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Democrats claim Gen. David

Dems started bashing the report before...

...he revealed it. The Dems have commited themselves to the defeat of this war. they do not take it seriously AT ALL. We have Billary who thinks she knows more than anyone about GWOT. We have Obama who calls for troop withdrawal by the end of 08, and then we have Edwards who doesn't even take terrorism seriously with his 'bumper sticker' comment. None of those fools can possibly get elected.... I HOPE

The American Revolution Continued

...either that or they're

...either that or they're just showing their patriotism by siding with our enemies...

Don't you know, TM, that the

Don't you know, TM, that the way to be a REAL patriot is to criticize your country? Incessantly?

A patriot

...this doesn't sound much like a Democrat to me:

"one who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests"

http://www.m-w.com/d...

I love this (my) country.

Maybe I am being the typical young, naive person here, but I don't see Billary getting elected. I think rudy will get the nod, and he will be a supreme leader. Sorry Mitt, You were my guy, but after hearing you do the dance about Iran and nukes the last two debates, I can't vote for you. Besides, you brough this SOCIALIST healthcare to my state that everyone now hates.

As for Hillary: Isn't it amazing that the smartest women in the United States can't remember where the Rose Law firm billing records were, where the illegal ChiCom donors went, how the 1,000 FBI files got into the White House, and didn't know about Monica is qualified to be the President. The woman can remember Moveon talking points though, can't she?

The American Revolution Continued

And how could one of the

And how could one of the worlds smartest women have been hoodwinked by Chimperor McBushitlerburton?

 

Yes! Have some.

abuse of power

I respect police officers and I very thankful we have them to protect us at a time of crises, but this is a blatant abuse of power. The officer has since been suspended. 

Field Day For the Media...

Apparently the Chief of Police is blasting the media coverage: http://www.myfoxstl....

Congrats to Newsbusted! Made most viewed list @ #64

I just checked and it's up to 8,500 views. We can still do better people. Go watch it on youtube and subscribe! We complain how liberal youtube and everything else is, do something about it by going there to watch it. Also subscribe and make it a favorite.

 

Viera & testy comebacks!

Seems everyone beginning to return the favor to Meredith Viera on the TODAY show.  The lawyer this morning who told her, wait a minute, let me answer your question, and I answered your question and many other lines.  Seems people are beginning to take the Tom Delay & Condi approach to these nitwits now!!  ABOUT TIME!!!

Repost

220 years ago two great men and the two future presidents already briefed the American Congress on this issue ...(LINK)

"In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the "Dey of Algiers" ambassador to Britain.

The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress' vote to appease.

During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

In a later meeting with the American Congress, the two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.""

Spot The Criminal.

Matt, thanks for the link.

Matt, thanks for the link. Jefferson indeed was a vissionary and only through war will we succeed! This history reading is not in our school-children's books and we wonder what kind of kids we're raising. 

Read Hussien Obama's real bio too...this guy is a complete fraud! 

Harry's Response ? ?

Can someone on MSM interview Harry Reid and ask him to explain himself ? 

 I read Harry’s Democratic Response, and it really didn’t make much sense.  I was at a loss to understand just where he was headed with his lack of logic. As Ann Coulter said Today, if the Dems are not Traitors, then that just leaves “Stupid” and I think harry and company have arrived at “Stupid”.  

Maybe his constituents in Las Vegas can explain Harry Reid, they elected him, although I just think the Dice were rolled on the Nevada Election and came up “Crazy Eights”…but now Reid seems to have dwindled down to just 2 Crazy Eights willing to stand behind him while he talks in a confusing and dazed manner about “Nothing has changed in Iraq”. 

 I give it another month, and Harry Reid will be standing on the Podium by himself, even the most Liberal Congressman will stop standing behind him, or be willing to follow one of Harry’s dissertations.   

This congress needs some turnover, and I think Harry is at the head of the Class.

What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ?   David Foote  GoE

Has anyone ever asked .

ANY demolib the question - What do you  think would happen to Iraq if we were to pull all of our troops out now, as proposed by paloonie and running reid? Now and in the following year?

Open message/letter/question to the cowardly media lurkers - if, to PROVE that you are NOT biased, why hasn't this question been asked? Could it be that it would show the political bias of those who have NO plan, or that you have no guts to ask the qeustion? We'll never know, 'cause you won't ask the question.

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

And we KNOW who he was with the facts

See this page - telling quote "In all, some 300,000 people are being detained in re-eucation camps which are in no way similar to the show camps set up for the benefit of visiting dignitaries an foreign reporters. (TheWashington Post story of February 15 was based on a visit to such a show camp.) " emphasis mine.

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

New

I found this early this morning: Election 08 Debate

JDW

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Open bare thread...

Whats up with thte lack of posts today?

The American Revolution Continued

Plenty of posts over at Huff

Plenty of posts over at Huff and Kos. Join the discussion there---IF YOU DARE!

"if you dare"

oooh, I'm shaking in my boots.

Problem with those sites is they pull the trigger to quickly on posters who don't agree with them.  Here, you leftys can disagree as much as you want, so long as you keep it reasonably civil.

 

I'll Pass

Do you condone the vicious, cretinesque remarks both sites carried regarding Tony Snow's colon cancer?

Anyone want to take a bet

Anyone want to take a bet that General Petraeus can't wait to get back to a more sane country........Iraq.

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Clear -

he ended his "discussion" with - ' . .can't wait to get home (meaning Iraq)'

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

And now, today's Quickie

And now, today's Quickie Shrub Report®:

Happy 193rd anniversary of the British defeat at Baltimore... and of the Star Spangled Banner!

Today's Global Warming Update: in 1992, the highest ever was recorded in Libya (139.9 degrees). 1922?

Today's Steelers Update

And, finally, a UN Update.

Several nutters from Code

Several nutters from Code Pink, sans pink, interrupted a Heritage Foundation presentation a few minutes ago. Reading from prepared BS they blabbed on uninterrupted. The most frustrating thing for me was that there was no reaction from the audience and little from the dias or the hosts. Eventually 3 people were summoned to escort the protesters off the stage and out of the room with a lot of coddling.
Sure, beating them with sticks would not have been appropriate(TV cameras) but surely the passive reaction from the audience and particpants was sickening. The folks on the dias would not even look at the invaders. They were a couple of old broads for Christ's sake. What were they waiting for? What would those PhD wussies do if they where taken over by raging men in their 20's? Curl up under the table?
Imagine a different scenareo where the invaders were hostile and intent on doing harm. Be it in a classroom, on a bus or elsewhere, when something out of the ordinary developes, action is called for, not PC passivity. This is a way different world now post 9/11 and if you don't take action you might not live to regret it.

An interesting take on the

An interesting take on the Clintons'

Latest Fundraising Scandal
 

from Bob Tyrell, who has followed their shenanigans for years...

 

Did anyone else notice that

Did anyone else notice that on 9/11, Google had no mention of it or Patriot Day, but today they are celebrating (anti-Israel/anti-Semitic) Roald Dahl's birthday.

"There are millions of people in Iraq who have sacrificed in the hope that the United States will finish its work here. We should never forget that." -- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, Commander U.S. III Corps

I want to know, simple and plain...

...what happened to Leon?  I have been in and out the last 4 weeks and missed his "outing".

Curious to know what finally did him in.

v

Leon kind stunk up the

Leon kind stunk up the place and now he's gone, but now there's rotten-ham.  sniff sniff.  Could it be Leon?  Let'e wait and see if he "simple and plain"'s it!

Leon is gone? Another

Leon is gone?

Another troll down. :-)

 

. . . and no matter how horrific the terrorist attack, it's conducted by losers. Winners don't need to hijack airplanes. Winners have an Air Force. --P.J. O'Rourke

Facts .

. have a way of ridding trolls  - their minds explode! and the good thing about that is - don't need many facts, their minds are small, and the mush is flammable.

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

Trolls - just following the mantra of their leader...

 

...Yeah, logic, reason, facts play less of a role now in the way we make decisions in America. – Al Gore

 

v

See, in my line of work you

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. ... --George W. Bush

blaster... The last 3

blaster...

The last 3 words of that means.... to wear down the dis-honest propoganda coming from the leftist media.

Get it???? 

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Just keep telling yourself

Just keep telling yourself that, Cloudy...

blaster... What I wrote

blaster...

What I wrote is the truth. If you can't handle that, you are free to go back to your dailykos buddies. 

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"Amnesty means that you've

"Amnesty means that you've got to
pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that."
--George W. Bush, on the immigration reform bill

Yeah, you're president is a real genius!

"Yeah, you're president is

"Yeah, you're president is a real genius!"

Oh, the irony!

You're = contraction of 'you are'

Your = second person possessive

"There are millions of people in Iraq who have sacrificed in the hope that the United States will finish its work here. We should never forget that." -- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, Commander U.S. III Corps

Spelling for Liberals

I wonder how he spells potatoe...?

We need a list of Blasterisms - kinda like Bushims...

...lotta idiots out there...

blasterisms...simple and

blasterisms...simple and plain

v

"you're" president too

if you are a legal citizen of this country he is "you're" president too.  As was Clinton.  But wait, if you like President Bush, wait 'til you get President Thompson!

v

Blarsen, you can change your

Blarsen, you can change your handle all you want... I still own you.

Excellent, Pesky. This is

Excellent, Pesky.

This is going to be great...maybe even epic. 

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

 

You probably don't even own

You probably don't even own your own home, let alone whoever it is you're talking about.

Actually...

There's a newbie lurking called "RottenHam". Leon under a new handle?

highly

highly coincidental...

and was leon actually hater...?

Truth

I think not (Leon/Hater).

But it appears we have a couple of new and nasty ones here....what it is with these people?

Alas, I'm a bit tired to engage in troll-busting today. 

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

 

Blonde, we will have to get used to it.

Blonde, we will have to get used to it.  As NewsBusters gets more and more media attention, the "others" will appear like moths to the light.

v

vr

I know, it's just so bloody tiresome.

They come, they argue with the same old blather, they thrash, they throw out a bunch of strawmen, ad hominems, misdirects...get beat to a pulp, get gross & disgusting, and eventually get banned.

All the while moaning they get no respect here.  Seriously, what did they expect?  Children.

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

 

Leon RottenHam?  

Leon RottenHam?   Probably not.  RottenHam seems quite "up on" GW.  Not one of Leon's strong suits.  Look for Leon to reappear in a more "simple and plain" way.

v

HURRICANE HUMBERTO

Some of you may be aware that Hurricane Humberto went from a tropical depression to a hurricane within 18 hours. I wonder what the global warming alarmist are going to say. This ought to show anyone about how those forecasting hurricanes don't have a clue about the track or it's intensity until it hits land. Therefore how can anyone tell me that in 50 years the earth is going to be 3 degrees hotter.  

 

A bonafided and certified member of the beer guzzling, NASCAR watching middle class.

I have a question for you

I have a question for you ol' timers out there.  What was the best troll bash every recorded on these hallowed blogs?  Please provide links to the post so we can all go and look.  Following the Rottenham bashing this afternoon has whetted my curiosity.

Additionally, I threw out (like pearls before swine) the top three troll arguments that I have observed.  Are there any more that we can look for in the future?  How about giving them shorthand names so when they are seen we can better appreciate them?

I'd vote for the simple -

TROLL - voiced by Blonde - was easy for them to understand.

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

No, No. I mean names for the

No, No. I mean names for the arguments.  "Troll" cannot be improved on.

I remember the Republican

I remember the Republican hating troll "rainlille" getting thrased and outed here.

She claimed to simultaneously "support the troops" and despise all those who support President Bush!

She didn't stop to think that a large majority of troops greatly respect their Commander in Chief!

Which in typical liberalese means: "I support, yet at the same time, despise you." go figure....

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

MoveOn NYT

TH: Giuliani demands MoveOn’s NYT ad rate

JDW

CFR: Chung, Riady, Hsia, Trie, Huang, Hsu, Paw... Who's looking?

 

Earl

AP: Oil closes above $80 for first time

JDW

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BRECK BOY

I understand from news reports that the Breck Boy has bought 2 minutes on MSNBC to rebut what the prez sez. How many of you are going to watch it? This may turn out to be as bad as the Marlins-Nationals game in Miami yesterday when know one came.  

 

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Ratings

Why not select FOX? Which will provide higher ratings?

JDW

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Fox would be better

if I actually wanted to hear what he has to say. For some reason, my remote control just skips over messnbc.

Chai

"Our people have shed more blood for the liberty and freedom of other peoples...than all the other countries put together. And I don't feel any need to apologize for the United States of America" - Fred Thompson

FYI, Olbermann beat

FYI, Olbermann beat O'Reilly in last week's ratings.

You idiot, Bill was on

You idiot, Bill was on vacation that week! 

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His radio show is about to

His radio show is about to be cancelled.

Good to know Olberman can

Good to know Olberman can outview a "Best of show."  I hate Best ofs....

What is funny is that he usually DOES NOT!!!!!!

His radio show is about to be cancelled.

His radio show is about to be cancelled.

Not surprised. From what I hear, it's not very good radio.

Meanwhile, his TV show continues to do very well.

 

. . . and no matter how horrific the terrorist attack, it's conducted by losers. Winners don't need to hijack airplanes. Winners have an Air Force. --P.J. O'Rourke

O'Reiily's Radio Show

Was dropped by one station. How does that make it "about to be cancelled"?

By the way, the station that dropped his show is in a Democrat city.

Then please provide all the

Then please provide all the daily ratings for that week.  

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Something tells me it will

Something tells me it will be a long wait . . .

 

. . . and no matter how horrific the terrorist attack, it's conducted by losers. Winners don't need to hijack airplanes. Winners have an Air Force. --P.J. O'Rourke

Free -- good call. Even

Free -- good call.

Even with guest hosts I believe the O'Reilly Factor routinely pulls 4x the numbers of Olberjerk.

Check out my latest YouTube...but only if you support the troops and their mission: Better Men Than Me/The Battle For Fallujah

I'll help Lazer, er, Blazer,

I'll help Lazer, er, Blazer, out. Here are the rankings for the past 12 days going back to Aug 27. It was at this point I grew weary of seeing the same trend:
DATE BOR KEEFY
8/27/2007 1885 776
8/28/2007 1572 787
8/29/2007 1641 974
8/30/2007 1429 847
8/31/2007 1509 669
9/4/2007 2384 814
9/5/2007 2374 869
9/6/2007 2232 904
9/7/2007 1885 856
9/10/2007 2308 876
9/11/2007 2181 856
9/12/2007 2470 939 (number is thousands)

Below are the rankings for July in the coveted 25-54 age group. Notice how BoR is #1, while Keefy is a close 20th, tied with te hard-news-delivering Nancy Grace.
Net____ Program________________________ Viewers
FOX___ THE OREILLY FACTOR________________ 375
FOX___ HANNITY & COLMES__________________ 362
FOX___ ON THE RECORD W/GRETA_____________ 351
FOX___ FOX AND FRIENDS___________________ 318
FOX___ THE OREILLY FACTOR (RPT)__________ 303
FOX___ THE FOX REPORT W/S.SMITH__________ 292
FOX___ AMERICAS NEWSROOM_________________ 279
FOX___ SPECIAL REPORTW/BRIT HUME_________ 263
CNN___ LARRY KING LIVE___________________ 252
FOX___ LIVE DESK W/M.MACCALLUM___________ 235
FOX___ FOX NEWS LIVE_____________________ 224
FOX___ FOX FRIENDS FIRST_______________ 223
MSNBC_ MSNBC INVESTIGATES (RPT)__________ 215
FOX___ STUDIO B W/S.SMITH________________ 209
MSNBC_ MSNBC REPORTS (RPT)_______________ 207
CNN___ ANDERSON COOPER 360_______________ 205
FOX___ THE BIG STORY W/J GIBSON__________ 204
CNN___ LOU DOBBS TONIGHT_________________ 203
FOX___ YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO__________ 198
MSNBC_ COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN_________ 185
HLN___ NANCY GRACE_______________________ 185
MSNBC_ MSNBC INVESTIGATES________________ 173
CNN___ PAULA ZAHN NOW____________________ 163
CNN___ SITUATION ROOM____________________ 160
HLN___ SHOWBIZ TONIGHT___________________ 153
MSNBC_ MSNBC LIVE W/ DAN ABRAMS__________ 147
CNN___ CNN NEWSROOM______________________ 136
CNN___ CNNI YOUR WORLD TODAY_____________ 131
CNN___ AMERICAN MORNING__________________ 128
MSNBC_ HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS_________ 125
CNBC__ SQUAWK ON THE STREET 10A__________ 115
CNBC__ SQUAWK ON THE STREET 930A_________ 111
HLN___ GLENN BECK________________________ 107
CNBC__ SQUAWK ON THE STREET 1030_________ 105
CNBC__ MORNING CALL______________________ 96
HLN___ ROBIN & COMPANY___________________ 96
CNBC__ CLOSING BELL______________________ 95
CNBC__ STREET SIGNS______________________ 89
CNBC__ SQUAWK ON THE STREET 9A___________ 87
CNBC__ POWER LUNCH_______________________ 85
CNBC__ MILLIONAIRE INSIDE________________ 82
MSNBC_ TUCKER____________________________ 80
HLN___ CNN HEADLINE NEWS_________________ 79
MSNBC_ MSNBC LIVE________________________ 73
HLN___ PRIME NEWS W/ ERICA HILL__________ 73
CNBC__ KUDLOW & COMPANY__________________ 72
CNBC__ HEADS UP POKER TOURNAMENT_________ 71
HLN___ LARRY KING LIVE___________________ 67
CNBC__ BIG IDEA W/ DONNY DEUTSCH_________ 64
CNBC__ AMERICAN GREED____________________ 61
CNBC__ SQUAWK BOX 8:30A__________________ 54
CNBC__ SQUAWK BOX 8A_____________________ 53
CNBC__ ON THE MONEY______________________ 51
CNBC__ MAD MONEY_________________________ 50
CNBC__ FAST MONEY________________________ 50
CNBC__ MAD MONEY (RPT)___________________ 46
CNBC__ SQUAWK BOX 7:30A__________________ 44
CNBC__ SQUAWK BOX 7A_____________________ 36
CNBC__ BUSINESS NATION___________________ 26
CNBC__ SQUAWK BOX 630A___________________ 24
CNBC__ SQUAWK BOX 6A_____________________ 23

I wonder if Blazer has anything else to add, or has he been sufficiently spanked for the day? You gotta love Media Bistro!

Thx for ruining the editing features, NewsbusterS

Breck Boy has bought 2

Breck Boy has bought 2 minutes...

Are you talking about Mitt Romney?

rick -- two minutes on

rick -- two minutes on MSNBC costs the same as ten seconds on Fox.

And one second on ABC.

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Hard to find

AP: The federal deficit is running sharply lower than last year: Down 9.8% from the same period a year ago

JDW

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Damn that Bush economy.

Damn that Bush economy.

Need help with posting signature

Can anyone tell me how to fix my signature line so that the "mpson" stops getting cut off? It didn't do it when I first changed to this one. I did a code cleanup last time, and I click on submit every time, but the next time I post I have to add the letters again. Is it too long since I added my nickname to automatically appear?

Chai

"Our people have shed more blood for the liberty and freedom of other peoples...than all the other countries put together. And I don't feel any need to apologize for the United States of America" - Fred Tho

Yep. It's too

Yep. It's too long.

"There are millions of people in Iraq who have sacrificed in the hope that the United States will finish its work here. We should never forget that." -- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, Commander U.S. III Corps

Thanks, Dr. Love

I guess I'll have to force myself to type 4 more characters if I want to actually 'sign' a post ;o)

Chai

"Our people have shed more blood for the liberty and freedom of other peoples...than all the other countries put together. And I don't feel any need to apologize for the United States of America" - Fred Thompson

NB Support

I'm not sure what we can do, but this story drove me crazy today.

A soldier got arrested for aiding strangers in a domestic dispute?

That's ridiculous.  Thankfully, the town folk are behind him, but we should try to keep this story in the news.

It really goes to show you what tremendous human beings we have protecting us every day.  I love to hear stories about the troops like this.  Three cheers for Matthew Nicholson!

It would be criminal if this guy gets sent to jail!!

Link

Unsealed

NYS: Archived Clinton records may go public soon

JDW

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Sandy Berger

Little Green Footballs has an item about Hillary using Sandy Berger as her national security advisor.  Another criminal about the house.

“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”  Ronald Reagan