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Category: Liberals suck

  • Code Pink and Al Sharpton team up

    Because they’re so fond of my work, Code Pink has sent me an email to advertise their intentions this weekend;

    Aug. 28 marks the 47th anniversary of the historic March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Fox TV’s conservative political commentator Glenn Beck will be holding a rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Join us at Dunbar High School (1301 New Jersey Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC) as we counter Glenn Beck’s rally by joining Reclaim the Dream, organized by Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders. Look for the pink umbrellas to find us!

    Well, if they consider Al Sharpton a “civil rights leader”, I’m curious who they consider in that “other” group. I guess the New Black Panther Party plans on being there, too, so I guess the only people from the Left who are going are the anti-MLK bunch.

    I know some of you are going, so I hope you’ll email us some pictures we can use.

  • Today’s lecture from the Left

    So I got this email this morning from someone I’ve never heard of before now. Apparently she thinks I used one of her articles in discussing serial terrorist Bradley Manning. I can’t find where I ever used her tripe. A quick Google search turned up her masters thesis on saving some bids somewhere, but nothing on her Brad Manning article.

    In any event, here’s her vacuous lecture;

    name = Charlotte Sheasby-Coleman
    email = xxx@xxx.com
    comments = Hi “thisainthell”.

    Re your comments on Bradley Manning and the article “Please Don`t Shoot the Messenger“, I wrote the article and so I am happy to respond, although I do not, of course, speak for Bradley Manning. We don’t know if he is the source of the leaks but, if he is, I support him and hope that the sharing of real information about the wars will help to end them and usher in a better future. As for the message from Bradley, or whoever is responsible for the leaks, how’s this — rather than bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, and security to the United States, the invasions have further destabilized the fragile Middle East, have created a breeding ground for terrorists and have ensured that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of hitherto peaceful Iraqi and Afghan citizens now hate the U.S. and may embrace radical Islamic sentiments that they never would have before. The fact that thousands upon thousands of those people have died and suffered because of American/coalition action and that thousands of young coaltion soldiers have died needlessly is abominable. The message being delivered is that arrogant American foreign policy as well, as the apathy of the people who vote for the people who deliver it, is responsible for death and destruction and hatred that completely overwhelms the horrors of what happened in New York and elsewhere on 9-11. The ultimate message being delivered is that acknowledgement of our shared humanity, respect and the desire to work towards a peaceful co-existence on our planet, is the only thing that will ensure that our children and grandchildren and this earth we live on will survive. How’s that for a message?

    In peace, Charlotte

    I’m pretty sure that dear Charlotte would never see a legitimate reason for the US to apply force of arms to any situation. And I’m not sure who she thought she was talking to, that’s why I shared this with you – because her message is wasted on me. So you can respond to her.

  • More lies from Blumenthal

    You no doubt remember the Senate candidate for Connecticut’s seat, Richard Blumenthal who falsely claimed for years that he had served in Vietnam when in fact he didn’t. Well, it seems he’s in trouble for more games with the language.

    He claimed in January that he had never taken political action committee money.

    Federal records show that he has accepted $480,000 in political action committee money since he made that claim in January. Moreover, his Republican opponent, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon, points to nearly $17,000 Blumenthal received as a state legislative candidate in the 1980s — a figure Blumenthal’s campaign does not dispute.

    Blumenthal’s campaign insists he did not lie — as McMahon says — when he said in an interview on MSNBC the day after he announced he was running for the seat of retiring Sen. Chris Dodd that he had never taken PAC money. His campaign says he was referring only to his 20 years as attorney general.

    Quantifying “never”. If they lie about their military service, they’ll lie about anything. So do those veterans who stood on stage with Blumenthal want to continue blowing smoke up the collective ass of Connecticut voters?

  • Obama as Reagan

    The Washington Post tries to draw parallels between Reagan and Obama;

    President Obama’s advisers have sometimes looked to Ronald Reagan for comparison and inspiration. If the Gipper could survive a deep recession, low approval ratings and an adverse midterm election in his first two years and win reelection handily two years later, then Obama could easily do the same, they reason.

    Obama’s presidency has looked like Reagan’s in some broad ways. Both men succeeded unpopular presidents of the opposite party. Both offered big and bold plans — Reagan with massive tax cuts, Obama with a massive stimulus and national health care — that set the country in a new direction. Reagan’s goal was to shrink government. Obama’s efforts have enlarged government.

    Yeah, tax cuts and massive spending are exactly the same – especially in the effect they’ll have on the economy. Reagan let us spend out own money, Obama takes our money and directs how it’s spent. That’s the same, right?

    The Post goes on to focus on the unemployment rate during both administrations and their popularity ratings. The big difference is that Reagan’s policies carried over into the next two administrations and brought on the economic boom of the 90s. It’s doubtful that Obama’s policies will last through his own administration because of the misguided ideology behind them.

    Tax cuts saved the economy twice in the last thirty years, it’s beyond me how the Obama Administration that tax hikes will have the same effect.

  • The answer, of course, is “no, we didn’t”

    Um, Larry, why wasn’t your follow up question “WTF are you talking about, Russell?”

  • Still running against Bush

    The Hill reports that Democrats have released a video in which they’re still blaming GWB for the economic problems we’re experiencing almost two years after he left office;

    The Democratic National Committee (DNC) released a new cable ad Friday that harped on their campaign message that the November midterm elections will be a choice between Democratic policies that will bring the country out of the recession versus Republican policies that helped created it.

    No Republican is used in the ad aside from Bush — who is shown saying “you can fool me but you can’t get fooled again.”

    Despite the fact that Bush and McCain both tried to rein in FannieMae and FreddieMac, the triggers for for the housing bubble, for years before the economic crisis struck.

    Don’t get me wrong – I think Democrats should run against Bush, but only because it’s losing strategy. Hotline writes that Bush leads Obama in some “frontline” districts in Congressional races. Fox News reports that Bush T-shirts are outselling Obama T-shirts at the site of Obama’s current weekly vacation spot;

    Yeah, so keep it up, Democrats – it gives us a more frequent opportunity to mention whose policies were really behind current economic conditions.

  • On The NewsCorp Donation To the Republican Governors’ Association…

    This week, the left-stream media has been going nuts over news that NewsCorp (the parent company of FoxNews) donated $1 million to the Republican Governors’ Association. This donation was certifiable proof for many Fox-haters that the network was in the bag for the Republicans. Of course, most media outlets did not report NewsCorp’s other donations.

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  • Ground Zero Mosque Supporters Want Bush To Save Them (And Obama)

    From the Washington Examiner:

    There’s a new argument emerging among supporters of the Ground Zero mosque. Distressed by President Obama’s waffling on the issue, they’re calling on former President George W. Bush to announce his support for the project, because in this case Bush understands better than Obama the connection between the war on terror and the larger question of America’s relationship with Islam.

    So let me get this straight. From pretty much the beginning of combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 to his last day in office, George W. Bush was accused of violating the rights of Muslims around the world, was accused of trashing America’s image in the Muslim world, and of course torturing thousands of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, and GITMO. Now, some of the same people who routinely attacked Bush during his administration for his handling of relations with the Muslim world want him to come out and support the Ground Zero Mosque and save President Obama.

    Maureen Dowd professional Bush-basher:

    “It’s time for W. to weigh in,” writes the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd. Bush, Dowd explains, understands that “you can’t have an effective war against the terrorists if it is a war on Islam.” Dowd finds it “odd” that Obama seems less sure on that matter. But to set things back on the right course, she says, “W. needs to get his bullhorn back out” — a reference to Bush’s famous “the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” speech at Ground Zero on September 14, 2001.

    Wow. How the world has turned upside down.

    By the way, if I were GWB, I would have three words for these people: Go Fuck Yourself.