Liberals Got You Down?

I tell you, between my extended family members, the main stream media, and all my friends from college, I get very depressed because I feel the liberals are succeeding in their whitewash. I feel that since I started my blog that I have invested too much emotion and person into this election.

I used to listen to Rush coming home from work every day, until I got this great job that keeps me at work until halfway through Hannity (who I don't really enjoy--but he has his moments) and it would really cheer me up.

Well, I today dropped a whole $7.95 to join his monthly membership and I recommend you do the same. This is therapy I might need into the next year if Kerry gets elected.

The $7.95 is worth it simply for the Michelle Malkin interview on Friday.

Mind you, I find great solice in my friends over at Kitty Litter, Red Line Rants and Kerry Haters...but nothing beats being a dittohead.

Kerry Hires New Spokesperson to Denounce Swift Vets

Check out the "Mother of All Backlashes" Q&A session at Ace of Spades.

Toot Toot

Tooting my own horn, some statistics about my college were released the last couple of days and since I (read: my parents) spent all that money on it I feel bragging rights are in order:

Pomona College students are the happiest in the nation, according to the Princeton Review. The ranking marks the second time in three years that Pomona’s students have been noticed as the nation’s happiest. In the 2004 edition, Pomona students were second.

In the Review's The Best 357 Colleges, 2005 edition, which surveyed more than 110,000 college students nationwide, Pomona College also ranked # 6 in “Students Happy With Financial Aid,” # 7 in “Schools Run Like Butter,” # 11 in “Dorms Like Palaces,” # 13 in “The Toughest to Get Into” and # 17 in “Best Quality of Life.”

Then the US News and World Report Rankings:

Pomona College is ranked fifth among all liberal arts colleges in America by U.S. News & World Report in the magazine's 2005 guide to “America's Best Colleges.” Pomona College also ranked third in selectivity; fourth in “great schools, great prices”; fifth in graduation rate; and 16th in diversity of its student body.

In the most recent survey of the nation’s 217 liberal arts colleges, released on August 20, Pomona tied for the fifth place spot with Carleton College in Minnesota. Williams College (MA) was ranked first, followed by Amherst College (MA) and Swarthmore College (PA) tied at second, and Wellesley College (MA) at fourth.

Claremont McKenna College (another Claremont College) has had some controversy lately with a woman who claimed to be the victim of a hate crime--but turns out she made it up.

DARPA Designs

I guess you can say DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the DKNY of military designs. This month's Mens Journal shows us the GI Joe of 2025. I had to cut these pages out and scan them since you cannot look at it online so I apologize if it's hard to read...click on the picture to view a PDF.



You should subscribe to Men's Journal here (I am hoping this plug will make it okay that I copied two pages from their mag).

1. Computerized Helmet: this is something all of us have seen before, but it's controlled through thought. They've been able to train a monkey to move a robotic arm from up to 600 miles away.

2. Nanomuscles: uniform has nickel-titanium fiber that acts and reacts like human muscle giving a soldiers strength a 25-100% boost.

3. Million-round Gun: I kid you not. A weapon has been created that can shoot a million bullets a minute. In tests already conducted, 36 barrels tied together obliterated 15 doors in 0.2 seconds. They are still trying to figure out how to tote around all the bullets.

4. Fluid Body Armor: This isn't new either. The fluid will immediately turn into a solid if something tries to penetrate it.

5. Lower-body Exoskeleton: Think Sigourney Weaver in Aliens. Holds side machine guns and grenade launcher--and I guess will help lift those millions of bullets!

V Is for Valor

This doesn't look like it has a lot of legs, but someone noticed that John Kerry's Silver Star DD 214 was awarded for "V" which is Valor.

One problem, the Silver Star is never awarded for valor...

Retro vs. Metro

I've seen the ads all this week in the Washington Times on my ride into work. First you see a candid portrait of Newt Gingrich and underneath "Retro", then a gorgeous Hillary Clinton and underneath "Metro".

So I go to the site today and it's more Moveon.org like nonsense about We Are the World. Ahh, the politics of emotion.

Shameless Subliminal Headline of the Day

If you go to MSNBC.com the banner currently reads: Officer Backs Kerry War Record after Complaint Filed on Bush Ad.

One problem, it's not a Bush ad and MSNBC knows it.

The media is going into meltdown.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I just blew my wad!

Anyone who's ever used an HP iPaq knows it's the closest thing to owning a tricorder. But it lacked push-through email, internet anywhere (unless you strung out a cord to attach it to your cellphone--or if you had a bluetooth enabled phone), or one of those nifty cameras.

But true to form, HP has announced the release of the best thing I've ever seen in my entire life! The new HP 6315:




Satisfy all your mobile communication needs with one compact device: the new HP iPAQ h6315 Pocket PC with mobile phone and camera! This is the first and smallest handheld featuring integrated three-way wireless capabilities (GSM, GPRS, WLAN, and Bluetooth®).

T-Mobile is the exclusive service provider for the HP iPAQ h6315. Service plans and coverage information will be available on August 26, 2004.

• Communicate effectively: Access the Internet, e-mail, send text messages, and make wireless phone calls with the GSM/GPRS global voice and data wireless network
• Ensure that your system runs smoothly with Microsoft® Windows® Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC (phone edition)
• Synchronize with your PC, print photos and documents, and more (via Bluetooth)
• Get turn-by-turn driving directions for anywhere in the United States by accessing the iPAQ navigation system (via Bluetooth, sold separately)
• Snap a photo with the built-in camera and share it immediately with others
• Compose e-mail, notes, and instant messages fast with the removable (snap-on) thumb keyboard
• Treat your eyes to crisp viewing on the large (3.5"), transflective color display
• Stay powered up with the rechargeable, removable Lithium-Ion battery

Random Thoughts of Thomas Sowell #5

One of the biggest shams the liberals push is that Bill Clinton was responsible for the economic boom of the 90's. Like the "Tulip Craze" centuries ago (before Holland's economy BUSTED), Bill Clinton really could have done anything and the economy would still have grown because it was based on a deception that was the "Tech Boom."



Thomas Sowell tackles another liberal sham: The War on Poverty.

The War on Poverty represented the crowning triumph of the liberal vision of society -- and of government programs as the solution to social problems. The disastrous consequences that followed have made the word "liberal" so much of a political liability that today even candidates with long left-wing track records have evaded or denied that designation.

In the liberal vision, slums bred crime. But brand-new government housing projects almost immediately became new centers of crime and quickly degenerated into new slums. Many of these projects later had to be demolished. Unfortunately, the assumptions behind those projects were not demolished, but live on in other disastrous programs, such as Section 8 housing.

Rates of teenage pregnancy and venereal disease had been going down for years before the new 1960s attitudes toward sex spread rapidly through the schools, helped by War on Poverty money. These downward trends suddenly reversed and skyrocketed.

The murder rate had also been going down, for decades, and in 1960 was just under half of what it had been in 1934. Then the new 1960s policies toward curing the "root causes" of crime and creating new "rights" for criminals began. Rates of violent crime, including murder, skyrocketed.

The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.

Government social programs such as the War on Poverty were considered a way to reduce urban riots. Such programs increased sharply during the 1960s. So did urban riots. Later, during the Reagan administration, which was denounced for not promoting social programs, there were far fewer urban riots.

Hypocrisy!

Kerry hires online chief from MoveOn
Bush camp cries foul

From John Mercurio
CNN Political Unit

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- John Kerry has hired an Internet-savvy Democrat to run his presidential campaign's online communications, a move that raises new questions about the link between his campaign and the independent groups that run TV ads on his behalf.

Zach Exley, the director of special projects for the MoveOn PAC, is going to the Kerry campaign to become its director of online communications and organization.

Exley also worked during the Democratic presidential primary for Howard Dean, helping Dean set up his web-based organization.

Since Kerry became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in early March, the MoveOn PAC has spent more than $2.5 million on TV ads that attack President Bush.

But under the new campaign-finance law, those efforts cannot be coordinated with the Kerry campaign.

A MoveOn statement said Exley and the staff of all MoveOn entities have agreed that they will not be in contact through the election period to avoid the appearance of coordination, "even though federal election rules permit some forms of communication."

MoveOn has spent roughly $17 million on ads since it started running its "misleader" campaign against Bush last year.

Republicans said Exley's move reinforces their accusations that Kerry and his Democratic allies are circumventing the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law they fought so hard to enact. (GOP challenges anti-Bush ads)

"It's another example of the coordination between MoveOn.org and the Kerry campaign that is illegal under campaign finance law," a Bush campaign official said.

"The Media Fund and MoveOn are functioning as Kerry's slush fund, a shadow Democratic Party that's illegally using soft dollars."

MoveOn became the subject of controversy early this year when it posted two ads on its Web site that compared Bush to Adolf Hitler. The ads were submitted to the group as part of a contest to produce anti-Bush commercials, and Republican Chairman Ed Gillespie said Exley dismissed Republican complaints about them with a barnyard expletive.

"In addition to the obvious questions his hiring raises about further illegal coordination between the Kerry campaign and MoveOn.org, you have to wonder what hiring someone who considers Hitler comparisons to be legitimate political discourse says about the Kerry campaign," Gillespie said in a statement issued Wednesday."

Alice Cooper: Crappy Music, Smart Man

From the Edmonton Sun:

In the eyes of Alice Cooper, all the rock stars campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry are guilty of one thing: treason. The shock-rock legend, a staunch Republican who attends NBA games in Phoenix with Arizona Senator John McCain, was disgusted when he learned of plans by Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, R.E.M. and other bands to hold a series of concerts aimed at unseating U.S. President George W. Bush.

"To me, that's treason. I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics," says the 56-year-old Cooper, who begins a 15-city Canadian tour on Aug. 20 in Thunder Bay, Ont.

"When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick.

"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."

Despite his strong insistence that rock has no place in politics, Cooper is one of just a handful of high-profile musicians who've proclaimed support for Bush.

The list of pop-culture Republicans includes Britney Spears, Toby Keith and Ted Nugent, the latter being one of Cooper's old buddies from his early days in Detroit.

Cooper's Canadian tour dates include Edmonton on Sept. 13.

Thanks, Alpha Patriot.

Meltdown

Above we see a desperate man!

I remember watching Bush fail to respond to all the outrageous allegations against him--50 hate books written about Bush (many of which have since been disproven: Joe Wilson, Richard Clarke); a movie grossing over $100 Million that's since been vetted and shown to mostly be false; $15 Million spent by ACT and Move On and all the rancid invective coming from liberals--and I was pissed. Why wouldn't he get angry and challenge all this nonsense???

Well, watching John Kerry's meltdown over one book and two ads demonstrates why Bush should lead this nation. Look at his anger, look at all the wild accusations of conspiracy within the Administration and every Republican in the country. They threatened local television stations with lawsuits (knowing they did so on baseless grounds); they are threatening Walmart, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com; they make criminal charges about the relationship between Bush and a republican in Texas; they are using the Main Stream Media (MSM) (Chris Matthews and James Carville) to shill during interviews instead of interviewing; they've done everything except ANSWER THE ALLEGATIONS!

The Swift Vets have been around since March and the media didn't pay any attention to them. Excerpts from their book, Unfit for Command, have been reported on the Drudge Report for THREE WEEKS and the media was silent. FOXNEWS doing what journalists do investigated the issue and put both sides on the air to argue it out (accept Kerry used surrogates, not Bush). The first MSM articles were PLASTERED ALL OVER THE FRONT PAGE finding two little inconsistancies and placing the well researched accusations of the Swift Vets at the bottom of the articles.

Remember, these aren't just any veterans, some were POWs for YEARS! Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart winners can't have an opinion? Bull$hit.

This is THE MOMENT that will demonstrate the powers that be in this country. We will see the media spin this like these 254 VETERANS are satan incarnate. The New York Times spent all this time researching Republican connections to ONE 527 but no articles to all the 527's comparing Bush to Hilter and talking about his dental records. And you can also see Chris Matthews show his stripes as he becomes posessed in his attack against Michelle Malkin who was only there to promote her book, but since she was a conservative was worthy of his rant.

Again, no one will address the issues, just attack the messengers.

And when you get sick of hearing about Vietnam (which Republicans were over 20 years ago), remember who keeps bringing it up...the new Moveon.org motto should be, "Move On...because we can't!"

Weekend Warrior

Hey all! I said earlier that I started my new job this week. It's excellent, but I have not had time to keep up with the blogging. I hope to make up for that this weekend, so please don't stop visiting this site!

Hopefully, I will not be so tired when I get home weeknights like was this week.

News Not Fit to Print

in the liberal media:



Veterans stand and turn their backs during Kerry's entire speech.

Ann Coulter Gets an Entire Post

She's been lackluster the last two months...until today. Please enjoy.


Ballad of the French Berets
By Ann Coulter
© 2004 Universal Press Syndicate

There ought to be a special word – something German – to describe the feeling of revulsion normal people experience when reading lines like these from a single article on John Kerry by Laura Blumenfeld in the Washington Post:

* "Kerry's complexity has been an issue since his national debut in 1971."

* "Kerry likes to quote the French writer Andre Gide: 'Don't try to understand me too quickly.'"

* "His friend Dan Barbiero said it comes down to Kerry's complexity ..."

(Apparently, Kerry's answers on the LSAT were too nuanced and complex for the Harvard Law School admissions committee: Despite all his connections, fancy education and war-protesting, Kerry couldn't get into Harvard Law School and went to Boston College Law School instead. Wait – didn't Kerry throw that famous, game-winning "Hail Mary" pass while playing quarterback for Boston College back in the '80s? Or am I thinking of somebody else? Let's ask Doug Brinkley!)

* "Flying to his next campaign stop, he chatted about maneuvers to avoid flak in combat."

* "This was Primal John ... who ran with the bulls at Pamplona and, when trampled, got up, chased the bull, and grabbed for its horns."

(I'm almost sure this was a polite reference to John and Teresa's honeymoon night.)

The problem with a suck-up press for Democrats is that with no adversary press to call them on it, Democrats develop wilder and wilder Walter Mitty fantasy lives until finally one day, when they are at the zenith of their political careers, someone notices that they're not Irish, they didn't deserve their war medals, 254 swiftboat veterans hate them, and they didn't spend Christmas Eve, 1968, in Cambodia. (Or that they are white-trash serial molesters and unrepentant rapists who somehow talked their way into an Arkansas governorship.)

The Boston Globe biography of Kerry published earlier this year compliantly repeats Kerry's yarn about how he spent Christmas 1968 in Cambodia "despite President Nixon's assurances that there was no combat action in this neutral territory."

Only recently did someone point out: (1) Kerry was 55 miles away from the Cambodian border on Christmas 1968 and (2) Nixon wasn't president in 1968. (How did "historian" Doug Brinkley miss that in his biography of Kerry?)

The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968.

Tom Harkin, Crazed Moron, was shouting this week that Dick Cheney is a "coward," evidently for not fighting in Vietnam like Harkin. Except Harkin didn't fight in Vietnam either! The last time Harkin was bragging about his Vietnam service was in 1984 when he told David Broder of the Washington Post: "I spent five years as a Navy pilot, starting in November of 1962. One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions."

Sen. Barry Goldwater – not the Post – checked with the Defense Department and soon Harkin was forced to admit he had never been in combat in Vietnam, but was based in Japan during the war, ferrying damaged planes from the Saigon airport to Japan for repairs. Oops!

Then there was Al Gore who, like Kerry, was in Vietnam just long enough to get photos for his future political campaigns. (Apparently all future Democratic politicians take cameras to war zones.)

Gore enlisted in the Army in 1970 in a calculated gambit to help his senator dad in an election year. Young Al was given a cushy job writing for the Stars and Stripes newspaper, a bodyguard, and an exit strategy when Pops lost the election. After five months of this hygienic tour of duty, Little Lord Fauntleroy asked to come home, and before long he was safe and sound and preparing to flunk out of divinity school and then drop out of law school.

But over the next 30 years, Gore provided the media with increasingly macho reminiscences of his combat experiences in Vietnam – almost as vivid and stirring as the impassioned account he gave of being a tobacco farmer.

* "I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass and I was fired upon." (The Baltimore Sun)

* "I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in the boonies. Something would move, we'd fire first and ask questions later." (Vanity Fair)

* "I was shot at. I spent most of my time in the field." (The Washington Post)

I think someone needs to explain to the Democrats that having your picture taken is not what most veterans mean by "being shot at."

During World War II, then-congressman Lyndon Johnson went on a single flight – as an observer – for which he was awarded the Silver Star by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Only recently has it been exposed that the medal was a complete fraud, probably awarded by MacArthur to curry favor with a congressman.

At the time, no one in the press bothered to investigate why Johnson was the only member of the crew to receive any sort of decoration for the 13-minute flight that never came under enemy fire – and on which Johnson was merely an "observer." For the rest of his life Johnson got away with wearing what historian David Halberstam called "the least deserved and most proudly displayed Silver Star in military history."

Johnson told harrowing tales of his uneventful 13-minute flight, boasting that the men had called him "Raider Johnson." One time he harangued a congressman on foreign aid, saying: "I know foreign aid is unpopular, but I didn't want to go to the Pacific in '41 after Pearl Harbor, but I did. I didn't want to let those Japs shoot at me ... but I did."

The sole surviving member of the crew, Ret. Staff Sgt. Bob Marshall, U.S. Army, a gunner on the plane, disputed Johnson's story about being attacked by Japanese Zeros: "No way. No, that story was made up ... we had never seen a Zero. It was never attacked. There was nothing."

If only talk radio and cable TV had been around in the '60s, we'd be able to hear James Carville call Bob Marshall a liar and watch the Democratic National Committee threaten to sue any TV station that aired his story.

Kerry Panders to VFW

"While young John Kerry was the poster boy for Vietnam Veterans Against the War back in the 1970s, his band of VVAW buddies was busy bashing the VFW and the American Legion for promoting an agenda of 'world domination'," the Republican National Committee pointed out today.

And once again Kerry's foolish words come back to haunt him. Here's what he himself wrote about these genuine war heroes:

"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.' ... We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars." from Newsmax.com

I Hate George Bush Syllabus

American Liberalism: Joys of Being a Democrat /I Hate George W. Bush
POLI-SCI 401.1 (Seminar) 4 credit hours
Fall 2004

Professors:

Carville (emeritus), Soros (Jimmy Carter Scholar), Springsteen (Professors Aide)

Guest Lecturers:

Al Gore, Saddam Hussein, Howard Dean, Yasser Arafat, Jesse Jackson, Jaques Chirac, Richard BenVeniste, Osama Bin Laden.

Prerequisites*:

POLI-SCI 51 50 Ways to Hate Your Country

ENG-COMP 51 Ebonics

SOC-ANTH 51 Anywhere but Here

*Students who took MATH 331 Logic, PHIL 231 Logic or ENG-COMP 321 Critical Inquiry are barred from this course.

Abstract:

This course will spend the next 13 weeks discussing the numerous reasons why everyone in the world should hate George W. Bush. The reading deals with the complexities of hatred giving particular attention to aspects of George W. Bush's (1) whiteness (2) maleness (3) republicanism (4) southern drawl (5) anti-intellectualism/democraticism. There will be no exams or papers, only memorization of mantras.

Required reading:

The Three Little Pigs: Buy the White House (Dan Piraro)

Worse than Watergate: the Secret Presidency of George Bush (John Dean)

The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (David Corn)

Is Our Children Learning: The Case against George W. Bush (Paul Begala)

Big Bush Lies: the 20 most telling lies of George W. Bush (Jerry Barrett)

Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush (John Bonifaz)

The I Hate George Bush Reader: Why Dubya is Wrong About Absolutely Everything (Clint Willis)

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

Imperial Hubris (Anonymous)

Obliviously On He Sales: The Bush Administration in Rhyme (Calvin Trillin)

The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O’Neill

Bushwhacked: Life in George Bush’s America (Molly Ivins)

The Dirty Truth: the Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush (Rick Abraham).

The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush (Peter Singer)

Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy (Robert Kennedy Jr.)

Cruel and Unusual: Bush and Cheney’s New World Order (Mark Crispin Miller)

The Book on Bush: How George W. Bush is (Mis)leading America (Eric Alterman and Mark Green)

The Bush Hater’s Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency in the Past 100 years

Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them (Al Franken)

Dude, Where’s My Country (Michael Moore)

Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney/Bush Junta (Gore Vidal)

Why are We At War (Norman Mailer)

Against All Enemies: Inside America’ War on Terror (Richard Clarke)

Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America (Ariana Huffington)

The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Chrstopher Scheer, Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry)

Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Maureen Dowd)

Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and The Stifling of Democracy (Lewis Lapham)

Hegemony or Survival (Noam Chomsky)

Secondary Reading:

Big Lies (Joe Conason)

Had Enough: A Handbook for Fighting Back (James Carville and Jeff Nussbaum)

Casualty of War: the Bush Administration’s Assault on a Free Press (David Dadge)

The W Effect: Bush’s War on Women (Laura Flanders)

Bush Must Go: The Top Ten Reasons Why George Bush Doesn’t Deserve a Second Term (Bill Press)

Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and It’s Time to Take it Back (Jim Hightower.)

Ex-Pats Could Decide Election

This is an interesting analysis at Newsmax.com saying that expatriots could decide the 2004 election--just like they did in 2000.

When decision time comes this fall, the real swing votes in the 2004 presidential election might not come from Pennsylvania, Ohio or even the notorious Florida. The ultimate Bush-Kerry battleground could turn out to be somewhere more far-flung and unexpected: Israel, Britain, even Indonesia.

Both political camps say they are getting ready for the fight, courting American voters who are living overseas and taking no chances that the expatriate vote will undermine them at the finish line. Although an official census has never been taken, between 4 million and 10 million American citizens are believed to be living abroad. Those over 18 are entitled to have their absentee votes counted in the state where they last lived, no matter how long ago that was. And many are planning to do just that.

"There's enormous interest abroad, because the whole of the world depends on the result," said Phyllis Earl, 72, who lives in Britain and has not voted in a U.S. election since 1956, two years after she moved overseas.

Overseas voters are considered particularly important this year. Polls suggest razor-thin margins in several battleground states, and votes coming in from abroad - a score here, a dozen there - could well tip the balance.

Contrary to widespread belief, it was more likely American voters in Israel, not Florida, who put George W. Bush in the White House four years ago, a phenomenon that has Kerry's supporters in Israel vowing to do whatever it takes to make certain that doesn't happen again in November.

My First Day!

My first day at the SBA went off without a hitch (jinx!).

Maher Mucks Michelle Malkin

I just watched Real Time with Bill Maher and Michelle Malkin blew it.