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.

Fav'rite Things

Trivia: Who is this? What does he promise next year? Why am I excited about it?

Nude Men

Um, did NBC show this part of the opening ceremonies? I am NOT complaining about naked men....in fact, the fourth from the front is checking me out!

Best Olympic Commentator Comment

This is very paraphrased:

Romanians will win E30.000 or $40,000 for a gold medal. Over a million Romanians were denied exit of the country because the European Union requires at least $120 to leave, so a medal represents a dramatic change in lifestyle for any of the winners. Of course in the US a medal promises much more...especially if you're from Massachusetts.

V.O.I.P.

I just saw the commercial for AT&T's new VOIP service (voice over internet provider). Does anyone know information about laws listening in on conversation over the internet? If I use an IP phone service, does the government still need a wiretap to listen in on my phone call or is it open domain since it's over the internet?

My Truth

Pat at Kerry Haters points us to a great article by Mark Steyn at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Democrats Peddle Their Own Unique Truth

"My truth is that I am a gay American," announced Gov. James McGreevey to the people of New Jersey last Thursday.

That's such an exquisitely contemporary formulation: "my" truth. Once upon a time, there was only "the" truth. Now everyone gets his own -- or, as the governor put it, "One has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world." For Jim McGreevey, his truth is that he's a gay American; for others in the Garden State, the truth about McGreevey is that he's a corrupt sexual harasser who put his lover on the state payroll in a critical homeland security post, and whose I-am-what-I-am confessional is a tactical feint that distracts the media sob sisters from the fact that, as his final service to the Democratic Party, he's resigned in such a way as to deny the people an early vote on his successor.

Read the rest here.

And here's a great little poem by John Derbyshire at NRO posted on Boots & Sabers (Happy Birthday, Jed!):

Higgledy piggledy
James E. McGreevey
Resigning his office
Gave us a speech.

Spoke in the plural
Of “truths” and “realities.”
Someone should tell him
There’s just one of each.

And the Borowitz Report (satire) states that Governor McGreevey Proposes Tax Cuts for People Living Two Lives.

Maalox Moment

Polipundit has the MOST incredible breakdown/prediction of the RNC and events thereafter.

Olympic Commentary

Please, will somebody tell Katie Couric and Bob Costas to shut the hell up???

I am not sure either graduated from college (or high school) but if they did, I am sure it wasn't in Greek history, the Classics or the Arts.

They both suck; just print it in a banner at the bottom of the screen.

Party Captions

Republican: Man assists woman during category 4 hurricane in Florida.

Democrat: Republican youth attempts to rob elderly woman of bags and medicine during a storm created by the current administration to gain sympathy from Floridians for the 2004 elections.

George Bush Politicizes the Weather!

The timing of hurricains Bonnie and Charlie are awfully suspicious coming on the heals of Democratic National Convention. Isn't it obvious that the current administration is in collusion with Mother Nature to deflect attention away from Johns Kerry and Edwards?

And the fact that Florida is going to be affected the most proves the conspiracy because Jeb Bush will declare it a state of emergency and the administration can then send the state money in an effort to sway the voters in this swing state (which George W. Bush stole in the 2000 election).

In fact, this really proves that the CIA is in control of the weather because Porter Goss is from Florida as well.

[a little satire]

I Drink Three a Day!

I am adding the biggest, pimp-daddy-playa whiteboy in the Midwest, Wild Bill, to the daily required reading.

Quote for Michael Moore

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future." Hitler, 1935.

Thanks, Alpha Patriot and the Winnipeg Sun.

The Feel Better Plan

Jenny Backus, Democratic Strategist, just said on the Big Story with John Gibson (Fox News) that John Kerry has a specific plan to make Americans "feel better."

WOW! Throw out the Prozac because "Hope Is on the Way!"

All I Want for Christmas Is to Get Over Vietnam

Pat and Kitty over at Kerry Haters are doing an EXCEPTIONAL job in providing readers with facts and data regarding Kerry's string of lies regarding his Vietnam service. I come from a military family (three generations) and I celebrate anyone volunteering to serve this country. But John Kerry seems to think that a four month stint in Vietnam requires the American people to pay him back with the presidency.

If active duty means you can be president, then why isn't my dad president? Why do military people even need to interview for positions once they get out? Why not just walk into a business and say, 'hire me and don't ask any questions'?

The left will say that by Kerry volunteering to serve, that makes him demonstrably better than Bush because Bush only flew jets in the National Guard and might have been AWOL for three months helping someone get elected. If this were 1975, I would agree with that argument--but this is 2004, 35 years after Kerry's service in Vietnam. Following the Democrats' logic, my high school stint ten years ago at a Taco Bell fast-food restaurant as a burrito maker makes me more qualified to run Taco Bell, Inc. than someone with a Master's in Business and ten years experience in running a corporation. That makes no sense.

Remember, no Republican is so obsessed with Vietnam, not even John McCain. But for Democrats, everything is Vietnam: Gulf War to free Kuwait; Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and the War of Iraqi Liberation. Why is Vietnam always rearing its ugly head? Because the liberal wing of the Democratic party made a name for themselves during the Vietnam era and rode that wave of villification for the last 30 years.

The world is vastly different in 2004 and requires new ideas and bold thinking--something liberals lack. Liberals are still trying to get their political philosophies to work. They placed all their hopes in places like China, the Soviet Union, Communist Cuba and all have been disasters. Instead of going back to the drawing board, they just keep saying, "give us another shot."

In a post-9/11 world we cannot take that gamble and the liberals know it; they see the sun setting on their agenda because Vietnam is becoming more and more antiquated. This is why they will do anything to resurrect it. Every war is the "next Vietnam" even though no war will EVER be like Vietnam. It pains them to see that the United States learned its lesson, made the adjustments and got over it.

So when you hear all this talk about Vietnam and John Kerry, remember that Vietnam is Kerry's schtick just like Jim Crowe racism is Jesse Jackson's bread and butter. If it doesn't exist anymore you must recreate it or you will not get paid.

Julia Child Dies at 91

I WAS WRONG!

Gov. McGayMan is no one to be lauded. He utilized his homosexuality to mask his speech because he is corrupt and needed something to cover the scandal and to allow the Democrats, once again, to prevent people of New Jersey from selecting their representation.

I apologize! I reacted only to his speech.

Random Thoughts of Thomas Sowell

I don't even like campaign oratory that I agree with.

Alaska is much larger than France and Germany -- combined. Yet its population is less than one-tenth that of New York City. Keep that in mind the next time you hear some environmentalist hysteria about the danger of "spoiling" Alaska by drilling for oil in an area smaller than Dulles Airport.

Protesting the Protesters

In the tradition of Protest Warriors, Right March will be holding protests in NYC during the Republican National Convention to counter the unrational yet emotional communist/socialist rhetoric. Read more here.

AOL poll: Bush Wins in a Landslide

This is unlikely, but WND is reporting that an AOL straw poll shows Bush winning every state except New Hampshire and Connecticut. This poll, however, is unscientific.

Election 2000:

Funny, Funny Stuff!

What Do John Kerry and Amber Frey Have in Common?

BEFORE
AFTER

I do not know whether Scott Peterson murdered his wife. This is no slam dunk case for the prosecution and I am very suspect of their single-mindedness when it comes to Peterson.

With Amber Frey testifying, I noticed something very unfair: her makeover. The prosecution says that Scott Peterson's motive to kill his wife was to be with Amber. Call me a jerk but the defense needs to show the jury pictures of Amber Frey before her Queer Eye makeover.

The makeover is crucial because if the people saw the way she looked when we first saw her (not ugly, but way worse than she looks now) they would not believe that he would murder his wife to be with her.

What do you think?

Put Him in a Room with Bin Laden

My man!

From This Modern World, by way of the Kerry Spot, by way of Crush Kerry.

Bush's Great Ads!

I just love Laura Bush.

Comment Rules

With my site receiving more traffic and my similar run-ins with comment-bombs like my friends at Kitty Litter and Kerry Haters, I cribbing their rules with some changes. My comment policy is as follows:

1. Don't hijack the threads. Only post comments relating to the topic. If you want to start a discussion on something different, make a one or two sentence suggestion in the comments section and I will provide a post to discuss it.

2. Don't post more than two comments in a row. It's like opening a Christmas present to find a tacky sweater when I see "20 comments" only to find there's 19 comments by one person bloviating.

3. No abuse of the bloggers. Factually based abuse of political figures allowed provided it's on-topic.

4. Do not link to any posts that advocate violence or criminal activity or other actions we may deem undesirable. Anything reference material to the comment is welcome, but no advertising. Please use trackback if the option is available.

5. No player haters. If you can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen.

6. We reserve the right to change these rules at any time without notice.

UN, EU, BS

This article referenced by Instapundit in the Guardian underscores why our safety and humanity in general cannot be entrusted to Europeans or the anti-American-Semetic UN. Sudan massacres are not genocide, says EU. Glenn is right; they will never call it genocide because they would have to do something about it.

Perhaps if we were not still entangled in former Yugoslavia because the EU did not have enough troops or money (because all of their money goes to that wonderful universal death care), we might have the ability to deal with this situation more rapidly.

But then again, there's always Iran.

Alpha Patriot Humor

This was funny:

One sunny day in 2005, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Kerry."

The Marine replied, "Sir, Mr. Kerry is not President and doesn't reside here."

The old man said, "Okay," and walked away. The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Kerry."

The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Kerry is not President and doesn't reside here." The man thanked him and again walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying, "I would like to go in and meet with president Kerry."

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Kerry. I've told you already that Mr. Kerry is not the President and doesn't reside here. Don't you understand?"

The old man answered, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it."

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow."

-Alpha Patriot

Bush Campaign Is Listening

Mort Kondrake said he did not like the Bush's turning a corner ads and that the people WANT TO SEE GEORGE W. BUSH talk about his plans and agenda. Well, less than a week later:



If all his ads have him talking to people like this one, I believe they will be very effective.

Misleading Headline of the Day

Evan as a proud friend of Israel, I found this a little misleading: Jewish students attacked at Auschwitz. Outraged, I read further only to discover they were verbally assaulted. It still sucks, but I just thought the headline was misleading...it should have used the word "confrontation" or something.

Passionate

Wild Bill is putting the passion back in conservative, midwestern Okies. He's converting liberals one babe at a time ;-)

Ask and Ye Shall Receive

Tyler at Red Line Rants thought it'd be a great idea to go through F9/11 and add the missing FACTS to it...it's only the first 14 minutes, but it's a start:

9/11 Fixed

Guarded

The Real Manchurain Candidate

Find out why this picture is important to our future and safety here.

Let America Be America Again

John Kerry reveals that his secret strategy to get the US out of Iraq is to give the natives back their land so he can build a stronger coalition--not just with England, Italy, etc., but with the Souix, Cherokee and Seminoles.

The Carlyle-Fox Connection

August 06, 2004, 9:07 a.m.
Funny Business
What corporate exec would be stupid enough to endorse Kerry?

The Kerry campaign has just published a long list of “Business Executives Supporting Kerry-Edwards.”

How’s that again? For all of John Kerry’s tough talk about “Benedict Arnold CEOs,” higher taxes on “the rich,” and the need for more government regulation, one wouldn’t expect a lot of business executives to endorse him. Indeed, it would make about as much sense for a deer to endorse the National Rifle Association.

For some of the names on the list, the self-interest is clear. It’s no surprise to see Robert Rubin there — nominally an executive of Citigroup, but in reality Kerry’s Federal Reserve chairman-in-waiting. And no one should be shocked to see Harvey and Michael Weinstein on the list. They’re the co-chairs of Miramax Films, which distributed Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9-11.

And some number of names are sheer padding. Former Clinton economic advisor Laura D’Andrea Tyson may be the dean of the London School of Economics, but does that make her a “business executive”? And Lisa Caputo is listed mysteriously as only a “senior financial executive.” Turns out she’s Hillary Clinton’s former press secretary.

But the closer you look at the list of execs backing Kerry, the weirder it gets. For example, there are two names associated with the Carlyle Group. That’s right — the same Carlyle Group demonized by Michael Moore, Paul Krugman, and all the other leftist shock-pundits as the clearinghouse for corrupt self-dealing defense contracts in both Bush administrations. Be that as it may, William Kennard (Clinton’s FCC chief and Carlyle’s managing director), and Arthur Levitt, Jr. (Clinton’s SEC chief and a Carlyle “senior advisor”) are on Kerry’s list.

And here’s a shocker. Peter Chernin, president and COO of News Corp. and chairman and CEO of Fox Group is on the list. That’s right — the same News Corp. run by the evil Australian reactionary Rupert Murdoch, and the same Fox whose cable news channel stole the 2000 Florida election from Al Gore (according to Michael Moore).

What's in a Name?

Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry is her name??? And I get flack from my conservative friends for using my full name??? Give me a break!

Never-never Land

takes the Peter Pan left to task on their September 10th dreams...

I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad. And who would have thought that Vietnam would become the source for Democratic nostalgia, rather than the usual recrimination? Did anyone think the appointment of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, promises of $15 billion in grants to combat AIDS in Africa, and lectures to the politically powerful Arab world to cease the genocide of black Sudanese would earn George Bush slurs evoking the Taliban, the old Confederacy, and fascism? Have we become children who live in a world of bedtime stories, afraid to face the cruel truth around us?

Read the rest here.

Bush Bust

I am furious at Bush regarding his decision to allow international minders (read: meddlers) interfere with out sovereign elections. My personal belief is that he does not want a repeat of 2000, but my suggestion is to WIN BIG! If he WINS BIG! then we wont have any need for international minders.

The Log Cabin

USS Clueless, while still worthwhile, has been replaced on my blogroll by Boi from Troy. Having gone to college in the Southland and other unstated similarities, I enjoyed his site so much it gets to be in my top 20.

Sunday Seminar

This is my first Sunday Seminar where I will link to all the great columns, newsbits and posts from others in the blogosphere.

First, everyone should check out Kitty Litter, Red Line Rants and Kerry Haters on a daily basis. They provide tons of bloggy goodness, for example:

1. Kitty's entertainment coverage with write-ups of the new Manchurian Candidate. Even Al Franken got a cameo in this one!

2. Also check out her write up on Kerry Haters, Prophetic or Fantasy?

3. Pat's keen eye for detail offers great analysis in Kerry's Stories. I should say that I am learning a lot from Pat because I posted something I noticed about Kerry's campaign ad and a day later I saw Mort Kondrake make the same statement on the Beltway Boys. The grasshopper is learning, Master!

4. Then there's the phenom of Red Line Rants. Tyler posts so much information there's no one article that stands out. This site sometimes takes several visits a day to get through. Keep up the great work!

"Blow It Out Your A$$"

I bounced through the blogosphere from Econopundit to Poor & Stupid to the Borowitz Report. Borowitz reports that Teresa Heinz-Kerry told a girl scout to "Blow it out her ass." I don't know anything about Borowitz or his credibility, but it's true to form.

UPDATE: It's a joke...thanks, Stephan.

Fool Me Thrice

Now "Lie" in It

John Kerry made his bed--wrapped in sheets of ribbons, comforters of medals and dustskirts of lore--and he should "lie" in it. The media took his lead. If you notice in this piece about Bush putting his foot in his mouth, you'll notice that Kerry is always recognized as, "Decorated Vietnam Veteran," but never:

1. Former Mass. Prosecutor
2. Lt. Governor to Michael Dukakis
3. Senator for 20 years

So when I hear all this crap condemning other Vets for voicing their opinion...I rightly turn a deaf ear.

America's Best Christian

Betty Bowers, in a similar vain to Shirley Q. Liquor, is ridiculously funny. A drag queen pretending to be America's Best Christian maitains "Crack-whore Ministries," "BASH: Baptists Are Saving Homosexuals," and "BITCH: Bringing Integrity to Christian Homemakers."

She is especially funny to conservative Christians who are comfortable enough to poke fun at themselves and their politics.

Keyes Beats Ditka Hands-down

I really wanted Ditka to run against Barak Obama because I just wanted a challenger to have the popularity to beat a democrat--that is a poor reason. Alan Keyes, however, will school his fellow Harvard alum about what our nation faces. Keyes won every GOP primary debate in 2000 and not for wisecracks like Rev. Sharpton.

Alan Keyes will be on Hannity and Colmes Monday. The Keyes-Obama debates might go down as the most electrifying senate race debates in history.

How Ya Durrin'?

Shirley Q. Liquor is not for the faint hearted; SQL's blackface comedy is riotous but is often met with protest. Take a look at her site and watch some clips.

Freedom Fighters

Great photoshopping done at Digital Brownshirts. Thanks, Crush Kerry.

And then...

Supporting my expectations of the Kerry Doctrine, I saw Kerry's latest campaign ad where he says:

We need a stronger military, we need stronger alliances, AND THEN we can tell the terrorists...

Again with this after the fact mentaility...

Analysis of the Week

I've seen it mentioned on other blogs as a great post, but I just got around to reading it. XRLQ received a letter from the ACLU and he handily deconstructs all the liberal propaganda. For example (text of ACLU letter in italics):

The USA PATRIOT Act - passed hastily by a Congress afraid to appear “unpatriotic"….

See above re air quotes. No one actually accused anybody of being unpatriotic, but never mind that.

… not only expanded the government’s power to invade our privacy…

Who’s “we?” The Patriot Act didn’t give the government any new power to invade my privacy, only that of criminal and/or terrorist suspects. Does this mean the ACLU itself is run by criminal suspects who have lost privacy under the PATRIOT Act? I’ve often heard them referred to as the American Criminal Liberties Union, but it never occured to me that they might actually be a union of American criminals seeking more liberty. Then again, I’m also one of those silly Americans who think that no means yes, pissed means angry, and curse word means something other than a word that is cursed. So what do I know?

…imprison people without meaningful due process…

“Meaningful” means, of course, “meaning what the ACLU wants it to mean.” Imprisoning people without actual due process - as defined by the courts - would never fly anyway. See U.S. Const. Amends. V, XIV, which the ACLU played no role in enacting.

…search homes and offices without prior notice…

Translated: search offices without prior notices, which regulators have done for years. As to searching homes, see U.S. Const. Amend IV, which the ACLU played no role in enacting.

…and punish dissent…

How? By discouraging individuals from buying Linda Ronstadt’s Greatest Harangues, or by persauding Babies ‘R’ Us not to stock it in the first place?

…but also deliberately and dangerously undercuts the ability of judges to check and balance the potential abuses of these sweeping new powers.

Good God, you’d think the federal government were about to impose any checks and balances on judges. OK, so they did try that with the Marriage Protection Act, but that bill is mentioned nowhere in the letter.

Attorney General John Ashcroft introduced new rules that allow the FBI to spy on Americans in their house of worship, on the Internet, in bookstores and in libraries - without evidence that a crime might be committed.

Translation: Attorney General John Ashcroft introduced new rules that allow the FBI to pay attention to what people do in public and, worse still, to actually do something about it if evidence of a serious crime emerges.

Read more here. Thanks, Alphapatriot.

Great Post on Slate

The Right Rev. George W. Bush
Among the worshippers at the president's traveling revival show.
By Chris Suellentrop

...Even while Bush is in his teaching mode, the whole event has a Sunday-morning air. Bush says of Saddam, "He had used weapons of mass destruction. Remember that? He had used them on his own people." The crowd murmurs back, "That's right, that's right." When Bush mentions that John Kerry and John Edwards were two of only 12 senators—whom Wednesday he called "a small, out-of-the-mainstream minority"—to vote against the $87 billion for the war in Iraq, someone else yells out, "Shame on them!"

Bush almost gets weepy later, when he tells a story "that touched my heart," about seven Iraqi men who visited him in the Oval Office. The men's right hands were chopped off by order of Saddam Hussein, and they had X's burned into their foreheads. An American organization provided them with prostheses. "A guy took my Sharpie, wrapped his new fingers and wrote, 'God bless America,' in Arabic," Bush says, his voice choking up. "What a contrast," he says. In America, "We want to heal you, no matter who you are," his voice catching again.

So, are we going to abandon Iraq? Bush asks the crowd. "Are we going to be a country of our word?" he asks. "Or are we going to go timid and weary and afraid of the barbaric behavior of a few?" The crowd shouts back: "No!"

As the event winds down, Bush gets looser and funnier. He points to a member of the crowd, one of the hand-picked Ohioans intended to represent a particular Bush policy, and says that she can explain it better than he can. Then he turns to another audience member and says, "You didn't have to agree with her." When another of the Representative Americans tells Bush that she recently received her associate's degree, magna cum laude, Bush replies, "That's better than I did, I want you to know."

Bush says a CEO in the audience has an interesting idea to share. The man doesn't say anything. "Flex time," Bush says. "I'm glad you told me what my interesting idea was," the CEO says appreciatively. Bush replies, "I'm not a lawyer, but it looks like I'm leading the witness." "I appreciate that," the CEO says, and Bush shoots back, "You appreciate the fact that I'm not a lawyer?"...

Read the rest here. Thanks, Polipundit.

Only 32,000 New Jobs

Yes, this is a crappy number. The 10,000 new manufacturing jobs is a great number though...but alas, I was hoping for a surprise in the other direction.

Lib-speak

Washington Post's headline reads: McCain Defends Kerry Again.

In fact, we all know that McCain did no such thing; he simply came out against another 527 circumventing the campaign finance reform laws he sponsored.

But don't expect the Post to say that--simply, McCain defends Kerry.

Where were the "McCain Defends Bush" headlines when he spoke out against the tens of millions of dollars being spent by 527s comparing Bush to Hitler?

Where were they? They were titled something like "Bush 'tries' to deflect damaging attacks."

Support for John Kerry

Here is a roundup of quotes from all the foreign supporters of John Kerry provided in Reckless Disregard:

* Al-Jazeera praises Kerry as a "popular mainstream Democrat with liberal tendencies, [who] hs been widely seen as a good compromise candidate in a divided party."

* Iranianian Ayatollah Mehdi said the Iranian Mullahs "fear Bush." "They think that if Bush is re-elected, they'll be gone. That is why they want to see Kerry elected."
Senior Advisor to Hasni Mubarak said Egyptians "are certain that a Democratic administration will be more realistic."

* North Korea broadcasts Kerry's speeches on state television and radio hoping for a return to the soft-power politics of the Democrats.

* Patrick Forestier, French municipal office worker, said "He is very much admired in France." "It seems like he will be more sympathetic to Europe...And of course anyone who is opposed to Bush will be popular with us."

* Spanish President (and terrorist appeaser) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said "W are aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our alliance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry Administration."