Ding! Ding! Ding!

"In this corner, in the Blue Haystacks Calhoun trunks, weighing in at a hefty 347 pounds, the one, the only, the big, the bad, Hillary 'Monica Who' Clinton!"

"And in the black corner, in the white paisley trunks, weighing in at 160 pounds, the neat, the sweet, 'The Black with the Knack', the 'Hussein with the rain' Barack 'Hussy' Obama!"

"Ok fighters, when I tell you to break, break. When I tell you to go to your corner, do so immediately. Let's have a clean fight, and for GOD SAKES Hillary get that DONUT out of your mouth! Lets' GET IT ON!!!!"

That Right, Folks! Tonight is Patriot Porn, Round 2! The liberal, living constitution Dems go at it in a Man vs. She-Male from Hell Death Match! Hussy has but a scant breath left in his political life, and needs to score a knockout blow (sorry Monica, not you this time doing the ....) against the seasoned, well seasoned, no, very well-seasoned - some would say stank-infested, but I digress - Hillary Rodham-Roadhouse Clinton! It looks to be a great matchup tonight folks! Do Not Miss this!

It's Patriot Porn Thursday!

Yep, he said it.

In Denver Colorado, Bill Clinton, in a Stump Speech for his she-male hag wife, said:

 

"We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren." - Bill Clinton.

 

Uh, wha?

 

So that's the democratic plan, eh?

 

Not so difficult to predict -- the RNC just issued a statement in response to the former President's comment. 

"Senator Clinton’s campaign now says we must ‘slow down the economy’ to stop global warming," said Alex Conant, RNC Spokesman. "Clinton needs to come back to Earth. Her ‘tax-it, spend-it, regulate-it’ attitude would really bring the economy crashing down. No amount of special effects will hide Clinton’s liberal record."

 

Patriot Porn

Oh yeah, baby. Touch me there. It's Patriot Porn!

What a great republican debate last night. Mitt Romney took it to "I was on the front lines" McCain over and over. I especially admired the "facts are stubborn things" exchange Romney tossed into McCains' face about some of the things McCain 'quoted' Romney on, but in fact, misquoted/misinformed for political gain, especially just prior to the Florida Primary.


No doubt, there was blood in the water and it was McCain that was bleeding. Read this exchange. It's calssic McCain talking sideways, twisting the facts:

JANET HOOK, LOS ANGELES TIMES: Governor Romney, you've spent the last several days warning voters that John McCain as president would follow, quote, "a liberal, Democratic course." But, by most measures, doesn't he have a pretty mainstream conservative record?

ROMNEY: I'm sure on many issues he does, and he's a good Republican. I wouldn't question those credentials at all. But there are a number of pieces of legislation where his views are out of the mainstream, at least in my view, of conservative Republican thought.

So, for instance, he's opposed to drilling in ANWR, I believe. If I'm correct -- correct me, Senator. He voted twice against the Bush tax cuts. Only two Republicans did that.

He is a co-author of McCain-Feingold, which I think took a whack at the First Amendment and I do believe, as well, hurt our party pretty significantly. And I think it's made money have an even greater influence in politics today, not less influence.

He also was one of the co-authors of McCain-Kennedy, the first bill, by the way, not that bad. About 5 percent or 10 percent of the people, by our calculation, got a form of amnesty. Most people went home.

Under the final version of McCain-Kennedy, everybody who was here illegally, other than those who committed crimes, was eligible to receive a Z-visa. For $3,000, they got to stay here for the rest of their life. That's not a Republican thought.

And then now McCain-Lieberman, which is a unilateral -- meaning U.S.-only imposed -- cap-and-trade program, which puts a burden, as much as 50 cents a gallon, on gasoline in this country. It basically says Americans are going to pay for the cost of global warming, not the Chinese and Indians and forth.

So those views are outside the mainstream of Republican conservative thought. And I guess I'd also note that, if you get endorsed by the New York Times, you're probably not a conservative.

COOPER: Senator McCain?

MCCAIN: Let me note that I was endorsed by your two hometown newspapers who know you best, including the very conservative Boston Herald...

ROMNEY: I'd say the same thing.

MCCAIN: ... who know you well better than anybody. So I'll guarantee the Arizona Republic will be endorsing me, my friend.

Let me just say I'm proud of my conservative record. It's one of reaching across the aisle to get things done for Americans, obviously, whether it be McCain-Lieberman that established the 9/11 commission, and then the legislation that implemented that, or whether it be working across the aisle in the Armed Services Committee to provide the men and women with what they need to defend this nation.

And I'm proud of that record. And I heard Governor Romney describe his record. As I understand it, his record was that he raised taxes by $730 million. He called them "fees." I'm sure the people that had to pay it, whether they called them bananas, they still had to pay $730 million extra.

His job creation was the third worst in the country, as far as people of Massachusetts with a $245 million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system.

And while the rest of the country was losing 7 percent of the manufacturing jobs while he was governor, 14 percent of the manufacturing jobs left the state of Massachusetts.

So I am proud of my record, and I am proud of reaching across the aisle and getting things done. That's what the American people want us to do.

And the legislation and the activities I've done, particularly in this America's defense, particularly in the fact that I've been involved in every major national security challenge this nation has faced.

And, by the way, I think it would be hard for people like Jack Kemp, and Tom Ridge, former head of the Department of Homeland Security, and Phil Gramm, and all of the long list of conservatives that support me, both governors, conservative governors, and, in fact, your former lieutenant governor, who is spending a lot of time on the campaign trail with us.

But the point is that I'm proud of the people that have surrounded me and are supporting me. And whether they come from one part of the spectrum or the other, strong conservatives are ones who are supporting me, and I'm proud of their support. And I'll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep.

COOPER: Governor Romney?

ROMNEY: OK, I got a little work to do here. Let me help you with the facts here, Senator.

First of all, my lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, endorsed me, and is supporting me, and is working all over the state for me. My predecessor in office, Governor Swift, Governor Swift is supporting you.

ROMNEY: When you say that our state ranked number three in job creation, the study you're relying upon is a study that included her term in office. And during her term in office, 141,000 jobs were lost.

During my term in office, we added jobs. And from the lowest point we added 60,000 new jobs. So that study, unfortunately, included the wrong data.

With regards to fees, we raised fees $240 million. Not $730 million. Facts are stubborn things. We audited our fee increase, because, of course, we cared.

Now, why did we raise fees $240 million? We had a $3 billion budget shortfall, we decided we were not going to raise taxes, and we found that some fees hadn't been raised in as many as 20 years. These were not broad-based fees for things like getting your driver's license or your license plate for your car, but instead something like the cost of a sign on the interstate and how much it was going to cost to publish a McDonald's or a Burger King sign on the interstate. We went from, like, $200 a sign to $2,000 a sign to raise money for our state in a way that was consistent with the what the market had done over the ensuing years.

And let's see -- with regards to my health care plan, you know, a lot of people talk about health care. I'm the only one that got the job done.

I got health insurance for all our citizens. We had 460,000 people without insurance. We got 300 of them -- 300,000 of them signed up for insurance now. I'm proud of what we accomplished.

The bill that I submitted to the legislature didn't cost $1 more than what we were already spending. However, the legislature and now the new Democratic governor have added some bells and whistles, and they're willing to pay for them.

I wouldn't do that if I were governor. I would veto the items they put in place there, but they're entitled to make changes if they want to.

They're still running a balanced budget. I wouldn't have added the money they did. And by the way, no debt was left. I left a rainy day fund of over $2 billion.

Facts are stubborn things. I'm proud of my record.

FACT: The Boston Herald is not 'very conservative'. the Herald has gone the way of the Boston Globe and slipped into the pockets of Washington and liberalism. Any DOLT would know that if he read it on occasion, which McCain obviously has not.

Journalism isn't dead, but unbiased journalism died a horrible death.

"The Hi-jacking of the Republican Party"

"Hi, I'm Jon McCaine, and I approve this message."

"I believe in higher taxes for more government programs, programs that I can delve out to the illegal immigrants that are flooding across our unprotected borders. I know they are unprotected because I voted against border security 4 times.

"And I believe that every american has the right - no, the responsibility - to voice their opinion during election time. Yet, I still tried to push the McCain - Feingold bill across, which restricts free speech during election times.

"And I beleive America - Bring us your tired, huddled masses - has a place for all the criminaliens of the world. If you have committed a crime in your country, come here to America and we will be glad to offer you welfare and social security benefits that other, true americans have worked and sweated to create for you.

Vote for Me. I'm Jon McCaine. I'm a republican by name, a republican by party, but a democrat by action.

"I'm Jon McCaine and I approve this message."

There are three big domestic issues that will be decided by the 2008 election: socialized medicine, higher taxes, and global warming regulations. The Democrats are in favor of all three--and John McCain won't stop them.

On health care, McCain has attacked pharmaceutical companies as "bad guys" who are using corrupt political influence to profit at the expense of the little guy--campaign rhetoric borrowed straight from one of John Edwards's "two Americas" tirades. McCain uses this rhetoric to support the re-importation of prescription drugs from Canada. The drugs are cheaper in Canada, but that's because Canada has a system of socialized medicine that imposes price controls. So importing drugs from Canada is just an indirect way of importing socialist price controls.

But every student of economics knows that price controls tend to choke off the supply of new drugs. Why should pharmaceutical companies invest billions of dollars in research and testing over a period of decades, if the government is going to steal their profits by dictating arbitrary prices?

Apparently, John McCain doesn't understand free-market economics and won't stand up for the principle of economic freedom. So how is he supposed to stand up to the Democrats on any part of their socialized medicine agenda?

In addition to fighting the Democrats on socialized medicine, a Republican president would also have to fight in Congress for the extension of President Bush's tax cuts, which are set to begin expiring in 2009 and 2010. A failure to extend these tax cuts (or to make them permanent) would mean a massive de facto tax increase. Yet McCain was opposed to the Bush tax cuts when they were first passed.

But the biggest problem for Republicans with McCain's candidacy is his stance on global warming. McCain has been an active promoter of the global warming hysteria--for which he has been lauded by radical environmentalists--and he is a co-sponsor of a leftist scheme for energy rationing. The McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act would impose an arbitrary cap on America's main sources of energy production, to be enforced by a huge network of federal taxes and regulations.

The irony is that McCain won in South Carolina among voters whose top concern is the economy. Don't these voters realize what a whole new regime of energy taxes and regulations would do to the economy?

No matter what happens, there is likely to be a huge debate in the coming years over global warming--whether it's really happening, whether it's actually caused by human beings, and what to do about it. But if the Republicans nominate McCain, that political debate will be over, and Al Gore and the left will have won it--thanks to John McCain.

And speaking of political debate, McCain is against it. The most notorious piece of legislation McCain has co-sponsored with the left is McCain-Feingold, which has the evil distinction of being the nation's first direct attack on the freedom of political speech during an election campaign, precisely when such speech is most important.

For Republicans, there is one form of suicide worse than losing the 2008 presidential election--and that is winning it with a candidate who will put the pro-welfare-state, pro-regulation left in the driver's seat of American politics. Yet that is precisely what Republican primary voters are unwittingly supporting when they vote for McCain.

A liberal is...

A liberal is...
“A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.” —Frank Dane

“The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.” —William H. Davies

“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.” —Elias Boudinot

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” —Albert Einstein

“Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men.” —Dr. Samuel Johnson

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —H.L. Mencken
“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.” —Thomas Sowell

“Some Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are preaching economic doom and gloom, disappearing middle class, and failing health care industry. What’s their solution? The short answer is give them more control over our lives.” —Walter Williams

“It is strange that the qualities we are looking for in a sitting president—thoughtful, calm, and serious—are exactly the qualities that we penalize in those running for president.” —Rich Galen

And the BIG ONE:
“Every candidate who repeats the misleading nonsense that ‘47 million in America have no health care,’ ought to be challenged with hard truth. The number is grossly inflated by including millions who are here illegally and millions of others who have the means to pay for health care insurance but refuse to adjust their budget and lifestyle. And don’t expect any media type to question where in the Constitution Congress derives any authority to dispense health care.” —Janet LaRue

Ya gotta love election time

While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. "
Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you." "No problem, just let me in," says the man. "Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity." "Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the senator. "I'm sorry, but we have our rules."

And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him. Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne. Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises ...

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him. "Now it's time to visit heaven." So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns. "Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity."

The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell." So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above. The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder.

"I don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yest erday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"

The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning ... Today you voted."

I'd like to dedicate this song to all the Florida Voters

American Idiot

 

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well that's enough to argue.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information nation of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.

Only Hillary Can Reunite Republican Party

By Jack Kelly

In a small indication of poor judgment, Sen. John McCain's operatives provided a link on his campaign Web site to the New York Times editorial endorsing Sen. McCain in the New York primary Feb. 5.

The endorsement got more attention than it otherwise would because MSNBC's Brian Williams, one of the moderators of the GOP debate in Florida last Thursday, threw it in the face of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The editorial had consisted mostly of the editorial board explaining why they think Mr. Giuliani is an evil mean nasty rotten guy. Mr. Williams wanted to know: how does the mayor respond to such withering criticism from his home town paper?

Mr. Giuliani's eyes lit up like Babe Ruth's used to when he saw a hanging curve spinning in his wheelhouse. Rudy knew, as Brian Williams evidently did not, that for the vast majority of Republicans, to be endorsed by the New York Times is like being endorsed by Satan.

What is curious is that Sen. McCain would consider the endorsement of value to him in a GOP primary fight. The Arizonan has yet to win a plurality of Republican voters in any primary or caucus. (Independents put him over the top in New Hampshire and South Carolina.) In Florida, and in most of the primaries to come, only Republicans will be permitted to vote. Reminding suspicious conservatives that he's the favorite Republican of limousine liberals doesn't seem to me to be the best way for Sen. McCain to win them over.

Most observers thought that debate was won by former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but Mr. Romney handed back whatever advantage he might have won with some clumsiness of his own.

Mr. Romney received a modest bump in the polls immediately after the debate, but it dissipated when Florida's popular governor, Charlie Crist, and Sen. Mel Martinez, popular with Cuban-Americans, endorsed Sen. McCain. Both likely would have remained neutral were it not for the heavy handed tactics of Mr. Romney's operatives, said the American Spectator's "Prowler."

The Prowler reported Monday he'd been told by a consultant who's worked for both Gov. Crist and Sen. Martinez that: "It finally got to the point for the both of them that they just got fed up with the constant harassment. They weren't going to endorse Romney, and under the right circumstances, one or both of them might have chosen to sit the primary out, but the Romney people just made it intolerable."

Aggressive, obnoxious stupidity. None of the other candidates like Mitt Romney. This is an indication why.

Rudy Giuliani may not be a favorite of the New York Times, but former Sen. Fred Thompson, the first major dropout in the GOP race, has got to be very fond of him. Thanks to Rudy, Sen. Thompson can no longer be said to have run the worst campaign in modern history.

There was enormous excitement among conservatives last Spring when Fred hinted he might get into the race. But he frittered it away by dilly dallying about formally becoming a candidate, shaking up his campaign team several times, and then campaigning with all the energy of a snake on a hot rock.

But the woes of the Thompson campaign pale into insignificance compared to the shortcomings of the Giuliani campaign. Whether he throws in the towel formally or not, Rudy is finished after Florida. How he went from leading the national polls to also ran in six months will be studied for years by students of political science. It's the biggest misjudgment since Saddam Hussein figured Iran was a greater threat to him than George W. Bush.

Not all the moves in Florida have been tactically poor. Over the weekend, Sen. McCain accused Gov. Romney of favoring a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, like the Democratic candidates do. This wasn't quite a lie. Gov. Romney hedged about the surge in ways Sen. McCain did not. But the Straight Talk Express took a huge detour around the truth.

"It's so shamelessly unfair, it's the kind of thing you'd expect of Bill Clinton attacking Barack Obama," said Rich Lowry of National Review.

But Sen. McCain's low blow is, alas, good politics. It changed the conversation in Florida from economics, Gov. Romney's long suit, back to national defense.

Both Sen. McCain and Gov. Romney are too flawed to reunite and reinvigorate a dispirited Republican party. There is only one candidate who can do that. And she might lose to Barack Obama.

Copyright 2008, Journal Press Syndicate

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Christmas in Fallujah

I think Dave will appreciate this...

TOPEKA, Kan. - The son of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is peddling a board game titled "Don't Drop the Soap," a prison-themed game he created as part of a class project at the Rhode Island School of Design.

John Sebelius, 23, has the backing of his mother and father, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Sebelius. The governor's spokeswoman, Nicole Corcoran, said both parents "are very proud of their son John's creativity and talent."

John Sebelius is selling the game on his Internet site for $34.99, plus packaging, shipping and handling. The contact information on the Web site lists the address of the governor's mansion. Corcoran said the address will change when John Sebelius moves.

The game also goes on sale starting Jan. 31 at a shop called Hobbs in the college town of Lawrence.

"Fight your way through 6 different exciting locations in hopes of being granted parole," the site says. "Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss' lasagna in the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse's desk in the Infirmary."

The game includes five tokens representing a bag of cocaine, a handgun and three characters: wheelchair-using 'Wheelz," muscle-flexing "Anferny" and business suit-clad "Sal 'the Butcher.'"

Corcoran said John Sebelius sought legal advice to be sure he followed proper requirements, and he even took out a loan to pay for the production of his work.

"This game is intended for mature audiences — not children — and is simply intended for entertainment," Corcoran said.

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Fenway Park

Fenway Park, 1946


29-year-old John Kennedy campaigns for a congressional seat in the election of 1946. Seen here left to right are Ted Williams, Eddie Pellagrini, JFK and Hank Greenberg at Fenway Park, Boston.

Civics Quiz

Let's see how smart you really are about Civics.

 

1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

 

A. Karl Marx B. Adolph Hitler C. Joseph Stalin D. None of the above

 

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

 

A. Lenin B. Mussolini C. Idi Amin D. None of the Above

 

3) "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

 

A. Nikita Khrushev B. Jose f Goebbels C. Boris Yeltsin D. None of the above

 

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common ground."

 

A. Mao Tse Dung B. Hugo Chavez C. Kim Jong Il D. None of the above

 

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."

 

A. Karl Marx B. Lenin C. Molotov D. None of the above

 

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."

 

A. Pinochet B. Milosevic C. Saddam Hussein D. None of the above

 

 

Answers will be posted later. Good Luck!

 

 

Huh?

Hillary outlined her economic fairness doctrine: "There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets, but markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed. Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies."

 

Bwahahahahahaha!!!!! "Fairness....it requires the right government policies." Oh...My...God. If that is true and you believe that Hillary, then why not a flat tax? 

 

First, It's 'Capitalism' that gives all people a chance to succeed. It's 'open and free markets' that make capitalism work. And it's excess government that denies both.

 

Quiz: Who said this:

 

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

 

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

 

Do they not sound hauntingly similar? Well, the first quote was uttered by Karl Marx, famous Socialist/Communist, and the second quote was uttered by the Great American Class Warfarist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his "New Deal". Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev said of Roosevelt's "New Deal" paradigm shift, "We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."

 

That's is the Hillaryous Plan in a nutshell. Socialism in small doses, and a gradual shift to Communism.

Next day you wake up and find out you are not in America The Free and Home of the Brave; you are in the Peoples Socialist Republic of America, or P.S.R.A.

 

Hillary wants to be Queen of America, and Bill wants to be King.

 

Don't let that happen, AGAIN.

 

Fool me once, that's your fault. But fool me twice, now that's my fault. 

 

 

 

 

Tsk, tsk, Billary

Ever wonder how patriotic Billary Clinton is?

On Sept. 14, 2001, Hillary Clinton, New York's junior senator, visited Ground Zero. You might not have read it in the New York Times, but many of New York's finest, the police officers and firemen, refused to shake her hand.

On Oct. 20, 2002 she was literally booed off the stage at Paul McCartney's benefit Concert for New York. The boos were substantially edited out when the tape was sold to the public.

It would be common decency that a Senator from New York would attend the funerals of heroes who died on 9-11. There has been no such decency from Hillary. We can only find evidence that she attended one funeral -- the burial of Father Mychal Judge, which was a media-saturated event. The other two events she attended were televised memorial events at Yankee Stadium and at Ground Zero [neither of those events were funeral ceremonies]. According to journalist Betty Harpaz, Hillary fears being booed by mourners. In contrast, Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataka attended hundreds of funerals.

Billary, where's the love?

Who said it?

Here are several quotes. Without doing a google search, can anyone guess who said what? there is a quote from the four major candidates: Billary Clinton, Barack Obama, John "Democrat in Republicn Clothing" McCain, and Mitt Romney.

 

"“The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.”

 

“America's culture is also defined by the fact that we are a religious people. We recognize our God not only in our Declaration of Independence, but even in our currency. And we are also unique in that we recognize that the family is the fundamental building block of American society.”

 

     

 

“Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.”

 

"None of us wants to see any fraud or waste in government spending, ... But nowhere should we be more willing to give people the benefit of the doubt than with the brave men and women who served our country.”

 

Enjoy!

 

History Lesson

Our Social Security FactsJust in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it.
Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what's what . And it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are facts!!!
Our Social Security: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security Program (aka FICA = Federal Insurance Contributions Act). He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary.
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
4.) That the money the participants put into the Independent "Trust Fund" rather than into the General Operating Fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other government program, and,
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the federal government to "put away", you may be interested in the following:

Q: Which political party took Social Security from the Independent "Trust Fund" and put it into the General Fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically- controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which political party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which political party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the "tie-breaking" deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice Preside of the U.S.

Q: Which political party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants? AND OUR FAVORITE:
A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, they began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them even though they never paid a dime into it!

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! And the worst part about it, is that uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people see this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn't so. But it's worth a try.

AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!!!

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

Daily Dose of "Hillaryous"

Senator Hillary Clinton recently went to a primary school in Ithaca, New York, to talk about the world. After her talk she offers question time. One little boy puts up his hand, & the Senator asks him what his name is.
"Kenneth."
"And what is your question, Kenneth?" "
I have three questions:
1 ... Whatever happened to your medical health care plan?
2 ... Why would you run for President after your husband shamed the office?
3 ... Whatever happened to all those things you took when you left the White House?"

Just then the bell rings for recess. Hillary Clinton informs the kiddies that they will continue after recess. When they resume Hillary says "OK, where were we? Oh, that's right, question time. Who has a question?"
A different little boy puts his hand up. Hillary points him out & asks him what his name is. "Larry."
"And what is your question, Larry?"
"I have 5 questions:
1 ... Whatever happened to your medical health care plan?
2 ... Why would you run for President after your husband shamed the office?
3 ... Whatever happened to all those things you took when you left the white house?
4 ... Why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early?
5 ... What happened to Kenneth?"

Clinton vs. Obama - Slugfest 2008

This is great stuff - calssic democrat misinformation-mongering:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/print_clinton-obama_slugfest.html

 

Enjoy!

Oh My God

”If you go back and look at our history, we were most successful when we had that balance between an effective, vigorous government and a dynamic, appropriately regulated market, and we have systematically diminished the role and the responsibility of our government, and we have watched our market become imbalanced.“—Hillary Clinton [Hillary: That's called Marxism]

 

Dear Republicans: “Please do one-tenth as much research before casting a vote in a presidential election as you do before buying a new car.” —Ann Coulter [Well Said!]

 

“As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton’s personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.” —Matt Labash

 

 

"They tried to make me go to Rehab I said No, No, Nooo"

Winehouse Is Shown in Apparent Drug Use

 

By BEN SISARIO

Published: January 23, 2008

In a grainy video that circulated online Tuesday Amy Winehouse, 24,  appears to smoke crack and claims to have taken “about six Valium.” It was posted on the Web site for The Sun, a British tabloid (thesun.co.uk), and an accompanying article, inset, said the video was taken early Friday morning at Ms. Winehouse’s London home, and that the two-minute clip follows “a 19-minute binge in which she snorted powdered ecstasy and cocaine.” Her record label, Universal, said in a statement: “We are deeply disappointed and upset by these latest revelations and are doing everything we can to offer Amy our full support in dealing with her problems.” Contradictory reports circulated online on Tuesday about whether Ms. Winehouse had been taken to a rehab clinic. (She had a hit with “Rehab,” in which she sings about refusing treatment.) A spokeswoman for her label declined to comment on that issue.

 

Bad Thoughts for the Day

Think you know what Hillary and Obama are up to? Do you know what "change" they have in mind for our country?

Both Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to:

* Implement massive tax increases that punish hard-working American families in order to pay for new government bureaucracies, as well as REMOVE the bush Tax cuts - a double tax increase effectively.

* Give government instead of patients and doctors more power and control over health care - that's socialism; and,

* Retreat from the War on Terror and cut off funding for our men and women in uniform.

Islamo-facists want to KILL us not be our friends.

We cannot allow a return of the high taxes, big government, weakened national security style of governing that Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama embody.

This is not "opinion". These are stated campaign positions of both candidates.

Think before you vote. Become informed.

Chuck Knoblauch subpoenaed by House committee

Chuck Knoblauch subpoenaed by House committee

By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Sports Writer
January 22, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four-time All-Star Chuck Knoblauch was subpoenaed Tuesday by a congressional committee investigating steroids in baseball after he failed to respond to an invitation to give a deposition.

Knoblauch, who played for the Yankees, Twins and Royals, was asked to appear Thursday, the first of five depositions or transcribed interviews scheduled by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee prior to its Feb. 13 hearing.

Roger Clemens is scheduled to speak to committee staff Saturday, followed by Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte on Jan. 30. Brian McNamee, a former personal trainer for Clemens and Pettitte, is due in Jan. 31, with former New York Mets clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski to appear Feb. 1.

They all had until close of business Tuesday to respond to their invitations; Knoblauch's deadline was last Friday, because his deposition was scheduled first.

"The committee has taken this step because Mr. Knoblauch failed to respond to the invitation to participate voluntarily in a deposition or transcribed interview and the Feb. 13 hearing," committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said in a statement.

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It was not clear whether Knoblauch had retained a lawyer to represent him.

"I haven't talked to Chuck in a number of years," his last listed agent with the players' association, Randy Hendricks, wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. Hendricks represents Clemens and Pettitte.

In last month's Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, McNamee said he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone in 1998, 2000 and 2001, accusations the seven-time Cy Young Award winner has denied. McNamee also alleged Pettitte used HGH, and Pettitte acknowledged McNamee injected him twice while the pitcher was recovering from an injury.

McNamee also told Mitchell that he acquired HGH from Radomski for Knoblauch in 2001 and injected Knoblauch with HGH. Knoblauch also was among nine players accused of doping in a federal agent's affidavit citing former major league pitcher Jason Grimsley.

Knoblauch was an infielder who won the AL Rookie of the Year award with the Minnesota Twins in 1991 and played in the majors until 2002. His time with the Yankees overlapped McNamee's.

All the allegations are for conduct that occurred before September 2002, when players and owners jointly banned steroids.

McNamee has said he obtained performance-enhancing drugs from Radomski, who has pleaded guilty to distributing steroids and laundering money. Radomski's sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 8.

Lawyers for Clemens and McNamee have said their clients will appear.

"We've been talking. They're not issuing any subpoenas for Brian," said Richard Emery, one of McNamee's attorneys.

Also, lawyers for players and owners are trying to arrange a bargaining session for late next week to discuss recommendations in the Mitchell Report. Mitchell suggested that drug testing be more independent.

AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum in New York contributed to this report.

Hillaryous

Hillaryous

Gary Kasparov on Bobby Fischer

With the death of Bobby Fischer chess has lost one of its greatest figures. Fischer’s status as world champion and celebrity came from a charismatic and combative personality matched with unstoppable play. I recall thrilling over the games of his 1972 Reykjavik world championship match against Boris Spassky when I was nine years old. The American had his share of supporters in the USSR even then, and not only for his chess prowess. His outspokenness and individuality also earned him the quiet respect of many of my compatriots.

Fischer’s beautiful chess and his immortal games will stand forever as a central pillar in the history of our game. And the story of the Brooklynite iconoclast’s rise from prodigy to world champion has few peers for drama. Apart from a brief and peculiar reappearance in 1992, Bobby Fischer’s chess career ended in 1972. After conquering the chess Olympus he was unable to find a new target for his power and passion.

Fischer’s relentless energy exhausted everything it touched – the resources of the game itself, his opponents on and off the board, and, sadly, his own mind and body. While we can never entirely separate the deeds from the man, I would prefer to speak of his global achievements instead of his inner tragedies. It is with justice that he spent his final days in Iceland, the site of his greatest triumph. There he has always been loved and seen in the best possible way: as a chessplayer.

Garry Kasparov
Moscow – January 18, 2008

Source: Chessbase

Superbowl Sunday

I've been told that in order to not break tradition (and a WHOLE LOT of superstitious, irrational behavior as well), that the Super Bowl is being observed at a certain Dave and Christa's house. Given that, and that the game is on at 6 PM, it makes sense to turn it into a pot luck Super Bowl Party! E.T.A. 5'ish...

 

I'm bringing Chinese Wings, Curried Potatoes, and a HeinekenKeg. Sound Good?

 

Go Pats!

Somethings to Question

Just thought these were interesting


Can you cry under water?








How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?








Why do you have to "put your two cents in".. But it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?








Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?








Why does a round pizza come in a square box?








What disease did cured ham actually have?








How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?








Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?








If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?












Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?








Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?








Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.








Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?








Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?








If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?








Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?








If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?








Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!








If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?








If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?








If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?








Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?








Why did you just try singing the two songs above?








Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?








Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?








Do you ever wonder why you gave me your e-mail address in the first place?
















WHY DO WE SAY WE SWEAT LIKE PIGS WHEN PIGS DON'T EVEN HAVE SWEAT GLANDS?__________________________________________________

From the Porcelain Throne

“[Obama] was a part-time state senator for a few years, and then he came to the Senate and immediately started running for president. And that’s his prerogative. That’s his right. But I think it is important to compare and contrast our records.”—Hillary-ous, mad because Barack copied her strategy

 

“The candidates should never keep shouting the word change to three hundred million people with a TV remote in their hands.”—Argus Hamilton 

Oh God...

Unmitigated chutzpah: “The point of the surge was to quickly move the Iraqi government and Iraqi people. That is only now beginning to happen, and I believe in large measure because the Iraqi government, they watch us, they listen to us. I know very well that they follow everything that I say.”—Hillary Clinton

She ACTUALLY believes this...

No sense of irony: “This is the most exciting election we’ve had in such a long time because you have an African-American, an extraordinary man, a person of tremendous talents and abilities, running to become our president. You have a woman running to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling. I don’t think either of us want to inject race or gender in this campaign. We are running as individuals...”—Hillary Clinton
...then WHY BRING IT UP?

Alcohol

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffiene, sugar and fat. - Alex Levine

 

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Lady Nancy Astor

 

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

probable replying to Lady Astor's comment 'Sir, you're drunk!'

Winston Churchill

 

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

Johnny Carson

 

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

 

Pretty women make us buy beer. Ugly women make us drink beer.

Al Bundy

 

To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems!

Homer Simpson

 

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

 

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

 

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

 

I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see rape, sodomy, and drug addiction. I can get all that at home.

Roger Law

 

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

Mitch Hedberg

 

Alcohol is a very necessary article...It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existance if they were quit sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw

 

 

Stewie

Indian Child: Stewie, would you like to learn how to wrap a turban?
Stewie Griffin: Why don't you teach it to the Chinese girl? Or perhaps she can learn after her people invade your country.
Indian Child: Li, would your people really do this?
Stewie Griffin: Oh, try and stop them. And try and stop Pablo's people from using drug money to buy arms from Li's countrymen who will in turn sell them to Yuri's people so they can ethnically cleanse the rest of this nauseatingly diverse grab bag of genetic party favors you call a family. So now you understand, yes? You all hate each other.

----

Stewie Griffin: Forecast for tommorow: A few sprinkles of genius with A CHANCE OF DOOM!

----

Stewie Griffin: Oh, I know it hurts now, Brian, but look at the bright side - you have some new material for that novel you've been writing. [the pitch of his voice becomes increasingly higher] You know, the novel you've been working on? You know, the one you've been working on for three years? You know, the novel? Got something new to write about now, y'know. Maybe your main character gets into a relationship, then suffers a little heartbreak; something like what you've just been through? Draw from real-life experience? L-little heartbreak, y'know, work it into the story? Make those characters a little more three-dimensional? Make it a richer experience for the reader? Make those second hundred pages keep the reader guessing what's going to happen? Some twists and turns? Little epilogue? Everybody learns the hero's journey isn't always a happy one? [the pitch of his voice returns to normal] Ah, I look forward to reading it.

----

Peter Griffin: Boys, boys! We're gonna drink till she's hot.

----

Stewie Griffin: Listen you, I'll use these facilities when I'm DAMN WELL READY! Until then you shall continue to sanitize my crevasse and be DAMN GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY! Starting right... [He strains for a moment. Nothing happens.] Well, not now... BUT SOON!

----

Peter Griffin: Sorry, Meg. Daddy loves you, but Daddy also loves Star Trek, and in all fairness, Star Trek was here first.

----

Stewie Griffin: You know mother, life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get. Your life however is more like a box of... active hand-grenades!

 

:)

Sunday Football

The Deal:

 

Patriots - Chargers at 3 PM

Packers - Giants at 6:30 PM

 

The Question:

 

WHERE?

 

I'm thinking any place but my house for reasons stated earlier. It's going to be very cold out Sunday (in the teens), and I just can't put you women through going outside for a cig and all that...I know, compassionate am I....

 

:)

 

So, WHERE? Bob and Diane's, or Dave and Christa's?

From the Trenches

FAMILY

“Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever. He is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede—as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor—that these babies, fully outside their mothers’ wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact ‘persons.’ ‘Persons,’ of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment. In 2004, U.S. Senate-candidate Obama mischaracterized his opposition to this legislation. Now, as a presidential frontrunner, he should be held accountable for what he actually said and did about the Born Alive Infants Bill... State and federal versions of this bill became an issue earlier this decade because of ‘induced labor abortion.’ This is usually performed on a baby with Down’s Syndrome or another problem discovered on the cusp of viability. A doctor medicates the mother to cause premature labor. Babies surviving labor are left untreated to die.” —Terence Jeffrey 

 

BARBARIC

Hillary vs. Romney

Is family Important to you?

Clinton on Family Values
Words: Clinton believes that parental dedication and
community support improves children's' lives. She has
proposed giving every child a $5000 Savings Bond to go
toward higher education or the purchase of a home and
supports funding for after-school programs. "What will
it take to make sure no child in America is left
behind in the 21st century? It takes responsible
parents who put their own children first. It takes all
of us - teachers, workers, business owners, community
leaders, and people of faith. You know, I still
believe it takes a village."

Actions: Clinton is married with one child. The
Christian Coalition has given Clinton a rating of 0%
on family issues, the Family Research Council has
given him(?) a rating of 0%, and the Children's
Defense Fund has given him(?) a rating of 90%.

(Note the use of 'him' in this excerpt. Even this web
site is gender-confused about Hillaryous).

Romney on Family Values
Words: Romney is a strong supporter of "child
protection" (strict enforcement of obscenity laws and
harsh penalties for sexual predators) and feels that
strong families are one of the pillars of American
society. He also believes that "family values" can be
taught in schools without promoting religion. "America
cannot continue to lead the family of nations around
the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here
at home."

Actions: Romney has married once and all five of his
sons are actively involved in his campaign. He voted
FOR reducing the Marriage Tax (2001) and FOR
establishing a nationwide AMBER alert system for
missing kids (2003). The Christian Coalition has given
Romney a rating of 100% on family issues.

Now, you have Romney, a mormon, getting a 100% rating
from the CHRISTIAN COALITION vs. Hillary sporting an
impressive...0%. Nice!

And, where does that $5K come from Mr./Mrs. Clinton?
Does it magically appear in the budget as 'free'
money? The real question is how many votes will this
idea buy...

And, incase you fail to do the math:

Average stock market return: about 8%

Value of $5000 in 18 years at that rate: about $21,000

Babies born annually: > 4,000,000 (FOUR MILLION)

Total: about $84,000,000,000 annually, or in layman's
terms, that's EIGHTY-FOUR BILLION DOLLARS.

Nice.

For perspective, this is about 5.5 times NASA's
current budget and 2.3 times the current amount spent
on Food Stamps, which is to say a pretty big chunk of
change. Where's that money going to come from Mrs.
Clinton?

Here's an idea: We could set that money aside now, in
a sort of trust fund, so it grows with the economy.
Then we won't have to come up with a huge lump sum two
decades down the line.

Sadly, the pork-barrel crowd would just raid the trust
fund and spend the money on bridges to nowhere, etc.,
making us even worse off than if we didn't plan ahead
at all.

More:

Clinton said such an account program would help people
get back to the tradition of savings that she
remembers as a child, and has become harder to
accomplish in the face of rising college and housing
costs.

…

"I think it's a wonderful idea," said Rep. Stephanie
Tubbs Jones, an Ohio Democrat who attended the event
and has already endorsed Clinton. "Every child born in
the United States today owes $27,000 on the national
debt, why not let them come get $5,000 to grow until
their 18?"

Hill and Steph, it's a bummer about the little problem
we have with a national debt and all. It's a minor
detail, just a few trillion dollars, no biggie.

Personally, I say we need to eliminate that - hell,
just stop the yearly bleeding, for Pete's sake -
before we start doling out the federal largess.

--The Van Der Galiën Gazette

____________________________________________________________________________________
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Are You Ready for Some Football???

I'm feeling sorry for San Diego at this time. They've been beaten up and beaten up some more and they're already crying about the Patriots.
REAL MEN DON"T WHINE!!!
JUST SHUT-UP CHARGES!!!
TAKE YOUR LIGHTNING BOLT AND PUT IT WHERE THE SUN DON"T SHINE!!!

Weather outlook for Sunday...
Sunny and game time temp a balmy 19 degrees

waaaa! i don't like playing in the cold! it's not fair! the Patriots are cheating! waaaa...
i want my mommy......
she hawks soup...

Deval Patrick

He's a Baaaaaad Man!

 

Both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald have reported that Deval Patrick is trying to jump over the legislature to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. This is outrageous.

We need a movement to stop Deval. Signing this petition below is just a small, small start. Can you email this petition along to your friends and urge them to sign it as well? The louder we are, the more effective we will be.

Here is the link http://www.massgop.com/GetActive/Petition.aspx to sign the petition.

Clinton-Obama on Iraq: The silence is deafening

You gotta love it!

What is it?

It's a HillBilly!!!

Republican Debate

Nothing on the debate stage in this first-in-the-South primary state seemed to change the dynamics of the race for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday evening.

However, that is not to say we didn't learn things about the current state of play. Arizona Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney are focused on their New Hampshire rematch coming up in Michigan. Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee are in a battle for Southern champ in South Carolina. And Rudolph Giuliani sees McCain as a potential threat.

First and foremost, Thompson is apparently still running for president and almost looked like he wanted to win. The former Tennessee senator has said he is drawing a line in the sand in South Carolina and that was clearly on display during the debate.

Thompson, who delivered a strong performance, took on Huckabee, a fellow Southerner, by unloading a slew of memorized opposition research about the former Arkansas governor's record. "This is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and its future. On the one hand, you have the Reagan revolution. You have the Reagan coalition of limited government and strong national security."

"On the other hand, you have the direction that Gov. Huckabee would take us in. He would be a Christian leader, but he would also bring about liberal economic policies, liberal foreign policies. He believes we have an arrogant foreign policy and the tradition of, blame America first. He believes that Guantanamo should be closed down and those enemy combatants brought here to the United States to find their way into the court system eventually. He believes in taxpayer-funded programs for illegals, as he did in Arkansas," Thompson said. "That's not the model of the Reagan coalition. That's the model of the Democratic Party."

Huckabee used what has now become a frequent retort whenever he is attacked. "If you're not catching flak, you're not over the target. I'm catching the flak, I must be over the target," Huckabee quipped.

Although the debate took place in South Carolina, the fast approaching Jan. 15 Michigan primary was in the foreground at times. Romney sought to paint a rosier picture about the future of Michigan's economy than McCain, his chief rival in the Wolverine State.

"I know that there are some people who think, as Sen. McCain did, he said, you know, some jobs have left Michigan that are never coming back. I disagree," said the former Massachusetts governor.

McCain seized the opportunity to once again portray Romney as a "phony," much as he did using the words of the Concord Monitor in his New Hampshire television advertising.

"One of the reasons why I won in New Hampshire is because I went there and told them the truth. And sometimes you have to tell people things they don't want to hear, along with things that they do want to hear," said McCain. "There are jobs — let's have a little straight talk — there are some jobs that aren't coming back to Michigan. There are some jobs that won't come back here to South Carolina. But we're going to take care of them. That's our goal. That's our obligation," he added.

Giuliani continued to hammer home his strategy to overlook many of the early states in the nominating process and look ahead to the Florida primary on Jan. 29 and Super Duper Tuesday on Feb. 5.

"If we want to be a party that can run and win in states that Ronald Reagan won — New York, California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, states we haven't won in a long, long time, and states in which we don't even campaign any longer — we're going to have to take a really good look at what made up the Reagan coalition. It was a broad outreach, an inclusive one, not one that kept people away," the former New York mayor pleaded.

Giuliani also showed for the first time in a debate that he is keenly aware that he and McCain — who, by all accounts, think fondly of each other — are fighting for many of the same voters. So, he gently drew some distinctions.

"As mayor of New York, I was involved in foreign policy issues all the time and the difference between being an executive and being a legislator is you're not just one of 100. You have to actually make decisions and there are consequences to your decisions," he said in defending his foreign policy credentials.

Giuliani also took pains to remind viewers that he was supportive of the surge in Iraq on the very night President Bush announced the new policy one year ago. McCain quickly reminded viewers that he took the more unpopular stance — within Republican ranks at the time — of opposing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's strategy and calling for the new policy.

"My point is that I've been involved in every major national security challenge for the last 20 years and before that, I fought in some of them," McCain added.

A Speech

I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this.

It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government."

This idea -- that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power -- is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream--the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we're always "against," never "for" anything.

We are for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we have accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem. However, we are against those entrusted with this program when they practice deception regarding its fiscal shortcomings, when they charge that any criticism of the program means that we want to end payments....

We are for aiding our allies by sharing our material blessings with nations which share our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world.

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.... But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure....

Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? . . . Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Who has this dream too...

You're standing at on a train platform, nobody around. You see the train begin to approach from around a bend. Suddenly, there are hundreds of people behind you jockeying for position to get on the train, but you just can't break through. The begin to push and push and push as the train approaches closer and closer, pushing and pushing, you try to push back but you lose your footing, slip and fall onto the tracks as the train passes by...cutting you to ribbons.

 

Anyone?

 

I thought so.

 

Me Neither.

 

Dreams are for pussies.

Congress to Investigate Denials by Clemens

Congress to Investigate Denials by Clemens

 

By DUFF WILSON and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Published: January 10, 2008

The House committee looking into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball has postponed a hearing next week that was to feature Roger Clemens and his accuser so that the panel can begin its own investigation into Clemens’s adamant denial that he used such drugs.

George J. Mitchell issued a report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Rogers Clemens was named in the report.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the most powerful investigative panel in Congress, pushed the hearing to Feb. 13 from Jan. 16. At the same time, it announced plans to take sworn depositions before Feb. 13 from Clemens; his accuser and former personal trainer, Brian McNamee; the admitted steroids dealer Kirk Radomski; and two former Yankee teammates of Clemens — Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch — who have also been linked to drug use by McNamee.

The committee also plans to request — and, if necessary, subpoena — a tape of an interview that private investigators for Clemens’s lawyer conducted with McNamee, said a person in Congress familiar with the panel’s investigation. That interview, which lasted four hours, took place a day before George J. Mitchell issued his report on baseball’s “steroids era.”

That report cited about 90 current and former players by name, including Clemens, Pettitte and Knoblauch. Clemens is now loudly challenging the accuracy of the report, and the committee has decided to respond because it was essentially at its request that Commissioner Bud Selig assigned the report to Mitchell, a former Senator, in the first place.

The plan to depose witnesses sets in motion a potentially aggressive investigation by Congress in place of the quicker public hearing that was shaping up for next week, a hearing that would have pitted Clemens against McNamee in a news media glare, with Pettitte, Knoblauch and Radomski also in attendance.

The House Oversight Committee is the main investigative body in Congress and the only one with far-reaching deposition powers, J. Keith Ausbrook, Republican general counsel to the committee, said in a telephone interview. Lawyers for the committee will take the depositions, which were described by David Marin, the minority staff director for the committee, as “compulsory interviews under oath.”

The committee’s chairman, Henry A. Waxman, and the ranking minority member, Tom Davis, issued a statement in which they said postponing the hearing would provide “additional time to coordinate the committee’s investigation with the Justice Department’s ongoing efforts.”

In particular, they said they wanted the hearing to take place after Radomski — who was the key witness for the Mitchell report — is sentenced Feb. 8 on steroid-distribution charges. In addition, Davis, a Virginia Republican who chaired the committee’s widely publicized steroid hearings in 2005, said the delay would allow more time to work out immunity issues to assure that McNamee is willing to testify about Clemens on Feb. 13, rather than simply having Clemens issuing his denials. “You could have Clemens without the accuser, rushing into it like this,” Davis said in a telephone interview Wednesday. Davis also said the delay allowed for more attention to be focused next week on the broader aim of Mitchell’s report, which was not to name names but to focus on steps baseball should take to further crack down on drug use. As such, the panel still plans to hold its Jan. 15 hearing with Mitchell, Selig and Donald Fehr, the players union executive director.

One of McNamee’s lawyers said he welcomed the delay in the Jan. 16 hearing, as well as the decision by the panel to conduct its own investigation. “I think this is an act of respect for Senator Mitchell not to detract from the importance of him and Selig” appearing on Jan. 15, the lawyer, Richard D. Emery, said in a telephone interview. “It makes perfect sense,” he said of the delay in the Clemens-McNamee showdown. “Rather than a circus, it will be a more informative and probative exercise.”

Rusty Hardin, Clemens’s lawyer, did not object to the delay, but said Clemens would like to testify publicly under oath as soon as possible. “Our concern is making sure Roger is seen under oath in a public hearing,” Hardin said in a telephone interview. “That is what we want to see. Everything else will have to be worked out.”

Hardin said he did not want McNamee to hear the taped interview with his investigators before he gives his deposition to Congress. Hardin had previously cited a small part of that interview, in which McNamee is quoted as saying he was bullied by federal investigators into linking Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone.

McNamee’s lawyers have not disputed the notion that McNamee cited such pressure at one point in the interview with Hardin’s investigators, but maintain that it was an exaggeration and that McNamee was otherwise completely consistent with what he had told Mitchell.

What McNamee told investigators for both the Justice Department and Mitchell is that he injected Clemens at least 16 times with steroids or H.G.H. in 1998, 2000 and 2001. McNamee spoke under an agreement that he could be prosecuted by federal authorities only if he did not tell the truth. Clemens, the winner of seven Cy Young awards, has denied McNamee’s account in statements, a news conference, an interview on “60 Minutes” and in a lawsuit.

Meanwhile, Jeff Novitzky, the federal agent leading the Justice Department’s five-year-old investigation of steroids criminal activity, and Matthew A. Parrella, an assistant United States attorney from California, have scheduled a meeting Thursday in New York with McNamee and his other lawyer, Earl Ward. It will focus on activity that has occurred since the Mitchell report was released, notably Clemens’s denials, Ward said.

Novitzky and Parrella were accused in the Clemens lawsuit of pressuring McNamee to implicate Clemens. Both were already headed to New York for the sentencing Friday of the track star Marion Jones, who pleaded guilty Oct. 5 to lying to federal investigators about steroid use and a check-cashing scheme.

There is no indication that Novitzky and Parrella are now pursuing the Clemens-McNamee contradictions, and perhaps seeking a meeting with Clemens. The Department of Justice seems to be giving that job to Congress.

“Given that we have more time, it made sense to depose witnesses and gather more information,” Philip M. Schiliro, the Democratic chief of staff for the committee, said in a telephone interview. He added that he did not think witnesses would have to be subpoenaed to give depositions, or to testify.

If that is necessary, though, the chairman of the House Oversight committee is the only chairman in Congress authorized to issue subpoenas without a committee vote. Waxman’s predecessors as chairman issued more than 1,000 subpoenas to investigate the Clinton administration between 1997 and 2002. The committee has also investigated the response to Hurricane Katrina; the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; the private security firm Blackwater USA; the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, oil company profits; and, while under Republican leadership, the decision to remove life support from Terri Schiavo.

Before the hearing’s postponement was announced Wednesday, McNamee’s lawyers said they were starting to ask Congress to seek an order compelling him to testify, in effect, giving him immunity from prosecution for his testimony. The orders, commonly known as immunity orders, require a committee vote, a Department of Justice review and a ruling by the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Ausbrook said.

“We have to be sure Brian is not prosecuted for what he testifies about,” Emery said. “To cross our t’s and dot our i’s, we have to make sure we get the same deal from Congress.”

Hardin, Clemens’s lawyer, said, “I smile at the delicious irony of a man who chides us for not telling the truth but is asking for more immunity.”

Clemens said Monday that he would testify before the panel without immunity. Pettitte, who has admitted he used H.G.H., and Knoblauch have not yet responded publicly. It is quite possible that one or the other, or both, will be asked by the panel to help determine who is telling the truth — McNamee or Clemens.

Campaign Issues - Immigration

One of the “hot button” of the campaign so far, the focus here is on illegal immigration and how best to address it, including candidates’ positions on amnesty, border fences, and those who employ undocumented workers.

Biden on Immigration

Words: Biden feels it is impractical to deport 14 million illegal aliens. He supports a Border Patrol and a border fence, but primarily to curb drug traffic. He also supports “guest worker” visas, feels illegal immigrants should participate in Social Security (more…)

Clinton on Immigration

Words: Clinton advocates more patrolling of both the Mexican and Canadian borders. She feels that immigration reform should have family unification as one of its goals. “We ought to come up with a much better entry and exit system so that if we’re going to let people in for the work (more…)

Edwards on Immigration

Words: Edwards believes that undocumented workers deserve same rights as American workers. He feels we should pursue border security through technology and that employers of illegal aliens should be prosecuted. “We should reform the immigration system (more…)

Giuliani on Immigration

Words: Giuliani feels we need tamper-proof IDs and a database for tracking immigrants. He supports a “guest worker” program and feels that the children of illegals should be allowed to attend US schools. He advocates the deportation of illegal aliens who commit felonies (more…)

Huckabee on Immigration

Words: Huckabee opposes amnesty for immigrants and supports the construction of a border fence. He says that law-abiding and tax-paying illegal immigrants should be allowed to choose between deportation and a rigorous citizenship process, including a fine. (more…)

Kucinich on Immigration

Words: Kucinich believes that we should build relationships between nations, not walls. He considers the Bush administration’s plan “indentured servitude” and feels that there should be a clear road map to citizenship. He also advocates making Spanish a second national language. (more…)

McCain on Immigration

Words: McCain believes in giving illegal aliens a path to citizenship, arguing that 14 million illegal aliens is “de facto amnesty”. He advocates fines, waiting periods, and deportation depending on circumstances. He feels that comprehensive reform starts with border security (more…)

Obama on Immigration

Words: Obama feels there should be a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, but argues that it must be earned. He supports border patrols and a border fence as well as holding employers accountable for hiring undocumented workers. (more…)

Paul on Immigration

Words: Paul feels that the immigration problem is a result of the “welfare state”. He opposes amnesty but acknowledges that rounding up 12 million illegal aliens is impractical. He doesn’t believe that a fence along the Mexican border will make much difference. (more…)

Richardson on Immigration

Words: Richardson feels that a border fence is “a horrendous example of misguided policy”. He advocates increased border patrols and better technology. He believes “human services” should be available to illegal aliens and that there should be a path to citizenship (more…)

Romney on Immigration

Words: Romney supports a border fence and the stationing of National Guard troops along the border. He would penalize employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and enforce the laws against current illegal aliens. He also feels that federal funding should be reduced (more…)

Thompson on Immigration

Words: Thompson believes we should secure our borders and eliminate “sanctuary cities”. He opposes amnesty in any form and argues that we must eliminate welfare incentives for illegal aliens. “A sovereign nation loses that status if it cannot secure its own borders and we are going to do whatever is necessary to do so.” (more…)

Craziest White Man? (From Traveling Joe)

Pat's Game Saturday Night

Ok Smokers, where's the game gonna be watched at? I vote for NOT my house...everyone bring a snack?

8 PM start.

Rocket The Juiced-Up Reindeer

You know Barry, Canseco, and John Rocker the bruiser,
Dykstra, Palmiero, and Giambi the juicer,
But who could have guessed,
The one who deceived us the best,

Roger "The Rocket" Clemens,
Had a very long career,
Thanks to a workout program,
That a Navy seal would fear,

All of the fans and players,
Used to watch him fire the ball,
Wondering how this old man,
Still could even pitch at all,

Then one cold December day,
George Mitchell came to say,
Roger now the gig is up,
I need your pee right in this cup,

Then all the fans and players,
Said together now we see,
Steroids are how "The Rocket",
Will go down in history ...

Let's go Waterboarding!

For those of you who do not know what this treatment is:

 

Waterboarding

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Waterboarding is a form of torture (see classification as torture) that consists of immobilizing a person on his or her back, with the head inclined downward, and pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages.^[1] Through forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences the process of drowning in a controlled environment and is made to believe that death is imminent.^[2] In contrast to merely submerging the head face-forward, waterboarding almost immediately elicits the gag reflex.^[3] Although waterboarding can be performed in ways that leave no lasting physical damage, it carries the risks of extreme pain, damage to the lungs, brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, injuries (including broken bones) due to struggling against restraints, and even death.^[4] The psychological effects on victims of waterboarding can last for years after the procedure.^[5]

Waterboarding has been used in interrogations at least as early as the Spanish Inquisition.^[6] It has been used for interrogation purposes, to obtain information, coerce confessions, punish, and intimidate. Today it is considered to be torture by a wide range of authorities, including legal experts,^[4][7] politicians,^[8] war veterans,^[9][10] intelligence officials,^[11] military judges,^[12] and human rights organizations.^[13][14] Waterboarding gained recent attention and notoriety in the United States when the press reported that the CIA had used waterboarding in the interrogation of certain extrajudicial prisoners ^[15] and that the Justice Department had authorized this procedure.^[16] The new controversy surrounded the widely reported use of waterboarding by the United States government on alleged terrorists, and whether the practice was acceptable.

Let me get this right...

New Hampshire, the bastion of democracy, votes Hillary for the Democrats and McCain for ... The Democrats!

 

Too Funny.

 

Someone tell me again why McCain is a Republican...He wants to raise taxes, open the borders, etc., etc., all Democrat 'ideas' (more like nightmares). Next thing you know he'll be pushing a bill that wants to restrict free speech aginst elected officials during election time... oh wait... HE ALREADY DID THAT!

 

He might be a war hero but he is also a Washington Insider and THAT is the problem. New Blood, New Ideas.

 

Rudy or Mitt, please.

Late Night with Hillary-ous

Late night 2:00 am continued...

"Hillary says she has gotten hundreds of calls telling her to go out on the road and campaign for the next two years. And that's just from her husband, Bill." --Jay Leno "Hillary Clinton, senator from New York, announced she wants to be president. She would be our first female president ... if you don't count James Buchanan." --David Letterman "Senator Hillary Clinton is back from her fact-finding trip to Iraq. She had to cut the trip short because she had to address a growing threat here at home -- Barack Obama." --Jay Leno "Presidential experts say Hillary Clinton will soon form a presidential exploratory committee. Actually, that's not new. She's formed presidential exploratory committees before ... when trying to find her husband." --Jay Leno "Senator Hillary Clinton was asked about President Bush and she said, 'I'm not going to believe this president again.' Yeah, Hillary said, to be fair, I stopped believing presidents ten years ago. Apparently she had a bad experience." --Conan O'Brien "Big, big win for the Democrats. Senator Hillary Clinton's overwhelming victory has fueled speculation that she will run for president in 2008. In other words, there was some good news for Republicans." --Conan O'Brien "Hillary Clinton's making calls, hiring staff and getting ready to travel to Iowa to launch her campaign. She'll be on the road nonstop for the next two years. How is Bill going to manage stuck home all alone? He's going to be heartbroken." --Jay Leno "According to a new survey, Hillary Clinton's popularity rating is down to its lowest point in over a year. When Bill Clinton heard this, he said, 'If there's one thing Hillary can do, it's bring polls down.'" --Conan O'Brein "Former President Bill Clinton said that if his wife, Hillary, is elected president, he will do whatever she wants. You know Bill Clinton -- when he makes a vow to Hillary, you can take that to the bank." --Jay Leno "A New Jersey company has developed an inhaler they say increases sex drive in women. They say it stimulates the brain to make you want to have sex with your partner. It's an inhaler. You know what the means? One day on the campaign trail, Hillary may be able to claim she never inhaled either." --Jay Leno "Hillary Clinton said that her childhood dream was to be an Olympic athlete. But she was not athletic enough. She said she wanted to be an astronaut, but at the time they didn't take women. She said she wanted to go into medicine, but hospitals made her woozy. Should she be telling people this story? I mean she's basically saying she wants to be president because she can't do anything else." --Jay Leno "At the national portrait gallery in Washington, D.C. new portraits were unveiled of former President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. The Smithsonian said that the portraits of Bill and Hillary will not hang in the same room. Boy, talk about art reflecting life." --Jay Leno "I'm surprised they did a portrait of Hillary. I thought maybe an ice sculpture would have been more appropriate." --Jay Leno "Hillary Clinton said today that she didn't know her husband, Bill Clinton, was giving the Arabs advice on the port deal while she was ruling against it. Can you believe that? Hillary was clueless about a major political event. You know what that means. she could really be the next president of the United States." --Jay Leno "More problems for Hillary Clinton. The head of New York state's leading gay rights group describes Hillary Clinton as a disappointment on samesex marriage. Today, her husband bill described her as a disappointment on opposite sex marriage." --Jay Leno "Senator Hillary Clinton hired a former adviser to President Clinton. Apparently she's taking his advice because today she hit on three waitresses." --Conan O'Brien "Hillary Clinton speaking out on [the port deal]. She has mixed feelings about Dubai. On one hand, they hate Israel. On the other hand, they stone adulterers." --Jay Leno "Hillary Clinton said today she finds the administration's refusal to level with the American people troubling, but she also finds it somewhat nostalgic." --Jay Leno "Hillary Clinton blasted the vice president today for failing to disclose all the facts. She wants Dick Cheney to give exact details. You know like, "How do you shoot someone and make it look like an accident?" --Jay Leno "In a fiery speech this weekend, Hillary Clinton wondered why President Bush can't find the tallest man in Afghanistan. Probably for the same reason she couldn't find the fattest intern under the desk." --Jay Leno "Hillary Clinton said this week that she doesn't agree with either the people who say we should be in Iraq or her friends who say we should be out. Thanks for clearing that up. Think she’s running for president? Even John Kerry said, "Pick a position!" --Jay Leno "Did you hear what the Republicans have said about Hillary Clinton? They say she's too angry to be president. Hillary Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, too angry to be president. When she heard this, Hillary said, 'Oh yeah? I'll rip your throats out, you bastards.'" --David Letterman "In a speech this week, Hillary Clinton blasted the Bush White House as one of the worst in history. I tell you, this is the hardest Hillary's been on any president she wasn't married to." --Jay Leno

Fun Quiz

Think you agree with Hillary "Crocodile Tears" Rodham-Clinton, Ron "Not Dead Yet" Paul, or even Fred "Law and Order" Thompson? Take the quiz! It seems I am in line with Ron Paul(40%) and Rudy Guiliani(35%) ... I can live with that. Take it if you dare and post your results here. I didn't bother doing it for Democrats because they are fundamentally against the Constitution, lowering taxes, and limited government, so that is that... :)

 

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mobsters

I can't believe they are makeing such a big deal about a killer who has no shame or remorse.
What are we doing giveing him the spot light. Is what he has to say news no.
He killed so many people now there will be a movie and book deal and he will be rolling
in the doe. while the familys of those he killed are probable struggling.

this is crazy p.s no comments on my spelling I'm trying to contribute not just read
whats put on the blog.

WHATS UP

Just want to thank you for your replys to my rant.
thanks for your comments. I just sometimes got to let it out.
They say its good to let it out and not keep it bottle up or you'll explode.

Hope every one is haveing a great day.

Hall Voters May Look Rice's Way

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 6, 2008

All Jim Rice needed was 18 more home runs to reach 400 — a milestone that, to many, would have made him a surefire inductee into the Hall of Fame.

Or, he could have smiled a little more. Rice, the often-surly Boston Red Sox slugger who was feared by opposing pitchers and unfriendly to reporters, some of whom vote for the sport’s highest honor, has fallen short of induction for 13 years.

Now, with the rampant use of steroids unveiled as one source of the game’s home run inflation, Hall voters have a chance to re-examine Rice’s numbers in the context of his era and give him what could be his last, best chance at induction.

“I think if you’re the dominant player of your time, you should be in the Hall of Fame,” his former Red Sox teammate Rick Miller said. “And he was.”

A year after Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken were inducted on their first try, the 2008 ballot had no certain inductees. Last year reliever Rich Gossage and Rice were the top returning vote-getters with 71.2 percent and 63.5 percent; 75 percent is needed for induction.

Rickey Henderson becomes eligible next year — an obvious first-ballot inductee who could take votes from candidates lingering from previous years. So this could be Rice’s best chance before he is bounced from the ballot and thrown to the whims of the veterans committee.

“It seems like there’s been a groundswell of support for him, from what I’ve been reading,” said the Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy, a former teammate of Rice’s. “I’ve been hoping all along, because in my mind he always has been a Hall of Fame player.”

Rice was dominant from 1975, when he was the runner-up to his teammate Fred Lynn in the American League rookie of the year voting, until 1986, when he led the league in 12 offensive categories, including runs, home runs, runs batted in and slugging percentage. But his numbers fell precipitously after that, and his inability to stretch his career hurt him when his career numbers were compared with those who played during the recent statistical explosion.

Only 25 players hit more homers in baseball’s first century or so; in the 18 years since Rice retired, he has been knocked out of the top 50. He was 36th on the career R.B.I. list; now he is 54th. He was 48th on the career slugging percentage rankings when he retired; now he is 87th.

The Surge and the Democrats

THERE'S A TRUTH THE Democratic presidential candidates can't handle: the success of the "surge" in Iraq. The addition of American troops and the adoption of a new strategy of protecting the civilian population has now dramatically reduced the level of violence in Baghdad and pacified other parts of Iraq as well. But the Democratic candidates insist on pretending otherwise.

It isn't clear whether they were uninformed, out of touch, mistaken, politically fearful, or knowingly dishonest when they were asked to comment on the surge during an ABC television debate Saturday night in New Hampshire. In any case, their refusal to acknowledge success in Iraq marked a low point in the Democratic campaign.

The most disappointing answer came from Barack Obama, the frontrunner in the race and a candidate who touts himself as one who would end political polarization in Washington and forge bipartisan solutions. But he's not likely to produce any bipartisanship on Iraq.

Obama claimed the decision by Sunnis in Iraq to embrace American forces was a response to the Democratic capture of Congress in the 2006 election. Sunnis in Anbar province "started to see, after the Democrats were elected in 2006, you know what?" They saw the likelihood of a withdrawal of U.S. troops and feared they "would be left very vulnerable to the Shias," Obama said. So they joined the Americans.

This is a figment of Obama's imagination. There's no evidence for this explanation--quite the contrary. Even before the 2006 election, Sunnis had begun to turn against al Qaeda, their one-time ally in the insurgency, and its brutal tactics. Their rebellion against al Qaeda even has a name, the Sunni Awakening. Desperate for help against al Qaeda terrorists that they turned to Americans.

The Sunni rebellion has now spread to other provinces, particularly those with mixed Sunni-Shia populations. And political reconciliation between Sunnis and Shia is underway at the provincial level. Obama should have known this. Perhaps he did but was wary of veering from his anti-Iraq position. His bizarre take on the Sunnis remains exclusive to him.

Bill Richardson was worse than Obama. Calling Iraq "a massive failure," he made a string of inaccurate claims. He said there had been no reconciliation. Wrong. He said there had been no sharing of oil revenues. Wrong. He said the Iraq government had made no effort to train more security forces. Wrong. He said there was only a political solution in Iraq but not a military solution. The truth is, both are required.

John Edwards provided a whopper of his own. He said the withdrawal of British troops from southern Iraq caused "a significant reduction in violence." In fact, it was the British presence--not the withdrawal--for so many months that had pacified that region.

Hillary Clinton also refused to acknowledge any success in Iraq. She reaffirmed what she told General David Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq, last September during a Senate hearing. Then, she said she had to "suspend disbelief" to accept Petraeus's testimony that the surge was working.

Did she still feel that way about the surge? "That's right," Clinton told debate moderator Charles Gibson, the ABC News anchor. "Because, remember, the purpose behind the surge was to create the space and time for political reconciliation, for the Iraqi government to do what only it can do and trying to deal with the myriad of unresolved problems that confront it."

Absent Iraqi action, "it's time to bring our troops home and to bring them home as quickly and responsibly as possible," she said.

Clinton was at least partially correct. A goal of the surge was to create a political environment conducive to reconciliation and other positive steps by the Iraqi government. But that is "a" goal, not "the" goal as Clinton suggested. Another goal is to reduce the violence and secure Baghdad and protect the city's residents. That has been achieved. Still another is to defeat al Qaeda in Iraq. That is close to being achieved.

The Democratic candidates have now left themselves in the embarrassing position of denying reality. And they are at odds with many Democrats who've traveled to Iraq recently and concluded the surge is succeeding.

It's too much to expect for Democrats to abandon their antiwar position on Iraq. That would alienate the large antiwar bloc of voters in the Democratic party.

But there's another option--the honest alternative. They could have noted the surge is working, but that much more needs to be done in Iraq. And if the Iraqi government does what's required, that might call for a new policy.

But Iraqi leaders must move quickly, since Americans are still dying in Iraq. At the moment, however, there's no reason to expect serious political progress at the national level in Iraq. So the only policy that makes sense is to begin withdrawal of troops.

Sad to say, none of the Democratic candidates came close to saying anything like that.

Fred Barnes is executive

editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Pats

"We're 0-0," Belichick said. "We're right at the bottom with everybody else in the playoffs, so we're looking forward to trying to get ready to go for our first opponent and play well next Saturday night. So that's where we're at," Belichick said Friday at his news conference.

 

I'm Not Dead Yet!!

And it just gets more and more silly!!

Democracy and Hillary-ous

This blog seems to have died outside of the Red Sox season, so:

 

What do you know about Democracy and all it's forms?

 

If you think you know what a Democracy is, then you should read this and you'll probably become enlightened somewhat:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_government

 

The United States is considered a Constitutional Republic. Keep this article in mind when you vote and your candidate tries to force us into socialized healthcare and socialized education, both ideas proven to be bad and Anti-Constitutional. Hillary wants to make you send your child to Pre-K at age 3 because she does not think you, as a parent, are doing a good enough job.

 

The government and Hillary are trying to tell YOU that you cannot parent your children! And this from a woman whose husband was out getting nookie in the White House. Puhleeeeasssssee!

 

Your flames are welcome!

Is it any wonder I reject you first? Fame fame fame fame!

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - A judge on Friday sentenced disgraced political donor Norman Hsu (RE: Hillary Rodham-Clinton) to three years in state prison after rejecting the one-time Democratic rainmaker's bid to throw out a 16-year-old fraud conviction.

Hsu's lawyers had asked Superior Court Judge Stephen Hall to dismiss his 1992 no-contest plea, arguing his right to a speedy trial was violated because authorities weren't actively pursuing him during his years as a fugitive. They could easily have arrested Hsu, his lawyers argued, at one of the fundraisers he hosted in California for prominent local politicians.

Hsu also faces federal fraud charges in New York.

His troubles began dogging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other big-name Democrats last summer when news reports revealed he was a fugitive who fled the state before he was sentenced for the 1992 fraud conviction. He turned himself in on Aug. 31 — then fled again.

He was recaptured in September in Colorado after he tried to kill himself by overdosing on drugs aboard an eastbound Amtrak train. Hsu has since been held without bail in a Redwood City jail.

HELL

I'm just sitting at my desk another day in paradise.
the yelling the complainning everyday someone has to bitch about nothing.
I'm way back in the connor closed off with half walls one might think I am
out of the way from the rest of the office shit. but it just wafts over.
this is great I would love to get up and just scream shut the bleep up.
but that would be an unprofesional thing to do .
oh well if this is the best way to vent with out saying someting in the office you can't take back
thank you Mark for setting this up.
just another day in paradise

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Held hostage in Iowa

By Jonah Goldberg

I'm writing this just hours before Iowans head to the caucuses to pick their party's nominee. The day before the caucuses, Hillary Clinton proclaimed the “eyes of the world” were on Iowa. This is something of an overstatement, of course. Something tells me very few of the women around the village well in some shanty outside Lahore are, at this moment, debating whether Joe Biden will have enough drivers to get his people to the Martin Memorial Library, at 406 Packwaukee St., in New Hartford on caucus night. And the cafes in Saigon are hardly abuzz with the question of whether Mike Huckabee nailed his closing argument to the guests of the Council Bluffs Cracker Barrel.

Still, the Iowa caucuses are important, enormously, absurdly, outlandishly — scandalously! — important. And here's the thing: If we are going to drive a stake through the Iowa caucuses, now is the moment to do it. Regardless of Thursday's results, come Monday of next week some other twisted soul is going to start scouting Des Moines locations for his 2012 campaign office. And not long after that, a whole passel of politicians will find it in their interest to protect the Iowa caucuses in a craven attempt to win sympathy from the Hawkeye State political machine.

Don't get me wrong. I like Iowa. I've been there many times. I would argue that one of the three best steakhouses in the world is Rube's in humble Montour. Iowans are as nice as the land is flat. Given a choice between having the first-in-the-nation caucus thingamajig in Iowa every four years and having it in some other state, I think Iowa wins pretty handily.

But that's the thing. No state should have this much power every four years. (Sorry, that goes for New Hampshire, too.)

Before we get to that, let us also note for the record how stupid the process of “caucusing” is compared with this other ancient custom known as “voting." The system, particularly on the Democratic side, is a mix of Chinese fire drill, Politburo theatrics and Roman priestly ceremony. Caucusers get no secret ballot, but must instead vote with their feet. Democrats actually have to stand in a corner. The caucuses (cauci?), in the words of the Wall Street Journal's John Fund, “were designed as an insiders’ game to attract party activists, donors and political junkies and give them a disproportionate influence in the process. In other words, they are designed not to be overly democratic."

Defenders of Iowa's racket make it sound like theirs is a tradition hallowed by time consecrated, a custom straight from the bosom of the American heartland, like maypole dancing and barn raising. Poppycock. Iowa's first-in-the-nation boondoggle began in 1972, and according to Mark Stricherz, author of “Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party," has its roots in the New Left, not Norman Rockwell. The “participatory democracy” of the Port Huron Statement informs the arcane procedures that eschew “one man, one-vote” and discriminate against people who can't afford to spend two hours jibber-jabbering about whether Barack Obama's nationalized health-care plan is better than John Edwards’ nationalized health-care plan.

Iowans claim that they deserve to be kingmakers because they take the “process” so seriously, measuring the candidates, debating every issue, etc. Uh huh. Then why has turnout, at least until this year, hovered around 6 percent of registered voters? Is that a benchmark to which no other state could aspire?

More important, if Iowans are so deadly serious about the issues, why is ethanol the third rail of Iowa politics? It's hard to reconcile the idea that Iowans are exemplary custodians of civil virtue with the fact that they are rabid defenders of welfare checks for government moonshine.

This is not to say that Iowans don't take their role in the selection process seriously. But do you want to know why they take their responsibilities seriously? Because they've been given an important responsibility. Are we really to believe that if North Dakota were given the first-in-the-nation gig, it would fumble the ball? Are Montanans such mouth-breathing morons that they can't put on a caucus or primary?

Iowa's party and press hacks say they have the machinery and procedures in place to run things smoothly. Of course they say that; they're party hacks and they get rich and famous off that machinery and those procedures. My guess is that other hacks in other states would rise to the challenge — and incentives! — of such an opportunity.

That's why the first-in-the-nation primary elections should rotate. Pick some formula in which two different states get picked every four years. You could have rules accounting for geographic diversity — back-to-back events in North and South Carolina, for example, would be silly. But move it around so that the country isn't held hostage by the same left-wing and right-wing populists every four years.

But we'd better act now. Because by next week, the Iowans start taking hostages again.

- Jonah Goldberg

 

 

Big Dig finally complete

Boston’s Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project, better known as the Big Dig, is finally finished. This urban roadway project to relieve traffic congestion has long been a monument to the utter failure of government planning, and rightly so. It went five years over schedule and 469 percent over budget, coming in at $14.8 billion. During its tortuously long construction, the tunnel sprang more than 1,700 leaks. This, Ted Kennedy’s pet project, was also responsible for the death of a woman trapped under a massive ceiling panel that fell on her car. That led to the resignation of two Massachusetts Transit Authority chairmen and fraud indictments of six employees accused of supplying sub-standard materials. Had Massachusetts contracted this project out to a private group, the job would have been done right long ago, and the taxpayers would not have been cheated along the way.

And last...

Hillary Clinton recently enjoyed another “spontaneous” moment at one of her campaign stops in Iowa. At a rally in Donnellson, Clinton was asked if she was a Christian. After taking a moment to drone on about the important role faith has played in her life, Clinton was told that her former Sunday school teacher was in the audience. This was a complete coincidence, no doubt, despite the fact that her former teacher came all the way from Chicago just for this campaign event in Iowa and just happened to have a photo from Clinton’s 1959 confirmation class with her. So it’s settled: Hillary is a good Christian. Lord knows we can’t make this stuff up, folks. Well, if you’re a Clinton, maybe you can.

Even a POTATO could see through this (they have eyes, ya know).

Huh? Wha??

“An already perplexing Iowa race became even more impenetrable today as former Sen. John Edwards blasted Sen. Barack Obama for criticizing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s claim that Sen. Obama had criticized Sen. Edwards... The former North Carolina senator said that the Illinois senator’s criticism of the New York senator for claiming that the Illinois senator had criticized the North Carolina senator was ‘an attempt to confuse the voters.’ Mr. Edwards’ comments set off a new round of charges, countercharges, and counter-countercharges between the three Democratic rivals, with Sen. Obama lashing out at Sen. Clinton for supporting Mr. Edwards’ criticism of Sen. Obama’s criticism of Sen. Clinton.” —Andy Borowitz

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Hillary Clinton expects New Hampshire voters to believe her when she says she was a member of her husband’s ‘White House team’ who played an integral role in shaping policy during his eight years as President. Well, we’d like some proof, Mrs. Clinton. ‘I was a member of the White House team that was involved with trying to make a lot of changes... I think that people who are running for President should lay out for Americans their record, their experiences, their qualifications, their vision, their plan, and their understanding of how to make it all happen, and that’s what I’m doing,’ Clinton [said recently]... A candidate with White House experience who really believes that would let voters examine the records from the period during which she claims she was such a vital part of ‘the White House team.’ But Mrs. Clinton’s actions show that she does not believe what she says. Her husband is keeping secret many of those records—2,600 pages worth, a National Archives official told The New York Sun. The Clintons have claimed that the National Archives won’t release the records, but the Archives official in charge says Bill Clinton has not authorized their release. This is not a trivial issue. Among those records is Mrs. Clinton’s schedule, which would help show just how involved she really was in her husband’s administration. Because she has made her ‘experience’ her primary qualification for the presidency, the people deserve to see exactly what experience she really has. Which policies did she help shape? Which did she oppose? Did she serve as a de facto staff member or did her role primarily consist of whispering suggestions into her husband’s ear? That history is blackened out, and she is keeping it that way... Sen. Barack Obama is right when he says Mrs. Clinton is simultaneously laying claim to her husband’s successes as President while keeping the public in the dark about just how much credit she really deserves. That’s not going to work, Mrs. Clinton. Either prove you were truly a part of ‘the White House team’ or stop making the claim.” —New Hampshire Union Leader