Graduation season rolls around once more, and the hunt goes out for significant, influential names to fill the cards as inspirational speakers. According to Bill O’Reilley’s article last week, the liberal Left has been honored time and again, with (accepted) invitations for Hillary to speak the Truths As She Knows Them at Adelphi University, while Chuck Schumer’s hateful venting will doubtlessly motivate and inspire the fiery youth at Buffalo State. Barbara Boxer will spout her rhetoric at...
I work two jobs; 3 evenings a week, I work 5 hours at a Dollar General. On the counter beside the registers are boxes of those "ribbon" magnets..... red, white and blue, star-bedecked "God Bless America", "Pray for our troops", etc. Also in the box, in the interest of fairness perhaps, are ones (mainly) for those who don't support the current trend toward patriotic militarism These are plain, bland, baby-blue magnets which read "Bring our troops home safely". Nothing at all wrong with that ...
In a little over four months, five years will have passed since those dark hours on September 11th, 2001. It's already been nearly half a decade. Time flies. Since then, we've invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, two pillars of the ideal known as Islamic Terrorism. Debate that point all you want, but that's why we're there. Bin-Laden is still at large, of course, sending, to our "allies" at al-Jazeera, his infrequent messages and threats. Al-Jazeera also gleefully plays the threats and messages se...
This article, I suppose, should really be posted in the "Religion" forum, but since it involves an aspect of the "Liberal/Conservative" thing, I thought I'd post it here, in "Politics". I brought this subject up a few weeks ago in my Sunday School class, which is instructed by our church's Worship Leader, Lynne. She is also the Pastor's wife, and is very passionate in her faith. I liked what she had to say, and asked her to write it down and forward it to me for posting here. I'm waitin...
Okay, Lefites.....sorry to be the one to pour salt on yet another of your snails, but the "failed" government in Iraq is at last beginning to take shape. All it takes is time, which you are not at all willing to give. Of course, this being an AP report, they had to temper this good news with a body count, but what else can we expect from the MSM? Iraqi Leaders End Deadlock Amid Violence By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's president designated Shiite politician ...
Okay, Lefites.....sorry to be the one to pour salt on yet another of your snails, but the "failed" government in Iraq is at last beginning to take shape. All it takes is time, which you are not at all willing to give. Of course, this being an AP report, they had to temper this good news with a body count, but what else can we expect from the MSM? Iraqi Leaders End Deadlock Amid Violence By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's president designated Shiite politician ...
Hot off the AP wire: President George W. Bush has just announced that he WILL NOT be running in the 2008 Presidential Election. That’s right, America, he will NOT! "It saddens me to know that will not be running in the next election," Bush said. "I will no longer be your President from 2009 on. It will be someone else’s time." The Democrats, having focused and based their entire platform on the defeat of Bush in ’08, are said to be experiencing emotions ranging from flabbergasted and stun...
I've been away for a while, so if someone else noted this somewhere else, please to forgive. I heard on the radio a while back that the Washington Post has learned, from certain "intelligence analysts", that we'd better think twice about attacking Iran. Yes, sirree. If we take that road, these contacts assured the Post, we can definitely expect large numbers of terror attacks on American targets and interests in the West, including and especially inside the US. Yes, I can see that as...
Caution: Broad statements and vast generalizations ahead! Good: The Rainbow flag, Iraqi flag, USSR flag Bad: (Read: tacky) The American flag (and, really, any symbols of support for the nation and/or its present leadership or policies). Good: Marx and Lenin, Mao and Castro (after all, they supported or fought in the Worldwide Socialist Revolution against the evils of Capitalism and the Imperialist Western Democracies) Bad: Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton and Adams ...
Actor Richard Belzer, Det. John Munch of NBC's "Law and Order--SVU" seems to know more about the war in Iraq than the young men fighting it. See the link for details. Belzer says American troops who say they "support the mission" are simply "uneducated and uninformed" 19- and 20-year olds "who are only in the service because they couldn't find a job". He said he's so much better informed because he has time to read 20 newspaper a day. Good for him; "money for nuthin' an' yer chicks fer free...
It seems that a competition called "Film Your Issue" is calling on all Americans between the ages of 18 and 28, and asking them to film their political, environmental and social, etc., questions. Anything at all. Walter Cronkite and George Clooney have written "open letters" to potential filmmakers, which are being run in popular publications. The films must be no less than 30 seconds and no longer than 60 seconds in length. Ample time for the filmmaker to pose a deep and profound questio...
Just read that Slobodan Milosevic has died, apparently of natural causes (probably a heart attack) and in his sleep. He was discovered in his cell, found by a guard. Linked. He was way ahead of his time in hating Muslims. Maybe the whole intervening in the Balkan War thing wasn't such a good idea after all, huh?
Well, hey....I thought modern education was all about instructing our kids on diverse lifestyles, anyway: Shocking Elementary School Test Question Students at an elementary school in Baltimore, Md., did what most kids across the state do at some time during the academic year: practice for the upcoming state standardized tests that are given annually in March. But one question on the practice worksheet has raised the ire of parents. The Associated Press reports that the question,...
For some reason, I kept getting kicked out when I tried posting this over on LW's Ann Coulter thread. Here's what I said: To mar'ouki: As has been pointed out on several other threads just lately, those "peace-loving, non-agressive" Muslims, those who some claim to oppose the fundamentalist ways of hatred, destruction and violence, need to speak up and say so. Let's see some portests of their own. Get out there and scream about the hijacking of their faith by mutants. Join the military ...
The world media has spent decades, and untold gallons of ink, finding ways to rationalize the poor behavior and outright barbarism of Islam. Then, along came the outburst over the Danish cartoons. Funny how the press, which usually responds to Islamic unrest with kid gloves, using vast understanding and aching compassion, responded to this one. The Muslims take umbridge, really, at the freedom of the press---which is what allowed the cartoons to be run in the first place---and respond in ...