Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Sarah Palin Watch: "Wearing White Is Code To Incite The KKK!"
First, let's take a look at the outfits in question:
Republican vice-presidential
candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin, waves to supporters before a campaign
speech at Minges Coliseum on the campus of East Carolina University
Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008, in Greenville, N.C.
(AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
Republican vice-presidential candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin, reaches into the crowd to sign autographs after a campaign speech Monday morning Oct. 6, 2008 in Clearwater, Fla.
(AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Now, I've been wondering ... how do you keep your clothes clean and in shape when you're campaigning? You never get to go back home to do your laundry; you never really have time to stop and shop. All men really need is a one-hour dry cleaners' stop every now and then, to clean the suits and do their shirts and socks and boxers. But women's clothes come in a greater variety of fabrics, and you can't wash bras and panties, or clean silk and satin, just any old way.
So I've noted Governor Palin's tendency to pair colorful, easy-to-pack tops with black pencil skirts and black slim-cut trousers. I did note that she wore white two days in a row ... <begin sarcasm> but I never realized white was a KKK signal! <end sarcasm>
This is such utter bullshit, I need waders and an oxygen mask to cope.
Wear white every day until the election to confound the KKK! Fight the smears and the barking moonbattery!
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Sarah Palin Watch: "Her Lip Liner Is Tattooed On!"
The Daily Mail Online headlines: "Lippygate: US election furore as Palin critics say she has tattooed lip-liner."
Here's the story, so you don't have to go there:
By
Caroline Graham
Last updated at 11:40 PM on 11th October 2008
She is the self-styled ‘Pitbull in Lipstick’ – but vice presidential
candidate Sarah Palin has become the subject of a fierce debate about
whether her lip-liner is really a tattoo.
The discussion was
started by Left-wing pundit Arianna Huffington, who claimed in a blog
that the 44-year-old governor of Alaska had had her lip-liner
permanently tattooed on.
The claim has prompted huge speculation on the internet and within the mainstream media about Palin’s beauty habits.
Tight-lipped: Sarah Palin's camp won't discuss claims that her lip-liner is permanent
One detractor said: ‘She’s so vain and this is just another example of that.’
A
pro-Palin supporter shot back: ‘She’s a busy working mother and her
make-up always looks impeccable. People love to attack her.’
In Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, population 8,700,
Jessica Steele, owner of the town’s Beehive Beauty Shop, said she had
not noticed if Palin had tattooed lip-liner but added: ‘She was very
concerned about her sexy image.
'We talked a lot about how, if she looked too pretty or too sexy, people wouldn’t listen to her.’
Dr Laura Reed, who runs Artistic Cosmetic Solutions in Garden Grove, California, said: ‘I think she may well have had it done.’
And Lisa Sims, a make-up tattoo artist from Anchorage, Alaska, said: ‘I believe it is tattooed on. One hundred per cent.’
Permanent lip-liner saves wearers the time and trouble of having to constantly apply lipstick and liner.
Last night a Palin spokesman said: ‘We’re not going to comment.’
Palin became embroiled in another furore last night after she was found guilty of abuse of power.
An
inquiry into a long-running scandal – dubbed Troopergate – in Alaska
found that she had acted improperly by trying to get her former
brother-in-law fired from his job as a state trooper while he was in
the middle of a bitter divorce from her sister in 2006.
A Democratic Party spokesman said: ‘Governor Palin has violated the trust of people in Alaska.’
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
I Have A Problem ...
But not for long! NaNo's coming!
NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month, where participants finish a 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of November. I've been participating since 2003, and though I only finished 50,000 works once, in 2005, NaNo has compelled me to tighten up my writing, has shown me the way to connect two previously disparate writing efforts into a single overarching universe.
This year, i'm determined to finish. Cranking out 1667 words a day should get me out of my writing funk, and if I keep it up, I can have a novel and a set of erotic short stories by February.
Join the NaNo folk! Even if you don't write 50K words, you'll have x more words written than you do now!
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Welcome Home, Captain Lorenza Conner
| Georgia Airman's Remains Found in Vietnam; Being Returned to Family | |
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| Last Edited: Friday, 03 Oct 2008, 6:30 PM EDT | |
| Created: Friday, 03 Oct 2008, 10:29 AM EDT | |
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- A Georgia airman missing since the Vietnam War is being returned to his family. Air Force Captain Lorenza Conner of Cartersville was piloting an F4-D Phantom fighter jet when he was shot down on Oct. 27, 1967 during a mission over North Vietnam. The Department of Defense said Conner's remains were recovered in a jungle in 2007. Connor, a graduate of Tuskegee University, was 24 at the time of his death. Officials with the Department of Defense said the captain's remains will be returned to the family for burial with full military honors. The funeral has been set for Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Cartersville. |
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Speak The Truth And Shame The (Liberal) Devil!
This just rocks!
I forget that there are plenty of black, Christian, pro-life, pro-gun folks out there. Let me introduce you to one in California.
Brotherman, keep speaking the truth! Fight the lies and the delusions!
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Evil: Dr. André Lalonde Worries That Down's Syndrome Infants Aren't Being Aborted Enough
Dr. André Lalonde, Executive Vice President and spokesperson of the Canadian Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (SOGC), says he is "concerned" that Canadian women, who are too damn dumb rock stupid socially unsophisticated to know better, might not understand that they should abort their Down's syndrome babies. Why, these Canadian women might see that Sarah Palin kept her baby, despite what their OB/GYNs are saying! They might think it's acceptable to keep a "special needs" infant!
I mean, the abortion rate for Canadian children with Down's is between 80% and 90%. Apparently, Dr. Lalonde doesn't think 90% is high enough.
The SOGC is trying to alibi for their executive VP, but their effort is lame. If they really cared about the high murder rate of the "special needs" unborn, they would have addressed it a long time ago.
For the rest of the story, check out the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, or LifeSiteNews. Read the stories of families who had to deal with one of these "helpful" doctors who seemingly couldn't wait to murder a baby, or "institutionalize" a child whose only offense is being born different.From the Globe & Mail (article available in PDF format on the Canadian Down Syndrome Society website), I quote:
"But others fear Ms. Palin's emergence as a parental role model sends a different message. As a vocal opponent of abortion, Mrs. Palin's widely discussed decision to keep her baby, knowing he would be born with the condition, may inadvertently influence other women who lack the necessary emotional and financial support to do the same, according to André Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
"Dr. Lalonde said that, above all else, women must be free to choose, and that popular messages to the contrary could have detrimental effects on women and their families.
"'The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada,' he said.
Who gets to decide if a woman has the "necessary emotional and financial support" to keep a perfectly "normal" baby? Dr. Lalonde? The vaunted Canadian Health System? Or the woman in question? Why would it be any different when the baby has special needs?
"Free to choose," in Dr. Lalonde's worldview, is apparently semantically equivalent to "free to murder."
"Popular messages to the contrary" --- i.e., Sarah Palin --- "could have detrimental effects on women and their families." "Detrimental?" How so? In what way?
This doctor's statement is prima facie evidence that high-impact evil can wear the face of a kindy OB/GYN.
The first step in fighting evil is identifying it. Don't be afraid to point it out and announce its true nature, no matter the disguse it wears!
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Sarah Palin/Todd Palin Watch: Todd Palin Is Alaska's "Shadow Governor!"
'Cause, y'know, Sarah's too dumb stupid female to be the Governor of Alaska!
According to the really sexist dipschizzts --- dipschizzts, Reporters, Reporterettes, all the same thing --- over at CNN, Todd is Alaska's "shadow governor." According to these chatterheads, Todd:
- is known as his wife's greatest adviser and most loyal protector.
- " ...is incredibly supportive and is willing to do whatever it takes to help Sarah." (Quote from an anonymous "family friend.")
- has plenty of influence.
When a wife supports her husband the elected official, he's considered lucky if she does what Todd purportedly does for her spouse. Why should Todd be any different?
And, hey, Reporterette Randi! So what if Todd is his wife's fixer? Whatever happened to "two for the price of one?" Bet you liked the concept of an unelected spouse having governmental privileges when said unelected spouse was Hillary Clinton! Bet Bill copied Hill on lots and lots of correspondence ... and I'll bet she BCC'ed him on a lot of email during her run at the Presidency.
And if you think Bill isn't Hill's enforcer, think again!
Didn't Rosalyn Carter used to sit in on Jimmah's cabinet meetings with her knitting?
Fight the liberal lies whenever and however you can! And contribute to the Dinosaur Media Death Spiral at every opportunity!
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Sarah Palin Watch: "She Made Him Rape Hack Her"
Yeah, yeah, we all know the rapist's favorite excuse ... "If she hadn't been wearing that skirt and being so nice, I never would've touched her, but she looked so fine I had to rape her. It's her own d*mn fault!"
Apparently, being in the public eye and having an email account is enough to justify having said email hacked ... if you're Sarah Palin. This from AP reporter Ted Bridis, with a hat tip to Michelle Malkin:
From: “Bridis, Ted” TBridis@ap.org
Subject: RE: Palin’s email theft
If Gov. Palin hadn’t been using a consumer-level Yahoo! account (more than one, actually) this crime wouldn’t have happened because the hacker exploited the service’s “forgot-my-password” mechanism, which is inherently insecure.
Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration embraced Yahoo! Accounts, among other reasons, because of questions over whether personal e-mail accounts are covered under Alaska’s Open Records Act. Palin’s critics in Alaska were poring over records they had obtained from the governor’s office of official internal e-mail communications and causing political hay.
The issues are inextricably linked.
Hey, Reporter Bridis! (No polite honorific from me, dipschizz.) Maybe you don't know that rape isn't about sex, it's about power, exercised at the expense of the innocent. You probably weren't around a lot of computer people at the dawn of the computer age, but I was. I saw the first hackers up close. Hacking isn't about reading the (possible) contents of the email account, it's about disrupting the system; i.e., it's an egregious exercise of power.
You know all about that, don't you? Revealing damaging information, like Todd Palin's email address and license plate, is a nasty exercise of power at the expense of innocents, Reporter!
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
How Texan Are You?
I'm a Texan, born and bred. I grew up in San Antonio, just a few miles away from the Alamo. So I took this test, and found I was barely Texan!
You Are 68% Texas |
 Well, knock me down and steal muh teeth! You're pretty darn Texan. |
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Sarah Palin Watch: Bristol's Baby Daddy Is BLAAAAAACK!
Hmmm ... he claims to be the baby daddy, but he's in LA and she's in Wasilla. She's gonna marry some other man. Why does this young man, earnest and willing to "be involved" in his child's life, want her to call him?
Well, 'cause he's "working on his music career." And how will being on the road all year long help him "be involved?"
If he was really baby daddy, and really wants to be involved, why doesn't he move up to Wasilla and get a job on the North Slope?
Don't answer ... it's rhetorical.
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Sarah Palin Watch: The Hacking Of Her Email --- Ever-Deepening Levels Of Ick
UPDATE: Warrants Served On David Kernell
And, hey ... the little idiot claims there was nothing in her personal email beyond family data, personal email addresses and cell phone numbers, and personal chit-chat. Is Governor Palin so straight-arrow that she's even clean in private? And they say McCain didn't know what he was getting!
Next, let's applaud the "white knight f***er" who did the right thing by changing the password and alerting the Palin campaign. Wonder who this person was? I suspect that not everyone has a friend in the Palin campaign. Contemplating this person's identity --- and what they were doing on 4chan --- makes me go "Hmmm ...!"
Associated Press, in its infinite wisdom, refused to give copies of these illegally obtained emails to the FBI. I don't know why the FBI even bothered to waste their breath ... AP would have sent them a bill anyway. If it's not anti-Republican, they can't be bothered ... note how, even though they admit in Paragraph 1 that the emails found were "inconsequential personal messages," Paragraph 4 is all about the "propriety" of using "nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business." Not that any state business was found in this account. Further down, they expose both Governor and Mr. Palin's email addresses, and the rationale behind his email, as well as personal information that would allow anyone of evil intent to target the man --- thanks so d*mn much, AP! Their willingness to blab everything they know, at least about the Palins, also makes me go "Hmmm ...!"
The screencaps posted apparently show that the hacker used Ctunnel.com as a proxy. Ctunnel's owner, Gabriel Ramuglia, says he should be able to ID the hacker by checking Ctunnel's logs.
However, by using simpler Internet tools, it seems that the hacker has been identified as a 20-something from a nominally Southern state who has battled with depression a goodly part of his young life. But, more interestingly, this young man's father is apparently a mover and shaker in the Democrat Party of this nominally Southern state. In point of fact, Daddy appears to be an elected official in this State's government. Daddy is also apparently involved or supported by a left-wing blog.
NOW it gets interesting! Whose idea was it to hack Governor Palin's email? What did the elected official/paternal unit know? What role did the blog play in all this?
Secret Service, FBI, get busy! Hacking email is a Federal crime, punishable by up to 1 year in Federal pound-me-in-the-azz prison. It's also punishable by up to 5 years in Alaska, where prison may be even worse ...
And once the perpetrator is apprehended, maybe we can find out how much further down the rabbit hole we have to go to get to the source of this rancid mess.
I mean, Watergate started out as a simple robbery. I'm just sayin' ...
UPDATE: Warrants served on David Kernell, son of liberal Democrat Tennessee state legislator Mike Kernell, just after midnight Sunday morning.
Apparently not a hoax ...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sarah Palin Watch: "Intolerance Thrives In *Palin's* Pacific Northwest!"
Apparently, judging by the title of her magnum opus and the topics dropped in her bio at Connecticut College's website, Dr. Stock specializes in looking down her nose at rural folk.
I think this is a sign --- one in a growing list of same --- that shows the Left is running out of bricks they can throw at Sarah. Once the Vice-Presidential debate is over, we can get on with the real campaign.
Fight this shameful display of bad Leftist behavior wherever and however you can!
======================
Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town,
"folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ardently pro-gun,
pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay - make John McCain's
conservative credentials pale in comparison. What few observers have
said, however, is these beliefs are not just extreme - they are
radical, and even bear a comparison with some of the most notorious
"rural radicals" of our time.
It has been years since groups such as the Montana Militia, the
Posse Comitatus and the Sagebrush Rebels, and individuals such as Terry
Nichols and Ted Kaczynski have made us wonder why so many "angry white
men" populated our rural regions. Many of us have forgotten the threat
once posed by domestic terrorists and instead have turned our attention
to foreign terrorists. But we should never forget that in the late 20th
century, ultra-Christian, antistatist and white-supremacist groups
flourished in the states of the Pacific Northwest - called by many the
"Great White Northwest" - the very region that Sarah Palin and her
family call home.
Demographics most basically define this geographic region. In the
six states that make up the Pacific Northwest - Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska - only six counties are more than 5
percent African American. Not by coincidence, each of these counties is
also near an important military installation with many African American
men and women. Even so, barely more than 3,000 blacks lived in all of
Idaho in 2000.
Although home to tens of thousands of native peoples, Alaska is not
much different in terms of diversity from the other states of the
region. African Americans live in areas near important military
installations in Anchorage and Fairbanks and almost nowhere else.
Wasilla, where Sarah Palin was mayor, makes the census' list of the top
10 Alaskan communities with the largest number of African Americans
because they make up a full 1 percent of the population. Rough
calculations suggest that 65 blacks lived in the town.
But the region also must be defined by its history of intolerance,
resentment, antistatism and violence. Appearing in the region in the
1980s and 1990s were some of the most notorious "hate radicals" of our
time: militia groups, survivalists, Identity Christians, secessionists,
white supremacists and others.
Some simply hated the federal government, like Randy Weaver of Ruby
Ridge, Idaho, a survivalist whose wife and child died when their
compound was fired upon by FBI agents attempting to arrest him on gun
charges. "Whether we live or whether we die," Weaver said, "we will not
obey this lawless government."
Other groups, like the Aryan Nation, with headquarters in Hayden
Lake, Idaho, actively planned to rid the United States of African
Americans, Jews, and other "non-Aryan" peoples. A few carried out their
plans, murdering Jewish radio host Alan Berg in Denver, the Goldmark
family in Seattle, an African American state trooper in Arkansas, Fish
and Wildlife officials and FBI agents in Wyoming, North Dakota and
Montana, and more than 160 federal employees and their children in
Oklahoma City.
There is no evidence that Palin was ever affiliated with
white-supremacist groups during her years in Idaho or at home in
Alaska. On the other hand, the beliefs of ultraconservative,
evangelical churches like her family's come dangerously close to those
of the Christian Identity movement of those years. Likewise, Palin's
husband was a member of a political party whose members favored
secession for Alaska, suggesting an affiliation with radical
antistatism.
Perhaps somewhere on the record, Palin has publicly condemned the
radical politics of her region. But it is hard to know where she stands
on issues of race, equality and diversity. Thus it is high time to
review the cultural ideals and models of the radical rurals from the
Great White Northwest and find out for sure where Gov. Palin stands.
Contact Catherine McNicol Stock
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sarah Palin Watch: "Retarded Republican Babies For Palin '08" Baby T-Shirt
Liberals are so d*mn special. There is no depth they will not plumb --- nay, wallow in like the most base swine --- to impose their moral deficits on others who make an effort to live a better life.
Fight this despicable behavior wherever and however you can!
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
911 at NORTHCOM - The Marines and the Babies Seven Years Ago
Hat tip to Blackfive's Laughing Wolf from a grateful citizen:
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Mr Wolf sent this as he cannot post right now:
Wolf- Just came from the memorial ceremony here at NORTHCOM. LTC (CH) Robert Leivers led the group in a ceremony here at headquarters. During the ceremony, he relayed this little-known story from the Pentagon on 9/11:"During a visit with a fellow chaplain, who happened to be assigned to the Pentagon, I had a chance to hear a first-hand account of an incident that happened right after Flt 77 hit the Pentagon. The Chaplain told me what happened at a daycare center near where the impact occurred.
"This daycare had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do; there were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants that would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.
"Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, 'well, there we are- on our own.' About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 others in tow. Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers. The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac and the Pentagon.
"Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing- they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the West. Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off. Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions. There they remained until the parents could be notified and come get their children."
Wolf: The NORTHCOM chaplain then said- "I don't think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there.''I must say- there wasn't a dry eye in the room. The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted- could we expect any less from them?? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon I've EVER heard.
Wolf
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Trying This Again ...
Let's try this again ...
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Monday, September 01, 2008
Sarah Palin ...
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Writing
In September, I'll work on a collection of erotic short stories called The 9 To 5 Proprieties, ten stories about a very lonely legal secretary with a very overwrought imagination and a taste for submission. She's starting a new job, and she has a subbie crush on nearly every man she meets!
In October, I'll be working on a long short story/novelette/novella called The Heart Of The Hollow. Heart of the Hollow is the kickoff story for the Colors of the Past series of novels and stories set in the Go-Go Nineties at and around an Austin-based computer manufacturer called SilverStreet.
In November, I'll be doing NaNoWriMo again, and writing the followup novel to Heart of the Hollow, Seeking Heart's Desire, another Colors of the Past entry.
The 9 To 5 Proprieties is also based at SilverStreet, in the Legal Division, though there may not be much crossover --- they're very different novels!
Once the three are done, I start working on the other end of the Fenix Prophecies novels ... Treval and Shyma, just wait till Christmas!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
I'm BAAAACK!!!!!
McCain * Palin 2008
Palin * Jindal 2012
Monday, January 21, 2008
Just Another Display Of Clinton Bad Behavior ...
These people wear me out. Obama, get busy and win the nomination, so Hillary will drop out of the race!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Another Quiz
Another quiz, with a tip of the petal to BlackFive:
81% John McCain
77% Fred Thompson
76% Mitt Romney
75% Mike Huckabee
72% Tom Tancredo
65% Ron Paul
55% Rudy Giuliani
46% Bill Richardson
36% Chris Dodd
34% Hillary Clinton
33% John Edwards
32% Barack Obama
23% Joe Biden
22% Mike Gravel
16% Dennis Kucinich
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
Friday, January 11, 2008
Quiz: Who's Your Candidate?
Who's Your Candidate?
This is a really cool quiz, and quite accurate, at least in my case.
I have a couple of ringers. I don't approve of a federal Constitutional amendment defining marriage; I believe that's a state's prerogative.
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 | Duncan Hunter Score: 47 | Agree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Energy Death Penalty Gun Control | Disagree Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Environment Education |
 | Mitt Romney Score: 47 | Agree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Death Penalty Education | Disagree Stem-Cell Research Line-Item Veto Marriage Gun Control Environment |
-- Take the Quiz! -- | |||
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Katrina General Retiring From The Army
Worth another look ...
FOREST PARK, Ga. - The gruff, cigar-chomping general who led federal troops into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is convinced America hasn't learned its lesson from the storm.
As Lt. Gen. Russel Honore gets ready to retire from the Army and hand over his command on Friday, he says he wants to spend the rest of his life creating a "culture of preparedness" to prevent another post-disaster disaster.
"There's an attitude everywhere else that people are smarter than they are in New Orleans and in Mississippi. They're not," the 60-year-old general said at his office at Fort Gillem, just outside Atlanta. "What happened in New Orleans could have happened anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard."
During his 37-year Army career, Honore commanded troops in South Korea and prepared soldiers to fight in Iraq. After Katrina, the native of Lakeland, in Pointe Coupee Parish, led the vast relief convoy that rolled into New Orleans during its darkest hour. The 22,000-member force was one of the largest federal deployments in the South since the end of the Civil War.
With a green beret cocked to one side, a crisp, take-charge attitude and biting one-liners — "Don't get stuck on stupid!" he snapped at reporters — he impressed politicians and ordinary folks alike. At news conferences, he ended sentences with the word "over," as if transmitting over military radio.
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, for one, famously called him a "John Wayne dude."
Honore returned to Atlanta after the storm to focus on his main job as commander of the First Army, training National Guardsmen and reservists for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The devastation in his home state — the stranded residents, destroyed neighborhoods and bloated corpses — "left a passion in me to be a champion of something," he said.
His next project is still taking shape, but he wants to see civil defense classes for young people that would teach first aid and survival basics, such as how to purify water. He wants to lobby drug stores and other businesses to keep generators in case of a long power failure. He wants cities to stockpile food and water so they don't have to rely on the federal government.
And he wants to pressure every family to have an emergency plan, right down to backpacks with food, water, essential documents and medicine.
Although he hopes someday to return to Louisiana — he hasn't ruled out a try at politics — he plans to use Atlanta as a launching pad for the project. He said he has discussed the idea with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue's staff and plans to meet with local business, civic and political leaders.
"In this new normal, with the possibility of terrorist attacks, natural disasters and industrial accidents, we need this culture of preparedness," he said. "A vast part of America still thinks, 'That couldn't happen where I live.' And they are dead damn wrong."
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Video Of New Hampshire Undecideds
Found this posted on FreeRepublic. These people have some plain talk for Hillary! ...
Friday, January 04, 2008
TEOTWAWKI : The End Of The World As We Know It, Politically Speaking: The Hip-Hop Divide
At the time, I was being sarcastic. Now, after more thought, I'm convinced that we may be coming to the the end of, if not the world, an era, a social evironment, a way of life, that we know.
I'm going to be fifty years old this year. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, which, though I feel it wasn't nearly as racist and socially backward as other cities in Texas, had its moments. In the early Sixties, "colored people" --- my parents and I --- lived in certain neighborhoods, went to certain schools, attended certain churches, frequented certain businesses and avoided others. It was a segregational minefield of sorts.
Nowadays, when I tell stories of not being able to buy my way into Playland Park, despite the money in my hand, younger people stare at me blankly, unable to imagine such a thing.
Such blank ignorance makes me happy. As the old folks would say, "We ain't where we need to be, but we shore are better off than we were."
I sense that we are at a similar generational threshold in politics. I'll call it the Hip-Hop Divide.
Since the late Seventies, the hip-hop movement has wrapped around the world in several waves, uniting people born in that time period in a unique outlook.
The white hip-hop generation doesn't see race the way we old heads do. We laughed at the wiggas around the younger set: little white kids who wanted so hard to walk black and talk black. But they are the first generation of white kids who saw something in black culture worth emulating.
This wasn't Elvis, peeking into the windows of the black church while Mahalia was singing; it wasn't the Beatles, listening to Robert Johnson and Chuck Berry records; this was full-on adoption and acceptance of another skin color.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
To Black Americans...And Every Other Citizen
Politics
A.J. DiCintio, Featured Writer
January 3, 2008
For years some black VIP’s have insisted upon anointing Bill Clinton “America’s first black President.” In fact, these elites are so determined to have the nation accept their claim that one of them recently asserted not only that “Bill is every bit as black as Barack” but also that the former president has “probably gone with more black women than Barack.”
That last statement deserves a thorough condemnation because it reveals how politicians will obscenely insult even their sisters and brothers for the love of power. But today I’m asking black Americans and every other citizen to spend a few minutes examining the validity of the whole “black” business about Bill Clinton, especially because the VIP’s mentioned above are asking voters to transfer Bill Clinton’s “admirable blackness” to his wife Hillary.
So, let me get right to it by asking everyone to be honest about what would happen to the political standing of any president who did absolutely nothing, including speaking not a word, while 800,000 human beings were slaughtered in an astonishingly efficient 100 day genocide — in Great Britain, Ireland, Italy or Mexico.
We need only be truthful about America’s ethnic and political realities to know what would happen. Yet the fact is that “America’s first black president” did absolutely nothing – including speaking not a word – as in Rwanda of 1994 8,000 black men, women, and children were brutally murdered every day for 100 consecutive days.
Moreover, and unbelievably, that “black” president compounded the injury caused by his abject political cowardice when, four years later, he delivered a vile insult not only to the memory of the 800,000 murdered souls but also to every living Rwandan Tutsi, every one of their brave Hutu friends, and every other black person in the world when at Rwanda’s Kigali Airport he uttered the following lie directly to the faces of human beings he hadn’t deemed worthy of a single word, let alone a speech of many powerful words delivered at the UN:
All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror.
Now, I’m not asking anyone to listen only to me about one of the ugliest lies ever spoken by an American politician. But I am asking everyone to listen to people such as Samantha Power, the Harvard professor who testified about the Rwandan genocide before Congress and who wrote as follows in “Bystanders to Genocide” published in The Atlantic:
[Clinton’s lie at the Kigali Airport] implied that the United States had done a good deal but not quite enough. In reality the United States did much more than fail to send troops. It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It aggressively worked to block the subsequent authorization of UN reinforcements. It refused to use its technology to jam radio broadcasts that were a crucial instrument in the coordination and perpetuation of the genocide. And even as, on average, 8,000 Rwandans were being butchered each day, U.S. officials shunned the term “genocide,” for fear of being obliged to act. The United States in fact did virtually nothing “to try to limit what occurred.” Indeed, staying out of Rwanda was an explicit U.S. policy objective.
I am asking everyone to listen to people such as writer David Corn, who immediately after Clinton’s photo-op stop in Rwanda echoed Ms. Power’s points about what Mr. Clinton knew in “Lying About Genocide” (Salon, March 30, 1998), ending his admirable piece with the following observation:
During his brief stopover in Rwanda -- he never left the airport -- Clinton announced that the United States would contribute $2 million to a survivor’s fund. That’s $4 for each Rwandan slaughtered while Clinton stood by and did nothing.
And regarding Hillary Clinton, I am asking everyone to listen to people such as Patrick Healy, who in the New York Times recently wrote as follows regarding Mrs. Clinton’s “strength and experience” factor:
She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda.
Trusting in the ability of ordinary Americans to think for themselves, I’ll not go on about what their cowardly silence before and during the Rwanda Genocide and their cold-hearted lies afterward say about the Clintons. I will, however, once again ask Americans to consider the full implications of these questions:
What would rightly happen to the political standing of any president if he did absolutely nothing, including speaking not a word, while 800,000 human beings were slaughtered in a 100 day genocide — in Great Britain or Ireland or Italy or Mexico?
What would rightly happen to the political standing of any president if in a brief stopover in London, Dublin, Rome, or Mexico City he failed even to lay a wreath at a memorial to the slain, so eager was he to avoid any connection with those nations?
What would rightly happen to the political standing of the presidential candidate wife of the aforementioned president who touts herself as a person of vast “experience” and as “an agent of change” when the truth is that with respect to Rwanda (and so much else) she willingly embraced the See No Evil/Hear No Evil/Speak No Evil expediency demanded by Politics as Usual, easily and casually casting aside her “devotion” to the world’s suffering souls and her oft-repeated “commitment” to the principle that in world affairs the United States ought to mobilize the power of the International Community?
Black Americans have a special personal and emotional interest in those questions. But they have a pragmatic interest in them as well because the questions prompt other thoughts. For example, is Hillary Clinton likely to exhibit political bravery regarding school choice and other real education reforms; or does history show that she will bow before powerful unions and other special interests and do as much for America’s black children (and, therefore, the future of black America) as she did for Rwanda’s.
As for the rest of the American family, the profound nature of the moral and the practical implications of the questions is clear to all with minds wide open.
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A.J. DiCintio is a Featured Writer for The New Media Journal. He first exercised his polemical skills arguing with friends on the street corners of the working class neighborhood where he grew up. Retired from teaching, he now applies those skills, somewhat honed and polished by experience, to social/political affairs.
TEOTWAWKI : The End Of The World As We Know It
I plan to pop popcorn tonight and enjoy the returns from the cauci.
Rose
Shopper Pulls Gun, Stops Robbery Cold
Interesting, how the sound of a semi-auto being racked can get the attention of a thug REAL quick ...
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Shopper pulls gun, stops robbery cold
Held suspect at grocery store until police officers arrived
Posted: January 2, 2008
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
A grocery store customer in Indianapolis is being credited with halting an armed robbery by pulling his own weapon and pointing it at the assailant until police arrived.
According to a report in the Indianapolis Star, Charlie Merrell, 51, was in a checkout line at a grocery store called Bucks IGA on the city's south side when a "masked man jumped a nearby counter and held a gun on a store employee."
The police report cited by the newspaper said the incident happened at 5:17 in the afternoon Monday as Merrell was doing some year-end shopping.
"While the suspect was demanding cash from the workers," according to the police report, "Merrell pulled his own handgun, pointed it at the robber and ordered him to put down his weapon."
(Story continues below)
The newspaper noted that Officer Jason Bockting, in his documentation of the incident, said when the suspect seemed to hesitate, "Merrell racked the slide on his gun to load a round in the chamber."
At that point, the report said, "the suspect placed his gun and a bag of cash on the counter, dropping some of the money … the suspect removed his mask and lay on the floor."
Merrill, meanwhile, held the suspect at gunpoint until officers arrived and took him away in handcuffs.
Police reported Merrell had a valid permit to carry the handgun, and they recovered an unloaded .380-caliber handgun and $779 cash from the suspect.
Police records show Dwain Smith, 19, was being held in the Marion County Jail on a bond of $30,000 on initial charges of robbery, criminal confinement, pointing a firearm, battery and carrying a handgun without a license.
In Case You Don't Know About Milblogs ...
As a conservative, I hang out on the right side of the blogosphere,w here most of the milbloggers also reside. When I want to know the truth about the Long War, I go to the milblogs --- BlackFive and Mudville Gazette and Michael Yon and Major Zigenfuss, among others. For more, there's a
When I get a chance, I'll fix my blogroll and add in the others that I enjoy.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
I Have a Draft ...
I'll get it done in the next day or two.
Meanwhile, I have something a little lighter ...!
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Who I Am ...
For a taste of who I am, here following is an annotated and expanded version of my FreeRepublic profile rant.
Born and raised in San Antonio, living in Northwest Austin.
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Yes, I'm black. Yes, I'm female. Put your doubts aside ...!
Yes, I'm a Texan, fourth generation on my mamma's side, born and bred --- can you tell I'm proud of my native state? Yes, I "do" genealogy --- if Texas genealogy, or black genealogy, are among your interests, leave me a message!
Yes, I'm a computer jockette --- computers are my personal avocation and professional occupation. I started out as a programmer on Big Iron; when it comes to personal computers, I've done just about everything there is to do with them.
Yes, my husband is white. Yes, I like black men just fineYes, we know what we're doing ... we've been together since 1989, and it's gonna last a little while longer. It's lasted a little bit longer than "jungle fever" or "curiosity" or "defiance."
Yes, I love most music. Yes, the only new music I regularly listen to is country --- and yes, I grew up listening to it. Yes, I despise most rap, and the "new" R&B. I went country around 1985, so I probably don't know --- or care for --- much of the music you do. And don't blame my white husband ... my daddy and I were listening to country back in 1968.
Yes, I'm pro-life, and anti-abortion. Your right to choose rests in your choosing to have sex. If you screw up recreational sex and make a life, you and your partner must deal with the consequences. You are, after all, the grownups. Committing murder for the sake of your convenience, your lifestyle, or your waistline is NOT ALLOWED.
And, oh yeah, it's NOT a nasty bit of protoplasm; after ten days, it's a person with a beating heart.
And, yes, I support the death penalty, too. I don't see a contradiction there. When you show me an unborn baby that can wield a weapon efficiently enough to kill another human being, then we can talk about how the two positions --- pro-life and pro-death penalty --- are soooo very contradictory.
Yes, I'm pro-homeschool, and pro-vouchers. No black child --- heck, no child, but especially no black child --- belongs in a government school. That goes triple for black male children --- the system is geared against them in particular.
Yes, I'm pro-gun, and pro-carry. I think we'd all be better off if we carried our guns on our hips, and were ready to use 'em. People are a lot more polite to the armed.
Yes, I think drugs for adults and prostitution amongst adults should be legalized and regulated and taxed like every other branch of entertainment. Involve someone under 18 and I'll help the Big House fall on your head.
Yes, I'm conservative. And, yes, I learned my conservatism from my mamma and daddy, who were church-going, hard-working, money-saving folks who had been through the Depression and understood true privation. What I didn't learn about being conservative from my parents, I learned from Robert Heinlein, my favorite author, whose books I started reading at the age of six. Don't blame my white husband ... I was conservative LONG before I met him!
Yes, I support the United States' prosceution of the Global War on Terror, aka GWOT, aka the Long War. Yes, I enthusiastically support our magnificent US military. Yes, I often support the Bush Administration's positions, with no shame. And, when I don't support the Bush Administration, I won't be ashamed to tell you that, either.
Yes, every day I put my palms together and thank the good Lord that Al Gore was NOT the President of the United States on September 11, 2001. Yes, I vote every chance I get, and, yes, I vote mostly Republican.
Yes, I voted for George Bush, twice. Yes, I'm glad that I did, both times. Beyond my belief that the alternatives to George Bush were unfit to serve, I support many of the Republican Party's platform planks. Even more importantly, I don't support most of the Democrat Party's aims.
Yes, I believe in the United States of America and the principles upon which she was founded. I read the words of the Declaration and the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, and I'm proud to say that my heart swells and my eyes swim. That flag and that song mean something to me.
Yes, I love this country, "my own, my native land!"
Your mileage, of course, may vary.
Relaunch!
As I've always said, life is a spiral --- you often wind up back near where you started. (How's that for a Texanism?)
Hello again!
In conjunction with NaPoBloMo, or Blog 365, I'm relaunching my blog, and will publicize it amongst those who might be interested. That doesn't mean this is a blog-by-invitation-only; anyone can read, and comment; I reserve the right to delete comments that are nasty, rude, or are wack. I get to determine what's out of line.
I have several posts for today ... enjoy, but don't get spoiled!
The Rose In RoseBear
