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is the Democrat Party a fetid stench? Surely. For it is not answerable to the needs, interests, demands, or beliefs of its individual members. More importantly: if the national party, if the Party's national committee expounds and enacts beliefs and goals that do not reflect (accurately) the diversity of its individual members' beliefs, then it is a fetid stench. The question then is "why"? If the topic is "abortion" then the Party, its Party Line, and its agenda is not created by looking to the many church-goers in the Party, many Bible-believers, or even many Pro-Life hippies that are so pro-life they hate war, capital punishment, and have even turned to vegetarianism or veganism. Whether or not they are wack-jobs is not the point and I won't explore those notions. However, if the left-wing party does have a responsibility to respond to those members' ideas and beliefs I do not see it. They certainly respond to the demands of NARAL Pro-Choice American and Planned Parenthood. Is this proper? I do not know. It is currently the position of that party that they respond more to the demands of certain interest groups more than they work to support the personal quests of even some of the legislators that are Democrats in membership. Was it a moral epiphany or political convenience that led to Al Gore becoming a supporter of abortion during his time in the US Senate? Abortion is only one example from the whole gamut. Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
NBA Finals 2008 FNC Alert BREAKING NEWS 6/17/2008 11:57 PM BOSTON CELTICS DEFEAT LOS ANGELES LAKERS 131-92 TO WIN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE From the start I was hoping that the Celtics would not end up facing the Lakers simply for the fact that the fruition of the so-called rivalry confrontation would end up making the ABC bean-counter consumer capitalists happy. They were hoping for it since the play-offs began and I hate it when those jerks set aside everything about the love of the game when they simply start anticipating and drooling over what promotionals they can have in a few weeks or a month. So of course they were talking about this back when the Pistons were facing the Celtics in the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals, as if the Pistons did not exist. I cannot recall who the Lakers were playing at the time in the Western Conference Finals but I guess they did not exist. So I have two reasons for being disappointed and annoyed that the Detroit Pistons lost to the Boston Celtics. I never really cared for the Los Angeles Lakers or their flagship player Kobe Bryant. I cannot even recall how many games it took the Celtics to beat the Lakers. Labels: Detroit Pistons, Fox News, sports Sunday, June 08, 2008
The Laws of the Public Policy Process The Laws of the Public Policy Process by Morton C. Blackwell 1. Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no. 2. Don't fire all your ammunition at once. 3. Don't get mad except on purpose. 4. Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable. 5. Make the steal more expensive than it's worth. 6. Give 'em a title and get 'em involved. 7. Expand the leadership. 8. You can't beat a plan with no plan. 9. Political technology determines political success. 10. Sound doctrine is sound politics. 11. In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead. 12. Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog. 13. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. 14. Remember the other side has troubles too. 15. Don't treat good guys like you treat bad guys. 16. A well-run movement takes care of its own. 17. Hire at least as many to the right of you as to the left of you. 18. You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent. 19. All gains are incremental; some increments aren't gains. 20. A stable movement requires a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally. 21. An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. 22. Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there. 23. In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy. 24. Actions have consequences. 25. The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure. 26. Personnel is policy. 27. Remember it's a long ball game. 28. The test of moral ideas is moral results. 29. You can't beat somebody with nobody. 30. Better a snake in the grass than a viper in your bosom. 31. Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing. 32. A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough. 33. Governing is campaigning by different means. 34. You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends. 35. Choose your enemies as carefully as you choose your friends. 36. Keep a secure home base. 37. Don't rely on being given anything you don't ask for. 38. In politics, nothing moves unless pushed. 39. Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals. 40. One big reason is better than many little reasons. 41. In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared. 42. Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. 43. Promptly report your action to the one who requested it. 44. Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics. 45. Pray as if it all depended on God; work as if it all depended on you.Morton C. Blackwell, PresidentLeadership Institute Saturday, June 07, 2008
ding dong the Witch is dead But the fun part in this case is that Hillary Clinton got to watch herself die. Oh I apologize, Hillary Clinton is not a Witch and comparing her to an Oz character is unfair. The best one-word phrase to describe Hillary Clinton is Satan. Labels: Democrats, Hillary Rodham Clinton, link dump, politics Clint Eastwood versus Spike Lee Spike Lee is apparently an idiot and Clint Eastwood is not afraid to call him on it. Clint Eastwood folds his gangly frame behind a clifftop table at the Hotel Du Cap, a few miles up the coast from Cannes, sighs deeply, and squints out over the Mediterranean. "Has he ever studied the history?" he asks, in that familiar near-whisper.Mr. Eastwood gives Mr. Lee the verbal smackdown. Eastwood pauses, deliberately - once it would have provided him with the beat in which to spit out his cheroot before flinging back his poncho - and offers a last word of advice to the most influential black director in American movies. "A guy like him should shut his face."The article in the guardian goes on to discuss Clint Eastwood's career, past and present, as well as reflections on the "'libertarian'" Eastwood's contrasts with Conservatives and Conservatives and the real meaning of Dirty Harry. Labels: Clint Eastwood, link dump, politics Friday, June 06, 2008
D-Day Hundreds of thousands of Englishmen, Canadians, and Americans sacrificed their comforts, strict freedoms, and many of them their lives to stop the Axis Powers, and the great Allied invasion of France began on the beaches on this day 65 years ago. Also in the case of anniversaries: Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated forty years ago. I fear his image outlived his purpose in life and that image haunts us. Google focuses on celebrating Diego Velázquez's birthday.  Labels: Google, history, politics, World War II Obamamessiah 2 Jonah Goldberg tackles the delusions, prophecies, and high-falutin' Obama-moralism. Labels: Barack Obama, politics the morality of killing vampires http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/06/pressing_nonhum.html Thursday, June 05, 2008
Dennis Miller versus Al Gore and eco-weenies "delicate balance of nature" ha! Two minutes in.... Labels: Al Gore, embedded media, politics Dennis Miller on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Labels: embedded media, Iraq, politics, terror war, war Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Gage County, NE yay Gage County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of 2000, the population was 22,993. Its county seat is Beatricefine Tuesday, June 03, 2008
LI details political technology selling pointsbulk processes During the fall of 2006, its Campus Leadership Program sent out 60 field representatives to help conservative students create independent campus groups.work work work Blogging is Life Not really. Blogging is note-taking. It also maintains sanity in stressful situations. Or it prolongs the situation that creates the stress. Either explanation works. Labels: about the weblog, off-topic Mitt Romney moves to California On the May 1st program of the Hugh Hewitt show, an hour 1 interview reveals that Governor Romney has purchased a home in San Diego (while he has not sold the house in Mass). This makes the current total of "home states" that the former Presidential candidate has, oh, let's see:
Labels: geography, Hugh Hewitt, Michigan, Mitt Romney, politics, Republicans Left Lieberman Global Warming Lemming Conservatives love Conn Sen Lieberman for his sensible positions on America's martial traditions and war-type foreign policy. It is important to remind people that however much the Democrat Party maligns him, Sen Lieberman is still a Man of the Left. Ben Lieberman goes over a bill that Sen Lieberman wrote with Sen Warner that demonstrates Sen Lieberman's role in the Global Warming farce crusade. Labels: global warming, Joseph Lieberman, politics Do you know what religion your children are learning in public schools? I'll give you a hint. His name is Allah. Actually, this is a story about one instance about the kids learning about an exotic religion with over one billion believers and their parents were never told. Burt County, NE aspects and facts About Burt County
Labels: geography I have no more need to take the Democrat Party seriously From William J. Bennett at the Corner at National Review Online: And thus the Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of George McGovern, albeit without McGovern’s military and political record. The Democratic party is about to nominate a far-left candidate in the tradition of Michael Dukakis, albeit without Dukakis’s executive experience as governor. The Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of John Kerry, albeit without Kerry’s record of years of service in the Senate. The Democratic party is about to nominate an unvetted candidate in the tradition of Jimmy Carter, albeit without Jimmy Carter’s religious integrity as he spoke about it in 1976. Questions about all these attributes (from foreign policy expertise to executive experience to senatorial experience to judgment about foreign leaders to the instructors he has had in his cultural values) surround Barack Obama. And the Democratic party has chosen him.High standards and deep underlying character, as well as a mighty and detailed history with great experience are not important when choosing your left-wing Presidential candidate. What more needs to be said? Why are people clamoring for this guy? Because they don't care. I should weep for my country. Labels: Barack Obama, Democrats, politics, The Corner at NRO Conservatives, fear not This story-article is reprinted here illegally, obviously. 
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Wandering Wolverine begins on fascism and racism
There is a reason Wandering is doing this. It's obvious but I will explain it later. The point is.... he's right. The obsession with accommodating the feelings and comforts of certain constituents leads to an obliteration of rights in Great Britain; the obsession with a sort of racial cohesion is rampant in multiculturalism, which is merely a cultural hammer.
Pistons e-newsletter is terrible
I subscribed to Tigers online and I get daily updates as soon as the baseball games end so I will discover especially at first glance who won and other tight statistics from the game that day. On the other hand the Detroit Pistons newsletter comes rarely and isn't quite as timely.
It's really topical; I don't care.
I learned the Pistons lost to the Celtics from a passive comment on ESPN Classic that I overheard. I wasn't listening. The Pistons never told me! I suppose that the almost-fans have to look for themselves. I guess I'm not a fan enough. But perhaps I should get from all Detroit sports teams what I get from the Tigers.
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Obamamessiah
| From: |  Stacy |
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| Date: | May 31, 2008 8:58 AM |
| Subject: | Obama is another false American Idol |
| Body: | http://www. theaustralian. news. com. au/story/0,25197,23707875-601,00. html May 17, 2008 01:07am AEST Obama is another false American Idol Gerard Baker | May 16, 2008 EVERY decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet. In the late 1960s the media placed the halo on Robert Kennedy, the tragic dynast whose antiwar and civil rights credentials made him in life - as he remains to this day in death - a kind of devotional figure for most political journalists. Kennedy at least had charisma and intelligence. But to prove that these were by no means necessary preconditions for the honour, it was conferred a few years later on Jimmy Carter, the plodding nonentity elevated by a willingly compliant press into Everyman, brandishing his steely sword of Truth against the Manichean mendacity of Richard Nixon's Republican legacy. Partly because of the Carter embarrassment, the 1980s were barren years for the idolators. Try as they might, they couldn't work themselves into much ecstasy over Walter Mondale in 1984 or Michael Dukakis in 1988, though they had little flings with bit-part players Gary Hart and (I kid you not) Bruce Babbitt, a genial former governor of Arizona. But by the 1990s a new Democrat, or rather a New Democrat, was come among us, a man the media told us would lift our eyes from our selfish greed and rid the world of the ineffable misery left by 12 years of reactionary rule. It's hard to imagine now, after the battering he's taken from his old friends in the press these past few months, but Bill Clinton was once their idol. His cleverly cynical balancing act - promising a return to high-minded tolerance while executing mentally ill prisoners in Arkansas, for example - was lauded as a brilliant synthesising of traditional liberal ideology with the political realities of the modern age. The alert among you will have noticed by now that what all these spiritually uplifting leaders have in common. They are all Democrats. Never in any of the chapters of this hagiography does a Republican, a conservative, appear in a remotely similar light. These alien creatures by contrast have always been portrayed as cartoonish representatives of the Dark Side of humanity, or, if they were really lucky, simply idiots, failed B-movie actors and irredeemably ignorant hicks with embarrassingly neanderthal views on women, religion and communism. It's been a while coming - neither Al Gore in 2000 (before the luminescence created by his recent joint Nobel/Oscar triumphs) nor John Kerry in 2004 quite fit the bill. But it's fairly clear now that, with the near-certain nomination by the Democrats of Barack Obama everything is in place for the media to indulge in one of the greatest, orgiastic media fiestas of hero-worship since Elvis Presley. You will not see a finer example of the genre than the cover story of this week's Newsweek, which was entitled "The O Team". This rhapsodic inside account of Senator Obama's campaign reads a little like a cross between Fr Alban Butler's Life of St Francis and the sort of authorised biography of Kim Jong Il you can pick up in any good bookshop in Pyongyang. Mr Obama is portrayed throughout as an immanently benevolent figure. Not human really, more a comforting presence, a light source. He is always eager to listen to all sides of an argument, always instilling confidence in the weak-willed, resolutely sticking to his high principles, and tirelessly spurning the low road of electoral politics. I stopped reading after a while but I'm sure by the end he was healing the sick, comforting the dying, restoring sight to the blind and setting prisoners free. The panegyric included the now conventional wisdom in the media that Republicans have only ever won elections in the past 40 years through lies and fearmongering - smearing their opponents and spreading false fears that a vote for a Democrat would open the country to foreign invasion. To be fair, the Newsweek credo was only the latest and perhaps most shameless phase of the pro-Obama liturgy in the media. Some cable TV channels prostrate themselves nightly before him. Most newspapers worship at the altar. They have already set up a neat narrative for the election between Senator Obama and John McCain in November - the Second Coming versus Old Grouchy, The Little Flower of Illinois up against the Scaremongering Axeman from Arizona. There's a special irony here. Senator McCain is the Republican who has received probably the single most favourable treatment from the media in the past 40 years. He has been a favourite because he conformed to the first law of contemporary political journalism: the only good conservative is a bad conservative. His willingness to defy his party on everything from taxes to global warming, to take on George Bush, has earned him at least an honourable mention in the martyrology of American politics of the last 40 years. But now that he's up against Oh! Bama! he will have to be recast in the more familiar Republican mould of villain and scaremonger-in-chief. This media narrative is not only an outgrowth of the journalists' natural enthusiasm for a Democrat such as Mr Obama. It is a clever ploy to pre-emptively de-legitimise any Republican critique of the Democratic nominee. It is designed to prevent Mr McCain from asking reasonable questions about Mr Obama's strikingly vacuous political background, or raising doubts about his credentials for the presidency. The idolatry of Mr Obama is a shame, really. The Illinois senator is indeed, an unusually talented, inspiring and charismatic figure. His very ethnicity offers an exciting departure. But he is not a saint. He is a smart and eloquent man with a personal history that is startlingly shallow set against the scale of the office he seeks to hold. It is not only legitimate, but necessary, to scrutinise his past and infer what it might tell us about his beliefs, in the absence of the normal record of achievement expected in a presidential nominee. If the last 40 years have taught us anything they have surely taught that premature canonisation is an almost certain guarantee of subsequent deep disappointment. The Times |
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President Bush doesn't need to feel helpless
at least about Iran and Syria.
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Mission Nebraska and other stuff
The official Iron Man movie page. I want to download the wallpapers again, although in all different sizes.
It's a shame that due to Mission Nebraska I have no time to review it while it is relevant. Nor can I review Indiana Jones 4 for the exact same reason.
Also, because of Mission Nebraska I cannot see the new Hulk movie in its opening night.
Further posts will definitely be short artifacts, if at all, simply because of Mission Nebraska and the Experience Reflection Paper.
Mission Nebraska will run into June 29th, and it began on the day before Memorial Day.
The Experience Reflection Paper takes priority; let all Christians pray for me. The Paper is due June 7th. I wished to have it completed tonight and yet I failed.
I will explain Mission Nebraska on a later date.
Also: this whole Global Warming obsession reminds me of the Spanish Inquisition in so many ways, especially with the bullying by the so-called religious believers. Although I do not recall if the Inquisitors dealt so actively in revisionist history. Just look: Global Warming Activist Pressures BBC to Significantly Alter Article
at Newsbusters.
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