1 Tequila 2 Tequila 3 Tequila Senate Floor

Take it easy Teddy, have a drink or two or a few dozen. Its not like soon to be Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito drove drunk off a bridge resulting in the drowning death of a young woman and then failed his moral and legal duty to report the accident for nine hours.

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Courtesy of ExposeTheLeft.Com

It's Illegal, but we're not against it....

Rich Lowry hits the nail on the head with this one. He makes a lot of good points including the fact that the Dems are calling for impeachment of the president for an act that may or may not be illegal in their minds, but that they support anyway? Can't really figure that one out, but even perplexing, to me anyway, is the angle of the FISA warrants.
According to Kerry/Dean and company the FISA court is basically a rubber stamp, they don't reject any warrant requests anyway, so why not get the warrants? My question then would be, why GET the warrants? Of course it's not that simple, but that's the angle the dems want to take. I do believe they are painting themselves into a corner on national security....... again

Bloody Sunday

Thirty four years ago today British soldiers opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilians in Derry, Ireland, killing 14 and wounding a number of others. The good people of Doire were protesting the policy of internment. Not a single soldier was ever brought to justice. Brits Out!!!

"Now the music's gone but they carry on For their spirit's been bruised, never broken They will not forget but their hearts are set on tomorrow and peace once again For what's done is done and what's won is won and what's lost is lost and gone forever I can only pray for a bright, brand new day in the town I loved so well" Phil Coulter

Vote for Pedro or Cindy?

CARACAS, Venezuela Jan 29, 2006 — Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who set up camp near President Bush's Texas ranch last summer, said Saturday she is considering running against Sen. Dianne Feinstein to protest what she called the California lawmaker's support for the war in Iraq.

This is great, i can't wait to see how Feinstein defends herself. What will she do? Will she attack Cindy Sheehan? Isn't Cindy Sheehan above reproach? This is going to be a lot of fun.

Dont Look A Gift Camel In The Mouth

I dont know, for some reason I dont trust this. Would it be rude to re-gift it to Iraq?

The Nazis Had Flair Too

A time killer for all you out there in Auroraland

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Stolen from Footprint

Multiple Choice

Who said it?

"I don't support the troops … I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest (sic) positions the pacifists have ever taken." He continued, "I'm not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War, but we shouldn't be celebrating people for doing something we don't think was a good idea."

A. Cindy Sheehan

B. Pat Buchanan

C. Joel Stein

It's hard to tell the difference between them, so i don't blame you if you can't figure it out.

Check the link in the title to get the whole story.

Yea Democracy!!!

Well! Finally those capitalistic pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh comrades? Eh?
Austin, we won
Oh, groovy, smashing.

The March To Freedom tour continues. Its good to see our efforts are paying off and Democracy is sweeping the Middle East. Congratulations to the Palestinian people on this historic day, now they will see the light that holding free elections is the key to peace. Whats that? Hamas and Fatah supporters immediately clashed and violence ensued involving thousands of "voters". Nevermind.

POST GAME WRAP-UP
Hamas you just won the SuperBowl MVP and captured 76 out of 132 Parliament seats, what are you going to do now???

Hamas: Were going to Disney World, and then of course set out on the utter and complete destruction of Israel. Praise Alaa Abdelnaby

Schedule of Events for Iran's Conference on the Holocaust

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That's what i'm saying too.....

"The war in Iraq is less about geopolitics than about the clash of ideologies,
culture and religious beliefs. Because of the long reach of the Islamist
challenge, the outcome in Iraq will have an even deeper significance than that
in Vietnam. If a Taliban-type government or a fundamentalist radical state were
to emerge in Baghdad or any part of Iraq, shock waves would ripple through the
Islamic world. Radical forces in Islamic countries or Islamic minorities in
non-Islamic countries would be emboldened in their attacks on existing
governments. The safety and internal stability of all societies within reach of
militant Islam would be imperiled." Henry Kissinger

Please check out the entire article in the title link.

That's what I'm saying

Except i can't say it too good. So here's what i think i mean.

"But now, America faces a crossroads. Since the death of the Soviet Union, we areunquestionably the world's only superpower, the world's remaining empire.Acquiring an empire requires a different mindset than maintaining and expandingone. Empires either decline or they grow. If America is to survive and flourish,Americans must realize that empire isn't a choice: It's a duty"


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Pick The Animal

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Isolationism Today

See Link in the Title:

I was just reading another blog...yes, I can read. Anyway, they were bashing Bush for getting us involved in matters that in their opinion don't concern the U.S.A. and they were implying that we are "spread out & thin" in a world that is constantly growing. It got me thinking that perhaps some of our liberal friends have a point but then I realized that most of them do not understand what Isolationism is all about...Do they know that history doesn't paint a pretty picture of what it led to; what happened to our economy (i.e. the not so great depression could happen again)... During the period of Isolationism in America, the main bullet point behind this Republican concept was an America that would reap the benefits without the obligation...meaning we'd still "be" and exist in the world as an entity but without any real responsibility to help out in times of crisis. We would say, "sorry" whenever there was a natural disaster. If there was a country attacked, again we'd say, "not our problem but good luck". And for being proactive and keeping us away from this type of thinking, the Dems' have painted our president as some sort of inbred war mongerer? Do liberals and mid-road republicans realize that if they got their wish and we took up an approach of isolationism, that we would not get involved if Israel was attacked by Iran or Europe by a foreign power? Also, any real idea to isolate today would have to include a closed door policy (which is contrary to the original standards of the theory) to ensure that we can remain impregnable against terrorist attacks (remaining true to the more important standard in the Isolationist theory)...this means the words on the Statue of Liberty (which most libs think are part of the constitution, i.e. bring us your tired, your poor, your starving, your huddled masses...) would become obsolete. We could no longer allow immigration to continue per the status quo. In a world of Isolationism, we would rely on a contingent force of powerful countries to rule and dictate the law. We would never make allies as we would have a responsibility to them...Today this would mean the U.N. and if you feel like I do, then you know they aren't up to the task. Look at how they have handled previous situations where they were the primary troops sent in to stabilize a region. An example would be in Rwanda, where they made a bad situation worse, and the French, that's right the French had to be called in to handle the situation. In theory, a world that could run this way would be great for the U.S.A. as we are more self sufficient than most any country. But facts & history show that the world needs us more than we need them...I'm grateful that we have had presidents who did for the world what only they could do. As a citizen of the world, I am glad that George Bush (the supposed idiot, thief, liar,etc.,etc,) isn't going the cowards route and hiding behind his great nation the way a large minority of his constituents feel he should...

Look For The Union Zzzzzz

What would happen to most of us if we were caught sleeping on the job like this numbskull. Of course we would be fired, but this guy makes eighty k, contributes not to his pension, and has the audacity to ask for a fifteen dollar an hour raise, all the while holding a city hostage with the threat of another strike. At my local station, they recently changed it where the employee is no longer a subway clerk, but a courtesy agent...in english what that means is they no longer can sell me a Metrocard, but will gladly give me directions to my destination. As a test I asked them how to get to Willet's Point, they had no idea. Nice work guys.

My Future Ex-Wife Of The Week

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All The Shares Thats Fit To Short

Does this make sense?

I went to Autin Texas this past weekend. My friend who i was traveling with (seamoors) had to remove his shoes and belt to get through the metal detector.... No Warrant

They ran a test on my bag, some cotton swab or something that detects gun powder or some such nonsense....... No Warrant

People go through and randomly have their bags opened and emptied and searched...... No Warrant

So ordinary American citizens are subject to warrantles physical searches at the airport, and we have the ACLU complaining that the NSA is listening to the phone conversations of terror suspects without warrants? Oh and they're also complaining about the use of equiptment to detect radiation outside of mosques.

So I'm going with my president on this one, to me it doesn't make sense that this is even an issue.

Here's something else though......... Does this make sense?

This president is committed to our national security, we need to remove our shoes and belts at the airport etc. etc. Yet an estimated 3 million people per year cross our southern border illegally. The minute man project has shown that we can stop the flow of illegals by just having a presence there yet this president won't do anything about it, and his homeland security cheif says he hopes to have the border situation under control IN FIVE YEARS! What???? Does this make sense?

Last Chance Rock

I used to rope swing into the Niagra River, in fact the Fly's older brother knows it as well. Its about a twenty to thirty foot drop at its highest. The water is swift and the water is dirty (Love Canal run-off) but more importantly the water is dangerous. There are whirlpools at the turn and The Falls around the bend. You get to shore no less than twenty yards from the point you hit the drink. About fifty yards there is LAST CHANCE ROCK, if you aint to shore by then, then if the swirlies dont get ya then the drop on the rocks will, and there will be nothing to remember ya by but the photos that the Japanese tourists took on their Nikkons.
Reason I bring this up is because like most nights I was out for drinks and I found something incredibly peculiar in the bathroom. Braille. Now I cant read braille and have no intention of learning it, but my thinking is that there aint no reason for a braille sign to be within an arms length of my one eye. If someone is reading it...he hit LAST CHANCE ROCK, and next thing you know I knocked out a blind guy. And Im the bad guy? Cant we install some RFID's on these people that alerts them to upcoming dangers. Same principle as to why the hell do they have braille signs on the pillars on the NYC subway platforms and not the turnstyles. As far as he knew he was getting on the A Train

Id Like To Buy The World A Democracy

I hate to interrupt your "March To Freedom" Mr President, but the Iraqi constitution has been written, approved, and voted on. The purple fingered revolution is over and the Iraqi people have elected their leaders. It was very nice of you to liberate them, but whoever said that they deserved democracy anyways. As George Keenan once said:

"To have have real self government, a people must understand what that means, want it, and be willing to sacrifice for it"

We've done our part, now its up to them. Now Im not advocating we leave Iraq, on the contrary I think we need to bunker down. I just don't want to hear of another dead American fighting for Iraqi freedom, can we get back to the plan at hand of catching Osama and wiping out all the terrorists. We need to be smarter, get dirtier, go back to the guerilla ways of our very own Revolution. I feel we need more men on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the war on terror isn't going to be won by some armchair general watching the fighting via satellite at the Pentagon using conventional methods. This calls for our men on the ground kicking in doors and throwing grenades into every cave or as Malone said in the Untouchables:

You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?

This wasn't and isn't about the Iraqi people, this was about catching the terrorists that attacked us and ridding the world of a tyrannical dictator taunting the world with his WMD's (whether or not we found them is irrelevant, he said he had 'em, said we couldn't inspect 'em, and he wouldn't get rid of 'em...by the way nice bluff saddam) The Iraqi peoples fate is up to them, the fate of the terrorists is up to our military. Kill 'em all, let Allah sort 'em out.

Jack Bauer For President

I pay $100 a month for cable, or roughly fifty bucks a channel...The History Channel and Discovery. Sports aside, dont watch much network television. Actually prior to last week there was only one show that I would watch with any semi-regularity, Fox's (is that a network?) The Family Guy (what can I say it makes me Laugh and Cry). That was of course until the return of 24. Thats right folks Jack is back. If you havent seen it, run dont walk to your cathode ray boob tube tonight. If youve seen it then Im sure your as hooked as I, if not youre probaly a commie sympathizer. Anyways, PJB has an interesting take on 24 today. Donkey commands you to read his article and watch the show.

Hillary Meet Bill

The way she talks its almost like she doesnt even know who Bill Clinton is, or the failed policies and corruption of his Presidency.

Who is more insane Hillary Clinton or the people that support her? Ask me a year ago and I would have conceded that Hillbilly Clinton was the likely democratic nominee for President in '08. I think thats unlikely now, and if by chance she is, she has made herself absolutely unelectable. I dont pay any mind to the pundits saying she is alienating her faithful left by trying to outflank Bush on the right. Generally speaking liberals these days arent very liberal thinking at all and will vote for the democratic nominee regardless. It is the middle of the road moderates that I think she has lost with her constant waffling flip flopping and obvious political maneuvering, too reminiscent of her disgraced husband who left office in shame and scandal (before Bush foolishly re-legitimized him) In other words I think the lady has lost it, flipped her bird, crazy as a loon. Shes much too smart to be this stupid. She supported the Iraq War but disapproves of the handling of it (meaning no UN involvement). Now shes trying to go right of Bush saying hes going it alone with Iran.

"I dont believe you face threats like Iran or North Korea by outsourcing it and standing on the sidelines"

It makes no sense. She then calls for stricter sanctions. Well Hillary Im not sure if youre aware but the USA has imposed a strict embargo on Iran for some time now. Oh whats that you say, we should get China and Russia involved as well, but you said we should stop outsourcing. My head is spinning.

Would she have supported the Iraq war if she wasnt Senator from NY, or come out strong against Iran if she wasnt wooing the Jewish vote (gotta make up for kissing Arafats wife and advocating a Palestinian land grab). There is no doubt in my mind if she was senator from Illinois she would not. In the fairness of full disclosure I will admit my dislike for this woman as much as I chide liberals for their blind hatred of Bush. However I no longer fear her run for President, I welcome it, for its apparent shes no Geena Davis.

For Love Of Game And Country

Or just good pr???

Theres an old saying "If you have to ask the price, you cant afford it" Well I have a new one "If you dont know what country you should represent in the WBC, than you dont deserve to play for any" If you dont know who Im talking about, then you can stop reading now, because this is a baseball post and Im pissed as it is without having to deal with commie baseball haters in the comments section.

Heres the deal. Alex Rodriguez (to be referred to as The Boss' Biatch) initially said he was going to play for the Dominican Republic, even as a United States citizen born and raised in NYC, NY (so nice they named it twice). I have a slight problem with that, but can understand if his decision was based purely on wanting to honor his parents and his Dominican lineage. However I dont think it was. Two days later he backs out (i.e. screws them) I think the powers that be made the decision for him, showing he lacks character and courage of conviction. Steinbrenner has made it known he does not approve of his players participating in offseason play, he's the boss, and being the Boss' biatch he acquiesced. So he comes up with some lame excuse that it would be a dishonor to both if he chose one over the other, and stated he was going to sit it out. No problem here, his skill are unarguable, but how can you root for a guy that is such a, well as Ron Burgundy would say a "san diego".

Heres where my problem really lies, it was looking like David Wright was slated to play 3rd for the good ol' U S of A. Now granted as a Mets fan Im biased, but no baseball fan can argue that this kid is the goods, he is what baseball is all about, David Wright is whats good about baseball. He shows up early, leaves late and goes balls to the wall on every play. When given the opportunity to play for America, Im sure they didnt get the question out before he was oiling up his glove, and now we have Fake-Rod, once again buckling to peer pressure and reluctantly agreeing to play ball. Obviously this probaly leaves D Wright off the roster and thats a damn shame that he was replaced not with albeit a slightly better player, but with a player that didnt want to play, didnt want to represent the United States of America, didnt go with his heart but with his agents advice.

And that is the reason with every incident of a spoiled self centered millionaire playing a childs game pouting and poor behavior I become less of a fan every day. And with that I would like to announce that I will be playing center field for Ireland. Whats that? Im not an Irish citizen and they dont have a team, then I have no choice but to root for the USA, but I will be watching them at a pub in Hells Kitchen.

Baaaad Sheep

Are people such sheep that they would follow OBL's book reco. Do they hate America and Pres Bush that much? Looks like it, within a day of OBL's speech where he tells American citizens to read an anti-bush, anti-american book the sales are going thru the roof and jumping from #209,000 to #43 on Amazon's sales ranking. I hope the federalis are paying attention, and monitor these people. I cant think of a better reason to wiretap someone than joining Osama's book club.

2:30 pm: now at #35

3:30 pm: #33

4:30 pm: #30

8:30 pm: #26 (this is the last update because its now clear that the liberal America haters are taking this to #1 with a terrorist bullet....Im sickened)

Who the hell are these people? There is nothing wrong with trying to understand how the "other" side thinks, but when Osama starts moving markets and influencing consumer spending it makes you wonder whose side these people are on. Did he put a "sell" reco on tech stocks too?

Real Justice for Nixzmary Brown's Killer

Cesar Rodriguez, the stepfather of 7 year old Nixzmary Brown(no relation) brutally murdered her a week ago wednesday over eating a yogurt-yes a yogurt-not lobster tail-not prime rib-a goddamn yogurt. Whilst the child's mother stood by and let this sick #$@ tie her up to a chair and beat her to a pulp and then submerge her in the bathtub and kill her with blunt force trauma.


I am not a proponent of Capital punishment but this is the final straw. Defenseless children abused or murdered by anybody should have some kind of STRONG deterrent. I wholeheartedly believe the only remedy is to bring back the "Maiden" as my Scottish cousins called it also known as "The Guillotine".


I have to believe that the public beheading of this monster and his fellow abusing, raping and murdering peers will deter the future sick, weak, can't face a man mofos out there.
This is just a vent of my anger, disgust and outrage. May Nixmary Brown R.I.P.--she is in a better place-away from this cruel cruel world.

Just Because We're nice guys

We're offering you a truce. You see we are winning and everything, but we feel bad for you so if you want, we can call this whole thing off. Yes of course you are the great satan, and i have repeatedly called for your destruction, but now i don't think you're so bad. So even though i'm on the cusp of destroying you, i'd like to extend the olive branch.

A few thoughts on the Osama truce offer (if it's legit)

1. He says they are winning, so why offer a truce?

2. He mentions the polls repeatedly, do you think maybe the enemy is watching CNN? Thanks Cindy Sheehan, you do so much for the cause. Just like John Kerry during vietnam these people are hanging by a thread but have hope because of people like you and John Murtha.

3. We keep getting these tapes from Al Jazeera TV, why don't we kidnap the top guy and torture him to tell us where he's getting this stuff? I mean aren't we torturing people anyway? I think i read that in Pravda on the Hudson. I mean, the NY Slimes.

4. How long before Murtha and company try to accept the truce (surrender) and declare this another vietnam? 1 hour? 1 week?

5. If we were to believe this guy, doesn't that mean we should be doing more domestic spying? He says the security measures aren't stopping anything, he has the assetts in place to attack again. So if you believe him and you want to surrender, that means we have these people here, we need to get rid of them.

6. Do you think it's odd that he's offering a truce right after the bombing and killing of his #3 guy and the #3 guys son in law?

7. I think we're getting close, I think if this is him, it's a desperate act of a desperate man. If there is any way we can step up the pressure on this guy, we should do it now!

Quote Of The Week

"I love you Gary" Ziggy

This only reconfirms what any eye patch wearing one legged pirate already knew, parrots are good peeps and are mans true best friend.

MOTW

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America Aint No Half Moon Cookie

Dont go there Hillary. Uh Oh no you didnt. Did she think she was on Ricki Lake? I always get a kick out of the fact that Bill Clinton is called the first black President of The United States (making Hillary the First Ho). But it makes sense, because the only people holding blacks down now are blacks, and ignorant racist comments like the dig from Hillary only perpetuates the cycle. Your telling me that after all the horrendous things that blacks have gone through, all the atrocities that have been committed against them in this country's history, all the sacrifices made by the great black leaders, and millions of personal struggles, advancements and achievements have led us to this....blacks are still on the plantation, and the government is trying to kill them through whole scale corruption and natural disasters???? Are you F-ing kidding me!

Does racism exist. Are some people bigots. Is there hatred among us?

Of course. But if your trying to sell me that there is systematic discrimination in this country I aint buying. This is the only country in the world that any amount of success you so desire can be achieved whatever your skin color, whatever your religion, your gender, whatever and whoever you are. Is it tougher to be black? How the F would I know. I aint black, you got me. However blacks dont know what its like to be me...White, Irish, Caucasoid or whatever label you wanna put on me. Neither of us know what its like to be Jewish, or Asian, or Arab, or Hispanic, or even {ugh} Canadian. We all got our cross to bear, and its hard enough without being at each others throats for such a silly reason. And therein lies my point, I know all types and I aint beef with nobody unless theyre a jackass. Thats that.

Our trusty leaders dont feel the same, they want us to be divided, in whatever way they can. Whether its Hillary's plantation comment, Pat Robertson attacking the gays, Every Lib calling every Conservative a Nazi McCartyistic Racist Bigot. They are flame thowers, and we provide the fuel by buying into the bullshit.

What have the Dems ever done to help blacks? Why such undevoted loyalty to a party that fails them in the very things destroying the black community. Education, Crime, Religious Morality, Ownership Opportunity. They need to divide us black/white/north/south/up/down/left/right whatever. Because the whole lot of em are charlatans and are only concerned with their own power and the perks it provides. Clinton aint helping, neither is Sharpton or J Jackson. We need a man like King, or Dagger John.

We are not the first generation of New Yorkers puzzled by what to do about the underclass. A hundred years ago and more, Manhattan's tens of thousands of Irish seemed a lost community, mired in poverty and ignorance, destroying themselves through drink, idleness, violence, criminality, and illegitimacy. What made the Irish such miscreants? Their neighbors werent sure: perhaps because they were an inferior race, many suggested; you could see it in the shape of their heads, writers and cartoonists often emphasized. In any event, they were surely incorrigible.

Hint: It wasnt the secularist Democratic party that helped the Irish get their shite together...read whole article

Cant we all get along. Um no we cant, and we dont have to. If you want some Garden of Eden type of Utopia then your a misquided idiot. We dont have to get along and run through the daisies holding hands and singing Joan Baez songs. We do need to tolerate and respect each other, and politicians throwing inflammatory words arounds to pander to whatever audience they may be in front of doesnt help. My advice to them is to buy a dictionary, it only costs a few bucks in paperback...theres more words in there than nazi, bigot, uncle tom, racist, facist, black and white.

EE-Aw!!!

Harpers Weekly picture compliments of Ol' Dirt McFly

Flock Of Chickenhawks

And I ran, I ran so far away, I couldnt get away

Now I want all you fine folks out there in Auroraland to start paying attention, real close attention (especially all you liberals) take notes if you have to because this is going to be an ongoing lesson. Of course Im talking about Iran. I want everyone to notice Europes and the worlds outrage at their nuclear defiance. Study in detail the strong wording that the UN is using in their effort to resolve this diplomatically. Respect and admire Israel's patience in dealing with a country that has called for their total destruction. Listen to the tough talk from your very own Democratic party. Does any of this ring familiar? It should. Replace the N with a Q, and what we are witnessing now is almost identical to Saddams Iraq just a few years back. Iran is going to have to dealt with (unless we have a Dem President), and you know what that means...dealt with by the only country in the world with a sack, thats right the good ole USA.

Now fast forward to a hypothetical but oh so real scenario. After we administer a whoop ass on Iran like Bob Backland throwing down the Boston Crab on the Iron Sheik, lets suppose we dont find any nuclear weapons in Tehran. Lets suppose that an insurgency erupts. Lets suppose that in a time of war, gasp, there are casualties. Will Europe still be with us? The UN? The Democrats? Or will they lose their will and balls yet again, and scapegoat the US for doing what they lack the nerve to do themselves. I want you to remember. Remember that the UN, the World (france doesnt count), and the Dems (b4 they voted against it) all called for the disarming of Iraq , and when the shiite hit the fan turned tail. Will they do it again. I hope not, yet fear so. Remember what they are all saying now about Iran, and dont let them forget when they once again flip flop.

Rules

No I don't, what do you mean?

Hillary at a MLK event this weekend........

Said Clinton,

“When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been
run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about..."

What?

What About The Oompa Loompas?

When did Willy Wonka become Mayor of N'Awlins?

"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans — the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans,"

And whatever happened to Dr King's dream of a...

..."day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing..."

MLK, More Than A Boulvevard

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

on a side note as an American with roots in Northern Ireland, I want to express extra thanks to Dr King for the inspiration he provided to my family and so many other Catholics in their struggle for civil rights during the 70's against British oppression.

M.O.T.W.

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Mr.Wright, Will You Marry Me in the Springtime?

Of course he won't, he's a man, not an A-Rod. And I wouldn't because I'm a man, not a Yankee fan. But I do love my third baseman and I predict an MVP season from the most talented, hard working third baseman in the majors. So what? You want to fight about it. Seriously though, as far as New York (and New Jersey) sports go, football season is over and not a minute too soon (except for Tiki Barber). My man Mr. Wright is already down in Port St. Lucie getting ready to be a World Champion. Yeah that's Wright (pun intended), he wants to be the best there is...A-Rod who? Alex isn't even sure if he is a Dominican or an American...don't even ask what he is in the bathroom as the old joke goes...Don't ask, don't tell. Is Derek Cheater working out with his team yet? Does he already know all of the rookies and older veterans who are trying to make the team? No. They are Yankees and they don't show up to Spring training in the middle of winter. Personally, I cannot wait another moment until the real season begins...To smell that fresh cut grass...To hear the Ump shout, "Let's Play Ball"...To look over at the Donkey sitting next to me in the stands and get that knowing nod and then yell, "Hey Beer Stud, how 'bout two cold ones over here".

Bring the Spring is my mantra for the rest of the not so cold yet winter. Sure, there's the NBA but that really only gets rolling when the bees start buzzing and the flowers are blooming. Like the first three quarters of any NBA game, you just don't need to watch or care to...I like NCAA B-ball and I will watch with quiet intensity to see if my Alma Mater's very own Keydren "Kee Kee" Clark can win a third straight scoring title...but nothing compares to our National game.

I am very aware that some people feel baseball is boring. As a sensitive person, I feel badly for these folks as ADD and other acute learning disabilities have robbed them of their abilities, faculties, and what have you...Patience and attention to detail keep them from understanding subtle nuances. Unless there is crashing noise, brightly uniformed endzone dancing, and Hank Williams Jr. crooning, they simply can't keep up...It's not their fault so go easy on them and please put on your caps lock as well as italicizing any and all responses to said individuals. You should not lose your patience, it shows little character. Besides who else will sort your glass recyclables if not for them.Back to the ballgame...

Mets fans everywhere should be happy because we have a team that will compete daily (not weekly like in some sports). Every day, they will go out on the field with a good chance to win. We aren't the only team that has improved though. Seasons come and go but this one promises to be very competitive. This is a boast that NFL'ers have long felt was their own territory. A competitive league is a league where every year a team has a chance to win it all. Last time I looked though the same football team has won three of the last four Super Bowl's and smart money has them doing it again this year. Baseball however has had a different team win the World Series every year for the last six years. Small market and big market teams have won it all so that crushes that argument...Some of the small market teams have really put themselves on the map this offseason like Pittsburgh and Kansas City while the larger market teams, notorious for being cheap, have spent some dough as in Jim's Arlington Rangers of Texas & the Toronto Blue Jays (albeit they only paid more to finish a better third place team in the AL Least). The usual suspects have thrown around the big dough and now wait for the battles to commence. The American Game. No socialist caps and no endzone dancing. Just good old fashioned baseball, same as it ever was and I can't wait.

With that said, I would like to fire an opening salvo at my NY counterparts in the baseball fraternity of fandom. I am not only a Mets fan but a Yankees hater. I'm not only a memeber. I'm the president. Monday 1/16/2006 I will post my top ten reasons why the Mets are better than the Yankees. Until then...Beat it. Unless, you are willing to open up your nearest window, stick your head outside and scream:

LETS GO METS ! LETS GO METS ! LETS GO METS !

M-E-T-S

METS, METS, METS

WHOOMP THERE IT IS !

Land War Of The Bands

So Im watching The 40 Year Old Virgin, which sucked in my opinion. Relied too heavily on sex, shock, and scandal but light on sex, smarts, and sarcasm. Anyways there was a mockery scene involving an 80's band poster, who's hit song also figured prominently in aforementioned movie. It brought me back to a recent conversation I had about which 80's band named after a continent sucked more (what can I say Im a mental patient). For the purpose of this debate we will include a band who had a hit named after a continent. And now ladies and gentlemen the contestants and their hit song...

1. Asia - Heat of The Moment
2. Toto - Africa
3. Europe - The Final Countdown

As you can see they all sucked, in fact they all sucked very very badly. You may be shocked to know that they all actually have a Greatest Hits album. But who sucked worse?

And no smartass, America doesnt count...those guys ruled!

MUST READ

Read Yon's recent post "Catch and Release"

Top Ten Reasons The Mets are Better than The Yankees...to Real Fans

Can I have a drum roll please...And the Top Ten Reason the Mets are Better than the Yankees Are:

10.) Our very own Nacho Cheese Sauce, because while the Yanks are just cheezy, we are the straw that stirs the sauce...and that's not 'cho cheese!







9.) Mr. Met isn't just a mascot. Seriously, he is just a normal Met fan with a grossly swollen dome. Sure, the Yanks have Freddie Sez with his stupid Yankee propagandist signs but as far as me and Mr.Met are concerned, Freddie sez, "A-rod likes it in the keister and so does Freddie".
Just a sidenote but the original Mets mascot was a donkey and that is still better than some obnoxious elderly man.



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8.) Colors. We are a combination of the Brooklyn Dodgers & the New York Giants. We carry on where the Duke, Jackie, The Say Hey Kid, Dem Bums, & the New York Baseball Giants left off...They hated the Yankees. They loved baseball and the greatest city in the world. They are us. White, Black, Gray, Orange & Blue. Our Colors. Our New York Baseball team. The Major League Baseball team. Period.









7.) "Ya Gotta believe" & "The Miracle Mets" are the lovable losers who win. The Yankees are the Evil Empire. Ya' know it's true so don't even argue with me Freddie.
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6.) Smoking. This probably won't last forever but for now you can smoke outside at Shea Stadium. You can smoke in the runways which are open air. For all the knocks on La Shea, it is not a claustrophobic place. On the ramps running inside the stadium, you can smoke your brains out...It is the final bastion of hope for smokers in a world full of second hand hating. At Yankee stadium, they have a picnic area that is completely outdoors. Can you smoke outside in this area? Of course not...Can you go outside, have a cigarette and come back in...? No pass out and return...Shea is a cigarette smokers paradise.

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5.) The 1986 beer guzzling, fist fighting, cursing, hard nosed, and most importantly World Series winning New York Metropolitans or the Scum Bunch as they called themselves. They are the standard and perhaps ESPN put them on the list of greatest teams at #6 (or something like that) but Mets fans know they were #1. They weren't your run of the mill don't laugh, cry, hug, fight, or be human for that matter Yankee team. They were a team, a family and they were the best I ever saw playing together on the diamond and off of it. Read Bats by Davey Johnson...they were as crazy as they were good.

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4.) Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod, or Mrs.Jeter...Whatever, you want to call him, I am just glad that he isn't on our team...Note: I felt this way about that evil inbred Clemens as well...Sorry Texans.














3.) Sausage and Pepper Sandwiches. I'm not exactly sure what food is popular at Yankee Stadium (Me thinks it's probably peanuts or some other form of nuts. Yankees & their fans like nuts in their mouths) and I've been there a million times. But I do know that if you go to La Shea, one has to pick up a Sausage & Pepper sandwich. They are Met-xcellent.









2.) Casey Stengel, Gil Hodges, Davey Johnson, Bobby V., And now Willie Randolph...Our managers tend to be characters. They either sound funny, act funny or say funny stuff...They don't ever look asleep on the bench like some managers (namely Joe Torre). They rant and rave like Davey, they win like Gil Hodges with less talent, some where disguises like Bobby & sometimes they make low budget commercials for national food chains like Willie Randolph...With that I have to say, "Yeah there's a lot of meat on my Sausage & Peppers Sandwich"...Yes, Willie there is a lot of meat on your sandwich. The manager represents the organization and the Mets are just more likeable in every way. Even Yankee fans can't stand George Steinbrenner.

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And the #1 reason the Mets are better than the Yankees: The Mets themselves
Probable 2006 NY World Champion Winning Mets Line-up:

Jose Reyes - Short Stop
Carlos Beltran - Center Field
Cliff Floyd - Left Field
Carlos Delgado - First Base
David "Mr.Met"Wright - Third Base
Lastings Milledge - Right Field
Paul LoDuca - Catcher
Bret Boone - Second Base
Pedro Martinez - Pitching

PS - I will not offend the haters out there by posting anymore about baseball until Spring Training starts but I just thought you should have this pertinent information.

Set My Donkeys Free

I hope Ann is right. The Dems have been giving us Donkeys a bad name for far to long.

EE-Aw!

The (power)Book of Jobs

Maybe I was wrong about Oprah's plan for world domination.

It is becoming clearer to me daily, that perhaps Steve did not take as kindly to Billy "The Kid.1" Gates thievery of AppleWorks to create Windows as he has let on. I now believe the failure of the original Macintosh led Mr Jobs into a downward spiral whose descent can only parallel Lucifer's (coincidentally(?) whose mother's name was Aurora) fall from heaven. A man with a crumbling empire is a dangerous entity, however let that man rebuild his empire to levels undreamed of before and he becomes a threat to the balance of the known Universe. Enter stage left the iPod, loosely translated using the Dead Sea Scrolls, as iKol, which when placed next to a circus mirror spells out lOki, the Norse God of Mischief.

"Some books list Sataere as a Germanic god of agriculture and suggest that the name is another name for Loki. Guerbers' Myths of the Norsemen is one of these books, stating:Loki was confounded with Saturn, who had also been shorn of his divine attributes, and both were considered the prototypes of Satan. The last day of the week, which was held sacred to Loki, was known in the Norse as Laugardag, or wash-day, but in English it was changed to Saturday, and was said to owe its name not to Saturn but to Sataere, the thief in ambush." © 1996, Nicole Cherry

Coincidence? Only Armageddon will tell. But I think there might be something to this. Who said the Anti-Christ had to be human, or even a living being for that matter. I may be putting my own well being at risk with my irrefutable conclusion, but it must be stated. The iPod is the Anti-Christ and using Steve Jobs as its hell houndish servant. The facts can not be denied, but I fear that it may be too late to stop.

1. Steve Jobs or shortened to Job as in the Book of Job chronicling the Satanic trials of Job. In the Bible, Job was able to resist the Devils temptations. I dare say Stephen born in "The Highlands" of Los Altos was not so lucky and his fall was long ago prophesied.

2. The before mentioned iPod = Loki = Satan reference

3. And the final proverbial nail in mankinds coffin is this. In Revelations --- Levi is among the tribes who are promised the Seal of God for 12,000 of their members. Any newb hack knows that the code 1 2 0 0 0 is binary for iPod

As you can see my research is beyond reproach, and the evidence as clear as the shiny new iPod video's 326 x 340 (= 666) pixel color display. So now stop walking around like a damn white wire eared zombie pull the plugs and wax out yo ears and save the world. Heck you might actually have to interact with another human being (egads), but isnt that a price man's eternal salvation is worth paying.

But before I let her off the hook so easily...wasnt Oprah a biblical name as well? Accidentally (or was it) misspelled on her birth certificate (to avoid detection perhaps?). Hmmm?

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Ill Be Back...In Traffic School

Being the frivolous Donkey that I am, I will be filing a class action lawsuit. It's time for the average guy to fight back. Listen I like his films, and from what I can tell from the other coast he's doing a decent job in Cali, but the celebrity star fuckin in this country has become boring, bothersome, and is leading society to a moral bankruptcy. The little guy continually gets a raw deal, and Im mad as hell and, well not much I can do about it, so Ill sue. As a legally licensed motorcyle operator I am bringing this lawsuit against the State of California, Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger, and James Cameron (for aiding and abetting the Terminators illegal hog activity), and every cop that ever wrote me a ticket. I have calculated the emotional trauma I have endured from Hollywood liberals, the movies Junior, and Kindergarten Cop, that damn Celine Deion song Cameron unleashed on the world from hell, and the endless sirens in my rearview mirror to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of..... one million dollars. Ill settle for a refund for T3, boy did that movie suck.

Tice Rhymes With Mice

"The mentality was we need to get these guys, and we're going to do whatever it takes to get them," said the cheese-eater

OK and the problem is????

And since when did we start calling rats, whistleblowers? Oh thats right, when its a Republican administration. This is beginning to start a very dangerous precedent for the safety and security of The United States of America. Ask yourself, if youve slaved for 20 years for your Country in a top security but thankless, nameless job and have been passed over time and time again for promotion, but you REALLY REALLY want to meet Katie Couric, what are your options? Hmm let me see. You could write a book or star in a movie, but that would require artistic skill, so how could you circumvent the talent part? I know I know, you could say your Country is the big bad wolf and your President is the boogeyman. The networks will be lining up at your door, the nytimes will reserve a spot on their bestsellers list, and cindy sheehan will keep a seat warm for you on the lucrative blood money speaking tour. You will be important, you will be a somebody, and gosh darnit people will like you.

...but at what cost?

No Smoking

I have been hearing all day on CNBC about Scotts (the lawn care company) . Apparently, they have a new policy in place that says if you smoke, you're fired. Not if you smoke on the job, but at all. Also i just heard that it includes spouses as well. Their rationale is health care costs. What they're saying is that the health care costs are too much and that smoking causes too many health problems.
I don't smoke, i don't understand why people smoke, but this seems crazy to me. If anything i would say maybe if you smoke you should have to pay more for your insurance than a non smoker. That seems reasonable to me but to say you and your spouse can't smoke or you're fired seems nuts.
Where could this go? What about drinking? How about Obesity? What if i don't wear my seatbelt? I have a feeling we're going to be hearing a lot more about this subject. Stay tuned...

Drinking Game

Now that I have all of The Aurora's Irish readers attention, let me explain the premise of our first official Aurora drinking game. The rules are simple, and all you need is your own personal monogrammed cell phone flask, your eyes, your ears, and of course your liver. Whenever you are reading the news, watching television or surfing the net and you hear or see the words Alito and abortion in the same sentence...you take a swig (for every 5 shots you can pour one out for your homies) Good luck have fun and as Stevie sang "Dont drive drunk"

Murtha/Moran Cowards

Another soldier tells off Murtha and Moran. At the town hall meeting where Murtha made his comments that became our last quote of the week, A former General by the name of Wagner stepped up and let them have it. Check it out at http://michellemalkin.com/

It's a video feed. Hey by the way, i didn't see this in the NY Slimes, I wonder why???

Quote of the week...

Which we only remember to do every 3 weeks or so. Anyway, here it is.

Appearing at a town meeting in Arlington, Virginia, with fellow Democratic Rep. James Moran, Murtha said,

"A year ago, I said we can't win this militarily, and I got all kinds of
criticism." Now, Murtha told the strongly antiwar audience, "I worry about a
slow withdrawal which makes it look like there's a victory when I think it
should be a redeployment as quickly as possible and let the Iraqis handle the
whole thing."

If I didn't already know that this man is a coward and a traitor, i would be shocked by this, sadly i'm not.

EE-Aw

back

Insane In The Brain

I'll hit dat bong and break ya off something soon

I got to get my props

Cops

Come and try to snatch my crops

These pigs wanna blow my house down

Head underground

To the next town

They get mad

When they come to raid my pad

And I'm out in the nine deuce Cad'

courtesy of Cypress Hill

Now this is a gross misuse of our Military. How bout we light this shit up and drop it in the middle of Baghdad, chill those camelbangers out. Theyll be too busy eating Doritos and playing video games to attack our troops.

If anyone from the 76th is reading this, how bout a little heads up, Im running low.

Alito is out of the mainstream

We can not allow this nominee to be confirmed! His positions are outrageous!

This nominee has expressed strong sympathy for the position that there is a constitutional right to prostitution as well as a constitutional right to polygamy.

He has attacked the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts as organizations that perpetuate stereotyped sex roles and he has proposed abolishing Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and replacing them with a single androgynous Parent’s Day.

He has called for an end to single-sex prisons on the theory that if male prisoners are going to return to a community in which men and women function as equal partners, prison is just the place for them to get prepared to deal with women.

He was the lead council for the ACLU for Gods sake........... can i say God?

Oops, my bad. I was reading Ginsburgs resume, never mind ummm forget i said anything. I'm so embarassed.

The C Word

My momma wears combats boots?
Oh yeah well yo Murtha doesnt

Thats right I'm saying it. Rep. John Murtha is a COWARD. Yes, he was a decorated war veteran, who served honorably for 37 years, for that I thank him. All that means is that he wasnt a coward when he was a young man. My grandfather used to drive a Cadillac, no disrepect to a great man, my grandfather, but in his last years he used a walker. Was he a Caddi driver at 95? No of course not. When I was 25 yrs old, I weighed 175 pounds...it doesnt mean that Im skinny today, the same applies to Murtha...he is no longer a hero. He is a COWARD. Needless to say, he is entitled to his opinion.

"Would you join (the military) today?," he was asked. "No," replied Murtha."And I think you're saying the average guy out there who's considering recruitment is justified in saying 'I don't want to serve'" "Exactly right," said Murtha
(media bias? nah. those arent the liberal leading question droids you are looking for...move along)

But...is he saying that America is no longer worth fighting for? Is he telling all the brave American soldiers that they were wrong to put on the uniform and take arms against our enemies to defend his and my right to be a horse's ass to bring the same freedom to others?

This whole thing stinks of cultural racist snobbery. How is it that wars that have been fought in the past to bring freedom to our white European friends were deemed great, and wars fought since then to bring the same freedoms we hand delivered to Europe to our darker skinned brothers and sisters in Southeast Asia and the Middle East are quagmires?

Or maybe hes just one of those old romantic coots, with his war stories about "back when I was your age wars were fought with pillows and marshmallow sticks and noone got hurt and all wars were righteous and just" or "how he used to walk 10 miles to school in the snow barefoot and backwards" Is he implying that when he served it was more admirable, honorable and heroic than our brave men and women today. Could he be so pompous. He must be to imply such a thing.

Maybe Im reading too much into this, or maybe Im right and the elitist lefties dont even realize their ivy tower arrogance. Maybe they do love their Country, and dont realize the harm they are doing to it with their hateful rhetoric, but it sure as heck doesnt seem that way.

Its possible to oppose this war and not try to undermine our chance for success, to not put our soldiers at further risk, to not alienate our allies, and to embolden our enemies. As President Bush said whether or not you agreed with him or this war, there are now only two options on the table..."to win or to lose" Would it kill the Democrats to take a page out of Patrick J Buchanan's playbook, who opposes this war, but is now giving the benefit of the doubt to our Commander in Chief to win it.

My parting words to Murtha are this, and I will use someone elses words in a hypotheical question this Country would ask him if it could speak...."What have you done for me lately?"

65 million dollar dunce cap

IF we told you that an organization gave away more than $65 million last year to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Amnesty International, AIDS Walk Washington and dozens of other such advocacy groups, you'd probably assume we were describing a liberal philanthropy. In fact, those expenditures have all turned up on the financial disclosure report of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union.
This was the beginning of an opinion piece in the Wall street Journal today. Read the story here. I found it quite disturbing. As i read further, it got worse. I won't say i was shocked because we know that the teachers unions are very liberal, and that they are the lap dog of the left, but some of the disclosures were very surprising. Not just the organizations that they donate to, but the fact that the NEA payroll is $58 million dollars, and they only have 600 employees. That's an average salary of $97,000 per employeee, the average teacher makes about $48,000. I think it will be interesting to see if any of these teachers decide to do anything about this. My guess is that it will remain this way for a long time. I think most teachers have it so good, that they won't rock the boat. We'll see.

I Am Just A Monkey Man, Or Not

Recently a post about Jim Thorpe resulted in a debate about intelligent design versus darwinism. Dont ask I have no idea either. Patrick J Buchanan addressed this same issue today, and rather eloquently made some outstanding points (its what the guy does...hes wicked smart). Ill let PJB take it from here.

Darwinism claims, for example, that matter evolved from non-matter – i.e., something from nothing – that life evolved from non-life; that, through natural selection, rudimentary forms evolved into more complex forms; and that men are descended from animals or apes.
Now, all of this is unproven theory. And as the Darwinists have never been able to create matter out of non-matter or life out of non-life, or extract from the fossil record the "missing links" between species, what they are asking is that we accept it all on faith. And the response they are getting in the classroom and public forum is: "Prove it," and, "Where is your evidence?"

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