Sunday, April 30, 2006

Energy Secretary doing OK on MTP

I've never seen our Energy Secretary before. He is coming across like a smart man. His best line was after Durbin went into this long diatribe about Big Oil gouging consumers. The Secretary said Durbin was too smart of a man to believe what he just said.

He did just bumble through a question he should have hit out of the park. When shown a clip of Governor Bush in 2000 deriding Al Gore's call for President Clinton to open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gas prices in an election year, Tim Russert tried to play "gotcha" by saying that President Bush is now doing the same thing.

Bush is not.

There is a BIG difference between suspending the filling of the reserve (which Bush has done) and opening the reserve to bring down the price. The Secretary should have hit that out of the park. He did make a good point that the Dems whined and moaned to open the reserve last year and now oil is 75 dollars a barrel. How much would that cost the tax payer to buy back the gas we sold at 60 dollars a barrel at 75 dollars?

Top 100 High Schools

Well, the Newsweek list is out and Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona, was not on the list.

Having me as an alumnus will be a stain on that institution for more decades to come.

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Hell, I thought it was just technical difficulties!

I guess our site was under attack last night by "internet jihad" as we also use hosting matters:

A post by Annette of HM on one of their support forums indicated:

We are seeing another round of attacks after changing the IPs on the target server. This is an indication that the target from earlier either was not the primary target or was a byproduct of the original attack and identified as the primary target.

Read more at Malkin.

Friday, April 28, 2006

Rush Limbaugh Arrested!!!

Well, he was addicted to prescription drugs and either had a complicent doctor or he doctor shopped. That's my opinion. And let me say that Rush got off lucky. We see what DeLay is going through and I am glad he was able to work this out.

He will plead not guilty and the charges will be dropped in 18 months and it will not go on his record. Here is the statement from his atty, Roy Black:

Settlement Agreement Ends State Investigation of Rush Limbaugh
April 28, 2006

Palm Beach, FL – April 28, 2006 – In response to media and other inquiries, Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, released the following statement today concerning a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office to end the investigation of Mr. Limbaugh:

"I am pleased to announce that the State Attorney's Office and Mr. Limbaugh have reached an agreement whereby a single count charge of doctor shopping filed today by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

"Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of 'Not Guilty' to the charge filed by the State.

"As part of this agreement, Mr. Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of "supervision" and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement.
"Mr. Limbaugh had intended to remain in treatment. Thus, we believe the outcome for him personally will be much as if he had fought the charge and won."

The actions taken today are as follows:

• The State Attorney has filed a single charge of doctor shopping with the Court. The charge is being held in abeyance under the terms of an agreement between the State and Mr. Limbaugh.

• Mr. Limbaugh has filed a plea of "Not Guilty" with the Court.

The formal agreement between Mr. Limbaugh and the State Attorney will be filed with the Court on Monday. The terms of the agreement are substantively as follows:

• Mr. Limbaugh will continue in treatment with the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years.

• After Mr. Limbaugh completes an additional 18 months of treatment, the State Attorney has agreed to drop the charge.

• Mr. Limbaugh has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation.

OF COURSE, liberals will breathlessly report this story like it's a big deal. People have problems for which they are ultimately responsible. Our president had substance abuse problems in his youth and turned himself over to Christ. Rush claims to have kicked the habit and he apologized to his listeners. I accepted his apology and am glad he didn't have to go to jail, because about me and about 20 million other people would have showed up in Florida to listen to him do his show through the window of his prison cell!

Here's a list of the drugs he took over the course of six months:




What I am looking for is which news stations will still insist on using his fatty fatty too much Rush picture from the early 90's...



or



or the more svelt, huggable, loveable little fuzzball he is now (he is quite sexy).

the anthem

You don't sing Puccini in English.

You don't sing the American National Anthem in Spanish.

Period.

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Democratic Carnival of Corruption

When was the last time you heard a Democrat use the "Culture of Corruption" line? By now it's obvious that it was cooked up and focus grouped and...backfired:

Sen. Debbie Stabenow's campaign has corrected her campaign finance reports to show that some donations from 2002 and 2003 came from an Indian tribe then represented by now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, not an individual as she reported at the time.

Stabenow's campaign originally reported that $4,000 in donations came from Christopher Petras, who was the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's legislative director at the time. The donations came during a period in which Stabenow and other Michigan lawmakers sought funding for the tribe and wrote letters to federal regulators on the tribe's behalf.

The campaign wrote the Federal Election Commission on April 14 to correct the report to show the donations came from the tribe. Records originally listed Petras as giving Stabenow's campaign $2,000 on March 6, 2002, and an equal amount on June 30, 2003. Copies of the checks showed the first was dated Feb. 20, 2002, and the second June 2, 2003.

Stabenow campaign manager Tom Russell said Wednesday the tribe made the contributions and the error was "a glitch in filing the report which was corrected" as soon as it learned of the problem. He said the computer system attached Petras' name to the donations because he was listed as a contact for the tribe.

Ah yes, those "glitches" are the problem. When a Republican files incorrectly, it's part of the Culture of Corruption; when a Democrat does it, it's just a simple "glitch" in the system.

Remember when they were trying to get DeLay over a golf trip that was filed incorrectly--then about half of the Democrats in congress rushed to "update" all their travel records (including Nancy Pelosi)? Didn't Cynthia McKinney use congressional funds to have Chef (Isaac Hayes) come and sing at an event?

But back to the Democrats' political scheming...its interesting how they overplayed their Abramhoff hand, isn't it? In fact, Thomas Lifscom touches on this today:


There are two distinct aspects of President George W. Bush's persona. Measured against his immediate predecessor, who obsessively managed his daily standing in popularity polls, President Bush appears indifferent, isolated, surrounded by cronies, and even hapless, mired now in the low thirties in the polls. But when elections loom, when voters pay closer attention, and when popularity really matters, he becomes a shrewd poker player, who has lured his enemies into betting on weak hands.

I hope so.

More Democratic Lies (grab a kleenex)

Everytime I hear Chris Matthews say what we were told would happen by the administration, I yell at the television. He says that the American people we were told that Saddam had ties to 9/11, we were promised WMD, a cakewalk, that our soldiers were greeted as liberators and that Iraqi oil would pay for the operation--none of which were true (he says).

What a liar. No, we did not find the WMD in Iraq and I was certainly disappointed. I remember watching the news for a month straight waiting for our soldiers to find them. Every bunker they found where the field tests tested positive, I was happy that we got to them before Saddam used them. But they were not WMD and I was frustrated.

I was frustrated for all the wrongs reasons. The only reason I wanted the WMDs to be there was to rub it in the face of all the Hollywood actors and self-important Democrats that voted for the war then cried foul before the first shot was fired.

I get upset with Chris Matthews because the rest are blatant lies. No one said that Saddam was involved with 9/11 other than that random Iraqi agent in Germany and the fact that Iraq was complicit in the first WTC attack. War is never a cakewalk and most people involved believed that Saddam would use WMD against the troops as they approached Baghdad. And this pay for the war with Iraqi oil is the exact OPPOSITE position the administration took before the war. It would BE a war for oil if that was how we were going to pay for it.

But what burns me up the most is the new Democratic lie that we were not greeted as liberators. I saw it with my own eyes on television (all news outlets) and in newspaper pictures. As Ann Coulter reminds us, it is easy to be a Democrat because, for a Democrat, history begins every morning. They fiddle with history and try to pretend things didn't happen (like forgetting everything the Clinton administration said about the dangers of Saddam Hussein in 1998 1999).

Larry Elder reminds us of what the Democrats want us to forget--what the Democrats want to steal from our soldiers honor for the brilliant battle they fought to take Baghdad.

Our soldiers and heros were greeted as liberators:

From a soldier


"In April 2004 I was in the first push through Fallujah after the four American contractors were murdered, desecrated and hung from a bridge. I was critically wounded after I was shot through the hip in a firefight and nearly bled out on the battlefield. It was six months before I was able to walk semi-normally on my own more than 20 feet unaided by crutches or a wheel chair. In December of 2004 I was medically retired, and even now over two years later I still cannot run and I honestly don't think I will be regaining that ability in this lifetime.... Well I have had multiple people ask me about what I think about everything going on over there and I always respond the same way.... I reach into my wallet and pull out a card and let them read it. It speaks for itself; I don't need to say a word. I received this shortly after the invasion in 2003, a young boy walked up to me with his father who was standing behind him with his hands on his shoulders and just reached out his hand and gave this to me.... Sure there are those who want us dead and gone and will do anything to get rid of us, but they are a minority."

The soldier enclosed a copy of the card. It has a big heart on the front, and inside it reads: "Thank you George Bush. Thank you American soldiers. Thank you Marines [sic] soldiers. To save us. We are so grateful. Your friend, Ali Ahmed. An Iraqi boy, 9 years old. 2003.4.15 Wedensday [sic]."

From the NYTimes

On April 10, 2003, John F. Burns filed this story from Baghdad:

"Saddam Hussein's rule collapsed in a matter of hours today across much of this capital city as ordinary Iraqis took to the streets in their thousands to topple Mr. Hussein's statues, loot government ministries and interrogation centers and to give a cheering, often tearful welcome to advancing American troops.

" ...Army and Marine Corps units moving into the districts of eastern Baghdad where many of the city's 5 million people live finally met the kind of adulation from ordinary Iraqis that American advocates of a war to topple Mr. Hussein had predicted....

"Much of Baghdad became, in a moment, a showcase of unbridled enthusiasm for America...

"American troops, but almost as much any Westerner caught up in the tide of people rushing into the streets, were met with scenes that summoned comparisons to the freeing of Eastern Europe 14 years ago....

"Shouts to the American soldiers of 'Thank you, mister, thank you,' in English, of 'Welcome, my friend, welcome,' of 'Good, good, good,' and 'Yes, yes, mister,' mingled with cries of 'Good, George Bush!' and 'Down Saddam!'...

"A middle-aged man pushed through a crowd attempting to topple a statue of Mr. Hussein outside the oil ministry with a bouquet of paper flowers, and passed among American troops distributing them one at a time, each with a kiss on the cheek.

"A woman with two small children perched in the open roof of a car maneuvering to get close to a Marine Corps unit assisting in toppling a Hussein statue outside the Palestine and Sheraton hotels, the quarters for foreign journalists, wept as she shouted, 'Thank you, mister, thank you very much.'...

From our generals

Gen. Georges Sada, the No. 2 ranking general in the Iraqi Air Force, said the same thing when I interviewed him Feb. 9, 2006.

I said, "You said the president did the right thing in invading Iraq -- "

"Excuse me," said Sada, "you say invading, I always say liberating.... In most provinces of Iraq and Kurdistan, the forces were received with cheers and flowers, in the South, it was the same thing in my province." The people living in the Sunni triangle did not consider Americans liberators, he explained, because Sunnis ran things. "When they found that this is all gone, of course they didn't like it."

And of course, our MSM hasn't reported on much outside the Sunni triangle as they seldom stray from their hotel balconies.

Democratic Political Dirty Tricks in Georgia

What on earth is wrong with these people???



Secretary of State Cathy Cox's opponent, Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, said Cox campaign manager Morton Brilliant altered an online encyclopedia entry to include a reference to Taylor's son being arrested for DUI after an accident that killed his passenger.

Wikipedia may be edited by anyone.

"We have reviewed the situation carefully and everything I have seen in this short period of time indicates that the posting originated from my campaign office," Cox said. "I am genuinely sorry for any anguish this incident has caused the Taylor family."

This is just disgusting lame--and it always backfires! I wish people on both sides would learn this. Lying to achieve an outcome never works: witness Fahrenheit 9-11.

Cry Me a River

I still often forget that we went to the same college:

"I'm not sure journalists fully appreciate the threat confronting us -- The Times in the eavesdropping case, the Post for its CIA prison stories, and everyone else who has tried to look behind the war on terror. Maybe we're suffering a bit of subpoena fatigue. Maybe some people are a little intimidated by the way the White House plays the soft-on-terror card.

"Whatever the reason, I worry that we're not as worried as we should be. No president likes reporters sniffing after his secrets, but most come to realize that accountability is the price of power in our democracy. Some officials in this administration, and their more vociferous cheerleaders, seem to have a special animus towards reporters doing their jobs. There's sometimes a vindictive tone in way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries and in the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors. I don't know how far action will follow rhetoric, but some days it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values they profess to be promoting abroad." - Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times.

I love how they want subpoenas all around for the Bush administration, but the second LAWS ALREADY IN THE BOOKS are applied to them, they whine and cry of the coming dictatorship.

BUSH LEAVES OFFICE IN 2009 AND CHENEY AIN'T RUNNING!

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

ABC’s Primetime Live Demonstrates Media Hypocrisy

Read this remembering the media's crusade against humiliating terrorists for information:

A furious upstate prosecutor wants to question ABC News officials about why they did not report a father beating his 15-year-old daughter that aired last week on "Primetime."

"Clearly a crime was committed right there on TV," said Derek Champagne, DA of Franklin County, near Lake Placid.

"I'm obviously outraged that the first time I see what would appear to clearly be child abuse . . . in our own backyard is on a national news program," he told The Post yesterday.

The Franklin County DA and the New York State Bureau of Criminal Investigation are conducting a joint investigation into the shocking beating of a young teenager captured on video and broadcast last Friday on "Primetime" in a Diane Sawyer feature about the the difficulties stepfamilies endure.

The family - identified as Lynn and Joe Nelson, his 15-year-old daughter, Kyle, and Lynn's three younger children - are at the center of a storm of outrage from viewers who are upset that the beating was apparently not reported to authorities.

The beating was recorded by fixed cameras the family allowed ABC News to install in their home in rural Vermontville, N.Y.

Count me in with the outrage. If ABC Primetime Live had a tape of a soldier in Iraq punching someone that just shot and killed people in his unit, it would be all over the place. Democrats would run for the nearest camera to condemn the Bush administration and the world would be horrified.

ABC sits on a tape where a CHILD was beaten by her father for THREE YEARS and now the statute of limitations has run out.

SHAME!

Another 24K Gold Classic from Chairman Ann!

I am salivating for her new book:

I would be more interested in what the Democrats had to say about high gas prices if these were not the same people who refused to let us drill for oil in Alaska, imposed massive restrictions on building new refineries, and who shut down the development of nuclear power in this country decades ago.

...For decades Democrats have been trying to raise the price of gasoline so that the working class will stop their infernal car-driving and start riding on buses where they belong, while liberals ride in Gulfstream jets.

...The last time the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency was in 1993. Immediately after trying to put gays in the military and socialize all health care, Clinton's next order of business was to propose an energy tax on all fuels, including a 26-cent tax on gas. I think the bill was called "putting people first in line at the bus station." This is the Democratic Party. That's their program.

...Al Gore defended the gas tax, vowing that it was "absolutely not coming out" of the energy bill regardless of "how much trouble it causes the entire package."

And mind you, this was before we knew Gore was clinically insane. Back then we thought he was just a double-talking stuffed shirt who seemed kind of gay. The important thing was to force Americans to stop their infernal car-driving, no matter how much it cost.

Democrats in Congress promptly introduced an "energy bill" that would put an additional 25-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline to stop "global warming," an atmospheric phenomenon supposedly aggravated by frivolous human activities such as commerce, travel and food production.

...Then there's John Kerry, who favored a 50-cent increase in the gas tax in 1994. If he were a rap artist, Kerry's stage name would be "Fifty Cent a Gallon."

...The Democrats' only objection to current gas prices is that the federal government's cut is a mere 18.4 cents a gallon. States like New York get another 44 cents per gallon in taxes. The Democratic brain processes the fact that "big oil companies" get nearly 9 cents a gallon and thinks: WE SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT MONEY!

When the free market does the exact thing liberals have been itching to do through taxation, they pretend to be appalled by high gas prices, hoping the public will forget that high gas prices are part of their agenda.

Now if I could just get between those Marines too!

Democrats Suppressing the Vote

Judge understands the importance of elections and throws the bumbs in jail:

A judge today ignored a plea deal calling for probation and sentenced four Democratic campaign workers to jail terms for their roles in the infamous Election Day 2004 tire slashing caper.

The four - including the sons of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) and former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt - pleaded no contest to misdemeanors while an apparently deadlocked jury stalled over felony counts at the end of a January trial that received national coverage.

A fifth Kerry-Edwards staffer accused of crippling Republican vans, Justin Howell, turned down the last-minute deal and was acquitted by the jury.

Now suppose some white Republicans slashed the tires of some GOVT vans that were intended to transport blacks to vote in the South. OH MY! I just became tense thinking about the 18 months of hysteria the media would drum up. There would be news bureaus set up outside the courthouse like a Michael Jackson trial. They'd probably even interrupt soaps to air the trial on the network news. It would be called the "Worst Election Fraud in History" and there would be marches in Selma and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have relevance again.

Hubba Hubba!

Hottie!



And for all of you who want to whine and complain that he works for FOX News, please tell me how that is any different than the following:

Bill Moyers: During the Kennedy Administration, Moyers was appointed as Deputy Director of the Peace Corps (1961–63). When Lyndon Baines Johnson took office after the Kennedy assassination, Moyers became special Assistant to President Johnson, serving 1963–1967. From July 1965 to February 1967, he also served as White House Press Secretary.


George Stephanopoulos: ABC News's Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunday morning news show This Week; he was previously a senior political adviser to the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and later became Clinton's press secretary and communications director.

Tim Russert: Before joining NBC News, Russert served as counselor in New York Governor Mario Cuomo's office in Albany in 1983 to 1984 and was chief of staff to Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1977 to 1982.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Earth Day Poll Results

Did you know that Earth Day is on Vladamir Lenin's birthday? I did not know that!

Out of 35 total votes on Global Warming:

Ratify Kyoto now - 2%

Global warming is a myth by anti-capitalists - 27%

The Earth is warming, but causes are not scientifically known - 27%

Dick Cheney and Halliburton created Global Warming by invading Iraq - 5%

Individuals should minimize environmental footprint - 19%

Surf's up! - 16%

Be sure to vote in our new poll on gasoline prices!

SBA Administrator Hector Baretto Resigns

But he will remain until a new Administrator has been selected.