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This Page This page was over 125K, so I slipped out a bunch of stuff, just to ease some of FR's burden. I won't be plastering the daily entries into the storage topic for a while, and still plan to start a new topic for that purpose. :') If you must find older stuff, see the links down below, or the Wayback Machine.
Okay, it's about 135K, and I haven't slipped out anything.
My Amazon reviewer ranking has slipped to 1444. I'm going to post the Permalinks to some of my individual reviews just to scare up a few hundred more votes, and see what else happens, and will probably do that in the new topic described above.Politics The US economy isn't about to implode. Ethanol production and corn subsidies haven't driven up the price of food. * ** The OPEC-engineered crude oil price spike is the reason for higher prices at the pump and everywhere else. *
Meanwhile, the Iranians -- who were slated to destroy the dollar by forcing OPEC to price crude in Euros * **, something OPEC has been doing for five or more years -- have entered a hyperinflation situation, are hoarding oil in offshore tankers, have had $35 billion (oops, I should price that in Euros, snicker) vanish from government "coffers" (if $35 billion can "vanish", those aren't really coffers), and the only bright spot for the mullahcracy is that the Hezbollah are back to running Lebanon for the time being (that won't last).
Of course, in the mullahcracy, the whole danged delusional system is one long bright spot.
And just wait until that really, really bright spot right at the end.
Ted Kennedy is going to die of brain cancer.
Jimmy Carter is spreading his message of bigotry and hatred all over the world. And just for good measure, he's advising Hillary that it's time to drop out of the race. Funny, he never took his own advice. See, now, if she were running for dictator somewhere, Carter would be scattering petals for her triumphant entry to the capital. Y'know, as long as it didn't disturb the ethnic purity of the neighborhood.
The election campaign is going much better than hoped. The Demwit Debacle 'til Denver continues, with Hillary now engaged in what I view as the denouement -- the fight over Michigan's and Florida's delegates. Obama generously offered to split those, basically telling Hillary, if you want the delegations seated, each of us will get half, otherwise no deal. The delegations themselves will demand to be seated, which means this fight will probably go to the convention floor if there's no deal. If Hillary wants to fight for the nomination, the convention floor is where that fight will take place. Imagine, Hillary stealing the nomination from The Phenomobama (I may have coined that a few minutes ago) while the nation watches on TV.
That's a nice fantasy. My guess is, the DNC and Howard Dean want to avoid that at all costs, and will broker some kind of face-saving (for Hillary) delegate split (helping Obama) sometime before the convention. Once the Michigan and Florida delegations have been seated in some fashion, our fun is over, and perhaps so is the future of the country.
Failure to vote against Obama is a vote for "universal health care", for reparations, for gun confiscation, for ballot box fixing, for Electoral College jury-rigging, and perhaps three or four (or more) Supreme Court appointments. Who's the RINO now, [characterization deleted]?
As CharlesWayneCT wrote:If by some disaster McCain is our nominee, and by some miracle he holds it together and wins the election, I will be thankful that Obama is not our president, because no matter how much damage McCain can do to conservatism and our country, it's not nearly as bad as Obama's reaction the first time the terrorists strike us again. [McCain Wins !!! McCains Wins !!!!!, 7 posted on 01/27/2008 6:40:18 PM PST] Rush Limbaugh:I don't believe in third-party candidacies. They don't work; they're not going to work; that's not the way to do this... Now, this is going to end up being a major rebuilding effort. You go back and study Reagan in 1976... Gerald Ford got the nod at the convention, but Reagan, at the platform fight, put in every conservative plank he could squeeze in there, he hardly ever mentioned Gerald Ford's name. Then of course that paid off four years later, it paid off in 1978 in the midterm elections to a certain extent... This is not about going to the Republican Party and telling the conservatives, "Leave it, let these people have it." It's about retaking it. And retaking it is not going to happen this year. Retaking it and rebuilding it is going to start in 2010, even if McCain wins... If McCain wins, then the liberal Rockefeller type Republicans, the country club blue-blooders are going to point their fingers at all of us, and they're going to say see? See? This is how you win. You win by being a big tent. You win by welcoming independents and Democrats, and they're going to say this party was never conservative, Reagan was an aberration; Reagan wasn't even conservative... we have people who are conflating and confusing being a Republican with being a conservative. Sadly, they are in many cases two totally different things. [A Third Party Isn't the Way, May 29, 2008] Rush conflates a political party with an ideology, and conflates being a Republican with being a conservative, then notes that other people are doing that. One thing that Rush has said over the years that has stuck with me and has always made sense is his remarks to the freshmen elected in Newt's "Contract with America" sweep in 1994. He told them to remember who voted for them and basically to dance with the one what brung ya. Newt managed to fornicate up beyond recognition that election success.
Reagan was preceded in office by JFK (charismatic do-nothing showoff and adulterer), LBJ (architect of the disaster in Vietnam), Nixon (architect of detente, downfall of Mao, defeat of the USSR in the Middle East, but self-destructive demiurge), Ford (well-meaning caretaker, fiesty, but not a social conservative), and Carter (bungler, incompetent, anti-American, Jew-hater, mean-spirited jackass). Reagan's administration was made possible by the decline in American fortunes set in motion by JFK and LBJ.
Reagan himself bungled in Lebanon and Israel, and failed to set the US on a path to energy independence, locking us in as foreign policy instruments of the nest of vipers that is Saudi Arabia. He did pretty well sometimes with a hostile Congress, but his successes were mostly in his first couple of years in office, and he lost ground. The comic Drew Carey -- a libertarian and drunk, but I repeat myself -- makes reference to Reagan's near-impotence with Congress. Where Reagan really shone was in foreign policy.
Carter had reinstated draft registration in order to look tough in the face of the seizure of the US embassy by the Iranian terrorists, a step that would have been unnecessary had he been tough and stood behind the Shah of Iran. Carter had boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its illegal, violent replacement of their own puppet regime.
Reagan pushed the Soviets around diplomatically -- not militarily, contrary to his image as some kind of warmonger -- and defeated their proxies in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Grenada, and various other spots in Africa and whatnot. Despite the nasty remarks about Reagan's age, it was the Soviet leadership which started to die one after the other. By the time the elder Bush (someone absolutely loathed by the Reagan Democrats, which is weird, because he would seem to be one of them anyway) presided over the (first) downfall of the USSR and the overthrow of the Panamanian dictator Noriega. The liberation of Kuwait and defeat of Saddam Hussein by a nominally multinational force, acting under UN auspices, was a military and diplomatic victory, and showed the US was back.
Unfortunately, the US was only back until 1993, when the reprehensible Slippery Bill Clinton entered office and he and his wife and entourage began building their corrupt schemes. While in office he and his criminal gang dismantled Yugoslavia, propped up Moslem terrorism, sold nuke and missile secrets, and waved the green flag along our border with Mexico. The only accomplishments of the Clinton administration are NAFTA and GATT (and the maintenance of SDI), and while I support those, there are some mountains made out of molehills types who don't -- oh, and that includes Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama and Pitchfork Pat Buchanan.
Despite the year-end A.D. 2000 bloodless coup attempt by Al Gore and his cadre of corrupt lawyers, the US elected the younger Bush. He inherited an economic downturn which was worsened by the events of 9/11, and a military malaise which was not. The US is back. Sensitive to his own lack of a ballot box mandate, GWB has finessed, manhandled, and by other means gotten his way on every fight he thought he could win. He made great gains in the midterms of 2002, was reelected in 2004, and then (mostly due to partisan media shilling on behalf of the Dhimmicrats) lost a bit in both houses of Congress in 2006.
And following the changeover early in 2007, the President treated the Demwits in Congress like, well, fill in your own prison cell dating service analogy here (cue "Jailhouse Rock"). Other than blocking the filling of vacancies of the federal bench -- something which should be a campaign issue in 2010, since it won't be this year -- the Demwits in Congress have done nothing but engineer their own demise. Once some of the fossils and lifers are out of office (I'm being careful here), the political outlook will improve.
The Mahdi Army is finished, AQI is finished, and the AQ is reeling everywhere else in the world, even on the Afghan / Pakistan border. Of course, the Iranians are said to be in consultation with AQ about coordinating efforts, but that's probably due to the mullahcracy's intent to launch major war and take over the Middle East.
The country has been sliding left. The election of 2008 can stop that slide, if McCain is elected.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future."God, I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I sure hope McCain wins in November."-- Soliton
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There was a link somewhere on FR to Right Voices and a discussion of the following, but here's a snip from the original and a link thereto:Hunt tries to explain it in small words, so that Democratic primary voters can understand it. The Establishment understands winning better than the voters. Voters gave the Democrats George McGovern and Jimmy Carter. Thankfully, the Establishment produced Walter Mondale and Mike Dukakis... If a party wants to offer primaries and state caucuses to produce nominees, then they should structure the race so that the results determine the winner. By reserving 20% of the delegate vote for the Establishment, they have almost guaranteed that any primary with two credible and popular candidates will wind up in an open convention. That means that the Democrats will either have to limit themselves to one attractive candidate per cycle by having big donors and party leaders chase other candidates away, or will need to play kingmaker at the conventions. The Republicans do not have this problem. Only 5% of their delegates represent the GOP Establishment, which presents few problems for a determinative primary race. They also force pledged delegates to vote for their pledged candidates on the first ballot, which the Democrats apparently do not. Although some complain about the winner-take-all states on the Republican side, the overall result reflects the popular vote -- which the Democratic superdelegates can reject at whim, and Hunt argues that they should have that leeway. It's ironic that the Democratic Party seems to have the bigger problem with democratic results. -- Ed Morrissey on Captain's Quarters IOW, we should be thanking Barack Obama for busting haids in the DNC. In 1968, while some hippies rioted in the streets, the establishment liberal won the nomination. Four years later, the party nominated George McGovern to beat the incumbent Richard Nixon, who went on to win all electoral votes except those of Massachusetts and D.C. Only George Washington has ever won them all, if memory serves.
See also this Flopping Aces comment from February:It takes 2,025 delegates to win the Democrat nomination. Various news services have differing delegate counts, but Real Clear Politics has Obama at 1,342 and Hillary at 1,265. Reports of delegates available in remaining primaries and caucuses ranges between 716 and 941.
If Obama continues to beat Hillary, he may not accumulate the total number of delegates required for the nomination. At that point the 795 superdelegates (Democrat elected officials) may be the deciding factor. The Clintons are working those superdelegates, most of whom owe something to Bill Clinton, hard. -- Mike's America @ 11:07 pm, February 19, 2008 I guess I'm the last to notice that the superdelegate problem has been made worse by the fact that Heeyowieee Dean and the DNC barred the Demwit delegates from Michigan and Florida. See?As more voters make their choice for the Democratic nomination, there is growing interest in the facts and myths about the race to reach 2208 delegate votes - the number required for a candidate to secure the nomination with Florida and Michigan included. The Obama campaign is claiming, without precedent or justification, that automatic delegates (commonly referred to as "super delegates") should switch to Sen. Obama en masse based on arbitrary metrics, with the aim of tilting the delegate balance in his favor. The fact is: no automatic delegate is required to cast a vote on the basis of anything other than his or her best judgment about who is the most qualified to be president. -- The Delegate Hub: Facts and Myths about the Race for Delegates in the Democratic Nomination (shut off all script running stuff on your browser first, just my own suspicion) IOW, the 2208 is half the delegates plus one, but the total delegate figure includes the currently non-voting MI and FL delegates. So, if the DNC doesn't seat them, it has not just disenfranchised MI and FL, it has turned the primary season into an irrelevant sideshow, and the nominee will be entirely chosen by the superdelegates.
Gee, I wonder who will benefit from that arrangement?
And, if the delegates are seated, or if some part of them (the proposals are to seat half of them, which is what the Pubbies did at the outset; and there is no superdelegate problem on the Pubbie side), it will benefit Hillary.
Not seating those delegates was just a part of rigging the game for Hillary. As Richard Poe wrote, she will be the nominee.
2ndDivisionVet posted this National Post op-ed:Speaking to a fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama attempted to explain his persistent deficit in Pennsylvania primary polls by describing small-town Americans as "bitter" people who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." This is hard stuff, and patronizing, besides. Add to this Obama's characterizations of the "typical white person" (in the context of describing his grandmother, whom he had originally tossed under the campaign bus in order to create a false equivalence with Wright's racism), and one finds something far more damaging than a simple series of gaffes --it is a window into how the Senator sees his countrymen. -- Barack Obama--known by the company he keeps See also this History quiz.
· Who's the RINO now, [characterization deleted]? ·
Many thanks to ansel12 for posting this:Quit embarrassing us.
ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports:"McCain's presidential campaign says he has been attending (North Phoenix Baptist) the Phoenix area church for more than 15 years.
Curiosity about his religion was sparked Sunday when McCain, who has long been identified as an Episcopalian, was asked what role his Episcopal faith plays in his life.
"It plays a role in my life. By the way, I'm not Episcopalian. I'm Baptist," McCain told the Associated Press after a rally in Hilton Head, South Carolina."
"McCain's wife, Cindy, is Baptist and so are their children. The campaign describes his faith as a private matter." -- September 2007: McCain Identifies Himself as a Baptist jdm posted this Red State op-ed:Until today, I have supported Governor Mike Huckabee, solely on the basis of his positions on "Culture of Life" issues. But the time for purity is over. We have a nominee, and it is high time for conservatives to bury any grudges they have against Senator McCain and do everything in their power to help him become the forty-fourth president of these United States. I realize, of course, that many of you have no intention of supporting John McCain... But let's get real for a moment, shall we? The Republican brand is about as popular right now as the kid with blue dye next to him in the swimming pool, and that fact isn't going to change any time soon. The brutal truth of the matter is that John McCain may be our only hope this year. And while many of you no doubt have fantasies about how time in the wilderness will help bring about a restoration of the "Real Republican Party" (as I often did re: Rudy), the reality is that a great deal of damage can be done by a President Obama or Clinton in the next four years. Is that something you're really willing to risk? Three to four Supreme Court appointments? Major tax increases? Implementation of a radical proabortion agenda? Dialing down the War on Terror? Perhaps you are willing to do just that. But as for me and my house, we will strongly support John McCain for president. He may not be perfect, but he's a damn fine politician, and he's light years better than Obama or Clinton. -- Calling all GOP Purists John McCain: "They're going to raise your taxes by thousands of dollars per year, and they have the audacity to hope you don't mind."Google And, thanks neverdem:Either of the Marxists, Obama or Clinton, is just plain dumb. This world is getting too complicated to invoke the analogy of letting Carter win in 1976 so the heir of Reagan will win the White House in 4 years. -- Your Turn: Obama's stance on guns is wrong for Montana Related topic:"The issues are simply too critical for mainstream Democrats and mainstream Republicans to 1) throw away their vote or 2) sit out the election... The year will come when a third party rises in America and Democrats and Republicans seem tired and played out, no longer the powers to beat. But this is not that year." -- Voters will fall into (party) line come November Oh, hey, it could happen -- when the Whigs fell apart, the Republican Party was organized. That was only 150 years ago or so. IOW, it happens all the time. Usually it occurs when the nation is closely divided between two parties, and one of them does something that begins as a popular move but turns sour. For example, the prohibition of alcohol began as a popular move, but it became indelibly linked to the otherwise unrelated Great Depression, and resulted in the destruction of the rulin- uh, forget it, bad example.
Hoover was defeated because of his nutty trade protectionism and banking reserve requirements having brought on economic disaster. The current example is the liberation and reconstruction of Iraq -- you can't go anywhere without seeing some some Demwit shill in the media (or a CINO like Pat Buchanan, perhaps the biggest living fan of Hoover's policies) spin-doctoring it into some kind of quagmire that was rationalized by a series of big fat lies. And that's the fault of all you neoconservative globalist pro-illegal-immigration RINOs.
BTW, the equivalent term for neoconservative is conservative.
My Amazon reviewer ranking has continued to decline, to 1414. I sent a complaint (why did my rank sink 40 spots as I accumulated over 100 "helpful" votes?) and was sent a mostly vague response that had just enough baldfaced lies in it that I wrote back and told them that it was B.S. The faceless drone who concocted the "answer" did not in any way explain how a sudden influx of favorable votes could result in a precipitous fall in rank -- because the only explanation is, the ranking can be arbitrarily and manually manipulated by Amazon. I'm going to post the Permalinks to some of my individual reviews just to scare up a few hundred more votes, and see what else happens.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future."I don't think my opinion means jack [bleep], because I'm an actor. Why do actors think their opinions mean more because you act?"-- Bruce Willis
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Wow, a whopping 124 have visited here since its last update. Meanwhile, the Robinsons have altered the software in very nice ways, including the ways in which members can personalize their "my comments" page. Check out the Manage Blocks and put your interests first. ;')
There's some notion bubbling up in the water cooler of the Demwit mind that the nomination fight is going to divide the party. Considering that the Dhimmicrats have been the party of division, mudslinging, smear, class warfaux, the KKK, Cabrini Green, David Duke, and Arkancide, how would that outcome not be appropriate?To sum up:
The DNC is stuck. If they don't concoct some ad-hoc method of seating delegates of some kind, they'll alienate voters in Florida and Michigan (and didn't New Hampshire risk the same fate?); if they do concoct one, and it frogs the result to steal the nomination from Barack Obama -- who doesn't really have it sown up in the first place -- they'll lose support among black voters, which prior to this and for generations has been nearly rubber-stamp in nature; and if they hand the nomination to Obama with or without seating some kind of delegation from MI and FL, it will alienate non-black voters of all colors, ethnic origins, sexual preferences, and creeds (that last one is a small group, mostly pro-terrorist, anti-US Moslems, who already support Obama), undermine various agendas, and fracture the entertainment industry.
Oh, best part -- Soros supports the dismemberment of Yugoslavia; that's a longtime Clinton goal as well; and Obama will without qualification support the Moslems in the former Yugoslavia. That will split the Europeans along some lines best left to the imagination, and maybe destroy NATO, the EU, and bring about civil war throughout Europe. -- Why would either candidate support a re-vote in Michigan and Florida? Laura Ingraham sez she will vote for McCain as opposed to, say, Michelle Malkin, who reportedly will vote for Hillary.
You may have noticed that Rush has some pull around here. I'm pretty sure he didn't hack in, so it appears that those two messages (the other one is here) signify the FR imprimatur.Hillary is, at first glance, unlikable. The Republican strategy is no doubt to unite the party on the basis of fear and loathing of Hillary. Don't doubt me on this... We gotta work on putting the party back together. The point now, the real focus now is House and Senate races. The conventional wisdom is the Democrats are going to clean our clocks, and they're going to expand their majorities now. They may, but the House and Senate are going to be crucial to thwarting the liberal agenda that's going to come from the Democrat majorities in both those places. Look, the Democrats only have a one-seat majority in the Senate right now. They're going to have a much greater majority than that. Right now Harry Reid needs nine votes to get anything done. Mitch McConnell can afford to lose something like, what, 14 of his Republicans... In the House, it's much the same way. -- Rush Limbaugh Yeah, split the ticket. That'll show those RINOs. The perception among most people -- the great middle -- is that McCain is going to be the conservative in the race. They are going to elect the next president, so that's where the fight is. As a matter of fact, that's where the fight nearly always is. Elect Hillary or Obama (or both, if both are on the ticket) and the midterm elections will be lousy with RINOs. Hey, at least when the ATF and FBI are closing in to shut down your online home-school and hate speech operation, you'll die having voted for what passes for your principles.
FARS:I am NOT, repeat NOT a McCain supporter but to refuse to vote for a REPUBLICAN of any shade and thus help get Hitlery or is it Billery into the White House is a mindboggling mind set... What's the difference in getting Hitlery and her Al Qaeda girl Friday Huma Abedin into the White House... and the unthinking Jihadi imposing his weird religious mind set on us? We lost the Congress and Senate last time round because so many decided not to vote because they were disgruntled!!! This includes some of my closer friends. Or by NOT voting for a REPUBLICAN, even someone like McCain, a RINO in many aspects, to perhaps help Obama as a result, a Moslem till age 16, to control our fate vis-a-vis Iran and the Islamic world and terrorism. Are we also so fanatical in our conservative "ideals" that we are ready to scuttle the ship or burn the barn to get/hurt McCain? ...Are we so hard headed that we are ready to shoot ourselves in the foot to make a point? A point that will make our lives MUCH worse than McCain, or any RINO - except pehaps Ron Paul - could or would ever do - COMPARED to any of the Democrats! ...For God's sake people, please don't do with the election what the West is doing with Islam - ignoring the alternative of what we face by appeasing our INNER desires and PROUDLY and senselessly losing the war. Until McCAin became the apparent candidate for Republicans, this debate and stance causes no great harm. But NOW is the time to rally around the designated Republican - RINO or otherwise and fight the DimRAts instead of continuing to splinter the Republican party, on which the SAFETY of our NATION depends. Certainly compared to the even BEST the DimRats have to offer. -- *
And require TWO Republican votes for a Republican to balance out your lack of a vote for the Nominee? I respect your principles and agree that McCain is not my favorite person BUT do you really think the Democrats won't gangbang the ugly girl if her friends abandon her? McCain may be the better of the only available bad choices. Take a look at this "alternative your not voting may bring. -- Are there any FReepers who support John McCain? Last I checked, about 60 per cent of FReepers support John McCain, according to FR's own polls.
Sez the wife o buckhead (posting under Buckhead's ID):i was a thompson, then romney supporter. however, i feel we owe it to the men and women and their families who have sacrificed in afghanistan and iraq not to let hillary clinton become president. or any left democrat for that matter. -- Why Romney Failed There's still an ignorant whimper on FR that Soros and McCain break bread together. Check out McCain-Soros: A false trail by David Horowitz.Don't worry. As soon as Hillary or Hussein take over the reins of the US, thanks to anti-McCain conservatives, AL Qaeda can start its renewal again. -- nwrep In Ethanol Madness (2006) (just posted on FR in March 2008) I got all satire-y:
"Replacing" one gallon of gasoline from imported oil with a gallon of ethanol from domestic corn costs the nation $7.24 in prices and subsidies. And it's really too bad, I'd much prefer that my money went overseas to the Arabs and Venezuela. At least some of that money gets spent back in the United States, on flight lessons and such. Oh, wait...
And don't forget -- too much corn production due to US subsidies "devastates" the Mexican farmer. Libertarians should note that much of that terrible subsidy money winds up causing that money they spend on cocaine from south of the border to wind up feeding millions of Mexicans on cheap US corn, helping the balance of payments. The hyperbole about ag subsidies far exceeds the leftist hyperbole about the size of the defense budget. Funny thing, both come from the same source.
Who's the RINO now, [characterization deleted]?
Despite help from a good FRiend, comprised of dozens of yes votes, my Amazon reviewer ranking has declined to 1396. Amazon now has Permalinks to individual reviews. Oh, and the comments on reviews feature is oh-so-easy to use now, how lucky for world culture. Oh, and Amazon appears to be punishing me by pushing down my ranking. I screwed up in my latest review, "1st IP" should be "2nd IP". Geez.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future.I guess Brett's wife will be running for quarterback in the near future. -- exile
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Richard Poe has posted what is IMO the most important topic for this election cycle.
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Posted by Richard Poe
On News/Activism 03/01/2008 10:15:57 AM EST · 77 replies
Poe.com | February 29, 2008 | Richard Lawrence Poe
I address this column to that new breed of conservative, the Hillarycon. These are conservatives who support Hillary Clinton. Below I describe the three types of Hillarycon and explain why each is wrong. TYPE 1: The Innocent Hillarycon The first type is the most well-meaning, but possibly the most deluded. Innocent Hillarycons view Hillary as a weaker candidate than Obama, and thus seek to help Hillary win the nomination. They are wrong. Hillary's weakness is an illusion. She is playing rope-a-dope with Obama. By hanging on the ropes, and...
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Before Richard posted that, I had planned to lead with this, from FReeper Polybius:Copperheads who help put a man like Obama that has promised to bug out of the Persian Gulf and leave 70% of the World's known oil reserves to the military control of Iranian Islamic nutjobs who are actively seeking nuclear weapons and the ICBM's to deliver them to the shores of America are no better than traitors.
A traitorous Copperhead who calls himself a "conservative" is even worse than a dumbass Obama peacenik because the peaceniks are too ignorant to know consequensence of their actions. On the other hand, the so-called "conservative" Copperhead rubs his hands with glee at the damage that America will suffer with Obama in the White House because he then believes a "conservative" will then be elected President in 2012.
Whether or not he wraps himself up in the mantle of "conservatism", a Copperhead traitor to America is still a traitor to America. [McCain Says Citizenship a Dead Issue] I'll close with another one for the "Who's the RINO Now, [characterization deleted]?" catalog:when Obama talks about change, it's likely the changes he has in mind are just a return to the Clintonian way of doing things... cutting the U.S. military down so that the resulting "peace dividend" can be spent on social programs... broadcasting to the rest of the world that we are weak and should be attacked... diplomatic negotiations with those who wish us ill and allowing them to take avery advantage of our country... wholesale exportation of America's techology... Supreme Court appointments on the order of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer... no domestic exploration or production of oil and no expansion of our severely limited refining capacity... global warming will become our country's leading religion... cultural Marxism... political correctness, will continue to run amok. In short, an Obama administration would look a lot like the Clinton administration, except that Obama would be even less willing to stand up to the Democrat Party's left wing than was Bill Clinton. Considering that even after seven years of a Republican in the White House, the nation still has not fully recovered from the ill effects of the Clinton years, conservatives should think long and hard about the prospects of even just one term for a President Obama. [Obamanominations]
My Amazon reviewer ranking has declined to 1368. I've got some reviews in mind, but obviously spending time here isn't getting them done.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future."A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." Vice President Al Gore
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As Hillary fails to put on a show of weeping a second time, in order to avoid looking like, well, a woman, McGovern, er, Obama continues to roll in the minds of the drive-by media. Nancy Pelosi is purported to be saying "Don't overrule the voters", while I've named my own choice for the FreeRepublic keyword for Black History Month you may want to check out after you read this:In the Democratic Party there are 796 'Super Delegates.' These are men and women who are delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver by virtue of their position, not because they were elected in primary or chosen in a party caucus... Barack Obama - following Tuesday's 'Potomac Primary' has assumed the lead in the actual delegate count... according to CNN's count, Barak Obama has 1,096 elected delegates (of the 2,025 needed) while Hillary Clinton has 977 - 119 fewer and that ration isn't likely to change much... CNN reports Obama has the pledged support of 157 and Clinton has 234 closing the gap between them to only 42 delegates... that leaves 405 Super Delegates sitting around waiting for offers... they won't just swoop onto the floor and wrest the nomination away from Obama because that would cause a riot in Denver... Michigan and Florida were stripped of their delegates because they ignored the DNC dictum that thou shalt not have a primary election earlier than February 5... The Clintons will arrange for their Super Delegates to reach down to the elected delegates who are members of the Rules and/or Credentials Committees over whom they have some control... I guarantee you that the proportions will be just enough to give the nomination to Hillary. [Hillary and the Super Delegates (How she'll avoid a riot in Denver)] Here's one for the "Who's the RINO Now, [characterization deleted]?" catalog:Despite vicious daily broadsides from Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham (and their sycophants on regional and local talk radio), McCain emerged Tuesday as the front-runner among Republican candidates for president... In responding to questions about the attacks from talk radio's allegedly conservative voices, the senator was gracious and even extended an olive branch. But why should he? Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Ingraham and small-fry talkers taking their agenda from the big-time four have been so unflinchingly critical of McCain that the senator owes them nothing. His campaign, which a few months ago seemed ready for last rites, has been a resurrection story for the political history books. After his multi-state win in every part of the nation on Tuesday, he all but secured the Republican nomination. And he did it without the help of the right-wing talkers. Indeed, he accomplished his comeback while fighting the blowhards' headwind. The radio attacks on McCain were not merely disagreements about policy. They went after him personally and politically... They ripped him up and down... And failed. Ingraham went so far as to say that if McCain is the Republican nominee, she will vote for the Democrat, even if it's Hillary Clinton. [GOP goon squad can't rattle McCain] Perdogg posted a great topic to address this, How many people here will actually vote for Hillary or Obama if McCain is the nominee?, and when given half of that stark choice, FReepers -- who are not really representative of the entire population (because *no one is*) -- pick McCain over Obama and other choices by 58 per cent to a combined 42 per cent. I guess the poll should have had "Hillary" instead of "Obama", huh, RINOs?
My Amazon reviewer ranking has declined to 1362. I've posted a very short review of Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps by Alan Axelrod, but more are on the way.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future."I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change." Vice President Al Gore
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The so-called Democratic Party relies on "super delegates". Barack Obama won 13 states compared with Hillary Clinton's 8 (not sure how New Mexico came out); her popular vote margin of victory (it sez here) was 50.2 to 49.8 percent. Clinton has a lead in super-delegates. Unless and until Obama wins the nomination, I'll continue to say that the fix was in before she ever announced her candidacy, and one mechanism in the fix was the super-delegates. Ted the Swimmer and Lurch, both of Massachusetts, are super-delegates, while Joe Lieberman isn't.
It's a cool system that assigns at least 20 per cent of all delegate votes to various elected officials from that party, along with some emeritus members (party hacks) in order to turn the whole thing into a smoke-filled room, while appearing to be completely free and open and democratic. A Dim coworker pretended to bemoan the "fact" that the Pubbie delegates were assigned winner-take-all by state, while the Dhimmi delegates were assigned based on percentages within each state (in fact, they're not all done that way). So I took a whiz all over his birthday cake and noted that his party uses super-delegates to manipulate the outcome. "That's true," he said, but I could see his surprise and disappointment.Mitt Romney did well on Super Tuesday, but not well enough, and Senator John McCain gained a probably insurmountable delegate lead. Romney has basically dropped out, leaving Huckabee (and Ron Paul, yow) in the race with McCain.
Not only have some FReepers who hate McCain insisted that they won't vote for him -- either staying home, or voting for a minor party candidate, or a write-in -- at least one I've seen claims he or she will vote for Hillary instead. Yeah, that'll send a message. That'll whip those RINOs.
It'll whip those RINOs right back into power, or get rid of all Pubbies, and make it look even more like future candidates need to be RINOs. That'll teach 'em.
As I've noted plenty of times, I will vote for the Republican nominee in November, regardless of who that is.
FReeper Grampa Dave perhaps said it best:If Hiterily gets elected with enough votes in Congress, these will be the good old days.
The purists, who will stay at home because our candidate couldn't walk on water without getting the soles of his Teva's wet will have gifted us with another Clintoon pillaging. * here's nwrep's remarks, also worth noting:Don't worry. As soon as Hillary or Hussein take over the reins of the US, thanks to anti-McCain conservatives, al Qaeda can start its renewal again. * In a vanity topic, FReeper FARS wrote this rejoinder:I am NOT, repeat NOT a McCain supporter but to refuse to vote for a REPUBLICAN of any shade and thus help get Hitlery or is it Billery into the White House is a mindboggling mind set... What's the difference in getting Hitlery and her Al Qaeda girl Friday Huma Abedin into the White House... We lost the Congress and Senate last time round because so many decided not to vote because they were disgruntled!!! This includes some of my closer friends. Or by NOT voting for a REPUBLICAN, even someone like McCain, a RINO in many aspects, to perhaps help Obama as a result, a Moslem till age 16, to control our fate vis-a-vis Iran and the Islamic world and terrorism... Are we so hard headed that we are ready to shoot ourselves in the foot to make a point? A point that will make our lives MUCH worse than McCain, or any RINO - except pehaps Ron Paul - could or would ever do - COMPARED to any of the Democrats! ...Until McCAin became the apparent candidate for Republicans, this debate and stance causes no great harm. But NOW is the time to rally around the designated Republican - RINO or otherwise and fight the DimRAts instead of continuing to splinter the Republican party, on which the SAFETY of our NATION depends. * and this:And require TWO Republican votes for a Republican to balance out your lack of a vote for the Nominee? ...McCain may be the better of the only available bad choices. Take a look at this "alternative" your not voting may bring. * Time for an oldie -- a quiz:
- I say it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease!
- It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
- It's the quacking duck that gets shot.
I'm giving the last word in this entry to FReeper Conservatives_Unite:Psst...I have a secret. In light of all that's happened the past few weeks, I'm going to maintain to the end, and to anyone that asks, that I won't vote for McCain. I may not even admit it to myself. But in November, when I see "Clinton" on that ballot, I'll vote for him.
And this little "secret," My Dear Friends®, is why we're where we are today, and what will happen in November. Every time the MSM showed that "nationwide poll" that said he was the only one that could beat the Beast, his numbers went up. In secret, of course. * · · ·
Back on December 23 I'd noted that I had "Murtha Murtha" in the December 5th entry and had fixed it. Turned out I hadn't, and it had floated through all the subsequent entries. Not only have I fixed it at last, I also fixed it in all my freakin' files. I plan to archive all the December entries off into the 'blog topic, but haven't yet, for a reason noted somewhere below. I think.
These past three weeks, my Amazon reviewer ranking rose and fell, and rose and fell again, settling today at 1356. Thanks to those of you who have been helping me out with yes votes despite my failure to finish my backlog of reviews. I've read two library books and started a third, all of which I checked out of there almost six weeks ago.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future."People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." Vice President Al Gore
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Mitt Romney won the Michigan primary; Senator McCain came in second; Mike Huckabee came in third; I voted for Duncan Hunter, because the primary season is the time to be brave, even foolhardy, in one's use of one's vote. As I've noted plenty of times, I will vote for the Republican nominee in November, regardless of who that is.
Gridlock has the tagline which perfectly fits this context, and one which everyone must keep in mind for the next ten months: "300,000,000 Americans will not be elected President in 2008. Hillary will be one of them."
Also related, a must see. The recent diplomatic activity by the administration is, in part, about the 2008 election. Here's my snip from the topic:The Christian Zionists who are a significant part of his political base on the Christian right, on the other hand, are more determined than ever to block Palestinian statehood. Along with Orthodox Jewish groups, these evangelicals are better organized and more assertive than they were eight years ago, and even more vehemently opposed to the administration policies that led the recent edition of The Economist to profile Bush as "Mr. Palestine." ...So where can they turn? Not to the Democrats, who are trying to support Bush's new approach without talking about it very much... Democrats are also fearful that if they start talking about peace, the hawks and hard-liners will begin smearing them as anti-Israel... Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, writing in Foreign Affairs magazine, said that "too much emphasis has been placed" on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which would "assist the creation of another state that will support terrorism." That's much the same charge that candidate Bush leveled against the Clinton administration eight years ago. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain and former Sen. Fred Thompson were all critical of Bush convening the Annapolis conference, suggesting that the Palestinians aren't ready for peace... The only exceptions come from opposite ends of the political spectrum: Republican Ron Paul on the right and Democrat Dennis Kucinich on the left, neither of whom would be counted among Israel's top 425 friends in the House of Representatives. Keep that in mind, and be vigilant regarding the so-called coverage of the diplomatic efforts; the partisan media shills will continue to baffle and elude and lead you into the kill zone, which in this case means, into voting for some splinter candidate. Here's another of my own comments, I'm too lazy to look up the link, which is on the next page of 200 or 250 messages in my "in forums" screen:Abbas is being played. And Abbas knows he's being played. But as long as it ends up helping him against Hamas, he's okay with that.
One thing though -- if President Bush winds up settling these issues, bringing about "Palestine" (probably officially be "The Arab Republic of Palestinian" or "The Moslem Arab Republic of Palestine"), disarmament of Hamas, marginalization and destruction of Hizbollah, ushering in an era of peace and prosperity to that little corner of the Middle East heretofore merely dreamed of, the Nobel committee will wind up giving the Peace Prize to Bill Clinton for his work in Kosovo. :'D * But the goal is to waste time, to continue to wear down the Islamofascists, to offer an alternative to internecine warfare, civil war, suicide bombings, etcetera, and to encourage the natural tendency of the supposed Arab nation, which is disunity. While I want the Iranian mullahcracy gone, for some time I've been aware that the administration is (at least) hedging its bets and producing a system of containment. That kind of a balance of terror makes it easier to divide and rule.
Speaking of the Middle East, tedbel's analysis in the FR topic Palestine? and various other 'blog-pimping links in that topic is FWIW and IMHO excellent.
Here's a nice segue' into the climate:Vigilanteman: Intersting graphic. The weight of the ice sheets alone has depressed most of Greenland to below sea level. In fact, if all the ice in Greenland were to melt (which took 18,000 years to build), then 88% of the excess could be contained in the Qatarra Depression with a simple 50 mile or so long canal from the Medditerranean to drain it in. [Island Found in Arctic Circle (Warming Island), Ananova, April 17, 2007] My Amazon reviewer ranking sank to 1354 at one point, then suddenly rose into the 1340s for a few days, then slid again to 1350. Thanks to those of you who have been helping me out with yes votes. I will finish my backlog of reviews.
Showtime's "The Tudors" is a bloody, smutty series set in the reign (so far) of Henry VIII. As I don't have cable or satellite, and haven't since 1999 or so, I was only made aware of the series by grabbing a free sample DVD at a local retail chain store. I saw the first season box set over the weekend and nabbed it for the 10 per cent off coupon, plus some buyer points. I haven't opened it yet. That may wind up as one of my new reviews, but that's one of those proverbial hatching things.
Another guilty pleasure is That 70s Show; for Christmas I got season 7, which is what I'd inadvertently asked for on my list; the visit that yielded a copy of "The Tudors" also resulted in my finding season 6 on sale, and the coupon also applied. Season six began a bit slow, perhaps a bit wandering, but rapidly got better, and I've polished it off this week. I've also watched the first seven episodes of season 7. It's been great, really, because I've seen almost nothing of those seasons from broadcast TV.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future.Dennis Miller: "Do you think our Founding Fathers would have put up with any of this ****? They were blowing people's heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee." [2003] *
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I hope you had a great holiday. Take it easy New Year's Eve, please, especially if you live in or near Grand Rapids, Michigan. My Amazon reviewer ranking continued to erode, so I guess no one has heeded my pleas.
Part of the Christmas loot was season two of HBO's "Rome". I've watched the whole thing, and plan to watch it again, soon. I wish it could have a third season. The second season seemed to be in a bit of a rush as well. But, you can't rent 5 acres of Cincetta Studios for years on end, particularly not for a TV show. It would be nice to have a prequel of some sort, but that idea came from reading a recently purchased used copy of "Pompey Magnus". Ideally, I'd be a major rich guy and build a bluescreen-blue inflation-supported geodesic dome about 20 acres in size (on the floor) right here in western Michigan, in order to provide indoor-outdoor year-'round studio space. First project? Heh heh...
This is my pick of the week for primary election discussions:"Ross Perot ran for Prez in 1992. He got 19% of the vote -- Clinton only had 43% of the popular vote, and Daddy Bush staggered in at 37%. Why would Perot do this except to throw the election to Clinton? What was in it for him? Why did Larry King give Perot such a continuous forum if not to make sure that everyone knew not to vote for BushI?
I am looking for the same thing to happen in 2008. It'll be a whole lot of fringe party candidates and the MSM will convince everyone that all the Repubs stink. Commissar Hillary could actually win it with 34-35% of the popular vote if enough is pulled away by the fringers. The voter fraud in the next election is bound to reach epic proportions.
Our best hope is to convince everyone that Hillary is unelectable and the Dems do go for Obama - the true lightweight out if far Left Field." -- Sioux-san (in reply to txrangerette) And, although this is from 2003, this is my pick of the week for global warming discussions:Egged on by tweety bird 'environmentalists,' the natives have pestered the New Zealand government into accepting each and every one of them as environmental refugees, cast adrift by a sea level rise from mean 'ol global warming... French scientists used data collected by altimeters aboard the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite and found - Gasp! - the sea level has been declining for 50 years. So the Tuvalu island is rising from the ocean, not sinking into it. Oh, darn. Caught again. No matter. What's science when there's a little 'ol Marxist political agenda to meet, and you need poster boys to drag across the world stage? In fact, the Tuvalus have destroyed their island paradise. Tuvalu in green-speak means 'ecological disaster.' There are no rivers or sources of potable water. Beachheads are eroding or gone because the sand has been removed for building material. The environmentally sensitive natives have burned most of the vegetation for fuel. The soil is sour and poor. There are no mineral deposits and the primary export is complaining." -- sergeantdave (in reply to shaggy eel) Archimedes Shrugged: The Great Libertarian Racket by Hugh Akston appears at least twice on FR. I found both of these while looking for something entirely unrelated (or so I thought), and given the repeated attempts by Dhimmicrat operatives to support vote-splintering, I wanted to give what little emphasis I can to these.
Ouch! I had another silly editing job to do with the December 5th entry. I just updated the Keywords for nations topic, which prior today was a mere one-post topic. Just edited the original post a bit (had to repost, IOW), and added the actual CIA World Factbook links, lifting that from their website.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future."The callingartbell keyword is attached to topics by trolls and a-holes." -- SunkenCiv
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Have a Merry Christmas, and in case I don't get back in here in time, a Happy New Year. My prayers to those who are in harm's way, and for their families. Love to you all.
This link is good any time of the year -- 'Gifts from the Homefront' routes support to 'Any Servicemember' (Send Cheer to the Troops!)
Since the 18th I've stumbled over the archive for Cedric & Gerard, a pretty funny and very oddball online comic strip. As is usual at this most wonderful time of the year, I've been thinking about that hilarious bootleg video Heyyah Charlie Brown, which combines the Outkast "Heyyah" hit with snips from "A Charlie Brown Christmas".
I had some editing to do. I had "Murtha Murtha" in the December 5th entry, for instance, and fixed that. I changed some formatting. I fiddled with a few other things, including the links to the 43 president pages.
This took me by surprise -- "This account has been banned or suspended." Apparently all of Seamole's posts were also wiped, or perhaps the system now blocks such searches. Hmm, nope, another banned FReeper's are there, and they're from five years ago. Oh well, bon voyage, Seamole!
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future."I don't mind that they're diehards, just as long as they actually die. ;')" -- SunkenCiv
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My Amazon ranking has fallen again, and it won't get up. Christmas is a week away, and I'm a mere 342 votes short of Top 1000 ranking.
I found this old topic -- Navy Says Wreck Found Off Japan is Legendary Sub USS Wahoo -- while searching for something apparently unrelated:Wahoo was last heard from Sept. 13, 1943... officially reported missing Nov. 9, 1943... [sunk by the Japanese] Oct. 11, 1943... During Wahoo's rare foray in the Sea of Japan, [Dudley Walker Morton] reportedly sunk at least four Japanese ships. For the patrol, Morton was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross - his fourth. Morton is credited with sinking 19 ships totaling nearly 55,000 tons during his four patrols in command of Wahoo; his total was second only to his own executive officer, Richard H. O'Kane. Retired Rear Adm. O'Kane went on to command USS Tang (SS 306) and to receive the Medal of Honor. Noted naval historian Theodore Roscoe described Morton as "an undersea ace" in his book "Submarine Operations in World War II." "Few skippers equaled Morton's initiative, and none had a larger reserve of nerve," Roscoe wrote. "Combining capability with dynamic aggressiveness, Morton feared nothing on or under the sea." The US Pacific campaign included systematic sinking of cargo vessels, in order to starve the Japanese home islands of as much of the basics of life as was possible, the same approach used in the Anaconda Plan 1861-1865. The Japanese, by contrast, tortured, vivisected, mass-murdered, looted, and raped on a continental scale. A new topic, Japan's Sorry Failure to Own Up to Its History, discusses this. It includes a quote -- "'The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it,' quipped Oscar Wilde, the cynical playwright whose epigrams mocked his nation's pious-but-phony rationale for empire building." -- which appears to come right out of the manufactured consent propaganda model from Noam Chomsky.
The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran story continues to develop:If I didn't think the President was handling this, I'd probably do some cheap shot, such as posting a graphic showing GWB as Alfred E. Neumann, complete with the "What, Me Worry?" caption."If the Russians are willing to do that, which I support, then the Iranians do not need to learn how to enrich. If the Iranians accept that uranium for a civilian nuclear power plant, then there's no need for them to learn how to enrich," Bush said. * IOW, if they continue to, they're developing weapons, and the US won't accept that. Pelosi would be well advised to better prepare for that eventuality.
the Presidents of the United States, from ConservaPedia:
Question: Did President Lincoln Destroy The U.S.? My answer? No. And Duh! of course not. I'm linking to the thread because many of the replies are thoughtful.
The Lions lost to the Chargers, 51-17. They now have to beat the Chiefs (I used to think that was possible) at home, and the Packers on the road (ditto) just to finish 8-8. They will in fact finish 6-10.
I'd not previously heard of sensitive new aged blokes (also known as SNAGS) which is some kind of apparent coinage by Samantha Brett, writer of the Ask Sam 'blog in the Sydney Morning Herald. That so describes me -- sensitive, new-aged -- hell, I should be made out of gummy bears, I'm so sensitive and new-aged. And I will relocate to Australia if the money's right. ;')
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future."I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming." -- Jimmy Carter
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Wow! Many thanks to whomever it was gave the favorable votes to my Amazon reviews, I've moved up six spots in three days.
In reply to colorado tanker, I pontificated a bit, better than usual.Germany was a greater threat than Japan, but apparently like you I'm pretty sure the decision of V-E first was a politically motivated one. The Japanese were in a similar situation, that of being stretched across a big chunk of Asia, involved in a massive land war for years before Pearl Harbor. Also, the enemy code system was cracked in both cases. The Germans generally had better strategy, but like the Japanese were more of a land war power. Japanese strategy in their side of the Pacific war worked against the British and Dutch, but didn't work worth a damn against the US Navy and Marines and some of the commanders we were lucky to have in that theater. Another thing that didn't work in the Japanese favor was the lack of British interference in the conduct of the Pacific war; we were the only big guns in the fight, and got exactly what we wanted. That was definitely not the case in the Europe and Med theater. -- Memories of Pearl Harbor still fresh, 66 years later adding:Churchill also (for political reasons, but perhaps as much for some odd personal reason) removed troops and capabilities from N Africa on the verge of victory there, in order to vainly pursue the defense of Greece against the Germans. It delayed Axis defeat in N Africa by at least a year, and of course likewise delayed implementation of Churchill's ridiculous "soft underbelly" strategy in Europe, which was, in Italy, as you pointed out some of the most difficult and costly fighting of the war. -- ibid, msg 28 From what is my favorite WWII topic on FR, and at least in my top ten topics of any kind:The Washington's main batteries opened fire at 12 midnight precisely. Her new SG radar fire control system worked perfectly. Between midnight and 12:07 a.m., Nov. 14, the "last ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet" stunned the battleship Kirishima with 75, 16-inch shells. For those aboard the Kirishima, it rained steel. In seven minutes, the Japanese battleship was reduced to a funeral pyre. She went down at 3:25 a.m. -- Autumn, 1942: It came down to one Marine, and one ship, Vin Suprynowicz The NIE on Iran continues to be shredded. Frankly, I've not been paying attention to developments in France, Lebanon, or Somalia over the past few days at least. Of course, I should be cleaning the house, or doing pretty much anything resembling something besides webbin' it. I do have a good bit of my Christmas shopping done.
The Detroit Lions led the Dallas Cowboys for 59 minutes of the game. One of the first things kids learn in football is "fall on the fumble". While it is true that special teams was an embarrassment again, and continuing failure to run the ball in from the 1 yard line has been going on for years, and the score should not have been that close anyway, the goat of the game was the dunce who could have ended the final Dallas drive and won the game simply by falling on Romo's, uh, deflected pass. He should be fined ten grand for that boneheaded error. That goes for every other Lion who tries to pick up a wild fumble instead of just falling on it.
Are you going to vote in the November 2008 election no matter who wins the Republican primary? My answer? Yes. Defeat Hillary, now and in the future.[Those] like me who are economically conservative will vote Republican (even for Guiliani) if it means Hillary won't be elected. The ones who think Iraq is concern #1 will vote Democrat... I prefer people who are bold and non conforming. It's why Duncan is my #1. I know he doesn't stand a great shot in the general which is why I'll vote for Thompson, or even hold my nose and vote Guiliani. -- rb22982
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In the topic Memories of Pearl Harbor still fresh, 66 years later Patriot Hooligan posted this quote of General George S. Patton:"I consider it no sacrifice to die for my country. In my mind, we came here to thank God that men like these have lived rather than to regret that they have died."
That's absolutely perfect on any Pearl Harbor anniversary. Defeat Hillary, now and in the future.If any of the Dems become president, I don't think anyone can stop socialized medicine. -- FocusNexus
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The recent biggies are the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, which claims that Iran stopped its quest for nuclear weapons in 2003, or as FARS said, after the US began its liberation of Iraq; the fact that Murtha has climbed back down from his hideously partisan position of condemning the administration, our President, and our own troops and stated that The Surge is working; and that the US economic collapse is imminent.
Regarding the US economy on the brink, check that link. A US economic crash would literally wreck the world economy, and the haves (us) would be all over the stinky asses of the other haves (OPEC) in about the length of time it takes to say "defcon 3".
Regarding the Murtha flip-flop:Of course, it's only a matter of time before this lame duck neocon unelected president, who lied to us with phony spy data, just as he lied about his AWOLing from National Guard service to stay out of Vietnam, while he was getting blind drunk and snorting dump trucks full of cocaine, and whose daughters are drunken tramps, and whose grandfather colluded with Hitler and assassinated JFK, and who is personally stupid and semi-literate... /sarc /sarc /sarc
Must be tough on those PhDs from the Dark Side of the Force to be constantly having to make public 180s after being shown up by someone they so publicly claim:
A) has no claim to the presidency (at least in the 2000 election)
B) lied about Iraq, lied about al-Qaeda's connection with 9/11 (this is so suppressed by the partisan media shills that few even here discuss that anymore)
C) is dumb as dirt
D) led us into a quagmire, then
E) escalated even after having his policies repudiated in the 2006 election
Meanwhile, our President prevailed in Congress, despite the turncoat from Vermont; engineered a tax cut; led us to a majority in 2002 and 2004, even while pursuing a War on Terror which was opposed by the left, their allies the skinheads, klan, purported libertarians like Pitchfork Pat, and even from within his own political party; where it counted, outmaneuvered implacable opposition to his judicial appointments (obviously didn't win every time though); lost both houses of Congress when the swearing in took place early this year, and yet busted heads and increased US troop committment to the WOT front in Iraq.
So, Dhimmicrats -- when will you be A) balancing the budget via tax increases and B) pulling our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan in order to C) recommit US troops to laying down UN cover fire for the Islamic takeover of the Balkans? -- SunkenCiv Meanwhile, the alleged libertarian folk-hero Ron Paul Says Surge Failed, and We Lost In Southern Iraq. Naturally, the one or two Paulistinian trolls who log on to FR under a variety of different handles leapt to his defense, and not in a good way. IOW, they claim (as Ron Paul does) that The Surge hasn't worked, and that the US shouldn't be in Iraq. ISOW, Ron Paul's supporters are all Dhimmicrats.
Do I know for a fact that the trolls are all just a handful of people pretending to be a horde? Nope. But just how obvious does it have to be, huh?
Regarding the NIE on Iran:...the NIE smells like a load of rotting fish. I think Iran is going to do its best to dispel the conclusions of this report, and (best part) that will result in a LOT of questions from Congress and their partisan media shills, and the right, er, left, heads will roll. -- SunkenCiv
Let's see... the NIE on Iraq (going back years, into the Clinton administration at least) indicated Iraq was working with al Qaeda, and working on the Bomb, as well as chemical and biological weapons. The US liberated Iraq and has been rebuilding that nation for four years or so. Even before our troops went there, the left was claiming that Saddam Hussein and his regime produced nothing but gummy bears and lollipops, not unlike what they said before Afghanistan, but much more loudly.
Now the NIE on Iran sez the mullahcracy *isn't* working on nukes; so when the Bush administration goes in, it'll be without the NIE, and will be our President's ultimate bitch-slap to the Dhimmicrats -- see, we went in regardless, and you're still powerless to stop us from carrying out a policy of destroying terrorism where it exists. Whattayagonnadonow, say we went based on a lie? ;'D -- SunkenCiv One NIE topic also discusses in the election campaign:Brilliant: Bush has done a good job of shutting down Iran's nuclear program. Hillary wants to reverse the successful Bush policy toward Iran. Certainly, if she wins the election, she assumes responsibility for what happens next when she takes the oath of office.
SunkenCiv: Nice! That's the other angle. GWB is positioning the Pubbies for the 2008 election, and having a long term impact on US foreign policy even if the White House is lost. -- The New, Suddenly Correct, NIE on Iran A virtual tickertape parade down the canyon of heroes is due to Ernest_at_the_Beach for his great links, quotes, and analysis on this NIE controversy.
The primary campaign continues to simmer. Hillary has had what is, alas, probably a temporary slip in the polls, and will probably be beaten, and badly beaten, in Iowa.
According to one of FR's own 'blog pimps, Clinton Needs a Victory or for Edwards to Win in Iowa. Meanwhile, Edwards seems to have pulled back from his own negative attacks, as has Obama to some extent. We'll see if Hillary's hypocritical condemnation of so-called mudslinging plays well as her male rivals stand a bit taller and shake their heads like a parent while she throws her childish hissy fit. Again, there are questions about her campaign claims. In their continued cannibalistic parody of the Last Supper, New York state Dhimmicrats help to pull down their entire national party at the height of the primary campaign, in order to A) purge party rivals, B) police idealogical purity, and C) feed the libido of one of the most sanctimonious and self-righteous living politicians. That last one is saying a lot, because Schumer comes from NY. ;')
I've added some boldface, moved the November posts into the holding topic, and have been considering starting a fresh 'blog topic to obviate the need to view all the clutter of the old one. Also this week I've bemoaned my continued slide down the Amazon reader reviewer rankings. Sixty-plus visits to my FR profile since the 30th suggests someone actually reads this. Okay. Giving me 400 or so 'yes' votes would make a cheap and very welcome and appreciated Christmas present. :') Of course, I'll need to get busy and post the half-dozen or so long-delayed reviews. I've got some time off coming up, and will probably spend 99 per cent of it online, so I have no real excuse.
Defeat Hillary, now and in the future.Who put a nickel in everybody? I did. -- Former spy chief urges oil cutback
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