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(article Link) Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is trying to tap a new audience of potential voters by taking his campaign message straight to liberal and nonpolitical issues-based blogs, which reach millions of readers but don’t often delve into conservative politics.The strategy was in full swing yesterday when Mr. McCain invited non-conservative bloggers to join his regular blogger conference call, just hours after he delivered a major speech previewing his war strategy and other priorities for a first presidential term.

It already has started a war among liberal bloggers over how to react to Mr. McCain’s overture.

In answering the first question on the call, Mr. McCain said his likely Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, lacks the judgment to be commander in chief, which set him up for a bruising from the readers at TalkingPointsMemo.com, a liberal-leaning site that joined in the call.

Blogger Greg Sargent said it amounted to “what may be [Mr. McCain’s] most direct attack yet on Barack Obama’s national security credentials.” But commenters were split: Some took aim at Mr. McCain, some said they were thankful for the intelligence on “what the enemy is planning,” and others lashed out at Mr. Sargent, saying he should have been harsher in evaluating Mr. McCain’s attack.

“This IS a Democratic blog, and as such, it would seem to me that there SHOULD be SOME bias with regards to how YOU report of McCain’s craziness, as opposed to treating his ranting and attacks with a sort of dignity they and he DO NOT deserve,” wrote one emphasis-abundant reader.

Mr. McCain’s campaign said the Web outreach is a logical extension of an attempt to reach voters beyond his base. It also builds on his successful use of conference calls with conservative bloggers during the Republican primary, which blunted many of the harshest criticisms of the senator.

“The plan is to take the work we’ve already built on with conservative bloggers and to open up a dialogue with non-conservative bloggers and even nonpolitical bloggers,” said Patrick Hynes, Mr. McCain’s point man for blog outreach.

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John McCain makes my decision not to vote for him easier by the day. It is clear that he does not give a shit about what us conservative types think about him. He is perfectly willing to reach out to idiot liberals and is banking on their support of him.
He figures there are enough white people out there who will refuse to vote for a Negro so he wants to make himself more appealing to leftists by kissing their collective asses on issues near and dear to their hearts.

As far as I’m concerned, this election cycle is over, the liberals have won, the country will be theirs for at least the next four years. I am content to just sit back relax and watch as liberalism erodes the country.

Why should I give a shit, Mexicans won’t be coming in a snatching my job or Mrs. Snoop’s. I don’t have long commutes to work, so I don’t give a shit about gas prices. I’m not rich so money will not be snatched out of my grubby hands.
Jobs will be lost because of global warming alarmist idiot ass legislation; terrorism will no doubt find our shores again, capitalism will grind to a halt and the legions of moronic Democrats around the country who bitched and moaned about the years under G Dub will struggle to come up with answers as to why the country will go in the toilet because they will have nobody to blame.

For the first time in my adult life I will get to witness complete liberal dominance of the American political system. The country will no doubt survive. Conservatives like myself will not drown ourselves in sorrow and mental anguish because the political pendulum did not swing our way.
We just need to remain positive and be ready to pick up the pieces when liberalism and the Democrats fail.

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You people are not fooling me, anyone who reads this blog knows by asking for my opinion on something is like tossing a smoke bomb in the girls locker room and pulling the fire alarm!!

Hell I was not gonna do any blogging today maybe a few funny You Tube clips to torture Muscle Daddy, LOL!

But I received a special comment request from Bob-O, wanted to know my views on gay marriage.

Hmmm let me see, my view now is frankly I really don’t give a shit if gay folks marry.

I use to be dead set against it, not because I have any issues with gay folks, but because of the increased cost to society in general since we all know heterosexual folks get divorced at an alarming clip imaging throwing in the manic and confused state of same sex unions.
Years from now courts will be overrun with gay couple fighting over sperm donation children and which one gets to keep the feather dress or the L-Word DVD set.

Let me just say what few will say, after all I is Snoop, I have said this before, men are already fucked up in the head, gay men are fucked up hetero men on steroids.
Men by their very nature want to stick their dick into any nasty hole they can find and so you want me to believe that two gay men who want to marry is not the toxic mix we all already know it will be. THEN throw in the fact that two screwed up gay men want to marry because they want to I guess eventually try and adopt and raise a child. I’m just not cool with that.

Now I somewhat jokingly said that since I watch the L-word, although Mrs. Snoop will say I only watch it because of the all the girl on girl action which is not true! I do follow the story line. Ah but Snoop is sad because next season will be the last, SHIT!
Yes I do have a long standing crush on Jenifer Beals from the Flashdance days, but I digress.

Now I don’t have as much of an issue with two women hooking up because I generally tend to think that women are far more comitial when it comes to relationships. I also have no problem with two women raising a child. BUT….BUT if the L-Word is even a small sample of just how screwed up lesbian life is I’m thinking shit; are all gay lesbo folks drowning in this non stop hysterical cyclical drama every fucken day?

Anywho, I have never thought and still have never had a gay individual prove to me that the whole gay marriage thing is as big a priority amongst the gay population and some make it out to be.
I have never believed that it is about couples wanting to be together based on love and all of they mushy romance stuff.
The gay folks who push the gay marriage agenda are only seeking “societal approval” and want to be viewed as “normal” as possible. Hence the push to put same sex materials in school textbooks and wanting to shove the gay agenda down our collective throats.
I don’t have an issue with folks being gay, but I’m sorry but nobody will ever, EVER be able to convince me that it is “normal.” However I understand that the mind is a complex apparatus.

From individuals having phobias, to mental health issues, musical geniuses, people who are serial killers to people with off the charts I.Q.’s. Someone’s sexual preference is simply part of that grey matter processing. Persecuting someone based on that is silly, helping people to “understand” it is cool, but it’s not NORMAL, no more than some man with a predisposition to be attractive to young kids is NORMAL or having some old fuck marry and have kids with 20 retarded women in some cult is NORMAL.

Marriage can be a difficult endeavor and must be worked at and few of us are lucky enough to find the right person. Mrs. Snoop and I are more than some “married” couple we are indeed a team and best friends.
Hell I can’t know what goes on in folks hearts and minds but if two people with the same “equipment” can have what Mrs. Snoop and I have then cool. Marriage for some is an attempt at some measure of normalcy or to appear normal to society.  

Also I have a very specific bias, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and watched as gay folks routinely made asses of themselves trying to shock society into accepting who they were when frankly most of us don’t give a shit and folks like me only became repulsed by their small yellow bus behavior.

Gay men wearing feathers and jacking off each other in public is not the way to convince an average dude like myself that I should take gay issues seriously and try to convince me that these moronic crazy ass people should get married? C’mon!!!

My other issue was back in the day (not so much anymore) gay people would compare their struggles with that of black people and that use to infuriate the fuck out of me when a white gay male is capable of reaching above the glass ceiling because at the very least they can hide their sexual preference. Black folks do not all have the secret recipe for Michael Jackson’s become whitey cream.

Bottom line, I don’t give a shit. Gay folks have the right to be just as miserable as most hetero married couples are. I have watched enough daytime television to know that this world is full of some of the most mentally fucked up retarded asses on the planet.
Just think there is an ignorant ass hillbilly redneck mullet clad couple in Arkansas who will get married this weekend outside their trailer, with the son, Billy Bob, Jr. as best man with the second child in the oven. Each will have their tooth polished, and will toast from their Dale Earnhardt beer mugs hoping for a long lasting marriage. Unfortunately down the road, Billy Bob senior will find another hillbilly honey in a bar after work one day. A hottie at least 100 pound lighter with her GED no less and he will become smitten and dump ole toothless Lucy Sue and they will be on divorce court.
I think we need to break up the monotony, fuck it let gay folks get married so we can laugh at their misery too.
After all this is America, right!? LOL!

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Sorry Muscle Dude you will have lots to watch when you get home, LOL!!

 

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From Moonbattery

The notion of Barack Obama becoming President is so preposterous, it cannot be parodied. This al-Jazeera report about Palestinians in Gaza — the folks who elected the terror group Hamas to run the government — appears to be completely on the level. The same folks who passed out candy in celebration on 9/11 are running phone banks in support of their hero Obama.

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O man U gonna have a good laugh!

Work with me people I’m gonna weave a couple of topics and posts into one confusing one, LOL!

From Hot Air

The latest ad from the RNC takes some low-hanging fruit and makes a feast from it. The ad takes the energy policy of Barack Obama and compares it to the last President that tried it — Jimmy Carter. Obama’s call for a windfall-profits tax against oil companies prompts a history lesson about the results from the last such attempt:

RNC Commercial

MORE HERE

MORE READINGPDF - RNC Research Briefing: Why Does Barack Obama Want To Increase Taxes Again And
Drive Up The Cost Of Gasoline On Americans?

BUT NOW WATCH THIS CLIP OF OBAMA….

TEXT: Sen. Barack Obama The Age of oil must end speech

“your great mayor” LOL!

“We fuel our oil addiction by sending over 800 million dollars a day to countries that include some of the most despotic volatile regimes in the world.”

“oil money funds everything from the madrassas that plant the seeds of terror in young minds, to sunni insurgents that attack our troops in Iraq, corrupts budding democracies
and gives dictators from Venezuela to Iran the power to freely defy the international community it even presents a larger target for Osama Bin Laden who has told Al Qaeda to focus your operations on oil especially in Iraq and the gulf area since this will cause Americans to die off on their own”

The clip

Now Bush says this:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,”

said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Because Obama said this….

Obama: “Sure, I’ll meet with Castro, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, etc”

And as Allahpundit noted, from Obama’s own website:

Without preconditions. That means without Iran guaranteeing anything, let alone the big prize of their nuclear program.

MORE OF THIS HERE AT HOT AIR AGAIN

Now I’m confused and I’m the one posting this shit, Obama says to me (Snoop evil dictator) you run one of the most despotic regimes in the world and I plant the seeds of terror in young minds, and you STILL want to sit down and talk to me? What the fuck?
Which is it? Negotiate with terrorist thugs, stop sending these thugs our money via oil, reduce dependency on foreign oil, we need a windfall profits tax to tax the oil companies, oh don’t forget that we have no other alternative energy resources, bla bla bla, yada yada yada.

CONFUSED!?!

Yes I must agree with El Borak, an Obama presidency will no doubt be a fun one blogging wise. Just think the Democrats will fucken have control of the House, Senate and likely the presidency (even if McCain wins the same thing). The Democrats are likely to turn this country back into the Stone Age. And who do we have to blame, Republicans since they are a bunch of spineless no guts assholes that refuse to run on and stand up for conservative principles.

With the Democrats in charge America will in essence be imprisoned by liberalism and thus will become the “tossed salad man”

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Marietta bar owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he’s peddling, featuring a look-a-like of cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with Obama in ‘08 underneath, are not meant to offend. Norman acknowledged the imagery’s Jim Crow roots but said he sees nothing wrong with depicting a prominent African-American as a monkey

Oh great when I saw this clip and saw this fucken redneck I’m thinking, sure you weren’t thinking racist thoughts when you printed those t-shirts. Who is he fucken kidding?

Hey I’m all for good humor, shit anyone who has been to this blog knows that, but redneck dudes like this remind me of when I went to the Pentagon March last year and I was checking out the festivities recording what was going on and a few of these Vietnam Vet redneck biker types walked up on me and was eye ballin’ me, I finally told one mutherfucker to back off of me, I reminded the racist fuck that I was former military and was he walking up on me because I’m black, assuming that I was part of the liberal protest contingent?

This was one of the few times I vehemently disagreed with Michelle Malkin on her coverage of the event. Yes the liberals were annoying chanting the typical anti Bush shit, but most of the problems I witnessed were of these Vietnam Vets taking signs out of the hands of old ladies and shouting obscenities.
One old lady I bet in her 70’s got her purse snatched and tossed down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial because she was one the “wrong side” of the protest line. Several others were ganging up on young teens girls like a bunch of punk asses. One dude with a bullhorn was shouting racist bullshit while the other “pro American” folks stood by and said nothing.

So every time I see these redneck, confederate flag, biker toads, fake ass war heroes, closet racists trying to be funny like the owner of this bar, I look at it just a little differently.

Again, I’m hardly a fan of Obama, but if dude happens to win the presidency (not likely tho) you will see more racist bullshit like this from these types of trailer trash whites who will claim “we didn’t mean anything by it, we really like Nigras and some coons.”

The clip just had to mention that this dude has “conservative” views and you wonder why black folks vote 90 percent Democrat because this redneck fuck is unfortunately the poster child for “racist Republicans.”

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Blame Muscle Daddy, LOL!

By Dr. Roy Spencer - From National Review

John McCain’s global-warming speech on Monday made it clear that there will be no presidential candidate this year willing to question the assertion that global warming (a.k.a. “climate change”) is manmade, or the assertion that we can fix global warming by passing a few laws.

Along with Clinton and Obama, McCain’s proposal to attack global warming now gives voters three choices for a car color — as long as it is black. Like Clinton and Obama, McCain’s proposal involves a “cap and trade” mechanism to legislatively limit CO2 emissions in the coming years, with the free market minimizing the economic damage by allowing a trading of emission credits between companies. He also includes an allowance for carbon offsets, although everyone (except Al Gore) believes this to be more smoke-and-mirrors than a real-world strategy for reducing carbon emissions.

What worries me is the widespread misperception that we can do anything substantial about carbon emissions without seriously compromising economic growth. To be sure, forcing a reduction in CO2 emissions will help spur investment in new energy technologies. But so does a price tag of $126 for a barrel of oil. Finding a replacement for carbon-based energy will require a huge investment of wealth, and destroying wealth is not a very good first step toward that goal.

When the public finds out how much any legislation that punishes energy use is going to cost them, with no guarantee that anything we do will have a measurable impact on future climate, there will be a revolt just like the one now materializing in the U.K. and the EU. At some point, as they are faced with the stark reality that mankind’s requirement for an abundant source of energy cannot simply be legislated out of existence, the public will begin asking, “Just how sure are we that humans are causing global warming?”

And this is where the science establishment has, in my view, betrayed the public’s trust.

Even though there has never been a single scientific paper published that has ruled out natural variability for most of the warming we’ve seen since 1850, Big Science has managed to convince politicians and much of the public that the science is settled. Apparently, our addition of nine molecules of carbon dioxide to each 100,000 molecules of air over the last 150 years can now be blamed for anything and everything we choose. Hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, floods, glaciers flowing toward the sea…. all of these used to happen naturally, but no more.

The warming that allowed the Vikings to farm in Greenland 1,000 years ago was surely natural. But we are now told that warming in Greenland today is surely manmade. Glaciers retreating in western Canada have revealed evidence of previous forests, showing that warming and cooling cycles do indeed occur, even without SUVs. Yet the SUV is now the scapegoat for retreating glaciers.

McCain pointed to shrinking Arctic sea ice and collapsing Antarctic ice shelves as obvious evidence that humans are to blame, even though the sea ice did the same thing in the 1920s and 1930s, and those ice shelves must break off eventually, as new glacial ice flows toward the sea to take their place.

But McCain has made it clear that the science really does not matter anyway because, even if humans are not to blame for global warming, stopping carbon-dioxide emissions is the right thing to do. And if we had another choice for most of our energy needs, I might be willing to accept such a claim as harmless enough.

But carbon dioxide is necessary for life on Earth, and I have a difficult time calling something so fundamentally important a “pollutant.” Maybe the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is higher now than it has been in hundreds of thousands of years. So what? I am increasingly convinced that its influence on climate pales in comparison to the influence that natural climate events like El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation have on regional climate. Indeed, most of the warming we’ve seen in the last century might well be due to these natural modes of climate variability alone.

The trouble is that no one has been funded by the government to investigate such a possibility, and the mandate for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to address manmade climate change — not natural climate change.

So, here we are with bad science ready to support bad policy decisions that will lead to bad economic times ahead, and no presidential candidate who is willing to ask the hard questions. While we hate to be pandered to by politicians, in this case I can only hope that they really are pandering — that this is hot air and not prospective policy.

— Dr. Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is author of the new book, Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor.

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First read the editorial from the Modesto Bee in California

A drug raid at San Diego State University last week made headlines. Student drug dealers were caught openly selling drugs to fellow students over the Internet, in fraternity houses and in dormitories. The arrests of children of privilege is noteworthy mostly because of its rarity. Despite rampant drug use on many college campuses, student dealers and users seldom risk prosecution.The novelty of the SDSU raid stands in sharp contrast to the contents of two reports issued last week about the nation’s 30-year “war on drugs.” The reports detail the devastating effects of a drug policy that has targeted poor blacks in inner cities even as rates of illegal drug use have remained similar for blacks and whites.

The reports, one by the Sentencing Project and the other by Human Rights Watch, rely on federal law enforcement data to document racial disparity in drug arrests and imprisonment. The statistics show a consistent pattern of discriminatory enforcement that has sent blacks — young men especially, but black women as well — to prison at rates disproportionate to their presence in the population.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, African-American men are nearly 12 times as likely to be imprisoned for drug convictions as whites. In its report, “Targeting Blacks: Drug Enforcement and Race in the United States,” Human Rights Watch includes statistics from the 2003 National Corrections Reporting Program. Combined reports from the 34 states that responded show that blacks are imprisoned for drug crimes at a rate of 256 for every 100,000 African-Americans. Whites were imprisoned at a rate of 25 per 100,000. In California the rate was 280 blacks in prison for drug crimes per 100,000 compared to 26 for whites.

The incarceration strategy has had a destructive impact on black communities. For black men, imprisonment carries a stain that is impossible to erase. It leads to joblessness and hopelessness that in turn translates into more crime.

It has contributed to the widespread belief among African-Americans that the criminal justice system is racist, that young black men selling nickel bags of crack in the gritty inner city of San Diego are more likely to be arrested, prosecuted and sent to prison than young white men who sell drugs out of frat houses. The reports give those beliefs substance.

The point here is not to treat white drug dealers more harshly. What the nation needs is a drug strategy that treats everyone equally and moves from a failed strategy of expensive incarceration toward greater emphasis on treatment, education and creating other opportunities; programs less damaging to individuals and communities.

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I’m posting this as a Snoop public service, to remind you white people just how evil and racist you are!! LOL!

I have been reading shit loads of articles from Black websites and blogs hammering the point home about the incarceration rates of blacks vs. whites and how unfair the judicial system is when it comes to prosecuting black folks for drug offenses and how white folks tend to get a slap on the wrist.

However let me say what black websites and blogs won’t say. Negros who live in the communities where drug dealers and crackheads crawl around the hoods like roaches actually are HAPPY that many of these thug drug dealers get their asses thrown in jail.
Black community leaders often appeal to the police to be more vigilant in arresting these people. I’m thinking good, if more prisons need to be constructed to remove from society people who obviously show contempt for a criminal free society then so be it.

Let get real, sensitive Negros don’t read if you are easily angered, but white folks who deal drugs in the suburbs are not blasting mutherfuckers in the streets in whiteyville battling over drug turf.
Shit I live in Lawrence, Kansas and I’m sure that there are many white folks here who light up on a daily basis, but they are not shooting up their neighbors, robbing neighborhood liquor stores for drug money, hanging out on the street corners with other whiteys pimping out hoes and using little kids to make drug runs which increase crime, lower property values and lowers the quality of life.
Yes I know there are the toothless, acne scared, mullet sporting meth rednecks living in aluminum shoe boxes on wheels who instead of wreaking havoc in their neighborhoods limit their abuse to their wives, girlfriends and kids.

I get just a tad bit irritated because these blogs and websites whining like little bitches complaining about whitey not getting arrested and why Negros get caught up in the criminal game instead of focusing on how we can help prevent another generation of crackheads from terrorizing urban communities and giving the kids in those areas a shot at escaping the hood through education.

My dad told me long ago that white people have a distinct advantage in life, but he also told me that the sooner I got over that little fact and lived my life accordingly the better off I would be.
He also reminded me that “not all white people are as smart as many think they are, so you must be ready to step in when those white folks to stupid to take advantage of their lofty status are asleep at the switch. Because there are actually some white people who care more about results than color,”
I have worked to several in my life; he always reminded me that only less educated white folks have this color chip.
Bottom line too many black folks are too busy bitching and complaining about that whitey advantage than taking advantage of the multiple opportunities that this country provides.

Back to the criminal front, if Niggas are too stupid to realize that the police dragnet is just a little tighter in the hoods then they have nobody to blame but themselves.
Why not try the obvious, stay away from criminal activity and don’t associate with other criminals, maybe…just maybe it may decrease your chances of appearing in your local criminal court.

I swear Negros act as if they have a unique brand of misery. I oft wonder, when Negro women are appearing on Maury multiple times because they can’t figure out the sperm donor, or like an episode of Judge Mathis I watched the other day where this mother took her 18 year old son to court because of bail money he supposedly owed her, never mind that the mom has been on crack the kids entire life and he was trying to support himself and his little brother I thinking what the fuck?

I’m not trying to be difficult but when I read articles like this one from the Philadelphia paper on The African American Family Conference, where they had community workshops offered nearly 30 seminars on subjects including youth empowerment, fatherhood, violence, and family life skills.
How many fucken conferences do we need to have to teach people about fundamentally basic life issues? You mean some black dude needs to attend a conference to remind himself that he has a responsibility to be a father to a child or that committing violence either in the home or in your community if frowned upon?

I mean, damm is our society getting more and more retarded where folks have to be taught everything from basic parenting skills to how not to punch your wife after a drunken stupor? This is just mind numbingly pathetic.

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From Right Wing News, LOL!

Primary Sources: The “Crisis of Confidence” Speech July 15, 1979

Carter: What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important.Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 — never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade — a saving of over 4-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day.

Point two: To ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my presidential authority to set import quotas. I’m announcing tonight that for 1979 and 1980, I will forbid the entry into this country of one drop of foreign oil more than these goals allow. These quotas will ensure a reduction in imports even below the ambitious levels we set at the recent Tokyo summit.

Point three: To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation’s history to develop America’s own alternative sources of fuel — from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun.

I propose the creation of an energy security corporation to lead this effort to replace 2-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day by 1990. The corporation I will issue up to $5 billion in energy bonds, and I especially want them to be in small denominations so that average Americans can invest directly in America’s energy security.

Just as a similar synthetic rubber corporation helped us win World War II, so will we mobilize American determination and ability to win the energy war. Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation’s first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.

These efforts will cost money, a lot of money, and that is why Congress must enact the windfall profits tax without delay. It will be money well spent. Unlike the billions of dollars that we ship to foreign countries to pay for foreign oil, these funds will be paid by Americans to Americans. These funds will go to fight, not to increase, inflation and unemployment.

Point four: I’m asking Congress to mandate, to require as a matter of law, that our nation’s utility companies cut their massive use of oil by 50 percent within the next decade and switch to other fuels, especially coal, our most abundant energy source.

Point five: To make absolutely certain that nothing stands in the way of achieving these goals, I will urge Congress to create an energy mobilization board which, like the War Production Board in World War II, will have the responsibility and authority to cut through the red tape, the delays, and the endless roadblocks to completing key energy projects.

We will protect our environment. But when this nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it.

Point six: I’m proposing a bold conservation program to involve every state, county, and city and every average American in our energy battle. This effort will permit you to build conservation into your homes and your lives at a cost you can afford.

I ask Congress to give me authority for mandatory conservation and for standby gasoline rationing. To further conserve energy, I’m proposing tonight an extra $10 billion over the next decade to strengthen our public transportation systems. And I’m asking you for your good and for your nation’s security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense — I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Our nation must be fair to the poorest among us, so we will increase aid to needy Americans to cope with rising energy prices. We often think of conservation only in terms of sacrifice. In fact, it is the most painless and immediate way of rebuilding our nation’s strength. Every gallon of oil each one of us saves is a new form of production. It gives us more freedom, more confidence, that much more control over our own lives.

So, the solution of our energy crisis can also help us to conquer the crisis of the spirit in our country. It can rekindle our sense of unity, our confidence in the future, and give our nation and all of us individually a new sense of purpose.

You know we can do it. We have the natural resources. We have more oil in our shale alone than several Saudi Arabias. We have more coal than any nation on Earth. We have the world’s highest level of technology. We have the most skilled work force, with innovative genius, and I firmly believe that we have the national will to win this war.

I do not promise you that this struggle for freedom will be easy. I do not promise a quick way out of our nation’s problems, when the truth is that the only way out is an all-out effort. What I do promise you is that I will lead our fight, and I will enforce fairness in our struggle, and I will ensure honesty. And above all, I will act. We can manage the short-term shortages more effectively and we will, but there are no short-term solutions to our long-range problems. There is simply no way to avoid sacrifice.

Twelve hours from now I will speak again in Kansas City, to expand and to explain further our energy program. Just as the search for solutions to our energy shortages has now led us to a new awareness of our Nation’s deeper problems, so our willingness to work for those solutions in energy can strengthen us to attack those deeper problems.

I will continue to travel this country, to hear the people of America. You can help me to develop a national agenda for the 1980s. I will listen and I will act. We will act together. These were the promises I made three years ago, and I intend to keep them.

Little by little we can and we must rebuild our confidence. We can spend until we empty our treasuries, and we may summon all the wonders of science. But we can succeed only if we tap our greatest resources — America’s people, America’s values, and America’s confidence.

I have seen the strength of America in the inexhaustible resources of our people. In the days to come, let us renew that strength in the struggle for an energy secure nation.

In closing, let me say this: I will do my best, but I will not do it alone. Let your voice be heard. Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country. With God’s help and for the sake of our nation, it is time for us to join hands in America. Let us commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American spirit. Working together with our common faith we cannot fail.

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By Cal Thomas on Townhall.com

With gas prices topping four dollars a gallon in some regions of the country, now may not be the best time to say something positive about “big oil,” but here goes anyway.Where is it written that the cost for a product or service should be frozen in place and in time, never to rise again, or to rise at a pace commensurate with our incomes? People who think this way know little to nothing about supply and demand and less than nothing about the profit motive. That’s because at least three generations have been raised on the notion of entitlement, and when one feels entitled to something, one believes someone else should pay.

Senate Democrats last week sought to ingratiate themselves with voters, while doing nothing to produce more energy, with a familiar attack on “big oil.” They want to repeal $17 billion in tax breaks for the oil companies over 10 years and on top of that impose a windfall profit tax on companies that don’t invest in new energy sources. This is political expediency at its worst.

Peter Robertson, vice chairman of Chevron, told me it’s a myth that oil companies are not investing in new energy sources. He says last year alone, Chevron spent $20 billion exploring new sources of energy.

Robertson said President Bush’s trip this week to Saudi Arabia is “highly embarrassing” because he is “calling on the Saudis to produce more oil when we are not doing it ourselves.” The last refinery built in America was in 1976. Tighter government regulations are the main reason. That’s how unserious we are about our energy “crisis.”

Robertson said there would be plenty of oil available to the United States if the oil companies were allowed to get it: “Eighty-five percent of offshore oil is off-limits.” Responding to objections to offshore drilling by environmentalists and their allies in Congress, Robertson noted that some of the strongest pro-environment nations in Europe - he mentions Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom - lease offshore locations for oil exploration. The technology has become so good, he said, that during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, “one thousand offshore wells were destroyed (in the Gulf of Mexico), but not one leaked.” Australia, he said, has allowed offshore drilling for 40 years without any environmental damage.

In addition to the sinking value of the dollar, here is the main problem: According to the Department of Energy, U.S. oil production has fallen approximately 40 percent since 1985, while the consumption of oil has grown by more than 30 percent.

According to government estimates, there is enough oil in areas accessible to America - 112 billion barrels - to power more than 60 million cars for 60 years. The Outer Continental Shelf alone contains an estimated 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Had President Clinton not vetoed exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in 1995, when oil was $19 a barrel, America would currently be receiving more than 1 million barrels a day domestically, all of it taken by better technology than existed more than 30 years ago. That was when the Alaskan pipeline was built despite protests from environmentalists who claimed it would destroy the caribou. It didn’t, but the environmentalists are back with the same discredited arguments. Because most of the oil remains “off-limits,” we are becoming more dependent on foreign oil.

No, we can’t “drill our way out” of our addiction to oil, but we can make the transition to other energy sources easier while lessening our dependence on foreign oil and propping up dictators who use our money to subsidize terrorists. A slow transition will also give us time to consider more fuel-efficient cars and greater use of public transportation, even bicycles for short trips. Bikes would help more of us lose weight and get in shape. A friend bikes to work every day, saving gas, car payments, insurance and repair costs.

The specter of a president of the United States going hat-in-hand to Saudi Arabia to plead for more (and more expensive) oil from the dictatorship that underwrites an extreme form of Islam that is out to kill us is obscene. President Bush ought to be rallying Americans, not embracing people who don’t allow women to drive cars.

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I think I mentioned this before but I work with a former liberal Kansas Legislative individual
and was told by her and several other elected Kansas Democrats that they LIKE rising oil prices and hopes that it continues to rise because it will FORCE the U.S. to invest in alternate resources, thereby eliminating the calls for drilling in the artic or anywhere else for that matter.
Now y’all know that most Democrats feel this way, but you will never hear one say it out loud.
I also know another individual who is a key person in the Obama campaign who also told me that Obama if elected will NOT approve of ANY additional American offshore exploration of oil. “If gas hits $10 a gallon, Americans will just have to drive less.”
SO SCREW YOU!

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Obama told several thousand people at the Charleston Civic Center that patriotism means more than saluting flags and holding parades…

For only the second time in many weeks, Obama wore an American flag pin on his suit jacket. He has said he stopped wearing such pins routinely because he felt they became a substitute for ‘‘true patriotism’’ after the 2001 terrorist attacks. He recently wore a flag pin, for a day, given to him by a veteran. Campaign aides gave no explanation for Monday’s decision, except to say that sometimes Obama wears a flag pin and sometimes he does not…

READ THE REST at Sweetness & Light 

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Apparently LeBron’s mom has some issues…

LINK old story

One of our favorite underreported stories of the last few months was the arrest of LeBron James’ mother for drunken driving. In case you don’t remember the details, Momma LeBron — who, by the way, is the exact same age as Bill Simmons — was placed in the back of a cop car, kicked out the back window and was ultimately maced. Yeah. They maced LeBron’s mom.

Well, Mrs. LeBron showed up 10 minutes late to her court hearing yesterday, and the judge lambasted her, telling her lawyer that “your client is no different than anyone else.” Her hearing is April 24. Here’s hoping she can avoid getting maced by then.

We’re gonna repeat here: LeBron’s mom got maced.

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Some public health experts are questioning why menthol, the most widely used cigarette flavoring and the most popular cigarette choice of African-American smokers, is receiving special protection as Congress tries to regulate tobacco for the first time.The legislation, which would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to oversee tobacco products, would try to reduce smoking’s allure to young people by banning most flavored cigarettes, including clove and cinnamon.But those new strictures would exempt menthol — even though menthol masks the harsh taste of cigarettes for beginners and may make it harder for the addicted to kick the smoking habit. For years, public health authorities have worried that menthol might be a factor in high cancer rates in African-Americans.

The reason menthol is seen as politically off limits, despite those concerns, is that mentholated brands are so crucial to the American cigarette industry. They make up more than one-fourth of the $70 billion American cigarette market and are becoming increasingly important to the industry leader, Philip Morris USA, without whose lobbying support the legislation might have no chance of passage.

“I would have been in favor of banning menthol,” said Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, who supports the bill. “But as a practical matter that simply wasn’t doable.”

Even the head of the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network, a nonprofit group that has been adamantly against menthol, acknowledges that the ingredient needed to be off the bargaining table — for now — because he does not want to imperil the bill’s chances.

“The bottom line is we want the legislation,” said William S. Robinson, the group’s executive director. “But we want to reserve the right to address this issue at some critical point because of the percentage of people of African descent who use mentholated products.”

Supporters of the tobacco legislation, including the Senate bill’s sponsor, Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, say the bill addresses the potential health risks of menthol by giving the F.D.A. the authority to remove cigarette additives, including menthol, if they are proved harmful.

Menthol is particularly controversial because public health authorities have worried about its health effects on African-Americans. Nearly 75 percent of black smokers use menthol brands, compared with only about one in four white smokers.

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In case you did not know…

There is no menthol in tobacco plants.
Menthol is added to cigarettes to make the smoke feel less harsh. But the smoke is still dangerous.

Smokers of menthol cigarettes tend to hold the smoke in their lungs longer.

Holding the smoke longer allows more poisons to be absorbed.

The cooler feel of menthol masks the cheaper tobaccos that cigarette manufacturers often use in menthol brands. There is nothing refreshing or natural about menthol. Menthol is an additive put in cigarettes to make smokers believe that the cigarette is less dangerous. This is a lie.

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More Republican Party lunacy. McCain I guess wants to present the old white fart and redneck as an alternate to anti-American faux Negro ticket.

Read the story at Hot Air

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From Suitably Flip

In celebration of his having traveled to an impressive 57 states in his bid for the Presidency (and to finally put to rest the notion that he abhors patriotic accessories), Barack Obama’s campaign has introduced a custom line of American flag lapel pins.

Get yours today and show your support for the least senile candidate in the race!

MORE HERE

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The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954.

As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they “have no different quality for me than all other people”.

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

OUCH!

more here

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‘I didn’t know she was going to be here’…

Look at how well he handles the pot passer

More - He shoots, he scores, he laughs, the press furiously masturbates.

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Norman said those offended are “hunting for a reason to be mad” and insisted he is “not a racist.”

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AUDIO - Why some women, particularly feminist types, will support Hillary no matter what… No matter how racist and corrupt the bitch is!

Feminists sharply divided between Clinton, Obama

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In case you missed it, Old man McCain said this:

“They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else,” McCain said.

Hmmmm, women need “training and education” in order to qualify for equal pay for equal work?

Who cares that women now make up 58% of college graduates and nearly half of the labor force?

Article about In Ledbetter v. Goodyear (2007) via Slate

Over Ginsburg’s Dissent, Court Limits Bias Suits

05/29/07 05-1074 Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (PDF)

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From Michelle Malkin

The open-borders media has been AWOL on John McCain’s decision to speak to the radical racialist group, La Raza/The Race in July. He has been allowed to skate on the issue in several recent sit-down interviews. Many of the same pundits who blasted Barack Obama for his ties to the radical racialist Jeremiah Wright have nothing to say about McCain’s longtime association with the shamnesty-pushing, sovereignty-undermining, publicly-subsidized shakedown artists of La Raza/The Race.Not everyone’s looking the other way. Editorial page editor Colin McNickle at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review warned today:

“McCain had made significant progress in reaching out to conservatives over the last month or so. But his La Raza embrace is a serious lapse of judgment, one of a number of lapses that, if the primaries are a valid indicator, could lead to a full quarter of the Republican electorate staying home on Nov. 4.”

Guess McCain’s counting on all his left-wing global warming fear-mongering friends to make up the difference.

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More McCain Reading: Paging John McCain: GOP House leader Boehner rips La Raza earmark

John McCain gets away with his slippery, open-borders talk again

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“I have personally contracted with Dean’s milk company and we are putting Obama’s picture on a carton of milk.”

– Terry McBrayer,
Kentucky Superdelegate

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Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.Mr Simpson’s remarks help explain why Mr Obama is trailing Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival, by 40 percentage points ahead of Tuesday’s primary election in the heavily white and rural state, according to recent opinion polls.

A landslide victory for Mrs Clinton in West Virginia will do little to improve her fading hopes of winning the Democratic nomination, because Mr Obama has an almost insurmountable lead in the overall race.

But Tuesday’s contest is likely to reinforce Mrs Clinton’s argument that she would be the stronger opponent for Mr McCain in November, and raise fresh doubts about whether the US is ready to elect its first black president.

Occupying a swathe of the Appalachian Mountains on the threshold between the Bible Belt and the Rust Belt, West Virginia is a swing state that voted twice for George W. Bush but backed Democrats in six of the eight prior presidential elections.

No Democrat has been elected to the White House without carrying West Virginia since 1916, yet Mr Obama appears to have little chance of winning there in November. Recent opinion polls indicate that Mrs Clinton would narrowly beat Mr McCain in the state but Mr Obama would lose by nearly 20 percentage points.

West Virginia is hostile territory for Mr Obama because it has few of the African-Americans and affluent, college-educated whites who provide his strongest support. The state has the lowest college graduation rate in the US, the second lowest median household income, and one of the highest proportions of white residents, at 96 per cent.

A visit to Mingo