Gore criticizes Bush (41) for ignoring Iraq’s ties to terrorism
by dsoldier on June 12th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Al Gore for President 2008
by BellaSuperstring on June 11th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
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Duncan Hunter for US President (Official site)
by dsoldier on January 27th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Duncan Hunter for president.
It’s a good thing.
—UPDATE #1—
Read an excellent column describing why Duncan Hunter is a good thing.
—UPDATE #2—
The author at one of my favorite conservative sites is a consultant for Duncan Hunter. You know it’s one of my favorite sites because I steal links from there a lot.
Does marrying Bill Clinton qualify someone to be President?
by dsoldier on November 18th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
If a CEO of a fortune 500 company were to retire, would anyone seriously consider his wife to be an adequate replacement simply because she was married to him when he ran the company? What about a Super Bowl winning football team? What do you think the reaction of their fans would be if their coach’s wife was being seriously discussed as his replacement?
Neo-Con? Extreme Moderate? How about Revolutionary Liberal.
by duderino on November 16th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Often when I walked onto the set of the West Wing some of my colleagues would greet me with a chanting of “Ron, Ron, the neo-con.” It was all done in fun but it had an edge.
Sounds like he was kind of a shithead, actually.
by dsoldier on October 25th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
My first thought? Kinda had it coming. Not death, that’s going maybe a little too far, but what would YOU do if some punk kids drove past you and threw golfballs at you? What the fuck? You’d at least try to catch them and beat their asses. And am I the only one who thinks what the kids were doing - which is technically assault, right? - was at least a little sociopathic? The HuffPo writer definitely doesn’t. Check out how he describes THROWING GOLFBALLS AT PEOPLE FROM YOUR CAR:
Betrayal of the Civil Rights Struggle
by dsoldier on October 15th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
One has to ask: What happened? I graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in 1954. Franklin had just about the lowest academic rating of all Philadelphia high schools and probably the city’s lowest income students. But what goes on today in Philadelphia high schools would have been inconceivable back then. There were no policemen in or around the schools, there wasn’t wanton property destruction, profanities weren’t heard up and down the hallways, and the farthest thought from a student’s mind was to curse or assault a teacher.
Know the mood you’re in, but not the song you want to hear?
by dsoldier on October 9th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Musicovery is a site where you pick a few options then pick somewhere on a square as to your mood or type of music you want to listen. It then picks an appropriate song and shows it to you on a large matrix style map. Quite cool.
Qaeda Goes Dark After a U.S. Slip
by dsoldier on October 9th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Al Qaeda’s Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden’s September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy’s system.
The intelligence blunder started with what appeared at the time as an American intelligence victory, namely that the federal government had intercepted, a full four days before it was to be aired, a video of Osama bin Laden’s first appearance in three years in a video address marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. On the morning of September 7, the Web site of ABC News posted excerpts from the speech.
Something to think about, try yourself, and have fun with . . .
by duderino on September 30th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature.
What the hell? Are these people serious?
by duderino on September 30th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I normally prefer to let the article speak for itself, but I just though I had to add my two cents on this one. Banning hugging in public schools? Don’t we have more important things to worry about in our schools? I mean really . . . lets raise our children in a place where it is against the rules to hug, great idea . . . Tomorrow, no smiling either! My God!, oh wait, he’s already been banned from public schools.
“Too long, too close, and usually between boys and girls,” Sharts said.
After school, while safely outside the building, the students seemed determined to show what they think of the policy, one hug at a time.
Sharts said the hug ban is just one element of a comprehensive discipline and anti-bullying plan. High-fiving in the hallways is also frowned upon.
MoveOn.Org: Pro Freedom of expression, except against them . . .
by duderino on September 30th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
It’s amazing that MoveOn would try to squelch political speech. That’s another clear purpose of these targeted items. Take, for example, this message on a t-shirt designed by a lifelong Democrat from Southern California:
General Petraeus has done more for this country than MoveOn.org. MoveOn.org, the worst friend a Democrat could have! Move Away from Move On!
What They Don’t Want You To Know About The Jena 6 Case
by dsoldier on September 29th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Only in today’s political climate, where so much of the “civil rights movement” is comprised of bottom-feeding race hustlers and shameless liberals who deliberately exploit racial tensions for their own political benefit — could anyone demean the real civil rights movement that occurred during the sixties by comparing the struggles those brave people faced — to what has been happening in Jena, Louisiana.
Government of Laws
by dsoldier on September 19th, 2007 at 10:56 am
For the last four or five weeks I’ve been doing research for a post on the re-building of Washington, DC after its capture and the burning of the Capitol and other government buildings by the British in 1814. In reading the Annals of Congress, the ancestor of the Congressional Record, something leapt out at me.
Duncan Hunter Interview
by dsoldier on September 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Brad Thor on What Could Be Coming
by dsoldier on September 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
THOR: It’s kind of the master planning tapes of Al-Qaeda. It is the full library as best as our intelligence and military people know, and what they did was they edited down to a one-hour version to show American law enforcement in particular what they need to be prepared for, and the most chilling thing, there’s the drive-up motorcycle assassinations and things like that but the one thing that’s resonated throughout the law enforcement community has been the attack on the school where they have the mock role players. They’ve even got — you can hear in the background there’s almost like a soundtrack of children crying, to add realism to the training of these Al-Qaeda operatives, and they are issuing their commands in English and then what they’re doing almost kind of PR media savvy is they take a bunch of them up to the roof and they execute them on the roof, kind of for the television cameras to show how serious they are. And one of the — if that isn’t frightening enough, Glenn, what we’ve discovered is all of their plans on how to surveil the schools, how to get in the schools, how to hold the schools, the one thing that’s missing from all these plans, there is no exit strategy. These people are not planning to leave alive. They want to play this out for the media. They want to absolutely devastate us emotionally, psychologically and also financially with this kind of attack here.
No terrorism, just war?
by dsoldier on September 11th, 2007 at 10:32 am
According to the Times, many of the bereaved are angry and determined that their loved one’s death should have meaning. Yet the meaning they’re after surely strikes our enemies not just as extremely odd but as one more reason why they’ll win. You launch an act of war, and the victims respond with a lawsuit against their own countrymen.
Gay couple left free to abuse boys - because social workers feared being branded homophobic
by dsoldier on September 6th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
A homosexual foster couple were left free to sexually abuse vulnerable boys in their care because social workers feared being accused of discrimination if they investigated complaints, an inquiry concluded yesterday.
Craig Faunch and Ian Wathey were one of the first homosexual couples in the country to be officially approved as foster parents.
They looked after 18 children in only 15 months.
Mark Steyn: There were two creeps in the men’s room
by dsoldier on September 4th, 2007 at 11:16 am
A measure of hypocrisy is necessary to a functioning society. It’s quite possible, on the one hand, to be opposed to the legalization of prostitution yet, on the other, to pull your hat down over your brow every other Tuesday and sneak off to the cat house on the other side of town. Your inability to live up to your own standards does not, in and of itself, nullify them. The left gives the impression that a Republican senator caught in a whorehouse ought immediately to say, “You’re right. I should have supported earmarks for hookers in the 2005 appropriations bill.” That’s the reason why sex scandals take down Republicans but not Democrats: Sex-wise, the left’s standards are that whatever’s your bag is cool – which is the equivalent of no standards. Thus, Monica Lewinsky was a “grown woman” free to make her own decisions on the carpet of the Oval Office. Without agreed “moral standards,” all you have is the law. When it’s no longer clear something is wrong, all you can do is make it illegal.
Student suspended after prank
by duderino on August 30th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
HILLIARD, Ohio — A high school student who tricked football fans from a crosstown rival into holding up signs that together spelled out, “We Suck,” was suspended and banned temporarily from extracurricular activities for the prank, according to the school’s principal.
Vote for a Communist supported Ticket: Clinton/Obama ‘08
by duderino on August 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.
Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination.
Clinton Says Iraq Strategy is working… and Obama wants 30,000 more troops sent… what?
by duderino on August 22nd, 2007 at 11:49 am
The leading Democratic candidates for the White House have fallen into line with the campaign to praise military progress while excoriating Iraqi leaders for their unwillingness to reach political accommodations that could end the sectarian warfare.
“We’ve begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Anbar province, it’s working,” Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Monday. (One thing that I had to draw attention to: Now that “it’s working” Sen. Hillary Clinton now includes herself as positively contributing to the war effort referring to the changes made as “We’ve begun“, not the “President did” . . . funny how that works huh?)
“My assessment is that if we put an additional 30,000 of our troops into Baghdad, that’s going to quell some of the violence in the short term,” Sen Barack Obama (D-Ill.) echoed in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that as long as U.S. troops are present that they are going to be doing outstanding work.”
8 Reasons Why Conservatives Must Defeat Hillary
by dsoldier on August 17th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Now, I will be the first to admit that the GOP was very disappointing in the 2006 election cycle and although the Republicans have improved significantly in a lot of areas, they’re still not doing as much as conservatives have asked them to do on spending, corruption, immigration, and foreign policy.
That being said, while conservatives need to continue to hold the feet of the GOP to the fire, as we did in the illegal immigration fight, we should not forget the potential perils of having a Democratic President at this sensitive time in our nation’s history.
The new public enemy Number 1: Bottled Water
by duderino on August 15th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
It’s a hugely beneficial liquid in a slim cylinder of plastic, but for US environmentalists, it is the new public enemy number one: Bottled Water. With US bottled water sales growing nearly 10 percent annually — and the trash from tossed containers climbing just as quickly — calls for Americans to go back to drinking tap water have surged since the beginning of summer.
Why ALL Conservatives need to support Duncan Hunter - including you, Mr. Limbaugh
by dsoldier on August 10th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
If Congressman and Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter had a dollar for
every conservative who said “Gee, Hunter is really great, but he doesn’t have
traction”, or, “Yeah, he may be the most conservative, but he can’t win”,
the Hunter Campaign would be leading the 2008 money race. Alas, his campaign
receives no money from folks who “really like” him, but think he can’t win. Just
a “that’s too bad” or a “I wish he’d catch fire” or some equally
tepid gesture.
Well, let me tell you, fellow conservatives, why this cannot and will not
continue, and why the tide is starting to turn in Hunter’s favor. The “that’s
too bad”s are changing to “what can I do to help?”s, as more and more
folks are looking very hard at the world we face today and are beginning to
evaluate who needs to lead the charge. This 2008 election is an argument for
America’s soul. And the Republican primary is a referendum on the GOP’s future
as a conservative party, not just a beauty pageant for politicians and their
clever (consultant driven) ploys to sound like conservatives.
English girl barred from Government job…because she is wrong kind of white
by dsoldier on August 6th, 2007 at 11:47 am
A teenage science student has been banned from applying for a training programme with the Environment Agency because she is white and English.
But bizarrely she could have applied if she had been white and Welsh, Scottish or Irish.
Barry Bonds’ Home Run Record Tainted by Mechanical Device
by dsoldier on August 6th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Beyond his alleged steroid use, Barry Bonds is guilty of the use of something that confers extraordinarily unfair mechanical advantage: the “armor” that he wears on his right elbow. Amid the press frenzy over Bonds’ unnatural bulk, the true role of the object on his right arm has simply gone unnoticed.
This is unfortunate, because by my estimate, Bonds’ front arm “armor” may have contributed no fewer than 75 to 100 home runs to his already steroid-questionable total.
Conservatives Need To Rally Behind Duncan Hunter
by dsoldier on August 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 am
It doesn’t take much to see that conservative, Republican voters are still having a little trouble deciding which way to turn in the 2008 presidential election. If you listen closely to the American people, you will hear people talking about the concept of an ideal candidate. Sean Hannity described him as someone with the optimism and the ability to speak to the public like Ronald Reagan, and with the intellectual backbone of Newt Gingrich. Let me make a proposal to you about Congressman Duncan Hunter.
Was the American Revolution Bad for America?
by dsoldier on August 2nd, 2007 at 8:12 am
I have been thinking about some of the implications of Michael Moore’s Sicko. Specifically, why is the United States the only nation in the developed world without some sort of equitable, government-funded health care?
I am just wondering if we can look back to the American Revolution for some answers. To be exact, did the American Revolution undermine the modern United States’ willingness to engage in the sort of social democracies we see throughout Europe, Canada, and increasingly other nations as well?
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A liberal’s wet dream. One who wishes the British won… well, he argues for it. As for true belief, I don’t know.
Mass grave uncovered in Iraq
by dsoldier on August 1st, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Iraqi and US forces have uncovered a mass grave in the province of Diyala where the corpses of women and children were buried after killings.
Genie Out of the Bottle: ‘U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Countries’
by dsoldier on August 1st, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Climate change alarmism met the infamous Oil for Food scam at the United Nations Tuesday.
As a result, if you had any questions regarding why the U.N. has been the point-man on driving global warming hysteria throughout America and around the world, they were all answered.
In fact, the genie was let out of the proverbial bottle by this Reuters headline: “U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Countries.”
A War We Just Might Win
by dsoldier on August 1st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.
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It is notable the article is written by a former Clinton staffer and a former member of the Kerry Presidential campaign.
German Government Publication Promotes Incestuous Pedophilia as Healthy Sex Ed
by dsoldier on July 31st, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Booklets from a subsidiary of the German government’s Ministry for Family Affairs encourage parents to sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of age. Two 40-page booklets entitled “Love, Body and Playing Doctor” by the German Federal Health Education Center (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung - BZgA) are aimed at parents - the first addressing children from 1-3 and the other children from 4-6 years of age.
“Fathers do not devote enough attention to the clitoris and vagina of their daughters. Their caresses too seldom pertain to these regions, while this is the only way the girls can develop a sense of pride in their sex,” reads the booklet regarding 1-3 year olds. The authors rationalize, “The child touches all parts of their father’s body, sometimes arousing him. The father should do the same.”
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HOLY CHRIST!
How to Photograph a Child’s Birthday Party
by dsoldier on July 29th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I’ve been asked by parents of children to photograph their birthday parties numerous occasions and each time it has been a lot of fun.
Photographing children isn’t always easy - and photographing ‘the birthday party’ presents it’s own unique opportunities and challenges as a photographer.
Birthday Parties present us with a lot of emotion, interaction, color and energy in a child’s party - the highs and a few lows of life are all present. On the challenging side of things - children’s parties can be chaotic places with moving subjects, lots of clutter and often little time for those organizing them to pick up a camera and take a shot.
Here are a few tips on Photographing Children’s Parties that come to mind:
Crime spree casts doubt on police chases
by dsoldier on July 29th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
The two men in the silver Infiniti were pulled over only for having tinted windows — so when the driver hit the gas and fled, the state trooper had no choice but to let them speed away.
The trooper was just following an Illinois State Police policy that allows officers to chase drivers only when they believe someone is in danger or when a violent crime has occurred.
After fleeing from the traffic stop, the men inside the car allegedly went on a crime spree in Illinois corn country, fatally shooting a sheriff’s deputy and then taking hostages at a small-town bank. They were arrested hours later.
Hunter on a mission to bolster defense
by dsoldier on July 29th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter of California is a Vietnam veteran who has spent his congressional career dedicated to oversight of the nation’s armed forces. Now, he’s on a new mission: to make a strong national defense and border enforcement the focus of a winning presidential campaign.
6 Movie Formulas That Must Be Stopped
by dsoldier on July 26th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Dear Hollywood,
Hi, it’s us! The people who spend money on your movies. Please stop making the same ones over and over again. We’ve seen the same recycled formulas year after year after year—and frankly, we’re tired of it.
It’s not that we think you’re completely useless, just… you know, mostly. We’ll admit, you’ve delivered a few gems recently. Transformers, for example, stumbled upon a refreshing formula: Namely, Giant Robots Fighting Each Other + Megan Fox Standing Around Looking Awesome:
Now that is a formula we can get behind, (if she’ll let us. Pow!). You have our permission and, in fact, encouragement to exploit that particular format for a few more years. These next six formulas, however, we never want to see again.
In My World: Freaks on YouTube, Freaks on Stage
by dsoldier on July 26th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
“I’m Anderson Cooper…” he pirouetted. “…360, and this is the Democratic presidential debate on CNN! Let’s start with opening statements. First up, Hillary Clinton.”
Walk Score
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 8:43 am
What is Walk Score?
Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Why is walking important?
The Sinking Dollar Also Has an Upside
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Imagine waking up and finding the value of your assets has been halved. No, you’re not an investor in one of those Bear Stearns hedge funds that went belly up. Welcome to London! In Britain, when Big Ben chimes 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., the locals take tea—and American tourists head for the ATMs. With the dollar slumping to a 26-year low against the pound, already-expensive London has become jolly unaffordable. A macchiato at Starbucks, just as unavoidable in England as it is in the United States, runs about $8.
The once-almighty dollar isn’t doing a Titanic against just the pound sterling. Currency analyst Ashraf Laidi of CMC Markets in New York notes that the greenback is sitting at a record low against the euro and at a 30-year low against the Canadian dollar. Even the Brazilian real and Argentine peso, the Los Angeles Clippers of currencies, are thriving against the buck. When I asked Laidi where a resident of the world’s most powerful nation might find the dollar retaining some relative value, the line went silent.
“Dead farmers got $1.1 billion from USDA”
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Nice. And this is the government Hillary! wants to run the US health care system,
The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.
California Focus: How Californians are being escheated
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Escheat is a feudal concept that arose from the despotism of the Dark Ages. It stemmed from the principle that property rights depend upon the sufferance of the sovereign, and when a person dies or disappears without heirs, his property reverts to the feudal lord.
California revived this medieval doctrine in 1959 and began seizing personal assets on the smarmy pretext that after a few years of account or safe-deposit box inactivity, property is obviously “lost,” and the state needs to “protect” it by selling it off and depositing the proceeds into the general fund.
Today in California, no one’s property is safe.
If this is a national disaster, I’m a tomato
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 8:08 am
You could almost hear the sighs of disappointment echoing around television and radio studios yesterday morning as the threatened flooding of a power station in Gloucestershire failed to occur. One reporter for the Radio 4 Today programme was embarrassingly corrected by the Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, Tim Brain, as she breathlessly reported that hundreds of thousands of people had come within two inches of losing their power supply. Actually, the chief constable gently corrected her, the river was three feet away from flooding at the power station: it was only where she stood, farther along the river, that the water was two inches below the quay.
I hate to intrude on the British love of a disaster, but haven’t the emergency services done brilliantly? Far from the “1m victims of the deluge” promised in a Daily Mail headline yesterday morning, there are 350,000 people without tapwater, but not without drinking water, 50,000 were without power for 24 hours, and 10,000 have been moved out of their homes. As I write, we do not know of anybody who has died as a direct result of the floods. Strenuous work overnight by the military and the fire service saved the power station from flooding.
THE PUBLIC & THE WAR
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Are Americans having a change of heart over the war in Iraq?
Maybe yes, maybe no.
A new joint poll by CBS News and The New York Times shows that public support for the original invasion of Iraq has risen by a fifth - from 35 percent to 42 percent of those surveyed - over the past two months.
In the Heart of Freedom, in Chains
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Two April days threw a clarifying light on the state of race in America. On the 11th, North Carolina’s attorney general exonerated three white Duke students of the rape charges that a black stripper had lodged with much press fanfare a year earlier. The next day, CBS fired shock jock Don Imus for calling black Rutgers women’s basketball players “nappy-headed hos.” Between them, these events suggest an explanation for America’s most vexed social question: in a country whose chief domestic imperative for 50 years has been ending racism and righting long-standing wrongs against blacks—with such success that we now have an expanding black middle class, a black secretary of state, black CEOs of three top corporations, a black Supreme Court justice, and a serious black presidential candidate—how can there still exist a large black urban underclass imprisoned in poverty, welfare dependency, school failure, nonwork, and crime?
On the Bright Side - No Cubicles
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Why have dozens of Iraqis stopped working in low-level positions for Al Qaeda? Is it because they don’t want their faces cut off with piano wire, or is there something more? After dilligent research, I’ve discovered there are actually a variety of reasons:
Duncan Hunter Blogger’s Conference Call Recap
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Rep. Hunter was kind enough to take a short break from his duties tonight in order to field some questions. He was working late to fight for his amendment to the transportation bill under debate which block the implementation of the NAFTA Superhighway. The proposed highway would form a corridor which would unite Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.
Outsourcing the Picket Line
by dsoldier on July 25th, 2007 at 7:43 am
The picketers marching in a circle in front of a downtown Washington office building chanting about low wages do not seem fully focused on their message.
Many have arrived with large suitcases or bags holding their belongings, which they keep in sight. Several are smoking cigarettes. One works a crossword puzzle. Another bangs a tambourine, while several drum on large white buckets. Some of the men walking the line call out to passing women, “Hey, baby.” A few picketers gyrate and dance while chanting: “What do we want? Fair wages. When do we want them? Now.”
Prosecutor Appeals After Judge Drops Rape Charges Against Liberian Over Lack of Interpreter
by dsoldier on July 23rd, 2007 at 7:48 pm
The prosecutor in the case of a Liberian native charged with repeatedly raping and molesting a 7-year-old girl said Monday that he is filing an appeal of a controversial judge’s ruling that dismissed all charges because an interpreter who spoke the suspect’s rare West African dialect could not be found.