Saturday, October 27, 2007
What. The. Fuck.
Clinton I can completely understand. He had Arafat and various Israeli Prime Ministers at the White House many times to try to broker a peaceful agreement, but Carter?
Why don't you ask him about the Panama canal while you're at it.
Travis
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Friday, October 26, 2007
Cafferty
Watch how this idiot likes to point the finger at the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has such a blatant bias, it's not even funny. What's worse is that while he does mention Afghanistan, you can see that he cannot tell the difference between both wars.
He also makes no distinction that everyone was and is for the war in Afghanistan. You remember, to get Osama? I guess this guy just wants to be a historical revisionist. But no matter, he just wants ratings and people pissed off, so he asks the inflammatory statement "what should we do with the money", and yet, only one person makes a reasonable statement "Why do we need to spend the money" if we're not spending it on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Cafferty simply fails to mention to his audience that if we weren't at war, we wouldn't be borrowing money to pay for the war. Period. Yet, in his "journalistic integrity", he makes inflammatory questions that have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
For example, if you weren't paying rent, what could you do with the money? If you weren't paying a car payment, what could you do with the money? Well there's all sorts of pie in the sky ideas that money could better be spent on, but the simple fact remains is that the money is needed elsewhere.
I just get irritated by "journalists" who don't simply report the news anymore. It's always with a political slant or bias instead of just "X happened today".
Travis
Al-Qaida anger at Jazeera on Laden tape
I don't think I'd ever live to see this day. But Osama Bin Laden criticizes the insurgency in Iraq and it's really pissed people off at the people who broadcasted it: Al-Jazeera.
Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of anger against Al-Jazeera television, accusing it of misrepresenting Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape by airing excerpts in which he criticizes mistakes by insurgents in Iraq.
"It's not about Al-Jazeera, it's about their shock from bin Laden," said Diaa Rashwan, an Egyptian expert on Islamic militant groups. "For the first time, bin Laden, who used to be the spiritual leader who gives guidance, became a critic of al-Qaida and is confessing mistakes. This is unusual."
But...but...Osama is supposed to praise us at all times! We never do anything wrong! With the insurgency splintering in Iraq, Al-Qaeda members are starting to get worried and pissed that their almighty leader would dare criticize them. Their world is changing, and hopefully, we can drive a wedge between them and the leadership. Fracturing Al-Qaeda from the inside is as much fun as it would be if they were on the receiving end of a Tomahawk missile....well almost.
Now with Al-Jazeera, they have both sides of the terrorism coin pissed at them. It's pretty much win-win for us.
Travis
Keep pushing OPEC, it's going to get worse for you
Well, just a few days ago BP was fined over $300 million dollars for market fixing. And who does that money go to? Not you or I. It goes to the government, even though it was you and I who were gouged at the pump.
Why not punish BP to the tune of $1 off every gallon of gas they sell until they reach the $300 million dollar mark? Give the money back to the customers.
But the higher the cost of a barrel of oil goes, the further I keep looking at alternatives like:
http://www.milesautomotive.com/showroom.php
and
http://www.chevy.com/electriccar
So keep it up oil companies and OPEC, your days of gouging me are numbered.
Travis
Kansas church sued after cheering Marine's death
Do you see what you get when you practice your "freedom of speech"? You get to see the direct consequences of your speech.
Before the March 2006 funeral for Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, a Marine who was killed in Iraq, protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church, a tiny fundamentalist splinter group, picketed the service with signs that read, "God Hates You" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
Albert Snyder, the father of Snyder, sued the church in U.S. district court here, claiming invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
And I hope he wins. There's too many lawsuit happy people in this country. People suing McDonalds for beef in their cooking oils, legitimate accidents that weren't negligence, only pure happenstance, and other such things are costing people and corporations billions of dollars a year.
And we all pay for it.
However, when you invade someone's privacy like that. To invade a funeral, which is one of the most private things you have in your life, and spew out hatred, you're simply asking for trouble.
I'm actually very surprised that no one has been hurt or killed in these protests. I'm not saying I'd get violent, but I do know enough about myself to know I don't know how I'd react if someone was protesting my son's funeral. I may very well get violent. That's a troubling thing for me and anyone else. When you're pushed to the limits, anyone is capable of anything. There are people in prison right now who've said "I was just pushed until I snapped".
And if something like that happened, the funeral attendees would go to jail, but to tell you the truth, I can't say I'd blame them. Jury nullification is that they call that. :)
Travis
Bush takes shot at Blanco while touring wildfires
As the California wildfires continued to rage Thursday, so too did the political feud between President Bush and Gov. Kathleen Blanco that has smoldered since the federal government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina.
The latest flare-up came when Bush, while touring the California disaster area, took an apparent swipe at Blanco's post-Katrina leadership as he complimented California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"It makes a significant difference when you have somebody in the statehouse willing to take the lead," Bush said, according to the Associated Press.
Ouch. But it is true. Governor Blanco didn't ask for the help she needed until very late in the game, which is a little thing called "states rights". FEMA of course caught the brunt end of things, but what I find curious is the complete lack of just rolling up your sleeves to rebuild from everyone around.
Everyone wanted to point the finger of blame at someone else. No one stood up and said "I am in charge and I am responsible. If you have a problem with the way things are going, come talk to me".
But now, with the California wildfires going on, FEMA is doing a bit of sneaky stuff. They are having their own personnel pose as reporters and lob softball questions such as:
"what it means to have an emergency declaration as opposed to a major disaster declaration" signed by the president.
Stop the blame game people. If a natural disaster happens, deal with getting it resolved and as many people rescued or evacuated as possible. Don't wait for the government to come help you. You have two legs, use them. You can cover 20 miles in a day if you really wanted to on foot. So don't expect people to feel sorry for you if you are ordered to evacuate and you stay behind or you drag ass in doing it.
If a cop tells me to evacuate, I'm grabbing my rifle, a backpack of clothes and my wife. With those three things, my family can survive for weeks or even months at a time. And there's no reason why you can't too.
Travis
My Way News - U.S. Announces Sanctions Against Iran
Man, we just can't win with some people. We're taking the sanctions route instead of the military strike route, and there's already people pissed about it. If you're all so smart, what would you do? Obviously the Iranians aren't backing down because they think that the Russians and Chinese have their back at the UN Security Council.
Of course, if we took the military route, people would have their panties all up in a twist.
Of course, now the Iranians are trying to put on a brave face, but they face some serious problems. Their economy is in the shitter, the inflation rate is over 15%, and they have most of the world against them.
But that hasn't stopped the rhetoric from them:
An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman also said sanctions were "doomed to fail," calling them "worthless and ineffective" and criticizing the U.S. for pursuing confrontational policies.
"The U.S. is well aware that it might be easy to start such an action against Iran but ending that would not be then in the hands of U.S. officials. Such action will definitely end up in U.S. collapse."
First off, if they are "doomed to fail" and "worthless and ineffective", why are you even acknowledging them? Surely you could just laugh it off and go about your merry little way, but you seem to be a little more towards the nervous side of things.
Of course Iran would like the US to collapse, but let's face it, it simply isn't going to happen. If we strike Iran, we could have their nuclear program AND their military in shambles within weeks.
Russian President Putin of course, tries to stand up for his buddies, but ends up looking like a confused idiot.
"Why worsen the situation and bring it to a dead end by threatening sanctions or military action?" Putin said in comments apparently directed at the U.S. "Running around like a madman with a razor blade, waving it around, is not the best way to resolve the situation."
Those are really your only choices Putin. Sanctions or military strikes. If you have any other ideas, we're listening with open ears, but you've said nothing and DONE nothing about their nuclear program. Simply put, you don't care what the Iranians do as long as they poke a finger into the eye of the US. Plus, they are a customer of your military weapons, why piss them off and ruin your chances to get back onto the world stage?
I don't mind if someone disagrees with us, but the simple fact is that they said in the previous set of sanctions, that if Iran didn't stop enrichment, that they would back additional sanctions. They are now backtracking on that deal and forcing us to deal with the situation at hand by ourselves and our allies.
Perhaps Russia wouldn't mind if Chechnya got their own nuclear program? All of a sudden, the Russians would start getting VERY nervous and start talking about sanctions and military strikes.
Perhaps they wouldn't mind if we gave them help on making their own nuclear reactor?
That's the difference between us and Russia. We're trying to do what's right and they are trying to do what is detrimental to us.
Perhaps we should turn the tide against Russia and see how they like it.
Travis
Photos show cleansing of suspect Syrian site
New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.
Sure, it's easy to say it was a "he said, she said" bit, but check out the photos of before and after the strike.
Syria sure did make a hurry of cleaning up the site. If it was indeed an "unused building" like the Syrians say it was, then why the hurried up cleaning job? It would be a coup for them to have photos and video evidence of "Israeli aggression", but they didn't. They were extremely quiet about the whole thing and wanted to clean it up as quickly as possible.
The evidence is mounting, and it's pretty hard to deny something was going on.
Any attempt by Syrian authorities to clean up the site would make it difficult, if not impossible, for international weapons inspectors to determine the exact nature of the activity there. Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna have said they hoped to analyze the satellite images and ultimately inspect the site in person.
So even if the IAEA eventually gets there, there's probably no way to find out truly what was there. However, Israel is saying the have photos from inside the structure. If true, Syria is in a world of hurt.
The striking difference in the satellite photos surprised even some outside experts who were skeptical that Syria might be developing a nuclear program.
It's nice to see when skeptics who normally try to say how America is being a bully, admit that we may very well be onto something.
Travis
Thursday, October 25, 2007
North Korea And Syria
After the private meeting with Representative Ros-Lehtinen, Ms. Rice went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and defended her diplomatic approach to North Korea, saying she was using “the teeth of diplomacy, not just the carrots of diplomacy.”
This elicited a challenge from Representative Tom Tancredo, Republican of Colorado. “I would really like to know specifically what those teeth might be,” he said.
Ms. Rice refused to comment on the Israeli strike, but repeated what has become the official view about any North Korean involvement in a Syrian nuclear program: “The president has made very clear that North Korean or Syrian or anybody else’s proliferation is of deep concern to the United States.”
Mr. Tancredo persisted: “So if in fact it turns out to be the case that they did provide weaponry or some form of nuclear materials to Syria, then that would put them in violation of the agreement?”
That's precisely what I asked a short while ago. I want to know if North Korea is indeed supplying nuclear technology to other nations as they negotiate with us. If they are, they need to be punished severely for it. Fuel oil shut off, nuclear program bombed into rubble, sanctions at the UN, humanitarian aid cut to the bone, military blockades. I'm talking about letting them know we're not fucking around here.
They're pulling the same bullshit they pulled when they made a deal with the Clinton administration. They took the offer, then made the nuclear program anyways. Now they are seeing that they may not be able to do that again, so they're trying to sell it so they get some money in their pockets for their trouble.You can't make a deal with someone, sneak around the deal, and expect to get away with it. Otherwise, what would be the point of us making a deal? China, Japan, and South Korea have a lot more to worry about with North Korea then we do. However, if we're helping them out with North Korea, it makes you wonder why China isn't helping out when it comes to Iran. They were all gung ho about getting the North Koreans nuclear program dismantled, but they are dragging feet when it comes to Iran.
And you wonder why I'm so mistrustful of the Chinese.
Travis
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Those Mean Old Jews!
The gall of the Palestinians sometimes stinks to high heaven.
According to the plan, one of the power lines connecting Israel and Gaza will be shut down at first for 15 minutes after a rocket attack, gradually increasing the cutoff length if the barrages continue, up to a two-hour limit. In addition, Israel will begin reducing the amount of gasoline it allows into the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians and human rights groups denounced the measure as collective punishment. One of the groups, Gisha, issued a statement warning, "Playing with electricity is playing with fire," adding, "Even a brief interruption in electricity threatens the safety and well-being of Gaza residents."
Don't like it? Start turning in Hamas members who are firing rockets into Israel. Start telling Israeli's where to find weapons caches. There's an easy way to stop all of these punishments: end the attacks. Don't want to help? Tough, learn to read by candle light.
Travis
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Democrats And Taxes
4.5% addition tax increases on corporations and people making more than $150k a year, or $200k a year for married couples. It will also repeal tax cuts that were made a few short years go.
It will take the current top tax rate of 35% and raise it to 44%.
When are Democrats going to stop trying to make successful people pay for everything? The top 50% of wage earners pay more than 96% of all tax revenue. Yet, the bottom 50% pay only 4% of the revenue, but end up costing the government more money then they earn.
Why can't Democrats support an across the board, flat tax? Why is say a 20% tax rate on anyone, regardless of income, such a bad thing? Because Democrats believe that the wealthy and the successful are their own piggy bank. Then you wonder why so many of them are caught doing shady things to avoid having to pay as much taxes.
If I was paying $100k a year in tax, and the government wanted an addition 4% on top of that, why should I? Why not make everyone pay equally? Why does someone who didn't pay attention in college or someone who took the lazy way out get to suck on the governments proverbial tit, while hard working Americans pay for them?
You want healthcare? Get a job to pay for it. You want roads, schools, and police officers? They all cost money. It's simply not fair to expect one group of people to pay significantly more for benefits that many of them simply don't see. Rightfully, it should be an "all or nothing" kind of deal.
Travis
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Guiliani Could End Illegal Immigration?
"It can be done. It is not impossible," Giuliani told his audience at a town hall-style meeting. "You can do this, you can stop them at the border."
Giuliani said he would boost the number of border security agents to 18,000 from the current 12,000, and build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border with technological monitoring to reduce illegal immigration.
He also would deploy federal agents along the border at 50-mile intervals, using high-tech monitors to detect people trying to enter the country illegally.
You see, that's actually refreshing. Not a lot of politicians will give you the meat of what they have planned to fix a national problem. They just simply say: "Vote for me, I'll fix it" But then when pressed, they don't give you anything, just some vague talking points and a smile for the cameras.
The same thing plagued John Kerry during his 2004 Presidential election bid. He kept saying how everything was going wrong and how he'd fix it all. Yet, when people started asking tough questions, he folded like a bad hand of poker.
People saw through this and he was not elected.
I don't think this will end illegal immigration across the board. I think this may end illegal MEXICAN immigration though. What about Canada? Soon, you'll start seeing people traffickers putting Mexicans on boats or air planes, landing in Canada, then they go from there. Border security means BOTH borders.
Until you fix that, you're only solving 1/2 of the problem.
Travis
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Most California Fires Were Arson
However, according to a trusted source of mine with first hand knowledge, most, if not all of the fires were deliberately set. One man has already been arrested:
Catalino Pineda, 41, was arrested Wednesday, Officer Kate Lopez told CNN. Witnesses told police they saw him lighting a fire on a hillside in the West Hills area of San Fernando -- northwest of Los Angeles -- then walking away, Lopez said.
However, look for further arrests in this case.
Travis
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Terrorists Plan To Hit Seattle/Tacoma
With the recent suspicious ferry incident and a story from a source that I trust implicitly, I have a suspicion that there's a plot being developed in the Seattle/Tacoma, Washington area.
I wrote about the ferry incident a while back, but this story from my source is more chilling. He reports that while on an Amtrak train, four young men (around early twenties), got onto the train and asked if there was assigned seating. The conductor said no and that anyone could sit anywhere.
They then split into two groups. Two of them went to the front of the train and sat on either side of the aisle, while the other two went to the back of the train (same car) and sat at the last row, one on either side.
All four men had identical backpacks and were acting very nervously. Nothing came of the incident (obviously), yet the conductor didn't find it suspicious that four men, with identical backpacks, were sitting in such an odd formation.
Now, let's play out the "what if" game. If they had bombs in their backpacks, they would have successfully cut off any chance of escape. The death toll would be in the mid 50's up to around 150 people. However, on the other hand, if they didn't have bombs on them, was it a dry run? Were they hoping to get the conductor to call the police and sue for "racial profiling"?
There's a lot of unanswered questions, but the FBI is investigating.
Travis
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Panel Pushes for Nominee to Denounce Technique
Is waterboarding torture? That's what a Senate Committee wanted to know from the possible future Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
In his confirmation hearings last week, Mr. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, declined to say if waterboarding was torture or was otherwise illegal; he insisted he was not aware of how the technique was carried out.
In their letter to Mr. Mukasey on Tuesday, the committee’s chairman, Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, and the panel’s other nine Democrats said they found it “surprising that you are unfamiliar with waterboarding since it has been the subject of much public discussion” and asserted that “your unwillingness to state that waterboarding is illegal may place Americans at risk of being subject to this abusive technique.”
The letter continued, “Please respond to the following question: Is the use of waterboarding, or inducing the misperception of drowning, as an interrogation technique illegal under U.S. law, including treaty obligations?” The senators requested a “prompt response” since Mr. Mukasey’s nomination is still before the committee.
So is waterboarding torture? Well it certainly isn't a walk in the park. However, it has been known to work in getting information from stubborn prisoners.
“Waterboarding works,” the former officer said. “Drowning is a baseline fear. So is falling. People dream about it. It’s human nature. Suffocation is a very scary thing. When you’re waterboarded, you’re inverted, so it exacerbates the fear. It’s not painful, but it scares the shit out of you.”
So it's not necessarily physically painful, but the psychological effect is devestating.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he claimed, “didn’t resist. He sang right away. He cracked real quick.” He said, “A lot of them want to talk. Their egos are unimaginable. KSM was just a little doughboy. He couldn’t stand toe to toe and fight it out.”
So was Mohammed waterboarded? With conflicting reports, it's difficult to tell, but he did talk about other plots and did give up names. That in of itself is powerful evidence. Plus, Khalid doesn't have a bruise or a broken bone in his body.
So, what defines torture? To me, if you leave a lasting mark or pain that lasts longer then the session goes, you're probably torturing. However, things such as waterboarding are a fine line item to me. You could argue it is, and you could argue it isn't. But you can't argue that it's not effective.
Travis
"Don't Tase Me Bro!"
''Don't Tase me, Bro,'' Meyer, 21, squealed after police put the screaming, combative student down on the ground and relaxed him with 50,000 volts from a Taser.
FDLE has determined that University of Florida police did nothing improper in subduing Meyer after he resisted arrest.
Yes, I'm sure that being hit with a Taser is "relaxing", but if you're asked to leave a building and you do not, you're now trespassing, which is a crime. Officers gave him repeated warnings and even flashed the Taser to let him know they weren't messing around. He reached his hands up to grab onto anything he could, and he got zapped for it.
Of course, I expect the liberals to come out of he woodwork to say how America is becoming a "police state" and how his "rights were violated" and other such nonsense. But then again, I expect that from them.
You have the right to free speech, you don't have the right to an audience.
Travis
Report: 'World at peak oil output' - CNN.com
I think we've all heard about "peak oil". If you haven't, peak oil is about the most we're going to get out of the ground while still maintaining it's relative inexpensiveness.
Now, there's a report saying that we have hit peak oil in 2006.
The German-based Energy Watch Group released a report Tuesday saying the world's oil production peaked in 2006 and from now on will drop by around 3 percent a year. It says that by as early as 2030, the global availability of oil will be half of what it was at its peak.
Scary stuff right? You'd think that we'd be having $20 a gallon for gas and fights over the lines at the gas station for this kind of thing.
However, there are two problems with that. First off, many of you aren't old enough to remember the "oil shortage" in the 1970's. There were supply problems left and right and there was talk of running out of oil. Which is something that may very well happen one day.
However, all of a sudden, there was a glut of oil in the 90's when a barrel of oil plummeted to $10 a barrel, something that OPEC isn't going to allow to happen ever again. So, what to do?
Well auto manufacturers are already working on alternative fuel vehicles such as electric and hydrogen powered cars. So, if all of a sudden there are cars that can get 300 miles to the charge and be "refueled" in less than 5 minutes, OPEC and peak oil problems simply don't exist.
So while I do agree that we may have hit or are going to hit peak oil soon, I don't think we should stop trying to push alternative fueled vehicles, otherwise, we'll simply be back where we started from again in the future.
Think about it, if oil suddenly shoots up to say $200 a barrel, and you only need oil to change in your engine once in a great while, do you really care? Of course, you'd care if you still had a vehicle that ran on petroleum, but once those started getting phased out for electric or hydrogen cars, you'll start seeing the market self adjust.
Travis
Robert Goulet needs a lung transplant - CNN.com
Now, Robert Goulet needs a new set of lungs. I'm not trying to sound cruel here, but the guy is 73 years old and has lived a full life. If he gets a new set of lungs, how much longer do you suppose he'll live? What about a person in their twenties or thirties? They would live a lot longer and have a better chance of not having complications simply because the young have better immune systems.
Robert has entertained a lot of people, and probably has the money to pay for such an operation. However, if there is a waiting list, I think he should gracefully step aside and let someone else with bigger needs them him get those lungs.
Travis
USATODAY.com - FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot
You know, Al-Qaeda must be REALLY grasping at straws if they think a plot to set a massive fire in California would cause much destruction. Sure, the current fire going on down there is causing a lot of grief for a lot of people, but it's all property damage and a significantly low number of deaths (two as of this writing).
California has fires like this ALL THE TIME. Oregon and Washington are simply too wet to have the massive damage that California is experiencing. Plus, Oregon and Washington have some of the most rugged terrain in the nation, filled with rivers and clearings that don't allow fires to spread like they would in California.
Nice try, you've just managed to make yourselves look like idiots. Next up, they'll be trying to cause tornados in Kansas.
Travis
China says U.S. missile shield threatens global stability
How I love to point out hypocrisy. Although usually, my target are Democrats, today it's China.
The placement of U.S. missile defenses in Europe will not ease global security concerns but will undermine the global strategic balance, the Chinese foreign minister said Wednesday.
Ok, fair enough. But then you have this:
China to test space weapon in launching moon satellite
Even though we have treaties in place that prohibit the militarization of space based weapons.
So, China, take your "stability" bullshit rhetoric and tell it to the UN or any other idiotic group of people who might buy into it. Your massive amount of spying on our military networks coupled with this incident and the shooting down of satellites earlier this year don't give you an ounce of credibility towards the argument about "global stability".
In fact, I think it may add to stability simply because if China attempted to shoot a satellite out of the sky, this system might be able to prevent the satellite from being destroyed.
Travis
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Countrywide offers help with mortgages - Mortgage Mess - MSNBC.com
"Hey guys, we'd REALLY appreciate it if you would pay us back the $400,000 loan we gave you while you were working at McDonalds for $5 an hour".
Now all of a sudden, Countrywide is trying to "work with borrowers". Before, they were trying to stick it to people with ARM loans and all sorts of exotic loans to make even more money. Well now the reality of it all has sunk in and they are in deep trouble with people who simply shouldn't have been given such a loan in the first place.
Well suck it down Countrywide. You made a bad business decision, now you have to live with it. The government isn't going to help you out. Hillary isn't going to help you out.
So let this be an expensive lesson to you. If you decide to rip people off or allow them to extend themselves further then you normally would, then you deserve every bit of headaches that comes along with it.
Travis
Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA - washingtonpost.com
Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits.
But the problem is simply this: If you broke the law when it was a law, then you need to face the consequences of that action. Qwest turned down the government's request for information because they thought they would be in violation of that law. Now, all the other telecommunications companies out there are shitting in their pants because they are facing multi-billion dollar, class action lawsuits.
Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, said yesterday that what the White House did was "not exactly" a quid pro quo....On Friday, White House press secretary Dana Perino said that Intelligence Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) and ranking member Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.)'s staff "showed a willingness" to include immunity in their legislation. "Because they were willing to do that, we were willing to show them some of the documents that they asked to see."
Sounds like quid pro quo to me Fratto. You show me yours, and I'll show you mine appears to be the way of thinking over there. But the bottom line is, if I kill someone, then later on, murder is legalized, my actions were still against the law at that time, and thus, I've committed a crime.
You'd find me hard pressed to believe that they didn't knowingly break the law.
Travis
Breitbart.tv » Rep. Pete Stark Apologizes for Bush Insult as Censure Vote Falls Short
"I hope that with this apology I will become as insignificant as I should be."
"Oh, poor me! I got a large amount of backlash from my comments and now I want to play the victim!"
That's pretty much sums up what he's saying. He's trying to say that he's upset that his comments weren't picked up by the members of Congress and ran with. He's upset that Americans were pissed at his comments, and now he's trying desperately to get this swept under the rug before election time.
Of course, there are people who are pissed that he apologized.
Because he spoke out against President Bush and tried to make him sound like a monster, those on the left thought it was a great thing he said. But when members of Congress thought better of it, they got upset that he issued an apology.
Personally, he can take his apology and shove it up his ass for all I care. He said what he said, and I don't care if he apologizes or not. His true feelings came out in his first speech, so screw him.
Travis
Clinton vows review of executive power
Oh please, like Hillary is ever going to do anything to give up power.
Hillary Clinton would launch a policy review as president with an eye towards giving up some of the executive powers accumulated by George Bush, she tells Guardian America in an interview today.
The New York senator and frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination also accuses the Bush administration's broad brush approach to terrorism of making it harder to understand "what it is we were up against", and expresses concerns about the attitude of the president's nominee for attorney general to interrogation and "expansive" executive power.
And if you buy into that, I've got some great oceanside property to sell you in Colorado.
Travis
N.Y. lawmakers move on anti-noose bill - Yahoo! News
Ahh how I indeed love "knee jerk" reactions to things going on in the news. With the recent "Jena 6" case, lawmakers in New York are trying to make it a crime to display a noose.
What's worse, is that I expect this kind of behavior from a Democrat, but it's coming from Republican Dean Skelos.
Mr. Skelos has GOT to know that this won't stand up in court. It's got freedom of speech issues written all over it. And Democrats should denounce this bill as well. They seem to support flag burning, so they shouldn't have a problem with a hangman's noose.
The bottom line is that this is simply a "feel good" attempt to make voters think you're actually doing something. What will end up happening is that the ACLU will sue, the NY tax payers will have to pay for an attorney to defend against the lawsuit, and a Federal judge will throw it out.
With such blatant attempts to put a law onto the books that's clearly unconstitutional, lawmakers should partially foot the bill for the eventual lawsuit.
That would prevent lawmakers from passing ridiculous laws that they know won't pass muster. I'm not saying that every law that gets struck down is passed onto the lawmaker, however, there should be some kind of penalty for frivolous laws being passed.
Travis
Pelosi wavers on Armenia resolution - Politics - MSNBC.com
Democrat Nancy Pelosi's pledge of a new direction took a detour when she fumbled an Armenian genocide resolution and raised questions about her leadership as the highest ranking member of the U.S. Congress.
Pelosi, 67, speaker of the House of Representatives and next in line to the presidency after the vice president, swore she would push the controversial resolution to a vote, then blinked when some fellow Democrats withdrew their support in the face of furious reaction from Turkey.
That's what I've been telling you all along. Nancy Pelosi will only go with what's popular, instead of what's "right". She tried to pull this stunt and said she'd "see it through", then when support dropped, she dropped the issue entirely.
It's one of the worst types of leaders. Ones who will say or do anything, but if the wind blows, they'll switch up positions and act like the whole thing never happened.
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich offered another excuse for Pelosi's misstep: she had too much on her plate.
This delusional idiot shouldn't be bothering to offer excuses. He's already got a laundry list of his own problems to deal with. Besides, what kind of excuse is "she had too much on her plate"? That's one of the lamest excuses I've ever heard. If she believed it was the right thing to do, how does having too much on her plate deviate from that?
She took a throw of the dice and it ended up backfiring in her face. Now she's trying to retreat and make it all go away quietly. Well it won't work that way as long as there are people like me around Nancy.
Travis
His Name Was Michael Murphy
In June 2005, Murphy, 29, led his four-man Navy SEAL team into the 10,000-foot peaks of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush to search for a terrorist thought to be in the region. But they were soon spotted and started taking fire from more than 40 insurgents.
The report said that at one point Murphy was hit in the back and dropped the handset but retrieved it and completed his call, even saying "thank you" at the end of his transmission.
Luttrell witnessed Murphy's heroism.
"I looked back up at Mikey and he took two rounds to the back and sat back up, hung up the phone. ... That was the last time I saw him."
Shot in the stomach, twice in the back, this guy exposed himself to get help for the members of his team. If that doesn't exemplify what a real hero is, you'd be hard pressed to give me a better example.
It's men like these that give me great pride in the military and our nation.
What's worse is that I was listening to Howard Stern earlier this morning and Robin was talking about Murphy and Howard said "My God, you've got to wonder what we're doing over there" and started to get on his soapbox. When corrected about where this took place, Howard took a step back and shut his mouth.
I wrote an angry letter to Stern about it simply because I think when celebrities open their mouths about world events, they tend to be misinformed and act like holier then thou idiots in the process. I simply wanted to point that out to Stern.
Thank you for your service Lt. Michael Murphy. If there were more men like you, our nation would be a better place.
Travis
Dog Saves Jogger During Assault - News Story - WSB Atlanta
Gwinnett County police are calling a dog a hero after he saved his owner from an attack at a park.
Police say the woman was jogging in Tribble Mill Park two weeks ago.
A man approached her and shoved her against a tree, where he groped her.
That's when her yellow Labrador retriever, Jack, came to the rescue. He jumped on the man and chomped on his leg.
The attacker ran away.
The woman was okay.
No arrests have been been made.
Good dog.
Travis
Violence in Iraq drops sharply: Ministry | Reuters
Wait a minute, I thought things were going very badly in Iraq? At least that's what liberals would like you to believe. But unfortunately, that's not the case.
Interior Ministry spokesman Major-General Abdul-Karim Khalaf told reporters that there had been a 70 percent decrease in violence countrywide in the three months from July to September over the previous quarter.
70% decrease since the surge happened? Why, you'd think that it was actually WORKING or something?? In the Anbar province, violence has dropped 82%. And this is according to the Iraqi's themselves.
Democrats in Congress don't really have a leg to stand on anymore when it comes to Iraq. They keep trying to play up the "bad situation" in Iraq, but the numbers simply aren't there for their argument. They'd LIKE you to believe that things are going badly, but the truth is, the surge of troops and change in tactics are working and the Iraqi's are starting to stand up for themselves.
Travis
Monday, October 22, 2007
Busy Day
As a side note, I'd like to thank all my readers for their emails of support and praise for the first podcast that I put out. Of course, there's always room for improvement, and I'm looking to get some liberal friends of mine into the mix as a "ying" to my "yang". I can always spit out my opinion, but it's great listening when you hear someone bring up points that you would love to make if you were there in the studio.
I am currently working on next week's show. However, I have not picked a topic yet. If you would like to have a topic discussed, let me know and I'll see if I can make that the topic for the show. If you do suggest a topic, also through in a couple of questions that you would like to have answered and I'll gladly throw those in as well.
My main goal is to have this site grow to a point where we have active participants across the entire political spectrum. We're slowly getting there, but there's always room for one more. :)
Travis
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Kurds Declare Truce
They are already sending more troops and equipment to the Iraqi border.
However, I simply can't see the Turks taking this one and not killing some Kurds in response. We certainly wouldn't allow it, so why should Turkey? They certainly have a right to defend themselves. Now only if we can get Iran to attack Turkey, things might calm down a bit in that department. :)
Travis
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More Money For Iraq And Afghanistan
Sounds pretty typical so far, but then the fun begins.
Minutes after Bush spoke, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, warned the president not to expect Congress to "rubber-stamp" the latest request.
"In the coming weeks, we will hold it up to the light of day and fight for the change of strategy and redeployment of troops that is long overdue," Reid said.
Funny, it sounds VERY familiar. Oh yeah, that's what you and Nancy Pelosi said during your campaign of 2006. Well here we are almost a year later, and you've accomplished exactly squat. Save the rhetoric for the Daily Kos idiots out there who might buy into a line of crap like that Reid. The only thing you're good at is undermining troop morale and photo ops. I simply cannot wait until the citizens of Nevada wise up and see you for the underhanded weasel you really are.
Here's my prediction: Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and/or John Murtha will make a grand speech about how they are "working hard" to end the war in Iraq. How they are not going to "cave" "rubber stamp" or any other phrase of the day to the Bush administration, and yet, they will cave. Bush will get every penny he asks for. Don't believe me? Bookmark this article and check back to it to see how accurate I am in my predictions.Travis
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
The Plot Thickens
They also claim that the facility was built with "North Korean expertise". If that's true, North Korea needs to be swiftly and severely punished for this blatant breaking of our deal with them. Fuel oil must be shut off, the country sanctioned severely, and let the leadership crumble.
Travis
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Podcasts
I have completed my first podcast (Hooray for me!), and I am putting it up on the site as we speak. The topic of the podcast is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As promised in the podcast, here's a link to the article I was speaking about and the lies that this "journalist" is telling:
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/11/13/us-officers-planned-the-beit-hanoun-massacre/
Here's a direct link to the podcast:
http://www.rightwinglunatic.com/media/Palestinian_State.mp3
I will be adding my podcasts to iTunes as soon as possible. I will also add support for podcasting clients so that everyone can listen in as much as they'd like.
Since it was my first podcast, I imagine there are some places where things can be improved, but things will get better with time, I promise.
Travis
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