Entries for the 'General' Category

The lovely Michelle Malkin is blogging tonight on how the Canadians no longer want our pathetic deserters.

Bravo to the Canadians.  For all the jokes about them, they are a brave and honorable people.  And frankly, they were carrying our water in World War I long before our own leaders had the courage to step up and stop the Kaiser.

On the deserters, I will say this:  they are hypocrites.  Why?  Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey deserted their posts on the eve of deployment becaue they felt the war in Iraq was illegal and immoral.

So to counter what they believed was illegal and immoral, they committed an illegal and immoral act?  They betrayed their oaths, the commanders, and most importantly -- their unit brothers.  They shirked their duty and violated their honor.

It's a shame that they don't shoot soldiers for desertion in a time of war anymore.

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are reporting that the Russian Parliament has voted to suspend the Conventional Forces In Europe Treaty, a Cold War era agreement that limited the deployment of tanks and troops west of the Ural Mountains.

This is not good.

The White House announced today that Rod. J. Rosenstein, Maryland's US Attorney, has been appointed to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Fourth sits in Richmond, VA, and hears appeals from Federal District Courts in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Warren Buffet -- arguably the world's most successful investor alive today -- is an unadulterated communist, who believes in income redistribution and confiscatory taxation.

There is no way around this statement after his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee.

Buffett recommends taking the revenue from the Estate Tax, and offering a $1000 tax credit to all families who make less than $20,000 per year.

Hail Comrade!

Yes, on the "drivers licenses for illegal immigrants", but also on counting Amazon affiliates as a "substantial business presence" in order to invoke the sales and use tax.

Michael Swartz over at Monoblogue had posted about this yesterday, wondering if Guvnah Marty the Mick might try it here.

Our friends the Saudis.  That beautiful kingdom of sand, oil, harems, and Islam.  A very radical Islam, where women are little more than property.  No-- strike that, because most people treat their property better than the Saudis treat women.

Especially gang rape victims.

And these are the ones we consider moderate?

There is a lot of talk in the blogosphere as of late that there is a great schism coming in Evangelical circles because of the Republican primary endorsements of people like the Rev. Pat Robertson (Giuliani), James Dobson (Huckabee) and the NRLC (Fred Thompson).

Liberal commentators are in a state of bliss, as this supposed "dismemberment" of the Christian Right is one of their chief goals.

Conservative commentators wonder if the influence of the Christian Right is waning because the "movement" has become more of a big-government, seize-the-power, impose-their-agenda movement akin to, well, liberal orthodoxy.  Over at National Review Online, they even use the term "Social Gospel" and "Religious Progressives" to describe the movement.

But I think there is something more afoot here from a different perspective.

Jihad Joe Albero, the Salisbury Cyberterrorist Extraordinaire, loves to bill his site as "Salisbury's Most Reliable and Unbiased for Your Local News".

Unfortunately, Jihad Joe has a horrible problem with doing any actual fact checking, and instead, relies upon his aural diarhea for what he calls "news".

In the post "I Thought These Lights Were Outlawed?", Jihad Joe launches a new fatwa against Peninsula Regional Medical Center, throwing a baseless accusation that the spotlights they used the other night were a) illegal and b) nothing more than advertising.

Of course, had Jihad Joe bothered to do any actual reporting or investigation, he might have learned what was going on.

Tommy Bromwell is about to be sentenced for his corruption as a State Senator, and it turns out, he has lots of friends in low places.

According to The O'Malley Gazette, over 70 pages of letters from a host of officials, businessmen, and others have flooded the court in anticipation of the sentencing.

Folks like Ed Hale, Nelson Sabatini, former State Senator Francis X. Kelley, Dutch Ruppersberger, and Tommy Phelan have been putting their markers down for this corrupt, bloviating jackass who used his office for personal gain.

Get a clue people:  he violated the public trust.  And I don't care what he did in the Maryland General Assembly, that violation should be punished and punished harshly.

We don't send Delegates and Senators to Soddom on the Severn to enrich themselves.  We send them to conduct the people's business.  To spend wisely.  To legislate wisely.  Not to get jobs for your wives and get hooked up with home renovations.

Lock his corrupt ass in a real Federal Penitentiary (not a Club Fed) and make him do some real time.

Please say it ain't so.  Unfortunately it appears to be true.

Good to know that the President and his subordinates are really working hard to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America."

I voted for the man twice.  Yes, in both cases, it really was the lesser of two evils.  And I have like some of the things he has done.

But if he doesn't get his head out of his trousers soon, I might stop stepping up for him.

STOP HIRING FRAKKING ILLEGAL ALIENS!