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Category: Politics

  • All Democrats have left is hate

    Pete Stark claims the troops are dying soley for the entertainment of the President, the Left rejoices, Stark won’t back off from his rant – and Nancy Pelosi is forced to hang him out to dry.

    Barack Obama declares he won’t wear an American flag on his lapel because he’s more patriotic than the rest of us – and ends up looking like a dorky schoolboy trying to impress his girlfriend. Then to prove how patriotic he is, Obama doesn’t bother to put his hand over his heart for the National Anthem.

     Half of America has already decided against voting for Hillary.

    Joe Biden’s partition plan became the only thing behind which Iraqis could unify. 

    Harry Reid climbs on board the Rush Limbaugh letter auction when he starts to look foolish – and compounds the foolish appearance after figuring his condemnation of Limbaugh’s statement was a slamdunk win for Democrats. Now he finds his popularity waning in his home State.

    Nancy Pelosi starts blaming the Senate for her first hundred day failures. Then her plan to alienate our allies and dismantling our war efforts in Iraq, by declaring a 90-year-old event a genocide falls through and she begins backpedaling at light speed. She can’t hold her party together to override the President’s veto of their big lie they called the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Code Pink has Pelosi’s DC office and house under siege. Even leftist icon Barney Frank is attacked for stripping transgendered people from his gay rights initiatives.

    We wake up this morning to read that Republican Bobby Jindal has won the governor race – in traditionally Democrat Louisiana. Traditional – as in Reconstruction traditional. 

    All in the first three weeks of October. To top it off, there was a whole day last week in which there were no attacks on anyone (except al Qaeda) – oh, how it must suck to be a Democrat these days.

    You’d think all of these failures in the past few weeks would make Democrats think again about the people they’ve chosen to represent them. Luckily for Democrat politicians, Democrat voters aren’t focused on results – just so long as they feel good about their vote. That’s why the empty suits of Clinton and Obama will be their candidates next Fall – because they’re more concerned about what other people think about them than they are about moving the country forward.

  • Violence erupts in Georgetown

     

    Photo from Nikki Kahn and the Washington Post

    The trendy Georgetown section of Washington, DC was rocked by vandals and Black Bloc thugs last night according to the Washington Post‘s “Violence Erupts at Protest in Georgetown”;

    Wearing black shirts and covering their faces with bandannas, scores of sometimes unruly demonstrators marched through Georgetown last night to protest the international finance and development organizations meeting this weekend.

    Despite the large contingent of officers on scooters and bicycles who flanked and followed the 200 to 300 protesters, violent incidents broke out. A woman bled after being struck in the face with what police said was a flying brick.

    Trash cans were overturned in the rain-dampened streets, objects were thrown, and newspaper boxes were overturned. Two protesters were arrested in connection with an incident in which an officer was pushed from a scooter, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said.

    Many store windows were boarded up in anticipation of the demonstration, which targeted the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, but two unprotected windows were struck near Wisconsin Avenue and M Street. It was not clear whether they were broken.

    In previous years, demonstrations had focused on the institutions’ headquarters just west of the White House. But Rusty Shakkleford, 18, said protesters went to Georgetown, in addition to the traditional sites, because it was where the delegates dined and stayed. “We’re just here to tell them the American people will not let them exploit the Third World community,” Shakkleford said. 

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure his name was Rusty Shakkleford – the nom de guerre of King of the Hill character Dale Gribble. And I guess by turning the DC neighborhood into a trash-strewn battle zone makes some kind of point. The working people who make Georgetown the attraction that it is are the ones who pay the price and do the cleaning. Who do these thugs think they’re hurting? 

    Washington Times’ Tom Knott did some background on their “philosophy” the other day;

    Down with capitalism. Down with neoliberalism. Down with the wealthy exploiters of Georgetown and their sycophants who take from the poor and feast on the culinary delights of Nathan’s Restaurant.

    The supporters of the so-called “October Rebellion,” designed to protest the actions of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, convene at 9 tomorrow night at Washington Circle in Foggy Bottom before moving to the streets of Georgetown and letting the bourgeoisie pigs there know that the proletariat are wise to their human rights abuses.

    If it were not for the greedy denizens of Georgetown, there would be no homeless people shuffling up and down Wisconsin Avenue. And these homeless people would not be talking to imaginary voices. Instead, these homeless people — at least a few of them anyway — would be living in the home of George Stephanopoulos and staging keg parties every weekend night. 

    I wonder how many of these peach-fuzzed children (who, by the way, aren’t brave enough to show their faces while they’re involved in criminal behavior) have even been to a third world coutry – or how many are willing to spend a few weeks in a third world country. Spoiled rich kids living in Mom’s basement. They use complicated problems as an excuse to destroy other people’s property like juvenile, immature little punk-ass sissies.

    I’ve read stories in local news sources about Metro and transit cops chasing down thirteen-year-old girls and wrestling them to the ground and cuffing them for eating french fries on a subway platform – yet they can’t summon the courage to stop these little weasels? Believe me, no one is more pro-cop than me, but DC’s public safety administration officials are gutless, politically correct incompetents.

    Since the Black Bloc punks got themselves all worked up, today’s protests at the World Bank building ought to be exciting today. I wonder how the new police chief will handle it.

    If you thugs want to save third world countries, join the Army and join the fight for freedom. Or shut up.

    This is what a struggle for freedom in a third world country looks like;

    From the anti-Chavez demonstrations in Venezuela last Spring

    Photo from Venezuela Llora

    Where were you protesters when the chavistas were shooting down protesters in Caracas? Well, they don’t really care – these protests are just an excuse for the little punks to break stuff and assault working people.

    The Sniper‘s Thus Spoke Ortner wrote about the impending protests on Thursday, and has the details of the “organization” of these punks and misfits. Michele Malkin has background on October Rebellion, the umbrella group for these retards and misfits. The local Fox 5 affiliate reports that one working woman was hit wth a brick last night.

    Fox 5 reporter Roby Chavez is reporting that one woman who worked in a Georgetown-area store has been injured in the protests. A woman was hit in the head after a protester threw a brick through the window of an Abercrombie and Fitch store and a United Colors of Benetton store near the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street.

     

    Video of the Fox 5 report here. More video and dead-on commentary from The Jawa Report.

    Griff Jenkins of Fox News Channel reports that they took his camera and smashed it. Sounds like it’s time to start policing these thugs ourselves since the cops can’t. 

  • Stark raving lunatic

    Rep. Pete Stark (D.-California) is spewing again. During the recent SCHIP bill debate, which was rightfully vetoed by President Bush, Stark let go with another one of his rants.  In the middle of his diatribe he screeched about funding the ”illegal” war but not spending money on children, and ‘kids’ sent to Iraq to “blow people up” and “get their heads blown off” for President Bush’s “amusement.”

    Said Stark:

    “Where are you going to get that money? Are you going to tell us lies like you’re telling us today? Is that how you’re going to fund the war? You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”

    Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGaNR9dVPM

     

    He also thanked his faithful “constituents” at the DailyKos for their support:

    Thanks!

    Hey folks. I wanted to drop by, say hello, and thank you for your kind words of support.

    We’ve got to provide health care to children — and we’ve got to end this war!

    by Congressman Pete Stark on Thu Oct 18, 2007 at 10:25:58 AM PDT

    Link: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/10/18/12258/878/312#c312

    What’s next? A personal, hand written Valentine to Osama Bin Laden?

    There’s more lunacy where that came from:

    The facts are still in dispute about what happened in last Friday’s committee meeting to mark up pension funds legislation. At the time, Democrats objected to Thomas, R-Calif., whisking through approval by voice vote on a bill Democrats have said they had not had a chance to review. The standoff ended with Thomas calling the police to remove the Democrats from the committee library and Democrats storming to the House floor to offer a resolution disapproving of Thomas’ actions.

    Not in dispute over the events that led up to the House debate that ensued are the heated remarks by Stark, D-Calif., who was left in the committee room to hold down the fort while Democrats strategized on their game plan.

    While no cameras recorded the event, a stenographer took down every word Stark uttered. Republican Rep. Kenny Hulshof recited them back on the House floor.

    “‘You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake,’” Hulshof, R-Mo., read from the unofficial transcript.

    Stark directed the word — considered by some to be a gay slur —- at Republican Rep. Scott McInnis, who is married and by all accounts not gay.

    Republican sources also claim that during the chaotic scene in the committee, Stark fired another gay slur in the direction of Chairman Thomas. The word is too vulgar to print in full, but the last half of it is “sucker.”

    Now, one Republican wants to know where is the outrage at the Democrat for his seemingly intolerant remarks.

    “This isn’t the first time. That’s the problem here. The Democrats fail to recognize this is an ongoing problem,” said Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla.

    Stark has a long history of making outrageous remarks. He once called Republican Rep. Nancy Johnson “a whore,” and said former Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan is “a disgrace to his race.”

    …..And instead of condemning Stark, Human Rights Campaign (Gay Rights group) seemed to agree.

    A spokesman from the gay activists group, usually quick to condemn hints of slight or slur against the gay community, defended the hot-headed lawmaker, saying he probably used the word to mean McInnis was nutty.

    “I think Congressman Stark’s use of the word, he probably regrets having used it. I think he meant nothing by it, but I think in the 2003 context, it’s probably a poor choice of words. But it’s also important to note that Congressman Stark is one of the gay community’s staunchest allies,” said Winnie Stachelberg, political director of the Human Rights Campaign.

    …..Democrats are still complaining that Thomas acted improperly by calling police to evict them from the library, and have said that the rights of the minority party are being trampled.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92537,00.html

    Yoooohooooo, New York Times, where the hell are you?  No outrage? No righteous gay/lesbian/bi sexual/transgender/politically correct/liberal indignation? All things considered, Barney Frank fits the epithets regurgitated by Stark.

    Pete also shows how much he “supports” the troops:

    When Daniel Dow returned home Thursday evening, he noticed he had a voice mail message. To his great surprise, it was left by his Congressman, Pete Stark (D-CA), in response to a fax he had sent in an hour earlier.

    But to Dow’s even greater surprise, the message was a smarmy smear, one in which Congressman Stark essentially called him stupid and implied that the enlisted man, who had just returned from Kosovo, did not care about enlisted men and women.

    Thursday evening, the House voted on one of its typical resolutions supporting the troops in Iraq, but also condemning the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and calling for a full investigation. 16-term San Francisco liberal Pete “Fortney” Stark was one of 50 Congressmen to oppose the non-controversial resolution.
    Daniel Dow wrote an intelligent, though strongly worded letter expressing his outrage and faxed it to Rep. Stark’s office at 4:30pm PST. Dow stepped out for some errands, and upon returning home, he listened to his voice mail.

    This is what he heard:

    “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” Stark then informs the enlisted man, “So if you care about enlisted people, you wouldn’t have voted for that thing, either.”

    “Probably somebody put you up to this, and I’m not sure who it was, but I doubt if you could spell half the words in the letter and somebody wrote it for you. So I don’t pay too much attention to it.”

    …..“But I’ll call you back later.” …..to let you tell me why you think you’re such a great, god-damned hero.”

    Stark did not call back.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={608B6175-D29C-4580-AB37-0D70956442A3

    Luckily, Dow kept the message and passed it on to KSFO, a talk radio station in San Fransisco.

    Pete Stark is a certifiable asshat. His imbecilic rant rates right down there with Murtha and Durbin’s usual acrimonious speech.  Like many of his unhinged Democratic colleagues, he moved the line and crossed it, without so much as a peep from the Fifth Column.

    Jonn added: Gateway Pundit catches “Crooks and Liars” living up to their name while defending Stark’s comments.

  • A Platoon Sergeant’s touch; by request

    Well, I was just sitting here doing the people’s business this morning when I get an email from my buddy COBDanny at Crotchety Old Bastard who writes me that out in Berkeley Californ-eye-ay, there was a protest. Of course, I’d linked to Gateway Pundit’s story yesterday about it. But Danny pointed me to Blackfive who pointed me to Neptunus Lex where I found the SFGate story on the protest;

    “None of us is pro-war! I’m pro-defense,” Kevin Graves, 50, of Discovery Bay shouted at one protester. Graves, whose son Army Spc. Joseph Graves was killed in Baghdad in July 2006, continued, “My son died so you and I can stand here and disagree.”

    In an interview, Graves said, “I think they’re misguided,” referring to Code Pink.

    But David Santos, 15, of Oakland, said the conservative element was on the wrong side of the issue.

    “They represent the social base that’s giving rise to this imperialistic war. Their so-called patriotic attitude,” he said, “just shows their blatant disregard for humanity and what the flag stands for. The very fact that they’re holding it up is enough for us to be out here.”

    David Santos, 15, of Oakland doesn’t even shave, yet he’s got the world all figured out already – moreso than a father who has sacrificed his son for the country’s security. I wonder where David Santos’ father is – David Santos probably wonders the same thing.

    But the part COB emailed me about is coming up;

    Graves yelled at another protester, Pablo Paredes, 26, of Oakland and mocked him for his long hair. “Are you a soldier? They wouldn’t let you looking like that,” he said.

    Paredes said later that he had served five years in the Navy and that people of color like himself bore the brunt of military service.

    “I think the color of my skin shouldn’t make me be on the front line,” Paredes said, adding that he left the Navy because he refused orders and opposed the war in Iraq.

    Say huh? Well, it turns out that Pablo Paredes has a Wikipedia page (I can only assume that Pablo was the only fellow interested enough in himself to write it, so I’m going to use it as a reference) and after reading it, I think I know Pablo pretty well;

    Paredes tried unsuccessfully to switch to the military police in order to avoid involvement in the war. Paredes then applied for discharge as a conscientious objector on January 4, 2005 but was denied by the Navy in July of that year.

    After deserting and missing movement, he returned to the Navy on December 18, 2004. The same day he made a statement to local press saying that he was fully aware of the possible repercussions of his decision.

    According to this, he deserted and missed movement and then returned to the Navy December 18, 2004. Then he filed for conscientious objector status January 4, 2005. So, actually, he went through the process backwards – by the time he filed for CO, he was already a criminal who’d broken laws and CO was his way out of the charges – the Navy refused him CO after he’d tried to use it as an excuse to get out of being punished. In fact, the civilian courts have refused two appeals, according to the Wikipedia entry.

    So like Adam Kokesh who turned against the war when the Marines busted him for smuggling a pistol back from iraq on his first tour, Paredes turned against the war when his own derelict behavior caught up to him. So what’s the first thing he drags out?

    “I think the color of my skin shouldn’t make me be on the front line,” Paredes said…

    A whole boat full of people went off to war – a crew – but unless that boat was full of strictly brown people, Paredes doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Neptune Lex probably said it well enough;

    After having enjoyed peacetime service in Japan you deliberately missed ship’s movement and shirked your duty to avoid a very minimal risk in sailing to the Arabian Gulf. You don’t get to claim front line service when you bailed on your shipmates and forced someone else to cover your watch, to take your spot on the line.

    Paredes is accustomed to misleading people. Take this Democracy Now statement that’s repeated around the internet in several other websites;

    Paredes was convicted in a court-martial on Wednesday. However a judge decided Thursday not to sentence him to jail – instead he will face three months of hard labor.

    Um, how is a three months sentence at hard labor in court martial procedings not jail time? If it was an Article 15 (or Captain’s Mast, I think the Navy calls it) there probably wouldn’t be jail time involved, but not in a court martial conviction. What a bunch of tools.

    Paredes, keep your mouth shut – you don’t even know why you were convicted let alone how. You let empty-head spazzes like Paul Rockwell give you legal advice – and then on top of it all, you blame the fact that you’re brown as a reason to get out of going to war. (wasn’t that a line from the South Park Movie – Operation Human Shield). I’m pretty sure you were going to be a long way from any shooting – you’re one of those weinies who can’t stand being at sea, or out in the field on weekends – that’s what really scared you – no off time to play with the girls (or boys…or whatever).

    After years of shore duty in Japan, you couldn’t stand the thought of actually doing your job – that’s why you missed movement. If it had been your conscience, you’d have applied for CO right after we went to war. The anti-war movement accepted you because there’s no one there who ever had to accomplish anything, no one whoever counted on them to do their job, or shoulder their own load – so you fit right in with them. And the chicks probably have hairier legs than yours, too.

    You can’t fool the real troops, paredes – that’s why I nominate you to join the ranks of Phony Soldiers.

  • The “Working Poor” Enrich the Clinton Campaign

    The LA Times has a very interesting story about how Chinatown dishwashers and busboys, occupations not known for huge paychecks have given Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign over $380,000.

    Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000.

    Is it that the poor love Hillary so much they are willing to give when they can barely afford rent? Or is something more sinister, and less legal going on?

    I have to say, I am surprised by this article. The Times article speaks of donors that cannot be found, donors who, when called for at their reported places of work, have never been heard of, and donors who, at their supposed homes are unknown.

    Culture of Corruption anyone?

    Jonn added: Mike at Flopping Aces traces the roots of Chinese money to the Clintons back to Little Rock.

  • North Carolina Hangs Nifong Out to Dry

    After a prosecution rife with horrendous errors of judgment and prosecutorial misconduct the state of North Carolina has decided to let Mike Nifong stand or fall on his own. Having attempted to railroad 3 innocent young men, in a manner that should chill anyone, I can only hope he gets what he deserves.

    Is the state’s motivation in hanging him out to dry simply justice and a strict reading of regulations as this Breitbart article states or is it a jaded effort to distance the state and hope the attorneys for the falsely accused men don’t set their sights on the really deep pockets? I don’t know, and I honestly don’t care. As District Attorney Nifong’s job was to ensure actual criminals were prosecuted and convicted for their crimes, in this case he failed to do that and instead attempted to make his bones on the backs of three men who committed no crime.

  • The Cow and the Putz want a Woodstock Museum

    Also from the Examiner, written by Susan Ferrachio, more pork from the Senators for New York; “Schumer, Clinton get skewered over $1M Woodstock earmark”

    It was a little like throwing a juicy steak into a pit of hungry lions. Republicans could hardly contain their glee Thursday at the prospect of skewering Democrats on the Senate floor over a $1 million earmark for a museum in upstate New York commemorating the 1969 Woodstock concert.

    The earmark was requested by New York’s two Democratic senators, Charles Schumer and presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton, who said the money would help build a performing arts center that could boost the area’s depressed economy.

    “I’m proud of this earmark, it’s the right type of earmark,” Schumer said on the Senate floor during a debate over a Republican amendment to remove the money from a health and human services spending bill.

    Yes, that’s what New York needs – a museum to celebrate smelly hippies. I’ll give Mr. Schumer a little history lesson about the “area’s depressed economy” – Mrs. Clinton should read, too, because I’m sure the carpetbagger doesn’t know about New York recent history.

    In the 70s, Upstate New York was a booming economy – manufacturing and retail facilities across the State. Several chain stores were founded there, auto manufacturers, typewriter-makers, breweries, even chocolate factories kept the hard-working locals employed. Then we got Mario Cuomo for governor.

    Before Cuomo, there was a six-month residency requirement before anyone could collect welfare in New York State – which paid some of the highest benefits in the country because the economy there did so well. Cuomo waived that requirement.

    Well, a blind man could see what would happen next – welfare recipients streamed into New York State from the South and cashed in on their good fortune. New York State’s economy flourished for a while, but the State government had a hard time paying out the benefits to so many people – so Cuomo’s answer to the problem was what you might expect from a tax-and-spend liberal. Raise taxes on businesses – and a blind man could also see the impending result. Businesses left New York for the lower tax States in the South.

    Now Upstate New York is a wasteland of closed factories and department stores. But Albany still can’t get off of the tax teat – despite 12 years of Govenor Pataki (who was quite a disappointment to me) – and Spitzer isn’t helping either. New York State is like a third world country – since there is no real money in the State, they depend on out-of-Staters to bring them cash in the form of tourist dollars.

    Now Schumer and Clinton want to perpetuate that strategy by using taxpayer dollars to build, of all things, a Woodstock Museum – a monument to sloth and marginal talent. Why attract musicians to New York State? They don’t have any money – that’s why they’re musicians. 

    UPDATE: Apparently the museum was shot down in the Senate, but I suspect that Republicans wouldn’t have blocked it if it’d been two different Democrats trying to spend tax payer dollars. For example, if the museum was being built in Nancy Pelosi’s district. 

  • Wake up, Republicans

    The other day I got an email from the RNC – it was addressed to me, by name, so I know that whoever sent it at least read enough of my blog to get my name right. It complimented my support of the party in my blog, announced the launch of new GOP blog and asked me to link that blog to mine. I get email like this occasionally – usually from less reputable people than the GOP. But I answered that I wouldn’t link the GOP to this blog, for the same reason I quit donating to the GOP and the Republican Senate Caucus three years ago – I don’t donate to the Democrats, why would I donate to Republicans acting like Democrats?

    Here’s a case in point; Timothy Carney, in the Washington Examiner this morning writes “Congress porks up waterways bill“;

    The Senate recently passed a bill authorizing money for the Army Corps of Engineers with a price tag of about $14 billion. The House version of the Water Resources Development Act passed at $15 billion. In a conference committee, lawmakers from both chambers hammered out the differences, and in the end came to a compromise: $23 billion.

    While not that unusual, this bill’s growth behind closed doors certainly defies the civics-textbook explanation of how a bill becomes a law. The 450 earmarks in the final bill, including many that appeared only in the final version, also don’t quite reflect the promises Democrats made after passing their “ethics reform” bill earlier this year. Looking closely at this legislation — and who stands to get rich off of it — gives a good education in the way Washington really works.

    So the bill almost doubled in spending from $14 billion to $23 billion. Although Carney lays the largesse squarely on the Democrats’ shoulders, I blame Republicans;

    President Bush has threatened to veto the bill. But having garnered 81 votes in the Senate and 381 votes in the House, Democratic leaders have enough votes to override a veto — and they are being lobbied hard to do so.

    81 votes in the Senate means 30 Republicans have their fingers in the pie – the Democrats had to give earmarks to at least 30 Republicans to garner their votes. It also means that at least 30 Republicans out of 48 are acting like Democrats. If whoever that was from the GOP who wrote me is reading this, now you have the reason you’re not linked to my blog.

    When the Republican Senate holds the line against spending instead of hoping the President does it for them, maybe I’ll open up my wallet and my blog to Republicans and the GOP organization. Until then, pound sand.