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I totally agree!! I must also take my hat off to the woman, who I believe was a liberal, who appeared to be a Obama supporter, going over put her arm around him, chastising others in the crowd, whilst accompanying, one might even say protecting/shielding this young man, as he made his way through the crowd.

She repeatedly stated, “shame on you” {to the crowd goons} & REPEADILY said “FREEDOM OF SPEECH”, “FREEDOM OF SPEECH”, “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” - quite forcefully, quite loudly and quite rightly.

I say CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, finally a liberal who respects freedom of speech for ALL.

My mom always told me that the real test of a truly free society is how adamantly you protect the free speech of those with whom you DO NOT AGREE; even Hitler, Stalin & AQ protect the free speech of those with whom they agree!

SEMPER FI WARRIOR; welcome Mere words could never express how honored we are to have you within our ranks.

God bless you!

[December 5, the Chicago Tribune published an article reporting that Blagojevich was under surveillance. Blagojevich immediately stopped his efforts to sell the Senate seat and began to work on his legal defense.]

Another question that should be asked, aside from the details of the corruption, the pay-offs or promise of pay-offs and ALL the players involved is, why in the hell did the Chicago Tribune print the details of this undercover operation and how did they know he was being investigated?

I do not hear the howls of ‘leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of the truth’ that we heard from dems when Plame was “outed”. Where are all those unrelenting, inconsolable, unwavering, liberal/democratic ‘truth seekers’ that were shouting from every rooftop across the country for blood?

I want the truth and the whole truth - anyone involved, actively or passively should be indicted and prosecuted. Liberals felt it was appropriate to send Scooter Libby to prison for his obscure involvement in one of the biggest trumped up case of political payback in history, so where is their outrage and unwavering pursuit of truth & justice?

Hypocrisy? I think it rises far above that level, it is now a case of covering tushies and protecting the man they espoused was the “One” that would “change” politics forever, “change” we could believe in - I guess it is certainly is a change from the current administration but a throw back to the last administration.

I also want to know why there was a 3 week gap of calls/evidence being chronicled in the “complaint”. What was said & done and by whom during that time?

Where are all the investigative journalists now? MSNBC isn’t even running the story and many liberal obama newspapers aren’t covering it either. Perhaps they are still recovering from their trips & investigations up in Alaska or maybe they are too exhausted from trying to find any anti-Bush stories to run, in an attempt to distract people from Senate-gate!

In order to see the ACORN provisions in this latest bill, you must go back to previous bill. http://www.openmarket.org/2008/06/16/an-untrustworthy-housing-fund-housing-bill-has-likely-acorn-slush-fund/

Below is an article written in July of 2008, that highlights that the The Affordable Housing Trust Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund provisions will benefit groups like acorn & la raza.

I do not know if this provision has now been removed beause I keep getting conflicting reports, but at least it will reveal where the ACORN provision is.......

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745181676698197.html

Democrats on Capitol Hill have helped to steer millions of dollars in housing and other grants from the federal government toward Acorn and groups like it. The groups must qualify and compete for the money, which is typically doled out from the federal government to states and municipalities. The housing package includes a new, permanent source of affordable-housing money that congressional Democrats and grass-roots groups have sought for years. The Affordable Housing Trust Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund will be funded by a tax on mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage titans.

That tax eventually will channel upwards of $600 million annually in grants for developing and restoring housing, mostly as low-income rentals, available to Acorn and other groups. Democrats on Capitol Hill and housing groups say the housing-assistance money is vital to helping Americans hit hardest by what some call the largest drop in home values since the Great Depression. But they acknowledge the perception of political conflict in giving federal funds to an organization that does political work.

“We are guarding against it,” said Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank in an interview. He secured the Affordable Housing Trust from his seat as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. “We have a lot of restrictions in the bill” banning using the housing money for lobbying or political purposes, he said.

He added that housing-advocacy groups aren’t unique in having an affinity for government officials who can steer money their way. “People who build affordable housing tend to support the Democrats...who support affordable housing,” he said. “I am a lot less worried about this relationship than I am about the Pentagon and Lockheed.”

what a great post - thank you for sharing it; I have already sent this to several friends and posted it on another blog that I am a member of!!!

This is absolutely hysterical.

How embarrassing for the ‘scrappy kid from Scranton’!

that is his attempt at humor (as if their candidacy isn't funny enough - LOL)

then how do you participate in their polling? I saw nowhere to “sign up” for consideration.

I think it is very interesting that you have to pay $29.99 a MONTH to participate in rasmussen polls. I take several polls a month and they ‘pay’ me.

How can these polls be accurate if only people who can afford to blow $29.99 a month on polls can participate?

I called them too. I read this magazine occasionally, but I assured her I would not be reading it again.

I told her I was outraged that Michelle O’Drama got a “puff piece” and Sarah Palin got a “hatchet job”.

She asked if I had actually read the story, because Sarah Palin’s story highlights were just a cover teaser. I asked if she had bother to read it; I explained that the piece glanced off Palin’s achievements and focused on allegation, rumor and induendos, while michelle’s piece gloss over her deeds, words and associations, while concentrating on how wonderful she is!

I asked the woman if she believed we independent woman were idiots and going to swallow this junk whole?

I told her the more stories like this that are published, the closer truly independent women will inch toward McCain/Palin.

I told her that journalism is dead thanks to rags like US!

I am so pissed off I could spit.

MORE HPOCRISY FROM THE LEFT WING!!!!!!!!

why is it that every time I go to watch a political clip on YouTube it is “no longer available for viewing”?

Why is free speech and freedom of expression only reserved for the left-wing nuts?

maybe you have something there; maybe all those opposed to illegal immigration & in support of the brave men & women of the Minuteman org. should make OUR views known.

Here is a web-link to the blackmailers, I warn you it is outrageous website. The comparrison of the Minutemen to the KKK just goes to show they don’t understand what the KKK was (maybe it is the language barrier?).

http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/

you are so right, here is some key points and I will put link to full report.
http://www.killology.com/art_mass_slaughter.htm

Mass Slaughter In Our Schools: The Terrorists’ Chilling Plan? By Chuck Remsberg Senior PoliceOne Contributor

Part 1 of 3
[Probably the last place you want to think of terrorists striking is your kids’ school. But according to two trainers at an anti-terrorism conference on the East Coast, preparations for attacks on American schools that will bring rivers of blood and staggering body counts are well underway in Islamic terrorist camps.

The intended attackers have bluntly warned us they’re going to do it. They’re already begun testing school-related targets here.They’ve given us a catastrophic model to train against, which we’ve largely ignored and they’ve learned more deadly tactics from....]

[How we know they’re coming.
Al-Qaeda has publicly asserted the “right” to kill 2,000,000 American children, Rassa explained, and has warned that “operations are in stages of preparation” now. He played vivid videotapes confiscated in Afghanistan, showing al-Qaeda terrorists practicing the takeover of a school. The trainees issue commands in English, rehearse separating youngsters into manageable groups and meeting any resistance with violence. Some “hostages” are taken to the rooftop, dangled over the edge, then “shot.”

“Any place that has given [Islamic terrorists] trouble, they’ve come after the kids,” Grossman said. Muslim religious literature, according to Rassa, states clearly that the killing of children not only is “permitted” in Islam but is “approved” by Mohammed, so long as the perpetrators “are striving for the general good” as interpreted by that religion.

He cited instances in Indonesia where girls on their way to school have been beheaded and in other countries where children have been shot, mutilated, raped or burned alive.

In this country this year [’06], Rassa said, there have been several school bus-related incidents involving Middle Eastern males that raise suspicion of terrorist activity. These include the surprise boarding of a school bus in Florida by two men in trench coats, who may have been on a canvassing mission, and the attempt in New York State by an Arab male to obtain a job as a school bus driver using fraudulent Social Security documents. The latter gave an address in Detroit, home to a large colony of fundamentalist Muslims.

Rassa claimed that floor plans for half a dozen schools in Virginia, Texas and New Jersey have been recovered from terrorist hands in Iraq.

The terrorists’ tactical model.

A “dress rehearsal for what terrorists plan to do to us” has already taken place, Rassa and Grossman agreed. That was the brutal takedown in 2004 of a school that served children from 6 to 17 years old in Beslan, Russia.

Some 100 terrorists were involved, nearly half of whom were discreetly embedded in the large crowd of parents, staff and kids who showed up for the first day of school; the rest arrived for the surprise attack in SUVs, troop carriers and big sedans. Across a three-day siege, 700 people were wounded and 338 killed, including 172 youngsters.

If a similar assault were launched against a school in your jurisdiction, how would you and your agency respond? Consider this modest sampling of challenges that were deliberately planned or arose from the ensuing chaos at Beslan, as outlined by Rassa:

The school was chosen because it was one of the taller buildings in the area and had a very complicated floor plan, making a rapid and effective counter-assault by responders extremely difficult. Offender weaponry included AK-47s, sniper rifles, RPGs and explosives, with everything the terrorists needed carried in on their backs. RPGs were fired at a responding military helicopter and at troops.

More than 1,000 men, women and children, including babies, were penned in an unventilated gym and a cafeteria. As the days passed without food or water and inside temperatures rose to 115 degrees, survivors were eating flowers they’d brought for teachers and fighting for urine to drink out of their shoes in desperation. Women and some children were repeatedly and continuously raped.

* Adult males and larger male students were used as “forced labor” to help fortify the building, then shot to death. Bodies were thrown out of an upper-story window, down onto a courtyard. Attempts at negotiation by responders were used by the terrorists strictly as an opportunity to buy time to solidify their fortifications.

Surviving hostages were surrounded by armed guards standing on deadman switches, wired to explosives. All entrances to the building as well as stairwells and some interior doorways were booby-trapped. Youngsters were forced to sit on window sills to serve as shields for snipers. “Black widows” (potential suicide bombers) were rigged so their bomb belts could be detonated by remote control when leaders considered the timing was right. The terrorists stayed cranked up on some type of amphetamine to keep awake.

Armed, outraged parents and other civilians, some of them drunk, showed up and started “rolling gunfights” outside in a futile effort to defeat the takeover. The crowd identified one embedded terrorist and “literally ripped him apart.” The media was everywhere, unrestrained. So many people were milling around that responders often could not establish a clear field of fire.

When troops finally stormed the school in a counter-assault on the third day, “pure pandemonium” reigned. Soldiers and the kids they were trying to rescue were gunned down mercilessly. Explosions touched off inside started multiple fires.

Responders who made it inside had to jump over trip wires as they “ran” up stairs under fire from above. By then terrorists were holding hostages in virtually every room. Rescue teams were subjected to continual ambushes. Gunfights occurred predominately within a 6-ft. range, with some responders having to fight for their lives in places so cramped they couldn’t get off their hands and knees.

Some children successfully rescued from the building were so crazed by thirst that they ran to an outdoor spigot and were killed by a grenade as they filled their hands with water.

Terrorists who escaped during the melee ran to homes of embedded sympathizers who hid them successfully and were not immediately suspected because they were considered “non-strangers” in the community. Some townspeople who volunteered to help as stretcher bearers for the injured were, in fact, embedded terrorists.

During the siege “at least four people or agencies claimed to be in charge. Actually, no one was in charge and no one wanted to be.”
“Osama bin Laden has promised that what has happened in Russia will happen to us many times over,” Grossman warned. “And Osama tries very hard never to lie to us.”......]

[What’s likely here.

Probably not so many terrorists involved at a single location. Moving that big a contingent into place would likely attract too much attention and thwart the attack. Grossman describes a more likely possibility, in his opinion:

Terrorist cells of four operatives each might strike simultaneously at four different schools. They may pick elementary schools, or middle schools with no police officers on site, where the girls are “old enough to rape” but students are not big enough to fight back effectively.

The targets may be in states “with no concealed-carry laws and no hunting culture” and in communities where “police do not have rifles.” Rural areas could be favored, where 30 minutes or more might be required for responders to arrive in force.

The attackers will probably “mow down every kid and teacher they see” as they move in to seize the school. They may plant bombs throughout the buildings, and “rape, murder and throw out bodies like they did in Russia.” Emergency vehicles responding and children fleeing will be blown up by car bombs in the parking lot.

In all, 100 to 300 children could be slaughtered in a first strike.

Terrorists capable of this are already embedded in communities “all over America,” Grossman and Rassa agreed. More will probably gain entry surreptitiously from Mexico, making southern California potentially a prime target....]

http://www.killology.com/art_mass_slaughter.htm

It is exactly as all of us that have loved ones in Iraq have been saying for a LONG TIME; although the mainstream media & the left keep reporting that it is all going so badly in Iraq, it really isn't going badly at all.

Is the progress slow = yes
Is every Soldier killed a tragedy = yes
Are the images of death & destruction beyond horror = yes

BUT things are improving slowly every day, the Iraqis do yearn to be free, the majority of the Iraqis are grateful for everything that the Coalition Forces have/are doing for them and they are humbled by the sacrifices made by the Soldiers & their families to help [them] achieve their freedom.

I think most of the Right understood, when we changed our tactics to Search & Destroy (replacing Clinton's 'Cut & Run policy' and his notorious 'Bury Your Head in the Sand policy' that cost so many American lives) that this war on terror would last a life time. I can not understand now how many on the left & even a few on the Right, can say "okay, time to pull out".

This gesture by the Iraqis & other Middle Eastern countries is proof that we are making some progress in the Middle East and a free Iraq will mean a greater chance of long term peace taking hold in the Middle East.

Katrina has been awful, but the offer of aid from so many countries that I thought would be toasting our disaster, has been a great testament to George W. Bush's vision and the wonderful work of the US Military & Coalition Forces.

you have honestly got to go to this website to believe it. The tone of the rant is quieter and there is no screech of death chants, but the messages are the same.

They are however willing to discuss any questions you may have regarding the error in your thinking.

I suggest you also read this book (The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims): http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008038.php - this shows that 'WhyIslam' is noting telling us the whole story, this is why I answer, Why Islam indeed!!!

yes, I read 2 as well, but the details of the 2nd one, in Il, I didn't see listed.

This guy is SCUM!!!!! He actually called for Muslims to rise up and kill British troops - this is why Tony Blair fired him. He then went on to join another political party (the nutcase showcase party).

This web articles and the links provided are very interesting. I also intend to notify Protest Warrior to see if we can't 'mingle' at the events this scumbag traitor will be at >>>>>>> watch this space.

There is a lot more to the decision, please visit the site to read it all. Judge Young really let him have it, too bad all our Judges aren't so loyal to this country!!!

I think that this website, www.jihadwatch.org, is GREAT. I receive regular emails from them and they are always thought prevoking and enlightening.

There is a link to the original "Ottawa Citizen" story, in the jihadwatch story.

There is more, there always is...................

This story has been put on Aljazeera, as has many of these IDIOTS statements and stories. Talk about aiding the enemy during times of war.