Iran has the latest version of reality TV, it’s called the 15 British POW’s.
 CNN International and Reuters are all over it. Meanwhile, still not a peep about the Geneva Convenience Conventions being violated.Â
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Take My Speaker, Please!
No, it’s not a threat, its a joke. Thank you Rodney Dangerfield for your inspiration and humor.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, against the wishes of the administration, visits the middle east’s largest sponsor of terrorism, Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Apparently she is saying nothing new. Apparently she is carrying the administration’s message; stop supporting terrorism, stop seeking to undermine the Lebanese government, recognize Israel’s right to exist, all that. All that has been said and done before.Â
Besides adding to global warming by flying over there, what was her point in going? To appear relevant I guess, as a Co-Commander-In-Chief-Secretary-of-State. Right, this after she tells the president to ‘calm down.’ She’s using a different version of the U.S. Constitution than the one in Washington. Must be the moveon.org version.
Good Genocide Bad Genocide , What?
For years now, literally years, the Bush administration has had to push the United Nations into even discussing the genocide in Darfur, Africa. That’s the place where the Islamofascists have virtually taken over the government and have been on a mission to kill or otherwise displace the Christian native Africans. The U.N. can’t even agree calling what is happening there genocide. But the far left can see it as genocide. And I agree, it is. That, and the United Nations is a worthless group of anti-American, anti-West thugs.
Funny thing about it is, this country didn’t cause or start the genocide in Darfur. This administration is diplomatically trying to get African nations together to stop it themselves. Yet, the left has TV commercials all over the airwaves saying, ‘President Bush, stop the genocide’ as though he’s the one causing it. When it comes to Iraq and the war on terror it is the far left, these same people, who just want the U.S. out of Iraq. They want the Iraqi people to be left high and dry, to wallow in their own ‘civil war’ as they call it. If we were to pull out before the job is finished, there would be genocide in Iraq and it would be the left in this country that would be responsible for it. Go figure.
Troops = Football
To the far left, the ones apparently calling the shots in the Democrat(ic) party today, the troops are the political football and their game-plan it to play a game. That’s why they have apparently put Barack Obama on their s***list, for really trying to support the troops.
In a post titled ‘Obama caves to Bush,’ the shadow party chairman (kos) says
“Instead of threatening Bush with even more restrictions and daring him to veto funding for the troops out of pique, Barack just surrendered to him.”
It is obvious that the far left is fighting the wrong war. This is what Obama said that kos characterizes as surrendering to Bush.
If President Bush vetoes an Iraq war spending bill as promised, Congress quickly will provide the money without the withdrawal timeline the White House objects to because no lawmaker “wants to play chicken with our troops.”
Murder Rate And Murder Mentality
The City of Brotherly Love is having trouble with a seemingly out-of-control criminal element. They reported their 100th murder yesterday. Reminiscent of other milestones in deaths in Iraq, the 500th, 1000th, etc… One would think that there’s a civil war going on in the city.
Philly can take solace in the fact that they’ve got a long way to go to top New Orleans, which now has a higher murder rate than the entire country of Iraq. They have one thing in common with New Orleans that needs to be addressed. The people, not all the people, I’ll call them the insurgents, don’t want to help themselves get rid of the problem. Instead, they are the problem.
New Orleans residents are reluctant to come forward as witnesses, fearing retaliation. And experts say that is one of several reasons homicides are on the rise in the Big Easy at a time when other cities are seeing their murder rates plummet to levels not seen in decades.
Philly has the same problem.
‘Don’t talk to the f-ing cops,’ ” the officer quoted the woman as saying. ” ‘We handle this our own way.’ ”
The mother of a third shooting victim arrived and told police: “I know who did it, and he’s in this crowd.” As the woman looked around for the gunman, the crowd berated her and told her to keep silent, the officer said. “People were telling her to be quiet and saying, ‘We’ll get you, bitch.’ “
What are contributing factors to this mentality? The us vs. them attitude runs rampant and gets ignored by organizations like the NAACP who refuse to step up to address it. The illegal immigration deniers are in the same boat. Schools could help obviously, but the war extends to the hallways too.
The answer might have to be some tough love. Maybe something needs to be tried like the politicians in Washington want to do in Iraq? If it works in Iraq, why wouldn’t it work in New Orleans and Philadelphia?
UPDATE: 04/02/07, Enough is enough, it’s up to 104.
A Liberal Who Wants To Win, Not Retreat
Meet Marc Danziger, a liberal democrat who wants to win the war, not run from it. He also believes that the war in Iraq is just one front in the overall global war on terror. And he has a plan to support any and all efforts to that end. He has started The Victory PAC.
For a perspective you haven’t heard from another liberal, with the exception of Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Ct), here’s where Marc is coming from.
I’m a liberal Democrat (pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, pro-progressive taxation, pro-equal rights, pro-environmental regulation, pro-public schools) who supported and supports the war in Iraq. As I tell my liberal friends “Did I miss the part where it was progressive not to fight medieval religious fascists?”
I’ve been waiting for four years for the White House to start really explaining the war to the American people, and to do anything sensible at all to maintain the political capital necessary to keep America in the fight – to keep us from withdrawing because the war is too messy, or too long, or just plain makes us feel bad.
HERE HERE
Marc is a liberal who knows who the real enemy is, and its not George Bush.
Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the heads up on Victory PAC
Wizard of Id
Cable News Rankings, March 29
Who is watching and who is being watched? It seems viewers have had enough of the message from the cable version of the MSM. Note who is at the bottom half. Which means you can only expect them to get even more intense and creative in the art of making up news and crisis-ridden stories.
It also makes you wonder why the Democrat party in Nevada dropped out of the Fox-sponsored Primary debates. They might do well to have it on South Park.
CABLE NEWS RACE
THURS., MAR. 29, 2007
VIEWERS
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,844,000
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 2,299,000
CC SOUTH PARK 1,854,000
FNC GRETA 1,689,000
FNC SHEP SMITH 1,381,000
FNC HUME 1,336,000
CNN KING 1,062,000
CNN DOBBS 874,000
CNN COOPER 756,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 712,000
CNNHN GRACE 646,000
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 510,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 463,000
World Goes Wuss On Geneva Conventions
Even the cave dwellers in Afghanistan and Pakistan saw the world reaction alleging Geneva Convention violations to the terrorists, who btw are not covered by the Geneva Convention, when they landed in Club Gitmo, the Guantanamo Bay prison. For the last few days we’ve witnessed bonafide GC violations when Great Britain’s soldiers, our allies in the war on terror, were filmed reading propaganda and wearing costumes not part of their uniform, like the scarf and tablecloth they made the female captive wear.
Have you heard ONE objection about this yet?  Seen any demonstrators in the streets demanding Iran stop doing it? I checked the New York Times. There is not a word fit to print on this subject I guess. And what about the usual cadre of Geneva Convention cheerleaders, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, John Murtha, John Kerry, and Mrs. Bill Clinton? Â
Proof positive that all that made-up crap was done for only one purpose, to harm the Bush administration, and as an added plus, this country and the war on terror, for purely political purposes.
MSM 100, On Political Corruption
Once you read the first paragraph of this story, can you guess which political party this high ranking NJ elected official is affiliated with? After the second para? The third? Still no clue? If you are alert, in the fourth paragraph you will see the single reference to Sen. Wayne Bryant’s party, where the word democrat is mentioned. Â
When was the last time you saw a ‘news’ article having to do with corruption involving a republican where the perp’s party affiliation did not immediately follow his name? It is the usual convention for identifying politicians, umm, when criminal behavior is not an issue I guess? When it is, then the D’s are omitted.
TRENTON – State Sen. Wayne Bryant, until recently one of New Jersey’s most influential lawmakers, was charged today with abusing his power and the public trust.
A federal grand jury indicted Bryant, 59, of Lawnside, on public corruption and fraud charges tied to his employment at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and two other publicly funded agencies and institutions.
The 20-count indictment also charges R. Michael Gallagher, the former dean of UMDNJ’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, whom prosecutors allege schemed with Bryant to defraud the system.
According to the 40-page indictment, the powerful Camden County Democrat effectively sold his political influence to Gallagher and the osteopathic school. In return for lobbying on behalf of the school and securing millions in extra state funds, prosecutors allege, Bryant was rewarded with a $35,000-a-year, no-show job.
Camden, New Jersey is the city where the school system is in shambles, has been taken over by a state appointee, because the administration was more concerned with graft, kickbacks, and cheating on test scores than actually teaching their kids.Â
As for Sen. Wayne Bryant, he has a distinguished record of corruption going back to 1990.
It only gets worse the higher up the food chain you go. Take Rep. William ‘Dollar Bill’ Jefferson (D-La) for example. That investigation isn’t finished.  Did you even know there was one? Think hurricane Katrina, National Guard, and you might remember his name. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi recently put him on the House Homeland Security Committee.  Having $90,000 in bribe money in your freezer is just one of the criteria for getting appointed to that highly sensitive and important committee. Majority leader Pelosi apparently isn’t concerned with that ‘culture of corruption’ thing when one of her own is concerned.