excerpted from the report by STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of Iraqis flocked to the village where Saddam
Hussein was born on Sunday to see the deposed leader buried in a
religious compound 24 hours after his execution.
Dozens of relatives and others, some of them crying and moaning,
attended the interment shortly before dawn in Ouja. A few knelt before
his flag-draped grave. A large framed photograph of Saddam was propped
up on a chair nearby.
His burial place is about two miles from the graves of his sons, Odai
and Qusai, in the main town cemetery. The sons and a grandson were
killed in a gunbattle with the American forces in Mosul in July 2003.
The head of Saddam's Albu-Nassir's clan said the body showed no signs of
mistreatment.
"We received the body of Saddam Hussein without any complications. There
was cooperation by the prime minister and his office's director," the
clan chief, Sheik al-Nidaa, told state-run Al-Iraqiya television. "We
opened the coffin of Saddam. He was cleaned and wrapped according to
Islamic teachings. We didn't see any unnatural signs on his body."
There was no sign of a feared Sunni uprising in retaliation for the
execution, and the bloodshed from civil warfare on Saturday was not far
off the daily average — 92 from bombings and death squads.
[They obviously did not check to see if he had been converted into a
giant pork sausage tube. He will sizzle just right where he is going! ]
Okay, if you want to see Saddam Hussein hung without the media
censorship, here is a new video of his execution. The quality of the
video isn’t that great but it gives you a better sense of being there.
If it bothers you, obviously don’t watch.
It actually isn’t THAT graphic, which leaves the main stream media
censors with some explaining to do. It appears to be a cellphone video
and is very shakey and unsteady.
However, one thing is certain. This brutal dictator who started three
wars and is responsible for the graves of two million people will soon
be in the ground himself. And if the act brings even just a little
more legitimacy to the Iraqi government in the eyes of their people,
perhaps good has come of it.
I AM posting the video because it is a newsworthy event, capping the
life of one of the brutal tyrants of the past century. And I don’t
like other people censoring and editing what others may want to watch.
Hanging Execution of Saddam Hussein >
Unsensored Unedited Complete
100% Hat tip: My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - .
Go watch there if it gets slow here.
update[1]: The download link for the video at
has been fixed. Grab a copy of the Saddam movie in .wmv form if that
is your desire.
update[2]: The above link to MVRWC now has a "Saddam Hangman" game.
LOL! nice job Beth! The
blog here doesn't use PHP or I would try to put a copy of it up here
too.
update[3]: If other sources of the video should suddenly dry up, I
have a copy of saddamdown.wmv
at this link.
I am posting this as a service with the "Stop The ACLU Coalition"...
This was received in email.
As many of you know, a few cities across America have enacted ordinances
to curb illegal immigrants from employment and residency in their
communities. Examples of those include Escondido, California; Valley
Park, Missouri; Riverside, New Jersey, and Farmers Branch, Texas.
These communities have all been sued by the ACLU and have either backed
off enforcement of their ordinances or are seriously considering doing
so. Other communities like Carpentersville in my home state of Illinois
have wanted to do so but were thwarted by radicals opposing public
officials in these towns, led by ACLU threats of litigation.
However, one community is not succumbing to ACLU suits but instead
digging their heels in to fight them, all the way to the U.S. Supreme
Court, if necessary. And that is the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, led
by Mayor Lou Barletta.
This past Tuesday night on CNN, Christine Romans, substitute host for
Lou Dobbs, had Mayor Barletta on the show. The transcript can be
accessed here
for those who would like to do so. But in the interest of time, I have
copied and pasted the interview below.
(Note that there is a small section earlier in the web page that details
what lawmakers and the president plan to do in the 107th Congress with
regards to the illegal aliens currently here.)
===
ROMANS: It's one small city in America and it's at the forefront of the
battle against illegal immigration. Hazleton, Pennsylvania has become a
model for other communities trying to stem illegal immigration within
their own city limits. But Hazleton now faces expensive legal challenges
for those efforts. The mayor of Hazleton though says he won't back down
and he joins me now. Mayor Lou Barletta of Hazleton, Pennsylvania,
welcome back to the program.
LOU BARLETTA, MAYOR, HAZLETON: Nice to be here.
ROMANS: Now Escondido yielded in California to the pressure that it was
getting from groups who said you can't do this. And in fact, turned
around and even paid the people that were suing it. Are you daunted at
all by that?
BARLETTA: No, I'm not. You know, I'm sorry to hear what happened in
Escondido, however we do things a little differently in Hazleton. We put
together one of the finest legal defense teams in the country. Some of
it is pro bono, some of it at discounted rates. Our insurance carrier is
also covering us as well as we started a defense fund,
smalltowndefenders.com where people from all over America are helping us
defend ourselves.
ROMANS: Mayor, one attorney with the national ACLU had this to say about
the Escondido move and how it relates to Hazleton and other towns.
Quote, "Other cities that have similar legislation should heed the
lesson of this case. These ordinances will not withstand challenge, and
must be repealed."
You've had -- you have suffered some legal setbacks in the course of
this legislation. Are you concerned?
BARLETTA: Well, we have. The plaintiffs who are suing us, the judge has
ordered that their identities will be kept confidential from even us.
ROMANS: So you're being sued by people who are not being identified?
BARLETTA: Absolutely. We don't know who these people are, where they
live, where they work. They could be invisible for all we know.
Unfortunately, we will heed that challenge and continue on. We're not
going to back down and we'll fight this all the way to the Supreme Court
if we have to.
ROMANS: Now the ACLU declined our request or our invitation to appear on
the program with you tonight. But we did get several statements. And
I've spoken to Vic Walczak who is the person for the ACLU in
Pennsylvania who has been on this case.
"The mayor was unable to give statistics to support claims of problems
illegal aliens have caused to Hazleton. There was no evidence to support
any of his claims. He gave no details of actual problems illegal aliens
are causing in Hazleton."
He says that he deposed you for some seven hours in the course of this
litigation and in fact he couldn't come back with any kind of clear,
concise data about just what harm illegal immigration is doing to your
town. How do you respond to that?
BARLETTA: That's quite amusing. Apparently he forgot the illegal alien
that shot two people on a busy street with hundreds of teenage
high-schoolers standing nearby, killing one. Apparently he forgot about
the 29-year-old that was shot between the eyes by two illegal aliens
costing the city thousands of dollars. Apparently he forgot about the
14-year-old illegal alien who was shooting a gun on a playground. Or the
drug dealers, over half last year, who were illegal aliens. And
apparently he forgot the statistic that over half of our entire budget
for overtime in the police department was spent on one homicide
committed by illegal aliens.
If he wanted more statistics, I gave them to him. The school district,
for example, English as a second language. In the year 2000, the budget
was $500. Last year, that budget now is $1,145,000. So he may have to
refresh himself on the notes from that deposition.
ROMANS: Let me ask you. So often people like the ACLU and some of the
open borders lobby, they say this is war on immigration and on
immigrants. You have told me before that that is simply not the case,
that this is something to preserve a town for legal immigrants and for
citizens. Explain that a little bit.
BARLETTA: That's correct. We are not rolling out the welcome mat for
legal immigrants. However illegal aliens are destroying the quality of
life and we simply cannot absorb the cost in our small budget where we
cannot -- we can no longer provide the level of public service to the
legal, hard working taxpayers of our community. This does not mean that
we don't welcome legal citizens. Illegal is illegal and it shouldn't go
any further than that.
ROMANS: So how far now does this legal battle go?
BARLETTA: Well this battle right now is in federal court here in
Scranton, Pennsylvania. From there, it will most likely go to the third
circuit court in Philadelphia. And I believe it will finally end up in
the Supreme Court. We are one small city with limited resources, but we
have a big heart who won't back down from this fight.
ROMANS: Let me ask you, is there a way mayor to write this legislation
to make everyone happy? Is there a way to still preserve what you're
trying to do, and that is to stem illegal immigration within your city
limits, but at the same time satisfy the folks who say this is some kind
of racism?
BARLETTA: No, there's no race in illegal. Illegal is illegal and we
have. The ordinance that is before counsel and before the judge right
now, we feel, does not regulate immigration in any way. We punish
businesses that hire unlawful workers and landlords that harbor illegal
aliens.
As far as the illegal immigrants, we leave that up to the federal
government. Nobody in the city of Hazleton will be determining anyone's
immigration status. And I believe we have found a way to defend
ourselves and we're willing to fight to prove that.
ROMANS: Is there a point, Mayor, where this becomes too costly, where
you have to throw in the towel?
BARLETTA: Well there are 25 lawyers on the other side suing us and the
ACLU has a lot of money, and we are one small city. We've set up a legal
defense fund, city of Hazleton legal defense fund and anyone in America
and they have already that wants to help us fight, can do so through
this Web site. The Escondidos in this country, as well as Farmers Branch
and many other cities, this fight, the battleground is really in
Hazleton, Pennsylvania right now.
ROMANS: That's true. I spoke with somebody from the ACLU several months
ago actually who said that Hazleton is our Alamo, meaning they were
really going to focus on this case and hope that it would deter other
communities from doing the same that you are.
BARLETTA: Well, I could tell them that this is one mayor that will never
stop fighting for the people in my community.
ROMANS: Mayor Lou Barletta, thank you so much for joining us.
BARLETTA: Thank you.
===
How can a communist organ like the ACLU get away with anonymously
representing a client in a law suit?
Who is the mouthpiece judge that approved this?
How high in the federal government does collusion in this go?
Is George Soros one of the clients?
We need a FIA challenge of the anonymity of the clients of the ACLU.
Has the ACLU decided to take this stand without a client? Can they do
this?
U.S. Border Watch will be conducting a Day Labor Operation and
Demonstration on 12-30-06 at the Day Labor site located at the 100 block
of Aldine Bender just East of I-45 north.. The purpose of this operation
is to close or prevent the illegal aliens that use this location from
obtaining employment. U.S. Border Watch President Curtis Collier will be
conducting a press conference at 9:30am at this location. This press
conference will include future plans for operations through out the
Harris County and surrounding areas. For additional information please
contact U.S. Border Watch at 1-800-759-0948.
U.S. Border Watch
6046 F.M. 2920 suite 401
Spring,Tx 77389
1-800-759-0948
www.usborderwatch. com
BORDER SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY
El Presidente Jorge Boosh is committing treason by leaving the
borders wide open. Treason is definitely an impeachable offense.
as he was escaping back to Mexico,will start their 11 year and 12 year
prison sentences in less than a month.
A compassionate
Conservative was quoted as stating: "They committed the crime of trying
to stop a drug smuggler coming across our border and must be prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law…… All true conservatives
know, the free flow of drugs from Mexico is essential to the Mexican
economy and this years bumper crop of Michocan must be allowed free
access to U.S. markets.
We believe a Presidential pardon would
send the wrong message to all of the brave potential federal felons
guarding our border with Mexico. The U.S Government wants to make sure
they get the correct message."
As
a side note in this Holiday Season we would like to wish a Merry Christmas
to smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila of Mexico….And while the 800
pounds of marijuana he was smuggling wont make it to your kids in time
for Christmas, in the spirit of the New Year, we believe our grant of
immunity to this honest and hard working drug dealer demonstrates the
compassion we conservatives of the Administration have for potential
future guest workers.
And for the families of convicted Border
Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean as they lose their houses and their
lives are torn apart…..we would like to extend…….uh…….um…….Well,
good luck and have a Happy New Year"…..!
If
you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn
more. Afterwards, email the coalition…. brianbonner90- at-gmail-
dot-com……and let me know at what level you would like to
participate.
The quicker we get impeachment going, the quicker we can return this
country to law and order.
It was a sunny morning, a little before 8.00am, on the first hole of a
busy course, and I was beginning my pre-shot routine, visualizing my
upcoming shot when a piercing voice came over the club house loud
speaker,
"Would the gentleman on the woman's tee back up to the men's tee please!"
I could feel every eye on the course looking at me.
I was still deep in my routine, seemingly impervious to the interruption.
Again the announcement, "Would the man on the woman's tee kindly back up
to the men's tee."
I simply ignored the guy and kept concentrating,
When once more, the Man yelled,
"Would the man on the woman's tee back up to the men's tee, please!"
I finally stopped, turned, cupped my hands and shouted back . . .
"Would The Asshole with the microphone kindly keep quiet and let me play
my second shot!"
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers
BAGHDAD, Iraq -
Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a
remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by
a U.S.-led war that left his country in shambles, was taken to the
gallows and executed Saturday.
Saddam is gone. No tears from here. I just poured a celebratory shot
of scotch whiskey and am enjoying it very much. No more Saddam. A couple
of nights ago, Alan Colmes (on his latr night liberal talk show) was
calling for a "life sentence with no possibility of parole" for Saddam.
Ha ha ha ... typical lib-think. (1) Iraq is NOT the USA (2) If he was
incarcerated on a life sentence, his supporters could free him. (3) At
most, they can now liberate his carcass as it assumes room temperature.
The worms go in,
the worms go out,
the worms play pinochle on his snout...
Anyone for a game of "hangman"?
hmmm....
Who was that? Saddam who?
President Bush said in a statement issued from his ranch in Texas
that bringing Saddam to justice "is an important milestone on Iraq's
course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend
itself, and be an ally in the war on terror."
We are only days away from the possible start of impeachment
proceedings to remove Bush. His failure to protect our borders from
massive foreign invasion is a mark against him. He has sworn to protect
the USA and he is failing that daily by witholding the order to begin
collection and deportation of illegals. We can not get rid of Bush as
Iraq did with Saddam but the stain of impeachment will be enough.
(...for now!)
Following close on the heels of the recent R&O from the FCC changing
band priveleges, there was aqn announcement that removes the morse code
requirement. No effective date has been announced that I have see
though. More when I know something.
[Here is the obituary from the Associated Press. It was well written
and I am quoting it verbatim in tribute to President Ford. Jerry was my
congressman when I was in the navy, 1968 to 1972. Jerry was a US navy
vet of WWII and a member of the American Legion Furniture City Post 258,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. note:I would post a permalink to the source of
this story, but yahoo links to news stories are worthless in 24 hours or
less.]
Former President Gerald Ford dies at 93
By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared
"Our long national nightmare is over" as he replaced Richard Nixon but
may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced
predecessor, has died. He was 93.
The nation's 38th president, and the only one neither elected to the
office nor the vice presidency, died at his desert home at 6:45 p.m.
Tuesday.
"His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country," his
wife, Betty, said in a statement.
Ford was the longest living former president, surpassing Ronald Reagan,
who died in June 2004, by more than a month.
Ford's office did not release the cause of death, which followed a year
of medical problems. He was treated for pneumonia in January and had an
angioplasty and pacemaker implant in August. Funeral arrangements were
to be announced Wednesday.
"President Ford was a great man who devoted the best years of his life
in serving the United States,"
President Bush said in a brief statement to the nation Wednesday
morning. "He was a true gentleman who reflected the best in America's
character."
Former President Carter described him Wednesday as "one of the most
admirable public servants and human beings I have ever known."
Ford was an accidental president. A Michigan Republican elected to
Congress 13 times before becoming the first appointed vice president in
1973 after Spiro Agnew left amid scandal, Ford was Nixon's hand-picked
successor, a man of much political experience who had never run on a
national ticket. He was as open and straightforward as Nixon was tightly
controlled and conspiratorial. Ford took office moments after Nixon
resigned in disgrace over Watergate.
"My fellow Americans," Ford said, "our long national nightmare is over.
Our Constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws and
not of men. Here the people rule."
And, true to his reputation as unassuming Jerry, he added: "I am acutely
aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots. So
I ask you to confirm me with your prayers." He revived the debate over
Watergate a month later by granting Nixon a pardon for all crimes he
committed as president. That single act, it was widely believed,
contributed to Ford losing election to a term of his own in 1976. But it
won praise in later years as a courageous act that allowed the nation to
move on.
The Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S. during his presidency with
the fall of Saigon in April 1975. In a speech as the end neared, Ford
said: "Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before
Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished
as far as America is concerned." Evoking Abraham Lincoln, he said it was
time to "look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up
the nation's wounds."
Ford was in the White House only 895 days, but changed it more than it
changed him.
Even after two women tried separately to kill him, his presidency
remained open and plain. Not imperial. Not reclusive. And, of greatest
satisfaction to a nation numbed by Watergate, not dishonest. Even to
millions of Americans who had voted two years earlier for Nixon, the
transition to Ford's leadership was one of the most welcomed in the
history of the democratic process — despite the fact that it occurred
without an election. After the Watergate ordeal, Americans liked their
new president — and first lady Betty, whose candor charmed the country.
In a long congressional career in which he rose to be House Republican
leader, Ford lit few fires. In the words of Congressional Quarterly, he
"built a reputation for being solid, dependable and loyal — a man more
comfortable carrying out the programs of others than in initiating
things on his own."
When Agnew resigned in a bribery scandal in October 1973, Ford was one
of four finalists to succeed him: Texan John Connally, New York's Nelson
Rockefeller and California's Ronald Reagan. "Personal factors enter into
such a decision," Nixon recalled for a Ford biographer in 1991. "I knew
all of the final four personally and had great respect for each one of
them, but I had known Jerry Ford longer and better than any of the rest.
"We had served in Congress together. I had often campaigned for him in
his district," Nixon continued. But Ford had something the others
didn't: he would be easily confirmed by Congress, something that could
not be said of Rockefeller, Reagan and Connally. So Ford became the
first vice president appointed under the 25th amendment to the
Constitution.
On Aug. 9, 1974, after seeing Nixon off, Ford assumed the office. The
next morning, he still made his own breakfast and padded to the front
door in his pajamas to get the newspaper.
Said a ranking Democratic congressman: "Maybe he is a plodder, but right
now the advantages of having a plodder in the presidency are enormous."
In 1976, he survived an intraparty challenge from Ronald Reagan only to
lose to Democrat Jimmy Carter in November. In the campaign, he ignored
Carter's record as governor of Georgia and concentrated on his own
achievements as president. Carter won 297 electoral votes to his 240.
After Reagan came back to defeat Carter in 1980, the two former
presidents became collaborators, working together on joint projects.
"His life-long dedication to helping others touched the lives of
countless people," Carter said Wednesday. "He frequently rose above
politics by emphasizing the need for bipartisanship and seeking common
ground on issues critical to our nation."
At a joint session after becoming president, Ford addressed members of
Congress as "my former colleagues" and promised "communication,
conciliation, compromise and cooperation." But his relations with
Congress did not always run smoothly. He vetoed 66 bills in his barely
two years as president. Congress overturned 12 Ford vetoes, more than
for any president since Andrew Johnson. In his memoir, "A Time to Heal,"
Ford wrote, "When I was in the Congress myself, I thought it fulfilled
its constitutional obligations in a very responsible way, but after I
became president, my perspective changed."
Some suggested the pardon was prearranged before Nixon resigned, but
Ford, in an unusual appearance before a congressional committee in
October 1974, said, "There was no deal, period, under no circumstances."
The committee dropped its investigation. Ford's standing in the polls
dropped dramatically when he pardoned Nixon. But an ABC News poll taken
in 2002 in connection with the 30th anniversary of the Watergate
break-in found that six in 10 said the pardon was the right thing to do.
The late Democrat Clark Clifford spoke for many when he wrote in his
memoirs, "The nation would not have benefited from having a former chief
executive in the dock for years after his departure from office. His
disgrace was enough." The decision to pardon Nixon won Ford a John F.
Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2001, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
acknowledging he had criticized Ford at the time, called the pardon "an
extraordinary act of courage that historians recognize was truly in the
national interest."
While Ford had not sought the job, he came to relish it. He had once
told Congress that even if he succeeded Nixon he would not run for
president in 1976. Within weeks of taking the oath, he changed his mind.
He was undaunted even after the two attempts on his life in September
1975. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a 26-year-old follower of Charles
Manson, was arrested after she aimed a semiautomatic pistol at Ford on
Sept. 5 in Sacramento, Calif. A
Secret Service agent grabbed her and Ford was unhurt. Seventeen days
later, Sara Jane Moore, a 45-year-old political activist, was arrested
in San Francisco after she fired a gun at the president. Again, Ford was
unhurt. Both women are serving life terms in federal prison.
Asked at a news conference to recite his accomplishments, Ford replied:
"We have restored public confidence in the White House and in the
executive branch of government." As to his failings, he responded, "I
will leave that to my opponents. I don't think there have been many."
In office, Ford's living tastes were modest. When he became vice
president, he chose to remain in the same Alexandria, Va., home —
unpretentious except for a swimming pool — that he shared with his
family as a congressman.
After leaving the White House, however, he took up residence in the
desert resort of Rancho Mirage, picked up $1 million for his memoir and
another $1 million in a five-year NBC television contract, and served on
a number of corporate boards. By 1987, he was on eight such boards, at
fees up to $30,000 a year, and was consulting for others, at fees up to
$100,000. After criticism, he cut back on such activity.
Ford spent most of his boyhood in Grand Rapids, Mich.
He was born Leslie King on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Neb. His parents
were divorced when he was less than a year old, and his mother returned
to her parents in Grand Rapids, where she later married Gerald R. Ford
Sr. He adopted the boy and renamed him.
Ford was a high school senior when he met his biological father. He was
working in a Greek restaurant, he recalled, when a man came in and stood
watching. "Finally, he walked over and said, 'I'm your father,'" Ford
said. "Well, that was quite a shock." But he wrote in his memoir that he
broke down and cried that night and he was left with the image of "a
carefree, well-to-do man who didn't really give a damn about the hopes
and dreams of his firstborn son."
Ford played center on the University of Michigan's 1932 and 1933
national champion football teams. He got professional offers from the
Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but chose to study law at Yale,
working his way through as an assistant varsity football coach and
freshman boxing coach.
Ford got his first exposure to national politics at Yale, working as a
volunteer in Wendell L. Willkie's 1940 Republican campaign for
president. After World War II service with the Navy in the Pacific, he
went back to practicing law in Grand Rapids and became active in
Republican reform politics.
His stepfather was the local Republican chairman, and Michigan Sen.
Arthur H. Vandenberg was looking for a fresh young internationalist to
replace the area's isolationist congressman.
Ford got twice as many votes as Rep. Bartel Jonkman in the Republican
primary and then went on to win the election with 60.5 percent of the
vote, the lowest margin he ever got.
He had proposed to Elizabeth Bloomer, a dancer and fashion coordinator,
earlier that year, 1948. She became one of his hardest-working
campaigners and they were married shortly before the election. They had
three sons, Michael, John and Steven, and a daughter, Susan.
Ford was the last surviving member of the Warren Commission, which
investigated the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 and
concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin.
After Ford's death, the U.S. flag over the White House was lowered to
half-staff. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq planned moments of
silence Wednesday in Ford's honor. And at Ford's presidential museum in
Grand Rapids, a steady stream of visitors lit candles and lined up to
sign condolence books about the former president.
___
Associated Press writer Harry F. Rosenthal, who retired from the AP
Washington bureau, contributed to this report.
___
On the Net:
Gerald Ford presidential library site: http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
It was on the late news tonight... Gerry Ford is gone. He was my
congressman when I was in the navy and helped me out a time or two.
President Ford was a member of the American Legion Furniture City post
(the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard post). I did not catch the time of
his passing or the cause, but he was the current oldest living
president. I feel disjointed and rambling right now... this is a shock
to me.
Joe Biden to enter the dog fight for Democrat nomination
excerpted from Yahoo News. Their permalinks are not worth diddly squat
and will be gone tomorrow so I don't bother.
Biden says intends to run for president
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting
record), one of the Democratic party's leading voices on foreign policy
and a sharp critic of President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq
war, on Tuesday said he intends to run for president in 2008.
"It is my intention to seek the nomination, and it's my intention
sometime in the month of January to set up the appropriate mechanism to
be able to raise money for that purpose," Biden said in a telephone news
conference that centered on Iraq.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama currently
are viewed as the leading likely contenders for the Democratic
presidential nomination, which will be decided in early 2008.
Bush's term ends in January, 2009, and he is barred from seeking a third
four-year term.
[Bush would not have a prayer of a chance at a third term. He has
already kissed off and pissed off his conservative base. The Dems and
MSM talking heads all sneer at the conservatives, but conservatism is
what took the House and Senate from democrat control ( in 1994) as they
were in the midst of a total Democrat government, White House, Senate,
and House of Representatives during the Slick Willy and Frau Madame
President co-presidency.Turning from conservatism to big government and
big spending is what lost it for the Republicans. It is still within
easy reach in the next two years if the conservative Dems who turned the
tide for them dont deliver. All they had to do was run some
pseudo-conservative sounding Democrat against a moderate to liberal
incumbent Republican in selected races.Real conservatism wins in nearly
every race, except in the Peoples Socialist Republic of Massachusetts,
and other socialist northeastern states.Certain states are conservative
but are wagged by large population centers of gathered socialist
drones.]
Joe Biden, as well as almost ALL Democrat senators, voted for
social security for illegal aliens and amnesty leading to citizenship
for them.
"How can we fool them again today?" - co-presidents Bill and Hillary
The Clinton "How Can We Fool 'em Today" machine is limbering up
and getting ready to try to make sounds like real Christians seeking
support of other Christians. If you just keep in mind that liberal
Democrats are totally amoral, completely lacking an semblance of a moral
compass, you will be far ahead. Thos who are of a similar mind as the
Clintons will gravitate to them. To them any means to an end, no matter
how low and even illegal, will be employed and maybe later disavowed IF
they are caught. The spin masters of the Democrats hae decided that they
have to try to look and sound like real Christians. Their church, that
worships homosexuality and has abortion as its sacrament, is fine by
them but they have found that REAL Christians abhor it. They have tried
to paint The Lord Jesus as tolerant of their activities and thus they
worship him as Jesus the homosexual abortionist. This includes even the
so-called "Catholic" Democrats including the Pelosi critter.
If you just keep in mind that what Democrats practice is some form
of stage acting and not real religion, you will go a long way to true
understanding of Democrats. This is what Rodham-Clinton is getting ready
to try once again. Remember when the Clintons made highly publicized
church visits for the cameras?
Hillary Clinton has hired an "evangelical consultant” to help woo
Christian conservatives in her likely 2008 presidential campaign.
The move comes after a similar political operative successfully aided
Democratic candidates in several states in the midterm elections.
More than one-quarter of the nation’s voters identify themselves as
evangelical — a voter bloc that has long been courted by Republicans.
Clinton’s new hire is Burns Strider, an evangelical Christian who
directs religious outreach for House Democrats and is the lead staffer
for the Democrats’ Faith Working Group, headed by incoming Majority Whip
James Clyburn of South Carolina.
Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the group last year when
Democratic strategists observed that the party lost ground in the
previous election in part because candidates failed to reach centrist
and conservative voters in rural areas, who tend to be churchgoers
concerned with moral issues, according to the Washington, D.C.-based
publication The Hill.
Strider was an aide to Pelosi when the group was formed and joined
Clyburn’s staff as policy director of the Democratic Caucus earlier this
year, the paper reported.
"Observers of Clinton’s expressions of faith say religion has always
been important to her, that she attended prayer group meetings while
first lady, and that she joined a Senate prayer group shortly after
winning election in 2000,” The Hill reports.
"Reporters anticipating Clinton’s ’08 presidential run wrongly discount
her expressions of faith as cynical political maneuvering," the
observers add.
Clinton is not the only potential Democratic candidate for the White
House to launch efforts to appeal to religious voters.
Josh Dubois, an aide in Barack Obama’s Senate office, is heading his
religious outreach. Sen. John Kerry gave a speech on "service and faith”
in September at conservative Pepperdine University, and has brought in
Shaun Casey, an associate professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley
Theological Seminary, as a consultant on religious outreach.
Kerry also traveled recently to California for a meeting with Rick
Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the best-seller "The
Purpose-Driven Life.”
Clinton’s evangelical point man, Strider, will take his cue from Mara
Vanderslice, whose consulting firm Common Good Strategies helped
Democratic candidates make inroads among evangelical and churchgoing
Roman Catholic voters in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Exit polls showed that Vanderslice’s candidates did about 10 percentage
points better than Democrats nationally among those voters, The New York
Times reports.
In Michigan, Democrat Gov. Jennifer Granholm cut significantly into the
white evangelical vote that normally goes Republican. Similarly, in
Ohio, Democrat Gov.-elect Ted Strickland took nearly half of the white
evangelical vote. And in Pennsylvania, Sen.-elect Bob Casey won nearly a
third of white evangelicals.
In all three states, Democrats began conducting well-organized outreach
efforts to appeal to religious voters long before election day,
according to The Hill.
Vanderslice and her business partner, Eric Sapp, urged Democrats to
speak in detail about the religious basis of their policies and to buy
commercials on Christian radio. In Ohio and Michigan, they even enlisted
nuns to staff phone banks and call Catholic and pro-life voters to urge
support for Democratic candidates.
Vanderslice has criticized Democrats’ usual reluctance to involve
religion in their campaigns. She disclosed in an interview that she told
candidates not to use the phrase "separation of church and state,” which
does not appear in the Constitution’s language barring the establishment
of religion.
Vanderslice herself didn’t become an evangelical Christian until she
attended Earlham College, a Quaker school in Indiana known for its
adherence to pacifism. She acknowledges that she still struggles with
common evangelical ideas about abortion, homosexuality, and the literal
reading of Scripture, according to the Times.
After college, Vanderslice spoke at rallies held by the AIDS activist
group Act Up, which disrupted Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989 by
spitting the Eucharist on the floor. In 2000, she practiced civil
disobedience when she took to the streets of Seattle in a protest
against the World Trade Organization.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, when Vanderslice directed
religious outreach for John Kerry’s campaign, Catholic League President
William Donahue denounced her as an "ultra-leftist who consorts with
anti-Catholic bigots.”
Her advice was largely ignored by the Kerry campaign. But in the recent
elections, the Times reports, she and partner Sapp were heeded when they
"told Democratic candidates not to try to fake it, advising those of
non-Christian faiths or no faith at all to talk about the origins of
their sense of ethics.”
Story excerpted from Yahoo. No permalink because Yahoo news links are no
good withing 24 hours.
Iraq court upholds Saddam death sentence
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq -
Iraq's highest court rejected Saddam Hussein's appeal Tuesday and said
the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days for his role in the
1982 slayings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins tried to
kill him.
"From tomorrow, any day could be the day" Saddam is sent to the gallows,
the chief judge said.
Two of his associates including a half brother will join him.
In a letter to members it was pointed out by Roy Beck, Executive
Director of NumbersUSA Education
& Research Foundation, and recipient of the first United Methodist
Communicator of the Year award as Associate Editor of the United
Methodist Reporter, that many religious leaders will use their
microphones and pulpits to advocate for open borders and for the
“rights” of illegal immigrants, “to decry the
raids and to equate illegal aliens with Mary and Joseph and their
newborn babe.”
It is a shame that the
religious leadership would not be standing beside us and against
outlaw businesses' efforts drive down the incomes of working-class
Americans and their families. But to have so many standing on the side
of the economic oppressors is truly disheartening.
I
completely concur with Beck’s statements. I know well of what he
speaks. I earned my Masters in Theology from a highly esteemed liberal
Protestant seminary not long ago. Every attempt to indoctrinate me in
the ways of socialistic-style social justice failed miserably.
Fortunately, I already had a strong background in traditional
Christian theology, an understanding of what it means to be an
American, and enough years of experience not to be easily intimidated.
Before
I entered the seminary, I was somewhat politically naive. That changed
rapidly as I learned that theology and politics are intimately linked. For
years mainline seminaries have functioned as the religious arm of the
far left progressives. Admission of any conservative
political bent is literally the kiss of death. No doubt there are many
closet conservative professors who would not long survive if their
personal politics were known. Students hoping for plumb assignments
following ordination are well-aware of which sides their daily bread
is buttered.
Just as few Americans are very much aware of the
growing influence of Islamofascism on American politics, even fewer
Americans are aware of the Marxist trends (born of Liberation
Theology) that are fast overcoming mainline denominations and
informing new ministers in mainline Protestantism! Catholics and
Evangelicals are not immune to this growing trend either.
Read Roy
Beck's response printed in the liberal protestant (pro-amnesty) Christian
Century Magazine.
Here’s an excerpt:
But
Mr. Ufford-Chase’s approach to handling the illegal immigration
problem in this country displays the huge blind-side that most
mainline church national leaders have on the immigration issue by
promoting the idea that illegal immigration is a victimless crime.
While focusing on poor people in other countries who wish to break the
law to get into this one, he ignores poor people and
lower-middle-class people in this country for whom immigration laws
are most clearly designed. The Supreme Court in the past has ruled
that the chief reason for our immigration laws is to protect workers.
Mr. Ufford-Chase does mention the issue of job displacement and
quickly dismisses it. And then he brings up the issue of wage
depression and speaks admiringly of Fed Chairman Greenspan’s
suggestion that we should have high immigration in order to hold down
wages. I frankly am amazed to see Mr. Ufford-Chase think that is a
worthy aim. . .
In covering and commenting on the immigration
issue, you should at the least consider that in the last public act of
her illustrious life of public service, Barbara Jordan led a
bi-partisan national commission that concluded that illegal
immigration should be eliminated to the extent possible and that legal
immigration should be dramatically reduced in numbers. The reason,
Jordan said, was that the numerical level of immigration is so
high that it serves as a tool of economic injustice against the most
vulnerable members of our community. (bold emphasis
added)
Beck gives us all some good advice. Don’t let this kind of
sermon go unchallenged! Speak to your minister, or if you
feel too shy to speak directly, “write a short
note and drop it in the offering plate or comments basket in the
foyer.”
Bring it up as a discussion issue in
Sunday school class!
If you are deeply concerned about
illegal immigration, join NumbersUSA
It's that time of year... the hacker grinches are gleefull!
There will be a flood of new computers hitting the internet that arrived
as Christmas (for you pagan libs, the winter solstice holiday) gifts and
they will be naked to the hackers, worms and virii of the internet if
they are Window$ OS computers. The Windows firewall is a joke. You will
also need good anti-spy and anti-virus software..
Sunbelt
Kerio Personal Firewall is the best second choice out there. Some
might even argue that it is numero uno. It is good software but didnt
meet my needs for my web server and laptop to update it. If you choose
to buy an upgraded version, it is only $19.95, a real bargain.
McAfee, AVG and others are offering this as part of a security suite,
but they are not free.
There are others but these are the ones that will get you secured from
the internet nasties to get started. If you are worried about rootkits
and other deep burrowing worms and virii, I think you should do some
google searching and reading.
My advice here is just to get the noobs facing in the right direction.
Oh... and be sure to get the latest version of Firefox browser. Internet
Explorer is a favorite attack point of Windows computers for hackers.
Final thought... it should be illegal to let any computer out without
firewall and anti-virus/anti-spyware. A bare minimum should be a disk of
said software for the user to install. Every Christmas, millions of
vulnerable computers hit the net and become zombies. The owners are
clueless, ignorant, or just plain stupid. The only computers that have
never had a virus have never been net connected or never had anything
new installed on them. A virus or malware can come from reputable
sources such as the SONY spyware that was revealed this past year.
I would provide a permalink to the story but Yahoo! links are worthless within 24 hours.
By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA -
James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping
vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and
disco as well, died early Monday, his agent said. He was 73.
Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on
Sunday and died around 1:45 a.m. Monday, said his agent, Frank Copsidas
of Intrigue Music. Longtime friend Charles Bobbit was by his side, he
said.
This year's noradsanta.org site is once again an improvement over
previous years. It is made possible through a collaboration of many
individuals and corporations. There is even a real time mapping feature
this year showing his location.
NORAD uses four high-tech systems to track Santa - radar, satellites,
Santa Cams and jet fighter aircraft.
Detecting Santa all starts with the NORAD radar system called the North
Warning System. This powerful radar system has 47 installations strung
across the northern border of North America. NORAD makes a point of
checking the radar closely for indications of Santa Claus leaving the
North Pole on Christmas Eve.
The moment our radar tells us that Santa has lifted off, we use our
second mode of detection, the same satellites that we use in providing
warning of possible missile launches aimed at North America. These
satellites are located in a geo-synchronous orbit (that's a cool phrase
meaning that the satellite is always fixed over the same spot on the
Earth) at 22,300 miles above the Earth. The satellites have infrared
sensors, meaning they can detect heat. When a rocket or missile is
launched, a tremendous amount of heat is produced - enough for the
satellites to detect. Rudolph's nose gives off an infrared signature
similar to a missile launch. The satellites can detect Rudolph's bright
red nose with practically no problem. With so many years of experience,
NORAD has become good at tracking aircraft entering North America,
detecting worldwide missile launches and tracking the progress of Santa,
thanks to Rudolph.
The third detection system we use is the Santa Cam. We began using it in
1998 - the year we put our Santa Tracking program on the Internet. NORAD
Santa Cams are ultra-cool high-tech high-speed digital cameras that are
pre-positioned at many places around the world. NORAD only uses these
cameras once a year - Christmas Eve. The cameras capture images of Santa
and the Reindeer as they make their journey around the world. We
immediately download the images on to our web site for people around the
world to see. Santa Cams produce both video and still images.
The fourth detection system we use is the NORAD jet fighter. Canadian
NORAD fighter pilots, flying the CF-18, take off out of Newfoundland to
intercept and welcome Santa to North America. Then at numerous locations
in Canada other CF-18 fighter pilots escort Santa. While in the United
States, American NORAD fighter pilots in either the F-15 or F-16 get the
thrill of flying with Santa and the famous Reindeer Dasher, Dancer,
Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph. About a dozen
NORAD fighters in Canada and the United States are equipped with Santa
Cams.
===
Obviously, the fighter escorts of the Canadian and USA forces are
important, but in this age, Santa probably has updated his sleigh with
technologies to thwart and conceal his passage over certain areas of the
war torn middle east region of the world. He made a few stops there in
the Christian settlements and I heard that while he was on the ground,
there were US Marines and a Navy Seal detachment providing security.
Once again he cleared the region of the 'stans without a single shot
fired in his direction. His stealth technology is much better this year.
Rudolphs nose may be bright but it is now super cooled.
A check of the real time tracking shows he is in Michigan as I type
this... better make sure the grandkids are safely tucked in and
sleeping.
I have a bottle of good scotch and a shot set out for him to warm
himself with.
For our politically corrrect lefty libs, he is the fat little
red-dressed holiday present delivery person who deposits packages under
holiday trees. He over works and abuses his sled team by making them go
out in all kinds of inclement weather. I expect that they will introduce
legislation outlawing his activities unless the weather is at least 50
degrees and sunny. Also they will probably adopt a "save a holiday tree"
campaign to keep people from cutting them down just to put one in their
livingrooms for a week or so. Also it is a fire hazard.
I still do not know if I have it fixed... but it has stayed online
without freezing up for a day now. I made some config changes and a few
adjustments elsewhere. We'll see... if you try to access the site and it
doesnt respond, then it had a seizure again. If it has been a while,
then I am not home to react to it quickly.
The other day, I needed to go to the emergency room.
Not wanting to sit there for 4 hours, I put on my old Army fatigues and
stuck a patch that I had downloaded off the internet onto the front of
my shirt.
When I went into the ER, I noticed that 3/4 of the people got up and
left. I guess they decided that they weren’t that sick after all.
Heres the patch. Feel free to use it the next time you’re in need of
quicker emergency service.
A United States Marine was attending some college courses between
assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of
the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of
the ACLU.
One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to
the ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to
knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes." The
lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by
and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting." It got
down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his Chair,
went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the
platform. The professor was out cold.
The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other
students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.
The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken,looked at the Marine
and asked, "What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The Marine calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting America 's
soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid shit and act like
an asshole. So, He sent me."
Q: If you have a Constitutional requirement to balance the budget...then
don't...then hide it...is that cause for impeachment or recall???
Q: If you win an election and then ask Corporations for MILLIONS of
dollars to throw "innaugural parties" statewide...while we have the
highest unemployment in the country...thousands are being laid off...is
that cause for impeachment or recall???
Q: If you raise MILLIONS of dollars into a super secret slush fund
called Partnership for Progress...to help you "govern"....and then that
slush fund disappears...is that cause for impeachment or recall???
Did governor hide budget overruns to aid campaign?
The Detroit News
GOP state lawmakers suspect politics in the Granholm administration's
failure to inform them of departmental overspending until after this
year's election. They're right to do so.
The departments of Human Services, Corrections and state police all
spent more money -- adding up to more than $50 million -- than they were
allotted in the 2005-06 budget year, which ended in September.
Only in late November were lawmakers informed of the overspending as the
departments sought additional appropriations to cover their expenses.
Yet at a legislative hearing this week, according to Rep. Scott Hummel,
R-DeWitt, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee,
representatives from two of the departments, Corrections and the State
Police, said they knew about the spending overruns in October.
Asked if the failure to notify the Legislature of the spending overruns
had anything to do with the gubernatorial campaign, Hummel answered, "it
appears that way to me."
"What bothers me," he continued, "is that we're the elected
representatives of the people and it's our job to deal with these
issues. Yet they (the departments) chose to bypass us."
In noting that decision, a memorandum from the House Fiscal Agency said
requirements in the state Management and Budget Act as well as the state
Constitution prohibit such spending outside of current appropriations.
The fiscal agency memo said lawmakers should ask the administration why
the chairs of both the House and Senate appropriations committees
weren't immediately notified of the spending overruns.
State Budget Director Mary Lannoye, in Hummel's phrase, "took a bullet"
in accepting the blame at this week's hearing for what a departmental
spokesman called "the situation" regarding the overruns. The spokesman,
when asked if there was a political motive in delaying notification of
lawmakers, said "absolutely not."
He added that Lannoye wanted to get a full handle on the figures and
present an accurate picture to lawmakers.
But the House Fiscal Agency noted a problem with one argument cited by
Lannoye.
She said her office didn't know the extent of the problem until the
books on the fiscal year were nearly closed.
"If that excuse were valid, no problem would need to be reported before
book closing and -- for all practical purposes, the Legislature's
control over the budget would become null and void," the House agency
said.
Mary Lannoye is a more capable budgeteer than this whole situation
suggests. She has served as budget director for John Engler as well as
Jennifer Granholm.
She is so highly regarded by the governor that she is being named as her
chief of staff.
Maybe the administration in Lansing is telling the truth about the late
reporting of the budget overruns.
But given the governor's emphasis on producing balanced budgets during
her re-election campaign, there is plenty of reason to suspect pressure
may have been applied to keep the overruns quiet -- which means a
GOP-controlled state Senate will have to keep a very sharp eye on future
numbers crunching in Lansing.
From the "Michigan For McCain" blog comes the announcement that Michigan
Attorney General Mike Cox has signed on with the McCain "Loose
Cannon Express" . The mildest word I can come up with is
"disappointed".
---
Thursday, December 14, 2006
**News Alert** Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox Signs on with John
McCain
---
I was going to quote the rest of the announcement but decided the
heading said too much already. I've noted before that McCain is a great
hypnotist and has great charm at close range. Some people seem to become
mesmerized by McCain. Apparently Mike is a McCain thrall will need to be
"bitch slapped" to wake him up. Mike is the very last person I would
have ever dreamed would support an unstable character like McCain. Have
I been wrong about Mike Cox all this time too.
I suspect that Terri Lynn Land will be announcing for McCain. She was
very tight with him when he was in Grand Rapids fund raising, and
supports his views on abolishing the first amendment.
Over the past several weeks, the RedState Editors have had many
discussions on how we should handle 2008. It is my position (and as
managing editor I get to pull rank) that we should focus on 2007 first.
But, I see no harm in the editors blogging about who they are supporting
or not supporting. Let me, however, be crystal clear: RedState.com will
not be offering an endorsement for any Presidential candidate for the
foreseeable future, if ever. The Presidential Primary process is up to
the voters of the various parties. RedState hopes to serve as a forum
for all of us in the Republican Party as we head toward 2008.
Having said all of that, let me be perfectly clear and blunt: consider
me in the anybody but McCain camp.
Read on . . .
Lots of my friends have jumped on the McCain bandwagon. These friends
usually begin their conversations with "Yes [you're right on X], but . .
.," which is inevitably followed by him being right on spending, North
Korea, Iraq, abortion, or some other single issue of importance.
Notwithstanding all of that, John McCain is wrong on the fundamentals.
However pretty the veneer is, a rotten foundation will cause his
structure to crumble. And we have seen that happen repeatedly. All John
McCain needs is a CNN camera crew and he stands ready to shove
conservatives under the bus if he's guaranteed prime time and Anderson
Cooper crying tears of joy while Chris Matthews stands by blowing kisses.
John McCain is not my choice because he thinks he invented the First
Amendment. When groups spoke critically of John McCain, he decided to
curtail their First Amendment rights to do so. He sees nothing wrong
with a campaign finance scheme that marginalizes individuals in favor of
the media companies biased against his party, but partial towards him.
He sees nothing wrong with a campaign finance system that benefits
incumbency and shafts the little guy. John McCain sees nothing wrong in
anything he does, which should be a red flag for the fawning media who
constantly demand of George Bush a litany of his prior wrongs.
John McCain is not my choice because he seeks to regulate first and ask
questions later. He could not help himself in investigating professional
sports, curtailing free speech, writing scores of burdensome regulator
acts, and pretending to try to stop perverts from getting on the
internet all while making life difficult for the average joe on the net.
Now, and I realize this is not generally something to say in polite
company, John McCain is not my choice because I question his mental
disposition. We got a glimpse of that in 2000 when Maria Shriver sought
to ask him questions and he went postal. We saw it by the way he reacted
to Christian evangelicals who sided with Bush over McCain in 2000. We've
seen it by the way he reacted to groups who criticized him, from going
on TV to berate them to passing BCRA. We see it today by the way his
minions are trying to oust state party chairs who don't bow before him.
At best, John McCain is a bully who uses people to his advantage before
stabbing them in the back. At worse, there are some poorly connected
wires upstairs.
John McCain may be right on spending. He may be right on abortion. He
may be right on North Korea. But fundamentally, John McCain has always
struck me as a man too willing to stand in the spotlight, blame the
Christians when Rome burns, and ignore first principles if they conflict
with prime time headlines. He certainly can prove me wrong, but I won't
hold my breath.
McCain appoints his Michigan grassroots coordinator
Here it is, nothing ambiguous about any of this!
McCain 2008 Team Adds Michigan Grassroots Chair
For Immediate
Release
Contact: Craig Goldman
817-919-9454
Tuesday, December 19,
2006
ALEXANDRIA, VA – U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential exploratory
committee announced today that Michigan Third District GOP Chairman Dave
Dishaw will serve as the state grassroots chairman, leading McCain’s
team of supporters in Michigan should he decide to pursue the Republican
nomination.
“John McCain is the straight-talking, authentic
leader our nation needs right now,” said Dishaw. “He won the Michigan
Primary in 2000 and his team will be many times stronger here in 2008.”
[The only straight talk McCain has done is his attacks on the first
amendment, our free speech. He also is anti-second amendment... your
guns are not safe with McCain in the White House. They are trying to
package McCain as a conservative when he has been flip-flopping all over
the map. Do you think your social security is safe with McCain? He wants
to give it away to illegal aliens.]
Dave Dishaw supported George W. Bush in the 2000 Republican Primary,
serving as the statewide Michigan chairman of the Bush-Cheney ‘04
grassroots operation. He currently serves as chairman of the Third
Congressional District Committee and most recently served as finance
chairman of Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land’s re-election campaign.
McCain said, “ Dave Dishaw is one of the very best grassroots organizers
in the country and I am proud to have him building our ground
organization in Michigan . He is an excellent addition to the team and I
look forward to working with him.”
[Well... now we know why Chucky Yob and the Kent County GOP top 4
wanted to get Dave Dishaw elected as the MIGOP chairman. Dave would then
be able to hand Michigan to McCain on a silver platter with little
visible opposition. The grassroots would be fed only pro-McCain
bull-hooey. When I can be assured that McCain is back on his meds, I
will be able to rest.]
So the citizens of Cedar
Rapids in Des Moines Iowa are holding a candlelight vigil for the ILLEGAL
CRIMINAL INVADERS that were busted breaking the law?
How many
AMERICANS are now facing an uncertain future due to the fact that
they are having to pay back the IRS because ILLEGAL CRIMINAL INVADERS
have used their SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS?
What about all the
Americans suffering due to ILLEGAL CRIMINAL INVADERS and the crimes
that they commit?
I know I sound cold, I
know that these people are human. My heart goes out to the children
but what about are own children? Should we throw our own away?
Who
has been hurt the most? AMERICANS THAT'S WHO!
I feel for the
families and their children I really do.
I have a family of my
own though.
The AMERICAN FAMILY.
Where are the vigils for
the victims of my family in all of this? Has the AMERICAN FAMILY been
forgotten. Do we matter anymore?
Candlelight Vigil for Illegal
Immigrants By Mark Geary, Reporter CEDAR RAPIDS – People gathered in Des
Moines Sunday to pray for illegal immigrants facing an uncertain
future.Last week, the government detained hundreds of immigrant workers
at swift and company meat packing plants in six states including
Iowa.The special service focused on immigration reform and support for
families. [Amnesty for illegals and their extended families...]
People
of every race, religion, age and gender came together to pray for
immigration reform. Few have had contact with the detainees or the
families they left behind.
"It's like taking inventory after a
disaster. Who's been hurt the most? Who's lost the breadwinner? "
Armando Villareal said. Very few, if any, family members came to the
service because many of them fear if they show their faces in public,
the government will go after them as well. Some people in the crowd have
briefly spoken to the detained immigrants. [illegal aliens] "They're
praying. They are worried. They don't know what's going to happen to
their children," Marina Caeiro said. [They should have before
they started breeding like cockroaches.] Songs about unity and
togetherness united the crowd during the bilingual service. The program
ended with a candlelight vigil and a traditional Christmas song that
took on a whole new meaning…"Silent Night." Families
lives now feel incomplete as silence fills their homes while they await
an uncertain future. [Awwwww.... please leave the USA! Go back to
where you came from and be complete there!]
Many of the
people in crowd plan to start a letter writing campaign to local
lawmakers. They want the state and the government to re-evaluate its
immigration laws.
YES WE DO, BUT NOT AT THE RISK OF AMERICANS! Yes,
we need to re-evaluate the laws and start enforcing them vigorously! If
you are here illegally leave now before we forcefully throw your ass out!
**This was a production of The
Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to
participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards,
email the coalition and
let Brian know at what level you would like to participate.
The
Gateway Pundit and other have coverage of the latest Kerry antics...
Kerry is back over in Iraq making some juicy photo ops.
"Jon Carry" [wimp] will not be visiting these Minnesota National Guard
troops [warriors] still deployed on a base in Talil, Iraq.
It looks to me like 'jon carry' is looking for a way to spit polish his
pitted, tarnished image before announcing his intent to have a go at the
presidency again. His hide will be a little thicker this time around but
the Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry are still here. Jon wants to
somehow be an anti-war protester - pro-war hawk. He had it both ways on
every topic last time and he will try to do it again. That is how he
laughingly became known as "Flipper".
...but the MSM is already trying to stack the deck. Their darling from
the Right side of the fence (as they see it, we know better) is McCain.
Everyone else might as well just sit down. McCain is packing his
campaign staff with former Bush workers. Other RINOs are busy snapping
up the loose ones missed by McCain. McCain has even hired on a Democrat
consultant to try to better his odds.
From much farther out in left field, the king makers have not finalized
the pick. The last time they did, it bought them the embarrassment of
John Kerry and the revelations in an uncontrolled internet media that he
is not the hero he self portrayed. Many expected that further
investigations of Kerry's treasons would result from all the information
that flowed, but severe damage control was in play. The DC sphincter
clamped down hard, not allowing any investigations to go forward about
why Kerry has not had a formal court martial over his self admitted
crimes that he confessed in sworn testimony years ago, or his treating
with his communist handlers/spymasters in Paris, France as to how to aid
them in the USA while the Vietnam war was ongoing. Remember, he was an
officer and gentleman by an act of congress at the time. Also remember
that the murders and treason that he confessed to have no statute of
limitations. Why has Kerry not been properly investigated, tried, and
hung as a traitor? How many 'bonesmen' in bureaucratic positions are
covering for him?
Senator Edward Kennedy reaffirmed on Sunday that he would support fellow
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee,
if Kerry were to run again in 2008.
"John is going to make his mind up in these very next few weeks, and I
have every intention of supporting him. I think of what a difference
John Kerry would be if he were president of the United States of
America. We'd be a vastly different country. And I think John Kerry —
people underestimate him. They underestimated (him) the last time. I
think he's a strong candidate" said Kennedy.
The MSM is having minor Obasms right now over the run off possibilities
between Clinton and Obama in the Democrat primaries, and maybe a
co-presidency or president/vice president pairing.
Obama, Clinton, and Kerry all voted to give illegal aliens social
security benefits
Obama, Clinton, and Kerry all voted for S.2611 amnesty for illegal
aliens
This is where grassroots activism can play a very important part. The
Democrat party is VERY much for amnesty of illegal aliens, those low
wage people who are flooding in, taking "...jobs no American wants".
There are a sizable number of patriotic citizens who are registered
Democrats but do not support the party line on amnesty for illegals as
it affects their paychecks. Many of those voters were known as 'Reagan
Democrats'.
Are you gradually learning a little Spanish to communicate with your
co-workers in the hopes that it will help you keep your job?
Has your employer announced pay cuts to remain competetive while
hiring low wage replacement workers for the US citizens that have been
laid off or fired? Has your employer started firing for the most
petty, ridiculous reasons?
Has your employer closed certain job categories and opened new low
wage jobs that no one will bid on?
Has your employer threatened to close the plant and move it to Mexico?
This is the kind of news that should be leaked out via the internet
media as the MSM will protect and defend their allies and attack their
enemies. By revealing this info, you will become an enemy of the left.
2008 may seem like a long way off right now, but we need to start
organizing and collecting data on candidates, wannabes, and their
supporters to sort them out and shine the light of day on them.
Information revealed now will be valuable later.
Your fellow patriotic citizens will thank you! (...and the legal
immigrants too!)
Once in awhile there's a headline that leads you to believe the federal
government might just do something to stop the Mexican invasion. You see
or hear that there's been a huge bust...and you think "hey...perhaps
illegal immigration really is illegal!" But then you dig a bit deeper,
and once again are led to the same disappointment as usual.
Case in point: the meatpacking raid earlier this week. ICE (Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, basically the old INS with a catchier name)
picked up almost 1,300 illegals. Great! You figure they'll be shipped
back to Mexico. As it turns out, they had acquired their jobs at the
plant with stolen identities. So they're being charged with identity
theft. Good....try them, sentence them, and then send them back to
Mexico. No dice...the feds say they'll just be tried. No mention of
deportation. That would be too politically incorrect, you know.
So if we're not going to do anything about the 12 million illegal aliens
already here, how about stopping the invasion? You know, perhaps a
border fence? Not a chance. With Democrats running the show in a couple
weeks on Capitol Hill, illegal immigration is on the back burner. There
will be no fence, there will be no stepped-up enforcement, there will be
no deportations. In fact, George W. Bush will finally get his amnesty
program pushed through. Why not just make Mexico the 51st state while
we're at it?
Until we seal the border and start deporting the third world invaders,
nothing is ever going to happen. Sadly, recent news that would appear to
the contrary has done nothing to change that.
John McCain is further proving that he straddles the aisle, drawing
support from the other camp as needed in his quest to seize the oval
office BAMN. We have seen how the leftist media fawns and McCain
reciprocates with support for causes that are antithetical to
conservatives. The GOP in Arizona has finally become aware of what
McCain is, so he has decided it is time to try to fool a wider audience.
McCain could not win the National Committemen position of Arizona. His
prime supporter in Arizona, formerly undefeated in the party ex-Governor
Fife Symington, could not win the state party chair. True conservatives
are cleaning house.
John Weaver, McCains Democrat "Karl Rove"...
John Weaver, Sen. John McCain's political adviser, surprised others in
the McCain operation with a vituperative attack on anti-tax activist
Grover Norquist for claiming that the senator had reached out to end
their long feud.
These colleagues support Weaver's assertion that Norquist was not
telling the truth, but question the language used. "I think [Norquist
is] just lonely with [disgraced lobbyist] Jack Abramoff gone to prison,"
Weaver told the Roll Call newspaper. "I think he's probably just sad and
lonely and delusional. . . . Only when he has pimped himself enough with
reporters does his name even come up."
One McCain adviser called Weaver "the sledgehammer in McCain's golf
bag." Advising McCain in 2000, Weaver railed against social
conservatives and feuded with Bush adviser Karl Rove. Weaver announced
early in 2001 that he had become a Democrat, but he returned to McCain
for the 2008 campaign.
It's official - the United Way has set up a fund to assist the families
of the illegal aliens who were rounded up in this weeks' Swift raids.
Please tell the United
Way that they should not fund illegal activity and they will lose
your donation if they do. You may also want to mention that if they
start a fund to assist the victims of illegal alien crime, only
THEN will they receive your donation.
For more info about illegal aliens... look up the Yahoo Group - CAII and
join. Another valuable source of information is www.vdare.com.
on December 15th, 2006. If you're an illegal alien…..Walk into any
Food Lion…..head for the Hispanic food isle and pick up a 3 PAK…A Social
Security Card….A Drivers License…..and A Permanent residence
Card…….Cost? Around $160.00. Sure it adds a bit to your
grocery tab but who cares…..You just became a legal citizen. <http://seattletimes
.nwsource. com/html/ nationworld/ 2003476730_ idtheft14. \html> Now
all you have to do is head over to the local Swift Meat Processing Plant
and you're in like flint. Welcome to America Mr.(Insert your Identity
here)………
Soon as the raid
at the swift plant was announced, the first few thoughts that popped
into my mind were….. How long will it take the sympathetic
media to find some kids to interview….. and How quick will the Lawyers
jump in…… HEH……oh…. about 1 hour. Will
the media cover the victims? NAH…. The people who's finances are
wrecked, identities and social security numbers stolen……well…. nada,
nil, zip, zero…….still waiting……waiting…..WAITING… .. These
Americans don't make nearly as good copy as the poor waifs who's felon
parents didn't pick them up after school.
Do I seem heartless?…..
no, I'm furious……at the parents…..and the media for so obviously
spinning a story about criminals INVADING OUR COUNTRY into a heart
tugging puff piece. NEED AN EXAMPLE?…..HERE YA GO…….
The
Desmoines Register <http://www.desmoine
sregister. com/apps/ pbcs.dll/ article?AID= /20061213/ NE\ WS/61213020/
1001/RSS01> : Father Jim Miller, who has been priest at St.
Mary's for a year and a half, said the virgin of Guadalupe was always
for poor people. "She is with us today, and would be crying today,"
he told the congregation in Spanish. Miller said he had gotten calls
from Anglos asking if they could help Latino families split by the
detentions.
Families split up……CHECK Crying
Saint…….CHECK
The Demoines Register <http://www.desmoine
sregister. com/apps/ pbcs.dll/ article?AID= /20061213/ NE\ WS/61213026/
1001/RSS01> "There's a lot of concerns about this," Kremer
said. "We know there is a possibility some students who left yesterday
who may never be back. We're invested in these children." High school
students interviewed this morning said they knew of many Hispanic
students who were leaving with their families to go back to Mexico.
Paranoia swept through families as well, Diaz said. "My mom wouldn't let
us go outside, because she thinks something is going to happen to us,"
she said, shortly before leaving the school parking lot and walking into
the school.
Terrified Families……CHECK Child
Fearing for her safety…….CHECK
"Why did they have to
do this two weeks before Christmas?" asked Linae Brush, joining a crowd
of about 100 employees and family members outside the plant to support
her neighbors, who work for Swift. "I think they're sending a message, a
nasty message."
Being Nasty……CHECK Ruining
Christmas…..CHECK
St Pauls Pioneer Press <http://www.twinciti
es.com/mld/ pioneerpress/ news/local/ 16226042. htm> "They are
taking mothers and fathers, and we're really concerned about the
children," said the Rev. Clarence Sandoval of St. Thomas Aquinas Roman
Catholic Church in Logan, Utah. "I'm getting calls from mothers saying
they don't know where their husband was taken."
Omaha…KETV
<http://www.ketv.
com/newsarchive/ 10516610/ detail.html> "That's what we're all
worried about is the kids, because they're going to, they said, to
schools, houses. They already pulled over a friend over by Hy-Vee and
stopped them and asked them if they were illegal," Eulalia Salazar said,
whose family works at the plant.
Being hunted down……CHECK Worried
about the Kids…..CHECK
NEED A FEW MORE RANDOM EXAMPLES?
The
Denver Post <http://test.
denverpost. com/extremes/ ci_4842979> : Reality hit hard for
the first detainees moving into courts. In the Weld County courtroom,
tears trickled down Karina Bartolo's face as she spotted her father
Cirilo Bartolo in the crowd. He'd heard from her once after she was
arrested Tuesday during work at the meat plant. She'd said she was
surrounded by mothers crying for their kids. "Maria of Guadalupe told us
that she came to hear and remedy all of our sorrows. I ask her today to
intercede for all our immigrant families, especially those that have
been broken apart by these events."
The San Antonio Express <http://www.mysanant
onio.com/ news/metro/ stories/MYSA1206 06.01A.immigrant \ _mom.2f5386e.
html> : CHICAGO — When first awakened by his mother to get
ready for school, the young boy grumbled but then offered a sly smile
and began rolling under the covers with his puppy, Daisy. After sipping
some juice, a still-sleepy Saúl Arellano, 7, kissed his mom, Elvira, on
the cheek and waved goodbye to Daisy.
Loving mother……CHECK sleepy
little boy…..CHECK Puppy……..CHECK (actually a puppy gets you
bonus points)
Remember these are not the Op-Ed pages…..These are
news stories. While some do contain actual facts, all of them work hard
to add the "MIGRANT" human interest SPIN. Leaving out Americans who are
the victims is the "ommitted" part of the spin.
HEY……I
have an Idea……Maybe we should all get a puppy.
Here at "Bloggin on down the Rogue" we
have a Boxer/Black Lab mix.
Also note that there is a lot of aid and sympathy for alien criminals
from factions of the American Catholic Church in the USA. None of this
pro-illegal alien activity is officially or publicly sanctioned by the
Roman Catholic Church. When it becomes so, then the Church will become
a recognized criminal organization.
Swift Co was raided in six states rounding up illegal aliens from many
countries of origin. Here is a report from the Hispanic Business Forum
for a view slanted to the south.
A friend of mine who is knowledge about the meat packing industry tells
me other plants in the industry have been raided as well. This one was
apparently a big raid!
U.S. immigration agents raided Swift & Co. meat plants in six states on
Tuesday, temporarily shutting them down, as part of a 10-month
investigation into identity theft involving illegal immigrants, federal
officials said.
"The company was not charged in today's action. Today's action is
against the individuals who have stolen identities of U.S. citizens, and
who are here working illegally," said Julie Myers, assistant secretary
at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit.
The stolen identities may involve "hundreds of individuals," she said.
Meat industry groups said the raids show that a comprehensive federal
immigration policy is needed to protect meat plants from hiring illegal
immigrants, while at the same time providing companies with a supply of
badly needed workers.
Greeley, Colorado-based Swift is privately held and is a major U.S.
producer of beef and pork, with $9 billion in annual sales. It
criticized the raids, claiming they violated previous government
agreements relating to a federal pilot worker program.
"Swift has played by the rules and relied in good faith on a program
explicitly held out by the President of the United States as an
effective tool to help employers comply with applicable immigration
laws." Sam Rovit, Swift's chief executive, said in a statement.
Court-authorized searches were conducted at six facilities, which
represent all of Swift's U.S. beef processing and 77 percent of its U.S.
pork processing. The plants are in Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah,
Iowa, and Minnesota.
There are about 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States,
including many who entered from Mexico. U.S. meat plants rely heavily on
immigrant labor because of difficulties filling positions that involve
fast-paced and dirty work.
Senator Tim Johnson has suffered a brain hemorrhage but underwent
emergency surgery. The news is that he is in recovery.
The South Dakota lawmaker, 59, was on "an uncomplicated postoperative
course," the U.S. Capitol physician said after visiting him Thursday
afternoon. Johnson suffered a hemorrhage in his brain caused by a rare
and sometimes fatal condition.
"He has been appropriately responsive to both word and touch. No further
surgical intervention has been required," said the physician, Adm. John
Eisold. He had said earlier, "The senator is recovering without
complication."
Democrats are in an absolute panic. They have already made committee
assignments and have all their revenge plots against Republicans planned
for slights real and imagined over the past 12 years.
Johnson was stricken as Democrats prepared to take fragile 51-49 control
of the new Senate when it convenes in three weeks. Democrats seized
control of both chambers of Congress from Republicans in November
midterm elections.
If Johnson were to leave office, a replacement would be named by South
Dakota's Republican governor, Mike Rounds. A Republican appointee would
create a 50-50 tie and effectively allow the GOP to retain Senate
control because of Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote.
Call me cynical but....
The Democrats have little to fear because their allies, the RINOs or
most of them that were not up for re-election this time, will be
present, giving the Dems a clear majority. McCain has been a good friend
of the Democrat Party over the years and will not let them down. His
loose cannon will roll their way when needed. At the very least there is
still the gang of 14 (7 Democrat handlers and their pet RINOs). Remember
how they seized control of the senate?
The more I watch and analyze the server logs and other tools, I am
convinced that this is some sort of config trouble.
I have defined some error responses that should heve been handled by the
system anyway.
I've just set EnableMMAP to off to see if that will help. It was noted
that it could cause problems on systems that didnt support it. It was on
by default so I never looked at it before.
I have to go to work in a little over an hour so I will check the
access.log when I get home to see if apache server has puked again.
Are there any other server programs for the PC besides apache and the
micro$oft server?
UPDATE: It's after midnight and I found that the changes I made had no
affect. The server quit responding some time around 6 PM tonight. Now I
have to continue looking for the solution.
Now that the election is behind us, and the Democrats control both
houses of Congress, there's no reason not to admit it: the Right was
right about us all along. Here is our 25-point manifesto for the new
Congress:
1. Mandatory homosexuality
2. Drug-filled condoms in schools
3. Introduce the new Destruction of Marriage Act
4. Border fence replaced with free shuttle buses
5. Osama Bin Laden to be Secretary of State
6. Withdraw from Iraq, apologize, reinstate Hussein
7. English language banned from all Federal buildings
8. Math classes replaced by encounter groups
9. All taxes to be tripled
10. All fortunes over $250,000 to be confiscated
11. On-demand welfare
12. Tofurkey to be named official Thanksgiving dish
13. Freeways to be removed, replaced with light rail systems
14. Pledge of Allegiance in schools replaced with morning flag-burning
15. Stem cells allowed to be harvested from any child under the age of 8
16. Comatose people to be ground up and fed to poor
17. Quarterly mandatory abortion lottery
18. God to be mocked roundly
19. Dissolve Executive Branch: reassign responsibilities to UN
20. Jane Fonda to be appointed Secretary of Appeasement
21. Outlaw all firearms: previous owners assigned to anger management
therapy
22. Texas returned to Mexico
23. Ban Christmas: replace with Celebrate our Monkey Ancestors Day
24. Carter added to Mount Rushmore
25. Modify USA's motto to "Land of the French and the home of the brave"
New Amendments:
In the spirit of democracy, the Right Was Right staff has culled these
late-breaking suggestions from our Internet readers:
All buildings named for Ronald Reagan to be coverted to low-income
housing
- Troy M.
Change the national symbol to a chicken
- Craig S.
Take away all children of Christians at birth to be raised in state-run
communal collectives.
- Craig S.
New "hug-a-terrorist" strategy in the war on terror.
- Sean S.
Raise minimum wage to $25.00 an hour
- Teach schoolchildren that homosexuality is perfectly normal and
encourage them to experiment with it
- Oil drilling to be banned ; All oil to be pumped back into the ground
- mandatory hiring quotas for transvestites, transsexuals and
transgendered
- Prozac to be added to drinking water
- Jim C.
Disbursement of one espresso machine for every household, to make our
mandatory morning latte.
- Martha
Convert domestic oil pipelines to Internet tubes
- Matt U.
Replace "In God We Trust" on US currency with "No More Blood For Oil"
... on further investigations were found to be parodies, not factual
statements and I have withdrawn them from my blog. I took them to be
actual statements. When something is facetious or humorous, I will
identify it as such. I was fooled too, folks! Time to watch my sources a
little closer.
Sorry Nancy! Even though I know you are a good little socialist, I guess
you are not that stupid after all.
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes
for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress,
non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice
holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious
persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with
respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of
others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions
at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and
medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally
accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the
calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society
have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily
greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western
Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed,
color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of
the wishee.
By accepting these greetings, you are accepting the aforementioned terms
as stated. This greeting is not subject to clarification or withdrawal.
It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting.
It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the
wishes for herself/himself/others, and is void where prohibited by law
and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is
warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good
tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent
holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to
replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole
discretion of the wish
A quirky trouble has been happening with my server. Approximately every
6 hours or so, the apache server program quits responding. My only
indication is that the access.log shows no updates since it quit. The
error log has been placed in debug mode and has not been helpfull. I put
the webserver back online by simply opening the apache control panel,
then run the shutdown and startup apache server. If this is caused by
some software conflict or config problem, I have not been able to
identify it yet. It is not version dependent. This is the most current
stable version of apache server (v2.2) but it happened under v2.0 also.
I have not gotten any good suggestions at the webmasters forum.
I have looked at the possibility of hardware trouble but that doesnt
seem to be it. Other aps run ok with out quitting or shutting down.
For now I am stumped!
I am even looking at a bandaid of a script to stop and restart the
server every 6 hours whether it needs it or not.
A new straw poll... Check the bottom of the page here!
I have posted the most current straw poll from GOP Bloggers. The poll
links directly back to them so a vote here will register there.
Also I sent a note to Matt Margolis about including John Cox in the
poll. Here is my email.
Matt,
I have been receiving emails from John Cox or his rep that he has
filed to run as a candidate for the 2008 Republican nomination.
Check out: http://www.cox2008.com/cox/
...and see if he should be included in your straw poll. He makes all the
right "conservative" statements and is the former GOP chair of one of
the Illinois counties. He is a dark horse right now but several past
presidents including President Peanut and Slick Willy from the Dem side
were unknowns too. Our side is currently floundering in the wilderness
looking for a Reagan clone.
None of the senate "candidates" come close. The left edge of the GOP,
the glad-handing moderates, are not what we need if the GOP wants to get
back into the leadership. That is not what won the house and senate in
1994 with a "Contract with America".
Since that time the people who got elected converted to the "large
government" Democrat paradigm and it cost us control of congress at
least for the next 2 years.
We lost a "no confidence" vote, pure and simple.
Toss in whatever you want that they lost confidence in (Iraq war,
spending like drunken sailors, immigration and border control, etc.),
the Republican congress had left behind its conservative principles and
enough blue dog conservative Dems filled the slot to give the socialist
Dem leadership the chairmanships.
We need a real conservative for our nominee, not any of the so far
revealed "large government" Republicans who cost us the leadership.
The grassroots is not to blame for the loss. The ballot choices
presented to us are the reasons for the loss. Someone named "none of the
above" would have been the winner.
The media is currently trying to force feed Barack "Osama" Obama as a
viable Democrat choice over Hillary Rodham, and McCain is presumed to be
the annointed GOP nominee. If McCain (or any of the RINOs or moderates)
gets the nod from the back room manipulators as the GOP nominee, we
could have a Democrat as president this next election.
Our senate "gang of 23" already have cost us dearly, and most of them
were not on the midterm ballot.
We need a REAL conservative candidate! Check out Cox. He may be what we
are looking for.
PELHAM -- The first person to publicly announce his candidacy for the
2008 presidential election gave those in attendance at the Pelham Middle
School last week an idea of how he'd run things from the Oval Office.
At the Aug. 25 event organized by the Pelham Young Republicans, John
Cox, a Republican businessman from Chicago, said he is seeking the
presidency because his party has strayed from its principles.
"The Republicans have lost some of their common sense," said the
50-year-old millionaire. "They've signed onto the idea that spending and
bigger government are ways to solve problems. Republicans have forgotten
what being a Republican is all about."
===
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Dec. 8, 2006
Contact: Stephen Abbott, communications director, 603-785-7796
The following is a statement from John Cox for President Communications
Director Stephen Abbott:
"It's was reported this week that Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback is exploring
a bid for the presidency.
Sen. Brownback has taken some admirable stands on social issues - he is
pro-life and stands against gay marriage. But sadly, he has taken
positions which make his candidacy a "tough sell" with the Republican
Party, namely, his advocacy of open borders and illegal immigration.
Brownback has voted to support a "guest worker" program, voted to
support giving Social Security to illegal aliens, and believes illegals
who broke the law deserve to be rewarded with a "fast track" to
citizenship.
An open borders policy is wrong for America. It allows unscrupulous
employers to exploit human beings who are living here illegally, it puts
a huge strain on our hospitals, schools and housing; it takes jobs from
low- and middle-income, legal American citizens and it cheapens our
sense of citizenship.
John Cox is a social conservative who is already in the race for the
2008 Republican nomination. While John Cox believes in immigration, he
also believes in letting those who legally wait for citizenship come in
the front door, legally.
John Cox would build a barrier in the most vulnerable border areas to
stop the flood of illegal immigrants into our cities, and would crack
down on employers who give jobs to illegal aliens.
Sen. Brownback voted YES to create "guest workers." He voted YES to
allow illegals to get Social Security. He voted YES to give illegal
aliens citizenship.
Republican Primary voters will vote NO on Sam Brownback if he runs for
the Presidency."
John H. Cox, 51, is the first announced Republican candidate for
president in 2008. He has active campaign organizations in 26 states. He
is a CPA, real estate broker, attorney and investment advisor. He is the
former president of the Cook County (IL) Republican Party.
Cox is making all the correct statements to get the attention and
support of conservatives. What he needs now is name recognition.
As a result of the 2001 U.S. – Mexico Partnership for
Prosperity created by President Bush and Vicente Fox, the Federal
Reserve is marketing a new program designed to make it easier,
quicker,and cheaper for illegal aliens, drug dealers and coyotes to
prosper by sending billions of dollars back home to Mexico. It's
called "Directo a México" DIRECT TO MEXICO……..
(Washington,
DC) — Judicial Watch <http://www.judicial
watch.org/ 6058.shtml> , the public interest group that
investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released Federal
Reserve marketing materials created for "Directo a México"
[Direct to Mexico], a new government program designed to facilitate
the transfer of funds from immigrant workers in the U.S. – regardless
of their legal status – to their relatives in Mexico.
…..In
conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security's open border
plan, this new marketing program will reassure our future guest
workers (former felons) that we are serious about our intent to create
prosperity for their families back in Mexico as well as our corporate
banking industry.
An anonymous Fed Reserve spokesperson implied: "Our
Bankers, like our illegal work force, are slipping through the cracks.
They need our help." "We are hoping the banking industry will
follow our lead in facillitating the transfer of money earned by
millions of illegal aliens and drug dealers……It's important that they
don't fail in their mission to get a piece of the illegal alien felon market…….and
it's the mission of the Mexican American Government to see this
through.
When asked to comment, the Banking Industry said, We
agree with the Federal Reserve that the potential profits here must be
weighed against national security and the laws of the land……it's not
that we like these felons, but we appreciate the governments help in
contacting them…… we just want our fair share of their
illegally earned money.
Marketed as "the best way to send money
home," offering "more pesos for every dollar," the Federal
Reserve's remittance program charges U.S. financial institutions
$0.67 per item to transfer money from the United States to Mexican
banks, ensuring a "highly competitive rate." The Federal Reserve also
provides participating U.S. financial institutions with Spanish
language promotional materials to "help get your message out." The program
was reportedly launched in response to a directive from President
Bush following the 2001 U.S. – Mexico Partnership for Prosperity
created by President Bush and then Mexican President Fox. It makes no
distinction between "legal" and "illegal" aliens.
A
homeland Security spokesman defended the program by reminding skeptics that
we would be using ground based radar, drones and bright lights to make
sure illegal aliens would be stopped in the parking lots of most banks.
Judicial
Watch President Tom Fitton Said: "The taxpayer-subsidized `Directo a
México' program seems designed to facilitate the transfer of
wealth by illegal immigrants outside the United States. This program
undermines our nation's immigration laws and is a potential national
security nightmare." "In the least, the Federal Reserve must
limit this program to legal aliens and U.S. citizens only."
A
Government spokesman replied: We were elected to protect the banking
rights of felons in America… ……..sure, drug and laundered
terrorist funds will slip through, and maybe some human trafficking
profits, but, these funds are from felons too….and Federal Law
probably prohibits us from descriminating against them…… we'll call
the ACLU and check on that.
If
you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn
more. Afterwards, email the coalition…. brianbonner90- at-gmail-
dot-com……and let me know at what level you would like to
participate.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he is “not ruling in or out” running for
president or vice president in 2008.
“I don’t know what the future holds for me,” Bush told NewsMax as he
leaves office this month after eight years as governor. “To be honest
with you, the only job in public life that I’ve been interested in over
the last 15 years has been to be governor. It’s been my dream come true.
I guess it’s hard for people to appreciate, but I’ve never viewed it as
a stepping stone to anything else.”
Jeb Bush said he would feel comfortable with Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani,
or John McCain as president.
“I like Romney, but I’d also be comforted at night knowing that Rudy
Giuliani was leading our nation in a time of war, and John McCain — all
three of them,” Bush said.
The USA has suffered enough. We do not need another Bush enema. First
we had "Read My Lips" Bush who was a "Go along to get along" Republican,
and we are currently at the end of "Panderer, jobs citizens wont do, and
citizenship for illegals" Bush. We would not survive a third Bush anal
treatment.
Illegals Deadlier Than War On Terror by American
Daughter This past Thanksgiving evening, a United States Marine who
was home from Iraq was driving with his date, when another car smashed
into theirs and killed them both. The other driver, who was not even
injured, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. On the
early broadcast news in Washington, DC this morning (Thursday, November
30th), some stations carried the report of this incident, and described
the drunk driver as an “illegal immigrant.” By the time the 7 AM news
came on, that version of the story had been quashed. The main-stream
media versions of the story do not mention the illegal status of the
accused driver:
Driver Accused Of DUI In Crash That Killed Marine Home For
Thanksgiving COLUMBIA, Md. - A local Marine was killed Thanksgiving
night in a crash caused by an alleged drunk driver. Brian Matthews,
21, of Columbia, Md., was driving with a date, 24-year-old Jennifer
Bower of Montgomery Village, in his car on Thanksgiving night. A
driver hit them in Columbia, killing them both. Matthews had served in
Iraq and was home for Thanksgiving. Matthews’ mother says her son had
just signed up to be an organ donor and his organs helped save six
other people. Eduardo Soriano, 25, the driver of the other vehicle,
was charged with driving under the influence.
Matthews had served in Ramadi, Iraq, as part of the Fox Company 2nd
Battalion 5th Marine Regiment. One of his family members said he was
the kind of person who would do whatever he could to help others.
Matthews, who recently trained in the Pacific Ocean, had just
celebrated Thanksgiving with his family when he and Bower went out on
a date…. Police said the driver of the other car, 25-year-old Eduardo
Soriano, failed to stop at a traffic signal and hit Matthews’ car.
Soriano wasn’t injured but was charged with driving under the
influence. Court documents showed he had a blood-alcohol level of .32.
The legal limit is .08. Soriano is also charged with two counts of
manslaughter while intoxicated and homicide by motor vehicle. Matthews
graduated from Howard High School in 2003. He was an Eagle Scout.
According to statistics
compiled by US Congressman Steve King (R-5th CD Iowa),
13 Americans are killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals
12 U.S. citizens die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal
aliens each day in crimes
Do the math.
[ (12 + 13) x 365 = 9125 ]
That’s more than nine thousand people killed every year in
the United States by illegal aliens. By contrast, consider the
death toll for US servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning
of the war on terror, as reported
last week by the Department of Defense:
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during
the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289.
Again, do the math.
[ (2863 + 289) divided by five years of war = 630 ]
So illegal aliens in the United States are more than fourteen
times as lethal (14.48 actually) as a full scale armed conflict.
Quod erat demonstrando. Our mainstream media outlets are
strangely silent about this. Do we hear them constantly beating a drum
about THIS civil war? No. Their selective reporting amounts to blatant
prevarication.
This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It
was started by Euphoric Reality,
and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as
we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on
terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing
our country, join our Blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name
and url to admin at guardtheborders dot com.
And mission control revealed that the onboard computers might have a
Y2K type problem with date changeover on January 1st.
Shuttle blasts off in rare night launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit
up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad
for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
The shuttle's seven astronauts are on a mission to rewire the
international space station, one leg of a three-year race to finish
construction on the orbiting outpost before shuttles are retired in 2010.
The illumination from the shuttle turned night into day for spectators
at the
Kennedy Space Center. A cloudy sky with blustery winds earlier in the
day gave way to clear skies and a gentle breeze at launch time.
Low clouds forced the space agency to scrub an attempt Thursday night
during a countdown that ran down to the wire. Managers decided not to
try again Friday because the forecast looked even worse.
"Forty-eight hours makes a tremendous difference," launch director Mike
Leinbach told the crew.
Commander Mark Polansky responded, "We look forward to lighting up the
night sky."
Three of Discovery's astronauts will take three complicated spacewalks
and play the role of electricians by rewiring the space station from a
temporary to a permanent power source.
NASA officials were glad to get the shuttle off their ground since they
wanted it back on Earth by the new year.
Shuttle computers are not designed to make the change from the 365th day
of the old year to the first day of the new year while in flight. The
space agency has figured out a solution for the New Year's Day problem,
but managers are reluctant to try it.
The launch was the first at night since Endeavour's flight in November
2002 and only the 29th in darkness of NASA's 117 total shuttle launches.
NASA had required daylight launches for three flights after the Columbia
accident in 2003 so that clear images could be taken of the external
fuel tank. Foam breaking off the tank and striking Columbia's wing at
liftoff led to the disaster that killed seven astronauts.
[I would provide a link to the original story where this is excerpted
from, but it is a YAHOO link and wont be any good by tomorrow! No such
thing as a parmalink with Yahoo!]
Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday endorsed the idea of talks
with Iran and Syria to help ease the bloodletting in Iraq, saying it
would also be in Tehran's interests.
Clinton spoke in the Netherlands the day after the Iraq Study Group, a
bipartisan panel that included senior officials from his administration,
proposed engaging the two Middle Eastern countries - and U.S. foes - in
the search for peace in Iraq.
Clinton favors solutions like his talks with China and North Korea
where he gave away MIRV missile secrets and nuclear technologies for
campaign contributions. Yup, sure, this is just the sort of advice we
need to be following. The stability of the world is already tits-up and
he wants to speed up armageddon. Der Schlickmeister is a globalist (like
Bush) and is trying to destabilize the world so a world government can
be formed. Does Willy have a place in the new world government picked
out for himself? There now I sound like a conspiracy theory nut.
Watch what the globalists are doing.
ps: It is humorous how other countries think that the report of the
Iraq Study Group is law and we must obey. The group is composed of a
gaggle of moderates and leftists who want to steer us back toward that
utopia that just keeps slipping away with the passage of the old Soviet
Union.
Hispanophobia? Pro-illegals are crawling out of the woodwork...
While browsing my web access.log, I spotted a blog that I was curious
about. It was listed as a referrer from a link checker. On closer
examination of the site, it appears that the blogger of this page in
question is firmly in the pro-illegal alien camp. She uses words like
hispanophobia, neo-nazi, white supremecist to refer to patriots who want
to close the borders to illegal aliens. Other more radical
organizations, who have allied themselves with the people seeking secure
borders, are being used to tar conservatives. Apparently law and order
are not important to the pro-illegal crowd. This is the naked face of
the enemy and begs closer examination. Not surprizingly, the blog page
in question is VERY pro-Bush, rah-rah for illegal aliens, centrist
bordering on leftist. I voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 so I guess I am
somewhat at fault for him, but his pro-illegal stance didn't come up
before. It was probably visible but not on the radar screen.
The kicker, the anti-illegal people are referred to by the blogger as
RINOs: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Jim Gilchrist, Tom Tancredo,
Michelle Malkin
These patriotic citizens stand up for law, order, and the American way
while closet socialists (and not so covert fellow travelers) pop up
trying to dissolve our borders and impugn the defenders as the new nazis.
The page does a very good job of disguising itself as being
pro-Republican (much better than the Republicans For Duckworth page
did). On close reading, it looks more like a "Neo-Socialists for the
Republican Left" page, but lists blogrolls for all the conservative
blogs. So far, googling the page author only turns up a lot of fairly
recent self-promotion of and by an obscure author who self describes as
specializing in Wyatt Earp and Tombstone, Arizona. Other links point to
blog comments where the author posts a note at another blog, then makes
multiple replies to her own message. The author resides in New Mexico, a
hotbed of the pro-illegal crowd.
For a good look at the soft pink underbelly of the pro-illegal alien
side of the Republican party check out this blog:
If you are conservative, you might want some Pepto-Bismol handy.
ps: After more pink flamingo reading, I discover that Rudy Giuliani
seems to be the flavor of preferred Republicanism at the above listed
blog. Rudy seems to be a nice guy, a supreme glad-hander and baby
kisser, but I am not sure that we need someone so near the left edge of
the party as our candidate. If I have to choose someone of this side of
the party, at this time I would prefer Romney.
President Bush has a new mandate: It’s back to the basics.
Over the next two years Bush will focus on winning back Republicans and
Congress by returning to basic Republican principles, Karl Rove is
telling White House allies. Bush’s political strategist is saying that
as part of that process, the party must reevaluate itself.
[No Karl, as part of the process, Bush and Rove must reevaluate
themselves. You have alienated the conservative base and we would just
as soon see you out of power because we do not trust you anymore. Do ya
want to try to rebuild some of that trust? Try a serious effort at
removal of illegal aliens. Its not that hard. Ike Eisenhower did it with
one tenth the manpower in the INS that you have available in ICE now.
Your "No Illegal Alien Left Behind" policy is what has moved so many of
us get wistfull and misty eyed (NOT!) at the thought of you being
ignominiously tossed from office. Otherwise, you have less than a month
before we all get to witness the spectacle of an impeachment done right.
Only the people can stop it from the grassroots level.]
Grassroots Arizona PAC 40% funded by Democrat Donors
[Here is a piece of detective work that is tremendous in its importance
of understanding how badly certain factions of Democrats and Republicans
want McCain as the annointed candidate for president. With this
information in hand, we can make some assumptions about the cabal that
is trying to force feed McCain to us. I wonder whether there are any
similar arrangements here in Michigan to aid in greasing the way for
McCain? We recently had a coup attempt against Saul Anuzis that looks,
smells, and tastes very much like what went down in Arizona and noted
below. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc...]
Grassroots Arizona PAC 40% funded by Democrat Donors
Greg Wendt and Lisa Wendt of San Francisco, CA (generous
benefactors of the Democrat Party and its candidates) gave over 40% of
the funds for Grassroots Arizona; a PAC set up to target the Republican
chairman of legislative district 11. The details are chronicled below.
On August 10, 2006 a Candidate Support or Opposition Committee
called Grassroots Arizona PAC was registered with the Arizona
Secretary of States office. Anne Lynch is listed as the
chairman and Jane Lynch as the treasurer.
The first two donations were made by Jane Lynch and Paul Hickman.
Since Jane is the treasurer her name is not a big surprise. It is our
understanding that Paul Hickman is Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator John
McCain. That is interesting.
The purpose of the PAC seems to have been to get PC’s elected in LD
11 that would support someone besides Rob Haney as chairman. The PAC
also mailed out a
letter to LD 11 PC’s in support of Fife Symington for
chairman. The letter was signed by Jon Kyl, John Shadegg, Jeff Flake,
Rick Renzi, and several other Republicans from Arizona.
Besides the seed money put in by Lynch and Hickman several other
people made donations. Most of them seem to be well-connected
Republican’s from the Phoenix area. In all the PAC raised $16,400 in
direct contributions. Up to this point it would look like several
Republican insiders conspired to suppress Ron Haney and his group of
conservative PC’s in LD 11. It is regrettable that it came to this but a
case can be made that it should not be a surprise that McCain and the
party establishment wanted to oust Haney. Rob has not
been very supportive of McCain.
There were two names on the PAC donation list that we could not
trace right away, Gregory
Wendt and Lisa Wendt. At first we were thrown off by the
last name Wendt, which has some meaning in Phoenix. But it turns out
that Gregory (or Greg) and Lisa are not from Phoenix. The tip-off was
Lisa’s employer listed on the disclosure forms, Hambrecht. That is not a
common name and it led us right to WR
Hambrecht + Co, a financial service firm based in San
Francisco, CA.
Once we got to California it all opened up. Besides donating $3,400
each to the Grassroots Arizona PAC (over 40% of the PAC funding), Greg
and Lisa have been very generous to Democrats. For Greg see
this link. For Lisa see the following
link here. Further details can be found by searching
the Federal Election Commission’s web site. Greg’s
has donated to such people as Ron
Wyden, Max
Cleland, Barack
Obama, Diane
Feinstein, and Claire
McCaskill, among many other Democrats. So how does a big
time Democrat donor from San Francisco end up funding a PAC set up to
target a legislative district chairman in North-Central Phoenix? Perhaps
the answer comes from one of the very few Republicans that Mr. Wendt has
supported, John McCain. Greg donated several thousand to McCain in 2003.
The link can further be seen by checking the donations of Mrs. Lisa
Wendt. She has been very generous to many of the same politicians as
Greg, including McCain. She also gave $5,000 to Straight
Talk America on 8-1-05 and another $5,000 on 3-31-06. This
is all public record available on the
FEC site, including her employer W.R. Hambrecht. The
amazing part is not that they made a donation but that they even found
out about the Grassroots Arizona PAC. It looks like someone could not
find enough people from inside his party to neutralize one of their own
so he had to turn to Democrats for the rest of the money.
Many people claiming to be loyal Republicans have objected to Rob
Haney’s actions. None of these people cared to disclose that several
“loyal Republicans” conspired with a PAC heavily funded by two Democrat
donors from out of state. I have a very simple questions for Senator
Kyl, when did you know that the letter you were signing to oust a
hard-working district chairman was funded by Democrat donors? Will this
be standard procedure from now on, to conspire with national Democrat
supporters to silence the Republican base?
Massachusetts state troopers may soon be allowed to arrest immigrants
who are in the state illegally.
Currently, troopers have no power to detain people for violations of
their immigration status.
Troopers currently can call federal authorities for a check of their
immigration status, and detain them if federal officials request it.
But Gov. Mitt Romney's office reportedly says the governor has worked
out a deal with federal officials under which troopers will have the
power to arrest.
About three dozen troopers will be given the authority after they
complete a month-long training program.
The agreement, which is expected to be announced this week, is being
criticized by immigrants rights groups.
Ali Noorani, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and
Refugee Advocacy Coalition, says it raises concerns about racial
profiling.
Hmmm... I will have to give another looky-looky at Mitt Romney. My
prime focus is on immigration, border security, and the dispostion of
illegal aliens. it looks like Mitt is displaying a little "get tough"
with illegals. I wonder how long it will take for them to all gather in
a "sanctuary" where they can be scooped up and deported?
So far we have McCain making all the noises of running for El
Presidente, and now I get word that RINO senator Sam Brownback is
tossing his hat in the ring with an exploratory committee.
Spain has its running of the bulls. The USA now has its running of the
RINOs. Lets see how many of them want to join the fun.
I've made a web page with the amnesty roll call votes (including the
vote for social security for illegal aliens).
The dispute that pundits and pols in Michigan forecast would bring three
months of internecine warfare over who would run the state Republican
Party has ended peacefully. Four days before Thanksgiving, 3rd District
Republican Chairman Dave Dishaw called off his bid for state
chairmanship. Barring anything unexpected, incumbent Chairman Saul
Anuzis should be re-elected at the state Republican convention in
February.
The certain Anuzis triumph also signals détente between the chairman—a
self-styled “Jack Kemp-Newt Gingrich Republican”—and GOP National
Committeeman Chuck Yob, unofficial leader of John McCain’s presidential
campaign team in the Water Wonderland. (Son John Yob is the full-time
head of the Arizonan’s political operations in Michigan.) Ever since
Anuzis first declared for the party helm last year, Yob has been at odds
with him.
Yob attempted to recruit at least two candidates to run for chairman in
’05, but both passed on the race and onetime Teamster-turned-Lansing
businessman Anuzis was elected without opposition.
Old Michigan political hands say that Yob’s feud with Anuzis has less to
do with ideology, ’08 presidential politics or personality differences
than with the fact that Yob once coveted the chairmanship and now just
cannot stomach a state chairman he can’t control. In 1989, then-Kent
County GOP Chairman Yob seriously plotted a challenge to then-State
Chairman Spence Abraham (later U.S. senator and secretary of Energy).
But when the position of national committeeman opened up before the
state convention (incumbent Peter Secchia resigned to become U.S.
ambassador to Italy), Yob switched to the far-more-winnable race for the
RNC position and was elected.
Even before Election Day last month, there were published reports that
Yob was making calls in an attempt to develop a challenge to Anuzis and
that out of those calls, the Dishaw insurgency was born.
Not so, insisted Yob. As he told me days before the election, “I have
conference calls all the time with other party leaders, including Saul
Anuzis. No, I’m not behind any movement to oust him as chairman. The
elections will be his mid-term. Call me Wednesday morning and I’ll tell
you whether there will be a race for chairman.” (Republican Rep. Pete
Hoekstra, also rumored to be part of the “Sink Saul” movement, had
sounded very much like Yob when Yob told me in October: “Let’s get
through this election. Once we determine how we did, we’ll know whether
there is a race for chairman or not.”) But Yob quickly added that he
would support friend Dishaw “if he wants to run for chairman.”
As throughout the country, Republicans were hit hard in Michigan in
November. Their nominees for governor and U.S. senator lost badly and
Republicans also lost their majority in the state house of
representatives. No sooner were the election results counted than Dishaw
declared for chairman and launched a website promoting his candidacy. To
no one’s surprise, Yob signaled he was behind Dishaw.
But Michigan Republicans did not blame Anuzis for their state’s version
of the debacle experienced by their party nationally. Dick DeVos and
Mike Bouchard, the losing GOP nominees for governor and U.S. senator
respectively, both weighed in strongly for Anuzis. Secchia, 2002
gubernatorial nominee Dick Posthumus, and Republican leaders in both
houses of the legislature also rallied to the chairman. Of the two
Republicans in statewide office, State Atty. Gen. Mike Cox threw in with
Anuzis and Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land was neutral. (Dishaw is
employed by her husband.) Even Birmingham lawyer David Trott, whom Yob
unsuccessfully sought to recruit to run for chairman in ’05, endorsed
Anuzis.
“Saul is one of the hardest-working and most accessible state chairmen I
can remember,” Peter Secchia told me, in effect speaking for many of the
grass-roots activists as to why Anuzis should stay on. After a campaign
of less than three weeks, Dishaw telephoned Anuzis to say he was
throwing in the towel.
With media attention on Michigan growing because of the state’s
early-bird Republican presidential primary, questions still abound about
how long the calm between Anuzis and Yob will last.
“Had Dave Dishaw wanted to run, I would have supported him,” Yob told
me, “But he didn’t want to go through the bloodshed that would result
from an all-out war. Saul Anuzis and I have spoken and will continue to
meet. We’re going to work as a team.”
[It looks like Chucky swallowed the red pill. He is still a committed
McCainiac though.]
”It is something one half of the population has long suspected—and the
other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men. In
fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average
woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day—13,000 more than the average
man. Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to
chit-chat—and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new
book suggests. The book—written by a female psychiatrist—says that
inherent differences between the male and female brain explain why women
are naturally more talkative than men. In The Female Mind, Dr Luan
Brizendine says women devote more brain cells to talking than men. And,
if that wasn’t enough, the simple act of talking triggers a flood of
brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin
addicts when they get a high.“—Fiona Macrae
McCain Embarrassed!! Loses State Committeeman Race!
McCain Embarrassed!! Loses State Committeeman Race!
Thursday 30 November 2006
How embarrassing is this? A U.S. Senator, John McCain, for some crazy
reason, decided to run for State Committeeman in Arizona.
So, the Senator puts his name on the ballot, loses. Then claims he
really didn’t intend to run? Who is naive enough to believe that? Why
would a U.S. Senator, running for President of the United States run for
State Committeeman, in his own local district AND LOSE—THIS HAS TO BE
EMBARRASSING. Those that know him best didn’t feel he could serve them
as a Committeeman? Yet he wants to be President of the United States?
...until john Conyers and a host of swarming socialist Democrats wrest
the gavels from current committee chairmen and assume total command. The
Republicans will get a real lesson in power politics and in how a
majority party is supposed to behave. Not like the pussy-wimp
Republicans whose motto was "We jest wanna get along witchu!" When
Democrats are in command, they get along with no one but those of their
own caucus who toe the line. Here is a ticket to view the start of the
Democrat circus as they kick off the proceedings...
Feel free to reproduce this and invite your friends to witness an
impeachment done the way it is supposed to be done, full of vitriol for
Bush. He managed to piss-off just about everyone including members of
the conservative base of his own party and conservative Reagan Democrats.
Here is some John McCain news from his home state and his home
legislative district. A McCain supporter failed to become the district
party chairman of McCain's district 11 precinct. Read on...
Symington loses vote in precinct hostile to McCain
Robbie Sherwood and Amanda J. Crawford
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 30, 2006 12:00 AM
It was a small-time election, but it exposed a widening rift inside the
Arizona Republican Party that has bitterly divided moderates and social
conservatives and threatens to embarrass U.S. Sen. John McCain in his
expected run for president.
In his first-ever political defeat, former Gov. Fife Symington
lost his bid Tuesday to become Republican chairman of McCain's home
legislative district in north-central Phoenix. Symington was not
considered conservative enough to defeat District 11 incumbent Rob
Haney, a retired IBM manager who took over the organization two years
ago and has been outspoken in his criticism of McCain. [ed: emphasis
is mine]
Symington, who recently moved to the district, ran because he supports
McCain, and he said Haney's divisiveness helped lead to the loss of GOP
House candidate Don Hesselbrock to Democrat Mark DeSimone last month,
the first time a Democrat has won a legislative seat in that area since
the Nixon administration.
"This factionalism has hurt GOP candidates, and it cost (Hesselbrock)
his seat," Symington said. "A district chair should bring Republicans
together, not make war on one of your important national officeholders
and a potential president. This does not bode well for the district in
terms of a Republican future, in my view."
Haney called his re-election a referendum on McCain that shows
opposition to his expected presidential bid among grass-roots
Republicans in Arizona.
"We understand that the mass media kind of idolizes the guy, but we
don't," Haney said.
The district chairmen, who choose the state party leader, are essential
to the leadership and direction of the state Republican Party. There is
one chairman for each of Arizona's 30 legislative districts.
Last year, Haney engineered passage of a resolution censuring McCain in
both District 11 and the Maricopa County Republican Party. He succeeded
even though the chiefs of staff for McCain and Sen. Jon Kyl lobbied
against it. Haney opposes a number of positions supported by McCain,
among them the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law that limits
contributions to candidates close to the election. Haney says that
limits First Amendment rights. He also was concerned about McCain's
support of limits on selling guns at gun shows.
"He (McCain) came at us with every big gun he had to take us out of his
district," Haney said. "Their plan was to get rid of us because we would
object to his presidency."
Symington's conservative credentials had never been questioned until he
took on Haney, a party activist who has tirelessly recruited like-minded
precinct committee members in District 11 who support his no-compromise
view of the Republican platform. That platform includes strict
opposition to abortion and gay marriage.
Although Symington shares those views, he and his slate of defeated
district leadership candidates do not share Haney's intense disapproval
of McCain. Symington lost 215-166 in a vote of precinct committee
members.
Symington said District 11 Republicans should be trying to come together
to reclaim ground lost in the last election, not picking fights over
ideological differences.
"The vitriol is very high against McCain, which is just nuts," Symington
said. "The general public understands, or needs to understand, that just
because that kind of noise is coming out of District 11, it doesn't
indicate a lack of support for McCain. That viewpoint is prevailing in
that small bubble, but McCain is enormously popular."
Haney also noted, with some satisfaction, that McCain himself ran as a
state committeeman Tuesday and lost. But McCain spokesman Paul Hickman
said the senator, who did not attend, did not seriously seek a spot as a
committeeman at the next state party convention. McCain submitted his
name but will soon move from the precinct. "He didn't campaign for it
and didn't expect to win," Hickman said.
Hickman said McCain had not commented on Tuesday's results but
acknowledged that "Fife is his good friend."
"I can't speak for John, but given the two choices, you had a former
dynamic and effective governor of the state who I don't think anybody
could out-conservative . . . running against the old crowd who were
unable to keep a seat in a district with a 17-point GOP advantage,"
Hickman said.
[The vote indicates that enough Republicans in his district recognize
that McCain is a pandering fool for illegal aliens and is a loose cannon
rolling about the halls of congress. You just never know when he will
fire off another one, joining his friends on the left side of the aisle
for another quality comity session. It is high time to start weeding out
unstabile legislators.]
After he completes his
two terms in the Senate, Republican plans to return home to Tenn.
Bartholomew
Sullivan / Scripps Howard News Service
WASHINGTON
-- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee will not seek the
presidency in 2008, he announced Wednesday.
"In the Bible, God tells us for everything
there is a season, and for me, for now, this season of being an elected
official has come to a close," the Tennessee senator said in a statement
released Wednesday. "I do not intend to run for president in 2008."
Frist was a popular figure when he came
to Washington after 20 years as a transplant surgeon. Stories of how
he rushed to treat a gunman who shot two Capitol police officers in
1998, later tended to victims in a South Florida car accident and
regularly treated heart patients in the Sudan, raised his stature.
I'll believe it when 2008 rolls around and RINO Frist's name is
not in the mix along with McCain and the other rebel senate RINOs.
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Go watch there if it gets slow here.
[Here is the obituary from the Associated Press. It was well written
and I am quoting it verbatim in tribute to President Ford. Jerry was my
congressman when I was in the navy, 1968 to 1972. Jerry was a US navy
vet of WWII and a member of the American Legion Furniture City Post 258,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. note:I would post a permalink to the source of
this story, but yahoo links to news stories are worthless in 24 hours or
less.]
