Category Archives: GeneralBout goddamn time that someone stood up to the idiocy of not drilling into our oil. Thank you Republicans…makes that money I have given to both McCain and the Republicans in the last two weeks sweet. Republicans are threatening filibuster to every Democrat bill if drilling does not go forward.
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Ann Althouse says about folks who may be a bit upset about the current trends of our national government.
So all these people have the law wrong and don’t seem to know the basics of the history of the Civil War. They think secession is possible, but would they support secession in their own state?
18% said yes. In the South: 24%. And 35% of the under 30 group were ready to secede.
Fascinating(ly stupid). Blogger: Althouse - Post a Comment
Given the disdain that politicians have for the law and their constituents I don’t think it is a surprise that folks want to secede. With Judges inventing rights from the bench, politicians lying from the floors and Presidents barely able to form complete sentences the nation is a wreck.
Furthermore I do not care for the intrusion unto my life that other more liberal states believe is good for me. That they may force me to behave in the manner of their choosing by using judges is insulting and clearly is asking for trouble. Sooner or later the bills will come due.
About whether they have the right or not it is clear that the founding fathers were not so sure that succession was “fascinatingly stupid”.
John Quincy Adams…
In the calm hours of self-possession, the right of a State to nullify an act of Congress, is too absurd for argument, and too odious for discussion. The right of a state to secede from the Union, is equally disowned by the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Nations acknowledge no judge between them upon earth, and their Governments from necessity, must in their intercourse with each other decide when the failure of one party to a contract to perform its obligations, absolves the other from the reciprocal fulfillment of his own. But this last of earthly powers is not necessary to the freedom or independence of states, connected together by the immediate action of the people, of whom they consist. To the people alone is there reserved, as well the dissolving, as the constituent power, and that power can be exercised by them only under the tie of conscience, binding them to the retributive justice of Heaven.
With these qualifications, we may admit the same right as vested in the people of every state in the Union, with reference to the General Government, which was exercised by the people of the United Colonies, with reference to the Supreme head of the British empire, of which they formed a part - and under these limitations, have the people of each state in the Union a right to secede from the confederated Union itself.
Thus stands the RIGHT. But the indissoluble link of union between the people of the several states of this confederated nation, is after all, not in the right, but in the heart. If the day should ever come, (may Heaven avert it,) when the affections of the people of these states shall be alienated from each other; when the fraternal spirit shall give away to cold indifference, or collisions of interest shall fester into hatred, the bands of political association will not long hold together parties no longer attracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies; and far better will it be for the people of the disunited states, to part in friendship from each other, than to be held together by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedents which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a more perfect union, by dissolving that which could no longer bind, and to leave the separated parts to be reunited by the law of political gravitation to the center.
While the Constitution was thus accomplishing the first object declared by the people as their motive for ordaining it, by forming a more perfect union, it became the joint and co-ordinate duty of the legislative and executive departments, to provide for the second of those objects, which involved within itself all the rest, and indeed all the purposes of government. For justice, defined by the Institutes of Justinian, as the constant and perpetual will of securing to every one his right, includes the whole duty of man in the social institutions of society, toward his neighbor.
I guess that with many folks elevated opinions of themselves perhaps even John Quincy Adams is “fascinating(ly stupid).
Who would have guessed that you could make futures prices on oil drop by introducing more supplies in the future? Apparently no Democrats…and actually many Republicans.
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices fell harder than they have in 17 years Tuesday, as fears that record fuel prices are spreading broad economic pain led to the third big sell-off in just over a week.
Light, sweet crude plunged $6.44, or 4.4 percent, to settle at $138.74 in an extremely volatile session. Prices at one point dropped more than $10 a barrel from the day’s high.
The turnaround may not signal a lasting shift in sentiment—prices have swung violently in recent days as they flirted with record highs. But it does underscore investor uncertainty about the sustainability of sky-high prices and potentially long-lasting effects on the broader economy.
“They’re slamming this pretty good. But remember, these (big) moves are becoming a little more commonplace,” said Phil Flynn, analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago. Oil prices plummet over $6 amid economic fears
Two schmucks walk into a Subway, rob the cashier, and a customer, then they try to herd all into the back (usually you get shot when that happens. Never ever let some criminal move you…they are trying to get you out of sight to kill you)…big mistake. 71 year old Marine with CCW pulls his weapon out and shoots both of them in the head. On asshole dies and the other crackhead is gonna be watching Captain Kangeroo…you don’t pull on Superman’s cape and you never ever mess with Marines.
Retired Marine Is Top Gun At Sub Shop Source: PC Free Zone
Mother of dead schmuck says the Marine shouldn’t have killed her son…I say she should have done a better job of raising her son.
Here is a hero….
And here is a dead zero…awwwwww…poor little dead zero made a bad career decision. Now his grandmother is missing him. Boo hoo…make no mistake he probably had every intention of killing those inside of the Subway. Never ever let criminals move you from the initial scene of the crime. You will die.
Well he looked angry while alive…
Mr Lovell on other hand looks pretty satisfied. Two bullets, two tangos down….one dead. Not a bad nights work. Semper Fi.
Why is everyone so sure Fred Hobbs is wrong to say that Obama was connected to terrorists? Is Ayers NOT a terrorist? Does planning the bombing of the Pentagon NOT qualify as terrorism anymore?
“Former state Rep. Fred Hobbs has apologized to fellow members of the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee for declaring that Barack Obama ‘may be terrorist connected.’”
Barack Hussien Obama…gun rights for me but not for thee! McCain campaign nimble on its feet…glad I have given them a fine donation. Please donate keeping Osama…err Obama out of office matters.
Barack Obama appeared at a fundraiser in Philadelphia last night where he delivered the following remark:
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
A couple thoughts from McCain HQ on this. First, Barack Obama has a long track record as a proponent of stringent gun-control regulations–to the point that a questionnaire filled out by his staff, and with the candidate’s handwriting on it, stated that Obama favored a ban on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of handguns. Can we assume that Senator Obama now opposes efforts to ban the possession of handguns?
Second, would Obama be carrying a concealed weapon to this fight
Hell pretty soon we will be banning drilling for oil based on the possibility that we might be disturbing the ancient burial grounds of Dinosaurs. You think I am crazy?
In a report published mid-January two geologists have suggested that a rock unit known as the Marcellus shale that extends from southern New York state through western Pennsylvania into eastern Ohio and West Virginia may contain anywhere from 168 trillion cubic feet to 516 tcf of natural gas. That could translate to a “super giant” gas field with at least 50 tcf of technically recoverable gas, the geologists, Terry Engelder, professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and Gary Lash, professor of geosciences at the State University of New York (Fredonia), have said. Appalachia to the rescue - January 27, 2008 - Petroleum News
These folks want all drilling stopped in the world…
A Mayor with a seriously funny sense of humor. What is even funnier is watching the Global Warming Freaks heads explode under the mockery. This is an ad asking for folks to visit Ocean Beach.
These sorts of men gave their all so that you could live free. Do not dishonor them.
Center Soldier is Lt. Winters. The Band of Brothers book and Mini Series were about his unit.
romunov’s blog et al :: June :: 2006
Well this just about covers it. Take the time to read the whole thing…it is brilliant. The Catholic Faith seems to engender so much brilliance.
2008 Commencement Address by William McGurn
(Tuesday, May 20, 2008)Thank you for that warm welcome. Abbot Barnabas … Prioress Anne … President and Mrs. Minnis … Dean Shankman … members of the faculty … members of the Benedictine community … distinguished guests and honorees … parents … and most important – the Class of 2008: Ravens always fly on high!
I appreciate the invitation to be with you on your special day. Last month, I was with President Minnis at the White House for the arrival ceremony for Pope Benedict XVI. It was inspiring to watch the President of the United States welcome the Bishop of Rome with such affection – and to lose myself in the enthusiasm of the crowd. There were so many cheering Catholics on the South Lawn that morning, President Bush must have thought for a moment he was back in South Bend just after the Irish had scored against Southern Cal.
Perfect. The worlds most capable soldiers are apologizing to the worlds most corrupt religion. Okey Dokey.
“I come before you here seeking your forgiveness,” Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond was quoted as saying. “In the most humble manner I look in your eyes today and I say please forgive me and my soldiers.”
The commander also read a letter of apology by the shooter, and another military official kissed a Quran and presented it to the tribal leaders, according to CNN.My Way News - US military: soldier shot at Quran for practice
She does it so much better than I can…another media Round Up.
Media Mythbusters Blog » Blog Archive » Media Bias Roundup - 05/16/08
In an article of funny quotes this might be the funniest. Hat tip Hot Air
Mr. Lei also defended Mao. “He isn’t as bad as some people think,” the artist told Cox, while acknowledging that the man who led China from 1949 to 1976 “had made some mistakes.” Outsourcing of King Memorial to China Is Probed | The New York Sun
He made some mistakes…oops just killed 60 million folks. Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killed more people faster than any other government in history, well at least they did something right.
Mao blithely comments on the deaths “People who try to commit suicide — don’t attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.”[32]
But back to the King Memorial and the NY Sun’s article. The issue is a memorial in Washington DC to Martin Luther King has been outsourced to China. Naturally creativity being what it is in China, they killed all the creative people in the various purges, they produced a statue that looks remarkably like MAO after all he isn’t as bad as people think.
“I was confused as to why they chose this particular artist from another country and another culture,” a Georgia artist working to rescind the decision, Gilbert Young, said. “My position is, they don’t have the sensitivity, the nuances to complete this statue the way it should be completed. This artist is a member of the Communist Party.”
I am surprised anyone is surprised or confused by what Washington DC does. After all the memorial to some of the victims of the most terrible terrorist attack in history was styled to honor the religion which is the main motivator for the attackers.
Such is the corruption of Washington DC and our political and cultural elite. Are the people of the United States so out of touch with their “representatives” that they are surprised by the corruption?
Mr. Young said it would have been preferable for the memorial to be made by a black American, but that if an American of another race had been selected, there “would be no controversy.”
Uh Oh…what’s so special about being “American”? The Cultural Elite of Washington certainly don’t want to hear about their being anything unique about being American. Good thing it was a black man who declared such a blasphemy. After all according to them there is nothing unique about being American. Well nothing worth saving.
Big round up of news over at the Media Mythbusters site!
Media Mythbusters Blog » Blog Archive » Media Bias Roundup
I’m guessing that the black students parents will be voting for Barak Hussein Obama. Wonder if they realize that his intent is to bring even more Illegals from Mexico to steal their jobs and beat up their children? Nah probably not…after all he is the Obamamessiah!
Police teams dispatched
School district police brought in about 60 officers to the scene, while the Los Angeles Police Department dispatched about 50 officers and more than a dozen patrol cars.Ronald White, a 17-year-old senior, said that when police arrived some of the students began fighting the officers, who responded with their batons. Another student said he saw police use pepper spray.
Locke has been marred by almost daily fights during much of the academic year, but students and teachers said Friday’s brawl was the worst in years.
About 65 percent of the 2,600 students enrolled at Locke are Hispanic, and 35 percent are black. Police break up 600-student brawl - Crime & courts- msnbc.com
This just about covers this subject.
“Wars aren’t fought in the halls of Congress, on oped pages, or during dinner conversations. They are fought by courageous but desperately tired Americans living day after day in mortal danger, with families who live with constant fear for their safety and bear the entire burden of their absence.” Nancy French on Military Families on National Review Online
Can I get a big OOOOOPS.
Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming, Researchers Say
April 30 (Bloomberg) — Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.
Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period. Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Next thing you know those clowns will be claiming that the coming Ice Age will be delaying Global Warming for 5000 years and that will give us just enough time to get all those crappy flourescents installed. Bastards who have been pushing the shitty theories about man made global warming should be run out of town on rails after a combination of tar and feathers is liberally applied. But there is no justice…assholes will simply switch claims and keep on trying to destroy Western Civilization. All because they didn’t get laid in school.
Oh gee let’s see a bunch of Arabs hijack a bunch of planes and commit the worst terrorist act in history…and so Hollywood that bastion of reality makes some movies about Arab terrorists and they are offended. Fuck them, no really.
“In the United States, you can say anything you want about Islam and Arabs and get away with it. In other words, as someone said, ‘You can hit an Arab free’,” said Shaheen — also author of “Reel Bad Arabs — How Hollywood Vilifies a People”.
OKEY DOKEY….that just about covers these crazy bastards.
Shaheen, an American of Lebanese descent, has examined the treatment of Arabs and Muslims in some 1,000 films, including more than 100 shot since September 11.
From action movies such as “True Lies” (1994) to comedies including “Father of the Bride Part II” (1995) and Disney’s animated “Aladdin” (1992), Shaheen identifies films that have perpetuated damaging stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims.
“The images have remained primarily fixed and have only been changed in the sense that they have become more vindictive and damaging,” he told Reuters in an interview in Beirut.
“What enables these images to persist and prevail? One of the primary reasons is silence,” said Shaheen, a retired professor of mass communications who worked as a consultant on “Syriana” (2005) and “Three Kings” (1999).Critic accuses Hollywood of vilifying Arabs | Entertainment | Reuters
Classical values has a funny post that captures the lunacy of Democrats in general.
Sort of shocking that Glenn Reynolds is part of the vast left wing puppy blending, turkey roasting elite. I am guessing that Clinton didn’t know about dear old Rev Wright…nor did Hillary. Ooops getting serious…sorry!
Classical Values :: A Wright-wing conspiracy?
Perhaps Ralph Peters was correct when he said not to worry about Europe becoming Islamic cause the Europeans would rise up and smack them down. Course Enoch Powell was not hoping that the Nazis would rise up to throw out those who would change Britain instead of rising to the standards of the British people. We will face similar circumstances someday soon…
And yet perhaps there is hope. Perhaps there is a sign of fight left in Europe? Maybe the alarm bells are ringing?
Sunday is the 40th anniversary of perhaps the most significant speech made in British politics since the Second World War: Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech.
Read more from Simon Heffer The full text of Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech Three Line Whip: Not in the tradition of Enoch Powell It is also, therefore, near to the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest lies in British politics since the Second World War: that this remarkably accurate prediction of the dangers of enforced multiculturalism has “prevented” a rational debate on immigration, since anyone who seeks to engage in it will be branded as a “racist”.
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It would be a comfort if this position were merely ignorant. It isn’t. Powell is used by the Left - and that includes many people in the Conservative Party - as a cynical excuse to conceal their own failures in imposing proper immigration controls and maintaining social cohesion.
They start by saying Powell was a racist, which is also a deliberate lie. They then say that anyone who mentions immigration will now be tarred with that brush, which must therefore be a lie as well. This is convenient for those who have betrayed the people of this country by imposing an immigrant community so large upon it that it struggles to integrate - and, indeed, who have betrayed many of those immigrants too. Yet it won’t wash.Enoch Powell: the Great Lie survives - Telegraph
By allowing colleges in the United States to push the speech codes that are sweeping the country are we training our young to accept that there must some sort of legal limitations to plain speech? Will we end up in these sorts of ridiculous situations soon?
Girl irritated boy, boy pushed girl and told her to go away.” But girl is a Muslim — an “Asian” in British PC-speak — and so boy is charged with racial assault and hounded. He has been cleared, but the whole thing is a travesty from beginning to end. Who made sure these charges were brought? What is being done about them to ensure this kind of thing will not happen again? Nothing, of course. Dhimmi Watch: UK: Down’s syndrome boy charged with racism and assault after playground incident with “Asian” girl
Thomas Gold predicted that we would find more oil the deeper we drilled.
Lost in the big news last week — the race for the Democratic nomination, the reeling U.S. economy, the ongoing life/death saga that is “Dancing with the Stars” — came word that a new deep-water exploration area off the coast of Brazil could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil. read more | digg story
Getting tired of making the same rounds of the wonderful world wide web? Take a jaunt over to John Hawkins Conservative Grapevine where you will find an eclectic variety of links. From fun to serious.
Was going through my logs and noticed this address sending me traffic.
I’m guessing this means that the Democratic Party is down with the Right Reverend Wrights shtick! Wow cool! Cannot wait to see how all those Blue Dog Democrats decide to vote this coming November. Cause I am sure that Blue Dog’s are happy to vote for someone whose pastor awards folks like Farrakhan medals for achievement.
SANTA FE, N.M. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nation’s only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a once-in-a- lifetime leader who can unite the nation and restore America’s international leadership. Richardson, who dropped out of the Democratic race in January, is to appear with Obama on Friday at a campaign event in Portland, Ore., The Associated Press has learned.New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson Endorsing Obama for President - Americas Election HQ
Must read story for those of us fighting against the forces of the Reconquista.
Illegal Immigration ALIPAC - ALIPAC Responds to attacks and addresses major news networks
Why the sly allusions to slaves when referring to illegal immigration? Because that is exactly what we are talking about when we talk about illegal immigration. Ignoring idiocy from illegal immigration advocates illegal’s are popular not because they are doing jobs Americans “won’t” do but because they will do jobs Americans won’t do for the same amount of money.
A Mil Blogger goes to war. Thank you for your service. Our thoughts and prayers go with you to protect and comfort you till you return to your family.
So take a visit over at Charlie Foxtrot’s spot and while you are there thanking him take a look around at the blog…it is excellent.
The Man who taught me so much of why I felt the way I did has died. Buckley did more to teach me how to argue with the left than anyone. Watching firing line was a ritual for me. The world is a much smaller place without him.
Freedom and fear are at war.
The advance of human freedom the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time now depends on us.Our nation this generation will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail.
George Bush 9/20/2001
What the enemy believes We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.
Hussein Massawi, a former Hezbollah leader.
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