Just Pull the D Lever
Topic: Demo Fables

Neo American Gothic?

Well it seems like one of our Presidential Candidates during a talk with some Marin County Ultra-Rich Constituents
gave a description of his concept of what Flyover America is like

Obama on small-town voters: Bitter, xenophobic, religious;


You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations


I would expect that when Ole Bama looks at this iconic American Painting

 

 

What he sees is this

Halp Us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obama put his foot in it again today, saying that:

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

So, in celebration of his discovery of my bitterness and anger, here is a photo from my small town today; complete with the general sentiment of those who live here


So my small town agrees (as does the media). Just a bunch of gun toting, bible reading, unemployed hicks waiting for our Jesus to come along and save us from our world of pain and suffering.

It doesn’t bug me that Obama thinks this about small town folks (is anyone -really- surprised that he thinks this?), but that he doesn’t even have the audicity (of hope) to tell small town folks to their faces that he wants to spread his message. Hey, Obama, if you are gonna bring hope to these downtrodden people, I suggest you begin them on their 12 step journey; help them see that they are xenophobic protectionist gun toting bible thumpers who stroke their rifle because jesus tells them too. Help them see the error of their ways. But do it to their face, not to a bunch of billionaires in San Francisco.

Hallelujah!
 

I Can Haz Crypto-Marxism?

CNN's Balanced Coverage Includes Three Panelists Who All Claim Obama Didn't Mean What He Obviously Meant:

Bonus points to Jack Cafferty for likening the same economic desperation that drives Pennsylvanians to Jesus to the poverty that drives Saudis to Al Qaeda:

Actually, Jack Cafferty and Jeffrey Toobin both get doubleplus bonus points for first claiming that Obama never meant to imply that economic privation drives people to Jesus, firearms and xenophobia, and then immediately adding "But Obama's right, economic privation does drive people to Jesus, firearms, and xenophobia."

Ummm.... Jack and Jeffey, I know you're really super-smart guys, being on TV and all, but I'm afraid if this is as "simple" and "obvious" as you assert, you're going to have to choose between the defenses 1) he didn't mean anything so patently offensive and absurd and 2) but by the way he's 100% dead-bang balls-on right.

Fair and balanced, CNN! I love how they focus almost exclusively on the "bitterness" remark (just as Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama decreed,, so it was heralded, so it shall be) and also also accept, entirely uncritically, Obama's explanation that when he said that small-town Americans are driven to xenophobia and hatred of outsiders, he meant that as a good thing

 

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Journey to Freedom

On March 15, 1973, John McCain was released as a POW from the "Hanoi Hilton"

 

 

Sense of Honor

The Few The Proud

 

It was the sound of machine guns that woke me that night all those years ago.  Machine gun fire and tracers lighting up the night sky.  I was 8 years old my Father was in the Navy and we were stationed on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, called appropriately Midway Island.

I do not ever recall being so scared in my entire life, but when I saw the base Marines running toward the beach, I felt safe. I knew that they and my Dad would never let anything bad happen to me.

I wish every American could have the experience of knowing deep in their soul what it means to have these brave men and women standing guard protecting us.

I have never forgotten how I felt that night.

I want to thank Michelle Malkin for reminding me with her Sunday night inspiration

Happy Happy New Years

A Strange thing happened on the way after the Surge.

Casualties in Iraq plummeted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Need I say more?

 

You Knew What I Was When You Picked Me Up
Topic: Demo Fables

My good friend Buster Block over at Inmuscatine sent me a thought provoking request yesterday

I need some help on a story about Hillary Clinton ceding powers if elected President. She said : > "Other presidents like Lincoln have had to take on extraordinary > powers but would later go to the Congress for either ratification > or rejection." > > She continued: "There were a lot of actions which they took that > were clearly beyond any power the Congress would have granted or > that in my view that was inherent in the constitution. There were > other actions they've taken which could have obtained congressional > authorization but they deliberately chose not to pursue it as a > matter of principle." > > Here I asked whether a sitting president, once invested with such > powers, could really give some of them up in the name of > constitutional principle. Clinton said: "Oh, absolutely, Michael. I > mean that has to be part of the review that I undertake when I get > to the White House, and I intend to do that." > I simply do not have time to do the research necessary to do this justice, but I know this is right up your alley. Do you feel like a cross-post with me if you can shed some light on this? Oh, and by the way - the MSM is ignoring this completely, so we have to do something about it.

My first reaction was that the concept of a Clinton ceding power boggles the mind and I should form a new topic for Demo Fables and put this in with:

 

And then the Evil Republicans huffed and puffed and blew the poor people's houses down.

 

or 

 

Evil Republican Magis influencing voters with mind control 

But why don't we explore this issue and then go over to Buster at Inmuscatine and see what his take on it is?

 

Here are the pertinent URLs

'I'm going to have to review everything they've done'

Clinton vows review of executive power

'You can't lump all terrorists together'

and

Clinton says would cede some presidential powers

 It is very easy for a politician to make claims, lets look at one of them

"Well, I think it is clear that the power grab undertaken by the Bush-Cheney administration has gone much further than any other president and has been sustained for longer," Clinton said.

So what power grabs could she be speaking of and has Bush indeed pushed the envelope further than any other president

 

Well one issue that comes to mind is waging War against a Non-State Association of Muslim Terrorists without a Declaration of War. Further complaints on this issue have been worded "How can you declare War on an entity that is not a State?"

It turns out the Nation has faced this very same issue in the Past. As a matter of fact the very first Land Military action by the United States after the Revolutionary War was against a Non-State Association of Muslim Terrorists named the Barbary Pirates.

Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and the Congress of the Day discussed whether or not it was necessary to issue a Formal Declaration of War and decided that since our Sovereignty, and our Citizens had been attacked we were in fact in a State of War and while a Formal Declaration might be needed to initiate a War the point was moot.  So Jefferson sent in the Marines to deal with the matter.

 Notice that they did not even discuss whether or not they should respond militarily??

 

What other Presidents have exceeded their Constitutional Powers?  Well when Andrew Jackson decided to move the Cherokee Nation upon being told that the Supreme Court had denied him that power, replied "John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can"

 

I don't recall Bush ever going to that extreme, but I do recall Dick Gephardt telling Rainbow Push after the Surpreme Court issued a ruling he and they did not agree with that

When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day.

But maybe that does not count, because he was never nominated, much less elected thank God.

Mention was made of Lincoln.

 "Other presidents, like Lincoln, have had to take on extraordinary powers but would later go to Congress for either ratification or rejection

Could she have been referring to Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus?

With Congress not in session until July, Lincoln assumed all powers not delegated in the Constitution, including the power to suspend habeas corpus. In 1861, Lincoln had already suspended civil law in territories where resistance to the North's military power would be dangerous. In 1862, when copperhead democrats began criticizing Lincoln's violation of the Constitution, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus throughout the nation and had many copperhead democrats arrested under military authority because he felt that the State Courts in the north west would not convict war protesters such as the copperheads. He proclaimed that all persons who discouraged enlistments or engaged in disloyal practices would come under Martial Law. 

Among the 13,000 people arrested under martial law was a Maryland Secessionist, John Merryman. Immediately, Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States issued a writ of habeas corpus commanding the military to bring Merryman before him. The military refused to follow the writ. Justice Taney, in Ex parte MERRYMAN, then ruled the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional because the writ could not be suspended without an Act of Congress. President Lincoln and the military ignored Justice Taney's ruling. 

Now here is an interesting factoid about the above suspension

Finally, in 1866, after the war, the Supreme Court officially restored habeas corpus in Ex-parte Milligan, ruling that military trials in areas where the civil courts were capable of functioning were illegal.

April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders

April 15, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln dies

Notice habeous corpus was not reinstated until long after the War was over and Lincoln was dead?

There may be some mutterings about Gitmo, but there are NOT thousand of War Protestors in prison camps and none of them have been sentenced to be executed.

FDR had his camps too,  Japanese, Italian, Germnan-Americans many of them citizens interred.

I will not debate here whether it was Constitutional I just wish to point our that the statement

"The power grab undertaken by the Bush-Cheney administration has gone much further than any other president and has been sustained for longer," she said. "Other presidents, like Lincoln, have had to take on extraordinary powers but would later go to Congress for either ratification or rejection."

Would be ideal to plow into the ground to inspire turnips.

What I, myself find most interesting is that in responce to this question

 I want to start with some questions about foreign policy and terrorism. If you become president you'll enter the White House with far more power than, say, your husband had. What is your view of this? And what specific powers might you relinquish as president, or renegotiate with Congress - for example the power to declare a US citizen an enemy combatant

 She replied

Well, I think it is clear that the power grab undertaken by the Bush-Cheney administration has gone much further than any other president and has been sustained for longer. Other presidents, like Lincoln, have had to take on extraordinary powers but would later go to the Congress for either ratification or rejection. But when you take the view that they're not extraordinary powers, but they're inherent powers that reside in the office and therefore you have neither obligation to request permission nor to ask for ratification, we're in a new territory here. And I think that I'm gonna have to review everything they've done because I've been on the receiving end of that. There were a lot of actions which they took that were clearly beyond any power the Congress would have granted or that in my view that was inherent in the constitution. There were other actions they've taken which could have obtained congressional authorization but they deliberately chose not to pursue it as a matter of principle

 

Some one point out to me where in the above she responds to what specific powers might you relinquish as president, or renegotiate with Congress????

 

As far as I can tell she definitely said she would review Presidential Powers but she is real shy about what she want to get rid of.

As to her desire for Power itself?  Is not one of her major campaign planks a plant to Nationalise an Industry that comprises 1/7th of the US Economy?

Now that is what I call a Power Grab. I would like someone to show me where in the Constitution the Federal Govenment has the right to do that?

There is an old Fable that goes

  ”It was really cold and a nice lady had a warm blanket. A poisonous snake nearby was shivering and begged the lady just to pick him up long enough for him to get warm. She resisted saying "you are a poisonous snake and you will bite me and I'll die!" He begged and pleaded and promised not to bite her so she finally gave in and picked him up and wrapped him in the blanket. He bit her and as she was laying there dying she asked "why did you bite me - you promised you wouldn't?" As he slithered away he looked back and said: "Lady you knew I was a snake when you picked me up

THE LADY AND THE SNAKE

 

I submit that before we pick up this viper and hold it to our breast, we need to think real on what we know about it.

 

Now let's see what Buster;s take is over at Inmuscatine

 

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Military Moms Defeat Pelosi & Reid

This from my email Inbox to you. Pass it on.

 

For two weeks Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee and Blue Star Mom Deborah Johns led a pro-troop caravan of vehicles that traveled more than 4,500 miles across this country in the "Fight for Victory Tour." They held 27 pro-troop rallies in cities across America, with their objective being to stop Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from undermining our troops in Iraq. In a tale akin to David v. Goliath, these two military moms won - and Reid and Pelosi lost!!! As the New York Times admitted in a news story published this past week: "With other war initiatives seemingly headed for the same fate, Senate Democrats, who only two weeks ago proclaimed September to be the month for shifting course in Iraq, conceded that they had little chance of success."   Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns are both single moms who gave up two weeks of their lives, away from their families, to join with the pro-troop organization, Move America Forward, and rally the American people to stand behind our troops and their missions in the war on terror. Debbie Lee's son, Marc Alan Lee, was the first Navy Seal killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Deborah John's son, Marine Sgt. William Johns, has proudly served 3 tours of duty in Iraq - and volunteered to go back for a 4th deployment. Now these patriotic women stand ready to fight back from the next round of attacks against our troops and their missions by MoveOn.org and their allies in the anti-military Left. MoveOn.org and the anti-military left are currently spending MILLIONS of dollars in advertising to beat down the morale of the American people and urge them to turn against the missions of our troops. Now it's time for us to respond with our positive, pro-troop national advertising campaigns! Instead of full-page ads attacking our generals, as purchased by MoveOn.org, we have the chance to run full page newspaper ads, and national television ad campaigns, featuring the patriotic, pro-troop message of military moms Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns. >>> We need every person reading this email to pitch in and support this effort with a donation - no matter how small or large of a contribution you can afford to make. How 2 Pro-Troop Moms Spent Their Summer Vacation   Here's a few photographs from the cross-country, pro-troop, trek across this nation. If you want to see stories like this told to the American people then help these military mom's raise the funds to purchase airtime to get their stories told - CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE. In Las Cruces, New Mexico the pro-troop caravan received a police escort!   Thousands turned out across the country. You'll be surprised but even in San Francisco the crowd was especially enthusiastic!   In Carson City, Nevada Congressman Duncan Hunter joined Move America Forward Chairman, Melanie Morgan, in support of the pro-troop effort led by Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns. In the village of Niles, Illinois (suburb of Chicago) the caravan led a 9/11 candlelight remembrance and pro-troop rally. In Des Moines there was both a great crowd and a Jr. ROTC Color Guard present at the State Capitol. We worked hard to get our message heard through local media. At this stop in Oklahoma City we had 4 TV stations, radio stations and print media present to cover our rally and get the message out! In Sacramento the pro-troop moms were greeted by this great crowd! Here's some shots of our pro-troop caravan as we drove through Texas! At each stop the caravan had supporters sign pro-troop banners that were then presented to the wounded warriors recovering from injuries at Walter Reed Medical Center at the caravan's conclusion. Congressman Mike Pence welcomed us to our Indianapolis stop. With the media in tow, the military moms confronted Senator Reid's D.C. office and took them to task for Reid's statement that "this war is lost." The Grand Finale: An event at the White House Featuring President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.   Let's get this positive, pro-troop message out!   Do your part to help fund a new national ad campaign that will stand up against MoveOn.org and those who speak out against our troops and their missions in the war on terrorism. Here are just two of the many great media stories that were generated by the "Fight for Victory Tour": *Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Media Doesn't Show Whole Picture, Iraq War Vet says   *WPXI TV: Largest Pro-Troop Caravan Makes Stop In North Fayette Twp.   Now help us build on this terrific momentum that we've already built, as we fund the national ad campaign to fight back against MoveOn.org, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. CONTRIBUTE TO THIS PRO-TROOP EFFORT - HERE

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Military Moms Stand Up to Pelosi & Reid

This came to my email inbox, it may not get much media

exposure. So Pass it on. It deserves our support 

Dear NewsMax Reader:

Please find below a special message from our sponsor, Move America Forward about the upcoming Fight For Victory Tour that takes place September 3rd through September 15th. They have some important information to share with you.

Thank you.

NewsMax.com

 

 

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The Open Trackback Alliance LXXXIV
UPDATE: Denmark Exports Soaring

After blogger Judith Klinghoffer and an army of Davids declared a "Buy Danish" campaign to combat the Muslim boycott. The Guardian says "fervent rightwing Americans" participated in the buying spree and implies that the cartoonists were responsible for the deaths of 139 people.(like it was the cartoonists who killed those people instead of the ones who shed their blood, how like the Progressive TransNazi viewpoint)

For your listening pleasure while you browse

"Der er et yndigt land" (There Is A Lovely Land)

Words by: Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger Music by: Hans Ernst Krøyer Adopted: 1844 "Derer et yndigt land" was first performed for a large gathering of Danes in 1844, and became popular quickly with the Danish people. It was adopted later that year by the Danish government as a national anthem, but not the sole national anthem. This anthem is on equal status with "Kong Christian",which is both the national and royal anthem. When the Danish anthem is usually performed or sung, the first verse is played in its entirety, then it is followed by the last four lines of the last verse. (This is true whether the lyrics are sung or not
Recently I have been posting music to Illustrate the Diversity of America, this week I have a different motive to express Solidarity with DENMARK I maintain my Support of Denmark, and will later today, post links to and my thoughts about a Danish Editorial "We are being pissed upon by Per Nyholm " I think I shall title my Post, "There is no "But" in "Freedom of Speech". When I first started upon my journey through the blogverse I created a Statement of Purpose Now upon reading it, one can realize that I did not hold to every detail of that original statement, but from it's basic premise, I have never swayed, in my belief that the Blogs are in fact the Committees of Correspondence of the Second American Revolution. And that it is a Revolution of Information, no longer can we afford and allow elite gateways to control what we can see, hear and discuss. For I believe that those bloggers who find their way, here and in particular from the Blogs associated with Sam. HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. Some of us are more Serious, some of us are more lighthearted and some post the common ordinary things that make one smile and recall that Life without the simple things to treasure is meaningless. And it is important that all have a platform from which to speak. As I understand this process you can link to this post and trackback to this post on ANY subject or post you think important. It is open. I will repeat this every Monday. The Committees of Correspondence welcomes your intelligent comments. And also welcomes you to join the OPEN TRACKBACK ALLIANCEThis week I also have shortened my usual introduction for a more important message.

In it's struggle for Freedom of Speech. Sign the Petition NOW! JEG opstille hos Danmark!

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Islamic Rule.. To Govern The World?
Excerpt: [Must see video below]
We will get back to that word, as well as Sharia Law and al-Qaeda letters calling for a Caliphate and more after we take a look at this rally that was just held.
Weblog: Wake up America
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This is what happens when you try terrorists in US courts
Excerpt: Two psychiatrists and a psychologist examined Jose Padilla on behalf of his defense lawyers and "say his extended detention and interrogation at the US Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, S.C., left him with severe mental disabilities." Yes, he was a
Weblog: Right Truth
Tracked: 08.13.07 - 6:02 am

Karl Rove To Resign: A Year Too Late?
Excerpt: I have never been a huge defender of Karl Rove. So now that he announces his resignation I can only wonder if his departure isn’t a year too late?
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Goose Creek Pipe Bomb Update
Excerpt: An update of last week's story, where two men were arrested for driving around with a van full of explosives.MM: Fortunately, local Florida media and bloggers have kept a close eye. And there have been some very newsworthy developments. The
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Christopher Hitchens - a fundie Christian?
Excerpt: It seems that some people think that mostly fundie Christians are the ones foolish enough to agree with BushChimpHitlerCheneyHaliburton concerning staying in Iraq until we've defeated the enemy. Even worse that such people think ...
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Sean Penn Speaks Ourspokenly About the Onus of Out
Excerpt: Sean Penn is making a complete fool of himself … again. He’s a has-been actor who is trying to keep his name in the news by running around bad-mouthing his own country to the enemies of his own country.

In the article below he makes statements l...
Weblog: Blue Star Chronicles
Tracked: 08.13.07 - 5:13 pm

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Seven Astronauts' Lives Hang in Global Warming Bal
Excerpt: It seems that NASA has had a ton of problems lately. It’s bothersome to think that these aerospace engineers, presumably the best in the world, are not able to figure out a way to get those pesky thermal tiles to stay stuck to the tanks on the body o...
Weblog: Blue Star Chronicles
Tracked: 08.13.07 - 6:21 pm

The Pigeon on Losing a Pet
Excerpt: I don't know if animal's have souls; but if you do, I hope you remember us fondly.
Weblog: Diary of the Mad Pigeon
Tracked: 08.13.07 - 6:45 pm

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not as though it matters
Excerpt: ... but eBay just lost a customer. I say it does not matter not out of any sense of self-deprication (though I have my own fair share of that), but rather because I have purchased all of maybe three things...
Weblog: walls of the city
Tracked: 08.13.07 - 6:53 pm

Russia, China, Iran, Islamic terror groups -- How does the free world prioritize trouble?
Excerpt: "What is the lesser of two evils? Or, rather, what is the least likely to occur? A nuclear armed Iran? A confrontation with Russia or China? Al-Qaeda or the Taliban? Civil War in Iraq? Pakistan turned over to the radical
Weblog: Right Truth
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 6:13 am

Just crazy
Excerpt: The 2008 Presidential race- 15 dwarfs and no Snow White in sight. God help the USA.
Weblog: The Florida Masochist
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 6:25 am

Peter Pan
Excerpt: Peter and Wendy By James Matthew Barrie, Published 1911 C. Scribner's Sons, illustrations by Francis Donkin Bedford. These media files (images) are in the public domain this applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyr...
Weblog: Public Domain Clip Art
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 8:27 am

Poodwaddle
Excerpt: It would be useful if Poodwaddle had a line that showed in dollars how much money we are paying Muslim sand fleas for the oil we helped discover, develop and refine. For 1400 years Muslims could only cause trouble when they had money to fund their wa...
Weblog: Planck's Constant
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 11:10 am

Muhammad Wants YOU to Wear White Underwear!
Excerpt: From Jihad Watch. Apparently, all Westerners are filthy barbarians and, get this, Allah wants you wearing white underwear.

Well, fry me up a mess of bacon.
Weblog: Blue Star Chronicles
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 11:25 am

Gene Simmons Rocks With the Troops
Excerpt: Gene Simmons and his daughter Sophie visited our Troops at Camp Pendleton and Long Beach Veterans Hospital.

At some point, the Rock Star decided to try to get through an obstacle course and asked the staff to take him through a typical course th...
Weblog: Blue Star Chronicles
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 11:43 am

Gay marriage vs tradition
Excerpt: An interesting article addresses this conflict and has criticism for extremes on both sides of the issue...
Weblog: Mark My Words
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 11:43 am

Christian Activists, Jewish Settlers and Taliban A
Excerpt: For the life of me, I can’t understand what the main stream media and liberals think they have to gain by minimizing and trying to normalize the brutal and horrific acts of groups like the Taliban while demonizing the Christian and Jewish faiths.
Weblog: Blue Star Chronicles
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 12:05 pm

Iowa Democratic Debate
Excerpt: What can I say about Edwards??? Everything about him from facial expressions to body language spells PHONY! And did anyone catch that delicately crooked little finger???
Weblog: Faultline USA
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 1:47 pm

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Hurricane Dean Update
Excerpt: Hurricane Dean is rapidly approaching the Yucatan peninsula. The current track has the center of the storm passing to the south of Cancun near the center of the peninsula. If this forecast track holds, Cancun will likely see tropical storm force wind...
Weblog: Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 3:59 pm

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New Disturbance in the North Atlantic
Excerpt: Upper-level winds are expected to gradually become more favorable for development during the next couple of days as this system moves westward or west-northwestward at 15 – 20 MPH.
Weblog: Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 5:12 pm

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Because that is how my parents did it
Excerpt: Mothers sleep better if they sleep with their babies because the baby cries less, nursing is easier, and the baby goes to sleep faster and easier (allowing mother to get more sleep)
Weblog: Planck's Constant
Tracked: 08.20.07 - 9:53 pm

The Knucklehead of the Day award
Excerpt: Today's winner is Vince Carbino, Principal of South LA area Santee High School.
Weblog: The Florida Masochist
Tracked: 08.21.07 - 2:41 am

A note to my readers
Excerpt: Today I'm having a medical procedure to determine if the cancer I had over 12 years ago has spread to my lymph nodes.
Weblog: The Florida Masochist
Tracked: 08.21.07 - 2:41 am

Footbaths and Double Standards
Excerpt: A Stop the ACLU Blogburst.The latest battle of religion in the public square is unfolding in Dearborn, Michigan, a city with one of the highest Muslim populations in the country. At the University of Michigan’s local campus, administrators have recently
Weblog: The Amboy Times
Tracked: 08.21.07 - 4:47 am

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The Rational Response Squad
Excerpt: Or as I like to call them, the (ir)rationals. They're that little hardcore online atheist group consisting of core members Brian Sapient (The Sap), Kelly and Rook Hawkins (Little Rookie). One of their hobbies is pimping ...
Weblog: Mark My Words
Tracked: 08.21.07 - 4:11 pm

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Janeane Garofalo Joins the Cast of 24
Excerpt: That’s not a joke! Its actually true. I can’t believe it!

First, they announce they are going to have a Hillary-type character as President. Then they announce they are going ‘green’ (I hate that expression - it ruins the image of a perfectly go...
Weblog: Blue Star Chronicles
Tracked: 08.21.07 - 6:55 pm

Military Progress Allows Room for Political Progre
Excerpt: "I hope that this agreement will help Iraq move beyond the political impasse," Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told Reuters. "The five leaders representing Iraq's major political communities .... affirmed the principle of collective leadership t...
Weblog: Wake up America
Tracked: 08.27.07 - 6:43 am

Nuristan PRT celebrates Afghan Independence Day
Excerpt: FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALAGUSH, Afghanistan - Just like the people of the U.S., the people of Afghanistan are very proud of their independence, which means Aug. 19 is a date marked by celebration. When the people of Nuristan province were invited to...
Weblog: Rosemary's Thoughts
Tracked: 08.27.07 - 7:14 am

 "Be polite. Be professional. Be prepared to kill."
Excerpt: LTC John Nagl, 1st Battalion, 34th Armor at Fort Riley, and author of “
Weblog: DeMediacratic Nation
Tracked: 08.27.07 - 7:28 am

CNN: Are All God’s Warriors Equivalent?
Excerpt: What the left can’t infiltrate, they are willing to mock and to marginalize by attempting to engender fear primarily against Christians and Jews. Now that bastion of leftist ideology, CNN, has managed to lump Christian and Jewish conservatives into t...
Weblog: Faultline USA
Tracked: 08.27.07 - 9:53 am

The Iraqi Government Has No Power?!
Excerpt: A Fatwa Against Violence by Iraqis? Key religious leaders meet to work for the early issuance of a joint Sunni-Shia fatwa to the Iraqi people, against violence. The obvious questions, will it actually be issued and if so, will it
Weblog: Right Truth
Tracked: 08.27.07 - 10:32 am

Bloggers Track a Pedophile
Excerpt: I concur that publicly advocating touchy feely relationships with tweens--let alone posting bulletins on where to find prepubescent gathering places--is not free speech: it's depraved and inciteful language completely bereft of constructive discourse.
Weblog: Diary of the Mad Pigeon
Tracked: 08.27.07 - 1:55 pm

FOKO and the Burning Forests of Madagascar
Excerpt: Before I tell you what FOKO is, let me take you through the dynamics of Slash and Burn. In the US and much of Europe managed timber lands has led to the increased forest cover in those countries,
Weblog: Planck's Constant
Tracked: 08.27.07 - 3:38 pm

Tracking the elusive shipping container Excerpt: The world is a very different place out beyond the horizon. Even as you read this, there are some 40,000 large cargo ships plying the world’s waterways and oceans, Weblog: Republican National Convention Blog Tracked: 08.28.07 - 4:30 am CAIR: Media Cowers in Face of Islamist Threat Excerpt: An Anti-CAIR Blogburst. On August 24th, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), issued a “News Release†trumpeting the role CAIR played in getting the Christian TV program “Live Prayer with Bill Keller†off the air in Tampa, Florida. ... Weblog: The Amboy Times Tracked: 08.28.07 - 6:24 pm

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Public Opinions
Excerpt: …commentary from the public on Hillary Rodham Clinton. Feel free to submit your own.

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Weblog: Blog @ MoreWhat.com
Tracked: 08.29.07 - 3:44 pm

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You can't please everyone, goes the song, and we are being told continuously that the US can't please anyone.  That the entire world now hates us due to ---.   But in Popularity Contest  Why they hate, and like, us,  Victor Davis Hanson infoms us that some people are very pleased by America.

First let's take a look about what we already know, because we keep being told about it

The latest Pew poll of June 2007 purports to offer a comprehensive survey of what the world thinks of the United

States. Polls, of course, can be unreliable; and much of the commonly expressed anti-Americanism seems to be a mere reflection of disdain shown by our own intellectuals and academics, Hollywood, and the media. While it is hard to separate what foreigners feel about Americans in general from their opinions about the United States government in particular, the results of this latest survey are both predictable and astonishing.

The nations of the Middle East and other Islamic countries, of course, poll anti-United States across the board, from Palestine to Morocco. And therein arise some interesting paradoxes. Kuwait, once extinguished until the American military restored it, is the most pro-American nation of the Arab Middle East. Yet, even there, as many Kuwaitis have an unfavorable opinion of America as a favorable one.

Even more perplexing are the attitudes voiced by some key European countries — France (60 percent unfavorable to the U.S.), Germany (66 percent unfavorable), and Spain (60 percent). Millions of Europeans in these countries express a much more negative view of the United States than do Hugo Chavez’s Venezuelans. So much for the supposedly sweeping changes in France and Germany that brought the Sarkozy and Merkel governments to power.

But who really cares to calibrate all the reasons why the Germans hated us when Ronald Reagan deployed Pershing missiles to protect them, or why the Greeks hated us when Madeline Albright tried to stop Balkan genocide, or why the French hated us for ending the once lucrative Baathist regime in Iraq? Instead, at some point Americans should ask themselves how they can continue to be allied militarily with countries whose populations have a more negative view of us than do our supposed rivals in Russia (48 percent unfavorable) and China (57 percent).

 

Now let us look at a few things the media has not been to free in telling us about.

 

Contrast all that dislike with those nations who appreciate the United States, which tells us something much

different about America’s role in the world. The Kenyans and Ghanaians, for example, reveal more admiration for the United States (87 and 80 percent, respectively) than do we Americans ourselves.

In fact, all of sub-Saharan Africa — poor and with a past of exploitation — has an unbelievably high regard for the U.S. Perhaps black Africans appreciate our support for democracy, realize that we were not colonialists, see that blacks are succeeding in the U.S. in a way unthinkable elsewhere, know that we spearhead the global effort to bring AIDS relief and stop the genocide in Darfur, and sympathize with their own long struggle against radical Islam.

Much of Eastern Europe is similarly well-inclined. Poland, for example (61 percent approval rating), does not trust Russia — and does not trust Europe to offer any help in a future hour of crisis

Likewise, many countries of Latin America — Mexico, Chile, Peru — poll staunchly pro-American. We have tried to support these shaky Latin American democracies, welcomed their immigrants, and allowed billions of dollars to be sent back as worker remittances. And unlike a Spain, France, Germany, the Muslim Middle East, Russia, or China, such confident emerging nations also are not hung up on perceived past grandeur, blame-gaming the new superpower for their own subordinate roles.

Indeed, how strange that these poor countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, and South America are more favorable to America than are oil-rich sheikdoms, rich European socialist republics, and Middle East recipients of massive U.S. aid.

The more confident a nation is, even when poor, the more likely it seems to admire America. Some of our best supporters turn out to be one-billion person India (59 percent favorable rating), Japan (61 percent), and South Korea (58 percent) — all democratic, capitalist juggernauts, and appreciative of liberal American trade policy and U.S. military support. Again, should we Americans value the friendship of such democracies — or that of a China that cheats on international trade accords and intimidates its neighbors?

For me the most puzzling is Britain , the British public now barely expresses a favorable impression of the United States (51 percent).

 When compared with Russia (48 percent unfavorable), doesn't that mean 52 percent favorable?

So it appears the world alignment is Russia and China split evenly, Muslims and European countries in overwhelming opposition and the rest of the World Favorable.

That last bit seems to be a secret as far as the Mainstream Media is concerned.

For the future no matter how chilly US=Russian diplomacy may get at times IMO we should bide our time.

The day may come when China decides that they should have Siberia with its riches in natural resources and petroleum.

I can see a deal being struck between China and the OPEC nations.

For support in their annexation of Siberia they will support OPEC price supports and maybe even sweeten the pot with Oil sales under world prices to OPEC much like the Oil for Food Scams.

Both parties will then explain to Europe that any support of Russia will result in, shall we say delays and shortages in Energy supplies.

Europe will do nothing and might even justify the transfer. They did the same thing to Czechoslovakia, remember?

It will be left to the US, Japan, India and the Nations of Eastern Europe, South America, Africa and Non-Muslim Asian Nations to take a stand in support of Russia.

If History is any indicator the EU and the UN will take no action other than Hot Air.

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