I found this wonderful post at Anti-Mullah!
First a snippet from the Democrat Spin aspect.

Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree.

She discovered that Harry Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.

The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory.
On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription:

‘Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.’

So Judy e-mailed Senator Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle.

Believe it or not, Harry Reid’s staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research, DESCRIBING THE UNCLE’S ABOVE EVENTS:

Go to the link below, for the spin cycle of this infamous family member.

Next up in the link, the Top Ten Darwin Award Winners for 2008.
I’ll provide number ten, the ascending order increases in hilarity.
*CAUTION*
**SPEW ALERT**

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for.

Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage.

A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake.

The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had.

Here’s the link!
Go forth, now, and spew to your hearts content.

/what a world…what a world

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Ann Coulter: Still driving Liberals batshit crazy

Because NBC wasn’t already lurching hard enough to the Left, they’ve decided to ban Ann Coulter and replace her with the current trendy Lesbian-of-the-moment, Rachel Maddow.

I doubt sales of Ann’s newest book, Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America, will be hurt much (or at all) because of NBC’s aversion to views contrary to their leftist agenda.

In fact, I think I’ll stop by Barnes & Noble on the way home this evening and pick up a copy.

I’ve always found Ann Coulter amusing and entertaining — I enjoy her shtick, and I enjoy watching the Left get their collective panties in a twist every time she opens her mouth. The Left would almost rather repeal the First Amendment than to let Coulter practice it.

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…According to a lot of Congressional Democrats

Sound judgment? Logic? Concern for our nation rather than just playing partisan politics?

From a Democrat? From a California Democrat?

Quick — someone phone Satan and ask if ice is starting to form…

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Senate’s incoming Intelligence committee chair, slammed President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Leon Panetta as director of the CIA Monday.

“I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA Director. I know nothing about this, other than what I’ve read,” Feinstein said in a statement. “My position has consistently been that I believe the Agency is best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time.”

Instead, Obama has appointed a Clinton cronie who has no other qualification than hiding Presidential indiscretions.

Which is probably what Obama is counting on.

Stop the ACLU puts it perfectly: “Change Clintonista’s Can Be Re-employed By”

The only way the Democrat “intelligence committee”

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So it looks like th Angry Clown, Al Freanken, is going to go to Washington D.C. and make a mockery out of being a U.S. Senator.

The Wall Street Journal has a pretty account of all the shady, dirty, and outright deceitful tricks Franken and the Dems used to steal an election.

That’s OK.

In two years, without being able to ride the coat tails of Obama again, Franken will be sent back home (whereveer that might be for the carpetbagger).

Gotta love this quote from Sen. Harry “hell no, I won’t let any black people in MY Senate” Reid:

“Norm Coleman will never ever serve [again] in the Senate,” Reid told Politico’s Manu Raju. “He lost the election. He can stall things, but he’ll never serve in the Senate.”

Reid went on to say, “We stole this election fair and square.”

Thankfully for Franken, he’s not black. Or Reid would move mountains to prevent him from taking his ill-gotten seat.

Between Franken, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fran Drescher — our US Congress has become a joke where celebrity and nepotism is more important than qualifications.

And while I usually have great respect for the offices of Senator, Congressman, and President — and almost always refer to those who have those jobs by their proper title — I will never. Not ever. Refer to Al Franken as “Senator”.

He joins Dick Durbin and John Murtha in that club.

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I like Michael Steele. His life story is inspirational.

But I think Robert Bluey from Red State makes a great case against Mr. Steele in his bid to become the Republican National Committee chairman:

Among GOPAC’s expenditures in 2008 was $5,000 to Steele for Maryland, even though Steele wasn’t on the ballot. The money probably went to pay off Steele’s 2006 campaign debt. It also happened to be the third largest expenditure for GOPAC, raising questions about the organization’s priorities under his leadership.

There’s a lot more in Bluey’s piece. But I think it’s best to find a better chairperson to lead the GOP going forward.

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This story from Michael Yon makes me embarrassed and ashamed of my country. Hopefully something good will come from Yon’s article.

While the U.S. Immigration officer named Knapp rifled through all her belongings, Aew sat quietly. She was afraid of this man, who eventually pushed a keyboard to Aew and coerced her into giving up the password to her e-mail address. Officer Knapp read through Aew’s e-mails that were addressed to me, and mine to her. Aew would tell me later that she sat quietly, but “Inside I was crying.” She had been so excited to finally visit America. America, the only country ever to coerce her at the border. This is against everything I know about winning and losing the subtle wars. This is against everything I love about the United States. We are not supposed to behave like this. Aew would tell me later that she thought she would be arrested if she did not give the password.

The Government of the United States was reading the private e-mails of a U.S. citizen (me). The Department of “Homeland Security” was at work, intimidating visitors with legitimate visas. They had at least 24 hours to check her out before she landed in the United States. What kind of security is this? The Department of Homeland Security was at this moment more like the Department of Intimidation.

Officer Knapp called my phone as I was driving to the Orlando airport. I was going to be there two hours early to make sure I would be on time, so that she had a warm welcome to my country. But instead, Knapp was busy detaining Aew in Minneapolis and was on my cell phone asking all types of personal questions that he had no business asking. Sensing that Aew was in trouble, I answered his questions. Mr. Knapp was a rude smart aleck. The call is likely recorded and that recording would bear out my claims. This officer of the United States government, a grown man, had coerced personal information from a Thai woman who weighs 90 pounds. I asked Aew later why she gave him the e-mail password, and she answered simply, “I was afraid,” and “I thought I would be arrested.”

What could I say to alleviate any of this? Could I say, “This is the U.S., nothing to be afraid of.”? The world already sees us as senseless bullies. Aew might have been detained indefinitely; even I was concerned that the Department of Homeland Security might detain Aew for no reason. Essentially, she had no rights. They had already coerced her e-mail password out of her head through intimidation.

Read the entire thing.

And then write or call or your Congressman and Senator and let them know that this type of behavior form the Dept. of Homeland Security is unacceptabel, and you expect them to look into it and ensure it doesn’t continue.

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I received a link in an email from my brother, Ending A Recruiting Battle, which is published in the NYSlimes. I highly recommend everyone read the entire story, even if you aren’t a football fan. It is an interesting glimpse into an agonizing, months long recruiting process, which placed an enormous amount of pressure on an eighteen year old, and the emotional toll it took on him and his mother.

The young man in this story, Jamarkus McFarland, is considered the nations number one defensive tackle college prospect. The type of player any college team would want, and could build a defense around. However, this young man is more than an athlete, he is a good student, the class President at Lufkin High School, and a young man that is interested in his professional opportunities, after college. I saw an interview with him, during the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, this past Saturday, and he is a very composed, well spoken young man.

Jamarkus McFarland’s story should serve as a cautionary tale, and a guide, for other young men and their families, facing the recruiting process. The reasoning he used, in verbally committing to Oklahoma, are sound, as well as the reasons he decided not to commit to Texas, LSU, and USC. While you may be surprised at some of the experiences he had during the process, imagine what Jamarkus must have felt, being a centered young man, coming from a small East Texas town, and a loving family.

Our children will be exposed to all the ugliness the world can provide, sooner than we would like. A young man, playing a game he is good at and enjoys, shouldn’t have to be placed under such enormous pressure, when deciding where he will attend college, and begin the next phase of his ascent into adulthood.

Of course, verbal commitments are non-binding, and any number of events could persuade him to chose a different school, before the national signing date. At this point, with all the effort and time he has put into his choice, I think he will prove to be a man of his word.

I wish Jamarkus McFarland the very best future possible, and hope that he can also serve as an example for other young men that may be facing the recruiting process.

The rivalry between OU and UT is one of the best known, and most heated in all of college football, and much of that is played out in living rooms when coaches visit, and on the phone. Too often the individual/s the coaches are recruiting get lost in this rivalry. I’m glad that Jamarkus’ mother was able to identify that, and express it to her son.

“This isn’t about J-Mac anymore,” Adams said. “It’s about O.U. versus Texas. It shouldn’t be that way.”

OU Verbal Commitments

UT Verbal Commitments

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Some things just defy explanation. Like this (safe for work and family, but just marginally):

With so damn many channels on television, I guess there’s a channel for just about everything now…

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…than with it

Why do I call Islam a death cult?

Because many were not only raised this way, but continue to raise their children this way:

Future suicide bombers. How cute.

Because what says love from a parent quite like strapping a suicide bomb onto your child before you send them out to wish death upon the Jews?

Referring to this image, John at Powerline notes, “the rocket is fake, but the Qurans are real.”

Yep…their disdain for life — theirs or anybody elses — is part of their religious doctrine. It’s what they believe. It’s what they preach. It’s what they teach. And it’s how they live.

Which is why I will always refer to Islam as a death cult and not a religion. The world would be better without Islam than with it. Period.

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You know what would be terribly entertaining and just Teh Awesome? Would be if someone would go to where “comedian” Kathy Griffin works and beat her do death with a baseball bat.

What?

Oh, wait, you don’t think that would be funny? But what about her telling a heckler (LIVE on CNN):

Why don’t you get a job, buddy? You know what? I don’t go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth.

Classy.

I wonder what her “look, we all know you’re gay, so just come out already” co-host Anderson Cooper thought about that (Out magazine ranked Cooper second behind David Geffen in their list of the fifty “Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America)?

Griffin’s remarks were shown live on the East Coast, but edited out when the spot re-aired on the Left Coast. Which is laughable. CNN knew what they were getting when they hired Griffin to co-host their New Year’s Eve celebration. Why hide from it when they got exactly what they hoped for?

This is the same “lady” who, while accepting an Emmy for her Bravo show in 2007, said: “A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. So, all I can say is, ‘Suck it, Jesus.’ This award is my god now.”

She carried the religion bashing over to her New Year’s Eve show to, calling former CNN host Glenn Beck a “heroin addict Mormon.”

Bottom line? Kathy Griffin is a common gutter-skank whore. If her hair was on fire, I’d piss on her leg. If she ends up never working in Hollywood again and ends up as a passed-around sex rag reduced to sucking off dirty old homeless men in dark alleys for the rest of her life in exchange for a good spot to sleep next to the dumpster — it’d be better than she deserves.

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Roland Burris, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s pick to fill President-elect Barrack Obama’s vacant Senate seat, is an undeniably tainted selection.

But just who the hell does the Democrat Congress think that they are in trying to deny his legal (though tainted) appointment? And why are we all so complacent in just standing by and letting Congress flaunt their disdain for the Constitution and the rule of law?

Not only do they think they can decided which legally appointed and qualified (at least Constitutionally qualified) Senator can be seated — but those assholes think they can block him from legally stepping foot on the Senate floor:

The first Democratic aide said if Burris tries to enter the Senate chamber on Tuesday, the Senate doorkeeper will stop him. If Burris were to persist, either trying to force his way onto the Senate floor or refusing to leave and causing a scene, U.S. Capitol police would stop him, the aide said. Watch efforts to keep Burris from the Senate Video

“They [police] probably won’t arrest him,” but they would call the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms, the aide said.

Burris has indicated he intends to be at the Senate on Tuesday. When asked about what would happen if he shows up, Burris told the Chicago Tribune that he is “not going to create a scene in Washington.”

Bottom line is this: Gov. Blagojevich is still innocent until proven guilty. Until that point, he still has the legal right and duty to appoint the next Senator from Illinois. And as long as his appointee is qualified, our US Supreme Court has already previously ruled that the Senate has zero standing to not seat him.

Do I think that Blagojevich should NOT have selected Burris (or anybody else)? Absolutely. But now that he has, I think it’s imperative that the Senate follow the rule of law and our Constitution and live with the dirty Chicago Political machine that they were only too happy to embrace when it came to elevating Barack Obama from a dope-smoking college kid into a remarkably inexperienced politician.

Think about the horrible precedence this will set if the Democrat Congress suddenly thinks they can decide who gets to join their exclusive little group and who doesn’t?

Anyway — I’m really looking forward to watching the black eyes and embarrassments that are inevitably going to go down on Tuesday. The schadenfreude is going to be spectacular.

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UT Wide Receiver Quan Cosby

Over the last several seasons, University of Texas wide receiver Quan Cosby has become my favorite Longhorn football player to cheer for.

At first, because of how he played the game — hard and at full speed. And every single down.

When the University of Texas demolishes Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, it will be Cosby’s final football game as a Longhorn football player. But, as you’ll see after reading this exceptionally inspirational story in today’s Austin American-Statesman, Cosby has come a long way from a tough life as a kid from Mart, Texas.

Fellow player RB Chris Ogbonnaya said, “It’s not just that Quan is a good person. He’s the guy every other guy wants to be like.”

That’s a helluva compliment.

From the story:

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - There is no talk of reindeer on the rooftop. There are no cookies and milk left out by the fireplace. Santa doesn’t come to the Cosby house.

Texas receiver Quan Cosby loves Christmas. He’s as religious as they come and knows he has plenty to celebrate.

He smiled this year and sat back as he watched the eldest of his two daughters, Micah, who’s almost 3 , open presents. He enjoyed the time with his wife, Stasia, and his grandma. He’s a family man, a God-fearing man.

But when Micah asks where the presents came from, there is no fairy tale.

“We bought them,” Cosby said. “That’s what I tell her. See, Santa didn’t come by my house when I was a kid. We didn’t have any money. I learned at an early age that there was no Santa Claus and you have to work for everything in this life. I want our little ones to know that it’s our hard work that helps us get this stuff.”

Cosby is all about hard work.

He’s gone from being a poor, troubled kid to a great high school athlete, an honors student, a professional baseball player, a husband, a father, a college graduate, a mentor, a philanthropist and a two-time all-Big 12 receiver.

Not bad for a 26-year-old.

“I’m blessed,” said Cosby, who will play in his final college football game Monday when the Longhorns take on Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. “I feel lucky every day, and I thank God for everything I have.”

Cosby’s is an inspirational story. I’m not sure if he’s bound for the NFL next year, but whatever he chooses to do, I have no doubt he’ll continue to be a tremendous success.

One of the great chapters in Cosby’s life is about the high school teacher who made all the difference in the world to Cosby:

He was sitting in class, overwhelmed by his problems at home, when he broke into tears in front of his teacher, Deborah Satchell.

“It was a short time after that when we got in the pickup truck and went to go get Quan,” said Albert Satchell, Deborah’s husband. “I told him the first night he was here that I was going to treat him like I treat my daughters. He would follow our rules. He would do what I said.”

That turned out to be just what Cosby needed.

Wow. Talk about going above and beyond. The Satchell family influence shows how important having a strong, disciplined upbringing can make in a young man’s life.

After HS, Cosby was drafted by the baseball California Angels, where he played minor league ball for 5 years. Why only 5 years?

Cosby gave it a shot. For five years he worked and worked, trying to make his way through the minor leagues.

But in the back of his mind, he always remembered a promise he made to the Satchells.

“I told them if I didn’t make it to the majors after five years that I would go back to school and get a degree,” Cosby said. “They even helped me with my contract so the Angels would pay for school and I didn’t even have to sign with an agent.”

As those five years passed, Cosby knew what he had to do.

“When you give someone your word, well, it’s your word,” Cosby said. “It’s who you are.”

In 2005, five years after high school, Cosby was in a classroom at the University of Texas.

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White, elitist Liberals love black people.

They just don’t want them to live near them.

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.

Now that police unit is the focus of lawsuits by black families who allege the city of 100,000 is orchestrating a campaign to drive them out.

It’s kinda like Ted Kennedy and wind powered turbines.

Longtime homeowners complained that the new arrivals brought crime and other troubles. In 2006, violent crime in Antioch shot up about 19 percent from the year before

Though, the homeowners do have a legit point (backed up by damned facts and statistics and shit) — according to a report out yesterday that the murder rate by black teens is going through the roof.

The murder rate among black teenagers has climbed since 2000 even as murders by young whites have scarcely grown or declined in some places, according to a new report.

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CNN has this dementedly-biased headline today:

World rallies around Palestinians amid Gaza offensive

If there were any honesty — moral, ethical, or professional — left in MSM journalism (there’s not, so don’t even bother to look) then the headline would read:

Jew-hating Liberals, Arab nations, and terrorist sympathizers rally around The Nation of Hamas (formerly known as Palestine)

Or, in a sane and rational world, the headline would read;

Everybody who doesn’t love terrorism rallies around Israel’s right to defend herself from terrorist attacks

The Liberal and media hand-wringing over Israels right to defend herself from Islamic terrorist who 1) don’t recognize Israel’s right to exist, and 2) have sworn to never stop trying to eradicate Israel from the face of the world — is nothing short of insanity.

And disgusting.

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Back in July 2006, I wrote a post titled,  Supporting Israel and Disproportionate Responses (in it’s fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon).

I wrote then, and still believe now:

• I believe that a country has a right to defend itself and its citizens — not only from attacks, but to prevent attacks.

• I believe that — when responding to threats or attacks against it — a country should respond, not proportionately, but by an order of magnitude greater than the initial threat/attack.

• I believe that the retaliation should be so severe as to punish the enemy while minimizing their ability for future attacks, while also serving as a deterrent to future attackers.

The people of Palestine freely elected Hamas. Hamas is Palestine. I fully support Israel’s attempt to turn back the clocks by 20 years in Palestine.

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Jammie Wearing Fool responds to CNN’s biased headline:

Add up all the estimate from this bogus story and you probably count about 5000 people worldwide, including the professional protesters and other assorted human debris from the far left and sundry terror-supporting groups such as Code Pink and ANSWER.

But to CNN, that’s the world rallying around the terrorists from Hamas.

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