Wow, just wow. She manages to cram more moonbatery in this single clip than I thought possible. The most disgraceful thing is how she alludes to various conspiracy theories and then dances away from them. What a insufferable twit.
HatTip: Insty
I have had one post that dealt with what I call political hackery in the past. You may remember it, Politics and Science Don't Mix. Although that one really falls under a mixture of political and scientific hackery, here is another shining example.
This post will deal with one aspect of the ridiculously disgusting actions of our legislature this week with regards to the supplemental war spending bills they passed. I will most likely write later about other aspects of this travesty. The depravity it takes to sell your vote on the backs of our soldiers, the leftist sickness that induces one to surrender to one's enemies, putting our soldiers lives at risk, giving aid and comfort to our enemies, committing intentional acts of sedition, and so on. Today we look at what hack jobs these bills are. Three things specifically scream of political hackery.
Putting a timeline on withdrawing troops from a war is not the Legislature's job. The Constitution gives specific powers to the POTUS and the legislature. The President controls the operating of the war and Congress controls the purse strings. This bill could very well be ruled un-Constitutional by SCOTUS if it were ever to get that far. That is a big if though, judging on the Court's relative silence on the war powers issue over the years.
At any rate Congress is not supposed to interfere with the action on the ground. If they want to stop a war they can easily do so, by yanking the funding for it. That is precisely what happened with the Vietnam conflict. They managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, and it appears they are trying to do it again.
The current crop of leftist-defeatists lack the courage of the Vietnam-era traitors. They aren't willing to put their butt on the line by ending the war the way they should. They know that the aftermath would most likely end many of their careers, so they resort to this legislative flatulence to try to force their will on the President and our fighting forces, without putting their eggs in the basket.
Everyone that voted for these bills knows the President is going to veto them and they also know they don't have the votes to override his veto. This is a macabre sideshow. He has promised to do so from the get go. The forced withdrawal is not the legislature's prerogative, as we have already discussed. Bush must veto this. Not vetoing it would weaken the Presidency and upset the balance of power for generations to come. The Congress critters will try to paint the veto in a light that indicates the POTUS is not supporting the troops, because he vetoed their money. This of course will be the definition of political hackery. The media will of course assume their usual role, and many uninformed Americans will swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
Tying political goals to war funding is wrong. It simply should not be done. If you want to try to force an arbitrary date on the President, don't do it as part of a funding bill. This money pays the troops salaries, along with buying them bullets, gear, and upgrading their current gear so they can better do their jobs and stay as safe as possible. Delaying this money for political reasons is a disgrace. I wouldn't have nearly the problem with this surrender date bullshit as I do, if the Democrats were to simply create a new bill with that in it, instead of politicizing the troop's money dishonestly.
Thanks to Chris at Anarchangel for posting this. I had not seen this guy before. Check out this video and if you like it, there are more at Bob Parker's YouTube site. His blog can be found here.
In the 20th century, secular humanism crept into American and Western governments, promising openness and tolerance for diverse groups, religions and philosophies, she said.
“What we got was narrow positivism, moral relativism and the totalitarian reign of the radical multiculturalist,” Brown said. “It promised peace. What we got was a process of permanent revolution, tumult, strife and a ceaseless assault upon the foundations of faith, family and civil society. It promised if not the pursuit of truth, at least rationality and acknowledgment of objective reality. What we got was postmodernism.” The battle, in her view, is not political but theological: “Contrary to the prevailing secularist dogma ... a society cannot exist without a fighting faith. Where society has nothing to die for, it has nothing to live for and cannot long survive.”
Here is a video Iran has released of the hostages they kidnapped from Iraqi waters.
This sickens me. Luckily I heard yesterday that American forces have the right to defend themselves in a similar situation, should it come up. The fact they made the female sailor wear a head scarve really pisses me off.
HatTip: Drudge
More info.
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Apparently they were forces to confess that they were in Iranian waters, while the Brits released info that proves they were not.
HatTip: Jihad Watch
Governor Perry signed the "Castle Doctrine" this afternoon!
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On a surprising vote my State Representative actually voted for it. What a shocker that one was!
RICHMOND -- New York City officials may have a harder time targeting Virginia gun dealers under legislation signed Friday by Gov. Tim Kaine.
Kaine signed House Bill 2653, which restricts "straw sales" of guns such as those some Virginia dealers allegedly made to undercover private investigators hired by New York City. The transactions were cited in lawsuits the city filed last year against gun dealers in Virginia and four other states alleging they sold firearms illegally. City officials have accused the gun dealers of selling weapons that later were used to commit crimes in New York.
The bill, sponsored by Del. Scott Lingamfelter, R-Prince William County, prohibits anyone but law enforcement officers from trying to make an illegal gun purchase from a firearms dealer. A violation of the law would be a felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Liberal Democrats in the Senate and House plan to resume "the fight for women's equality" on Tuesday, when they reintroduce the Women's Equality Amendment.
Sens. Ted Kennedy (Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler, both of New York, plan to join Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, in making the Tuesday afternoon announcement.
This time around, supporters say they hope "women will finally achieve official equality in America." But a conservative group said women's rights activists are "fighting old battles."
"There is still a great deal of discrimination out there," Maloney argued, citing income disparity between men and women, gender-based "discriminatory clubs" and "gender-based hate crimes."
The House and Senate passed the legislation and Governor Perry will sign it today. The rights of Texans to defend themselves is about the only thing Perry has done right lately. Of course as upset as most of his constituents are with his actions lately, not signing this bill might induce a sizeable lynch mob in Austin.
So once the bill goes into effect, Texans will not have to worry about being sued by thug's families after they kill people that decide to break into their house, or carjack them. We also won't have to worry about whether or not we should run from said thugs instead of defending our rights and/or our property.
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This is great news. Hopefully the house will pass it and the Governor can sign it into law soon. Look out scumbags. Don't mess with Texas indeed.
