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Initiative 957: No child no marriage 2007-02-07 03:54:55 Now this is not just a bad idea but its down right stupid and mean spirited. Some intolerant types are proposing that same sex marriage
s must have a child
within 3 years or have their marriage annulled. I have always hated liberalism for its desire to control my mind thru political correctness but some so called conservatives are just as bad. They want to monitor and control what goes on in everyones bedroom. This tendency to try and shove supercillious morality down peoples throats is the very reason I quit registering as a Republican many years ago. I saw what the fundamentalists were doing to my party and just couldn't stomach being associated with that anymore. Gays are no danger to marriage in America. Marriage is already so screwed up I can't imagine this possibly making it any worse. But even more important is that a certain percentage of people are gay and trying to change that by denying it just is not going to work. It hasn't for at least the last 2000 years anyway. The la
U.S. military: Iraqi lawmaker is U.S. Embassy bomber 2007-02-07 03:23:43 So we have discovered that a member of Prime Minister Malikis ruling coalition is a convicted terrorist but is immune from further prosecution due to diplomatic immunity. I would never suggest outright assasination but if theres any justice at all in the world this criminal will either have a traffic "accident" and die or maybe just not show up for work someday soon. In these days of political correctness such a thing isn't acceptable *wink, wink. nudge, nudge* so i guess we will just have to tolerate a known terrorist in our midst. I have to wonder what the parents of fallen soldiers would think fo their son or daughter having given their life for this terrorists continued freedom? ~RJH CNN News story link U.S. military: Iraqi
lawmaker is U.S. Embassy
bomber POSTED: 5:31 a.m. EST, February 6, 2007 Iraqi Parliament member convicted of bombing U.S., French embassies in '83Story Highlights:• Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's position gives him prosecutorial immunity• He supports Shiite insur
Russian Air Force One 2007-02-06 07:19:24 Russian Air Force
OneThere is a Russian site I read regularly to gain insight into my one time enemies and they have posted a couple of interesting pics of their President Vladimir Putin's official plane. A couple of times they call it a plane and a couple of other times they call it a helicopter. It looks like a plane to me. Anyway, I found the pics interesting and thought others might too. ~RJH English Russia page link Read more:Russian
More on Border Patrol Agents Compean and Ramos 2007-02-06 03:51:42 I heard today that BorderPatrol
Agent Ramos
who was sent to a medium security facility in Mississippi was beaten severely 2 nights ago. He is being kept in an open bunk room area with many illegals that would obviously have no love for a Border Patrol
Agent. he was kicked and beaten so severely he had significant bleeding from one ear. I heard this from his father in law on a live Los Angeles talk radio program. Even when the prison guards saw what had happened to him they refused to allow him any medical treatment. As of earlier tonight he still hadnt been treated for his wounds. Congratulations President Bush this is a hell of a message you are sending to other Border Patrol Agents. You have no idea how many good solid conservatives you are losing the support of every day. ~RJH Euphoric Reality article link Posted on February 5, 2007Filed Under Immigration, Heidi | DIRTY TEXAS POLITICS: PART TWOUPDATES TO THE BORDER PATROL CASEBy Heidi at Euphoric RealityAll audio files pertaining
Iraq Vote Could Resonate In 2008 2007-02-06 02:40:29 ItÂ’s a historical fact that Democrats are soft on defense. Normally this is where some lack wit asks if I can do anything besides repeat stereotypes. But just because something is a stereotype doesn't mean itÂ’s not true. Given the chance they would have us doing meals on wheels delivery service in third world shit holes backing up the UN baby rapers. Ever since we went into Iraq
the left and their willing accomplices in the media have been beating the drum of doom and gloom. Have Bush and his administration made mistakes? Yes they have but not so much in military matters as in the follow up jobs of peacekeeping and nation building. The issue of should we even be in Iraq in the first place is another topic and can be discussed elsewhere. So what will happen when the Democrats force the president to pull the troops out of Iraq? Will the sectarian violence suddenly cease? Will Iran and Syria suddenly see the error of their ways and pull all of their assets out of Iraq? Will the Shiites
Video: Hillary wants to take oil profits and put them in “strategic energy fund” 2007-02-05 05:32:59 This is a nice catch by the good folks at Hot Air. Sounds like a prelude to pulling a Chavez and nationalizing our oil companies. Remember she tried to do that once before with the health care system....Hot Air article link Video: Hillarywants
to take oil profits
and put them in “strategic energy fund”posted at 1:12 pm on February 2, 2007 by Ian Speaking at the DNC’s winter meeting, Hillary Clinton said she wants to profits from oil companies and “put them into a strategic energy fund.” Lock box, anyone? There's a good video at hot Air also. ~RJH
U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling 2007-02-05 05:12:45 Normally I tend to distrust the government on anything it touches but I just donÂ’t see a downside to this. I'm sure the ACLU and assorted other groups will try legal tactics to block it. I have heard quite a few times since we started the DNA collection program where they find someone already in custody for one crime that was the perpetrator of another. I have also heard of many jailed people exonerated by DNA evidence too. IÂ’ll bet the ACLU fought against fingerprints as well. ~RJHNew York Times story link U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion
of DNA Sampling
By JULIA PRESTONPublished: February 5, 2007The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, a vast expansion of DNA gathering that will include hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, by far the largest group affected.The new forensic DNA sampling was authorized by Congress in a little-noticed amendment to a January 2006 renewal of the Vio
Internet Boom in China Is Built on Virtual Fun 2007-02-05 04:52:22 New York Times story link Internet
Boom in China
Is Built
on Virtual Fun By DAVID BARBOZAPublished: February 5, 2007SHENZHEN, China — When Pony Ma, the 35-year-old co-founder of China’s hottest Internet company, sends a message to friends and colleagues, the image that pops up on their screens shows a spiky-haired youth wearing flashy jeans and dark sunglasses.That is not how Mr. Ma actually looks or acts, but it is an image that fits well with the youthful, faintly rebellious nature of a company led by somebody who may be China’s closest approximation to Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the young founders of Google. In the two years since Mr. Ma’s company, Tencent, went public in Hong Kong, it has grown into a powerhouse that has crushed everyone else in the field.No other Internet company in the world — not even Google — has achieved the kind of dominance in its home market that Tencent commands in China, where its all-in-one packaging of entertainment offerings and a mobile instant
Al-Qaeda says more beheadings in Britain 2007-02-05 03:07:09 How long before people wake up and realize this is going to be a fight to the death with Islam? All during the Cold War people talked about World War III and assumed it would be nuclear combat between the west and eastern block countries. Well here it has already started and nobody has realized it. Granted it's not nuclear as everyone had predicted but it's every bit as deadly. The Democrats are telling us we have to appreciate the diversity of these savage people and not judge all Muslims by the actions of a few. The problem though is that when the majority of “good” Muslims won’t condemn the actions of the few “bad” Muslims they are bringing condemnation upon themselves. I for one will have no pity for them until they start acting responsibly as good neighbors should. By the way, I am not a Christian or a Jew so don’t toss out that card. How many more will have to be beheaded before people come to their senses? ~RJH Times Online news story link Al-Qaeda
tells British cells Read more:beheadings
, Britain
Sources: Operation Baghdad starts on February 5. 2007-02-04 00:39:39 Iraq the Model article link Sources: OperationBaghdad
starts on February
5.The preparations for Baghdad's security operations and the reactions of politicians, people and militant groups are still taking the most prominent headlines of local news in Iraq.The head of one of the two city councils in Sadr city told AFP that he's ready to cooperate with the Iraqi forces in implementing the security plan. In the statement that appeared on al-Mada Kareem Hassan said "The presence of popular armed committees [Sadr militias] will end automatically when Iraqi forces enter the city because the need for the committees will cease to exist"We talked earlier about insurgents and terrorists fleeing Baghdad to Diyala, and today there's another report about a similar migration, from al-Sabah:Eyewitnesses in some volatile areas said that large numbers of militants have fled to Syria to avoid being trapped in the incoming security operations.According to those witnesses, residents and shopkeepers are
PELOSI WANTS MILITARY AIRPLANE FOR SELF, STAFF AND FAMILY 2007-02-03 23:32:57 So Pelosi wants not just personal use of military planes but wants it for her family and friends as well? Thats a nice gig if you can get it. "They are pressing the point of her succession and that the [Department of Defense] needs to play ball with the speaker's needs," one source said.I wonder if she will require a jet with extra wide cargo doors to get her and her swollen ego inside at the same time? ~RJH Undernews story link PELOSI WANTS MILITARY AIRPLANE FOR SELF, STAFF AND FAMILY ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, WASHINGTON TIMES – The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pressing the Bush administration for routine access to military aircraft for domestic flights, such as trips back to her San Francisco district, according to sources familiar with the discussions. The sources, who include those in Congress and in the administration, said the Democrat is seeking regular military flights not only for herself and her staff, but also for relatives and for other members of the California del
Barack Obama on the Daily Show (video) 2007-02-03 15:56:06 This is actually a pretty good video
of BarackObama
on the Daily
Show with Jon Stewart. Obviously it is going to be a lot of slow pitches and no hard hitting journalism. But still it's not a bad watch all in all. ~RJH Barack Obama
on the Daily Show
Launch of a Russian Topol-M missile (video) 2007-02-03 15:33:23 This is the launch of a current high end Russian
inter continental ballistic missile (ICBM). It can be used for either launching nuclear warheads to anywhere in the world or putting satellites in orbit. The speed with which they are able to launch it is amazing. What's sad though is that I got this video
at YouTube and the comments were all hoorays for the Russians being able to launch so easily. One moonbat even joked about one heading to and assumably blowing up New York city. Must be a Democrat. ~RJH Launch
of a Russian Topol-M missile
Imam prays to stop ‘oppression and occupation’ at DNC meeting 2007-02-03 15:05:28 This is from over at Hot Air. The Democrats have absolutely no sense of decency or shame. They will stoop to any level to try and embarass the administration. No trick is too low or too dirty for them to use. Whats so pathetic is they claim that conservatives are the ones pulling this sort of despicalble stunt. Especially check out the update at the bottom of the article on the Imams regular activities. There's video of that muslim rabble rouser at Hot Air. The Democrats, as usual, are consorting with and encouraging the enemies of America. The Democrats that knowingly and willingly took part in this are just plain vile. ~RJH Hot Air story link Video: Imam prays to stop ‘oppression
and occupation
Â’ at DNC meeting
Update: Imam IDÂ’d Update: More info on Imamposted at 2:43 pm on February 2, 2007 by Ian The Democratic National Committee is in the midst of its winter meeting. HereÂ’s the convocation for todayÂ’s festivities, offered by an imam.We thank you god, to bless us among you
Global warming crowd fulla crap: Turnabouts Fair Play 2007-02-03 04:04:26 Bill Quick makes a good point that the pro global warming scientists get all sorts of bennies from the leftist organizations. Of course they will 1) deny it 2) say it's not the same thing 3) try to silence any opposing views 4) and if all else fails they will call them names and make other ad homintem attacks. Besides the whole report is very politically motivated. They initially wanted to say they we're 99.9% sure that global warming was in an uncontrollable runaway phase but the Chinese refused to endorse that and agreed to a 95% level. Now the way I see it if they really think it's 99.9% why did they agree to 95%? If those numbers can be so easily tweaked one way or the other doesn't that sort of throw it all into question? Things that make you go Hmmmm... ~RJH Daily Pundit article link Turnabouts Fair Play February 1st 2007 @ 6:53 pm Politics Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited Scientists and economists have been offered $10,00 Read more:Global
, crowd
Tantrums from the left 2007-02-07 14:44:39 It's interesting how sometimes the most innocuous statement will hit a nerve with the libs. You can say something that is patently true, such as how they generally loathe the military and anything to do with it, and they get all defensive. This following piece is the perfect example of one of them throwing a tantrum because someone dared to speak the truth about them being anti military. It's very instructive how the writer goes on and on about the Democrats acting like they respected the military but I tend to judge people by their actions and not just the mouth noises they make. And the actions of Democrats have spoke loudly for many years how much they hate the American military. ~RJH Oliver Willis story link David Broder Libels Democrats David Broder, the most insider of Washington insiders, perpetuates a lie and smears the Democratic party in "reporting" on this past weekend's meeting of the DNC.One of the losers in the weekend oratorical marathon was retired Gen. Wesley
BorderGate: Free Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean 2007-02-08 03:34:43 The ongoing story of ex BorderPatrol
agents Ramos
and Compean gets stranger by the day. Yesterday the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security admitted that him and others on his staff had repeatedly lied to several Texas congressmen about the reason Ramos and Compean were being prosecuted. He told them they didn't have all the facts. He said they had statements from the agents saying they had gone out that day planning on shooting a Mexican (they are both of Mexican heritage and have family in Mexico), that they shot the fleeing drug runner knowing he was unarmed and not a risk to their safety. He said the agents were combative with investigators and destroyed evidence of their wrongdoing. It turns out he was lying about every single thing. And the prosecutor Johnny Sutton knew it was all a lie. My prediction: This is going to go all the way right back to the top of the Bush Administration. Richard Skinner, the Inspector General for the DHS, will start talking even
Amanda Marcotte: Crashing and Burning 2007-02-08 02:50:47 This is an excellent piece from Right Wing Nuthouse on how the Edwards capaign has made a major screw up by hiring Amanda
Marcotte as their "Blogmaster". I've read some of her screeds and its amazing the Edwards campaign got within 10 miles of her. I would suspect a minor member of the campaign team suggested her for the job and the senior members didn't know any better. They would likely have pointed to Pandagon as proof of her success. This was a really crappy vetting process and is an excellent example of how liberals just don't get it. How could any thinking person read her rants and think it would be a positive for any campaign? There's a term for what they did: Stepping on their collective dicks. She will now be dropped like a hot rock. The bad part is that this will give the rest of the blogosphere a black eye. I wonder what her DU name is? ~RJHRight Wing Nuthouse article link 2/7/2007CRASHING AND BURNINGCATEGORY: Blogging, MoonbatsWatching the destruction of Amanda Marcott Read more:Amanda Marcotte
, Burning
Amanda Marcotte, Melissa McEwan, blogging and the John Edwards campaign 2007-02-09 02:08:06 John Edwards
finally weighed in on the matter of Amanda
Marcotte and Melissa
McEwan and said he is keeping them on staff. He said that while he won’t tolerate the type of language that Marcotte has used on uncounted rants at Pandagon he doesn’t believe she meant and disrespect to anyone’s beliefs. I have to wonder if he actually read any of her posts but that's beside the point. Sort of. I for one am actually glad that he made the decision he did to keep them for a couple of reasons. They are both absolute foaming at the mouth moonbats and I have not the slightest doubt that they will come apart at the seams sooner or later and it will be much more spectacular than Howard Deans implosion was. The general populace needs to see what loons a large part of the Democrat party is and these two are the perfect examples. Last presidential election the Democrat candidates were able to successfully distance themselves from the loons at MoveOn.org but now with them right in their own camp it Read more:Amanda Marcotte
Pentagon says no on "Pelosi One" 2007-02-09 06:57:53 What is it with Democrats always having to be a victim? Now Bela Pelosi
is claiming the USAF is mistreating her because she is a woman. Holy Christ on a crutch. Talk about someone drunk on power. She says she doesn’t care what sort of aircraft it is as long as it will go coast to coast without a fuel stop. Ok why is a fuel stop such a big deal anyway? I guess that extra hour or so is too much trouble for the most (self proclaimed) powerful woman in the free world.  Her aides have said the military should be more respective of her “needs” considering the line of succession. Then John Murtha makes a plain threat saying they should remember that she decides on the allocations committee for the Department of Defense. She had specifically asked about using it for staff, family, friends and supporters and now theyre saying it's not for "financial supporters". Uh huh.  What a bunch of arrogant bozos. ~RJH ABC News story link  Pelosi Seeks Upgrade for Government-Provided PlaneAir Force Read more:Pentagon
My Fair Blogger: Amanda Marcotte reprised 2007-02-10 07:22:03 Iowahawk article link My Fair Blogger
Book by Iowahawk Music by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay LernerBased on "Fascist Pigmalian" by the Reality-Based Community Dinner TheaterSENATOR JOHN EDWARDSI tell you why there are two Americas, my dear Dr. Dean. Man is a product of his environment.HOWARD DEANBalderdash! "So bententh the tree," say I. Take the insane Bush cabal that plotted 9-11, for instance, genetically rotted from root to branch. EDWARDSThis is where you are wrong my friend, and I shall prove you so. Take the young woman over there, banging on the keyboard.HOWARD DEAN (sniffing)The one who reeks of cat urine? Ghastly! What of her?EDWARDSI am prepared to wager my indoor squash court that I can train her to be a proper presidential campaign representative.AMANDA MARCOTTEFucking suckwad cocksuck fundy fuckwit godbag cunt!HOWARD DEAN Ha-ho! I will gladly indulge your in your foolish wager, Senator!EDWARDSI say, good woman... what is your name?AMANDAAmanda
fucking Marcotte... Pandagon Read more:Amanda Marcotte
Strange alien fish caught in Azov 2007-02-10 02:33:37 Alien Fish caught in Russia? English Russia site link Strange
alien looking fish caught in the Azov sea by fisherman. They said that it made moaning sounds like a human and swiveled it's eyes back and forth as if watching them. Researchers went to look at it after seing the video but found the fisherman had eaten it. And they said it tasted excellent too. There is a cell phone video of the creature at the site. This is from quite an interesting site called English Russia that shows pictures of daily life in Russia. It is well worth spending some time at. Here's a piece on it at Pravda. If someone had told me a few years ago I would be a regular reader of Russian sites I would have never believed them. The world is an amazing and daily changing place. ~RJH
WaPo Exclusive: Pentagon Inspector General's Report States Conclusively That Bush Admin Official Cooked Pre-War Intelligence!!! 2007-02-11 01:05:23 An excellent piece from Ace of Spades Headquarters on the Washington Post's latest ooops! ~RJH Ace of Spades Headquarters article link WaPo Exclusive
: PentagonInspectorGeneral
's Report States
Conclusively That Bush AdminOfficial
Cooked Pre-War Intelligence!!!Oh, Minor Correction: It Was A Report From Anti-War Democrat Carl Levin Which "Concluded" That. Whoops, Our Bad.Long headline, but for one of the most egregious "twisted intelligence" debacles of all time.The correction, of course, does not quite capture the enormity of this error -- breathlessly labeling a partisan liberal Democrats' "conclusions" as if they were the indpendent, nonpartisan official conclusions of the Bush-run Pentagon. How could they really convey how massively they fucked up here? This is, in journalistic terms, simply catastrophic. "Confirmation bias," they call it-- the press simply will run anti-Republican stories that ought to sound a little implausible or sketchy because, to them, they sound pretty da
Obama announces bid for White House 2007-02-11 00:01:15 AP news story link Sen. Obama
Launches WhiteHouse
BidFeb 10, 1:44 PM (ET)By NEDRA PICKLER SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Barack Obama announced his bid for president Saturday, a black man evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and a Democrat portraying himself as a fresh face capable of leading a new generation."Let us transform this nation," he told thousands shivering in the cold at the campaign's kickoff.Obama, 45, is the youngest candidate in the Democrats' 2008 primary field dominated by front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and filled with more experienced lawmakers. In an address from the state capital where he began his elective career 10 years ago, the first-term U.S. senator sought to distinguish himself as a staunch opponent of the Iraq war and a White House
hopeful whose lack of political experience is an asset."I know I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must chang
OBAMA: IF YOU LOOK AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOU ARE TREATED LIKE ONE 2007-02-10 23:26:59 Drudge Report story link OBAMA: IF YOU LOOK AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOU ARE TREATED LIKE ONEFri Feb 9 2007 15:51:32 ETAcknowledging that his presidential campaign has opened a racial debate, Sen. Barack Obama, who has a white mother and an African father, says if you look African-American, you are treated like one. Obama and his wife, Michelle, who also addresses the race issue, appear in an interview with Steve Kroft to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday Feb. 11 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS television Network. If, as expected, Obama declares his formal candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination tomorrow, it will be his first interview to be broadcast after that event.When asked by Kroft if growing up in a white household had caused him to make a decision to be black, Obama replies, "I'm not sure I decided it. I think... if you look African American in this society, you're treated as an African-American.Ó "It's interesting though, that now I feel very comfortable and confid
Not our kind of people 2007-02-10 19:22:03 I guess that I am one of those suitably old fashioned people
who still believes that honest hard labor builds character. I mowed lawns and flipped burgers for several years as a teenager before joining the USAF. One of my sons is a motorcycle machinist/mechanic/builder and another one works at a Fed Ex terminal unloading trucks. They are both doing honest work and I am proud of them. Theres nothing wrong with hard work and those that think otherwise shouldnt be leading the free world. Obviously I am not saying success is a bad thing, I have worked hard to get where I am and make a nice living. But I also earned every bit of it. Nothing was handed to me on a silver platter. My family was poor, I know hard work and I respect it. ~RJH The Corner at NRO article link Not Our Kind of People   [Mark Krikorian]According to a congressman's wife who attended a Republican women's luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president's amnesty/open-borders proposal this
INVASION USA: Border-agent Sanchez has ties to drug smuggler 2007-02-10 18:20:28 This whole fiasco just stinks to high heaven. Everywhere we turn its blatant corruption and cronyism. Johnny Sutton is a personal friend of President Bush's from back in his days as Governor of Texas. Johnny Sutton has been handed several juicy political appointments so it's no surprise he would willingly do such a dastardly deed as unjustly prosecuting ex Border
Patrol agents Ramos and Compean. ThereÂ’s a special place in Hell reserved for such as him. Hopefully the Judge Kathleen Cardone will be next to Sutton. And she turns out to be a Bush appointee, what a shocker. Plus three of the jury members have since stated that they were coerced into giving a guilty verdict against their wishes. The current Border Patrol agent Sanchez
has all sorts of ties to the drug smuggler Aldrete-Davila. It just gets worse and worse. ~RJH World Net Daily news story link INVASION USABorder-agent investigator had tie to smugglerPlayed major role in Ramos-Compean case but name blacked out in report-----
Department of Homeland Security further betrays America 2007-02-10 14:37:50 This has to be the most despicable case of political correctness I have ever heard of. Michael Chertoff is supposed to be the chief of anti terrorism for America
and here he is singing the praises of radical Islam. Its not bad enough he is throwing his own Border Patrol agents to the wolves but now heÂ’s running interference for Islam. My disgust with the Department
of Homeland
Security, the Bush administration and George Bush personally has no bounds. My sense of frustration is at similar levels. What happened to calling bad guys bad guys? The days of Ronald Reagan pointing to our enemies and saying they are the evil empire are long gone. Now our government is making secret deals with Mexico to remove our borders open and our country to uncounted hordes of poor Mexicans. What’s next, a similar deal for an invasion of radical Muslims? I have to applaud World Net Daily for taking such a lead in covering the perfidy of the Department of Homeland Security
.  Between this and their des
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