Archive for July, 2008

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 :: In Politics ::

This is why I changed my registration from Republican to independent.

Unless Republicans grow a pair and start pushing back against the contrived bullshit that Donks spend their time cooking up, I’ll never be back.

An excerpt (bold in original):

Republicans in general (and social conservatives in particular) have an unhealthy obsession with the appearance of impropriety: The moment an accusation is leveled, even by the enemies of everything the GOP stands for, these self-flagellators rush to agree with the accusers so as not to be seen as “part of the problem.” These roundheels fall over backwards to confess the unique corruption and perfidy of Republicans… while failing to do the one thing that is most vital in such an ideological war: Defending our own guys from politically motivated and ultimately unfair accusations from the Left.

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 :: In Politics ::

This afternoon Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was on the Senate floor to get something going on the energy crisis. After laying out the GOP position that we need to move forward to aggressively develop all options for conservation and alternative energy supplies he pointed out that we can’t afford to instantly abandon traditional energy supplies like oil and coal while we work toward a permanent solution to wean ourselves from carbon fuels.

With that said, he offered a series of Unanimous Consent Requests (UCRs) to open up the 85% of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for drilling that is now off limits to oil companies. The Democrats were waiting and quickly objected. That killed the first UCR.

McConnell then made a modification and offered a new UCR which said that when the average price of gasoline hits $4.50 per gallon at the pump, Outer Continental Shelf drilling would be allowed. Democrats objected again and that killed the second UCR.

He then made a new modification and offered a third UCR. This one would open the OCS for drilling when the average pump price hit $5.00 per gallon. The Dems objected again and killed that one as well.

The process was repeated several times all the way up to $10.00 per gallon. Democrats even killed that one… $10.00 per gallon is OK with them!

It’s pretty clear: no matter what the price at the pump, the Democrats will not agree to increase domestic drilling in areas where there’s oil.

Democrats obviously think they can convince voters that drilling dry holes will solve the problem because, even as they killed the UCRs, they made speeches that there are millions of acres where companies can drill without changing the law. They just leave out the part that those acres have no oil.

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 :: In Politics ::

For those few Americans without an Internet connection and to whom I have not faxed the National Enquirer stories: Evidence is accumulating that John Edwards is right — there really are “two Americas.” There’s one where men cheat on their cancer-stricken wives and one where men do not cheat on their cancer-stricken wives.

To put it another way, it would appear that ambulances aren’t the only things John Edwards has been chasing lately.

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In the comments section of Ann’s article, Captain Conservative (Location: GA) says: “I guess this proves that Edwards…..isn’t gay!”

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 :: In Politics ::

Under criminal investigation for graft and corruption since May, Israel’s wobbly Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that he will step down in September.

Maybe voters will pick a more aggressive and focused PM to take his place. His politically correct “why can’t we all just get along” attitude hurt badly in the short war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that he has decided not to contend in the Kadima primary election and would resign as soon as the new party leader was chosen, due to the criminal investigations in which he has been embroiled in recent months.

“I have decided I won’t run in the Kadima movement primaries, nor do I intend to intervene in the elections,” Olmert said in an official statement to the public from his residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening.

“When a new [Kadima party] chairman is chosen, I will resign as prime minister to permit them to put together a new government swiftly and effectively,” he added.

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 :: In Politics ::

This came as a reading tip from a friend and it’s so good I’m posting it just as he sent it. I didn’t add a thing because it’s a complete story.

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The pro-open borders, pro-sanctuary city Houston Chronicle’s editorial staff is exultant this morning. Federal government indifference to porous borders, national security, and national sovereignty, has led to the radical makeover of America’s 4th largest city — Houston, Texas. It’s tantamount to a tectonic cultural makeover.

Here’s the article

A telling excerpt:

70 percent of Houstonians over the age of 60 are Anglo.
75 percent of Houstonians under the age of 30 are non-Anglo, mostly Hispanic.

The conclusion is obvious. In a few years Houston will be a predominantly Hispanic city.

The fly in the ointment: seems the illegal immigration-fueled, exponential growth in the Latino population has a downside concomitant. Most do not earn high school diplomas and most refuse to learn English. If Houston becomes a municipal equivalent of a 3rd world country, how does that bode well for the rest of the nation. The vast majority of Angelenos today (predominantly Hispanic) cannot even read a bus schedule. Fact is, as early as 2004, 53% of Los Angeles’ citizens were functionally illiterate and the problem there has grown far more acute, owing to runaway illegal immigration.

See this VDare post

Meanwhile, and the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle appears unconcerned, this:

Texas Cable New

An excerpt:

Three years ago, a group of well-trained MS-13 gang members wearing black FBI shirts executed several home invasions in the Houston area.

Then, one night in November of 2005, real agents were waiting for the home invaders. In a hail of gunfire, two gang members were killed and two others wounded.

Thirty-six months later, home invasions across the country are on the rise. In Houston, investigators believe a Colombian gang is targeting the wealthy.

The latest home invasion happened in the upscale community of Piney Point Village at about 2 p.m. on July 24. A high school student home for the summer heard a knock at the door.

When he went to answer the door, three men barged in. At least one of the men had a gun.

They took the family safe and some electronics. The teen told investigators all three robbers communicated with each other in Spanish.

It would appear that “representative democracy” is failing us.
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Thank you Bernard.

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It’s happening all over the country. People tend to forget that there are 30 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and overwhelmingly they are dirt poor Hispanics from Central and South America that simply walked across the border.

Today, twelve percent of the total population of Mexico lives in the U.S.

With those numbers, it’s easy to see they can’t all be living in border states. Massive numbers of illegal aliens are in Florida, the Carolinas, the Dakotas, Chicago, New England, everywhere, and even where local police try to enforce the law, they are ill-equipped to identify the organized criminals.

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 :: In Politics ::

‘Global Poverty Act’ to cost each citizen $2,500 or more…

Obama’s $845 billion U.N. plan forwarded to U.S. Senate floor

A plan by Barack Obama to redistribute American wealth on a global level is moving forward in the Senate. It follows Marxist theology — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

We are citizens of the world, Sen. Obama told thousands of nonvoting Germans during his recent tour of the Middle East and Europe. And if the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) he has sponsored becomes law, which is almost certain if he wins in November, we’re also going to be taxpayers of the world.

Speaking in Berlin, Obama said: “While the 20th century taught us that we share a common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at any time in human history.”

What the 20th century really showed was a series of totalitarian threats — from fascism to Nazism to communism — defeated by the U.S. military. Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Tojo’s Japan and the Soviet Union offered destinies we did not share.

Our destiny of peace and freedom through strength was not achieved by a transnationalist fantasy of buying the world a Coke and singing “Kumbaya.”

Obama’s Global Poverty Act offers us a global socialist destiny we do not want, one that challenges America’s very sovereignty. The former “post-racial” candidate obviously intends to be a post-national president.

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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 :: In Politics ::

The American energy policy:

ANWR Exploration
House Republicans:91%Support
House Democrats: 86% Oppose

Coal-to-Liquid
House Republicans: 97% Support
House Democrats: 78% Oppose

Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Support
House Democrats: 86% Oppose

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Support
House Democrats: 83% Oppose

Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Support
House Democrats: 96% Oppose

Nuclear Power Plant Construction (ABC News)
All Republicans: 63% Support
All Democrats: 69% Oppose

SUMMARY
91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of American-made oil and gas.

86% of House Democrats have historically voted against increasing the production of American-made oil and gas.

How much did you pay for gas TODAY?

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More Nuclear Power support
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

AAEA Environmental Group

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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 :: In Politics ::

July 26, 2008
New NEI [Nuclear Energy Institute] Radio Ads

In a new radio ad scheduled to air nationally beginning next week, Mark Ayers, president of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department, talks about job opportunities in the nuclear industry, as new plant construction gets underway. A representative of the Fluor Corporation discusses nuclear career opportunities in this new Spanish language ad. The ad will run on radio stations in Texas. [Emphasis added] Source

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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 :: In Politics ::

In the land of foolish dreams lies San Francisco. Every day you think they’ve reached the pinnacle of whack jobbery but they always move up one more notch.

This time some loon that helped set up the city’s computer network got pissed over something and petulantly changed the passwords to lock employees out of the system. He then made demands of city officials. They then locked him in jail and the dunderheaded mayor went down to the jail and held a secret meeting to get him to reveal the codes. (We think that’s all that happened but we can’t be sure.)

Now this was no small deal. They had to involve the city’s whole IT Department and they even called in Cisco to help, but the spin seems to be that the secret meeting with the mayor was the key to regaining access to their computers.

The story is dated yesterday but I heard the day before that the mayor was on a mountain top in Montana being married in the moonlight, or some such nonsense, so I wondered how he could be in both places. Actually, I wondered whether he was marrying a man or woman…

Anyway, here’s the best part of the story: they can’t fire the password bandito! I am not making this shit up. They cannot fire him! It has something to do with his state of mind, or his real intention, or whether he was just trying to blow the whistle, or whatever. All I know is they can’t fire him, at least not for a year, and maybe never.

Oh well, maybe they’ll blame it all on the computers. You think?

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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 :: In Politics ::

His subject is “Random thoughts on the passing scene.” Samples:

Anyone who is honest with himself and with others knows that there is not a snow ball’s chance in hell to have an honest dialogue about race.

I wonder what radical feminists make of the fact that it was men who created the rule of “women and children first” when it came to rescuing people from life-threatening emergencies.

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Some of the most emotionally powerful words are undefined, such as “social justice,” “a living wage,” “price gouging” or a “fragile” environment, for example. Such terms are especially valuable to politicians during an election year, for these terms can attract the votes of people who mean very different– and even mutually contradictory– things when they use these words.

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