Sources: Warfooting: Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the US from EMP Attack and Joseph Farah
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Operation Starfish
Sources: Warfooting: Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the US from EMP Attack and Joseph Farah
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
When Progressives attack
Gateway Pundit alerts us to a hilarious development in Iowa: "Progressives" are attacking Hillary Clinton.
Democratic Courage, a liberal activist group "dedicated to electing a progressive, courageous, and winning Democratic presidential candidate" released their first Hillary attack ad today that will be aired in Iowa.
The transcript of the ad is entertaining:
No matter how stupid or crazy the idea.
Like free money for every baby born in America.
Okay, so I made up those last three frames. But all the rest was real. Seriously. And that's what's so scary about these people. A free $5,000 for every baby born in the U.S.? Why not just jack it up to $100 grand? Then every baby will be born with a silver spoon in their mouths!
InfoUSA visits; encouraged to participate
A Google search for Vin Gupta returns around 80,000 results. On the first page of results is a November 24, 2007 blog post entitled "The bizarre ties between the Clintons, Vin Gupta and InfoUSA".
Monday, December 03, 2007
"Hi. My name is John Edwards. And I'm a Communist."
Breaking 12/18/07: Who does a "John Edwards' Love Child Scandal" Benefit?
Ian Schwartz links us to the latest John Edwards commercial.
We don't have universal health care because of the drug companies and the insurance companies and their lobbyists in Washington, DC. And everyone who argues that every American is not entitled to [free] healthcare, I want them to explain to you what child in this country is not worthy of health care?You're gonna sit at a table with drug companies and oil companies and they're going to give away their power. Right. You have to take their power away from them. There is nothing we can't do if we do it together.
What the oil companies have to do with socialized medicine, I have yet to ascertain.
In any case, nationalizing health care has worked out really, really well in the UK. Oh, except for those prostate cancer rates. And dental care. And women in childbirth. And so on. Et cetera.
Oh, and John, there are these teensy, weensy little programs called Medicaid and SCHIP that ensure children of lower-income Americans have access to health care. They're such small budget items -- and you've been out of the Senate so long -- you probably forgot about them.
As for nationalizing the petroleum industry? Johnny, you appear to be channeling Jimmy Carter. Or perhaps Carter's illicit love-child, Hugo Chavez.
I know Communism didn't work out very well over the last century, but it'd be a real shame to give up on it so soon.
Hat tip: The Astute Bloggers
The perfect gift that will cause liberals' heads to explode
Ray Robison's new book -- Both in One Trench - Saddam's Secret Terror Documents -- promises to be a must-read. Robison carefully culled through Saddam's cache of secret documents to reveal the facts that the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) don't want you to know.
* Hussein acted through proxy terror groups throughout the world? Checkety-check.
* Hussein supported terrorists with direct links to 9/11? Check and mate, biznatch.
Senator Harry Reid vs. General David Petraeus
Our country -- excluding the Copperhead Democrats -- that is.
I wonder which the average American trusts more: Harry Reid or General David Petraeus?
And suffice it to say that Reid and the Copperhead Democrats have left quite an impression on the U.S. military. That should work out well for them in 2008.
Sources: Gateway Pundit, Politico and The Hill
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Good news for America. Bad news for the Copperheads.
Gateway Pundit has the good news for America and the bad news for Copperhead Democrats.
* Violence in Iraq is down by 50%.* Civilian casualties in Iraq are down by 60%.
* Baghdad casualties are down by 75%.
* Basra violence is down by 90%.* Terrorist attacks in Iraq are down by 80%.
* IED attacks down by 55%.
* Average daily attacks down by 42%.* Foreign insurgent flow into Iraq down by more than 50%
* Suicide bombings down 70% since March.
* Foreign Terrorist flow into Iraq down by 50%.
* Diala Province violence down by 68%.
Oh, and 5000 troops are coming home this month.
And Don Surber points out that the New York Times is scraping the last smidgen of residue at the bottom of the "quagmire" barrel. The Times has resorted to scooping all other media outlets on... Iraq's illicit car-washes.
Palestinians prepare for statehood
Atlas has the pictures:
Clinton calm in hangnail crisis
By Glen Johnson, Associated Press Staff Writer
"I am very grateful that this difficult day has ended so well," she declared as she stood alone at the microphone.
Little more than three hours later, just in time for the 11 p.m. local news, Clinton reaffirmed that perspective. She embraced her doctors, nurses and their families, and lauded the paramedics who had quickly driven her to Bethesda Medical Center after the hangnail was detected.
It was a vintage example of a candidate taking a negative and turning it into a positive. And coming just six weeks before the presidential voting begins, the timing could hardly have been more beneficial to someone hoping to stave off a loss in the Iowa caucuses and secure a win in the New Hampshire primary.
Aides said Clinton immediately canceled her trip and began working the phones. She later told reporters she had paramedics on the phone in eight minutes.
Over the ensuing five hours, as Clinton staffers rounded up a convoy of police and medical vehicles, Clinton continued to call up and down the medical food chain, attempting to locate experts who could treat her painful toe.
"I knew I was bugging a lot of these people, it felt like on a minute-by-minute basis, trying to make sure that staffers knew everything that was going on so I was in a position to inform the country, to tell my campaign and to be available to do anything that medical officials asked of me," the New York senator said.
At the same time, the woman striving to move from former first lady to the first female president was eager to convey that she knew the traditional lines of command and control in a crisis, even if the events inside the hospital were far short of a world calamity.
Along with taking charge while giving the professionals free rein, Clinton offered up a third dimension to her crisis character: humanity. She said she felt pain and concern when she first heard the news of the danger an imminent infection might pose.
"It affected me not only because of the pain, but the confusion among my staff members and volunteers, but as a mother, it was just a horrible sense of bewilderment, confusion, outrage, frustration, anger, everything at the same time," Clinton said.
She paid tribute to the thousands of believers who set aside their lives every four years so they can propel presidential campaigns on little more than blood, sweat and tears.
"I know they were worried about me. They're invested in me, my future. They work around the clock for me. They are so committed to my cause, and I just want to commend every one of them," Clinton said. "A lot of them postpone school, leave their families, move across the country, and I'm so grateful for them every single day, and I'm especially relieved to have this situation come to a conclusion without an infection or -- worse -- an amputation."
Then, like an elegant ballet dancer, Clinton pirouetted on her healthy foot and gingerly walked back into her home without entertaining questions from the press.
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