A slew of the loud take on The Few and The Proud — on a Sunday, when the officer selection office is closed.
Thanks to Zombie for his continued covert ops.
Bonus Reading: Marine Capt. Richard Lund responds to the Code Pinkos following a protest in front of the very same office last September.
Technorati Tags: codepink, marines, protest, zombieApologies for the un-announced downtime. My responsibilities at the day job have recently increased, and other personal matters have demanded my full attention.
In other news, I see that hell has recently frozen over. All hail the “gospel” of global warming, as given to us by the Goreacle!
Speaking of religion, it seems that Hugo Chavez has found “it” all of a sudden — no booze, no smokes, no spicy food, and no Hummers. Holier-than-thou Marxists can now rejoice! The words of their Sacred Prophet bring forth revival down in Hugoland. Sister Hillary shakes her tambourine from afar!
On a final note, I’m still working toward getting the blog presentation back to normal again. Thanks for your continued patience and patronage.
Rush Limbaugh opens both barrels on Sen. Harry Reid (D-Media Myrmidons):
Senator Reid, it is time for you to stop hiding behind the speech-and-debate clause and your Senate immunity.
You want to come on this program and call me unpatriotic, come on this program and call me unpatriotic. You want to call me a liar, you want to tell me that I did not say what I said, you come on this program and you tell me to my face that I said what I did not say. Stop hiding behind your special protections as a senator and spewing the talking points of an embarrassing, partisan hack media group called Media Matters for America. Hillary Clinton didn’t serve in the military, by the way, Senator Reid. She just voted against General Petraeus. Barack Obama did not serve in the military, Senator Reid, and he didn’t even show up to vote in support of Petraeus. John Edwards didn’t serve, and after voting to send our troops to war, he has undermined them ever since. It is unconscionable for an esteemed United States senator to launch an all-out assault on a private citizen, which is a lie from front to back, in order to cover your own actions and words, which have been the true demoralization of the US military — and if anybody owes the military of this country an apology, Senator Reid, it is you. It is Jack Murtha. It is Dick Durbin. It is any and all who have joined your effort to secure defeat of the United States and the United States military in not only Iraq, but the war on terror.
Sir, have you no decency left? Have you no shame whatsoever?
The answer would be no to both questions.
Harry Reid is a scheming, conniving coward who is unfit to serve in the Senate. Any decent Nevadan should shun him on sight — and toss his sorry rear end out of office come November 2010.
(thanks to Jim Rose)
Technorati Tags: , harry, limbaugh, reid, rushI only have two things to say about Justice Clarence Thomas:
1. I’m looking forward to buying and reading his book.
2. I would like to meet him in person.
Those who have wrongfully maligned and vilified him over the years owe him the mother of all apologies.
End of discussion.
Technorati Tags: clarence thomas, justice, supreme courtMy apologies for the posting shortage, folks. Due to increased responsibilities at the day job, I haven’t had the opportunity to add my two cents to the world. Moving on:
Debate Redux: Last Thursday’s GOP primary debate moderated by Tavis Smiley turned out to be a mixed bag. Check out the commentary from La Shawn Barber, Eric Scheie, and Peg Kaplan.
Protest in D.C.: Didn’t know, didn’t really care. Pay a visit to Age of Hooper for details.
Goodbye, Miss Moneypenny: Actress Lois Maxwell, best known for her role as secretary to M in 14 James Bond films, has died at the age of 80.
No More ‘Toons: Cox & Forkum bow out of the political cartooning game. Pay them a visit and wish them godspeed in their future endeavors. And while you’re there, buy their books. They’re the best.
Finally, I received messages regarging access to the blog in general. If you’re experencing problems posting to comments or viewing entries, please contact me.
The Morgan State debate is in two days. Still, Thompson, Romney, Giuliani, and McCain still won’t change their minds to appear. In short, to quote J.C. Watts, it is “a stupid decision” on their part.
“I think the best that comes out of stupid decisions like this,” said former Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts, is “that African-Americans might say, ‘Was it because of my skin color?’ Now, maybe it wasn’t, but African-Americans do say, ‘It crossed my mind.’”
All four GOP presidential front-runners — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson — have said they will not attend a PBS debate at a historically black college in Baltimore hosted by Tavis Smiley. […]
Watts pointed out that some of the candidates with more liberal histories on issues such as guns and abortion have reached out to conservative groups that don’t share their views.
It’s not just black conservatives complaining. White conservatives are shaking their heads in disappointment. Commentary from Redstate:
The fact that our major Republican candidates have decided to skip out on a debate hosted by NPR’s Tavis Smiley at an historically Black university is a travesty. I’ve never been so disappointed in this Republican field as a group as I am about this issue. Even the CEO of Wal-Mart has appeared on the Tavis Smiley show to talk about his company, address concerns and objections, answer tough questions, and present himself and his company to Smiley’s audience and let them make up their own minds. It’s a real pity so many of our prospective Presidents aren’t willing to do the same. Don’t tell me the CEO of Wal-Mart isn’t as busy as any of these guys.
We have scolded the African-American community for its lock-step support for Democrats. However, as the avoidance of this debate demonstrates, Republicans haven’t exactly beaten down doors in an attempt to engage these voters, either. Given that these invitations went out in March, the campaigns had plenty of time to schedule one debate to address one of the largest voting blocs in the country, and one whose loyalties could help the GOP turn national elections. […]
Because Republicans don’t engage, we allow the Jacksons and Sharptons and Wests to define the GOP rather than define ourselves. We have to get aggressive in engaging black voters so that we don’t leave a vacuum. And if we ever want to gain their votes, we have to answer the barbs tossed at Republicans and get past the self-appointed gatekeepers with our answers.
Knowing that about nine out of 10 black voters have cast their ballots for the Democratic presidential candidate over the past two decades, the candidates can have little doubt that the audience at the All-American Forum is not likely to be receptive to Republican candidates or Republican policies.
But how can Republican supporters, many of whom labeled Democrats “cowards” for refusing to debate on the Fox News Channel, remain silent while their candidates run and hide from Tavis Smiley, one of the most congenial black talk show hosts on TV today?
It’s not too late. There are still two more days until the debate.
Yes, two more days. I already voiced my opinion on the subject, and it still stands.
It’s time for the frontrunners to step up or step off.
Related: Jim Geraghty offers up “reasons” why the Fearful Four won’t debate this Thursday. Frankly, I’m not buying their excuses.
Related #2: Shorter Bob Herbert: “Go away! I’m race baitin’!” (via Sister Toldjah)
Technorati Tags: debate, Giuliani, McCain, Morgan State, Romney, Tavis Smiley, ThompsonI was at work and couldn’t catch the “speech” in its entirety, but Michelle Malkin, Atlas Shrugs, The Invisible Hand, and a host of other anti-Sharia warriors kept the floodlights on the happenings at Columbia U. and Ground Zero.
Some highlights though: CU president Leo Bollinger appeared to have chutzpah when he introduced Ahmadinejad to the audience. It was a face-saving act, folks. Expect a massive alumni backlash and a decrease in grants and donations. College admins who can’t raise the green are usually ejected from their ivory towers.
Idontneedtowearatie sez that there are no gays in his country. Here’s why.
Ahmadiwantshismahdi also wants to research “the root causes of 9/11″. Maybe he should have went on the Alex Jones show instead.
I could go on, but Mr. Beady Eyes already does such a good job of exposing himself for the crazed psycho he is.
Instead of nominating Ted Olson for Attorney General — and telling Sen. Harry Reid (D-MoveOn.org) to stick it, he chose a benchwarmer for the position instead:
If reports are correct, President Bush will nominate retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as the new Attorney General, today. This is a mistake.
It’s not that Judge Mukasey isn’t a fine man or a good judge — most reports indicate he is both.
But the impression is that President Bush avoided picking conservative favorite — former solicitor general Theodore Olson — because Sen. Harry Reid vowed to block his nomination.
What Bush fails to realize is that when you are right, picking a fight with an unpopular enemy can actually make you more popular with your base. […]
So if Olson is clearly a respectable nominee, why not use this as an opportunity to pick a fight with the liberals who are blocking him for political purposes? I can’t help but think that presidents like Clinton and Reagan would see this sort of thing as an opportunity to score political points — not as a crisis.
Quite frankly, the President’s constant efforts to appease the nutjobs in Congress disappoint me beyond civil description.
Update: Mukasey might not get a speedy confirmation hearing if Chucky Schumer has something to say about it:
Mr. Schumer, one of the Senate’s fiercest critics of Mr. Gonzales, has long touted Judge Mukasey for a position higher than the district court judgeship he held for 19 years. In 2003, the senator recommended the judge as an eventual successor to Chief Justice Rehnquist on the Supreme Court. Earlier this year, he floated Judge Mukasey’s name for the attorney general position.
In a statement issued last night, the senator was somewhat guarded. “For sure we’d want to ascertain his approach on such important and sensitive issues as wiretapping and the appointment of US attorneys, but he’s a lot better than some of the other names mentioned and he has the potential to become a consensus nominee,” the statement said.
Translation: If you’re down with G-Dub, you gets no love.
Recently, the FairTax proposal has been under attack by numerous critics; the most vicious screeds coming from Bruce Bartlett, who had the audacity to falsely link the proposal to the “church” of Scientology.
FairTax proponent Neal Boortz comes out swinging:
I’ve long had a great deal of respect for Bruce Bartlett. I’ve cited his commentary countless times on my radio show. Lately Bartlett has become perhaps the country’s most vitriolic opponent of the FairTax as evidenced by a series of recent columns in which he makes a weak attempt to tie the FairTax to Scientology. The best that Bartlett can come up with is that years before the FairTax was developed there was a group called Citizens for an Alternative Tax System that developed a plan for a national retail sales tax. The plan was wholly different from the FairTax in that it called for an exclusive, rather than an inclusive sales tax, it did not eliminate payroll taxes, it had no provision to rebate taxes paid on life’s essentials, and it left our corporate tax structure in place. […]
Bartlett’s attacks on the FairTax smack of desperation. Does this plan upset him so much that he has to resort to such a weak attempt at guilt by association? His attacks on the FairTax don’t stop with the Scientology smear. Bartlett completely (intentionally?) mischaracterizes the FairTax prebate, the FairTax provision that insures that no American family would pay the FairTax on the basic necessities of life, by stating in two columns that the government would have to track individual family incomes to implement the prebate plan. A sixth-grader could read the bill or The FairTax Book and understand that the prebate is predicated on the size of the family, not the family income; yet Bartlett continues to insist that income must be tracked! Desparation, carelessness or ignorance?
For the truth on the FairTax, visit here and here. Don’t believe the hype.
P.S.: Just for fun, I created a “shame on…” banner in reply to Bartlett’s recent columns — and Boortz mentioned it on his website.
Although I’m guilty of missing the date, Glenn Beck has dedicated the week to reflect upon the Beslan Massacre that took place September 1, 2004 on his radio and TV programs.
Beck, with author Brad Thor, have been discussing the possibility of the Beslan attack being repeated here — en masse. Be sure to check it out. I’ll be on the lookout for video links from Beck’s TV show and add them when they become available.
A message from the not-so-distant future? You decide (via Hot Air).
P.S.: I’m back.
A commentary on the current situation, as presented by “Old Blood and Guts” (voiced by Mike Kaminsky):
Former Sen. Fred Thompson recently criticized Michael Moore’s travels to Cuba for his “documentary” on health care. Moore, in return, challenged Thompson to a “debate” of sorts.
Thompson, with the help of the Internet, replied back - sans the verbosity used by Moore:
I so like this guy.
Just as Sheryl Crow comes up with a new way to wipe away the global warming mess (surely she “jests”), a cleansing counterpoint to “An Inconvenient Truth” has been released.
Be sure to check out the documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth . . . or Convenient Fiction?” right now, and tell your friends. Unlike Al Gore’s “carbon offsets”, it won’t cost you anything.
(hat tip: Flopping Aces & Sparks from the Anvil)
If the senator had the same passive, defeatist attitude about his hometown as he does about the war, Searchlight would be a ghost town by now.
I can’t wait for 2010. In the meantime, let Harry know just how you feel.
Update: Some soldiers dare call it treason.