Posted by: lord garth ||
04/11/2012 7:37 Comments ||
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Just two teenagers at first love.
Posted by: jack salami ||
04/11/2012 10:13 Comments ||
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It's not the slobbering loony,liberal love affair that it was presented as originally? The egos of these two egomaniacs were sure to class. Now if Obama, Pelosi, and Reid had also been in the mix that would be something to behold.
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Olbermann was the bilge plug keeping the Current garbage scow afloat. My prediction: Rosie O'Donnell. I think Whoopie Goldberg and Joy Behar are entirely too relevant for Current TV.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/11/2012 22:29 Comments ||
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Global Warming: Some ideas are so absurd, only an intellectual would believe it.
Posted by: jack salami ||
04/11/2012 10:18 Comments ||
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Anyone who managed to stay awake through high-school science would be skeptical of the Global Warming propaganda campaign. But for those who spent the time smoking in the lavatory, here is a hint, good for many of life's situations:
Any time someone says "I can't show you the numbers, you'll just try to find something wrong with them", they are trying to sell you something you probably shouldn't ought to buy.
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?
Why should being in a professional sport exempt anyone from prosecution for advocating deliberate violence? Recent revelations of such advocacy of violence by an NFL coach should lead to his banishment for life by the NFL, and criminal prosecution by the authorities. If you are serious about reducing violence, you have to be serious about punishing those who advocate it.
Have you noticed that what modest economic improvements we have seen occurred during the much-lamented gridlock in Washington? Nor is this unusual. If you check back through history, doing nothing has a far better track record than politicians intervening in the economy.
With all the talk about people paying their fair share of income taxes, why do nearly half the people in this country pay no income taxes at all? Is that their fair share? Or is creating more recipients of government handouts, at no cost to themselves, simply a strategy to gain more votes?
Some people are puzzled by the fact that so much that is said and done by politicians seems remote from reality. But reality is not what gets politicians elected. Appearances, rhetoric, and emotions are what get them elected. Reality is what the voters and taxpayers are left to deal with as a result of electing them.
Instead of following the tired old formula of having politicians and bureaucrats give college commencement speeches, in which they say how superior a career as a politician or bureaucrat public service is to other careers, why not invite someone like John Stossel to tell the graduates how much better it is to go into the private sector, where they can supply what people want, instead of imposing the governments will on them?
In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
Whatever the ideology or rhetoric of the political Left, their agenda around the world has been preempting other peoples decisions and regimenting other peoples lives.
People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.
The United States now has the dubious distinction of having the highest corporate-tax rate in the world. And people wonder why American corporations are expanding overseas, providing jobs to foreigners. The Left may get its jollies attacking the rich, but its real victims are other people, the ones who need the jobs that are sent overseas to escape a hostile business climate at home.
Different people prefer different exercises. The Republicans favorite exercise is running for the hills. The Democrats favorite exercise is kicking the can down the road.
When politicians say, spread the wealth, translate that as concentrate the power, because that is the only way they can spread the wealth. And once they get the power concentrated, they can do anything else they want to, as people have discovered often to their horror in countries around the world.
In an old Western movie, John Wayne encounters a black man. Wayne tells him, I dont have a prejudiced bone in my body. I would shoot you as quick as I would shoot any white man. That is what equality is supposed to mean.
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Many moons ago, I was watching some news footage boo-hooing the appalling conditions in some Paleo refugee camp. Being a traditionalist, the phrase "refugee camp" calls up images of tents, porta-johns, food lines and fly-bitten orphans. What the news clip showed where multi-story cinder block buildings. Not exactly the hardship and deprivation story they were trying to sell. Nice to see property values have gone up.
Fantasy, stretching the truth very deeply embedded in mindset of Mohammedan and Arab culture
A few years ago, while visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, I had a very disturbing conversation with a member of the Islamic Waqf who was escorting me to make sure that I didn't pray on the holy mountain.
I asked him if he could tell me when the al-Aqsa mosque was built. He looked at me with a straight face and responded that it was always there. I hadn't expected that, and of course was surprised and asked again. I thought that maybe he didn't understand my question and meant that the mountain was always there. So I asked again, and made it clear that I meant the mosque located on the southern extension of the Temple Mount that was built by Herod. (Historically, the entire platform that the al-Aqsa mosque is built on didn't even exist during the time of the first Temple.)
It turned out that this "learned" member of the Islamic clergy, whose job is to work on the Temple Mount, actually believed that the structure of the al-Aqsa mosque was just there - from the beginning of time.
This conversation was a great help to me in understanding the Mohammedan Arab mindset and culture. Facts are not really so important to them. They can be made up or even changed as needed.
New replacement theology
You don't need to take my word for it. Go to YouTube and search for this: "Moses was a Mohammedan who led Paleostinians out of Egypt." You will see that Islamic clergy are teaching this concept without blinking an eye. They are totally convinced that all of the Israelite heroes of the Bible were actually Mohammedans.
This is the new replacement theology. The idea is not only Holocaust denial like what is heard from the leaders of the Islamic regime in Iran. They now deny (or co-opt) all the foundational points of Jewish history.
Their strategy is to question or outright deny the most basic historical facts -- like claiming that the Jews are not the direct descendants and surviving remnant of the children of Israel who were led out of Egypt by Moses and led into the land under Joshua. If you see the video, you will learn that King David too was a Mohammedan who defeated the mighty Goliath.
For all whose goal is to bring stability to this region, it is important to understand the rhetoric of those who oppose Israel as part of their religion. Understand that we are dealing with people who celebrate being detached from reality as part of their worship of Allah.
Accept our neighbors
There might be those who fear that this realization would force us to give up all hope of bringing about a deal for lasting peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. I suggest the opposite. We must realize and accept our neighbors for who they are and recognize their culture as a given.
It is unrealistic, in my opinion, to believe that we can turn the Arabs into a society that truly embraces western concepts and values - like facts and sticking to truth. It makes much more sense to understand that fantasy and stretching the truth are very deeply embedded in the mindset of the Mohammedan and Arab culture. I do not mean to say this as an insult, but to suggest that we accept it as a fact, take it as it is and move on.
I believe that there is hope for peace in the Middle East - not because the Arabs will love us or are about to become Zionist enthusiasts. There is hope for peace because the Jews are a peace loving people and G-d gave us the brains and physical means to protect our borders and our nation. The Arabs can believe whatever they like - as long as they know that they can't overrun us. If they could they would.
Sean OReilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons, Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk, Gracie Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as KJ DellAntonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens talks about the talk in the Orlando Sentinel.
Yes, talk about the talk is all over.
There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too. My own kids, now 19 and 16, have had it in bits and pieces as subtopics have arisen. If I were to assemble it into a single talk, it would look something like the following.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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