanagan said, Mr. Buckles drew a breath, and his eyes fell shut.
“We have lost a living link to an important era in our nation’s history,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki said of Mr. Buckles, whose distant generation was the first to witness the awful toll of modern, mechanized warfare. “But we have also lost a man of quiet dignity who dedicated his final years to ensuring the sacrifices of his fellow doughboys are appropriately commemorated.”
As time thinned the ranks of those long-ago U.S. veterans, the nation hardly noticed them vanishing, until the roster dwindled to one ex-soldier, embraced in his final years by an appreciative public.
“Frank was a history book in and of himself, the kind you can’t get at the library,” said his friend Muriel Sue Kerr. Having lived from the dawn of the 20th century, he seemed to never tire of sharing his and the country’s old memories – of the First World War, of roaring prosperity and epic depression, and of a second, far more cataclysmic global conflict, which he barely survived.
Mr. Buckles, who was born by lantern light in a Missouri farmhouse, quit school at 16 and bluffed his way into the Army. As the nation flexed its full military might overseas for the first time, he joined 4.7 million Americans in uniform and was among 2 million U.S. troops shipped to France to vanquish the German kaiser.
Ninety years later, with available records showing that former corporal Buckles, serial No. 15577, had outlived all of his compatriots from World War I, the Department of Veterans Affairs declared him the last doughboy standing. He was soon answering fan mail and welcoming a multitude of inquisitive visitors to his rural home.
“I feel like an endangered species,” he joked, well into his 11th decade. As a rear-echelon ambulance driver behind the trenches of the Western Front in 1918, he had been safe from the worst of the fighting. But “I saw the results,” he would say.
Many great things have been writing about this man. But my one word or thought is this; History lost. Frank Buckles was the last of that great history of America.Ā He now is in his new body; and is most likely around the throne of grace. Mr. Buckles, may you rest in the eternal peace of the almighty God. Because, you have more than earned it.
May his memory live on through the lives of his children and through the lives of every American citizen that cherishes his or her freedom.
This called “Killing yourself to Live,” sort of sounds like what’s happening here in America, does it not?
Lyrics:
“Killing Yourself To Live”
Well people look and people stare
Well I don’t think that I even care
You work your life away and what do they give?
You’re only killing yourself to live
Killing yourself to live
Killing yourself to live
Just take a look around you what do you see
Pain, suffering, and misery
It’s not the way that the world was meant
It’s a pity you don’t understand
Killing yourself to live
Killing yourself to live
I’m telling you
Believe in me
Nobody else will tell you
Open your eyes
And see the lies, oh yeah
You think I’m crazy and baby
I know that it’s true
Before that you know it I think
That you’ll go crazy too
I don’t know if I’m up or down
Whether black is white or blue is brown
The colors of my life are all different somehow
Little boy blue’s a big girl now
So you think it’s me who’s strange
But you’ve never had to make the change
Never give your trust away
You’ll end up paying till your dying day
Yeah, Right and Sarah Palin will be President… š
Hereās what I learned recently: Someone I spoke with claimed that Ailes was scheduled to speak at their event in March, but canceled. It appears that Rogerās people, ostensibly using a clause in his contract, said he ācannot appear for legal reasons.āI asked āWhat, precisely, does that mean?āThe response: āRoger Ailes will be indicted ā probably this week, maybe even Monday.ā
Maybe itās that for the first time, our school didnāt meet AYP because two few English Language Developing students in the entire school didnāt pass their reading benchmarks.
When I heard this, I instantly thought of the two English Language Learners in my class who hadnāt passed their reading tests last year and how unfair I thought it was that they even counted on our test scores when they came to our school in January and were absent at least twice a week from that point on. I was wondering how I could possibly have gotten them to benchmark level in three days a week for three months. I was thinking how if only those two students hadnāt counted on our scores, we wouldāve met AYP as a school. When I mentioned it to my principal, she just said there are no excuses. We arenāt allowed to have any excuses. We have to get kids to the level they need to be no matter what the circumstances. I thought of the little boy I had with an IQ of 87 who could barely read. I thought of the little girl in a wheelchair whoād had 23 operations on tumors on her body in her eleven years, and the girl who moved from Mexico straight into my class and learned to speak English before my eyes, but couldnāt pass the state test.
Somehow it doesnāt feel like making excuses to acknowledge that they had good reason not to pass their benchmarks.
Maybe it was the e-mail I got saying that the department of education in Oregon has raised the cut scores again this year by six or seven points per grade level, even though they just raised them a couple of years ago. I found out that if they would have used these new cut scores last year, over half of the students in grades 3-8 who passed their benchmarks wouldnāt have passed. That led to a realization that as a school we have very little chance of meeting our adequate yearly progress this year, but of course Iām not allowed to say that because there are no excuses. Itās hard not to feel discouraged.
Maybe it was one of the two parents who contacted me in the first few days of school to tell me that their child doesnāt particularly love my program this year. Iām so not used to that. Iāve always had kids achieving highly and loving my class. Iām just not sure how I can use the mandated materials in the required time periods, focusing on the required skills and still get kids to really love it.
Maybe itās the fact that I lost a third of my retirement when they reformed our Public Employee Retirement System a few years back and now I keep reading about how they want to slash it even more because of the greedy teacher unions and how this is the main reason for the budget problems in our state.
Maybe itās that I havenāt gotten a real raise in a really really long time, or that we had to cut eight days again this year to solve our stateās budget problems. So Iām taking a big hit again, and nobody seems to notice or care.
Anyway, whatever the reason, for the first time in 34 years it hit me, I donāt want to be a teacher any more. I want to sit on a rocking chair on my porch and drink tea instead. Maybe if they offer $20,000 for me to retire next year, Iāll take it. Itās so weird because never in my wildest imagination did I think Iād feel this way. I wonder if Iāll still feel this way when I close my classroom door tomorrow. I sure hope not because it makes me really sad.
Meade and I confront them, and we’re told we’re the first people who’ve had a problem with it. I try to explain how that attempted defense of the behavior is only going to make it look worse. It means that of all these crowds of people in the Capitol, no one else has noticed or cared enough to say anything.
There you have it folks; you modern day Democratic Party; haters and disrespectful of the United States Military. Which is why I will never, ever, vote Democrat, ever again. š”
Those are also the people that got President Barack Hussein Obama elected to the office of President of the United States. Remember this, come 2012.
Update: You know, it is really sad. There are no intellectuals or even people who use their brain on the left anymore. Want proof? As luck would have it; I have an diary account over at DailyKos and I posted a Dairy with this video, asking what Ann Althouse asked those leftists.Ā The comments are telling. The left has lost its way badly. š It is so sad too. That was the party of FDR, JFK and LBJ; and now, it’s…. this. It saddens me to my core. š —- Update: I went ahead and deleted the dairy; those guys cannot have a discussion without being nasty. So, I killed it. As Marcos Said about our troops; “Screw them.”
Honestly guys, do you really think that I am that stupid to leave the login to this blog at default?
As it is, I have all *.RU domains blocked, which means anyone in Russia cannot access this blog, right now, at all. Plus, I have a few IP addresses also blocked, that the idiots have been using to try getting into my blog.
I swear, I mistakenly write something on my “about me” page and these idiots think it is open season. Well, gents, I’ve got excellent hosting and I know my stuff when it comes to dealing with morons like you. So, keep it up, and you’ll having to explain to Russian police why you were trying to hack a blog.
Your choice gents. But you are not dealing with a newbie user, at all. š”
Just wanted to let everyone know that reads here and follows me in twitter; that I am not doing very well at all. š
I have an idea what caused it, local pizza place that I love one night, and Mexican food the next; it all together, just irritated the crap out of my digestive system.
Either way, been in quite a bit of pain; plus, I am remanded to cottage cheese and a banana and a glass of milk. That’s what I had for lunch.
Last night the pain was so bad, that I was almost told my folks to take me to the hospital; but I knew what that would involve — running a hose, with a light on it, up my butt and see what the trouble is. Not my idea of a good time.Ā š
I have had this problem in the past. It has been a while; but something in there is a irritated really bad and is not a happy camper — and boy do I feel it. š
So, until I heal up and quit hurting; Blogging will be lite or non-existent for a while.
All Prayers, incantations, and good ol’ fashioned, good Ju Ju sent my way is appreciated. š
