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McKinney plays the race card

March 31st, 2006

some background on this:
Cynthia McKinney, Democrat Congresswoman from Georgia, walked through security at the Capitol Building without going through the metal detector, which is perfectly okay. Members of Congress do not have to walk through it. However, the Capitol Police security officer did not recognize Rep. McKinney, who was not wearing her Congressional Pin, or any visible identification. The officer did what any responsible officer would do, which was call her back, which he did three times, and when she did not respond, he caught her by the arm and blocked her path. She responded by punching him in the chest ( or depending on which account is true, shoving him, or hitting him with a cell phone). So basically, her ego was bruised, and she lashed out. Here comes the race card.

A lawyer for Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had an altercation with a Capitol Police officer, says she was “just a victim of being in Congress while black.”
McKinney awaited word Friday on whether she would be charged for apparently striking the officer after she entered a House office building this week unrecognized and did not stop when asked.

Two law enforcement officials said it was unlikely a warrant would be issued this week. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Her lawyer, James W. Myart Jr., said, “Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin.”
“Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black,” Myart said. “Congresswoman McKinney will be exonerated.”
A spokeswoman for U.S. Capitol Police did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. McKinney was not wearing her pin at the time, and the officer apparently did not recognize her, she has said.
“Congresswoman McKinney, in a hurry, was essentially chased and grabbed by the officer,” Myart said. “She reacted instinctively in an effort to defend herself.”
Several Capitol Police officials have said the officer involved asked McKinney three times to stop. When she did not, he placed a hand on her and she hit him, they said.

Yes, Cynthia, it’s a racist conspiracy to harass black members of Congress.

More Cynthia McKinney conspiracy theories:

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Here’s a funny article with two pictures of Cynthia McKinney, one from her website, and one from a recent event showing how much heavier she is, and how much her appearance has changed…and this great quote:

“I am absolutely sick and tired of having to have my appearance at the White House validated by white people,” McKinney wrote in a complaint to then-President Bill Clinton.

Pretty, dumb moonbat

March 18th, 2006

That’s not a peace symbol, that’s a MERCEDES symbol.


pretty, dumb moonbat

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the laugh. More idiot protester pics on her site.

Spend spend spend spend

March 16th, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday passed an election-year budget plan forsaking President Bush’s tax cuts and Medicare curbs, hours after lifting the ceiling on the national debt to $9 trillion.

The spending blueprint, approved 51-49, little resembles Bush’s proposal last month for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.

To the disappointment of budget hawks, the Senate’s measure would break Bush’s proposed caps on spending for programs such as education, low-income heating subsidies and health research.

Vice President Dick Cheney was on hand for a possible tie-breaking vote, but that proved unnecessary.

Senators earlier voted 52-48 to send Bush a measure that would allow the government to borrow an additional $781 billion and prevent a first-ever default on Treasury notes.

As a result, the government could pay for the war in Iraq without raising taxes or cutting popular domestic programs.

The House, meanwhile, overwhelmingly approved a $92 billion measure that would provide more money for the war in Iraq and hurricane relief for the Gulf Coast.

The budget blueprint advanced without Cheney’s vote in the Republican-led Senate when Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu supported the plan after winning concessions to help her hurricane-damaged state of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.

She won inclusion of a proposal that could provide up $2 billion a year for levee and coastal restoration projects. The money would come from auctioning television airwaves to wireless companies and from potential oil lease revenues from exploration in an Alaskan wildlife refuge.

Why stop at 9 trillion? Let’s just go ahead and make it an even 10. That way we don’t have to deal with this debt ceiling for at least another year or two.

This is not surprising

March 15th, 2006

Poll: Republicans Are Happier Than Democrats

Wed Mar 15 2006 10:14:36 ET

The Pew Research Center recently updated a question about happiness that the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago has been asking since 1972. In every asking of the question, ROLL CALL reports, Republicans have been happier than Democrats.  Republicans tend to be better off than Democrats, and that is one explanation for the happiness gap.  But when the researchers controlled for household income, Republicans at all income levels were happier than Democrats at those same income levels. As for ideology, conservative Republicans were happier than conservative Democrats, and moderate to liberal Republicans were happier than comparable Democrats.

The end of the media circus? Nah.

February 19th, 2006

From canadafreepress.com, via lgf

When Harry Whittington strode out of the Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, wearing a blazer, a crisp white shirt and a smile, as well as a bruise and a few small scabs, to face the media last Thursday, the whole artful and painfully constructed edifice of the liberal communications industry and their Democratic hand maidens came crashing down around them.

With Harry walking into the daylight under his own power, alone, sans wheelchair, without an iron lung, without a company of white suited orderlies and paramedics to brace him, with nary an IV bottle and hose in view, without sunglasses, without constant medical attention, without a single tremor or palsied movement, without a give-away halt to his gait, with not a single visible bandage in sight, with his hair combed perfectly, the jig was up on all of the liberal media’s monkey business and clowning around.

It also became painfully obvious, even for the most backward and ill educated red state rube, that the daily death watch was over, that the high stakes mortality pool had come to an end, that the heart attack which was expected to claim the life of Mr. Whittington was firmly relegated to the past and that the high-temperature media frenzy was instantly put on ice. And, further, that this particular instrument of destruction - this latest and greatest, almost nuclear, weapon, which had fallen into the hands of the Democrats and their media tools courtesy of the Vice President, who appears to be so heedless of their power and influence that he tended to his friend before he deigned to inform them, the loyal liberal protectors and Myrmidons of progressive thought - was spent.


Of course, Dick Cheney, in what was called a pre-meditated effort to kick additional amounts of sharpened silicates in the already reddened, and blackened, eyes of big media and the press corps, gave an exclusive TV interview to Brit Hume on the dreaded Fox News. This act caused an apoplectic shock wave to reverberate through CNN, and caused this lockstep liberal Democratic mouthpiece to bawl loudly in protest, thus adhering a further wry comedic twist to the Schadenfreude already attached to the entire media hunting ship of fools.

And on the world front, as the hunting accident is still being rehashed for inconsistencies, investigated for further nefarious activities and the possible consumption of, gasp, a beer in the woods, the cartoon wars go on, Iran continues its nuclear build up, North Korea remains a menace, Hamas continues its activities to destroy Israel, we have helicopters down off the African coast, the UN remains a rotten borough, Islamist terrorists are still killing people in Iraq and the Philippines and the beat goes on.

But at home the US press burns in its own bonfire of inanities and it won’t step out of the fireplace or look outside its ridiculously small box because there was a hunting accident and somebody’s got to pay.

Poor old Cheney.

February 14th, 2006

Let me preface this:
“Yes, I know that Dick Cheney is not perfect”.

www.nydailynews.com/front/story/391213p-331828c.html

Thank God he didn’t sleep with an intern,… then he could have just lied about it..

*Yes*… politicians knowingly sacrifice a bit of privacy for stature.. that’s understandable… that’s the way it is– and *should* be..

However,.. this is just a hunting accident.. it’s not the meltdown of modern civilization.. if there is a tomorrow, we’ll still be O.K. regardless of whether or not we knew about the shooting in 22 minutes or 22 hours.

Look how Cheney’s being fried.. I mean- COME ON. He should have just killed a foreigner and swigged a beer in a dry county while he was at it.. why not, he’s doomed either way.

MORAL: the media is gay.

Gimme gimme gimme gimmeeee!!

February 6th, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees staying at a Queens hotel want it to contribute $2,500 to each family as an incentive to move, but the hotel’s owners are questioning their obligation to pay.
Charlie King, a lawyer and a Democratic candidate for New York attorney general who was involved in a meeting this week on the proposal between hotel management and community leaders, told The New York Times in Saturday’s editions that the money also would help cover costs for families seeking permanent housing.
The owners of the hotel, Radisson J.F.K. Airport, are expected to meet with the families’ representatives on Tuesday.
“What the hotel is wondering is why private citizens are coming forward and asking the hotel for things that are FEMA’s responsibility,” said Marc Leffman, chief executive of Atlanta-based French Quarter Hospitality, which owns the hotel….
In January, the Radisson’s managers told remaining evacuees that they would need to find new housing by the end of the month because of a scheduled $7 million hotel renovation. That led to a protest in which the Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to boycott the hotel if it forced the evacuees to leave.

Unbelievable. Where did this school of thought come from, that people *deserve* for someone to pay their way, or give them handouts? I am 100% in favor of helping the needy, the poor, and the unfortunate - but when they start demanding is when they should get cut off. There was a time when it was considered a virtue to work hard and pay your own way, and considered shameful to live off the backs of others. It’s beyond sad that someone viewed as a “leader” (Al Sharpton, ha!) should come out and defend this handout mentality. If they are capable of working, the only incentive they should receive to move is a boot from behind and a pen to fill out job applications.

Star Jones, future diplomat?

January 20th, 2006

This from Drudge.


Star Jones has told viewers that the war on terror is nothing more than a clash of male egos between President Bush and Osama bin Laden, the NEW YORK POST reports.

Uhhhhh, okay…I seem to remember something else, something about planes crashing…..crud, lost it. Anyway…

“You don’t negotiate with terrorists,” said Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the show’s youngest host.

“You don’t negotiate,” Jones interrupted, “but I do think you figure out when there is a solution that’s diplomatic that doesn’t result in [loss of] human life.

Uh-huh….

“You know what?” she then added, “At some point, one of these men has to put it back in his pants and zip up the zipper at some point.” - Jones

You go girl!

Bin Laden speaks from hidey hole

January 19th, 2006

squirrelbazooka

This via drudge

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden warned in an audiotape aired Thursday that his fighters are preparing new attacks in the United States but offered the American people a “long-term truce” without specifying the conditions.

The tape, portions of which were aired on Al-Jazeera television, was the first from the al-Qaida leader in more than a year. It came only days after a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan that targeted bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, and reportedly killed four leading al-Qaida figures, possibly including al-Zawahri’s son-in-law.

It’s obvious we’re making progress when we get an offer of truce from someone like bin Laden. I for one am shocked. You don’t show weakness like this to your enemy. This is a lesson I would have thought ObL would know quite well. Especially after dealing with Spain.

There was no mention of that attack in the tape, which Al-Jazeera said was recorded in January. The network initially reported it believed the tape was made in December, but later corrected itself on the air. Editors at the station said they could not comment on how they knew when it was made.

That’s a bit fishy.

“The delay in similar operations happening in America has not been because of failure to break through your security measures,” he said. “The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your homes the minute they are through (with preparations), with God’s permission.” - ObL(we think…)

Uh, yeah…whatever you say big boy. I’m sure ObL will be the first to tell us the next time we foil another cowardly attack on civilians.

The White House rejected the truce offer.

The United States will not let up in the war on terror despite bin Laden’s latest threats, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. “We do not negotiate with terrorists,” McClellan said. “We put them out of business.”

Heck yea! Yet another reason to thank God Kerry wasn’t elected.

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Where’s the protest and media coverage?

January 8th, 2006

Where’s Al Sharpton? Where is Jesse Jackson? Where are the anti-death penalty zealots to defend this 76-year-old blind and deaf white man on death row? Surely race wasn’t a motivating factor in their defense of Tookie Williams…

from sfgate.com:
Los Angeles — In the wee hours of the morning of Jan. 17, another man will be put to death by lethal injection in the state of California. This comes exactly 36 days after the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. But where are the protesters?

With just a few days to go before the scheduled execution of a 76-year-old blind and deaf man who uses a wheelchair, there has been no public outcry of support for clemency for Clarence Ray Allen, who is white. There have been no planned protests and celebrity read-ins in support of saving an old man’s life. Community activists and civil rights leaders aren’t organizing statewide tours to bring attention to Allen’s execution. There hasn’t even been one “Kill Clarence Ray Allen Hour” from KFI-AM’s “John and Ken Show.”

Which raises the question: Was the community cry for clemency for Williams because he was a black man, or was it because the death penalty is immoral, inhumane and cruel?

Granted, Allen hasn’t written any children’s books, been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, or had a Hollywood actor play him in a film, but that doesn’t mean his life isn’t worth saving.

Black Californians who supported clemency for Williams need to re-examine their reasons for wanting Williams to live. Was it because he was a black man? Was it because he co-founded the Crips? Was it because of his anti-gang and anti-drug work? Or was it because we abhor the death penalty?

Many of the black leaders who supported clemency for Williams vehemently denied they were racists when challenged by a pair of conservative radio DJs in Los Angeles who sponsored the repulsive “Kill Tookie Hour.” Accusing the black leadership of getting involved in the fight to save Williams only because he was black, the shock jocks noted that these same activists were going to be nowhere to be found when the next execution of a nonblack person came up.

If all of the protests around clemency for Williams were not just for show, it should be no problem for the black community to reassemble for the fight to save Clarence Ray Allen.

ACLU and Communism: BFF

January 5th, 2006

Crossposted from StoptheACLU.com:

We at the Stop The ACLU blog and BlogBurst have been founded with the goal of bringing public awareness of the Anti-American activities of the American Civil Liberties Union. The fact is, the only thing about the ACLU that is American is the first word in the title of their organization. And this has been true since their founding.

We have been focused on the two prominent co-founders Roger Baldwin and Crystal Eastman; but the truth is that there were 7 others. People like Upton Sinclair and Clarence Darrow just to name a couple. But the most notorious of the founding “fathers” of the American Civil Liberals Union (no I didn’t spell that wrong) was Elizabeth “Gurley” Flynn.

Ms. Flynn was the co-founder who ended up being the National Chairman of the Communist Party in the US. A devout Communist who made several trips to the Soviet Union after the denunciation of Communism by Roger Baldwin in 1940. A move which had motives other than those publicized.

The public appearance of the denunciation was to give the illusion of distancing active members of the Communist party from the ACLU. When in fact it was a statement meant to be felt by Josef Stalin. Stalin enjoyed the support of people like Baldwin in the United States before the outbreak of war in Europe. Baldwin and Eastman being the strict pacifists that they were, had a total opposition to the Soviet Union entering the war. But they also saw the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty as a crime against the good Soviet people. So Flynn expulsion from the Executive Committee was a farce.

Flynn was indoctrinated into the Socialist mindset by her parents. At the age of 16 she gave her first speech on socialism entitled “What Socialism Will Do For Women.” A speech which subsequently got her expelled from high school.

At the age of 17 Flynn became an organizer for the International Workers of the World (IWW) and her career as a full time Socialist began. In 1920 she joined forces with Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Upton Sinclair, Clarence Darrow, Norman Thomas, Jane Addams, and John Dewey to form what we now know as the American Civil Liberties Union.

In 1936, Flynn joined the Communist Party in the United States. She wrote a feminist column for the Communist propaganda sheet the Daily Worker. Two years later, she was elected to the National Committee.

During World War II, Flynn worked tirelessly to get equal pay for women and establish day care centers for working mothers. Efforts which we here at Stop The ACLU applaud. Because contrary to the popular leftist belief, we here have strong feelings about the true equality of men and women of all races, creeds, and religions.

In 1942, she ran for Congress At-Large in New York and received only 50,000 votes.

After the war in 1948, 12 members of the Communist Party were arrested for plotting to overthrow the government by use of violence. Flynn attempted to gain their release but in 1951 she was arrested in a “second wave” of arrests and charged with violation of the Alien Registration Act and sentenced to 5 years at Alderson Women’s Penitentiary.

During her sentence she wrote a book entitled The Alderson Story: My Life as a Political Prisoner (1955).

Soon after her release from prison in 1961, Flynn was elected National Chairman of the Communist Party in the USA. She made several trips to the Soviet Union where in 1964 during a visit she died. She was given a State Funeral in Red Square then returned to be buried with her subversive friends Eugene Dennis, Bill Haywood and the Haymarket Martyrs.

These are they types of people that we are dealing with. This is the type of beginning that the ACLU was given. This is why they have been focused on ending American traditions and changing the structure of our government as founded in 1789.

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Global warming

January 3rd, 2006

I liked this post from kevin at killlefty.com:

If you aren’t scared of global warming you are ignorant. It is completely obvious that heat is created by the sun’s rays reflecting off of the pollution that we create by spraying cans of hair spray at the 0-zone. This will be a poorly written article, but I just wanted to write down a few facts and calculations.

The earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old.

If you were 75 years old you would be in your 3900th week.

If you were 75 years old you would be in your 27375th day.

Humans have existed for approximately 150,000 years.

If you divide the earth’s lifetime by the lifetime of humans you get 30000. Therefore humans have existed for 1 day of the earth’s lifetime. In the single day that we have existed, cars have only existed for less than a minute.

Yet we believe that in 1 day we have begun destroying the earth. We actually have the arrogance to believe that in the last 80 years that automobiles have existed we have created a warming trend?

Why not just compare the temperature from 5 0′clock yesterday to 6 0′clock… You will get the same bogus result.

Live and Let Spy

December 23rd, 2005

Ann Coulter, from realclearpolitics.com

After 9/11, any president who was not spying on people calling phone numbers associated with terrorists should be impeached for being an inept commander in chief.

With a huge gaping hole in lower Manhattan, I’m not sure why we have to keep reminding people, but we are at war. (Perhaps it’s because of the media blackout on images of the 9/11 attack. We’re not allowed to see those because seeing planes plowing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon might make us feel angry and jingoistic.)

Among the things that war entails are: killing people (sometimes innocent), destroying buildings (sometimes innocent) and spying on people (sometimes innocent).

That is why war is a bad thing. But once a war starts, it is going to be finished one way or another, and I have a preference for it coming out one way rather than the other.

In previous wars, the country has done far worse than monitor telephone calls placed to jihad headquarters. FDR rounded up Japanese — many of them loyal American citizens — and threw them in internment camps. Most appallingly, at the same time, he let New York Times editors wander free.

Note the following about the Japanese internment:

1) The Supreme Court upheld the president’s authority to intern the Japanese during wartime;

2) That case, Korematsu v. United States, is still good law;

3) There are no Japanese internment camps today. (Although the no-limit blackjack section at Caesar’s Palace on a Saturday night comes pretty close.)

It’s one or the other: Either we take the politically correct, scattershot approach and violate everyone’s civil liberties, or we focus on the group threatening us and — in the worst-case scenario — run the risk of briefly violating the civil liberties of 1,000 people in a country of 300 million.

I agree… I don’t see the big deal about intercepting communications to phone numbers associated with terrorists. Bush would be wrong for NOT doing so.

Dems display incredible double standard

December 19th, 2005

Was watching Kerry, Lieberman, and some other Dem senators on CSPAN this morning. The hissy fit these guys are throwing over the ANWR drilling bill is a sight to see. Kerry described the maneuver as “a mini nuclear option” and called it a “breach in the honor of the Senate.” He also accused the Republicans of changing the facts and breaking the rules. Lieberman talked about his longstanding mission to preserve ANWR and how it’s a myth that we can solve our foreign dependency on oil through domestic drilling. He said the answer was in switching to hybrids, which isn’t a solution at all in that we will be at the same dependency level in about six years. The most common theme in all of the Senators whining was the importance of passing the defense bill and that of supplying our troops. They lamented the Republicans for putting the interests of a pet project above that of our defense.

The q & a session afterwards was pathetic, I would have loved to have been there. Not a single person pointed out the obvious hypocrisy. McCain attached the Al Queda Bill of Rights FIRST! Tit for tat. McCain calls this kind of practice disgusting, and I agree. You are disgusting McCain.

Does a bear crap in the woods?

December 18th, 2005

A new study written by scholars from UCLA and the University of Missouri confirms what many of us already knew to be the truth - the media leans left. The top four most liberal new sources?

  • The Wall Street Journal (news section, obviously not the op-eds)
  • CBS Evening News
  • The New York Times
  • The L.A. Times
  • Shocking, I know…

    While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper’s news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.

    These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.

    “I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican,” said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study’s lead author. “But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are.”

    “Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left,” said co‑author Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar.

    No, they didn’t count op-eds. Just news.

    Since Groseclose and Milyo were more concerned with bias in news reporting than opinion pieces, which are designed to stake a political position, they omitted editorials and Op‑Eds from their tallies. This is one reason their study finds The Wall Street Journal more liberal than conventional wisdom asserts.

    Read the rest here

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