Savage Republican

This headline from Yahoo News had me laughing at the absolute irony of it.

I have been in a rather long discussion with a pro-life Democrat. His point, to which I agreed, is that if you are going to be pro-abortion then you should be pro-death penalty! OK – that was not the way he said it, but it is the same. He said if you are going to be against abortion then logically you should be against the death penalty! After all, a life is a life is a life right?

He is more correct, and further away from his party than he realizes. The Democratic Party has no problems fighting for a woman’s right to kill her unborn baby, or for a husband to starve his wife to death because he says she is brain dead, but then they want to fight for the life of a convicted mass murder. Make no mistake, because of the gang he founded, Stanley Williams was responsible for hundreds if not thousands of murders which qualifies him for the mass murderer tag.

As a Christian, I do realize that there are several Old Testament passages that render this gentleman’s argument moot, but that is not the point. The point is the left is only concerned about “life” if it is the life of a convicted felon. Innocent babies…who needs ’em. Handicapped adults???? Ditto. The intellecutual and moral bankruptcy of the left and the MSM apoligists has been on display more than ever before. Will the people of America take notice? I certainly hope so. The fate of this country depends on it!

I hope you saw the Fox News story “Winning Iraq: The Untold Story” shown on Sunday evening. I taped it.And I’d be interested in what all the left wing dweebs would say in response to the incredible things evidenced by the story. And I was watching it, it occurred to me that what we, the United States of America have allowed is the Iraqi people to flourish. That what the soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen have done is allowed what will naturally happened when the government just gets out of the way.
As the Iraqis said, “Yes, it was worth it” and we seem to have the gratitude of a great many of them.
As I’ve said before, the currency that purchases and ensures liberty is blood. As a Christian I am quite aware that my liberty from hell was bought with innocent blood (that of Christ in case you might be wondering).
And so it is with the currency needed to purchase Iraqi liberty. And the Iraqis have also used much of their own currency in the transaction.
I came across a site that linked to some incredible photos that documented how a small Texas town honored one of the first American casualties.
Please read the email, look at the posted photos and try not to tear up.
www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/Misc/SoldierFuneral.htm

A friend emailed me this story out of the Canada Free Press. The editorial, was speaking about DNC Chairman Howard Dean’s fateful radio interview this week where he declared that the “idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is plain wrong.” The writer, while taking the obligatory shots at Chairman Dean, writes about more proof of Saddam’s ties to the 9/11 hijackers that I was not aware of. He quotes a London Telegraph article that talks about a memo that they had obtained that was from Saddam to one of his lieutenants describing Mohammed Atta’s training sessions with Abu Nidal (of Achille Lauro infamy).

“The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day ‘work programme’ Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal’s base in Baghdad.”

What more proof does the Democratic Party need that Saddam was tied to Al Qaeda? It is obvious that their blind hatred of George W. Bush will not allow them to ever admit that anything he has done is right or good. Therefore they must ignore the facts in order to perpetuate their fantasy that President Bush lied us into this war. The American people need to wake up to this fact before the 2006 mid-term elections and it is the responsibility of those of us who know better to make sure that the word gets out.

And while you are doing that read this Canada Free Press article from Monday December 5. Even they realize that it is NOW time to question their patriotism.

WND reports that a Washington State blogger discovered the most blatent proof to date of Democratic hostility toward Christians. According to Delta Mike Charlie, the Washington State Democrat party was selling a magnetic car sticker of the Christian fish symbol being devoured by flames with the word “Hypocrit” in the middle of the fish! The page in question was changed less than 24 hours after the blogger posted on the offering however, a screen shot of the original page was saved here.

Christian Democrats need to take a long hard look at their party. They need to realize that the activists running the party are openly hostile to people of faith. Once they come to that realization they need to make a hard choice – follow the Democratic Party (which appears to hate them) or follow Christ. It is becoming more and more obvious that the two are parting ways!

As I said before, I belong to a number of online discussion and debate groups. I also (on occasion) delve into the depths of the fever swap by going to sites like the Daily Kos. During these exchanges, I have noticed many people who are seriously challenged when it comes to spelling. Basic things like interchanging “there” with “their” and “you’re” with “your” or “here” with “hear”. The basic term (in our office) for that is “spellchecker’s revenge”. Now, in my on-line exchanges I have written it off as someone who was typing a little faster than their fingers can keep up. Heaven knows I do that on a daily basis. I am so bad, I have been known to go back and proof read whatever it is I am typing 3, 4, or 5 times (and I sometimes still miss something obvious).

However, you can not give the creator of this sign that consideration. Whoever made this sign had to take their time to stencil the letters onto the sign and they still could not correctly spell the simple contraction “weren’t”!

This is your MEA run public education system at work. Be afraid for the future of America.

The Star Tribune printed an article on a report that was released this week that went largely unnoticed. This article talks about what illegal immigration “costs” the state and on what. It cites such things as education and health care costs. Hopefully this means that a policy change is in the works. This is the good news. Now for the puzzling….

“Many communities across Minnesota and the country have concerns regarding illegal immigration,” the Republican governor said in a news release. “

Now we all know that Governor Pawlenty is a Republican so what could the author have been getting at? Simple, the writer of the article wants to remind us that this “racist” report came out of a Republican, because we all know how much Republicans hate minorities, right????

Well, arguments have been made that the work that illegal immigrants do is a hedge against inflation. They take jobs that most Americans “don’t want”, the backbreaking labor of picking vegatbles for companies like Green Giant (in LeSeur MN) for example. Others, like todays follow up article in the Star Tribune, will tell you that most illegal immigrants are hard workers that just want to make a better life for themselves in “the promised land” of America. There is some truth to those statements however, there are also stories out the border states of people afraid to leave their homes along the border for fear of running into armed bands of immigrants. Others tell of livestock slaughtered in the fields for food and fences cut to facilitate crossings. What is the answer? I’m not sure. Completely closing the border is just as bad, if not worse, than completely opening the border. While the President’s guest worker program is not perfect, it is a start. We do, for the safety of the country, need to know who is crossing our borders and who is here now. The guest worker program would get a good start on the who is here. If we can control who is coming in going forward, it will help make us safer while still allowing for people like Ramon Leon and my great-great-great grandfather to come here and make a better life for themselves.

About April of 2004, Ted Kopple, to his eternal discredit, mindlessly read a list of all the brave men and women who had died in Iraq. Fox News countered with a story the next week that put these deaths in context. The story was on Fox News Sunday as was introduced by Chris Wallace. Though brief (maybe 7 minutes) it was breathtaking in its breadth. Markets, hospitals, water and sewer, electrical power, schools, etc. were shown to be up and running. The story also included the names of the people who were killed defining these projects.
I emailed Fox and asked that they do this type of reporting at least once a month. Unfortunately they didn’t. And yet they were lamenting the fact that Big Media never seemed to report on the incredible accomplishments of the American presence in Iraq.
Well, last night I heard that Fox News had indeed produced another story showing what we’ve accomplished. The title “Winning Iraq. The Untold Story”.
It will be shown again this Sunday, 11 December at 9pm Eastern Time and repeated at midnight. Here is the link www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177296,00.html .
I heartily recommend seeing this story and taping it.

Well, Al is at it again. This time, he claimed on MSNBC’s Scarborough Country that the reason that our troops found no WMD’s in Iraq was because….ok this is choice…..because Bill Clinton destroyed them in 1998!!!!! I told you it was choice. Even poor Joe Scarborough couldn’t believe what he was hearing!

SCARBOROUGH: Oh, good God. You don‘t believe that one missile strike at a camel and a tent destroyed Saddam Hussein‘s weapons of mass destruction?
(CROSSTALK)
FRANKEN: That‘s wasn‘t what they did. As you know, it wasn‘t one missile strike at a camel and a tent. I don‘t know why you feel the need to mischaracterize…
(CROSSTALK)
SCARBOROUGH: Al, are you really suggesting—listen, no serious person could step forward and say…
FRANKEN: No—the Duelfer report said that very thing.

OK – did you get that? According to Al, the Duelfer report said that the WMD’s were destroyed by Bill Clinton….but wait – there’s more….

SCARBOROUGH: All right, Al, let me ask you this question.
FRANKEN: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you, if you‘re president of the—because a lot of people want you to run for Senate in a couple of years. If—let‘s say you ran for Senate, became president, and let‘s say you were sitting in the Oval Office.

Oh good Lord NO!!! I don’t know if the country could survive a President Franken! Please dear readers, go read the entire transcript and then do whatever you must to help the prospect of Senator Franken to NOT become a reality!

(hat tip to Kennedy vs the Machine)

I try not to let the actions of others anger me because I in doing so I relinquish control of my emotions to people I don’t know. However, as a parent, this enrages me more than I can begin to express. Fresh on the heels of a Becker County judge releasing Joseph Edward Duncan III so that he can kidnap and rape and murder the family of Shasta Groene, we have another judge in Dakota County releasing another level 3 sex offender back into the community!

I don’t understand what these judges are thinking. Do they have children? Do they have daughters? Don’t the realize that they are putting their childrens safety at risk? Do they care more about the health and well being of these offenders or their families? What will it take for us as a society to say “enough is enough! Lock these people up and throw away the key!!!!!”?

It is time to reform the judicial election process in Minnesota! We, the people that put these irresponsible judges in the positions that they are in, must know the philosophical and judicial temperment of these judges. If it means aligning them along the “political party lines” then so be it! At least we (the voters of Minnesota) will know what we are getting when we put these judges in office.

(hat tip Captain Ed at Captains Quarters blog)

Al Franken picks up a key endorsement in Wisconsin! The Capital Times (“Wisconsin’s Progressive Newspaper) has this endorsement of Al Franken’s yet to be formally announced candidacy for Sentor Coleman’s seat in 2008. To give you a feel for the CapTimes true colors (and they are well to the left of Pravda on the Mississippi!) we have this quote:

“Wellstone’s death in 2002 hit Wisconsin progressives every bit as hard as it did our neighbors to the west. Many of us thought we had lost our third senator.”

…and then they follow it up with this!

“So it is that, like a great many Minnesotans, we are looking for a suitable replacement for Wellstone to stand against Coleman in the 2008 Senate race.”

We, the editorial staff of the Capital Times, are looking for a suitable WHAT?!?!?!?!? Don’t you think you should pay attention what is going on in your own state?????

“In many senses, Franken reminds us of an entertainer-turned-politician we did not agree with but whom we had to respect: former President Ronald Reagan. Reagan got deeply involved in conservative politics years before he entered the 1966 California gubernatorial race. Reagan was ridiculed by liberals and many in the media but he beat them every time because he actually understood politics and was firm in his beliefs.”

As someone who lived in MadTown in the latter part of the Reagan era I can only say one thing. WHAT A LOAD OF HOOEY! The Cap Times editorial board couldn’t say a single nice thing about President Reagan if their lives depended on it. President Reagan was evil incarnate according to the CapTimes.

As many other, more talented writers than I, have pointed out (here, here, and here) the cult of Wellstone! can not deal with the fact that their patron saint is no longer in office. They are desperately trying to resurrect a man whose time has passed. Don’t get me wrong, while I vehemently disagreed with Senator Wellstone’s politics, I admired the fact that he would give well thought out reasons for his stance – regardless of who was asking. However, they really need to park the bus and move on. Paul is dead and there is no “heir to the throne”. Senator Wellstone was one of a kind. You can not replace him.


(hat tip to the Wingman at The Wind Beneath the Right Wing)