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Posted at 11:23am on Jul. 10, 2008 Noriega Clueless On FISA
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Apparently Lt. Colonel isn't what it used to be. One would think that someone who attains such a rank in the Army would know a little about that thing called OPSEC (Operations Security). See, Rick Noriega seems to be under the impression that FISA allows the Federal Government to listen in on Soldiers deployed overseas. How can he be so confused?
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Posted at 9:28am on Jul. 9, 2008 The "Do Nothing" Congress Gets Its Report Card
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You know, I've never been much of a believer in polls. You ask 1,000 people a few questions, and the results are supposed to be indicative of how the rest of us 300 million slobs out here feel...I know it works in a statistics class, but it's a stretch for me. That said, I am BESIDE myself over this Rasmussen Report card that tells the tale of Harry and Nance's woes:
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Posted at 12:05am on Jul. 9, 2008 Dear Senator Obama: What You HAVE And What You Want?...Well, It Ain't Gonna Happen
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I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the title of THIS piece at Army Times. Apparently, the would-be Commander in chief wants to make kissy face with the Military now...in hopes they might trust him somehow if he gives them some candy. Mind you, there won't be much OF it because he wants to give as much of it as he can to lesser-deserving Americans...but he hopes a few limp carrots on an over-bent stick might just be enough to buy their love after all:
Obama said he hopes the military community will see him as “a guy looking out for us and not someone trying to score cheap political points.”
Military members and their families deserve better pay and benefits, he said, and although money might be hard to find for a generous increase, he supports increasing basic pay to keep up with inflation and private-sector salaries, and he believes housing allowances need to be increased so young service members and their families can afford adequate places to live.
He also wants to spend more to improve veterans’ health care and reduce the wait for a disability claim to be processed.
“I don’t know a higher priority than making sure that the men and women who are putting themselves in harm’s way, day in and day out, are getting decent pay and decent benefits — so that when they return home as veterans, they don’t have to wait six months to get benefits that they’ve earned, that they’re not winding up homeless on the streets, that they’re being screened for post-traumatic stress disorder, that if a spouse is widowed, the benefits are sufficiently generous,” he said. “These are just basic requirements of a grateful nation.”
Obama said he did not want to be more specific because he did not want to make promises he might not be able to keep. “I think we can do a much better job than we’re doing right now,” he said. But, he added, “I want to be honest: We are going to be in a tight budget situation. We’re not going to be able to do everything all at once.”
A promise of a cost of living raise isn't "trying to score cheap political points?” Hunh...and he knows of "no higher priority" yet he's gangbusters on a lot of OTHER priorities...none of which we can actually afford...? Ah, well, who cares about those nasty little details anyway? There's lies to be told, promises to be made and broken, and fat ladies to make faint in the audience.
Tight budget situation, indeed, Obama. By the time you rape the rest of us in new and expanded taxes and give it all back to "Fathers" and "Health Care" and "Global Poverty"...what will these Soldiers see? Bupkus.
A one or two percent raise in salary? Give me a freaking break. Trust starts with believing in the cause YOUR Soldiers are fighting for...not telling them they'll be made to surrender and forfeit the field because you promised your MoveOn and Code Pink friends you'd withdraw if they gave you that $2300.00 check.
Nice try though Barry...nice try.
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Posted at 10:17am on Jul. 6, 2008 Democrats: "Whose interest is it to settle anything now?"
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Admitting I almost spit my coffee out onto my poor defenseless screen while reading THIS AP piece this morning, it occurs to me that the quote in my title says everything we need to know about what's at stake in November.
I know I have been harping and ranting for quite some time now about this, but really-when the fight on the Hill is about power and not about attending to the needs of "we, the People"...and the Democrats go so far as to SAY so...doesn't that tell us everything we need to know about who cares about US and who cares about themselves? I'd say BOTH sides are more interested in themselves than they are about their constituents, but at LEAST with the Republicans this self-interest is driven by them knowing we're pissed off at them. The Democrats' self-interest appears to be more based on expanding their control OVER us. The AP piece is basically a summary of where we are this legislative cycle, and what is likely to get done between now and the General...and what is likely NOT to get done. I like the way they introduce the story:
Democrats bent on showing they can govern and Republicans anxious about a sour re-election climate are pushing a pared-down summer agenda in Congress.
Pared down? Phhhhhht...they are already dubbed the "Do Nothing Congress"... how much less can they actually do?
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Posted at 3:33pm on Jul. 4, 2008 A Day For Traitors and Treasonists
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Our founding Fathers, 56 of them God rest their souls, were traitors in their time and were considered by their fellow Englishmen back then to be the most evil amongst good men...but what was derived from their high crimes of treason stands before us today as the greatest nation in the history of mankind. This fact deserves nothing less than a hushed silence of reverence and respect; you crush a man under your heels long enough and he will rise up against you. After many years of having to suffer the tyranny of their government, on this day 232 years ago our forefathers flipped off a King, and set about bringing sanity to an insane world.
Consider these words in contrast with the lessons of history our current Congress (and the cavalier nature of their impositions on our lives) either never learned or have clearly forgotten:
[A]ll experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
This Independence day I am especially reminded of these words as I look around at the collective state of our Republic.
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Posted at 4:25pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Do Nothing Dem Congress Slow-Bleeding US Auto Industry
hey...don't Unions vote FOR Democrats? Weird love affair, that...
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hey...don't Unions vote FOR Democrats? Weird love affair, that...
This just in: GM, Ford, Toyota Plunge as Buyers Reject Big Trucks.
General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the biggest auto retailers in the U.S., said June sales plunged as fuel prices above $4 a gallon drove consumers away from gas-guzzling trucks.
GM sales fell 19 percent, Ford was down 28 percent and Toyota dropped 21 percent. Honda Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, which rely on cars for the bulk of their sales, each rose about 1 percent.
Weird, I thought Democrats owed their pandering loyalty to ALL Union-based industry. Now, pay close attention to what Obama said a month ago about the effects of high gas prices: "Americans [will] start changing the kinds of cars they drive if gasoline prices continue to climb." What he DIDN'T say was that "Hope and Change" really means Union members must HOPE for lifetime Unemployment Insurance after Obama's destruction of the economy CHANGEs their employment status to "plant closed." Again, from Bloomberg:
The vehicles that people want are in short supply because the industry has turned on a dime in terms of demand and supply can't quite handle that,'' Alan Baum, director of automotive forecasting for Planning Edge in Birmingham, Michigan, said in a Bloomberg Radio interview. You'll continue to see a decline for the next several months.''
For the second straight month, Ford's F-Series large pickup, perennially the best-selling vehicle in the U.S., was outsold by four cars: Toyota's Corolla and Camry and Honda's Civic and Accord. Nissan Motor Co. reported an 18 percent total decline.
Propping up foreign competition while driving American jobs into the ground...hmmm...you know, coal and oil may be making us sick...but this "do nothing Democrat Congress" is killing us. As the Saudi King has suggested: Get Used To It.
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Posted at 9:47am on Jul. 1, 2008 If Democrats Weren't So Pathetic, This Would Be Funny
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Please tell me you haven't forgotten the '04 election when we were told to decide who was better suited for the Presidency; a "rape, torture, and burn" John Kerry or a "missed a few days of service in the Reserves" George Bush. That somehow, with all the horrible things John Kerry says he saw or did himself, ol' Johnny boy should be President because he came home from 'Nam to tell the world we were doing bad things in the war.
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Posted at 12:29pm on Jun. 30, 2008 "A Plague That Does Not Discriminate By Economic Class, Race Or Age"
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Such has our fuel price crisis been described by AP reporter Alan Fram:
[S]oaring fuel prices are inflicting pain throughout the U.S. Nine in 10 expecting the ballooning costs to squeeze them financially over the next half-year, an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Monday says.
Nearly half think that hardship will be serious. To cope, most are driving less, easing off the air conditioning and heating at home and cutting corners elsewhere. Half are curtailing vacation plans; nearly as many are considering buying cars that burn less gas.
As the price has spiraled upward so, too, has the public's ire.
Reid and Pelosi don't care. Whatever liberties and freedoms to move about the country we might otherwise enjoy, were we able to actually afford to GET there, are slowly being taken away from us by the inaction of our elected officials. BOTH Houses of the "do nothing" Congress blew off any energy legislation to help us get through the summer...THEY are on vacation now, and we can't afford to join them. Instead, we look out our windows at cars we can't refuel and worry about how we're going to get back and forth to work so we can keep supporting these losers through ever-increasing taxes.
Nearly 70% of us are travelling less or not at all, in large part because the national average price for a gallon of gasoline climbed to $4.086, and "Gas prices have risen 2.9% in the last month and are almost 38% higher than where they were a year ago." Waddya think jumpin' genius Joe Klein over at Time says we ought to be doing?
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Posted at 11:03am on Jun. 29, 2008 Democrats On Cornyn: "Better To Look Crooked Than Look Silly"
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You can't make stuff like this up people...
The DSCC, among the many other Liberal self-important elitists out there, has their undies all in a bundle because they don't "get" Cowboy humor. Being high and mighty elitists precludes any genuine understanding of the "country" culture, or a decent appreciation for a fine Stetson, or even a shiny pair of bonny-new Tony LLama's for that matter....just ask Obama where that God and Guns remark got him. NOR do they have any ability to comprehend why anyone would poke a little fun at himself; taking one's self too seriously ALL the time is a founding principle for being a Democrat you see...
So, what does the pretty little city boy Democrat Media Consultant named Dean Rindy have to say about the Cornyn "flap" that isn't?
"This is a disaster for John Cornyn, because it just makes him look silly," said Democratic media consultant Dean Rindy. "They don't stop to realize Cornyn's not the Marlboro man. He's a plump, pasty politician in cowboy drag."
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"There's nothing worse than looking foolish. Better to look crooked than to look silly. People want a strong US Senator. Not a fake cowboy," Rindy said.
Rindy wouldn't know a real Cowboy if he took a spit of dip to the forehead from one...and it's no real surprise to hear a Democrat suggest looking crooked is a good thing either...but really now-can the little kiddies on the left lighten up a little?
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Posted at 8:10pm on Jun. 23, 2008 How DOES One Actually Go About Committing High Crimes Against Humanity And Nature?
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From the haystack "AYFKM?" files...
Yes, AGW fans (and you evil deniers of the truth) , we have a new pitch of frenzy in the Global warming debate...Fossil Fuels Energy Company CEOs are of the same cloth as Big Tobacco; they TOO spread doubt about the connections between a recently-made-popular "evil" (fossil fuels, in this case) and the effects said "evil" has on something...in THIS case, on our precious little furry Polar and alpine critters who are soon-destined to be: