"Sensitivity" = Stupidity

More proof that "sensitivity" is ridiculous, totally stupid and any other words that I can't think of now...
The Rubidoux High School Choir (in Riverside, California) was asked to stop singing Christmas carols at the Riverside Skating Rink. The reason? 2006 Olympic silver-medalist Sasha Cohen, who had performed at the Riverside Skating Rink and was signing autographs close by, is half-Jewish.
Not only is that ridiculous, but Cohen's mother (who was with her) said that when they found out "Sasha was stunned. We both thought the voices were just lovely, they were doing such a wonderful job. Christmas carols are part of celebrating the holiday season." Is the ACLU listening? Cohen's mother went on to say that Sasha had taken part in the lighting of Christmas trees in both New York and California.
Hopefully people reading this story will realize that anyone offended by Christmas (and its many songs and greetings) should get a life. (Again: Is the ACLU listening?) Oh, and by the way, Merry Christmas!

Republicans such as Newt Gingrich and Arlen Specter say that Bush should have announced Rumsfeld's resignation before the elections. This they are convinced would have kept the Republicans in charge of Congress. Apparently both Gingrich and Specter believe that Iraq and Rumsfeld was why Republicans lost the election, and that could every well be the reason that the Democrats voted against the Republicans (haha). But the Republicans lost because they were expanding government, increasing spending and giving amnesty to illegal aliens. The GOP voters were so sick and tired of these acts, more worthy of a Democrat controlled government than a Republican one, that they stayed at home, and now the country will suffer.
But I believe there is a silver-lining to this cloud: after two years of a Democratic controlled Congress, the American people(including the GOP voters) are gong to flood the streets in 2008 to vote against whoever the Democrats nominate for President, Hillary or whomever.

The Party of Cut and Run

Well, I was wrong and I admit it. The Republicans did lose.
All through the campaigns we heard that the Democrats were the party of "cut and run" but the Republicans have shown themselves equal to the task. Within hours of losing control of the house, President Bush announced the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld. Also within hours the President held a press conference in which he pandered to the Democrats by saying "The message yesterday was clear: The American people want their leaders in Washington to set aside partisan differences, conduct ourselves in an ethical manner, and work together to address the challenges facing our nation." Maybe actually the American people were discouraged with the Republican Party's performance on illegal immigration (especially the President's amnesty program) and their increasing of government programs. These disappointments led to the voters staying home or voting against Republicans, granted the Democrats are even worse on these issues, but the American people expect the Republicans to act like Republicans.
I am truly sorry for Pennsylvanians who will now have to endure both Arlen Specter and Bob Casey, Rick Santorum was one of the few real Republicans (with a spine) left in the Senate, again my condolences to the citizens of Pennsylvania.

Kerry's Mouth

After the elections on Tuesday, the GOP should thank their secret weapon...John Kerry's Mouth. John Kerry has just won an election for us. Once again Kerry got caught criticizing our brave troops and is now trying to worm his way out of it before he does his party permanent damage.
Kerry apparently believes that our men and women in uniform are all idiots. Kerry, trying to be a smart-aleck, and failing miserably, said, "If you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
I'm guessing as soon of the words were out of his mouth, the democratic leadership made a mad scramble to the phones to get him a covering statement. That statement is that it was a "bungled joke" about the President and his advisors. I still don't see where calling the soldiers in Iraq morons gets to criticizing the President but we'll let that pass for now.
Kerry may has just cost his party the election...but I (being a positive guy) am not one of the doom-and-gloomers who believes that the GOP would have lost anyway. But I just let it ride when I read or hear the predictions for the elections, the time to strike is when they think they're going to win it all and you (to use a football analogy) intercept the ball and score a touchdown, while they watch in stunned silence.
Above is a cool picture from Iraq...you've gotta love those guys...

German ex-chancellor is writing a book about himself. Gerhard Schroeder recently released an advance excerpt from his memoirs entitled Decisions: My Life In Politics in Der Spiegel magazine.
In this excerpt Schroeder reveals that in his meetings with President Bush on Iraq, before the war began, he was worried. "What worried me, despite a relaxed atmosphere to our talks, and to a certain degree what made me skeptical was how much it came through that this president saw himself as 'God-fearing' and saw that as the highest authority."
Apparently this came as a shock to Schroeder who believed that he himself was the highest authority. But even Mr. Schroeder knew that stating that in his book would raise eyebrows and so instead he said he was worried about this because: "Quite rightly we criticize that in most Islamic states the role of religion in society and the secular character of the legal system are not clearly separated. But we haven't taken note as readily of the U.S. Christian fundamentalists and their interpretation of the bible that show similar tendencies."
Similar tendencies? Last time I checked Christians didn't go around bombing buildings when someone criticizes their faith, like the Muslims did after the Pope made his speech in which he quoted a Medieval text referring to Islam as "a religion spread by the sword."
And Christians also don't kill 3,000 innocent people by crashing planes into buildings for no reason...or maybe the 19 hijackers were all Christians which is why they are reported to have cried "Allah, akbar!" on their way to their death.

How desperate is the gay and lesbian movement? So desperate that they're using animals as their latest campaign scam. I was checking the headlines on AOL tonight and came across a headline that said: "Birds and Bees May Be Gay, Museum Shows."
It turns out that a museum in Oslo (that's the capital of Norway) has opened a "Gay Animals" exhibit. The Oslo Natural History Museum has a new exhibit which features homosexuality among animals. I can't go into detail because of the disgusting descriptions that would be involved in the sort of displays in this exhibit.
Now supposedly some animals are gay? I'm not a trained scientist but it seems to me that this would refute evolution (the sacred cow of the liberal scientists). According to that theory (which I don't believe in)don't animals get better, they evolve into better animals? Animals that don't reproduce are not better animals and they will die out. Maybe that's what happened to the dinosaurs they all turned gay and couldn't reproduce.
This is the latest attempt to justify an immoral and disgusting lifestyle that God condemns. It makes me sick to think of the people who are injecting this sleaze into our culture.

Once again Islam has proved itself a "religion of peace." After Pope Benedict XVI's remarks in which he quoted a medieval text calling the teachings of Islam "evil and inhuman" and that Islam was a religion "spread by the sword." Muslims everywhere demonstrated violently. The Pope was burned in effigy and churches in the Middle East were bombed.
Of course, Pope Benedict apologized but the Muslims still aren't satisfied, Al-Qaeda has released a statement saying that: "you (the Pope) and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. ... We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose the 'jizya' tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (being killed by) the sword." But of course Islam is a religion of peace...hold it...everything that this statement says backs up the Pope's comments.
This religion is not normal, you'll notice that when Christianity is attacked in public speeches or in the media Christians don't go on burning effigies or bombing buildings or even issuing hate-filled statements.
The Prophet Mohammed told his followers that the "infidels" had two choices 1) to convert to Islam or 2) to be killed. And that's THE RELIGION OF PEACE?
I would admit that there are Muslims who don't follow the Prophet's instructions but those teachings in themselves are violent and definitely not peaceful. One wonders which side Mohammed would side with if eh were alive today, but my guess is he'd be the top of Al-Qaeda or something.

I also came across this cartoon by Cox and Forkum that speaks volumes about how to fight terrorism.

I'm sure sometime this month we've all been asked the question: Where were you? Where were you on September 11, 2001?
Being homeschooled I was sitting in our schoolroom doing math when my Mom came in and told me to turn on the radio, "We're under attack!" For the next 4 hours my eyes were riveted on the TV as they showed over and over the two planes crashing into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon burning and news of a fourth plane crashing in rural Pennsylvania. Thankfully we had (and have) a President who was capable of unifying the nation together when it needed it most.
Today as I see again images of that horrible day I thank God for the President, the Armed Forces and the first responders, some who died trying to save other people. Also eight days ago I wrote about Donald Rumsfeld and how much I like him. One thing that I really like about him was that 5 years ago as the Pentagon burned and while his security team was trying to organize, Donald Rumsfeld took off his suit jacket and helped carry out the wounded people.
This blog is dedicated to the innocent men and women who died 5 years ago, to the policemen and firemen who ran into the buildings but not out of them, and to the greatest nation on God's green earth: America!

Apparently the source of the CIA "leak" involving Valerie Plame was, former Number 2 State Department official, Richard Armitage.
This is a big shock to the liberals who soooo wanted to have it be Karl Rove. Armitage admits that he inadvertently let the fact that Plame worked at the CIA slip in two different conversations with Bob Woodward and Robert Novak.
Armitage states the he didn't realize that Plame's status was covert, one might wonder why and here are the two answers-
1: (Armitage's answer) "I assumed that Plame's job wasn't secret because she was mentioned in a State Department memo.
2: (My answer and I'm still waiting for a White House press release on this) Plame wasn't covert or a secret. Valerie Plame was (and is I guess) a paper-pusher over at Langley and was known around Washington social circles as working for the CIA. Several people who attended social functions before the "leak" mentioned that Plame was introduced by her husband as "my CIA wife." Doesn't sound covert to me.

The Democrats want Rumsfeld out! So what else is new? Apparently a resolution by Senate Democrats to call for Rumsfeld resignation.
Leading Senate Democrats (such as Chuck Schumer D-NY) have been canvassing their colleagues views on such a resolution. Schumer said, "I believe there is a lot of sentiment to push for such a resolution, indeed."
This action started after California Senator Barbara Boxer declared herself offended by some remarks made by Secretary Rumsfeld last week. Boxer apparently finds the truth insulting.
In a speech last week Rumsfeld compared critics of the Iraq War to Nazi sympathizers in 1938 and '39. It seems that Senator Boxer finds this description insulting (it appears even the liberals aren't ready to claim kinship with the Nazis). I believe that history bears Rumsfeld out though, every reason that the Nazi sympathizers of 1938 and 1939 gave to stay out of the war has been used by the liberals in politics and the media today. Reasons such as "unnecessary deaths", "quagmires", etc.
The more I hear about Donald Rumsfeld the more I agree with what Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said, "I think Secretary Rumsfeld has done an excellent job. He'll be remembered as one of the great secretaries of defense."

Anyone wishing to invade France might want to do so soon. France has just sent it's entire military force of 2,000 men to Lebanon to participate in "peacekeeping" in Lebanon. Apparently this coincides with Jacques Chirac's wish to be able to surrender quickly if Al-Qaida asks. Chirac's plan is to surrender even quicker than the French government did in World War II, he hopes this will put him in the history books, because otherwise he's doomed to obscurity.
Just kidding about the above, other than the force of 2,000 headed for Lebanon. This act came after France felt threatened to increase the size of their force (currently 200 men) or lose primary command of the peacekeeping force to Italy. Already smarting from the World Cup, France decided to increase troop numbers as a "face-saving gesture," according to Dominique Moisi, an analyst with France's Institute for International Relations.

To the media:

Two words: Shut up!
I'm sick and tired of seeing headlines reading: Mel Gibson this, Mel Gibson that, somebody defended Mel Gibson, somebody denounced Mel Gibson. When are you going to get it through your heads that the American people could care less. This isn't even news.Mel Gibson was driving drunk...okay a police report about it would be fine, end of story. But no, we have to be subjected to days of nothing but Gibson bashing. (I'm not condoning drunk driving here...but the media has gone too far) The only reason they report on this is because of two reasons: 1) Gibson made the movie "The Passion of the Christ" 2) He didn't apologize for it.
So now the fact that he was driving drunk has made headlines, along with the statement that he was making anti-Semitic remarks. Supposedly Hollywood and the Media suddenly believe that making anti-Semitic remarks is wrong (which it is), but there's a double standard with these people. Drunk driving and anti-Semitic remarks by celebrities is all fine (and hushed-up) until Mel Gibson does it and then its news! Give me a break.
Gibson made a mistake, now it's time to build a bridge and get over it.

"Lebanon Estimates 600 Civilian Deaths"
While this is a sad thing there are two things the media doesn't take into account when reporting this.
1) This is a war. Civilians will get injured and killed. There is no avoiding this.
2) Hezbollah still has not come out to fight an open war. They still hide in their bunkers and put weapon caches under or near schools, hospitals, mosques and civilian houses. Israel has been more than generous by warning the Lebanese to evacuate before they begin a strike.
The bunkers that are "in the open" are forty feet or more beneath the ground and the Israelis cannot reach that far with their missiles. How 'bout the US selling (or giving)the Israelis some of our MOAB missiles, which will get the job done. After all, if they keep this up, the U.S. will have one less terrorism network to deal with later. And besides we owe them for the killing of 241 marines in 1983.

George W. Bush is no longer a veto-less President. 5 1/2 years after being sworn in for the first time, Bush has vetoed a bill.
Bush had promised during the 200 election to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research and he has followed through with this veto. Fortunately, the House of Representatives didn't have enough votes to override the veto and the stem cell research bill is dead.
I myself am not opposed to stem cell research provided we use adult stem cells. Embryonic stem cell research has not produced anything during the years of study except dead embryos; meanwhile adult stem cells have been proved to have a benefit.
Some adult stem cells actually can be used to heal spinal fractures! Many other types have been used for other useful purposes, that's why there is never any question of federal funding for it. The private sector has discovered the profit that can be made by this kind of research and have wisely funded it. Meanwhile the private sector has steered away from the embryonic stem cell research on account of its not being profitable.

Way to go, Israel! I've been having so much fun reading how Israel is kicking the crap out of Lebanon and Hezbollah in particular. Hezbollah has been killing innocent Israelis for years and Israel has mostly retaliated in small, isolated ways. But it seems that Israel's people have had enough. After the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers on Wednesday Israel launched an attack against Hezbollah's headquarters and has been pounding away at airfields and other strategic targets with a vengeance.
Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said: "You wanted an open war and we are ready for an open war." Really? Then sit back and relax as Israel blows you and your terrorists sky high. Israel must be glad of an open war considering the way that Hezbollah has murdered innocent civilians for no other crime then being an Israeli.
I suggest that Hezbollah take a look at other people who tortured and oppressed the Jews. Hitler is the most recent and I suggest that Nasrallah repent before he finds his head blown off.

How do you know when something is a bad idea? When Bill Clinton endorses it. Clinton's latest award winner is President Bush's immigration reform, I think this is Bush's cue to drop it like a hot potato.
Addressing NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the biggest Hispanic rights group in America, Clinton said: "I'm proud of him for doing it and I thanked him for doing it." Interestingly enough, NCLR's current president is Janet Murguia, a former Clinton aide.
Clinton also took time from his speech to lambast conservatives who see this reform bill as a way of giving amnesty to law breakers. "They believe in a government that is secret, unaccountable and that maximizes its own power. They really believe the world works better if they run it and we keep our mouths shut."
Meanwhile Clinton believes in a country where felons are paroled, babies killed and gay marriage allowed to undermine the few values society has left.
To all those Republicans out there who think the reform bill good, just remember this motto: "If Clinton is for it, you'd better be against it." Thank you and have a nice day.

Goodbye, Dan Rather

Dan Rather is leaving CBS...quite a shocking event for me, considering that having been born in '89 I have always thought of Dan Rather as CBS. Rather is a liberal and so I don't agree with him on anything, I'm sure...but I wish him good luck with whatever he chooses to do next...
An interesting thing, I was reading a summary of the big events of Rather's time at CBS, see if you notice a pattern in it:

·1962: Joins CBS News as chief of the network's Southwest bureau in Dallas, where it was his job to cover 23 states, Mexico and Central America.

·Nov. 22, 1963: Reports live from the scene of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Not only was CBS the first network on the scene, but Rather was also the first to report Kennedy had died.

·1964: Promoted to White House correspondent for CBS News.

·1965: Sent to Vietnam — at his own request — to cover the war.

·1966: Returns to the U.S. and resumes his role as White House correspondent.

·1974: His combative style is captured in a memorable moment while exchanging verbal jabs with President Nixon. First, Rather is booed and applauded when he stands to ask Nixon a question. Mr. Nixon turned the question around: "Are you running for something?" "No, sir, Mr. President," Rather shot back. "Are you?" This angers the White House. Several CBS affiliates asked for his resignation.

·1974: Co-wrote a book about Watergate, "The Palace Guard," which became a best-seller. Another book, "The Camera Never Blinks," was published in 1977.

·1980: Slips into Afghanistan in disguise following the Soviet invasion. The escapade earns him a nickname: "Gunga Dan."

·March 9, 1981: "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite retires, and Rather takes over.

·1986: Rather is attacked and badly beaten on Park Avenue by a deranged man later convicted of murdering an NBC stagehand. Rather's woozy recollection of his attacker's words, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" becomes the title of a song by rock band R.E.M.

·1987: Rather walks off the "Evening News" set in anger after the network decided to let the U.S. Open tennis tournament run overtime, cutting into the news broadcast. CBS was left with dead air for six minutes.

·Jan. 25, 1988: In an interview with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, Rather presses the future president about his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair. A heated exchange follows, with Mr. Bush asking Rather whether he wished to be judged for the tennis walk-off.

·1990: Is the first American journalist to interview Saddam Hussein after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

·March 31, 1999: Secures an exclusive first sit-down interview with President Clinton following the Monica Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment by the House.

·2001: Breaks into tears twice on David Letterman's late-night show while discussing the 9/11 attacks a few days after the tragedy.

·Feb. 24, 2003: Gets the most sought-after interview in the world: an exclusive one-on-one with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, the first time the Iraqi leader talks with an American journalist since 1991.

·2004: Is involved in "RatherGate." Airs 60 Minutes Report using forged documents to discredit George W. Bush's Military Record.

·March 9, 2005: Rather steps down as anchor of the "Evening News.

Notice a pattern? The only President's attacked are Republicans! There is no record of him making verbal jabs at Lyndon Johnson...or Jimmy Carter. Rather "sits down" to an interview with Clinton doesn't treat him like he did VP Bush.

P.S. Any spelling errors are mistakes do to the screwy nature of my computer. My spell check messed it up considerably.

This blog says it all, better than I can about Zarqawi and more. I love the cartoon.

While in Washington D.C. this past Thursday I came across something that made me want to half-laugh and half-cry. My family and I stopped in at the Smithsonian Museum of American History (a really cool museum by the way) and were making our way through the section on the American Presidency when we came across a touch screen poll. Naturally I decided to vote (being a conservative who believes that voting is important ).
The poll was on the most influential president in the history of America, you could choose any president in history from George Washington to George W. Bush. I, being a conservative, chose Ronald Reagan and pressed the results button. The top six appeared on the screen, they were as follows: 1) George Washington, 2) Abe Lincoln, 3) Franklin Roosevelt, 4) Bill Clinton 5) Ronald Reagan, 6) George W. Bush
"That's nice, but what's the point?" you ask. You probably think that I'm upset at Reagan's fifth place showing, a little but not much. The thing that really stuck out to me was the ignorance (or downright stupidity) of the people voting in the poll, why was Clinton in fourth place? Why was he even on the list?
It's not just because I'm a conservative who thinks Bill Clinton the second worst president of all time. I just don't see what Clinton did to rank him that high, you may like Clinton, but if you can show me one thing he did that was a big benefit to our country please comment.
Washington had the distinction of being the first, his decisions had a huge influence on what the fledgling US would do. Lincoln guided the great ship of state through the turbulent Civil War. FDR (who I wouldn't have ranked so high, but I digress) got America through World War II. Reagan came into office with a demoralized America, they had suffered Vietnam, Watergate, Gerald Ford and the almost killing blow of Jimmy Carter as president; yet America became a proud nation during Reagan's term. George W. Bush had the strength and integrity that helped us rebuild our shattered country in the wake of September 11, 2001 and to lead us to victory over the Taliban.
In the midst of these great men stands a saxophone former governor of Arkansas and what has he done to warrant this rank? Absolutely nothing.

Is the EU crazy? Personally, I think so, but I'll digress for the moment. The European Union has put together a package of economic and political proposals as an incentive for Iran to close down its Nuclear Program. A word of advice to the EU, diplomacy won't work, bending over backwards won't work...only one thing will convince the terrorist now president of Iran: force!
Not a just a verbal threat of invasion but actual plans for invasion followed by invasion if he still refuses to give up their nuclear weapons program.

The London-based human rights group: Amnesty International has written a report to the U.N. accusing the U.S. government of torturing terror suspects in Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq. However, no specifics were mentioned or even generalizations in the article I read. But my response comes in 2 parts:
1) I'm glad Amnesty International decided to actually investigate reports of torture...where was Amnesty International when Saddam Hussein was killing thousands of his own people? I did a search on Amnesty International's website looking for the words: Saddam Hussein and torture. The results? A few items about various Husseins not related to Saddam and three about Amnesty International supervising Saddam's trial to make it fair. Why don't you liberals involved in this organization go investigate the countries that torture people? The United States government has never authorized torture (Al Gore's speeches as VP notwithstanding).
2) You're are the same bunch who wanted the U.S. to grant terrorists POW status. Terrorists who hide behind innocents and cower in caves...only daring to attack when apathy has prevailed. Anybody with the brain of a slug knows that you don't give cowards and skunks POW status, if nothing else it will inflate their egos more then they need.
Anybody who supports these terrorists are terrorists, and I group Amnesty International in that. They have aided and abetted terrorists by making up lies about the best country on the face of the earth...if you don't like the way we run things here, fine...drop dead.

Is it just me or are there more and more people whining lately? The liberals whine that Bush isn't leading the country right, the liberals whine that too many troops are dying in Iraq, the liberals whine that gas is too high. Okay, so maybe only the liberals have been whining but today hundreds of thousands of Hispanics took a page from the liberals playbook. Hispanics flooded the streets, leaving their workplaces and schools, to protest immigration reform that would make entering the country illegally a felony. Protestors marched and carried signs that read such things as: "Our Rights" "We Are America" and such things. My response will come in two parts. 1) If you are an employer whose workers left work today to protest fire them! Anybody who walks off the job should be fired. 2) You are not America out there. You are Mexicans who have illegally crossed the border and squatted here. You also have no rights, you are not citizens of the U.S. and cannot and should not be treated like one. If you aren't legalized then you have no rights and sure as heck shouldn't be granted amnesty. But my biggest problem with these "immigrants" is the fact that they will not become American they want to make money here without having to give something to make America better. Theses people want America to pay them, clothe them, provide for them while they care so little for America that they won't even learn English (and we're expected to accommodate. If there are people out there who really want to become Americans...immigrate legally...it's not that difficult...unless you're a known terrorist or drug dealer. Theodore Roosevelt had this to say about immigrants and immigration: "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself with us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every way an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

The news and the blogosphere has been jumping around with different stories of the gas prices. And just yesterday President Bush announced his intention to let oil companies stop (temporarily) putting percentages of their supply into the emergency reserve. While liberals and some conservatives have accused this companies of price-gouging I do not believe that is happening (at least not on a large scale).
Oil companies make a total profit of 9 cents on a gallon of gas, the federal government has a tax of 18.4 cents (more than double the oil companies profit) on a gallon of gas and the states levy their own tax on gas, which varies from state to state. In New York for instance the state levies a tax of 44 cents on the gallon! Quit complaining about oil companies! If the federal government would would lreduce their tax on gas and the states each reduce theirs we wouldn't be having these gas prices! The reason they're going up now is because of the switching between the gas that we used in the winter and the gas we use in the summer. Also in America we have over 60 different kinds of gas that have to be sold in different areas, if we didn't spend half our time refining oil into different kinds we could drive the gas prices back down. Who's in charge of these dumb laws? The same idiots in Washington who complain about gas prices while they drive SUVs and fly their own private jets!
Ann Coulter says it much better than I do: http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi

President Bush has said that changes are on the way for his White House. He has given his new chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, authority to make changes as Mr. Bolten sees fit. Bush has restated however that Donald Rumsfeld is secure in his position as Sec. of Defense, which is a relief for a patriotic Americans with brains. Mr. Bush did say that changes would be made and hopefully removing Sec. of Transportation Norman Mineta will be the first. Mineta has done nothing to make our airliners safer, airline officials are still only allowed to detain up to two men of Arab extraction. But Mr. Mineta allows airline officials to strip search little old white ladies who are going to visit their grandchildren. But of course! How could I forget those 19 little old ladies who hijacked four planes in 2001! Oh, that's right. That's why I can't remember...it never happened! But nineteen Arab men did. I'm against racial profiling...but it is going on...people of every other skin color are being detained and searched while Arabs are barely given cursory glances and passed. Something's wrong here and it's Mineta's fault. "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Norm Mineta's got to go!" (Sorry about that)

Just so everyone who reads this blog will know...I am moderating comments posted, for language problems, keep it clean and it will be published. To anonymous out there: you may disagree with me, but keeep it clean.

If you thought the Bahamas were only good for cruises and vacations you have another thing coming. The Bahamas might be the smartest place on the face of the earth right now. The gay-cowboy flick: Brokeback Mountain is banned in the Bahamas. Of course this has the world media up in arms and ready to rumble. The Bahamas have a history of rejecting the homosexual lifestyle, the governmentn there has stated its realization that homosexuality ruins family values...its about time someone stood up for these values. So if you're a conservative you have another good reason to go to the Bahamas, right?

If I wasn't a Christian I would insert several expletives right here. Why the heck are the Republicans the only ones with morals? Ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has decided to resign from his seat. DeLay has been accused of scandal after scandal by liberal attorneys, he is caught up in defending himself against charges of illegal usage of funding. According to the article I read he stepped down from his position as House Majority leader for having ties to Jack Abramoff, God only knows what that means, if having ties to Jack Abramoff makes you ineligible to hold a position in government than Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid should step down because not only does he have "ties" he actually took money from him and then refused to give it back, unlike the Republicans who took money from him. However I digress, I have a message to Tom Delay (in case my fame has spread and he reads this blog): Don't resign, come back twice as strong and the liberals will be stunned, Texas needs you and wants you, as does America.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last week, you know that Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) was stopped and detained by Capitol Hill Police while on her way into the Capitol. McKinney was not wearing her badge, which members of congress are supposed to do and was not recognized by the police officer who detained her. However McKinney and her band of idiots are trying to blame the police officer, said McKinney: "This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman."Come on, Cynthia! Are you really vain enough to believe that the police officer wanted to touch you inappropriately?
But does it end there? No! Notice the last phrase in McKinney's statement, "a female black congresswoman." While I am certainly glad you're not a male black congresswoman, I think you are trying to relive the sixties over an incident that was your own stupid fault.
According to McKinney's lawyer, James W. Myart Jr., "Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin." Mr. Myart, may I suggest you take the money McKinney will be paying you for defending her and go buy a brain? The congresswoman was in the wrong, she was not wearing her badge that showed who she was and, according to Capitol Hill Police officials, she was asked three times by the officer to stop and when she did not he tried to detain her...At which time she struck the officer, very politely I'm sure, Mr. Myart.
Cynthia McKinney should shut her mouth and get a life, you are no Rosa Parks, Cynthia, Rosa Parks would have been ashamed to even know you.

That U.N., I'm telling you, they are so big...so brave, so willing to stand up to countries who attempt to build a nuclear arsenal. Oh, wait a minute I forgot, it's the U.S. who gets to do that...the U.N. only passes "resolutions" without any resolve.
Their newest and brightest calls for Iran to dismantle it's uranium enrichment program...like Iran going to stop enriching uranium because the U.N. which issued countless numbers of resolutions at Saddam Hussein (and did nothing) asks them to? Get real, all you Mr. Big Shot Diplomats! Diplomacy with a terrorist country doesn't work! Yeah, that's right, Iran is a terrorist country...not a terrorist-sponsoring country, every government official they have is a terrorist. Why don't we combine the militaries of every country in the U.N. Security Council and invade Iran and get rid of their nuclear program? Because the U.N. is a committee of weak-kneed, yellow-bellied, chicken-hearted numbskulls, (that's the G-rated version)that's why! As Robert Welch (head of the John Birch Society during the 60s) said: "Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S." I say let the U.N. go hold there meeting in Paris...maybe in the Eiffel Tower?

The junior senator from New York does not believe the new immigration bill is consistent with Republican's claim to values. Hillary Clinton ,in a speech yesterday, denounced the new bill that would make illegal immigration a felony instead of a civil offense as unchristian. The senator believes that this is contradictory to the Republican's party's claim of faith and values. Mrs. Clinton also called the bill "mean spirited." Apparently it is standing up for faith and values and sweet spirited to con innocent people out of homes through sneaky contracts as Mrs. Clinton did in the scandal known as Whitewater, which for some reason never made it to the papers, but that's another story. And apparently it's all right to fire federal employees on false charges to hire old cronies as in the scandal known as Travelgate. But apparently securing our borders from illegal immigrants is not.

On a local radio talk show I heard a bit of information I didn't know about General John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. This sounds like a good idea for us to do with insurgents.
WARNING! If you have a weak stomach you shouldn't read this.
It seem that in the early 1900s America was having troubles with Muslim insurgents in the Philippines. The War Department dispatched General John Pershing to deal with the problem. When Pershing arrived he ordered his men to capture some of the Muslims, they captured 50.
Pershing had the Muslims tied to posts, then he ordered his men to slaughter a pig in front of the Muslims. Next he had his men dip 49 bullets in the pigs blood and shoot 49 of the Muslims. Pershing then ordered his men to throw the bodies into a deep pit and they did, he told them to next take the pig's remains and bury them on top of the Muslims, this they also did. After he had completed this Pershing ordered that the last Muslim be released, and from that day forward the US didn't need to worry about Muslims in the Philippines.

Happy Third Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom to you all! I would suggest getting down on our knees and thanking God for our president and soldiers as a celebratory move.
All the media can talk about it this happy occasion is the violence in Iraq. Of course the insurgents attacking today, they hate this day more than any other. They want us out and will do anything to get us out, the only way to win is to do anything to destroy them.

Iran is soooo nice to us! They have condescended to discuss the future of Iraq with us. Two things:
1) We don't care what the heck you think about Iraq, we want to talk about your nuclear weapons program and when you are going to stop them. Before or after we blow them out of existence?
2) The news report said that you are worried over the violence in Iraq. Why? Because when it stops the US might start to give you a closer look?

It's not common for me to praise Senator John McCain (Arizona-R), mainly because of his waffling on certain issues, but here I will do so, during the Southern Republican Leadership convention John McCain called for Republicans to rally around Bush. He said and I quote: "It's easy to be loyal when the guy is at 65 percent.
I'm not going to kick him while he's down." Now there is only one way that I'd ever vote for McCain for president and that's if Mrs. Clinton was the other choice, but for once McCain has remained loyal and that's a rare thing and he deserves credit.

Way to go South Dakota! SD's governor has just signed into law a bill passed by South Dakota's legislature that bans abortions in that state unless the mother's life is in danger. Of course the courts are going to start a fight over how this in "unconstitutional" while acting unconstitutional. The courts in America were meant to uphold the laws passed by the federal and state governments not overturn them...so while a judge declares this new law "unconstitutional" remember that if Jefferson or Madison or Hamilton were still alive they would seek to have that judge removed from office...for overstepping his lawful and intended bounds.

It's not often that I applaud Hollywood for doing something right...but today I will break with that tradition. Last night in a stunning announcement at the Academy, gay-cowboy flick: Brokeback Mountain was rejected for Best Picture. After having been predicted as a favorite to sweep the Oscars, Brokeback lost to Crash a film about interracial relations. Brokeback did however walk away with a total of three awards: Best Director (which should have gone to Andrew Adamson for his Narnia work, he wasn't even nominated), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Musical Score. Next year the academy should take more time and nominate films that audiences have actually seen. None of the Best Picture nominations made it to the Top 10 grossing films of the year. The Academy apparently ignored this when making their decisions and I for one would like to know why...and I'm sure every Star Wars fan out there wanted Revenge of the Sith to be nominated and win something...being the last installment of that series. And I am shaking my head at the stupidity of the Academy...Narnia won one award: Best Makeup, come one, is that all you guys could think of?

BIG NEWS! President Bush was warned of Katrina before it struck! Wow! I never would have guessed that would you? News agencies are going ballistic because it is said that Pres. Bush was told of the hurricane's abilitly to break levees and flood New Orleans. In confidential video footage of a video conference between FEMA and the President, then FEMA Brown warns Bush of the potential of this hurricane. At the end Bush confidently replies that FEMA is ready...relying on the info he was getting from FEMA this should be obvious...did Brown say that FEMA would be unable to handle it...I don't think so!
But hold off on that for now, engineers have been warning the government for the last 15-20 years that the levees in New Orleans could be easily breached if hit with a category 4 or 5 hurricane. It's time for the moronic media to shut up and get out.
During this weeks festivities in new Orleans for Mardi Gras, the media was reporting: "New Orleans celebrates first Fat Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday) since Katrina!" There is a reason for this as Rush Limbaugh pointed out, namely that this is the first Fat Tuesday since Katrina.
What went wrong during Katrina? I have the answer. The Democratic Governor of Louisiana and Mayor of New Orleans refused to cooperate with the Red Cross and the Federal government. In a nutshell that's it, true the federal government could have been better prepared, but you can always be better prepared when disaster strikes...that's why it's called "disaster!"

I would like to retract my blog of the 23rd. In it as you can read below I criticized the Bush administration for allowing a security firm based in the United Arab Emirates to take control of six US Ports. Like most Americans with this issue I spoke in haste and ignorance (see Adam I'll admit I don't know everything). The "mainstream" media has been portraying this as basically a complete turnover of security at our ports to this company. This is a complete fabrication. True DP World is contracted to take over part of security at these six ports including New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore but the U.S. Coast Guard will be overseeing all security measures as it has done, is doing and will continue to do at all US Ports. The Coast Guard has released a report on DP World stating that contracting them is not endangering America in any way. The media and the Democrats have taken this opportunity to make a pretence of being tough on terrorism and to crucify Bush and his administration. Perhaps even if Americans can't agree with Bush on this deal we can at least look at Bush's record and the liberals record on terrorism as of now it ranks, Bush: 100, Dems: 0

Families of the men and women who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks want the memorial planned for the site of the the Twin Towers changed. The present plan, called "The Reflecting Absence" will outline he place where the Twin Towers stood with reflecting pools and the names of the victims. The problem: It will be underground...a tree-lined plaza will be built above ground at the site. Local police and firemen, who were first responders, are concerned over the small number of exits from the memorial in case of fire or another terrorist attack. Family members want the memorial above ground so that everyone can see, not just the ones who venture underground.
Personally I think they're all wrong, we don't need a memorial of either kind, the most fitting memorial is to rebuild the towers, rebuild them and add 3 more stories to it and shove it right back in the terrorists arrogant faces. By doing this we will be telling them: You knocked down the last ones and we've got even better ones now. To commemorate the people who died on 9/11 I would suggest putting up engravings inside the towers on each floor and list the people who worked on that floor. For the brave firemen and policemen who went in and didn't come back out put their names on two of the extra three stories in order of their stations and their response. The pilots and passengers of the two flights that crashed into them should be put on the top floor.

Two very great and different men died over the weekend:
1) The great comedian\actor Don Knotts, best remembered for his portrayal of high-strung deputy Barney Fife in "The Andy Griffith Show"died Friday in Los Angeles. Knotts was an actor whose performances spanned generations from "The Steve Allens Show" in the fifties to voicing characters in animated films as late as 2005. Knotts was a man of many talents, able to make people laugh at the way his expressions would say more than the words he spoke. Knotts, one of the last of the great comedic actors of the sixties is proof of the fact that something good can ideed come out of West Virginia (just not Senators).
2) "The father of modern Creationism", as he is known, died this weekend. Dr. Henry Morris of "Institute for Creation Research" (ICR) had a minor stroke last Wednesday and died in his son's home. His son Dr. John Morris continues his father's work at ICR and is a recognized scientist in the United States and around the world. My condolences to the Morris family and my thanks to Henry Morris, truly a great man.

Has the Bush administration gone mad? Normally I agree with the Bush administration but I take issue over two things: 1) Illegal Immigrants (Stop them now!) and 2) What the heck are you thinking? Why give a United Arab Emirates security firm six of our ports to protect? Are we trying to invite the terrorists over here? With the UAE controlling security at six of our ports the terrorists could easily slip a nuclear weapon into the United States and BOOM the rest of New York City is gone.
Why not continue with our guys in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for security. As a ICE agent said when told of this deal: "Allowing the UAR to take over these important Ports is akin to allowing Michael Jackson to babysit your children, or allowing Bill Clinton to take your wife along on a business trip!"
Mr. President, maybe you think you are extending the hand of friendship to a third-world nation. But this nation harbors terrorists, according to your speech after Sep. 11, 2001 that should disqualify them from having anything to do with the US, especially something to do with protecting our ports! If this "security" firm gets the job then we will be more vulnerable to another terrorist attack on US soil than we have been since 9/11.

Yesterday Hugo Chavez, Dictator of Venezuela, gave a speech criticizing the American government and he warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: "Don't mess with me Condoleezza. Don't mess with me, girl." These comments came after Rice stated that Venezuela was a threat to regional democracy in South America.
News to Chavez: If Condi has it in for you, you will fall and history books will forget you existed. Except for maybe a note on why America set up a democracy in Venezuela.

News from Ponce, Puerto Rico...Antonin Scalia has finally revealed who his opponents are. Scalia was visiting Puerto Rico on a "Federalist Society" sponsored trip. Scalia a long-serving supreme court justice has stated that his ideas on the constitution include such far out things as: 1) a literal reading of the constitution [meaning things as abortion and gay marriage are not protect by the constitution], 2) anyone who believes that the constitution should change with society is an "idiot"
Scalia for President ! I knew he was my favorite supreme court justice for a reason. Scalia knows that just because society goes down the toilet doesn't mean the constitution has to follow. I still can't understand why Bush didn't pick him for Chief Justice. Imagine the uproar with the Dems, Bush could just stand back and say: "Knock yourselves out, boys." Ah, well, that issue is already taken care of.
The liberals believe that Scalia is "pushing" his conservative "agenda" on Americans. News flash to liberals everywhere: "America's Founders Were conservatives and before you get started on that Christian bit, most of America's Founders were Christians or at the very least Deists. Put that in your marijuana and smoke it.

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights released a report in January that blasted the United States for acts "amounting to torture" at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The U.N.'s report was printed on Sunday in the L.A. Times and stated that the "Commission on Human Rights" wants the detainee prison shut down.
Among the charges that amount to torture are force-feeding and solitary confinement. Wow...everyone remotely involved with the Club Gitmo should be thrown in jail for that! First to ensure that the detainees stay alive the guards break up a hunger-strike and have to force the detainees to eat, big deal. Mothers have to force their contrary two year olds to eat sometimes too and I don't see a U.N. report on banning mothers. And I thought the U.N. wanted us to leave the terrorists all alone...and we do...we capture them and put them in solitary confinement where the only person they can hurt is themselves.

Stop the world I want to get off! The end of the world has come upon us!
The press has actually revealed that Republicans are not the only ones involved with Jack Abramoff! I've been saying it since this whole thing started...what about the Democrats involved? And finally today the Associated Press reveals that Harry Reid, the Senate Majority leader, had ties with Abramoff. While this Senator has been blasting Republican Senators about taking money from Abramoff it seems he did as well. Let me point out a difference between the Republicans and the Democrat Reid, the republicans are returning the tainted money while Reid absolutely refuses to do so.

This is going to offend those of you who believe in "toleration," if you fit that description I'd suggest you close this site on three. One...two..three...
Well if you're still here then you can only blame yourself if you don't like this.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said that President Bush and Secretary of State Condi Rice should "shut up." Why? Because they were the only political figures to state the fact that Syria and Iran are fueling the protests over a cartoon in a Danish newspaper. The Sheik happens to be the head of Hezbollah, a known terrorist group.
The article that reported this (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060202102909990005&cid=774) seems to have all the facts, until we take a closer look. Does anyone else know that these cartoons were printed last year? If you said yes, good for you! Why are the Muslims just now making a fuss? Because Iran is under the international microscope and they don't like it. Iran has been pushed off newspaper front pages since these riots started. Iran is still shocked that their friends in Europe would actually dare to tell them what to do. But not shocked enough to just sit there and do nothing. Another question is...where did all the Danish flags come from? Apparently it took them this long to ship in enough for the protests...maybe that's their story..."we needed flags to burn and we couldn't get them any quicker." Right.
On the issue of the cartoons themselves, why shouldn't cartoons make fun of Mohammed? Newspapers can make fun of Christians, Jews, Jesus or any other person related with these beliefs. Why not Islam and why not Mohammed? Because the religion of Islam is the only one that believes that you should kill those who believe different. That's why.
Things like this make me wish the Crusades (a grudge held against Christians by the Muslims) were successful. I don't care how many people say. I don't care how many republicans say it. I don't care how many conservatives say it. Islam is not a religion of peace it is primarily concerned with killing dissenters. No other religion is this extreme...peace has no place in Islam...not the way "the Prophet" told it.

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (Republican) insists that he did not call homosexuals: "fruits." In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine Brownback criticized the legalizing of homosexual marriage in countries such as Sweden. During the course of the interview Senator Brownback quoted this verse from the Bible: "You'll know them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:19). Obviously, to anyone with a brain that is, Brownback's comments were supposed to point out what effects the legalization of gay marriage has had on Sweden's culture. Sweden has one of the worst divorce rates in the world, not just heterosexual divorces either. Sweden has a high poverty and crime rate.
But unfortunately for Brownback the reporter at Rolling Stone and the people of the "Human's Rights Campaign" (who stand up for everything that is not a right, like abortion and gay marriage) believed that he was calling gays "fruits."
According to "Human's Rights Campaign" spokesman Brad Luna (or maybe he is really a she) "It's nice to know that Senator Brownback doesn't resort to name-calling from the 1970s, but unfortunately his anti-gay agenda continues to speak for itself." Since when has disagreeing with a warped worldview become a bad thing? I agree that Brownback's record speaks for itself. It's saying: "I represent the moral and spiritual tradition of America...if you don't like it...move to Sweden!" Brownback, a potential presidential nominee for '08 will have my vote if he makes it.

I don't know about you but I'm sick and tired of hearing about now wrong it was to use our surveillance technology against our enemies.
Of course none of the liberals ever say exactly that...instead they say that Bush is spying on Americans...I would sooner not place the men who killed 3000 people on September 11, 2001 in the same class as me.
Why shouldn't we use our technology to find out who our enemies are inside the country. The problem with the US Government today is not "domestic spying." It's too many rules! Why shouldn't the commander-in-chief of the United States use every tool in his arsenal against our enemies? Unfortunately the liberals won't acknowledge us as being at war.
To them I say "Shut up. Shut up and listen to America. The latest poll shows the President with 68% approval for 'spying'."

I signed online to read the scores from the playoffs, and what to my wondering eyes appears? A headline that proudly proclaimed: Michael Schiavo weds girlfriend of five years! (sorry about that)
This story goes to prove what a jerk this man is. First he collects insurance money after he starves his wife to death. Then he decides to write a book about it. Now he marries his girlfriend, with whom he has two kids. What kind of husband cheats on his wife and then says that he knows what she would have wanted? Sorry, Michael, but I think she would have wanted you to be a faithful husband instead of messing around while she's in the hospital. And why was she in the hospital in the first place? Something fishy methinks. I'm still not convinced you didn't have anything to do with it.

Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn) told some Republican activists that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is a "nightmare" for liberal Democrats. The news article on AOL went on to say that while Alito is a "nightmare" for liberals, no Democrat has said that he will oppose Alito on the floor of the Senate.
That's why Alito's a "nightmare" to the Democrats. If they were to try and filibuster Mr. Alito, the Democratic party would lose the '06 elections and the '08 elections big time. The American people are sick and tired of the democrats pulling their little "we filibuster" stunt everytime a conservative judge is nominated. Except of course for those few whiny Democrats who are out of the mainstream.

As everyone knows one Monday the nation "celebrated" Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I am not a big fan of Martin Luther King Jr. but I have no objection to the African-Americans (we must be politically correct) having a holiday for one of their heroes. The reason I used the word celebrated in quotation marks is because it seemed rather to be another "smear Republicans and white people day." US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) gave a speech in which she accused Republicans from "running a plantation" with African American congressmen. Excuse me (for being Republican), but President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in 1863, he was a Dem...no wait he was Republican! Who enforced desegregation in Arkansas (Hillary's home state originally)? It was President Eisenhower, and he was a Dem...wait he was Republican too. Who appointed not one, but two black Americans to the position of Secretary of State? President George W. Bush...and he is definitely not a Democrat! Does it mean anything that Bush appointed more blacks to his cabinet then Bill Clinton? Not to Hillary it sure as heck don't.
Also in the news today: The Washington Times ran a story in which they revealed the hypocrisy of Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass). It revealed how that, while Mr. Kennedy criticized Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito for belonging to a Princeton club that was opposed to letting women and minorities enroll (20+ years ago) at Princeton, Mr. Kennedy belonged to an all-men club (personally I have no problem with that) from Harvard. Mr. Kennedy has resigned from that club now, the better to criticize other nominees who may come his way. His spokeswoman defended him by saying that he joined it in 1954, before women were accepted at Harvard. Mr. Alito joined his club before women were allowed to enroll at Princeton. Unfortunately, for him, only Democrats can get away with things like that.

The man who tried to assassinate the late Pope John Paul II has disappeared. Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to kill the pope on May 13, 1981 was released from prison, in Turkey, yesterday. He was ordered to check in at police stations every day until officials decided whether or not he should be drafted into the military. By this evening he had failed to show up.
Agca was also ordered to appear at a military hospital on Monday. If he fails to show up he will be branded a draft-dodger (how about "would-be assassin?"). Officials are waiting to make sure that their hasn't been a mistake, there has been. They made it when they released Agca from jail. Someone should examine the Turkish officials' heads (and that right speedily).

Today on CNN.com they ran a story about al-Qaeda lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri releasing a videotape in which he told President Bush that he must admit defeat in Iraq. What kind of idiots are they at CNN? Do they really think Bush is going to listen to a terrorist?
During World War II the Germans employed an English-speaking woman to taunt and discourage the GIs from fighting, they nicknamed her Axis Sally. The Japanese did the same and the GIs nicknamed here Tokyo Rose. I hereby christen Zarahiri: On-the-run Ayman.

While in Canada over the weekend (for my brother's wedding) I had a chance to read a Canadian newspaper. I didn't expect much in the way of pro-American sentiment in it, so I wasn't disappointed. Basically the whole paper was dedicated to telling the Americans what we were doing wrong and how we should act more like the Canadian government.
It especially criticized Bush for "spying" on Americans. That's all fine and dandy for them to say. If my memory does not deceive me America was the one attacked on September 11th, not Canada. Now the administration is trying to stop another attack from happening and only getting criticized for its efforts. This is strangely reminiscent of the 1960s-1970s, Kennedy and Johnson got away with whatever they wanted, along comes Nixon and the first slip-up he makes is considered a scandal. Ford gets treated the same way, then along comes Carter and the press begins to respect the president's privacy again.

Happy New Year to one and all!