Republicans Must Not Let Democrats Choose Which Republican Candidates to Run

This was the problem with the 2008 Presidential election, where the Democrat among the Republican candidates won the nomination. Yes, Johnny McMaverick was a Democrat. He even admitted that the press (which runs 95% registered Democrat) was his base, threw away his campaign when he decided to quit campaigning and rush to Washington to pass the ill-considered and disastrous TARP, and endorsed Obama in the final debate. McMaverick's problem, when it came to getting press support, was that he was an old fashioned American Democrat running against an International Socialist Democrat, when the press really wanted the socialist to win (so their bankrupt employers could be nationalized and turned into state owned Pravda and Izvestia clones).



The Other McCain has a more measured approach on the issue than I can muster at this time. However, I would add one thing. If the Republican Party does not institute closed primaries the McMaverick disaster will happen again.

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The GIGO principle (Garbage In, Garbage Out) is as applicable to political discourse as to any other information system. If you let liberals like Chait tell you which Republican candidates you should support, you will never support any Republican candidate — except in a GOP primary, when liberals will invariably tell you to support the most liberal candidate on the ballot. As soon as the primary is over, however, your liberal friends will then return to their usual arguments of why you should vote Democrat. Sic semper hoc.

Chait and his friends are trying to do what liberals in the media always do, shape Conventional Wisdom to their own advantage.

“Sharron Angle Can’t Win” is the Meme-O’-Th’-Day, and liberals are going to pound it as hard and as long as they can. Why? Because they know that a lot of Republicans base their political decisions on Conventional Wisdom so that, by promoting this Angle-Is-Doomed message, liberals will erode support for Harry Reid’s opponent — especially from the Dumb and Rich Coalition who comprise the GOP’s big-money donors.

Sharron Angle can win, and should win, and will win, so long as the conservative grassroots don’t allow themselves to be bamboozled into believing the liberal Conventional Wisdom.  Read more at theothermccain.com

 

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Hezbollah-Style Car Bomb kills four in Juarez

We have been hearing for a couple years that terrorists are using the unprotected border between Mexico and the US to infiltrate the US. We have also been hearing that Iranians are learning to speak Spanish in Venezuelan training camps, thanks to Hugo Chavez, that Venezuela is building a factory with Chinese help to manufacture AK-47s of the same type as the ones that are flooding the Mexican markets, and that Hezbollah operatives are providing muscle for some of the drug distribution operations in South America.



Can it be a surprise that a Hezbollah style car bomb exploded on the US border, killing four? It can only surprise those who have been covering their eyes and ears and shouting la la la, hoping against hope that the bad men will go away once George Bush is out of office. Well, guess what? The bad men weren't angry at George Bush. They hate America and everyone who lives in it and there is no solution short of killing them that will solve that problem.

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Juarez-- People in Juarez are recovering from a car bomb that killed four Thursday night. The victims include two federal agents, an ambulance worker and a doctor who was in the area when the bomb went off. Tonight, we have learned that it was a car bomb that was detonated with the same kind of sophistication that is used by terrorist groups like Hezbollah. A number of people were injured during the attack. Today we know that seven federal police agents were severely injured. A news photographer from channel 5 in Juarez remains in critical condition. One woman who owns a business nearby talked to us about her fears. "As it is, we are not selling much. Can you imagine right now people are scared. We used to have many American customers. Right now that has drastically decreased," says the business owner. Read more at www1.ktsm.com

 

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Morgan Freeman says talk about racism makes more racism

Maybe he's right. Check out the comment that I extracted from the Youtube discussion. Which is better, to believe that black and white people are capable of getting jobs and doing for themselves, or to believe that some people are incapable of doing for themselves simply because of the color of their skin?

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Most of those racist right wingers believe that a black man can go get a job and support himself. That he is a man just like anyother. Compare that to the veiw that black people are disadvantaged like they are somehow retarded?! The black community has been told for over 40 years that its OK to fail your black its not your fault? Is that what you say to an equal? Is that what you say to your child?

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Ronaldinho, Griggs, Henry to join MLS Teams?

In the wake of the World Cup it appears that more than a couple of long in the tooth soccer players, who are still great but lack the pace of their youth, will be joining American teams in the MLS league. This will be good for American soccer. As America is a large country with a lot of very athletic kids who have no chance of being 6'4" 220 lb behemoths able to compete in the professional basketball and football leagues, having great players they can see at their nearest pro team's venue is huge!

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The news of more big names in the world of soccer making a move to the MLS continues to roll in. After Thierry Henry was introduced for the New York Red Bulls yesterday and Ryan Giggs expressed possible interest in a move following his days in England, fresh speculation claims former World Player of the Year and Brazilian soccer icon Ronaldinho will be joining up with the LA Galaxy.

According to Real Salt Lake owner Dave Checketts a deal to bring Ronaldinho to the Galaxy is imminent and the details of the switch will be revealed in the coming days. While not expressly saying that the player he was referring to was indeed Ronaldinho, he did say "you'll recognize who he is" and "I think he might be" Brazilian. Read more at www.soccerfanatic.com

 

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The Capital Hillbillies

At least Jed Clampett had the brains to drill for that Black Gold and Texas Tea, sell it, and help the economy roll on down the highway. We have a different type of bushwhacker in Washington DC these days, and their jobs plan is to put everybody out of a job and into unemployment. That might be a drilling, but how do you like being the one with the brand new hole in your wallet and no money left in it?

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Jerry Brown, how are your hippie secret police plans coming along?

Let's revisit Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys singing all about hippy dippy fascist Jerry Brown, Governor Moonbeam, the last time he was the chief executive of California.

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“Lets go back to 1979 when a group from San Fransisco, California released a song which focused on Jerry Brown, the Governor of California between 1975 and 1983, and is sung from his perspective. An imaginary Brown outlines a hippie-fascist vision for America, in which his “suede denim secret police” kill un-cool people with “organic poison gas” chambers. With the song California Über Alles, here’s the Dead Kennedys.” Read more at erickbrockway.wordpress.com

 

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Mel Gibson tapes out of context because of tampering

The tapes were tampered with to make Mel sound worse. Who knows what his ex-gf actually said to him when he responded the way he did? Only he and she knows. For reasons not yet known, whether they be custody or extortion or just plain malice, she or someone has been releasing doctored tapes to make her sound reasonable and him sound deranged.



That Mel cooperated in the deranged behavior doesn't help his case. But it needs context before we can all judge what actually happened.

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Two top forensic experts listened to Mel’s intensely racist and abusive rants to Oksana Girgorieva and revealed that the audio files have been edited and were professionally made!

The authenticity of Mel Gibson’s leaked rants have been the topic of discussion but HollywoodLife.com can now EXCLUSIVELY confirm that these audio files are not 100% authentic. We spoke to Arlo West, CEO of Creative Forensic Services, best known for his work on the Natalee Holloway case, who reveals the audio rants between Mel and his ex-girlfriend Oksana Girgorieva have been tampered with.

“These copies were professionally made for distribution,” says forensic audio and video expert, Arlo. “Their quality is extraordinary … I would be willing to bet that someone with a background in recording these types of messages helped Oksana do so to entrap Gibson. I would also expect that a person or persons also helped her edit the recordings.” Read more at www.hollywoodlife.com

 

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Steinbrenner dies, George Costanza suspected

An instant classic from the Weekly World News.

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George Steinbrenner, a towering figure in the sports world, died Tuesday morning in Tampa.  George Costanza was arrested soon after in a nearby coffee shop.Read more at weeklyworldnews.com

 

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Afghan Women choose self immolation over oppression. Media doesn't understand why.

For anything bad that happens around a woman that woman is blamed and punished with the most draconian punishments possible. That appears to be the problem in Afghanistan, and has been a problem for many years. Phyllis Chesler tells the story at Newsreal.

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In 1961, I remember meeting a rather genial relative who had come down from the Khyber Pass region to meet me, his first American woman. Apparently, he, too, was a merciful fellow who married his brother’s widow—but then shut her up in solitary. I was told that he fed and clothed her and that this alone saved her from a far more dismal fate. I did not understand then—or now—why this poor widow-wife could not have shared the family tasks and remained among the living. Entombed, buried alive—like Verdi’s great opera hero, Aida. Without a name, without even a number, the fate of this unknown prisoner haunts me still. These tragedies are no longer confined to Third World countries.

In Afghanistan, the women are setting themselves aflame, choosing an awful, fiery death rather than one more awful beating at the hands of a husband and a mother-in-law. Amazingly, when the mainstream media finally writes about this precise tragedy in Afghanistan, it still carefully manages not to use the words “Muslim” or “Islam.” For example, see Time magazine’s recent coverage of this very subject. And, see my previous pieces on what such “soft censorship” is really about when the American mainstream media consistently fails to describe a Muslim-on-Muslim honor killing in the West as a Muslim-on-Muslim crime but is quick to note Hindu honor killings in India as Hindu-on-Hindu crimes.

In Kabul, when battered women run away, their own families refuse to take them back and the government puts them in jail and treats them as criminals. In a rather moving documentary, “Daughters of Afghanistan,” Sally Armstrong shows us what happened to one young Afghan woman who refused to take the beatings anymore and upon a lawyer’s advice dared return to her family of origin. Her own father clapped her up into solitary, perhaps for the rest of her life, to live in a cold, dark room with one bricked-up window. Read more at www.newsrealblog.com

 

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Afghan Women choose self immolation over oppression. Media doesn't understand why.

For anything bad that happens around a woman that woman is blamed and punished with the most draconian punishments possible. That appears to be the problem in Afghanistan, and has been a problem for many years. Phyllis Chesler tells the story at Newsreal.

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In 1961, I remember meeting a rather genial relative who had come down from the Khyber Pass region to meet me, his first American woman. Apparently, he, too, was a merciful fellow who married his brother’s widow—but then shut her up in solitary. I was told that he fed and clothed her and that this alone saved her from a far more dismal fate. I did not understand then—or now—why this poor widow-wife could not have shared the family tasks and remained among the living. Entombed, buried alive—like Verdi’s great opera hero, Aida. Without a name, without even a number, the fate of this unknown prisoner haunts me still. These tragedies are no longer confined to Third World countries.

In Afghanistan, the women are setting themselves aflame, choosing an awful, fiery death rather than one more awful beating at the hands of a husband and a mother-in-law. Amazingly, when the mainstream media finally writes about this precise tragedy in Afghanistan, it still carefully manages not to use the words “Muslim” or “Islam.” For example, see Time magazine’s recent coverage of this very subject. And, see my previous pieces on what such “soft censorship” is really about when the American mainstream media consistently fails to describe a Muslim-on-Muslim honor killing in the West as a Muslim-on-Muslim crime but is quick to note Hindu honor killings in India as Hindu-on-Hindu crimes.

In Kabul, when battered women run away, their own families refuse to take them back and the government puts them in jail and treats them as criminals. In a rather moving documentary, “Daughters of Afghanistan,” Sally Armstrong shows us what happened to one young Afghan woman who refused to take the beatings anymore and upon a lawyer’s advice dared return to her family of origin. Her own father clapped her up into solitary, perhaps for the rest of her life, to live in a cold, dark room with one bricked-up window. Read more at www.newsrealblog.com

 

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