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The Gender…WHAT?!?

Aug 27, 09 1:55 PM

The strange case of the liberal attack on the Democrat National Convention headquarters in Denver just got even stranger. Maurice Schwenkler first appeared to me in a mugshot to be female–because “he” was born a female. SHE, apparently, is a transgendered liberal activist who is angry with Obama for a number of things, including (as she puts it), “only wanting to fill the military with queer bodies” when it comes to repealing DADT.

But it’s an online post that’s really caught the attention of bloggers everywhere. Schwenkler, who also goes by the name “Ariel Attack,” entered a post on a site named “Gender Mutiny” titled, “Communique from the Gender Liberation Front.”

The gender what?!?

We’ve seen the Palestinian Liberation Front. I might even be able to take the Earth Liberation Front seriously (if I tried hard enough). But the gender liberation front? Where on Earth did this come from?

Oh, I can see it now…what? We have to be born as whatever our parents’ chromosomes happen to be? Outrage! Science MUST come up with a way to determine what sex we want to be before we’re conceived! The medical establishment has to come up with easier ways to change our gender, and it must be available to all people on the Earth! It’s a crime to trap a person in the body they were born in!

Gag me.

Since when do we need something like this? You’d think gender stereotypes had wound back the clock fifty years and women were suddenly being required to be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen all the time again and men were the only strong members of society. Give me a freakin’ break. As a woman–and a lesbian–I make my own life. There are few things I cannot do because of my gender (I think the only ones so far are Navy submariner and Army special forces). As long as I can remain fit to do so, I can work as an EMT or a firefighter, I can investigate fraud, or, if I felt so inclined, I could be a cop. Nobody is really allowed to discriminate against me based on my gender. There aren’t always specific laws that oppose discrimination based on orientation, but do we really need all of that? Do I really have to be in three or four “protected groups”?

Back to the Schwenkler vandalization incident…immediately after the crime, DNC chair Pat Waak jumped on conservatives with both feet. She decried the incident as a hate crime. One might think the revelation of the person responsible as being a paid canvasser for the DNC would cause Waak to issue a retraction.

One might think. One might be wrong.

Waak actually had the nerve to stand by her comments. She had the temerity to refuse to apologize for blaming it on Republicans, instead focusing on the DNC’s official position that it is conservatives alone who are “polarizing” the issue of healthcare reform. Just another case of “I’m liberal and I don’t have to apologize to those hate-mongering conservatives” I guess, right?

Gender Liberation Front…good grief. I may need some oxygen here in a bit, I can’t quit laughing at that one!

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Crying Hate

Aug 26, 09 2:01 PM

(NOTE: It has been confirmed that Senator Edward Kennedy has passed away today at the age of 77. I will refuse, for now, to address my misgivings about the man to issue condolences to his friends and family. Theirs is a pain I would wish on nobody.)

Yesterday, the Democratic National Convention headquarters was vandalized. Windows that protected ObamaCare posters, artwork and other such things were smashed. The perps were caught on tape with shirts over their heads and hoodie sweatshirts to hide their identities.

Alas, it was to no avail. The Denver Police Department found the perp immediately and arrested him. 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler is currently in the hoosegow for his crime; he and one other unnamed assailant broke the windows and rode away on bicycles.

At least the Democrats can thank their lucky stars the hatemongering thugs were doing their best to reduce their carbon footprint. But there’s more to that, too–Schwenkler is a paid Democrat activist.

I suppose when acts of violence on the part of all of those Republican brownshirts failed to materialize, the Dems had to do something about it.

“The Democrats who Cried Hate” has a nice ring to it, I think.

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Self-Employed Work Longer Hours than Government Employees

Aug 26, 09 10:20 AM

This should be the end-all to government intervention.

I sincerely hope everyone watched the Margaret Thatcher videos I posted a few days ago because they completely illustrate the factual findings here which exude the willingness for self-employed individuals to work harder to contribute more to society and to create more wealth to take it upon themselves to help others without the guise of a government mandate to get in their way.

Pass this poll around everywhere you can!

Nearly half of self-employed Americans (49%) report working more than 44 hours in a typical work week, compared to 39% of American workers overall, 38% in government and in private business, and 30% in nonprofit organizations. More than half of government workers (55%) work a traditional 35- to 44-hour work week, making them the most likely to do so.

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The Media’s Very Different Spin on War Casualties

Aug 25, 09 10:12 AM

What do liberals and the media think?  If death from war comes during the same wars in which they harangued Bush for, that the deaths are more worthy under the annointed one?

Two points: Jeremy (my buddy on Facebook) posted the death toll from Afghanistan.  Since the overthrow of the Taliban, 2009 has been the deadliest year.  That’s right!  The deadliest year was not under GWB, but under Barack Obama.

Coincidentally, Mr. Obama is loving life at Martha’s Vineyard while anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan has showed up to protest Mr. Obama’s continuation of both the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War. 

I apologize for everything I said about Sheehan in the past – and I was quite harsh on her.  Unlike the tens of thousands of other anti-war protestors we heard from during the Bush administration (also known as jobless-liberals) who were simply anti-Republican and using the death of an American soldier for political gain, Sheehan actually whole-heartedly cares.

That’s why the bulk of the liberal disease has begun to shut up over the casualties.

Suddenly now, Charles Gibson who covered Cindy’s anti-war protests all the way through during the Bush administration proclaimed “enough already” once he was informed that Sheehan was indeed following Obama to Martha’s Vineyard to protest the wars.

The hypocrisy and lies from this administration are staggering.  I am sure Robert Gibbs would have a memorable answer, but I am sure the reporters have been directed to not ask the question to begin with.

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They’d Rather the Poor Were Poorer Provided the Rich Were Less Rich

Aug 24, 09 10:04 PM

Boy do I wish Margaret Thatcher were still around.  This lady sure could enrage liberals right out of their chairs – and she handled journalists well, too.

“Freedom incurs responsibility, that’s why many men fear it”  Margaret Thatcher quotes in this early 80′s interview when millions of British were out of work when she came in.  Afterwards, I have provided a speech she gave toward the end of her tenure when she argued with another liberal about “the gap between the rich and the poor.”

When she discusses prosperity for a nation she says in the end of video one: “it isn’t done by the pontification of politicians or commentators.”  She’s absolutely right.  Barack’s blather isn’t going to give free health care away.  Only the American people through freedom can better their own situations.

Nothing is different today and the treatment of national economic problems lies solely within the people, not the government.

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Boycott the Boycott!

Aug 24, 09 12:11 PM

I don’t watch Glenn Beck’s program often. Maybe once a week, normally if I’m at the station; I’m usually reading the news from multiple outlets online when his program is on. I wasn’t watching the program he was a guest on July 28 when he said that Obama was a racist “with a deep-seated hatred for white people.”

There have been rumblings of a boycott led by colorofchange.org, a group founded by one of Obama’s cabinet members. Colorofchange has put pressure on several major companies to pull their advertising from Beck’s show. Now, at least twenty major companies have done exactly that. I have a comprehensive list of companies and products that need to hear our displeasure and feel it in their bank accounts.

Among them is my cell phone carrier: Sprint. I just finished writing them a letter demanding that they retract their insistence upon not advertising during Beck’s program within 30 days, lest I switch to Verizon or AT&T (you know, I HAD been thinking of getting an iPhone). The general reason with all of these companies is the same: they want to reach a “diverse” audience through programs that are “informed, inclusive and respectful.”

Is that so? Well, I have to ask–where was this concern when Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and other MSM talking heads were making sophomoric “teabagging” jokes while they “reported” on the Tea Party protests? Where was this concern during the Bush years, when these same people on the major news networks called Bush a racist, a homophobe, a Nazi, and anything else they could think of? Where is this concern when the MSM only gives us the facts about a news story that they want to give us, leaving FOX and the National Journal to sniff out the rest of it for us?

I had been thinking of switching to either Geico or Progressive for my auto insurance…no more. I won’t give them a nickel of my business. I had gone so far as to get quotes from both. That’s a shame, too, because the Progressive commercials with Flo are hilarious.

Clorox used to be a bleach product I bought all the time. Not anymore! Wal Mart also just lost my business for the same reason. Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club won’t get a dollar of my business for their part in this fiasco. I don’t care how low their prices are.

Cheese is by far one of my favorite foods; in Mel’s world, it’s a food group unto itself. Sargento got a lot of my business until now. I’ll go with anyone else now, because the privately-held company also pulled its ads from Beck. Their spokeswoman had this to say: “We market our products to people regardless of their political affiliations, yet we do not want to be associated with hateful speech used by either liberal or conservative television hosts.”

Really? Then say that to Keith Olbermann, who named Michelle Malkin one of the “worst people in the world” simply for her stance on illegal immigration, or Geraldo Rivera, who threatened to spit on her. Yank your ads from them, too, or shut up.

The real doozie, though, was Procter and Gamble. The giant company issued a statement that any advertising of its products was done entirely in error, and “we will try to be more careful in the future.”

Oh, boy. Here’s a list of the major products from P&G that you need to boycott:

-Febreeze air freshener
-Old Spice products
-Secret deodorants
-Charmin toilet paper
-Luvs and Pampers diapers
-Clearblue easy pregnancy tests
-all Pepto Bismol products
-Duracell batteries
-all Camay, Ivory, Oil of Olay, Safeguard and Zest soap products
-Cover Girl and MaxFactor beauty products (switch to Revlon!)
-Always and Tampax products
-Aussie, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essence, Infusium 23 and Pantene hair care products
-Clairol hair color products
-Align, Braun, Crest, Scope, and Oral-B oral care
-Fibersure and Metamucil
-Prilosec antacid medication
-Pur water filters
-Vicks healthcare (cough drops, vapo-rub)
-Bounty and Mr. Clean household cleaners
-Swiffer (I’ll do with my old broom just fine)
-Bounce, Cheer, Downy, Dreft, Era, Gain, Ivory and Tide laundry detergents
-Eukanuba and Iams pet foods (I can switch to Science Diet)
-Actonel, Asacol, Didronel, Enablex, Macrobid and Microdantin prescription medications
-Braun and Gillette shaving products
-Pringles snacks
Last but not least, the following fragrances are manufactured by P&G:
-Baldessarini, Boss, Bruno Banani, Escada, Ghost, Giorgio Beverly Hills, Hugo, Lacoste, Naomi Campbell and PUMA.

Don’t just avoid these products. Write P&G an email expressing your distaste for their willingness to aid and abet censorship. I already have. Be sure to be absolutely professional when writing. NO AD HOMINEMS.

If you currently do business with any of the companies listed, contact them and request that they withdraw their support from colorofchange and back it up with a promise to switch to a competitor. If these companies are going to allow hate speech directed at conservatives and speak up only when liberals draw our ire, they need to understand that we will not tolerate it.

To be fair, several of these companies have said they haven’t pulled all advertising from FOX. Most of them have stated that they simply gave the command that their advertising not be run during Beck’s program. I take issue with it regardless, though, as should we all. It won’t stop here; once colorofchange gets advertisers to boycott Beck, they’ll move on to Hannity, O’Reilly, and eventually all FOX programming. If they were advertising during a KKK-supportive show, I might be able to understand it. We should not allow this to continue, because it will result in the bullying of all pundits deemed too conservative by the loudest minority in the world: liberals.

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I Will Not Break

Aug 23, 09 7:43 PM

I didn’t realize I was gay until I was 24 years old. Pretty much everyone else around me had long since figured it out. Surprise or no, there were a lot of people who no longer wanted anything to do with me. I was still heavily involved in church at the time. I knew that was bound to happen. The death threat from a guy who used to be my friend WAS a bit of a shock, but I got over it. With time, some of them have, too. They’re at least polite when we run into one another these days.

One of the things I’ve never talked much about before is how my views changed when I came out…and changed yet again when my struggle was over. When I had the epiphany that my weak-in-the-knees feeling around a certain woman I knew was love–and it felt natural and normal to be in love with another woman–I had to question everything I’d ever believed. I’d never been interested in men before and it didn’t hit me until then that it was likely because I wasn’t wired that way. Everything I’d been raised with, everything I’d believed was good and right, suddenly looked different. My faith came into question, because it was (at that point, at least) inexorably tied to the idea that homosexuality was an impardonable sin that would damn me to an eternity in hell. I had to question what I believed because I also believed, because of all of those other things, that being gay was a conscious choice one made, as simple as flipping a switch.

If it wasn’t as simple as choosing then all the other things that preceded it in my belief had to be only partially true, and that’s putting it nicely.

I began to think more liberally. In my personal life, my politics, everything–I became very liberal for a time. But as part of any process of sudden self-realization will reveal, I was questioning what I believed, and that phase was part of it. My liberal days didn’t last long. I had to think for myself. In questioning what I’d always believed I challenged myself in ways that few people ever do. One of the things that I realized is that the only way we’ll ever know what we believe and be able to accurately describe it is by questioning our beliefs ourselves…long before someone or something else does.

One thing I have talked about is my desire for acceptance. It’s something I always wanted but never found as a kid. As an adult, I look like the sort of person who doesn’t care what those I know think about me, but the fact is that I do. I care very much. When I find that one of the people in my life has a poor opinion of me, I want to know how I can fix it. That mindset, that fear of rejection, led in part to my liberal leaning for a time after I came out. I rediscovered what I really believed after being involved in many conversations with my new gay friends that left me feeling as though I’d betrayed myself in some of the things I’d said.

The moment I disagreed with those new friends, they turned their backs on me. The same group that was ecstatic at my coming out–the ones who celebrated it as though it were a rebirth and admonished me never to let go of my identity regardless of what anyone told me–sent me the unmistakable message that it was not acceptable to the gay community at large to ever question liberal gay politics. In so doing I became a pariah again.

I refuse to give up my position just to be part of the “in crowd.” It took time for me to be able to really understand what it means to stand your ground, and it’s rarely pretty. I will not break because I cannot; it’s not in my nature. As much as I may wish to belong, I can live with standing on the outside as long as I never, ever compromise my principles.

Any person, gay or straight, who expects me to do otherwise can scream it at my back as I walk away.

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When Compassion Goes Too Far

Aug 20, 09 8:38 PM

My faith as a Christian dictates certain things. Things like respect, honesty, love and compassion are among them. There are other things that my faith teaches, things that not many people realize are also a part of it.

Such as justice. We are not to take our own justice, much as we’d like to sometimes. The New Testament specifically says that Christians are to obey the law; it also says that the moral law (separate from the ancient ceremonial law of Leviticus), simplified in the Ten Commandments, is to be upheld staunchly. Yes, God commands us to forgive, but the short-term consequences cannot be ignored, lest humanity fall into complete anarchy.

Today, a Scottish judge upheld his promise to release Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi from a British prison on “compassionate grounds.” It’s a uniquely British law: a convicted criminal can be released on compassionate grounds if they’re terminally ill or very, very old. I would applaud the concept were it not for the victims who are being left behind by it–and the criminals who now bank on it. Oh, and Al-Megrahi’s crime.

Al-Megrahi is the only man who has ever been convicted for his part in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

On December 21, 1988, the quiet town of Lockerbie was shattered in the middle of the night when the Clipper Maid of the Seas–the Boeing 747-121 that was designated as Pan Am 103–blew up and disintegrated over the town. All 259 souls on board the plane along with 11 Scots on the ground were killed in the tragedy. The investigation turned up something mind-numbing.

A hard-shell brown Samsonite suitcase packed with a mishmash of odd clothes (including BabyGro infant jumpers, tartan trousers and Slalom and Yorkie-brand herringbone clothes) was the culprit. With the very strange assemblage of clothing was a Toshiba Bombeat radio/cassette player stereo packed with Semtex-H and a Mebo timer (among other things, including detonators). The clothing and an umbrella were traced to a store in Malta. The bomb, once recreated, sent a chill down the spines of investigators. A practically identical device had been seized just two months before in Germany during the arrest of several Jihadists.

The evidence against Al-Megrahi and his co-conspirator, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was overwhelming yet it took nearly ten years to come to any conclusion about whether they were the bombers. Libya willingly turned the two over under a laundry list of stipulations, among them that they’d never be interrogated and that there would be no jury–only a panel of three Scottish judges. It wasn’t until May of 2000 that they were finally brought to trial.

Fhimah was unanimously found not guilty. Al-Megrahi, however, was equally as unanimously found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

Not long after, a movement began in Great Britain. Claims were made that Al-Megrahi had been unfairly tried and that he was innocent. A contingent of Brits have latched onto this, and I liken them to 9/11 truthers here in the States. They have little to no evidence, but because their culture is super-liberal and they react with their emotions instead of gauging their response intelligently, many believed the claims that Al-Megrahi was innocent and began to call for a new trial.

What else can we expect from a nation that banned civilian ownership of guns and, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, continue to say it’s the best decision they’ve ever made?

Several months ago, Al-Megrahi was in the middle of his second appeal and his opportunity to prove his innocence when the British medical system (no better in the prisons than it is in the populace) found what they’d failed to find in this guy before: he had prostate cancer, and it was very advanced. The medical system failed to find a treatable form of cancer in time and he was given months to live. No second opinion, just one doctor’s word.

Now things changed. Now, he didn’t have to prove his innocence at all–all he had to do was drop the appeal to be eligible for a release on compassionate grounds due to his terminal illness. He dropped his appeal. Today, Moammar Quaddafhi sent his private jet to ferry Al-Megrahi back to Libya from Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow.

The murdering bastard received a hero’s welcome.

We always hear about gross miscarriage of the law. The press loves to play up stories of out-of-control cops, judges and juries. Liberals love to tout stories about freed criminals who were falsely accused and imprisoned. But what about cases like this? What recompense do we have when compassion goes too far? What do we tell the surviving victims when the beast who showed absolutely no humanity in his act of cruelty is let go? That too many people question his conviction? That we’re better than he is?

We ARE better than he is. That’s why he was behind bars. I’m sick to death of British narcissism, that national pride that they’re superior to Americans because they’re more compassionate somehow. I’ve got news for you guys across the pond: the thugs in your society are emboldened by your stupidity. They rely on it because they know it’ll help them get away with what they’ve done. You’re facing an entire generation of hooligans who won’t care what’s right and what’s wrong because you’ve failed to teach them that there are consequences for the evil things you do.

You keep your self-absorbed version of “compassion.” I’ll keep my right to defend myself and the bad guys behind bars.

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Leave Your Guns At Home!

Aug 18, 09 7:56 PM

I bet you can’t guess which one of the two main subjects in this photo is carrying two guns:

whos.got.the.gun

If you guessed the older, quirky-looking guy in the red hat, you’d be dead wrong. It’s the guy he’s speaking to–identified only as “Chris”–who raised eyebrows when he showed up, well-dressed, with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle slung over his right shoulder and a 9mm handgun strapped to his hip at President Obama’s visit to Phoenix yesterday.

Personally, I have no opinion on Obama coming to my city (at least not one that I’m willing to express). He’s going to come here. He’s the President. But when a few Second Amendment supporters showed up at the rally, the 300 or so pro-Obama supporters standing in their designated protest area just about went into conniptions.

This is a Presidential event! What if someone grabs that gun and mishandles it? It can go off and hurt the President! How can you be allowed to carry your guns in plain view when you’re outside a heavily-armed convention center while the President is speaking? CAN’T YOU LEAVE YOUR GUNS AT HOME?!?

Oh. My. God.

Aside from the fact that this group talked to Phoenix Police officers and told them several days prior to the event that they would be there with their weapons in accordance with Arizona law, they were in a designated public demonstration area. If you read the reports from the AP about these guys, there’s a single blurb about one Secret Service agent who was quoted as saying they weren’t worried about these guys. What you’ll see far more of are hysterical quotes from pro-Obama protesters, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and media shills who have never been fans of us conservatives exercising our Second Amendment rights. Now they have a new gripe: you can’t carry anywhere near a Presidential event!

I’m not afraid of those guys. How likely is it, do you think, that they’ll stroll into a public place, where the Secret Service isn’t going to let the President anywhere near, with guns in full view so they can kill someone? How likely is it that someone else is going to grab their guns and try to shoot someone else? How often have you heard of that sort of thing happening? The reality is that the vast majority of all gun deaths occur during the commission of a crime. The rest happen while someone handling the weapon stray from the most basic gun safety rules. The exact same facts can be applied to vehicular deaths, but nobody’s out trying to ban people from buying or driving cars.

And the Presidential thing? Really? If you’re gonna go there, I wanna see your outrage over THIS crap:

bushgun

killbush

killbush003

Thaaaaat’s right. Shut up.

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Leave it to the AP to keep us divided….

Aug 16, 09 12:40 PM

Divided AP

I am fascinated now that the White House is backing away from the public option – particularly at two aspects here:

1.) Does anybody notice that ALL WEEK on any article written about the proposed public option, that the top of the page has been graced with Sarah Palin’s statement on the bill as a “fact check” that no ‘death panel’ exists in the bill?  Of course, Sarah Palin used quotations around the phrase to voice her concern over direct quotes read from Michelle Bachmann that came straight from Zeke Emanuel (Rahm’s brother).  Couple those exact words with the fact that extreme leftists and environmentalists argue pro-abortion as a means to population control and blame “carbon footprints” on too much human existence and consumption – AND that the public option would have eventually lead us to rationing health care OR raising taxes on the middle class, Sarah Palin made an extremely valid point.  For someone who everyone thinks has little power and is revered as a quitter, it’s amazing how thorough the AP is at reminding us that the term “death panel” never existed in the bill.  Thanks guys!

2.) The opening of this article begins: “Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama‘s administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new U.S. health care system.”

No, I am sorry but this is blatant partisan reporting.  The fact is, Republicans hold the minority in both the Senate and in the House.  Democrats have the majority and have the White House.  They could have passed it with no trouble whatsoever.

The turnaround is public opinion – the great wisdom of the American people – where Democrats, Independents, and Republicans all united to say “No!” 

The real story should be how one country made one crucial decision and fought together as one against something that they did not want.

But, here the writer credits Republicans and their “pressure” for the sudden turnaround.  If this were the case, the White House would have backed down weeks ago and even the AP knows it.

Obama won the support of independents because they thought he was going to govern as a centrist – as he promised during the campaign.

He has continued the surge in Iraq, and increased the surge in Afghanistan, Gitmo is actually still in place – and he used those “centrist” facts to try and quickly pass through some insane liberal-socialist fantasy.

He claimed he wanted to ”keep them honest” with regard to free market insurance companies.

Unfortunately for him, he is one being kept honest – by the American people.  

Shame on the AP, but thank you President Obama for doing the right thing and listening to your voters.  No matter what side of the fence you are on, today is truly a day to be proud of our American democracy.

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