DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...

various links and websites | 01-31-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

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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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Hillary is a Criminal: Here’s Proof

Here are two links on the Internet for the tape of that call: http://www.hillcap.org

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcbg72tK_ks 

 This tape shows three different FEC crimes. There is now a 13-minute video which pulls all this information together: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019&pr=goog-sl

Rhode Island DMV worker wove web of lies

TB-tainted man crosses border 76 times

Pro-Life Threads.

Gen. Sanchez's Scream --And he condemned the press for misrepresenting facts to the American public and proceeded to undercut their neo nazi misrepresentaion of facts. But the leftist dominated press did not tell the whole story, they took one sentence and used it to attack Bush, who I am not happy with... but, America is getting spoon-fed a false reality by a compromised, socialist media... and most are too lazy... or too dumbed-down to question it.

Donor Bundling Emerges As Major Ill in '08 Race

The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam--For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:

Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up, and smell the Jihad...

Meanwhile, we drop into decadence:

School Board Approves Birth Control Prescriptions at Maine Middle School

Huckabee warns: 'This is a war (on Islamofascism) someone will win and someone will lose'

Showdown On The Fairness Doctrine (RE: Rush & "Phony Soldiers")

The Favor Factory: Earmarks and Campaign Cash Connections ( House Democrats busy )

An interesting website:

"Congress, I'm Watching" Widget

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Look, Baby Socialism Wrapped in a Blanket!

Michelle Malkin Talks Frosts With FOX's John Gibson (Audio)

After The Veto, Let Uninsured Have A Choice

Tolerance – The New Catch Phrase for Thought Policing

 

Cheney and Obama are distant cousins, says VP's wife --she made the surprising discovery that her 66-year-old Republican husband and Obama, 46, are eighth cousins while she was doing family research for a book about her experiences growing up in Wyoming. The French Huguenot’s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney...

 

Lou Dobbs: Can America survive the Bush Presidency?

 

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence : ’Government must have a monopoly on force’--I’ve read this “state monopoly on violence” meme a number of times.  It’s quite popular in gun-control oriented works.

 

Kindergarten Children should be Encouraged to Dance Naked an... --This is what happens when the left start moving faster than the stupid people. If they just take it in stride it will all unfold for them. They get in trouble when they're in a hurry like this.

 

The streets are not safe. --

Soulforger wrote:

According to ICBC.

In 2005 in British Columbia, 459 people were killed* and 78,000 people** were injured in motor vehicle crashes on our roads.

In 2005, there were 98 homicide victims in B.C., meaning there were 361 more people killed by vehicles than by crime in 2005 in British Columbia.

That means 26,392 more people were victims of auto injury than victims of violent assaults in British Columbia in 2005. That is based on the fact that 51,671 violent offences were committed in 2005...

I've made that point for many years.

In the late 1960's and early seventies, I drove Willie Newman's wrecker, and ran John's Wrecker Service from 1991 to 1999...

Go ahead, ask me what I've seen cars do to people- but likely, I won't tell you.

I still wake up, sweating, from it... yes, it was that bad.

Airplanes are a lot more merciful than cars- you wreck one, you either walk away, or you're dead...

Cars kill, but they also mangle... many people who survive never return to the life they knew before. Ask me about my first wife...

The single, most dangerous thing you do every day is get in that old, familiar car, and drive, and put yourself at the mercy of every other driver you encounter...
_________________
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)

 

Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra - Who Googles what? --Well, whatever you do, don't google "milf" or "wifey..."

But "A dog named sex" is kind O' funny...

http://www.lifeisajoke.com/animal3_html.htm

'Everybody I know who has a dog usually calls him "Rover" or "Spot". I call mine Sex. Now, Sex has been very embarrassing to me. When I went to the City Hall...'

 

Massive black hole enters the record books (Messier 33)

 

Hush Rush bid now at $116,700.00!!!!!!!!!

 

Singer Teresa Brewer Dies At 76--Goodbye gentle lady. I grew up with your “Music! Music! Music!”, “Sweet Old Fashioned Girl”, “’Til I Waltz Again With You” and “Tweedle Dee”. Your original fans will truly miss you.

 

Georgia Officials Threaten to Sue Corp of Engineers Over Draining Reservoirs--The solution is to build nuclear power plants that desalinate sea water. Florida, Georgia, and Alabama have plenty of ocean water.The problem is not periodic droughts, but political resistance to real solutions. Enviro-Nazis don’t want nuclear power plants built...don’t want reservoirs built...don’t want desalination plants built. But that’s a political crisis, not a natural one.

Georgia water shortage

 

Protect gun rights... but not for the reasons you expect-- He gets parts of it.

 

Congresswoman Watson: Pelosi's Secret Plan For Impeachment"Right now, Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi is working very quietly and very effectively, behind the scenes. We need 285 votes to uphold an impeachment, and so far we have 260 members telling us they support impeachment."

 

Zaio - Photographing America (Vanity)

 

Warman, FD a Hate Site with Hateful Posters?

I'd just like to expose something once and for all. I, Adonick, am obviously a flaming racist. Since Richard Warman has a vested interest in trying to associate Free Dominion with White Nationalist websites such as Stormfront.org, I would like to submit evidence that not only am I a fierce, hateful man, but that I have a long history of being a bigot.

As per the 7th Edition of Equality Today, 1999

The Wall
By Nicholas Morine
Young People's Press

I'm a normal kid. By that, I mean I'm a human being. For all you know, I could be black, white, brown, yellow. I could be fat, skinny, thin, husky or have a medium build. Whatever the case, I am still just a kid.

Allow me to tell you a story. I live in a community quite a way from where you live. We are a mixed community, yet all of our ethnic groups live in different sections. The Natives live in their section, the Africans in theirs, the Caucasians in theirs, the Asians in theirs, and so on. We are all separated by a huge concrete wall, with a wooden door in the center.

Ever since I was a baby, my mother told me never to go near that door, for it held terrible things. She said that if I opened it the Africans would come in and eat me or that the Natives would try to use me for a sacrifice. My father told me to stay away from it because there was no reason for us to associate with the "lesser" races. Despite my parents' efforts to convince me of the horrors that lay behind the door, I never believed either one of them. I always thought a man was a man.

I guess with age, the innocence of childhood quickly dies. I discovered that people who are neutral in their opinions are quickly shunned by our corporate world and deemed as being as indecisive, incompetent, or, god forbid, not harsh enough. I soon learned that I would need to pretend to be one of the hate-mongers in order to survive. But in my heart I knew that someday I would change things.

As time went on, I became more curious as to what lay behind that door. The door had remained closed as long as I could remember and was surrounded by a bunch of old dodders. Finally, I could stand it no more. I rose from my chair and walked slowly toward the door. My hand felt the cold rock of the wall - ungiving, cold, uncaring - and I reached down to the handle of the door. The wood felt warm, movable, and somehow giving. The door gave way easily and I walked through it.

The small circular room I found was derelict, with cobwebs hanging from every corner. I took a seat in a chair in the corner, and rocked back in forth. Slowly, another door adjacent to mine began to open and a stout, young African man came into the room. At first I was startled, but somehow the fact that he was there gave credence to the lies my father and mother had told me.

Splitting a wide grin, I said to him in a friendly tone, "I thought you were supposed to come and eat me!"

Catching on to the joke, the man replied, "And you, my friend, were supposed to shoot me the second I opened this door!"

We both erupted with laughter and, like two old friends, we clasped hands. Two more doors opened, and a short Asian man, and a tall, lithe Native woman walked into the room. Both of their eyes widened with shock when they noticed that the African man and myself were clasping hands. It didn't take long before we were all sitting down sharing stories and carrying on.

What an evening that was. I shall never forget it.

My parents say the wall stood to keep others out. I say it was built for no other reason than to keep us in. But one thing is for sure. Whether our skin be pale, dark, fair, freckled, black, white, rough, smooth, we are all human, and thus one and the same.

And eventually, the wall, the symbol of hate, the symbol of fear of the unknown, and the symbol of prejudice, fell to the greater good.

Humanity.

Nicholas Morine is 15 years old.

Connie Fournier wrote:

Excellent essay, Nick! You wrote that when you were 15??

Indeed, it was published by YPP as well as... well, (sheepish) the Toronto Star. Oh well, I managed to get a huge sum for it ($300 is a lot for a fifteen year old with no bills) and I got a few letters from readers who thought it was very inspiring from one so young.

My only regret now is not having replied to those letters.

BlawBlaw wrote:

The left in general will call anyone who disagrees with them a racist, sexist, homophobe, misogynist and then lump everone in with being a neonazi or whathave you.

Babble bans anyone left of Mao so quickly, and the simple fact that right wingers are not usually as litigious as lefties, that no one really thinks of filing a defamation law suit, although they likely have grounds.

It is so ironic the way leftists try to make their critics look hateful, and they tend to get away with it.

A chant ( for some reason, chants, puppets, and paper-mache props are popular with our Left-wingers... ) common in demonstrations here is

"Racist,
Sexist
Anti-Gay

Right-Wing ( or Christian ) Bigots,
go Away!"

These "tolerant, compassionate" leftists would be funny...
...if they weren't so lame...

First brother-in-law?

Queer as a three-dollar bill...

First shop foreman?

Black as the Ace of Spades...

Sexist?

Gee Whiz, my two wives and a few girlfriends seemed to like me OK...

...and they don't have the vaguest idea of what "bigot" really means, either.

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Oh!

And BTW, Nick...

Good essay...

 

 

 

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

 

Gun Facts 4.2 now available!

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Film [Obsession] sparks debate on terrorism [at UVa]

 

Feds Recommend Closing Saudi School in Va.

 

Cigar Tax Up 6,000% to Pay for SCHIP

 

Huckabee: Get Rid Of The IRS

 

Wolves Suspected in Death of 22-year-old Ontario Man --“I think wolves should be “reintroduced” to urban areas first. Like Central Park.”

Feds consider expanding habitat area for lynx

 

KDFW Suspends Rebecca Aguilar After Controversial "Ambush"

 

Second Amendment Rights and Black Sheep

 

Ontario's great scam revealed

 

Ontario's great scam revealed (pollution and carbon emissions)

 

Get Ready for NBC’s Weeklong Global Warming Propaganda Blitzkrieg

 

A LOOK AT anticompetitive practices in the real estate industry. It's a field that's overdue for a reshuffling.

 

Taking a Whack Against Comcast

 

The Absolute Poker Cheating Scandal Blown Wide Open

 

I need a nuanced mind to explain these liberal ideas to me

 

Another Advocate for Child Sex

 

The Republican Party will not survive without its conservative base

 

Spam reaches all-time high of 95% of all email

 

British actress Kerr dies at 86--Here’s the Guardian Obit...

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2193819,00.html

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Sandy Berger and the Real Hillary Clinton

 

Housing Downturn Takes Toll on Cities’ Revenue

 

Health care for kids, yes, but not this version

 

Attack on President Bush Delays SCHIP Veto Override Vote--Remarks by Rep. Pete Stark ( DEMOCRAT- CAL )  suggesting that U.S. troops in Iraq are getting their heads "blown off for the president's amusement" will forever live in posterity...

 

Preview of HillaryKare:

Health-care horrors

 

Democratizing the Constitution: The Failure of the Seventeenth Amendment

 

 

 

Another, old post of mine that's informative:

-A FIVE-MINUTE HANDBOOK FOR GUN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS--

Do "Gun-Free" Zones Encourage School Shootings?

Joey Bishop has Passed Away

Ann Arbor, Mich., Putting LEDs in All Streetlights

Democrats Plan Stopgap Measure to Curb AMT

Rush Limbaugh Live Radio Thread. 10/18/07

Corporate power blesses, not oppresses, the American people

Romney Calls Global Body a 'Failure' (Withdraw from U.N. and form new coalition)

Fred Thompson Speech and Q&A before the Republican Jewish Coaliton - Video 10/16/07

 

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Official thread: Rush letter now at $851,000!!!--Rush pledged that he would match the winning bid, and he challenged the 41 signers to do the same, since they care for the troops so much.  Plus....It's for the children.

 

Putin Touts New Nuclear Weapons Against US

 

Rehabbing The D.C. Snipers(CNN Whitewashing)

 

 

SDA covers Richard Warman's assault of Free Dominion, here:

Free Dominion

I won't requote the whole sorry Canadian Human Rights Commission mess. Except for this;

• 0% of respondents have ever won a section 13 case before the tribunal. • 100% of cases have Whites as respondents • 98% of cases have poor or working class respondents • 90.7% of respondents are not represented by lawyers • So far, $80,500 has been awarded in fines and special compensation since May 9, 2003. • 72.4% of complaints specifically identify "jews" as victims. • 48.8% of all cases (Past and active) are by Richard Warman

Just go here for all the sordid details.

Posted by Kate at 12:22 AM | Comments (18)

Kate, I greatly appreciate your covering this shameful story. Details are here:

-Richard Warman is at it again! More attacks on Free Dominion--

Be aware they use a "paged" format- the link takes you to the start, there are currently nine pages beyond that.

Warman is a Jackal, abusing the law to stalk and harass people and sites he does not like. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his beard...

 UPDATE: someone has set up RichardWarman.com. And it isn't a fan site...

 

House showdown: The S-CHIP veto override vote; Update: Crazy Pete Stark accuses President Bush of blowing Iraqis and American troops up “for his amusement;” Update: 1:15pm Eastern Veto override fails;Update: MSM ignores Stark remarks

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 18, 2007 10:11 AM

Update 3:20pm Eastern. See my new post on Pete StarkRavingMad. These people can’t contain themselves. And let’s stop the delusion that the Starks are the fringe. They are the center of the nutroots-i-fied Democrat Party.

Shocker! Not a word in the NYTimes coverage of the override vote failure about Stark’s remarks.

Nothing in the latest WaPo story, either!

Because, you know, Democrats debasing the president and dragging the debate into the sewer on the House floor is just not news.

Update 1:52pm Eastern. While the Dems continue Kiddie Kabuki Theater (”HEEELP THE CHILDREN! SUFFER THE CHILDREN!!”), the GOP moves forward.

As I noted last night, they’ll unveil their SCHIP alternative at 3pm Eastern today.

Update 1:15pm Eastern. The veto override fails, falls short of two-thirds majority, 273-156. The roll will be here.

FYI: You will be interested to know that Nancy Pelosi’s closing speech did not mention a single word about the Frost family.

Also: All the poster families the Democrats used as human shields remain covered by S-CHIP–just as they did before this vote and just as they did before the president’s veto.

Here’s the wire report on the override failure:

House Democrats failed Thursday to override President Bush’s veto of their pre-election year effort to expand a popular government health insurance program to cover 10 million children.

The bill had bipartisan support but the 273-156 roll call was 13 votes short of the two-thirds majority supporters needed to enact the bill into law despite Bush’s objections. The bill had passed the Senate with a bigger than two-thirds majority.

No mention of Pete Stark’s unhingedness.

Update Video of Stark Raving Mad:

Update 12:11pm Eastern. Oh, my Lord. Pete Stark is back on the floor ranting about us using billions of dollars to “kill innocent Iraqis, Iraqi children…We look at our shoes…we don’t want to talk about sending children to kill.”

GOP Rep. Hulshof points out that Stark did not support the original CHIP bill.

I wonder if Stark is looking at his shoes…

Update 11:57am Eastern. Rep. John Lewis sounds like he is going to collapse: “HEEELP THE CHILDREN! SUFFER THE CHILDREN!!” How embarrassing.

11:40am Eastern. Rahm Emanuel trots out another poster family…that is already covered by S-CHIP. Ed Morrissey is also liveblogging and also noted the same.

Update 11:26am Eastern. On the floor now…GOP Rep. Heather Wilson, who supports the entitlement expansion and is now one of the Dems’ favorite Republicans. New Mexico conservatives aren’t cheering.

Update 11:17am Eastern. Rep. Pete Stark starts blabbering about Republicans who don’t want to spend money on children, but instead want to spend it on “an illegal war” to be fought by children whom Republicans want to send to Iraq to “blow people up” and “get their heads blown up” for “his amusement.”

Stark: “Bush just likes to blow things up!!!”

Stark is reminded by his Democrat colleague “not to refer to the president in any personal way.” Fling those peas.

GOP Rep. Brady lambastes Rep. Stark. The man is a raving lunatic.

Dan Riehl wonders why the GOP didn’t fight back harder and smarter.

Update 11:14am Eastern. What does S-CHIP stand for? Rep. Steve King spells it out…

Update 10:58am Eastern. Here we go. Debate begins on HR 976. Rep. John Dingell insists the “bill is paid for.”

What’s he smoking?

Update 10:51am Eastern. Newly-elected Democrat Rep. Niki Tsongas has just been sworn in and she’s exulting in being there to cast her override vote on the S-CHIP expansion. Her husband, you may have forgotten, was one of the most outspoken critics of the entitlement crisis and gave out “Pander Bears” to politicians who refused to be honest about the looming fiscal disaster of the expanding social welfare state.

Those were the days.

Update 10:16am Eastern. House members are giving 1-minute speeches, which can be summed up thusly:

Bush hates children!

No, he doesn’t!

Head-counting taking place right now. Looks like the vote will take place around 12:30pm Eastern.

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The House is in session now. I’ll be liveblogging the upcoming S-CHIP debate. You can watch the stream at C-Span’s website.

This morning’s AP dispatch reports the override is unlikely, with the Dems falling 15 votes short:

President Bush, anticipating that his veto of a $35 billion spending increase for children’s insurance will stand, has assigned three top advisers to try to negotiate a new deal with Congress.

Democrats appeared about 15 votes short in the House heading into Thursday’s attempt to override Bush’s veto of their $35 billion spending increase for the program. The president said his veto gives him a chance to weigh in on the future of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

“Sometimes the legislative branch wants to go on without the president, pass pieces of legislation and the president can then use the veto to make sure he’s a part of the process,” Bush said. Leading the discussions for his administration are Mike Leavitt, the health and human services secretary; Al Hubbard, director of the National Economic Council; and Jim Nussle, the White House budget chief. But supporters of the bill passed last month by Congress say they already have compromised. The House originally had proposed a $50 billion increase over five years.

The bill is bipartisan and the Senate has shown it could override a veto. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has replied with an emphatic “no” when asked if he would seek a compromise with the administration. Both the House and Senate have to override a veto for a bill to become law over a president’s objection.

Through the program, the government and the states subsidize the cost of health coverage for families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private insurance. Bush has recommended a $5 billion increase, bringing total spending over five years to $30 billion — half the level called for in the bill that he vetoed.

In case you missed it last night, here’s the GOP alternative that will be introduced later today.

While we wait, here’s food for thought from Peter Suderman:

…the White House, and indeed, most Republicans in Congress, has decided to fall in line with the Democrats’ broad goals for the program, choosing only to make weak arguments about how much additional money ought to be spent. It’s no wonder the party is in such bad shape. When all Republicans have to offer is a watered down version of program backed by Democrats, it shouldn’t be a surprise when the public doesn’t bite.

Bush, by refusing to take a tough stand against the program entirely, has allowed Democrats to use “for the children!” as a cudgel to crush him in the press, and, as today’s vote shows, they’ve been more than willing to take every opportunity to hit him as hard as they can. As a result, the entire Republican party — not exactly strong at the start — has emerged from the debate bloody and bruised.

If this is a preview of what’s to come in the debate over national health care, it will be tempting for conservatives pick up their lawn chairs and go home. Who wants to watch their team make this many mistakes in both goals and strategy? Congressional Republicans have made some minor buzz about “re-branding” the GOP as the party of economic conservatism, and Bush has recently taken to speaking in front of an oversized banner that reads, in huge capital letters, “Fiscal Responsibility.” That sounds great, but brands and slogans aren’t worth much without action to back them up.

As long as fiscal responsibility remains a banner to hang over milquetoast policies, Republicans are likely to continue to fare as badly as they have on S-CHIP. It shouldn’t be this way, and it doesn’t have to. It’s time for GOP lawmakers to prove Democrats right and make Republican opposition to a program actually mean something.

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"Unless we  call it what it is - a push for Marxism - we will lose this battle. It’s not just this subject, either; they support the Fairness Doctrine, Hate Speech legislation, etc. etc. If your faith practices what they perceive to be “hate speech” and they have total control over both houses and the executive branch, what do you suppose will happen? First the tax-exempt status will be taken from your church, then your faith will be outlawed. It’s nighttime in America, and if we don’t grow some cajones and start calling them out, goodbye Democracy. I totally resent being called “heartless” (particularly by a millionaire has-been 60’s relic) because I’m fiscally responsible. I’m heartless?"

'I saw someone on another blog suggest with total sarcasm that the way to fund SCHIP is to tax abortions.'

 

Dean: Bush Republicans Are Leaving Millions of Children Behind--Some one should tell Democrat Dean, the Democrats and the rest of America that Socialism has never worked anywhere it has been tried, the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, the killing Fields of Cambodia etc. . socialism /collectivism doesn't work

 

BREAKING: Pelosi working on Bush Impeachment? (UPDATED)

Via Richard M, who attended a meeting of anti-war activists in Los Angeles on Sunday:

Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-Culver City) spoke in front of an audience of some 150 activists from various LA antiwar organizations at an Iraq Town Hall meeting in Los Angeles on Sunday, October 14th hosted by California Assembly Majority leader Karen Bass and the ‘47th Assembly District People’s Council’ at Hamilton High School.

The audience responded angrily when Watson responded to a call for the impeachment of President Bush by saying, “We simply don’t have the votes.” After groans and boos and at least one cry of “At least do something!”, Watson went on to say, “Right now, Speaker
(Nancy) Pelosi is working very quietly and very effectively, behind the scenes. We need 285 votes to uphold an impeachment, and so far we have 260 members telling us they support impeachment.”

[Watson] went on to say, “Our goal has to be the White House in 2008 and 60 seats, then we can think about an impeachment,” apparently referring to winning a veto-proof [filibuster proof?] majority in the Senate and [raising] the possibility that a Democratic administration might undertake a prosecution of George Bush after he’s left office.

When contacted by LA conservative activist Deborah Leigh, Pelosi’s office repeated the Speaker’s position, [outlined] before the 2006 election, that “impeachment is off the table.” They declined to comment on Congresswoman Watson’s statement and numbers.

If Congresswoman Watson was telling the truth to the assembled activists, this raises the question of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s control over her own delegation, and even her awareness of what is going on in her own party; [either that], or that Ms. Pelosi has not been dealing forthrightly with the American people and the Adminstration. [Alternately] Congresswoman Watson was willing to [deceive] a gathering of the Democratic Party’s most
active supporters.

Sadly, each of these explanations seems equally plausible. Which — equally sadly — speaks volumes about today’s Congressional Democrats.

Question for Constitutional experts: would a post-hoc impeachment be merely symbolic? Or would such a thing strip the President of pension, benefits, title, etc? [And shouldn’t it more properly be termed a “prosecution”?]

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YouTube video here.

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update: One of the most intriguing soundbites from Rep. Watson is her claim that the Dems have evidence of impeachable offenses.

Tellingly, she doesn’t cite any — and I’m not sure “carrying out a war that we were for before we, like, changed our minds and stuff” carries that kind of weight with the American electorate — so I’d be curious to know just what “evidence” the Dems think they have.

Something to do with the NSA program, is my guess — but that’s a loser, both legally and politically.

Still, I do so love when their synapses get to firing like that. Makes the whole room smell like Jiffy-Pop.

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Israel Warns World War III May be Biblical War of Gog and Magog

 

Senator Inhofe slams new global warming bill as all 'economic pain for no climate gain'

 

Gangs are here, inactive (Fauquier Co.)

 

Pilloring Pillar of Political Stability (Why We Should Keep The Electoral College As Is)

 

Al Qaeda just tried to kill Bhutto on her return to Pakistan

 

Hundreds of energy workers rally at Alberta legislature........ --Contrary to what the AFL is claiming this was not "sponsored" by oil execs, nor was there any "media relations" team. It was one man, Derrick Jacobson who came up with the idea and a handful of people helped him spread the word.

 

 

John Stossel Exposes Global Warming Myths

 

U.S. assures safety of Mexican trucks

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MPs unite to ban 2 speakers from Parliament -WARMAN ALERT --Once you open the door to silencing one group...

...another group will follow.

And another, and another, until no one is left with a voice, except the group currently holding the whip hand.

My theory has always been

"let them all speak out- most normal people can separate the kooks from those who should be taken seriously, easily enough."

 

BORDER A man, his dog, and the end of America

 

eBay Update: Reid Smear Letter Skyrockets with One Day to Go--Definitely worth over $5 mil..actually priceless....a historic document related to a great Un-Constitutional challenge of a citizens’ right to free speech by malintentioned Senators.

 

 Rush put Harry Reid smear letter up on Ebay [ 1, 2 ] --

The latest bid is $2,00,200.00 USD.

Dacre wrote:

This is going to raise several million for this very worthwhile charity.
The Limbaugh haters have disappeared for now
and are aware they are guilty of false accusations and slander but have gone on their merry ways happy in themselves and confident their MSM will hide this from the public. Meanwhile Rush has kicked their butts and raised a fortune at the same time. The MSM has been silent on this of course. Tomorrow it will no doubt be over 1 million and Rush will match it. Will Harry Reid or any other libs step up to the challenge and match the top bid? The ceremony to award the documents and Haliburton briefcase to the the top bidder should be alot of fun. Apparently it's going to done in a very high profile fashion.

Yep, talk is cheap ( except when our “esteemed Senators” are spending “everybody else's money”- tax money, they produce at the point of a gun or imprisonment...)

...but Rush is putting his money where his mouth is.

Note well the silence, and lack of matching money, from all of those 41 silk-shirted thieves, who signed this abomination. As my Dad said circa 1958, “It's so easy to spend somebody else's money.” Coughing up your own bucks- even for a good & worthy cause-- is another matter, entirely.

As far as The Limbaugh haters have disappeared for now goes on this board, note, and note well- I say little, but observe much. If you want to see who I think falls into the Troll & Disruptor category ( aside from the usual pack of America haters ) just look at my “Ignore” list.

They were out in force on the Limbaugh threads. Spinning the usual distortions, DNC talking points, and outright lies...

Meanwhile, Evil Rush gives his own money- which he earned himself-- to a good cause.

 

Hurry up and bid on Harry Reid’s Crush Rush letter

October 18, 2007 01:30 PM by Michelle Malkin79 Comments 

Jim M. said:

I feel certain that each one of those 41 Senators will accept Rush’s challenge and match the final amount. Oh, you mean he expected them to fund that out of their own pockets and not the Treasury?

29Victor said:

There’s something relating to SCHIP here, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

It is just so much more wonderful to think of a private citizen (two, counting Rush’s matching funds) willing to give this much to a charity voluntarily vs. people’s taxes going to a government program.

And the efficency of the charity is so much greater than of SCHIP, so you know that the money is going to the people who really need it.

THIS is conservative compassion. People can be pretty nice when given a chance.

BrianNY said:

Talk about turning lemons into lemonade. Classic Limbaugh! Don’t forget that he is also chiding the Dems, who actually signed this joke of a letter, to match the winning bid.

 

The Kyoto Koolaid Kollectiv [ 1, 2 ]

 

More a cause than a science, Global warming is the new Key to All Mythologies

 

 Oil Breaks $90.00 US

 

Republicans Remain Deeply Distrustful of News Media

 

The Nanny ( Naggy ) State goes stark, starin' crazy:

Wow - $16 Million Fine for Glasses Without Prescription

 

...while Useful Dupes try to empower it:

'Women For Taxes' - No Joke

 

Let Marriage Be Marriage --Easy divorce means cheap marriage, and that is too high a price for children  to pay.

 

Banned Islam vs. Islamists video and Toronto 17 terrorists -- Among other facts note Saudi connection.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9598767dd12c4732e537

 

http://www.nrsp.com/NRSP-Media/Documents/07.10.19-john%20stossel.html

This Friday on "20/20" (at our new time, 8 p.m. EDT) I say "Give Me a Break" to our Nobel Prize-winning former vice president.

Al Gore says, "The debate is over," and those who disagree with his take on global warming have been "purchased" in order to create "the illusion of a debate." Nonsense. It's as if Gore and his allies in the environmental movement plan to win the debate through intimidation. I interview some scientists who won't be intimidated, even though one has had his life threatened for speaking up.

Abortion and elephants: What we won’t talk about.

Fraser Institute: Homeschooling improves acad. performance

Randi Rhodes’s Fans React To Her "Mugging"

October 19th, 2007

Who knew that there was a site dedicated to Randi Rhodes’s radio show? (In fact, who knew there was a Randi Rhodes until just the other day?)

Anyway, here are some excerpts from the first few thoughtful comments on the news of the great woman’s (ahem) “mugging”:

Heard on the show - Randi, mugged, bashed in the teath

Posted by: fancypantselitist13 Oct 16 2007, 02:21 AM
My freaking God.
I can’t believe this.
Randi was mugged when walking her dog, no money on her, and smashed in the teeth, which I can only assume was with a baseball bat.
What in god’s name is this world coming to?
If anyone thinks this was anything other than trying to SHUT HER UP then they are stupid.
if it wasn’t a basball bat then someone please tell me what it was that knocked out so many of her teeth.
I”m devastated by what happened to her. and what that means to anyone that speaks the truth. That was a very nasty message to the rest of the liberal hosts in terms of speaking truth. They were definitely sending a message to the rest of us. Utterly despicbale.
I was crying tonight when I heard this. I”m just glad she wasn’t further assaulted (though I don’t know if she wasn’t).
I”m worried about her, worried about her dog, worried about all of us.
How could ANYONE do that to her???
I’m praying for her recovery… Randi, we LOVE you…
I’m appalled by this.

Posted by: gabriel8888 Oct 16 2007, 02:44 AM
I cannot find this on the net anywhere…I heard this on the abc news about 10 minutes ago…Does anyone know how she is, and who did this?Is she okay?
We love you Randi! Please let us know how you are! You are in my thoughts and prayers…
Who would do this to her? Coulter?

Posted by: fancypantselitist13 Oct 16 2007, 02:58 AM
you heard this?
I don’t think this was coulter.
This was some crazed right winger though…

Posted by: gabriel8888 Oct 16 2007, 03:01 AM
No, I was just thinking she would be the type that would do such a thing…I would say that it was a coulter type who would do such a horrible thing…
Maybe Randhi needs to move or at least get a large dog, like a Rottie or Great Dane…

Posted by: deke Oct 16 2007, 03:55 AM
I hope they catch the person or persons responsible for this cowardly attack.
I will pray for Randi’s recovery.

Posted by: egghead Oct 16 2007, 06:25 AM
It could be any one. Let’s see, just this past week, Randi has unblinkingly applied pressure to Limbaugh, Coulter, Ghouliani, Blackwater - all thugs, mobsters, or whatever - hell, they’re not kosher with the justice system.

Posted by: Hannibal Oct 16 2007, 06:39 AM
No mention of this on the main news page or pn the AAR page. Can anyone provide a reliable news link?

Posted by: egghead Oct 16 2007, 06:50 AM
You don’t regard Jon Elliott as credible?
Don’t want to ruffle any feathers, but this is not rumor or speculation that Joy is speaking of.

Posted by: gabriel8888 Oct 16 2007, 07:03 AM
We need someone from Air America of Randi’s staff to give us some facts…IF this was a political hit from Blackwater or who ever, there is going to be the wrath of G-d on the perpetrators…
I hope that there is a huge reward put out on whoever did this…They are cowards…The report said it was two men…Two cowards you mean…

Posted by: zamer Oct 16 2007, 07:57 AM
I just heard this on the Bill Press Show (radio), I’m in shock! I hope Randi got a good look at who did this to her, and get that bast*rd. Bill Press said she was with her dog, hope the dog took a bite out of this a-hole.
Randi, get well soon, we love you.

Posted by: gramsci Oct 16 2007, 08:05 AM
This is more than horrible. And I agree with the original poster, the message is clearly one of intimidation. Why else the concentration on her “mouth” area?
These guys are thugs. No doubt. They use intimidation and even resort to beating up a woman. Guess they know they can’t win on ethics, ideas or solid rational arguments so they stoop to this sort of thing.
Wasn’t Rather roughed up? You know, they probably do this sort of thing all the time - we just don’t hear about it. We’re - or at least those that speak out publicly - are probably all going to need armed guards just to walk outside now.
I hope she’s feeling better and will be back on the air giving them hell, filthy bastards!

Posted by: BlueBuddha Oct 16 2007, 08:25 AM
As Jim Ward pointed out on Stephanie Miller that is what the Mafia does to it’s victims to send a message. They shot a guy in the mouth as a warning against people who talk.

Posted by: stetz Oct 16 2007, 08:36 AM
Good G-d. They finally got her! Gees Loueeezzzz.

Posted by: buray98 Oct 16 2007, 08:37 AM
Right now all I can think of is the pain and suffering that Randi must be going through.
God, I wish it had me me instead of her.
I just hate thinking that she has been hurt at all.
She has meant a great deal to me. I live in a very very “Red State” and listen to Randi online because her show (Air America) is not available to me otherwise. If it weren’t for her and Air America online I would have almost no rational discourse to turn to these days.

Posted by: BlueBuddha Oct 16 2007, 08:39 AM
From the Talk Radio link.
Apparently, some right-wing critics of lib talk aren’t happy that conservative talk only accounts for 90% of the programming on talk radio. These whack jobs appear determined to whatever it takes to silence the opposing point of view.

Posted by: Dan Guy Oct 16 2007, 08:48 AM
I don’t doubt for a minute there is some retaliation plot behind Randi’s mugging.
Stephanie, Mike, Thom, Sam and even Lionel need to be extra vigilant. When the right realizes how little power they have left, they have to resort to these kinds of tactics.
Mike Malloy says he carries a gun. I don’t doubt that more than once he has been confronted by right wing crazies. And it’s not like anyone’s worried about faux left-winger Ed Shultz, he can always get his hunting rifle.

Posted by: OKthatsIT Oct 16 2007, 09:03 AM
Man, that’s a ’soul damage’ hit.
Gangster ‘Terror’ strikes again. I think the Naomi Klein’s, “The Shock Doctrine” segment was the rage trigger. All roads do lead to 9/11, is my belief. Think of all those ‘payhecks’ with secrecy involved…exposure or whistleblowers could topple the whole structure. Why didn’t the 9/11 Commission hire forensic economists to investigate corporate/govt accts…and all suspicious transactions or ‘disappearing transfers’? Good question.
Sounds like Randi may need some friends to protect her while he walks he dog. And keep the cell phone cameras handy.

After an endless stream of such like colloquy, a dissenting voice is allowed for one post:

QUOTE(blackchipsss @ Oct 16 2007, 10:12 AM) *

What kind of dumbass board is this? One giant circle jerk. The deejay was mugged the same way 100s are mugged each year in this city. Politically motivated? Nobody but the goddam far left has any idea who the woman is and the only people who listen to her are also on the far left. You guys practice one large circle jerk. One idiot says it was politically motivated and yet there isnt a single bit of evidence. The rest of you yard apes jump up and down in agreement. You people sound like the mental patient Hillary who screamed about the vasy right wing conspiracy when it was reported Bill was fucking an intern. You people make me sick. Hey, how about Pelosi getting a vote on fucking over our ally, Turkey? Yep, better to fuck over our ally and our war effort if it can make Bush look bad. You people disgust me.

To which came this brilliant retort:

QUOTE(Libertas @ Oct 16 2007, 09:21 AM)
you know what i find so interesting about neocon trolls?
its how ignorant they are.
they can’t debate matters on merit. they don’t really know the issues. they can’t put together cohesive thoughts.
ultimately, they resort to repig talking points which are typically, let’s be honest, merely name-calling and drive-by personal attacks.
you can always tell the really stupid neocon trolls - they don’t even TRY to act like they know enough about issues to debate. instead, they just resort to name calling.

Posted by: Illuminotagain Oct 16 2007, 09:36 AM
We need to set up a network of the heads of our snake so they dont get cut off, as currently it is far too easy to “disappear” people.
The Right wing is running around ripping off every societal scab they can before they step down, so they can continue to steal Billions in the chaos. And we are currently poking a stick at Turkey, by rattling the sabre over a 90 yr old crime, to get them to spill into Kurd territory, and officially fracture Iraq so we (they) can say it wasnt the US. Meanwhile Hunt Oil signs a deal knowing Iraq wont be fixed (because if it were it would void the deal), how does Hunt Oil know? The have a seat on the foreign intelligence board.
Seemingly off topic, dont get caught up in who used the bat on her (this whole thing turns my stomach, and Im so angry Im about to cry) is just a patsy/ footsoldier, that authoratative regimes crank out by the dozens. Randi is on the front lines people. Its time to get West Side Story “crazy cool”- angry but focused
George steals Billions in broad daylight, while we PONDER impeachment Randi speaks the truth to power and this is the treatment she gets.
Prayers do matter, however if you REALLY want to impress Randy, (cards and flowers are touching but the right wing probably sells those too…) get more vocal, get more engaged and do something lasting (and legal) for her sacrifice for all of us

And so it goes, for another few hundred posts. Everyone happily in the same or higher dudgeon. Until they suddenly and inexplicably fall silent.

Obviously paranoia runs deep, as the poet said. Especially among the stupid.

Indeed, note that the creator of this thread could not even spell “teeth.”

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Transforming America, for better and for worse

At NRO's Corner, an argument has been raging all day over the consequences of the current pattern of legal immigration. It began when spoke of an "invasion" of Hispanics into the U.S. and quoted this passage, among others, from Samuel Huntington:

The continuation of high levels of Mexican and Hispanic immigration plus the low rates of assimilation of these immigrants into American society and culture could eventually change America into a country of two languages, two cultures, and two peoples. This will not only transform America. It will also have deep consequences for Hispanics, who will be in America but not of it.

John Podhoretz responded by pointing out, among other things, that in 1904 the percentage of the population of the U.S. born outside of the U.S. was greater than that percentage is now, and "the nation that resulted had the greatest century in the history of mankind."

How much comfort can we take from Podhoretz's argument? Not much, I think. First, the fact that early 20th century immigration didn't change the U.S. into "a country of two languages, two cultures, and two peoples" doesn't argue strongly against Huntington's claim that the current immigration pattern threatens to accomplish this. Unlike 100 years ago, legal immigration today is overwhelmingly weighted towards a group that speaks one language and has a common culture of its own. Moreover, the evidence is strong that, as Huntington says, this group has a low rate of assimilation as compared to other groups, both past and present. Nor, given the strength of their numbers and the prevailing multi-cultural imperative of our society, are the incentives for Hispanics to assimilate nearly as powerful as those that existed 100 years ago.

But even absent a "two languages, two cultures, two peoples" scenario, there is reason for concern. Early 20th century immigration changed our culture and our politics. European immigrants gave the Democrats a major boost and were a strong force for the leftward lurch of that party. For approximately 50 years, the U.S. did not elect a conservative president. When it finally did, the reason had much to do with "Reagan Democrats." Who were these Democrats? Generally, they were the children and grandchildren of the immigrants who had placed so much faith in FDR. Arguably, then, it took 50 years for our politics to absorb the wave of immigration and return to "normal."

Hispanic immigrants are also extremely likely to vote en masse for liberal Democrats. Their level of income alone points powerfully in that direction. Republicans, of course, have some say in the matter. President Bush pushed hard for Hispanic votes and, the second time around, was able to capture approximately 40 percent of them. But to maintain even that underwhelming share, and certainly to expand it, Republicans will have to hold up their end of a bidding war for Hispanic votes. That probably means supporting programs that tend to distribute income and benefits to Hispanics. Republicans may be able to prosper in this manner, but conservatives can't.

On the other hand, most conservatives would agree with Podhoretz that, the welfare state notwithstanding, early 20th century immigration was a great boon to this country. That's because, whatever their politics, these immigrants injected vitality, creativity, and genius into our society. So will the current wave of immigrants. But will they do so to the same degree? Not, almost surely, in the "two languages, two cultures, two peoples" scenario, and maybe not even in a less pessimistic one.

In sum, the current pattern of legal immigration verty likely will transform our politics in ways likely to displease conservatives. What we don't know is whether the benefits of such immigration will outweigh this cost. I'm fairly confident of this, however: a pattern of legal immigration less heavily weighted in favor of a single ethic group from a single region, whose members tend to be low-skilled, would be more likely than the present pattern to satisfy this cost-benefit construct.

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A Twofer!

The Thuggery of the Drive-By Media Revealed,

Plus!

Why you need to support the 2nd Amendment:

THE REBECCA AGUILAR VIDEO has been taken down. I assume that KDFW sent its lawyers out, on the -- entirely correct -- theory that it was making the station look absolutely terrible.

But this is pretty much an admission, isn't it?

And Frontburner has a question.

Plus, this explanation: "Rebecca Aguilar has been suspended since this first aired, but how in the world did she watch this tape in the first place and not realize how horrible a person she appears to be? SarahK's theory is her producer hates her and made her run the segment to try and get her suspended."

And this: "Aguilar and the entire editorial staff at KDFW should be forced to take a two-day self-defense course at a local gun range. Hell, take a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) course and learn what responsible gunowners are really like. Of course they have to pass the criminal background check."

MORE: Dan Riehl received KDFW's rather thuggish takedown email.

If you'd like to share your views of KDFW's conduct with station management, their contact information is here.

I think that their behavior is very unwise, and is more likely to inflame the situation than to spare them further embarrassment. A public apology and a promise to do better in the future would make much more sense.

BOMB ATTACKS ON BHUTTO: Have you noticed that the radical Islamists have basically one response to everything? I don't think it's going to win over many Pakistanis.

UPDATE: Big Bhutto roundup here.

(Actress) Eva Mendes does her gardening in the nude

How The New York Times Fell Apart --The best thing that can happen for America is that the NYT, as we know it today, ceases to exist. Is is an anti-American publication with a far, far left view of what American values should be.

Staph Infections Reported at Schools Across the Country

ROBOT CANNON KILLS NINE, WOUNDS FOURTEEN: In South Africa.

A Painful Dirty Secret: Latinos and Blacks Commit Hate Crimes—Against Each Other

What Happened at Haditha--Is it just me, or has the MSM coverage of all this deminished greatly since the disclosure that a UAV videoed much of this event?

Video: Job of U.S. soldiers is killing “mothers and sisters,” says David Crosby

College Admins: If You Favor Second Amendment Rights, You Must Be Crazy

Giuliani calls Second Amendment an "Overstated Argument"

More woe for GMTV's Kate Garraway as parking officials crush her car--In Britain you may not own a gun. You may not carry a knife. You will soon not be able to own or possess a pointy object. You will do what the government says. You will not be able to defend yourself. Your teeth will fall out because you cannot get to a dentist this year.

How to Lose, Don Young’s Way - A lesson of 2006: Purge now or pay later.

The Left's Gag Rule

Hillary to the Rescue, ‘Repairing the World’

What is Hillary Clinton's work resume? What has she ever done?

What Fred Said: A Transcript Of Thursday’s Interview

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Official thread: Rush letter now at $2,000,200!!!-- NOT One of the Phony 41 offered ANYTHING for donation to match.

 

!!!!WOW!!!!!  

[backhoe]

Rush eBay Auction Now At $2,100,100--Personally as a military person with over 30 years service, I think every one of the RATS who signed that letter should equal the winning bid as well. We think this is one of the best slams Rush has done on the liberals in Congress.

 

Live thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913188/posts

 

MSM: Bidding on senators' letter about Limbaugh's 'phony soldiers' comment tops $2.1M

 

The Media’s Dilemma (Rush vs Reid) --This has been played brilliantly by Rush and Clear Channel, and they deserve kudos not only for an amazing media coup, but also for striking such a strong blow for the basic concepts of right versus wrong, truth versus lies, and honor versus dishonor.

That said, there is a sad aspect to this episode that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere in the various threads on this subject: the complete failure and/or refusal of the GOP leadership and the Bush Administration to seize and capitalize on this golden opportunity which Rush has presented them to forcefully demonstrate, differentiate and highlight for the American people the stark, damning contrasts between the values and principles they profess versus the lack thereof by the Dems.

Rush has handed them this moment and opportunity on a silver platter and they’re too cowardly and stupid to see that their silence condemns them just as much as it does for the Dems and the MSM.

41 posted on 10/19/2007 9:21:19 AM EDT by tarheelswamprat

 

Do This for the Children! (Rush Letter ... Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation)

 

"REAL SOLDIERS" respond to Dingy Harry / Rush letter ebay auction...

 

Republicans Outraged at Stark's Comments(Demand his resignation!)

 

Damn Fools Alert:

Myanmar (Burma) embassies receiving "Panties for Peace"

 

What Happened at Haditha --Murtha and his ilk tried to Nifong these Marines and got caught lying.

 

New US visas offered to crime victims who are illegal immigrants --Hmmm....criminals (illegals) who are victims of their countrymen (more criminal illegals who committed crimes while in this country illegally), now get a “benefit” of citizenship?

 

New Trend in Germany: Food Handouts for the Poor (Decline of Welfare State Spurs Private Charity)

 

Killing Successful Interceptors

 

7 Things To Know About the Clintons ... (unprecedented record of ethical failings & corruption)

That said, there is a sad aspect to this episode that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere in the various threads on this subject: the complete failure and/or refusal of the GOP leadership and the Bush Administration to seize and capitalize on this golden opportunity which Rush has presented them to forcefully demonstrate, differentiate and highlight for the American people the stark, damning contrasts between the values and principles they profess versus the lack thereof by the Dems.

Rush has handed them this moment and opportunity on a silver platter and they’re too cowardly and stupid to see that their silence condemns them just as much as it does for the Dems and the MSM.

[backhoe]

DUmmie FUnnies 10-19-07 ("Rush L*mpb*ll's OUTRAGEOUS ebay auction")

 

The Media's Dilemma

 

LIB RANDI'S SMASH-HIT TALE OF WOE--

AH HA! Part of her story is true but, please tell us the whole story Randy!

For your reading enjoyment!

http://gawker.com/news/developing/was-talk-show-host-randi-rhodes-jumped-by-14-ketel-ones-311453.php

 

Warning: Fun ahead -- Safety first, yes, but today's overprotected kids need to live a little

 

 U.S. commander warns of Latin America terrorist threat

 

Viagra Linked To Sudden Hearing Loss--It makes you Hard of hearing?

[backhoe]

Here's Rush's link to last night's interview:

Video: Rush Discusses the eBay Auction and More on Hannity & Colmes

[backhoe]

 

 

Official thread: Rush letter now at $2,100,100!!!
ebay via Drudge ^ --Rush says “Double Dog Dare ya Dingy, to match the amount”

Dingy Harry and the Forty Thieves struck out.

 

“We ran circles around a liberal regressive.” — Rush

 

I just sent Dingy Harry an email through his Senate page:

When are you and your Forty DNC Socialists going to MATCH Rush Limbaugh's contribution to the MC-LEF Fund? Oh, and use YOUR money -- not the Taxpayers.

 

 

Test Run For 2008 (Niki Tsongas, Jim Ogonowski and Illegal Immigration) --In Massachusetts's 5th Congressional District -- a collection of mill towns and affluent and blue-collar suburbs north of Boston -- the surprise issue was illegal immigration...

[backhoe]

Liberals care about power and success

 

For those who missed Rush:



Betty Casey Wins Smear Letter at $2,100,100; Rush Matches Bid; MC-LEF Will Get a Total of $4.2M

 

Official thread: Rush letter now at $2,100,100!!!
ebay via Drudge ^

 

Winning bid: US $2,100,100.00

Winning bidder: bettyc588( 92)

CRY REID, CRY!

   

[backhoe]

The Perfect New Media Moment

 

On Senate Floor Harry Reid Thanks Rush For Auction (Reed Tries To Claim Partial Credit)

 

Fred delivers

 

Why the liberals want the U.S. to lose the war in Iraq --Sen. Harry Reid has declared that the war is lost.

 

S-CHIP: Dems, Media Mount Another 'Smear' Campaign

 

Fighting Fairies Alert:

Rift deepens among gays as rights bill moves to House floor

 

Sexsomnia: Fast Asleep and Having Sex

 

Breaking: Tanker Truck stolen at gunpoint in Baltimore, last seen heading North on I-95

 

Oh, boy! More "free stuff" that everybody else has to pay for!

Barack Obama proposes universal high-speed internet access

 

Petition for Recall of NRA Director "5-rounds" Jackson--

Here is the (2 min) VIDEO of him making the statement above:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGySNLyACE

 

ENVIRONMENTAL HYPOCRISY UPDATE: Ted Kennedy, et al. have managed to block the Cape Wind project. I'm taking this to mean that there's no actual greenhouse crisis, but someone should ask Al Gore what he thinks.

I guess these TV ads weren't enough.

 

Won’t you take me to Chinatown?

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 19, 2007 09:27 AM

The Los Angeles Times digs into Hillary’s finances and uncovers more mysterious Chinatown donors with dilapidated addresses in NYC and jobs unlikely to put them in the position of maxing out campaign contributions. They include dishwashers, waiters, contributors who deny making contributions, and another who “admitted to lacking the legal-resident status required for giving campaign money.” And more:

Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown…

…Of 74 residents of New York’s Chinatown, Flushing, the Bronx or Brooklyn that The Times called or visited, only 24 could be reached for comment.

Will Hillary accuse the Times reporters of “stalking” now?

I like the use of the adjective “ephemeral:”

Like many who traveled this path, most of the Chinese reported as contributing to Clinton’s campaign have never voted. Many speak little or no English. Some seem to lead such ephemeral lives that neighbors say they’ve never heard of them.

Predictions: Hillary will come out swinging at the Times, her Asian-American acolytes will accuse the paper of racism and ethnic bigotry, and those “ephemeral” donors will never be found.

***

Hey, I just remembered something. Remember the story I blogged this summer about Chinese-language ballots in Boston? One Chinese translation of Hillary Clinton’s name:

“Upset Stomach.”

Most fitting today, I imagine.

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Allah dubs it “Hsu II.”

And once again, the question looms:

Where is the money coming from?

***

Flip Pidot takes note of the rise of the bundler and takes a close look at Hill’s 3Q refunds. Methinks more of those will be on the way.

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comments (94)   "Basically, it means that someone (or two or three) is giving large amounts of money, well beyond their legal limits by using the names of people who could not possibly be giving this much money. In other words, Hsu and others of this shifty bunch who seem to adore the Clintons can spread out tens of thousands of dollars by making it look like a bunch of individual $1000 or $2000 donors. So, it’s not Clinton hiding non-Chinese donations, it’s Chinese donations being hidden as though from individual US citizens so that the direct-to-China connection is less obvious."

 

Suitably Flip 

Mama's Gotta a Brand New Hsu

Michelle and Allah both weigh in this morning on a shiny new story from the LA Times (which, incidentally, has sunk its teeth surprisingly deep into the Norman Hsu scandal, making it easily the outlet with the second best coverage of the affair, behind The Wall Street Journal) about a shiny new Chinese fundraising scandal for Hillary Clinton.

As yet, there's no readily identifiable kingpin at the center of this flap, but the gist is that parts of New York's Chinatown have become an improbably gilded neighborhood when Clinton comes calling.

The Times went further and actually called on some of these listed donors (hey, that's my schtick).  Needless to say, what they found didn't clear things up.

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Previous Norman Hsu coverage.

 Flip You may want to also look at this article at the Nation for some other angles.

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The Lies Of Senator Harry Reid Watch it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=E-V1_XTMJRk

 

May I also remind fellow Freepers of the extensive,frightening library of the inestimable Backhoe

FReegards to you, and I really appreciate the kind words- here she is, in all her glory- click the picture:

Graphic hattip: PhilDragoo

DOT Puts on Truck Inspection Show for Congress--What a joke. Bush is putting the lives of American citizens at risk by allowing these Mexican trucks onto our roads.

Matthews Dredges Up Old Bush Lines to Offset Stark

Naggy Statism:

Hillary talks U.S. eating habits at health care forum--Americans are roaming eating machines whose belt-busting habits are adding to the country's health woes.

Another Hsu drops: Hillary earmarked big chunk of cash for the New Schoolposted

Transcript: President Clinton explains Iraq strike(Flashback December 16,1998)

And Little Brother:

TxDOT coached on thwarting toll foes on talk radio

Gathering ‘Storm’ superworm poses grave threat to Windows PCs; Apple Macs unaffected

Here Piggie, Piggie! Billions in Fed Trough(Another day, another reason for term limits!)

Two of Jena 6 defendants present BET award (Beat up a white person & BET will make you a celebrity)

Anti-abstinence sex-ed policy fails to prevent STD explosion in California

The heat is on

Flaming squirrel ignites car in Bayonne

No Backup If Atlanta's Faucets Run Dry

[backhoe]

Oilman Pickens says $100 oil coming--

Take a look at this

Cape Cod Commission Denies Cape Wind Cable Permit

Harry Reid And The Letter Of Doom

Harry Reid tried his best to put the best possible spin on the Rush Limbaugh letter that just sold to a Republican philanthropist for $2.1 million dollars. Rush will put up a matching $2.1 million donation to a charity that assists the children of Marines and law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Reid will ... try to claim credit for it:

This week, Rush Limbaugh put the original copy of that letter up for auction on e-bay. Mr. President, we didn't have time, or we could have gotten every senator to sign that letter. But he put the letter up for auction on e-bay and I think very, very constructively, left the proceeds of that it go to the Marine Corps law enforcements foundation. That provides scholarship assistance to marines and federal law enforcement personnel whose parents fall in the line of duty. What could be a more worthwhile cause? I think it's really good that this money on e-bay is going to be raised for this purpose. ...

Never did we think that this letter would bring money of this nature.

Uh-huh. So now Harry wants everyone to think that he participated in the fund-raising effort deliberately. He wants to take credit for over $4 million in donations that came from two people -- the bidder, and the man Reid intended to smear and intimidate. That's not just laughable, it's pathetic.

Let's see Reid put his money where his mouth is. Where's Reid's $2.1 million? He could sell off a few of the Nevada properties that have enriched him while he manipulates their value through legislation. His colleagues could also pitch in and at least match Rush in the aggregate -- donating $50,000 for everyone who signed the letter. If they want to take credit for the fundraising, why don't they contribute some funds themselves?

Posted by Ed Morrissey on October 19, 2007 12:30 PM | Comments (117) "A perfect illustration of the liberal/conservative dynamic.

The conservative thinks of a free-market way of raising private funds to aid a worthwhile causes and backs his commitment with his own money.

The liberal asks other people to donate funds, doesn't donate any of his own money, and tries to take credit for the generosity of others."

Leftist Debate Skills:

1. Deny the original debate without any facts. If that does not work try;

2. Refuse to look at the facts as presented and bend words or statements to make it look like something else, try this multiple times if it does not work the first time. If that does not work try;

3. Toss a strawman into the debate and attempt to focus on another subject. Again, try this multiple times if it does not work the first time. If this does not work you have no choice but to try;

4. Engage motorized goalposts and switch the debate to a totally unrelated subject. I.e. Vietnam Vets. Attempt to focus people on a totally unrelated subject so they dont remember your lame argument on the actual post or argument.

Oh and refrain from calling me a "chickenhawk" as I retired from the Navy with 22 years of service ok?

Don't forget to see this Video of Dennis Miller's legendary demolition of Harry Reid.

IEDs Seen As Rising Threat in The U.S.

 

 Global warming is a 'planetary emergency,' says Nobel Peace [ 1, 2 ]

 

Minister Farrakhan says it is time to separate from whites

 

So I Did A Recon At The City Animal Shelter After Work Today

 

Is that a threat or an over-promise?

Jane Hamsher of the blog Firedoglake ( AKA, LiarDogFake...) is what tries to pass as a respectable left-wing blogger. Yet her posts consistently are long on invective and (unlike the work of her colleague Christy Smith) almost invariably devoid of analysis. At times, the invective is over the top, as when she depicted Joe Lieberman in blackface. Often, as in that case, it's difficult to distinguish her writing from an unusually vicious temper tantrum.

Quin Hillyer brings to our attention the latest example, a post about Georgia Congressman Jim Marshall. Rep. Marshall was one of two Democrats who voted not to override President Bush's veto of the Democrats' SCHIP expansion legislation. This produced a typical tirade from Hamsher in which she tried to make Marshall seem like a racist.

Hamsher suggested that Marshall "was probably still in afterglow from his bigot embrace with Georgia ID voter suppression legislation author Erick Erickson." She then offered Marshall this advice: "By the way Jim, cavorting with racists and a wink-wink to Jim Crow as a way to curry favor with wingnut voters is not acceptable within the Democratic party. Good luck with your primary."

Hamsher's attempt to attack Marshall through Erickson and the Georgia voter ID law fails at every level. First, Marshall did not "cavort" with Erickson; Erick simply praised Marshall's vote on SCHIP expansion. Second, as Hillyer explains, courts have thrown out race-based challenges to voter ID laws because plaintiffs have failed to produce evidence that they cause racial hardship. Thus, even if Marshall agreed with the law (and there's no evidence that he does) or had associated himself in any way with Erickson (and there's no indication that he has), Hamsher's use of the race card would be specious.

Third, again per Hillyer, "accusing Marshall of racism or even of indifference to racism, is laughable," given his record and the solid support he has always received from African-Americans in Macon, where he was a popular mayor. Further, if it comes to that, Erickson himself served as campaign manager for a black Democratic councilwoman Miriam Paris and publicly endorsed a black mayoral candidate over his white opponent. By contrast, Hamsher's signal contribution to racial good will and understanding was the above-mentioned depiction of Sen. Lieberman in blackface.

Finally, what of Hamsher's comment about Marshall's primary? The fact is that Marshall is the only Democrat with any chance of holding his district. He won the seat in 2002 with 51 percent of the vote. In 2004, he won easily, with 63 percent of the vote, compared to 44 percent for John Kerry. In 2006, the boundaries of the seat were changed dramatically, with the percentage of African-Americans shrinking from 40 percent to 33 percent. Nonetheless, Marshall was able to hold the seat with 51 percent of the vote, in what (if I recall correctly) was the closest call for any Democratic incumbent.

So if Hamsher wants to get behind a Ned Lamont wannabe in Macon, I wish her well. Marshall by all accounts is a good man (he left Princeton to enlist in Vietnam where he was wounded and received two Bronze Stars), but more often than not he votes with the Democrats. A Republican pick-up in a natural Republican area would be welcome. Perhaps Hamsher should run this by Kos first, though.

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Clinton's Black-Box Candidacy (More Hsu related scandal)--INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | 10/19/2007 | IBD--things aren't the same as they were in the days of Whitewater. That Clinton scandal may have been hard for the public to grasp, but the current shenanigans are not. News outlets are picking them up with ease and can describe them in a couple of sentence...

Do we really want to go through this again? Actual criminals and pathological liars in the White House again. Have we forgotten how it was? One ugly thing after another.

 

IBD refers to LA Times article covered here :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913378/posts

Also, interesting details from IBD on another matter :

Clinton's campaign is so full of questionable transactions that even the Nation, a left-wing magazine, has dug up a mysterious influence peddler named Alan Quasha who hires Clinton operatives and has links to top Clinton's top fundraisers.

Meanwhile, the online magazine Salon is wondering why the Clintons are not disclosing the identities of donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation as it increases its cash intake just as Hillary becomes the presidential front-runner. Bill Clinton refuses to release their names because he says they gave anonymously. Could they too be foreign and looking to buy influence?

For the mainstream media, and especially those on the left side of the spectrum, to rouse themselves to such reporting is unusual. It points to something very dramatic, like a threat to democracy.

Sen. Clinton knows that enforcing election laws is difficult. When she gets called out, she returns the cash, pleads ignorance, claims a vetting glitch and returns to normal.

Unfortunately, the odds of getting caught are low, the political costs are slight and the sanctions are so light they invite lawbreaking. Most candidates won't go over the line, but a bounder like Hillary may cynically calculate that voters are easily distracted.

.....

Knowing that the Chinese seek greater access to U.S. technology, how will this serve their national interests over our own? Will voters find themselves in the situation of watching a President Hillary Clinton sit on her hands after an American aircraft is shot down because of what someone in Beijing knows about cash she accepted?

Hillary Shakes Down Chinatown “Immigrants”

October 19th, 2007

From a seemingly re-born Los Angeles Times:

An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton

The candidate’s unparalleled fundraising success relies largely on the least-affluent residents of New York’s Chinatown — some of whom can’t be tracked down.

By Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

October 19, 2007

NEW YORK — Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.

And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes.

All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular presidential candidate — Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown…

Clinton has enlisted the aid of Chinese neighborhood associations, especially those representing recent immigrants from Fujian province. The organizations, at least one of which is a descendant of Chinatown criminal enterprises that engaged in gambling and human trafficking, exert enormous influence over immigrants. The associations help them with everything from protection against crime to obtaining green cards.

Many of Clinton’s Chinatown donors said they had contributed because leaders in neighborhood associations told them to. In some cases, donors said they felt pressure to give.

The other piece of the strategy involves holding out hope that, if Clinton becomes president, she will move quickly to reunite families and help illegal residents move toward citizenship…

The Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who provided checks to Clinton after fundraising events geared to the Chinese community. One-third of those donors could not be found using property, telephone or business records. Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.

And several dozen were described in financial reports as holding jobs — including dishwasher, server or chef — that would normally make it difficult to donate amounts ranging from $500 to the legal maximum of $2,300 per election.

Of 74 residents of New York’s Chinatown, Flushing, the Bronx or Brooklyn that The Times called or visited, only 24 could be reached for comment.

Many said they gave to Clinton because they were instructed to do so by local association leaders. Some said they wanted help on immigration concerns. And several spoke of the pride they felt by being associated with a powerful figure such as Clinton…

The effort is especially pronounced among groups in the Fujianese community. More than a decade ago, Fujianese cultural associations ran gambling operations and, more ominously, at least one was home to a gang that trafficked in illegal Fujian native immigrants.

The human-smuggling problem came to a head in 1993, when a cargo ship, the Golden Venture, ran aground off New York City. As shocked police and immigration officials looked on, hundreds of Fujian natives who had spent weeks below deck struggled to make it to shore. Several died in the attempt.

A crackdown by the FBI’s organized-crime task force led to the indictment of more than 20 Fujian native traffickers…

Although Motyka is wary of the havoc wreaked in the past by Fujianese organized crime, he said: “I welcome signs that the community is participating in politics.” …

Missing persons

The tenement at 44 Henry St. was listed in Clinton’s campaign reports as the home of Shu Fang Li, who reportedly gave $1,000…

A tenant living in the apartment listed as Li’s address said through a translator that she had not heard of him, although she had lived there for the last 10 years.

A man named Liang Zheng was listed as having contributed $1,000. The address given was a large apartment building on East 194th Street in the Bronx, but no one by that name could be located there.

Census figures for 2000 show the median family income for the area was less than $21,000. About 45% of the population was living below the poverty line, more than double the city average.

In the busy heart of East Broadway, beneath the Manhattan Bridge, is a building that is listed as the home of Sang Cheung Lee, also reported to have given $1,000. Trash was piled in the dimly lighted entrance hall. Neighbors said they knew of no one with Lee’s name there; they knocked on one another’s doors in a futile effort to find him.

Salespeople at a store on Canal Street were similarly baffled when asked about Shih Kan Chang, listed as working there and having given $1,000. The store sells purses, jewelry and novelty Buddha statues. Employees said they had not heard of Chang.

Another listed donor, Yi Min Liu, said he did not make the $1,000 contribution in April that was reported in his name. He said he attended a banquet for Clinton but did not give her money.

Clinton “has done a lot for the Chinese community,” he said.

One New York man who said he enthusiastically donated $2,500 to Clinton doesn’t appear to be eligible to do so under federal election law. He said he came to the United States from China about two years ago and didn’t have a green card…

Many, on the other hand, said they gave for reasons having more to do with the Chinese community than with Clinton. He Duan Zheng, who gave $1,000, said of the Fujianese community: “They informed us to go, so I went.

“Everybody was making a donation, so I did too,” he said. “Otherwise I would lose face.”

Just imagine if this was a story about the presumptive Republican nominee for the Presidential campaign.

It might get even more media coverage than Larry Craig’s “wide stance.”

But since it is Mrs. Bill Clinton the story will die where it was born, at the Los Angeles Times.

Still, we should give the LAT their due. A newspaper is actually doing investigative reporting on a very important subject.

Imagine.

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HILL'S CASH EYED AS CHINESE-LAUNDERED (bogus addresses, phantom donors)

 

Anarchy in Georgetown

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 20, 2007 12:57 AM

Source: WTTG

I received a heads-up on the so-called “October Rebellion” a few days ago, and it looks like the anarchists in D.C. made good on their threats. Tonight, they rampaged in Georgetown in the name of protesting the World Bank/IMF, which are holding annual meetings in Washington. Guess the rabble-rousers miss the glory days of those riotous WTO protests several years ago.

The Georgetown Voice reports:

The October Rebellion, an umbrella group of protest groups, launched an unscheduled march through Georgetown Friday night. The march started at Washington Circle and ended when police cordoned off protests and released them in small groups. According to police, a young woman was hit in the face in front of Wisconsin’s Abercrombie and Fitch and was taken to the hospital.

According to the Voice, two of the thugs knocked a police officer off his bike. WJLA says the woman was hit with a brick:

More than 100 protesters were gathered at Washington Circle where they marched through Georgetown to send a message to what they call “a seat of excessive wealth and privilege.” Two protesters were arrested and one woman in the area was injured after getting hit in the head with a brick.
Hundreds of protesters were moving through the area, accompanied by an even greater number of police officers. They were being escorted by motorcycle patrols with officers on bicycles, in cars and even in armored vehicles nearby.

Several stores in Georgetown boarded up their windows in anticipation of possible vandalism by protesters in town for the meetings.

If just one city targeted by these criminal punks would crack down hard instead of slapping them on the collective wrist, the property damage and assaults would stop.

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Flashback: Anarchy in San Francisco
Flashback: Portland loves its anarchist thugs
Flashback: Anarchy in Boston
Flashback: Black Bloc in the Big Apple
Flashback: The price of Seattle’s incompetence

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I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS and The Daring Book for Girls.

Now reader Kevin Manley emails with news of The Dangerous Book for Dogs. By "Rex" and "Sparky:"

Abortion Nearly Killed Me, Says Woman

 The New Death

The plane crash that muted Southern rock --Wow! Has it really been 30 years...

Anarchists Throw Bricks in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., Assault Bystanders

Prostitution: Legal Work or Slavery? --Countries debating whether or not to legalize prostitution could learn from what occurred in the Australian state of Victoria. The state government legalized prostitution in 1984 and since then, the sex industry has flourished. With over 20 years of experience, many of the promised benefits of legalizing prostitution have not, however, materialized, according to a book published earlier this year.

[backhoe]

Change your bookmarks to freedominion.com! PARTY TIME! [ 1, 2 ]

 

Carbon catastrophe

 

Transcontinental Driving Record Claimed to be Broken--Wired has a much better version: The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory

And so the clock starts and the taillights flare, and they're off again, strapped down, fueled up, and bound on an outlaw enterprise with 2,795 miles of interstate and some 31,000 highway cops between them and the all-time speed record for crossing the American continent on four wheels.

The gear is all bought and loaded. Twenty packs of Nat Sherman Classic Light cigarettes, check. Breath mints, check. Glucose and guarana, Visine and riboflavin, Gatorade and Red Bull, mail-order porta-pissoir bags of quick-hardening gel, check.

Randolph highway patrol sunglasses, 20-gallon reserve fuel tank, Tasco 8 x 40 binoculars fitted with a Kenyon KS-2 gyro stabilizer, military spec Steiner 7 x 50 binoculars, Hummer H1-style bumper-mounted L-3 Raytheon NightDriver thermal camera and LCD dashboard screens, front-and-rear-mounted sensors for a Valentine One radar/laser detector, flush bumper-mount Blinder M40 laser jammers, redundant Garmin StreetPilot 2650 GPS units, preprogrammed Uniden police radio scanners, ceiling-mount Uniden CB radio with high-gain whip antenna. Check. Check. Check.

 

Miracle on the Bayou

 

Gay rights measure targeted (CA Revolt)

[backhoe]

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: A Black-Box Candidacy.

And The Nation is also asking questions about where Hillary's money is coming from, and not much liking the answers it gets: "Her campaign dismissed Hsu as someone who'd slipped through the cracks of an otherwise unimpeachable system for vetting donors, and perhaps he was. The same cannot be said for the notorious financier Alan Quasha, whose involvement with Clinton is at least as substantial--and still under wraps."

UPDATE: "Won't you take me to Chinatown?"

It's interesting the way concerns about Hillary's fundraising seem to cross all partisan and ideological lines.

For Hillary, There's No Such Thing as Dirty Money

Naggy State Alert:

Hillary Plans Crackdown on Obesity

Juanita Broaddrick greetings to the FReepers - plus her open letter to Hillary in 2000

Hillary refuses to return $100,000 illegal donation admitted on tape in sworn deposition

Chinatown --Yesterday Glenn Reynolds cited the (Los Angeles Times's) latest report on Hillary's dirty money with the tag another (Hsu drops). The Times found pockets of financial support for Ms. Hillary in what appear to be unlikely places:

 

STEPHEN FLYNN LOOKS AT five disasters that are coming soon if we don't address crumbling infrastructure. Problem is, the political rewards for fixing old stuff are far inferior to the political rewards for building new stuff -- even if the old stuff is stuff we need, and the new stuff is showy pork.

 

A LOOK AT "GUN FREE" school zones.

 

Democrats learn a lesson [Darleen Click]

While the expansion of the SCHIP program (aka as nationalized medicine creep) was defeated, Dems are vowing to bring it back.

It seems that the hard-charging Democrats of nine months ago have hit a wall when it comes to Bush’s vetoes. Today’s vote means they will be forced to make concessions, despite a vow from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday (subscription) that they would not give in on the $35 billion figure for SCHIP expansion.

Just as the also-failed Armenian Genocide bill was a cynical, backdoor attempt to anger Turkey into disallowing the US military to move troop supplies through its territory, so this unconscionable expansion of a program for poor children into a middle-class entitlement is a way for Dems to publically preen about how they are for teh childrens while the nasty, Simon Legree Rethuglicans …

“I disagreed with the president’s position because he wants to leave out all the children.” Dennis Kucinich*

“We’re holding these members of Congress accountable for standing with President Bush and against our children.” Noah Winer, head of MoveOn.org’s health care campaign.*

“You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.” Pete Stark[raving mad]*

“Why does President Bush hate American kids?” Keith Olberman [child pimp] *

…. WANT TO EAT YOUR CHILDREN!! [cue maniacal laughter]

Good.Lord.

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(TN US Senator) Corker: Let's find a way to get SCHIP boost passed

 

Live Louisiana Election Thred....

Even the New York Times thinks Bobby Jindal will win

By See-Dubya  •  October 20, 2007 08:25 AM

Update (MM): My favorite quote from Bobby Jindal as he heads toward a win today…

“People want to make everything about race. The only colors that matter here are red, white and blue,” Jindal said.

Here’s a flashback to my column on Jindal and the NYTimes’ skin-color obsession and here’s a reminder of the smear campaigns the Left has waged against him over religion.

He’s an extraordinary, young, dynamic, whip-smart, staunchly conservative Republican.

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I bet it just killed them to write this about the LA governor’s race:

Analysts predict Mr. Jindal, 36, could get more than 50 percent of the vote in the open primary, thus avoiding a November runoff and becoming the nation’s first Indian-American governor. If he fails to win a majority, he would face the next-highest vote getter in the runoff.

Louisiana Democrats are demoralized, caught between the perception of post-hurricane incompetence surrounding their standard bearer, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who is not running for re-election, and corruption allegations against senior elected officials like William J. Jefferson, the congressman from New Orleans.

So, despite the Times’ best efforts to shift all the blame onto President Bush for the botched Katrina response, they have to admit that the political consequences on the ground are landing right where they ought to…on the dithering, indecisive governor Blanco, on Mayor Nagin, and the Democratic machine that assisted their failure.

I bet they don’t like this part either:

He is a born-again Roman Catholic who has suggested that teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution may not be out of place in public schools, favors a ban on abortion and opposes hate-crimes laws. Conservative views aside, the slightly built congressman is anything but a backslapping good ol’ boy.

Blasphemy! How could someone who is both a Rhodes Scholar and from a racial minority believe that stuff? Those are The Wrong Ideas, and in the New York Intelligentsia’s reckoning, Rep. Jindal might as well be wearing overalls, chugging moonshine, and a plucking a four-string banjo as he wipes the stains from his lunch of pan-fried squirrel from his cheek with a Confederate flag bandana and contemplates assaulting suburban canoeists.

Speaking of which, if Rep. Jindal wins, it will undermine the very stereotypes the Times trades in:

The congressman, tossing souvenir cups from a fire truck in a town parade, was met with shouts of “Hey Bobby!” from the rural whites lining the route.

Hmm…maybe everything in the whole world…isn’t about race after all?

Oops, more blasphemy. Sorry.

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Razing the projects: When housing isn't home

 

Mexican Trucks at the Senate

 

And baby makes two--Your story raises the question: do liberals tend to go crazy? Or is it that crazy people become liberals?  This is what being "gay" is all about. There is nothing else. They are forever the wounded child...

 

Credibility Challenged Ed Schultz Attacks the Credibility of Randi Rhodes

[backhoe]

 Who Will Rule Us After the Next 9/11?

 

Stark's remarks were bad enough that even the lefty blogosphere had to clean things up.

 

How Far Can You Run?

What if you had to become a fugitive in the next 24 hours with only the resources you could find in that time to help you on your way? How far could you run?

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This article from the Scotsman recounts the pathetic flight of a child molester who was rapidly collared in Thailand: transvestite helps capture suspected paedophile. (How's that for a headline?) Here's how the Thai cops found him.

After an alert from Interpol, Police Lieutenant Colonel Phanthana Nutchanart sent his men to trawl transvestite hangouts in Bangkok's Patpong red-light district and the seaside town of Pattaya, infamous as a haven for misfits and perverts. After seeing a picture of Neil taken by security cameras on his arrival at Bangkok airport a week ago, transvestites in Pattaya said they had seen him with a 25-year-old cross-dresser called Ohm. But the pair had already fled the town.

Police traced Ohm's real name on Thailand's national citizens database, found he came from the north-eastern province of Chaiyaphume and - crucially - got his telephone number. They then began going through his phone records, allowing them to chart the pair's progress from Pattaya to Chaiyaphume and ultimately Nakhon Ratchasima.

The last number dialled on Ohm's phone was to a friend in Nakhon Ratchasima, who eventually told police Ohm was trying to rent a house in the province and passed on the address. It was a low-tech end to a manhunt that started three years ago in Germany, when specialist child crime officers found images on the internet of a man raping young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia. Some of his victims were believed to be as young as six.

How could the pedophile have had a chance? Alone, with only a fixed amount of money? In a country where he couldn't speak the language? But in case anyone thinks nobody can do it, there's the 30 year saga of former Japanese intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, who on the confines of small Lubang Island, right off the east coast of Luzon, refused to believe that the Emperor had surrendered and evaded capture past the point where he was declared legally dead in Japan. Over three decades Hiroo Onoda "killed some thirty Philippine inhabitants of the island and engaged in several shootouts with the police" before he was finally persuaded the war was over.

In 1974 the Japanese government located Onoda's commanding officer, Major Taniguchi, who had since become a bookseller. He flew to Lubang and informed Onoda of the defeat of Japan in WWII and ordered him to lay down his arms. Lieutenant Onoda emerged from the jungle 29 years after the end of World War II, and accepted the commanding officer's order of surrender in his dress uniform and sword, with his Arisaka Type 99 rifle still in operating condition, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades.

How about that?

Not in the same league, but nevertheless impressive was the fugitive career of Eric Rudolph.

A latter-day version of North Carolina's legendary hermits and hunters, Rudolph disappeared in early 1998, shortly after the FBI received a tip that he might be the Birmingham bomber. He had fled his trailer, leaving the lights on, the door open and the air conditioning running and taking a month's worth of food, including raisins, green beans, tuna and trail mix. More than 200 federal agents fanned out across a 500,000-acre swath of North Carolina's craggy peaks, caves and snake-infested underbrush. Helicopters with infrared scopes scoured the land; listening posts and cameras were set up. Yet by mid-2000 the feds had largely dispersed.

On Saturday the authorities got lucky. In the early morning hours [of June 7, 2003], rookie cop Jeff Postell spotted a thin man in an alley behind the Save-A-Lot Food store in Murphy. The man, relatively clean-cut and wearing a camouflage jacket and sneakers, dashed behind a stack of milk crates. "He was very cooperative, not a bit disrespectful," says Postell, 21, who arrested him. Another officer called to the scene recognized Rudolph.

Onoda survived in a confined space in a hostile human environment. Eric Rudolph spent five years on the FBI's Most Wanted List hiding in the Appalachian wilderness, during which federal and amateur search teams scoured the area without success.

The obvious advantages these two men had over the pedophile was that they were willing to patiently endure privation and solitude for extended periods. Onoda subsisted for months on green bannanas and nothing but green bannanas. Eric Rudolph was captured scavenging food from a supermarket dumpster. The suspected pedophile was captured in a house with his transvestite boyfriend.

Ultimately a fugitive is fleeing from people: his hunters, people in their employ, people who may inadvertently betray him. I wonder how many persons can walk out the door in the next 24 hours and walk back into the light only after 30 years entirely on their own power.

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Robot Dreams

It's the 21st century all right.

The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday."

"It appears as though the gun, which is computerised, jammed before there was some sort of explosion, and then it opened fire uncontrollably, killing and injuring the soldiers. ... a female artillery officer risked her life... in a desperate bid " to save members of her battery from the gun."

But the brave, as yet unnamed officer was unable to stop the wildly swinging computerised Swiss/German Oerlikon 35mm MK5 anti-aircraft twin-barrelled gun. It sprayed hundreds of high-explosive 0,5kg 35mm cannon shells around the five-gun firing position. By the time the gun had emptied its twin 250-round auto-loader magazines, nine soldiers were dead and 11 injured.

And here's a little snippet of non-sequitur. What, no error log?

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Other reports have suggested a computer error might have been to blame. Defence pundit Helmoed-Römer Heitman told the Weekend Argus that if “the cause lay in computer error, the reason for the tragedy might never be found."

Fortunately the media interviewed somebody who had his own human memory "error log", albeit of different systems.

Electronics engineer and defence company CEO Richard Young says he can't believe the incident was purely a mechanical fault. He says his company, C2I2, in the mid 1990s, was involved in two air defence artillery upgrade programmes, dubbed Projects Catchy and Dart.

During the shooting trials at Armscor's Alkantpan shooting range, “I personally saw a gun go out of control several times,” Young says. “They made a temporary rig consisting of two steel poles on each side of the weapon, with a rope in between to keep the weapon from swinging. The weapon eventually knocked the pol[e]s down.”

Automated weapons systems aren't foolproof. "On Sunday July 3, 1988, towards the end of the Iran Iraq War, the aircraft flying IR655 was shot down by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 38 non-Iranians and 66 children. The Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters at the time." [a reader notes that the Vincennes incident was really human erro.]

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A great demolition job

Johnathan Pearce (London)  European affairs

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One of the best debunkers of lazy, collectivist economic thinking is the blogger Tim Worstall, who lives in the sunny climes of Portugal. His takedown of Polly Toynbee is just too good to miss. I particularly cannot help noticing the point about Sweden; the country, often held up as a model of social democratic goodness, is in fact moving in liberal directions in areas like education (vouchers), although it remains shockingly heavily taxed.

The Real Al Gore (An attack from the left!)

Staph Infection Spreads to More Schools

What if there really is a 'gay gene'?

Immigrant youths turn to violence in Amsterdam--Holland is a social experiment that isn’t working; every thing is ‘free’ - a huge Welfare State that provides the immigrant with housing, medicine, education, and walking around money until the person gets ‘settled’ - some do but most don’t. A fair % of Dutch do not go back to retire in Holland after working in other countries most of their adult lives. The SCHIPS Charade is geared to provide medical help from cradle to age 25, the Democrat Socialists see nothing wrong with this…

Taxing Ourselves to Death[Ron Paul]

Zogby Poll: Half Say They Would Never Vote for Hillary Clinton for President

Can Hillary Clinton win? - Opponents try to cast doubt on her electability--Ready for what? A woman who is probably the least qualified candidate to ever run for President of the US. A woman who is a crook, cheat and liar and enables her rapist husband? A woman who is weak. A woman who is a front just like her husband is and will take orders from people who will make her rich; but never really powerful.

Is it Time for Democrats to Start Panicking?--The demorats won in 2006 because of republican arrogance and stupidity. Republicans thought they could stab conservatives in the back and still get their vote.

MORE PROBLEMS WITH THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN'S FUNDRAISING, along with this complaint:

Obama: No Hand on Heart for Pledge Either -- Will MSM Notice?

Canadians want illegal immigrants deported: poll

What to Do About Pixels of Hate

MARK STEYN: "Societies in the early stages of decline can be very agreeable - and often more agreeable than societies trying to cope with prosperity and rapid growth. . . . Civilized decline can be so charming you don't notice it's about to accelerate into uncivilized decline."

I remember Poul Anderson making the same point in one of his Dominic Flandry stories.

"ADVANCED CROTCH-SNIFFING:" One of the many topics addressed in The Dangerous Book for Dogs, which receives a generally favorable review from the Insta-Wife.

Repeal Seventeenth Amendment

[backhoe]

Make speech free, and all else follows --THIS IS PARTICULARLY TIMELY, CONSIDERING THE WARMAN/HRC COMPLAINT. h/t David Frum

 

Greenhouse Conspiracy Documentary (1990) Video Link --Those who subscribe to the rubbish trotted out by Al Gore and his mindless followers are not new they were the same arse clowns who were telling us we were all going to freeze to death 30 years ago.

 Greenhouse Conspiracy Documentary (1990) Video Link

 

Looks like LA’s next Gov will be Republican - UPDATE - ’IS’

 

Even the New York Times thinks Bobby Jindal will win

By See-Dubya  •  October 20, 2007 08:25 AM

Update 2 (See-Dub): Congratulations, Rep. Jindal!

Update (MM): My favorite quote from Bobby Jindal as he heads toward a win today…

“People want to make everything about race. The only colors that matter here are red, white and blue,” Jindal said.

Here’s a flashback to my column on Jindal and the NYTimes’ skin-color obsession and here’s a reminder of the smear campaigns the Left has waged against him over religion.

He’s an extraordinary, young, dynamic, whip-smart, staunchly conservative Republican.

***
I bet it just killed them to write this about the LA governor’s race:

Analysts predict Mr. Jindal, 36, could get more than 50 percent of the vote in the open primary, thus avoiding a November runoff and becoming the nation’s first Indian-American governor. If he fails to win a majority, he would face the next-highest vote getter in the runoff.

Louisiana Democrats are demoralized, caught between the perception of post-hurricane incompetence surrounding their standard bearer, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who is not running for re-election, and corruption allegations against senior elected officials like William J. Jefferson, the congressman from New Orleans.

So, despite the Times’ best efforts to shift all the blame onto President Bush for the botched Katrina response, they have to admit that the political consequences on the ground are landing right where they ought to…on the dithering, indecisive governor Blanco, on Mayor Nagin, and the Democratic machine that assisted their failure.

I bet they don’t like this part either:

He is a born-again Roman Catholic who has suggested that teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution may not be out of place in public schools, favors a ban on abortion and opposes hate-crimes laws. Conservative views aside, the slightly built congressman is anything but a backslapping good ol’ boy.

Blasphemy! How could someone who is both a Rhodes Scholar and from a racial minority believe that stuff? Those are The Wrong Ideas, and in the New York Intelligentsia’s reckoning, Rep. Jindal might as well be wearing overalls, chugging moonshine, and a plucking a four-string banjo as he wipes the stains from his lunch of pan-fried squirrel from his cheek with a Confederate flag bandana and contemplates assaulting suburban canoeists.

Speaking of which, if Rep. Jindal wins, it will undermine the very stereotypes the Times trades in:

The congressman, tossing souvenir cups from a fire truck in a town parade, was met with shouts of “Hey Bobby!” from the rural whites lining the route.

Hmm…maybe everything in the whole world…isn’t about race after all?

Oops, more blasphemy. Sorry.

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comments (47) "It will be interesting watching them try to explain how all of us heathen rednecks just elected the first Indian-American governor. No doubt it will include some reference to him tricking us and that we were just too dimwitted to know better."

 

Can We Please Define ’Racism’?

Can We Please Define 'Racism'? - Selwyn Duke

 

LEFTY PROTESTERS IN GEORGETOWN STICK IT TO THE MAN by hitting a woman with a brick. (Via Dan Collins).

 

WITH HOWARD KURTZ'S HELP, a look at skewed reporting priorities in Big Media. Not to mention:

DALLAS MORNING NEWS: " Anyone who doubts journalists' decency and good sense need only to have seen Fox 4's Rebecca Aguilar in action this week to have their worst impressions confirmed. . . . Although Channel 4 pulled the video from its Web site, you still may find a copy floating around the Internet. Search for 'reporter ambushes senior citizen.'"

UPDATE: Of course, this isn't very impressive either.

Agenda 21 - Some Documents and Resources (Baha'i & UN rewrite of communist goals for world takeover)

Teens say testing no check on drug use

Law change drives the high price of machine guns--The article was surprsingly accurate but failed to raise any question about whether the 1986 law is good or bad law (I happen to think it is very bad, unconsitutional law -— another case of nanny state restricting our rights).

Material world - Oil is not the only commodity on a tear

Heart Trouble

Ouch! Hillary Clinton's softer image is clawed over dumped cat (IS SOCKS STILL ALIVE?)--First she tries getting rid of her Hsus, now her Socks?

 Trash ... HILLARY'S DARK FAMILY SECRETS

You’re better safe than free - the mantra of the Whitehall Taliban

Mark Steyn: The real war on children--hit all the buzz words – "children," "illegal war," "$200 billion," "lies," etc. – and these days they're pretty much like modular furniture: You can say 'em in any order, and you'll still get a cheer from the crowd.

[backhoe]

States in rebellion--This provides evidence that a legal crackdown on illegal aliens can start a chain reaction so that even though only a few aliens are actually caught and deported, those arrests and deportations can lead to a mass exodus of other illegal aliens.

 

Rightists seen winning biggest share in Swiss vote (Fed up with Illegal Immigration)

 

New 'Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week' Poster

Download: Full Size, PDF

Our enemies are preposterously accusing us of bigotry. This of course is the only argument the left ever uses. If you disagree with them you are a racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamo-phobe, i.e., a bigot. We have therefore devoted a section of our website to Islamic bigotry to show who is the culprit here: Islamo-fascists. Radicals within Islam who use Qur’anic authority to inflict major harm and even death on women, gays, Christians, Jews, and infidels generally, not to mention moderate Muslims. The Islamic Bigotry section of our website, which will expand over the next week, can be accessed here.

 

What in Hell has gotten in to these people I used to support, and admire?

White House helped craft 'gay'/transsexual rights bill

 

And then!

World Heritage List (the UN fingers in US nat'l parks, etc.?)

 

American Muslims Must Learn To Accept Free Speech --Almost every day, I read about some group upset something was said. It's called racist, insensitive, intolerant, and I'm finding I'm repeating myself on these points every few columns. At the same time, liberals call conservatives every name they can think of, because when THEY do it, that's okay because THEY are the enlightened.

 

http://www.nohillaryclinton.com/

 

HALF SHUN HILL (83% of Republican women say "yuck")

 

Vultures Are Circling Over Distressed Properties

Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 21 October 2007--Please check out Phsstpok’s EXCELLENT Sunday Talk Show PRE-Thread. It’s a great way to hear analysis on why the DBM picks the guests, what they’ll probably discuss, and other pertinent facts. Also, check out his blog!

The quickest path to finding true foreclosure bargains

Healthcare Administration: Wolper (claims weaponized anthrax developed by 5 Soviet scientists)

Taiwan to develop 'blackout bomb'(graphite bomb to be mounted on cruise missile)

[backhoe]

Clinton Returned $7,000, Campaign Says (Chinese Money)--Their... contributors later on publically stated (one under oath in LA Court) that they hadn’t received one single nickel back of what they had given to Democrats.Report: -RIADY- Walks afer Day/Night in LA Court...

http://www.Freerepublic.com/forum/a3ab7ae794f32.htm

Chinatown, part 2

Yesterday's New York Times reported that the Clinton campaign returned $7,000 of the $380,000 in Chinatown money that we noted yesterday. Sweetness and Light comments here; Hot AIr comments here.

In an update Hot Air links to the New York Post story revealing the source of the dirty money contributed by one straw donor:

Hsiao Yen Wang, a cook in Chinatown, is listed as giving Clinton $1,000 on April 13. Contacted yesterday, she told The Post she had written a check.

But it was on behalf of a man named David Guo, president of the Fujian American Cuisine Council, and Wang told The Post that Guo had repaid her for the $1,000 contribution.

Where do David Guo and the Fujian American Cuisine Council get their money? And why is it so important to them to fund Ms. Hillary's campaign?

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The Sad Saga Of Socks

It coulda been worse, cat - some Clinton pets have been known to find themselves thrown under a bus...

Posted by Kate at 12:46 AM | Comments (19) Just what the world needs: A menopausal woman with her finger on the button of nuclear weapons and one who doesn't like animals.

Hillary’s Dumped Cat Comes Back To Bite Her

October 21st, 2007

From the UK’s Sunday Times:

Socks the cat peers over the podium in the White House briefing room in this March 19, 1994 photo.

Ouch! Hillary Clinton’s softer image is clawed over dumped cat

by Sarah Baxter
October 21, 2007

AS THE “first pet” of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed “chilly” Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea. So where is Socks today?

Once the presidency was over, there was no room for Socks any more. After years of loyal service at the White House, the black and white cat was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, who also had an embarrassing clean-up role in the saga of his relationship with the intern Monica Lewinsky.

Some believe the abandoned pet could now come between Hillary Clinton and her ambition to return to the White House as America’s first woman president.

Clinton has been boosting her prospects in the past week with some homespun references to her gender as part of a series of events with the theme Women Changing America, during which she chatted girlfriend-to-girlfriend and mom-to-mom with female voters.

The softening of Clinton’s image seems to be working. Her chief strategist, Mark Penn, predicts that up to a quarter of Republican women will vote for her. She leads Democratic rivals in the polls by 26 points and is scooping up more donations to her war chest from Wall Street and defence contractors than any candidate from either party – an unmistakable indicator of who they think will win in 2008.

Clinton’s treatment of Socks cuts to the heart of the questions about her candidacy. Is she too cold and calculating to win the presidency? Or does it signify political invincibility by showing she is willing to deploy every weapon to get what she wants?

“In the annals of human evil, off-loading a pet is nowhere near the top of the list,” writes Caitlin Flanagan in the current issue of The Atlantic magazine. “But neither is it dead last, and it is especially galling when said pet has been deployed for years as an all-purpose character reference.”

Flanagan’s article, headed No Girlfriend of Mine, points out that Clinton wrote a crowd-pleasing book Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets, in which she claimed that only with the arrival of Socks and his “toy mouse” did the White House “become a home”.

Being Clinton, she also lectured readers that pets are an “adoption instead of an acquisition” and warned them to look out for their safety. (Buddy, the chocolate labrador, it should be noted, bounded into a road soon after leaving the White House and was promptly run over.) …

Bear in mind that Sock was with the Clintons going back to their Arkansas days.

And behold the publishers description of Hillary’s book, “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy,” written when they were both still useful political props:

Description

In her warm and engaging text, Mrs. Clinton suggests ways parents can help their children initiate and enjoy the experience of writing and receiving letters, sharing her family’s (and pets’) experience, and explains how letters to Socks and Buddy are received, sorted, and answered at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home.

Mrs. Clinton gives a brief “pet history” of the White House, from Dolley Madison’s parrot and Teddy Roosevelt’s children’s menagerie to the Bushes’ English springer spaniel Millie. She also talks about the ways Socks and Buddy participate in White House life, such as greeting guests and visiting hospitals and nursing homes.

Fans of the First Pets will be delighted by a section on their vital statistics (Socks’ tail length: 1 foot; Buddy’s snout length: 5 inches) and answers to the questions most asked by correspondents (”Do you have room service?”).

The chapter I would especially enjoy perusing right now is the one titled: Socks and Buddy’s Guide to Good Pet Care.

Of course, if you read Mrs. Clinton’s forward to the book, which is available online, you will see that she only ever thought of these animals as propaganda tools.

She is in awe at how much mileage past Presidents got out of their pets

But mind you, this is a woman who only had a child because she was advised to do so by her political handlers.

That Hillary Clinton is all heart.

9 Comments » "...if she’s that willing to use a cat, we should be afraid of what she’d do with humans."

"Maybe it’s just me.
I’m currently working my way through the late Barbara Olson’s Hell To Pay. Quite the eye-opener and I’m only a quarter of the way through the book. That book was published in 1999. There are several others out there -reams of information available that would inform anyone who’s not on life support that this woman is basically a reptile.
But she’s out there with her shovel -laying on the bullshit on for all she’s worth -and people are buying it.
The softening of Clinton’s image seems to be working. Her chief strategist, Mark Penn, predicts that up to a quarter of Republican women will vote for her.
Hellloooo?
Tons and tons of documented facts available that prove she’s not fit -as Sharps said- for weed control and nobody’s paying attention.
But she gives her cat away -and that puts a dent in her credibility."

 

HILLARY: THE WICCAN OF WELLESLEY (HEX APPEAL)

 

(Sun Oct 21) WLS CHICAGO - Jerry Agar show with brief DFU interview: HILLARY! UNCENSORED

Cheney: ’We Will Not Allow Iran to Have a Nuclear Weapon’

The Four Pillars of Conservatism

The real war on children--Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome-- Phrases like that always make me cringe.  Children as the common property of the Collective.

Good news if you heat with natural gas

Scientists A Step Closer To Steering Hurricanes

George Bush was trained to bring down Soviet TU-95

The Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment

Water relief for Atlanta -- is train system capable of RELAYING WATER to Atlanta/Georgia

Wildfire threatens Pepperdine U., Malibu homes ( Celebs Homes...Mel Gibson...etc)

Revisiting the Trans-Texas Corridor