Brave men and heroes.

With the Senate runoff election in Georgia, the issue of Max Cleland has came back up. Cleland, in case some of you may not remember, lost three limbs in an accident in Vietnam. He won a Senate seat but lost it in a bitter election. Both sides slung mud but Cleland lost, probably as much over his leftie voting record as anything else. Of course Kerry, with his damnable comments about American service men in Vietnam, did much to negate any sympathy vote Cleland may have won otherwise.


In one of the forums I occasionally opine in another member quoted Ann Coulter writing about Cleland and the Democrats. I didn’t believe, and so noted.

“Fred, the Coulter quote looks like one of those made up quotes that float around the Internet supposedly written by Jay Leno, Maureen Dowd, etc. And if she wrote it, it exists some place on the Internet. Quotes claiming to come from Newsweek do not impress me.

But that is beside the point.

Those who claim there was no bravery in the incident in which he lost his limbs are like those on the Left who claimed that there was no bravery in McCain getting shot down, or those on the Right re Kerry serving on a Patrol Boat or the Lefties denigrating Bush going through flight training and flying a F102.

The bravery is in the act of going in harm's way.

All four acted bravely, as millions of others have done. The soldier who died in Vietnam is dead. The ANG pilot who crashed is dead. The Navy seaman who was killed on his ship when a missile misfired is dead. All died serving the country. Millions of others were injured. All were brave.”

But the quote had been more or less accurate and a link to her article was promptly provided. If I ever want to find the missing Dead Sea Scrolls I will start a thread about them and then deny they exist. An intrepid blogger will show up at my front door with them in a matter of minutes. But I digress.

Coulter wrote:

“Former Sen. Max Cleland is the Democrats' designated hysteric about George Bush's National Guard service. A triple amputee and Vietnam veteran, Cleland is making the rounds on talk TV, basking in the affection of liberals who have suddenly become jock-sniffers for war veterans and working himself into a lather about President Bush's military service….

….On "Hardball" Monday night, Cleland demanded to see Bush's pay stubs for the disputed period of time, May 1972 to May 1973. "If he was getting paid for his weekend warrior work," Cleland said, "he should have some pay stubs to show it."

The next day, the White House produced the pay stubs. This confirmed what has been confirmed 1 million times before: After taking the summer off, Bush reported for duty nine times between Nov. 29, 1972, and May 24, 1973 — more than enough times to fulfill his Guard duties. (And nine times more than Bill Clinton, Barney Frank or Chuck Schumer did during the same period.)

….Moreover, if we're going to start delving into exactly who did what back then, maybe Max Cleland should stop allowing Democrats to portray him as a war hero who lost his limbs taking enemy fire on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix. In fact, Cleland could have dropped a grenade on his foot as a National Guardsman — or what Cleland sneeringly calls "weekend warriors." Luckily for Cleland's political career and current pomposity about Bush, he happened to do it while in Vietnam.

There is more than a whiff of dishonesty in how Cleland is presented to the American people. Terry McAuliffe goes around saying, "Max Cleland, a triple amputee who left three limbs on the battlefield of Vietnam," was thrown out of office because Republicans "had the audacity to call Max Cleland unpatriotic." Mr. Cleland, a word of advice: When a slimy weasel like Terry McAuliffe is vouching for your combat record, it's time to sound "retreat" on that subject.

Cleland wore the uniform, he was in Vietnam, and he has shown courage by going on to lead a productive life. But he didn't "give his limbs for his country," or leave them "on the battlefield." There was no bravery involved in dropping a grenade on himself with no enemy troops in sight. “

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Plainly caught in denial, although agreeing that such comments were bad by anyone, I replied.

Thank you Fred:

Based on the article I say that Coulter would have been better off not writing the article and she was wrong. As much as I enjoy her quick wit and sharp tongue she has over reached herself in this column and deserves to be told, 'Shut up."

Coulter is a partisan as is Cleland and Terry McAuliffe. Both were very much involved in dishonest attacks on Bush and like many times in life she let her temper get the best of her and deservedly gets zapped for it.

But like the finger in the eye or the unseen head slap in the NFL, the gouger and slapper also deserve condemnation and should also be told "Shut Up." Better Cleland should have used his background to (correctly) point out our strategy, at that time in Iraq was remarkably similar to Vietnam... kill some terrorists and fly away... than complain that Bush was AWOL when the White House was showing TANG pay records. The Vietnam strategy was wrong. Rumsfeld's Iraq war strategy was wrong. (But the objectives of both were honorable and worthy.)

Besides the fact partisan attacks regarding the service of an individual are just wrong, I think we make the mistake of confusing "brave" with "hero."

Vietnam was not a "battlefield" and Cleland was not a "hero." Both are exaggerations. Cleland's injuries were the result of an accident. His bravery was in being there.

To be a hero a person must do something beyond being brave. You have the soldier falling on a live grenade to save friends, a Sgt York calmly taking the German machine guns out of action and capturing a large number of troops... a NY fireman going back in and up the WTC towers when he knew it could collapse any moment... the passengers of UAL flight 93 who crashed it rather than letting the terrorists fly it into a building.

Bravery is knowingly going in harm's way. Heroism is taking actions that you know will likely kill or harm you while benefiting others.

There are many brave people. There are few heroes.

We live in the age of hype and overstatement. It is time we settle down and start remember that words have meaning.

The origin of the Marine Corp hymn

It is amazing what you can stumble on to on the Internet. If you ever wondered about the origin of the songs of our military, this article will tell you.

That it is written by a Marine seems to have caused a bit of bias, but when you can do it, it ain't bragging.

Is Obama watching the terrorist attacks in India?

Evidently the Iraqi people are,

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's parliament on Thursday approved by a wide margin a security pact with the United States that lets American troops stay in Iraq for three more years.

The vote in favor of the pact was backed by the ruling coalition's Shiite and Kurdish blocs as well as the largest Sunni Arab bloc, which had demanded concessions for supporting the deal.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared to have won the comfortable majority that he sought in order to give the agreement additional legitimacy.

Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said an "overwhelming majority" of the lawmakers who attended the session voted in favor of the pact by a show of hands. The parliament's secretariat, which counted lawmakers as they entered the chamber, said 220 out of 275 legislators attended.

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The religion of peace strikes again.

Carter's failures in 1979 lead directly to what is happening now.

You cannot negotiate with these people. They seek to kill to intimidate.

It will be interesting to hear what Obama has to say about it

The French Man

Europe continues to be the canary in the coal mine, only in this case the mine is located in France.

We get this from the Brussels Journal, which continues to be one of the few that will step up to the plate on certain matters.

Eric Zemmour, a French journalist who writes for Le Figaro, is at the center of a storm of controversy following comments he made on television November 13. Zemmour, born in Paris, is from a family of Jewish Berbers who left Algeria after the Algerian war. Zemmour’s main point was that there are different races distinguishable by skin color. Both the French paper press and the blogosphere have had a field day with this story, accusing him of resurrecting the Nazi theory of race, of being a “Lepeniste”, of making comments that emit a nauseating odor, of being a promoter of ethnic separationism, of triggering a “civil war” between Jews, blacks, and Arabs, of expressing the malaise of French “Negrophobes”, of seeking a return of “a white France”, etc...
Here is a small portion of the whole conversation between Zemmour; Isabelle Giordano, the moderator of the show; Rokhaya Diallo, a black woman from Senegal and president of an organization called “The Indivisable Ones”; Vincent Cespedes, another of many long-winded French philosophers who have nothing to say and take an eternity to say it; and Renan Demirkan, a German actress and writer of Turkish origin:


- Eric Zemmour: There is racial “métissage”, that is, the mixture, physically, of races.

- Rokhaya Diallo: What are races? What do you mean by “races”?

- Eric Zemmour: If there are no races, there's no “métissage”!

- Rokhaya Diallo: Well, no, because maybe it’s the second type that you were talking about... [She is referring to the “métissage” of cultures]

- Eric Zemmour: So there is no problem in that case!

- Rokhaya Diallo: No, because you are talking about the two types of “métissage”, so perhaps the second type exists.

- Eric Zemmour: Yes, the second...

- Isabelle Giordano and Eric Zemmour together: Because for you Rokhaya, races do not exist?

- Rokhaya Diallo: No, well, I...

- Vincent Cespedes: Nor do they exist for scientists.

- Isabelle Giordano: We’re listening to her... [The meaning of the French text is not entirely clear.]

- Eric Zemmour: What interests me in this story – I’ll be quick, is that I have the feeling that the consecration of races during the period of the Nazis and before has been replaced by a denial of the existence of races. And to me, one is as ridiculous as the other. What do you mean they don’t exist? You can clearly see that they do exist!

- Rokhaya Diallo: But how can you tell? I don’t understand what you are seeing...

- Eric Zemmour: Well, skin color, quite simply...

- Rokhaya Diallo: And so according to you, skin color means that I belong to a race different from yours?

- Eric Zemmour: Of course you do! No, but... that you would rediscover...

- Rokhaya Diallo: Oh well, this is interesting...

- Eric Zemmour: It’s obvious, I belong to the white race, you to the black race!

- Rokhaya Diallo: No. I belong to the French community and...

- Vincent Cespedes: Maybe that reassures you, Eric. Does that reassure you to belong to the white race!

What interest me here is the claim that race doesn't exist, or at least to "scientists."

Well, if race doesn't exist, what is all this chatter about diversiy and the good that it does? I've never put much emphasis on race myself, looking at my rather mixed background and the fact that I can't seem to get much further back than the early 1800's it just didn't seem all that important.

Now I can understand that a minority would want to be assured a fair shot at the pie. But I think that with the election of Obama we can pretty well lay aside the claim that America is a racist country, although I'm sure there are some racists alive and well in the country.

But this grabbed me.

- Eric Zemmour: It’s obvious, I belong to the white race, you to the black race!

- Rokhaya Diallo: No. I belong to the French community and...

Seems kinda strange, eh? I would ask, why can't you be black and a member of the French community, whatever that is.

It appears that at least some inn Europe are starting to catch on.

Eric Zemmour, questioned exclusively on the phenomenon of migrations and their consequences, was not afraid to affirm: “What is happening is a demographic tsunami.” He also revealed the confidential remarks of a minister, unnamed, who confided in him that “We are witnessing the end of the Roman Empire.” [...]

In addition, Zemmour declared himself in agreement with a quote from General de Gaulle:

“It is good that there are yellow, black and brown Frenchmen. They show that France is open to all races and that her mission is universal. But on the condition that they remain a small minority. Otherwise, France would not be France. We are above all a European people of the white race, of Greco-Latin culture, and of the Christian religion [...] Do you believe that the French body can absorb ten million Muslims, who will perhaps become 20 million tomorrow and 40 million after that? If we allow integration, if all the Arabs and Berbers of Algeria were considered as Frenchmen, what would prevent them from coming and settling on the continent where the standard of living is so much higher? My village would no longer be called Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, but Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées!”

These famous words were uttered by de Gaulle in 1959.

What few admit openly (although Zemmour clearly hints at it) is that France is being conquered, not merely immigrated to. And so there will not be assimilation of foreigners into the French population, but the reverse – the partial assimilation (through rape and intermarriage), and the partial integration through ghettoization, of the French population into a foreign population.

Christmas Gift!

And a Happy Thanksgiving to You and Your Family...

John received a parrot as an early Christmas gift.
The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary.
Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude,
obnoxious and laced with profanity.

John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by
consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and
anything else he could think of to 'clean up' the bird's vocabulary.
Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot.
The parrot yelled back.

John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw up his hands, grabbed the
bird and shoved him in the freezer.

For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed.
Then suddenly there was total quiet.
Not a peep was heard for over a minute.

Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot,
John quickly opened the door to the freezer.

The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched
arms and said 'I believe I may have offended you
with my rude language and actions.
I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions
and I fully intend to do everything I can to
correct my rude and unforgivable behavior.'

John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude.
As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a
dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued....

........"May I inquire as to what the turkey did?'

Hat tip to Shawn.

Up Up and Away!

This is funny. And all Lefties should watch it to the end.

And a hat tip to either Grant M or Jimmy M. (I'm having a Senior Moment.)

Christmas No No No Ho Ho

You knew it would come to this.

FGCU administration has banned all holiday decorations from common spaces on campus and canceled a popular greeting card design contest, which is being replaced by an ugly sweater competition. In Griffin Hall, the university's giving tree for needy preschoolers has been transformed into a "giving garden."

The moves boil down to political correctness.

"Public institutions, including FGCU, often struggle with how best to observe the season in ways that honor and respect all traditions," President Wilson Bradshaw wrote in a memo to faculty and staff Thursday. "This is a challenging issue each year at FGCU, and 2008 is no exception. While it may appear at times that a vocal majority of opinion is the only view that is held, this is not always the case."

Bradshaw's directive struck a chord with FGCU employees. The Staff Advisory Council received 44 anonymous comments on the issue; all were against the ban on holiday decorations.

It goes with out saying that this demonstrates a typical far Left position that always denies and attacks anything traditionally American.

controlmonkey said it best:

What FGCU has done is this: They have turned political correctness into a religion. Also, by banning displays that pay homage to other religions, they are forcing their the students to practice the college mandated religion which is political correctness. Can they not see what they have done ? These are people that are paid by us to teach our children @ a college level?

Uh, Mr. controlmonkey, they don't give a damn about what you like.

Christmas Llghts! Got'em up early!

Took so much work I think I'll just leave up year round.

;-)

Hat tip to Mike L

Animal Farm, circa 2008

I got to thinking about the bail out, and for some reason this came to mind.

Squealer: "Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples."
Surely, comrades, surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?
Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.

"Animal Farm," George Orwell

Seems right up to date, eh?

Paging Mr. Gore! Paging Mr. Al Gore!

Al must have his ears covered.

The South Regional News story states the cold will challenge record lows throughout the Southeast tonight. Temperatures will drop into the 20s as far south as northern Florida and central Louisiana.

Investment Banking Logic

Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.00.

The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day he drove up and said, 'Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died.'

Chuck replied, 'Well, then just give me my money back.'

The farmer said, 'Can't do that. I went and spent it already.'

Chuck said, 'OK, then, just bring me the dead donkey.'

The farmer asked, 'What ya gonna do with him?

Chuck said, 'I'm going to raffle him off.'

The farmer said 'You can't raffle off a dead donkey!'

Chuck said, 'Sure I can. Watch me.'

A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, 'What happened with that dead donkey?'

Chuck said, 'I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898.00.'

The farmer said, 'Didn't anyone complain?'

Chuck said, 'Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.'

Chuck now works for Tim Geither the new Secretary of Treasury. He is a career employee of the Treasury Department. Part of the new Change. Insuring all the bailout funds are routed to the banks, not the poor slob loosing the home. What bullshite.

Hat tip to Grant M!

Palin watches turkey slaughter

This is what passes as news in the APHussein news bureau and the Denver Post now days.

The reporter should be glad it wasn't a hog slaughtering plant.

Or a Muslim plant doing a ritual slaughter of goats.

WASILLA, ALASKA — Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one lucky turkey, but the video that shocked some viewers captured what was happening in the background.

As she answered questions Thursday at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla cameras from the Anchorage Daily News and others showed the bloody work of an employee slaughtering birds behind the former Republican vice presidential candidate.

On the video, Palin didn't comment about the slaughter as she answered questions, saying she's thankful that her son's Stryker brigade is relatively safe in Iraq and the rest of her family is healthy and happy. She said she's glad to be back in Alaska.

And to think, children actually learned that we kill and eat turkeys!

Wow and all that stuff.

There is crime and there is crime against Muslims

Now read the following very carefully.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents stormed a port on Friday hunting the pirates behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that was the world's biggest hijack, a local elder said.

Separately, police in the capital Mogadishu said they had ambushed and shot dead 17 Islamist militants, in the latest illustration of the chaos in the Horn of Africa country that has fueled a dramatic surge in piracy.

The Sirius Star -- a Saudi vessel with a $100 million oil cargo and 25-man crew from the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Croatia, Poland and Britain -- is believed anchored offshore near Haradheere, about half-way up Somalia's long coastline.

"Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country and hijacking its ship is a bigger crime than other ships," Sheikh Abdirahim Isse Adow, an Islamist spokesman, told Reuters. "Haradheere is under our control and we shall do something about that ship."

Now go back and read that last paragraph over.

"Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country and hijacking its ship is a bigger crime than other ships," Sheikh Abdirahim Isse Adow

Let that sink in. Does that tell you can't expect to do reasonable western style business with these people?

Well, it should.

It should also tell you why Shari law can never be allowed into a western style democracy for any reason.

How to select who gets laid off.

I got this from Seattle Greg.

As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure that the clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8%, but since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off eight of our employees instead. This has really been eating at me for awhile, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go.

So, this is what I did. I strolled thru our parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.

Sadly funny.

Age, wisdom and things like that.

Got this from Jimmy M.

A guy is 71 years old and loves to fish. He was sitting in his boat the other day when he heard a voice say, 'Pick me up. '

He looked around and couldn't see any one. He thought he was dreaming when he heard
the voice say a gain, 'Pick me up.'

He looked in the water and there, floating on the top, was a frog.

The man said, 'Are you talking to me? 'The frog said, 'Yes, I'm talking to you. Pick me up then, kiss me and I'll turn into the most beautiful woman you have ever seen. I'll make sure that all your friends are envious and jealous because I will be your bride!'

The man looked at the frog for a short time, reached over, picked it up carefully
and placed it in his front breast pocket.

Then the frog said, 'What, are you nuts?Didn't you hear what I said? I said kiss me and I will be your beautiful bride.'

He opened his pocket, looked at the frog and said;

'Nah. At my age, I'd rather have a talking frog.'

With age comes wisdom.

Bambi, snakes, moles and other varmints

If you have been wondering why I haven't been posting much, look at the trees in the picture and imagine their leaves, and many other trees, on the ground. I and my trusty John Deer and Poulson blower have been playing Mr. Yard Man for two days and have at least 8 more hours to go... and that doesn't count the time spent mulching before pick up... and the white oaks and flowering cheery still have 80% of their leaves.

The weather, despite what Pope Algore and his High Priest of Bankrupt the Coal Industry, aka Hussein, claim is frosty. Lows in the mid 20's at night, highs in the low forties. Thermal underwear, ski mask and jumpsuits because riding a John Deer comes with a built in breeze.

The picture was taken about three months ago through a window in my home office. I tried to get a closer view and wound up with some distortion. I call the picture "Why I live here."

Not that I think of Bambi when I see a deer. Last spring one helped themselves to some tasty okra plants in my garden, probably the doe in the picture. By and large deer are tasty themselves and varmints when they eat my veggies and help themselves to the flowers.

The first sign of a deer being around was three years ago when I found tracks at the back side of the yard, just at the tree line. When I announced that to my spouse she poopooed me. "Okay," I said, "It's either a deer or the devil. Your choice."

Old Scratch not being in favor she responded with, "Are you sure?" Which is wife talk for, "Yes dear."

I hadn't thought much about the deer until last night. I walked out on the deck and could hear the yapping of a coyote pack. Sounded like maybe they were in the flood plain thickets behind my land, but sound carries well on still cold nights so they may have been all the way up to the head of the creek.

I do hope they weren't celebrating the taking of one of the two deer. Bambi may be a varmint sometimes, but deer are always beautiful to look at. Twenty years ago coyotes and armadillos were all on the other side of the Mississippi, now armadillos are served as possum on the half shell and the coyotes kill our cats, dogs, calves and deer.

I haven't found a snake as I poke around and in the leaves. The tractor makes such a roaring and shaking sound I am sure they slither off to more secure brush piles and fence lines.

We have had our share of snakes. By and large any non-poisonous snake I see has an open slither to the safety of the forest behind and to the side of the house. Copperheads and cotton mouths are dispatched with my home invasion repellent, a 20 gauge short barrel pump. A true scatter gun with open bore and No. 4 shot. It makes an Expert Marksman of us all and the "shuuc chung" of the round being chambered is a sure attention getter.

But should the occasional black snake or chicken snake be foolish enough to get in the flower beds and be seen by my better half they are in a world of trouble, although even there they are odds on to survive.

I have found that a good indication of a snake around is in the number of frogs and lizards around the bushes and garden. When the population thins, there is a snake around. And while I understand that is the nature of things, frogs and lizards eat bugs. Spiders, ants, mosquitoes and other such. Snakes, well, they just slither around trying to keep out of sight.

But none of these bother me the way a mole does. An industrious mole can ruin a garden, flower bed and make a yard look like it has been plowed. I have had dozens of them and have spent a small fortune at my local co-op in poison. None of which works very well. Indeed, one variety made them so fat I swear they ordered seconds.

The wind is up tonight so I can't hear the coyotes yapping. Just as well as their yapping reminds me of people shouting and I can never tell if it is in joy or sadness. Perhaps like man it is both. We never know when one will end and the other begin in that endless cycle we call life.

Are you sure Hillary lost? - Update

You couldn't make this stuff up.

I wonder if here has been a coup that we didn't hear about?

Now we find that Eric Holder, Deputy AG under Clinton will be Hussein's Attorney General. Just to make it even more old style, Holder signed off on Clinton's last gasp pardon of Mark Rich, tax fraud fugitive who gave up his citizenship. I wonder how many questions that will get from the Demos in his confirmation hearing...

And even more of the old team...

The sources said the Obama transition team is still debating over who should serve under Holder in the key post of deputy attorney general. One top candidate, favored by Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other former Clinton White House officials, is Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School and a former lawyer in the White House counsel’s office under Clinton. Another top candidate, favored by other Obama advisors, is David Ogden, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno, who is currently heading Obama’s Justice Department transition team. Kagan brings legal policy credentials; Ogden has more experience in the Justice Department trenches.

.....Previous

Wish I had said this.

UPDATE AT 7:02 A.M. ET: From The Politico: Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.

COMMENT: And Rahm Emanuel is chief of staff. And Hillary may go to the State Department. You know, all they need is that chubby girl with the blue dress... No, no, no, I did not write that. I absolutely did not.

Obama shows his colors....and intelligence level

Okay boys and girls. You wanted to see what the Idiot In Chief will do. Well, he tells you.

Obama continues that "too often, Washington has failed to show the same kind of leadership. That will change when I take office. My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process.

"That will start with a federal cap and trade system," he says. "We will establish strong annual targets that set us on a course to reduce emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 and reduce them an additional 80 percent by 2050. Further, we will invest $15 billion each year to catalyze private sector efforts to build a clean energy future. We will invest in solar power, wind power, and next generation biofuels. We will tap nuclear power, while making sure it’s safe. And we will develop clean coal technologies.

All of this when more and more scientists are saying it doesn't exist. That the world is actually cooling.... yet it is full bore ahead for the dunderheads we elect.

And I hate to bring this up, but can anyone tell me where these millions of new jobs will come from? I mean failing to press forward on new oil sources will allow OPEC and the speculators to drive the price back to $146 a barrel. That will finish off the economy. The cap and trade BS will double the price of coal and run your electric bill up two to three times what it currently is.

I mean, how stupid can these people be? Survey says:

Very, very, very, stupid.

Link

One of the most frightening Obama videos I have seen

My feelings exactly.

This link will take you to interviews with Husseinn voters.

Be sure to have anything that you could use to commit suicide with locked up and unreachable while watching.

Do have a waste can to puke in.

If there ever was a demonstration of why a test is needed before people can vote, this video is that demonstration.

Hat tip to Powerline.

The priorities of the Left and how they will effect Obama

The following is an excellent point that no one is making. Why are the women's groups so silent about women's rights in Islamic lands?

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

From The Politico: Intense backlash from women’s groups may have pushed former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers off the short-list to lead Treasury for President-elect Barack Obama, according to widespread reports circulating in Democratic circles...

...The Summers backlash rises out of a controversial 2005 comment he made as president of Harvard University that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Coming on top of other tensions with faculty, the incident led to his ouster as president.

"Despicable. Absolutely despicable. The man did nothing wrong. He never said what was attributed to him, but the truth doesn't matter. Larry Summers was a breath of fresh air as president of Harvard, but the leftist, ultra-feminist crowd isn't interested in fresh air. It's easier to take on Summers than Muslim oppression of women, about which they're silent."

I have posted this before as an example of what the Left can expect, yet they say nothing. Nothing at all.

FP: Ms. Zand-Bonazzi let me begin with you. Tell us a bit about the circumstances behind Atefeh’s execution.

Zand-Bonazzi: Well, sadly this young woman was hung in public charged with adultery. The man with whom she had allegedly had sexual relations with was also arrested but he only received 75 lashes apparently and then freed!

However, in spite of the fact that her entire family pleaded, was condemned to death. Her parents had even specifically produced her birth certificate proving that she was 16 (proving that she's not an adult) and the ruling clergy of the town of NEKA (the town where she was hung) forged papers and insisted that in fact she was 22and that that was enough reason to hang her.

NOT EVEN her parents' word for their daughter's age was acceptable to them because when these characters put their mind to it, they will falsify anything they want in order to justify heinous acts...just like all the "stories" they've woven around the death of the brave Ziba Kazemi!

FP: Ms. Zand-Bonazzi, why does the male get lashes and the girl gets executed? What is the psychology here?

Zand-Bonazzi: Well, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran's interpretation of the Shari'a (I don't know how it's interpreted or done in Arab countries) a woman is automatically the seductress, however young and innocent. According to them, a man, no matter how old and promiscuous, is considered to be a "victim."

Now, quite a few facts about this poor young girl has come to light. First of all she was visibly mentally unwell (I guess bi-polar because by all accounts she wasn't retarded or dysfunctional; she defended herself at the so-called trial ) She told the religious judge, Haji Rezaii, that he should punish the main perpetrators of moral corruption not the victims. I've also heard charges (which I had suspected would be the story) that the Mullah judge, Hadji Rezai, who was also the proud executioner, had in fact wanted her for himself as a "temporary wife" and because either she or her parents had refused him, he had become enraged and had turned against her and falsified her age as 22, so that he could execute her.

It can be claimed, of course, that this is but an isolated instance. But note that this is justified under Shari law in Iran.

If that doesn't send a tingle of concern up the Left's leg, nothing will.

Link

Are you sure Hillary Lost??

Wish I had said this.

UPDATE AT 7:02 A.M. ET: From The Politico: Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.

COMMENT: And Rahm Emanuel is chief of staff. And Hillary may go to the State Department. You know, all they need is that chubby girl with the blue dress... No, no, no, I did not write that. I absolutely did not.

Nasa screws up..... again

The man made global warming hoax gets more outrageous every day.

It is obvious Nasa needs new leadership, or maybe some eyes in its belly...

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record......

The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs - run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious "hockey stick" graph - GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new "hotspot" in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.

A GISS spokesman lamely explained that the reason for the error in the Russian figures was that they were obtained from another body, and that GISS did not have resources to exercise proper quality control over the data it was supplied with. This is an astonishing admission: the figures published by Dr Hansen's institute are not only one of the four data sets that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) relies on to promote its case for global warming, but they are the most widely quoted, since they consistently show higher temperatures than the others.

If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Again and again, Dr Hansen has been to the fore in making extreme claims over the dangers of climate change. (He was recently in the news here for supporting the Greenpeace activists acquitted of criminally damaging a coal-fired power station in Kent, on the grounds that the harm done to the planet by a new power station would far outweigh any damage they had done themselves.)

Yet last week's latest episode is far from the first time Dr Hansen's methodology has been called in question. In 2007 he was forced by Mr Watts and Mr McIntyre to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s, as he had claimed, but the 1930s.

Another of his close allies is Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, who recently startled a university audience in Australia by claiming that global temperatures have recently been rising "very much faster" than ever, in front of a graph showing them rising sharply in the past decade. In fact, as many of his audience were aware, they have not been rising in recent years and since 2007 have dropped.

Dr Pachauri, a former railway engineer with no qualifications in climate science, may believe what Dr Hansen tells him. But whether, on the basis of such evidence, it is wise for the world's governments to embark on some of the most costly economic measures ever proposed, to remedy a problem which may actually not exist, is a question which should give us all pause for thought.

Obama is black and you must vote for him.

That's a rather obvious statement. And even though his mother was white, he has self-identified himself as black. Nothing wrong with that and it is just another obvious fact, but I want to get rid of the "half white" arguments.

He also was Muslim. He was identified as such by both his fathers and went to a Muslim school. That he converted to, if not main stream Christianity, at least the Black Liberation Theology sect of it is a fact. I mention this to set aside the arguments that he is Muslim.

He has a Muslim name. And if it is not "Muslim," it is certainly a very common name in Muslim societies and culture, just as Paul Richard White is an "American" name and would be recognized as such in any Muslim country/society or culture, although I doubt Richard could be elected to anything... (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

He also associated with self identified terrorists, attended a Black Liberation Theology Church and made enough gaffes on the campaign trail that most candidates would have been sunk. I refer to his "57 states" and "clinging to their religion and guns" statements. And even more, we had his various declarations of socialism both in the campaign and before.

None of it stuck. It wasn't that he was the "teflon" candidate, it was that he was the "we know but don't care" candidate. He adroitly played the race card himself by declaring that "they" will tell you I am "different" "don't look the same as those guys on a $5.00 bill..." That worked so well that the Left claimed that even mentioning his association with Ayers was racist..and they were taken seriously.. And even though he was on video declaring that he would meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela and North Korea, his followers would argue that he didn't say it... and get away with it.

And perhaps his master stroke was telling the world that we shouldn't call him Hussein because that reminded people of Muslims and he wasn't a Muslim... And no one pointed out that, if calling him Hussein was a problem, wouldn't Barack Obama also yield the same problem? And that morphed quickly into calling him Hussein was racist, even though no race is involved with members of the Islamic faith.

Some have noted that he received 95% plus of the black vote, and that is factual. But in that he is not all that different than John Kerry was in 2004. But what must be remembered is that although the percentage is close, in raw numbers the black vote was much larger than in 2004. And then when you look at the primaries, Democrat against Democrat, he still received around 95% of the black vote. Without race trumping gender, which it always will on the Left, it might very well be Madame Present-elect.

But even including the increased registration of blacks he still required white votes. And he got them, as he did the black vote, because, first and foremost, he was a black candidate. Because of that all his short comings were not only forgiven, they weren't even allowed to be discussed.

What we had there was the flowering of twenty plus years of the Leftist America Bad crowd's continual insistence that a black man could not be elected and if you voted against one you were a racist. His background, his lack of experience, his obvious socialist/Marxist leanings made no difference, just as the fact that McCarthy was correct, there were communists in the government, made no difference. To be acceptable you had to condemn McCarthy and now find Hussein wonderful, or at least so in public.

The amazing thing now is watching the pundits all try to guess how he will govern. They all talk of the "center" and how he shouldn't "repeat" Bill Clinton's mistake of trying to do too much too soon. What nonsense. He has started on the Left and he will go farther to the Left, all the time claiming that he is only doing what needs to be done.

His hands will be as clean as any Chicago Politician.

It is the ward heelers who do the dirty work.

In the leftie blogs and on talk radio you can start to see and hear complaints that he isn't moving fast enough with "change."

Be patient little ones, be patient.

Just as his race made no difference to most of those who voted against him, race will continue to have an effect on many of those who voted for him.

The question that is yet to be answered is how far they will support unpopular policies before he becomes what I and many others see him as..... just another man.

Palin 2012

We have entered the era of the continual campaign.

I hope Palin does run in 2012.

It will be fun, fun, fun.

Martin and Bush

As is the sometimes case, Weeder Gander returns to embarrass himself. This is his comment re the post showing Hussein speaking into the wrong end of a phone.

Actually, Obama has a way to go before reaching the following heights(or depths, YMMV).

For eight years George W. Bush has been many a comedian and cartoonist's wet dream, an easy target, a sitting duck. You're big if the world knows you by your first name (Elton, Madonna, Osama); bigger still if an initial will suffice. “W”. “Dubya”; from the moment Clinton staffers allegedly removed the letter w from the White House typewriters, Bush was the butt of the joke. He played the part of the imbecile brilliantly: just when you thought it couldn't get any better, it didn't.

As Steve Martin said, some people have a way with words, while others have not way. Bush's pronouncements were an embarrassment of glitches. There were the words - “nucular” instead of “nuclear”, “vulcanise” for “Balkanise” - and the Bush phrases (“I know how hard it is to put food on your family”; and “Our enemies ... never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we”). Others were perhaps apocryphal (“The trouble with the French is they have no word for entrepreneur”). It was an easy style to parody, the set-ups and pay-offs a comedian's stock-in-trade (“I have a message for those suicide bombers: we're gonna find you”).

Visually, he was the full package: the awkward body language, the elbows sticking out as he walked, as if he was carrying two sheep under his arms (“I come from Texas. I'd look stupid carrying one”). There were the features. The simian face, so beautifully caricatured by Gerald Scarfe and The Guardian's Steve Bell - all sticking-out ears, mad eyes and chimpanzee mouth, occasionally extended into a windsock pout. The contrast between a position of global power and the evident confusion behind those eyes gave him an air of permanent irony. Is this guy for real? Where does the original end and the parody begin? That upside-down book, those binoculars with lens-caps on: real or fake?

Then there was his clumsiness - his propensity for embarrassing entanglement with anything from bicycles to pretzels to Middle Eastern countries.

Bush is apparently disarmingly funny: a friend from his oil-trading days told me that he would answer the phone to irate investors wondering where their oil was with a cheery “Dryhole Bush here!” The self-deprecation is appropriate. As Dame Edna said to Jeffrey Archer: “If you can't laugh at yourself, you're missing out on the joke of the century.”

Ah yes, Poor George...

Yale graduate, fighter pilot, Harvard MBA, twice governor of Texas, twice President of the United States...

Yes indeed, poor George.

And who comes to praise this man? Why it is the honorable Steve. A comic of some talent who made us laugh with arrows that didn't go through his head. A movie actor in such memorable films as "The Three Amigos" and "Planes Trains and Automobiles." There is no doubt that such experiences over shadow all else and make him a commentator of such renown that everyone else quakes in his presence.

What made this man so great? Was it his experience working summers at Disneyland? His studies in drama at Santa Anna Junior College? Perhaps it was his days at Long Beach State before he transferred to UCLA and dropping out at the tender age of 21...
Yes. It must have been these experiences, not to mention working at Knots Berry Farm, that made him such a social icon that other mortals wait for his every word.

I mean he has so much experience in the issues of life and death... Just commuting in the LA Basin is in itself worthy of.... well...... worthy of something..

Yes, Dear Steve is such an example of the countless others who, because they play a hero, think they are. Those who pretend to fly a jet fighter criticize someone who did... Yes Gollywood has so many fine examples of manhood for our children to model themselves after. Why, I hardly know where to begin.

So yes, poor George. Speaking in a language that the country understood while doing things that most in Gollywood hated him for he was attacked for 8 years and eventually, if not destroyed, gravely wounded.

History will judge him, how we do not know, but I think it will judge him well. He sought to defend the country and did his duty as he saw it. As for what history will say about those who couldn't carry his briefcase but who thought themselves his betters, we do not know because 20, 30 years from not one in a thousand will even recognize their names.

And that is a sad thing to say about a profession that claims to not care what is said about them.... as long as you spell their name right.

Obama's Foreign Policy Primer

This is Hussein's foreign policy primer.

I got it from Grouchy Old Cripple in Atlanta and it is just too good to not reprint.

Priceless

I was going to do a "Priceless" bit on this, but why bother?

The picture says it all.

Free speech takes a hit.

A friend advises that the Jackson Sun, a small newspaper in a small city in western Tennessee has made referring to Hussein as Hussein in their Opinion and Forum sections a banning offense.

The usual suspects are trotted out for this suppression of speech. As for the reasoning...

So the only reason people have for using it is to stir up racial or anti-Muslim sentiments,

Given that being a Muslim has nothing to do with race, and given that Husseins first and last names are Muslim types, shouldn't we no longer use them? Perhaps we should just say, "The President." The "For Life" can come later.

But onward to more "reasons."

It's not racism ... but it is a tactic that started on the campaign trail with Republican officials invoking the middle name as an epithet, using it to link Obama to a religion that he doesn't even embrace

I never knew that invoking epithets was always illegal, immoral or fattening. And when is it evil or illegal to remind the voters of the background of the candidates?

Facts be facts. Hussein has a background and an early childhood that is, if nothing else, different.

A better question would be, if it is a campaign tactic, what right does a newspaper have in banning it?

And more.

....newspaper represents free speech ... it also is a business, and as such we reserve the right to ask people not to engage in hate speech or try to stir up tensions against a particular group of people.

What is referred to here is commercial free speech, which is limited. The First Amendment forbids prior restraint of political speech by the government. Not the right of, say, an Opinion writer to call Hussein, Hussein.

It's the same principle as not shouting fire in a crowded theatre -- perpetuating the lie that Obama is a Muslim...is just stoking the hatred of mentally unstable people.

Of course there is no connection between the two. Shouting fire in a crowded theatre leads to demonstrable and immediate harmful results. Saying bad things, if using some one's middle name can be called "bad," does not. And if it is, what shall we say about the millions of nasty things said about Bush? Where is the army waiting to attack Bush?

And while the newspaper can claim they are a commercial enterprise, they are the only enterprise named in the Constitution. As such they should have a higher tolerance for free speech that a business making widgets might extend to a worker making widgets deciding the competition makes better ones....and says so.

Even worse, in this case Hussein is now the "government" and by the newspaper doing what he and his political allies want, they have become an arm of the government, and the Constitution has been harmed.

Free speech carried by free newspapers and other media outlets is the best defense against dictators that has ever existed.

As I have often stated, I refer to Hussein as Obama when I am on blogs owned by people I know do not like him to be called Hussein. That is simple courtesy. I am in their home.

But a public newspaper is not a "home."

I started calling him Hussein after reading that he didn't want to be called it, and then reading some comments by various members of the Left.

I never, never, never intend to let a politician tell me what I can call him or her. They work for me. I am superior to them in that relationship and while it may be just my Scot Irish stubbornness towards accepting anyone as my "better," it is what it is.

I think that all of this is part of a bigger picture. We are involved in a shooting war and a culture war. Hussein may not be a Muslim, and I don't believe he is, but these new political rules serves them well and will be trotted out again in the not too distant future. I ask that you examine the PC courts in Canada and the EU to see the logical end of such.

Indeed, I think Churchill said it best and it applies as directly to us on this chilly November day as it did to England sixty six years and two days ago.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

We can now clearly see the future what it may become and how it may happen. It is up to us to reject it.

Love and Obama?? UPDATE

"Can't we all just get along?"

No we can't.

Every time I turn around I read someone telling someone that they shouldn't criticize Hussein because he is OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT and it is evil and mean spirited and partisan and nasty and vulgar and not very nice to mention his numerous and obvious short comings.

And then we have the "National Holiday for Obama..."

You know, I just can't believe the gall of these people. Try this. Go to Google:

Bush Hitler - 11,700,000 hits.

Bush Ape - 3,260,000 hits.

Bush traitor - 307,000 hits.

Bush coward - 242,000 hits.

Bush AWOL - 132,000 hits.

Bush killer - 16,700,000 hits.

And I am sure I could provide millions and millions more...

Lefties, you beat up Bush for 8 years, and now you want to get all lovey dovey?

No way.

You put it out.

Now get ready for it coming back.

I just can't keep from adding this letter from Nunya in Islam in Europe/

Obama is still the President Elect. Are any of you focusing on the mess the current President has made, is making, will make before January? Obama can't possibly clean up the mess Stoopie McFuckwit made before he even gets into office.
November 11, 2008 10:25 AM

Do I really have to add anything?

Tell me again why capital punishment doesn't work...

Shawcross’ victims, most of them prostitutes, were killed in the period from March 1988 to January 1990. At the time, he was on parole after serving 15 years in prison for killing two children in northern New York’s Watertown in 1972.

Link

Sex on the Orient Express it wasn't..

And Bill Clinton told us it wasn't sex...
And it certainly wasn't "Virgin."

Other passengers en route from Liverpool to London appear to have sat in embarrassed silence as the 41-year-old woman allegedly committed a sex act on her male partner.

But it got them arrested.

You have to love it.

If only they had been on the way to the airport to catch a Delta flight... After all, Delta did have a motto that said, "Delta is ready when you are!"

Pray for Hussein even if you didn't vote for him??

"We are citizens of the United States," Cordell said. "We need to be praying for him, and his family, that God will be working through them."

Cordell and a number of Nashville ministers say their congregations are obligated to pray for the new president even if they didn't vote for him and even if they don't agree with his political views. That's the message some ministers conveyed to their congregations this past weekend.

Obama's victory troubled many Christian conservatives who fear that the president-elect will pursue a liberal agenda on social issues like abortion and same-sex unions that they believe are unbiblical.

Don't they mean pray to Hussein???

Funning the Lefties aside, I think that is a real dumb comment. If I didn't vote for him, why should I pray for him??

I mean I might pray for the country, or that God convert him to believing in democracy....but for him? Nope.

Besides, it has been my experience that God, having given us free will, doesn't intervene in these matters. Never the less I shall keep a sharp eye out for signs of Hussein's conversion.

Why are you surprised??

BUSH ANGER: OBAMA AIDES LEAK CHAT DETAILS
Tue Nov 11 2008 09:28:10 ET

Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim.

"Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel," a top Bush source warned.

"BUSH AND OBAMA AT ODDS OVER AID FOR AUTO INDUSTRY," splashed the NEW YORK TIMES in an exclusive Monday evening, quoting "people familiar with the discussion."

The two met at the White House in private, without staff.

"Bush indicated at the meeting that he might support some aid and a broader economic stimulus package if Obama and congressional Democrats dropped their opposition to a free-trade agreement with Colombia," claimed the TIMES.

MORE

The ASSOCIATED PRESS quickly followed with details of the conversation, citing "aides who described the discussion on grounds of anonymity, citing the private nature of the meeting."

Bush advisers view the leaks as an effort to undermine the president's remaining days in office.

"Senator Obama may not be familiar with a long-standing tradition of presidents holding their private conversations, private," a senior adviser explained to the DRUDGE REPORT.

Developing...

Look, the guy is a piece of trash. His vision is limited to only what will help him, and his experience, such as it is, is Chicago Machine Politics.

Congratulations dear dummies. You are getting a preview of what is to come.

Very Smart British Manufacturers

Grant M sent the following. Seeing as how today is Veterans Day I am passing it on.

WW2 History - Monopoly

Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the authorities were casting-about for ways and means to facilitate their escape. Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing not only where-stuff-was, but also showing the locations of 'safe houses', where a POW on-the-loose could go for food and shelter. Paper maps had some real drawbacks:

They make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear-out rapidly, And if they get wet, they turn into mush. Someone in MI-5 got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise what-so-ever. At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort. By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross, to prisoners of war.

Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were located (Red Cross packages were delivered to prisoners in accordance with that same regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece. As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add:

1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass,

2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together.

3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!

British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square! Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets. Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war.

The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honoured in a public ceremony.

Anyway, it's always nice when you can play that "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

Damn clever blokes those Brits. After all, at one time they fathered democracy and ruled the world.

BTW - Ask them how socialism worked out for them.

National Holiday for Obama Topeka Capital Journal

The following is from the Topeka Capital Journal

Yes. That's right. Topeka... and yes Dorthy, that is Kansas, not Gollywood or Berkeley or Marin County or New York City or the Atlanta Journal Constitution.. Real honest to goodness sure enough Kansas...

Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation's 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

"Yes We Can" planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald's restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama's honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809.

Have you ever read anything more stupid?

But just to prove that everyone in Kansas isn't smoking what put Dorthy to sleep on the Yellow Brick Road...

-1 Rating Posted by: kudostoyou at Nov. 9, 2008 at 10:22:36 am
Sunny, don't push for a National Holiday...11-4-08 is already going to go down in the history books. What you should be pushing is telling the "THUGS" like Sylk White, Tara Williams, Antone Williams and any other drug dealing, drug smoking & alcoholic drinking to pay attention to their family and take care of their kids.....

But then we get this...

...-4 Rating Posted by: nrockwell at Nov. 9, 2008 at 2:07:11 pm
You see how dumb and racist white folks are.This is what you have all feared most of all,a black president.This is the very reason why every country hate us because of stupid racist white folks.All you have to do is read these comments and you can see how simple minded they are.What can you expect from a racist no good city like Topeka

Posted by: ObamaIsTheNewHitler at Nov. 9, 2008 at 2:26:35 pm
Congratulations, America.

You're officially a cult.

Your "warm fuzzies" over the symbolism of electing this creature will be poor consolation when you're in one his re-education camps or being executed because you're not sufficiently submissive to "Dear Leader."

Read "Prairie Fire," you dolts, to see what you've done.

Do the link trick and read the article, and don't miss the letters..

Hat tip to UrgentAgenda!

Told you so

As you can see, the animals are in desperate straits.

WASHINGTON (Nov. 9) – President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.

John Podesta, Obama's transition chief, said Sunday Obama is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on those issues and others as he works to undo policies enacted during eight years of Republican rule. He said the president can use such orders to move quickly on his own.

That should give you a flavor of what is coming.

And the following should give you a real taste.

On drilling, the federal Bureau of Land Management is opening about 360,000 acres of public land in Utah to oil and gas drilling. Bush administration officials argue that the drilling will not harm sensitive areas; environmentalists oppose it.

"They want to have oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah," Podesta said. "I think that's a mistake."

There is no doubt in my mind the smartest man in the world will block nuclear and off shore drilling as well as, "sensitive areas."

While the Fannie and Freddie mess, made by Barney Franks and Chris Dodd sat the table for our financial woes, it was the cost of oil, and the blocking of drilling for new sources that was the main course.

And the Demos either don't know this or don't give a damn or both.

Tripped Circuit Breakers and the stock market

Good morning chums. As some of you may have noticed I haven't been around for a few days. To be truthful my political circuit breakers tripped and I did a road trip to restore some sanity to my world. After a few days off meeting some old friends and plying my avocation I am recovering nicely.

And may I say the Sheraton shown is a nice place to reset the breakers.

Now there was H's news conference, a glimpse of which on CNN caused me to slip into H shock, and then there was the dilberts of McCain's campaign staff who sought to get back on the media's A list by criticizing Governor Palin that sent me screaming to the hotel's anger management spa, aka bar, but all in all it has been a pleasant experience.

Of course the market went off about 12%, and when The Man With The Greatest Judgement In The World had the chance to give the market some reassurance he failed, waffling on taxes. Which tells he intends to do what everyone with more sense than a June Bug said he will do, raise income and capital gains taxes.

Why? Because he has some promises to keep to his minions, as well as those who intuitively understood that he was a socialist and would give them other's wealth.

And he didn't bother to deny the rumor that the government is going to take your 401k and put into the Social Security pot, supposedly giving you a gracious 3% return.

So the market is suffering from a bad case of the jitters and is being hit by a double whammy. With hundreds of thousands of people out of work, many of them are
having to take money out of their 401k's. If under 55 they will pay a 10% penalty and then ordinary taxes.

Now the government might wave the 10%. That would reduce the amount needed to be removed from the market and decrease the sell pressure. But they won't.

In addition, when people lose their jobs they are no longer paying into a 401k so stock demand is reduced.

And others, fearing that the government will take their 401k are getting out of the program, again reducing demand.

So it isn't over chums. I may be missing the greatest buying opportunity in 50 years but I have taken my wallet out, put it in my front pocket, backed into a corner and squatted down.

Cheers! Time for my anti-depression meds! Now where did I put that Stohly....

Michael Crichton is dead at 66...the good ones die too early

I posted the following from one of Crichton's lectures on April 4. Looking back it seems right that it was only days after April Fool's Day.

"Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus."

"So we all tend to give science credence, even when it is not warranted. I will show you many examples of unwarranted credence tonight. But here’s an example to begin. This is the famous Drake equation from the 1960s to estimate the number of advanced civilizations in the galaxy.

N=N*fp ne fl fi fc fL

Where N is the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy; fp is the fraction with planets; ne is the number of planets per star capable of supporting life; fl is the fraction of planets where life evolves; fi is the fraction where intelligent life evolves; and fc is the fraction that communicates; and fL is the fraction of the planet’s life during which the communicating civilizations live.

The problem with this equation is that none of the terms can be known. As a result, the Drake equation can have any value from “billions and billions” to zero. An expression that can mean anything means nothing. The mathematical appearance is deceptive. In scientific terms—by which I mean testable hypotheses—the Drake equation is really meaninglessness."

The pundits say that he could could explain science and make it interesting. Partly true. What he could really do that the others could not was cut to the core of nonsense being tossed around as fact.

For that he wasn't well liked, but he was so good that they couldn't make him go away. At his worst he was a writer of thrillers, not to bad in itself.

At his best he was a recruiter of non-believers who learned to say, "Prove it. Don't claim it."

To someone who has seen the problems that the "isms" have caused that is high praise.

Remember the Drake Formula when, in the not too distant future, the Marxists and other collectivists use the man made global warming hoax to destroy the economy and control your every movement. Study it and demand that the shysters and hooligans who pander to the uneducated tell you exactly why it is wrong.

Link to Website

Link to death article.

Welcome to the world, H.

We have missiles on the border and stocks in the basement.

Russia will deploy short-range missiles in the Baltic Sea region near the border with Poland..
Stocks plunge anew as recession worries resurface 11/05/08 18:06 EST NEW YORK (AP) - A case of postelection nerves sent Wall Street plunging Wednesday

Will H send in the Marines or lead us in prayer?

Did someone wake up and look at his tax increases, attacks on NAFTA and remember Hoover??

Yes children and other H voters, in the real world, as compared to blessed media events and love, statements have consequences.

H world gets scarier by the day!

Okay children

You got what you wanted.

Now we will see if you will want what you got.