Bet He is a Veteran
Want to beat the man in the wheel chair is a veteran?
Veterans Can't Have a Cross
Bennigton Banner's Chris Parker has a story about the Vermont Veterans Home having to remove a cross after "trustees decided it is illegal at a state-owned facility". How dare the Veterans Home to have a wooden cross, strung with patriotically colored lights made by residents and employees of the home to honor the local Vermont Guard troops who left last month for a tour in the Middle East...How dare them! The director of the veterans home received several calls from upset about the cross being deemed inappropriate - do these citizens know what they think matters not, unless they are a judge! (Story here) (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)
Republicans Jumping on Band Wagon
This story just demonstrates republicans jumping on the "get Rummy" bandwagon... Of course, I am not sure how conservative Susan Collins (R - Maine) is, she did vote against the impeachment of Clinton. The Republicans that are jumping on the "get Rummy" bandwagon seem to be political motivated - they did not have a problem with troop volumes, defense budget, etc. when they voted; but, NOW it is front page New York Times' news it is an issue. Hey, wishy washing Republicans, you are doing nothing but helping your next democratic opponent (remember flip-flop), hurting our President, and advancing the liberal New York Times' agenda.. Congratulations Senator Collins on your new found wisdom, visa be the New York Times, but should not our leaders have seen issues when voting own troop movements, budgets, etc..
This seems like the Democrats claim; yes we vote but even though the executive branch of our government is the "weakest" branch, so designed by our forefathers, we will pass anything negative on to the that branch. Senator Collins can you read? Are you a leader? Step up and accept that you did not foresee the problems then adapt and overcome - soldiers have been adapting and improvising for years now!
This seems like the Democrats claim; yes we vote but even though the executive branch of our government is the "weakest" branch, so designed by our forefathers, we will pass anything negative on to the that branch. Senator Collins can you read? Are you a leader? Step up and accept that you did not foresee the problems then adapt and overcome - soldiers have been adapting and improvising for years now!
Sick Story
This is a story detailing the "extraction" of an unborn child after murdering it's mother... What is happening to our country that this type of heinous crime can happen?
When and if the suspect or suspects are caught some wonderful defense attorney will tell us we need to understand his/her pain and the reasons they did it. This is bunk! What can possibly justify this action? I actually heard someone say "oh this happened in Columbia recently….."; what was the point, we are now holding ourselves to "third world" standards. This statement and the "defense attorney" profession indicate that we are trying to lower our standards to our actions instead of holding ourselves accountable to American values and morals. Enough ranting!
If you are reading this and know anything about this crime call the FBI immediately… Let's at least save the child if possible!
UPDATE: Even though law enforcement is saying that the person/persons probably had some type of medical knowledge FoxNews has an "expert" saying that the person is probably mentally ill, yada, yada, yada, yada - the excuses for the heinous act have already started! Will we hold them accountable if caught, that's the big question! By the way how many times has this happened if we already have experts
UPDATE 15:32PM(CST): Appears they found the baby ALIVE (Read stroy) Let's hope so - Thank God!
When and if the suspect or suspects are caught some wonderful defense attorney will tell us we need to understand his/her pain and the reasons they did it. This is bunk! What can possibly justify this action? I actually heard someone say "oh this happened in Columbia recently….."; what was the point, we are now holding ourselves to "third world" standards. This statement and the "defense attorney" profession indicate that we are trying to lower our standards to our actions instead of holding ourselves accountable to American values and morals. Enough ranting!
If you are reading this and know anything about this crime call the FBI immediately… Let's at least save the child if possible!
UPDATE: Even though law enforcement is saying that the person/persons probably had some type of medical knowledge FoxNews has an "expert" saying that the person is probably mentally ill, yada, yada, yada, yada - the excuses for the heinous act have already started! Will we hold them accountable if caught, that's the big question! By the way how many times has this happened if we already have experts
UPDATE 15:32PM(CST): Appears they found the baby ALIVE (Read stroy) Let's hope so - Thank God!
Ohio Recount Tossed
The above picture look familiar - no it's not Florida 2000 - it's Ohio 2004, and another lame attempt by the Democrats - oh wait they road on the heels of others in a empty attempt to shield themselves as the guiding throng. Anyway, now that you know where I stand, the case was tossed out of court. (Read story) (Hat tip: Urban Republican)
Chevy Chase has Lost it
Well Chevy Chase is at it again - proving liberal in Hollywood are going to change - yes another good sign for 2008 and the republicans. Mr. Chase was the host of an awards ceremony staged by People for The American Way. Here is the reporter's take on what he Mr. Chase said:
He deployed the four-letter word that got Vice President Cheney in hot water, using it as a noun. Chase called the prez a "dumb [expletive]." He also used it as an adjective, assuring the audience, "I'm no [expletive] clown either. . . . This guy started a jihad."Yes the word deployed involved a "F". Further the reporter tells us:
People for the American Way distanced itself yesterday from the actor's rant. "Chevy Chase's improvised remarks caught everyone off guard, and were inappropriate and offensive," Ralph Neas, the liberal advocacy group's president, said in a statement. "It was not what I would have said, and certainly not the language People for the American Way would ever use in discussing any president of the United States."Mr. Neas, what exactly did you expect? You were honoring Alex Baldwin and Susan Sarandon, two of the most outspoken Hollywood Bush bashers and asked Chevy Chase to host. Sir you are aware that during the John Kerry party where "people reflecting the true values of America"(?) attended Mr. Chase said "this guy is as bright as an egg-timer" of this President of the United States - I ain't buying what your selling Mr. Neas..
Thief to Investigate Crime
Is it just me or does this story not give you confidence the truth will come out? I mean every crooks dream to be the one responsible for investigating the crime...Give me a break!
Freedom of Speech - Except
Once again, we see that as far as school is concerned you can have freedom to say anything in a song except refer to Christ or Christianity. The Toledo Blade reports that a Christian band scheduled to play during a "anti-drug" school assembly has been cancelled because "it isn't appropriate". Maybe in homage to Madelyn Murray O'Hair, who graduate from this same school. (Hat tip: David Limbaugh)
Zell to Work at Fox
This story details that Zell Miller the "Dixiecrat" from Georgia will be a contributor for FoxNews. The article takes the opportunity to once again point out that Fox had more viewers then ABC, CBS, or NBC during the GOP convention.
FNC was watched by an average of 5.9 million viewers between 10 and 11 that Wednesday, easily outstripping NBC's 4.5 million, ABC's 3.3 million and CBS's 2.6 million.
Saddam's Henchmen to be Charges
Next week former members of Saddam's regime will began being charged. This is excellent and a great development, truly believing that when these "men of evil" are brought before the Iraq people and they see that the reason was not just to "get Saddam", but to stop the suffering it will assist the movement toward democracy and a free Iraq. After all every American is for a free Iraq, the end of "evil", and justice for the evilness of Saddam's regime; aren't they?
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 14 - The first charges will be filed next week against former members of Saddam Hussein's government, starting the long-awaited effort to bring its leaders to justice, Iraq's interim prime minister announced Tuesday......
Taliban Done!
This article promotes optimism that the Taliban is on it's last leg - approximately three years since American forces entered Afghanistan; what do you think could we expect the same time frame for Iraq? Are we demanding too much for Iraq based on our apparent success in Afghanistan?
Social Security - Reform
David Brooks has a really good OP-ED about Social Security reform. Mr. Brooks has an observation that I happened to agree with on the current liberal doctrine and I quote "What you hear these days is not liberalism. It's conspiracyism" - pretty much sums up what I hear everyday from the left.. Some excerpts from the article.
What you hear these days is not liberalism. It's conspiracyism. It's the belief that the Bushite corporate cabal is going to do to domestic programs what the Bushite neocon cabal did in the realm of foreign affairs. It's the belief in malevolent and shadowy forces that will grab everything for their own greedy ends. This is Michael Moore-ism applied to domestic affairs, and it will leave the Democrats only deeper in the hole.
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The outline of the problem is clear. When the Social Security program was created, there were 42 workers for each retiree. Now there are about three workers per retiree, and in 2030 there will be two.
The White House is heading toward a reform plan that would tie the benefit levels to prices rather than wages, which is a serious benefit cut. It would then use the power of the markets to compensate retirees for those cuts and to create a reserve fund to make the system solvent. (Please read more)
Immigration Security - Follow-up
As I promised in Immigration Security I will share my immediate thoughts. I wanted to thank you for the thoughts via e-mail I received Thursday and Friday.
Well the first story I will discuss advised President Bush vows to help House Republicans enact tighter immigration-security controls. However, this cannot happen until the next year. I believe this is a late and have so stated. Yes, I support President Bush but his administration has been sorely lacking in this effort, in my opinion - of course, we (The Republicans) wanted the Hispanic vote! F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R - Wisconsin) did step up to the plate and acknowledge this could be too late, stating of immigration provisions, "they are vital". These new immigration-security controls will not be easy to enact, Nancy Pelosi (D - California) called the reform "egregious" and "extraneous"!
The after the above story we get this story advising "House to see new bill on immigration-security"... The article identifies the problem passing this new bill will be, as expected in the Senate. The bill calls for driver's license reform, tightening asylum laws, and completing the fence on California's border. All right, let us stand and cheer - is this enough? What has been the hold up in the three years following 9/11 or the eleven years since WTC 1 - I mean all the experts(?) say better driver's license control would have impaired the enemy's plan. I personally do not believe this bill will go far enough and will only be a token to appease people like me - if they can even get it through the Senate.
What is the big deal? I hear people concerned about having a "country ID" - give me a break, it controls driver's license better - you know the thingy you are only supposed to have one of and show every time you right a check, are pulled over by law enforcement, or give a copy for employment. What is the big deal, you already have a "country ID" we simply want to control it better and I say that and the other two proposed reforms ain't enough!
Well the first story I will discuss advised President Bush vows to help House Republicans enact tighter immigration-security controls. However, this cannot happen until the next year. I believe this is a late and have so stated. Yes, I support President Bush but his administration has been sorely lacking in this effort, in my opinion - of course, we (The Republicans) wanted the Hispanic vote! F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R - Wisconsin) did step up to the plate and acknowledge this could be too late, stating of immigration provisions, "they are vital". These new immigration-security controls will not be easy to enact, Nancy Pelosi (D - California) called the reform "egregious" and "extraneous"!
The after the above story we get this story advising "House to see new bill on immigration-security"... The article identifies the problem passing this new bill will be, as expected in the Senate. The bill calls for driver's license reform, tightening asylum laws, and completing the fence on California's border. All right, let us stand and cheer - is this enough? What has been the hold up in the three years following 9/11 or the eleven years since WTC 1 - I mean all the experts(?) say better driver's license control would have impaired the enemy's plan. I personally do not believe this bill will go far enough and will only be a token to appease people like me - if they can even get it through the Senate.
What is the big deal? I hear people concerned about having a "country ID" - give me a break, it controls driver's license better - you know the thingy you are only supposed to have one of and show every time you right a check, are pulled over by law enforcement, or give a copy for employment. What is the big deal, you already have a "country ID" we simply want to control it better and I say that and the other two proposed reforms ain't enough!
Teens Delay Sex - (Religion & Morals)
The Washington Times Insider has a story telling us "teen sexual activity has dropped significantly since 1995 -- primarily, teens say, because it is against their religious or moral values, says a new federal study regarded by many as the "gold standard" for family statistics". (Read here)
Well I'll be John Brown; the most common reason given by teens for delaying sex was "against [their] religion or moral values" - those evil issues; morals and religion strike again.
Well I'll be John Brown; the most common reason given by teens for delaying sex was "against [their] religion or moral values" - those evil issues; morals and religion strike again.
The Hate Continues
This story again demonstrates the lengths demoncrats will go to unite the nation. In Lancaster, Pennsylvania a City Councilmen (Nelson Polite), upset that his neighborhood baker (David Stoltzfus) choose to display a picture of President George W. Bush - and in an effort to reinforce his commitment to freedom of choice Councilmen Polite asked Mr. Stoltzfus to take down the picture. Since Mr. Stoltzfus has refused to comply with the request, or was it a request, Councilmen Polite threatened to push a city ordinance to ban all political material from public paces. (Read here)
Atheist Philosopher "There is a God"
There is a story where Anthony Flew "the British scholar who has been one of the world's most proponent of atheism", conceded that scientific evidence points to the existence of God.
Flew said that the latest biological research “has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved.”Although Mr. Flew is not there yet he has moved in the right direction! (Hat tip: David Limbaugh)
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“I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian,..."
Christmas in Iraq
Let's hope the ACLU doesn't sue for using the word Christmas!
Armor Question - Setup for Rummy
I didn't say anything about this story; however, now want to give my opinion since I have heard nothing else but this story for the last two days. Unaware of what I am talking about? I do not see how it is news everywhere, but while taking questions from Soldiers in Kuwait Donald Rumsfeld was asked a "hard" question about the lack of armor - this questioner, a solider, it was discovered was coached by a reporter. You can read about here, here, and here.
This story, once again is regurgitated old news. There have been claims Kerry knew this and Bush denied it in the debates; well this is bunk - here is the only reference I found during the debates.
Is it a valid question - yes - using it a "gotcha" devalues the question! The reporter, that is suppose to be so worried about our men and women, had the "best day of his journalistic career" - give me a break he (the reporter) and his colleagues don't care one iota about the men and women - simply need that gotcha!
Once again, to add credence to the question - we get it had to be said - as if commanders were not aware and not speaking up for their troops. Oh sure I forgot they are part of the vast "Bush conspiracy" just as this the young soldier would have been demonized had he added "thank you sir that makes sense to me" - of course if he said it would not have made to the news, well maybe he did?
Once again - as far as news goes this is a non-story; heck, Jag did an episode (#211) on lack of vehicle Armor in Iraq last month - that is amazing Hollywood had the blockbuster story before the newspapers.
Are there issues with equipment improvement - yes - because, we are constantly finding new and better ways as we improve technology and learn methods and procedures of the enemy. To through a blanket over the entire DOD and say it is incompetence is ludicrous - in every war there have been improvements to save lives that everyone wishes we could have gotten to the battlefield quicker. An example would be WWII the Sherman tank was a "fireball" waiting to happen, but we did not know that until we went against German Panzers and Tigers and found that our Fuel Tank could be penetrated so easily even by their handheld launchers add that with the choice of gasoline instead of diesel - lot of people died - we corrected it but could not stop the war until all new equipment was manufactured and reissued.....There is a little common sense missing in the glee of attacking Bush and the administration....
This story, once again is regurgitated old news. There have been claims Kerry knew this and Bush denied it in the debates; well this is bunk - here is the only reference I found during the debates.
KERRY: We didn't guard 850,000 tons of ammo. That ammo is now being used against our kids. Ten thousand out of 12,000 Humvees aren't armored. I visited some of those kids with no limbs today, because they didn't have the armor on those vehicles. They didn't have the right body armor.Please noticed also included in this debate on October 7 we hear about the 850,000 tons of ammo that was such a surprise - Sunday, October 26th - regurgitating old news in an effort to produce "new" bad news has been common practice for the media during the last eighteen months or so. Simply added a new twist - get a solider to do it.
I've met parents who've on the Internet gotten the armor to send their kids.
There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United states than how you take a nation to war. And you can't say, because Saddam might have done it 10 years from now, that's a reason; that's an excuse.
GIBSON: Mr. President?
BUSH: He complains about the fact our troops don't have adequate equipment, yet he voted against the $87 billion supplemental I sent to the Congress and then issued one of the most amazing quotes in political history: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.
Is it a valid question - yes - using it a "gotcha" devalues the question! The reporter, that is suppose to be so worried about our men and women, had the "best day of his journalistic career" - give me a break he (the reporter) and his colleagues don't care one iota about the men and women - simply need that gotcha!
Once again, to add credence to the question - we get it had to be said - as if commanders were not aware and not speaking up for their troops. Oh sure I forgot they are part of the vast "Bush conspiracy" just as this the young soldier would have been demonized had he added "thank you sir that makes sense to me" - of course if he said it would not have made to the news, well maybe he did?
Once again - as far as news goes this is a non-story; heck, Jag did an episode (#211) on lack of vehicle Armor in Iraq last month - that is amazing Hollywood had the blockbuster story before the newspapers.
Are there issues with equipment improvement - yes - because, we are constantly finding new and better ways as we improve technology and learn methods and procedures of the enemy. To through a blanket over the entire DOD and say it is incompetence is ludicrous - in every war there have been improvements to save lives that everyone wishes we could have gotten to the battlefield quicker. An example would be WWII the Sherman tank was a "fireball" waiting to happen, but we did not know that until we went against German Panzers and Tigers and found that our Fuel Tank could be penetrated so easily even by their handheld launchers add that with the choice of gasoline instead of diesel - lot of people died - we corrected it but could not stop the war until all new equipment was manufactured and reissued.....There is a little common sense missing in the glee of attacking Bush and the administration....
Gay Divorce
Who Will Get Credit?
Let's see who gets credit for this story! Attempts to unite are being made, but who is doing it? I mean we know that Bush would never do that, just read the op-eds in the New York Times - and the liberals shouldn't do it just listen to Howard Dean. Who is doing it then? Divided we stand, no it's United We Stand and George W. Bush - President George W. Bush is making and effort! Some excerpts:
To the chagrin of Democratic leaders, Mr. Boyd broke party ranks on Tuesday by showing up at a press conference to support a bill aimed at partially privatizing Social Security, a key component of the president's planned reform. The legislation was written by Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona.
"Look, if you're going to have meaningful reform, you've got to get past this notion that we attack them for every position or idea they float out," Mr. Boyd said.
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Mr. Boyd is not the only Democrat demonstrating a willingness to work with Mr. Bush just weeks after he and his party trounced Democrats after an acrimonious campaign. On Tuesday, Rep. Jane Harman of California praised Mr. Bush's leadership after House passage of an intelligence-reform bill.
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Meanwhile, the White House announced yesterday that Mr. Bush has asked Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, a Democrat who was also a member of President Clinton's Cabinet, to stay for a second term. The president also asked several Republicans to remain in his Cabinet. (Read here)