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See all of these photos at Zombie’s. Note how ‘our side’ always has the best-looking set of peoples (and the most under-reported by the MSM…)
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Liz Garrigan, blogger at the Nashville Scene’s Pith in the Wind (heh) titles her post “An Inconvenient Truth: Gore Has Jumped the Shark“. Since this was my first visit to Pithdom, I can’t tell you if Liz is pleased or no; she immediately links to Joe Klein’s Time piece on Mr. Gore’s possible re-emergence as a viable political candidate…”And so I’m rather embarrassed to admit that I’m slouching toward, well, a theory: if this race continues to slide downhill, the answer to the Democratic Party’s dilemma may turn out to be Al Gore.” Slouching, indeed.
Fast break to Ed Morrissey, writing at HotAir…”Dems open the smoke-filled room, and Gore pours out”
I don’t care much for Joe Klein, but Ed Morrissey, of the fabled Captain’s Quarters blog, is magnificent in his drop on Al Gore…
What could be less democratic than a major political party nominating a candidate for President who didn’t receive a single vote in the primaries? That would create the biggest example of smoke-filled-room politics and the biggest underhanded manipulation by a political party in decades. And ironically, it’s the Democrats who have begun laying the groundwork for exactly that scenario by pushing Al Gore as an alternative to the two candidates who have raised hundreds of millions from their followers to finish in a virtual dead heat Read more »
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The newest religion, know as Gorentology, had a powerful setback tonight. You might ask what is Gorentology? It is the belief man is all-powerful and can change anything including the weather and climate. Seriously, I am not making this up.
The leader of this new movement is Al Gore who was the popular Presidential vote winner in the 2000 race for President. Since then he has shared an Oscar for Best Documentary Film and also shared a Nobel Prize for the most kick ass Power Point presentation in recent memory.The Goracle will be on 60 Minutes Sunday night. Recent doubts about AGW, also known as man-made Global Warming, required the trip from Mt. Nashville of Smugness.
Tonight the plan was for the faithful to pay homage to the mighty Goracle and in a courageous act of belief and sacrifice they would prove to the world their faith. By turning out all the lights in their homes.The people have spoken.
As you can see the faithful wanted to party. That is a lot of light. Where are my sunglasses?
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — The iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge went dark Saturday night as Sydney became the world’s first major city to turn off its lights for this year’s Earth Hour, a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change.
On Saturday March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund. We invite everyone throughout North America and around the world to turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8 p.m. (your own local time)–whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town.
Check out Google - making a statement.
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It appears there are some bright spots in the Bush economy:
A new annual report from Planned Parenthood shows the nation’s largest abortion business has made over $1 billion in profit for the first time in its history. The non-profit pro-abortion group shows the historical gain in its new annual report covering 2006-2007.While Planned Parenthood made $972 mil[l]ion in its 2005-2006 annual report, last fiscal year it brought in $1.017 billion.
(emphasis added) And speaking of corporate welfare . . .
Of concern to pro-life groups, Planned Parenthood acknowledges the receipt of over $336 million in government grants and contracts from both state and federal governments. . . .
And from the look of things, PPFA seems intent on preserving their “corporate welfare”:
For Planned Parenthood, weighed down by new criminal charges and legal suits, the best defense seems to be a good offense. The organization is sinking $10 million into its PAC, hoping to load the Congress with abortion allies who would help protect–if not increase–its multi-million federal funding stream. The amount allocated for political races is triple what the organization has spent in past elections. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) is even wading into local politics, a scene it had previously ignored. NARAL Pro-Choice America and PPAF will spend a combined $20 million in the 2008 election cycle on contests for the House, Senate, and White House.
Also at wisdomisvindicated.
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Come on, William.
Be serious.
(Oh, I found a great blog today…one I had only heard rumors of, from every liberal BDS snake-handler in the county…BlameBush!
…Because Bush is to Blame for Everything…)
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Dana Perino, Bush’s bimbo press secretary asserted that GW Bush mourns for every dead soldier in the war that he incompetently started … that rages on after 5 years with no end in sight.
The US death toll in Iraq is now up to 4005 as all hell breaks loose again.. after 5 yrs, today we hear this.
More on our mourner in chief…
UPDATE: To put a face with the number 4000, this is Christopher M. Hake. He was a U.S. Army Staff Sargent. Like so many other young people killed in this ill-conceived war, he was a new parent who leaves behind beautiful wife Kelli and 1-year-old son, Gage. He was 26 years old. The Bush administration has made it a policy to hide the flag draped coffins our our fallen soldiers as if their deaths are to be swept under the rug.
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Sigh, it appears the marriage between TGW and Moveon.org has ended.
I feel so sad. Not even Dr. Phil can save this relationship.
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In today’s NCP we find an article again trying to explain Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s plan for the Democratic Party’s superdelegates to meet early in June, choose a candidate for November’s election, and attempt to settle the rancor between the two Democratic idiots candidates so as to enhance their chances to ruin the U.S. politically for the next four years.
Bredesen made national news with a NYT OpEd March 19 explaining why Democrat superfathers should pick a candidate for their unruly children to vote for in November.
From J. Rodger’s article, Bredesen again sounds ‘fatherly’…
“I think it’s a combination of what’s my responsibility to the people who voted for me, what’s my responsibility as a member of the Democratic Party, who do I think would be best for the country?” Bredesen told reporters Thursday. “I have to say I think that in some way respecting the will of the people, I’m not sure how that comes out, has got to be an important piece of the thing.”
But, alas, there’s not much momentum nationally to carry on with this plan, for whatever reason. Certainly, Phil wants the VP nod; since this is his last possible term as Tennessee Governor, he must make his next career political move. Strangely, Phil hasn’t yet dumped the State Income Tax proposals we’ve expected. Maybe that’s on his agenda for 2009, as a parting gift to Tennesseans.
It’s also possible that Uncle Phil wants to give another chance to failed Al Gore, a Tennessee homeboy who really hasn’t ‘mended fences’ much since his defeat in 2000. Instead, Al Gore has embraced Global Warmalism, and wants to ruin our economy with his mad proposals for ‘fixing’ the ‘planet with a temperature’.
As for ’superdelegates’ choosing a candidate for the Democratic nomination? Hmmmph. Figures.
Superdelegates are the Democratic Party’s strange peculiarity.
What else can you expect from a Party that would treat all Americans as children, dispensing ‘cradle to the grave’ benefits for all and exacting gun control ‘for your own protection’ and overly taxing us and redistributing wealth because we aren’t trustworthy or intelligent enough to choose our own doctors, schools, charities, and our own children’s futures?
Superdeletates: The Democrat’s Patriarchs, the Mack Daddies Who Know Best…
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KBR, the company that began under Dick Cheney’s Halliburton, is the biggest contractor/war profiteer in Iraq. They have received $ billions in no bid contracts, thanks to Dick.
So how is KBR doing? Due to contaminated water being supplied to the troops by KBR, dozens of US soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq, according to the Defense Department’s inspector general’s report.
Even more disgusting, KBR has provided unsafe wiring in military barracks that has resulted in the electrocution deaths of 12 US soldiers. The case is under investigation and the House Oversight committee has requested documents from the Bush administration on the matter. I would not be surprised to see the Bush administration claim executive privilege and refuse to cooperate, protecting the contractor.
KBR has avoided paying up to a $ half billion in US taxes and Medicare by hiring workers through front companies in the Cayman Islands. In case you missed it, Halliburton moved it’s headquarters to Dubai last year when they began to be investigated for contract fraud.
Today we hear the results of an investigation where a new company, AEY - run by a 22 yr old guy, was given a $300 million contract to supply ammunition to our troops. This is what the investigation found:
“the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed. In purchasing munitions, the contractor has also worked with middlemen and a shell company on a federal list of entities suspected of illegal arms trafficking.”
This, in a time of a faltering economy is how the Bush Administration is spending our money and supporting the troops. And when they come home from Iraq without legs, they can go to Walter Reed. As if it wasn’t bad enough sending them in without proper armor or an adequate plan. Not to mention how they’re being stressed and abused with this back door draft - the stop loss program. Dick Cheney says he doesn’t care what Americans think. Why should he? He’s profited handsomely from the war he started.
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“we’ve broken the grip of al Qaeda on the capital. We’ve weakened the influence of Iranian backed militias. We’ve dramatically improved security conditions …” — GW Bush, 3/27/08
“The Civil War in Iraq is over. And until the American domestic political debate catches up with that fact, we are going to have a very hard time discussing Iraq on the basis of reality.” — Fred Kagen, 3/24/08
Less than 24 hours after this statement by Kagan and before Bush’s statement above, this came across the wire:
With Iraq’s top leaders directing the battle, Iraq’s army and national police pressed a major operation Tuesday to wrest control of the southern port city of Basra from the Shiite Mahdi Army militia. Fighting between government forces and the militia quickly spread through Iraq’s south and into Baghdad.
and…
BAGHDAD — American-trained Iraqi security forces failed for a third straight day to oust Shiite militias from the southern city of Basra on Thursday, even as President Bush hailed the operation as a sign of the growing strength of Iraq’s federal government.
The fighting in Basra with the Mahdi Army, the armed wing of the political movement led by the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, set off clashes in cities throughout Iraq and major demonstrations in Sadr City, the huge Baghdad neighborhood that is Mr. Sadr’s base of power, and other Shiite neighborhoods in the capital.
Two Americans have been killed and the Green Zone in Iraq is under attack. The level of denial is amazing. Bush is just tap dancing til he can hand his mess over to someone else to deal with…. leaving America in a shitty situation, with a faltering economy and a weakened military.
Republican Senator and Vietnam Vet Chuck Hagel said it best:
“This is another episode of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ … Read more »
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As more people stray from the flock, the Church of AGW understands something must be done. Skeptics are Kryptonite to a new religion. So the founder of the Church of AGW will appear on 60 Minutes on March 30th to calm the waters. Or perhaps part the waters?
Confronted by Lesley Stahl with the fact some prominent people, including the nation’s vice president, are not convinced that global warming is manmade, Gore responds: “You’re talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat,” says Gore. “That demeans them a little bit, but it’s not that far off,” he tells Stahl.
Gore’s campaign to make the world more aware of man’s role in global warming won him the Nobel Peace Prize last year. He donated the $750,000 prize money to The Alliance for Climate Protection, the non-profit he started to help him on his quest. He and his wife, Tipper, tell Stahl they not only matched the Nobel money with their own, but they are also donating to the organization the significant profits from his book and Oscar-winning documentary film about global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The funds will help The Alliance for Climate Protection execute a new $300 million ad campaign on global warming set to start next week.
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WASHINGTON - Trustees for the government’s two biggest benefit programs warned that Social Security and Medicare are facing “enormous challenges,” with the threat to Medicare’s solvency far more severe.
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A really good Real Estate blogger named Robert Dean has done an outstanding job of explaining all of the confusing news reports concerning Real Estate over the last few days. I highly suggest you click over and read his most excellent post.
I have to go ahead and disclose something. I am a member of the National Association of Realtors. The NAR is a trade union that lobbies the Federal and State government to pass laws that benefit people like me. Being one who believes markets should be left alone, I am opposed to that kind of thing. But you see, I really don’t have a whole lot of choice when it comes to being a part of the trade union. Things are set up, thanks to the NAR/TAR, in a way that if you don’t join, you don’t have a business. So I pay my dues and accept things as they are.
But I have to admit. The whole thing really bothers me. All big business, and corporate lobbying bothers me. I believe in the free market, but this market isn’t free. The government’s hands are all over it, favoring organizations with big bucks. This post about corn ethanol is a prime example. Corn ethanol, which has done nothing for the environment, nothing for the price of gasoline, and has driven up the cost of food, would not survive without government subsidies and the tariff on Brazilian sugar ethanol.
The whole thing makes me sick. We have the NAR up there lobbying for government to intervene in a mess caused by a bursted bubble that Realtors benefited from. Politicians are throwing up their hands in panic and the Fed is still doing the exact same thing that caused the crisis.
Folks, we have to allow business cycles to run their course. We can not keep intervening every time the economy turns downward. Let these companies that loaned money to people that weren’t credit worth go belly up. It’s not the end of the world. It’s just a business cycle. By intervening, government ends up showing favoritism to certain businesses and not others. And who do they show favoritism too? Well let me give you a hint, my trade union, the NAR, has a lot of money. So guess what?
Oh man, I’ll probably get a letter from the Association telling me that I have been fined for something now. With all of the stupid rules I have to abide by, I am bound to be breaking one without even knowing it. Whatever. It won’t be the first time other Realtors have been mad at me this week. In fact, a few of my colleagues are quite upset that I had the nerve to offer full service listings at 4%. Sorry I had to throw that in there. Shameless advertising, yes I am guilty.
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Joe Carter, with whom I disagree on virtually everything, gets one right in his Open Letter to the Religious Right:
I can’t make excuses for us on this one anymore: Christians have to take a firm stand against torture. Yes, there is a debate about what exactly is meant by that term. Let’s have that debate. Let’s define the term in a way that consistent with our belief in human dignity. And then let’s hold every politician in the country to that standard. Our silence on this issue has become embarrassing.
Cross-posted at LeanLeft.
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From today’s Nashville City Paper: Reverend T.J. Graham, midday talk show host at WVOL-1470AM, a Nashville radio station with a primarily black audience, had as a guest Rev. James David Manning, the pastor of Harlem’s Atlah Worldwide Church.
In the article, Rev. Graham described Rev. Manning as ‘controversial’…
“This man has been trashing Barack Obama in a fashion that makes what the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said sound mild,” Graham said of Manning. “He’s called Obama’s mother trash, and is on the record as saying any black man who hasn’t been in jail can’t be trusted. He’s downing him in very specific and vicious language.”
So, being charitable and cautious, I searched the web for information on Rev. Dr. Manning. I’ve found some good stuff. And, Dr. Manning has a new fan! Like Dr. Bill Cosby, Rev. Manning has sharp criticism for those who deserve it.
But, there’s some not-so-loving articles and put-downs from non-fans (who would rather hear the weak-link stuff that stifles self-sufficiency…)
Rev. James David Manning, the pastor of Harlem’s Atlah Worldwide church, insulted Barack Obama by calling the presidential candidate “trash” and a “mack daddy”.”His African-in-heat father went a-whoring after a trashy white woman,” said Manning, who is a proclaimed Clinton supporter. “[Obama] was born trash.”
“He got started — you didn’t notice him ’til he brought out those big-chested white women with their tight T-shirts and their short pants,” said Manning about how Obama started his campaign. “That’s what a pimp does He’s a mack daddy. He pimps white women and black women. Obama is a long-legged mack daddy.”
This YouTube video shows some serious sermon, buddy. This man doesn’t pull any punches. Just see for yourself.
Rev. Manning’s telling Obama supporters to get up and be men, describing black men as “the weakest men on the planet” because of affirmative action. This is strong stuff, and something that is worth hearing. “The future of the African-American people is in my mouth…“I would listen to this man. He speaks build strength, where others in the black community seek to enable their personal power by plying on and pandering to weaknesses. You listening, Jesse?
“Barack is an emissary of the devil…I’m your last hope…”
Whoo boy, this makes me want to go out and get two or three part-time jobs and please, pass that collection plate around twice!
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Walter Williams has written an excellent column on the corn and ethanol hoax. His column is so good and so full of truth, that it should be required reading of every American.
Here are few nuggets, but I highly recommend that you read the whole thing.
Ethanol contains water that distillation cannot remove. As such, it can cause major damage to automobile engines not specifically designed to burn ethanol. The water content of ethanol also risks pipeline corrosion and thus must be shipped by truck, rail car or barge. These shipping methods are far more expensive than pipelines.
Ethanol is 20 to 30 percent less efficient than gasoline, making it more expensive per highway mile. It takes 450 pounds of corn to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV tank. That’s enough corn to feed one person for a year.
And, it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. On top of all this, if our total annual corn output were put to ethanol production, it would reduce gasoline consumption by 10 or 12 percent.
Ethanol is so costly that it wouldn’t make it in a free market. That’s why Congress has enacted major ethanol subsidies, about $1.05 to $1.38 a gallon, which is no less than a tax on consumers.
There’s something else wrong with this picture. If Congress and President Bush say we need less reliance on oil and greater use of renewable fuels, then why would Congress impose a stiff tariff, 54 cents a gallon, on ethanol from Brazil? Brazilian ethanol, by the way, is produced from sugar cane and is far more energy efficient, cleaner and cheaper to produce.
Ethanol production has driven up the prices of corn-fed livestock, such as beef, chicken and dairy products, and products made from corn, such as cereals. As a result of higher demand for corn, other grain prices, such as soybean and wheat, have risen dramatically. The fact that the U.S. is the world’s largest grain producer and exporter means that the ethanol-induced higher grain prices will have a worldwide impact on food prices.
It’s corporate welfare pure and simple. Not only do we subsidize these big farms and agricorps, and drive up the price of food, but we impose a tariff on a better, but similar product produced in South America.
And how do they get away with this? Thank the global warming hoax for that one.
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She just can’t help herself. She has to tell lies. She has to make things up. How do you Clinton supporters justify this? Still no comment from TGW, btw.
The woman has absolutely no character. None.
More from:
Pushing the Envelope- “She told a lie. A clearly thought out lie. A deliberate, deceitful lie. An orchestrated, previously planned lie. A typical Clinton lie that we have all heard for two decades……And now she compounds the lie with another lie.”
The Pesky Fly- “If we are to give her the benefit of the doubt yet again, then the nicest thing you can say about this is that it was a lack of foresight and judgment: which just happen to be the two personal attributes Barack Obama is running on himself!”
Mark Rose- “She later characterized the episode as a ‘misstatement’ and a ‘minor blip.’ How about ’she lied.’”
Sharon Cobb- “I’d say you’re you’ve proved yourself (once again) to be a liar.”
Carole Borges- “Do we really want a commander-in-chief that confuses a poetry reading by a schoolgirl with a wild race for her life while threatened by enemy fire? I think not..I think not…”
Sadcox- “Newsflash- Clinton Lied.”
Six Meat Buffet (Preston)- “Why make shit up when it’s really not necessary? Sir Edmund Hillary indeed.”
Nigh Seen Creeder- “Hillary and Bill lie so effortlessly and shamelessly, I don’t know whether to be offended or amused when I read stories like the one mentioned above.”
Lean Left (Tgirsch)- “I mean, all politicians engage in BS of some sort or another. But how bad does it have to be that you would resort to something that’s so easily — and so embarrassingly — refuted?”
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McCain said for the third time in two days, that Iran, a Shi’ite stronghold was training al Qaeda a militant Sunni organization. This complete misunderstanding was more than a mere gaffe. Fox News’ Brit Hume called McCain’s confusion a “senior moment”. Perhaps pushing this misconception will give McCain the groundwork as a possible future president to, in his words sung to the Beach Boys song… “Bomb, bomb, bomb … bomb, bomb Iran”.
Of course Gen. Petraeus refuted this claim of an Iran / al Qaeda link on CNN:
“As you know the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers that help out al Qaeda typically is through Syria.” - Gen. David Petraeus.
McCain is in total agreement now with bin Laden and al Qaeda. McCain wants to continue the Bush “stay the course” doctrine - playing right into the hands of the enemy. Al Qaeda has us exactly where they want us, waging an expensive unilateral war, depleting our military in a war where there is no defense against suicide bombers, where our economy is being sucked dry slowly and surely while feeding the hate for America by our presence in Iraq - the best recruiting campaign that al Qaeda could hope for. That’s what we can expect from John McCain.
Speaking of the fact that McCain clearly doesn’t understand the war we’re in, as usual Bill Maher, nailed it:
Do we really want someone who has “senior moments” and is dumb about war with his finger on the trigger? Just a reminder here, we could be hiring 11,000 new border patrol guards for a year to protect this country from illegals with the amount that is spend in Iraq EVERY DAY - now nearly a half billion ($435 million / day).
A vote for McCain is a vote for GW Bush, more war, and a continually worsening economy.
