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"Let them eat cake" Democrats

Oval Office address must out Democrats waging war on lower/middle income families
 
President Bush must employ a newer tone against the Jackass enemy of the American Dream

By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report

The crisis can't wait till Inauguration Day, 2009. America is not a TV show whose plot hinges on what camera angle CNN decides to use to make McCain look old and short and Obama look like he has a clue.

Americans are hurting and the fact that we haven't had two consecutive quarters and can shout "Recession!" to the rooftops, ain't filling the tank for a trip to Myrtle Beach or leaving enough dough after a trip to the Exxon Station to buy the Leseur peas instead of the Kroger brand. Grandma in Rome, GA still misses seeing the grand kids in Atlanta most weekends since she lives more than a few blocks away.

Democrats speak of windmills as Rome burns.

Millions of Americans are in pain. America faces a crisis that the Democrat party has manufactured for the sake of Green money as surely as Judas betrayed Christ for the silver variety.

As JKF said in from the Oval Office as Blacks were being bloodied on bridges and hosed down in cities bridges led to, the issue is essentially a moral one, as old as the scriptures. I wish, as FDR admonished in much, much worse times, that all we had to fear was fear itself, but unlike the Republicans of the 1930's, the national Democratic Party of the 21st century naughts is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

Yes, rational Americans should fear the let them eat cake Democrats in Washington.

President Bush, you and your GOP congressmen should have called out these vile people for their unpatriotic, enemy emboldening speech that caused more Americans to be killed before the surge in Iraq. You all should have called them out and shamed them live on Hannity & Colmes.

Now you can redeem yourself.

President Bush, we have a crisis. Americans are hurting. You know that if Congress passed laws unleashing the free market in oil, refineries and nuclear plants, that the price would fall and non-college educated men and women would find great paying jobs in abundance.

For God's sakes, we are the United States of America. Quaker State was discovered here. Panama Canal. Model T's are USA. I-85 from Nawlins thru Atlanta and on to I-95 weren't scrubbed because it couldn't be finished in 24 hours. Sargent York saved France. Patton saved Italy. MacArthur saved South Korea. Man on Moon. Berlin wall fall.

Get on the tube Mr. President. An economic 911 is destroying the American dream for people without limousines, today!

You rose to the occasion to defeat the enemy that attacked us on 911. They are now reduced to bootleg doctored videos twice a year. Bob Woodward's book shows that you immediately identified the enemy and that it was war only minutes after the 911 attacks.

Mr. President, you know who the enemy is now. You have pleaded for more oil drilling since you took office in 2001. Your "New Tone" has not tamed the savage Donkey beast. Yes, by all means, please revere the office you occupy.

But sir, the Democrats are causing Americans to lose their non-Oval Offices.

Sir, call them out. They are waging war on the poor and middle class and small business, and ultimately the economic vitality of this country and they have, are and can do serious damage before you leave office.

Mr. President, please be that One man with courage that makes a majority. The majority is waiting.

ACT! Damn the tone. The kids need to hear Grandma's tones in Rome.

And fellow Republicans, there is nothing wrong with couching the argument as a plea to help the lower and middle income families. We are not compromising principle and policies or pandering by stating the fact that conservative free market capitalism is good for America, especially including middle America and the poor. In fact, we should and must if we want to translate the fact of a country that is center right to have a government that is center-right.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice Race 4 2008 "One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson

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Oval Office address must out Democrats waging war on lower/middle income families

 
President Bush must employ a newer tone against the Jackass enemy of the American Dream

By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report

The crisis can't wait till Inauguration Day, 2009. America is not a TV show whose plot hinges on what camera angle CNN decides to use to make McCain look old and short and Obama look like he has a clue.

Americans are hurting and the fact that we haven't had two consecutive quarters and can shout "Recession!" to the rooftops, ain't filling the tank for a trip to Myrtle Beach or leaving enough dough after a trip to the Exxon Station to buy the Leseur peas instead of the Kroger brand. Grandma in Rome, GA still misses seeing the grand kids in Atlanta most weekends since she lives more than a few blocks away.

Democrats speak of windmills as Rome burns.

Millions of Americans are in pain. America faces a crisis that the Democrat party has manufactured for the sake of Green money as surely as Judas betrayed Christ for the silver variety.

As JKF said in from the Oval Office as Blacks were being bloodied on bridges and hosed down in cities bridges led to, the issue is essentially a moral one, as old as the scriptures. I wish, as FDR admonished in much, much worse times, that all we had to fear was fear itself, but unlike the Republicans of the 1930's, the national Democratic Party of the 21st century naughts is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

Yes, rational Americans should fear the let them eat cake Democrats in Washington.

President Bush, you and your GOP congressmen should have called out these vile people for their unpatriotic, enemy emboldening speech that caused more Americans to be killed before the surge in Iraq. You all should have called them out and shamed them live on Hannity & Colmes.

Now you can redeem yourself.

President Bush, we have a crisis. Americans are hurting. You know that if Congress passed laws unleashing the free market in oil, refineries and nuclear plants, that the price would fall and non-college educated men and women would find great paying jobs in abundance.

For God's sakes, we are the United States of America. Quaker State was discovered here. Panama Canal. Model T's are USA. I-85 from Nawlins thru Atlanta and on to I-95 weren't scrubbed because it couldn't be finished in 24 hours. Sargent York saved France. Patton saved Italy. MacArthur saved South Korea. Man on Moon. Berlin wall fall.

Get on the tube Mr. President. An economic 911 is destroying the American dream for people without limousines, today!

You rose to the occasion to defeat the enemy that attacked us on 911. They are now reduced to bootleg doctored videos twice a year. Bob Woodward's book shows that you immediately identified the enemy and that it was war only minutes after the 911 attacks.

Mr. President, you know who the enemy is now. You have pleaded for more oil drilling since you took office in 2001. Your "New Tone" has not tamed the savage Donkey beast. Yes, by all means, please revere the office you occupy.

But sir, the Democrats are causing Americans to lose their non-Oval Offices.

Sir, call them out. They are waging war on the poor and middle class and small business, and ultimately the economic vitality of this country and they have, are and can do serious damage before you leave office.

Mr. President, please be that One man with courage that makes a majority. The majority is waiting.

ACT! Damn the tone. The kids need to hear Grandma's tones in Rome.

And fellow Republicans, there is nothing wrong with couching the argument as a plea to help the lower and middle income families. We are not compromising principle and policies or pandering by stating the fact that conservative free market capitalism is good for America, especially including middle America and the poor. In fact, we should and must if we want to translate the fact of a country that is center right to have a government that is center-right.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice Race 4 2008 "One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson

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DeVine Law: DNA is not "Divine law" for JonBenet's parents or anyone else

By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report

DNA is no more a magic bullet for clearing or convicting criminal defendants and suspects than were the ancient practices of seeing if a suspect could survive poisoning of being thrown in a lake tied to a rock.

And neither gamecock nor Mike DeVine, esq. needs assistance from any CockStradamus to forecast that we will soon discover that convicts paroled due to DNA evidence were actually guilty of the crimes for which they were convicted.

This rooster crows the above in the wake of Boulder County (CO) District Attorney Mary Lacy's public "clearing" of the parents of murdered 6-year old beauty queen, JonBente Ramsey in 1996, "citing new DNA tests."

Ever heard of the axiom that one cannot prove a negative?

Hope so.

Some facts:

a) Murder suspects have been cleared by prosecutors since time immemorial (most of which was before DNA became more than merely three letters of the alphabet;

b) Ramsey's parents could have and should have been "cleared" years ago due to a lack of evidence of guilt and the "new" DNA tests that purport to identify same male DNA in different locations no more clear the parents than all the first drop of blood of an unknown male found at the beginning of the investigation;

c) One can murder without leaving DNA;

d) One's DNA can be all over God's creation and the corpus delicti and be innocent of murder and worthy of a prosecutor's public "clearing" eleven years earlier; and

e) Prosecutors are human beings and, often times politicians, that love to be able to avoid any actual professional responsibility and judgment they are paid for when they can hang their hat on a "magic" test (enter DNA).

It is a disgrace that the parents have been hung out to dry this long. No one knows who killed the child and no one knows the parents didn't.

What we do know is that a Colorado prosecutor has perpetuated the myth that district attorneys, law enforcement, juries and parole boards need not think when DNA "evidence" or the lack of same, is involved.



Early in the investigation, police found male DNA in a drop of blood on JonBenet's underwear and determined it was not from anyone in her family. Investigators were unable to say who it came from and whether that person was the killer.

In 2003, the Ramseys got a major boost when a federal judge handling a defamation lawsuit involving the couple said the evidence was more consistent with the theory that an intruder killed JonBenet.

Three years later, only months after Patsy Ramsey died, the case seemed to veer into absurdity when John Mark Karr, an American teacher in Thailand, offered a bizarre confession to the slaying.

He was whisked from to Colorado but was released after prosecutors concluded he couldn't have killed her, and once again there was no prime suspect.

Then, late last year, prosecutors turned over long underwear JonBenet was wearing to the Bode Technology Group near Washington, which looked for "touch DNA," contained in skin cells left behind where someone has touched something. The lab has used this technology for at least three years.

The laboratory found previously undiscovered genetic material on the sides of the girl's long underwear, where an attacker would have grasped the clothing to pull it down, authorities said. The DNA matched the genetic material found earlier.

District Attorney Mary Lacy said the presence of the same male DNA in three places on the girl's clothing convinced investigators it belonged to JonBenet's killer and had not been left accidentally by an innocent party.

"It is therefore the position of the Boulder District Attorney's Office that this profile belongs to the perpetrator of the homicide," she said in a statement Wednesday. In a letter to the Ramseys, she said the DNA evidence "has vindicated your family."

I hate to break it to the do-gooders for whom no one is guilty 'cept society and the lock-em up and throw away the key-ers that think all those arrested are guilty (of something anyways) , that God has not returned to Earth as DNA evidence.

That someone's DNA is found in a particular incriminating place or not found, is not a sine qua non of proof beyond a reasonable doubt nor its anti-thesis.

Man cannot escape the fact that the DNA glass can only be seen thru a glass darkly just like those non-DNA glasses the Apostle Paul spoke of.

Lawyer Lacy, given the atrocious treatment the Ramseys were afforded by your office for eleven years, you were right to make a public clearing. You were wrong to pretend that their atrocious treatment was the fault of your predecessors' lack of spine and professional responsibility and you were wrong to pretend that this new DNA evidence absolves the Ramseys and your office.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice
Race 4 2008
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Nothing succeeds like Success: Cockstradamus, John McCain, and Victory in Iraq

 

 

By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report

Victory in Iraq is ours (see July 13 below), and, as predicted by Cockstradamus weeks ago, the victory will be declared before the November election.

Rooster crowing from from June 22

Accelerated troop level reductions will be announced based on success. For many moons now, this announcer of dawns has been nagged by an idea that dawned on me after Iraq’s security forces started winning battles on their own against Sunni-backed al Qaeda, Shia militias and even Iranian backed militias. We may be able to declare victory in Iraq very soon and announce accelerated withdrawals of victorious troops whose services are no longer required due to their success. I have always maintained that, while I want to maintain a major presence in Iraq, much like we did in Europe and the Pacific after WWII and Korea, it is vitally important that at some point there be an acknowledgement that we have won the Battle of Iraq and that any withdrawals be due to and seen as a result of our victory over the al Qaeda, radical terrorists, and Iran. In discussions with people that didn’t favor the war but who now want the USA to win, I found myself thinking to myself that my mantra of opposing troop reductions could and should soon yield to the most important mantra: victory.

News report from July 13

The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September, according to administration and military officials, raising the prospect of a far more ambitious plan than expected only months ago. Such a withdrawal would be a striking reversal from the nadir of the war in 2006 and 2007… Even as the two candidates argue over the wisdom of the war and keeping American troops there, security in Iraq has improved vastly, as has the confidence of Iraq’s government and military and police, raising the prospect of additional reductions that were barely conceivable a year ago. While officials caution that the relative calm is fragile, violence and attacks on American-led forces have dropped to the lowest levels since early 2004. “As the Iraqi security forces get stronger and get better, then we will be able to continue drawing down our troops in the future,” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in Fort Lewis, Washington State, on Tuesday. “And I think that this transition of control and of responsibility, primary responsibility for security is a process that’s already well under way and based on everything that I’m hearing will be able to continue.” General David Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq, has already begun the review of security and troop levels. He and Bush promised in April that such a review would take place. Petraeus is expected to be more cautious than some policy makers in the administration and at the Pentagon might like. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were discussing military planning, said he was more likely to recommend a smaller reduction, but still a withdrawal. One senior administration official cautioned that the president, who will have the final say, would be reluctant to endorse deep or rapid reductions if they jeopardized his goal of establishing a stable and democratic government in Baghdad.

When I wrote my June 22 forecast, questions were raised as to who, in the Presidential and congressional campaigns, would be helped. On June 22, I wrote:

the long list of accomplishments that lead inevitably to my pre-Election Day 2008 expectations: 1. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent the Iraqi army into Basra. It achieved in a few weeks what the British had failed to do in four years: take the city, drive out the Mahdi Army and seize the ports from Iranian-backed militias. 2. When Mahdi fighters rose up in support of their Basra brethren, the Iraqi army at Maliki’s direction confronted them and prevailed in every town — Najaf, Karbala, Hilla, Kut, Nasiriyah and Diwaniyah — from Basra to Baghdad. 3. Without any American ground forces, the Iraqi army entered and occupied Sadr City, the Mahdi Army stronghold. 4. Maliki flew to Mosul, directing a joint Iraqi-U.S. offensive against the last redoubt of al-Qaeda, which had already been driven out of Anbar, Baghdad and Diyala provinces. 5. The Iraqi parliament enacted a de-Baathification law, a major Democratic benchmark for political reconciliation. 6. Parliament also passed the other reconciliation benchmarks — a pension law, an amnesty law, and a provincial elections and powers law. Oil revenue is being distributed to the provinces through the annual budget. 7. With Maliki having demonstrated that he would fight not just Sunni insurgents (e.g., in Mosul) but Shiite militias (e.g., the Mahdi Army), the Sunni parliamentary bloc began negotiations to join the Shiite-led government. (The final sticking point is a squabble over a sixth cabinet position.)

My June 22 article also cites a Frank Rich column that evidences fears on the left that America will be seen as having won the Iraq War before November, yet many conservative nervous nellies still ponder that victory could hurt John McCain.

Poppycock.

When I say that “we” have won the war, I mean the United States of America, but it is the left and most of the Democratic Party that has called this Bushlied’s War. They opposed funding when they were in the minority during the stay the course years that won the trust of the Iraqis as well as the surge McCain had long called for that tipped the balance.

Obama brags that he opposed the war while in Kindergarten, I mean the Iliinois State Legislature and has opposed troop funding. The words “win” or “success” in Iraq never cross his lips.

Take heart my friends, not only will America benefit from victory, but so will those that worked to acheive it, and that is Joe Lieberman, President Bush, John McCain and most all Republicans sans Chuck Hagel.

Cockstradamus has not yet determined whn Iran will be bombed or McCain’s margin of victory. Stay tuned.
 

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” - The Chief Justice

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Gamecock's Foghorns and Leghorns for the week

Coming this weekend....
 
 
Foghorns:
 
1) Krauthammer on hard power vs speed limits
2) MLB All-Star Game as World Series home field advantage roulette
3) JonBenet DNA as modern day superstition and butt covering for Prosecutors
 
 
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Gramm never referred to gas/food price sufferers in "whiner/mental recession" interview

Phil Gramm never referred to either individual Americans or American small businessmen suffering from and/or complaining about high gas and food prices as whiners. Rather, he was referring to elitist opinion makers and "leaders" (see the liberal drive-by media, liberal democrats in congress and weak-kneed intimidated by the press and the greenie lobby Republicans as well). Conservatives that defended Gramm and called out the MSM's mischaracterization of his words, other than Rush Limbaugh, Mark Steyn and yours truly, are hard to come by, even after his clarification (see update). McCain not only didn't defend his close friend and advisor, that he obviously must have known wasn't playing the callous towards the poor role the MSM lied him into and has lied Republicans into for 40 years; he threw Phil, the straight talker, off the Express, as El Rushbo chronicled. Those suffering from mental depression that have seen mental recessions are the press, Kerry '04 and the Democrats, including number one liberal Obama, all of whom declared the American economy in 2004 as the "worst since the Great Depression."
 
 
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Media narrative must never let media or liberalism be discredited

Media narrative must never let media or liberalism be discredited

By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report

Now that the Democratic Party has apparently chosen its nominee for President, savvy liberal reporters like, Richard Cohen of The Washington Post are already writing pre-mortems, understanding (like Gamecock has crowed since 2006 re any likely leftist his former party was sure to choose and has crowed since 2007 when we discovered the Obamanation) that Barack Obama cannot and will not be elected President.

Of course the so-called mainstream media is in the tank for Barack Obama of 20-year pew-parked butt in the Trinity (Minister Farrakhan, Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger) United to hate white people and America Church fame, complete with hardball leg tinglings and cries of racism should anyone question, i.e. accurately quote campaign surrogates and advisors.

Speaking of cries of racism, Cohen is out early with the claim that Obama will lose due to the racism of the American (read white Republicans) people, (never mind that the best evidence they can offer is supposed racism in the DEMOCRAT primaries) but he slips up in the process and echoes Gamecock and Hugh Hewitt:

I acknowledge that some people can find nonracial reasons to vote against Obama -- his youth, his inexperience, his uber-liberalism and, of course, his willingness to abide his minister's admiration for a racist demagogue (Louis Farrakhan) until it was way, way too late. But for too many people, Obama is first and foremost a black man and is rejected for that reason alone. This is very sad.

Hugh Hewitt opines:

This is, of course, nonsense. Obama has won the nomination by running as a hard left, anti-victory tax raiser with a circle of radical advisors, mentors and friends. He will lose the general because he really is a hard-left, anti-victory tax raiser with a circle of radical advisors, mentors and friends.

[RACISM UPDATE]

Cohen's reference to a vague poll question as to whether race was "a factor" is very weak evidence to support his claims. Respondents could easily have interpreted that question as asking if the racism exhibited by Obama's friends and supporters was a factor.

Moreover, John McWhorter, a prominent black author and Obama supporter refutes claims of significant racism among the American electorate:

Racism in Retreat

A year and a half ago, often I was sweetly dismissed when I said that Barack Obama was possibly on his way to the White House and would certainly trounce Hillary Clinton for the nomination.

"You don't know what they'll do to him," they'd say. As often as not, the idea was that America could not seriously support a black man for its highest office.

I didn't get this. The America I live in today does not seem as deeply stamped by bigotry as these people seemed to think. It seemed as if, on this topic, I was talking to people who had woken up after 25 years and didn't know how the country had changed. Couldn't they see that this man's color was only going to help?

Well, here we are. Are there some bigots? Of course. Did they, or any purported instance of "racism" during the campaign, keep Barack Obama from the nomination?

His victory demonstrates the main platform of my race writing. The guiding question in everything I have ever written on race is: Why do so many people exaggerate about racism?

This exaggeration is a nasty hangover from the sixties, and the place it has taken as a purported badge of intellectual and moral gravitas is a tire-block on coherent, constructive sociopolitical discussion.

Here's a typical case for what passes as enlightenment. On my desk(top) is an article from last year's American Psychologist. The wisdom imparted? To be a person of color these days is to withstand an endless barrage of racist "microaggressions."

Say to someone, "When I look at you, I don't see color" and you "deny their ethnic experiences." You do the same by saying, "As a woman, I know what you go through as a racial minority," as well as with hate speech such as "America is a melting pot." Other "microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men (I'm not kidding about the straight part).

This sort of thing will not do. Why channel mental energy into performance art of this kind?

Some may mistake me as implying that it would be okay to stop talking about racism. But that interpretation is incorrect: I am stating that it would be okay to stop talking about racism. We need to be talking about serious activism focused on results. Those who suppose that the main meal in the aforementioned is to decry racism are not helping people.

[END RACISM UPDATE]

Besides projections of racism, what else is going on here with Cohen?

Cohen is smarter than the average liberal, more objective and more concerned about his credibility. But make no mistake, the MSM is working off a template they have used since at least 1980 if not 1972.

Ever notice how most all of their between election polls show Democrats ahead until a few weeks or days before elections? Carter in ’80, Mondale in ’84, and Dukakis in ’88 all held large leads over the Republican that vanquished them. Gore and Kerry led as well in 2000 and 2004 respectively.

The MSM uses polls to try and make their wishes come true, but near the end they seek to rehabilitate their reputations with accurate polls.

Moreover, they never admit that Democrats lose because of their liberal policies and what passes for “values.” Oh no. They must never admit that their leftist God is impotent.

Hence, McGovern lost because Eagleton underwent shock therapy, and not because he wanted to lose a war.

Carter lost because Michael Deaver framed good photo ops and Reagan said “there he goes again”, and not because Carter wrecked the economy and lost Iran.

Mondale lost because Reagan joked that he would not hold Mondale’s “youth and inexperience against him”, and not because Mondale promised to raise taxes.

Dukakis lost because George H.W. Bush and Republicans (after Gore) put a black man’s face in a TV ad, and not because Dukakis opposed the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance by grammar school children.

Gore lost because the Supreme Court stole the election (via a lawsuit he filed after breaking America’s tradition of over 200 years of not reneging on a concession), not because he eschewed Clintonism, ran as a populist, had a personality breakdown in three debates and lost his own home state.

Kerry lost because he was “swift-boated” (eye-witness fellow military officers told the truth about Kerry’s publicity tour in ‘Nam), and not because he promised to subject American sovereignty to an “international test” and to give Osama bin Laden an O.J. Simpson-like trial, Judge Ito presiding.

No.

Liberals never lose because of the failure of the liberal policies, both foreign and domestic, for the last forty years.

No, it’s always a debate “moment” on TV, or another event, on TV.

What matters most is that liberalism not be discredited, what happens on TV is deemed significant and dispositive, and that Americans understand that they are racist, bigot, sexist homophobe rubes.

Americans are just too stupid to vote their best interests ya’ know.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report

Race 4 2008

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The Monster Mash

Thank God for Obama's Power gaffe, i.e blunt truth:

Hillary is a monster.

"She is a monster too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything."

And so, with the truth having been spoken, of course, Obama's Samantha Power was sapped, and the babe moves on, maybe to introduce herself to Barack's Weather Underground Chicago neighbor for instructions on how to get back in the mainstream after bombings of the Pentagon or Hillary kind. (Hint: Pro-abortion blatherings are a good start)

Of course, Barack's Samantha betwitched her nose at monstrous "stoopings" to "anything", defined as accurate references to Rezkoesque slumlords, Canadian NAFTAwhispers and 3am impotence, but we know our Mrs. Nurse Ratched Clinton is not limited in her monstrosities to such kindergarten Halloween fare.

In fact, when I first heard the Power's quote, I immediately wondered if maybe she was a heretofore unknown bimbo eruption, which volcano Ms. Rodham had capped into silence much like the trailer park trash and/or beret wearing eruptions she drained the lava from in the 90s.

The fact is though, that all of the above monster antics pale in comparison to the truly ghoulish acts and omissions of monsterdom that both Hillary and the Obamanation share, i.e.

Modern Day Liberalism!

A Prelude:

I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise

He did the mash
He did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
He did the mash
It caught on in a flash
He did the mash
He did the monster mash

From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes

They did the mash
They did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the monster mash

The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf Man
Dracula and his son

The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, "The Crypt-Kicker Five"

They played the mash
They played the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They played the mash
It caught on in a flash
They played the mash
They played the monster mash

Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and shook his fist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"

It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
The monster mash
And it's a graveyard smash
It's now the mash
It's caught on in a flash
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash

Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hit of the land
For you, the living, this mash was meant too
When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you

Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash
The monster mash
And do my graveyard smash
Then you can mash
You'll catch on in a flash
Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash

I lived the Monster Mash in the late 1970's with Jimmy Carter as Dracula sucking the blood out of the economy and Frankenstein scaring away investors but merely amusing the totalitarian foreign threats of the day.

The originals were rejected utterly in a disembodied McGovern in 1972.

Let us not be lulled by the interregnum into letting Obama keep his "change/hope" mask on even if his press babe outed the femme fatale of Clintonism.

The most dangerous monster is the Left, in the the press, academia, Hollywood, and the Democratic Party, followed closely in their lethality to Osama and his ilk, who fear not the lame secular lib variety.

Beware!

Vote McCain and the GOP, i.e. the silver bullets that are lethal to monsters, both foreign and domestic.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
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The Sun and John Coleman vs. Al Gore, TWC and Heidi Cullen

The defamation lawsuit filed on behalf of our solar system's star in the Milky Way Intergalactic District Court last year against Al Gore and reported here at Redstate asking the "burning question", Where will the Knicks play?, has been hobbled by a lack of cash flow of the Plaintiff.

The Sun's lawyer, Mike DeVine, paid the filing fee and service of process fee, and was fortunate to obtain an admission via ABC News transcript after which Bill Clinton was added as a witness in The Sun v Al Gore lawsuit.

But The Sun has been unable to generate any income given its inability to travel any closer than 93 million miles to any available place of employment on Planet Earth.

Hence, DeVine Law has had to fend off claims his client is a "public figure" and hence must prove "actual mailce" by Gore.

The gravamen of the Complaint is that the defendant, Al Gore defames the plaintiff by alleging that Man, and not The Sun, warms the Earth.

But now, pursuant to Rule 20. Permissive Joinder of Parties DeVine is adding a well-heeled party plaintiff to the lawsuit, as well as a new cause of action (see below link re carbon credit fraud) and adding two additional party defendants, one of which is a pocket deeper than Gore.

TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose 'the fraud of global warming.

The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.

Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.

“The Weather Channel had great promise, and that’s all gone now because they’ve made every mistake in the book on what they’ve done and how they’ve done it and it’s very sad,” Coleman said. “It’s now for sale and there’s a new owner of The Weather Channel will be announced – several billion dollars having changed hands in the near future. Let’s hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information.”

The Weather Channel has been an outlet for global warming alarmism. In December 2006, The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen argued on her blog that weathercasters who had doubts about human influence on global warming should be punished with decertification by the American Meteorological Society.

Coleman also told the audience his strategy for exposing what he called “the fraud of global warming.” He advocated suing those who sell carbon credits, which would force global warming alarmists to give a more honest account of the policies they propose.

Coleman will be footing the bill for deposition and other discovery expenses for DeVine in the contingency fee civil action.

Some republicans and Alaskans have expressed hope that the case can generate support for new oil drilling as opposed to the democrat exclusive love for old oil. See link

ANWR Drilling Despisers Hezbo-Dem Dingell and Dem Party Love Old Well Oil Only?

Many in the GOP also hope to persuade John McCain to give up the defamation generated support for taxing Americans to fund futile cooling tactics, taking away Edison's light bulb and the Corvette, and forcing Americans to drive scooters next to semis on I-95.

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Thanks to President Bush (and Hillary) no 3am call re Hussein ever came

President William Jefferson Clinton got many calls, some even in the wee hours of the night, relating attacks on America or that would be attackers were in the gun sights of America special forces. His responses were, variously:

1 - the bombing of vacant buildings or aspirin factories;
2 - declarations of war from the press room against Osama bin laden;
3 - refusals to allow the killing of said Osama for fear Arab potentates or children would be collateral damage; and, finally, when said calls concerned a certain ceasefire violating Saddam Hussein,
4 - Desert Fox, i.e. days of massive bombing of Iraq followed by an Oval Office speech declaring that the US and UN must prevent Saddam from allying with al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction against us.

Despite President Clinton's anemic responses to phone calls at 3, and any other am and pms, or maybe because of same, I give Hillary a pass, especially after her affirmation of President George Walker Bush's request for a Declaration of War (and that is what it was and I'm not arguing that point on this blog even if called names by mbecker), that she is better prepared to answer White House phones than her opponent for the democratic party presidential nomination i.e. the junior senator from Illinois, all of whose names have the potential to be used in an offensive and bigoted manner, who is married to the 44-year old Michelle that only recently was proud of America when watching women faint at the sight of her husband and who recently pleaded with poor clack women to eschew legal and corporate careers to stay barefoot and pregnant or empty bedpans.

I think, after 911, and the consequent guilt felt by President Bill Clinton knowing all the times he could have acted to prevent same, that he and Hillary learned a lesson: Our legacy can be restored by winning wars, not by approval polls born of inaction.

The policies that Michelle's husband would advance in foreign policy would make 3am phone calls advising him of Americans dying at the hands of our enemies more frequent.

Michelle's husband has declared to the world that he would allow Husseins to defy ceasefires achieved by the deaths of brave America soldiers with impunity.

He would reward 28 years of war by Iran's mullahs against the US with a meeting to discuss their role in Iraq, with no precondition that they stop waging war against us in Iraq.

I endorse Hillary to be John Sydney McCain, III's opponent on Election Day 2008, not because she would be easier to beat (and not just because I no longer believe that), but because he would be a much better Commander in Chief phone answerer that Michelle's husband.

[UPDATE]

Hillary Clinton Talks to The Brody File

I think that there is a certain phenomenon associated with this candidacy, and I am really struck by that because it is very much about him and his personality and his presentation. And that's perfectly legitimate in politics, or any other walk of life, but I think it dangers or oversimplifies the complexity of the problems we face, the challenges of navigating our country through some difficult uncharted waters. We are a nation at war. That seems to be forgotten.

Hillary says "We are a nation at war" with conviction.

Michelle's husband says it as throwaway line.

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Even Michael Steele can't utterly repudiate Farrakhan?

My eyes just opened wider than when Michelle Obama told the whole truth concerning her lack of pride in America until her husband got white votes in Iowa.

My conservative black friends told me long ago of the taboo subjects in black America. I have seen Clarence Thomas and others attacked over same. John McWhorter outlines them best in his "Losing the Race." But I have to admit I was shocked tonight, when...

On Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes just now, Michael Steele came to the defense of Black Americans who have worked with the nation's number one racist "in the field" due to the "black" perspective as opposed to Sean Hannity's "white" perspective.

[UPDATE]

Thomas Sowell disagrees:

"When we are talking about a president of the United States, we are not talking about the fate of one individual, but the fate of a nation and of generations yet unborn," conservative commentator Thomas Sowell wrote last month on National Review Online. "This is no time to get squeamish or politically correct, when talking about whoever is to carry the load of the free world on his shoulders in the White House."

Hannity challenged a black liberal democrat on the show to admit what the liberal democrat would think of Hannity if he continued to attend a church that honored David Duke like Obama's church honors Farrakhan.

America, especially including those that propose to unify said America, lend me your ears: There is no legitimate perspective from which one could do anything but be repulsed by Louis Farrakhan.

This issue is on the order of Holocaust denial. The rise of Obama proves Shelby Steele's conclusion that white racism is no longer a significant factor in America life, but...

Apparently, given that even republican Michael Steele is willing to give Obama a pass on his Hate America Church/Black nationalist, separatist church and his stuttering 30 sentences vague half a*s denunciation of something-Farrakhan, there is a cancer on Black America.

Well, we are about to cut it out. The occasion of Obama's inevitable nomination makes the long needed operation imminent. And while we operate on blacks, we will finally have that conversation on race that Bill Clinton so craved yet saw within 25 minutes of the convening of the conference that no honest dialogue could be had since any white getting too close to the truth would be deemed a racist.

I thought to myself the other day, who are the top ten known prominent racists in America. Farrakhan came to mind first. Slam dunk number one.

People, the politically correct police are on the beat, and they apparently have already mugged Michael Steele.

Barack Obama is a card carrying member of the cancer. He must not be given a pass.

More importantly, we must use this occasion to force the lid off the pathologies in the Black community, one of which reserves respect for Farrakhan.

This is a deep sickness. A sickness so deep in white and black America that my first dead-tree MSM column with the Charlotte Observer addressed the issue:

Now, what about Caucasians?

I became active in the Democratic Party mainly due to my disdain for the racism I saw in the 1970s. Happily, I watched most of the Republican racism melt under the weight of King's mainstream American and Judeo-Christian moral arguments. Unhappily, I watched disturbing pathologies develop within my party and its members.

Then, during my five years in Atlanta before moving to the Queen City, I experienced what I call a "conservative epiphany," in large part due to the covertly racist behavior of fellow liberal Democrats in their treatment of blacks as inferior victim dependents and their overt disdain for the Christian faith that inspired King.

Radio talk show host Dennis Prager recently described being shown a video of people reacting to a talk show organized by a firm that specializes in analyzing such shows for their producers. Prager noticed that the carefully chosen panel included no blacks. The firm explained that in their previous experience they discovered that after a black person gave their opinion about a show, white people would rarely offer differing opinions for fear of being deemed racist.

This condescending and misplaced white guilt and fear of the Political Correctness Police must end.

Face down the PC crowd

I don't remember Daddy's answer to his eldest son's innocent inquiry some 39 years ago, but there is nothing I better remember than the way he lived his life. Dad employed the non-race-based Golden Rule found in Matthew's Gospel as he coached some of the first racially integrated little league baseball teams in my hometown and insisted that blacks employed with him at Southern Railway be held to the same standards as whites.

King based his civil rights message largely on that New Testament passage, which admonishes us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us, as well as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which acknowledge equality before our Creator and require equal treatment under the law.

Quite simply, whites must stop treating blacks as inferiors, and muster the courage to face down the PC crowd to make King's dream more of a reality.

That was my admonition to whites. Well, now Blacks, you can't use the guilt of whites to hide your cancer now. Barack wants his hand on the button.

Yet, despite the above, Michael Steele's comments tonight shocked me, and I guess I learned only recently how bad the sickness is from a man that has been a lifelong republican. A black man who was shocked at the level of inferiority shown by a lifelong black woman that wrote a letter to me objecting to my column on The Jena One.

I am not going to reveal either's identity.

The issue is crystallized by Michael Steele. He was honest. He gives the black nationalist portion of the black community a pass.

I won't. I wouldn't have given them a pass even if one that attends such a church for 20 years wasn't running for the most powerful job on Earth and who pretends to want to unify the nation while he and his children get schooled in the opposite in comfy pews.

I won't give Obama or anyone that turns a blind eye to racism and hate. Why? Because I hate racism and love humanity, and because I have a special love for Black people, Black Americans. I spent 18 years in the party that egged this bullS**t on. I feel I was an aider and abettor in the destruction of the black family and in this PC pathology that gives Farrakhan, FARRAKHAN DAMMIT!, a pass.

I will not be silent.

I called out white racists and those that stayed silent in the 70's, and I am calling out the black racists and those that turn a blind eye now.

Michael Steele, you insulted black people tonight, suggesting that the history of blacks has created a different perspective from which to view the relationship of Black America with Farrakhan.

I am reminded of the different perspective of plantation owners on the issue of slavery.

The perspective of the GOP was founded on the moral bankruptcy of the latter, and it stands now on the moral bankruptcy for the substitution of Farrakhan for Simon LeGree.

Simply put: Obama's 20 year attendance at his church disqualifies him to President.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/politics/30obama.html?_r=3&oref=slo...

Period.

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Memo to GOP: Eliminate all gas/oil taxes now

Originally posted at The Minority Report

The rise in the price of energy is hurting the economy. It is pushing up the price of necessities like gasoline, heating oil and food. It is greatly reducing the standard of living for low income families and the middle class. It threatens to push the US economy into recession.

Very soon, the Democratic Party will seize upon this issue and propose policies that they claim will help the poor, but which will actually hurt them. They will play class warfare politics and they will demonize heartless republicans and the media will help they play this game as they have for over 75 years.

Again, the GOP is looking at a softball they could hit for a home run and go a long way towards refuting the lie the liberals have make conventional wisdom, i.e. that the GOP doesn't "care" about the poor. Of course, the results of our policies refute the charge. But the perception persists because we are too polite and wait to react.

GO ON OFFENSE FOR ONCE FOR GOD'S SAKE!

To whom does the rooster crow?

President Bush, John McCain, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner in the District. All GOP governors in the States.

Please beat the democrats to the punch for once.

End all taxes on gasoline and heating oil. End subsidies for ethanol.

State and federal.

And while you are at it, push for opening up new areas for oil drilling and reducing regulations on nuclear power and oil refineries.

Americans face the possibility of $4 per gallon oil.

Food prices are rising.

CALLER: Rush, I've been in business for 30 years. I've been successful. I have been delivering food to the state of Delaware economically, spectacularly, winning awards. My credentials are impeccable. I can't bring the food any more to the table at the price I'm bringing it because of Delmarva Power & Light, which is really not their fault, it's our governor. It's Joe Biden. These people are out of their minds, Rush. We don't need free health care. That is not the problem in this country. We're being crippled with energy. We can't bring oil out of ANWR, we can't drill off your estate at Palm Beach. No one wants to look at a derrick.

RUSH: I wouldn't mind.

CALLER: I know you wouldn't mind. But there's something crazy taking place. The price of my kilowatt is a dime because they want to take the CO2 and put it into a cave and save it. They can deliver it at three cents. American Electric Power has been in business for a hundred years. They know what to do. Governors telling them what to do, how to build the plant, not to use coal, demonizing oil, a woman named Jane Fonda sits on a cannon and stops an entire world from delivering nuclear power with this movie she made --

RUSH: Exactly right. In fact, I watched a little bit of that yesterday. It was on HDNet movie --

CALLER: How does this happen, Rush? How does this happen?

RUSH: Fear.

CALLER: How do intelligent Americans allow -- why can't we build nuclear? We can create 40,000 jobs by bringing oil in from ANWR. We bring it by a pipeline, not with a tanker, no spill, no Exxon Valdez. What is going on, Rush?

RUSH: What's going on, it is --

CALLER: Twenty-nine states with 29 different grades of gasoline? We're paying over three dollars for regular. Rush, I don't care. I got the money. I drive only 12-cylinder cars.

RUSH: Thank God.

CALLER: I wouldn't put my grandchildren in no little mini-boxes. But I'm not talking about me, and I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about working America. They think they need free health care? They need two dollar a gallon gas, this country will explode. They're heating their houses. You think there's a subprime crisis, Rush? Yes, there's a subprime crisis. That's not the problem. People bought a house they thought their energy was going to be $250. They get a bill, it's $385. They go to the gas station, they spend another $40, so they stop coming out to my restaurant. They stop buying 24/7. They don't buy a newsletter. Rush, there is a domino effect taking place. It's energy. We bring down the price of a plasma television set. I bought one for $10,000, a Fujitsu. It's now $1,100.

RUSH: I've been there.

CALLER: We bring down the price of phones. We bring down the price of computers. Why do we bring up the price of energy? Why do you allow the Sierra Club to run this country? What is going on? These people are walking through the country and telling us to go on a bicycle? I need Larry David to drive around for four years in Curb Your Enthusiasm with a Prius? What is going on, Rush? We're out of our mind. People are calling up and saying he's liberal, he's conservative, he's this, he's that. They're driving themselves into a barrel. They're not going to get out, the Bo Snerdleys of the world. I'm talking about young couples. I've got two boys. They're trying to bring children up. They're getting energy bills that are knocking their homes out of sight. Nothing, nothing is more important than to bring -- energy is what makes this world tick. We're beholden to Chavezes and Castros and Putins; we want to go dig here, dig there. Can you dig in Alaska? Oh, no, we're going to kill a caribou. This is nonsense. This doesn't make any sense. How do we allow these idiots to get on television and talk about foreign oil? There is no -- Rush, you have got to lead a charge. It is not that McCain is reaching over the aisle, he's a global warmer

Redstaters, our prosperity is at risk. We can't wait till January 21, 2009 to address this. Action is vital now.

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Obama's minister lives in Chicago. So will Obama next February.

 Obama never actually rejects the "Minister's" present support.

Obama was fatally wounded in the general election tonight, or was it when he remained in his hate America church's pew the first time his pastor or his pastor's minister preached hate after he and Michelle's butts warmed the pews.

The relevant part of the debate:                                                                                                                                                   

MR. RUSSERT: Senator Obama, one of the things in a campaign is that you have to react to unexpected developments. On Sunday, the headline in your hometown paper, Chicago Tribune: "Louis Farrakhan Backs Obama for President at Nation of Islam Convention in Chicago."
 
            Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan?

SEN. OBAMA: You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments. I think that they are unacceptable and reprehensible. I did not solicit this support. He expressed pride in an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together. I obviously can't censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we're not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.

Five sentences and he doesn't answer a yes/no question with the obvious "no". He does, however, refer to the racist with the honorific of "Minister", not once, but twice. He compliments the minister on his pride in an African-American. How sweet.

MR. RUSSERT: Do you reject his support?

Tim understands that his fellow Democrat has not answered the question.

SEN. OBAMA: Well, Tim, you know, I can't say to somebody that he can't say that he thinks I'm a good guy. (Laughter.) You know, I -- you know, I -- I have been very clear in my denunciations of him and his past statements, and I think that indicates to the American people what my stance is on those comments.

Still won't say "no"! Repeats that the minister likes him. Mentions that he has denounced the minister in the past, but still does not answer Tim's initial question

MR. RUSSERT: The problem some voters may have is, as you know, Reverend Farrakhan called Judaism "gutter religion."

Tim realizes that Obama still has not rejected the minister's support now.

OBAMA: Tim, I think -- I am very familiar with his record, as are the American people. That's why I have consistently denounced it.

This is not something new. This is something that -- I live in Chicago. He lives in Chicago. I've been very clear, in terms of me believing that what he has said is reprehensible and inappropriate. And I have consistently distanced myself from him.

Now, we are at thirteen sentences and Obama still has not rejected the minister's support now. We do now know that the minister lives near him.

RUSSERT: The title of one of your books, "Audacity of Hope," you acknowledge you got from a sermon from Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the head of the Trinity United Church. He said that Louis Farrakhan "epitomizes greatness."

He said that he went to Libya in 1984 with Louis Farrakhan to visit with Moammar Gadhafi and that, when your political opponents found out about that, quote, "your Jewish support would dry up quicker than a snowball in Hell."

RUSSERT: What do you do to assure Jewish-Americans that, whether it's Farrakhan's support or the activities of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, your pastor, you are consistent with issues regarding Israel and not in any way suggesting that Farrakhan epitomizes greatness?

Tim gives up on the direct approach and gives Obama a chance to denounce two hatemongers, i.e. his own pastor and the minister.

OBAMA: Tim, I have some of the strongest support from the Jewish community in my hometown of Chicago and in this presidential campaign. And the reason is because I have been a stalwart friend of Israel's. I think they are one of our most important allies in the region, and I think that their security is sacrosanct, and that the United States is in a special relationship with them, as is true with my relationship with the Jewish community.

And the reason that I have such strong support is because they know that not only would I not tolerate anti-Semitism in any form, but also because of the fact that what I want to do is rebuild what I consider to be a historic relationship between the African-American community and the Jewish community.

You know, I would not be sitting here were it not for a whole host of Jewish Americans, who supported the civil rights movement and helped to ensure that justice was served in the South. And that coalition has frayed over time around a whole host of issues, and part of my task in this process is making sure that those lines of communication and understanding are reopened.

But, you know, the reason that I have such strong support in the Jewish community and have historically -- it was true in my U.S. Senate campaign and it's true in this presidency -- is because the people who know me best know that I consistently have not only befriended the Jewish community, not only have I been strong on Israel, but, more importantly, I've been willing to speak out even when it is not comfortable.

When I was -- just last point I would make -- when I was giving -- had the honor of giving a sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in conjunction with Martin Luther King's birthday in front of a large African-American audience, I specifically spoke out against anti- Semitism within the African-American community. And that's what gives people confidence that I will continue to do that when I'm president of the United States.

I defy anyone to identify where Obama rejects "Minister" Louis's support in Baracks' opus above or in his later exchange that the MSM is focused on after the above (see link)

Full Debate Transcript

The exchange with Hillary is too vague to be an explicit rejection of Louis's endorsement.

The correct answer to Russert's initial softball question of,

"Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan?"

was "NO"!

Tim expected to hear "no"; tried to lead him to "no"; but never heard "no".

Instead we heard Obama twice repeat, with smiles, that his pastor's hero likes him; twice heard him refer to him with honor as "minister"; and found out they are neighbors and that he hasn't always agreed with him.

We never heard him reject