I have another reason to be proud of being Scottish.
This is Nicola McLean, Miss Scotland 2006, who just finished competing in the 2006 Miss World Pageant.
I wish that all women looked that good in a plaid skirt . . .
. . . or in a swimsuit.
Now, don't let the glamour shots cause you to misjudge Nicola's sense of morality. As it turns out, Nicola is a supporter of World Vision, one of the world's best Christian charities.
It has come to my attention that none of you have yet to go to this link and send a little cash my friend's way for his awesome game. What are you waiting for? It's a good early Christmas gift, a good Thanksgiving gift, and it tastes great in the Sukkah. BUY IT!
First sentence of the AP story (Link): "Tatana Kucharova, an 18-year-old student from the Czech Republic, won the Miss World 2006 beauty contest on Saturday."
Obviously, these studies are shams to get more money out of the pockets of Americans.
I say we call them on it. We tell the world we have $250 billion waiting for them if they can raise the other $750 billion.
In the 100 years it will take for the rest of the world to raise that kind of cash to just THROW AWAY trying to change the climate, we can can rest assured technology would have weened us off of fossil fuels.
The Peacock Network must have become atheistic. Based on what NBC has done to VeggieTales, the initials "NBC" now stand for "No Bible Cartoons".
VeggieTales is a popular children's video series that teaches children lessons from the Bible, and that teaches children to believe in God. The video series is so popular with children, that NBC decided to start airing the series on its Saturday morning cartoon line-up.
Buth there is just one problem. NBC decided to edit out references to God, which contradicts the reason for the creation of VeggieTales.
Michelle Malkin has more on this story (Link) .Originally posted at Dodo World.
Okay. I'll say that I respect that he had the decency to resign, unlike Democrats. But he is just sick. I just hope he never actually touched any of these children.
I was going to post on an article yesterday by Brian Ross where I thought this was blown way out of porportion. I commented how all these leftists were immediately ready to condemn the man for asking for a page's photo.
Boy is there egg on my face! Sick, sick, sick is right.
But nothing is in a vacuum and we must take this in context; let's not forget that there are people (Democrats) STILL in office after even more incidious behavior. Let us stroll down memory lane:
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii)
In October 1992, Republican Senate nominee Rick Reed began running a campaign commercial that included a surreptitiously taped interview with Lenore Kwock, Inouye's hairdresser. Kwock said Inouye had sexually forced himself on her in 1975 and continued a pattern of sexual harassment, even as Kwock continued to cut his hair over the years. Inouye, seeking a sixth term, denied the charges. And Kwock said that by running the commercial, Reed had caused her more pain than Inouye had. Reed was forced to pull the ad, and while many voters took out their anger on the Republican, Inouye was held to 57 percent of the vote – the lowest total of his career. A week later, a female Democratic state legislator announced that she had heard from nine other women who claimed Inouye had sexually harassed them over the past decade. But the women didn't go public with their claims, the local press didn't pursue the story, and the Senate Ethics Committee decided to drop the investigation because the accusers wouldn't participate in an inquiry.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
In response to a story in the Aug. 25, 1989, Washington Times, Frank confirmed that he hired Steve Gobie, a male prostitute, in 1985 to live with and work for him in his D.C. apartment. But Frank, who is gay, said Frank campaign button he fired Gobie in 1987 when he learned he was using the apartment to run a prostitution service. The Boston Globe, among others, called on Frank to resign, but he refused. On July 19, 1990, the ethics committee recommended Frank be reprimanded because he "reflected discredit upon the House" by using his congressional office to fix 33 of Gobie's parking tickets. Attempts to expel or censure Frank failed; instead the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him. The fury in Washington was not shared in Frank's district, where he won reelection in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and has won by larger margins ever since.
And let's not forget the molester-of-interns-in-chief, President William Jefferson Clinton.
Ah, yes. The REPUBLICAN ONLY CULTURE OF CORRUPTION continues apace with the release of the 1980 video of Jack Murtha (leftists candidate for House Majority Leader) take bribes! The American Spectator has the video.
Before you watch this, I have a question. Is this legitimate? Or, as Chris stated (and I agree with) is anything that is negative an "ATTACK" coming from a Republican?
Well, that REPUBLICAN ONLY CULTURE OF CORRUPTION revealed more of itself today when New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menedez had to fire an aide...
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's closest political adviser was secretly recorded seven years ago boasting of political power and urging a Hudson county contractor to hire somone as a favor to Menendez, according to a transcript obtained by The Star-Ledger.
I was wondering what all the Cornerites were talking about with "Switcheroo" and then I realized what was about to happen. Just like when they cheated via judicial order replaced Toricelli with Lautenburg, they will use this to demand that a new slimeball be put on the ballot instead of Menendez.
I am telling you, the race card is has been played too many times by Democrats. This kind of Anita Hill - Boating of Senator Allen will fail.
Aericans just opened up their hearts, homes, wallets, schools, and churches and took in hundreds of thousands of displaced blacks from New Orleans and don't want to be lectured by uppity WHITE Democrats who's a racist.
Chrissy Matthews was on Laura Ingraham this morning and said he was waiting for the next poll to come out to determine if Niggergate has helped Jim Webb, predicting they would be even.
No dice.
Allen up by 5 (with 8 million left to spend). I sure hope Senator Schumer has wasted a LOT of money in VA.
Also, what do you think Schumer thinks about all hype about Allen's Jewery? Any invitation to Channukah dinner this winter???
Actually, this is a brilliant political move before the 2006 elections. The talk of this selection and what it will do economically for the area will help GOP exposure and cadidates in the mid-west before 2008.
WHOOPS! THAT'S THE WRONG PICTURE (THANKS, PAUL!!!)
Republicans have chosen the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul -- in the politically pivotal Midwest -- for the 2008 presidential convention, GOP officials said Wednesday.
The selection was expected to be announced later in the day, said the Republican officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The convention is slated for September 1-4.
Losing out were New York City, Cleveland and a joint bid from Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida., other cities that had sought the convention.
The four-day event will be held at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, home of the National Hockey League's Minnesota Wild.
Convenience store operator 7-Eleven Inc. is dropping Venezuela-backed Citgo as its gasoline supplier at more than 2,100 locations and switching to its own brand of fuel.
The retailer said Wednesday it will purchase fuel from several distributors, including Tower Energy Group of Torrance, Calif., Sinclair Oil of Salt Lake City, and Houston-based Frontier Oil Corp.
A spokeswoman for Dallas-based 7-Eleven said its 20-year contract with Citgo Petroleum Corp. ends next week. About 2,100 of 7-Eleven's 5,300 U.S. stores sell gasoline.
Citgo is a Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, and the foreign parent became a public-relations issue for 7-Eleven because of comments by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Chavez has called President George W. Bush the devil and an alcoholic. The U.S. government has warned that Chavez is a destabilizing force in Latin America.
7-Eleven spokesman Margaret Chabris said that, "Regardless of politics, we sympathize with many Americans' concern over derogatory comments about our country and its leadership recently made by Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez."
Chabris said a boycott of Citgo gasoline would hurt the 4,000 employees of the U.S. subsidiary, who have no connection to Venezuela.
7-Eleven had been considering creating its own brand of fuel since at least early last year. Company officials said at the time they had spoken with independent fuel distributors.
I've met and debated or discussed politics with three types of liberals in my life. The first two I understand. One isn't very forward with their opinions, if you want to discuss it, fine, if not, also fine. The other is very forthright about what they think, to the point of always bringing it up whenever the opening presents itself. As I said, I understand both personalities, it is simply a matter of how fervent one is, or perhaps how evangelical one is.
The third type, I don't get at all. This is the time that gets mad when you dare publicize what they think.
I recently made an entry here, remarking how much fun it would be to help the 73 Democrats in the House who want us out of Iraq to get their message out. Well, LifeLike Pundits has attracted a brand-new troll, who immediately launched into (false) ad hominem attacks in the comment section of that post, and seemed to want to split hairs about whether or not these 73 individuals wanted to defund the war, or simply get out (which they could only accomplish by defunding it - hey, it was his difference, not mine).
What didn't he do? He didn't deny that these 73 people wanted OUT. But he got angry that I dared mention it.
What spawned this? What made him produce his bile? I don't know, but he is not the first liberal I have noticed that has done this. They believe they are right, but get furious when you mention what they actually stand for.
Sounds like insecurity to me.
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