Why should he?
I am just one of 654, 905 (give or take a business closing) constituents in Washington District 8.
Of the 455,009 Registered Voters in WA Dist 8, 357, 720 live in King County. Only 97,289 of us live in Pierce. (data from WA Sec. of State website).
So [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
Scientists: It’s Easy to ‘Engineer Crime Scene’ With Fabricated DNA
Scientists in Israel say it’s easy to “engineer a crime scene” with fabricated DNA evidence, throwing in doubt the strength of the prime standard in criminal cases that has been used to secure thousands of [...]
Mark Steyn has a great piece in the corner, on his recurring theme of the aging population of the Western world (which does now include Japan and Korea, for all intents and purposes).
Japan’s population peaked in 2004 at about 127.8 million and is projected to fall to 89.9 [...]
Below is the canned (I assume, please correct me if I am wrong) email I received from the Pierce County GOP, concerning Reichert’s Cap and Tax vote (on Jun 29):
Thank you for your email regarding Congressman Reichert’s vote on the Cap & Trade legislation.
The passion that everyone is expressing [...]
By now, if you are not aware that Sarah Palin is resigning as Governor of Alaska on July 26, then you simply are not paying attention.
I thought I would let the dust settle a bit, before throwing my 2 cents in.
I have no doubt that this is a move [...]
OK, so it’s not Shakespeare. Don’t get me wrong, I love the bard, and I think Kenneth Brannagh has a true gift for those works…
In fact, anyone going to this movie expecting anything along the lines of plot, storyline, or character development, will probably have their head implode. This apparently [...]
On the lighter side, I decided to go a little brain dead last night, so I watched the Fox TV “movie” Virtuality – which was, unknown to me at the time – actually a pilot for a potential new TV series, and brainchild of Ronald Moore (previously of Star [...]
From the Seattle Times:
Washington, DC – Congressman Dave Reichert (WA-08) released the following statement today after the U.S. House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act:
“Energy independence and our national security are critical issues for America. These issues transcend politics. The future of this country is on [...]
From Michelle Malkin, we get the link to the final talley, showing Congressman Dave Reichert voting AYE, to PASS the Cap and Trade Economy Killer Bill.
As Michelle asks;
There are 7 GOP turncoats with recorded YEA votes.
What were their payoffs???
I hope Dave Reichert’s payoff was worth it, because [...]
Michelle Malkin and the Americana for Prosperity are reporting that Dave Reichert (R – Wa. Dist 8) is leaning towards a YES vote on the Cap and Trade Economy Killer bill, currently being ramrodded through the House of Representatives, despite the Republicans being locked out of the process, [...]
Ralph Peters has a most excellent piece today, courtesy of the NY Post:
An ugly pattern’s emerging in our president’s beliefs:
He’s infallible. This is rich, given all the criticism of the Bush administration’s unwillingness to admit mistakes. We now have a president with Jimmy Carter’s naivete, [...]
Gateway Pundit has a wonderful piece comparing and contrasting the stands of G. W. Bush and B .H. Obama, regarding the struggle for freedom and democracy in the world today:
“All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your [...]
I have stayed away from this for a week, but feel compelled to comment at this point.
If you aren’t aware of the issue that has come up concerning David Letterman and the Palin family, you can get detail here.
Last night, Letterman issued a non-apology:
“All right, here [...]
Courtesy of JoNova:
Michael Kundu, Board President of Marysville (Washington State, USA) District #25 has written to colleagues to urge them to trash a free science resource that discusses logic, reason and evidence, and the core of science. The Skeptics Handbook has arrived at school board presidents’ desks around [...]
Thanks to Kyle Drennen at Newsbusters:
Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”
…”Reagan was all about America, [...]
For some background on the concept, check this post from Michelle Malkin. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
OK, so now that you understand the basic idea (summarized for those that didn’t follow the link):
It’s a reference to the famed Ayn Rand novel, “Atlas Shrugged,” in which protagonist John Galt leads the [...]
USA Today has a wonderful (and interactive graphic) piece today, which presents some truly horrifying numbers about the Average Liabilities Per Household in the USA Today!
Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover
rising federal commitments made just in the past year for [...]
One – Courtesy of Doug Ross:
Red State, American Thinker and Joey Smith provide anecdotal and
quantitative evidence that would appear to confirm a decided bias
against dealers who donated to GOP causes or to anti-Obama Democrats.
Consider the partial list of Chrysler dealership owners, listed below.
You’ll notice that [...]
Victor Davis Hanson courtesy of Pajamas Media:
Cracks in the FacadeFissures in the Obama Totem
Oh, I know that President Obama’s approval ratings are still around
62%. But I also remember that George Bush’s at the end of 2001 got even
higher — and stayed at or above 60% through most [...]
In the interests of full disclosure, I am a registered Republican. When I turned 18, in the great state of Alaska, I registered as a Libertarian. While I had some quibbles over a couple of planks in the Libertarian platform, over all, it was the best fit for my beliefs.
In [...]
Courtesy of Reuters:
Outnumbered U.S. troops defend Afghan frontierU.S. commanders are rushing thousands of reinforcements to the south of Afghanistan to take on the Taliban in what Washington considers a make-or-break year for a war it now views as its main security priority.
Here in the east of the country, the [...]
Courtesy of AFP:
US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
“This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,” Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted [...]
The Seattle Post Intelligencer is up for sale. And if there is no buyer, the print edition will be shut down in 60 days.
Personally, I am not all broken up about this. I have little respect for most of the left wing shills (they like to be called “journalists”, [...]
I have been, for a number of reasons, silent for the last several weeks.
One issue was technical - I found that my Hosting company was not practicing basic security measures, and had allowed my sites to become vulnerable to various threats. So, it became necessary to move the site to [...]
After the disaster that was the disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow”, you might have thought that preachy, anti-human, pro-gaia, people-are-a-blight-on-the-planet feature films would have gone the way of the dodo bird.
But it is not to be so. Witness the pending release of the remake of “The Day the [...]
China has been playing a dangerous game since the end of the Mao Dynasty, and the advent of the reformers.
Not that they had a choice. The stark reality of China today, like all nations, is a culmination of Geography, Climate, and Politics.
China has been trying to limit population growth, while [...]
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Rachel Lucas talked about this quiz.
I’ll wait here, while you link over and take the quiz.
(on hold music playing: Girl From Ipenema)
How’d you score? I got an 88% (ok, ok, 87.88%). missing 4. One was a lack of attention to the question, but I will fess up [...]
The first failure of Socialism in the America’s occurred at Plymouth Plantation, in the 1620s…
From a piece by Rick Williams Jr.:
On December 16, 1620, the tiny ship loaded with “tools and weapons, a stock of dried and salted foods, a few goats, pigs, and chickens” landed at Plymouth Rock. [...]
Californians Gather To Celebrate Annual Wildfire Tradition
So, I keep asking my friends in California, explain to me why you live there again?
You have the annual Wildfire festival. In the odd year that the Rains come, you have massive mudslides and flooding. You have one of the highest tax burdens in [...]I despair of ever being able to comment on things with the flair of Bill Whittle, or the ability to phrase complicated issues in easy to understand ways, like Walter Williams:
Evil acts can be given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions such as spreading the wealth, [...]
When GHW Bush failed to deliver the coup de grace to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and failed to support the uprisings against him in the aftermath of the 1st Gulf War, the stage was set for the current conflict.
Likewise, the failure of Clinton and the UN to effectively deal with Somolia [...]
Courtesy of Politico:
Arms control advocates and anti-war activists are ratcheting up pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to dump Defense Secretary Robert Gates and replace him with a more strident anti-war voice.
Having an Anti-War Secretary of Defense makes as much sense as electing a man whose friends and acquaintances are [...]
All courtesy of Brainyquote:
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture [...]
A big Shout Out to all the Veterans out there.
The American Veteran is a Liberator. A friend to the oppressed; an enemy to the oppressor.
Courtesy of Military.Com, here is a history of Veterans Day:
Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to [...]
Courtesy of the Guardian UK:
Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.
The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no [...]
Yeah, that’s right, Newt for President.
Like Reagan in the late 70’s, Gingrich is the spirit of Conservatism is the early 21st century.
Even if he chooses not to run for the Presidential nomination, he must certainly be intimately involved in reforming and re-energizing the GOP and the Conservative movement.
Spend some [...]
-> It should be glaringly obvious at this point that - as distasteful as it is, and what it says about our society - a winning candidate for President needs to be telegenic. The more telegenic the candidate, the less substance they need to have to their platform. I think [...]
The longest Presidential campaign in memory is now over.
Of course, the 2012 campaign starts tomorrow, regardless of the outcome tonight.
I believe that both Obama and Palin are already thinking about the next cycle, at least in concept, though the results of today’s voting will affect which one is running as [...]
Those of us who have lived in the Western states have long been frustrated by the skewing of national elections that comes from the news media reporting/calling Eastern and Midwestern (and Mountain) states for President, when the polls are still open in the west.
The result of having elections with [...]
From Gateway Pundit:
Obama appeals to devotees in Virginia:
I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here, but we’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to fight.
-> Keith Olberman and John Stewart will quickly be out of a job, without a viable target in in the White House, Senate, or House of Representatives. Indeed, MSNBC will shortly thereafter fold as a commercially viable enterprise.
-> Stephen Colbert will be forced to broaden his scope, if he doesn’t [...]
Thanks to P.J. Gladnick, at Newsbusters:
Barack Obama actually flat out told the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate) that he was willing to see the coal industry go bankrupt in a January 17, 2008 interview:
“Let me sort of describe my overall policy.
What I’ve said is that we would put a [...]
(Hat tip to Scott at Powerline)
The Toledo Blade has some pieces on Obama, and FDR’s Second Bill of Rights.
Without further ado, here is that list of “rights” that the left want to append to the Constitution:
Nancy Pelosi, (prospective member of the ruling Triumvirate), was at Google’s HQ and made this point:
…on concerns that Democrats might control both the White House and Congress she said the following:
“Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from
there. But I do tell you [...]
From the National Conference of State Legislatures site:
Only 7 of the 50 states require Photo ID prior to voting:
An additional 17 require some form of ID, but not a Photo:
What, exactly, constitutes ID, if it does not include a Photo?
In Washington, [...]
This is actually several predictions in one:
Because I just can’t help myself, I’ll put the biggest one first:
For President: John McCain, by at least 4 Electoral Votes (274 to 264).
Reasoning: The huge Undecided block will break for McCain. If they aren’t convinced to become Obamatons by this point, then it’s [...]
This election cycle has brought us such scenes as camo wearing teens, in formation, crying out that “Because of Obama” they can have a career and a future; small children singing Obama’s praises, bringing to mind similar spectacles in praise of Kim Jong Il in North Korea, or Fidel Castro [...]
I happened to trip over a commercial that is being run by Youth for Human Rights International, concerning the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The full text of the UDHR is posted here.
Overall, the basic tenants are familiar: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, just expanded upon.
After [...]
From the WSJ:
When the Argentine government ran out of money in 2001, it blamed the market and increased its own role in the economy. Since then it has imposed price controls, defaulted on its debt, seized dollar bank accounts, devalued the currency, nationalized businesses and tried to set confiscatory [...]
As a former USAF Staff Sergeant, I have a lot of love for my former service.
But, being a proponent of Tough Love, I reserve the right to constructive criticism (surprise, surprise).
It appears that the USAF has finally figured out that one does not have to be a qualifed F-22 Raptor [...]
In the death throes of the Roman Republic, there were a series of Triumvirates formed - three people sharing total power between them. The first, and most famous, was formed by Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey.
In America today, we face a Triumvirate of Barak Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.
And their [...]
-A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
-Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure
freedom.
-Even the [...]
In the Kansas City Star, Lewis Diuguid has this perspective:
The “socialist” label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to [...]
Note: I have reformatted the below for readability, but all text remains the same.
I have added my comments below Friedman’s, in italics.
Excerpted from the book Free to Choose, Milton and Rose Friedman, 1980 edition, Page 311:
SOCIALIST PLATFORM OF 1928
(NOTE: Herewith the economic planks of the Socialist party [...]
Joshua, over at One Free Korea, has a wonderful piece on the historic mistake that Bush has made, removing North Korea from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
I wanted to do a piece on it, but just don’t have the chops for it that Joshua does:
Two years ago, our [...]
Courtesy ABC News:
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the
second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six
months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.
The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old
[...]
Jack Cashill, writing in the WorldNetDaily certainly thinks so:
…there is considerable and growing evidence that Bill Ayers made a significant contribution to Obama’s “Dreams from My Father.”
Among other indicators, I have cited the stunning parallels in nautical metaphors and postmodern themes, as well as the nearly miraculous transformation of [...]
Trust our British cousins to ignore reality in the fact of facts, in favor of a cherished fantasy:
A government report that found old-fashioned reusable nappies damage the environment more than disposables has been hushed up because ministers are embarrassed by its findings.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural [...]
I have been in remiss, of late, in recommending Blog’s that you should be reading.
So, without further ado, I present The Right Stuff.
And not just because the Blogger lists Nikola Tesla as one of her Favorite Things, as cool as that is in it’s own right.
Take this tasty [...]
Colin Powell was never a rock-ribbed conservative.
He has always been, at best, a RINO, with positions, overall, very close to John McCain’s.
I’m really not sure why his endorsement of Obama should come as any surprise, given Powell’s estrangement from the Bush administration.
UPDATE:
The other shoe has dropped. Just good [...]
-One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
-We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
-The quickest way of ending a [...]
From the Seattle Times:
DINO Rossi should be elected governor Nov. 4 because he can best be
trusted to erase the state’s huge projected deficit without raising
taxes.Under Gov. Christine Gregoire, state government during the good years
built up a mass of programs, promises and public spending. Now the
economy is [...]
The ELITE Plan; a.k.a. Plan B For Democrat voters, in the eventuality that Acorn can’t steal the election for Obama…
For those of you looking for a snapshot of what the shape of things to come might be like with the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives all controlled for far left wing ideologues, the WSJ Opinion page has some hints:
- Medicare for all: The commitments would start [...]
We are happy to announce the Official American Empire Election Recommondations for residents of Frederickson, Washington (note: Fredericksonians in not the official term, but is sounds much better than Fredericksonites or Fredericksoninnis).
To make it easier for those playing at home, we will take this in order of presentation in the [...]
“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! I [...]
Well, I had intended to write a piece on this, but I simply cannot do a better job than Economistmom.
Obama is proposing that the current Social Security payroll tax of 6.2% apply to wage incomes up to the current maximum of $102,000, not at all to the wage dollars [...]
I tried to find a link to this information on the Obamessiah’s website, but only found light and fluffy overviews, short on specifics.
Yesterday, I heard Shepard Smith at Fox News talking to a representative of the Obama Campaign about this (can’t find a video of the discussion), and went out [...]
Recently, the Presidential candidates had their say on the military draft;
Senator McCain’s position:
According to his campaign, Mr. McCain supports the current Department of Defense restrictions on women in combat units, including armor, field artillery and special forces.
And Senator Obama’s:
Mr. Obama supports a requirement for both men and women to [...]
From Wikipedia:
Suspension of disbelief or “willing suspension of disbelief” is an aesthetic theory intended to characterize people’s relationships to art. It refers to the willingness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or impossible. It also refers [...]
From Wikipedia:
A cult of personality or personality cult arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships but can be found in some democracies.
A cult of personality is similar to general [...]
A great piece borrowed from the bodacious Pamela at Atlas Shrugs:
Who Am I?
I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national [...]
It is rare that the Tacoma News Tribune’s Patrick O’Callahan has anything to say that I find particularly insightful or even of passing interest. Â I daresay, my scribblings are of even less interest to him, had he ever chanced upon them by accident of a web search.
But he has [...]
Considering my well known opposition to the Obamanation, and my lukewarm (at best) support for McCain as the lesser of the evils, maybe I have found a candidate that I can support…
Or at least, McCain might want to think about Ms. Hilton as his Veep. It would be a great [...]
