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'Shameless' parents not teaching skills By James Kirkup Political Correspondent Last Updated: 4:04AM BST 14/05/2008 A generation of young Britons are growing up in "shameless" families where parents lack the basic skills to raise their children, the Conservatives will warn today. Chris Grayling, the shadow work and pensions secretary, will claim that in some parts of the country there is no culture of parents instilling discipline and respect in their offspring. He will tell a London think tank that multiple generations of teenage parents mean that some of today's children have no exposure to elder relatives with traditional experience of...

The BBC kept more than £100,000 viewers had pledged to charity for itself. Staff knowingly withheld money that should have gone to causes including Children in Need and Comic Relief. In another hammer blow to TV's reputation, the corporation has been ordered by its own ruling body, the BBC Trust, to apologise for the scandal on air. Last night it also faced accusations from charities that its behaviour was immoral and disgraceful. News of the racket came 24 hours after ITV was fined £5.7million for conning £8million from telephone voters to top-rated shows. It also emerged that a British Comedy...

HARLAN, Iowa -- From his days of campaigning in Downstate Illinois, Sen. Barack Obama has been asked plenty of times about his views on gun ownership. But the Illinois Democrat and presidential candidate added a new wrinkle Saturday night while campaigning in conservative-leaning western Iowa, when he said his Chicago-native wife, Michelle, recently commented that she could see why rural folks might want to own guns. Here was Obama's discussion of gun ownership and his wife's thoughts during a campaign stop at a middle school: --snip-- "And by the way, Michelle, my wife, she was traveling up, I think, in...

Cardinal Denounces Proposal to Legalize Abortion in the Dominican Republic Says Supporters of the Measure Are Either "Sick", "Hypocritical", or "Comedians" By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)--The Cardinal Archbishop of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, lashed out last week at politicians and groups agitating to legalize abortion in the country. When asked  about a recent proposal to legalize abortion for "therapeutic" purposes, he shot back: "No, no abortion, there is nothing more to say." "No one has the right to kill anyone and some of us are sick, some are hypocrites, some comedians who are...

American Music Awards on nowNext up- the Dixie Chicks, in case anyone is interested in hearing their vacuous rants....

Jobless and shameless By Nick Britten Last Updated: 1:29am GMT 16/11/2006 An unemployed father of 15 who lives with his wife and mistress is demanding a larger council house after getting both women pregnant at the same time. 'Shameless' Mick Philpott Mick Philpott claims that he cannot look after his women and children properly because they are crammed into a three-bedroom, semi-detached house. The 49-year-old, who has been nicknamed "Shameless Mick" for the way he claims benefits and keeps adding to his brood, is understood to have agreed to a vasectomy earlier this year, but changed his mind. He lives...

The month of September is officially Shameless Self-Promotion Month. And we care enough to honor that promise of self-promotion with stunning, unparalleled commitment never before seen in the world. Our competitors may shrink back in shy impotence like the girly boys they really are. But we shall never faulter. We're the best, most profitable, least worrisome, highest quality, perfect credit to our gender, brightest, silliest, nicest smelling, best dressed, most comfortable with small dogs, most talented, elite, A-list, baddest mofos, with the firmest body contours this side of Beverly Hills in all cyberspace. You have our word on it.

Former president Bill Clinton angrily defended his administration's counterterrorism record during a Fox News interview to be aired today, while accusing "President Bush's neocons" and other Republicans of ignoring Osama bin Laden until the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Clinton had planned to discuss his climate change initiative during his appearance on "Fox News Sunday," but he turned combative after host Chris Wallace asked why he hadn't "put bin Laden and al-Qaeda out of business." Clinton shot back that "all the conservative Republicans" who now criticize him for inattention to bin Laden used to criticize him for over-attention to bin...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

WILLIAM Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark. After his mother remarried, he took the family surname, Clinton. Clinton was a good student. He enjoyed playing the saxophone and even considered a professional musical career. While in high school, a fortuitous meeting with President John Kennedy led him to choose a life of public service.

(just when you thought the clintons couldn't get any more shameless... or tacky....)SELF-AGGRANDIZING CHACHKAS FOR SALE AT CLINTON "MUSEUM" STORE by Mia T, 5.01.06   thanx to RichInOC for the scoop WHO REALLY MISSES BILL, ANYWAY? bill misses bill bin Laden misses bill Saddam misses bill Red China misses bill Korea misses bill Barbra misses bill bill misses the terrorists RichInOC SCOOP: Speaking of the devil... I saw about the tackiest thing I've ever seen yesterday. I was driving around town and I saw a Saturn Vue with a "I Miss Bill" bumpersticker on it. That's not the tacky...

The story of this nation has been collectively written by the immigrant pen. Titled “The American Dream,” this wildly successful and popular tale is about to gain a new author. Yet instead of simply writing the next verse, this wave of immigrant authors seems intent on starting a new book. There is no longer satisfaction with building for the future; an entitlement culture has grown. This contemporary tale is to be authored by illegal immigrants, but the pen, paper, and publishing are paid for by the American taxpayer. Not offended yet? Soon. When reading this piece, remember that the term...

With issues such as the Iraq war and terrorism ranking as high priorities for most voters, Democratic officials have spent much of the past two weeks trying to persuade the press and the public that they are better-equipped to deal with national security and military veterans than the Bush administration and the Republican Party. The newest effort to burnish the party’s credentials on these issues came Wednesday, when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced the establishment of a veterans council — designed to foster a closer political relationship between the Democratic Party, military veterans and their families. The effort, known...

With Rush Limbaugh inevitably pulling for his beloved Steelers, it’s once again left to me to make the most accurate, non-biased Environmentalist Wacko pick possible. In this year’s Super Bowl, there’s no doubt who the environmentalist wacko element will be cheering on to victory. So here’s the breakdown... Super Bowl LV: Seattle Seahawks vs. Pittsburgh SteelersThis Sunday marks the fortieth Super Bowl in NFL history, and it’s a classic match-up between two diametrically opposed forces. One sideline will host the beloved Seahawks – noble and elegant flying creatures of the animal kingdom (and a bird granted special ‘victim status’ due...

In the Fox News Channel Senator George Allen blasted the Democrats as shameless, bereft of ideas and rejected Harry Reid's apology for trying to taint 33 GOP Senators in the Abramoff Scandal. Senator Allen, a possible contender for the White House in 2008 ripped the "playbook" of the Democrats in the upcoming elections as scurrilous and beneath contempt since they have no new ideas to offer the American people. At the same time he gave little credibility to Osama Bin Laden's latest audiotape threatenig America as "old news".

BANGOR, Maine --Former President Bill Clinton surprised U.S. troops arriving from Iraq when a refueling stop at the Bangor International Airport coincided with the arrival of two chartered flights carrying soldiers. Clinton was returning Monday night from Paris where he had met with French President Jacques Chirac to discuss plans for his charitable organization, the Clinton Foundation. (snip) "Thank you for your service," Clinton said as he shook hands and hugged many of the soldiers as they passed by. He autographed hats, cards, paper and other items. The soldiers, about 600 of them, were returning to bases in Oklahoma, Texas...

Douglas Brinkley massages clinton numbers, ego + legacy at (clinton-was-an-utter-failure-containment-scheme-team) revisionist confab C-SPAN historians find no clinton "greatness" irrespective of moral-authority deficit   by Mia T, 11.10.05 Speaking on the opening day of a three-day conference at Hofstra University examining his presidency, Clinton challenged a statement by noted historian Douglas Brinkley, who opined that Clinton would be deemed a great president were it not for his impeachment. Bill Clinton, at Long Island conference, calls impeachment `egregious abuse' of Constitution FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press Writer clinton's ranking will likely get worse over time. Economic issues fade in importance over time....

I just finished reading another amazing novel by Dean Koontz, "Cold Fire". The afterword ... is hilarious: "Then, as is often the case when life is good, someone said, 'Hey, let's make a movie!' and life got strange, dark, and scary. "By this I do not mean to imply - although I can't stop you from inferring - that a lot of movie-industry executives are as brainless, voracious, and destructive as the flesh-eating bacteria ... I've met smart, fair, creative executives over the years...although I've noticed their kind either eventually get fired," (NOTE TO SELF: KELLY GOODE!!!) ... He goes...

Heck, if the government really is going to spend $200 billion to rebuild New Orleans, they might as well rebuild it as the city of tomorrrow complete with kelp farms, electricity generated by tides, public transportation light as a cloud and efficient and almost noiseless, parks that are nice and safe and clean. It could be a proof-of-concept city for all those innovations you see in the middle of "Popular Science" that are always "just around the corner." I draw the line at dog-walking robots and the bubble dome (for now), but you get my drift, I suppose. Well, I...

The odious Keith Olberman is on PMSnbc floating the idea that Bush is neglecting Mississippi by directing so many resources to New Orleans, which is empty. I detect this is the latest media shift. Now that Bush has NO largely in hand and it has been an amazing success, they are going to shift focus to Mississippi and say Bush screwed over Mississippi and the relief effort is being bungled there and all. Moral of the story-- the liberal media are evil M effers and Republicans never get a fair break in the MSM.

Yet in the wreckage of Pat and Cindy Sheehan's marriage there is surely a lesson for the Democratic Party. As Cindy says, they're both Democrats, but she's "more liberal" and "more radicalized." There are a lot of less liberal and less radicalized Dems out there: They're soft-left-ish on health care and the environment and education and so forth; many have doubts about the war, but they love their country, they have family in the military, and they don't believe in dishonoring American soldiers to make a political point. The problem for the Democratic Party is that the Cindys are now...

"Ladies" of ABC's "The View" Shamelessly Demoralize Troops By Debbie Schlussel Cindy Sheehan could learn a few moves from the annoying "ladies" of ABC's "The View." She's shameless, but they are more so. This morning, the "ladies" of "The View" pretended to play employment agency with a soldier who served in Iraq and helped catch Saddam Hussein. But what they really meant to do was demoralize the rest of the troops and the rest of the us. And use this poor soldier to promote themselves. Spc. Jeans Cruz appeared on the anti-male yenta-fest, today, with this repeatedly popping up on...

On June 6, 1994, Bill Clinton visited Normandy for the 50th anniversary of the invasion. If you recall, Clinton was very nervous about military issues early in his presidency. In fact, he was so ill at ease around military men that he wanted to end the tradition of the President saluting soldiers as he gets on and off his helicopter. A 'salute coach' was brought in to teach the boy genius how its done. It is easy to understand Clinton's hesitancy, after all, he famously wrote back in 1969 that he 'loathed the military'. During his 1994 visit to...

The warmongers will stop at nothing. If you hear these lies, please be forearmed with the truth: (This from the website of Rep. John Conyers: http://johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={00BD10CF-C087-4EBD-A7D3-C9EE6B68B214} Rebutting the Lies of the Right Wing Smear Campaign -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are plenty of lies being spread about Cindy. Here’s a little help sorting through the fiction. Feel free to cut-and-paste and share these with others. Cindy is a being manipulated by liberal activist groups. Cindy went to Crawford on a moment’s notice without discussing or coordinating her plans with any organization. She was accompanied to Crawford by a handful of dear friends. Cindy...

Knoll & Rendell: Disgraceful remarks Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Sometimes politicians need to stop while they're behind. Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll did a little politicking and offered some political commentary Tuesday last, uninvited, at the Carnegie funeral of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich. The Marine, 32, of Westwood, was killed in a mortar attack in Iraq on July 10. Mrs. Baker Knoll began talking to Sgt. Goodrich's aunt during the Communion service. She handed the aunt a business card; Knoll called the funeral a "function." Then Knoll told the aunt that the state government was "against the war." Outrageous. Visiting...

Lt. gov. crashed Marine's funeral, kin say Saturday, July 23, 2005 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau The family of a Marine who was killed in Iraq is furious with Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll for showing up uninvited at his funeral this week, handing out her business card and then saying "our government" is against the war. Rhonda Goodrich of Indiana, Pa., said yesterday that a funeral was held Tuesday at a church in Carnegie for her brother-in-law, Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich, 32. ... Then, suddenly, "one uninvited guest made an appearance, Catherine Baker Knoll." She sat down next...

In the annals of feckless non-apology apologies, the one just served up by PA Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll scrapes the bottom of the barrel. Check out the article below, and note this turn of phrase: "If my regard for his family's grief was seen another way, it is thoroughly regrettable." In other words, what is regrettable is not her awful behavior, but the way the Marine's family saw it. Sickening. -------------------------- Slain Marine's Family Gets Apology For Funeral Comments POSTED: 11:44 am EDT July 25, 2005 PITTSBURGH -- After being criticized for attending a Marine's funeral, Lt. Gov. Catherine...

Written apologies will be sent to a fallen Marine's relatives angered by Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll's uninvited appearance at the soldier's funeral and her criticism of the war in Iraq, Gov. Ed Rendell said Sunday. Rendell said he will send a personal letter to the family of the late Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich, of Westwood, and will ask Knoll to do the same. Goodrich, 32, a police officer and infantry unit leader, died July 10 in a mortar attack in Hit, Iraq. Rendell said he hadn't spoken with Knoll about the incident, but was disturbed by the family's...

Note: where you see "a_ _ _ _ _ _", choose a 7-letter word beginning with "a" that you feel is appropriate for Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Catherine Baker Knoll (hmmmm....what word?...amateur?...artiste?...athlete?...hmmmm) MIDI - PROUD MARY They said goodbye to a hero Sgt. Goodrich served his nation selflessly Catherine Baker Knoll had not been invited Quite a spectacle they soon would see Anti-war stuff she's saying While mourners had been praying Knoll is...Knoll is...Knoll is such an a_ _ _ _ _ _ Knoll is such an a_ _ _ _ _ _ Why was this woman so heartless It was...

Hands out business card, tells family 'our government is against this war' When the family of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich gathered in Pittsburgh for the fallen Marine's funeral, they expected a large crowd – after all, they've lived in the area for generations and Joseph had been a police officer before becoming a leatherneck – but they didn't expect to see Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor show up, hand out her business card and tell them "our government" opposes the war. Goodrich, 32, and fellow western Pennsylvanian, Lance Cpl. Ryan J. Kovacicek, 22 – both second-generation Marines – were killed in Iraq...

Saturday, July 23, 2005 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau The family of a Marine who was killed in Iraq is furious with Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll for showing up uninvited at his funeral this week, handing out her business card and then saying "our government" is against the war.

As I pulled up to the post office 30 minutes ago with my family, I noticed a $100 bill just laying on the pavement. I picked it up and got back inside the car. The temptation of course was to keep it, but we decided to leave our phone number with the post office so if someone came claiming to have lost something they could get it back by describing it. (a $100 bill) While waiting for my wife to come back from inside my daughter and I noticed a middle aged woman appear to be looking for something a...

I was three months pregnant and engaged to be married when I met him. (Read the rest for all the nauseating details...)

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Saturday is not normally the worst day of the week to read the New York Times. On Friday, one has to suffer through Paul Krugman's screeds blaming all the world's ills except for the tsunami on President Bush. Sunday brings Maureen Dowd and her special keyboard where R has been replaced by Rummy, and Frank Rich blasting the intolerant God believers in the red states. But Saturday, the week's lowest circulation day, includes a column by David Brooks, the conservative that liberals dislike the least. If one concedes, as the Times' new ombudsman Daniel Okrent has, that the Times is...

On October 13, 2004, Senator Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) gave his staff the rest of the month off, locked up his office, and hunkered down back in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, so convinced was he that terrorists would strike Washington, D.C. on or before Election Day. So when Mark Dayton tells you that you need to sit back, close your eyes, and find your happy place, you can be sure he knows of what he speaks. His colleague Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) ought to have listened to him. Dayton used all due decorum last Thursday to remind Boxer to take...

Al Franken has showed himself once again to be an unfunny, tasteless hypocrite. awptimus has a photo of Al Franken making fun of the troops' armor.

I have a hypothetical question: should Matt Drudge replace Dan Rather? I realize those would be rather small shoes to fill (hah!) considering Dan is what, 5' 2"? If not, why not? If so, what would have to change to make something like this even remotely possible? And finally, would Drudge have to cut back on posting articles about three-headed chickens and monster hurricanes to take the top spot? Or would we now see him out there in a rain slicker next hurricane season, lashed to a lamppost and interviewing a two-headed calf about the prospects for surviving the storm?

This is a Hallowe'en song I wrote many years ago,while camping in the Jersey Devil's pineywood home. (1)Deep in the Jersey Barrens Outside the town of Leeds There lived a lonesome widow- No one to tend her needs. So,one All Hallows Eve'ning When the moon was pale and white She cried: " I'd let Ol'Scratch hisself Come share my bed tonight !" (Chorus) Keep to the middle of the trail,friend When the moon is pale and white And build up the fire at the old campsite- The devil walks tonight ! 2. Ol'Scratch,he come a' courtin'- Kept her dancin'...

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New Kerry Administration Terror Alert Warning System 1   Dom Perignon                Drink up boys, the Shiite has hit the fan! 2   Pinot Noir                       Looking bad, better call the French! 3   Napa Valley Cabernet   This could be serious, another glass Jeeves! 4   Mogan David                  So long as all the terror attacks are in Israel, what me worry? 5   Thunderbird                    All clear, party on!

Does John Kerry really think the American people will believe that he singled out Mary Cheney because he "was trying to say something positive about the way strong families deal with this issue?" "We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as." --John Kerry, responding to Bob Schieffer's question,"Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?"in the third debate, October 13, 2004 "I said it in a very respectful way about their...

Probably one of the best in combining humour with political events, and news.... compared to anybody.

Michael Moore deletes detractors on re-posted article on his website... Saturday July 3, 2004 [NewsFly Special Report] Filmmaker Michael Moore has received a whirlwind attention consisting of of both praise and criticism for release of his latest documentary Fahrenheit 911. The media attention has put the anti-Moore website's into a frenzy in response. Some of the top Moore bashing sites include BowlingForTruth.com (an archived database of in depth debunking of Moore's books and movies), Moorelies.com (home of the new book "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man") and Moorewatch.com (covers current news that involve Michael Moore and...

FLOWERS ON THE WALL http://www.garyrog.50megs.com/midi1.html (Cut and paste in your browser to get the MIDI...this site always cuts off a hot link) Kerry had stopped by the Vietnam Memorial But there's Ted Sampley, one who knows that John's full of bull Well, Sampley will not put up with a traitor in his midst So he would get right in John Kerry's face and give the scumbag fits Sampley said there at The Wall, "You should not be here at all" And then he would hear Ted say, "I will escort you away" What the candidate did next was truly quite...

Jamie Gorelick – What a Girl Wants Jonathan M. SteinThursday, May 27, 2004 Jamie Gorelick wants to be Attorney General – badly. That is why she agreed to be on the 9/11 Commission. Her reward for sufficiently tarring President Bush in the Commission’s report would be a guaranteed position as Attorney General in a Democrat administration. Jamie Gorelick wants to be Attorney General, and she will do anything to get the job.Make no mistake – this is an opportunity Ms. Gorelick has been savoring since December of 1996, when Bill Clinton decided to keep Janet Reno on as Attorney...

Here he goes!

NOTE: while the political left hysterically calls our president a Nazi, war criminal, etc., we are able to attack them through humor and mocking. Smile and sing. http://miditrax.com/xmasmidis.htm MIDI - ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH All I want for Hillary's a lightning bolt...a lightning bolt...ZAP! a lightning boltAll I want for Hillary's a lightning bolt…now, that would be a Merry Christmas She traveled where our soldiers are...their commander she was badly dissingIf she gets lit up by a bolt, on her I won't be ****ing All I want for Hillary's a lightning bolt...a lightning bolt...ZAP!...

Dr. Alan Keyes, Declaration Alliance Dear Friend of Life, I pray that you will read the enclosed letter with a grateful, generous and charitable heart. My friend, Randall Terry, has just fought an extraordinary battle against the killing spirit of our times - and by God's grace, emerged victorious! Let me tell you what happened behind the scenes. While I was in Israel, a federal court decreed that Terri would die. My chief of staff, Mary Parker Lewis, contacted Randall Terry (Founder of Operation Rescue) and asked him to give his full attention and efforts to saving Terri's life. After...