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Left Calling For a Coup?

I visited this Left web site today, [link to it here] this seems to me to be calling for a coup attempt against our government.  They are proposing driving out the Bush regime…do they think he will tender his resignation? The Left gets loonier and more dangerous every day.  If you believe them, they have listed their supporters and it is eye opening.

                                       Announcing a Day of Mass Resistance:
                                                     OCTOBER 5, 2006
                                               BRING THIS TO A HALT!

"The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance.

Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this. There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight. There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.

But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn - or be forced - to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it. And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history. Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.

This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop. The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined."

...Protest doesn't make a d*mn bit of difference if it's "protest as usual". Protest that trims its sails to the political terms set by electing Democrats, or that tries to be respectable, or that doesn't convey that THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND MUST BE BROUGHT TO A HALT. No, protest like that doesn't really amount to much. Never has and never will.
We're talking about tens of thousands going into the streets with a clear standard -- BRING THIS TO A HALT -- and a spirited call to others to join this. Our recent statement envisions "a great wave of people unleashed from the huge reservoir of people who are deeply distressed over the direction in which the Bush regime is dragging the country and the world, moving together on the same occasion, making, through their firm stand and their massive numbers, a powerful political statement that could not be ignored: refusing that day to work, or walking out from work, taking off from school or walking out of school -- joining together, rallying and marching, drawing forward many more with them, and in many and varied forms of creative and meaningful political protest throughout the day, letting it be known that they are determined to bring this whole disastrous course to a halt by driving out the Bush Regime through the mobilization of massive political opposition."

...Face it. The political will of the people is not going to find expression through the elections. Look at the state of official politics and how unacceptable the whole process and logic is. There is no other way this fall for people to make manifestly clear that they want the war ended, that they want the right of abortion protected, that they think torture is completely immoral and unacceptable, that they regard a government that abandons and then uproots the Black population of New Orleans as unconscionable.

Endorsers of this call include:
James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Kate Clinton, US Rep. John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Ariel Dorfman, Tom Duane, Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jane Fonda, Michael Franti, reg e. gaines, Martin Garbus, Wavy Gravy, André Gregory, Paul Haggis, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Kathleen Hanna, Stephen Hays, Merle Hoffman, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Bill T. Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (ret) Janis Karpinski, Casey Kasem, Ron Kovic, Jonathan Kozol, Jessica Lange, Lewis Lapham, Mark Leno, Rabbi Michael Lerner, George Lois, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, US Rep. Major Owens, Ozomatli, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Jeremy Pikser, Harold Pinter, Frances Fox Piven, Michael Ratner, Boots Riley, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, James Schamus, Richard Serra, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Gary Soto, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Jonathan Tasini, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, Lt. Ehren Watada, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Saul Williams, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more.

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Israel Will Act!

Thought for the day:

There is one aspect of the Iran standoff concerning nuclear enrichment that nobody is talking about...that aspect is Israel. I cannot believe for one second that they will allow Iran to achieve nuclear weapons capability without taking action.  Their entire nation can be obliterated with one nuclear warhead...they have no choice!  Ahmadinejad has stated many times that Israel will cease to exist and they will not stand by meekly and wait for it to happen. 

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Looking At Democrats

EVEN FARMERS CAN'T STAND LOOKING AT DEMOCRATS ALL DAY!



EVEN FARMERS CAN'T STAND LOOKING AT DEMOCRATS ALL DAY!
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Liberalism-A One Dimentional Paradigm

Liberal-socialism is a simplistic, one-dimensional paradigm in which human nature is a variable that can be changed by external, material forces. The whole of Western socialism (of which American liberalism is a sect) depends upon the theorized ability of intellectual planners and bureaucratic administrators to perfect human existence by centralized planning to create the necessary external, material forces. Diktats from regulatory bureaus theoretically will restructure society, alter working and living conditions, and equalize income levels. Manipulation of DNA and cloning are to be ultimate material forces to conform human nature to the design of socialist intellectuals. Individual initiative and personal responsibility will be replaced with socialized, collectivistic dependence upon the political state as the final source of authority in all matters of human conduct.

It is for this reason that liberals have labored, since the 19th century, to decapitate Western civilization by discrediting God and the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. To that end, they hijacked science by claiming that Marxian socialism is the ultimate science from which all else flows. Since late in the 19th century, American universities have taught that to be a progressive, scientific person of the modern world one must be a socialist.

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Quotes To Ponder

A statesman is an easy man,
He tells his lies by rote.

A journalist makes up his lies,
And takes you by the throat.
W. B. Yeats

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.
George Washington

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it there is a certain shameful solidarity.
Victor Hugo

The less government, the better, the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
Emerson

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Insight Into Liberals

If you are like me, you have probaly wondered many times where and how the liberals come up with with the ideas that seem to be looney and against main stream thinking of the majority of Americans.  If you would like an excellent insight pertaining to  how liberalism got its start in the 19th century, why they think like they do and where they are trying to go and take all of society with them...then you should click on the link in my post, Science, Religion and Liberals. 

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Sgt Major Calls It Like It Is

Insight from a Command Sergeant Major
J.D. Pendry
(retired Army Command Sergeant Major who writes for Random House)

Jimmy Carter, you're the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the Runner-in-Chief.

Bill Clinton, you played "ring around the Lewinsky" while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses embolden the killers.
Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.

John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time - - the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You're a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.

John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert. Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a pimple on a real Marine's a*s. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.

Richard Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned South East Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Durban run.

Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster sized pictures from Abu Grhaib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqis torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news this week Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrate real torture for you again. If you truly supported our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese which led to a communist victory there. You're a bloated fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on you wide, gin-soaked rear end in Washington.

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer, et al, ad nauseam. Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied That the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - -cause to think that we will run away again and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.

American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.

You are America's axis of idiots. Your collective stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies. Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war and this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.

No, Commander in Chief, you don't get off the hook either. Our country has two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It's your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots. America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety.
Well up a little anger, please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets. Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot. They need you to do it now!

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Illegal Immigration & MSM Reporting

This is the type of news that a large part of the American public hears and forms political opinions...they are airing fiction, not news, in support of Democrat disingenuous and dishonest election tactics. Thus, a great many people go to the polls and have no clue about what they are actually voting for.
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A report by the Media Research Center (MRC) reveals that the three major broadcast networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, have greatly skewed the immigration story. The MRC examined 309 stories from the networks from March 24 through May 31. This time period stretches from the time of the first pro-illegal immigration rallies to the passage of the Senate’s immigration bill. The results of MRC’s research are illuminating.

The networks argued that the protest rallies showed widespread support for “pro-immigrant” reform. However, they ignored their own public opinion polls that suggested otherwise. For example, CBS never cited its own poll findings that 87% (April 6-9) or 89% (May 4-8) of Americans said that the problem of illegal immigration was “very serious” or “somewhat serious.”

On March 25, NBC cited a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, claiming that “59% of Republicans disagree with a temporary worker program for illegal immigrants.” In fact, the poll found that 59% of all Americans disagreed with the temporary-worker program, not just Republicans.

In addition, the networks were twice as likely to feature advocates of amnesty or a guest-worker program as they were to feature advocates of increased border security.

The disparity was most pronounced on the days of the rallies for illegal immigrants. On the evening of one large rally on April 10, the sound-bite count on the three major networks was 43 to 2 in favor of the protesters. On  another rally on May 1, the sound-bite count was 62 to 8.

And while the networks aired plenty of sympathetic stories portraying hard-working illegal immigrants, stories discussing the costs of illegal immigration to society were scarce. The networks carried only six stories that mentioned studies suggesting the illegal immigrants cost taxpayers more than they contribute in tax dollars. Only six additional stories discussed the problem of criminal aliens.

The Media Research Center report paints a clear picture. The three major networks favor the pro-amnesty or guest worker program positions while shortchanging those who advocate tighter control over our borders.

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Double Standards-Liberal Courts

A glaring example of what we have to suffer from all the "double standards" liberal court appointees from the disaster of the Clinton years in the White House.

9TH Circuit - Wrong Way Court


by Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted Sep 27, 2006

The San Francisco-based U.S. Court of appeals for the 9th Circuit has strangely shifting views on freedom of expression.  It seems to depend on who expresses what.

In 1999, for example, the court declared “virtual” child pornography a “right.”  “The 1st
Amendment,” it said, “prohibits Congress from enacting a statute that makes criminal the generation of fictitious children engaged in imaginary but explicit sexual conduct.”

Last October, however, the court took a far more cramped view of free speech.  The murder conviction of Mathew Musladin must be thrown out, it ruled, because the victim's family sat in the front row of the trial, wearing buttons depicting nothing more than the victim's photograph.

This mute expression, the judges ruled, may have prejudiced the jury and thus violated Musladin’s right to a fair trial.  In October, the Supreme Court will hear an appeal.

One wonders how the 9th Circuit might have ruled had the victim’s family  worn “virtual” child pornography instead of a photo of their slain loved one?

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Pope Considers Sainthood For Muhammad

Sorry Pope Considers Sainthood for Muhammad
by Scott Ott

(2006-09-18) — A day after violent Muslim riots spurred Pope Benedict XVI to apologize for implying that Islam has brought more evil to the world, the Pontiff today agreed to consider a petition to add the name of Islam’s founder to the pantheon of Roman Catholic saints.

A Vatican spokesman said that, as part of the Holy Father’s self-imposed penance to atone for his ill-advised remarks about Muhammad, he has given permission for the Roman Catholic church to investigate canonizing the founder of one of the world’s three great monotheistic religions.

Vatican researchers said the application is already being processed and they need only find one more verifiable after-death miracle attributed to Muhammad. “The first is indisputable,” a Vatican source said, “We already have ample evidence that the long-dead prophet miraculously caused a major religious leader, with a reputation for infallibility, to apologize for telling the truth.”


If you liked this little satire, you can find more at scrappleface.com.

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Al Gore's Commemorative Stamp

Pictures are priceless and save a lot of typing.

LIMITED EDITION 'AL GORE' COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP


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NY Times Hit Piece

The NY Times has done a hit piece on the Photo ID legislation using the left wing tactic of victimization.  This is just pure baloney, there is not a better way to say it.  I found this on Right Wing News, which is a great web site for those of you that have never visited it.  By the way, the bill has a provision to pay for the ID for the poor. 

For more on the Photo ID legislation, check out my post 'Votes Above Honesty' from yesterday...it is all about the Dems wanting to pick up fraud votes.

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[New York Times] Eva Charlene Steele, a recent transplant from Missouri, has no driver’s license or other form of state identification. So after voting all her adult life, Mrs. Steele will not be voting in November because of an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to register.

“I have mixed emotions,” said Mrs. Steele, 57, who uses a wheelchair and lives in a small room in an assisted-living center. “I could see where you would want to keep people who don’t belong in the country from voting, but there has to be an easier way.”

It was during a registration drive at her assisted-living center, Desert Palms, that Mrs. Steele learned she could not vote. Disabled, with a son, an Army staff sergeant, on active duty, she left Missouri recently to stay with her brother and subsequently moved into the center.

Lacking a driver’s license, she could get a new state identity card, but she said she had neither the $12 to pay for it nor, because she uses a wheelchair, the transportation to pick it up.


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A Very Real Threat

These two articles from China View are very disturbing.  The entire world totally ignores the UN sanctions resolution and embraces this Iranian madman.  They are saying that they will not stop working on uranium enrichment, Iran will eventually obtain nuclear capability if they are not stopped.  Ahmadinejad has said repeatedly that Israel will not exist and America is not worthy of being a world power.  Are we to let him carry out this fanatical obsession? It is a very scary thought!
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MOSCOW, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Russia and Iran have agreed on the launch date of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which is being built with Russian help, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday.


Sergei Shmatko, president of Russia's Atomstroiexport company which is involved in building the plant, was quoted by the Itar-Tass and Interfax news agencies as saying the two sides had signed an additional protocol that set September 2007 as Bushehr's start date and scheduled the delivery of nuclear fuel to Iran for March 2007.

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TEHRAN, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian high-ranking nuclear official said on Tuesday that Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani would not discuss suspension of the country's uranium enrichment work in the new round of talks with European Union (EU)foreign policy chief Javier Solana, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.

"These issues will not be discussed in the next round of negotiations," Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, was quoted as saying in Moscow where he was attending a meeting with Russian officials to discuss issues of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.


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Science, Religion and Liberals

A group of liberal socialist scientists approached God one day.  They informed him that they had found all the answers for managing human society through Marxism.  They further informed him that they had now applied their vast scientific knowledge to creating human life from dirt just as he had done and his services were no longer required. God said, OK...show me.  One of them reached down and scooped up a handful of dirt when God interrupted him...just a second...you have to use your own dirt!

I have used this bit of humor as a lead-in to let you know about a great article in the Science and Religion section of Townhall.  It gives an excellent insight into the liberal mindset concerning God.
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[Excerpt from article]  From an intellectual viewpoint, there is no inherent conflict between religion and science. Trouble comes from the efforts of atheistic materialists to hijack science.

Liberal-socialism is a simplistic, one-dimensional paradigm in which human nature is a variable that can be changed by external, material forces. The whole of Western socialism (of which American liberalism is a sect) depends upon the theorized ability of intellectual planners and bureaucratic administrators to perfect human existence by centralized planning to create the necessary external, material forces. Diktats from regulatory bureaus theoretically will restructure society, alter working and living conditions, and equalize income levels. Manipulation of DNA and cloning are to be ultimate material forces to conform human nature to the design of socialist intellectuals. Individual initiative and personal responsibility will be replaced with socialized, collectivistic dependence upon the political state as the final source of authority in all matters of human conduct.


It is for this reason that liberals have labored, since the 19th century, to decapitate Western civilization by discrediting God and the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. To that end, they hijacked science by claiming that Marxian socialism is the ultimate science from which all else flows. Since late in the 19th century, American universities have taught that to be a progressive, scientific person of the modern world one must be a socialist.

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Dirty, Dirty Politics

This is from a very good article in the American Spectator.  It appears that Howard Dean's strategy is coming back to bite the Democrats.  Racism and anti-Semitism appears to be steadily growing among the younger Democrats and appearing on the ugly side of the web.  You can check out www.democraticunderground.com or www.moveon.org to see the examples.  Both of these organizations as well as Air America founded by Al Franken are part of the "pushback" effort started by the Democrats in November 2001 and funded by massive millions in donations by anti-Bush mogul Georgs Soros and Progressive Insurance Chairman Peter Lewis.  This effort has led to a very ugly hate campaign against President Bush and detracted the Democrats from talking about issues.  HooRah for Howard Dean, he refuses to budge...appointing him as DNC has been great for Republicans.

"With Democrat Party polls confirming that takeovers of the House and Senate were slipping away, both House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Harry Reid are steeling themselves for challenges to their position in January." 

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