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Well now

Due to global warming and GW Bush...

Rove?

Karl Rove may have been the architect behind it.

I just want to know that

I just want to know that Katie is home from Iraq, safe and sound, and ready to set us all straight on what is really happening over there. 

I think this is where I'm supposed to say, <sarc off>, or some such.. 

Yes, rimsky

Yes, rimsky, safe and sound and deciding at this very moment which style American flag pin to wear on her blouse tonight.

 

For the REAL scoop from Iraq

I have to recommend the NYPost article by Ralph Peters for today.  Fantastic. 

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

"Can Iraq become the model

"Can Iraq become the model democracy of which we dreamed?"

No, but then, the United States is not a model democracy. It isn't even a model republic. It never has been, and never will be, for the same reason Marxism never worked and never will work: humans. But, even a flawed democracy or flawed republic is better than a flawed marxist state.

Mr. Peters makes a lot of sense in his article. I am surprised to find it printed in a New York newspaper, although the Post is not the den of vipers the Times is.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan

no one is perfect - but we

no one is perfect - but we sure come close:)!

Protest Craig's conservative abandonment - vote Democrat in 08'

She's probably still

having a hissy fit that the President dared to go to Iraq and take the spotlight off her

 

Those who would expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it - Thomas Paine

Easy

The "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy".

Calendar adjustments

It got to be September so fast because the summer months are too short.  So here's what I propose:

Take the 31st of January and add it to April and take the 30th of January and add it to June. 

This will take two days off of Winter and add them to spring and summer!

: )

Hey it works for

Hey it works for Chavez

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

And now, today's Quickie

And now, today's Quickie Shrub Report®:

According to Quinn this morning, the reason Edwards got the endorsement of the United Steelworkers is because they went to Hillary and told them they would not endorse her if she picked Obama as a running mate. Racism: alive and well among the Left, in Ohio, too.

Evil Joos throw their children in front of innocent Palestinian missiles.

"Temporary workers" involved in fatal traffic accident. Temporary worker = illegal immigrant. Are there ever accidents involving 14 people crammed into a van that do NOT involve illegals?

Ve have vays to make you visit ze doctor

The Danes make a terror bust

A Duke Lacrosse update

 

Edwards health plan

I think "poor" John is actually looking out for his attorney buddies. If patients have MORE contact with doctors, this will provide more opportunities for John's brand of litigation.

 

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

I was just reading some

I was just reading some more panic about the Thompson campaign.  I think it's hillarious that all these pundits will talk on and on about how the voters want change... demand change... will vote for someone who brings change... etc., then when someone comes along and actually changes the way business is done, the pundits freak!  They shout "he can't win unless he does what everyone else is doing!!!"

I hope Fred wins just to show these dweebs how little they know about Americans.

Bruz... I would like to

Bruz...

I would like to add, the pundits are clueless. I followed Fred's campaign when he ran in TN, and I thought he did an amazing job. No, he did not run exactly like everyone else runs. So does this mean he can't win? No it doesn't, obviously.

For those of you that follow the pundits advice at every turn are doomed to lose. If you beleive in the same things that Fred does, you will stick with him and support him. As he has already stated..."I am the only candidate who is a true conservtive".

BTW... I already my 'Fred '08' sticker on my autos. 

Get Email updates from Fred http://socialnet.imwithfred.com/email_alert_july_26.html

I was watching an interview

I was watching an interview between Fred and Sean Hannity last night, and Hannity asked Fred if he would like to take some time to offer an opinion on Hillary.  He said that now wasn't the time for that, and he declined to make any comments about her.  It was a nice change from the typical pol who would say "Sean, I'm not going to engage in name calling or attacks.  It's beneath me.  If my opponent wants to lower herself and attack me, like she did when she said that I'm a blah, blah, blah" and engage in negatives while supposedly decrying their use.

No need for attacks -

all that needs to be done is point out what she has said or NOT done. Just surprise them with facts, and use her own words to combat their attacks - they can't deal in logic or facts.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

It's September 4th, has

It's September 4th, has Congress passed any of the 12 appropriation bills due September 30th for the new fiscal year starting October 1?????   Tick, Tick, Tick, 26 days and counting to Sept 30th.   Well Pelosi and Reid, are your lackys still investigating the Bush Administration or are you actually doing your JOB doing the business of government???? I hope Bush vetos all your continuing resolutions.  It would make my day.

dscott's postulate:  The degree to which someone exaggerates or deceives is inversely proportional to the merit of the advocated position.

Well I smell another

Well I smell another congresional show down between the president and congress.

This time, "Why did summer go by so quick, and how much did Karl Rove really now."

Let's see...

What did I do to celebrate Labor day?

I single-handedly destroyed an entire eco-system.  Uprooted a virgin forest!  (I cleaned out my gutters - fun, until the damn bees got all pissy about it. )

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

Why not hire a temporary worker, you ask

Well, I thought about it but then realized that they were all up the road in McClean protesting the fact that SOME actually want to make criminal activity illegal.  What are we thinking?!  Yesterday was a day for illegals to protest the idea that we consider illegals to be ...well, illegal. 

So I did my own damn gutters. 

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

Temporary Congress

Can we hire a temporary Congress to get the work done that AMERICAN Congress men and women won't do!!! 

Very good idea.

Brilliant. I'd LOVE to see someone doing some actual work in the Congress!

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

Pay Scale?

We will pay them under the table, right?

If we hired some illegals to

If we hired some illegals to do the work of Congress, all the spending bills would be done, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid reform would be done, and the capitol grounds would look awesome by now.

Petition

Let's start a petition and get 'er done!!  Or better yet, let's get the ACLU to go to court to have illegals in Congress since it interfers with their rights by not being able to hold office!! 

Iraq

The Michigan upset in college football and the rookie pitching a no-hitter in only his second game --- Just goes to show you that nothing is for sure and many things are possible. When will the "liberal" MSM and our "liberal" politicians learn this lesson?

Hey Dimos---"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" -  Shakesphere

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

More good intentions from

More good intentions from our friends at the UN:  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/09/unicef_the_killer.html How many more miles does one need to pave on the road to Hell before it becomes evident that projects run by a corrupt organization will yield corrupt results???  How many more childen will be aided to die by this organization like the UN did with the Nestle' company's powdered baby formula fiasco???  You would think after encouraging mother's to mix baby formula with locally tainted water the first time around it would make someone cautious???  Is this some form of population control, killing them with good intentions?

I wonder if the P&G PUR system advocated by the Clinton Foundation will filter out the arsenic or bacteria???

dscott's postulate:  The degree to which someone exaggerates or deceives is inversely proportional to the merit of the advocated position.

I read it all dscott and then some

Word is of the 70 million Bangladeshi's- they think 40 million have cases of arsenic poisoning from the hundreds of thousands of UN/UNICEF sanctioned hand pump wells that replaced the Bangladeshi "dirty surface water" drinking .... the local people called the undergorund well water "the devil's brew" or something like that - while the UNICEF and UN NGO's laughed at their "superstitions"...

 I see also THE UN/UNICEF COVERED UP THE ARSENIC POISONING FOR DECADES ON END....

 Now, they have their 40 million poisoned Bangladeshis....out of 70 million....

 HOLY CRAPIOLI....

 Yes, this should be a MUCH BIGGER story than the Iraq war.... but it never will be ...

 the big UN powers will NEVER allow this out to be an MSM "negligent genocide" story...

 The people of Bangladesh can ONLY HOPE - that somehow GWB's signature can be connected to this- and that somehow his Texan Governorship years can even be blamed for it....

 Then of course there would be immediate worldwide hatred and response... with e neverending monthly revisiting of the disaster....

 GWB of course is only guilty for attempting to poison everyone in the USA with "slick wille last day on the doorstep way out" signature of water standards CLINTON FOR 8 YEARS NEVER IMPLEMENTED- BUT DECIDED A SICK *** PASS THE BUCK DOWN THE ROAD AND BLAME SOMEONE ELSE IN A POLITICAL BACKSTAB MOVE was the way to "protect the lives of US citizens.

 Man that Clinton is a sick ****, and he knows just how sick and filled with lies the msm and their demolibidiot lying crew is too, and he USED them to make himself a hero and damage his political opponents in a gigantic UNFAIR LIE.

 The press played along like braindead crybaby lying zombies... and they whipped the USA up into a gigantic froth...with their MASSIVE PARTISAN COVER-UP...

 just as DIRTY as slick willie himself. LIARS

 

6 to go . .

Past Headlines -  
8 hurricanes now predicted for 2007
11:03 AM CDT on Friday, August 3, 2007
Associated Press

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Hurricane researcher William Gray lowered his 2007 forecast slightly Friday, calling for 15 named storms, with eight becoming hurricanes and four becoming intense.

On May 31, at the outset of hurricane season, Gray had called for 17 named storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.

"We've lowered our forecast from our May predictions because of slightly less favorable conditions in the tropical Atlantic," said Philip Klotzbach, a member of Gray's team at Colorado State University.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

I wish he would also

I wish he would also explain why the first two named storms of this year, Andrea and Barry, which only attained tropical storm status for a very brief period of time, and showed little in the way of organization, managed to qualify as tropical storms?  In the past we've had several major storms that had brief wind gusts that exceeded hurricane strength, but lacked organization, that were never named, but this year we're naming them.  Also, the list of storm names has always been for storms over the Atlantic Ocean.  Now we're using these names for storms (previously known as typhoons) occuring over the Pacific.

 It seems to me like the weather guessers and doom&gloomers are worried that since El Nino, which produced all the 2004/2005 hurricanes, has turned, and we're now back to a typical storm pattern, that they need to run the count up as high as possible in order to maintain a shred of credibility.

Seems to me Bruzilla

the press and the weatHer global warming kookballs tell the truth so little, that their big coverup lie by now naming Pacific storms is highly likely and probably correct, and that they will in all likelihood get away with it nearly 100% without a peep, and the msm will pretend to be blind and play along, and those in the newsrooms that do notice it will be silenced and not only that - be totally willing to be silenced and compliant no matter what, and probalby censor themselves and others, and help in the collusion and coverup- and even perpetrate it and force it upon everyone (not that they'ed have to force at all really - a simple "let us worry about that" comment/direction is sufficient I'm sure).

 Yes, I'm that twisted - I totally believe it already. Not a shred of doubt about it. In fact it's probably worse than I have just imagined, and I just don't know all the angles they will employ with gleeful abandon "for the saving of the world" with THEIR LIES.

What WMD's?

How and why did they bring this into the US?  Where US officials notified?  I thought this stuff was all destroyed according to the Duelfer commission?  Should we notify Pelosi and Reid?  Maybe we should, after all it is from Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN3134949120070831

 Screw diversity, celebrate competancy

VACATION

See our legislative branch took an over 1 month vacation to fuss about the Iraqis taking a month long vacation break!!

Some members of Congress

Some members of Congress have also been upset with the Iraqi government for not allowing all parties to have a say in how government is run.  Our Republicans might have offered a different view if the Democrats hadn't been so busy trying to keep them from having a voice in our government.

What can you do but shake your head and laugh

at these jackasses guys ? Doing exactly to a tee and worse for years what they whine the Iraq government is doing.

 It's is a SURE SIGN the Iraq government IS EXACTLY LIKE THEM - meaning of course "demolib idiot democracy" HAS  A MASSIVE AND CERTAIN FOOTHOLD IN IRAQ -

AND THAT ALL IS WELL AND IT'S TOTAL VICTORY ALREADY....

 DEMS - YOU'RE DOWN TO WHINING THAT THE IRAQ GOVERNMENT ACTS JUST EXACTLY LIKE YOU- YOU HAVE TAUGHT THEM WELL - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED !

 Take that and SHOVE IT you know where, twist it, and really , really get into the severe pain of it all- your TWINS in IRAQ ruling the place in the form of GOVERNMENT ARE DOING EXACTLY WHAT YOU DO ALL THE TIME.

 LET IT SINK IN JACKASSES! ENJOY THE BITTER IRONY OF YOUR JOB WELL DONE !!!

Its Bush's fault.....he

Its Bush's fault.....he watched that Adam Sandler movie, "Click".
And hit the fast forward button on the remote. Laura should of
took the remote away from him......MEN.....I love them!!

Mommy

Just read over on

Just read over on Foxnews.com where Whoopi Goldberg has made her debut on The View...she defended Vick much to Joy Behar's horror. It sure didn't take Whoopi long to make her "Views" known.

msh, I'm sure Ms.

msh,

I'm sure Ms. Goldberg will provide much material for NewsBusters in the coming months...  

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Chris Norman, No

Chris Norman,

No doubt....it should be fun.

These people remind me of

These people remind me of bratty little kids who, when they see the reaction from the adults, try even harder to get attention by being more bratty. Not that I'm calling for ignoring them - just for harsher discipline... :) 

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Whoppi

She showed how people with agendas will bend truth or show ignorance. Twice she said Vick's home was in the deep south, (deep, deep south the second time) to excuse his behavior. Newport News is not Selma, just another high crime, drug infested city no different than Newark, New Jersey. The culture Vick was brought up in no doubt influenced his dog fighting ways. If many people in your neighborhood walk around with killer dogs can you really be surprised there is a pit bull fight in the alley? Whoppi was right about culture, but don't blame the deep south which includes the black crescent, home of a majority black population, cotton and churches at every crossroad.

Whoopie Cushion did more than defend Vick

She took swipes at Red States and the South.   She said it wasn't completely his fault because there was a culture in the South that accepted dog fighting. Of course, if it's a Southern thing, that makes me wonder why we also have it here in the Northeast....

I'm sure we'll see more of this foolish kind of thing from Ms. Goldberg, who apparently "knows what she knows." 

Dog Fighting, Cock Fighting, Bull Fighting

Before they banned cock fighting in New Mexico this year, there were those who defended it as part of the "Latino culture" - so I guess that means we should also bring back bull fighting. Amazing, that there are those who will sacrifice morals and standards for a misplaced "loyalty" to their "race"... 

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Not so sure

When I was a kid growing up "Cock fighting" meant something else!!

What media bias???

Seems a Broward County FL sheriff resigns, and there isn't a mention of his political party connection - Broward County, sounds familiar, what party does he belong to?

 

(Political: Democratic Party leader. Elected to the Broward County Commission in 1976 and the Florida Senate in 1978, serving 18 years. The late Gov. Lawton Chiles appointed him sheriff in January 1998 and he twice won re-election.)

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

FastEd, "Jenne, a

FastEd,

"Jenne, a Democrat who has been Broward County's sheriff since January 1998 and one of its most influential politicians, sent an e-mail to agency employees Tuesday announcing his retirement."

It did take them to the sixth paragraph, but they did get it in.

Without recognizing the ordinances of Heaven, it is impossible to be a superior man. - Confucious

Fast Ed & JoeBob

Woo Hoo, great jumping up and down from liberal Broward County.  I never watch the local news....so thank you two!

Ken Jenne is the consumate dem pol.  A retread pol around these parts forever.  Good riddance to bad rubbish.

The Broward Co. Sheriff's (elected position) have a history of being flamboyant and insane.  Google Nick Navarro (of COPS fame).

Oh happy day!

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Hardball

I was changing channels and caught sight of the ChrisMatthewsBubbleHead, honest, I was not watching him for pleasure. He had the audacity to question President Bush's sense of decency in remarking on the President's casual banter on his plans on leaving office. His remarks about replenishing the "ol coffers" must have really got to Matthews in a way that the millions that President Clinton has received from Arab oilmen and shady billionaires did not. My God, how much can Matthews and his ilk hate the man, and why?

"She took swipes at Red

"She took swipes at Red States and the South. She said it wasn't
completely his fault because there was a culture in the South that
accepted dog fighting."

There is, just like there is a culture that accepts bank robbing, drug dealing, arson, and more. We call 'em criminals around these parts.

 


Sen.Craig proves Sen.Arlen Specter is an idiot tonight.

Sen. Larry 'Benny-boy' Craig's self-centered action tonight is beyond insane.  This self-serving A$$HOLE should immediately be flushed down the nearest toilet.