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Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
Will the last guy that thinks that Fred Thompson is fit to be president, please turn off the lights at his campaign headquarters. This guy doesn’t want to be president, and if he does he is showing an unbelievable lack of determination and focus. It’s downright embarrassing.Â
Twenty-four minutes after he began speaking in a small restaurant the other day, Fred Thompson brought his remarks to a close with a nod of his head and an expression of thanks to Iowans for allowing him to “give my thoughts about some things.â€
Then he stood face to a face with a silent audience.
“Can I have a round of applause?†Mr. Thompson said, drawing a rustle of clapping and some laughter.
“Well, I had to drag that out of you,†he said.
I bet they were saying the same thing when considering your presidential agenda. It seems we’ll have to drag your CONVICTIONS out of you Mr. Thompson, when they should be worn on your sleeve.
“On prosperity, I have a real novel approach, a real creative approach,†he said in Coralville the other night. “Let’s continue doing what works and quit doing what doesn’t work in this country. Tax cuts work.â€
Turning to what he said would be a second priority of a Thompson administration, he said: “High, high high on our lists of concerns for anybody who would think about becoming president of the United States is the security of this nation.â€
How do you maintain security with tax cuts when the country is at war? Are we going to continue to spend ourselves to oblivion, Fred? Welp, there go the fiscal conservatives out the door. Tax cuts work, when we’re not at war and when the dollar can actually BUY something. Tax cuts work when we aren’t expanding government exponentially, creating entirely new bureaucracies within the government to handle tasks that should b the providence of the FBI, CIA, etc.
Still, Mr. Thompson at times seemed to be looking for his sea legs. In an interview with Kay Henderson of Radio Iowa today, in talking about Iran, he referred to the “Soviet Union and China.†(Ms. Henderson, at the end of her blog post on the exchange, wrote: “No, I did not mistype. Thompson said Soviet Union rather than Russia.â€)
On the first day of his visit here, he attacked the Medicare prescription drug plan signed into law by Mr. Bush in 2003 as too costly. That bill that was “written and championed by Iowa’s popular Republican Senator Charles Grassley,†as was tartly noted in a front-page article in The Des Moines Register, referring to the senator whom all the Republican presidential candidates are assiduously courting for an endorsement.
More proof that Thompson isn’t even bothering to do his homework. Is Fred Thompson acting? Is he playing the part of Dan Quayle if he were to run for the presidency? Given that the man looks nothing like Quayle, that’s lazy casting! Then again it’s totally keeping in line with Thompson’s machine. A lazy stroll that seems to indicate at the most that he’ll be able to say to his ambitious bride, “Baby I tried.”
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Mark.
Categories: News.
This has to warm the hearts of those that support our continued sacrifice in Iraq. We’ve paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $460 billion dollars on this war and the Iraqis are paying the Chinese $100 million for weapons. Wonderful, isn’t it?
Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday.
The China deal, not previously made public, has alarmed military analysts who note that Iraq’s security forces already are unable to account for more than 190,000 weapons supplied by the United States, many of which are believed to be in the hands of Shiite and Sunni militias, insurgents and other forces seeking to destabilize Iraq and target U.S. troops.
“The problem is that the Iraqi government doesn’t have — as yet — a clear plan for making sure that weapons are distributed, that they are properly monitored and repeatedly checked,” said Rachel Stohl of the Center for Defense Information, an independent think tank. “The end-use monitoring will be left in the hands of a government and military in Iraq that is not yet ready for it. And there’s not a way for the U.S. to mandate them to do it if they’re not U.S. weapons.”
Paying China for weapons that likely won’t be properly administered by Iraq and could end up being used to kill our kids… priceless. Insulting the US by intimating that we can’t even deliver the weapons necessary to arm the forces that are supposedly replacing our troops… priceless. The costs of this war to date… priceless.
These people don’t give a damn about us. We need to get the hell out of there and allow these lunatics to get back to hating one another again. Withdraw our forces to the oil fields in order to safeguard the flow, and let them all do what they will. At least we would finally be engaged in an HONEST pursuit.
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Mark.
Categories: Entertainment.
Proving the point that Hollywood and entertainers in general are out of touch and should likely just keep their mouths shut, we get this from Brad Pitt:
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Brad Pitt has spoken about his choice for next President of the United States – His good pal George Clooney!
Speaking to Parade magazine, the Ocean’s Eleven actor encouraged his fellow co-star to run for political office, and if George fails then Ben Affleck should try out for President instead.
Disconnected (from reality) is too generous a term.Â
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Mark.
Categories: Political Correctness.
Thank goodness reasonable people seem to have come to a compromise over the decorations/holiday celebrations at some Illinois schools.
Following a school board meeting where parent complained about what the saw as an assault on traditional American celebrations, an Oak Lawn school district has decided to keep observing Halloween and Christmas, but only on the condition that Muslim holiday Ramadan is celebrated as well.
Look at that, they managed to figure out that if you give everybody what they want, nobody has to lose out. It’s touching isn’t it? Unfortunately, now there’s this.
There won’t be little ghosts and goblins at Kohl Elementary School this Halloween.
In a newsletter sent home to parents, Principal Cindy Kaier wrote that the traditional Halloween party celebrated in classrooms each year will be replaced by a fall party on Friday.
The decision came after a discussion that culminated in an “emotional” meeting with teachers that focused on school holiday parties and how Kohl could continue to celebrate without leaving out anyone.
One thing in life is certain. Where one idiot falls, another stands ready to take their place.Â
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Mark.
Categories: Political Correctness.
Do you see what you get Democrats and bleeding hearts that think that everybody’s feelings need to be taken into consideration? You get ham handed nonsense like the canceling of CHRISTMAS AND HALLOWEEN in schools because administrators don’t know how to react to the smallest controversy. They’re damned if they do and they’re damned if they don’t.
Almost a month before Halloween, some Oak Lawn homes are already decorated with pumpkins, ghosts and goblins. But rumors that Ridgefield School District 122 may soon ban in-school Halloween and Christmas have infuriated many parents and area residents.
Those heartless bastards… but wait there’s more.
The district has a 30 percent Arab-American population, many of whom practice Islam. The superintendent says the reason for the change in tradition comes after one parent wanted Ramadan decorations put up inside Columbus Manor Elementary. They were taken down.
Whoops, can’t have one without the other now can we? Can’t have a minority oppressed by not allowing them to have their decorations up. I grew up in New York, during Halloween my school was plastered in black cats, ghosts and pumpkins… we had plenty of minorities and nobody complained, not even the wacky Christians who thought it was akin to satan worship. During Christmas the school was decorated with wreaths, trees, presents, you name it… a tacky spectacle it was. In a corner on a bulletin board you might see a lone menorah haphazardly taped alongside a sea of red, white and green. Nevermind that most of the teachers that had us cutting out the trees and the other decorations were mostly jewish. They seemed alright with it, I mean having what amounted to every jewish holiday off was probably a decent trade, and believe me, I didn’t mind.
Woe are we! Hark, there seems to be at least one person that is not consumed by the delirium stirred by liberals (funny that their party is suffering a huge backlash over this).
Other parents say the controversy is overshadowing what really needs to be addressed at all five schools in the district.
Ronnie Carroll said, “The fact that they are cash strapped. Our classroom size is way above the average mean, 38 children in our first grade classroom. The concern should be our school, not the whole holiday issues.”
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Somebody that gets it. Somebody that ACTUALLY GIVES A DAMN ABOUT THE KIDS. This, “I gots to gets mines” mentality from parents surrounding decorations is ridiculous. There are major issues affecting public schools, but no, these people are all consumed in the stupidity of decorations. This is why I loath political correctness. It mires us in a sea of self righteous garbage that only seeks to further divide America into subcultures and accentuates difference. What happened to the melting pot?
So, I give you a new category, dedicated to the idiocy that is “political correctness”… and I shall endeavor to point out every stupid controversy born of it.