Over at Mitch McConnell’s site there’s an online “thank you” card where you can show your support for General David Petraeus as he makes his report to Congress this week. The last time, the wacky Left, led by MoveOn.org ads made fools of themselves and attacked the General. This time around he deserves much better.
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Blogging will be even lighter than it has been the last few days as we have family and hospital issues to deal with. However, a few items of note.
If you want a good chuckle over the latest way Nancy Pelosi is impacting the Congress, check out SeeDubya’s take on her revamp of the “the once dreary congressional cafeterias“. Oh my . . .
Mitt won in Michigan, so we got ourselves a horse race big time on the GOP side. Check out my buddies over at Article VI Blog and their comments on the decline of religious-identity politics in this hotly-contested GOP race — finally!
Just in case you think the Right is the fascist element of thought control in the world, (Okie readers wouldn’t think that!), think again. The Anchoress points us to this LGF post featuring videos of the hearings in Canada as a Canadian publisher is persecuted for “Mindcrime”. What did he do that is so very wrong? Published the Danish anti-Islamic cartoons of course. How could he?
And finally for now, to go along with his penchant for clemency, the Huckster puts his big foot in it during his closing arguments in Michigan with this statement:
“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards[.]“
Hey — I agree with him about being pro-life and pro-traditional-marriage, but come on dude, “amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards” is some scary language. If you want to see what talk like that could mean some day, read Robert Ferrigno‘s novel Prayers for the Assassin. Adjusting our founding/governing document to reflect the standards of anyone’s God isn’t what this country was all about. It is there, in subtext and intent of the Founders — however, it’s up to us via public discourse and persuasion to keep that intent alive and well. It has to be in us, the people, ’cause if you try to do it via legislation or the courts, it will become perverted and would eventually entirely disappear. That’s the nature of man throughout time. We aren’t a different species — we just have been lucky enough to have had a brace of extremely brilliant individuals, (shall we dare say it . . . MEN), that had the foresight to pattern a form of government that allows for an extraordinary level of diversity among its governed, via the wants, wishes and needs of said governed — up to a point.
Let’s not screw this up people! We’re voting for a political leader, not a nanny or a pastor-in-chief . . .
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Let’s see, — losers, defeatists, Democrats? — as Monty Python was always saying, “Run away!”
[h/t to Paul over at Prying 1 blog]
Heh!
There’s a title that would already have prejudiced a Lefty from even being able to read, not to mention comprehend, what ever came after that. Obviously, if you have anything to do with the “energy” industry, your opinion about the Global Warming hysteria is suspect, if not downright dangerous and/or criminal. If you also happen to be the CEO of an industry company, you must be shilling for that industry. If your company is in the “coal” business, you’re the lowest of the low. Coal is EVIL, don’t ya know? So, what’s up with Bob Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy Corporation, who recently spoke at the 94th annual banquet and meeting of the New York Coal Trade Association in NYC? Alicia Colon at the New York Sun has the skinny.
One of the guest speakers was Bob Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy Corporation and probably one of the few CEOs brave enough to challenge the militant climate control movement that threatens the future of America’s economy. In his speech, he dared to say that he regards Al Gore as the shaman of global doom and gloom. He is not joking when he says, “He is more dangerous than his global warming.”
Unlike many heads of corporations who are taking their companies on that long green mile and caving in to the demands of environmental militants, Mr. Murray is fighting tooth and nail for what he says is, “the little guy that nobody cares about.”
“Some wealthy elitists in our country,” he told the audience, “who cannot tell fact from fiction, can afford an Olympian detachment from the impacts of draconian climate change policy. For them, the jobs and dreams destroyed as a result will be nothing more than statistics and the cares of other people. These consequences are abstractions to them, but they are not to me, as I can name many of the thousands of the American citizens whose lives will be destroyed by these elitists’ ill-conceived ‘global goofiness’ campaigns.”
She goes on to tell that Murray was a coal miner himself, survived two mining accidents, and scraped up the money to buy a mining company that now employees 3,000. Still going into the mines, he also works to try and stop the environmentalists and government concerns from strangling coal out of existence here in the U.S. — not an easy job, that!
Mr. Murray told me that he had seen the effect of the drastic reductions in coal production, and the wrenching impact on hundreds of communities, as a result of that legislation. In Ohio alone, from 1990 to 2005, about 118 mines were shut down, costing more than 36,000 primary and secondary jobs. These impacted areas have spent years recovering, and some never will. He spoke of the families that broke up, many lost homes, and some were impoverished, because of legislation that the environmentalists call a “success.”
And, just in case you have the proclivity to believe that the Democrats that now control Congress are at all interested in hearing both sides of this issue, consider this.
Mr. Murray told me that the Democrats had tried to stop his scheduled testimony on March 20 before the House Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee, titled “Toward a Clean Energy Future: Energy Policy and Climate Change on Public Lands.” But after Mr. Murray was interviewed by Bloomberg News and by the Wall Street Journal, they relented. The chairman refused to hear his testimony and left Rep. Patrick Kennedy, a Democrat of Rhode Island, in charge.
“The chairman refused to hear his testimony[.]” Telling. Kinda like putting hands over ears and caterwauling, “La la la la, I can’t hear you!” Juvenile. Stupid. Democrats. At the hearings, Murray explained the benefits of coal in helping reduce our dependence upon the energy resources in hostile parts of the globe. Coupled with the FACT that the developing world, including CHINA!!! is not gonna go along with any of the Kyoto Treaty provisions (they’re undeveloped, but not STUPID!), our self-denial of the usage of our most abundant source of energy doesn’t make a whole lot of sense — unless you actually have bought into the “We’re All Gonna Die From Global Warming” nonsense. Colon wraps with:
The irony is that these caps and controls will do little to affect climate. Timothy Ball, a renowned environmental consultant, testified before the committee that global warming is more likely to be caused by sun spots rather than human activity. Mr. Murray’s passion for saving the “little guy” is truly admirable. Too bad that fervor is completely absent in Congress.
No kidding, it’s too, freakin’ bad, that’s for sure. BTW — the LA Times is one of those entities that has bought into the “We’re All Gonna Die From Global Warming” nonsense. For the last two days they have misconstrued the Supreme Courts ruling earlier this week with these two articles: Justices push EPA to act on car emissions and Bush agrees with greenhouse gas ruling, sort of. In both they assert that the Supreme Court has mandated “that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles as pollution.”
I don’t think so. What the Court did was say that “greenhouse gas emissions” should be considered as pollutants and that CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a suspected agent of man-caused climate change and that regulation of CO2 “does” come under the authority of the EPA and that the EPA is obligated either to set standards to control CO2 emissions or provide the rationale for not doing so if it believes that CO2 is not harmful.
“Under the clear terms of the [law], EPA can avoid taking further action only if it determines that greenhouse gases do not contribute to climate change or it provides some reasonable explanation” why regulations are not needed, Stevens said.
Arguing against CO2 regulations is a tough order in this hysterical climate of the Global Warming screaming meemies. One wonders what the Liberal members of the Court think about “water vapor”, which is the most abundant of the greenhouse gases? Maybe they think that the EPA should be working to eliminate “clouds” in the atmosphere? How about posterior-mounted catalytic converters for cows to control bovine flatulence, a renowned source of greenhouse gas? How about some of them for the Democrats in Congress? In that application you might need one on both ends, though.
Making the economic case against draconian global warming legislation and regulation will fall on deaf ears in the new Democrat Congress. The leadership, committed Lefties all, see benefit in strangling our domestic businesses — and that benefit is all theirs in the opportunities to regulate, regulate, regulate and tax, tax, tax! The only GREEN that really means anything is “your” GREEN going into the national coffers so that they can spend, spend spend!
Tax & spend — a Democrat’s wet dream. If they have to scare the bejesus out of ya with the Global Warming horror show to convince you to give them a whole lot more of your hard earned moolah, hey, why not? After all, they know what’s good for ya, they know better how to spend your money — after all, you might just invest it in something that would benefit the nation’s economy — like a coal mine for instance. Can’t have that now, can we?
Last week the House GOP’s Protect John Doe provision passed on a 304 to 121 vote, with all 121 nays cast by the Democrats. Figures. According to Michelle Malkin‘ post today, the new head of the Homeland Security Committee, D-Miss Bennie Thompson was on the floor railing against the provision.
Finally, a member of the leadership realized how this would look to Americans watching on C-SPAN: Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) was seen staring at Thompson and repeatedly drawing his hand across his throat – an urgent signal to get off the floor.
With Democrats realizing they couldn’t argue against King’s measure, it went to a vote, and passed, 304 to 121.
Every one of those 121 votes aimed at defeating protection for “John Does” was a Democrat – indeed, more than half of all Democrats present voted “nay.”And, with the exception of Rep. Anthony Weiner (Brooklyn), Democrats from the New York-New Jersey metro area led the way in voting against it.
That last graph is shocking. The reps from to non-governmental whistle-blowers concerned about suspicious activities going on around them. No, better to just let another terrorist attack happen, better to just lay down an die — can’t even begin to possibly hurt the “feelings” of a suspicious individual.
Might. Just. Scar. Them. For. Life.
Please, grow some hair people. This isn’t kindergarten — it’s real life, in real time, with real dangers and real, scary folk that want to separate your head from your body, or blow you to itty-bitty bits! I told you about Michelle’s John Doe Manifesto last week. Apparently it’s got the nutroots in a real tizzy. Caution: If you follow any of the following links, the language gets rough, quickly! A few select comments from the Huffington Post item that she links to:
Holy crap. Michelle Malkin has always been one of my least favorite conservative mouths, but this really takes the cake. The really sad thing is that reasonable vigilance is a good idea in the age of terrorism, and this bee-atch is subverting it for her own agenda of hate.
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I’m not so much frightened by terrorists following us here as I am people like Malkin who seem to have taken leave of their senses and seem to be so frightened themselves that they appear to see boogie men in every closet. Where vigilance by all is definitely a fact of daily life; there is a loss of all reason in this kind of Malkinthink…
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Pay attention to the fact that Michelle Malkin’s site is supported by advertsing by Amazon.com, Netflix and Equifax (which is really scary given all the private information they have in their databases). Writing campaign anyone? Let’s shut Michelle down (if not up) the good old fashioned capitalistic way — withdraw her economic support.
(You gotta love this last one — we disagree with her so let’s stop her from voicing her opinion — just another oxymoron from “tolerant” “progressives”.)—
Well, I don’t know about you but, I’m signing up. The first names onmy “they hate America” list are…Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, and Bush, we have a duty to report those that would destroy our country.
I will say that there are a few comments that express reason instead of lunacy. Even here, at Little Blue Girl in a Red State, some sanity comes forth from the comments after the LBG goes on a hateful anti-Michelle rant:
If your newspaper carries this hateful bitch – this self-loathing immigrant – contact the editorial board. We got Ann Coulter and Linda Bowles banished from the op-eds in this town – can we get the Star to come to their senses about this idiot child, too?
I like this one:
Schratboy said…
Change your handle to small-minded, racist, liberal dumbass chic living in Missouri.
April 2, 2007 11:13 AM
Enough already! Just remember, the next time you see something “suspicious” and feel like reporting it, only the Republicans in the House of Representatives believe that you should have the ability to do just that without possibly suffering legal reprisals from the suspicious person. The Dems think that you should just look the other way and let the bastard kill ya! Can’t risk hurting the poor slob’s feelings — I mean, hey! He’s got rights too, ya know?
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I guess ol’ Nancy got back in time, ’cause her Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted today on a timetable for our troops to be out of Iraq — all gone be the fall of ’08. Just in time for the election — as the Church Lady always said, “Isn’t that special.” From Brietbart:
A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a victory for Democrats in an epic war-powers struggle and Congress’ boldest challenge yet to the administration’s policy.
Ignoring a White House veto threat, lawmakers voted 218-212, mostly along party lines, for a binding war spending bill requiring that combat operations cease before September 2008, or earlier if the Iraqi government does not meet certain requirements. Democrats said it was time to heed the mandate of their election sweep last November, which gave them control of Congress.
“The American people have lost faith in the president’s conduct of this war,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “The American people see the reality of the war, the president does not.”
The vote, echoing clashes between lawmakers and the White House over the Vietnam War four decades ago, pushed the Democratic-led Congress a step closer to a constitutional collision with the wartime commander in chief. Bush has insisted that lawmakers allow more time for his strategy of sending nearly 30,000 additional troops to Iraq to work.
So much for all the promises earlier this year that the Dems would NEVER cut off funding for the war. Bush will veto this mess of course. But, now the big question is where are the funds going to come from to keep our efforts going if a supplemental funding bill isn’t drawn up that Bush is willing to sign?
Six votes that say we all are ready to tuck tail and retreat. Don’t you just know that Al-Qaeda is having a victory celebration and a half over this one . . . Pathetic!
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