Sep. 1, 2008 at 14:01
by BrendaBee
McCain and company handed a golden opportunity to "make hay" when Hurricane Gustav decided to make land fall at the beginning of the GOP Convention. Obama's people are kicking themselves for not getting the idea first. but since they came in second place his spokesman said they didn't want to make a contest out of the relief efforts.
Don'tcha just love these politicians and their handlers? BB
GOP to Create Hurricane Relief Center in St. Paul
http://townhall.com/Columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/09/01/
"Republican Party officials are quickly creating a volunteer center in St. Paul to coordinate hurricane relief efforts to the Gulf Coast region while their national convention is temporarily suspended.
GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s Campaign Manager, Rick Davis, said party organizers were establishing a relief center to assemble and ship more than 80,000 “comfort packages” to the five states affected by Hurricane Gustav.
Davis said the center would “open first thing Wednesday to accommodate volunteers to help pack” packages which would contain essentials like toothpaste, toothbrushes and snacks. State party delegations are currently being scheduled in shifts to assemble the packages as well.
Fundraising efforts to “charities identified in the Gulf States” by the Governors’ offices in each of the five affected states are being coordinated as well. Davis also said they would be soliciting the delegations, corporations and other organizations in the Twin Cities to help drive dollars to those states. He refrained from stating any explicit fundraising goals or saying whether or not their Democratic presidential opponent, Barack Obama, should tap his fundraising network to send money to the Gulf States.
“We don’t want to make a contest out of this,” he said."
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Aug. 15, 2008 at 11:49
by BrendaBee
Let us hope the next Congress man to be taken down for his blatant flaunting of all ethical practices in Congress and in life is Democrat Representative John Murtha from Pennsylvania. He is slim and a disgrace even in a disgraceful Congress. BB
Headlines: Murtha Intervenes for Company That Broke Export Law
Congressman Urges State Dept. to Meet With Pennsylvania Firm, Saying Sanctions Could Sink It
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Christopher Lee Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 15, 2008; Page A05
" Rep. John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat known for delivering federal money to defense contractors in his district, and chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, wrote State Department officials in late June urging them to meet with the president of Electro-Glass Products, a 50-employee company that was convicted in April 2007 of illegally exporting components of night-vision goggles to a company in India. The Mammoth, Pa., firm has been sanctioned by the State Department, and Murtha argues that the action threatens to put the firm out of business.
"Electro-Glass is a highly respected company known for its honesty," Murtha wrote. He said the company, which manufactures small glass rings called "preforms," would not have made the shipments "if they truly believed the shipments were in violation of the law." He added: "It will be genuinely unfortunate if they are forced to close their doors."
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** payola n.
- Bribery of an influential person in exchange for the promotion of a product or service, such that of disc jockeys for the promotion of records.
- A bribe or a number of bribes given to an influential person in exchange for a promotion of a product or service: "I do not mean to imply that most Wall Street analysts typically receive payola for touting particular stocks"
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May. 10, 2008 at 15:18
by BrendaBee
I am always trying to correct misunderstandings about history that crop up more often than they should. This of course is a consequence of the schools beginning in the 1960's to teach "social studies" instead of History. As a result we have two generations who know more about how the local sewage treatment plant operates than how the government operates. A generation who believe there was no intelligent life on Earth before they came on the scene. This is not to put younger people down, it is merely a sad fact that they have been cheated of vital information. Youth has always been arrogant and felt their elders were "behind the times" and "just didn't understand". My Dad could tell you I was absolutely horrid in my arrogance. But aside from that I do think there are those out there who do care what went down in the past and will appreciate a short history lesson.
I had started a post on this same subject, but haven't yet finished. So am passing on a post sent to me by a friend (Dallas W) about the statement Barack Obama made in his NC victory speech that shows his incredible and dangerous lack of knowledge of history. Please read. BB
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In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon.
In defending his stated intent to meet with America's enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: "I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."
That he made this statement, and that it passed without comment by the journalists covering his speech indicates either breathtaking ignorance of history on the part of both, or deceit.
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.
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 .
Sen. Obama is on both sounder and softer ground with regard to John F. Kennedy. The new president held a summit meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev in Vienna in June, 1961.
Elie Abel, who wrote a history of the Cuban missile crisis (The Missiles of October), said the crisis had its genesis in that summit.
"There is reason to believe that Khrushchev took Kennedy's measure in June 1961 and decided this was a young man who would shrink from hard decisions," Mr. Abel wrote. "There is no evidence to support the belief that Khrushchev ever questioned America 's power. He questioned only the president's readiness to use it. As he once told Robert Frost, he came to believe that Americans are 'too liberal to fight.'"
That view was supported by New York Tim es columnist James Reston, who traveled to Vienna with President Kennedy: "Khrushchev had studied the events of the Bay of Pigs ," Mr. Reston wrote. "He would have understood if Kennedy had left Castro alone or destroyed him, but when Kennedy was rash enough to strike at Cuba but not bold enough to finish the job, Khrushchev decided he was dealing with an inexperienced young leader who could be intimidated and blackmailed."
It's worth noting that Kennedy then was vastly more experienced than Sen. Obama is now. A combat veteran of World War II, Jack Kennedy served 14 years in Congress before becoming president. Sen. Obama has no military and little work experience, and has been in Congress for less than four years.
The closest historical analogue to Sen. Obama's expressed desire to meet with no preconditions with anti-American dictators such as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the trip British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French premier Eduoard Daladier took to Munich in September of 1938 to negotiate "peace in our time" with Adolf Hitler. That didn't work out so well.
History is an elective few liberals choose to take these days, noted a poster on the Web log "Hot Air." The lack of historical knowledge among journalists is merely appalling. But in a presidential candidate it's dangerous. As Sir Winston Churchill said:
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
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Apr. 11, 2008 at 15:18
by BrendaBee
I did not write this. It was e-mailed to me by a friend. I am posting on my blog to share with you all because it says what I would say if I could express myself as well. BB
I did not write this but it speaks volumes . I give a Hat tip to Chuck Jones , a former school mate for sending this . dpw
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After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President.
I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.
We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words "money" and "special intersts" come to mind, among many others.
Here's the way I see it:
Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois , which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system.
You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth ! But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job !
Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend "God Damn Ame rica" Jeremiah Wright. It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there. The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people. We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you have publicly stated that this man IS your "spiritual mentor".
BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping, hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most. And please don't tell me you attended church there and never once heard a "discouraging word" in the 20 years you attended there. Don't tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades.
Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted and walked out. I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing.
Now YOU look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there ! This is like me telling you that I attended dozens of Klan rallys and never once heard the "N" word. Yep. And Bill Clinton "did not inhale".
Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you. I am deeply sorry, that in a county teeming with enormously talented African Americans who would make a good President, that the political system has cho sen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.
Now, did I mention Bill Clinton ?
AH YES ! This brings us to MRS. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, who this candidate really is, in spite of all the other names she may care to call herself. This "feminist" piece of work of course would like to be referred to as MS. and we all know who wears the pant suit in that family.
MS. Clinton, (sugar), it is just as depressing to realize that there are dozens of women who would also make great Presidents. But, unfortunately, the horrible state of the selection process has selected YOU. Ms. Clinton, I'm sorry, b ut you could not tell the truth if we waterboarded your worthless ass !
Still you play the role of the "embarrassed but dignified noble wife". What utter malarky ! I am not voting for you for a world of reasons, but the main one is the same as not my voting for Senator Obama. You persistently insult my intelligence. It COULD be conceivably possible that you did not know about Monica Lewinsky, extremely remote, but possible if we stretch our imaginations a bit. But you turn around and then ask me to believe that you also did not know about Paula Jones and the legion of other women who were chewed up and spit out by your lecherous excuse for a husband. Puleese turn off this broken record !!!
But let's set aside your hubby's flagrant pecadillos. The real reason I will never vote for you is that I don't think the country can su rvive EIGHT MORE YEARS of Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Sandy Berger stuffing his socks with classified intelligence, Janet Reno's goon squad, and the myriad other corruptions that seem to stick to you like your ugly face. So our former President can't keep his dick in his pants. The REAL issue is that he committed perjury under oath when he lied about it and the pathetically-attempted coverup that followed. Like you, he is totally incapable of telling the truth. He could not do it if you tortured him, and in voting for you, we would get the BOTH of you, all over again. The same folks who could have taken out Osama Bin Laden over 3,000 dead Americans ago !
And please stop telling me that you have "8 years of experience" to lead us. You were the freakin' first lady already, not the Commander in Chief. Jeez ! The sum of your "experience" is that of the most worrisome and incompetent meddling in the history of the White House. You even cursed your pitiful staff and the Secret Service agents who were and still are unfortunately charged with risking their lives to protect your worthless, thieving hide, and all at the expense of other people who have to work for a living.
Your single pathetic platform is to finance the illegal drugs, alcoholism and bad habits of the very lowest and most irresponsible freeloaders in America and to then "garnish the wages" (your own words) of every law-abiding and hard-working American to pay for it. This disaster you refer to as "Universal Health Care". Where have you been the last 30 years ? Did you not see that socialism is a failure wherever it has been tried ? Did you not notice that the Soviet Union has collapsed since it gave no re ward to those who worked the hardest for the fruits of their own labors to pay for those who will not ??
It is interesting to see all the dead bodies that you and your hubby have left in your wake. Suicides, mysterious deaths, cover-ups that make Richard Nixon look like a rank amateur. The utter contempt and unbelievable arrogance of some of your strongest supporters, most notably the recently resigned and disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, the epitome of hypocritical and malevolent arrogance gone wild, one of your most ardent, wealthy and powerful political supporters. A man the news media refuses to admit IS a "super delegate" in your own political machine, a fine example of your own "adopted" state of New York . No wonder you moved there to run for Senator ! The environment there is perfect for the likes of you !
Yes, I would vote for a woman, but I will NOT vote for YOU !
Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.
John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand on the nuclear button.
Think about it.
We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabres at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him to be really pissed off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.
John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Off ice and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want ALL of these "world leaders" to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America .
I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran , Russia , China , Venezuela , Cuba , Libya , Syria , Pakistan , and those other assholes in the sheets, the Saudis.
On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED. For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket. The liberals are pissed at him and the conservatives are pissed at him. Just my kinda guy.
I predict that John will select Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Good choice. I want a Jew whose memory of the Holocaust is still fresh in his mind and who is royally pissed off at all of these towel-headed morons in the Middle East to be the next in line if something should happen to John. Shalom, Vice President Joe. One heartbeat from the Oval Office.
Finally. John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer horrible torture for years and to see others die, right in front of you, for their love of America . When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was "nothing special". Even more incredibly, he states that ANY American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time be lieving that, but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the "average American", and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one poor ballot for on election day for John McCain--warts and all.
God Bless America ,
A Concerned Citizen
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Mar. 18, 2008 at 19:32
by BrendaBee
I was, and am still, a strong fighter for civil rights as you who read my blog know by now. But I have for several years now been bothered by the inequality between the races that I have watched develop since the mid 1970's when most of the laws assuring equal treatment of all races, sexes and religions had been passed. Blacks somehow changed the rules and the reasons we were all fighting for equal rights leaving Whites like me baffled and concerned. It seemed they were not content to be "equal", but had to go beyond and become segregationists themselves. Whites and Hispanics and every other make or model could not in any way exclude Blacks from their associations, but Blacks could exclude all others from their organizations and clubs.
Every legislature whether state or federal has a Black Caucus. An organization exclusively for Blacks and no one else need apply. Here in Greensboro we have the Pulpit Forum made up of Black ministers. We have the Simkins PAC, which is a political action group exclusively for Blacks. And there are several other organizations that are made up of only Blacks and which Whites or Hispanics are excluded. These exclusively Black organizations are to be found all over the country.
Now I am not saying these organization should not exist and neither am I saying that they are wrong to exist. However I am saying that I KNOW that if any exclusively White or Hispanic organization should be formed there would be screams of racism against the organizers and probably law suits would be brought against the members for discrimination.
But far worse than these all exclusive organizations are the Black people who openly denounce the United States and all races with what coming from any other person of another race would be denounced and banned as racist. The KKK can not openly gather or march, and certainly do not get the favorable press coverage that these blatantly racist Black individual get. As stated I am a long time civil rights advocate who worked with Blacks very early in the movement, who met Martin Luther King and heard his message directly from him and who fought for and got the laws passed that would assure all races were treated equally. (These laws did not change attitudes because that is an impossibility, but they did make it possible for anyone suffering discrimination to bring the matter before the courts for redress.) As this same civil rights advocate now grown old I am disheartened and dismayed that racism has taken on another color and it is now the Black man who is practicing racism against all others.
This year 2008 AD we have a Black man who is running for president and who is winning hearts and votes all over the country. I have listened to Barack Obama and have been impressed with him. I don't agree with his views, but the man is, I believe, worthy of being President of the United States if elected.
Picture my dismay to find that this very intelligent, well educated, well off, trusted Black man, who has enjoyed all the rights and privileges that being a citizen of the United States can offer to any of it's citizens, is a member of the church of a virulently racist Black minister. A minister who spews out what can only be term as "hate speech" with impunity. Speech that no White minister would be permitted. In fact, speech and words that no White person of any calling could use without being arrested and charged with a crime. Yes, "hate speech" is a crime when spoken by any race but the Black race. And Barack Obama, the first Black man to run for the presidency who has a good chance to be nominated by his party, is a long time member of this minister's church.
I will let Cal Thomas speak for me from this point:
Barack and the Bigot
By Cal Thomas
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
"In his several explanations and denunciations of his longtime pastor, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama asks us to believe that he never heard any of the sermons in which Rev. Jeremiah Wright denounced and asked God to damn America. Neither was he present, he says, for Rev. Wright's message in which he said America got what it deserved on 9/11 because we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II and have bombed other countries. He apparently also missed the one about how America created AIDS. The implication appears to have been that it was a plot to wipe out blacks, since the disease disproportionately affects African Americans.
Other church members must have told Obama what Rev. Wright said, or he could have viewed the sermon on the church's Website. It appears many others besides just Rev. Wright share this point of view. If one looks at the video, church members are standing, shouting approval and applauding. This is not one man speaking for himself. From the reaction, one can fairly conclude he is speaking for most, if not all, of the congregation. But not for Barack Obama, he says.
US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) listens to a question from the audience during a campaign stop in Plainfield, Indiana March 15, 2008. REUTERS/Frank Polich (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)
A statement issued by the church last Sunday accused critics of attacking "the legacy of the African-American Church." That is like excusing racism in some Southern white churches 50 years ago because of a "legacy" of bigotry. Hate from a preacher - black or white - can never be justified."
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Feb. 29, 2008 at 23:34
by BrendaBee
The following is a survey sponsored by the Republican National Committee and offered thru Townhall.com You might want to take a few minutes to take it and let those in power know how you feel. BB
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Dear Friend,
 You are invited to take a National Policy Survey called the Congressional District Survey.
The National Republican Congressional Committee is conducting this nationwide grass-roots project as a critical part of our efforts to rebuild and strengthen the Republican Party by getting more Americans, like you, involved.
To take this survey, please click here now.
As we approach the all-important 2008 Presidential election it is crucial that we act today to make sure the Republican Party is listening, and is focused squarely on, the top priorities of the American people.
That is why it is important you make your voice heard by completing the Congressional District Survey today!
We need to know your personal views on many of the most important issues facing our politically divided nation: the economy, national defense, America's tax system, health care, Social Security, illegal immigration, government spending, and much more.
After the analysis of the Congressional District Survey survey is complete, it will be presented to President Bush, the Republican Party Leadership and all of our Republican candidates running for office in 2008. You will also receive an exact duplicate copy this report.
To make sure you receive your copy, please click here today to make your voice heard by completing the
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The Congressional District Survey ends on Friday, March 7th so please make sure to take the survey as soon as possible to ensure you receive the report that will be delivered to President Bush.
Thank you for helping with this vital project. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Tom Cole, M.C.
Chairman
National Republican Congressional Committee
P.S. Your chance to respond to the Congressional District Survey will end in one week so please make sure to click here today to make your voice heard. Thanks again for helping us with this project.
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