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Wednesday, December 31
GOP Congressman Gives His Pay Raise to Charity
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 31 Dec 2008 11:43 PM EST
U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett says he is donating his new congressional raise to an Anderson charity...Barrett says lawmakers should not be earning more during these poor economic times. He says he voted against the automatic pay raise and all increases should have to be voted on individually. Barrett is beginning his fourth term in Congress. More>>>
The Warm Turns: The Earth has been warming ever since the end of the Little Ice Age. But guess what: Researchers say mankind is to blame for that, too
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 31 Dec 2008 09:21 PM EST
When the sun is active, it's not uncommon to see sunspot numbers of 100 or more in a single month. Every 11 years, activity slows, and numbers briefly drop near zero. Normally sunspots return very quickly, as a new cycle begins. But this year, the start of a new cycle, the sun has been eerily quiet. The first seven months averaged a sunspot count of only three and in August there were no sunspots at all — zero — something that has not occurred since 1913. According to the publication Daily Tech, in the past 1,000 years, three previous such events — what are called the Dalton, Maunder and Sporer Minimums — have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called the Little Ice Age (1500-1750). More>>>
Video: IDF takes out Hamas vehicle being loaded to transport missiles
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 31 Dec 2008 09:11 PM EST
What First Amendment: Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 31 Dec 2008 08:57 PM EST
Relying on government help (to financially support newspapers) raises ethical questions for the press, whose traditional role has been to operate free from government influence as it tries to hold politicians accountable to the people who elected them. Even some publishers desperate for help are wary of this route. Providing government support can muddy that mission, said Paul Janensch, a journalism professor at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, and a former reporter and editor. "You can't expect a watchdog to bite the hand that feeds it," he said. More>>>
Environment minister: Man-made global warming 'a con'
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 31 Dec 2008 08:44 PM EST
Spending billions on trying to reduce carbon emissions is one giant con that is depriving third world countries of vital funds to tackle famine, HIV and other diseases, Sammy Wilson said... “I think in 20 years’ time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all. Because there is now a degree of hysteria about it, fairly unformed hysteria I’ve got to say as well. More>>>
Obama's Energy Honcho Wants to Saddle Americans (You and Me) With Higher Gasoline Prices Through Greater Taxation...Because High Fuel Prices Were So Much Fun Earlier This Year...
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 31 Dec 2008 03:03 PM EST
Despite growing scientific dissent to the anthropogenic global warming meme and, indeed, greater evidence to the contrary that AGW exists, Obama's Energy honcho wants to ramp those gasoline prices right back up to, ya know, force us American saps to buy more-efficient cars and to live in neighborhoods closer to work. Uh huh. So, those of us who farm and/or who live in rural areas are supposed to sell our homes and move into the cities or else...? Echoes of Obama's pre-election threat to "bankrupt" companies who build new coal power plants... WSJ's Neil King, Jr. and Stephen Power report (Hat tip: Pedro!) More>>>
The race card is played: Don't "hang or lynch" the black man chosen by Rod Blagojevich
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 31 Dec 2008 12:40 AM EST
Taking to the podium at the end of a bizarre, shambolic press conference in which Governor Rod Blagojevich sought to appoint Roland Burris to the US Senate, Congressman Bobby Rush dared white Democratic senators to block a black man from joining their ranks. He urged people "not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer" and, after saying repeatedly that Burris would be the only African-American in the Senate, said that he believed no senator would want "to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the US Senate". Rush is a former Black Panther who trounced Barack Obama in the 2000 Democratic primary when the then state senator challenged him for his House of Representatives seat More>>> Tuesday, December 30
Burris Donated Thousands to Blagojevich
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 30 Dec 2008 11:28 PM EST
Roland Burris, the former Illinois Attorney General named by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill the vacant Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, has a documented history of making substantial donations to Friends of Blagojevich, the very campaign organization that federal prosecutors charge Blagojevich used to put Obama's seat up for sale to the highest bidder. More>>>
NY Post: Fat Cat Palace is a 'Cra$h' Pad
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 30 Dec 2008 10:53 PM EST
Have a look at what we taxpaying suckers helped buy for one Wall Street pig. The New York Post reports that Peter Kraus - a former top executive at Merrill Lynch who received a $25 million golden parachute after only three months' work - has landed himself a $37 million Park Avenue pad. More>>>
UPI 'Conveniently' Neglects Party Label Mention of Indicted Puerto Rico Governor
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 30 Dec 2008 03:40 PM EST
Once again we have a politician who is indicted on corruption charges and once again we have a news organization who ''conveniently'' neglects to mention his party label. You will look in vain for the party name of Puerto Rico Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila in this United Press International report:...Acevedo, who was voted out of office last month, faces trial in February. More>>> Sunday, December 28
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 28 Dec 2008 04:41 PM EST
Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects....First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare....Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world's most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that "consensus" which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions. Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month's Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and "environmentalists" gathered to plan next year's "son of Kyoto" treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for "combating climate change" with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times. More>>> Saturday, December 27
Australia may take former Guantanamo Bay inmates
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 27 Dec 2008 12:08 PM EST
As the Greens warned the Prime Minister he faced a political backlash if he accepted detainees held in the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a spokesman for Mr Rudd confirmed US authorities had approached Australia and other countries about resettling the detainees. "Australia, along with a number of other countries, has been approached to consider resettling detainees from Guantanamo Bay," the Prime Minister's spokesman said. "Any determination for an individual to come to Australia would be made on a case-by-case basis. More>>>
Suzanna Gratia-Hupp Explains Real Purpose of Second Amendment
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 27 Dec 2008 11:51 AM EST
This lady has a lot to say on the subject, but her final statement says it all. H/T old friend, Keith! Gratia-Hupp wiki
Theodore Roosevelt Was No Conservative
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 27 Dec 2008 05:30 AM EST
The fact that conservative politicians such as John McCain and writers like William Kristol and Karl Rove are attracted to our 26th president is strange because, if we want to understand where in the American political tradition the idea of unlimited, redistributive government came from, we need look no further than to Roosevelt and others who shared his outlook More>>>
American Thinker: Problems with 'green' energy you may not have heard about
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 27 Dec 2008 02:03 AM EST
One major issue with many supposedly "green" energy sources is reliability, and another is maintenance. Both issues are highlighted in a strikingly honest report in today's New York Times by Kate Galbraith. Credit where it is due. Some of the problems reported: More>>> Friday, December 26
Newsweek Uses Year-End Edition to Take Potshots at Palin
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 26 Dec 2008 06:15 PM EST
Newsweek sprinkled throughout its year-end double issue, with Barack Obama on the cover as the #1 member of “The New Global Elite,” a bunch of potshots at Sarah Palin -- and even derided teen daughter Bristol too. In a list of those who committed “low behavior” during 2008 (which did at least also highlight John Edwards), the magazine accused Sarah Palin of a “smear” against Barack Obama, on another page Newsweek described her as an “ill-informed, inarticulate shopaholic” (while on the same page hailing MSNBC's Rachel Maddow as a “brilliant” woman who “gives libs a happy new voice”) More>>>
Muslims Erect ‘Allah Has No Son’ Banner in Nazareth
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 26 Dec 2008 01:08 AM EST
Nazareth Mayor Ramiz Jaraisy played down concerns that a banner effectively denying Jesus’ deity was provocative to Christians, although he did question its position, in front of Nazareth’s most prominent landmark. “I don’t think that it’s provocative against anyone,” he said. “My point of view [is] that it’s not the right place to put it and it’s not the right way to do that.” But Jaraisy said he would not remove the banner because some Islamic fundamentalist groups were looking to provoke a confrontation in order to promote their cause. He did not want to provide them with that opportunity. More>>>
Dick Morris: Hey Caroline, You're Not Entitled
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 26 Dec 2008 12:48 AM EST
She hasn't had a job since before she went to law school in the 1980s. So, why should Caroline be appointed senator? Does anyone seriously believe that her audacious grab for the New York Senate seat is based on anything more than a misplaced and somewhat grandiose sense of entitlement coupled with a cynical claim of access to big money for the next election? If her name weren't Kennedy, would anyone give any consideration at all to someone without any experience to prepare her for the job or to even inform the voters about what she stands for? More>>> Thursday, December 25
A Christmas Tale -- 1919
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Dec 2008 08:28 AM EST
It's easy to complain in the midst of a stressful holiday season. But my family has a unique remedy: We remember one special Christmas in 1919 that gave us the freedom and liberty we enjoy today. This will be the 89th anniversary of the year my father celebrated Christmas Eve deep in the snow-laden woods of Russia as he fled the Communist takeover of his homeland. More>>>
And Now Santa Requests a Bailout
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Dec 2008 07:17 AM EST
Defense Spending Would Be Great Stimulus
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Dec 2008 07:00 AM EST
The Department of Defense is preparing budget cuts in response to the decline in national income. The DOD budgeteers and their counterparts in the White House Office of Management and Budget apparently reason that a smaller GDP requires belt-tightening by everyone That logic is exactly backwards. More>>>
Farewell, Brit
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Dec 2008 06:33 AM EST
Brit Hume signed off from his Fox News Channel's Special Report for the final time this week. He will, however, remain at the network in a more limited capacity as a senior political analyst. We wish Mr. Hume well in retirement. He will be missed. Tuesday, December 23
Member of Kerry's 'Band of Brothers': 'My Motives Were Pure and Innocent'
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 23 Dec 2008 11:56 PM EST
Remember Wade Sanders? He was one of the "band of brothers"--Swift Boat veterans who supported John Kerry's presidential campaign and appeared onstage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention before Kerry's "reporting for duty" speech. On the campaign trail, Sanders was one of Kerry's nastiest surrogates. In August 2004, he likened the president to a "trapped animal." In September, he compared Karl Rove and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth chief John O'Neill to Josef Goebbels. He repeatedly referred to the president and his men as "chicken hawks," an especially nasty term because it is slang for a child molester as well as a derisive term for a nonveteran who favors a strong defense. Sanders is back in the news. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that he "pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal charge of possessing child pornography"...Sanders acknowledged in court that he had "possessed computer files containing 600 images of minors, including a 21-minute video that depicted girls engaging in sex acts with an adult man." But don't worry--his motives were "pure and innocent": More>>>
Buchanan: On the Death of Deep Throat
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 23 Dec 2008 10:52 PM EST
"De mortuis nil nisi bonum." Of the dead, nothing but good. So said Dean Acheson of Sen. Joe McCarthy on his death in 1957. "Tailgunner Joe" had bedeviled the secretary of state for his lassitude toward communist penetration of State in President Truman's time. But the passing of Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI in the later Nixon years, lately exposed as "Deep Throat," the source for the Woodward-Bernstein stories, calls forth some rebuttal to the tributes lavished upon Felt as the honest lawman who saved our republic. More>>>
FBI Informant: Washington Post Censors Truth About Bill Ayers
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 23 Dec 2008 10:12 PM EST
From the AIM article: (Editor’s Note: This column by Larry D. Grathwohl, a former FBI informant in the Weather Underground, was written in response to Charles Lane’s December 11, 2008, Washington Post column, “The Unreal Bill Ayers: Three Decades After the Weather Underground’s End, He’s Still Justifying Its Means.” This Grathwohl column was rejected for publication by the Washington Post.) I am Larry Grathwohl and have been acknowledged as the only person to infiltrate the Weather Underground as an informant for the FBI. I offer the following comments and observations regarding the article “The Unreal Bill Ayers” recently written by Charles Lane for the Washington Post. More>>>
Saving Capitalism No Sure Thing as Statism Undermines Economy
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 23 Dec 2008 04:56 AM EST
The intervention comes at what may prove to be a steep price. Future investment may be allocated less efficiently as risk-averse politicians make business decisions. Whenever banks decide to lend again, they are likely to find new capital requirements that will curb how freely they can do it. Interest rates may be pushed up by government borrowing to finance trillions of dollars of bailouts.
“We’re seeing a more statist world economy,” says Ken Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and now a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “That’s not good for growth in the longer run. More>>>
Obama's Plan to Rejoin the World Community
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 23 Dec 2008 04:23 AM EST
When Candidate Barack Obama declared himself a ''citizen of the world'' before thousands of cheering German socialists, and later pledged to ''rejoin the World Community,'' those weren't just his usual platitudes about ''change.'' (Snip) Obama plans to use his presidential power to get the Democratic-majority Senate to ratify a series of treaties that would take us a long way toward global rule over our money, our laws, our military, our courts More>>> Monday, December 22
One Plus One Equals 20 Extra Votes For Franken
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 22 Dec 2008 06:54 PM EST
It's bad enough that the Republican Party can't prevent Democrats from voting in its primaries and saddling us with The New York Times' favorite Republican as our presidential nominee. If the Republican Party can't protect an election won by the incumbent U.S. senator in Minnesota, there is no point in donating to the Republican Party. The day after the November election, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman had won his re-election to the U.S. Senate, beating challenger Al Franken by 725 votes. Then one heavily Democratic town miraculously discovered 100 missing ballots. And, in another marvel, they were all for Al Franken! It was like a completely evil version of a Christmas miracle. More>>>
If the Hijacking of Minnesota's Senate Election is Successful, Franken Will Defeat Coleman By 78 Votes
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 22 Dec 2008 05:22 PM EST
From the article: The Canvassing Board overseeing the vote recount for Minnesota’s tightly contested U.S. Senate race isn’t quite done examining disputed ballots, but using their numbers the Minnesota Star Tribune issued a projection Saturday night that Al Franken will pick up 270 votes when the board is finished. Currently the board is determining voter intent in disputed ballots. If the projection proves correct, Franken will beat incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman by 78 votes. Vote totals have changed a lot since Nov. 4, when Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. Correcting typos cut Coleman’s margin to 215, and a recount by all the counties reduced it further to 192. Yet, the additional 270 votes picked up by Franken from the Canvassing Board’s decisions have been among the most controversial. The vote pickup has occurred through two actions by the board — divining voter intent and determining what votes should be counted. While decisions to include missing or overlooked ballots have gotten the most attention, the process of determining intent has also been important in determining the outcome here. More>>>
Chavez orders halt to construction of Caracas mall, says building to be expropriated
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 22 Dec 2008 05:13 PM EST
The Venezuelan leader said it would be out of line with his government's socialist vision to allow the new Sambil mall to take up precious urban real estate -- and that unbridled consumerism isn't his idea of progress either. "How are we going to create socialism turning over vital public spaces to Sambil?" said Chavez, who has nationalized Venezuela's largest phone company, electric utilities and oil fields. The president also has urged Venezuelans to shed their materialism and their taste for designer clothes, sport utility vehicles, Scotch whisky and plastic surgery. More>>> Sunday, December 21
Mark Steyn: We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 21 Dec 2008 08:02 PM EST
So many areas of endeavor that once embodied the youth and energy of this great land are now old and sclerotic. I include, naturally, my own industry. I loved the American newsrooms you saw in movies like "The Front Page," full of hard-boiled, hard-livin' newspapermen. By the time I got there myself, there were no hard-boiled newspapermen, just bland, anemic newspaperpersons turning out politically correct snooze sheets of torpid portentousness. The owner of The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune recently filed for bankruptcy protection. The New York Times is mortgaging its office to fund debt repayment. The Detroit Free Press is cutting out home delivery except on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, thereby further depressing sales of delivery trucks in the Motor City. The newspapers blame the Internet, just as Detroit blames Japan. But the Japanese have problems of their own. One day they'll get theirs. That's the beauty of capitalism. Nothing is forever. More>>>
New Book: General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 21 Dec 2008 06:31 PM EST
From the UK Telegraph: "...military historian Robert Wilcox claims that OSS head General "Wild Bill" Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton, who gloried in the nickname "Old Blood and Guts". His book, "Target Patton", contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton's Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch. Mr Bazata also suggested that when Patton began to recover from his injuries, US officials turned a blind eye as agents of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, poisoned the general." More>>> Friday, December 19
Congress rewards its economy busting, nationalizing and socializing single digit approval performance with...another pay raise!
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 01:11 PM EST
From The Hill: A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay. Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it. “As lawmakers make a big show of forcing auto executives to accept just $1 a year in salary, they are quietly raiding the vault for their own personal gain,” said Daniel O’Connell, chairman of The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a non-partisan group. More>>>
Times Public Editor Tries to Rationalize Paper’s Use of “Terrorist” Label
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 03:33 AM EST
Hoyt also explains, “The Times does not call Hamas a terrorist organization, though it sponsors acts of terror against Israel,” because “Hamas was elected to govern Gaza.” And “it provides social services and operates charities, hospitals, and clinics.” The National Socialists were elected to govern Germany. Does that mean the Holocaust wasn’t a crime against humanity? If Al-Qaeda ran hospitals and clinics, would that make it something other than a terrorist gang? If you can’t call someone who kills a five-year-old girl to advance a political cause a terrorist, how do you describe them - as an overly enthusiastic partisan, a misguided freedom-fighter or an unfortunate individual who was driven to acts of desperation? More>>>
AiM: Is Bernard Madoff Running the Federal Government?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 03:13 AM EST
Business cable network CNBC is asking, in a special report, whether investment manager Bernard Madoff pulled off the “scam of the century.” But Madoff is only accused of a $50 billion heist. That’s peanuts compared to what the politicians have done to us. On Monday, December 15, in a story that went unnoticed, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the federal government has failed another financial audit. It was the 12th year in a row that the federal government has been unable to accurately report on its fiscal condition. Frankly, nobody knows precisely where the money is going. But we know where it’s coming from―the beleaguered taxpayers. More>>> |
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