Brain disorders continue in wake of Bush re-election

I guess some people think war is never justified, even while your enemy fires a bullet into your skull. I guess some people think Bush alone knew the WMD stockpiles wouldn't be found in spite of pre-war intelligence of our own and from numerous allies. I guess some people think a president should never rally the troops and citizenry when we are at war. I guess some people think Bush is the anti-christ (oh wait, that would presume they're somewhat religious, never mind). But I don't guess, I know, that some are still bitter and continue to put out completely skewed and illogical vitriolic crap because they are blinded by their hatred of Bush.

Take for example this conspiracy theory evil Bush piece by Mark Morford in SFGate (ok, well maybe this being a San Fran based operation explains it..but).

I looked at those pics....sure some are nasty, sad and awful....ok, so I suppose you think if you could even walk around with a camera pre-Saddam removal you would find smiling faces, flowers, a thriving economy, excellent education and healthcare and so on? I suppose you think the military allowing basically anybody who wants to show up in Iraq (press, celebs, etc.) and all the embedded reporters is masterfully run is like the fake landing on the moon? This is the most open and information heavy military action ever in history.....if the military wanted to (and I would be for it) they could have never allowed a single press person into Iraq.

Give me a break...if you assembled pics of the murders, assaults and generally crime of one individual causing harm every day in the US and just for one day it would look just as bad. So what! To say that anybody thinks this war, or any war, is a well oil and executed operation is pretending there is someone out there to disagree with. The republican base and those who voted for Bush don't think that....they don't all even like that we did it...but we did, so first do it right and finish the job...second find the positives that can come from it.

My buddy Mike shot this article to me and found some quotes that Morford made in various interviews....I think this one shows his colors....the standard elite leftist mantra that to disagree with his views and have supported Bush you must be a knuckle dragging dolt homophobe racist.

A particularly pointed anti-Bush anti-war column will get me gobs of sneering hate mail, mostly from the delirious, hardcore psychopatriots at freerepublic.com or lucianne.com or andrewsullivan.com, et al, where they post chunks of my column in their discussion forums, along with my e-mail address, and encourage each other to flame me, usually in the cutest sort of monosyllabic, ragingly homophobic, horribly syntaxed, misspelled sort of way. Makes me proud to be an American. My girlfriend loves the anti-SF gay-bashing they aim my way, I might add

Tiny's Readers, Help me understand!

I did my first post yesterday that included AIDS and gays in the topic...wow, a flood of comments? So what's up with that? Clearly I have some readers that are to the left of me on some topics and yet nobody felt strongly about "And Yet More Insanity"? Those of you who worry about home land security efforts and how it could affect civil liberties, our treatment of prisoners of war, or profiling in law enforcement, blah, blah....but are you fine with our education system rewriting or suppressing our very own history? What the &*#$ gives?

Negotiations or Military Action in Iran?

Iran is heating up....supposedly working on delivery mechanisms that could reach EU.....Suicide commando units forming that pledge suicide bomb attacks on Americans and Israelis. It will be interesting to see what response we see from our UN Oil For Food conspirators in Europe on this! If this goes military we HAVE to have a coalition that isn't so US heavy as we are already stretched thin.....lets hope this fizzles.

CNN's allegiance lies where?

You may have seen the story yesterday that originated in the LA Times about how the military purposely gave false information to a reporter about when the action in Falujja started. The supposed purpose was to gauge and understand the reaction on the ground by the enemy and CNN was happy to use its signal to inform the terrorist insurgents that they should run and hide, or load their weapons for American troops were on there way. Interesting that CNN (or anyone) seems to think that essentially warning the enemy was ok, but if that warning was false their having been duped by the US Military in an effort against an enemy is questioned. You have to wonder how things would be in America if the US media didn't participate in the disinformation broadcast during WWII?

Gays Get AIDS On Purpose

The title of this post might get me some flaming, but I don't care. A federal study released today shows AIDS cases rising among gay and bisexual men. It also says that these men account for the majority of the approximately 900,000 Americans with reported cases of AIDS. But the main point I want to make here is the rise in cases among this group. I thought the gay community wanted us to believe they are just like me...caring, loving people with family values and in monogamous relationships...just with the same sex. Well Bullshit! Its clear that the gay sex orgies, bath houses and just plain promiscuous lifestyle of the gay community that they claim is an invalid stereotype is alive and well. These people know the risks, but clearly they choose to ignore it...for all I know there's a unspoken badge of honor in the gay community when your infected. The total disregard for many things good, decent and normal is appalling.

It's also interesting that the study found that since 1990 blacks who only represent 13% of the population for this period make up 51.3% of all HIV and AIDS cases diagnosed in the same period. I'm not sure what that tells us....would be curious to see what people suggest is the reason for this BIG TIME anomaly!

UDPATE 1: My buddy Kurt just shot me a link to a Rolling Stone article that validates my hunch on the badge of honor. Get ready to learn about Bug Chasers....sick bastards!

UPDATE 2: Kurt comes thru again with a story that may be one of the reasons for the numbers in the black community.

And yet more insanity!

First, its common knowledge that the California public school system is dominated by leftist and there are few if any arguments that those in the media are not of the same color. Case in point, the Cupertino California 5th grade school teacher who has been barred from using all of, or portions of, our very own Declaration of Independence because the word (you guessed it) "god" appears in the document. Now, I could go off for a thousand words at the complete lunacy behind this.....but my head hurts so lets just ask a few questions. So how do you teach US history without looking at, reading and talking about this document? How can you possibly justify not? Why would a historical document and HISTORY ITSELF somehow offend anyone or cross a church and state line? When you were in grade or high school do you even remember the context of the word "god" in early American historical documents or writings of the time? Of course not, they didn't preach or sway...they just reflected the beliefs of those involved in creating our history.

Then there is the lack of media coverage of this insanity. The number of Google hits on this story is paltry. It should be huge news and cause at a minimum every Bush voter outrage. I think it also proves (at least to me) that those who are terrified of the word "god" especially in this context and agree with the action taken against the teacher are just down right America hatters and something akin to communists. I also lump in the media...look at the San Jose Mercury News story title from the link above....wouldn't YOU write the headline as "Public School Bars Use of Declaration of Independence in class" Isn't that the story? But while all of these MF'rs are in fact America hatters they think they are patriots in supposedly not offending anyone and in their sick minds acting as the protectors of the church and state boundary the original framers had in mind.....these folks need to not be teaching or infecting our youth!

More Christmas without the word!

While watching the news this morning before heading to work I saw a Jack In The Box commercial which is set in what I guess is suppose to be their headquarters. People are all walking around the office with hats that all have to do with Christmas (santa hats, hats with antlers, etc.) as each person greets another they all say "hey Good Holiday Spirit"...you see Jack on some hat and then the commercial ends with the usual take out bag dropping onto a table and its what they call a reindeer ball on the bag instead of their logo. No balls in corporate America anymore...but really, do those who don't believe Jesus was the son of God automatically feel like their being given a religious message if you use the word Christmas but they don't even with all the decorations that are synonymous with Christmas but you avoid the word? I don't think so...IDIOTS!

Christmas is not PC?????

Ok, now I'm ticked off.....on the radio while driving to work I heard a local talk show host say that what was in the past called a Christmas Tree Lighting in the city of Folsom CA is called a Holiday Tree Lighting this year. While it bothered me that any city would bow to this obviously politically correct move I thought well it's just Folsom (famous for pretty much a nasty prison). Then I decided to do a Google search on "holiday tree lighting"....GOOD GOD (yes God)....now I didn't check all 1.5m hits the search returns but you can just page thru city after city across the country who think a tree with lights on it is not JUST ABOUT CHRISTMAS. That's right...you know the Christian feast commemorating the birth of Jesus!!

I can see the leftist politically correct couple taking their kids to the Holiday Tree Lighting at the town square; child: gee dad what's this holiday tree about? dad: well son, ah um, you see its sort of a time to rejoice and be thankful.... child: that's sounds like Thanks Giving dad...the only holiday I have heard of that decorates and puts lights on a tree and has something to do with Dec 25th is CHRISTMAS...dad!!!!!

This is just insane.......do people who are going to the fricken Christmas (because it's not a holiday or festivus tree for that matter) tree lightings think they are celebrating a Muslim event? A Buddhist one? Go get your own holiday you idiots...and I expect your asses at work on 12/25.

The NBA, Precursor to Incarceration

Starting around 4 years ago I pretty much stopped watching, or paying attention to, all professional sports (well, except golf). The NFL, MLB and NBA have become a joke with the leadership and team owners essentially dropping all measure of human decency in favor of W's. The NBA is really the biggest villian here with scouts and sports/shoe company sponsored schools tarketing poor black communities trying to find the next Michael Jordan with only lip service to anything other than b-ball skills. The black community leaders (who exactly are they) should be outraged at the complete lack of values (decency, family, education, good will, etc.) that the music and sports world directly promotes, or indirectly does by not fiercly denouncing or punishing inappropriate conduct.

Case in point....yesterday's Pacers-Pistons NBA game had at first a player only brawl turn into a player spectator brawl supposedly spawned by a fan throwing a paper soda cup at a player. Later two fans having words with a player got the player to throw a bunch to the face of a fan taking him down, and so on. While we can only hope any criminal acts in this milay will be prospecuted (player or fan) the frequency of player loss of control at taunting from fans and even flying cups is COMPLETELY asinine.

This is a total lack of control and a disconnect from decency. The complicity by the NBA leadership with this constant behaivor makes it worse....an NBA spokesman couldn't comment until it "can review the incident". This is a total chicken shit protect the obviously wrong party stuff. You need to review it before you can say that punch throwing fights among players is wrong, and worse players engaging in fisticuffs with fans other than for self defence is unacceptable and should be criminally prosecuted? You can always cover the rush to judgement by saying what action the NBA will take will be decided on review of the incident. However, the review should take about 5 minutes of video watching. Why do you need to interview anybody? There is no excuse regardless of what anybody said or that a cup was thrown...doesn't matter one bit. If the NBA doesn't start suspending for 1 year a player who strikes a player to the head with a close fist, and for life for the same to a fan, then they are complicit and I'll help with their demise.

Hitler & Aunt Jemima

Idiot and racist are two words often used by the left to describe what they says is the typical Bush voter....funny how every day there are dozens of stories about liberal elite politicians, celebs or media who demonstrate that in fact they are the racist idiots. Case in point, another celeb foreign policy and war strategy expert and fat beatch Linda Ronstadt weighs in (pun intended) on Iraq and Bush: "People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves," and this perl: "Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers".

And the racist comments about Condi Rice keep coming, the lastest is some obscure Milwaukee radio talk show host who called Rice "Aunt Jemima" and was planning on today's show to give away Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup. He apparently has also refered to Colin Powell as an "Uncle Tom". The local mayor denounced the comments, but the local NAACP spokes person couldn't comment until she heard the remarks in their entirety. OH, SO I CAN CALL A BLACK AND UNCLE TOM OR AUNT JEMIMA IN A CERTAIN CONTEXT????? What the F....it's apparently only racist if you're referring to a liberal!

More War and Close Combat Experts Emerge

Along with celebrity war/combat experts Madonna and Sean Penn we now have other obviously credible and combat experienced individuals and groups who are unquestionably unbiased (ya right) weighing in on the shooting in a mosque in Falluja the other day. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International along with top U.N. human rights officials (who have the utmost credibility, see here, here, here) are calling for an investigation. The folks at Amnesty international who I'm sure are ex-military combat fighters with tons of combat and close fighting experience including booby trapped bodies and fake surrender tactics had this to say: "The deliberate shooting of unarmed and wounded fighters who pose no immediate threat is a war crime under international law and there is therefore an obligation on the U.S. authorities to investigate all such reports and to hold perpetrators of such crimes accountable before the law"

And you expect no less from Al-Jazeera who apparently has been playing the shooting of this person in Falluja over and over and they are others in the region call it an "execution". Oh, SO THEY ARE AGAINST EXECUTIONS????? Man we should be using more MOAB's over there!!!!! FYI, now Al-Jazeera says it has a video tape of a women being shot in the head which is assumed to be Margaret Hassan the CARE director in Iraq who was abducted.

Care to guess how many of groups and individuals who are so outspoken about this most likely justified shooting in the mosque in Falluja will have something negative to say about the killing of Margaret Hassan?

The Father of Modern Terrorism

Andrew McCarthy of NRO has a comprehensive piece on Arafat's life and as you read it you will certainly agree that "the father of modern terrorism" is an appropriate epitaph. So why then does nearly all the media not label Arafat for what he is? Why did so many leaders show up to the make shift funeral in Egypt? Why does a man with this a terror inventors history not get labeled with a single negative descriptor?

I have never understood deep antisemitic feelings many all over the world have....is this root cause of this pass the media and others give Arafat? I have no other explanation? It's also interesting that Israel is most often portrayed as evil. Yet the suicide bombers are almost always aimed at Israeli civilians while Israel's military actions are almost uniformly surgical in nature trying to avoid collateral damage. In fact I think given that Israel is surrounded by unfriendly's I'm amazed at the restraint they have shown in not unleashing their rather impressive military might on those who would kill them at any opportunity.

Thursday Roundup

Don't Forget


It's Veterans Day...don't forget what this means, if you can't thank a vet in person give thanks in your own way for the men and women who have sacrificed throughout our history so that we can live free in the most prosperous land in the world. The American Dream is alive and well and your share in that dream is only governed by your own desire and drive. A land where the vast majority are down right good loving people who will help their fellow man, come to a strangers rescue and look you in the eye and say hello. I'll steal the final words of Mr. Owens whose NRO article today ends with: So pray for our servicemen in Fallujah today and for the souls of those who have given the last full measure. May they rest in peace. Happy birthday, Marines. Semper fi. And to all veterans, God bless you and thank you for your service. And may you live long, sweet lives.

Arafat finally in a box!
Amid the inappropriate stories on Arafat's death that offer praise, or sole saving, we find an occasional sane response...here's one: Arafat the Monster. And of course Jimmy Carter continues his journey with senility describing him as a "powerful human symbol" but leaves out what he thinks the symbol represents...how about terrorism and death to jews!

Bummer Dude!
I don't much like Bill Maher, right now he's not liking the Internet since it's front page on the Drudgereport that he's been hit with a palimony suit!

Trojan Horse
Some on the left are trying to calm the post election hysterical elements in their party....the new strategy that you already see forming is a trojan horse! The liberals I know have brain wiring different from me....there's no way that they will over the next 4 years line up with me on pivotal issues or even get close for that matter. I fully believe, like Kerry, that those who will lobby for the nomination for the Dems in 2008 will say anything to try and appear more centrist...but that's just a book cover....the book won't change. While Billary Clinton thinks she's being sneaky by suddenly throwing out religious references here and there, some are talking about it openly. Not about changing their core beliefs, but about how to make others think you are, case in point: More Muscle, More God, Less Shrum

Normal
Peggy Noonan's piece in today's WSJ had a description of Bush I like and believe....Kerry tried to slide into some of those descriptions but with no credibility.

I think Mr. Bush, the better man in terms of character, was also the more normal man. And we like normal. He loves sports and business and politics, and speaks their language. Normal. His wife is important to him, and his kids seem a bit of a mystery to him, and perhaps even to some degree intimidating. Normal. He thinks if bad guys attack New York City and the Pentagon, we go after them and kill them--normal. He thinks marriage is between a man and a woman--normal. He thinks if Baptist preachers in a suburb of Louisville have an after-school plan that has an excellent record of turning kids from juvenile delinquency to thinking about college, those Baptist preachers should be helped and encouraged every way we can, and it has nothing to do with "church and state." Normal. He thinks if there's an old plaque bearing the Ten Commandments on the wall of the courthouse you should leave it alone--it can't hurt, and it might help. Normal.

Arrogant Peloci

Amazing what this pompous beatch gets away with say...from Tarranto WSJ blog:

The Washington Post reports on a particularly rich comment from Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader:

Pelosi, addressing reporters after lunching with about 100 House Democrats, said her party will speak out when it believes Bush and the GOP-controlled Congress are mismanaging Iraq, tax policies or the deficit. "The president won't be able to blame anyone, because the Republicans have full control," Pelosi said. Although Republicans have controlled the White House, Senate and House for two years, she said, "the American people did not know that. And now they do."

If "the American people did not know" that the GOP held the White House and majorities in both houses of Congress in 2003 and 2004, what makes her think we've caught on now?

Kofi Inane

My pal Mike shot me this short WSJ article on interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi response to Kofi Annan's inane letter suggesting increase offensives on a group Annan left nameless in his letter would increase violence and disrupt elections. An appropriate reply from Allawi said:

At the moment, we have parts of the country in which the civilian population has been hijacked by the terrorists and insurgents. That is unacceptable. Worse still is that the terrorists and insurgents operating from places like Fallujah are exporting their violence to other parts of the country, terrorizing and killing innocent Iraqis and those seeking to protect them. I cannot allow these terrorists to continue to murder with impunity.

I was a little surprised by the lack of any mention in your letter of the atrocities which these groups have committed. I believe that the blame for the violence and difficulties in Iraq at the moment should be laid squarely at their door. The same group who murdered so many of your staff in the bombing of the U.N. headquarters last year, has since murdered hundreds of innocent Iraqis and committed countless other atrocities. We have overwhelming evidence that they have used and continue to use Fallujah as a base of operations.

I Rest My Case!

From celebrity terrorism expert Madonna!

Global terror is everywhere. Global terror is down the street, around the block. Global terror is in California. There's global terror everywhere and it's absurd to think you can get it by going to one country and dropping tons of bombs on innocent people.

Hollywood's FU to Mainstream America

Great piece in today's WSJ by movie reviewer Michael Medved (Bad News For Democrats) who obviously puts his "right" thinking ahead of what the celebrity political intelligencia whose movies he reviews will think of him for it.

Despite their popularity as entertainers, these performers maintain at best a love-hate relationship with the general public (and feed innumerable tabloids with lurid tales of their personal problems), so their endorsements of candidates mean almost nothing. Moreover, movies long ago ceased functioning as a unifying celebration of populist values and now serve a primarily youthful niche market. Even box-office blockbusters typically draw only seven million or eight million people on their opening weekends--less than half the number who listen to Rush Limbaugh in any given week.

Problem, Absent Fathers or Procreation?

For sometime now we have heard about the problem of inner city black children who have no father in their lives. Of course it's probably a good thing those particular absent fathers aren't in these kids lives, but I shouldn't infer that all are bad. Kay Hymowitz's piece Dad's in the 'Hood in the urban-policy magazine City Journal is an interesting update on this topic. However, I think the root of the problem is the seminal event itself not being considered fateful by both the male and female participants. This is of course not just an inner city black problem but the numbers there do speak for themselves. In thinking about my own upbringing I don't recall even a single lecture (pop, correct me if I'm wrong) on the seriousness of procreation and the ultimate responsibility of it success. So why did I understand that producing a child would be a lifelong responsibility that nothing short of death could break? Was it that I had two parents that loved their children? Was it that we weren't dirt poor? Was it that I went to school? Was it that we were taught daily about right and wrong and the value of hard work. Or maybe all of the above.

I fully believe that people like Jesse Jackson, Kweisi Mfume, Julian Bond and most of the Congressional Black Caucus don't want this situation to improve! Their hateful and racist propaganda serves to keep the myth that a racist white population and government are the cause of all that ails the black population. After all if that weren't true many of these so called black leaders would be out of a job or even less significant on the national scene than they already are. I like a quote from Hymowitz's piece by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates :

"Are white racists forcing black teenagers to drop out of school or have babies?"

While my own childhood didn't include hyper focus on education (high school and college) I think that it is the key to reversing some of the damage for those already under the inner city fatherless handicap. For each child we rescue we hopefully create a desire not to just gratify primal sexual urges but to create a life out of love, to experience the joy of guiding your own flesh and blood to be and do better than oneself. That's a feeling that is, I'm sure, completely void from the mind of the bastard creating men and women of the inner city.

Sore Losers

Jonah Goldberg of the National Review Online wrote a wondrous and funny piece yesterday called The Sore-Loser Party in which he nicely dices Smiley, Dowd, Raines, Krugman, Sarandon and P. Diddy! It's really amazing to me the hypocricy and pomposity displayed by the now sullen left. Take for example this sound bite from Smiley:

The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry

And Goldberg on Smiley:

A woman who couldn't catch a clue if you used one as a pestle and her brain pan as the mortar

I also love how Goldberg describes the liberal defective Maureen Dowd & Paul Krugman:

As we all know, one's a whining self-parody of a hysterical liberal who lets feminine emotion and fear defeat reason and fact in almost every column. The other used to date Michael Douglas.

Read all of Goldberg's NRO piece....great stuff!

Liberal Tolerance

Excellent post election thoughts that I found on AtlanticBlog (post: After the election which references yet another insightful blogger Mark Kleiman). AtlanticBlog is by an American economist living and working in Ireland named William Sjostrom...worth checking out. A snippet of Mark's words that William, and now I, posted...but read Mark's entire post.

Liberals are more willing than conservatives to make the majority suffer to protect the minorities. And the fact that the liberal leadership is profoundly secular in its orientation makes it easy to interpret this as hostility to religion, or to religiosity, generally. We claim that we are merely carrying out the Enlightenment program of getting the heavy hand of the state off religion, but that's not really a very convincing claim given our own actual beliefs and practices, and given the sheer hatred and contempt the usual liberal commentator can pack into the word "fundamentalist." Where, one might reasonably ask, is liberal tolerance when the chips are down?

Heeeeeeeeyaaaaaa

I had to grin when I heard today that Howard Dean is considering a run at being the chair of the DNC....if it happened it would only shift the DNC more left and away from mainstream America than it already is. For old times sake and a laugh, hear Dean's out of control speach which included the now famous "heeeeeeyaaaaaa" yell in mp3!

Liberal Reassurance

It's not often that the NYT has anything in that I agree with, interesting post election analysis of the liberal reaction to the results. Here's a few snippets of The Vaues-Vote Myth by David Brooks:

Every election year, we in the commentariat come up with a story line to explain the result, and the story line has to have two features. First, it has to be completely wrong. Second, it has to reassure liberals that they are morally superior to the people who just defeated them.

In past years, the story line has involved Angry White Males, or Willie Horton-bashing racists. This year, the official story is that throngs of homophobic, Red America values-voters surged to the polls to put George Bush over the top. This theory certainly flatters liberals, and it is certainly wrong.

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But the same insularity that caused many liberals to lose touch with the rest of the country now causes them to simplify, misunderstand and condescend to the people who voted for Bush. If you want to understand why Democrats keep losing elections, just listen to some coastal and university town liberals talk about how conformist and intolerant people in Red America are. It makes you wonder: why is it that people who are completely closed-minded talk endlessly about how open-minded they are?

More humor

Check this site where morons post their apology to the world (so they presume) that Dubya got re-elected....gee, the huge list of apologists who have posted so far sure look like successful, productive, upstanding, business/home owner, job holder, tax paying folks with lots of life experience and responsibilities don't they! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sorry Everybody

Why Canada...look further away you idiots!

I knew I would be happy if Bush won re-election but I didn't think it would generate so much humor! Today the Drudge Report has a headline Americans flock to Canada's immigration website. This is just too funny...but it should probably say Disgruntled Democrat's to chicken to move to far from US. We can only hope many of the wacko liberal Ted Rall followers actualy leave our great land. But alas, almost none will...and those that do may go to Canada so that they can make short trips into the best f'ing country on the planet to enjoy all it offers. Well, if you had any cojones and actually believed your anti-american vitriol you would move to France or maybe some nice place in the middle of Africa.

UPDATE: too funny....conservative radio host Glenn Beck got thousands of people to pledge a few bucks each to buy 2 first class tickets one way from UT to Ireland for Robert Redford who apparantly told some reporter he would move to Ireland if Bush was elected. Beck couldn't figure out how to send the tickets directly to Redford so now they are raising funds to take out a full page ad in the paper where Redford lives!

I would love to find the audio, video and print from all the celebrity pundits who so flippantly made similar hollow threats of leaving the country in a Bush victory. Build a website and show them all....raise money to charter a 747 that will take the entire "enlightened" bunch all at once from LAX (most are there anyway) to Charles De Gualle Airport!

Blind Elitism

Everyday we see hundreds of examples of liberal elitism. I have several theories on this. Being a liberal elite means you believe your intellect is superior to most. As this election cycle demonstrated you long for approval from those outside of our country who you think are enlightened like you. Believing this you can't imagine that your stance on the issues of an election are wrong....so therefore those who chose the opposite view must be ignorant, racist, greedy, blah, blah. So theory number 1 is that liberals can't accept that they are ever wrong or that a contrarian view might also be just as valid.

This pseudo intellectualism and vanity they liberal elite have does not allow them to have a stable moral core. They believe in some sort of utopia where everyone loves everyone and that there is no higher being governing a higher moral code (while I'm a wait and see catholic I still believe in following a moral code completely in line with Jewdeo Christian beliefs). All actions, all ways of living life are valid in their view because you must feel that way in order to love each and every person or thing and insure that love comes back. They do not believe in a true evil and that any demonstration of evil is not the fault of the evil doer! They put propositions on the ballet to let criminals out of jail. They want to talk when shooting is justified. They scorn our police and military for not treating criminals and the enemy with kid gloves.

I believe they fear taking a stand in direct opposition to these anomalous ideas and beliefs they embrace. Just like communism would distribute wealth equally to the people they would distribute their morality and beliefs to the people equally. It's completely diametrically opposed to our type of democracy formed by our founding fathers who were not shy about connecting a moral code and our freedoms to a god. It's not that you need to believe in a god, but we are flawed and so a belief in a common good and the idea of ultimate authority can keep us in line.

More examples of this blind elitism from slate.com The unteachable ignorance of the red states.

Out Of Touch, Denial & Treason

It's amazing and also admittedly enjoyable (schadenfreude=pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others) to read all the stories and blogs by stunned democrats. The map showing a mostly red geography for Bush when granularity is on a county scale shows just how out of touch the liberals really are. Their complete denial, much like that of the biased media talking heads is truly incomprehensible to me. Check these articles for comments from defeated liberals:

San Jose Mercury News
Chicago Tribune

Then there are the angry left which are easy to find in blogger land....amazing that these ingrates think they are intellectually superior and also more tolerant than the majority (Bush supporters) when their rhetoric is diametrically opposed to that notion and down right treasonous. To wish for the killing or suffering of fellow Americans or anyone for that matter is vile. For just one example check this poor excuse for a human being...kos and also his agreeable commenters!

Divided Nation or some out of touch?

Deacon of PowerLine says it best:

Kerry is said to have told the president that the country is too divided and
that "we really have to do something about it." The country is divided, but the
division is in favor of President Bush and his party. If the goal is to decrease
division in the context of a democratic society, the Democrats will have to
accept this voter-imposed reality to a much greater degree than they have shown
any past willingness to do. I'm not expecting much from Kerry in this regard.

HUGE VICTORY

Largest vote for a president in history.

First time in 16 years the winner got more than 50% of the vote.

House and Senate both have improved control by Republicans.

Tom Daschle is gone.

California voted almost perfectly on propositions.....the stem cell initiative passed and that's BS....while I don't care to debate fetal stem cells versus stem cells from babies thru adults the real BS of that initiative is that California tax payers are going to fund research to benefit the entire world. While that sounds noble, it would be nice if everyone paid their fair share.

Ock...FU and I know who you are!

Try your global test on this!

Scary stuff I assume from a bad Iranian with enough power to cause problems....found on InDCJournal where you can read more.

Who would you rather deal with this?

Stuff that won't get the press it should

A German paper with the widest circulation in Europe endorses Bush!

The latest terrorist video...at least these terrorists would rather see Kerry in office

Kerry snubs black student, Dems try to hush them

Sox pitcher Schilling an example of blind Dem/Lib hypocrisy

YOU TELL ME, WHO IS TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTION?

Dem lawyers already filed 9 suits in Florida

According to Powerline, Dems have so far filed 35 suits in 17 states....Dems have 2000 lawyers in Florida

Stem cell activists steal Bush signs

Crazy Floridian tries to run over Katherine Harris

ABC News sits on terror tape that would without question benefit Bush

Illegal alien is deputy registrar and registers people who tell her they're illegals!!!!!

The evidence of corruption, law breaking, lying, anything goes tactics isn't exclusive to the Dems but officially organized Dems are for more active and ALL the loons acting on their own are liberals...of course that's no surprise.

Kerry's rhetoric; aid & comfort

"Kerry's rhetoric is giving the bad guys a thread to hang on," he wrote. "They're hoping we lose our nerve. They're more concerned with the U.S. elections than with the Iraqi ones."

So, who is really to blame?

While this is just a trumped up story in an attempt to sway the moronic as yet undecided voters the missing Iraq explosives story is about 380 tons of an estimated 1 million tons of explosives currently estimated to exist in Iraq. That's 0.03% of the estimated total! The New York Sun today has a story that puts the blame mostly on the UN's atomic watchdog (the IAEA) who failed to act on a warning in 1995 by inspectors about the explosives in question.. Apparently the Iraqi's successfully argued with the watchdogs and all other failed diplomatic groups that they need these explosives for construction and mining...uh huh!

Bush Responds, Finally!

Bush at rally in Pennsylvania:

“After repeatedly calling Iraq the wrong war, and a diversion, Senator Kerry this week seemed shocked to learn that Iraq is a dangerous place, full of dangerous weapons…”“If Senator Kerry had his way…Saddam Hussein would still be in power. He would control those all of those weapons and explosives and could share them with his terrorist friends. Now the senator is making wild charges about missing explosives, when his top foreign policy adviser admits, quote, 'We do not know the facts.' Think about that: The senator is denigrating the actions of our troops and commanders in the field without knowing the facts…..”

“Our military is now investigating a number of possible scenarios, including that the explosives may have been moved before our troops even arrived at the site. This investigation is important and it's ongoing. And a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief."

Conservatives playing the game as well?

I don't know if this is legit (Comrade Kerry)...but the timing sure makes it dubious...of course since it's potentially negative towards Kerry no mainstream media picks this up versus the several bogus Bush screwed up stories that were born in the last 24 hours.

The media is trying to influence the election

Gee new Bush National Guard papers came to light today? Are you kidding me? I don't see any details on any paper literally just unearthed today? So is this just like the 380 tons of explosives bullshit trying to sound like something current, new and bad? I assume this will be a daily event for the opinion (not news) media.

More of The Liar

Blogger travino of redstate.org has a nice up to date list of Kerry's lies with documentation!

Kerry's speaks the truth?

Kerry is fond of saying he will always tell the truth to the American people, implying that Bush and his team don't. I could give dozens of examples of Kerry lying but the latest is so brazen it defies what I would assume to be the collective intelligence of the Democratic campaign strategists. An old story by an embedded NBC News crew from April 2003 where they accompanied troops into an Iraqi weapons storage facility(drudge) expecting to find hundreds of tons of two particular explosives known to be there but they were not found. You can also see a CNN story on the timing of the actual event. and the actual NBC news footage here Mind you this happened and was reported one day after the liberation of Iraq.

Fast forward to today...Kerry has been on the stump in the last few days talking about the incompetence of Bush for loosing these weapons. Not only were the weapons gone before we got there but the implication is also that this was recently discovered. Kerry also claims Bush failed to secure the 380 tons of explosive and we are less secure because of it. The Dems couldn't figure out this was old news and that the stuff was gone when we got there? Or they knew but decided this was a good lie? Or Kerry is suggesting we should have, or he would have, gone into Iraq earlier and thus that stockpile would have still been there? OK you dems explain this one to me....explain the honesty of you long face Kerry! CBS is also a turd in that they were going to run a 60 minutes piece on this just before the election as if reporting it this way was factual. The liberal power brokers are the most dishonest lying cheating bastards around!

Armchair Quarterback

A nice WSJ piece today on Kerry's new mantra of the Bush administration incompetence and that he would execute a more competent war. This is along the lines of my post on Kerry says not a single thing is going right....and he is the king of hindsight, nothing that he claims is bad would be if he owned it. I would love to ask Kerry: "You claim Bush himself is at fault for the hundreds of things you have said are messed up...how long after you take office can we place their blame on you?" I think that's a great, but loaded, question...it's easy to say what you would do after the fact, but you inherit a world that has a lot of moving parts you have no control over so it's more about how you react to the hard sudden situation. The journal sums it up with:

But in order to win a war, you have to have the vision and determination to
fight it despite setbacks and political difficulties. Americans should be wary
of politicians who promise more "competent" leadership in a war that those same
politicians say they'd rather not fight.

No media bias here

I guess a few days ago some second cousins (6 of them) who have never met or know Dubya personally launched a website supporting Kerry. If you do a google search on "bush relatives" you will find thousands of media picking up this story along with thousands of website's deciding it's newsworthy. Now, go read what the distant relatives wrote...wow, well informed group with studious analysis of why to vote for Kerry isn't it!

Glass Empty

I can barely stand it anymore.....while it would probably help Bush's cause to admit more often that some things could have been done differently in his nearly 4 yrs and that Iraq has been tougher than he thought, the other side sees an empty glass. Is every aspect of your life that the government can have an affect on screwed up? Employment, economy, housing, healthcare, security, infrastructure, etc....is your personal (not what you think it is for the poorest down trodden sole in your city) scorecard on these items an F? On any of them? I think for the majority its like good to better on all counts. Yet when you listen to Kedwards or any dem talking head EVERYTHING is completely hosed. There isn't one thing in this country that is going ok or right. Just try and find anything to the contrary from this crowd. And yet, today Clinton (the one who likes interns) says the republicans are trying to scare people to vote for Bush?

Kerry says he is big on telling the truth and he has a plan....but he has a plan for fixing so many things even beyond his control it's not only ludicrous it's political snake oil or lies. Things that would have been or will be different according to Kedwards if he/they had been or becomes president.

1. Osama would be dead
2. Iraq, Iran, N. Korea or any other rogue nation wanting WMDs or nukes would acquiesce simply from UN pressure
3. The economy (already better) would rain money
4. Housing (already better) would had by all
5. Christopher Reeves would alive and walk
6. Every citizen could get elective surgery
7. Corporations would pay a lot more tax and magically they could without laying people off
8. The French, Germans, Spain, etc. would all hold hands with us on the battlefield
9. The UN would be the new world super power
10. All children would get private school quality education at public schools
11. Every city would have more fire fighters and police
12. The border would be more secure, every container, parcel or letter would be inspected
13. Every person with a terrorist plot would be identified by the Minority Report triplets
14. The people paying nearly all taxes now would pay even more
15. Drugs would be free, new drugs would spring up like Starbucks coffee houses because you would be allowed to use the remnants from abortion clinics and childbirth free from scrutiny
16. All parents with gay children would be identified publicly.
17. All profiling, for any purpose would be banned....except for college entrance, employment and government grants!

Too many more to list....seems like an easy choice.

University Sheep!

A very eloquent and boldly critical op/ed piece in today's WSJ by professor Ruth Wisse of Harvard. Ms. Wisse put aside likely backlash to write this piece which speaks to the fear university staff have to not go along with the sheep but also the "scandalous uniformity in a university community that advertises its diversity". What a shame for our children, when their minds should be opened up to all the possibilities they are instead handed blinders. The best line in Ruth's piece was in reference to Harvard's president kowtowing to the liberal bias so prevalent in our universities and describes that environment as "regnant culture of pusillanimity" (I admit I had to look up two of the 4 words! :))

Polls, how accurate? Bias?

I think its pretty clear the country is close to equally divided on this election. I do however give the edge to the democrats because while both sides skirt the line the dems are far more willing to cross it (draft and social security fears, voter fraud, blah, blah). I often wondered why news outlets were so eager to quote various polls...although they pick and choose the poll and also the piece of the poll to fit the message they already decided to give! Interesting to look at this polling site and see a) the delta between polls and b) that certain polls will have numbers for separate items leaning all towards democrat or republican. Gee, why would that be? How does the AP find itself off of other polls by double digits?

Kerry's International Coalition

Is this what Kerry had in mind when he speaks of he will do a better job at building an international coalition? Brit's trying to influence US election! To bad it probably back fired into garnering more support for Bush! Stupid limey bastards! :)

Bush Hater Profile!

For a profile look here! Ok, I realize that's a silly generalization but it scary that people have become so vehemently anti Bush....to the point of thinking he's evil. Why is it so scary? Because they can vote!

Too many young people do no homework at all on important issues. They get what they think is the definitive story from MTV, musicians, actors and Rolling Stone articles. They believe that entertainment sources have some enlightened and unbiased positions on things outside of entertainment. They think Sean Penn saw the real Iraq. They think a CEO of Fortune 500 company screwed a bunch of little people to make his millions and yet the wonderful great role model millionaire NBA players or rap artists earned every dime. They believe Michael Moore disseminates facts. They believe Bush actually knew Saddam had no WMD's left in Iraq even though half a dozen foreign country intelligence agencies along with our own (and Kerry) believed he did. They believe if you can think up a conspiracy then one likely exists. They think others around the world liking us is more important than nearly anything else. They think the UN is a wonderful honest collection of altruistic people. They believe in freedom of speech unless the word "god" is involved. They have selective hearing and site and will not recognize anything that is in conflict with their beliefs.

I in fact believe the number of young people who fit these descriptions is large....and I'm sure some who are no longer young would actually fit this profile as well....it is overwhelmingly scary to have a person in power these head in the sand people would vote for.

UPDATE: I have never heard of this group, California College Republicans, but it's nice to see some college age kids that don't fit my fearful profile. The CCR has an interesting press release and protest of MTV planned because of their claim that MTV has participated in the blatant military draft lie spread to scare young adults into voting for Kerry. Also interesting that the Chairman of the CCR is a student at the Peoples Republic of Berkeley!...maybe there's hope after all!

Liberal or Conservative, who is more racist?

It's interesting that today many still think of conservatives (Republicans) as slow talking, not so smart descendents of slave owners who still wish slavery was with us. In my experience and in my observations of those aligned as liberal or conservative the former seems to have a propensity to racist behavior. It's also easy to find examples of blacks who are racist while spending a career claiming others are. You can find these examples with little effort..if you're curious study the websites of the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP. An example that caught my attention was the recent cartoon depicting Condoleezza Rice as a mammy and an editorial on this by the WSJ editorial board. Check the cartoonists defense at the end of the piece! Any bets on whether any supposed black leader or the NAACP had any issue with this cartoon?

Gee, speak of the NAACP....National Association for the Advancement of Colored People! As a white person, don't I have color? (I assume beige is a color) Does the NAACP support my advancement? Would anyone have a problem if I said my company has no problem hiring colored people? I think this falls under the bullshit hypocrite double standard of it's ok for a black to say the n word but not me. The front page of the NAACP site says:

Today we face a renewed effort as the forces of racism and retrogression in
America are again on the rise. Many of the hard-earned civil rights gains of the
past three decades are under assault.

Of course I didn't see examples of this referenced...only the link to join and donate under this statement. Of course if this evil wasn't on the rise and it was generally accepted as no longer being an issue the NAACP would have no reason to exist? Sort of a conflict for these boys isn't it?

What's wrong with public schools?

The answer comes from my brother-in-law who shot me School Says Halloween Disrespectful to Witches. This is the over the top politically correct don't hurt the feeling of a tree, insect or a, give me a f'ing break, witch kind of people who are teaching our kids. God help us all!

Media Elite Continue Bias Denial

Today in Kansas City we had Peter Jennings, the ABC News anchor, telling a local TV reporter:

"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be
objective, and when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be
fair"

You have to be kidding me.....why can't you be objective? If you want to give your F'ing opinion then don't call it the ABC News with Peter Jennings, call it ABC's My Damn Opinion with Peter Jennings!

Is Kerry Worth Dying For?

I feel just like James Tarranto of the Wall Street Journal that Kerry's desire to have international buy-in overshadows his words that he would act unilaterally if we had to. That's just not believable. The thought of him as president is very scary...I think we can kiss goodbye the first strike don't wait until there's an imminent threat approach with Kerry in the Whitehouse. That's why I think the title of Tarranto's piece below should say Kerry instead of the UN!

Is the U.N. Worth Dying For?
From an article in today's Washington Post on John Kerry's approach to foreign policy:

Kerry's belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that
the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of
a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of
U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, "If you mean dying in the course of
the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American
troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the
outcome, the answer is unequivocally no."

So the U.N.--that club of dictators and anti-Semites--is worth dying for, but America isn't? This quote sharply summarizes why the thought of waking up two weeks from today to the news that Kerry is president-elect invokes in us a sense of utter dread.

For a concrete example of how this might play out, we turn to Park Sang-seek, a Korean "peace studies" academic, who writes (with apparent approval) in the Korea Herald:

Kerry is likely to rely on the United Nations in dealing with any future crises
in Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula. Take a hypothetical situation in the
Korean Peninsula: it is discovered that North Korea has experimented with
nuclear weapons or exported nuclear materials to hostile nations or terrorist
groups. Bush may make a surgical strike without consulting South Korea and the
United Nations. Kerry is likely to try to solve the issue through multilateral
forums, particularly the United Nations.

If North Korea gives nukes to terrorists and this is how a President Kerry responds, soldiers may not be the only Americans to die for the U.N.

Jonestown II

Interesting how a speech by Al Gore is more reminiscent of a Jim Jones speech to his sheep who joined in mass suicide than one of a former Vice President of United States of America! How so you ask? Well, do you see any basis in fact? Do you see any logic or historical reference to back up the rhetoric and hyperbole suggesting Bush is insane. Only non-questioning, non-thinking, blindly loyal wanabee flower children sheep would sit in open approval and adoration of such theatre. How anyone can be a proud Democrat is beyond me.

Contemptible Democrats

Blogger Stephen Green (Vodkapundit) did a great job describing exactly why he, and I, have contempt for the Democrats right now. The Democrats loyalty to our country, personal honor and integrity take a back seat to this election.

Sex, Lies, I have a "plan", Armchairs and Fear

Unbelievable that people support Kerry. But this, I believe, proves the existence of EBD (emotional brain disorder typically caused by hatred of Dubya) as it is the only way to explain that anyone with half of their cranium functioning doesn't recognize that Kerry is simply veneer!

Sex: cheap shot by Kerry...when he mentioned Cheney's lesbian daughter in the last debate it was clearly to remind the most conservative Republicans that a gay person was close to the administration. If Edwards had a gay child and Bush thru that out (especially as Kerry did with little to no connection to the topic) the mainstream press would have crucified Bush....see much on this story?

Lies: Both Kerry and Bush got facts wrong...ok call that a tie

Plan: Proof that libs have EBD....apparently if you just say "plan" a bunch of times people who have EBD will say they heard details of the plan...be careful if you ask someone afflicted with EBD to give you some details of the plan...they may experience convulsions and loose control of their bowels.

Armchair Quarterback: This didn't work in my title, but it is interesting that everyone I have watched the debates with or talked to about them after the fact had responses at various spots for each debate that would not have just been better than what the candidate said but would have annihilated the opponent. One would think both of these guys would think better on their feet. Now I realize we are just armchair quarterbacking here and that's an order of magnitude easy than real time with cameras rolling...but I sure wish Bush would have said the following at some point in any of the debates. "You know, my opponent basis his entire candidacy on the notion that not a single thing in our country is working. To believe him every single thing that effects you that the government can affect is broken. But wait, he has a plan to fix every single one of these broken things." and you can can go on and on.

Fear: If you're intellectually honest (and don't have EBD) you can easily see that the entire Democratic machine is using a fear campaign. Kerry and Edwards say everything is wrong, broken and getting worse, that we're no safer than before 9/11, etc. Official DNC efforts, or by operatives give us the bogus draft campaign, violent protestors at events along with the many RNC office attacks. The DNC handbook that tells local offices to charge voter intimidation even if none exists. The DNC talking heads are saying "just watch the republicans will try to steal the election again". Look, do some research. The effort to use fear and smear is huge on the DNC side...if you can't run on your record and detailed ideas what else can you do.

Rudy!..A Must Read

Remarks vebatim from Rudy Giuliani on Bush-Cheney compaign conference call today...I LOVE THIS GUY!

For some time, and including when I spoke at the Republican Convention, I’ve wondered exactly what John Kerry’s approach would be to terrorism and I’ve wondered whether he had the conviction, the determination, and the focus, and the correct worldview to conduct a successful war against terrorism. And his quotations in the New York Times yesterday make it clear that he lacks that kind of committed view of the world. In fact, his comments are kind of extraordinary, particularly since he thinks we used to before September 11 live in a relatively safe world. He says we have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance.

I’m wondering exactly when Senator Kerry thought they were just a nuisance. Maybe when they attacked the USS Cole? Or when they attacked the World Trade Center in 1993? Or when they slaughtered the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972? Or killed Leon Klinghoffer by throwing him overboard? Or the innumerable number of terrorist acts that they committed in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s, leading up to September 11?

This is so different from the President’s view and my own, which is in those days, when we were fooling ourselves about the danger of terrorism, we were actually in the greatest danger. When you don’t confront correctly and view realistically the danger that you face, that’s when you’re at the greatest risk. When you at least realize the danger and you begin to confront it, then you begin to become safer. And for him to say that in the good old days – I’m assuming he means the 90s and the 80s and the 70s -- they were just a nuisance, this really begins to explain a lot of his inconsistent positions on how to deal with it because he’s not defining it correctly.
As a former law enforcement person, he says ‘I know we’re never going to end prostitution. We’re never going to end illegal gambling. But we’re going to reduce it.’ This is not illegal gambling; this isn’t prostitution. Having been a former law enforcement person for a lot longer than John Kerry ever was, I don’t understand his confusion. Even when he says ‘organized crime to a level where it isn’t not on the rise,’ it was not the goal of the Justice Department to just reduce organized crime. It was the goal of the Justice Department to eliminate organized crime. Was there some acceptable level of organized crime: two families, instead of five, or they can control one union but not the other?

The idea that you can have an acceptable level of terrorism is frightening. How do you explain that to the people who are beheaded or the innocent people that are killed, that we’re going to tolerate a certain acceptable [level] of terrorism, and that acceptable level will exist and then we’ll stop thinking about it? This is an extraordinary statement. I think it is not a statement that in any way is ancillary. I think this is the core of John Kerry’s thinking. This does create some consistency in his thinking.
I
t is consistent with his views on Vietnam: that we should have left and abandoned Vietnam. It is consistent with his view of Nicaragua and the Sandinistas. It is consistent with his view of opposing Ronald Reagan at every step of the way in the arms buildup that was necessary to destroy communism. It is consistent with his view of not supporting the Persian Gulf War, which was another extraordinary step. Whatever John Kerry’s global test is, the Persian Gulf War certainly would pass anyone’s global test. If it were up to John Kerry, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, but he’d still be controlling Kuwait.

Finally, what he did after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, where I guess at that point terrorism was still just a nuisance. He must have thought that because that’s why he proposed seriously reducing our intelligence budget, when you would think someone who was really sensitive to the problem of terrorism would have done just the opposite. I think that rather than being some aberrational comment, it is the core of the John Kerry philosophy: that terrorism is no different than domestic law enforcement problems, and that the best we’re ever going to be able to do is reduce it, so why not follow the more European approach of compromising with it the way Europeans did in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s?

This is so totally different than what I think was the major advance that President Bush made – significant advance that he made in the Bush Doctrine on September 20, 2001, when he said we’re going to face up to terrorism and we’re going to do everything we can to defeat it, completely. There’s no reason why we have to tolerate global terrorism, just like there’s no reason to tolerate organized crime.

So I think this is a seminal issue, this is one that explains or ties together a lot of things that we’ve talked about. Even this notion that the Kerry campaign was so upset that the Vice President and others were saying that he doesn’t understand the threat of terrorism; that he thinks it’s just a law enforcement action. It turns out the Vice President was right. He does and maybe this is a difference, maybe this is an honest difference that we really should debate straight out. He thinks that the threat is not as great as at least the President does, and I do, and the Vice President does.

Media bias promoted from within!

Those of us who like to base our opinion on researching a topic or person thru sources that we know to be more objective than subjective see the bias in big tv and print media everyday. We usually only see the bias in the report, now the Drudgereport breaks a story of this liberal bias being promoted from within at ABC News!

WMD's? Ask an Iraqi if they care!

A reprint of a post from a fellow blogger who just happens to be an Iraqi in Iraq!

Hi,

I have been listening to the report about the WMD’s by Mr. David Kay. Now, all of you in the West must know that as far as we, the Iraqis, are concerned, we care very little that stocks of WMD’s existed or not at the time of liberation. For us Saddam and his regime were in themselves, the most lethal WMD that cost our people hundreds of thousands of victims not to mention the destruction of the economy and the very fabric of society in our afflicted country. That regime was a dead end for our people and with its continuation there was no hope whatsoever for the future. Mr. David Kay did mention something about this, and he should know, since he spent so much time in Iraq and has intimate knowledge of the situation. Saddamism is a cancer that we have yet to recover from. Western intervention lead by the U.S.A. was a God send to us, despite all the pain and misery that accompanied the operation and the repercussions that continue to rock the process of recuperation and rebirth of the nation. The U.S. soldiers are bravely standing in the thick of the turmoil and contributing with their blood and sweat not to mention the treasure of their land, towards curing us from the remaining ulcers of the disease after having performed the main surgery which no one else even dared even to think of.

Perhaps, the interests of our people were not the main consideration that led to that action; nevertheless, that does not change anything about the importance and implications for the people of Iraq of this tremendous historical act. Yes there is pain, chaos and loss; yet on the other hand, there is possibility of hope, and a clearly discernible “light at the end of tunnel”, to use this worn out phrase.

Were we better off during Saddam’s time? - A question to which many outsiders are very keen to know our answer. Well, in many respects the streets are much more insecure, yet the security that existed in Saddam’s days was like someone quietly waiting for certain death; like a cancer stricken individual carrying the disease in his guts with no hope or attempt at cure. Yes, the pain and torture may be much more terrible when the surgeon has operated and the disease is tackled; but at least there is hope of recovery and healing, and the prospect of life saving. And this is not allegory, nor a parable; this is coming from someone whose house has been standing in the midst of bombs and explosions for so long now, protected by none but the mercy and grace of the Lord; from someone who has suffered robbery, kidnapping and constant daily danger.

And here we are, trying to organize elections, trying to control the security situation, trying to restart the reconstruction, able to talk, able to think, able to watch satellite T.V., use the internet, the mobile etc. – in short everything that we have been forbidden to do before. And without the slightest hesitation, we hail with Love and Gratitude our giant U.S. friend and his allies, standing with us shoulder to shoulder, braving the elements, braving death, calumny and hatred, shedding blood; to help us heal, to help us reach the shores of safety. And make no mistake, the campaign is winning and will achieve its objectives. Make no mistake; you have already created an allied nation in the very heart of the M.E. despite all appearances, which will produce all the long term benefits and consequences so many times reiterated by President Bush, to the ridicule and insults of the profoundly mistaken, of the profoundly hating.

America, stay the course - God, Decency, Honor, Hope and everything that is virtuous and right is on your side, beside the majority of the Iraqi people. America do not waiver, for you have never waged a more noble and just campaign in your entire history. America, we are winning, God’s willing, and Victory is coming sooner than many might think.

Salaam

Enlightenment on the Left Coast

I think many liberals believe they have a monopoly on appreciation and support of the arts. Of course this is total nonsense. It is interesting, as illustrated by this artist, how certain people are completely devoid of personal responsibility and I find parallels to how Kedwards both explain their past actions and statements!

Blogger Michelle Malkin posts the irony this artist (Maria Alquilar) created by misspelling the names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures on a $40k ceramic mural commissioned by the city of Livermore to adorn their new public library! The artists idiotic response to this mistake:

"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she said. "In their mind the words register correctly."

Update...

My buddy Mike who lives near Livermore tells me that the local paper say Ms. Alquilar now says she won't come to town to fix the spelling mistake because she got so many negative and racist emails. I suppose people called her an "illiterate" and she either doesn't know what it means or maybe it's a common trait of "enlightened" artists like herself so offensive. What makes things worse is that the local paper mentions some California law that prevents a public official from modifying art without the consent of the artist. So I say take the whole thing down or put up a plaque immortilizing the enlightened one as an example of why one should use the public library! If they start a fund to do either I'll contribute.

Economy Fact Check

Don't believe what comes out of either camp on the economy in the 2nd debate or stump speeches...check for yourself. Here's a nice economic summary which provides all sources (with the majority being the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

You want to talk denial?

I'm amazed at the apparent lack of awareness by those who buy the misleading rhetoric that spews from the Kerry camp daily. This recent bit of sleazy lawyer speak from Edwards is a perfect example of desperation when your record is weak and substance is lacking. Edwards on Wednesday was in Palm Beach and gave an audience of supporters pearls like: "completely out of touch with reality'' and "They're in denial. They're in denial about everything."

Is this the "the other guy is mental" campaign? I guess these ridiculous statements go hand in hand with the Kedwards mantra of "we will do everything better". But seriously, how much of the general public buys that everything (economy, healthcare, security, education, etc.) is screwed up? Could everything be better? Sure, you bet...every single thing in my life can be better! But to listen to Kedwards there isn't a single thing that is at all good, or fine, or just ok. I was going to say Kedwards is in denial of all that is good, but I think they know and they're just lying to scare people into a vote. Would you believe a doctor who said not only can I fix your back, but I can make you smarter, sleep better, more attractive, funny and a world class athlete? This is effectively what they are saying about all things our government has effect on.

If you don't think, like me, that there just simply giving lip service to it can all be better...and you think they actually have a better plan, or a plan at all. I encourage you to visit their campaign website and show me the details of a plan for any of these things they will do better. For example show me the actual details of a plan, and a realistic one, for what they will do different than Bush on national security. It's easy to say we will improve this and that, it's another to actually get the Congress and House to cooperate or for foreign governments to respect you. On that later, you can be sure hostile or possibly hostile nations will not fear Kerry. While he says he will "Modernize The World's Most Powerful Military To Meet New Threats" he also says he will stop all nuclear related weapons systems development. Yet he believes a nuclear threat is our biggest! I guess being on the wrong side of history with the cold war and the effectiveness and deterrent power of awesome fire power is lost on Kerry.

Commies for Kerry!

If you're a Democrat you should really be questioning why so many wonderful, intelligent and generally all around nice folks find that your party lines up best with their thinking. Oh, you know, folks like those I mention in previous posts (Just good nice folks! and Give us your criminals, your immoral, your lazy!), or maybe like those who belong to overtly communists organizations (The People’s Weekly World is the newspaper of the Communist Party, USA ) right here in the good old USA. Funny how communists are so unprincipled as to ignore the most basic part of their doctrine "a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people" by embracing a candidate who is right at the top of American aristocracy!

Oh, let us not forgot those outside our great country who also dislike Bush and so for no other reason like Kerry: North Korea, Iran, Al Qaeda and the Ba'ath Party, Al-Jazeera and plenty more. Don't believe me? Just do a Google search of "terrorits for Kerry" and see what you get.

It's clear to me that majority of those now in support of Kerry do so for disingenuous reasons including it's really just a vote against Bush. What a joke!

Principles not Popularity!

Awesome piece in the WSJ by Claudia Rosett that echoes my feelings on America being popular around the world. No question in my mind that our principles, way of life and security is paramount to world opinion. Our principles being righteous will, in the end, also win a world popularity contest. While I liked what Claudia wrote I would have been more strong on the economics of why some dislike us. I have plenty of friends who have immigrated to America and when asked about this topic I have heard 2 common reasons....jealousy and arrogance. The two are related and are humorously illustrated by a quote from Claudia's article by author P.J. O'Rourke. The context is a retort to an American bashing Brit and goes like this:

"WE BE BAD. . . . We're three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car-wreck and descended from a stock-market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France and Spain, roll them all together, and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original giant economy-sized new and improved butt-kickers of all time."

Double Talk

After the first Bush/Kerry debate James Taranto of the WSJ Best of the Web pointed out how Kerry, after saying something powerful and sensible, would then follow it with a "but.." clause and either qualify or contradict it. Well, James points how in today's BOTW in a section he calls the "Kedwards Two-Step" that Edwards did a similar but to me more troubling double talk that unfortunately probably works with impressionable grey matter out there in tv land. Edward's is more sneaky than Kerry's, probably his tort lawyering skills showing up. Worth a read, but some examples of Edwards double talk that Taranto illustrated are:

Last night Edwards appealed to swing voters by acknowledging that "Saddam Hussein was a threat that needed to be addressed directly." Then he moved back to the left by saying that if the U.N. weapons inspectors "had time to do their job, they would have discovered what we now know, that in fact Saddam Hussein had no weapons, that in fact Saddam Hussein has no connection with 9/11, that in fact Saddam Hussein has little or no connection with al Qaeda."

It's a similar story on domestic policy. Kedwards want to cut taxes (yours) and raise taxes (on the other fellow, that rich scoundrel). They "believe that marriage is between a man and a woman," as Edwards said last night, but "we should not use the Constitution to divide this country."

Your're blinded by Bush related EBD if you think Kerry or Edwards gives direct and concise prose on topics or to questions on ANY topic.....you would be hard pressed to find this kind of double talk coming out of Bush.

Spain might come after Iran!

This is amazing.....apparently the "terrorist act" elected Spanish socialist government under Zapatero is planning on cutting monies directed at the Catholic church in half via a system that allows citizens to direct a percentage of their tax dollars to the church...along with banning crucifixes from all public buildings. You could argue this is analogous to our separation of church and state, EXCEPT that at the same time the government has drawn up plans to finance the teaching of Islam in state-run schools and to give funds to mosques on the grounds that it will create greater understanding of the country’s one million Muslims.

Maybe Spain is the center of terrorism that Kerry was referring to when he said that Iraq was nowhere near it!

Four More Years!

Bush sure does better giving a podium speech than he did at the first debate and he proves that daily...today he did it at Wilkes-Barre PA which I read about here on Powerline. There's a link to the entire speech and more excerpts on security on Powerline that you should read. But I liked this section the best:

We have built a broad and solid record of accomplishment. In the past year, the United States of America has added about 1.7 million new jobs. (Applause.) More than Germany, Japan, Great Britain, Canada and France combined. (Applause.) Real tax -- real after-tax income -- that's the money in your pocket to spend on groceries or house payments and rent -- is up more than 10 percent since I took office. (Applause.) Home ownership is at an all time high in America. (Applause.) Farm income is up. Small businesses are flourishing. The entrepreneurial spirit is strong in the United States of America. (Applause.)

My opponent agrees with all this -- except when he doesn't. (Laughter.) Last week in our debate, he once again came down firmly on every side of the Iraq war. (Laughter.) He stated that Saddam Hussein was a threat and that America had no business removing that threat. Senator Kerry said our soldiers and Marines are not fighting for a mistake -- but also called the liberation of Iraq a "colossal error." He said we need to do more to train Iraqis, but he also said we shouldn't be spending so much money over there. He said he wants to hold a summit meeting, so he can invite other countries to join what he calls "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." (Laughter and applause.) He said terrorists are pouring across the Iraqi border, but also said that fighting those terrorists is a diversion from the war on terror. (Laughter.) You hear all that and you can understand why somebody would make a face. (Laughter and applause.)

Just good nice folks!

There are plenty of examples, especially if you check the right hand column for the other blogs I like, of just plain moronic behavior targeting Bush and republicans....obviously these are democrats since they fit one of my union member profile of The Employed Democrat below. This particular incident yesterday is worth noting because it appears to be an organized strategy of the AFL-CIO in many cities. I would think the DNC would be calling each of these groups who resort to gun fire, property damage or physical harm to innocent people and read them the riot act. Why? Because any intelligent person who sees this behavior on the news and then associates them with anti-Bush and pro-Kerry would have a "I'm not with those idiots" reaction.

Of course maybe I'm all wet...the DNC might be going after the not so smart doesn't do their homework crowd. Their draft scare email campaign would suggest that.

Cold Efficiency...HELL YES

My quick look at various polls on the VP debate either sheepishly call it a tie or a win for Cheney. But as you read all the big media write ups you would think Edwards wiped the floor with him or Cheney sank himself. Lots of phrases like "Edwards had Cheney on the defensive", "Edwards pounced", and so on. I like the AP description the best:

With cold efficiency, Vice President Dick Cheney sought to eviscerate the credibility of the Democratic presidential ticket Tuesday night delivering a tough and terse message without the smirks and verbal miscues that cluttered President Bush's debate performance five days ago.

The first thing to note is the obvious BIAS of this opening sentence from a news (NOT OP/ED) service....but the total BS about miscues and cluttering a previous debate (huh?) aside....who would you rather have dealing with terrorists around the world everyday....someone with cold efficiency or a smiley southern drawl tort lawyer?

Along similar lines, I think Bush has a cold efficiency of his own....last night on the Tonight Show with Leno a great line from Dennis Miller:

That's why I like Bush. He doesn't over-think it. He wakes up every morning, jumps out of bed, lands on his two feet, scratches his balls, and says, "Let's kill some f@#@$ing terrorists!"

What about Halliburton?

These 3 words have often been the response I get when a liberal friend is trying to tell me how Bush lied about WMD's in Iraq and went in under false pretences. After I easily dispose of this EBD (see Right War, Right Place, Right Time post below) moment with a few questions and facts the off balance liberal usually retorts "What about Halliburton?". Again, this is easily dispatched by those who are willing to do some research and reading and aren't prone to evil conservative conspiracy theories...but it's always nice to see others provide eloquent prose on the topic as this WSJ piece does...have a read!

Media Bias Test

I would love to be surprised and wrong, but I doubt you will see coverage by mainstream media of evidence of WMD's and connections to al Qaeda and terrorism in Iraq. This would of course bode well for Bush's actions so clearly it won't get the coverage it should. And just like Theresa Heinz Kerry suggests that a good thing is really bad when she said she wouldn't be surprised if Osama bin Laden was caught prior to Nov 2, Democrats will question the timing of this as well. It's all a big conspiracy, wink, wink.

Give us your criminals, your immoral, your lazy!

As I see the story this morning that a Bush/Cheney campaign office in Knoxville was shot at this morning I'm reminded of who finds the Democratic Party fits their personal philosophy the best. I was first reminded of this by the many uniformed, unemployed, rude and lawless "supposed" protestors who hung around the RNC in NYC. Then here in California the stories (but not in the mainstream press) of the vandalism to vehicles with Bush/Cheney stickers. Isn't it interesting that these individuals with no respect for life, property and decency find that the Democratic Party and its candidates best fit their convictions? Sure not all Democrats stoop to criminal or immoral behavior. But, I find the vitriolic hatred of Bush with seldom a fact or knowledge to back it up that the rank and file Democrats emote puts them far closer to the worst of their party then they realize.

My liberal friends will probably bring up something like abortion doctor killers....but these are far more isolated than the tens of thousands of participants in what I speak of and also a connection to an overall party philosophy is completely off base. Again people with EBD (defined in a previous post) fail to recognize their party consists of two easily defined groups with not much inbetween. I'm a proud republican! The two types of Democrats:

The Employed Democrat

• The well off elite who think those less fortunate, and the planet, should benefit from their good fortune regardless of the cost to business and to the self esteem of those receiving a hand out.
• They suffer from pseudo intellectualism.
• They're vain, diet constantly, prone to plastic surgery and other lazy methods of improving ones self.
• That vanity extends past our borders as they long for approval of other nations.
• They belong to a union or group who guarantees (in their mind) employment...they get paid the same amount as everyone else whether good, bad, impassioned or apathetic
• They do little to no homework on issues and people they are willing to ridicule or to embrace.
• They confuse the rights provided by our constitution with entitlements.
• They believe belief in a god, and mentioning it occasionally, is evil.

The Unemployed Democrat

• Actually some are employed at coffee houses, music stores or are paid protestors...but come on, this isn't really being employed!
• While they hold contempt for those who have better jobs than the afore mentioned, they believe those individuals should pay for their existence.
• They don't believe in personal responsibility...everything is the fault of a rich person, a big business or the government.
• They don't particularly care for grooming or personal hygiene.
• The do even less homework on issues and people then the Employed Democrats do.
• They confuse the rights provided by our constitution with entitlements.
• They believe belief in a god is evil.

Dirty French Laundry

My friend Kurt points me to this interesting article in the UK's Guardian Unlimited about things France would rather you didn't know....of course for most of us informed political junkies the fact that France had an internment camp in WWII, and as France was being liberated (and for as long as 4 years after the end of the war) directly or indirectly made the internees disappear in order to hide this fact, comes as no surprise. Does this reflect on the current day French aristocracy? Well if you look at the UN Oil For Food scandal I think one can infer a long lineage of questionable French character.

Right War, Right Place, Right Time

You must read this WSJ op/ed piece by the life long democrat sister of 9/11 flight 77 and co-founder of 9/11 families for America.

It's amazing to me how the hypocrisy so often demonstrated by liberals is so oblivious to them. The other amazing observation about liberals is what I call EBD, or emotional brain disfunction! This is where one takes a position on a topic, or person, with absolutely no facts, logic or coherency but instead is overtaken by emotion that is typically rooted in vitriolic hatred of a person or issue. EBD also renders the afflicted with the inability to recognize undisputed facts which are in direct conflict with their position. Without exception every harsh criticism I have heard about Bush by liberals is based on EBD with their position completely collapsing with just one or two questions. In this WSJ piece you see EBD shown in the form of hypocrisy as they use 9/11 family members on the stump when they criticized the Bush camp for doing so. But the worse form of EBD comes with simple moronic statements I hear from liberals all the time. Do these sound familiar: "Bush lied about WMDs", "he was just thinking about his friend at Halliburton", or my personal favorite: "everything they're saying about him is true, they just haven't found the evidence yet".

EBD sufferers loose all ability to research a topic or person. They can no longer recognize unbias sources of information and conclude they are instead bias if the information conflicts with their EBD based position. I have given the all so elusive (to liberals) facts and sources to many who suffer from EBD and watched the smoke emanate from their ears...it's not pretty.

So, before you catch EBD and spew about the lack of connection between Saddam, Iraq, Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda I suggest you both read opinions from those who have read the 9/11 Commission report or read it yourself...I did.

Pre or Post 9/11 Mentality? You Decide!

The debate last night was interesting to watch. I think there was no clear winner. The partisan media and pundits on both sides are, of course, saying their guy won. Terry McAuliffe even did a monster pre-debate email on how all the sheep should go to every news website and vote in the online polls, call talk radio, blah, blah...so I'm sure the sheep are being sheep. I thought both candidates did better than I thought they would. The only thing that was clear (and not much to me is clear about Flipper) is that one is stuck in a Sep 10 mentality and the other in the very different world of post 9/11. You just need to decide which of those makes sense for a safer world.

Kerry will disarm us, look for international approval for any important move and while insulting world leaders and our military somehow get them to do things that Bush couldn't...SURE!

UPDATE...

I know its easy for us to arm chair quarterback, especially in hindsight, how Bush could have responded either to questions or in rebuttal to OrangeBoy. And I would agree if he could responded at all or more strongly to some of the more ridiculous things Floppy said he could have ended the race entirely. But I take some solace in the fact that some of the better responses Bush could have used that friends have sent me I could see Bush saying, meaning that he would believe them. Oh well.......one outstanding response I WISH Bush had used that a friend provided is:

This is a race for the President of the US, NOT for the Presidency of the UN. I am here to do everything I can to protect the US – not to just make the UN happy. We did that before and it gave us 9/11, the Cole bombing, the first attack on the WTC.