Bill Clinton's role in the Whitehouse - I shudder to think!

So what role doe Bill Clinton believe he will play? Well certainly senior advisor - but he wouldn't want to undermine the Vice President or the Secretary of State. How nice of him.

Clinton said his best use on behalf of his wife, Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, were she president, would be "to try to help her talk through all these problems and then to be available for very specific assignments that would not in any way undermine the authority of the vice president or the
secretary of state."

Please Lord, isn't two terms of Bill Clinton enough?? Does ANYONE HONESTLY BELIEVE HE WILL BE WILLING TO DEFER TO HILLARY, even though his name is not on the ballot?? A nightmare approaches!

Are the American people ready for Marxism a la Clinton?

Hillary seems ready for the government to take over the private sector to put things right in the economy - are we ready for Marxism a al Clinton??

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said that if she became president, the federal government would take a more active role in the economy to address what she called the excesses of the market and of the Bush administration.

A state complains about tighter immigration rules for employers!

A state is very angry about the new Arizona law that places more demands on employers to know whether their new employee is in the US legally.

The result of this new law is a flood of Mexican worker - all without money or jobs! The travesty of it all!! Of course, the delicious irony of it all is that it is a . . . . wait for it . . . . . wait for it . . . . . MEXICAN state that is complaining about the return of Mexican citizens from their illegal stint in the US.

"you are entering the twilight zone"

The Mexican delegation, members of Sonora's 58th Legislature, belong to the national Action Party (PAN), the party of Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón. They spoke at the offices of Project PPEP, a nonprofit that provides job retraining for farm workers and other programs.

The lawmakers were to travel to Phoenix for a Wednesday breakfast meeting with Hispanic legislators. They want to tell them how the law will affect Mexican families on both sides of the border.

"How can they pass a law like this?" asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano Gamez, who represents Nogales. "There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona," she said in Spanish.

"Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems" it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs, she said.

"We are one family, socially and economically," she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona.

You get that?

"We are one family, socially and economically," she said of the people of Sonora
and Arizona.

No mame, we are not. We are two separate, distinct and sovereign countries.

Please Bill - just keep talking!!!

Bill Clinton, the gift that keeps on giving.

Excuse me - health clinics aren't supposed to make a profit???

It seems as thou the Mayor of Boston believes clinics aren't supposed to make a profit. And god forbid that a retailer provide affordable healthcare.

Menino blasted state regulators for paving the way Wednesday for the in-store clinics, which are designed to provide treatment for sore throats, poison ivy, and other minor illnesses.

The decision by the state Public Health Council, "jeopardizes patient safety," Menino said in a written statement. "Limited service medical clinics run by merchants in for-profit corporations will seriously compromise quality of care and hygiene. Allowing retailers to make money off of sick people is wrong."

Get that, allowing retailers to make money off of sick people is wrong! This is what the left will bring us if we allow them to.

The Dems want "change" - what the hell does that mean???

If I hear the mantra of “change” one more time, I think my head might explode. Let’s explore some of the things that might change with election of a Democrat President and see if we can see where the Democrat party might take us.

It’s time for someone other than President Bush: well, there is a two term limit for President, he’s gone, so no need to worry about change there, it’s going to happen.

A change in our economy: Well, let’s see. The stock market is up 20% since President Bush was elected. Not bad. Since his tax breaks were enacted the US Treasury is taking in record dollars – unfortunately Congress has seen fit to spend at a record level as well. Much has also been said about the housing market and the number of bad home loans in the market place. Yet, this is the direct result of another “change” demanded by Congress – that banks adjust their lending requirements to make it easier for people to get a home loan. Well, after numerous threats, the banking industry did just that, and, oddly, people who had a hard time qualifying for loans in years gone by are now defaulting. Change indeed. As for our labor market, unemployment is at just under 5 per cent. This has been accepted as full employment for years.

So, stock market up 20%, record money coming into the treasury, a housing market that is simply correcting and a labor market at full employment. Just what would the Democrat party change?

US Security: Since 9/11 there has not been an attack on US soil nor has there been an attack on a US Embassy or other US interest globally (excluding Iraq and Afghanistan). Our meticulous efforts in Iraq are beginning to pay real benefits with the surge drastically reducing attacks within the country and allowing the Iraqi people to begin to return to a normal life. As a result of our direct efforts we have begun the process of creating an independent Iraq that is a true friend of the US. We have freed over 50 million Muslims from the tyrannies of Saddam and the Taliban through these efforts.

No attacks on US interests, real movement in Iraq, freeing of 50 million Muslims. Again, what would the Democrat party change?

Leave Iraq immediately: Not all, but most Democrat candidates have vowed a rapid withdrawal from Iraq. So what would follow our quick exit? No one is saying. Oddly, for as much as President Bush was criticized for his lack of evaluation of the result of our invasion of Iraq, the Democrats are now simply repeating the mantra of exit, exit, exit – all without evaluation of what this result would be. Given that we import around 60% of our oil needs, much of it from the Mideast, is it truly in our best interest to allow a power vacuum to occur in Iraq? Is this a change we want – a Mideast in turmoil?

How about immigration: Across the board, all Democrat candidates are in lock-step – we need to find a way to convert the illegal aliens among us into legal citizens. Not only that, their families and their relatives as well. Not only that, how about in-state tuition for their children when they attend college, not to mention a free education in our local school systems. This is positive change? – Allowing criminals to steal the resources of the US? The only change this brings is the stealing of jobs from US citizens and legal immigrants and the theft of our educational and healthcare resources. It would seem that the only changes any Democrat is recommending would increase the harm done by illegal immigrants while punishing those immigrants willing to play by the rules. Is this the type of change we want?

The US Healthcare System: Again, virtually every Democrat candidate is ready to scrap our current healthcare system in favor of a “universal healthcare system”. Just what does that mean? I would like anyone to name a single social program run by the government that has been successful. Social Securing is quickly coming to an end, Medicare costs are spinning out of control, the healthcare provided to our military veterans is approaching a disgrace – and the Democrat candidates want to now bring this expertise to our healthcare system? This is the change we all want? As for the success of socialized medicine in other western countries – name one, just one country with an acceptable socialized medicine program. Canadians, at least those that can afford it, flock to the US for healthcare, Brits pull their own teeth, Swedes wait weeks for evaluation after heart attacks – is this what we are willing to accept in the US?

So please, change? Not a single Democrat has a policy of change that will benefit the citizens of the US, not a single one.

No woman is illegal!!! - Of course not - - unless . . .

unless they have violated US law and come into this country - - well - - er - - ah - - illegally.

Our favorite open boarders, socialist presidential (small "p") candidate Hillary was busy glad handing in Las Vegas when she met such a lady, her response?

"No woman is illegal," Clinton said, to cheers.

Really? A criminal that has broken US law is not illegal? This should play well on the election trail come the fall.

Just how bad was Saddam?

With the latest estimate of 150,000 civilian deaths since March 2003, once again the critics are raising their voices as to how much better the Iraqi people had it under Saddam. Really?? Better?? Perhaps a closer look at the numbers is in order.

From the Confederate Yankee

Do Decocrat activists within the government realize the damage they are doing??

Do Decocrat activists within the government realize the damage they are doing??

In their hearts, I believe they do. But, their hatred of President Bush is so great, I think they fool themselves that they will be able to "fix" things once they are back in power.

The Flaws In the Iran Report

By John R. Bolton
Thursday, December 6,
2007; Page A29

Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of
intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released
this week. Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event.
And rarely have vehement critics of the "intelligence community" on issues such
as Iraq's weapons of mass destruction reversed themselves so quickly.

The NIE - talking out of both sides of your mouth.

The NIE - talking out of both sides of your mouth.

How can this be? In July the Iranians were developing nukes, now they aren't? Couldn't be politics, could it??

NIE: An Abrupt About-Face

As many recognize, the latest NIE on Iran’s
nuclear weapons program directly contradicts what the U.S. Intelligence
Community was saying just two years previously. And it appears that this
about-face was very recent. How recent?

More UN deceptopn on Global Warming

Still more deception from the UN on global warming.

In recent years, the earth has been COOLING, not warming. Weather patterns have been calmer, the list goes on and on. It's those pesky little facts rather than the heart tugging rethoric.

Christopher Booker: Planet-saving madnessBy Christopher
Booker
Last Updated: 11:39am GMT 27/11/2007


We are set on a course of 'planet saving' madness
The scare over
global warming, and our politicians' response to it, is becoming ever more
bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised
reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have
been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously
recorded.

Driest-ever
autumn to follow wettest summer
Damian
Lanigan: The eco-nihilists
Britain's
worst polluters

This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing
temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not
to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that
the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest
year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.

I suspect the UN's promotion of global warming has more to do with the expected taxes they wants to collect for carbon offsets than it has to do with saving the planet.

Is there really a health care access problem??

So when we hear all the hubb-bub about lack of health care availably, what is the real truth??

Beyond Those Health Care Numbers

By N. GREGORY MANKIW
Published: November 4, 2007

WITH the health care system at the center of the political debate, a lot of scary claims are being thrown around. The dangerous ones are not those that are false; watchdogs in the news media are quick to debunk them. Rather, the dangerous ones are those that are true but don’t mean what people think they mean.

Imagine that. This is a crisis??

Is there really an oil shortage?

Who own the most oil fields? The answer probably won't surprise you - the world's governments. And they do a lousy job of managing them.

Socialist oil death spiral
Richard W. Rahn
November 6, 2007

Socialism always plants the seeds of its own destruction, and state-owned oil is no exception. Most people do not realize that about 90 percent of the world's liquid oil reserves are controlled by governments or state-owned companies. Exxon Mobil, the world's largest privately owned oil company, owns only 1.08 percent of the world's oil reserves, and the five largest private global oil companies together own only about 4 percent of the world's oil reserves.

There is enough liquid oil in the ground to last generations; and when oil sands and oil shale are included, there is enough oil to last centuries. If there were a truly free market in oil, with both the reserves and production owned and controlled by many competitive companies, the price of oil would be a fraction of today's price.

Imagine that, centuries of oil, a fraction of today's cost. Who would have thought!

Bio fules - more damaging than oil?

Imagine that - bio fuels producing more greenhouse gases than oil. But, but, but . . . .

A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests.

Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rapeseed and maize have been found to produce more greenhouse gas emissions than they save.

Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet: report

Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet: report

How can this be??? What kind of cars did they drive 900,000 years ago???

My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror | Comment | The Observer

My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror | Comment | The Observer

A call for an Islamic Reformation - this is something that MUST happen.

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.

By blaming the government for our actions, those who pushed the 'Blair's bombs' line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

The Anchoress » Blog Archive » Let’s do it; let’s Impeach Bush

The Anchoress » Blog Archive » Let’s do it; let’s Impeach Bush: "Let’s do it; let’s Impeach Bush

This sounds like a great idea!

I haven’t read the thing, itself, but I have now read several accounts of Al Gore’s new book, Assault on Reason, wherein he wags fingers at people who watch TV (unless, of course, they’re watching him pimp his book) and the media (particularly those who don’t stick to reporting only his side, of the “manmade” global warming story) and - by all accounts - he trashes the Bush 43 administration from start to finish, enumerating all of Bush’s “lies” and mistakes."

Foreign and Domestic

Foreign and Domestic:

Why have I not seen this on a single MSM news program? Oh, right, it's a request from our troops for Congress to grow a pair, ah, now I understand.

"WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) led U.S. Senators and members of the U.S. House of Representatives in accepting a petition - the Appeal for Courage -- signed by more than 2,800 U.S. service members urging Congress to support the mission in Iraq and end calls for retreat. A full 60 percent of the petition signers have previously served or are now serving in Iraq ."

Know Thy Enemies

Know Thy Enemies:

Now that al Qaeda is on the rise in Iraq and the Iraqi tribes are fighting them, is this really the time we should be telling them to just hang on, we are leaving soon??

"SOMETIMES WHAT WE DON'T KNOW can indeed hurt us. This was the case in 2006, when reporters noticed significant fighting between Iraqi insurgent factions. This confused journalists and government analysts, but the prevailing attitude was that if the insurgents were fighting each other, at least they weren't fighting us.

It turned out that the group that bore the brunt of this violence would later develop into the Anbar Salvation Front, which has proved to be one of our most important local allies in Iraq. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, then the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), was trying to wipe out this fledgling movement. If analysts better understood that situation, timely U.S. intervention could have thwarted Zarqawi and allowed the Anbar Salvation Front to make a difference on the ground sooner.

Similarly, today a critically important debate is raging about whether the United States should set a timeframe for troop withdrawal. While most people seemingly have an opinion on the matter, it's difficult to figure out whether the situation is truly futile without understanding the various factions that we're fighting."

Syria Cracking Down on Human Rights Activists -- 05/11/2007

Syria Cracking Down on Human Rights Activists -- 05/11/2007:

How can such behavior be possible?? Madame Speaker Pelosi just assured us all was well with Syria and that we could certainly work things out with them - how can just talking to a US official justify going to prison??

"A Syrian human rights activists was sentenced to 12 years in pri son Thursday for meeting with White House officials two years ago. The move signals that any dissent in the country will not be tolerated.

A Syrian court found Dr. Kamal a-Labwani guilty of 'communicating with a foreign country and inciting it to initiate aggression against Syria,' reports said."