It’s been announced that Islamic terrorist Abu Laith al-Libi was killed recently in a rocket attack in Afghanistan. This is the guy who tried to assassinate Vice President Cheney during his trip to that nation last year, so I’m sure a lot of leftists are mourning the loss of a true “freedom fighter.”
I say it’s a good start…
Correction: Abu Laith al-Libi was killed in an airstrike in Pakistan.
Apparently it took “10 officers on motorcycle, two police cruisers and two police helicopters“ to escort Britney Spears to the hospital early this morning to “get help.” Two helicopters? What a waste of taxpayer resources…
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) has been rated as the most liberal member of the United States Senate. His 2007 rating was 95.5 out of 100… almost perfect! This is the guy who argued this week that his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is too divisive because she agrees with Republicans sometimes.
Apparently, in Obama’s view, the best way to unite the country is to talk like a moderate, but to vote as a staunch partison. Perhaps it’s just common sense, but that doesn’t sound like a unifying formula to me…
GMH posted about this and related topics on Monday, but here’s a follow up. Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council voted 8-1 passing a resolution that stated that the Marines stationed at the Shattuck Avenue recruiting station are “not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”
By the way, PhoeBe is a “activist“ for Code Pink, which is one of America’s most vehement anti-war groups. Unfortunately, that is more than sufficient in explaining her anti-military mindset and rhetoric.
I wrote earlier this week that the Senate is trying to use the ‘Economic Stimulus’ plan to give tax “rebates” to people who don’t pay any taxes. Apparently the Senate is also trying to change the bill so that “rebates” go to illegal immigrants, even ones who may don’t even have a social security number. The House version of the bill currently would not allow such a provision.
It still shouldn’t surprise anyone that all this is happening in an election year.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) attacked Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), his chief rival for the Democrat’s presidential nomination, calling her divisive because she agrees with Republicans sometimes. What? Does that make any sense? She’s too divisive because she’s willing to compromise with people on the other side of the aisle?
There’s no doubt that Hillary Clinton is one of the most polarizing political figures of our lifetime, but Obama’s rhetoric sounds like he’s only interested in uniting Liberals who agree with him. What about all his other (unrealistic) promises to unite the entire country? Doesn’t that involve some compromise? How does one unite the nation without agreeing with members of the opposing party sometimes?
It can’t be done, but Obama’s true intentions are starting to show a bit more…
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In a stump speech for his wife yesterday, former President Bill Clinton said, “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”
Well, at least one Liberal is willing to be honest about the true anti-Capitalist aims of the global warming movement. However, I bet most people with a 401(k) would not be supportive of the Clintons’ plans to intentionally slow our economy.
Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) has dropped his bid for the Republican presidential nomination after a poor showing in Iowa and is throwing his support behind Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). I think he’s aiming to be attorney general in a McCain administration. He’s worked for the Justice Department before.
Former Sen. John Edwards also dropped his bid for the Democratic nomination. I think he’d also like to be attorney general, but he doesn’t have the courage to endorse another candidate until he knows who is going to win. In the meantime, he’ll probably go back to making millions of dollars working for hedge funds and other capitalist ventures that he only seems to despise when he’s trying to get elected President.
Remember, John Edwards is the Socialist who happens to like Capitalism when his own name is on the check.
I wish I didn’t have to say it, but I’m troubled by many of the things I heard last night. Below is a quote from the President’s State of the Union address. ”America is leading the fight against disease. With your help, we’re working to cut by half the number of malaria-related deaths in 15 African nations. And our Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is treating 1.4 million people. We can bring healing and hope to many more. So I ask you to maintain the principles that have changed behavior and made this program a success. And I call on you to double our initial commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS by approving an additional $30 billion over the next five years.”
That really sounds great doesn’t it? “We the People” can help individuals who have AIDS. What sounds even better is that we’re going outside of our borders to provide this assistance. But let’s take a second and think outside the box. We’re going bankrupt. No matter how you shake it and run the numbers, we’re nearly broke as a nation. Why the heck are we sending $30 billion dollars more to another continent to treat people who aren’t our citizens? I’m all about being humanitarian, but I’m vehemently opposed to someone else taking my money by force and being humanitarian for me.
The leaders in government seem to underestimate the generosity of the people they represent. My wife and I give abundantly to charities that represent causes about which we are passionate. I can only imagine how much more we could give should we have more of our own money in our pockets. This is the essence of socialism.
Let’s just face it. They are taking money and property from the individual and redistributing it for the good of the whole. What’s even dumber is that we’re not distributing all of it to our own people. At least if we’re going to be socialist, let’s do it right. It seems that are government can’t do anything right.
I have a solution; provide for the common defense. Stop wasting money on all the different social welfare programs, entitlements and departments that don’t do that. The amount of money saved will be enormous. The tax burden would be lifted. The economy would go through the roof. Poverty would all but go away. But the most exciting thing is that the people of the United States would have plenty of money to take care of AIDS in Africa…
And the government would have one less thing to worry about screwing up.
