One of the craziest people from the 20th century has died, Evel Knievel passed away today at the age of 69.
There is a fine line between bravery and insanity, we aren’t sure on which side of that line Evel fell. Though, judging by the footage below of his attempt to jump the fountain at Caesar’s Palace, we’d guess that he bounced back and forth over that line many times.
Evel, rest in peace.
CBS News is seeking someone young and hip to cover the environmental beat for them for the Web, so are they seeking someone who knows the issue? Someone with a background in science? Someone with a balance approach to global warming, which is (presumably) what they will be covering most of the time? Nope, knowledge is not required.
Knowledge of the enviro beat is a big plus, but not a requirement.
We would like to nominate ourselves, but we’ve read the studies and reports and realize global warming is a scam. That, most assuredly, is not what CBS is looking for.
Today’s Best of the Web has a lot of great stuff in it, hence the name.
The first story exposes Senator Joe Biden’s attempt to pander to the Democratic base by saying he would start Impeachment proceedings against President Bush if Bush dared to bomb Iran. BOTW points out:
Biden–who as chairman of the Judiciary Committee presided over the travesties that were the Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings–apparently is either ignorant or contemptuous of the Constitution. Presumably one of those legal experts will inform him that as a senator, he has no authority to “move to impeach” anyone. That power rests solely with the House.
There is some on the Democrats’ strong stand for surrender, including the continued rants of John Murtha (This week’s DBOTW winner). He’s tripping all over himself to reset the bar to where Soros and company need it to be now that the media (and even he) were forced into admitting the truth about the situation in Iraq.
Then there is this gem at the end of the story of Gillian Gibbons, the British school teacher in Sudan sentenced to 15 days in prison for allowing students to name a stuffed bear Mohammad:
Meanwhile, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Council on American-Islamic Relationshave had the following to say about Gibbons’s plight: .
It’s a statement that is all the more powerful for its brevity.
It’s funny because it’s true. It’s sad for the same reason.
Erin Burnett of MSNBC showed her stripes the other day by referring to President Bush as “the monkey,” parroting the line of Leftists everywhere who call Bush an idiot and have made a living Photoshopping Bush into various primate pictures.
Since it was on MSNBC, which has not journalistic integrity, Erin faces no punishment whatsoever. Remember when journalists were unbiased and just reported the news? Neither do we.
Maybe it’s because we eat meat or perhaps we smoke a lot less pot, but Republicans have much better mental health than Democrats.
At least they know they’re crazy, and knowing is half the battle…
Sure, it’s not an audition for the next Spielberg action extravaganza, it’s Bella, the movie that’s getting critical praise and making serious bank at the boxoffice for a small indie flick. And they’re looking for people to help work to promote and market it here in the DC area. All you need is a foot in the door of the movie business, what you do after that is up to you.
So check out the flyer below and get involved with what is shaping up to be this year’s “My Big, Fat Greek Wedding” before it’s too late. Either call Erin McCrory at (301) 595-5707 or email bellaintern2008@gmail.com and get famous already!
In our never ending attempt to bring you the news from around the world that you may have missed, here is another bit of the written version of the famed last segment of they type of stories we discuss in the last segment of our podcasts.
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As we said in the Podcast, Oprah coming out for Obama and campaigning with him will be a net-plus for his chances of beating Hillary Clinton in the primary. Oprah will bring people out to those events who support other candidates but might hear something from Obama they like and start to think differently. Being faced with the undeniable star power of the most powerful woman in the world, the woman who wants that title couldn’t just sit by and do nothing.
But attacking Oprah is about as smart as jumping into a pool filled with rattlesnakes, so the Clinton Campaign knew their usual method of operation would backfire here. They had to come up with something else, so other way to get some attention themselves. Enter Babs.
Barbara Streisand, who was apparently a singer of some sort but who hasn’t had a hit since before we were born, announced on the she was officially supporting Hillary to following day. What a coincidence!
The fact that Babs supports Hillary is no shock to anyone, the timing is fishy, though.
But the most telling part of the article is the admission by one of Streisand’s flying monkeys that the Clinton Campaign polled whether or not an endorsement would be a net-gain or not.
“…the campaign says it’s a net plus. They polled it. Among Democratic primary voters, even in places like Iowa, they love Barbra.” (emphasis added)
This is typical of the Clintons, who polled on where to vacation and what type of dog to get. This leaves you wondering they are real people with real opinions, or opportunistic wind-socks that will do anything to obtain power.
As we’ve already written about Congressman Murtha’s acknowledgement that the surge is working, here’s a quick note on how that news is being received.
Success could be a headache for them? Do they really look at foreign policy, war policy in those terms? What are we saying, of course they do. Nothing is sacred to today’s Democratic Party except attaining and maintaining power. Political advantage at all costs.
Tough questions need to be asked and answered before anyone should truly trust them with any position of leadership.
As we said before, CNN was either duped or a willing accomplice with the Democrats to plant questions they deemed favorable to their cause in the YouTube debate this week. It turns out there were even more people with Democrat ties who posed as “undecided” voters. John Fund writes:
Who is to blame for this, CNN or the Democrats? And what does it matter?
Well, CNN is to blame because they chose the questions without looking into the background of the questioners. We aren’t suggesting a full FBI background check, but is it so difficult to click on a YouTube users profile and see what else they’ve posted or written about themselves? And if you’re going to fly one of the questioners out to the debate, you might want to look at them a little more closely so you don’t end up bringing out someone who serves as co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s veterans’ committee.
The debate questioners were supposed to undecided Republicans since it’s a primary debate, but CNN didn’t even do the minimal checking to see if the questioners were Republicans. We suspect the reason was the questions fit the questions the CNN staff would’ve asked if they had the chance themselves. That would explain why so many were liberals pretending to be undecided (in the case of CNN staff, pretending to be unbiased).
This isn’t the fault of Democrats, anyone could pose a question, but it does expose their underhandedness and fear of the upcoming election. The underhandedness is obvious, pretend to be something you’re not, which liberals have to do in order to win votes from anyone other than fellow liberals.
The fear is less obvious, but there just below the surface. If they were as confident as they are portraying themselves, stunts like this wouldn’t be needed, and wouldn’t be worth the risk. Now they’ve been discovered, and it’s the Democrats that look bad, look paranoid, look shady and evasive. That’s a good thing for us and talking points for whatever candidate goes into the general election.
While the questions were seemingly loaded in the debate, none through anyone for a loop and created a “gotcha” moment. Had Republicans known in advance the questioners were already decided against them, their answers probably would not have been any different.
On the other hand, Democrats were so afraid of Fox News that they pulled out of the opportunity to speak to the largest cable audience out there for fear of getting tough questions.
Which party really has what it takes to lead the free world in the War on Terrorism?
Bush-hating on the public dime at the NY Public Library. We’re all for free speech, which of course includes the right to attack the administration, but why should taxpayers foot the bill so someone can grind a political axe?
This week’s winner has been trying desperately to get his hands on the certificate since we started the award. He’s come close many times, and did recieve many votes in the past, but came up just short…until now.
Congressman John Murtha is seemingly the last person on earth to realize the surge is working, but he did finally realize it. Over the Thanksgiving break, Murtha took another trip to Iraq, this time with the blinders off, and saw the light, sort of.
Murtha admitted “I think the ’surge’ is working.” He also admitted that “the sun rises in the east,” “water is wet,” and “snow is cold.” Still no admission that he’s corrupt, however.
But, being John Murtha, Generalissimo of the surrender monkeys, he called for pulling out of Iraq anyway. Why let success get in the way of defeat? After all, he has radicals to appease.
Expect John to write (or have written for him) some sort of rambling post on his blog at Huffington to explain what he meant about the surge working, while he’s a hero to the uber Left, they won’t hesitate to attack him either. Until then take comfort in the fact that even he finally had to acknowledge reality.
But for trying to have it both ways, by trying to force our country to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, you, John Murtha, are our Douchebag of the Week.
Shout out to Rush Limbaugh for reading this entire list on the air today.
Dr. John Brignell has compiled the most extensive list of stories about things caused by global warming. Not surprising, many things contradict other things on the list. But the media doesn’t seem to read themselves, so these contradictions go unnoticed, or at least unmentioned. Here are just a few:
coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink
glacial retreat, glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming
Take a look at the whole list here, and then tell people. We have the truth on our side, the only way we lose is by being silent.
After all, why point out all the mistakes when the debate is over? Just ask Al Gore, if you have the number to his private jet.
How can a Christmas tree show “a lack of sensitivity”? Unless it’s giving you the finger or making ethnic jokes, neither of which is possible, it’s just a damn tree!
Not at Missouri State University, there it’s an offensive slight against anyone who doesn’t 
celebrate Christmas. By that logic Mother’s and Father’s Days are insensitive to the childless and should therefore be wiped from the calendar.
One professor (see photo), who we have to assume is on the verge of tears or anger every second of the day because of his “sensitivity” to this, and who does not celebrate Christmas, complained about the tree. The University, bastion of diversity and tolerance, immediately caved and removed the tree. MSU has denied rumors that the tree will be replaced with Piss Christ to make amends for their sins, but we wouldn’t be surprised.
The as yet unnamed professor, is typical of liberal jackasses across the country. They walk around in a bubble thinking they have a right not to be offended by anything and always ready to bitch at a moment’s notice whenever someone dare upset their sensibilities.
Guess what, you don’t have the right to not be offended! More than that, we have the right to offend you! It’s called the First Amendment, look it up.
Liberals love to say that in this country we have “freedom of religion,” which allows people to practice whatever religion they want, or none at all, and we do. But that’s not what they mean. If it were, their point of view would already be included in that on equal footing with everyone else’s views. No, they really mean what often follows that first line, “freedom from religion.” That does not include someone’s right to be religious, or observe religious holidays. From is exclusive, there is no room for compromise or a dual, live and let live existence there. And that’s what they want.
We aren’t religious by any measure, but we do celebrate Christmas. Not as a religious holiday, but as one for family and friends. We also don’t walk the streets of campuses at night looking for people engaged in a Wicken ritual so we can file a complaint. If we do pass one, we pass one. That’s it. We don’t care how other practice their beliefs, even on public grounds (mostly because they are part of the public and we have no more right to say what goes on on those grounds than they do when we want to do something on them), but douchebags like this professor are different. He doesn’t “celebrate diversity,” hell, he doesn’t even want to leave people alone, he’s just a angry jackass who seeks to impose his views on others. Failing that, he wants to stop others from expressing their’s.
And MSU doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to stand up to him. Anyone attending MSU may want to think about a transfer and alumni may want to rethink any donations they are contemplating.
We didn’t liveblog the Republican debate last night because we do our best not to attack those on our side or score one against the other, we leave that up to you. Any Republican running for President is better than all the Democrats running for any number of reasons, all of which are a matter of personal preference.
That having been said, here is the link to the complete debate broken down by question.
If you didn’t watch it, give it a whirl and make up your own mind who is best.
It turns out that, after months of prep, several of the questioners at last night’s CNN/YouTube Debate were actually not undecided voters, but declared supporters of various Democratic candidates. How could this have happened? And is it a big deal?
First, how it could have happened. It’s CNN! It really shouldn’t need much more explanation than that. While the Democrats run and hide out of fear of Fox News, Republicans have gone into the lion’s dens of CNN and MSNBC because, well, they aren’t babies who coddle to their extremist’s whims. Being surprised by bias and incompetence at CNN is like being surprised when the sun shines in your east-facing windows in the morning.
But we don’t think CNN actively sought out these questioners, they simply asked the questions from a point of view that CNN agreed with, so no research was needed to check and see if they might be campaign shills. And by research we mean the difficult task of clicking on their YouTube profile. They fit the established paradigm, no need to run a stereotype check.
Is it a big deal? No, not in the grand scheme of things. Republicans are used to media bias and should be able to handle questions from hack activists pretending not to be the radicals they are, after all they’re running against Democrats.
But this also exposes the fear of and lengths to which Democrats will go in order to win. They will even lie to their allies at CNN to attempt to spin reality. We thought this was the year that Democrats were going to win because Bush was so unpopular? Seems like the good news out of Iraq making it into the mainstream media and the record-setting unpopularity of Congressional Democrats may have thrown a monkey wrench into the gears of their take-over machine.
This was not an act by a confident party, this was an act of desperation, and we love it.
America’s Future Foundation is hosting their monthy happy hour tonight at Top of the Hill, upstairs at the Pour House, just a few blocks away from the House offices.
You can find the details here.
Last month’s happy hour was a well attended good time, so you should check this one out.
We’ve just heard that Congressman Henry Hyde has died. Hyde, if you don’t recall, was 
one of the House Managers in the Impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, and was the one Congressman who Alec Baldwin said he wanted to beat to death (this was before Baldwin’s daughter was old enough to speak, so she wasn’t yet able to make him go off like she is now).
While most famous for his role in Impeachment, Congressman Hyde had a very long and distinguished career, for which he was recently awarded the Medal of Freedom.
Rest in Peace, Henry Hyde.
Osama bin Laden has (allegedly) released another tape warning Europeans that:
“The American tide is ebbing, so it is best for you to press your leaders to change their policies.”
In other words, get out of Afghanistan or else I, from my coward cave, will send idiots and naive children to blow themselves up in your cities. No word on whether or not Europe will listen, but…
We’re getting to him, this much is clear. Afghanistan is not the “Holy Land” that Saudi Arabia is, so why is bin Laden upset that troops are there? Could it be because he’s sick of living life on the run? Living in caves? Not being able to walk around freely? Not having much luck recruiting goons to do his bidding while stuck in a hole? It’s not like Afghanistan is his homeland, either, so there has to be something else at work here.
He’s still living a better life than he deserves, he should be tortured for years in secret, then put out of our misery in the public square – left to rot, fed to farm animals and whatever is left buried facing down.
You could say we don’t like the guy.
Just a quick question: How long till Democrats start using this as a talking point? “See, even bin Laden knows we’re losing in Afghanistan! We have to get out of Iraq!” Sure, doesn’t make much sense, but neither do the Democrats.
The party list is getting a lot of attention, so we want to make it easier to find. We’ve added it to the top of the blog. If you know of anything that’s not listed or need some promotion for your party, send in the details to contact@itsfirstfriday.com
Hillary Clinton can’t apologize for her vote to authorize the Iraq war because she will be seen as a flip-flopper. And after having steadfastly refused to do so thus far, she would be seen as a political opportunist (well…) since she’s slipping in the polls. So her campaign did the next best thing they could think of, they sent Bubba Bill Clinton to try claim that at he was against it from the beginning thinking that somehow that would bleed onto Hillary.
The only problem with that plan is the facts get in the way, though that never stops a Clinton.
Yesterday in Iowa, Bill Clinton said that he was against the Iraq war “from the beginning.” Not much wiggle room in that statement.
So why is this the first we’ve heard of his opposition?
Advisers to Mr. Clinton said yesterday that he did oppose the war, but that it would have been inappropriate at the time for him, a former president, to oppose – in a direct, full-throated manner – the sitting president’s military decision.
The first time in recorded history Bill Clinton didn’t do something because it was “inappropriate.”
The only problem is that statement is a complete lie.
In 2004, Bill Clinton said this:
His only beef was with the timing, and that was AFTER it was discovered that there were no weapons of mass destruction. The story continues (we added the bold):
Noting that Bush had to be “reeling” in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, Clinton said Bush’s first priority was to keep al Qaeda and other terrorist networks from obtaining “chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material.”
“That’s why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for,” Clinton said in reference to Iraq and the fact that U.N. weapons inspectors left the country in 1998.
“So I thought the president had an absolute responsibility to go to the U.N. and say, ‘Look, guys, after 9/11, you have got to demand that Saddam Hussein lets us finish the inspection process.’ You couldn’t responsibly ignore [the possibility that] a tyrant had these stocks,” Clinton said.
Not much ambiguity there.
Bill Clinton is lying to us like we’re his wife, and he’s doing so on behalf of his wife. Not a word comes out of either of their mouths that hasn’t been tested and talked about to find a political advantage, they rarely make mistakes. This lie, while not surprising, was a mistake. But will it matter?
UPDATE: Here is a story from ABC News on the subject which pretty well blasts the Clintons for their inability to keep their stories straight.
It’s sounds like the start of a joke, and it is, but this really happened.
A man walks into a bank with a million dollar bill and wants to open an account…
Alexander D. Smith is the man, and forgery is the charge.
Seems Alex walk into a bank in South Carolina and wanted to open an account – pretty typical – but he wanted his initial deposit to be the million dollar bill he had in his pocket.
Alex is 31, how he has managed to live to that age being so stupid is still unknown. What is know is he’s now charged with two counts of forgery and one count of disorderly conduct.
The second count of forgery comes from the police discovering Alex used a stolen check to buy cigarettes prior to his million dollar stupidity. Seems he would’ve gotten away with that crime if he’d just stopped there.
The disorderly conduct charge is because this idiot actually argued with the bank teller when refused to accept the million dollar bill. The fact that he would argue over this and not just realize he was the only human dumb enough to think this could work and get out of there, leads us to believe he may well be the first person in recorded history to register a negative number on an IQ test.
Look for the name Alexander D. Smith to show up on a future Darwin Awards list.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sounds like he’s been taking talking-points advice from Pelosi, Reid, Murtha and all the other Democrats hell bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, except he’s talking about Annapolis and the Democrats are talking about Iraq.
Doing his best Harry Reid, Ahmadinejad said;
While we don’t equate Democrats with the Iranian lunatic, their rhetoric and attitudes are very similar.
Thank God our Founding Fathers didn’t possess this sort of defeatist attitude or we’d all be drinking tea and have bad teeth.
Carson Daly, the former MTV VJ and late night talk show host, is returning to the air next week despite the Writers Guild of America being on strike. The WGA is not very happy about that, but people have to earn a living and Daly isn’t a member of the union, so it’s his choice.
That having been said, Daly can’t go on the air with just his words alone, apparently talk show hosts need writers, which seems a bit odd since most hosts are former stand-ups who presumably wrote their own material at one point or another. It would seem they should be able to be funny on their own and if the 60 percent of the show that is interviews needs writers, these people are dumber than they already look. But that’s neither here nor there.
Daly is not a former stand-up, he’s just a former DJ who was put on MTV and then got a real show. He needs writers, but they’re on strike so he’s sort of screwed. That’s where you come in.
The Smoking Gun got their hands on an email Daly sent out asking his friends and family to submit jokes via a hotline for his show. While this isn’t the ideal way to break into show business, there really isn’t an ideal way to break into show business.
So if you have some jokes for Carson (we have never seen his show so we don’t know what he’s known for, except for having dated Jennifer Love Hewitt, bastard), call 818 260-5107 and leave them on the voicemail. It probably won’t lead to a real job writing for anything, but what the hell. After all, you have to start the timer on your 15 minutes at some point, better this than by getting arrested. That only a semi-positive thing when you’re already famous.
Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster, was called out by Zogby International’s Director of Communications for the lies he was spewing on MSNBC yesterday disputing Zogby’s latest poll showing Hillary slipping.
In a master stroke, Fritz Wenzel said:
This is typical Clinton; if it’s good, it’s fact and no one can dispute it. If it’s bad, well, it’s a damn dirty lie done by people who have an agenda or no clue.
Does anyone really want 4 more years of that?
Here are the events we know about so far…
ANOTHER UPDATE AS OF DECEMBER 10TH: US CHAMBER PARTY INFO
The info we have on the Chamber party can be found here.
We don’t promise you’ll get into all of these, but you can try. Give it a shot, what the hell.
And if you know of any events that should be on this list, please send them to us at contact@itsfirstfriday.com
Well keep updating as we hear about more of these, so check the blog regularly, and we’ll update them on the podcast, too, so give that a listen next time.
November
Thursday November 29, 2007
NEI (National Energy Institute)
Congressional Holiday Reception
B-Smith’s at Union Station, 5:30-8:00 p.m.
RSVP: cmc@nei.org
December
Monday, December 3, 2007
BALL AEROSPACE & TECH CO.
International Spy Museum
800 F. Street NW
6:00- 9:00 p.m.
RSVP: BATC-dcrsvp@ball.com
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
LOCKHEED MARTIN
Phoenix Park Hotel
5:30-9:00 p.m.
RSVP: pj@capitolassociates.com
(Apparently the P. Diddy of DC parties)
AMERICAN HOTEL & LODGING ASSOCIATION
Willard Intercontinental Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
6:00- 8:30 p.m.
RSVP: www.ahla.com/RSVP or at 202-289-3137
US TELECOM
Holiday Celebration
Bobby Van’s Grill
1201 New York Avenue, NW
6:00- 9:00 p.m.
WINE & SPIRITS WHOLESALERS OF AMERICA
Sewall-Belmont House
144 Constitution Ave. NE
5:30- 8:30 p.m.
THE US CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
National Statuary Hall, The Capitol
7:00- 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
NATIONAL BEER WHOLESALERS ASSOCIATION
Rayburn House Office Building, Cafeteria
5:30-7:30 p.m.
RSVP: rsvp@nbwa.org
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
Capitol Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
West Front of the Capitol
Lighting 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Staff invited to attend lighting ceremony on lawn
NATIONAL MINING ASSOCIATION
101 Constitution Avenue, NW Suite 500 East
5:00- 7:00 p.m.
RSVP by Wed. 28th: RSVP@nma.org
ADI (American Defense International)
Hotel George – 15 E St NW
6:00-9:00 p.m.
RSVP: info@americandefense.net
Southern Company
6:30-8:30 p.m.
East Hall at Union Station
RSVP to 202-261-5010 by November 26 (its an automated line – you leave a message)
Thursday, December 6, 2007
WGR (Women in Government Relations)
Cannon Caucus
6:00-8:00 p.m.
RSVP by November 30 to info@wgr.org
Porterfield and Lowenethal LLC
Hotel George (Leaders Room and Gallery)
15 E Street NW
RSVP by November 30 to info@porterfieldlowenthal.com
Monsonto’s
The Park at Fourteenth
920 14th St NW
6:00-8:00 p.m.
RSVP by December 3 to elizabeth.hogen-heath@monsanto.com
AAI (a Defense Technology Company)
116 Club/ 234 3rd Street NE
6:00-8:00 p.m.
RSVP: fergust@aaicorp.com
Monday, December 10, 2007
American Farm Bureau
Holiday Inn Capitol
550 C Street SW
RSVP by December 3 to rsvp@fb.org
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE and CTIA COMMUNICATIONS
Holiday Reception
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (Main Entrance)
7:00- 10:00 p.m.
RSVP: Jenny Clark clark@ctia.org
Thursday, December 11th
Cornerstone Government Affairs
5:30-9:30
300 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20003
RSVP Jennifer Brooks jbrooks@cgagroup.com
AREVA (World Energy Group)
S-207 The Capitol
5:30- 7:30 p.m.
RSVP: Julia.jebo@areva.com
Tuesday, December 13th, 2007
Adfero Group Holiday Party
6:00-8:00 PM
Top of the Hill, 319 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
RSVP to Neda@adfero.com
ATA (Air Transport Association)
Lounge 201, 201 Massachusetts Avenue NE
5:30- 8:00 p.m.
RSVP: mboniface@airlines.org
Chamber Party (details coming, hopefully)
Every conceivable interest group that wants your tax dollars is giving heavily to the Democratic Party this election cycle. In fact, there is only one category, Leadership PACs, where Republicans are getting a majority of the money.
If you look at the list below, from the Washington Post, you will notice a who’s who of groups who line up to suckle to government teet. No matter how much money they give away they know it will be returned to them, in the form of our money being given to them, ten fold. Disgusting.
Some stories are just so funny on their own that they require little comment from us, this is one such story.
The United Nations, which (along with Al Gore) has been the biggest Chicken Little on the issue of global warming, is hosting an international conference on the subject in December. But they aren’t hosting the event where most participants live, or even where of them work (the UN Building in New York), they’re hosting it in Bali, Indonesia – the opposite side of the planet where most of the participants are.
Now, since this is a conference of alarmists on the subject, you might assume everyone is going to swim there, or better yet, telecommute. But that’s not how things work in the world of Holy Global Warming Empire, they’re flying. More specifically, they’re flying private jets there.
You would think this story would be mentioned in the mainstream media, if not blasted on the front page of the New York Times, but that’s not how this works. A group of bureaucrats are flying in private jets half way around the world to meet to come up things WE must sacrifice in order to save the world from the destruction THEY are causing.
We don’t blame them for wanting to go somewhere nice in the winter here, hell, we’d like to go, too. And since the global warming myth is falling apart, it’s not wonder they feel comfortable living the opposite of the lifestyle they seek to impose on others.
The fascists on the political Left in this country are relentless, there are few areas of life 
they do not want to insert government – and they are.
The latest example of liberal government intruding into the formerly private lives of Americans is in Massachusetts. Representative Jay Kaufman introduced a bill that would ban spanking of children and charge parents caught disciplining their own children with abuse or neglect. Kaufman didn’t come up with the idea himself, he’s just a tool (we could end there, but there’s more) of an unnamed nurse who wants to see Massachusetts become the first state to outright ban parents raising their own children, or something like that.
Hey, unnamed nurse, go chase yourself! Maybe your parents beat you when you were a kid (or maybe they didn’t, which could be the problem), but that doesn’t mean everyone does it. Not all kids are as weak as you and Kaufman are. Get the hell out of our lives and get one of your own, douchebags.
You can contact Jay and let him know what you think of his plans by clicking here.
How insecure do you have to be to give a woman 40 lashes for naming a teddy bear Mohammed?
Sudan is one screwed up place, and not just for all the reasons you’re heard about on the 
news. A British teacher there is facing 40 lashes for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed. The students voted on what to name the bear and Mohammed won, so it’s unclear if the fact that students were allowed to vote offended the Sudanese government even more than the paranoid slight against their profit.
Considering Mohammed is one of the most popular names on the planet, with most of the people name that being located in the Middle East, this is simply one of the dumbest and craziest things we’ve ever heard. But that’s nothing compared to the next story.
In Saudi Arabia, a woman who was gang-raped sentenced to 200 lashes and jail time for riding in a car with non-relative and daring to speak.
Why any woman born in the Middle East would stay there is a mystery. Having to cover yourself head to toe, not being allowed to drive, pretty much being disposable is the life many women have to look forward to. If change is ever going to come to the truly 
oppressed over there this event should be the Rosa Parks moment, but we aren’t holding our breath.
The woman was originally sentenced to 90 lashes for being gang-raped because she committed the unforgivable crime of riding in a car with a man who was not a relative, so as you can see she was clearly asking for it. When she complained about her whipping and spoke out publicly the court more than doubled her punishment to 200 lashes and 6 months in jail. That should teach her that she is worth less than bucket of spit.
Islam needs a Martin Luther King and/or a Martin Luther, someone to stand up to the insanity that passes for the norm. This person has to come from within and stand for what is right, no outsider can bring about the discussion and change needed. We’ve always heard how these radicals are a small minority of Islam, yet they impose their will seemingly unchallenged.
Sadly, it would seem one on the inside has the courage to stand and speak out against these extremists. It’s understandable to a certain degree. To speak out against this hate and stupidity committed in the name of love and enlightenment would bring about death threats, fatwas and calls for worse against anyone displaying that courage, but that is price to be paid for waiting so long. The extremist movement was not shouted down and crushed when it was born because it was politically useful, it hasn’t been crushed since because is politically powerful.
There is a veil of shame over the Middle East and no one who lives there seems to give a damn.
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