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McCain Jumps In

Senator John McCain just announced on Letterman that he is moving from explorer to full fledged candidate.

At this point in time, I am not supporting Senator McCain.  I respect him for his service and consider him a real American hero, unlike that low-life coward, Kerry.   But McCain is a loose cannon.  The McCain-Feingold bill proved that.  It is one of the worst assaults on campaign finances and is inherently anti-free speech. Despite that piece of bad legislation, there is no real change in the influence money plays in the campaign process.  McCain's brushes with the Democrats have been a little too close

Right now, I'm looking at two candidates.  I haven't made up my mind on either.  There are things I don't like about both of them.  Rudy Giuliani is a solid conservative on a lot of issues, but his support for gun control bothers me a great deal.  Mitt Romney is also a conservative on most issues, but he's flip-flopped on a couple of them.  I'm also not pleased with that disastrous Massachusetts train wreck health care bill he signed as he was leaving office.

Both men, unlike McCain, have executive experience.  It's possible that Giuliani could carry New York over Hillary. 

Romney has the religion problem.  Since he is a Mormon, there are some folks who would hold that against him.  Some ignorant people seem to think he would take orders from Salt Lake.  There are some small minds that think he is some kind of cultist and there are probably a few dolts out there that think he has more than one wife.  The MSM has already brought up the fact that his ancestry contains a polygamist.  To all of you worried about his religion, worry about your own first.  I might also add that the Constitution  does not list religion or lack there of as a qualification to be President of the United States.

All that said, those are my two possible candidate choices at the moment.  The caveat is that my choices are subject to change.  It's still a year and a half out.

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Teaching Socialism To Little Rich Kids

Socialism doesn't work.  It's been tried on small groups and on Nations and Socialism goes against the grain of human nature. 

In a private preschool in Seattle, they are teaching their little charges to be good little comrades. 

Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos.

A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of "Rethinking Schools" magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.

According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership." According to the teachers, "Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation."

The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown "their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys." These assumptions "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

Like I said, this is a private school.  Tuition is expensive at almost $1200 a month per child.  Since it is a private school, located on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill.  The area is describes this way from an area Realtor:

Queen Anne is the highest hill in Seattle with an elevation of more than 450 feet above the waters of Puget Sound. It is worth taking a drive around to see why housing prices are booming and rentals vacancies are low here. You will find a stylish combination of noteworthy architecture, water and city views, and lively shopping all in close proximity to downtown. Queen Anne has long been seen as a desirable place to live. Three bedroom, two bathroom homes in Queen Anne will start at $600k, town homes at $450k and two bedroom condos starting at $300k.

Homes start at 600 big ones and million plus homes in the area are common.  You don't live there unless you are a successful capitalist pig.

So what did they teach these wealthy, budding, little capitalists?

The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown "their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys." These assumptions "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

They claimed as their role shaping the children's "social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity ... from a perspective of social justice."

So they first explored with the children the issue of ownership. Not all of the students shared the teachers' anathema to private property ownership. "If I buy it, I own it," one child is quoted saying. The teachers then explored with the students concepts of fairness, equity, power, and other issues over a period of several months.

At the end of that time, Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that "All structures are public structures" and "All structures will be standard sizes." The teachers quote the children:

"A house is good because it is a community house."

"We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes."

"It's important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building."

"We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes."  Isn't that nice.  Like I said, this is a private school and they can teach whatever in the hell they want, but you gotta wonder what those kids think when they go home to Mommy and Daddy to a house most people can't afford.  Now I suppose at four-years-old, their understanding of the size of a house or property value is pretty limited.  A ten dollar bill is worth the same as one they drew with crayons.  And I'm sure that Mr. and Mrs. Limousine Liberal who send their little tykes to this school probably know that the staff are out in Commie la-la land.

Eventually they'll figure out that their parents are rich white bastards and that they should feel a massive amount of guilt for being raised in a rich white family and join some radical Left-wing nutball association to assuage  their guilt.

In the meantime, the liberals continue their ceaseless war on capitalism so that we can all live in equal houses, of equal size.

Hat Tips:  Orbusmax and TCS Daily

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Banning The Term "Illegal Alien"

There is a state senator in Florida that wants the state to not use the term "Illegal Alien" in any official state paperwork.  State Senator Frederica Wilson, D-Miami says it's not nice to call people aliens because "an alien to me is someone from out of space." 

Essentially it's a useless bill, wasting taxpayer money to draft and set it in motion through the legislative mill, that provides no penalties if some wayward state official types it into some state document  or record.  (Follow this link for a full copy of the bill. It won't take long to read it - trust me!)

And of course, you know why she is backing this important piece of legislation:

In Miami-Dade County, Wilson said, "we don't say 'alien,' we say 'immigrant.'"

She said she encountered the situation when trying to pass a bill allowing children of foreigners to get in-state tuition at colleges and universities. Wilson, who directs a dropout prevention and education program in Miami, said she politely asks witnesses at public hearings on such issues not to use the term.

"There are students in our schools whose parents are trying to become citizens and we shouldn't label them," she said. "They are immigrants, through no fault of their own, not aliens."

You guessed it!  It's for the children.  (Notice she sponsored a bill to allow these illegal alien undocumented immigrant children to receive in-state tuition.)

Wilson said the first word isn't as bad as the second.

"'Illegal,' I can live with, but I like 'undocumented' better," she said.

At least she isn't entirely off track.  However, the term "undocumented" is not true.  Many of them have documents of one form or another, just not always legal ones.

Aliens, in most dictionaries, actually refers to foreign citizens in another country.  Alien essentially means foreigner.  Science fiction borrowed the word to describe extra-terrestrial life.

This is just a case of political correctness.  It is feel-good, do-nothing legislation that neither solves a problem or helps anyone directly.

Asked if her bill (SB 2154) might run afoul of Gov. Charlie Crist's "plain speaking" mandate for government agencies, Wilson said, "I think getting rid of 'alien' would be plain speaking."

It's a waste of time.  Senator Wilson needs to go back to her home planet.

What we need, instead of this kind of do-nothing lunacy, are real laws mandating strict enforcement of our borders. 

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That Taliban Bomb

The Taliban said they were targeting Cheney in that bomb blast at Bagram AB in Afghanistan.  No, they were targeting publicity.  There is some question as to whether they knew he was there since he wasn't originally supposed to stay that long, but for this, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

First of all, even they know that there was no way they were going to get that close to the Veep.  They knew that they wouldn't be able to even get through the first gate, let alone into the central part of the base with a suicide vest. 

Michelle Malkin has a cached copy of the comment section from the Huffington Post that had to be shut down because of the Left-wing vitriol and sadness that the Taliban missed their target.  How sick is that.  Go here and read through some of it, if you can stomach it!

None of those people deserve the protections and freedoms we enjoy in America.  People who would advocate the death of a Vice-President are un-American scumbags.  Don't anyone comment here that way. 

I don't like Pelosi, Kennedy or their ilk, but I will tell you, I wish them no harm.  I might wish they would resign or fail to get re-elected, but that is the extent of my wrath.  I might call them a few names now and then, but wishing them harm is wrong.  If any Conservative did so, I wouldn't have anything to do with them.

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Hypocrite!

Al Gore is arguably the cult of global warming's High Priest.  I am so glad this turkey turd never sat in the Oval Office as president.  Scary!

As the Pope and Vicar of the Holy Overcoming Apostolic Inconvenient Church of Global Warming, Carbon Credits and Greenhouse Gases, one would expect that His Eminence would be at the forefront of energy conservation.  He teaches the faithful about small carbon footprints, driving Priuses and lowering our energy use at home.

As the Hollyweird Left kissed his ass ring last night, they all basked in his carbonless aura.  With their little gold statuette, they beatified and canonized him as Saint Algore all in one swell foop.

Most of us unbelievers have known that the Pope had a carbon filled nature even as he preached to us the lie  gospel of Greenhouse Gas.  We knew he flew around the country on private jets that burned more fuel in one trip than most of us would burn in out cars for several years.  We knew of his penchant for SUV's to whisk him from the tarmac where the jet was parked to whatever venue he was to speak at.

Now comes this:

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”

Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average

 

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

 

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

 

In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

 

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

 

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

 

Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

 

Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.

 

“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.

 

In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.

Yep, I hear ya preachin' Brother Al, but I just can't quite hear your message over the whine of your hypocrisy.

I'm becoming more and more convinced that global warming is more about anti-capitalism, then greenhouse gases.

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Can You Smell It?

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When I saw this, Report: Al Sharpton's Ancestors Were Slaves Owned by Strom Thurmond's Relatives, I could smell the a lawsuit forthcoming. 

Maybe not, but you gotta wonder if that ain't in the works.  Even if he doesn't (and honestly, I don't know if he would or not), there is somebody out there already planning it after seeing this.  And if there is, I'll bet it's a lawyer.  They'll be shaking the family tree looking for a deep pocket.

I'll also bet that some in the Thurmond family are thinking the same thoughts as well:

One of the late senator's sons, Paul Thurmond, and a nephew, Barry Bishop, declined comment, the Daily News said.

But I'll bet they've been talking to an attorney.

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UPDATE 8:15 AM

NEW YORK -- The Rev. Al Sharpton said he wants a DNA test to determine whether he is related to former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond through his great-grandfather, a slave owned by an ancestor of the late senator.

"I can't find out anything more shocking than I've already learned," Sharpton told the Daily News, which on Sunday reported the link based on genealogists' findings.

Wanna bet what he's gonna do if it matches?

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Knock, Knock

Oscar!

Oscar who?

Oscar?  Who cares!

Bunch of idiotic Hollywood types in a big self-aggrandizing multimillion dollar party creating more green house gases in one show than I'll cause in a year of driving.

With most of them, the only difference between them and trailer trash is that they live in houses with no wheels.

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Democrats: Soft On Crime

Back in 1993, we here in the Evergreen State, by a margin of almost two to one, passed an initiative mandating life without parole  after committing three violent felonies.  It was called the "Three Strikes and You're Out" law.  When it was on the ballot, those who opposed it, (liberal Democrats) told us it would fill the prisons!  The proponents said it would only increase the population by 17-22 per year.  It passed in large part because people were tired of violent offenders getting sentenced and then released after serving just a fraction of their sentences.  well, it has worked, and we did not get the influx of hundreds of lifer inmates that the liberals said would swell our prison population.  The result has stuck close to the proponents predictions.  After 14 years, there are 286 members of the "Three Strikes" club.  That's about 20 per year.

Now comes State Senator Adam Kline (D-Criminals), a liberal Democrat out of Seattle who wants to say that's too many.

Cherease Cross robbed gas stations and convenience stores. She said she had a gun but it turned out to be her finger or a curling iron or a bottle of perfume.

No one got hurt, yet in 2000 she was sent away to prison for life under the "three strikes and you're out" law for three second-degree robbery convictions.

"Life without the possibility of parole is the most drastic sentence we have short of death," said Sen. Adam Kline (D-Seattle).

Sen. Kline wants second-degree robbery and second-degree assault to be a foul ball, not a strike.

"We're not going to give up on those people quite yet," Kline said at a senate hearing. "We're going to give them a foul ball, they will be sentenced, they will be punished, but we're not going to give up on them for the rest of their lives."

These people are in prison for committing violent acts.  Ms. Cross may not have had a real weapon, but her victims did not know that.  Ms. Cross deserves to be in prison for the rest of her life because she did not learn from her two previous convictions.  She knew that if she got caught that third time, she was going to spend the rest of her miserable life in jail.

My old Daddy raised me with this maxim:  "Don't do the crime unless you can do the time."  Of course, it also didn't hurt that in my younger years, Daddy was a cop. 

No vote has been taken on softening of the three-strikes law (SB 5964), but should it make it through the Legislature. The initiative supporters say they'll be back and try to make that law even stronger.

And I'll definitely support that!

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The Chickenhawk Rule

There seems to be this rule amongst those who are against the war that those of us who support the war should be willing to enlist and volunteer for Iraq.  Those that have never served are often called "Chickenhawks.

It's an idiotic rule promulgated by those who think by spouting it, it gives them some kind of smug air of self-righteous superiority.    The logic in it is easily shot down.   Many of us have opinions about things of which we don't have, can't have or never will have some sort of experience.  A similar rule is that you can't support your favorite football team unless you actually played football at the level of the team you support.  It's an idiot's rule.  I could make up idiotic rules just like that all night.

I therefore propose my own rule and you may feel free to use it.

You cannot have any opinion about military matters whatsoever unless you've worn the uniform and either are still serving, or was honorably discharged.  It makes as much sense as the Liberal rule, so I say we hammer them with it.

I'd rather have the support of one "chickenhawk", then a thousand pro-terrorist, anti-troop liberals.

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North American Community Becoming Reality

This was written by Debbie at Right Truth and originally posted there.

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The North American Community is not considered a formal union of the three countries, Mexico, Canada and the United States, as the North American Union is. However, there was a February 16 conference devoted to the development of a North American legal system, according to Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media. He says, "The holding of the conference was itself evidence that a comprehensive process is underway to merge the economies, and perhaps the social and political systems, of the three countries."

[Robert] Pastor said that he favors a "North American Community," not a formal union of the three countries, and several speakers at the conference ridiculed the idea of protecting America's borders and suggested that American citizenship was an outmoded concept.

Wearing a lapel pin featuring the flags of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, Pastor told AIM that he favors a $200-billion North American Investment Fund to pull Mexico out of poverty and a national biometric identity card for the purpose of controlling the movement of people in and out of the U.S.

So the "conspiracy" is now very much out in the open, if only the media would pay some attention to it. (source)

One problem is that the media is not interested in this topic. Perhaps they think it's a good idea, but are afraid to publicize the fact that is is actually a possible reality for fear Americans will stand up and protest. Imagine for one minute that there is ONE legal system for all three countries? What a disaster that would be.

The conference, conducted in cooperation with the American Society of International Law, an organization affiliated with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, was held at the American University Washington College of Law. A large number of speakers came from American University. [snip]

Academic literature distributed in advance to conference participants about a common legal framework for the U.S., Canada and Mexico included proposals for a North American Court of Justice (with the authority to overrule a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court), a North American Trade Tribunal, a North American Court of Justice, and a Charter of Fundamental Human Rights for North America, also dubbed the North American Social Charter.

Do any of you want a "North American Parliament", a permanent tribunal" on trade issues, or anything even slightly similar to the European Union, European Parliament or European Court of Justice? Talking about the suggested wall between Mexico and the U.S., Stephen Zamora of the University of Houston Law School said, "What does citizenship mean anymore?" Obviously it doesn't mean much to Mr. Zamora. To me being an American citizen means everything. It is a matter of pride, it means we have a special history, a special form of government, a special form of legal system. All that would change with a North American Union.

Another speaker, Tom Farer, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver said , Tom Tancredo 'was a backward thinker' and 'could be seen "dragging his knuckles along the ground."' I believe Tom Tancredo is a brave leader in the fight against illegal aliens here in the United States. Of course with a North American Union, there would be no such thing as 'illegal'.

The article is long, detailed, and well worth the read. Go read it all here.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email stiknstein-at-gmail-dot-com and let us know at what level you would like to participate.