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Obama madness: 1984 in '08

Posted by netfotoj on Friday, May 30, 2008 8:13:16 PM
Historian Victor Davis Hanson channels Obama madness from the viewpoint of the pointy-headed liberals about to see their vision of America come to pass after four decades of disappointments as their left-wing presidential candidates bit the dust in the voters’ booths or in office.

Quote: At last the hopes and dreams of the 1960s are in our grasp. McGovern imploded. Carter was hopeless and suspect. Mondale was inept; Dukakis a punching bag. Clinton carried the torch, but only by triangulating and betraying the dream. Gore was cheated out of his victory; Kerry Swift-Boated.

But at last (if that **** Hillary would just get out of the way!) we have the perfect candidate—charismatic, young, fresh, multiracial, and we know that he is the furthest on the left of the entire bunch and the most likely both to win and actually make the long-overdue changes in America—tax the rich (get those income rates back up to 40%, subject all income to payroll taxes, restore all death taxes, up capital gains), subsidize the needy (more welfare, food and housing subsidies, universal state health care, more federal loans, more farm aid, more government programs to aid the middle class), change the government (more ideological appointments who will enforce an equality of result, more liberal judges and bureaucrats), follow international leads (more “soft” power, less military bellicosity, more deference to the UN, a true partnership with the UN, a backing off from hot spots that put us on the wrong side of history, get out of Iraq, more “balance” with the Palestinians, talk with Iran, Venezuela, etc who are misunderstood progressives anyway, follow the intellectual and cultural lead of the foundations and the universities (more candid support for gay marriage, abortion on demand, gun control, affirmative action, revisionist views of U.S. history, more emphasis on “oppression studies.”)

How’s that for a scary vision of 1984-style reality? Sad but true. IMHO, the only thing standing between Obama and the White House are those video cameras on the pulpit at Trinity UCC in Chicago. Keep them cameras rolling! Another guest speaker like not-rev. Pfleger’s sermon at Obama’s church or maybe a return engagement by the not-rev. Wright and Obama might just manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, like he plans to do in Iraq.
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Drill Here! Drill Now!

Posted by netfotoj on Friday, May 30, 2008 8:07:51 PM
Jeb Babbin at Human Events reports Newt Gingrich has launched a petition to Congress demanding action on skyrocketing energy prices by the one method that will actually produce some relief, by removing Congressional barriers to oil exploration right here in the continental U.S.

Babbin writes: Gingrich’s petition starts with the commonsensical proposition that instead of creating more burdens on the energy market, Congress should go about taking down the old barriers. In Gingrich’s characteristically plain English the petition says: “We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.”

As of about 8:30 pm Thursday, the petition had about 150,700 signatures. Gingrich aims to get 200,000 signatures by this coming Monday. Every conservative -- and every voter who wants to see energy prices go down and not up -- should sign the petition. (You can sign the petition by clicking on this link).

Gingrich said: “We’re going to print out the petition, take it up and give it to the US Senate. Then, we are going to continue to gather names. When we get to 500 thousand we’re going to take it up and give it to the US House, and then we’re going to try to gather an excess of a million signatures before the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention.

Tired of taking it in the shorts at the pump? I sure am. Tell Congress to Drill Here, Drill Now! I believe this is what the Constitution call “redress of grievances.” Let’s redress our grievances at the pump! This is the ultimate pocketbook issue and perhaps in this election year, if the voters will holler loud enough, we might actually get some action. What have we got to lose, but our pocketbooks?

I just signed it and it's up to 208,635 signatures.
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Victory in Iraq?

Posted by netfotoj on Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:19:03 PM
If victory comes in Iraq, but nobody reports it, does the sound of the falling tree of Al Qaeda make a noise in the forest?

Gen. Petraeus cautiously avoids use of the “v” word in assessing the miraculous turnaround of the war under his watch, no doubt remembering the folly of “peace at hand” promises in Vietnam. But when Al Qaeda openly discusses how they lost in Iraq … sure smells like victory to me.

Al Qaeda Discusses Losing Iraq

Strategy Page, May 27, 2008: Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about "why we lost in Iraq."

…According to al Qaeda, their collapse in Iraq was steep and catastrophic. According to their stats, in late 2006, al Qaeda was responsible for 60 percent of the terrorist attacks, and nearly all the ones that involved killing a lot of civilians. The rest of the violence was carried out by Iraqi Sunni Arab groups, who were trying in vain to scare the Americans out of the country.

Today, al Qaeda has been shattered, with most of its leadership and foot soldiers dead, captured or moved from Iraq. As a result, al Qaeda attacks have declined more than 90 percent. Worse, most of their Iraqi Sunni Arab allies have turned on them, or simply quit.

Of course, it is certainly still possible, just as happened in Vietnam, that our politicians can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We shall see.
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What really happened, Scott?

Posted by netfotoj on Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:14:24 PM
Imagine, John Lennon style, if Scott McClellan had written “what really happened” during his tour as chief press flack in the White House.

Imagine a political and intellectual flyweight in the outer circle of a Texas governor who gets elected President, who gets invited to take on a job far beyond his feeble talents in the White House, solely because he’s known by the new President, who is loyal to friends and acquaintances.

Imagine the flyweight getting promoted even further beyond his level of incompetence to become chief press flack for the President, who loyally stands behind him for three years while the flack demonstrates daily to the world that he’s not up to the task he’s given.

Imagine the flack finally being gracefully shown the door while the President pats him on the back and chats about rocking-chair remembrances.

Then imagine the flack writing a book that tells “what really happened” during his undistinguished tour in the White House. Sorry, no takers.

So it’s not difficult to imagine why the flack wrote another book, one called “What Happened” in his imagination instead of what really happened. It's also easy to imagine Scott actually told the truth when he admitted the publisher "tweaked" his book just a wee bit.

And it’s not difficult to imagine why he "wrote" what he did, being unemployed with George Soros' publisher offering him big bucks to dish dirt on “Bushitler.”

But it is difficult to imagine anyone, friend or foe, ever trusting Scott McClellan with another job in the future. Spend your money wisely, Scott. It may well be the last paycheck you’ll ever receive in your “field” whatever that was. Of course, you can try a new field. “Welcome to Wal-Mart!”
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‘Dream ticket’ Obama’s nightmare?

Posted by netfotoj on Friday, May 23, 2008 6:08:22 PM
Clinton Campaign in Talks With Obama About VP Slot, CNN Says - Bloomberg
By Chris Dolmetsch May 23 (Bloomberg) -- US Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is in formal talks with Senator Barack Obama's campaign about becoming his vice presidential running mate, CNN reported, without citing anyone specific...

Saw the above on CNN on the bank TV as I waited in line after work today. Big whoop. "Two of the most-extreme lefties on the same ticket in the history of the Republic," is how I saw it described by one pundit as I surfed the news online today. Maybe so. They're at least the most leftwing since Gus Hall & Angela Davis teamed up in '80 and '84 on the U.S. Communist Party ticket.

Big Bill’s reportedly talking up Hillary’s VP creds to anybody who will listen. Guess he figures it’s his last shot to make it back to intern-under-the-desk gloryland. But I doubt Obama is that stupid. He wants to be president bad, but I don’t think he wants it bad enough to invite the Black Widow and her mate to be “one heartbeat away from the White House.” As one pundit said about the so-called "Dream Ticket," if he does, he better hire a food taster.

Jeb Babbin at Human Events, in an aside while writing about McCain’s VP choices, tosses in “Hillary is trying to muscle in on Barack” so that makes it official. Two sources said it, even without citing particulars. Ain't that the new liberal media rules?

Wesley Pruden at the Washington Times rightly observes that the vice president’s “only real duties are to attend funerals in far-off places abroad and to stand by for the only funeral he could enjoy.” In Hillary’s case, I'm sure she would mightily enjoy attending Barack’s final rites and might even hasten them along. Watch your back, Barack!
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The lessons of Vietnam

Posted by netfotoj on Friday, May 23, 2008 5:40:15 PM
One of my favorites books is by retired Army General Hal Moore, who served in the Vietnam War from 1965-67 and is co-author of “We Were Soldiers Once … And Young,” which was brought to the wide screen in the movie “We Were Soldiers,” starring Mel Gibson as Moore.

Moore penned a Memorial Day column in USA Today, How enemies became friends in this unique lesson of Vietnam, about returning in 1993 to the “Valley of Death” where his troops fought, died and won the first full-scale pitched battle of the war against North Vietnamese Army troops.

Moore writes: ... I still see the boots of my dead sticking out from under their ponchos, laces tied one last time by their precious fingers. … I still carry the wounded to the helicopters as they bled, screamed and begged to live one more day … and I still hold those who die in my arms, with their questioning eyes dreading death, as they called for their mothers … their eyes go blank and my war-crusted fingers close their eyelids. The blood of my dead soldiers will not wash from my hands. The stains remain.

On Nov. 16, 1965, we won the LZ-Xray battle in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam. But 79 of my dear troopers died for those of us who lived. During the battle, we took prisoners of war. We gave them water and aspirins to help relieve their pain. Their anxious faces soon gave way to expressions of relief that they were treated with dignity.

My unending thirst for peace and unity drove me to return to the "Valley of Death" in 1993. Some of my men accompanied me to meet with the man, along with a few of his soldiers, who had once endeavored to kill us all. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Huu An and I came face-to-face. Instead of charging one another with bayonets, we mutually offered open arms. I invited all to form a circle with arms extended around each other's shoulders and bowed our heads. With prayer and tears, we shared our painful memories. Although we did not understand each other's language, we quickly saw that the soul requires no interpreter.

In recent times, I met one of Hal Moore’s troopers, who he described in his book as the courageous M-60 machine gunner who kept the entire unit from being overrun. This veteran now lives the quiet life as a potter in the backwoods of his North Carolina home. I quickly discovered the potter does not like to talk about Vietnam and I respected that. But he has not forgotten the war and never will, I’m quite sure. Nor will I. And my prayer for this Memorial Day is that our nation will not forget the lessons of Vietnam, nor the valiant men, like Moore’s 79 troopers, who gave all for us.
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Success in Iraq?

Posted by netfotoj on Friday, May 23, 2008 5:23:59 PM
Back when the war in Iraq looked pretty gloomy just a few short months ago before the General Petraeus “surge” of troops, a friend commented “I don’t even know what success would look like in Iraq.” Success indeed seemed far away and very difficult to envision then. But not now.

President Bush, during a visit on Thursday to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., speaking to troops who led the “surge” and just returned from deployment, defined very precisely just what success in Iraq will be.

“Success will be when Al Qaeda has no safe havens in Iraq and Iraqis can protect themselves,” he said. “Success will be when Iraq is a nation that can support itself economically. Success will be when Iraq is a democracy that governs itself effectively and responds to the will of its people. Success will be when Iraq is a strong and capable ally in the war on terror.”

With Iraqi troops now fighting their own battles and winning in Basra, Mosul, Baghdad and even Sadr City, led by a suddenly united and effective Iraqi government, events of the past couple of weeks have certainly been undiluted good news in the war. Yet the mainstream media blackout on good news from Iraq has resulted in the general public in America being still pretty much stuck in “dark and gloomy” mode on the war.

But a couple of rays of sunshine broke through the MSM good-news blackout on Iraq this week.

I noticed and commented on it here, as did Linda Chavez at Townhall.com, who comments today: “Both The New York Times and the Washington Post this week had front-page stories about successful operations by Iraqi forces to root out Shiite militias in Baghdad's Sadr City -- a significant turning point in the war and a huge accomplishment for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.”

Maybe the MSM blackout is ending. Even if it doesn’t, I believe the truth, from Michael Yon and a few others reporting on the war, will eventually filter through. I just pray it reaches the voting public in time to head off the “cut and run” politicians from losing the Iraq war. I was one of the sailors, Marines, soldiers and airmen who fought and won the Vietnam War, only to see the politicians at home “cut and run” and lose it. I pray the lessons of the Vietnam War will not be forgotten. If they are, then we are doomed the repeat history’s failures once again.

Obama’s standard stump speech hasn’t changed at all, still calling for an immediate, unconditional withdrawal of our troops from Iraq on “day one” of his presidency. Short version: “cut and run.” I hear echoes of Vietnam and Linda Chavez does, too.

“In his stubborn refusal to admit things have changed in Iraq, Obama is looking more and more like a throwback to the Vietnam protestors who actively promoted America's defeat in order to prove they were right in their opposition to the Vietnam War. He may not be old enough to remember firsthand the shouts of ‘Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh,’ or the Viet Cong flags hoisted at anti-war rallies of that era. But the sentiment that the enemy must win in order for American policy to be thoroughly repudiated seems to hover just beneath the surface of his gloomy assessment of Iraq. Obama's pessimism is simply old school anti-Americanism dressed up in patriotic rhetoric.”

Obama dismisses as “patriotic rhetoric” any talk about his on-again, off-again flag lapel pin and insists we confine our discussion to “the issues.”

Okay. Sandy Rios cites Obama’s Iraq policy plus his stands on many issues, including the war on terror, Iran’s nukes, Israel’s survival, abortion, infanticide, socialized healthcare, homosexual rights, illegal immigration, economic collapse and more in Why I'm Afraid of a President Barack Obama.

Me too, Sandy, me too. I’m very afraid.
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Gun Jedi movie

Posted by netfotoj on Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:10:50 PM
Ace of Spades recommends a movie that Gun Nuts ‘R’ Us will probably like, “Equilibrium.” I’ve never heard of it, but if Ace likes it…Ace has a video clip of the big gun fight at the ending if you don’t mind it being a spoiler.

Quote: It's a bit derivative of The Matrix in postulating a science-fiction explanation for superheroes. In Equilibrium, that explanation is "gun kata," which is form of pistol-based martial arts based on extensive computer analyses of tens of thousands of video-recorded gunfights -- by studying so many gunfights, the conceit has it, practitioners of gun kata know, based on cold hard statistics, the likely positioning and angle of attack of their opponents in any gunfight scenario. The idea is basically Asimov's psychohistory applied to shoot-outs.

Upshot? If you can't be hit with bullets because you move, by training, to avoid being where the next shot is statistically likely to be. And of course you never miss yourself.

In short, you're a Gun Jedi.

…If nothing else you get to see Christian Bale kill a lot of people.

Lots of gunfights? Always hitting what you shoot at? Never getting shot yourself? What's not to like? I'll have to see this one.
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2nd American revolution begins?

Posted by netfotoj on Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:04:21 PM
The American Revolution began at a rude bridge in Lexington, Mass., when a rabble of armed farmers fired “the shot heard ‘round the world.”

I have often said that we Christians can reclaim the Christian heritage of our nation if we will take a stand and fight against the flood of evil.

Perhaps one Christian teacher in a public school has already fired the first shot in the battle to reclaim our schools from decades of Madelyn Murray O'Hair’s heresy, which effectively banned Christ from our children’s classrooms. In A Battle Over a Bible for a Teacher (and a Nation), Bob Burney writes about the battle under way by one courageous public-school teacher in his classroom in the small town of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

Quote: The battle is centered on a mild-mannered, self-effacing middle school science teacher and his Bible. John Freshwater has been a teacher in the Mt. Vernon public schools for over 20 years. Twice he has been designated as “Teacher of the Year” by the School Board—most recently just last year. That was then. A few months ago it seems that a student in one of his classes made accusations that Mr. Freshwater was being too Christian in his class. The extent of the allegations are not known as the School Board is not commenting—with the exception of an occasional “leak” to the press about how “serious” the matter is in light of the “separation of Church and State.” As a result, the School Board demanded that Mr. Freshwater remove a Bible that has been sitting on the corner of his desk for 21 years. You read that correctly, “sitting” on the corner of his desk. The teacher is not accused of reading it, proclaiming it, preaching from it. Nope—it just sits there. Evidently, that has offended at least one student, so the Bible has to go.

There’s just one problem: Mr. Freshwater and his convictions. At the request of the School Board, the teacher has removed a copy of the Ten Commandments from the wall of his classroom and some other “objectionable” materials that might have been somehow construed as “Christian”—but the Bible was the last straw. In direct defiance of his employer, Freshwater has refused to remove the Bible from the desk. He was offered a compromise—put it in a drawer when students were present and take it out when they left. No deal, the humble but courageous man has replied. He has drawn the proverbial line in the sand. The Bible stays and the controversy has exploded.

Perhaps John Freshwater will be the John Adams or Thomas Paine of the 2nd American Revolution, that reclaims the first. Help me pray for him and for our nation, that Christians will at long last rise up and take a stand to reclaim our godly heritage.
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Appeasement please

Posted by netfotoj on Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:56:54 PM
Two of my favorite pundits, Ann Coulter and Emmett Tyrell, opine about Obama’s “appeasement of Iran” flap, but I have to give the nod to Tyrell for the best closer in 'Appeasement' as a Hate Term. Coulter’s If We Could Talk to the Animals is a close 2nd and well-worth a read, too.

Tyrell closes with: One thing that all these Democrats have in common is a colossal moral superiority. As we have seen before, they repeatedly presume to set the terms of political debate. They rule over the appropriateness of words and strategies, telling us what the Republicans can and cannot say. Now they have ruled the word "appeasement" to be "reckless," "outrageous" and bereft of "dignity." The term has been applied to opponents of a forceful foreign policy for two generations, during which forceful foreign policy kept America secure. Alas, in this election, the Democrats have ruled the word "appeasement" out of bounds.

To Obama, the term is redolent of that "divisiveness" that he abhors. He has crossed the length and breadth of the land lecturing against divisiveness. So how can we end this offensive divisiveness? Well, obviously by agreeing with him and his wife. His wife is also on the campaign trail, and when Republicans react unfavorably to her complaints about America, he tells them to "lay off (his) wife." What kind of a person tells us what we can and cannot say and with whom we must be in agreement? To my mind, it is a bully, and now we are going to have months of watching Sen. Obama attempt to bully Sen. John McCain. Over in Vietnam somewhere, there are retired jailers who could tell him that one cannot bully McCain, even when you have him flat on his back with broken bones.

Well said, sir! May I please have another?
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Jews abandon Obama

Posted by netfotoj on Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:39:37 PM
Here’s the best news I’ve read in a while, and in the Noo Yawk Times at that: Many Florida Jews Express Doubts on Obama

When liberal Jews decide they aren’t voting for a Democrat, the end must be near. Of course, the NYT writer spins the story like a top, trying to disprove all the reasons Jews saying they aren’t going to vote for Obama. Whatever happened to objective reporting, where reporters report the "facts" and leave readers to draw their own conclusions? This "news" story is a textbook case of the writer's opinions injected in. But just the fact that all Jews are not on the Obama bandwagon gives me hope.

Here’s another must-read, Maureen Dowd (a foxy redhead, even if she is a NYT liberal) channels her inner Hillary and Obama for: The Last Debate
“Hillary, you’ve been a great candidate, better than your train-wreck campaign. You’re Churchillian in your indomitable tenacity. You’ve inspired women all over the country. In fact, you’ve inspired some of them to hate me. But now it’s time for you to try to muster a gracious exit.”

“Forget it, Bones. Once Harold Ickes works his dark magic on the delegate rules to count Michigan and Florida, I’ll have the popular vote. And then the superdelegates will grovel back. They know in their hearts that they don’t want to go on a blind date with a guy who’s going to be BFF with Cuba, Hamas, Iran and retired Weathermen. You can bet your white turban that I’m not raising the white flag.”

“Like hell you aren’t, sister.”

“Sexist!”

“Racist!”

Does BFF stand for what I think it does? As in BF Egypt? Naughty, naughty, Maureen!
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Where's our energy plan?

Posted by netfotoj on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:22:55 PM
Where on earth is the energy plan we need to lead us out of this Jimmy Carter, back to the '70s mess we're in? Seems so far the GOP is content to say, "At least we're not Democrats," but offer no real alternatives. I hate to say it since I'm not a big fan of his, but the most sensible energy plan I've seen lately is outlined by Newt Gingrich in Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.
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Who's to blame for our high gas prices? The oil companies? The Saudis? OPEC? The answer, unfortunately, is closer to home: The "No-We-Can't" Left in Congress.

Last Thursday, with oil at $124 a barrel, liberals on the Senate Appropriations committee voted to block environmentally sound development of oil shale in Colorado.

According to the Investors Business Daily there are an estimated 1 trillion barrels of oil trapped in shale in the U.S. and Canada. Retrieving just a tenth of it would quadruple our current oil reserves.

But the "No-We-Can't" Left in Congress -- as they're prone to do -- said no, and Americans will pay the price. Colorado Senator Wayne Allard (R) put it best when he said: "If we are really serious about reducing pain at the pump, this is a vote that would make a difference in people's lives."

...Our energy and environment challenges are real. But America has the technological know-how and the entrepreneurial spirit to overcome them. And, as I pointed out last week, Americans overwhelmingly support more domestic production of energy to help ease gas prices.

We -- not the Saudis or the oil companies -- control our energy future. We just need the political will to do so.

High energy prices aren't theoretical, they have real consequences for real people. The answer, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, isn't easy, but it's simple -- so simple it could fit on a bumper sticker:

Drill Here
Drill Now
Pay Less
Close quote.
We've got oil off our shores that Castro has invited the Chinese to drill but we can't because of Congress. And polar bears are nice cuddly critters in Coke commercials, but I'd hate to meet a real one. And they ain't more important than drilling oil in Alaska.

And the French are leading the world in nuclear power plants. The friggin' French! But we can't build any nuke plants or any new refineries because of friggin' Congress!

If the GOP would grow a backbone and run on a platform of drill here, drill now and pay less, I firmly believe the voters would respond. There's "change we can believe in."

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Correction on Obama’s list

Posted by netfotoj on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:20:27 PM
Correction: I erred in my description yesterday of Obama’s shrewish wife as moaning about the limitations of her six-figure income. It’s actually seven figures currently. Her income rather abruptly jumped from six figures well into seven shortly after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence. I’m sure her worth to her employer appreciated abruptly, too. I abjectly apologize for the error. In my defense, I must add I’ve had a really tough time with math since I ran into those nasty multiplication tables in the 3rd grade. But that’s not an excuse. I was wrong and I apologize for my math error. Please forgive me. After all, what’s a few hundred thousand bucks among friends?

And while I’m on the topic of math, I gotta say that Obama’s math skills are even fuzzier than his geography. While he’s been stumping through 57 states making promises of 40 acres and a mule to every man, woman, child, dog and cat in the nation and also promising trillions and trillions to eliminate poverty not only in America but worldwide, he’s been saying he’ll pay for it all with tax increases only on the "rich." Of course, he’s also sorta fuzzy on his math on just who’s "rich," which has me wondering if that includes him and his shrewish wife? After all, his two “novels” have made him a multi-millionaire and his wife has an income into the millions, so is he planning on taxing himself and herself, too? Just wondering.

And one more point while I'm on math. I read where Obama and his shrew wife gave $20,000 to their church last year. And I also read that their total combined income was $4 million+ last year. Now I'll give him and his wife the benefit of the doubt that maybe they missed the not-rev. Wright's sermon on tithing last year. Maybe they even missed it every time he preached it in the 20 years they've been in his church. After all, Obama did seem to miss quite a few of the not-rev. Wright's "greatest hits." Exactly all of them, he tells us now. But if he did miss the tithing sermons -- most preachers I know preach tithing at least once a year, if not more often -- let me 'splain the concept to him. Tithe means a tenth. And one tenth of $4 million is $400,000, not $20,000. According to my calculator, $20,000 is .5% of $4 million, that's one half of one percent, in layman's terms. And my Bible also tells me charity begins at home. So maybe before you tax all the "rich" folks to feed all the hungry in the world, maybe you and your shrew wife ought to step up to the plate a little more at your own church and help its ministry to feed the hungry in Chicago and right in your own neighborhood. Just a suggestion.


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Chuck Norris for VP!

Posted by netfotoj on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:07:39 PM
Chuck Norris promises that if elected VP, he will:
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-If I win on Obama's ticket, I will appoint Barack to be co-editor (with Oprah) of my new political magazine, "Uh-O!"

-If he continues to develop nuclear weapons, I will change the last name of the Iranian president from Ahmadinejad to Smith or Johnson -- just because I can. For as long as I'm in office, his country will be renamed from "I-ran" to "You'd-better-run."

-I will erect two additional terrorist-deterring national monuments to two of my favorite movie stars and heroes: John Wayne and Charlton Heston. These monuments will be known collectively as "The Smith & Wesson Memorials." (Of course, Heston's will have a three-story high Ten Commandments fountain in the center.)

Vote for Chuck!


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Gripes welcomed by GOP

Posted by netfotoj on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:02:59 PM
Are you, like me, both worried and ticked off about conservative prospects in the 2008 election? Peter J. Wirs in Uniting McCain and Conservatives: Here's How We're Going to Do It says you can do something about it. Gripe. Here.
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The reason why our benefactor established the Republican Leadership Trust was to promote Republican unity by providing everyone a meaningful opportunity to be involved — giving everyone a voice that is heard. So, here’s what we are going to do. Go to www.GOPonDemand.com. Click the GRIPE page and specifically elaborate on these two points:

(1) Should there be a Republican Party code of ethics to promote civic virtue (putting the public interest first, even at the expense of political or personal interest or expediency), transparency and dialogue? (The idea of a Republican Party code of ethics originated with one of my mentors, the dean of Pennsylvania’s Republican county chairmen, Harry W. Fawkes).

(2) What should the RNC and Senator McCain do regarding President Bush? (Note that in last week’s Mississippi Congressional special election, Dick Cheney’s last-minute visit drove up anti-Republican turnout by 142%).

Then advise what you believe the top five Conservative issues, in order of priority, that Senator McCain should address — and how he is to address these issues.

…And finally, tell us how you will specifically exert your right to run the Republican Party. Go to the VOLUNTEER page and volunteer! Don’t just talk the talk. Walk the walk.

So gripe. And then join the fight. Our nation’s future is on the line. It’s high time to put up or shut the h--- up and get the h--- out of the way.
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