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Maybe having an aspiring socialist in the White House will improve out relationship with the dictator thug, Hugo Chavez.

I can see it now...Hillary flying down to Caracas to comfort Hugo when he has a cold, just like Hugo jaunting off to Havana to coddle Fidel.

As Hugo nationalizes oil companies and shuts down opposition media, Hillary is all about socialized medicine and taking away the profits of the oil companies. And let's not forget the fairness doctrine tripe, which would make media such as this illegal.

Seriously, I don't know how people can listen the this gal and not be concerned about our future freedom and prosperity. It always gets me when I hear people who have already 'got theirs' trying to make it hard for those of us still working on getting their own.

But as much as it pains me to listen to the commies that will probably run this country someday, I'm glad that my hope is not found in government.

Went over to Amy Klobuchars sight to see if there was anything that needed mocking on the "101 Reasons to Whine Change" only to discover its gone!

Darn. I like commie bashing.


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Immigrant Takes Refuge in Chicago Church

Look, if this gal was simply an illegal immigrant waiting tables somewhere, whose son happens to be an American citizen, I might be inclined to give her a pass. Unfortunately, she's "...the face of the movement", which puts the Government in a pickle: Do they storm the church Elián González style, or turn their backs.

Revoke the churches tax exempt status for a start. They call allowing an illegal alien to hole up in your church 'civil disobedience': It's still breaking the law. In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, don't do the crime unless you're willing to do the time.

Come On!

"Sen. Lieberman's message of independence and bipartisanship is right for our country."

McGavick said he would love to work across the aisle with a newly re-elected Lieberman this winter, although some Washington Republicans may be unhappy with him endorsing a high-profile Democrat over a GOP nominee.

Are we just looking for a lap dog? Is Lieberman supposed to be the GOP's "good liberal"?

Get with it.

If he gets elected, do you think he'll dance for the GOP every time someone says, "We endorsed you!"?

Cut him loose.



Current Affairs

Mark Kennedy comes out and endorses Sen. Joe Lieberman (D). Excuse me, but Joe is a world class leftie. Other than his understanding of national security, the guy is a leftie. Pro-abortion, tax the middle-class to feed the lazy leftie, free medical care for all socialist. Alright? Unless your hoping that he splits the Democrats and helps usher in a conservative Senator, he's a socialist that doesn't need to be in office. Got it? So get off the "I (heart) Lieberman" thing and start looking for a strong conservative to fill the position.

Sheesh.

As I posted before, I believe that amusement parks are communist centers for social engineering and culling out the weak from the strong.

Here is further proof.

If they want to censure a bad president, here is an idea:

The past few weeks the news media has been fixated on discussions of efforts by Democrats to either impeach or censure President Bush.

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has made the push to censure President Bush for the administration's wiretapping of suspected terrorists. Meanwhile a group of activist liberals has launched ImpeachPAC, which is raising money to support congressional candidates who favor impeachment proceedings against Bush for taking the fight to the terrorists in Iraq.

I have a better idea, how about censuring a president who has increasingly led an effort to undermine American foreign policy and who has embraced terrorist organizations and urged international funding for them.

How about censuring former president Jimmy Carter?

While the mainstream news media has portrayed Carter in a saintly light, preoccupied with building homes for the underprivileged, Carter has devoted most of his time to condemning the United States to any audience who will have him.

The man who sat impotent while Iranian radicals stormed the American Embassy in Tehran has been busy appeasing America's enemies since he left the White House.

As WorldNetDaily reported last January, Carter hob-knobbed with an unregistered Iraqi agent, Samir Vincent, inviting him into his home, and giving him a guided tour of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga.

Samir Vincent was an agent of Saddam Hussein who helped Iraq evade compliance with the U.N.-approved "Oil for Food" program. Billions of dollars were funneled from the "Oil for Food" program into Saddam's military.

While wining and dining the Iraqi agent, Carter blasted U.S. foreign policy in Iraq and the economic sanctions that had been imposed against Saddam Hussein because of his repeated refusals to comply with U.N. sanctions.

Not surprisingly, Carter later emerged as one of the leading figures to oppose Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ironically, one of the reasons Carter cited for his opposition to military action was that it might prompt Saddam Hussein to use chemical or biological weapons, which Carter said he believed Hussein had.

Apparently Carter favors appeasement of those who would seek to bring devastation to American cities, a position not altogether different from the position Carter took in the face of threats of Soviet aggression during his presidency.

There doesn't seem to be a white flag of surrender that Jimmy Carter doesn't enjoy waving.

Besides playing soft with Iranian radicals and working with Iraqi agents and berating President Bush for being mean to Saddam Hussein, Carter recently expressed support for the Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas.

Hamas is recognized as the largest and most powerful Palestinian terrorist organization, advocating for the destruction of Israel and responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks, which have maimed or killed thousands of innocent civilians.

A day after the terrorist group emerged victorious in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, Carter urged the international community to support Hamas and provide financial assistance to the new government.

But the peanut farmer from Georgia wasn't done meddling with American foreign policy.

This month, Carter announced he had made a personal promise to ambassadors from Egypt, Pakistan and Cuba that he would fight to undermine U.S. opposition to the new U.N. Human Rights Commission. The United States opposed the new panel because it would continue to allow known human-rights abusers to serve on the commission.

It's understandable why the United States, led by the fabulously stalwart and principled Ambassador John Bolton, would oppose such a commission. In May 2001, a bloc of nations led by despots and tyrants voted the United States off the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Nations with known human-rights violations, such as the Sudan, were instead placed on the panel.

So here was Jimmy Carter urging the nations of the world to rebuke the United States once more. "My hope is that when the vote is taken ... the other members will outvote the United States," Carter recently told the Council on Foreign Relations.

And they did.

In a recent editorial, "Colonization of Palestine Proceeds Peace," Jimmy Carter laments that, "For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community."

No, Mr. President, for more than a quarter century your politics have been in conflict the interests of the United States.

A growing number of Democrats in Congress believe that President Bush should be censured for wiretapping suspected terrorists and waging a war against terrorism.

The act of censure is an official statement of condemnation or denouncement by Congress. Congress has the authority to censure its own members – or anyone else, for that matter – in the form of a resolution.

If the members of Congress are feeling the itch to issue a resolution of censure, they should start first with a man who has repeatedly sought to undermine this nation's foreign policy – a man who has repeatedly sided with America's enemies and promoted known terrorist groups.

All patriotic Americans should join with me in demanding our elected leaders censure the man from Plains, Ga., for repeatedly working to undermine the interests of the United States of America and its citizens.

It's time for the Congress of the United States to censure Jimmy Carter.

When I was growing up, May Day was about a bunch of silly dancers weaving a ribbon around a pole.

When I got into High School, I found out that it was the typical spring time fertility celebration.

When I got into the Navy, I found out that it was about communism. I don't know how communism and fertility got mixed up together, but I am sure someone got screwed. And, as the old saying goes, "They weren't getting kissed."

So, celebrating May Day in this tradition, we get this:

California's state senators on Thursday endorsed Monday's boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history.

Excuse me while I locate an Adult Beverage...

Beverage located...

...and consumed.

Okay.

The next level of May Day celebrations, as defined by the California State Senate, is to subjugate themselves to a foreign power.

What's next? Will they start running the San Diego light rail mass transit system from down town Tijuana? Why bother with things like fences: That money could be used to install bridges and escalators for those who want to make their way to the U.S. I know it takes the glamour out of running across the desert in the middle of the night, but hey! Seeing that we are endorsing illegal immirgrants, let's just go all the way. Let's flood the market with cheap, unskilled, uneducated labors so that our own unskilled, uneducated labors can't find jobs.

I am really tired of politicians who want to remain in power instead of watching out for the good to the nation and We The People.


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I'm kind of bored with politics lately. The latest is either Giuliani or McCain are going to be the candidates for the GOP in the '08, or both on the ticket. I don't really care for either, but I'd take Giuliani any day over McCain. If it were a McCain/Giuliani ticket, I'd seriously look at the Libertarians.

Then there's Iran: Some serious religious fanatics with nuclear capabilities. People who have vowed to wipe Israel off the map. People who must be stopped. What do we get? Commie nut cases like this Professor of Journalism at the University of Minnesota:

Unless the international community can design safety valves to check American aggression, more and more nation states will opt for a nuclear deterrence capability. And then the next American war could well be a nuclear war.

Abhinav K. Aima is Instructor of Journalism at the University of Minnesota, who is trying to gloss over the religious/emotional aspects of the argument by getting on with straight out leftie political science. Here's a news flash, Professor: You can not argue feelings with logic! The very essence of faith, even in a false religion like Islam, is believing in the unseen. If you refuse to examine the religious side of this argument, all of your political science and thinking that their only concern is national security goes right out the window. In fact, you refuse to look at what they have actually said, in words and writing, and build an argument for them. The real problem here is that Abhinav is the typical America hating leftie commie professor who has to build a case for the enemies of freedom. They say, "We will destroy you", Abhinav patronizingly says, "That's not what they really meant. They really meant the they want to protect themselves."

National security is an argument that they haven't tried to make for themselves.

Can't we all just eat some Beer Butt Chicken? I know, bad segway (sp?).


Beer Butt Chicken

1 Whole (3 1/2 - 4lb) Chicken
1 12 once can o' beer (more if your thirsty)
couple tablespoons of you favorite all purpose BBQ rub.
2 teaspoons olive or vegetable oil

Get your grill ready. Start your charcoal in a chimney.

Open the beer. Drink half.

Make sure the chicken is thawed. Remove any giblets and wash the bird with cold water, inside and out. Pat it dry with some paper towels.

Rub the inside of the chicken with a 2 teaspoons of rub, then coat the outside with the oil and the rest of the rub.

Now, place the can in an upright position. Carefully place the bird onto the can, inserting the can into the cavity. Cross the legs of the bird to form a little tripod.

Before you place it on the grill, push the coals off to the sides so the chicken is cooking with indirect heat. This prevents flare ups as well.

Cook until the temp reaches 180° in the thigh, about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. Another way to tell if chicken is done is when you can twist the leg bone right out of the drumstick.

To get it off the grill, use a couple of oven mitts of a side towel to pick it up. Present it.

If you are like Learned Foot and likes the taste of toxic chemicals in your grilled food, put a tablespoon of lighter fluid in a cup and mix it with barbecue sauce. Light it on fire, then use as a dipping sauce. Let the others enjoy their dinner.








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CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — Peace activist Cindy Sheehan returned to Texas on Wednesday for another war protest near President Bush's ranch, although he was to spend the weekend at Camp David.

The anti-war demonstrators accused Bush, who has spent every Easter at his Crawford ranch since he was elected, of running from them and their message to bring the U.S. troops home from Iraq immediately.

"We chased him away from his ranch," said Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004. "We protest all over the country without him being in attendance, so I don't think it takes away (from this vigil) a bit because he never met with us anyway. It wasn't even like we ever sat down and had sweet tea together."

Borrrrring.

Poor little girl. All used up by the commies, and tossed back on to the rocks. You can hear her peace movement protesting run doing the crappie (what a fish does when tossed into the bottom of a boat with no water).


But death of a movement (not that there was one) doesn't stop people from trudging along, acting like nothing is wrong, acting like things are moving forward even though it stalled out a long time ago.

Like the civil rights movement. It had drive, accomplished much, then ground to a halt. Legally, there was nothing more to be accomplished. What was left to be done was the changing of hearts away from prejudice. But many of the leaders in that movement kept driving on even though the car was dead. The Politician Jesse Jackson is a good example. The Politician Joseph Lowery is another.

The group's third Crawford protest in less than a year includes candlelight vigils, a rally and a march. The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., is to speak at a sunrise Easter Sunday service.

"We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace," Sheehan said. "We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts."

You know, if something really bad happens, like we actually get nuked, these people are going to be the first ones whining that Bush didn't do enough to protect us.




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Current Affairs, Iran

Hey, all you hippies who love to pay taxes: You're ripping off the government for millions of tax dollars by driving those little hybrids and fuel efficient cars. In fact, as the driver of a full size, extended cab four-wheel drive truck, I demand a little respect! If I smoked, you would have to worship me for all the tax dollars I'm dumping into the system! But not to worry: Oregon has got your back: Gas tax on miles, not gallons, tested

Size of L.A. March Surprises Authorities

Look. All we are doing is asking you to use the freakin' door! Come here legally, obey the rules, speak the language. Is it that much to ask?

If tightening the borders affects the labor pool, don't you think we'll open the door a little wider if we need to? We just want to have control over who is coming and going.





Illegal immigration

There's a bunch of stories and commentary about the Russians stabbing us in the back over the war with Iraq.

I only have one comment to make: Duh!

Oh, you want me to expound? Okay.

While most Russians live with the hope of getting decent jobs and food for their families, maybe a car and a TV, there are a few holdover Commies that miss the good old days: Possible world domination, having control and influence over third world nations, holding the purse strings for petty dictators, and the like. When Reagan drove them into the ground by bankrupting them, some went the way of capitalism.

Others, like the Nazi's before WWII, believed the WWI was lost by a incompetent few, and that if they where in charge, it would be different.

And since Russia can't compete with the US militarily or economically, they stab us in the back. And the UN is an excellent pipeline for information that they can use against us.

I mean, come on! They haven't done any thing yet to encourage trust. Why are we surprised?


News and Politics,Commies

Want to spend a little time with Mama Sheehan? Highest bid takes her home!

Cindy's selling speaking engagements on E-Bay now, but of course, she wouldn't address anyone who might question her:

* Note: Because of the obvious potential for right-wing shenanigans, Cindy retains the right to refuse to speak to groups antithetical to her cause or offensive to her beliefs. If no group can be agreed upon, the winning bidder will receive a full refund.*

Better hurry! bidding ends in less than 48 hours!

(Thanks Kurt P)

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