tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285018442009-11-09T09:59:33.094-06:00<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><b>"It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety<br>to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man."</b> <br>--Calvin CoolidgeSerr8dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083811545504469815serr8d@hotmail.comBlogger1771125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28501844.post-53567029521998978682009-11-09T08:41:00.001-06:002009-11-09T08:43:42.270-06:002009-11-09T08:43:42.270-06:00

Linking this great post by James V. DeLong, a better example of a Harvard Law grad. "We need more Palins, not fewer." Sarah Palin and the Dysfunctional Political Class The frenetic hostility to Sarah Palin, even by many on the Republican side, is unnerving, because her qualifications to be president are objectively better than those of almost anyone who has been on the national ticket over the

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Berliners celebrate on top of the wall as East Germans flood through the Berlin Wall into West Berlin on Nov. 12, 1989. In four days, 3 million East Germans crossed over, and sections of the nearly 100 miles of wall were pulled down. Thank you, President Reagan.

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The "Crown Jewel of Socialism"... Cost: The CBO now estimates health bill spending at $3 trillion over 10 years. Since the CBO historically underestimates expenses, assume massive new deficits for a country that can ill afford them. Personal Requirements: You'll be required to buy a 'qualified' health plan. A family earning $102K a year will pay $1,700 a month in premium and out-of-pocket

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Looks the the passage glow Nancy Pelosi, House Democrats and President Obama are self-immersing in is fool's glow. From the AP... House health care overhaul faces Senate stone wall WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. Speaking

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All politics are local; I feel encouraged that my Rep, Bart Gordon (D), voted against ObamaCare. Only one single Republican no one's ever heard of voted for the bill...some loser from Louisiana, where there are many, many needy sorts who need and desire handouts [cough]Katrina[cough]. A list of Who voted against the bill. Who voted for the Health Care Bill? Here are the House vote results

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Seen at and stolen from The Green Room.

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Found a couple pics I want to share. This one...Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas throws the Health Care bill to the crowd on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, during a health care reform rally. I suppose he couldn't find a match. Follow the Health Care debate at #killthebill Oh, the aforementioned Health Care Reform Rally? Quite a buzz from that. Via Rocketman at POWIP, we

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From Dan Riehl...Update: Bush Visits Fort Hood! - Obama To Camp David, Not Fort Hood???Update: Via Twitter - Fox Reports GWB and Laura spent a few hours at Fort Hood, no photo ops. Now that's a CIC.Are you kidding me? Camp frickin' David? What, does he have a tee time close by? For heaven's sakes, he's the CIC. And he's taking the weekend off? This guy simply doesn't care. Unbelievable via Fox.11

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A nice e-mail from Obama's never-ending Organizing for America (can't he find a REAL job?) reminding of the House vote today. I called Rep. Gordon's Washington number, and YES! he's voting against Obamacare. Seems the blue dog got the message.

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So, the Unemployment numbers haven't really followed Obama's nice projections. They weren't promises, you know. And all these guys Obama brought on board were, like new at this sort of thing. What did you expect, professionals? So what? We spent $789 Billion on a stimulus plan(s) that didn't work. We're going to spend billions and billions more on Cap and Trade, and likely on ObamaCare. It's

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Now Available on iTunes. All profits donated the the Armed Forces Relief Trust. h/t Darleen Click "All right now, you sons of bitches. You know how I feel."

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First photos, and a good capsule biography of some of those who were killed at Fort Hood, posted at the New York Times (click the image to visit the site). Also at the NYT, what seems to be a developing apologist mentality for Muslim Islamic Jihadist Nidal Malik Hasan... An American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent, he was deeply dismayed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but proud of his

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Jason Rodriguez explains his killing spree to reporters: "They left me to rot!" A gunman killed one and injured five, police said, in a shooting Friday at the Orlando offices of an engineering firm where the suspect was let go more than two years ago. The shooting set off an intense manhunt Friday afternoon until the alleged gunman, Jason Rodriguez, 40, was arrested without incident at his

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...photo from Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs: American Woman Took Down Jihadi Hasan at Fort Hood

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Yep, my buddy and local Congressional Representative Bart (never met an Al Gore - Nancy Pelosi proposal he couldn't gobble) Gordon is placed on Politico's "Top 10 Democrats on High Alert"... Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) Gordon’s one of a growing list of Democratic lawmakers who are likely to have a serious challenge for the first time in a long time in 2010. Though Sen. John McCain won his

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God bless the victims and their families. Oh, and I’m sorry, but Damn You, Bill Clinton! We needed to have had capacity to predict future threats, these terrorist breakouts. How many Muslim men who start to seem distraught for the wrong reasons, post near-threats and edgy online statements, wind up as terrorist killers? Suicidal terrorist killers? Enough to justify keeping an eye on

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I received this e-mail last night from Michael Steele, the titular head of the GOP... From the tone of that e-mail, I didn't think Mr. Steele had quite gotten the message RE: NY23 and our annoyance for initial GOP support for RINO super-loser Scozzafava (who had funneled $1M to Dede then got royally screwed when she endorsed the eventual Democrat winner, Buck Owens) so I searched for some nice

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Sarah Palin: A Victory for Common Sense and Fiscal Sanity Congratulations to the new Governors-Elect of Virginia and New Jersey! I’d also like to offer a special word of support to the new Lieutenant Governor-Elect of New Jersey, Kim Guadagno, the first woman to hold that office. Of course, the real victors in this election are the ordinary men and women who voted for positive change and a

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UPDATE: Christie wins New Jersey. Corzine, and Obama, lose. Obama..."We will not lose this election if all of you are as committed as you were last year," he said. "So I want everybody in this auditorium to make a pledge that in these next 48 hours, you will work just as hard for Jon as you worked for me."A poor choice, Democrats, Obama. Corzine is routinely hated by New Jerseyans. Obama

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Rush Limbaugh, yesterday... RUSH: How about Dede Scozzafava? You know what? Dede Scozzafava has just screwed every RINO in the country by showing everybody who they are. It's what I say about radio, people say, "Rush, does it matter AM, FM?" No, no. Content, content, content, content. Content determines what people will listen to, and in politics, principle, principle, principle.

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Oh. Early Friday Photos, from my weekend getaway to North Carolina. The view from the upper deck; the Great Smokey Mountains. And a short video clip of the Oconoluftee River, flood-running, at the dam. Does wonders for one's disposition. )

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...says Sarah Palin in response to that zippered-down, masturbating-in-the-public-square moron; Obama's Vice President Joe (Attack Dawg) Biden, who had made the mistake of mocking Sarah's "Drill, baby, Drill!" in an address to a huge crowd of 200 Bill Owens (D, Leftist) supporters in New York's 23rd District, where there will be tomorrow a holding of a special election. The Liberal 'Republican'

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Keep it safe if you're out tonight.

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Just a bit of post-production work on this one. Awesome costume.

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Cold CoyoteIt was one of my last images of 2008. I spotted this frozen coyote on the side of a gravel road on my way into town. This is exactly how I found the coyote—frozen stiff, sitting up, at the side of the road. We’d been having temps of below -30C for two weeks. I guess this is part of the natural selection. This image leads off the "Extremes of Nature" slideshow. See the rest. Coyote

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