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Saturday, July 30, 2005
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My Kind of Journalism.
I've always like the Sun newspaper, and not only for its Page 3 girls. I wish more of our papers had the Sun's clarity and spirit:
Tonight, the Sun reports on the capture in Africa of Haroon Rashid Aswat, who is believed to be the principal planner of the July 7 bombings in London. The Sun notes that American authorities have accused Aswat of setting up an al Qaeda training camp in Oregon in 1999. We reportedly wanted to arrest Aswat, but were denied permission by British authorities because he is a British citizen. [Power Line]
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What the heck? A federal judge now sees an 'intelligence test' within the U.S. Constitution. This judge is hallucinating over the constitution.
"Even as amended, the statute fails to identify the prohibited conduct in a manner that persons of ordinary intelligence can reasonably understand," the ruling said.
Senate Makes Some of Patriot Act Permanent (AP). AP - A federal judge has ruled that some provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act dealing with foreign terrorist organizations remain too vague to be understood by a person of average intelligence and are therefore unconstitutional. [Yahoo! News: Politics News]
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Friday, July 29, 2005
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Coming from the big lawyers radio show's website, the Ring of Fire, Bobby Kennedy and Mike Papantonio explore why they are losers.
How did the neo-conservatives take over our government, the economy, the environment and the media before many progressives even noticed? With great cunning and strategic planning.
I can help here. You've practically answered your own question in "before many progressives even noticed?"
Politically speaking, the reason the democrat party is where it is today is precisely because they didn't notice. In fact, they hold and held so much hate in their hearts since Bush v Gore that they opine that Bush is an idiot therefore no one needs to listen to what he has to say. So they don't. And if you're not paying attention to someone who means what he says and follows through on it, you're going to be surprised. That's point one. Point two is their uppity attitude of superiority that presumes that a conservative majority is merely a political anomaly, which explains why they still think they are really in charge of where the country is going. Point three, they lost the last two elections but still don't accept it.
Mike talks with Steve Brouwer, author of Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America. Knowing how they did it is the first step toward taking our country back.
(my emphasis)
[Ring of Fire | Air America Radio -]
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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The Federalist Society. So Ruth Bader Ginsburg can be a member of the ACLU, its general counsel no less, and that's considered mainstream, but John Roberts is maybe a member of the Federalists Society and that's supposed to signify radicalism? By all means, let's have a public debate about which organization, the Federalist Society or the ACLU, is more in tune with the beliefs of the American people. [GOP Bloggers]
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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The Democrat party has a lot to be concerned about the state of the unions in this country. The politicization of the labor unions is just one. Some don't want to see their money being used for politics. A not so minor loss in campaign money from the unions next time around. More cash for Soros to pony up now I guess. And if you're going to take his money, you better sing his tune, like you have been. Don't stop now.
Great editorial in today's Opinion Journal of the Wall Street Journal online about the future for organized labor as well as how 'democratic' they have been.
In the wake of the GOP takeover of Congress the year before, Mr. Sweeney promised to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into electoral politics to stop the Gingrich revolution. He staffed AFL-CIO headquarters with activists from the political left--environmental groups, culturally liberal outfits--and made the union consortium a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party.
Very Old Labor. Being a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC isn't working out for Old Labor. [OpinionJournal.com]
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Sunday, July 24, 2005
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Are people, and now unions, growing tired of today's democrats? The NO party is concerned now of losing Teamsters and service employees union support. No ideas, no support. And they haven't a clue why.
4 Major Unions Plan to Boycott A.F.L.-C.I.O. Event. Officials from two of the unions, the service employees and the Teamsters, said the action was a prelude to their full withdrawal from the federation. By STEVEN GREENHOUSE. [NYT > Home Page]
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You can't say Egypt was hit because of their involvement in Iraq, as was reported to explain the London bombings of 7/7. Because Britain was in Iraq, they got bombed. This should make it clear that Al Qaeda's targets include most of the earth. More specifically civilization itself. It really goes without saying, but for the left it bears repeating, I'm trying to reach out to them. If you intend to prevail in a global war, you better know your enemy. First must read by David Horowitz, Know the Enemy He explains it like has never been explained to you on CBS, ABS, and NBS. Second, this July 15, 2005 piece by Charles Krauthammer, Europe's Native-Born Enemy He makes the point that what happened in London didn't just pop-up since Saddam was found hiding in a hole in the ground. It's been festering for decades. Third, on July 16, 2005 British Prime Minister Tony Blair informed us all again that it is the ideology of these Islamic extremists that we are at war with. And also warned . . .
"The greatest danger is that we fail to face up to the nature of the threat that we're dealing with," he said. "And what we are confronting here is an evil ideology. ... It is a battle of ideas, of hearts and of minds, both within Islam and outside it." This war, unlike any other we've faced, is a long-term concept. Like the Cold War wasn't short, the war on terror won't be either. But we are going to prevail, and the sooner these democrats wise up the better. Al Qaeda Group Claims Resort Attack. An Al Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility for multiple bomb attack on popular Egyptian resort that killed 88. By foxnewsonline@foxnews.com. [FOXNews.com - U.S. & World]
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Saturday, July 23, 2005
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John Kerry, Hypocrite?
From the AP, "
Kerry Seeks Release of Roberts' Documents
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Democratic Sen. John Kerry urged the White House on Friday to release "in their entirety" all documents and memos from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' tenure in two Republican administrations.
"We cannot do our duty if either Judge Roberts or the Bush administration hides elements of his professional record," said the Massachusetts senator who was his party's presidential candidate last year...
Pardon me, but isn't this the same guy who expected their voters to do their duty when casting presidential ballots in 2004
without seeing elements
of
his
professional record?
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Friday, July 22, 2005
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Hear Hear. The House reauthorized the Patriot Act in a vote of 257-171. Too bad it wasn't more like 427-1. Too many have lost the energy they once had to fight this fight and win this war when it began on 9/11. Either that or their politicization of the war is interfering with it. Shame on them. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act (AP). AP - The House voted Thursday to extend the USA Patriot Act, the nation's main anti-terrorism tool, just hours after televisions in the Capitol beamed images of a new attack in London. [Yahoo! News: Politics News]
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
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 Saw the best comedy/tragedy last night in the after the nominee whining session, otherwise known as the Democrat Response. After hearing Leahy's bla bla woof woof, the New York Liberal (an upper-case lib) Senator, the male one, begins by saying how much more important this nominee to the Supreme Court is. So much more important than in the lower courts, after all, he said, "the Supreme Court is where laws are made." I'd wager that there are a lot of 5th graders in private schools and homeschoolers scratching their heads on that line. Even they know the court does not make law. Lawmakers make law, and they are our state legislatures and Congress. Please keep it up Chuckie. Mid-term elections aren't too far away. I don't know who's digging faster, Howard Dean or Charles Schumer? But when their digging themselves a whole, some say, just leave them alone. I don't know, I'd consider offering them a bigger shovel.
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from powerlineblog.com
It didn't matter whom President Bush nominated. The Democrats were poised to attack, and they would have unleashed whatever ammunition they could muster regardless of who the nominee was. "People for the American Way" and other extreme-left groups were faxing out packets of attack materials on John Roberts within minutes after his nomination was announced.
So: what have they got? The short answer is, little or nothing. You can access PFAW's "report" on Judge Roberts here; it's a feeble attempt at opposition research. Most of it deals with Roberts' tenure as deputy Solicitor General. In that capacity, for example, he wrote a brief that argued that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be reversed. There are two problems with these attacks on Roberts' briefs. First, the Solicitor General has a client: the President and his administration. He doesn't just make stuff up, he argues the position that is formulated by the President, the Attorney General and other policy makers. Thus, in the abortion case just referred to, Rust v. Sullivan, Roberts' brief said:
We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled . . . [T]he Court’s conclusion[] in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion . . . find[s] no support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution.
The "we" is the first Bush administration, Roberts' client.
The second problem with the left's attacks on positions taken by Roberts when he was a deputy Solicitor General is that in 2002, he was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the traditional training ground for the Supreme Court, by a unanimous vote of the Senate. So it seems a little difficult for the Democrats to go back now and try to resurrect these old issues.
The Dems are left, then, with Roberts' brief tenure on the appellate court. The pickings are very slim. They have attacked Roberts' dissenting vote in Rancho Viejo v. Norton, where Roberts would have granted en banc review to decide whether the Endangered Species Act could constitutionally be applied on the facts of the case. Roberts' dissent was based on recent Supreme Court jurisprudence which has revitalized the Commerce Clause as a meaningful constraint on federal power. Under the Supreme Court's cases, his position appears to be correct: the issue is not whether the enforcement of the regulation will affect interstate commerce by blocking a development project. The issue is whether the statute at issue, as applied, is itself a regulation of interstate commerce. Given that the toad in question chooses to live its entire life in California, for reasons of its own--as Roberts put it--his dissent seems sound under current Supreme Court case law. In any event, this is hardly an issue to fire up the general public.
The Democrats also will want to talk about Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro Authority, in which a twelve-year-old girl was taken into custody, handcuffed, and driven to police headquarters because she ate a french fry in a Washington metro station. Roberts wrote the opinion for the D.C. Circuit, affirming a district court decision that dismissed the girl's complaint, which was predicated on the Fourth and Fifth amendments.
Roberts' opinion is a good example of conservative jurisprudence. He begins by noting that "No one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation," and pointing out that the policies under which the girl was "apprehended" have since been changed. Nevertheless, the controlling law was clear, and the court was not authorized to second-guess the wisdom of the District's policies: "The question before us," Roberts wrote, "is not whether these policies were a bad idea, but whether they violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution." One basic difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives understand that there are any number of ideas that may be stupid, but are not unconstitutional. As Roberts wrote: "Rational basis review does not authorize the judiciary to sit as a superlegislature."
The Hedgepeth case may tug at certain heartstrings, but it plainly was decided correctly. Roberts wrote for a 3-0 panel affirming a district court decision, so the conclusion was unanimous. It's hard to paint a judge who is part of a unanimous consensus as "out of the mainstream."
Another case that PFAW included in their anti-Roberts dossier was his vote in favor of executive privilege in the case brought by interest groups against Dick Cheney in connection with the Vice-President's energy task force. In the D.C. Circuit in 2003, Roberts was part of a 5-3 minority. Unfortunately for the Democrats, however, the Supreme Court reversed the following year by a 7-2 vote. Again, it's hard to portray Roberts as some kind of extremist when his view prevailed by a wide margin in the Supreme Court.
So the left has very little to work with in trying to rouse public opposition to Roberts' nomination. That leaves only one alternative: they will ask lots of questions. This theme has already emerged. They will try to force Roberts to take a loyalty oath to the liberal decisions of which contemporary Democrats are fondest. And, as Chuck Schumer said tonight, they will proceed on the assumption that "the burden is on the nominee to prove he is worthy," not on the Democrats to prove he isn't. So the Dems will try to dream up questions that Roberts can't properly answer, and documents they can request that can't be provided, relating, perhaps to Roberts' service as deputy solicitor general.
Nevertheless, barring some stunning and unforeseen revelation, the outcome is not in doubt. The Democrats simply don't have anything to work with. And, thankfully, they are a minority in the Senate. [Power Line]
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Monday, July 18, 2005
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Arlen, the constitution doesn't care what you like, and neither should you. It's not your choice to make. It was such a mistake to put him as chariman of the Judiciary Committee. His contrary positions and timing makes him look like he's competing with John McCain to be the democrats' favorite republican. It is becoming fashionable to make the President's job as difficult as you can, especially if you're a republican.
Specter Says He'd Like Swing-Voter Justice (AP). AP - The chairman of the Senate committee that will oversee hearings on President Bush's Supreme Court nominee said Sunday that he would like to see a moderate in the tradition of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and perhaps someone with experience in politics. [Yahoo! News: Politics News]
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Saturday, July 16, 2005
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Fewer Children Left Behind. The Democrats attack President Bush as a loser, but if he's a loser we could use more like him. First the economy improves and now it's education. President Bush's fiscal policies have included enough of the right kind of tax cuts to trigger a strong economic expansion, complete with job growth, export growth, GDP growth and tax receipt growth. Now, wouldn't you know it, education seems to be improving so much that even The New York Times has to notice: America's elementary school students made solid gains in both reading and math in the first years of this decade, while middle school students made less progress and older teenagers hardly any, according to test results issued today that are considered the best measure of the nation's long-term education trends.
Nine-year-old minority students made the most gains on the test, administered by the United States Department of Education. In particular, young black students significantly narrowed the historic gap between their math and reading scores and those of higher-achieving whites, who also made significant gains. Note that part about middle school kids making less progress than elementary school kids, and high school kids making none at all. Isn't it interesting that the No Child Left Behind Act is aimed primarily at the elementary school level. Three months ago, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings called for NCLB to be expanded to high schools and the data appear to support her. [GOP Bloggers]
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If Charles Krauthammer is not a regular part of your Friday routine, he should be.
The fact that native-born Muslim Europeans are committing terrorist acts in their own countries shows that this Islamist malignancy long predates Iraq, long predates Afghanistan and long predates Sept. 11, 2001. What Europe had incubated is an enemy within, a threat that for decades Europe simply refused to face...
But the problem is far deeper. It is essentially a civil war within a rival civilization in which the most primitive elements are seeking to gain the upper hand. Sept. 11 forced us to intervene massively in this civil war, which is why we are in Iraq. There, as in Afghanistan, we have enlisted millions of Muslims on the anti-Islamist side.
[GOP Bloggers]
12:18:16 AM
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Also needs no explaination. Thanks to GOP bloggers.Rumsfeld Victory in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
A federal district court ruling, widely touted by liberals, that found fault with the government's military tribunals has been struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit, which is the penultimate court in America. This decision is a victory in the war on terror.
Check out Powerline for analysis by the legal minds there.
UPDATE:
A federal appeals court put the Bush administration's military commissions for terrorist suspects back on track Friday, saying a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison who once was Osama bin Laden's driver can stand trial.
A three-judge panel ruled 3-0 against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose case was halted by a federal judge on grounds that commission procedures were unlawful.
"Congress authorized the military commission that will try Hamdan," said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The protections of the 1949 Geneva Convention do not apply to al Qaeda and its members, so Hamdan does not have a right to enforce its provisions in court, the appeals judges said. Now that the top federal appeals court has confirmed that the Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists, as we have already stated, can the media drop the whole debate about it?
[GOP Bloggers]
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Needs no explaination. From PowerLine.com That Was Then, This Is Now.
This ABC News video from five years ago, courtesy of Media Research Center, is a classic. Before Democrats had a partisan motive to claim, contrary to all the evidence, that there was no relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and bin Laden's al Qaeda, their close and dangerous relationship was common knowledge. That common knowledge is reflected in this ABC news report, as it was in the Clinton administration's indictment of bin Laden in 1998 for, among other things, collaborating with Saddam on weapons of mass destruction.
It really is a fascinating question: in this era of digital media, can the news media and the Democrats get away with trying to flush what they said as recently as 1998 and 2000 down the memory hole?
Let's hope not.
Thanks to reader Adam Smith. [Power Line]
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Friday, July 15, 2005
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Lest we forget about Sandy (socks) Berger's stealing top secret documents from the National Archives. . .
Sentencing for former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who pleaded guilty in April to stealing and destroying top secret terrorism documents from the National Archives, has been delayed, NewsMax.com has learned.
Asked why Berger wasn't sentenced as scheduled on Friday, July 8, a Justice Department spokesman told NewsMax on Tuesday that Berger's sentencing has been postponed till September.
Newsmax.com
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
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Apparently not very confident that the ongoing investigation of the Wilson/Niger/CIA/Rove controversy will lead to anything illegal on Rove's part, they want to make a law that will apply to Rove and attach it to a spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security, regardless of the outcome of the current federal grand jury investigation. When it's their guy in the spotlight, it's innocent until proven guilty. For Rove, it's just the opposite. If they would have their way, if Rove wasn't guilty, they'd make him guilty.
The New York Times couldn't be clearer in the mindset and tactics of this Democrat party. They don't mind politicizing the war on terror or homeland security, while putting us all at risk, to win their political war. The first two para in the story spells it all out. They don't even hide it anymore.
Senate Democrats tried to add to Republican discomfort over the presidential adviser Karl Rove today as they called for legislation to deny security clearances to officials who unmask undercover agents.
The Democrats hoped to attach the measure to a spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security. Should the maneuver succeed, and Republicans then resist the overall bill, Democrats could portray them as trying to block legislation vital to national security.
Rove Would Lose Security Clearance Under Democrats' Plan. Senate Democrats today tried to add to Republican discomfort over the presidential adviser Karl Rove. By DAVID STOUT. [NYT > Home Page]
footnote: All during a global war on terror. You'd never know it by the way these democrats are behaving.
10:01:27 PM
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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Calling all radical islamic murderers and terrorists and cavemen, today's special (just for you) is sauteed in pig blood. Buy one get one. hahahahahaha
Calif. Nat'l Guard Sorry About Pig-Blood Flier. Islamic, peace groups blast poster urging soldiers to dip bullets in pig blood to deny Islamic targets entry to heaven. By foxnewsonline@foxnews.com. [FOXNews.com - U.S. & World]
Oh my that was so insensitive of me. I'll do the Dick Durban apology here, it's been approved by the Democrat party.
To those who have been offended by my remarks, I apologize, and to those who deserve it, I meant every word I said.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
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Great piece by James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal Online today about the hyperventilated news coverage of the Joe Wilson and his CIA wife leak that has become the rallying cry of the left. You know, if you hear a lie often enough and from every mainstream media outlet long enough, you just might come to believe it.
Tarranto fixes all that right here.
Roly Poly Fish Heads
by James Taranto
Oh boy, a feeding frenzy! The speculation, and later revelation, that Karl Rove was a source who blew the whistle on Joe Wilson's Niger chicanery has revived the Valerie Plame kerfuffle. Just when you thought things couldn't get sillier, they do, as the Angry Left's excitement has bubbled up into the mainstream media.
The lead story in today's New York Times is headlined "At White House, a Day of Silence on Rove's Role in C.I.A. Leak." As the Mediacrity blog notes, this is "too cute," given that the Times has dispatched one of its own reporters to jail so that it can keep silent about what it knows about Rove or some other source.
Of course, there is a difference: The Times is keeping silent because the public has a right to know.
Yesterday's White House press briefing featured a similarly hilarious question from ABC News's Terry Moran to press secretary Scott McClellan:
Now that Rove has essentially been caught red-handed peddling this information, all of a sudden you have respect for the sanctity of the criminal investigation?
The information that Rove has been "caught red-handed peddling" is that Wilson's wife, Plame, engineered his trip to Niger. Wilson denied this when it became public two years ago this week, but it turned out that Rove was telling the truth and Wilson was not. In other words, here we have Moran, a reporter, attacking the White House for providing accurate information to reporters! This is journalism at its best?
We're too weary of the subject to review once more why there's nothing to the "scandal"; read John Podhoretz if you need a refresher. In any case, people who think in clichés keep asserting that "there's blood in the water," meaning Rove's. Those of us who have actually gone fishing know chum when we see it.
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Here's page one (the only page) of Harry Reid's playbook. If there isn't a controversy, make one up. Like Bush's national guard 'memo' made up in Texas, and the Downing St. memo, made up overseas. And the classic Bush said that Saddam and Iraq had a part in the 9/11 attack line. All of which were made up stories aimed at knocking Bush out of office. So now, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid pulls the next lie out about a possible White House leaker.
Below from gopbloggers.org.
Harry Reid's Historical Revisionism. Democrats are clearly enthralled with the possibility of taking down Karl Rove. While it is not even clear that any crime was committed, they are circling like vultures. Look at Harry Reid's rewriting of President Bush's statement. President Bush: "If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is and if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of," Bush said in September 2003. Harry Reid completely rewrites it:"The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they would no longer be in this administration, his administration. I trust they will follow through on this pledge," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. President Bush clearly said that if a crime was committed, he would address it. Reid now lies by inventing a quote from the President saying that if anyone was involved in the affair they would be fired. [GOP Bloggers]
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Monday, July 11, 2005
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The fact that democrat leaders seem to be in search of their values could demonstrate that they don't have any. You either have them or you don't. Their conundrum is one of two possible scenarios, they either don't have any, or theirs are in sync with society in general but fear admitting it would be contrary to their oath of being an 'opposition party.' The last thing they want to do is have to agree with Bush on anything. It also fails them when it comes to fighting the war. Their opposing it after starting it is actually helping the enemy. How would you feel if you had to be opposed to a plan that will save our future and us from terrorism? It's not a good place to be, but it's the place they choose to be.
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Sunday, July 10, 2005
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First report since Dennis' flyover. We're OK, obviously. Thanks to one of those emergency generators, there's enough power for some lights and refrigeration, and a cute window A/C, and the 'puter. A far cry from Ivan, Dennis was mild by comparison. Mostly because it hit land well east of Pensacola which put us in the NW quadrant, gentler than the NE quadrant like with Ivan. Also there wasn't a storm surge the likes of which decapitated the I-10 bridge like Ivan did.
For example, I heard on the police scanner at 6pm, this is 3 hours after Dennis passed, a complaint called in for kids shooting off bottle rockets. Another big difference between the two hurricanes is for Ivan; we had practically no damage. For Ivan most of my neighbors' homes got a tree stuck in them. Mine was spared. That was then. :) This time, the fence is completely down, because of trees falling on it. And, there's this 50' pine tree in my 36' pool. The Weather Channel just said that the NE section of Pensacola, where the airport is, got the worst of the it. Figures, that's my neighborhood.
The phone is down, but the cable isn't. I'm surprised I still have cable because of the big oak tree that is resting comfortably on those wires right now. Having lived in Glens Falls New York for several years in the 90's, I know this; down here you need an emergency generator like you need a snow blower up there.
Of course there are pictures, some before and after, at the Philly's Photo Gallery. You can upload your Hurricane Dennis pics there too if you'd like to share.
Live video in the peak of the storm.
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Friday, July 08, 2005
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Ten months after Ivan, here comes Dennis. We're much better prepared for this one. Now we have one of those emergency generators (battery start) :) and enough gasoline to make a pretty big crater, or to run the generator until gasoline once again becomes available.
More people than for Ivan are boarding up windows. More people are evacuating than for Ivan. Right now, Saturday before landfall, which should be tomorrow afternoon, practically everything is closed, gas stations are out of gas. Wal-Mart and some drug stores are open for as long as feasable, and plenty of emergency supplies are available, like water and ice.
State and County officials say crews are queued up waiting to come in after it passes. Hundreds of trucks of food, supplies, water, ice, gasoline, electric and phone company trucks.
I think we'll be fine. We're way above sea level here. When the webcam goes offline, then we'll be out of power.
See ya on the flip-side.
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Thursday, July 07, 2005
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Very good news indeed. This just out on the Drudge Report. Stand back. The libs in charge of the Democrat Party are about to go pretty much completely unglued.
Drudge headline:
BUSH GETS TWO:
REPORT: REHNQUIST RETIRES; TO BE ANNOUNCED TONIGHT
Well, Drudge is 0 for 2 as far as the supremes are concerned. . .
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People in the United States must fight two 'wars.' First and foremost is the global war on terror. The conclusion of which will bring peace not only to us but also to the world for generations to come. Not a bad side effect. Then we're having to fight people like Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer and Barbara Boxer, just to name a few, and the U-Name-It 527 group, all of whom share the common objective of get Bush at any cost. Any cost includes politicizing the war in Iraq with reckless rhetoric that provides campaign recruitment material for the enemy. In contrast, I just posted several articles (below) without comment. The headlines alone caused this reaction. Isn't it nice to see everyone on the same page? None of them think it is an isolated attack. All of them believe it is the war on terror. All of them vow to defeat them, while some on our side want to leave/surrender and turn over Iraq to the terrorists and turn our backs on the Iraqi people who are fighting and dying for freedom. Go figure. . .
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From Power Line A Map Of Islamic Terrorism.
The Sun created this map, which shows some of the principal acts of Islamic terror, beginning with the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. The map is by no means complete; among other things, it doesn't include any of the terrorist attacks in Israel. The Sun writes:
More than 4,000 people have died as Islamic terrorism has spread across the world over the last decade. Here we highlight some of the worst atrocities.
Liberals are nevertheless convinced that this latest attack must be due to the war in Iraq. No word yet on the others. [Power Line]
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Just a reminder John, the other John, Hillary, Joe, Ted, Sheila, Charles, Maxine, Henry, Barbara, and Chuck: there is a real war being waged against you, and it has nothing to do with replacing a lawyer on the Supreme Court or republicans. Going wobbly on terrorism and the Patriot Act empowers this enemy, maybe you're planning on letting them vote in next U.S. elections? Then they'll really love you. To death. Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300. Four London Explosions Kill at Least 40 and Injure More Than 300 on Subway and Double-Decker Bus [ABC News: Nightline]
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005
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Until Sen. Joe Biden brought it up yesterday, I was not aware that it is the Supreme Court's role to unite the country. Senator, when you win the majority, you can pick your nominee. When you win the minority, you don't. I know it'll be difficult but next time try giving people a reason to vote for your candidate and your agenda and quit abusing the judiciary as a substitute for lawmakers.
Sen. Joseph R. Biden:
The resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from the U.S. Supreme Court presents President Bush with the opportunity to unite the country.
Just as Justice O'Connor deserves a happy and full retirement, the nation deserves an independent and impartial nominee, one who will not force a divisive battle over the Supreme Court. That will in large part depend on President Bush's decision on whom to nominate to succeed Justice O'Connor.
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Monday, July 04, 2005
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Sunday, July 03, 2005
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What the communist media People's Weekly World calls a public outcry, is really the result of an email campaign among the left to sign an electronic petition. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) took the opportunity to call the President a liar, and Vice President Dick Cheney a liar and thief. 
And Democrats.com was right there to help. When Rep. Conyers asked citizens to co-sign his letter to George Bush, Democrats.com immediately urged our 300,000 supporters to join him and to spread the word. Next Thursday, after the hearing, he hopes to deliver 500,000 signatures to the White House. We also reached out to our progressive allies and formed a truly remarkable coalition at AfterDowningStreet.org to call for an official Resolution of Inquiry by the full House of Representatives, as drafted by attorney John Bonifaz. When there is no public outcry, you create it. That seems to be the MO of the useful idiots on the left. The ones with the most experience in fabricating alleged wrongs are pictured here. With a population approaching 300 million people, 500,000 signatures from activists are about as significant as spit. Suffice it to say, there is no public outcry. But that's where these political hacks choose to hang their hat, or turban.
12:24:44 PM
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Saturday, July 02, 2005
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There's no denying the man is right to do it. It's really the only way to get their attention. Don't run, fight back. He is financing a private operation to track down and eliminate his captors. You go guy.
The New Stockholm Syndrome. "Tough Swede" turns out not to be an oxymoron after all. [OpinionJournal.com]
11:48:24 PM
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I like the sound of this; Painful end to his chancellorship, Schroder era was drawing to a tortuous close. Torture? What are they doing over there? Just torturing their citizens with a limping socialist economy, that's all.
Schröder begins painful end to his chancellorship. The Schröder era was drawing to a tortuous close after Germany's chancellor lost a vote of no-confidence. [Telegraph News | International News]
Note to Kate Connolly in Berlin. If you lose a vote of no-confidence, doesn't that make you a winner? He actually won a vote of no-confidence.
12:53:55 AM
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Watching Ted 'roll-back' Kennedy and the liberals start to go crazy over the prospect of Bush having to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court is hilarious. It is also indicative of how much they depend on the courts to implement their agenda. When in reality, it shouldn't be any big deal. After all, judges don't make law, they just interpret it.
It's going to be painful to watch these folks when they begin to see that they'll have to rely on their constituents, the voters, to enact their vision instead of the judiciary. They will literally experience withdrawal. But that's OK. We will all be better off after they recover. Well, IF they recover.
I wouldn't wait more than about a minute to invoke the constitutional option too. The nominee has to have the Senate's up or down vote. That's the process. It should not be unusual to expect a President to pick one of his own. Clinton picked two, both reliably left. That's just the way it should be. Other than qualifications for the job, the political ideology of the person should be irrelevant. Anything else would be to politicize the process.
12:31:16 AM
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Friday, July 01, 2005
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi still thinks it is perfectly fine to use (dip into) Social Security monies for spending on 'other purposes.' She describes it as Social Security lending money to the government. What, 40 years worth of IOU's is not enough?
3:37:18 PM
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