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Friday, November 30th, 2007
It is amazing to me and I assume a few others how ridiculous this whole mess over the naming of a teddy bear after what’s his name, causing such a fervor. We have Sudanese radical Muslims rioting in the street calling for this teacher to be executed.
I have read the condimnations from Muslim clerics, officials or whatever but I have to say I take it with a grian of salt. I just can’t take them seriously. I think most of it comes from them being expected to say something. I will be more impressed with actions. I have been burned time and again with CIAR consistently denouncing most crap from these radicals with exceptions and a big ol’ “BUT” in the middle.
Until supposed peace living Muslims separate themselves from the crazies, I am just not going to buy it. I have seen too much evidence of Muslims saying one thing to appease non Muslims and turn around and tell another story to Muslims.
Source: Thousands of Islamic fanatics wielding knives demand jailed teddy bear teacher is executed
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
What good are unions for anymore? I realize the need for them in the beginning. It was during a time in which federal labor laws were non existent and employers were doing a horrible job in human relations.
But that is not the case anymore. We have labor laws. We have the EEOC. Hell we have a Labor Department.
So what good are they for today?
Currently I see them as nothing more than a very large voting block for the democrat party. Raising big bucks through forced union dues. I also see them as their own worst enemy. Restricting companies competitiveness in the market is not a good thing in a free market. Refusing to change with the times will result in unions going the way of the dinosaur.
Big companies that are forced to deal with them are finding ways of not dealing with them. Relocating jobs. Using efficiency experts to figure out how to get along without more union members. Automation to rid themselves of even more. It is very likely that unions will eventually negotiate themselves out of existence.
Last question. Will that be a bad thing?
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
…but I think the media is for thinking he and his administration is.
It has been clear from the very beginning, even before he was sworn in, that the media was doing every thing they could to make Bush and his administration look incompetent. From his very election that they still see as illegitimate. How he handled 9-11, the aftermath, The Afghan War, The Iraq War, Katrina, the floods, the fires, the everything. I think quite the opposite has taken place. Just look at how much the media has lost in reputation since 2000.
From the beginning I think Bush realized the media was never going to be on his side. That no matter what he said or what he did, the media had an agenda and they were going to stick to it. Bush could have brought about world peace. The media would find away to fault him for it on in the very least not give him credit.
So I think when history is written by the historians long after I am gone. It will finally be realized that this was a time of a great leader and how he contributed to a revolution in the world and in the media. A media that was so corrupt on perceived power it brought about their down fall and the birth of a new media that was controlled by everyone and no one.
Source: Mismanaging the Infowar
Tags: Media, Opinions
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Now the the Supreme Court has decided to take up the D.C. Handgun Ban, expect a full on assault from the liberal leftest media here at home and abroad. They will use the power of their media positions to mislead, spin, misuse facts and figures and when neccessary, just outright lie to advance the media and the liberal progressive lefts agenda to ban guns all together.
Of course as anyone with half a brain knows, trying to ban weapons such as hand guns is a futile effort in America. In that it only takes the weapons out of the hands of innocent, law abiding citizens. Leaving them defenseless to the criminal elements that choose not to obey the law that bans the hand guns.
Now here is the relevant part of the Second Amendment and the reason the Left will lose.
A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Now to break it out in it’s relevant parts:
- A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state,
- the right of the people to keep and bear arms
- shall not be infringed.
As many nut jobs on the left try and get away with, that the Second Amendment was only intended for State Militias, this is not true. It not only allows for a well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, but it also allows for the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Lastly and very clearly it states that these rights shall not be infringed.
Now if for some reason Hell freezes over, pigs begin to fly and cows start jumping over the moon and the Supreme Court allows D.C. to continue to ban hand guns, then I would expect a revolution, the likes that have never been seen, well since the last Revolution of 1812.
Sources:
US Supreme Court ponders gun law
Eugene Volokh
Tags: Gun Control, Opinions, Supreme Court
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
No I am not referring to Teddy “The Swimmer” Kennedy’s checkered past. John F. Kennedy’s or Robert F. Kennedy’s womanizing. Or any of the other sordid affairs that make the Kennedy Klan a laughing stock in American History. Hey, everyones family has some skeletons in the closet. Theirs just happen to be very public.
The one that I am writing of today deals with the Kennedy’s wrong doing as it pertains to the Cape Wind Project. Teddy and Bobby Jr. along with a number of the rich elite friends have been doing everything in their power to distroy the man behind the project. These are the very men who complain and complain about the use of alternative energy just as long as it is not in their back yard. Literally!
The book about it all is here.
Shame on the Kennedy Family and all of their brood forever.
Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Opinions
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
How Jimmy “The Rabbit” Carter has the nerve to come out of his hole to say anything about anyone, is beyond me. The guy that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize along with the terrorist Arafat, and consequently devalued the prize to a worthless trinket. The guy that was the cause of more turmoil and strife has the nerve to come out with something like this.
Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a “disaster”
Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a “disaster” for the country and a “militant” who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.
Cheney has been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including an internal White House discussion over Syria in which the vice president is thought to be pushing a tough approach, Carter said.
Sorry Jimmy, but Dick Cheney has brought about more peace to more people than you have, even when you were considered relevant.
For me you never were. So just hurry up and die already. Someone of better virtue is waiting to take your place. God I hope.
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Well I ran across this post (Progressive blogosphere MIA on Jena 6) from this guy (Instapundit), from him all things are known, about the silence across the blogoshpere on the issue of the Jena 6. Well after reading the thoughts posted, I have a few thoughts myself in no particular order.
First, I agree with Glenn Reynolds “as I was discussing with a colleague whose work on the “school-to-jail pipeline” has had him following the case closely — one big problem is that the facts have trickled out, and it was hard to get a clear narrative that made sense of what was going on.” This story has been evolving out of a bunch of little happenings that have now ended up with 6 people in jail for beating the shit out of another.
Second, with Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton now involved, it is not going to end pretty. No one will win with this one.
Third, this is very hard for me to relate. I have lived in a diversified community all of my life and have interacted within that community on many different levels. I live, love and respect people as people. I know no other way.
I am usually happy to lend my opinion on most anything, qualified or not, but on this I think not. I am the whitest of white guys. It is my opinion that my opinion does not matter, so why bother.
So I won’t.
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Sometimes I wish CNN would put an option of “I don’t care” in their Quick Votes. That way I could participate in some of their stupid poles. After all, sometimes Yes or No just does not apply.
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
I was listening to Dennis Miller on the drive home today as I usually do. He was having a discussion about all the crap coming out of democrats mouths today about General Petraeus being a liar. MoveOn.org putting that whole Betray Us ad in the New York Times. democrats calling what Petraeus would be presenting would be filled with lies and that it was written by the Bush Administration. These people are just creeps. Sick, twisted, lose at any cost, to hell with America, Syrian Dictator worshiping, sick twisted freaks.
The thing that I got of the whole conversation was when Miller was talking about how the liberals did a preemptive strike on questioning their patriotism before they started dumping on the greatest nation in the world. How they were setting it all up, so that when they starting speaking traitorous talk we, the media and anyone else would not be able to question their patriotism. How he was feeling uneasy about calling them traitors but with all of this dumping on a 4 Star General before he even had a chance to speak and with the stupid add by MoveOn .org, he was becoming less uneasy about calling them what they are. TRAITORS!
Well I am question their patriotism. I am calling them traitors to the greatest nation in the world and they can all burn with Saddam, Osama and all of the terrorists bastards In Hell. I am sick and tired of these bastards talking all this sh!t and not being questioned or called out for it.
So go to hell you bastards! YOU ARE TRAITORS!
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Great graphic and great advice in the comments. Even though some still think it was the hurricane that flooded New Orleans the advice is good none the less.
It was actually corrupt politics that has been around for centuries, that led to money being diverted to the pockets of those politicians and their cronies, that led to not enough money to properly build the levees that ultimately failed. Not because they were topped, but because they were compromised from under neath.
New Orleans Will Never Be Safe
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Referring to this particular graph in this ABC News Article, I just about lost it.
O, Canada! More Americans Heading North
Kertes, who moved with his partner, is happy in his new home. “Canada is a really nice country. My mother is thinking about it. My stepfather has diabetes and has health issues. So, he’d be taken care of for free if he moved up here.”
So I thought to myself, it might be a good thing this idiot is leaving and going to Canada. It will be one less idiot to have to deal with in the growing debate on socialized medicine.
Socialized Medicine IN NOT FREE. It is paid for by hard working people who involuntarily give up a vast amount of their wages to make it possible.
If World Peace is not possible, could at least an understanding that individuals can better determine how best to disperse the fruits of there labor, better than government.
In any case, I applaud those choosing to leave America for Canada and elsewhere. Not only does it make room for 10 times the ones coming as leaving. We are probably better off without them.
Good Riddance!
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
I agree that the federal government has taken too much purview from the states and hope that it starts to swing back the other way real soon.
On Federalism
The federalist construct of strong states and limited federal government put in place by our Founders was intended to give states the freedom to experiment and innovate. It envisions states as laboratories in competition with each other to develop ideas and programs to benefit their people, to see what works and what does not.
This ingenious means of governing a large and diverse nation prevailed for more than a century. But today our Constitution and the limited, federalist government it established, are considered by many to be quaint or out of touch with the world we live in, to be swept aside by political expediency.
The Supreme Court sometimes ignores the written Constitution to reflect its view of the times. So does Congress, which routinely forgets that our checks and balances, the separation of powers and our system of federalism are designed to diffuse power and protect the liberties of our people. Before anything else, folks in Washington ought to be asking first and foremost, “Should government be doing this? And if so, then at what level of government?” But they don’t.
“State Rights” is not a slogan. It is something that is protected and set in the constitution. Protecting “State Rights” is just one of the jobs our senators have not been doing a very good job of.
Let’s make the ‘08 election a revolution and do some house cleaning. I know of two senators (Lugar and Bayh) that have lost their way and purpose in the senate.
Glenn Reynolds has thoughts and more links on the subject.
UPDATE: Hennessy has his thoughts on this as well. Of course it goes without saying, they are better than mine.
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
I recently sent an email to Senator Lugar, my home state senator. Well I received a response to said email today and thought I would share it.
It was certainly nice of him and his staff to take the time to put this letter together, but I still don’t buy it and I still won’t be voting to send him back to Washington.
If you are a conservative Republican out there looking to unseat this ol’ timer from office, I would be interested in listening to what you have to say and possibly supporting you in the next election. FWIW!
Below are scans of the actual letter if you would like to take a look:
Letter from Senator Lugar Page 1
Letter from Senator Lugar Page 2
Letter from Senator Lugar Page 3
(more…)
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Thanks for Supporting us Senator Lugar.
Yes that is what I am sure the terrorists that seek our distruction as well as the “Peace at any Price” democrats in congress and the media are saying to you today. “Thanks for Supporting us Senator Lugar”.
This along with your cock-eyed views on immigration are the reasons I will not be voting for you in your next run for the senate and will work feverishly in opposition to you ever being elected again.
The following from NRO The Corner today says it well:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2Q1YTg3OGIwNjkwNGZkMDM0ZjNiZDdjOTMzOTYyNjE=
Lugar [Rich Lowry]I like him. He’s a serious, sober guy. But I don’t see how his strategic goals set out in his speech yesterday—keeping Iraq from being a safe haven from terrorists; keeping the sectarian strife in Iraq from destabilizing the region; checking Iranian ambitions in the region; and protecting U.S. credibility—would be furthered by his vague proposal for a strategic re-deployment. In fact, his re-deployment would almost certainly harm us in all those areas. What he is basically saying is that the war is lost, and all the rest of it—a diplomatic offensive, forging progress on the Arab-Israeli conflict, etc.—is window-dressing. A big reason he says we can’t win is “the timetable imposed by our own domestic political process.” Lugar is of course part of the “domestic political process,” and he will now do more than his fair share to impose that timetable.A couple of political observations: 1) John Warner is probably kicking himself because he wanted to be the first Republican senate luminary to break with Bush; 2) Lugar will be deified by the media and liberal pundit class in coming days; 3) The Democrats will rush to embrace Lugar. Don’t be surprised if there isn’t a Lugar-Biden resolution sometime soon; 4) Many Republicans will be awfully tempted to go Lugar’s way, because it offers a third way between the surge and withdrawal that promises—most importantly for them—a way to try to dodge voter anger over the war; 5) The forces within the Bush administration that want to begin to scale-back our commitment will get a boost. In sum, Lugar’s speech is substantively lacking, but could well mark a significant political moment.06/26 05:01 PMhttp://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTBhYWZhODU3MjEyZjcxMzljNDI2OGQ5MDk0NWMxYTQ=
Lugar (more) [Michael Ledeen]I’m glad Rich likes Lugar, because there aren’t many who do, and it’s true he’s pleasant enough. Indeed, he’s a foreign service officer masquerading as a political leader. I have watched him for about thirty years, and I cannot recall a moment of courage, not one time when he set himself against the conventional wisdom, nor challenged a policy before the winds had shifted against it. He was chairman of Foreign Relations for several years. What did he accomplish? Nothing. He behaved in total synch with Biden, which says it all. He had hearing on Iran, and only invited witnesses approved by Powell and Rice and their people, never a clear dissenting voice.It was predictable for him to join the calls for retreat, as he had already been a leading soprano in the appeasement choir. It wouldn’t surprise me if Biden asked him to do it, in order to show that the establishment Pubs have abandoned the war (surprise!) I wonder what ever happened to the Hoosiers. They fired Bobby Knight and reelect Lugar by huge margins.06/26 05:24 PM
Enjoy the embrace from the media and your democrat appeasers. Conservative Hoosiers no longer have a conservative voice in the U.S. Senate and I look forward to the day
that you and Evan Bayh no longer represent us.
Keith D. Milby
UPDATE: A Response from Senator Lugar
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
In light of the fact that I am not a writer. I am pointing to someone who is, that expresses my feelings on this whole crap load of crap.
From The LA Times: Don Imus: the good-natured racist
But there’s also no basis for firing him or ending his show. Firing Imus for racist riffs would be like firing Liberace for flamboyance. It’s what he does. More to the point, Imus should only be fired when the black artists who make millions of dollars rapping about black bitches and hos lose their recording contracts. Black leaders should denounce Imus and boycott him and call for his head only after they do the same for the misogynist artists with whom they have shared stages, magazine covers and awards shows.The truth is, Imus’ remarks mimic those of the original gurus of black female denigration: black men with no class. He is only repeating what he’s heard and being honest about the way many men — of all races — judge women.
I read the whole thing.
This along with what Michelle Malkin has posted about it, just about sums it up for me.
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Hugh Hewitt has the details on not supportinng Senators, especially if they are a Republican, if they support the “Surge”
I am all for it.
This is the link to the online petition.
Update: Fixed the Title to this post and inserted “Does Not Support The Surge”. Sometimes I just want to kick myself in the head.
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Well I guess if Jimmy Carter will never be considered the best President of the United States, he will just work towards being the worst.
Carter Blames Bush For Korean Crisis
Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday night that an agreement he brokered 12 years ago for North Korea to halt nuclear weapons development is “in the wastebasket.” Carter contends the Bush administration turned its back on the deal and labeled the isolated nation part of an “axis of evil.”But Carter, speaking at a previously scheduled panel discussion on his 1994 mediation, said he does not foresee the current dispute over North Korea’s test of a nuclear bomb leading to war.
What would he know about going to war?
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
From the LA Times: Democrats’
Shameful Wal-Mart Demonization
WITH ONE EYE ON 2008 and one on their labor union base, Democratic luminaries
are canvassing Iowa and other states this summer to campaign against the nation’s
incumbent … retailer. They obviously see Wal-Mart as this season’s Enron, the one
corporation that represents all that is wrong with America.
Too bad the party can’t simply draft Costco or Target to run for president. Instead,
Democratic presidential aspirants — including Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, Sen.
Evan Bayh of Indiana, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and Gov.
Bill Richardson of New Mexico — feel compelled to bash one company, the largest employer
in the U.S., to score points with labor organizers. The candidates are so intent on
gaining tactical advantage in the primary season that they risk alienating possible
supporters in the general election.
Oh Senator Evan Bayh, I certainly did not like seeing your name in the mix with Biden
and Edwards. I voted for you in the last election. I won’t make that mistake again.
Shame on you Senator Bayh.
I guess it is like Rush Limbaugh says, “a liberal is a liberal first”.
In any case, it is nice to see something in the MSM shining the light on the disgraceful
tactics of democrats and their shilling to the socialist unions in this country. Good
for them.
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Glenn Reynolds seems to have awaken today with alot to say about Gay Marriage In Tennessee.
I have to say this is one of a few things I don’t see eye to eye with the Blogfather on.
I disagree with gay marriage for one reason, call it what ever you want, do what ever you want in the law, marry them in a church for all I care, just don’t call it “marriage“. I will never ever support anything with the word marriage in it when it comes to the recognition same sex coupling.
Yes, I realize it may sound stupid and petty to some, but these are my thoughts, and I am sticking to them.
And another thing, don’t insult civil rights by including same sex unions as a civil rights. They are not. Every person in America has the same right to be married under the law.
Because I would like to drive on the wrong/other side of the road, why don’t we change the law to allow for driving on either side to satisfy my desire.
Words matter!
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
I think it is probably better that it did not pass.
I perfer to know where the idiots are at in a crowd.
James Taranto says it best:
“Burning the flag is a stupid and ugly act, but there is something lovely and enlightened about a regime that tolerates it in the name of freedom. And of course it has the added benefit of making it easier to spot the idiots.”
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
Thankfully for great writers
like Cal Thomas, I have someone that can put into words the feeling that I have
with the real agenda of the so called peace activists.
The motive of the activists was exposed in a statement from Christian Peacemaker
Teams, under whose auspices Mr. Fox and the others traveled to Iraq. Spokeswoman Jessica
Phillips said, “We believe that the root cause of the abduction of our colleagues
is the U.S.- and British-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.”
Strange thing about these peace movements: They rarely mobilize to oppose the
killing, torture and imprisonment practiced by dictators. It is only when their own
country attempts to end the oppression that the activists become active against America,
not the initiators of evil. Peace, like happiness, is a byproduct, not a goal that
can be unilaterally attained. Peace happens when evil is vanquished.
After all, when was the last time these other so called ”peace activists”
really brought about any peace. The only thing they really manage to do is keep dictators
in power. That is not something to be proud of.
It has always been my opinion that the true peace activists have been the men and
women in the military.
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
I have a theory as to why the term neo-con came into existence. That would be whacked out liberals trying to paint conservatives with the neo-nazi brush. When in fact, it is the liberals who wish upon our society those things that are more closely associated with fascists, marxists, socialist and communists.
So I will coin the term Neo-Liberals.
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
From WND: NAACP chairman compares GOP to Nazis
Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as “tokens.”
“The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side,” he charged.
Julian Bond has done a great disservice to the NAACP and made no advancements with this clear and intentional hate speech.
It is not for me to say who the folks of this organization choose as their leader. I can say that I would not be apart of an organization that was headed by someone with such hate in his heart for anyone else.
h/t: Drudge Report
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Yes, nothing will stop them from criticizing the administration, no matter what they do. The Bush administration could bring about world peace and I honestly believe the democrats would find something to complain about.
But hey, if they want to be the party of whiners, bitchers, complainers, moaners, groaners and the party that will forever be known as “Negative Nancy’s, more power to them.
From Syracuse.com: Hillary Clinton calls for U.N. sanctions against Iran
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton called for United Nations sanctions against Iran as it resumes its nuclear program and faulted the Bush administration for “downplaying” the threat.
In an address Wednesday evening at Princeton University, Clinton, D-N.Y., said it was a mistake for the United States to have Britain, France and Germany head up nuclear talks with Iran over the past 2 1/2 years. Last week, Iran resumed nuclear research in a move Tehran claims is for energy, not weapons.
“I believe that we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and chose to outsource the negotiations,” Clinton said.
Let’s not mention of course all of the critical time lost in dealing with Iran when your husband, Bubba was in office for 8 years. And this is the lefts “Super Woman” for ‘08, I say bring it on. It will be a pleasure to see her lose. Maybe then, her and Bubba will disappear and never be heard from again. Carpet Bagger.
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
From the AP: New Orleans Mayor Says God Mad at U.S.
Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that “God is mad at America” and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting. “Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country,” Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.
Well my take on it is, that if the Good Lord was mad at anyone it would be Mayor Nagin. He screwed up so badly, that someone is probably writing a book on what not to do in a crisis. As I have stated in the past, the true tragedy that was Katrina, Rita and the wrath that it did leave behind was the deplorable leadership shown by Nagin and Governor Blanco.
I guess Mayor Nagin felt at this point that he had not shoved his foot in his mouth far enough, he had this to say:
“It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild New Orleans _ the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans,” the mayor said. “This city will be a majority African American city. It’s the way God wants it to be. You can’t have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn’t be New Orleans.”
I guess diversity is only required when it is applied to “white folks”. When you are black, it is OK not to be so diversified. Having the strengths and talents of people from different backgrounds is not so important when your town is majority black.
It is probably just me that sees it this way, so I apologize.
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
This is the Headline: Job growth below expectations in December
This was the story:
The Labor Department said the unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent from 5 percent in November. During the full year 2005, payrolls grew by nearly 2.2 million new jobs.
While the December total of new jobs came in well under forecasts for 200,000, it came with an upwardly revised 305,000 new jobs in November — the strongest hiring since April 2004 — instead of 215,000 the department reported a month ago.
The unemployment rate is 4.9 percent. Not in my memory at least, can I remember that the rate has ever been 4.9 percent. This is a rate most European countries would give a pant load for and yet it hardly rates to be the headline.
God forbid, that Glenn Sommers would headline his articles with something that reflected the good/true news on the economy. That must be against policy at Reuters.
Read the entire article and you will notice that the majority of the article is of good news. Good news of the economy that the MSM is trying hard to subdue. Also notice a couple jabs that just had to be put in, to make I guess what Reuters considers an attempt to be ”Fair and Balanced”. Would not want to let the news be too good.
UPDATE: Over at Ankle Biting Pundits, they have an example of the same bias surprisingly, at The New York/DNC Times. Check it out.
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
Yes, Chuck “The Pharisee” Schumer. If you do not know what I mean by “The Pharisee”, look it up here.
The Conways at NRO’s Reconcilable Differences have a great post on Chuckie and his latest hypocritical stance on Judge Alito. If the democrats keep up with their flip flopping on just about anything, soon you will be able to interchange hypocrite and democrat with ease.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
From KARE 11: Robertson says Sharon’s stroke is God’s punishment
The Reverend Pat Robertson says Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s massive stroke could be God’s punishment for giving up Israeli territory.
The founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network told viewers of “The 700 Club” that Sharon was “dividing God’s land,” even though the Bible says doing so invites “God’s enmity.”
Robertson added, “I would say woe to any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course.”
He noted that former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.
To Pat Robertson: There is a difference between what is said and what is reported. Especially if you are a conservative Christian Minister in America with a media that has a left wing agenda. You should have people that tell you this. Now you have gone and made another big stink that you or the people that follow you, did not need. You are a highly placed individual that represents to the world, the Christian religion and today you have done the religion no favors.
Good Luck with getting past this one.
Now I am not a fan of the Reverend Robertson, but I am not an enemy either. I can only hope that a lesson was learned from this.
The Political Teen. The purveyor of video. Has the video.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
… and I am glad I did. Like everyone else I read and heard today, it was long and well worth the read.
If by some wild chance you are reading this, and if you are thanks, go read Mark Steyn now and quit wasting your time here.
Mark Steyn:
It’s the Demography, Stupid
The real reason the West is in danger of extinction.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
If you ever see Richard Cohen writing well of John McCain, then you are in for a real load of crap.
Well that is what he delivered today and sure enough, a load a crap.
From The Washington Post: McCain’s Day to Crow
John McCain had a very good day this week. It was Tuesday, when superlobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to various charges of corruption and when, across town, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would henceforth depart from its customary procedure and award its anti-terrorism grants on the basis of merit. Here, in a single day, was Washington as McCain always said it was. It could make you sick.
Abramoff, of course, is the personification of the Washington McCain has long railed against. Not elected, appointed to no government office and unknown to all but a handful of Americans, he nonetheless was at the center of a vast influence-peddling apparatus that took in and distributed the sort of money that, in a more innocent era, compelled the cartoonist Thomas Nast to render Tammany Hall’s Boss Tweed with a moneybag for a head. Abramoff, as had the equally rapacious Columbus before him, discovered Indians.
Sad I guess, Mr. Cohen does not realize yet that McCain has a special relationship with Indians. I wonder if he knows that Indian Tribes are exempt from McCain’s unconstitutional McCain/Feingold Bill and that McCain made it that way?
Mr. Cohen is so far out in left field, you could drive 5 hours and still only be half way there.
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