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various FR links and stories and posters | 12-07-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 12/07/2003 3:44:56 PM PST by backhoe

The purpose of this post is to begin providing links, tools, and tactics which we can all use to educate the public, fellow citizens, and neighbors about Hillary Clinton.

It is a work in progress- I have provided a starting point, but want others to chime in with more links, stories, and information.

It is the product of conversations with a number of other members, from which several salient tactical points emerged:

1- keep it as contemporary as possible- the old Whitewater and similar items are stale and dead to the public.
2- keep it civil, please- within the board guidelines, or better. We are trying to convert the mushy middle, and stridency puts them off. Badly.
3- source or reference everything. Authenticity is critical to such an effort.

Here's where it started:


Links from this post:
Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 7 Dec 2003
Various big media television networks ^ | 7 Dec 2003 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
Follows:
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3923fdd07554.htm
Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention
Politics/Elections News Keywords: HILLARY'S RADICAL SUPPORTERS
Source: Albany Times Union Posted on 05/18/2000 07:27:28 PDT by 1Old Pro

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1032083/posts
Bagram G.I.: Troops Waited While Hillary Chowed Down
NewsMax.com ^ | 12/02/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022571/posts
..HILLARY & TERRORISM's plan to regain the White House..
J.R. NYQUIST Website ^ | 11/09/2003 | RICHARD ROBERTS

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003138/posts
PETER PAUL SUES BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON FOR FRAUD, CONSPIRACY, UNJUST ENRICHMENT
Judicial Watch ^ | Oct 16, 2003 | Press Office

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1008003/posts
Hillary Stonewalls AP's Questions on Peter Paul Lawsuit
NewsMax.com ^ | 10/25/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962304/posts
Hillary Clinton's Biggest Cover-ups

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926091/posts
Hilary – great cartoons

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/940060/posts
Hillary history
487 posted on 12/07/2003 12:06:47 PM EST by mathluv
 
HAL9000 has a great source; he works continually to keep it updated--
http://www.freerepublic.com/~hal9000/
 
 
THE DOWNSIDE LEGACY ARCHIVES
http://www.alamo-girl.com/
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003911/posts
Hillary Clinton 10-16-03 Senate Speech
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html ^ | 10-16-03 | HILLARY CLINTON

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/834207/posts
HLLLARY RODHAM, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee = Future Disasters
Posted on 02/01/2003 8:13 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE
 
Paul takes the fall?
Insight on the News, Oct 1, 2002, by Paul M. Rodriguez
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:TWF-4MeGNM0J:www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1571/37_18/92589574/p1/article.jhtml+Tonken,+clinton&hl=en&ie=UTF-8



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The EMP Threat

Georgia on my mind

Flush With Energy (Energy and Taxes in Denmark)

...$10-a-gallon gasoline because of high energy taxes...

Planned Parenthood's sex miseducation

The Shelter Storm ( Day Laborers )

 Glendale built a shelter across the street, and it sits unused. They congregate around the front entrance, causing havoc. And in Van Nuys, there are usually 100+ hombres lining the fenceline...
 
Death Drugs Cause Uproar in Oregon: Terminally Ill Denied Drugs for Life, But Can Opt for Suicide

 

 

Fear and Loathing - In The Democratic Party (Memos reveal Clinton campaign strategy against Obama)

 Barack Obama has twiced smeared John McCain and the Republican Party as racist and fearmongering — but perhaps that may be better explained as projection. The Atlantic plans to publish internal memos from the Hillary Clinton campaign in its September edition, and Politico reports that a campaign strategy of xenophobia didn’t come from the GOP. The Clinton campaign suggested painting Obama as un-American:
 

What Rielle Hunter Told Me ...regarding Edwards / Rielle and the Psycbics and Sirituals in Santa Barbara at The Deceiver:

http://deceiver.com

 SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD! [ 1, 2, 3 ]

America burning: racists say Obama must die

Barack Obama: The international president

Obama’s 3 AM Breakfast: Waffles


1,701 posted on 08/10/2008 1:50:45 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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War In Georgia: The Oil Angle

 
 
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No bias here:

CNN Anchor: Edwards 'Much Loved,' 'All About Integrity and Honesty'

More Than Just a Boneheaded Mistake [Obama-Rezko property deal]

RELEASE THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE! TRACKING OBAMA IN INDONESIA & KENYA

Obama’s Dual Citizenship Disaster: an Overview

McCain, Obama Respond to Scenario Out of First Level of Ghost Recon

Obama's first statement on what is, effectively, a Russian invasion of Georgia, paraphrased: "War is bad."

Obama's second statement on what is, effectively, a Russian invasion of Georgia, paraphrased: "Russian invasions are bad."

McCain's first statement on what is, effectively, a Russian invasion of Georgia, paraphrased: "Put those tanks in reverse, Putin."

Radical Islamist Leads Convention "Interfaith Service"

...Has anyone at the DNC even taken a minute to look into her background?

Are the Democrats and the American People About to be Mugged by a Con Artist?

Video: Why we need experience in the White House (Bobby Jindal defends McCain)

Just wait until Dalibama is the Commander-in-Chief and Iran, with a nuclear bomb at it's disposal, takes a group of American Christians hostage and demands unilateral withdrawal out of Iraq - so they can take it and the whole Middle East and declare it Muslim land under Sharia Law.

How will Obambi call it (the 3am call)?


1,702 posted on 08/10/2008 4:23:27 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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MCCAIN AND OBAMA on Russia and Georgia. Plus, a Tom Clancy angle. He just keeps getting it right, which kind of worries me . . .
 

The War in Georgia Is a War for the West [Georgian President]

 
Shale Oil To Be Developed, But Not Here

We've written about the fact that the United States has by far the largest known oil shale deposits in the world. In fact our Rocky Mountain oil shale is believed to amount to as much as two trillion barrels, far more than the entire world has consumed since oil was discovered in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. This chart, from the Institute for Energy Research, shows how our oil shale reserves dwarf the petroleum controlled by other countries:

ShaleOilChart32.jpg

Unfortunately, the Democrats have been able to place these vast reserves off-limits. Now, one country has announced plans to develop its shale oil resources, but it isn't the United States, it's Jordan:

Energy-poor Jordan said on Sunday it was in talks with Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell on an agreement to extract oil from the desert kingdom's 40-billion-tonne oil shale reserves.

"Negotiations with Shell to sign a deal to process oil shale in Jordan are nearing an end," said Maher Hjazin, head of the state-run Natural Resources Authority. "If our plans succeed, it would be one of the country's largest projects to help the Jordan become energy self-sufficient, with a possibility to export oil in the future." ...

JEA president Wael Saqqa said exploiting the 40-billion-tonne oil shale reserves in 26 areas of Jordan "would provide the kingdom with oil for the coming 700 years."

Under the leadership of the Democratic Party, the United States continues to be the only country in the world that is deliberately devastating its own economy by refusing to develop its energy resources.

UPDATE: A commenter at the Forum points out that I used the term "reserves" incorrectly. Oil in the ground is not counted toward "reserves" unless it is 1) evaluated as profitably recoverable under current economic conditions, and 2) accessible under current regulatory schemes. Our oil shale is "oil in the ground," since the Democrats have blocked it from development. This is a key point: you often hear liberals say that the United States only has 3% of the world's petroleum reserves, therefore it is hopeless to try to develop our own resources. That is, obviously, a non sequitur at best, but it is doubly deceptive given that the only reason our "reserves" are so low is that the Democrats have placed the vast majority of our oil resources off limits through regulation and legislation.

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TALKLEFT: "With each new detail, the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter saga continues to raise more questions than it answers."

MORE ON HOW THE PRESS EMBARRASSED ITSELF OVER JOHN EDWARDS:

We also have the obligatory column from Clark Hoyt admitting that the New York Times was wrong, but denying that their reticence to cover the Edward story was the result of liberal bias. Yes, who could imagine such a thing of the paper which ran a front-page, uncorroborated story of the Republican nominee’s alleged relationship with a lobbyist some nine years ago?

The Edwards mess is the most recent and visible, but hardly unique, example of the mainstream media’s hear no evil/see no evil approach to newsgathering. How many other stories has the MSM missed, denied or avoided? From Rathergate to Reverend Wright to the success of the surge, the pattern is the same: MSM stalls, shuffles its collective feet, and doggedly ignores information for as long as possible until they can no longer do so with a straight face. The fact that these stories without exception work to the detriment of Democrats is apparently a grand coincidence.

And the notion that they are upholding some “journalistic standard” is rendered absurd. Edwards’ story wasn’t important on Thursday, but it was on Friday because he confessed?

They keep trying to deliver their fifteen percent. Some earlier thoughts on this subject here.

A Perfect 10

This cartoon would be apt any time, but today it can stand as commentary on Barack Obama's backtracking after he realized that he had made a fool of himself by parroting Russia's line on the conflict in Georgia; click to enlarge:

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Posted by John at 1:19 PM | Permalink "Unsuited for any office, Unsafe at any speed. Hillary will cut his nuts off before Jesse gets a chance."
 

1,703 posted on 08/11/2008 3:51:14 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Drill Here, Drill Now- (Live Thread VII)

Wind Power Is Just a Lot of Hot Air

Cold War II?--Russia's invasion of Georgia -- and its menacing message to the United States.

It's amazing how quickly a society (ours) can forget recent history. Many in their 20’s and 30’s don't have an appreciation of what the Soviet Union was and the threat that it posed. The liberal spin that the USSR was never as big a threat as the conservatives made it out to be has been successfully propagated. History may be about to repeat itself.

Cheye Calvo Gets It (More on botched SWAT raid in Pr. George County)

Why do cops wear Masks while serving warrents?

Albuquerque to Santa Fe: $6 (NM-Richardson's Railroad Soaks Taxpayers)

Keep Big Brother out of my trash (Beware, Garbage Police)

Casualties: Bush's shameful record on AIDS in America (LEFT exposes their real agenda re: HIV/AIDS)

Throwing money at HIV has left many men at grave risk (solution: give gay lobby more money)

Dems Pitch "Crime for Coverage" Health Care Plan

 

Voters Should Pass A Minimal Civics Test

 

Rielle trashes Elizabeth Edwards: 'She does not give off good energy'

Edwards aide paid paramour to split

Woman who had affair with John Edwards has a wild past

Michelle Obama to Speak On Convention's First Night

 Wait a minute!

I thought that 'pledged delegates' were technically free to vote for whoever they chose - not legally or otherwise bound to the candidate claiming the pledge.
If I'm wrong, and each and every pledged democrat lackey is bound irreversibly to Obama, then so be it.

But,
If I'm right,
this announcement means that the DNC has admitted that it has anointed Obamasama as their savior - and no deviation from the party line will be tolerated.
There is no other explanation for calling on the wife of a candidate to be the opening speaker in a convention that is supposed to select the man or woman who will lead the party into a presidential election.

The Clintons must be stunned by, literally in awe of, the mastery their overlord has acquired with so little effort.

Welcome to Nannyfornia


1,704 posted on 08/11/2008 12:42:45 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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McCain condemnation upstages Bush

 Let's face it, Putin is betting on Obama being elected president and knows he will be able to walk all over him.

Statement by John McCain on the Crisis in Georgia

"Americans wishing to spend August vacationing with their families or watching the Olympics may wonder why their newspapers and television screens are filled with images of war in the small country of Georgia. Concerns about what occurs there might seem distant and unrelated to the many other interests America has around the world. And yet Russian aggression against Georgia is both a matter of urgent moral and strategic importance to the United States of America.

"Georgia is an ancient country, at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and one of the world's first nations to adopt Christianity as an official religion. After a brief period of independence following the Russian revolution, the Red Army forced Georgia to join the Soviet Union in 1922. As the Soviet Union crumbled at the end of the Cold War, Georgia regained its independence in 1991, but its early years were marked by instability, corruption, and economic crises.

"Following fraudulent parliamentary elections in 2003, a peaceful, democratic revolution took place, led by the U.S.-educated lawyer Mikheil Saakashvili. The Rose Revolution changed things dramatically and, following his election, President Saakashvili embarked on a series of wide-ranging and successful reforms. I've met with President Saakashvili many times, including during several trips to Georgia.

"What the people of Georgia have accomplished in terms of democratic governance, a Western orientation, and domestic reform is nothing short of remarkable. That makes Russia's recent actions against the Georgians all the more alarming. In the face of Russian aggression, the very existence of independent Georgia and the survival of its democratically-elected government are at stake.

"In recent days Moscow has sent its tanks and troops across the internationally recognized border into the Georgian region of South Ossetia. Statements by Moscow that it was merely aiding the Ossetians are belied by reports of Russian troops in the region of Abkhazia, repeated Russian bombing raids across Georgia, and reports of a de facto Russian naval blockade of the Georgian coast. Whatever tensions and hostilities might have existed between Georgians and Ossetians, they in no way justify Moscow's path of violent aggression. Russian actions, in clear violation of international law, have no place in 21st century Europe.

"The implications of Russian actions go beyond their threat to the territorial integrity and independence of a democratic Georgia. Russia is using violence against Georgia, in part, to intimidate other neighbors such as Ukraine for choosing to associate with the West and adhering to Western political and economic values. As such, the fate of Georgia should be of grave concern to Americans and all people who welcomed the end of a divided of Europe, and the independence of former Soviet republics. The international response to this crisis will determine how Russia manages its relationships with other neighbors. We have other important strategic interests at stake in Georgia, especially the continued flow of oil through the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which Russia attempted to bomb in recent days; the operation of a critical communication and trade route from Georgia through Azerbaijan and Central Asia; and the integrity and influence of NATO, whose members reaffirmed last April the territorial integrity, independence, and sovereignty of Georgia.

"Yesterday Georgia withdrew its troops from South Ossetia and offered a ceasefire. The Russians responded by bombing the civilian airport in Georgia's capital, Tblisi, and by stepping up its offensive in Abkhazia. This pattern of attack appears aimed not at restoring any status quo ante in South Ossetia, but rather at toppling the democratically elected government of Georgia. This should be unacceptable to all the democratic countries of the world, and should draw us together in universal condemnation of Russian aggression.

"Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin must understand the severe, long-term negative consequences that their government's actions will have for Russia's relationship with the U.S. and Europe. It is time we moved forward with a number of steps.

"The United States and our allies should continue efforts to bring a resolution before the UN Security Council condemning Russian aggression, noting the withdrawal of Georgian troops from South Ossetia, and calling for an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgian territory. We should move ahead with the resolution despite Russian veto threats, and submit Russia to the court of world public opinion.

"NATO's North Atlantic Council should convene in emergency session to demand a ceasefire and begin discussions on both the deployment of an international peacekeeping force to South Ossetia and the implications for NATO's future relationship with Russia, a Partnership for Peace nation. NATO's decision to withhold a Membership Action Plan for Georgia might have been viewed as a green light by Russia for its attacks on Georgia, and I urge the NATO allies to revisit the decision.

"The Secretary of State should begin high-level diplomacy, including visiting Europe, to establish a common Euro-Atlantic position aimed at ending the war and supporting the independence of Georgia. With the same aim, the U.S. should coordinate with our partners in Germany, France, and Britain, to seek an emergency meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers to discuss the current crisis. The visit of French President Sarkozy to Moscow this week is a welcome expression of transatlantic activism.

"Working with allied partners, the U.S. should immediately consult with the Ukrainian government and other concerned countries on steps to secure their continued independence. This is particularly important as a number of Russian Black Sea fleet vessels currently in Georgian territorial waters are stationed at Russia's base in the Ukrainian Crimea.

"The U.S. should work with Azerbaijan and Turkey, and other interested friends, to develop plans to strengthen the security of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.

"The U.S. should send immediate economic and humanitarian assistance to help mitigate the impact the invasion has had on the people of Georgia.

"Our united purpose should be to persuade the Russian government to cease its attacks, withdraw its troops, and enter into negotiations with Georgia. We must remind Russia's leaders that the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world require their respect for the values, stability and peace of that world. World history is often made in remote, obscure countries. It is being made in Georgia today. It is the responsibility of the leading nations of the world to ensure that history continues to be a record of humanity's progress toward respecting the values and security of free people.

"Thank you."

Georgia on our Conscience

Putin is taking our pulse with Georgia.

He's got our number.

Georgia 'overrun' by Russian troops as full-scale ground invasion begins

Where’s the Energy? Locked up, thanks to Speaker Pelosi.

 Seems like nanny 'save the planet' Peloser has some explaining to do, investing in Pickens Big Wind are we .... Sounds like a conflict of interest...

Bosom buddies: Nancy Pelosi and Big Wind

Wind power:
Requires massive amounts of land use for anchoring.
Requires massive amounts of additional power transfer lines, which again has to take up land space.
Requires massive amounts of steel which again, requires ground to be used to get not only the steel, but also the coal to smelt it.

What makes renewable special?

CO2 is plant food. You like to eat plants right? Animals like to eat plants. You like to eat animals I hope. By the way, do some research and look at how much CO2 increase there is in the atmosphere in gigatons carbon, then check out the amount of CO2 emitted by human beings since 1900 in gigatons carbon. Compare these two numbers and you will find something truly amazing. The increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is greater that the total amount of CO2 that man has created. CO2 is not bad until it reaches greater than 40000PPM at which time it starts to kill animals and humans.

Coal is typically mined in quite an ecologically nice way. They dig holes into the ground, and tunnel through the ground. Some places do strip mining, where the topsoil is moved from on top of the coal, and when mining is completed it is returned and a new natural habitat is planted and allowed to flourish at the expense of the mining company. This is opposed to windmills which once placed destroy the ecology of the area around them.

Nuclear power generation plants are new and improved significantly since the 1980’s. France is proof that nuclear power not only is safe, it is cost effective. Nuclear waste can be contained easily enough, once econuts get out of the way. France has no problems at all with reclaiming nuclear fuel and storing its waste product. The only reason the USA has problem is because of green freaks. New power generation plants are designed so that there is no chance of meltdown, as the nuclear fuel is pelletized and not in rod form. The pellets are designed so that the fuel cannot reach critical mass no matter what the circumstances are.

In closing, knowledge is power. Wind power in all circumstances, today is inferior. It is unreliable because the wind does not always blow, so it always requires some form of reliable back up. It costs more money, and that is less money to be used on things that are effective, wasting trillions of dollars on ineffective energy resources will cause our economy to slow or even go into recession or even depression, especially when you take into the account rolling blackouts and the exedus of companies that require cheap reliable energy in order to provide services and products to their customers. It is not even really an environmentally friendly enterprise, as it will cause areas equal to medium sized states to be blanketed with wind turbines.

 

T. Boone Pickens’ motives in energy plan questioned
 
 
 
 

Bill Richardson Self-Destructs on CNN

Obama Cover-up Revealed On Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Bill


1,705 posted on 08/11/2008 3:40:33 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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One Way To Get More Oil: Do Nothing

 In reality, American consumers would be better served if their government simply stopped trying to help. With a price tag of $84 billion, the bulk of the Gang's plan consists of new subsidies, tax credits and other federal handouts.
  Our Canadian sister site has been covering it live:

Civil war in Montreal once again [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

CONEY ISLAND MOB BEATS EX-MARINES RESCUING GIRL  "Those in the crowd were yelling, 'Hey, white boys, you're in the 'hood now!'

 Thirty on two, who were trying to protect a female who was being assaulted and who was asking for help.

Previously, it was 8-10 on 1, beating a father who was trying to protect his 12 year old daughter from being assaulted. Referenced story.

Before that, two pieces of pure human debris kidnap, rob, and murder a white female class president, and earlier a foreign student in Chapel Hill, NC: Current story

Again, 100+ gang members fight in a mall: Story here...

I know there are many, many more such stories such as these...

Sorry folks, but the die is cast. The pendulum has swung in the other direction, and young blacks feel it's time for the rest of us to pay for their lack of self-worth. For the most part, the black community have lost control of their youth, and this is the results. My black friends are as appalled as I am, embarrassed and uncomfortable.

Assisted Suicide Backers Mislead the Public: Not About Alleviating Suffering

 
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McCain's 'celebrity' taunts are bugging Obama

New McCain Ad : Fan Club

 
RASMUSSEN: 55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Campaign Cash. "The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 55% believe media bias is more of a problem than big campaign contributions. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagree and think that campaign cash is a bigger problem."
 

This Isn't An Extinction. It's Suicide.

Just think* - this week in boardrooms across the industry, media executives are meeting with media experts to hash out yet another strategy, and yet more innovations to address their falling fortunes, every last one of them invested in the unshakable belief that the internet is burying them because it's faster - as though the only difference between shit and sunshine is the speed at which they travel.

The Edwards mess is the most recent and visible, but hardly unique, example of the mainstream media’s hear no evil/see no evil approach to newsgathering. How many other stories has the MSM missed, denied or avoided? From Rathergate to Reverend Wright to the success of the surge, the pattern is the same: MSM stalls, shuffles its collective feet, and doggedly ignores information for as long as possible until they can no longer do so with a straight face. The fact that these stories without exception work to the detriment of Democrats is apparently a grand coincidence.

And the notion that they are upholding some “journalistic standard” is rendered absurd. Edwards’ story wasn’t important on Thursday, but it was on Friday because he confessed? No, the level of proof changed, but the story’s relevance did not. If it wasn’t worthy of investigation before the ABC interview then it was unworthy of mention afterwards. Their explanation for their editorial decision-making is no more credible than . . . well than Edwards himself.


Related - Howard Kurtz.

And Stephen Green agrees - "If you treat a Republican one way and a Democrat another and it isn’t liberal bias — then what is it? A Sulzberger family suicide pact?"

Posted by Kate at 11:02 AM | Comments (28)
 

Georgia: The First Shot in a New Cold War 

While America sleeps, or watches American Idol, the lights are slowly going out in Eastern Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. Our manufacturing capacity. that once mighty Arsenal of Democracy, has been sent overseas. Our financial markets are subject to Chinese whims. Our energy is in the hands of seventh century bedouins who wish us dead. Like the 1930’s, the scripts and obituaries are being written now for millions of dead Americans and a new demography more suited to the culture of Mexico than Main Street. Enjoy it while you can. One day you will be able to watch the American surrender ceremony on your 60-inch wide screen made-in-China HDTV just before your illegal alien lawn care guys who now number in the majority says hell with that and throw you out of your home.

Yep...

Georgia Escalates

StratforMap62.jpg
(Stratfor map via Powerline.)

President Bush delivered a brief, stern warning to Russia this afternoon, and told Moscow that its attacks in Georgia had "substantially damaged" its standing in the world and its relations with the West.

Speaking at a lectern on the stone steps leading to the Rose Garden from the colonnade outside the Cabinet Room, Bush said he was "deeply concerned" about attacks on the city of Gori and threats to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

Noting evidence that Russia may be preparing to bomb the capital's civilian airport, he said such a move would be a "dramatic and brutal" expansion of the conflict, which began over the disputed territory of South Ossetia.

(Transcript at the link.)

Meanwhile, the anti-war left take to the streets in the thousands to condemn the imperialist aggressors. Any moment now.

Much more at Gateway Pundit.

TigerHawk wonders where the true antiwar protesters are hiding are during this Russian siege on Georgia.

President Bush strongly condemned the disproportionate response of Russia.

Meanwhile... Pravda announced that Russia had defeated US, not the Georgian army in South Ossetia.

Georgia is transferring "all its troops" from South Ossetia towards Tbilisi amid fighting in the city of Gori, about 35 miles to the south-east of the capital -Telegraph.

(UT)
Powerline has a detailed map from Stratfor that shows the Russians are attacking Georgia bases well outside of South Ossetia.

Previously:
Fighting Breaks Out in South Ossetia-- Russia Battles Georgian Troops
RUSSIA BOMBS GEORGIAN CAPITAL TBILISI!
Surprise!... OBAMA FLIP-FLOPS On Russian War On Georgia
Russia Continues to Pound Georgia-- Target Oil Pipeline
Vlad Putin Blasts US For Assisting Georgia... Says "Real Victim" Is Russia

UPDATE: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Blog is posting updates on the situation.

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An unwarranted shot at McCain

CQ's "Political Insider" asks whether John McCain "plagiarized" his speech today on the crisis in Georgia. The better question is why CQ is peddling what appears to be a non-story.

The CQ post cites three instances of statements in McCain's speech that it thinks may be problematic in light of a Wikipedia article about Georgia. In two instances, McCain did use language similar to that which appears in Wikipedia. But the two instances are merely statements (1) that Georgia was one of the first countries to adopt Christianity as its official religion and (2) that Georgia had a brief period of independence after the Russian revolution that ended when Soviet troops invaded, and that Georgia didn't regain its independence until 1991 at which time the country experienced some instability. In the third instance, which deals with basic facts about the Rose revolution, McCain's language does not track Wikipedia's.

CQ's suggestion of wrongdoing by McCain strikes me as ridiculous. The information that the McCain campaign apparently obtained from Wikipedia is simple factual background material. Would it be improper for a candidate to say, based on research in an encyclopedia, that "XXXXX is a land of approximately __ million people and has been at peace with its neighbors since the YYYY war of 18__? That's essentially all McCain was doing here. The idea that he should have cited Wikipedia as his source for basic factual information about Georgia is absurd. In almost 50 years of listening to political candidates, I've never heard one cite a source for this sort of background information.

CQ's Taegan Goddard wonders "whether a presidential candidate should base policy speeches on material from Wikipedia." But McCain was not basing any policy prescription on the (apparently accurate) background information contained in Wikipedia -- e.g., the fact that Georgia adopted Christianity early on or that it gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Rather it is clear from the face of the speech that McCain has first hand knowledge of the current situation in Georgia, having met, he says, with President Saakashvili "many times, including during several trips to Georgia." CQ elects to omit this fact.

This story, then, looks like much ado about nothing, and I'm surprised that CQ decided to run it.

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Posted by Paul at 4:17 PM | Permalink  "Ah! The latest meme from the Left: McCain plagiarized Wikipedia for his speech on Georgia!
Don’t the Leftards just kill you?
One day, they deride McCain for being “computer illiterate,” then the next day they accuse him of lifting his speeches from Wiki!
Unbelievable."
 
 
Provocateurism, 6

Longtime readers of this site have frequently encountered arguments in which I fasten to a form of soft, progressivist totalitarianism “PC” speech (which, we are often told with a wave of the hand and a gourmands’ sniff, is, like, so ’90s — and thus, supposedly antiquated as a legitimate point of ideological friction, current fashion circumscribing the only authentic topics for political complaint, with that fashion decided upon, in a serendipity of coincidence!, by the very same hand wavers who, as is their mission, strive to define the parameters of “relevant” discourse).

The enforcement of PC speech — be it by social pressure, or, when it is relabeled “hate speech,” either legally or through disciplinary functionaries of various stripes, from HR officers to campus thought police — is, as I’ve long insisted, an attempt by those who use it (be they left or right) to shut off entire arenas of expression, with the end game being to close off debate on a number of important policy questions. By making it difficult to discuss, for instance, both the viability and rectitude of a government-sanctioned race-based affirmative action policy, the effect of conflating “anti-affirmative action” with “anti-black” — which is subsequently identified as a form of hate speech — is a calculated ploy to frustrate attempts to discuss policy by forcibly eliminating competing viewpoints, and, in many cases, to eliminate attempts to revive that same political debate by all but criminalizing particular policy positions, with heretics of the left-liberal social orthodoxy shuttled off to sensitivity training seminars, or sequestered into “free speech zones” outside of which their policy ideas are verboten and subject to university review and censure.

This procedure is a form of intellectual fascism: there is an accepted orthodoxy, and those who refuse to align themselves under its aegis are enemies of the established rule and should be either punished or marginalized. They are, not to put too fine a point on it, controlled by a form of social (and in some cases, legal) bullying that creates a climate of fear and, to a degree, intellectual terrorism.

In Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg, having traversed the “diversity” canard as it is currently deployed, sums this up in a way protein wisdom regulars will find quite familiar:

Because liberals have what Thomas Sowell calls an “unconstrained vision,” they assume that everyone sees things through the same categorical prism. So once again, as with the left’s invention of social Darwinism, liberals assume their ideological opposites take the “bad” view to their good. If liberals assume blacks — or women, or gays — are inherently good, conservatives must think these same groups are inherently bad.

This is not to say there are no racist conservatives. But at the philosophical level, liberalism is battling a straw man. This is why liberals [and do note that by "liberals," Goldberg refers to those who have adopted that nomenclature, even though they are born of a set of political ideals that just decades ago excoriated "liberalism" as the bailiwick of the impotent bourgeois still enslaved by the chains of Enlightenment thinking] must constantly assert that conservatives use code words — because there’s nothing obviously racist about conservatism per se. Indeed, the constant manipulation of the language to keep conservatives — and other non-liberals — on the defensive is a necessary tactic for liberal politics. The Washington, D.C., bureucrat who was fired for using the word “niggardly” correctly in a sentence is a case in point. The ground must be constantly shifted to maintain a climate of grievance [see, for instance, my discussion of this as it pertains to establishment feminism here - ed]. Fascists famously tried to rule by terror. Political correctness isn’t literally terroristic, but it does govern through fear. No serious person can deny that the grievance politics of the American left keeps decent people in a constant state of fright — they are afraid to say the wrong word, utter the wrong thought, offend the wrong constituency.

If we maintain our understanding of political conservatism as the heir of classical liberal individualism, it is almost impossible for a fair-minded person to call it racist. And yet, according to liberals, race neutrality is itself racist [see, for instance, my "debate" with Dr Caric here - ed]. It harkens back to the “social Darwinism” of the past, we are told, because it relegates minorities to a savage struggle for the survival of the fittest.

There are only three basic positions. There is the racism of the left, which seeks to use the state to help favored minorities that it regards as morally superior. There is racial neutrality, which is, or has become, the conservative position. And then there is some form of “classical racism” — that is, seeing blacks as inferior in some way. According to the left, only one of these positions isn’t racist. Race neutrality is racist. Racism is racist. So what’s left? Nothing except liberalism. In other words, agree with liberals and you are not racist. Of course, if you adopt color blindness as a policy, many fair-minded liberals will tell you that while you’re not personally racist, your views “perpetuate” racism. And some liberals will stand by the fascist motto: if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Either way, there are no safe harbors from liberal ideology. Hence, when it comes to race, liberalism has become a kind of soft totalitarianism and multiculturalism the mechanism for a liberal Gleichschaltung. If you fall outside the liberal consensus, you are either evil or an abettor of evil. This is the logic of the Volksgemeinschaft in poltically correct jargon.

Now, of course you’re not going to get a visit from the Gestapo if you see the world differently; if you don’t think the good kind of diversity is skin deep or that the only legitimate community is the one where “we’re all in it together,” you won’t be dragged off to reeducation camp. But you may very well be sent off to counseling or sensitivity training

— which, to my way of thinking, is really the left-liberal iteration of the more gauche and fraught education camps of yesteryear.

Two additional thoughts: first, the liberal idea of blacks — and of many of their chosen minorities — is, it should be obvious, quite Romanticized, and draws on the idea of Rousseau’s “noble savage.” Which is why we are typically treated to spirited defenses of those in protected groups who break the law, with the argument generally boiling down to their being somehow entitled to a cultural forgiveness: so it is when white liberal commentators forgive dog fighting rings as simply part of the “black culture” — the upshot being that a particular cultural identity, when hewed to rigorously, provides some inoculation against the rule of law as set down by an Establishment that is, by its very nature, anathema to Otherness.

This is, of course, nothing more than the very kinds of boutique multiculturalism so famously explored by Stanley Fish — a phenomenon that, at base, merely creates a kind of social hierarchy wherein self-styled post-Enlightenment liberals, suffused with Enlightenment thinking, take on the role of protectors and defenders of the noble savage that they claim to champion. In short, it is a form of intellectual colonialism masquerading as selfless activism.

Second, the reason many conservatives are so attuned to the biases of mainstream media culture, is that without those biases constantly finessing the left-liberal narrative of social righteousness, much of what passes for de facto and settled social “justice” would be open to wider debate. And so it becomes crucial for “liberals” to control the means of memetic production as a way to define away as hateful or politically incorrect the very kinds of speech that, from a classical liberal perspective, illustrate the idea of freedom of speech as it was intended to function publicly.

Instead, the soft-fascism of “progressivism” has turned free speech on its head, creating a climate wherein in order to make the grade as “free” speech, that speech must first be vetted by those who decide what is and what is not appropriate for social consumption.

And insofar as a media culture acting predominantly from a liberal worldview reinforces this surreal inversion of the intent of the First Amendment, it is — whether consciously or unconsciously — complicit in the very kind of intellectual fascism it pretends so often to rail against.

Discuss.


1,706 posted on 08/12/2008 4:14:07 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Drill Here, Drill Now- (Live Thread VIII)

Nancy Pelosi Invests In Energy Scheme and Water Grab By T. Boone Pickens

Unconventional Natural Gas Resources Boost US Reserves to 118 Years Worth at Current ... Levels

Wow! Time for the enviros to demonize Natural Gas and enact legislation to ensure we can’t use it.

GOP Senators Killing Energy Issue for Republicans and America


Five Republicans undercut our chances for victory.

Gang of 10 Sells Out House GOP; Stupid Senators Give Gift to Obama

Saxby Chambliss Calls the Show

We're at War, Legislators Aren't
Rush dissects the Chambliss interview.


Callers Flood Gang of 10 Offices
Irate citizens demand answers from their senators.

Dems' New National Platform Opposes Defense of Marriage Act

Bill O'Reilly states he knew of Edwards affair but did not report it.

MSM On Edwards: It’s Not News If It Happens To A Populist

We're Overdosing on Obama

Obama Lied About Abortion Record

McCain's 'Celebrity' Taunts Are Bugging Obama (Stop it you are making Obama mad)

Obama's Little Red Schoolhouse (Welfare is just another word for Socialism)

After contacting the Selective Service System for an answer several times since late June, Pajamas Media obtained official confirmation from the Selective Service System via email that Barack Obama did indeed register for the Selective Service as required by law, and is eligible to run for the presidency.

Mr. Owens,

Barack Hussein Obama registered at a post office in Hawaii. The effective registration date was September 4, 1980.

His registration number is 61-1125539-1.

Daniel Amon
Public Affairs Specialist

COULD WE PLEASE GIVE THE BLOGGERS credit where it's due?

Deceiver was the only place talking about this stuff for at least a week and a half, but all of a sudden everybody else has been doing original research on the Margaret Sweet connection the whole time? Or maybe it doesn’t count as research when we do it, since we’re just a silly gossip blog with a hot-pink logo. Maybe that’s it.

Memo could keep Clinton-Obama rift open--wanted to highlight Obama's lack of "American roots


1,707 posted on 08/12/2008 11:30:48 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Pelosi Blinks on Energy Vote

Drill Here, Drill Now- (Live Thread, Day IX)

Natural Gas Provides Solutions to High Gasoline Prices ( Sen. James Inhofe )

5 years after a giant blackout, are we better off?

DeMint Wants No Extension Of Drilling Ban; Starts Petition, Website

Drill for National Security

--I was discussing this angle just the other day with a group of collegues. Now only if the repubs will pick up on this and exploit the vunerabilities of the left even more so..... folks, this is NOT a use of scare tactics, this is reality (My God even Carter could see this as a reality). There is so much more to this than run of the mill Russian bullying... and DO NOT, even think for a second, that there is no coorelation b/w Russia’s atrophied “muscle flexing” and the leadership (if you can call it that) of Pelosi/Reid, et. al. and the possible election of “The One” in November... the dots are as easy to connect as they were in August of 2001...
 

61% say Congress Should Vote on Offshore Drilling Right Now

Planet's already been saved, Bachmann says (MN Congresswoman smacks down Pelosi)

The Pickens Profile You Haven’t Read

Denver Voters Pass Initiative 100 (No drivers license? Car will be impounded.)

What Would You Do About The Illegal Alien Invasion?

 
UK: GP with 2,500 patients(!) kills himself [Ah, "free" health care]For many on the left, WE are the aggresors in Georgia

The Great Gold Robbery of 1933

FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content

Shocking news! Firms without taxable profits don't pay income taxes!

 

THE DAMNING CARTER FILES

Platform Confirms Dems Still 'Don't Get It' about Gun Rights, Says CCRKBA

defense is criminal and racist say liberal democrats

Cheating on a Sick Spouse: John McCain. Then Newt Gingrich. And now John Edwards

 While McCain was married to his first wife, who was disabled from a car accident, he was "aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich," according to a New York Times colunmist's account of the 1970s incident that predated McCain's election to the Senate.

They leave out that his ex wife now supports him and she is the one that left him, not the other way around.

New Book Exposes Repercussions of an Obama Presidency

 
Stand by for more information than you want:

Obama: Myth v. Reality, Part I

McCain, not Obama, was right about Georgia

A "Barrack Hussein Mohamed Obama" was born on 23 August 1961 in Canada ??? [WOIA, San Antonio]

Man Dead, Large Amount Of Possible Cyanide Found [Democrat Convention connection?]


1,708 posted on 08/13/2008 3:28:57 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Well, if you had wondered why THEG became a Silent Key?

The increasingly unreliable, laughingly misnomered “high speed cable internet”

conked out August 12, coming back for an hour the next day.

“Priority repair” was supposed to occur the next day, but when they didn’t show

up, a call revealed that their “priority” was scheduled for a week away.

Mad hunts for an AOL dialup disk ( Remember when you used to get one a week

in the mail? Circuit City had one left, in a bag of trash... ) got Miss Emily’s laptop

back on slow, slow line.

Much complaining got a promise of a cable guy on the 16th. We’ll see.

Slow as dialup is, at least as long as you have a dialtone and a number to call,

you can get on line.

Unlike that “high speed cable internet...”


However, it turns out lightning had damaged both modem & router- from The

Distaff Side:

Comment by Miss Emily

August 16, 2008 @ 3:02 pm

Our high speed internet is back!!! Teh Yay!

All it took was:

1 hour with the cable guy here
a new modem
figuring out our router was bad
a trip to Walmart for a new router
15 minutes on hold with Belkin (”your call is important to us”)
20 minutes on the phone with a foreign guy to figure out why the new router

didn’t work

and voila! High speed cable!!!!

Now I’m off to gorge on the internet…or take a nap.


1,709 posted on 08/16/2008 3:43:17 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Georgia invasion 'planned since April' (Best Background I've read)

 
RUSSIA THREATENS NUCLEAR ATTACK ON POLAND?

Much is happening today in Georgia and other states formerly under the thumb of Russia. President Saakashvili has signed a cease-fire agreement; Russian troops have nevertheless advanced within 35 miles of Tbilisi; President Bush denounced Russia for "bullying and intimidation" and said that "Moscow must honor its commitment to withdraw its invading forces from all Georgian territory," something Russia plainly has no intention of doing.

Yesterday, in what may or may not have been a coincidence of timing, the U.S and Poland announced that after 18 months of negotiations, they have reached on an agreement whereby the U.S. will furnish Patriot missiles to Poland and will locate a missile interceptor base in that country.

This outraged Russia, which believes that it has the right to point missiles at its neighbors, but its neighbors have no right to defend themselves against those missiles. The Associated Press reported that Russia responded today by threatening to attack Poland:

A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.

The AP's report is correct; if anything, it understates the bluntness of Russia's threat, which very specifically warned of a nuclear attack. For a more detailed account, check out this item in today's Pravda:

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia warns Poland that it may become a priority target for Russia in the event the USA deploys elements of its missile defense system on the territory of this East European nation. To put it in a nutshell, Russia may strike a nuclear blow on Poland, which is possible after the recent change of the Russian Federation defense doctrine.

"The USA is busy with its own missile defense system; it does not intend to defend Poland at this point. Poland lays itself open to attack giving the USA a permission to deploy the system. The country may become an object of Russia's reaction. Such targets are destroyed in the first instance," Anatoly Nogovitsin, Russia's Deputy Chief of Staff said commenting the recent agreement regarding the deployment of the US missile defense system in Poland.

Nogovitsin stated that Russia may use nuclear weapons in cases as stipulated by the defense doctrine.

"It clearly states that we can use nuclear weapons against the countries possessing nuclear weapons, against allies of such countries, if they somehow support them, and against those countries, which deploy other countries' nuclear weapons on their territories. Poland is aware of it," the general said.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that the agreement includes a "mutual commitment" between the two nations to come to each other's assistance "in case of trouble." Tusk clearly linked that part of the deal, from Poland's perspective, with recent events in Georgia:

Talking about the "mutual commitment" part of the agreement, Tusk said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would be too slow in coming to Poland's defense if threatened and that the bloc would take "days, weeks to start that machinery."

"Poland and the Poles do not want to be in alliances in which assistance comes at some point later -- it is no good when assistance comes to dead people. Poland wants to be in alliances where assistance comes in the very first hours of -- knock on wood -- any possible conflict," Tusk said.

Note the very different assessments of the U.S.'s willingness to come to Poland's assistance that were voiced by Tusk and by General Nogovitsin.

For a while there, it looked as though history might indeed be ending, more or less. Now, it looks a lot more as though history could be repeating itself. Those Germans who cheered Barack Obama may want to rethink the lessons to be drawn from the Berlin airlift.

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Back in the USSR

Russia leads scramble for Arctic

A ROUNDUP OF nuclear power and uranium news.

SOLAR PANELS BY THE SQUARE MILE: But with this essential truth: "Photovoltaics eventually would need to be as cheap as paint or roof shingles to begin to make a serious dent in coal burning." Which will probably happen, in time.

Can we launch a recall drive? Meanwhile, without government nannying, Americans are driving less and using less gas.

If things are bad enough to adopt a 55 mph speed limit, they're bad enough to stop letting members of Congress travel by military jet.

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: In this case, about drilling in ANWR.

JON UTLEY on drilling in ANWR: "In fact, the world oil shortage is political, not geological."
 

Democrats’ Bogus Lease Claims in “Use It or Lose It” Proposal Stymie Real Energy Security

The answer, my friend, isn't blowing in the wind, after all

How Nuclear Power Can Save the Planet

 
 
REMEMBER, IF YOU OPPOSE BARACK OBAMA, you're a racist. Just ask Colbert King.

IN THE 21ST CENTURY, A DIFFERENT KIND OF BIGOTRY: "The executives of a gay sex site are apparently more concerned about the perception that they're associated with John McCain than McCain is about the association with them." Heh.

UPDATE: Plus, a new kind of race-baiting. From Howard Dean. Okay, this isn't really that new, anymore. . . .

HE'S JUST ANGLING FOR THE COVETED INSTAPUNDIT ENDORSEMENT: With Polls Close, Obama Blinks on Taxes.

UPDATE: Not everyone's happy: "It amounts to a declaration of war on two-income families, a marriage penalty of punitive proportions." I guess lawyers in love will be better off cohabiting.

CAMILLE PAGLIA: "Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British -- and both are in desperate need of fresh inspiration." Jeez, if people are comparing him to Madonna, he really has been overexposed.

Obama’s Weirdness

The interview on faith and religion I mentioned the other day is a gold mine of weirdness.  Let's look at what Obama thinks is going on when he is speaking to crowd as a political leader:

OBAMA: IT’s interesting, the most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I’m talking to a group and I’m saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I’m just being glib or clever.

GG: What’s that power? Is it the holy spirit? God?

OBAMA:
Well, I think it’s the power of the recognition of God, or the recognition of a larger truth that is being shared between me and an audience.

So, it seems clear that when Barack Obama feels strongly about something it is because he views it as touching something of the divine.  So, if you hold a different political position on one of those matters you are at best a fool and at worst evil.  Either way you are standing against the will of God, which happens to coincide with the political principles of Barack Obama.  Aren't we lucky?

Now, this I just found interesting:

GG: Who’s Jesus to you?

(He laughs nervously)

OBAMA: Right. Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.

So what have we got here?  Obama thinks Jesus is A) an historical figure, B) a bridge between God and man, and C) a wonderful teacher.  The truth is there is nothing particularly Christian about those views.  Muslims, for example, hold much the same view of Jesus.  It is Christians who believe Jesus is the son of God, the redeemer of our sins, the maker of a new covenant…in short the Messiah.  All of the specifically Christian views of Jesus seem to have escaped Obama's notice, or they have been rejected. 

Which is it?  I don't know, but it sure seems like Barry Obama is one weird guy.


1,710 posted on 08/17/2008 3:08:40 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Taliban Warning To Canadians

SCARY FACTS ABOUT ISLAM--THE TRUTH
 

GEORGIA CONFLICT 2008 - Day by Day

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote from 1987

Zimbabwe -- Cathy Buckle -- Just out of reach

 

Police Turn to Secret Weapon: GPS Device

U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules[Domestic Spying]

How long can Uranium last for nuclear power ? 5 billion years at double...

 
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Video- FReeper Interview Joseph Shahda translator of captured Iraqi documents: Part 1 and part 2

Infamous radical lying 'Media matters' connection to death threats

Dean Scream II, or III or IV...

Clinton backers may damage own cause

The audacity of resume-padding (or, why Obama makes things up) [A MUST READ!]

  *THIS* is why Obama has touted tire pressure as the answer to our gasoline needs.

Just look at all the mileage he's gotten out of inflating his resumé.

The whole Obama story: He's too clever by half - Thomas Sewell

Could Racism Keep Obama Out of the White House?

Barack Obama fails to shine alongside John McCain

McCain As Good As Obama Was Bad

...McCain had a clear and decisive victory over Obama. It all comes down to something that Phil Bredesen, the Democratic governor of Tennessee recently said about Obama: “Instead of giving big speeches at big stadiums, he needs to give straight-up 10-word answers to people at Wal-Mart about how he would improve their lives.” ... When asked "At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?," McCain answered "At the moment of conception." Obama's answer here was flaming-dirigible bad...

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HOW HARD IS THE PRESS LEANING TOWARD OBAMA? The WaPo Ombud explains. "The disparity is so wide that it doesn't look good."

Obama's Jihad: Jakarta to the Whitehouse (disturbing book title change)

How many Americans know that when Obama had his bloviating screed "The Audacity of Hope" was translated into Indonesian - the title went from "The Audacity of Hope" to "Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse". The man is dishonest about his Islamic leanings. Check this our from An American expat Living in Indonesia:

Obama_jihad_indonesia_2

Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse

Read it all .......most disturbing.

Obama Now Running Away from His Illinois Votes that Supported Live Birth Abortion - Videos

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Floats Idea McCain Cheated

America Must Hear Truth About Oil (Yes, $1,400 per second in profit!!!)

Putting Earnings into Perspective


1,712 posted on 08/17/2008 3:37:09 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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One- man cell, the new face of Al Qaeda terror --the most shocking revelation are the lessons on kidnapping, with orders to slaughter hostages in a way that will terrify the public.
 

You can see the full list here of sites or areas under UN control now.....Cut and paste the address if necessary......Most people don't know this... http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
It gets MUCH worse...
 
 
You can see the same thing at this site for Canada.... http://www.biosphere-canada.ca/images/landcover.jpg
 
 
Keep these handy:

http://www.gunfacts.info/
Gun Facts is a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalist, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment.
Gun Facts has 84 pages of information. Divided into chapters based on gun control topics (assault weapons, ballistic finger printing, firearm availability, etc.), finding information is quick and easy.

The FIVE-MINUTE HANDBOOK (RKBA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/937190/posts
 
 

France Reaffirms Its Faith in Future of Nuclear Power (America, are you paying attention?)

GOP builds strength for drilling clash - Senate just a few votes shy of federal shutdown threat

ACORN Workers Talk About Its Voter Fraud

August 17th, 2008

Speaking of the Obama surrogate Claire McCaskill, here is a flashback from October 2006, from Pubdef.net, a non-partisan political website based in St. Louis, MO:

ACORN workers allege that they were instructed to tell people to vote for U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill while registering voters in support of the proposed minimum wage increase.

And this, also from October 2006 and Pubdef.net:

More ACORN workers go on the record in exclusive interviews with PUB DEF.

If you think ACORN and their compadres have cheated in the past, wait until you see what they do for their former colleague and vote hustler, Mr. Obama.

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Obama's Jews Ruse

Obama's sudden support for Israel seemed somewhat suspect and expedient. Looks to me like Obama wants to use the Jews to get elected, and then what? Steadfast support for Israel? I think not.

Barack Obama, D-Illinois, delivered a very pro-Israel address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of Chicago at the end of last week. "Our job is to rebuild the road to real peace and lasting security throughout the region," Obama said. "Our job is to do more than lay out another road map. That effort begins with a clear and strong commitment to the security of Israel: Our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy. That will always be my starting point."

But now comes a very interesting blog entry by the pro-Palestinian blogger Ali Abunimah at The Electronic Intifadah, who alleges that Obama has moved to stridently pro-Israel position as his national aspirations developed. "The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood," Abunimah writes. "He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing. "As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, "Hey, I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough pri'mary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.' He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and US policy, 'Keep up the good work!"

As the various Democratic rivals compete for Jewish support,  big pro-Israel donors ought to see this. A strawman for Israel is the last thing the free world needs in the fight against the global jihad.

Barackobama483

HOW OBAMA LEARNED TO LOVE ISRAEL The Electronic Intifada

[...]

Over the years since I first saw Obama speak I met him about half a dozen times, often at Palestinian and Arab-American community events in Chicago including a May 1998 community fundraiser at which Edward Said was the keynote speaker. In 2000, when Obama unsuccessfully ran for Congress I heard him speak at a campaign fundraiser hosted by a University of Chicago professor. On that occasion and others Obama was forthright in his criticism of US policy and his call for an even-handed approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing.

As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, "Hey, I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front." He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and US policy, "Keep up the good work!"
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Obama has also been close to some prominent Arab Americans, and has received their best advice. His decisive trajectory reinforces a lesson that politically weak constituencies have learned many times: access to people with power alone does not translate into influence over policy. Money and votes, but especially money, channelled through sophisticated and coordinated networks that can "bundle" small donations into million dollar chunks are what buy influence on policy. Currently, advocates of Palestinian rights are very far from having such networks at their disposal. Unless they go out and do the hard work to build them, or to support meaningful campaign finance reform, whispering in the ears of politicians will have little impact. (For what it's worth, I did my part. I recently met with Obama's legislative aide, and wrote to Obama urging a more balanced policy towards Palestine.)

If disappointing, given his historically close relations to Palestinian-Americans, Obama's about-face is not surprising. He is merely doing what he thinks is necessary to get elected and he will continue doing it as long as it keeps him in power. Palestinian-Americans are in the same position as civil libertarians who watched with dismay as Obama voted to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act, or immigrant rights advocates who were horrified as he voted in favor of a Republican bill to authorize the construction of a 700-mile fence on the border with Mexico.

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Photo: From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)

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Dave 'Mudcat' Saunders: Barack Obama's elitist campaign alienates South

Five Ways to Wreck a Recovery

EDITORIAL: Energy Falsehoods (Nancy Pelosi)

Obama is "nuanced"

 Check out his hair, first two photos from August 7, second two from August 11.

AUGUST 7, 2008 (1)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., listens to a question from the media aboard his campaign charter jet while in flight back to Chicago, Ill., Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AUGUST 7, 2008 (2)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. pays for his pancakes during a stop at the Copper Dome Restaurant in Saint Paul, Minn., Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
 
Remember Clinton's Changing Hair?
"Nuance..."
 
 
 

White Party, Black Party: Racial Division in American Politics


1,713 posted on 08/18/2008 3:03:18 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Still Blocking Vote on the American Energy Act, Speaker Pelosi Crafts “No Energy” Bill Loaded...

Wind Jammers

The Oil and gas bubble

Lights Out: EMP Warfare

This author hasn't really thought his little doomsday scenario through...

This guy has, however.

Bracing for Inflation

Health care solutions can come with own ailments

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Becomes...
 
By Ursula Vernon

My Little Leper Pony!

Turns Out Obama Had More Prior Knowledge of Warren Questions Than Did McCain - Byron York

This is just too good! The Obama Campaign, in their desperation to explain away John McCain's masterful performance at the Rick Warren "Civil Forum on the Presidency" Saturday night, have allowed their minions in the press to put forth the vile assertion that John McCain cheated by listening in on Obama's time with Rick Warren.

Byron York is now reporting that actually it was Barack Obama who had more information going into the questioning than did John McCain! It turns out...

Obama Campaign Site: “…a Jewish lynching of Senator Obama”


1,714 posted on 08/18/2008 12:31:10 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Infamous Nation of Islam's Lois Farrakhan 'warning' for America if Obama loses...

WHERE are the Saddleback Polls???


1,715 posted on 08/18/2008 1:18:27 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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“Israel stands alone”

The True Human Meanings Of A Nuclear Iran

If There Is No God (Dennis Prager On The Consequences Of Secularism Alert)

Mexican Border City Drug Dead Hits 800

Georgia Senate: Chambliss Leads Martin by Six

--There are indications that Chambliss is coming around. The guy didn't call-in to Rush's show for feces and giggles. He heard loud and clear from the base, that they are unhappy with this ridiculous Gang of 10 crap.
 

WHEN BIG WIND TAKES OVER A TOWN, can goons and corruption be far behind? "Lured by state subsidies and buoyed by high oil prices, the wind industry has arrived in force in upstate New York, promising to bring jobs, tax revenue and cutting-edge energy to the long-struggling region. But in town after town, some residents say, the companies have delivered something else: an epidemic of corruption and intimidation, as they rush to acquire enough land to make the wind farms a reality."

Plus, Pelosi and Pickens -- Investment Partners? I'm disappointed. I really thought that this blend of government subsidies and private money would be different!

IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: Let go of the past and allow offshore oil drilling. "So there's a gusher of hypocrisy here: The state that is the biggest consumer of gasoline in the nation -- but produces less than 40% of what it uses -- is opposed to drilling for more oil off its shores. We're slackers not pulling our weight."

 
AMITY SHLAES: "Perverse monetary policy was the greatest cause of the Great Depression. But five non-monetary missteps were important in making the Depression great, and the same missteps damaged the global economy as well. While many are thinking about the Depression, few seem concerned about replicating these Foolish Five today."

· Giving in to protectionism. In Herbert Hoover's time, Sen. Reed Smoot and Rep. W.C. Hawley proposed a tariff that was to raise effective duties by as much as half. More than a thousand economists signed an open letter warning that the duties would "raise the cost of living and injure the great majority of our citizens."

But Hoover's Republican Party didn't much care. In its 1928 platform, the GOP had pledged to "reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff." Ambivalent, Hoover signed the bill. An irate Canada and many other nations retaliated. At a time when the United States was begging for foreign markets, it lost them. The selfish signal discouraged an already unstable Europe.

Today, international trade claims a sizable share of our economy. Bilateral free-trade agreements with Colombia or Panama are good insurance -- cheap steps that might prevent an expensive loss, that of the Western Hemisphere to Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.

Yet again, one party -- the Democrats, this time -- is cavalier. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is blocking passage of these bilateral agreements. And another ambivalent politician -- Sen. Barack Obama -- has sent mixed messages to Canada about just how much he wants to roll back the North American Free Trade Agreement.

· Blaming the messenger. Punishing the stock market for the 1929 crash was popular in Washington in the early 1930s. Lawmakers attacked the practice of short selling; Senate Banking Committee counsel Ferdinand Pecora hauled J.P. Morgan and other Wall Streeters in for hearings. By 1934, Congress was creating the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Roosevelt administration also prosecuted business leaders, including former Treasury secretary Andrew Mellon and utilities magnate Samuel Insull. The new regulatory culture cut crime and protected investors. But the arbitrary nature of the assault petrified Wall Streeters.

Today, too, a "Blame the Street" mood prevails. SEC Chairman Chris Cox has criticized "naked shorts," an attack with a legitimate anti-fraud component. But targeting short-selling also generates uncertainty. The investigations of Bear Stearns and Freddie Mac are just the beginning; more prosecutions are likely. Like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which followed Enron's accounting meltdown, this cleanup will send companies and jobs abroad.

· Increasing taxes in a downturn. Hoover more than doubled income tax rates, taking the top marginal rate to 63 percent from 25 percent. FDR hiked the top rate to 90 percent. Perhaps worse, Roosevelt's Treasury crafted taxes to punish business, including an undistributed profits tax and an excess profits tax, that ultimately sucked cash from a capital-starved economy.

Today, Democrats are planning tax increases that make Bill Clinton's hike look mild. The proposals start with lifting the cap on Social Security payroll taxes -- an effective increase in the top marginal tax rate of 6.2 percent, or for some 12.4 percent, all by itself. Add in the promised repeal of the Bush tax cuts and you have an additional 4.6 percent increase. Effective top rates approach 50 percent. There are also proposed increases for dividends and capital gains. Taken together, these will make the U.S. economy sluggish and more like that of Europe.

· Assuming bigger government will bring back growth. There's a sense today that Washington has retreated too much from daily lives. Wall Streeters mutter that "the system" (the financial markets) doesn't work anymore. In the 1930s, people didn't just mutter that -- they believed it. Public-sector expansion seemed the only way to sustain America's promise. New Deal programs did much to alleviate the pain month to month -- many found dignity in six months of work at the Works Progress Administration, the Public Works Administration or the Civilian Conservation Corps. But economics is a competition for scarce capital. Such state solutions tended to suppress the creation of long-term private-sector jobs, as did the aggressive Wagner Act for organized labor. The National Recovery Administration, the New Deal's centerpiece, favored large businesses at the expense of small fry. The new Tennessee Valley Authority and Roosevelt's repressive Public Utility Holding Company Act combined to crowd out private utilities that hoped to light up the South. As for Wall Street, those New Yorker magazine cartoons were accurate: Wall Streeters retreated into their martinis and country houses rather than rebuild. This yielded the "Depression within the Depression" of 1937.

· Ignoring the cost of inconsistency. FDR spoke of "bold persistent experimentation." Obama speaks of "change." Both can do damage. What's more, the list of experiments is always finite. Our bailouts look reassuring, but even Washington cannot rescue the entire economy. And foreign investors wonder where Washington will stop. Already concerned about the inconsistent dollar policy, China is now troubled by the inconsistent rescues. The proximate danger today is a repeat of the 1970s, not the 1930s. But if lawmakers don't remember the old missteps, they might find that their new recovery legislation imperils our recovery.

YOU DON'T TUG ON SUPERMAN'S CAPE: But, really, even that's safer than trying to silence Amy Alkon.  "The worst thing about this for me is learning how naive I've been in pooh-poohing right-wingers when they tell me how the real fascists are on the left. Again, I take people as individuals, but I've learned that there are a whole lot of people who call themselves "progressives" and "liberals" who see speech they disagree with not as a reason to speak out themselves, but as a reason to work very hard to intimidate the person who's spoken from speaking their mind again. Furthermore, let me say most emphatically, I didn't "run my mouth first and think second." I meant every word I said. And I've come to that thinking over years of reading about the value of fathers and problems in the black community."

UPDATE: Some additional thoughts. (Bumped). See the comment from Francis W. Porretto. Somebody should write a book about this phenomenon!

 
Creeping Sharia in Halifax , Nova Scotia
 

The end of England’s children

August 18, 2008 10:22 PM by see-dubya

Theodore Dalrymple notes the tragic end of childhood in England, and the end of judgment that has enabled it: I watch her decline the way one would watch a parent with Alzheimer’s: here is a great country (where I once lived) that gave us John Locke, Edmund Burke, George Washington, that gave us our hymns, our literature, our ideas of freedom, our very language, and she is slipping into a useless dotage, unable to stir herself though enemies threaten.33 Comments  " It will not be long before UK streets will be filled with drunken idiots and Muslim murderers."

 

Fellow POW: I Remember McCain Telling the "Cross in the Dirt" Story [In 1971]

Obama voted to kill live babies

Obama Cover-up on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Continues to Unravel...

MICKEY KAUS: "The story of the Edwards Coverup, which has only begun to trickle out, is certainly providing a useful civic education in how powerful pols actually go about attempting to influence the MSM." When it comes to rounding up John Edwards news and links, I can't hope to compete with Deceiver. ... See esp. Lee Stranahan's informed speculations about future developments in the story, which now looks like it will run right into the Democratic convention...

STILL KICKING AROUND JOHN EDWARDS. I think the big "kick me" sign he taped to his butt has something to do with it . . . .

More here. And, of course, Mickey Kaus is still on the story. But the real story, remember, is how the press covered for him. And the real question is, what other stories are they sitting on to protect the Democrats?

ANN ALTHOUSE: 6 things I noticed when I rewatched the Saddleback Civil Forum. And much more on that subject here.

Sore loser: Obama and Obamedia accuse McCain of “cheating”

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 18, 2008 12:52 AM

No, really. The Obama camp and its media water-carriers are seriously accusing John McCain of “cheating” in his appearance over the weekend at Rick Warren’s Saddleback church forum because he was in his motorcade when the program started– and then escorted to an empty room without media hook-ups. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell spread the unsubstantiated rumor that somehow McCain heard Obama’s questions while on his drive. The nutroots went, well, nuts. The NYTimes piled on (“Despite Assurances, McCain Wasn’t In a ‘Cone of Silence’“). The McCain camp has protested.

And now we have the spectacle of the Democrat presidential nominee and his press entourage bleating about the “cone of silence” because he didn’t fare as well as his opponent.

Yes, the Obama has just confirmed that it is operating in a cone of abject stupidity. Maybe a little less fun in the sun next time, eh, Barry O?

The event wasn’t even head-to-head. How is the Obama team going to behave should The One wipe out in an official debate this fall? The wah-mbulance will be working overtime.

Oh, and I think we know where the Left is headed again. Remember “Is Bush Wired?”

Predicting a massive run on tin foil from now until November…

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More:

Warren told CNN Sunday evening, “we flat out asked him” if he heard any of the questions. The McCain campaign “confirmed that McCain did not hear or see any of the broadcast” in the motorcade or after he arrived, Ross said.

When asked if McCain overheard anything, Charlie Black, a McCain adviser who was with him at the time, told CNN: “We were in motorcade until 5:30 p.m. ET; then a holding room in another building with no TV.”

Warren said, “I trust the integrity of both” candidates, and said he “knew they would abide by the rules.” He joked McCain may not have been in the cone of silence, but “he was in the cone of a Secret Service motorcade”.

Scott Ott: Har. How McCain breached the cone.

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Update: Here’s the full transcript of the forum.


1,716 posted on 08/19/2008 3:07:24 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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So...

Do you still want to bet your life
( And your children's...)

on the ability of The New, Improved Black Jesus to talk his way out of this?

Defy us and we will crush you... Russia's warning

Then, there is this:

Barack Obama lied about babies ‘Born Alive’ vote then smeared Corsi

The Stars Seem To Be Aligning Against Barack Obama


1,717 posted on 08/19/2008 4:14:19 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Batman and Rush: Why McCain Will Win

Confronting the Threat--John Bolton counsels America on the dire crises it faces.

Pelosi Spins and Smears on Drilling


1,718 posted on 08/19/2008 6:05:25 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Drill Here, Drill Now- (Live Thread, Day XIII)

Wind Farms Impacting Weather (Cause global warming and/or desert land?)

Kandahar tourniquet developed to save lives

How Big Brother watches your every move[UK]

In our ever-growing surveillance society, the average Briton is being recorded 3,000 times a week. Richard Gray reports.

 

Revealed: The CCTV cameras spying on hundreds of classrooms[UK]

We’ve been using the expression “Cold Civil War” here on FR for at least four years, but it’s still nice for Steyn to notice.

Hree’s a link I found in about two seconds to Cold Civil War, from 2003 on FR.

Reply #19: "I agree 100% with Prager, and I call the phase we are in "THE COLD CIVIL WAR.""

When politics at the national level is as tribal as some on the Left appear today we have the very real possibility of turning this "Cold" civil war into a "Hot" one. What we have here is a blatant abandonment of principle in favor of faction, politics in its most primitive, unthinking, tribal form. One of the things that makes it primitive is its proclivity for violence. We see this today in the identity of who gets shouted down on campus - left or right?

This is the Amazon link to the novel that Steyn refers to that uses "Cold Civil War."

 

The separation between the conservative red states and the liberal blue cities is a profound chasm; the two sides increasingly operate off different perceptions of reality and different reasoning processes. The difference is as stark as night and day: capitalism versus socialism, Judeo-Christian morals versus atheistic moral relativism, American exceptionalism versus United Nations membership, victory as annihilation of terrorists versus victory as denial of terrorists.

As U.S. Economic Problems Loom, House, Senate Sweat the Small Stuff

I Smell a Clinton Coup Brewing


1,719 posted on 08/19/2008 12:35:12 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Democrats Propose Sweeping Pro-LGBT Platform (BARF ALERT)

http://www.stonewalldemocrats.org/node/89
And that's not all. It seems Govs Kathleen Sebelius (KS) and Deval Patrick (MA) will be kicking-off convention week at the Stonewall (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) democrats gathering.

They really have a death wish, don’t they?

Admittedly, I’m talking about the deep South, but where I live, this would be the Kiss Of Death for the Democrats I know. Down here, you keep this sort of stuff private...


1,720 posted on 08/19/2008 1:03:48 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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