Since I didn’t make it.
Dan Collins has decided that I am on:
Eh, it’s better than nothing, I guess.
Tag: Conservative
Why Christians do stupid stuff like this?
Un-farking-believable
This comes from Bill Quick and with a big hat tip to NiceDoggie.net….
As you know, Christopher Hitchens has been diagnosed with cancer. Well, Pat Archbold over at the National Catholic Register wrote a very nice piece about Hitchens and basically said that he was praying for his recovery. Well, some idiotic religious twit made this comment:
So, someone who has been spewing hatred of our Lord now has esophageal cancer.
I think He is clearly at work here. Let us pray ever more strongly that he repents, that he feels the love that He provides for him for the rest of his earthly life, and that he enters into the promised resurrection of the dead. Perhaps he will even intercede for us.
Oy Vey, where does one start here? This is one of the biggest reasons why I keep Christianity and religion in general at arms length; where it belongs. 😡
Go Figure: Ron Paul supports Michael Steele
Shocker? Perhaps Not: (H/T to the Daily Paul)
Ron Paul and Michael Steele - Two Brothers from a Different Mother?
LAKE JACKSON, Texas–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Congressman Ron Paul today issued the following statement on Michael Steele’s recent comments that Afghanistan is a war of President Obama’s choosing:
“The American people are sick and tired spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year, draining our economy and straining our military. Michael Steele has it right and Republicans should stick by him.”
“I would like to congratulate Michael Steele for his leadership on one of the most important issues of today. He is absolutely right: Afghanistan is now Obama’s war. During the 2008 campaign, Obama was out in front in insisting that more troops be sent to Afghanistan. Obama called for expanding the war even as he pretended to be a peace candidate.
“Michael Steele should not resign. Smart policies make smart politics. He is guiding the party in the right direction and we are on the verge of victory this fall. Chairman Steele should not back off. He is giving the country, especially young people, hope as he speaks truth about this war.
“I have to ask myself, what is the agenda of the harsh critics demanding this resignation? Why do they support Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama’s war?
via Ron Paul Congratulates Michael Steele | EON: Enhanced Online News.
Big shocker there…. NOT!
These two ought to run together….on a Democratic Party ticket!
Fox News resident Republican water-carrier gets dumped by a radio station.. in UTAH
Could not have happened to a better guy, if you ask me.
Sean Hannity - Republican Water Carrier
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – KSL Radio announced that they will no longer air Sean Hannity’s syndicated national talk show.
The last KSL broadcast of the Sean Hannity show will air on October 1, 2010.
The announcement comes after speculation that Hannity’s on-air style was not in line with Deseret Media Company’s mission statement that calls for civility and other ethical stances.
Deseret Media Companies (DMC) is a for-profit arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and manages KSL radio and other media outlets.
The DMC “Mission Statement” calls for the dissemination of “light and knowledge” along with the promotion of “integrity, civility, morality, and respect for all people.”
via Utah radio station dumps Sean Hannity – ABC 4.com – Salt Lake City, Utah News.
Could not have happened to a better person, if you ask me. Although, I do not dislike Hannity for the same reasons that most liberals dislike him. The Liberals hate him because he is a Conservative period. I dislike him because he carries water for the Republican Party. Hannity also like to repeat old dead crap that is well beyond its expiration date. His Fox News Channel show is a perfect example of that.
My biggest issue is his silly ego. I mean, Christians are supposed to be about humility, right? Ever watch his show, Hannity’s America? I mean, how narcissistic is it, to have a show, with your last name and America in it? Not to mention the fact that he literally lied his way in the broadcast business. I can stomach Bill O’Reilly; but this guy? He is just a bit too much. Hannity, in my opinion, is just a long list of “Johnny Comes Lately’s” in the Conservative talk radio world. There is a bunch more. I’m sure you can figure out who I mean.
In short; I do not like this douche nozzle one bit, and I will not cry one tear when his time in the spotlight is over.
Horrible News: UN says at least 220 dead in oil explosion in Congo
This is just damned awful:
SANGE, Congo – A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed at least 220 bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday.
Among the dead were 61 children and 36 women, the Red Cross said. Also killed were villagers who had descended on the truck to siphon fuel illegally from the wreckage, apparently unaware of the danger, the U.N. said.
U.N. peacekeepers rushed to evacuate more than 200 wounded from the scene by helicopter and ambulance, while Red Cross teams carried the charred bodies from the scene in body bags and buried them in two mass graves a few miles (kilometers) away.
The truck overturned as it was trying to pass a minibus late Friday near the village of Sange, around 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of Uvira, a town on the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika near the Burundi border, said Mana Lungwe, manager of the Congolese oil company that owns the truck. The vehicle began gushing oil, then burst into flames an hour later, he said.
Lungwe said the driver was injured in the accident and taken to a local clinic before the blast occurred. Sange is located between Uvira and the Congolese provincial capital, Bukavu, further to the north.
via Congo: UN says at least 220 dead in oil explosion – Yahoo! News.
This is just awful news; I would never make stupid jokes about it either. My thoughts and Prayer are with the victims; and yes, damn it they were victims of this most awful accident.
But yet, assholes like Steve Gilbert write idiotic tripe like this:
Because of their ‘addiction to oil.’
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Is this really a time for levity?
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Which sounds like the domicile of Mr. Obama’s brother.
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Just wait until all of our cars run on safe electricity — and pixie dust.
Mocking people’s deaths, and mocking blacks in Congo! How farking quaint! HAW HAW HAW! 🙄
If this is what the Republicans mean by reaching more people; they’re screwed. Not only was this not funny, it is highly offensive and quite stupid. Freedom of Speech? Oh Sure, fine. The SAME damned freedom of speech that Steve Gilbert is given, is also given to me to slam dunk the farking bastard and say that he ought to be frog marched into the damn street and shot in the damned head for making jokes like that! So there, there’s MY first amendment right! Damned idiot.
The sick part is; this is ANN COULTER’s friend. She makes friends with idiots like this? Egad. 😯 🙄 Now I know I don’t want anything to do with that idiotic shrieking harpy.
Hurricane GOP? Perhaps….
Hmmmmm….:
Imagine sitting in Washington’s Verizon Center, listening blissfully to Carole King and James Taylor, thanks to a fast-thinking friend who managed to score four floor seats. For 50-somethings, it’s a nice place to be. Then, as the concert is winding down, four pages of poll tables of a just-released survey pop up in your BlackBerry. They are jaw-dropping numbers, not inconsistent with what you had been thinking — if anything more a confirmation of it. But the dramatic nature of the numbers brings the real world of politics crashing through what had been a most mellow evening.
The numbers were from the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted June 17-21 among 1,000 adults by pollsters Peter Hart (a Democrat) and Bill McInturff (a Republican). Among the registered voters in the survey, Republicans led by 2 points on the generic congressional ballot test, 45 percent to 43 percent. This may not sound like a lot, given that Democrats now hold 59 percent of House seats. When this same poll was taken in June 2008, however, Democrats led by 19 points, 52 percent to 33 percent.
That drop-off should be enough to sober Democrats up, but the next set of data was even more chilling. First, keep in mind that all registered voters don’t vote even in presidential years, and that in midterm elections the turnout is about one-third less. In an attempt to ascertain who really is most likely to vote, pollsters asked registered voters, on a scale of 1 to 10, how interested they were in the November elections. Those who said either 9 or 10 added up to just over half of the registered voters, coming in at 51 percent.
Hart and McInturff then looked at the change among the most-interested voters from the same survey in 2008. Although 2010 is a “down-shifting” election, from a high-turnout presidential year to a lower-turnout midterm year, one group was more interested in November than it was in 2008: those who had voted for Republican John McCain for president. And the groups that showed the largest decline in interest? Those who voted for Barack Obama — liberals, African-Americans, self-described Democrats, moderates, those living in either the Northeast or West, and younger voters 18 to 34 years of age. These are the “Holy Mackerel” numbers.
While this may be nice. As John Hawkins points out:
Keep in mind that the GOP has gotten its behind handed to it for two straight elections. That has given the Democrats a huge cushion. We’d need to take 39 seats to take over the House. Can this be done? Yes. Will it be done? I want to say “yes,” but I have to tell you, not every factor is leaning in our favor. For example, the GOP is behind in the money game. There will undoubtedly be seats we could win in November that will be left on the table because the money’s not there for advertising. I’d also add that there’s very little that I’ve seen from the people in charge of the Republican Party in DC that gives me confidence that they can mastermind a perfect victory strategy to take advantage of their limited resources.
Not only that; but right about this moment, the G.O.P. has a complete dolt as a chairman. I mean, the man is basically handing the Democratic Party its talking points and really, really needs to go. How are the Republicans supposed to win elections like that?
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UPDATED:The G.O.P’s Resident Harlem Globetrotter once again steps in it
I haven’t seen the clip, so I am giving it to you cold, as I am getting it here:
The Story:
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was caught on video at a fundraiser in Connecticut on Thursday raising doubts about the war in Afghanistan.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) pushed out the video, which shows Steele saying that the war is of “Obama’s choosing” and that it is nearly impossible to win a land war in the Central Asian country.
“Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This was not something that the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in,” he said. “But it was the president who was trying to be cute by half by building a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan. Well, if he is such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?”
Democrats pounced on the statement, saying it was Steele’s latest gaffe in a long line of misstatements.
“This clip puts him at odds with about 100 percent of the Republican Party,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse said
via RNC chairman: Obama pursued Afghanistan war ‘trying to be cute’ – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room.
Um, Did Chairman Steele have a brain relapse and forget about Bush? Wow. 😯
Bill Kristol over at the Weekly Standard sets it out:
Dear Michael,
You are, I know, a patriot. So I ask you to consider, over this July 4 weekend, doing an act of service for the country you love: Resign as chairman of the Republican party.
Your tenure has of course been marked by gaffes and embarrassments, but I for one have never paid much attention to them, and have never thought they would matter much to the success of the causes and principles we share. But now you have said, about the war in Afghanistan, speaking as RNC chairman at an RNC event, “Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This was not something that the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.” And, “if [Obama] is such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?”
Needless to say, the war in Afghanistan was not “a war of Obama’s choosing.” It has been prosecuted by the United States under Presidents Bush and Obama. Republicans have consistently supported the effort. Indeed, as the DNC Communications Director (of all people) has said, your statement “puts [you] at odds with about 100 percent of the Republican Party.”
And not on a trivial matter. At a time when Gen. Petraeus has just taken over command, when Republicans in Congress are pushing for a clean war funding resolution, when Republicans around the country are doing their best to rally their fellow citizens behind the mission, your comment is more than an embarrassment. It’s an affront, both to the honor of the Republican party and to the commitment of the soldiers fighting to accomplish the mission they’ve been asked to take on by our elected leaders.
Unconfirmed report, there was fax sent to Weekly Standard offices from the GOP Headquarters that read:
Dear Bill Kristol,
F*** You Honkey Jew-Boy…
I got this bitch and ain’t a damn thing you can do about it cracker!
Signed,
Michael Steele
Wow. Just….Wow….
Update: Okay, first off, the crack above about the Fax, is a joke. I’m posting this before some idiot media person sees this and runs with it. Second of all. I watched the Steele clip; and admittedly, he does have a point about Afghanistan, because historically other countries HAVE tried to fight there and had to pull out. However, this goes against the Bush doctrine and the talking points of the G.O.P.; not to mention the talking points of the Wilsonian Conservative crowd, like Bill Kristol and Co. So, yeah. ouch. Steele is going to get nailed on this one hard. Also, he was quite DUMB for saying that Afghanistan was Obama choice war or whatever. It was actually Bush’s war, that Obama inherited. So, Kristol saying he should resign is quite spot on, as he is making the G.O.P. look like a group of dolts at this point. Between Steele, John Boehner and Lindsey Graham, the G.O.P. has a big image problem on its hands.
Update#2 : G.O.P. Spins:
The RNC said that Steele did not say the troops should not be in Afghanistan, instead that he was calling for a better war strategy.
“The chairman clearly supports our troops but believes that success of the war effort in Afghanistan requires the ongoing support of the American people,” RNC Communications Director Doug Heye said. “The responsibility for building and maintaining that strategy falls squarely on the shoulders of the president. Like so many Americans, Chairman Steele wants to hear an explanation from President Obama on what his strategy is for winning the war in Afghanistan. The Petraeus hearings were an opportunity – a missed opportunity – to do that. Instead, all we hear from the president is criticism of his predecessor for doing exactly the same thing.”
“There is no question that America must win the war on terror,” Steele said. “During the 2008 Presidential campaign, Barack Obama made clear his belief that we should not fight in Iraq, but instead concentrate on Afghanistan. Now, as President, he has indeed shifted his focus to this region. That means this is his strategy. And, for the sake of the security of the free world, our country must give our troops the support necessary to win this war.
AllahPundit makes a darned good point:
Two grand ironies to this clusterfark. One: It’s high-larious to see the idiots at the DNC turning super-hawk on Steele for wanting to “walk away from the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban without finishing the job” and for daring to “undermine the morale of our troops when what they need is our support and encouragement.” After year upon year of screeching at Bush over every setback in Iraq, with Democrats as prominent as Harry Reid declaring the war lost, the sheer balls needed to call him out in those terms are astounding. And am I mistaken or aren’t there an awful lot of liberals who oppose the war and might not care to have the DNC describing them in those same terms? Good work, hypocrites: You’ve done your job of distracting attention today from our pitiful president’s pitiful economy. Make sure to bookmark their statement too, because we’ll be revisiting it — repeatedly — next year when The One inevitably gives his order to start a massive drawdown.
Two: This is actually a rare case of Steele saying something stupid that arguably — I stress, arguably — makes the public better disposed to the GOP. Hawks may hate it, but (a) 58 percent of the public supports Obama’s withdrawal timeline next year and (b) prominent conservatives are growing bolder about speaking up against the war. George Will has been against it forever, of course, and just this morning Byron York hint-hinted that it’s time to go; in Congress, Ron Paul (of course) and Jason Chaffetz are big-name Republicans who oppose continuing the mission. It’ll be awfully interesting to see who else comes out of the woodwork in December, when the Pentagon conducts its review of operations, and then again next July, when Obama has to decide on his next step.
I hate to admit it; but when AllahPundit is on point; he is really on point Amazing how Democrats can turn on a dime. It almost gives a man whiplash.
I guess I should have titled this, “Michael Steele channels his inner Ron Paul.” 😯 😮
Update #3: Erick Erickson is a bit more direct:
I have heard Michael Steele’s comments regarding Afghanistan and the President.
I have read the RNC’s statement on the matter.
The RNC statement is indecipherable in the context of what Michael Steele actually said.
The war in Afghanistan is not a war of Barack Obama’s choosing. It is a war of Al Qaeda and the Taliban’s choosing. We responded.
Michael Steele must resign. He has lost all moral authority to lead the GOP.
Update #4: This here is the reason why Conservatives and Republicans are so steamed over this. This from Democrats.com:
A number of Democrats and “liberal” pundits are smugly attacking GOP chairman Michael Steele for telling the “inconvenient truth” about Afghanistan:
“Keep in mind again, [GOP] federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.”…
“It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping the script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan. Well, if he’s such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right, because everyone who has tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan without committing more troops…”
Steele is exactly right.
[..]
The cheapest form of counter-terrorism is drone missile strikes, where targeting relies on cameras in the drones. Unfortunately those cameras often mistake wedding parties for terrorist gatherings, resulting in bloody massacres that undermine Afghan and allied support for the pointless U.S. occupation.
The next step up in counter-terrorism is “special forces” – boots on the ground – who theoretically collect human intelligence from locals so their targeting of terrorists is more precise, resulting in fewer wedding party massacres.
The problem with “boots on the ground” is the heads and hearts attached to them, which die when hit with bullets, which in turn produce casualty reports in U.S. newspapers, which undermines U.S. public support for the pointless U.S. occupation.
Apart from “counter-terrorism,” the “other way to engage” in Afghanistan is through regional diplomacy. That means working out a deal among all interested parties so all the fighting stops.
The inconvenient truth for the U.S. is that we simply cannot afford $100 billion per year forever in a futile effort to “stop the Taliban’s momentum.” Sooner or later we will need to find “other ways to engage,” as Michael Steele said.
So Michael Steele is right. And the sooner we begin a serious discussion of those “other ways to engage,” the sooner we will find a way to bring our troops safely home and end the pointless, disasatrous, unaffordable occupation of Afghanistan.
Steel is giving the Democrats their talking points and very sadly agreeing with them as well. He needs to go.
Orly Taitz continues to prove that she is a couple fries short of a happy meal
This is one seriously crazy woman:
From Orange County News: “Irvine real-estate guy Damon Dunn [pictured far left] beat Laguna Niguel dentist/birther lawyer Orly Taitz [pictured left] by a margin of roughly three-to-one in this month’s primary election to determine the Republican candidate for Secretary of State. But though the election is finished, Taitz has persisted in insisting that Dunn is as ineligible for office as she thinks Barack Obama to be. She has taking her beef with Dunn to an Orange County courtroom.
More: “As we’ve addressed in the past, Taitz’s accusations against Dunn center around the fact that he registered more than 10 years ago as a Democrat in Florida. California election law says that you can’t run in a party primary if you were a member of another party within a year of filing. She also alleges in her complaint that Dunn falsified the signatures of supporters and willfully omitted information about his past registration on official documents. But Dunn’s Florida registration expired in 2005, and Dunn’s lawyers argue that even if it didn’t, Dunn would be fine because of the way the law treats out-of-state parties.”
via California: Orly Taitz “Birther Lawyer” Continues Jihad Against Damon Dunn – Hip Hop Republican.
Sad part is, she’s Jewish. She makes all Jews everywhere look just horrible. Not to mention Conservatives and Republicans.
But then again, the Democrats do have Allen Grayson. 😉
1.3 unemployed won’t get unemployment, Democrats grandstand the issue
I got four words for ’em — Cry Me a River:
WASHINGTON – More than 1.3 million laid-off workers won’t get their unemployment benefits reinstated before Congress goes on a weeklong break for Independence Day.
And hundreds of thousands more will lose their benefits in the coming weeks.
The House voted 270-153 Thursday to extend jobless benefits for people who have been laid off for long stretches, but the gesture was made futile by the Senate’s inability to pass the bill. For the third time in as many weeks, Republicans in the Senate successfully filibustered a similar measure Wednesday night before senators adjourned for vacation.
A little more than 1.3 million people have already lost benefits since the last extension ran out at the end of May, according to the Labor Department. By the end of the week, the number will jump to 1.7 million. By the end of July, it would top 3 million.
“It is hard to understand how anybody can come to this floor and say, for 1.7 million people and their families, this is not an emergency,” said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. “There is no excuse for voting no.”
The bill would extend unemployment payments for up to a total of 99 weeks, for people whose state-paid benefits have run out. The benefits would be available through the end of November, at a cost of $33.9 billion. The money would have been borrowed, adding to the budget deficit.
via 1.3 million unemployed won’t get benefits restored – Yahoo! News.
Steve Gilbert over at Sweetness and Light points out:
This is political grandstanding of the worst kind. The Republicans have repeatedly said that they would extend unemployment benefits if the Democrats would strip out all the other things they have larded up the bill with. That is to say, the Republicans have said they would vote for a stand-alone unemployment extension.
But the Democrats refuse present such a bill because they think they can score political points by claiming that the GOP opposes extending benefits for those out of work.
As for me; I have no pity for those people who have been on the Government dole and are now losing the dole. Why? Because when I became unemployed back in 2005. I was not eligible for unemployment, at all. Why? Because I quit my job. The job was making me physically sick and I could not take it anymore and I quit. So, that automatically disqualifies me from getting any benefits. (Looking back on it, I MIGHT have been able to collect… But, at the time, I thought I had another job lined up. Needless to say, that never happened…)
So, since 2005; I have been having to basically live off my folks and making whatever little this blog brings in for cash. Which really is not much at all, when you get right down to it. But I do much enjoy writing about politics and the idiotic Democrats! 😉 You think the Government would push aside its rules and regulations for this white boy? Yeah Right! Now maybe if I was some sort of an oppressed minority or something. But, I am just another evil white man and the Government hasn’t established a fund for the evil poor white man yet.
You would think that the condition that the Country is in that the Democrats would just say, “Okay, Unemployment Benefits only.” But, no, they would rather grandstand an issue, all just to try secure votes come November. Which to be truly honest, is not going to guarantee the Democrats anything at all. Heck, if I were a Republican or a Democrat right now; I would be very worried, because there is a good deal of anti-incumbent sentiment in American right now.
This, in a long list of issues, is why I will never, ever vote Democratic Party again, ever.
Don’t mence words now…
Good Lord! 😮 😯
Not me, they don’t. Eat shit and die, “Blue Commie Texan.” Everything you toss at us, we toss back from here on in. Don’t like it? I hate it for ya, you fuckin’ punk. Cry me a river, why don’tcha.
Whew. Gott.a.mighty! Thought I was bad… 😉
(H/T to Right Wing News)
Sad News: Christopher Hitchens has cancer
Awful, just awful:
Christopher Hitchens is being treated for cancer, forcing the D.C. writer to cut short his latest book tour. In a statement released through his publisher Twelve, the British-born provocateur, 61, said that he has “been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me.” The notorious chainsmoker announced in 2008 he had given up tobacco — driven, he said, by “fear.” (His wife Carol Blue told us then he “wants to live — live to see his political enemies defeated.”) But he was still sneaking a smoke or two when our colleague Manuel Roig-Franzia interviewed him last month.
via Reliable Source – Christopher Hitchens diagnosed with cancer, cuts short his book tour.
AllahPundit Writes:
I’ve never met him — this is as close as I’ve come — but between enjoying his work, supporting many of his positions (on foreign policy, at least), and of course feeling a little atheist kinship, it’s like I’ve known him for years. This is hard news to take.
Indeed. Irregardless of his personal religious beliefs; which are his own damned business. He is fighter against Islamic-Fascism and a stalwart defender of western culture.
God be with him. (I’m sure he will not mind)
As of today: Alfonzo Rachel’s videos will no longer be posted here
Because Zo seems to think that making bigoted comments about white people in his videos is acceptable.
click here to watch Update: Looks like the black bigot took his video down. Looks like he doesn’t like being exposed. Now, I know PJ media takes it’s videos down. But, this one, looks fishy to me.
At the 0.25 mark is what I am referring to.
Generalization of the White Race is what I am referring to.
Alponzo Rachel – Just another racist black man, like the rest of ’em!
Now, for a second, turn the tables. If *I* would have made a video; and some black man had went to the Afghan theater and went looking for Osama Bin Laden — and I had made a racial generalization; something to the effect of “And he took his bag of Cheetos and grape kool-aid over there with him…” I would be have been condemned as a racist from one end of this Blogosphere to the other.
However, because Zo is black, it is perfectly fine. He gets a free pass, because he is black and this dude is the white guy and it’s perfectly fine to mock white people right?
WRONG!
Racial Generalizations are just damned wrong. I also chided this idiot over his supposed “Christianity”; which I find to absolutely vomit provoking at best. I mean, referring the Saving Blood of Jesus Christ the Messiah of the World, of the Jew and Gentile alike, as a damned Sauce?!?!?! I’m sorry, that’s just straight up heresy and sacrilegious.
So, as far as I concerned; I am officially done with Alfonzo Rachel; to me, and this my opinion, he is nothing more than just another bigoted black man against White people. He does try and disguise it well, but it seems to have slipped out, under the guise of “Humor”. Sorry, but this is one white man, who is not fooled one bit.
For those who wonder, this is not the first time, I have called a “Conservative” black man out on his racism.
Oh Wonderful: The Taliban say no go on negotiations with Nato
So much for that idea: (H/T iammilitary on twitter)
It comes after US commanders and the British army chief of staff, Gen David Richards, suggested that it might be useful to talk to the Taliban.
The Taliban statement is uncompromising, almost contemptuous.
They believe they are winning the war, and cannot see why they should help Nato by talking to them.
They assume, perhaps wrongly, that the Americans are in disarray after the sacking of the Nato commander Gen Stanley McChrystal last week, and regard any suggestion that they should enter negotiations with them as a sign of Nato’s own weakness.
June, they point out, has seen the highest number of Nato deaths in Afghanistan: 102, an average of more than three a day. — Via BBC News – Taliban rule out negotiations with Nato
You know the sick and sad part? They are winning the war. Because it is quite obvious the the United States does not have a damned clue as to how to fight that war over there. You just do not negotiate with terrorists; you kill them. But that is pretty hard to do; when you have a Government over there that is just corrupt as the Taliban themselves. Our President is not helping that either. Best thing that this Government can do, at this point; is to basically withdraw and protect our own. We had the chance to do, what we want to do now, in 2003 — and we blew it. Thanks George W. Bush; you damned idiot. 😡
Hawkings Vs Frum Redux
Round two of the dust up…:
Actually, I, like most conservatives, do not advocate groupthink or demand people rigidly stick to the “company line.” We actually have a simpler request: We just want people who are billed as Republicans and conservatives to actually be on the same side we are. The editorial pages in the newspapers slant liberal. The columnists slant liberal. Even the news in the newspapers slants liberal. Hell, even the TV shows and movies slant liberal. So finally, after all that, you run across a “conservative” in the mainstream media giving an opinion and guess what? He’s been given a platform to speak because he agrees with the liberals. That’s what people like David Frum get paid to do, I’m sick of it, and I’m not doing anything else to reward people like him, including allowing them to get into the Blogads Conservative Hive.
Programs get yer programs! You can’t tell a dumb ass from an idiot without a program…..
….Well, I am a capitalist…. 😛 😀 😆
Go Figure: Democrats say no to Republican visit to the gulf
(H/T JammieWearingFool)
Via Politico:
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP’s gigantic oil spill first hand.
House Democrats said no.
Scalise’s trip was rejected for a variety of bureaucratic and logistical reasons, but it has also opened a new vein of partisan squabbling over who should be allowed to arrange a trip to view the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Republicans want to be able to take trips using their office spending allowance. But Democrats have heard from the Department of Homeland Security, which has asked that Congress organize trips through committees of jurisdiction, to avoid having to cater to a ton of individual lawmakers in a disaster zone, Democratic aides say. GOP leaders say they’ve heard nothing of this.
The squabbling over who gets to travel to the Gulf on whose dime is the latest sign that congressional oversight of the oil spill oversight from Capitol Hill has been bogged down by partisanship. Congress has held upwards of 20 hearings on the disaster, often duplicative ones each week, as lawmakers struggle to grasp and fully realize the scope of BP’s giant oil spill.
Scalise, who has already been to the Gulf on another codel, wants to organize a trip so lawmakers can fully grasp the impact before they vote on oil drilling regulations. And he doesn’t want to do it through a committee, because the members don’t fit neatly into specific panels — they stretch across committee, and even partisan, lines.
About two weeks ago, Scalise requested to be able to use his Members Representational Allowance – a fund typically reserved for office expenses and travel back to the district – to go to the Gulf with a group of about 10 other lawmakers.
He sought permission from the House Administration committee, which regulates office account spending and would have to approve the trip. After a few weeks, Scalise was ping-ponged between several committees. Eventually, John Lawrence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) chief of staff, told Scalise’s chief that “it was unlikely that the request would be granted” by the House Administration Committee.
Republicans, however, say Rep. Bob Brady (D-Pa.), who chairs the committee, has approved at least a dozen such trips in 2009 alone – something Democrats don’t deny.
“Unless there is some extraordinary reason to prohibit this trip – which has yet to be communicated to us – this is an unacceptable departure from past practices,” said Rep, Dan Lungren of California, the top Republican on the administration committee. “This is an educational trip for members using their own representational budgets to see, first-hand, the devastating impact of the Gulf spill. Our travel regulations permit this type of travel in support of our official representational duties, and unfortunately, this disaster is already having environmental and economical implications for the entire country – not just those districts represented by Members sitting on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.”
Now could you just imagine, like JammieWearingFool said, if the Republicans had done this to the Democrats after Katrina?
Like I said in the title… Go figure… 🙄
Speaking of stupid minorities
There’s this idiot:
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking “repair of my people from the damage” he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries.
Farrakhan sent the letter along with two books from the Nation of Islam Historical Research Team that the 77-year-old minister said prove “an undeniable record of Jewish Anti-Black behavior,” starting with the slave trade and Jim Crow laws.
“We could charge you with being the most deceitful so-called friend, while your history with us shows you have been our worst enemy,” he wrote.
Farrakhan has long accused Jews of wrongdoing in speeches, but he has rarely addressed Jewish groups so directly in writing.
The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights group which distributed copies of the letter, said in a statement Tuesday that Farrakhan’s “anti-Semitism is obsessive, diabolical and unrestrained. He has opened a new chapter in his ministry where scapegoating Jews is not just part of a message, but the message.”
Hmmm, I wonder if he knows about this right here?
Look, I am not a overly Zionist person. I support Israel’s right to exist and such; but I am not overly nutty about it; like some. But this is just straight up Anti-Semitic tripe. If this man were any other nationality; he would have been already removed from the public square. But because he is black, he gets a free pass. Kinda like BreitBart.
Others: Gateway Pundit, The Other McCain, Atlas Shrugs, Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav
Why do Conservatives and Libertarians continue to bring up Senator Byrd’s involvement in the Klan?
This is getting to be quite old. The continuing defamation of a dead man.
The cheap shot against Byrd is that he was back in the day an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan and writing letters as late as 1946 that “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.” I consider it a cheap shot because he did apologize for and disown his participation in the group. Better late than never, I suppose, even if it does make you wonder about all those politicians of his generation, even ones from the Deep South, who never felt a need to recruit for the KKK and never prattled on about “white niggers” like some back-country Norman Mailer. —Let’s Not Forget Sen. Byrd’s Negative Legacy – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Okay, so why did this reason writer even feel the need to even bring it up? Why? I’ll tell you why. To make a cheap political point; that is not entirely based in factual information. It just so happens that the Democratic Party fought hard in 1964 to get the civil rights bill passed. Yes, Byrd was one of the Southern Democrats who objected to that bill. It also happens to be a fact that Senator Barry Goldwater, a Libertarian Conservative, who also objected to it as well. As did many Conservatives as well.
It also just so happens that Byrd apologized time and time again for his involved in the Klan, From Wikipedia:
When running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced “After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan.” He said he had joined the Klan because he felt it offered excitement and was anti-communist.[10] However, in 1946 or 1947 he wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”[19]
In 1997, he told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics, but to “Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don’t get that albatross around your neck. Once you’ve made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.”[20] In his latest autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a member because he “was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision—a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions.”[21] Byrd also said, in 2005,
“ I know now I was wrong.
Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times …
and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what
happened.
For me, that is more than enough of an explanation. Let us also remember that a revered voice on the Conservative/Republican side, Strom Thurmond was also a supporter of Segregation and also reportedly a bitter racist as well. Besides all that; While I do not condone that actions of the Klan, especially the violence towards blacks. We need to be real about all this; “Celebrating Diversity” is a joke. Just ask this guy here.
I just stand amazed of the tactics of some of the Bloggers who call themselves “Conservative”; how they engage in the tactics of the liberal left of race-bating anyone who disagrees with their dogmatic position on race. Some of them seriously need to come down to reality and realize that their ideas on race are just flat wrong. I also find it amazing that they will attack White people who stood for their own race; but they will condemn a black man in the White House, all the while kissing up to the Zionist element in Jewish Conservative politics.
Some people need to just get real…. 🙄
Rick Santelli goes off again: Stop Spending!
This comes via the AmSpec Blog: (HotAir.com)
John Hawkings tells David Frum “Get Bent!”
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Okay, now that I got that all out of the way. It seems that John Hawkins over at Right Wing News basically told David Frum where to get off and to take short bus to get there:
Ah, I’ve been waiting for this.
You see, I don’t work for Blogads (or Google. Not sure where that came from), but I do indeed run the Blogads Conservative Hive (It’s a great place to buy conservative ads).
In May, someone representing Frum’s blog wrote me (I don’t see the point of dragging his name into it), noted that FrumForum had joined Blogads, and asked to be included in the Hive.
Now, as a general rule, I try to be very open minded about who gets into the Blogads Conservative Hive. If they’re generally friendly to conservatives and seem to have a mostly conservative audience, I don’t mind having them on board. So, aside from conservative blogs, there are Libertarian blogs in the Hive and there are blogs I’d call center-right. It goes without saying that there are plenty of issues where members of the Hive, myself included, don’t see eye-to-eye.
I ca attest to that; I am in the Conservative Hive myself. I do not agree with Hawkings all of the time either. Hell, I was one of the first people that told Hawkings that Chuckie Johnson needed to get the heave ho. But, at the time, he said he wasn’t going to do that. I am quite glad that he reconsidered. But I do still see Chuck Johnson’s Blog Entries in the RSS Feed Ad; for whatever that’s worth.
Hawkings goes to explain the situation and ends with this:
There’s an easy answer to that question: the mainstream media loves “conservatives” and “Republicans” who will trash whomever the Left hates most. So, if you’re willing to talk about how Sarah Palin is a hick, Glenn Beck is a crank, Rush Limbaugh is bad for the country, and the Tea Party is bad for democracy, the mainstream media will reward you — and because conservatives pride themselves on being open minded, they’ll all too often give you a pass for your atrocious behavior — especially since the MSM doesn’t insist you play their game all the time. As long as you’re willing to say what they want about the people they hate the most, they’ll reward you with a cover story at Newsweek and then in your off time, you can churn out a few articles to point gullible conservatives towards while you’re trying to guilt them into taking you seriously by crying “epistemic closure!”
This is what David Frum does for a living — and don’t think he doesn’t know it. Even the people who write for him know it. I ran into someone who writes for his blog at an event once. He was extremely defensive about writing for them. I must have heard him tell at least three people, myself included, something akin to, “I write for FrumForum, but please don’t hold that against me.”
Long story short, everybody has to make a living. But, I’m not interested in helping people like Frum play this little game where they try to cripple conservatives publicly while coming around on the back end to milk us for money. If Frum wants to be a dancing monkey for the Left, let them come up with the money to pay for the tune.
Countdown to Frum accusing Hawkings of being an Anti-Semite and this being some sort of plot against the Jooooos by the Conservative right; You know, Debbie Schlussel style…. in 5…..4…..3….2……
Oh and By the way; Hawkings…. You say:
Right Wing News: Alexa Traffic Rank: 48,922
Linkiest: Alexa Traffic Rank: 57,054
FrumForum: Alexa Traffic Rank: 69,535
Well, Um, politicalbyline.com Alexa Traffic Rank: 823,308
..and he says:
well, I’m a peon compared to Ed Morrissey & Allah at Hot Air.
Mr. Hawkings. I know Peons; and you sir, nor your website are peons. I, on the other hand, am a Peon.
That is all… 😛
Other Peons, er, um, I mean, people covering: Althouse and Confederate Yankee
John McCain Politizes the War in Afghanistan
Seriously, someone needs to tell Grandpa McSame to seriously shut the hell up….:
Sen. John McCain blasted President Barack Obama’s stated goal of beginning troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2011, saying Obama made a “political decision” not based on military strategy.
McCain (R-Ariz.), Obama’s opponent in the 2008 presidential election, continued to criticize Obama’s decision to include a timetable in his Afghanistan strategy, and he criticized military leaders who signed on to Obama’s timetable strategy.
“It was purely a political decision,” McCain said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Not one based on facts on the ground, not one based on military strategy.”
McCain, ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, went further, saying that no military advisers proposed to Obama any strategy that included a timetable. But when host David Gregory noted that Obama’s military leaders have endorsed the strategy, McCain faulted them for not opposing the commander in chief. – Via McCain blasts Afghanistan withdrawal date as ‘political decision’ by Obama – TheHill.com
Um, Mr. McSame? Isn’t getting on TV and blasting Obama War Strategy a political move too? The truth is, John McCain is still pissed off, because Barack Obama trounced his idiotic piece of crap ass in the 2008 election; and this basically is the pay back for that. The reason why President Barack Obama won is, because John McCain is not a true Conservative, he is a progressive in a Conservative suit. This is why he has been defeated EVERY TIME he has tried to run for election for President, because people see right through that idiotic smile of his.
The truth of the matter is this; the only reason that John McCain is even a Republican is because he divorced his first wife and married that the beer distributor heiress and is filthy rich. Otherwise, he would be over in the Democratic Party side of the fence. Now before anyone is shocked and makes a comment about this posting. I, in fact, NEVER WAS a John McCain fan, ever. In the 2008 Presidential Election, I voted for Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party‘s candidate for President. Now did I agree with everything that Bob Barr stood for? No. But at least I knew that Bob Barr was a honest man and did not lie about what he really was. Which is more than one can say about John McCain and the most of the Progressive Conservatives on capital hill at the moment, not to mention all of the Democratic Party socialists that are there as well. Some people might not agree with my opinion of Barr; in fact there are some who despise the man. I can understand why and I’ve read their complaints. Now, do I agree with them? Not entirely, but I do see their points. I also know that Bob Barr did not win either. 😉
The fact is this; we need new thinking up on that hill and in 2012 in that White House. The Beltway types need to go, Republican and Democrat both. We need new blood, people that want to look out for the best interest of this Country and not in the best interest of “special interest”. Special Interest and political corruption are the new “bad words” on the hill and in the political discourse in America, let’s hope that this continues.
As for John McCain, I do respect the man’s Military Record, but I do not respect his phony Conservatism, nor his pushing for an endless war in the Afghan Theater and the one in Iraq. That, my friends, is idiotic at best. We need a plan in the Afghan theater and if we cannot make any ground there, then we need to leave and try something different. Period.
….as for John McCain, he needs to seriously shut the hell up! 😡
Sorry Conservatives, These Christians got what was coming to them
Any other time, I would have titled this, “Why do Christians do stupid stuff like this?”, But this time I believe this entry deserves a different title.
It appears that some Christians went to a Arab Festival in Dearborn, Michigan — To cause trouble, so they could get arrested to film the people.
Okay, this is where I break from the Conservative herd people. These idiots are doing this stuff for one reason and one reason only. To make a name for themselves. I do not know about you. But, if I were an Arab and I saw some idiot filming me and my kids; when I was at a festival celebrating my culture. I would be just a little pissed off too. For I would have known these guys were some perverted pedophiles filming my children to fulfill some warped sexual fantasy.
These Christians are operating under some sort idiotic idea that all Muslims are terrorists and that it is their “Mission from God Himself” to rescue these poor people from the Muslim Religion. It is called proselyting and in some Christian circles it can get you tossed out of a Church. Example: You let a Baptist into a Pentecostal Church and he starts trying to convert the people over to his beliefs; he is going to get tossed out, and Vice-versa.
Recently, Al-Qaeda released a video, in that video was a condition of peace with Al-Qaeda. One of the “demands” was to leave Muslims alone. I think that Christians ought to take that “demand” to heart and try leaving Muslims alone. If Muslims are not trying to blow up buildings; which they are not usually trying to do, in Dearborn, Michigan, contrary to what you might have heard — we, as Americans, as Conservative Americans, as Conservative Christian Americans who believe in the freedom of Religion, should just leave Muslims to practice their religion in peace.
I may not make any inroads with other Conservatives for publishing this; but I know that I am right and any libertarian-minded Conservative will agree with me; that is if he is not ate up with this idiot notion that all Muslims are terrorists; which they are not.
Others, Mostly Conservatives who believe all Muslims are terrorists: The Right Scoop, Detroit News, Patterico’s Pontifications, RedState, Gateway Pundit, Power Line and Wake up America
Move America Forward on McCrystal’s Resignation
I highly doubt that this will happen, but it is a good try.
Sacramento, Calif – Move America Forward (www.MoveAmericaForward.org) the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization, is calling on discharged General McChrystal, formerly in command of the American forces in Afghanistan, to come public with the true extent of the Obama Administration’s disengagement with the war in Afghanistan.
“In a time when America is at war, when the greatest threat to American security is Islamic terrorism, it is appalling and inexcusable that the Obama administration is preoccupied, uninformed, and disinterested in winning the war in Afghanistan. It’s now public that McChrystal was frustrated with Obama’s people who are getting in the way of progress in Afghanistan, and the American people deserve to know the truth. We implore General McChrystal to blow the whistle and go public with what he knows.” Gonzalez said.
As the Obama administration fumes over General Stanley McChrystal’s comments in the upcoming Rolling Stone article “Runaway General,” the pro-troop group organization is expressing shock that the President of the United States can be disinterested and uninformed on the war against Islamic terrorism in Afghanistan.
“Now that General McChrystal is no longer part of the military chain of command, he is free to expose the mismanagement of the war by the Obama administration, which is what got him in trouble in the first place.” said Move America Forward’s Director of Communications, Danny Gonzalez.
“The focus of news media reports has been on the poor judgment shown by McChrystal is his Rolling Stone article, but the real important issue to Americans is the conduct of the war to protect us against Islamic extremist. Our doubts and concerns about President Obama and his seeming lackluster approach to the war have been accentuated by the McChrystal revelations. We hope that he would do a great service to the American people by elaborating on the frustrations that ultimately led to his ouster. — — Via Move America Forward Press Release
I just do not understand why people just cannot be content with fact that the dude shot his mouth off and got caught. I mean, There is no conspiracy. This guy just was used to doing things HIS way, and finally someone reported it. The man let his guard down; he got sloppy and paid the price for it. Anyway, this guy has been replaced with someone who seems to have a better head on his shoulders. Hopefully, I am correct.
Also, let me say this. While I have all the faith and confidence in the Military to win this war in the Afghan conflict. I am beginning to have the feeling that this war is going to become another Vietnam. I say this because it is simply a fact; you cannot win a war, if the Government that you are fighting to keep free and are hoping is working with you, to out a terrorist organization, is just inherently corrupt. This increasingly seems to be the case in Afghanistan. I just hope that our President has the wherewithal to make a decision to pull out, should it become clear that we are just running in circles.
As bad as I want to see Osama Bin Laden come to justice for his role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I sometimes think that as long as he is being given cover by the Taliban in Pakistan and or Afghanistan; we will most likely never catch him. I also tend to believe that Osama is dead and buried in the mountains in that tribal region. If that is the case; we will never find him, ever.
Sweet Justice: Nikki Haley wins G.O.P. Nomination for SC Governor
You know, I am actually glad to see this gal win.
South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley cruised to the Republican nomination for governor tonight, a victory that makes her not just the frontrunner for the office this fall but a likely national GOP star.
Haley crushed Rep. Gresham Barrett in the runoff race, an expected result given that she took 49 percent of the June 8 primary vote — narrowly missing the chance to win the nomination outright. The Associated Press called the runoff race for Haley at 8 p.m. eastern time.
“This is a story about determination, and a story about a movement,” said Haley in her victory speech tonight. “This was the best grassroots, underdog campaign we have ever seen.”
Haley also credited former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who endorsed her candidacy, for giving the campaign a “boost we needed when we needed it.” – Via The Fix – Nikki Haley wins South Carolina primary, Rep. Bob Inglis loses
I bet the blogger who tried smearing this lady feels like a real tool right about now. He ought to, anyone that would try and derail a woman who’s trying to better a state ought to be ran out of that State on a rail. I also bet that racist asshole that called her a rag head is feeling a bit worried right about now.
Here’s hoping that Nikki Haley goes all the way; and puts her 9 inch heal on the throat on the Republican establishment in SC.
An alternative view on Gen. Stanley McChrystal
If you can get past the Gold commercials and the calling of the MSM, the “Government Controlled Media”, which sounds so Alex Jones’ish; this here, sounds like a decent podcast.
Josh Price speaks the truth on the Afghan conflict and on Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s comments in rolling stone.
Enjoy…