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Outlook on Life

After reading many opinions on President Bush's inaugural speech I feel I know the writers outlook on life; how they feel about their life.

William Safire: Content

I rate it among the top 5 of the 20 second-inaugurals in our history. Lincoln's profound sermon "with malice toward none" is incomparable, but Bush's second was better than Jefferson's mean-spirited pouting at "the artillery of the press."
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It takes guts to take on that peace-freedom priority so starkly. Bush, by retaliatory and pre-emptive decisions in his first term - and by his choice of words and his tall stance in this speech, and despite his unmodulated delivery - now drives his critics batty by exuding a buoyant confidence reminiscent of F.D.R. and Truman.

Richard Reeves: Miserable

Listening to Bush this time, I realized I'll never be as big a man as Herb Block. What I heard was my president declaring war on the world, concluding: "America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world and to all the inhabitants thereof ..."
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"I ask our youngest citizens to believe the evidence of your eyes. You have seen duty and allegiance in the determined faces of our soldiers. You have seen that life is fragile and evil is real and courage triumphs. Make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants, larger than yourself ..." Is that not exactly what fundamentalist mullahs are asking of their children? Is this not our jihad?

David Brooks: Happy

Bush's inaugural ideals will also be real in the way they motivate our troops in Iraq. Military Times magazine asked its readers if they think the war in Iraq is worth it. Over 60 percent - and two-thirds of Iraq combat vets - said it was. While many back home have lost faith, our troops fight because their efforts are aligned with the core ideals of this country, articulated by Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Lincoln, F.D.R., Truman, J.F.K., Reagan and now Bush.
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And we're reminded once again that this country has grown rich, powerful and effective not because its citizens are smarter or better, but because the ideals bequeathed by the founders are practical and true.

Just some observation; I have always associated the "Bush hating" and the "red state hating" with much more than a pessimistic outlook, I believe these individuals are simply miserable looking for a "cause" to left their spirits and soul. These individuals happiness seems to depend on who is in the oval office - an individual that in our governmental structure occupies the least powerful of the government branches… I choose to put my faith, my happiness, my future in the hands of someone much more powerful then a single human being and I believe this scares the far-left faction of the Democratic party, but why should it.

Academic Future

Just an observation, but the seventeen year old in this story might have a future as a liberal professor.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A student whose vacation plans were spoiled has sued to end summer homework in Wisconsin, claiming it creates an unfair workload and unnecessary stress.

Later in the story, we find that the class is an "honors class" - you know one of those meant for "gifted" and/or "hard-working" students; guess he and his father missed the "hard-working" part. I have a solution; don't take the class since it is and "honor" and voluntary. Nevertheless, I see a liberal educator in the making.

Terrorist Terrorize Their Own

Again, Islamic terrorist behead fellow Muslims in and effort to stop freedom from becoming the norm in Iraq - freedom from fear - freedom to say what you think - freedom….

A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi beheaded two Iraqis who said they worked at a U.S. base in Iraq group posted an Internet video of the killings on Friday.

I have written quite a bit about these "animals" not caring about anything or anybody only wanting to instill terror and defeat freedom, and in so doing solidifying the need for freedom among the Iraqi people - here, here, here, here, and here. These "animals" went on to say:

this would be the fate of those who "sold their religion and honor for the pleasures of life"

"Pleasures of life" - could this actual be an admission that such freedom will lead to a better life or "pleasurable" way to live.

Should Have Been Me

John Kerry has a long face - "but Teddy said I would win"


"It should have been me after all I am smarter then him, just ask the media"

"War in Iraq Not on Iraq"

Diana West's Op-Ed piece in The Washington Times is a must read. Some snippets:

We are at war in Iraq, not on Iraq, which we have liberated. We fight on to endow Iraqi Muslims, some Iraqi Christians and even a couple of Iraqi Jews with a little liberty and running water against ... terror? There's no war on "terror" any more than there's a war on car bombs. Neither term describes what animates the terrorists — drivers of car bombs, wearers of explosive vests, or wielders of butcher-blades. Invariably, it is Islam and the murderous, expansionist ideology of jihad that drives that extreme fringe you read about to the point of unspeakable violence. And by the way, that's some fringe; according to Daniel Pipes' famous estimate, it includes 10 percent of the Muslim world — 100 million-plus people.

Which takes me back to the original idea of what there is to achieve by writing about those central, retrograde aspects of Islam that clash with Western society — namely, the precepts of jihad and dhimmitude, and the dictates of sharia law. Clarity is the goal. We are unlikely to witness a security-lite inauguration four years — or eight or 12 years — hence if we remain confused about the ideology that animates our foes. And we are unlikely to ward off the spread of jihad, dhimmitude and sharia law the world over — including the U.S.A. — if we know nothing about it, or, worse, know only apologetics about it. Infinitely more pleasant, they are also misleading. (Read here)

Iraq - By the Numbers

Chrenkoff has the media negativism towards Iraq by the numbers.

But it's one thing to have a gut feeling about media negativity and another to know exactly how negative the coverage is. So today I decided to do a little tally.

Friday, 21 January (Australian time) is an average day as far as Iraq is concerned. Google news indexes the following negative stories concerning Iraq:

2,642 stories about Condi Rice's confirmation hearings, in the context of grilling she has received over the Administration's Iraq policy

1,992 stories about suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks

887 stories about prisoner abuse by British soldiers

2,345 stories about President Bush's inauguration, in the context of the President failing to mention the word "Iraq" in his speech, or indeed discuss the war

(Read more)

This is nothing new and I have written about Good News Please in the past like here, but to see the negativism put into this kind of perspective is eye opening.

Social Security the "Real" Reason

Larry Elder exposes the real reason Democrat's are resisting President Bush's "personal accounts", "you're too stupid to manage your own money".

Former Democratic vice-presidential contender Geraldine Ferraro inadvertently revealed the real reason behind Democrats' resistance to the president's proposal of Social Security partial privatization. " . . . [I]f you don't have the knowledge [emphasis added] and the wherewithal [emphasis added] to manage your own private funds," said Ferraro, "well, you know, you're gonna be out of luck."

Now, Americans possess the ability to make the money. Ferraro's comments parallel the Americans-are-too-stupid theme embraced by former President Bill Clinton. Speaking in 1999 about the $70 billion budget surplus, Clinton said, "We could give it all back to you and hope you spend it right. . . . Do you really want to run the risk of squandering this surplus?"

I don't find this surprising, this is a constant theme among Democratic leaders - "we are simply smarter and know what is best", and exemplifies their arrogant elitist mentality... Read more of Mr. Elder's column here.

Hillary Talks about God

Wonder if the "far-left" will attack Hillary Clinton for her comments on God and "faith-based initiatives" or if they simply believe she is lying and saying what she needs to redefine her self. The Extreme Makeover has begun.

"There is no contradiction between support for faith-based initiatives and upholding our constitutional principles," said Clinton,
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"I've always been a praying person."
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She said there must be room for religious people to "live out their faith in the public square."

Let's just see how this plays on the left, but if they are true to form they will be outraged - oh that's right, this is one of their demigods. Read the story here.

Heal our Nation - Defined by the Left

Please someone tell me how this demonstration of "free speech" is good for our country… At first glimpse would assume, hope, and pray these people were in some third foreign, America hating, country not in our nation's capital; however, to my dismay they are indeed in our nation's capital.

Whining Brats!

Like two whining brats - Soar losers attempt to divide the country, oops continue attempting to divide the country.


(Via Cox & Fox)

Democratic KLAN

Let's see Senator Byrd has stepped up as one of the point men for the democrat's assault on Condi Rice - a prominent, intelligent, and successful African-American women. Let us review Senator Byrd's qualifications (via NewsMax.com).

1. Former Ku Klux Klansman


2. In the early 1970s, Byrd pushed to have the Senate's main office building named after Sen. Richard Russell, a leading opponent of anti-lynching legislation who the West Virginia Democrat called "my mentor."


3. Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 14 straight hours. And three years after he said he'd left his white-sheeted brethren behind, he wrote to Georgia's Grand Imperial Wizard, urging, "The Klan is needed today as never before."


4. Sen. Byrd was also a fierce opponent of desegregating the military, complaining in one letter: "I should rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds."

Well I guess I cannot argue with those qualifications. Can you believe the blatant disregard for everything decent in this example of the "diversified" democratic leaders? I am dumbfounded that democrats would allow, no want, Robert Byrd to be point man on this issue. I do notice the lack of outrage from minority leaders or the MSM.

More Boxer Revealed

Cheat Seeking Missiles has even more on barbarian Boxer's lying and politicizing our honorable military men and women of the military who have died in Iraq. Some snippets:

The trouble is, she's dishonoring the war dead by using them for her political purposes. She's taking brave young men and women from Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, Arkansas, Montana and virtually every other state, ripping them out of their hometowns, and calling them Californians so she can grandstand in front of a national audience.

No one to my knowledge has asked her to even justify the number, and the only justification she can offer dishonors the sons, daughters, moms and dads who gave their lives in the War on Terror. Yes, she is stupid and arrogant ... and yes, once again the MSM aren't going to ask any tough questions of an anti-war liberal. (Read more here)

Follow the Inauguration

Want updates on Inauguration day check out La Shawn Barber's Corner. She will be updating this post throughout the day.... Ain't it a great day, at least for the majority of Americans.

CIA - EU Grim Outlook

CIA gives grim warning on European prospects reported this week.

THE CIA has predicted that the European Union will break-up within 15 years unless it radically reforms its ailing welfare systems.

The report by the intelligence agency, which forecasts how the world will look in 2020, warns that Europe could be dragged into economic decline by its ageing population. It also predicts the end of Nato and post-1945 military alliances.

In a devastating indictment of EU economic prospects, the report warns: "The current EU welfare state is unsustainable and the lack of any economic revitalisation could lead to the splintering or, at worst, disintegration of the EU, undermining its ambitions to play a heavyweight international role."

It adds that the EU’s economic growth rate is dragged down by Germany and its restrictive labour laws. Reforms there - and in France and Italy to lesser extents - remain key to whether the EU as a whole can break out of its "slow-growth pattern".
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The report says: "Either European countries adapt their workforces, reform their social welfare, education and tax systems, and accommodate growing immigrant populations [chiefly from Muslim countries] or they face a period of protracted economic stasis."

(Hat tip: Instapundit.com) (Read more here)

GOPbloggers UP and Running

A new conservative blog GOPbloggers is up and running - looks great - good luck!

Oh, Europe Stingy Too!

Hey Jan Egeland, what do you think of the story "Thailand has been told by the European Commission that it must buy six A380 Airbus aircraft if it wants to escape the tariffs against its fishing industry". Some snippets:

TSUNAMI-struck Thailand has been told by the European Commission that it must buy six A380 Airbus aircraft if it wants to escape the tariffs against its fishing industry.

While millions of Europeans are sending aid to Thailand to help its recovery, trade authorities in Brussels are demanding that Thai Airlines, its national carrier, pays £1.3 billion to buy its double-decker aircraft. (The rest of the story here)

Where is the worldwide outrage - could it possibly be that because this does not involve Bush or America it is no big deal - and we as Americans are suppose to worry what Jan Egeland and the UN think, Right!

UPDATE: 7:19PM - Instapundit has further information on this indicating that the US also hit Thailand with tariffs...

Diversity - EO - Good Points?

LaShawn Barber's Corner has excellent points! I know anyone reading this blog listens to me all the time, ok dreaming, but since you listened you actual read LaShawn Barber's Corner religiously. However, if you have not read it this evening you need to, she has some interesting information on diversity.

Exit Polls - Bush Won!

No kidding - a new report indicates that the "exit polls say Bush won fair and square", this must really depress the democrats in Ohio fighting the election results not to mention Barbara Boxer who made her grandstand play back on 6 January.

But Edison and Mitofsky said a thorough examination of the survey data demonstrated that Bush won the election fair and square.

“Exit polls do not support the allegations of fraud due to rigging of voting equipment,” the report concluded. “Our analysis of the difference between the vote count and the exit poll at each polling location in our sample has found no systematic differences for precincts using touch screen and optical scan voting equipment.”
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The main impetus for the report was the perception that the NEP exit polls were flawed because they consistently found more support for Kerry than was reflected in the final voting tallies.

Not true, said the report, which found that no “systematic problem in how the exit poll data were collected and processed” explained the inaccuracies.
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Most significantly, “it appears that Democrats are just more likely to take the exit polls than Republicans,” Gawiser said. “ Why does that happen? What can we do to reduce that?”

Well I could have told you not many Republicans would stand around and discuss a vote that they had already cast - I mean what would be the point - I would have told you free of charge. Read the story here.

Imaginary "Horrors of War"

Lance Corpral Raya - the new martyrdom for liberals against the war has never fired a shot in combat, was not due to ship off to Iraq, and could not be suffering from "post traumatic war syndrome" (story here). Of course, there are already lies circulating around the internet about this "hero" that was damaged by the "horrors he saw in Iraq" - read the fiction here.

Michelle Malkin has the real story on her blog (here) and in her column (here).

NewsHawk Daily has the quote of the day "Ever notice that the only soldiers we hear about in the news are the ones fleeing to Canada, suing the military, abusing detainees, or killing police officers?"