The 3 stooges bag man met with Hillary(D)

"Baghdad" Jim McDermott(D) and his fellow useful idiots were on Saddam's dime as they took sides... against America: Saddam paid for 2002 Congressional junket to Baghdad
Stephen F. Hayes reported "Baghdad" Jim McDermott(D) actually said, after 12 years of sanctions, that we should trust Saddam and that Bush is a liar, even as Congress voted overwhelmingly for the use of military force to execute the Clinton administration's policy of regime change.
trust Saddam

“I think the president would mislead the American people.”
“I think you have to take the Iraqis on their face value.”

All while "Baghdad" Jim McDermott(D) was taking money from Saddam's agent Al-Hanooti's and lying about it.
Well... Steven Emerson has Exclusive Photos Show Al-Hanooti's Political Clout, Pictures with the three stooges, Hillary Clinton(D), Al Gore(D) and Syrian President Bashar Assad.

But take a deep breath...

Allahpundit

In a 1997 interview with this reporter, Muthanna Hanooti said that at the meeting, Mrs. Clinton was “very receptive” to his request for an easing of the American sanctions on Iraq that were in place at the time. He said Mrs. Clinton “passed a message to the State Department” about the need to implement the oil-for-food deal, which was intended to allow Saddam to sell billions of dollars’ worth of oil to pay for food for Iraqi citizens…

[T]o reporters on the foreign policy beat in Washington at the time and to those active in the Iraqi opposition to Saddam, it was clear whose agenda was being advanced. The news article in 1997, published in the Forward, that described Mrs. Clinton’s involvement with Mr. Hanooti began: “The American-led blockade of Iraq is crumbling, following an intensive, domestic lobbying effort that has involved Rep. David Bonior and Senator Abraham — and, according to some sources, Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

So I guess the Clinton(D) administration didn't really believe in regime change did they?

Now, why does this matter beyond exposing the usual hypocrisy of the (D)emocrats? Well, because Saddam supported terrorism, via Noam Sayin' at LGF:

1. U.S. Grand Jury Indictment of Osama bin Laden, dated November 6, 1998: Paragraph 4. “In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.”
www.fas.org...

2. Top secret Iraqi document dated March 28, 1992, lists Osama bin Laden as an asset of the Iraqi intelligence services.
www.defenddemocracy.org...

3. In 1992, Ayman al Zawahiri--who later became the Number Two in al Qaeda--visited Baghdad for a meeting with Saddam Hussein.
www.weeklystandard.com...

4. From 1999 to 2002, Saddam Hussein ran three training camps in Iraq that produced thousands of Islamic terrorists.
www.weeklystandard.com...

5. Saddam’s intelligence service gave Ansar al-Islam money and weapons.
www.iraqinews.com...

6. Iraqi memo dated November 22, 1999, shows that Saddam Hussein’s chemists trained “Arab fedayeen” how to make IEDs.
powerlineblog.com...

7. Iraqi memo dated March 11, 2001, shows that Saddam Hussein recruited suicide volunteers to attack U.S. interests.
powerlineblog.com...

8. 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta was trained by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal in Baghdad in July of 2001.
www.telegraph.co.uk...

9. Members of an Iraqi secret-police organization called Unit 999 were dispatched to camps in Afghanistan to instruct Al Qaeda terrorists.
pierrelegrand.net...

10. Abu Nidal lived openly in Baghdad.
www.iraqinews.com...

11. Saddam maintained a terrorist training camp at Salman Pak near Baghdad where foreign terrorists were trained how to take over commercial aircraft using weapons no more sophisticated than knives.
www.nationalreview.com...

12. Iraq gave Abdul Rahman Yasin, a 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspirator, both money and sanctuary.
www.nationalreview.com...

13. Abu Zubayr, an officer in Saddam’s secret police, was also the ringleader of an al Qaeda cell in Morocco. He attended the September 5, 2001 meeting in Spain with other al Qaeda operatives, including Ramzi Bin-al-Shibh, the 9/11 financial chief.
www.nationalreview.com...

14. Iraq made direct payments to the Philippine-based al Qaeda-affiliated Abu Sayyaf group.
www.nationalreview.com...

15. Baghdad Trained al Qaeda Fighters in Chemical Warfare
www.dailytimes.com.pk...

President Bush listed 22 reasons to take out Saddam in his State of the Union Address. Yet with 400 tons, that's Four Hundred TONS of yellow cake uranium siezed, 1-1/2 tons of uranium that was enriched beyond the level required for fuel for nuclear plants Saddam didn't even have, with all of his Nuclear-Chemical-Biological scientists having fled the country, the (D)emocrats would have you believe there were no WMDs. Really? FARC has 66 pounds. Where did that come from?

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Leavin'...... On a jet plane.....

I'm heading out to school today. Six weeks of instruction, yee-haw. Given that I will be training in the same class as junior enlisted, given that I'm an NCO, and given that school cadre typically use NCO's in school to deal with the junior enlisted, I plan on having about five minutes of free time until I graduate. I will post when I can, but I don't even know if I will have internet access in the billets.

So in the meantime, feel free to make use of the blogroll. DANE will post every now and then, but for the most part don't expect anything much from the 'ol blog for a while.

See you later.

Minor tweaks

I'm doing a few things to the blog in preparation for my little "vacation". Added Cold Fury to the blogroll under the AAA section. Did a few other things. I figure traffic is going to drop when I'm not posting on a daily basis, and I'm OK with that.

In the same vein, are there any of my readers from South Carolina? It looks like I'm going to be there for six weeks. Any suggestions on things to do or see in the Columbia area?

Words fail me

Via Insty, I found this pile of steaming excretement:

A hard drive recovered from the computer of a killed Colombian guerrilla has offered more insights into the opposition of House Democrats to the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

A military strike three weeks ago killed Raúl Reyes, No. 2 in command of the FARC, Colombia's most notorious terrorist group. The Reyes hard drive reveals an ardent effort to do business directly with the FARC by Congressman James McGovern (D., Mass.), a leading opponent of the free-trade deal. Mr. McGovern has been working with an American go-between, who has been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia's elected and popular government.

Mr. McGovern's press office says the Congressman is merely working at the behest of families whose relatives are held as FARC kidnap hostages. However, his go-between's letters reveal more than routine intervention. The intervenor with the FARC is James C. Jones, who the Congressman's office says is a "development expert and a former consultant to the United Nations." Accounts of Mr. Jones's exchanges with the FARC appeared in Colombia's Semana magazine on March 15. This Mr. Jones should not be confused with the former Congressman and ambassador to Mexico of the same name from Oklahoma.

"Receive my warm greetings, as always, from Washington," Mr. Jones began in a letter to the rebels last fall. "The big news is that I spoke for several hours with the Democratic Congressman James McGovern. In the meeting we had the opportunity to exchange some ideas that will be, I believe, of interest to the FARC-EP [popular army]."

Just.... what the hell.... fucking traitors!

Mr. Jones added that "a fundamental problem is that the FARC does not have, strategically, a spokesman that can communicate directly with persons of influence in my country like Mr. McGovern." Semana reports that in the documents Mr. Jones "rules himself out as the spokesman but offers himself as a 'bridge' of communication between the FARC and the congressman." Semana says when it spoke with Mr. Jones, he verified the letter and explained that "he made the offer because the guerrillas need interlocutors if they want to achieve peace and that it is a mistake to isolate them."

But communications among FARC rebels suggest the goal was to isolate Colombia's government. A letter that Reyes wrote to top FARC commander Manuel Marulanda on October 26 reads: "According to [Jones's] viewpoint, [President Álvaro] Uribe is increasingly discredited in the U.S. . . He believes that the safe haven [for the rebels] in the counties can be had for reasons mentioned. Congressional Democrats have invited him to Washington to talk about the Colombian crisis in which the principal theme is the swap."

Semana reports that Mr. Jones made some proposals to the FARC, including a Caracas meeting with representatives of Venezuela, Colombia, the FARC, other South American countries, U.S. Congressmen and the Catholic Church. "It would be almost impossible for Uribe to reject such a meeting," Mr. Jones wrote, "without burning himself a lot, nationally and internationally. If he persists in being against it, I have understood that there are ways to pressure him from my country [the U.S.]."

So, for DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN McGovern, an anti-terror, anti-drug, anti-Marxist President of Columbia doesn't deserve a fair shake. But a Marxist, drug-running, kidnapping, murdering group of thugs trying to overthrow an elected government? Hey, a DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN can do business with them!

Fucking traitors!

Pending cases hinged on the 2nd Amendment

I would like to thank "the Smallest Minority" for leading me in the direction of "Sentencing Law and Policy" This article discusses the Justice Departments appeal in U.S. v. Hayes, a case that I believe is based on the Lautenberg Amendment, and how its outcome could affect, or be affected by Heller v. D.C.

It is a short but interesting read that I highly suggest!

Horry Clap!

As late as last week, I was being told that I wouldn't be going to a certain Army school until May or June. Yesterday I got a call, and was told "You report Friday."

I'm currently going insane. The dog is freaking out. And my wife, God bless her, is patiently dealing with me running around packing.

"HONEY! WHERE ARE MY BLACK GLOVES?!?!?!?!"

"You put them in your black dress coat, dear."

"HONEY! WHERE ARE MY DRESS SOCKS?!?!?!?!"

"I put them on the bed, dear."

"HONEY, I NEED FOUR SETS OF ACU'S! WHERE'S MY FOURTH SET OF ACU'S?!?!?!?!"

"They're in the wash, dear. They were dirty."

I figure at about midnight she's just going to club me over the head and put me in bed. And by the way, you can consider this your light posting alert for the next six weeks.

UPDATE: The wife just read this post, and asked "What time am I supposed to club you over the head?"

Me: "Midnight"

My dear sweet wife who I couldn't live without: "OK. Let the midnight clubbings begin!"

I guess $5000 doesn't buy much these days

Well, Eliot Spitzer must be a bigger idiot than I previously thought. Let's say you're the gov of New York. Let's say you're into hookers. Let's say you've got five large in your pocket, plus a horrible blue-steeler that the wife just hasn't been able to satisfy. Who do you call for?

NOT SAFE FOR WORK! Just in case you were wondering.

Her?

Just for those who don't want to click the link, and I don't blame you, it's a washed-up floozy with fake boobs and no muscle tone what so ever. The only workout she ever gets is on her back.

Dude. Seriously. DOOD! Five large for THAT?!

If I were into hookers, which I'm not, for five thousand dollars I would expect the body of Angelina Jolie, the voice of Charlotte Church, and the morals of.... well, let's not go there. Safe to say, I'm married to a wonderful wife who gives me better.... well, I'd better not go there either. But anyways, five thousand dollars an hour for THAT?

Spitzer is a retard. Imagine how that's going to go down in history. "Oh yeah, I got busted banging a hooker who's gone down more than the Titanic. Her tits are as fake as Micheal Jackon's face! She's been stuffed more than a Thanksgiving turkey, and I paid FIVE GRAND for it! Yay me!" Idiot. Poltroon. Moron. Shithead.

You can thank Ace of Spades for the link, although "thank" is not quite the word I would use. Somehow, thanking somebody for causing projectile vomiting doesn't cross my mind.

The Assault Continues

While it seems that Islam is still off limits for people to criticize, Christianity is an acceptable target. As Instapundit says, "If people did this kind of thing at a mosque it would be international news, and evidence of irredeemable hatred and bigotry . . . ."

Free Trade?

Helping out our friends? Supporting freedom in South America? You would think that's a good idea, right? The Democrat American Communist Party doesn't think so. They're about to slam the door in the face of a country that wants to be an ally of the USA.

Now I'm no expert on Columbia, but unlike many people in the Democrat American Communist Party, I've actually been there. I've walked around Bogotá. I've spoken with people there, seen a few sights, and felt just a teeny little bit of the culture. Does Columbia have a few problems? Yes. But they don't have any problem that can't be worked through. They're not a basket case. They're a growing country that is struggling to control narco-terrorists that are funded by Marxist idiots from outside their borders.

You would think that helping Columbia combat the drug-runners would be an advantage to the USA, right? You would think that a free, open market in South America would be a good thing, right? You would think that having friends, not just allies but FRIENDS in this world would be a good thing, right?

So why the hell are the Democrat American Communist Party leadership snubbing Colombian President Uribe? We've had a parade of Leftists go down to give Venezuela's Chavez a knob-job while he spouts off anti-American rhetoric, but nobody seems to have time to spare to shake the hand of someone who wants to be an ally? If that doesn't prove how unfit the Left is to lead this country, I don't know what can.

Linked from Michelle Malkin.

Happy Easter

Today is the day when Christians remember that Christ died for our sins, to redeem us and bring us salvation.

So in that vein, I bring you another story of a man who died for others. Micheal A. Monsoor.

Holed up on the rooftop of a Ramadi house, Master-at-Arms 2nd Class (SEAL) Michael A. Monsoor and three fellow SEAL snipers were pulling overwatch duty for a ground security element Sept. 29, 2006, when an enemy grenade landed nearby.

Monsoor, a 25-year-old member of SEAL Team 3 from Garden Grove, Calif., instantly smothered the grenade with his body. The blast killed him, but his actions, officials said at the time, saved the men on the rooftop.

Now, Monsoor is set to become the first SEAL to receive the Medal of Honor for valor in the Iraq war. He will be only the fifth SEAL to be honored with the nation’s highest award for combat heroism.

A Defense Department official confirmed the pending award, which will be presented to his family.

"Greather love hath no man than this than to lay down his life for his friends."

Minn. Star Trib Publishes Help Wanted Ad For Anti-Military Story

Typical for the Strib:

This is really taking their quest to find stories that makes victims out of members of the U.S. military to the farthest degree! The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is apparently now resorting to advertising to dredge up women in the military “whose marriage is ending” for a story they want to write. There is really only one reason they’d want such examples and that is so that they can show that the military is hard on women so as to show the military in a bad light.

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Dood!

I'm sure people have already seen this, but it needs to be seen again!

Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder. “Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness."

"Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave… The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind… When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."

A-yup. There's that old quote "Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think Conservatives are evil." I'm not so sure that I agree with that quote anymore. At this point, I'm beginning to think that the Far Left is not so much stupid as it is insane.

Found at KisP.

Next up in California

A special badge that gun owners will be forced to wear to identify them as such. Phil has a link to a bill that the California state legislature is considering.

On Tuesday, April 8, the Assembly Public Safety Committee will consider legislation that would require gun owners to obtain a “permit-to-purchase” before buying handgun ammunition.

Introduced by State Assembly Member Kevin De Leon (D-45), Assembly Bill 2062 puts ammunition sales in the crosshairs. AB2062 would require that law-abiding gun owners obtain a permit to buy handgun ammunition and would impose severe restrictions on the private transfers of handgun ammunition. Applicants for a “permit-to-purchase” would be required to submit to a background check, pay a $35 fee, and wait as long as 30 days to receive the permit.

Doesn't that make you feel safe? No? Why not? Oh, because criminals don't bother with actually following laws? They get their ammo anyway without a stinking permit? What a shock!

Under AB2062, it would be unlawful to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month, even between family and friends, unless you are registered as a “handgun ammunition vendor” in the Department of Justice’s database. Ammunition retailers would have to be licensed and store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers. The bill would also require vendors to keep a record of the transaction including the ammunition buyer’s name, driver’s license, the quantity, caliber and type of ammunition purchased, and right thumbprint, which would be submitted to the Department of Justice or the number of his handgun ammunition purchase permit. Vendors would be required to contact the purchase permit database, to verify the validity of a permit before completing a sale. All ammunition sales in the State of California would be subject to a $3 per transaction tax. Lastly, mail order ammunition sales would be prohibited.

So, under this bill, if I gave my wife 100 rounds of ammo to go to the range...... I'd be a criminal. 100 rounds is two boxes, folks. That's a decent amount to practice with. The Kalifornia state gummint is just showing it's totalitarian roots, as all Democrat American Communist Party controlled legislatures do in the end. As old Rodger said, "A Socialist is only a Communist without a gun." The policies and laws advocated for by the Left are totalitarian in nature, with the end result being citizens converted into subjects to be ruled over by the elite few who think they know what's good for you.

What, you think I'm kidding? Then please explain the overwhelming amount of nanny-state laws and government control in areas where the Democrat American Communist Party rules unopposed. California. New York City, and I don't give a shit what Nanny Bloomberg calls himself, he's a totalitarian. The Republicans need to kick his ass to the curb. That they haven't done so already shows the depths to which the GOP has sunk. Boston, MA. San Francisco is a petri dish of Leftist ideologies. You want to see what the Left will do when they grab power? Just look at the places they already have the power, and see if you want that where YOU live. Do you want higher taxes? Do you want gun control? Do you want the government to have more and more control over your daily life? What you do and where you do it? Just let the Left gain power, and *poof* your personal freedoms can be gone tomorrow!

And lest anyone think that totalitarians can only be found in the Democrat American Communist Party, think again. A quick scan of the GOP can yield a hoard of totalitarian jerks who belong to the GOP for political convenience; i.e. they couldn't get elected as a Dem, so they call themselves Republicans to get on the ticket. Nanny Bloomberg is the perfect example. Lincoln Chafee was another good example. Arlen Specter from PA. The list goes on. And the GOP accepts these totalitarian assholes for political benefit as well, which just means that the GOP is as corrupt as the Donks.

Remember folks, "POLITICS" is a conglomeration of two words - POLI, from Greek, meaning "many", and TICKS, from English, meaning "blood sucking parasites". Mash them together, and you get POLITICS, meaning "many blood sucking parasites". There's your language lesson for today. You're welcome.

Bookmark this

Copy it, link to it, print it out and spread it around, because this has GOT to leave a mark.

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

And it just keeps going on from there....

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

I wonder what would happen if this were left lying around liberal enclaves on either coast? I think I would be able to hear the heads exploding from down here.

Found at KisP.

Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Jeremiah Wright & Senator Barack

As a follow up to:

Vote for Obama or you're a racist!
The Messiah said the hate is your fault......
The fallout for falling short...
Obama's 'Checkers' speech
Barack Hussein Obama's hateful Reverend......3/17/2008 1:58:00 PM...
Obama is a master of the 'BigLie'......3/15/2008 6:54:00 PM...
The 'Rev' of Hate and Mentor to Barack......3/12/2008 6:27:00 PM...

Still busy

For anyone who doesn't know, I'm the choir director for the chapel. No, it's not an official position. No, I don't get paid for it. It's more a case of "Oh hey, you know how to read music? TAG, YOU'RE IT!"

Anyways, for those non-Christians out there, it's Holy Week. Today is Holy Thursday. Tomorrow, Good Friday. Saturday is the Easter Vigil and Sunday is Easter. And I'm the choir director. Which means that by the end of Saturday night, I won't have much of a voice left, and Sunday afternoon is going to be spent drinking beers and telling the rest of the world to go away. Y'see, when you're just in the choir, you can skip a mass or two and rest your voice. The director has to be there for every. Single. Mass. My priest is getting a little sick of seeing me in the chapel. "Dave, what are you still doing here? I saw you hear at lunch!"

Oh, and I'll be eating dark chocolate as well. Not because it's Easter, but because I like chocolate. And maybe I'll have some rum in between beers. Because I like rum too. And I can't get good single malt scotch here to save my life.

So anyways, I'm going to be busy all weekend. And after this weekend, anyone associated with the chapel is going to collapse on their couch and go "Whew! It's over!" Posting is going to be a little bit light until then.

Toodles!

So, feel warmer yet?

No? It's no wonder. Claire and Phil are both playing "Whack-a-Goracle" today, with... *gasp* FACTS! Which we all know the Global Warming cultists can't stand.

The Earth isn't burning up. The oceans aren't going to swamp New York F'n City. We're not all going to die. Although I wouldn't shed too many tears if San Francisco got swamped by a tidal wave.

PFM

That stands for Pure Fucking Magic. Go read this post on KisP, where some doofus in Olympia has multiple orgasms while recounting a dream he had about Obama.

Now, how does PFM work into this? Because it's the only damn way any of this dude's drug-fueled fantasy is ever going to happen:

"We saw black, white, brown, Asian people mixing together in block parties, laughing."

How? PFM! The guy who sat in a church being preached to by a racist who blamed all the country's problems on Whitey ain't gonna make it happen!

"We saw good, quality schools with children happy to be learning."

How? PFM! So far the only thing Obama has suggested is throwing more money at the problem. Gee, that's worked so well in the past, didn't it? We spend more money per student than damn near any other country in the world; I think there's only five or six countries ahead of us in school expenditure. And yet we rank THIRTY-SIXTH in the world in terms of literacy, math, and science.

A whole lot of good that money did, right? Don't change anything else, just add more money. PFM! But Obama just wants to do it again, only HARDER!

Yeah, I stole that last line from Kevin Baker. It fits, so I used it.

"We saw no more crime as the guns had been rid from the streets."

You mean like in Britain? Where despite a total and complete ban on handguns, gun crime just keeps on rising! Total crime keeps on rising? "Hot" burglaries, or break-ins that occur while the occupants of the house are home, just keep on rising! But what makes this idiot think that crime would drop if we got rid of guns? PURE FUCKING MAGIC, that's what! Show me the worst ten crime ridden cities in America, and I'll show you ten cities with gun control. But somehow, Obama is just going to wave his hands and make it happen? PFM!

"We saw no more pollution! The skies were blue, no smog even over LA!"

Pipe dreams again. Tell me, once internal combustion engines are banned, and oil is banned, and gasoline is banned, and people begin to starve to death because food isn't getting shipped, trucked or driven into their urban shithole, what will you do then? Just how are you going to accomplish all this? I guess it's another case of PURE FUCKING MAGIC!

"We saw people going back to work in buildings that were once emtpy. Empty because the jobs had been shipped overseas. Now they were back at full operation."

Any idea how you're going to accomplish that? Especially since Obama wants to tax the living shit out of anything that moves and makes money? Why the FUCK do you think the jobs are leaving in the first place? Why do you think people are leaving California in droves? Why do you think Buck Knife left California, where it was founded, and began manufacturing knives in Post Falls, ID? If you make it hard to do business, then people will do their business elsewhere. And when Obama-rama-ding-dong begins jacking up the tax rates, even MORE people will leave. And they'll take their companies with them. But I guess Obama will just wave his hands, and POOF! PURE FUCKING MAGIC!

"This is the future I saw, this is the future of a new nation, with a new kind of leader at the helm."

New new new! Change change change! Hope hope hope! It's a new era of changy hopyness! Except for the fact that Obama is a product of the Chicago political machine, part of the majority party, and hasn't done a single damn thing except march in lockstep with the far Left. But somehow he'll be different, right? Not like the others! How?

PURE FUCKING MAGIC!

What a load of complete and utter tripe. The fact that there are oxygen thieves out there writing this crap makes me weep for my country.

The obligitory Obama post

Since he gave this big, heart-pouring speech and all.

Listen, this isn't about Obama not holding his hand over his heart and refusing to say the pledge of allegiance.

This isn't about Obama refusing to wear a US flag pin.

This is about Obama's relationship with a racist, hate-filled, loony kook of a pastor for over twenty years. A pastor who says that blacks should sing "God Damn America" instead of "God Bless America". A pastor who believes that the US government created the HIV virus to keep blacks in check. A pastor who believes that the US government gives crack to black people. A pastor who claimed that America deserved what happened on September 11th. Nice video of it in that last link there. A man who wants to talk about the "original sin of slavery" in this country.

Hey Obama? Guess what? Both my mothers family and my fathers family came to this country after the civil war. I've never owned slaves. NOBODY IN MY FAMILY HAS EVER OWNED SLAVES. But you want to claim that I'm part of the "original sin of slavery" because...... I'm white? You know what that is, asshole? That's racism.

And after listening to the man who was your pastor for over twenty years, I think I can see exactly how you feel. Yeah, that crackpot who blames everything on whitey. The one who married you and your wife. The one who baptized your kids. The one who you've supported for twenty-plus years. And the one who has been spewing hatred and racial division for that time, while you sat in his congregation and nodded your head.

You cannot tell me that Obama sat in this mans church for two decades and doesn't believe in what was being preached. Hell no. Which leaves two options: Either Obama fully agrees with Rev. Wright, in which case he's a sorry sack of shit and racist to boot, or he doesn't believe in what the Reverend is preaching, in which case he's only going to that church just for the publicity, the public face if you will, and that makes him a fake, a fraud, and a charlatan. Now tell me again how he's going to heal our country's wounds? Bullshit. Let me quote a bit from his speech, if I may:

…Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety .....

Like other black churches, Trinity’s services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor.

The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.

Hey, you know what I constantly see? I see Obama identifying himself as a black man. A black this, part of the black that, black vs. white, etc., etc., etc.

I know I'll probably get misquoted by some moonbat, but I'm going to say it anyway - I don't want a President who considers himself a black American. I want a president who considers himself an American, and who doesn't give a shit what color his skin is. I don't consider myself a white American. I don't consider myself an Irish-American, or an Italian-American, I AM AN AMERICAN. Period. Full stop. Do not add anything to that, do not continue, do not hyphenate that at all, just leave it as it is. I am an American.

I will not accept ANYONE for president who won't say the same thing. Barak Obama does not consider himself an American, he considers himself a BLACK American.

That is unacceptable. And anyone who still continues to label themselves based on the color of their skin is unfit to represent the country. It's not me saying he's unfit because he's black. He is unfit because he segregates himself by his own actions.

If the first way that you identify yourself is due to the color of your skin, then you are a racist. That's a hard truth that people don't want to hear, but it's still the truth. Black-American. Asian-American. Mexican-American. African-American. Italian-American. Arab-American. You are placing your racial identity before your country, and that will tear a country apart faster than anything. You are saying that the color of your skin, or where your family came from is more important than where you are now. It's more important than what this country can provide. You are separating yourself from me because my skin is a different color than yours.

That is racism. And I will not elect a racist to be president.

Preaching to the choir here, boss

But hell, it needs to be repeated, and maybe someone will see it and have a light go on.

Decent, mature people show tolerance toward their adversaries, treating them with respect and arguing points with them reasonably. You only hear them complain about corruption when there’s genuine evidence of it. Immature people, however, constantly hurl accusations against their adversaries, calling them cheats, liars, corrupt, and the like; it’s characteristic of the immature to blame other people for their failures.

In a healthy society, immaturity is recognized for what it is, and mostly ignored. However, if society has deteriorated to the point that the immature equal or outnumber the mature, and if the immature congregate on one side of an issue or in one party, over time the stream of invective takes on a substance of its own; the constant accusations become evidence in themselves of the presence of corruption among the mature.

Here in America, the constant, irrational accusations by Democrats against Republicans has created the impression, particularly among Democrats but also uncomfortably common among independent voters, that Democrats play fair but Republicans cheat; that Democrats are tolerant, Republicans intolerant; that Democrats care about the poor, while Republicans dismiss them; that Democrats defend the Constitution, while Republicans ignore it; etc.

The accusations, themselves, have become increasingly irrational, to the point that a huge percentage of the populace is convinced that the Bush administration either planned the 9/11 attacks or knew about them in advance and deliberately let them happen, even though there’s not the slightest evidence of either. The list of unsupported, unsupportable accusations against Republicans has grown long: Diebold, Halliburton, “lies about Iraq,” “blood for oil,” “Bush=Hitler,” etc. Democrats have taken to calling for and wishing for the President’s assassination. Michelle Malkin wrote a book about the derangement of the Democrats, and lists relevant posts on her blog under headings like “unhinged,” “moonbats,” “Bush Derangement Syndrome,” and other categories that document a culture of immaturity gone berserk in their hatred of all things Republican.

Yet another piece that needs to be printed out and left in offices, coffee rooms, etc. etc.

There have been several, corrupt political machines in America, usually operating in large cities: Tammany Hall in New York, the Prendergast machine in St. Louis, the Daley machine in Chicago, the Rizzo machine in Philadelphia, etc. These have several things in common, but the most notable is that they’re all Democrats. There is no such thing, in American history, of a large, urban, Republican, corrupt political machine. Facts are stubborn things. And yet, I occasionally hear some voter exclaim that “all the cheating seems to be from the Republicans.”

I'd like to point out that the Daley machine is still alive and kicking in Chicago; the Left turned Seattle into another political fraud in 2004, and ACORN is still commiting vote fraud today, all in the name of electing Democrat America Communist Party members.

Yep.

Found at the Geek's place.