GOP House Members Tour ANWR

GOP House Minority leader John Boehner and nine other congressmen took a junket to Alaske to actually check out ANWR and the oil production facilities on the North Slope. This was a smart move as they can better debate the issue of drilling there with firsthand experience and pictures about where the oil companies want to drill. Michelle Bachman has a write up and a few pictures posted at Townhall. She makes a good point about the caribou that the environuts are so desparate to protect.

Although many have been skeptical about the relationship between oil production and the surrounding wildlife and environment, we were given evidence that the two can co-exist. The best piece of evidence was the documented increase in size of a herd of native caribou near the Prudhoe Bay facilities. Since the facilities began its operations in the 1970s, the heard has increased its size from 5,000 to around 30,000 today.

Sounds to me like the caribou don't really mind us drilling there at all.
This brings me to a point about John McCain's stance on drilling in ANWR, one of my sticking points with him. He has criticized Obama for forming policy positions on Iraq and Afghanistan without having visited there well he has set a policy position on drilling in ANWR without having visited there. I guarantee many millions of American voters care more about seeing a larger chunk of their budget going into their gas tank than a few mosquitos and caribou. Many millions of us can't just go buy a small car and drive less or take public transportation as is the Democrat's position. I need my truck to do my job as a self employed contractor and its paid for to boot, plus I don't like driving a beer can car. Another thing about these over hyped hybrids is their exorbitant costs that will not be covered in fuel savings in their relatively short lifespans.

Obama Making Waves In The Future

Obama expects to be president for next eight to ten years as he tells it in and interview with CBS's Lara Logan.

"the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.

"And it's important for me to have a relationship with them early, that I start listening to them now, getting a sense of what their interests and concerns are."

Now this quote is quite astounding for its arrogance and presumptiousness in that he assumes he will be elected and that the other leaders will still be in power. What Obama says on his trip abroad will have wide ramifications if he continues to make the kind of gaffes he has continued to make. Jake Tapper has compared it to the butterfly effect of chaos theory.

The butterfly effect was introduced in Ray Bradbury's 1952 short story "A Sound of Thunder," when time travelers change the world beyond measure by accidentally killing a butterfly in prehistoric times.

Similarly, international diplomacy can be impacted by careless or glibly-chosen words. (Cue President Bush's "crusade" remarks.)

Some Democratic allies of Obama's are -- off the record -- concerned that the senator too often doesn't consider the potential butterfly effect of his diction.

Take his support for an "undivided Jerusalem," or his remarks about women seeking abortions when they're "feeling blue," which upset feminist leaders.

This is also on display as he has chosen to speak at the "Victory" monument in Germany which is a symbol of Prussian aggression and victory over its neighbors and where Hitler held massive rallies. Cap'n Ed has more on this and had this to say.

Hitler didn’t just move the monument to its more central location. He had a taller column built for it as well, to emphasize its message of German military domination over Europe. He saw it as a message to Germans of their destiny — as well as to other Europeans as their destiny as well. It was never meant as a symbol of peaceful, multicultural co-existence.
Team Obama has outdone themselves on symbolism with this choice. They’ve managed to make their hosts uncomfortable for a second time with their choice of rallying point, and perhaps more so this time. If one wanted to talk peace, what worse location could one choose than Adolf Hitler’s favorite monument to militaristic domination? One has to wonder how France, Denmark, and Austria will feel about Obama rallying German masses under the Siegessäule. Deja vu?

Obama shows himself once again to be a naive arrogant fool and further demonstrates why he is not qualified to be POTUS. I can empathize with Hillary's supporters in that even though I disagree with her policies she would never be that stupid or show that level of supreme arrogance.

Iraqis Look To Politics And A Bright Future

Thanks to the US troop surge and change in tactics put in place by Generals Petraeus and Odierno Iraq is undergoing a truly inspiring transformation. Politics is now all the rage in Iraq and political parties, over 500 of them, vie for votes and power with ballots and not bombs and bullets in the runup to cominy provencial elections. The Sunni block has returned to the government in Baghdad now that PM Maliki has shown he will crack down on the Shia militias. Markets are opening and the infrastructure is being rebuilt. Kim Kagan has a must read piece in the Weekly Standard about all the political prodress that has been made and reports on a meeting she had with one of those many parties at their headquarters.

Our host gives us a brief tour of the headquarters. It is strikingly familiar, reminiscent of hundreds of town and county election headquarters in the United States. A widescreen television in the large conference room displays news continuously. A freshly photocopied stack of flyers sits in an anteroom, explaining the party's position on the strategic agreement between Iraq and the United States that is the subject of intense debate throughout the country. Party officials responsible for different districts of Baghdad plan to distribute the flyers door to door over the weekend, assisted by staff and volunteers. They are preparing another round of flyers for next week. Nearby, young men and women sit at a bank of computers writing and designing the party's newspaper and laying out the advertisements that pay for its production. The color photographs in today's edition highlight a recent event sponsored by the party's youth committee: an awards ceremony for school children who have gotten top grades this academic year.

Iraqis see a bright future for themselves and we need to do everything we can to help them along not abandon them to the thugs of AQ or the hegemony of Iran.

Democrats Want To Raise Gas Taxes

Gas taxes are supposed to go to highway funds but with Americans driving less thus using less fuel because of high fuel prices those funds have dropped so the Democrat's want to raise the tax. The Democrats want to increase the cost of gasoline while it is at record highs so they can pay for their pet projects that have nothing to do with highway infrastructure with pork barrel spending but won't allow more drilling to lower the cost of that fuel. The transportation bills are a favorite of the porkers in Congress for dropping in billions of earmarks for museums , bridges to nowhere and bike paths and then they wonder why those funds are running short now so their solution is to sock it to the taxpayer once again with ever more taxation. Yes folks this is what you can expect with Obama and the Democrats running the government, they just don't get basic economics and their solution to everything is to tax you more. Why can't they set up private funds to raise voluntary money for their pet projects instead of raping the taxpayers even more? Hell we worked for six and a half months just to pay our taxes this year and they want more.
Hattip Hotair and AoSHQ

Is Obama Getting Illegal Contributions?

Obama's fundraising has set records and is truly amazing but is it all above board and legal? He has raised an astounding amount online in small donations that don't get the scrutiny of donations above $200 and lots from the sale of Obama paraphernalia like tee shirts and such. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has obtained a donor list and has started going over it and there appears to be many oddities, like lots of names from overseas and multiple small donations from the same people on the same day with some adding up to more than the legal limit over time. I am sure Tony Rezko taught Obama a thing or two about how to cover up illegal donations and he probably learned a bit from the Clinton machine as well. Anyway here is a bit of what Pamela has uncovered so far.

Other overseas contributors are making multiple small donations ostensibly in their own names over a period of a few days, some under maximum donation allowances, but others aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up. So while some of the contributions appear legal, others appear clearly over the maximums allowed without greater reporting requirement. Some of the contributions may bel egal as reported, but "fishy" can only describe the Obama campaign reporting with regard to aggregate contributions. The countries and major cities from which contributions have been received France, Virgin Islands, Planegg, Vienna, Hague, Madrid, London, AE, IR, Geneva,Tokyo, Bangkok, Turin, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Roma, Zurich, Netherlands, Moscow, Ireland, Milan, Singapore, Bejing, Switzerland, Toronto, Vancouver, La Creche, Pak Chong, Dublin, Panama, Krabi, Berlin, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Prague, Nagoya, Budapest, Barcelona, Sweden, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Zurich, Ragusa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Uganda, Mumbia, Nagoya, Tunis, Zacatecas, St, Croix, Mississiauga, Laval, Nadi, Behchoko, Ragusa, DUBIA, Lima, Copenhagen, Quaama, Jeddah, Kabul, Cairo, Nassau(not the county on Long Island,lol), Luxembourg (Auchi's stomping grounds), etc,etc,etc, but are not limited to these countries, as we've have just begun to read through almost 500 pages.

There are way too many overseas contributions and I find it hard to believe they are all American citizens. How does the FEC monitor that? Some of contributions appear to be "bundled" from one person as source to hide the contributions of many, and an example of one among many such "incidents" will clearly show why I arrive at such a conclusion.

I know this will not bother hardcore Obamabots and lefties who turn a blind eye to this sort of thing but it will bother a lot of swing voters that don't even like the appearance of corruption. Obama did get his start in Chicago where politics and corruption are practically pseudonyms. We'll see what else she is able to uncover as she has just gotten started and maybe some other bloggers, like Michelle Malkin's team, should wade in and give her a hand since we know the MSM won't.

Update: Welcome Hillary Supporters for John McCain and RCPers!

Are We In For Thirty Years Of Cooling?

I have written many times that ocean currents control the climate of earth and some in major ways. We have all heard about the El Nino and La Nina shifts in the Pacific that occur every few years and last for a year or so and how they can have dramatic impacts on the weather. Well there is a larger shift underway that occurs every twenty to thirty five years called the Pacific Decadal Oscilation and lasts just as long. Satelite imagery shows it switching from it warm mode to its cool mode as the graphs and pictures show in this pdf document by Don Easterbrook of Western Washington University's Dept. of Geology. It had been in its warm mode from about 1977 to 1998 accounting for much of the warming we had experienced and for the global cooling scare prior to that. I am not a scientist but that seems to also coincide with solar cycles that also play a large role in global temperatures. Other evidnce points out that higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere are caused by this warming and that CO2 does not cause the warming. If you can't view the pdf document the article is also at Icecap and here is a snippet.

Addressing the Washington Policymakers in Seattle, WA, Dr. Don Easterbrook said that shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) from its warm mode to its cool mode virtually assures global cooling for the next 25-30 years and means that the global warming of the past 30 years is over. The announcement by NASA that the (PDO) had shifted from its warm mode to its cool mode is right on schedule as predicted by past climate and PDO changes (Easterbrook, 2001, 2006, 2007) and is not an oddity superimposed upon and masking the predicted severe warming by the IPCC. This has significant implications for the future and indicates that the IPCC climate models were wrong in their prediction of global temperatures soaring 1F per decade for the rest of the century.

Just another inconvenient truth for Al Gore and his gaggle of scaremongers that he is making millions from. Al Gore is a politician with a socialist agenda and not a scientist, he got Ds and Fs in the sciences while in college. The climate is not a static thing and never has been, it has been in a state of flux for millions of years and will continue to be no matter what man does or does not do. The earth likewise is not a stable or static thing and is constantly in a state of change and man does not have any control over it.
There is at least a half dozen very interesting articles at Icecap so if you are interested in debunking the warmists head on over there and read around at they update daily so bookmark them.

Banned By Big Brother Government

Or the nanny state liberals.

Krauthammer Skewers The Arrogance Of Obama

The omniscient, omnipotent Obama One has built a massive cultlike movement of swooning masses where he is able to heal all that ails this world just by electing him. Charles Krauthammer has a must read column on the arrogance of a man that essentially has accomplished nothing in his life and thinks he can makes the oceans recede. Yeah he graduated from Harvard and was president of its esteemed Law Review but he did not author one article for it and has not published one scholarly paper ever. Obama did write two books all about the one topic he cares or knows anything about, himself, as Charles points out.

It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history -- "generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment" -- when, among other wonders, "the rise of the oceans began to slow." As economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, "Moses made the waters recede, but he had help." Obama apparently works alone.

Obama may think he's King Canute, but the good king ordered the tides to halt precisely to refute sycophantic aides who suggested that he had such power. Obama has no such modesty.

Do read the whole thing as it gets better and better.

Plus on a related note Obama's latest gaffe is another doozy showing how little grasp of history he has. This one is from a recent speech in Indiana.

Throughout our history, America’s confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world.

Now if I recall my history correctly it wasn't a single bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor but two massive waves of fighters and bombers dropping hundreds of bombs and torpedos. Can you imagine the brougha the MSM would be making if John McCain or George Bush said something so stupid but Obama is going to free the world of nuclear weapons and stop the oceans from rising while curing all the sick so the press will ignore it. The gaffe is in the opening remarks of this speech, courtesy of Cap'n Ed.


Yet he wants to cripple our defense abilities. The man is not fit to be Commander in Chief.

New McCain Ad

Pretty good contrast ad between Barack and John, Obama is willing to say or do anything to get elected since its all about His Hopeness, John took a politically risky position in full support of the surge strategy that has turned Iraq around because it was the right thing to do. As John quipped at the time;"I would rather lose an election than for the US to lose a war".

Hattip Hotair.

Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader

Goat needs to get on this show, I have missed only a couple of questions since I have been watching and I could use the cash.

Sidebar Update

I added Energy Tomorrow podcasts/radio to the sidebar and I encourage my readers to have a listen to Jane Van Ryan, my inside connection to the American Petroleum Institute, and her very informative guests.

Barack Stuck Between Iraq And A Hard Place

Nifty little video put together by the McCain team on Barack's ever changing positions on Iraq. He was against it till his buddy Tony Rezko had a lucrative contract there and the flopped back to full retreat in defeat mode.

Just What Does Obama Mean by This

In a recent speech Obama spoke of the need for a "civilian national security force" but just what would they do?

We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Would this be the Obamassiah's "brownshirts" used to crack down on those that disagree with him and his policies? The comment comes at 16:45 in this July 2nd speech in Colorado.

His record on crime is not very good so I doubt they would be going after the gangbangers that terrorize gun free Chicago, DC, LA and other major cities. He is for open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens so they won't be going after them, since he opined to La Raza that ICE was terrorizing neighborhoods.

Cap'n Ed has much more at Hotair and asks some more pertinent questions.

Obama needs to clarify what he means by “civilian national security force”, and how it would be funded. After all, we have a panoply of federal security agencies already: FBI, BATF, DEA, and more, plus the National Guard on the state level. Where would Obama get the money to fund it at the same level as the Pentagon? What would its mission be, and where would it get its authority? What would be the lines of jurisdiction?

I thought we already had a civilian security force in the form of armed citizens protected by the 2nd Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms. It sounds like a massive expansion of government and a federal employment gambit to me. This is on top of his requirement that all high school and college students do a required amount of community service for free in order to graduate, 50 hours a year for high school and 100 hours a year for college, in other words, mandatory volunteerism or slavery. I think Obama has no idea what the hell he is talking about anymore. This guy is clearly out of his liberal faculty lounge league when on the national stage.

Busting The Global Warming Myth: Updated

There is zero evidence of the greenhouse effect of carbon emissions so says a scientist and former alarmist. Empirical evidence and facts do not support the theories or computer models. This is a must read article in the Australian by someone that has been studying it for years, David Evans, who describes himself.

I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.

This what he has to say in part but go read the whole thing as he shreds the alarmist's myths.

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.

Hattip, Ace and Gabriel who have more.
Funny that it is the left that it so gaga over global warming while also claiming science is superior to religion except when scientific emperical data gets in the way of their favorite religion, environmentalism and global warming alarmism.

Update: As always there is much more good stuff debunking the global warming myth at Icecap.

How Will Obama Adjust To The New Reality In Iraq?

Will he continue to kow tow to the moonbat peace activists like Code Pink, one of their founders is a major bundler, or will he decide to support a fledgeling democracy and ally in the Middle East? In a recent editorial he wrote that he still plans to start withdrawing troops immediately if he takes office with the same sixteen month timeline he has been touting since he decided to run for president which top military brass says is impossible. Most of the time he doesn't sound like he even has a clue to what is going on over there and just spews endless left wing talking points that are often demonstratably false. He plans to visit there soon but will he even listen to what Iraqi leaders and the Generals tell him or will he arrogantly assume his way is best despite his ignorance?
Frederick and Kimberly Kagan and Gen. Keane recently returned from Iraq and gave a must read report in today's WSJ on "The New Reality in Iraq". Terrorists are still able to kill people here and there, its what they do, but their abilities to do so have been decimated and the people are sick of them.

All of the most important objectives of the surge have been accomplished in Iraq. The sectarian civil war is ended; al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has been dealt a devastating blow; and the Sadrist militia and other Iranian-backed militant groups have been disrupted.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi government has accomplished almost all of the legislative benchmarks set by the U.S. Congress and the Bush administration. More important, it is gaining wider legitimacy among the population. The attention of Iraqis across the country is focused on the upcoming provincial elections, which will be a pivotal moment in Iraq's development.

Another key point they make is that Iraq is eager to expand its oil production and that will help to put more downward pressure on the futures speculation market that drives the price of oil. Anyway go read the whole thing it seems that light at the end of the tunnel is growing brighter and its not a freight train headed our way.

My First Warning

I have been linking to and quoting articles for four years now and got my first warning today about copyright infringement. My crime, I excerpted a half dozen paragraphs from a 15 page article in the Boston Globe on Obama's ties to corrupt Chicago slumlords with full credits, links and encouragement to go read the whole article at the Globe's site. I have no desire to get myself or Blogger in trouble so I edited the post down to make sure it fit in with the Fair Use guidelines set down under US copyright law which allows for quotation for commentary purposes. Furthermore I receive zero economc benefit from this blog, I do not have advertisement from which I receive monetary compensation. This follows in the path the AP has taken in regards to their articles and is a violation of the 1st Ammendment guarantees to free speech. I also believe this came not to protect the Globe's copyright but to repress negative commentary on their messiah, Barack Obama, since the Globe is a bastion of left wing negativism of the right. The Globe did not have the temerity to contact me so they used their surragate Google to notify me while I appreciate the heads up I did not violate fair use conditions.
I have seen several of my blogging friends reprint entire articles so let this serve as a warning to them, don't do that, it hurts us all and casts a negative light on citizen journalism.

Bush Drops OCS Ban And Oil Prices Drop

Just as I have written many times the laws of supply and demand work and just the prospect of future supplies caused the futures market to drop the price on a barrel of oil $9.25 almost immediately. Futures traders bet on a dwindling supply with increased demand to buy future commodities like oil at today's prices in the hope those prices will continue to rise so they can sell their shares for a profit. Larry Kudlow has more here and echos the call to drill, drill, drill.
Meanwhile Newt Gingrich delivered the Drill Here, Drill Now petition to Congress today with over 1.3 million signatures that want our domestic resources developed and used for the benefit of the American people now. When I signed it there were less than 5,000 so I am thrilled to see so many jumping on the wagon, plus poll after poll shows a vast majority of people want to exploit our domestic resources in an environmentally responsible way.
My contact at the American Petroleum Institute confirmed that the Gulf oil rigs did not have any spills despite Cat 5 hurricanes Rita and Katrina passing right over them. In fact there is greater risk of catastrophic spills from massive oil tankers transporting oil from overseas than from offshore oil rigs and that more oil contamination comes from natural seepage than from commercial exploitation or usage.
The GOP has a winning platform to run on and win and they should take full advantage of it, do it all. We need to develope an alternative to oil but untill we can we need to drill here and now and not trust in some miracle cure coming anytime soon, its not and oil and coal remain our cheapest most efficient means of delivering energy into our economy in a currently viable way.
The environmentalists love the idea of electric cars but they fail to take into account what goes into making the batteries that run those cars. The other alternative is the hydrogen fuel cell which has promise but is still decades away from being viable considering the infrastructure to support it is now nonexistant and biofuels is the dumbest idea of all. I know I would rather roast my corn on the BBQ and eat it than feed it to my truck.

Yes, President Bush Lifts Ban On Offshore Oil Drilling

Well that got rid of the Executive branch blockade and puts that political hot potato squarely in the laps of the Democrat's leadership in Congress, mainly Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The congressional ban is a year to year ban that must be extended every September and this year it hands the Republicans a potent weapon if the Democrats balk about ending the ban. The American people overwhelmingly want to exploit our domestic resources and to keep all that money at home while creating lots of new jobs. Our expenditures for foreign oil are the major contributer to our trade deficit and that could be nearly erased by tapping our own resources. We need the Drill Here and Drill Now!

How Obama Got Where He Is:Updated

It appears that Barack is much better at burning bridges than building them and has become very adept at turning his back on key constituencies once elected. He talks about a new kind of politics but has played the old school Chicago style of politics while accomplishing very little other than getting elected and that came because he got other candidates removed from the ballot so he ran unopposed in a gerrymandered district. Ryan Lizza has a long but interesting article in the New Yorker that details just how Obama got where he is today and its not a fawning piece but rather an unflattering look at Obama's rise through Chicago politics. It also shows him being much closer to convicted fraudster Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers and the Chicago machine than he lets on, he runs as an outsider but works as an insider. This has angered many of his former constituents and supporters who see him as just using them as stepping stones in his quest for power and an arrogant egotistical elitist willing to say or do anything in pursuit of that power. He is not a new kind of politician but just a typical old school far left radical with a soaring oratory when reading from a script. It is the unscripted moments that show just who he is as he umms and ahs and flops around on issues dependent on who he is speaking to, oftentimes not saying anything with a lot of words.
Update: Don't miss this great column on Obama's outsized ego by Jonah Goldberg, like his decision to deliver his acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium intstead of the Pepsi Center in Denver.

Obama says he wants to give the common folk more "access" to the process. Only a man with an Olympian's sense of entitlement to mass worship could describe such a choreographed descent upon a place called "Mile High" as an effort to bond with the common man. A demigod, it seems, is never so tall as when he stoops to bask in the adoration of the little people.

Mike Yon Is Abroad Again

His latest dispatchs are from Thailand where he was trying to get into Myanmar to document the aftermath of cyclone Nargis and the devastation it wreaked on the people there. He was denied a visa of course but a friend of his was able to get in and took some pictures and Mike wrote up the sad story in his latest post. The military Junta that governs Myanmar has largely abandoned the people there and has refused almost all outside relief efforts to get aid to those suffering. The news is grim and disturbing as are some of the pictures but it is a must read piece if you wish to understand how horrible the situation really is.

Saturday Fun

I got this from MKH, its been going around but she has more on the creators and more videos by them.
Nozzlerage

This one is from Newsbusters by Minnesotans For Global Warming they had another cute video I posted a while back.

The Difference In The Leftosphere And The Rightosphere

It shows especially when a well know person becomes ill or passes away. When Senator Kennedy was recently diagnosed with brain cancer bloggers and commentators on the right expressed condolences for his family and wished him well in his fight or said nothing at all. Today when Tony Snow passed and last week when former Senator Jesse Helms did the left, the kind and caring creatures that they are, has a hatefest. They seem to get into a competition to see who can post the most boorish, profane and hatefilled comments. Protien Wisdom has a round up of some of the crude bile being spewed by those charming compassionate kooks at the Daily Kos and HuffPo shut off comments to a post about Tony's passing after her experience with those intellectual heavyweights when Tony announced he had cancer. Even the AP made some snide comments in their reporting. Geez don't those folks know that old rule, if you don't have something nice to say, say nothing at all, it is one thing to disagree with someone and another to be a boorish ass. It just goes to show that those who claim to be the kind and gentle souls based in reality are really just juvenile punks living in their lalaland.

Godspeed Tony Snow

His cancer finally caught up with him, dang, he was such a good and decent man an icon for all that is good and right. Through his battle he never wavered and taught us all to embrace life not just in this world but in the next. He will be sorely missed. My prayers go out to his wife and children. I know how they feel in a personal way having lost my father to cancer much to soon. I found this excerpt of an article Tony wrote for Christianity Today over at Michelle's.

Blessings arrive in unexpected packages—in my case, cancer.
Those of us with potentially fatal diseases—and there are millions in America today—find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God’s will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence What It All Means, Scripture provides powerful hints and consolations.

The first is that we shouldn’t spend too much time trying to answer the why questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can’t someone else get sick? We can’t answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer.
I don’t know why I have cancer, and I don’t much care. It is what it is—a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out.

But despite this—because of it—God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don’t know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.

Second, we need to get past the anxiety. The mere thought of dying can send adrenaline flooding through your system. A dizzy, unfocused panic seizes you. Your heart thumps; your head swims. You think of nothingness and swoon. You fear partings; you worry about the impact on family and friends. You fidget and get nowhere.

To regain footing, remember that we were born not into death, but into life—and that the journey continues after we have finished our days on this earth. We accept this on faith, but that faith is nourished by a conviction that stirs even within many nonbelieving hearts—an intuition that the gift of life, once given, cannot be taken away. Those who have been stricken enjoy the special privilege of being able to fight with their might, main, and faith to live—fully, richly, exuberantly—no matter how their days may be numbered.

We would all do well to take those words to heart.

The Call Of The Wild

Jack London's book was/is one of my all time favorites and I do know that call, it is over whelming and powerful. There is nothing like the feeling of being immersed in God's creation, cut off from all that is modern man's creation of concrete jungles. A cinematic version is playing tonight so I am of course watching and dreaming. I may go by the screen name of Goat but a wolf's spirit runs through my heart and has for as long as I can remember.

DDD Nancy Pelosi Says Drilling For Oil Is A Republican Hoax

I swear you can't make this stuff up, here is the video of Don't Drill Democrat San Fran Nan calling drilling for domestic oil supplies a hoax.

(HT: Gateway Pundit who has more)
Her plan to ease the fuel price crunch, federal sudsidies, er taxpayer dollars, for public transportation but drilling for oil and expanding refinery production is just a Republican hoax. Nancy I can't do my job riding the bus and that is no hoax.
Meanwhile more and more members from her caucus are coming over to the GOP side of the aisle in support of more domestic energy production, AKA drilling for oil.
My continued pounding on this issue got noticed by Jane Van Ryan of the American Petroleum Institute and host of Energy Tomorrow radio who emailed me with some interesting links to some fact sheets that they have put out, here and here
Here is an audio of her and Doug Morris API's group director answering some questions about energy production and busting Democrats' myths.

And here.

So You Think You Can Dance Barnyard Review

I enjoy the show eventhough I cannot dance at all mainly because I find the hostess Cat Deeley incredibly hot, a gorgeous gal with a British accent, ouch. I also appreciate the athleticism of the dancers and the dedication it requires for such little return much like track and field athletes. I know I would love to learn some of the classic dances especially the latin ones like the Tango and Rumba in part because I love the music that inspires them as well as the purely classical dances for the same reason. I am not much for modern dance bred from the hip hop culture but I do find some of the moves quite amazing, some of it is simply unreal. I don't have a favorite couple since I really don't know what is good or bad but I will watch so I can look at Cat and hear that delicious accent, the other gals are pretty hot as well.

Phill Gramm On The Economy

McCain's economic advisor gave some serious straight talk on the economy to the Washington Times and while he is technically correct he pointed his finger at the wrong people as Ace points out. The MSM has been whining about the economy under Bush since he took office and has basically brainwashed the public into believing it despite seven years of continued growth. We have NOT been since the end of the Clinton era and are NOT now in a recession. A recession is signalled by two quarters of contraction in the economy not a slowing of the growth of it and we have expanded every quarter since the Bush tax cuts took effect. This is what Phill Gramm said in the interview.

In an interview with the Washington Times, Phil Gramm, a former Texas senator who is now vice chairman of UBS, the giant Swiss bank, said he expects Mr. McCain to inherit a sluggish economy if he wins the presidency, weighed down above all by the conviction of many Americans that economic conditions are the worst in two or three decades and that America is in decline.
“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. “We may have a recession; we haven’t had one yet.”
“We have sort of become a nation of whiners,” he said. “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline” despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.
“We’ve never been more dominant; we’ve never had more natural advantages than we have today,” he said. “We have benefited greatly” from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

I agree with Ace that the American people are not whiners but the talking heads and writers for the MSM certainly are with the exception of a very few like Larry Kudlow who has called our expansion over the last few years "the greatest story never told". Now if we could just keep a few hundred billion dollars in America and create hundreds of thousands of new high paying jobs for our citizens by expanding domestic oil production America will quickly boom again.
Obama had some snide condescending remarks to add but has offered no real solutions to the very real problems we face besides higher taxes and more government interference in the economy.

Iranian Missile Tests

They may very well have conducted some missile tests over the last couple days but the pictures they released to the media are either photoshopped or from a previous test as Gateway Pundit and Little Green Footballs have pointed out. Of course western media ran with the propaganda from the Iranian regime and now have rotten egg all over their faces and have had to backtrack once again. What happened to all those layers of fact checking and editorial review? Once again pajama clad bloggers have exposed the MSM for what they are, dupes and useful idiots for muslim propaganda. Jim points out that the pictures used by Iranian media are from 2007 and Charles points out the obvious photoshop used to cover a failed launch. Why does the Iranian regime need to use old pictures or faux pictures if their tests were legit or successful? Regardless they still need to be taken seriously as these are long range ballistic missiles capable of hitting Israel and Europe and thus the need for a missile defense system.
The State Department has inked deals with Poland and the Czech Republic for radar and missile stations and Israel is actively working on their own version that will also protect against the short range missiles and mortars fired from Gaza and Lebanon.
John McCain gets it right but Obama still wants to negotiate with Tehran even though continuing negotiations have gotten nowhere with the mad mullahs and their nut job president. We need missile defense in face of the threats and this is what Obama has said in the past about it.

I wonder when Obama is going to refine those statements.
Update: Related article at Human Events on whether Israel will hit Iran soon.

Cool Contrast Video

I had to snag this from my buddy Gayle, it gave me chills.

FISA Reform Passes The Senate 69-28

This is the so called domestic wiretap/spying bill so derided by the moonbats that want to be free to talk to terrorists over seas. It passed with retroactive immunity to telecom companies that have helped the government track terrorists' communications after 9/11 and that of course has the moonbats and the trial lawyers all upset since they were ready to sue for billions for alleged invasions of privacy. I am notoriously anti big brother government as a small (l) libertarian but this does not bother me at all since I am not trying to call terrorists over seas and they are not trying to call me and I actually support the measure as a needed tool in our fight against them.
KERSPLAT, that is the sound of thousands of moonbat Obama supporter's heads exploding as he had promised them to filibuster telecom immunity and he ended up voting yes on the bill to avoid appearing weak. Hillary kneecapped him by voting no as she leapfrogged him to the left. I tell you what for a stupid lame duck President and minority GOP Congress they sure have run circles around the Democrats on war funding and this. I wonder who looks stupid now in the eyes of the moonbats. I don't link to moonbat sites but LGF reports here and here that they are seeeeething with rage at Kos, HuffPo and mybarackobama, ha, let them rage its good theater.
The Democrat convention is going to be a sight to be seen for sure after this so break out the popcorn, Obama's mass rally at Mile High stadium just might turn into a mass riot ala Chicago 40 years ago. Obama just threw his entire nutroot base under the bus in his cynical move to the center, what a neophyte.
Cap'n Ed has more here and here and Michelle here.

Talk About Nasty Air

The smoke here in the Sacramento valley is so thick it resembles the fog that envelopes the area in the winter. One of the major fires is about 45 minutes north of me and threatening the quaint little town of Paradise though it is hardly that at this time. This is largely a result of four decades of failed forestry policies brought on by all the environmentalists out here that have largely stopped all logging and forest thinning. I spend a lot of time in our bountiful forests and I can attest to the fact that they are grossly over grown thus causing these fires to burn much more intensely than they normally would. I know I would prefer to visit a forest that has been properly logged than one that does not exist at all because of fire and won't recover for decades because of the heat that these fires are burning with. They are basically sterilizing the ground which prevents even grass from taking root.
I just heard on the news that Paradise is being evacuated. Dang, it is such a pretty, ideallic little town and a very good friend of mine and his family live there. I call on my readers to send their prayers for those 10,000 residents, they need them.

Interesting Energy Plan

Via Weekly Standard, T Boone Pickens is an oil man and this makes some sense along with tapping our vast natural reserves of natural gas as an alternative to petroleum to fuel our vehicles. Some of us can't simply switch to a tiny electric car since a truck capable of hauling large or heavy loads is essential to our business.

I am not a big fan of wind farms since they are ugly, ask Ted Kennedy(D), but they are better than nothing. As the GOP is pushing we need to do all of it, increase domestic oil and natural gas production, improve wind and solar technology, clean coal and coal gassification, improve efficiency to aid conservation and build nuclear plants but the Democrats fight all of it.

Obama,"Your Kids Should Learn Spanish"

With some 80% of the American people believing that English should be the official language of the US this should go over like a lead balloon. Via Hotair.

Learning a second language is a good idea but English should be the official language of government and business.

I Agree With Her

Via Townhall blog is this clip of a McCain townhall meeting and I am glad McCain agrees with her too.

Democrats Stuck On Stupid In Regards To Energy Policy

Today House leader Nancy Pelosi(D) called on President Bush to open our Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to relieve the price at the pump while refusing to tap our domestic oil reserves like ANWR, the OCS and oil shale formations. It is no wonder Congress only has a 9% approval rating when they refuse to act in the interest of the American people. The SPR holds less than 800 mil. barrels and is meant for exactly as it is named and not for release to relieve the price at the pump, it is for the military as a strategic asset to protect us. Meanwhile our domestic sources hold enough to keep the US going for at least another century and definately till some sort of viable alternative can be developed. The Democrats say it will take to long to bring those new sources online to make any difference in the price today but that is a myth as any future increase in supply will put downward pressure on the futures market that is driving the price today plus oil companies say many of those sources could be pumping in as little as two years not 7-10. The Investors Business Daily has a great article dispelling several myths that the Democrats are attempting to pedal to the American people as we suffer through this rapid rise in energy prices that is trickling through the rest of the economy. Yes, the Democrats are stuck on stupid and that is a fact.

ACORN Up To Its Usual Voter Fraud Shenanigans Again

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, a lefty organizing group that helped Obama get his start is up to its old voter fraud tricks again in Nevada and Pennsylvania. They are active in the get out the vote efforts for Democrats and have been busted several times for fraud and are under suspicion again. It is ironic that a group that has 'Reform Now' as part of its name would engage in illegal voter registration fraud on an ongoing basis. Michelle Malkin has been reporting on them for years now and points to the latest two stories here and here, she says this will be a regular feature at her site from now on.
From the Las Vegas Review Journal:

Lomax said while he supports the goal of getting more people registered to vote, he sees rampant fraud in the 2,000 to 3,000 registrations ACORN turns in every week.

“Whenever people get paid to register voters, those individuals have an incentive to meet their quota, and that results sometimes in people doing things they shouldn’t,” Lomax said.

His office sends out thousands of letters based on registration applications that don’t have valid addresses or Social Security numbers, or have other suspicious irregularities.

The office also receives frequent complaints from people who have been notified of changes in their registration that they say they didn’t make.

From Patriot News in Pa:

A voter registration drive by a national organization is being investigated by Dauphin County authorities after election officials raised questions about more than 100 of the forms.

Michelle also reports that ACORN receives taxpayer funds to help supposedly help minorities and the poor get mortgages. She has tons of links and other info on ACORN and their connections to Obama.
This reminds me of Hugh Hewitt's book about Democrat's voter fraud and cheating "If Its Not Close They Can't Cheat".

The RNC Has Come Out Of The Corner Punching Hard

Here is their latest ad about Obama. I guess the change we can believe in is that Obama will change his positions as many times as he needs to in order to fool enough people to vote for him.

(HT: Hotair)
I might as well add McCain's latest ad to this post as well.

Of course Obama has many of those radicals from the late '60s in his camp while McCain was serving his country they were serving LSD and marijuana and tearing apart the social fabric of America.

Congressional Approval Ratings Hit Single Digits

The latest Rasmussen poll shows that just 9% of the people think the Democrat lead Congress is doing a good job. When the Democrats came into power they promised to work for the American people and while energy prices have doubled with the effect of that trickling through the rest of the economy under the lead of Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. What have they done? They held hearings on steroid abuse in baseball, renamed some Post offices, held endless hearings on the war, stonewalled on protecting America and spent money by the pork barrelfull and they want us to give them a larger majority so they can fix things, yeah right. The GOP needs to hang this around the Dems neck and drive the point home.
It seems to me that the Democrats are doing their darndest to ruin the economy in the hopes that Americans are stupid enough to give them full power over it. The economy was doing very well till they took over and it has been slowing down ever since and all they want to do is increase taxes and regulations that will further hurt the economy. They have done nothing that will actually help the American people like opening up our oil reserves or making the taxcuts permanent. The GOP had better wake up and sieze all the issues the Dems are handing them this cycle and we can regain control and actually get something done for the people.

Mangy Moonbat Alert

Some brave moonbat left a derogatory comment on an archived post challenging me to post the comment so I will do him one better and devote a post to it. He is so brave that he posted as anonymous, that takes real courage. You could see the testosterone oozing from his mommy's basement with this oh so cute comment.

You are a coward. Want to fight a real man? Post this comment, and let me know the time and place you would like to receive your thrashing. But you're just a chicken hawk, aren't you?

Fucking retardican gun nut, cowering under your blankets after pissing in your bed.

Your time is ending.

A real creative genious isn't he? If he wants to try and find the Barnyard I will happy to show him why I own guns, so I can fill his testosterone oozing self with rocksalt and ease some of that pressure he feels to be so cool.

Documenting Obama's Flip Flops

Barack Obama in his dash to the center after running his primary to the left of Hillary has changed or moderated his views so many times in such a short period of time that I don't know if documenting them can be done. He is spinning so fast on issues like FISA, gun control, abortion, the death penalty, and even the war in Iraq that he makes John Kerry look like a statue by comparison. He is starting to remind this country boy of what we call grunts, young catfish that grunt when caught, in the way he flops around when removed from the water and tossed on the dock. Take Obama away from his teleprompter and adoring spasmodic crowds and he is just like that catfish out of water with a stream of umms and ahhs resembling the grunts of the baby catfish. I can't keep up with all his flopping around and would just as soon toss him back because he sure ain't a keeper.
Anyway Patterico is attempting to compile and document all of Obama's recent flips and flops, one daunting task, and he has asked for help from his readership. If anybody can pull it off it is Patterico. He offers this as an example.

Flip: Obama says the health exception for late-term abortions has to be a serious physical issue:

I have repeatedly said that I think it’s entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don’t think that ‘mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.

Flop: the health exception can include non-physical issues like mental diseases:

My only point is that in an area like partial birth abortion having a mental, having a health exception can be defined rigorously . . . It can be defined through physical health. It can be defined by serious clinical mental health diseases.

Barack also voted against the "Born Alive Act" as an Illinois State Senator that would protect those babies that survived abortive attempts and were born anyway, he also opposed the partial birth abortion ban which is basically being supportive of infanticide. I am not big on social conservative issues like abortion but those stances are thoroughly disgusting even to this grouchy old goat.

Yep, The Brits Have Lost It

I saw this a couple places and it has drawn appropriate scorn. The PC police in Britain are now targeting toddlers for racism if they don't like food from a different culinary tradition from their own. You just can't make stuff like this up, from The Telegraph.

The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age...

The guide goes on to warn that children might also "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying 'yuk'".

I guess that makes me one of the least racist people around then because I love to try foods from other countries, most I like. I love Asian cuisine, especially Thai and Japanese. Mexican is a dietary staple for me as is Italian and Cajun. I was raised on soulfood and I am white as it gets which is really just country cookin'. I guess my least favorite is that bland overcooked slop they offer as food at places like Hometown Buffet and some of that wierd stuff the French like to call haute cuisine. I am not a picky eater and from what Mom tells me I never have been, in fact I can think of only a couple things I flat out don't like that I have tried.
By the way what would be American food besides wild game roasted over an open fire and that is pretty universal?

We Are Winning In Iraq

Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki is saying the terrorists are defeated and that we are just mopping up stragglers of the beaten insurgency. I know this story will barely dent the US MSM that has been so heavily invested in our defeat as a way to tarnish George Bush but the Times of London is not so shy about reporting it and even the AP has had to admit it. Al Qaeda has suffered a gut busting defeat in Iraq and lost many thousands of fighters while turning the people against them. If we had retreated in defeat like the Democrats and Obama have wanted then we would have handed a strategic victory to AQ like we did when Clinton ran from Somalia in the '90s. I know this has got to be disheartening to all those moonbats out there that have protested their poor little hearts out. Heck all this success even has Obama flopping around on the issue like a fish out of water much to the consternation of his nutroots base. President Bush and John McCain have been vindicated in their support for the surge in forces and Gen. Petraeus will go down as one of the top leaders in military history. Those surge forces are now coming home in honor and victory not shame and defeat.
(HT: Gateway Pundit and Hotair)

New RNC Ad, "Balance"

Its a pretty good ad and the GOP is pushing an all of the above energy policy because we do need to do all the above. We do need to be developing alternative sources of energy but until they can be developed to the point where we are not so dependent on oil we need to tap our domestic reserves. We need nuclear energy as the cleanest most efficient form there is. While I disagree with the notion of anthropogenic climate change we cannot let the Democrats own the debate over what to do or not do to address pollution problems. Democrats and Obama just want to tax, regulate, and mandate, Republicans believe free market forces will achieve clean and green technology while not damaging the economy in the process. Plus drilling for own oil, building nuclear plants and developing clean coal tachnologies would keep hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the US economy and create hundreds of thousands of good high paying jobs for our citizens, it just makes sense.

Happy Birthday America

Two centuries and thirty two years ago our original Patriots signed the document that birthed the greatest nation in all of history, our Declaration of Independence. My family arrived from Scotland on the shores of what is now Boston in 1623 seeking freedom from the Crown so this day is poignant for me.

Nothing like a little Ray Charles to celebrate to.

Just Some Pictures Of America

Pregnant "Man" Gives Birth

For God's sake it is a freaking WOMAN that was disturbed enough to have her tits cut off but she is still a WOMAN a GIRL a FEMALE , men can NOT get pregnant. I wish the news would be honest for a change but I will not hold my breath. Any fool that has a 2nd grade education will know that only a FEMALE can give birth and I don't give a damn how it is legally recognized. Thomasina is still and will always be a FEMALE no matter how much surgery and hormones are taken. I could have my penis cut off, have silicone tits installed and take a ton of estrogen but I will never be able to give birth because I am a MAN, a MALE. I am so sick of the moral relativism so prevalent in the MSM that calls this very disturbed WOMAN a man I could scream. SHE is one very disturbed WOMAN and I feel for the kid and what she will go through growing up.

Yes We Are Winning

Despite the best efforts of a horribly biased MSM we are not only winning the war in Iraq we are beating back their mantra of global warming and not tapping our domestic resources for energy. All recent polls show increasing majorities support drilling in ANWR, off the coast and developing the massive reserves held in the Green River oil shale formation but the Democrat leadership in Congress continues to stall and obfuscate over lifting the lunatic bans on drilling. They continue to promote the pie in the sky myth of a new form of alternative energy being just around the corner if we only threw more taxpayer money at it while reasoning that it would take five years for that oil to reach the market. Well it will take far longer for those alternative sources to be developed that can replace oil, coal and natural gas than for us to keep our economy healthy by developing what we have now. There is no miracle cure to our dependence on oil coming anytime soon, maybe in a couple decades at best and until then we will still need the energy, not only that but there are other products we use every day that depend on the byproducts of refining oil into gas, like plastic and cosmetics.
Most liberal greenies are still stuck in the late '60s and early '70s before technology had advanced nuclear power and drilling to a much more safe and environmentally friendly state that we have now. For example, not a drop of oil was spilt by gulf oil rigs despite the ferocity of hurricanes Rita and Katrina and there has not been a nuclear accident since Chernobyl, an unshielded Russian contraption. They love to promote electric vehicles but fail to note that those batteries contain heavy metals that must be mined, the ore processed, refined and manufactured into batteries that requires massive amounts of energy generating a lot of much worse gasses than refining petroleum does while also despoiling the planet. Do they think those batteries are produced from thin air? What about the costs of replacement and recycling?
As usual the liberals get stuck on stupid in their pipe dreams and fail to think ahead while living in a what feels good now moment of unenlightened idiocy clouded by all the marijuana smoke and acid hallucinations fueled by to much cocaine. If they want to live in a world free of the greenhouse gasses that make planet earth green and habitable I suggest we send them all to Mars.

Murder in Jerusalem

The "peace of Islam" has once again reared its ugly head, this time in the streets of Jerusalem. A rabid, murderous Arab went on a deadly killing spree with a tractor on the crowded streets of Jerusalem. This cruel and evil person killed three woman, and injured tens. In his rampage, a baby was thrown from a car by its mother to save it from being killed. Today, new names are added to the list of Jewish orphans and widows from Islamic terror.

The attacker, may his name be blotted out, was the father of two, had a family, a job and a life yet he preferred to throw it all away for the ultimate goal of killing Jews. It was irrelevant to him that his two children will be now fatherless, and his wife a widow, since his offspring probably are celebrating his "martyrdom" and wish to follow in his example. The terrorist was a member of the vile pseudo-nation known as the "Palestinians", a people so odious and evil which worship nothing but death and hatred. This is a society which raises its kids with the idea that the highest goal is to murder in the name of their sick god. Children are indoctrinated to view Jews as subhuman and are encouraged to grow up to be suicide bombers. Their society is so depraved in that it values death above life and abuses its children by teaching them only to kill. It has contributed nothing to the world, cannot build but only destroy. According to witnesses, the terrorist screamed "Allahu Ackbar" before he was shot by an off-duty policeman-- G-d is great! How sick is that? What kind of deity demands the blood of defenseless women and children? All those who believe that Jews and Muslims worship the same G-d are false. The god of Islam is evil, perverted and demonic. It is no god. In his name, yeshiva students are gunned down, children trampled and babies shot by snipers. There can be no peace with this vile nation. They have been taught and brain-washed that Jews are evil and that killing them pleases their satanic god. They violate every sort of agreement or treaty made with them. But a few hours after the beginning of the supposed "calm" between Israel and Hamas, the barbarians were firing rockets at Sderot schools and homes. Their depraved society knows nothing but war and mayhem. The streets of Gaza are overflowing with sewage because the pipes were used to build missiles with which to maim and murder Jews. How can we continue to tolerate them and to show them mercy? They violate all forms of human decency and moral codes. Their only code is to slaughter to satiate their monstrous god. This is the epitomy of "Palestinian" heroism: the cold-blooded slaughter of innocent civilians.

The bulldozer belonged to the construction company which the murderer worked for. He was an Arab from East Jerusalem and held an Israeli ID card. When will we stop being stupid and sacrificing Jewish lives at the altar of political correctness? Arab labour must be forbidden. The Arabs are our enemies and it makes no sense militarily to allow them access to Israeli society. In the brutal terror attack last March, it was an Arab driver who worked for the yeshiva who gunned down 8 students in the library at Mercaz HaRav. In the past, "Israeli" Arabs have plotted to poison the foo at Israeli restaurants, have assisted terrorists and have collaborated many times with Hamas and other terror organizations. The early pioneers who founded the State instituted policies of avodah ivrit, Jewish labour, for practical and ideological reasons. They felt that if the Jews were to strengthen their bond with the Land of Israel and to revive their ancient homeland, they would need to rely on their own strengths and not on the Arabs. The Jewish State could not be built by Arab labour. Besides this, the Arabs who defended the settlements often times stole from them and were useless in the event of an attack. Today, we cannot have a self-sufficient society if all of the Jews are doctors, lawyers and businessmen and the Arabs serve as cheap manual labour. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court banned all forms of avodah ivrit and forbade contracting government jobs to firms which only hired Jews. How many more examples do they need of Arabs who have access to Jews in compromising positions being involved in terror attacks to learn? The Arab workers are a Trojan horse, aiming to destroy Israeli society from within. How many more dead Jews, orphaned children and widowed mothers? Is Jewish blood that cheap?

We know, due to our weak and spineless leaders, there will be no retaliation. The family of the murderer will be allowed to hold a mourning tent from their shaheed and the Israel government will wrangle its hands in indecision. There will be no military action to end the attacks or to restore the pride of Israel. The Arabs laugh at Israel' weakness. Any mercy that Israel's leaders feel towards the Arabs is not indicative of higher moral standing; it is the mercy of fools. It is foolish and dangerous to allow this fifth-column to live among us and to have access to Israel's soft underbelly. They are pure evil, dedicated to wiping us out. They are so brazen as to proudly show the media their hands dripping with Jewish blood. They feel no shame or guilt at this but seek to garner the world's sympathy and support. Silently, the world smiles as Jews are murdered and shuts its eyes. There will no condemnation from the UN. I wonder how many of those who protested Israel's accidental killing of terrorism supporter Rachel Corrie, when she dove in front of a bulldozer trying to level a terrorist's house. The Israeli bulldozer did not see the terrorist-loving fool, but the attacker in Jerusalem aimed directly for the most vulnerable. Of course, people will find an excuse or a rationale for this cold-blooded murder. It's the "Occupation", Israel' genocidal policies, "Apartheid", oppression, poverty, racism. The only thing that will not be named is the "Palestinian" culture committed to death.

Cross-posted from For Zion's Sake

Obama, Ayers And Dohrn

Good little video to remind folks about Obama's friends and neighbors, via Tigerhawk.

McCain was living at the Hanoi Hilton being tortured by his hosts while Obama was attending a muslim school in Indonesia when Ayers and his wife were blowing up things in the US and rioting in the streets.

Hitting A Hippy's Nerves

Yesterday I wrote about an article by Daniel Flynn that looked at the history of radical student groups from the '60s and their founder's history and connections to or support for Barack Obama. It must have hit a nerve as Carl Davidson left a comment on the post, yes this Carl Davidson, his comment follows.

Then there’s Carl Davidson, who was one of SDS’s three elected national officers in 1968, when the organization first urged young people to refrain from voting. His disillusionment with traditional politics became so pronounced that, in the post-sixties hangover that followed, Davidson joined Klonsky in rejecting traditional politics for fringe Marxist movements. More recently, he helped organize the 2002 rally in which Obama first spoke out against the Iraq War and now serves as the webmaster of Progressives for Obama. “The last thing we need is a simple repeat of 1968, which saw Nixon and the new Right as an outcome, as well as the defeat of [Humphrey],” Davidson contends. “One thing I’ve learned. Social change is not made by elections, but it certainly proceeds through them, not by ignoring them or chasing the illusion of end runs around them.”

He desparately tries to cover for his hopeness Obama but I don't buy it one bit, here is his comment/obamafuscation. Yea I can make up words, shush.

This crap is just silly.

Yes, I met Obama in 1995, along with some ACORN ladies, for less than an hour. I later lobbied him to spend some state money on learning centers with computers for inner city kids, which he did. I was one of several inviting him to speak at our first antiwar rally, but never talked to him that day. A little later, I said hello to him at a fundraiser for his senate race for two minutes.

That the complete total of my 'connections'.

I'm an 'acquaintance,' not a 'friend' and if he even remembers my name at all, it's because of bugging him to spend money on the learning centers.

Today I run 'Progressives for Obama', a web site completely independent of him. We distance ourselves from him, and he can do likewise. Technically, we don't even endorse him; we simply say he's our 'best option.' So there's no need for him to reject what's not there. We do want people to vote for him, mainly as a way to end this horrible, unjust and stupid war. But we criticize him on many things all the time

But if you look out there in rightwing cyberspace, I'm the dreaded 'terrorist' and 'Communist Mentor' responsible for shaping the 'Marxist Obama.' I kid you not.

And this crap gets bounced around as 'Research' and 'Fox-Hannity truth.' Spare me. These guys have such tiny brains that they wouldn't know serious research or polemic if they saw it.

With my trusty Google, and six degrees of separation, I can show 'connections' between this author and advocates of Biblical slavery and worse, and it would mean just as much.

What he really wants to do is 'Willie Hortonize' the entire 1960s new left, which number in the millions, and 'demonize' them to shut them up.

He doesn't even bother to ask the most interesting questions. Why is Bill Ayers a widely respected educator and school reformer, acknowledged and defended by even Mayor Daley, despite his over-the-top politics of 40 years ago? Or why Mike Klonsky is respected enough to be a voice on national commissions on prevent school violence? The irony is that none of these guys, including me, could give a hoot if Obama 'throws them under the bus,' because it's not about us, and never has been. Here, we're only scary, carefully made-up cartoons, with little connection with who we really are, designed to scare gullible people, to play all of you as suckers, and some of you are falling for it.

I've been part of the real Chicago left for decades, and believe me, Obama has never been part of it. He's a decent reformist liberal with ideas far removed from socialism or Marxism.

Obama is a 'high road' industrial policy capitalist and multipolar globalist--just read his Cooper Union speech a while back. Clinton is a garden-variety corporate liberal capitalist, which got her on the board of Walmart for years. And McCain is a US hegemonist and an unreconstructed neoliberal capitalist--'state all evil, market all good'--that kind that says 'We're in business to make money, not steel, so we'll gut these plants and speculate in oil futures, and the workers and towns be damned.' In other words, the ones who 'cut taxes' by putting everything on the China Visa card and got us into this mess.

Actually, truth be told, Obama's brand of capitalism is best for productive businesses, as opposed to many speculators, and does least harm to the working class. That doesn't mean we can't press him to be better at it, as in promoting and building infrastructure for new green businesses and green jobs for youth. All those solar panels and wave and wind turbines have to be built somewhere by someone.

If you want to criticize him, all this stuff is fair game, that is, if you want to get out of the nasty-name calling of the kindergarten sandbox and learn enough to play with the big kids, let alone the grownups.

But being enthralled by Mr. Flynn just means you have a ways to go.

The words of a commited communist Obama supporter that thinks we are being silly and considers Billy bomber Ayers to be a respectable person. To bad he doesn't have a grasp on reality since his wing of the party blocks all those solar and wind projects because they harm birds and desert rats. I guess all those drugs went to his head and he now lives in a fantasy land or should I say a yellow submarine with strawberry fields forever.

Energy Independence Day

Good web ad from American Solutions, yes we can become energy independant very quickly if we unleash the innovation and power of the American people and get the bureaucrats in the government out of the way.

The Drill Here, Drill Now petition now has well over 1.2 million signees and Politico reports that American Solutions is getting as many web hits as Moveon now. This is definitely an issue us bitter gun clinging conservatives can wrap our grubby paws around and pound the Democrats over the head with it.
One thing is for sure Newt Gingrich makes more sense than just about anybody else out there right now certainly more than this buffoon of a Senate leader, Harry Reid makes me sick.

Attention Harry, CO2 does not make us sick and the only thing it does to the environment is make the flora very happy and healthy giving the fauna more to eat. That is the weakest link in the whole global warming argument that CO2 is a pollutant when it is actually a very critical and vital natural part of our atmosphere. The earth was once much warmer with much higher levels of CO2 than we have now but then we had all those huge dinosaurs running around and we can't have that now can we.