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ohdang!

i put my o.t. stuff on this thread...

So... only NOW America comes to realize that Chicago/Illinois politics are kinda dirty:

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested in Chicago Tuesday on two counts each of corruption charges relating to trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat.

It's hard to imagine how Blagojevich could have done anything more appropriate to celebrate O'Bama's victory than to try and cash in on it. I can't wait to see how the Old Gray Hag and the Daily Kos justifies (or ignores) this.

dhimmi carter to possibly meet with hezbollah on his trip to the m.e.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/35783544.html?index=1&c=y

I wanted to share this story. Finally, that criminal William Jefferson is out of office in New Orleans!! Congressman Cao is the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress. I guess if you didn't vote for Cao, you are RACIST!!!

Here's a good one:

Berkeley libs fight over nuclear-free-zone law

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/05/berkeley-libs-fight-over-nuclear-free-law/

I popped in over at Kos to see what they had to say about Blago. They're all over the map. One says "trumped up bullshit charge." Another says, "Thank God Obama isn't attached to this (so far)." Another says "Don't rally around this guy just because there's a D after his name." Another said "Three cheers for the loony left! At least we weren't responsible for this (the mainstream-type demos were.)"

Hey that Hillary picture at the top, at first glance I thought it was real. I remembered how she liked her shots of Crown Royal.

I don't think they make enough beer for me to grab the bazoom of the hildabeast.Even if it is a standup. :)

"I don't think they make enough beer for me to grab the bazoom of the hildabeast.Even if it is a standup. :)"

Posted by: Farmer Ted at December 9, 2008 12:40 PM

Eeeeeeewwwwwww...

Is there anything the Pentagon won't rip off from Star Wars?

Hilarious!

This is a satellite defense model but it sure would be fun in the *ahem* desert! ;-)

Check out the comments on the page, too!

Criminals Being Flown in for Inauguration!

“The juveniles committed a violent crime,” the correctional officer said. “What we are doing is rewarding bad behavior.” Camp Afflerbaugh falls under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Probation Department, the largest probation department in the world.

Yeah, well, get used to bad behavior being rewarded. By the SCOTUS refusing to force Obama to produce his proof of American citizenship, we have already begun rewarding the very worst of behavior.

MINOR STORIES OF INTERESTING TIMES

May you live in interesting times is an ancient Chinese aphorism and, for better or worse, we seem to be living in very interesting times. Whether our times will be times to remember fondly is another matter entirely.

None of the following stories come close to matching the newsworthiness of the debacle in Illinois where Governor Rod Blagosomething had a rude awakening this morning and was carted off to the hoosegow for being what is traditional for Illinois governors, a crook: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40546.

However, they all have to qualify as being interesting for various reasons.

BLACK GOV ON BLACKS

Governor-By-Scandal David Patterson of New York made a witty, racist remark at the Gridiron Dinner the other night in New York. During the gag-filled occasion, he said, “Once you go black you can’t go back”: http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/1208/Gov_David_Paterson_at_the_Gridiron_He_said_what_.html?showall. His quip was a reference to the election of the nation’s first black president and his own ascendance to the governorship by virtue of previous Governor Spitzer’s inability to keep his zipper zipped. Okay, it was meant in jest, I suppose, but imagine the uproar had a white governor made an equivalent remark. Think Senator Trent Lott and Rush Limbaugh. Double standard, anyone?

A DAY WITHOUT A GAY

Back in the old days, Americans who like to protest would do it actively by sending a letter of complaint or by taking to the streets and marching and chanting and waving placards. Protesters still do that of course but gay protesters are adding a new wrinkle....

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JEWS IN AMERICA II: WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON

Part One of this series dealt with some notable Jews and with great Jewish contributions to America and posed the question, Since the Jewish people as a group have contributed so much to this country, why does such animosity toward them still exist?

That’s a difficult question to answer but Part Two offers one explanation, the nature of the Jew.

Attempting to categorize an entire people, a very ancient people, attempting to pigeonhole millions of individuals into a box, a category, is an effort fraught with land mines–and is even more a presumptuous undertaking when a non-Jew makes that attempt.

Is it even fair to try to do it? Does it reflect bias to suggest categorization? Is labelling tantamount to discriminating? Does anyone dare to suggest that the Irish, the Russians, the Poles, Hispanics, African Americans, Orientals are homogeneous groups open to being easily labelled?

I believe it is fair and it need not be a product of bias. And, actually and allowing for fine distinctions, those latter nationalities and races are often linked and categorized, based on tastes, behaviors, interests, activities, and even public records.

The Irish tend to celebrate life more than most, Russians tend to be dour, Poles are more often carefree, Hispanics are mostly industrious, Blacks are more likely to have issues with law enforcement, and Orientals tend to be studious and serious and to over-achieve.

All of those are generalized stereotypes, obviously, but generalizations founded on reasonable and fair observations and statistical proofs, although there are always exceptions.

Jews are unique in that almost to the person, male or female, younger or older, they are a driven people. The reasons for that I will leave to genetic experts. I can only speculate based on personal experiences while living in New York City, a town which includes as many Jews as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined.

Point is, I have met, known, and “experienced” many people of the Jewish persuasion and I know, at least to some extent, what Jews have in common.

I will admit that during my youth in the South Bronx,...

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

True Patriotism: Korean immigrant who lost family in jet fighter crash won't blame military

God Delusion and liberal professors cause suicide

A New York man is linking the suicide of his 22-year-old son, a military veteran who had bright prospects in college, to the anti-Christian book "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins after a college professor challenged the son to read it.

"Three people told us he had taken a biology class and was doing well in it, but other students and the professor were really challenging my son, his faith. They didn't like him as a Republican, as a Christian, and as a conservative who believed in intelligent design," the grief-stricken father, Keith Kilgore, told WND about his son, Jesse.

"This professor either assigned him to read or challenged him to read a book, 'The God Delusion,' by Richard Dawkins," he said.

Jesse Kilgore committed suicide in October by walking into the woods near his New York home and shooting himself. Keith Kilgore said he was shocked because he believed his son was grounded in Christianity, had blogged against abortion and for family values, and boasted he'd been debating for years.

After Jesse's death, Keith Kilgore learned of the book assignment from two of his son's friends and a relative. He searched Jesse's room and found the book under the mattress with his son's bookmark on the last page.

The first inkling of a reason for the suicide came, Keith Kilgore told WND, when one of Jesse's friends came to visit after word of his son's death circulated.

"She was in tears [and said] he was very upset by this book," Keith Kilgore said. "'It just destroyed him,' were her words.

"Then another friend at the funeral told me the same thing," Keith Kilgore said. "This guy was his best friend, and about the only other Christian on campus.

"The third one was the last person that my son talked to an hour before [he died,]" Keith Kilgore told WND, referring to a member of his extended family whose name is not being revealed here.

"Here's another thing," he continued. "If my son was a professing homosexual, and a professor challenged him to read [a book called] 'Preventing Homosexuality'… If my son was gay and [the book] made him feel bad, hopeless, and he killed himself, and that came out in the press, there would be an outcry.

Chapel Hill library removes Christmas trees; maybe it'll remove the Chapel from its name next year too

British Journalist Threatened with Life in Prison for reporting on local police. The Orwellian Police State that is Britain under Moonbattery.