As news of Ted Kennedy’s malignant tumor was made public, prominent people from all across the nation, including President Bush, Senator Robert Bird, and others, expressed shock, grief, and deep sorrow at the fate that has befallen the senator from Massachusetts.

Partisan politics have no place when an individual of Senator Kennedy’s stature faces a diagnosis that usually portends death. The senator deserves all of the encouragement and respect that one would afford a member of one’s own family in a similar situation.

When Senator Kennedy’s days are over, the liberal media will no doubt launch a campaign to confer sainthood on the lifetime public servant. His Herculean efforts on behalf of women, minorities, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised will be chronicled over and over again.

Which is as it should be. Senator Kennedy, for better or worse, has been a major political figure in the United States for nearly 50 years, going back to 1962 when he won brother John Fitzgerald’s Senate seat, vacated by JFK’s election to the presidency in 1960.

But while Kennedy’s longevity and public service are worthy of memorializing, the complete story of this man must not be whitewashed to omit the “Chappaquiddick incident,” which is described as follows at Wikipedia:

“In 1969, Edward Kennedy drove a car off a bridge into the channel between Chappaquiddick Island and Martha’s Vineyard. Kennedy managed to escape, but his passenger, campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned in the submerged car. Kennedy left the scene of the accident and did not call authorities until the following day. Kennedy pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence of two months in jail.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy

In order to be complete, the Ted Kennedy story must include these vital questions:

Why did this man, renowned for helping the under dog, abandon Mary Jo Kopechne as she was drowning?

And, how was this powerful and rich man able to avoid justice for his role in ending the life of a 29-year old campaign worker?

The ghost of Mary Jo Kopechne will haunt Senator Ted Kennedy in life and in death, forever.

Which is as it should be.

The movie, “Recount”, arrives at a time when the Democrat Party is trying to determine whether the “popular” vote in its primaries takes precedent over the actual number of delegates, whether “pledged” or “super delegates” whose only allegiance is to (1) retaining their power in Congress and the Party and (2) actually trying to win the national election in November.

There is enough written about the 2000 election results in Florida to suggest that, had the Supreme Court not intervened and stopped the vote count, Al Gore would have won by the slimmest of margins, but that ignores the way the Gore campaign successfully got the absentee military votes that would have unquestionably put Bush over the top disqualified from consideration.

In short, Florida, where apparently the voters in Palm Beach County were retarded, remains a great historic muddle. In 2000 it became a battle ground between two evils, the Republican and Democrat parties.

In the end, George W. Bush won the election, became President, and, because of 9/11, transformed his presidency into a military conflict in Afghanistan and extended it into Iraq. The reason why there is so little news current coverage of events in Iraq is that some real measure of political stability has arrived and because no one in the mainstream media wants to report that Iran has been engaged in war with the U.S. and Iraqi troops there. That war was unofficially declared in 1979 when they took our diplomats hostage and held them for 444 days. Al Qaeda has since been reduced to the ravings of Osama bin Laden.

The reason why the cost of a barrel of oil has skyrocketed is because no one knows how long the de facto Iran-U.S. conflict with continue and whether it will erupt into a full-scale war involving our having to bomb and/or invade Iran to put an end to its nuclear ambitions and its endless intrusive efforts to impose its hegemony over the entire region.

It may be “a tiny country” as Barack Obama says, but it has been a very troublesome one for a very long time.

Meanwhile, despite Hollywood’s effort to convince Americans how much better off they would have been had Al Gore been elected, it would be useful to consider that he stands revealed as one of the greatest liars on the face of the Earth, thanks to his megalomania about global warming.

On Monday, May 19, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, led by Dr. Arthur Robinson, held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to announce that its petition rejecting Al Gore’s and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lies, had been signed by 31,000 scientists from around the world. A total of 9,201 of the signers were PhDs and the rest held university degrees in science.

That is an impressive group of “deniers” and they are joined now by millions of people who understand that “global warming” is a hoax. Indeed, since 1998, all the meteorological data indicates that the Earth has entered a period of cooling. The oceans are cooling. Glaciers are growing. Winter blizzards are more intense. You don’t need a degree to know that global warming isn’t happening.

The movie, “Recount”, is propaganda, not history. Its stars and others involved in its production will swear that it is fact-based, but the fact is that, since 2001, and his reelection in 2004, George W. Bush has been the President of the United States.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2008, notes that, “The Nov. 2000 presidential election was one of the closest in history. While Bush came out behind in the popular vote—by about 540,000 out of more than 100 million cast—the electoral vote total hinged on the outcome in Florida where official totals, challenged by Democrats, gave him a razor-thin lead.” The Supreme Court decision—a merciful end to the election—ceded Florida’s 25 electoral votes to Bush.

A mark of maturity is that an individual or a nation ultimately comes to acknowledge reality and acts upon facts, not emotions.

There is the Hollywood version of history and then there is reality. The two rarely coincide. 

One is tempted to consider what the passed eight years would have been like had Al Gore had been elected President.

His response to 9/11 might well have been to blame America for having angered al Qaeda in some fashion. One imagines a large mosque being built on Ground Zero in order to get Middle Eastern Muslims to like us more.

By now, based on his view that the internal combustion engine is a threat to humanity, it is likely that most voters would be on bicycles or horseback. All national parks would be off limits to Americans to protect the flora and fauna. There would be rolling blackouts due to a ban on the building of any nuclear or coal-fired plants to generate electricity. Every species known to man and God would have been declared endangered. And you would have to flush your toilet at least five times to achieve the results that preceded his election to office.

Alan Caruba writes a weekly commentary posted on the website of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com. He blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.

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There is great news on the war against third-world invaders: Recent raids in Postville, Iowa are causing high anxiety in illegal alien communities in this and surrounding towns.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-iowa-plant-raidmay19,0,3571577.story

The result is that macho men are being reduced to mush. “Brown Power” is turning yellow, as it were.

This great news may cause some of the cowardly criminals to retreat to that third-world cesspool otherwise known as Mexico.

With some luck, this news may also help by sending a stern message to would-be invaders still in Mexico: Namely, U.S. agencies are finally enforcing the law on this side of the border. Do not bother invading!

To all bleeding heart liberals on the wrong side of this issue, dispense with teary-eyed lamentations about the awful suffering endured by poor illegal invaders forced to live in fear and shadows.

Illegal aliens have no moral, legal or spiritual basis for being here and SHOULD live in constant, unmitigated dread and fear.

In fact, the more fear haunting their miserable lives, the better it is for real Americans! Just like fugitive bank robbers or other common criminals, illegal aliens should tremble every time the telephone rings, or someone raps on the door.

To right-thinking American patriots on the right side of this issue: Keep reporting illegal aliens to the authorities. Let’s keep illegals frightened!

To President Bush, all Democrats, and RINOs who claim that it is “impossible” to deport criminals:

Enforcement works! Illegal invasion can be solved if elected officials (YOU) will simply live up to your sworn duties: Defend America against all enemies foreign and domestic by securing our borders and enforcing U.S. laws!

Do just that, and the illegals here will leave and the illegal influx will stop!

By Roger W. Gardner (Originally published at RadarSite)

Could this poor world of ours be any more topsy-turvy than it already is?

The United Nations, this once-relevant world body, this much heralded promise for the future of mankind has slowly but surely become little more than a pitiful spectacle of corruption and compromise. A monumentally ponderous and inept Tower of Babel filled with incompetents and villians, falling over one another to promote the evil machinations of petty tyrants and Islamist thugs.

And now, my friends, in this latest episode of this ongoing farce, we are obliged to suffer the national indignity of an arbitrary investigation into our American systems of social justice. We are going to be evaluated by special rapporteur Doudou Dieneto. He will be touring the US to see if we measure up to those universal standards of human rights — as exemplified by his native country of Senegal.

So, torn between laughter and tears, let’s take a quick look at this symbol of national integrity called Senegal.

Senegal
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
February 25, 2004

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27748.htm

Government forces were responsible for several deaths during the year, and several disappearances from previous years remained unsolved. At times, police tortured and beat suspects during questioning and arbitrarily arrested and detained persons. Prison conditions were poor. Impunity remained a problem.
Lengthy pretrial detention largely due to an overburdened judiciary is a problem. Human rights advocates and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)continued to report a decrease in arbitrary arrests and random violence in connection with the Casamance insurgency. The Government, at times, limited the freedoms of speech and association. Domestic violence and discrimination against women, female genital mutilation (FGM), child labor and trafficking in persons remained problems.
There were reports that rebel MFDC forces committed killings, torture, and rape.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR49/002/2008/enSenegal/Gambia:

Intimidation/ fear of enforced disappearance: Yahya Danfa
Senegal/Gambia: Intimidation/ fear of enforced disappearance: Yahya Danfa

Topsy-turvy
world…

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America’s inability to free itself from dependence on oil from the Middle East may go down as one of the greatest failures in U.S. political history. Even the most generous historian will find it difficult to justify our continued reliance on a region of the world that has been in constant turmoil for 50 years.


History, if chronciled honestly, will note that the Democrat Party adamantly opposed measures that would increase the supply of oil.

Why is that the case?

Because arrogant elitists like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore have one priority when it comes to gasoline: Get Americans out of their automobiles!

Warped liberals believe that the unwashed masses can damn well walk, skateboard, bike, hike, or preferably, not navigate at all.

Except when headed to the polls to vote for Democrats, of course.

Liberals have created the current energy crisis in order to save cross-eyed mosquitoes, a rare species which is apparently more important than energy independence and the well being of middle class citizens!

Mind you, arrogant elitists like Al Gore, the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama will always drive, or be chauffeured around, in gas guzzling limousines, SUVs, and Hummers, regardless of prices at the pump or gasoline supply.

It is your car or SUV that Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore want off the road!

In advancing their “no-combustion engine for the middle class” agenda, liberals obviously exacerbate the energy crisis by toiling 24/7 to do the following:

* Obstruct all oil drilling

* Obstruct added refinery capacity via extreme environmental regulations

* Obstruct nuclear energy and other reasonable alternative energy sources

* Tax “windfall profits,” and implement other anti-business steps that stifle efforts to increase oil supply

What about the demand side? Liberals are just as mindless there, by opting to add federal and state taxes to the cost of gasoline at every opportunity.

Clearly, $4 per gallon gasoline is the product of liberalism run amok.

So, the question voters will have to answer this November is:

Are you ready to wait in long lines just to pay $5 for a gallon of gasoline?

If so, vote for ‘’obstruct and tax’’ Democrats!

John W. Lillpop

San Jose, California

johnlillpop@yahoo.com

As if the Reverend Wright issue and double standard of Democrat presidential just-about nominee Senator Barack Obama’s seeming imperviousness as far as the press and likely voters go weren’t odious enough, the candidate is now employing campaign materials focusing on his alleged Christian faith.

Fliers on the topic of Obama’s alleged conversion experience began appearing in Kentucky shortly prior to the May 20 primary.  

 “I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work.”

-         Obama campaign flier

It is likely that the question for many Americans here is to what deity the candidate is referring. Is it the God of Abraham, as worshipped by Jews and Christians? Is it Jesus Christ? Is it the god that – as Rev. Wright suggested – ought damn America for its imperialism, amoral foreign and domestic covert operations, drugging and infection of American blacks, and black (or would it be white) helicopters? Is it Allah, perhaps?

Evidently, his own faith having come into serious question is of no moment to the “Audacity” man himself.

This columnist has stated that if Barack Obama is elected president, it will be the greatest propaganda coup in the history of American politics. Not only is the candidate an empty suit, he may very well be the antithesis of everything American, albeit a very articulate and refined representation thereof. An Obama victory would be analogous to Rob Reiner being elected president of the National Rifle Association.

Obama’s ability and inclination to release this paternalistic swill of course demonstrates another profound double standard. Would there ever have been a George W. Bush presidency had he spoken of “fulfilling God’s will” or going out and doing “the Lord’s work?” Of course not. Is Obama’s ability to do so with impunity because he’s black, because he a far Left guy or because his faith did come into question? There are, after all still Americans who wonder if his sympathies lie with Islam. His being a member of a twisted and radical church that is chummy with the Nation of Islam hasn’t done much to ameliorate that question in their minds.

Well, let’s examine this. Say John Edwards was the front-runner right now. Assuming he perceived a need to do so, would he circulate similar materials? Probably not. Would it be because he’s white, or because his faith hasn’t raised the controversy Obama’s has raised? As there are sufficient theoretical aspects involved, it’s a bit difficult to determine.

Perhaps an analysis of far Left whites’ perception of religious blacks might help…

The power brokers on the far Left are white. Presidents are not despots (contrary to what is said of our current president); those who are giving us Barack Obama at least perceive that they hold invisible strings of some sort. Politicians on the left who claim faith (statistically a lower percentage than those on the right) generally keep their religion close to their vest; they must appease those of faith in the electorate, but the issue must be “personal.” Those on the right who claim faith are, as we have seen, highly suspect.

Blacks who claim faith however, are portrayed with such a subtle condescension that it’s barely perceptible. They – like the gun-toting white genetic misfits in Appalachia – are expected to rely on those comforting, quaint, even primitive traditions that the simple-minded so need to cultivate the barest understanding of their environment. I just love it when they do those handsprings down the aisle, don’t you? Black churches are so exciting!

So the media isn’t going to jump on Obama for making gratuitous overtures of religious solidarity with rural bumpkins, even when his own church has come under scrutiny. He is automatically regarded as sincere, which is the modality in which the establishment press is currently operating anyway.

While victims of the mass hypnosis that seems to have already all but propelled Obama into the White House are oblivious to the implications of this “holy” mission, other Christian Americans may be puzzled at the contrast between this being a non-issue compared to the direct questioning to which George W. Bush was subjected apropos his faith. How much did Bush’s faith impact his life in a practical sense? Was he claiming to be Divinely guided when it came to executive decisions? Might he call a press conference one night and appear before America dressed in a robe, a snake in each hand, and declare that God had ordained the destruction of, say, Damascus and Pyongyang by holy (nuclear) fire?

Bush was asked these questions, and he answered them intelligently and without indignation, which is far more than I could have done. Those who have bastardized the First Amendment have convinced a significant number of Americans that an office holder’s faith ought not impact their life in any practical sense. Of course, anyone of real faith – no matter what it happens to be – will have such integrated into their life to an extent that there is no separation between the person and the professional.

Think about that the next time you consider why certain faiths are under relentless attack by the far Left and the press, and what the implications of Senator Obama’s beliefs might really be.

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In what is shaping up as a most dreary election season for conservatives, there is one ray of sunshine, one nugget of good news with which to take solace: The brutal pummeling of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Watching Hillary descend from the queen of inevitability to political leper in just five short months has provided the most entertainment and cheer in my household since my cable company starting beaming the adult channel in HDTV and surround sound.

Most amusing is the fact that Hillary is, in effect, being ignored.

For instance, President Bush caused a stink last week with his remarks in Israel about appeasement. Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, Nancy Pelosi and other leftist airheads made instant headlines with rebuttals to the the president.

And what did Hillary have to say about Bush’s bashing of Democrats on foreign soil?

Who knows, or cares?

While John McCain and Obama exchange insults and assaults on a daily basis, nobody seems to give a darn what Hillary is thinking or doing.

Being known as a congenital liar and conniving bi*** for 20 years will have that effect on even the most hard-nosed world-class genius, which is how the Clintons see Hillary.

Hillary’s Karma is so negative these days that her victory in the Kentucky primary was usurped by the tragic news about Ted Kennedy’s medical condition.

Still, all is not lost Hillary. You are still young enough and healthy enough to take on another career. Why not become a stay at home mom and just “Stand by your Man,” the reprehensible Slick Willie?

You know, bake him low-sodium cookies to nurture his wonky heart, at least until the Karma Gods have forgiven you for playing the race card against Senator Obama?

Move quickly, Hillary, or your legacy will most likely read, “Hillary Who?”

By TexasFred (Cross posted from TexasFreds)

CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die.
Join us or die, drug kingpins warn Mexican police

The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops get warnings over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, including Mexico’s acting federal police chief.

Mexico has battled for years to clean up its security forces and win them the public’s respect. But Mexicans generally assume police and even soldiers are corrupt until proven otherwise, and the honest ones lack resources, training and the assurance that their colleagues are watching their backs. Here, the taboo on cop-killing familiar to Americans seems hardly to apply.

Police who take on the cartels feel isolated and vulnerable when they become targets, as did 22 commanders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez when drug traffickers named them on a handwritten death list left at a monument to fallen police this year. It was addressed to “those who still don’t believe” in the power of the cartels.

Of the 22, seven have been killed and three wounded in assassination attempts. Of the others, all but one have quit, and city officials said he didn’t want to be interviewed.

On Sunday, city spokesman Sergio Belmonte confirmed that Juarez’s police chief had submitted his resignation and said he would be replaced by a military official on leave from the armed forces.

Full Story Here:

I think that most anyone that has read my blog for very long knows exactly how I feel about Mexico and our unsecured border, I have made no secret of the fact that I have no use for Mexico, it’s citizens or it’s ineffectual army and police, and I really have a problem with the ILLEGAL INVASION that this nation is suffering, so, I am not going to preach on those topics this time, I’m going to give them a bit of rest…

What I’m wanting to do right now is ask a few questions, I hope I get some serious answers:

1. Given the candidates in the running at this time, does your choice for the office of the presidency support a strong and secure border??

2. Does that choice support strong and effective enforcement of the immigration laws of this nation??

3. Does that choice have a viable plan to stop this Mexican drug cartel BS from spilling over the border into our nation??

If you’re supporting John McCain, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, then the answer is a resounding NO!! Just sayin’…

Are we going to once again settle for appeasers, amnesty supporters, gun grabbers and those that would give the United States of America away in support of a North American Union??

We deserve a lot better America, but we have to take a hard stand and demand that we get that better and stronger government that we should have, we have to demand that the parties run a much higher quality candidate than we are seeing now, we have to demand that the candidates have some real qualifications and not just a great presentation of speech, we can’t just sit back and accept whatever the RNC, the DNC and the MSM tells us is best for us…

We must lose the apathy that has spread over our land, it’s time to think about what’s best for America and who will lead this nation back to the greatness that we, all of us, once took for granted, and we must never again settle for what is perceived to be the lesser of the evils…

And one last question, what are YOU prepared to do, you personally, if this violence does spill over the border and threatens our towns, our homes, our citizens and our way of life??