And now, today's Shrub Report:

Just on Drudge: Sandy Berger is even more of a traitorous scumbag than we thought… Culture of Corruption, indeed.

Your Global Warming update.

The Titanic begins it's long, slow descent to the bottom of the sea… (curses, Newsbusters, for beating me to this!)

Can the Democrats afford to have two tokens run in 2008?

And in a completely unrelated story…

How the Hufftards reacted to the new stem-cell news…

Scooby-Doo creator dies. Scheduled to deliver eulogies are Grape Ape, Hong Kong Fooey, and Penelope Pitstop.

Your "Damn that Bush Economy" update… This seemingly semi-good news as covered by USA Today.

How do you spell Rastafarian? L-O-S-E-R.

This stunning non-news story just might jeopardize Bush's run in 2008.

Your Iraq update…

Whoops! Will the Democrats break ANOTHER promise? Anyone keeping score out there? (curses, Newsbusters, for beating me to this, too!)

Gaaar!

The Obama circle-jerk continues…

Today in Liberalism History: on this date in 1951, the United Nations HQ opens in New York City.

Been waiting all day to link this and ask all NB's to help with the two Border Guards who are going to prison for shooting a criminal.

Please, take one minute out of your busy day and help these two guys. Sign the petition (if nothing else) and send letters to the White House.

"Too bad Ignorance isn't painful to the Ignorant"

Well, I see the msm is at it hard and furious to undermine the Presidents speech tomoorw night, all the leftists are terrified, the terrorists and enemies world-wide are laughing their rears off, annd we have had, and still do, and will tomorrow night after the speech.

 The dem's in congress with Murtha in the Chair are slowly undoing what the conservatives have done to protect this nation, let alone making us go through the UN on some of the passage, such as boarding a ship that we think has nuclear proliferation on it, that is how we got Libya and Khan ect.. and undoing some of the progress John Bolton made...oh and the good ol' 9-11 commission recommendations they are using as a guise for some of it...it would take too long to explain, you just have to listen to it.

We better pray that this does not get through the House and Senate and it is not veto proof.

Btw...the dem's have already undone a two-third majority rule to raise taxes put in by Newt's bills, just a simple majority now.... they use the ruse pay as you go for that little scheme...

Don't you just love the leftist/communist party? Be very wary people in big cities, I would be. We are for sure going to be in more danger than ever if any of this passes.

The republicans had better learn to fight and fight hard, or we are all doomed. speaking softly and carrying no stick has got them nowhere, they had better learn to speak out loudly, and use that big stick...the enemy within does.

"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under."  Ronald Reagan

Holy crap! this has to be seen! Some of the funniest DUmmies yet!

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

Anyone hear about Suzanne Somers' comment in response to her Malibu home burning down? "My nature is to look at the glass half full. I don't have a son or daughter in Iraq. I haven't lost a loved one. We will rebuild, and I truly believe we will learn something great from this experience."

She could have very easily left out the second sentence and she would've had a completely rational comment. There was no need for her to bring in the "illegal war" to put the loss of her home into perspective (which I am sure was well insured).

"The Donald" has said, "Any publicity is good publicity."

The Hollywierd elite will do anything to try to remind us of their perceived "illegal war" even when the subject has nothing to do with it. Does she have any living sons or daughters BTW? --just checked Wikipedia (cringe!)-- The only child she has that I know of (if still living) is 41 years old. So not only bringing up the war in her situation is completely irrelevant, it is downright absurd. Maybe...maybe IF there was a draft in effect and he was 17-25 years old, I could see her saying something like that.

I mean C'MON!!!

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Gun Safety Tip #8: No matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey. (www.imao.us)

Anti-war Seattle newspaper sides with US Army in Watada case-will "Truthout.org" mention it?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2003515393_watadaed09.html

This is why I still believe that we did not win the cold war in 1991.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0a141ef0-9fec-11db-9059-0000779e2340.html

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/379d7c46-9efb-11db-9e2e-0000779e2340.html

The interesting part is they were feuding with one of Russia's closest allies, Belarus, not Europe.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,
peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of
soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

? 4 the porno link guy.

Why do you post them in the "da vinci" thread, why not a more recent thread?

In the time you've done this don't you think the "some linkz here" subj line has gotten old?

Why not just post them on Craigslist?  Or kos or DU same difference. The kos du poster is probably more your target audience.

What's become of the "Monroe Doctrine"???? Anybody????

Iran's Ahmadinejah to Visit Latin America

Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....

This crap has just got to stop.....UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

Imagine sending your kids off to school, but when they get to the bus they are told they can't get on because they speak English.

That's right, English.

It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing.

Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick them up again. He even said he wouldn't take them home that afternoon.

Armstrong left work early Tuesday, forced to pick up her kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School.

Her twin girls, 10, and her son, 8, were kicked off their regular school bus. They were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only.

"I was furious. I was at work and I was just mad." Armstrong said. "I felt like we were being discriminated because we speak English. Just because they speak English, they can't ride the school bus. I mean, this is America, right?"

Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....

The actions of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in their first 100 hours in power have demonstrated the Democrat Party's inability as a political party to take leadership. One of the hallmarks of leadership is the ability to listen to and incorporate diverse ideas which have merit to achieve a goal. The second hallmark of leadership is the recognition that what is popular is so because it was easily spun that way by the omission of the facts. A real leader believes the means must be justified by the ends it proclaims to achieve, that's called consistency and integrity. It should go without saying that leadership is the ability to get people to follow you, however, there is a difference between leadership and salesmanship. A salesman doesn't have to take responsibility of the consequences as a leader does. A salesman's goal is to sell, and telling you want you want to hear is a standard tactic in sales. A leader takes responsibility for the outcome and tells you what you don’t want to hear.

Contrast this with late President Eisenhower's views on leadership:
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because they want to do it.
- Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish, push it and it will go nowhere at all.
- Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.

What the Democrat Party has demonstrated time and again is their ability to sell anything. We see this salesmanship highlighted by the back peddling of several issues they campaigned upon by which the Democrat Party came to power. Chief among those campaign issues is Iraq. The Democrat Party capitalized on the dissatisfaction over the progress in Iraq, their goal to achieve power was to sell the notion that they had a better idea to resolve the problem. However, within a week of the election, Howard Dean, the DNC leader and architect of the campaign, was waffling on the question of a troop pull out from Iraq. How could Howard Dean waffle unless he didn't believe in what he campaigned upon? Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi now tell the President they won't go along with a troop surge, it appears the Democrats are quite happy with the status quo, which is contrary to their campaign pledge. Which brings us to the inevitable conclusion, Howard Dean's campaign was about salesmanship, not leadership. The Democrat Party had no intension of delivering what they promised, they sold America to buy their vote. Just as the salesman over promised to get that sale to collect the money, the Democrats over promised to get your vote. Even Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore have come to the realization that they were sold and most conservatives recognize these two aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Which brings us to the actions of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid excluding the Republican Party from their constitutional duty to share in governance of the country, after all Democracy isn’t a winner take all contest. What they did was to prevent any amendments on bills under consideration before congress. This is was despite their campaign pledge for bipartisan government. Their refusal to allow a debate of ideas is not bipartisan governance and is a failure of leadership. The refusal to explain your reasoning’s or omit facts is an act of salesmanship, not leadership. No matter how popular the idea they have spun, the failure of the means not being justified by the ends is salesmanship, not leadership. The Democrat Party has proclaimed it is in leadership, however, their means of executing power is salesmanship. Leadership engenders trust, so far by the track record, the Democrat Party has demonstrated a total failure in this regard by all the back pedaling.

President Bush must demonstrate his leadership skills and veto each and every bill from the so-called one hundred hour Democrat agenda. Once he does this, it will force the so-called leaders (in reality salesmen) of the Democrat Party to act as leaders by honoring their campaign pledge of bipartisan governance. Ironically, it will be a Republican President who must teach a Democrat Party what leadership really means. Leadership is not criticizing from the sidelines, leadership is participating at the head of the line. Leadership is not about popularity, it is about responsibility, something Democrats still have to learn. Nor is leadership about forcing ideas down the throats of an unwilling population, that's called tyranny, something else the Democrats still need to learn about. In the end, it is irrelevant what you thought the product was that you bought, the real issue is that you bought it and the salesman has your money.

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius