tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106254942024-03-13T06:37:30.689-05:00On the RadarA blog about what's currently on our minds... which is mostly politics...radarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05303447381461990333noreply@blogger.comBlogger882125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-51703841045802803722007-06-24T19:58:00.000-05:002007-06-24T20:38:20.743-05:00Goodbye!This will be the final post on <span style="font-style: italic;">On the Radar. </span>It has been a fantastic nearly two and one-half years sharing my thoughts with the world, but unfortunately this time has come to a close.<br /><br />You see, I am a conservative. Within my current realm of experience (higher education) this fact of my identity leaves me at a major disadvantage. My opinions and ideology concerning a number of political and social ideas places me in a fantastically small minority of individuals within my field. Considering the liberal slant of those in the majority and their predilection towards "diversity" and "privilege" it is even more disturbing the turn of events that has led me here. This minority status of my opinions and identity leaves me a target for virulent criticism and attacks by those in the ideological majority. Indeed, I have blogged anonymously from the start in order to protect myself from these attacks that would inevitably come. Although I rarely mentioned my upbringing or current surroundings, I still assumed that no one would go to the extensive trouble to find out my real name. I was wrong.<br /><br />A few weeks ago a fellow student affairs professional - that I will not name or link to (<span style="font-style: italic;">I will provide him the courtesy that he refuses to me</span>) didn't like what I wrote about Al Gore. He proceeded to check my site regularly, comment on posts that bothered him, and <span style="font-style: italic;">stalk </span>me through search engines, Facebook, MySpace, and two university web pages. T<span style="font-style: italic;">his individual was obsessed with finding out who I was</span>. Why? Well - that is where it gets ironic.<br /><br />I started this blog with the intent to comment on news stories that interested me, social issues that were in the news, and to use as an outlet for venting my frustrations with far-left craziness in academia. I assumed that what I had been taught within this liberal bastion of knowledge (to support diversity, to be tolerant of difference, to respect differing opinions) was the perfect auspices for writing on this blog. It is indeed with the most severe degree of irony that it is one individual who <span style="font-weight: bold;">falsely </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">claims to hold these values as important that has caused me to stop writing this blog because - if you can believe it - he disagrees with me, has decided that I am wrong and immoral, and has decided to let the whole world (or the five people that read his blog) know who I am as a result of his stalking.</span><br /><br />This individual has made the classic far-left intellectual non-sequitur that has plagued liberals time and time again. They claim to support those that are different, but because they are so sure of the righteous rightness of their opinion instead attempt to destroy and belittle those with which they disagree. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">They support those who are different, but not those with differing opinions.</span> Since I am fundamentally wrong for disagreeing with him I am "homophobic" and even "islamophobic." Because I blog anonymously he has decided the only way to get back at me is to reveal my identity - which he did with ease and enjoyment. I posted a comment immediately on his blog asking to remove the link that revealed who I am, or I would be forced to discontinue blogging. <span style="font-weight: bold;">He has checked my blog at least five times since I made my request</span>. He has failed to consider it (and I'm not particularly surprised).<br /><br />So that's it. It's profoundly sad and ironic that it is the intolerance, ignorance, and general idiocy of individuals like this person that motivated me to blog in the first place that have used their ignorance, intolerance, and general idiocy to force me to stop. I truly pity this individual, and hope that in the future he will find it possible to consider conflicting ideas without rejecting and attacking those with which he disagrees (although I won't hold my breath).<br /><br />I would like to thank slowpitch (my first blog-mate), Clint, and the Captain for their assistance with this blog. I would also like to thank mrs. radar for her patience in the time I spent here nearly every day.<br /><br />I will leave the links along the left sidebar (slightly edited) for you all to enjoy. Remember to check <a href="http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/">Little Green Footballs</a>, <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/">Powerline</a>, and <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/">Michelle Malkin</a> for the best real news from a conservative point-of-view. Those who run the previous blogs are truly lucky to be able to sustain their blogs regardless of the constant criticism and occasional death threats they receive for what they do.<br /><br />Goodbye all! I wish you all well.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-11258910831663104492007-06-23T22:29:00.000-05:002007-06-23T22:35:46.726-05:00Christian Discrimination; Part II<a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Christianity">Here we go again</a> - <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/23/london-school-is-a-chastity-ring-free-zone/">another case of discrimination towards Christian students</a> has arisen in Great Britain. Apparently a student was told that her "purity" ring (worn to show her vow of chastity before marriage) violated the school dress code. She is fighting the order, claiming that her ring is a religious symbol of her faith. However, she is fighting the ruling also because Muslim and Sikh students in her school are allowed to wear their specific religious garb without a problem.<br /><br />Britain's high court is now set to decide. I wonder what they'll say?Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-2068975874729037852007-06-23T10:22:00.000-05:002007-06-23T10:31:59.251-05:00Liberal starlet forgets that murder is not "chic"Apparently Cameron Diaz went to Peru the other day, sporting a liberal-chic "communism is cool" handbag - the talk of all the fashion-conscious liberal elite (see Che t-shirts). Anyway, Cameron's bag had a red star and had "Serve the People" written in Chinese on it - a favorite slogan of communist murdering dictator of China, Mao.<br /><br />While Cameron and the liberal elite like "communism chic" bags and accessories, they forget <a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/13683">the real cost these murdering dictators had on the civil world</a>. Maoist revolutionaries almost brought the government of Peru to its knees in the 1980's after a campaign of assassinations, murders, and bombings. Nearly 70,000 people were killed. Needless to say, Cameron did not receive a warm welcome. <br /><br />The only question that remains - will leftist stars like Cameron Diaz realize and understand the true cost of communism and question the ridiculous capitalist patronage that communism receives from wealthy Americans? Maybe she would if she met some of those 70,000 victims of communism in Peru...Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-53517977981285464772007-06-22T14:30:00.001-05:002007-06-22T14:39:20.085-05:00"Sucko"Michael Moore's new money-making enterprise is a mockumentary entitled "Sicko" that, among other things, is full of non-sequiturs and erroneous assumptions. "Sicko," built along the same bogus lie-infested worldview as <a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/fahrenheit-911.html">Fahrenheit 9/11</a>, continues Michael Moore's assault on reality, capitalism, and America.<br /><br />What does Michael's fictional film require? The annihilation of the private health care industry, complete socialized government control of health care, and absolutely no profitability within the industry. <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/new-vent-schooling-michael-moore/">Watch Michelle Malkin's take on the subject and decide whether you agree</a>.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-56023125847534277702007-06-22T14:20:00.000-05:002007-06-22T14:30:07.251-05:00Troops? Whose Troops?Speaker Pelosi is having trouble with her website, and it's not the first time <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/22/nancy-pelosi-supports-the-troops-the-canadian-troops-that-is/">Democrats have had a similar problem</a>.<br /><br />It seems that on her homepage, which has been changed by now, she has an image of a Canadian soldier next to a story concerning veteran's health benefits. Whys is it so hard for liberals to realize that they know less about what our soldiers look like than the average American?Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-68342358849481876552007-06-22T13:51:00.000-05:002007-06-22T14:20:10.250-05:00The Troubled TimesIt's not the first time the <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/search?q=ny+times">NY Times</a> </span>had trouble with <a href="http://powerlineblog.com/archives/018013.php">those tricky things called "facts"</a> but at this rate the rapidly declining newspaper shouldn't be in misery for too long:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Keeping Score column on Sunday, about new baseball research into hitting and fielding trends that can help assess the impact of pitchers, referred incorrectly to the status of the journeyman Glendon Rusch. He is recovering from a blood-clot scare last season, and is not pitching now; he is not out of the game because he “appears to have run out of employers to disappoint” with his statistically below-average pitching.</span><br /><br />Oops.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-69336581580712852482007-06-21T17:46:00.000-05:002007-06-21T18:01:22.212-05:00The "News" Disgusts MeIs it just me, or has the world gone crazy?<br /><br />A huge storm system moved through town today, and so I was watching the local news channel for weather info. I left the TV on CBS and ended up watching Katie Couric's "News" cast. The entire thing has been the most insane take on "news" or even "reality" than I have seen yet - we're talking worse than <a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/search?q=cnn">CNN</a> here.<br /><br />Let me summarize my frustrations with a single segment - coverage on the war in Iraq. It's no question that casualty figures would frame the segment, and every mention of things going well in Iraq followed by the obligatory "but." The segment totally ignored the ongoing military operation in Baqubah and instead claimed <span style="font-style: italic;">with no evidence </span>that the military admitted that top al Qaeda leaders "escaped" from the city. Casualty figures were then reported as if they were independent of the operation (and remember that the old media likes to describe casualty figures as if our solders were just standing around getting killed - but ignoring a 10,000 soldier operation should be criminal). Finally, the correspondent finished by claiming that the "surge" in Iraq was being met with an al Qaeda "surge" of its own as he signed off with the inevitable picture of Iraq citizens bleeding and being carried off on stretchers. "Reporting from the Pentagon" was the only informative thing the reporter said. <br /><br />This kind of reporting begs the question of whether or not the national old media is honestly trying to deceive and mislead the American people, or whether or not the reporters in the field (or in a posh hotel in D.C.) are so inexorably anti-war and anti-administration that their reports are written in such a way that it <span style="font-style: italic;">seems </span>they want those watching the newscast to think the war in Iraq is lost/our soldiers are dying for nothing/the entire Iraq situation is hopeless.<br /><br />I absolutely despise the old media. If you watch ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, or even FoxNews it's time for you to branch out. The media does not want you to think for yourself - they want to tell you what the world is like and they want you to believe them. <a href="http://michaelyon-online.com/wp/">Even though they aren't even there to cover it</a>.<br /><br />A <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">rock </span></span>could do a better job of reporting the war in Iraq than Katie and her "news" team. Ridiculous.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-49606702332091345182007-06-21T10:53:00.000-05:002007-06-21T10:55:36.468-05:00The Old Media are LiberalsSurprised?<br /><br />Out of <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455">144 journalists</a> that gave money to political campaigns over the past 4 years, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">only 17 gave money to Republicans.<br /><br /></span>That's a 9 to 1 margin, by the way.<br /><br />But remember that the news is impartial, as are those that report it. At least that's what they want you to think...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-86448235222723156382007-06-19T22:09:00.000-05:002007-06-19T22:12:46.353-05:00Don't Worry, Obama is "black enough"According to the publisher of the NAACP journal Barak Obama is "<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/html/1928.html">black enough</a>." "Black enough" for what I wonder, but I'm sure "to be a liberal" or even "to be a black president" could follow after that statement.<br /><br />After all, <a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/al-sharpton-to-be-black-you-must-be.html">blacks can't be conservatives</a>, so it's good to clarify who is really "black" (liberal) and who isn't.<br /><br />Thanks for clearing that up NAACP!Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-15648702145335983192007-06-19T15:34:00.000-05:002007-06-19T15:35:27.002-05:00Michael Moore a truther<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/19/finally-michael-moore-embraces-911-truth/">Who would have guessed</a>?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">MOORE: Well, I've had a number of firefighters tell me over the years, and since </span><em style="font-style: italic;">Fahrenheit 9/11</em><span style="font-style: italic;">, that they heard these explosions, that they believe there is much more to the story then we've been told. <span style="font-weight: bold;">I don't think the official investigations have told us the complete truth. They haven't even told us half the truth.</span> And so I support, and I hope, you know, if there's a new administration or somebody could open up a new investigation of this before we get too far away from it, to find out the whole truth.<br /><br /></span>Sick.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-36553928350818076712007-06-19T15:26:00.000-05:002007-06-19T15:31:19.588-05:00Wrong and InaccurateFirst came the story from a <a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/its-tough-to-be-al-gore.html">15-year old girl</a> about not only the scientific troubles with global warming, but the lack of certainty and credibility in temperature surface stations used to determine global climate changes.<br /><br />Now there are even more reports of temperature stations above grills, near A/C units, above concrete and asphalt, and <a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/13579">within feet of large brick structures</a>. Why the old media doesn't do an investigation on this, I'll never know (or I already do). Suffice it to say that a large number of temperature stations used to determine and "prove" climate change are irreparable compromised by their locations and are instead measuring urban heat cycles as opposed to global climate.<br /><br />I would say "oops," if this weren't so contemptible. Where is the story?Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-54460934600171274662007-06-19T10:36:00.000-05:002007-06-19T15:23:21.070-05:00The War is not LostAnd the battle is on.<br /><br /><a href="http://michaelyon-online.com/wp/be-not-afraid.htm">Michael Yon</a>, the <span style="font-style: italic;">only </span>real source of news from Iraq, tells us why.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update: </span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/19/diyala-offensive-begins/">10,000 troops</a> in a major offensive. And who says the surge isn't working?Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-60492856748197505102007-06-18T20:22:00.000-05:002007-06-18T20:40:56.215-05:00Christian; Muslim; whatever!<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/18/episcopalians-have-first-muslim-priest/">Reality</a> imitates <a href="http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001110.html">satire</a>.<br /><br />The Episcopalian Church, the first church to lead the fight to ordain a gay pastor, is now admitting that one of their priests is a Muslim.<br /><br />What?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Redding, who until recently was director of faith formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, has been a priest for more than 20 years. Now she’s ready to tell people that, for the last 15 months, she’s also been a Muslim — drawn to the faith after an introduction to Islamic prayers left her profoundly moved.<br /><br /></span>Right. I'm sure that it's no problem - only that Muslims deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. Which was, last time I checked, quite important to Christianity. However, Chrisitanity is apparently not important to the Episcopalian Church.<span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-51691899924729665292007-06-17T22:50:00.000-05:002008-12-11T01:42:39.081-06:00Enough Said<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cDfCjgtN2xM/RnX6x1LXdUI/AAAAAAAABLQ/fbPHX_qzCTA/s1600-h/hillaryche.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cDfCjgtN2xM/RnX6x1LXdUI/AAAAAAAABLQ/fbPHX_qzCTA/s320/hillaryche.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077239888925390146" border="0" /></a>"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070526/ids_photos_ts/r3351101748.jpg">shares a laugh</a> with supporters during a town hall meeting at Charles City Elementary School in Charles City, Iowa."<br /><br />Hillary and <a href="http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/23/oct04/che.htm">Che</a>. Need I say more?Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-38152325566895473752007-06-17T22:45:00.000-05:002007-06-17T22:53:27.292-05:00The Wisdom of Mark SteynThe immigration bill is a fraud. <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/430569,CST-EDT-steyn17.article">According to Mark Steyn</a>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">On Fox News the other night, I was told by NPR's Juan Williams, ''You're anti-immigrant!'' Er, actually, I am an immigrant -- one of the members of the very very teensy-weensy barely statistically detectable category of ''legal immigrant.'' But perhaps that doesn't count anymore. Perhaps, like Colin Powell's blackness, it's insufficiently ''authentic.'' By filing the relevant paperwork with the United States government, I'm not ''keepin' it real.''<br /><br />...<br /><br />The people who are truly ''anti-immigrant'' are the folks who want to send that immigrant from Slovenia or Fiji who applied in May 2005 back to the end of the line. But then ''comprehensive immigration reform'' is about everything but immigration, including subverting sovereignty and national security. Remember the 1986 amnesty? Mahmoud abu Halima applied for it and went on to bomb the World Trade Center seven years later. His colleague, the aforementioned Mohammad Salameh, was rejected but carried on living here anyway. John Lee Malvo was detained and released by U.S. immigration in breach of its own procedures and re-emerged as the Washington sniper. The young Muslim men who availed themselves of the U.S. government's ''visa express'' system for Saudi Arabia filled in joke applications -- ''Address in the United States: HOTEL, AMERICA'' -- that octogenarian snowbirds from Toronto who've been wintering at their Florida condos since 1953 wouldn't try to get away with. The late Mohammed Atta received his flight-school student visa on March 11, 2002, six months to the day after famously flying his first and last commercial airliner.<br /><br /></span>The government does not have all the answers, and <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/columns/article_1731443.php">shouldn't be your nanny</a>. According to Mr. Steyn:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">That's it? Anglicans need to fast-track a liturgy for gay couples so they can free up time to deal with the real issues like global warming? Half that catalogue of horrors seems to be different ways of saying the same thing ("child poverty… economic injustice… growing disparity") in order to give a bit of pro forma padding to the totally cool cause du jour of global warming. Which is so cool that, if an Anglican archbishop shows up at a climate-change conference, he'll be lucky to get in the room, and if he does he'll be stuck at the table with the wonky leg next to the toilet, barely able to see the Most Reverend Almer Gortry up on stage doing his power-point presentation and warning that rising sea levels will send tidal waves crashing through every gay wedding reception in Provincetown by Saturday afternoon.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Go back to those Canadian archbishops who want to worry about "child poverty." Poor children are the children of poor grown-ups. If the state assumes responsibility for those children from their parents, what kind of adults are you likely to end up with? And if you can't trust free-born citizens to reach their own judgments on cheeseburgers, what can you trust them with?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-64690405571794233572007-06-17T22:15:00.000-05:002007-06-17T22:32:03.370-05:00The Useless UNThe UN "Human Rights Council" (mockery) has now made useful changes to its human rights violators' list, like removing Cuba and placing Israel there - <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25891&only&rss">permanently</a>. Nice.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-11992105264456891662007-06-16T12:49:00.000-05:002007-06-16T13:03:26.834-05:00"Remember, have your conservatives silenced and vote for liberals. Oh, and 9/11 was an inside job."Bob Barker, although previously saying she shouldn't do the job, has now admitted that <a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/search?q=rosie">TV loudmouth, conservative hater, and 9/11 conspiracy theorist Rosie O'Donnell</a> "<a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/13507">can do the job</a>" of hosting <span style="font-style: italic;">The Price is Right </span>and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PPS8500&show_article=1">may be in talks with CBS</a> concerning the position. Can you imagine her sign-off line? Will they have "loose change" as an item to bid on?Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-36982811638615966992007-06-16T12:44:00.000-05:002007-06-16T12:48:57.462-05:00New Look!Over the years I've <a href="Dione%20Somerville">changed the look</a> of the 'ol blog a number of times, and here is the most recent adaptation. As you can see, Blogger now allows users to <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/05/learn-how-to-add-image-to-your-blogs.html">upload images as headers</a> as opposed to simple text. A little fun with photoshop later and tada! Our new "radar" logo look. More new updates to come soon.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-57236999925361060372007-06-15T15:35:00.001-05:002007-06-15T15:44:50.862-05:00More bad news<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">T</span></span>he national and international media is a joke. <br /><br />First comes the AP (Associated [with Terrorists] Press) and their constant intentional propagation of terrorist propaganda. Now that the <a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/real-civil-war.html">civil war in the Gaza Strip</a> is over (with the terrorists winning - it hardly matters which side we're talking about) the AP has decided to print a variety of Hamas propaganda photos, with such sights as <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25861&only&rss">a terrorist with an AK coming out of a baggage x-ray machine</a>, and <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25865&only&rss">terrorists with AK's and RPG's posed at computer terminals</a> at a border crossing checkpoint in Gaza. These <span style="font-weight: bold;">are not news photos, </span>they are terrorist propaganda delightfully captured by terrorist-sympathizing Gaza strip photographers designed and transmitted with the intent to encourage other terrorists or simply emblazon Hamas' "success" to the rest of the world. It's a wonder I won't pay for a newspaper subscription - I'd rather not finance these monsters.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >I</span>n other news, with word that the Jack Daniel's distillery in Tennessee is running low on water because of a drought, <a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/13486">John Roberts of CNN playfully insisted</a>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">...somebody said to me this morning that that will get Southern conservatives interested in global warming. (Laughs)<br /><br /></span>I ask - is this news? Is this commentary? Is this deliberate disrespect? Is this discrimination? Or is it simple a matter of liberal intellectual elitism and a nasty case of "I'm better than you conservative drunken idiots" syndrome? <br /><br />The national media is a disgrace.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-30065584591811448672007-06-15T08:43:00.000-05:002007-06-15T15:35:08.017-05:00Silence in MassachusettsThe Massachusetts state legislature <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8POOMVG0&show_article=1">denied the voice of the people of their state</a> from being heard yesterday, by blocking the citizens of the state from having the opportunity to vote on gay marriage rights. State law requires that only 50 lawmakers out of 200 vote for approval of a state constitutional amendment twice before the vote can go to the people, and after passing earlier this year special interest lobbying caused the second vote to fail by a measure of only 5.<br /><br />Regardless of how you feel about gay marriage, it's clear that a state legislature, requiring only a 1/4 threshold for constitutional amendments to pass, should not be blocking the people of a state from determining their own laws. As in nearly all cases of gay marriage state amendments, the pro-gay marriage side vastly outspent their opponents. It is clear from this quote exactly what happened:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;" name="isRegion" id="isRegion"> Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute that backed the amendment, said his group was vastly outspent by gay marriage supporters. "<span style="font-weight: bold;">It certainly does appear that money speaks in this building</span>," he said.<br /><br /></span><span name="isRegion" id="isRegion">Indeed. And it's a shame.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update: </span>Never mind about gay marriage. It appears that <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3278497&page=1">ABC thinks</a> defining marriage as between a man and a woman is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">redefining </span>of marriage, not the other way around. Oh, I get it now. It's no wonder the old media is floundering.<br /></span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-42150684837654279892007-06-13T18:23:00.000-05:002008-12-11T01:42:39.246-06:00We Lost, AgainYou'd think that the Democrats would have had enough of <a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/we-lost.html">claiming defeat in the war on terror</a>. Never fear, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070613203802.7yla5iav&show_article=1&image=large">they have done it again</a>:<br /><br /><span name="isRegion" id="isRegion"><span style="font-style: italic;">Top US congressional Democrats bluntly told President George W. Bush Wednesday that his Iraq troop "surge" policy was a failure. </span><p style="font-style: italic;"> Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi challenged the president over Iraq by sending him a letter, ahead of a White House meeting later on Wednesday. </p><p><span style="font-style: italic;"> "As many had foreseen <span style="font-weight: bold;">[it's amazing what you can "foresee" when you've already made up your mind what the results will be. - ed. mine]</span> , the escalation has failed to produce the intended results," the two leaders wrote.</span></p></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span name="isRegion" id="isRegion"><p>And now that key sentence:</p></span><span style="font-style: italic;" name="isRegion" id="isRegion"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> The next critical point</span> in the showdown between Bush and Congress over Iraq is expected in September, when US commander in Iraq David Petraeus is due to report on progress in the strategy to "surge" up to 30,000 more US troops into the war-ravaged nation.<br /></span><br /><span name="isRegion" id="isRegion">So the commander of our forces in Iraq hasn't reported on the progress of the surge yet? <span style="font-weight: bold;">I wonder what the Democrats are using as evidence for the "failure" then? </span> Oh, and the "next critical step" is when General Petraeus gives his report? How can the Democrats' cry of defeat be a "critical step" in anything?<br /><br />Finally, I've finally seen a picture that sums up the Democrats' mindset as far as troop levels, war powers, and the war on terror is concerned:<br /><br /></span><span><span name="isRegion" id="isRegion"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cDfCjgtN2xM/RnB-UlLXdTI/AAAAAAAABLI/FSasKwkM40A/s1600-h/cocky.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cDfCjgtN2xM/RnB-UlLXdTI/AAAAAAAABLI/FSasKwkM40A/s320/cocky.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075695672088818994" border="0" /></a></span></span>Yup: <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cocky. </span></span>Apparently that's the only word needed to sum up this Democratic congress. So sure of their rightness they needn't bother with anything else.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update: </span>Never mind. Harry apparently thinks that our military leaders are <a href="http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017935.php">incompetent</a>. No cockiness there! I guess Harry himself is the ultimate authority on war and defense.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update again: </span>I guess I now know why Harry jumped the gun in claiming our defeat in Iraq and calling General Petraeus incompetent: the General's report to congress and the nation is positive on the <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-06-13-petraeus-security_N.htm">substantial gains made in Iraq</a> due to the troop surge. I guess the Democrats know the media would rather report their claims of failure than a military leader's statements of success.<br /><span name="isRegion" id="isRegion"><p><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></p></span></div>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-88424976656084640922007-06-13T14:51:00.000-05:002007-06-13T15:14:26.839-05:00What if we built a memorial to 100 million murder victims and no one came?That's exactly what happened yesterday in Washington D.C. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation hosted the groundbreaking ceremony for the <a href="http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/">Victims of Communism Memorial</a> and <a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/13424">the old media yawned</a>. Why is it that communism is no big deal to the liberal elite?<br /><br />In a perfect world communism is a great strategy. If you watch enough Star Trek, you'll see that their "world without money" is essentially the perfect communist paradise. The problem is, as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons">the tragedy of the commons</a> tells us, that communal governments never works because individuals take advantage of the situation. Therefore, communism only works under totalitarian conditions which inevitably deteriorate into torture, mass murder, and the annihilation of freedom.<br /><br />Why is it that we forget the 100 million victims of communism? Why is it that the 25 million victims of Soviet rule, 60 million victims of the Chinese, and the torture and murders committed by Castro go forgotten? It's because in the perfect <span style="font-style: italic;">liberal </span>society, the ultimate goal of socialism in economics and government inevitable falls forward toward communism. Never mind that socialism and communism are abject failures wherever and whenever they have been attempted - they are still the far left's perfect dream. The mention of communism in their minds brings up the "terror" of McCarthy, not the Soviet gulag.<br /><br />The greatest scourge of the 20th century was the "evil empire" and the murderous thugs of communism around the world. If you want socialism head to Europe - if you want universal health care, I heard that Cuba is beautiful (and totalitarian) this time of year. As a great writer once said "<a href="http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000132.html">Which way are the rafts headed?</a>"Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-46386146409688269872007-06-13T08:33:00.000-05:002007-06-13T08:37:23.137-05:00The Real Civil WarHere's <a href="http://radarblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/political-roundup-112906.html">another civil war</a> the press won't report: the <a href="http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017924.php">Palestinian civil war</a>. There is nothing more bloody than terrorists fighting terrorists, and it seems that the Hamas version has finally routed the Fatah version in the Gaza strip. After weeks of relentless violence capped off by the bloody murder in a hospital of the Fatah military leader while dressed as a woman (he was trying to escape) will the press finally cover the story or label it what it really is?<br /><br />I wouldn't hold my breath.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-38116348598737730172007-06-12T16:13:00.000-05:002007-06-12T16:16:39.893-05:00The Perils of CNNCNN is best known for being the first major cable channel devoted to 24/7 news coverage. It's polite to say that CNN has fallen off the wagon in the past few years, with its ratings taking a constant nose dive - at time half the viewership of the FoxNews Channel, even in primetime.<br /><br />Besides loving Bill Clinton, faking stories out of Iraq, and claiming US soldiers are "targeting" civilians, a CNN reporter has just now admitted to <a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/13383">paying Nigerian soldiers to fake a news story</a>, so that CNN "has its story" and he "has his fame."<br /><br />Way to go, CNN. I'm always proud.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625494.post-37780559218349677282007-06-11T22:13:00.000-05:002007-06-11T22:34:14.693-05:00News Roundup 6/11/07<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >T</span>he city of San Francisco continues <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007703.htm">its fight against the Blue Angels</a>. Every year for fleet week in San Fran the Blue Angels come and do a fly-by over the city. However, in the liberal/socialist/marxist haven of San Francisco the city leaders think the aerial spectacular is evil because it's supportive of the military. Amazing.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >N</span>ewsweek continues its series of articles on faith with the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/13369">astounding question</a>: "In obtaining salvation, in your faith perspective, which is more important, <span style="font-weight: bold;">faith or good works</span>?" Riiiiiiight...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >T</span>he Democrats continue one of the <a href="http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017911.php">most corrupt congressional sessions</a> of all time. They have now, in addition to being indicted many more times than the previous congress, found a way to bypass the previous Republican congress' reforms. Oh, and will the media report that Harry Reid's approval rating is half that of the President's (19%)?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >F</span>inally, the Democratic congress has had another <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PMSRL01&show_article=1">(near) victory</a>. Unfortunately, in an attempt to avoid passing legislation the Democrats failed at a vote of no confidence for the Attorney General. I expect an email from John Kerry soon.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09828233210340238456noreply@blogger.com0