Saturday, November 13, 2004

I Want Him!



Seems that this soldier is creating quite a buzz by making many women moist between the legs. Rumor has it that NY Post is receiving a deluge of love letters for this guy. One tidbit of information is that he truly is smokin'! He smokes three packs a day.

These are all rumors, but I'll keep you posted...

From Kentucky, Miller is the youngest of three boys, doesn't know what the fuss is all about and played any sport involving a "ball" in HS.

I play sports involving low hanging "balls"...but I digress.

God Speed to this Hero!

Love those Headlines!

Funny, I thought the world was going to end when Bush was re-elected. But it seems like great news is abound!

Stocks up!

Arafat dead!

North Korea wants to "talk"!

Peterson is guilty.

1000 terrorist dead in four days.

Keith Olbermann exposed for the idiot he is.

And that's just one week!

Much thanks to the person that pointed out my bad link to NoKo.

Friday, November 12, 2004

GUILTY!



I would not have voted that way--I just never saw any EVIDENCE! Did I miss something? Let me know in the comment section below.

Thursday, November 11, 2004

21st Century Baseball

From Sports Illustrated:
In the craziest play of October, Alex Rodriguez was called out for interference. New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman agreed the umpires were correct to overturn their original ruling.

"They got it completely right, 100 percent," Cashman said this week.

"But you would hate to have a game, or a series or even a season come down to a play where they miss it and instant replay could have helped. So as far as instant replay, I'm in favor of it."
NFL has it, what do you think of baseball having it?

Happy Veterans' Day!

I come from a military family. I want to thank the following for their service:

1. My Grandfather, Korean War and Vietnam (Dad's side)
2. My Grandfather, WWII, Korean War and Vietnam (Mother's side)
3. My Father, Gulf War and Somalia
4. My Cousin, Iraqi Freedom (returning for his second tour in two months)

God bless them for their service!

One more Dead Terrorist!

I hope Arafat receives the same treatment in death he gave to Jews in life.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Liberals: Kill Them All and Start Over

Wow, this is one of the more excellent opinion pieces I've read in a while. Marty Peretz talks, in communist terms, of the leftist elite's desire to rid themselves of the voters and start all over:
The American people have plumb busted the hearts of the country's liberal elites, and the sentiments evoked among these elites are not dolorous but actually quite nasty. So much so that they reminded me of a poem by the communist playwright Bertolt Brecht, sardonic and rare in its anti-communist sensibility. On June 17, 1953, workers in the Russian Zone of East Berlin had risen up against the regime, and one of its top apparatchiks distributed a leaflet,

Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts.


About which Brecht observed,

. . . Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And choose itself another?


It is surely what America's cultural top drawer would like to do themselves.
Read the rest of this powerful piece here.

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Rush's Right!



Click here for transcript, audio or video of his speech to the Heritage Foundation; he rocks the house!

Stop Specter's Stonewall

World Net Daily Reports that:

In two newspaper interviews before the election, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter promised to block pro-life and "extremist" judges appointed by President Bush, apparently contradicting claims he is making now amid fierce opposition to his becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A third paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, endorsed the pro-abortion senator largely because of his anticipated position on the panel.


Sen. Arlen Specter at town hall meeting (Photo: Williamsport Sun-Gazette)

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's editorial board published an endorsement Oct. 24, stating it prized Specter's independence.

"The best argument for his staying on is his seniority, which puts him in line to be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee," the paper said. "In that capacity, he would be in a position to block some of the ideologically extreme federal judges likely to be nominated by President Bush in a second term, some of them for the Supreme Court."

The editorial then stated: "Before the Post-Gazette editorial board, he promised that no extremists would be approved for the bench."

In an Oct. 17 story, the Bucks County Courier Times reported: "Specter said he does use his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee – a panel he will probably begin chairing next year if re-elected – to weed out judges who are extreme. He points to Robert Bork, a Ronald Reagan nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.

"I not only voted against Bork, I led the charge against him," Specter said.

The Courier Times said, "Specter's distaste for Bork has everything to do with the Midwestern Republican values he was exposed to growing up in Kansas."

In a phone call yesterday to Sean Hannity's radio talk show, Bork described Specter as "particularly deceptive," charging the senator "votes in a very liberal fashion until he gets close to an election. And then he begins to vote in a conservative fashion."

The Inquirer endorsed Specter saying, "Preserving the legality of abortion plays no small part in this decision."

"Sometime in the next four years, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee will very likely find himself in the pivotal role of scrutinizing at least one new Supreme Court nominee," the paper said. "Assuming that Republicans are in charge of the Senate, it would be better to have the chairman's seat filled by Specter, who says Roe v. Wade is 'inviolate' as the law of the land."

In Specter's book "Passion for Truth," points out Human Events Online, he explained why he resisted Bork's nomination, which eventually was rejected by the Senate.

"The Constitution has turned out to be much more dynamic than [Bork believes]: a living, growing document, responsive to the needs of the nation," wrote Specter. "Bork's narrow approach is dangerous for constitutional government."

Specter's Washington office did not respond by press time to WND's request for comment.

Recently re-elected to a fifth term with the crucial aid of President Bush, Specter is in line to become judiciary chairman in January when Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah steps down due to term-limit rules.

The current controversy began when the Associated Press quoted Specter saying last Wednesday, "When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe vs. Wade, I think that is unlikely. The president is well aware of what happened, when a number of his nominees were sent up, with the filibuster. ... And I would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning."

After an outburst of outrage from conservative groups, Specter issued a statement Thursday insisting he did not send a warning to Bush.

"I did not warn the president about anything and was very respectful of his constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges," Specter said.

"As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush's nominees in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor. I have never and would never apply any litmus test on the abortion issue and, as the record shows, I have voted to confirm Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice O'Connor, and Justice Kennedy and led the fight to confirm Justice Thomas."

A website named NotSpecter.com emerged last week to help rally the opposition, which includes prominent evangelical Christian groups such as Focus on the Family, Family Research Council and Concern Women for America.

The ABC News weblog The Note reports conservatives against Specter are telephoning Republican leadership offices, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and members of the judiciary committeeat a rate of about two to three per minute.

According to rules established by the majority party, the committee chairman will be chosen by a secret-ballot vote of the Republican members of the panel. The nod traditionally goes to the senior member, but the rules specify any member can be selected. The entire conference must then approve the committee's pick by another secret ballot, although rejection is rare.

Specter, who says he joined the GOP in his first election race in 1965 because it offered more support than the Democrats, has a lifetime rating of 43 out of 100 from the American Conservative Union. By comparison, his Pennsylvania Republican colleague Sen. Rick Santorum has a rating of 87.

But Santorum has come to Specter's defense, while seeking assurance he will abide by the president's wishes.

But in its Oct. 17 story, the Bucks County paper reported Specter, responding to charges he had veered "far to the right," said he has never abandoned his position as a "centrist."

Specter then explained how the substantial help he received from Bush and Santorum in the primary, which he won by just 1 percent, related to his stances on issues.

"I was appreciative of the help of the president and Sen. Santorum. No doubt their help was a key factor in my success," he said. "In key matters I have never deviated. People think because I had so much help from the president and Rick that I deviated and I haven't."

Monday, Santorum predicted the controversy would pass, calling it a result of "Arlen being Arlen," the Post-Gazette reported.

"I would say it was probably not the best time for him to have made those remarks," Santorum said. "But I think he quickly clarified those remarks."

Santorum said Specter "told the president directly that he would get his nominees."

Scan Sex



Drudge links to a CNN article about the new X-Ray software at Heathrow...where do I sign up to be a screener?

Evans and Ashcroft Resign

Who's in? I believe Guliani has Ashcroft's position, but who for Evans?

Monday, November 08, 2004

Howard Dean Seeks to Lead DNC



From Drudge we learn:
Former presidential candidate Howard Dean is considering a bid to become chairman of the national Democratic Party.

Steve Grossman, himself a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Dean had told him he was thinking about it.

Dean was traveling today in New York and unavailable for comment. His spokeswoman, Laura Gross, said ``it was far too early to be speculating on that.''

The 240 members of the Democratic National Convention will elect a new chair early next year. Several names are already being mentioned, including former Clinton aide Harold Ickes; Donna Brazile, who ran Al Gore's presidential campaign, and Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack.

Dean has been outspoken since the beginning of his presidential bid in saying that the Democratic Party must establish a separate and unique identity from Republicans.

The next chairman will replace Terry McAuliffe, whose term is ending.

Sunday, November 07, 2004

Republicanism's Big Tent



An excellent opinion piece in the WaPo:
A Coalition of Conviction
By Kate O'Beirne

Republicans were mocked when popular social liberals Rudy Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger were showcased to make their party's case on national security and economic opportunity at the national convention in New York. What Democrats saw on the podium were dissident Republican politicians with enlightened views on abortion and gay marriage who had been enlisted in order to deceive voters; what we were all actually looking at was the makings of a successful majority party.

The moderate Republicans who spoke at the convention are at home in their conservative, pro-life party and represent countless others who share their views on such issues as foreign policy, tax rates or tort reform. Political parties are coalitions, and elections are won when a self-confident party can remain faithful to its core principles while appealing to voters with different priorities. President Bush's success exemplifies that approach: He is unapologetically opposed to abortion but passes no judgment on those who disagree with him and encourages them to find common cause with him elsewhere. Last year, Sen. John Kerry was calling pro-lifers "the forces of intolerance."

The election was won because neither Bush nor his party pretended to be something they're not. George Bush was the Real Deal running against the Great Pretender.

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