Springsteen Tickets?
This hit piece is so stupid.
Obviously, you can't put a price tag on Boss tickets.
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What a Left-wing Fag-nut
What do you get when you cross a man who likes public sex with men in bathrooms and Bush Derangement Syndrome?
Pop star George Michael has been arrested and cautioned after being found once again slumped over the wheel of his car in London and in possession of cannabis, British media said on Monday.
The Sun tabloid splashed the story that Michael had been arrested across its front page. It was his fourth motoring incident in eight months, including three involving him being asleep at the wheel, the newspaper said.
A police spokesman said a 43-year-old man was taken into custody on Sunday, cautioned by police for having an illegal drug on him and released on bail pending inquiries on being unfit to drive.
"At about 3.22 am (0222 GMT) on Sunday morning officers were informed of a stationary vehicle with a driver inside causing an obstruction" in north London, the spokesman said, declining to confirm the identity of the driver as a matter of routine.
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My Question to Cindy Sheehan
I kept it short and sweet...
Washington, D.C.: You also don't support the war in Afghanistan either. What war would you ever support?
Cindy Sheehan: I don't believe that killing and violence are solutions to any problem. I believe that the only just war is to defend yourself or your family. So basically in self-defense or in defense of our nation.
They never really answer diatribes. I've actually worked with my boss (typed in her answers) on two of these chats in the past. You get bombarded with questions in this list, you can type a comment to them, then click post.
You have to continually refresh the site for the new questions to pop up.
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NYTimes Fires Opening Salvo
The New York Times just fired their opening salvo in their relentless campaign to elect Democrats this fall.
Someone posted the article in a post below, but you can find the article from the NYTimes here.
In typical hack fashion, the headline says nothing about the article - just what the NY Times wants you to believe.
SPY ANGENCIES SAY IRAQ WAR WORSENS TERROR THREAT
Of course it does! When you're at war with people and have a media that is hell bent on portraying America as the source of evil in the world, it's going to be a good propaganda tool, ya think? But, in fact, the article actually shows that there is a long list of grievances these people have and that the Jihadist movement is growing because of the Internet and the exploitatio nof tragedies like Abu Ghraib by the American Left. Look at the opening graph:
A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Okay, so the report says that Iraq has a role in growing terrorism. But if you go to the END of the article, you realize that the report discusses much more.
Previous drafts described actions by the United States government that were determined to have stoked the jihad movement, like the indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, and some policy makers argued that the intelligence estimate should be more focused on specific steps to mitigate the terror threat. It is unclear whether the final draft of the intelligence estimate criticizes individual policies of the United States, but intelligence officials involved in preparing the document said that its conclusions were not softened or massaged for political purposes. [emphasis mine]
Still, nothing about Iraq here. Let's keep going...
The estimate concludes that the radical Islamic movement has expanded from a core of Qaeda operatives and affiliated groups to include a new class of “self-generating” cells inspired by Al Qaeda’s leadership but without any direct connection to Osama bin Laden or his top lieutenants.
It also examines how the Internet has helped spread jihadist ideology, and how cyberspace has become a haven for terrorist operatives who no longer have geographical refuges in countries like Afghanistan.
Still, nothing here about the actual Iraq liberation...wouldn't an article about how IRAQ WORSENS TERRORISM have paragraph after paragraph about, um, Iraq? Let's look some more...
For more than two years, there has been tension between the Bush administration and American spy agencies over the violence in Iraq and the prospects for a stable democracy in the country. Some intelligence officials have said that the White House has consistently presented a more optimistic picture of the situation in Iraq than justified by intelligence reports from the field.
Finally, a mention of Iraq, but if you actually read the paragraph, you will see that this mention of Iraq has NOTHING to do with the report. It is simply an assertion by the writer. There is no statement relating this report (or the NY Times headline) and Iraq.
Let's look at the last two paragraphs...
The panel investigating the London terrorist bombings of July 2005 reported in May that the leaders of Britain’s domestic and international intelligence services, MI5 and MI6, “emphasized to the committee the growing scale of the Islamist terrorist threat.”
More recently, the Council on Global Terrorism, an independent research group of respected terrorism experts, assigned a grade of “D+” to United States efforts over the past five years to combat Islamic extremism. The council concluded that “there is every sign that radicalization in the Muslim world is spreading rather than shrinking.”
Nothing. All this article says is that there is a growing terrorist threat and that Iraq (among many other things, real or imagined), is a factor. And yet, the NY Times wants you to believe that Iraq is the problem and it has nothing to do with the West trying to take care of business and the the anti-civilization Islamic Nazis are trying to push back with their accopmlices in the form of Bush haters with the Internet as a tool.
No wonder this paper is going out of business. I sure hope I never see Bill Keller at an Alumni Week at Pomona. I might be tempted to spit in his face.
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I Tried and Failed
Notice how many times he refers to himself in the singular.
At least he admits he failed.
Again, not too many of us were beating the drums of Clinton not getting UBL until the 9/11 Commission and his lawyers tried to pin the blame for 9/11 of BUSH having only been in office 8 months with random memos scattered across the country and ONE PDB that said UBL wanted to attack in the United States (or its alternative title, "the Sun Rises in the East").
You can dish it out, but you cannot take it.
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Chavez Book Club: #2 at Amazon
How many copies did George Soros bulk order to distribute to the Democrats as their policy guidebook?
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Don't Bash Bush - That's Our Job
"Don't you dare call our president a lying, war-mongering neocon alcoholic genocidal radical Christian. That's our job!"
Is this the Democratic definition of statesmanship?
"You don't come into my country; you don't come into my congressional district and you don't condemn my president," Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, scolded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
What a hero. Here are some choice quotes of Rangel in the past.
This is from Rush's site and is copied in full because you need a membership to read it:
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Let's review what we've got here. We've got Hugo Chavez, who has said that Europeans came and massacred Indians and black Africans, to an audience at an African church and Harlem and they just went nuts and they applauded and so forth. We have Charlie Rangel coming out and saying (summarized), "Hey, hey, hey, hey, we can criticize him but you can't," after thanking Venezuela for cheap oil for Harlem residents this winter. Then he begged Chavez to understand that it's not appropriate for him to come and do this. We went back in time; we played audio sound bites of real criticism of President Bush by Charlie Rangel in which he has basically accused Bush of the same thing that Chavez did: massacring people after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
We've also dug up some other things from Rangel. On Republicans winning the House, he said -- and I'm quoting him here, Charlie Rangel said: "It's not spic and N[word] anymore. They say, 'Let's cut taxes.'" In 1995, Charlie Rangel described a House Ways and Means vote that closed a tax loophole as being "just like under Hitler." In June of 2005, Charlie Rangel said, "The Iraq war is the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country. This is just as bad as the six million Jews being killed." June of 2005, Charlie Rangel, comparing the Iraq war to the Holocaust, and these guys dare ask why Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come to the United States and criticize this country and their president?
What the hell have you been doing?
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that anybody who cares -- and I'm telling you the people in the Drive-By Media don't, as evidenced by the fact that Chavez's speech at the UN is buried this inside both the New York Times and the Washington Post. You won't find any reference to it on the front page. The idea that this is somehow happening in a vacuum is absurd. The stage has been set. These two guys are simply doing what they have been listening to Democrats and liberals in this country do for the last five years. Now, when he was walking the streets of Harlem this afternoon after his -- it may have been before his speech, I don't know.
Hugo Chavez today "told a group of passers-by: 'Bush is an alcoholic, a sick man with a lot of hang-ups.' 'He walks like John Wayne....' 'He doesn't know anything about politics, he got there because of Daddy.' Bush's father, George Bush, was also a US president." This is a news story. So he's a drunk. He's a sick man with a lot of hang-ups, walks like John Wayne, but doesn't know anything about politics. Let's go back and listen to Ted Turner. It's March of 2006, March 29th, receiving a prize at some meeting of an outfit called Global Understanding.
TURNER: Had never been out of the country but once in his entire life when he was elected president. (laughing) Fortunately, quite a few mistakes made, ahm, when you do that, better to go to school, you know, and learn there (laughing) than learn -- and this guy's got the nuclear trigger under his finger, too. Reformed alcoholic. (laughing) Nothing wrong with that. (laughing) Might decide to get drunk again. (laughing) Sometimes they do slip.
RUSH: Okay, so here's Ted Turner accusing George W. Bush of being a drunk with his finger on the nuclear trigger. We're outraged when Hugo Chavez calls Bush an alcoholic, a sick man with a lot of hang-ups, but I ask you -- and this thing Ted Turner, apprised of global understanding, a bunch of socialist libs getting together and congratulating themselves on their eliteness and their brilliance and their single-handed ability to save the world from all of the plebes and the bourgeois that live in this world, but I'm telling you, folks, for everything you can find said by Hugo Chavez or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we can find an equivalent stated by countless Democrats!
There is one Hugo Chavez. There are countless millions of Democrats in this country all saying similar things, and they've been saying it a lot longer than Hugo Chavez has. For everything Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says, we can find countless Democrats, millions of them, who have been saying the same thing about Americans. They tried to destroy John Bolton's career and life. They tried to destroy Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, "Scooter" Libby, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Clarence Thomas. Look at their practices! They do nothing but smear, smear and destroy, their political opponents.
They attempt to criminalize the policies of their political opponents, as in Rangel saying that the Iraq war is equivalent to the Holocaust and the slaughter of six million Jews. Ted Turner? The list goes on and on and on. I can give you John Kerry. I could give you Pelosi. I could give you Harry Reid and Howard Dean. So every time you get outraged at something Hugo Chavez says, remember: He's a piker. He's late to the party. He's just the latest voice on the left side of the aisle. You think Hugo Chavez is closer to being a Democrat or Republican, ladies and gentlemen? Is Hugo Chavez closer to being a liberal or a conservative? Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad closer to being a liberal or closer to being a conservative? With whom do these people most relate? To whom do they most relate? Whom they most sound like?
And then ask yourself a question: Do people on the right, do Republicans and conservatives, attempt to smear and destroy? Some people say, "Rush, that sounds like that's what you're doing today." Nope. I was minding my own business this week. I wasn't bothering anybody, never do, and all of a sudden I hear my country being attacked by a third-rate, tinhorn, nothing-but-a-bunch-of-oil little thug from South America. Then I hear no outrage from Democrats. So I decide I'm going to defend my country, and I'm going to defend the person about whom he's speaking: the president of the United States. Then I hear Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doing the same thing. I was minding my own business until these guys showed up. Then they start flapping their gums, and it's time for somebody to speak up. I did not wake up today looking for ways to attack Democrats. It's not necessary. They provide all the relevant opportunities.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: We move on to audio sound bite #6 now. Eric Shawn of Fox News ambushed Hugo Chavez in the UN hallway and gets him to repeat Democrat talking points about Hurricane Katrina. Shawn says: Why does he hate America? He replied he doesn't hate America, Chavez did, then he adds this.
CHAVEZ (via translator): As Abraham Lincoln said, democracy, the government of the peeeeople, for the peeeeople, and by the peeeeople, and not of Mafia looking for money as Al Capone, worse even than Al Capone. Those who are governing the United States today, a Mafia, genocidal and murderers. They don't care about the life of any country, not even the lives of your peeeeople. Look what's happened with Katrinaaaa.
SHAWN: So for you President Bush it's like the Mafia?
CHAVEZ (via translator): They are a Mafia.
RUSH: Yeah, so Charlie Rangel, Bush, they didn't care. It's death sentence being black in America. Look at Hurricane Katrina -- and here is Hugo Chavez mouthing a Democrat talking point: Bush wanted people to die after Hurricane Katrina, didn't care, may have even caused it. This is a sentiment that echoes Ahmadinejad. Remember Ahmadinejad in an interview said he was all distressed about the 40 or so million people without health care coverage in the United States. Look, folks, there is no question these guys are getting talking points directly or indirectly, probably indirectly, from the Democrat Party. They watch CNN International. They watch BBC. They know what these guys are saying about Bush. You can't tell me that this does not give them inspiration to say the same things, motivation, opportunity. You can't say that this doesn't happen. Remember Harry Reid to a high school civics class, on George W. Bush: "The man's father's a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser." So if you're upset with these guys, where is your outrage over Americans saying essentially the same things? Because these guys are latecomers to the party.
END TRANSCRIPT
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Way to Blow $3 Billion
He is an adventurer and fool:
British business mogul Richard Branson said Thursday he would invest about $3 billion to combat global warming over the next decade.
Branson, the billionaire behind the multi-platform Virgin brand, said the money would come from 100 percent of the profits generated by his transportation and airline sectors.
It will then be invested in efforts to find renewable, sustainable energy sources in an effort to wean the world off of oil and coal.
Okay, so you own a fleet of airplanes and space rockets that pollute all over the place...why don't you just get out of the airline business and stop global warming that way?
Why not manufacture windmills and try to sell those to people? Or buy a car company and make them sell only fuel cell cars?
Fool.
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My Lord! Bush Met with People!!!
If this is not the most hysterical story about nothing I've ever read...the Washington Post and DNC allies are blowing the trumpet that powerful Republicans actually met with a Republican president.
Republican activists Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed landed more than 100 meetings inside the Bush White House, according to documents released Wednesday that provide the first official accounting of the access and influence the two presidential allies have enjoyed.
The White House released the Secret Service visit records to settle a lawsuit by the Democratic Party and an ethics watchdog group seeking visitors logs for the two GOP strategists and others who emerged as figures in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
Earlier this month, the White House suggested to the judge in that lawsuit that such records need not be disclosed because the information was privileged and might reveal how Bush and his staff get private advice, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
White House officials said Norquist, who runs the nonprofit Americans for Tax Reform, was cleared for 97 visits to the White House complex between 2001 and 2006, including a half-dozen with the president.
Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition and an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in Georgia earlier this year, got 18 meetings, including two events with Bush.
Officials said they believe all appointments with Bush involved larger group settings, such as Christmas parties or policy briefings for GOP supporters.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, however, it was possible some of Norquist's meetings might have been directly with Karl Rove, the president's longtime confidant and political strategist.
"He is one of a number of individuals who worked to advance fiscal responsibility, which is one of the key aspects of the president's agenda," Perino said.
IMPEACH!
Call me crazy, but didn't Clinton RENT OUT the Lincoln bedroom to celebrities for donations to re-election?
I read that whole article and found NOTHING in it that demonstrates any wrong-doing by the White House. Can you?
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Chavez - Chomsky Caption Contest
This one should make for some interesting suggestions:
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Enemy of the United States - Friend of the DNC
Hugo Chavez just said that all the world's problems are because of the US while clutching a book by Noam Chomsky in his hand!
Sounds like he's campaigning to replace Howard Dean.
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Do the Dems even Listen Before They Write
This is by far the most substanceless response I've read from the DNC. This is NOT a satire, but a real press release in response to the President's address to the UN:
"Today we heard more of the same rhetoric from a desperate President Bush who is worried more about his party's political prospects this November than about how to protect America and fight and win the real war on terror. The president's freedom agenda has been replaced by the era of incompetence. The Bush Administration's policies, including the disastrous handling of the Iraq War, have hurt America's credibility around the world and at home. The president and the Republican-controlled Congress took their eye off the ball by focusing on Iraq and letting North Korea and Iran grow stronger. After invading Iraq without UN support, President Bush now finds UN member countries wary of U.S. proposals on a range of issues from ending the genocide in Darfur to disarming Iran's nuclear program. President Bush and the Republicans' commitment to their failed foreign policies have stripped away our credibility with other nations, making America and the world less safe.
"At the same time, Republicans in Congress have rubber-stamped the president's failed agenda and repeatedly blocked Democratic attempts to keep our country safe. Americans are looking for new leadership and a new direction in America's foreign policy that's both tough and smart."
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NBC Must be a secret evangelical station as well...
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ABC News Is Now the "Secret Right Wing Network"
These people have lost ALL sense of reality:
In fact, "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.
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The Newest Washington Newsmag
There's a great new magazine out called American Weakly. You should check it out immediately. Also, they have an introductory video you should definitely watch!
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Harry Reid, Call Your Office
Praise to AllahPundit and Michelle Malkin for reminding us of the video below.
Clinton seems to forget people know he is a known liar. This video bears the lie that Clinton's administration had more than one opportunity to nab bin Laden.
I do NOT blame Clinton for 9/11; we were all in a 9/10 mindset. I blame the terrorists. But we need to remind ourselves of the 9/10 mentality and how it just won't work.
click on picture - need to use IE 6.0 or later
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Carnival in Corruption: Washington Senate Race Addition
Ah, yes. The Republican-only eithical lapses in their "Culture of Corruption" in Washington, DC. Where's Abramoff? I don't know, but maybe this guy can pay back Cantwell with money from William Jefferson's (Democrat, Louisiana) freezer:
Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell helped arrange more than $11 million in federal money in the past year for projects benefiting clients of a lobbyist who is advising her re-election campaign and still owes her money from a personal loan.
Cantwell, a Democrat who is in a tight re-election race, has reported for years that former campaign manager Ron Dotzauer owes her between $15,000 and $50,000 for a personal loan predating her first Senate election in 2000. Dotzauer now runs a lobbying firm.
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New Jersey Carnival of Democratic Corruption
Remember when the Democrats were trying to pretend that they had the moral authority to wag their finger at the Republican Culture of Corruption? Well, we can now add a siting US Senator from New Jersey who is a Democrat (no doubt). Looks like a GOP pick up in the fall!
A federal investigation has been launched into the financial dealings of New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez and a nonprofit agency he has helped over the years, sources said.
The U.S. attorney's office has subpoenaed the agency's records pertaining to a house once owned by then-congressman Menendez, sources told NewsChannel 4's Brian Thompson.
Menendez, a Democrat, has denied there was anything wrong with his renting the house to the North Hudson Community Action Corp. for more than $3,000 a month, even as he was working to obtain millions of dollars in federal grant money while he was a congressman.
Oh, too bad, so sad. :-(
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"F"lame-gate Hall of Shame
Lucianne points to a great piece by Fred "the beatle" Barnes where he presents the Rogues Gallery of the Plameout:
*Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state under Colin Powell, was the first to reveal that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee. He blabbed carelessly to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, then to columnist Robert Novak, who mentioned it in a July 2003 column. Armitage, after admitting this to the FBI in October 2003, stood by silently year after year as Vice President Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, and other White House officials were blamed for what he had done, and President Bush suffered politically. Loyalty is not Armitage's strong suit.
*Colin Powell, Bush's friend and secretary of state in the first Bush term, knew what Armitage had done and never let on. He met with Bush countless times as the White House was being pummeled in the media and by Demo crats for outing a CIA agent to take revenge on her husband. Bush called publicly for the leaker to be identified. Powell knew the identity, but remained silent. Some friend.
*Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the "leak" case, was aware of the source of Novak's story when he began his still-ongoing investigation in December 2003. Yet finding that source was supposedly the object of his probe. Now working with a second grand jury, Fitzgerald surely knows the supposed conspiracy to defame Wilson is (and always was) a fantasy. Still he won't let go. Fitzgerald has proved once more why naming a special prosecutor is a colossal mistake.
*The Ashcroft Justice Department. Armitage brought his story to investigators after the CIA requested an investigation when the name of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, appeared in Novak's column. So when the department decided weeks later to appoint a special prosecutor, it already knew who had "leaked" Plame's name. Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself, leaving the decision to his deputy, James Comey. Rather than face a torrent of partisan recriminations for dropping the case, Comey passed the buck to Fitzgerald. There were no profiles in courage at Justice.
FAG
*Joseph Wilson, an ex-ambassador and National Security Council official in the Clinton and Bush I administrations, sparked the "leak" controversy in the first place by writing in the New York Times that Bush had lied in his 2003 State of the Union address about Saddam Hussein's seeking uranium in Africa for nuclear weapons. The CIA had sent Wilson to Niger in 2002 to check out precisely that point, and he claimed to have debunked it. Later, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that nearly everything Wilson wrote or said about Bush, Cheney, Iraq, and his own trip to Africa was untrue. Wilson was a fraud. "It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously," the Washington Post editorialized sorrowfully last week.
*The media--especially the Washington Post and New York Times--relied heavily on Wilson's reckless and unfounded charges to wage journalistic jihad against the White House and Bush political adviser Karl Rove. Reporters and columnists, based on little more than Joe Wilson's harrumphing, bought the line that the White House "leaked" Plame's name to discredit her husband. In an editorial last January, the New York Times said the issue in the case "was whether the White House was using this information in an attempt to silence Mrs. Wilson's husband, a critic of the Iraq invasion, and in doing so violated a federal law against unmasking a covert operative." The paper's answer was yes.
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Leftist Redeploys to Prison
He served one year in Iraq and I thank him for that. Unfortunately, like all the other defeatists, he has decided to surrender after only two years on the run.
On Thursday, a year and a half after going absent without leave before his second deployment to Iraq, Army Spc. Mark Wilkerson plans to return to Fort Hood to face his fellow soldiers and superiors.
"I just could not in good conscience go back to a war I felt was wrong," Wilkerson, 22, of Colorado Springs, Colo., said Thursday at Cindy Sheehan's protest camp site.
About 50 protesters joined Wilkerson at Sheehan's site near President Bush's ranch. Roughly a dozen in the group planned to travel with him about 40 miles south to the central Texas Army post near Killeen.
Wilkerson, who said he never left the country but won't reveal where he was, has consulted with an attorney but does not know exactly what penalties he faces. Others have served time in military prisons.
Simple desertion has been decreasing in the military in recent years — about 2,500 troops last year simply didn't show up for work, down from almost 5,000 in 2001, according to the Pentagon public affairs office.
Wilkerson was just 17 when he enlisted in the Army. He wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandparents, who also served in the military. Then after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he felt even more sure of his decision, he said.
It's hard to criticize someone who went to Iraq--especially when I did not. Also, because I can understand the draw of celebrity when the leftist mobsters and media get their clutches on you. But he signed up and, therefore, broke his word to his fellow soldiers that needed him, the commanders that needed him, the President that needed him and the nation that needed him.
I hope his time in prison is safe and passes quickly.
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That Democrat Tone
Hackett, Democrat loser who ran for the House and the Senate, shows that great tone:
This is your party. I challenge leftists on this like Charles did before.
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The Democrats Melt as Elections Heat up
Don't you love how the Dems can just say anything they want calling people "liars" and "jerks" and "incompetent" etc. But let Rumsfeld challenge them and they whine and cry! How can these people deal with terrorists if they cannot deal with an American election???
Democrats chastised Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld Wednesday for questioning the historical grasp of Bush administration war critics, accusing him of engaging in "dangerous business."
Several members of Congress had been urging Rumsfeld's resignation before he asserted to the American Legion that opponents displayed the kind of thinking that delayed military action against Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Rumsfeld said the world faces "a new type of fascism." And he warned against repeating the pre-World War II mistake of appeasement.
Rumsfeld's speech in Salt Lake City Tuesday, in which he also said that administration critics suffered from "moral confusion," prompted angry reactions from Democrats hoping to win back the majority in Congress.
"It is a dangerous business to accuse those who disagree with you of moral and intellectual confusion," [that's politics!] said Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. "Debate in our democracy is based upon respect, not vilification." [ah, yes. the whole "shut up!" rebuttal]
Said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi: "If Mr. Rumsfeld is so concerned with comparisons to World War II, he should explain why our troops have now been fighting in Iraq longer than it took our forces to defeat the Nazis in Europe." [can she explain why our forces are STILL in Germany 60 years later?]
Rumsfeld said it "was apparent that many have still not learned history's lessons." Aides later said he was not accusing the administration's critics of trying to appease the terrorists but was cautioning against a repeat of errors made in earlier eras.
Nevertheless, Rumsfeld's remarks were seen by many Democrats in Congress as fighting words.
Sen. Jack Reed, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said Rumsfeld has been "substituting sloganing for strategy" [and "substitution sloganing for strategy" isn't a slogan???] and delivered a "calculated political argument" to make people believe that to support a war against terror requires support of the administration's policies.
"I think the analogy is very, very weak," Reed, D-R.I., said of Rumsfeld's comparison of Iraq to World War II.
Rummy struck a nerve with this and the administration needs to drive it home in the next 60 days.
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Dems can't handle tough questions
The leftists are so used to a pass, but I guess Katrina is showing the soft underbelly of...Democrats.
New Orleans DA Walks out of Nightline Interview
Video here.
There is a taste of Cynthia McKinney influence in this behavior.
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Bitch
There. I said it. This whole thing was a scam to sell books, get Vanity Fair spreads and to accuse the White House of questionable ethics.
She is a bitch and Joseph Wilson is a lying fag.
Whew. That felt good.
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What did John Mark Karr know and when did he know it? (A Democrats Perspective)
This is all too convenient.
Today and tomorrow was planned to be the lynching of the Bush Regime over the failures of the federal government--the failures we exaggerated and amplified to take the spotlight off the tragedy that was Democratic leadership at the local and state level).
Now, with perfect timing, Colorado (RED STATE) investigators revealed that Karr's DNA does not match that of Jon Benet's murderer. What is fishy about all this is that the DA (who is part of Bush's police state) knew that the DNA didn't match on Saturday and waited two days to disclose it to the media.
This is carbon copy of the playbook employed during Dick Cheney's attempted manslaughter cover-up.
Obviously, KKKarr is one of KKKarl Rove's stooges. KKKarr made this claim to first divert the corporate media's attention from the illegal, imperial Iraq war. Then the Colorado DA sits on the negative DNA match for two days to release it on the Katrina Anniversary*.
This is a call to revolution. We need to pray and hope for more 9-11's to overthrow this dictator. A few lives are a small price to pay for the millions we would be saving.
Plus, John Mark KKKarr looks like and abortion clinic bomber. Has anyone investigated that?
*The one small benefit is that this fiasco covers up the revelation that Richard Armitage was the leaker in the Valerie Plame national security crisis; all of our accusations were baseless, but hopefully no one will figure that out.
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Bush Fearmongering is Frightening
Elanor Clift is in full spin mode after Bush's successful press conference last week. She is towing the line that Bush told the American people that Iraq would be a cakewalk (which is funny, because my father and I talked about the number of expected fatalities before the war started and I said I expected between 10-30 thousand; I must have all those Bush speeches saying there would be none) and says that Bush is back to "fearmongering."
And how does she describe this "fearmongering?" It's "frightful." But who is scaring people about real threats? Terrorism exists. Violent jihadism exists. Islamic-naziism exists. Iran's bloodlust for Israel exists. Bombs on planes exist. Conversations between Americans and terrorists overseas exist. A social security financial crisis exists. A threat to cultural unity through illegal immigration exists.
Yet the left tries to scare people with scenarios that do not exist. An American Theocracy does not exist. Cure-alls from embryonic cloning and experimentation do not exist. Waves of anti-abortion terrorists do not exist. Global destruction from "global warming" does not exist. Our ability to stop racist hurricanes does not exist. Running out of oil does not exist. Election theft conspiracies with voting machines does not exist. Destruction of social security does not exist.
And everytime the left mentions these theoretical scenario - they say it's scary and frightening and they want Americans to be frightened with them.
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Ace Pulls out the Flaming Skull again
He finds Democrats wishing for another 9-11 so that there can be "regime change" here in the United States. One of the reasons we need to get hit again is so George Bush cannot put another person on the Supreme Court.
They are the Party of Death.
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Leftwing Brilliance!
The left heralds themselves as the ones who believe in science; Madge (or Esther) didn't get the message:
When Madonna isn’t busy being crucified in concert or horseback riding in the English countryside, she wants to use the powers of Kabbalah to rid the world of nuclear waste.
The singer and her director hubby Guy Ritchie have been “lobbying the government and nuclear industry over a scheme to clean up radioactive waste with a supposedly magic Kabbalah fluid,” according to London’s Sunday Times.
Kabbalah Juice! Let's just give some to all the terrorists, too!
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Huff Puff's new blog name
I just read this term over at Dane's site this morning and I love it... Huffbollah!Posted by Aaron at 07:29 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
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Ms. Bernhardt took on the TSA earlier in the week.
Comedienne SANDRA BERNHARDT, close friend of Madonna, has threatened to fight new security measures at airports imposed after a terrorist attack on planes flying from the UK to the US was averted. From yesterday (10AUG06), passengers flying from and to America have been banned from taking non-essential hand luggage onboard jets. But Bernhardt, who is scheduled to fly out of New York's JFK Airport today (11AUG06) is determined to break the rule. She tells the New York Daily News, "When I go to the airport and they try to take my MAC Plushglass away from me, it's going to be World War III!"
But we all now know it was a publicity stunt.
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This Has got to be worth at least 2 points
I love see stuff like this. You MUST watch this news report on Dem tactics in Washington State.
At least the party crasher is dressed nicely and respectful - not some smelly hippie shouting the candidate down and throwing food.
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We are Safer
We are in fact safer.
Here are two articles illustrating the complete failure of imagination of Democrats to look at future threats:
The Air Force's new top commander for space predicted on Tuesday future attacks on U.S. satellites and called for greatly expanded tracking and identification of payloads launched by other countries.
Currently, U.S. efforts are focused on determining if an overseas launch is a ballistic missile or designed to put an object in orbit, then cataloging it over a period that can take weeks, said Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, who heads the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
"I say those days are over," he told an annual conference here on the fledgling, multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield. "If it's a space launch, we can't afford to relax."
Then there is this:
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has begun working with Israel to help find ways to counter enemy rockets, a much shorter-range threat than the "Star Wars" mission to block ballistic missiles for which is it known, the head of the agency said on Tuesday.
"We have been working with the Israelis ... as they go through with development of their own indigenous capabilities for that threat," Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering told reporters after a speech at a missile-defense conference here.
"That is not mature. That is still in development," he said of the effort to defeat something he likened to mortar or artillery fire.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency grew out of the so-called "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative launched by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1983. It is building a multibillion-dollar shield designed to thwart all classes and ranges of incoming ballistic missiles.
Let us recall history:
On March 23, 1983 President Reagan announced a new national missile defense program formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative but soon nicknamed "Star Wars" by detractors. President Reagan's stated goal was not just to protect the U.S. and its allies, but to also provide the completed system to the USSR, thus ending the threat of nuclear war for all parties. SDI was technically very ambitious and economically very expensive. It would have included many space-based laser battle stations and nuclear-pumped X-ray laser satellites designed to intercept hostile ICBMs in space, along with very sophisticated command and control systems. Unlike the previous Sentinel program, the goal was to totally defend against a robust, all out nuclear attack by the USSR.
A partisan debate ensued in Congress, with Democrats questioning the feasibility and strategic wisdom of such a program, while Republicans talked about its strategic necessity and provided a number of technical experts who argued that it was in fact feasible (including Manhattan Project physicist Edward Teller). Advocates of SDI prevailed and funding was initiated in fiscal year 1984. The motivation behind this effort largely collapsed with the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Then there was more Democratic obstruction in the Senate during Reagan's Administration:
Senate Democrats were so irrational in their opposition to SDI that they blocked a fourth star for Lieutenant General James Abrahamson simply because he was the director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. To those who said that the administration could not guarantee a one hundred percent destruction of Soviet missiles, supporters of SDI responded that no military system in the history of mankind ever had or ever could guarantee one hundred percent efficiency. Defense Secretary Weinberger explained that SDI was not a strategic cureall but would "strengthen our present deterrent capability" and help "curb" strategic arms competition.
So to hear the Democrats bellyache about how the Republicans have made this country less safe is a complete joke.
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Mother Sheehan Needs More Attention
This would have been a story if it were true:
Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was hospitalized Friday evening for dehydration and exhaustion after fasting for more than a month and protesting earlier this week in 100-degree weather, friends and relatives said.
Michelle Malkin has extensive documentation that Cindy has NOT been fasting.
She has a video on Hot Air.
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Where's Cartman When you Need Him?
Dirty, stinky, commie hippies will descend on the White House tomorrow to advocate for surrender (America's and Israel's) actings as useful idiots of the Islamic Fascists.
The WaPo of course is delighted this will take place so they can get the terror arrests off their front pages and showcase these kooks.
Will the reporters cheer them on like they did at Ned Lamont's victory rally? I will be there to find out!
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Poetry of Contrasts
Andrew McCarthy writes this concise definition of the left's motivations.
The antiwar Left has a conveniently flexible moral compass. Consequently, the Clinton era Echelon program was fine, but Bush’s NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program is an impeachable offense.
Mishandling classified information by a Clinton CIA director was worthy of a pardon, and destroying classified information (and lying to investigators about it) by a former Clinton national-security adviser was worthy of a pass, but leaking the unremarkable fact that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA is the crime of the century.
Bombing Kosovo without U.N. approval was a moral imperative; invading Iraq after over a dozen U.N. resolutions is a violation of international law.
Renditions conducted between 1994 and 2000 were just good national-security sense; renditions conducted between 2001 and 2006 are war crimes.
Indicting Osama bin Laden in 1998 and then doing nothing to capture him while he bombed two American embassies and an American naval destroyer, killing hundreds, was aggressive yet intelligently modulated counterterrorism; allowing Osama bin Laden to evade capture in Tora Bora while killing and capturing hundreds of his operatives and decimating his hierarchy is irresponsibly incompetent.
Wet fingers firmly in the wind, the Left looks you in the eye and tells you that what is depends on what the definition of “is” is, then votes for it before voting against it. The object of the game is power, and they are willing to gamble, even with our lives, to get it or keep it.
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Its going to get violent
When this gets out, Leftists will begin throwing and breaking things:
TO: Ken Mehlman
FROM: Fred Steeper
RE: Base Mobilization Survey Findings and Conclusions
DATE: August 2, 2006
The survey was commissioned by the Republican National Committee to identify the most effective messages to mobilize the Republican Base for the 2006 elections and determine where the Base stands on important issues in this election cycle. It follows similar studies of the Base completed in 2002 and 2003.
Overall support for President Bush and congressional Republicans from the Republican Base is very strong. The generic congressional vote from Republicans is an overwhelming 84% to 6%, within sampling error of what we found for the 2004 elections. An equally impressive 88% to 11% majority of Republicans approve of the way the President is handling his job.
Intended turnout from the Base also is extremely high. Eighty-one percent (81%) say they are almost certain to vote this November, and another 14% say they are very likelyto vote. This, too, is within sampling error of the intended turnout of Republicans for the 2004 elections.
In our test of 50 issues to mobilize the Republican Base for the 2006 elections, weidentified 18 of them, falling into seven general message areas, as having the bestpotential. Three additional issues also have good potential for mobilizing the Base.Seven of the issues concern the Global War on Terror and are viewed by Republicans asfalling into three distinct message areas. Eleven of the issues concern domestic policyissues and are viewed by Republicans as falling into four message areas.
Global War on Terror
Foreign Threats. Ranking at the top of what will motivate Republicans in 2006 isdealing with the foreign threats to our national security and supporting the Presidentsleadership in the War on Terror. Large majorities report satisfaction with the Presidentscommitment to defeat the terrorists in Iraqand his leadership in the War on Terror, ingeneral. In addition to Iraq, concerns about other foreign threats are included here. Forexample, Republicans are very concerned both about Irans sponsorship of terrorism, andits potential of developing nuclear weapons. A huge 87% of the Base expressesextremely strong feelings about one or more of these issues.
Domestic Fight Against Terrorism. Republicans see the renewal of the Patriot Act,better protection of our borders, and NSA surveillance of terrorist phone calls and phonerecords as an interrelated set of issues. Fully 80% of the Base expresses extremely strongfeelings about at least one of these steps to enhance our national security.
Democrats Weakening the Global War on Terror. Of the five issues on which wetested Democratic Party positions, its position on the War on Terror causes the strongestnegative feelings, on average, from Republicans. A 56% majority of the Base hasextremely strong feelings about the Democratic Partys WOT position. Republicans,also, tend to view this as an independent issue from their feelings about foreign threatsand the domestic fight against terrorism. As such, it can provide an importantreinforcement to the other War on Terror messages to mobilize the Republican Base.For these three global War on Terror message areas, 93% of the Republican Base holdsextremely strong feelings about one or more of them.
Domestic Policy Issues
Bush Tax Cuts. The Republican effort to make the Bush tax cuts permanent generatesstrongly held feelings from the Base, more so than for any other domestic initiative testedin the survey. Proposals to erase the Bush tax cuts generate considerable anger from theBase. The two issues together cover 69% of the Base with extremely strong feelingsabout at least one of them.
Cultural Values. This non-economic component in our coalition continues todemonstrate its importance. Included in this message cluster is the Bases satisfactionwith the passage of the ban on partial birth abortions. While the Bases satisfaction withthe confirmations of Justices Roberts and Alito is separate from the cultural issues, thoseconfirmations can be used as part of this motivating message area. An impressive 86% ofthe Base has extremely strong feelings about issues dealing with cultural issues secondin coverage to only the global War on Terror.
Health Care Reform. A message on health care to motivate the Base can be constructedfrom the Bases feelings about medical liability lawsuits and its support of HealthSavings Accounts. About 80% of the Base expresses some degree of approval of reformsto reduce frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals or anger over the currentexistence of such lawsuits. Similarly, 82% of the Base expresses some degree ofapproval of Health Savings Accounts. Combined, 78% of the Base has extremely strongfeelings about one or more of these issues.
Democrat Health Care Proposals. Framing Democrat health care proposals as placinga government bureaucrat between patients and doctors or as creating big governmentrunhealth care can be very effective in mobilizing the Republican Base, especially intandem with the motivating messages on health care reform. Two-thirds of the Base hasextremely strong feelings about one or both of these ways of describing the Democratapproach to health care.
For these four domestic policy areas, 96% of the Republican Base holds extremely strongfeelings about one or more of them.
Other Strong Issues and Messages
Media Coverage of Iraq. One of the strongest issues in the survey is the media neverreporting good news from Iraq. Almost 60% of the Base expresses extremely highdissatisfaction with the media coverage of the situation in Iraq. Moreover, these negativefeelings toward the media are independent of their general feelings about the War onTerror.
Democrat Impeachment/Censorship of President Bush. Democrat talk of impeachingor censoring President Bush causes significant anger in the Republican Base. Aboutthree-in-four Republicans express some degree of anger toward each of these Democraticthreats. Sixty percent (60%) of the Base has extremely negative feelings about theDemocrats impeachment threats placing it among the strongest in the survey.
Democrat Position on Medicare Prescription Drug Program. The Republican Baseseparates this issue from the other health care issues and singles it out with a significantlevel of disapproval. This is especially the case for seniors in our Base. A 55% majorityof our seniors have extremely strong feelings about Democrats who want to take theMedicare prescription drug benefit away from seniors.Seventy-two percent (72%) ofthe Republican seniors express varying degrees of anger with this Democrat position.
These results are based on a national sample of 1,305 past Republican voters conductedby telephone, June 26-29, 2006. The sample is proportionate to size by gender withineight regions.
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More Election Fraud in Ohio
By the leftist Democrats of course:
Workers paid by a liberal group to register voters in Franklin County have turned in more than 500 forms with nonexistent addresses and potentially fake signatures, elections officials said yesterday.
Board of Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said he has forwarded the cards to county authorities for possible criminal charges.
Elections workers verifying new-voter forms discovered signatures with the same handwriting, addresses that were for vacant lots and incorrect information for voters who already were registered, Damschroder said. One card had the name of an East Side man who's dead.
All the questionable cards were turned in by workers for Ohio ACORN, a group that's also paying people to gather signatures for a proposed November ballot initiative to raise the state's minimum wage.
These are the same people who were paid with crack cocaine for signatures and were registering the likes of Mary Poppins and Michael Jackson. Everyone knows Jacko's from Indiana...
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The News in Michael Moore's World
Here are the pressing news items listed in Michael Moore's Newsroom:
August 10th, 2006 1:58 pm
Sheehan Registers To Vote In Texas
August 10th, 2006 2:31 am
Widow set to protest outside Bush ranch
August 10th, 2006 2:18 am
War protester says she'll take case to trial
August 9th, 2006 1:20 am
Sheehan resumes war protest near Bush's ranch
Because, of course, nothing in the world is more important than Cindy "Get Along Home" Sheehan!
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Only in their warped reality
would Democrats suggest that a thwarted terror plot that could have killed thousands was an indication of failure in the war:
"As a result of mismanagement and the wrong funding priorities, we are not as safe as we should be," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada countered.
This is expected of a party with no ideas. All you do is blame everything on everyone else and predict disaster at every turn. Then when another attack does happen, you can claim you were right all along.
How noble.
At least there is one Democrat with sense:
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who intends to run as an independent after losing his Democratic primary to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont, said the foiled plot "should serve as the latest, most serious evidence that we are in a war against a brutal enemy that intends to attack us over and over again in the most indiscriminate way."
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Cindy Sheehan And Her Minions Lose A Court Case
The first sentence of the AP story (LINK) says it all:
"A federal judge on Tuesday blocked protesters from pitching tents or placing portable toilets near President Bush's ranch, ruling that roadside camping and parking bans are constitutional."
To read the entire story, click the above link.
Cross-posted at Dodo World.
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Iranian President Running for DNC Position
I cannot wait to start reading his blog on the Huffington Post:
Speaking about President Bush's failure to answer his 18-page letter that criticized U.S. foreign policy, Ahmadinejad said, "Well, (with the letter) I wanted to open a window towards the light for the president so that he can see that one can look on the world through a different perspective. … We are all free to choose. But please give him this message, sir: Those who refuse to accept an invitation will not have a good ending or fate. You see that his approval rating is dropping every day. Hatred vis-à-vis the president is increasing every day around the world. For a ruler, this is the worst message that he could receive. Rulers and heads of government at the end of their office must leave the office holding their heads high."
The same man that wants to wipe Israel off the map sounds just like a Democrat.
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Ned Lamont's Netroots: Scrap Support for Israel - Impose Secular State
The