There Seems to Be Only One Presidential Candidate

Only one guy running for president right now can even possibly say things that remind one of truly great presidents of the past.

For example:

“Anything worth doing is worth doing well. I’ve always been a little more laid back than most. I like to say I’m only consumed by very few things, and politics is not one of them. The welfare of my country, and my kids and grandkids, growing up, is one of them.

“If what people really want in their president is a super type A personality, someone who has gotten up every morning and gone to bed every night and been thinking about, for years how they can be president of the United States… someone who can look you straight in the eye and say they’ve enjoyed every minute of campaigning… I ain’t that guy. So I hope I’ve discussed that, or I haven’t talked you out of anything. I honestly want… I can’t imagine a worse set of circumstances than achieving the presidency under false pretenses, especially if you feel the way I do. I’ve gone out of my way to be myself, because I don’t want anybody to think they’re getting something they’re not getting. I’m not consumed by this process, I’m not consumed with the notion of being president. I’m simply saying I’m willing to do what’s necessary to achieve it if I’m in sync with the people. And if the people want me, or somebody like me, I will do what I’ve always done with everything else in my life. I will take it on and do a good job. You’ll have the disadvantage of having someone who probably can’t jump up and click their heels three times, but will tell you the truth. And you’ll know where the president stands at all times.”

Go back and look at what it took to persuade George Washington to become president. If this guy’s for real (and nothing yet indicates he is not–quite unlike all the other candidates out there), this is the quality of person I want in politics.

Need you ask who could say such things?

Hint: It ain’t Billary Obama Winfrey.

It ain’t the Breck Girl.

It ain’t Mr. Plagiarism

And it ain’t The Android from Planet “Say-anything-to-get-elected,” the two crooks pretending to be conservatives, Mr. “I Ain’t the Hero I Claim to Be, but At Least I Hate Free Speech” McCain, or Nutso Paul.

If Fred isn’t tapped to be the conservative presidential candidate, I’ll not move to Canada or any such stupid thing, but I may counsel my children to start learning Polish, to prepare for an exit strategy to what might well turn out to be the last bastion of Western Civilization.

*sigh*

IF Presidential Promises Meant Anything…

Then THIS would represent the Saudi regime today:

OZYMANDIAS

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

IF President Bush meant what he said when he proclaimed, “Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them,” and “Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.,” and “…the only way to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate it, and destroy it where it grows,” and especially “And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” then Saudi Arabia would no longer be “Saudi” Arabia, for the Saudi regime is indeed the world leader in supporting Islamic terrorism.

But of course, we now know that President Bush did not mean what he said. He uttered what we can see with perfect hindsight were simply political lies.

*sigh*

I have no further use for this man. Bring me another, better one to serve in his place, please.

(Well, the request for a “better man” excludes the entire field of Democrappic candidates and darned near all the Republican’ts… *sigh*)


Oh, and for those Saudis who like to press “libel” suits in countries with friendly libel laws in order to suppress truth, bring it on. You’d have to come to my neck of the woods to collect, and I don’t think your collection agents would appreciate the reception committee

Free Kerry’s 180/0PEN P0ST

Yep. Link here and trackback: it’s an Open Post.

Normally, Tuesday is a “Free John Kerry’s 180” day, and, really, today’s no exception.

No More sKerry BS_button

But today is a very different kind of “Free Jean Fraud sKerry’s 180” day. Today, I’m asking both of my readers *heh* to finish this thought:

“Jean Fraud sKerry’s lies and obfuscations in pursuance of avoiding the release of the records he has repeatedly promised to release is like NOT emptying a weeks’-long overfull cat litter box, because… ”

Answers in comments or a trackedback post, please.

Dumping this litterbox at Linkfest_Haven

Bonus Guard the Borders

Here’s a bonus crosspost from Heidi at Euphoric Reality


Last week, those of us who keep an eye on border issues noticed that several mainstream media sources had featured articles about the regular Mexican military incursions over our borders and into our country. This is nothing new, as the Border Patrol has documented hundreds of such illegal incursions by an armed Mexican military over the past decade, and our government has done nothing to curb these incursions. In fact, it seems our government has looked the other way. While I’m relieved that this information is getting out into the mainstream, I have little confidence that our governement will actually do its job and secure our borders.

Some confrontations between the Mexican military troops and our own Border Patrol agents have become violent as Mexican soldiers have fired their weapons at the Border Patrol. It’s a mystery why our government refuses to acknowledge these hostile invasions. They surely know about it, and the Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C. has gone so far as to publicly deny that the Mexican soldiers are hostile, but rather there to “patrol for illegal border jumpers”. Contrary to that public statement, however, most of the Mexican military troops on the border are moonlighting as security escorts for drug smuggling gangs the coyotes who are running large groups of illegals across the border.

T.J. Bonner, a 27-year Border Patrol veteran who heads the National Border Patrol Council [said], “Intrusions by the Mexican military to protect drug loads happen all the time and represent a significant threat to the agents. “Why else would they be in the area, firing at federal agents in the United States? There is no other explanation,” said Mr. Bonner, whose organization represents all 10,000 of the nonsupervisory Border Patrol agents.

He also challenged reports that Mexican military units had crossed mistakenly into the United States, saying, “Every country’s military has a [global positioning system] nowadays, including the Mexicans. “If the border is so poorly marked, why don’t the thousands of Border Patrol agents working 24/7 along it ever seem to get lost, and none of us have been issued a GPS,” he said.
[…]
Attacks on Border Patrol agents in the past few years have been attributed to current or former Mexican military personnel. U.S. law-enforcement officials have long thought that current and former Mexican soldiers are being paid to protect drug shipments bound for the United States.

Several agents said the attacks have escalated in the past two years as U.S. security efforts on the border have increased — including the July shooting of two agents in an ambush near Nogales, Ariz., by assailants in black commando-type clothing, who fired more than 50 rounds. Authorities said the gunmen used military-style cover-and-concealment tactics to escape back into Mexico. No one has been arrested.

Without any federal commitment to secure our borders, the Minutemen, a volunteer citizen’s group, has performed an invaluable civic service in patrolling our borders to document and verify the location of illegal border crossers. They, too, have encountered Mexican soldiers on the WRONG side of the border. The video clip below comes directly from the Arizona Minutemen who told the Mexican soldiers, when confronted, they were there as “media” to document the border situation. It is incredibly important to note that there is no reason why American citizens should EVER be required to justify their lawful activities on American soil to a FOREIGN military presence. That is anathema to our rights as American citizens!

(SCOTTSDALE, AZ) January 20, 2006 – The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (“MCDC”) announced the release today of video footage of an incursion by a unit of the Mexican army across the U.S. border in Arizona.

Chris Simcox and a group of Civil Defense Corps volunteers encountered a squad of approximately eight armed Mexican soldiers about 500 yards inside American territory. The Mexican soldiers started running back through the brush to Mexico when they realized they had been spotted.

The video shows a uniformed Mexican soldier climbing through a barbed wire fence on American soil to return to the Mexican side of the border as he races to catch up with the other Mexican soldiers who had also climbed back through the fence as they retreated back into their country.

A group of armed Mexican soldiers then returned to the barbed wire fence (on American soil) and confronted Simcox and the volunteers. A discussion in Spanish ensued, with the agitated soldier ‘in charge’ saying the Americans had no business being there.

Simcox and the volunteers did not budge. The Mexican soldiers left and drove off. Judging from earlier activity observed at the ranch that morning, Simcox is of the belief that a trafficking operation had been disrupted by the volunteers.

The footage, filmed in 2004, was sent to then Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge. His office did not respond. The video has remained in the Minuteman video archive and is being released in response to recent news reports that over 200 cross-border incursions by the Mexican army have been documented since 1996.


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Power Oatmeal!

Power Oatmeal? Yeh. Want that warm, smoothe oatmeal breakfast, but also working out and need the extra protein you get from a ham n eggs type of breakfast? Here’s one solution.

Oatmeal (take your pick):

Oatmeal Porridge

  • 1/4C cut oats
  • 1 Qt water
  • pinch salt
  • Bring water to a rolling boil
  • sprinkle the oats onto the “roll”
  • stir well
  • keep at a boil (stirring every now and then) until it begins to thicken, then reduce to a simmer and simmer for 20-30 minutes or so (depends on how smoothe or “chewy” you like your porridge)

Or

Your fav “rolled” oats–the flat stuff you associate with Quaker Oats. Regular or instant, fixed as you usually do or the package directs.

The “power” part?

First: flavor. I like to add freshly-grated cinnamon and nutmeg, margarine (or butter) and some apple jelly.

Then, for added protein, whip up 8 oz of a high-quality, high-protein shake. I use the a super high-quality (ordered over the internet) vanilla-flavored protein shake for adding to oatmeal. Use the protein shake in place of milk. (Drink any shake mix left after pouring an amount you prefer over the oatmeal. 🙂

When I have ’em, I’ll add raisins to the oatmeal porridge as it’s cooking.

Warm, tasty, filling and an extra protein boost.

Update: Oh, where’s the coffee? Already downed by this time and starting on a second third fourth cup. What?!? Breakfast w/o Joe? Say it ain’t so!

UPDATE: In comments The MaryHunter suggests cardamom and brown sugar—each separately or together worthy additions to oatmeal.

Stop the ACLU–a shot across the ACLU’s bow…

From John Stephenson, this:


It is happening all across the nation. The ACLU sue city counsel after city counsel over praying in Jesus name. They don’t sue to stop all prayer, but in every case the target has been Christian prayer. They even fought for the right of a Wiccan to pray at a counsel meeting. Many times it doesn’t even take a lawsuit. They just type up a threatening letter and that does the trick. This was the case in Fredericksburg. But one man isn’t taking things lying down.

Fredericksburg City Councilman Hashmel Turner has filed suit against his fellow council members, saying the council’s newly adopted prayer policy violates his constitutional rights.

Turner is being represented by the Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression issues.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, asks the court to rule that the city’s prayer policy is unconstitutional, and to order that Turner be allowed back into the council’s prayer rotation.

The council voted 5-1 in November to adopt a policy of offering non-denominational prayers devoid of any Christian or other specific religious references.

Turner abstained from that vote, and Councilman Matt Kelly voted against the policy.

The vote came after Turner had been excluded from the council prayer rotation for more than a year. The council got a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union in July 2004 saying that the civil liberties group would file suit if Turner continued to invoke the name of Jesus Christ in his prayers…


Read the rest at Fredericksburg City Councilman Fights for Right to Pray in Jesus’ Name And see more information about what the ACLU is really about at Stop the ACLU

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Poor players, strutting and fretting their hours upon the stage…

The Stupid Party needs to get some schooling in Texas Holdem, cos the Demoncraps are taking their shirts:

“Game Theory and Media Bias” by Todd Manzi:

It used to be that the press would report the happenings of politics. Somewhere along the line, the process became perverted, and politicians began playing to the press and engaging in behavior that was motivated solely because of the prospect of media coverage. The tail wagged the dog, and politicians learned they could manipulate the press. Today, the message of politics is delivered through a liberally biased prism. Not only do Reid and the Democrats make moves designed to get media coverage, they take full advantage of the premise that the people reporting the news are predisposed to liberal ideology.

And infusion of testosterone and an ability to call the Dem’s bluffs every now and then might make a difference in how the game is played in Washington…

“Give Peace a Chance”

Here’s a linkage for you…

In 1970, John Fraud Kerry went to Paris and, although he was still on active reserve status and thus “an officer of the U nited States” (see the Fourteenth Amendment), met with representatives of Noth Vietnam and the Viet Cong. He came back to the U.S. and began parroting the North Vietnam talking points, point by point. He lied in TV interviews and before the Fullbright committee in slandering the troops who served in Vietnam (even, in TV interviews, going so far as to “confess” to having committed “attrocities” himself), and his statements were used in torture of American POWs by the North Vietnamese.

Today…

Al Jazeerah, the Islamofascist propoganda mouthpiece, is trumpeting, “US Should Stop Wars and Give Peace a Chance“… and we hear John Fraud Kerry’s lame pullout schemes (changing for whatever audience he faces) and… it all fits so very well with the “Old Hippy” photo below…

Kerry’s still stuck in his Camodian Christmas fantasy…

Photo Finish

Let’s put a really good finish on the election with some prime photos. I’m not looking for fairness or good taste in these photos. No, send me photos of Kerry in poses that show the inner hippy, the greedy gigolo, the satanic slanderer. Pictures of Grimma Wormtongue accepted in lieu of actual Kerry photos…

try sending photos to mnmus at yahoo dot com (yeh, a slight attempt to thwart spambots). Maybe I’ll have Hello Bloggerbot working later so readers can send photos that way.

Meanwhile, enjoy the Old Hippy pic of Father John Fraud Kerry blessing (out) a crowd…