Not in the biblical sense, but in the fiscal sense.
Earlier tonight, John Stossel felt the love, or something rather.
Surely the Phelps Gang will damn me to hell for this posting…
I’m so damn angry that words fail me. Read Duane Patterson’s account of Dingy Harry’s recent case of verbal diarrhea — complete with audio.
Now, excuse me while I fight the urge to throw my laptop across the room…
Technorati Tags: creep, global warming, harry reid, witless opportunistIf you’re not angry right now, you ought to be.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad requested to visit Ground Zero during an upcoming trip to New York. That request was rejected Wednesday. But a source tells Eyewitness News that the decision may not stop him.
A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.
The source says regardless of the NYPD’s rejection of the request for a Ground Zero tour, Iran’s president and his entourage will be accompanied by a Secret Service protective detail, a detail provided to all heads of state when they visit the United States.
Once again, President Bush gets wimpy with it:
“This is a matter for the City of New York resolve,” a spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House, Gordon, Johndroe, said. He added pointedly: “It seems odd that the president of a country that is a state sponsor of terror would visit ground zero.” Minutes later administration officials were saying privately that a visit by Mr. Ahmadinejad anywhere near ground zero was “not going to happen.
Well, at least Rudy has the stugots to say “Hell no!”…
“Under no circumstances should the NYPD or any other American authority assist President Ahmadinejad in visiting Ground Zero. This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden’s son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. Assisting Ahmadinejad in touring Ground Zero - hallowed ground for all Americans - is outrageous.”
…and Hillary pays some lip service…
“It is unacceptable for Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who refuses to renounce and end his own country’s support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation’s history.”
…but where’s Chucky Schumer?
(linkage via Juliette, who’s ready for “The Mother of All Sit-Ins”. If only I can get time off from work to join in…)
What part of “we NEVER negotiate with terrorists” does Jan Egeland NOT understand?!?
Jan Egeland, a Norwegian who helped broker secret talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the 1990s and later, as a top U.N. official, dealt with warlords and guerrilla leaders from Colombia to Uganda, told Reuters: “I wouldn’t rule out speaking to anybody, a priori.”
He went on: “It depends on who you speak to, but also what you speak to them about. I’m willing to speak to the devil to help the victims in the depths of hell. If I could have a meeting with al Qaeda where one could impress upon them that they are the biggest anti-Islamic force around, why not?”
Gee, I thought that whenever you bargain with the devil, you always lose.
But I digress…
(link via LGF)
Zombie has complete coverage and photos from yesterday’s “9/11 Truth” /Peace (at any price) march in San Francisco.
(link via LGF)
Update: Links fixed.
It appears that the Goracle’s rhetoric is coming back to bite him, so to speak:
He may be the hero of the environmental movement for his crusade against global warming but Al Gore is about to be targeted by animal rights activists over his carnivorous contribution to greenhouse gases.
Citing United Nations research that the meat industry is worse for the environment than driving and flying, animal rights groups are directing a campaign at the former American vice-president’s diet.
When he delivers a lecture on global warming in Denver next month, protesters will display billboards bearing a cartoon image of Mr Gore eating a drumstick and the message: “Too chicken to go vegetarian? Meat is the No 1 cause of global warming”.
The campaign is being organised by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and is backed by other animal rights groups.
FWIW, Gore shouldn’t kiss up to the vegenazis. Maybe this will be a wake-up call for him to check his own self-righteousness and quit being a hypocrite when it comes to telling others how to live their lives.
Another Democrat performs random acts of treason:
US Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, on a Mideast visit that included a stop in Syria, said the country lambasted by the Bush administration deserves credit for taking in more than a million Iraqi refugees.
Kucinich, a strong anti-war opponent who trails far in the US presidential polls, also said he won’t visit Iraq on his trip to the region because he considers the US military deployment there illegal.
“I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation … I don’t want to bless that occupation with my presence,” he said in an interview in Lebanon, after visiting Syria. “I will not do it.”
But he had no scruples about “blessing” Bashar Assad with aid and comfort.
Sadly, no one will demand his immediate resignation from Congress and a public apology, as socialist Democrats nowadays are given blanket immunity from criticism or controversy.
(link via Wizbang)
Update (9/7): LGF has jaw-dropping video footage.
While I’m personally not fond of Hummer SUVs, I don’t begrudge those who choose to drive them. It’s a free country, and freedom of individual choice should be respected.
Unfortunately, some members of the Watermelon Brigade in Washington D.C. went too far in expressing their views.
On a narrow, leafy street in Northwest Washington, where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm, one man bought a flashy gray Hummer that was too massive to fit in his garage.
So he parked the seven-foot-tall behemoth on the street in front of his house and smiled politely when his eco-friendly neighbors looked on in disapproval at his “dream car.”
It lasted five days on the street before two masked men took a bat to every window, a knife to each 38-inch tire and scratched into the body: “FOR THE ENVIRON.”
“The thought of somebody vandalizing it never crossed my mind,” said Gareth Groves, 32, who lives with his mother in a three-story home in the 4300 block of Brandywine Street NW in American University Park. “I’ve kind of been in shock.”
Now, as Groves ponders what to do with the remains of his $38,000 SUV, he has been the target of a number of people who have driven by the crime scene in his upscale neighborhood and glared at him in smug satisfaction. […]
Groves, who grew up in the District and works in marketing for a local radio station, said he wanted the car in part because he is starting a company, Washington Sports Marketing, that is “image-based.”
He said he wants to get it towed and repaired but fears extremists might not be done making an example of him.
“I’m worried about what I do now,” he said. “If I get it fixed, do I put it back in the same spot three weeks from now?”
If I were him, I’d get it repaired (hopefully Groves has insurance), have an alarm installed, and invest in an environmentally-friendly aluminum/composite Louisville Slugger to leave a carbon imprint on the EnviroNazis the next time they try to perform another “prayer ritual” to the goddess Gaia on my ride.
I was going to say something to the point, but Jim Rose beat me to it.
Michael “I Hate America” Moore thinks the health care services in Cuba are better than what’s offered here in the U.S. So he attempts to dupe 9/11 responders for his next waste of celluloid.
The trip was to be filmed as part of the controversial director’s latest documentary, “Sicko,” an attack on American drug companies and HMOs that Moore hopes to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Two years in the making, the flick also takes aim at the medical care being provided to people who worked on the toxic World Trade Center debris pile, according to several 9/11 workers approached by Moore’s producers.
But the sick sojourn, which some say uses ill 9/11 workers as pawns, has angered many in the responder community.
“He’s using people that are in a bad situation and that’s wrong, that’s morally wrong,” railed Jeff Endean, a former SWAT commander from Morris County, N.J., who spent a month at Ground Zero and suffers from respiratory problems.
There’s more. Keep your tempers in check before reading the rest.
Michael Moore is a sick, hypocritical bastard who only speaks truth to powdered donuts. Chances of him rushing off to see a Cuban doctor are slim, as he can comfortably afford the best medicine his gutter money can buy.
For a look at the “excellent” health care services that’s available for “free” to everyday Cuban citizens, pay a visit to The Real Cuba and Babalu Blog (Warning: Graphic images).
Given the left-wing slant of much of their tax-funded programming, I’m not surprised. However, a documentary on moderate Islam is being denied airtime.
The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic extremism claims his film has been dropped for political reasons from a television series that airs next week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide.
Key portions of the documentary focus on Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser of Phoenix and his American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a non-profit organization of Muslim Americans who advocate patriotism, constitutional democracy and a separation of church and state.
Martyn Burke says that the Public Broadcasting Service and project managers at station WETA in Washington, D.C., excluded his documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, from the series America at a Crossroads after he refused to fire two co-producers affiliated with a conservative think tank.
“I was ordered to fire my two partners (who brought me into this project) on political grounds,” Burke said in a complaint letter to PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supplied funds for the films.
Burke wrote that his documentary depicts the plight of moderate Muslims who are silenced by Islamic extremists, adding, “Now it appears to be PBS and CPB who are silencing them.”
That’s funny. PBS and CPB never call for firing liberal producers “on political grounds”. They don’t seem to have a problem with taking tax dollars from conservatives, though.
What a crock. “Political grounds” sounds like “we’re afraid of offending pro-Islamist groups like CAIR” to me.
As a taxpayer whose hard-earned money goes to fund “public” television, I’m not taking this nonsense lying down. I finished firing off complaint messages to PBS, CPB, and WETA demanding them to broadcast ‘Islam vs. Islamists’ in its unedited, uncensored entirety — and I strongly encourage you to do the same.
Moderate Muslims who detest terrorism and hatred in their name MUST be heard; let the Thought Police be damned.
Prince Charles Calls for Ban on McDonald’s Restaurants and Big Macs
The Prince of Wales told a nutritionist in Abu Dhabi Tuesday that the “key” to people eating healthily was to ban McDonald’s fast food restaurants.
Prince Charles was attending the launch of a public health awareness campaign aimed at fighting diabetes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
He visited the Imperial College London Diabetes Centre and watched as a group of children chose from a selection of “good” and “bad” snacks for their school packed lunches.
Talking to Nadine Tayara, a nutritionist from the centre who had put the children through their paces, he asked her: “Have you got anywhere with McDonald’s? Have you tried getting it banned? That’s the key.”
A McDonald’s spokeswoman said that Charles’s remark was “disappointing”.
Other members of his family had visited the fast-food chain, she said, and “have probably got a more up-to-date picture of us.”
It’s sad that Charles would blatantly call for the use of government to ban goods and services “for the common good”. The saddest part, however, is that his home country has been marching down that path for quite some time now. Maybe a Big Mac would change his bland disposition (the late Princess Diana tried to get him to lighten up, bless her heart…).
It’s up to the individual (or in the case of children, their parents), and not government, to choose healthy food options. While too much fast food can be a bad thing, a governmental ban just isn’t the answer. Market forces have caused Mickey D’s and other burger joints to offer healthier items on their menus, and they can do just fine without an also-ran to the British crown mucking things up.
From The Politico (a new website, I might add):
As a white liberal running in a majority African American district, Tennessee Democrat Stephen I. Cohen made a novel pledge on the campaign trail last year: If elected, he would seek to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Now that he’s a freshman in Congress, Cohen has changed his plans. He said he has dropped his bid after several current and former caucus members made it clear to him that whites need not apply.
“I think they’re real happy I’m not going to join,” said Cohen, who succeeded Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., in the Memphis district. “It’s their caucus and they do things their way. You don’t force your way in. You need to be invited.”
Cohen said he became convinced that joining the caucus would be “a social faux pas” after seeing news reports that former Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr., D-Mo., a co-founder of the caucus, had circulated a memo telling members it was “critical” that the group remain “exclusively African-American.”
Other members, including the new chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., and Clay’s son, Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., agreed.
“Mr. Cohen asked for admission, and he got his answer. … It’s time to move on,” the younger Clay said. “It’s an unwritten rule. It’s understood. It’s clear.”
The bylaws of the caucus do not make race a prerequisite for membership, a House aide said, but no non-black member has ever joined.
Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., who is white, tried in 1975 when he was a sophomore representative and the group was only six years old.
“Half my Democratic constituents were African American. I felt we had interests in common as far as helping people in poverty,” Stark said. “They had a vote, and I lost. They said the issue was that I was white, and they felt it was important that the group be limited to African Americans.”
Cohen remains hopeful, though, that he can forge relationships with black members in other ways.
“When I saw the reticence, I didn’t want anyone to misunderstand my motives. Politically, it was the right thing to do,” he said. “There are other ways to gain fellowship with people I respect.”
Cohen won his seat in the 60 percent black district as the only white candidate in a crowded primary field. If he faces a primary challenge next year from a black candidate, as expected, some Black Caucus members may work to defeat him.
Mr. Cohen, speaking as a black man, my advice to you would be to serve your constituents to the best and to the fullest of your abilities. While the CBC may discriminate against you (as well as your black consitituents in the process), have confidence in knowing that excellent public service breaks all racial barriers. Surely the majority of blacks who gave you their vote of confidence last November shall reward your efforts once more come the next election.
The CBC has become the “good ol’ boy” network that they claim to dislike. They, by and large, couldn’t care less about serving the individuals who repeatedly re-elect them, let alone care to focus on issues pertaining to black Americans. In short, the CBC (as well as other caucuses based on race) is about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
Focus on your elected position, and treat your constituents like the full-blooded Americans they are. The respect and relationships will follow.
What happens when two TV shows from the ’60s join together for a three-part episode? Tune in and find out!
(via James Hudnall)