I think Velociman is a little upset…
Monthly Archive for June, 2004
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According to an AP poll, 70% of Americans say that Ronald Reagan will be remembered as a better president than Bill Clinton. There’s hope for this country yet.
Paul Johnson was decapitated today by his terrorist captors. My heart goes out to his family. I can only hope they don’t disgrace his memory by using his death as a pawn in the presidential election.
A story in the Washington Times today entitled “Kerry woos middle class” has some interesting bits in it, if you read all the way down to the last four paragraphs:
Talking about education yesterday, Mr. Kerry also told the largely black crowd at the day care center that there are more blacks in prison than in college.
“That’s unacceptable,” he said. “But it’s not their fault.”
Rather than the inmates, the former Boston prosecutor blamed poverty, poor schools, a dearth of after-school programs and “all of us as adults not doing what we need to do.”
I would like to be surprised by this, but I’m not. It’s not a criminal’s fault he’s in jail, it’s society, racist police, “the man”, anything but blaming the criminal for his own misdeeds. Perhaps Kerry should ask someone (someone who’s not a liberal, they wouldn’t know) what “personal responsibility” is.
It’s like this. Your life is the sum of the choices you make in it. You choose to stay in school, study hard, and go to college, you have a very good chance of becoming a productive citizen. However, if you choose to start doing drugs, and drop out of school, your employment opportunities are going to be very limited. Even if you can find a job, I can guarantee you it won’t pay very well. And if at this point in your life you choose to commit crimes to supplement your income, when you get caught and end up in prison, you have no one but yourself to blame.
But liberals don’t think like that. There is always someone or something to blame for everything. In this case, Kerry blames poverty, poor schools, and a lack of after-school programs. Well, guess what that means? He either didn’t say it, or the Washington Times didn’t bother to include it, but all that means is that Kerry thinks that government needs to spend more money on these “problems“ so that black people can stay out of jail. Well, if you believe that government should hold your hand your whole life and guide you, it sounds reasonable, right? Of course, that will mean higher taxes for the evil rich to pay for it, but they already have too much money anyway, right? So no harm done there. And do you think the Republicans are going to spend more money on things to keep black people out of jail? Kerry will tell you no, but if you look at the federal budget the last few years in regards to poverty and schools, it speaks for itself. But Kerry will lie and say tell people that Republicans want to cut any such programs (he hasn’t yet that I know of, but the campaign’s not over). So in order to keep black people out of jail, you have to vote for Kerry and any other Democrat running for office.
Kind of a vicious cycle, isn’t it? People who forgo personal responsibility and commit crimes will always wind up in jail, and there will always be a liberal there to tell people it’s not their fault, and that if the government would just spent more money on the “problems“, everything would be OK.
Joining the Beltway Traffic Jam.
Vodka Pundit has a video on his site that shows what Saddam was doing to his people while he was still in power. To repeat the warning, the video is very graphic.
I blogged previously about some sites that debunk what Michael Moore puts on screen and in his books. I was checking moorelies.com and saw that Jason Clarke and David T. Hardy have co-written a book entitled “Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man”. Excellent! You can even get it on Amazon. I can’t wait until this is released. And like they say on their website, it would be really cool to see the book title in big letters on TV, hopefully, they’ll get some press, though I’m not holding my breath on that one.
A friend emailed this to me, the email claims it was a letter to the editor of a newspaper in Durham, NC, but that may or may not be true. Either way, most, if not all of it, seems reasonably accurate, so I figured I’d post it. So here it is, caveat emptor:
Liberals claim President Bush shouldn’t have started this war.
They complain about his prosecution of it.
One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S. history. (ed. Just one?)
Let’s clear up one point: President Bush didn’t start the war on terror.
Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11.
Let’s look at the “worst” president and mismanagement claims.
FDR led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us: Japan did.
From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.
Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us.
From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year.
John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average! e of 5,800 per year.
Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us.
He was offered Osama bin Laden’s head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing.
Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
Over 2,900 lives lost on 9/11.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year.
Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home.
Worst president in history? Come on!
The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but…
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound.
That was a 51 day operation.
We’ve been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!
Frank J. has an excellent idea for showing the terrorists who’s boss. Hope that gets on a t-shirt someday…
Just when I thought things were going better for the Border Patrol, I saw an AP story today that deflated any enthusiasm that I had recently acquired. Border Patrol agents are being issued new uniforms, and some of them are quite angered at what they’re finding in them. A “Made in Mexico“ label.
The uniforms are made by a company called VF Solutions in Nashville. Their contract stipulates that they are allowed to subcontract to factories in the US, Mexico, Canada, and the Dominican Republic. Frankly, I personally find this very upsetting, although I can almost see humor in the irony.
How hard can it be to find a company in this country that can make uniforms for our Border Patrol agents at a reasonable price? This is America, after all. Rich Pierce, the executive VP of the National Border Patrol Council, agrees: “Why can’t we have uniforms made in the U.S.? … The other agents I’ve talked to all think this is some bad joke.”
I guess if the Border Patrol is looking to start rounding up more illegal aliens, they can scratch clothing factories off their list of places to look. Apparently low-cost illegal labor won’t be found there. If the US government wants to save a few bucks, I have much better ideas than to have our Border Patrol uniforms made in Mexico.
Joining the Beltway Traffic Jam…