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The folly of Freidman


Tom Freidman has an op/ed in today's Times...So I react to it....


If you really read this absurd article, you will discover just how confused and illogical this man's comments are. Amazingly, he is thought of as one of the more intelligent members of the "peoples commitee" that is the Times editorial board.
He marvels at China's smokescreen (in more ways than one) that they scripted for an international audience; yet he begrudgingly acknowledges that they are by and large, a third world nation.
He saw one Chinese airport that impressed him (and probably would not be permitted access to the other, more primitive landing patches) and compares it to his hometown decades old commuter strip called La Guardia.
He points his arrogant, elitist finger at his own nation's weakening infrastructure and suggests that we are falling short of what China is doing; while never even hinting at the horrors going on behind the "bamboo curtain" that build theirs.
Friedman's world only extends to what he has seen. Everything else does not exist. No political prisons, no forced abortions, no forced conformity, no slave wages and no misery index is even hinted at.
It is to be expected, I guess, for a liberal like Freidman, to take the default position that always castigates America. There is almost never anything that is right with us that he points out. Nothing is perfect, but to applaude a police state's propaganda and in any way compare it to the greatest nation ever to exist, is really stale beer. What is the man's point? It appears to be: freedom is overrated and totalitarianism rocks because they have a nice airport.
I think liberals often embrace insanities simply because their core philosophy is so insane
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The woes of a fantasy commish

 

This article has nothing to do with politics. Somehow today, I feel like taking a political day off and want to discuss what, for many,  is a more powerful national force.

That force is called “fantasy football.”

It has been known to split the bonds of family. Completely spit up lifelong friends (if only for a season or two.) And I’m sure if I completely researched it, it may have even led to a divorce, assault and battery or even a homicide or two.

I’ve been involved in a few leagues over the past three or four years. They all start out as cordial, back slapping, high fiving mostly guy groups who may just substitute this form of competition from a childhood playground type that they no longer can physically do. Arthritis, bursitis, knee and back aches and even heart concerns leave a lot of us unable to perform as we once did. I’m convinced fantasy sports are just a substitute.

As friendly as they all begin, almost inevitably, hard feelings seem to sprout up along the way. As though losing a fictitious computer game to a rival by an artificial scoring system somehow diminishes one’s manhood.

Some leagues actually encourage “smack-talk”. That’s akin to stabbing your victim and then pounding your chest while standing over him. “Dissing” your opponent is also encouraged. That’s like what we used to call “ranking” on someone. You know, phrases like, “you suck”, “your mama is fat” “I da best” and on and on. For more examples, just tune in to MTV for an hour or so…you’ll get the idea and an earful of hate.

With all that being said, here is my tale of woe as I entered the world, for the first time, of fantasy commissioner this year.

I wanted to do a friends and family only private league. That would, almost necessarily, eliminate those who start out the season and then just quit playing. These lunatics are far more common in free public leagues, but can be found elsewhere. They are easily recognized by them playing in week 10 a quarterback who was jailed in week 4 on a marijuana charge. It kind of takes all the fun out of beating the guy; to say nothing of the ridicule you might suffer if the team beats your guys!

So I set it up with a private password and send out about a dozen invitations.

My son is first to sign up, then his girl and future brother-in-law. With me, that makes four-we need 12. Then a friend chimes in….we got five now.

Understand there is not an unlimited amount of time here to get to the magic number. I think about three weeks, is all. After that, the league is dissolved and we get to start over.

So, I then email #1 son who is in the Navy and has never played fantasy before.

He answers back in a few days and says “cool” because he has just joined a league on base. He also can not for the life of himself figure out how to log in and sign up. So, after going over a few things with him on the phone-while the grandkids were running and screaming in the background-I sort of gave up on the explanation part. I invented an identity and signed him up through my site.

I still have no confirmation from him if he even knows how to log on to the league’s web site, but his name is on the list.

Then I attempt to sign his wife up (she would be the bigger sports fan of the two). Now she has just moved to the Carolina hills and has almost no access to the internet (yet), so she says to go ahead and sign her up with another bogus account and phony address (since she really has no permanent one yet), so I do and she is also in.

We are now up to a shaky seven.

#2 son tells me his boss and his boss’s son wants to join. He said the same thing two weeks ago. Thusfar they have not done so.

One nephew never even acknowledged my invitation.
My sisters tribe does not do sports. Imagine that, people who couldn't care less about football, in America!
Another friend said maybe and never did change that stance. Every other friend, my age, either looked at me like I had three heads or laughed when I asked about fantasy football.  I think most men over fifty, don’t do fantasy sports; they are either already dead, at a bar drinking themselves silly watching football,  golfing or fishing.

I do hazily remember that I had nine fully vetted and duly signed up with 48 hours to go before the deadline. I panicked and took the league public-hoping to avoid the indignity of dissolution.

Big mistake.

I furiously sent out emails or phone calls to everyone I could contact and told them to change leagues ASAP. The three missing teams needed to be recognized would have to come from the public.

Of course, my plan did not go the way I had hoped. Before a few of the entrenched nine could switch their allegiance to the new league, five perfect strangers signed up. Now I had my twelve, but I had at least a couple of people upset as well.

I reasoned to myself, if everyone just took the two minutes out of their busy schedule a week or so ago and did what they said they wanted to do; my forcing the issue and unwittingly excluding a few players would not have happened.

The season hasn’t even started and my friends and my family may not be talking smack to me, but I sure sense they are thinking smack.

 

Me? Commissioner? Ever? Again? As a New Yorker might say: “fuggitaboutit!”

 

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A conclave of liars

 

This is rich. This is really good. I can’t stop smirking. I love it when a phoney is exposed. I love it more when a lot of them are exposed. There are no innocents in this mess, anywhere.

We have a dishonest campaign chairman for a lying former first lady who was married to a convicted perjurer claiming a disingenuous snake oil salesman; charlatan trial lawyer sabotaged her campaign by not being forthcoming about a number of sneaky sexual trysts with an equally sneaky and secretive woman.

And all the while, the abundantly biased and dishonest media tries to conceal the whole thing.

What did these people say about ol tricky Dick? It wasn’t the crime; it was the cover-up?

Yikes. The movie rights for this might start at seven figures!

Let me attempt to unpack this.

John-Boy Edwards was already involved with a campaign worker before announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, somewhere around the time his devastated wife was tugging on his shirtsleeve to tell him her cancer was in remission. Of course, upon hearing this encouraging news, he immediately jumped in bed with his surrogate and probably impregnated her. No safe sex for him…he’s invincible, don’t ya know.

After such encounters, John –Boy loved to speak of the two America’s. He always “stood up” for victims. Hell, it’s probably even on his business cards. "I will stand up for victims". The man made7 or 8 figures speaking for those who can’t speak. Some, even from the womb or the grave. God, the man was clairvoyant! It seems, in reflection however, he couldn’t even stand up for the “love of his life.”  Quite simply how can anything he says be taken seriously again?

Then we have Hillary in righteous indignation over the votes John-Boy took from her in the early and momentum building primaries, while his indiscretions were still invisible. She and Wolfson have a point. The left wing moonbats who voted for the scum-lawyer probably would have voted for the scum Senator rather than the black-scum community organizer.
 These voters see no scum, hear no scum and speak no scum. These voters want no war, demand unrestricted abortion, believe we are destroying the planet, and demand free day and health care, and a movement towards full blown socialism. Oh, and they are white, but claim to be black. But are racists, but claim not to be. They love children, but abort them out of convenience. They love the elderly, yet would be first in line to pull the ventilator. They hate war, but excuse ethnic cleansing and  the slaughter in communist and despotic nations.  (oh we must simply dialougue with these people.)
Yeah, those people.

So what is the bottom line here?

Hillary did lose by a whisker because she was out flanked by a Chicago-machine community activist lawyer and a conventional, but highly successful slip and fall trial lawyer.

Her Rose law firm background that involved Wall-Mart, cattle futures, and Castle Grande real estate ventures (and a brief stint as a paper pusher in the Nixon impeachment) did not prepare her for the likes of Obama and Edwards.

She was out lied, again. Bill’s been doing it for years. Although a strong case can be made for her own dishonesty; she constantly gets beat at her own game.  And that, my friends, is really saying something!

And we here about how this is one of the world’s smartest woman?

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A letter from Afghanistan



The liberal's distaste for anything military is apparent.
They really loathe it, despite their many lame attempts
at denying it. Liberals are talkers, not doers, The military
involves doing something. There's the rub,
Here is but one example...

...........................................................................................................................





A friend of mine has a friend who is in the military in Afghanistan.
 She got this email from him telling about Senator Obama's recent
visit there. I found it interesting. ~
 
Hello everyone, As you know I am not a very political person.
 I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram
Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to 'The War Zone'.
 I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane
 and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with
the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram.
 
As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them
 off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room
to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the
ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can
play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his
publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the
 opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service.
 


So really he was just here to make a showing for the American's
 back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if
you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here
you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they
 are providing for you.
 


I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or
he Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators,
who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don't
understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-
in-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that
provide the freedom for him and our great country.
 


If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you
all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What
 you see in the news is all fake.

In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain
TF Wasatch
American Soldier
 
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Well, they do call me furious...

  From Fox News:

Mexico's government condemned Texas' execution of Jose Medellin despite a world court order to review the case, expressing concern for the rights of other Mexicans detained in the United States.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said it sent a note of protest to the U.S. State Department about the case, which drew international attention because of allegations that Medellin wasn't allowed to consult the Mexican consulate for legal help following his arrest.

Texas executed the Mexican-born Medellin, 33, late Tuesday for the 1993 slayings of two teenage Houston girls after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a reprieve in a split vote.

Medellin was convicted of participating in the gang rape, beating and strangling of Elizabeth Pena, 16, and Jennifer Ertman, 14. He and five fellow gang members attacked the girls as they were walking home on a June night, raped and tortured them for an hour, then kicked and stomped them before using a belt and shoelaces to strangle them.

I honestly can not remember a time when I have been as disgusted with the liberal “international community” as I am now.

I have one and only one thought to impart on the Mexican government (as corrupt as it is) how about keeping your economic refugees to yourself.

We seldom read a story that details the laughable Mexican legal system. We only see the world targeting us.

If he committed this crime in Iran, what do you suppose his sentence would be?

How about Cuba? China? Russia? Indonesia? Most of Africa and Asia? The Muslim world? A beheadding would be the most merciful punishment.  Why do we never see stories detailing  these nation's alleged judicial abuses?

No need to answer that. We are vilified because we are free. We are free to enforce heinous crimes with appropriate penalties. That is nothing to be ashamed of.

If I were to steal across the border into Mexico and commit such atrocities on Mexican soil to Mexican citizens; there is no doubt in my mind, I would not be long for this world. There would be no trial.

Who the hell are these corrupt, phony, pompous Mexicans to tell us how we should enforce our laws? Perhaps they should tend to their own housekeeping before they accuse us of a messy house.

I say: to hell with Mexico. I’m sick to death with tyrants pointing fingers at us. And why do we care what they all think? Do they consult us on their laws?

I simply do not understand why we stand around, wringing our hands and hoping the world loves us
.
I would rather the world respect us.  Such respect can only come from our strength of convictions and being consistant and transparent in enforcing the laws that we free people chooose to dictate.
We would lose whatever respect we do have if we were to actually take action on what amounts to a repudiation of us by our enemies.
 
The story, on its own, sickens me, but some of our reactions to it may be almost as sickening.
 
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Uhhh, Ummm, Ohhhh, Not Exactly


I'm not sure who, exactly wrote this, but if  half true ( and it appears to be at least that) it is devastating for Obama. Kind of reminds me of the Hertz commercials.
I'd just like to share it...
 
 

 
 
Obama's "Not Exactly's":
 
 
  1.) Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe 
enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth,  as 
Selma was in 1965. (Google'Obama Selma' for his full March 4, 
2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.) 

 2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a 
privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the 
Kenyan Government. 
 

 3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he 
was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya 
has ever had. 
 
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT 
EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in 
attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. 
It is the 
first widespread violence in decades. The current government is 
pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish 
Muslim Sharia law. 
Your half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga's follower. You 
interrupted 
your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. 
Check  out the following link for verification of that....and for more. Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and 
tried to get Sharia muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost  the 
elections, his followers have burned Christians' homes and then 
burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church 
where they sought shelter. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process 
here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No 
one wants  to know the truth. 
 
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT 
EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her 
own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her 
to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man. 
 
6.) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is 
Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 
'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is >>> Obama. 
Barack Hussein Obama is! not half black. If elected, he 
would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black 
President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his >>> mother's 
side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his 
father's side. 
While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's 
family 
was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% 
African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate 
even states 
he's Arab, not African Negro). From....and for more....go to..... 

http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab-Americ 

 
 
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it 
daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept 
that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so 
you could 
run for office. 4-3-08 Article "Obama was! 'quite religious in 
islam'" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559 
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559

 8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - NOT EXA CTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic 
Studies for making faces (check your own book). 
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a 
year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call 
to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark  that 
seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters  heart 
attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the 
prettiest  sounds on Earth at sunset." This is just one example of what Pamela 
is talking about when she says "Obama's narrative is being altered, 
enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts." 

9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one 
teacher says you could speak the language. 
 
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign 
Experience - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, 
and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to 
study the Koran and watch cartoons. 
 
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except 
for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you 
have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO 
experience with our closest allies. 

12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT 
EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, 
no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - >>> your 
classmates said you were just fine. 
 

 13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT 
EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your 
book. It doesn't, and never did, exist. 

14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - 
NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your 
book. It doesn't, and never did, exist. 
 
15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT 
EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would 
not have enough experience by then, and you are all about 
having experience 
first. 
 
16.) Voting "Present" is Common In Illinois Senate - NOT 
EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others 
have 130 NO VOTES. 

17.) Oops, I Misvoted - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by 
church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote. 

18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a 
senior lecturer ON LEAVE. 

19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were 
a senior lecturer ON LEAVE. 
 
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT 
EXACTLY, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create 
it. 

21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it 
took just 14 days from start to finish. 

 22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill 
! was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of >>> all 
regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from 
which David Axelrod came. 
 
 
 23.) I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of 
March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to >>> be 
released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within. 
 
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT 
EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied 
Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but 
yourself, in your  books. 
 
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, 
your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which 
lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill. 

26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, 
even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your 
part. 

27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, 
they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their 
creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for 
higher office. 
 
28.) No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA - 
NOT EXACTLY, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of 
the conversation your campaign had with them. 

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What race card?

 
[Whatever you think about Barack Obama, he does not want the race issue to be front and center in this campaign.]
 

This amazing statement was written by Bob Herbert in today’s N.Y. Times.

I’m not sure if it is possible to be any more wrong than Herbert is on this detail. Granted, he is almost never correct in his assertions anyway, but man, this is a whopper! I guess if you are going to lie, go ahead and make a big lie.

It has been asserted by liberals and conservatives and moderates alike that race is now and always was the central theme in Obama’s campaign. No one really knows the guy and no liberal even attempts to explain the man’s ever-changing positions. He will be the first black President. That is enough for them.

When it suits him, he uses his color as a weapon of mass distortion. It succeeds brilliantly among the ever guilt-ridden far left, academic fringe of his party.

These people can never be truly happy, since they (incredibly) feel unworthy of whatever they have accomplished. I guess they feel because they have something that somehow, they are depriving another person of it. Or, everything must add up to zero. My success has to be hurting someone.

 Guilt and false sympathy rule their pitiful existence. Their votes can be bought with simply a mention of skin color and a reminder of our racist history. Race is Obama’s trump card when all else fails. It is truly his default position on everything. Never mind that he is half white and half African. For political purposes the man claims he has suffered the struggle along with Jesse Jackson and M.L. King, when there is absolutely no validity to the arguement. But, it works.

When Geraldine Ferraro let the cat out of the bag during the primaries; a feigned uproar met her logical statement by the Democrat masses that were it not for Obama’s color, he would not be thought of as a viable candidate. She had a valid logical point, but when was the last time liberals embraced validity and logic?

Answer: never, when feelings and emotions and fairness are its competition.

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A question from a typical voter

 
A Yahoo question and my answer…
 
[Before Obama went overseas, the McCain camp complained that he doesn’t know anything about foreign affairs. So he went spoke with some leaders in foreign countries (I can only assume about foreign affairs stuff) and when he comes back, it’s like "Oh he's acting like he's president already, he's arrogant and blah blah blah." In the case of Barack Obama is he screwed no matter what he does?]
 
 
If Mr. Obama is lacking in foreign policy experience (and most think he is) then one whirlwind, made-for TV world tour will not gain him much. Obama's biggest shortcoming is his lack of experience in all matters. The man has a very limited paper trail, has neither put forth nor co-sponsored any major legislation, chaired no major committees and has only about 150 days total of U.S. Senate experience. We really do not have much of a history to go on.
That leads to him being far more likely to shift in whatever direction he needs to in order to please as many voters as he has to. There is no "there" there.
He gained his power by latching on to the infamous Chicago Democratic machine and by towing the party boss's positions. He won every election he has ever had by virtual default. He's never really been tested. Were it not for the insane party rules, Hillary would be the nominee, anyway.
He is like a newly graduated person demanding the CEO position. He's paid no dues and accomplished almost nothing.
He is just not ready to be the leader of our country. He's never run anything. He doesn't even run his own house.
Why is it that we all seem to be so eager to turn the most powerful office in the world` over to a rookie?
Really, I'd be interested in anyone telling me, exactly what this guy has done that would warrant our trust.
So far, I only hear emotion speaking. Facts are stubborn things.
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My Krugman headache.

"The only way we’re going to get action, I’d suggest, is if those who stand in the way of action come to be perceived as not just wrong, but immoral ." 
*****************************************************************************
 
If I did not actually know where this quote came from; I might attribute it to maybe, a Josef Stalin? Karl Marx?  Mao-Tse-Tung? Howard Dean? George Soros? A poster on The Daily Kos? Or all of the above?

Actually it is taken from a Paul Krugman opinion piece in the N.Y. Times.

It describes almost all of what is going on in Washington, now that the liberals have regained their power. It should scare the hell out of every normal American, but I’m afraid normal is losing out to hysteria today.

Speaker Pelosi actually said that she is only trying to “save the world”.

Krugman, in complete concert with such a monumentally arrogant statement, demands action and finds no problem in dismissing anyone who asks for even a debate on the issue as not only wrong; but immoral as well.

Here we have a man who has no problem denying fluids and food to a brain damaged woman until her kidneys stop functioning.  That is moral.
  Here is a man who finds nothing wrong with throwing a perfectly formed fetus into an incinerator to spare a woman’s inconvenience. That is moral.
 Here is a guy who denounces a noble American mission in the middle-east that has freed over 50 million Muslims from tyranny as just an evil neo-con plot. That is moral.
 Here is a guy who actually hates his country. He wants it remade into his image. He would gladly destroy it, if it meant he could re-make it. And, I guess, that is moral.
 And here we have an ex Enron crony, alleged economist who sneers at free market capitalism, calling me immoral because I disagree with him.
 It’s not enough for this fool to just let his arguments stand on their own merit, but he believes he must claim the higher moral ground, as well.

Does he understand the extent of the pain felt by middle and lower class Americans caused by the ever escalating gasoline prices? The nation runs on affordable oil, whether Krugman or Pelosi like it or not. There are no alternatives for the foreseeable future. Saying it isn’t so, does not make it so.  Is it moral to cause these families to do without, so they can get their car to work daily simply because the left wants to “save the world”?

 It is amazing how all liberals parrot each other. If you listen to one, you’ve heard them all.

That’s it. Sorry.  I give up. I just gave myself a headache. I gotta stop reading the Times.

 

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The GOP and me or make it a double, barkeep

 

 News flash....Sounds like it’s all over?...

_____________________________________________________________________________

“This week, RNC Chairman Robert M. “Mike” Duncan, John McCain 2008 Political Director Mike DuHaime, and RNC Political Director Rich Beeson embarked on a state-by-state swing through these battleground states to solidify the Victory operations that will help deliver the presidency to Senator McCain.”   

______________________________________________________________________________

Quick now, to all my fellow conservatives out there, who is the GOP’s national chairman? (Hint: his name was just mentioned.)

Forgot already, have you?

I would bet my dollars to your donuts that at least half of all Americans know who Howard Dean is and what party he is chairman of. He makes the rounds on the Sunday shows and seems to be never too far from a camera or microphone. He spouts the messages and the talking points directed from the Democrats who sit “on high” dutifully and predictably. Dr. Dean may be a certified moonbat, but at least he is a recognized  moonbat.

But, do we have a Republican counterpart?  This guy couldn’t get arrested if he wanted to. Why is this man so invisible and irrelevant? What is he ashamed of? Why is he hiding? As a conservative Republican-who in hell speaks for me?

The answer is becoming self-evident. The Republican Party has been hijacked by “moderates”.

Conservatives need not apply anymore. Between eight years of a middle of the road appeasing, reaching out, wanting to get along president and the appointment of an even more moderate nominee (McCain) by God knows who, conservatives have nowhere to turn.

Coulter had a very valuable suggestion. She advised drinking heavily, then calling a designated driver (of course), applying a clothes-pin to your nostrils, and then pulling the McCain lever in the voting booth.  Her suggestion, as per usual, has a lot of merit.

McCain and Bush reach out to the minorities-over which they are universally hated. They both reach out to Democrats-over which they are demonized. They both walk across the aisle-in their silly efforts to be liked. Yet they both claim the conservative mantle, but often go along with the fiscal lunatics who control both houses today.

Still no word on where the party’s leadership is. Maybe first we should know who the guy is.

Oh, the answer to my initial question: the man’s name is Robert M. (Mike) Duncan. AKA- “The Incredible Shrinking Man.” Or…”who the hell is he?”

Now, don’t you all feel better?

P.S. I’m thinking of doing about three boilermakers in a row before voting. That should do the trick, even if it gives me a headache;  but my party probably will have already given me said headache, anyway.

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Accusations and show trials

 

A reply to the NY Times on the alleged Justice Dept. “scandals” over its hiring practices…

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So according to this latest hit piece aimed at the Bush administration we are to blindly accept about five false premises.

1) For the first time in history a president's justice department appointees were vetted by people within the party itself. Shocking,

2)Never before has a party in power investigated alleged voter fraud that involved the opposition party. This assumes the Democrats are pure as the wind-driven snow and never would dream of fraud. (Did the Times ever send investigators to Illinois in 1960 to re-examine Mr. Daily's voter rolls? No? Wonder why.

3) If the arguement is: Bush only approved appointees who shared his (dubious at best) conservativism,; then why have so many morphed into Judas Iscariots, wrote critical op-eds to the Times, and wrote books- condemning him? I do not recall a single Clinton appointee doing anything similar.(Dick Morris does not count.) Was it really Clinton, not Bush, who demanded a more severe idealogical fealty? Looks like it.

4)The notion that anything that smacks of being political should in any way be grounds for impeachment hearings is ludicrous. Everyone and everything in Washington is political. To demand anything more pure is absurd. No such demands were leveled against Clinton.

His impaechment stemmed from being found to have committed perjury. Imagine that...A Democrat who lies.

Hard to believe.

5) If Presidents can't appoint like minded judges and prosecutors; then how can any justice department ever investigate any kind of political issue. It makes all alleged political manipulation issues virtually immune from prosecution.

That is unacceptable, as is the Times one-sided editorial position on this.

The only thing this congress can do well is accuse and promote their "show trials" that seek to criminalize all opposition. That too, is unacceptable.

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The pained McCain train explains


The decision facing Americans in this election couldn't be more important to the future security and prosperity of American families. This is, indeed, a change election. No matter who wins this election, the direction of this country is going to change dramatically. But, the choice is between the right change and the wrong change; between going forward and going backward. The right change recognizes that many of the policies and institutions of our government have failed. The wrong change looks not to the future but to the past for solutions that have failed us before and will surely fail us again.

John McCain will bring America the right change. He recognizes that many of the policies and institutions of our government have failed to keep up with the challenges of our time. John McCain will initiate widespread and innovative reforms in almost every area of government policy -- health care, energy, the environment, the tax code, our public schools, our transportation system, disaster relief, government spending and regulation, diplomacy, the military and intelligence services. And, most importantly he will lead our nation with honor and integrity.

Floridians have an important role to play in this election. Who you choose to support will determine the next President of the United States. The stakes are high and America is depending on you.

 

If you just read the script and not look at the names responsible for this ad, you could easily attribute this jibberish to the Obama campaign.

It almost appears as though this guy, McCain is throwing the election. He truly hates conservatives. He must, since his campaign is here borrowing the stupid slogan of “change” that we hear incessantly from Obama and the left.

You see… conservative means to conserve. I don’t want or need change just to change. Besides what the hell is now that wrong with the most successful nation in history that calls for all this change?

I don’t want to change from a free country to a socialist country.

I don’t want to change from a free market to a government run market.

I don’t want Washington running my local schools.

I don’t want the government dictating what I can drive or what I can eat or who I can associate with or how much I can contribute to whatever candidate I choose to give to.

I do not want a government to tell me if I can own a gun or one that excuses monsters who rape and murder our children.

I don’t need any more reforms or initiatives or directives on the complete nonsense that Washington has lately put out. You can not out liberal the liberals.

I don’t appreciate a politician telling me that we are a nation that tortures, when we have liberated almost the  world’s tortured. No other nation has or will step up.

I am tired of you and your friends across the aisle blaming the world’s destruction on my SUV.

It is time for Republicans to stop apologizing for being conservatives. It is not dishonorable to defend individual rights and freedoms.

I need a leader who will stand up for us. I need a leader who defends this nation’s honor in the face of the left leaning world’s criticism. I need a leader who fights for what his party’s platform says. The days of “reaching out” and “walking across the aisle” and “forming a bi-partisan” consensus are over. Our political opponents have taken these offerings and given us nothing in return. When you think of your friends, the progressives think of the intransigence of Iran. Perhaps that’s one analogy you might understand.

But I’m afraid you, John McCain, are either too stubborn (witness your ANWR stance) or too stupid to see that.
 

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Seven brave souls

 

There is a story today stating that the I.O.C. (International Olympic Committee) has just refused recognition of five of the seven athletes from Iraq because of something about Iraq’s political corruption or some other such nonsense. I mean really, if the I.O.C. routinely refused nation’s athletes based on ANY kind of corruption; ninety per cent of the world would be disqualified.

The Olympics were never supposed to be about politics; it’s always been about the athletes.  It should be about nothing else. I mean if they excused Nazi Germany to the point of giving them the games in the thirties… if they turned their backs on the gulags and oppression rampant in the Soviet Union and their satellites in the fifties and sixties and gave them the games… if they now ignore the atrocities having been done and now being done in this years host-China…

How in hell can they deny seven brave souls a chance to just show up and wave their flag? Some of these athletes may just be survivors of Uday Hussein’s reign of terror as Iraq’s previous Olympic head. If not, then they are at least familiar with their nation’s tragic history.

The IOC defends itself with this travesty by claiming Iraq refused a meeting in Switzerland with someone more legitimate than the present head of the Iraqi Olympic movement. They also claim that they have previously bestowed special considerations upon Iraq in the past few Olympics. So the IOC points their hypocritical finger at the Iraqi government.

I don’t know all the details because it seems to be a little reported story.  Much like the fool Jimmy Carter denied our athletes their moment in the spotlight for purely political reasons, the fools at the IOC just denied seven (seven mind you) a chance to just be proud and compete. Maybe their delegation marching in the Olympic parade would provide just a small amount of national pride, badly needed in this fractured , newborn nation. What harm would it do the Olympics to just let them play? What’s the point? And why is this an issue now?

 I think Iraq’s freedom worries some of the world’s despots. Most of them spare no expense to promote their own nation, yet seem to worry that this “freedom thing” may swallow their despotism as well. We would all be a more blessed world, if that were so.

I say, let ‘em play.  If not then this will make the already corrupt and disturbingly commercial Olympic movement seem very petty and as political as the nation they accuse of such.

Regardless, although I used to look forward to the every four year event, I now shake my head at what the IOC has become. To hell with it all, I ain’t watching.

 When they root out their own corruption; then they may have the moral authority to ban the seven brave souls who simply want to go to China and be part of the world again.

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Can I burn Mazzola in my Cruiser?

 

Like millions of other Americans, I own a car. I don’t walk or ride a bicycle as well as I used to.  There are no subways and the great government subsidized bus routes are very sporadic, inconvenient, and wasteful of money, fuel and time. It is a business only a government can tolerate.  You see, of course, only government can just take our money and burn it, then tell us all how fortunate we are hat they are taking care of us. The bus can transport 40 or 50 people, but what if they aren’t going where I need to go? Should I ride the bus full time, I would need a couple of computers working all day, just to co-ordinate just my essential activities. I don’t know. How would our Senators like it if it took all day for them to travel a couple hundred miles? What is good for me is not for thee?

I have to have a personal vehicle (or have access to one) to get to places like the store and my doctor’s appointments. It’s nice to have one in order to visit my children and grandchildren. My sister lives an hour’s drive to the north of me and I have nieces and nephews a few more hours drive northward. And once every year or so, I’ll jump on a plane, bound for a little town in Connecticut where I was born and raised, to spend a day or so with my other surviving siblings Maybe visit my old school, look up the dwidling number of friends living there, or perhaps,  just stand at the gravesites of my deceased parents and brother.   

My point is: these are the little things that we common folks do.  My seemingly mundane travels make my life more livable. I am blessed to have the few things I do have and life is far richer when I can share it with my friends and family. That’s what makes people, people. We are captives to being social creatures. I didn’t set up my society. I didn’t design the nation’s travel infrastructure and simply because we are in an election cycle, I don’t see why I should be forced to just stay home. Until I am able to put something else, besides gasoline in my 20 thousand dollar coach, then damn it; stop telling me all this is my fault. And I don't give a damn about China because they damn sure don't care about me.

If the market dictates that I cut back-as it does now-I can do that. If the market makes it more favorable for oil companies to find more oil, then, government, get the hell out of their way and let them do it. I resent being thought of as a rat in some social experiment, brought about primarily by an unelected lunatic named Al Gore.  I’m already buying the 2 for one generic brand sale items, the and probably eating more starches than I should. You see, I can’t just print more money when my account gets low. When the money is gone and the doctor needs a few bucks-the plastic comes out. I do what I have to do.
 Thanks Al. By the looks of you, you don’t seem to be sharing my travails. Looks like you’ve put on a few pounds. Life is good for a Nobel laureate, I guess.

The refrain from the socialists is “We can’t drill our way out of this.” And: “It will take ten years to bring ANWAR oil to the pump.” And: “It will only change the price a couple of cents per gallon.”

We get all these campaign bromides after they all threw our good  money at Midwest farmers to produce a foodstuff that was then turned into a far less efficient fuel. An unintended consequence (and isn’t government the master of the unintended consequence?) is the dramatic rise in the world’s food prices. Maybe we should say: Al Gore is trying and lying, and people are crying and dying.

Finally, I’ll put Aqua-Velva or Mazola in my car, if it works. Give me something to put in it. The five or ten years it would take to make ANWAR oil is far more useful to me than the twenty or thirty years it may take to invent George Jetson’s vehicle.

So to all you politicians out there…just give me something to put in my PT Cruiser and stop preaching to me about what I should do or do without. I do not answer to you now and I never will. You answer to me and the millions who agree with me.

That 9% approval rating that you all now enjoy is not without cause. But you are all so wedded to your damn unworkable ideologies; you don’t see the seeds you have planted that will grow into a movement that will eventually lead to your own demise. I just hope it’s soon.
I'm down to a quarter of a tank and the check doesn't get here till the first.
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A general rant. (I had to post something.)

There is a lot of reason to worry. Not so much about our generation,( hell, I maybe got 10, 20 years tops) but our kids and especially our grandkids.
We are not leaving them what was left to us. Somehow we are managing to use up or burn up much of their heritage.
What is worse than that, however, is that we are giving our young ones the bill for our excesses.
We're like a teenager with a credit card. It's always tomorrow that we'll get responsible. We just kick the can down the road.
Social Security is not very secure, and if it were a private fund; it would have been shut down by regulators a long time ago.
But, since Washington not only takes the money, but it literally makes the money, cash is never a problem.
Never mind that this may lead to 10 or 20 per cent inflation.
 
And guess who is hit hardest by the cruel tax called inflation? Yep, the little guy. He always takes it in the neck.
It's a divided nation because the left wants it divided. The left wants to put people into categories. The left wants to limit free speech. (Such as bringing back  "The Fairness Doctrine", which would effectively destroy talk radio, the last bastion for right wing speech. The media is now just an extension of the Democrat party. They don't even try to hide it any more.
 
Medicare is a house of cards, as is almost every federal program. Education used to be a local responsibility, now we need Ted Kennedy and George Bush to tell us how to teach our kids. Oh, and we can't be allowed to carry a gun. Nevermind the second amendment. These people just make up law on the fly anyway. They have judge shopping down to a science.
 
The left in Congress have been engaged in what Stalin once coined: "show trials."
They are suing OPEC. (Like OPEC gives a damn!) They are trying to impeach Bush and everyone connected with him. They want to inhibit the very industry that now needs LESS government restriction, the oil industry. It''s Big Oil. Big Drugs, Big Military, Big Wall Street that are vilified.
It's never Big Lawyers, Big Unions or Big Government. It's all politics all the time. Consequence be damned, as long as these jerks hang on to their seats.
 
They are trying to criminals their opposition. (Ever hear the expression that a slick DA could indite a ham sandwich, if he wanted to?) That's the MO. Accuse, bring suit, publishes show trials, deny or discourage debate and when popular opinion goes against a liberal proposal-just find a friendly judge.
 
And they are winning. How many Republican Congressman represent New England? One? Maybe Two? Parts of the country are now in essence a one party state. Kind of like Iraq when Saddam ran it or the old Soviet Union. They used to boast about their fair and free elections-but when the voter entered the booth, there was but one candidate listed. Almost like Massachusetts. We can't survive one party dominance.
There must always be competition in everything or we'll turn into either the post office or France. Or maybe even a French post office!
 
Finally just a question for ya: When was the last politician who won a seat based on a  campaign that promised LESS to his constituents?
 
Maybe Reagan. After that, I'm drawing a blank.
 I think we're screwed.
 
 
 
 
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