Speedballs For Bush

So let me get this straight...

Bong hits for Jesus not protected!

Yayo for Jorge protected?

Like I said in previous conversations, the inconsistency of these most recent SCOTUS rulings troubles me, in fact one could say that it vexes me, I am terribly vexed. In plainer terms its beginning to piss me off.

And theyre actually doing this with a straight face?

Like I always say, never trust a man in a dress and that goes double for Ginsberg.

HUH?

Becoming American

Sorry Donkey, i know she's your crush but you need to get up earlier.

"So it's home again and home again, America for me./ My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be./ In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars/ Where the air is full of sunlight, and the flag is full of stars."

NOONAN

True True

Seriously?

20 million?............................. Really?................................. Yeah right! ..................

YOU'RE SERIOUS?

Crazy!

Right, Said Fred

"The American media hold a special place in my heart for their faith in diversity. In the recent Duke case, with which I presume everyone is familiar, a lying black whore (she was lying, she was black, and she was a whore: I suppose I should identify her as Snow White’s sister and a pediatric nurse.) accused innocent college kids of raping her, whereupon the entire complex of media and governments piled on, ruining the boys’ lives. The racial aspect got tremendous attention: White racists in the South abusing a poor black girl. This is a favorite template of the media."

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(kudos to Miss C for bringing this guy to our attention)

In The Highly Likely Event

We would like to offer our heart felt condolences in advance to the family of the late Kevin Richardson.

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And as a not very interesting side as well as to combat the blasphemy of Aesop, I would like to add for your consideration a picture show of what happens when a pusillanimous pussycat messes with my peeps.

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McLame - Foolsgold and the Court

"On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823)

Step One

Hooray For Hollywood?

Like we needed another reason to love Jessica Alba!



When considering legalizing 12 million illegal immigrants, Congress should consider seriously the fact that the walking, talking American dream is now politically incorrect. That doesn’t bode well for its survival.



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My Python Boots Are Too Tight

"Wudhu is the key to prayer as prayer is the key to Paradise. Islam lays extreme stress on cleanliness and Taharat"

For those unfamiliar with Wudhu, it is the required bodily cleansing Moslems must perform every time before they pray. Although it strike me as a tad OCD, you'll get no argument from me against promoting personal hygiene.

However what gets my goat is when I see bastions of higher learning such as the University of Michigan, Dearbornistan installing twenty-five thousand dollar "foot baths" on the taxpayers dime. Now once again, no argument here, doesn't offend me... I'm all for the washing of stinkfeet.

Your stink foot puts a hurt on my nose!
Stink foot! stink foot! I aint lyin,
Can you rinse it off, doyou suppose?

But it vexes me when I hear the bullshit argument from the ACLU and it's ilk that "there’s no intent to promote religion.” Sounds like it to me. Wonder how many holy water fountains are in the halls. This from the same people that wont allow Christmas trees in airports or the singing of Silent Night in school recitals. Seems to me that separation anxiety of church and state only applies to members of the Carpenters Union. Just regurgitate every argument made by the ACLU against Christian symbolism as it applies here. I don't necessarily agree, but if the ACLU were ideologically and intellectually honest with themselves, ok never mind.

Nah, there is no war being waged on Christianity in America.

I honestly have no problem with the actual foot baths in and of themselves. My interpretation of the First Amendment is that all religious expression should be free from government interference or more literally that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" if you will. That includes those I do not agree with.

What bothers me here is the lack of any semblance of consistency on the liberal secularist side of the argument. There can be no denying that they truly hate this Country and are hell bent on destroying with lawyers what our forefathers built with their blood sweat and tears.

What goes up must come down. Spinning wheel got to go round. Talkin 'bout your troubles it's a crying sin. Ride a painted pony let the spinning wheel spin.

We The People

I have been a keen observer of Washington politics for at least 20 years now and i have voted in every national, and most local elections since i turned 18. I have always been cynical when it comes to politicians and i truly believe that once they get past the local level they're not really looking out for anyone but themselves anymore. (there are exceptions but very few).

With everything I've seen, and read, and heard since the beginning i can't ever remember a time that i thought the powers that be in Washington were more out of touch with the people who put them there.

This is not a partisan post, I'm talking both sides of the aisle. Now we hear that they want to bring back the "fairness doctrine"! Are you kidding me? They don't like what you have to say so they want to shut you up. Is that democracy?

It's no wonder the confidence level for congress is at all time lows.

Not only do we need a legitimate third party, but we seriously need term limits!

"Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens."
-- George Mason (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,17 June 1788)

Strike 5?

We already know the ILLEGAL ALIENS are criminals because they're here ILLEGALLY. Strike one. How many strikes do we give them before we deport them?

Strike 5

Quickies: Afternoon Donklight

Is there a better indicator of just how out of touch the Clintons are with the American public than Hillary's recent and admittedly borderline humorous Soprano's spoof. First of all I don't see how smart it is for a couple rife with scandal (crimes) to play up to a mob show, and secondly from what I hear via water cooler chatter was that the show sucked and people hated it. That being said, lay off of Celine.... she rocks, and would beat Smash Mouth down in a Texas Chain Match.

Stop your bellyaching New York State Republicans. You knew damn well what you were getting into by selling the mayoral candidacy to Bloomberg, so the moral outrage now at his sudden "independent" change of heart is a crock of malarkey. The guy is doing a decent enough job whether or not hes down with the GOP (which he isnt) so put the blind party label allegiance to bed on this one. Granted its a dick move on his part, but no more of a dick move than whoring your party to a New England liberal.

Chris Matthews drops another f bomb on his show last night. Now truthfully I normally wouldn't care, well actually I don't care, but it makes the following PSA even that much more funny. The More You Know (click on his mug to the right) Seriously do it now, its ha ha funny (via the Fly)

Speaking of four letter words, I was watching South Park's dirty dozen this past weekend and it dawned on me just how filthy that show actually is. It is so well written that the blue humor gets lost in poignant social commentary. Takes talent to make shit fag douche nigger ass jokes into a civics lesson. Kudos gentlemen, kudos.

And Close The -gate When You Leave

"WHEN, a few years ago, word came that British bird lovers anxious about the decline of the house sparrow had appointed a sparrow tsar, it seemed that the tsar vogue must have reached its zenith. France already had a crime tsar, London a traffic tsar, Japan a banking tsar, the European Union a foreign-policy tsar, and America had tsars for adoption, baseball, B-movies, manufacturing, record labels, you name it. No one, however, could outdo the sparrow tsar, or so you might think."

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May The Schwarz Be With You (So They Can Tax It)

"It's hard to think of a recent example of an entire country's tax laws getting changed because of a feeling that one person is making too much money, but that is what is in danger of happening to America in response to the success of one New Yorker, Stephen Schwarzman."

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Donkeyhooey

If Bill Monroe told me that Bela Fleck couldn't play the banjo worth a heck Id listen to him.

Just as being of sound mind I would pay attention if.....

"Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey."

But I fully expect this to be swept under the rug in an attempt to retain the fraudulent moral high ground of consensus or worse yet the man himself not unlike many highly respected before him whose integrity was never in question before this global ruse will suddenly find himself the victim of a definitely not funded by Exxon Mobil --maybe K-Mart, yeah definitely K-Mart -- smear campaign.

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.....how can you not trust a man that says hooey? that's salt of the earth stuff right there.

Bush Whacking

Because i'm nothing if not fair and balanced!

Bush keeps claiming he's dying to enforce the border, but he just can't do it unless we immediately grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens. I wonder if that worked on Laura Bush:

Laura: George, it's time you quit drinking.

George: OK, honey, let's discuss it over cocktails.

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"To restore... harmony,... to render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Thomas McKean, 1801)

Are there any patriots left in the Democrat party? Joe Lieberman is the only one i can think of and he was rejected by his own party for being one. Does anyone out there believe that nancy pelosi cares about anything but politics? Does anyone believe that harry reid cares about the troops when he undermines their mission time after time?

I've asked the question before but it needs to be asked again.

Where have the Democrat patriots gone? Where have the Democrat warriors gone?

Control?

As Janet -- or more appropriately considering that I have been known to have a bit of a propensity for nastiness -- Miss Jackson would say..... What have you done for me lately?

Well regarding the newly Democrat controlled Congress, the answer my friend isnt very much at all. Seems like they took the old Zimmerman hippie mantra literally as they have been nothing more than a party of blowing wind, hot air, non-binding resolutions, strongly worded letters and jaundiced jowled jibber jabber jackassery.

Oh how I pity the fools.

Congress's new voice
Jun 12th 2007 NEW YORK
From Economist.com

What have the Democrats achieved?

ROUGHLY half a year after the Democrats seized Congress, nobody could deny that politics has grown more interesting. Judging from the newspapers today it is Capitol Hill, not the White House, where the action is in Washington, DC.

The new Democratic majority certainly started strong. In its first 100 hours the House passed six popular bills to show that this was no “do-nothing Congress”, as its Republican-controlled predecessor had been labelled. The Iraq debate heated up with congressional calls to pull the troops home. The Senate has held public, sometimes riveting, hearings with the attorney-general and other administration officials, holding their feet to the fire as Congress is meant to do. And recently, the Senate unblocked the debate on immigration by considering a vast compromise bill that would overhaul America’s system for welcoming foreigners.

And yet the past six months has also shown how painfully blocked-up America’s checks-and-balances system can be. For all of the attention-grabbing activity, nothing concrete has yet been achieved. That 100-hours plan? Except for changes to the House’s own rules, none of the other bills has become law; most are languishing in the Senate. A bill on stem-cell research recently passed both chambers, but it now faces George Bush’s veto. The “100 Hours” may be remembered as a catchy campaign slogan, but it may produce precisely nothing of legislative substance. At least the 1994 “Contract with America” helped to get the ball rolling on welfare reform.

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"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."

-- George Washington (Farewell Address, 1796)

The Lovin' Irish

I have to tell you that as a man of high moral character who believes in absolute fairness and tolerance for all, that I am deeply offended over a current smear campaign being spewed over the public airwaves.

Those of you who watch Spike TV know exactly what I am talking about, and to our female readers and Gary whom I assume do not, let me explain....

The UFC is holding a pay per view fight night this coming Saturday from Belfast, Ireland. As an American fight fan with deep roots to the north of Ireland, this should bring me great joy.

However....

What bothers me is the blatant stereotypical portrayal of my fellow donkeys as nothing more than drunken donnybrookers. In advertisements the viewer is constantly reminded of the Irish's love of all things pugilistic.

Needless to say I am aghast.

Imagine the outrage if Nathans were to hold their annual hot dog eating competition in San Francisco, the World Javelin Finals were held in Niger, the Spic n Span Olympics took place in Mexico City, or the beer game Quarters World Series went down at Shlomo Goldberg's pub in Tel Aviv and our public airwaves were inundated with reminders of the above mentioned locales affinity for wiener swallowing, spear chucking, housecleaning and all things coinage.

Well don't pull a muscle, just trust me on this one, there would be outrage. So heeding the age old advice of "if you cant beat em join em" I decided to write my local congresswoman and hold a joint press conference with Al Sharpton

Until...

I came to my senses and realized that I dont give a fuck, and that minor transgressions of the vernacular verbiage variety are truly nothing but a small thang to a big man. As long as you play the victim you shall remain a victim, so in other words stop being a bunch of pussies.

This post was approved by Donkeyhue and if you don't agree I will fight you (then buy you a shot of Tulla of course)

EE-Aw!!!

Devil is in the Details

The concept worked for the GOP in '94 and helped them gain control of congress for the first time in decades with their Contract with America. If they had stuck to their contract they would still be in control, but that's a story for another day, when another contender (Newt) throws his hat in the race. Now we have Rudy G's 12 Commitments. It's a little vague and short on specifics and of course there's no guarantee that he would stick to these commitments since he hasn't shown a propensity to do so in the past (see his marriage history) but it's a good start.

Anchors Away?

"With all the nations on the face of the earth, why is the United States of America the only country in which someone can be united with his family? Illegal immigrants can reunite with their families back where they came from. " Sowell

This has been my argument all along. I keep hearing these idiots like Geraldo Rivera talking about "breaking up families" and i want to slap him! Don't break up the family, send them ALL back to where they came from.

Bumper Sticker???

"A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself"

-- Richard Adams, Watership Down

Illegals Check in.......

In Samuel P. Huntington's book "Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity," he asks: "Would America be the America it is today if in the 17th and 18th centuries it had been settled not by British Protestants but by French, Spanish or Portuguese Catholics? The answer is no. It would not be America; it would be Quebec, Mexico or Brazil."

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Teachers Unions Hate Children

As a business entity liberals and unions love Education, but as a practice they deplore actually educating* the American youth. Similar to most all policies of the liberal agenda, success shall not be tolerated and failure rewarded. Why should they concern themselves with actually doing their job when they get paid by attendance not by accomplishment.

As an example of how unions not only openly promote inefficiency but in some cases it is actually official policy. I recently crashed a horse. The horse is fine but I broke my ankle and for the first time found myself taking the bus to work. I noticed that the drivers aggressively pursue red lights and would stall at stops for what seemed like an egregious amount of time.

Like most New Yorkers I find myself in a daily rush to work in the morning, yet truth be told considering that I haven't been to work "on time" in about five years one would think that the entire concept of this post is contradictory and hypocritical, but since I don't really have a "starting time" I'm going to give myself a pass, and all y'all contraurorian detractors would be wise to do the same, lest I play the big shot card. Yeah that's right.

Anyhue as I was saying, buses in NYC run really slow, frustratingly so for the average commuter. Without the bum ankle I would outwalk the bus to work ninety nine percent of the time (I got 99 problems and the bus is one) . So one day I flashed my 560 card and gots to talking with a driver. They informed me that the people you see with notepads at bus stops are timing them and that if they are ahead of schedule they are reprimanded, fined or suspended. Yet if running late, nary a word is said, in fact it's a prequisite for advancement... sloth that is.

Now I can understand the theoretical argument that it is a safety issue or that you don't want to leave riders stranded (isn't the expression that buses are like women, there is always another one coming... or does that only apply to those who possess junk in the trunka trunk) but in all practicality since city traffic is usually jelly packed I dont see rogue keanu driven buses being a problem.

The bottom line is that the MTA Union penalizes its drivers for getting commuters to their place of work or destination early. Now that just doesn't seem right now does it?

That being said and getting back to those whom Whitney would describe as our future, this is a good start but I will be very interested in the UFT argument against rewarding raising test scores as I would be with the differentials in the results of those that participate and those that do not.

Because you know, that is a bad thing. Being held accountable, promoting achievement, actually doing your job and rewarding excellence. Our children's education is not negotiable.

Ah!!! Mediocrity the Liberal American way.

*educate, not to be confused with indoctrinate.

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“The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.”

Alexander Hamilton

Media Bias?

“You know that minor deal about catching those guys who wanted to blow up JFK Airport? The New York Times decided it was not worthy of front page coverage in its Sunday editions. Nor the second page, nor the third. The NY Times, in what can only be described as editorializing by placement, put it on page THIRTY, the page after the obituaries and the page before the chess column.” —Rich Galen

Amen!

“It’s like the American people are waiting for [the GOP]. They’re waiting for us to remember why we’re doing what we’re doing, about the ideas that inspired us, to remember who the leaders were that inspired us.” —Fred Thompson

What?


“I think that we have failed them in our churches, our schools and our government. And I certainly think the free market has failed. We’ve all failed.” —comrade Hillary Clinton-- on healthcare, energy, young people—you name it


That's rich?

“Well, the definition that I’m using with respect to paying for my healthcare plan is those making over $250,000 a year.” —Barack Obama on his definition of “rich”

(personal story: One of many people i know who EARN over 250k per yr. is my brother in law who is a NYPD detective and also runs his own pool business and an excavating business which he started with his brother. He works 15+ hours per day and risked his own capital to get these things going in order to provide a better life for his family. This man should be PENALIZED for his efforts? He drives a 2003 Ford Explorer! He's RICH?)

True True

“One reason the Republican Party seems so shallow since the departure of Ronald Reagan is that it has largely abandoned the nationalist impulse... the GOP no longer speaks persuasively about a national destiny.”—David Brooks

But Donkey We Won. Yea Capitalism!!!

Spent Youth

The global marketplace aims to create a world of adolescents: children with consumer power and adults with the appetites of spoiled kids.

By Benjamin R. Barber

IN THESE PALTRY TIMES of capitalism’s triumph, as we slide into consumer narcissism, Shakespeare’s seven ages of man are in danger of being washed away by lifelong puerility. Pop-cultural journalists depict a new species of perennial adolescent-kidults, rejuveniles, twixters, adultescents. They are discerning the consequence of a powerful new cultural ethos of induced childishness, an infantilization that is closely tied to the demands of consumer capitalism in a global market economy.

In an epoch when fear of jihad is as prevalent as the infringement on liberties to which fear gives rise, it may seem self-indulgent to fret about the dangers of hyper consumerism. When poor children in the developing world are being starved, prostituted, and impressed into military service, anxiety about the prosperous young in the developed world who may be growing up into consumers too fast, or about adult consumers being dumbed down, can seem solipsistic.

Yet as James Madison said long ago, the pathologies of liberty can be as perilous as the pathologies of tyranny-and far more difficult to discern or remedy. The diseases of prosperity that are the afflictions of capitalism do not kill outright. They violate no explicit laws. Yet capitalism’s success breeds new and dangerous challenges.

Once upon a time, capitalism was allied with virtues that contributed at least marginally to democracy, responsibility, and citizenship. Today it is allied with vices that-although they serve consumerism-undermine democracy, responsibility, and citizenship. The question is not whether there is an alternative to markets but whether markets can be made to meet the real needs capitalism is designed to serve, whether not just democracy but capitalism itself can survive the infantilist ethos upon which it has come to depend. Either capitalism will regain its capacity to promote equality as well as profit, diversity as well as consumption, or infantilization will undo not only democracy but capitalism itself.

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You Know Who You Are

"CHICAGO - In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions.

"On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced," said chief researcher Professor Mark Fultz"

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The Cover Up Continues (Unnoticed)

"What is at stake is more than what we think and say about Sandy Berger. It is more than the legacy of Bill Clinton and of George W. Bush. It is more than the prospects for Hillary Clinton becoming the Democrats' presidential nominee and ultimately the President. All of these, of course, are wrapped up in this story.

Our security and vitality of the rule of law in America are at stake as well. That should concern all whose lives and loved ones may be at risk if our nation follows the wrong path, not knowing everything that should inform our judgments. It should concern all who respect the law, all who have labored as lawyers and judges, as honorable government officials and voices for even-handed justice. "

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It Aint Over Til The Fat Hippie Sings

The only way liberals cant lose a debate is to not have the debate to begin with so sayeths the one who sayeth Ee-aw.

"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."

So said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity. A Gallup poll at the time reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not believe global warming had occurred; 30% weren't sure; and only 17% believed global warming had begun. Even a Greenpeace poll showed 47% of climatologists didn't think a runaway greenhouse effect was imminent; only 36% thought it possible and a mere 13% thought it probable."

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I Have No Defense

I can't defend the President this time. I have been a supporter, and even when i was critical of him i kept it mostly to myself because i felt there was plenty of people out there already criticizing and i didn't need to pile on. I can't defend him and i can't be quiet this time. Peggy Noonan really hits the nail on the head as usual and i think she deserves a spot here on The Aurora.

What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--"At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future. continued