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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Thursday, January 31 2008 @ 11:56 AM
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As if passing a worthless, feckless stimulus bill that will not help any taxpayer was bad enough, John Boehner (R-OH) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) today issued a joint statement of facile stupidity:

The legislation that we authored, and which passed the House Tuesday with overwhelming bipartisan support, would not allow any taxpayer funds to be distributed to illegal immigrants. In fact, the bill includes language similar to the provisions included in the 2001 and 2003 tax relief bills to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving any benefits. We will take legislative action to clarify and underscore this prohibition so we can expedite the rebates to millions of eligible Americans.

Except that it does no such thing, because resident aliens who have overstayed their visas illegally -- yet still have valid Social Security Numbers -- will get these checks.  Why?  Because the IRS is not allowed to inquire of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency as to the validity of someone's resident status.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Thursday, January 31 2008 @ 2:27 AM
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The Maryland General Assembly is moving ahead with plans to introduce that "oldie but a goodie" from the days of East Germany -- the Stasi -- to a neighborhood near you.

That's right... under the Liberal Facist regime in Maryland, the speed cameras are coming.


posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Tuesday, January 29 2008 @ 10:00 PM
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O’Guvnah is Maryland’s latest perfect example of the Peter Principle: that in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence. 

If you thought we were done with this after former Governor Parris “Tomcat” Glendenning and Lt Governor KKT, you were wrong. Time and the Democrats march on.


posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Tuesday, January 29 2008 @ 10:00 PM
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It was 75 years ago TODAY that Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party assumed power in Germany after winning national elections.

Remember that evil rarely knocks loudly.  We let it in the door when we fail to do the right thing becaue it is easier to do the popular thing.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Tuesday, January 29 2008 @ 8:13 PM
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McCain wins Florida.  Not surprising.  A lot of Republicans down there -- including Governor Charlie Crist and Senator Mel Martinez are HUGE fans out of outright amnesty for all those illegal little bastards.

But I don't care.  I still won't vote for John McCain.  Ever.  Satan himself (herself?) could be running on the Democrat ticket, and I won't pull the lever for John McCain.

I will not vote for a man running for President who writes legislation empowering theGovernment  to regulate political speech.  EVER. 

He has a fundamental LACK of understanding of Conservative First Principles.  He is a big-government, my-way-or-the-highway, the Senate-is-sacrosanct politician who violates the Constitution on a whim.

He would DESTROY the United States economy to kow-tow to the environmentalists.  And he has zero grasp of energy policy.

And on taxes, he's a complete waffler.  He votes against tax cuts that created the SINGLE LARGEST DAY OF GOVERNMENT REVENUES IN HISTORY ON APRIL 15, 2007.  He says he would still vote against them.  But he insists that they be made permanent.  WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SMOKING? WHICH IS IT?

Guess what Senator, you'll NEVER have my vote.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Monday, January 28 2008 @ 7:56 PM
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Click here for the rules.

Sure to replace Pictionary Key Parties soon!

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Monday, January 28 2008 @ 7:25 PM
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Why is it the Federal Government's responsibility to make sure I learn new job skills if my job goes away?

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Monday, January 28 2008 @ 7:22 PM
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I have to be honest... I only have one more candidate to talk about (will I or won't I vote for Mitt? Only the 8 Ball knows) but I am still not excited about the 2008 election.  I am suffering from Electile Dysfunction.  Do they make a little red pill for this?

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Monday, January 28 2008 @ 5:34 PM
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I will not vote for Rudy Giuliani.  Under no circumstances.  Satan himself could be running the Republican Primary (and with John McCain, we are might close) and I would not vote for Rudy Giuliani.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 10:08 PM
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Digger's Realm has put together an outstanding montage of Dr. Juan Hernandez, John McCain's new National Director of Hispanic Outreach: 

Listen as this "dual citizen" slowly ratchets up the number of illegals actually living here in the US.

My favorite line:  "Of course they are using illegal documents, they can't get legal ones."  Duh, you think?

Folks, this is the man who will run John McCain's immigration strategy if he wins.  There can be no doubt about that.

H/T:  Michelle Malkin

This article tagged under: National Politics, Illegal Immigration

posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 9:51 PM
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is gasping for air tonight.  Yes, her flooding the zone strategy worked perfectly in South Carolina, and could have helped her capture the white Democrat vote across the rest of the Old Confederacy.  Her Hispanic vote was solid, and she was getting a lot more traction with the unionized base than John "Ambo Chasing" Edwards.

And then the white elephant entered the room.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 9:24 PM
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Listen to the sounds of crickets chirpingO'Guvnah is a HUGE supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton.  So is Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the only Democrat candidate for Governor to lose to a Republican in 40 years.  But O'Guvnah is also governor of the state which is home to the NAACP, and some pretty powerful black politicians like his Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, Congressman Elijah Cummings, and others.

So what does it say when YOUR candidate suddenly allows her husband to carry the water on a racial attack on another presidential candidate for your party's nomination?

For O'Guvnah and the rest of the Maryland Democrat Party, it says little.

<insert sound of crickets chirping here>


posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 8:55 PM
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Why is John McCain a Republican?

i think it is a fair question, given the fact that John McCain seems to be kinder and gentler toward vicious left-wing ideologues like Carl Levin, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton, while he brooks no dissent from members of his own party.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 8:25 PM
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Rock on to some more reasonable members of the General Assembly, who have wisely introduced a bill that prevents the Motor Vehicle Administration from issuing a driver's license, state ID, or moped operator's license to illegal aliens.  House Bill 288 would require anyone seeking such a license who was before after December 1, 1964 to present proof of legal residence in the United States.

This article tagged under: Maryland Politics, Illegal Immigration

posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 12:31 PM
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This one is easy:  Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson, because they are out.

Both campaigns were huge disappointments in my eyes. Not for the ideas, but for the pure lack of organization and structure.  Ultimately, it was this lack of structure that doomed both campaigns.

And so now I can't vote for either one of them.

This article tagged under: Maryland Politics, National Politics

posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 10:51 PM
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After reading the post about the couple near the Philly Airport on Mahmoud Albero's site, I decided to hack into the National Photo Reconaissance Office tonight and reposition a KH-12 satellite over the Delmarva Peninsula.  It took a total of three geosynchronous orbits-- and a little bit of dodging with Grazer 1 -- but after bouncing the signal off three receivers in Tajikistan, and rerouting the downlink through Bosophorus University's mainframe in Istanbul, then sublinking through an unprotected Wi-Fi point in Bozman, MT (got to love those militia types), I was able to download the following image:

Gotcha!

You can clearly see that someone cut "FUJA" into a field near The Compound.  Some creative tractor work, there.  Must have been a skilled redneck or a John Deere specialist.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 10:33 PM
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Well, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has finally shown itself completely and utterly irrelevant.  If Bill and Hillary Clinton can engage in the largest campaign of racialism since the Dixiecrat Revolt of '48 without any condemnation from the nation's (allegedly) most influential civil rights organization, then the NAACP has show itself to be a shallow, feckless organization with no influence, no power, and no relevancy.

If Julian Bond can't stand up for Barack Obama, who will? Who?

Perhaps the oddest thing is that Harry Belafonte loved to refer to Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell as "house negroes".

If the NAACP can't defy the racialism of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who are the "house negroes" now?

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 10:16 PM
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A lot has been made of what will happen to the so-called "Reagan Coalition" if certain candidates become the Republican nominee.  If Rudy wins (highly unlikely at this point), will Conservative Christians bolt?  If McCain wins (ugh), will Conservatives bolt?  If Huckabee wins, will economic conservatives bolt?  If Romney wins, will national security conservatives bolt?

And it is true-- there is GREAT risk in the Republican process, but there ALWAYS is, because the Republican Party is not nearly as homogeneous as the Drive By Media wants people to think.  The different factions in the Party are constantly at each other's throats, working out the tensions between varying degrees of right-of-center policies and politics. 

But I think the more interesting debate is over in the Democrat Party, which has built its own coalition of special interests not based on policy prescriptions and ideas, but on identity politics: who you are, what you are, and what you do.  And that "who you are" focus, based largely on race, has the potential to really rip the Dems apart this year.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 10:00 PM
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Today's lesson on Day 27: O'Misery in O'Maryland is on Public Service Commission Patronage.  What is patronage?  for those of you who can't remember back to your high school years, or didn't pay attention, or didn't bother to go, patronage is the purely political act of giving government jobs to your political supporters.

It seems that as people read more and more in Fiscal 2009 Budget (that is the budget year that begins on July 1, 2008), we find more and more political patronage from the hands of O'Guvnah.


posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 9:34 PM
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I was the First Black PresidentBill Clinton -- America's so-called "First Black President" -- continues the racialism of the Clintonian Juggernaut.  Thanks to Jake Tapper over at Political Punch, we know what he had to say after Barak Obama's victory in South Carolina tonight:

Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign.  And Obama ran a good campaign here."

This was in response to a question about Obama saying it "took two people to beat him." Jackson had not been mentioned.

Boy, I can't understand why anyone would think the Clintons are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as "the black candidate."

I've said it before (here and here), and I will say it again:  Bill and Hillary Clinton are racialists.  They use race to divide, as a wedge issue.  The introduce it to gain a political advantage.  They harp on it, the prey it on it.  They use it for their own advantage, not to lift up.  Not to draw parallels.

This just in from Hell:  Satan Called, and said D.C. Stephenson was partying hard.

This just in from Atlanta:  Earthquake hits city.  National Geological Survey believes it is from high-velocity of revolutions of Martin Luther King rolling in his grave.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 8:25 PM
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Uggghh... I am trying to squeeze one out...John McCain has started a brand new attack against Mitt Romney, claiming he was for timetables before he was against them.  It's a pretty egregious lie when you look at what McCain said and what Romney really said.

For a man so concerned about personal "honor", you would think he might come up with a better angle of attack, or at least "choose Zone 5 and extend and escape"*.

Michelle Malkin has all the details here.

* Can you name the movie this quote is from?

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 8:12 PM
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Every John McCain fan you can put on TV loves to brag about how John McCain is the best Commander-in-Chief candidate in the field, based on his experience as a US Naval Aviator. With a war going on, that might be a good thing to consider when looking at Presidential Candidate.

So I did some digging on his military record.  I mean, we all know about his heroic stand as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese.  But he was in the Navy before-- and after -- his torture at the hands of the NVA.  What does his record contain there, and does it give any insight to what type of CIC he might be?

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 7:56 PM
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I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say amnesty now,  amnesty tomorrow, amnesty forever. John McCain believes in complete and total amnesty for illegal aliens.  I don't care what he says, because we all know that politicians lie.  And powerful politicians lie powerfully.  I am more interested in his actions, and with the endorsement of amnesty-loving Florida Governor Charlie Crist, the amnesty argument should move front and center for "Reasons to Not Only Vote Against, But to Despise John McCain".

 

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 7:25 PM
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Well, the Flooding the Zone strategy of the Clintons worked,  They successfully dubbed Barack Obama the "Black Candidate".  As a result, he got 80% of the black vote, and less than 25% of the white vote.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Friday, January 25 2008 @ 11:51 PM
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What the Future Holds

 

H/T:  Michelle Malkin

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Friday, January 25 2008 @ 11:13 PM
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I've put two new links on the left column that link to Republican Delegates and Republican Senators and their emails.

Use it early and use it often to communicate with Republicans in the General Assembly and push issues that are IMPORTANT to you.

Don't forget:  we have a government of the people, not a people of the government.

 

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Friday, January 25 2008 @ 11:00 PM
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Flooding the zone used to be only a strategy in football... when the defense is playing a zone, you flood the zone with receivers to catch the gaps.

But the Clintons -- strategic masterminds of cynical politics if there ever were some -- have now started to apply it to Presidential Politics, and they are doing it with outstanding effect.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Friday, January 25 2008 @ 10:00 PM
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Ask yourself a question:  Did you get a 46% percent raise at YOUR job?

I didn't, I know THAT for sure.  (And I don't think I will get one this year).


posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Friday, January 25 2008 @ 9:05 PM
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Two bills -- one in the Senate and one in the House of Delegates -- have been introduced to legalize gay marriage in Maryland, guaranteeing a contentious fight on the floors of both houses.  There are over 40 sponsors -- almost 25% -- in the House, and nine in the Senate.

Personally, I think this argument will generate much more heat than light.  But even more, I think it is a waste of time.

 


posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Friday, January 25 2008 @ 4:24 PM
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I don't have a long post today, because I had a lot of work to do.

I just want to you consider one thing:  but for the increase in the gas tax, the average price of gas in Maryland would be below $3 now.


posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Friday, January 25 2008 @ 4:07 PM
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Apparently, the New York Times has endorsed John McCain.  I wouldn't know definitively, since I refuse to read -- even online -- that horrific piece of liberal facist garbage.

If this is the case, it is NOT good for John McCain.

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Friday, January 25 2008 @ 3:04 PM
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I marvel at how the Drive-By Media treats Hillary Clinton.  They have repeatedly tried to annoint her as the obvious "First Woman President", despite the best attempts by Barack Obama to remind people that the primaries aren't quite over yet.  Feminists are ga-ga over achievement of this goal-- the first "Madame President".

But I wonder...

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posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Thursday, January 24 2008 @ 10:00 PM
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Yesterday, I received an informative email from my state Delegate, Wade Kach (R-5B).  It's titled Preview of 2008 Legislative Session.  The full text is provided for you below "the jump":


posted by Gunpowder Chronicle on Wednesday, January 23 2008 @ 11:30 PM
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