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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three American tourists are believed to be in Iranian custody after they may have strayed across the border from Iraq during a mountain hike, Kurdish officials said Friday.

Four Americans -- two of them students in Syria -- traveled from Syria to Turkey and then into Kurdistan in northern Iraq, arriving at Irbil on Tuesday, according to Peshrow Ahmed, spokesman for the security manager of Sulaimaniya, where they arrived Thursday after driving from Irbil.

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First of all please tell me why I should worry about any American student who is dumb enough to attend a school in Syria.

Secondly tell me why I should worry about any American who is dumb enough to go to Iraq as tourist much less go near the Iraq-Iran border.

Tell Iran, very loudly and sincerely that it can keep them. But, we will take them back if Iran insists and asks nicely.

Obama to release more terrorists

Here's a story about how Obamie is having his Justice Department let judges and lawyers release prisoners from GITMO.

District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle Thursday morning granted Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, a writ of habeas corpus that could result in his being freed on August 21

Justice Department officials 22 more days to determine whether or not they can try Jawad in a criminal court in the U.S.

......

The Justice Department says it has "newly available evidence" of Jawad's "involvement with the grenade attack on two U.S. servicemen." But the Justice Department isn't asking for more time to investigate the new evidence. And on Wednesday night Justice Department officials submitted a proposed writ of habeas corpus for Judge Huvelle to sign.

"We have informed the judge in this case that we will not contest the writ of habeas corpus and that we are not detaining Jawad in order to conduct a criminal investigation of his actions," Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller said in a statement last night.

If you will read the link and then follow some more links you will discover that the basic defense is that Jawad was a juvenile, only 12 although that can't be proven, was an orphan because his Mother's new husband threw him out of the house and then was taken advantage of by al-Qaeda types, drugged, trained and while he was present when the crime was committed, he had nothing to do with it and after someone gave him a grenade he was running away screaming "bomb" to alert the populace as he dashed to throw it in a river.

I am having difficulty not writing that he also escorted old ladies across the street, collected for UNICEF and was in the "I want to teach the world to sing" Afghanistan choir group.

And I would guess that some of this is probably true. I have no particular problem believing everything he said right up to the time of the attack. My version has him throwing the grenade and then running away screaming "bomb" to keep anyone from trying to capture him.

So the real question is, should he be tried as an adult?

And why is a court releasing him?

Because the Afghan's captured him and he says, they beat him.

And that is probably true. Afghanistan is, at best, a Fourth World country where people suspected, in his case probably seen, of throwing grenades are given a chance to confess and if not, thoroughly beaten, etc. Nasty, brutish world? Yes, it is.

And while the Left won't condemn hanging gays and stoning women they will rush to the defense of someone involved in attempting to murder Americans and their helpers.

And the facts are that Jawad doesn't claim that he wasn't there, that he wasn't trained.. All he does is provide excuses right out of the "I was raised in an inner city slum" handbook.

So what we are seeing here is an extension of the Left's reluctance to pass judgement on bad behavior and defend the culture of the US.

And dear chums, a culture that will not defend itself will be replaced by another culture. One that is not better, but stronger.

Thanks dear Lefties.

Link to EPA 's Clunker program mileage estimator

Click here for your clunker's EPA mileage estimate.

Obama's health care plan spelled out

Would you buy a used health care plan from this man?

His name is Ezekiel Emanuel and he is health policy advisor to President Obama and in the best tradition of Chicago nepotism he is the brother of Rahm Emanuel who is the Chosen One's Chief of Staff.



And he has made some interesting comments in the past.

This civic republican or deliberative democratic conception of the good provides both procedural and substantive insights for developing a just alloca- tion of health care resources. Procedurally, it suggests the need for public forums to deliberate about which health services should be considered basic and should be socially guaranteed.

That is a fancy way of saying the government should decide what care should be allowed. That's a fancy way of saying "rationed." And "rationed" is a ten dollar word meaning someone decides who gets what. And "socially guaranteed" is a fancy way of saying it will be paid for by the government. And there is more:

Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future genera- tions, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations-are to be socially guaranteed as basic.

That means that if you have passed the test, you will be cared for. Perhaps we should, as Hitler's Germany did, encourage only our best and brightest young women get pregnant by only our best and brightest young men. The test will be in three parts. Intelligence, Physical and Political Correctness.

And what will happen to the rejects?

Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.

How do you spell "Into the oven!" in German??

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. A less obvious example Is is guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason.

Here Emanuel gets a double dipper.

First he nails us seasoned citizens with "dementia."

Let me explain something to you. Dementia is caused largely by hardening of the blood vessels in the brain, causing the brain cells to not be fully nourished. No one knows why but it is the cause of you remembering what your date for the Senior Prom wore but not where you left your glassess.....

Dementia comes and goes. Even as it advances the elderly person has days when they are close to 100%, can recognize their family and know such complex things as Obamie lied to get elected. And yes, sometimes they need help.

So who will have Grandmother put down? Just slip her a knock out drop so she can't stare at you with accusing eyes when she knows what the needle is filled with and you can run off thinking that it was all for the best. Money has been saved.

But civilization has been harmed. Greatly harmed.

And your turn is only a few short years away. Made your Will?

And hide the children who will never have anything to offer you but love and need. After all, we must all contibute and the best they have done by age 9 is learn to dress themselves and tie their shoes. They'll take a smaller pill than Granny and a smaller amount of liquid death so they will save money even before they are dead.

Such a deal, eh??

You Lefties elected him. Aren't you proud to have enabled this?

Link

The FAA has no sense of humor

Hundreds of lives were threatened over the weekend as John Prendergast la-dee-da-ed his way around the sky trying to figure out where on earth Republic Airport in Long Island was, reports The New York Post.

"I don't know what he's doing – he's going everywhere," gasped an air controller as he radioed passenger jets to tell them to steer clear of an "unknown aircraft."

A little bit lost, Prendergast made a few 360-degree turns near Kennedy before he finally figured out where he was supposed to be (not where he was, naturally) – and was guided to the Farmingdale airport by an NYPD chopper sent to get him out of the way, according to the Post.

The 69-year-old retired Navy pilot failed to make radio contact with controllers, which he should have done, after taking off Saturday morning from an airport in Martinsburg, W.VA.

All is well that ends well and you have to feel for the old guy.... but...

Then, to the shock of air traffic controllers, the blundering pilot flew farther north and turned around as if he were going to land with the passenger jets on Kennedy Runway 22L. A Boeing 747 on its way to New York from Atlanta actually flew over Prendergast's small plane at one point and had to abandon its landing, the Post reported.

I had a few rides in and out of JFK on Navy props that were being taken to Air Service located adjacent. The controllers would always yell "Speed up! Speed up!" because the other aircraft had landing speeds about 30 knots or so faster. And that screwed up their whole day.

Then in later years I was with a customer in his old restored SNB Beech when he and a buddy as co-pilot managed to wander into controlled airspace at New Orleans Int'l. Now that takes real talent...

Link

Frozen food, pigs, alligators and health care

Bits and pieces..

Have just frozen 100 ears of "Peaches and Cream" sweet corn and will follow with about 40 quarts of cream style corn for the freezer. That should take us through until next year... "Bread and Butter" pickles are next...The cool weather has destroyed my canning tomatoes so I guess it is to the farmer's market I must go. That man made global warming is hell..

Saw a beautiful white tail doe wandering through the back side of the property yesterday. Thankfully the deer haven't been a problem as I would hate to shoot Bambi's Momma.

But pigs have.



Yeah, that's a Vietnamese Pot Bellied pig rooting at the very edge of the woods that forms a green belt around the house. Like pythons in Florida and alligators in New York city sewers, people take them as pets, lose interest and dump them. They become feral and roam as free as can be. I ran three off two times and was willing to concede the rooting shown. But this one had the bad judgement to discover the garden and Sunday AM ate all my Oriental squash and destroyed some Butternut Squash vines and bell pepper plants.

I donated the meat to a guy I know who will dress him out and eat him. Since he had been castrated and it was a clean shot that put him down on the spot he shouldn't be too gamey. I hope the other two don't come back.

Speaking of alligators, and all the legends of those living in New York sewers, I wonder if the telephone company still has racks and racks of T1 equipment in manholes... And you thought being The Wichita Lineman was a tough gig.

But seriously... Once upon a time I walked back to the storage compartment of a Naval aircraft while on the way back to Norfolk and discovered a potted palm that looked suspiciously like one in the lobby of the Florida hotel we had stayed in the night before. Both the Ordnanceman and the Mechanic swore they had purchased same and I saw no reason to doubt them. However, since I am unsure of the statue of limitations as regards to potted palm theft you may note that I didn't name the city.

We also agreed that the foot long baby alligator they were trying to feed a mouse was a figment of my imagination undoubtedly brought on by my incautious consummation of Cuba Libras the night before at a local bar, restaurant and hang out joint.

Thankfully as I aged my bad habits became less, which was more about hating hangovers than disliking booze. Which was a very good thing since Obamie seems determined to shut down health care for us older citizens. He seems stupidly unaware that as he destroys the social contract that use to exist between generations he is also destroying the culture and the country.

Or perhaps he knows and wants to.

Americans are use to sacrificing their youth for the country's benefit because it is expected that those who survive will be rewarded and recognized as an asset worth keeping.

Obamie's model says you will do all that he considers good, and then you will be denied the care to keep you alive.

Somehow that seems to be eerily similar to radical Muslims dying for the good of Islam.

I wonder where Obamie got the idea?

Abbott and Costello go hyperspace

You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on...

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, 'Who's on First?' might have turned out something like this:

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: Thanks I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.

ABBOTT: Your computer?

COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.

ABBOTT: What about Windows?

COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?

ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?

COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows?

ABBOTT: Wallpaper.

COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.

ABBOTT: Software for Windows?

COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?

ABBOTT: I just did.

COSTELLO: You just did what?

ABBOTT: Recommend something.

COSTELLO: You recommended something?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: For my office?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!

ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.

COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?

ABBOTT: Word.

COSTELLO: What word?

ABBOTT: Word in Office.

COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.

ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.

COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?

ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue 'W'.

COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue 'w' if you don't start with some straight answers. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?


ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?

ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.

COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?

ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.

COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?

ABBOTT: One copy.

COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?

ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.

COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?

ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!

(A few days later)

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?

ABBOTT: Click on 'START'..............

Hat Tip to Larry P!

Frank Schaeffer calls for shutting down the county in Huffington Post article

It's time for a summer of rage, the kind of thing the French are good at. Where are the burning tractor-loads of dung clogging the streets of Washington? It's time to build a few barricades, hurl a few paving stones and generally shut this country down until our health care system is genuinely reformed and that means that the insurance companies lose and we win. If the Democrats we elected can't do better than to effectively cave to the do-nothing, hate-America Republicans and the sell-your-mother insurance industry who will act?

Huffington Post

There you go. A clear call for violence.

Now, where is our intrepid head of Homeland Security? You know, the ex-Gov of Arizona who is so concerned over our military veterans being terrorists.

I mean, do we have two standards? One for left wing journalists and one for our veterans?

The answer is, of course, yes.

Cheap seats

A little old lady was walking down the street dragging two large plastic garbage bags behind her. One of the bags was ripped, and every once in a while, a $20 bill fell out onto the sidewalk. Noticing this, a policeman stopped her, and said, "Ma'am, there are $20 bills falling out of that bag."

"Oh, really? Darn it!" said the little old lady. "I'd better go back and see if I can find them. Thanks for telling me officer."

"Well, now, not so fast," said the cop. "Where did you get all that money? You didn't steal it, did you?"

"Oh, no, no", said the old lady. "You see, my back yard is right next to the football stadium parking lot. On game days, a lot of fans come and pee through a knot hole in the fence, right into my flower garden. It used to really tick me off. Kills the flowers, you know. Then I thought, 'why not make the best of it?' So, now, on game days, I stand behind the fence by the knot hole, real quiet, with my hedge clippers.

Every time some guy sticks his pecker through my fence, I surprise him, grab hold of it and say, 'O.K., buddy! Give me $20, or off it comes.'

"Well, that seems only fair," said the cop, laughing. "OK.. Good luck! Oh, by the way, what's in the other bag?"

"Well, you know", said the little old lady, "not everybody pays."

Hat tip tp Jimmy M!

The latest on Artic Climate Change from the Royal Society

‘It will, without doubt, have come to your Lordship’s knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice, has been during the last two years greatly abated. This affords ample proof that new sources of warmth have been opened, and give us leave to hope that the Arctic Seas may at this time be more accessible than they have been for centuries past, and that discoveries may now be made in them, not only interesting to the advancement of science, but also to the future intercourse of mankind and the commerce of distant nations.’

I urge you to read this link thoroughly for the complete picture.

There is nothing like keeping up on all the facts.

Federals stay home!!!

So here I am in the dentist's office watching FNC while waiting.... yes, he has FNC and that's one of the reason's I chose him.....and the Talking Heads started rambling on about how bad it is that Vegas and Orlando are having US government vacations...oops conventions...oops educational seminars cancelled because it looks bad for the government employees to be in Vegas while the ordinary citizen is in an unemployment line.

They even had the Guv of Nevada on and some Chamber of Commerce type on explaining how they had great deals and people in Vegas were unemployed...

Which I think is very funny because it was the hotel unions who were such big supporters of Obamie... (Hey, got what you asked for, eh???)

I have been to a bunch of conventions and trade shows in Vegas and everyone hated it because the customer base was always lower than normal because... are you ready?? They were playing golf, laying by the pool, gambling and sight seeing! Of course you could always find one or two to take to a show or lunch... Funny how that works.

Of course I know the government type meetings are for pure education (same reason I read Playboy 20 years ago)and there are no vendor types around... And that they now must go to GASP!!!!!!!!! Phoenix instead.

Oh the pain! The Humanity!

But really, why do they have these meetings at all??

Stay home!!!! Fire the consultants! Use the Internet! Do like the rest of us do when we are broke.

Don't take vacations.

100 Best Movie Lines Ever in 200 Seconds

100 Best Movie Lines Ever in 200 Seconds Video here

Saw it at Saw it at Big Dick's Place

Big Dick thought those nailed them... I think not... In no particular order and may not be exactly right..

Pay no attention to the man behind the screen - The Wizard in "The Wizard of Oz"

I'm my favorite General - Patton in "Patton."

No prisoners! - Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia!"

"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" - Mae West in "Sextette."

Fill your hands you son of a bitches! - Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit."

Oh well, tomorrow is another day - Scarlet in "Gone with the Wind."

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore - Dorthy in "The Wizard of Oz."

And my all time favorite!

Well lady, come and see a fat old man! - Rooster Cogburn as he has his horse jump a fence and he rides off.. "True Grit's" closing line.

Road Closures

ATTENTION - ROADS CLOSED THIS WEEKEND
For those of you, who might be considering a road trip, be advised: portions of I-64, I-70, I-29, and I-90 will be closed this weekend. Expect long delays along these interstate highways plus major traffic disruptions in Charleston, WV, Louisville, KY, St Louis, MO, Kansas City, MO, and Omaha, NE.
A 500-ton piece of coal is being moved from West Virginia to South Dakota so that Barack H. Obama can be added to Mount Rushmore.

Jimmy M made me do it!

Another example of Biden stupidity

Can you imagine how the Lefties would swoon if Cheney had said this?

MOSCOW -- An interview U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gave to an American newspaper was front-page news Monday in Moscow, where his characterization of Russia as a weakened nation hit a raw nerve.

Biden said Russia's economic difficulties are likely to make the Kremlin more willing to cooperate with the United States on a range of national security issues.

"I think we vastly underestimate the hand that we hold," he said in an interview to The Wall Street Journal published Saturday.

Biden's comments appeared to catch the Kremlin by surprise, coming less than three weeks after President Barack Obama said on a visit to Moscow that the U.S. wants to see a "strong, peaceful and prosperous Russia."

"It raises the question: Who is shaping U.S. foreign policy? The president or members of his team, even the most respected ones?" said Kremlin foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko.

Look, this guy is dangerous. He truly is capable of doing tremendous damage to the country with these off the wall remarks.

Yet who was the Idiot who picked him and who are the idiots who elected him?

The Demo Left. Plus a bunch of people who deserve the title, "Useful idiots."

WaPost Link

10% excise tax on a needed service??

DON'T GO THERE: DEMS EYE 10% TAX ON BOTOX, COSMETIC SURGERY
Mon Jul 27 2009 17:18:00 ET

Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, CONGRESS DAILY reports.

The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10% excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes.

DAILY's Peter Cohn reveals: The idea was broached in a meeting with OMB Director Orszag in mid-July, after which Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus told reporters he had heard some "interesting," "creative," and "kind of fun" ideas.

All kidding aside, can you imagine the Leftie Demos imposing a tax on their more needy member and Gollywood Supporters?

Drudge

Summer in Chicago - Man made global warming is a lie

The National Weather Service says 2009 has seen the coldest July since the official recording station was moved away from the lakefront in 1942. The average temperature this month in Chicago has been a mere 68.9 degrees.

Even in the years before 1942, when the National Weather Service recorded temperatures at the cooler lakefront, there are only three years that had colder Julys through the 26th.

There have also been far more days than usual with high temperatures less than 80 degrees this year. In 2009, there were 13 days where the temperature did not exceed 80 degrees. Only three Julys in the past 67 years have had more days in Chicago with highs less than 80 – there were 18 such days in 1992, and 14 in 1996 and 2000.

We have also failed to reach 90 degrees at any time this month.

Summer in Chicago link

On the local scene we had one of the coldest winters and a cold wet spring that delayed planting, my garden included. About two weeks ago we hit a cool spell and tomatoes stopped ripening on the vine. My okra is producing at about half normal and no new pepper pods are forming, the blooms are just falling off.

A week ago my wife demanded the heat be turned on because the house was so chilly.

And we live in the southeast.

Yet the Idiot the idiots elected and the many idiots in Congress have passed a bill to increase the cost of energy because man is causing the earth to warm.

What unadulterated bull shit.

Kings and Queens of the city... Washington DC city..

WASHINGTON – Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation's largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.

Both senators have said that at the time the mortgages were being written they didn't know they were getting unique deals from Countrywide Financial Corp., the company that went on to lose billions of dollars on home loans to credit-strapped borrowers. Dodd still maintains he got no preferential treatment.

They don't have the same health care, they don't have the same retirement, they get special deals...They are truly Kings and Queens.

Mistakes at the New York Times and why.

Some people wonder why I call them the Lame Stream Media. This is a correction published by the NY Times on a piece written by Alessandra Stanley on Walter Cronkite.

Of course 20 years from now, or next Friday for that matter, people will be nodding wisely that Walter stormed the beaches as well as told us that we had lost in Vietnam.

An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number of errors. In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr. Cronkite’s coverage of D-Day. Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, not April 30. Mr. Cronkite covered the D-Day landing from a warplane; he did not storm the beaches. In addition, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, not July 26. “The CBS Evening News” overtook “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” on NBC in the ratings during the 1967-68 television season, not after Chet Huntley retired in 1970. A communications satellite used to relay correspondents’ reports from around the world was Telstar, not Telestar. Howard K. Smith was not one of the CBS correspondents Mr. Cronkite would turn to for reports from the field after he became anchor of “The CBS Evening News” in 1962; he left CBS before Mr. Cronkite was the anchor. Because of an editing error, the appraisal also misstated the name of the news agency for which Mr. Cronkite was Moscow bureau chief after World War II. At that time it was United Press, not United Press International.

Now you may wonder why this person is a reporter, especially since:

Back in 2005, Gawker used Nexis to conduct a corrections-per-article study of Times columnists. It discovered Stanley was, at the time, the paper’s most error-prone columnist. By the end of 2005, it seemed like everyone had taken their shots at her.

Then something remarkable happened. She got better.

Stanley has been responsible for nine corrections so far this year. By my count in Nexis, she had fourteen corrections in 2008, twelve in 2007, and fifteen in 2006. Averaging just over a correction a month is not something to be proud of. But that’s still better than before she attracted so much attention. Stanley had twenty-three corrections in 2005, the year everyone noticed her predilection for error, and twenty-six in 2004. Perhaps the decline in corrections between 2005 and 2006 was in part due to the attention focused on her.

But why the tolerance? That's a very large number. Could it be that the boss is sleeping?

George Rubei is correct. While Stanley deserves every bit of criticism that's being leveled at her, the glaring omission from this piece is the question of why none of these scores of errors were caught by the copy desk, or the section editor, or any other editor on staff who might have been reading the paper between editions.

Posted by ej on Fri 24 Jul 2009 at 01:32 PM

But still, the question is, why. Perhaps this is the answer.

A quick look at Stanley's wikipedia page might enlighten us as to why she's tolerated at the New York Times. It's a big problem in journalism that class and social position often trump reporting and talent.

"Stanley is a daughter of Timothy W. Stanley, an authority on defense policy who served in the 1960's as assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara for NATO force planning and then as a defense adviser in the United States mission to NATO,[14] and Nadia Leon Stanley.

Stanley was previously married to Michael Specter,[15] a former reporter for the Washington Post, The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Stanley is a 1977 graduate of Harvard University where her uncle was a trustee.[15]"

Posted by Jon C on Sat 25 Jul 2009 at 07:09 PM

Link

Hat tip to UrgentAgenda

Illegal alien influx solution

Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately -- illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida ...




........ not me -- I concentrate on solutions for the problems -- it's a win-win situation.

* Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
* Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees.
* Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.

Any other problems you would like for me to solve today? Yes !

Think about this:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments


COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 14 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow..



THE CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.



THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this -- you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians ... it creates a hostile work environment.

Hat tip to Mike L!

Mick Jagger's birthday present

Read over at TalkLeft that Mick Jagger will turn 66 tomorrow and someone wanted suggestions as to a birthday present..

How about a nicely framed copy of

I can't get no Satisfaction.... though I try and I try and I try...

Happy 66th Mick!..... and it doesn't get any better!

Heard on the radio

This just blew me away. I mean it really blew me away...

Monica Lewinsky turned 35 today...

Someone said that when she was asked about the monumental activities of her time around President Clinton she said:


It really wasn't a big thing.

Will your Rep accept your insurance?

The question that Obamie did not answer and one that we should ask our Congress critters is this.

If the Bill is passed will you give up your current Federal Employee Insurance for yourself and your family and sign up for the new plan?

Here is a link that will let you find their contact information. Don't complain if you don't call them.

More harogate

harrogate:

harrogate has left a new comment on your post "harrogate claims but doesn't prove":

(I had written.) "Why no consistent "thundering" condemnation from the American media, or for that matter from politicans, Democratic as well as Republican?"


Well, we can disagree about how much coverage and attention should be given the domestic abuses of these regimes. But it really is in bad faith to explain it as a tacit approval, which you seem to be doing.

Me:

I haven’t limited what the Left can condemn to just domestic abuses. For example they could condemn Syria and Iran for attacking Israel via their surrogates. They could attack SA for funding schools in the US that teach hatred. They could condemn Pakistan for not running al Qaeda and the Taliban back into Afghanistan. Iran for sending fighters into Iraq. Etc., etc., etc…… It is a rich target environment.

harrogate:

I would say that the reason we don't see more rhetorical focus on these problems is that inevitably, for all the global dynamic of our world, our media and our politicians are STILL going to focus the most on what is happening here in this country.

Me:

Oh really? All I heard about for 7 years was how we shouldn’t be defending ourselves.

harrogate:

And, Jim, there is a capitalist reason for it as well. I'm sure you know this. I mean, consumers of media and voters writ large want most of the news and most of the rhetoric to be about things that are happening in this country, and that immediately affect their lives.

Me:

So that’s the reason MSNBC exists?


harrogate:

That being said, I think there is broad awareness and condemnation in America, across the political spectrum, of the human rights abuses thattake place in these Islamic regimes.

Me:

Then the President should be talking about that. We will either convince by talking or by killing.

harrogate:

On what to do about it all. You brought up Japan. But Japan, the NATION, had attacked us and declared war against us. While Islamic terrorists are indeed eager to commit violence against us and others today, the nationlesness of it makes things fundamentally different. A different proposition entirely to bomb the hell out of a Country like Iran or Saudi Arabia b/c we are repulsed by how their governments treat their own. I think I speak fo the majority when I say, I'm not remotely sanguine about going to war for such a reason.

Me:

If you let your enemy set the terms of the fight you will always lose. It is past time we told the Muslim world that if they harbor terrorists, knowingly or not, it is likely they will see more and more cruise missiles dropping out of the sky. That is what they will understand.


In the meantime we have this from bin Ladin himself in a 3/97 interview with Peter Arnett, then with CNN.


REPORTER: Mr. Bin Ladin, will the end of the United States' presence in Saudi Arabia, their withdrawal, will that end your call for jihad against the United States and against the US ?


BIN LADIN:….. So, the driving-away jihad against the US does not stop with its withdrawal from the Arabian peninsula, but rather it must desist from aggressive intervention against Muslims in the whole world.

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In case you can’t figure that out he was saying 12 years ago. It was: “Don’t interfere with Muslims and Sharia law.”

harrogate again

harrogate has left a new comment on your post "harrogate claims but doesn't prove":

Just a point of clarification-, since you appear to be confused on this point: I was stating the lack of difference between Islamic terrorists and the man who killed Tiller. Political violence, insane religious righteousness in both cases.

Will chew on the rest of what you wrote. It is thoughtful. I appreciate your engagement.

Me

Quit looking for equivalency. Tiller's killer was a nut operating by himself with no body of religious work, no centuries of analysis, etc. The radical Muslims are a natural extension of the fundamentals of Sharia law.

When you bring Tiller up you provide cover for the radical Muslims and those moderates who can't quite reach the point of disavowing them. The latter being understandable since doing so may get them hung, stoned or shot.

Plainer. There is absolutely no reason that the problems in the US should be discussed at the same time the many problems of the radical Muslims and the invasive immigration in to Europe is causing, and will soon cause in the US if we continue to let them come in.

harrogate claims but doesn't prove

harrogate has left a new comment on your post "A non-defense of the Left.":

For what it is worth, I am outraged over what radical Muslims are doing, both in terms of their general endorsement of political violence, and in terms of their abuses of women, gays, non-Muslims, and Muslims who are apparently not Muslim enough. And every person I know who votes Democratic feels the same way.

If that is true.... Why do I see no op eds from the Leftie Women of America??? Why do I read no thundering condemnations from the New York "All the information a terrorist needs" Times?? Now I know that is not y o u, but as a defender of the Left I would expect you be in the forefront of these fake Lefties lack of outrage.. (sarcasm alert...)

It's sort of like the Iran fiasco, the distinction I am drawing. I wonder how much god bluster from our politicians at these regimes, how these regimes treat their own people--how much good does that really do? Maybe the answer is grassroots outrage at such regimes, rather than Senators and Presidents "talking tough." We do not need more wars. If change is going to come from those regimes it is going to HAVE to come from inside them.

I have no idea, and neither do you, if Obama speaking out in support of the human rights of the protesters would help. And since he was too frightened of the Ali Whoosits he didn't until he became too frightened of American public opinion...

The Germans call him "The Mouse." And they have read him well.

Of course he had no problem defending a Leftie Wannabee President for Life in Honduras. My, my. What A Suprise!!!!!

And war has, and can, have positive effect. I refer you to The Cold War, in which thousands died defeating communism....WWII....Civil War.....American Revolution, etc., etc.

As for Israel, I mean, you could at least be as intellectually honest as Dennis Prager, a high profile right wing talker who routninely slams on Obama, but who also praised Obama for telling the Muslim world in Cairo that America unequivocally rejects the Holocaust denial, the political violence against Israelis, etc. Democratic politicans and their voters, like GOP politicans and their,s almost overwhelmingly condemn the virulent anti-Semitism in the Muslim world.

Obama makes one comment among his pandering and you think he deserves praise?? Why didn't he stress that Islam must change if it is to live in peace with others?

Could it be that it is because he was raised as a Muslim for his first 9 years and is conflicted over what Islam is all about??? Ask the typical Christian child of 9 and he will tell you all about "good things" but he will know nothing about the Reformation....

His raising has uniquely disqualified him to be President.

But the parties and their voters differ on what to do about it all. Bomb everyone? Not going to work in the end, though it might make some people rich in the process. The truth is there is no easy answer and I suspect you know it for all the stark talking points of the GOP on such issues.

There is no easy answer but if bombing is required, it should be used. Japan did not become a western styled democracy because we met with them. They changed because we made them change.

As for the differences between gays and womens' struggles here, versus their struggles in the Muslim world, of course it is Night and Day. I said as much in my comment. But the fact remains that many quarters of the mainstream Right continues to express outrage over the decriminalization of homosexuality. Forfget marriage for a second, we're talking outright criminal charges here. Rick Santorum, when the decision was handed down, said it was like legalizing bestiality. Horrible, horrible rhetoric for a 21st century American politician.

The facts remain that in the US we have a robust political debate. In Islamic theocracies you have robust hangings, stonings and honor killings. The Left's failure to publicly and continually condemn these actions and their lack of support for Israel proves my point.

The Left and Islam are birds of a feather.

Finally, the abortion issue. I was a little surprised, and a LOT saddened, at the deluge of support I saw on the Right blogosphere, for George Tiller's murder. And a deluge it was, especially from commenters. But Tiller's murder was an act of political violence, not a hair's breadth of difference between it and Muslim terrorist acts.

Got some links??

And you can see no difference between Tiller's actions and the radical Muslims? If you actually believe that there is no hope for you.

American social conservatism, again, no the whole, has not descended to near the depth of the Muslim extremist knuckledraggers. but that don't mean they should get a free pass for their divisive, inflammatory, and hateful rhetoric, their desire to jail people who they deem immoral.

If you want to condemn conservatives, have at them. But when you and the other Lefties continually react to criticism of the radical Muslims and the results of Sharia Law by attacking conservatives then you have placed yourself in the radical Muslim camp.

There is no law that says you have to defend the radical Muslims.

The facts are still as I posted. The Left sees Islamic theocracies differently because the theocracies govern the same way the Left wants to. The converted are joyfully happy to be told what to do and the remainder are attacked.



Posted by harrogate to Tall Cotton at July 21, 2009 11:29 AM

A non-defense of the Left.

harrogate wants to argue. Problem is, he has no weapons.

It is absolutely ridiculous to assert that the American "Left" (by which you mean Democratic politicians?) supports Sharia Law. Maybe what rankles you is that they are not salivating at the mouth to go start more wars in the Middle East.

I gave you three examples. I will pass on number one, although I think the Left's hatred of America is self demonstrating. But show me by examples of support for Israel that the Left doesn't hate Israel. And then explain the various speech codes and proposed hate laws.

BTW: how do you explain the Right's continuing agitation to eliminate abortion rights in this country? The fight to criminalize abortion (oh and by the way they are not happy with contraception either) does not put the American Right on the level of Sharia cleric, but it sure doesn't make them champions of women's rights, now does it?

Seeing as how I oppose abortion but support a woman's right to choose, you will have to argue with someone else. But comparing political disagreements that aren't going to come to pass to stoning and honor killing demonstrates how desperate you are.

Oh. And what about their strident opposition to gay rights in this country? Remember, it was only in 2003 that the Supremes handed down the ruling that banned homosexuality's outright criminalization. A tour of the Right's syndicated columnists will show that they are still mad about it.

Again you bark up the wrong tree. I believe in the rights of Gays and frankly don't care who they marry. I would just say, provide some links, and I note that opposing gay marriage is not the same as hanging gays.



So I ask again. Where is the outrage over what the radical Muslims are doing? It just isn't there.

And that tells it all.

Why the Left won't support gay and female rights in Islamic countries

Isn't it amazing how the Left, the very group that claims to be for gay and female rights, is always in the forefront of pimping for the radical Muslims and Sharia law. People that stone females and hang gays...

Why is that??

My theory is simple.

First, the radical Muslims hate America. So does the typical Leftie.

Secondly, the radical Muslims hate Israel. So does the typical Leftie.

Thirdly, the radical Muslims believe in a theocratic type of government that dictates every action of their citizens. So does the typical Leftie.

Birds of a feather?

An enemy of my enemy is my friend type of thing?

This is a Golden Oldie, but still one the most accurate statements ever made.

Sometimes you are encouraged about our country's future when you see something like this. Specifically, there is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate
definition of a contemporary term:

This year's term was "Political Correctness."

The winner wrote:

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional,
illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous
mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is
entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Hat tip to Mike L!

A Social Security rip off

PHOENIX -- A Social Security Administration motivational management conference held at a high-end Valley resort last week cost $700,000, the SSA told the ABC15 Investigators.

Costs for the conference at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa included airfare, hotel entertainment, dancers, motivational speakers, and food, an administration official said.

I have been there. It is indeed a classy joint. Just the place our rulers would select for:

This was a training conference. The location was selected through the government's competitive bidding process. The facility that was selected was the lowest bidder, and we paid well-below the prescribed government rate.
-Leslie Walker, Regional Communications Director, Social Security Administration

As a public service I have translated these into normal American speech.

This list was provided to ABC15 by the Social Security Administration)

Multigenerational Communication - What you need to know to effectively manage four generations at work

People of different ages see things differently.

RelationsShifts - Techniques to empower you to change the way you relate to your work, your colleagues, our organization and our customers

When you become angry, count to 10. Better yet, walk away.

A Leadership Role in Strategic Management Planning - Learn how to be a strategic leader

Pay attention to what the boss says and how to nod wisely as the boss says it.

Managing Diverse People - Forum to discuss diversity and management for all employees

People from different races have different views. Try not to claim Tiger Woods isn't the greatest golfer of all time.

eServices in SSA - Learn about new and innovative agency initiatives and how they will change the face of SSA and help us to meet the workload challenges ahead

Knock off the personal email and blogging.

Mentoring the Generations - Will help you engage effectively across all dimensions of diverse thoughts, ideas, attitudes, beliefs, behavior and values of all generations

People of different ages see things differently. Try not to gush over Jane and Peggy's wedding.

Emotional Intelligence - Learn to "lead from where you stand" and focus on a wide array of competencies and skills that drive leadership performance

You have to work with what you have, not with what you want to have.

Policy Perspectives - Learn what's driving SSA in terms of programs, staffing and beneficiaries, how we change policy, hot policy issues

Silly you! I bet you thought you were supposed to be doing what the law required.

Reasonable Accommodation - Learn how to recognize potential Reasonable Accommodation issues and what actions are needed when certain indicators are present

If the other person is big and mad or your boss... count to 10 and/or walk away.

Health Information Technology - SSA plans for and use of health IT to improve our disability program

Typing isn't like driving a truck.

Improving Organizational Performance Through Employee Engagement - The effectiveness of engagement in improving organizational operations as well as the supervisory behaviors which foster greater engagement

If we had some ham we'd have some ham and eggs if we had some eggs.

Removing the Barriers - Learn a hands-on problem solving process that gives employees the opportunity to identify areas of conflicts and concerns in the workplace and options or solutions to address them.

Also see Psycho Babble 101.

Interest Based Bargaining - Learn a collaborative process used for contract negotiations and daily problem solving that will benefit the organization as a whole

Take turns getting the coffee.

Leading at a Higher Level - Join a panel of current Senior Executive Service (SES) Career Development Program Associates and learn


Don't nod off no matter how bad the speaker is. Nod wisely and tell everyone what a great meeting it was and how pumped up you are.(Also known as Brown Nosing 101

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As the sign says, your tax dollars at work.


ANY EMPLOYEE THAT DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW ANY OF THE ABOVE ITEMS SHOULD BE FIRED.

Walter Cronkite

The man once trusted the most is dead.

The talking heads will blather all weekend. All will opine as to his trail blazing. Most will cover his early career during WWII and his memorable reporting when Kennedy was killed. The press then, as it is now, was heavily invested in the President and it was only later that we learned of things that, if reported, most likely would have elected Nixon, and changed the course of history for the better.

Certainly the Bay of Pigs, if pursued at all, would have been prosecuted successfully, the Cuban missile crisis would not have occurred and Kennedy would not have needed to reestablish his strength and resolve to fight Communism by becoming more involved in South Vietnam.

But none will mention that.

A few will note his now infamous remarks that we had lost in Vietnam when we had not. His ignorance and hubris then was so striking and so bold that no one recognized it. It is, of course, a day labor's job today, as common as an Ivy League professor condemning America and a new Democratic administration preparing to lose the War On Terror.

That Walter was wrong is barely known and is rapidly dying with him. Few students are made to read such as this WSJ interview with Bui Tin, a former colonel in the North Vietnamese army.

Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?

A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

Q: Did the Politburo pay attention to these visits?

A: Keenly.

Q: Why?

A: Those people represented the conscience of America. The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win.

So his career isn't to be celebrated. Some times men do things that are so terrible they wipe out all that went before. The best I can do for Cronkite is to quote Shakespeare.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones

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Birth of the Boeing 707

Fifty five years ago today Tex Johnson, renowned Test Pilot, flew the Boeing 367-80 prototype of the Boeing 707 over Seattle during an air show and surprised everyone but himself and his crew by doing a wing over roll....

Video

And the age of commercial air travel was born.

It wasn't the first commercial jet, the British de Havilland was that and the French Caravelle was just a year behind, but it was clearly the best and established Boeing and America as world technology leaders.

You could fly Pan Am out of JFK to Brussels, flip up some arm rests and sleep for a few hours until they brought you a hot wash cloth and OJ to get ready to land. And that was in coach. Back then only demi-gods and movie stars flew First Class....

Hat tip to Mostly Cajun for reminding me of the date!

Sotomayor explained

Meet the new Sotomayor.


























Just like old Sotomayor!








Or..... Did I say that?

What Muslims do

Click here for a video of a female secular non-Muslim tell the world what Islam is.

Don't miss it.

Obama's CIA Chief gives al Qaeda a free pass

The New York Times reported on Sunday that the CIA, under the direction of Cheney, developed a secret counterterrorism program and then was directed by the vice president to conceal it from Congress.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that the program was a classified initiative to kill or capture al Qaeda operatives. Cheney has not commented on the media reports.

Members of both the House and the Senate Intelligence committees learned about the program last week, when CIA Director Leon Panetta told them in classified hearings that he had just learned about the program and had ordered it terminated.

Let me get this straight. Cheney had a plan to kill and/or capture al Qaeda operatives and this is bad?????

Panetta has just found out and he has cancelled the plan?

What in the hell is this beside the absolute most stupid ffing thing I have ever heard of???

Leon. You are supposed to be protecting the country, not giving al Qaeda members a free pass.

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It is time to impeach Obama. He has demonstrated an unwillingness to defend the country that is criminal.

Yet the Left says nothing.

How the Left Destroys someone...

A blog known as allnews posted the following on 7/3.

Sarah Palin Embezzlement Scandal - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigned because of an embezzlement scandal involving her actions as Mayor of Wasilla and receiving huge financial favors from Spenard Building Supplies.

The Sarah Palin embezzlement scandal now has Federal indictments being issued this month that would have crippled Palin’s ability to govern effectively.

Note that there is no qualifier. No "rumor has it" or "informed sources." Just a flat claim that federal indictments will be issued.

Now if you go to the website, the date shown is still 7/3, but it now says.

Sarah Palin Embezzlement Scandal - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigned because of an embezzlement scandal involving her actions as Mayor of Wasilla and receiving huge financial favors from Spenard Building Supplies.

The Sarah Palin embezzlement scandal now has Federal indictments being issued this month that would have crippled Palin’s ability to govern effectively.

Again, no qualifier. And the two entries though identical in point, they are obviously different, although you can't tell it from the website.

I found no entry of any kind after 7/3.

Of course Palin's lawyer threatened to sue another blogger. Maybe this one caught a clue with that and when the FBI said on 7/5/09.

"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday. "It's just not true." He added that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments for any kind of inquiry.

LA Times Link

Now, if you Google a11news you will go to Which is a site that is selling domain names. It also notes:

US news blog wiht some entertainment news

I see that their typing skills are about on par with mine. But I digress.

Now, if you Google a11news Palin you you pick up 1260 hits.

So okay. a11news zaps out some trash and so do others. Then the FBI takes the most unusual step of stepping in and saying it isn't true. So you think that would be that. Nope... Nine days later on the Pluckforum for the Tennessean, what do we have?

The Sarah Palin embezzlement scandal now has Federal indictments being issued this month that would have crippled Palin’s ability to govern effectively." That would explain suddenly stepping down.
posted at 7/11/2009 4:54 PM CDT

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This posted by a person who calls themselves TheTrueVoM. He also thoughtfully provides a link to the a11news posting. (In previous lives he was True Voice of Moderation.)

Now the Tennessean has pulled his original post, but he has re posted it and it remains up, along with some nasties about Palin.

Now someone will pick up the new posting, seven days after the FBI said it was wrong and run with it again.

etc., etc., etc.

And the political process is destroyed. Not with a bang but a whimper.

Olberman leaves out an important line in Alito's statement

The Left has complained that the now famous quote of Judge Sotomayor was taken out of context. Let's look at the quote in total.

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn‘t lived that life. Each day on the bench, I learn something new about the judicial process and about being a professional Latina woman in a world that sometimes looks at me with suspicion.

I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extend that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences.”

Okay. That's what she said. Note that nothing after the now famous first sentence changes it. She has said that a wise Latina woman with her background would do a better job than whitey. She then expands it, but she doesn't change it.

No place does she say, I am who I am but my job is to understand that and rule based on the law. In fact, she enforces her statement at the close when she writes...."that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires."

Now the Right has taken her words and used them. The Left has countered that they were taken out of context. I have given you the complete quote and my view on it.

The Left has made other excuses. Among them is that what she said is really no different from what Judge Alito said.

“When a case comes before me involving, let‘s say, someone who is an immigrant,” said the nominee for the Supreme Court, “I can‘t help but think of my own ancestors because it wasn‘t that long ago when they were in that position. I have to say to myself and I do say to myself, you know, this could be your grandfather. This could be your grandmother.”

“When I get a case about discrimination,” the nominee continued, “I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender and I do take that into account.”

The problem is that the quote is incomplete, which is a far different cry that being out of context.

Both Sotomayor's and Alito's quote came from Keith Olberman's show on May 27.

Why am I not surprised?

But what, you may ask, is incomplete? What was left out? Well, sometimes answers come in strange places. Here is a video clip from KOS. Listen carefully starting at around the 1:35 mark..........

When a case comes before me involving, let‘s say, someone who is an immigrant,” said the nominee for the Supreme Court, “I can‘t help but think of my own ancestors because it wasn‘t that long ago when they were in that position and here is what was left out....."It's my job to apply the law...it's not my job to change or bend the law to achieve a result..." I have to say to myself and I do say to myself, you know, this could be your grandfather. This could be your grandmother.”

Now I am not an expert transcriber, so I may not have the words left out on Olbermann's show exact. But they are very, very close.

Now, why would someone leave out those words?? Simple. Because they change the meaning of what Alito said from him agreeing with the thrust of Sotomayor's comment to totally rejecting her comment.

Hat tip to The Dark Avenger who, over at TalkLeft, used the quote and got my bull shit detector fully engaged.

Thanks DA. That Secretary position is still open if you pick up cleaning and make coffee.

The seeds of 1947

I got this from Jimmy M. It explains many things.

Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 plus years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico . This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations.

However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:

Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer

See what happens when aliens breed with sheep?

I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It did for me.

No wonder they support the bill to help illegal aliens!

Now You Know......... the rest of the story

Obama's soulmate spells it out,

Minister Eduardo Samán laid the groundwork for a Marxist model at a business forum

Trade Minister Eduardo Samán unveiled at a business forum President Hugo Chavez's Economic and Social Development Plan, which will change the guidelines related to domestic and foreign trade. There are five principal elements: development of trade production; social control of the means of distribution; state price regulation and the replacement of consumerism with satisfying essential necessities. The chavista government will only approve foreign investment which ensures the transfer of technology to industry. "Not all are beneficial and bring progress to society's well being", Samán said, who added: "Don't be afraid when I speak of Marxism. It is the only system which does not exclude". Some who attended the forum expressed their concerns to the press saying that, as it is planned, the Venezuelan bill eliminates free trade.

Now we know why Obamaie loves Chavez.

These people are telling us just like Hitler did but I'll bet money the above doesn't show up in any major media in the US.

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Cybder attacks from North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea has obtained intelligence that North Korea last month ordered a military institute of computer hackers - known as Lab 110 - to "destroy" South Korean communications networks, news reports said Saturday.

The National Intelligence Service informed lawmakers of its finding on Friday, pointing to it as evidence the North was behind massive cyberattacks that paralyzed major South Korean and U.S. Web sites in recent days, the mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported.

They keep this up and we'll pass the word that they are supporters of Palin....
then Kos, MoveOn and Huffington Post will trash'em so bad they'll faint at their keyboards!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090711/D99C86200.html">Link

Three lies

It's working.

It's working.

It's working.

Cheney moves to Denver

As the first stimulus money flowed into Colorado, it was doled out to shovel-ready transportation projects — and some of Gov. Bill Ritter's former law partners.

Ritter hired the politically connected firm of Hogan & Hartson three months ago to work on issues surrounding the state's disbursement of federal stimulus funds. The firm has been paid $40,000 through June and is expected to file monthly bills.

The state attorney general's office deemed the no-bid contract acceptable, according to the governor's office, which said the state needed to move quickly to get legal opinions on stimulus money.

How Halliburtonesque of them....

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Muslims rebels behead 7 Christians in Somalia

Rumor has it that the beheadees were offerred the choice of being water boarded instead and screamed they couldn't stand the torture..

The heheaders were happy to give them their choice.

Somalia's hard-line Islamist rebels beheaded seven people on Friday for being "Christians" and "spies" in the latest implementation of strict Sharia law by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab movement, witnesses said.

Though al-Shabaab has carried out such punishments before in regions it controled, the beheadings on Friday were thought to be their largest number of executions at one time, Somalis said.

"Al-Shabaab told us that they were beheaded for reasons they described as being Christian followers and spies," said one relative, who gave his name only as Aden, after the executions in the south-central town of Baidoa.

The group beheaded three people in the region last month.

Al-Shabaab, which means "Youth" in Arabic, have vowed to rule the majority Muslim nation by a hardline interpretation of Islamic law. The group has dug up Sufi graves, forced women to wear veils and amputated limbs for theft.

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A Christian fundamentalist believes the world was created in seven days and that Moses parted the Red Sea. H e insists that his children study the Bible as part of their education. He may well consider dancing, alcohol consumption, and pre-marital sex to be sinful.

A Muslim fundamentalist beheads Christians.

Christian fundamentalists, Muslim fundamentalists — same thing, right?

Hat tip to Gates of Vienna."

"Argentia? Now I understand what hit Sanford between the eyes.."

The media is just so in the tank.... Look at this picture..


Now, what does ABC's "Political Punch" say?

On first glance, the snapshot appears to show President Obama caught in a moment of less than lofty analysis. But upon looking at the video, the moment seems to appear quite innocent -- one of those times when a picture can be misleading. The president was on a higher step and was stepping down -- so he looked down to assure his footing as the woman was walking up the stairs.

Judge for yourself.

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I did, and he almost fell down looking..... I think this song was written for Obamie and Sarkozy.

Supermax Prsion bans Obama's books

FLORENCE —The federal government's most secure prison has determined two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.

A prison spokeswoman referred questions to the FBI.

Who didn't know that??

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Illegal aliens ????? try to rob jewelry salesman

Just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, Joel Hobson heard three loud pops right outside his second-floor office. One floor below him, Nancy Dumas heard the same thing.

Those pops were gunfire, a signal that an attempted jewelry heist in East Memphis had gone awry. Four men, all described as speaking Spanish, had pounced on a traveling jewelry salesman, trying to take his merchandise.

Instead, 62-year-old Stephen Fleischman pulled his weapon and shot two of the suspects, leaving them bleeding in the parking lot as the others fled, Memphis police said. At least two of the suspects were armed.

Hey, two for four isn't bad but too bad he didn't get the other two.

Now. Are they illegal?? Nope, just snuck out of a JC Spanish class and were practicing their newly acquired skills.



Best comment on the story:

Posted by crushert on July 8, 2009 at 3:41 p.m.
A gun in the hand is worth a squad of police on the cell phone.

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