democrat propaganda

NewBusters points out:

In America, you need to show identification to buy alcohol, get into a bar, or apply for a job. Yet, for some reason, liberal media members think that Republicans who advocate voter ID laws do so exclusively to prevent Democrats from going to polling booths.

What voter ID laws do is assure that American Citizens get to exercise their legal right to vote, without being disenfranchised by illegal aliens, or by the all too common practice in democrat strongholds of registering dead people and sending in ringers to vote in their name. Removing such illegal methods will remove a solid voting block that traditionally trends heavily democrat. So of course the DNC and its members will fight against the Rights of American Citizens in this case.

Know the science before making accusations

I had a friend tell me, in a very accusatory fashion, “Dude, you don’t even believe in Global Warming.”
I replied that I didn’t believe in the Cult of Algore, but scientific study has shown that the planet has clearly been getting warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in the middle of the 19th Century. To which my accuser replied, “The what?” So I explained to him about the well documented period where the Thames froze solid enough that the city of London had “Ice Festivals”, where people built shacks on the in the middle of the river and people walked out to them for a good three months out of the year. This was well documented in the literature and newspapers of the time. “So,” I continued, “the planet is obviously warmer than it was during the Little Ice age. The question is will it get as warm as it was during the Medieval Warm Period.” To this bit of actual scientific data, as opposed to the Cult of Algore scare mongering, he replied, “I don’t know about that.” So, I explained that this was the period prior to the Little Ice Age, where temperatures were warmer than they are now (and there is no evidence that Manhattan was under water then). There are records of wheat being grown in Greenland and that the London area was good wine country at this time. Even today, there are street names and other parts of London that reference vineyards and wine production. This was well before the Industrial Revolution, so clearly “man made green house gases” had nothing to do with that global warm period.

The actual science that I presented failed to convince my friend, I think it was because his wife is “True Believer” in the Cult of Algore, which has been proven to cherry pick and even twist data to fit their model, and has been filling his head with crap. I pointed out that there was a lot of real data available for anyone to check. Hopefully he took the time to do his own research rather than accept the junk science of the Cult of Algore.

Meanwhile in Iraq...

By way of Hot Air is news that you won't see on CBS/MSNBC/NY Times and the rest of the usual suspects.

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Saturday that al-Qaida’s network in the country has never been closer to defeat, and he praised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his moves to rein in Shiite and Sunni militant groups…

“There is important progress for the Iraqi forces in confronting the Sunni and Shiite militias,” he said, speaking Arabic to reporters. “The government, the prime minister are showing a clear determination to take on extremist armed elements that challenge the government’s authority … no matter who these elements are.”

“You are not going to hear me say that al-Qaida is defeated, but they’ve never been closer to defeat than they are now,” Crocker said.

The U.S. military says attacks have dropped dramatically — down to an average of 41 a day across the country, the lowest rate since 2004 — amid the crackdowns and truces. The U.S. military, backed by Sunni Arab tribal fighters, have scored successes in battling al-Qaida in Iraq and other Sunni insurgents in western parts of the country.

A rare moment of honesty from a democrat

The far hard left liberal extremist democrat from California, Maxine Waters has a rare moment of honesty on camera as she shows her true Socialist nature.



She must have made Hugo Chavez very proud.

Michelle Malkin has a good round up of the leftist hypocrisy about gas prices.

SUVs on Jupiter?

According to the text on this Astronomy Picture of the Day, "Jupiter's recent outbreak of red spots is likely related to large scale climate change as the gas giant planet is getting warmer near the equator."

Emphasis is mine. Perhaps Chelsea Clinton should push to have Jupiter sign the Kyoto Accords.

Failing the WWII test

A story about highly educated, from the best universities, failing basic questions about the history of WWII.

NewsBusted

The Cadillac of Governors unveils his plan.

"We know the governor had a goal of crating 100,000 new jobs in his first term, we just didn't know he was going to create them all in the Corner Office." -- State Sen. Michael Knapik, on news that Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has increased his own office's budget by almost 80%.

HT to Michael Graham.

A John Ringo approved book review

It's actually a review of the first few books of the Ghost series, and have read them all, it's pretty spot on accurate. John Ringo himself approves.

Keeping it in the family

For those are who are tired of the political families like the Clinton and Bush families, let's not forget the Kennedys.
The Daily News reports on how Senator Ted Kennedy wants to keep his Senate seat in the family:

Ted Kennedy has made clear to confidants that when his time is up, he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family - with his wife, Vicki.

Multiple sources in Massachusetts with close ties to the liberal lion say his wife of 16 years has long been his choice to continue carrying the family flame in the Senate. Kennedy won the seat in 1962; his brother John held it from 1953 to 1960.

By going with the Lovely Miss Vicky, the Senator is bypassing his nephew Joe, a former congressman with ties to Venezuelan Socialist Hugo Chavez, and his own son, who is in congress, supposedly representing the people of Rhode Island.

HT to Bob Parks

Update: The New England Republican points out the the flat out hypocrisy of the democrat controlled Massachusetts legislative branch.

The leader of the Massachusetts House says he will support giving Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim successor to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy if that becomes necessary.

The Democratic-controlled Legislature stripped Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of that authority in 2004 because of fears he would name a Republican to replace U.S. Sen. John Kerry if he had been elected president.

Instead, state law now requires a special election for the seat no sooner than 145 days and no later than 160 days after the vacancy occurs.

But House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi said yesterday if Kennedy should step aside or have to be replaced because of his brain tumor diagnosis, he’d be in favor of a gubernatorial appointment.

“That was a good political reason (then),” DiMasi said of taking the power away from Romney. “It’s a good political reason to change it back.”

At least there is some honesty shown

Newsbusters has this story about liberal democrat actor Kevin Spacey taking about a liberal fantasy movie about the 2000 Presidential election in Florida. Spacey admits that the film is heavily biases toward the democrat fantasy view of that election. The big lie he spouts is this “It does seem that on the one hand the Bush people were trying to stop votes from being counted and the Gore people were just trying to get votes counted.”

That is, of course, utter and complete bullshit. The historic reality of the matter is that George W. Bush won the full state election, the recount of the full state election, and every one of the district recounts carefully cherry picked by the Gore campaign and the DNC. It was the democrats who tried to block neutral and Republican observers from recount rooms. It was the democrats who sent teams of hit lawyers across the states to have absentee ballots from US military personnel serving overseas (many in places the Clinton/Gore administration sent them, like Bosnia and Kosovo) thrown out, because they knew the military demographic tended to vote heavily Republican. The last thing the Gore campaign and the DNC wanted was a complete state wide recount. If they could have the votes from the entire panhandle section of Florida thrown out, they would have pushed for that too.

The democrats are spreading this revisionist history and they are preparing to to do it again, according to their advocates at MSNBC.

During MSNBC's live coverage of the Kentucky and Oregon Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday, NBC's Andrea Mitchell seemed to take seriously suggestions by Hillary Clinton "loyalists" who argue that Republicans in control of the election process in some red states Barack Obama hopes to carry may deny him a "fair vote" in the November general election.

This is a sad truth about the democrats, they have to lie, not only to attempt to win elections, but they also feel the need to lie about why they loose elections. The truth just isn't in them.

Color me not surprised

The New York Times runs a story on how Jews in Florida (and anywhere else if they pay attention) are not on the Obama bandwagon.

“The people here, liberal people, will not vote for Obama because of his attitude towards Israel,” Ms. Weitz, 83, said, lingering over brunch.

“They’re going to vote for McCain,” she said.
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On Thursday, Mr. Obama will court Jewish voters with an appearance at a synagogue in Boca Raton, Fla. A longtime Democratic constituency with a consistently high turnout rate, Jews are important to his general election hopes, particularly in New York, which he expects to win; in California and New Jersey, which he must keep out of Republican hands; and, most crucially, here in Florida, where Jews make up around 5 percent of voters.

Barak H. Obama has the twin albatrosses of Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan around his neck when it comes to the Jewish vote. Wright's church, of which Obama was a member for decades, has a long history of attacks against Israel and support of those who want the Jewish state destroyed. If he wants those votes, he needs to be more of Barry Obama, the Harvard Law School grad, and less of Barak Hussein Obama, the member of the Black Activist Church that preached that Israel is planning genocide against Arabs and that American had it coming on 9/11/2001.

Barack Obama: perpetual gaffe machine

Michelle Malkin points out some of the whoppers Barak H. Obama has made, and the MSM, which is totally in the tank for him, gives him a pass on.

Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed." The actual death toll: 12.

Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

Go read the whole thing.

Senator Kennedy diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor

I'm no fan of the Commonwealth's senior Senator by no means, but I do acknowledge that he craps bigger than most of the current crop of liberal democrat congress critters (like Pelosi and Reid for example).

Unlike Senators who choose their states based on convenience (like the senator sitting the seat that is supposed to represent New York state), Ted Kennedy is Massachusetts born and bred. He knows that taking care of his base is the key to his success. I know Commonwealth residents who have called his office and found themselves on the phone with the Senator inside five minutes.

I wish him well in dealing with his cancer. Brain tumors are typically fatal over a short number of years, so it will probably beat his liver out as cause of death.
Senator Kennedy has lived his life on his terms (his family's vast fortune built on illegal booze smuggling made that possible). Perhaps this reminder of his morality will cause him to brush up what he will say to Mary Jo when they meet again.

Another crushing defeat for Obama

Hillary Rodham Clinton crushed her democrat rival Barak Hussein Obama in Kentucky. Currently, it is reported as a 36 point lead for HRC (67% to 31%). This is on the heels of her 41 point defeat of Obama in West Virginia. Hillary followed up with speech saying she is going to take this to the convention floor.

What we are seeing a nasty fight between the the two factions of the democrat party.
The Clinton faction against the faction of the party bought and paid for by George Soros that backs the hard far left extremist Barak Obama. Neither side is good for America, but the Soros/Obama branch worries me more.

The double standard pops up again.

Ace points out the DNC's double standard in demanding the press only report the things they approve when Michelle Obama is on the campaign trail, while going after Cindy McCain.

Confederate Yankee sums it up nicely:

Michelle Obama is going to be making three campaign stops in Kentucky today, but even if she says something incredibly inflammatory or depressed, her husband requests, nay, demands that only the positive be aired.

Will it work? Who knows, but one thing is certain: if he doesn't want us to talk about her, he can tell her to leave the campaign trail and go back to the Hundred Acre Wood.

Chicago. I meant Chicago.

democrat revisionist history

By way of Rob at SayAnything is Senator McCain pointing out the lies of democrat Senator Tom Harkin.


Social Sense has more on democrat Tom Harkin.

Visual word pictures

I'm reading Spook Country by William Gibson. He has always been good at tight, descriptive phrases. One that caught my eye was where he described a woman's clothing as being a "Bladerunner Soccer Mom."

I'm a big etext fan, Baen books has an excellent selection, including a lot of free etext. I use my Palm PDA, but I'm looking at the Kindle as another etext reader.

Why gas prices have spiked.

It's interesting to note that relatively stable gas prices spiked sharply upwards after the democrats took control of congress. There is a laundry list of reasons why those two items are related. Here they are, by way of Gateway Pundit:

Which party blocked the development of new sources of petroleum?-- Democrat
Which party blocked drilling in ANWR?-- Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off the coast of Florida?-- Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off of the east coast?-- Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off of the west coast?-- Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast?-- Democrat
Which party blocked building oil refineries?-- Democrat
Which party blocked clean nuclear energy production?-- Democrat
Which party blocked clean coal production?-- Democrat

Read the whole thing.

Twitter update

According to Twitterholic, Both Leo Laporte and Kevin Rose have passed Barak Obama’s campaign for number of followers. Leo is in the #1 spot and Kevin Rose #2. John C. Dvorak is just shy of the top ten.

Color me not suprised

The Volokh Conspiracy points out the double standard at Human Rights Watch.

Olbermann loosing it.

As I said "Olbermann exists to make O’Reilly look calm, rational and sane."

Olbermann Watch has a couple of examples.

It really is that bad

BloodRayne is on SciFi tonight. It really is that bad.

The Silky Pony endorsement

One term Senator John Edwards, who couldn't even carry his own state when he was part of the losing Kerry/Edwards ticket in 2004, gave his endorsement to Barak H. Obama.
In a careful calculated move to move Hillary Rodham Clinton's stunning 41 point victory over Obama in West Virginia off the media front page, the former trial lawyer and Gulfstream liberal made his announcement.
Clearly Edwards is trying to salvage his political career by attaching himself to Obama. My bet is that he is bucking for the VP slot.

The buzz is that Edwards will bring "white, working-class voters" to the Obama camp. A demographic Obama has not being doing well with (unlike Monica Lewinski's ex-boyfriend's wife). I'm not buying into that fantasy. Edwards is a creature of the hard far left extremist liberal end of the democrat party, just like Barak Hussein Obama. Getting the same nutroots worked up into a frenzy isn't going to add to the number of votes Obama is going to need in the general election.
Just look back to the primary results from South Carolina: Obama 55%, Clinton 27%, John "Silky Pony" Edwards trailing with a pathetic 18%.
The Kentucky primary is coming up and HRC will probably beat Obama there as well.
Her campaign staff is probably happy with Edwards endorsement pick, since they don't want that silky albatross around their necks.

The RNC catches up with me.

I've been calling Barak Hussein Obama the second coming of Jimmy Carter for a while.
Change this country doesn't need is a return to Carter era double digit inflation and unemployment.

The NY Times calls for the US to Invade!

Yup, the NY York Times joins the leftist hypocrites at Time Magazine in calling for the US to invade Burma, or whatever they are calling themselves these days.

Reality vs. "The International Community"

By way of Michael Graham comes the true words of Australian columnist Janet Albrechtsen:

“The need [of UN supporters] to paint Americans as a greedy, selfish, war-mongering superpower cannot be disturbed by facts. It matters not that, in the year before the tsunami, the US provided $2.4 billion in humanitarian relief: 40per cent of all the relief aid given to the world in 2003. Never mind that development and emergency relief rose from $10 billion during the last year of Bill Clinton's administration to $24 billion under George W. Bush in 2003. Or that, according to a German study, Americans contribute to charities nearly seven times as much a head as Germans do. Or that, adjusted for population, American philanthropy is more than two-thirds more than British giving.

There is a teenaged immaturity about the rest of the world's relationship with the US. Whenever a serious crisis erupts somewhere, our dependence on the US becomes obvious, and many hate the US because of it. That the hatred is irrational is beside the point.”

As one wit accurately put it, The "international community" can suck Elvis' dead left nut.

A 41 point landslide

Hillary Rodham Clinton beat Barak Hussein Obama 67% to 26% in the West Virginia democrat primary yesterday.

Perhaps Barak would have done better if he thought the people of West Virginia important enough to even show up.

No Barak in West Virginia

By way of Mr. du Toit, is this tidbit from the Washington Times:

Here in the Mountain State, where faith, firearms and patriotism are bedrock, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama is failing to connect, trailing in the run-up to today’s primary election by 40 points in some polls.

Barak H. Obama was all over North Carolina, where he got 91% of the black vote.
He's not showing his face in the mostly white West Virginia. Draw your own conclusions.

Two Clinton Scenarios

Jay Severin reviews two possible scenarios for Hillary Rodham Clinton's actions.

SCENARIO ONE (drops out prior to convention):

As recorded here several weeks ago, H Clinton will stay in long enough (as many primaries as she can win/pain inflict on opponent) to Drive The Best Deal She Can...and that means creating maximum leverage, cutting the deal(s), then dropping out.
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SCENARIO TWO (goes to convention) :

Satan Stays In.
Because she believes
she can win enough remaining primaries to change momentum/perception.
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Scenario #1 requires enormous guts, determination and the soul of a contract killer.
Scenario #2 requires shamelessness possessed only by a sociopath.

Either way, no problem!

Read the whole thing.

No wonder Mexicans are fleeing to the United States

There is a massive Drug War going on in Mexico.

Drug cartels seeking to keep control over huge swathes of Mexico have been on a rampage. In the past two weeks alone, at least 10 police officials have been murdered -- including the chief of Mexico's federal police, Edgar Millan.

Millan was gunned down outside his home Thursday morning. On Friday, the killings continued with the the shooting death of Esteban Robles Espinosa, commander of Mexico City's police detectives. His body was riddled with eight bullets.

President Felipe Calderon began taking on the cartels last year, deploying the nation's military to bolster police activities. So far, estimates say more than 3,000 Mexicans have been killed, with almost 1,000 deaths this year alone in a brutal struggle by the civilian government to reassert authority.
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The Bush administration has psuhed Congress for the Merida Initiative -- a $500 million emergency aid package to help Mexico's beleuguered effort to fight the cartels.

But the aid bill is getting resistance from Congressional Democrats who hav complained about the lack of focus on social improvements in Mexico. Last week two unions, the AFL-CIO and the United Steelworkers, came out against the aid bill, citing Mexico's human rights abused.