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Friday, December 29, 2006
Thursday, December 28, 2006
All The Dead Presidents Warm Body Book Tour
Bob Woodward is garbage. His asinine ego-maniacal self-absorption has him believing his own bullshit and he actually thinks hes still relevant. It seems the recently departed President Gerald Ford gave Bob an interview with an anti-war tone on the premise that it wouldnt be revealed until after his death. I dont think this is what President Ford had in mind. The body isnt even in the ground and this jerkoff is getting a haircut and make-up applied for his upcoming onslaught press junket
As the nation and the Ford family is still in mourning, Bob looks for some air-time. Youd be hard pressed to find a more despicable self-promoting scumbag than Bob. I can only imagine that upon hearing of President Fords passing, while the nations conscience wept...this douchebag is running around his office looking for the audio and having his staffers courier it to all the major news outlets.
Maybe someone should remind Bob that he was one rat snitch away from being an anonymous nobody greeting card scribe.
As the nation and the Ford family is still in mourning, Bob looks for some air-time. Youd be hard pressed to find a more despicable self-promoting scumbag than Bob. I can only imagine that upon hearing of President Fords passing, while the nations conscience wept...this douchebag is running around his office looking for the audio and having his staffers courier it to all the major news outlets.
Maybe someone should remind Bob that he was one rat snitch away from being an anonymous nobody greeting card scribe.
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Barry Zito is a fruitcake, albeit an incredibly wealthy (7 years $126 mil) fruitcake. Have fun serving up meatballs into McCovey Cove ya jackass. Youll fit right in the castro district ya god damn hippie pinko.
Ok I just needed to get that off my chest.
Damn that Boras is good.
LETS GO METS!!!
Ok I just needed to get that off my chest.
Damn that Boras is good.
LETS GO METS!!!
Slip and Fall
In honor of John Edwards the slip and fall lawyer and economic populist who has just announced his candidacy for President of the United States of America, i give you Dangerous Obsession Part II.
A dangerous obsession: Part II
By Thomas Sowell Wednesday, December 27, 2006
The media and academic obsessions with economic "disparities" have gone international. Recent news stories proclaim that most of "the world's wealth" belongs to a small fraction of the world's people.
Let's go back to square one. Just what is "the world's wealth"?
You can check in your local phone book, surf the Internet or do genealogical research: There is no one named "The World." How can a non-existent being own wealth?
Human beings own wealth. Once we put aside lofty poetic nonsense about "the world's wealth," we at least have a fighting chance of talking sense about realities.
Who are these minority of the world's population who own a majority of the world's wealth?
They are the population of the United States, Western Europe, Japan and a few other affluent countries. How did these particular people come to possess so much more wealth than other people?
They did it the old-fashioned way. They produced the wealth that they own. You might as well ask why bees have so much more honey than other creatures.
Continued
A dangerous obsession: Part II
By Thomas Sowell Wednesday, December 27, 2006
The media and academic obsessions with economic "disparities" have gone international. Recent news stories proclaim that most of "the world's wealth" belongs to a small fraction of the world's people.
Let's go back to square one. Just what is "the world's wealth"?
You can check in your local phone book, surf the Internet or do genealogical research: There is no one named "The World." How can a non-existent being own wealth?
Human beings own wealth. Once we put aside lofty poetic nonsense about "the world's wealth," we at least have a fighting chance of talking sense about realities.
Who are these minority of the world's population who own a majority of the world's wealth?
They are the population of the United States, Western Europe, Japan and a few other affluent countries. How did these particular people come to possess so much more wealth than other people?
They did it the old-fashioned way. They produced the wealth that they own. You might as well ask why bees have so much more honey than other creatures.
Continued
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Has Atlas Shrugged Yet?
He hasn't shrugged yet.... i don't think..... but i'm afraid he might soon with the incoming congress and no strong conservative presidential candidate on the horizon. The thing that scares me the most is how the left uses the politics of poverty to win elections and how easily people are fooled by this trick and continue to buy into a failed ideology.
Here's what i mean.
A dangerous obsession
By Thomas SowellTuesday, December 26, 2006
The media and academia are continuously obsessed with "gaps" and "disparities" in income. As one talk show host put it, "It makes no sense" that a corporate executive makes over $50 million a year.
Ninety-nine percent of all the things that happen in this world "make no sense" to any given individual. Do you understand how your automobile's transmission works? Could you repair it if something went wrong?
Do you understand how aspirin stops headaches? How to make yogurt?
Years ago, a famous essay pointed out that nobody knows how to make a simple lead pencil. That is, there is no single individual anywhere who knows how to grow the wood, mine the graphite, produce the rubber, and manufacture the paint.
Complex economic processes cause all these things to be done and coordinated by a wide variety of people, just in order to produce something as simple as a lead pencil. Multiply that by a hundred or a thousand when it comes to the complexity of producing a car or a computer.
If you cannot understand something as simple as making a lead pencil, why should you be surprised that you don't understand why someone is making a lot more money than somebody else? CONTINUED
Here's what i mean.
A dangerous obsession
By Thomas SowellTuesday, December 26, 2006
The media and academia are continuously obsessed with "gaps" and "disparities" in income. As one talk show host put it, "It makes no sense" that a corporate executive makes over $50 million a year.
Ninety-nine percent of all the things that happen in this world "make no sense" to any given individual. Do you understand how your automobile's transmission works? Could you repair it if something went wrong?
Do you understand how aspirin stops headaches? How to make yogurt?
Years ago, a famous essay pointed out that nobody knows how to make a simple lead pencil. That is, there is no single individual anywhere who knows how to grow the wood, mine the graphite, produce the rubber, and manufacture the paint.
Complex economic processes cause all these things to be done and coordinated by a wide variety of people, just in order to produce something as simple as a lead pencil. Multiply that by a hundred or a thousand when it comes to the complexity of producing a car or a computer.
If you cannot understand something as simple as making a lead pencil, why should you be surprised that you don't understand why someone is making a lot more money than somebody else? CONTINUED
Rest
A man of immense integrity and a class act through and through. Some of our more recent ex-Presidents would be well served to live and learn from the example set by the late President Gerald R Ford.At least he was able to live long enough to see his alma mater U of M defeat Notre Dame one last time but it seems the corruption of the BCS which denied Michigan a shot at a championship was too much to bear for his fragile ticker.
So in the immortal words of the great 80's anti-commie film Red Dawn I will close my eulogy with .....
WOLVERINES!!!!!!!
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Treason
Once a traitor always a traitor....... this guy should be in the prison cell next to sandy berger.
Aiding The Enemy: Sen. John Kerry has given himself a new job: Syrian ambassador to the United States. His kind of self-serving freelance diplomacy should be condemned for what it is: disloyalty to America.
The loser of the 2004 presidential election has embarked on his first major campaign stunt of the 2008 White House campaign: traveling to the Middle East and consorting with a terrorist state in pursuit of some kind of grand settlement on Iraq.
Read it here.
Aiding The Enemy: Sen. John Kerry has given himself a new job: Syrian ambassador to the United States. His kind of self-serving freelance diplomacy should be condemned for what it is: disloyalty to America.
The loser of the 2004 presidential election has embarked on his first major campaign stunt of the 2008 White House campaign: traveling to the Middle East and consorting with a terrorist state in pursuit of some kind of grand settlement on Iraq.
Read it here.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Nollaig Shona Duit Aurorans!!!
"Dear Lord baby Jesus,
we thank you so much for this bountiful harvest
of Dominos, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell."
MERRY CHRISTMAS
...from my donkey home (notice the ghetto bachelor xmas tree)
to yours...
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
Tag
Weve recently been meme tagged (whatever the hell that means) by one of our favorite conservative readers SeeJaneMom, ok one of our only two favorite conservative readers along with the always eloquent Miss Carnivorous.
The Aurora is usually not one to partake in such reindeer games, but what the hay, its Christmas and were big fans of her so we will in fact play the role of Rudolph and honor the request.
The player (The Aurora) must list 3 things that I would love to get for Christmas. Then I must list 3 things that I definitely do not want to get for Christmas. Then I tag 5 friends and list their names. The one I tag needs to write on their blogs about their Christmas wishes then tag 5 more people. They must also clarify all the rules. When you tag someone you need to leave a comment that says “you’ve been Christmas tagged!” in their comments and tell them to read your blog.
Three Things I Would Love For Christmas
1. My nephews to love their presents
2. My glass to never run empty (and the single barrels I gift out to be opened on the spot)
3. A new pair of snow shoes
Three Things I Definitely Do Not Want To Get For Christmas
1. Pulled over in New Jersey
2. Sued
3. A Kwanza Card
...Im not going to tag anyone, but instead invite any and all of our readers to participate as well.
The Aurora is usually not one to partake in such reindeer games, but what the hay, its Christmas and were big fans of her so we will in fact play the role of Rudolph and honor the request.
The player (The Aurora) must list 3 things that I would love to get for Christmas. Then I must list 3 things that I definitely do not want to get for Christmas. Then I tag 5 friends and list their names. The one I tag needs to write on their blogs about their Christmas wishes then tag 5 more people. They must also clarify all the rules. When you tag someone you need to leave a comment that says “you’ve been Christmas tagged!” in their comments and tell them to read your blog.
Three Things I Would Love For Christmas
1. My nephews to love their presents
2. My glass to never run empty (and the single barrels I gift out to be opened on the spot)
3. A new pair of snow shoes
Three Things I Definitely Do Not Want To Get For Christmas
1. Pulled over in New Jersey
2. Sued
3. A Kwanza Card
...Im not going to tag anyone, but instead invite any and all of our readers to participate as well.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Bergers and Lies
I still can't understand why Sandy Berger is not in prison and even more astonishing is the fact that by now he's actually allowed to see and handle classified documents again! Am i taking crazy pills or did this guy go into the national archives, while his country was at war, and STEAL DOCUMENTS WITH INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE ENEMY THAT WE ARE STILL FIGHTING! He then DESTROYED THE DOCUMENTS, and we still don't know what was written on them!
Where are the conspiracy guys on this one? What was he hiding? Who was he protecting? Why did the Clintons come out so strongly in his defense? Why did the Bush administration let him off so easy?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday.
Read it here:
Where are the conspiracy guys on this one? What was he hiding? Who was he protecting? Why did the Clintons come out so strongly in his defense? Why did the Bush administration let him off so easy?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday.
Read it here:
The Rolex Of Extremists
"It began with the Danish cartoons. It ended with the flying imams. Two thousand six was a banner year for the Religion of Perpetual Outrage. Twelve turbulent months of fist-waving, embassy-burning, fatwa-issuing mayhem, intimidation, and murder resounded with the ululations of the aggrieved. All this in the name of defending Islam from "insult." Let's review." -- Malkin
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
She Hops To IHOP
There's the famous Clinton flip-flop that we know and love. Kind of. Sort of. Barack is all up in her grill.
"This morning on NBC's "Today" show, Sen. Clinton was asked about her 2002 vote and offered a slightly evolved answer. "Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote," she said in her usual refrain before adding, "and I certainly wouldn't have voted that way."
Waffle House
"This morning on NBC's "Today" show, Sen. Clinton was asked about her 2002 vote and offered a slightly evolved answer. "Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote," she said in her usual refrain before adding, "and I certainly wouldn't have voted that way."
Waffle House
Secularists On The Breach
PART TWO
"FDR was a commie whore beholden to the bigoted Southern Democrats aka the KKK"
We last left off at the beginning of the nineteenth century with the anti-federalist anti-Constitution Thomas "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" Jefferson and his immortal (plagiarized?) incorrectly interpreted words of "separation of church and state". As we covered before he was right in his assessment and his interference with the State of Connecticut's persecution of the Baptists. The State must be removed from the Church but the Church must be allowed free exercise thereof or in about abound and around the State. For a century it worked.
The First Amendment was left unquestioned for another hundred years. God was in the public square and we became a Power as a result not in spite of it as some would suggest.. We won every war we fought. Our economic growth was unrivaled. We became a nation that was the envy of the world. We became, as my peeps in Doire would say...the talk of the town and the people of the world took notice and flocked here en masse.
Which brings me to the Irish.....
The Irish more so than most, saw the blueprint of the colonialists success against British imperialism as a gateway to better things and said farewell to the country they loved so well for a bright brand new day and adopted a new home...Amerikay. At first they were considered no better than monkeys....as in dirty hairy papist monkeys (the donkey came much later), but they saw it through without complaining. They had it rough no doubt, but Im sure if we looked back at the ship's ledgers, there werent too many that went back to Ireland. They could work, they could own land, vote, they could fight (not in the pubs you racist...but in the army) and drink (well, yeah in the pubs) and they were free thereof to practice their religion as blasphemous as it was to the natives.
The Irish being the sexual animals that they were/are coupled with their lack of regard for birth control (thank God that planned parenthood didnt exist) multiplied...and multiplied...and multiplied. This scared people. Alot. It was ok when they were cleaning sewers, digging ditches, fighting wars and building railroads...but gain political clout???? Inconceivable!
Which brings me to the obvious anti-catholic sentiment that ensued, culminating in the 1899 landmark (at the time but never mentioned again by secularists) Supreme Court case of Bradfield versus roberts which questioned the constitutional legality of federal funding of a Catholic Hospital. Its late and Im tired (also known as drunk) so I will wrap it up. The court ruled in favor of the hospital as it was just a building and did not inherently discriminate against other religions.....as it WAS JUST A FUCKIN BUILDING and not state sanctioned or an endorsement of a particular religion. The funding was allowed.
It was the correct ruling. A physical building or object did not imply a preferential treatment of a particular religion back then no more than a stone tablet of the ten commandments or a manger scene does today. Get over yourselves you big frickin crybabies.
Anti-Catholicism continued among other evils known as to be the faults and the fallacy of man, but we continued to grow as a nation kicking ass, growing economically exponentially, a Superpower if you will, and yes God remained in the public square for the next half century. America Ruled!
...and then the commies came.
PART THREE
"I know I got sidetracked but I will get to the commies and klan next"
to be continued...
EE-Aw!!!
"FDR was a commie whore beholden to the bigoted Southern Democrats aka the KKK"
We last left off at the beginning of the nineteenth century with the anti-federalist anti-Constitution Thomas "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" Jefferson and his immortal (plagiarized?) incorrectly interpreted words of "separation of church and state". As we covered before he was right in his assessment and his interference with the State of Connecticut's persecution of the Baptists. The State must be removed from the Church but the Church must be allowed free exercise thereof or in about abound and around the State. For a century it worked.
The First Amendment was left unquestioned for another hundred years. God was in the public square and we became a Power as a result not in spite of it as some would suggest.. We won every war we fought. Our economic growth was unrivaled. We became a nation that was the envy of the world. We became, as my peeps in Doire would say...the talk of the town and the people of the world took notice and flocked here en masse.
Which brings me to the Irish.....
The Irish more so than most, saw the blueprint of the colonialists success against British imperialism as a gateway to better things and said farewell to the country they loved so well for a bright brand new day and adopted a new home...Amerikay. At first they were considered no better than monkeys....as in dirty hairy papist monkeys (the donkey came much later), but they saw it through without complaining. They had it rough no doubt, but Im sure if we looked back at the ship's ledgers, there werent too many that went back to Ireland. They could work, they could own land, vote, they could fight (not in the pubs you racist...but in the army) and drink (well, yeah in the pubs) and they were free thereof to practice their religion as blasphemous as it was to the natives.
The Irish being the sexual animals that they were/are coupled with their lack of regard for birth control (thank God that planned parenthood didnt exist) multiplied...and multiplied...and multiplied. This scared people. Alot. It was ok when they were cleaning sewers, digging ditches, fighting wars and building railroads...but gain political clout???? Inconceivable!
Which brings me to the obvious anti-catholic sentiment that ensued, culminating in the 1899 landmark (at the time but never mentioned again by secularists) Supreme Court case of Bradfield versus roberts which questioned the constitutional legality of federal funding of a Catholic Hospital. Its late and Im tired (also known as drunk) so I will wrap it up. The court ruled in favor of the hospital as it was just a building and did not inherently discriminate against other religions.....as it WAS JUST A FUCKIN BUILDING and not state sanctioned or an endorsement of a particular religion. The funding was allowed.
It was the correct ruling. A physical building or object did not imply a preferential treatment of a particular religion back then no more than a stone tablet of the ten commandments or a manger scene does today. Get over yourselves you big frickin crybabies.
Anti-Catholicism continued among other evils known as to be the faults and the fallacy of man, but we continued to grow as a nation kicking ass, growing economically exponentially, a Superpower if you will, and yes God remained in the public square for the next half century. America Ruled!
...and then the commies came.
PART THREE
"I know I got sidetracked but I will get to the commies and klan next"
to be continued...
EE-Aw!!!
Monday, December 18, 2006
Shut Yo Mouth Overbite
Just finished watching Olberman's opening segment rant. This guy is trash. Its funny how some on the left will criticize someone like a Hannity or a Limbaugh as partisan hacks but take Olberman's word as gospel. Heres the difference, Hannity and Limbaugh dont try to pass themselves off as journalists, they are partisan hacks, but Olberman for some reason thinks hes a "newsman". He's a joke.
Anyways this jerkoff just rattled off for ten minutes why its Bush's fault that we havent rebuilt the World Trade Center. He doesnt have a frickin clue. Heres a guy that has no idea whats been happening in NYC for the last five years, the politics, the bureaucracy, the botched attempts to honor women's suffrage and other stupid ideas put forward by the liberal democrat controlled local government, did I mention the proposed museum for Muslim rights? Its been a shitstorm no doubt and it sickens me, but Bush's fault it is not. He sees a hole in the ground and an opportunity to bash Bush so he takes it. I will use his own words that were directed at Bush back at him.
Have you no shame?
Anyways this jerkoff just rattled off for ten minutes why its Bush's fault that we havent rebuilt the World Trade Center. He doesnt have a frickin clue. Heres a guy that has no idea whats been happening in NYC for the last five years, the politics, the bureaucracy, the botched attempts to honor women's suffrage and other stupid ideas put forward by the liberal democrat controlled local government, did I mention the proposed museum for Muslim rights? Its been a shitstorm no doubt and it sickens me, but Bush's fault it is not. He sees a hole in the ground and an opportunity to bash Bush so he takes it. I will use his own words that were directed at Bush back at him.
Have you no shame?
Gappy Fillmore
With Judith Regan in the news I figured I would share my only experience with her.About five years ago I was at some function of which I vaguely remember, but if I had to guess, Id say that there was an open bar. I was with a local congressman and our lady friends when she came over to introduce herself. Now mind you shes got twenty plus years on me plus the fact that Im standing there with my date. So after exchanging pleasantries this is what she says to me...
Judy: I notice you have a gap in your front teeth.
Donkey: (confused) You notice correctly.
Judy: You know what that tells me about you?
Donkey: (even more confused) I have no idea.
Judy: That you'd be a great fuck.
Then she excused herself. Needless to say the women in our company were aghast, and I stalked her the rest of the night, but alas it wasnt meant to be.
So I dont know about all this talk about how she is abrasive, but its apparent she is very perceptive and has excellent taste.
EE-Aw!!!
The War On Secularists
PART ONE
"Are secularists illiterate or just liars?"
I suppose if we are going to discuss the current secular war on Christianity we should go back to the root... the oft misquoted and misinterpreted Establishment Clause and the ignored Free Exercise Clause.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
It pretty much speaks for itself. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." There is no need for interpretation, we know why this was included, it was to prevent an official state sponsored religion as was the case in England, with the eponymously named Church of England. Nothing about religious symbolism or removing God from the public square. Nothing. Those interpretations come much later in our nations history to be discussed in part two.
Kudos good men, kudos...mission accomplished. Although a numerically overwhelming Christian nation your words actions and sacrifice have enabled us to be the most religiously tolerant nation to ever face God's Green Earth.
But Thomas Jefferson wrote about the separation of church and state in a letter to the Danbury Baptists the secularists cry. Why yes, yes he did, and for good reason. Jefferson wrote many letters, in fact he was a frequent contributor under various pseudonyms to the original Aurora and a notorious gossipmonger. He would write in proclaiming that John Adam's wife was a whore among other salacious details about his opponents. Im not exactly sure how personal correspondence became legal precedent, but we will tackle that as well in part two.
I have had this discussion as nauseum and very few, present company excluded, have any idea why he wrote it. The background is worth noting and its worth knowing if one is to understand it.
The Baptists were in fact being persecuted, as they had been since arriving on these shores. They felt they were being unduly taxed by the State of Connecticut compared to the State of Conn. "sponsored" religion, the Congregationalists. More importantly they feared that the Constitution as written did not not guarantee their right to pursue their religious freedoms.
"Our sentiments are uniformly on the side of religious liberty: that religion is at all times and places a matter between God and individuals, that no man ought to suffer in name, person, or effects on account of his religious opinions, [and] that the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor. But sir, our constitution of government is not specific. . . . [T]herefore what religious privileges we enjoy (as a minor part of the State) we enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights."
Their grievance was real and Jefferson responded and reassured them that the intent of the First Amendment in fact did give them an inalienable right to practice their faith without Government interference. In doing so he used the vernacular of one of the earlier colonial Baptists and noted theologian Roger Williams, who by some accounts popularized the phrase one hundred years earlier.
"Gentlemen,-The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association give me the highest satisfaction. . . . Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association assurances of my high respect and esteem."
In others words what he meant is nowhere near what the secularists of today suggest he did. If anything the Jefferson letter set a precedent for preferential treatment of organized religion and the free exercise thereof, certainly in regards to taxation.
The point was to remove State from Religion, not Religion from State. That much was clear at the time, and continued to be for the next one hundred and forty years before the commies got their hands on it.
PART TWO
"How the commies manipulated Jefferson's words to advance their secular anti-American agenda, and how the KKK helped them."
to be continued....
"Are secularists illiterate or just liars?"
I suppose if we are going to discuss the current secular war on Christianity we should go back to the root... the oft misquoted and misinterpreted Establishment Clause and the ignored Free Exercise Clause.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
It pretty much speaks for itself. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." There is no need for interpretation, we know why this was included, it was to prevent an official state sponsored religion as was the case in England, with the eponymously named Church of England. Nothing about religious symbolism or removing God from the public square. Nothing. Those interpretations come much later in our nations history to be discussed in part two.
Kudos good men, kudos...mission accomplished. Although a numerically overwhelming Christian nation your words actions and sacrifice have enabled us to be the most religiously tolerant nation to ever face God's Green Earth.
But Thomas Jefferson wrote about the separation of church and state in a letter to the Danbury Baptists the secularists cry. Why yes, yes he did, and for good reason. Jefferson wrote many letters, in fact he was a frequent contributor under various pseudonyms to the original Aurora and a notorious gossipmonger. He would write in proclaiming that John Adam's wife was a whore among other salacious details about his opponents. Im not exactly sure how personal correspondence became legal precedent, but we will tackle that as well in part two.
I have had this discussion as nauseum and very few, present company excluded, have any idea why he wrote it. The background is worth noting and its worth knowing if one is to understand it.
The Baptists were in fact being persecuted, as they had been since arriving on these shores. They felt they were being unduly taxed by the State of Connecticut compared to the State of Conn. "sponsored" religion, the Congregationalists. More importantly they feared that the Constitution as written did not not guarantee their right to pursue their religious freedoms.
"Our sentiments are uniformly on the side of religious liberty: that religion is at all times and places a matter between God and individuals, that no man ought to suffer in name, person, or effects on account of his religious opinions, [and] that the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor. But sir, our constitution of government is not specific. . . . [T]herefore what religious privileges we enjoy (as a minor part of the State) we enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights."
Their grievance was real and Jefferson responded and reassured them that the intent of the First Amendment in fact did give them an inalienable right to practice their faith without Government interference. In doing so he used the vernacular of one of the earlier colonial Baptists and noted theologian Roger Williams, who by some accounts popularized the phrase one hundred years earlier.
"Gentlemen,-The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association give me the highest satisfaction. . . . Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association assurances of my high respect and esteem."
In others words what he meant is nowhere near what the secularists of today suggest he did. If anything the Jefferson letter set a precedent for preferential treatment of organized religion and the free exercise thereof, certainly in regards to taxation.
The point was to remove State from Religion, not Religion from State. That much was clear at the time, and continued to be for the next one hundred and forty years before the commies got their hands on it.
PART TWO
"How the commies manipulated Jefferson's words to advance their secular anti-American agenda, and how the KKK helped them."
to be continued....
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Didnt Even Have To Use My A.K.
Long day today, was up early like I had to catch a flight. Been too long coming but I finally got some tree time away from the city. Back in Manhattan around lunch so I swung by the office for a bit. My favorite non masseuse Asian was working the deli next door, she had coffee in hand before Im in the door. Shredded some paperwork and fucked off on the internet. Omar can you sign Zito already, pay the frickin kid. Forget the Cy Young award, he gets the non-baseball fan Rhino's seal of approval. How can we go wrong? Rhino you are forbidden from ever speaking Barry Zito's name until we....
a) Sign Him
b) Once and only to say the signing sucked
c) Never again
Figured Id stop by Toys-r-us and pick up some Christmas gifts on the way home. Cop at a crosswalk that obviously thought I was a cop comments about the march on fifth. On my way.
I could tell by the frightened look upon the tourists face (god I fucking hate tourists*) thats it was black. Ill say this, nobody throws a parade in NYC better than the Micks, but nobody marches better than the Blacks. They dont fuck around like the hippies. No halfway bullshit five block circle around union square or hang around in one place singing kumbaya. No clever outfits or banners and definitely no pink. Theres a purpose.
En route I find out it was for Sean Bell, the kid shot in Queens. Two words Al Sharpton. Im two aves away Ill be there in five. I love Sharpton. Theres not a single thing he says that I agree with and I think he is a detriment to the black community, but I just cant get those visions of him ambulence chasing the boroughs in his velour track suit. Yeah I know he was spreading hate, but he was so damn adorable doing it.
Frickin jackass.
In the Bell case Ive got no axe to grind. Im pro-Police but I hate cops. I dont know enough of the facts to be conflicted, but I can only think it tragic that a kid is killed on the eve of his wedding day under a hail of gunfire. He may very well have been guilty for what he was stopped, but fifty shots without any return fire makes me think police incompetency and incompetency makes me think wrong.
This is what I turn into. I took the picture and kept on straight thru the block.
Now were talking, Sharpton never disappoints. I figure theres trouble and anyone that knows me knows I love trouble. Worst case Im walking into a race war --- best case I get to do some looting on Fifth Avenue.
Turns out it was just an innocent garbage disposal turf war fire. Just to let you know the I-ties are still around.
The march? I missed it by two blocks.
Today was a good day.
EE-Aw!!!
*its not so much that I hate tourists exactly, which I do, but rather the
sheer numbers and stupidity of them.
a) Sign Him
b) Once and only to say the signing sucked
c) Never again
Figured Id stop by Toys-r-us and pick up some Christmas gifts on the way home. Cop at a crosswalk that obviously thought I was a cop comments about the march on fifth. On my way.
I could tell by the frightened look upon the tourists face (god I fucking hate tourists*) thats it was black. Ill say this, nobody throws a parade in NYC better than the Micks, but nobody marches better than the Blacks. They dont fuck around like the hippies. No halfway bullshit five block circle around union square or hang around in one place singing kumbaya. No clever outfits or banners and definitely no pink. Theres a purpose.
En route I find out it was for Sean Bell, the kid shot in Queens. Two words Al Sharpton. Im two aves away Ill be there in five. I love Sharpton. Theres not a single thing he says that I agree with and I think he is a detriment to the black community, but I just cant get those visions of him ambulence chasing the boroughs in his velour track suit. Yeah I know he was spreading hate, but he was so damn adorable doing it.
Frickin jackass.
In the Bell case Ive got no axe to grind. Im pro-Police but I hate cops. I dont know enough of the facts to be conflicted, but I can only think it tragic that a kid is killed on the eve of his wedding day under a hail of gunfire. He may very well have been guilty for what he was stopped, but fifty shots without any return fire makes me think police incompetency and incompetency makes me think wrong.
This is what I turn into. I took the picture and kept on straight thru the block.Now were talking, Sharpton never disappoints. I figure theres trouble and anyone that knows me knows I love trouble. Worst case Im walking into a race war --- best case I get to do some looting on Fifth Avenue.
Turns out it was just an innocent garbage disposal turf war fire. Just to let you know the I-ties are still around.
The march? I missed it by two blocks.
Today was a good day.
EE-Aw!!!
*its not so much that I hate tourists exactly, which I do, but rather the
sheer numbers and stupidity of them.
Snoop Goddy God
As much of a blabber mouth that I am, I try to be as vague as possible when describing my personal life. If it wasnt for all those four a.m. tulla induced posts I might even be inclined to downplay my drunkenness, although truth be told...I wear it as badge of honor as it is the only thing I share in common with some of the literary greats.
I say this because I am about to admit something that will surprise and probably turn off our one or two conservative readers and confuse the hell out of the liberals.
I do not believe in GOD.
I went to Catholic School and was raised in a religious household. Ive always been a very spiritual person and even considered (briefly) Seminary when presented with a scholarship, but the abstinence and the whole "not believing in God" thing kind of got in the way. There was not some great wound inflicted upon me that led me to this belief or lack thereof if you will. I never felt smited or slighted, I just never believed. It was just my gut feeling, and I trust my gut (as it is not a gut to be trifled with)
I can remember once during class when learning about heaven I asked the teacher if I would be able to meet Benjamin Franklin. I was reprimanded for missing the point, which is that the purpose of heaven is to meet God. My response that Ben would be more interesting did not fare thee well. My rebuttal that if we are in fact made in God's eyes, then perhaps God is made in ours scored slightly better but with a stern warning that I was dangerously close to implying that I worshipped false gods, in this case the founding fathers. My teacher was right, I was always a borderline paganisitic heathen (Im irish, its in my blood) In full disclosure four years later at graduation I received two awards coughbraggardcough for excellence in specific subjects, religious studies being one of them.
I do believe that God and Religion are extremely important, if that makes me a hypocrite so be it, and yes I think there is an attack agenda against the both of them that I fear will eventually lead to the demise of this very great country of ours.
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan
You know those people that say they believe in God, but not organized religion...well Im the opposite. For all the talk of the evils of religion, in my opinion the good have far outweighed the bad, and there is not a doubt in my mind that amongst other things the declining influence of the church in our country has led to some of the moral decay we are witnessing today. More pragmatically speaking..... in my opinion it has contributed to lower test scores in schools, higher crime rates, and higher teenage pregnancy and abortion rates to name just a few as liberal social programs have replaced the church as the dominant influence in poorer neighborhoods.
Societies need structure and the church has always been able to fill in the gaps left by the federal and state governments or even acted as a replacement in the event of an absence of a nuclear or extended family. Theyve done pretty gosh dang good in that regard. For every abuse example you hear, Ill tell you thousands about women's shelters, hospitals, food drives, support groups, blood drives, pancake breakfasts (I like pancakes), humanitarian aid too many to mention etcetera etc.
Or sometimes people just need someone to hold them tight and promise them that everything will be alright. If that someone happens to be a faith-based deity, who am I to argue. Whatever gets you through the day I say.
God and Religion has always been a key component of our nation's history contrary to what the secularists would have you believe. Of which I would like to add, that by my definition the secularists themselves are a "religion" and are hell bent on shoving their belief system down everybody else's throat at the same time they accuse Christians of doing the same.
The reason I bring this up now is that I plan to become more active on this blog in the defense of God. Speaking of which... the grace scene in Talladega Nights about the baby Jesus is frickin hysterical...walk dont run to rent it. I realize it is rather trendy right now at Christmas time on both sides to tackle this issue, but I feel that my unorthodox position may be able to bring a unique perspective on the subject (how do you catch a special squirrel? Unique up on him) as I can not be easily dismissed as a wacko right wing* evangelical nor accused of being a lunatic left fringe atheist ACLU card carrier. This will be the dogma according to Donkey, or Donkma if you will.
On that note, I have nothing for you now... but I will share (and hopefully recommend at a later date upon completion) with you a book that I just bought (if you know me personally stop reading now as this is probably your Christmas gift) about the history and influence of God in the founding of The United States of America. Ive read a few pages and it looks like it'll turn out to be a good discussion provoking read.
Makes a great Christmas gift!
New from Newt!**
Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the role of faith in our nation's history...and future.
*ok maybe Im right wing, but Im certainly no evanger...you get the point.
**If you buy this book through our link no compensation will change hands between Amazon , Speaker Gingrich and The Aurora. Were not in this for the money, just the chicks
I say this because I am about to admit something that will surprise and probably turn off our one or two conservative readers and confuse the hell out of the liberals.
I do not believe in GOD.
I went to Catholic School and was raised in a religious household. Ive always been a very spiritual person and even considered (briefly) Seminary when presented with a scholarship, but the abstinence and the whole "not believing in God" thing kind of got in the way. There was not some great wound inflicted upon me that led me to this belief or lack thereof if you will. I never felt smited or slighted, I just never believed. It was just my gut feeling, and I trust my gut (as it is not a gut to be trifled with)
I can remember once during class when learning about heaven I asked the teacher if I would be able to meet Benjamin Franklin. I was reprimanded for missing the point, which is that the purpose of heaven is to meet God. My response that Ben would be more interesting did not fare thee well. My rebuttal that if we are in fact made in God's eyes, then perhaps God is made in ours scored slightly better but with a stern warning that I was dangerously close to implying that I worshipped false gods, in this case the founding fathers. My teacher was right, I was always a borderline paganisitic heathen (Im irish, its in my blood) In full disclosure four years later at graduation I received two awards coughbraggardcough for excellence in specific subjects, religious studies being one of them.
I do believe that God and Religion are extremely important, if that makes me a hypocrite so be it, and yes I think there is an attack agenda against the both of them that I fear will eventually lead to the demise of this very great country of ours.
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan
You know those people that say they believe in God, but not organized religion...well Im the opposite. For all the talk of the evils of religion, in my opinion the good have far outweighed the bad, and there is not a doubt in my mind that amongst other things the declining influence of the church in our country has led to some of the moral decay we are witnessing today. More pragmatically speaking..... in my opinion it has contributed to lower test scores in schools, higher crime rates, and higher teenage pregnancy and abortion rates to name just a few as liberal social programs have replaced the church as the dominant influence in poorer neighborhoods.
Societies need structure and the church has always been able to fill in the gaps left by the federal and state governments or even acted as a replacement in the event of an absence of a nuclear or extended family. Theyve done pretty gosh dang good in that regard. For every abuse example you hear, Ill tell you thousands about women's shelters, hospitals, food drives, support groups, blood drives, pancake breakfasts (I like pancakes), humanitarian aid too many to mention etcetera etc.
Or sometimes people just need someone to hold them tight and promise them that everything will be alright. If that someone happens to be a faith-based deity, who am I to argue. Whatever gets you through the day I say.
God and Religion has always been a key component of our nation's history contrary to what the secularists would have you believe. Of which I would like to add, that by my definition the secularists themselves are a "religion" and are hell bent on shoving their belief system down everybody else's throat at the same time they accuse Christians of doing the same.
The reason I bring this up now is that I plan to become more active on this blog in the defense of God. Speaking of which... the grace scene in Talladega Nights about the baby Jesus is frickin hysterical...walk dont run to rent it. I realize it is rather trendy right now at Christmas time on both sides to tackle this issue, but I feel that my unorthodox position may be able to bring a unique perspective on the subject (how do you catch a special squirrel? Unique up on him) as I can not be easily dismissed as a wacko right wing* evangelical nor accused of being a lunatic left fringe atheist ACLU card carrier. This will be the dogma according to Donkey, or Donkma if you will.
On that note, I have nothing for you now... but I will share (and hopefully recommend at a later date upon completion) with you a book that I just bought (if you know me personally stop reading now as this is probably your Christmas gift) about the history and influence of God in the founding of The United States of America. Ive read a few pages and it looks like it'll turn out to be a good discussion provoking read.
Makes a great Christmas gift!
New from Newt!**
Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the role of faith in our nation's history...and future.
*ok maybe Im right wing, but Im certainly no evanger...you get the point.
**If you buy this book through our link no compensation will change hands between Amazon , Speaker Gingrich and The Aurora. Were not in this for the money, just the chicks
Friday, December 15, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Its Getting Hot In Here, Or Is It?
Washington D.C. - Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the outgoing Chairman of Environment & Public Works Committee, is pleased to announce the public release of the Senate Committee published booklet entitled “A Skeptic’s Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism. Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists who Cover Global Warming."
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Annan Na Na Annan Na Na Hey Hey Hey Goodbye
You know it says alot about the people in our country that cheer and celebrate Kofi Annan's recent President George W. Bush bash speech at the Truman Presidential Library. It pisses me of enough when the hippies in this country crap on our President, but were all in this together even if we dont agree so if you pay your taxes and vote then by all means shoot your pie hole off as much as you want. If you do neither thats an entirely different story, and I would kindly ask those apathetic freeloaders to shut the fuck up.
But this is different. You dont applaud some third rate third world despot coming into our house talking trash. You dont go against the family. If this was the United States of Corleone, all you god damn commies would be in the bottom of a lake by now.
That being said, I should thank Kofi for his service. He has shown us what a pathetic excuse of a joke that the corrupt anti-American anti-semitic United Nations have become. In fact if Kofi is reading this, I would like to offer to buy him a drink. Consider it our own little Oil for Food program, but replacing oil with whiskey and food for fists. I know a great bar in Turtle Bay with a private billiards room in the back and perhaps we could have a discussion on President Ronald W Reagan's policy of "Peace Through Strength", as my friends can attest I can get very peaceful in dark Irish pubs. What can I say, Im a pacifist.
Now let me allow the smart people to speak....
Nile Gardiner, Ph.D.
Annan's departure from office has not come soon enough. His 10 years in power have been a monumental failure, and he leaves behind an institution whose standing could barely be lower and a legacy that is a testament to mismanagement, corruption, and anti-Americanism. Over the past 12 years, the U.N. has been dominated by scandal, division, and failure. From the disaster of the U.N. peacekeeping missions in Rwanda and Bosnia in the mid-1990s to the U.N.'s slow response to the Sudan genocide, its recent track record has been spectacularly unimpressive. His successor will inherit a U.N. whose image has slipped to an all-time low.
The Oil-for-Food and Congo peacekeeping scandals have had a devastating impact on the U.N.'s reputation and have reinforced the view that the world body is riddled with corruption and mismanagement, as well as undisciplined in its peacekeeping operations. The failure of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights—now the U.N. Human Rights Council—which was populated with some of the world's worst human rights violators, has added to the U.N.'s poor image. In addition, the tensions between Washington and Turtle Bay over the war in Iraq have contributed to bringing U.S.–U.N. relations to their lowest point in a generation.
Under Annan the U.N. has shamelessly appeased dictators and tyrants, from Baghdad to Tehran to Khartoum, and has stood weak-kneed in the face of genocide and ethnic cleansing. As head of United Nations peacekeeping operations in the mid-1990s before he rose to Secretary General, Annan never apologized to the victims of the Rwanda genocide, whose slaughter was the consequence of the U.N.'s failure to intervene, or to the families of Muslims massacred at Srebrenica while under the protection of U.N. soldiers. Annan's lack of humility in the face of great human tragedy has been one of his greatest shortcomings as a U.N. leader. Nor has he ever apologized to the people of Iraq, whose former president he described as "a man I can do business with."
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Now hit the bricks bitch!
EE-Aw!!!
But this is different. You dont applaud some third rate third world despot coming into our house talking trash. You dont go against the family. If this was the United States of Corleone, all you god damn commies would be in the bottom of a lake by now.
That being said, I should thank Kofi for his service. He has shown us what a pathetic excuse of a joke that the corrupt anti-American anti-semitic United Nations have become. In fact if Kofi is reading this, I would like to offer to buy him a drink. Consider it our own little Oil for Food program, but replacing oil with whiskey and food for fists. I know a great bar in Turtle Bay with a private billiards room in the back and perhaps we could have a discussion on President Ronald W Reagan's policy of "Peace Through Strength", as my friends can attest I can get very peaceful in dark Irish pubs. What can I say, Im a pacifist.
Now let me allow the smart people to speak....
Nile Gardiner, Ph.D.
Annan's departure from office has not come soon enough. His 10 years in power have been a monumental failure, and he leaves behind an institution whose standing could barely be lower and a legacy that is a testament to mismanagement, corruption, and anti-Americanism. Over the past 12 years, the U.N. has been dominated by scandal, division, and failure. From the disaster of the U.N. peacekeeping missions in Rwanda and Bosnia in the mid-1990s to the U.N.'s slow response to the Sudan genocide, its recent track record has been spectacularly unimpressive. His successor will inherit a U.N. whose image has slipped to an all-time low.
The Oil-for-Food and Congo peacekeeping scandals have had a devastating impact on the U.N.'s reputation and have reinforced the view that the world body is riddled with corruption and mismanagement, as well as undisciplined in its peacekeeping operations. The failure of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights—now the U.N. Human Rights Council—which was populated with some of the world's worst human rights violators, has added to the U.N.'s poor image. In addition, the tensions between Washington and Turtle Bay over the war in Iraq have contributed to bringing U.S.–U.N. relations to their lowest point in a generation.
Under Annan the U.N. has shamelessly appeased dictators and tyrants, from Baghdad to Tehran to Khartoum, and has stood weak-kneed in the face of genocide and ethnic cleansing. As head of United Nations peacekeeping operations in the mid-1990s before he rose to Secretary General, Annan never apologized to the victims of the Rwanda genocide, whose slaughter was the consequence of the U.N.'s failure to intervene, or to the families of Muslims massacred at Srebrenica while under the protection of U.N. soldiers. Annan's lack of humility in the face of great human tragedy has been one of his greatest shortcomings as a U.N. leader. Nor has he ever apologized to the people of Iraq, whose former president he described as "a man I can do business with."
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Now hit the bricks bitch!
EE-Aw!!!
Kudos
The Aurora has long been known to be a must read for beltway insiders and powerbrokers. Many a talking point has been regurgitated in the paleo-media after first being unveiled on The Aurora. We shape policy like a child with Play-Doh. In other words we get things done. To date our most notable accomplishment has been in our ability to perennially keep Kenny Loggins out of the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
However for the first time in Aurora history our words have resulted in arrests. In a discussion of the food industry one of our hippie readers pointed out the fact that the meat industry was rife with illegals.
Anita said...
the meat processing industry is rife with undocumented, untrained workers. that way the big production companies cut down on labor costs and avoid lawsuits for egregiously unsafe working conditions.
December 11, 2006
Two days later the federalis raided meat processing plants in six states clamping down on illegal aliens who were criminally using American citizens Social Security numbers. Nice work Anita. Bad ese bad ese what you gonna do, what you gonna do when The Aurora comes for you.
story
However for the first time in Aurora history our words have resulted in arrests. In a discussion of the food industry one of our hippie readers pointed out the fact that the meat industry was rife with illegals.
Anita said...
the meat processing industry is rife with undocumented, untrained workers. that way the big production companies cut down on labor costs and avoid lawsuits for egregiously unsafe working conditions.
December 11, 2006
Two days later the federalis raided meat processing plants in six states clamping down on illegal aliens who were criminally using American citizens Social Security numbers. Nice work Anita. Bad ese bad ese what you gonna do, what you gonna do when The Aurora comes for you.
story
From Russia With Love?
Regular readers of this blog (both of them) know that Donkey and I have a friend who lives in Moscow. We communicate fairly regularly, and usually via email. The following is an email i got from him 2 days ago and my response to him. Oh and he's a Jew (nobodys perfect)
"So what do you think about that commission on the Iraq war? I think talking to Iran is a great idea. We could even send a representative to their next Holocaust conference. Gotta tell ya, there might have been some good points in there, but the talking to Iran thing kind of obscured everything else for me. I know the Hitler and WWII comparisons get stale, but, um...didn't somebody say the same thing about Nazi Germany (speaking of the Holocaust)?"
(Rhino Response) Yeah, actually it was chamberlain (Neville not Wilt) who suggested the world talk to Hitler. Good thinking, except for the fact that he took Poland without breaking a sweat. At the time there was a minority candidate in parliament named Winston Churchill who was saying it was asinine to talk to a madman, but the pussies won out and of course Churchill was correct and eventually got the job done thanks to Hitler turning on the Russians and pissing off the Americans with the help of the Japanese. You would think the world, and especially the west, would learn from history but as we've seen with Carter (abandoning the shah) and Clinton (taking the muslim side in the balkans and failing to respond to repeated attacks against the U.S.) and now James Baker and his Iraq Study Group partners they just want to repeat it.So far Bush doesn't seem to be buying the bullshit, but he's only in for 2 more years. I read a big part of the report, and it doesn't really make any good points at all. Check this analysis out. here
"So what do you think about that commission on the Iraq war? I think talking to Iran is a great idea. We could even send a representative to their next Holocaust conference. Gotta tell ya, there might have been some good points in there, but the talking to Iran thing kind of obscured everything else for me. I know the Hitler and WWII comparisons get stale, but, um...didn't somebody say the same thing about Nazi Germany (speaking of the Holocaust)?"
(Rhino Response) Yeah, actually it was chamberlain (Neville not Wilt) who suggested the world talk to Hitler. Good thinking, except for the fact that he took Poland without breaking a sweat. At the time there was a minority candidate in parliament named Winston Churchill who was saying it was asinine to talk to a madman, but the pussies won out and of course Churchill was correct and eventually got the job done thanks to Hitler turning on the Russians and pissing off the Americans with the help of the Japanese. You would think the world, and especially the west, would learn from history but as we've seen with Carter (abandoning the shah) and Clinton (taking the muslim side in the balkans and failing to respond to repeated attacks against the U.S.) and now James Baker and his Iraq Study Group partners they just want to repeat it.So far Bush doesn't seem to be buying the bullshit, but he's only in for 2 more years. I read a big part of the report, and it doesn't really make any good points at all. Check this analysis out. here
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
The Friends Of Our Enemy Is Our Enemy
I cant help but to think that all the media and leftist comparisons to Vietnam are nothing more than a thinly veiled endorsement of defeat. Yes we should learn from history, but we should learn from our mistakes so as to not repeat them and not use them as a blueprint for surrender.
On that note Im going to pass the baton to my boy Newt and see what he has to say about all this Iraq Study Group jibber jabber about asking our enemies Iran and Syria for help.
My fellow Aurorans, I present to you Speaker Newt Gingrich....
The Instincts of Neville Chamberlain
In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Germany where he had signed the Munich Agreement with dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that provided for the partial dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the surrender of the Sudetenland territory of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
After hailing the agreement in front of 10 Downing Street for providing "peace in our time," Chamberlain later praised Hitler and Mussolini before the British House of Commons for their helpful part in the capitulation to Germany:
After everything that has been said about the German Chancellor [Hitler] today and in the past, I do feel that the House ought to recognise the difficulty for a man in that position to take back such emphatic declarations as he had already made amidst the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters, and to recognise that in consenting, even though it were only at the last moment, to discuss with the representatives of other Powers those things which he had declared he had already decided once for all, was a real and a substantial contribution on his part. With regard to Signor Mussolini, ... I think that Europe and the world have reason to be grateful to the head of the Italian government for his work in contributing to a peaceful solution.
Hitler and Mussolini Make Good on Their 'Emphatic Declarations'
Five weeks later, the Nazi regime unleashed the violence of Kristallnacht. On November 9 and 10, almost 100 Jews were murdered, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed, and approximately 30,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps.
Six months later, on March 15, 1939, the German army entered Czechoslovakia and quickly crushed all resistance. The nation of Czechoslovakia, divided internally and overcome by foreign aggression, ceased to exist. World War II had begun.
cont'd
On that note Im going to pass the baton to my boy Newt and see what he has to say about all this Iraq Study Group jibber jabber about asking our enemies Iran and Syria for help.
My fellow Aurorans, I present to you Speaker Newt Gingrich....
The Instincts of Neville Chamberlain
In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Germany where he had signed the Munich Agreement with dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that provided for the partial dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the surrender of the Sudetenland territory of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
After hailing the agreement in front of 10 Downing Street for providing "peace in our time," Chamberlain later praised Hitler and Mussolini before the British House of Commons for their helpful part in the capitulation to Germany:
After everything that has been said about the German Chancellor [Hitler] today and in the past, I do feel that the House ought to recognise the difficulty for a man in that position to take back such emphatic declarations as he had already made amidst the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters, and to recognise that in consenting, even though it were only at the last moment, to discuss with the representatives of other Powers those things which he had declared he had already decided once for all, was a real and a substantial contribution on his part. With regard to Signor Mussolini, ... I think that Europe and the world have reason to be grateful to the head of the Italian government for his work in contributing to a peaceful solution.
Hitler and Mussolini Make Good on Their 'Emphatic Declarations'
Five weeks later, the Nazi regime unleashed the violence of Kristallnacht. On November 9 and 10, almost 100 Jews were murdered, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed, and approximately 30,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps.
Six months later, on March 15, 1939, the German army entered Czechoslovakia and quickly crushed all resistance. The nation of Czechoslovakia, divided internally and overcome by foreign aggression, ceased to exist. World War II had begun.
cont'd
And I Ran
Enough already about how Iranian students are going democracize their country from within for us. We've been saying that for decades. As the old saying goes...
If you arent a radical revolutionary in Iran at 20 you have no heart
If arent a fundamentalist extremist at 40 you have no brain
Literally. They will chop your head off and you will have no brain.
EE-Aw!!!
If you arent a radical revolutionary in Iran at 20 you have no heart
If arent a fundamentalist extremist at 40 you have no brain
Literally. They will chop your head off and you will have no brain.
EE-Aw!!!
Monday, December 11, 2006
Donkey Khan
I recently incorrectly referenced the last foreign invader of Baghdad as Ghengis Khan, when in fact it was his grandson Hulagu. I was trying to make the point that as a result of the overwhelming negativity of the liberal media, the harmful rhetoric of the democrats, the recent addition of the seussical nonsensical Iraq Study Group, and the pusillanimousity of Bush and the Republican party, perhaps it would be in everyones best interest to take a more Mongolian approach to this war, and start kicking some ass.
I hope we all can agree on that. We can kick some serious ass when we want to. We cant lose. Unless we want to. Its that simple. They dont understand the thunder in the rifleman's arm, do they Kurowski? No sir they dont!
But it got me thinking about Hulagu and some of his other battles along the march to take the caliphate of Baghdad, and some of the enemies he encountered along the way.
The Hashshashin (also Hashishin), or Assassins were a religious group (some would say a cult) of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect with a militant basis, thought to be active in the 8th to 14th centuries as a mystic secret society specializing in terrorizing the Abbasid elite with fearlessly executed, politically motivated assassinations. Their own name for the sect was al-da'wa al-jadīda (الدعوة الجديدة) which means the new doctrine and they called themselves fedayeen from the Arabic fidā'ī which means one who is ready to sacrifice their life for a cause — that term has the modern connotation of "freedom fighter". The name Hashshashin was given to them by their Muslim enemies.Their Muslim contemporaries were extremely suspicious of them; in fact they were described in terms (Batini) which suggested they were only nominally Islamic. This constant religious estrangement would eventually see them go so far as allying with the Occidental Christians against Muslims on a number of occasions. It is even suggested that they attempted to negotiate their own conversion to Christianity with Amalric I of Jerusalem, but were foiled by Templar machinations, perhaps on the basis that this would exempt them from onerous taxes on non-Christians in the Holy Lands, which were profitable for the knightly orders. Plainly, their connection to mainstream Islam was tangential at best. The group transformed the act of murder into a system directed largely against Seljuk Muslim rulers that had been persecuting their sect. They were meticulous in killing the targeted individual, seeking to do so without any additional casualties and innocent loss of life, although they were careful to cultivate their terrifying reputation by slaying their victims in public, often in mosques. Typically they approached using a disguise; their weapon of choice a dagger, rejecting poison, bows and other weapons that allowed the attacker to escape.
Sound familiar??? Religion of peace my hashshashin!
There are differing accounts of how Hulagu crushed the Hashshashin, as the Mongols, to be expected of nomadic people were notoriously atrocious record keepers. So I will relay it as I know it. The assassins holed themselves up in caves as was their cowardly nature, and were difficult to defeat. So Hulagu walled them in and hunted down and captured their spiritual leader, and paraded him around from stronghold to cave infuriating and drawing out his followers. They were then crushed unmercilessly by the Mongolian Horde, as was their leader when his usefulnesss ceased to exist.
The road to Baghdad was then clear.
He walled them in flooded them set them ablaze and repeated the process over and over.
It wasnt pretty and it took time and patience, but eventually Hulagu and the Mongolians captured Baghdad.
We all want to win this war right? However we got to this point, agree or not, whatever side of the political fence you may sit on. I hope thats something we can all agree on. We want to win. We need to win. Were gonna, were gonna win. Disagreeing with this war...should not equate with rooting for defeat.
Just as an observation....We can win and be out of Iraq yesterday if we wanted to. If we wanted to win, we could.
EE-Aw!!!
I hope we all can agree on that. We can kick some serious ass when we want to. We cant lose. Unless we want to. Its that simple. They dont understand the thunder in the rifleman's arm, do they Kurowski? No sir they dont!
But it got me thinking about Hulagu and some of his other battles along the march to take the caliphate of Baghdad, and some of the enemies he encountered along the way.
The Hashshashin (also Hashishin), or Assassins were a religious group (some would say a cult) of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect with a militant basis, thought to be active in the 8th to 14th centuries as a mystic secret society specializing in terrorizing the Abbasid elite with fearlessly executed, politically motivated assassinations. Their own name for the sect was al-da'wa al-jadīda (الدعوة الجديدة) which means the new doctrine and they called themselves fedayeen from the Arabic fidā'ī which means one who is ready to sacrifice their life for a cause — that term has the modern connotation of "freedom fighter". The name Hashshashin was given to them by their Muslim enemies.Their Muslim contemporaries were extremely suspicious of them; in fact they were described in terms (Batini) which suggested they were only nominally Islamic. This constant religious estrangement would eventually see them go so far as allying with the Occidental Christians against Muslims on a number of occasions. It is even suggested that they attempted to negotiate their own conversion to Christianity with Amalric I of Jerusalem, but were foiled by Templar machinations, perhaps on the basis that this would exempt them from onerous taxes on non-Christians in the Holy Lands, which were profitable for the knightly orders. Plainly, their connection to mainstream Islam was tangential at best. The group transformed the act of murder into a system directed largely against Seljuk Muslim rulers that had been persecuting their sect. They were meticulous in killing the targeted individual, seeking to do so without any additional casualties and innocent loss of life, although they were careful to cultivate their terrifying reputation by slaying their victims in public, often in mosques. Typically they approached using a disguise; their weapon of choice a dagger, rejecting poison, bows and other weapons that allowed the attacker to escape.
Sound familiar??? Religion of peace my hashshashin!
There are differing accounts of how Hulagu crushed the Hashshashin, as the Mongols, to be expected of nomadic people were notoriously atrocious record keepers. So I will relay it as I know it. The assassins holed themselves up in caves as was their cowardly nature, and were difficult to defeat. So Hulagu walled them in and hunted down and captured their spiritual leader, and paraded him around from stronghold to cave infuriating and drawing out his followers. They were then crushed unmercilessly by the Mongolian Horde, as was their leader when his usefulnesss ceased to exist.
The road to Baghdad was then clear.
He walled them in flooded them set them ablaze and repeated the process over and over.
It wasnt pretty and it took time and patience, but eventually Hulagu and the Mongolians captured Baghdad.
We all want to win this war right? However we got to this point, agree or not, whatever side of the political fence you may sit on. I hope thats something we can all agree on. We want to win. We need to win. Were gonna, were gonna win. Disagreeing with this war...should not equate with rooting for defeat.
Just as an observation....We can win and be out of Iraq yesterday if we wanted to. If we wanted to win, we could.
EE-Aw!!!
Greenie's VS Peta
The greenies have to be upset today. The U.N. has declared G.W. Bush is NOT the one and only person in the history of the world causing global warming! Is Kyoto the answer? I don't think so. So who's to blame for the ills of the world? It's the cows! we need to get rid of the cows!
P.E.T.A isn't going to take this lying down!
Lets Get Ready To Rummmmmble!
P.E.T.A isn't going to take this lying down!
Lets Get Ready To Rummmmmble!
Sunday, December 10, 2006
You Have A Moron In Pennsylvania
Growing up where I did, as a lad my rivalries were always based on geographic regions. As far as intra-state conflicts were concerned it pretty much broke down athletically on the Empire State Games lines...Central, Adirondack, Hudson Valley, New York City, Western, and Long Island. Long Island being the only serious challenge to Central's Lacrosse (the only thing that mattered back then) supremacy. For the record when I was in school longisland won squat. I never liked any of them, and their Billy Joel ways. They were punks. Like the old joke went...
Q: What do you call a mick, two italians, two wasps and a spic on the Garden City Lax team?
A: Six guidos
But I had some respect for them (even if I wouldnt admit it then or now) as they were New Yorkers, they played lacrosse and we'd always beat them so they were harmless enough
Which brings me to New Jersey. Never liked them and their Bon Jovi ways. To be honest Jersey wasnt even on the radar of my world back then, in fact I still consider it nothing more than the sixth red-headed borough of NYC.
Which brings me to Pennsylvania. I traveled quite extensively along the 81 corridor as I had family in Maryland and have always been into history so I would make frequent trips to Gettysburg and the surrounding battlefields. I loved Pennsylvania. The only problem was all the damn Pennsylvanians. A more backwards group of jackasses youd be hard pressed to meet. Absolute morons.
Case in point. They elected Bob Casey. As the old joke goes...if my aunt had balls shed be my uncle. Well if Rick Santorum didnt have balls, he'd be Bob Casey.
Rick Santorum was a great Senator and a great American, and I would like to take this opportunity to re-print some of his outstanding Farewell Speech. Thanks for the service Rick.
Q: What do you call a mick, two italians, two wasps and a spic on the Garden City Lax team?
A: Six guidos
But I had some respect for them (even if I wouldnt admit it then or now) as they were New Yorkers, they played lacrosse and we'd always beat them so they were harmless enough
Which brings me to New Jersey. Never liked them and their Bon Jovi ways. To be honest Jersey wasnt even on the radar of my world back then, in fact I still consider it nothing more than the sixth red-headed borough of NYC.
Which brings me to Pennsylvania. I traveled quite extensively along the 81 corridor as I had family in Maryland and have always been into history so I would make frequent trips to Gettysburg and the surrounding battlefields. I loved Pennsylvania. The only problem was all the damn Pennsylvanians. A more backwards group of jackasses youd be hard pressed to meet. Absolute morons.
Case in point. They elected Bob Casey. As the old joke goes...if my aunt had balls shed be my uncle. Well if Rick Santorum didnt have balls, he'd be Bob Casey.
Rick Santorum was a great Senator and a great American, and I would like to take this opportunity to re-print some of his outstanding Farewell Speech. Thanks for the service Rick.
As I said, I understand this is an unpopular war. When I stepped forward to define the enemy as radical Islamic fascists, I was ridiculed by the media and others, saying that my words were too harsh, saying that at worst my defining the enemy was incorrect, at best it was inflammatory. But I did so because I believe words matter. If you are going to confront an enemy you have to understand who that enemy is and you have to communicate that to the people of America. And we must do that.
Many people talk about this war as if it is an attempt simply to create fledgling democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan. While this may be an appealing possible outcome, we all must recognize that Iraq and Afghanistan are battlefields in a much more complex and broader war. That includes every continent with the exception of Antarctica. The war is at our doorstep, and it is fueled, as I mentioned, literally and figuratively by the evil of Islamic fascism.
Whether we know it or not, they have been at war with us, and the State of Iran specifically has been at war with us, since 1979 when they declared war against the United States. They have not rescinded that declaration. So when we talk about engaging Iran as the Secretary, the new, future Secretary of Defense has talked about, we are talking about engaging someone who is at war with us, who has declared war with us, and who has been at war and, and as I will talk about here, and I think it has been widely reported in the press, has been doing a lot to substantiate the claim that they have been at war with us.
But this threat is not exclusively based in Iran. It is gaining strength and spreading throughout every region of the world. I have addressed the issue of Islamic fascism but have not yet spoken to the subject of Iraq. Iraq is the central front in the war on Islamic fascism. However, contrary to the Iraqi Study Group, the Baker-Hamilton commission, the answer to this problem can be found--the answer to Iraq can be found not in Iraq but in Iran. It is Iran and its client State of Syria that serve as the principal instigators and fomenters of the conflict in Iraq today.
Friday, December 08, 2006
You Got Beef Chief? Cuz Im Knocking Out Teeth Keith
Olberman really is a jackass. MSNBC are promoting his lead story tonight as yet another White House scandal. It seems that three women wore the same dress as the First Lady Laura Bush to a White House Christmas party. The humanity!!!!
The Donkey Study Group
I know that all you fine folks in Auroraland have been waiting with bated breath for The Aurora's take on the ISG's recent report. Unfortunately I was reading it while taking a dirt and needed the paper (I am very eco-friendly afterall) so I only read the even numbered pages (what can I say Im superstitious and believe its bad luck to wipe with odd paper)
How someone could seriously have the audacity to actually call this crap a strategy is beyond me. Now thats not saying much for the actual strategy in place today, as for the most part all The Fabulous Baker Boys are doing is echoing Bush's current plan without the cowboy vernacular and hyperbole. That is, to train the Iraqis until they are able to fend for themselves and then phase down when that is accomplished, which we are doing. The rest is a bunch of wishful thinking by their own words....
"Baker acknowledged that the Iranians were unlikely to help, even if asked. He said that during the course of the commission's discussions an Iranian official told him that Iran was not inclined to help. But Baker said he saw no harm in approaching Iran anyway, and if it declines to help, "then we will hold them up to public scrutiny as the rejectionist state they have proven to be." 1
Pretty pretty please with sugar and 99 virgins on top.....
Or naively ignorant.....
"Hamilton said that while Iran has been unhelpful to U.S. interests in Iraq thus far, "We do not think it's in the Iranian interest for the American policy to fail completely, and to lead to chaos in that country." He said the Iranian's main worry is that a chaotic Iraq would lead to a refugee crisis on its border." 2
Number one it is in Iran's interest if our policy fails, as it will....
a) result in a sympathetic shia neighbor
b) we will lose all clout and leverage in halting their admitted nuclear program
Heres The Donkey Plan....
1) More troops (eyes and rifles on every corner)
2) More killing bad guys (every neighborhood where an American is killed gets leveled...perhaps Iraqis will be less complacent turning a blind eye when watching johnny jihad plant a roadside bomb when they know their own home will be shock and awed as well)
3) Less nation building, they've got running water, working sewage and electricity. That is more of a courtesy than we provided the citizens of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Berlin. The only work left for the Army Corp of Engineers is to locate and deactivate IEDs.
Never before have we tried to rebuild a country before we actually defeated them. If we are at War then lets start frickin acting like it and kick some ass, this pusillanimous pussyfooting is getting us nowhere. Screw what the peaceniks are crying about, ignore all the laureresque media bullshit rhetoric about quagmires, I mean... civil war and start getting all Ghengis Khan (the last foreign invader to defeat Iraq*) on these camel loving mofos.
EE-Aw!!!
* now that I mention it, I wouldnt be against using the Mongolian tactic of walling in Baghdad, re-routing the Tigris and flooding Baghdad and other alqaeda and insurgent strongholds.
source
How someone could seriously have the audacity to actually call this crap a strategy is beyond me. Now thats not saying much for the actual strategy in place today, as for the most part all The Fabulous Baker Boys are doing is echoing Bush's current plan without the cowboy vernacular and hyperbole. That is, to train the Iraqis until they are able to fend for themselves and then phase down when that is accomplished, which we are doing. The rest is a bunch of wishful thinking by their own words....
"Baker acknowledged that the Iranians were unlikely to help, even if asked. He said that during the course of the commission's discussions an Iranian official told him that Iran was not inclined to help. But Baker said he saw no harm in approaching Iran anyway, and if it declines to help, "then we will hold them up to public scrutiny as the rejectionist state they have proven to be." 1
Pretty pretty please with sugar and 99 virgins on top.....
Or naively ignorant.....
"Hamilton said that while Iran has been unhelpful to U.S. interests in Iraq thus far, "We do not think it's in the Iranian interest for the American policy to fail completely, and to lead to chaos in that country." He said the Iranian's main worry is that a chaotic Iraq would lead to a refugee crisis on its border." 2
Number one it is in Iran's interest if our policy fails, as it will....
a) result in a sympathetic shia neighbor
b) we will lose all clout and leverage in halting their admitted nuclear program
Heres The Donkey Plan....
1) More troops (eyes and rifles on every corner)
2) More killing bad guys (every neighborhood where an American is killed gets leveled...perhaps Iraqis will be less complacent turning a blind eye when watching johnny jihad plant a roadside bomb when they know their own home will be shock and awed as well)
3) Less nation building, they've got running water, working sewage and electricity. That is more of a courtesy than we provided the citizens of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Berlin. The only work left for the Army Corp of Engineers is to locate and deactivate IEDs.
Never before have we tried to rebuild a country before we actually defeated them. If we are at War then lets start frickin acting like it and kick some ass, this pusillanimous pussyfooting is getting us nowhere. Screw what the peaceniks are crying about, ignore all the laureresque media bullshit rhetoric about quagmires, I mean... civil war and start getting all Ghengis Khan (the last foreign invader to defeat Iraq*) on these camel loving mofos.
EE-Aw!!!
* now that I mention it, I wouldnt be against using the Mongolian tactic of walling in Baghdad, re-routing the Tigris and flooding Baghdad and other alqaeda and insurgent strongholds.
source
Thursday, December 07, 2006
December 7 1941
"Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. " FDR
Churchill once wrote
"the stroke of catastrophe and the spur of peril were needed to call forth the dormant might of the British nation."
We've had our "stroke of catastrophe" (9/11) what will it take to call forth the dormant might of the American nation? Do we really need another attack to alert the nation to the fact that we're at war, and we can't afford to lose? If we don't win this thing, if we cut and run from Iraq, i believe we'll be inviting another attack.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Baby Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear
I was recently in a discussion at a liberal blog about the worst President in US history, obviously the consensus was President George W Bush, and obviously I vehemently disagreed. But in the spirit of the holidays I am putting such negativity behind me and will instead focus on one of the greatest Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt. I will be attending a charity event this evening at his former New York home with the proceeds going towards the purchase and delivery of "teddy" bears to local children hospitalized during this holiday season. If any readers are in the area click on the above invite for more details and by all means stop by, its an open bar and its for a good cause. Did I mention its open bar?
Detente
There seems to be an unusual amount of animosity at The Aurora lately so in an effort to ease tensions, I will share with you my all time favorite joke (although I realize that ALL of our liberal readers lack a sense of humor)
A horse walks into a bar and orders a Manhattan
Bartenders says "Hay! Why the long face?"
...and I would kindly ask all of our readers to share their own favorite funnies
A horse walks into a bar and orders a Manhattan
Bartenders says "Hay! Why the long face?"
...and I would kindly ask all of our readers to share their own favorite funnies
Abracadabra
I have yet to read the Iraq Study Group's report, but apparently after all this time what they have concluded is that there is no "magic formula" to Iraq. Well thanks for the info jackasses. Thats about the stupidest thing Ive heard since I found out there were no Generals or other high ranking officers that had actually fought in Iraq in this or the prior Gulf War on the commision. Just off the top of my head, Id say Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf would have been a better choice than half these numbskulls.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Pathetic
While Florida Forced to Wait Out Democrats’ Election Lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal Weighs In On CD-13
Excerpts from “Sore Winners”
From Wall Street Journal
Editorial
December 1, 2006; Page A12
Democrats whomped Republicans in last month's midterms, but oddly enough they're still calling in the legal cavalry to contest one of the few races they narrowly lost.
That would be Florida's 13th Congressional District, which runs along the Gulf Coast from just south of Tampa to just north of Fort Myers. The certified winner is Republican Vern Buchanan, who beat Democrat Christine Jennings by fewer than 400 votes out of more than 237,000 cast. Two recounts, which were demanded by Democrats and required by law, have reconfirmed Mr. Buchanan's victory and slightly increased the margin.
Unbowed, the Dems are now suggesting that defective voting machines cost them the race. They point to Sarasota County's 18,000 “undervotes,” or incidences where voters cast ballots in other races but not the Buchanan-Jennings contest. Ms. Jennings -- along with such liberal partisans as People for the American Way and the American Civil Liberties Union -- has filed a lawsuit contesting the results based on “statistical and eyewitness evidence of significant machine malfunctions” in Sarasota's iVotronic touch-screen system.
They want a court to declare Ms. Jennings the winner by -- get this -- using statistical models to extrapolate that she would have received most of the undervotes. Short of that, they'll settle for nullifying the November results and holding a new election.
…there are reasons so many voters might have taken a pass on this race while voting in others on the ballot. For starters, the Republican primary featured an exceptional amount of mudslinging. The primary was also a five-man race with four candidates from Sarasota County. Mr. Buchanan won the GOP nomination with just 32% of the vote, and some of his primary opponents either waited until the last minute to issue a public endorsement or never got around to it. So it's entirely possible that voters were turned off by the negative campaigning and chose neither Mr. Buchanan nor Ms. Jennings in silent protest.
By the way, undervoting isn't uncommon in the district. Two years ago, there were more than 12,000 Sarasota County undervotes in Democrat Jan Schneider's House race against Republican Representative Katherine Harris. The 2000 race for the 13th district seat, which predated the use of touch-screen voting machines, also featured a high number of undervotes.
This week, Florida election officials began auditing the voting machines, which is the very thorough and transparent process for determining whether they worked properly on Election Day. There is still no evidence that the machines malfunctioned.
All of this underscores how anti-Bush hatred has unhinged the political left. They still see Karl Rove lurking outside every voting booth. The Buchanan-Jennings contest has become a particular rallying point for fears about electronic voting, and liberals now want the machines to provide paper trails in the event of a recount. This might be a reasonable request if it were made in good faith. But back during the Florida debacle in 2000, before touch-screen voting was widely used, the same Democrats and liberal columnists deplored the inaccuracy of paper ballots and those "hanging chads."
All of which suggests that their real problem is the outcome of the race, not the integrity of the voting process.
link
We lost a couple close ones as well, but in respect for the democratic process not a single Republican contested an election. Its called class. Why is it voter fraud only when dems lose???
EE-Aw!!!
Excerpts from “Sore Winners”
From Wall Street Journal
Editorial
December 1, 2006; Page A12
Democrats whomped Republicans in last month's midterms, but oddly enough they're still calling in the legal cavalry to contest one of the few races they narrowly lost.
That would be Florida's 13th Congressional District, which runs along the Gulf Coast from just south of Tampa to just north of Fort Myers. The certified winner is Republican Vern Buchanan, who beat Democrat Christine Jennings by fewer than 400 votes out of more than 237,000 cast. Two recounts, which were demanded by Democrats and required by law, have reconfirmed Mr. Buchanan's victory and slightly increased the margin.
Unbowed, the Dems are now suggesting that defective voting machines cost them the race. They point to Sarasota County's 18,000 “undervotes,” or incidences where voters cast ballots in other races but not the Buchanan-Jennings contest. Ms. Jennings -- along with such liberal partisans as People for the American Way and the American Civil Liberties Union -- has filed a lawsuit contesting the results based on “statistical and eyewitness evidence of significant machine malfunctions” in Sarasota's iVotronic touch-screen system.
They want a court to declare Ms. Jennings the winner by -- get this -- using statistical models to extrapolate that she would have received most of the undervotes. Short of that, they'll settle for nullifying the November results and holding a new election.
…there are reasons so many voters might have taken a pass on this race while voting in others on the ballot. For starters, the Republican primary featured an exceptional amount of mudslinging. The primary was also a five-man race with four candidates from Sarasota County. Mr. Buchanan won the GOP nomination with just 32% of the vote, and some of his primary opponents either waited until the last minute to issue a public endorsement or never got around to it. So it's entirely possible that voters were turned off by the negative campaigning and chose neither Mr. Buchanan nor Ms. Jennings in silent protest.
By the way, undervoting isn't uncommon in the district. Two years ago, there were more than 12,000 Sarasota County undervotes in Democrat Jan Schneider's House race against Republican Representative Katherine Harris. The 2000 race for the 13th district seat, which predated the use of touch-screen voting machines, also featured a high number of undervotes.
This week, Florida election officials began auditing the voting machines, which is the very thorough and transparent process for determining whether they worked properly on Election Day. There is still no evidence that the machines malfunctioned.
All of this underscores how anti-Bush hatred has unhinged the political left. They still see Karl Rove lurking outside every voting booth. The Buchanan-Jennings contest has become a particular rallying point for fears about electronic voting, and liberals now want the machines to provide paper trails in the event of a recount. This might be a reasonable request if it were made in good faith. But back during the Florida debacle in 2000, before touch-screen voting was widely used, the same Democrats and liberal columnists deplored the inaccuracy of paper ballots and those "hanging chads."
All of which suggests that their real problem is the outcome of the race, not the integrity of the voting process.
link
We lost a couple close ones as well, but in respect for the democratic process not a single Republican contested an election. Its called class. Why is it voter fraud only when dems lose???
EE-Aw!!!
Dear John
Thanks for your service. In your short stint you were able to instill a level of integrity not often seen around the halls of Turtle Bay....but you were a big meanie, so you had to go.
At least there is no question what type of Congress the dems will now run. They were scumbag obstructionists as the minority, and will continue to be so as the majority.
These are bad people that would put forth the corrupt anti-American agenda of the UN ahead of their own country and our allies interests. Like I said, bad people.
I Hate the Movie Wall Street
The movie Wall Street was always one of my least favorite movies. The message was clear, if you're successful it's because you cheated and you abused the little guy. The good guy is the union man, the small guy who fights against these evil doers, and Bud Fox is the prodigal son who turns against his blue collar upbringing but comes back in the end when he knows he's done wrong. Hollywood used to just make up stuff like that, now they do "documentaries" that are so one sided and dishonest that it's laughable. I think Sowell hit's the nail on the head with this one.
It is not really news that Hollywood is still producing anti-business movies, but there is a certain irony in it nevertheless.
Although these movies tap a certain envy and resentment of corporate wealth, that large corporate wealth comes from far more modest individual amounts of money from about half the population of the United States, which owns stocks and bonds -- either directly or because money paid into pension funds or other financial intermediaries are used to buy stocks and bonds.
The irony is that the average Hollywood star who is making anti-business movies is far wealthier than the average owners of those businesses, who are half the population of the country.
Read it Here
It is not really news that Hollywood is still producing anti-business movies, but there is a certain irony in it nevertheless.
Although these movies tap a certain envy and resentment of corporate wealth, that large corporate wealth comes from far more modest individual amounts of money from about half the population of the United States, which owns stocks and bonds -- either directly or because money paid into pension funds or other financial intermediaries are used to buy stocks and bonds.
The irony is that the average Hollywood star who is making anti-business movies is far wealthier than the average owners of those businesses, who are half the population of the country.
Read it Here
Monday, December 04, 2006
The Best Thing About Long Island
The beach of course, and water sports. I went jet skiing this weekend. It was cold but it was worth it. Here's a pic. (not me) The only downside was that we got pulled over in the Moriches inlet on our way back into the bay. Kind of gets cold when you stop.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Mo Greene
Donkinition of traitor: Against the family. Fredo. Rat.
Lots of traitor talk the last few years. Aint been this kinda chit around the lake since Sen McCarthy caught that one one eyed russian speaking rainbow trout and the talk of boogie men in the closet.
He was right?
Right?
Yup.
HE WAS RIGHT.
There were little red men under our bed.
One of our regular readers is a conspirathy expert. He never mentions that. Never mentions the commies. He never talks about the Naval blockade off Japan prior to Pearl Harbor. See these FACTS.
FDR is a hero to them
Nixon a villian.
President Richard M Nixon needs me not to defend him, but he was a great if not flawed man....A great if not flawed President. He will be remembered more fondly than he is right now, hell theyre probably building monuments to him in some Chinese town weve never heard of as we speak.
Which brings me to my point...finallly
It was pointed out in the comments section how RWR was a traitor negotiated with Iran for the hostages, and how it was treason. Now I can almost forgive person that wrote this as they are liberal and have a difficult time with facts. They were presented with examples of RHINO, and got flustered
I hope they all have a plan bcuz they do and youre a fool to think otherwise. Its calledtransitional govt
Lots of traitor talk the last few years. Aint been this kinda chit around the lake since Sen McCarthy caught that one one eyed russian speaking rainbow trout and the talk of boogie men in the closet.
He was right?
Right?
Yup.
HE WAS RIGHT.
There were little red men under our bed.
One of our regular readers is a conspirathy expert. He never mentions that. Never mentions the commies. He never talks about the Naval blockade off Japan prior to Pearl Harbor. See these FACTS.
FDR is a hero to them
Nixon a villian.
President Richard M Nixon needs me not to defend him, but he was a great if not flawed man....A great if not flawed President. He will be remembered more fondly than he is right now, hell theyre probably building monuments to him in some Chinese town weve never heard of as we speak.
Which brings me to my point...finallly
It was pointed out in the comments section how RWR was a traitor negotiated with Iran for the hostages, and how it was treason. Now I can almost forgive person that wrote this as they are liberal and have a difficult time with facts. They were presented with examples of RHINO, and got flustered
I hope they all have a plan bcuz they do and youre a fool to think otherwise. Its calledtransitional govt
You Are What You Is
Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham . . . )
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis
If as the saying goes that you dont know where youre going if you dont know where youve been holds true, then same goes for who we are.Then Im a lucky one. I can trackback my family from the git go, thanks to impeccable Irish record keeping and Y-DNA37 chromosomal testing.
I was reading my grandfathers biography the other night, and one thing stuck out both becasue of the ability to be a pompous ass when citing it as much for its historic relevance.
Shakespeare referenced my peeps....
"Til Birnam wood meets Dunsinane
MacBeth before no foe shall quail
and Ross may all assail disdain
Till on the Lough Lein strange ships shall sail"
(What's the matter, smartass, you don't know any fuckin' Hawthorne???)
To sum it up Ross Castle was the last of the Irish strongholds to fall under Cromwell's army. The English were unable to take the castle by land, so they cut down the surrounding forrest to build ships to continue their assault by lough. It wouldnt be Shakespeare if it wasnt tragic, and the Donkeys did not fare well, and Bill used it in reference when the witches predicted MacBeth's demise.
but...
In case you havent noticed. Were still around.
EE-Aw!!!
lyrics courtesy of FZ
O' Danny Boy
As little as I care about Danny Devito I care even less about the View. My only knowledge or interaction of that show is when a friend used to knock out Lisa Ling and now when Tucker Carlson mocks them on his "Beat The Press" segment.
If I was a Ghostbuster instead of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, Id imagine my demise would be a giant Roseanne marching up Fifth Ave.
However Devito's drunken exploits (since when is numb nuts a cuss word?) have given me an opportunity to quote John Candy.....
"You see, drinking is a matter of algebraic ratio. How drunk you get is caused by the amount of alcohol you consume in relation to your total body weight. You see my point? It's not that you had too much to drink. You're just too skinny."
....or in this instance, too short.
EE-Aw!!!
If I was a Ghostbuster instead of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, Id imagine my demise would be a giant Roseanne marching up Fifth Ave.
However Devito's drunken exploits (since when is numb nuts a cuss word?) have given me an opportunity to quote John Candy.....
"You see, drinking is a matter of algebraic ratio. How drunk you get is caused by the amount of alcohol you consume in relation to your total body weight. You see my point? It's not that you had too much to drink. You're just too skinny."
....or in this instance, too short.
EE-Aw!!!
Friday, December 01, 2006
Chris Barnes A REAL American Story
Please check out: Hope For Chris. If you have ever encountered this great man you will be brought to tears. Please look through and please donate something.update: I have noticed that we are getting alot of visits from search engines looking for this story. We are pleased to announce that Chris is still fighting the good fight and the good lord willing will some day have a full recovery. As always we will have Chris and his family in our thoughts and prayers.
The Times They Are A Changing (Their Story Once Again)
A few months back the newyorktimes were all over Bush like White on a House for trying to track the finances of terrorist organizations. You remember the story. Bush is bad, infringing civil liberties, blah fuckin blah.
Well now it seems they think we are not doing enough...
"The document tracing the money flows acknowledges that investigators have had limited success in penetrating or choking off terrorist financing networks. The report says American efforts to follow the financing trails have been hamstrung by several factors. They include a weak Iraqi government and its nascent intelligence agencies; a lack of communication between American agencies, and between the Americans and the Iraqis; and the nature of the insurgent economy itself, primarily sustained by couriers carrying cash rather than more easily traceable means involving banks and the hawala money transfer networks traditional in the Middle East.
“Efforts to identify key financial facilitators, funding sources and transfer mechanisms are yielding some results, but we need to improve our understanding of how terrorist and insurgent cells interact, how their financial networks vary from province to province or city to city and how they use their funds,” the report says. It also says the United States must help the Iraqi government “to excise corrupt officials from its law enforcement and security services and its ministries” and “to prevent smuggled Iraqi oil from being sold within their borders.”
link
Notice they didnt mention how they themselves have hindered this effort by revealing top secret American plans to monitor the banking transactions of known terrorist orgs. It seems that once again the newyorktimes wants to be able to bash Bush and eat it too. Jackasses!
EE-Aw!!!
Well now it seems they think we are not doing enough...
"The document tracing the money flows acknowledges that investigators have had limited success in penetrating or choking off terrorist financing networks. The report says American efforts to follow the financing trails have been hamstrung by several factors. They include a weak Iraqi government and its nascent intelligence agencies; a lack of communication between American agencies, and between the Americans and the Iraqis; and the nature of the insurgent economy itself, primarily sustained by couriers carrying cash rather than more easily traceable means involving banks and the hawala money transfer networks traditional in the Middle East.
“Efforts to identify key financial facilitators, funding sources and transfer mechanisms are yielding some results, but we need to improve our understanding of how terrorist and insurgent cells interact, how their financial networks vary from province to province or city to city and how they use their funds,” the report says. It also says the United States must help the Iraqi government “to excise corrupt officials from its law enforcement and security services and its ministries” and “to prevent smuggled Iraqi oil from being sold within their borders.”
link
Notice they didnt mention how they themselves have hindered this effort by revealing top secret American plans to monitor the banking transactions of known terrorist orgs. It seems that once again the newyorktimes wants to be able to bash Bush and eat it too. Jackasses!
EE-Aw!!!
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