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September 17, 2008
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Posted by Van Helsing at September 17, 2008 11:57 AM
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Do you remember the cry-baby with the fancy pants?
Well, he has no shame, and he's back.
Posted by: Lyle at September 17, 2008 12:13 PM
Posted by: V the K at September 17, 2008 12:23 PM
The 20 Most Obnoxious Anti-Palin Quotes So Far:
http://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/09/the_20_most_obnoxious_antipali.php
Posted by: Refuter of Liberal Vermin at September 17, 2008 12:28 PM
Co-defendant and close friend to the Rosenbergs admits they spied for the Soviets:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/17/news-flash-to-the-left-rosenbergs-were-spies/
As if we didn't know for sure already. Yet moonbats continue to deny it.
Posted by: Refuter of Liberal Vermin at September 17, 2008 12:35 PM
OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM DISSED ONCE AGAIN
Remember Roseann Barr’s class act of grabbing her crotch during her rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner?” That was just one of the most public and most disgraceful displays of contempt for our flag and our country. There have been too many others.
AOL features a collection of them here: http://sports.aol.com/photos/anthem-blunders?icid=200100397×1209838424x1200574480.
The first picture depicts Dallas Maverick’s Josh Howard who said, ” ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is going on right now and I don’t even celebrate that s–t. I’m black, goddamnit.”
The collection also includes Denver Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Abdul-Rauf who refused to stand for the national anthem, stating that the flag was a “symbol of oppression,” and that the United States had a long “history of tyranny,” and Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved hands during the “The Star-Spangled Banner” as an act of racial protest at the 1968 Olympics.
Most of the other pictures show luminaries such as Robert Goulet and other notables who simply forgot the words to the Anthem while attempting to sing it in public venues, as well as a few kids who forgot, and one who was protesting the Iraq War.
I can forgive the kids simply because they are kids but, good grief, aside from the disrespect shown by the forgetters, wouldn’t one think that adults chosen for the honor of singing “The Star Spangled Banner” before thousands of people would be inspired to brush up on the lyrics before they humiliated themselves and insulted their audiences?
Obviously not.
A more significant issue than forgetting the lyrics is why they all forget....
(Read the rest of this article @ http://genelalor.com/)
Posted by: Gene Lalor at September 17, 2008 12:48 PM
V, good find. I never did like Doug Stanhope. Between the fact that he and fellow talentless hack Joe Rogan managed to run the Man Show (One of the funniest TV shows EVER, when Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel were hosting it) into the ground, and the fact that in one of his standup acts he said, "God is an asshole and so is everyone who believes in Him," I really can't stand that man.
Posted by: Adam at September 17, 2008 1:36 PM
lol mccain is dropping in the polls lol but the fundamentals of the economy are strong lol but he invented the blackberry lol but his vp likes mooseburgers lol
Posted by: Cindy McCain at September 17, 2008 1:39 PM
Obama can fool some of the people all of the time but his hands are dirty with Fannie and Freddy money. We just need someone to take him down on this and hold him accountable.
Posted by: JR at September 17, 2008 1:55 PM
Alleged Comedian Doug Stanhope: "I was once in a similar situation where I'd accidentally impregnated a girl and she had to make that same fateful decision that now faces you. It was easy for her ... we are great friends who high-five over our decision and have all the free time and disposable income that young mothers never know."
What a sick, inhuman, selfish f--k.
Posted by: V the K at September 17, 2008 2:54 PM
CONSTITUTION DAY: SEPTEMBER 17th
Why we need a “Constitution Day” is a story in itself, and a sad story at that.
Our Constitution’s Preamble: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
(For the full text of that amazing document, see: http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Preamble.)
Those words of the Preamble and the words that followed, along with the Declaration of Independence eleven years earlier, literally rocked the world and still remain among the most stirring and inspirational words ever written.
Yet, in 2005, the United States Congress had to mandate that the Consitution of the United States, that document which is the foundation of our country embodying the fundamental principles of our republic, be taught in American schools.
In 2005, the Congress was still under the control of the Republican Party, which is the only reason we have that mandate. Our schools, still under the control of the nefarious NEA, the AFT, and local and statewide teacher unions such as NYSUT in New York State, apparently were sluffing off and/or totally skipping the onerous task of teaching students about our government.
Our public schools, in effect, were ordered to teach our Constitution or lose out on federal largesse; $$$ trumped teacher laziness and lack of interest.
And, thank God for that.
The original, handwritten document is prserved and on display in our National Archives in Washington, D.C., reason enough to visit that seat of government.
For a high school-oriented website on the Constitution, see: http://www.uscourts.gov/outreach/resources/constitutionday.html and for a student “trivia quiz” on that document see: http://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinNews/constitutionDay.cfm.
(http://genelalor.com/)
Posted by: Gene Lalor at September 17, 2008 3:30 PM
Don't worry V, they will be burning in Hell for eternity.
Posted by: Doug at September 17, 2008 3:38 PM
I don't want them to burn in hell, I want them to find forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
If they choose to go to hell, I am obligated to feel sorrow for it.
Posted by: V the K at September 17, 2008 4:02 PM
Even Clintonistas think Obama is snooty
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000 for the New York Democratic senator’s failed presidential bid.
In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don't like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”
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Arctic ice not only not melting, it's now 9.4% MORE than previous year
We have news from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). They say: The melt is over. And we’ve added 9.4% ice coverage from this time last year. Though it appears NSIDC is attempting to downplay this in their web page announcement today, one can safely say that despite irrational predictions seen earlier this year, we didn’t reach an “ice free north pole” nor a new record low for sea ice extent.
It will be interesting to see what they offer in the October press release. Plus we’ll be watching how much ice we add this winter, and what next year’s melt season will look like. Hopefully we won’t have a new crop of idiots like Lewis Gordon Pugh trying to reach the “ice free north pole” next year.
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Rush Limbaugh calls out Obama's racist, smear-edit ad
Rush Limbaugh, featured in a new, Spanish-language Barack Obama ad, says the commercial distorts his past statements and amounts to "race-baiting" by the Democratic nominee.
The commercial, to air in Limbaugh's home state of Florida as well as Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, features a picture of the conservative talk show host and shows his words on the screen: "Mexicans are stupid and unqualified" and "Shut your mouth or get out." It was first reported by the Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe.
"Obama is now stoking racism in the country," Limbaugh wrote in an email. "Obama is a disgrace - he wants the public to think he is Mr. Nice Guy while his thugs are in Alaska looking for dirt on Palin and he runs race-baiting ads and lies about what he has done and what McCain has done."
As for the quotes, Limbaugh said they were taken out of context.
The first, "stupid and unqualified," was from the NAFTA debate of the mid-90s, he recalled. Limbaugh, a NAFTA proponent, said in the fall of 1993 he got a call from a listener who was upset at the potential loss of American jobs.
In response he said, "If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people--I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs, let the kinds of jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do--let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."
Explaining his comments, Limbaugh writes: "I was referring to jobs in MEXICO. I was not discussing immigrants, illegal or otherwise."
On "shut your mouth," Limbaugh produced an April 2006 transcript from what he described as a parody of Mexican immigration laws.
The talk show host read a list of stringent rules, adding "shut your mouth and get out," before revealing to listeners that the guidelines were those set by the Mexican government for immigrants.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at September 17, 2008 6:45 PM
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/sargem/obviousredirect.jpg[/IMG]
Look that up. It'll redirect you to a pic I stored on my Photobucket album. It's a pic of what I saw on your front page of your latest article. By the way, I have Adobe Flash Player 10 installed, for quite some time now. Your page demands Adobe Flash Player 8? Flash Player (like Java) is backwards compatible, by the way. Ahem. You might want to look into that.
And friend, there are a gazillion false phishes out there. You might want to tend to your own fishes.
Posted by: Corona at September 17, 2008 7:01 PM
Interesting read, think a href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=306370789279709">this might just be McCain's new ad for, oh -the next 2 months or so?
Posted by: The Him at September 17, 2008 7:17 PM
UK Islamists Hold 9/11 Conference.
"Members of the fundamentalist "Al-Ghuraba" movement gave speeches and a Ramadan fast breaking dinner was held during the London event.
The conference was held under the banner, "The September Attacks: Have You Learned the Lesson?"
Via Tim Blair.
Posted by: mandible claw at September 17, 2008 8:39 PM
Did you hear a billionaire that is married to another billionaire with multiple houses is calling Obama an elitist *gasp*
Posted by: Jon at September 17, 2008 8:47 PM
Dick morris and karl rove are either on Oreilly or hannity and colmes everynight if your out of the loop thats your fault ;)
Posted by: wizdum at September 17, 2008 9:56 PM
RACE IN AMERICA III: THE LIMBAUGH WAR
(Please see http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?paged=2 for Parts I and II, and http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/index.php?s=limbaugh for two articles on Rush Limbaugh.)
Unlike the Obamassiah, Rush Limbaugh would be the first to tell anyone that he has never walked on water and never plans to try since he knows he would never expect to accomplish that feat. Yet, many of his adoring “dittoheads” react like stuffed liberals if one dares to suggest the guy is just human.
I can attest to that based on the reaction to my previous Limbaugh articles which evoked visceral reactions from “conservatives” who must spend most of their lives online and who just read headlines.
However, this Rush fan, but not blind dittohead, considers the current contretemps over Rush’s comments on racial relations in America as nothing more than a fraudulent effort to tar not only Limbaugh but Republicans as a whole and McCain/Palin specifically as racists.
The angry TV ad as shown on this website is clearly indicative of Democrat motives: http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Limbaugh_hitting_back_over_usage_in_ad_says_Obama_stoking_racism.html
First, the entire premise of the charge is false...
(Read the rest of this article @ http://genelalor.com/)
Posted by: Gene Lalor at September 18, 2008 12:17 AM
Shock Poll: Jews Now Favor McCain in New York, 54-32
...the shocking detail has to do with a wild, 35-point swing toward McCain among Jewish voters. Obama led among them by a margin of 50-37 in August. This month, McCain is actually leading Obama by a margin of 54 percent to 32 percent.
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Video: Obama doesn't dispute he wanted troops to stay until after he takes power
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Video: Fannie Mae's links to Obama adn the Dems
In 2005, Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus met with Fannie Mae for a "family" event. In 2005 Democrats also blocked reform of Fannie Mae.
This was before Fannie Mae started filling the pockets of Barack Obama with political donations.
The junior Illinois senator collected more money from Fannie Mae than any other Washington politician except Senator Dodd in the last decade.
Obama was able to accomplish this feat in just 3 years.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at September 18, 2008 1:03 AM
The Trump jumps sinking Hillary ship for USS McCain
Donald Trump, the flamboyant New York magnate, said on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday night that he is supporting Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president.
Trump, never shy with his opinions, went on to say that McCain appears to be winning, and that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) should have chosen Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his running mate.
“I know John McCain, and John McCain's a great guy, a tremendous guy,” Trump told King. “I've known him for a long time. And I'm with him, and I'm with him based on the fact that I have great knowledge of John McCain. Also, this is not the right time for tax increases. And Obama wants to increase your taxes drastically.”
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Troopergate Obamatron is phony soldier
The political resume of Hollis French that was listed in the Sunday Anchorage Daily News said that he has military service in the U.S. Marine Corps ROTC, 1977-78. This is misleading. A student in the ROTC program is not in the military, nor is it counted as any such service. I am guessing, the most Mr. Hollis did in ROTC was to take a few ROTC college courses, maybe he was washed out after a year, and he wants the public to believe that ROTC constitutes as military service. It is not.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at September 18, 2008 1:20 AM
Thanks BURNING HOT - Trump ain't the only one - check this -
Top Clinton fundraiser backs McCain over Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Hillary Rodham Clinton fundraiser threw her support behind Republican John McCain on Wednesday, saying he will lead the country in a centrist fashion and accusing the Democrats of becoming too extreme.
"I believe that Barack Obama, with MoveOn.org and Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, has taken the Democratic Party - and they will continue to - too far to the left," Lynn Forester de Rothschild said. "I'm not comfortable there."
Rothschild is also a member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee. She said she would be stepping down from her position on the committee but will not switch political parties.
Clinton spokeswoman Kathleen Strand said in an e-mail that the New York senator disagrees with Rothschild's decision to endorse McCain.
"Senator Clinton has been criss-crossing the country and doing whatever she can to make the very clear case that the Obama-Biden ticket represents the new ideas and positive change we need right now, and the McCain-Palin ticket does not," Strand said in the e-mail.
Rothschild said she was excited by the prospect of a woman being in the White House, even though she and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin disagree on issues. The Alaska governor opposes abortion except in the case of a threat to the mother's life. Rothschild said she supports abortion rights.
"I believe that the McCain-Palin government will be a centrist government," Rothschild said. "It's not going to be an ideological government."
Rothschild is a member of the DNC's Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York. She was one of Clinton's top fundraisers, bringing in more than $100,000 for her presidential campaign. She built a multimillion-dollar telecommunications company before marrying international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.
Rothschild said she has not discussed her support for McCain with Clinton.
"I'm sure she is not pleased with what I'm doing today," she said. "But you know what? I have to do what I believe in."
Posted by: Rob Banks at September 18, 2008 5:04 AM
Hagel the RINO spouts more nonsense.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/hagel_palin
He says Palin isnt qualified to be VP but he was willing to be Obama's VP? What makes Obama qualified to be President again?
"In July, Hagel traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Though he didn't expect to be asked, Hagel had said he would have considered serving as Obama's running mate."
Its RINOs like him and Arlen Specter than need to be bounced out of office. He must have suffered a blow to the head or been lobotomized.
This was featured on YAHOO! They never put up articles that say the opposite or Democrats who say Obama isnt qualified to be President. Geesh.
Posted by: General Jack D. Rippe at September 18, 2008 8:28 AM





