October 31, 2008 • 9:08 pm Comments Off
I was absolutely stunned when watching this video. Must by my naivete (or maybe, the half dozen beers drank tonight), but the sheer “structure” or “talking points” took me by surprise.
Bottom line: debates are absolutely useless. Click over and let me know what you think.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Why one presidential debate is more than enough
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October 29, 2008 • 9:13 pm 1
This scares the bejeebers outta me. Barry Obama wants a civilian national security force that’s just as strong and well funded as the military! Click over to The Jawa Report:
Video: Obama Advocates an American Gestapo
These are Obama’s “foot soldiers” who would go through re-education training first.
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October 28, 2008 • 6:35 pm Comments Off
Maybe I missed the actual date, but tonight I decided to do a little festing of my own with a luscious “Weihenstephaner HefeWeissBier”! At $2.50 a pop from the local Class Six, drinking these could really empty my wallet, but looking at these numbers, each bottle of these babies equals at least 3 of an American beer.
Original wort: 12,7 % weight
Bittering power: 14
Alcohol content: 5,4 % vol.
Calories: 210 kcal/0,5 l
Personally, I favor the Hefeweissens after being stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany in the early 1990’s. So, any chance to buy a high end beer ends up tilting to these wonderfully easy to drink wheat beers.
According to Braurei Weihenstephaner…
Here’s something for you. This brewery is said to be the oldest in the world!
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October 27, 2008 • 6:32 pm Comments Off
I have an amazing grasp of the obvious, so my apologies if you’ve connected these ideas. Seems that Mr. Joe Biden has matched Mr. Obama to some other notable folks…
Compare these quotes…
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
It’s not that I want to punish your success… I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
So, my question to you… Who said which quote?
And do they really sound like they come from the Democratic Platform?
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October 21, 2008 • 7:46 pm 1
Do y’all remember that old Mary Tyler Moore episode where Mary convinces Lou that their news coverage is waaaay too negative? So he relents and let’s her present some fluffy bunny type of story. Ultimately, the broadcast tanks and she has to admit that most folks like a good, juicy, gossipy news broadcast. Well, at least that’s how I remember it, jeez that was thirty sumptin years ago.
Anyway, I’m taking my Mary Tyler Moore moment until the campaign’s over. I’m so fed up with all this political stuff that I’ve sworn off any news channel. I’m sticking with ESPN or NatGeo. That’s it and no more political blogs until then.
Yup, swearing off any political blogs might tank my readership, but hey, I’m not blogging just to get hits.
So, here’s one last little bit of politics – then I’m off to happy, fuzzy bunny land to blog of rainbows and gumdrop smiles.
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October 19, 2008 • 4:50 pm Comments Off
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Obama is in town, curious to see what the crowd turn out will be considering this place centers around Fort Bragg, the 82nd Airborne Division, 18th Airborne Corps and Special Forces Training.
Will it be as big as St. Louis?
Live vid from FoxNews: http://www.foxnews.com/video2/live.html?chanId=4&openAIR=true
So, the Democrats are rejoicing (H/T RedState):
And the follow up question that I and RedState ask is – Why are the poll numbers so close? In fact, they seem to be drawing tighter as the race draws to a close.
October 18, 2008 • 8:50 pm Comments Off
A Republican in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Republican looked across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus sitting over there?”
The waitress nodded “yes,” so the Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.
The next patron to come in was a Libertarian with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus over there?”
The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, “My treat.”
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Democrat on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, “Hey there, honey! How’s about gettin’ me a cold glass of Miller Light?” He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, “Is that God’s boy over there?”
The waitress nodded once more, so the Democrat directed her to give Jesus a cold glass of beer. “On my bill,” he said.
As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Republican, touched him and said, “For your kindness, you are healed.”
The Republican felt the strength come back into his legs, got up and danced a jig out the door.
Jesus then passed by the Libertarian, touched him and said, “For your kindness, you are healed.”
The Libertarian felt his back straightening up, so he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.
Then Jesus walked towards the Democrat. The Democrat jumped up and yelled, “Don’t touch me. I’m collecting disability.”
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October 16, 2008 • 3:32 pm 1
WordPress has come up with a cool “polling” function, which I’m testing. Personally, I’m a bit hesitant about the infallibility of any type of internet poll – too many ways to skew the results. The statistics in internet polls can be manipulated by multiple voting from sources wishing to sway the percentages in their favor. Also, any tech savvy geek can easily overcome the safeguards. See any typical Ron Paul Poll for an example.
So, here’s my test poll. See if you can answer without doing any internet searches.
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October 15, 2008 • 7:38 am Comments Off
Bogus Voter Booted Amid Probe of ACORN; 4,000 of Left-Wing Group’s Sign-Ups are Shady.
Multiple registrants tell Cuyahoga County Elections Board ACORN workers begged for signatures.
and just now…
Their website is down.
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Guru Meditation:
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H/T to ConservaBlog on State Investigations…
Connecticut – falsifying/forging voter registration cards;
Florida – falsifying voter registration;
Indiana – falsifying/forging voter registration cards;
Michigan – dozens of fraudulent forms;
Missouri – falsifying voter registration applications;
Nevada – fraudulent registrations including two for Tony Romo and Terrell Owens of the Dallas Cowboys;
New Mexico – hiring felons to work on registration drives;
North Carolina – fraudulent registrations submitted;
Ohio – one man ACORN registered to vote over 70 times;
Pennsylvania – $2k reward offered for ACORN temp charged with perjury, identity theft and vote fraud;
Texas – 40% of 27K registrations from Houston rejected;
Washington – worst case of registration fraud in state history;
Wisconsin – hiring felons as “special registration deputies” and falsifying registration forms
Filed under: Democrats
October 11, 2008 • 10:30 am 2
Thanks to The Jawa Report…
It’s not just that Barack Obama’s father was a Marxist economist or that his mother Stanley came from radical far-left roots.
It’s not just that Obama’s childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a famous communist poet.
It’s not just that Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor, counselor and spiritual mentor of 20 years is a racist, America-hating radical.
It’s not just that Michael Pfleger, Obama’s other spiritual mentor is every bit as extreme as Wright.
It’s not just that Obama’s political and financial benefactor William Ayers is an unrepentant radical socialist terrorist.
It’s not just that Bernadine Dohrn regrets that she didn’t kill more people back in the 1960s.
It’s not just that Alice Palmer, Obama’s political mentor in Chicago, was a communist propagandist.
It’s not just that Obama was a member of the radical socialist New Party or that he ran as a candidate for public office under their far-left platform.
Read some more here at RenewAmerica
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October 9, 2008 • 6:18 pm Comments Off
Oh, boy! Our friends at ACORN just won’t give up. Lesson for all, if your socialist support program isn’t working, just cheat!
But, you wouldn’t know that from their published on their website.
ACORN Statement Regarding Las Vegas Voter Registration
October 08, 2008
Over the past year, ACORN has worked hard to help over 80,000 people in Clark County register to vote.
Hundreds of canvassers and volunteers have worked for months talking to citizens from Nevada’s most disenfranchised communities and encouraging them to exercise their right to participate in our democracy. Their work has been tireless—they deserve a great deal of credit for spending days in the hot sun at public places from parks to community centers to shopping centers helping citizens complete voter registration applications. Most of the 80,000 registrations they have collected and turned in to election officials come from young people, …
And some of those young people were named Terrell Owens and Tony Romo. According to the Review Journal, the entire Dallas Cowboy starting line up was registered in Nevada.
ReviewJournal.com – News – Alleging fraud, authorities raid voter group
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October 3, 2008 • 6:35 pm Comments Off
Read this and get angry. You have my permission…
”If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.”
September 30, 1999
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates — anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.
”Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990’s by reducing down payment requirements,” said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae’s chairman and chief executive officer. ”Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.”
October 1, 2008 • 6:38 pm Comments Off
Well, not really. But to any Officer in today’s military, he would be our version of a rock star.
Last week, I came up to James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA to attend a course in National Strategic Studies. Today, our guest speaker was not only one of the most able speakers on the subject, but he’s also a V.I.P. of the campus.
John O. Marsh, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1926 and attended the public schools in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
We had the absolute honor to have the Honorable John O. Marsh spend an hour with the class and discuss some wonderful historic days of the Ford Administration and his time as Secretary of the Army.
Mr. Marsh served as Secretary of the Army from 1981 to 1989, holding the office longer than any previous Secretary. During his tenure, the Army observed the Bicentennial of the founding of the United States, implemented the provisions of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, making their services more oriented to joint operations, and reorganized the Army Staff to eliminate duplication of functions. He is chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board.
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