Re: [grendelreport] A Good One To Read Before Voting

[Hot4azintop via PoliticalForum]

Love it!
 
 
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Fwd: [grendelreport] A Good One To Read Before Voting

[Travis]

A politician passed away and visited the afterlife, but was shocked when
she saw this

While walking down the street one day a presidential candidate was
tragically hit by a car and died.

Her soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

“Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there
is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so
we’re not sure what to do with you.”

“No problem, just let me in,” says the politician.

“Well, I’d like to, but I have orders from the higher ups. What we’ll do is
have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where
to spend eternity.”

“Really?, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,” says the
politician.

“I’m sorry, but we have our rules.”

And with that, St. Peter escorts her to the elevator and she goes down,
down, down to hell.

The doors open and she finds herself in the middle of a green golf course.
In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all her
friends and other politicians who had worked with her.

Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet her, shake
her hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at
the expense of the people. They then dined on lobster, caviar and the
finest champagne.

Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who is having
a good time dancing and telling jokes.

They are all having such a good time that before the politician realizes
it, it is time to go.

Everyone gives her a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises.

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens in heaven where St. Peter
is waiting for her, “Now it’s time to visit heaven…”

So, 24 hours passed with the politician joining a group of contented souls
moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good
time and, before she realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter
returns.

“Well, then, you’ve spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose
your eternity.”

The politician reflects for a minute, then she answers: “Well, I would
never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I
would be better off in hell.”

So St. Peter escorts her to the elevator and she goes down, down, down to
hell…

Now the doors of the elevator open and she’s in the middle of a barren land
covered with waste and garbage. She sees all her friends, dressed in rags,
picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls to
the ground.

The devil comes over to her and puts his arm around her shoulders.

“I don’t understand,” stammers the politician. “Yesterday I was here and
there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank
champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there’s just a wasteland
full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?”

The devil smiles at her and says,

“Yesterday we were campaigning, Today, you voted.”

*The lesson? Vote wisely on Election Day!*





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Good One....LOL

[Travis]

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*Homesick Snowbird**

I was in Ft. Myers, Florida recently, and I saw a bumper sticker on a
parked car that read: "I miss Chicago."**

**So, I broke out a window, stole the radio, shot out two of the tires,
added an Obama bumper sticker and left a note that read, "I hope this
helps!"*

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Re: Judge Judy tape removed by CBS-----this is a very good one!!

[plainolamerican]

20K a year for tuition?
the school that gave it to him must be filled with socialists with
white guilt


On Mar 19, 8:10 pm, Travis  wrote:
>          This should explain why our country is in the Financial situation
> it's in... Take back all this money being given away 
>
> See what you think after seeing this one. 
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>  Subject: Judge Judy tape removed by CBS
>
>  Our good tax dollars at work!
> PLEASE - EVERYONE WATCH THIS AND SEND IT ON TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.***
> *
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> *No explanation** **necessary, speaks for itself. Remember to vote in 2012.*
> 
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> MULTIPLY THIS A FEW MILLION TIMES TO UNDERSTAND WHY ENTITLEMENTS BROKE THE
> U.S. TAXPAYER.
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> CBS removed this video from YouTube, but another copy was found.
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> Watch it quick before it's gone, and send to all.
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> http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15915
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> The Judge was correct in saying she should send to Congress.
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> Multiply these morons by many millions and you get the picture
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Re: Judge Judy tape removed by CBS-----this is a very good one!!

[THE ANNOINTED ONE]

Travis, I love this one... it is a perfect example of whats wrong with
this generation...and the sense of entitlement. I hope that you don't
mind it being pinned on top for a day or two.

On Mar 19, 7:10 pm, Travis  wrote:
>          This should explain why our country is in the Financial situation
> it's in... Take back all this money being given away 
>
> See what you think after seeing this one. 
>
>  
>
>  Subject: Judge Judy tape removed by CBS
>
>  Our good tax dollars at work!
> PLEASE - EVERYONE WATCH THIS AND SEND IT ON TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.***
> *
>
> *No explanation** **necessary, speaks for itself. Remember to vote in 2012.*
> 
>
> MULTIPLY THIS A FEW MILLION TIMES TO UNDERSTAND WHY ENTITLEMENTS BROKE THE
> U.S. TAXPAYER.
>
> CBS removed this video from YouTube, but another copy was found.
>
> Watch it quick before it's gone, and send to all.
>
> http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15915
>
> The Judge was correct in saying she should send to Congress.
>
> Multiply these morons by many millions and you get the picture
>
>  
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>   
>
> 
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Judge Judy tape removed by CBS-----this is a very good one!!

[Travis]

 This should explain why our country is in the Financial situation
it's in... Take back all this money being given away 

See what you think after seeing this one. 

 

 Subject: Judge Judy tape removed by CBS

 Our good tax dollars at work!
PLEASE - EVERYONE WATCH THIS AND SEND IT ON TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.***
*

*No explanation** **necessary, speaks for itself. Remember to vote in 2012.*


MULTIPLY THIS A FEW MILLION TIMES TO UNDERSTAND WHY ENTITLEMENTS BROKE THE
U.S. TAXPAYER.

CBS removed this video from YouTube, but another copy was found.

Watch it quick before it's gone, and send to all.

http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15915


The Judge was correct in saying she should send to Congress.


Multiply these morons by many millions and you get the picture

 

  





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Good one from Maggie Thatcher on socialism

[dick thompson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw&feature=player_embedded


To quote Margaret Thatcher: "I hate Communists".
I'm a bohemian, preppy Republican, I love my dogs, my capitalist 
Republican politics & fine wine. What you see is what you get. Don't 
like it? Not my problem.



I love this

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Re: Good one - who would guess these jobs even existed - and why

[Travis]

Forgot to list the Head Pooper Scooper but I guess that is obamashits job.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:05 PM, dick thompson wrote:

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Good one

[dick thompson]

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/008666.html

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Good one - The One's List of Historic Firsts - we definitely need to get rid of him and soon!!

[dick thompson]

http://www.parkwayreststop.com/archives/10006393

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Re: Good one - response to a letter to the editor

[Keith In Köln]

All too trueThe comments are worth reading also.  Grouchy Old Crip is
once again, right on point.




On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:43 AM, dick thompson wrote:

>http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/008534.html
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Good one - response to a letter to the editor

[dick thompson]

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/008534.html

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Here is a good one - What is a Right by Walter Williams

[dick thompson]

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/12/walter-williams-what-is-right.html

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Good one from Sippican about safety

[dick]

http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2010/10/politics-from-2008.html

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Good one - written over a year ago and still true

[dick]

http://www.optimist123.com/optimist/2009/08/grow-or-die.html

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Good one

[dick thompson]

http://www.parkwayreststop.com/archives/10004553

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Grouchy Old Cripple lets loose with a good one - and makes a lot of good points

[dick thompson]

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/007912.html

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Good one and it makes sense to me - the comments are pretty good too

[dick thompson]

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/quislings-sacri.html

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The Green Hat . A real good one....

[Travis]

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  *  Subject: ** The Green Hat .  A real good
one*



The other day I needed to go to the emergency room.  Not wanting to sit
there for 4 hours, I put on my *GREEN HAT* that I got from Newsmax when I
had subscribed to the magazine.

When I went into the *E.R.,* I noticed that 3/4 of the people got up and
left.  I guess they decided that they weren't that sick after all.  Cut at
least 3 hours off my waiting time.  Here's the hat.  Try it the next time
you're in need of quicker emergency service.

  It also works at *DMV*.  It saved me 5 hours.

At the *Laundromat*, three minutes after entering, I had my choice of any
machine, most still running.

*Don't try it at McDonald's though.  The whole crew got up and left and l
never got my order.*

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Some pretty good ones - even Letterman came up with a good one for a change

[dick thompson]

 ● People are upset with BP CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was 
out on his yacht. When President Obama heard that he was relaxing, he 
missed a putt.


Finally a good one from Letterman - whom I usually do not like much.

These are from Jimmy Fallon:


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● Father’s Day just keeps getting bigger every year, thanks to DNA testing.

● President Obama is losing support from his own party over his handling 
of the Gulf oil spill. Jimmy Carter even compared him to Jimmy Carter.


● There’s a new trend for cat owners called “catios.” It’s a fence 
around the patio for a cat. Now your cat can ignore you outdoors as much 
as indoors.


● Sarah Palin has revealed that she tried marijuana, but didn’t like it. 
You know, 200 million Americans have tried marijuana and the only people 
that don’t like it are elected officials.


Editor's Note:

* Special: Interviews With Doctors Who Are Quietly Curing Cancer


Late Show Top Ten

Top Ten Ways Tony Hayward Can Improve His Image

10. Catch Osama
9. Contaminate waters around a country like North Korea
8. Reveal secret behind his soft and lustrous curly hair
7. Apologize on The Golf Channel
6. Shoot new BP commercial where he is viciously pecked by angry pelicans
5. Join Team Coco
4. Get a job at Poland Spring; accidentally dump a billion gallons of 
water into the Gulf

3. Improve his image, are you kidding? He's doing great!
2. Hang out at BP station, let customers inflate his butt with air hose
1. Dial it back from "arrogant bastard" to "smug pr**k"

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Late Show With David Letterman

● I hope everyone had a nice Father’s Day. Nothing says "thanks Dad" 
like a turbo nose-hair trimmer.


● People are upset with BP CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was 
out on his yacht. When President Obama heard that he was relaxing, he 
missed a putt.


● Tony Hayward, on Twitter, said that the oil spill is still his 
priority. You know a guy cares when he tweets from his yacht.


● Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square Bomber, is now facing charges of 
attempted terrorism and conspiracy to double-park.


Editor's Note:

* Doctor Exposes Prescription Drugs That Don’t Work


Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

● While this whole oil mess has been going on, President Obama spent the 
weekend playing golf with Vice President Biden. Biden's handicap is 16 
and Obama's handicap is Biden.


● It’s rumored that Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will leave the 
White House at the end of the year. He says the work is important to 
him, but he wants to spend more time screaming at his family.


● A man in Boston was arrested after he tried to rob an ATM, then got 
stuck inside of it. He’s safe now, but bad news — it wasn’t his bank so 
he was charged two dollars to take himself out.


● A company in California is coming out with a $44,000 mattress. It will 
be layered with cashmere, mohair, silk, and then on top of that, a moron 
who paid $44,000 for a mattress.


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Good one - Europe and the welfare cheques

[dick thompson]

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/03/beating-swords-into-welfare-cheques/print/ 


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Good one here about the econ policy of the Fed and idiocy

[dick thompson]

 May 25th, 2010 9:01 am


   There Must Be a German Word Meaning "Scary Yet Stupid"

From an interview with Marc Faber 
 
by BigGovernment's Andrew Mellon:


   However, last year Economist Gregory Mankiw articulated the position
   which according to Faber essentially echoes that of Fed #2 Janet
   Yellen and pervades much of the Fed generally, that "The problem is
   that people are saving money instead of spending, and we have to get
   the bastards spending to keep the economy going," so the key is to
   inflate the money supply at something like 6% per annum.

Well that's just brilliant --- We'll somehow create wealth by debasing 
wealth's store of value.* Yellen received her PhD in economics from 
Yale. How can someone so smart be so stupid?


Be afraid. Be very afraid.

*The more historically literate among us already know that debasing the 
currency is often the last gasp of a corrupt and decadent government, in 
the moments before they turn everything into shit. Folks less 
historically literate work in Washington.


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  1.
 1. NukemHill 

 A little bit of deflation, along with honest, steady growth in
 GDP, helps a great deal in reducing national deficits and debts.
 That's what Greece (et al) relied on for years to maintain their
 standards of living. It's what we have relied on to manage our
 spending. But we've so totally blown the numbers out of the water
 here that we're grasping at policies that banana republics
 typically rely on.

 Mankiw is actually a pretty sharp cookie. But sometimes he says
 things that I just don't get. Rather than recognizing that we the
 people are willing to attack the problem through honest austerity
 measures--which means tightening the belt, hitching up our pants,
 and getting our hands dirty cleaning up the mess (to completely
 abuse a metaphor)--he thinks we should devalue our work. Nice going.

 I definitely get the massive difficulties related in going back to
 some sort of commodity-based monetary standard. But it certainly
 seems safer than the road we're going down now. I don't see any
 other way to put a strangle-hold on the ridiculous spending habits
 and monetary policies our "public servants". Well, no other way
 that is bloodless.

 May 25, 2010 - 9:36 am   Link to this Comment
 

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  2.
 2. tim maguire

 Sounds like they;'re going the other way--inflation. Let you know
 your money will be worth less tomorrow so you're more likely to
 spend it today.

 May 25, 2010 - 10:38 am   Link to this Comment
 

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  3.
 3. Stephen Green 

 Tim --

 Of course, there's an additional problem here, economic troubles
 aside. We've been saddled with so much debt and so much additional
 spending, that this economy has got to grow, and grow fast, to
   

Good one

[dick thompson]

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/007494.html

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Good one - Love this

[dick thompson]

 

*OLD RAY STEVENS HAS DONE IT AGAIN...*

 

*This could not have come at a better time and I definitely needed a 
laugh...

*

*Turn on the sound and prepare to slap your knee and laugh.*

 

*The words are included if you are hard of hearing, just scroll down as 
he sings. Click below and have fun.*




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Another good one from Jim Miller - this one about the costs of ObamaCare

[dick thompson]

*Robert Samuelson Gets Peevish About ObamaCare: *Rightly, in my opinion. 
  Samuelson isn't sure whether Obama, Pelosi, and Reid believe their own 
stories, but he is absolutely sure their stories are false 
.

There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called
"health-care reform."  Everyone knows that the United States faces
massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can
project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled
health costs.  Recovering slowly from a devastating recession, it's
widely agreed that, though deficits should not be cut abruptly (lest
the economy resume its slump), a prudent society would embark on
long-term policies to control health costs, reduce government
spending, and curb massive future deficits.  The president and his
top economic advisers all say this.

So, what do they do?  Just the opposite.  Their sweeping overhaul of
the health-care system---which Congress is halfway toward
enacting---would almost certainly make matters worse.  It would
create new, open-ended medical entitlements that would probably
expand deficits and do little to suppress surging health costs.  The
disconnect between what Obama says and what he's doing is so glaring
that most people could not abide it.  The president and his allies
have no trouble.  But reconciling blatantly contradictory objectives
requires them to engage in willful self-deception, public
dishonesty, or both. 

I must admit to feeling a little peevish myself when I hear Obama, or 
Pelosi, or Reid make their absurd claims about the effects of their 
health insurance "reform" proposals --- and, like Samuelson, I don't use 
the word "absurd" lightly.

If Obama and company believe their own arguments, then they are foolish. 
  If they don't believe their own arguments, they they believe that we 
are fools.  The first is worrisome, the second, insulting.
- 6:40 AM, 15 November 2009 [link] 


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Good one - just hope it comes true

[dick thompson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=UZkvkLmkYVg

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Re: Good one - the PelosiCare Ponzi Scheme

[plainolamerican]

PelosiCare Ponzi Scheme
---
Pelosi is an anti-American jew in sheeps clothing

some people need killin'

On Nov 11, 6:53 pm, dick thompson  wrote:
> http://www.pjtv.com/v/2696
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Re: Good one - the PelosiCare Ponzi Scheme

[Travis]

Dick:  You ever gonna learn how to use the BCC feature on email?  We dont
need to see your entire mailing list.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM, dick thompson wrote:

>
> http://www.pjtv.com/v/2696
>
> >
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Good one - the PelosiCare Ponzi Scheme

[dick thompson]

http://www.pjtv.com/v/2696

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Good one

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http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/007282.html

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Good one from Real Clear Politics about Harry Reid's Train Wreck plan on health care

[dick thompson]

Harry Reid's Train Wreck
By Jack
Kelly

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive,"
wrote Sir Walter Scott in his 1808 poem, "Marmion."
I doubt Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has read
"Marmion." But he now has a pretty good idea of what Sir Walter Scott
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Democrats have been tying themselves into knots in their efforts to
conceal from the public the true cost of Obamacare. Last Wednesday,
their schemes came crashing down around Harry Reid's ears.
Democrats were heartened Oct. 7 when the Congressional Budget Office
said the version of Obamacare drafted by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.,
chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, would cost "only" $829
billion over 10 years. The CBO had scored versions proposed by the
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the leading House
bill at more than $1 trillion.
Mr. Baucus achieved his apparent savings partly by omitting the
"public option" dear to liberal hearts, partly by not covering all of
the currently uninsured. But he achieved them mostly by front-loading
tax increases and cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, but delaying most
spending increases for two and a half years. Once the spending
increases went into effect, they rapidly would overwhelm the "savings."
By the 11th year, the Baucus bill would add massively to the deficit.
There was a problem with this gimmick, though. Mr. Baucus proposed
to save money in Medicare by gutting the Medicare Advantage program, in
which 23 percent of seniors are enrolled, and by slashing the payments
doctors and hospitals receive for treating Medicare patients.
Medicare currently reimburses doctors only 94 cents for each dollar
of health-care services provided. To slash payments another 21.5
percent, as Mr. Baucus proposed, would not be popular with doctors. And
if payments were slashed, many doctors who now treat Medicare patients
would stop seeing them, which would not be popular with Medicare
patients.
To fix this problem, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., proposed to
block the Medicare reimbursement cuts for 10 years. The logical thing
to do would have been to offer the Stabenow proposal as an amendment to
the Baucus bill. But if that were done, the cost of the Baucus bill
would rise by $247 billion over 10 years, according to the CBO.
Democrats could no longer claim it was deficit neutral.
To Mr. Reid, the solution was to offer the Stabenow measure as a
separate bill and pretend it had nothing to do with the Obamacare plan.
But last Wednesday, 13 Democrats joined all the Republicans in opposing
this fiscal sleight of hand.
The defeat made Mr. Reid look like a putz. Majority leaders aren't
supposed to bring measures to the floor unless they have the votes, and
he got beat bad. (Mr. Reid needed 60 votes to take up the Stabenow
bill; he got 47.)
In defeat, Mr. Reid then acted like a putz. He blamed the loss on
the failure of the American Medical Association to deliver Republican
votes.
"Reid told colleagues that the AMA said it could deliver 27
Republican votes for the legislation, according to two Senate
Democratic lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity," The Hill
newspaper reported.
Even if that were true -- the AMA says it isn't -- it's not a very
politic thing to say about a lobbying group whose help Mr. Reid will
need to get Obamacare passed. (Only about 17 percent of physicians
belong to the AMA, a fact which journalists who write about health care
ought to note, but rarely do.)
Many Republicans do support giving doctors relief from Medicare
reimbursement cuts. It's the fiscal sleight of hand to which they
object.
The defeat leaves Democrats between a rock and a hard place. They
still must merge the Baucus bill with the much more expensive HELP
version. The combined bill probably can't be passed unless the Medicare
reimbursement problem is fixed, but that problem can't be fixed without
making it plain that Obamacare will balloon the deficit.
Making the deals and twisting the arms necessary to get this done
might be beyond the abilities of even the greatest Senate leader,
Lyndon Johnson. And Harry Reid is no LBJ.
Yuval Levin, who monitors health care issues for the Ethics and
Public Policy Center, summed up the situation: "[The] vote showed
[Senate Democrats] a leader unsure of himself, lacking an accurate vote
count, and surprised by developments on the Senate floor."
 

Good one

[dick thompson]

http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2009/10/ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-grim-milestone.html

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good one

[dick thompson]

http://conservativeshemale.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/obama-policies-may-lead-us-to-third-world-status-michael-moore-to-lead-cheers-celebrating-death-of-capitalism-until-starving-peasants-come-to-eat-his-fat-a/
 


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Good one

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http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=17075685001 


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Good one

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http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/07/dedicated-to-the-persistent-obama-supporter.html
 


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Good one about global warming

[dick thompson]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5804831/Climate-change-The-sun-and-the-oceans-do-not-lie.html

Would love to see the answers to the questions that Fielding put to the 
minister.  They seem very apropos to the situation here in the US as well.

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Good one

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http://massbackwards.blogspot.com/2009/06/all-that-beating-and-shooting-wearing.html
 


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Good one here -

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http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2009/06/top-djimmi-cooks.html

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This one will be a good one to follow up on - the Ca and Mass non-compete clauses

[dick thompson]

++
| CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause|
|   from the so-free-you-can-choose-bondage dept.|
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 05, @18:42 (The Courts) |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/05/2117205  |
++

[0]Lucas123 writes "A case was filed with superior courts in California
and Massachusetts involving a former EMC top executive who is trying work
for HP. The case is throwing into relief Massachusetts's and California's
[1]differing approaches to non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
California courts have argued that non-competes hamper a person's ability
to traverse the marketplace freely for work, while Massachusetts courts
say the agreements actually afford freedom to develop technology without
the fear of IP theft."

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/05/05/2117205

Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. 
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Storage&articleId=9132569&taxonomyId=19


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Re: Good one - Andrew McCarthy on being invited to participate in developing a policy on counterterrorism

[dick thompson]

No, he realizes that is a crew that cannot be trusted.  If you give 
advice and later someone campaigns on the premise that it was wrong or 
that we should not be doing that, you will be investigated, sued, have 
your reputation impugned, be called on to testify to a hostile congress 
and have a media that reports only the other side of the issue.  You 
will then be saddled with all the legal fees involved.  He decides to 
opt out and with this crew of Holder, Emanuel, Bambi et al I wouldn't 
blame him a bit.  I would opt out also.

Daniel Seigler wrote:
> so, in stead of offering TRULY LEGAL advice, this guy opts out?  is he
> CHICKEN?  or maybe he just doesn't KNOW wrong from right, legal from
> illegal.
>
> On May 2, 12:06 pm, dick thompson  wrote:
>   
>> May 01, 2009, 0:20 p.m.
>>
>> Saying No to Justice
>> Why I declined to meet with the President's Detention Policy Task Force.
>>
>> By Andrew C. McCarthy
>>
>> I did something today that I've never done before. The Department of
>> Justice, which I proudly served for a quarter century as an assistant
>> U.S. attorney and a deputy U.S. marshal, asked me for help, and I
>> declined. Actually, what I declined to do was attend a meeting. My hope
>> is that the dissent I am registering --- to the administration's
>> disastrous policies of releasing trained terrorists and threatening
>> prosecution against government lawyers --- will help the department and
>> the Obama administration, even if they don't want to hear it.
>>
>> At the start of his term, President Obama directed Attorney General Eric
>> Holder to head up the President's Detention Policy Task Force to study
>> detention, trial, and other issues relating to alien enemy combatants
>> --- though that venerable law-of-war term has been purged in favor of
>> "individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts
>> and counterterrorism operations." The attorney general has assigned
>> lawyers in the department's Counterterrorism Division to organize the
>> effort. Those lawyers invited me, among other former and current
>> prosecutors experienced in terrorism and national-security matters, to
>> attend a roundtable session next week, to sort through the vexing legal
>> challenges of modern international terrorism.
>>
>> I've declined the invitation. It pained me to do it. I've always
>> believed enforcing our laws and defending our nation are duties of
>> citizenship, not ideology. My conservative political views aside, I
>> regularly make myself available to liberal and conservative groups, to
>> Democrats and Republicans, if they think tapping my national-security or
>> law-enforcement experience would be beneficial.
>>
>> This time, though, I had to say no. As I explain to Attorney General
>> Holder in a letter , which was
>> posted this morning on the website of the National Review Institute, I
>> declined for two reasons.
>>
>> First, President Obama and Attorney General Holder have created an
>> untenable situation for lawyers asked to advise the government on policy
>> matters.
>>
>> Former Justice Department attorneys John Yoo (now a law professor at
>> Berkeley) and Jay Bybee (now a federal appeals-court judge in
>> California), as well as other government attorneys, were asked during
>> the emergency conditions that followed the 9/11 attacks to advise Bush
>> administration policymakers on U.S. interrogation law. They did that in
>> good faith and, despite the fact that it's now /de rigueur/ to castigate
>> them, quite reasonably (as I've argued in an online Federalist Society
>> debate, see here ). For their service
>> to our country, they are now being tormented by the Obama administration
>> with both a criminal investigation and an ethics inquiry by Justice's
>> Office of Professional Responsibility. (There have even been calls on
>> the left for Judge Bybee's impeachment, which --- even if he had done
>> something wrong years earlier as a Justice Department lawyer --- would
>> be absurd: The Constitution reserves judicial impeachment for misconduct
>> committed during the judge's tenure on the bench, and Bybee is an
>> excellent judge.)
>>
>> A little over a week ago, the Obama administration recklessly revealed
>> publicly (i.e., to al-Qaeda) the details of enhanced interrogation
>> tactics used by the CIA against top-tier terrorists. The decision to
>> employ these tactics was not made by Yoo, Bybee, or other government
>> lawyers. They did not look to press these practices on government
>> agents. Rather, the CIA initiated the controversy by asking for
>> clarification of its authority. President Bush and his top
>> national-security officials, including CIA Director George Tenet, were
>> responsible for making the policy. The attorneys merely gave their best
>> legal advice --- the policymakers didn't have to follow it, and it was
>> the CIA, not the lawyers, that conducted questioning and mad

Re: Good one - Andrew McCarthy on being invited to participate in developing a policy on counterterrorism

[Daniel Seigler]

so, in stead of offering TRULY LEGAL advice, this guy opts out?  is he
CHICKEN?  or maybe he just doesn't KNOW wrong from right, legal from
illegal.

On May 2, 12:06 pm, dick thompson  wrote:
> May 01, 2009, 0:20 p.m.
>
> Saying No to Justice
> Why I declined to meet with the President's Detention Policy Task Force.
>
> By Andrew C. McCarthy
>
> I did something today that I've never done before. The Department of
> Justice, which I proudly served for a quarter century as an assistant
> U.S. attorney and a deputy U.S. marshal, asked me for help, and I
> declined. Actually, what I declined to do was attend a meeting. My hope
> is that the dissent I am registering --- to the administration's
> disastrous policies of releasing trained terrorists and threatening
> prosecution against government lawyers --- will help the department and
> the Obama administration, even if they don't want to hear it.
>
> At the start of his term, President Obama directed Attorney General Eric
> Holder to head up the President's Detention Policy Task Force to study
> detention, trial, and other issues relating to alien enemy combatants
> --- though that venerable law-of-war term has been purged in favor of
> "individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts
> and counterterrorism operations." The attorney general has assigned
> lawyers in the department's Counterterrorism Division to organize the
> effort. Those lawyers invited me, among other former and current
> prosecutors experienced in terrorism and national-security matters, to
> attend a roundtable session next week, to sort through the vexing legal
> challenges of modern international terrorism.
>
> I've declined the invitation. It pained me to do it. I've always
> believed enforcing our laws and defending our nation are duties of
> citizenship, not ideology. My conservative political views aside, I
> regularly make myself available to liberal and conservative groups, to
> Democrats and Republicans, if they think tapping my national-security or
> law-enforcement experience would be beneficial.
>
> This time, though, I had to say no. As I explain to Attorney General
> Holder in a letter , which was
> posted this morning on the website of the National Review Institute, I
> declined for two reasons.
>
> First, President Obama and Attorney General Holder have created an
> untenable situation for lawyers asked to advise the government on policy
> matters.
>
> Former Justice Department attorneys John Yoo (now a law professor at
> Berkeley) and Jay Bybee (now a federal appeals-court judge in
> California), as well as other government attorneys, were asked during
> the emergency conditions that followed the 9/11 attacks to advise Bush
> administration policymakers on U.S. interrogation law. They did that in
> good faith and, despite the fact that it's now /de rigueur/ to castigate
> them, quite reasonably (as I've argued in an online Federalist Society
> debate, see here ). For their service
> to our country, they are now being tormented by the Obama administration
> with both a criminal investigation and an ethics inquiry by Justice's
> Office of Professional Responsibility. (There have even been calls on
> the left for Judge Bybee's impeachment, which --- even if he had done
> something wrong years earlier as a Justice Department lawyer --- would
> be absurd: The Constitution reserves judicial impeachment for misconduct
> committed during the judge's tenure on the bench, and Bybee is an
> excellent judge.)
>
> A little over a week ago, the Obama administration recklessly revealed
> publicly (i.e., to al-Qaeda) the details of enhanced interrogation
> tactics used by the CIA against top-tier terrorists. The decision to
> employ these tactics was not made by Yoo, Bybee, or other government
> lawyers. They did not look to press these practices on government
> agents. Rather, the CIA initiated the controversy by asking for
> clarification of its authority. President Bush and his top
> national-security officials, including CIA Director George Tenet, were
> responsible for making the policy. The attorneys merely gave their best
> legal advice --- the policymakers didn't have to follow it, and it was
> the CIA, not the lawyers, that conducted questioning and made judgments
> about how it was affecting the terrorists.
>
> Yet President Obama's antiwar base is in a froth --- so much so that he
> has unleashed his Justice Department to criminalize political disputes
> after claiming for weeks that he did not want to do this. And the
> president is being a bully about it. He obviously doesn't want to incur
> the wrath of leaking spooks, so he has said CIA agents won't be
> investigated (the right result reached for self-interested reasons). He
> hasn't worked up the nerve to go after his predecessor, who ordered the
> policy, and Tenet --- a Democrat and one of Bush's Clinton-holdovers ---
> is anot

Good one - Andrew McCarthy on being invited to participate in developing a policy on counterterrorism

[dick thompson]

  

  
  
  
  
  
  


  
  
  
  

  

May 01, 2009, 0:20 p.m.

Saying No to Justice
Why I declined to meet with the
President’s Detention Policy Task Force.

By Andrew C. McCarthy


I
did something today that I’ve never done before. The Department of
Justice, which I proudly served for a quarter century as an assistant
U.S. attorney and a deputy U.S. marshal, asked me for help, and I
declined. Actually, what I declined to do was attend a meeting. My hope
is that the dissent I am registering — to the administration’s
disastrous policies of releasing trained terrorists and threatening
prosecution against government lawyers — will help the department and
the Obama administration, even if they don’t want to hear it.

At the start of his term, President Obama directed Attorney General
Eric Holder to head up the President’s Detention Policy Task Force to
study detention, trial, and other issues relating to alien enemy
combatants — though that venerable law-of-war term has been purged in
favor of “individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed
conflicts and counterterrorism operations.” The attorney general has
assigned lawyers in the department’s Counterterrorism Division to
organize the effort. Those lawyers invited me, among other former and
current prosecutors experienced in terrorism and national-security
matters, to attend a roundtable session next week, to sort through the
vexing legal challenges of modern international terrorism.

I’ve declined the invitation. It pained me to do it. I’ve always
believed enforcing our laws and defending our nation are duties of
citizenship, not ideology. My conservative political views aside, I
regularly make myself available to liberal and conservative groups, to
Democrats and Republicans, if they think tapping my national-security
or law-enforcement experience would be beneficial. 

This time, though, I had to say no. As I explain to Attorney General
Holder in a letter,
which was posted this morning on the website of the National Review
Institute, I declined for two reasons.

First, President Obama and Attorney General Holder have created an
untenable situation for lawyers asked to advise the government on
policy matters. 

Former Justice Department attorneys John Yoo
(now a law professor at Berkeley) and Jay Bybee (now a federal
appeals-court judge in California), as well as other government
attorneys, were asked during the emergency conditions that followed the
9/11 attacks to advise Bush administration policymakers on U.S.
interrogation law. They did that in good faith and, despite the fact
that it’s now de rigueur to castigate them, quite reasonably
(as I’ve argued in an online Federalist Society debate, see here).
For their service to our country, they are now being tormented by the
Obama administration with both a criminal investigation and an ethics
inquiry by Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility. (There have
even been calls on the left for Judge Bybee’s impeachment, which — even
if he had done something wrong years earlier as a Justice Department
lawyer — would be absurd: The Constitution reserves judicial
impeachment for misconduct committed during the judge’s tenure on the
bench, and Bybee is an excellent judge.)
A little over a week ago, the Obama administration
recklessly revealed publicly (i.e., to al-Qaeda) the details of
enhanced interrogation tactics used by the CIA against top-tier
terrorists. The decision to employ these tactics was not made by Yoo,
Bybee, or other government lawyers. They did not look to press these
practices on government agents. Rather, the CIA initiated the
controversy by asking for clarification of its authority. President
Bush and his top national-security officials, including CIA Director
George Tenet, were responsible for making the policy. The attorneys
merely gave their best legal advice — the policymakers didn’t have to
follow it, and it was the CIA, not the lawyers, that conducted
questioning and made judgments about how it was affecting the
terrorists.

Yet President Obama’s antiwar base is in a froth —
so much so that he has unleashed his Justice Department to criminalize
political disputes after claiming for weeks that he did not want to do
this. And the president is being a bully about it. He obviously doesn’t
want to incur the wrath of leaking spooks, so he has said CIA agents
won’t be investigated (the right result reached for self-interested
reasons). He hasn’t worked up the nerve to go after his predecessor,
who ordered the policy, and Tenet — a Democrat and one of Bush’s
Clinton-holdovers — is another politically inconvenient target. That
leaves the lawyers — relatively unknown and thus easily demonized — as
the feast for the piranhas.

Any experienced prosecutor would
know there is no criminal case here. And let’s assume you think the
lawyers gave bad advice — as many say they do, particularly if they
haven’t read the memos. Ba

Good one to follow up on from Clarice Feldman on Just One Minute

[dick thompson]

Well, years ago I used to look at the original OBL tapes on Edward Jay 
Epstein's old site and it's clear not all were of OBL and not all were 
in appropriate order. I am not sure how much clipping and pasting was 
done on those and I sure think the audio tapes are even more suspect. 
The CIA ususally says they are "consistent" with OBL's voice, but I bet 
they are "consistent" with his son's voice, too and with old clips of 
his ramblings.

Maybe later I'll find the cite to those tapes--it is shockingly obvious 
when you see them together that someone was playing games.

Posted by: clarice | April 27, 2009 at 03:54 PM 

 


Here--watch the stills from the videos and scroll thru this --you'll be 
surprised I think:

http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/nether_photos.htm

And to tie up this thread and the "torture" thread of today here's some 
fascinating stuff suggesting the CIA interrogations may not have gotten 
all the truth out of the 9/11 plotters:

http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/SpanishConnection.htm

Posted by: clarice | April 27, 2009 at 03:59 PM 

 



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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[Keith In Tampa]

Good Morning M.A.!!

Where did you find this quote?

Although it has been a few years, I have read Truman's biography as well as
his autobiography, and I don't recall him ever expressing this viewpoint, in
fact, just the opposite.

I also saw something released about a year ago from the (now) State
Department that actually showed the plan of attack for the Japanese
mainland.  Our government was estimating about a half of a million American
casualities, had they not utilized the bombs and forced Japan into
surrender.

No, I believe this quote to be bogus.




On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:25 AM, M.A. Johnson  wrote:

> Keith In Tampa
> there would not have been the bombing of Hiroshima
>or Nagasaki, which brought World War II closer to an
>end, and clearly saved hundreds of thousands of
>Americans' lives.
>
> *"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and
> Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The
> Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the
> effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.
> My own feeling is that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an
> ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages."* -- President
> Harry Truman, I Was There
>
> >
>

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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[rigsy03]

Walk the plank?

On Apr 24, 11:59�pm, Daniel Seigler  wrote:
> are you trying to say that showing the pirates exactly what they could
> expect if caught would NOT be a deterant? �and i could have suggested
> worse...keelhauling comes to mind.
>
> On Apr 23, 4:35�pm, studio  wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Apr 23, 12:25�pm, Daniel Seigler  wrote:
>
> > > AS Mr. Norris says, we NEED to protect our Merchant Marines and AS
> > > they are merchant MARINES, why NOT arm them? �Another thing that we
> > > SHOULD HAVE DONE, as we had captured one of the pirates, was to make
> > > an example of him. �Put him in the at of a pt cruiser-type vessel, tie
> > > a stout rope around his waist, get the vessel up to speed, and TOSS
> > > HIM OFF. �Doing this in INTERNATIONAL waters prevents violating any
> > > country's sovereignty, prevents 'bleeding hearts' from raising a
> > > bitch, and sends a message to the remaining pirates.
>
> > I get tired of hearing dumbasses devise cruel and unusual forms of
> > punishment...
> > virtually no one (except dumbasses) believe in the effectiveness of
> > such asinine ideas.
>
> > Only dumbasses want to roll back civilization to purely primitive
> > uncivilized emotional instincts.- Hide quoted text -
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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[rigsy03]

Swords, anyone? Swashbuckle them!

On Apr 24, 11:59�pm, Daniel Seigler  wrote:
> are you trying to say that showing the pirates exactly what they could
> expect if caught would NOT be a deterant? �and i could have suggested
> worse...keelhauling comes to mind.
>
> On Apr 23, 4:35�pm, studio  wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Apr 23, 12:25�pm, Daniel Seigler  wrote:
>
> > > AS Mr. Norris says, we NEED to protect our Merchant Marines and AS
> > > they are merchant MARINES, why NOT arm them? �Another thing that we
> > > SHOULD HAVE DONE, as we had captured one of the pirates, was to make
> > > an example of him. �Put him in the at of a pt cruiser-type vessel, tie
> > > a stout rope around his waist, get the vessel up to speed, and TOSS
> > > HIM OFF. �Doing this in INTERNATIONAL waters prevents violating any
> > > country's sovereignty, prevents 'bleeding hearts' from raising a
> > > bitch, and sends a message to the remaining pirates.
>
> > I get tired of hearing dumbasses devise cruel and unusual forms of
> > punishment...
> > virtually no one (except dumbasses) believe in the effectiveness of
> > such asinine ideas.
>
> > Only dumbasses want to roll back civilization to purely primitive
> > uncivilized emotional instincts.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[rigsy03]

It was the additional threat of Russia that convinced the Japanese to
surrender along with the A-Bomb attacks. The Japanese would have clung
to their cultural norms of fighting to the death or committing
suicide.

On Apr 24, 8:25�am, "M.A. Johnson"  wrote:
> Keith In Tampa��� there would not have been the bombing of Hiroshima
> �� or Nagasaki, which brought World War II closer to an
> �� end, and clearly saved hundreds of thousands of
> �� Americans' lives.�"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon 
> at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against 
> Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of 
> the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional 
> weapons. My own feeling is that in being the first to use it, we had adopted 
> an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages."-- President 
> Harry Truman, I Was There
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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[Daniel Seigler]

are you trying to say that showing the pirates exactly what they could
expect if caught would NOT be a deterant?  and i could have suggested
worse...keelhauling comes to mind.

On Apr 23, 4:35 pm, studio  wrote:
> On Apr 23, 12:25 pm, Daniel Seigler  wrote:
>
> > AS Mr. Norris says, we NEED to protect our Merchant Marines and AS
> > they are merchant MARINES, why NOT arm them?  Another thing that we
> > SHOULD HAVE DONE, as we had captured one of the pirates, was to make
> > an example of him.  Put him in the at of a pt cruiser-type vessel, tie
> > a stout rope around his waist, get the vessel up to speed, and TOSS
> > HIM OFF.  Doing this in INTERNATIONAL waters prevents violating any
> > country's sovereignty, prevents 'bleeding hearts' from raising a
> > bitch, and sends a message to the remaining pirates.
>
> I get tired of hearing dumbasses devise cruel and unusual forms of
> punishment...
> virtually no one (except dumbasses) believe in the effectiveness of
> such asinine ideas.
>
> Only dumbasses want to roll back civilization to purely primitive
> uncivilized emotional instincts.
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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[Daniel Seigler]

would someone, ANYONE, please tell me how an article about modernday
pirates, and how our founding fathers dealt with pirates, turned into
NUKES ON JAPAN and waterboarding?



On Apr 24, 6:25 am, "M.A. Johnson"  wrote:
> Keith In Tampa    there would not have been the bombing of Hiroshima
>    or Nagasaki, which brought World War II closer to an
>    end, and clearly saved hundreds of thousands of
>    Americans' lives. "It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon 
> at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against 
> Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of 
> the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional 
> weapons. My own feeling is that in being the first to use it, we had adopted 
> an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages."-- President 
> Harry Truman, I Was There
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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[M.A. Johnson]

Keith In Tampa 
    there
would not have been the bombing of Hiroshima 
   or Nagasaki, which brought World War II closer to an 
   end, and clearly saved hundreds of thousands of 
   Americans' lives.  
"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at
Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against
Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because
of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with
conventional weapons. My own feeling is that in being the first to use
it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the
Dark Ages." -- President Harry Truman, I Was There

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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[studio]

On Apr 24, 9:10 am, Keith In Tampa  wrote:
> Under your standards, (and the Annointed One's) there would not have been
> the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, which brought World War II closer to
> an end, and clearly saved hundreds of thousands of Americans' lives.

Then you'd be wrong as usual.

> Under your standards, Khalid was perfectfly free to chop the head off of
> Daniel Pearl, because he was an American Jew, but we are not allowed to
> splash a little water on him (with a physician's oversight) because it's
> "cruel and primative".

Then you must not be against spashing a little water on Bush - Cheney
to get them to confess ripping off the American taxpayer?

> Under your standards, the current Administration is free to fire bomb the
> homicidal murderers and their families in their homes, (e.g.; Pakistan)  but
> you want to prosecute the former Administration because they chose to
> extract information from 28 individuals by using tactics that caused no
> pain, no harm, no mental cruelty to the same homicidal murderers.

Still waiting for you to prove breaking the law did anything useful...

> Sounds pretty partisan and political to me.

Sounds like the law and wanting to have some people above it to me.
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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[Keith In Tampa]

Under your standards, (and the Annointed One's) there would not have been
the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, which brought World War II closer to
an end, and clearly saved hundreds of thousands of Americans' lives.

Under your standards, Khalid was perfectfly free to chop the head off of
Daniel Pearl, because he was an American Jew, but we are not allowed to
splash a little water on him (with a physician's oversight) because it's
"cruel and primative".

Under your standards, the current Administration is free to fire bomb the
homicidal murderers and their families in their homes, (e.g.; Pakistan)  but
you want to prosecute the former Administration because they chose to
extract information from 28 individuals by using tactics that caused no
pain, no harm, no mental cruelty to the same homicidal murderers.

Sounds pretty partisan and political to me.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:35 PM, studio  wrote:

>
> On Apr 23, 12:25 pm, Daniel Seigler  wrote:
> > AS Mr. Norris says, we NEED to protect our Merchant Marines and AS
> > they are merchant MARINES, why NOT arm them?  Another thing that we
> > SHOULD HAVE DONE, as we had captured one of the pirates, was to make
> > an example of him.  Put him in the at of a pt cruiser-type vessel, tie
> > a stout rope around his waist, get the vessel up to speed, and TOSS
> > HIM OFF.  Doing this in INTERNATIONAL waters prevents violating any
> > country's sovereignty, prevents 'bleeding hearts' from raising a
> > bitch, and sends a message to the remaining pirates.
>
> I get tired of hearing dumbasses devise cruel and unusual forms of
> punishment...
> virtually no one (except dumbasses) believe in the effectiveness of
> such asinine ideas.
>
> Only dumbasses want to roll back civilization to purely primitive
> uncivilized emotional instincts.
> >
>

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[studio]

On Apr 23, 12:25 pm, Daniel Seigler  wrote:
> AS Mr. Norris says, we NEED to protect our Merchant Marines and AS
> they are merchant MARINES, why NOT arm them?  Another thing that we
> SHOULD HAVE DONE, as we had captured one of the pirates, was to make
> an example of him.  Put him in the at of a pt cruiser-type vessel, tie
> a stout rope around his waist, get the vessel up to speed, and TOSS
> HIM OFF.  Doing this in INTERNATIONAL waters prevents violating any
> country's sovereignty, prevents 'bleeding hearts' from raising a
> bitch, and sends a message to the remaining pirates.

I get tired of hearing dumbasses devise cruel and unusual forms of
punishment...
virtually no one (except dumbasses) believe in the effectiveness of
such asinine ideas.

Only dumbasses want to roll back civilization to purely primitive
uncivilized emotional instincts.
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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[dick thompson]

Agreed.

Daniel Seigler wrote:
> AS Mr. Norris says, we NEED to protect our Merchant Marines and AS
> they are merchant MARINES, why NOT arm them?  Another thing that we
> SHOULD HAVE DONE, as we had captured one of the pirates, was to make
> an example of him.  Put him in the at of a pt cruiser-type vessel, tie
> a stout rope around his waist, get the vessel up to speed, and TOSS
> HIM OFF.  Doing this in INTERNATIONAL waters prevents violating any
> country's sovereignty, prevents 'bleeding hearts' from raising a
> bitch, and sends a message to the remaining pirates.
>
> On Apr 23, 7:53 am, dick thompson  wrote:
>   
>> http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31542
>> 
> >
>
>   

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Re: Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[Daniel Seigler]

AS Mr. Norris says, we NEED to protect our Merchant Marines and AS
they are merchant MARINES, why NOT arm them?  Another thing that we
SHOULD HAVE DONE, as we had captured one of the pirates, was to make
an example of him.  Put him in the at of a pt cruiser-type vessel, tie
a stout rope around his waist, get the vessel up to speed, and TOSS
HIM OFF.  Doing this in INTERNATIONAL waters prevents violating any
country's sovereignty, prevents 'bleeding hearts' from raising a
bitch, and sends a message to the remaining pirates.

On Apr 23, 7:53 am, dick thompson  wrote:
> http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31542
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Good one

[dick thompson]

http://us.mc508.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?&.rand=922116924&da=0#Italic 



Thanks.
This is very good.
Yes America has made mistakes--the worst being allowing those who are 
ineligible and enemies of our country like himself to be put into 
office, but unlike what is stated below, unfortunately, this mistake 
will never be corrected if we allow him to further give away our country 
by giving amnesty to illegals which is one of the next items on his agenda.
We MUST NOT allow this to happen.  We CANNOT allow the take over of our 
country.
This marxist lied through his teeth when he took the oath of office to 
protect this country from a takeover.  He is c-o-n-t-r-i-b-u-t-i-n-g to 
the takeover. 

ARROGANT AMERICANS,  MR. PRESIDENT?

 

As I was sitting in church waiting for the start of the service, my

grandpa came walking towards me pointing his finger.  No matter  how

old I get, and no matter how long he's been out of the U.S. Navy,

that's still an intimidating sight.  As he approached me, his voice

quivered as he  said, "We saved that continent twice...how dare my

president apologize for this country's arrogance."  My grandpa is

right.  Americans need not  apologize to the world for their

arrogance; rather, Americans should apologize  to their forefathers

for the arrogance of their president.

Barack  Obama's first foreign trip as President of the United States

has
 confirmed the naiveté so many of  us feared during the election

cycle.  But worse than that, it has also  demonstrated that our

president suffers from either a complete misunderstanding  of our

heritage and history, or an utter contempt for it.  Neither is

excusable.

Garnering cheers from the French of all  people, President Obama

declared, "In America, there is a failure to appreciate
 Europe's

leading role in the world. Instead  of celebrating your dynamic union

and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have

been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even

derisive."  Consider that Obama spoke these words just 500 miles from

the beaches of Normandy, where the sand is still stained with

65-year-old blood  of "arrogant
 Americans."

Indeed, columnist Mark Whittington  observes, "One should remind Mr.

Obama and the Europeans how America has 'shown arrogance' by saving

Europe from itself innumerable times in the 20th Century. World  War

I, World War II, the Cold War, and the wars in the Balkans were

largely resolved by American blood, treasure, and leadership."  But

all that appears lost on the president's seemingly insatiable
 quest

to mend fences he imagines have been tarnished by the bullish George

W. Bush.

If  Obama wishes to continue trampling the presidential tradition of

showing class  to former office holders and publicly trash Bush for

his own personal gain, so  be it.  But all Americans should make

clear that no man -- even if he is the  president -- will tarnish

the legacy of those Americans who have gone before  us.  Ours is not

a history of arrogance.  It is a history of courage, self-sacrifice,

and honor.

When abusive monarchs repressed the masses, Americans resisted and

overthrew them.  When misguided policies led  to the unjust

oppression of fellow citizens, Americans rebelled and overturned

them.  When millions of
 impoverished and destitute wretches sought a

new  beginning, Americans threw open the door and welcomed them.

When imperial dictators were on the march, Americans surrendered

their lives to stop  them.  When communist thugs threatened world

peace, Americans bled to  defeat them.  When an entire continent was

overwhelmed with famine and  hunger, Americans gave of themselves to

sustain it.  When
 terrorist madmen killed the innocent and

subjugated millions, Americans led the fight to topple them.

This is the legacy that generations of Americans have left.  If

President Obama seeks stronger relations with the world community,

perhaps he should begin by reminding them of these very truths,

rather than condemning his own countrymen on foreign shores.

This "obsessive need to put down his own country," has
 caused

blogger James Lewis to  call President Obama a "stunningly ignorant

man" who has evidently never spoken  to a concentration camp

survivor, a Cuban refugee, a boat person from Vietnam, a  Soviet

dissident, or a survivor of Mao's purges.

Unfortunately, I  can no longer bring myself to give Mr. Obama that

benefit of the doubt.   Not after looking at the pain in my
 grandpa's

eyes...a man who still carries shrapnel in his body from his service

to this country.

As a student and teacher of history, I recognize that America has

made mistakes...plenty of them, in fact.  But  one of the great

things about our people has been their courage and humility in

admitting and correcting those mistakes.  God willing, they will

prove that  willingness agai

Chuck Norris writes a good one here

[dick thompson]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31542

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Good one - who knew what and when and what did they have to say about it

[dick thompson]

http://ets.dowjones.com/trk/click?ref=zp91d7vhu_2-efbbx32d538x136387&;

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Re: Good one - comment from althouse

[rigsy03]

And there are stun gun parties for women who buy them in pink, fushia
and baby blue. They can kill.

On Apr 22, 8:58�pm, dick thompson  wrote:
> but the posting was about a town of 400 people.
>
>
>
> rigsy03 wrote:
> > I am talking about about protests in large towns. Small town cops are
> > in a different sphere. Large towns are a collection of strangers.
>
> > On Apr 22, 8:49 pm, dick thompson  wrote:
>
> >> And in a small town the cops will have access to them and will use them
> >> on their fellow townspeople, including close relatives? Doubt it.
>
> >> rigsy03 wrote:
>
> >>> Do you have any idea of the inventions of the USA military in
> >>> "containing" crowds? There is a zapper- like a microwave which stuns
> >>> them. Glop that glues them to terrain.
>
> >>> On Apr 22, 8:26 pm, dick thompson  wrote:
>
>  Simon Kenton  
>  said...
>
>  Possible suburban legend alert.
>
>  My son is in a very small town where the tiny police force
>  discovered a fondness for beating those they arrested. There was a
>  town meeting attended by most residents, some 400 people, all
>  open-carrying, where the police were told, "If you continue to beat
>  us without cause when you arrest us, we are going to shoot you." And
>  that was that - the police re-discovered good procedure and the
>  townsfolk went back to their ordinary disorderly ways.
>
>  I admit this story has a pat symmetry that makes it seem
>  distrustable. On the other hand, he was there, and there are some
>  similar tales sprinkled here and there in American history, some of
>  them with blacks and/or veterans standing in for the townspeople.
>
>  7:29 PM
>  
>
>  
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Re: Good one - comment from althouse

[dick thompson]

but the posting was about a town of 400 people.

rigsy03 wrote:
> I am talking about about protests in large towns. Small town cops are
> in a different sphere. Large towns are a collection of strangers.
>
> On Apr 22, 8:49�pm, dick thompson  wrote:
>   
>> And in a small town the cops will have access to them and will use them
>> on their fellow townspeople, including close relatives? �Doubt it.
>>
>>
>>
>> rigsy03 wrote:
>> 
>>> Do you have any idea of the inventions of the USA military in
>>> "containing" crowds? There is a zapper- like a microwave which stuns
>>> them. Glop that glues them to terrain.
>>>   
>>> On Apr 22, 8:26 pm, dick thompson  wrote:
>>>   
 Simon Kenton  said...
 
 Possible suburban legend alert.
 
 My son is in a very small town where the tiny police force
 discovered a fondness for beating those they arrested. There was a
 town meeting attended by most residents, some 400 people, all
 open-carrying, where the police were told, "If you continue to beat
 us without cause when you arrest us, we are going to shoot you." And
 that was that - the police re-discovered good procedure and the
 townsfolk went back to their ordinary disorderly ways.
 
 I admit this story has a pat symmetry that makes it seem
 distrustable. On the other hand, he was there, and there are some
 similar tales sprinkled here and there in American history, some of
 them with blacks and/or veterans standing in for the townspeople.
 
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Re: Good one - comment from althouse

[rigsy03]

I am talking about about protests in large towns. Small town cops are
in a different sphere. Large towns are a collection of strangers.

On Apr 22, 8:49�pm, dick thompson  wrote:
> And in a small town the cops will have access to them and will use them
> on their fellow townspeople, including close relatives? �Doubt it.
>
>
>
> rigsy03 wrote:
> > Do you have any idea of the inventions of the USA military in
> > "containing" crowds? There is a zapper- like a microwave which stuns
> > them. Glop that glues them to terrain.
>
> > On Apr 22, 8:26 pm, dick thompson  wrote:
>
> >> Simon Kenton  said...
>
> >> Possible suburban legend alert.
>
> >> My son is in a very small town where the tiny police force
> >> discovered a fondness for beating those they arrested. There was a
> >> town meeting attended by most residents, some 400 people, all
> >> open-carrying, where the police were told, "If you continue to beat
> >> us without cause when you arrest us, we are going to shoot you." And
> >> that was that - the police re-discovered good procedure and the
> >> townsfolk went back to their ordinary disorderly ways.
>
> >> I admit this story has a pat symmetry that makes it seem
> >> distrustable. On the other hand, he was there, and there are some
> >> similar tales sprinkled here and there in American history, some of
> >> them with blacks and/or veterans standing in for the townspeople.
>
> >> 7:29 PM
> >> 
>
> >> 
>
> >> Blogger- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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Re: Good one - comment from althouse

[dick thompson]

And in a small town the cops will have access to them and will use them 
on their fellow townspeople, including close relatives?  Doubt it.

rigsy03 wrote:
> Do you have any idea of the inventions of the USA military in
> "containing" crowds? There is a zapper- like a microwave which stuns
> them. Glop that glues them to terrain.
>
> On Apr 22, 8:26�pm, dick thompson  wrote:
>   
>> Simon Kenton  said...
>>
>> � � Possible suburban legend alert.
>>
>> � � My son is in a very small town where the tiny police force
>> � � discovered a fondness for beating those they arrested. There was a
>> � � town meeting attended by most residents, some 400 people, all
>> � � open-carrying, where the police were told, "If you continue to beat
>> � � us without cause when you arrest us, we are going to shoot you." And
>> � � that was that - the police re-discovered good procedure and the
>> � � townsfolk went back to their ordinary disorderly ways.
>>
>> � � I admit this story has a pat symmetry that makes it seem
>> � � distrustable. On the other hand, he was there, and there are some
>> � � similar tales sprinkled here and there in American history, some of
>> � � them with blacks and/or veterans standing in for the townspeople.
>>
>> � � 7:29 PM
>> � � 
>> 
>>
>> � � 
>> 
>>
>> Blogger
>> 
> >
>
>   

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Re: Good one - comment from althouse

[rigsy03]

Do you have any idea of the inventions of the USA military in
"containing" crowds? There is a zapper- like a microwave which stuns
them. Glop that glues them to terrain.

On Apr 22, 8:26�pm, dick thompson  wrote:
> Simon Kenton  said...
>
> � � Possible suburban legend alert.
>
> � � My son is in a very small town where the tiny police force
> � � discovered a fondness for beating those they arrested. There was a
> � � town meeting attended by most residents, some 400 people, all
> � � open-carrying, where the police were told, "If you continue to beat
> � � us without cause when you arrest us, we are going to shoot you." And
> � � that was that - the police re-discovered good procedure and the
> � � townsfolk went back to their ordinary disorderly ways.
>
> � � I admit this story has a pat symmetry that makes it seem
> � � distrustable. On the other hand, he was there, and there are some
> � � similar tales sprinkled here and there in American history, some of
> � � them with blacks and/or veterans standing in for the townspeople.
>
> � � 7:29 PM
> � � 
>
> � � 
>
> Blogger
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Good one - comment from althouse

[dick thompson]

  Simon Kenton said... 
  
Possible suburban legend alert.

My
son is in a very small town where the tiny police force discovered a
fondness for beating those they arrested. There was a town meeting
attended by most residents, some 400 people, all open-carrying, where
the police were told, "If you continue to beat us without cause when
you arrest us, we are going to shoot you." And that was that - the
police re-discovered good procedure and the townsfolk went back to
their ordinary disorderly ways. 

I admit this story has a pat
symmetry that makes it seem distrustable. On the other hand, he was
there, and there are some similar tales sprinkled here and there in
American history, some of them with blacks and/or veterans standing in
for the townspeople.
  
  7:29 PM  
  
   

Re: Good one - got it from a commenter on Althouse - very funny

[Travis]

Good.  Stole to send far and wide.  thanks

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:10 PM, dick thompson wrote:

>
> http://bour3pages.blogspot.com/2009/04/pirate.html
>
> >
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Good one - got it from a commenter on Althouse - very funny

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http://bour3pages.blogspot.com/2009/04/pirate.html

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Good one from Bizzy Blog

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http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/04/11/mark-steyn-notes-tbs-nb-post-on-distractions-makes-important-uncomfortable-points/
 


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Good one about fake charities

[dick thompson]

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2009/04/wards_of_state.html

I like the one comment who has the liberal approach down pat.  One 
charity does the research, one charity praises the government for what 
it does and a third charity then says the government is not doing enough 
and needs to do this additional thing.

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Good one

[dick thompson]

  Friday, April 03, 2009


DENIED: Senate Committee Protects Women, Children, Poor and
Disabled from Obama's Predations 

Obama's plan to limit charitable deductions was strangled in the crib, 

 
as it should be.

The U.S. Senate rejected a proposal by President Barack Obama to
finance an overhaul of the nation's health-care system by limiting
the ability of the well-to-do to take tax deductions for charitable
contributions.

The chamber unanimously approved an amendment to a pending budget
plan that rejects the proposal to limit the size of itemized
deductions that can be taken by those earning more than $250,000.

Obama proposed using the estimated $318 billion such a change would
generate to help finance a health-care overhaul, which he says will
cost at least $630 billion. Lawmakers said they feared the effect of
such a tax change on charities.



No shit.

Unanimous, baby!

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: charities , 
Obama , stupid 
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Good one

[dick thompson]

“This
people, small as it
is, surrounded as it is by enemies, has decided to live. And if we have
to pay the price for living, we have to pay it. This is not a people
that can give in.” (Golda Meir)







Thursday, April 2, 2009


Is
Harold Koh Being Borked?


Controversy is swirling around the appointment of Yale Law School
Professor and Dean Harold Koh to the position of State Department Legal
Advisor, essentially the top lawyer at State. Koh is being portrayed
as willing
to apply Sharia law in some circumstances, as is happening in Britain
and some other European countries. This controversy itself has been criticized as twisting Koh's
positions out
of context for political purposes.

I'm
not going to spend the time reading Koh's writings and listening to
transcripts. I'll leave that to others. But I can accept that a
sentence or two -- or a "nuanced" legal argument -- could be taken out
of context and used for political purposes. It happens all the time,
and the tactic was all but invented by the liberal Democrats who are
backing Koh. It's called Borking.

For those of you who rely on memory
not history,
here's a short history of Borking. Robert Bork was a distinguished
Judge for the federal Court of Appeals for the D.C Circuit, and
previously had served as Solicitor General. Bork was best known as a
conservative legal scholar of the highest caliber, who believed that
the Constitution should be interpreted based on the intent of the
framers (this is a simplification, but good enough for this post). Bork
was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, a position for which he was
supremely qualified.

But Bork's qualifications were not good
enough for Senate Democrats because Bork was conservative, and Senate
Democrats were looking for a fight with Ronald Reagan, who had
nominated Bork. So the Senate Democrats, led by Ted Kennedy, decided to
engage in character assassination by twisting Bork's writings out of
context, engaging in hyperbole, and ultimately name-calling.

In a famous speech on the Senate floor within an hour of Bork's
nomination, Kennedy said
as follows:
"Robert
Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley
abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police
could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, school children
could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be
censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal
courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom
the judiciary is -- and is often the only -- protector of the
individual rights that are the heart of our democracy..."
And that was just the beginning. The Senate hearings, with Joe Biden in
full verbal
regalia
as Chair of the Judiciary Committee, reached such a low point that the
verb "to Bork" was created as a description of what happens when
nominees are destroyed not for what they said or did, but for political
purposes:

  Kennedy’s
assault rallied left-wing interest groups to the anti-Bork banner for
an unprecedented assault on a man the late Supreme Court Chief Justice
Warren Burger dubbed the most qualified nominee he’d seen in his
professional lifetime. As Gary McDowell noted recently in the Wall
Street Journal, that time span included the careers of Benjamin
Cardozo, Hugo Black, and Felix Frankfurter. 
  Then-Judiciary
Committee chairman Joseph Biden, Kennedy’s lieutenant in the assault,
told the Philadelphia Inquirer not long before Bork was nominated: “Say
the administration sends up Bork. I’d have to vote for him, and if the
(liberal interest) groups tear me apart, that’s the medicine I’ll have
to take.” But when it came time to take his medicine, he ran away like
a Kennedy fleeing a car accident. The fact that Biden was about to run
for president — for the first time — probably helped him rationalize
his flight from honor. 
  By today’s standards, the slimy
insinuations that Bork was a racist seem almost quaint. The
investigations of his private life — Senate staffers pored over his
video rental records in hope of finding something prurient — pale to
the deepwater dredging of private lives today.

And so
gave birth to the judicial politics of personal destruction, which
rears its ugly head from time to time not only for judicial
appointments, but also appointments to legal positions. These politics
now extend long after a nominee is appointed and has concluded service,
as evidenced by the attempts by some on the American Left to find European
judges to fight American political battles over legal opinions
rendered in the war on terror.

So
the treatment being accorded Harold Koh is nothing new. Whether he is
being Borked, or fairly criticised, will be known in due course. But
the liberal Democrats who now control the Senate, and the liberal
Democrats who control the Executive Branch, have no ground to complain
about the process. They invented it.


UPDATE: I told m

Good one - and very true

[dick thompson]

http://www.parkwayreststop.com/archives/1354

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Good one

[dick thompson]

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/006610.html

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Fred has a good one here - and he does make sense

[dick thompson]

Their Own Self

FRED Columns

La Rubia y La Droga

Notes From an Unknown Planet

 

March 30, 2009

 

I read with horror that Hillary Clinton, posing as the Secretary of
State, has been in Mexico talking with Felipe Calderon, Mexico's
president, about "the problem of drugs." Horror is the reasonable
response whenever an American official is allowed to pass beyond the
beltway. Or stay within it. They never know what they are doing. Oh god.

In fairness, I have to concede that Ms. Clinton is well qualified to
talk to Calderon, since he speaks...English. Further, I concede that
she does have a grasp of things Latin American, engendered by many
years in...Arkansas. Aaagh.

May I suggest that the former First Basilisk had no idea where she
was or what she was doing? Oh god, oh god. Oh god.

To show that utter futility can, if not be fun, at least serve to
pass an idle hour, let me express the common Mexican and indeed
South American view of the, oh god, War on Drugs. It goes thusly:

Latin America does not have a drug problem. It has a United States
problem. The problem is that Americans want drugs. The US is a huge,
voracious, insatiable market for drugs. Americans very much want
their brain candy. They will pay whatever they need to pay to get
it. All the world knows this.

Why, Mexicans wonder, is America's drug habit Mexico's problem? If
Americans don't want drugs, they can stop buying them. Nobody forces
anyone to use the stuff.

Ah, the rub is that Washington doesn't want Americans to have drugs.
All right, say Mexicans, that is a problem between the American
government and the American people. Let America solve it.

Why, Mexican's ask---read this sentence carefully---should Mexico
tear itself in pieces, lose thousands of dead annyally, and turn
into a war zone to solve a problem that America refuses to solve?

Think. Why doesn't the American government run sting operations at,
say, Berkeley and Stanford, and Rice and George Washington U., and
put those students caught using drugs in the slam for two years per?
How about a sting at your daughter's high school, with a year in
some nasty reformatory, which is to say any reformatory, for those
caught? It could be a family sort of thing. You could visit her and
hear what fascinating things she had learned about compulsory
Lesbian sex.

The reason of course is that any effort to punish large classes of
politically influential people would result in a revolution. You
can't jail Harvard. So Washington doesn't. Instead it expects Mexico
to do something about drugs.

Now, on the off-chance that you live in an impermeable bubble, and
don't know who uses drugs, I will tell you. I note that I am not
speculating about this. I spent eight years working as a police
reporter from Anacostia to South Central, and know whereof I speak.

Blue-collar people use drugs---crack, for example. I've spent whole
days arresting down-scale beauticians in rattletrap Chevys as they
bought the stuff from black dealers in the grubby satellite towns
outside Chicago. High rollers in Houston use as much powder as they
ski in (and it happens to my certain knowledge on Capitol Hill).
White professionals have bags of grass in the garage. So, most
likely, do their children: In the suburban high schools of metro
Washington, e.g., Yorktown and Washington and Lee, kids have easy
access to Mary Jane, acid, shrooms, nitrous, Ecstasy, crystal. Good
ol' boys in Texas make, grow, and use drugs. Country kids in
Virginia have a few plants out in the woods. And so on.

Don't I remember that Hillary's husband used to smoke chunky
interns---marijuana, I meant to say, marijuana---but didn't inhale?

Which is to say, as Mexicans know, drugs are about as illegal in the
US as is the downloading of music. It is punished by very light
sentences for first-time users (which of course means first-time
caughters). High-school kids get a week of "community service,"
perhaps, which they regard as both amusing and a badge of honor. In
general, little real effort is made to apprehend respectable white
transgressors.

In short, the WOD is a fraud. In America the drug racket is a mildly
disreputable business, tightly integrated into the economy, running
smoothly, employing countless federal cops, prison guards,
ineffectual rehab centers and equally ineffectual psychotherapists,
and providing bribes to officials and huge deposits of laundered
money to banks. Narcos in the US do not engage in pitched battles
with the army because they have no reason to. The government barely
inconveniences them.

So why should Mexico fight this war for Washington?

In a column, Pat Buchanan addresses the violence in Mexico, and asks:
"Whic

Good one - got this from Clarice Feldman

[dick thompson]

http://www.nmatv.com/video/1901/Belligerence



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Good one

[dick thompson]

http://lookababywolf.blogspot.com/2009/03/theyd-none-of-them-be-missed.html

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Good one by Jim at Parkway Rest Stop

[dick thompson]

http://www.parkwayreststop.com/archives/1283

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Good one - and he does make some very good points

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/os_foreign_failures_161154.htm?page=0
 


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Good one - and all too true

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Re: Good one

[THE ANNOINTED ONE]

My mother always said that if I have nothing good to say shut
up !!! So here it goes...

She has a nice rack.

On Mar 22, 11:01 am, dick thompson  wrote:
> http://armywifetoddlermom.blogspot.com/2009/03/governor-palins-take-o...
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Good one

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http://armywifetoddlermom.blogspot.com/2009/03/governor-palins-take-on-special.html
 


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Good one by Chuck Norris

[dick thompson]

The basis for what he is saying that that parents need to be parents
again instead of buddies.  They need to be responsible and teach their
kids to be responsible.  Some of them do.  All too many do not.





  
 
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 Sexting, Seduction and Spring Breaks 
 by  
Chuck Norris  

 03/18/2009





 

Sending
nude photos and sexual videos via cell phone (called "sexting") is a
fast-growing and dangerous trend among youths. And with spring breaks
upon us, YouTube won't be the only one streaming videos during these
juvenile siestas.

Sexting is not new, but it is on the rise.
Cases are bubbling up all over the country. Just this past week in
Virginia, at least two Spotsylvania County students were facing child
pornography charges in a sexting case. The naked images of three girls
(including an elementary-school student) were discovered on seven
phones and traced back to the two accused students.
    
Last
month, high-school girls in Greensburg, Pa., also were charged with
child pornography after they sent semi-nude photos of themselves to
male classmates.










    
Other similar
incidents have resulted in charges in Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin,
Georgia and Florida. Law enforcement has been called out recently to
investigate sexting-related crimes by dozens of teens in many states
across the nation.
    
And sexting is not just a male-dominant
problem. A new national survey says that at least one-fifth of all
youths have sent nude or explicit photos or videos of themselves via
cell phone or have posted such images online.
    
Most
astonishing, sexting is becoming a normative part of the dating scene
and protocol among youngsters. Marian Merritt, who is Symantec's
Internet safety advocate, writes and speaks about issues impacting the
online security and safety of kids and families. She writes:
    
"Teens
believe taking and sharing the sexy photo of themselves is a natural
progression point in a romantic relationship. It's not just 'step 1,
hold hands; step 2, kiss'. Now it's 'step 1. Friend on social network;
step 2. Chat on IM or text; 3. Send sexy photos.' Crazy!"
    
So
who's responsible? That's easy. First, there's the juvenile committing
the crime. But there are two other culprits, as well -- accomplices to
these acts. Who's providing the electronic devices? Who pays the phone
bills? Whose names are on the plans? And what examples are these
guardians setting as those who frown upon pornography? And thirdly,
there's a culture that is moving away from moral absolutes, and that
includes calling pornography wrong and even a sin.
    
So are
your kids or grandkids involved in or at risk of sexting? Are they
practicing safe cell phoning? Merritt advises parents and guardians to
ask their kids these five questions to protect them from this latest
strain of cyberporn:

    "1. Give me a tour of your cell phone. Any cool features or tricks
you can do with your cell phone?

    "2. Show me how you take a photo with the phone. How do you send it
to another email or phone?

    "3. Where do you save the photos? Show me what you've got saved. …

    "4. Has anyone ever sent or shown you a sexy photo of themselves or
someone else?

    "5. Anyone ever asked for your photo? If yes, how did you handle
it? If no, what would you do and why?"

How
can we stop a sexting proliferation? First, parents no longer should
pass out cell phones like pancakes to their families, and parents
should monitor how the phones are used. Guardians need to reconsider
purchasing cell phones for communication and security when children are
using them for seduction and porn. Teens need to be educated about
sexual illegalities and immoralities and reminded that if convicted of
child pornography crimes, they could face felony consequences and see
the words "sex offender" on their juvenile records.
    
We might
live in a technological wonderland, but that doesn't mean it's good to
eat from all of its fruits. Most especially, we never should throw up
our hands in surrender to marketing and peer pressure to give our kids
everything the Joneses have, especially when those things expose them
to others' exposing themselves. As a wise man said many centuries ago
(well, sort of), "If your cell phone causes you to stumble, cut it off
from your family's communication plan."
    
It's time not only
to answer the question "do you know where your kids are this spring
break?" but also to know what they're doing with their cell phones.

 
 
   

 
 

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sick part is that this is not that surprising to me. With the
glorification of overt sexuality in pop culture, why would young people
think that public displays of sexuality are anything but normal? The
arguement that everyone should be free to pursue their own interests
does not allow for accountability. We are supposed to be a nation of
people who hold virtue and

Good one - and about Pizza!!

[dick thompson]

COMMUNISM SOLVES THE PIZZA PROBLEM IN TEN YEARS. 
 Capitalism would have done it 
in ten days.

Posted at 6:15 pm by *Glenn Reynolds*

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Re: Good one

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Funny
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  You Complete Me

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Stolen from Boortz.

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Good one

[dick thompson]

You Complete Me

Stolen from Boortz.

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