I have spent the early morning scanning the major political blogs, and news sites. It's unanimous. Ron Paul got slammed by Rudy Giuliani last night for suggesting that we - the United States of America - are to blame for the attacks on 9/11. He even had the audacity to cite Osama bin Laden.
While everyone is hailing this as a "Great moment" for Rudy Giuliani, I think just as importantly, it was a horrible moment for Ron Paul. My former boss looked like a complete nutcase. He looked frail. His hands shaked. He showed his age. He was completely unprepared for Giuliani's romping response.
Is this the man that should be representing South Texas Congressional District 14 in the US Congress?
I think not.
I am calling on Ron Paul to resign his seat, sooner rather than later. Otherwise Congressional District 14 voters from Victoria to Galveston will appear to be endorsing his treachorous, and near treasonous views on foreign policy.
I am sure I speak for many CD 14 voters, and certainly the vast majority of CD 14 Republicans, when I say, Ron Paul, it's time for you to exit the stage. . . .
I am this morning, declaring my candidacy for Congress in the GOP primaries against Ron Paul. If he does not resign his seat, and if another Republican candidate does not declare against him, I will run a balls-to-the-wall campaign for Congress in Texas CD 14.
I am the guy that got Ron Paul elected to Congress in 1996. I can and will defeat him in 2008.
Eric Dondero, Fmr. Senior Aide
US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
1997-2003
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pig pile on Ron.
As if there aren't others in Congress as f##cked up as Paul, including this former aide wannabe
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Back when we thought we were at peace, I would have supported Ron Paul on many domestic and even some foreign issues. I preferred to think of him more as a Jeffersonian than a lunatic, but this latest insanity has Me shaking My head in sorrow.
I was chatting with a GOP consultant yesterday about the Thompson response to Michael Moore. This consultant noted that were seeing GOP candidates confront their far-left critics directly in this case and when Mitt Romney mixed it up with Al Sharpton. He wondered if it was wise, as tradition suggests that a candidate who wants to look above the fray should outsource the attack stuff to surrogates.
Rich noted that the sunny optimism vibe of some candidates might be out of step with the current mood of the GOP electorate. A lot of Republicans are irritable and even angry. This might be why McCain's initial pugnacious attitude ("TO THE GATES OF HELL!") is getting applause.
Im feeling a bit of this myself. Michael Moore ought to be a national punchline, and the Democrats ought to be still paying for having him in Carter's box at the convention. Rosie O'Donnell's talking 9/11 conspiracy theories, and the networks are falling all over themselves to sign her up long-term. Nancy Pelosi's refusing to meet with President Bush after practically snuggling Bashir Assad. The Daily Kos moonbat crap has infected the culture at large, and the Democrats' ambition vastly outweighs their sense of decency. They'll ride the self-hatred, paranoia, and bile of "Loose Change" all the way to control of the White House and Congress.
The GOP base is a bit like the Dem base in 2003; we want a fighter. Michael Moore, go **** yourself isn't exactly the inspiring rhetoric we'd like to leave in the history books, but I think it accurately represents the attitudes of the GOP base right now. I mean, really, Al Sharpton is bellowing that Mormons [or Republicans] dont believe in God? Sharptons demagoguery got somebody burned to death! Why is this man taken seriously?
Which leads me to this thought on Rudys smackdown of Ron Paul: Pauls defenders are saying that he didnt say America invited the 9/11 attacks. But theres a fine line between the attacks were a response to our bad policies of the past and the attacks were our fault because they wouldnt have happened if we had better policies. After the Loose Change crap, the poll showing a third of Democrats think Bush was in on 9/11, I think Republicans have had it up to here with any argument that carries a whiff of America-bashing. We go into Kosovo to save Muslims, and nobody remembers. We go into Afghanistan and free a people from the Talibans barbarism, and nobody gives America credit. We go into Iraq to topple a dictator, and the world thinks were worse than he was. Were the first one on the scene when a tsunami levels the other half of the world and everybody still thinks were the bad guys. There might have been a time when the Republican base was willing to hear out someones thoughtful criticism of American policy, but right now, theyre sick of it.
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Amen. I can't even listen to those smarmy, sleazy, self-righteous, lying ....... any more. They don't talk to you, they only regurgitate their talking points while looking down their nose at you. They have no concept of truth, fairness, or the American Way. They are only interested in personal power, aggrandizement, and enrichment. I not only want someone to tell them to go f**k themselves, I want someone to bend them into the position to do it.
I have always been sick of this crap that we have to be "above the fray". We let every two bit thug like Chavez spew and never even request that he clean up his mess.
Well, why can't we be a bit blunt with these moonbats? The Euros keep saying how bad we are and how great they are, well if they want to play in the big leagues let's lay it out for them...in public...in spades. The same with the rag-head tyrants and any other tin-pot dictator and tin-foil beanie Demonrat.
We don't have to throw the first stone, but, we damn sure should pick them up and throw them back.
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Thompson should enter the race and in his opening speech state To Fidel Castro I offer a one-for-one exchange of LLL m0onb@ts for each political prisoner he wanted to send our way. Jane, Mike, Steven, and Harry if you idolize this country so much go friggin live there and give some deserving Cuban your citizenship. Time to take off the gloves, LONG PAST TIME!
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Agree with all the above. One of my chief complaints about W is the fact that he never really defended himself from the vile slander heaped on him. The occasional Cheney rebuttal isn't enough since Cheney is dismissed by the MSM before he even speaks. The damage done is far beyond repair. Verlaine hammers this point home much more eloquently and colorfully than I.
I think a LOT of GOP supporters (and conservative-leaning libertarians like me) want to see someone come out fighting against these moonbats. I want someone to call out the libellous, seditionist, defeatist (D) congresscritters BY NAME (Reid, Pelosi, Murtha, Kennedy, Kerry, etc.), instead of mumbling vague half-hearted criticisms as the corrupt and craven (R) congresscritters have been doing.
We're not dealing with a loyal opposition here. You don't have to fight dirty to fight them successfully, but you do have to fight them: strenuously and pointedly and continuously. In this case discretion is not the better part of valor - it's abandoning the battlefield to the barbarians.
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I want to see a Republican presidential candidate come out and bluntly state that the lying bastards on the Demo side are traitors who are effectively rendering aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. No more of this "we're not questioning your patriotism" bullcrap. That should be long past; I don't "question" their patriotism, I bluntly state they have none--for this country. I'd LOVE to see Reid, Pelosi and Kennedy tried for treason, found guilty, and executed. That would be almost as good as Israel driving all Gazans into Egypt.
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The Democrats seem to want to surrender to the Islamofascists and the Republicans seem to want to surrender to the Democrats. A pox on both their houses.
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In the last year or two, the debate here at the burg has taken a turn toward the incendiary. By the time we go to the polls in November, 2008, will America be at the point of critical mass ?
We are right about the MSM, we are right about Islam, and we are right about the democrats. Are we strong enough, and in posession of enough resolve to do the unavoidable ? America needs a tune up, a real and complete attitude change.
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In the last year or two, the debate here at the burg has taken a turn toward the incendiary. By the time we go to the polls in November, 2008, will America be at the point of critical mass?
I've been hanging our at the 'burg since a few months after Fred created it.I rarely post, but read daily.
Most of the time I am moved to comment it's because I'm so angry I'm ready to start burning things down. And fortunately most of the time I manage to cool enough enough to not actually hit Submit Query on something I'll regret. So I simmer down and just read some more.
I didn't used to be like this, but the over-the-top behavior of the Left the last 6 years is driving me up the wall. It's obvious that I'm not the only one that feels this way here, but "off" the net, I wonder how many out there feel the same way? Probably not enough still, which leaves us still with a bad outlook on things improving.
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Oh, and speaking of being fed-up. I got yet another fund raising letter from the RNC last night. Since I've ignored all the previous ones this one says "FINAL NOTICE" on it.
Nice, trying to scare me like it's a late bill, or maybe that they're going to "kick me out" or something.
These knuckleheads don't get it. I vote GOP because the Dems are lunatics I don't trust, not because I am attached to a stupid political party. I'm not giving them jack, and if they don't watch it the instant I think there's another party I can feel safe to replace them with, they are gone.
I think I will respond to this letter, and "FINAL NOTICE" will be featured in my response.
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Laurence: you could give Fred the money instead.
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Maybe it's time to start up my poke-the-lefties Imperial Warmonger Party again. You can send me money. It might be amusing to have a party that takes all the fears of lefties and makes them true.
For every comment I actually make here, there's about 20 that get half written before I realize they'll end up in the sink trap. I honestly don't believe that if a Demonrat wins again, the country will be able to avoid CWII. As many frustrations as that might relieve, it's really something I don't want to see happen. Maybe concerned republicans should just start hiring PI's to prove just what the Demonrats are really up to. I'll wager if 3 or 4 of their actual secret strategy meetings got out, their party would complete it's trip to Hell as the public went insane over it. And that's assuming they don't turn up actual proof of treason.
Jamaes Taranto, "Best of the Web," Wall Street Journal
In his Sept. 11, 2000, column the late Bob Bartley argued that the press tends to deal in stereotypes, which arise "out of a tension between the ideal of objectivity and the reality of a liberal background and environment." We were reminded of this observation when we saw a piece posted on the BBC Web site yesterday, which exemplifies just how blind journalists can be to their own prejudices--even when the stories they are reporting run counter to those prejudices.
A Pakistani-born US resident detained at Guantanamo Bay has said he was "mentally tortured" there, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon.
It is true that the detainee, Majid Khan, claims to have been "mentally tortured." It is also true that the press stereotypes Guantanamo as a place where wicked Americans commit unspeakable atrocities against innocent terrorists. But if you read the BBC story to the end, you discover that Khan's claims actually refute the press's stereotype:
Mr Khan complained about how US guards had taken away pictures of his daughter, given him new glasses with the wrong prescription, shaved his beard off, forcibly fed him when he went on hunger strike, and denied him the opportunity for recreation. . . .
Later, Mr Khan produced a list of further examples of psychological torture, which included the provision of "cheap, branded, unscented soap," the prison newsletter, noisy fans and half-inflated balls in the recreation room that "hardly bounce."
The poor dear has half-inflated balls! Must . . . resist . . . urge to . . . giggle!
Oh, the humanity! None of the inconveniences Khan describes even remotely qualify as torture, yet the Beeb accepts his characterization at face value. The stereotype prevails even though the facts make clear that it is false. This is journalism?
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His balls don't bounce?
Maybe they aren't kicking him hard enough...
Quite a few readers want to know what specifically I objected to in Ron Pauls comments last night (video here). Heres a more-civil-than-most e-mail from a reader:
The last debate you complimented him on making a good case for a noninterventionalist foreign policy. This time you state "And good for Rudy. Sticking it to Ron Paul on his blame America First Isolationism." Time for Ron to go, heh?
Does it occur to you and Guliani that maybe the Saudi prince was telling Rudy the truth that it is our presence in the mideast that has turned these people against us? No, I know, it is our wealth, and our rock music and Madonna that makes them want to kill us.
Its difficult to tease out all of my objections to Pauls approach to foreign policy, but Ill try to cover the big points as they relate to last night.
First, Ron Paul anointed Osama bin Laden the authentic expression of the entire Middle East. Im suggesting we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they did it, he declared. And: We need to look at what we do from the perspective of what would happen if somebody did it to us.
So, in other words, Osama bin Laden & Co. get to determine the legitimacy of our policies because these terrorists are the truest expression of the will of the people? Isnt this a bit like saying a farmer cant clear a field if it might upset a rattlesnake?
There are far, far, far more Arabs and other Muslims who did not become terrorists because of our actions in the Middle East. But their perspective accounts for nothing in Pauls analysis. The upshot seems to be that our foreign policy must always be held hostage to whichever group of murderers decides to get pissed off at us. Sorry, no sale.
Even more annoying, Paul seems to invest in bin Laden a certain strategic omnipotence and takes his word for everything. This is usually a leftwing trope. The terrorists are delighted were in Iraq, he claims, because Osama bin Laden says so. Maybe they are, maybe they arent (my guess is that opinions vary wildly between those terrorists who are dead and in Hell and those who are still awaiting their travel orders). But either way, why on earth is their opinion dispositive? If, as Paul gushed, the CIA is correct that there is such a thing as blowback (and there obviously is) surely Osama bin Laden is as subject to this immutable law of the universe as the rest of us are. Careful what you wish for is good advice for terrorists and dictators, too. Or perhaps Saddam Hussein is still cackling with laughter about how he has the Americans exactly where he wants them?
Again, blowback hardly blows in only one direction. . . .
Go read it all, and you will be well armed the next time you find yourself arguing against a neo-isolationist. (I don't yet know who I'm bopping the touch screen for in the primary next spring, but Rudy scores a point for taking R.P. down last night.)
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It's all of a piece and it's all guilt mongering. I'm told I bear a stain because of slavery, but my ancestors didn't even arrive here in America until the 1920s. I deserve to be blown up because some arab or muslim is upset about foreign policy choices made before I could vote. I. Just. Do. Not. Buy. Any. Of. It. NONE!
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I used to dig Rep. Paul.
But that was before 9/11.
Now when I hear him, I'm reminded why I can't in good conscience vote Libertarian.
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I like Ron Paul also but he is saying some moonbat things such as 9/11 was our fault and that there might be something dark and conspiratorial about it.
Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak. Recent political trends won't change their view.
by Bernard Lewis, Wall Street Journal
. . . From the writings and the speeches of Osama bin Laden and his colleagues, it is clear that they expected this second task, dealing with America, would be comparatively simple and easy. This perception was certainly encouraged and so it seemed, confirmed by the American response to a whole series of attacks--on the World Trade Center in New York and on U.S. troops in Mogadishu in 1993, on the U.S. military office in Riyadh in 1995, on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000--all of which evoked only angry words, sometimes accompanied by the dispatch of expensive missiles to remote and uninhabited places.
Stage One of the jihad was to drive the infidels from the lands of Islam; Stage Two--to bring the war into the enemy camp, and the attacks of 9/11 were clearly intended to be the opening salvo of this stage. The response to 9/11, so completely out of accord with previous American practice, came as a shock, and it is noteworthy that there has been no successful attack on American soil since then. The U.S. actions in Afghanistan and in Iraq indicated that there had been a major change in the U.S., and that some revision of their assessment, and of the policies based on that assessment, was necessary.
More recent developments, and notably the public discourse inside the U.S., are persuading increasing numbers of Islamist radicals that their first assessment was correct after all, and that they need only to press a little harder to achieve final victory. It is not yet clear whether they are right or wrong in this view. If they are right, the consequences--both for Islam and for America--will be deep, wide and lasting.
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Sadly, it appears he was.
Laughing from the grave, though.
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Osama confused Clinton with America. Clinton was, is, and always will be weak, but the America which produced that jackass is strong to the core. The same America wears a cloak of weakness and uncertainty. This appears as an endless debate on whether to debate further or take a stand.
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O'REILLY Op-eds "Talking Points" on the agenda of the FAR LEFT-RADICAL LEFT-SECULAR PROGRESSIVES [SP's] IN AMERICA:
* Want the USA to submit = be suborned to a world or international coalition of nations, which has to include RUSSIA-CHINA to counter "arrogant" US policies and influence. SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH, aka OWG = Global Government.
* want to [FORCIBLY]TRANSFORM AMER VIA SECULARISM-LEGALISM-JURISM, REGULATION, PROPAGANDA, and BIG-G-G-E-R BIG GOVT IN AMERICA, aka SOCIALISM.
* Want [Legal-Cultural-Political]ANARCHY IN AMERICA.
* Want Illegals to have legal right-privelege to STAY ILLEGAL FOREVER WID RIGHTS TO RECEIVE PUBLIC ENTITLEMENTS-ASISTANCE.
* Radical Environmentalists, most of whom include or are Pro-DemoLeft and pro-SP, are in effect arguing or fighting for NATIONAL-GLOBAL ANTI-MATERIALISM, ANTI-CONSUMERISM, ANTI-CAPITALISM, andor ANTI-DEMOCRACY.
* Are working to ensure Amer-specific HUMILIATION AND DEFEAT IN IRAQ, THE MIDDLE EAST, and the WOT IN GENERAL.
Lest we fergit, ASYMMETRIC WARFARE > gener means the GREATEST OR ULTIMATE THREAT TO AMER IS ITSELF.
NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE [paraphrased]- "There is no need to attack and destroy any nation that is already trying to destroy itself".
Ashely and Tasha's mother sends the the following from May 10:
I am OK!
Just wanted everyone to hear my story before it gets blown way out of perportion.
Yes...I did get hit with a roadside bomb (IED)
Yes...I am ok. I only have a few little cuts and bruises
Yes...I do have some hearing loss in my right ear
No...I did not do combat rolls out of the truck while still moving
No...I did not hit it on purpose (i didnt see it till last sec)
Yes...My truck did catch on fire immediately after the detonation
The IED was called a pressure plate...a thing where once there is weight put on it, it will cause it to detonate. My driver and I saw a little pot hole in the road at the last second. My driver swerved to the left to miss it and we both saw something black in it. I was about to call it up on the radio but my side front tire hit it. The IED went off under me, which is where the fuel tanks are.
The truck immediately caught on fire and we could not see through the windshield due to the flames and smoke. I told my driver to stop the vehicle. He was having a hard time to get it to stop...it is a very big truck and going 45 mph will take some time until a dead stop. I didnt think the truck was gonna stop but as I was about to tell my driver to bail, he brought it to a stop.
I told him that there was no way I could get out on my side because my side was the side on fire. He jumped out and I was almost right behind him when I got caught on something in the truck. I tried to get my weapon but couldnt tell where it was through all of the smoke. I continued to free myself from the cooler that was in the back seat. Just as I was about to climb to the front to get out, I got caught on my head set. I couldnt find the cord to unplug it so I struggled with it to get it off.
This whole time my driver was yelling for me because he realized that I was not out of the truck. I finally got untangled and bailed out the driver door. As I jumped out I saw a post sticking up and I could have sworn I was gonna land on it. Thank God I didnt.
I fell to the ground...it is a long drop. When I got up the truck totally burst into flames. I ran to the guntruck and got in. We then watched the truck burn for about twenty minutes before we left the scene. All of my stuff was in it. I have nothing. All I have is a couple of uniforms and some civilian clothes waiting for me back at base. I dont even have a weapon right now.
That all happened after 2 am. I got word around 7 am that the truck was still in flames. It will be on fire for a while. Eventually someone will pick it up and bring it back to base.
Everyone was ok and I am ready for another mission.
-tasha
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Islamic worldwide domination is good for Christians and Jews even if they don't know it, and that's why Hamas television is going ahead with promoting the message of Islamic supremacy to Palestinian children with the aid of a Mickey Mouse-type character, according to the creator of the controversial program.
Hamas has refused to remove the program from its Al-Aqsa TV despite having reportedly promised a Palestinian Authority minister last week that it would revise it.
In an interview on the station Monday, one of the creators of the "Tomorrow's Pioneers" program said the show would continue to promote Islamic domination over other religions because it is good for adherents of those other faiths.
"What is being asked, so that the Americans and Zionists will be satisfied with you, is to follow their lead," said Hamzim Al-Sha'arawi, deputy director of Al-Aqsa TV.
"We [on this program] have a message, and we understood from the beginning that it is a difficult path ... But we were sure that we had to go this way because this [young] generation needs someone to direct it ... and this generation is the most worthy of the position of leadership," he said.
Sha'arawi went on to say that historically, Jews and Christians were "happy" living under Islamic rule.
"Therefore, when we talk [on the program] about the mission of the restoration of Islam to its natural [dominant] place, we're calling for justice, and for goodness, and for world love ... so that the Christians will live in peace, and that even the Jews will live in peace and security," he said.
The article continues on, but appears to recap what has already been posted on Rantburg.
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"Islamic worldwide domination is good for Christians and Jews even if they don't know it . . ."
Yeah, well I don't know it.
. . ." the show would continue to promote Islamic domination over other religions because it is good for adherents of those other faiths . . ."
" . . . historically, Jews and Christians were "happy" living under Islamic rule . . ."
Bull.
" . . . calling for justice, and for goodness, and for world love ... (WTF?) so that the Christians will live in peace, and that even the Jews will live in peace and security . . ."
Methinks too many paleo kids are wising up to the "hate-hate-hate-kill-kill-kill" philosophy of the older, so the leaders are having to revise strategy. Of course, they are revising it through LYING, but what else is new?
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Islamic worldwide domination is good for Christians and Jews even if they don't know it ...
Sha'arawi went on to say that historically, Jews and Christians were "happy" living under Islamic rule.
"Therefore, when we talk [on the program] about the mission of the restoration of Islam to its natural [dominant] place, we're calling for justice, and for goodness, and for world love ... so that the Christians will live in peace, and that even the Jews will live in peace and security," he said.
tu3031 has it right, instant summary execution is the only proper measure to take against these sort of influential propagandists. Imagine how if, with 48 hours of this Radical Ramallah Rodent coming onscreen, suddenly Sha'arawi turned up dead with a non-Islamic caliber bullet in his head.
Rinse and repeat with all Islamic propagandists. Such a campaign would have an intensely chilling effect on these wannabe Goebbels. One more time, high context cultures are driven by those who are able to consolidate icons and summarize emotional drivers in an eloquent fashion.. Logic and reason have nothing to do with it. We have to cap these prime movers in order to take the wheels off of radical Islam. To date, just about nobody in our government or (to a lesser extent) our military seems to understand this
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
I have spent the early morning scanning the major political blogs, and news sites. It's unanimous. Ron Paul got slammed by Rudy Giuliani last night for suggesting that we - the United States of America - are to blame for the attacks on 9/11. He even had the audacity to cite Osama bin Laden.
