Google Favors Screwing American Workers!

Our friends at Google made their case before
Congress yesterday,"to open the doors to more
high-skilled foreign workers and make it easier
for them to become citizens. The fact is that
we are in a fierce worldwide competition for
top talent unlike ever before," said Laszlo Bock,
vice-president for people operations at Google.

The usual scare tactics of big business are at play
here! Just who do they think they are fooling?
He goes on to spout............."As companies in
India, China, and other countries step up
efforts to attract highly skilled employees, the
United States must continue to focus on
attracting and retaining these great minds."

This is just a blatant attempt to derail the
opposition to the amnesty and
"chain-immigration"that is built into the
proposed legislation. Is he trying to tell us
that millions of wet-backs, sneaking into the
country illegally, are "great minds"? No!
............. this is just an effort by the usurpers of
ignorant peons, to get as many cheap laborers
into the country as possible, at the expense of the
American worker.

There is no problem with immigration allowing
legal, well educated people into the country, in
the same way that we have always done. But
this smoke screen, deceitful explanation, just
doesn’t hold water.

As to the legal entry of low-scale workers........
who want to become citizens.......we have a
program that allows immigration on
a controlled scale........... in an orderly fashion.
I approve of and applaud that policy. This IS
a country of immigrants...........AND of laws!

"Bock made his comments on June 6 (very
patriotic of him) during business leaders testimony
on immigration reform, before the House
subcommittee on immigration. These leaders
represented different sectors of the economy,
from restaurants, farming, and most conveniently
for Google.......the Internet.

And here’s the good part.................. "But they all
agreed that the U.S. needs to welcome more workers
from abroad". Now if someone can explain to me,
why anybody needs a BA, MA, MS, or PHD, to pick
fruit or harvest vegetables...............I’m listening!
Are these the "great minds" that we are supposed
to be retaining.

Their sole purpose is to have the US relax the
immigration laws so that they can encourage the
greatest exodus in history, from all third world
countries, to the US.

Even assuming that they truly want to import a
higher level of intelligent workers to build our
economy................ why is that so necessary. Why,
when there are thousands upon thousands of
American citizens, fully capable and waiting to
fill those jobs that they are discussing? I’ll tell you
why! They want to further flood the job market,
in order to bring salaries down to the levels of
the developing nations. That my friends is how
you build a business. You find the talent, convince
it that it needs you, more than you need it.....and
then you have a willing worker, thankful for a job
that he could have at third-world wages.

John Gay, senior vice-president for government
affairs and public policy at the National Restaurant
Assn., said "We have a serious demographic
problem in the United States, without an overhaul
to our dysfunctional immigration system, we are
in danger of not having the workers we need to
grow our economy."

American Restaurant Assn.??? Who else would
be screaming for more and more cheap labor?
Has anyone gone to a restaurant that wasn’t
already flooded with non-English-speaking
bus boys, some of whom are most likely illegals?
Have you ever even requested a glass of water
or an extra menu from a bus-boy? Good luck!

Even our friendly "Chinese restaurant" on the
main drag, no longer has any oriental bus-boys.
They are all working in the kitchen, at the cash
register, or waiting tables. I guess they have
stepped up to the next rung on the eco-ladder,
in the true American fashion. I applaud that!

Please don’t misunderstand my intent here. I
firmly believe in immigration..............but a fully
controlled policy. I come from immigrant ancestry,
as most Americans do. Actually, unless you
are of American Indian ancestry, you are all of
immigrant ancestry. (By the way, "native American"
is the "politically correct" way to refer to the
American indian...... sorry, but I am not a "politically
correct" person). So before anyone jumps on
me, and makes some wild accusations about me
being "prejudiced", "ignorant", or some other
trumped up charge.......take a close look at the
problem.

How would you like it if tomorrow, your boss,
manager, or whoever....... taps you on the
shoulder to introduce you to your new "less
expensive" replacement?

It’s not an impossible task to return the 12
million illegals to their home countries. In an
orderly and lawful way..... as they are caught.
It’s also not the "cruel and inhumane" policy
that some of the pro-amnesty crowd and our
vote-seeking politicians claim it is. It is simply
an enforcement of laws that have been on our
books for a century or more.

If it is not too bold of me, I remind these
"bleeding heart" Americans, that our ancestors
waited their turns before getting into the country
without jumping the fence...................... and if
they were caught sneaking in, they were
immediately returned to their home countries.
No ifs, ands or buts!

Forcing employers to hire legal immigrants by
increasing fines and spontaneous checks is
the surest way to bring the illegal situation
under control. Photo ID, assuring that the
person who is working is the person who should
be, is another way. It's impossible to live, without
a job. But......... I am sure that the UCLU will have
something to scream about with that idea. Hey!....
UN-American Civil Liberties Union.............. nothing
wrong with proving who you are. Anybody who is
afraid of that, has very good reason, and probably
shouldn’t be here at all. Any illegal caught within US
borders, should be immediately deported and banned
from re-entering the country.

With a little law enforcement, tighter border
security and common sense, this immigration problem
can be solved.

If I were a Senator or Representative now, I would
be more concerned with the American voter, who is
watching their voting on this upcomming bill. They
have to put aside their political agendas, along with
those of big business and the ever disruptive ACLU,
which just happens to have been founded by a
Communist!

brooklyn

Another Blow at Gore-steria!

The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Oh, sorry,
..........it’s just the climate changing!

Well professor Gore........ here’s another crack
in your mud foundation take on "global warming".
Discovery News reports that fresh research into
Atlantic hurricanes is offering good news on
global warming. Investigators now say that they
believe that the greenhouse effect CANNOT be
blamed for a surge in hurricane activity since the
mid-1990s.

What a relief! And here I was, feeling guilty about
my unshakable belief that climate change has been
an ongoing thing for eons. Now maybe I should
go on the lecture circuit and shoot down the claims
of the world’s self-proclaimed expert on "global
warming".

Discovery News reports:

"Over the past 12 years, there has been an annual
average of 4.1 major hurricanes — storms rating
at least three on a five-point severity scale —
compared with only 1.5 such storms per year
between 1971 and 1994.

This sudden rise has caused many experts to ponder
if seas, progressively warmed by the greenhouse
effect, are to blame"

Hurricanes occur in cycles, as do all weather patterns,
as do the successive melting and building of the
polar ice caps. But what can you expect from
an unemployed former VP, who never did anything
of note, except host fund-raising tea parties at the
White House for the Chinese government, and be
lookout for "Billy-bob"?

As the quintessential politician he is, he saw the
golden opportunity to jump on the bandwagon of
the left, and create a much more serious problem
than the one that actually exists.

We do have a problem. Climate is changing, and man
has something to do with it. But according to most of
the research that I have seen, man can be held
responsible for about one tenth of one percent of
earth’s warming. The rest seems to be an ongoing
natural phenomena, against which we are virtually
helpless.

If Gore could be alive in the year 4699, he would
probably be screaming, "global cooling, global
cooling", and it’s all man’s fault. Get rid of
those damned refrigerators!

brooklyn

The “Kennedy-Bush Amnesty" Bill

President Bush and Senator Kennedy

"If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life."—John Sherman

The Kennedy-Bush amnesty bill or Comprehensive Immigration Reform must be defeated!


Why do we need Comprehensive Immigration Reform in this country anyway? According to President Bush, Senator Ted Kennedy and other advocates of this movement it is because our present immigration laws are broken. How are they broken and who broke them, questions like these should reveal who is behind immigration reform and what are the real reasons and forces that are attempting to change America. As well these questions should reveal the actual impact that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, (CIRA) will have on this country.

3,000 to 8,000 illegal aliens violate American borders daily, it is estimated that anywhere from 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens reside in the United States of America, how is this possible?

It is possible because the President, Congress and advocates of the Citizens of Mexico, who illegally cross American borders, refuse to enforce the borders of the United States of America. This refusal to do so is what is broken about U.S. immigration laws!

I got your “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act” right here!

If the President truly desired to fix what is broken with America’s immigration laws the very first thing must be to stop the bleeding, into America, of illegals who cross our borders with the blatant disrespect and disregard of American laws that they demonstrate.

Two things would start us well on our way, one finish the fence that was already voted on by Congress, signed into law and promised to the American people. The second thing is stop preventing the border patrol from enforcing America’s law at the border. You can’t claim that we are a Nation of laws and not enforce the very laws that distinguish this country from other countries by boundary. Immigration is broken in this country because it is allowed, encouraged and is meant to be so. The White house, Congress, Illegal Alien Advocates and Business are all complicit in America’s broken immigration condition.

Second, honestly discussing the issue of immigration would do a great deal to bring clarity to what is actually happening to America. Underlying this whole issue is a plan to supply business with low wage workers.

To be clear, these are jobs that business obviously couldn’t out source or export or they would have for the cheap labor of India or China. But you can’t very well send farmland in California or a hotel in New York overseas so the next best thing is to import the cheap laborers to do the work in this country ergo the phenomena of illegal entry. One simply creates a vacuum of low wage jobs that Americans (can’t afford to do) wouldn’t do and that vacuum is filled with anxious willing foreign workers after all one man’s slave wages is another man’s… slave wages, but hell the other man was working for less than slave wages back home in Mexico!

This is the economic reality of what is happening with the immigration crisis but the President and advocates of this policy won’t tell you that. They’ll just call you unpatriotic and bigoted if you don’t comply with their wishes as they busily trying to push laws that are detrimental to America upon the American people while trying to convince you that said laws are good for America.

In reality what they are proposing is only good for businesses in America and that may or may not benefit the American people especially if the profit of the company enviably means that America loses its sovereignty.

They couldn’t tell you this because you might think it wrong to import quasi-slave labor into America in order to maximize profits for business while undercutting the greedy American worker who continuously demands health benefits, living wages to support their families, buy gasoline and buy the products that these businesses sell.

And of course, if you knew who these businesses were you might call them into account. So they skulk around hiding in the shadows and out of the light of day. Hiding behind the President and Senators like Senator Ted Kennedy while avoiding all of the politics surrounding this highly volatile issue after all bad publicity is bad for business!

Solutions for the Immigration Crisis

Now that we understand the underlying problems we can rightly fix what causes this economic-political made crisis. We have established that it is business that is the driving force behind the illegal alien crisis and it is business that is behind the so-called political fix of amnesty for illegal aliens.

Business wants workers, cheap labor if that is granted to business this whole problem would be solved because as an amoral entity business doesn’t care whether the workers are legal or illegal as demonstrated by the hiring of illegals already! Also business doesn’t care whether these workers are law breakers or law abiders as demonstrated by the hiring of illegals already!

So to answer the problems of supplying business with the workers it needs and to keep American’s sovereignty intact this is my suggestion to solve the Immigration crisis for America.

Before you grant amnesty to one Mexican National why don’t we put Americans first? What I mean is don’t grant amnesty to a single foreign national until you grant amnesty to Americans.

We have plenty of American law breakers in jail for non-violent crimes. They may have stolen or embezzled money or even cheated on their taxes. I proposal that each and every American that is incarcerated be granted amnesty before any Mexican law breaker receives it.

The American can simply pay a fine for the debt owed to society and promise to, number one, never commit the crime which they were imprisoned for again and, number two, they must work for the slave wages that free Americans won’t work for.

That would immediately save the government money because the states would have less cost for imprisoning these folks and if they are released and if they were obligated to work for wages that free Americans won’t work for, that would fulfill the need for the low wage workers that amoral businesses are clambering for also it would reunited American families that have been torn apart by long cruel incarcerations. So there it is! We would have savings to the government, business supplied with low wage workers and American families united!

It only makes sense that if we are going to reward law breakers then let us reward our own American law breakers first!

These Americans would be granted the some rights and considerations that our government is ready to give to people who are not citizens of this country.

We can cut prison cost and bring Americans who are behind bars from out of the shadows of incarceration and supply business with the laborer that it needs. All American made!

Let’s face it all this talk about a comprehensive immigration reform act is really about supplying low wage workers for big business. President Bush and Republicans should listen to this because bluntly, you need something to pull your fat out of the fire for 2008. So ditch the CIRA and stop the talk about granting amnesty to illegal aliens and grant amnesty to Americans! Mr. President you may want to start with Scooter Libby.

It would only be fair to grant amnesty to American law breakers before you grant amnesty to illegal aliens. It is not right to allow Americans to languish in jail for offenses and violations that are comparable to what illegal aliens do when they illegally enter into our country break our laws, steal identity, steal social services, steal tax payers dollars by using the hospital emergency rooms, or by sending their children to schools or those who drive without licenses or without car insurance. The fact is there are a number of laws that illegal aliens break daily so granting amnesty to American law breakers who are already incarcerated is more expedient for this country because we would reduce the cost to the society when we empty our jails of many of the petty criminals who inhabit our jails.

For instance grant Paris Hilton amnesty release her let her work a low wage job that Americans wouldn’t work and it’s a win, win situation. No cost to incarcerate her and the money that she is paid to do the job of, cleaning hotel rooms, picking crops, working fast food or any of the many jobs that Americans wouldn’t do stays in America and is not sent to another country to support that country’s economy.

For example, Colorado is leading the way with this reform. Colorado has stiffened its laws regarding illegal aliens and is using prisoners to do the work that illegal aliens would do, the result?

A decrease in social cost because prison cost is positively impacted and an exodus of illegal aliens from Colorado because of laws that discourages illegality so social cost that support illegal aliens are reduced too. A win, win again!

Finally there is no shame in protecting Americans and America first. If we are lost then no one can enjoy the benefits and bounties of this nation.

Fixing what ills America is a simple fix start by enforcing the immigration laws at are already on the books all immigration most be legal immigration.

Those who have broken our laws should not be rewarded. To be fair if Paris Hilton can go to jail anyone who breaks our immigration laws should be deported by law. Do not refer to this country as a nation of laws while not enforcing the law.

The workers are here already imprisoned. Pardon them, give them amnesty, let them pay fines and work the low paying wages that other Americans can’t afford to work.

When all the incentives are withdrawn that entices Mexican Nationals to break American laws the floods that crush our borders will cease. When a program is enacted to capture and return all foreigners similar to what France has enacted against foreigners who have purposely disregarded their laws that will be comprehensive immigration reform.

The Bush-Kennedy compromise is a compromise that sells citizenship like the church used to sell indulges that is not the American way and that is not good for America. CIRA must be defeated because it is not good for America. One would think that officials that took an oath to protect the Constitution and America should know that Misters Bush and Kennedy!

I Join the Call!

Let’s go Democrats............ return all that dirty
money that you received from the now indicted
William Jefferson!

As Matt Margolis notes, when Tom DeLay was
indicted, the Democrats, led by Rham Emanuel,
pressured congressional Republicans to return
any DeLay contributions they received. Isn’t
turn-about fair play?

Will the Democrats of the "Original Culture of
Corruption" take the same medicine that they
once prescribed? I doubt it, but all Americans
should be aware of this double standard from
the Pelosi and Reid "gang of thieves".

Jefferson donated his ill-gotten gains, to the
tune of $140,000, to the Democrats Campaign
Committee. So besides being liars and
manipulators, they accepted dirty money, and
seem perfectly content to keep it.

On the list of recipients were:
Nick Lampson, D-TX, Heath Shuler, D-NC,
Ciro Rodrigues, D-TX. Only Lampson is reported
to have returned Jefferson’s Contribution.

Other Democrats who received financial support
from Jefferson are:
Sanford Bishop, $1000; Corrine Brown, $2000;
Lois Capps, $500; Julia Carson, $1000; Donna
Christensen, $1000; Emanuel Cleaver, $2000;
Chet Edwards, $1000; Al Green, $2000; Alcee
Hastings, $1000; Barbara Lee, $1000; John
Lewis, $500; Carolyn McCarthy, $1000; Charlie
Melancon, $2000; Gwendolynne Moore, $1000;
Brad Sherman, $1000; and Mel Watt, $1000.

Jefferson also contributed $5,680 to the
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) PAC.

Jefferson’s Future PAC gave $1,000 each to
Democrat Representatives Corrine Brown,
Julia Carson, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Carloyn
McCarthy, Kendrick Meek, Mike Ross, and
Linda Sanchez.

Morally and ethically, this money should be
returned or donated to charity, as Margolis states.

But then, the Democrats are used to accepting
donations from felons, illegals and foreign
governments. Don’t be surprised if they keep it.
It’s their nature!

brooklyn

Reassuring!

Just wanted to say "thank you", Alaphiah!

I've been posting here for just a short time. But
in that time I have felt very secure, knowing that
tomorrow when I check in, my post will still
be here.

Very different from the leftist management
at SLATE.... which if it were a print journal,
I would call a rag! However, I am sure that
most people could come up with an
appropriate name for an "Opinion Posting
Board" that doesn't permit dissenting
opinion. An oxymoron, if ever there was one!

Any post, whether by a Conservative or
Moderate, whether Republican or Democrat,
that doesn't conform to the "message of the
day" mysteriously disappears. As if that
weren't fascist enough, those persistent
enough to call the wisdom of management
into question, get bounced and permenently
banned. Adding insult to injury, they
consistently allow the rantings, accusations
and name-calling from the far wacked-out
left. It's MORE than time for a change at
Slate. Clap those erasers clean, and get
to work!!!!

brooklyn

Libby gets 30 Months..... Plame Flys Free!

What a travesty. "Scooter" Libby has to serve
2 ½ years in prison, while the bigger liar and fraud,
Valerie Plame gets a walk.

How about some semblance of fairness from the
new Democratic Congress, that promised NOT to
seek groundless revenge on their former counterparts?

Let’s reopen the investigations during which Plame
lied through her teeth. Her four totally different
stories, to different departments of government,
should at least raise some red flags as to the veracity
of her original argument.

Sorry folks, but this is a witch hunt, and "Scooter" is
just the first of many sacraficial lambs to take a hit.
Of course, we shouldn’t even begin to question the
soundness of the Judge Walton’s "sentencing", based
on the fact that he has affiliations with the
Democratic party.

What a load of crap! Only ignorant liberals who get
led around by their noses, could believe this!

Hear me well "ORIGINAL Culture of Corruption"....
maybe in ‘08, or definitely by ‘12.... the voters will
realize that they have been duped by the Democrats
once again.....and you will have a major reversal of
fortune. THEN it will be the Republicans turn to
REOPEN the investigation into the Valerie Plame
fiasco...... exonerating Libby and jailing both
Wilson and the "Mrs.".

brooklyn

DEMOCRATS KNOW HOW TO FIGHT A (POLITICAL) WAR!

Nancy Pelosi,Strategist and Speaker of the House

“OUR GOAL IS POLITICAL EXTINCTION FOR WAR SUPPORTERS”—Tom Matzzie, campaign manager for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq

If President Bush had any sense of the political calamity which is about to befall him, he would immediately drop the intra party divisiveness that his amnesty for law breakers has created in the Republican party and focus on the pending catastrophe that is about to be unleashed on his dispirited political party.

Jihad Nancy Pelosi, Democrats and antiwar groups are planning a major assault starting this summer meant to force Republican lawmakers to abandon support for the President’s war policy. An already weakened President Bush can ill afford any further erosion of support after he purposely created a fracture in the Republican Party over his illegal alien policies.

Democrats plan a two prong strategy of keeping pressure on the White house with repeat votes in the House and the Senate for bills to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq and antiwar groups Moveon.org, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, VoteVets.org and the Service Employees International Union plan to go into the congressional districts of Republican members who they feel are vulnerable for defeat and create a political environment that is toxic. According to Tom Matzzie, campaign manager for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, "The public is there already. It is really about focusing their anger."

The coalition is planning an all out aggressive television advertising campaign, against Republicans who support the President and the war who are up for reelection next year.

If the President and Republicans choose to disregard this cautioning and do no strategizing of their own they choose to lose and the 2008 election year will be as badly mismanaged as the war in Iraq has been thus far. Could Senator Harry Reid be right? “THE WAR IS LOST!”

If not it will be …if Democrats have their way it will be!

US Dem Congressman Indicted!

WASHINGTON - U.S. Democratic Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on Monday on 16 counts that accuse him of soliciting bribes and paying off a Nigerian official, a U.S. Justice Department official said.

The official said the counts charge Jefferson with racketeering, soliciting bribes, fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
(c) Reuters 2007.

Kind of lends a whole new perspective to the "Culture of Corruption", huh Nancy? So much for the Democratic Congress.

brooklyn

How Did a Rocket Scientist Get so Dumb?

Michael Griffin, NASA

How, because of Global warming stupid! Al Gore is a Glodal warming Rockstar. How did he get that way? He learned a very valuable lesson from the Clintons, learn what people care about and tell the people what they want to hear, whether its inconviently true or not!

Dr. Michael Griffin is a Rocket Scientist whom some people have implied is ignorant, how did he get that way? Why one simply learns what is true, state what is true and partisans will not want to hear it and they will call it ignorant!

Let me explain, recently Dr. Griffin has come under fire for a couple of statements that he’s made about global warming. Dr. Griffin said, that he is not sure that Global warming is a problem we [human beings] must wrestle with.

“I have no doubt that … a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change.

First of all, I don't think it's within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change, as millions of years of history have shown. And second of all, I guess I would ask which human beings — where and when — are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take.” – Dr. Michael Griffin, NASA, chief administrator

Makes sense to me! The Second thing that Dr. Griffin said was, “Nowhere in NASA's authorization, which of course governs what we do, is there anything at all telling us that we should take actions to affect climate change in either one way or another.” (Original NPR transcript)

So just what is going on here? Well, Michael Griffin is the Chief Administrator at The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and statements such as these are just shocking coming from someone in his position.

James Hansen, an advocate for Global warming/climate change, expressed shock at Griffin's comments.
Asked his response, Hansen said: "I almost fell off my chair."
"It was a shocking statement because of the level of ignorance it indicated with regard to the current situation," Hansen said. Humm…shocking? Ignorance?

Congress does not like Dr. Griffin either. Why? Because congress wants to turn The National Aeronautics and Space Administration into The National Climate Change/Global Warming and Researching Other Stuff Administration (NCCGWROSA)

Rep. Bart Gordon, chairman of the Science and Technology committee in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, said this about NASA’ budget which Dr. Griffin submitted to Congress,
"Based on NASA's own five-year budget plan, the agency will be unable to start any of the new Earth observations initiatives recommended by the National Academies for the foreseeable future. That's not going to get us where we need to be in our understanding of climate change."

What? What are new Earth observations initiatives? In plan language it’s using all of the governments resources (even NASA’s) to convince the American people that the climate is changing.

But, Rep. Gordon shouldn’t the budget of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nation's public space program be spent on the exploration of space?

And in addition to the space program, NASA is also responsible for long-term civilian and military aerospace research. Did you know Rep. Gordon that since February 2006 NASA's self-described mission statement is to “pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.”

So Rep. Gordon, do you understand that neither is it stated or implied in NASA’s mission nor was it ever intended that NASA be the nation’s pop science laboratory for the advancment of the theories of Global warming aka climate change? Rep Gordon it’s not NASA’s job to advance the cause of Global warming!

Yet when NASA’s chief administrator tells you that in truth, all of a sudden that administrator is ignorant, kind of dumb, a denier.

But nothing could be further from the truth, Dr. Griffin is a rocket scientist with a M.B.A., he earned his PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, he was head of the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, he was a veteran aerospace executive who has held a variety of senior-level positions at the Pentagon, at NASA and in industry. And now he’s top Administrator at NASA but you don’t trust him.

Instead you trust Al Gore a man with absolutely no real scientific back ground and for all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world [and now Global warming,] received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year.

The self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet [Gore’s exact words on that subject were, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."] avoided all courses in mathematics and logic throughout college, though he did score high on the math portion of the SAT. In addition to that Gore’s high school math grades had dropped from A's to C's as he advanced from trigonometry to calculus in his senior year.

Gore took the religious studies courses while also working full time as a journalist at the Nashville Tennessean, and after getting off to a strong start with an A-minus in Ethics, he failed to complete any of the three courses he took in the fall of 1971, and those incompletes eventually lapsed into F's. He returned for another semester in the spring of 1972, when two more incompletes turned into F's. Two years later, he enrolled in law school and spent three semesters there taking heavy course loads while still working at the newspaper. He performed satisfactorily, with a high grade of 81 in Legal Writing and a low grade of 69 in Civil Procedures II.

Partway through the spring semester in 1976, he decided to run for an open seat in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District. His mother, Pauline Gore, herself a lawyer, tried to persuade him to remain in school while running, but he withdrew, turning away for good from the academic life, while beginning a political career in which he increasingly took on the characteristics of a scholar. -- David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, March 19, 2000

Dr. Michael Griffin is a legitimate rocket scientist, unlike Al Gore, a pretend academic, and a Global warming Rockstar, and unlike Gore Dr. Griffin’s opinion can be trusted. When Dr. Griffin was being recommended for the job of top NASA administrator congress was enthralled with him.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., an influential member of the Senate Appropriations Committee who knows Griffin because of his work at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, said the president made “an outstanding choice.”

In a statement issued by Mikulski she said Griffin “has the right combination of experience in industry, academia and government service. He has a proven record of leadership and a passion for science and exploration. I welcome his nomination.”

House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, whose committee has called on Griffin to testify as an expert witness on NASA issues, also endorsed Dr. Griffin at the time his nomination.

"We are extremely pleased that the president has nominated Mike Griffin to be NASA Administrator,” Boehlert said in a statement. “Dr. Griffin has long been a resource to the Science Committee, both as a public witness and in providing private counsel. He has broad expertise, knows NASA inside and out, and is an imaginative and creative thinker and leader. He is also known for his candor and directness. We look very forward to working with Dr. Griffin at this critical time for NASA."

Finally, the insanity of it all is that Dr. Michael Griffin is charged with making ignorant statements regarding Global warming, when it is Mr. Gore who is pushing unproven popular science on college campuses across America claiming that the science is settled and there is total agreement throughout science with his prescribed theories on Global warming.

And so a rocket scientist got dumb because he didn’t forsake his candor and academic training to follow along blindly and obediently with world opinion of 170 nations who agreed that the climate is changing and that is a serious problem with enormous repercussions. And Al Gore is a Global warming Rockstar because he is championing this cause whether it’s right or wrong!

If I’m taking a class on global warming I’m sitting in Dr. Michael Griffin’s class, I’m pretty sure that Al Gore doesn’t have the credentials to teach one.

Four Balls.....He Walks!

I just saw the CNN "Conversations with Judy
Woodruff" interview with Al Gore. Talk about
playing ball? If she could pitch any better,
she’d have a lifetime contract with the
N.Y.Yankees.

The "interview" was typical for CNN, as well as
anything that Al Gore gets involved in. Set-up
after set-up of "pitches", got the expected
response..... and if there were any hesitation on
Gore’s part....he certainly got help from the
pitcher’s mound.

Their teamwork was awesome......... as Gore
played his skillful game of "hardball’, and
Woodruff just couldn’t pat him on the back
quickly enough. I particularly liked the inning
in which slippery Al, after trying to put the Iraq
war 100% on Bush’s shoulders, intimated that
he was always against any action on Iraq. But
as he slid for home, he totally forgot his own
involvement during the "warm up" to the war.

His opinion was very different when he was
looking for support from the cheap seats. .
Let’s just take a peek at his verbal "batting
record on Iraq"...........................

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction
has proven impossible to completely deter and
we should assume that it will continue for as
long as Saddam is in power. We know that he
has stored secret supplies of biological and
chemical weapons throughout his country."

Al Gore, Former Clinton Vice-President
Speech to San Francisco Commonwealth
Club September 23, 2002


Al Gore said last night that the time had come
for a "final reckoning" with Iraq, describing the
country as a "virulent threat in a class by itself"
and suggesting that the United States should
consider ways to oust Saddam Hussein.

The New York Times.....Gore, Championing
Bush, Calls For a 'Final Reckoning' With Iraq
February 13, 2002

Both Gore and Woodruff basically ignored the
fact that the majority of Democratic Senators
and Representatives had voted with the
President. In fact CNN was among the first
to report that both the House and Senate had
given President Bush the authority to invade
Iraq...........

CNN October 10, 2002 House gives Bush
authority for war with Iraq The House voted
296-133 to give Bush the authority to use U.S.
military force to make Iraq comply with U.N.
resolutions requiring it to give up weapons
of mass destruction.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/10/iraq.us

CNN October 11, 2002 Senate approves Iraq
war resolution In a major victory for the White
House, the Senate early Friday voted 77-23 to
authorize President Bush to attack Iraq if
Saddam Hussein refuses to give up weapons of
mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions.

What I find almost amusing is that Gore thinks
of himself as the "home run king" of his "team",
when as the rest of the nation sees him, as a
man who’s only way "home"........ is a walk.

brooklyn

PLAME LIED UNDER OATH

Valerie Plame swearing in House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Valerie Plame lied under oath! You won’t see it on CNN or MSNBC and you probably won’t see it in any major newspaper but she lied and we have it on record.

Do you remember all of the Democrat calls for Karl Rove’s sworn testimony regarding the outing of Plame? Political foes wanted sworn testimony so that Rove could be prosecuted if it could be proven that Rove’s testimony was perjurious regarding Ms. Plame.

Well Democrats have made what is perhaps the
stupidest political blunder in recent history. You remember the hearings. Everyone was oowing and aahing over how glamorous Plame was.

Yes Democrats were so anxious to embarrass the Bush administration, that House Democrats held an unnecessary Oversight and Government Reform Committee to re-investigate the outing of Valerie Plame over and above special persecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s two year investigation which did not uncover that President Bush, Vice President Cheney or Karl Rove outed Plame.

The only thing that Fitzgerald was able to do in two years of investigation was to get I. Scooter Libby to perjure himself and Libby is scheduled to be sentenced on June 5th before U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton.

Fitzgerald's investigation was completely unnecessary because at the beginning of his two year investigation Fitzgerald knew that it was Richard Armitage that outed Plame.

For three years, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew the answer to one of the biggest questions in Washington: Who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame?
Now that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage acknowledged this week that he was the leaker, the new question is what Fitzgerald has been looking for during a quest that rattled the White House and sent a reporter to jail. -- Matt Apuzzo

In spite of this, Democrats wanted to persist in the farce that the White house outed Plame thinking that all Americans are stupid. And on invitation from the Democrats Ms. Plame’s testimony was sworn.

Did Valerie Plame’s testimony embarrass the White House? Yes, yes it did it was high political drama. But there is a problem.

As embarrassing to the White House as Valerie Plame’s sworn testimony was Ms. Plame perjured herself under oath!

Here are Plame's three versions of how Wilson was sent to Niger:
•She told the CIA's inspector general in 2003 or 2004 that she had suggested Wilson.
•Plame told Senate Intelligence Committee staffers in 2004 that she couldn't remember whether she had suggested Wilson.
•She told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March that an unidentified person in Vice President Cheney's office asked a CIA colleague about the African uranium report in February 2002. A third officer, overhearing Plame and the colleague discussing this, suggested, "Well, why don't we send Joe?" Plame told the committee.

Yet in the original CIA report it is reported that it was Plame that suggested her husband Joseph Wilson IV to her superiors. Three or four stories none the same and now telling different accounts under oath why that’s perjury!

Some CPD officials could not recall how the office decided to contact the former ambassador, however, interviews and documents provided to the committee indicate that his wife, a CPD employee, suggested his name for the trip. The CPD reports officer told Committee staff that the former ambassador’s wife “offered up his name” and a memorandum to the Deputy Chief of the CPD on February 12, 2002, from the former ambassador’s wife says, “my husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity.”
This was just one day before CPD sent a cable requesting concurrence with CPD’s idea to send the former ambassador to Niger and requesting any additional information from the foreign government service on their uranium reports.

The former ambassador’s wife told Committee staff that when CPD decided it would like to send the former ambassador to Niger, she approached her husband on behalf of the CIA and told him “there’s this crazy report” on a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq.

Original Report

Patrick Fitzgerald is recommending that I. Scooter Libby serve up to 3 years for perjuring himself. Valerie Plame raised her hand and swore to tell the truth and lied bold face before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a Congressional hearing, the same body that wanted Karl Rove to testify before it under oath.

Nope you won’t hear about this on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN or any of the MSM print media and you can bet money that Democrats won’t persecute or prosecute the lovely Valerie Plame for lying before Congress no I’m sure they’re saving all of their prosecutorial zeal for the those ugly Republicans like Scooter Libby and the seven Republicans that they are investigating now.

I would say hypocrisy but since when has that charge changed a Democrats mind? Valerie Plame deserves the same treatment that Karl Rove would have received had he lied before Congress and the American people should demand that Ms. Plame receive the same!

More of the Same, from the MSM!!!

Just hours after I posted my "How Enlightening"
post; Financial Times creators, Andrew Ward &
Edward Luce in DC, and Fiona Harvey in London,
worm their way into the headlines with another
DECEPTIVE story about Bush.

"Bush in U-turn on global warming" What a
load of BS....... straight from the far left "potty
machine". The President has been promoting
limited carbon emissions in the US for years, and
the MSM well knows that. However, they always
manage to bring up the Kyoto accord, in order to
cast a shadow on him.

He refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, because it
was as flawed as a Hollywood starlet, without
makeup....... and just as loose. Why should the
US be hog-tied to an agreement that allows the
"developing world" nations, to puke their totally
unmonitored emissions into the atmosphere, while
we have to spend millions upon millions to clean
up our act? He was right not to sign it.

Oh, and by the way......CLINTON REFUSED too.
Did you see anybody jumping on him? I didn’t!

So thats two for two for the MSM. Not only did
they misrepresent what President Bush said, they
totally ignored his statements over the years.

Also notice please...........how the MSM in lock-step
with the Democratic Congress, has been backing
away from "global warming" and cozying up to the
new, "accepted" terminology......climate change.
They make Al Gore proud!

Hey fellas’ ....... climate change has been going on
for millions of years. Get a clue!

How Enlightening............!!!!

In a perfect example of "the blind leading the halt",
Howard Fineman of Newsweek writes....."Al Gore
believes a steady diet of fact-free media is
dumbing down America and threatening the political
system".

This is quite ironic, since the very media that is
printing the story is one of the top REASONS why
American has been "dumbed down". Since the
2000 election, the MSM has been relentlessly
against President Bush, for the sole reason that
they wanted a liberal in the Oval Office!

Gore of all people, should make a statement about
"fact free media" after he took full advantage of
the vicious and unproven accusations that he
and "The Party of Deceit" leveled at Bush and his
administration.

Now, suddenly he is concerned. Could it possibly
be that since FOX NEWS has become one of the
major players in the news media, he knows that
all of the lies and deceit perpetrated on the American
public by the Democrats, will not only be exposed
but believed by the electorate? (There go his
chances again!!)

Al, take a hint............. if you are sincerly "worried
about the media lying to America", stop feeding
it the pure, unadulterated crap that you do....starting
with your grossly exaggerated film on global
warming. We all know that the natural cycle of
earth for millions of years, has been to alternately
warm and cool. Next......... try not to talk so much,
about things of which you know nothing. THAT
contributes to global warming, in addition to the
"dumbing of America".

brooklyn

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Chavez a Real Dictator

Cindy Sheehan and Hugo Chavez

I bet Hugo Chavez is smelling sulfur right now and it ain’t coming from President Bush. Chavez who appeared at the United Nations earlier this year made overtly negative references against the President of the United States of America, references in which he equated President Bush with the devil.

The Venezuelan President must be really good at name calling because now he’s calling TV stations in his country enemies of the state and he’s shutting them down.

Now if President Bush did that, he would be called a Nazi, a Fascist, a Dictator… oh wait a minute President Bush is already being called all of those things for doing nothing at all so I guess that would make Chavez a Super Dictator, etc, etc!

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched in Caracas in a fourth consecutive day of protests over Chavez's closure of the RCTV network Chavez has had a long-running feud with opposition television channels, which according to him openly supported a coup against him in April 2002 and refused to show the massive mobilization of his supporters that turned the tide back in his favor. Now Chavez is attacking another news station Globovision.

"Enemies of the homeland, particularly those behind the scenes, I will give you a name: Globovision. Greetings gentlemen of Globovision, you should watch where you are going, I recommend you take a tranquilizer and get into gear, because if not, I am going to do what is necessary."—Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela

Gee CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, have done what amounts to the same thing against President Bush starting with the 2000 elections you’d think that being the dictator that President Bush is he would have shut them down by now and FOX news would be the only news network anywhere in the United States of America.
I’m guessing that the claims that President Bush is a dictator have been greatly exaggerated. I’m going to have to rethink what a dictator is, now that I see how a real dictator reacts to opposition.

I’m thinking that everyone who as called President Bush a dictator should take a good hard look a Hugo Chavez because he’s made a lot of friends on the left in this country. If this is the kind of man that you on the left support you might consider taking back all that you’ve said about President Bush.

You don’t wish to look too foolishly confused, now do you?

The President’s Harriett Miers Immigration Moment

According to President Bush Harriett Miers was a good nominee for the Supreme Court because she was a “pioneer woman.” Miers was a bad choice President Bush and it took your base to bring you in line with what was good for America. It was your base that insured that Sam Alito a solid qualified judge was nominated and eventually approved by Congress.

President Bush please understand that your compassionate Conservativism in 2000 and 2004 was the least of two evils in both cases. In both cases Democrats ran candidates that were totally unacceptable and if you were to run against them again America should vote for you again.

However I must say that your immigration policy is another Harriet Miers moment and your attacks against Republicans are unwarranted.

So many were the times that you should have stood up against your distracters and give them back as good as you were getting. You know, tell them how ridiculous it was to accuse you of stealing the 2000 and 2004 elections. I wanted someone in the Whitehouse to break down for the American people the decision to go to war and answer that question from a historical perspective starting from the Presidencies of George H. W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton to George W Bush. So many times I wished that you would tell the Democrats how they are dividing the nation with the hate Bush memes. But you didn’t.

So many issues and nothing but a deafening silence from the Bush White house so why did you sudden find your voice on the immigration issue and why against Conservatives?

Conservatives that have carried you in spite of your inability or your unwillingness to defend yourself against the vicious attacks from the left, the left has attacked everything from your intelligence, your integrity, your competence, and your credibility, and though it all Conservatives supported you because it was the best thing for America.

However, Conservatives are now feeling that your comprehensive immigration reform is not good for America. Conservatives feel that your plan is good for corporate America but that is not the same as Middle America the every day working person who is America.

President Bush corporate America as divested itself from America and the American people for the pursuit of the bottom line; record profits, usurious CEO salaries and compensation packages, outsourcing American jobs, corporate downsizing, encouraging illegal alien entry, encouraging a borderless America, internationalizing and becoming transnational, evading taxes, and consolidating economical strength and power through monopolies. All of these things are a tyrannous threat to the people of America.

John Sherman put it, "If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life." President Bush the Sherman Antitrust Act passed Congress almost unanimously in 1890 and you need to explain to Americans why your comprehensive immigration reform act (CIRA) is not a corporate boondoggle.

The record profits have not escaped our attention President Bush the want for cheap labor has not escaped our attention either. And finally the shrinking middle class has not escaped our attention.

Yet the most important thing is that the founders when to great lengths to protect America from tyrannous rulers and consolidated power but recently we Americans have witnessed a great power rising out of America yet that power is not claiming America as its own.

What we have witnessed is not laisser faire, what we are witnessing is not free market economics what we are seeing is an amoral, heartless, soulless beast that feeds off of the suffering of people. Its one and only motivation is to suck all economic life from the people. It is a tyrannous ruler and enslaver of the people that has wanton disregard for its destruction of the lives, which it devours. This is the Corporate beast that we see President Bush and we believe that your comprehensive immigration reform benefits this beast not the American people and certainly not Mexican people.

It is not Marxist in any way to suggest that the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 had it right in opposing or regulating these huge corporate business monopolies, such as trusts or cartels, especially in the interest of promoting competition.

President Bush you need to explain why you think that granting 20 million Mexican citizens amnesty is good for America. President Bush you need to show the American people that you can enforce the laws that are already on the books, and President Bush you need to pardon Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos two border patrol agents who are imprisoned now for attempting to enforce the U.S. border.

President Bush you are correct about one thing we are skeptical because we don’t think the government can fix our problems. We don’t even think that the government wishes to fix our problems.

If it did it would immediate stop attempting to push through insulting legislation, which was originally patched together to entice Americans to give corporations cheap labor under the guise, that it will strength borders and give Mexican citizens a “path to citizenship.”

What this bill will really do is exacerbate problems of the low waged unskilled workers in America, give the appearance of border enforcement and give corporations exactly what they want.

President Bush we can only save you from just so many Harriet Miers moments you continue down this road on immigration you walk without the Conservative party because unlike your allies on the other side we put America first, before politics, before winning and before any politician.

We’ve carried you this far if you chose to walk away we’ll simply find someone who will do the job that a compassionate conservative won’t do and then you and Jimma Carter can compare accomplishments. That’ll be interesting now won’t it!

An Inconvenient Change

Speaker Pelosi, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and Mr. Paul Pelosi, Global warming tour

"This trip for us began in Greenland where we saw first-hand evidence that climate change is a reality," Pelosi said. "There is just no denying it. We saw the impact on the local people there, on their hunting, their fishing, their economic survival.
"And it wasn't caused by the people in Greenland. It was caused by the behavior in the rest of the world."
"The science is clear, the challenge is undeniable," Pelosi said. "We have to work together, though, to reach a solution."

How did you spend Memorial Day? I hope that you remembered the countless Americans that gave their lives for this country. I was with family and friends and we discussed the sacrifice that families all over this great country had made and are making because of love ones who have paid the ultimate price for this country in past wars and presently in Iraq.

Nancy Pelosi took a delegation of politicians to Greenland this Memorial Day during Congress’ holiday break for the purpose of changing the way we discuss the subject of Global warming in this country. And the Speaker of the house made a monumental discovery during this trip which was in her own words, “climate change is real.”

What is profoundly ironic about Ms. Pelosi’s epiphany is that many had dubbed this trip the Global warming tour; and one would have thought that Ms. Pelosi would have come back extolling dangers of Global warming and the fact that Global warming is real, but she didn’t. Pelosi and her delegation used the tax payer’s dime to come back with the very important message that the climate is changing, imagine that! I’m guessing that we all knew that Ms. Pelosi.

Pelosi joined by Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-S.D.), Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), John Larsen (D-Conn.), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and the token Republican David Hobson of Ohio on the trip.

Rep. Hobson was there so that Ms. Pelosi could boast of a bi-partisan delegation, what Pelosi is hoping is that you don’t realize that she has change the topic of Global warming into that of climate change.

Most Democrats won’t notice because… well they’re Democrats, but this Orwellian redefinition, this shift of topic is, number one, an admission that the shill warnings of the earth burning to a crisp were lies! And second this reorientation is meant to keep the momentum of all the little global warming sycophants while trying to establish the cause on science rather than emotion.

As more scientist come out against Al Gore’s “Michael Moorish” attempt to affect the outcomes of social change on environmental issues by film and DVD, the left senses that it needs a change in direction in order to remain believable even to their committed.

The fact is the left is no longer comfortable attempting to sale the theory that human emissions of CO2 is the cause of global warming and that it is under human power to stop it, now that many more reputable scientist are taking issue with flawed models and flawed theories.

``We do not understand the natural internal variability of climate change the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940,the evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average. Alpine glaciers have been retreating since the early 19th century, and were advancing for several centuries before that. Since about 1970, many of the glaciers have stopped retreating and some are now advancing again. And, frankly, we don't know why." --Richard Lindzen, MIT Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology”

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The fact that media and popular opinion is driving this discussion on the left is disturbing especially because it is the left that accuses their opponents of being “deniers” as if people who disagree with global warming advocates have something in common with people who hate Jews and deny that the holocaust really happened.

``Most media reports ignore the evidence for cooling and focus instead on records from land stations, which indicate a 1°F increase in surface temperatures during the 20th century. What they fail to report is that this increase was measured mostly in and around urban centers, and therefore indicates urban—not global—warming.

Also left unreported is the fact that 90 percent of this 1°F urban warming occurred before 1940. If carbon dioxide emitted by industries and cars was causing this warming, should not most of the increase in temperature have occurred after 1940, when industries and cars became more plentiful and, consequently, carbon emissions increased significantly?

Even more interesting, but also left unreported, is the fact that from 1946 until 1975, while industrialization expanded and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increased, urban surface temperatures actually cooled. At the time, many in the media feared a new ice age.

Such facts throw into question the belief that global warming exists and that industrialization is affecting the earth's temperature. Nevertheless, the New York Times recently stated: "Human activity is the dominant force behind . . . global warming."

Dr. Fred Singer, professor of environmental sciences and former director of the National Weather Satellite Service, explains that climate change is a natural phenomenon, which has been going on for hundreds of millions of years. Ice core samples from the Arctic, for example, show an 18ºF temperature variation during the last 160,000 years. Dr. Singer further notes that solar activity greatly affects the temperatures and the climate on earth.

But most reports in the media ignore the existence of dissenting views such as Dr. Singer's. According to Scientific American, "few scientists doubt the atmosphere is warming." Time magazine bluntly claims: "Scientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening."

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Ms. Pelosi no one is denying that the climate is changing in fact let us agree that it is a fact that the climate is changing and that has been a reality since the earth was formed.

And no one is denying that the earth is getting warmer and/or cooler depending on where one is on the planet.

What we disagree about is allowing you to increase our tax burden in the name of Global warming or Climate change to attempt to fix a phenomenon that is beyond the control of humankind to fix or control in any meaningful way.

And some of us, perhaps just a few resent that you would attempt to insult our intelligence with dishonest political ploys meant to stampede the electorate toward self taxation in order to support your pop political causes

Best News Ever............!

MSNBC notes that Cindy Sheehan, the mother
of a fallen soldier, has given up her position
as "dupe for the left".

I’m sincerely sorry Ms Sheehan, over the loss
of your son. My sympathies were with you,
until you blamed the president personally for
your misfortune. You should have put the
blame where it really belonged.

Since you have been promoted all along, as
the person who "galvanized the anti-war
movement"........... can we now rest assured
that they movement will collapse? I truly
hope so, for the benefit of the country.

Now that you are departing the scene, and
going home to "try to be normal", I wonder
if you will reflect on how the far left used
your grief and pain, to further their own end.
Did you ever consider the countless parents
that your ridiculous actions hurt? Yours
was not the first tragedy of the war, and does
not appear to have been the last. Many have
died, and possibly many more will. It
needent be in Iraq. It might be right here in
the United States on some calm Sunday
morning. It has happened before, and unless
we keep a strong president in the White
House, it will happen again.

The Democrats have no intention of
fighting terrorism,either abroad or at home.
The party that you have chosen to align
yourself with, was once a noble one. But
the years have stripped away any shred of
decency for which they once stood. Now
it is run by liars and vengful losers, who
have the new opportunity to seek reprisals
against those who have done right for the
country.

They have made totally false accusations
against the opposing party, and the President,
in the hopes that some of them will stick.
With the help of the MSM, they have distorted
the news and have even tried to reverse the
legitimate win of President Bush in 2000.

Now that they have wormed their way into
the controlling position in Congress, they are
eying the Presidency. How many more lies
will they have to tell to make that happen.
And more importantly, will they be able to
continue duping the voters into thinking that
they are really going to change things. You
can already count, on both your fingers and
your toes, the complete reversals of
statements and promises made by Reid and
Pelosi, prior to the election.

Your intentions might have been honest at
the time of your grief, but they totally changed
your message and you. I hope that the next
time you decide to fight for a cause, that you
do it in a more reasonable and respectful
fashion. If you can’t, and "rather live under
Hugo Chavez rather than George W. Bush",
I remind you that we have no limits on
emigration. You are free to leave!

brooklyn

Obama’s Health Insurance Pie in the Sky!

It all sounds great, if not a bit "fuzzy". While
claiming specifics, Obama’s plan is as unclear
as Hillary’s and Edward’s ‘04 plans were.

He calls for "government, business and
consumers" to share the cost. Very
enlightening, but he fails to show the proposed
breakdowns in proportion. We all know what
his "proportional breakdowns" will be, when
they are finally exposed.

Government will be the prime supplier of the
funds to float this vote-getting show. Next in
line will be business - both large and small -
that will get huge tax increases (already
threatened by the Democratic Congress),
further choking it’s ability to be competitive
against foreign competition. We also know
that the liberals plan to kill the Bush tax cuts
for the "wealthiest Americans"...... but their
idea of wealthy is anybody making more than
$50,000 per year.

Meanwhile, he backs unlimited alien access to
the country, which will totally bankrupt not
just the health system, but the country as a
whole.

"The plan", is supposed to be saving the
average consumer $2,500 per year. But
by the time you factor in the huge increase
in the national debt, the bankrupting of
Medicare AND Medicaid, and the voiding
of the Bush tax cuts "for the wealthiest among
us" we will find ourselves back in the Clinton
hay-days of high taxation and stifled business
and job markets.

Forget about that $2,500 "saving". Only one
gaining anything on this, would be Obama, at
the voting booth...... if he can find enough fools
who would vote for him.

Looking closer at his plan, which the AP seems
to have full access to (what else?).......... it stacks
up like this:

He’s going to retain the private insurance system,
BUT inject additional funds into it (from where I
might inquire?). He’s going to create a National
Health Insurance Exchange to monitor insurance
companies offering the coverage creating yet
another governmental bureaucracy to increase
governmental payrolls and further exacerbate an
already financially bankrupt system. (Where is
the ACLU on this one? What about the privacy
issue, for which they are always making
accusations against President Bush?)

Those "unable to afford coverage", will get a
subsidy on a sliding scale.....from whom, do you
ask?......................guess! It will come from
yours and my pockets............. further increasing
our own costs, in order to pad Obama’s chance
at the ballot box.

Once a plan such as his is put into place, there
will be escalating costs on a daily basis.
Every family making less than $30,000 per
year will be entitled to "some kind" of benefits.
Every alien arriving here legally will get
immediate benefits. Every illegal alien, together
with extended family will be on the dole. I mean,
that is the "Democratic way of life", isn’t it?
Buy as many votes as possible, with promises that
will continue to cost us over and over again. Never
mind that every citizen born and raised here, and
having worked hard all their lives, will be picking
up the tab.

No thanks Barack............ not good enough!

Memorial Day, 2007

Today we are supposed to be "celebrating" the
memory of all those who died for our country.
But the loser Democrats will spend their day
detracting and belittling the present day
accomplishments of our fine forces, as they
did with the Vietnam war heros.

In ‘08, the Democrats will be called to task
for their false accusations against the Bush
administration and the President himself.
As soon as the American voters realize that
it is the liberals who have concocted the lies
and false accusations, for selfish reasons
and not for the country’s good, there will
be a huge reversal of congressional control.

I never miss the opportunity to throw
these quotes into the faces of the Democrats
who try to accuse President Bush of invading
Iraq on false pretenses........................
MOSTLY because the liberals hate to be
reminded that they are the biggest single
cause of dissent in this country.... and strictly
for SELFISH reasons........like votes!

It is particularly amusing to read the words
of Pelosi, the Clintons, Gore and Kerry. It's
amazing, how in a short period of time (that
lead-up to Election Day) the leopards
change their spots.

The Iraqi Threat: A Retrospective:

The question was never if Saddam Hussein
posed a threat; everyone agreed he did. The
question was who was going to do something
about it. "One way or the other, we are
determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop
weapons of mass destruction and the missiles
to deliver them. That is our bottom
line."- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use
force, our purpose is clear...We want to
seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

"Iraq is a long way from [the USA], but what
happens there matters a great deal here. For
the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will
use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons
against us or our allies is the greatest security
threat we face."- Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction
again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security
Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress,
and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and
laws, to take necessary actions (including, if
appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect
Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat
posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of
mass destruction programs."-
Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens.
Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and
others Oct. 9, 1998

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the
development of weapons of mass destruction
technology which is a threat to countries in
the region and he has made a mockery of the
weapons inspection process."-
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money
on building weapons of mass destruction and
palaces for his cronies."- Madeline Albright,
Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999

"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has
invigorated his weapons programs. Reports
indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear
programs continue apace and may be back to
pre-Gulf War status. In adition, Saddam
continues to redefine delivery systems and is
doubtless using the cover of a licit missile
program to develop longer-range missiles that
will threaten the United States and our allies."
- Letter to President Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob
Graham (D, FL,) and others, December 5, 2001

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam
Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and
stability of the region. He has ignored the
mandated of the United Nations and is building
weapons of mass destruction and the means of
delivering them."- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002

"We know that he has stored secret supplies
of biological and chemical weapons throughout
his country."- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction
has proven impossible to deter and we should
assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam
is in power."- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"We have known for many years that Saddam
Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of
mass destruction."- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA),
Sept. 27, 2002

"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in
October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam
Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and
biological weapons, and that he has since embarked
on a crash course to build up his chemical and
biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports
indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."-
Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002

"I will be voting to give the President of the
United States the authority to use force if
necessary to disarm Saddam Hussein because
I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of
mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave
threat to our security."- Sen. John F. Kerry
(D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002

"In the four years since the inspectors left,
intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein
has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological
weapons stock, his missile delivery capability,
and his nuclear program. He has also given aid,
comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al
Qaeda members .. It is clear, however, that if left
unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to
increase his capacity to wage biological and
chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop
nuclear weapons."- Sen. Hillary Clinton
(D, NY), Oct 10, 2002

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam
Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator,
leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a
particularly grievous threat because he is so
consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now
he is miscalculating America's response to his
continued deceit and his consistent grasp for
weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat
of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass
destruction is real..."- Sen. John F. Kerry
(D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

Hat tip to J.R. Whipple, though some links are gone (notably redacted from the Kerry site)

CREDIBILITY

Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi

"I'm credible because I read the intelligence," Bush said when a reporter asked if his warning in a Wednesday speech at the US Coast Guard Academy, based on two-year old intelligence, could be trusted.-- Michael Roston,theRawStory

As you know America is at war. But I’m not talking about the Iraq war no I’m talking about the war which many Americans think less important yet this war is much more insidiously devastating to America. This war has ripped the concept of truth right out of the soul of this nation and will be the death of this country if allowed to continue. This war is the war on credibility.

We now live in a nation where we assume that no one is credible. Like Dr. Gregory House on the Fox TV show, House, MD Americans believes that everyone is lying to us unless of course they are of our own partisan persuasion.

That brings me to the incident which crystallized this point in my thinking. On May 24, 2007 a reporter questioned President Bush, after statements the President made before a graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy, it was quite apparent that implied in that reporters question were eight years of, “Bush lied and people died!”

The reporter unflinchingly asked the President could his statements regarding Iraq be trusted based on two-year old intelligence.

Can the President of the United States be trusted? After all that is the question that rival partisans have spent Bush’s whole Presidency trying to raise now isn’t it? President Bush’s opponents have gone to immeasurable lengths to discredit him every step of the way. This President’s integrity has been impugned worst than any other President in American history.

In 2000 his distracters falsely accused him of stealing the Presidential elections not even an independent investigation several months after the election which proves that President Bush won the 2000 election is enough to change the minds of partisans who hate conservatives.

President Bush was accused of lying about WMDs and leading the Country into war under false pretenses and again not even the independent organization fact checker.org and other sources that show the President didn’t lie is enough for partisans who are determined to destroy this President’s credibility.

From the “Dan Rather” media, rival partisans and party traitors on Capital Hill to former politically tainted Presidents and Vice Presidents of the opposing party, President George W. Bush has been unfairly maligned, politically brow beaten, and slandered in overtly callus and hateful attempts to remove any shred of credibility that this President and his party might have with the American people.

Rival partisans have used the politics of personal destruction, invented by Democrats, against President Bush and his party to convince the American people that the eight years of lies from the previous administration was no fluke Democrat political conspirers wanted to convince America that everybody lies even Bush who said that Jesus Christ was his greatest political influence, yes especially George W. Bush and the plan worked!

In fact the plan is working still! Working so well that a young reporter in 2007 can stand up before America and the world and question the President’s veracity because he or she assumes that nothing that this President says can be trusted. After all “Bush lied.” Eleanor Clift, political pundit, like most Liberal Democrats, devotes herself to the premise that the President is a liar. Even Fox News’ credibility has been called into question by Democrats anyone or anything that doesn’t fly the Democrat banner unquestionably is a liar.

It all started with former Vice President Al Gore’s decision to withdraw his concession after losing the 2000 elections to then Governor and President elect George W. Bush opting instead to take America on the most divisive chapters in American politics, counting Chads and interpreting votes Gore set this country on a course of political infighting that we’ve not seen since the blue and gray jackets of the Civil war.

We are a nation divided because of Gore’s decision, we have divided into red states and blue states, on every conceivable issue; Global warming, homosexuality, the war in Iraq, immigration, and stem cell research just to name a few things which divide us. These days the only thing that we have national consensus on is that somebody, maybe everybody, is lying to us regarding all of these subjects.

It seems that we can’t get a truthful answer to anything because of agendas and partisanships. Because of that no one can be trusted, no not Congress, doctors, scientist, lawyers, businesspersons, professionals, media, or politicians whom all might be under some unknown influence of the other side that is working to deceived us all.

Now a Democrat Controlled Congress is waging an all out rebellion against a sitting President on purely partisan grounds. They disagree with the way this President is conducing the war, they disagree with this President’s choices for the federal courts, they disagree with this President’s choices of cabinet members and advisors the only thing that this Congress and President agree on is turning this country over to 20 million plus illegal aliens. (There has to be something wrong with that!) Democrats who used political obstruction and non-cooperation when they were in the minority found that attacking republican credibility was a winning formula for seizing power thus they began to use the politics of person destruction on an unsuspecting America to gain power.

President Bush, John Ashcroft, Mark Foley, Tom Delay, Dennis Hastert, Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, and Donald Rumsfield are only a few that have felt the relentless persecution of Democrat credibility attacks. They all have been labeled lairs by Democrats.

However the irony of it is, we now live in a culture that encourages lying yes even celebrates it. Our best liars, the Clintons and Al Gore, are revered and given demi-God status but at the same time we frown on amateurish liars, liars who we can see the flaws in their stories easily are shunned. (Gore who lost in 2000 partially because of his blatant and habitual lying is now the banner carrier for Global warming, unbelievable!)

In an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Hollywood mogul David Geffen tore into the Clintons' integrity and Hillary's electability. "Everybody in politics lies," said Geffen, "but [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it's troubling." Geffen raised the most eyebrows when he referred to the former president as "a reckless guy" who "gave his enemies a lot of ammunition to hurt him and distract the country." Geffen was not just speaking in the past tense. "I don't think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person," Geffen told Dowd.-- Evan Thomas, Newsweek

Our law schools turn out thousands of bright eyed ethically confused barristers who have been taught that the lawyer who knows how to use the judicial system for desired outcomes of their potential clients are the “smart” and “successful” attorneys. Like Richard Gere’s character Billy Flynn the attorney in the 2002 movie Chicago, create the spin and the whole world dances like marionettes to the spin. These trained definers of alternate legal reality believe that the concepts of truth and justice are for God while winning only is the ultimate goal for any good attorney.

Clients are told not to speak in order to preserve their legal right against self incrimination while they, the best legal minds in the world, work to manipulate an overtaxed, over politicized legal system. This has become a system that hands down rulings which have no basis in reality. One where rulings are tethered to some alternate legal reality where common sense and justice are suspended in order to grant some politically correct elite, legal standing on a purely outrageous nonsensical legal claim.

In spite of what the popular culture is promoting not everyone is a liar. It is possible to have told a lie and yet the habitual practice of lying may not be in one’s nature. And just as there is that 40 year old virgin there is that person that finds lying offense and makes it his or her practice to tell the truth. Yes, there are the trained liars ones who are told that there is no right or wrong there is only a fluid and transitory state of definition, one might refer to this as relativism, a glass is either half empty or half full, the “that depends on what is, is” purely a matter of perspective.

So why do we spend so much of our time calling one another liars if there is no truth? If there is no universal reality, no ultimate standard then there is no lie. If there is no lie everything is true. Ergo Bush told the truth as he saw it!
But it is not that simple when your ultimate goal is to create Orwellian Worldview by Machiavellianism, that is when you intend to change the world by redefining truth and you intend to get people to buy into that redefinition.

When they do and before people realize exactly what is happening to them, you make your redefined reality into law, that’s what this immigration bill is about, force redefinition and alternative reality on the people, and in order to make redefination work you most destroy the old way, destroy the old conservative ideas.

You must discredit those ideas, those people, and those institutions. This is the reason why the President’s credibility is being attacked in such a vicious way; this is why conservatives are being attacked throughout our culture. Conservatives are in the way of this change, this quickening, and this redefinition of reality.

Life will be redefined, marriage will be redefined, America’s borders will be redefined, the middle class will be redefined out of existence and America will be redefined. Some might think this is evolution and that change is good. But what if it is actually the liars who are the purveyors of this change what if their reasons for this change are dishonorable and ignoble and by their redefinition we are less free. What if we lied on Bush? Did you every think of that? What if WE lied on Bush?

Then all who lied on President Bush are the ones with no credibility. So the reporter’s question to the President is turned back on us, if we lied on Bush, the question is how can all of the Global warming, stem cell research, homosexual agenda, and anti-war meme be trusted? As Congress comes back after its Memorial day vacation to pick up right were it left off attempting to hammer away at the President’s credibility, his Attorney General and the War in Iraq we should all take note…

Credibility works both ways or the lack of it!


NOTE: A consortium of news organizations sponsoring the NORC Florida ballot project is made up of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post Co., Tribune Publishing, CNN, Associated Press, St. Petersburg Times and The Palm Beach Post. The New York Times owns The Boston Globe, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, and the Lakeland Ledger among others. Washington Post Co. owns The Washington Post and Newsweek. Tribune, based in Chicago, owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, among others.

The consortium joined together to retain NORC, because they wanted a comprehensive in-depth inventory of all uncounted votes in Florida’s November 2000 Presidential race that would be immune from charges of political bias or methodological weakness. Consortium members will have access to the raw data for a brief period before public release of the database, from which they will develop their own analyses and stories about what the uncounted ballots reveal. Conclusion: President Bush won Florida in 2000 elections.