Imagine that, a company using their profits to expand their business.
Getting Oil From A Stone
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Energy: Exxon Mobil's CEO says his energy company's "corporate social responsibility" is to produce more energy. While Congress wants to tax oil profits, he wants to spend them to find more oil. What a concept.
Have you noticed that the west's liberation of Muslims from thugs and tyrants is frequently called the next Crusade while Islamists imposition of their religious beliefs - like polygamy - are swept under the table?
John Turley-Ewart: Sharia by stealth — Ontario turns a blind eye to polygamy
Posted: May 29, 2008, 4:07 PM by John Turley-Ewart
It’s an issue the Liberal govenrment of Ontario, led by Premier Dalton McGuinty, doesn’t want to deal with — polygamy in the Muslim community. Last week the Toronto Star told the story of Safa Rigby, a 35-year-old mother of five children who recently learned her husband of 14 years had two other wives. Ms. Rigby’s life is in tatters. She followed her husband’s advice that she leave Toronto and live in Egypt for a year on the grounds that it would be better for their children to spend more time in a Muslim country. Now she knows it was a ruse. He used her time there to marry two other women.
By Stephen Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, May 30, 2008
“You dress like a tramp,” Ahmed said to his sister once before beating her up, his sense of moral superiority being somewhat misplaced, since he himself has an extensive criminal record, starting when he was 13. This ‘man of honor’ is a thief and had already knifed others in fights, once being stabbed eight times himself in an argument involving prostitutes outside a brothel.
Is John McCain paying attention to stories like this???
Twice-deported immigrant convicted of killing man - Examiner.com
Twice-deported immigrant convicted of killing man
May 29, 2008 2:00 AM (8 hrs ago) by Scott McCabe, The Examiner
An illegal immigrant who twice had been deported from the United States was convicted Tuesday of the brutal beating death of an employee of a historic restaurant near the White House.
Texas town's immigrant-renting rule is struck down: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Let me get this straight. The federal government refuses to get a handle on illegals pouring into our country. A Texas town says you can't rent an apartment to a criminal in our country illegally. And the federal government says it is an unconstitutional law because only the federal government can control immigration - which they seem to refuse to handle. Is this a great country for criminals or what!!
Texas town's immigrant-renting rule is struck down
Thursday May 29, 8:38 am ET
By Anabelle Garay, Associated Press WriterFederal judge strikes down Dallas suburb's ban on renting homes to illegal immigrants
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) -- A Dallas suburb's ban on apartment rentals to illegal immigrants, an ordinance passed by city leaders and later endorsed in a vote by its residents, is unconstitutional, a federal judge found Wednesday.
Only the federal government can regulate immigration, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded in his decision.
Nice to see the oil industry begin to defend themselves publicly
Exxon Mobil CEO takes aim at environmentalists
Exxon Mobil CEO takes aim at environmentalists
Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Getty Chairman of the Board and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation Rex Tillerson listens to a reporter's question after the annual shareholders meeting in Dallas, Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
DALLAS -- Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest oil-and-gas company, came out swinging Wednesday against the environmental movement, arguing the science of climate change is far from settled and that his company views it as its "corporate social responsibility" to continue to supply the world with fossil fuels.
Climate Reality Bites - WSJ.com
Climate Reality Bites
May 27, 2008; Page A20The global warming debate arrives in the Senate next week, and it's about time. Finally, the Members will have to vote on something real, as opposed to their buck-passing to courts and regulators, and their easy trashing of President Bush.
The vehicle is a bill that principal sponsors Joe Lieberman and John Warner are calling "landmark legislation." They're too modest. Warner-Lieberman would impose the most extensive government reorganization of the American economy since the 1930s.
The Church of England surrenders.
Church of England News - Editorial
Religious trends and our religious future
If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, and therefore needs a share in any religious establishment to reflect this. The progress of conservative Islam in the UK has been amazing, and it has come at a time of prolonged decline in church attendance that seems likely to continue.
Obama's Uncle a service member in the Soviet Army during WWII
Obama Talks of Family's Military Service - From The Road
Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.
Obama's only problem is historical facts:
Friday Is the 61st Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
January 24, Bielsko-Biała (PAP) – The 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz German camp falls on Friday. The Red Army freed more than 7,000 badly exhausted prisoners.
But then, how could he be a member of Paton's Army???
“My grandfather marched in Patton’s army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you,” he told a small group of veterans here.
The man is a walking, talking, lying fool
Parkersburg is just a tad north of where I live. It has been a constant stop on my many trips north to Minneapolis. The devastation is hard to even explain. That only 5 were killed is nothing short of a miracle.
My Way News - Iowa town measures the loss after deadly tornado
May 27, 5:07 AM (ET)
By JAMES BELTRAN
(AP) An onlooker takes a moment to survey damage in Parkersburg, Iowa, on Monday, May 26, 2008, a day...
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PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) - Fred Everts held back tears as he surveyed a pile of splintered wood and metal scraps that the day before had been his and his wife's home.
Several yards away, a makeshift sign was placed amid the rubble to remind Everts and others that they were in Russell Circle, once their street.
"We have no place yet," the 85-year-old said. "We were trying to get it cleaned up and save the stuff that's precious to us."
Everts was one of hundreds of people who spent Monday picking up what was left of their lives after a tornado ripped apart a stretch of northern Iowa a day earlier, killing six people, four of them in Parkersburg and two others in nearby New Hartford. In neighboring Minnesota, a child was killed by violent weather in a suburb of St. Paul.
We have been here before with radical Islamists. Perhaps a history lesson is in order for the Democrats.
Pajamas Media » When the Founding Fathers Faced Islamists
Back in 1784, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had to decide whether to appease or stand up to armed Middle Eastern pirates. Sound familiar?
May 27, 2008 - by Michael Weiss
John McCain and Barack Obama are now engaged in a long-distance dispute over whether talking to America’s enemies is integral to America’s security (with neither one wishing to talk to poor Hillary Clinton any longer).
It's not a serious concern. It's not a serious concern of the EU or any other western country with the exception of the Bush administration. I suspect there will have to be a smoking hole before there is a reaction - I don't think we will have to wait long.
Iran nuclear arms research serious concern: IAEA | Reuters
By Karin Strohecker
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran's alleged research into nuclear warheads remains a matter of serious concern and Tehran should provide more information on its missile-related activities, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also said, in its latest report on Iran, that Tehran was holding back information on high-explosives testing relating to its nuclear program.
It said Tehran had 3,500 uranium enrichment centrifuges working at its Natanz nuclear facility, slightly more than earlier this year, and a few more advanced centrifuges were also being tested.
Today’s Memorial Day. That day when we take the time to remember all those who have fallen 
Millions of Americans have served, hundreds of thousands have died. Today, as we honor them with parades, cemetery services, memorial services, tears and hugs – we remember their sacrifice and thank them for the freedoms they have given us.
We aren't any saffer?? Really?? Fortunately the raw data would seem to conclude something different.
On the stump, Barack Obama usually concludes his comments on Iraq by saying, "and it hasn't made us safer." It is an article of faith on the left that nothing the Bush administration has done has enhanced our security, and, on the contrary, its various alleged blunders have only contributed to the number of jihadists who want to attack us.
Empirically, however, it seems beyond dispute that something has made us safer since 2001. Over the course of the Bush administration, successful attacks on the United States and its interests overseas have dwindled to virtually nothing.
Some perspective here is required. While most Americans may not have been paying attention, a considerable number of terrorist attacks on America and American interests abroad were launched from the 1980s forward, too many of which were successful. What follows is a partial history:
Clinton Chairman Says Nominating Fight Might Go Through Summer
Ya just gotta love it! A Clinton is like a really bad cold, it just won't go away!! And Terry is like that little sniffle that keeps re-infecting you. As Oprah would say: "You Go Girl!!!"
By Lorraine Woellert
May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman said a fight over delegates might continue until the Democratic Party's nominating convention in August.
Terry McAuliffe said he wants delegates from Florida and Michigan to be seated at the convention and allowed a full vote for the nominee. The states were stripped of their convention votes after they broke national party rules earlier this year.
``We are prepared to fight this so that all 50 states are included, that the delegates be seated,'' McAuliffe said on the ``Fox News Sunday'' program. ``Let's have no questions about that. This race is still very close.''
The gaffs and this obvious ignorance of history and global affairs just keep on coming. He is truly a terrifying prospect as president.
The Obama Learning Curve
May 23, 2008; Page A13Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden took to the airwaves this week to "help" the rookie Barack Obama out of a foreign-policy jam. Oh sure, admitted Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee had given the "wrong" answer when he said he'd meet unconditionally with leaders of rogue states. But on the upside, the guy "has learned a hell of a lot."
Somewhere Mr. Obama was muttering an expletive. But give Mr. Biden marks for honesty. As Mr. Obama finishes a week of brutal questioning over his foreign-policy judgments, it's become clear he has learned a lot – and is learning still.
35 MPG with autos ALREADY BEING BUILT IN THE US are being shipped to Europe. Why, they don't meet US emission standards. What is wrong with this picture???
35 MPG can be an immediate reality, with one domestic manufacturer, if the United States government would only allow it to happen. Our elected representatives need to be aware of the facts and make the appropriate decisions.
Chrysler is uniquely positioned among the Big Three US automakers. Unlike Ford and General Motors, Chrysler is already building a slew of high-MPG diesel-powered vehicles right here in the United States.
Amazing as it may seem in these difficult times, Chrysler is not allowed to sell those cars domestically, due to recently tightened emissions regulations. With the exception of the domestically-available Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel, all of Chrysler’s North American manufactured high-MPG diesel-equipped vehicles are being shipped abroad.
The story of an airman's long journey home.
LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND: GQ Features on men.style.com
LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND
Since World War I, 88,000 Americans have disappeared at war, never to be seen again. But our government has never stopped trying to find them. This is the story of one search—for a B-24 bomber shot down over the tiny island nation of Palau in September 1944—and the extraordinary effort to bring those bodies home.
By Wil S. Hylton; Photograph by Christopher Perez/U.S. Navy
CJOnline / The Topeka Capital-Journal - Governor vetoes third attempt at power plant expansion
The danger of global warming is so great, the Govenor of Kansas would rather restrict energy generation and business expansion. Amazing. Listen carefully, THE PLANET IS NOT WARMING.
Governor vetoes third attempt at power plant expansion
By James Carlson
The Capital-Journal
Published Saturday, May 17, 2008
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday vetoed the Legislature's third attempt at allowing expansion of a coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas.
Supporters of the $3.5 billion project had tied this latest bill to economic development projects around the state, including a tax break aimed at bringing a $150 million manufacturing plant to Topeka. Sebelius criticized the bundling of bills in her veto message.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius
"Rather than working toward a compromise solution, legislative leaders recklessly chose to jeopardize important initiatives for businesses and communities across our state by combining them with energy legislation I have previously vetoed twice," she said.
House Speaker Melvin Neufeld, R-Ingalls, said the bill would have provided "billions (of dollars) in opportunities." "Now with the Governor's veto, Kansas has lost out on those opportunities," he said. Many legislators were angered by an October decision by Rod Bremby, secretary of the Kansas Health and Environment, to deny the 1,400-megawatt plant addition sought by Sunflower Electric Power Corp.
In his ruling, the secretary cited dangers posed by the new plant's projected 11 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Many scientists link CO2 pollution to global warming.
Memorial day - a day to honor those who have given us our freedoms. This is dedicated to my generation - the Viet Nam vet.
HT - Blackfive
At least one Congresswoman is ready to nationalize the oil industry to bring prices down. NATIONALIZE THE OIL COMPANIES! Our country's march towards Marxism continues.
Honestly, for this fellow to have EVER believed that McCain would not push for amnesty is naive . But, that said, this is a deal killer for many "far right conservatives" that believe in a simple little concept like our sovereignty. I have said from the beginning, I simply can not vote for McCain - as painful as that may be.
Put very simply: John McCain is a liar. He's a man without honor, without integrity, who could not have captured the Republican nomination had he run on making comprehensive immigration a top priority of his administration. Quite frankly, this is little different from George Bush, Sr. breaking his "Read my lips, no new taxes pledge," except that Bush's father was at least smart enough to wait until he got elected before letting all of his supporters know that he was lying to them.
Geezz - ya think??? Perhaps there is some tiny tiny tiny hope for the media yet.
By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Thu May 22, 4:08 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's willingness to meet Iranian, Cuban and other hostile leaders who would not get face time from John McCain stands as a distinctive element of his foreign policy.
Of course there are Cougars is the Midwest. Two years ago I watch as a fully grown adult ran across the road in front of me within 100 yards of my home. Frankly, anything to take down the deer herd is OK by me.
abc7chicago.com: The Great Cougar Cover Up 5/21/08
Remember the lone, wandering cougar that was shot and killed by Chicago police?
Some wildlife experts say it may not have been alone and may not have wandered so far. Are government officials in the Midwest covering up a dangerous and growing cougar population?
In some places, they're called mountain lions. Around here, they're known as cougars.
There are questions about whether government officials here in the Midwest are waging "the great cougar cover-up" by ignoring evidence and disavowing the wild cats' existence.
What's this??? Earth temps cooling, pack ice growing??? Poor Al, his carbon offset business may be in for a few rough years!!
Chill out on global warming - Examiner.com
Editorial: Chill out on global warming
Article History
This is the latest version.May 22, 2008 2:00 AM (6 hrs ago) by The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Al Gore’s cinematic sermons on inconvenient truths to the contrary notwithstanding, it is becoming clearer by the day that major cracks are appearing in the supposed consensus among scientists that global warming caused by carbon emissions is an urgent problem that government must address with drastic measures. Among the most significant cracks are these:
- New data produced by more than 3,000 sophisticated ocean buoys scattered across the world’s oceans indicate average water temperatures have been decreasing since 2003, not increasing as would be the case in Gore’s globally warming world. NASA’s Josh Willis, who studies the output of the sophisticated buoys that take temperature readings from thousands of feet below the surface, says the significance of the new data is unclear.
I would expect that Craig would fit right in line with the views of Obama, why should anyone be surprised at his background??
Reagan's would-be assassin aided by top Obama adviser
Reagan's would-be assassin aided by top Obama adviser
'Lawyer of the left' also represents alleged killer of U.S. soldier, helped Clinton during Lewinsky
Posted: May 21, 2008
9:43 pm EasternBy Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Obama adviser Greg CraigJERUSALEM – An attorney and top foreign policy adviser to Sen. Barack Obama is coming under fire for representing controversial figures, including an accused human-rights abuser, an alleged murderer of a U.S. soldier and even the would-be assassin of former President Ronald Reagan.
Greg Craig, who has been termed the "lawyer of the left," represented John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate Reagan in 1981 by firing six bullets at the president as he left a hotel. Craig was reportedly the architect of Hinckley's successful defense in which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, even though reports by the federal prosecution found Hinckley sane.
Muslim irate over transgender driving instructor
Muslim irate over transgender driving instructor
'Send me a proper female. How dare you send a man with a deep voice?'
Posted: May 21, 2008
11:45 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Emma Sherdley (Daily Mail)A Muslim man is threatening legal action against an all-female driving school in Britain after the company sent a transgendered man to teach his wife how to drive.
Of course, we can HOPE Iran will Change is attitude and provide the world with HOPE and that the path to a nuclear holocaust will Change.
Diplomats Say U.N. Probe of Iran Nukes a Failure
Diplomats Say U.N. Probe of Iran Nukes a Failure
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:33 AM
VIENNA, Austria — Iran has stymied the latest U.N. attempt to investigate allegations that it tried to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Tuesday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, will acknowledge it was unable to follow up on the allegations in a report to be presented as early as Friday to its 35-nation board, two diplomats told The Associated Press.
It's very hard to believe Obama's level of historical ignorance and his willingness to look a mortal enemy in the eye and simply dismiss the threat as inconsequential. Breath taking!
Isn't this enough to scare the hell outta ya!!!
There Can Only Be One
May 5, 2008
TIME Magazine Cover: There Can Only Be One - May 5, 2008 - Presidential Elections - Democrats -
Global Warming??? We don't got no stinking global warming!!
Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
You may have heard earlier this month that global warming is now likely to take break for a decade or more. There will be no more warming until 2015, perhaps later.
Climate scientist Noel Keenlyside, leading a team from Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, for the first time entered verifiable data on ocean circulation cycles into one of the U. N.'s climate supercomputers, and the machine spit out a projection that there will be no more warming for the foreseeable future.
Of course, Mr. Keenlyside-- long a defender of the man-made global warming theory -- was quick to add that after 2015 (or perhaps 2020), warming would resume with a vengeance.
Yes, of course. We are the cause of Iran's tremendous nuclear weapons advances. Not 4+ years of weak, useless and failed EU negotiations. Not a generation of accepting it terrorists activities by a timid world. We need to give them respectability, welcome them into civilized society - then they will lay down their arms and admit the foolishness of their ways. Sounds like a plan BHO, in fact, it sounds like your plan!
Barbara Slavin
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
War talk against Iran is rising again in Washington as the Bush administration enters its final months with little to show for its labors in the Middle East. Yet the consequences of attacking a third Muslim country in seven years could be far worse than an already precarious status quo. Iran hawks anxious to blunt Iran's growing regional influence also fail to grasp the real constraints on Iranian expansionism, instead creating a bogeyman that, like Saddam Hussein, may turn out to be a chimera.
The Democrats do have an energy plan. Is it really what the American people want??
Your Energy Future Under the Democrats
The "energy plan" announced by the Democrats offers one thing: a significant slowdown of our economy for at least twenty years. Those who run both legislative branches of the congress, and the energy plans of both of their leading candidates for president clothe themselves in the mantle of righteousness. That the Republicans are allowing this to happen, right before our eyes, tells us much about the sad state of American politics.
KSTP.com - News crew attacked during report at TiZA charter school
Imagine that. Reporters attacked by the staff of a publicly funded charter school that appears to be teaching and promoting Islam - the Religion of Peace. Color me shocked!!
In an attempt to report about the new findings from the Department of Education, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS went to TiZA. While on school grounds, our crew was attacked by school officials. Our photographer was injured while wrestling with the two men over the camera.
For anyone, including John McCain, to make the claim that man made global warming is settled science is foolish beyond belief. Here are 30,000 scientists who reject the idea.
ADVISORY: Dr. Arthur Robinson (OISM) to Release Names of over 30,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming HypothesisMay 15, 2008 12:39 PM EDT
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM)
Who: Dr. Arthur Robinson of the OISM
What: release of names in OISM "Petition Project"
When: 10 AM, Monday May 19
Where: Holeman Lounge at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC
Why: the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. The purpose of OISM's Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of "settled science" and an overwhelming "consensus" in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.
It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science - including 9,021 PhDs, are not "a few." Moreover, from the clear and strong petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072 American scientists are not "skeptics."
CONTACT: Audrey Mullen, +1-703-548-1160, for the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 15/
SOURCE Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Take a look at who these scientists are: Global Warming Petition Project
He may "see" it, but he truly doesn't get it. He has thrown the right-of-center conservatives under the bus, and frankly Senator, there is no going back.
Newsmax.com - McCain Sees Right-Of-Center Nation As He Moves Against Obama
WASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain's game plan for beating Democrat Barack Obama rests on one huge assumption: Despite an unpopular war, an uncertain economy and the GOP's beleaguered status, the country still leans more to the right than to the left.
"There are going to be stark choices between a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican," McCain says at nearly every turn as he seeks to portray Obama as out of step with the nation. The more the GOP nominee-in-waiting can frame the debate along those lines, and capture a larger chunk of the electorate's center, the better his chance to eke out a victory in an extraordinarily challenging political environment.
Yes, of course, why didn't I think of that. Abandon Conservatism, embrace liberalism and Marxism, and then the Republican Party will truly become the Grand Old Party everyone yearns for. How silly of me not to see that earlier!
Schwarzenegger calls for 'rebranding' GOP
"The Republican idea is a great idea, but we can't go and get stuck with just the right wing," Schwarzenegger said. "Let's let the party come all the way to the center. Let those people be heard as much as the right. Let it be the big tent we've talked about.
"Let's invade and let's cross over that (political) center," he said. "The issues that they're talking about? Let them be our issues, and let the party be known for that."
I am sure though, that Obama can simply whisper sweet nothings in Hugo's ear and he will see the errors of his ways! Our savior is but a few months away!!!
Evidence of Venezuela's support for terrorism could carry Hugo Chávez to the pariah status he deserves.THE CONFIRMATION by an international forensics team that laptops and hard drives captured by Colombia originated in a camp of FARC terrorists ought to open a new era in relations between the democratic world and Hugo Chávez's Venezuelan government. Whether it does will depend to a large extent on how Colombia and the United States handle a rich but tricky diplomatic opportunity.
The computers and drives contain a staggering 610 gigabytes of data, according to Interpol, including 983 encrypted files opened by its team. What is already known is enough to demonstrate that Mr. Chávez and senior members of his government, army and intelligence service had a far-reaching clandestine relationship with the FARC and that Venezuela offered the group weapons, money and harbor on its own territory. Ecuador, which under President Rafael Correa has become a Venezuelan satellite, had lesser but also incriminating ties to the group, which specializes in drug trafficking, kidnapping and massacres of civilians.
Our current level of governmental spending will pale when compared to what it will be in the future - no matter which candidate is elected president. You do have to wonder when the American people will have had enough.
RealClearPolitics - Articles - Greedy Government vs. America’s Freedom
Greedy Government vs. America’s Freedom
By Deroy MurdockAmericans finally will start working for themselves today rather than for their government masters. This milestone arrives two days later than in 2007, clearly proving that the era of big government is back with a vengeance. May 19 is Friedman Day, when the Massachusetts-based American Institute for Economic Research calculates that citizens finally will have toiled long enough to fund local, state, and federal spending.
There are Republicans that truly understand how dangerous the past is in rejecting the conservative ideals that took them to power in 94. And understand how they were punished for their out-of-control spending in 06. Yet, the Republican Party has chosen the path of continued pork. outrageous spending and a leftward leap as their best bet to take back the Congress and elect a President. They are truly in for a shock in November
RealClearPolitics - Articles - GOP Drinking Its Bath Water
GOP Drinking Its Bath Water
By Robert NovakWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, at age 38 and having served less than five terms, did not leap over a dozen of his seniors to become ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee by bashing GOP leaders. But an angry Ryan last Wednesday delivered unscripted remarks on the House floor as the farm bill neared passage: "This bill is an absence of leadership. This bill shows we are not leading."
Ryan's fellow reformer, 45-year-old Jeff Flake of Arizona, in his fourth term, is less cautious about defying the leadership and has been kept off key committees. On Wednesday, he said of a $300 billion bill that raises farm subsidies and is filled with non-farm pork, "Sometimes, here in Washington, we tend to drink our own bath water and believe our own press releases."
There are many in the Democrat party who truly understand how far off base Obama is. Yet he will be their nominee. You have to wonder if they think they can control him once he is elected.
Cohorts disavow Obama stance
By Joseph Curl
May 19, 2008
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Three prominent Democrats yesterday rejected Sen. Barack Obama's position of meeting unconditionally with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and leaders of other American enemies.
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, former Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado and former Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. of Tennessee distanced themselves from Mr. Obama's position, each saying that preconditions for any such meeting would be essential.
"I'll concede, you cannot meet with foreign leaders — with terrorists, rather, those that lead rogue nations — without some conditions," Mr. Ford said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Now I am supposed to let the feelings of other countries control how I live my life?? Really?? Is this the America the Democrat party now wants to bring forth, bending a knee at the feelings of all the other nations and adjusting how we live to meet their desires?? Hello - is anyone listening to what this man is saying???
AFP: Obama camp spies endgame in Oregon
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
Bush, and His Use of "Appeasement" | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog
Wow, defending Obama and attacking Bush by saying the Hitler's demands in 1938 were reasonable. Sadly, I suspect many in the Democrat party would agree with this opinion writer.
Bush, and His Use of "Appeasement"
Posted by Bruce Ramsey
Democrats are rebuking President Bush for saying in his speech to the Knesset, here, that to “negotiate with terrorists and radicals” is “appeasement.” The Democrats took it as a slap at Barack Obama. What bothers me is the continual reference to Hitler and his National Socialists, particularly the British and French accommodation at the Munich Conference of 1938.
The narrative we're given about Munich is entirely in hindsight. We know what kind of man Hitler was, and that he started World War II in Europe. From the view of 1938, what Hitler was demanding at Munich was not unreasonable, according to the prevailing idea of the nation-state. His claim was that the German-speaking areas of Europe--and ones that thought of themselves as German --be under German authority. He had just annexed Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.
Newsmax.com - Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Fuels War
What foolishness. UBL is long since dead. NO IMAGES since December 2002. None! For anyone to believe he is still sucking air is just plain silly.
CAIRO, Egypt -- Osama bin Laden said in a new audio recording released Friday that al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine.
The terrorist leader's third statement this year came as President Bush was wrapping up his visit to Israel to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state.
U.S. sees need for tangible action on Iran: Israel | International | Reuters
Barak?? Hello??? Brak?? What's your plan Sir? What's your plan.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States and Israel agree on the need for "tangible action" to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman said after a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush.
"We are on the same page. We both see the threat ... And we both understand that tangible action is required to prevent the Iranians from moving forward on a nuclear weapon," Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said on Friday.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.
Pity Party
May 16, 2008Big picture, May 2008:
The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born.
The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They're frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at the sound. Crunch. Twig. Hunting party.
