They said it: “man this dude is Krazy!” “you sir are an idiot” “you are a lunatic” “are you really black?” “meanest, most divisive, most irrelevant blog I have ever read”
Taliban Man: Obama doesn’t cut it with “core white Americans”
Politico reporter Ben Smith discovered that Yale’s infamous Taliban Man joined a university friends of Obama Facebook group, but that TM is not necessarily high on the candidate:
Guessing from my experiences in America I don’t think he is going to be a strong leader who could bring important changes. Because, I think as a black man, with a muslim name that is similar to Osama, and a foreign born father he is not going gain the confidence of the core white Americans. I know some liberals support him. But liberals are usually shaky shaky–not– die-hards as the conservatives.
It appears that Yale has not had much of a moderating influence on TM so far, but that (or perhaps therefore) he might make a contribution as a CNN or MSNBC commentator on the ‘08 race.
Let’s hear from TM on Dennis Kucinich, for example. Kucinich’s father was a truck driver and Kucinich is white, does not have a Muslim name, supports the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, opposes any military operation that can cause civilian casualties, and can even claim the experience of having sighted a UFO. Wouldn’t Kucinich bring important changes, Mr. Taliban Man?
Ya see this is why those of you who are smart enough to scope out this blog from time to time know I’ll tell you the pure truth; I’ll give you my honest 100% opinion.
However what I am tired of is having seemingly credible individuals continue to sound off about Barrack Hussein Obama.
Forget about his politics, his best selling book, his appearances on Oprah and the love fest from the rest of the leftist media.
As a black man I continue to be amazed at how intellectually bankrupt most people either pretend to be or not to care that you know it when it comes to sizing up various political issues.
Barrack Obama has absolutely no chance of being president of this country. Zero, nada, zilch. I have said it before and I will keep saying until I start to read either blogs, newspapers or other websites speak honestly on the issues of race and politics.
I recently had a new grandbaby and she will not see a black man as president in her lifetime, nor will her sons or daughters.
So why do you people keep writing and speaking to audiences as if a second sun is rising in the east.
Stop yelling at your computer screen, I know it’s to sell books, magazines, newspapers and for people to read various other websites.
I’m a very simple guy and see things very plain and clear and I hate to waste time discussing or listening to people babble on about pointless shit.
White people don’t want a nigga occupying the White House, period.
And as I have stated before his name automatically disqualifies him.
Any Negro who will tell you otherwise is not being honest.
New poll shows Clinton trailing all five main Republican rivals
So reports the Washington Post. The poll is by Zogby Interactive, so take it for what it’s worth. Having polled nearly 10,000 individuals, Zogby asserts a margin of error of one percent.
According to the poll, Barack Obama and John Edwards lead all Republican rivals, so these results tend to bolster their claim that Clinton is a bad bet for Dems when it comes to recapturing the White House.
JOHN adds: Much as I would like to believe it, I suspect that this poll result means little. Zogby’s Interactive Poll is conducted on the internet, and I would guess that the Democrats who participate in the survey are more or less representative of the Democrats we encounter on the web. That is, they are far out, as John Denver used to say. Most likely, a number of the Democrats who have signed up for Zogby’s interactive poll are netroots types who dramatize their support for more statist or more pacifist candidates by pretending that they won’t vote for Hillary if she is the nominee.
Robert Novak and other Beltway Republicans have found a lot not to like about Mike Huckabee. Glaringly, Novak has nothing to say about Huckabee’s unrepentant open-borders record:For shamnesty.
Oh you bet I’m paying more attention to Mr. Huck as he inches higher in polls.
I think I said this before so sorry for repeating, a very prominent blogger told me some time ago that Huckabee will seem like an attractive alternative to people, but don’t be fooled by his oratory.
He is a big government, liberal masquerading as a Republican.
For me personally, any candidate that advocates any open border bullshit or tuition breaks for illegals or granting them drivers’ licenses or any of that crap will always get the thumbs down from me.
However I’ll tell ya, the You Tube clip below that (I had up recently) with him BEGGING for tax increases scares the shit out of me as it should any other Republican.
Also I received one of these endorsement spam letters from Star Parker, whom I like by the way, but she touts the fact that he is the Baptist Minister. You can read her take HERE I had to laugh when I read because as far as I’m concerned I think far too many “Baptist” ministers are a bunch of scam artists any damm way.
AS her once-formidable lead in national polls dwindles and Barack Obama moves ahead of her in the all-important Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton will likely intensify her negative campaign against her rivals.
The Clintons’ political MO has always had a good dose of negative campaigning, especially when the going gets rough. There’s no reason to assume that they will alter their game plan now.
I remember Bill’s race for re-election as Arkansas governor back in 1990, when he found himself falling behind Hal McCrae, his unknown Democratic primary opponent.
After Clinton’s 10 years as governor, McCrae’s attacks - featuring Daliesque stretched-out clocks tolling the time for him to go - were hitting home. Hillary decided to attend McCrae’s next press conference and engage him in a public, impromptu debate about his attacks on her husband. She gave as good as she got - and her foray marked the start of a four-week campaign of negative ads that brought McCrae down.
The Clintons used negative ads and attacks in each gubernatorial campaign - and, of course, in Bill’s two races for president.
Until now, the ‘08 Democratic contest has been a referendum on Hillary: The basic decision facing voters has been: Would you vote for her? The Clintons need to get people thinking about whether they like her rivals any better.
Negative ads would do the trick - but at a price: By attacking an opponent, they’d concede that Hillary isn’t inevitable. That would give Obama (or John Edwards, should they decide to aim at him instead) added credibility - and perhaps more access to funding and contributions.
Historically, such considerations have never deterred the Clintons - who are always ones to anticipate their adversaries’ strength rather than to belittle it.
A British teacher facing 40 lashes in Sudan over a school teddy bear named Muhammad will discover today whether she will be charged with blasphemy.Gillian Gibbons, 54, is being questioned for a second day by police in Khartoum on suspicion of insulting Islam’s prophet for allowing her seven-year-old pupils to give the toy the name of the prophet.
She was moved to a cell at the CID Criminal Police Exploration Bureau for further questioning. A file on the case will be sent to the department of public prosecutions and a judge should decide today whether she should be charged.
Robert Boulos, the director of Unity High School, the British school where Ms Gibbons worked, said that she was in “very high spirits and being treated well”.
Interrogated and jailed over a bunch of stuffed animals.
Where is Amnesty International?
From Michelle Malkin, AYFKM!!!!!!!!!!!
I going to rename one of my teddy bears Mohammed! Yes Snoop has Teddy bears! oh screw you!
A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was arrested at her lodgings at Khartoum’s Unity High School yesterday, accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam.
Her colleagues said that they feared for her safety after reports that groups of young men had gathered outside the Khartoum police station where she was taken and were shouting death threats…
…Teachers at the school, in central Khartoum only a mile from the River Nile, said that Ms Gibbons had made an innocent mistake by letting her pupils choose their favourite name for the toy as part of a school project.
So it is no wonder that many of this year’s candidates have what might be called food issues — the same kinds that plague the rest of us, especially at this time of year, but exacerbated by the brutal demands of campaign life.The Democratic contenders include Gov. Bill Richardson, a veteran of the Atkins and liquid diets who wears a double chin despite daily workouts. Senator Barack Obama, who was chubby as a child, refers to himself as skinny in speeches and barely touches fatty foods — except at events like the Iowa State Fair, where he ate caramel corn, pork and a corn dog for the cameras. At one campaign event, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she prayed to God to help her lose weight.
I just rolled my eyes when I read this article and then watched the GMA clip below.
Now I understand that these candidates are scrutinized for every damm thing from the clothes they wear (remember Fred Thompson’s high dollar shoes at the Iowa state fair) to Hillary’s cleavage controversy.
People are obsessed by the most trivial bullshit when it comes to the candidates instead of concentrating on the substance of their political views.
No I’m not shocked by that, most of us are snobs when it comes the things we hold dear.
Everything from how your yard is maintained, the color you choose to paint your house, the style of jeans you choose to wear, the color and style of your hair, what computer you own, MAC vs PC.
All of us are judged one way or another and I am certain that there are food Nazi’s out there closely monitoring each of the candidates to count the daily caloric intake of each individual and will endorse accordingly.
Ok I’ll be honest here;
Do I want a fat ass to be our president? No.
Do I want some alcoholic lush knocking down shots with world leaders? No.
Do I want some crusty, toothless, smelly, tasteless bum representing the richest nation on earth? Of course not.
However what I do what is someone who is not afraid to be who they are.
I’m a simple guy, give me a good burger or ribs, fried catfish, crab legs or a good steak.
I love Sugar Smacks, Frosted Flakes, cheese biscuits, sweet cornbread and strawberry cheesecake.
If I was a candidate and was asked to change my eating habits to appease a bunch of fucken nuts I would tell them to kiss my black ass.
If you are forced to change one of the most fundamental individual characteristics as what you like to eat, then just what else would you change to cop a vote?
I have no problem with a candidate’s honest change of diet for healthy reasons but the line in the article where Hillary states that “she prayed to God to help her lose weight,”
is the ultimate in political “food” pandering.
Reacting to West’s criticism, justice ministry says 19-year-old broke Islamic law by having an affair
RIYADH–Saudi Arabia is defending a court’s decision to sentence a woman who was gang-raped to 200 lashes, saying she was having an extramarital affair in violation of Islamic laws.The case of the 19-year-old Shiite woman who, along with a male companion, was abducted and raped by seven men has drawn international attention. Canada has denounced the “barbaric” sentence and even the United States, a close ally of the conservative kingdom, offered mild criticism.
“The woman in the case is married and has confessed to establishing a relationship in violation of sharia law,” the Saudi Justice Ministry said in a statement yesterday.
It said she and her companion were alone in a dark area outdoors when they were noticed by the men who later raped them.
“We reiterate that judicial rulings in this virtuous country … are based on God’s book and the traditions of his Prophet and that no ruling is issued without being based on evidence,” said the statement carried by official news agency SPA.
Ruling according to Saudi Arabia’s strict reading of Islamic law, a court originally sentenced the woman to 90 lashes for being alone with an unrelated man and the rapists to jail terms of up to five years.
But last week, the Supreme Judicial Council increased her sentence to 200 lashes and six months in prison and ordered the rapists to serve two to nine years in jail.
The woman’s husband has told local media they would appeal, even though the judge had warned that the sentence could be increased again if she loses the appeal.
The justice ministry noted that the law gives the right of appeal, but warned that “resorting to the media” could have “a negative effect on the other parties in the case.”
The court dealing with the case revoked the licence of the woman’s lawyer, who has also been summoned by the justice ministry to appear before a disciplinary panel.
In Ottawa, Josée Verner, minister responsible for the status of women, recently said the Conservative government planned to complain to the Saudi government about the “barbaric” sentence that will only further violate the victim.
Human Rights Watch has called on King Abdullah to drop all charges against the woman.
The Saudi legal system is dominated by clerics who adhere to the kingdom’s austere Sunni interpretation of Islamic law.
Des Moines, IO (CNS) - Queen of Daytime TV Oprah Winfrey will be going on the road to join Senator Barrack Obama on his presidential campaign trail in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
The presidential hopeful had this to say about the billionaire celebrity making a hands-on movement to campaign for him. He says, “She says she wants to do something, which I was actually surprised by.” He adds, “But I think it’s interesting to her.”
Winfrey’s debut appearance would be on December 8th in Iowa with visits to Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. The following day, December 9, she’ll be making a stop over at Columbia, S.C. and then finally heading towards Manchester, N.H.
It has been speculated whether the decision to personally support Obama was the result of former President Clinton supporting his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, who is also in the running for the presidential seat.
Months ago, Winfrey has already vocalized her support to the candidate. And in September, Winfrey has successfully raised $3 million for Obama’s campaign for the 2008 elections.
Read more here at Hot Air, or go to any number of blogs, but I’m wondering who gives a fuck?
We need to rid the GOP of these old school rednecks so the party can get more credibility.
He can join that racist fuck Democrat who lost her seat in Louisiana and they can start a redneck image consulting firm.
What do you know — we have a genius observation from the GOP Clown Car. The presidential hopeful and Law & Order actor seems to have felt the love from the “fair and balanced” network. Pull out the tiny violin. (The Hill):
Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) suggested on Sunday that Fox News is biased against his campaign, charging that the network highlights commentators who have been critical of his run for the presidency.In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace pressed Thompson on how some conservatives have lambasted Thompson’s campaign and showed clips of Fox conservative commentators Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes criticizing the former senator.
Thompson said, “This has been a constant mantra of Fox, to tell you the truth.” He noted that other conservatives have praised his bid for the GOP nomination and took issue with a Fox promo that focused on polling in New Hampshire, where Thompson is registering in the single digits.
Thompson, in a firm, but measured tone, scolded Wallace: “…for you to highlight nothing but the negatives in terms of the polls and then put on your own guys who have been predicting for four months, really, that I couldn’t do it, kind of skew things a little bit. There’s a lot of other opinion out there.”
Liberals have used their control of the media to perform the most astonishing feats of propagandistic jujitsu.
Exposing Soviet agents was turned into a bad thing by labeling it “McCarthyism.” Similarly, debunking phonies has been spun as the dark practice of “swiftboating.”
It’s implied that those who revealed John “Botched Joke” Kerry as not a war hero but a seditious fraud were spreading false allegations.
But Boone Pickens established the legitimacy of their wartime remembrances by offering $1 million to anyone who could find an error in the 2004 Swift Vets and POWs for Truth ads.
When Moonbats say “Support the Troops, Bring Them Home Now”, it means the same thing it meant in the 60’s and 70’s:
“Bring them home so that we can ridicule them, spit on them, call them baby-killers and rapists, and treat them like second class citizens for the rest of their lives.”
The Washington Times serves up a nice, juicy slab of red meat to conservatives today with an exposé of an Islamist plot to attack the US through Mexico. According to Sara Carter, Fort Huachuca had to change its security procedures after determining that radical Islamists had forges an alliance with Mexican drug cartels to attack it. The US has detained Afghans and Iraqis in Texas after detaining them in connection to the plot:
Fort Huachuca, the nation’s largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.
“A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the remainder not yet in the United States,” according to one of the documents, an FBI advisory that was distributed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, Customs and Border Protection and the Justice Department, among several other law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. “The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners.”
Sixty foreign fighters wanted to attack Fort Huachuca? It would make a tempting target for both drug cartels and Islamist radicals to be sure. It houses the US Army Intelligence Center and provides training for military intelligence units. The NCOA also trains the backbone of the Army — its non-commissioned officers. An attack on this base would make headlines around the world.
Starts slow but the initial demand for license and registration contains just enough ‘tude to make it worth watching in full. If you can’t be bothered, skip ahead to 2:00 or (-8:00 if you’re counting down) and see what happens when electricity is introduced into the mix of an ornery cop, a driver who doesn’t take him seriously, and his pregnant wife. The investigation’s already begun:
The Utah Highway Patrol has a nine-page policy on Taser use, including in instances where “a subject is threatening himself, an officer or another person with physical force, and when other means of controlling the subject are unreasonable or could cause injury to the officer, the subject or others,” Nigbur said.
Any threat of injury to the officer here?
Maybe it’s just me but I have never understood how you white folks get away with talking to the police the way you do. Y’all I guess have this imaginary get out of jail free card which allows you to act like a fool when encountering members of the law enforcement community.
Well in case some of you have been under a rock and have not seen the video by Chris Rock “A guide on how not to get your ass kicked (or tased) by the police.
Democrats like to define themselves as the party of poor and middle-income Americans, but a new study says they now represent the majority of the nation’s wealthiest congressional districts.In a state-by-state, district-by-district comparison of wealth concentrations based on Internal Revenue Service income data, Michael Franc, vice president of government relations at the Heritage Foundation, found that the majority of the nation’s wealthiest congressional jurisdictions were represented by Democrats.
He also found that more than half of the wealthiest households were concentrated in the 18 states where Democrats hold both Senate seats.
“If you take the wealthiest one-third of the 435 congressional districts, we found that the Democrats represent about 58 percent of those jurisdictions,” Mr. Franc said.
A key measure of each district’s wealth was the number of single-filer taxpayers earning more than $100,000 a year and married couples filing jointly who earn more than $200,000 annually, he said.
But in a broader measurement, the study also showed that of the 167 House districts where the median annual income was higher than the national median of $48,201, a slight majority, 84 districts, were represented by Democrats. Median means that half of all income earners make more than that level and half make less.
Mr. Franc’s study also showed that contrary to the Democrats’ tendency to define Republicans as the party of the rich, “the vast majoritiy of unabashed conservative House members hail from profoundly middle-class districts.”
“I just found the pattern across the board to be very interesting. That pattern shows the likelihood of electing a Democrat to the House is very closely correlated with how many wealthy households are in that district,” Mr. Franc said in an interview with The Washington Times.
Well thank God the voters of Louisiana particularly the black folks did not let another Democrat get away with being a racist fuck and voted her ass out.
BATON ROUGE — If this were Washington, D.C., state Rep. Don Cazayoux of New Roads would be the presumed speaker of the House when the new Legislature convenes.
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The only two incumbent lawmakers to lose in either chamber were Democrats. Chris Hazel dispatched Rep. Rick Farrar of Pineville in the 27th District primary. Challenger Joe Harrison topped Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez of Morgan City to claim the 51st District seat in the runoff.
No mention of Buckwheat, imagine that. Typical idiot liberal media jackasses!
The site Silobreaker had this, only site I could find who mentions the defeat of this racist.
On Saturday, State Representative Carla Blanchard Dartez (D-La.) lost her re-election bid to Republican challenger Joe Harrison in a heated and controversial run-off. Yet the largest newspaper in Louisiana, The Times-Picayune (TP), chose to bury it as an afterthought in its coverage of the statewide election results. The Times-Picayune online edition, NOLA.com, placed this paragraph at the end of its story.
The only two incumbent lawmakers to lose in either chamber were Democrats. Chris Hazel dispatched Rep. Rick Farrar of Pineville in the 27th District primary. Challenger Joe Harrison topped Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez of Morgan City to claim the 51st District seat in the runoff.
The TP made no mention of the ‘Buckwheat’ racial slur or the other controversies which surrounded this incumbent Democrat. Why is that?
Fellow Newsbuster Richard Newcomb first reported this story and told of the failure of major news outlets to mention that Dartez was a Democrat.
Last week, State Representative Carla Blanchard Dartez (D-La.) made a particularly controversial closing comment to a former civil rights worker. Dartez, in ending a phone call with Hazel Boykin, said “Talk to you later, Buckwheat.” Hazel Boykin is the mother of Jerome Boykin, president of the Terrebonne Parish NAACP chapter.
Mrs. Boykin and her son were offended by the racial slur and her son called for the defeat of Dartez in the upcoming run-off election. Despite support from local black clergy and other Democrats, Boykin’s demands to remove Dartez from office appealed to voters and she was defeated.
The media loves a story about racial controversy, particularly in southern states. For example, the “Jena 6” case, built around a simple assault charge in a small town - in Louisiana no less - was considered newsworthy. So why was there no media coverage of this political defeat, mostly due to the racial slur controversy, other than this brief piece on the USAToday blog? Where was the leading story in the MSM?
Could the MSM have a double standard for people caught in these situations? Just ask Don Imus or Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.).Also posted at Conservative Belle.
Found the link to this subject on the blog What Bubba Knows, he links to an old article on this topic from the blog Sweetness & Light.
I obviously missed this article, so here it tis, check it out.
Read this carefully … ¤ Taxpayer-Supported US-Hating 501c3 “Charities”Even a casual study of these organizations reveals the incestuous nature
of these groups. A small number of professional America-haters have figured
out how to get the US taxpayer (YOU) to support their activities.
Quiz Time: How many of the leftist organizations have ties to the Communist party?
If you didnt say ‘All of them’, go back and read the whole thing again.
A sample:
Today being the tradition deadline for filing taxes in the US, (I did say this was an OLD article right? Pay attention!) it seems a fitting time to remind ourselves of the almost countless America-hating groups that enjoy taxpayer support by claiming to be 501c3 “charities.”As you write out your check to the IRS, bear in mind that you are helping to support these organizations with your tax dollars.
Much of the information in the following sampling comes from the highly estimable Discover The Networks:
CodePink For Peace
CodePink was founded in November 2002 by four radicals: Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and a radical Wiccan activist calling herself Starhawk. Ms. Evans is the nominal leader of the organization, which works closely with Medea Benjamin’s group Global Exchange and Leslie Cagan’s antiwar coalition United For Peace and Justice.
In conjunction with Global Exchange and United For Peace and Justice, CodePink helped establish Iraq Occupation Watch to monitor potential American abuses — including “possible violations of human rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly” — during the reconstruction of Iraq. CodePink’s and IOW’s stated objective is to thin US forces in Iraq by causing soldiers to seek discharges and be sent home as conscientious objectors.
In December 2004 CodePink, Global Exchange, and Families for Peace raised and delivered $600,000 in medical supplies and cash to the “insurgents” who were fighting American troops in Fallujah, Iraq.
Since 2005 CodePink has staged weekly protests outside of Walter Reed Army Medical Center where its members harass US soldiers wounded in combat in the Middle East.
As part of a national coalition led by the Ruckus Society, CodePink runs an aggressive Counter-Recruitment campaign aimed at dissuading young men and women from joining the US military.
CodePink has run anti-American advertisements in Iraqi newspapers. They have also traveled to the Middle East to meet with foreign leaders, including members of the Iraqi Parliament — in direct violation of the Logan Act.
CodePink is currently seeking funds to send a CodePink “delegation” to Iran where they say they will meet with Iranian government officials. “This citizen diplomats delegation, led by CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin and Colonel/Diplomat Ann Wright, will return to pressure Congress, educate the public and speak to the media about Iranian and American perspectives for preventing another disastrous war.”
CodePink not only lobbies Congress on a near daily basis, they even “occupy” Congressional offices. It is against the law for 501c3s to lobby Congress.
Partisan liberals are gearing up for their “stop Rudy” campaign. I can feel it.
Here are some choppily edited video clips, found at Dana Goldstein’s blog (who found it at Talking Points Memo), of Rudy Giuliani’s frequent invocations of September 11th during interviews, debates, and campaign appearances. Dana calls this a tick (as in, a nervous tick), whereas I would say it’s a tack — a strategy to remind Americans of his own leadership, certainly, and by extension of the leadership of many other Americans on that awful and awe-inspiring day.
People who take issue with a leading presidential candidate, one who oversaw the most intense locus of that day’s crisis — oversaw it more directly than either the president or vice president — should have to answer the following:
“September 11th is a date which will live in infamy.” Do you agree , or disagree, with that statement? (Yes or No.)
Ron Paul, as we’ve mentioned several times, has garnered some attention due to the support that white supremacist groups have given to his campaign. (more 411 here)
But, while it a statement against racism, it’s kind of an…odd one. Let’s go through his statement in its entirety.
A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.
Well, that’s an interesting start. I seem to remember that way back in the good ol’ Rugged Individualism days, the rugged individualists in about half the country owned slaves. Black slaves, to be precise. That seems to me like the rugged individualists were sort of obsessed with racial group identities, at least insofar as they determined which group could be legally owned by other groups.
As I remember, they even promulgated very specific laws about how much black blood (one drop, basically) one could posesss and be considered a potential slave. Many of the rugged individualists also frowned on sexual relations between racial groups. And, by “frowned on”, I mean “hung the offending member of the disfavored group”.
I don’t think that being “uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities” is a particularly new phenomena in American cultural life.
WASHINGTON – Dire “global warming” predictions are based on bad science from the very start, says a veteran meteorologist who found surface temperatures recorded throughout the U.S. are done so with almost no regard to scientific standards.As a result of his shocking initial findings that temperature monitoring stations were constructed and placed without regard to achieving accurate recordings of natural temperatures, Anthony Watts set out to investigate the facilities used by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
To qualify as a properly maintained temperature station, sensors must be placed in elevated, slatted boxes on flat ground surrounded by a clear surface on a slope of less than 19 degrees with surrounding grass and vegetations ground cover of less than 10 centimeters high. The sensors must be located at least 100 meters from artificial heating or reflecting surfaces, such as buildings, concrete surfaces and parking lots.
“Scoreboard” shirts referencing Quantrill’s Raid not sponsored by MU
A controversial rivalry shirt referring to Quantrill’s Raid was made for protest, not for mass production.The yellow T-shirts depicting Lawrence on fire with the word “scoreboard” and the Missouri Tiger logo beneath it were not produced by the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Nathan Fowler, who could not be reached for comment, posted a photo of the shirt on an AOL blog last week. On the back was Quantrill’s slogan, “Raise the black flag and ride hard, boys. Our cause is just and our enemies many.”
Misty Nolke, manager at the Team Store, the official apparel store for the Missouri Tigers, said she had not heard of the shirt. She said only three official rivalry shirts were available, none of which refer to the civil war nor to Quantrill’s raid.
Jeff James, 32, St. Charles, Mo., resident and Missouri alumnus, said he produced the shirts in a silent protest against the continued use of the Jayhawk mascot by the University of Kansas. He said that at the time of the AOL blog post, only four shirts had been produced. He said he made the shirt for himself and three of his friends for personal use only.
“I was not aware that the photo was going to be taken or posted to an Internet message board,” James said. “Nor did I realize the immediate stir and reaction or demand for the shirts. I have decided personally not to move forward with any sort of sales or spreading of shirts of this or similar nature.”
James said he had seen several shirts with civil war references made after he produced the “scoreboard” shirt. James cited the Wikipedia.com page on jayhawking to explain that the University of Kansas made reference to civil war atrocities each time it used the Jayhawk logo.
Mark Hersey, interim project director for the Kansas Union-sponsored Web site “This Week in KU History,” said mascots took on lives of their own. He said that the exact origin of the term Jayhawk was disputed among historians but that it did become synonymous with Kansas and Freestaters in the mid-19th century.
“Wikipedia is not the most reliable source; anyone can put anything on there,” Hersey said. “There is a gap between the historical origins of something and what it means conventionally.”
Hersey said he acknowledged that atrocities were committed on both sides of the rivalry, but that it was tough to find sympathy for the Missouri side because it was a slave state.
James said he recognized that slavery was an issue at the time of Quantrill’s raid but that it was not his intention to support prejudice or injustice toward blacks.
“If the University of Kansas acknowledges these points and agrees that its mascot can be seen as offensive and an inappropriate symbol to use, I will then do what I am sure many Kansans would like to see happen to the shirts I made; I will burn them,” James said.
Hersey said the Jayhawk mascot was not offensive to any particular group, and that it would be ridiculous to expect the University of Kansas to change its mascot at this point.
Why did so many of the “undecided voters” who asked questions at last week’s Democrat debate turn out to be either anti-war, labor, race politics or Democrat party activists?
This from Stop the ACLU. I said in a post a couple of months ago that I really liked Duncan Hunter but could not figure out why he did not get more support. I also said that I thought he would be the perfect VP too.
I too question the support of Rudy and Mitt, the very idea that these two could represent the GOP is a sober one.
As we look at the potential candidates, there are too many who follow the MSM’s push like little lambs. We look at polls, name recognition, and electability factors. What we should be looking at are the issues that matter to us.As far as conservative principles go we can throw Rudy Giuliani out of the picture straight up. The only thing he has going for him is the National Defense/anti-Hillary thing. It’s hard to tell where Mitt Romney really stands. Tom Tancredo has a great stance on the border issue, and solid conservative credentials…but he is running on a one issue platform. Huckabee is just too much of a nannystater for me. Ron Paul? I really don’t want to go there. Suffice it to say that I personally disagree with him on the war on terror and several other issues.
While I have tried to be neutral in coverage here, because I am still undecided at this point, I have been leaning towards Fred Thompson. He has solid conservative credentials and a record to show for it. Our friend, and fellow contributor here, Lobo, likes Duncan Hunter. Duncan Hunter has a great conservative record as well, and is definitely right on the issues that are important.
I like Duncan Hunter as well. I’ve continued to lean towards Fred on the electability factor. However, that factor may be fading. In a recent poll of New Hampshire he is really sliding. It’s also a little worrisome that some of his original backers are losing faith. Of course none of that matters. We are throwing out the polls and electability factor in this discussion. There have been plenty of surprises so far and anything can still happen.
The folks at Freerepublic have narrowed their choice down to Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter. These are the two they think can beat the defeat the liberal abortionists Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton. Some folks there are rooting for a Thompson/Hunter ticket. They have put up a poll if you are interested in participating.
However, the point I’m trying to get at is the unfair treatment by the MSM towards Duncan Hunter. I’ve also been curious as to why so many conservatives are backing a liberal like Rudy Giuliani and questionable characters like Mitt Romney. Why is so little attention being paid towards a solid conservative like Duncan Hunter?
CHARITON, Iowa — Barack Obama had just ended his stump speech before a friendly audience in this tiny southern Iowa town when Stephen Scott’s hand shot up with a question. Would Mr. Obama, as president, have signed last summer’s failed “amnesty bill” for illegal immigrants, Mr. Scott, a local landscape painter, asked testily.Mr. Obama cautiously walked through a long answer that ended with a plan to give legal status to long-established illegal immigrants. “There. Another question,” he said, shutting down discussion.The debate over how to deal with illegal immigrants split the Republican Party two years ago, infuriating its social-conservative base and driving away Hispanic voters. It could be even more perilous for Democrats.
Democratic strategists believe that Hispanic voters could swing a decisive handful of states — including Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada — to the Democrats in 2008, ensuring the election of a Democratic president and cementing a Democratic majority for years to come. But the party’s blue-collar, middle-income and African-American supporters are increasingly angry about illegal immigration, much of it Hispanic.
Democrats “are pretty jumpy on the issue,” says Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat who pushed for immigration overhaul in the House. “They would prefer to allow the Republicans to shepherd the Hispanic votes into the Democratic column without having to scare away a single other voter themselves,” he says.
Defending Your Family from Black Intruders May Be Racist
Monday, November 19th, 2007
From Moonbattery, AYFKM. If a bunch of Niggas came into my house uninvited you can be I won’t be sayin’ “hey brothas, what’s up, can I get you a 40?”
This is fucken bullshit.
If your home is broken into by criminals of privileged ethnicity, the NAACP wants you to think twice before defending your family.Three blacks broke into a white family’s home in rural northern California to rob it, beating a 19-year-old with a baseball bat severely enough that he suffered brain damage and can no longer feed himself. Homeowner Shannon Edmonds opened fire on the intruders, killing two of them. The third, Renato Hughes Jr., ran away, into the arms of the NAACP, which wants to know why Edmonds was not arrested for saving his family’s lives.
According to Rev. Amos Brown, head of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP, the case demonstrates that the legal system is racist in 91% Caucasian Lake County, where the incident occurred.
Hughes’ mother, a San Francisco schoolteacher, heartily agrees; she calls the case a “legal lynching.”
No doubt a more progressive community would give Hughes back his bat and let him carry on with his mayhem, rather than holding him responsible for his fellow criminals’ deaths under the Provocative Act doctrine, which applies when it is “reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner.”
Hughes’ legal prospects are bright. The judge granted a defense motion for a change of venue. That sure did the trick for O.J.
Another Hillary Clinton donor fraud gets busted. Mauricio Celis was indicted on Friday. He has donated more than $415,000 to Democratic political campaigns since 2002.
The Nueces County Grand Jury returned felony indictments today against 36 year old Mauricio Celis. KIII reported on the four indictments:
1. falsely holding oneself as a lawyer
2. impersonating a public servant
3. state jail felony theft
4. aggravated perjuryMaurico Celis is, of course, a major democratic donor to candidates Hillary Clinton and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill.
The APreported:
A major contributor to Democratic causes and political races was indicted Friday on charges of falsely holding himself out as a lawyer and impersonating a public servant.
Mauricio Celis, a Corpus Christi businessman, has a controlling interest in the CGT Law Group of Corpus Christi even though he is not a lawyer.
Now, he’s being accused of practicing law without a license. Texas law prohibits anyone from owning a controlling interest in a law firm unless he is a licensed lawyer.
A Nueces County grand jury on Friday indicted him on seven counts of falsely holding himself out as a lawyer, a third-degree felony. Each count stems from separate incidents in which Celis was listed as an attorney, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported in its online edition. Celis’ business cards, letterhead and his firm’s Web site identified him as an attorney licensed in Mexico. One business fax sheet stated he was licensed in Washington, D.C., and California. Celis also signed a settlement document as an attorney. He told Police Chief Bryan Smith he was licensed in Mexico, according to the indictment.
Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott also has sued Celis for allegedly practicing law without a license…
Celis also was charged with impersonating a public servant, a third-degree felony, for flashing a Duval County sheriff’s badge in an incident near his Corpus Christi home.
In that case, police reported that a naked woman ran from Celis’ home to a convenience store, claiming she had been in a hot tub and groped against her will. Celis quickly followed her into the store, wearing a bathrobe. He flashed a sheriff’s deputy badge from a nearby county and told police at the store that he would take custody of the woman, police said.
Found this piece from the website Blackprof.com.
I remember back in March coming back from D.C. when US Airways had this massive computer glitch where thousands of people were stranded on the east coast I was stuck at Reagan National and instead of waiting in line for a flight that was never going to happen anyway I spent an extra night in a D.C.
That day, I asked myself the same thing, why do people continue to tolerate the shitty travel inconveniences caused by the airlines.
American’s should just say “screw this” we are not going to fly until the Airline industry gets its shit together. However spending money that folks clearly don’t have is far more important. So why not spend it on a hardly deserved vacation traveling in overcrowded germ vessels, with crying babies and deodorant deficient individuals.
If the bursting of the housing bubble and the ensuing credit crunch were taking a toll on consumer spending, it certainly was not evident on Continental flight 449 from San Francisco to Newark, New Jersey. The flight was packed uncomfortably, as most are these days, and most of the commiseraters were leisure travelers. I was returning from a speaking commitment which, although inconvenient, I felt duty-bound to fulfill.
As passengers slogged onto the plane, struggled to fit oversized luggage into bins out of fear of having to check them, and forlornly maneuvered themselves into seats their waists long ago outgrew, I wondered to myself, “Why do Americans tolerate this?” Why, in particular, do we subject ourselves to the inhumanity of air travel to take a vacation that most of us cannot afford?
Americans consume like it’s our birthright, but we save like it’s the Great Depression. Not since 1933 have Americans had the negative rate of savings they experienced in 2006. Yet for all our fetish with consumption, there is broad discontent with much of the service we throw money away for.
Speak to someone about the quality of their cell phone service and hear the expletives fly: a Consumer Reports survey reveals that cellular carriers received an average score of 66 out of 100 for their service. Cable T.V.? Be prepared to take time off from the very employment that enables you to pay the cable bill in order to wait for a service call. Computer problems? Consumer Reports indicates that free manufacturer support is “abysmal,” resolving only 53% of the problems phoned in. And then there are the airlines. With an overall satisfaction rating of 72 out of 100, they beat computer tech support and cellular carriers, but spearheading a den of mediocrity hardly gives bragging rights. It’s all enough to make you wish that the corporate cons who are bilking us out of money that we should be saving spill enough red ink to dye each of their stockholder’s hair.
Who’s to blame for this incompetent capitalism? Consumers. Spending money that we don’t have on largely discretionary services with which we’re dissatisfied borders on obsessive-compulsive behavior. Economic theory tell us that competition spurs an incentive to innovate and improve services. When all competitors regress to a very low mean, however, services become uniformly bad and economic theory receives a deserved black eye. But one economic theory remains credible: if we don’t buy, business will respond or go under.
In 1955, blacks in Montgomery, Alabama organized a successful boycott of the Montgomery City Lines bus company, which practiced a de-humanizing form of segregation by requiring black passengers to yield their seats to whites and heaping gratuitous rudeness and verbal abuse on black customers. Martin Luther King, Jr. had hoped for a modest participation of 60% of the city’s black population, but instead virtually all of the city’s 55, 000 black residents stayed off the buses for a sustained period. These would-be passengers forewent a service that was essential to their livelihoods. Black citizens organized alternatives to the bus, like walking and car pools. Bus company revenues plummeted, and the city’s downtown businesses hemorrhaged profits as well.
Americans could learn a great deal from the Montgomery bus boycott. The recent National Blackout Day sought to recapture the essence of the bus boycott by urging citizens to suspend spending for a few days to show unity around causes such as Jena 6. Here’s a consumer variation of the blackout idea, one that might induce white Americans to act with blacks out of interest convergence: Americans should refuse to fly during the Thanksgiving Holidays of 2008.
Imagine the impact on the airlines’ revenues if a substantial fraction of the flying public refused to fly during the busiest season for the airlines. Yes, this would mean cooking at home or celebrating locally, but in the longer run, it could send a message to big business that our debt-soaked dollars deserve better service.
A couple of items from the blog PowerlineSo reports the Washington Post. The poll is by Zogby Interactive, so take it for what it’s worth. Having polled nearly 10,000 individuals, Zogby asserts a margin of error of one percent.
