Archive for April, 2007
RINO Gearing Up for 2008 N.J. Senate Race
Monday, April 30th, 2007Anne Evans Estabrook, a “Republican” will announce the formation of a exploratory committee as she decides if she will be seeking the GOP nomination for US Senate in 2008.
Estabrook is a millionaire and is the former president of the NJ Chamber of Commerce, but has never ran in a general election. Besides the lack [...]
Best Event this Summer
Monday, April 30th, 2007This will be the best news event this summer:
Woman in Escort Case Plans to Name Names in Defense
Her strategy:
“The tentacles of this matter reach far, wide and high into the echelons of power in the United States,” Ms. Palfrey wrote in a court filing last month, as she prepared to release a list of her [...]
The GOP, Whistling Past The Graveyard
Monday, April 30th, 2007The “GOP Core” in action:
With public opinion tilting firmly toward ending U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-Md.) might have expected praise for his votes that would start to bring the troops home. Instead, at town hall meetings on the Eastern Shore, the former Marine and Vietnam combat veteran has [...]
Your new and improved SCOTUS
Monday, April 30th, 2007The Supremes ruled that fleeing criminals cannot sue the police who catch them. In a case of cosmic justice, the teenager who risked the lives of many other motorists ended up paralyzed:
The Supreme Court on Monday gave police officers protection from lawsuits that result from high-speed car chases, ruling against a Georgia teenager who [...]
“Success in Iraq” (aka Nuance in Iraq)
Monday, April 30th, 2007Would the “Success in Iraq” be considered “success” here? A sampling of “successful” projects in Iraq:
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed [...]
18 Months, DOD/DA Needs To Admit It
Monday, April 30th, 2007Not that long ago, the first shoe fell off which was the extension of combat tours to 15 months, which is ultimately a blow to readiness. The second shoe is the extension of combat tours for selected soldiers to 18 months. GEN Casey is now dancing on the tip of a pin:
Casey said the Army [...]
Yet Another Liberal Talking Point Lost
Monday, April 30th, 2007Remember the “Downing Street Memos” and how they “proved” Bush “manipulated the intel”?!!
OOPS, page 310 of Tenet’s book reveals,
One memo records “C,” the designation the Brits use for the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, as saying that “intelligence and facts were being fixed around policy.”
Sir Richard later told me that he had been [...]
Reform Social Security now!
Monday, April 30th, 2007Pat Toomey on the Social Security black hole:
I’m going to save you the trouble of reading all 218 pages of the Social Security Administration’s “2007 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees” by summing up the dizzying details in six words: Social Security is still going broke.
The GOP Bloggers Straw Polls For April Of 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007McCain Reaches Out….. to DEMOCRATS
Sunday, April 29th, 2007Ain’t this just a quick kick to the groin:
ABOARD THE STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS, Manchester, N.H. – Republican John McCain says he intends to appoint a Democrat to a high-profile Cabinet post if he’s elected president.
“There are very highly qualified Democrats on a number of issues,” McCain said. “The more efforts you can make towards bipartisanship, [...]
Castro, I Will Say It
Sunday, April 29th, 2007I have no problem in saying it. This is too bad:
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday his friend and political ally Fidel Castro is “in charge” again nearly nine months after undergoing intestinal surgery.
I look forward to the day that I travel to Miami with my family to celebrate the passing of Castro. On that day [...]
Barack HUSSEIN Obama: I Brive a Dus
Sunday, April 29th, 2007Admits he was ‘a little nervous’ at debate after coming across as out of touch:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), known for his soaring rhetoric, stumbled during the first Democratic debate Thursday at South Carolina State University.
“Last night I was a little nervous,” Obama said at a rally in Charleston on [...]
Give Me An I-M-P, Umm, Where’s the E ???
Sunday, April 29th, 2007The left-wing loonies assembled on the Washington Mall to form a human chain to spell out I-M-P-E-A-C-H, but fell short a few letters!:
The protesters assembled on the Mall yesterday with a plan to voice their less-than-generous views about a certain president and his vice president. They would form a human chain to spell out I-M-P-E-A-C-H, [...]
Don’t Mess With Estonians
Sunday, April 29th, 2007First there was this:
A memorial statue was removed early Friday, causing widespread riots in the capital. Angry Russian youths continued rioting yesterday, with unrest spreading to at least two other Estonian towns. Estonian police say nearly 1,000 people have been arrested during the unrest.
Next they did this:
Estonia’s Defense Ministry yesterday said it had begun [...]
That Sound? John McCain? No, Just Harmless Gas
Sunday, April 29th, 2007First there was New Zealand:
Scientists in New Zealand are working to reduce the threat posed by one of the country’s principle causes of global warming – flatulent sheep.
Methane – produced by sheep and cows breaking wind – is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide.
Now it is the turn of EU Ministers:
The MEPs [...]