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JOE BIDEN: HAIR WE CAN BELIEVE IN
by Ann Coulter
August 27, 2008

Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention was great. As I write, he hasn't given it yet, but these are my favorite parts:

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and ... his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since."

Everyone acts as though Biden's outrageous plagiarism of British Labor Leader Neil Kinnock's speech during the 1988 presidential campaign was just a mistake, a slip of the tongue. Biden, his defenders say, had credited Kinnock in other speeches, but simply forgot to add the attribution one time.

First, Biden had failed to mention Kinnock more than once. Second, it was not just a matter of adding an attribution. On the occasions when Biden failed to credit Kinnock, he also had to alter Kinnock's speech to act as if he were describing the Biden family.

Kinnock said: "Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is (my wife) Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?"

Biden said: "I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright?"

Kinnock's speech continued: "Those people who could sing and play and recite and write poetry? Those people who could make wonderful, beautiful things with their hands? Those people who could dream dreams, see visions? Why didn't they get it? Was it because they were weak? Those people who could work eight hours underground and then come up and play football? Weak?"

Biden's speech continued: "Those same people who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse? Is it because they didn't work hard? My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours?" Biden's Welsh accent was as phony as Madonna's British accent.

If this were merely a failure to cite Kinnock, why was Labor Leader Neil Kinnock talking about the Biden family and the coal mines of Pennsylvania?

Biden not only lifted -- as The New York Times reported -- Kinnock's "phrases, gestures and lyrical Welsh syntax intact," but also his entire life story.

Dismissing his theft of Kinnock's speech, Biden said at the time: "So what if I didn't attribute it to Kinnock? I can't quite understand this. If I was making up who I was, then that's one thing."

But Biden was making up who he was. And he was making up what kind of country this is.

The whole point of Kinnock's speech was to denounce the English class structure, where his grandfather couldn't get ahead, despite his talents. Thus, Kinnock concluded by saying his parents and grandparents couldn't advance "because there was no platform upon which they could stand."

That has never been true in this country. We have no class structure. People do get ahead by being smart and working hard.

The other side of the coin is that those born well are perfectly capable of falling from their perch of privilege, as expressed in the peculiarly American expression: "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations." Which is precisely what happened to the Biden family.

According to Vice Plagiarist Biden's own autobiography, his father was to the manor born. Biden's grandfather was an executive with the American Oil Co., and his father had all the advantages in life. "My dad," Biden writes in "Promises to Keep," "grew up well polished by gentlemanly pursuits. He would ride to the hounds, drive fast, fly airplanes. He knew good clothes, fine horses, the newest dance steps."

But, in the blunt language of the Vanity Fair election blog, "he pissed away his fortune and Joe and his siblings grew up in a decidedly, and proudly, working-class Catholic home."

So why was Biden concluding his Kinnock-"inspired" speech with clenched fist, claiming that his family "didn't have a platform upon which to stand." The executive offices at the American Oil Co. sound like a pretty good platform.

The problem wasn't that Biden's father didn't have a platform, but that he fell off the platform. Far from sharing Kinnock's life story, the Biden family would have benefited from a strict British class system that holds up talentless aristocrats while keeping down the talented low-born.

No wonder the platform of the Democratic Party is to destroy capitalism: It allows people to get ahead on their talents and not their names.

Love at first sight! And now it get's better!

...everything Ole' Pecoz has read about Guv'nor Sarah Palin adds to her beauty.... her inner beauty and smarts that is!! Guess what? She doesn't blame us little folks for warmin' the whole durn planet. Here's what she says:


Palin: Global Warming Not Man-Made
August 29, 2008 8:21 PM

ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: Among the issues Sen. John McCain will have to smooth over with his new running mate: global warming.

In an interview for the September issue of the conservative magazine Newsmax, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, said she does not believe climate change is caused by human behavior.

“A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made,” Palin said in the interview, which was posted online Friday.

McCain, R-Ariz., by contrast, has broken with his party’s dogma by supporting a mandatory program to cap carbon emissions -- a point of pride for McCain as he burnishes his independent reputation.

Palin’s quote about global warming not being manmade is also at odds with the freshly approved GOP platform for 2008. That language -- adopted by the party this week -- marks the first time the Republican Party’s policy document addresses climate change.

"The same human activity that has brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere," the document reads. "Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the earth."

A McCain campaign spokeswoman, Maria Comella, disputed suggestions that Palin does not recognize the reality of global warming. As governor, she created a new “sub-cabinet” agency last September, to advise her office “on the preparation and implementation of an Alaska climate change strategy.”

She has also endorsed efforts to learn more about human impacts on climate change.

“Governor Palin not only stands with John McCain in his belief that global warming is a critical issue that must be addressed, but she has been a leader in addressing climate change,” Comella said.

Palin and McCain disagree on another key environmental issue: drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in Palin’s home state of Alaska. Palin is for it, while McCain wants to keep the refuge off-limits.

"It's nonsense not to tap a safe domestic source of oil. I think Americans need to hold Congress accountable on this one," Palin told Newsmax about drilling in ANWR.

Gotta luv that Gal....

Please note the date on this Politico.com posting!!

The Beauty of Sarah Palin
It's more than just skin deep

JoshPainter, Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 07:28PM

I'm not talking about the mere physical attractiveness of Alaska's governor, though she has been blessed with an abundance of that gift. Palin was a competitor in the 1984 Miss Alaska beauty pageant after being named Miss Wasilla earlier that year, where she also won Miss Congeniality honors.

No, what I'm dicussing here is beauty in the political sense - as in the beauty of what John McCain, if he's smart and willing to make a really bold move, could accomplish by naming Governor Palin as his running mate for the presidential election.

Those making the case for Palin as GOP VP nominee include Jack Kelly on Real Clear Politics, American Spectator's Thomas Cheplick, Bill Krtistol and Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard and Anchorage Daily News columnist William Ruger.

A number of bloggers have added their voices to the chorus in praise of Alaska's governor. Just a few examples can be found here, here and here.

There are websites devoted to promoting Palin for the Republican vice presidential nomination - Sarah Palin for America, Palin For VP, and Draft Sarah Palin for Vice President. There are even web ads made independently on her behalf. You can view them here, here and here.

There no need for me to echo all of the arguments made by those cited here for Sarah Palin. But I would like to add some perspective.

With energy and oil prices at the top of the nation's current domestic concerns, and with energy independence tied closely to national security at a time when Russia, America's old nemisis, is again on the rise, it is critical for McCain to have someone on his ticket who can speak with authority about energy. Palin demonstrates her command of the subject in this video clip from Glenn Beck's TV show.

Also, in one of the most under-reported news stories in recent weeks, Gov. Palin has accomplished a feat which has eluded the U.S. Congress for many years. She has pushed through the Alaska legislature a natural gas pipeline project which will bring new supply and price relief to the lower 48:



On Aug. 1, the same day the call for a vote on drilling began on the House floor, the Alaska state Senate approved a package of measures to license a new natural gas pipeline. House Bill 3001 lets Palin award the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act license to TransCanada Alaska, a pipeline builder that cast a winning bid of five.

The legislature had been trying for 30 years to authorize something like this and, up until now, had blown it. Palin got it through. Getting it off the ground, the state says, will be the biggest construction project in U.S. history.

Palin considers the $26 billion project her biggest accomplishment as governor. "It was not easy," she told IBD. "Alaska has been hoping and dreaming for a natural gas pipeline for decades. What it took was getting off the dime and creating a competitive market in Alaska."

The 1,715-mile gas line would stretch from Alaska's North Slope to Fairbanks and down to Alberta, Canada. Then it would take existing gas lines to Idaho. In 10 years, Palin says, the lower 48 states would receive 4.5 million cubic feet of natural gas a day. By 2030, according to Energy Department estimates, Alaska's annual natgas production would quintuple to 2 trillion cubic feet.

With the voters seeing nothing being done but congressional bickering on the energy front, Sarah Palin can point to this accomplishment to show that she's a "can do" leader on energy, something no other potential GOP vice presidential nominee can boast of right now. That's what the electorate is looking for, and this would make Palin a valuable asset to McCain's campaign.

But I've saved the best for last. The Democrats can hardly criticize Gov. Palin's resume as being too thin without calling attention to Obama's own limited experience. And that perhaps, is the real beauty of Sarah Palin.

Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' has a whole 'nother ....

copy of the Obama introductory video! It's worth the watch

- you need sound and if you are on dial up, it'll probably get tedious 'cause its five minutes long...... enjoy!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=183509&title=barack-obama-he-completes-us

Oooops, don't pay any attention to what we said two hours ago,

...just listen to what we are saying now! With McCain's announcement at 11 am this morning regarding Governor Palin's selection as the VEEP nominee, Obamanation's headquarters put out this cutting statement:

11:44 a.m. - From campaign spokesman Bill Burton:

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.

Then the poop hit the prop! Complaints from women, Democrats and independents across the country barrelled into the Obamanation headquarters -- all of a sudden and 86 minutes later, the tune changed and the music softened:

1:10 p.m. - From Senator Obama and Senator Biden on Governor Palin:

“We send our congratulations to Governor Sarah Palin and her family on her designation as the republican (sic) nominee for Vice President. It is yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics. While we obviously have differences over how best to lead this country forward Governor Palin is an admirable person and will add a compelling new voice to this campaign,” said Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden.

Not only a Rosanna DanaDana "Oh, never mind!" kind of statement but if you look close, you'll notice that they cranked it out so fast they forgot to capitalize the first letter of Republican!
.....and these folks say they are ready for those big Three AM phones calls....? I think not!!

The "wrinkly old dude with the white hair"......

Hits a Home Run...... outta the park!

If Smilin Joe tries to do a number on her during a debate, she'll probably break his knee with her hockey stick --- or hit him over the head with her NRA Life Membership Badge! Or challenge him to an 'Ice fishing contest' (see below)!!

In the vernacular of the NAG's, YOU GO GAL!

Not sure if this goes under the heading of "Go Figure!!"

... under American Education Institutional Brain-lock!!

What scandal? Edwards hikes speaking fee to University of Illinois

Despite admitting affair, he'll get $65K for Oct. talk on 'American Dream'

August 29,2008

BY STEFANO ESPOSITO Staff Reporter sesposito@suntimes.com

Just weeks after former presidential candidate John Edwards admitted cheating on his wife, he's not shying away from public speaking engagements -- and his fee has gone up, his agent says.

Edwards is due to speak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 14. The agent for the former North Carolina senator has told the university student group organizing the event that Edwards is looking to add to his speaking calendar and that he's charging more, said university spokeswoman Robin Kaler.

Edwards is to speak on "The American Dream," Kaler said. Tickets are free, but the student group is paying him $65,000.

Kaler said the student group gave Edwards the opportunity to back out of the speech in light of his admission to having an extramarital affair. Neither Kaler nor the student group would give the Chicago Sun-Times the name of Edwards' agent. Edwards could not be reached for comment.
Edwards' other appearances include a September speech with wife Elizabeth at Salem State College in Massachusetts, according to college spokesman Jim Glynn.

Edwards has come under fire in the past for his speaking fees. In 2006, he was paid $55,000 to speak at the University of California-Davis about poverty.

Maybe it should be filed under "Only in America!". What a message for the students --- he wasn't allowed within a thousand miles of Denver this week! The Dim's don't even talk to him, much less bring him into their 'homes"......

If this is what Obamanation does as a candidate.....

.... you got to wonder what in the world he would do if he became President of these United States when some news reporter, newspaper, or radio talk show host said something he didn't like! From The Swamp:

Obama campaign confronts WGN radio

by John McCormick and Steve Schmadeke, updated

DENVER -- Sen. Barack Obama's campaign organized its supporters Wednesday night to confront Tribune-owned WGN-AM in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air. (Listen to the interview.)

"WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears," Obama's campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers."

Kurtz, a conservative writer, recently wrote an article for the National Review that looked at Obama's ties to Ayers, a former 1960s radical who later emerged as a school reform advocate in Chicago.

The magazine had been blocked in its initial attempts to obtain records from the University of Illinois at Chicago regarding a school reform initiative called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Obama chaired and Ayers co-founded.

Obama critics were quick to suggest that political clout could be involved in seeking to protect Obama from embarrassment. The school later reserved its position and made the records available Tuesday.

On Wednesday evening, Obama's campaign urged supporters to call the radio station to complain.

"Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse," the note said.

"It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves," the note continued. "At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz's lies."

Zack Christenson, executive producer of "Extension 720 with Milt Rosenburg," said the response was strong.

"I would say this is the biggest response we've ever got from a campaign or a candidate," he said. "This is really unprecedented with the show, the way that people are flooding the calls and our email boxes."

Christenson said the Obama campaign was asked to have someone appear on the show and declined the request.

"He got into the files just yesterday, so we wanted to have him on to find out what he found. And, if at all possible, we wanted to get the Obama campaign, to get their side of the story," Christenson said. "That's why the uproar is kind of amazing, because we wanted the Obama campaign's take as well."

The show's producer said the calls dropped off after the show's first hour. He did not have a count of calls, but said it was "non-stop."

Obama's campaign has launched similar offensives against stations that have run campaign ads that it did not like.

He has already expressed he belief that the so called fairness doctrine should be reinstated, imagine how he will use the power of the executive branch of government to shut down those who voice disagreement with him and his policies..... How scary is that?

Many in this country sat back and sighed with relief...

when Obamanation picked Smilin' Joe Biden as his Veep. Now here is a guy with the foreign policy resume, the gravitas, the international smarts to help the kid with 143 days of Senate experience find his way around the world of grown-ups.

Here is an excerpt from the New Republic just a few weeks after 9/11 --

"This," Joe Biden announces, "is what I've spent my entire adult life preparing for." It's exactly three Tuesdays since the September attacks, and Biden is presiding over a morning meeting of his committee staffers. It's a formidable group--a collection of super-earnest twentysomethings and grave committee veterans, all wearing dark suits and grim faces. Biden, with his pearly smile and sugar-white hair, seems almost to glow in contrast. [.....]

At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: "I'm groping here." Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we're not bent on its destruction. "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran," Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.

The staffers sit in silence. Finally somebody ventures a response: "I think they'd send it back." Then another aide speaks up delicately: "The thing I would worry about is that it would almost look like a publicity stunt." Still another reminds Biden that an Iranian delegation is in Moscow that very day to discuss a $300 million arms deal with Vladimir Putin that the United States has strongly condemned. But Joe Biden is barely listening anymore. He's already moved on to something else.

And if you think this is scary on it's face - keep in mind that Mr Foreign Policy wasn't even aware three weeks after 9/11 that Iran is NOT Arab and is hated and feared by most Arab states. This is the man that will lend his knowledge and skills to Obamanation, the boy-wonder!

Thanks and a Tip o' the Stetson to Flopping Aces for the heads-up. For the full story and more about Smilin' Joe, read the complete article in the New Republic:

http://www.tnr.com/columnists/story.html?id=ba9b09bb-ed01-4582-b6ec-444834c9df73&k=93697

Experience Counts!!

Guess it's a 'fish-off'!

The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither the Republican
candidate nor the Democratic candidate had enough votes to win. There
was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a
week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle
things. The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week
would win the election.

Therefore, it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest
between the two candidates to determine the winner.

After much of back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest
take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Minnesota .

There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out
separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch
for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties. At the end
of the first day, John Mc. returned to the starting line and he had ten
fish.

Soon, Obama returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just
having another 'bad hair' day or something and hopefully, he would catch
up the next day.

At the end of the 2nd day John Mc. came in with 20 fish and Obama came
in again with none.

That evening, Harry Reid got together secretly with Obama and said,
'Obama, I think John Mc. is a low-life, cheatin' son-of-a-gun. I want
you to go out tomorrow and don't even bother with fishing. Just spy on
him and see just how he is cheating.'

The next night (after John Mc. returns with 50 fish), said to Obama,
'Well, tell me, how is John Mc. cheating?'

Obama replied, 'Harry, you're not going to believe this, but he's
cutting holes in the ice.'

Experience Counts

(groaning allowed!!!)

Hey Pilgrims, did you ever notice that sometimes folks .....

who design commercials get so carried away with their artistry, that they forget they are trying to sell a product:

As old as yours truly is, when I spotted this ad, it was a full three minutes before I realized that it was in fact, a advertisement --- and once I had decided that it was --- a full two minutes more before I could figure out what they were peddling!

'Course, I wasn't in any hurry to solve the puzzle and move on.....

How long did it take before you could identify the product -- and how long do you reckon you'll remember it? The product Pilgrim, not the picture!!

Just one of many, many early Obamanation Obits!

This one from Townhall.com:

Obama Flubs the 'Presidential' Test
Jonah Goldberg
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Vice president. Who among us can contain their excitement?

Not me. I can't wait to hear more from the man for whom brevity is a Rubicon he will not cross. Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something about Joe Biden, as Joe Biden himself might say: Joe is the guy who will tell the hard truths, say the unsaid things - literally, not just figuratively - to ensure that he has gone the extra oratory mile in service to this great cause, America, for which he will give not merely his last breaths but an unknowable number of breaths in service of the country he loves, never once tiring or being distracted by the grammatical ballast of the period, the wedge issue of the paragraph break or the thud of his audiences' heads soporifically smacking the tables in front of them. No, never let it be said that Joe won't say what needs to be said, not only when it needs to be said but the other times as well, again and again and, ladies and gentlemen, again.

One can only hope the perpetual motion machine that is Biden's mouth will, like a million monkeys banging on typewriters, eventually stumble on a plausible explanation for why Obama picked Biden, of all people.

It's a leaden cliche to note that the choice of a running mate is the first "presidential" decision a candidate makes. What, then, does it say that Obama's first such decision contradicts the alleged promise of his presidency?

In his career-making speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, Obama ridiculed "the pundits" who "like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states; red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats." But when it came time to act "presidential," Obama passed on several short-list VP candidates from red states - the governors of Virginia, Kansas and Iowa - in favor of the senator from deep-blue Delaware.

Surely Jonah can see how naming a Veep who has been in the Senate since Nixon say in the White House shouts out - CHANGE! HOPE! NEW FACES!

I reckon this one poster describing what Obamanation really means by 'change' ain't near as far from the truth as some thought!

Breaking News.......self defense forces on the march!

I saw a report on the news the other day that the Alabama Highway Patrol stopped a bus that was weaving erratically down Interstate 20 east of Birmingham. The arresting officer reported that there were several firearms and loads of ammunition aboard the bus.

Turns out that it was a busload of rednecks from Arkansas who said that they were on the way to run the Russians out of Georgia!

Would I lie???????

Hillary Happy Hour Hosted by Republicans?

This Would Represent A Problem For Barack Obama

Posted by: Pejman Yousefzadeh

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 01:19AM

It cannot be stressed enough:

The last place Kathy Archuleta could have ever imagined she'd spend the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, was at a happy hour sponsored by the Republican Party.

But the 54-year-old Democrat joined several other Hillary Clinton supporters, along with volunteers and officials from John McCain's campaign, at a Happy Hour for Hillary.

The event, sponsored by the Republican National Committee and approved by the McCain campaign, was a chance for McCain and Clinton supporters to come together for one cause: their opposition to Barack Obama's candidacy.

"Four years ago, if you said we'd be at a Hillary happy hour at the DNC, I would have called you crazy. But today is a great opportunity for people who ... agree that Sen. Barack Obama doesn't have the experience to be president of the United States," said McCain campaign regional communications director Tom Kise.

Events like these are not big deals in and of themselves. But they give comfort to those Democrats who believe that Barack Obama is not prepared to be President of the United States. The more such people realize that there are others out there who think the way they do, the more willing they will be to express their concerns--both by voicing them and by voting on the basis of those concerns.

And that can only benefit John McCain. I know that the Obama campaign won't like that reality. But they are going to have to live with it.

At least at a Republican Party Happy Hour, I'll bet they ain't drinkin' that Lithium laced kool-aid they serve at Omanation Dimocrat Un-happy hours.......

Leaving no stone unturned......

Disney's New Hannah Montana Album Features 'Global Warming Anthem'
Teen pop star sings 'Wake Up America,' warns the 'earth is calling out,' but admits she doesn't know 'what all this means.'

By Jeff Poor - Business & Media Institute
8/26/2008

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, are big fans of Hannah Montana – and maybe there’s a reason why.

Teen star Miley Cyrus, known as Hannah Montana in the Disney Channel TV series television of the same name, is now crusading for global warming alarmism. But she admits she isn’t really sure what it means. Disney also owns ABC, a network that often hypes climate change alarmism.

On the 15-year-old singer’s recently released album “Breakout,” she sings that she wants America to wake up and deal with global warming. The song, “Wake Up America” is about taking care of the earth:


Oh, can you take care of her
Oh, maybe you can spare her

Several moments of your consideration
Leading up to the final destination

Oh, the earth is calling out,
I wanna learn what it’s all about,
But everything I read – global warming, going green
I don’t know what all this means, but it seems to be saying

Wake up, America, we’re all in this together
It’s our home so let’s take care of it
You know that you want to
You know that you got to wake up, America
Tomorrow becomes a new day and everything you do
Matters, yeah, everything you do matters in some way

Cyrus is one of the current jewels in the Disney crown. But she isn’t alone. Disney purchased ABC in 1995, but the network recently has acquired a taste for global warming coverage.

The network’s weatherman Sam Champion and reporter Bill Blakemore are two of the consistent voices for hyping the issue. A recent Business & Media Institute study of media climate coverage highlighted a particular low in the network’s reporting. The ugliest treatment of a climate skeptic during the study period came from ABC’s Bill Weir on Nov. 18, 2007, “Good Morning America.” He was interviewing Democratic state representative Jim Gooch from Kentucky.

Weir peppered Gooch with hardball questions and even attacked Gooch’s motives, saying: “I should point out that your family is in business with the coal industry. You opposed a bill that would’ve stopped coal mines from exploding the tops of mountains and dumping waste into rivers there. So shouldn’t you temper on your opinion on the environment?”

"Give them to us as children - and they shall be ours forever!!"

Now here is a different 'R' Rated perspective........

Driving with Grandpa

A friend of mine, who works away from home all week, always makes a special effort with his family on the weekends.

Every Sunday morning he would take his 7 year old granddaughter out for a drive in the car for some bonding time, just he and his granddaughter.

One week in particular he came home sick and on Sunday he was still battling a bad cold and really didn't feel up to going out for a drive at all.

Luckily, his wife came to the rescue and said that she would take their granddaughter out.

When they returned, the little girl anxiously ran upstairs to see her grandfather.

'Well, did you enjoy your ride with grandma?' ' Oh yes, Grandpa' the girl replied, 'and do you know what?

We didn't see a single dumb bastard, lousy shithead, son-of-a-bitch, or crazy asshole anywhere we went today!'

Arrogance ---- thy name is Pelosi!! Thy party is Dimocrat!

Pelosi to protesters: "Can we drill your brains?"

House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Drill here! Drill now!”

Pelosi paused and asked the group, “Right here?”

Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?”

She went on to refer to the protestors, who continued to chant sporadically, as “handmaidens of Big Oil.” Arguing that increased offshore drilling would only reduce gas prices two cents in 10 years, she referred to the demonstrators as the “two-cents-in-ten-years-crowd.”

Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer swiped at the demonstrators, too, saying that “sophomoric chanting” won’t solve the energy crisis and that “all thinking Americans know” — stressing the word "thinking" and looking at the crowd — that America doesn’t have a quarter of the word’s fossil fuels yet uses a quarter of the world’s energy.

Seems like my ole' Daddy, or some other wise old man once said; "When you find yourself in the bottom of a hole, Quit Diggin!!"

Contrary to popular belief.....

....life does go on outside of the political arena... Looks like O.J. is facing a judge that didn't attend the same "Judges as Fans 101" course that Judge Ito of Los Angeles apparently aced!

Judge won't delay OJ Simpson trial in Las Vegas

Aug 25, 2008
By KEN RITTER

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A judge on Monday rejected a request by a co-defendant of O.J. Simpson to delay their upcoming trial on charges of armed robbery and kidnapping.

A lawyer for Clarence "C.J." Stewart had asked Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass to put off the Sept. 8 trial until the Nevada Supreme Court considers Stewart's request for a separate trial.

Stewart's lawyers argue that it will be impossible for him to get a fair trial because most of the focus will be on Simpson, an NFL Hall of Fame player, actor and advertising pitchman who was acquitted in 1995 of charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend.

A hearing date on the fair trial issue has not been set. Stewart lawyer Robert Lucherini said he also would appeal the decision to not delay the trial. The trial is expected to last at least five weeks.

Stewart and Simpson face felony charges of kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon stemming from a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room last September.

They are the last two defendants in the case. Four men who accompanied Simpson and Stewart accepted plea deals and agreed to testify against Simpson.

A kidnapping conviction carries the possibility of life in prison with the possibility of parole, and a robbery conviction would mean mandatory prison time.

Simpson maintains that he went to the hotel room to retrieve items stolen that had been from him, that he didn't ask anyone to bring guns and that he didn't know anyone in the room was armed.

"The audacity of hype!!"

Thomas Sowell's columns, always well written, are usually on just one topic -- I guess in this convention week - he pulled out his shotgun -- but hit some good targets:


Random Thoughts
Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Random thoughts on the passing scene:

If you took all the fraud out of politics, there might not be a lot left.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer-- and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.

Has anyone noticed Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlain's facial resemblance to Babe Ruth? If he can be anywhere near as good a pitcher as Ruth was, he will have a great career. The Babe could have made the Hall of Fame if he had remained a pitcher and never hit a home run. He still holds a couple of pitching records.

Although you can block unwanted phone calls from commercial sources, you cannot block automated phone calls from politicians, which will be inundating us this election year. Apparently the courts think that the right of "free speech" includes the right to impose that speech on an unwilling audience. Maybe we need a new Constitutional Amendment, guaranteeing "freedom from speech."

One of the problems with successfully dealing with threats is that people start believing that there is no threat. That is where we are, seven years after 9/11, so that reminding people of terrorist dangers can be dismissed as "the politics of fear" by Barack Obama, who has a rhetorical answer for everything.

There are countries in Europe that would love to have their unemployment rate fall to the 5.7 percent unemployment rate to which ours has risen. Yet those who seem to want us to imitate European economic and social policies never seem to want to consider the actual consequences of those policies. "Unacceptable" is one of the big weasel words of our time-- almost always said when the person who says it has no intention of doing anything, and so is accepting what is called "unacceptable."

Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.

When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is "control." That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.

Now that the Senator with the furthest left voting record in the Senate and the Senator with the third furthest left voting are the Democrats' nominees for President and Vice President, there will be great expressions of indignation over being "negative" if anyone dares call them "liberals." Actually, leftists would be more accurate.

G.K Chesterton said: "I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health." But California citizens and citizens of New York City have tamely accepted their politicians' decisions to forbid restaurants to serve certain foods, even when citizens want those foods.

The recent death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn should make us recall what he said when he was awarded the Nobel Prize: "The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles." What would a Barack Obama presidency mean, other than more concessions and broader smiles, while Iran goes nuclear?

Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that what he admired about FDR was his willingness to experiment in order to help the economy. That experimentation helped prolong the Great Depression, since people tend to hang onto their money when the government creates uncertainty by constantly changing the rules.

At one time, it was said "The truth will make you free." Today, there seem to be those who think that rhetoric and hype will make you free. It might even be called the audacity of hype.

Perhaps if the Democrat's liberal leftists don't like those names, they would be more comfortable if we identified them by their earned name; Socialists!

I'm not sure what the Babe Ruth comment is in there for, perhaps just to enhance the title 'Random' thoughts...

Good thought provoking column Mr Sowell....

Dimocrats strap it on tonight..........

Farmers' Almanac just out......"Put on an overcoat, Gorebot!"

Brrr! Farmers' Almanac says cold winter ahead

Associated Press wire report
August 20, 2008 02:26 PM

FaHouseholds worried about the high cost of keeping warm this winter will draw little comfort from the Farmers' Almanac, which predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S.

"Numb's the word," says the 192-year-old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85 percent for its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance.

The almanac's 2009 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says at least two-thirds of the country can expect colder than average temperatures, with only the Far West and Southeast in line for near-normal readings.

"This is going to be catastrophic for millions of people," said almanac editor Peter Geiger, noting that the frigid forecast combined with high prices for heating fuel is sure to compound problems households will face in keeping warm.

The almanac predicts above-normal snowfall for the Great Lakes and Midwest, especially during January and February, and above-normal precipitation for the Southwest in December and for the Southeast in January and February. The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions should be getting an unusually wet or snowy February, the almanac said.

The forecasts, which are spelled out in three- and four-day periods for each region, are prepared by the almanac's reclusive prognosticator Caleb Weatherbee, who uses a secret formula based on sunspots, the position of the planets and the tidal action of the moon.

Weatherbee's outlook is borne out by e-mail comments that the almanac has received in recent days from readers who have spotted signs of nature that point to a rough winter, Geiger said. The signs range from an abundance of acorns already on the ground to the frequency of fog in August.

The almanac's winter forecast is at odds with that of the National Weather Service, whose trends-based outlook calls for warmer than normal temperatures over much of the country, including Alaska, said Ed O'Lenic, chief of the operations branch at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

While he wouldn't comment specifically on the almanac's ability to forecast the weather two years from now, O'Lenic said it's generally impossible to come up with accurate forecasts more than a week in advance.

"Of course it's possible to prepare a forecast with any lead time you like. Whether or nor that forecast has any accuracy or usable skill is another question," he said.

Wonder what O'Lenic and the NOAA would say about Al Gorebot's ability to predict the weather ten years ahead of time --- hmmmm?

You young Pilgrims (under 50) are gonna' get a real show this week....

at the Dimocrat Convention. During your young voting lives, you have watched four day, carefully orchestrated, political party 'infomercials'. Controversy not allowed, thank you very much... But I don't reckon that's in cards this week. From Politico.com:

Tensions boil between Obama-Clinton camps
By: John F. Harris and Mike Allen
August 25, 2008

DENVER — As Democrats arrived here Sunday for a convention intended to promote party unity, mistrust and resentments continued to boil among top associates of presumptive nominee Barack Obama and his defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

One flashpoint is the assigned speech topic for former president Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to speak Wednesday night, when the convention theme is “Securing America’s Future.” The night’s speakers will argue that Obama would be a more effective commander in chief than his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).

The former president is disappointed, associates said, because he is eager to speak about the economy and more broadly about Democratic ideas — emphasizing the contrast between the Bush years and his own record in the 1990s.

This is an especially sore point for Bill Clinton, people close to him say, because among many grievances he has about the campaign Obama waged against his wife is a belief that the candidate poor-mouthed the political and policy successes of his two terms.

Some senior Democrats close to Obama, meanwhile, made clear in not-for-attribution comments that they were equally irked at the Clinton operation. Nearly three months after Hillary Clinton conceded defeat in the nomination contest, these Obama partisans complained, her team continues to act like she and Bill Clinton hold leverage.

After a period earlier this month when the two sides were working collegially over strategy, scheduling, and other convention logistics, things turned scratchy again in recent days.

Some senior Obama supporters are irritated at how they perceive the Clintons fanned — or at a minimum failed to douse — stories that she was not even vetted as a possible vice presidential nominee. This is because she told Obama she preferred not to go through the rigorous process of document production unless she was really a serious contender, an Obama associate noted.

One senior Obama supporter said the Clinton associates negotiating on her behalf act like “Japanese soldiers in the South Pacific still fighting after the war is over.”

A prominent Obama backer said some of Clinton’s lieutentants negotiating with the Obama team are “bitter enders” who presume that, rather than the Clintons reconciling themselves to Obama’s victory, it is up to Obama to accommodate them.

In fact, some senior veterans of Clinton’s presidential campaign do believe this.

“He has not fully reconciled,” said one political operative close to the Clintons, “and he has not demonstrated that he accepts the Clintons and the Clinton wing of the party.”

While the Clintons have a relatively easy job in Denver — to deliver gracious speeches and accept what are likely to be loud cheers from their supporters — it is “Obama who has the heavy lifting” this week, this aide said.

This is because large numbers of Clinton backers — 30 percent in a recent ABC/Washington Post poll — are still not backing Obama over McCain. [......]

Wheee Doggies! Unless somebody takes all these sulkin' folks to the woodshed and then makes 'em kiss and make up -- this could be a great week.

I been puzzling over Obamanation's use of Bubba Clinton though. What his folks have done is task the weakest Commander in Chief in my lifetime with convincing us that an even more unqualified and liberal boy politician then himself is "more qualified than John McCain" to be Commander in Chief! No mean task! Bubba was elected on the economy, not the Defense Department, an organization he artfully 'dodged' during his eligible years.

The only organizational experience that Obamanation brings to the table is 'street organizing' for the Chicago machine.

It appears that between "Recreate '68" outside the convention hall and the Roman Senate-esque plotting and backstabbing inside -- it might be fun! And it ain't even the Ides of August!

Very few folks can 'turn a phrase' like a literate Englishman....

in his column in the London times -- Gerard Baker outdoes himself:

Georgia: Europe wins a gold medal for defeatism
Sarkozy's ‘peace in our time' deal is a reminder of what could happen if the EU wins more clout

Gerard Baker

To some, China's muscular domination of the Olympic medal table is a powerful allegory of the shifting balance of global power. A far better and more literal testimony to the collapse of the West may be seen in the distinctly weak-kneed response to Russian aggression in Georgia by what is still amusingly called the transatlantic alliance.

Once again, the Europeans, and their friends in the pusillanimous wing of the US Left, have demonstrated that, when it come to those postmodern Olympian sports of synchronized self-loathing, team hand-wringing and lightweight posturing, they know how to sweep gold, silver and bronze.

There's a routine now whenever some unspeakable act of aggression is visited upon us or our allies by murderous fanatics or authoritarian regimes. While the enemy takes a victory lap, we compete in a shameful medley relay of apologetics, defeatism and surrender.

You have to love that middle paragraph!!! For the rest of his column, go to:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4534358.ece

Why I didn't participate in the Olympics this year....

Got some e-mails from some ole' military chums wanting to know why Ole Pecoz didn't participate in the Olympics this year. I got plumb tired of anwer'n them all so here is a brief one minute video that 'splains everything ... turn up your sound Pilgrims!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVB_G_u93g

An omen maybe ....... or just coincidence?

Biden got Obama call during wife's root canal
AP News
August 23, 2008

Joe Biden got the call from Barack Obama while accompanying his wife as she was getting a root canal.

As he waited in the dentist office Thursday, Biden's cell phone rang with the presidential candidate's invitation to be his running mate.

It capped a six-week process of elimination that always pointed in Biden's direction even if the Delaware lawmaker couldn't believe he would actually be the pick.

Why is it that whenever Joe Biden is involved, somebody else is feeling the pain?

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows....

It makes one crooked liberal politician stand up for another!! From the Telegraph:

Neil Kinnock welcomes Joe Biden nomination

Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock today welcomed Joe Biden's nomination as Barack Obama's running mate, despite the vice-presidential hopeful plagiarising one of his most famous speeches.

23 Aug 2008

Veteran US senator Mr Biden's hopes of winning the 1988 White House race were scuppered when it emerged he copied parts of a speech from Lord Kinnock without acknowledging him.

Lord Kinnock said the two men had become firm friends since the scandal - with Mr Biden jokingly calling him his "greatest speech writer".

The Labour peer told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: "He is a man of immense maturity and unmatched in the Senate, and probably much more widely, as an analyst and advocate in the foreign policy and defence policy areas.

"Even his enemies acknowledge his outstanding expertise."

In a 1987 speech to the Welsh Labour Party, the then Neil Kinnock asked why he was "the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to go up to University".

The Welshman's emotive style must have struck a chord with the Biden camp, because three months later he made a strikingly similar claim and his campaign unravelled when aides to presidential rival Michael Dukakis handed a video tape splicing the two speeches together to reporters.

Whole sentences from Lord Kinnock's speech, as well as glaring similarities in syntax and ideas, seeped into Senator Biden's stump speech.

Senator Biden even copied references to the Welsh politician's mining heritage in his speech, given at the Iowa State Fair on August 23, 1987.

Lord Kinnock told of: "Those people who could work eight hours underground and then come out to play football."

The senator, whose own father was a Chevrolet dealer in Wilmington, Delaware, spoke warmly of: "ancestors who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours."

The Biden forebears may have been hardier than those of Mr Kinnock, managing to work in the mines for an extra four hours a day, but the two families' rich cultural heritage remained the same.

The Delaware senator spoke of the talent of "those same people who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse."

While the then Labour leader told of "those people who could sing and play and recite and write poetry.

"Those people who could make wonderful beautiful things with their hands? Those people who could dream dreams, see visions."

Further questions were asked when, just days later, plagiarised college work dating from his time at Syracuse University College of Law, came to light.

It emerged that the senator had failed a course after being caught plagiarising other people's work.

He had been allowed to retake the paper after claiming he had not understood the proper rules of citation.

Under the weight of these disclosures, Mr Biden formally withdrew from the race for the White House.

He said his bid for the Presidency had been clouded by the "exaggerated shadow" of the revelations.

Lord Kinnock said the last time he saw Mr Biden, the US politician introduced him to aides by saying: "Hey you people, do you know this guy?

"He used to be my greatest speechwriter."

One liberal labor leader never met another liberal labor leader that he couldn't play 'kissy-face' with, apparently!! Ain't it a loverly thing?

The "Choosing".....

'He' has chosen! ..... a brother 'clean. articulate, guy'...

Famous Obama Facts you might not be aware of.....

-Every now and then, Obama opens his eyes and the world springs into existence.
-When a tree falls in the forest, Obama hears it.
-Obama can clap with one hand.
-Prometheus was punished for plagiarizing Obama.
-Obama can make a journey of a thousand miles without a single step.
-Socks worn by Obama are used for climbing walls in Spiderman movies.
-Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race when she learned Obama's true name.
-"Obama" is the very first word in the English language to be a verb, adjective, noun, pronoun, adverb, interjection, superlative and pronad. (Pronad is a new category made specifically for the word "Obama" so its power can be fully realized).
-When Obama squints dreamily into the distance, he can see next week's lottery winning numbers. But he never plays because that would mean poverty of ambition.
-Obama can calculate your guilt just by looking at the numbers in your checkbook.
-A microphone into which Obama has spoken, heals asbestos-related disorders and colorectal cancer by direct application.
-Every time Obama talks about change, a baby diaper becomes clean and a homeless person's cup fills up with nickels.
-Every time Obama talks about "hope," coma patients regain consciousness and chant "We are the ones we've been waiting for."
-Obama's famous stare once converted 15 Islamic fundamentalists into secular progressives, all of whom are currently employed by Countrywide Home Loans.
-Obama is 50% typical White person.

(With thanks and a Tip of the Stetson to BestObamaFacts.com)

Best and Worst Headline of the Year !!

If ole' Pecoz was to nominate the Worst Headline of the Year -- or the Best, I reckon this Reuters headline on MSNBC would be the one!

Japan urn thief leaves mourners ashen-faced
Dozens of graveyard urns are missing, most holding ashes of women

Aug. 22, 2008
TOKYO - Police in rural Japan are looking for a thief who has snatched dozens of graveyard urns, many of them carrying the remains of women, after residents reported the ashes of their loved ones had gone missing.

"They can't believe their eyes. Things like this don't usually happen," said a police official in Toyama prefecture, central Japan.

The authorities have received reports of about 20 such incidents in the last year, he said, with many of the missing urns holding the ashes of women.

Notes were found in some of the cases, Jiji news agency reported.

One woman checked on her mother-in-law's urn and found a note saying: "I have it."

Japanese usually cremate the dead and place the ashes in urns, which are stored inside the base of their ancestral gravestone. Many families hold reunions to visit and clean the graves in mid-August, when the spirits of the deceased are said to return. "

Now then Pilgrims, the editor that wrote that headline probably still has his tongue in his cheek and no parental supervision!!!

"Hate America First" groups outed again.....by Michelle Malkin

Abu Ghraib-i-fying America's Schools
Michelle Malkin
Friday, August 22, 2008

The citizens of the world who hate America are going to love the latest agitprop released this week by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union. In a document titled "A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in U.S. Public Schools," the left-wing groups seek to paint a horrifying portrait of the nation's classrooms as Abu Ghraib-like torture chambers.

The report compiles sob stories of students humiliated after being disciplined by school officials for unruliness, and claims that minority students are "disproportionately targeted" for punishment. Citing international law and threatening lawsuits, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU are demanding that the White House and Congress ban physical discipline in all public schools.

The report says that "more than 200,000 U.S. public school students were punished by beatings during the 2006-2007 school year," but makes no distinction between "beatings" that take the form of mere knuckle-rapping versus swats on the backside versus over-the-line violent confrontations. In several of the anecdotes cited, it wasn't bruised bottoms that upset the supposedly brutalized students. It was bruised egos.

Peter S., a middle-school student from the Mississippi Delta, whined to the researchers: "The other kids were watching and laughing. It made me want to fight them. When you get a paddling and you see everyone laugh at you, it make you mad and you want to do something about it." How about ending your bad behavior and flying right?

Of course educators must use common sense when punishing bad apples. Of course they should be held accountable if they cause undue harm. But the agenda of these outfits is not to ensure the safety of everyone in the classroom. Their agenda is to demonize unapologetic enforcers of order and to impose international dictates on American public institutions.

The main author of the report is a special fellow with the Open Society Institute, funded by George (America must be "de-Nazified") Soros. Replete with references to the Convention against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the report declares in sweeping terms: "All corporal punishment, whether or not it causes significant physical injury, represents a violation of each student's rights to physical integrity and human dignity. It is degrading and humiliating, damaging the student's self-esteem and making him or her feel helpless." It's Gitmo all over again.

As usual, the Human Rights Watch/ACLU activists inject claims of racial discrimination into the mix -- repeatedly underscoring that many of the remaining states that allow corporal punishment are in the South. They infer deliberate targeting of black students based on statistics that reportedly show that "in the 13 southern states where corporal punishment is most prevalent, African-American students are punished at 1.4 times the rate that would be expected given their numbers in the student population, and African-American girls are 2.1 times more likely to be paddled than might be expected."

But that disproportion does not automatically equal discrimination. What they don't tell you are the races or ethnicities of the victims of the thugs being disciplined. What they don't bother to mention -- because it doesn't fit the America-as-torturer-of-minorities narrative -- is the unmitigated violence perpetrated in American classrooms against minority teachers.

The recent videotaped beating of black Baltimore teacher Jolita Berry by a black female student -- as other black students cheered and screamed, "Hit her!" -- exposed the continuing chaos in inner-city districts. In that school system alone, 112 students were expelled for assaults on staff members this school year.

Federal education statistics show that between 1996 and 2000, 599,000 violent crimes against teachers at school were reported. On average, the feds say, in each year from 1996 to 2000, about 28 out of every 1,000 teachers were the victims of violent crime at school, and three out of every 1,000 were victims of serious violent crime (i.e., rape, sexual assault, robbery or aggravated assault). Violence against teachers is higher at urban schools.

America's problem isn't that we're too tough and cruel in the classroom. It's that we've become too soft and placative, too ashamed and timid to assert authority and take unilateral action to guarantee a secure environment. Exactly where the human rights groups want us

And to think that George Soros and his minions, including Obamanation --- want to run this country....... that they hate so much.........!

Beverly Hillbillies Updated..........

You may have to click on the pic to read the print -- but be sure to hit the 'return' arrow to come back, Ya Hear?

Words of wisdom from Theodore Roosevelt...

.... Teddy Roosevelt, who eschewed hyphenated nationality names like Italian-American, Irish-American, and couldn't foresee today's African-American or Islamic-American, declared that we should all strive to be called: "AMERICAN" !

He said way back in 1916;

"We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . .

We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."

Every time I heard that one term loser Mayor of New York, David Dinkums extol the virtues of "the beauty of a broad mosaic of ethnic diversities" in this country --- I immediately reflected back on Teddy's words above; "not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house"! What a difference in American positive attitude and personal wisdom and foresight! RIP Teddy!

Did someone say that all the Nuts & Flakes are in California...?

Y'know they might not all be there --- but there do be a bunch of 'em there! Here's the news out of California today

California Considers Requiring Louder Hybrid Cars

C Johnson, Internet News Producer (ABC News 10)

SACRAMENTO, CA - Gov. Schwarzenegger has a bill before him that would study how to make hybrid cars noisier as a safety feature for blind pedestrians and cyclists.

When operating on electric power, hybrid vehicles are very quiet. A University of California study found that volunteers who were blindfolded could hear a gas or diesel-powered car from 36 feet away but didn't hear a Toyota Prius hybrid until it was just 11 feet from them.

One company, Lotus, has developed simulated engine noise technology and used it in Prius trials. The company says the engine noise is nearly inaudible to drivers and passengers.

The legislation would create a committee to study whether to require hybrids to be louder and how it might be accomplished. The governor has not taken a position on the measure.

When I was a mere lad, I recall we used to put pieces of cardboard on our wheels so the spokes would make an engine sound as the wheel went around. Maybe some eager young entrepreneur might want to fashion a "Hybrid engine motor sounding plastic card" to tuck in those quiet little devils. Might get rich and save a blind Californian's life!

I swear to God folks, you just can't make this kind of insanity up!!

Ready on the left - Ready on the right - Annie takes aim...

CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR OBAMA QUESTIONS LEGALITY OF SLAVERY BAN
by Ann Coulter
August 20, 2008

This week, Barack Obama's challenge is to select a running mate who's young, hip, and whose accomplishments in life don't overshadow Obama's. Allow me to suggest Kevin Federline.

The only thing we can be sure of is that Obama will choose someone who is the polar opposite of all his advisers until now. In other words, it will be a very, very white male who was probably proud of his country even before being chosen as Obama's running mate.

Obama's got a lot of ground to make up following that performance last weekend at the Saddleback presidential forum with pastor Rick Warren.

After seeing Obama defend infanticide with the glib excuse that the question of when life begins is above his "pay-grade," Rev. Jeremiah Wright announced that although he's known Obama for 30 years, he only recently became aware of how extreme the senator's viewpoints were. Wright, after all, has his reputation to consider.

Network heads responded by dashing off an urgent memo: During the main presidential debates this fall, ask NO questions about abortion, ethics or evil! Morality isn't the Democrats' forte.

Obama's defenders spin his abominable performance in the Saddleback forum by saying he's just too smart to give a straight answer. As Rick Warren charitably described Obama's debate performance: "He likes to nuance things ... He's a constitutional attorney." The constitutional lawyer "does nuance," as Bill Maher said on "Larry King Live," "and you saw how well that goes over with the Rick Warren people."

If that's Obama's excuse, he ought to know a few basics about the Constitution.

Did the big constitutional lawyer whose "nuance" is too sophisticated for Rick Warren's audience see the letter his wife sent out on his behalf in 2004? Michelle Obama denounced a federal law banning partial-birth abortion, writing that "this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional." Clearly!

The Supreme Court later found the law not "unconstitutional," but "constitutional" -- which I believe may have been the precise moment when Michelle Obama realized just how ashamed she had always been of her country.

But most stunningly, when Warren asked Obama if he supported a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, Obama said he did not "because historically -- because historically, we have not defined marriage in our Constitution."

I don't care if you support a marriage amendment or not. That answer is literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone say. If marriage were already defined in the Constitution, we wouldn't need an amendment, no?

Say, you know what else was "historically" not defined in the Constitution? Slavery. The words "slavery" and "slave" do not appear once in the original Constitution. The framers correctly thought it would sully the freedom-enshrining document to acknowledge the repellent practice. (Much like abortion!)

But in 1865, the 13th Amendment banned slavery throughout the land, in the first constitutional phrase ever to mention "slavery": "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

On Obama's "historical" argument, they shouldn't have passed the 13th Amendment because the Constitution "historically" had not mentioned slavery.

Do we know for a fact Barack Obama has read the Constitution? Obama's Facebook profile: "I'm pro-infanticide, I love sunsets, and I don't get the 13th Amendment!"

This is the guy who thinks he can condescend to Clarence Thomas? Asked at the Saddleback forum which Supreme Court justice Obama would not have nominated, Obama said ... the black one!

In Obama's defense, he said he thought Thomas wasn't experienced enough "at the time." So I guess Obama thinks Thomas should have to "wait his turn."

By contrast, Obama has experience pouring out of those big ears of his. Asked last year by Robin Roberts on ABC's "Good Morning America" about his lack of experience in foreign policy, Obama took umbrage.

Swelling up his puny little chest, Obama said: "Well, actually, my experience in foreign policy is probably more diverse than most others in the field. I'm somebody who has actually lived overseas, somebody who has studied overseas. I majored in international relations."

He actually cited his undergraduate major as a qualification to be president.

But on Saturday night, Obama said he didn't think Clarence Thomas was a "strong enough jurist or legal thinker" to be put on the Supreme Court.

I bet Thomas has heard of the 13th Amendment!

Bring Back 'Red Meat' Political Insults.....

This great country of ours has a long and brightly colored history of the political insult! From the days of John Adams, George Washington and Ben Franklin trading barbs to the present -- it's been a national pastime.

Unfortunately, we have pasteurized, homogenized, sweetened our society to the point that any barbed remark is interpreted as an epithet instead of the insult that was intended. Whatever happened to "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" in America. A well aimed rapier remark does more to state the obvious than all the politically correct pap in the world.

Here are a few examples to the point:

POLITICAL INSULTS

"What makes him think a middle aged actor, who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?"
- Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood's bid to become mayor of Carmel

"An empty suit that goes to funerals and plays golf."
- Ross Perot talking about Dan Quayle

"I have never seen. . .so slippery, so disgusting a candidate."
- Nat Hentoff talking about Bill Clinton

"He's nothing more than a well meaning baboon"
- General McCellan on Abraham Lincoln

"MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat."
- Harold Ickes talking about Douglas MacArthur

"A triumph of the embalmers art"
- Gore Vidal on Ronald Reagan

"If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he surely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House backyard come Wednesday."
- H. L. Mencken talking about Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The enviably attractive nephew who sings an Irish ballad for the company and then winsomely disappears before the table clearing and dishwashing begin."
- Lyndon B. Johnson on JFK

"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born"
- Ronald Reagan

"Ronald Reagan doesn't dye his hair, he's just prematurely orange"
- Gerald Ford on Ronald Reagan

In July of this year, Joeseph Tartakovsky praised quality political insults in an Op-ed in the WSJ:

"The great American political insult is older than the nation itself. Ben Franklin, writing in 1771 before the States were even United, lamented "Libeling and Personal Abuse, which is of late Years become so disgraceful to our Country." Not even George Washington was spared: Tom Paine raged about his "treachery" and "pusillanimity."

By the time of the third U.S. administration, Thomas Jefferson had seen enough of the democratic officeholder's fate to perceive that "it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it." So it has passed.

But insults, unlike imperfect man, are not created equal. In March, Samantha Power, a scholar-activist then on the Barack Obama campaign, called Hillary Clinton a "monster." "You just look at her and think, 'Ergh,'" she elaborated. It is encouraging that she was thrown from the campaign, but her insult was only a disgrace because of its insipidity.

It is an old parlor game to gripe that our political wit fails the coruscating standard of a Benjamin Disraeli or a Winston Churchill. But what, after all, makes for an effective political insult?

The answer is style. Too coarse, and the abuser sounds malicious. Too unimaginative, and the words evaporate en route. Too petty, and the insulter is harmed more than the insultee. Too distant from truth, and it just won't stick. Bill Moyers's jibe that "hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life" is an attempt at wit; the real thing is Bill Buckley's remark that LBJ was a man of his last word. Is Jimmy Carter the worst president the U.S. ever had, or, as William Safire put it, the "best U.S. president the Soviet Union ever had"? Gore Vidal calling Ronald Reagan a "triumph of the embalmer's art" seems itself the triumph of a curdled soul; but even Reagan could laugh when Gerald Ford quipped, "No, Reagan doesn't dye his hair. He's just prematurely orange."

It is one thing for our semiliterate intellectuals to sneer at the current president's locution, and another to remark, as H.L. Mencken did of Warren Harding, that his speech "reminds me of a string of wet sponges . . . It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." Compare this to Sen. Harry Reid's feeble attempt at scathing wit against President George W. Bush in 2005: "I think this guy is a loser."

Benjamin Franklin Bache, writing in the 1790s, probably our most abusive era, called John Adams a "ruffian deserving of the curses of mankind," which isn't bad. But that's a mere zephyr compared to the storms of James Callender, who called the second president a "hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."

The political insult is not insinuation, a whisper campaign, or a planted story. It is direct verbal attack, a public performance before a voting audience. Its purpose is to stain character, which, in the great personality contests that are elections, is a candidate's most precious asset. Nothing does this better than ridicule.

The flamboyant Sen. John Randolph (1773-1833) was an early master. His famed sallies, like good poetry, present unforgettable images: "He is a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt," he said of Secretary of State Edward Livingston. "Like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks." "Never was ability so much below mediocrity so well rewarded," he said of one political appointee. "No, not even when Caligula's horse was made consul." Randolph had a flamboyant 20th-century counterpart in Norman Mailer, who is supposed to have said, "Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world."

We can cheer the fact that these days, newspapers, TV networks, politicians and parties that traffic in scurrility imperil only their own reputations. The spirit of benevolence is upon us: Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, speaking by phone on June 4, agreed nobly to uphold "civil discussion."

But civility has a way of creeping into daintiness. If our candidates lose their willingness to spar, their sense of combative humor, will the contest grow more polite, or just less honest? The well-turned insult is a necessary and salutary force in politics, a spicy seasoning in an old, force-fed dish. It's a check on pomposity, proof of democratic vitality, a relief from endless electioneering, and a show of intelligence and moderation. The dull and the bigoted are rarely witty.

During a campaign, Henry Adams reminded us, the air is full of speeches and vice versa. Nothing deflates like a happy insult."

Now just in case you think I am overstating the case Pilgrims, remember this front page cartoon in the New Yorker and the flap it created (altho it did sell a lot of magazines, and ain't that the purpose of the cover?) throughout the main stream media and the political pundit parties?

It's political satire alright, but super sensitive public figures wanting to be seen as victims rose in unison.

Ignoring the real satirical meaning of the cartoon for their own purposes - they castigated it and the magazine... !

Lord where's that picture of Bubba with his trousers down?

Bootlegger's grand daughter to be Ambassador to England?

Well Pilgrims, that's how the headline could read --- but instead it reads like this in the Daily Telegraph:

Prepare for a Kennedy at the Court of St James's
Mandrake by Tim Walker

20 Aug 2008

If Barack Obama makes it to the White House, Britain seems set to have its first Kennedy as American Ambassador to the Court of St James's since JFK's father, Joe.

Mandrake hears that it will be payback for Caroline Kennedy JFK's only surviving child and a power broker in the Democratic Party, for being such an enthusiastic cheerleader for Obama.

"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them," she declared. "But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president – not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."

I am told that Miss Kennedy, 50, who has three children by her husband Edwin Schlossberg, a designer, was instrumental in persuading Ted Kennedy to back Obama, which was seen as the moment his campaign achieved critical mass. Obama is the first presidential candidate that Miss Kennedy has endorsed since she backed her uncle Ted's unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination in 1980.

The day after Obama became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in June, he appointed her to his Vice-Presidential Search Committee.

She has contributed financially to Obama's campaign, having earlier contributed to Hillary Clinton's.

She will follow in the dubious footsteps of her colourful grandfather, Joseph, an arch-appeaser of Hitler who committed political sucide when, in 1940, he declared: "Democracy is finished in England, it may be here (in the USA)."

Mandrake hopes that if she does bag London, Miss Kennedy will make good use of the entertaining space at the American ambassador's official residence, Winfield House in Regent's Park. I haven't been to a really good party there since the jovial Phil Lader's tour of duty came to an end in 2001. "

Y'all reckon maybe the Telegraph gossip reporter might oughtta, coulda, shoulda wait 'til the good folks here in the 'Colonies' decide in November who is gonna be appointing ambassadors for the next four years?
If I were him, I wouldn't get my high hat and tails out of moth balls just yet! Stetsons might continue to be in fashion at the Court of St James for four more years!

Is this Obamanation's new running mate....??????

Thomas Sowell pulls out his magnifying glass on Townhall today:

Amateurs Outdoing Professionals
Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

When amateurs outperform professionals, there is something wrong with that profession.

If ordinary people, with no medical training, could perform surgery in their kitchens with steak knives, and get results that were better than those of surgeons in hospital operating rooms, the whole medical profession would be discredited.

Yet it is common for ordinary parents, with no training in education, to homeschool their children and consistently produce better academic results than those of children educated by teachers with Master's degrees and in schools spending upwards of $10,000 a year per student-- which is to say, more than a million dollars to educate ten kids from K through 12.

Nevertheless, we continue to take seriously the pretensions of educators who fail to educate, but who put on airs of having "professional" expertise beyond the understanding of mere parents.

One of the most widespread and dramatic examples of amateurs outperforming professionals has been in economies that have had central planning directed by highly educated people, advised by experts and having at their disposal vast amounts of statistical data, not available and probably not understandable, by ordinary citizens.

Great things were expected from centrally planned economies. Their early failings were brushed aside as "the growing pains" of "a new society."

But, when centrally planned economies lagged behind free market economies for decade after decade, eventually even socialist and communist governments began to free their economies from many, if not most, of the government controls under central planning.

Almost invariably, these economies then took off with much higher economic growth rates-- China and India being the most prominent examples.

But look at the implications of the failure of central planning and the success of letting "the market"-- that is, millions of people who are nowhere close to being experts-- make the decisions as to what is to be produced and by whom.

How can it be that people with postgraduate degrees, people backed by the power of government and drawing on experts of all sorts, failed to do as well as masses of people of the sort routinely disdained by intellectuals?

What could be the reason? And does that reason apply in other contexts besides the economy?

One easy to understand reason is that central planners in the days of the Soviet Union had to set over 24 million prices. Nobody is capable of setting and changing 24 million prices in a way that will direct resources and output in an efficient manner.

For that, each of the 24 million prices would have to be weighed and set against each of the other 24 million prices. in order to provide incentives for resources to go where they were most in demand by producers and output to go where it was most in demand by consumers.

In a market economy, however, nobody has to take on such an impossible task. Each producer and each consumer need only be concerned with the relatively few prices relevant to their own decisions, with coordination of the economy being left to supply and demand.

In short, amateurs were able to outperform professionals in the economy because the amateurs did not take on tasks beyond the capability of any human being or any manageable group of human beings.

Put differently, "expertise" includes only a small band of knowledge out of the vast spectrum of knowledge required for dealing with many real world complications.

Nothing is easier than for experts with that small band of knowledge to imagine that they are so much wiser than others. Central planning is only the most demonstrable failure of such thinking. The disasters from other kinds of social engineering involve much the same problem.

Surgeons succeed because they stick to surgery. But if we were to put surgeons in control of commodity speculation, criminal justice and rocket science, they would probably fail as disastrously as central planners.

There have been a zillion pieces on Obamanation's performance last Saturday night....

.... but of all of them - I reckon this one from the Boston Herald sums it up best.

Pay grade’ unartful dodge
Smart money shouldn’t be on Obama

By Michael Graham, August 20, 2008 Op-Ed

“Well, uh, you know, I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or, uh, a scientific perspective, uh, answering that question with specificity, uh, you know, is, is, uh, above my pay grade.” - Sen. Barack Obama, on “When does a baby get human rights?”

In 1948, they had Harry Truman and “The buck stops here!”

In 2008, they’ve got Barack Obama and it’s “above my pay grade.”

This is definitely not your grandfather’s Democratic Party.

Certainly not mine. My grandfather, Ray Futrell, was a lifelong FDR Democrat, the kind who would proudly rather vote for a wife-beating, syphilitic drunkard than for a Republican. In fact, he would find the previous sentence entirely redundant.

My grandfather helped push Patton’s tanks across Europe, and one reason for my grandfather’s unshakable party loyalty was his belief that Harry Truman saved his life by dropping the A-bombs on Japan.

If Truman hadn’t made the call - if he’d demurred that such a profound life-and-death decision was “above my pay grade” - my grandfather believed that he and untold thousands of Americans would have died invading the Japanese mainland.
I miss my grandfather, but I’m also glad that he isn’t around to witness the tragic descent of his beloved Democratic Party.

Watching Obama with the Rev. Rick Warren this past weekend, answering questions - or, more accurately, not answering - about his most basic beliefs was simply embarrassing.

Obama supports partial-birth abortion and voted against the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act.” When he got the invitation to an evangelical forum hosted by a pro-life pastor, he had to know that issues regarding life and the law were going to come up.

And his prepared answer to the most fundamental question about public policy and abortion (“is the fetus a human being?”) is that it’s “above my pay grade?”

There are certain sentences that should never appear on the lips of the Leader of the Free World. “That Vladimir Putin, what a great guy!” is one of them. “I did not have sex with that woman” is another.

But on the very top of the list of statements about our nation’s laws that should never be spoken by a guy whose job it is to sit next to the Big, Red Button is “That’s above my pay grade.”

With all due respect, Sen. Obama, being president is above your pay grade. And the voters are starting to figure that out.

Politico.com reported yesterday that 75 percent of Americans believe that John McCain can “handle the job of commander in chief.” Only 50 percent feel the same about Obama. A whopping 42 percent told pollsters they believe Obama is simply not up to the task.

Who can blame them? Obama wants the difficult duty of taking on Iran and North Korea, but he can’t even handle Rick Warren or the Clintons - the latter having commandeered Obama’s own convention in Denver next week and forced their way into a pro-Hillary roll call. Having been routed by the Clintonistas, Obama wants a chance to lead against al-Qaeda? Please.

Leaders don’t pass tough questions to the next “pay grade.” They don’t need five minutes to answer yes-or-no questions about the surge or Russia’s invasion of a democratic neighbor.

Politicians flip-flop on taxes and FISA and the Second Amendment to meet the political needs of the moment. They try to explain away the votes they’ve already cast, like Obama’s extreme pro-abortion voting record. Or they courageously cast 130 non-votes of “present” in the Illinois legislature and pass the buck that way.

That’s not leadership, that’s politics. And Barack Obama is 100 percent pure politician.

He is certainly no Harry Truman.

Well stated Mr Graham!! Every four years - the candidates and the pundits all holler at us voters that this is 'the most important election' in fifty years, or the century, or whatever. Well this one is only gonna be important if the American voters don't wake up, smell the coffee and send this Illinois, narcissistic, street organizing, empty suit back to the streets of Chicago from whence he came!

And you Pilgrims thought "Yoda" was just a figment of George Lukas' imagination.....

Meet the real life "Yoda" not the pointy-eared Jedi knight in Star Wars. He is the four eared family pet of a Chicago family. Adopted in a neighborhood pub.

May the force be with him......!

Supposin' Ole Pecoz told you Pilgrims that Bob Woodwards new book....

The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008" will be published Sept. 8 by Simon & Schuster with an announced first printing of 900,000 copies. Would you be surprised?

Suppose I mentioned this book is supposed to be a President George Bush expose' to the extent: "There has not been such an authoritative and intimate account of presidential decision making since the Nixon tapes and the Pentagon Papers," Woodward's longtime editor, Alice Mayhew, said Tuesday in a statement. "This is the declassification of what went on in secret, behind the scenes."

According to Simon & Schuster, Woodward's book "takes readers deep inside the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq.

"Based on extensive interviews with participants, contemporaneous notes and secret documents, the book traces the internal debates, tensions and critical turning points in the Iraq War during an extraordinary two-year period."

Now suppose that I told you that the book will be rolled out with an exclusive, lengthy interview (Infomercial?) on '60 Minutes on CBS on the night of September 7th

So now we have Simon & Schuster, Publishers with the big roll-out on September 8th, the big promo commercial on 60 Minutes on the 7th, ....

Last question Pilgrims -- you need this to pass the smell test: Suppose I told you that both Simon & Schuster and CBS News were owned by the same company --- Viacom, Inc.

Would any of this surprise you?

Gee, if CBS and 60 Minutes are news organizations, I wonder why 60 Minutes didn't interview Jerome Corsi, when he introduced his unaided Number 1 best seller, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality"? Nah, I'm just kiddin', I know why! And so do you!

Well now Pilgrims.... while excitedly wringing our hands....

.... in anticipation of Obamanation naming his Veep choice (my money is on the walking transplant - Biden of Delaware) and trying to figure the odds of two Senators getting elected on the same ticket..... oh wait, he was only a Senator for 143 days when decided to be King, so he doesn't count.

I was looking for a little levity to lighten the suspense of the moment when I came across this little gem. If there is anybody in this country who we look to for sound political advice and wisdom -- it is Roseanne Barr. Yep, old sing the National Anthem, scratch and spit Barr. Here are some pearls of wisdom she shared yesterday...

Roseanne blasts Voight, Jolie's politics
Published: Aug. 18, 2008 at 3:47 PM

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Roseanne Barr says actor Jon Voight is a "frightened little girl" because of his opposition to likely Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Writing in her personal blog, actress Barr took aim at Voight, apparently in reaction to an anti-Obama opinion piece he wrote and published last month in The Washington Times, and also criticized his daughter, actress Angelina Jolie, for claiming to be undecided in the presidential election, Access Hollywood reported Monday.

In the Times piece, Voight wrote, "God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way."

Barr reportedly responded in her Web post by calling Voight a "frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu, who acts like Obama just wandered in from the rain forest with a bone thru his nose and a communist pamphlet in his loincloth."

Access Hollywood also said she wrote it is hypocritical of Jolie to not support Obama in light of her adoption of an Ethiopian child, saying African children suffered under the policies of Republican U.S. administrations.

So there you have it Partners! If you don't want to suffer the wrath of this political wizard, you better fall in line and bow to Obamanation!

Ramirez nails Queen Pelosi......

Dick Morris's obvious dislike for all things Clinton.....

sometimes color the content of his opinion columns. But he seems pretty close to the mark on his assessment of Obamanation's actions (or lack thereof) lately!

OBAMA'S BACKBONE DEFICIT

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
August 18, 2008 --

LAST week raised important questions about whether Barack Obama is strong enough to be president. On the domestic political front, he showed incredible weakness in dealing with the Clintons, while on foreign and defense questions, he betrayed a lack of strength and resolve in standing up to Russia's invasion of Georgia.

This two-dimensional portrait of weakness underscores fears that Obama might, indeed, be a latter-day Jimmy Carter.

Consider first the domestic and political. Bill and Hillary Clinton have no leverage over Obama. Hillary can't win the nomination. She doesn't control any committees. If she or her supporters tried to disrupt the convention or demonstrate outside, she would pay a huge price among the party faithful. If Obama lost - after Hillary made a fuss at the convention - they would blame her for all eternity (just like Democrats blame Ted Kennedy for Carter's defeat).

But, without having any leverage or a decent hand to play, the Clintons bluffed Obama into amazing concessions. Hillary will speak on Tuesday night in prime time. Chelsea will introduce her. She will get to play a film extolling her virtues produced by Harry Bloodworth Thomason. Bill will speak on Wednesday night. Hillary's name will be placed into nomination. She will get to have nominating and seconding speeches on her behalf. And, on Thursday night, the last night of the convention, the roll call will show how narrowly Obama prevailed.

So Obama gave away Tuesday night, Wednesday night and part of Thursday night to the Clintons. It will really be their convention. A stronger candidate would've called their bluff and confined the Clintons to one night on which both Hillary and Bill spoke (he would have outshone her). He would have blocked a roll call by allowing a voice vote to nominate by acclimation. He would have stood up to the Clintons and recaptured his own convention.

If Obama can't stand up to the Clintons, after they have been defeated, how can he measure up to a resurgent Putin who has just achieved a military victory? When the Georgia invasion first began, Obama appealed for "restraint" on both sides. He treated the aggressive lion and the victimized lamb even-handedly. His performance was reminiscent of the worst of appeasement at Munich, where another dictator got away with seizing another breakaway province of another small neighboring country, leading to World War II.
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Just the thought of this candidate being introduced as the 'Leader of the Free World' should be enough to scare the hell out of the electorate!! One can only hope...

McCain's folks throw a 'Brush Back' hardball pitch at NBC

McCain protests NBC coverage
By: Mike Allen
August 18, 2008

Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign manager Rick Davis asked Sunday for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the presidential race."

Davis made the request Sunday in a letter that is part of an aggressive effort by McCain to counter news coverage he considers critical.

In this case, the campaign is objecting to a statement by NBC's Andrea Mitchell on "Meet the Press" questioning whether McCain might have gotten a heads-up on some of the questions that were asked of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was the first candidate to be interviewed Saturday night by Pastor Rick Warren at a presidential forum on faith.

Warren told the audience that McCain was being held in "a cone of silence" so he wouldn't hear the questions, which were similar for both candidates.

Warren referred again to "the cone of silence" when McCain came onstage, and the senator joked: "I was trying to hear through the wall."

Mitchell reported that some "Obama people" were suggesting "that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well prepared."

A McCain aide said that is not the case: "Senator McCain was in a motorcade led by the United States Secret Service and held in a green room with no broadcast feed."

Mitchell made the comment in the context of saying McCain did better, and that the Obama camp was defensive. In response to the campaign's letter, she pointed out that journalists get criticism from both sides.

"I wasn't expressing an opinion," Mitchell said. "I was reporting what they were saying."

This ain't gonna straighten NBC up and make them suddenly unbiased in their reporting.... but after weeks of pounding on McCain and extolling Obamanation --- it may embarrass them enough to move back from the plate a little. ...nah....!

Fair Warning to all male beer drinkers ---- This just in;

Beer Analysis

This is Damn serious stuff.... beer contains female hormones!

Last month Mississippi State University scientists released the results of a
recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer. Men
should take a concerned look at their beer consumption. The theory is beer
contains female hormones (hops contain phytoestrogens); therefore, by
drinking enough beer, men can turn into women!

To test the theory, 100 men each drank 8 pints of beer within a one-hour period. It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects:

1. Argued over nothing.
2. Refused to apologize when obliviously wrong.
3. Gained weight.
4. Talked excessively without making sense.
5. Became overly emotional.
6. Couldn't drive.
7. Failed to think rationally.
8. Had to sit down to urinate.

No further testing was considered necessary.

If you ignore this warning, don't come whinin' to Ole Pecoz when you start havin' hot flashes...

Curiousity cured!!

I've been chatting with some old military friends from around the country about the old DDT spraying 'skeeter trucks' that used to patrol our streets at night in the summer time.

The discussion got me curious enough to dig out the Environmental Protection Agency's facts on mosqito control in this modern day and age.

I'm not sure if the spray does the skeeters in, or they get bored to death reading the EPA's statement:

"5. What are some of the pesticides commonly used in mosquito control programs?
Both chemical and biological measures are employed to kill immature mosquitoes during larval stages. Larvicides target larvae in the breeding habitat before they can mature into adult mosquitoes. Larvicides include the bacterial insecticides Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and Bacillus sphaericus, the insect growth inhibitor methoprene, and the organophosphate insecticide temephos. Certain mineral oils -- applied to form a thin film on the surface of the water -- are also used as larvicides.

To control an adult mosquito infestation, adulticides are applied either by aircraft or on the ground employing truck-mounted sprayers. State and local agencies commonly use the organophosphate insecticides malathion and naled and the synthetic pyrethroid insecticides permethrin, resmethrin, and sumithrin for adult mosquito control."

In that last sentence, the EPA leaves off more "g's" than Ole Pecoz!! If you're still awake, I reckon in 'real speak' that those larvacides are the equivalent of a 1st trimester abortions and the adulticides would be 1st degree murders...?

Bumper Sticker of the Week....

It appears that 'Mad Vlad' is about to find out the meaning of ....

..."The Law of Unintended Consequences'! Acting like a renegade Indian off the reservation, he invades a lost part of the evil empire hoping to shake other countries into line --- and the line they are forming is heading West! This from this mornings London Daily Telegraph;


Ukraine offers satellite defence co-operation with Europe and US
Ukraine inflamed mounting East-West tensions yesterday by offering up a Soviet-built satellite facility as part of the European missile defence system.

By Damien McElroy in Tbilisi
Last Updated: 11:24AM BST 17 Aug 2008

The proposal, made amid growing outrage among Russia's neighbours over its military campaign in Georgia, could see Ukraine added to Moscow's nuclear hitlist. A Russian general declared Poland a target for its arsenal after Warsaw signed a deal with Washington to host interceptor missiles for America's anti-nuclear shield.

The move came as the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, signed a cease-fire deal that sets the stage for a Russian troop withdrawal after more than a week of warfare with its neighbour Georgia.

The deal calls for both Russian and Georgian forces to pull back to positions they held before fighting erupted on August 8. As of last night, though, there was little apparent evidence of a Russian pull-out from the Georgian town of Gori, which Russian tanks and troops took last weekend. Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, insisted a broader withdrawal would be contingent on further security measures.

Just hours before Mr Medvedev put his signature to the ceasefire deal, Russian forces blew up a Georgian railway bridge on the main line west of the capital, Tbilisi, an act that critics interpreted as a malicious attempt to cripple the country's infrastructure. Moscow at first issued a denial, but television footage shot by the Reuters news agency clearly showed the bridge's twisted remains.

Ukraine said it was ready to give both Europe and America access to its missile warning systems after Russia earlier annulled a 1992 cooperation agreement involving two satellite tracking stations. Previously, the stations were part of Russia's early-warning system for missiles coming from Europe.

"The fact that Ukraine is no longer a party to the 1992 agreement allows it to launch active cooperation with European countries to integrate its information," a statement from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.

It follows a declaration earlier this week from Ukraine's pro-Western president, Viktor Yushchenko, that the Russian naval lease of the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sebastopol would be scrapped if any vessels joined the conflict in Georgia.

The crisis over Russia's display of military might in Georgia has alarmed ex-Soviet satellites states in a broad arc from the Baltics to Central Asia. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, all of which harbour bitter memories of Soviet occupation, have expressed solidarity with the Georgian position.

Yesterday President George W. Bush hailed what he saw as progress in resolving the Georgia crisis, describing the ceasefire agreement as "a hopeful step."

He reiterated, though, that the disputed regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia remained part of Georgia, despite Moscow's insistence that they should now be allowed to become part of Russia. "There's no room for debate on this matter," said Mr Bush. "The international community is clear that South Ossetia and Abkhazia are part of Georgia and the US fully recognises this reality."

Meanwhile, disturbing reports of abuse of ethnic Georgians in captured parts of the disputed region emerged. A group of captive soldiers were paraded in the streets of the South Ossetian capital, Tskinvali, and the bodies of at least 40 dead troops rotted in the sun.

Teams of ethnic Georgians, some under armed guard, were forced to clean the streets. It was the first apparent evidence of humiliation or abuse of Georgians in the Russian-controlled breakaway republic.

Not to mention how his invasion actions brought agreement from Poland this week to host a missile defense system after 18 months of negotiations.

As Richard Beeston of the Times of London said recently: "Mr. Putin once described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest tragedy of the 20th Century. Trying to resurrect it could be the greatest folly of the 21st,"

351 days a year, NBC's hirelings lecture us great unwashed folk.....

to reduce our carbon footprint -- turn off the air conditioning, drive less, ride buses --- Matt Lauer in the Today Show and Brian Williams of the NBC evening news rail at us daily. But look what happens when they are asked to work au natural!

Not Green: NBC Beijing Olympic Set Air Conditioned -- Outdoors
'Green is Universal' network that dimmed set to push eco-programming gives cold shoulder to Chinese weather.

By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
8/15/2008

The NBC family of networks has no problem showing viewers how to save the planet. But if it is a muggy, smoggy 85 degrees, as is the forecast for Beijing this week, consider looking elsewhere for eco-inspiration.

WTHR, the NBC affiliate for Indianapolis, reported from Beijing and described the NBC set used for the network's two highest rated news broadcasts, “NBC Nightly News” and “Today,” as air conditioned – even though it is outdoors.

“The set is outside, but air conditioning vents make the weather bearable,” Anne Marie Tiernon wrote for WTHR Eyewitness News on August 14.

Even NBC “Today” co-host Matt Lauer remarked about the air conditioning, but said it was still uncomfortable even with it.

“The first couple of nights even with the air conditioning it was steamy in here, but we've been lucky ever since,” Lauer said to WTHR. “It’s been overcast some days, takes the temperature down. We call it fog smog.”

Last fall, the network performed a publicity stunt on its November 4 broadcast of its highly rated Sunday Night NFL Football show, “Football Night in America.” The broadcast used limited lighting for the broadcast and even went completely dark for the final moments of the program.

The effort was to raise awareness and set an example for the rest of the country, however, the same example isn’t being set for the broadcast from the world’s biggest polluter, China.

Less than two months ago, NBC was painting climate change as an issue of American national security. NBC chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson said on the June 25 “NBC Nightly News” that: “The world’s thirst for energy is creating an environmental crisis that could soon become a security crisis for the United States.”

Kinda takes the glow off those tree-huggin' Halo's those folks like to sport, doesn't it Pilgrims? Like all the rest of the limousine liberals -- what's good for 'us' is just not up to snuff for 'them'! 'Cause they are the anointed ones,,,,,,

Who says Bad Vlad doesn't have allies in the US Congress?

Do as we say, not as we do..... G** D*mmit!!!

Argue this! College debate coach drops his shorts
The Associated Press
Salt Lake Tribune
08/15/2008

Posted: 6:32 AM- KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An argument between two debate coaches that was caught on video was not the sharp-witted dialogue typically associated with college debate teams.
Instead, the two traded profanity-laced barbs and one of them pulled down his shorts, exposing his underwear.
An eight-minute segment of the argument, in which each cursed repeatedly and one student near the camera can be heard crying, was posted on YouTube on Aug. 2 and has garnered more than 100,000 hits.
"In 18 years of taking part in debates, I have never seen an incident like this one," said Gordon Stables, first vice president of the Cross Examination Debate Association, which sponsored the March tournament in Wichita, Kan., where the argument took place.
Stables, who is also director of the University of Southern California's debate squad, said the association was investigating.
In the video, Fort Hays State University debate coach William Shanahan is shown arguing with Shanara Reid-Brinkley, debate coach at the University of Pittsburgh, during the competition's quarterfinals.
The argument, which appears to be at least in part about race, is punctuated with frequent cursing and name-calling. Shanahan, who is white, and Reid-Brinkley, who is black, scream criticisms about one another's body language during students' debates.
At one point Shanahan screams as he jumps up, then yanks his shorts down to his knees and points his rear end at Reid-Brinkley.
Phone messages left for Reid-Brinkley and Shanahan were not returned Thursday. Officials at Pitt and Fort Hays State, a university of about 9,000 students in western Kansas, said they were investigating.

For video go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTNlYhVF-E0

It ain't even Holloween yet, but the Dimocrats are trying to scare the pants off us!!

Here are a couple of scary images! Imagine these four runnin' this Ole Country without checks and balances.... talk about us endin' up being overdrawn!

Rumors flying around Massachusetts that John (he was in Vietnam for a couple of days ya' know) Kerry is on the very very very short list for Veep spot on Obamanation's ticket! Not possible you say? Think again brothers and sisters, he's got money (at least his wife does), he's got tenure in foreign relations, he's got name recognition, and he's got good hair.

More to the point, Massachusetts is one of those states that would let him run both for Veep and for his Senate seat in this fall's election. Mix into all this, that the Veep nominee will speak on Wednesday night, a night already designated as a salute to America's veterans!!! Did I mention he is a vet and needed three bandaids?

Hope those swift boat lads still got their oars in the water.

Here is the other dynamic duo that will be running the Congress at the same time Obamanation and Mr Heinz hope to be in the White House. If that don't scare the bejesus out of ya'. you are asleep at the switch.

By the way, Queen Pelosi reversed herself again in a TV interview yesterday -- she says a vote on drilling will NOT occur now! Unless of course she can tie it to some other foolishness that the Republicans cannot in good conscience, vote for!

Wonder why it is that every time I see these two in the same picture, she's shaking a fist or a finger, and he's doing his long suffrin' 'Mr Peepers' silent act in the background....... hmmmmm!

Some folks just seem to be able to say it better - - so I let 'em...

Talking Back to a Black Man
Burt Prelutsky
Friday, August 15, 2008

A few weeks ago, I was listening to a radio talk show when a black man called in to take Barack Obama to task for suggesting that black men were sloughing off their responsibility as fathers. The caller didn’t deny recent data that indicated that 80% of black babies were being born to unwed mothers. Instead, he said that this dire situation wasn’t the fault of irresponsible young men and women, but, instead, was the logical result of rampant racism in our country. He claimed that black American males simply can’t find jobs, and that’s the reason they don’t support their families.

I waited for the talk show host to set him straight, but it never happened. So I guess, as is so often the case in this cowardly, politically correct, age, I’ll have to do it myself.

First of all if I had been hosting the show, I probably would have laughed in the caller’s face. Which may very well explain why I’m not hosting a radio talk show.

The notion that in 2008, anyone can seriously suggest that it is whitey’s fault that millions of black men are abrogating their responsibility to get married and help raise their children would be laughable if the results weren’t so tragic both for the black community and for America at large.

How is it, I would have challenged the caller, that his grandparents and their grandparents managed to get married and bring up their youngsters in spite of Jim Crow laws, separate-but-definitely-unequal schools and rampant racism that kept them in menial jobs, but that all these years later, in spite of decades of Affirmative Action, government-enforced equal opportunity in the workplace and quota systems that benefit minorities, black men lack the ability to do the same? And how is it that people all over the world who are much poorer than American blacks manage to pull it off?

It’s obvious that millions of black men simply prefer shirking their responsibilities, while simultaneously insisting that they’re the victims of white society. They make a huge deal of demanding respect, of insisting they’re men and not boys, but all the while millions of them do precious little to earn anybody’s respect or to prove that they are anything but irresponsible brats.

How can I be so certain that I’m right and that the angry caller wasn’t? Simple. After all, how can it be possible that all these millions of black men are unable to support their babies, but millions of single black women somehow manage to do it?

As the world turns...................

Still sliding down the slippery slope of Political Correctness....

I picked up my morning paper this morning and did a double take! Right there on the front page was a story headlined, "Unauthorized immigrants get a friend". The story is about some guilt ridden liberal in Boston spending his money defending 'unauthorized immigrants' from deportation.

Now, if this American who admits to making his money in old fashioned American way wants to spend it helping to destroy our good country by helping these law breakers, that's his business. I don't agree, but it's his business.

But the story is not what caused my hackles to rise --- what raised me on my toes was that new term "unauthorized immigrants"!! What the hell is that?

Apparently in Boston and in the main stream media (MSM) including my San Antonio daily rag, 'illegal aliens' have now been elevated to 'unauthorized immigrants'! Was only a few years ago, they were branded as 'wetbacks', but that term was determined to be hurtful or something. So as a nation we softened it to 'illegal aliens'.

Makes sense, not all of them came across the Rio Grande. Some drive in, some fly in, some come by ship, some cross the Canadian border.

But regardless of how they got here, the fact remains that they are here ILLEGALLY and they are non-citizen ALIENS. Jumpin' Jesus, soon the MSM will want us to call them Uninvited Guests. or American Party Crashers. Like this is all some fun and games.

Fact is, we've got more than twenty million illegal aliens, wetbacks, foreign intruders roaming across our country soaking up health care dollars, welfare dollars, crime and punishment dollars, Homeland Security dollars and are not the least concerned with the well being of this great country. They sit in our school houses, our jail houses, our public housing and they are ALIENS who are here ILLEGALLY!

They don't pay taxes, they don't assimilate, they don't become part of the great American melting pot. With the encouragement of their self appointed leaders and many weep'n Jesus liberal handwringers, they ghetto-ize themselves and increase the mosaic look of the country. Hell, Teddy Roosevelt said a hundred years ago that all immigrants must learn English and American customs - if this country is going to survive.

It's been repeated since the days of Jefferson, a country which cannot, or will not defend it's borders will not long remain a sovereign country!!!

Now just in case you are one of those guilt ridden liberals that think ole' Pecoz shouldn't have used that 'wetback' word up there, let me remind you that just a few years ago, when America's hero general, Dwight David Eisenhower was President -- we even had a government plan called "Operation Wetback" to help rid us of these folks. :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

Course there were less than four million of them then -- guess it din't work too well! I reckon soon we'll be speaking of "VWR's", Visitors Without Responsibility's.......

I tried to find the Arabic translations for Barack, Hussain, & Obama...

But even in this great Internet Al Gorebot gifted us - I couldn't find the translations. The reason I was looking was to see if perchance they translated into 'Cheap Folding Camera'. 'Cause that's sure what Obamanation is turning out to resemble.

The Clintons are rolling him at every turn. Demands are made - negotiations initiated - and Clintons get the gold ring at the Dimocrat Convention. Let's see now.

- Hellary gets a plank in the final Dimocrat Platform blaming her loss on a political 'glass ceiling'.

- Hellary gets a prime time speaking slot on opening night -- and she gets to be introduced by her Daughter Chelsea. How's that for Obamanations first night.

- On night two, Bubba Clinton hisself, gets a prime time spot -- sucking more oxygen out of the convention hall.

- Now finally --- after 'negotiations', all of a sudden Obamanation, speaking thru his people 'cause he's hiding in Hawaii, decides that it would be great for party unity to have Hellary's name entered in nomination! Yeah right! So now we get to watch a fifty state roll call vote with Hellary's name called out in every state --!

I recollect that back during the bad ole days of the Cold War - the Russians entered every negotiation session with two rules; "Everything that is mine - is mine!" and "Everything that is yours is negotiable'! This one sided policy ended of course, when Ronald Reagan ended it at Reykjavík, Iceland. And ultimately - so did the Cold War.

It's a scary thing to think that someday this empty suit, this cheap folding camera, this Obamanation, might be representing us and staring at Vladimir Putin across a negotiating table. Lord save us all -- 'cause he won't!

World News you might have missed while eating your cornflakes.....

Just tryin' to be helpful Pilgrims, and help you keep up with all the excitin' World News events!

Thank God it wasn't real.

A giant inflatable dog turd created by the American artist Paul McCarthy was blown from its moorings at a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a window before landing in the grounds of a children's home.
The exhibit, entitled Complex Shit, is the size of a house. It has a safety system that is supposed to deflate it in bad weather, but it did not work on this occasion.
Juri Steiner, the director of the Paul Klee centre, in Berne, told AFP that a sudden gust of wind carried it 200 metres before it fell to the ground, breaking a window of the children's home. The accident happened on July 31, but the details only emerged yesterday.
Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece (pictured here) would be put back on display.

Do you reckon some Swiss lawyer is running up and down the halls looking for some kid he can represent in a lawsuit against the museum for causing "PDTAS"? (Post Dog Turd Attack Syndrome)

*****

This is no Polish joke! (at least to the Polish Railroad Commission!)

Bungling engineers in Poland accidentally dug a railway tunnel that turned out to be too small for the trains that were supposed to go through it.
Officials said the mistake happened because the crew digging the tunnel didn't communicate with the one laying the track.

The mistake wasn't discovered until the tunnel was completed....!!

Why they never let Moses participate in fishing contests........

Annie aims at Dimocrat, Ted Kennedyesque sleaze bags....

EVEN BY TRIAL LAWYER STANDARDS, EDWARDS A REAL SLEAZEBAG
by Ann Coulter
August 13, 2008

The good news: DNA testing has confirmed that John Edwards is not the father of Rielle Hunter's baby.

The bad news: The father is Bill Clinton.

Ha ha -- just kidding! It's almost impossible to get pregnant by having the type of sex Bill Clinton prefers.

Also, by now, everyone has heard the news that Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, has refused to grant a paternity test.

I wonder if Edwards knew that when he was making his chesty offer to take a paternity test? Edwards gushed to ABC's Bob Woodruff: "I would welcome participating in a paternity test, be happy to participate in one ... happy to take a paternity test and would love to see it happen."

As Edwards knows, our paternity laws were written by Gloria Steinem, so if the mother doesn't want a paternity test, it can't happen. So when Woodruff asked if he was going to actually take the paternity test soon, Edwards quickly noted, "I'm only one side of the test."

With Rielle in on the scam, Edwards could boldly demand a paternity test and then self-righteously defend his mistress's decision to refuse a paternity test. How dare you gainsay this woman's right to her privacy! Because if there's one person who's gone the extra mile to keep Hunter from becoming a public figure, it's John Edwards.

Edwards is closely following the Kennedy model of responding to charges of misconduct. First, admit only as much as can be currently proved. Second, get the other party to block any further investigation. I guess he really is "Kennedy-esque"!

For example, when the cops found DNA on the murdered body of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Conn., the Kennedy suspect, Michael Skakel, suddenly remembered he had been up in a tree that night masturbating! (Talk about a tree-hugger.) You can see how something like that could slip your mind.

After Teddy Kennedy plunged his car off the Chappaquiddick Bridge with Mary Jo Kopechne in it and then failed to report the accident for nine hours, Kennedy admitted he had driven off the bridge -- but said he was in a state of shock for the next nine hours, preventing him from reporting the submerged car with a woman trapped in it.

Indeed, Kennedy was so disoriented he was barely able to dream up a highly unlikely alibi.

The historical parallel to Edwards' pincer move with Rielle Hunter is that Kennedy ostentatiously demanded a full investigation –- while the Kopechne family stoutly objected to an autopsy of their daughter.

According to Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-up by Leo Damore, the evidence suggested that Kopechne died gasping for breath in the car while Teddy Kennedy was busy trying to convince various people to say that they were driving his car.

There were lots of houses nearby with lights on, but Kennedy avoided them after he escaped from the car, so he could sneak back to his hotel undetected and begin establishing an alibi. Evidently, Kennedy is better than Edwards at sneaking into and out of hotels.

If Mary Jo had suffocated, then she had been alive for hours after the car plunged into the water. But an autopsy was required to determine whether Kopechne had drowned or suffocated.

Both the coroner and the diver who retrieved Mary Jo's body from the car believed Mary Jo had suffocated, not drowned. The diver found her body contorted in the back of the submerged car as if she had been trying to press her face into the last air pocket in the car. The coroner concluded there wasn't enough water in Mary Jo's body to indicate a drowning.

But for the first time in Massachusetts history, no autopsy was performed in a possible manslaughter case. Mary Jo was buried within about an hour of her body being pulled out of the channel under the Chappaquiddick Bridge.

Naturally, Kennedy wanted a thorough investigation -- to clear his name! -- but the Kopechnes absolutely refused to consent to an autopsy of their daughter. What more could he do? The Kopechnes' lawyer, Joseph Flanagan, refused to say who was paying him to fight the autopsy.

Similarly, Edwards aggressively offered to take a paternity test, knowing that the New Age hippie chick who still thinks she's going to marry him would not hurt him by allowing a paternity test. Edwards certainly is adept at reading stupid women, or as his campaign called them, "the base."

Democrats are always claiming to have the Kennedy magic, but, once again, another Kennedy-wannabe falls short. To be a real Kennedy, John, you have to kill her.

O = ZERO !!

Dr Jack Wheeler has been an advisor to Presidents.... helped Reagan bring down the Soviet Empire, is a world adventurer, and probably the greatest compliment --- called "the Conservative Indiana Jones" by the Washington Post. Here are some of his thoughts on Obamanation...

O = ZERO
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
2008

To The Point is proud to present its candidate for Best Bumper Sticker of 2008:

The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No résumé, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.

He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya. Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively.

What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is "African-American," the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it.

Let that sink in: Obambi is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.

It's something Hillary doesn't understand - how some complete neophyte came out of the blue and stole the Dem nomination from her. Obamamania is beyond politics and reason. It is a true religious cult, whose adherents reject Christianity yet still believe in Original Sin, transferring it from the evil of being human to the evil of being white.

Thus Obambi has become the white liberals' Christ, offering absolution from the Sin of Being White. There is no reason or logic behind it, no faults or flaws of his can diminish it, no arguments Hillary could make of any kind can be effective against it. The absurdity of Hypocrisy Clothed In Human Flesh being their Savior is all the more cause for liberals to worship him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd.

Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans remain Christian and are in no desperate need of a phony savior.

Obama is a Zero. There is nothing really there. O=Zero. You can get a O=Zero bumper sticker for your car, a O=Zero t-shirt, encourage your friends to do the same, and get the message out there:

That 'his candidacy is ridiculous and should not be taken seriously by any thinking American.'

For more about and from Dr Wheeler, go to his site at:

http://www.tothepointnews.com/

Here is an update on Pelosi's new bombshell book...from a Florida blogger....

Pelosi's new book bombs big time!

Not a good week for our Nancy! Today she woke up to discover that a majority - a slim one, but still a majority - of CALIFORNIANS want to drill off our coasts! Oops@!

And this is taking place while Nancy - instead of taking care of the problems of the nation - (like $4 gasoline and all those other little things) is off on a two week tour to promote her brand new shiny book - "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters" . Of course it would be a reasonable question to ask when exactly she found time to write it, but that would not be very generous of me! Having said all that, poor Nancy also woke today to discover that her book - released last Tuesday - is currently sat at the impressive number of 1,610 on Amazon's bestseller list!

Some of the books that are ahead of hers includes one of my favorite beach time reads - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society book - released on the same day as Nancy's. And while the potato book has five full stars from its reviewers, poor Nancy is struggling with just a single star! ONE LONELY STAR!!

But it's not just new books beating Nancy's - try this one from 2005 - My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler. And Chelsea has four and a half stars too!

In case you are wondering, this story first came to light on Drudge and was very comically done on Glenn Beck this morning. It is funny - BUT - it is serious too.

And no mention made of the ginormous carbon footprints left by this ego-narcissists' tax payer financed, secret service protected, nation-wide tour to sell the lousy 5000 books that have been sold in two weeks of her peddlin, piddlin tour! Wonder if she bought any carbon offset credits from her fellow hustler, Gorebot?

I think if someone ran the numbers - the taxpayers would have saved millions if we'da just bought the damn 5000 books and she'da stayed home! Hmmm, by the way - I wonder if Chelsea, the author of 'My Horizontal Life' up there, that is outselling Pelosi, ever ran into Bubba or Love Lips?

Once again, Ramiriez hit's the Gong!!!

When is a 'Hate Crime' not a 'Hate Crime"?

......that's an easy question, when it's Black on White... From today's NY Post;

CONEY ISLAND MOB BEATS EX-MARINES RESCUING GIRL
By PHILIP MESSING

August 11, 2008 --
A wolf pack of at least 30 thugs viciously attacked two hero ex-Marines in Brooklyn after they rescued a teenage girl who was being assaulted, police and witnesses said yesterday.
And when the brother of one of the former servicemen tried to come to his rescue during the July 25 melee in Coney Island, he was beaten into a coma.

The former leathernecks, Valentyn Olenyev, 23, and Boris Bukler, 22, Russian émigrés who served tours in Iraq, were walking a female friend to her parked car on West 23rd Street at 12:30 a.m. when they spotted two men holding the screaming teen by her hands and legs.

"She was yelling, 'Help!' " said Olenyev. "I asked her, 'Do you need help?' She said, 'Yes!"

"It wasn't our intention to get into a fight," said Bukler. "We said, 'Let the girl go, and we'll leave.' We told them, 'Stop.'

"She was screaming, and all we did was look to help her. I got a bottle smashed over my head, and after that, I started fighting. But I got beat down.

"I was getting my ass kicked by 50 people."

Their friend called Olenyev's brother, Ivan, 22.

"When I showed up, there were a lot of people there, people on the left and people on the right, and then - 'Boom!' - I got hit and passed out," Ivan told The Post from his hospital bed.

Police sources said he was pounded senseless by 240-pound Timothy Dixon, 23, who was swinging a metal baseball bat.

Ivan suffered multiple facial fractures and will require plastic surgery.

The NYPD is looking for Dixon, who remains at large.

The teenage girl fled after the melee.

The two former Marines, meanwhile, insist that the violence had racial overtones, although the assault has not been labeled a bias crime.

Bukler said, "Those in the crowd were yelling, 'Hey, white boys, you're in the 'hood now!' We were yelling back, 'We don't care - we live here!'

Now what are the odds. do you reckon, if a gang of fifty white thugs piled on two black ex-Marine that were trying to rescue a teen-age girl, that it wouldn't be called a hate crime?
Shucks, I wouldn't want to be between Sharpton, Jackson and the nearest mike and TV camera. I'd get trampled. It would be an evening news lead -- the whole schmear! Hell, CNN would probably design a logo to display every time fifteen minutes when they repeated the story!

Now here is a REALLY scary thought....

FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content
McDowell warns reinstated powers could play in net neutrality debate, lead to government requiring balance on Web sites.

By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
8/13/2008 9:08:51 AM

There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content policy.”

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a possibility after talking with bloggers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. McDowell spoke about a recent FCC vote to bar Comcast from engaging in certain Internet practices – expanding the federal agency’s oversight of Internet networks.

The commissioner, a 2006 President Bush appointee, told the Business & Media Institute the Fairness Doctrine could be intertwined with the net neutrality battle. The result might end with the government regulating content on the Web, he warned. McDowell, who was against reprimanding Comcast, said the net neutrality effort could win the support of “a few isolated conservatives” who may not fully realize the long-term effects of government regulation.

“I think the fear is that somehow large corporations will censor their content, their points of view, right,” McDowell said. “I think the bigger concern for them should be if you have government dictating content policy, which by the way would have a big First Amendment problem.”

“Then, whoever is in charge of government is going to determine what is fair, under a so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine,’ which won’t be called that – it’ll be called something else,” McDowell said. “So, will Web sites, will bloggers have to give equal time or equal space on their Web site to opposing views rather than letting the marketplace of ideas determine that?”

Putting it another way -- a vote for Obamanation, Pelosi, Reid, and your neighborhood's Dimocrat rep to Congress ---- is a vote for Government Speech Control and the demise of the 1st Amendment. They have already said that they will reverse the 2nd Amendment, now they are working on the 1st!
I've heard jokes that reinstating the 'Fairness Doctrine' would mean that CNN would have to include Rush Limbaugh, and the NBC today show would have to let Matt Lauer go and hire Glenn Beck as co-host... Trust me folks, this whole fairness doctrine scheme has nothing to do with balancing the left... merely with gagging the conservatives!

Keep those eyes peeled and those ears alert.. 1984 may be 30 years late .. but it's coming, Pilgrims ---

Came across this brief comment by MacRanger on his blog this morning and thought I would share it unedited.....

"Is Obama just another Marion Barry without the Crack?
11 Aug 2008, Posted by macranger as 2008 Election, Barack Obama, News

Ok, it’s a crappy title, but the point is that many blacks I’ve talk to have been worried that it might just be the case.

No, not that Obama would be caught with crack (although he has a reported history there), but that after all these years of waiting for the “Great Black Hope” to run for President of the United States some blacks are concerned that Obama may not be the best or brightest hope.
Signs are beginning to point to a severe deflation in the Obama campaign. I personally believe it has run it’s course. In fact if his megalomanic campaign continues the “Look at Me!” approach it’s asking for disaster in November.

It’s not hard to figure out why. No one likes a showboat and Obama’s plan to “email” his VP pick, plans to load a stadium in Denver, and yet another European tour with Hollyweird heavies may all just backfire, much as his last world tour has. Polls have already shown that people have heard enough - in fact too much - of Obama. Fact is that he’s overstayed his welcome. I believe that this is one of the reasons his handlers (for that is what they are) forced this so-called getaway to Hawaii in order to take him out of the public eye as much as possible until the convention.

Speaking of that previous world tour, have you noticed that just two weeks later no one is talking about it? The greatest fact out of that trip was how it had little effect on his campaign one way or another. Much more that it didn’t give him anything other than a burp of a bounce.

In fact outside of Speed Racer it’s truly the flop of the Summer. No one remembers much about it, and not many care either way. For all intents and purposes he might as well have stayed home.

When you look at his campaign from it’s beginning althrough it’s numerous scandals - Rezko, Wright, Ayers, “Typical White People”, etc, it’s amazing that it’s still together. I’ve said it before, the only reason that Obama got this far is that he wasn’t Hillary. Progressives that have had it with the Clintons and all the embarrassment that entailed found what they saw as a replacement in Obama. At least at the outset. As time goes on however the buyers remorse is beginning to settle in and we’re not even at the convention yet.

As for blacks, many of them can hardly give a reason for voting for Obama except that he is black and how they feel “compelled” to vote for him on that basis alone. Jessie Jackson’s “N-Word” moment wasn’t an isolated feeling, many blacks are feeling the same frustration.

All of this combines in the minds of many blacks that Obama just might blow this thing and do it in such a way that it will be years until another black candidate reaches this point again.

The most recent and clear example came a week ago when young black man stood up during an Obama speech and ask him what he planned to do for blacks. Obama gave him a polite but inconcise answer that infuriated the young man so much that he told a reporter afterwards, “There is no way I’m voting for him, he ain’t showed us nothing!”

Again, he’s not the only one with those feelings. "

Who knows? There might be enough bright, educated, and well read folks in this old Country to save us from this Dimocrat Chicago street 'organizer' yet! We can only hope!

Queen Pelosi brought a very old song to mind last night when she told Larry King.. "Yes, we'll have a vote on drilling!"

Undecided

First you say you do, and then you don't,
And then you say you will, and then you won't;
You're undecided now, so what are you gonna do?

Now you want to play, and then it's no,
And when you say you'll stay, that's when you go -
You're undecided now, so what are you gonna do?

(Bridge:)
I've been sittin' on a fence, and it doesn't make much sense,
'Cause you keep me in suspense, and you know it.
You promise to return; when you don't I really burn,
Well, I guess I'll never learn, and I show it!

If you got a heart, and if you're kind,
Then don't keep us apart, make up your mind.
You're undecided now, so what are you gonna do?

First she said she wouldn't allow an up and down vote. Then she said she would if she could tie it to an omnibus bill, then she said no - we'll adjourn for summer vacation without taking any action. Then she went home and started hearing from constituents and fellow elected Dimocrats across the country.

So now she singing out the other side of her mouth once again. But if you listened closely, she isn't going to have a clean 'up or down' vote on off shore drilling.... she's gonna tie to pumping out the Nations oil reserves and a kite tail full of other personal liberal wants. Sure hope folks keep the pressure up, 'cause one way or the other, that has to be a vote by the end of September or the drilling moratorium expires automatically.

What's it gonna be..... "What is she gonna do?"

My, My, the Olympic scandals just keep pilin' on...

First we heard that those giant lit up footprints on opening night were computer generated and electronically inserted into the world wide TV feed at the last minute because the Chinese din't think they could pull off the real thing.... and now:

Beijing Olympics: Faking scandal over girl who 'sang' in opening ceremony

Chinese officials have admitted deceiving the public over another highlight of the Olympic opening ceremony: the picture-perfect schoolgirl who sang as the Chinese flag entered the stadium was performing to another girl's voice.

Apparently some Politburo big cheese decided at the very last minute that the little gal that won the nation-wide contest was not pretty enough because of her front teeth.

So he order the little girl in the red dress and pigtails to be on camera and lip sync the song to the other girls voice.....

Oh the shame of it all !

How does one "unveil" an invisible man?

I read in the Sunday Times that some lab researchers are working to create ..... well here -- you read it as they state it:

Science close to unveiling invisible man
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor

INVISIBILITY devices, long the realm of science fiction and fantasy, have moved closer after scientists engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects.

The breakthrough could lead to systems for rendering anything from people to large objects, such as tanks and ships, invisible to the eye – although this is still years off.

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, whose work is funded by the American military, have engineered materials that can control light’s direction of travel. The world’s two leading scientific journals, Science and Nature, are expected to report the results this week.

It follows earlier work at Imperial College London that achieved similar results with microwaves. Like light, these are a form of electromagnetic radiation but their longer wave-length makes them far easier to manipulate. Achieving the same effect with visible light is a big advance.

I don't want to be a negative thinker, but I reckon that most of the magic in this report is in that phrase I highlighted! "whose work is funded by the American military"! Guess you Pilgrims din't know that the Army has their own income source -- and they aren't using your tax dollars....... NOT!
What are these tax receivers gonna report --- 'We can't see the end of the project?"

Hellary to give prime time speech at convention...

The word is out that Obamanation has deigned to let Hellary give a prime time speech on the second night of the Dimocrat convention. And maybe even let Bubba do his thing on the third night. Although Obamanation is playing in Hawaii and their 'people' handled it, I reckon if they had done it in person, this record breaking "air kiss" would have sealed the deal!

Has to be a worlds record of three feet between those two cheeks......!

Here is a picture of the happiest man in America this morning,,,,,

Ole Bubba Clinton has been moved back to second place as the Nation's Prime Philanderer!

MOVE OVER, BUBBA, YOU'VE BEEN DETHRONED
By Andrea Peyser, NY Post

Hey, political fans. Guess which of the following statements recently made by John Edwards is the truth, a lie, or bad-boy BS designed to make the horndog lawyer with the $400 haircut look like a decent guy:

1. "I did not have sex with that woman, Rielle Hunter."

Fast Johnny, who tried mighty hard to win the Democratic nomination for president - and was believed to be on the short list for veep - said that as recently as two weeks ago. Hunter was the overpaid, underqualified videographer who accompanied the candidate to places as far flung as Africa, and an overnight jaunt last month in Edwards' hotel suite.

Caught with his pants down, Edwards displayed fuzzy math skills. "Being 99 percent honest is no longer enough."

Never mind that Edwards' poor wife, Elizabeth, lay stricken with cancer.

The answer: 100 percent lie. Duh.

2. "OK, I slept with her. But I did not love her."

Slippery John said that last night on "Nightline" - as if denying affection for the woman who shared his bed, while his wife still breathed, makes him less of an ogre. It doesn't.

Answer: He loves no one but himself. It's true.

3. "Rielle's kiddie might look like me. But she's not my daughter."

How can you know a child's paternity if you haven't taken a test? How can one ever learn the truth from a guy who admits he lied, repeatedly - to his wife, his mistress, and to the nation - about where he spent his sweaty nights?

Answer: Undetermined. You decide.

4. "I told my wife of the affair back in 2006 - and she said OK!"

What a complete jerk. Answer: Are you kidding me?

5. "Before I did the nasty with Rielle, I made sure that my wife was in remission from cancer!"

This one is too self-serving and disgusting to take seriously. If he had an affair while his wife was dying, Edwards looks like a beast. If she was in remission, he looks even more cruel and inhuman to toss her aside.

Answer: Either way, Edwards should take a megadose of Depo-Provera.

Give it a rest, Johnny. You can't see how low you've sunk.

You gotta' judge a man by the folks he admires......

There is an anonymous letter floating around the mailboxes....

that really got my attention. So I decided to hunt it down to see where it came from and if it was written by a real person. I did, it is, and here 'tis:


Letter to the Editor from a Cuban . . A most interesting and foreboding letter.

From Richmond Times-Dispatch, Monday, July 7, 2008 ~

Dear Editor, Times-Dispatch:

'Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. On June 30th I celebrate my independence day, and on July 4th I celebrate America's. This year is special, because it marks the 40th anniversary of my independence.

'On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba, and a few months later, I was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress.

'I've thought a lot about the anniversary this year. The election-year rhetoric has made me think a lot about Cuba and what transpired there. In the late 1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they were right. So when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.

'When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said, 'Praise the Lord.' And when the young leader said, 'I will be for change and I'll bring you change,' everyone yelled, 'Viva Fidel!'

'But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the executioner's guns went silent, the people's guns had been taken away. By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed. By the time everyone received their free education, it was worth nothing. By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him. By the time the change was finally implemented, Cuba had been knocked down a couple of notches to Third-World status. By the time the change was over, more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes. You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the most fortunate Cubans. And now I'm back to the beginning of my story.

'Luckily, we would never fall in America for a young leader who promised change without asking, what change? How will you carry it out? What will it cost America?

'Would we?'

Manuel Alvarez, Jr.

I found the letter on Sean Hannity's blog. Purty damn thought provoking isn't it?

Now go inflate your tires and help save the planet.......

Well Hot Damnnnnnnnnnnn!

Did I screw this one up or din't I? On Friday, I asked y'all to be on the lookout for any Main-Stream-Coverage (MSM) of the Breck guy - little Johnny Edwards and his side squeeze. Shazam, on Friday afternoon - in competition with the Chinese fireworks show -- he decided to 'fess up! And he has been all over the airways. All those MSM folks who have been ignoring the story have seen the light Brothers and Sisters!

And now they are sharing their unbiased reporting with us all......!

WASHINGTON (AP) - The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter.

Rielle Hunter's lawyer, Robert Gordon, says his client is a private individual who wishes to maintain the privacy of herself and her daughter.

In a statement, Gordon says that Hunter is ruling out any kind of testing that could establish who the daughter's father is.

On Friday, Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair with Hunter in 2006 but denied that he was the father of Hunter's five-month-old daughter. Edwards said he will take a paternity test to prove he is not the father.

Wonder if this failed North Carolina Senator and failed Veep wannabe, will be the Keynote Speaker for Obamanation's coronation in Denver later this month?

At least y'all got a lot of easy points in your Treasure Hunt!!

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory....or.....

..... with friends like this, McCain doesn't need any enemies!! Five Dim-witted Republicans join hands with an equal number of dedicated Dimocrats and create a circle jerk of stupidity. From Kimberly Strassell of the WSJ:

Republican Energy Fumble
August 8, 2008

Politics has its puzzling moments. John McCain and most of the GOP experienced one late last week. That was when five of their own set about dismantling the best issue Republicans have in the upcoming election.

It's taken time, but Sen. McCain and his party have finally found -- in energy -- an issue that's working for them. Riding voter discontent over high gas prices, the GOP has made antidrilling Democrats this summer's headlines.

Their enthusiasm has given conservative candidates a boost in tough races. And Mr. McCain has pressured Barack Obama into an energy debate, where the Democrat has struggled to explain shifting and confused policy proposals.

Still, it was probably too much to assume every Republican would work out that their side was winning this issue. And so, last Friday, in stumbled Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Saxby Chambliss, Bob Corker and Johnny Isakson -- alongside five Senate Democrats. This "Gang of 10" announced a "sweeping" and "bipartisan" energy plan to break Washington's energy "stalemate." What they did was throw every vulnerable Democrat, and Mr. Obama, a life preserver.

That's because the plan is a Democratic giveaway. New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast -- putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska's oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go.

The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on . . . oil companies! The Sierra Club couldn't have penned it better. And so the Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.

Sen. Obama was thrilled. He quickly praised the Gang's bipartisan spirit, and warmed up to a possible compromise. Of course, he means removing even the token drilling provisions now in the bill. But he's only too happy for the focus to remain on the Gang's efforts, and in particular on the five Republicans providing his party its fig leaf.

Equally gleeful was Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, the Senate's most vulnerable Democrat. She had been sweating the energy debate, especially after her vote against more oil-shale production -- a position her Republican opponent, John Kennedy, had used against her to great effect. Yet there she was, chummily standing with the Gang of 10 and boasting that she is working with "five Republicans" to "lower prices at the pump by increasing offshore drilling here at home."

Mr. McCain, who had been commanding the energy debate, was left to explain why he, of all people, wasn't more enthusiastic about a "bipartisan" effort on energy, especially one that includes "drilling." His camp was forced to take refuge in taxes, explaining that their boss couldn't sign up for a bill that included more. If this is what Mr. McCain's good friend Lindsey Graham considers "helping," somebody might want to ask him to stop.

Since day #1, the Republican party's only hope this November was the Dimocrats inaction on energy policy and the $4 price at the pumps. Now these five egg suckin', wusses have sucked all of the oxygen out of the voting booth. Why not brand a big "D" on these RINO's foreheads so real Reagan Republicans can walk a wide circle around them!!!

A picture is worth how many words?????

Ole Pecoz was asked the other day.......

if I was gonna devote the next couple of weeks to watching those Olympic games from Beijing, in the Chinese empire? I was gonna let the question just lie there, but when pressed, gave this answer;

I confess that I have lost all interest in the Olympics, either as a sporting event or a quadrennial world fair media event. Time was when amateur athletes from around the world would meet to see who could run the fastest, the furthest, jump the highest, shoot the best. Professionals need not apply and team sports were at a minimum.

When I think of the Olympics I think of the Jim Thorpes..... here is a brief reminder for those of you who don't remember him --

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"At the tender age of 24, Thorpe sailed with the American Olympic team to Antwerp, Belgium for the 1912 Olympic Games. Remarkably, he trained aboard the ship on the journey across sea. He blew away the competition in both the pentathlon and the decathlon and set records that would stand for decades. King Gustav V presented Thorpe with his gold medals for both accomplishments. As stated in Bob Berontas' "Jim Thorpe, Sac and Fox Athlete": "Before Thorpe could walk away, the king grabbed his hand and uttered the sentence that was to follow for the rest of his life.’Sir,' he declared, 'you are the greatest athlete in the world,' Thorpe, never a man to stand on ceremony, answered simple and honestly, 'Thanks King.'"

Thorpe's glorious Olympic wins were jeopardized in 1913 when it came out that he played two semi-professional seasons of baseball. The Olympics Committee had strict rules about Olympians receiving monetary compensation for participating in professional athletics. Thorpe, who stated he played for the love of the game and not the money, was put under the microscope. Ultimately, it was decided that his baseball experience adversely affected his amateur status in the track and field events. His name was removed from the record books and his gold medals were taken away. "
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Later, it was decided that professional athletes could compete as long as they weren't competing in a sport in which they competed as an athlete. A baseball player could enter a swimming event, a footballer - the shot putt. That made some sense...

But now for example, when the members of our San Antonio Spurs team, all finish the season and then head to the Olympics to represent their home countries, France, Argentina, US, etc.... as basketball players -- I think the whole Olympic ethic is put in shadows. Do you reckon that Kobe Bryant is staying in the same style dorm facilities as the shot putter from Jamaica?

I think it started down the slippery slope when that slimy Spaniard, Marques Juan Antonio de Samaranch, former fascist lackey to Generalissimo Franco, was the Grand Poohpah, and was more worried about people addressing him as "Your Excellency" and whether anybody had grander quarters than he - and when money to support their lifestyles became the controlling factor --

It is now "what it is", a world wide spectacle of professional athletes being used to make money for themselves and others. I understand that NBC has sold their ad spots for a total of $1 Billion ($1,000,000,000) and they are just one network in one country!

Thanks - but no thanks. I'll watch something more intellectual ... like "America's Got Talent" or Million Dollar match game.......

Speakin' about the Main Stream Media (MSM)......

We were talkin' about them weren't we?

Anyway, here is San Antonio we have only one daily newspaper. They call it the San Antonio Express-News.... most of us captive folks call it the S.A. Excuse-News. Today they had a real problem,

Apparently the nonpartisan Tax Foundation released a report yesterday that ranked all of the fifty states in order of the tax burdens they impose on their citizens and businesses. Turns out that Texas ranks #8 from the top in a list from least taxed states to most taxed states. Forty-two states impose heavier tax burden percentages on their residents. NY, NJ, and CT being the heaviest of course.

Well now, what's a paper gonna do with a positive report like this. First they found a couple of advocate groups that think we should all pay more taxes to put a negative sway to the story and then they turned it over to their headline writers. Instead of a headline for the article that read like; "Texas found to be the eighth least taxed state" or words to that effect - the headline they published read:

"Texas ranks in bottom 10 in national study of tax burdens"

Oh woe is us --- in the bottom ten again. Ain't it great!!!
Now you understand why even fish jump outta this paper when we try to wrap them in it.

How about an old fashioned treasure hunt this weekend Pilgrims?

When you are reading your Sunday morning papers, or watching the week-end talking heads (aka 'pundits') I'd like you to look for any of the following three items.

1. Any reference to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's being a Dimocrat when discussing his being thrown in jail. The man is Vice Chairman of the National Council of Dimocrat Mayors. but I have yet to see any of the main stream media mention his party affiliation.

Kinda flies in the face of last weekend's headline story where every report started off with "longest serving Republican Senator indicted on several counts". Not convicted mind you, just indicted.

2. Any mention of former NJ Dimocrat state senator and former Dimocrat mayor of Newark, James Sharpe, being sentenced to more than two years in jail last week. The judge not only didn't call for restitution of the over $600K that Sharpe swindled his own city out of in a real estate deal with his mistress - he all but apologised for sentencing him to any time at all.

2. Any reference to one term Democrat senator, failed Dimocrat VP candidate and failed presidential nomination Dimocrat candidate John Edwards and his alleged 'love child'. Hell, I'll make it easier --- any mention of John Edwards at all.....

Let's see now, if it was even hinted that Romney or Huckabee had such an affair --- Whee doggies, talk about 24-7! Remember the front page story in the NY Times about the hint of an affair between McCain and some staffer a few months ago? When disproven -- oh never mind.

So there you have it Pardners! Keep your eyes peeled, your powder dry and remain alert!! Good luck and good hunting.........

I reckon with gas at $4 per gallon, it's too expensive for lawyers to chase ambulances.....

So now they've figure out a way for the ambulance riders to chase them!! Check out this report from Time Mag;

Wednesday, Aug. 06, 2008
Who Can You Sue? Click Here
By Siobhan Morrissey / Miami

As if there weren't enough people out there suing each other, now a Florida attorney has come up with a way to make the process even easier.

Beginning next month, anyone with access to the Internet should be able to log onto WhoCanISue.com. The new website plans to help consumers determine whether they actually have a case and help them find an attorney from a list of lawyers who advertise their expertise on the website. The attorneys will pay an annual fee of $1,000 to appear on the site, plus an additional amount of their own choosing that will determine how prominently they appear in the listings on the site. The website will vet the attorneys to make sure they are in good standing with their state bar associations.

Curtis A. Wolfe, formerly general counsel for Fort Lauderdale-based private equity firm Ener1 Group and the founder of WhoCanISue.com, plans to unveil the new website in September. But he will begin signing up attorneys to advertise on the site when the American Bar Association convenes it annual meeting in New York City on Thursday.

Wolfe's website is not the first of its kind. His most direct competition includes SueEasy.com and LegalMatch.com, among others. But Wolfe says his service — which is free to the consumer — differs from the others in that he will provide real-time access to attorneys. After consumers answer a set of general questions about their grievances, they will be given some guidance about whether they might have a case worth pursuing; if they do, they will be immediately put in touch with an interested attorney.

The proliferation of legal matchmakers like Wolfe leaves some in the profession skeptical. "As if there aren't enough lawyers out there inventing lawsuits, now we're going to invite the public to do so," scoffed prominent Miami trial attorney Richard Sharpstein, a partner at Jorden Burt. "I think this is nothing more than a referral service," he says of WhoCanISue.com. "It encourages, if not creates lawsuits. Our country's courts are clogged with unnecessary and frivolous lawsuits which delay, if not obstruct, the access to courts of people that really need to get there, that have serious legal grievances."

But Wolfe maintains his service could just as easily help someone realize he doesn't have a case — or that, while they may have a legal claim, it won't generate enough money to interest an attorney to take it on.

"With our system they can either find a lawyer or find out by talking to our lawyers that they don't really have an interest in that case," Wolfe says. "I don't think WhoCanISue.com is going to, by itself, increase the number of lawsuits there are, but it may make people more aware of what their rights are."

University of Florida law professor Lyrissa Lidsky believes the service "is likely to increase the number of lawsuits." But, adds Lidsky, who specializes in Internet law and the First Amendment, "It's a good thing to the extent people are vindicating their legal rights to the extent they didn't years ago."

However, if you're looking to use the website to find a good lawyer, in most states you could do just as well by checking with the local bar association. In Florida, for example, lawyers can sign up for the state bar's referral system by paying a $125 membership fee, agreeing to charge clients only $25 for an initial 30-minute office consultation and guaranteeing $100,000 in liability insurance coverage.

Just in case you Pilgrims think that my use of 'ambulance chaser' is a little cold and stereotyped, here is an article from Time magazine back in October 1928!!!!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732010,00.html

Country & Western Song of the Year ?

Follow this link for some purty country music.......

http://www.stupidshiz.com/index.cfm?mode=media&media_id=D6775EC1-1372-527D-081BA608E8E858D4

Speaker of the House -- Last great hope of the Republicans this November?

She's baaaaaackkkkk!!

Apparently Hellary ain't going "quietly into that good night"! This from ABC News;

Sen. Hillary Clinton Seeks Democratic Convention Voice
Sen. Hillary Clinton Not Ruling Out Having Name Put Up for Vote in Denver

By RICK KLEIN and DAVID CHALIAN
Aug. 6, 2008 —

Sen. Hillary Clinton told a gathering of supporters last week that she's looking for a "strategy" for her delegates to have their voices heard and "respected" at the Democratic National Convention -- and did not rule out the possibility of having her name placed into nomination at the convention alongside Sen. Barack Obama's.

"I happen to believe that we will come out stronger if people feel that their voices were heard and their views were respected. I think that is a very big part of how we actually come out unified," Clinton, D-N.Y., said at a California fundraiser last Thursday, in a video clip captured by an attendee and posted on YouTube.

"Because I know from just what I'm hearing, that there's incredible pent-up desire. And I think that people want to feel like, 'OK, it's a catharsis, we're here, we did it, and then everybody get behind Sen. Obama.' That is what most people believe is the best way to go," she said.

"No decisions have been made. And so we are trying to work all this through with the DNC and with the Obama campaign."

Clinton's comments shed some light on a fierce behind-the-scenes squabble between the Clinton and Obama camps over how to recognize Clinton and her achievements in the primaries without overshadowing or detracting from a convention that belongs to Obama.
The New York Daily News reported Friday that Clinton has decided not to submit a signed request to the DNC to have her name put into nomination; party rules require such a move for a candidate to be voted on.

But Clinton aides continue to say publicly that such details are still being discussed in consultations among the Clinton camp, the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

"No decisions have been made," Clinton spokeswoman Kathleen Strand said.

Well shucks, it's been pretty boring lately --- the only bright spot being Paris what's-her-name and her new commercial. Actually, her energy policy makes more sense than Obamanations...... in case you are the only one on the planet that hasn't seen it, I'll link you to it here!!

Meanwhile - the Hellary show may do a rerun -- let's see now. if Obamanation doesn't win in November -- who will be leading the Dimocrat pack in 2012 Hmmmm......

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d

Washinton Post policy--- print headlines and front page story ---

... and then get the facts for the story!! From Townhall.com;

Washington Post Blows Front Page Story
Amanda Carpenter
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

The Washington Post was forced to issue a substantive correction to a front page story that stated GOP presidential candidate John McCain received “unlikely” campaign contributions through an unscrupulous bundler after Townhall questioned the facts of the article.

The lead of reporter Matthew Mosk’s A1 Wednesday story said: “The bundle of $2,300 and $4,600 checks that poured into Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign on March 12 came from an unlikely group of California donors: a mechanic from D&D Auto Repair in Whittier, the manager of Rite Aid Pharmacy No. 5727, the 30-something owners of the Twilight Hookah Lounge in Fullerton.”

Mosk speculated a man named Harry Sargeant III, a former naval officer and oil-trading company executive, used his clout to persuade these Californians to give money to McCain, similar in the way newly-indicted Norman Hsu bundled donations for former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

As it turns out, three of those four people had never donated to McCain’s campaign.

Hours after Townhall questioned the story in a blog post, the Washington Post issued a correction that made the very lede of the story untrue.

“The article incorrectly identified a Rite Aide manager and two Twilight Hookah Lounge owners as being among the donors Sargeant solicited on behalf of McCain. Those donors - Rite Aid manager Ibrahim Marabeh, and the lounge owners, Nadia and Shawn Abdalla - wrote checks to Giuliani and Clinton, not McCain,” the correction said.

What did Rosanna Danadana used to say on Saturday Nite Live? "Oh Never Mind!" Why let the facts get in the way of a good headline story...... Washington Post - NY Times Ethic!

A candidate has to have his limits I reckon!!

The Sovereign State of Texas 'put down' an animal last night.....

.... much to the chagrin of the White House, the Attorney General, the World Court, the hand wringers of the world -- and most especially --- the government of Mexico.

Fifteen years ago, a group of young men in Houston, apparently bored with drinking and carousing, grabbed two teenagers and passed the time by gang raping them and then kicking and stomping them to death.

During the fifteen years that last night's Guest of Honor at Huntsville's Execution Cubicle sat on death row for his part in this heinous crime, he has been defended by all manner of smooth talking professional escape artists. Their argument being that he was not advised to seek counsel of the Mexican Consulate when arrested. There is no debate or doubt of his guilt!

Keep in mind, this wasn't some tourist who just stepped off the plane and didn't know that gang raping and murder was against the law in this country.... this was a man who came to this country when he was three years old, lived in this country for fifteen years, was educated here, and treats English as his first language and ghetto Tex-Mex as his second I reckon. I expect that somewhere during those fifteen years, he might have learned what is and what ain't a crime in Houston Texas.

Unfortunately, as usual those that get forgotten in these liberal, bleeding heart, headline bannered moments -- are the victims. Long buried and forgotten by all but their families and friends. Here is a picture of these two young ladies. Their fathers were able to attend the sanitary, peaceful, painless, putting down of their killer last evening in Huntsville!

"Elizabeth Pena, 16, and Jennifer Ertman, 14, both of Houston, were gang raped, beaten and strangled in June 1993. Their remains were found four days later. The brother of one of the gang members, disgusted to learn about his sibling's involvement in the attack, tipped police, leading to the arrests."

I will give the animal this much credit -- his last words to the family before being 'put to sleep' were: 'I'm sorry my actions caused you pain. I hope this brings you the closure that you seek."

The feller was even able to say it in English, without a translator from the Mexican Consulate. I will not lend any space in here for his face or his name. Like any cur dog - he should be quickly erased from our memories.

I been scratchin' my old head for a couple of years....

regarding this question --- and with all the political falderall just lately, it's startin' to itch at me again.

Air Composition
The sea-level composition of air (in percent by volume at the temperature of 15°C and the pressure of 101325 Pa) is given below.

Name Symbol Percent by Volume
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Nitrogen N2 78.084 %

Oxygen O2 20.9476 %

Argon Ar 0.934 %

Carbon Dioxide CO2 0.0314 %

Neon Ne 0.001818 %

Methane CH4 0.0002 %

Helium He 0.000524 %

Krypton Kr 0.000114 %

Hydrogen H2 0.00005 %

Xenon Xe 0.0000087 %

Question - if we accept these numbers as fact -- why the current world-wide consternation and attempt to spend trillions and trillions of dollars and lessen life's quality across the globe in an attempt to affect that CO2 number of .0314% (less than one half of 1%) of the earth's atmosphere?

Forget the fact that CO2 is needed by plants to survive --- forget all the fancy political hype -- I reckon what we got is just one more way for gov'mints to manage us citizens and for slicksters to get richer....
I'd love to hear from those of you who disagree and think Al Gorebot is gonna save the earth with his carbon credits...............

Apparently Obamanation is for 'inflation' !!!

Connecticut is one our 57 states that Obama talks about -- isn't it??

Hard to believe, but they have a law that allows the Connecticut police to arrest your innocent gun! From WND:

State: Just in case, we'll take your gun
Cops allowed to seize firearms even before crime is committed

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August 04, 2008
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A new report to the Connecticut state legislature shows police have used the state's unique gun seizure law to confiscate more than 1,700 firearms from citizens based on suspicion that the gun owners might harm themselves or others.

The state's law permits police to seek a warrant for seizing a citizen's guns based on suspicion of the gun owner's intentions, before any act of violence or lawbreaking is actually committed.

The law was first proposed in 1998, following a mass shooting at the Connecticut Lottery Corporation that left five dead, including the gunman. Since the law went into effect Oct. 1, 1999, according to new Office of Legislative Research report, police have made more than 200 documented requests for warrants to seize firearms from citizens, and only two of the requests have been denied.

The law has remained hotly debated since its passage, as some point to possible murders and suicides it may have prevented, and others worry that police would abuse the law.

"It certainly has not been abused. It may be underutilized," Ron Pinciaro, co-executive director of Connecticut Against Gun Violence, told the Waterbury Republican American. "The bottom line from our perspective is, it may very well have saved lives."

Attorney Ralph D. Sherman, who has represented several of the gun owners whose firearms were confiscated under the law, disagrees.

"In every case I was involved in I thought it was an abuse," he told the newspaper. "The overriding concern is anybody can report anybody with or without substantiation, and I don't think that is the American way."

Joe Graborz, executive director of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, an affiliate of the ACLU, told WND the law "continues to invest unusual and far-reaching powers in police authority that does not belong there" by requiring "police to act as psychologists in trying to predict and interpret behavior."

"What is the standard of proof on this?" he asked. "The way this law is written, it can and will be easily abused by police."

Under the statute, dubbed the "turn in your neighbor" law by opponents, any two police officers or a state prosecutor may seek a warrant, following a specified process of investigation, to confiscate guns from people deemed a risk to harming themselves or others. The vast majority of cases, however, begin when a person – usually a spouse or live-in, according to the OLR report – file a complaint.

Shortly after the law was passed, Thompson Bosee of Greenwich, Conn., had his guns and ammunition seized by police. Bosee told WND in 1999 he suspects a neighbor, with whom he has had words regarding the neighbor's driving on Bosee's property, might have reported him.

"They had a warrant for my guns, they arrested my guns," said Bosee.

A member of both the NRA and the American Gunsmithing Association, Bosee said he works on his guns in his garage and is not ashamed of it.

Although Greenwich Police would not comment, they released a list of the guns and ammunition they seized from Bosee, including six handguns, three rifles, one shotgun, one submachine gun and 3,108 rounds of ammunition.

The new OLR report shows that in most cases, relatives or neighbors of the gun owner filed the complaint when they feared for their own safety or feared the owner was suicidal. In a case from Southington, however, a man had his gun taken for threatening to shoot a dog.

Attorney Ralph Sherman told WND the law's cruelty to animals justification for gun seizure worries him.

"If I throw a rock or a newspaper at a dog in my yard or in my garden, that doesn't mean I'm mentally unbalanced," he said. "What if a neighbor doesn't like me and sees that?"

In October 2006, according to the Republican American, police obtained a seizure warrant after a man made 28 unsubstantiated claims of vandalism to his property. The police application for seizure described the man as paranoid and delusional, citing extensive self-protection measures installed on the man's property, including alarms, cameras and spotlights.

Four months after the man's guns were taken, a judge ruled that police had failed to show the man posed any risk and ordered the guns returned. According to the ruling, the gun owner had no history of documented illness, criminal activity or misuse of firearms. "In fact, the firearms were found in a locked safe when the officers executed the warrant," the ruling said.

The law dictates that courts hold a hearing within 14 days of a seizure to determine the eventual fate of the guns. In most cases, according to the OLR report, the guns are held for a period of up to a year, destroyed or sold. The Republican American reports that in 22 of the more than 200 cases, the guns were ordered returned.

Connecticut State Rep. Michael P. Lawlor, House chairman of the Judiciary Committee and one of the chief authors of the law, told the Republican American he wasn't aware of any pending challenges to the law's constitutionality.

"The whole point was to make sure it was limited and constitutional," he said.

Sherman however, said the law hasn't been challenged yet, simply because it is used sparingly and a test case would prove too costly for the average gun owner.

Bullies in the Blog-osphere....

From the NY Sun:

Anti-Obama Bloggers Say They Were Silenced

By ANNA PHILLIPS, Special to the Sun August 5, 2008

Web loggers who are campaigning against Senator Obama's presidential run are accusing Google and Obama supporters of silencing them after their Web logs were marked as spam and their accounts temporarily frozen.

On Thursday, hours after publishing a post about an online petition demanding that Mr. Obama publicly produce his birth certificate, an associate professor of business administration at Brooklyn College, Mitchell Langbert, found that he could no longer access his Web log.

Google's Blogger hosting service had suspended "Mitchell Langbert's Blog," which Mr. Langbert describes as "two-thirds academic stuff I'm working on and one-third politics," until it could verify the Web log was not a "spam blog," or a site designed solely to increase the page views of associated Web sites.

A day later Google lifted the block on the account, but the incident and earlier Web log freezes in late June have led Mr. Langbert and other anti-Obama bloggers to accuse the Illinois senator's supporters of intentionally identifying their blog addresses to Google as spam blogs. They also say the company has reflexively suspended the sites.

"These tech-savvy smart alecks have figured out that if you report a blog you don't like, you can do some damage to a person," Mr. Langbert said.

A spokesman for Google, Adam Kovacevich, said in a statement that an overzealous antispam filter was responsible for the blocks.

"We believe this was caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the 'Just Say No Deal' network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam," he said. "We have restored posting rights to the affected blogs, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression."

Several of the blogs that were blocked, including hillaryorbust.com and comealongway.blogspot.com, are part of the "Just Say No Deal" network of anti-Obama blogs. But Mr. Langbert's blog is not, leading him to conclude that Obama supporters had targeted him.

On her right-leaning blog "Atlas Shrugs," Pamela Geller keeps a list of blogs that Google has temporarily blocked. "The blockings do come in waves," she said. "The last wave was this past week, and now it got very quiet."

Some writers have had their blogs unblocked, while others have moved them to WordPress, a rival blog host.

"I don't think" Google has "malicious intentions at all, it's just that spammers can literally overrun a service if you're not careful, so their defenses have become overzealous," a spokesman for WordPress, Matthew Mullenweg, said in an e-mail.

"We always have human review before turning off an active blog," he said. "People invest so much time into their blogs, to treat it with anything less than the utmost respect is criminal."

Ole Pecoz is plumb proud that this little ole' blog is recognized as "Fair & Balanced" in this years presidential sweepstakes.................. (grinnin' to hisself)

Obamanation is right.... his Dollar bills do look different!

I'm sorry..... So sorry... but not as sorry as our House of Representatives!

Y'all don't have to apologise to all your ex-slaves Pilgrims, your representative in Congress did it for you...!

US House of Reps apologises for slavery

Jul 30 20084
By Jim Abrams

The US House of Representatives has apologised to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors under slavery and segregation laws.

"Today represents a milestone in our nation's efforts to remedy the ills of our past," said Carolyn Cheeks, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The resolution, passed by voice vote on Tuesday, was the work of Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, the only white politician to represent a majority black district. Cohen faces a formidable black challenger in a primary run-off next week.

Congress has issued apologies before - to Japanese-Americans for their internment during World War II and to native Hawaiians for the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom in 1893. In 2005, the Senate apologised for failing to pass anti-lynching laws.

Five states have issued apologies for slavery, but past proposals in Congress have stalled, partly over concerns that an apology would lead to demands for reparations.

The Cohen resolution does not mention reparations. It does commit the House to rectifying "the lingering consequences of the misdeeds committed against African-Americans under slavery and Jim Crow."

It says Africans forced into slavery "were brutalised, humiliated, dehumanised and subjected to the indignity of being stripped of their names and heritage". It also says that black Americans today continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and so-called Jim Crow laws that fostered discrimination and segregation.

The House "apologises to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow".

"Slavery and Jim Crow are stains upon what is the greatest nation on the face of the earth," Cohen said. Part of forming a more perfect union, he said, "is such a resolution as we have before us today where we face up to our mistakes and apologise as anyone should apologise for things that were done in the past that were wrong."

Cohen became the first white to represent the 60 per cent black district in Memphis in more than three decades when he captured a 2006 primary where a dozen black candidates split the vote.

He has sought to reach out to black constituents, and early in his term showed interest in joining the Congressional Black Caucus until learning that was against caucus rules.

Another act as a freshman congressman in early 2007 was to introduce the slavery apology resolution. His office said the House resolution was brought to the floor only after learning that the Senate would be unable to join in a joint resolution.

More than a dozen of the 42 Congressional Black Caucus members in the House were original co-sponsors of the measure.

Let's see now, a Jewish congressman from a black district in Tennessee, excluded because of his race from the House black caucus -- introduces a resolution in the People's House, gets it passed on a voice vote so there are no fingerprints..... and now he can go back and suck up to his constituents.

I don't know his constituents but I reckon they'd be a whole lot happier if he and his useless cronies had spent the same time trying to solve some of the energy problems and do something about gas prices.... before they turned off the lights and headed out of town on their five week vacation from their three day work weeks.

I din't own any slaves nor know anybody that does, nor did my Daddy, nor his Daddy, nor his Daddy --- but I am a slave to $4.00 gasoline simply because the Dimmocrats don't wanna get involved in the real business of this country!

Quote of the week....

"Tell the governor he just lost my vote."

--Convicted murderer Scott Emmett, moments before his execution by lethal injection and after Virginia Governor Tim Kaine declined to intervene to prevent the death sentence from being carried out. (AP)

Here is the background 'rest of the story':
Christopher Scott Emmett died by lethal injection in Virginia at 9:07 PM EST Thursday. Emmett had earlier challenged the constitutionality of the lethal injection protocol used in Virginia saying the method was cruel and unusual punishment.
Emmett was convicted of beating a co-worker to death for drug money in 2001. He dropped all of his pending appeals after the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a full hearing, ruling the method of execution constitutional.
While in the injection chamber awaiting execution, Emmett said, "Tell my family and friends I love them, tell the governor he just lost my vote. Y'all hurry this along, I'm dying to get out of here." The execution appeared to go as planned.

You can usually count on George Will... to get it right!

..... and he sure did today... discussing Obamanation's recent global vacation, he said in part;

HOW BARACK'S BERLIN BULL BOMBED

George Will
August 4, 2008

AS the presidential candidates enter the three-month sprint to November, Barack Obama must be wondering: If that didn't do it, what will?

"That" is his Berlin speech. "It" is assuage anxieties about his understanding of the need to supplement diplomacy with military force.

Obama exhorted Germans to be more willing to wage war, in Afghanistan. He was right to do so.

But polls taken since his trip abroad don't indicate that Obama succeeded in altering the oddest aspect of this campaign: Measured against his party's surging strength, he's dramatically underperforming. Surely this is related to anxieties about his thin resume regarding national security, the thinnest of any major party nominee since Wendell Wilkie's in 1940. But it also might be related to fatigue from too much of his eloquence, which is beginning to sound formulaic and perfunctory.

Even an eloquent politician can become, as Benjamin Disraeli described William Gladstone, "a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."
Does Obama have the sort of adviser a candidate most needs - someone sufficiently unenthralled to tell him when he has worked one pedal on the organ too much? If so, he should be told: Enough, already, with the we-are-who-we-have-been-waiting-for rhetorical cotton candy that elevates narcissism to a political philosophy. [.....]

" a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity." You gotta love that phrase --- Sure plants the saddle squarely on his back!

Hope it becomes his political epitaph in November!!!

Speaking of this 'man of the people', Ole Pecoz wondered if y'all have had a chance to peek at his roughin' it ride -- otherwise known as "O Farce One". A modest little Boeing 757 customized for this citizen of the world.

This is his private dining section, the accompanying Secret Service agents and his staff crowd into some coach seats wayyyyy in the back of the aircraft!

Who is really in the dark? It's the gas prices Stupid!!

Adam Smith honored in Scotland...... finally!

Freedom a force for good in economics

By EAMONN BUTLER

LONDON

THE PIONEER of modern economics and the most influential thinker that Scotland ever produced has at last been honored in his homeland with the first public statue of him in the United Kingdom. His message of freedom has worked wherever it has been tried, but it still needs spreading further.

Adam Smith’s great and practical An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) is one of the most influential books ever written. It transformed our understanding of economic life from an ancient to a modern form, based on a completely new understanding of how human society works.

His 10-foot classical bronze was unveiled on July 4 (he was a friend of American independence) on the historic Royal Mile in Edinburgh by Nobel economist Vernon Smith (no relation).

Before Adam Smith, people assumed that the measure of a nation’s wealth was the gold and silver in its treasury. Imports were bad because this gold and silver must be given up in payment. Exports were good because these precious metals came in. Trade benefited only the seller, not the buyer, and a nation could get richer only if others got poorer.

So countries erected vast trade barriers and controls to prevent money going out of the country — taxing imports, subsidizing exports and protecting domestic producers (as many still do, hampering the World Trade Organization’s troubled Doha Round negotiations).

Over 240 years ago Smith showed this was counter-productive.

He started not with theories but from the fact that in any free exchange, both sides must benefit. The buyer profits, just as the seller does, because the buyer values the cash less than the goods it buys. That’s why you buy things.

Since trade benefits both sides, said Smith, it increases our prosperity just as surely as do agriculture or manufacture. It is not gold and silver that measure a country’s wealth but the total of its production and commerce. Today we call that Gross National Product.

This blew a hole through the trade walls that had persisted for centuries. Leading politicians read the book and were convinced, cutting back trade restrictions and subsidies. And that led to the great 19th Century era of free trade and rising world prosperity.

Smith told politicians to get out of the way and let people trade freely: Social and economic harmony did not need to be planned from the center. It emerged naturally as human beings struggled to find ways to live and work with each other. Freedom and self-interest did not lead to chaos but, as if guided by an “invisible hand,” to order and concord.

All that was needed was an open society and free markets, with rules to maintain that openness and freedom. But those rules, of justice and morality, would be general and impersonal, not for the benefit of minority cliques.

It was not The Wealth of Nations that first made Smith’s reputation but a book on ethics, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. It argues that the source of human morality is our natural sympathy for others (today we might say empathy). By seeing things from other people’s point of view, we learn how best to live happily alongside them.

Some wonder how the self-interest that drives Smith’s economic system can be reconciled with the sympathy that drives his ethics. But Smith understood that human nature is complex. The baker does not supply us with bread out of benevolence, but nor is it self-interest that prompts someone to dive into a river to save a drowning stranger. Self-interested human beings can — and do — live together, peacefully and productively.

So The Wealth of Nations is no endorsement of dog-eat-dog capitalism, as sometimes caricatured. Self-interest may drive the economy but freedom is a force for good. Smith believes in free markets because the poor will benefit most from them. Only the rich and powerful benefit from other systems.

Now Smith dominates the main street of the city where he worked and, in 1790, died. Tourists from all over the world pose for pictures and guides use the prominent monument as a natural assembly point. Many wonder who Adam Smith was and why he deserves such prominence.

In an age when governments claim to be able to solve every problem, people will find his message refreshing: When we reject political interventionism and rely on natural liberty, we find ourselves, unintentionally, but surely, in a harmonious, peaceful and efficient society.

Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute think tank in London, which led the campaign for the new statue, and author of Adam Smith — A Primer (2007, IEA, London).

Paraphrasing ole' Winston Churchill, "Never has the whole free world owed so much to one man's thinking and writing!"

(Thanx and a Tip o' the stetson to an old Air Force Bud, Paul, from Scotland for bringing this to my attention!)

Muslim terror attack against little puppy.....

Yesterday I shared Tyson Foods capitulation to Mecca --- just in case you thought that might be an aberration instead of things to come--- read on.. From the British Daily Mail:

Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

By Daily Mail Reporter

A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman's hat advertising a Scottish police force's new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims.

Tayside Police's new non-emergency phone number has prompted complaints from members of the Islamic community.

The choice of image on the Tayside Police cards - a black dog sitting in a police officer's hat - has now been raised with Chief Constable John Vine.

Tayside Police caused uproar in the Muslim community after they released this advertisement featuring police puppy Rebel sitting in a hat

The advert has upset Muslims because dogs are considered ritually unclean and has sparked such anger that some shopkeepers in Dundee have refused to display the advert.

Dundee councillor Mohammed Asif said: 'My concern was that it's not welcomed by all communities, with the dog on the cards.

'It was probably a waste of resources going to these communities.

'They (the police) should have understood. Since then, the police have explained that it was an oversight on their part, and that if they'd seen it was going to cause upset they wouldn't have done it.'

Councillor Asif, who is a member of the Tayside Joint Police Board, said that the force had a diversity adviser and was generally very aware of such issues.

He raised the matter with Mr Vine at a meeting of the board.

Tayside Police Chief Constable John Vine said the advert was not intended to cause any offence

The chief constable said he was unaware of the concerns and that the force had not sought to cause any upset but added he would look into the matter.

Councillor Asif said: 'People who have shops just won't put up the postcard. But the police have said to me that it was simply an oversight and they did not seek to offend or upset.'

Cards featuring police dog-in-training Rebel have been distributed to communities throughout the area to advertise the single number point of contact for non-emergency calls to the police.

Rebel has proved a popular recruit for Tayside Police after coming through the very first Lothian and Borders Police dog-breeding programme in February.

One of seven German Shepherd pups born in early December, he has now completed his course of inoculations, and is free to venture out onto the streets of Tayside.

A spokesman for Tayside Police said: 'Trainee police dog Rebel has proved extremely popular with children and adults since being introduced to the public, aged six weeks old, as Tayside Police's newest canine recruit.

'His incredible world-wide popularity - he has attracted record visitor numbers to our website - led us to believe Rebel could play a starring role in the promotion of our non-emergency number.

'We did not seek advice from the force's diversity adviser prior to publishing and distributing the postcards. That was an oversight and we apologise for any offence caused.'

Now Pilgrims, y'all have got to ask yourselves..... why would any Anglo-Christian Scottish government entity have to check in with 'their diversity advisor" before they launched a campaign picturing a cute little Scottish puppy? Before you laugh, go back to that Tyson article or some others regarding new rules in universities and buildings here in the United States!

Hang on the ride is gonna get rougher!!