Fear for Obama’s Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash… Anatomy of Spin

Now with the Democrats losing support for healthcare legislation faster than greased lightning, the debate is being steered away form the true issue via the red herring of racism. Observe this article a friend of mine sent me today with my comments in red:

“Fear for Obama’s Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash

Utterly misleading headline, no examples of hate groups are given

Violent Signs, Gun, Standoff Latest in Emerging Anger Towards the President

No, not towards Obama, towards the policy. Besides, the stacked audiences of NH and MT were friendly towards Obama. The hostile ones were against mainly white state representatives.

By BRIAN ROSS, ANNA SCHECTER and MEGAN CHUCHMACH

August 14, 2009—

Experts who track hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama, especially as the debate over health care intensifies and a pattern ofthreats emerges. Who are the “experts” cited? What pattern of threat? Later in this article the Secret Service source states there hasn’t been a threat matrix increase.

The Secret Service is investigating a Maryland man who held a sign reading “Death to Obama” and “Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids” outside a town hall meeting this week. And in New Hampshire, another man stood across the street from a Presidential town hall with his gun on full display. The first guy sounds like a moron and SHOULD be investigated. The guy with the gun is William Kostnic, a Ron Paul supporter, who was legally wearing his gun on the side of his pants to remind people of the first amendment. This sentence tries to mislead the reader into thinking he was brandishing his weapon.

Los Angeles police officers apprehended a man Thursday after a standoff with him inside a red Volkswagen Bug car in Westwood, CA  the latest disturbing case even though officials said the man had mental problems. What does this have to do with anything? Looks like it was included to justify mentioning a stand-off in the title.

“I don’t think these are simply people who are mentally ill or off their rocker,” Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center (a known left-wing organization), told ABC News of those behind the threats. “In a very real sense they represent a genuine reaction, a genuine backlash against Obama.” No, it’s against his shit policies. The Dem’s strategy is to spin the disdain towards socialized medicine away and turn it into racism; typical left-wing BS… if you can’t win an argument, claim racism.

Experts say a sharp growth in so-called militia groups that helped spawn a wave of domestic terrorism in the 1990s  and are now using YouTube, rock music and the Internet to recruit members and spread hate and fear – shouldn’t be ignored. This is such bullshit. Where was the reporting about Terrorists doing this? What examples do the authors use? This is a good example of trying to spin the debate away from a failing healthcare plan by mis-associating an issue from 15 years ago. Also, it says “Experts”, whenever a writer does that and fails to source who the experts are, it’s probably bullshit.

“It’s certainly a scary time,” said former FBI agent Brad Garrett, now an ABC News consultant. Garrett said the Secret Service “cannot afford to pass on anyone,” and he believes “they really do fear that something could happen to [Obama].” Notice the brackets. Call me crazy but I think the Secret Service is paid specifically to “fear something could happen” to ANY president.

Garrett said statements like one recently made by controversial radio host Rush Limbaugh comparing a logo for the White House plan to a Nazi symbol “legitimizes people who are on the edge to go do something or say something.” Why is he a “controversial” radio host? Are left winger radio hosts controversial? The writer is purposely leading the reader with the word “controversial.”

“And if you go and take a look at this, you will find that the Obama health care logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo,” Limbaugh said. This was after Pelosi said people were showing up to rallies with “Nazi signs”, what she failed to mention was the signs had a circle and a line through it meaning NO Nazis. Nazi, of course, derives from the German Nationalsozialisten, meaning National Socialists.

Later, someone painted a swastika outside the office of Congressman David Scott of Georgia, one of Obama’s supporters. David Scott received heat for rudely arguing with a doctor at a town hall meeting and insinuating that people who didn’t agree with Obama’s plan was because they were racists. While an unfortunate incident indeed, this is a brazen example of strategic association, leading the reader to falsely believe that the incidents had something to do with each other, when there is no proof whatsoever. Notice the use of the word “later”.

Secret Service Security Around Obama

While officials told ABC News that the President’s daily threat matrix has yet to reflect a sharp increase in threats, White House officials privately admit deep concern and have told the Secret Service to keep security tight, even if Obama objects. The threat matrix hasn’t reflected an increase because there isn’t one.

“I think the president has, in effect, triggered fears amongst fairly large numbers of white people in this country that they are somehow losing their country, that the battle is lost,” Potok told ABC News. “The nation that their Christian white forefathers created has somehow been taken from them.” Wow! What is this fool Potok talking about? The problem is clearly that many people do not want nationalized healthcare and are understandably weary after the stimulus debacle and encroaching government.

The “Going out of Business” Business Going Great

NATIONWIDE. The Grinder — Recent jobs reports may be gloomy to some, but to others business could not be any better. “I was working before at this store and hated my boss, but then it went bankrupt so I changed positions. Now I get many phone calls a day; business is great!”, says Jose Mendez, who works at the corner of Main St. and Elm holding up going out of business signs for local stores. Jose adds “Sometimes it’s hard to find the Q stencil at the hardware store. I guess they weren’t prepared for needing so many stencils for the word ‘liquidation’. Other than that I can’t complain. Jose’s town isn’t the only one seeing  job growth in the sign holding industry, cities all across the nation are reporting similar job opportunities. In a related story, lawn chairs, staple guns and long wooden posts are selling out in record numbers…

Oops: Obama’s Teleprompter Breaks Mid-Speech

The president has been criticized for relying too heavily on his teleprompter for routine remarks and the device has become jokingly known as “TOTUS.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/13/whoops-obamas-teleprompter-breaks-mid-speech/

Looks like the teleprompter technicians have been facing budget cuts as well.

Now, just imagine if that happened to Bush…

Report: Smoking Ban May Strike Military

www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/11/smoking-ban-strike-military/

Enough said…

President Obama, don’t just stand there… Say something!

What is Barack Obama’s next move? I surely do not envy the President of this great nation no matter who it is. The world as a whole seems to be on tenterhooks regarding the game of chess evolving right now in Iran, which is understandable. But again, President Obama is acting cool as a cucumber; perhaps too cool. We are not Switzerland, we take sides. It could be that the President is calculating what side of history he wants to fall on. Nevertheless, I think the niceties need to cease. As I have mentioned before and will probably mention many times in the future: President Obama does not like to disappoint people and he is not used to being criticized. He is a complete 180 from President Bush. Personally I think W had a big set of brass ones, for good or for bad. But I do believe deep down in the hearts of many Iranians, they are hoping for less diplomatic posturing and more substance while their regime runs roughshod over them.

When a Tweet Becomes a Roar

If a bird tweets in Iran, does anybody hear them? You bet your Mahmud-grey business suit they do. While I am a general fan of social networking sites, I never could understand the hullabaloo for Twitter, the micro blogging website that is, well… a mix of an SMS message and a blog. Through shopping over the weekend, I happened to notice most of the stores I visit, where an on-the-wall TV is present, CNN is on. I certainly don’t attribute this to CNN’s ratings, because frankly they stink, but rather the fact that CNN is sort of the de facto cable news station, much like to “Xerox” something or using “Rollerblades” vs in-line skates. CNN’s coverage used a heavy amount of news information coming from Twitter. Maybe it’s just me, but their use of it seemed too phony and rehearsed, as if they were trying too hard to come across as hip. Despite this, I took one more dive into the nether with Twitter. This time, I got it. Upon searching for Tehran, I saw a deluge of “tweets” giving support and enticing others to take certain actions: change your time to 3:30 am to mess with the Iranian Cyber Police so they get confused or spread around a certain URL of a protester being shot. This in turn, created a micro-society of protesters and advocates. I had really never seen anything like this using such a simple application. I am impressed.
While I am by no means a Twitter expert here is what I have learned:
Most popular tags concerning Iran: #iranelections, Tehran
Hash code #: this allows for a word to be categorized and more searchable
At sign @: This is place before a username to direct a message to them
RT: Means re-tweet

The great thing is, this application can be utilized via Blackberry, iphone, ipod touch, LG env, Nintendo DS and other phones or gadgets. It’s literally real-time reporting. Check it out! www.twitter.com

The Emperor Has No Pants, Mr. Green Jeans

To be quite honest, if it weren’t for annoying blowhards like Al Gore and holier than thou environmentalist, maybe more of us would be driving a Prius or as I call it a “Priss”.

Here are some funny comments I saw about this article:

by agobblerOklahoma
[May 5, 2009 8:13:25 PM]
The annual production of gas from congress could be harnessed and provide an unlimited resource. I don’t (think) there is anyway to do anything about the stench, however.

by stronghorseCalifornia
[May 5, 2009 8:00:24 PM]
It’s sure difficult to keep the hippies happy!Parts of Obama’s

by cyco1631Connecticut
[May 5, 2009 7:57:32 PM]
What do they think this is, STARTREK! How do they (environmentalists) think energy can be produced? Maybe they think we shouldn’t produce energy, but I’d like to see them get to their protests, and fight for their ’causes’ without it?

Green Energy Plan Fuel Discontent Among Environmentalists
Many local activists say the rush to renewables, backed by Obama, risks trading one power problem for another
By Dan Springer

A key part of President Obama’s energy plan — replacing fossil fuels with green alternatives — is facing increasing opposition from an unlikely source: environmentalists.

Some environmentalists, who have successfully fought a wind farm on the border of Oregon and Washington, are trying to block a massive solar plant in the Mojave desert. And now an Oregon county is considering a ban on wind power in the foothills of the blue mountains.

“We all want to be as green as we can be. But at what cost?” Richard Jolly of the Blue Mountain Alliance. “To take everything from us? This valley could be surrounded by them.”

Jolly says 400-foot wind turbines are a bird-killing eyesore. The developer argues the danger to birds is exaggerated but admits every big energy project has its downside.

“If we hold out for the perfect environmental silver bullet, if you will, it will always be 15 years down the road,” he said. “We have to make incremental progress.”

For decades, environmental groups have talked about “big oil,” painting the petroleum industry as greedy and destructive. Now similar language is being applied to renewables. Instead of eco-friendly green power, increasingly it’s “big wind” and “big solar.”

Large environmental groups, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, bristle at the idea of dissension in the ranks.

“We are working very aggressively to make a planning process happen with utilities, with industry, with local groups all at the table,” said Rick Duke, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Center for Market Innovation.

Obama has set a goal of getting 25 percent of the nation’s power from renewable sources by 2025. The White House contends that will create millions of jobs and has the support of business and environmental leaders.

But many local activists say we need to slow this rush to renewables or risk trading one power problem for another.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/05/environmentalists-wage-fight-obamas-energy-plan/

Cartoon Predicts the Future 50 Years Ago

Great cartoon. It is disheartening to think how far left our entertainment industry has become. Something like this would never be produced to today for – heaven forbid – we might insult Socialists. View this video to the very end, it depicts the strong arm of government intrusion beautifully.

Obama Gets His first Call

I have a strong feeling that for the next four years I will be making many comparisons between how Bush and Obama were/are received on the world stage. It should be no secret that I supported Bush; i.e. I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I could go on and on about Bush made the unpopular choices and suffered politically for it, but this comment I found regarding the below link says it all.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/05/obama-gets-oft-debated-early-morning-call-on-n-korea/

Let’s take this down to a junior high level, shall we? Obama is the cool kid. everyone wants to be the cool kid’s friend and believe whatever the cool kid’s wants them to do. But would you really jump off the bridge because the cool kid said so? Isn’t that the lesson about peer pressure we all heard as kids?

Sounds like right leaning folks can resist temptation and peer pressure better. To question authority is not stupid, it’s smart. It’s thinking before doing. Obama cares more about being the cool kid in the world than doing what’s right by his own people. And he just proved this case at the g-20 summit.

Obama Gives Lousy Gifts to PM Brown

Yes, I know this story is from Foxnews, but that doesn’t make it untrue. The story speaks for itself, but I have to ask myself, and I will be asking myself this many times in the future: “What would the media have done had Bush done this?” I think the answer is somewhere between roasted and skewered.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/06/obamas-blockbuster-gift-brown-dvds/

Owner of TV Station Set Up To Counter Anti-Islam Stereotypes Beheads Wife

Beheading in New York Appears to Be Honor Killing, Experts Say
Tuesday , February 17, 2009

By Joshua Rhett Miller

The beheading of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan has all the markings of an honor killing, psychologists and Islamic experts tell FOXNews.com, as the upstate New York woman’s husband awaits a preliminary hearing on murder charges.

Muzzammil Hassan, 44, remains jailed after being charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, whose body was found Thursday at the office of Bridges TV, their television station in Orchard Park, near Buffalo.

Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said Hassan has not confessed to the crime, despite media reports to the contrary.

“He came in and said his wife was dead,” said Benz, who declined to elaborate on the particulars of his conversation with the suspect.

But Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III left no doubt that he believes Muzzammil Hassan killed his wife. Hassan will appear for a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Orchard Park. If convicted of second-degree murder, he faces up to life in prison.

“He’s a pretty vicious and remorseless bastard,” Sedita told FOXNews.com Tuesday. “Whether he was motivated by some kind of interpretation of his religious or cultural views, we don’t know. We’ll look into everything in the case.”

Asked if the murder is being probed as an honor killing, Benz replied, “We’ve been told that there’s no place for that kind of action in their faith, but I wouldn’t say that there’s anything that’s being completely ruled out at this point.”

But psychologists and some American Muslims said the slaying has all the markings of an honor killing.

“The fierce and gruesome nature of this murder signals it’s an honor killing,” said Dr. Phyllis Chesler, an author and professor of psychology at the Richmond College of the City University of New York. “What she did was worthy of capital punishment in his eyes.”

Following multiple episodes of domestic violence, Aasiya Hassan filed for divorce on Feb. 6 and obtained an order of protection that barred her husband from their home, according to attorney Elizabeth DiPirro, whose law firm, Hogan Willig, represented Aasiya Hassan in the divorce proceeding.

Chesler, who wrote “Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?” for Middle East Quarterly, said some Muslim men consider divorce a dishonor on their family.

“This is not permitted in their culture,” said Chesler, whose study analyzed more than 50 reports of honor killings in North America and Europe. “This is, from a cultural point of view, an honor killing.”

Chesler said honor killings typically are Muslim-on-Muslim crimes and largely involve teenage daughters, young women and, to a lesser extent, wives.

But Chesler said the “extremely gruesome nature” of the crime closely matches the characteristics of an honor killing.

“Leaving the body parts displayed the way he did, like a terrorist would do, that’s very peculiar, it’s very public,” Chesler said. “He wanted to show that even though his business venture may have been failing, that he was in control of his wife.”

Chesler called on U.S. and Canadian immigration authorities to inform potential Muslim immigrants and new Muslim citizens that it’s illegal to abuse women in the two countries.

“As long as Islamist advocacy groups continue to obfuscate the problem, and government and police officials accept their inaccurate versions of reality, women will continue to be killed for honor in the West, such murder may even accelerate,” Chesler wrote. “Unchecked by Western law, their blood will be on society’s hands.”

M. Zuhdi Jasser, founder and chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, agreed with Chesler.

“It certainly has all the markings of [an honor killing],” Jasser told FOXNews.com. “She expressed through the legal system that she was being abused, and at the moment she asked for divorce, she’s not only murdered — she’s decapitated.”

Muzzammil and Aasiya Hassan founded Bridges TV in November 2004 to counter anti-Islam stereotypes, touting the network as the “first-ever full-time home for American Muslims,” according to a 2004 press release.

Jasser said he was concerned that Aasiya Hassan suffered such a barbaric death after she and her husband were seen as a couple focused on bettering the “Islamic image” in the United States.

“The most dangerous aspect of this case is to simply say it’s domestic violence,” Jasser told FOXNews.com.

In a 1,300-word statement, Islamic Society of North America Vice President Imam Mohammed Hagmagid Ali said the organization was “shocked and saddened” by the killing.

“This is a wake up call to all of us, that violence against women is real and can not be ignored,” the statement read. “It must be addressed collectively by every member of our community.”

Ali called on imams and community leaders to take a “strong stand” against domestic violence, and he denounced the link of shame and divorce among Muslims.

“Women who seek divorce from their spouses because of physical abuse should get full support from the community and should not be viewed as someone who has brought shame to herself or her family,” the statement continued. “The shame is on the person who committed the act of violence or abuse. Our community needs to take a strong stand against abusive spouses.”

Meanwhile, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, a producer and host for Bridges TV who worked alongside the Hassans, said “now is not the time” to debate the cultural and religious context of the murder that appears to be an honor killing inspired by Aasiya Hassan’s desire to divorce her husband.

“There will be time for that later,” Hirschfield said in a statement obtained by FOXNews.com. “I will only say to those who leap to the conclusion that this kind of thing is intrinsic to Islam, ask yourselves if you think that drunkenness is intrinsic to Irish Catholics, or cheating in business is to Jews?”

A Great Day For African Americans

I was out in the rain today, campaigning for John McCain. Am I disappointed? Naturally. But Obama simply ran a better campaign, so congratualtions are in order for him. His speech was good; lofty rhetoric of course, but I truly hope that when he gets into office and realizes the Herculean task before him, he remains a centrist as he has during the campaign. I just wish it was the Republican Party, the party that freed the slaves and the party of Martin Luther King Jr could have been the one to deliver the first African-American president. I would caution Obama supporters not to gloat too much, however. Like him or hate him, George W. Bush will leave behind some big shoes (or cowboy boots) to fill. It is a job in a time period I do not envy having.

Down To The Wire, Election Day Is Just About Here: Time to Get Your Concealed Carry Permit

Wow. I can’t believe after all this time it comes down to tomorrow, November 4th 2008, quite possibly the biggest election in history. I have tried to spend as much free time as I could volunteering for the McCain campaign, but looking back, it just wasn’t enough. Sure I have the bumper sticker on my car, I made some yard signs and delivered some, passed out some stickers, and went door to door one day. No matter what though, it all comes down to money. People volunteering for the GOP nominee worked long and hard hours, I only wish I could have done more. Why the feeling of remorse? I have to be honest, McCain was simply outspent by Obama. For every one McCain/Palin yard sign plunged into the ground along busy roads, Obama would have three. For every dollar the GOP campaign would have to put towards rallies, Obama’s would have three. Having double to triple the money really makes things hard, I mean who else puts millions of dollars to by off three networks for a primetime infomercial; this reminds me of what Saddam Hussein used to do, except, well… Saddam didn’t have to pay and there was only one channel. To be fair, I am not trying to equate Barack with Saddam by any means, but having Obama’s picture plastered everywhere in a cult like status is really… creepy.

Even creepier: An old co-worker of mine told me he heard on the radio that Obama may be thinking of nominating John (S)kerry to the secretary of State position.

Even creepier than that: alleged audio soundbyte of Obama saying on NPR in 2004 that he would like to put a (possibly federal) ban on conealed carry permits. Being that I possess a concealed carry permit, I would truly not be pleased.

You Know How I Know You’re Gay? You Listen To Coldplay.

Ok, well not really, but the above headline was a funny line from the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin.
So, I am watching Saturday Night Live and who are the musical guests? None other than Coldplay, remember them? The show tonight (25 October) was especially funny, even the commercials were good; namely pro-McCain commericals and a hilarious one from Holiday Inn Express.

So, the SNL crew was giving Obama a few wacks, which was nice to see. But I knew something was up, I didn’t know what, but something. Sure enough, Coldplay comes on. The front man, Chris Martin, starts with the Used To Rule The World Song (I actually used to like that song) frolicking around with his bandmates wearing their ever so fluffy scarves and assorted adornments. He keeps pipping like a puppy into the mic. Odd. Second song… Ok, now I notice he is wearing a white armband with the words “Barack Obama” on it. Spare me. He made some statement about Nader last election, that did Nader wonders. After their third song Yellow, Chris Martin yells out a weak “Barack Obama” (apparently they had to throw back to when they were popular… I remember an Army coverband doing that song in Georgia back in 2002, haha the irony; Coldplay not favored among the US military now). But yes, he ends the song with a half-assed “Barack Obama” yelp. I mean come on, give me a friggin’ break. This band and many others like them are what Yuri Bezmenov refers to as “useful idiots”. Leave it to a foreign band (GB) who can’t vote to come to our country and endorse Obama like anybody really gives a shit.
I commented earlier about this useful idiot in response to his article in Rolling Stone, where he claimed he only liked Americans who voted for the ax-faced weasel John “three month tour” Kerry. I couldn’t imagine any American rock band going over to Europe and even THINKING about endorsing some European candidate (granted most Americans wouldn’t know or care). What Coldplay and other Europeans don’t quite comprehend is that Obama is not quite in their best interest were he to become president; he would most likely tank our free market even more, scare the bejesus more out of Wall Street investors, and certainly won’t be one to help Europe in combatting radical Islamic terrorists.

But yes folks there we have it, Coldplay, who aren’t even Americans looking for friends with a little Barack-Rock. Fail.

What You Can Expect At A Barack Obama And Joe Biden Rally… Well, Sort Of

What you can expect at an Obama Biden Rally…

Think beyond the headline…

There have been allegations about some person saying “terrorist” and “kill him” (referring to Obama) at a McCain/Palin rally. Thanks to the biased MSM and Internet, this has now been turned into “all people at McCain rallies are bigots”. It turns out however, according to the Secret Service, nobody said “kill him” (or they’d HAVE to follow up on it), and in reality the accusations about people who attend McCain rallies are patently false. But the damage is already done.

Now, I am a solid McCain supporter, both in policies and character, and I am truly sick and tired of how some on the left distort the facts concerning McCain and Palin. They do this by taking bits of truth, distorting it, taking it out of context, seizing on the most negative aspect and then amplifying that.

Sometimes the most damaging is not what is said, but what ISN’T said, whereby events are presented without other events that influenced or provided necessary context.

Newspapers (i.e. New York Times) will often write a salacious headline on the front page if it aligns with their ideology. If it does not, they will bury it or a retraction thereof on page 16, where most people don’t bother looking. Do you think you will see a retraction about who said what at a McCain rally from most major newspapers? No. And if so, it will be buried.

So…for those of you who think this video makes Obama supporters look bad and/or don’t believe the vastly pro-Obama media would ever purposely distort things, you are in luck. You followed my advice: “Think beyond the headline”, and you read on.

The truth of the matter is, this video is not actually from an Obama rally at all, it was taken from an anti-war rally almost 4 years ago. The headline states “What you can expect at…”. This is of course misleading, but I never actually stated it was an actual Obama rally, just made it so the viewer would draw that conclusion (it may well be safe to assume these guys would now be Obama supporters, though). Moreover, what you don’t see is a small Israeli flag some guy off-camera is holding up, which is getting the fat guy in the white shirt very upset and prompts the Black Panther guy to chant “F**K Israel” (there were people there threatening to burn the American flag though). The video was also uploaded at a low resolution so you can’t clearly read the protest signs, which would give any contextual timeframe. The above description is unnecessarily long making the truth about it listed at the bottom “buried on page 16″.

Do I feel guilty about this? No. This type of misleading information about McCain happens every day. The only difference is I am actually revealing the full story.

October Surprise; Obama Not Born In The USA?

Here is an interesting video. Now, I am not sure whether I believe all of it, but it sounds fishy. The guy being interviewed could be motivated if he were a Hillary supporter. Nevertheless, something just doesn’t click right when 3 family members each think Barack was born in a different hospital, especially when one of them is in Kenya.

Biden doesn’t know about the VP’s job!

I am surprised Biden didn’t refer to Russia as the Soviet Union and the Internet as “the information superhighway”…

Biden missed the mark big time describing the VP’s responsibilities, yet the news media reported that Palin got it wrong.
After all those years in Washington what has he learned?

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D.C. Teachers to Receive Merit Pay

As they say, those you can do, those who can’t teach. I used to want to be a teacher, but was dismayed by low wages and low expectations. Hopefully proposals such as this will alter the truth of the latter and the perception of the former.

October 7, 8:03 PM
by Melanie Harmon, D.C. Politics Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/x-1166-DC-Politics-Examiner~y2008m10d7-DC-Teachers-to-Receive-Merit-Pay

Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Petition Banning Water

Here is a really funny video that shows you how some people just want to feel good about banning stuff. In this instance a petition was passed around a left-winger rally asking participants to help ban dihydrogen monoxide aka H2O aka water. Now, I used to listen to Penn’s radio program before they the local radio station canceled it. Penn would sometimes go a bit too far with his atheism stuff, but he is generally a fair guy and Libertarian; I have no problem with reason, and as this clip shows a lot of “environmentalists” are very lacking thereof.

Children Sing About Obama and Change, Pyongyang Style

Yes, perhaps this remix is full of hyberbole, but you can’t deny the eerie feeling you get seeing children encouraged by adults to sing about “change” for political motives…

Activists Talk Love, Not War, With Iranian President

Yes, “activist” is gradually becoming synonymous with “idiot”.

Freedom Rocker Mahmoud

Left-wingers meet with Ahmedinejad in New York to propose a peace park in Iran. In unrelated news Codepink co-founder Evans is having trouble getting a visa; Evans is Jewish.
You just can’t make more naive people than this. Codepink mocks our troops yet wants to make nice with a gay-executing, woman stoning, Embassy raiding holocaust denie.

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Chevy Chase Wants Tina Fey to ‘Decimate’ Palin

Chevy Chase, the man who has not been funny since 1989

Chevy Chase said Monday he wants Tina Fey to go “even harder” on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin than she did in her “Saturday Night Live” skit this past weekend … and that he wants Fey to “decimate” her.

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ABC Misrepresents Palin Quote in “Holy War” Question

Millions of TV viewers who watched ABC News
’ interview with Sarah Palin Thursday night never saw her take issue with a key question in which she was asked if she believes that the U.S. military effort in Iraq is “a task that is from God.”

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McCain Chooses Sarah Palin As VP Pick

What can I say? When I heard McCain gave the VP nod to Sarah Palin I was ecstatic.  Iknew virtually nothing about her, but really liked the idea of having a woman on the ticket. That very day, co-workers who were for Obama claimed it was a serious indication that he was in trouble and he only did it to steal thunder from Obama. Well, in a way I agree with them. But so what? Fighting for the presidency of the USA has never been for the feint of heart and I personally think it was a smart move. After doing some research on Palin – who is as most will surely agree – a knock-out in the looks department, I was equally impressed: A gun totin’, moose eatin’, marathon runnin’ Alaska native. What’s more to love. I do, however, disagree with her slightly on the abortion issue. I am by any definition a pro-lifer, however, I would not be for outright banning all forms of abortion.  Were I ever in public office, I would advocate banning late term abortions, and by that I mean an abortion after 25 weeks where the fetus/baby would be able to sustain itself outside of the womb unless there is a threat to the mother’s life, I repeat life. As it stands now, any woman can claim she has a headache and get an abortion, even up until the child is fully formed. This is in part due to, I feel, criminal practitioners of medicine such as Dr. Tiller of Kansas, who performs on average 500 partial-birth abortions a year. The details of his practice are absolutely barbaric and may be a topic for a later date. Regardless, I am very excited for this presidential race. I think we have some great candidates and while I wish it were Summer all year round, I am anxiously awaiting November.

Angel Matos Banned For Life After Kicking Referee In The Face At A Beijing Olympics Taekwando Match

Here it is, the real video, no pictures. The commentary in French stated what was basically said other news reports (paraphrasing):  Matos was injured and is allowed only one minute. He becomes angry and then voila (he kicks him in the face) he continues his taekwando fighting. He was then banned for life from competing in Taekwando due to unsportsman-like conduct.

What’s almost as interesting is how this will play out, seeing that it was a Cuban (communist country) against a kazakh (former Soviet Union) in communist China.

 

Bush’s Popularity Seems to Benefit From Success of Troop Surge

Should I be surprised this story only made it on Fox news? No.  I am used to it now. I won’t go into details of why or how, but I got a chance to meet President Bush for the second time last week. It’s just hard for me to imagine that some people out there, even Americans, think he some reincarnation of Hitler. It’s just ridiculous. For all his faults, and we all have them, I will miss him when he is out of office and i told him just that. While I have criticized him (privately to myself and others on blog posts) for not defending himself and his policies better, he has always maintained that he will let history judge his presidency. I truly think he believes that. And despite hurting at the polls due to a lack of rigorous PR campaigns, and other headaches, I do believe history will judge him much better than he is being judged currently. It takes awhile for biases and emotions to subside, but in the end I am almost certain that his policies for pushing freedom and democracy, as self-flagellating as they have often been, will not be for naught.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409150,00.html

The Power of Online Community Complaints Is Stronger than Consumer Reports: Don’t Buy A Warranty From Stainsafe

You gotta love the power of the people. One of the great equalizers in the consumer market is the ability to review products for free online. This is one of the greatest things about the internet, for people believe people more than they believe companies. Just today, I had a very bad experience with a very shoddy company called Stainsafe. I felt somewhat better when I realized I was one of MANY who had gotten suckered by this furniture warranty “company”. Here is a review I left on a great complaint database website called www.complaintsboard.com:

 

“Today, just today!!! Stainsafe totally hoodwinked me.  A leather sofa I purchased from Belmont Furniture in Sterling, VA developed a small tear in one of the seat cushions. I had, foolishly, purchased a warranty with stainsafe, so I called them. No answer…  kept trying, finally I got somebody. I called right after it happened, which is good because they have a small print clause saying if you don’t call with 5 days, the warranty for that particular incident is null and void. I was then instructed to fax over all documents, including sales receipt etc… I did so. About 3 weeks later, yes 3 weeks!! I recevied a phone call telling me a repairman would be out to see it on August 8, which was another 3 weeks away; no e-mail, no nothing just over the phone. On August 7th I received another phone call saying the repairman would be out between 1 and 4 on Friday August 8th. I had to work, so I left the key out. At 3:10 PM I get a phone call saying he will be at the house in half an hour and that I HAD to be there. So I left work which takes 30-45 minutes to get back (depending on DC traffic). On the way there at 3:40 I get a phone call (actual number shows up conveniently as UNAVAILABLE on caller ID) saying that the repairman has been waiting for 45 minutes. How is that mathematically possible? I told her I was almost there. She then puts me on hold and said the repairman was now late to his next appointment, was leaving and that I would have to reschedule. After some back and forth she was getting rude with me and I told her I left work 3 hours early to drive all the way back home and now he was LEAVING? I then said, “this is ridiculous, you know what forget about it, I’ll just fix the GD thing myself”.  Of course, she didn’t hear me say this… she had already HUNG UP ON ME!
Haha, I mean this company is so pathetic it is indeed laughable. I will never, EEEVER, buy any warranty these morons again. Judging from all the complaints, they need to be sued for this type of highway robbery, but, alas, there is nothing I can really do except complain on this forum and hope others don’t buy their “services.” Belmont Furniture should also cease to deal with these rip-off artists.”

Chinese Man Vince Weiguang Li Beheads Man on Greyhound Bus

Most have heard the gruesome story about a male, 40 year-old, Chinese immigrant named Vince Weiguang Li,  who calmly stabbed and beheaded a fellow passenger while aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba. Later reports indicated that the murderer taunted police with the victim’s severed head, desecrated the body further, and ate the victim’s flesh. As if that wasn’t enough, the murderer was found to have pieces of the victim’s face in his pocket. This is a heinous and grisly event to be sure, but what I wonder about most is not that a man could do something so heinous, I mean terrorists do this in groups and videotape it sans the cannibalism, but the fact that nobody did anything about it. Now, I know the argument against getting involved has its merits, but nevertheless, what is wrong with people today that they are so disconnected from others? Were they scared, disgusted, confused? I am sure they were, but the man had a knife (albeit large) but not a gun. Eyewitness accounts state that Li was cutting up the victim as if he were “at the beach.” Why the hell didn’t somebody try to stop him. It doesn’t matter if he may have already been dead, you don’t allow somebody to desecrate a body like that. Li could have been overpowered within seconds of the blood curdling scream. His back must have been towards the passengers during this savagery, why in the world didn’t somebody tackle him, throw something at him, hit him with the fire extinguisher aboard all Greyhound buses? Be that as it may, what i find worse is that the police turned it into a hostage situation. What hostage situation? When this whack job comes to the front of the bus holding a severed head, there is no hostage. They should have lit him up right there. If I were the family, I would be absolutely outraged. Bottom line is this, people need to be vigilant of themselves and others around them no matter how safe they think they are. I have ridden many a Greyhound bus when I was younger. Were I ever to do it again for a long stretch, you better believe I’d be packing. Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/08/03/mba-busbeheading.html

Obama Seeking Presidency in Europe?

I have to admit, I like Barak Obama. I don’t like his political stances or his waffling, but he is hard not to like. I will also admit that I probably like him more because he is half African American.  Is this wrong? I don’t really care at this point. But, yes, I like the idea that a minority could make it so far. But in a less attractive vein, I also like it because it will make Jackson-esque race-baiting poltitics almost a thing of the past. It wouldn’t solve all racial problems, no, of course not. But when accusations of “racism” float around, such as “the white man wants to keep the black man down”, it just won’t hold the same amount of water it used to. Would I ever vote for him? Not in a million years. But there is something intriguing about a minority front runner, I just wish that person were a Republican.  Nevertheless, Obama excudes a pleasant duality. There is, however, an inherent danger with this, for nobody can please everybody all the time.  Take his recent trip around the world for example. He was greeted like a rock star. Europe loved him. Thousands upon thousands greeted him in Germany (yes, true, there was a rock concert beforehand so the numbers are a bit misleading); hell, I wouldn’t be surprised to see camera phone videos of him being shuffled around the crowd after stage diving. Here is the problem: Barak Obama is not running for the president of Europe and his recent trip has probably turned some potential American voters off. Europeans may like him not only because he is young, fresh and not Bush, but also because they feel he has their interests at heart. But when you are the president of the greatest, most powerful country on earth, believe me, people want to see you fail, and you can guarentee your interests are not in their hearts; people tend to dislike their rich uncle, it’s what the australians dub “the tall poppy syndrome”. Be that as it may, I have a strong, and I mean strong feeling that if he is elected president, the reality of how dangerous the world really is, and how our supposed allies do in fact stab us in the backs, it is going to literally shock his hair grey. When tough, Bush diplomacy is calling, and Obama needs to make tough decisions, I hope he has the audacity to break a few hearts and disappoint some of his new-found, international friends.

Post About A comment To A Post

Here is something new, a post about a comment to a post. The following was a comment left by left coast native ”Smokey” in reference to the “San Franciscans Want to Put President Bush’s Name in the Toilet” post.

Well I certainly agree most of the reeking bacteria are clinging to the Bush mafia, mercenaries and his clotted wake. It is a mazing how stupid the people are supporting him and his stench. I do not support him under any conditions. You could basically say he has deposited our nations future in the toilet with alot of bad gassing off and lying. I would not be surprised if mr. Bushkin were slathered all over in filth such as treason, war crimes, false flag ops, theft, deception, murder, and mayhem, riding him down and miring his party and supporters in the dungheap of histroy.

 Call me crazy, but I have a hunch this guy didn’t vote for Bush.  Since I am not a liberal and thus have a sense of humor, let’s deconstruct this comment for fun:

Well I certainly agree most of the reeking bacteria are clinging to the Bush mafia, mercenaries and his clotted wake.

I don’t know who the Bush mafia is, didn’t even know he was Sicilian. I think the mercenaries comment is an ill-informed reference to DoD contractors. Mercenaries are hired to fight in foreign wars for foreign governments not their own, so they aren’t mercenaries. DoD contractors are overwhelmingly US military veterans who are hired to fill security functions and other tasks such as driving trucks, logisitcs, engineering and other duties not able to be filled by the military. To counter this, the US would have to double the size of its military, or – what I prefer – not respond to any help when asked, which is what got us into the Iraq mess in the first place when the US was invited there in 1991 to drive Saddam out of Kuwait. Regardless, while there are always a few bad apples, I am sure contractor’s families such as those who witnessed their husbands and dads burnt to a crisp and hung from a bridge would appreciate the oft spoken “Mercenary” insult. And clotted wake? No idea what that means, perhaps he is referring to bloody stool? 

It is a mazing how stupid the people are supporting him and his stench. I do not support him under any conditions.

I believe “a mazing” is an indefinite verbal noun, stemming from the verb “to maze”. And not supporting him under any condition clearly signifies that Smokey doesn’t support the increased NIH budget, the appointment of the most minorities to a presidential cabinet, appointment of the highest ranking black female, lower taxes, the billions sent to Africa, the removal of the Taliban, the compliance of Libya to disarm, the compliance of North Korea to destroy its nukes, and the removal of Saddam Hussein.

You could basically say he has deposited our nations future in the toilet with alot of bad gassing off and lying.

True, Bush is quite the liar. For example he lied about… wait what did he lie about? WMD? Nope every other nation thought the same thing, plus small amounts of bio and undeclared production material was eventually found. Yellow cake from Niger? Nope, that proved to be true, just ask the Brits. The leaking of Valerie Plame’s name? Nope, that was actually Richard Armitage from State not Rove. Bush did put our nation in the toilet though, for example we haven’t even had a terrorist attack in 7 years against the homeland, aircraft or embassies, I mean come on, where is the fun in that? Incidently, that happens to be the longest stretch since the seventies that our country, interests or embassies have not been hit by a terror attack. Hmmm, that fact must surely be attributable the Democrats and their tough stance on terrorism and regimes supporting them.

I would not be surprised if mr. Bushkin were slathered all over in filth such as treason, war crimes, false flag ops, theft, deception, murder, and mayhem, riding him down and miring his party and supporters in the dungheap of histroy.

Treason? I think that word would be reserved for Jose Padilla, a former gang banger turned Muslim convert who was planning on detonating a dirty bomb in Washington DC, or for people who leaked sensitive govt. secrets to protect Americans, or to a lesser extent Sandy Berger who stole classified material in order to protect information from the Clinton era. How did he steal it? Well he shoved it in his socks and underwear of course. War crimes? Like what? killing foreign fighters in Iraq who slowly decapitate living humans for the video camera and who recruit kids and mentally ill women to blow themsleves up? False flag ops? Is that a reference to 9/11 conspiracies? Yup, there’s a credible theory. Murder? so… I assume that refers to the military, and George Bush ordered them to “murder” people. Well, that would implicate all of congress as well because as most intelligent people know, the president can’t blow his nose without congressional approval and oversight. Since I was in the military at the time, I must be a murderer too.  

The GOP in the dungheap of history? Well, we ended slavery, fascism, communism, the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and have great former presidents such as: Ford, Reagan, and Bush senior. Whereas the Democrats do nothing but fool people into thinking they need them and their government handouts, They got us into Vietnam, totally failed in the Iran hostage situation, and pulled out prematurely from Somalia, further encouraging Bin Ladin. They have one great president JFK, who, were he still alive, would be considered a neo-con. A neo-con refers to a former democrat who felt that the GOP’s former adherence to isolationism needed to be altered in the wake of the holocaust. The other presidents are Carter – probably the worst president in a 100 years- and Bill Clinton. Who actually was a liar, has been accused of rape, harrassment, fraud, purgery and you name it. Oh yes and there was that whole sex with a 23 year old in the Oval Office thing. Wheeeeww, thank God for George W. Bush and his lovely wife Laura to restore some dignity to the White House. By the way, I met both Bush senior and his son the president briefly, neither of them smell.

In closing, some college aged kids like to refer to conservatives as right-wing fascists. Problem with that is, is that the USA helped crush fascism, and Republicans never received any endorsement from a fascist regime. Many far left members of the Democratic parties did embrace communism and socialism, however and was seen by the soviets as the lesser of two evils. The Soviets were very, very successful in combatting the USA by spreading half-truths and lies about capitalism, faux imperialism and other hyperbole throughout Europe and third world countries.

I detail these active measures by the CCCP in my main blog:

www.usnavyvet2002.blogspot.com

Obama Staffer Asks Two Veiled Muslim Women to Move Who Were Sitting Behind Him During Televised Speech

Depiction of similar event

 

Perhaps you haven’t heard the story mentioned in the title. Apparently just that happened, because the Obama campaign felt it would make him look bad to have two Muslim women sitting behind him. I saw a discussion about this on a left-wing blog. All of the commenters on there said nary a word about how sleazy that looks, instead what did they do?  Well it was the “right-wing” media of course. Yes folks, the media is so hostile towards Obama that a campaign staffer felt they had to remove the ladies for fear of retribution. What absolute hogwash. Here is the comment I left on that blog:

 

“So let me get this straight… an Obama staffer asked two Muslim women to move because it would “look” bad, and somehow instead of chastising the campaign staff for what I would perceive as prejudiced, you all are blaming the right wing media. Spare me.

Could somebody please tell me what the “right-wing” media is?

In the Blue corner we have: NBC, ABC and CBS nightly news, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Seattle Intelligencer, The Los Angeles Times, The Tribune, Baltimore Sun and every other major newspaper, Late Night Talk Shows, The Daily Show, Hollywood, Hollywood movies, the music industry, University professors, Lawyers, teacher unions, Newsweek, Time, The Nation, the two biggest blogs: Huffington Post and Daily Kos etc… All of which are in the tank for Obama.

In the red corner: FNC, the Washington Times, and most of talk radio.

Whoa, stop the presses! Obama doesn’t stand a chance of getting a fair break. Get real.

If Obama is afraid of the “right wing” media, then he won’t stand a chance against real enemies like Chavez, Medev, Ahmedinejad, UBL, Zawahiri, Castro, Kim Jong Il et al.

It truly baffles me how when looking through this blog just about every talking point is regurgitating anti-capitalist doctrine that the Soviets used against us in their influence and active measure campaigns: The USA is racist, imperialist, and hell-bent on world domination through exploiting the world’s poor, to name a few. Do any of you people ever take America’s side or is that too gauche?

I tell you what though, had it been two Muslim women standing behind John McCain they would have been welcomed, because it signals that the GOP is inclusionary… I guess perhaps the Democrats aren’t as friendly to other ethnicities and religions as I had thought. Then again, I am not surprised, The Democratic Party was the pro-slavery party after all.

USNAVYVET2002 (a vet not being exploited by the left)

p.s. I was stop-lossed too, and you don’t see me sniveling about it trying to make money. To all the vets out there who have jumped on this anti-american bandwagon, I knew your type while serving, you guys were nothing but whiners and blame shifters who just couldn’t hack it. Most of you are hiding behind whatever short tour you did in the service to get credibility. Just like John Kerry, who wrote his own recommendation for medals and asked to be sent home after 3 months in Vietnam, you guys all signed on the dotted line. Nobody put a gun to your head. If you want to look at a real Navy hero look at Kennedy, George H. W. Bush and of course John McCain. He had the option to go home early after being beaten near death but he stayed because he knew it would be propaganda fuel used against him. Kerry would have never/never done that.”

Coldplay Frontman Chris Martin’s Naïveté Thinking Obama Will Transform America’s Image

While looking around a local Blockbuster, I came across the newest addition of Rolling Stone. I saw Chris Martin on the cover. I really loved Coldplay’s first album. I bought it while serving in the military and wore it out, it was great work and a lot of military folks I knew loved them. But then they got too full of themselves and started on this, typical for “artists”, slide into left-leaning, activist politics. I am the type that won’t go and watch a Sean Penn or Susan Sarandon movie because of their BS anti-American antics; same goes for CD’s. At any rate, when Coldplay’s new song was being advertised on TV, I really liked the video and the song stuck in my head. I bought that song off of itunes, but being the stubborn guy I am, who makes statements with my wallet, I wanted to research and see if the CD was more of the same activist drivel.

Back to Rolling Stone… I flipped to the article in the store telling myself if he doesn’t bash Bush or the war I will buy the CD. After reading through half of it, my mind was made up. Here are some highlights:

X&Y got some mixed reviews, but the harshest was from the New York Times, which called Coldplay the most insufferable band of the decade. How did you handle that?
It was a big deal. It’s the first real attack on your band, and from a publication we all respect.

“We all respect…” The New York Times. The NYT being the most biased liberal newspaper around, who is jeopardizing their journalistic credibility by openly rooting for Obama. Strike one.

On the first single, “Violet Hill,” you sing about a fox becoming a god and a “carnival of idiots on show.” Was the song inspired by Fox News?
No one’s got that before, no one in the band, no one. The first line in that song is the first line of any song we ever wrote. Years ago, when Guy [Berryman, bassist] heard that first line and that first little melody — “It was a long and dark December” — he said, “OK, I’ll join the band.” But we just didn’t have the other 49 lines until last year. And then one day I was watching Bill O’Reilly, and I was like, “I know how to finish that song.”
My best friend, Tim, he’s a musician in a band called the High Wire, but he also has to work in a bar. He was having trouble with his boss, and it made me think that so many people spend their lives being told what to do by people that they just don’t like. So it was that idea, and watching Bill O’Reilly, and all these words just came out.

Oh boy. Big strike two. I watch Bill O’Reilly every night. Foxnews may be the most conservative leaning news channel out there, but so what? Apparently it is ok to bash and demonize a differing viewpoint in liberal land. It’s old, and it’s sad. But It is no wonder the left hates FNC when they beat the competition of CNN and MSNBC combined. Still, O’Reilly can rub people the wrong way so I am still hoping to make it through, giving Coldplay the benefit of the doubt.

It does speak to the state of the world.
And it’s fucking true, man. You can see it everywhere. It’s like, when are we going to learn? We’re never going to learn, is the answer. It’s an ultimate bummer, and the last humans on Earth will really kick themselves. You and I are living in the time when revenge is the most dangerous thing, because the stakes are so high and the weaponry is so advanced.

Do you see any reason for hope?
As soon as Barack Obama becomes president, people will be a bit more optimistic. If Obama was to be president, it would immediately change the whole outside world’s opinion of America overnight. America’s public image at the moment is really bad. And it’s a bummer, because over half of Americans are the coolest people on the planet. But they’ve been so misrepresented.

Do you think he can win?
I do. But I think that, really, the fair thing would be, in electing the American president, to let everyone in the world vote, because it affects all of us. If there was a world vote, there’s no question who would win. No question. Of course, Barack Obama is human like the rest of us. He’s going to fuck up. But I’m just trying to look on the bright side. What’s the point of being negative? Where does that get us? It gets you your own radio chat show, but it doesn’t really do anything for the world.

 

Uh oh! Strike three baby. I mean this is so sophmoric on so many levels. “Revenge”? I think the word Mr. Martin should have used is justice, not revenge. I don’t expect a musician to really understand the geopolitical nature of the world, but I mean come on. We got rid of the Taliban who used to stone people to death and shoot women dead execution style in the middle of a soccer game, in the middle of the Kabul Soccer Stadium. Where is Chris Martin’s voice on that? I don’t remember any songs speaking out against this barbaric behavior. The Afghans now have hope, and can finally fly kites taboot. And don’t even get me started on Iraq. That has been a target of anti-American propaganda from day one. Abu Ghraib gets 57 front page stories from the New York Times, yet when things improve.. crickets. Could they be any more calculated? 

“If Obama was to be president, it would immediately change the whole outside world’s opinion of America overnight.”

Chris seriously, this is comical. When or if, rather, Obama is elected, people will still dislike us. If Americans, or in his case, quasi-Americans don’t feel comfortable at their cocktail-sip parties in Paris, tough. Europeans stopped having a need to like us after the Soviet Union fell. After Russian ascends from the ashes to take over the continent once again, I say let them have it.

And… “over half of Americans are the coolest people on the planet”? Ok, I got it, if you voted for Bush then you are uncool. Well, the man has made some misteps to be sure, but he is also responsible for crushing al-Qaeda, removing Saddam Hussein, removing the Taliban, giving billions of aid to Africa, improving national test scores, almost doubling the NIH budget, giving tax incentives for hybrid vehicles, lowering taxes in general, and lowering crime. If making tough, and I mean TOUGH decisions to protect America makes you uncool, then I want to be uncool. Let’s not forget the USA has not/not been attacked in 7 years. Oh, they’ve tried, but they haven’t and for all the mud Bush gets flung at him, he deserves credit at least for that.

And this doozy…”Let everybody in the world vote”. Right. Let’s let everybody in the world vote, because the world is a fair and decent place, where nobody wants to see America defeated. Spare me.

And finally:

“Of course, Barack Obama is human like the rest of us. He’s going to fuck up. But I’m just trying to look on the bright side. What’s the point of being negative? Where does that get us? It gets you your own radio chat show, but it doesn’t really do anything for the world.”

So, if Obama fucks up it’s because he is human. But if Bush fucks up… Am I missing something here?

I also like the little jab he takes at talk radio. All this guy is doing is regurgitating liberal talking points, yet he espouses to think for yourself.  “What’s the point of being negative”? I hate to break it to him, but perhaps he hasn’t noticed that the Democratic party and the left in general consist of the, and I mean THE, most negative, underhanded, whiners in the face of American politics. They have come forth with no good ideas of their own, just negativity and cynicism. That is why congress has an approval rating 10% lower than President, and you can’t get much lower than his approval rating, fair or not. Obama isn’t going to change diddly unless he is prepared to make tough decisions and follow through with them. His first decision should be to let the American voters know what he stands for,  and Chris would be better off sticking to drawing “fair trade” slogans on his hand.

Don’t take my baby Alex!!!

For anybody who wants a quick lesson in modern propaganda. Please feast your eyes upon this work of art. In it, a mother tells the camera that McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years and that he can’t take Alex from her. I know she was referring to when he is older, but maybe she and moveon.org should remember that there isn’t a draft anymore, nor will there be. They should also know that McCain’s statement about Iraq was something we here on earth call: hyperbole.

Tim Russert 1950-2008

I still can’t believe it. Along with Joe Lieberman, Mr. Russert was one of my favorite Democrats. I didn’t watch his show religiously, but if I were watching MSNBC it would be his show that would have had the power to draw me there. One thing that a lot of people are saying now is that not only was he an excellent journalist but he was fair. Fairness is something squarely missing in today’s political realm. Mr. Russert was the kind of guy who was left of center but tried to see both sides and certainly did his homework. His counterpart I believe would be Bill O’Reilly, who I would see as right of center, but tries to see both sides. Difference is of course, everybody likes Tim Russert. For “big Russ” to survive his son must be extremely difficult to take. Tim was a good man with a good heart. It is thus ironic that the part that made him what he is, also took him early. God bless him and his family, he and his journalistic integrity will be missed.

Barack vs McCain

Now, I have always been a fan of John McCain. I was rooting for him during the 2000 elections and was not exactly thrilled with Bush. That changed after 9/11, and I may be one of the few willing to admit that I hold President Bush in high regard and truly believe his policies have kept us terror attack free for 7 years. That being said, I have to admit: I like Barack Obama. Do I like his political stance? Probably not. The uncertainty in my writing has to do with the fact that I really don’t know what his political stance is. I have never seen a candidate receive such little scrutiny in my life, and that bothers me. Will I vote for McCain? Absolutely. WIth Senator McCain you know where he stands; what you see is what you get. Barack on the other hand… I have no idea. I am not so much worried about him, but  worried about the people he will surround himself with. He was smart to rid himself of Rev. Wright’s old church and the devicive sermons that went on there. That debacle was killing him. But what now? Hope and change make great bumper stickers and sound-bytes, but what do they mean? I have yet to see him make a decision on anything. and let me tell you, from my experience with the US governent, not making tough decisions may keep one afloat and please the folks in the short term, but in the long term it can be disasterous. Just look at Carter’s legacy.

Oddly enough, and this may come as a surprise, but in a weird sort of way, I almost want Barack to win. Reason being is simply fatigue. I am truly sick and tired of the bashing that goes on about anything conservative; I have never seen anything like this either. My theory is let the left have its way. It would rule Washington, and thus there is nobody to blame anymore. Another reason, and probably more important at that, for why part of me wants Barak in office is the fact that he is black. But this makes me wonder, will others vote for him just because he is black? Is that how a president should be chosen? Regardless, you can bank on one thing, if John McCain is  elected President, the anti-white race card that we bore wtiness to via Rev. Wright and Rev. Pfleger will be pulled over and over and over again. On the other hand, if Obama is elected it will be hard for “blacktivists” to keep blaming white people. For this reason and this reason alone, I think some folks in black leadership today do not, I repeat, do not want to see their raison d’etre dissolve. Warlords make money if there is war, ironically if the war they fight is over and done with, the validity of their existance comes into question. Such holds true for race-baiters who take any oppurtunity handed to them to downplay any advancement of African-Americans, lest their wares not need peddling anymore. Naturally I want to see John McCain win, but to look at it optimistically it is in many ways a win-win situation.

San Franciscans Want to Put President Bush’s Name in the Toilet

Present Commentary: Is it me or are liberals like this the most childish naive nabobs of negatism in the history of politics? I mean give me a friggin’ break here. How do they expect to be taken seriously when they do shit (no pun intended) like this? This may come as a surprise to some people, but we are trying to fight a war here. I know this war doesn’t effect cocktail-sip West Coast liberals, but the least they can do is shut up and let us win. Saying that Bush’s policies are akin to human waste is more than an oblique slap in the face to men and women fighting to eradicate a very hateful and violent ideological band of death-seekers. Degrading President Bush with 3rd grade antics won’t end the war any sooner.

Commentary were I 17 again: Ok, I admit I would find this pretty funny. Obama in 08!!!

Friday, May 09, 2008
Foxnews

The Oceanside Treatment Plant, which some San Franciscans would like to rename for President Bush. The Oceanside Treatment Plant, which some San Franciscans would like to rename for President Bush. A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco has launched a ballot initiative that would rename a city sewage treatment plant the “George W. Bush Sewage Plant.”

A petition is being circulated that would put the measure up for a vote in November. If it passes, it will rename the city’s Oceanside Treatment Plant for the 43rd president of the United States.

Republican Party spokesman Leo Lacayo said it’s just another move from
the “hate Bush crowd.”

“First of all, it’s insulting,” Lacayo said.
“Second of all, it demonstrates to what lows some people will reach in order to
oppose this president and the policies that have kept this country safe during
his mandate.”

Virginia-born activist and ordained minister John Rinaldi, a co-sponsor of the petition who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year under his nickname “Chicken John,” said the initiative would turn “every toilet in San Francisco into basically a shrine for George W. Bush and all his great achievements in his eight years as our commander in chief.”

Rinaldi — flush with pride about the idea — said renaming the plant is “the highest honor available to us.”

Organizers have collected around 1,100 of the more than 10,000 signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot in November. And while local Republicans call the effort a waste of time and money, they also say it has a good chance of winning if it gets on the ballot.

“Naturally, we’re going to fight it,” said Howard Epstein, the chairman of the city’s
Republican Party.

They call the move just another “crazy” idea from the “weirdo” transients who call San Francisco home.

The treatment facility, near the city’s zoo, processes about 17 million gallons of wastewater a day, which then is discharged into the Pacific Ocean.

Bush never has visited San Francisco, a city known for its liberal politics, during his term in office. He came close once, attending a fund-raiser just outside the city.

Lacayo said the initiative has nothing to do with Bush or the federal government and that someone would even float the idea is ridiculous.

“It’s a local cleaning plant for our own necessities,” he said, “and it’s just one more way of wasting money and the taxpayers’ time.”

Epstein promised to counter the campaign with mailers and media outreach if it qualifies for the ballot.

Rinaldi said no one should be pooh-poohing the petition.

“You may be thinking we’re kidding over here,” he said. “This is the best memorial that San Francisco is going to give to George Bush, and he should appreciate it for its face value, for exactly what it is. It’s actually the least we can do.”

As for what the White House thinks about the campaign: They’d be happy if the whole idea was just flushed down the toilet.

Said a spokeswoman: “It doesn’t dignify a comment.”

Microsoft Photosynth, Seadragon

This is truly incredible technology that, among other applications, allows users to synth. flickr photos off of a given tag to create a 3-D imagine. Truly amazing technology.

O’Reilly vs Clinton

Present commentary: Just a little short post here. While it may surprise no one that I am a Republican, I try to be as fair as possible. Last night I saw the conclusion of a two part interview Bill O’Reilly (big fan here) had with presidential candidate and Senator Hillary Clinton. It was truly a great interview. Granted, I don’t agree with many of her positions, but I will give credit where credit is due and say that she came across very well in said interview. I think the Democrats need to take a strong look at what both her and Barak have to offer. Barak comes across as vague yet diplomatic, whereas Hillary seems to be more focused yet polarizing. In an alternate universe, where I had only a choice between the two, I would probably cast my vote for Hillary.

Commentary were I 17 again: I hate this O’Reilly guy. My Social Studies teacher with a pony-tail told me he’s a Nazi.

Yet again, Another Example of President Bush Not Defending Himself Enough

Present commentary: Not to sound like an unabashed apologist for the Bush White House, which I undoubtedly will, but I have been saying this for years: the “Mission Accomplished” banner was not Bush’s idea. It was in fact a banner for the US Navy’s carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln, signifying that their (the ship’s) mission was over and accomplished, which for them was true. Hindsight being 20/20, was this a good idea? Absolutely not. War detractors pounced on this right away and used it to bash Bush over the head with repeatedly. Bottom line is, the administration has its own share of earned controversy for better or worse, so much so that there is no need to embellish things. What ever happened to benefit of the doubt.

Commentary were I 17 again: Bush lied soldiers died!

White House Admits It ‘Paid a Price’ for Mission Accomplished
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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Let’s…

 

Good news is often hard to come by out of Iraq. That is why this book is so important; it is not written by anybody with a particular agenda, he just writes what he sees. And what he sees is that there is a reason to be optimistic despite the turmoil.

Let’s ‘Surge’ Some More
By MICHAEL YON
April 11, 2008; Page A17

It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators – on both sides of the aisle – who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war we are fighting today.
I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war – and our part in it – at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous.
The change goes far beyond the statistical decline in casualties or incidents of violence. A young Iraqi translator, wounded in battle and fearing death, asked an American commander to bury his heart in America. Iraqi special forces units took to the streets to track down terrorists who killed American soldiers. The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq, and many Iraqi boys dream of becoming American soldiers. Yes, young Iraqi boys know about “GoArmy.com.”
As the outrages of Abu Ghraib faded in memory – and paled in comparison to al Qaeda’s brutalities – and our soldiers under the Petraeus strategy got off their big bases and out of their tanks and deeper into the neighborhoods, American values began to win the war.
Iraqis came to respect American soldiers as warriors who would protect them from terror gangs. But Iraqis also discovered that these great warriors are even happier helping rebuild a clinic, school or a neighborhood. They learned that the American soldier is not only the most dangerous enemy in the world, but one of the best friends a neighborhood can have.
Some people charge that we have merely “rented” the Sunni tribesmen, the former insurgents who now fight by our side. This implies that because we pay these people, their loyalty must be for sale to the highest bidder. But as Gen. Petraeus demonstrated in Nineveh province in 2003 to 2004, many of the Iraqis who filled the ranks of the Sunni insurgency from 2003 into 2007 could have been working with us all along, had we treated them intelligently and respectfully. In Nineveh in 2003, under then Maj. Gen. Petraeus’s leadership, these men – many of them veterans of the Iraqi army – played a crucial role in restoring civil order. Yet due to excessive de-Baathification and the administration’s attempt to marginalize powerful tribal sheiks in Anbar and other provinces – including men even Saddam dared not ignore – we transformed potential partners into dreaded enemies in less than a year.
Then al Qaeda in Iraq, which helped fund and tried to control the Sunni insurgency for its own ends, raped too many women and boys, cut off too many heads, and brought drugs into too many neighborhoods. By outraging the tribes, it gave birth to the Sunni “awakening.” We – and Iraq – got a second chance. Powerful tribes in Anbar province cooperate with us now because they came to see al Qaeda for what it is – and to see Americans for what we truly are.
Soldiers everywhere are paid, and good generals know it is dangerous to mess with a soldier’s money. The shoeless heroes who froze at Valley Forge were paid, and when their pay did not come they threatened to leave – and some did. Soldiers have families and will not fight for a nation that allows their families to starve. But to say that the tribes who fight with us are “rented” is perhaps as vile a slander as to say that George Washington’s men would have left him if the British offered a better deal.
Equally misguided were some senators’ attempts to use Gen. Petraeus’s statement, that there could be no purely military solution in Iraq, to dismiss our soldiers’ achievements as “merely” military. In a successful counterinsurgency it is impossible to separate military and political success. The Sunni “awakening” was not primarily a military event any more than it was “bribery.” It was a political event with enormous military benefits.
The huge drop in roadside bombings is also a political success – because the bombings were political events. It is not possible to bury a tank-busting 1,500-pound bomb in a neighborhood street without the neighbors noticing. Since the military cannot watch every road during every hour of the day (that would be a purely military solution), whether the bomb kills soldiers depends on whether the neighbors warn the soldiers or cover for the terrorists. Once they mostly stood silent; today they tend to pick up their cell phones and call the Americans. Even in big “kinetic” military operations like the taking of Baqubah in June 2007, politics was crucial. Casualties were a fraction of what we expected because, block-by-block, the citizens told our guys where to find the bad guys. I was there; I saw it.
The Iraqi central government is unsatisfactory at best. But the grass-roots political progress of the past year has been extraordinary – and is directly measurable in the drop in casualties.
This leads us to the most out-of-date aspect of the Senate debate: the argument about the pace of troop withdrawals. Precisely because we have made so much political progress in the past year, rather than talking about force reduction, Congress should be figuring ways and means to increase troop levels. For all our successes, we still do not have enough troops. This makes the fight longer and more lethal for the troops who are fighting. To give one example, I just returned this week from Nineveh province, where I have spent probably eight months between 2005 to 2008, and it is clear that we remain stretched very thin from the Syrian border and through Mosul. Vast swaths of Nineveh are patrolled mostly by occasional overflights.
We know now that we can pull off a successful counterinsurgency in Iraq. We know that we are working with an increasingly willing citizenry. But counterinsurgency, like community policing, requires lots of boots on the ground. You can’t do it from inside a jet or a tank.
Over the past 15 months, we have proved that we can win this war. We stand now at the moment of truth. Victory – and a democracy in the Arab world – is within our grasp. But it could yet slip away if our leaders remain transfixed by the war we almost lost, rather than focusing on the war we are winning today.

Mr. Yon is author of the just-published “Moment of Truth in Iraq” (Richard Vigilante Books). He has been reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan since December 2004.