"As for FDR, he was the greatest politician of the 20th century."

But why call a president great whose government was honeycombed with spies and traitors, and whose war diplomacy lead to the loss of 10 Christian countries of Eastern Europe to a Muscovite despot whose terrorist regime was the greatest enemy of human freedom in modern history?

That stings!

Dissecting Leftism

Front Line Voices

It is unfortunate that this site never got anywhere.

A Marine corporal I "adopted" was in this...

..Task Force to help Africans fight for a better life. Glad to see it continues apace.

This fella, who looked to be about 21, loved the summer sausage I sent, for what it's worth. Some like Oreos, some not. Some want cigars, some not. Some like gum, some prefer candies.

They all love to sink their teeth into summer sausage.

"Krl Malone says losing the NBA championship isn't the worse thing that could happen to him."

Farkers were asked to "Photoshop the worse thing that could happen to him"/ The Michael Jackson idea is pretty keen.

FARK.com

"Should we try some rough stuff or just wait for the mushroom cloud?"

It is surely fair game, especially in an electoral season, for politicos to pounce on policy decisions. If the president were to adopt sadistic interrogation methods on the mere suspicion of terrorist activity; or even if he were to adopt more modest measures, restricted to only worthy targets, but try to implement them by fiat without seeking changes in conflicting laws; these would be topics highly worthy of Senate hearings, impassioned discussion, and perhaps vigorous criticism. It is an act of supreme recklessness, however, to publicize, much less politicize, internal policy deliberations.

Andrew C. McCarthy on Torture on National Review Online: "Should we try some rough stuff or just wait for the mushroom cloud?'"

The Resources

I originally created this blog to compile a compendium of Resources that help the lay Conservative beat back the lies of the Left. The Resources have rotted, however, as you can see by Howard Dean being at the top of the heaqp there.

Remember him?

I want to get them going again, with specific topics regarding specific issues germane to 5 November 2004.

First topic is Iraq & Al Qaeda. If you please, send me an email or drop something into the comments if you have found any particular information about cooperation between Saddam & bin Laden's boys.

I'd be obliged.

Beautiful

And I'm talking sexy, curvey, hot, smoking, steam coming out of the ears, tongue on the floor, NOT SAFE FOR WORK beautiful!

I gotta thank Kim for showing me this one.

(I did mention that I was a bit old fashioned, didn't I?)

Raging Dave's PSA

You might have noticed that I haven't been posting much the past few days. Well, you're DAMN SKIPPY! My buddy is back from Baghdad, and I'll post when I damn well feel like it, and that's not too damn often!

In all seriousness, I'll be back to regular posting in a little bit. But for the next few days, I'm not touching the computer much. Hodge is home. Life is good.

I'll see you all later.

It Depends, I Guess

Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al-Qa’ida is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability. Some of the information we have received comes from detainees, including some of high rank. We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al-Qa’ida going back a decade.

Credible information indicates that Iraq and al-Qa’ida have discussed safe haven and reciprocal non-aggression. Since Operation Enduring Freedom, we have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al-Qa’ida members, including some that have been in Baghdad.

We have credible reporting that al-Qa’ida leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire WMD capabilities. The reporting also stated that Iraq has provided training to al-Qa’ida members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs.

Iraq’s increasing support to extremist Palestinians, coupled with growing indications of a relationship with al-Qa’ida, suggest that Baghdad’s links to terrorists will increase, even absent US military action.

-- George Tenet, 9 October 2002

So President Bush is to be censured for ingoring the 6 Aug 2001 PDB while on vacation in Texas, and excoriated for heeding the Congressional testimony of the Director of the CIA.

Got that?

The Record

MORE: CIA Memo

Iran Hides Their Nuke Plants Under Ground

Sattelite Imagery shows a disappearing nuke plant

One site at Natanz appears to show a hidden uranium enrichment plant, possibly surrounded by defense fortifications capable of thwarting an attack. The other site, Arak, is a heavy water facility used to make plutonium.

The two sites together could be capable of building atomic bombs. "You have to conclude this is not part of an energy program, this is part of a weapons program," John Pike, the founder of Globalsecurity.org , told Fox News.

So maybe we will get a UN security council resolution. Maybe some sanctions? Maybe after twelve years and say.....17 security council resolutions and fruitless hopes of internal revolt, we can ask France if they could please stop doing business with Iran long enough for us to fix the problem. They'll probably just bitch at us and accuse us of foul deeds they themselves are guilty of. Then again, we'd have to be lucky enough to have a Commander In Chief that recognized Iran as a threat and had the fortitude to stay the course in the face of overwhelming opposition from the likes of John "I want to be the next black President" Kerry here at home. Maybe some Leni Riefenstahl-esque propagandist will make a movie that preys upon our leader's every mis step....real or fabricated. The press will crucify him saying that Iran was never a threat and that they have no links to terrorism. Sound familiar?

OR!

We could vote to keep the adults in charge and let the teenagers bitch all they want!

The Council has spoken!

This weeks winners in the Watcher of Weasels Council are:

A Tale of Two Letters by Patterico's Pontifications, and

So, What Did the U.N. Know? by Ubique Patriam Reminisci

You can find all the results here. More good stuff this week, folks.

A Damn Good Day

So the sunshine was out yesterday. In Seattle, this is a rare thing, so I set my keyboard aside and went to do some yard work. While cutting grass (well, weedwhacking the crap), I noticed that the fruit on the cherry tree was ripe or almost there. BONUS! Picked some cherries, the last of the strawberries, put 'em in the fridge and finished the yard work.

After the girlfriend got home, we headed across the water to her brother's boat. Brought the cherries. Steaks for dinner. On a whim, they tossed the crab pot out. Pulled up six Dungeoness crab, three of which were keepers. (The others were either too small or their shell was too soft). So we all got fresh crab with our steaks. BONUS! This is turning out to be a damn good day!

And the best news of all? While we were on the dock, the girlfriend gets a call on her cell phone. She answers it, and I hear her say "Yes it is. Yes I am. Who am I speaking to?.....

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODGE!"

Hodge is back from Baghdad, and should be on my doorstep in about five hours or so! HOT DAMN, this is a good day! And the sun is shining again. So you know the deal. I'll be back to check my email or post anything spectacular, but other than that, I'm going to be outside. Beside, I can't properly rage when I'm in this good of a mood. I'll see you all later.

9/11 Hearing Last Night on C-SPAN

It was really quite interesting. I am on the lookout today for people blaming Bush for the eighteen minutes that those two F-16s scrambled out of Langley flew East over the ocean.

How long before the ACLU hops onto this?

One of the roads mentioned is "U.S. 191".

Crosses Mark Accidents on Montana Highways

The Lying Liberal Left's Desperate Desire For Negative Economic News

Zogby had a few questions for me:

Do you feel that it is possible for you and your family to achieve the American Dream, or would you say it does not exist?
Achieve Dream
Does not exist
Not sure
Refused
Do you agree or disagree that most middle class Americans can achieve the American Dream ?
Agree
Disagree
Not sure
Refused
Which of the following descriptions best represents your goals in life?
A. I believe the American Dream means material success. It is possible for my family and me, and for most middle class Americans, to achieve.
B. I believe you can achieve the American Dream through spiritual fulfillment rather than material success.
C. I believe the American Dream means material success. It exists, but is more likely to be attained by my children and not by me.
D. I believe I cannot achieve the American Dream, whether material or spiritual, nor can most middle class Americans.
Not sure
Refused
Please tell me if you or anyone in your household is currently in this situation:
More in debt now than five years ago?
Yes
No
Not sure
Refused
Feel like you are losing ground financially?
Yes
No
Not sure
Refused
Less able to give to church and/or charity now than five years ago?
Yes
No
Not sure
Refused
Working at an extra job (or two jobs) to simply pay the bills, with little or nothing left over?
Yes
No
Not sure
Refused

No American Dream! No American Dream for the middle class! No spiritual or material American Dream! Their households are in more debt! They're losing ground financially! They can't give as much to charity! They have to take two jobs just to pay the bills. Or.......NOT

That link is to an article written in 2003. Know what? We were right! Want more? Ok! Let's see about the middle class

The decline in unemployment has included minorities. For example, the Hispanic unemployment rate has declined from 8.1% a year ago to 7.0% in May.
The decline in the unemployment rate has occurred throughout the country, declining in 47 out of 50 states in the past year. In fact, 27 states have an unemployment rate at or below a low 4.9%.

Payroll jobs have increased in 44 out of 50 states in the past year.
Nationally, payroll jobs have increased for nine consecutive months for a total increase of 1.4 million.
The average payroll job growth this year (2004) has been a solid 238,000 jobs per month. By comparison, payroll jobs grew an average 233,000 per month for the same January to May period in 1996.
The manufacturing sector has now added 91,000 jobs this year, which is six times more than were created in the same period of the Clinton administration.
College grads are facing the best job market since the recession. (Source: "Surprise Gifts for this years College Graduates: Job Offers," Wall Street Journal, 5/11/04)
According to the household survey, self-employment increased by 137,000 in May and by more than 200,000 from a year ago (note: the payroll survey does not count self-employed). Moreover, management and professional positions increased by more than 550,000 jobs over the last year.
(Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Kerry is getting his long dead French ass handed to him by the Bush Boom which is directly related to the Bush Tax Cuts! He has yet to stop talking crap about how bad the economy is. Thanks for the ammo, John "I don't fall down! That son of a bitch knocked me down" Kerry!

Another tape from Abu Ghraib

This time it's not being covered by CNN, ABC, or BBC.

Shocking.

Once More, With Feeling!

It's time once again for another BLOGGER BLASTORAMA!

This time we'll be at the Kenmore Shooting Range in Bothell. The have ranges for Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, Air Gun and Archery. It looks like a well laid out range, and one of their rifle ranges goes out to 300 yards, according to this part of their website. Prices look reasonable.

I didn't see anything about gun rentals, so I'm bringing my entire arsenal for people to shoot. I'll have my .45 1911 pistol, my .38 Special revolver, my SKS (7.62X39), my 1903 (30-06), and my .22LR rifle. The .308 needs a scope before I take it to the range. If you want to show up but don't have any firearms of your own, just be there and both AK and I will let you use ours.

I'm going to concentrate more on getting my SKS sighted in than doing any kind of heavy shooting, so the 30-06 and my .22 might be open for use all day.

Come one, come all, show up and have a ball!

Lite posting day

The sun is out in full glory today. In Seattle.

If you think I'm going to stay inside, you're crazy. See you tomorrow!

The National Anthems

I can't remember who linked to this guy, but I agree with what he says. This country actually has three national anthems. Only one of them may be the official recognised anthem, but all three are needed.

America at Peace, America Bleeding, and America Marching.

I'm not entirely comfortable with The Battle Hymn but that means that I get it. You're not supposed to be comfortable with it. It's a challenge. It's a slap in the face to the complacent.

I think we need to sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic a little bit more these days.

Imperialism

By now the shrieks of "AMERICAN IMPERIALISM!" have been ringing in my ears for years, as it probably has with most of yours. You can't turn on a news channel without some idiotic moron howling about it. Everywhere you look, there's some Leftist yelling about how America is imperialist, yadda yadda yadda.

But what "colonies" do we have? The last time I looked, we have two official territories, right? Guam and Puerto Rico. Both of these territories can leave if they want. In fact, if I remember correctly we put the issue to a vote in Puerto Rico several years ago, and they preferred the status quo. The bottom line is that they can leave whenever they want, and they'll probably get a nice gift basket from the USA if they do, not to mention the friendly relations and economic benefits that come with them. We're not expanding, and in fact the times when we had to go into other countries in the past one-hundred years or so, WE GAVE THE COUNTRIES BACK. Japan. Germany, Kuwait. Panama. Afganistan is holding it's elections soon. Are you noticing a trend here?

But what about the Left's dream country, France?

One of France's farthest-flung and most exotic colonial possessions, French Polynesia, elected its first pro-independence leader yesterday in a blow to the government in Paris.

The new head of state, Oscar Temaru, replaced a long-time political ally of President Jacques Chirac as president. The new man favours independence for the South Pacific archipelago, also known by the name of its main island, Tahiti.

Wait a minute, France has a COLONY? But golly gee gosh, I NEVER hear the left howl about France's Imperialism! How could this be?

The shock result, which coincides with political instability in France's other South Pacific colony, New Caledonia, heralds a loosening of ties with Paris, analysts said.

TWO COLONIES? But... but... but...

Even so, his win sets the stage for a future showdown with Paris. The French government had threatened to cut off funding to the territory if Mr Temaru was elected and flew 120 extra police officers to the islands to head off possible unrest.

France is likely to oppose any move towards independence. Thousands of French troops and civil servants are based on Tahiti.

"French Polynesia is part of France's aspirations to have a presence in every ocean and any loss of territory would have an impact on their status as a power with global reach," said Mr Maclellan. "The territory also has a huge exclusive economic zone, with rights to fishing and sea bed minerals."

France won't let Polynesia become an independant nation? IMPERIALISM! IMPERIALISM! And let's not forget the Ivory Coast, recently invaded by the French occupied by French miliary forces under French "Peace-keeping" mandates!

Just so we can keep this straight, the Left, who supposedly hates Imperialism, wants us to get into bed (politically speaking) with France, who has no problem being imperialist.

Just another highlight of Leftist hypocrisy, folks. SSDD.

(That's Same S***, Different Day, for those who are wondering.)

Found all over the web, but most recently from DANEgerus.