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Apr 2007
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I Wonder What Effect This Would Have on the GOP Side?
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Sat 7 Apr 2007 13:03
by Kevin McGehee
40° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
2 comments
[War]
[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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In a move some criticized as a self-serving ruse to increase voter turnout, Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata on Thursday unveiled legislation to place a measure on California’s presidential primary ballot calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
“It’s long past due the time we should be leaving Iraq,“ said Perata, D-Oakland.
“We’ve had over 3,000 Americans killed, 25,000 injured. We’re spending upwards of $400 billion that we know of, and there seems to be no end in sight,“ Perata said, standing in front of the Veterans Memorial Building in Berkeley, the site of what he called “the birthplace of the peace movement.“
The proposed nonbinding, advisory measure—similar to a number of anti-war resolutions passed by local governments—will be formally introduced in the Democratic-controlled Legislature on Monday.» Bee: Some call anti-war plan a ploy
It may boost Democrat turnout more, it being California, but it’s a polarizing measure and will also bring out a lot of Republicans. As a result, it could help John McCain in the GOP presidential primary, giving his candidacy a boost that, right about now, it looks like he needs desperately if he wants to keep his campaign alive.
Of course, Perata is less interested in affecting the presidential primaries than he is in simply turning out more pro-Democrat voters—and here’s why:
Perata acknowledged that the measure’s presence on the ballot could increase Democratic voter turnout, but he denied that it was intended to boost fortunes of another possible measure on the Feb. 5 ballot that would change term limits for state lawmakers and allow him, among other incumbents, to serve longer.
He’s lying, of course. The cynicism of career politicians ought never to be underestimated. And the gullibility of California’s Dem voters, even less so.
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Gore-ba-palooza
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Sat 7 Apr 2007 12:33
by Kevin McGehee
38° and fair
in Coweta County, GA
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[Wackadoodle]
[Nature]
[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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The think tank that generated headlines by reporting that Al Gore’s Nashville mansion uses about 20 times as much energy as the average home, has been bombarded by hate messages ever since.
Nicole Williams of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research tells the Scripps Howard News Service that she received about 10 death threats by phone, and more than 100 threats that said in one way or another—“I’m gonna get you.“
The center received nearly 3,000 Gore-related emails—many too vulgar to repeat here. Of those that can be, one said: “I hope you all die slowly and have your hearts and brains trampled to pieces — you small-minded, ignorant, backwoods ideologues.“
Another e-mailer said: “You bunch of stupid hick rednecks. I am sure you are quite religious, yet you have no problem destroying His creation with pollution; and, rather than addressing that, you cast dispersions on Al Gore’s home energy use.“
Yet another: “You are a total waste of skin and air. Help the environment and jump off a cliff.“ » Brit Hume: Hate Messages
It’s obvious that the jihadists of the Most Holy Church of We Have to Destroy Civilization to Save Mother Gaia, care more about the political credibility of their celebrity champions—and the unquestioning credulity of those champions in the media—than about the environment.
I mean seriously—from Al Gore and Heidi Cullen on down to this fool—every last one of them is a drooling wackjob who needs to be institutionalized for their own safety and everyone else’s.
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Must Be All Those Tax Returns
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Wed 4 Apr 2007 16:43
by Kevin McGehee
73° and cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
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[AK4MC]
[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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All you pesky taxpayers gotta quit clogging up the postal system. You’re delaying delivery of my again-upgraded ham license!
The new one back when I upgraded to General nearly a month ago arrived only three days after the FCC printed it. The one for my more recent upgrade was printed a week ago and still hasn’t shown up. So it’s all you snail-mail-usin’ tax-return filers that are to blame, I just know it. If you have to stick with the low-tech way of doing things, why can’t you put off mailing the dang thing until the last minute (April 17, this year)?
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Dems: ‘There Is No Global War’
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Wed 4 Apr 2007 7:30
by Kevin McGehee
57° and light rain
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[War]
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The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.
This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase.» Military Times: No more GWOT, House committee decrees
And they don’t like the phrase because…? Well, here’s a hint:
Also banned is the phrase the “long war,” which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years.
Committee staff members are told in the memo to use specific references to specific operations instead of the Bush administration’s catch phrases. The memo, written by Staff Director Erin Conaton, provides examples of acceptable phrases, such as “the war in Iraq,” the “war in Afghanistan, “operations in the Horn of Africa” or “ongoing military operations throughout the world.”
In short, the Democrats are denying that there is a common theme, a common enemy, among the various distinct military operations in which U.S. servicepeople are involved.
They’ve been arguing all along that Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terrorism; now they can try to create policy based on the notion that the only activity that is related to fighting terrorism, is the hunt for one man in the mountains of Pakistan.
“This is a philosophical and political question,” said a Republican aide. “Republicans generally believe that by fighting the war on terror in Iraq, we are preventing terrorists from spreading elsewhere and are keeping them engaged so they are not attacking us at home.”
However, U.S. intelligence officials have been telling Congress that most of the violence in Iraq is the result of sectarian strife and not directly linked to terrorists, although some foreign insurgents with ties to terrorist groups have been helping to fuel the fighting.
Before the invasion of Iraq, Saddam’s regime had ties to terrorist groups throughout the Middle East, any one of which could have been recruited by al Qaeda for attacks against the U.S. at home as well as against its people and interests around the world. Regardless of the character of the fighting today, the fact remains that Iraq was a potential safe haven for the enemy, and if we withdraw before the Iraqi government is ready to police its own security, it will become a potential safe haven for terrorists again.
But this is what you get when you let today’s Democrats have power in wartime.
“If you are a reader of the Harry Potter books, you might describe this as the war that must not be named,” said another Republican aide.
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