August 07, 2008
Say hello to Cullen Gabriel Becker. Future Conservative Republican President of the United States. AND he just happens to be my grandson!
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August 05, 2008
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August 03, 2008
And a tip O' The GM Derby to Emigre With A Digital Cluebat
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August 02, 2008
Everyone on the left and maybe a few on the right have succumbed to The Obamessiah! He has graced blogs, news magazines, with his visage complete with halo, and we on the right just haven't been paying attention to The One like we should. So, joining the throngs of Obamabots "Has Everyone Gone Nuts" has penned a "hymn" to the Obamessiah! Please join me and turn to Hymn 101, "What A Friend We Have In Barack!"
1.What a friend we have in Barack,
All our Hope For Change to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Barack's water everywhere
O what Change we often forfeit,
O what Wingnuts we must bear,
all because we do not carry,
Barack's water everywhere.
2. Too High Taxes on the Poor?
And no Health-care anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
Barack will soon be everywhere!
Can we find a Prez so handsome?
who will all our Taxes share?
Barack knows our every envy;
Barack will help us everywhere.
Amen and Amen!
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taking up the challenge that is presented by his non-performance a terrific lady and really smart blogger Juliette Ochieng who blogs the irrepressable Baldilocks has decided that something has to be done. Since the Obamessiah won't, she will. She is establishing the Obamaschool.org website and a 501(c)3 non-profit in order to help the school. Well, we can certainly see what the Obamessiah's promises are worth can't we? But in spite of Obama, you can help by going HERE. If he won't, we will. Thanks Juliette!The small brick house with no running water, a tin roof and roving chickens, goats and cows is owned by Sarah Obama, Barack's 86-year-old step-grandmother. Inside, the walls are decorated with a 2008 Obama election sticker, an old "Barack Obama for Senate" poster on which he has written "Mama Sarah Habai [how are you?]", a 2005 calendar that says "The Kenyan Wonder Boy in the US", and more than a dozen family photos.
But this bucolic scene in his father's village of Kogelo near the Equator in western Kenya conceals a troubling reality that, until now, has never been spoken about. Barack Obama, the Evening Standard can reveal, after we went to the village earlier this month, has failed to honour the pledges of assistance that he made to a school named in his honour when he visited here amid great fanfare two years ago.
At that historic homecoming in August 2006 Obama was greeted as a hero with thousands lining the dirt streets of Kogelo. He visited the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School built on land donated by his paternal grandfather. After addressing the pupils, a third of whom are orphans, and dancing with them as they sang songs in his honour, he was shown a school with four dilapidated classrooms that lacked even basic resources such as water, sanitation and electricity.
Also blogging on this: Stubborn Facts; Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys; Gateway Pundit; Rhymes with Right; Michele Malkin; Stuck on Stupid; The Other McCain and many others.
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August 01, 2008
Just words. To back them up, I'd like to see some real accomplishments of Barack Obama's. I guess we're out of luck. Emotional people, aka liberals, and most mainstream media are falling all over themselves to help him, but they can't see or won't admit that there's no substance to his image.
To revive and revise an old song:
Words... Huh... Yeah!
What are they good for?
Absolutely nothing!
Uhuh... uhuh...!
Words... Huh... Yeah!
What are they good for?
Absolutely nothing!
Say it again y'all
So, we present this award to all of those people who fail to see that words without deeds are empty.
I'd like to thank the Democratic Party for making this award possible.
Authored by Woody
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July 31, 2008
Searching the internet this morning, I came across this "campaign button".
Now, the interesting thing here, the grabber as it were is that you get to put your name on a button which supposedly shows your dedication for Obama to the other obamatons or, as some would have it, the obamabots. Well, I have an acquaintence by the somewhat unlikely name of Nicholas Oglesbe Thorpe who purchased said button, but he couldn't get his full name on such a small button, so he put only his initials:
Not real bright, those obamabots, are they?
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July 30, 2008
Obama's Symbolic Importance
Updated 10:59 a.m. 7/30/08
By Jonathan Weisman
In his closed door meeting with House Democrats Tuesday night, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger, according to a witness, suggesting that he was beginning to believe his own hype.
Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, "this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for."[emphasis added]
Pardon my "french" but this guy is beginning to scare le crap out of me!
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July 29, 2008
In February of this year, Mrs. O uttered these words in a speech:
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”Now, I don't know about you but those words scare the hell out of me and should scare the hell out of any rational freedom loving individual. Now, The Obamamessiah has put forth the 11th commandment "Thou shalt not make fun of the First Lady wife of the candidate" but you know what, I've never been real good at taking orders from folk like the Obamas - full of themselves and all!
Lets take these one at a time;
1.) "Barack Obama will require you to work."That would seemingly defeat the Democrats objections to workfare wouldn't it? Or, does M.O. mean that B.O. will only require those who disagree with him to work? Perhaps she means that slavery is back in vogue with involuntary servitude...she'll have to do away with the 14th Amendment and all, but hey, nothing is forbidden to The One!
2.) "He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism."Another constitutional conundrum. My cynicism is protected speech. After all, you can't read my mind that I'm being cynical. You can't observe me sitting quietly in a cynical manner, you can only tell that I'm being cynical when I'm writing or speaking. No way around this one lady, you can take your demand and put it ... well, I'll not say where but you can be sure the "where" has a decided lack of sunshine.
3.) "That you put down your divisions."What? You want me to associate with people I don't like? You want people that don't like me to associate with me? Does this mean I have to befriend a jihadist or an islamist or even, God Forbid, a Libertarian? Have you no shame lady? "At long last, sir, Ma'am have you no shame?"
4.) "That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones."Oh PUH-LEZE!!! I'm perfectly comfortable being here in my comfort zone. I like being a conservative, I enjoy lampooning you folk on the left, especially those liberals too ashamed of being called a liberal so they changed it to "progressive" what ever that means. Look Michele, I may call you Michelle mayn't I, just where do you get off telling me that I have to come out of Isolation? I'm not isolated in the least bit. I have friends all over the world, I have people that love me and enjoy hearing what I have to say. I have friends I associate with and travel with. I have just oodles of mixing. No isolation here (as I look under the couch). I have a good job where I mix on a daily basis with professionals dedicated to helping the mentally ill and I am good at what I do. I'm no more isolated than you are a Swiss Milk Maid.
5.) "That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage."Good Grief, there she goes again. Lady, I pushed myself to get a college degree and then a Master's Degree. I pushed myself to get and additional 30 hours of grad work in my chosen field AFTER my Master's Degree. I engage, daily. I blog and share my thoughts with anyone that wants to read them. I hold forth on the political challenges and political realities today. What I don't do is get my spouse to attach an earmark to my employer and damn near triple my salary. What I don't do is flip flop all over the place in my convictions. Is your husbands now well recognized floppiness pushing himself to be better? Or would he be better if he adopted a belief and held to it without pandering to this group or that group? I thought you would answer like that!
6.) "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."I can see that, with his plans to squander and additional 800 billion. Tax everyone into the poor house either by direct or indirect taxes. By pulling out of Iraq and re-emboldening al Qaeda. By doing a "surge" in Afghanistan which he said wouldn't work in Iraq? If it wouldn't work in Iraq, why would it work in Afghanistan? Or, is doing a surge in Afghanistan a tacit acknowledgment that it DID work in Iraq? Yeah lady, life under The Obamamessiah and his many sycophants will be just peachy keen and hunky dory. Not!
Filed under Obama Watch
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July 28, 2008
A report on the internet regarding Obama's Social Security Taxes on "The Rich" notes that not much is known about what Obama tends to do.
"But its potential impact is almost impossible to gauge because he is providing few details on basic questions such as what the tax rate might be, what types of income would be taxed and how the taxpayers' benefits would be affected."[emphasis added]Of course, that is precisely the problem with an empty suit. I'd say all hat and no cattle but I don't want to insult hats by comparing Obama to them.
This of course, without saying anything positive about other candidates (McCain, Barr, Nader) underscores the lack of experience and the inability of the public or the press to hold Obama accountable. Then too, his flip flops makes us believe that he is not really sure of anything that he is running on. The only thing he seems sure of is:
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July 27, 2008
The message was, ''You had these opportunities, America. You didn't do anything,'' FBI agent George Crouch Jr. testified Friday at Salim Hamdan's war crimes trial.
The United States could have killed bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan, before he moved to Afghanistan in 1996, Hamdan told his interrogators. They could have killed him after al Qaida's 1998 twin bombings at the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Or after the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, at the port of Aden in Yemen, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.
Instead, ''Bin Laden was emboldened.'' So he struck with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, leaving nearly 3,000 dead.
It is bitter irony that lawyers are conveying such through a trial. Remote controlled Tomahawks, the illusion of safety beyond the sanctuary of oceans, and the hot pursuit via attorneys and law both remote and unrecognized by murderous men who seek our death. This was how we convinced ourselves of our certain and active defense.
We were offered bin Laden in transit from Sudan to Afghanistan. But we did not want him. Our lawyers had no battle, our leaders no mettle.
Most of us, though not all, have learned nothing. After thousands smote and seven years of war, we are back to our superior ways, demanding Habeas Corpus and noting in the very first trial that bin Laden's deputy was read no Miranda rights upon his capture - or was it arrest?
They say History repeats itself. Never before has it applied so swiftly, within the same generation and within the same conflict.
A selfish society incapable of sacrifice is equally incapable of self-defense. Our greatest concern is not the pursuit of madmen or the states which feed them. It is not even the cost of oil and its affect on our economy and future. It is the cost of the gasoline that cycles through our tanks and its affect on our personal checking account balances.
Cowardice, cloaked in arrogance and concealed behind self-assured brilliance, charts a troubled path; one which appears circular, where constant motion deceptively passes for progress. Progress towards what, we disagree, though our enemies do not, as they laugh.
Many say it will take another catastrophic attack to bring us to our collective senses. But it will likely not come. For, if al-Qaeda (et al) is smart - and they are - they will leave us alone on our own soil while we rip ourselves apart. No explosives, no bombs, no weapons of war required. We are, after all, suddenly and finally waging their centuries-long war upon ourselves. Brilliantly.
We allow ourselves to be told that we are what is wrong with the world; torturous, greedy, destructive, with disregard for the poorest and bitter intolerance for anyone not like us. We Balkanize our society and point fingers at each other, laying these same charges against one domestic group or another with the venom and aggression once reserved for distant, oppressive enemies.
Can we awaken from our own self-destructive slumber? The decisive war is not in Iraq, nor Afghanistan, nor Pakistan or any other distant place where we perceive our enemies to be. The decisive battle is right here, from Maine to San Diego, from St. Louis to Atlanta.
Can we truly identify that which we are defending? For if we cannot, we are not. We are simply preserving soil and borders, protecting cities and people - that which can be found anywhere else on this planet.
What will America be, what will she look like when our children are thrust at the helm? Will they write that we defended her, or will they write that we devoured and discarded her? This, not al-Qaeda or the War on Terror, keeps me up at night.
For we can defeat al-Qaeda and yet have defended nothing at all in the long, painful process. And our children will be compelled to write of us, ''You had these opportunities, America. You didn't do anything."
SteveSteve Schippert
http://ThreatsWatch.org/
http://tank.nationalreview.com/
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July 26, 2008
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Well, this wind wasn't called Mariah, it was called Dolly and though we were spared a Catagory 3, the Catagory 2 that Dolly was was bad enough. Lots of trees down including this one in front of our townhome, some water blown in under the eaves, one picture knocked off the wall for some reason. As I drove around town looking at some of the damage, I noticed brick fences down, 4x4 posts snapped in two, trees down all over the place, some houses with no shingles at all, some with a missing shingles (thank goodness our roof is heavy concrete tile). I noticed one "Hurricane Fence" down, don't know how that happened unless something slammed into it. But despite everything blown down, I noticed that an awful lot of tall cactus plants still standing including the ones on my patio. Trees down, branches broken, cacti still standing proud. Amazing.
An awful lot of you sent prayers our way knowing Dolly was bearing down, and for that I thank you!
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July 24, 2008
How do I feel about Barack Obama? Here's a sample of remarks that I have made about him to liberals and in response to their comments. They aren't particularly special or funny, but they do present an image of the candidate that the press doesn't feature. Feel free to add your own thoughts.
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Obama - The only presidential candidate endorsed by Jimmy Carter.
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The best description that I heard today about the press and Obama is that the press acts like a bunch of giggly school girls going gaga over the class president and team quarterback. “Oh, he looked over here! He’s so cute. Go say something to him! Does he like me?”
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Now, for today’s lesson of Obama anti-patriotism.
Video: Obama Plans to Disarm America
That guy is dangerous.
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(On Obama's plan to gut our military) Russia currently is making plans to deploy long-range bombers in Cuba, and Russia is not some puny country. And, have you noticed, China isn’t small. But even small nations only need one weapon. Hugo Chavez will purchase $5 billion of weapons from Russia over the next ten years. It just takes money, a weapon, and a crazy dictator–and, we learned that sanctions don’t work.
(Obama Dissent: “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela? These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose any serious threat to us.”
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Authored by Woody
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Who would have guessed? The press backs the candidates and political party financially that they back in their "news" coverage.
Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1
The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money.
...The contributions of individuals who reported being employed by major media organizations are...$315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans — a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there.
The press only backs the Democrats because Stalin isn't on the ballot.
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