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It's a Saturday Night Special... on Friday

You lucky ducks, you're getting a Saturday Night Special post here at Right Truth a day early.  The phrase Saturday night special is pejorative slang used in the United States and Canada for any inexpensive handgun.  Considering self-defense is more important than ever, and also considering that the Obama administration would love to take away our legal guns, I think it's appropriate to this post.  Saturday Night Special is also a song by the group Lynard Skynyrd (see video below).  Now it is also the name of a post where you get the news you may have missed during the week and it's the name of the drink of the day-- The Saturday Night Special.

The song, followed by the news, then the drink... enjoy:
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Offshore drilling now, create jobs, increase our energy supplies:

Today 97 House Republicans joined Rep. Hastings in sending this letter to Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, encouraging him to stop delaying offshore drilling and finally move forward with an “all of the above” energy plan that includes renewable energy and American-made oil and natural gas.  With 14.7 million Americans out of work, it is more important than ever that we take steps to create jobs in some states that are struggling the most.  In fact, 7 of the states that border the OCS have double digit unemployment:

Tea Party Patriots have actually read the health care bill(s), see what they have found.


Child Barbarians in Phoenix: Obama Extends Their Stay. by Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Israel wipped off the face of the ....website?

Today on National Review Online's The Corner, FDD President Clifford May calls attention to the complete omission of Israel from the wesbite of the Consulate General of the United States in Jerusalem.  His post is below.  His weekly syndicated column is on a related theme: the tendency of the Obama administration to "curry favor with our adversaries at the expense of our friends."    (Consulate General)

Homeland Security Network is giving away free stuff (I want the Smith & Wesson Homeland Security Knife, or maybe a Swiss Army knife of my own that does everything.

Next week we'll be giving away over $250.00 worth of prizes. The prizes include a A Smith & Wesson Tactical Flashlight,  2 Smith & Wesson Homeland Security Knives, a pair of Tasco 12x32 Binoculars & an autographed Brad Thor Book, "The Apostle".  There's no cost to enter, but you'll need to check the site each day for info on how to win the daily prize. Details will be posted Monday on our website. You will need to be a Facebook Fan to enter.
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Drink of the night is a Right Truth Saturday Night Special:

Right Truth Saturday Night Special

2 ounces Kahlua
2 ounces Baileys Irish Cream
2 ounces Cream de Cacao
2% milk

Add Kahlua, Baileys Irish Cream and Cream de Cacao to a glass filled with ice, finish filling glass with 2% milk (or heavy cream, or regular milk, or skim milk.)

Stir gently.  Enjoy. 

Just think, you are getting your calcium and protein while enjoying a refreshing chocolate coffee drink.

It does not have very much alcohol either, just enough to keep your arteries pumping at a healthy pace (in spite of Barack Obama) and your cardiologist happy.

I was right, I was wrong.

I'm big enough to admit when I'm wrong, even when I'm just half wrong.   I advised Sergeant Jim Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department not to go to the White House for the photo-op with President Barack Obama and Prof. Henry Louis Gates.  I didn't know at the time that Vice President Joe Biden would also be there.  My reasons for wanting Crowley to stay home were valid.  However, even I, the humble protector of truth, did not anticipate just how classy Sgt. Jim Crowley truly is.

In spite of the fact that this was a set up to force Gates and Crowley to make Obama look good, Sgt. Jim Crowley put them all to shame.  I'm so proud of the way he conducted himself. 

During the White House tour prior to beers, it was Crowley that physically helped Gates, who uses a cane to get around, down the stairs safely while Obama led the procession like the prince with no clothes. 

At the table on the White House grounds, it was Crowley that kept the conversation non-confrontational.  After beers and nuts (which Obama proceeded to wipe the salt off on his dress slacks -- showing no class whatsoever), it was Crowley who handled the press like a pro.  He gave the media no information other than what he chose to give them. Nothing to stir their racial flames.   Obama could take some lessons from Crowley.

Via Fausta and Nice Deb, check out Thomas Lifson, "Obama's Revealing Body Language":  (hat tip American Power Blog)

Remember Obama said, "I won.  I'm the President."  Race baiting, class envy, elitism...  NONE of those things describe Sgt. Jim Crowley.  Good job Sgt.

Obviously Gates, a man who has made his life on race-baiting, changed his mind about Sgt. Jim Crowley.  And today Gates sent the woman who made the 911 call flowers. 

Please be sure to read all this weeks Watcher of Weasels winning submissions, where you will notice that Right Truth's advice to Sgt. Crowley won third place.

Winning Council Submissions

• First place with 2 points! – The Razor - Waging Lawfare: A Call To Arms
• Second place with 1 2/3 points – Joshuapundit - Bigotry In Basic Black
• Third place with 1 points – (T*) – Right Truth - Advice to Sergeant Jim Crowley
• Third place with 1 points – (T*) – Bookworm Room - Make me Well
• Fourth place with 2/3 points – Soccer Dad - It’s the speeches stupid
• Fifth place with1/3 points – (T*) – The Provocateur – The Definitive Dossier on the House Health Care Bill (Pages 1-500) Part
• Fifth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – The Colossus of Rhodey - Common sense on the Gates arrest

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 points! – Michael Yon - An Artery Of Opium, A Vein Of Taliban
• Second place with 1 2/3 points – (T*) – Heretical Ideas - Is Barack Obama An American Citizen?
• Second place with 1 2/3 points – (T*) – American Thinker - Hoven’s Index : The First Six Months
• Third place with 1 points – (T*) – The Daily Beast - The Man Who Let Mengele Get Away
• Third place with 1 points – (T*) – Yourish.com - Obama insults the entire medical profession
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Dick Morris - Socialism Doesn’t Work-Even in China
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Wendy Kaminer @ The Atlantic - Law Students Flunk Academic Freedom 101
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Ludwig von Mises Institute - The Second Coming of Keynes

And you want them in charge of your health care???

Washington can't even handle a cash for clunkers program, and people want them in charge of health care??? 

The program was open for only 4 days before all hell broke lose.  Cash for Clunkers offers vouchers of $3,500 or $4,500 on a new vehicle for junking a gas guzzler, sounded simple enough. Turns out it's disorganized, a disaster, some people ran out of cars, some dealers were not sure what clunkers were eligible, the government web site was certainly not transparent, more like gobbledygook, changing the guidelines, removing the program, running out of money, not trying to add another $2 billion to the program.



Now apply the above efficiency to your LIFE, to your ability to get prompt diagnosis, treatment and contact with your doctors and hospitals.

 I see dead people.

Contact your politicians, do it everyday, do it several times a day, email, phone, use internet forms, let them know YOU ARE WATCHING THEM.

A picture's worth a thousand words ...

Image by the Grouch at Right Truth, go read the rant that goes with it here.  Then to read Open Letter to Lamar Alexander, it's HOT.

Then there's this:

NewsBusters, July 30, 2009:

[Roseanne Barr's] most-recent tailspin into the gutter involved a photo shoot with Heeb magazine wherein she is seen wearing an Adolf Hitler moustache and swastika as she takes burnt gingerbread "Jew Cookies" out of an oven. In another, in same costume, she is shown about to take a bite out of one of these burnt cookies. "As the "Domestic Goddess" dons the famous moustache, transforming into "Domestic Goddess Hitler," I notice that she's beginning to have fun. She nails the Fuehrer's facial expressions with twisted glee, and as she takes the burnt gingerbread "Jew Cookies" out of the oven it occurs to me that Barr may be the last celebrity utterly incapable of giving a f**k"

The pics, via NewsBusters, .... They're not really worth getting offended about because it's Roseanne Barr so who cares. But they're hard to beat as a textbook example of how the left excuses vulgar anti-Semitism as irony, leaving them free to get the cheap visceral thrill that hatred provides. She really was having fun, wasn't she?

(h/t: Watcher Of Weasels)  from Mere Rhetoric

The Left is still after Sarah Palin with vile words and insinuations.  But if Republicans or Conservatives say anything about Barack Hussein Obama, like list ten reasons he should step down, some nut feels "obligated to report you to the FBI and the Secret Service"

 

Check out more great cartoons at Patriot Update Lefty Loonz!

Other reading:

ACLU Celebrate Release of Terrorist Back to the Battlefield, Stop the ACLU

Lamar Alexander to vote for Sonia Sotomayor

Lamar Alexander, Tennessee's sorry SOB Senator, announced this morning he will vote FOR Sonia Sotomayor.  Unfortunately he is not up for re-election until 2014.  Contact him and others in Congress NOW, tell them how you want them to vote and how you feel about Sotomayor.  Other idiots voting for Sotomayor include Snowe & Collins of Maine, Lugar of Indiana, Martinez of Florida, and Graham of South Carolina. 

 In a speech on the Senate floor this morning, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said he will vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court -- becoming the sixth Republican to do so.

Alexander acknowledged differences he had with Sotomayor over gun rights and the Second Amendment. But he praised her "experience, temperament, character and intellect."

Alexander, who is not up until 2014, is the third ranking Republican in the Senate.  [snip]

The Senate is expected to vote on the nomination next week, perhaps Thursday.  (NPR)

Tennessee's Bob Corker will NOT support Sotomayor, good for him.

Alexander's announcement came hours after his Tennessee colleague, Republican Sen. Bob Corker announced that he won't be backing Sotomayor. "I believe Judge Sotomayor views the Supreme Court as more of a policy-making body where laws are shaped based on the personal views of the justices," Corker said in a statement released by his office late Wednesday.  [snip]

Twenty four Republicans are committed to vote no on Sotomayor's nomination; 11 remain undecided. We listed the fence-sitters in an earlier post .  (USA Today)

Those voting NO and undecided:

Update, 5:30 p.m. ET [July 29, 2009]: Also announcing that they will vote no on Sotomayor are Republican senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina; Richard Burr of North Carolina; Mike Crapo of Idaho and Mike Johanns of Nebraska. Our thanks to hardworking USA TODAY intern Blair Brettschneider for helping us track this down.  [snip]

That leaves a dozen Republicans who have not yet announced how they will vote on the Sotomayor nomination, including Sens. John McCain of Arizona and John Ensign of Nevada.[snip]

Other Republicans who haven't yet announced their votes: Sens. ...   John Barrasso and Mike Enzi of Wyoming; Christopher Bond of Missouri; Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson of Georgia; Judd Gregg of New Hampshire; Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and George Voinovich of Ohio.  (Kathy Keily, USA Today)

I'm on the phone as I type this trying to get through to Lamar the traitor, but the lines are all busy.  Looks like they either have the phones off the hook, or the switchboard is swamped with irate voters like me.

UPDATE:

Phone lines continue to be busy, but I used the online form to send an email, here it is.  Feel free to copy/past it as your own message to your RINOs:

I just heard that Lamar Alexander will vote FOR Sonia Sotomayor.

I am extremely disappointed in this.  Sotomayor is neither qualified to be on the Supreme Court, nor does her record reflect that she will be a non-partial judge, nor that she will be color-blind nor that she will not bring her own prejudices to the bench.

I am not alone in my disappointment of Mr. Alexander.

My only regret now is that I cannot vote AGAINST him until 2014.

It is votes like this that cause people like us to refuse to financially support the RNC or local Republican groups any longer.  We look forward to the day when we have a true CONSERVATIVE running for office of President, Senator, and Representative.  We will gladly donate time, effort and money to getting them elected.

In the meantime, we will gladly spend our time, efforts and money to get RINOs OUT of office.

You still have time to change your mind and vote against Sotomayor, please do so.

And while I'm at it, you need to vote NO on Obama's proposed government health care plans.

Racing to the Race Card: An Observation of Conflict Building

Racing to the Race Card: An Observation of Conflict Building

By Paul A. Ibbetson
(Right Truth Exclusive)

The recent news swirl encompasses the inflammatory statements of President Barack Obama in the wake of the arrest of African-American scholar, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates, a black Harvard Professor, was arrested by Cambridge police after a verbal altercation, which occurred while police responded to a report of a possible break-in at the Professor’s home. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, the Washington Post reported that President Obama stated that, without having the facts of the case before him, the police had acted ”stupidly” in arresting his Harvard friend. At nearly the same time, reports in the media would surface that Gates was demanding an official apology from the Cambridge police for their transgressions against him and, quickly and very efficiently, another case of police abuse against a minority had been logged. Unfortunately, for those that wish to foment continued race conflict, using the Cambridge arrest as another example of “white racism in America,” there was one little problem:  the police were right and the Professor was wrong.

The knee-jerk reaction is, “how can that be?” I mean, think about it, a black professor arrested for trying to get into his own home - his own home for goodness sake. The clincher in this story, for many people with no other facts to draw from (the President included), is that the black professor was arrested by a white police officer. Well, there you go. It’s the mentality of that last statement which is the dangerous component of this story and it is here where both Barack Obama and Professor Gates should be taken to task as pre-meditated race conflict builders.

For those who wish to deny the social advances this country has made over the decades, my personal law enforcement background will no doubt be a disqualifier of my right to speak on this issue. But before you condemn me, let me defend Barack Obama. You can decide for yourself if the President of the United States should be more restrained when talking about events without the facts, or about giving input on the arrests of personal friends.  However, I can tell you from professional experience that immediate statements made about the “rightness and wrongness” of police arrests by family and friends are often tainted by the emotional bonds people have with those who find themselves in the evening lockup. So, while many rail on this part of the Cambridge incident, my experience leads me to extend a certain amount of compassion for those (the President) who find themselves gagging on their foot when speaking out of turn on friends and family who have just been arrested.

The problem that should be observed in the Cambridge (Gates) arrest situation is not that of simple “stupid statements” but that of race conflict building. As events of the arrest of Professor Gates became more clear, we see that the Harvard scholar not only ‘talked himself’ into getting arrested, but that he did so by initiating race into his verbal attack that continued throughout the police investigation to the point of being placed into custody. President Obama, like Gates, needlessly and without provocation raced to “the race card.” For Obama, this can be seen in his initial media statement, where he made sure to reinforce the notion that minorities do not get a fair shake from the police in America. This is where Obama did his greatest disservice to not only law enforcement but also the nation.

The final sadness of this event is how both Barack Obama and Professor Gates, when faced with the reality of Gates’ racial statements at the scene and an arresting officer (who not only was not a member of the KKK but was an instructor on racial profiling) with a sterling record, could not bring themselves to apologize. Instead, they did what liberals always do when obviously in the wrong - they attempted to create a new reality. President Obama started his bizarre procedure of ‘re-calibrating’ his statements, as if you can turn a dial and make racial conflict building into a ‘nice thing.’ Professor Gates, not to be outdone, decided to attempt to remove himself from the entire incident and went from demanding police apologies to saying that the issue was not really about him at all and that he just wanted to move on.

In reality, the largest injustice will neither be that a black professor got mad at the police, got arrested, used the race card, and got caught in the process, nor that the first black President of the United States was only too happy to jump on the bandwagon of racial conflict building. As bad as both of those two events are, the largest injustice here is that a police officer, who did his job and did the right thing, was put through the racial grinder (although he survived), and the entire issue will drop with a framing of ‘no harm, no foul’ as the race conflict builders will simply wait for the next opportunity strike. 

Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 FM. For interviews or questions, please contact Ibbetson91.9@gmail.com or go to www.IbbetsonUSA.com.

Terrorists Next Door

Rural America is the perfect place for Jihadis to lay low and train. In fact, I have been following the "Jihad in rural America" angle for some time: it is real and troubling.

I've reported from the backwoods compound of a radical group called Muslims of America; from sleepy Shelbyville, Tennessee, where hundreds of Somali Muslims have flocked in recent years; from rural Virginia, again, where a terror cell trained for Jihad by playing paintball; and from Tulsa, Okla., where a moderate Muslim man was threatened for speaking out against Jihad. And let's not forget the attempt to establish a terror training camp in the backwoods of Bly, Oregon.

 

Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this North Carolina Jihad cell is that it was apparently made up of mostly white converts to Islam.  --Erick Stackelback

Homegrown, mostly white converts to Islam, plotting terror against Islam and Jews on US soil and/or abroad.  None of them were former US soldiers, I'm sure Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security was disappointed about that.  Suddenly she's more than happy to use the term "terrorism" over and over in her speeches.  That term was verboten a few weeks ago, as was the Patriot act and asking citizens to be aware of their neighbors and surroundings, and encouraging us to watch out for potential terrorists.  My My My how times have changed.  Seems George W. Bush wasn't such an idiot after all, now that America's homeland security is in the hands of the peace crowd.

Daddy, Daniel Boyd, 39, doesn't exactly look the part of a Muslim terrorist -- but that's exactly what he was.   Boyd's wife, Sabrina, on the other hand fully looked the good Muslim wife.  The boys,   Zakariya, 20, and Dylan a/k/a Mohammad (how original), 22 seem to be adapting to the Muslim/jihad way of life with no problems.

  FILE --These undated file photos provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County, N.C., show from left: Daniel Patrick Boyd, Hysen Sherifi, Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan and Ziyad Yaghi. Authorities claim the group, including 3 others and an eighth suspect believed to be in Pakistan, were gearing up for a "violent jihad," though prosecutors haven't detailed any specific targets or timeframe. If convicted, the men could face life in prison. (AP Photo/City County Bureau of Identification/file)  (AP)

Here's wife Sabrina, lovely woman, isn't she?  I wonder if this is her driver license photo? 

She says ,  "I know that my husband and my sons are free of guilt," ... the old "they are such good boys ..." 

Oh Sabrina, what did you think your husband, sons and their "friends were doing when they traveled to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Israel???  Just a Boy Scout outing maybe???  And what were you doing while they were in terror training school?  Did you send them letters of encouragement?  Allahu Akbar ! "Daniel, Zakariya and Mohammad." 

(I have no use for women who sit back and support terrorists, they are as guilty as the terrorists themselves.)

Not to be confused with terrorists like these in New York (thanks to Islam in Action):

This is part II of this past Friday's hate speech from NY based RevolutionMuslim.com. Islamic hate preacher Yousef al-Khattab and his crew are getting more and more brazen with their message.

This time ringleader Yousef al-Khattab is showing his true colors (once again) as he yells "We will slaughter Western civilization, we will slaughter Western civilization!" He also states that the kuffar (non-believers) have been warned.

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Then you've got this here at home:

Bigotry In Basic Black

Joshua Pundit on Jul 24 2009 | Filed under: Webloggin News.

The Henry Louis Gates Jr. incident currently dominating the media is a superb example of how cynical and self-serving the entire race pimping industry in America has become. As usual, there’s a back story here the media aren’t telling you about...(read it all)

Yep folks, hatred, racism, stupidity, ignorance, comes in all ages, sizes, shapes, colors.

The only advice I can give is this:  Americans, keep your eyes open, be aware of your surroundings, keep your cellphone, ham radio, and gun on you at all times.

(One last personal thought, I'm not sure hubby would have asked me out on our first date if I had been dressed like Sabrina.... )

I Hunt People.

I Hunt People.

By R.J. Godlewski
© July 29, 2009, All Rights Reserved

(Right Truth Exclusive)

    You have to admit, that was an effective way of grabbing your attention. In fact, the reason that you are continuing to read this commentary probably has more to do with your prejudices than my own lethality. Fess up. Ours is a very prejudicial culture and you undoubtedly play an important role within it. See? I have already caught you thinking about racial prejudices, haven’t I? Did I mention anything so far about race, religion, or the other top platforms of opinion bias? Uh huh.

    What I am talking about here is our preference for jumping to unnecessary conclusions based solely upon incomplete facts. For example, you undoubtedly have engaged within impulse mathematics as you read the title and concluded that the “I” meant me, the author of this text, that “hunt” meant to shoot or otherwise kill, and that “People” meant those innocent souls surrounding you on a daily basis. The “sum” of your hasty arithmetic was that I actively seek out and kill innocent human beings. This is what I meant by prejudicial thinking.

    Progressive liberals are notorious for this, but their malady is by no means innocently acquired as was yours. You read my title and assumed that I advocating cannibalism of a sort. Okay, perhaps not. Still, you inferred that I was implying that I sought out my fellow citizens as mere game. This would be like saying that the headhunters who feast on Monster are also cannibals. Recruiters might be savages, true, but they are by no means cannibals.

    Prejudice is as blind as is justice. Perhaps even more so. I will, for instance, announce my belief that any gun control law is both unconstitutional and morally wrong. Those on the Left may challenge my opinion by stressing that the founding fathers’ intent was purely for hunting purposes during a period in which Wal-Mart did not exist. Those on the Right may chisel away at my sensibilities by stressing that the founding fathers intended for us to retain gun ownership so that we could protect our rights and freedoms from tyrants. The truth of the matter is that our founding fathers determined that rights came without instructions. That they were “inalienable” meaning that they were as indefinable as the very concept of our Creator Himself. Everyone knew that God existed; there was no use trying to explain the matter.

    The same process pretty much explains the Second Amendment. The drafters of the Constitution undoubtedly knew that we – the citizens of this great nation – might envision a need for firearm possession and so they did not see a need to elaborate any further. Only people who have too much time on their hands worry about such distinctions as hunting, recreation, and self-preservation or pistol, rifle, or shotgun. Those prejudices are a relatively modern invention. Opponents of gun rights generally use such prejudices as weapons in their own right. They try to thwart rational thought through fear and ignorance.

    This technique transformed “assault rifles” into modern implements of mass killing. The truth is, during Vietnam it took a combined average of 50,000 rounds from an assault rifle to inflict a single kill upon the enemy but only 1.3 rounds from sniper rifles – essentially modified deer rifles – proving that the effect comes not from a particular weapon itself but from the professionalism of the user behind the device. Our prejudice thus elevates a mere tool into the pantheon of widespread destruction simply because we have an inherent fear of ourselves.

    At this point, I would like to argue the most rational of all thoughts. That is, if someone can take something away from you, then they can take anything away from you. If they seek to penalize you for driving a big ol’ SUV, then what makes you certain that that tiny little roller skate that is supposed to aid in our economy and environment will not be eliminated at some point in the future? If the federal government wants control over which doctor you visit, what will stop them from challenging you on what college degree you seek as well?

    Since we are discussing prejudices, I would have to argue also that the current government seated in Washington – the President, the Senate, and the House – is the most prejudicial organization on the planet. They seek not only to divide the classes, but also to pit organized (and armed?) thugs (in the form of ‘volunteers’) against us as well. If this is not the work of segregationists, I do not know what is.

    Furthermore, the very same government that seeks to dismiss your rights in choosing your own doctor, degree, and type of firearm has also decided to elevate criminal aliens and terrorists to the ranks of bona fide citizens. If not sacrificing your national defense, these actions definitely diminish the value of your own citizenship. Folks, look at it this way. When I earned my promotion to petty officer within the Navy, I made the advancement in the First Increment. This means that I was paid for the new rank as soon as I ironed on my Crow without waiting for accounting to catch up with me. There were only two of us in my command of ~800 sailors who made this distinction at that time, from all ratings and ranks. Everyone else who was promoted had their pay increases drift in at various intervals based upon performance, experience, etc.

    I was immensely proud of my achievement. Unfortunately, my division officer decided to meritoriously advance two sailors (one who failed the advancement exam and another who was in drug rehab at the time and so could not take the test) to the same rank as me. What I earned through experience and knowledge, they diminished through ignorance and criminality. Please do not allow our federal government to “meritoriously advance” others in your stead. Do not allow those who break our laws to diminish your own achievements through prejudicial preferences.

    I, for one, do not lose any sleep over the inhabitants of Guantanamo Bay, for example. I do not feel that it is prejudicial to safeguard American rights for those actually living here within the United States. If someone in Afghanistan or Iraq or Saudi Arabia for that matter seeks to harm our citizens, then there is nothing inherently “American” that says that we must treat them as wayward pickpockets. I have long since devoted my life to ridding the world of these thugs and, yet, I feel peace of mind whenever I enter the physical presence of my Lord every Sunday.

    During my youth, I wanted to become an astronomer. When I studied at Michigan State University many years ago, my major of choice was Astrophysics – one of only two non-pre-Med science students out of a freshman class of 150 – and I feasted solely upon fresh kill venison during my first year in order to study hard and pay my bills. Today, God has brought my talents back down to earth for who can rightfully gaze into the heavens when there are people down here trying to nuke the innocent into oblivion.

    Instead of studying supernovae, I study IEDs. Instead of scrutinizing stellar spectra, I sniff out explosive compositions. Instead of peeking through a monstrous telescope, I gaze quietly through a much smaller instrument of optical engineering. Yes, I hunt people. Just not humans…

Coming to a hospital near you...

Chavez style healthcare, from The Watcher of Weasels weekly nominations:

I have to thank a reader of Webloggin for reminding me just how delusional some people are when it comes to believing the crap put out by leftists and worse.

About a year ago I wrote a small piece about Maxine Waters who had at the time threatened the CEO of Shell Oil with the following:

“this liberal would be all about socializing, er, ah would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies”

Leave it up to Waters to speak the truth about the Democrat agenda. She couldn’t help herself any more than a tiger could hide his stripes.

The title of my piece must have grabbed a koolaid drinker’s attention because he left me a comment that is so racked with lies and deception that I thought it a good springboard for this week’s Weasel Watching submissions.

Thank you Maxine Waters for standing up for the people of the United States. Too often politicians only stand up for the powerful corporate interests. Chavez is quite the opposite of fascism. He is about empowering the poor. Something the readers of this blog most likely despise, for they want to further empower the rich.

Besides being one of the most mind numbingly stupid statements I have ever read it reminded me that these ideologues have formed their misinformed opinions based on lies. Chavez is every bit the fascist dictator. He packed his Supreme Court to keep ultimate power, he suppresses his opposition by force and coercion, he has abolished democracy, taken over the media, made criticism of his government a crime and has taken over the infrastructure of private enterprise. Chavez is so crooked and despised that Human Right’s Watch released a 233 page report detailing just a small amount of his gross record.

Of all the lies and justifications that leftists have made concerning Chavez however is the claim that he empowered the poor by providing them state run health care.

In 2007 an article appeared in the Miami Herald detailing the atrocious Venezuelan health care system.    (continue reading)

Council Submissions

• Wolf Howling - Gates & The Politics of Race
• Joshuapundit - Bigotry In Basic Black
• Rhymes With Right - Time To Fix The Texas Social Studies Curriculum
• Right Truth - Advice to Sergeant Jim Crowley
• The Glittering Eye - Is Technology Responsible for Rising Healthcare Costs?
• The Colossus of Rhodey - Common sense on the Gates arrest
• Mere Rhetoric - One Jerusalem Conference Call With George Gilder: Israel Is The “Crucial Battlefield For Capitalism In The World”
• Soccer Dad - It’s the speeches stupid
• Bookworm Room - Make me Well
• The Razor - Waging Lawfare: A Call To Arms

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: Wolf Howling – Wendy Kaminer @ The Atlantic - Law Students Flunk Academic Freedom 101
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Michael Yon - An Artery Of Opium, A Vein Of Taliban
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Rge Free Market Warrior Blog - NOW WE ARE THE STORY
• Submitted By: Right Truth – Digger’s Realm - DHS Launches New Website – Top Stories Include Saving Bald Eagles
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Heretical Ideas - Is Barack Obama An American Citizen?
• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – The Daily Beast - The Man Who Let Mengele Get Away
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Ludwig von Mises Institute - The Second Coming of Keynes
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Yourish.com - Obama insults the entire medical profession
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – American Thinker - Hoven’s Index : The First Six Months
• Submitted By: The Razor – Dave Price – Dean’s World - Choice and Risk

Obama’s half sister, born in Indonesia, has a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth

From Examiner:

Maya Soetoro was born to Indonesian businessman Lolo Soetoro and American cultural anthropologist Ann Dunham and half-sister to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. While living in Indonesia, she was home schooled by her mother and then attended Jakarta International School and returned to Hawaii and attended the private Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, graduating in 1988.

 Besides being the First Sister Maya has a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth despite be born in Jakarta Indonesia. Supposedly this certificate was used by the Daily Kos to forge an Obama version. Anyone find it odd that Maya, ... born in Indonesia, would have the same type of document as Barack Obama to forge?

Very .... interesting .......