That is the question and I do not yet have the answer. I heard yesterday that 97% of people polled were against the sale of a British firm to Dubai Ports World, a firm in the United Arab Emirates. Whenever nearly 100% of Americans agree on something we need to take a second look. Then there is Jimmy Carter, the worst president in my lifetime, coming out in favor of the sale. Carter has opposed President Bush on every issue for the past 6 years. I don't know if this is a case of "even a broken clock being right twice a day" or if Carter finally realized that he can do more harm to the Bush administration by siding with them, than he can by siding against.
On Fox and Friends yesterday their guest, whose name I didn't get, was against the sale. In making his case he mentioned the general lack of port security and the "smart containers" that are used in Hong Kong's port as an example of something we should be doing. I don't know if he was aware that port is run by the Dubai Ports World. I heard the explanation from the Bush administration for this plan and there is something in the Wall Street Journal I'd like to read before I make my decision.
The one thing I am sure of at this point is that I am sick of our legislature taking responsibility for nothing. Whatever goes wrong the members of our House and Senate act like they just got there and are quick to blame the President or whomever is handy. Congress insisted on a Department of Homeland Security and pilloried the President until he agreed. They were the ones who set it up with FEMA included in this huge bureaucracy and when FEMA was unable to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina they blames President Bush like they had no hand in setting FEMA up for failure. The vetting process the Dubai company went through was designed by our elected representatives in the House and Senate. It was a long process but did not call for congressional review yet now they cry "Why was this done in secret?" "Why weren't we consulted". I am just sick of it!
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
So The Veep Shot Someone, Big Deal
The MSM is going ape over Vice President Dick Cheney having a hunting accident and not advising them immediately. My thoughts are; Hey, if the guy who got shot isn't complaining then no one else has any reason to gripe!
There have been some reasonably good jokes like;
VP Cheney was hunting quail. Does anyone know if Dan is okay?
Leno Provided the Following
Although it is beautiful here in California the weather back east has been atrocious. There was so much snow in Washington, D.C. Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear.
That’s the big story over the weekend. On a quail hunting trip in Texas, Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter, a 78 year old lawyer. In fact when people found out he shot a lawyer his popularity is now at 92%!
Cheney’s defense is that he was aiming at a quail when he shot the guy. Which means that Cheney now has the worst aim of anyone in the white house since Bill Clinton.
and my personal favorite.............
What a nightmare I had last night .. I dreamed I was at a Washington party and I had to choose between Dick Cheney taking me on a hunting trip or Ted Kennedy driving me home.
There have been some reasonably good jokes like;
VP Cheney was hunting quail. Does anyone know if Dan is okay?
Leno Provided the Following
Although it is beautiful here in California the weather back east has been atrocious. There was so much snow in Washington, D.C. Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear.
That’s the big story over the weekend. On a quail hunting trip in Texas, Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter, a 78 year old lawyer. In fact when people found out he shot a lawyer his popularity is now at 92%!
Cheney’s defense is that he was aiming at a quail when he shot the guy. Which means that Cheney now has the worst aim of anyone in the white house since Bill Clinton.
and my personal favorite.............
What a nightmare I had last night .. I dreamed I was at a Washington party and I had to choose between Dick Cheney taking me on a hunting trip or Ted Kennedy driving me home.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
So, The Arab Street Has Finally Erupted in Violence
We have been warned time and time again about the "Arab street". We were told that the Arab street would erupt in violence if we invaded Afghanistan and again if we invaded Iraq. We heard this again about Abu Gharib, which the media reported endlessly. There were 28 front page stories about Abu Gharib in 30 days at the New York Times and today a Yahoo search of Abu Gharib detainees will recover 1,870,000 results. We were warned again when Newsweek published a bogus story about a Koran flushed down a toilet and there were violent demonstrations about that. Newsweek lied, people died! Still there was never anything that could accurately be described as the "Arab street erupting in violence" until now.
What exactly was the necessary provocation for this long awaited response. Some cartoons printed in a Danish newspaper over five months ago. You may not have seen any of the cartoons or perhaps saw only the one with Mohammad with a bomb shaped turban. I viewed all 12 cartoons today and they are absolutely innocuous. Yet newspapers all over this country are allowing themselves to be bullied into not publishing those cartoons. Freedom of the press will bow to political correctness as long as it is the Muslims who are upset. If Christians or Jewish people were angered by a cartoon their feelings would be ignored while they were chastised for being intolerant.
Leave it to Bill Clinton who apologized all over the world during his presidency to run to a microphone and join the PC crowd.
Clinton warns of rising anti-Islamic feeling
Bill Clinton, former President condemns freedom of speech. Former US president Bill Clinton warned of rising anti-Islamic prejudice, comparing it to historic anti-Semitism as he condemned the publishing of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.
"So now what are we going to do? ... Replace the anti-Semitic prejudice with anti-Islamic prejudice?" he said at an economic conference in the Qatari capital of Doha.
"In Europe, most of the struggles we've had in the past 50 years have been to fight prejudices against Jews, to fight against anti-Semitism," he said.
Clinton described as "appalling" the 12 cartoons published in a Danish newspaper in September depicting Prophet Mohammed and causing uproar in the Muslim world.
"None of us are totally free of stereotypes about people of different races, different ethnic groups, and different religions ... There was this appalling example in northern Europe, in Denmark ... These totally outrageous cartoons against Islam," he said.
I think you are missing the point Mr Ex-President. Anti-Semitism is alive and well especially in the Arab world where there is no hesitation to print cartoons depicting Jews as animals. Where news articles are printed describing Jewish religious ceremonies which require using the blood of Muslim children.
What exactly was the necessary provocation for this long awaited response. Some cartoons printed in a Danish newspaper over five months ago. You may not have seen any of the cartoons or perhaps saw only the one with Mohammad with a bomb shaped turban. I viewed all 12 cartoons today and they are absolutely innocuous. Yet newspapers all over this country are allowing themselves to be bullied into not publishing those cartoons. Freedom of the press will bow to political correctness as long as it is the Muslims who are upset. If Christians or Jewish people were angered by a cartoon their feelings would be ignored while they were chastised for being intolerant.
Leave it to Bill Clinton who apologized all over the world during his presidency to run to a microphone and join the PC crowd.
Clinton warns of rising anti-Islamic feeling
Bill Clinton, former President condemns freedom of speech. Former US president Bill Clinton warned of rising anti-Islamic prejudice, comparing it to historic anti-Semitism as he condemned the publishing of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.
"So now what are we going to do? ... Replace the anti-Semitic prejudice with anti-Islamic prejudice?" he said at an economic conference in the Qatari capital of Doha.
"In Europe, most of the struggles we've had in the past 50 years have been to fight prejudices against Jews, to fight against anti-Semitism," he said.
Clinton described as "appalling" the 12 cartoons published in a Danish newspaper in September depicting Prophet Mohammed and causing uproar in the Muslim world.
"None of us are totally free of stereotypes about people of different races, different ethnic groups, and different religions ... There was this appalling example in northern Europe, in Denmark ... These totally outrageous cartoons against Islam," he said.
I think you are missing the point Mr Ex-President. Anti-Semitism is alive and well especially in the Arab world where there is no hesitation to print cartoons depicting Jews as animals. Where news articles are printed describing Jewish religious ceremonies which require using the blood of Muslim children.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
FREE SPEECH OR JUST BAD MANNERS
In Natan Sharansky's book "The Case for Democracy" he makes reference to the "town square test". If you cannot go to the town square and express your point of view freely without fear of arrest, imprisonment or harm you do not live in a free society. Free speech is not however, an absolute right and an invitation only event at the Capital is not the town square.
We all know you cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater or make jokes about bombs in the airport. Cindy Sheehan has had plenty of opportunities to express her point of view including during a meeting with the President of the United States of America. The MSM has given her a megaphone that few have access to. Just last week she appeared with Hugo Chavez to lend support to his oppressive rule of Venezuela.
The same crowd that criticize this country and every action of the Bush Administration is up in arms that her attempt to disrupt the State of the Union speech last Tuesday was thwarted. "Free speech, Free speech" they all cry but we heard nary a peep from them when the last administration was really infringing on citizens constitutional rights.
Senator Hillary Clinton was in Chicago speaking at a crowd where several professional liberal hecklers tried to interrupt her speech by shouting her down. A transcript follows below.
HILLARY: You know, I have to say that I appreciate the passion --
PROTESTER'S: Troops out now!
HILLARY -- and the intensity that you feel about Iraq.
PROTESTER'S: Troops out now!
HILLARY: I share it, and you're here expressing your opinion, but let's make sure that people have a chance to be part of a dialog, and I do not believe that they want to hear from you at this moment.
Well I'll give Hilary the benefit of the doubt. I don't know the circumstances of this speech, perhaps it too does not rise to the standard of the public square. How about protesters lining a parade route, surely that should be considered "the public square...............
Hillary 'Goon Squad' Victim Goes Public
One Clinton "goon squad" victim has come forward to tell his story.
The incident took place at New York City's Israeli Day parade at the height of Mrs. Clinton's 2000 campaign for the Senate, where, by all accounts, the-then first lady was roundly booed by the crowd as she stoically marched from block to block.
A member of the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com, dressed for the occasion as the Devil, joined the crowd to add his voice to the protest. He recounted the episode Tuesday:
"To suppress opposing views in the crowd the Clinton campaign had people on both sides of the street walking the route with Hillary - but behind the barriers. They were carrying professionally printed pro-Clinton signs."
"Before she passed," he recalled, "they shoved me back and got in front of me, holding their signs in front of mine. However, my signs had a 3 foot handle and I raised them up."
At that point, recounts the FreeRepublic protester, "I was poked in the eye by a finger inserted to the eye-hole in my mask."
Oh well, surely this was just an isolated incident, or was it?
In his recently released book "On the Road with Hillary," Mr. Halley details his eight year stint as Mrs. Clinton's advance man, where one of his most important jobs was stifling protests like those staged by FreeRepublic, using even physical intimidation when he deemed it necessary.
"Less genteel souls," Halley explained, sometimes referred to his protest-busters as "goon squads" - although he preferred the term "etiquette squads." "I was proud of the fact that not one of them had ever been arrested," he boasts in the book.
Every now and then, Halley said, even he would have to throw a punch or two.
During a trip to Moscow while Mrs. Clinton was first lady, the advance man recalled:
"A photographer blocked my way and, trying to get a picture of Hillary in her limo, pushed me. I hit him square in the face so hard I thought I'd broken my hand. His nose exploded in an eruption of blood and I was able to shove him out of the way and jump into the lead car.
When it came to his protest busters, Halley says he "never advocated physical confrontation and always insisted that the etiquette squad stay within the boundaries of the law." But in the next breath he confessed, "Sadly, but inevitably, things sometimes got a little frisky, but my recruits knew how to handle themselves.... I had heard rumors that they had been very adamant about defending themselves when set upon by protesters."
Wow a bloody nose and a gouged eye, sounds bad but surely no one was arrested for expressing their point of view?
If you ever, ever diss the Clintons while in their presence you'll get arrested. On July 1996, in the public record, Patricia Mendoza was arrested in Chicago for shouting "You suck, and those boys died!" (in reference to the Khobar towers bombing in June 1996) at Bill Clinton in July, 1996. But the Clinton's SS troops claimed it was a death threat. Yeah, right. Can't even express a dislike in front of the president's face.
After their arrest, the Mendozas spent 14 hours in a Cook County lock-up. Though the Secret Service eventually dropped all charges, the couple, who ran a small electronics business, was soon audited by the Clinton IRS.
Ralph Grayson, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Chicago office, said his agency has an "ongoing investigation" into the matter.The Secret Service said Mrs. Mendoza made a "threatening statement" to the president.
The "town Square test" no fear of arrest, imprisonment or harm. The Mendozas were arrested and I'd call an IRS investigation harm. The Democrats have been suppressing a government report for over a year which discloses misuse by the Clinton Administration of the IRS. American citizens who were audited by the IRS (some of them repeatedly include Gennifer Flowers, Bill O'Reily and multiple conservative organizations).
The Capital police have made a grave error in apologizing to Mrs. Sheehan and stating publicly that it is not against the rules to wear an advocacy shirt in the Capital. I can just see next years SOtheU with wall to wall slogans and maybe a few commercials on the shirts in the gallery.
If folks had better manners none of this would be necessary.
We all know you cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater or make jokes about bombs in the airport. Cindy Sheehan has had plenty of opportunities to express her point of view including during a meeting with the President of the United States of America. The MSM has given her a megaphone that few have access to. Just last week she appeared with Hugo Chavez to lend support to his oppressive rule of Venezuela.
The same crowd that criticize this country and every action of the Bush Administration is up in arms that her attempt to disrupt the State of the Union speech last Tuesday was thwarted. "Free speech, Free speech" they all cry but we heard nary a peep from them when the last administration was really infringing on citizens constitutional rights.
Senator Hillary Clinton was in Chicago speaking at a crowd where several professional liberal hecklers tried to interrupt her speech by shouting her down. A transcript follows below.
HILLARY: You know, I have to say that I appreciate the passion --
PROTESTER'S: Troops out now!
HILLARY -- and the intensity that you feel about Iraq.
PROTESTER'S: Troops out now!
HILLARY: I share it, and you're here expressing your opinion, but let's make sure that people have a chance to be part of a dialog, and I do not believe that they want to hear from you at this moment.
Well I'll give Hilary the benefit of the doubt. I don't know the circumstances of this speech, perhaps it too does not rise to the standard of the public square. How about protesters lining a parade route, surely that should be considered "the public square...............
Hillary 'Goon Squad' Victim Goes Public
One Clinton "goon squad" victim has come forward to tell his story.
The incident took place at New York City's Israeli Day parade at the height of Mrs. Clinton's 2000 campaign for the Senate, where, by all accounts, the-then first lady was roundly booed by the crowd as she stoically marched from block to block.
A member of the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com, dressed for the occasion as the Devil, joined the crowd to add his voice to the protest. He recounted the episode Tuesday:
"To suppress opposing views in the crowd the Clinton campaign had people on both sides of the street walking the route with Hillary - but behind the barriers. They were carrying professionally printed pro-Clinton signs."
"Before she passed," he recalled, "they shoved me back and got in front of me, holding their signs in front of mine. However, my signs had a 3 foot handle and I raised them up."
At that point, recounts the FreeRepublic protester, "I was poked in the eye by a finger inserted to the eye-hole in my mask."
Oh well, surely this was just an isolated incident, or was it?
In his recently released book "On the Road with Hillary," Mr. Halley details his eight year stint as Mrs. Clinton's advance man, where one of his most important jobs was stifling protests like those staged by FreeRepublic, using even physical intimidation when he deemed it necessary.
"Less genteel souls," Halley explained, sometimes referred to his protest-busters as "goon squads" - although he preferred the term "etiquette squads." "I was proud of the fact that not one of them had ever been arrested," he boasts in the book.
Every now and then, Halley said, even he would have to throw a punch or two.
During a trip to Moscow while Mrs. Clinton was first lady, the advance man recalled:
"A photographer blocked my way and, trying to get a picture of Hillary in her limo, pushed me. I hit him square in the face so hard I thought I'd broken my hand. His nose exploded in an eruption of blood and I was able to shove him out of the way and jump into the lead car.
When it came to his protest busters, Halley says he "never advocated physical confrontation and always insisted that the etiquette squad stay within the boundaries of the law." But in the next breath he confessed, "Sadly, but inevitably, things sometimes got a little frisky, but my recruits knew how to handle themselves.... I had heard rumors that they had been very adamant about defending themselves when set upon by protesters."
Wow a bloody nose and a gouged eye, sounds bad but surely no one was arrested for expressing their point of view?
If you ever, ever diss the Clintons while in their presence you'll get arrested. On July 1996, in the public record, Patricia Mendoza was arrested in Chicago for shouting "You suck, and those boys died!" (in reference to the Khobar towers bombing in June 1996) at Bill Clinton in July, 1996. But the Clinton's SS troops claimed it was a death threat. Yeah, right. Can't even express a dislike in front of the president's face.
After their arrest, the Mendozas spent 14 hours in a Cook County lock-up. Though the Secret Service eventually dropped all charges, the couple, who ran a small electronics business, was soon audited by the Clinton IRS.
Ralph Grayson, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Chicago office, said his agency has an "ongoing investigation" into the matter.The Secret Service said Mrs. Mendoza made a "threatening statement" to the president.
The "town Square test" no fear of arrest, imprisonment or harm. The Mendozas were arrested and I'd call an IRS investigation harm. The Democrats have been suppressing a government report for over a year which discloses misuse by the Clinton Administration of the IRS. American citizens who were audited by the IRS (some of them repeatedly include Gennifer Flowers, Bill O'Reily and multiple conservative organizations).
The Capital police have made a grave error in apologizing to Mrs. Sheehan and stating publicly that it is not against the rules to wear an advocacy shirt in the Capital. I can just see next years SOtheU with wall to wall slogans and maybe a few commercials on the shirts in the gallery.
If folks had better manners none of this would be necessary.
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