(2007-02-23) — Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who dropped his White House bid earlier today, said he may re-enter the race for the Democrat nomination on the strength of a surge in name-recognition spawned by his withdrawal.
“I got more press today by dropping out than I’ve had since I entered the race,” said Mr. Vilsack. “Our internal polling shows that nearly two percent of Americans have now heard of me, which is a 100 percent bump since yesterday.”
Mr. Vilsack’s campaign manager confirmed that once news broke that the candidate had quit, he checked the “Vilsack 2008″ PayPal account and found that a donation had poured in.
Sources said Mr. Vilsack will drop out again, if necessary, “to keep the buzz machine going.”
148 responses so far ↓
1 upnorthlurkin // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:22 pm
A big donation no doubt if it was able to pour in!! Great job, Scott!
God Bless America!
2 upnorthlurkin // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:24 pm
That sentence coulda used a little punctuation….aw fuggetaboudit!
3 Darthmeister // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Vil who?
And I’m suppose to care?
4 gafisher // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:49 pm
National recognition is good, but in today’s political climate one must also possess international credibility. Governor Vilsack really ought to consider also pulling out of the race for Secretary General of the U.N.
5 SeaDog // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I grew up in Iowa, and now live in Omaha. My friends in Iowa had only one question when he announced that he was running for President; “Does that mean he’s going to resign as Governor of Iowa? Yeah!”
6 Darthmeister // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Here’s a hilarious but true account of how leftists shot themselves in the foot in Italian politics. A real lesson for cut-and-run American Dhimmiecrats and white flag Republicans.
7 da Bunny // Feb 23, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Who?
8 CalGirl // Feb 23, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Mr. Ott has been on quite the roll for the past few days…gems, every one.
9 seneuba // Feb 23, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Clearly he’s not “Democrat-nomination-worthy”.
Imagine how popular he’d be if he had:
* Shaved his head
* Slept with Brittany Spears
* Entered a drug rehab program
* Was not caucasian….nor male
* Received an endorsement from C.A.I.R.
* Wrote a fictional book about global warming
After all, look what those accomplishments are doing for the other Democratic hopefuls.
10 Mack // Feb 23, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Living in Iowa and having had the privilege of voting against Vilsak, twice, I can say that he has worse problems than name recognition. This is the guy who had the Department of education on the verge of requiring all schools to teach gay pride studies as a requirement of certification. Catholic Schools were not amused.
That blew up in his face when a local talk show host Jan Michelson found out about it and generated a heated call in campaign that got it changed.
In that he couldn’t get the Gay protections written into law in the state he tried to back door it all by Executive order. That didn’t go over well either. Now the state has an even worse liberal for a governor in Chet Culver. His first act was to push his new democrat controlled house and senate to pass a gay student bullying ban. He also got an increase in the minimum wage and is pushing to repeal Iowa’s right to work law which allows people to work without having to join a union.
The only thing that kept Vilsak in check was a Republican majority in the legislature and now his replacement doesn’t even have that. 4 years from now I see a Republican take over in dramatic fashion as even now moderates are shocked over the new direction the state is taking.
11 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 23, 2007 at 2:50 pm
We used to have a furniture store near our beloved town in my youth that had a going out of business sale about every other week. They hung in there for years and it always was a big laugh when we saw the g.o.b. ads in the Beacon Journal.
Well one thing about his lies-everyone recognized the business name. But gee, all these years later I can’t remember the name of the furniture store.
Vilsack, take notice-I too am an Iowa farm gal, but don’t ask me who the governor is. But, keep going out of business and I may recall your name-someday
12 RedPepper // Feb 23, 2007 at 3:22 pm
seneuba #9: There’s still hope! Any moment now, I expect Governor Vilsack to enter the race to claim fatherhood of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Dannielynn, thereby declaring his interest in J. Howard Marshall’s millions. If he succeeds, he’ll be able to finance a run at the presidency without another dime in donations!
13 Scott Ott // Feb 23, 2007 at 3:27 pm
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14 seneuba // Feb 23, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Red Pepper #12:
RATS! I forgot about Anna Nicole. That would probably be an immediate upgrade to ‘frontrunner’ status.
15 onlineanalyst // Feb 23, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Oh, yeah, I just opened a jar of his bread-and-butter pickles to go with my cheddar cheese sandwich.
16 Fred Sinclair // Feb 23, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Speaking of name recognition - I can also almost recall the name of a ‘former” big name in the KKK. If I disremember incorrectly
he was an English Royalty or something - a Earl, Count, Prince, Lord - oh yeah a Duke I think a Duke or something - a high falutin-muckety-muck in the Klu-Klux-Klan (early forerunner of the Democrat Party, perhaps).
He did, I do recall, recieve 2% of the vote on election day! This Vilsick is bumped up to almost 2%. A surge in name-recognition resulting in a bump wherein name recognition does not equal votes on election day. Vilsick’s main value now is to the Republicans as he demonstrates more and more - who is the Democrat Party? As of today Rush says he dropped out so who knows?
Heirborn Ranger
17 Fred Sinclair // Feb 23, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Well worth repeating - I think it is somewhat strange that the atheist, the socialist, the Communists and liberals are so firmly convinced that there is no God and/or no life after death and therefore no judgement day; can at the same time be afraid of “ghosts” and “evil spirits”. Is that a contradiction, an anomaly or just plain stupid?
Heirborn Ranger
18 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 23, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Scott~~
Good one! Hilarious!
19 GnuCarSmell // Feb 23, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I guess this means Vilsack was running a ‘non-binding’ campaign. Next to unbind will be Chris Dodd, the charismatic powerhouse Senator from Connecticut.
“Chris who?”
20 mig // Feb 23, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Former President ACLU Virginia BUSTED for child pron!!
21 mig // Feb 23, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Bill O’reilly Impact Segment
Fmr. Va. ACLU president arrested for child porn
Breaking news: A former ACLU president in Virginia has been arrested for possession of child pornography.
22 onlineanalyst // Feb 23, 2007 at 9:59 pm
OT but very important. I don’t know if Scott will object. If so, his delete pen will be used.
Many Scrapplers already subscribe to the free Patriot Post. Mark Alexander has a petition to halt the nonsense of Al Gore’s mischief in allying with the UN in his global warming crusade. I am reprinting the post. You can locate the petition by cutting and pasting the URL into your web browser and signing online.
Fellow Patriots,
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history.
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Thank you!
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23 onlineanalyst // Feb 23, 2007 at 10:01 pm
To sign by e-mail, send a blank e-mail to:
sign-stopgore@PatriotPetitions.US
24 Sugar Ray Dodge » Blog Archive » Weekend Linkage // Feb 24, 2007 at 12:07 am
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25 conserve-a-tips // Feb 24, 2007 at 1:18 am
Huh. And I thought that he just didn’t have any money. Hillary and Obama sucked it all up. It was all about name recognition, after all. If he’d been named George Clooney, he’d a been a shoe in. Who’d a thought it?
Darthmeister, I read the NRO editorial from your link. Quite interesting!
Oh, and Fred, would that be David?
26 conserve-a-tips // Feb 24, 2007 at 1:47 am
I can’t sleep. It’s nearly 1 a.m. and we have possible severe weather with possible tornadoes and the air is just heavy. Tornadoes? And it’s only February. That season doesn’t start until March. Global Warming. Achh. Where’s AlGore to save us all???????
OK. So I get a little melodramatic in the middle of the night.
27 mig // Feb 24, 2007 at 7:24 am
Wake up everybody. None of this matters now…
Dixie Chicks Documentary is on sale at Barnes and Noble. The product description reads
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing
The Dixie Chicks are the bestselling female group of all time. But in 2003 they faced radio boycotts, CD burnings, and even death threats when they found themselves at the center of controversy after making statements critical of President Bush. Shut Up & Sing (a comment shouted at the band during a concert) takes viewers behind the scenes during this dramatic period of their career. It’s a riveting documentary and one of the most intimate portraits of artists ever put on screen.
I would like to see the ratio of record buyers vs. artists in the national market rather than global. I think the Supremes would come out way ahead of the Dixie Chicks.
28 mig // Feb 24, 2007 at 7:27 am
And in that original write up, President Bush is in big black letters. It’s hard to imagine the impact of it all but try. That big, bad man with the shiny belt buckle is such a bully he makes grown women cry and real men weep.
29 RedPepper // Feb 24, 2007 at 7:37 am
mig: Sounds like Hee-Haw Hell ! to me …
The horror.
30 RedPepper // Feb 24, 2007 at 7:55 am
While arrogantly guaranteeing that she would be the next president, Hillary Clinton promised to stop America from being an “arrogant power.” Well, maybe when she accomplishes her mission, she can begin to work on herself.
Trolling For International Admiration .
31 Darthmeister // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:16 am
Despite the fact the fawning leftists who run the Grammy’s gave five awards to the Ditzy Chicks’ as a juvenile poke-Bush-in-the-eye slap on the back, their album sales tanked compared to previous albums they released.
Not total morons, the Ditzy Chicks’ latest album was rife with “crossover” songs hoping to appeal to those leftist voyuers wanting to get to see more nudie pictures of these seditious sows. Even then their album tanked.
Like some trolls here, the Ditzy Chicks are convinced of America’s defeat in Iraq and are committed to it. And they will own that defeat if their high profile blame-America/hate-Bush yammerings further embolden terrorists and politically demoralizes America where it no longer has the will and resolve to continue this generation’s war against Islamofascism. It is precisely this defeatist attitude that Americans like me find utterly loathesome, hence I refuse to listen to a single one of their songs even their lying make-a-buck rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.
Similarly, knowing the panty-waisted leftists as I do, alGoracle will win both an Oscar and the Nobel Peace Prize for his slickly packaged lies about Global Warming. Rats always hang together.
32 onlineanalyst // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:37 am
Rats caught on videotape enjoying some fine dining in NYC eateries, Taco Bell/KFC. They must have been courting the Hispanic and Southern vote, eh? Don’t they know that Edwards and Kerry celebrate important events at Wendy’s?
33 onlineanalyst // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:45 am
Darth: AlGoracle’s predictable “wins” for the prizes- based not on settled science but on populist alarmist politics- are just another means for him to emerge from behind as the “reluctant” dark horse candidate for the Dhimmis. Watch for a draft Gore movement to spring up.
34 RedPepper // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:50 am
Hmmm. Now this is interesting …
… he praises and exalts himself highly and boasts that he has talked with God and the angels, and that since Christ’s office of prophet is now complete, it has been commanded to him to bring the world to his faith and if the world is not willing, to compel it or punish it with the sword; and there is much glorification of the sword in it. Therefore, the Turks think their Mohammed much higher and greater than Christ, for the office of Christ has ended and Mohammed’s office is still in force.
From this anyone can easily observe that Mohammed is a destroyer of our Lord Christ and His kingdom, and if anyone denies concerning Christ, that He is God’s Son and has died for us, and still lives and reigns at the right hand of God, what has he left of Christ? Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Baptism, the Sacrament, Gospel, Faith and all Christian doctrine and life are gone, and there is left, instead of Christ, nothing more than Mohammed with his doctrine of works and especially of the sword. That is the chief doctrine of the Turkish faith in which all abominations, all errors, all devils are piled up in one heap.
Martin Luther on the Jihad .
35 upnorthlurkin // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:53 am
OLA, you slay me! (#15) You just have to be referring to the commercial with the little girl and boy arguing about the pickles….the way she pronounced Vlasic with two syllables always bugged me!
36 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:59 am
onlineanalyst
Oh my, that must be the rats that went on a rampage in Michigan also. Folks, this may the end of beef as we know it.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/11093957/detail.html
And to all, a good morning.
p.s.-watch your legs next time you go to bed
37 onlineanalyst // Feb 24, 2007 at 9:06 am
UNL: Yup! But it was only a passing throw-away line, not based on a commercial since I don’t watch television. (I know, I know. I’m probably missing some good viewing, but I’ve put the set into such an inconvenient room that reading both good novels and trashy detective fiction, as well as following the news and opinion on the ‘Net, serves my entertainment needs.
An aside: While running around doing mundane chores yesterday, I stopped into the post office to drop off my income tax return. At the counter, I asked about renewing my passport. Since the P.O. had the forms and the capability of taking the photos-and because I wasn’t looking too frightful- I decided to take care of the picture-taking at that time. As the postal worker was setting up the camera, he told me where to place my coat. I asked if I had time to put on my burqa. Believe it or not, he asked me what a burqa is. I ask: Is it possible to be so clueless with all of the events going on in the world?
38 RedPepper // Feb 24, 2007 at 9:08 am
It surely requires some explanation that, in a country that expends $5,200 a year for 11 years on each child’s education, a fifth of children leave school virtually unable to read or write, let alone do simple arithmetic. It takes considerable organization to achieve so little, especially when the means by which practically all children can be taught to read to a high standard are perfectly well-known.
How Not To Do It , by Theodore Dalrymple .
39 upnorthlurkin // Feb 24, 2007 at 9:35 am
OLA, well, you did say you were at the Post Office…government employee…..hmmmm?! Nevermind.
40 conserve-a-tips // Feb 24, 2007 at 10:28 am
Redpepper, re #39, did you see this ? More and more reason to homeschool!
And regarding your post #34, quoting Martin Luther, I had a thought the other day. In the Qur’an, it says the following:
“ALLAH is HE besides Whom there is none worthy of worship, the Living, the Self-Subsisting and All-Sustaining. HE has sent down to thee the Book containing the truth and fulfilling that which precedes it; and HE has sent down the Torah (Law of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guidance to the people; and HE has sent down the Discrimination (judgement between right and wrong).” — Qur’an, Surah 3:3-4
and
When the angels said, ‘O Mary, ALLAH gives thee glad tidings of a son through a word from HIM; his name shall be the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, honoured in this world and in the next, and of those who are granted nearness to God;
‘And he shall speak to the people in the cradle, and when of middle age, and he shall be of the righteous.
She said, ‘My Lord, how shall I have a son, when no man has touched me? He said, ‘Such is the way of ALLAH. HE creates what HE pleases. When HE decrees a thing HE says to it ‘Be,’ and it is;” — Qur’an, Surah 3:38-48
and
“Thereupon she pointed to him. They said, ‘How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?’ Jesus said, ‘I am a servant of ALLAH. HE has given me the Book, and has made me a Prophet; ‘And HE has made me blessed wheresoever I may be, and has enjoined upon me Prayer and almsgiving so long as I live; ‘And HE has made me dutiful towards my mother, and has not made me arrogant and graceless; ‘And peace was on me the day I was born, and peace will be on me the day I shall die, and the day I shall be raised up to life again.’ That was Jesus, son of Mary. This is a statement of the truth concerning which they entertain doubt.” — Qur’an, Surah 19:30-35
and there’s more…but think about it…they acknowledge Jesus as a messiah and who would be ressurrected. The question to ask Muslims is, “Do you honor Jesus as a great prophet? (they will answer yes) Do you ever follow a prophet who is a liar? Do you allow teachings from a prophet that are lies?” They will answer with a resounding “No.” And so, then, comes the reading of the Gospel (that the Qur’an acknowledges) where it says that Jesus became God in the flesh and where He points out that if you have seen him, then you have seen the Father and that there is no way to the Father except by Him. I haven’t tried it yet, but I am really curious as to the response.
41 RedPepper // Feb 24, 2007 at 12:05 pm
c-a-t #40: “lies”? I guess it all depends on what the meaning of the word is … doesn’t it!
Anyway, who needs truth when there’s taqiyya ?
Briefly, the word “al-Taqiyya” literally means: “Concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury.” A one-word translation would be “Dissimulation.”
Like much else, “eminent danger” is often subject to being, shall we say, rather liberally construed …
42 gafisher // Feb 24, 2007 at 12:29 pm
C.A.T. #40: “I haven’t tried it yet, but I am really curious as to the response.”
I suspect their response would get stuck in your throat . . .
43 gafisher // Feb 24, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Fred #17: Yes, absolutely.
44 RedPepper // Feb 24, 2007 at 12:46 pm
gafisher #42: Come to think of it, perhaps it would be wisest for c-a-t to not go looking for a response … or to draw their attention to throats … or necks … particularly her own neck … merely in the interest of prudence, mind you …
45 Darthmeister // Feb 24, 2007 at 2:31 pm
RedPepper,
Even if that’s the original definition of taqiyya, as a matter of practice, Muslim fundamentalists will readily engage in taqiyya if nothing more than to advance the cause of Islam. Taqiyya can also be roughly translated “holy lying” or “holy hypocrisy”. The latter allows the Muslim to act like infidels - drinking, mocking Mohammed, belittling Islam - or to pretend to be a Christian if it ultimately disarms the infidel/kafir to make them easier prey for their jihad. Very inscrutable, calculating people.
As to the Biblical understanding of lying, there must be a component of ill-gotten personal benefit involved. I believe it is not a sin to “lie” to save a life from those who seek to illegally take it. That is, if a Nazi were to ask a Christian if they were hiding Jews (think Ann Frank here) or knew of Jews that were being hidden, it wouldn’t be a lie to tell them, “There are no Jews here (where I stand), you are welcome to search for yourselves.” I wouldn’t even call it a “white lie”. It’s a form of verbal distraction to save life, and I personally would reserve this kind of “white lie” for this purpose only.
But Christians must never engage in lies to advance the Christianity just as they must never advance the Kingdom of God with the sword. A lie is to knowingly misrepresent known truth for personal gain. To advance an honestly held viewpoint based on informational error is a matter of being a victim of deception not a matter of being a liar, though that might be a fine line of distinction in some cases.
Lucifer is the Father of lies because he knew the Truth and then substituted his own spin on reality. He was in the very presence of God but chose instead to be in a state of prideful disobedience, thus making Lucifer’s entire existence one big lie.
46 Mack // Feb 24, 2007 at 3:12 pm
You guys have wandered far from the beaten path today haven’t you. I like it that the Koran tells people to lie where the Bible tells them to be firm in their faith. I like it that the Koran tells people to preach their religion at the point of the sword and that it assumes that God needs people to kill God’s enemies for him.
Now the God I love and serve is the creator of all that is, was, and ever shall be. The God I serve has all knowledge and all power. So the God I serve I call upon to help and protect me rather than feeling the need to protect him. There in lies the difference. True God will defend himself, false god needs a protector. True God’s Spirit is witness to his power, False religion forces people to convert or be killed.
I can sum up Islam in one word. Insecure. They feel insecure and have to by their own writings Kill and bring into submission all that opposes them.
I believe that God will, by the power of his spirit witness to the truth of Christianity where ever it is preached. After all, if you don’t convert to Christianity we don’t torture and kill you. They used to but that in contradiction to the Bible and Christian teaching.
47 RedPepper // Feb 24, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Darthmeister #45: Got that def from Wikipedia; shows why the folk in academe won’t accept Wiki as an official source.
Just as “eminent danger” can be (and is) liberally construed, so too can the whole concept of taqiyya. Perhaps the most interesting and revealing thing is the very fact of the word ; language itself reveals things about the culture it springs from. I think the best-known example of this is the existence, in the language of the Laplanders, of a huge number of different words for snow ( to designate different consistencies, and so forth … ) ; another oft-cited example would be cultures which have no word for war ( sorry to say, no concrete example of this comes to mind at the moment … ) . Meta-information , so to speak.
48 RedPepper // Feb 24, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Hi there, Mack.
I’m betting you’re of the right age to remember this graffiti ;
“Support Mental Health or I’ll kill you !â€
Reminds me of Islam, for some reason …
49 Darthmeister // Feb 24, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I know I’m preaching to the choir. And Mack makes some very valid points. Those who think they have to lie to advance their cause really do an injustice to that cause and their own faith.
Messiah made it clear that His Church would be founded upon Truth and that He alone was the foundation of the Church. Too many money-grubbing televangelists and other pretenders to the faith have sullied Christ’s Church in their own desire for riches and the comforts that this world can give. Nowhere in the Bible, and certainly nowhere in the New Testament does Messiah Jesus or His apostles advocating lying or deception of any kind to advance the Kingdom of God.
Yet, we have passages the Koran where it teaches Muslims to “hide their faith” until the time is ripe to take full advantage of kafirs and infidels. This certainly isn’t the definitive analysis of taqiyya, but I believe it makes some very valid points concerning Koranic teachings and examples we see of Muslim obedience to taqiyya.
More examples and Koranic analysis here.
And this analysis draws some comparisons between the Bible and the Koran regarding the practice of lying (taqiyya or kittman) to advance one’s religious cause.
50 conserve-a-tips // Feb 24, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I’m singing soprano, Darthmeister. First, the “city on the hill” and the “light under the bushel basket” come to mind. Second, Mt. 10:19 “But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say.
In other words, we are supposed to let everyone know our faith and not hide it under a bushel basket, even unto death. And if we aren’t sure what to say, the Spirit will intercede. What a difference from Islam!
51 Darthmeister // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:45 pm
A news videoclip of taqiyya in action. This involved the six imams who were taken off the flight originating in Minneapolis some months ago.
Liars will often forget the lies they tell as circumstances evolve.
52 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 24, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”~~John 14:5-6
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”~~John 14:26
53 gafisher // Feb 24, 2007 at 9:09 pm
RedPepper #44: “Come to think of it, perhaps it would be wisest …”
Well, no; after all, the Proverbs don’t tell us “the fear of jihad is the beginning of wisdom.” ♥ “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” [Matthew 10:28] ♥ “Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man’s sake.” [Luke 6:22]
In fact, Christ commanded believers to “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.” [Luke 6:27-28] And what greater good can we offer than the Truth?
Scary, perhaps, but not nearly so scary as having to explain to Him why I didn’t. I’m confident your comment was meant humorously, RedPepper, but just in case anyone wonders, I wanted to make it clear where I stand.
54 conserve-a-tips // Feb 24, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Gafisher, how did you get the cute little hearts????
55 Darthmeister // Feb 24, 2007 at 11:14 pm
An interesting commentary on the growing problem of “gay journalism.”
56 RedPepper // Feb 25, 2007 at 12:29 am
gafisher #53: You are quite right, my comment (44) was meant to be humorous; I sometimes use /s or /sarc to make my intention clear, but not always. BTW, let me second c-a-t; I like your heart …
Hank: thanks for the links (49). Interesting.
57 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 8:46 am
A ♥ for you, my friends. And how do we do that. Well a punch there, a press here, get up and turn around trice, sing America the Beautiful and ♥ ♥ ♥’s everywhere.
An easier way, I guess is ALT5123 not ALT3589♣.
On that ♫ I will wish you all a good morning. Time for coffee
58 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 8:52 am
Oh, that is bt using NUM LOCK on the keyboard
59 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 8:53 am
er, by using. By by now
60 onlineanalyst // Feb 25, 2007 at 9:01 am
They say that Vilsack’s decision was not a pull-out surprise. Ding, ding, ding, ding! It was not a no-bell one either.
61 onlineanalyst // Feb 25, 2007 at 9:04 am
Here is hoping that y’all are weathering the latest manifestation of global warming across the Midwest and on into the North East.
62 Darthmeister // Feb 25, 2007 at 9:17 am
Left-wing nutroots at Daily Kos Support the … Iraqi Insurgents!.
Of course everything westerners might have to say about the murderous terrorism of Iraqi “insurgents” is only so much propaganda, whereas if cherrypicked carefully, Kos kooks can find any number of “experts” to support their contention that Iraqi insurgents are on par with our own American founders and rarely if ever target innocent civilians!
63 upnorthlurkin // Feb 25, 2007 at 9:58 am
Just getting ready to go out and gas up the snowblowers…yup, we have two of them! Ever-since ‘97 when we had 130 inches of snow, we’ve had two! This is/was nothing! It’s 28° out there! We’ve only had about 8 inches of global warming so far! The dog is in hog heaven!!
64 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:07 am
Fellow(ette) Scrapplers. I am going to call 911 in a few minutes and pack off to Barberton Community Hospital’s ER. (So you will know where I am at this time)
My bronchial pipes are all clogged up again from my asthma. I been trying for two days to clear things up with no luck. I nearly choked to death last night from yuck.
Upnorth has my cell phone number if you don’t hear back in a few days. I am sure the ER will hold me hostage most of today.
So long, happy trails.
65 conserve-a-tips // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:25 am
God be with you MsRightwing,Ink♥
Oh cool. And thank you for the information! Hope you are ♣ing again soon. Well, you know what I mean!
66 Darthmeister // Feb 25, 2007 at 1:43 pm
What I have (bronchitis) is not near as bad as what you must be going through, Ms RightWing. My prayers are with you during these trying times.
1. Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side;
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change He faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul; thy best, thy heavenly, Friend
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
2. Be still, my soul; thy God doth undertake
To guide the future as He has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence, let nothing shake;
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul; the waves and winds still know
His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below.
67 upnorthlurkin // Feb 25, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Godspeed Ms. RightWing!!
68 onlineanalyst // Feb 25, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Godspeed and be well soon, MsRW, Ink!
In the latest global warming news, let there be no doubt that, for its true believers it is a religion as Mark Steyn points out in his squib “Almer Gortree” at NRO’s “The Corner”.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTI0NmRiNjVkYWQ5NGNhOTIxMzU2ZThlOWZhNzMzYjQ=
Included are some projected statistics of the carbon emissions for the upcoming Gore-Aid concert.
Gore and Nader- Now that’s a winning ticket.
69 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I have returned home, hooray. The doctors in ER feel my apartment is about as well equipped as an emergency room.
They nearly had to bag me (open my bronchial airways) ((code blue)) just as we turned into the hospital ER lot. I told them my throat was closing. The paramedics thought it was a mucus plug, but it wasn’t.
The rest is history, but the x-ray looked good enough to come home to my oxygen and nebulizers.
Heck of a way to live huh.
70 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 7:18 pm
ahem, where is my post
71 mig // Feb 25, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Oh my prayers are with you Ms. Right Wing. I hate this for you. Sigh.
I wanted to share with you all that Al Sharpton is related to Storm Thurmond. HAH. He thinks its a shock for him. Can you immagine how the Thurmonds are feeling? And not about the guys color either. It would make me slit my wrists if I were related him!
But what’s even more shocking is that he was preaching from the pulpit at the age of 7. He musta had more sense back then.
Alright. I need ot say goodnight and MS. RightWing you are in my heart!
72 gafisher // Feb 25, 2007 at 8:08 pm
&dagger Prayers answered, Ms. Rightwing. &dagger
73 gafisher // Feb 25, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Oops — that one sure didn’t work as intended.
†Prayers answered, Ms. Rightwing. â€
74 conserve-a-tips // Feb 25, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Glad you are home, MsRightwing,Ink.
gafisher, where do you find all of these handy tools. MsRightwing,Ink clued us into a couple of them. Care to share?
75 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 9:32 pm
NUMLOCKALT134=â€
76 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 9:39 pm
And thanks for the prayers. God was listening
♥ you all, and that is no non ¢, to the nth °
A little cryptic, but you all can figure that out
77 RedPepper // Feb 25, 2007 at 9:46 pm
† Well, that way works; but not the NumLockAlt### stuff - none of it! †
Does Not Compute. ? ! ? ! ? (rats …)
BTW, glad to see you back here, Ms RW !
78 RedPepper // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Hmmm.
If necessary, I will resort to cut-n-paste if that is the only way that I can get my 2¢ in …
♥
79 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:41 pm
ALT 0162=¢ ALT0162= °, unless it is during a solar eclipse •
80 conserve-a-tips // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:43 pm
MsRightwing,Ink, is there a website or anything that has a list of these neat little jewels? Where did you find all of this awesome knowledge?
I’ll try this: Ã¥
81 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:43 pm
ooops ALT0176 = °
82 conserve-a-tips // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Hmm. I did the numlockalt123 and got that little ‘a’ thing. What’d I do wrong?
83 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:51 pm
conserve-a-tips
I had the little thingys in a notebook from a few years ago. I think I just started hitting the numlocks 0120 plus numbers and wrote down what I found
Some are non-numlock numbers also
things like ø show up which I think is a Russian Sputnik
84 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 10:55 pm
♥ is ALT 5123, you forgot the 5
85 Lady // Feb 25, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Long time lurker here and I was wondering something and I hope I’m not being crude. How much do you regular posters and lurkers donate to scrappleface? Do you base it on how much you post a month or do you have a set amount no matter? I was just curious, because I love reading Scott’s articles and all of your comments. If you don’t want to say in the public forum, please feel free to email me at LorenzoRed83@hotmail.com.
Thank you so much.
86 conserve-a-tips // Feb 25, 2007 at 11:22 pm
MsRightwing,Ink, I did what you suggested and found that it would cost me 2£ for an English teapot on ebay and that 2²=4 and that I might go to formatting to show my work:
¶but that if I choose to publish my work, I should © it and definitely ® my name for my ™. Of course, since I love le FRANÇAIS, I can write à drôit and be very happy.:-)
87 conserve-a-tips // Feb 25, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Can we say that you created a ½monster?
88 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 25, 2007 at 11:55 pm
conserve-a-tips
Don’t blow a fuse now
89 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 26, 2007 at 4:54 am
Just one of those nights when sleep evades me. I am delirious with NUM LOCKS and squigly little things above my English letters …and weed wacker blades § , more sputniks (¤). Ÿ I ask must sleep avoid me. Is it the snakes ~ ~ ~ crawling about my floor during a flash back of my youth nightmares? Nah, smile Ãœ and I will see you when normal people begin to awaken.
As for me, I am going to lay my head down and think of days fishing off the dock of same wonderful lake far north of here. Sooner or later that walleye will bite
90 Amused Cynic » Blog Archive » Newt vs. Rudy vs. Hillary // Feb 26, 2007 at 7:24 am
[...] Meanwhile, judging from the other clips shown at the end of This Week this morning, Jay Leno appears to be a Scrappleface.com reader. [...]
91 Darthmeister // Feb 26, 2007 at 8:38 am
Hmmm, I just read where alGoracle thanked the Oscarâ„¢ organizers and those attending for implementing environmentally friendly practices. After reviewing the tape I don’t remember seeing too many celebrities being driven up up in hybrid Priuses or taking buses instead of flying. And were those candles and kerosene lanterns they were using or Kleig lights?
I’d like to know if alGoracle walked across America to get to the Academy Awards of if he took another private or commercial airflight? Hypocrite.
92 RedPepper // Feb 26, 2007 at 9:17 am
Hank: I have just one question.
Now that Algore has received his very own politically-motivated award, does that make him an Honorary member of the Ditzy Chix ?
93 conserve-a-tips // Feb 26, 2007 at 9:22 am
And Darthmeister, has he stopped eating? That is the big question. He can’t eat meat because animals produce more methane then the whole earth in cars, and he can’t eat veggies from a grocer because those are produced with chemical pesticides and he can’t eat organic veggies because those are produced using manure which comes from animals which produce more methane then the whole earth in cars….. (singing)There’s a hoooolllle in the bucket, dear Henry, dear Henry. There’s a hooollle in the bucket, dear Henry, a hole.
94 Darthmeister // Feb 26, 2007 at 9:50 am
Bovine flatulence will be the end of us all! Good thing we virtually wiped out the buffaloes before they could contribute to 21st Century Global Warming!
Senator Joseph Lieberman has an excellent message here for the Dhimmiecrats and white flag Repuglicans.
95 Darthmeister // Feb 26, 2007 at 9:55 am
From the AmericanSpectator online:
Choice Democrats
By Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder
Like a baby’s dirty diaper, hypocrisy and duplicity soils the Democratic majority in Congress, and like the diaper, the closer you get to it, the worse it smells. Despite voting for the non-binding resolution to oppose President Bush’s request for a troop surge in Iran, the overwhelming majority of Democrats — both in the House and the Senate — has voted time and again to fund the war in Iraq. Imagine if you opened a restaurant and had the group of financial backers who enabled you to open the restaurant blame you for opening the business in the first place! Or imagine if someone bought the gas for your car and then they blamed you for trying to drive someplace in the car! The Democrats were Bush’s partners in this war from the very beginning, and yet now blame him for the results of the war. Why doesn’t Bush blame them for funding the war?
The Democrats have no conscience or moral purpose whatsoever. They are worse than mere hypocrites. They are accessories to the murder of American troops. By not approving of a mission that they have funded all along, they are revealed for what they really are — a group of cowards whose actions are demoralizing the troops and encouraging our enemies to kill more American soldiers. The fact that they are harming our troops’ morale by playing into the hands of the enemy means nothing to these Democrats. The Democrats simply don’t have the guts to vote to cut off the funding for the war, so they came up with this absurd resolution simply to humiliate George Bush…
Hey, don’t shoot the messenger!
96 RedPepper // Feb 26, 2007 at 11:11 am
Just for the record:
Today is the fourteenth anniversary of the First WTC Bombing.
Lest we forget …
97 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 11:42 am
Darth!
You have great stuff, and that is a great find!
“The Democrats simply don’t have the guts to vote to cut off the funding for the war, so they came up with this absurd resolution simply to humiliate George Bush…”
I half expected Al Gore give a Presidential acceptance speech since he had just less than 1/2 the country watching.
98 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 26, 2007 at 11:56 am
mig
Maybe ‰ of intelligent people watched the Oscars, the rest were liberal-tarians and Myers weiners
99 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 26, 2007 at 11:56 am
ooomphh
100 GnuCarSmell // Feb 26, 2007 at 12:23 pm
The career of a left-wing activist ended abruptly after attempting to enforce his income redistribution plan on American tourists in Costa Rica. Let’s just say 20-year-old Warner Segura was given a crash course in free-market economics that he’ll never forget.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/ap/world/mainD8NFLVPO2.shtml
101 RedPepper // Feb 26, 2007 at 12:58 pm
GnuCarSmell: Interesting link.
Good thing the anonymous guy was a U.S. vet; good thing it was an attempted robbery, not something worse; & good thing it happened in Costa Rica.
Three French Tourists Killed In Saudi Arabia Attack .
Go figure.
102 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 1:44 pm
While more than 300 million people in Europe use the euro to buy life’s essentials, a small but growing number concentrated in the German-speaking world use a proliferation of currencies with names like chiemgauer, urstromtaler, landmark, kirschblüte and kann was.
Deli Dollars, a single store scrip issued in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1989 with help of E. F. Schumacher Society staff helped renew public interest in local currencies as a tool for community economic revitalization, and led to the current issue of http://www.berkshares.org” rel=”nofollow”>BerkShares, a local currency for the Southern Berkshires.
The TorontoDollar project was started by a group of community-minded people with a dream - to build a healthier, more prosperous local economy.
I’m conflicted. I love the idea of local communities looking out for themselves but my confliction comes with the the concept that I am responsible for the World. How does a concept that confines economic support to the community base which we live in include being economically responsible to someone half way across the country? Or the world?
Since I am not good with forming precise ideas, I am sure that this whole post is muddled. ( my mind makes perfect sense to me) But here goes: I would like to be responsible in my own community. Right here where I live, where my neighbors can also benefit from a healthy community. I would love to see other communities take responsiblity also. I would love to see communities all over this country live in a wonderfully supporting environment. ( I can see the trees waving in the gentle breeze, birds chirping, sprinklers watering the grass and the children play while grownups sit on the porch and chat. Sigh) One of the articles I read called it a ‘protective membrane’.
But doesn’t protective membrane boil down to isolationism? I don’t mean anti-social-ism. But isn’t this a protest against the very thing that people like $Hillary dream of; global domination?
103 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Lieberman said. “But the other part is a kind of confirmation of what I know and what I’ve read elsewhere, which is that Islamist extremism has an ideology, and it’s expansionist . . . We Americans will have ultimate responsibility for stopping this expansionism.”
Those feelings are related to Lieberman’s reasons for standing by the President on Iraq, he said.
“Why do I trust President Bush in spite of the mistakes that were made, consequential mistakes? Because having watched him, having talked to him, I believe that he understands the life-and-death struggle we are in with the most deadly and unconventional enemy, Islamic extremism.
“And he has shown himself, notwithstanding all these mistakes, willing to go forward with what he believes is right for the security of the country, regardless of what it has done to his popularity.”
104 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:02 pm
BBC Contends That Islamic Rule Was Stabilizing Force in Somalia
105 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:08 pm
And here is my last chortle: Is Daily News Story on Slave Roots Sharpton’s Presidential Campaign Kick Off?
{chuckle chuckle snort chuckle}.
106 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:10 pm
MS. RightWing-
You have given me a new outlook on the Oscar Meyer song…
107 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:22 pm
If only more people would look at things objectively (per Lieberman); things would sure be a lot more mellow.
108 Darthmeister // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Did anyone else notice how Hollyweird production companies have been outsourcing jobs? It seem like half the production Oscars went to someone whose name couldn’t be pronounced by the award presenter.
Though the Academy subsequently crowed about how their award ceremony now had a distinctive “international flavor”, using the left’s own arguments Hollyweird is guilty of outsourcing far too many jobs that some deserving American would have loved to have.
But what do you expect from the Hollyweird left-wing hypocrites who will film in Canada because it saves them production money by freezing out American unions?
I don’t want to hear one more Hollyweird leftist complaining about how corporate America “outsources” certain jobs given their own practice of doing the same to save a buck.
109 conserve-a-tips // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:30 pm
MsRightwing,Ink: I have had so much fun today☼ finding all of the â–º fun â—„ things that you can ↨ do with the →Alt↠key. It makes me want to ♫ sing♪ a song about how glad I am that I am a bright ♀ and not a dumb ol’ ♂ !
Thanks for the encouragement on how to totally waste my day. ♥
110 conserve-a-tips // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Well, darn. Pray tell why did they not show up when they did show up in the preview????? I’m bummed. You didn’t get to see my cute little sun and fat arrows and eighth notes and happy face. Sigh.
111 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:51 pm
But, you know, not long ago someone said something that stuck in my mind (and I know I will not be repeating it as well as it was said):
The reason for the intense hatred of our president and the apparent empathy for those who perpetrated 9/11 is more than likely the result of a version of Stockholm Syndrome. There were those (like me) who were so angered by the atrocity that they felt immediate, swift retaliation and utter elimination of every last member of the murderous gang was called for and, then, there were those so shocked and paralyzed with fear that their anger was directed at those who they felt had (somehow) “allowed” it to happen. If that makes sense…..
I am one of those who is always wondering why. Why would these people be so (apparently) unpatriotic as to completely forget that horrendous attack upon our homeland and side with those who carried it out? Why are we the bad guys? Why do I project that, should there be another attack, the blame would be attributed to President Bush-that people will want to attack our president, rather than the enemy?
It doesn’t help me much to understand their mindset, except that it does help to alleviate my hatred of them.
May Almighty God Bless America-preserve and guide us.
112 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 26, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I wish I were an Oscar Liar Weiner (Winner)
Oh that is what I truly wanna be
For if I were an Oscar Liar Weiner (Winner)
Everyone would truly believe in me-ee-eee!
My baloney has a first name,
It’s A.L.G.O.R.E
My baloney has a second name,
It’s B.U.L.L.*.*.*.*.
Oh, I love to regurgitate it every day,
And if you ask me why…..i’ll…..saaaaaay:
‘Cuz Oscar Liar has a way lot of
B-O-L-O-G-N-A!
113 RedPepper // Feb 26, 2007 at 4:21 pm
An update to one of my previous posts (#101).
It now appears that the French tourists who were killed in Saudi Arabia may have been murdered because they had strayed into an area that is restricted to Muslims only .
Judge for yourself.
114 GnuCarSmell // Feb 26, 2007 at 5:25 pm
JL3 #111 - The Stockholm Syndrome article was from American Thinker, Feb.12, entitled “The Left’s Identification With Murderous Aggressors.” Here’s the link:
http://americanthinker.com/2007/02/the_lefts_identification_with.html
An excerpt: “Rather than feel righteously angered by the terrorist mass murder of 3,000 innocent people, large parts of the Left have adopted the aggressors’ point of view. They keep telling us that the Islamic fascists were right to blow up innocent people who had done them no harm; some of them have taken on conspiracy theories, claiming that Bush or Israel really committed the atrocities. At the same time they are in deep denial about the danger of future terrorist attacks on American soil, and blindly refuse to see the rising threat of nuclear proliferation by stateless terror groups. Instead, they “displace” their fear and anger on George W. Bush. To the Left, once Bush is gone, the terror problem will simply and magically go away.”
115 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Who’s Vilsack?
116 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 26, 2007 at 6:02 pm
GnuCarSmell~~Yes, that’s it. Thanks.
117 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 26, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Doesn’t someone have to commit a criminal act or something to get impeached? Do these haters think they are scoring political points?
Egad-how sad.
118 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Has any one posted this yet.
A World Without America
119 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 26, 2007 at 7:59 pm
mig~~
Thank you.
120 mig // Feb 26, 2007 at 8:04 pm
JL-
Your Welcome!
121 Darthmeister // Feb 26, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Ms RightWing, your #112 post is pure inspiration. “Oscar Liar Weiners” … buwahahahahahaha. Bunch of Euro-weenie wannabees!
Your post describes some of those self-aggrandizing Hollyweird elitists to a “T”.
122 Darthmeister // Feb 26, 2007 at 8:52 pm
JL3rd. What is despicable about the whole “chimpeachment” talk is its all based on policy differences, not any criminal act. Of couse the partisan hack would say that President Bush sending 3000 Americans off to war to die (sic) is a criminal act. Also Bush “lying” to the American people is a criminal act … blah, blah, blah.
And of course all the Dhimmiecrats who voted to authorize the use of American force in Iraq are also complicit in this “murder” but they essentially will get a pass from the anti-war moonbats who will only scream at them for not impeaching President Bush sooner rather than later. It’s like Jackie Mason said in my post at #95.
123 Darthmeister // Feb 26, 2007 at 8:57 pm
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). . . . 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.
Lousy hypocrite … but we already knew that. And Goracle continues to fly everywhere he goes while spewing his lies about man-made global warming. This moonbat is one real piece of work.
124 GnuCarSmell // Feb 26, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Darth - Ann Coulter noted that for all Gore’s preaching about energy conservation, at least he’s not actually stupid enough to believe in (and live by) his own tripe.
125 onlineanalyst // Feb 26, 2007 at 10:11 pm
At The American Thinker, Linda Kimball has an excellent commentary on cultural Marxism and how it has been destroying Western values.
The piece offers some history of the inexorable movement of the Marxist new world order and shows how it has crept into our culture through political correctness, values neutrality, and cultural determinism (identity politics). The whole method intends to erode what thousands of years have built in our Western culture.
Here is a bit of the commentary:
“By the end of WWI, socialists realized that something was amiss, for the world’s proletariat had not heeded Marx’s call to rise up in opposition to evil capitalism and to embrace communism instead. They wondered what had gone wrong.
“Separately, two Marxist theorists-Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary-concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist new world order. The West would have to be conquered first.
“Gramsci posited that because Christianity had been dominant in the West for over 2000 years, not only was it fused with Western civilization, but it had corrupted the workers class. The West would have to be de-Christianized, said Gramsci, by means of a “long march through the culture.” Additionally, a new proletariat must be created. In his “Prison Notebooks,” he suggested that the new proletariat be comprised of many criminals, women, and racial minorities.
“The new battleground, reasoned Gramsci, must become the culture, starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and history. All of these things must be radically transformed and the social and cultural order gradually turned upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top.”
More here.
I found this piece via a link at NRO’s “Phi Beta Cons”, which offers further evidence of the gradual loss of what we value through the efforts of the cultural Marxists.
126 onlineanalyst // Feb 27, 2007 at 12:12 am
Want an eye-opening contrast between the Goracle’s lifestyle-of-the-rich-and-famous carbon footprint and that of the man who “stole” the election from him? Maybe “W” is a closet green. And maybe algore is just green with envy and stuck on do as I say and not as I do.
127 Darthmeister // Feb 27, 2007 at 4:42 am
AP - BAGRAM, Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on foot killed and wounded some two dozen people outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target.
Sit back and watch the moonbat nutroots at demoncrapunderground.com, moveon.orgy, and kos.com.mie lament that Cheney wasn’t taken out. And here’s a real clue for you hate-spewing, unpatriotic, un-American liberal Dhimmiecrat cretins: When you first heard this report were you appalled and angry at the Taliban/al Qaeda/Islamofascists or was your initial reaction that it was another opportunity missed to take out Cheney?
Now you know beyond a doubt what Scrapplers have been saying about you seditious traitors is true.
128 mig // Feb 27, 2007 at 6:12 am
Heads up:
Anti American war activists are heading to Washington DC. It is feared that they will desicrate the Vietnam War Memorial and possible others.
There is a group that is planning to counter these protests. Heard it Here: These Colors Don’t Run
129 mig // Feb 27, 2007 at 6:23 am
A suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 11 outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, officials said. “The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target.
130 mig // Feb 27, 2007 at 6:38 am
heh heh Chavez is certainly dangerous but what an idiot!
Venezuela to Seize Foreign Oil Projects
… he added that Venezuela doesn’t “want the [oil]companies to go … We just want them to be (minority) partners.”
Chavez has been given special powers by congress [ to take over "strategic interests"]
131 RedPepper // Feb 27, 2007 at 8:20 am
Good morning, all!
¿Where do you suppose Scott has gone off to?
132 conserve-a-tips // Feb 27, 2007 at 8:55 am
Redpepper, Good morning! â€
Speaking of Bush being greener, AlGore has some s’plainin’ to do !! Oh? You say his ♥ is in the right place? Nah, not buying that either.
133 Darthmeister // Feb 27, 2007 at 9:22 am
You gotta love the intellectual dishonest of your average liberal secular. Hmmmm … actually, they’re bigots.
If you’re a Christian who is involved in any way with the political process on the basis of honestly held convictions, in the liberal secular world you’re a Theocrat.
If you’re a Christian who believes in peacefully sharing the Gospel of Christ, who intellectually defends their faith in a crooked and perverse world and support government which brings ultimate justice to evildoers, in the liberal secular world you’re a Christofascists. Remind you of some troll?
Of course these are the same self-righteous moonbats who ignore the murderous depredations of Islamic jihadists - who coerce conversions at gunpoint, chop of heads, and have been publicly frank about their desire to kill any and all infidels who won’t bend the knee to Islam - while calling President Bush a Hitler for daring to sic the American military on these maurading Muslims who have made it clear they want to destroy “Great Satan America.”
134 RedPepper // Feb 27, 2007 at 9:23 am
c-a-t: When did you become such a ÄyniÄ? Haven’t you seen A Convenient Lie? Or read alGore’s wonderful book, Earth For The Unbalanced?
Of course global warming’s a fact; why, I read about it on the internet! And we all know just who invented the internet …
135 conserve-a-tips // Feb 27, 2007 at 10:41 am
Y’know, RedPepper, I hadn’t made that association…but now that you mention it….AlGore≈the Internet≈Global Warming…hmmmm.
And here’s another thought. Did you realize that if you rearrange the letters of Global Warming, you get:
•Ball Going Warm•
A coincidence you say? I think not! It’s subliminal, don’t you know? This big ball which we call home is going warm!!! Aaeeiiii. Run for the hills. Oh? They are warming too? What to do? What to do?
P.S. This is what Gore says New York will look like:
≈≈≈≈≈≈≈^≈≈≈≈≈≈ (the point is the Empire State Bldg)
136 conserve-a-tips // Feb 27, 2007 at 10:56 am
Darthmeister:
Another aspect to your excellent point is that these so-called Secularists are touting a religion of their own, whether it be socialism, atheism, secularism or global warming. If you think about it, they allow their faith (in man/the earth vs. our faith in God) to govern their thoughts, actions and words in the very way that they villify Christians for doing.
•Governing? No separation of church and state there for these people: Make sure every decision is based on the environment and Global Warming.
•Speaking? No separation of faith and words here for these people: Make sure there is a mention of the environment and Global Warming.
•Defense? No separation of church and state here for these people: Make sure that it doesn’t have an impact on the environment and Global Warming.
“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen.” Romans 1:25
Of course, these blinded liberals don’t recognize that or even understand the concept of their hypocrisy. But it is what it is.
137 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 27, 2007 at 11:09 am
It looks as thought the doctors never finished their work at the ER. I’m going back before I choke to death.
Feeling pretty bad so keep holding me up in prayer.
P.S. Take me off the chain and forwarding e-mails please until I return. The last time (Dec) there were so many forwards of no major relevance that it shut down my mail box and I never got your personal e-mails
Thanks
Thanks
138 RedPepper // Feb 27, 2007 at 11:14 am
Ms RW: Good luck & take care …
139 upnorthlurkin // Feb 27, 2007 at 11:17 am
Ms RW, Godspeed! Prayers going up for your recovery!!
140 upnorthlurkin // Feb 27, 2007 at 11:21 am
I’m guessing Scott is working on the radio deal/show he alluded to earlier in this thread…just a hunch though. We could just go back to one of the earlier threads with only half a dozen or so comments….easier on the scroll wheel!!
141 conserve-a-tips // Feb 27, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Blessings on you MsRightwing,Ink - I hope that your stay is a short one and you are breathing easier soon.
142 Hawkeye // Feb 27, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Prayers goin’ up. God bless you Ms RW.
143 Hawkeye // Feb 27, 2007 at 12:46 pm
C-A-T #136,
Good points all. With the “envirofascists” there is no such thing as “fair and balanced”… it’s more like “fairly unbalanced” behavior (I wish I could remember where I heard that phrase).
(:D) Regards…
144 mig // Feb 27, 2007 at 1:03 pm
God Bless you and keep you safe Ms.RightWing!
145 Darthmeister // Feb 27, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Left-wing anti-war moonbats haven’t disappointed. Regarding the recent attempt on Dick Cheney’s life in the service of his country in a war zone, the moonbats come completely unhinged here and here at KOS and here at Huffington Post.
Some pretty sick puppies on the left … and I told ya’ so, it was only a matter of time before the inner darkness of these radical America haters exposes itself.
146 Darthmeister // Feb 27, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Michelle Malkin has more on Assassination Chic: Cheney Edition.
Some pretty deranged sickos. And what’s even more disturbing is the fact these are the “people of peace” (i.e. closet Marxists) who want to rule America or at least elect others of their ilk to “govern” America. Don’t forget, these hatemongers vote. We must not ever let these unpatriotic sickos ever gain the White House and keep the Congress or this country is sunk.
147 Fred Sinclair // Feb 28, 2007 at 6:37 am
I just KNEW that God wouldn’t let Liberals just come and go without something about them in His Word. Even Rush Limbaugh cannot improve on this (not that he would want to, in any case)
Psalms 36:1-4
(1) The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. (2) For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. (3) The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. (4) He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Heirborn Ranger
148 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:14 am
James Cameron is such a fraud. Here’s the latest news concerning his claim to have found the tomb and bones of Messiah Jesus. Of course atheists, seculars and leftists everywhere have already sucked down as the gospel truth what this man claims to be true. Kind of like Oliver Stone and is fraudulent and ahistorical take on the Kennedy Assassination:
Leading archaeologists in Israel and the United States yesterday denounced the purported discovery of the tomb of Jesus as a publicity stunt.
Scorn for the Discovery Channel’s claim to have found the burial place of Jesus, Mary Magdalene and — most explosively — their possible son came not just from Christian scholars but also from Jewish and secular experts who said their judgments were unaffected by any desire to uphold Christian orthodoxy.
“I’m not a Christian. I’m not a believer. I don’t have a dog in this fight,” said William G. Dever, who has been excavating ancient sites in Israel for 50 years and is widely considered the dean of biblical archaeology among U.S. scholars. “I just think it’s a shame the way this story is being hyped and manipulated.” …
Similar assessments came yesterday from two Israeli scholars, Amos Kloner, who originally excavated the tomb, and Joe Zias, former curator of archaeology at the Israeli Antiquities Authority. Kloner told the Jerusalem Post that the documentary is “nonsense.” Zias described it in an e-mail to The Washington Post as a “hyped up film which is intellectually and scientifically dishonest.”
Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, expressed irritation that the claims were made at a news conference rather than in a peer-reviewed scientific article. By going directly to the media, she said, the filmmakers “have set it up as if it’s a legitimate academic debate, when the vast majority of scholars who specialize in archaeology of this period have flatly rejected this,” she said.
The Cameron/Jacobovici hypothesis fails on a number of points. First, Jacobovici claims that having the names of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and Judah (noted as Jesus’ son) defies odds in a range between 600:1 and 2 million:1. That’s a very wide range, and completely inaccurate. Other archeologists note that the names listed by the documentarians were the most common names in use at the time for Jerusalem. They also dispute that the name ‘Jesus’ on the ossuary is confirmed; some believe it is an early version of the name “Hanoun”.
My thoughts: Also the burial methods and location of the tomb indicated a middle to upper-middleclass burial, something which would have been beyond the means of Jesus, a fact which even skeptics have to admit to since they too have historically understood Jesus to be numbered among the poor … that is unless they want to advance the notion that Jesus turned into a First Century equivalent to a modern televangelist making large sums of money on his new noteriety and fame as a “spiritually risen Messiah.” A carpenter would hardly qualify as rich or middle-class in the culture of that day. At worst this whole thing smells of money-grubbing fraud, at best its an honest mistake by those who really do want to remain as intellectually honest as possible toward archaelogical finds.
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