Count me among that 22%. Interestingly, I find myself in strange company. [More]
Mr. Busey has a ton of great ideas, this one needs to get out there. Screw the climate clowns, leave us sane folks alone! Just to hear him say “stupid unfortunate placenta” made it all the better. [More]
There is a trust fund set up in Tony Snows name “to help with Tony Snow’s children’s education and expenses.” Sorry folks, but I have a problem with that.
Lindorff has an article up at the Smirking Chimp and who knows where else expressing his shock at the treatment of 15-year-old Omar Khadr. The Canadian born terrorist sent by his father (at a young age) to Afghanistan to become a better jihadi was recently seen in a video crying and begging for help and my heart went out to him, until, I remember that he threw a grenade, killing one American. The article is a truly saddening and disturbing look into the distorted view held by so many America hating “dirty hippy’s”. [More]
by MareMule
It seems the news on the airwaves has stalled down a bit recently.
We haven’t been hit with anything astounding in several days. Oh, Jesse Jackson spouted off again, and they drug Ted Kennedy out for a senate vote. I suspect they brought along a coffin just in case.
I’m just wondering at what point one of the America hating crowd (Democrat Socialist) currently in office will be called on their treason and punished accordingly!?
Last week’s daring rescue of 15 Colombian hostages held by the Marxist FARC has been universally hailed as a triumph of military strategy. But at least one group besides the gulled guerilla jailers looks diminished in its aftermath: Congressional Democrats.
While Colombia’s military will rightly reap praise for the rescue, the operation was in no small measure an American achievement. In addition to U.S. satellite intelligence that pinpointed the FARC guerillas’ jungle location, Colombian security forces have benefited from $4 billion in American aid since 2002.
For this assistance – so vital in last week’s events – Colombia does not have Democrats to thank. To the contrary, since assuming control of Congress in 2006, Democrats have made a cynical practice of slighting Latin America’s most pro-American government, not least on the issue of military aid.
Last year in particular saw an upsurge of anti-Colombian agitation on Capitol Hill. Goaded on by Vermont’s Patrick Leahy, head of the Senate subcommittee overseeing foreign aid, Democrats froze $55 million in military aid in April 2007. Al Gore, adding insult to injury, refused that same month to appear at an environmental conference with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Why a respected head of state would even wish to be seen alongside a political washout and global warming hysteric was unclear. Nonetheless, Gore’s no-show was a stinging insult to Uribe. It was not the last.
Nancy Pelosi, fresh from an April 2007 sit-down with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, threatened to withhold an audience with the democratically elected and widely popular Uribe during his May visit. Eventually agreeing to a talk with Uribe, Pelosi didn’t conceal her contempt. In stark contrast to her visit to the Hezbollah-sponsor Syria, where Pelosi gushed that the “the road to Damascus is a road to peace,” Pelosi berated Uribe, accusing his government of aiding “illegal paramilitary forces” and implicitly decrying him as the enemy of Colombians who want “to build a stronger democracy.” So much for Democrats’ vaunted diplomatic tact.
Colombia’s delegation was so jarred by Democrats’ hostility that, according to journalist Robert Novak, Vice President Francisco Santos publically contemplated severing U.S.-Columbian ties.
In response, Democrats only stepped up their attacks. Having previously rejected a free-trade agreement with Columbia, Democrats began bullying on financial aid. Connecticut’s Chris Dodd menacingly declared, in a letter co-authored with senate colleagues, that “maintaining current levels of assistance will be difficult to justify.” Pat Leahy blustered that “Congress is not going to be a rubber stamp” for Colombia. It was left to Bill Clinton to remind his party that President Uribe’s government was a top American ally, one that upholds the rule of law and wins free elections – by no means a given in Latin America. “We need to remember that we are friends,” Clinton urged.
Hmm, what is treason? And do all of these democrats mentioned qualify? I think at a minimum Pelosi does.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
The rest of the article is here at FrontPage Magazine.
Contact your representatives and ask them why this is allowed to go on in our government and ask them what they plan to do about it, if anything.
We’ve got a little retarded midget named, Kucinich trying to impeach President Bush and we sit by and do nothing while they undermine and “backbite” our republic every chance they get.
Why isn’t there just one republican calling for charges of treason against these scumbags calling themselves democrats?
The headline and first few paragraphs almost had me believing some crime had been committed, but it’s just some Obama supporting ex-EPA guy trying to get a jab in on Cheney and Bush.
A disclosure Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney’s office sought to alter a federal official’s prepared testimony about the health consequences of global warming intensified an increasingly open conflict between the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House over how to respond to climate change.
GOOD! That’s exactly the type thing that make me like Cheney so much. He told the climate sissy’s to F themselves.
The disclosure about Vice President Cheney’s role came from Jason Burnett, who until last month was the EPA’s associate deputy administrator. Mr. Burnett, whose duties included advising EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on a range of issues involving climate change, is a supporter of the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.) and has contributed extensively to the campaigns of other Democrats — giving more than $100,000 since 2000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based government watchdog.
Congressional Democrats have been prodding the Bush administration to take action on limiting emissions of the greenhouse gases believed to contribute to global warming, even as Congress itself has failed to pass proposals to cap such emissions. In the meantime, some Democrats in Congress have been extracting emails and other internal documents to build a case that the White House has squelched efforts by EPA officials to put forward meaningful proposals for greenhouse-gas controls.
Maybe I missed it somewhere along the line, but obviously global warming has become “fact” and should now become another tool by the left, and sadly some on the right, to control our behavior via taxation. Obamatards look away, that’s too much common sense for your feeble little peanuts to process.
In a letter dated July 6 in response to questions from the chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.), Mr. Burnett said Mr. Cheney’s office and the White House Council on Environmental Quality “were seeking deletions” last fall to congressional testimony about climate change prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mr. Burnett said the latter office asked him “to work with CDC” to remove from the testimony “any discussion of the human health consequences of climate change.”
The issue of whether greenhouse gases endanger public health or welfare is significant because a finding by the EPA that they do would require the agency to regulate them under the terms of the federal Clean Air Act, spurring new rules across a range of industries.
Environmentalists, congressional Democrats and officials in more than a dozen states have sought to prod the EPA to reach a decision on the matter, following a Supreme Court ruling last year that greenhouse gases are pollutants and can be regulated under the EPA’s existing authority. But the Bush administration has resisted, arguing that economy-wide regulations of such emissions could cripple the U.S. economy.
Mr. Burnett said he declined to go along with the White House request to push for deletions to the CDC testimony, because the CDC’s draft testimony — which included examples of how climate change is likely to have “a significant impact” on public health — was “fundamentally accurate.”
Good job Bush/Cheney! Regardless of your motivation, keep those climate commie kooks out of our lives!
From WSJ
From HuffPo a little snippet of dung:
Boxer, in a news conference on Tuesday, went so far as to say White House press secretary Dana Perino had lied about why the White House had pushed for the deletions. That, in turn, prompted Perino to demand an apology from Boxer.
“I have never said such a thing about a fellow public servant, and I wouldn’t if I didn’t have all the facts,” Perino said from Japan, where President Bush is attending a meeting of world economic leaders. “I think I deserve an apology.”
What the lovely D. Perino seems to forget is that socialist(D) can say whatever they like about whomever they like. Remember Boxer and the polar bear stupidity?
Ft. Hard Knox has more
by MareMule
The junk we have been seeing in the media recently can only be called news by the feeble minded members of the media. I am sure there are things happening daily (or should I say constantly) which would fit the definition of news, however these things are beng ignored in order to permit the the media to publish their own versions of what they want the world to read, hear on the radio, or see on television. It is my opinion that if these folks were so intelligent, they would already be so rich they would not have to work as a news reporter. They love to tell us how much they hate our president, how much they love Obama, and how much solid knowledge they possess, and how the president should have handled a particular situation. Well, I, for one, have not been fooled by their ignorant spouting, nor will I ever be.
Pinched from the D=S Video Dump thanks to Stix and DrinkingWithBob
MareMule sent this to me in an email the other day and I just got around to reading it. Remember MareMule? He used to come here to get a few things off his chest but hasn’t posted for awhile. My guess is he’s enjoying the Rheinland Pfalz region too much and I can’t say that I blame him. He’s probably hanging around known trouble makers with names like Ed. 
Some pretty amazing stuff to say the least. But you know how these emails like to get around and Free Republic has it up, Snopes has it as “undetermined” and I even found a blog with some liberal arguments against it so if nothing else it has the chatter up. Sweet huh? Forward it to that liberal in your life.
BIG OIL
Bill Phillips spent nearly 50 years in the US oil and gas industry; most of his career was with the Phillips Petroleum Company. Bill is a descendant of Frank Phillips. Frank Phillips, along with his brother Lee Eldas (L.E.) Phillips, Sr., founded the original Phillips Petroleum Company in 1917 in Bartlesville, OK. Do you remember Phillips 66 gas stations? Phillips Petroleum Company merged with Conoco, Inc. in 2002 to form the current ConocoPhillips oil company.
So, when Bill talks about oil and gas issues, I tend to listen - very closely. I think that you will find Bill’s thoughts and facts very revealing, very compelling and very difficult to argue with.
As you prepare to cast your crucial ballots this Fall, please think long and hard about the far-reaching, cumulative effects of the US political philosophies, policies and legislation that have contributed to the current and future US oil supply situation.
"World’s top leaders meet under pressure to help Africa" is the headline. That’s when the crazy talk started.
European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso set the tone for the meeting by proposing the creation of a one-billion-euro (1.57-billion-dollar) EU fund to fight hunger and help farmers in poor countries.
The fund, if approved by the EU, would aim to boost agricultural production by providing necessities such as seeds and fertiliser and ensure a safety net for the most vulnerable, Barroso told reporters.
As for the decades long flood of money that has been given to Africa only to be stashed away in a Swiss bank account by whatever thug was in charge that day, let’s forget about that and see if the next suitcase full of money extorted out of us is "put to good use."
Screaming loudest was a charity called Oxfam who runs coffee shops and online music stores promising to deliver pennies of each sale toward lining some warlords pockets in Africa helping feed the poor.
"We can’t let them step away from their promises," Oxfam activist Max Lawson said. "For rich countries this is peanuts. For African countries this is life or death."
From the Oxfam International Strategic Plan:
Our central commitment
We are outraged by the persistent poverty and injustice in the world, which must and can be overcome. Unjust policies and practices, nationally and internationally, must be challenged and people’s rights must be respected. If we join forces and act together now we can achieve a just world without poverty.
With partners and allies, we will act in solidarity with people living in poverty, especially women, to achieve their rights and assert their dignity as full citizens.
We will support them to hold governments, corporations and international organizations (including Oxfam) to account for their responsibilities. Drawing on our development programs, we will work to change global and national rules that perpetuate poverty, insecurity and inequality.
We will support local, national and international organizations and social movements of active citizens to demand justice, particularly gender justice, and to change ideas and beliefs, policies and practices to achieve improvements in people’s lives.
For this Plan period, drawing on what we have learned through internal consultation and external analysis, we will focus our joint work in programs, advocacy and campaigns on four areas:
l Economic justice l Essential services l Rights in crisis l Gender justice
Now if you don’t see wealth re-distribution in that central commitment , maybe I read it wrong because that’s what I see. And these are the types organizations we have somehow gotten ourselves mixed up and indebted to thanks to that wonderful introducer of scumbags to American money, the United Nations.
Then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon chimes in with this nugget:
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he would also hold talks with African leaders on the crisis in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe secured a sixth term last month in a widely condemned election.
Ban, speaking to AFP in an interview on his way to the G8 summit, said that he did not consider the election legitimate.
He also said that he would press for action on climate change on Wednesday, when the G8 will meet with leaders of eight other major economies.
"I hope the US ultimately should take all this leadership role. This is what the whole international community expects of the United States," Ban said.
The United States is the only major industrial nation to shun the Kyoto Protocol as it pushes for more commitment from developing nations.
So again its all Americas fault, the stream of money we have been feeding Africa and the UN for years hasn’t done a single thing except show the world America is a sucker and you know what they say about a sucker and his money, right?.
So yeah, yeah we don’t approve of the Zimbabwe election and we don’t consider it legitimate. But you know, if we just starting throwing a lot of money at this global warming wealth re-distribution scheme, everything will be better.
So I’ll leave you with this nugget of popular thought.
"The governments of the G8, heavily industrialized countries, are most responsible for climate change and the international food crisis which are raging over the world," said organiser Barry Aminata Toure of the Malian coalition on debt and development"
Global Warming made Mugabe do what he did you know.
Ben Tanosborn writes:
… That existing government has not only permitted but promoted the ever-widening gap between haves (20%) and have-nots (80%), with serious wealth and income inequality.
… That existing government shows no concern for the well-being of the people as evidenced by the availability of healthcare, education and social welfare relative to other nations with similar or fewer resources.
… That existing government is responsible for instilling fear in the population, making terror the underlying reason for curtailing freedoms, spying or even lying to the people.
… That existing government maintains a military with a destructive capacity far in excess of that needed for self-defense; and to the detriment of public needs. And that such massive destructive capacity only serves to paint the United States as a coercive, imperialistic and terrorist nation.
That’s a small bit of his Re-Declaration of Independence. Its actually very good and I couldn’t agree with him more,… kinda. Given our present state of government and as divided as we are, I would surely love to see a "partitioning" of America. Let the small group that wants to live in socialist serfdom live that way. The rest of us can go back to being Americans.
I wonder how big a fence we’ll need to keep a liberal out?
H/T: Dandelion Salad
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