Women: Liberal vs. Consevative Women's Pictures

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The difference between conservative women and liberal women

If it came down to voting, which would you rather look at everyday? The choice seems obvious.





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Video: Sarah Palin's RNC Speech, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 3, 2008

Part 1 - Sarah Palin's RNC Speech





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Sarah Palin Quotes: 25 Memorable Quotes from Her RNC Speech

"The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."
--Sarah Palin, RNC Speech







* A writer observed: "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity." I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.

I grew up with those people. They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America ... who grow our food, run our factories, and fight our wars. They love their country, in good times and bad, and they're always proud of America. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

* I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion — I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people.

* My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of "personal discovery." This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn't just need an organizer.

* Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems — as if we all didn't know that already. But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

* Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities.

* To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies ... or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia ... or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries ... we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas. And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we've got lots of both.

* ...there is much to like and admire about our opponent.

But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state Senate.

* In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.

* And though both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have been going on lately about how they are always, quote, "fighting for you," let us face the matter squarely.

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you ... in places where winning means survival and defeat means death ... and that man is John McCain.

* I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening. We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

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* I came to office promising major ethics reform, to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is the law.

While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay. I also drive myself to work.

And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef — although I've got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her. I came to office promising to control spending — by request if possible and by veto if necessary.

* It was just a year ago when all the experts in Washington counted out our nominee because he refused to hedge his commitment to the security of the country he loves.

With their usual certitude, they told us that all was lost — there was no hope for this candidate who said that he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war. But the pollsters and pundits overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off. They overlooked the caliber of the man himself — the determination, resolve, and sheer guts of Senator John McCain. The voters knew better.

* And in April, my husband Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From the inside, no family ever seems typical.

That's how it is with us. Our family has the same ups and downs as any other ... the same challenges and the same joys.

* I pledge to all Americans that I will carry myself in this spirit as vice president of the United States. This was the spirit that brought me to the governor's office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau ... when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good ol' boys network.

* Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge. And children with special needs inspire a special love.

To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House.

* Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines ... build more new-clear plants ... create jobs with clean coal ... and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal and other alternative sources.

We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers.

* My Mom and Dad both worked at the elementary school in our small town. And among the many things I owe them is one simple lesson: that this is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity. My parents are here tonight, and I am so proud to be the daughter of Chuck and Sally Heath.

* This is a man [Barack Obama] who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy ... our opponent is against producing it.

* ...I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes. I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.

I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged — directly to the people of Alaska.

* Victory in Iraq is finally in sight ... he wants to forfeit. Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.

Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights? Government is too big ... he wants to grow it.

Congress spends too much ... he promises more. Taxes are too high ... he wants to raise them.

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* The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes ... raise payroll taxes ... raise investment income taxes ... raise the death tax ... raise business taxes ... and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. My sister Heather and her husband have just built a service station that's now opened for business — like millions of others who run small businesses.

How are they going to be any better off if taxes go up? Or maybe you're trying to keep your job at a plant in Michigan or Ohio ... or create jobs with clean coal from Pennsylvania or West Virginia ... or keep a small farm in the family right here in Minnesota.

* Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.

He said, quote, "I can't stand John McCain." Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we've chosen the right man. Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can't stand up to John McCain. That is only one more reason to take the maverick of the Senate and put him in the White House.

* A fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe of Lancaster, Ohio, recalls looking through a pinhole in his cell door as Lieutenant Commander John McCain was led down the hallway, by the guards, day after day.

As the story is told, "When McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe's door and flash a grin and thumbs up" — as if to say, "We're going to pull through this." My fellow Americans, that is the kind of man America needs to see us through these next four years.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words. For a lifetime, John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

* Sudden and relentless reform never sits well with entrenched interests and power brokers. That's why true reform is so hard to achieve. But with the support of the citizens of Alaska, we shook things up. And in short order we put the government of our state back on the side of the people.

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2008 Election: What it Means to be Republican

Tales from the BlancaSphere

Blanca Returns!



Blanca has been in therapy for the past few days, her hopes for a run against Hillary dashed against the rocks. I hit bottom on Tuesday, when watching John McCain's aphasia-driven spastic-filled talk fest in what appeared to be a green high school gymnasium, MSNBC cut away to show a sports arena filled with thousands of cheering supporters hinged on every hope-inspired word of Barack Obama. Thankfully they then went to the Hillary Denial Fest '08, which at least gave me, if not hope, at least a few moments of pure escapism.

When I get to feeling as low as Britney Spears' knockers in 50 years, I take a moment to reflect and take inventory, reasserting once again why I am a Republican. So here are some guidelines to what you must believe in order to be a good Republican.

If you are a Republican, you must believe that the troops completely support the War in Iraq, and that they line up with pleasure to go to Baghdad, but you must also believe that if they were given educational benefits, those traitors would go AWOL in order to attend a four-year state school in Indiana.

If you are a Republican, you must rail against tax breaks for farmers, but you must fully support tax breaks for billion-dollar oil companies.

If you are a Republican, you believe that Ollie North is an American hero for trading weapons with Iran, but you must think that Barack Obama is an appeaser for wanting to talk with Iran.

If you are a Republican, you must agree that William Ayers is a convicted terrorist and that anyone associated with him is guilty by association, but you must embrace Hal Turner as a great American and support him by giving him free air time on your radio show.

If you are a Republican, you don't believe we an afford millions for education, but spending billions on a war is money well-spent.

If you are a Republican, you must believe that all government regulation of industry is harmful, but you must fully-enforce government regulation of sexual practices.

If you are a Republican, you must believe in the oil pricing bubble, but believe there is no such thing as a housing pricing bubble.

If you are a Republican, you must support a bailout of Bear Stearns at taxpayer expense, but you cannot do anything to stop more than one million houses from going into foreclosure.

If you are a Republican, you must believe in the free market when it comes to health care, but you we must prevent competition at all costs when it comes to contractors like Halliburton.

If you are a Republican, you must believe in the sanctity of life, but you must support the death penalty, the war, and free guns for everyone.

If you are a Republican, you must be against hate crimes legislation, but you must protest "hate crimes" against Christians.

If you are a Republican, you must insist that this is a Christian nation, and that we must put God back into government, but you must insist on a separation of church and state whenever one of your candidates has a goofy religion or a scary pastor.

This is why I am still a Republican after all these years. It is quite remarkable how I have been able to suppress my gag reflex for the past seven years and have essentially turned off the left side of my brain years ago.

But make no mistake, I am not voting for McCain. It is Bob Barr all the way!

by Blanca DeBree

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Disenfranchised Democrats Just Part of the Culture

CULTURE WATCH by Nancy Morgan

"I'll take 'DEMOCRAT and DISENFRANCHISED' for $1000, Alex."


It's official. If you are a Democrat, your vote doesn't count. The Democrat presidential nomination will eventually be decided by superdelegates and the uncommitted superdelegates in Congress overwhelmingly say they won't necessarily back the candidate who wins the most primary delegates. Instead, they will vote based on which candidate will be most electable. Oh, those wacky Dems.

With Hillary appearing dead in the water, the media has had time to focus on more important things, like the climate tour John McCain is planning. And polls on which candidate will be the greenest. (For those of you in government schools, green is codeword for more socialist government.) It was reported that nuclear energy is on the agenda of all three presidential candidates, but I'll be darned if I've heard it from their own mouths.

One thing the liberal media failed to report, again, was a headline in the Washington Times entitled 'Once Secret Memos Question Clinton Honesty.' The timing was incredible, coming as it did on the very day Hillary was counted out. Who knows, it might be possible to actually report on Clinton scandals now. I did my bit. My article this week is 'Open Season On Clinton Scandals?' Before you get too depressed, let's move on to the:

GOOD NEWS:

Yet another report is published, this one by the scientists at the National Center For Atmospheric Research, that show the climate models used to predict global warming may have been off a tad. Apparently the Antarctica stats were faulty. Guess we're not gonna melt after all. GIGO.

'Academic Freedom' legislation is advancing in four states. The proposed bills would guarantee both teachers and students the ability to challenge the tenets of Darwinism without fear of reprisal. And here I thought that was already guaranteed under free speech.

Two conservative organizations, run by Floyd Brown and David Bossie, have merged to create two new websites targeting Obama.

A Maryland judge has ruled against Islamic divorce. Muslim men living in Maryland will no longer be able to divorce their wives merely by saying "I divorce thee" three times. How do you say 'community property' in Islam?

Bad news for Democrats, jobless claims posted a sharp decline last week.

GOVERNMENT AT WORK:



The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service.

Speaking of money, eight ships that were supposed to be the latest weapon for stopping terrorists, illegal immigrants and smugglers now float unused in a Coast Guard shipyard. That's a cool $100 million boondoggle.

Another boondoggle in the making: The UN has broken ground on the $1.9 billion renovation of its New York Headquarters. This could put taxpayers on the hook for another few hundred million. If anyone were counting.

Yet another multi-million dollar bill for taxpayers: The militant and extremist Mexican group, 'La Raza' that already gets millions of U.S. federal grant dollars, will be the proud recipient of another multi-million dollar earmark. Courtesy of Barney Frank. Remember him? He ran a cathouse from his DC apartment.

In order to maintain this level of spending, Democrats have decided they need more tax dollars. Senate Democrats last week called for a windfall profits tax on oil companies and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industries tax breaks. No one seems to notice that the government receives more than twice the windfall profits of the evil oil companies, in the form of the gasoline tax. Anyone hear this windfall mentioned?

Massachusetts, desperate for more money, is eyeing the endowments of deep-pocketed (private) colleges in order to bolster the state coffers by more than a billion. In Ohio, the Dept of Taxation has sent out bills to 5,500 buyers of online cigarettes in order to collect unpaid excise taxes. Ouch.

Here's my humble suggestion: How about the IRS finally collect the $1.5 million in overdue taxes and penalties owed by Al Sharpton? Hey, its a start.

CULTURE:

On the Today Show, the editor of Newsweek depicted the US as a nation in decline as he declared, "the era of American exceptionalism is over." I'm sure all the liberal viewers got a nice shiver up their legs.

An ever growing number of gay couples are paying surrogate mothers to carry their babies, turning the concept of traditional families on its head. Schools in Minneapolis are now officially indoctrinating students in 91 school districts in the joys of homosexuality. Nary a thought is given to recent report from the EU that actually charts the decline of the family. And the fact that Japan is now the land of disappearing children, a slow-motion demographic catastrophe that is without precedent. You'd think libs actually want to destroy families.

ESSENTIAL TRIVIA:

Now you can kick the oil habit and make your own ethanol thanks to the newly developed Micro-Fueler. A word of caution however, the amount of corn it will take to fill your tank could feed a family for one year.

Another cool new gadget is the 'Lifesaver' bottle. It looks just like an ordinary sports water bottle but contains an extremely advanced filtration system that makes water filled with deadly viruses and bacteria completely clean in just seconds. Imagine the applications.

A new idea in mortuary science involves dissolving bodies with lye, in a process called alkaline hydrosis. What a way to go. More ghoulish news as antiwar moonbat group Code Pink is including witchcraft in their desperate attempt to give peace a chance. Latest rally included casting spells and performing rituals 'to impart wisdom' on how to end the war. There may be something to that stuff - I just got a really sharp pain in my gluteus maximus.

IDIOTS OF THE WEEK:



A woman has broken the breast implant record. After eight surgeries, she's now a triple F. That's two quarts of silicone for each breast. She's very pleased with her new record.

Tying for first place is the infamous 'pants-suit' judge. He lost a $54 million suit against a dry-cleaners for losing a pair of his pants. He is now suing to get his judgeship back and at least $1 million bucks in damages.

I leave you this week with some food for thought. An excellent, must see video produced by Lorne Baxter entitled 'A Video Portrait Of Barack Hussein Obama.'

Till next Monday,


by Nancy Morgan

Nancy Morgan is a columnist and a news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina, where she writes "Culture Watch" weekly.

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Top Twenty Conservative T-Shirt Slogans

Pixelaneous #32



We took a look around the web for the best conservative T-shirts.

After looking at 100s of different T-shirts, we picked out our favorite 20.

We present them here.

And if any reader is interested, when you click on the shirt, instead of it going to an enlarged image, it links to the site with information on ordering that shirt.





























































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John McCain: Thirty Quotes From the Conservative Candidate

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10 Quotes About John McCain



With all the attention paid by the media on why conservatives have no love for John McCain, we decided to go looking for McCain quotes that might possibly explain the animosity on both sides.

We found 30 (actually 31, but we like round numbers).

So here are 30 John McCain Quotes, plus 10 bonus quotes about McCain.

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"The first thing that I would do is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say, ‘We’ve got to get foreign policy, national security issues back on track.'"

--When asked the first thing he would do if elected President, 3/00


"No, I'm calling you a f*cking jerk."

--to fellow GOP Senator Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked "Are you calling me stupid?", 2/21/00


“We give the millionaire a $2,000 refund. Gov. Bush gives him $50,000.”

—-On the Bush tax cuts, Boston Globe, Jan. 27, 2000.


"Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded."

--John McCain


"Dishonest and dishonorable."

--John McCain, on the Swift Boats Vets


The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

--John McCain


"F**k you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room."

--to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation


"Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."

--Senator John McCain said in New Hampshire in January after reporters asked him about Mr. Romney.


"As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate."

--John McCain on fellow RINO, ex-senator Chaffee


“I am concerned that repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest and highest-income taxpayers in the country. A Treasury Department study found that almost no estate tax has been paid by lower- and middle-income taxpayers. But taxes have been paid on the estates of people who were in the highest 20% of the income distribution at the time of their death. It found that 91% of all estate taxes are paid by the estates of people whose annual income exceeded $190,000 around the time of their death."

--Senate floor statement opposing HR 8, a bill to permanently eliminate the death tax, June 11, 2002.


"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."

--John McCain


"John Kerry is a very close friend of mine. We've been friends for years. Obviously, I would entertain it."

--When asked if he would entertain being Kerry's VP if asked, 3/10/04


"Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens."

--John McCain on Immigration


"I believe that marijuana is a gateway drug. That is my view and that's the view of the federal drug czar and other experts, although that is also a debatable question. I think that there is much more effective ways of relieving pain and suffering than the use of marijuana, and so therefore I view it as something that I do not support. That's just my considered opinion, I'd be glad to receive additional information."

--(August 11, 2007, house party in Milton, New Hampshire)


"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father."

--at a 1998 Republican fundraiser



"Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid."

--John McCain, on why he's running


“In the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade”

--John McCain, on Roe V. Wade


"By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it."

--John McCain, on immigration 2/07


"Thanks for the question, you little jerk."

-- John McCain, after being asked by a high school student if he was too old to be president. For good measure, McCain then threatened to draft him.


"Turn yourself in so we can send you back to Mexico, ... It's not going to happen."

--John McCain, on enforcing present immigration laws


"I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President."

--On possible opponent, Hillary Clinton 2/20/05


"It is my sincere hope that even if you believe I have occasionally erred in my reasoning as a fellow conservative, you will still allow that I have, in many ways important to all of us, maintained the record of a conservative."

--John McCain, on asking conservatives to support him as a conservative


"I believe my party has gone astray. I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy."

--John McCain in 2004


" Of course they didn't expect to receive benefits they had to pay here illegally ... The whole thrust of this legislation is to give them not only Social Security benefits but, as importantly, the protections under the law, as they now live in the shadows and are exploited and mistreated in many cases."

--John McCain, on immigration April 2, 2004


"Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this... I wouldn't call you an a**hole unless you really were an a**hole."

--to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow GOP Senator Pete Domenici in a Senate budget hearing


Leonardo DiCaprio is "an androgynous wimp."

--John McCain.

"Get started today and fill out your bracket to be eligible to win a McCain 2008 fleece, hat or pin for your prognostication prowess."

-- Sen. John McCain's campaign website.

"Gambling on amateur athletics is wrong."

-- McCain, in a statement introducing legislation in May 2003 to ban gambling on amateur sports.


“I don’t think the governor’s tax cut is too big—it’s just misplaced. Sixty percent of the benefits from his tax cuts go to the wealthiest 10% of Americans—and that’s not the kind of tax relief that Americans need. … Gov. Bush wants to spend the entire surplus on tax cuts. I don’t believe the wealthiest 10% of Americans should get 60% of the tax breaks. I think the lowest 10% should get the breaks. …

“I’m not giving tax cuts for the rich.”

—-Discussion with media, reported in “Bush, McCain Snip Over
Tax Cut Plans,” Los Angeles Times, and “GOP Rivals Bicker on Taxes,”
Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2000.


"I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."

--John McCain, on the choices between respecting the Constitution and Bill of Right and McCain-Feingold 4/29/06


But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
--John McCain



10 Quotes about John McCain


You know there will be three things in a John McCain sentence: a noun, a verb and a reference to his being a P.O.W.

--paraphrase of a Joseph Biden quote about Rudy Giuliani

"Congratulations to Senator John McCain, the big winner in Florida. ... You know, this was what they call a GOP-only primary. So McCain had to win over a whole new voter group for him -- Republicans."

--Jay Leno

"He said that anyone who said that he [McCain] supported amnesty is a "liar".

--Washington Times editorial, 1/25/08


"John Kerry said I can't tell you how proud I am to have John Edwards on my team, especially after John McCain turned me down."

--Jay Leno

"John Edwards is on the campaign trail. He's now doing something called his 'Poverty Tour', where he's visiting people who have no money and no hope. In fact, his first stop today: John McCain's headquarters."

--Jay Leno


"The thought of [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

-- Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who has known McCain for 35 years.


“I’d rather slit a vein than vote for John McCain.” Nice bumper sticker. Many conservatives aren’t just saying “No” to John McCain. They’re saying, “Hell, no!”

--unnamed woman at GOP event


"Congratulations to John McCain. He was a big winner up in New Hampshire. Fascinating comeback story, this John McCain, quite a guy. Highly decorated veteran. Spent five and a half years in prison then went into politics. Usually it's the other way around."

--Jay Leno


"I work with the community in the United States, the Mexican community because I don't want them essentially going native on us. We want them continually tied emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico, because then they'll continue to send money home."

--Juan Hernandez, Hispanic outreach director for John McCain

"Mexico first!"

--Hernandez


"He opposes oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska and has joined with Sen. Joe Lieberman to cosponsor legislation that would require that greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 2000 levels by 2010 — a measure sure to result in substantial increases in electricity and gasoline costs."

--Washington Times editorial, 1/25/08

31 quotes by John McCain and 11 quotes about McCain.

Just the way to start your day off right.

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A Great Political Commercial: Fred Thompson "Consistent Conservative"

If you were around for the 80s, this is a Reaganesque commercial if ever there was one.
Don't shut it off after the one minute mark--there's a 8-second surprise ending.

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Liberal Newspaper Publishes Convict Op-Eds Bashing Conservatives

Convicted Murderer Does Newspaper's Dirty Work

Bleeding Heart Liberal Newspaper Editor Defends Publishing Op-Ed Pieces Bashing Conservatives From Convicted Murderer In Local Prison

Newspaper to convict: "Take Care of My Light Work for me, will ya?"

The New Hampshire paper, the Concord Monitor invited convicted murderer and prison inmate at the men’s prison in Concord, Charles Huckelbury to write several op-ed pieces.
The executive editor, Felice Belman, appalled by the “flood” of over “100 nasty and repulsive emails” followed up with her own editorial, “Murderer gives our readers a peek inside. Prison town needs to look behind walls.”

She goes on to ask the question, “Should a convict be allowed to write columns for the newspapers?” I think a better question to ask is this: “Why ask a convicted murderer to write Op-ed pieces for a newspaper?”

Ms. Belman writes:

“If you're a regular reader of these pages, you already know what I think. The Monitor has published several recent columns by Charles Huckelbury, an inmate at the men's prison in Concord, and a couple of dozen in all during the last three years. He follows in the tradition of the late Ray Barham: Both men were murderers, inmates and writers for the Monitor.”
Concord Monitor

As if this “blanket” explanation covers all the subtleties of posting Huckelbury’s Op-Ed’s. Here is a slice of one such Op-Ed piece from Huckelbury:

In the state prison, Iraq war is popular, Hillary Clinton is not
Most criminals appear to think like Republicans

GOP to the bone
The men engaged in critiquing Hillary's motives and policies were thus anomalies of a sort. GOP to the bone, their arrests and convictions had done nothing to sway their political philosophy. The unconcealed antipathy toward Clinton left only one conclusion: Republican sympathies are forever and not subject to interpretation, analysis, reflection, or modification, a characteristic confirmed by a recent study on problem solving and learning theory ("Red minds, blue minds") that appeared last month in the Monitor.

When you think about it, men predisposed to criminal behavior exhibit personality traits very similar to self-described conservatives, which perhaps explains the confluence of discouraging recidivism rates and presence of so many Republicans in prison today. But it doesn't explain the counterintuitive Republican preference for disenfranchising convicted felons. With so many of their brethren behind the walls, that king of voting bloc would certainly be a force in any election. In fact, it just might be their last chance to beat Hillary, a detail certainly not lost on Gov. Lynch and the Legislature.
(Charles Huckelbury is serving a murder sentence at the state prison in Concord.)

Ms. Belman goes on to write quite the flowery prose about her “prison protege,” Huckelbury:

“I surely cannot deny that allowing Huckelbury to write about his life behind bars has softened his image in the eyes of the public. He is not only a convicted murderer but also a man who loves literature, mourns the death of his mother and is dabbling in acting. He has a sense of humor and an interest in politics. Life, alas, is rarely as black and white as we'd like.”

More from Ms. Belman:

“Huckelbury is, indeed, serving time for killing a man in a murder-for-hire plot in Florida 31 years ago. He is also a talented writer. In the past several years, he has written provocative columns about false patriotism among inmates, the appeal of the Harry Potter series to criminals, a humiliating trip to the doctor's office, and how state officials might identify sexual predators while they're still behind bars.

We don't give Huckelbury space in the newspaper as a gift to him, although I imagine for a writer with time on his hands it certainly feels like a gift.
We publish Huckelbury's columns for our readers.

Concord, among many other things, is still a prison town. There are 1,523 men packed into cells on North State Street, a fact that's strangely easy to forget on your daily commute past the tall prison walls. We put those men there, and we pay $45 million a year to keep them there. It's the newspaper's job to shed some light on what we're getting for our money. Are the inmates being treated humanely? Are they being prepared for life on the outside? Do taxpayers like the fact that there's a Shakespearean drama program behind bars - not to mention a service-dog training program?”

One could point out to Ms. Belman that Huckelbury’s piece on how convict’s thinking processes are the same as “Republicans” is not even “Six Degrees Of Separation” to such subjects as preparing for life outside nor a Shakespearean drama. It is a hit piece on Conservatives written by a man who sits in prison for taking the life of another man. Surely Ms. Belman knows about the “content” of a story she chooses to publish? She has, by her own admission, admitted to “championing” the prisoners locked up inside by giving them a “voice.” Therefore, Ms. Belman must accept the fact that she is also responsible for which “pieces” she chooses to publish which she has done in her own editorial.

Ms. Belman:

“When choosing columns for the newspaper, I like to think about the quality of the writing and whether the writer is giving readers something they won't get elsewhere. That's definitely true in this case. The newspaper, of course, does not condone Huckelbury's crime, but that doesn't mean he has nothing to teach us.”

My question is this, why does Ms. Belman assume that her readers are in dire need of “lessons from convicts” in the local prison especially “lessons” where a convicted murderer compares the worst side of criminals to Republicans and Conservatives?

by Little Baby Ginn




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