We are lucky to be alive during a time when the earth can now be managed by man. Who would have thought? Did you know we can do it by changing our work / living habits? Also, toilet paper usage is a big factor. And, it is now possible to increase oil supply without drilling more wells.
We are among geniuses. We have a lot to be thankful for. Like where would we be without them?
Which statement causes more harm to Americans; ‘nappy headed hos’ or ‘the war is lost?’ To answer this all one needs to do is look at who is affected and who is saying it. A basketball team of women who have accepted a radio DJ’s apology for an airing that reached (originally) only about 300,000 people, and, over 150,000 soldiers and over a million family members supporting and praying for their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, who are fighting to protect us against Islamofascists (murderers who pervert Islam), by the political leader of the Senate of the United States of over 300 million.
We’ve seen Don Imus lose his job and possibly career over a racial comment, meant to be irreverent humor, that came from the vernacular of today’s hip hop culture. We’ve seen another Senate majority leader like Harry Reid, Trent Lott, lose his leadership position due to popular demand of the ‘opposition party’ for making what was meant to be a joke at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party.
In Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid’s case, his ‘the war is lost’ comment doesn’t even come close to the negative impact fomented from what was said by Don Imus or Trent Lott.
The total impact of Harry Reid’s statement is hurtful to the morale of our troops during a time of war, while they are in harms way. It hurt the sensibilities of the families behind the troops. It gives aid and comfort to the enemy, alQaeda and other like-minded Islamofascists.
Let’s be at least a little consistent shall we? Harry Reid must go. He must at least give up his position as leader of the Senate. Today wouldn’t be soon enough for me.
We know all about Nancy Pelosi’s admonition and promise to be an open government. Well today, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) decided this morning to pull television cameras out of today’s Iraq Supplemental Appropriations conference meeting.
Ultimately Obey relented and C-Span was back in. The fact that he would attempt such a move is one of those red flags. We should pay attention to red flags and take them for what they are. Gross incompetence or power-drunk. Is Obey the best they could do to chair this committee?
>UPDATE 2:15PM: From a source, “it is official…they’re letting c-span provide pool coverage of the whole meeting….”
>UPDATE 2:12 PM: FishbowlDC has learned that Obey has relented and will allow cameras…developing…
One red flag.
ref: FishbowlDC, Radio-TV Correspondents’ Association Warns Of “Troubling Situation”
Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to squash freedom, yearning for those good old communist days. This time it is the press and he gives them his template. Portray the United States as an enemy.
MOSCOW, April 21 At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia’s largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be positive.
In addition, opposition leaders could not be mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy, journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, say they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin.
For reason’s I don’t quite know how to interpret, the KOS seems to be looking for excuses for Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) “the war is lost” statement instead of toasting with French champagne and blunts.
Some have questioned his rhetoric and his choice of words, calling it a gaffe. But what if Reid had carefully chosen his words? What if his intention was to spur debate, or even further, to forward the debate beyond the question of this supplemental funding bill and the squabbling over it?
If it was his intention to ‘spur debate’ then it is safe to say that the senator is a blooming idiot. What else can you say about someone who would cause a negative effect on troop morale and help the enemy, all for the purpose of spurring debate?Â
From what Reid said, it seems the rabid left is getting ‘what they paid for,’ to use their words after the 2006 election.  Is it an indication that even they are beginning to see that, as more and more people hear what they are really about, they are turning people off with their message and tactics?
Meet Glenn McCall, the first black GOP chairman for York County, South Carolina.
“People feel that just because I’m African-American, I should be a Democrat,” McCall, 52, said Monday, two days after being elected without opposition during the county party convention.
“I feel I need to stand on my own convictions and values.”McCall, currently the only black GOP chairman statewide, said the party’s platform on issues such as abortion and gay marriage resonate with him. He said his faith drives his politics.
McCall hopes more black conservatives will get involved with the GOP. Here Here
Gore campaign team assembles in secret.  Ssh, it’s secret.
With neither candidate getting over 50% of the vote, France’s presidential election will be decided in a run-off election on May 6. Nicolas Sarkozy, characterized as the pro-west, pro-capitalism candidate got 30.44 percent of the vote and Segolene Royal, the socialist candidate got 24.79 percent of the vote. The French people now have a stark choice before them.
But don’t expect that the runoff will produce the same outcome. Royal had a significant opponent, François Bayrou, a centrist candidate who got 18.31 percent of the vote. The determining factor will be where that 18.31 percent chooses to hang their hat. Â
They each have their views on how to save the French economy. Sarkozy’s idea is through capitalism and by reducing taxes from 60% to 50%, and have more flexible weekly work hours. Royal, on the other hand, wants to spur the economy by increasing the minimum wage by 20 percent and adding half a million government subsidized jobs and a shorter work week, more holidays, more benefits, less employer autonomy.
What Sir Winston Churchill said:
| We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. |
Here’s hoping the French people will see that the Sarkozy ideology will be their best bet for whatever they think ailes them.
Suspects v. Christians, What? More evidence that the so-called religion of peace extends its influence into the media, this CNN article (buried in the World section) can’t seem to identify the religion of the murderers. They call them suspects. However, the three people who had their throats slit were properly identified as Christians.   This PC crap is masking terrorism and the scope and scale of it. Don’t you think it is time to quit ignoring the elephant in the room?Â
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Eleven suspects in the slayings of three Christians at a publishing house in eastern Turkey were charged with murder Sunday, court officials said.
The three victims — one German and two Turkish men — were tied up and had their throats slit on Wednesday at a publishing house in the town of Malatya that was at the center of protests by some nationalists because it distributed Bibles.