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Since he sold out the country perhaps we should send him 30 pennies. Now I know it should be 30 silver coins but we don't make them any more and he and his ilk not only sold out the country but devalued our currency. so 30 pennies seems appropriate.

The White House has asked people to send them fishy material. I think we should oblige them. Send them every fishing site in the world along with anything that mentions fish. Shame they couldn't be subscribed to mailing lists that involve fishing and fish. Of course the downside is the do get your ip address and an email address. The site is probably robust enough so it won't crash. I suppose that you could also send them any material produced by the Democrats as fishy as well

This article at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan-American_Treaty_of_Friendship is totally inaccurate and helps the lie that Obama told about it in his speech in Cairo about our long friendship with Islamic nations. This was the treaty to prevent our ships from being attacked by the Barbary Pirates and was soon abrogated by them and resulted in the war against the Barbary Pirates. Can someone please correct it.

Earlier I asked the question about the law that the Bush administration used to hang their hats on to define torture. Someone provide the answer and since it's important and passed in 1994 when the Democrats dominated both House of Congress and Bill Clinton was president I thought I'd make it easy for everyone to read. Also the US during this same time period also ratified the UN Convention on Torture with reservations. The reservations are shown below from Wikipedia. These totally blow the meme the DemoRats and the MSM are using and the info should be widely disseminated. 18...

The media and the DemoRats like to bring up the Geneva Conventions when the issue of torture comes up and give its protections for lawful combatants to unlawful combatants. Those that disagree with them point to something that congress passed which defines torture and the legal definition is substantially different than the everyday meaning of the word torture. Does any one know and could post the actual law in question so we can read it. Also when it was passed so we can determine who was in charge in congress when it was passed. I suppose we also should know...

This is simply unbelievable. The Miniatur Wunderland model railroad in Hamburg, Germany is the largest in the world, covering 16,146 square feet of space with more than 10,000 train cars running around its 6.8 miles of HO scale track. Now, the makers of this huge layout have created a video that gives you a jaw-dropping look at the vast scope of this intricate work of art. Its construction started in 2000, and is still underway, with a tiny airport due for completion by the end of this year. This is just the beginning — there are plans to double to...

The reports are that President Obama will not be doing his bit on Leno live and that it will be prerecorded. Not only that the press both live and still will be barred except for some stills during a break. The Tonight Show and the White House will provide the still shots for the press pool. The press should be howling about this but it's Obama This raises the question will Mr. TelePrompter be present and used by President Obama? Will he be given questions in advance by Leno so he can respond with Mr. Teleprompter's words? Will Leno's staff...

How to comply with the new Progressive order and achieve a happier life while avoiding jail time: * DO buy vehicles from GM, Ford and Chrysler because it helps our UAW friends the economy * DON'T drive them as they pollute the environment and cause global warming * DO insist that nationalized, single-payer government provided health insurance is the solution to our health-care crisis * DON'T mention that a government health care bureaucracy is just like a private insurer's healthcare bureaucracy except that with the former, you don't get another choice ~ * DO condemn smoking in public and private...

I seem to remember a procedure in the Senate that enables a single senator to require that the bill be read into the Congressional Record in it's entirety word for word and there is nothing the majority can do. They did it a couple of years ago and it took days to read and it was shorter than this bill. I don't know if it applies to conference reports. Is my memory correct and can it be used on this bill?

Tom Daschle earned over $2,000,000 in consulting fees from Leo Hendery's firm over the last couple of years. I was wondering if Tom Daschle had anything to do with legislation that would have helped Mr. Hindery or his firms when Sen. Daschle was the Majority Leader, Minority Leader or just a plain senator. That's a lot of dollars in a very short while for consulting even with Daschle's connections to the Democratic power brokers in the House and Senate. Of course fund managers had a lot of cash to toss around a few years ago and a couple of mil...

This is an awesome take off on the Mac vs. PC ads. It would make a good commercial for one of the sides in this war. Follow the link above to watch the video. After you watch this visit the site they found this at Wimp.com to see some other fantastic vids of all kinds.

While I was visiting Patterico's Pontifications this morning I came across the Red Square game. It's a great time waster. So far the best I've been able to do is a little over 10 seconds. They say the record is around 19 seconds but there is apparently a YouTube video lasting 34 seconds. Have fun playing by following the link above.

This sounds like a democrat talking to a Republican. It's very funny. It's part 3 of 4 but it really fits. This was one of my favorite British comedy's, Enjoy!!

With all the polls done by major firms and major media outlets I was wondering if they had remained consistent on the internals or have they been altering them as we come up to the election. In a lot of the earlier polls they were getting 15-30% more Democrats than Republicans and almost as many if not more independents as Republicans. As the election gets closer are they shifting to a closer balance of Republicans to Democrats? Are they playing other games? The polls would need to be compared to others done by that same firm (Gallup to Gallup, etc.)...

We know that the MSM is actively working as the PR department for the Obama campaign and to elect DemoRats across the country at every level so the issue isn't will they do something to try to damage McCain rather what will they do. They tried it against Bush and they are more desperate them ever. Let's break it down by Print: NT Times, Newsweek, Time, and then all other print media. Broadcast: one lump other than NBC and it's child MSNBC and then the interent: take your pick. Personally I think each type of media will try something and...

Having seen the DemoRats try to bury funding for ACORN and other liberal organizations in the Wall Street bailout along with trying to load it up with pork you have to wonder what's buried in the $25 billion auto bailout? I haven't seen the language but I'll bet there is a lot of stuff in there that would be very unpalatable if it ever saw the light of day. The MSM won't cover it because the stuff that is probably laden with helps DemoRats. They might have put money in for community activists in this bill as well.

I've repeatedly heard the claim that Obama's mother was on food stamps and welfare, but I've never been able to find out the time period that this occurred. It couldn't have been in Hawaii when Obama was a boy since food stamps weren't available in Hawaii at the time. My guess is that it was near the end of her life if indeed she ever was on food stamps and welfare. If I'm right about the time period what was Obama's income during that period? Did he have the $$$ that he could have helped support his mother? I know...

New on-line comic strip based upon the KOS kids in their true state. It's a take off on the short series of comics by Marvel. I think this strip has possibilities. I don't know if it will be updated as frequently as Day By Day by Chris Muir which is one of my favorite on line political comics. This new strip is worth take a look at by following the link above. I think the image of Markos is pretty accurate. Nice images of the KOS related sites/people: TPM, Democratic Underground and I think the forth is a woman who...

This "movie trailer" is a little over the top satire, but effective. The site has other videos that's why I didn't just link to the video itself. If you don't want to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HX6vbhAYaU They have a number of videos by an African American on how to talk to an Obama cultist

During a nationally televised news program today, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama disclosed he once considered serving in the military. This is a very transparent move to bolster his national security credentials and occurred the day after a release of a Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner poll that showed a widening credibility gap that the Democratic Party has with the voters over national security issues. Obama is also running against John McCain, whose compelling personal story derives, in part, from being an heir to a long line of sailors who defended America, and from his own military service during the Vietnam War....

Our friends in the media just do not understand the popular following Sarah Palin has attracted. In an effort to help, I thought I should explain her popular appeal to them in terms even an Ivy League graduate could understand. If you consider yourself a member of the intelligentsia, think of Sarah's unexpectedly numerous admirers as a kind of tribe. We are going to examine a few of the folkways of strange and foreign people. Think of them as exotic and it may help you stifle any revulsion you may feel at their differences from your own familiar accepted ways....

With over two decades in the Senate, John McCain of Arizona has developed quite the resume with respect to technology legislation. BetaNews' Ed Oswald takes a look at where McCain stands on some of the most high-profile issues. Perhaps simply because he is 72 years of age, Sen. John McCain is often the brunt of jokes that presume he knows little or nothing about modern technology, consumer electronics, or the Internet. Yet McCain's record tells a different story. As a 22-year veteran of the US Senate, including six years spent as chairman of the Commerce Committee and having also chaired...

As the Democrats' presumptive vice presidential nominee prepares to take the stage to accept the nomination of his party this evening in Denver, BetaNews' Ed Oswald takes a look at his long record. Hailing from the state of Delaware, Senator Joe Biden has spent 36 years in the Senate. Along the way, he's gained a reputation for his direct, often outspoken, sometimes confrontational personality. His positions on technology, which reflect that personality, are sure to please some and enrage others. Coming from a state which has some of the most lenient business and tax laws, its no surprise that many...

In the second of our four-part series examining the positions of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on technology policy, BetaNews' Ed Oswald takes a look at the Illinois Democrat. With respect to the growing middle ground between technology and politics, it could be viably argued that no one has embraced technology as part of his or her campaign -- at least as an ideal -- more than Sen. Barack Obama. The use of online means to recruit campaign volunteers and to incite action on behalf of candidates, dates back to the 1984 campaign of Sen. Gary Hart. Web pages...

While Gov. Palin is fairly new to the political scene nationwide, the Alaska native's stance on key topics may give clues into the policies she would support if she were elected Vice President. [M.E.'s NOTE: BetaNews contacted the press office of Gov. Sarah Palin earlier this week, and received assurances that we would be receiving responses to our inquiries about the governor's position on critical technology issues, five of which we listed and explained in detail. This has been the week of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, so any number of reasons may have delayed the press office's...

CHARGE 1 – “The March on Selma got me born.” EVIDENCE - Senator Obama was born August 4th, 1961. The march on Selma began March 7th, 1965. SOURCE 1, SOURCE 2 COUNTER CLAIM – Senator Obama was talking about the general movement, not specifically about Selma. REBUTTTAL – Senator Obama was in Selma, Alabama, before a mostly AA crowd at the Brown Chapel AME Church on March 4th, 2007. He clearly stated “because some folks were willing to march across a bridge . . . they (his parents) got together, and Barack Obama, Jr. was born. So don’t tell me...

This PUMA website has a couple of music vids that aren't bad. With a little modifications they could work as Republican pieces. I really love the pictures they found in Chain of Fools for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed. The first one is Waterloo for Pelosi and gang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1QVhRDkFc0 The second is: Chain of Fools: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ZWAUtWQ1Y Of the two Waterloo for Pelosi and Gang is beter

It has come to our attention that Obama is going to bring out his big gun to neutralize Sarah-cuda. From the NYTimes an hour ago, we have this, Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin: ST. PAUL — Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and creating a rapid-response team to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said on Thursday. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign event in Florida, her first for Mr. Obama since the Democratic convention last...

Dennis Prager was on the air last week on the day Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was named to the Republican ticket, and without missing a beat, the conservative radio host pronounced her "an American Margaret Thatcher." Her speech to the convention, Prager said Thursday during a break in his program, "just reconfirmed my love at first sight." Across the table, Sen. Orrin Hatch was slipping on the headphones to join him and immediately went on offense when he went on the air. "I've really been offended by how the mainstream media have tried to smear her by attacking, in essence,...

Dramatic readings from the blogs of the angry left, courtesy of John Gibson and Olbermann Watch. Here's another installment of John Gibson's world-famous Blue Blog Dramatizations. It's hysterical. You'll have to follow the link to see the embedded video unless someone knows how to link it here. I think it should be widely shared.

On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry. On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry. We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked. We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was...

It appears to me that Sarah Palin is the new Clarence Thomas or Robert Bork. Someone who is off the reservation and threatens the DemoRats and their media allies by her ideas and character. They don't want and need to prevent her from winning the election anymore than they really just wanted to stop Clarence Thomas from joining SCOTUS they need to totally destroy her and everything she holds dear. I really feel sorry for her and her family as the media allies and the other weasels and worse that are out there on the left go after her and...

This link takes you to a side by side comparison of the qualifications of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. I'd love to be able to post the entire table but I don't know how to format it to post properly, besides the Blog that did all this work deserves the traffic. This is a must read!! http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/aug/30/tale-of-the-tape-sarah-palin-vs-barack-obam/

t’s been over 12 hours now since Alaskan Governor, Sarah Palin, has been named as GOP choice of Veep. Already, a desperate Obama camp of supporters are in search of talking points… other than the obviously poor choice of “inexperience”… or a scandal to take back what they perceive as the DNC ticket superiority. Knowing the Palin-Monegan-Wooten investigation of abuse of power was their prime target, I’ve been spending time this AM researching the chain of events in hopes of beating the media to the political and biased distortions creating a new, and false “truth. I took into consideration that...

Since Joe Biden has been a US Senator since he was 29 and a local politician before that where the heck does his wealth come from? His dad was a car salesman which while you can do well if your good at it doesn't usually lead to great wealth. Looking at his family compound and the houses on them you have to have a lot of wealth to afford them. His wife is an English professor at Delaware Technical Community College which while it probably pays well isn't like being a partner in a major law firm or anything.

On the news today I heard that Obama spent an hour alone with his grandmother at her place while the family was elsewhere. I know how much time my child spent with her grandparents who lived half way across the country when she was growing up (a lot. She spent summers with them for many years so she'd know them). The story got me wondering just how much time his kids have spent with his grandmother over the past years and of course by the end of this vacation. If they haven't spent much time with her you have to...

I was at the Sherman Oaks Library yesterday and picked up a copy of the Change Links Calendar, the "Independent Progressive Newspaper and Community Calendar" with the other local throw away papers for kicks and to see what the left is up to. These people make the DemO-Rats in congress and the rest of the MSM look like conservatives. Now to the point: For those of you who are interested (I wouldn't suggest going alone) Sunday August 10 they are having a Progressive Picnic apparently open to all at Santa Monica Clover Park. Some of you might want to have...

The media didn't talk about it but in the 2000 election contest the Democratic strategy if they couldn't get the vote count to go their way was to tie the results up in the court so that Florida wouldn't be able to field electors. This would have cut 25 electors from Bush's total and given Gore the election. The Florida state legislature was dominated by the Republican party who let it be known that they could appoint the electors and with the Supreme Court decision the Democrats effort to win the election by disenfranchising Florida was shelved. In the primary...

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator It's not quite eight in the morning and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage. Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political fund-raiser. Now here he is blasting me from hundreds of miles away for a story that just went online but hasn't yet hit local newsstands. It's the first time I...

<p>The site allows anyone to search for grant and contract spending by company, city, agency or industry. "We were frustrated by how hard it was to find out about government spending," said Gary Bass, the group's executive director. "We were being told we couldn't do this - it would cost millions of dollars." After Hurricane Katrina highlighted the need to hold government contractors accountable, OMB Watch received a three-year grant from the Sunlight Foundation http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/ and launched the site six months later.</p>

Book Description “An alarming but necessary book that reads like a thriller. By raising uncomfortable questions, Ken Timmerman has performed a significant public service.” –Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host Some have called it the CIA’s greatest covert operation of all time. It is an intelligence war conducted behind the scenes, aimed at confusing, misleading, and ultimately defeating the enemy. The goal is nothing less than toppling the regime in power. A network of agents has been planted at key crossroads of power, stealing secrets, planting disinformation, and cooking intelligence. The plan involves sophisticated political sabotage operations that bring...

Remember Bobby Caina Calvan, the Sacramento Bee reporter who bragged on his internet blog about antagonizing an American Green Zone border guard? Meet Armando Acuna, the Public Editor for Calvan’s employer. Here’s how Acuna describes Calvan’s run-in with the American soldier: “What we’re talking about here is an escalating, ahem, urination competition between two men in a stressful situation. Just two guys making each other mad – doesn’t matter if you’re right-wing, left-wing, up or down.” As they say, there’s much more at the link (free registration may be required). Acuna surely must realize he’s stirred a hornet’s nest with...

After reading the two new bio's by Bernstein and Gerth & Van Natta as well as watching the various debates and press coverage I began to wonder who is more Nixonion Hillary Clinton or Richard Nixon himself. With her wiretapping, enemies lists and other activities prior to being elected as president I think it's Hillary. She doesn't have the 5 O'clock shadow but she does have the jowls.

Did The Press of Atlantic City, N.J., help drive Mayor Bob Levy into hiding? The mayor, whose falsified claim that he was a Green Beret in Vietnam was exposed by the paper last year, has been essentially missing since Friday. Some wonder if that story, which has not been disputed, sent him on the road to troubled times. Levy's office reported Friday that he had taken a medical leave, his third this year, but did not disclose why or where he went. Many in the casino capital of the east point to his odd behavior ever since the Press revealed...

I got tired about hearing how bad this ad was and how unfair it was. Bill Clinton was wagging his finger again about it in defense of the MoveOn.org General Betray Us ad so I decided to see if it's on line. YouTube had it and it's really not that bad. It doesn't question his patriotism at all nor does it compare Cleland to Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein. It did question his leadership and gave specific votes to back up his commitment to supporting the governments actions as opposed to what he was saying to voters. The YouTube link...

Idaho Statesman reporter Dan Popkey is all over the news this week, following publication of his long-awaited outing piece on Sen. Larry Craig. Roll Call beat the Idaho paper to the punch with its report earlier this week on Craig’s arrest and guilty plea stemming from the now infamous restroom incident. But Popkey had spent months investigating the rumors of Craig’s homosexuality, which date back to at least 1982. In December, Popkey visited me at my Blade office in D.C. to ask whether I knew anything about Craig’s sexual orientation. We spent about an hour talking about his assignment, which...

Ayad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq, hinted in a television interview last weekend at one of the war's least understood turning points: America's decision not to challenge Iranian intervention in Iraq's January 2005 elections. "Our adversaries in Iraq are heavily supported financially by other quarters. We are not," Allawi told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "We fought the elections with virtually no support whatsoever, except for Iraqis and the Iraqis who support us." Behind Allawi's comment lies a tale of intrigue and indecision by the United States over whether to mount a covert-action program to confront Iran's political meddling....

Rep Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana and Rick Boucher, Democrat of Virginia have introduced a federal shield law which in general I oppose. I wrote him an email indicating a change that I'd like to see if in fact he went ahead with the law. Here were my suggestions: If you are really going ahead with the shield law then at least change the standard for libel and slander when the media utilizes it. Right now there is a very high bar for someone to win a judgment against the media when the information they provide is wrong and damaging....

I'm just about finished with Rowan Scarborough's fine book, Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA. It's highly recommended. Paints a very different picture than what the MSM provides. Lots of detail Here is the material from the inside flap of the book: "From the Inside Flap How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. A plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And to the outside observer, the CIA has performed well as a...

The Manchester, N.H., Republican Committee has come up with a unique way of raising funds. It is hosting a "Machine Gun-Shoot" fund-raiser where, for $25, donors will be allowed to fire Uzis and M-16s. "It's a fun day. It's a family day," said organizer Jerry Thibodeau. "It's quite exciting." Democrats charge the event is in poor taste.