A Fisher of Votes

Stupidity on Hardball

This proves once and for all what the Dude has always said: “Nobody with a brain would go on Chris Matthew’s show”.

 

Inspirational Palestinian Quotes

“We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem….All the rich Jews who will get compensation will travel to America….We of the PLO will now concentrate all our efforts on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps. Within five years we will have six to seven million Arabs living in the West Bank and in Jerusalem….You understand that we plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian State….I have no use for Jews; they are and remain Jews.”
– Speech entitled “The Impending Total Collapse of Israel”, Stockholm, Sweden, Jan. 30, 1996

“The Oslo accord was a preface for the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Authority will be a preface for the Palestinian state, which in turn will be a preface for the liberation of the entire Palestinian land.”
– Abdul Aziz Shaheen- PA Minister, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, January 4, 1998

“No one believed him (Arafat) when he used to say it… [but] The choice is not at all between options of negotiation and fighting: you can have negotiations and fight at the same time…the Palestinian people fight with weapons, with jihad, with Intifada and suicide actions… and it is destined to always fight and negotiate at the same time.”
– ANN television, October 7 2000

“There is not a single stone in Palestine that proves the [historical] Jewish existence [in the land].”
– Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, 15 October 2000

The violence “had been planned since Chairman Arafat’s return from Camp David…”
– Imad Faluji, PA cabinet minister, Rally in Lebanon rally, March 3, 2001

“The struggle will continue until all of Palestine is liberated.”
– Yasser Arafat (Voice of Palestine Radio, 11 November 1995)

“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.”
– Yasser Arafat

“When I see a Jew before me, I kill him. If every Arab did this, it would be the end of the Jews
– Mustafa Tlas, Minister of Defense

“Thanks to Hitler, of blessed memory, who on behalf of the Palestinians, revenged in advance, against the most vile criminals on the face of the earth. Although we do have a complaint against him for his revenge on them was not enough.”
– Ahmad Ragab, columnist for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Akhbar, April 20 and April 25, 2001

Indoctrinating Palestinian Children:
Peace Process?

Michelle May Not Be Proud of America, But Tennesseans Are

Bush is Right on the Democrats and Appeasement

“It is his policies that have produced this vulnerability that the U.S. has.”
-Joe Biden

Was it Bush’s policies that led to 9/11 in the first place? Nope.
Since Bush inacted his current policies, there hasn’t been one terror attack on the U.S. homeland. Instead we are freeing millions of people, while at the same time, drawing all would-be terrorists to points in the Middle East where our military is waiting for them.
Where in all of human history has appeasement stopped genocidal tyrants?

Well Done, Mr. President:

Appeasement of Hitler

Neville Chamberlain on Appeasement (1939)

CNN’s Hypersensitive Reaction to Bush ‘Appeasement’ Comments

Quote of the Day

“Poor People have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years, ………….and they are still poor.” - Charles Barkley

Colbert on O’Reilly (Not literally…not that there’s anything wrong with that)

Funny, funny stuff…

 

Scum of the Earth

There is a special place in hell for people like this:

‘Funeral Day Burglar’ found guilty of 10 counts in Mo.

The Associated Press

PLATTE CITY, Mo. — A burglar who authorities say used the obituary pages to select his targets was convicted of 10 counts Friday.

Prosecutors say Dane S. Johnson and a co-defendant who pleaded guilty burglarized more than 30 Kansas City-area homes, picking their victims by reading real estate listings and obituaries, hitting model homes, homes on real estate tours or homes where owners would be attending funerals.

In one of the five Platte County cases Johnson was convicted of, a man was at a funeral for his wife while Johnson burglarized his home.

“It’s hard to imagine a more cruel and heartless burglary scheme than this one,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said. “Picking out a home to break into because the owner is at a funeral reveals a complete lack of any conscience whatsoever. Dane Johnson deserves every year he will spend in prison.”

Johnson, 35, of Kansas City, Mo., was found guilty of burglary and stealing and faces up to 78 years in prison. Co-defendant Landon N. Prothro received 28 years in prison in October 2006 after pleading guilty.

Johnson and Prothro were arrested after a 2006 home burglary in which a resident confronted them.

 

Memo to would-be robbers: Don’t take pictures with possible victims

This dude, Andre Smith, is just not very bright.

BENSALEM, Pa. — Police say they had no trouble tracking down a robbery suspect, because the victims had taken his picture while chatting with him at a bar a short time before the theft.
The suspect, Andre Smith, struck up a conversation with a group of women at a bachelorette party at the Bensalem Township taproom early Sunday morning, the township’s public safety director, Fred Harran, said Wednesday. The women were taking photos of each other when Smith jumped in front of the camera, Harran said.
Smith later was ejected from the bar for allegedly harassing customers.
When two women in the group left the bar to go to a nearby convenience store, Smith robbed them of their purses, Harran said. The women recognized Smith - who apparently didn’t recognize them - and gave investigators a copy of their photo, Harran said.
Later Sunday, a detective went around to local apartment complexes looking for Smith and spotted him, Harran said.
Smith was arrested on robbery and theft charges and is being held on $50,000 bail. Electronic court records did not list an attorney for him. 

Hillary Clinton: Hick to Hillbilly

March 6, 2007 at the First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama

Mother’s Day Weekend 2008

Quote of the Day

“Death had to take him sleeping. For if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight.” — Thomas Marshall

Teddy Roosevelt = Bad Ass

YES WE CAN!!!

What would you like to ask Barack Obama?

Obama’s Foreign Policy Approach: Ignore History, Hope It Doesn’t Repeat Itself

After the win in North Carolina, Barack Obama fulminated about what the victory meant for America. On foreign policy, Obama said, it was a recognition that the US should talk to its enemies, in the same manner as FDR, Truman, and Kennedy did. At the time, I noted the strange claim and its complete ignorance of history, and today, Jack Kelly continues the history lesson for a constitutional scholar who clearly skipped 20th-century history:

I assume the Roosevelt to whom Sen. Obama referred is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Our enemies in World War II were Nazi Germany, headed by Adolf Hitler; fascist Italy, headed by Benito Mussolini, and militarist Japan, headed by Hideki Tojo. FDR talked directly with none of them before the outbreak of hostilities, and his policy once war began was unconditional surrender.

FDR died before victory was achieved, and was succeeded by Harry Truman. Truman did not modify the policy of unconditional surrender. He ended that war not with negotiation, but with the atomic bomb.

- Ed Morrissey

Harry Truman also was president when North Korea invaded South Korea in June, 1950. President Truman’s response was not to call up North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung for a chat. It was to send troops.

Perhaps Sen. Obama is thinking of the meeting FDR and Churchill had with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in Tehran in December, 1943, and the meetings Truman and Roosevelt had with Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam in February and July, 1945. But Stalin was then a U.S. ally, though one of whom we should have been more wary than FDR and Truman were. Few historians think the agreements reached at Yalta and Potsdam, which in effect consigned Eastern Europe to slavery, are diplomatic models we ought to follow. Even fewer Eastern Europeans think so.

When Stalin’s designs became unmistakably clear, President Truman’s response wasn’t to seek a summit meeting. He sent military aid to Greece, ordered the Berlin airlift and the Marshall Plan, and sent troops to South Korea.

Given the importance that Obama places on this approach to foreign policy — he seldom fails to mention it as an example of the “change” he’ll bring to Washington — one wonders why the media hasn’t pressed him on this rationalization. Obama isn’t merely saying that he’ll reinstitute diplomatic relations with Iran, which would emulate our relations with the Nazis and the Japanese prior to Pearl Harbor. Obama wants to have meetings without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has publicly spoken of his desire to annihilate a key ally of the US, as well as Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro, and any number of thugs and tyrants. When did FDR, Truman, and Kennedy do that? Answer: never.

As I pointed out on Wednesday, even diplomatic contact didn’t help FDR with Japan and Germany. The Japanese used diplomatic negotiations as a stalling maneuver to get its Imperial Navy in place to destroy our Pacific Fleet in 1941. Our diplomatic relations with the Nazis only encouraged America Firsters and Nazi sympathizers like Charles Lindbergh to claim that Hitler had no animus towards the West and that he could be a bulwark against Bolshevism.

Maybe Obama could ask the Czechs how well unconditional talks worked for them during Munich. Neville Chamberlain insisted on holding peace talks to avoid war in Czechoslovakia, which could have defended itself as long as it held the fortifications in the Sudetenland long enough for Britain and France to beat Germany from the rear. Instead, Chamberlain carved up Czechoslovakia without its permission, and six months afterward, Hitler swallowed the rest of it whole. FDR, meanwhile, remained steadfastly neutral diplomatically until 1939, when he began clandestine support for the UK.

Negotiations with tyrants almost always leads to appeasement, which only postpones war until the tyrant is strong enough to wage it most effectively. It results in many more deaths and far more destruction because it gives the initiative and the timing to the tyrants, while building their credibility at home. William Shirer noted that the Germans were astounded when Hitler repeatedly bluffed the West during the years from 1935 to 1939, figuring each bluff would be called and Hitler destroyed as a political force. By the time he rolled into Poland unopposed except by the outmatched Poles, who expected actual military assistance from Britain and France, Germans would follow Hitler anywhere, convinced of his invincibility.

That’s what Obama’s “new approach” to foreign policy promises. It’s Neville Chamberlain without the umbrella. It certainly isn’t FDR or Truman.

Islam White-Washed: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks

Kudos to Sam Harris at the Huffington Post (Yes, the Huffington Post), who wrote a brilliant piece on the media’s continued white-washing of fanatical Islam. I highly recommend that everyone read this piece and forward it along to their friends. 

Some of my favorite excerpts:

The controversy over Fitna, like all such controversies, renders one fact about our world especially salient: Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence.
There is an uncanny irony here that many have noticed. The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you. Of course, the truth is often more nuanced, but this is about as nuanced as it ever gets: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for “racism” and “Islamophobia.”

Excerpt 2:

In Texas, police raided an FLDS compound and took hundreds of women and underage girls into custody to spare them the continued, sacramental predations of their menfolk. While mainstream Mormonism is now granted the deference accorded to all major religions in the United States, its fundamentalist branch, with its commitment to polygamy, spousal abuse, forced marriage, child brides (and, therefore, child rape) is often portrayed in the press as a depraved cult. But one could easily argue that Islam, considered both in the aggregate and in terms of its most negative instances, is far more despicable than fundamentalist Mormonism. The Muslim world can match the FLDS sin for sin–Muslims commonly practice polygamy, forced-marriage (often between underage girls and older men), and wife-beating–but add to these indiscretions the surpassing evils of honor killing, female “circumcision,” widespread support for terrorism, a pornographic fascination with videos showing the butchery of infidels and apostates, a vibrant form of anti-semitism that is explicitly genocidal in its aspirations, and an aptitude for producing children’s books and television programs which exalt suicide-bombing and depict Jews as “apes and pigs.”

Read the article here 

P.S. Sam Harris looks like Ben Stiller…

Wheels Off Texas Mayor Makes Adam West Look Presidential…

Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller has led an interesting life to say the least. The question bothering voters in the Dallas suburb today though, is exactly how much of her life story is true, and for that matter, how crazy is she? — Crazy enough to be mayor, I guess.

Some of her more outrageous claims:

• Sang backup for Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne
• Engaged to the Eagles’ Don Henley
• Had a brother who died in Vietnam
• Was a singer known as “Pinky” during the 1970’s 
• Attended Western Kentucky
• Said her brother was a songwriter for the Eagles

Who would you vote for: Major Adam West 

OR Becky Miller?