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I'm back for one day and I'm asking you to do something for me. Hey, at least I haven't asked you for money. Yet.
This year, I was nominated for Best Individual Blogger by the Weblogs Awards. It's an honor considering the other people in my category. The deal is that a person can vote every day and then a tally is taken at the end. I'll include a link in my posts until the voting closes. Thanks!
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From my latest column at Pajamas Media:
Please read the whole thing. Video of the famous encounter between Sonny and Carlo:By going into Gaza in Sonny Corleone fashion, Israel aims to ensure that the Hamas attacks -- as cowardly as Carlo's battering of Sonny's sister Connie -- are permanently ended.
Of course, Hamas being Hamas, they will never stop trying to kill Jews. Fans of The Godfather will recall that Carlo, being Carlo, chose a coward's revenge by betraying Sonny to rival mobsters, so that at last Michael Corleone assigned Clemenza to deal decisively with Carlo.
If this analogy can be stretched a bit more, then, where does Glenn Greenwald fit? He's Connie pleading frantically on behalf of her abusive husband: "It was my fault! ... I started a fight with him. ... Sonny, please don't do anything. Please don't do anything." This is what the Blame Israel First crowd always says whenever Israel responds to repeated attacks by striking back against the terrorists. Always the demand is that Israel should make concessions, always condemnation is reserved for Israel's defenders who are, Greenwald assures us, "guilty of insufficiently weighing the deaths of Palestinian innocents."
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Note: Hi guys! I'm back from my two week vacation to Australia which was excellent. Still jet-lagged. Hope you all have a most excellent 2009!
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There's not much to say about Stuart Smalley finally "winning" the election from Norm Coleman. Did you expect any other result? One person?
If an election result is close, the Democrats will find a way to take the election. A lifetime of elections in the Democrat's favor will never make up for George Bush's two-term presidency. They feel entitled to every close contest.
Some believe that Al Franken will give the Republicans the target they need. This notion is ridiculous. The Republicans need a target alright--it's their own failed policies and politicians. If they get side-tracked into Franken-hate (easy to do, I admit, as the man is lamentable), they will lose again and again and again.
Here is the problem: If a conspiracy nut crazy like Al Franken can win a Senate seat (albeit a close one), anyone who has the qualification of not being a Republican can win. That is the problem the Republicans face and it has less to do with conniving Dems and more to do with their own abject failure.
Can Republicans turn it around? Sure, they can. However, they need to be and do different from the Democrats. Of all the Dems, only Barack Obama is likable and he's eating away at his own credibility one Blago, one Richardson, one Emmanuel at a time. Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and now, likely, Al Frankin are loathsome creatures. No one likes them and together they're not admired either. Voters disapprove of Congress more then President Bush.
Doesn't matter. No more excuses, Republicans. The press, Hollywood, and cultural elites will always be liberal. Thankfully, Republicans don't have to please them. They need to please the people. Being unprincipled ninnies gets no respect and no votes unless you're a Democrat. Being an unprincipled ninny is the job requirement, if you're a Dem.
To state the obvious: voters don't expect Republicans to act like Democrats. Being the party of limited government, low taxes, individual freedom and strong defense will get votes and and respect.
Al Franken isn't the problem. He's the symptom. And the degenerative disease he represents can be reversed with some lifestyle changes by Republicans.
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Bill Ayers, the unrepentant and unpunished communist terrorist whose Weather Underground plotted the extermination of 25 million Americans, may have seen his protégé elected president of the country he longs to destroy, but that's no reason to rest on his laurels. In addition to poisoning the minds of future generations with his prominent position in the education establishment, he is now posting commentary on the influential (among liberals) Huffington Post.
If Sacco and Vanzetti had lived in this depraved age, they would have their own reality show on NBC. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg would be put in charge of the DHS.
Hat tip: Hot Air, on a tip from Cheetah. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Benjamin Franklin said the Founding Fathers had given us a republic, "if you can keep it." Unfortunately, it appears that we can't:
Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, state officials said on Sunday.
It would be impossible to find someone less qualified for the Senate than the tax-dodging, corrupt, and conspicuously unfunny professional clown Al Franken. Even the left-wing Minnesota Star Tribune endorsed his Republican opponent Norm Coleman. Unsurprisingly, Coleman won the election.
But the election process in Minnesota is overseen by Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who has links to George Soros and the extremely unsavory ultra-left outfits Moveon.org and ACORN. Since the election was close, they just kept counting the votes and discovering new votes until they got the results they wanted. As FDR's Uncle Joe said:
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
Too bad Ritchie et al. couldn't conjure up imaginary listeners like they can phony voters. Franken would still be on Air America, causing relatively little damage.
Here's the face of the decline and fall of the rule of law in America:
The absurdity of corrupt Democrat apparatchiks seizing a Senate seat from its rightful owner and handing it to a third-rate comedian doesn't do much to mitigate the horror.
On a tip from Varla. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Honorable Mentions: Bill Ayers, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Juan Cole, Kent Conrad, The Daily Kos, Bill Delahunt, Glenn Greenwald, Alcee Hastings, Christopher Hitchens, The Huffington Post, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. Caroline Kennedy, John Kerry, Ezra Klein, The L.A. Times, Mike Malloy, Rachel Maddow, Michael Moore, MoveOn, Michael Newdow, The New York Times, Michelle Obama, Rosie O'Donnell, Keith Olbermann, Michael Pfleger, Ted Rall, Bill Richardson, Randi Rhodes, Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Jeremiah Wright, Matthew Yglesias
20) Chris Dodd: Dodd, who ran a perfectly awful campaign for President, was one of the few candidates who didn't get an invitation to join Barack Obama's cabinet. Was it because he's so tragically boring? No, it's because not only was he, like Barney Frank, an enabler for the whole financial crisis that has currently engulfed the U.S. economy -- he also got a sweetheart deal from Countrywide and then turned around and helped funnel billions of dollars their way during the bailout. Of course, Dodd claimed that he had no idea he was getting such a great deal because he is a U.S. Senator. He simply thought they were rewarding him for being such a good customer!
That's how it always seems to work with crooked politicians like Chris Dodd: companies funnel in money on the front end and the pols pay them back with taxpayer money by the bank vault full while shifting the blame elsewhere.
Defining quote: "It's not easy being a U.S. senator. People trick you into taking special favors you didn't even know existed. Shame on these unscrupulous people!...Most alleged victims of Countrywide were gulled into taking loans with onerous interest rates and excessive fees. But they don't know the agony of life as a U.S. senator, when at any moment a powerful, well-heeled interest might take advantage of you with cut-rate loans." -- Rich Lowry
19) Hillary Clinton: Many Americans developed a strange new respect for the wicked witch of New York after she clawed, scratched, and ripped her way to the very end of her little catfight with Barack Obama.
However, her campaign was one of the more grotesque spectacles of the modern presidential era. Hillary Clinton couldn't have gotten elected as dog catcher of Pumpkinsquat, Arkansas had she not been married to Bill Clinton -- yet she ran as a self-styled feminist icon who demanded that other women vote for her solely because she is a woman. Marry that to the subtle racism that the campaign used when it thought it was to her advantage, her attitude of entitlement, and ridiculous lies she spouted at every opportunity and Hillary richly deserves to be on this list.
Defining quote: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." -- Hillary Clinton makes up a ridiculous, untrue story about her trip to Bosnia.
Defining quote #2: "The Clintons, man, they would lie on a stack of Bibles. Snipers? That's not misspeaking; that's some pure bulls***. I voted for Clinton twice, but that's over with." -- Spike Lee
18) The View: If you've never seen The View before, picture your water cooler at work. You walk up to it and for a moment, you think you're about to have a great conversation because Elisabeth Hasselbeck is standing there. Then, you realize that everybody else around the water cooler is a gossipy left-wing yenta whose mouth moves faster than her brain. At that point, you just say "screw it" and go buy a soda from the machine. That was a smart decision because you missed something so dumb that just hearing it might have lowered your IQ a few points -- like this,
Defining quote: "Should I be worried about being a slave, about being returned to slavery because certain things happened in the Constitution that you had to change?" -- Whoopi Goldberg to John McCainMORE...
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This year, one of the things I plan to do is run a contest each week, giving away a Blogad that will run on Right Wing News and Conservative Grapevine.
Some of the contests will be open to the general public -- and some will be open to specific groups.
The first contest I'm going to run will be open to Twitter users. Here's the contest: The user with the largest Twitter list to send out a message including a link to Right Wing News and Conservative Grapevine wins.
Keep in mind that they can't win unless I know about it, so it's a good idea to alert me if you send out a message. Remember that the winner will be chosen next Sunday as well and that my selection is final.
Also, winners are responsible for creating their own Blogad and getting it to me by the COB on Sunday.
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On Wednesday, I'll be running the 5th annual "40 most obnoxious quotes of 2008." If you think there are any quotes that deserve to be included, feel free to add them in the comments section.
Also see,
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2007
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2006
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2005
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2004
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"And Israel's vaunted intelligence services can't tell their superiors what Obama will do, since few (if any) of the president-elect's supporters know what he intends to do.In fact, the president-elect may not know himself. He's a babe in the woods, and the woods are full of wolves." -- Ralph Peters
Over at the Guardian, Simon Tisdall is complaining that the Muslim world is ALREADY losing patience with Barack Obama,
"Barack Obama's chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish with each new wave of Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza. That seems hardly fair, given the president-elect does not take office until January 20. But foreign wars don't wait for Washington inaugurations.Obama has remained wholly silent during the Gaza crisis. His aides say he is following established protocol that the US has only one president at a time. Hillary Clinton, his designated secretary of state, and Joe Biden, the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert, have also been uncharacteristically taciturn on the subject.
But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim audiences that cannot understand why, given his promise of change, he has not spoken out. Arab commentators and editorialists say there is growing disappointment at Obama's detachment - and that his failure to distance himself from George Bush's strongly pro-Israeli stance is encouraging the belief that he either shares Bush's bias or simply does not care.
The Al-Jazeera satellite television station recently broadcast footage of Obama on holiday in Hawaii, wearing shorts and playing golf, juxtaposed with scenes of bloodshed and mayhem in Gaza. Its report criticising "the deafening silence from the Obama team" suggested Obama is losing a battle of perceptions among Muslims that he may not realise has even begun.
"People recall his campaign slogan of change and hoped that it would apply to the Palestinian situation," Jordanian analyst Labib Kamhawi told Liz Sly of the Chicago Tribune. "So they look at his silence as a negative sign. They think he is condoning what happened in Gaza because he's not expressing any opinion."
First off, to be fair to Obama, he's not even the President yet and so staying mum publicly is the wisest course of action for him. To expect him to get involved in the fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians at this point is expecting too much.
That being said, there are two things people around the world need to realize.
#1) The conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been going on since even before Israel was a state and the chances of it ending peacefully in the next 4-8 years are remote.
#2) The Muslim nations in the region aren't truly going to be satisfied with Obama unless he blatantly takes the side of Palestinians over the Israelis.
Given the political situation in the United States, that is extremely unlikely. The Palestinians are virulently anti-American, pro-terrorist, pro-genocide, and the aggressors in the situation. The Israelis are pro-American, anti-terrorist, anti-genocide, and defending themselves. Because of those factors, Americans tend to side with Israel.
Plus, the political situation makes it difficult for a politician to be anti-Israel. Christian conservatives consider Jews to be God's chosen people and they consider Israel to be an ally besides. Because of that, the GOP is not going to turn on Israel. On the other hand, there are more Jews than Muslims in the US, Jews vote Democratic 2-to-1, and percentage wise, Jews are over-represented in Hollywood, the media, and in wealthy donors. That keeps the Democrats in line as well.
So, will Obama be as pro-Israel as George Bush? Probably not. He's likely to put more pressure on Israel and he may push to reach some kind of deal on paper, whether it means anything in the real world or not.
That would be likely to disappoint a lot of Americans even as it fails to satisfy "the Muslim world." I guess that's just the price you have to pay when you sell yourself as an everything to everybody candidate who will bring whatever "change" people want if you get elected.
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