“I’ll never talk to a reporter again!”

Check out the touching story out of Morrison, Colorado from Rob Kiser at Peenie Wallie.

So says Michael Graham.

The question isn’t how dare I call Islam a terrorist organization, but rather why more people do not.

Read it.

Via Beth. And NYC Right points out that Mr. Graham has been suspended over his remarks.

LaShawn Barber has a good piece this morning pointing out the nonsensical position taken by many on this issue.

I’ve heard people say, in the same breath, they’re against quotas but support affirmative action, without the slightest idea that what they just said was total nonsense.

Check it out here.

Check out Dafydd and Captain Ed’s comments on the lecture that John C. Coughenour gave to Bush while sentencing Ahmed Ressam today.

I need your help. My blog seems to take a while to load, and then all of a sudden, bang, the whole thing is loaded up at once. I suspect that there is something I’m doing in the way I’ve got the styles or tables laid out which is preventing it from displaying as it loads, and there are a couple of blogrolls or ad banners that may take some time to load.

If any of you techies out there can view the source and give me any hints on how to make it load up piece by piece so the whole thing doesn’t have to wait for the slowest component, I would greatly appreciate it.

Hah!

[T]he U.S. House last night passed the Liberal American Free Trade Agreement (LAFTA), which drops the requirement that left-leaning consumers feel guilty when purchasing unnecessary items from Wal-Mart, McDonald’s and other businesses “engaged in unapologetic capitalism.”

“Under LAFTA, liberals will not longer need to slink into Wal-Mart at 2 a.m.,” said one unnamed Congressman. “And now they can actually sit down in the McDonald’s restaurant, instead of just pulling up to the second window in their hybrids.”

Via MM.

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This is becoming a routine thing in the Senate since the Democrats were almost elected to oblivion. So are we now seeing 60 votes becoming the norm for legislation to pass? They aren’t even calling this a filibuster anymore. It’s an “obstacle.” Where are the Republicans? Why don’t the Republicans make these obstructionist Democrats actually filibuster? Make the Democrats stay right through the August recess and carry on minute by minute, hour by hour. It will make for great entertainment in a hot summer.

The sad story is that the Democrats aren’t actually filibustering anything. They just raise a sign or some such thing that says “filibuster” and the Republicans roll over and say, “Oh gee, I guess we’ll need 60 votes.” Is the Senate becoming a joke or what?

From NewsMax…

Senate Republicans will push for a vote this week on permanently repealing the estate tax even though the GOP appears to lack enough support to get past Democrats’ objections.

Lobbyists and lawmakers acknowledge they are several votes short of the 60 needed in the Senate to clear potential Democratic obstacles to a permanent repeal. The House passed a bill in April that would abolish the tax.

This latest “filibuster” issue centers around Democrats wanting your money when you die. For some odd reason they don’t want you to pass your hard earned savings to your children. They hide behind “the rich” when ironically it is they who are rich. It seems these politicians, however, always like to include loopholes that only rich people can afford to navigate in a “legitimate” effort to exclude political riches from confiscation.

Under Bush and the Republicans, the estate tax is scheduled to be eliminated in 2009. That helps millions of small business people, farmers, and folks who have been wise savers and investors. But in 2010 it reverts back to pre-Bush times when the government confiscated your estate unless you spent your time and resources hiring lawyers to create trusts or engage in other expensive schemes to avoid the confiscation. The average American not only can’t afford these expensive lawyers, but folks on Main Street, who have worked hard all their lives, don’t understand the complicated loopholes contrived by the rich Democrat politicians.

As further indication of the Democrat mindset, former Clinton economic advisor thinks that estate taxes go to pay Social Security benefits. What does that tell you about the current state of affairs in the Democrat Party?

NewsMax again…

“Way too many senators are more focused on the three wealthy donors they have met at their last fundraiser than they are at the millions of their constituents who will pay higher debt or get less Medicaid or Social Security benefits,” said Gene Sperling, former President Clinton’s economic adviser. He is now a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress.

Apparently Sperling doesn’t spend much time on Main Street. How about the millions of Americans who will pay higher taxes or have their savings confiscated by the government? Besides I thought Social Security was in good shape according to the Democrats. Why do they need oppressive estate taxes to fund it? I thought Social Security was the only ponzi scheme that actually works. Looks like Clinton was getting some pretty poor economic advice.

And then we have the shadow Senators who once supported repeal but now have “concerns”…

NewsMax…

Some senators who in the past have supported abolishing the tax joined the negotiations because they now worry that a repeal would worsen federal budget deficits.

Hey shadow Senators… ever consider cutting back your wasteful spending?

The Senate seems to be sliding into circus mode. The Democrats objective is to delay anything and everything through whatever means possible to get to the 2006 elections and into 2008. The Republicans are either too blind to see this or are willingly playing along in some closed door power broking of future promises. Some, no doubt, like being in the center ring anyway they can get there. If the Republicans believe anything the Democrats promise they are foolish. There is no credible reason to believe the Democrats in the Senate will keep their word or agreements whether it is to legislation, judges, or the elevated prestige of these shadow Republican Senators.

At the very least the Republicans in the Senate should be making the Democrats actually have to filibuster. What a spectacle that would be, time after time, legislation after legislation, nominee after nominee. That would be better than any campaign dollars the Republicans will spend. Just picture 45 bedraggled and enervated senators slouching over the podium babbling on like drunken bums everyday from now until the 2006 elections. They couldn’t do it. Some of them would die at the podium. Others would have to slip out the ol’ flask for a swig.

It would be priceless. Republicans, please stop depriving us of such great entertainment. And get on with the job. Use the rules. Make the Democrats actually, really, truly, in real time, day in and day out, hour by hour, filibuster.

Or make it 51 votes, the way it’s supposed to be.

Others commenting on this issue include: Joon Park, Pat Cleary, Not a Pundit, ISE Fire, Democratic Daily, Illinois Pundit.

Fox calls this a Payola Shocker. But is anyone really surprised?

The internal memos from Sony Music, revealed today in the New York state attorney general’s investigation of payola at the company, will be mind blowing to those who are not so jaded to think records are played on the radio because they’re good. We’ve all known for a long time that contemporary pop music stinks. We hear “hits” on the radio and wonder, “How can this be?”

Now we know. And memos from both Sony’s Columbia and Epic Records senior vice presidents of promotions circa 2002-2003 — whose names are redacted in the reports but are well known in the industry — spell out who to pay and what to pay them in order to get the company’s records on the air.

Fox News is reporting a quote by Gov. Tom Vilsack that is classic.

We’ve got to be for something, and it is pretty clear that America is waiting for us. They are desperate to know what we are for.

Just as soon as the polls tell them what they should be for I guess.

Hah!

MSN’s virtual Earth replaced the Apple headquarters with a field and a single road and labeled it “Infinite Loop.”

And when you zoom in on the Microsoft site, it says “Apple Computer Corp Ofc. - No Results Found.”

You gotta love geek fights. Man, that’s funny.

If you haven’t seen the Castle Coalition’s website yet, check it out and get involved.

Right now, there is a tremendous momentum against this abuse of power, and we ask each of you to begin organizing to change the law in your city or county or state. The Castle Coalition will help you write the language, but now is the time to start organizing your friends and neighbors. Your local government will tell you there’s nothing to worry about, that it would never use eminent domain, or that it’s only as a “last resort.” Don’t believe a word of it. Your only protection is a change in the law (or good state court rulings, which is what the Institute for Justice is working on).

Via MuD & PHuD.

Exactly.

Jay Tea has an interesting discussion he titled “The Cold Calculus of Fighting Terrorism.”

What they can do, though, is “play the odds” and use their best judgment on whether or not the suspect is a terrorist. They can look at his clothing, his behavior, his conduct, his general mien and use their best professional opinion on whether he is a terrorist or a harried commuter.

This is what used to be known as “good policework,” but is now known as “profiling.”

That’s exactly what happened in London last week. They played the odds, ran the numbers, and chose in instants whether they would risk one dead innocent or countless dead and injured innocents — and they shot him.

Check out the rest.

Check out this story about Lt. Gove Knoll attending the funeral of a fallen marine and inappropriately using this as a platform (uninvited) to speak out against the war.

Michelle Malkin has more on the original story here. It looks like Governor Rendell is apologizing and encouraging Knoll to do the same. Michelle says it’s not enough to hide behind the gov’s skirts.

Greyhawk thinks maybe she was taken in by Michael Moore.

Balance Sheet says:

The Democratic Party will be laid to rest sometime in the near future

The Anchoress rants:

Can Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll be impeached for utter classlessness, cluelessness and jaw-dropping stupidity?

Blackfive has more on Seargant Goodrich.

Pennywit is outraged too, but thinks the calls for resignation are a bit overblown.

Mark in Mexico:

The Lt. Gov. could not be reached for comment from her hiding place under her desk but an aide said that it would be “would be inappropriate” for him to comment.

Lump on a Blog rounds out the commentary with this.

Catherine Baker Knoll, Democrat has come to represent all of the qualites that we do not admire, but have come to expect from the moonbat community: indencency, contempt, a hatred of everything American, cowardice, and a willingness to sacrifice the honor and dignity of everyone else for your own personal gain.

NASA - NASA Announces New Centennial Challenge:

The Astronaut Glove Challenge award will go to the team that can design and manufacture the best performing glove within competition parameters. The $250,000 purse will be awarded at a competition scheduled for November 2006, when competing teams test their glove designs against each other.

LaShawn Barber has quite a rant today about the hypocrisy of affirmative action.

Back in the day when skin color discrimination harmed blacks, they righteously rebelled against it. Today, skin color discrimination benefits blacks, and they hypocritically embrace it and demand even more.

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With black complicity, misguided white social engineers bearing unwarranted guilt created social policies that will continue to stifle our achievement through the use of lowered standards for generations to come.

Check out the whole thing here. The Anchoress agrees, saying some ideas just leave her slack-jawed.

This is why, despite their incredibly leftist bent, I love the guys at Google.

Check out http://moon.google.com/ and zoom in really close. All the way.

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