Until further notice the official background music of The Aurora will be provided by the legendary travellin' Donegal fiddler....none other than yer man there John Doherty (1895-1980). The player will be in the Welcome Box to the right (just hit play) and will be updated when Im good 'n gosh dang ready. Enjoy.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Floating Bow
Until further notice the official background music of The Aurora will be provided by the legendary travellin' Donegal fiddler....none other than yer man there John Doherty (1895-1980). The player will be in the Welcome Box to the right (just hit play) and will be updated when Im good 'n gosh dang ready. Enjoy.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Union Made
Gotta love my New York City taxes at work. And these knuckleheads went on strike for what again? The funny thing here is that I dont imagine any real disciplinary action being taken against him HOWEVER that is if he didnt make a crucifix...so in other words... he's screwed.Nobody puts JC in the token booth.
Which for some reason reminds me of an exchange between Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr in the comedic classic Cannonball Run...
Sammy: We've got a secret weapon. God is our co-pilot!
The Greek: You'll need him
Dean: God is our copilot?
Sammy: Uh huh...
Dean: Remember our car?
Sammy: Uh huh...
Dean: Two seats?
Sammy: Two seats...
Dean: Where's he gonna sit? (smacks Sammy in face)
Dean: Where's he gonna sit? (smacks Sammy in face)
story
Monday, January 29, 2007
Red Is The New Black
I really could care less whether or not Jane Fonda has a motor in the back of her Honda, but if the anti-American anti-"war" leadership wants to put her up as a figurehead and the mainstream media continue to airbrush her sorry pinko ass...then The Aurora will be here to tell the truth.
Jane Fonda NEVER apologized for her treasonous actions in Vietnam. Thats right treasonous. She gave "comfort and aid" to the enemy during a time of war. That my friends is treason. Pretty black and white...uh oh the big bad conservative talked about color -- there I go again with my rampant racism.
Yes its true that three times she has publicly acknowledged according to my recollection and research being photographed (getting caught) on an anti-aircraft gun, and each and every time she did so happened to coincide with a commercial effort that she was involved in being threatened with a public boycott from Veterans Group. Never did she apologize for her actions or words against our troops and the make-outs with the commie cong (no relation to Tommy Chong) at socialism point...only for getting caught on camera.
I dont see the controversy of her appearance at an anti-war rally this past weekend, she fits right in -- she is the face of this movement, why deny it. Oh yeah thats what they do -- deny the truth.
For instance...
Yes I called the anti-war movement anti-American, and the reason I do so is rather simple and not because I am a Bushite (didnt vote for him) Republican (registered Conservative) simpleton (debatable) troglodyte (ok ya got me there) ... its because its the truth.
I really do feel* sorry for those of our liberal readers in Auroraland and abroad that take offense at those remarks -- I really do. I feel even worse that so many, perhaps even good intentioned Americans are being used as pawns in a sophisticated media supported ruse to destroy The United States of America, but that is exactly what they are doing. Just as a practical matter you can not take any group seriously that wants an end to US involvement in Iraq yet demands the US get involved in Darfur because of the civil war or sectarian strife or quagmire, whatever the hippies call it these days.
Its all about Bush and its all about being the contrarian to American interests -- I can assure if the situations were reversed the placards would read "Free Kirkuk" and "Bush Lied Sudan Cried"
Lets take a closer look at some of key players...
Code Pink: Gotta admit sounds good on paper, women in pink, sometimes wearing lingerie --how could I possibly have a problem with that. Well for one theyre not attractive and two they are led by noted socialist anarchist Medea Benjamin and eco-terrorist Jodie Evans. Neither of these women are pacifists as they have both publicy endorsed violence against "symbols of capitalism" as witnessed at numerous WTO protests around the globe.
International Answer: Act now to stop war and end racism. I can get behind that message even as a conservative. Nobody wants war and I wish we did not have to fight them, but in theory the realist knows they are a necessary evil and regarding the current world situation the practical reality is that war was waged on us and it is our duty to defend ourselves and uphold peace treaties (that Saddam had violated) and ceasefires negotiated with hostile nations. When the jihadists throw up the white flag I will be more than willing to accept their terms of surrender. Until then...Kill 'Em All. And it goes without saying as a minority (straight caucasion conservative) I abhor racism and pray for the day of a more tolerant nation where my people will be free from persecution. Did I mention that they are a front group for the World Workers Party and vocal supporters of Kim Jong Il, yet another organization that advocates violence against American interests.
United For Peace and Justice: Co-founded by American Communist Party member Leslie Cagan and acts as an umbrella group for anti-American groups too numerous to mention. She also is no peacenik and openly endorses armed struggle so long as its under the banner of revolucion (see: Che and Fidel).
Youre god damn right Im gonna throw the babies out with the bathwater. Besides the recurring themes of marxism, communism, socialism, anarchy, violence, and horrendous body odor .... they all have one unifying bond that connects them -- They are frauds. They do not care about "Peace" or Iraq or any other nation for that matter (well except the commie ones). Theirs is an ideology of anti-Americanism plain and simple.
Like I said earlier in the post I do not doubt the sincerity of some of the pawns in this game and although I think they are pussies of political convenience -- their heart is probably in the right place but ignorance is not a defense and if you lay down with commies youre going to wake up with fleas (whats that? is that right? they already had headlice -- nevermind)
Let me try another...
You can lead a commie to water but "on no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason" ...too Strangelovian?
Ok one more...
Stop being such god damn commie bastards ya frickin hippies
EE-Aw
*by feel, what I really meant is that I could give two shits
Jane Fonda NEVER apologized for her treasonous actions in Vietnam. Thats right treasonous. She gave "comfort and aid" to the enemy during a time of war. That my friends is treason. Pretty black and white...uh oh the big bad conservative talked about color -- there I go again with my rampant racism.
Yes its true that three times she has publicly acknowledged according to my recollection and research being photographed (getting caught) on an anti-aircraft gun, and each and every time she did so happened to coincide with a commercial effort that she was involved in being threatened with a public boycott from Veterans Group. Never did she apologize for her actions or words against our troops and the make-outs with the commie cong (no relation to Tommy Chong) at socialism point...only for getting caught on camera.
I dont see the controversy of her appearance at an anti-war rally this past weekend, she fits right in -- she is the face of this movement, why deny it. Oh yeah thats what they do -- deny the truth.
For instance...
Yes I called the anti-war movement anti-American, and the reason I do so is rather simple and not because I am a Bushite (didnt vote for him) Republican (registered Conservative) simpleton (debatable) troglodyte (ok ya got me there) ... its because its the truth.
I really do feel* sorry for those of our liberal readers in Auroraland and abroad that take offense at those remarks -- I really do. I feel even worse that so many, perhaps even good intentioned Americans are being used as pawns in a sophisticated media supported ruse to destroy The United States of America, but that is exactly what they are doing. Just as a practical matter you can not take any group seriously that wants an end to US involvement in Iraq yet demands the US get involved in Darfur because of the civil war or sectarian strife or quagmire, whatever the hippies call it these days.
Its all about Bush and its all about being the contrarian to American interests -- I can assure if the situations were reversed the placards would read "Free Kirkuk" and "Bush Lied Sudan Cried"
Lets take a closer look at some of key players...
Code Pink: Gotta admit sounds good on paper, women in pink, sometimes wearing lingerie --how could I possibly have a problem with that. Well for one theyre not attractive and two they are led by noted socialist anarchist Medea Benjamin and eco-terrorist Jodie Evans. Neither of these women are pacifists as they have both publicy endorsed violence against "symbols of capitalism" as witnessed at numerous WTO protests around the globe.
International Answer: Act now to stop war and end racism. I can get behind that message even as a conservative. Nobody wants war and I wish we did not have to fight them, but in theory the realist knows they are a necessary evil and regarding the current world situation the practical reality is that war was waged on us and it is our duty to defend ourselves and uphold peace treaties (that Saddam had violated) and ceasefires negotiated with hostile nations. When the jihadists throw up the white flag I will be more than willing to accept their terms of surrender. Until then...Kill 'Em All. And it goes without saying as a minority (straight caucasion conservative) I abhor racism and pray for the day of a more tolerant nation where my people will be free from persecution. Did I mention that they are a front group for the World Workers Party and vocal supporters of Kim Jong Il, yet another organization that advocates violence against American interests.
United For Peace and Justice: Co-founded by American Communist Party member Leslie Cagan and acts as an umbrella group for anti-American groups too numerous to mention. She also is no peacenik and openly endorses armed struggle so long as its under the banner of revolucion (see: Che and Fidel).
Youre god damn right Im gonna throw the babies out with the bathwater. Besides the recurring themes of marxism, communism, socialism, anarchy, violence, and horrendous body odor .... they all have one unifying bond that connects them -- They are frauds. They do not care about "Peace" or Iraq or any other nation for that matter (well except the commie ones). Theirs is an ideology of anti-Americanism plain and simple.
Like I said earlier in the post I do not doubt the sincerity of some of the pawns in this game and although I think they are pussies of political convenience -- their heart is probably in the right place but ignorance is not a defense and if you lay down with commies youre going to wake up with fleas (whats that? is that right? they already had headlice -- nevermind)
Let me try another...
You can lead a commie to water but "on no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason" ...too Strangelovian?
Ok one more...
Stop being such god damn commie bastards ya frickin hippies
EE-Aw
*by feel, what I really meant is that I could give two shits
Saturday, January 27, 2007
History Is Re-Written By Those With Shredders
Im not a big docu-drama fan so I didnt see "Path to 9/11" when it first aired on ABC and I wouldnt normally watch Sean Hannity's new show on Sunday nights...but I think I might this week.
Seems the Clintonistas are up in arms again that Fox is going to be airing the footage that Bubba et al forced ABC to censor out of the original movie and are once again trying to suppress free speech.
"This movie was a completely false piece of right-wing propaganda when it was on ABC, and it will be exactly the same on Fox if they make the unfortunate choice to air it, though it should be right at home," said Jay Carson, a Clinton spokesman.
Well if weve learned anything from Clinton and the FOB's is that once they start bemoaning the VRWC....is that the accusations being leveled are usually true -- see: Flowers, Jones, Lewinsky, illegal bombing of Kosovo.
Now I would like to be clear on this. I do not blame any Americans for the acts of murderous islamofascist cowards, however much I may disagree with their politics. The blame lies squarely on obl and the terrorists.
but....
Here is what we do know......
February 26, 1993 alqaeda funded Islamist terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Clinton called the cops, who with the exception of releasing Abdul Rahman Yasin, did an outstanding job solving the "crime" aspect of the attack -- but did next to nothing to address the declaration of war against us. (Clinton responded by ordering the murder of American citizens in Waco, TX the following week)
On October 3, 1993 The Battle of Mogadishu commenced and resulted in eighteen dead American soldiers and three days later a Clinton ordered retreat.
The attack on the Khobar Towers Saudi Arabia in '96 killing nineteen American service men went unanswered.
Beginning in 1996 the Sudanese government offered Clinton a treasure trove of information on bin laden. He refused. As Tim Carney the ambassador to the Sudan stated:
"The fact is, they were opening the doors, and we werent taking them up on it. The U.S. failed to reciprocate Sudan's willingness to engage us on some serious questions of terrorism. We can speculate that this failure had serious implications at least for what happened at the U.S. Embassies in 1998. In any case, the U.S. lost access to a mine of material on bin Laden and his organization. --- It was worse than a crime. It was a fuckup."
In 1998 three US embassies in Africa were bombed by Islamist terrorists resulting in the death of 257 persons. Clinton responded by writing a strongly worded Executive Order 13099 (dont do biz with bad guys) and authorizing the bombing of an aspirin factory.
Up until 1998, the Kosovo Liberation Army were classified as a terrorist organization as Robert Gelbard envoy to the Balkans under Clinton described them:
"without any questions, a terrorist group"
Yet in 1998 the bin laden backed KLA were removed from the State Department's terrorism list, and the following year received training (in violation of aforementioned Executive Order 13099) from US agents leading up to the illegal, unconstitutional, and lacking Congressional approval bombing campaign of Kosovo.
What we know of Clintons foreign policy of appeasement and non-action is damning enough. When liberals defend Bubba, they do so without looking at the big picture. When Clinton lied, they cry it was just sex. Well yes it was just a blowjob in one instance, and in and of itself I have no problem with that -- The Aurora have always been pro-fellatio (our taste in women just happens to be more discerning) but it was so much more. The shady land deals, the shady commodity deals, and the shady abuse of gov't agencies (primarily the IRS) to investigate and persecute foes etc etcetera.
At the very least -- the resulting damage control prevented Clinton from being an effective leader in a time of war and the very worst his administration aggressively pursued a course of action resulting in the murder of innocent Christians (see: KLA and Waco, TX) and his non action (see: all other attacks) only acted to embolden our enemies.
I know I know Clinton was charming, our first black sax playing President. A "master politician" ...thats just frickin great, but even the most devout apologist can not defend his track record with a straight face -- as it is undeniable that his foreign policy was, to paraphrase the Ambassador to the Sudan Tim Carney.... "a fuckup".
What concerns and troubles me is what we dont know -- and for that Clinton has Sandy Berger to thank and its a shame that the mainstream media does not give the Berger story a fraction of the coverage that they devote to Scooter. We must push for the truth to be told and for Berger to uphold the conditions of his plea bargain and answer these question under polygraph examination.
This has nothing (ok very little) to do with gop v dem as it does with right versus wrong -- especially when the lives and safety of Americans are at stake. You can not have it both ways by destroying classified information and then try to censor people when they try to document and report on said events. The dog ate my homework aint gonna cut it.
I have a hunch, and its just a hunch that it wasnt love letters to Lewinsky that were destroyed...and it's high time we found out exactly how complicit and incompetent the previous administration were regarding attacks against our country.
Seems the Clintonistas are up in arms again that Fox is going to be airing the footage that Bubba et al forced ABC to censor out of the original movie and are once again trying to suppress free speech.
"This movie was a completely false piece of right-wing propaganda when it was on ABC, and it will be exactly the same on Fox if they make the unfortunate choice to air it, though it should be right at home," said Jay Carson, a Clinton spokesman.
Well if weve learned anything from Clinton and the FOB's is that once they start bemoaning the VRWC....is that the accusations being leveled are usually true -- see: Flowers, Jones, Lewinsky, illegal bombing of Kosovo.
Now I would like to be clear on this. I do not blame any Americans for the acts of murderous islamofascist cowards, however much I may disagree with their politics. The blame lies squarely on obl and the terrorists.
but....
Here is what we do know......
February 26, 1993 alqaeda funded Islamist terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Clinton called the cops, who with the exception of releasing Abdul Rahman Yasin, did an outstanding job solving the "crime" aspect of the attack -- but did next to nothing to address the declaration of war against us. (Clinton responded by ordering the murder of American citizens in Waco, TX the following week)
On October 3, 1993 The Battle of Mogadishu commenced and resulted in eighteen dead American soldiers and three days later a Clinton ordered retreat.
The attack on the Khobar Towers Saudi Arabia in '96 killing nineteen American service men went unanswered.
Beginning in 1996 the Sudanese government offered Clinton a treasure trove of information on bin laden. He refused. As Tim Carney the ambassador to the Sudan stated:
"The fact is, they were opening the doors, and we werent taking them up on it. The U.S. failed to reciprocate Sudan's willingness to engage us on some serious questions of terrorism. We can speculate that this failure had serious implications at least for what happened at the U.S. Embassies in 1998. In any case, the U.S. lost access to a mine of material on bin Laden and his organization. --- It was worse than a crime. It was a fuckup."
In 1998 three US embassies in Africa were bombed by Islamist terrorists resulting in the death of 257 persons. Clinton responded by writing a strongly worded Executive Order 13099 (dont do biz with bad guys) and authorizing the bombing of an aspirin factory.
Up until 1998, the Kosovo Liberation Army were classified as a terrorist organization as Robert Gelbard envoy to the Balkans under Clinton described them:
"without any questions, a terrorist group"
Yet in 1998 the bin laden backed KLA were removed from the State Department's terrorism list, and the following year received training (in violation of aforementioned Executive Order 13099) from US agents leading up to the illegal, unconstitutional, and lacking Congressional approval bombing campaign of Kosovo.
What we know of Clintons foreign policy of appeasement and non-action is damning enough. When liberals defend Bubba, they do so without looking at the big picture. When Clinton lied, they cry it was just sex. Well yes it was just a blowjob in one instance, and in and of itself I have no problem with that -- The Aurora have always been pro-fellatio (our taste in women just happens to be more discerning) but it was so much more. The shady land deals, the shady commodity deals, and the shady abuse of gov't agencies (primarily the IRS) to investigate and persecute foes etc etcetera.
At the very least -- the resulting damage control prevented Clinton from being an effective leader in a time of war and the very worst his administration aggressively pursued a course of action resulting in the murder of innocent Christians (see: KLA and Waco, TX) and his non action (see: all other attacks) only acted to embolden our enemies.
I know I know Clinton was charming, our first black sax playing President. A "master politician" ...thats just frickin great, but even the most devout apologist can not defend his track record with a straight face -- as it is undeniable that his foreign policy was, to paraphrase the Ambassador to the Sudan Tim Carney.... "a fuckup".
What concerns and troubles me is what we dont know -- and for that Clinton has Sandy Berger to thank and its a shame that the mainstream media does not give the Berger story a fraction of the coverage that they devote to Scooter. We must push for the truth to be told and for Berger to uphold the conditions of his plea bargain and answer these question under polygraph examination.
This has nothing (ok very little) to do with gop v dem as it does with right versus wrong -- especially when the lives and safety of Americans are at stake. You can not have it both ways by destroying classified information and then try to censor people when they try to document and report on said events. The dog ate my homework aint gonna cut it.
I have a hunch, and its just a hunch that it wasnt love letters to Lewinsky that were destroyed...and it's high time we found out exactly how complicit and incompetent the previous administration were regarding attacks against our country.
Friday, January 26, 2007
No They Don't Care.
"These politicians who think we can win a war by committee. Do they even know that in the last two weeks we have set AQI (Al Qaeda in Iraq) and the Mahdi Army both back on their heels?" he answered. I was silent, so he continued, "Is there anyone in Washington who understands what this means? AQI terrorists are running like rats out of Ramadi. And the Mahdi Army is being cleaned out of Baghdad. Do they know how much harder all this rhetoric makes our job?"
Continued
Continued
More Berger Lies
I'm sure a lot of people are tired of hearing about Sandy Berger, oh wait, we're NOT hearing about him. I can't understand why the ny slimes wouldn't be doing stories about a former national security advisor who STOLE AND DESTROYED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS DURING WAR TIME. How about NBC? isn't this interesting? CBS? Katie what's up? Well at least we have cable news to cover it right? Hey Keith Overbite what's up with Sandy Berger? How about Mathews? That's hardball? why is she pitching underhand?
No, it's up to talk radio and the blogosphere to keep this story going, but i'm sure there's no media bias or anything.
So did you hear about the top government official that just got a year in jail for taking classified documents home? No, he didn't stuff them in his socks, he didn't hide them by a construction trailer and return later to retrieve them, he didn't alter or destroy them. His story was that he was simply "careless" and didn't realize he had taken them. Sound familiar?
WASHINGTON -- I guess 3,500 classified documents would be too many to stuff into your clothing if you were a high-ranking government official and wanted to take them home for leisure reading. Perhaps that explains why this week one of the State Departments most knowledgeable experts on China, Donald W. Keyser, a Foreign Service officer with three decades of experience, was sentenced to a year in the hoosegow after these documents were found in his Fairfax County residence.
Read Tyrrell Here:
No, it's up to talk radio and the blogosphere to keep this story going, but i'm sure there's no media bias or anything.
So did you hear about the top government official that just got a year in jail for taking classified documents home? No, he didn't stuff them in his socks, he didn't hide them by a construction trailer and return later to retrieve them, he didn't alter or destroy them. His story was that he was simply "careless" and didn't realize he had taken them. Sound familiar?
WASHINGTON -- I guess 3,500 classified documents would be too many to stuff into your clothing if you were a high-ranking government official and wanted to take them home for leisure reading. Perhaps that explains why this week one of the State Departments most knowledgeable experts on China, Donald W. Keyser, a Foreign Service officer with three decades of experience, was sentenced to a year in the hoosegow after these documents were found in his Fairfax County residence.
Read Tyrrell Here:
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Give That Man His Money
Congratulations to Willie Randolph on doubling his salary for a job well done.Thats the beauty of basing compensation on merit. It has nothing to do with his gender, his race, his creed or some bullshit tenured union contract . When given a chance to manage a big league team...Randolph delivered and "Willieball" had the Amazins one base hit from the World Series.
See you at Shea on Opening Day April 9th!
Thats Why They Call Me....
Unlike the previous post linking an article by Ann Coulter criticizing the "feminist" Hillary Clinton for being a fraud and the hypocrisy of the media for selectively celebrating "multicultural milestones "....The Aurora has absolutely zero qualms about riding the coattails of smarter women. Chicks dig us and we dig them back.
On that note we are proud to introduce a new and stellar planet (sorry Pluto -- hit the bricks) to the Auroraverse and a must read article from ...... Villainous Company.
Time For A Gut Check, America
What is this nation made of?
What is so hard to understand about radical Islamofacism? We have been warned by friends.
We have been taunted by enemies....
cont'd
On that note we are proud to introduce a new and stellar planet (sorry Pluto -- hit the bricks) to the Auroraverse and a must read article from ...... Villainous Company.
Time For A Gut Check, America
What is this nation made of?
What is so hard to understand about radical Islamofacism? We have been warned by friends.
We have been taunted by enemies....
cont'd
Smart AND Funny
That's why i love this chick!
It's nice to have a president who is not so sleazy that not a single Supreme Court justice shows up for his State of the Union address (Bill Clinton, January 1999, when eight justices stayed away to protest Clinton's disregard for the law and David Souter skipped the speech to watch "Sex and the City").
Continued:
It's nice to have a president who is not so sleazy that not a single Supreme Court justice shows up for his State of the Union address (Bill Clinton, January 1999, when eight justices stayed away to protest Clinton's disregard for the law and David Souter skipped the speech to watch "Sex and the City").
Continued:
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Wake Up Right People
As discovered by Rhino
....by way of Alabama Improper , My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Raven
Take the pledge, and tell the NRSC:
"If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contributeto the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of thatCommittee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSCwill go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
Send it here:
NRSC
Ronald Reagan Republican Center
425 2nd Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202.675.6000
webmaster@gopsenators.com
Hugh Hewitt adds:
Then e-mail Senator McConnell and Senator Ensign, and tell them too. Senator McConnell’s phone number is (202)224-2541. Senator Ensign’s phone number is (202) 224-6244.
Still more about this from Hewitt HERE.
Make this a blog swarm–wake those bastards up!I am furious at their betrayal. Their damn Senate seats are nothing to me compared to national security and our military. Like those who lost in November, they are all replaceable. Hagel’s been a lost cause for a long time,but John Warner? Self-serving piece of shit. He’s no better than the other self-serving piece of shit Senator (Webb) in Virginia. They’re definitely two of a kind.I don’t even care if you want to copy this post in its entirety to yours, just get the word out. And WRITE/CALL the NRSC and Senate Republican leadership to put a stop to this bullshit appeasement! It has nothing to do with the war, and everything to do with self-preservation!"
Im in!
....by way of Alabama Improper , My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Raven
Take the pledge, and tell the NRSC:
"If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contributeto the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of thatCommittee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSCwill go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
Send it here:
NRSC
Ronald Reagan Republican Center
425 2nd Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202.675.6000
webmaster@gopsenators.com
Hugh Hewitt adds:
Then e-mail Senator McConnell and Senator Ensign, and tell them too. Senator McConnell’s phone number is (202)224-2541. Senator Ensign’s phone number is (202) 224-6244.
Still more about this from Hewitt HERE.
Make this a blog swarm–wake those bastards up!I am furious at their betrayal. Their damn Senate seats are nothing to me compared to national security and our military. Like those who lost in November, they are all replaceable. Hagel’s been a lost cause for a long time,but John Warner? Self-serving piece of shit. He’s no better than the other self-serving piece of shit Senator (Webb) in Virginia. They’re definitely two of a kind.I don’t even care if you want to copy this post in its entirety to yours, just get the word out. And WRITE/CALL the NRSC and Senate Republican leadership to put a stop to this bullshit appeasement! It has nothing to do with the war, and everything to do with self-preservation!"
Im in!
Americas Portfolio Is Strong To Very Strong
I have long accused liberal democrats of practicing a politics of empty catchphrase ideology and likewise The Aurora have had charges leveled against us that we are flag waving slogan wielding demagogues and that may very well be true. We believe strongly in what we state here and if there is a recurring theme it is by no accident.
Maybe we arent so different afterall, lets go to the tape ---
Whereas the liberal democrat consider alqaeda and the like to be freedom fighters and modern day minutemen who need a hug and understanding.
The Aurora knows them as evil terrorists that must be killed.
Whereas the liberal democrat think President Bush is a fucktarded nazi.
The Aurora understands that Bush is but a man and therefore not infallible however we believe he is doing his best to serve and protect our Country and although in disagreement on many issues (build the wall biotch) we give him our full support.
Whereas the liberal democrat says Bush lied.
The Aurora agrees with the worlds intelligence community's consensus that Saddam was in fact attempting to acquire weaponry to cause maximum damage to his enemies regardless of what Mr Valerie Plame thinks he overheard at afternoon tea in Niger.
Whereas the liberal democrat cry that this was an illegal reckless rush to war.
The Aurora understands the facts that dispute this and that Saddam Hussein is solely and squarely to blame. That he repeatedly violated UN Resolutions both during the current as well as the prior administration and only after prolonged and failed peaceful negotiations and unanimous UN approval and overwhelming Congressional support did we resort to a military solution.
Whereas the liberal democrat worships Cindy Sheehan.
The Aurora are deeply indebted and thankful for the sacrifice that brave men and women such as Army Spc. Casey Sheehan make daily inside and out of Iraq that enable knuckleheads such as us to live as free men safe from foreign aggression.
Whereas the liberal democrat bitch and moan about redeployment and phased withdrawal.
The Aurora root for Victory.
Yeah thats right Victory, we believe in it -- we have defined it on numerous occasions and how it can be accomplished. We now stand up for it with Our Country, Our Troops and our President and are supporting the surge and believe that now that we have taken the cuffs of our soldiers that it can be successful.
The liberal democrat sits down. Who the fuck does that? Let me answer that --- the liberal democrat leadership does, they sit down for victory as demonstrated at last nights SOTU.
If that means that we are accused of being stupid unfeeling chickenhawks, no more than a composite of L Frank Baum's (big ups Chittenango) characters in his populist parable...so be it, we already know what up with Kansas and dont need no charlatan behind a curtain in a make believe magical socialist land to give us a brain a heart or some courage to understand that.....
"...whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure." GWB
Hear fuckin hear! Is that so hard to understand? Agree or disagree with this war all you want, but realize that the enemy is watching and that the wise words of Aesop......
"United we stand, divided we fall"
Still ring true today.
So get with the fricki program already. Ive been to peace rallies and ya gosh dang hippies are still singing Lennon's mantra in Strawberry Fields...look where thats got us. Theyve bomb our ships and embassies, they murder innocent Americans and our allies and have attacked us on our soil not once but twice. Apparently appeasement didnt work. So how bout it....
"Give it a chance" GWB
Victory that is. I can assure its better than the liberal democrat plan.
EE-Aw!!!
*This straw man is a composite of actual statements or sentiments made by actual persons in a democrat party leadership position
Maybe we arent so different afterall, lets go to the tape ---
Whereas the liberal democrat consider alqaeda and the like to be freedom fighters and modern day minutemen who need a hug and understanding.
The Aurora knows them as evil terrorists that must be killed.
Whereas the liberal democrat think President Bush is a fucktarded nazi.
The Aurora understands that Bush is but a man and therefore not infallible however we believe he is doing his best to serve and protect our Country and although in disagreement on many issues (build the wall biotch) we give him our full support.
Whereas the liberal democrat says Bush lied.
The Aurora agrees with the worlds intelligence community's consensus that Saddam was in fact attempting to acquire weaponry to cause maximum damage to his enemies regardless of what Mr Valerie Plame thinks he overheard at afternoon tea in Niger.
Whereas the liberal democrat cry that this was an illegal reckless rush to war.
The Aurora understands the facts that dispute this and that Saddam Hussein is solely and squarely to blame. That he repeatedly violated UN Resolutions both during the current as well as the prior administration and only after prolonged and failed peaceful negotiations and unanimous UN approval and overwhelming Congressional support did we resort to a military solution.
Whereas the liberal democrat worships Cindy Sheehan.
The Aurora are deeply indebted and thankful for the sacrifice that brave men and women such as Army Spc. Casey Sheehan make daily inside and out of Iraq that enable knuckleheads such as us to live as free men safe from foreign aggression.
Whereas the liberal democrat bitch and moan about redeployment and phased withdrawal.
The Aurora root for Victory.
Yeah thats right Victory, we believe in it -- we have defined it on numerous occasions and how it can be accomplished. We now stand up for it with Our Country, Our Troops and our President and are supporting the surge and believe that now that we have taken the cuffs of our soldiers that it can be successful.
The liberal democrat sits down. Who the fuck does that? Let me answer that --- the liberal democrat leadership does, they sit down for victory as demonstrated at last nights SOTU.
If that means that we are accused of being stupid unfeeling chickenhawks, no more than a composite of L Frank Baum's (big ups Chittenango) characters in his populist parable...so be it, we already know what up with Kansas and dont need no charlatan behind a curtain in a make believe magical socialist land to give us a brain a heart or some courage to understand that.....
"...whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure." GWB
Hear fuckin hear! Is that so hard to understand? Agree or disagree with this war all you want, but realize that the enemy is watching and that the wise words of Aesop......
"United we stand, divided we fall"
Still ring true today.
So get with the fricki program already. Ive been to peace rallies and ya gosh dang hippies are still singing Lennon's mantra in Strawberry Fields...look where thats got us. Theyve bomb our ships and embassies, they murder innocent Americans and our allies and have attacked us on our soil not once but twice. Apparently appeasement didnt work. So how bout it....
"Give it a chance" GWB
Victory that is. I can assure its better than the liberal democrat plan.
EE-Aw!!!
*This straw man is a composite of actual statements or sentiments made by actual persons in a democrat party leadership position
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Representin'
Tomorrow we will go into a more detailed discussion of tonights, in my opinion excellent State of the Union speech by President George W Bush but for now Im only going to address one detail and Im going to stay positive as there will be time enough to bash the hippies later.Shout out to subway hero Wesley Autry (not Jerrod ya tubby bastards) directing air pounds towards Bush, hugging the soldier next to him and going out of his way to acknowledge First Lady Laura Bush. Class.
Because thats how we do cuz....
....New York City in the House.
I cant help myself....Kucinich is a jackass. It seems that face time on national television is more important than his personal and political convictions...either that or he thought it was karaoke night and just wanted to break out a new sea chanty.
I appreciate the respect that he showed Pres. Bush, but how can a man that bashes the President constantly then turn around and behave like a groupie at a Donsky concert. Oh yeah, hes a democrat aka a fraud.
...but I guess you do have to give the little munchkin some credit for being able to navigate through the normal sized folks to get not one but two handshakes from the President.
What Is Dreadlock Rastas Alex?
From tonights post game exchange on MSNBC after Overbite's veiled whack of President Millard Fillmore.
Tim Russert: You know what Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland have in common...?
Brian Williams: Buffalo, NY
Chris Matthews: Yeah one was born there and one was killed there. (both wrong)
HUH???
...and another thing Overbite -- You mess with Fillmore you mess with me and you will feel the full wrath of the Finger Lakes cuz if you got beef chief Im knocking out teeth keith.
...and another another thing Russert -- As long as Im alive the Buffalo Bills will NEVER win the Super Bowl..you got that? Never!!!*
EE-Aw
*line stolen from the X-Files Smoking Man
Tim Russert: You know what Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland have in common...?
Brian Williams: Buffalo, NY
Chris Matthews: Yeah one was born there and one was killed there. (both wrong)
HUH???
...and another thing Overbite -- You mess with Fillmore you mess with me and you will feel the full wrath of the Finger Lakes cuz if you got beef chief Im knocking out teeth keith.
...and another another thing Russert -- As long as Im alive the Buffalo Bills will NEVER win the Super Bowl..you got that? Never!!!*
EE-Aw
*line stolen from the X-Files Smoking Man
Have You Heard the News?
For the first time ever there will be a black head coach in the superbowl, 2 actually.
There's a lot of talk about hoping for a day when black coaches in the Super Bowl won't be a big deal, when we won't find it necessary to refer to a coach as a "black coach" (or any person by their race, for that matter).
Read Michael Smith Here:
There's a lot of talk about hoping for a day when black coaches in the Super Bowl won't be a big deal, when we won't find it necessary to refer to a coach as a "black coach" (or any person by their race, for that matter).
Read Michael Smith Here:
Who Wants another Vietnam?
Well the dems do of course. You don't believe me? Well lets hear it from the horses mouth then.
Asked on CNN on Sunday if he wanted Congress to cut off funding for our forces in Iraq, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy remarked:
"Yes, ultimately, I do. I mean, this is the only way we stopped Vietnam. We had a lot of people who said they were opposed to it, but when we finally had a vote in April 1975, a key vote on the power of the purse, that's what stopped it."
Continued:
Asked on CNN on Sunday if he wanted Congress to cut off funding for our forces in Iraq, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy remarked:
"Yes, ultimately, I do. I mean, this is the only way we stopped Vietnam. We had a lot of people who said they were opposed to it, but when we finally had a vote in April 1975, a key vote on the power of the purse, that's what stopped it."
Continued:
Bunch Of Frickin Chihuahuas
Regarding the current pusillanimous nonbinding resolution on Iraq and the politicians behind it......
"Its like barking but on paper"
-Tucker Carslon
"Balls Give Orders"
-Tony Montana
"Symbols are for Zildjian"
-Donkeyhue
"Its like barking but on paper"
-Tucker Carslon
"Balls Give Orders"
-Tony Montana
"Symbols are for Zildjian"
-Donkeyhue
Monday, January 22, 2007
Something Smells Fishy In Samoa And It Aint The Tuna
"The Pelosi House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on a rule change that will give non-members of the House a vote. The change would give the right to vote on the House floor to the five delegates from American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
You've probably already guessed the reason: Four out of the five are Democrats. But here's something you might not have considered: The Pelosi bill also makes a mockery of one person, one vote.
The average congressional district has about 630,000 people. But the Pelosi bill would give an equal vote to American Samoa, which is 91 percent smaller than the average state congressional district.
What's even more outrageous is that American Samoa pays no federal taxes. So what the House voting change amounts to is representation without taxation -- which would be great, if we could all have it. But as it stands, the Pelosi bill makes your vote only 1/10th as important as the people living in tax-free American Samoa. It is the same territory Pelosi tried to exclude from the minimum wage bill that just passed the Pelosi House.
This is profoundly wrong. There are no provisions for the territories' cancelling the votes of states. There is a process for becoming a state, and to have full power in the American system you have to be in a state.
The Democrats tried this same gimmick in 1993. You can read my floor speech from that time here. We promptly took it out of the rules when we were sworn in in 1995. "
You've probably already guessed the reason: Four out of the five are Democrats. But here's something you might not have considered: The Pelosi bill also makes a mockery of one person, one vote.
The average congressional district has about 630,000 people. But the Pelosi bill would give an equal vote to American Samoa, which is 91 percent smaller than the average state congressional district.
What's even more outrageous is that American Samoa pays no federal taxes. So what the House voting change amounts to is representation without taxation -- which would be great, if we could all have it. But as it stands, the Pelosi bill makes your vote only 1/10th as important as the people living in tax-free American Samoa. It is the same territory Pelosi tried to exclude from the minimum wage bill that just passed the Pelosi House.
This is profoundly wrong. There are no provisions for the territories' cancelling the votes of states. There is a process for becoming a state, and to have full power in the American system you have to be in a state.
The Democrats tried this same gimmick in 1993. You can read my floor speech from that time here. We promptly took it out of the rules when we were sworn in in 1995. "
---Newt
Try To Picture The Scene...
There's a soldier in Iraq. It's late at night and he's hunkered down with his platoon and most of the other men are sleeping. He's not alone but he's lonely. He's been in Iraq for over almost a year now and he's tired. He's tired of the living conditions, he's tired of the food, he thinks about all of the holidays that he's spent here instead of at home, he's tired of the roadside bombs going off in the middle of the night and the bullets wizzing past his head during the day, and he's scared that he might die here. He wishes he could just leave and go home. He misses his home and his wife, he misses his children and parents. He tries hard to not let the doubt creep into his mind but it's there and he knows all of the other men feel it to and the questions keep coming back to him.....
Can we win?Why are we here? Can we win? Why haven't we been able to secure this city? Can we win? How long will we be here? Can we win? What are we fighting for? Can we win? How many more men will we lose today? Can we win?
This soldier is lost so he decides to look for inspiration and gets online to check out the news from around the world. He's looking for inspiration (and porn) so he goes to the major U.S. websites and TV news channels.
He checks the websites of the NY Slimes, ABC news, NBC news, CBS news, (cbs still has news right?) he goes to CNN, the evil FOX news website, and he's one of the three people who tune in to keith overbites countdown to no ratings (props to the great one). He checks out Newsweek and Time.
The theme song is from Styxx: "The headlines read these are the worst of times"
"He (Bush) has to answer for his war. He has dug a hole so deep he can't even see the light on this ... It's a historic blunder" Nancy Pelosi
"Our troops have become the primary target of the insurgency," Murtha said in a Capitol news conference that left him in tears. Islamic insurgents "are united against U.S. forces, and we have become a catalyst for violence," he said. ". . . It's time to bring them home." John Murtha
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the – of – the historical customs, religious customs," Kerry said Sunday. "Whether you like it or not ... Iraqis should be doing that." John Kerry
"The idea that we are going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong," Howard Dean
"There was no reason for us to become involved in Iraq recently. That was a war based on lies and misinterpretations from London and from Washington" Jimmy Carter
"Iraq is a quagmire like vietnam" (Pick any democrat in congress)
"Time Table" (pick any democrat again)
"You've got to be able to pay for the war, don't you?" Charlie Rangel
There's more, but that's all it takes. He's found what he was looking for. (inspiration not porn) The al qaeda soldier can go to sleep now, his doubts erased for one more night, he is reinspired. He may not have won any battles but he knows that if he just holds out, if he just kills a few more of the enemy, the political leadership will abandon them and he can win this war.
Can we win?Why are we here? Can we win? Why haven't we been able to secure this city? Can we win? How long will we be here? Can we win? What are we fighting for? Can we win? How many more men will we lose today? Can we win?
This soldier is lost so he decides to look for inspiration and gets online to check out the news from around the world. He's looking for inspiration (and porn) so he goes to the major U.S. websites and TV news channels.
He checks the websites of the NY Slimes, ABC news, NBC news, CBS news, (cbs still has news right?) he goes to CNN, the evil FOX news website, and he's one of the three people who tune in to keith overbites countdown to no ratings (props to the great one). He checks out Newsweek and Time.
The theme song is from Styxx: "The headlines read these are the worst of times"
"He (Bush) has to answer for his war. He has dug a hole so deep he can't even see the light on this ... It's a historic blunder" Nancy Pelosi
"Our troops have become the primary target of the insurgency," Murtha said in a Capitol news conference that left him in tears. Islamic insurgents "are united against U.S. forces, and we have become a catalyst for violence," he said. ". . . It's time to bring them home." John Murtha
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the – of – the historical customs, religious customs," Kerry said Sunday. "Whether you like it or not ... Iraqis should be doing that." John Kerry
"The idea that we are going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong," Howard Dean
"There was no reason for us to become involved in Iraq recently. That was a war based on lies and misinterpretations from London and from Washington" Jimmy Carter
"Iraq is a quagmire like vietnam" (Pick any democrat in congress)
"Time Table" (pick any democrat again)
"You've got to be able to pay for the war, don't you?" Charlie Rangel
There's more, but that's all it takes. He's found what he was looking for. (inspiration not porn) The al qaeda soldier can go to sleep now, his doubts erased for one more night, he is reinspired. He may not have won any battles but he knows that if he just holds out, if he just kills a few more of the enemy, the political leadership will abandon them and he can win this war.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
End Of The Road?
This is a photograph I took in Ireland, and have hanging in my home. Someone once remarked that it was depressing. I find it to be the exact opposite. The way I see it...yes its dark and gloomy and yes the road seems to be coming to an end, but if you look further out you can see the the whole world ahead of you. The again, maybe its because I know that my favorite pub is just down the hill.Friday, January 19, 2007
Buckle Of The Week
Well we had so much fun last time I posted a buckle I figured what the hay...lets do it again.
I hate hippies. Always have. There was a time in my youth that you may have even mistaken me for one, being the long haired dope smoking hilljack that I was, not to mention that Jon Fishman's father was my dentist so I was known to check out Phish shows at various bars throughout the Northeast as well as having a few dozen or so Grateful Dead shows under my belt.
You would have been wrong.
I remember the first "debate" that I had with a hippie-be like it was yesterday, although in their mind they were still in Haight Asbury twenty years past. Ok I get it the 60's were great, I saw the movie read the book...time to move on.
As I was saying....
Im at a party in the middle of the woods that some friends and I had cleared during our spare time thanks to the local police departments non-voluntary community service program. I think it was the Erie Canal Re-Beautification Project (big ups to the old ladies that made us sandwiches) but left unsupervised and finishing the work early each day, we just built a bunch of hidden snowmobile trails and party spots.
The beer balls were tapped the music was blasting smoke was rising and I dont mind saying so --- the chicks were digging me.
As I was often known to be at the time, I was in possession of some of the finest eco-friendly green products around, and as I have always been a generous man I was even more well known to share with any and all.
Well the pipe circled around until it hit a patchoulic patch of tie-dyed in wool free-loading hippies. They were aghast at my choice of pipeage which admittedly was some type of monstrosity and wanted to know what it was. Like any self respecting hilljack, I explained that I had carved my piece out of a deer's antler (drumroll please....and it only cost me a buck badump bump.)
They then immediately proceeded to call me a bambi killing redneck.
I calmly pointed out the hypocrisy of the animal products on their person, namely leather sandals and belts, and at least I was man enough to take matters into my own hands and not sub-contract my dirty work out to some third world country sweat shop, not to mention that they were partying in relative backwoods comfort and safety from pd harassment thanks to my hard work and that they were free to leave.
They didnt.
So I kicked the shit out of them.
As I have grown older and more mature I now use lyrical swords in the stead of my infamous ham hock hammers, but hippie hypocrisy remains to this day and as long as it does....I will be here to continue the fight.
I hate hippies. Always have. There was a time in my youth that you may have even mistaken me for one, being the long haired dope smoking hilljack that I was, not to mention that Jon Fishman's father was my dentist so I was known to check out Phish shows at various bars throughout the Northeast as well as having a few dozen or so Grateful Dead shows under my belt.
You would have been wrong.
I remember the first "debate" that I had with a hippie-be like it was yesterday, although in their mind they were still in Haight Asbury twenty years past. Ok I get it the 60's were great, I saw the movie read the book...time to move on.
As I was saying....
Im at a party in the middle of the woods that some friends and I had cleared during our spare time thanks to the local police departments non-voluntary community service program. I think it was the Erie Canal Re-Beautification Project (big ups to the old ladies that made us sandwiches) but left unsupervised and finishing the work early each day, we just built a bunch of hidden snowmobile trails and party spots.
The beer balls were tapped the music was blasting smoke was rising and I dont mind saying so --- the chicks were digging me.
As I was often known to be at the time, I was in possession of some of the finest eco-friendly green products around, and as I have always been a generous man I was even more well known to share with any and all.
Well the pipe circled around until it hit a patchoulic patch of tie-dyed in wool free-loading hippies. They were aghast at my choice of pipeage which admittedly was some type of monstrosity and wanted to know what it was. Like any self respecting hilljack, I explained that I had carved my piece out of a deer's antler (drumroll please....and it only cost me a buck badump bump.)
They then immediately proceeded to call me a bambi killing redneck.
I calmly pointed out the hypocrisy of the animal products on their person, namely leather sandals and belts, and at least I was man enough to take matters into my own hands and not sub-contract my dirty work out to some third world country sweat shop, not to mention that they were partying in relative backwoods comfort and safety from pd harassment thanks to my hard work and that they were free to leave.
They didnt.
So I kicked the shit out of them.
As I have grown older and more mature I now use lyrical swords in the stead of my infamous ham hock hammers, but hippie hypocrisy remains to this day and as long as it does....I will be here to continue the fight.
GOD BLESS THE U S of A
...and death to hippies
Thursday, January 18, 2007
DOTW
In an ongoing effort to not only enlighten and educate but entertain - The Aurora will be unveiling two new features in the upcoming weeks. We are proud to announce phase one. Ladies and gentlemen without further achoo....gesundheit. We present to you the...
Dick Of The Week
This was a hard one. (relax Anita) I had originally planned on naming Karl Kemp the first recipient of this prestigious award, but after watching Fox News tonight my hand was forced.
I dont regularly watch Fox. Its has nothing to do with politics, as the saying goes "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" so I watch the libs to see how they think (turns out that they dont) and the only conservatives I usually watch are Tucker, and if Im up Ill catch Brit on the replay.
That being said, Ive never liked O'Reilly, but he had Colbert on tonight so I wanted to check it out. Politically I probably side more with O'Reilly, that is if I thought he believed half of what he says, but since I thinks hes a pandering populist wannabe --- I dont.
On the other hand Colbert mocks conservatives like me daily and hes obviously your typical Peoples Republic Of The Upper West Side Of Manhattan commie, but the guy cracks me up --- and funny is funny. So I tuned in (Ill leave the turn on and dropping out to the hippies)
I dont know if anyone else watched The O'Reilly Factor but the interview sucked. It seems Bill is the only one that doesnt get that hes being goofed on, and gave me the impression that he wants credit for The Colbert Report's success. He acts as if he invented the wheel when the fact is hes just doing a second rate imitation of Bill Buckley and John McLaughlin himself.
One thing that stuck in my craw was when Colbert revealed his middle name was Tyrone. After every joke going over his head so far, this is what O'Reilly finally thought was a goof --- as everybody knows its a black mans name. When Colbert revealed that he was of Irish heritage...O'Reilly started screming at him that he was French. Huh?
The irony is that the O'Reillys, a sept of the O'Neills were native to County Tyrone themselves. Maybe he should have had a staffer google his guest beforehand. And another thing...lighten up.
So in the immortal words of Jeffrey Spicoli...
Bill O'Reilly.... You DICK!
Dick Of The Week
This was a hard one. (relax Anita) I had originally planned on naming Karl Kemp the first recipient of this prestigious award, but after watching Fox News tonight my hand was forced.
I dont regularly watch Fox. Its has nothing to do with politics, as the saying goes "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" so I watch the libs to see how they think (turns out that they dont) and the only conservatives I usually watch are Tucker, and if Im up Ill catch Brit on the replay.
That being said, Ive never liked O'Reilly, but he had Colbert on tonight so I wanted to check it out. Politically I probably side more with O'Reilly, that is if I thought he believed half of what he says, but since I thinks hes a pandering populist wannabe --- I dont.
On the other hand Colbert mocks conservatives like me daily and hes obviously your typical Peoples Republic Of The Upper West Side Of Manhattan commie, but the guy cracks me up --- and funny is funny. So I tuned in (Ill leave the turn on and dropping out to the hippies)
I dont know if anyone else watched The O'Reilly Factor but the interview sucked. It seems Bill is the only one that doesnt get that hes being goofed on, and gave me the impression that he wants credit for The Colbert Report's success. He acts as if he invented the wheel when the fact is hes just doing a second rate imitation of Bill Buckley and John McLaughlin himself.
One thing that stuck in my craw was when Colbert revealed his middle name was Tyrone. After every joke going over his head so far, this is what O'Reilly finally thought was a goof --- as everybody knows its a black mans name. When Colbert revealed that he was of Irish heritage...O'Reilly started screming at him that he was French. Huh?
The irony is that the O'Reillys, a sept of the O'Neills were native to County Tyrone themselves. Maybe he should have had a staffer google his guest beforehand. And another thing...lighten up.
So in the immortal words of Jeffrey Spicoli...
Bill O'Reilly.... You DICK!
What Happens If.......?
This is the question that the leadership on the left has failed to answer. If you don't think we should have gone into Iraq to begin with that has nothing to do with what's going on now. We're there and that's the reality we're dealing with. We know that as a direct result of our surrender in Vietnam we got the Iranian hostage crisis, and of course genocide in Cambodia. Indirectly we got the bombing of our embassies, the bombing of the USS Cole, and the infamous "Black Hawk Down" Tragedy in Somalia. My thinking is that the lack of response to the first trade center bombing and the surrender in Somalia led to 9/11. (i'm not looking for argument, that's my "emboldenment" theory)
However we know there must be some kind of negative consequence of our surrender (if we do) in Iraq, so what will it be? Hillary? Murtha? Kerry? what will it be?
I read this interview today by Hugh Hewitt, he interviewed Christopher Hitchens who was a hero on the left until he (sort of) switched teams, meaning that he decided that the fascist muslims were a little worse than the U.S. so they don't like him as much anymore. Either way, he answered the question and i think it's an eye opening interview.
HH: So you believe the holocaust that would follow in Iraq from a precipitous American withdrawal would rival, or perhaps even exceed that of Pol Pot in Cambodia?
CH: It would be a very rash person who didn’t think that that worst case would be the actual one. And look, again, the awful thing is some of it’s happening as we speak. I mean, almost anyone in Baghdad now, at any rate, who has a qualification, or any money, or any education, or any resources of any sort, is already gone. Perhaps as many as a million and a half, we don’t actually know, have moved to Jordan, some of them to Syrian, some even to Iran, anywhere to get out. Life is becoming intolerable there.
Continued
However we know there must be some kind of negative consequence of our surrender (if we do) in Iraq, so what will it be? Hillary? Murtha? Kerry? what will it be?
I read this interview today by Hugh Hewitt, he interviewed Christopher Hitchens who was a hero on the left until he (sort of) switched teams, meaning that he decided that the fascist muslims were a little worse than the U.S. so they don't like him as much anymore. Either way, he answered the question and i think it's an eye opening interview.
HH: So you believe the holocaust that would follow in Iraq from a precipitous American withdrawal would rival, or perhaps even exceed that of Pol Pot in Cambodia?
CH: It would be a very rash person who didn’t think that that worst case would be the actual one. And look, again, the awful thing is some of it’s happening as we speak. I mean, almost anyone in Baghdad now, at any rate, who has a qualification, or any money, or any education, or any resources of any sort, is already gone. Perhaps as many as a million and a half, we don’t actually know, have moved to Jordan, some of them to Syrian, some even to Iran, anywhere to get out. Life is becoming intolerable there.
Continued
What the Left Stands For
If you care about your country you do what you think is right whether or not it's popular with your party. A prime example would be Joe Leiberman who was booted from his party and risked his reelection to stand for what he believed was right. The current president is another example. His party is pissed at him, his popularity (according to the polls) is at record lows and has been for years but he sticks to his guns because he believes it's the right thing for the country. The opposite of standing for what you believe in is the new majority in congress and in particular the new head of the intelligence committee Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who a month ago said he thought we needed to add 20-30 thousand troops in Iraq, and now says it's "unthinkable"! What changed in the month since he said that? Well the President proposed adding more troops of course. The democrat party is the anti- Bush/say whatever we have to say to stay in power party. That's what they stand for and the suckers on the left follow them like sheep.
Tough month
On Dec. 5, Newsweek magazine touted an interview with then-incoming House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes as an "exclusive." And for good reason. "In a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq," the story began, Mr. Reyes "said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a 'stepped up effort to dismantle the militias.' " "We have to consider the need for additional troops to be in Iraq, to take out the militias and stabilize Iraq," the Texas Democrat said to the surprise of many, "I would say 20,000 to 30,000."
Continued:
Tough month
On Dec. 5, Newsweek magazine touted an interview with then-incoming House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes as an "exclusive." And for good reason. "In a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq," the story began, Mr. Reyes "said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a 'stepped up effort to dismantle the militias.' " "We have to consider the need for additional troops to be in Iraq, to take out the militias and stabilize Iraq," the Texas Democrat said to the surprise of many, "I would say 20,000 to 30,000."
Continued:
I Can Name That Policy In One Note
Although Ive been known to have a problem with the media's portrayal of round numbers in the past, I will post this article anyways because for some reason it cracked me up.
Maybe its because I can actually remember my man Newt with the ice bucket or because the dems are already tripping over themselves like fricknfrackian jackasses.
Maybe its because I can actually remember my man Newt with the ice bucket or because the dems are already tripping over themselves like fricknfrackian jackasses.
EE-Aw!!!
`First 100 Hours' Won't Help House Democrats'
By Andrew Ferguson
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) --
I defer to no one when it comes to appreciating the decimal numerical system and its many blessings, such as the penny, the dime, Big Ten college basketball and Hollywood's always-enjoyable ``Night of 100 Stars.''
But I also believe that 10-based numbering can be overdone - - as the new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives is busy proving with its self-inflicted 100-hour agenda.
Followers of Franklin D. Roosevelt flirted with disaster in 1933 when they used the term ``100 Days'' to advertise the New Deal program their leader rammed through Congress during his opening months in office. For one thing, it carried hints of Napoleon's ``Hundred Days'' campaign, which ended with Waterloo.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Chicago? Deep Dish Pizza
Will this madness ever end I ask you?
I know just this morning I swore that I would never utter thy name Oprah again. However circumstances have arisen that warrants Auroraction.
Upon my arrival home this evening I was greeted by my subscription to Valu-Pak and a scornful look from my doorman ---Im not entirely certain but I may have put him in a chokehold the other night. Nothing out of the ordinary so far, a pretty typical Wednesday.
But as I entered my abode, something caught my eye that didnt strike me as the usual underdoor guerrilla marketing literature.
As I bent down to pick It up, I was befuddled, yeah thats right.... befuddled.
...and for good reason. This is what I found.
Uh Oh! She knows where I live.
I have never ordered from this ristorante nor have I ever ate their pizza. I dont even think Im in their delivery range. Its apparent she is sending a message.
Message received loud and clear.
This is war!
Now wait a gosh dang second here, what the F am I talking about....
We know youre reading Oprah... You win. ( but who the hell is Gayle?)
Now dont get the wrong impression. I fear no man and Oprah is no exception, but I am willing to negotiate a cease fire for the enviroment's sake. Todays its one flyer, tomorrow its ten and I can not and will not allow our petty grievances to kill the Rain Forest. Its what Sting would want.
My fellow Aurorans there is nothing to fear but tis Oprah herself, but we are not I repeat not surrendering...just strategically redeploying.
EE-Aw!!!
Now wait a gosh dang minute here...yeah actually thats pretty much exactly what were doing --- surrendering.
I know just this morning I swore that I would never utter thy name Oprah again. However circumstances have arisen that warrants Auroraction.
Upon my arrival home this evening I was greeted by my subscription to Valu-Pak and a scornful look from my doorman ---Im not entirely certain but I may have put him in a chokehold the other night. Nothing out of the ordinary so far, a pretty typical Wednesday.
But as I entered my abode, something caught my eye that didnt strike me as the usual underdoor guerrilla marketing literature.
As I bent down to pick It up, I was befuddled, yeah thats right.... befuddled.
...and for good reason. This is what I found.
Uh Oh! She knows where I live.I have never ordered from this ristorante nor have I ever ate their pizza. I dont even think Im in their delivery range. Its apparent she is sending a message.
Message received loud and clear.
This is war!
Now wait a gosh dang second here, what the F am I talking about....
We know youre reading Oprah... You win. ( but who the hell is Gayle?)
Now dont get the wrong impression. I fear no man and Oprah is no exception, but I am willing to negotiate a cease fire for the enviroment's sake. Todays its one flyer, tomorrow its ten and I can not and will not allow our petty grievances to kill the Rain Forest. Its what Sting would want.
My fellow Aurorans there is nothing to fear but tis Oprah herself, but we are not I repeat not surrendering...just strategically redeploying.
EE-Aw!!!
Now wait a gosh dang minute here...yeah actually thats pretty much exactly what were doing --- surrendering.
The Oprah Hole Goes Deep
I had a small party recently and some Ninja Aurorans were in attendance, and yes Rhino the karaoke machine was rocked out...you happy? Now call me a fag and be done with it already.
Moving on...
The topic of Oprah came up and the theory was floated around that perhaps I am infatuated with the woman. Thats what I get for telling friends about the blog, good thing everybody already knew that I was insane.
I protested my innocence, but alas here I am one more time writing about her for, on my word, the last time.
I recently summed up my position that I believe Oprah has plans to take over the world and use the evil iPod from Apple as her means of doing so. If you missed it, you can catch the recap here.
Pretty far fetched idea you say, and you'd be correct...only problem is that Im right, with one slight correction. She will use the iPod and the iPhone.
Since that last post it has been revealed that multi-billion dollar internet conglomerate Cisco has filed suit against Apple for patent infringement over the use of the name Iphone. Seems Cisco has had that name registered for quite some time and were planning a product launch in mid '07. Apple fears not Cisco, and went ahead with their own version of the iPhone.
Apple dared not act so cavalierly when it comes dealing with Oprah...
"Sources have told MacDailyNews that "marketing types" within Apple Computer have discussed skipping the "G6" moniker or ending the "G" CPU naming scheme with the "G5" due to the potential confusion and/or dilution caused by the recent debut of General Motor's Pontiac G6, otherwise known as "The Oprah Car." 276 Pontiac G6s were given to surprised audience members on The Oprah Winfrey Show to celebrate the start of her 19th season"
source
In other words they chose to mess with an internet giant eleven miles away in San Jose, instead of one woman two thousand one hundred and sixty five miles away (but whose reach is all consuming).
Now thats what I call shitting in your own backyard.
Be afraid, be very afraid! Apple is.
Moving on...
The topic of Oprah came up and the theory was floated around that perhaps I am infatuated with the woman. Thats what I get for telling friends about the blog, good thing everybody already knew that I was insane.
I protested my innocence, but alas here I am one more time writing about her for, on my word, the last time.
I recently summed up my position that I believe Oprah has plans to take over the world and use the evil iPod from Apple as her means of doing so. If you missed it, you can catch the recap here.
Pretty far fetched idea you say, and you'd be correct...only problem is that Im right, with one slight correction. She will use the iPod and the iPhone.
Since that last post it has been revealed that multi-billion dollar internet conglomerate Cisco has filed suit against Apple for patent infringement over the use of the name Iphone. Seems Cisco has had that name registered for quite some time and were planning a product launch in mid '07. Apple fears not Cisco, and went ahead with their own version of the iPhone.
Apple dared not act so cavalierly when it comes dealing with Oprah...
"Sources have told MacDailyNews that "marketing types" within Apple Computer have discussed skipping the "G6" moniker or ending the "G" CPU naming scheme with the "G5" due to the potential confusion and/or dilution caused by the recent debut of General Motor's Pontiac G6, otherwise known as "The Oprah Car." 276 Pontiac G6s were given to surprised audience members on The Oprah Winfrey Show to celebrate the start of her 19th season"
source
In other words they chose to mess with an internet giant eleven miles away in San Jose, instead of one woman two thousand one hundred and sixty five miles away (but whose reach is all consuming).
Now thats what I call shitting in your own backyard.
Be afraid, be very afraid! Apple is.
This Is Just Stupid
Do the right thing Bush. Enough is enough. Time to man up and defend our borders. Now!
EE-Aw!!!
Lawmakers, Advocacy Groups Launch Last-Ditch Effort to Save Two Border Patrol Agents From Jail
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
By Liza Porteus
Two Texas Border Patrol agents who shot a Mexican drug runner in the backside on the U.S. side of the border are hoping a last-ditch pardon from President Bush will save them from serving more than a decade in prison.
cont'd
EE-Aw!!!
Lawmakers, Advocacy Groups Launch Last-Ditch Effort to Save Two Border Patrol Agents From Jail
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
By Liza Porteus
Two Texas Border Patrol agents who shot a Mexican drug runner in the backside on the U.S. side of the border are hoping a last-ditch pardon from President Bush will save them from serving more than a decade in prison.
cont'd
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Quagmire Lives In Quahog
The Aurora have been big fans of C Thomas Sowell ever since Red Dawn (WOLVERINES!!!) and it is our great pleasure to once again republish an article of his.
This is required reading for all hippies that wontonsouply toss around their hallmark ideologue commie catchphrases about Iraq in comparison to Vietnam.
I will however add my two bits and give you the donk-notes version beforehand.
Our military did not lose in Vietnam, pussies like Walter "No Means Yes, Win Means Lose" Cronkite and John "Dont Invite Over For A Game of Jenga" Kerry stateside did. Just as those today that oppose the war without offering any constructive criticism on how we can be victorious but rather brazenly root for surrender and defeat are causing us to lose Iraq politically. Cuz we sure as hell aint losing on the battlefield.
EE-Aw!!!
January 16, 2007
Another Vietnam?
By Thomas Sowell
Nothing is easier than to second-guess decisions made in wartime. Anyone who has bothered to read the history of wars knows that very few wars have been without disastrous surprises, often on both sides.
It is not that the people in charge are stupid. Too many things are unpredictable in war, despite politicians who demand timetables, as if running a war is like running a train.
We can now look at the Iraq war with hindsight, as no President or Secretary of Defense could when making decisions that had to be made. Still, it can be useful to determine with hindsight what went wrong, if only to avoid similar mistakes in the future and to see what needs to be changed in the present.
Despite all the politicians who were demanding more troops a year ago, and who have turned around and are now demanding that no more troops be sent to Iraq, the purely military aspects of the war have gone better than in most wars.
cont'd
This is required reading for all hippies that wontonsouply toss around their hallmark ideologue commie catchphrases about Iraq in comparison to Vietnam.
I will however add my two bits and give you the donk-notes version beforehand.
Our military did not lose in Vietnam, pussies like Walter "No Means Yes, Win Means Lose" Cronkite and John "Dont Invite Over For A Game of Jenga" Kerry stateside did. Just as those today that oppose the war without offering any constructive criticism on how we can be victorious but rather brazenly root for surrender and defeat are causing us to lose Iraq politically. Cuz we sure as hell aint losing on the battlefield.
EE-Aw!!!
January 16, 2007Another Vietnam?
By Thomas Sowell
Nothing is easier than to second-guess decisions made in wartime. Anyone who has bothered to read the history of wars knows that very few wars have been without disastrous surprises, often on both sides.
It is not that the people in charge are stupid. Too many things are unpredictable in war, despite politicians who demand timetables, as if running a war is like running a train.
We can now look at the Iraq war with hindsight, as no President or Secretary of Defense could when making decisions that had to be made. Still, it can be useful to determine with hindsight what went wrong, if only to avoid similar mistakes in the future and to see what needs to be changed in the present.
Despite all the politicians who were demanding more troops a year ago, and who have turned around and are now demanding that no more troops be sent to Iraq, the purely military aspects of the war have gone better than in most wars.
cont'd
Next Episode of 24?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday vacated the sentence of "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested near the U.S.-Canadian border and convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles international airport at the turn of the millennium.
No, sadly it's just the 9th circuit again. I'm not even surprised.
Ressam was arrested in December 1999 In Port Angeles, Wash., when he drove off a ferry from British Columbia with a trunk full of explosives. Prosecutors said he was intent on bombing the airport on the eve of the millennium.
He was sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of all nine charges. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed his conviction on one of the charges and sent the case back to a lower court judge to issue a new sentence and explain the rationale behind the original 22-year term.
The decision does not necessarily mean the defendant will get a shorter term, as federal prosecutors said the original sentence was too light and judges are given wide latitude to sentence defendants as they see fit.
No, sadly it's just the 9th circuit again. I'm not even surprised.
Ressam was arrested in December 1999 In Port Angeles, Wash., when he drove off a ferry from British Columbia with a trunk full of explosives. Prosecutors said he was intent on bombing the airport on the eve of the millennium.
He was sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of all nine charges. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed his conviction on one of the charges and sent the case back to a lower court judge to issue a new sentence and explain the rationale behind the original 22-year term.
The decision does not necessarily mean the defendant will get a shorter term, as federal prosecutors said the original sentence was too light and judges are given wide latitude to sentence defendants as they see fit.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Blue Diamond Democrats
How long will the honeymoon between the media and the democrat party last when the only ones getting fucked are the American People who elected a party of broken promises and petty politics. Hopefully one of these day Alice. The dems are so impotent a truck load of viagra wouldnt help them.
Counting on the working stiff calendar its been one hundred and sixty eight hours, but to be fair to the Lollapelosi Show, on their clock it has only been ninety six hours. So in other words we can look forward to just a few weeks more of the media championing the historic "100 Hours of The Most Ethical Congress Ever©".
Im going to take it upon myself and grade them although it hasnt officially been 100 hours, but rather 168 on my watch, but 96 on theirs...so Ill just average them out and call it a hundo.
Ethics and Minimum Wage:
Im going to lump those two together as they were the two most often mentioned during the campaign not starting in I and ending in Raq, and because Nancy or as Jane calls her Nonni Pelosi forced my hand by throwing me a softball.
First of all the minimum wage is counter productive to smart economic policy. Its a New Deal solution that will cause Great Depression problems, namely in the rise of unemployment that has resulted in every single wage hike since the 50's.
As George Will has said...
"The minimum wage should be the same everywhere: $0. Labor is a commodity; governments make messes when they decree commodities' prices."
But more importantly on the issue of this minimum wage bill is the question of ethics, or lack thereof if you will.
It takes some balls for Pelosi to stand in front of the mics and say this will be The Most Ethical Congress Ever© and then within a week provide a loophole in the only legislation passed of consequence for her corporate constituent, the San Francisco based Del Monte Foods Co. (majority owned by Heinz Co. as in Theresa Heinz & John Kerry as in fat cat dem donors) allowing their salaries to remain unchanged in the American Samoa.
Looks like it business as usual, just dont expect to hear about this in the main stream media.*
You gotta check out Barney Frank getting bitch slapped at Hot Air here
source: Mary Katherine Ham
Grade: FAIL
Bi-Partisanship:
Well the first order of business of the new majority (even ahead of the min wage hike) was to shut out the Republicans in Congressional procedures.
Grade: FAIL
Paygo:
What this means is that the Dems will try and raise taxes.
Grade: FAIL
Homeland Security:
After campaigning on the fact that they would implement all of the much heralded 9/11 Commission Report, they have cherry picked what they like best. Most notably leaving out the most important facets of it dealing with oversight and the streamlining of Intelligence Agencies which by all accounts were the most glaring areas of weakness prior to and after 9/11. They have however mandated all cargo entering by air/sea be inspected, which I approve.
Grade: INCOMPLETE
Lobbying:
Dems passed a bill making it illegal for members of Congress to accept gifts from lobbyists. There are still many ways to get over, but this is a good start.
House Grade: PASS
Senate Grade: FAIL
According to Mary Katherine...
"To Speaker Nancy Pelosi's credit, House Democrats recently passed ethics legislation that included provisions making earmarks more transparent. ... The ethics reform offered by Senate Democrats contained none of these tougher earmark provisions. So Senate Republicans, led by South Carolina's Jim DeMint, cheekily took the identical language of the House earmark bill and offered it as an amendment to the Senate version. Numerous Democrats instantly denounced it, apparently unaware (or unconcerned) that the language had been sponsored by Ms. Pelosi."
source : M. K. Ham again
Donkey adds: What a bunch of jackasses! Im going to start watching more CSPAN
Iraq:
Ok this is the big one, this is the single most important issue that got the dems elected....so what have they done? Most have called for surrender, some have called for a draft, some have called to cut the funding for our troops, while others have written a sternly worded letter to the President. In other words, they have done a whole lot of nothing except criticize the President and once again if you arent a part of the solution, you are the problem.
Grade: FAIL (but Im sure they wont be unhappy with that score as failure is their goal in Iraq)
EE-Aw!!!
*This post was originally written last week after the first real 100 hours, but since they started the clock a week late..I figured Id give them the benefit of the doubt. It seems the Min Wage Bill will now be amended to close the loophole Pelosi wrote in for American Samoa & San Francisco StarKist after being called out on the blatant impropriety of crony-favoritism.
Counting on the working stiff calendar its been one hundred and sixty eight hours, but to be fair to the Lollapelosi Show, on their clock it has only been ninety six hours. So in other words we can look forward to just a few weeks more of the media championing the historic "100 Hours of The Most Ethical Congress Ever©".
Im going to take it upon myself and grade them although it hasnt officially been 100 hours, but rather 168 on my watch, but 96 on theirs...so Ill just average them out and call it a hundo.
Ethics and Minimum Wage:
Im going to lump those two together as they were the two most often mentioned during the campaign not starting in I and ending in Raq, and because Nancy or as Jane calls her Nonni Pelosi forced my hand by throwing me a softball.
First of all the minimum wage is counter productive to smart economic policy. Its a New Deal solution that will cause Great Depression problems, namely in the rise of unemployment that has resulted in every single wage hike since the 50's.
As George Will has said...
"The minimum wage should be the same everywhere: $0. Labor is a commodity; governments make messes when they decree commodities' prices."
But more importantly on the issue of this minimum wage bill is the question of ethics, or lack thereof if you will.
It takes some balls for Pelosi to stand in front of the mics and say this will be The Most Ethical Congress Ever© and then within a week provide a loophole in the only legislation passed of consequence for her corporate constituent, the San Francisco based Del Monte Foods Co. (majority owned by Heinz Co. as in Theresa Heinz & John Kerry as in fat cat dem donors) allowing their salaries to remain unchanged in the American Samoa.
Looks like it business as usual, just dont expect to hear about this in the main stream media.*
You gotta check out Barney Frank getting bitch slapped at Hot Air here
source: Mary Katherine Ham
Grade: FAIL
Bi-Partisanship:
Well the first order of business of the new majority (even ahead of the min wage hike) was to shut out the Republicans in Congressional procedures.
Grade: FAIL
Paygo:
What this means is that the Dems will try and raise taxes.
Grade: FAIL
Homeland Security:
After campaigning on the fact that they would implement all of the much heralded 9/11 Commission Report, they have cherry picked what they like best. Most notably leaving out the most important facets of it dealing with oversight and the streamlining of Intelligence Agencies which by all accounts were the most glaring areas of weakness prior to and after 9/11. They have however mandated all cargo entering by air/sea be inspected, which I approve.
Grade: INCOMPLETE
Lobbying:
Dems passed a bill making it illegal for members of Congress to accept gifts from lobbyists. There are still many ways to get over, but this is a good start.
House Grade: PASS
Senate Grade: FAIL
According to Mary Katherine...
"To Speaker Nancy Pelosi's credit, House Democrats recently passed ethics legislation that included provisions making earmarks more transparent. ... The ethics reform offered by Senate Democrats contained none of these tougher earmark provisions. So Senate Republicans, led by South Carolina's Jim DeMint, cheekily took the identical language of the House earmark bill and offered it as an amendment to the Senate version. Numerous Democrats instantly denounced it, apparently unaware (or unconcerned) that the language had been sponsored by Ms. Pelosi."
source : M. K. Ham again
Donkey adds: What a bunch of jackasses! Im going to start watching more CSPAN
Iraq:
Ok this is the big one, this is the single most important issue that got the dems elected....so what have they done? Most have called for surrender, some have called for a draft, some have called to cut the funding for our troops, while others have written a sternly worded letter to the President. In other words, they have done a whole lot of nothing except criticize the President and once again if you arent a part of the solution, you are the problem.
Grade: FAIL (but Im sure they wont be unhappy with that score as failure is their goal in Iraq)
EE-Aw!!!
*This post was originally written last week after the first real 100 hours, but since they started the clock a week late..I figured Id give them the benefit of the doubt. It seems the Min Wage Bill will now be amended to close the loophole Pelosi wrote in for American Samoa & San Francisco StarKist after being called out on the blatant impropriety of crony-favoritism.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Friday, January 12, 2007
Shameless Plug
A message from noted contrauroran Ben Donsky:
"by the way, aurorans, i am playing a SOLO show tomorrow night @ 9 PM in Williamsburg, at Rock Star Bar (351 Kent @ N 5th).i quit big dictator.i'm accompanied by a great sax player.and it's a party for a friend of mine, whose band the creamsicles plays @ 11. no cover.cool bar, too. blacklight air hockey, mermaids, a cave, and (best of all) you can smoke inside.so come on down with someone you want to bone and i'll make sure you get laid."
It is rumored but not guaranteed that Donkey, Fly and their biotches will make an appearance. We urge all Aurorans in the area to attend this show strictly for the potential snobbery this will allow you in the future when you can tell your friends you knew him before he sold out.
EE-Aw
"by the way, aurorans, i am playing a SOLO show tomorrow night @ 9 PM in Williamsburg, at Rock Star Bar (351 Kent @ N 5th).i quit big dictator.i'm accompanied by a great sax player.and it's a party for a friend of mine, whose band the creamsicles plays @ 11. no cover.cool bar, too. blacklight air hockey, mermaids, a cave, and (best of all) you can smoke inside.so come on down with someone you want to bone and i'll make sure you get laid."
It is rumored but not guaranteed that Donkey, Fly and their biotches will make an appearance. We urge all Aurorans in the area to attend this show strictly for the potential snobbery this will allow you in the future when you can tell your friends you knew him before he sold out.
EE-Aw
2008 Dream Team Preview?
The American mission in Iraq must succeed. Our goal--promoting a stable, accountable democracy in the heart of the Middle East--cannot be achieved by purely military means.
Iraqis need to establish a civil society. Without the support of mediating civic and social associations--the informal ties that bind us together--no government can long remain stable, and no cohesive nation can be maintained. To establish a civil society, Iraqis must rebuild their basic infrastructure. Iraqis must take control of their destiny by rebuilding houses, stores, schools, roads, highways, mosques and churches.
Continue Reading Newt and Rudy Here:
Iraqis need to establish a civil society. Without the support of mediating civic and social associations--the informal ties that bind us together--no government can long remain stable, and no cohesive nation can be maintained. To establish a civil society, Iraqis must rebuild their basic infrastructure. Iraqis must take control of their destiny by rebuilding houses, stores, schools, roads, highways, mosques and churches.
Continue Reading Newt and Rudy Here:
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Drunkeyhue Rant
My intention tonight was to cause a ruckus with the hippies protesting the "surge" tonight in Times Square and then a few things crossed my mind. Its cold outside for the normal folk. Its a pretty nice fuckin night in my eyes. I hate hippies. Hippies hate inclemental weather. Patagonia doesnt make enough layers to bring em out. Weak.
I just dont understand them. If they were truly against the war, Bush gave them an out last night...but they werent listening. All they want to do is counter Bush and talk about cost consequentials.
I want out of Iraq as much as the next liberal but I want to leave with a win...they dont. They need Bush to fail for them to win. This isnt chess or checkers or even dominoes motherfucker --- this is real. Realer than you can imagine. People want to kill us and they are deadly intent on it, and I will take an incompetent fucktard that fights back over an apologetic appeasing asshole pussy every day of the week.
Now you might be asking how the Donkey spent his Scurge the Surge or Stop The Bop or whatever the fuckin clever rhyming social anti-American event occured tonight.
What did you think......
I just dont understand them. If they were truly against the war, Bush gave them an out last night...but they werent listening. All they want to do is counter Bush and talk about cost consequentials.
I want out of Iraq as much as the next liberal but I want to leave with a win...they dont. They need Bush to fail for them to win. This isnt chess or checkers or even dominoes motherfucker --- this is real. Realer than you can imagine. People want to kill us and they are deadly intent on it, and I will take an incompetent fucktard that fights back over an apologetic appeasing asshole pussy every day of the week.
Now you might be asking how the Donkey spent his Scurge the Surge or Stop The Bop or whatever the fuckin clever rhyming social anti-American event occured tonight.
What did you think......
The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth
It is a shame that our political leaders arent geeks, rock stars (this was written before Obama) they are not --- but the bubble they were raised and live in is a complete different animal from the world of the great geeks of our time Gates Jobs Andreessen and my hero Miyamoto. It is men like these have contributed more to our economy and society in general than any glorified civil servant proposing some bs welfare plan or tax reform ever could.
Guys like Bush Kerry and Kennedy were too busy yatching, debating the merits of Beluga vs Kaluga caviar, and spending countless hours deciding between the blue or red clip-on-tie in front of their bedroom bureau. Their political grooming and hours honing their networking skills prevented them from going into a self induced sugar fueled 64 hour "Zak McKracken and the Alien Mind Benders" coma on their Commodore (mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out).
...And thats a damn shame.
Technology has always driven this great country of ours, whether it was the invention of electricity, the cotton gin (two parts gin one part cotton a splash of dry vermouth), the steam engine, the assembly line, vulcanized rubber, the telephone, the disposable razor, television, and the wet t-shirt contest --- all the way fast forward to Algore and the advent of the internet allowing you to read me and enabling your long lost relatives and people outside your normal social circle to bombard you with thousands of unwitty, unfunny, uninteresting emails a day.
I will not address the spam issue at this time, as I am currently awaiting my one million dollar inheritance from my deceased relative Mfume Donkeyhue in Nigeria - who knew, some enlargement pills, and a russian supermodel mail order bride to arrive - if you know ruskie models, Im going to need that mil.
Back to my point. What was it again? Oh yeah.....
At the risk of further outing myself as a geek (certainly not in the same stratosphere of the aforementioned Nerd Superheroes), I was/am a gamer.I am the Atari generation. Obviously a man of my advanced age has other more pressing matters, whether it be personal, drinking, occupational, social, or drinking --- but every now and then usually during full moons I fire up some trees and put the Dell to its intended purpose --- Gaming.
Specifically, games involving Global Domination (muahahaha). I usually just reconnect with some old friends and fellow geeks for a game of online Risk...coming at ya from Kamchatka! --- or sometimes a game of chess.
Shall we play a game Professor Falken?
The reason I mention this is because recently a friend and fellow gamer gave me a copy of an old war gaming classic "Command HQ" circa 1990 by Microprose*. To put the date this was released into perspective DOS 2.1 and 512K Ram (640 if using a Tandy) were the requirements (and a mouse was suggested). Needless to say the graphics are horrible, and the sound...well there really isnt any external sound, but now and again something inside my tower kind of beeps.
What Im trying to say is that if any of our current leaders had've played this game, perhaps our troubles in the Middle East wouldve already been solved.
On pages eleven to seventeen of the instruction manual, there is walk thru, or a tutorial if you will, that explains basic gameplay. That is on the surface what it appears to be. It could very well be the blueprint for world peace. Let me explain. I will copy and paste some of the key military objectives word for word.
- For this tutorial, well concentrate on the Middle East. Your first step is to take a close-up look at the action
- Press Zoom. You see your blue forces poised for an attack on a red position
- Press Show Terrain. Note the various types
- Time to launch an attack!
- Move your blue cruiser so that it is adjacent, without overlapping, to the red cruiser
- If your cruiser is destroyed you will have to bring up the carrier to finish off the enemy. Carriers have a longer range, and you'll be able to bombard the enemy without taking any return fire from them
- Select the topmost infantry unit around Jerusalem. Select the topmost Iranian oil field as its destination
- Select the next infantry down and give it a a destination next to but not overlapping the red infantry in Iraq
- At some point your unit will capture the oil field in Iran. This helps the oil situation, but doesnt solve it. You still need that Iraqi field.
- Select one of the tank armies and give it a direct destination of an unguarded Saudi Arabian oil field.
- Select one of the tank armies at sea (on transports) and give it a destination atop the southernmost red infantry in Pakistan in a marine assault.
- One way to lessen losses against coastal defenders is to soften them up with Navy guns. Move the carrier to just off the coast, and watch as it begins to bombard the red infantry.
- Meanwhile, lets get ready to attack the red infantry in Iraq. Make things easier with air strikes and a paradrop
- Press Show Air Power, and find two air wings stationed in Jersulsalem and select the Iraqi oil field as its destination.
- Time to capture Pakistan. The enemy unit there is weakened by the bombardment, so select your remaining tank at sea and land it on the coast. Once there send into the city.
Sounds like a plan. In 15 steps there is stability in Israel and we have taken control of Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan and have solved our oil dependency problem (well at least increased supply). Did you read that 15 steps!!!
Now before anyone gets all serious on me how war is not a game. No shiite Sherlock, but why not tell that to the "for it before they voted against it", "we need more troops" until Bush says so, "now were not gonna pay for them" take our ball and go home dems.
But you tell me those guys in the AC-130's picking off camel bangers one by one didnt benefit from years of playing Gunship flight sims, or soldiers in the alleys of Baghdad werent more prepared after playing DOOM, or that our snipers skull fucking Johhny Jihad from 1000 meters out werent SOCOM and Medal of Honor junkies. All Im saying is that maybe itd be a good thing if our leaders had a little more Sega in em.
SEGA!!!
Dont believe me, well then just ask my students at M.I.T.
Now lets just hope Japan remains on our side, because theyre motherfuckin' crazy and'll get all pokeman and little kitty upside our dome.
EE-Aw!!!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
How Deep The Oprah Hole Goes
On December 28, 2005 I wrote:
"An army of women could take over this country without breaking a nail, all Oprah has to do is declare a National "Have Sex With A Man" Day, and when we are all asleep five minutes later she instructs them to slit our throats. Within hours she would control the military and launch a full scale nuclear assault on the rest of the world. Mission accomplished, welcome to Planet Oprah."
On January 11, 2006 I wrote:
"Maybe I was wrong about Oprah's plan for world domination. It is becoming clearer to me daily, that perhaps Steve did not take as kindly to Billy "The Kid.1" Gates thievery of AppleWorks to create Windows as he has let on. I now believe the failure of the original Macintosh led Mr Jobs into a downward spiral whose descent can only parallel Lucifer's (coincidentally(?) whose mother's name was Aurora) fall from heaven. A man with a crumbling empire is a dangerous entity, however let that man rebuild his empire to levels undreamed of before and he becomes a threat to the balance of the known Universe. Enter stage left the iPod."
On May 23, 2006 I wrote:
"Once again I will risk my own personal safety and well being to expose the devil that walks amongst us. I have seen the great evil and thy name be iPod.The propephcy as told by the donkey is beginning to unfold and I fear the end is nigh."
On January 5, 2007 I wrote:
"But as some of our long term parking Aurorans know, the only thing I trust less than the iPod is Oprah Winfrey. I think she is up to no good while she does good...if that makes sense, in other words its all just a clever ruse setting up her master plan."
The reason I rehash this now will become clear in a few paragraphs....
I was watching Tucker Carlson last night, and as I usually do, googled his guests that I did not know. Enter Roxanne Roberts author of The Reliable Source political gossip column for the Washington Post, or as TC referred to it as "Page Six for smart people".
Well, although I read the NY Post, I do so Chinese style (I thinks its gots the best sports coverage in town)... I dont read Page Six and as everybody knows Im half a retard but I flipped through The Reliable Source anyways to check out the going ons of DC. It seems that Gilbert Arenas just had a helluva birthday party --- and thats about it. Rather unimpressive site and even less newsworthy stories.
but something caught my eye in the side bar......
It's Not All About the iPods, Oprah
By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, January 9, 2007; Page A15
story
......
Whats the? Someone else is making the evil incarnate correlation between Oprah Winfrey and the iPod you say. A coincidence it must be, and at first I figured it was just a simple case of a "real" journalist subscribing to The Aurora and being subconsciously influenced by the work being done by our crack investigative reporting team and conveying the same sentiment a few short days later, as was the case regarding former Speaker Newt Gingrich's comparison of the Iraq War to The Glorious Cause on 11/28/06.
but then I gots to reading...
Apparently the WaPo article on the Ninth was in response to an interview Ms. Oprah Winfrey herself gave to Newsweek on the Eighth (in response to a post I wrote on the Fif???) and a certain quote rebutting those questioning her intentions with the South African School donation in particular...
"I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there," she said. "If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school."
and...
"The girls had "long, braided hair extensions flowing down their backs" and were wearing baseball caps. In general, the kids "could talk about what they owned -- the latest portable PlayStations, iPods, and sneakers -- but they couldn't speak of what they'd done."
I would almost be flattered by that fact that Oprah is obviously a reader and that "The Aurora The Novel" is sure to become a bestseller, not to mention the fact that she gives validation to my Reynolds Hat Theory by using the iPod to express her disgust at the evils (or is it?) of over-consumptionism (and thats coming from a supply-sider) and the failing liberal educational sytem in American society. Almost.
But then I saw this......
So in typical celebrighteous indignant hypocrisy she slams the iPod with one hand as she sells them with the other. Pretty sneaky sis. Darn right deceptive if you have to know the truth. I know another fellow that is pretty good at that game, in fact thats one of the names he goes by..."The Deceiver of Humanity". Who could it be now? I dont know, could it be......
......SATAN!
Et tu, Bono?
Now I dont exactly know how or where the celtic crooner fits into all of this (not yet), but its apparent that my "either/or" theory regarding the anti-christ was misguided. Its not a one or the other situation but rather as prophecized by the Book of Genesis that the devil will indeed tempt man with the forbidden fruit.
Or as foretold by Nostradonkus... Oprah will somehow harness the power of Apple's iPod and rule the world, and it seems shes on to me.
So in other words --- Im fucked, the irish jig is up, consider the donkey's ass to be kentucky jamesfreyed. Forget I said anything.
....Stay tuned for next weeks episode as Donkey tackles the America Medical Association and refutes their claim that Lysergic Acid Diethylamide has damaging long term psychotic side effects.
EE-Aw!!!
"An army of women could take over this country without breaking a nail, all Oprah has to do is declare a National "Have Sex With A Man" Day, and when we are all asleep five minutes later she instructs them to slit our throats. Within hours she would control the military and launch a full scale nuclear assault on the rest of the world. Mission accomplished, welcome to Planet Oprah."
On January 11, 2006 I wrote:
"Maybe I was wrong about Oprah's plan for world domination. It is becoming clearer to me daily, that perhaps Steve did not take as kindly to Billy "The Kid.1" Gates thievery of AppleWorks to create Windows as he has let on. I now believe the failure of the original Macintosh led Mr Jobs into a downward spiral whose descent can only parallel Lucifer's (coincidentally(?) whose mother's name was Aurora) fall from heaven. A man with a crumbling empire is a dangerous entity, however let that man rebuild his empire to levels undreamed of before and he becomes a threat to the balance of the known Universe. Enter stage left the iPod."
On May 23, 2006 I wrote:
"Once again I will risk my own personal safety and well being to expose the devil that walks amongst us. I have seen the great evil and thy name be iPod.The propephcy as told by the donkey is beginning to unfold and I fear the end is nigh."
On January 5, 2007 I wrote:
"But as some of our long term parking Aurorans know, the only thing I trust less than the iPod is Oprah Winfrey. I think she is up to no good while she does good...if that makes sense, in other words its all just a clever ruse setting up her master plan."
The reason I rehash this now will become clear in a few paragraphs....
I was watching Tucker Carlson last night, and as I usually do, googled his guests that I did not know. Enter Roxanne Roberts author of The Reliable Source political gossip column for the Washington Post, or as TC referred to it as "Page Six for smart people".
Well, although I read the NY Post, I do so Chinese style (I thinks its gots the best sports coverage in town)... I dont read Page Six and as everybody knows Im half a retard but I flipped through The Reliable Source anyways to check out the going ons of DC. It seems that Gilbert Arenas just had a helluva birthday party --- and thats about it. Rather unimpressive site and even less newsworthy stories.
but something caught my eye in the side bar......
It's Not All About the iPods, Oprah
By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, January 9, 2007; Page A15
story
......
Whats the? Someone else is making the evil incarnate correlation between Oprah Winfrey and the iPod you say. A coincidence it must be, and at first I figured it was just a simple case of a "real" journalist subscribing to The Aurora and being subconsciously influenced by the work being done by our crack investigative reporting team and conveying the same sentiment a few short days later, as was the case regarding former Speaker Newt Gingrich's comparison of the Iraq War to The Glorious Cause on 11/28/06.
but then I gots to reading...
Apparently the WaPo article on the Ninth was in response to an interview Ms. Oprah Winfrey herself gave to Newsweek on the Eighth (in response to a post I wrote on the Fif???) and a certain quote rebutting those questioning her intentions with the South African School donation in particular...
"I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there," she said. "If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school."
and...
"The girls had "long, braided hair extensions flowing down their backs" and were wearing baseball caps. In general, the kids "could talk about what they owned -- the latest portable PlayStations, iPods, and sneakers -- but they couldn't speak of what they'd done."
I would almost be flattered by that fact that Oprah is obviously a reader and that "The Aurora The Novel" is sure to become a bestseller, not to mention the fact that she gives validation to my Reynolds Hat Theory by using the iPod to express her disgust at the evils (or is it?) of over-consumptionism (and thats coming from a supply-sider) and the failing liberal educational sytem in American society. Almost.
But then I saw this......
So in typical celebrighteous indignant hypocrisy she slams the iPod with one hand as she sells them with the other. Pretty sneaky sis. Darn right deceptive if you have to know the truth. I know another fellow that is pretty good at that game, in fact thats one of the names he goes by..."The Deceiver of Humanity". Who could it be now? I dont know, could it be............SATAN!
Et tu, Bono?
Now I dont exactly know how or where the celtic crooner fits into all of this (not yet), but its apparent that my "either/or" theory regarding the anti-christ was misguided. Its not a one or the other situation but rather as prophecized by the Book of Genesis that the devil will indeed tempt man with the forbidden fruit.
Or as foretold by Nostradonkus... Oprah will somehow harness the power of Apple's iPod and rule the world, and it seems shes on to me.
So in other words --- Im fucked, the irish jig is up, consider the donkey's ass to be kentucky jamesfreyed. Forget I said anything.
....Stay tuned for next weeks episode as Donkey tackles the America Medical Association and refutes their claim that Lysergic Acid Diethylamide has damaging long term psychotic side effects.
EE-Aw!!!
No Special Prosecutor?
Patrick Fitzgerald is still trying to make a case against Lewis "scooter" Libby for a crime that wasn't a crime and now we get the offical release of the documents on Sandy Berger? Oh and Berger got is top secret clearance back so he can serve in hillary's cabinet if she gets elected. Culture of corruption anyone?
“My staff’s investigation reveals that President Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger compromised national security much more than originally disclosed,” Davis said. “It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience.
Story
“My staff’s investigation reveals that President Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger compromised national security much more than originally disclosed,” Davis said. “It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience.
Story
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
What's in a Name?
It just occured to me that, if I was a rock star and had a band, I'd rather have a hardcore name than just use my own name (i.e. Kenny Loggins). Most bands will give you a story of where their name came from such as Led Zeppelin coming out of a conversation between band mates regarding specific names. It is said or rumored that drummer John Bonham replied that one specific name that came up during this conversation would go over like a led balloon and so they tweaked the name and became Led Zeppelin.
But mine would need a story and so I return to High School where fortuantely or unfortunately a great deal of my most embarrassing moments lie.
I just recently was speaking to a friend who reminded me of an event that I had long forgotten. It turns out that I had vandalized his car while he was running a track meet and the implications while not altogether important but alas they gave birth to my future band's name.
Like all good stories it was a dark and stormy night when I happened to be leaving another friend's house who lived nearby the track field where my friend Mike was running. So as I often did, I intended to stop by and hopefully catch a little bit of the action but when I arrived there was no parking. However I did see that Mike's car was parked along the street so I decided to leave him a note that I had been there and to call me later. When I arrived at the car it was open so I went to place the note inside and as I was doing so I noticed his track bag was lying on the seat of his car...Inside I found these contents: 3 pairs of tidy whities, 2 pairs of sneakers (presumably for sneaking), a jock strap (which I handled carefully with the pen I had brought to leave the note), & some T-shirts. Well, to me such a situation called for these items to be tossed haphazardly around the car leaving the jock strap to dangle off his rearview mirror.
Now as it turns out Mike was not Jewish but for some reason I thought it would be funnier to leave a threatening note than a boring "how do you do" type of greeting...and so I scribbled some hateful rhetoric telling him that I thought he and his kind should GET OUT. I had never drawn a swastika before but I thought that I ably captured the essence of it and left this note hanging off the pasenger seat visor and promptly ambled back to my car and sped off.
Well, it seems that Mike had some rituals that I didn't even know about, one of which was to drive to and from track meets with his coach. After the meet they returned to the car and saw the door partially open and general disarray inside the car (I forgot to mention that he had quite a few bags of fastfood waste lying on the backseat floor which was carefully redeposited on the front seats)...They began to clean the car out and it was obvious to Mike that this was the work of someone who knew him and he tried to explain that it was just a goof...this is when his coach found the letter hanging off the visor.
It turns out that I should have paid more attention to my first dabble in the field of Anti Semitism because apparently the swastika that I had drawn was inverted. Mike's coach only had one question and it was this, "who are you friends with Michael, dyslexic nazi's?"
...And so my band name was born...I can barely strum a guitar but at least I know that if by some chance lighting strikes me and I am graced with the talent to actually play that thing that sits in my basement looking cool...Hey, I have a good hardcore band name -
"Ladies & Gentlemen, may I introduce to you...The Dyslexic Nazis"
...This was originally posted 10/25/05 by one of the original Founding Fathers of The Aurora...none other than the Fly. Some say we booted him because he was a commie or maybe because he was the only one with any real talent, which may very well be true but the fact is he has moved on to greener pastures, as well as blue and orange pastures. I reprint this without permission and there aint a gosh dang thing he can do about it. --- donk.
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