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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
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| 01-31-03
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe
At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."
Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.
I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to
-GoogleNewsBeta--
with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.
May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.
Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:
-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--
-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --
DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***
DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-
DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"
DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II
-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--
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Robot Heckles Campaigning Bill Clinton In Iowa--“The protester said he wanted Clinton to apologize for a comment he made in 1992 about a rapper named Sister Souljah, and then threw colored cards into the air.” That’s actually just about as intelligent as any moonbat questions.
Revisit the Clinton Record?--Clinton obviously believes his presidency was a Golden Era, a time when peace and prosperity graced America. The Clintons want the press to replay a sort of glowing Harry and Linda Thomason propaganda movie about The Way They Were, with a soundtrack by Barbra Streisand.
The evil Easter bunny. Instead of giving you Easter eggs, she takes them away from you.
Wall Street Journal ^--a godsend or curse for Hillary — she keeps trying to re-run the Clinton 90s campaigns.
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12/12/2007 5:29:18 AM PST
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backhoe
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Honour - and horror - of the head scarf--We keep reading of these monstrosities and still the defenders of Islam remind us it is a religion of peace. In the sixties the Ku Klux Klan was declared a subversive organization(and rightly so) because of it’s propensity toward violence. I think Islam has reached that threshold. I am tired of this group of fanatics being given a pass.
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12/12/2007 6:58:02 AM PST
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backhoe
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-When Whackademics Attack- the Deb Frisch affair-- Click the picture:
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12/12/2007 1:06:12 PM PST
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12/12/2007 1:26:21 PM PST
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backhoe
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I still have the old bump list:--KlamathBasinCrisis:
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Newer members who were not around back then should take a look.
Caption Hillary, lighting up the room at a campaign stop in Gilford, NH--I hate to admit this, but I actually felt a twinge of compassion for HRC. Very, very troubling to me. She looks beaten...
But, there's always this to consider...
M O O N B A T A W A R D
P R I Z E W I N N E R
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Never Forget!
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posted on
12/12/2007 3:58:39 PM PST
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backhoe
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The Clintons really have lost their touch...
I've written before that in both politics and romance, desperation does not act as an aphrodisiac. The Hillary Clinton campaign has gone past the stench of desperation to the reek of flop sweat as they see their inevitability collapse into incoherence. Hillary's New Hampshire co-chair warns that surging Barack Obama will get peppered with questions about his admitted high-school drug use:
Not only has Shaheen and the Clintons become desperate, Shaheen doesn't even have the courage to put the questions out on his own. Given that Obama's admission of high-school drug use got a massive shrug from Republicans, the notion that Republicans would suddenly begin asking about Obama's dealings, in every sense of the word, looks ridiculous. Shaheen wants to force Obama to answer the questions and blame Republicans for forcing him to do it.
How will that play in New Hampshire? About as well as a stalker with a supermodel. The appearance of the wheels coming off the Clinton campaign will only get reinforced by this latest attack. Comments ( 43) "I thought Hillary was supposed to be the brains of this outfit..."
'Bill Clinton's taking over the campaign? Oh the rich irony! Uber feminist Hillary Rodham Clinton must be rescued by a cheatin', lyin' scoundrel of a MAN?'
"The aura of inevitability was literally the only thing she had going for her. Now it's been exposed as a fraud and it's spiraling out of control quickly."
Boehner admits GOP money situation ‘sucks' --
Boehner has undertaken a study, consulting corporate image experts, to “re-brand” the party.-- Try adhering to conservative principles for a change.
Every time you call for money we say close the borders, deport the illegal aliens, and English only. Lower taxes, spending, and regulation. Kill the Death Tax. I can keep my money and get crappy legislation from the dems for free. Americans are seething, and the politicians don't have a clue how angry they are.
In a word, CONDI. It's all Condi, all the time. When she walked through those doors at State it was like sharks to chum. Today Melanie Phillips posits: hat tip Robert...I floated the theory that the US had done a deal with both Iran and Saudi Arabia to produce calm in Iraq in return for a promise not to bomb Iran and to serve Israel to them on a plate. Now Debkafile -- whose bulletins, based on intelligence sources, are not reliable but often contain more than a germ of truth -- is reporting a grander version of the same theory. Mary drives it home... Permalink | Comments (2) | "Sign me up for impeachment."
Mexican trucks roll on despite opposition
Time will shine Bush era --Time...
( "Keeps Flowin' like a river, on & on, to the Sea..."
hattip: The Alan Parsons Project )
...will add a patina not apparent in current times.
Case in point? The Clinton era. I lived thru it, and fought it every inch of the way. But even a mere 7 years passed, it is largely remembered fondly.
Mr. Bush- and Lord knows, I have enough briefs against him, from the illegal invasion to campaign finance reform to No Child Left Behind-- will probably be remembered even more fondly. In any case, he's history, now- we'll see what the future brings...
TARP ( the alleged religion of peace ) alert:
December 12th, 2007
From The Hill:
Remember, Ms. Pelosi claims to be fiscally responsible.
$2,400 for makeup?
Where is the outrage? 19 Comments » "No wonder these a**hats are such failures at reducing or even mildly controlling federal spending. " 'I’m beginning to think DNC is Democratic National Clowns.'
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12/13/2007 1:57:32 AM PST
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backhoe
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12/13/2007 5:01:36 AM PST
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backhoe
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This is a very useful site: link
Well, if the dims take over and the whole country is run further into the ground, at least I can be justified in my frustration with the government. I’d rather see everything go to sh!t with people I didn’t vote for at the helm than with people I DID vote for.
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12/13/2007 6:07:24 AM PST
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backhoe
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OIL TAXES--the true purpose behind the global warming scam is to cripple capitalism and wealthy nations. Are some of you starting to "get it?"
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12/13/2007 6:57:17 AM PST
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backhoe
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Why we need more clean coal, nuclear, wind, and ocean power:
The Sound Of Settled Science
Who to believe? The computer models or your own lyin' satellite data?
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VITAMIN D UPDATE:
PEOPLE should sit outside in the middle of the day to help stave off potential deadly medical conditions, an Australian researcher says.
Current recommendations about when people should be exposed to the sun the most were wrong and did not allow people to get enough vitamin D, according to David Turnbull, a research fellow at the University of Southern Queensland’s Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health.
Vitamin D, when absorbed through the skin from UV rays, has been found to help prevent various cancers, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. . . . “In the US, between 50,000 and 60,000 people die each year because of issues relating to not getting enough sun exposure,” he said.
Last month, researchers from King’s College London released a report linking vitamin D with slowing ageing in women.
The British study found more sunshine could also cut the risk of age-related illnesses such as heart disease.
I've always been skeptical of the extreme sun-phobia we've seen from dermatologists, etc. This suggests that I was right -- but read the whole thing.
Stunning Survey Unveils New Secrets Of Caistor Roman Town
December 13, 2007 02:59 PM by Michelle Malkin
Will Nancy Pelosi apologize before the House for her Pete Stark-like remarks? More from The Hill:24 Comments "...seriously, it can’t get better. they’re losing their minds."
Recall the embarrassment Hillary Clinton suffered when she tried to explain she'd been named after Sir Edmund Hillary after he'd climbed Mount Everest -- only to have it pointed out that she had been five years old at that time? Well, she still seems a little confused about her birth date. Here's an interesting passage in today's debate:
HC: We've got to enlist the American people the way we did in a previous generation for the Apollo program. As a little girl, I remember being thrilled about that, and feeling there was something I could do. [Shrugs] My fifth-grade teacher said it was to study math and science, but it gave me an idea of actually contributing to my country.
Hillary Clinton was born in 1947. Assuming she started the first grade as a six-year-old as most kids do, she would have been in the fifth grade in 1957-1958. The Mercury program didn't start until 1961, and Apollo started in 1966. John Kennedy didn't even make his speech about going to the moon until she was a teenager, not a "little girl".
It's these tall tales -- trying desperately to make herself seem warm and empathetic -- that demonstrate the phoniness of Hillary Clinton. Her husband can pull this off. She can't, and maybe she should stop trying.
UPDATE: Allahpundit at Hot Air calls Hillary's offer to have a show of hands for global warming her "Tracy Flick" moment. It's a great reference, and dead on. How many know what it is, and do you agree?
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12/13/2007 1:14:43 PM PST
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backhoe
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Unfettered 'citizen journalism' too risky (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)--Once upon a time, journalism WAS an honorable profession, especially as practiced at highly reputable newspapers like the Atlanta Constitution and (believe it or not) the New York Times. Then there were the great reporters on the television networks, as exemplified by Edward R Murrow.
However, more recently, all too many journalists have become globalist shills, salacious tabloid guttersnipes, and apologists for feminazis, gaysbians, islamists, muticulturalists, illegal immigrants, and other darlings of the postmodern Left. Then there are the out-and-out LIARS, like Christianne Amanpour and Samantha Power. Power has taken things one step further, and now poses as a Harvard professor, rather than a mere journalist!!!! And the New York Times has become the New World Order Times—”all the news we fit to print.”
Ban the Koran and ban Muslim schools
Canadian MP Introduces "Transgender" to the Hate C...
December 13, 2007 06:30 AM by Michelle Malkin37 Comments
December 13, 2007 08:48 AM by Michelle Malkin27 Comments
--more--
Catholic Activist "Banned for life" From Publicly --
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission's decision to impose a "lifetime" ban on a local Catholic's freedom to publicly criticise homosexuality, was upheld this week in its entirety by Saskatchewan Court of Queens Bench. Warren voiced the concerns of many in Canada who believe the Human Rights Commissions' powers and zeal for the far left ideological position makes them an ideal vehicle for the suppression of basic democratic freedoms.
Warren blasted the Human Rights Tribunals, calling them "kangaroo courts" and "star chambers" with "quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country... in which the defendant's right to due process is withdrawn."
Quebec ready to step in if feds dump gun registry, Charest s... --
Let Quebec keep it. They want to be Euro's let them be Euro's. Just don't expect us to pay for it. We can use it as the example of why and how it doesn't work.
Allahpundit at Hot Air calls Hillary's offer to have a show of hands for global warming her "Tracy Flick" moment. It's a great reference, and dead on. ( Tracy is an overachiever whose obsession with getting into a good college masks a vindictive, manipulative and sexual side.) The essence of Hillary: A canny politico on the one hand (well, not lately), waaaay too reminiscent of Tracy Flick on the other.
The cracks begin to show (Hillary Clinton) --While it does indeed appear that Hillarrheah!® is "jumping the shark," or "she's come undone," or the wheels are coming off her "inevitable" campaign, it's awfully early to have any confidence in this. Remember that her ( cough! ) better half of the TwoFerOne presidency became known as The Comeback Kid...
( With 90% of the news and entertainment media on his side- yes, I have links-- it was "inevitable... " )
That said, I saw the need to document and comment upon The Lady MacBeth of Little Rock in 2003,
-backhoe is The Man for reviewing the Clinton record--
and started a file- click the picture, and scroll back for the latest, including Captain Ed's "The Smell of Flop Sweat," here:
The veritable Archtype of Clinton research is to be found here, at Freeper Alamo-Girl's Downside Legacy:
More BlogWarZ:
Postscript
by Baron Bodissey
OK, I’ve read all the emails and looked at all the comments. I get the message!
As if I didn’t already want to be rid of That Awful Topic.
The job had to be done first, and it has been. Now we really
can do something else.
No one’s mind is going to be changed in either direction by any further argument.
I no longer consider Little Green Footballs to be a reliable source of information.
Therefore I will not discuss it any more, nor will Dymphna. I won’t answer any emails on the topic. There is nothing left to be said. I’m sure there will be more videos and photos that prove that Filip Dewinter is a Nazi, but I’m not going to deal with them.
We’re done. Finished. We have officially Moved On.
I’m worn out from two months of this, and am also behind in my other duties, so posting may be light for a while. But I’ll be back up to speed in a day or two.
Readers may be looking for an alternative to LGF for news aggregation. As I said before, Gates of Vienna is not the place to go for news. But below the fold is a list of English-language blogs that I consider worthwhile for news and analysis.
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News aggregators:
News plus opinion, deep analysis, or specialized functions:
Read further...
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1389: No, we will continue our work. I don't see why we should ask for permission from LGF. But it's sad to see a blog which I once respected destroy itself like LGF has been doing over the past couple of months.
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When Japan Attacked the U.S. Mainland
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MR BEAN SIGNS AWAY OUR FREEDOM
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All the sound and fury, all the relentless barrage of media hype, all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the true believers and sycophants of Al Gore about global warming have been orchestrated for a specific purpose. That purpose was out in the open, in all its global socialistic majesty in the luxurious setting of the UN conference on global warming in Bali.
It is about global taxation, with the United Nations as the recipient of the massive windfall of money taken from the “rich” nations. Nothing more elaborate than that.
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As I have said repeatedly, no matter what party you belong to or ideology you believe in, you should be opposed to pork barrel spending. It is bad for the nation, bad for taxpayers and corrupting for the elected officials. Now, thanks to an unlikely set of alliances and the cooperation of some fairly bitter opponents, we taxpayers can see who is feeding at the public trough. The Office of Management and Budget is unveiling USASpending.gov, a searchable database created with the help of a group strongly critical of the OMB itself. Welcome to strange bedfellow-ville.
Robert Shea is a Republican insider with a head for business and a yen for federal program performance standards. Gary Bass is a government watchdog with a mean bite who wants openness and knows how to get it.
Official antagonists, political opposites, brought together by a wild, crazy idea: federal budget transparency. Online and searchable. Free for the asking.
Today, the White House budget office officially launches USASpending.gov, a Web site that shows taxpayers where their dollars go and which legislators, contractors and regions get the most.
The site was created by Shea, associate director of the Office of Management and Budget. It was modeled on a site pioneered by Bass, director of OMB Watch, one of the budget office's harshest nonprofit critics.
"They were very cooperative and supportive when they recognized we were trying to do the right thing — even before I was paying them," Shea says of OMB Watch.
"Normally, we come to bury Caesar, not praise him," Bass says of Shea. "But they are doing something that's very cool, that's very innovative in government."
The story began late last year, when two other political opposites, Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), sponsored legislation requiring the federal government to set up a searchable online database tracing federal budget spending by Jan. 1, 2008.
The goal was to make both the executive branch and Congress accountable for their spending decisions by allowing regular taxpayers to follow the money.
The new website is up and functional. It actually exceeds the requirements of the law, was complete before the deadline and was done on the cheap, especially for a government project. If you want an unembedded link, here it is:
http://www.federalspending.gov/
This is going to be a nightmare for the pork kings, as the Post story explains:
USASpending allows users to search by contracts and grants, contractor names, congressional districts and lawmakers. The data can be easily downloaded and used. A "wiki" function gives users a chance to suggest changes and add information. Charts and rankings show to whom and where the bulk of federal dollars go.
Just in time for the elections. This should be amusing.
'Where's the fence?' activist asks Congress Budget amendment 'threatens' border security plan
WHERE TO GET A MATRICULA CONSULAR CARD (ca - PIC)--Any kind of fake ID is available on the streets of LA including the new tamper-proof drivers licenses.
Woman catches fire during hemorrhoid operation
December 13, 2007 11:48 PM by Michelle Malkin23 Comments "Just another Muslim Moment. He would feel comfortable on the Baltimore MTA."
December 13, 2007 09:33 PM by Michelle Malkin42 Comments
Jim Geraghty at The Corner on Fred today:
Where the hell has this Fred been for the past few weeks? This guy looks like he could eat most of the rest of the field for lunch.
Betsy Newmark:
Fred Thompson's best moment of his campaign so far
Race 4 2008:
Thompson’s performance was everything that his supporters had been expecting from him. In every debate, Thompson has been the one candidate whose performance’s have always checked out, factwise. Today, he finally put it all together. Some say it is too late, and maybe they’re right, but today’s showing determined two things: 1. Fred’s not dead yet 2. The leader some have been holding out for.
Wake Up America:
THIS is the Fred Thompson we elected to the Senate in Tennessee. THIS is Fred Thompson's refusal to play politics as usual in a game that we're all quickly becoming sick of.
THIS is why THIS Tennessean is still solidly behind Fred.
Pardon My English:
Whether he wins or loses, if his refusal prevents such nonsense from happening again, Fred Thompson should be installed in the pantheon of American political heroes
Don Surber:
Standing up to a twit debate moderator was presidential.
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No more debates. They are unpresidential. I warned Republicans against that YouTube debate.
Now this one.
These TV jarheads do not care about democracy or even ratings. They have one agenda.
And it is not informing the public.
It is continuing to belittle politicians.
And voters.
Fred got it.
Dean Barnett:
THE WINNER was Fred Thompson. Fred came to play. He also had the obvious moment of the day when he took on the officious moderator, refusing to go along with one of those idiotic "raise your hands" questions. Given the hour that the debate took place, a lot of people will probably see only a highlight package of the debate. The unquestioned highlight was Fred slapping down the moderator. Even putting that aside, Fred had his best day of the campaign. He was serious, thoughtful, and authoritative. It was a wonderful day for him.
Stephen Hayes:
Fred Thompson scored a clean win in this debate. He was funny (joking with Mitt Romney about taxes and acting); he was stern (rebuking the lame narrator for her show-of-hands question); he was serious (talking about entitlements); and he was presidential (this race is about national security). He was, in short, everything that his earliest supporters hoped he would be when he first decided to run.
John Hawkins:
Winner: Fred Thompson. Good substance, good personality, and his I won't raise my hand for an answer question reminded me of Reagan say "I paid for this microphone." Fred definitely won.
Phillip Klein:
Fred Thompson Wins, Hands Down
...Fred Thompson was the only candidate who stood out. He was funny, charming, and peppy. Here was a guy who wasn't afraid to speak hard truths, and who displayed knowledge of the policy issues--especially on entitlements. But the moment of the debate, the moment that will be talked about should he defy expectations and go on to win the nomination, was when he refused to raise his hand at the behest of the moderator. This demonstrated conviction, showed he was able to stand up for his principles, that he was a man who valued substance, a leader rather than a follower, and somebody who is running a different kind of campaign. In short, today Thompson was everything that conservatives had hoped they'd be getting when he announced his candidacy
Rich Lowry
Fred: Was unflappable, funny, and used his theme of "truth telling" very effectively. Standing up to the moderator was a memorable moment that will be talked about a lot. He deflated Romney a bit with his lines about being rich enough not worry about taxes and his comeback in the exchange with Mitt that Romney is becoming a good actor. This performance should help in Iowa where he is focusing now and is in third place according to the RCP average.
And
Fred's take on the way the question was posed:
“I just decided that I wasn’t going to engage in any of this monkey business that they like to engage us on sometimes — making us look like trained monkeys reaching for peanut or something … 30 seconds is brief enough and when they try to reduce your answer to just a hand raise — I ‘aint going to play that game,” the former Tennessee senator said.
And finally we can now understand why the National Review didn't pick Fred. Kathryn Jean Lopez:
I like a lot of what Fred says. But he hasn’t hit a campaign stride and I could be wrong, but I don’t see it happening. And that might be fine. He’s a great American and we won’t be seeing the last of him if he doesn’t become the Republican nominee for president.
So Mitt has the better chance at winning so why not go with the second best guy seems to be what she is saying.
He looked the most presidential, the most off the cuff (not scripted like Mitt), the most humorous, and the least crazy (compared to Ron and Keyes).
Fred has a decent shot, so do not count this man out...
UPDATE
Off topic but still on Fred,
this shows us why he would be such a great leader:
Just a couple of weeks after the 1999 shooting massacre at Columbine High School, with emotions still raw and bipartisan calls for tougher action against crime, Sen. Fred Thompson (R) of Tennessee convened a hearing whose title, "Federalism and Crime Control," sounded like a law class.
In his opening remarks, Senator Thompson pointedly noted his vote a few years earlier against a school gun ban. It should not have become law, he suggested, nor should Washington enact new laws now. "It's a deeply rooted constitutional principle that the general police power belongs to the states," he said, before calling a parade of scholarly witnesses to buttress his argument.
It was an odd time for a dispassionate look at federalist theory. Fifteen people had been killed in one of the worst school shootings in US history. Even the National Rifle Association had scaled back its annual meeting.
But in many ways, it was signature Thompson: a defiant faith in his own judgment, an indifference to political fallout, and a near zealotry about the limits of government. A few days after his hearing, he not only opposed a juvenile-justice overhaul backed by his own party but was one of just three senators to vote against funds for a set of antiviolence programs.
"In all of the years I worked for him and all the vote memos and summaries I wrote for him, he never once wanted to know what the [party] leadership wanted him to do," recalls Bill Outhier, a former Senate aide. "It stemmed from a larger view of his role in the Senate, which was not to do things for political reasons but to do them because he thought they were right."
Exactly the same reason I respect Bush so much. He won't listen to polls and wave like a leaf in the wind. He leads on his principals and what he believes is right.
UPDATE II
Fred is right on here on fixing education....get rid of the NEA:
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12/14/2007 3:44:33 AM PST
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backhoe
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12/14/2007 6:30:49 AM PST
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backhoe
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For a more comprehensive discussion of the undoing of the U.S. and the move toward the North American Union, see:
http://www.augustreview.com/
It’s very interesting. I guess the thing I don’t understand is how they intend to manage to maintain order. As we’re seeing in Britain and now France, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to maintain a civil society devoid of any common values or sense of belonging to anything.
FULL ABORTIONS SHOWN ON SPANISH TELEVISION - FIRST IN HISTOR...
Gay Marriages in Canada, One in a Thousand
Horror Under the Hijab
REPORTING FROM THE digital video expo. This hurts: "Panasonic's AG-HMC70 is a low-cost, solid-state, shoulder-mounted HD camera. Sporting an array of pro features -- balanced audio inputs (bottom), HDMI outputs, AVCHD codec and an adjustable eyepiece -- this new camera will be quite a deal when it's released at around $1,200."
And I know the reason for the price plunge . . . . .
Plus, convert old movies to digital video at home.
STORY OF THE DAY: IRS goes after couple whose ID stolen by illegal aliens. "I've read it twice and my jaw is still on the floor."
The search for Big Foot is on in Coffee County
Strange object found on Mars[Warning:Large Images]
Teacher rants against South, church, Rush Limbaugh
A holiday safety reminder[GA][Polce help thieves]
Enemies at The Firewall[Chinese Hackers]
Video: No Monkey Business (Fred on his smackdown of schoolmarm)
Fateful Minutes in Philadephia Dimmed Clinton's Prospects
In a Race That's Hers to Lose, Hillary Clinton is Faltering
Oh gag me...Hillary Clinton set to whir across Iowa (in a 'Hill-A-Copter')
NO LOVE FOR HILLARY IN WYOMING:
Wyoming's Democratic Party chairman says that Hillary Clinton will "completely reverse" progress the party has made in that state and that "most voters in Wyoming seem to hate Hillary Clinton."
He prefers Obama.
Obama, Huckabee lead new Iowa poll (Both up 9 POINTS!)
Clinton Denies White House Run Is In Trouble
(Video) Obama KNOCKOUT PUNCH against Hillary
As the last winter storm system to hammer the nation's midsection moves into the northeast spread massive snow over the area, a brand new system is hitting in the center of the country. Oklahoma and Kansas are the first targets. Unfortunately, they have not had sufficient time to recover from the last wave that pounded them earlier in the week and authorities are running out of places to shelter those without electricity.
Accuweather is warning that this newest storm system is going to be a real doozy.
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backhoe
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A funny thing happened on the way to the coronation; the queen tripped over herself and lost her crown. That could well be the story in the Democratic primaries if the Obama surge in recent polling holds. Hillary Clinton, once thought invincible, has spent the last five weeks reminding everyone why she has such high negatives, and the inexperienced Illinois Senator has reaped the rewards. In New Hampshire, Obama has now edged ahead of Hillary among likely voters...but her meltdown brings up an interesting question, one that Jim Geraghty and Duane Patterson discussed with me on my show today. Would an Obama nomination change the tone of the 2008 presidential election? Obama, who has so far eschewed the kind of nasty politics displayed so baldly in Hillary Clinton's Snidely Whiplash moment in yesterday's debate, would also likely not adopt Hillary's tone in the fall of 2008. Posted by Ed Morrissey on December 14, 2007 4:03 PM | Comments ( 3)
Because it’s too cold for the broom, I guess. (Insert cackle here.)
Better watch out for that Ron Paul blimp.
Meantime, latest NH poll shows Obama edging ahead:
66 Comments "Oh great….throw in the Ru-Paul blimp, and we have a flying freak show."
"Will the flying monkeys be in formation as they go look for Dorothy in the country side?"
Riding the Obama Wave
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posted on
12/14/2007 4:22:46 PM PST
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backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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posted on
12/15/2007 4:56:05 AM PST
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backhoe
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Yep, if you want to see bobble-heads on TV, 24/7 for eight years, pushing abortion, gun control, gay issues, hate crimes?
Vote for Hillary!
Some who donated to the Clinton Library
The idenities of the top 57 donors who gave $1 million or more, included members of the Saudi royal family, Arab businessmen, the governments of Duabi, Kuwait, Qutar, Brunei, and Taiwan, plus hollywood celebrities. The biggest unreported donations were made by Red China, The Sun reported.
Still Quiet on Library Donors
A mention of Eric Hotung here, from '97....
CAMPAIGN FINANCE: THE HEARINGS; Adviser Defends Clinton on Donor Visits hattip: mewzilla!
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posted on
12/15/2007 7:10:32 AM PST
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backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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Toby Harnden from The Telegraph thinks that Barack Obama has surged ahead in polls mostly because of the incredibly inept series of clumsy slurs the Clinton campaign has launched in recent weeks. While he may be overly optimistic - which he admits is quite possible - he may also be right. The awkward, almost flailing actions of team Clinton have made them look weak and terrified at the same time and have made Hillary Clinton a laughingstock in many ways. If Obama wins both Iowa and New Hampshire, it could well be deadly trouble for Clinton. Will all of Clinton's schemes backfire on her? It is possible. She really is not well liked by a lot of even loyal Democrats. Things like a string of clumsy slurs may be enough to turn just a few people away from her. A candidate with as high a negative rating as Clinton has cannot afford the loss of a single vote. Her machine may recover, but the wheels may also be starting to come off.
...this whole thing is fishy to me...I just don’t believe Hillary lost that much ground so quickly. I just don’t. I think the Clinton’s needed a story, the inevitable candidate thing is boring. This way, it looks like she can come back from adversity. I think it’s all made up, I do. Hey, it worked for Bill. hattip: "hildy"
December 14th, 2007
From a Google search of Hillary’s thinly disguised “War Room,” Hillary Is 44:
The latest example: Yes, we know that Mrs. Bill Clinton herself has claimed that the 2004 election was stolen in Ohio. But that, it could be argued, is subject to some interpretation. This is quite unmistakable. Lest we forget, the Nazis did the same thing to the democratically elected officials of the Weimar Republic, who they systemically referred to as the “November Criminals.” 16 Comments »
"Time to move on...from Hillary." Earlier this week Paul Mirengoff itemized Hillary Hall of Shame moments predating the campaign in "Tacky and corrupt." To comment on this post, go here. | Permalink
Air of inevitability escaping Clinton
Faltering Clinton shifts course...
More Woes For Hillary?
The Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense website claims that the Tamil Tigers are raising money for Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign in New Jersey.
Well known activists of a banned terrorist group in the United States are involved in the fund raising activities of the US Democratic candidate Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton.
According to a fundraising web site for the Senator, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) activists are involved in raising funds from 100 Dollars to 2300 Dollars to help elect Senator Clinton as the next United States President. ...
New Jersey residents have expressed the fear, that LTTE or the Tamil Tigers could flush supporters with millions of dollars, to buy influence over the next possible President of the United States of America by infiltrating into democratic fund raising machine. ...
The terrorist group, that introduced innovative methods like suicide jackets to many terrorist groups in the world, is listed as a foreign terrorist group by the State Department and the US Federal police , the FBI has alleged that the group had offered to them millions of dollars as bribes to lift the ban. The group is alleged to be using bribes to buy influence in India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. The money is being earned mostly by fraudulent business, credit card scams, drug running, voluntary fund raising and extortions of the Tamil Diaspora, according to a recent report of the Jane's Defense weekly.
According to the Clinton website, a leading LTTE activist, who came to live in New Jersey in 1994, called Ram Ranjan is one of the fund raisers of the Clinton campaign. Several others who are connected with him are also listed among the fund raisers.
The Hillary campaign may not know about the connections between some of their fundraisers and the Tamil Tigers. A candidate is not always aware of who is contributing to the campaign. However the contributors are always aware who they are contributing to. Assuming the LTTE is not wholly irrational in its choices, then why should they be giving to Hillary? And to who else?
Washington has become the de facto capital of the world. It is to be expected that influence peddlers from the Middle East, China and everyone else are going to trying to get their seat at the table. How vulnerable is the US political system to this kind of influence?
A terrorist conspiracy to attack military sites and synagogues developed among prison Muslims for years, and yet hardly any mention of the conspiracy made the news. The Los Angeles Times picks up the story no one else seems interested in reporting...Like my friends at Power Line, I'm hardly sanguine that this particular threat has been terminated.
The Twin Cities metropolitan area has become the largest haven for Somali immigrants in the Untied States. At Pajamas Media Patrick Poole reports on the recent fundraising visit to Minneapolis (and to Falls Church, Virginia) by major Somali terrorist leader Zakaria Mahmoud Haji-Abdi. As Poole explains, Abdi is deputy chairman of the Eritrean-based Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia and part of the al-Qaeda-backed Islamic Courts Union. Poole notes that Abdi was the featured speaker at the fundraiser hosted by the United Somali Diaspora at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis on November 24. Poole links to this SomaliTalk issue covering the Minneapolis conference. Poole's PJM report is "Homeland insecurity: Terrorist fundraising in the heartland." (Via reader Rick Malicki.)
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Newport couple faces taxes on income never earned ( IRS and Illegals on ID theft ) --The break in the tax case came Thursday in the form of a telephone call
from Paul Chapman,. U.S. Rep. David Davis’ Hamblen County field representative...
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posted on
12/15/2007 8:59:41 AM PST
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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FYI, & FWIW:
http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=84864&start=60
| backhoe wrote: |
| LAR wrote: |
What really bugs me is that my government thinks I'm too stupid to read something and form an intelligent opinion.
Someone posts that Martians are imbedding microchips in our children and I need to be protected from thinking "Oh my! I hate Martians. All Martians should be shot."
Give people some credit for being able to sort through the information in the world.
If what the complainant read makes people hate a group then I guess she now hates that group too. |
Exactly.
Since I'm American, I can't presume to speak for you folks Up Nawth- but I'll tell you this:
Like anyone whose legal system is based at its heart on English law, this whole affair appalls me-- I thought the "free, and self-governing citizens of a democratic nation" had certain inalienable rights:
1)- the right to speak freely, without fear, or favor.
2)- the right to assemble- joining those you like, and avoiding those you dislike.
3)- the right to confront your accusers- no Star Chambers, no secret witnesses-- everything above board and transparent.
4)- all people have equal standing before the Law. No person, or favored group, is better than another, or worse.
5)- the truth is an absolute defense- if "the truth" doesn't matter, then neither does "the law"-- this is an open invitation to mob rule and anarchy.
This whole thing reminds me of dictatorships, where the man at the top decides from one day to the next, what "the law" will be- based on a whim.
It is offensive, ghastly, and gruesome to see it played out with people you know- somewhat like witnessing a lynching, and being unable to do anything about it. |
backhoe, that's the best response to the CHRC's questions that I have read here. It's the best description of a free society I have seen in a while. ( leewgrant )
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posted on
12/15/2007 1:44:34 PM PST
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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No, she's aging- before our very eyes...
...Clinton, D-N.Y. finishes her door-to-door campaigning in Manchester, N.H., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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posted on
12/15/2007 3:55:37 PM PST
by
backhoe
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Lead in doubt, Clinton knocks on N.Hampshire doors
Speaking of Hillary and her “middle class-ness”:
Hillary Clinton Net Worth $34.9 MILLION
It's not the age, it's the milage...
December 15, 2007 09:05 PM by Michelle Malkin30 Comments
Thank You for Not Existing [Dan Collins]
Mark Steyn:
By the way, if you’re looking for some last-minute stocking stuffers, Oxford University Press has published a book by professor David Benatar of the University of Cape Town called “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.” The author “argues for the ‘anti-natal’ view – that it is always wrong to have children … . Anti-natalism also implies that it would be better if humanity became extinct.” As does Alan Weisman’s “The World Without Us” – which Publishers Weekly hails as “an enthralling tour of the world … anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be like.” It’s a good thing it “anticipates” it poetically, because, once it happens, there will be no more poetry.
Lest you think the above are “extremists,” consider how deeply invested the “mainstream” is in a total fiction. At the recent climate jamboree in Bali, the Rev. Al Gore told the assembled faithful: “My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here.” Really? The American Thinker’s Web site ran the numbers. In the seven years between the signing of Kyoto in 1997 and 2004, here’s what happened:
•Emissions worldwide increased 18.0 percent;
•Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1 percent;
•Emissions from nonsigners increased 10.0 percent; and
•Emissions from the United States increased 6.6 percent.
It’s hard not to conclude a form of mental illness has gripped the world’s elites. If you’re one of that dwindling band of Westerners who’ll be celebrating the birth of a child, “homeless” or otherwise, next week, make the most of it. A year or two on, and the eco-professors will propose banning Nativity scenes because they set a bad example.
I imagine that those who hold this point of view will set a proper example for the rest of us and suicide.
This kind of vile insanity, posing as altruism, is evil in the extreme. But it’s worse, mind you, to offend the sensibilities of homosexuals than it is to advocate the elimination of our species. There just are no words bathetic enough to encompass this kind of demented viciousness.
RUDY DOESN'T REMIND ME OF REAGAN particularly, but
this new video has overtones of both "Morning In America" and "There's A Bear In The Woods."
You better...
Read It all...
You at least have to give credit to Agence France-Presse for admitting that the 'consensus' on global warming has some very credible dissenters. They try to denigrate those dissenters by marginalizing them, but they at least mention them. They at least pick up the story that a study has found that the widely used, agreed upon climate models are seriously flawed. The study, by David Douglass, John Christy, Benjamin Pearson and Fred Singer, found that the models break down - to the point of reversing symbols from positive to negative, as altitude increases. If global warming gasses were indeed the cause of the warming trend, that should not be true. Yet, there it is. AFP says this about the study - which used actual, agreed-upon data and the actual, agreed-upon models:
These experts believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon, and they point to reams of data they say support their assertions.
These conclusions are in sharp contradiction to those of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reached its conclusions using largely similar data.
The UN body of about 3,000 experts, including several renowned US scientists, adopted a landmark report in mid-November stating that the evidence of a human role in the warming of the planet was now "unequivocal."
Retreating glaciers and loss of snow in Alpine regions, thinning Arctic summer sea ice and thawing permafrost shows that climate change is already on the march, the report said.
Carbon pollution, emitted especially by the burning of oil, gas and coal, traps heat from the Sun, thus warming the Earth's surface and inflicting changes to weather systems.
A group of US scientists however disagree, and have written an article on their views that is published in The International Journal of Climatology, a publication of Britain's Royal Meteorological Society.
"The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, doesn't show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming," wrote lead author David Douglas, a climate expert from the University of Rochester, in New York state.
"The inescapable conclusion is that human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming," Douglas wrote.
Dr. Douglass' name is misspelled in the AFP article. It is actually David Douglass. I have exchanged emails with Dr. Douglass and he was kind enough to send me a copy of his paper. I reproduced a graph from that paper that shows how off the models are. They are off, rather badly, yet policy decisions are being forced based upon them. There are flies in that pot of ointment, however. Some of the much genuflected to 3,000 scientists have publicly disavowed the IPCC conclusions. There are also problems with the media-propagated stories. Take arctic ice, for example.
Even the greenies are admitting that arctic sea ice is refreezing at a rate never before seen - they have to, NASA says so.
The record melting of Arctic sea ice observed this summer and fall led to record-low levels of ice in both September and October, but a record-setting pace of re-freezing in November, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Some 58,000 square miles of ice formed per day for 10 days in late October and early November, a new record.
But, of course, the simple fact is that the records only go back a very few years because we have only been keeping them for a few years. We have only had the technology to do so in a human lifespan or so. Before that, we had an occasional observation. Not long before that we had no data at all. Yet we are now supposed to change the world based on this minuscule amount of data.
The United Nations has proved, over and over again how utterly corrupt and utterly incompetent they are at virtually everything they touch. Why in heaven's name are we listening to them?
Storm with possibility of foot of snow spreads through Ohio Valley en route to New England
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posted on
12/16/2007 3:20:12 AM PST
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backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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