"Soldiers dying in Iraq are dying to defend the US against terrorism as a victory in Iraq is a victory in the war on terror. They are dying to defend freedom and democracy in the US and to spread freedom and democracy to Iraq. They are dying for the interests of the US, her allies, and by extension, all Americans (whether they understand it or not). They are not dying for Haliburton, oil, or any other ridiculous shit / slant the anti-war types or conspiracy theorists want to spin. Haliburton is a company (among many others, both US and foreign) that seized a chance to profit in REBUILDING Iraq. There is a big difference between that and war-profiteering. Haliburton did not start the war, terrorists and those that support them did. Putting the chicken before the egg just won’t fly."
-polymath
"[B]efore you [Europeans] write us off as just a bunch of sweaty, hairy-chested, Bible-thumping morons who are more likely to break their fast by dipping a Krispy Kreme into a diet cola than a biscotti into an espresso - and who inexplicably have won more Nobel prizes than all other countries combined,
host 25 or 30 of the world's finest universities and five or six of the world's best symphonies, produce wines that win prizes at your own tasting competitions, have built the world's most vibrant economy, are the world's only military superpower and, so to speak in our spare time, have landed on
the moon and sent our robots to Mars - may I suggest you stop frothing at
the mouth long enough to consider just what are these ideas we hold that you find so silly and repugnant?"
- LynnKramer
"Democracy may have been invented in Greece, but cowardess was invented in France where it lives and thrives to this very day."
- RedTigress
"I'm referring to the Iraqi terrorist bastard fighters. The ones liberals insist are either not in Iraq, or are there by the thousands, depending on which liberal you listen to."
- noguru
"How is it that the Left can believe absolute crazy shit, like the Bush-Saudi Arabian money connection, or the even worse and totally false Bush-bin Laden connection (based on 100% lies) and look at you straight and say there was absolutely no way that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had ties?"
- reducto
[i]Page 50: Why did Kerry, a Vietnam War opponent, decide to enlist? In addition to feeling obliged to serve his country (and wanting to go on the same adventure that his Yale friends were going on), Kerry says that part of the reason he enlisted in Vietnam was fear of the draft: "I called [the draft board] because I was thinking one of the options was, maybe I'll go study abroad, which was a euphemism for screwing around a bit, but it was clear to me that I was going to be at risk. My draft board … said, 'Look, the likelihood is you are probably going to be drafted.' I said, 'If I'm going to be drafted, I'd like to have responsibility and be an officer.' " Page 70, 77: When Kerry asked to be a Swift boat captain, he wasn't asking for combat duty. At the time, the boats were not yet being used for the daring river raids that would make Kerry a war hero. In a 1986 book, Kerry wrote that the Swift boats "were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing. Although I wanted to see for myself what was going on, I didn't really want to get involved in the war." [/i]
Granted, he did serve, but he didn't go into it like the enthusiastic young patriot Clinton portrayed him as.
"Then when it was all over and it was time to heal up and normalize relations with Vietnam, if we could get an accounting, a full accounting of all of our POWs and MIAs and we needed somebody who's been there to stand up and take a leadership role, John Kerry said, send me."
This made me want to puke. And we all remember John Kerry's plan to normalize relations, the People's Peace Treaty, which would leave our POWs in the country.
[i]Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973. The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago— shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee's final report—when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs. [/i]
It goes on, but you can read that for yourself. I might be here tomorrow, but after that I'll be in Colorado for a week.
I'm back and I have more. Kerry also petitioned his draft board for a deferment.
Kerry applied for a deferment in 1966 so he could study in France for a year. Only when he was denied this deferment did he opt to volunteer for the Navy signing an Officer Candidate contract to join the Naval Reserves. It was popular among young men of that day to volunteer in an effort to avoid being drafted into the Army.
Before I get to that, did you see the video footage of Kerry's pitch? It's pretty funny. I can't find the video, since I saw it on the news, but here's a story:
John Kerry bounced the ceremonial first pitch during last night's Red Sox-Yankees game at Fenway Park, but he said he was just going easy on the National Guard soldier and Iraq war veteran standing in as catcher. "I held back," Mr. Kerry told reporters early this morning, on the plane ride after the game. "He was very nervous. I tried to lob it gently."
The ball bounced at the feet of Will Pumyea, the 23-year-old who served tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq as a military police officer in the Massachusetts National Guard. The soldier fumbled for the ball beneath his legs, but managed to come up with it. He offered it to Mr. Kerry, who declined and let him keep it.
Eh, he's not a pitcher, so what do you expect. What I don't like is that he made excuses. Going easy on the guardsman? You know that's a load of crap.
FOR AS LONG as politicians have been throwing out first pitches, fans have been booing them. So it was no surprise last night when the crowd at Fenway Park let Kerry have it. As soon as it was announced that Kerry would be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch, the Boston faithful began booing.
This was somewhat surprising, since many people in the stands were carrying posters with "Team Kerry" and "For a Stronger America: Kerry-Edwards." After the initial wave of booing, some applause mixed in. Then Kerry threw a weak pitch from the grass in front of the mound. It bounced over home plate. The booing came back in force.
All was then quiet on the Kerry front until the 7th inning, when a woman waving a "Team Kerry" poster was put on the Jumbo-tron. The crowd instantly, and vigorously, booed again. Team Kerry shouldn't be overly concerned with the boo birds, but they might be a little worried about how uncomfortable Kerry seems with middle-America events, like sports.
What is going on? I always thought Boston was a liberal city. It's not like Kerry was throwing out the first pitch at a Rangers game. With democrats flooding the city, and Bostonians (I'm guessing more republicans than democrats) fleeing the city by the thousands, you'd expect an even warmer welcome. Maybe sports fans tend to be more republican than democrat. Either way, I just thought Kerry had stronger support among Bostonians. Maybe Boston just isn't as liberal as I percieved it as.
By the way, I'm not superstitious, but the Red Sox beating the Yankees can't be the best omen.
I haven't been keeping up with my game release dates lately, but I don't believe Rome Total War is out yet.
The History Channel is now playing the game and passing that off as battle reenactments. I'm watching what I think is Decisive Battles right now, and I swear they got a hold of Rome Total War ahead of schedule, because the landscape and panning reminds you a helluva lot of Medievel Total War.
I don't really care, but I just think it's pretty cheap that the History channel would quit showing actual reenactments and play games all day long. Well if anything comes out of this, I like what I see and I'll be buying the game.
You know, now that it's into it a little more, I actually like the video game more than watching real people do it.
Update: For those of you that care. I have bought the game and it's actually pretty good. I was skeptical at first. I kept thinking, "How are they going to keep the same variety of units and factions in the first game when you move back in time 1500 years?" They did it somehow. If you liked Medievel Total War, and you have a good computer, you'll love this game.
A POPULAR conceit of the left is that political hatred is a sickness of the right, one to which liberals are largely immune. "Just who are these Clinton haters," asked Time magazine in April 1994, "and why do they loathe Bill and Hillary with such passion?" It answered, in effect: That's just the way conservatives are. The article quoted historian Alan Brinkley: "Liberals tend to value tolerance highly, so there's a greater reluctance to destroy enemies than among the right."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
I'm glad liberals are so tolerant.
Most Americans don't consider themselves haters, and hatred doesn't usually win elections. Clinton was detested by many conservative Republicans, but that didn't stop him from getting re-elected. Bob Dole, the 1996 GOP nominee, was frustrated by his inability to make any headway against an incumbent that he knew many people reviled. "Where's the outrage?" he fumed. What Dole discovered -- what Kerry should remember -- is that political hatred is a minority taste. However intensely it may be savored by true believers, it's a hard sell on Main Street.
Lets hope so. If political hatred is a minority taste, then this convention should scare a lot of people off.
The last thing Kerry needs is to be seen as the candidate of the Hate Party. His campaign has reportedly issued orders to keep the Bush-bashing to a minimum during this week's convention, and the official convention speakers will no doubt comply. But what about all the non-official speakers and activists and sign-wavers and souvenir vendors and interview-givers who will be so visible and audible to the thousands of journalists roaming the Fleet-
Whoa, official convention speakers will no doubt comply? Is this article honestly telling me that Michael Moore, Jessie Jackson, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Kennedy are going to keep Bush bashing to a minimum? I'd like to think they were capable of that, but I can't.
Edit: Apparently the strike out thing doesn't work in the title, so I'll change that.
Oh great, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Jessie Jackson, they're managing to throw Hillary in there and now Moore! Hatefest 2004 coming up. If a single moderate democrat in this country isn't alienated, I'll be suprised. My theory is that democrats always have to be a certain "liberal distance" away from republicans, and since the republicans seem to be lining up a lot of moderate speakers like Guiliani, Arnold, McCain, Miller, the liberals are forced to move farther left. Or maybe republicans see the left moving left and think they can steal their moderates by moving closer to center.
Filmmaker Michael Moore will join fellow liberals Howard Dean and Jesse Jackson in Boston next week for three days of events designed to rally the Democratic Party's left, members of whom will be in town for the nomination of John Kerry as the party's standard bearer in this year's presidential race.
As long as we actually get video footage of this I'm starting to like the lineup. The more hate-filled the speeches the better campaign ads and the more moderates they alienate. The base is already rallied behind them, so I'm still trying to figure out what they gain by doing this.
On another note, check out this short protestwarrior video, it's pretty funny.
Forget that he's an old, white liberal elitist, and that until earlier this year virtually all his campaign staff was white, Kerry is the black power candidate.
Presidential candidate John Kerry clenched his fist and thrust it into the air at yesterday's NAACP convention in Philadelphia - in what appeared to be a "Black Power" salute reminiscent of some of the race-based separatist movements of the 1960s.
The Kerry campaign refused to confirm that their candidate "intended" to offer the controversial gesture, the New York Post said. But photographs of the moment left little room for any other interpretation. Kerry's "Black Power" salute was delivered from the podium while standing side-by-side with NAACP president Kweisi Mfume.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
That is the funniest thing I've seen all election year, other than maybe Kerry on a snowboard.
Remember when Kerry said he was fascinated with rap music? I think the peices are coming together, and John Kerry is going to do everything in his power to become the second black president. Here's some more good stuff I didn't know about till I read that article
Some saw the move as an attempt by Kerry to overcome his stiff "white" image. In April he told MTV that he was a big fan of rap music. In the 1990s his wife Teresa, who came to the U.S. from Mozambique in 1964, repeatedly referred to herself as "African American."
At the time her spokesman defended the claim saying that even her black friends referred to her using that term. But it's not clear whether Sen. Kerry actually has any black friends.
I'm sorry, I'm just too overcome with laughter at this old white guy giving the black power salute, so I'll leave it at that.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called on all Jews living in France to leave and move to Israel "immediately" after a rise in anti-Semitism.
"Altogether I have to advocate to our brothers in France: move to Israel as early as possible," Sharon told a meeting of an American Jewish association in Jerusalem.
"That's what I say to Jews all around the world, but there (France) I think it's a must. They have to move immediately."
We all knew France was anti-Semitic, but I'm glad it's finally somebody important is actually saying something about it.
According to French interior ministry statistics, the number of racist incidents has soared this year.
There were 135 physical acts (vandalism, arson, assault, and attacks or attempted attacks) against Jews in the first half of 2004, compared to 127 for all of 2003, according to the statistics.
For the same period, there were another 95 acts against other ethnic groups - mainly those of North African Arab background - compared to 92 for all of last year.
So will they do it? Will they listen to Sharon? I don't know how much safer they would actually be in Israel. Israel has the Palestinian terrorists, so will they move somewhere else instead?
Something tells me this won't bode well here at home for Kerry among Jewish voters, assuming the media takes hold, since France loves Kerry and Kerry loves France.
[i]Fewer still will have heard of Wesley, an electrician who has become a minor embarrassment to his famous and wealthy sibling. After failing to appear on a drink-driving charge more than 10 years ago, according to state records, he is still wanted by police in Colorado.
After drink-driving convictions in 1985, 1987 and 1990, Mr Edwards's driving licence was permanently revoked and he spent a week in prison. Last August he pleaded guilty to driving without a licence and was fined $US100 ($137) by a court in North Carolina, the state where his brother is a senator, and where he lives, in Fuquay-Varina. [/i]
So you're saying to yourself "But this other Edwards isn't running for Vice President, so why should I care?"
All media requests to speak to Wesley Edwards were being directed to the Kerry-Edwards campaign headquarters, where a spokesman denied that his behaviour was an embarrassment.
So his behavior is not an embarrassment? I'd be embarrassed of my brother if he were convicted of drinking and driving 3 times and driving without a license. That's okay, this sort of thing is excused by liberals, or at least it is until Bush is mentioned in the same sentence.
Unilever NV pulled all advertisements for its Slim-Fast diet products that feature Whoopi Goldberg after the comic made a sexual pun on U.S. President George W. Bush's name at a fund-raiser for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
You'd think Slim Fast would know better than to have any ads on the air with politically charged celebrities.
Don't think she'll be off the air long, I'm sure the Bush campaign will use her in an ad if they can ever get a hold of that fundraiser. Just think of the possibilities. They cut to Whoopi saying something about Bush, but you aren't allowed to show the things she said on TV, so they'd be bleeping out most of it. They'd show a scene here full of bleeps, then cut to a scene there full of bleeps, then the line about Edwards being really young. Oh, this could be better than Kerry saying "I actually voted for the $87 billion..." Man, it's political gold! GIVE US THAT TAPE!!!!
In an effort to pry loose a video it thinks will sway votes, the Bush-Cheney campaign on Tuesday promised not to use the images in ads if the Kerry-Edwards campaign would release a tape of a recent fund-raising event at which entertainers lobbed biting and obscene criticism at the president.
WHAT THE MOTHER!! Aye, so much for that. There's got to be some legal way of getting them to release the tape.
I Guess Liberals Decided They Don't Support The Troops
After all the "We support the troops" crap I hear from the left while simultaneously criticizing every little thing they do, it was only a matter of time before it blew up into something recognizable by even the most ignorant of liberals.
Think about the Seattle area -- Bainbridge Island to be exact -- and you think scenic views and liberal-minded tolerance.
At least the killer views are still there.
The bucolic island's deep reputation for civility got a gut check this week during the annual Grand Old Fourth of July celebration.
That's when Jason Gilson, a 23-year-old military veteran who served in Iraq, marched in the local event. He wore his medals with pride and carried a sign that said "Veterans for Bush."
Walking the parade route with his mom, younger siblings and politically conservative friends, Jason heard words from the crowd that felt like a thousand daggers to the heart.
"Baby killer!"
"Murderer!"
"Boooo!"
Remind you of something? Vietnam maybe? Where soldiers were dying by the hundreds every week and liberals at home pretending to care. Of course, when they got back they were called baby killers and murderers.
I, like the rest of you, have heard the constant slander of Bush and the Iraq war, only to hear afterwards that they support our troops. Even though every soldier killed and everything they fail at turns into a political advantage for the left, even though all the liberals outside of America hate our troops, even though stories like Abu Ghraib are huge stories and pointed to by the left as examples of how undisciplined our troops are, even though certain democrats say our dead soldiers deserved mutilating, even though they call them baby killers and murderers, they still support our troops.
Don't complain saying that I'm generalizing here or something of the sort. I know I am. I know democrats like Zell Miller don't believe this, and I know there are a select few who don't believe that stuff. If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11 and think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, you're one of them. If you think Iraq is as bad as Vietnam, you're probably one of them. If you think passing out GI Joes at sporting events is wrong, you're one of them. The list goes on.
Listen to the song in the background. That song is beyond cool. I'd steal it from the source code and put it on this page, but for some reason that sounds wrong.
Edwards Brings More Than Just Hair....Prepubescent Charm
I'm finally back to my computer, I'm sorry I left my thousands of fans in the dark for a while there. Now, if you don't mind, I'll be all lefty for a second, because if there's one thing you learn from 13 straight hours of listening to conservative talk radio in the car it's that liberals know what they're talking about.
*Purely Satirical
I'm sure this is breaking news for most of you, John Freakin'Great Kerry picked John RideMeToVictory Edwards as his running mate. That's right, us LIbERalS couldn't be happier. So what if Kerry sold his soul and picked the worse candidate just to look better, it's not like he was using it.
Now my neo-con skeptic might be saying "But John Edwards is inexperienced!" Of course, my conservative skeptic is retarded and it's miracle he can sqeeze out those words. John Edwards isn't inexperienced, if anything he's uninexperienced!! He's not only uninexperienced, but is rediculously young looking, which will balance out the wisdom wrinkles in Kerry, which, to some bourgeoisie pigs, make him an eyesore. In the words of the great Whoopi "He looks like he is about 18. I'm going to card his ass tomorrow."
Maybe Gephart would get along with Kerry better, but look at these pictures:
It all makes you think what would happen if Kerry picked Gephart, who he was supposed to be closer to. I'm thinking something that would top the famous Gore kiss:
Now, if you don't mind, I'm off to try and tip off Al Qaeda as to the location and time of the republican convention, if Moore doesn't answer his phone don't worry, I'm sure I can find some other way to contact the terrori-I mean minutemen, maybe John Kerry's blog links to them...
