Clueless Emma

Phrase of the Day April 2, 2009: Adolf Hitler

"My motto is: Destroy by all and any means. National  socialism will reshape the world."

Phrase of the Day: Adolf Hitler

"Only the warmongers think there will be war. I think there will be a long period of peace."

It must be Bush's fault, right?

Michelle Malkin asks what we're all thinking: will President Obama leave his 77-degree-heated Oval Office and visit the Kentucky ice storm disaster area?

Words of the Wise: Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson

Right now, it seems unlikely that anyone will ever long for “the good old days” when Bush II was president, although what happens in the future may alter our perceptions. If Barack Obama tries to conciliate Islamic militants and they, in turn, inflict a devastating strike on an American city, or if, in his zeal to be the second coming of FDR, Obama drives the economy into a second Great Depression, then the American people might gain a new-found appreciation for the presidency of George W. Bush.

Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson is a faculty member, economist, and contributing scholar with the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College

Ann Coulter Quote of the Day: December 18, 2008

...As long as Coleman maintains any lead at all, Republicans don't seem to care that Coleman's advantage is being shrunk by laughable ballot "discoveries" and disreputable standard-switching from precinct to precinct -- depending on which method of counting ballots is most advantageous to Franken.

Consider a few other chilling examples of Democrats thieving their way to victory over the years.

In 1974, Republican Louis Wyman won his race for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, beating Democrat John Durkin by 355 votes. Durkin demanded a recount -- which went back and forth by a handful of votes until the state's Ballot Law Commission concluded that Wyman had indeed won by (at least) two votes.

Wyman was certified the winner by the New Hampshire secretary of state and was on his way to Washington when ... the overwhelmingly Democratic U.S. Senate refused to seat Wyman.

Despite New Hampshire's certification of Wyman as the winner of the election, this was the post-Watergate Senate, when Democrats could get away with anything -- up to and including a prank known as "President Jimmy Carter."

The U.S. Senate spent months examining disputed ballots from the New Hampshire election. Unable to come up with a method to declare the Democrat the winner that didn't require a guillotine, the Senate forced New Hampshire to hold another election.

It was a breathtaking abuse of power. New Hampshire had certified a winner of its Senate election, but it was a Republican, so the Democratic Senate simply ordered a new election.

Demoralized Republicans stayed away from the race and, this time, the Democrat won the re-vote.

Even more egregious was the Indiana House race in 1984. On election night, the incumbent Democrat Frank McCloskey appeared to have won a narrow victory of 72 votes. But after a correction was made in one county, it turned out his Republican opponent, Richard McIntyre, had won by 34 votes.

McIntyre was certified the winner -- which is when the trouble usually starts for a Republican.

Again, a majority Democrat House refused to seat the certified winner in a close election. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that the winner was a Republican.

Consequently, Indiana performed yet another recount of the entire district, which again showed that Republican McIntyre was the winner -- this time by 418 votes. Now he was really asking for it. The nerve of this guy! Hey, buddy, do you mind? We're trying to throw an election over here!

As The Washington Post reported at the time: There were "no allegations of fraud" in the recount and 90 percent of ballot disqualifications had been agreed to "by election commissions dominated by Democrats."

So naturally the House refused to seat the Republican even though he had received the most votes (hereinafter referred to as "the winner"). The House proceeded to conduct its own recount....

This time, instead of ordering the district to hold another election, the Democratic House saved all concerned a lot of time and money by simply declaring Democrat Frank McCloskey the winner by four votes.

The vote-theft most like Minnesota this year was the infamous 2004 gubernatorial election in Washington State. The Republican won the race on election night, but ballots favoring the Democrat kept being "discovered" until the Democrat finally eked out a majority. At that point, the recount was immediately halted and the Democrat declared the victor.

You would have to go back to Reconstruction to find an election that was stolen by the Republicans this way, but it's all in a day's work for the Democrats.

That's why they were so testy about the 2000 Florida election. It was the one time in the last century Republicans wouldn't let Democrats steal an election they lost by less than a thousand votes.

No matter how many times Democrats steal elections, Republicans keep thinking the next time will be different. Minnesota is famously clean, isn't it? It must be different. It's not different. It's still the Democrats. 

www.anncoulter.com

"It is the religious duty of Democrats to rob Populists and Republicans of their votes whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself," a Louisiana daily announced in the mid-1890s. Overlooking any chance to do so would violate "Democratic teaching. . . . Rob them! You bet! What are we here for?" Such frankness was rare in the Gilded Age United States, but at times, to contemporaries, partisan forbearance seemed rarer still. As any Democrat, Republican, Populist, or Greenbacker knew to his own bitter cost, double-dealing, sharp practice, and outright stealing and cheating were parts of the election day game. Often the rigging of results could be done perfectly legally, and much of it was so ingrained in the workings of politics that the rival organizations took manipulation of the process as one of the privileges of incumbency.^{1
Mark Wahlgren Summers}

Total dead in Chicago over the summer double US death in Iraq

125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer

Total Is About Double The U.S. Troop Death Toll In Iraq

CHICAGO (CBS) ― An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.

In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 125 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

According to the Defense Department, 65 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.

 In the same time period, an estimated 247 people were shot and wounded in the city.

 Tracking Summer Shootings In Chicago

If Today's NYT editors were in charge in 1943

Sleazeballs. Is there nothing off limits in the mentally deficient Leftist mind?

From Michelle Malkin:

Former DNC chair Don Fowler (via redstate diarist Absentee, who caught Fowler and Democrat Rep. John Spratt’s candid, malicious comments on a plane from Denver to Charlotte.) Transcript via Ed Morrissey.

    The hurricane’s going to hit New Orleans about the time they start.             [Chuckle] The timing is — at least it appears now that it’ll be there Monday. That just demonstrates that God’s on our side. [Laughter] … Everything’s cool.

God is not on your side, gloating sleazeballs.

Prevailing In Afghanistan--excerpts

It has become a familiar refrain that America and its allies are “losing the war in Afghanistan.” But a closer look at developments on the ground tells another story.

At first glance, the report out of Afghanistan this week would seem to validate the defeatist outlook. On Monday, Taliban guerillas ambushed and killed ten French paratroopers, while affiliated suicide bombers staged a raid against a U.S army base. Such highly publicized attacks on NATO troops are part of the enemy’s strategy to undermine public support for the war in Europe.

...But the truth is that despite the media-savvy Taliban’s endeavors to impress the world with reports of successful operations, it is losing ground. For all intents and purposes, the Afghan war is what experts term a “low-intensity conflict.” And the statistics prove it.

After almost seven years, American combat deaths number 361. That is much lower than the combat death rate in both the Vietnam War and World War II. Altogether, including deaths by accident and sickness, about 500 Americans have died in Afghanistan since 2001. A military news site further reports that “gun battles with the Taliban are down fifty per cent this year.” Another hopeful sign is that fewer civilians, and more Taliban and al-Qaeda, are being killed.

...Why then is the popular perception of Afghanistan so bleak? One reason, surely, is the selective news coverage that fails to provide critical context to the fighting. Thus, while the New York Times has noted that 173 foreign troops have died so far this year in Afghanistan, a figure set to exceed last year’s total of 232 and the highest since 2001, the paper failed to point out how small that number is when compared to the number of NATO troops in Afghanistan. Dwelling on the negative, the Times also failed to mention other coalition successes and Taliban failures. For instance, despite the Taliban’s repeated threats of a “spring offensive” that will overrun Kabul, no such campaign materialized this year, a clear sign of the Taliban’s relative weakness.

Nor does the recent uptick in violence necessarily imply that the Taliban is resurgent. NATO forces are encountering more al-Qaeda fighters this year who were successfully defeated in Iraq and have now fled to Pakistan and Afghanistan in search of better prospects. The Pakistani army’s recent offensive against Taliban forces in that country’s tribal outlands suggests that the Taliban may also be hard-pressed on another front.

Indeed, just about the only area where the Taliban has enjoyed success is in its attacks on undefended schools. A German report shows that Taliban fighters staged 44 raids on schools last year alone and 440 such attacks have been registered since 2004. According to the report, such attacks have become a weekly occurrence. “It is better for my children if they live, even if they have to be illiterate,” one fearful father was quoted as saying. Having failed to drive out coalition forces, the Taliban is training its sights on that other threat to its theocratic vision: schoolchildren.

The Taliban does have one advantage: drugs. Afghanistan provides opium for 90 percent of the world market, and it is the enormous profits from this deadly business that fuel the war, providing the Taliban with money to buy weapons and hire fighters. Recognizing its importance, retired U.S. general and former NATO commander James L. Jones once called the Afghan narcotics trade “… the cancer that is eating Afghanistan inside out.” The point can be interpreted literally, since some Afghan government officials are involved, either directly or through bribes, with the drug gangs. For all of NATO’s successes, there will be no swift resolution to the war unless the drug trade stopped.

Real though they are, those challenges should not obscure the larger and more hopeful picture. Notwithstanding the relentlessly negative news narrative, coalition forces are slowly but surely defeating the Taliban. The terrorists may win the headlines, but the U.S. and its allies are winning the war.

Stephen Brown is a contributing editor at Frontpagemag.com. He has a graduate degree in Russian and Eastern European history. Email him at alsolzh@hotmail.com.

FOUR MONTHS FOR VICTORY

Last weekend Vets for Freedom welcomed eight Iraq War combat veterans home as we returned from serving as embedded correspondents with U.S. combat units. The seven combat vets and myself met with top commanders, the lieutenants and sergeants fighting on the ground, their Iraqi counterparts and ordinary Iraqi citizens.

We returned to Iraq as part of the Back--to--Iraq embed program sponsored by Vets for Freedom and National Review Online, The Weekly Standard and Blackfive. In doing so, each of us had the opportunity to assess the situation on the ground in cities like, Fallujah, Samarra and Baghdad. We posed tough questions to top commanders, scrutinized the implementation of General Petreaus' counterinsurgency plan and surveyed the impact that the Surge has had in Iraq.

Read Our Dispatches and Watch our Videos from the Frontlines Here

Pete Hegseth, VFF Chairman: Why Victory in Iraq Matters

David Bellavia, VFF Co-Founder: Diyala Surge

Ben Hayden, VFF Iowa State Captain: Interview with an Iraqi Translator

Two things were evident after having just returned from Iraq as an embedded correspondent: the surge is incontrovertibly working and in order to succeed in Iraq we have a limited window of opportunity in which to sustain the security gains that Americans and Iraqis have fought so hard for.

Immediately upon returning, Vets for Freedom co-founder and former Army Staff Sergeant David Bellavia and former Marine Corps Captain Erik Swabb participated in an Iraq Update Forum with one of Senator Barrack Obama's chief foreign policy advisors, Colin Kahl at the American Enterprise Institute. And, this morning David Bellavia was featured on C-SPAN's Washington Journal taking questions from viewers from around the nation.

Today, we urgently need your help in order to educate the American people about the importance of achieving victory in Iraq. Please sign up on the VFF website and let us know how you will help to inform your friends and neighbors about the phenomenal progress in Iraq and the need for victory on every front of the Global War on Terrorism!

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Joel Arends
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Texas school district allows teachers to pack heat!

[It's about time--we should all be ready and willing to stand up and protect the children]

"We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, 'What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?" he said. "It's just common sense."

Teachers who wish to bring guns will have to be certified to carry a concealed handgun in Texas and get crisis training and permission from school officials, he said.

Recent school shootings in the United States have prompted some calls for school officials to allow students and teachers to carry legally concealed weapons into classrooms.

The U.S. Congress once barred guns at schools nationwide, but the U.S. Supreme Court struck the law down, although state and local communities could adopt their own laws. Texas bars guns at schools without the school's permission.

ECONOMY REVISITED

Well, well...housing market isn't as bad as all the chicken littles claimed?? Hmmm...seems someone said that a few months ago but again, what do I know?

The thing is, the more "officials" harp about how bad the economy is, the more people think the economy is really bad--and as little as I understand about economics, it seems to me that just as in any hyper-press coverage of an event or situation, it can be exacerbated or alleviated by attending to inevitable gossip and rumors.

Of course some people want a terrible economy! It adds to the IHATEBUSH party!

But the fact is, y'all, it ain't so bad. So we're paying a lot for gas. But guess what? When I lived in Italy in 1993-96, Italians were paying $5 per gallon. 15 years ago! We have it so easy in America and yet we are such whiners.

Just enjoy the fact that y'all have the freedom to gripe...in English. And thank a soldier.

ARCHBISHOP LOBBIES FOR SHARIA LAW IN BRITAIN. SURE, WHY NOT CATER TO THE 2.7% ISLAMIC POPULATION? IT ONLY MEANS AN EXISTENCE OF SERVITUDE FOR ANYONE NOT MUSLIM.

The Archbishop of Canterbury came under fierce attack last night from the Government, his own Church and other religions after he advocated the adoption of parts of Sharia, or Islamic law, in Britain.

Leaders of all the main political parties made clear that they did not accept Dr Rowan Williams's assertion that the incorporation of some aspects of Sharia was "unavoidable".

Trevor Phillips, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, condemned his comments as "muddled and unhelpful" and one senior bishop said that he was "surprised and concerned" by Dr Williams's remarks.

Even the Muslim Council of Britain insisted that most members of the community did not want Sharia and emphasized that it had not discussed the issue.

Dr Williams argued, in a speech at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, for a "plural jurisdiction" that would allow Muslims to choose whether some legal disputes were resolved in secular or Sharia courts. He called for "constructive accommodation" over such issues as resolving marriage disputes.

There are nearly 1.6 million Muslims in Britain, representing 2.7 per cent of the total population. Sharia courts do exist, but they have no legal standing and their decisions are not binding.

Dr Williams said: "It seems unavoidable and, as a matter of fact, certain conditions of Sharia are already recognised in our society."

However, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said that British law must be based on British values. "Sharia cannot be used as a justification for committing breaches of English law, nor should the principles of Sharia be included in a civil court for resolving contractual disputes," he said.



[The Berean Call says: It is interesting that the liberal mindset that wanted freedom from the "legalism" of biblical Christianity" are so free to begin a process that will inevitably result in the harshest human laws devised by man.

We have since learned that the remarks by Dr Williams have stirred up a bit of a firestorm and he made the following statement:

"Williams insists his remarks were misinterpreted and that he was not advocating a parallel sharia jurisdiction for Muslims, but Lord Carey, his predecessor, warned acceptance of Muslim laws in Britain would be 'disastrous'."]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3342040.ece

A Response to Feminists on the Violent Oppression of Women in Islam

The David Horowitz Freedom Center has succeeded in putting the feminists and Islamists on the defensive. As David Horowitz and Robert Spencer note in the article below, the DHFC's exposure of the feminist movement's lack of attention to women's rights in the Muslim world has caused many of the movement's most prominent activists to sign a letter protesting that they originated concern fro Muslim women. The letter, drafted by feminist writer Katha Pollitt, has been signed by such notables as:

• Susan Faludi, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women, which argues conservatives are trying to suppress American womyn, and The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, which claims terrorism provided a handy excuse for the American Right to begin binding women's feet again;
• Julianne Malveaux, who expressed her feelings about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on PBS' To the Contrary, "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease"
• Jennifer Baumgardner, a Nation writer whose idea of fighting female oppression is staging productions of The Vagina Monologues;
• Dana Goldstein, an employee of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress and a writing fellow at the Soros-funded The American Prospect; and
• More than 700 more leftists.

The letter spread quickly, beginning on the website of the far-Left's flagship publication, The Nation. (The Nation's piece was also picked up by Yahoo News). Soon, it had been posted on Mother Jones, the Islamic Forum, the University of Maine, and many other sites -- including that of a woman named Heart who is running for president. Not all are pleased; at least one insists U.S. immigration laws and Israeli treatment of Palestinians are a more direct affront to women's rights than clitorectomies. (She asks, "Does Ms. Pollitt think that 'Muslim countries' are particularly hostile to women’s rights for some reason?") Nonetheless, the very fact that the Left, so long silent about the crimes countenanced by its Islamic partners in the antiwar movement, now feels that it must mount a rousing defense is a vindication of our efforts. -- The Editors.

This week, seven hundred feminists signed an Open Letter complaining that “columnists and opinion writers from The Weekly Standard to the Washington Post to Slate have recently accused American feminists of focusing obsessively on minor or even nonexistent injustices in the United States while ignoring atrocities against women in other countries, especially the Muslim world.”

We recognize this Open Letter as a delayed response to the Freedom Center’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which protested the silence of feminists over the “Oppression of Women in Islam” on campuses all over the country last fall, organized sit-ins at a dozen Women’s Studies Departments to protest the absence of courses and department-sponsored events confronting the issue, and made this a matter of national discussion and debate. This is why the signers of the Open Letter complain that “‘Women’s rights are human rights’ was not a slogan dreamed up by David Horowitz or Christina Hoff Sommers,” two of our speakers for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. (We never claimed it was.)

The signers of this Letter claim that, “contrary to the accusations of pundits,” they support Muslim feminists in “their struggle against female genital mutilation, ‘honor’ murder, forced marriage, child marriage, compulsory Islamic dress codes, the criminalization of sex outside marriage, brutal punishments like lashing and stoning, family laws that favor men and that place adult women under the legal power of fathers, brothers, and husbands, and laws that discount legal testimony made by women.”

Well, we welcome these avowals of support for the rights of Muslim women. However, forgive us for doubting their sincerity. As one of us pointed out in a speech given at the University of Wisconsin during Islamo-Fascism Week:

“One of our concerns … is the failure of the Women’s Studies Movement to educate students about these atrocities. There are probably 600 Women’s Studies programs on American campuses, which focus on the unequal treatment of women in society. We have had a very hard time locating a single class which focuses on the oppression of women under Islamic law.”
What was true last October is still true today. As recently as December 10, a Muslim teenager was strangled by her father for refusing to wear a hijab without a protest from the American feminist movement. And that is only one of many crimes committed in the name of Islam against Muslim women over which the feminist movement continues to be silent.

On New Year’s Day, Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were shot dead in Irving, Texas. Police are searching for their father, Yaser Abdel Said, on a warrant for capital murder. The girls’ great aunt, Gail Gartrell, told reporters, “This was an honor killing.” Apparently Yaser Said murdered his daughters because they had non-Muslim boyfriends.

The signers of the Open Letter say that they are against honor killing. Here is an honor killing in the United States. Where are these feminists on this issue? Why are they not supporting the hunt for Amina’s and Sarah’s killers and organizing a campaign in the Muslim community to stop such practices?

On Sunday, January 20, the New York Times published an article, “A Cutting Tradition,” which falsely described female genital mutilation practiced under Islamic law as “circumcision” and portrayed it in a generally positive light, and even warned against “blindly judging those who practice it.” The article made no mention of the physical effects of this barbaric practice, which affects 140 million Muslim girls who have their genitals sliced off yearly, and in some 15 million cases their vaginal tract sewn up. These effects, as enumerated by the British Medical Journal in 1993, are “Immediate physical complications include severe pain, shock, infection, bleeding, acute urinary infection, tetanus, and death. Long-term problems include chronic pain, difficulties with micturition and menstruation, pelvic infection leading to infertility, and prolonged and obstructed labor during childbirth.”

Where is the feminist outrage over the New York Times article? Where are the feminist demonstrations against this practice? Where are the campus teach-ins? Where are the candlelight parades? What Muslim organizations have been confronted for their complicity in this assault on female Muslim children? This is a horrific crime against the female gender -- global in extent -- and yet one would be hard-pressed to identify a single public event, protest or march organized by feminists to oppose it.

The Open Letter mentions the feminist “V-Day” organized to protest violence against women. We challenge the signers of this letter to identify the speeches given during “V-Day” that protested female genital mutilation in the Islamic world. We challenge them to identify the Vagina Monologue of Islamic misogyny.

We are encouraged by the fact that these American feminists feel the need to respond to our challenge over their silence as a movement on violence against Muslim women and to assert their opposition to these barbaric practices. We challenge them now to put actions behind their words.

Join us in sponsoring a campus tour on the Oppression of Women in Islam with speakers such as Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Form academic committees to provide curricula on these subjects in Women’s Studies courses. Devote a major segment of your V-Day demonstrations to the plight of Muslim women. Join us during Islamo-Fascism Week II this spring in appealing to campus Muslim organizations to condemn these practices.

Then we’ll know you’re serious.

MICHELLE MALKIN DOESN'T BELIEVE MIKE HUCKABEE

He’s an open borders drag queen, and he’s piling on the make-up and jewels again to disguise his pro-illegal immigration record in time for the South Carolina primary. The Washington Times reports that he has signed a NumbersUSA pledge to oppose any new shamnesty measures and reduce illegal immigration through attrition

OH, GEE--ONLY 1.2 BABIES MURDERED ANNUALLY!

The U.S. abortion rate has reached its lowest level in three decades, according to a new report released Thursday.

"We don't know why," said study author Rachel Jones, senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit group that focuses on reproductive issues. The findings will be published in the March issue of the institute's journal, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

The actual number of abortions dropped to a new low, with 1.2 million abortions in 2005, compared to a high of 1.6 million abortions in 1990.

WHOO-HOO! I'M WITH YA, GIRL--STILL LOOKIN' AND STILL WAITIN'! FORGET THE CLOWNS--BRING ON THE MEN (INTO THE WHITE HOUSE AND INTO MINE!)

I need a man. A man who can say “No.” A man who rejects Big Nanny government. A man who thinks being president doesn’t mean playing Santa Claus. A man who won’t panic in the face of economic pain. A man who won’t succumb to media-driven sob stories.

A man who can look voters, the media, and the Chicken Littles in Congress in the eye and say the three words no one wants to hear in Washington: Suck. It. Up.

MICHELLE MALKIN

JOHN WAYNE WOULD CLEAN UP WASHINGTON

ARIZONA'S TOUGHER IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE MAKING PEOPLE ANGRY

I SAY IT'S ABOUT TIME!

AND, AS MICHELLE MALKIN SAYS, WHOSE PROBLEM IS IT, ANYWAY?

YA THINK?

Freedom declined in 2007 for a second consecutive year as 36 percent of the people in the world — about half of them in China — were not living in freedom, according to a survey by a private democracy watchdog organization.

THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!

Food prices worldwide hit record highs in 2006, and all the signs are that they will go on rising this year, and for the foreseeable future. The era of cheap food, the experts say, is over and we are going to have to get used to it. This is easier said than done for millions around the world, as evidenced by protests in Mexico over the cost of corn tortillas, and in Italy last September about the price of (wheat) pasta.

Ms. magazine loves strong women, except…

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 11, 2008 03:25 PM

…if they’re from Israel.

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION AND LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE'S BIZARRO REAL LIFE COPY CAT

A bizarre investigation is underway in Hillsboro, after police said they were contacted by a family whose grandmother died during a recent road trip, yet they decided to keep driving with the body in thier RV until they reached Oregon.

MAN SHOT BY GUN DOG. I ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS A REASON I DON'T LIKE LABS. ALL THAT GOOFY, "WHICH WAY DID THEY GO" TOMFOOLERY IS JUST A COVER...

A man was killed after his dog stepped on a loaded shotgun in the back of a pick-up truck.

Perry Price, a 46-year-old math teacher, shot a goose then put his gun in the back of the truck where the dog was waiting to retrieve the bird.

"I've been in law enforcement 20 years and this is probably the strangest one I've had," said Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive.

Investigators found paw prints and mud from the dog, a chocolate Labrador retriever named Arthur, on the shotgun, LaRive said.

Price was taken to a local hospital, but died from a loss of blood after doctors were unable to revive him.

BILL CLINTON SOUNDS OFF

YAH, I KNOW THERE'S NO LINK.

WIMP RON PAUL'S RUN IMPRESSIVE? AT 10% TO ZERO? NOT SO MUCH, HON. NOT SO MUCH.

FROM JOHN FOUT @ TheStreet.com:

In my interview with Paul in New Hampshire, he seemed realistic about his chances. He understands that his campaign must continue to gather support in the polls, not just on the Internet. I asked him in particular whether he's a real conservative, because the word conservative has been used so liberally by all of the Republican candidates. [K, SO WHAT DID HE SAY?]

Conservative ideology prefers small government to big, free markets to regulation and nonintervention to alliances. Paul finds it hard to believe someone like Rudy Giuliani might be seen as the face of Republican Party.[I DISAGREE THAT CONSERVATISM IS PURE NONINTERVENTION. HISTORY DISAGREES, AS WELL] 

In New Hampshire, I also interviewed Paul's son, Rand Paul, who said not to rule out his father running as an independent. [AS IN AYN RAND? HAHA!! WELL, HE CERTAINLY IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE--HE'S FAR MORE A NUTJOB]

Ron Paul has overcome many challenges. He has gone from an obscure candidate with only a message to one with faithful supporters and millions of dollars on hand. [ANOTHER EMPTY STATEMENT. WHAT MESSAGE? OH, YEAH, THAT OBSCURE ONE. CONSPIRACY THEORIST AND UTOPIAMONGER.] But if he doesn't move higher than fourth or fifth place in the very near future [AS IF!], I see his campaign ending after Super Tuesday, Feb. 5.

No matter what happens in the next month, it will have been an impressive run.[IMPRESSIVE? ONLY INSOFAR AS RAISING MONEY. LOTS AND LOTS OF DOLLARS, AND FOR WHAT? A BIG WASTE. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD IT, BUT WHO GAVE HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS TO THE CAMPAIGN. WHY? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, REALLY, TO HAVE A LOT OF MONEY? IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT TRANSLATE TO VOTES, AS WE HAVE WITNESSED IN WIMP RON PAUL'S VERY POOR SHOWING. 1%? 8%? 10%? MIGHT AS WELL JUST BURN THE CASH. RATHER, I KNOW A DIVORCED SINGLE MOM LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM WHO REALLY COULD USE THE MONEY--AND IT WON'T BE THROWN AWAY ON SENSELESS UTOPIAN FANTASIES]

 

FROM MICHELLE MALKIN: DAILY KOS IDIOCRACY CALLING FOR ITS BLIND LUNATICS TO VOTE ROMNEY IN A WARPED ATTEMPT TO THROW THE PRIMARY

Markos Moulitsas, mainstream Newsweek columnist: In 1972, Republican voters in Michigan decided to make a little mischief, crossing over to vote in the open Democratic primary and voting for segregationist Democrat George Wallace, seriously embarrassing the state’s Democrats. In fact, a third of the voters (PDF) in the Democratic primary were Republican crossover votes. In 1988, Republican voters again crossed over, helping Jesse Jackson win the Democratic primary, helping rack up big margins for Jackson in Republican precincts. (Michigan Republicans can clearly be counted on to practice the worst of racial politics.) In 1998, Republicans helped Jack Kevorkian’s lawyer — quack Geoffrey Feiger — win his Democratic primary, thus guaranteeing their hold on the governor’s mansion that year.

With a history of meddling in our primaries, why don’t we try and return the favor. Next Tuesday, January 15th, Michigan will hold its primary. Michigan Democrats should vote for Mitt Romney, because if Mitt wins, Democrats win.

See Michelle Malkin's response and those of her readers HERE

SNOPES: NO NORTH AMERICAN UNION CONSPIRACY

READ HERE

NRA + WEAK FRONTRUNNERS = THOMPSON

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Fred Thompson is making a last stand in the Palmetto State and he’s counting on gun owners to deliver a high-profile victory to boost his foundering presidential campaign.

It’s a rescue mission that cuts both ways as Second Amendment advocates are struggling to find a champion of their own in the Republican presidential primary field.

Their quandary mirrors that of their social conservative brethren: hold their noses and vote for someone with, at best, a mixed record on their core issue but who might have a better shot at winning in November, or buck the polls and other early primary state results by backing a true believer.

SILLY SILLY SILLY

....A Missouri town is considering a law that would ban swearing in bars – along with table-dancing, drinking contests and 'profane music'.

St. Charles City Councilman Richard Veit said he was prompted to propose the bill after complaints about bad behaviour in bars. He says the bill - which would ban indecent, profane or obscene language, songs, entertainment and literature at bars - will give police some rules to enforce when things get too rowdy.

...Meanwhile in Huntington, New York, the town council is proposing a ban on a highly dangerous substance: Silly String.

The council believes that the amusing tendrils damage the paintwork on fire engines.

As such, they want to outlaw the tenuous ropes of frivolity at all 'parades, processions, fairs and expositions.'

UM. KOREAN SUBWAY DRIVERS SURE PUT UP WITH CRAP FOR A LONG TIME. OR LACK OF. WEIRD.

The Seoul subway authority will install toilets in drivers' compartments, after one of its engineers plunged to his death while apparently relieving himself from a moving train.

The Seoul Metro plans to provide nearly 400 toilets from this month in drivers' cabs, and increase the number of staff bathrooms at stations, a spokesman said on Thursday.

The incident that prompted the move took place in December when a driver, apparently suffering from diarrhoea, leaned out of his compartment and fell on the tracks. He was hit by another train, local media reported.

WELL, DUH--IF YOU WANT TO AVOID BEING SEARCHED IN AN AIRPORT, YOU HAVE TO DRESS LIKE A MUSLIM, NOT A "CHRISTIAN"

A man claiming to be a Catholic priest was arrested Friday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after he was caught carrying 7.7 pounds of cocaine under his robes, a spokesman for Dutch border police said.

He said the man, who was traveling from Bolivia, continued to insist he is a priest and did not confess any wrongdoing, arguing his rights had been violated by the search.

TEEN DERAILS TRAMS WITH RIGGED TV REMOTE

A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz into his own personal train set, triggering chaos and derailing four vehicles in the process. Twelve people were injured in one of the incidents.

The 14-year-old modified a TV remote control so that it could be used to change track points, The Telegraph reports. Local police said the youngster trespassed in tram depots to gather information needed to build the device. The teenager told police that he modified track setting for a prank.

UNLIKELY JANUARY TORNADO HITS THE UNLIKELY PACIFIC NORTHWEST TODAY

A tornado touched down in North Vancouver just after noon Thursday and then began moving to the northeast, ripping trees out of the ground, toppling power lines and tearing roofs off homes.

               

              

         

               

      

         KGW viewer captures tornado on camera      

    

               

No injuries were immediately reported but dozens of homes and businesses damaged. The boathosue at Vancouver Lake was completely demolished and many rowing shells badly damaged. A semi was also overturned several hundred trees toppled.

The tornado, classifed initially as an EF1 Tornado, hit at about 12:20 p.m. and was followed by several funnel clouds, which are twisters that remain above ground. An EF1 Tornado packs wind speeds between 86 and 100 mile per hour. 

 

    

 

Now they call the holy man Ilene? Peg?

Police in southern India are hunting for two men who attacked a Hindu holy man, cut off his right leg and then made off with it.

The 80-year-old holy man, Yanadi Kondaiah, claimed to have healing powers in the leg.

He is now recovering from his ordeal in hospital in the city of Tirupati in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Local people believed they could be healed of spiritual and physical problems if they touched his leg.

NORWAY HAS A MILITARY? AND ITS COLONEL IN CHIEF IS A PENGUIN?

Nils Olav received a promotion on Wednesday to Colonel in Chief of the Royal Norwegian Guard. Yes, this high rank in the Norwegian military has in fact been bestowed on a penguin.

WELL, DUH!

Men are not discriminated against by "ladies' nights" at Manhattan nightclubs, just as people in their 20s do not suffer because some restaurants let children eat for free or have "early bird" specials for older customers, according to nightclub lawyers fighting a federal lawsuit.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? WHERE ARE THE PINKOS, THE PRO-TROOP/ANTI-WAR ZEALOTS NOW? HAPPILY CELEBRATING IN PRIVATE, I'LL BET...

THE British army is losing the equivalent of nearly a battalion to illegal drug use every year, research shows.

Homosexuals Account for 29 Percent of Rape and Murder of Kids

29% of the 714 perpetrators who made the news for raping and killing children from 1980-2005 engaged in homosexuality.

600 (66%) of the 914 kids raped and murdered children were girls. Perpetrators were male 96% of the time.

The 209 homosexual perpetrators accounted for 40% of the victims – 9% of the girls and 99% of the boys.These findings -- from searching Lexis-Nexis from 1980-2005 -- uncovered 668 stories about the rape and murder of children in the major newspapers in the USA, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, etc.

In 2006, of the 86 perpetrators, 32 (37%) engaged in homosexuality, 98% were male, and killed 49% of the victims. A steady growth in the proportion of perpetrators who were boyfriends or stepfathers was noted.Sharing the findings with members and guests of the Christian Council of Britain, Dr. Paul Cameron, of the Family Research Institute, a think-tank in Colorado Springs (USA) noted that 9% of the incidents occurred in Britain.

"For some reason homosexuals' involvement in this horrid crime is especially high in Britain -- with 44 (49%) of the 89 British v. 197 (28%) of the 711 non-British perpetrators engaging in homosexuality."

The 1980-2005 study was published in the free-access, on-line, peer-reviewed Empirical Journal of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior www.ejssb.org

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/788 194522.html

   

      

   

BRITTS FLEE SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE

THIS IS WHAT WE CAN EXPECT WITH CHILLARY IN CHARGE. WE GET WHAT WE PAY FOR, PEOPLE. SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS NOT THE ANSWER!

Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year. And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" will fly as far as Malaysa and South Africa for major surgery to avoid long waiting lists and the rising threat of superbugs, according to a new report.

The first survey of Britons opting for treatment overseas shows that fears of hospital infections and frustration of often waiting months for operations are fuelling the increasing trend.

Patients needing major heart surgery, hip operations and cataracts are using the internet to book operations to be carried out thousands of miles away. India is the most popular destination for surgery, followed by Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland and Spain.

But dozens more countries are attracting health tourists. Research by the Treatment Abroad website shows that Britons have travelled to 112 foreign hospitals, based in 48 countries, to find safe, affordable treatment. Almost all of those who had received treatment abroad said they would do the same again, with patients pointing out that some hospitals in India had screening policies for the superbug MRSA that have yet to be introduced in this country 

SAN DIEGO BURNING

HAT TIP: RANDY LAINE

ON MY MIND TODAY

Worried about your kids' safety trick or treating this year? Check out this new fad sweeping through trendsetting Michigan. Just hope the mafia's not behind it...

Tummy aches? I've been diligently working to self-regulate my tentatively diagnosed IBS, which means avoiding the foods that seem to trigger it (profound advice from my gynecologist, Dr Beaver--ya can't make these things up). A recommendation from me is yogurt--doesn't seem to matter whether it's the expensive Activa or the cheap stuff--I can't see anything different in the ingredients, and I get to eat more cuz the cheap ones are bigger. Anyway, seems this criminal also struggles with IBS.

British author says bullying is overstated and a part of life. Well, that's true in most cases. I'm the first to agree that sometimes we just need to suck it up and drive on, controlling our reactions instead of allowing others to push our buttons. But my 12 yr old son walking into the house with a black eye and swollen jaw for the second time (after repeated meetings with teachers and administration) led me to remove my kids from that district (and the state of Arizona--they finished the school year in Oregon, with my folks). Boys will scuffle. That is life. But repeated cruelty and physical altercations, resulting in lower grades and fear of school should not be tolerated. When my son fought back (yes,I encouraged it) he was suspended and off the basketball team for the season. If the adults in charge refuse to do anything, what is a kid supposed to do? Joking around to get out of it only goes so far.  Gang activity begins in middle schools these days in the states.
Sometimes zero tolerance makes sense.

Dying Greenies refuse embalming, traditional chemicals. Those Greenies--causing inconvenience even in death.

What is with men and bathrooms?
The basin titillation escapes me...

Sometimes men should just stay in the bathroom.
And here. And sometimes they should be hung by their * and tortured. There are just no words that are appropriate to post.





 

CLUELESS EMMA'S TAKE ON CURRENT EVENTS and other weird stuff

I've hated classes before (can you say liberal education philosophy?) but gee whiz... I'm planning to teach this next year, which will be a tough class, and important and necessary to understand any classic literature, since most kids are not learning any bible at home.

Side note: I guarantee this won't ever be me.

Ahem.

So back in August I visited Boston for the first time, and loved it for its revolutionary history and big city excitement. But I am just a small coastal town chick, so I get turned on just being surrounded by tall buildings and taxis.  But it appears Boston no longer enjoys being a top tourist attraction, as prices rise and interest wanes.   On the plus side (slender side?) a French tourist posits, "The people here are not as fat as it is said in Europe."  I'm sure Bostonians feel better now. Tipping a Sam Adams to ya, Phillipe. Or maybe not.

Course, if this is what they're used to seeing, we are pretty fat.

Speaking of getting fat...anyone who truly believes each life is not a miracle formed by a creator's loving hand is simply daft. Anyone who gives birth to a 17 lb baby is simply hurtin'. And I do believe this young man will be a wonderful daddy someday, regardless of his miracle's size.

As for me, I've reached the point I probly won't be able to have another baby unless I meet and marry the love of my life within...hmm...oh, 5 minutes. Sometimes if feels like there isn't anyone out there for me, anyway, which I guess is symptomatic of a classic mid-life crisis. This gives me hope, though.

Oh, and so does this: It's still working, people.

Living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder

The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder. What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner.

Across the nation, Americans are increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday as they juggle higher rent, food and energy bills.

Hmmm...well, perhaps the point is to plan well enough not to have to live paycheck to paycheck. I was on foodstamps for 5 years (00-05)while I earned my BA and MA. I received $300 per month for 3 people. Even now I hardly spend $300 per month for 3 people. Maybe we need to teach the uninformed how to eat rice and beans rather than filet mignon, store brands instead of Doritos and Kraft.

A GOOD GUY WINS BUT MSM CAN'T LET HIM BE

UPDATE 10/19/07: DALLAS FOX 4 (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH FOX CABLE NEWS) HAS REMOVED THE DISGUSTING  AGUILAR BROADCAST FROM UTUBE, DUE TO COPYRIGHT CLAIM. RIIIIIIIGHT....

A Ledbetter-area business owner fatally shot a suspected burglar Sunday morning – the second time in three weeks that he killed an intruder, Dallas police said.

James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in the 2000 block of Chalk Hill Road in West Dallas, was alerted to the intruder when his motion sensor system activated about 9 a.m. Sunday, police said.

Mr. Walton, who also lives at his business, went downstairs with a shotgun and fired at a man who had broken in. The intruder was later identified by police as Jimmy Gannon of Ferris.

Police said Mr. Walton also noticed another man outside Sunday. Mr. Walton shot and wounded that man. He escaped, but a witness eventually led police to him. The man, whom police did not immediately identify, was questioned by officers Sunday afternoon.

Mr. Gannon, 37, was taken to Methodist Dallas Medical Center, where he died.

Police said Mr. Walton is allowed to protect his property. No charges were filed against him Sunday, though the case will be referred to a grand jury, police said.

“He’s got a right to defend his property. What gives a stranger the right to go in and vandalize or burglarize his business?” said Dallas police Sgt. Gene Reyes. “He’s within every legal right to do this.”

Full Story Here:
West Dallas business owner kills 2 suspected burglars in 3 weeks

(Borrowed from HERE)

And from Dallas Observer.com: But today you will not find the Fox4 story on the station's Web site; there's a page for it, but no accompanying video. (Update: It's available here.) That's because Rebecca Aguilar's piece elicited a torrent of outrage, both on local blogs (chiefly FrontBurner but also elsewhere) and from viewers who began deluging the station with angry calls Monday night and much of the day yesterday. As Trey Garrison pointed out on D's blog:

This is her idea of journalism? Ambushing a 70-year-old man who has been through life-and-death twice in three weeks? "Are you a trigger happy kind of person? Is that what what you wanted to do? Shoot to kill?" Good Lord, I hate the people in this field.

Well, Trey need not worry about Aguilar, at least for a while: Unfair Park has confirmed that Aguilar -- who was just named one of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Broadcast Journalists of the Year -- has been indefinitely suspended, based on concerns about how Aguilar treated Walton. She could not be reached for comment, but Unfair Park did leave Aguilar a message on her cell phone. (When we tried her number in the newsroom, another woman answered and said, "Rebecca isn't available today.") We also left a message for Maria Barrs, the station's news director. --Robert Wilonsky

Anti-American hatred

In reaction to Islamo-fascist Awareness Week spearheaded by David Horowitz for  Academic Freedom, a group of Marxist anti-American Leftists have organized a truly hate-filled gathering--or at least find it funny to advertise one. What a shame they don't recognize real hate and real evil. Note Ron Paul is included in this hatefest--even if he has nothing to do with it, he's obviously considered on par with Liberal anti-American haters.

Who Hates Americans? We Do.

          Your typical American is:

          Ø A racist. A sexist. A homophobe.

         Ø An Islamo-phobe.

          Ø Is willing to invade other countries for oil and pleasure.

         Ø Is easily manipulated by Rush Limbaugh and Jews.

          Ø Is the cause of global warming

         Join Us For American Fascism Awareness Day

         Place: Washington (Slaveholder) Monument

         Date: November 31, 2007

         Time: 12PM-2:00 PM

         Speakers:

                               Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, congressmen
                               Adam Kokesh, Iraq War veteran
                               Cindy Sheehan, Harry Karry, peace activists
                               Michael Moore, Sean Penn, film-makers

          Sponsors:

Peace and Social Justice Crusade, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Code Pink, Muslim Students Association, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine, Revolutionary Communist Party, International A.N.S.W.E.R., Moveon.org, DailyKos.com, Indy-Media.org, HuffingtonPost.com, Ivorypower.com

THE GORPULENCE ASTOUNDS

I searched for the correct category under which to list this post, but JUNK SCIENCE isn't available. Neither is IDIOCY or REALLY BAD FAT MEN.

Gorpulent Al looks as if his head might explode at any moment...not sure if it's inflated self-importance for inventing the internet or winning the ALLBULL Peace Prize, but his bloated body cannot take much more.

Perhaps a carbon write-off for a treadmill is in order. Or a few less Dorito cases.

Nevertheless, Leftist Loony Lemmings continue to steal the bait--now there are movements underway to write Al Gorpulent into the Presidential race. HA! Come on, y'all--then he'd really be on TV all the time and someone might expect him to jog!

He'll never do it.

On a positive note, Dr. Gray is speaking out about Al's penchant for lying, and brainwashing our children, and Czech President Vaclav Klaus loves to point out the obvious: Gorpulent Al is not sane.

   

PRICES FOR THE BIRDS

Soaring bird seed prices strafe 50% higher than 6 months ago.

Fixed-income bird lovers will have to make the fowl choice between feeding their flocks or themselves.

Why the skyward swoop? Rising demand for ethanol, higher transportation costs, and healthier oils for potato chips and fries have suppliers chirping.

Though costs are increasingly feathered, elderly consumers either buy cheaper seed or deny themselves more of their fixed incomes--so far sales are flying steady.

Ann gets it right AGAIN!

Ann Coulter spanks the foul-smelling libs again with frank truth. Enough pandering for votes on the Left by pretending to be patriotic and honest. Rush has always supported the military, unlike the Marxists in the media who claim our soldier are stupid, uneducated, dumb, lazy, miscreants, murderers, guinea pigs, etc. His oh-so-infamous "criticism" was simply a reference to the fake soldiers who lie for the Left to defame military leaders and GW.

  Ann speaks:

...True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

If we are to believe the self-descriptions of callers to talk radio and the typical soldier interviewed on MSNBC, the military is fairly bristling with Moveon.org types.

The reality is quite the opposite. While liberals have managed to worm themselves into every important institution in America, from the public schools to the CIA to charitable foundations, they are shamefully absent from the military.

As noted in that great book that came out this week, "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans":

"According to a Military Times survey taken in September 2004, active-duty military personnel preferred President Bush to Kerry by about 73 percent to 18 percent. Sixty percent describe themselves as Republican and less than 10 percent call themselves Democrat (the same 10 percent that MSNBC has on its speed-dial). Even among the veterans, Republicans outnumber Democrats 46 percent to 22 percent."

So there aren't a lot of anti-war military types for the media to turn into this month's "It Girl." (If conservatives ran the media, there would be a constant stream of government employees admitting to sloth and incompetence, welfare recipients admitting to being welfare cheats and public schoolteachers who support school vouchers.)

And just for the record, I'm one of the public teachers who supports and longs for school vouchers.

Yummy nuggets

From Little Green Footballs: On Bill Maher’s show, ex-CIA agent Michael Scheuer reveals that he’s a Ron Paul supporter and an Israel hater.

From Yahoo News: US military death toll lowest it's been since July 06.

Iraqi deaths are lower by half than the previous month and lowest since June 06.

Col. Steven Boylan, spokesman for Petraeus, said there was "no silver bullet or one thing" responsible for the declining death tolls. But he credited increased U.S. troop strength, saying that had allowed American forces to step up operations against al-Qaida in Iraq and other insurgent and militia fighters.

(The surge is working, people!)

From CBS:Illinois schools may drop traditional holiday celebrations or change their names. 30% of the population is Muslim, but not all support the changes. One family is upset that Ramadan celebration was disallowed, so they want Christmas canceled, too.

Last I heard, the US of A was founded on CHRISTIAN principles, not those of killing the infidel.

Bloomberg caught in sights

When NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg was setting up gun dealers to take a fall last year, he probably didn’t count on Adventure Outdoors’ lawsuit keeping Georgia jurisdiction.

 Bloomberg will have to deal with the southern way of doing things (can we say good ol’ boys?), putting the squeeze on his makeshift mafia.

May he bite the bullet.