Hussein plays at being a patriot

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Barack Obama wants to make something clear: He loves America.

After a series of incidents that prompted questions about his patriotism, the Democratic presidential candidate is peppering speeches with explicit statements on his love of country

Well yes. Refusing to wear a US flag lapel pin, looking like you don't know how to salute the flag and remaining in a church for 20 years that has a minister who says "God damn America" and claims the US invented the Aids virus to kill blacks does have a way of bringing your patriotism into question.

Oh, did I mention a wife who is finally proud of the country....after hubby looks to have a chance to win the Demo nomination? No?

Maybe that's why an AOL poll showed 56% of the respondents saying they seriously questioned his patriotism. Heck. I wonder what cave the other 44% have been sleeping in.

Of course the amazing thing is that even when he tries he can't get it Wright.

"I love this country not because it's perfect but because we've always been able to move it closer to perfection," he told an audience in North Dakota.

Why couldn't he just say, "This is the greatest country on God's green earth!"

The answer, of course, is that he doesn't believe that. He, and every Lefty I have known, is incapable of that. To get there we must declare open borders and surrender to the UN. That is what he means he speaks of change.


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Iran and nuclear weapons

"TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday.

Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating in Natanz, and the new announcement is seen as a show of defiance of international demands to halt a nuclear program the United States and its allies say is aimed at building nuclear weapons.

"The president announced the start of the phase of installing 6,000 new centrifuges in Natanz," state television reported.

Centrifuges are machines that can enrich uranium to a low level to produce nuclear fuel or a high level for use in a weapon. Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful and solely focused on the production of energy."

Yesterday was spent by Hussein in an attempt to tell us how much of a patriot he is.

While we dither, Iran continues on its march towards nuclear weapons.

If you think we need a nuclear Iran, then vote Democratic.

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Infrared Cameras

Julie Salcido, a supervising agent with the Bureau of Industry and Security, said one of the men purchased the cameras, assuring the seller repeatedly that they were only for domestic use.

"He repeatedly said he wouldn't export," she said.

I have to ask. If they can't be taken out of the country, why in the &%$* can someone just walk up and purchase one, or ten?

Yong Guo Zhi, a Chinese national, and Tah Wei Chao, a naturalized U.S. citizen, were arrested for investigation of trying to take thermal imaging cameras with potential military use to China without the proper export licenses, Weir said.

If you don't have to have a license to purchase, an "export license" is useless. They may have caught these two, but what about the next three hundred or so? Why didn't the buyers just take them down to Long Beach and put them abroad a freighter bound for China?? They probably will next time.

This is akin to searching 70 year old grandmothers and letting 25 year old Muslim males walk through airport security. The results are not security but nonsense to make us feel good.

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I love this movie script

especially the endng.

A Titan is dead.

I first saw "Ben Hur" downtown in Nashville, I think around Christmas of '60 or '61. I can't be sure of the year. I have seen it several times since then. It is an inspiring movie, beautifully filmed with a script to match. It made Heston a star, and he deserved it.

If a man is known by the enemies he has made, then Charlton Heston stands at the top of the mountain looking down on the likes of George Clooney and Michael Moore. Neither are known for doing much beyond complaining when complaining carries no penalties.

Their nasty comments are mindful of a small poodle, barking with no reason beyond the feel good of the bark, and the hopeful approval of other poodles.

Heston told us about the giants of the world while demonstrating for civil rights at a time when such a position carried with it not only threats of lost employment, but physical harm.

One his best comments was: "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."

Like John Wayne before him, he cannot be replaced.

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Rube Goldberg??

Gizmodo

"Awesome, pointless, engineering fun. We love it."

Al-Jazeera and Dave Marrash

This comes from an interview between Dave Marash and the Columbia Journalism Review. Marash supposedly is telling us why he first went to work forf Al Jazeera and why he left.

”Now, as anchor, I was in position to vouch for at least half of the material that went on air because I got to speak it and I could edit it on the fly if I felt that there were any inaccuracies or imbalances in it. But when the proposal was made that I leave the anchor chair [he was informed of this in December and his last day as anchor was March 13] and become a sort of heavy correspondent, I knew that I would never be able to have the kind of editorial input or control that would put me in a position to honestly vouch for anything.”

Plainer. They wanted a stooge and to his credit, Marash wouldn’t be one. And when they removed him from being anchor, he quit.
My problem with Marash is that he couldn’t figure that out before he went to work for them. So now he has to dither and back and forth as if he didn’t know that it was a Muslim network and as such would toe the line. You know what? He probably didn’t. That alone says a lot about journalists in general. In their self appointed desire to change the world…To be the deciders of what is to be done…. they exhibit a remarkable lack of plain old common sense.
He concludes with this.

So if you watched and every piece seemed tendentious and pissed you off, and I don’t think that would be the case, but even if worst case the channel turned shrill and shallow, you would still want to watch them on the principle that millions—tens of millions—of people watch them every day and you need to know what’s going on in their brains.

Note to “Journalists.” Quit calling yourselves “journalists.” You are “reporters.” Report the facts and quit worrying about what is going on in people’s minds. That is what your reader is supposed to do when you have reported the facts.


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