Death Notice for Railfans

Norman L. Behrens, a lifelong employee of the TPW railroad, passed on this Tuesday morning at the age of 91 . Fellow railroaders and dedicated railfans all are invited to his service this Saturday morning at Parkview cemetary chapel at University and Nebraska. Check the PJS for obit and time. As a member of the family, don't be shy. Come out and show your respect for the real deal.

Illinois Wins!!

Olympics NOT coming to Chicago. Taxpayers can breathe now...

RIGHT wing protestors are thugs????

Sad but true #24175

9/11

I initially hesitated to make a 9/11 post not wanting to be once again accused of being jingoistic BUT:

PLEASE NEVER FORGET

On Ted Kennedy...

Although Ted fiercely fought for some things I at least generally agree with, for the last 30 years of his life, he fought cynically for many things that were simply Democrat campaign issues and , in my opinion, he never atoned for his previous sins which are well known.

So I say, rest in peace, Teddy.

A Mixed Bag

Euphemisms:

Reform - The activists in favor of nationalizing health care keep using this term.

It's bullcrap. Just a euphemism for socialized heath care.

Liquor taxes - how did we let this happen? A bottle of booze will now cost $100 more?

Is this national?

No so far off....

STEREOTYPES????

Godspeed, newsman

Car warranty scams??

When I first saw the US Fidelis commercials on TV I thought it was legit. There was a market to fill and the Wallace's were fronting it.

Then we heard of all the copy cat warranty offers that turned out to be total scams.

The other day I figured I'd look into Fidelis. One quick search turned up 40 state AGs that were investigating them and over 1100 complaints from the St Louis area alone. Furthermore, the head honcho is a religious type that's building a $17m mansion in Missouri which, some say, accounts for the halo symbol in thier logo.

Yet, their ads continue and I have to wonder - how do Steve and Rusty Wallace feels about their involvement?

Only Democrats can understand this

True...

Perfect

One dipshit swearing in another...

Too good not to share...

I'm sure folks like O'Brien and Stone would agree....

America's Newest Senator??

MJ Dead

Sorry to hear it. He was a sad, sad man.....

Camera whore Al Sharpton should just shut the freak up.

And all the ugliness on-line should stop. I have to apologize for mine.

Nonetheless, black people who threw MJ under the bus years ago will come out to idolize him.

Maybe we're all hypocrites.

Current Issues

There's a lot I have to say about recent issues like the recent killings of Tiller AND LONG and Letterman's recent step in the deep poo but I've been too busy. Suffice to say that certain local far left bloggers have a lot to answer for.

Back from vacation

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

Flooded Basement Blues

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home

Just a reminder

BLOCK THE BLOCK!



Vote NO on the Museum Boondoggle!

Beth Akeson apparently has provisional support for the museum but not in it's current form. She also supports the equally loopy Kellar trail idea. Mr. Riggenbach fully supports the museum but I don't know about the trail yet. Anyone know??

UPDATE: Seems both candidates support both white elephants. AND some persons have been removing/vandalizing anti-museum yard signs.

I have an idea. Just like California, can we have the names, addresses and employers of everyone who is a member of the Build the Block coalition so we can organize protests at their homes and workplaces????

UPDATE: The powers of evil have managed to steal 2 elections. Democracy dies.

Obamunists to the O hole!!

Drinking your milkshake

RIP Paul Harvey

One of the many blessings I count in this life is that I was fortunate enough to grow up listening to Paul Harvey's news reports on radio and later his "The Rest of the Story" segments.

A truer American there never was.

I'll miss him greatly and the world's a poorer place without him.

PP declares war on ISPs.

The gubmint sets the speed limits on roads we pay for. ISPs set limits on the pipes THEY paid for.

So friggin evil. Right.

Grow up, Bill.

Concerns about the Stimulus Bill

An FDR style bill would focus on infrastructure or as they say "shovel ready" works. This one has billions for 'Crat political pet projects that won't help anyone but 'Crats.

Meanwhile, Miss America jets off to Rome and CAT's Owens tells Barry "Bullshit"

Watch the video.

In Their Own Words

The Canadian government has banned FNC.

Michelle: "Oooop Oooop! His community organizen' ass is finally makin' more than me. I'm livin' in da White House! Girlz gonna get payyyyd!

Barry: See what I gotta put up with?.....

Better?

Hell naws

MSM?

Congrats to the new opposition leader

Good luck, Mr Steele.

Adults??

Dr. Knight (and others) say they're glad the adults are in charge now. Adults?

Is It Over??

For cripes sake? How long will the media keep drooling over Brock and still claim they're not biased?

I am ready to savor the sweet taste of liberal disillusionment.

Spot on, Mick

"President Bush was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I don't know how anyone could have handled this situation."

"I don't give a **** who's in office, Bush or whoever, there is no simple solution to this problem… I'm not one of those who blames Bush for everything."

"It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do."

"Actors should shut up about politics, because they tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cozy up to some flavor-of-the-month liberal, you know?"

Double standard

That the Dems won’t seat a guy who’s completely legit yet are in a rush to seat another guy who’s win is suspect speaks volumes.

Burris is not Barry’s chosen one.

With goodwill toward all men....

best wishes

Congrats to my man....

Kennedy Center Honors
I have loved you for a long time.

Merry Christmas

Even to my friends that stand up for what they don't believe in.....

BTW - atheism is a religion - sorry you don't realize it.

Sad but true

Really sad....

Congrats President-Elect Obama

I have had trouble accessing my blog so this is late but Obama won fair and square (more or less) so he will be my President. No sour grapes here.

Godspeed, Barry.

Happy Halloween, America

Oy...

And still...

Yup.

Oh, and Reno...

Pascal's Wager.

Here's the whole story on the "bail out"

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This post has been up for a week and it's crickets from our local socialists like Reno, Legel and O'Brien.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

And now this....

Purpose?

I've been observing the labor guys picketing Crusins for some time now. I guess they used non-union labor to build their beer garden. But it's been some time now and I'm wondering when it goes from protest to punishment. Why so long?

Yup

If we'd have drilled 20 years ago....

New blog

FargenBlog

R.I.P. Tim Russert

Tim was adept at irritating pols of both sides which made him one of the more objective news guys around. Godspeed, Tim.

Happy Memorial Day

Indeed.

Quotes of the week

"I’m personally in favor of violent, chaotic protests..."

"When the people being protested against fear for their safety, only then has progress been made."

- Local liberal blogger

UPDATE: "Republicans sure are scumbag motherfuckers."

- Same ADULT non-troll local liberal blogger

The press isn't in the bag for Obama

Uh uh...

16 Years Ago

We lost the best.

Maybe Reno will Read This

Since I'm a dumbass Christian who's been banned from his site, I'll post this here. It's a story about a public school in Minnesota where religion definitely does NOT stop at the door.

Try not to choke on it.

For Parents Only

Having seen the video of the girl beat down by "friends", I wonder if any male parent here wouldn't want to slap the crap out of those girls. If you're big enough to dish it out.........

Thanks

Maybe some some angry-left jerk is proud of hacking my site. Maybe it just went wacko by itself for no reason. We'll never know.

Meanwhile, in a Blue State

American Edukation

The Truth Is....

Barry is going to have to own the outrageous rhetoric of his very own pastor as much or more than lefties would have conservatives own the outrageous rhetoric of certain right wing ministers who WEREN'T theirs. Any liberal who doesn't see that has indeed drunk deeply of the OBAMA koolaid.


OBAMA 08 - God DAMN America!!

Meanwhile over at O'Brien's....

But but but but but but but but........

Watch your Wiring!!

I went to bed early the other night but was awakened by my wife to look at a electrical problem in my basement. An outlet had apparently gone bad but somehow not enough to trip a breaker. The outlet was red hot and smoking. Luckily, we caught it in time and killed the power. Stupidly, we didn't have an extinguisher and I don't know what we'd have done if it'd actually caught fire.

This is a lesson. Pay attention to your electrical system and get a fire extinguisher (or 2) if you don't have one!

This is not an old house and if this can happen to me, it can happen to you. Check for warm outlets.

I can only thank God someone saw the problem before a fire erupted.

Take care.

Happy Anniversary, My Love.

To my wife who I waited 25 years for and all this song has meant to us over those years.

He looks into the dark miasma
that is almost every Liberal policy and gasps
"My God! It's full of Fail!"

The Fate of WTVP

For what it's worth, if WTVP cannot continue as a broadcast station, why not partner up with the various public access orgs in central Illinois and continue on cable? I just saw a segment from the Illinois Adventure host deploring the lack of "local" programming on local commercial TV. He's right. So, what could be more local? Surely, the production bar would have to raised for local access programmers but why not??

Think about it.

Awww Fred......

I see now that I'm NOT really a Republican, I'm a conservative. The GOP mainstream has abandoned me. SHIT!

Not that I'm likely to be voting Socialist....er... I mean Democrat any time soon.

True Colors

The Clintons were the Godheads of almost ALL Democrats for the last 15+ years. I heard very little of any bad about them from any Liberal. Now they are showing their true colors. Blacks are cool as long as they support us without question. When they don't - the gloves are off.

You guys have a lot to answer for. DEAL.

CNBC's Cramer confirms media trying to talk down economy

CNBC host Jim Cramer acknowledged on the January 17 "Today" show that the media's consistently negative reports about the economy contribute to the possibility of a recession by lowering consumer confidence and spending.

"Today" anchor Matt Lauer told Cramer, "People come up to me and say on the street ... they say, ‘Why don't you stop talking about recession? Because simply by talking about it, you're going to freak out consumers and definitely push us into one.' Is there any logic to that thinking?"

"The answer," Cramer said, "is that we have to point out the positives with the negatives." What a novel concept!

Clintons Cry on Cue

I believe this was at the Brown funeral. Bubba is joking it up until he sees the camera and instantly goes into tearful mode.

Who said What When

You are now invited to STFU

Sometimes Media People Let The Truth Slip

Terri Burke, former editor of the Abilene Reporter-News, has been named executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.

Burke, 56, will begin work at the ACLU of Texas on Tuesday. Her duties will include lobbying, fundraising, administering the organization and communicating with the public.

Burke said her new job seems like a continuation of her work in the newspaper business.

there ya go....

Archetypal liberal-think

This may lead to the GOP winning “…another election they do not deserve to win”

- B.J. Stone

Hell yeah, Beej. I mean just because people voted for them….

If Liberals don't win it's 'cause people are stupid or the other guys cheated, right?

No wonder you guys are so miserable. Your incredible narcissism can never be gratified.

Would someone PLEASE...

...tell Al Sharpton to STFU and go back to pimpin' Tawana Brawley?

OMG!

Bride has wedding cake in her own image.

This is SO ghetto - AND evidence of some severe issues with the bride.

Why is it...

...that Maddy Albright has to be constantly reminded of how she and Bubba felated Kim Jong Il in the 90's?

Scott and BJ's heads asplode.....

Center for Media and Public Affairs rates Fox News' election coverage as the most "fair and balanced".

Hilly loses Iowa

Ooops

Random Musings

Why does the much-hyped "3:10 to Yuma", the latest in that uniquely American genre known as The Western, star a Brit and an Aussie?

Why did one prominent media guy criticize Huckabee for being "...a Governor of Arkansas who does not have a great deal or any real foreign policy experience." Sounds like someone we elected in '92.

Images of 2007

It's that China thing, again.

The Clenis is finally photographed.

Nancy auditions for Mason Verger stand-in.

Be afraid...be very afraid.

Finally, AlGore and I Agree

Amen.

Why is there so much political unrest in Bangkok?

Because every election ends up with a Thai.

Liberals just can't tell the truth

If you see the new movie "Charlie Wilson's War", don't let Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) or the lib producers of the movie hose you into thinking the film is a factual account. Many, including Wilson himself (a Democrat), have had to complain to the movie makers about their playing fast and loose with the facts.

Apparently, neocoms can't help but engage in revisionist history.

UPDATE: After seeing a program about the Charlie Wilson affair on one of the History channels, I have to admit that not only did screenwriter Aaron Sorkin declare that the only people responsible for 9/11 were the terrorists but the program revealed the affair as led by Democrats and did not blame Reagan for the eventually blowback from helping the rebels.

2008 Democrat National Convention Schedule of Events

7:00 pm ~ Opening flag burning
7:15 pm ~ Pledge of Allegiance to the UN
7:20 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
7:25 pm ~ Nonreligious prayer and worship with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
7:45 pm ~ Ceremonial tree hugging
7:55 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
8:00 pm ~ How I Invented the Internet — Al Gore
8:15 pm ~ Gay Wedding Planning — Barney Frank presiding
8:35 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
8:40 pm ~ Our Troops are War Criminals — John Kerry
9.00 pm ~ Memorial service for Saddam and his sons — Cindy Sheehan & Susan Sarandon
10:00 pm ~ "Answering Machine Etiquette" — Alec Baldwin
11:00 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
11:05 pm ~ Collection for the Osama Bin Laden kidney transplant fund — Barbra Streisand
11:15 pm ~ Free the Freedom Fighters from Guantanamo Bay — Sean Penn
11:30 pm ~ Oval Office Affairs — William Jefferson Clinton
11:45 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
11:50 pm ~ How George Bush Brought Down the World Trade Towers — Howard Dean
12:15 am ~ "Truth in Broadcasting Award" — Presented to Dan Rather by Michael Moore
12:25 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
12:30 am ~ Satellite address by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12:45 am ~ Nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Nancy Pelosi
1:00 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
1:05 am ~ Coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton
1:30 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
1:35 am ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton announces Bill Clinton as her running mate for VP
1:40 am ~ Bill Clinton asks Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home


- from MoonBattery.com

NYT Forced to Change Faux Headline

From NewsBusters.org:

It's a first. The New York Times is admitting that one of their headlines slamming the Bush White House was an outright lie. Such a lie that they had to change it when the White House complained. Of course, the original subhead had trumpeted how White House spokesman Dana Perino lied to the American people, but when Perino pointed out that she never even said what the Times claimed, they had to face the truth and change the original. This is the sort of junk "reporting" you get when you have an agenda to push... truth be damned.

Link to remainder of article

Sometimes A**holes get what they deserve

Nathan Jones, one of the Penn State University students who dressed for Halloween as a Virginia Tech shooting victim, said the controversy has cost him his job.

In an e-mail Friday, Jones said he was asked to resign Thursday from his post at Bank of America or be fired.

"They were worried that my name may be attached to the Bank of America brand, and that this controversy would lead to a scandal," he said.

Photos of Jones and another Penn State student were posted on Facebook and caused a national outcry.

In interviews with several media outlets, including an on-camera piece on CNN this week, Jones refused to apologize.

"Things are going to be hard now, especially since I have no outside support. ... However, even though I will be starving over the holidays and my credit cards will all default, I still will not apologize," he wrote.

I am now officially old

"Part of the Plan" was his signature song for me...

What would you say if I told you that eighteen Democrat Representatives -- elected members of the United States Congress -- either voted against, or simply voted "present" on, a resolution passed in honor of Christmas?

Then, what would you say if I told you that seventeen of these eighteen American Representatives also voted for a resolution passed in honor of Ramadan?

Meanwhile, in a Blue State

WTVP in Crisis?

By now everyone's heard of the ongoing financial crisis at Peoria's "public" tv station. No, not the one that seems to loom at every pledge drive - this one is really big. About $7 million worth.

Now, I thought at the time that WTVP was over reaching with it's palatial new digital studios on the riverfront. What? You're perpetually broke but you can borrow $10 million? Right.

Now I'm wondering if the new crisis might be a carefully manufactured one. One designed to provide political cover for a butt-load of your tax money to go...well....somewhere.

Hell with pledge drives - we'll just get our political friends to TAKE the money!

Maybe - hopefully - I'm wrong but I smell something rotten on the riverfront and it ain't dead fish.

Today's WTF??

CNN thinks they have a gotcha moment when it's revealed Fred Thompson, a big 2nd amendment supporter, doesn't hold a hunting license and hasn't been hunting in a long while.

I'm a big 2nd amendment supporter and I don't have a hunting license or an FOID card, don't own a damned gun and haven't been hunting in YEARS!

They must be following Eric Turner's playbook

I caught this on Peoria.com's website:

"Public complaints about the web site, administrators or moderators is a Terms of Service violation will result in the message being removed and your account being put into read-only mode. "

WHAT the HECK??

Ollie should talk to these guys

WEST CHESTER — For the first time a regional atheist group will display a holiday tree on the Chester County Courthouse lawn during the winter holidays, potentially setting a seasonal model for other communities.

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Most atheists would have demanded the other displays be removed because of some imaginary "separation of church and state" thing. Nice to see some people can be reasonable.

And yet AGAIN!

The Baltimore Fire Department has suspended a paramedic apprentice who admitted placing a threatening note and a rope shaped like a noose inside a firehouse.

Fire officials say the paramedic, Gary Maynard, is the one who initially reported finding the note and the rope. Fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright says Maynard confessed to city police that he left the note and the rope.

A statement from Fire Chief William Goodwin says Maynard's scheme was "meant to create the perception that members within our department were acting in a discriminatory and unprofessional manner."

The note was believed to refer to a cheating scandal involving black firefighters. Maynard, who is black, has not yet been charged with any crime.

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WOLF! WOLF!

Today's Sad It's Not Surprising

29 year old is grandmother.

Great Article about Sean Taylor Shooting

You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration.

Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to "super man dat ho" and end any and every dispute by "cocking on your bitch," nothing will change.

Does a Soulja Boy want an education?

HBO did a fascinating documentary on Little Rock Central High School, the Arkansas school that required the National Guard so that nine black kids could attend in the 1950s. Fifty years later, the school is one of the nation's best in terms of funding and educational opportunities. It's 60 percent black and located in a poor black community.

Watch the documentary and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter.

Blame drugs, blame Ronald Reagan, blame George Bush, blame it on the rain or whatever. There's only one group of people who can change the rotten, anti-education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted. We have to do it.

According to reports, Sean Taylor had difficulty breaking free from the unsavory characters he associated with during his youth.

The "keepin' it real" mantra of hip hop is in direct defiance to evolution. There's always someone ready to tell you you're selling out if you move away from the immature and dangerous activities you used to do, you're selling out if you speak proper English, embrace education, dress like a grown man, do anything mainstream.

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Find the whole article at FoxSports

Quote of the Week

"Jesus. Can we get off the idiotic Hitler bullsh*t all ready? [sic]"

- Scott O'Brien

Great idea, Scott. Too bad your side didn't do so over the last 7 years...

Should CNN be Allowed to Host Any More Debates?

From NewsBusters.org:

In the greatest of ironies, after Democrats refused to participate in debates sponsored by Fox News for its supposed partiality, CNN has now shown itself in back-to-back debates as being as biased as biased can be.

After either participating in or allowing the planting of campaign operatives at November 15's Democrat presidential debate in Las Vegas, it has now become apparent that similar stocking of audience questioners occurred in Wednesday's Republican debate.

As NewsBuster Matthew Balan reported Wednesday, "a member of Hillary Clinton's "LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee" not only asked a question via YouTube, "but he was also present in the audience, and got to ask the candidates for a ‘straight answer.'"

On Thursday morning, Michelle Malkin has identified two plants from the Obama and Edwards campaign. As her website is having some problems at the moment, Inside Cable News reported that according to Malkin, one plant was David Cercone, a declared Obama supporter, who asked the following question:

David Cercone: Hi, my name is David Cercone. I'd like to ask all the candidates if they accept the support of the Log Cabin Republicans, and why should the Log Cabin Republicans support their candidacy?

The third plant was LeeAnn Anderson, an activist that is part of a union which has already endorsed Edwards. She asked this:

LeeAnn Anderson: My name is LeeAnn Anderson and I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and these are my kids Evan and May. Maya is from China and we adopted him to give her a better life. We never dreamed that she would that she'd be exposed to lead after leaving China, and now we find trains like this that are covered with lead in our home.

My question for the candidates are, what are you going to do to make sure that these kind of toys don't make their way into our homes and that we have safe toys that are made in America again and we keep jobs in America?

As such, it hasn't even been 24 hours since this debate concluded, and three plants - all with connections to Democrat candidates - have been identified.

Regardless of whether or not CNN is specifically involved, as this is now the second consecutive incident of such behavior at a debate sponsored by this network, has it now abused the public trust enough to not be allowed to sponsor any more debates in this election cycle?

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I think it's the Democrats who should be ashamed of such manipulation, not CNN. Imagine hosing your own media partners.

Ted the Swimmer to Pen Memoirs

No comments yet from Mary Jo Kopechne.

Olby thinks Denver is West of the Rockies

Ghetto Goes Mainstream

Have you seen Beyonce's Direct TV ad? It's kind of ghetto to start with but the "UPGRADE" medallion in the mouth takes the cake.

As if ghetto culture doesn't degade women enough already - and black kids are seeing this....

OMFG!

CNBC Hates WalMart

CNBC airs lefty attack "documentary" Age of WalMart on the night before "black Friday". And thru the weekend....

Interesting timing, huh?

Do you think somebody at CNBC intended to try and hurt WalMart's sales on the first major Christmas shopping day??

You damn betcha!!

Not that anybody watches CNBC...

Bush Pardons National Turkeys

Congressional Democrats reportedly ungrateful.

I love it when Libs beat each other up...

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. and the Rainbow/Push Coalition have joined with the League of Rural Voters and the Hispanic Federation in opposition of the Federal Communications Commission's plans to overhaul cable TV regulations.

The FCC is considering revising its cable TV regulations, using the so-called 70/70 rule as justification. The 70/70 rule states that when 70% of American homes can access cable and 70% of those with access subscribe, the FCC can impose new regulations to ensure competition. Many groups, including cable and telecommunications companies, dispute whether the threshold has been met.

While the disputed rule was adopted to ensure competition, several groups are saying the plan would hurt minorities, rural voters, and consumers. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin reportedly wants cable providers to allow à la carte service, so consumers can select individual channels rather than packages. Minority groups say that à la carte service would ruin the business model that supports minority-owned channels.

from InformationWeek.com

Hill-arious!!

Hilly the Gardener?

Shame on you Hilly.

I'm 50

'Tis a shame God does not grant us maturity and experience AND youth at the same time.

Hilly's de rigeur pant suit

She's says it's now made of asbestos ( a toxic substance) but I was under the impression it was still made of whole cloth.

(rimshot)

Quote of the Week

"Hillary's stonewalling evasions and mercurial, soulless self-positionings have been going on since her first run for the U.S. Senate from New York, a state she had never lived in and knew virtually nothing about. The liberal Northeastern media were criminally complicit in enabling her queenlike, content-free "listening tour," where she took no hard questions and where her staff and security people (including her government-supplied Secret Service detail) staged events stocked with vetted sympathizers, and where they ensured that no protesters would ever come within camera range."

Liberal columnist Camile Paglia

Moonbat Child Abuse

What do "antiwar" protesters and terrorists have in common? What we have in mind here is a tactical similarity, not an ideological one. The Associated Press reports on a protest in Olympia, Wash., designed to disrupt military shipments through the port there:

On Friday, protesters, including several small children, were able to keep two trucks from leaving the port. Olympia police said the department did not have enough officers available to remove the protesters Friday, and that they were not prepared to physically remove children.

"Protesters," like terrorists, use children as human shields. But doesn't Washington state have laws against child abuse?

from OpinionJournal.com

PJS Report of BU Riot Ignores 800lb Gorilla

Read the PJS report and then read a nearby resident's account.

In which I defend a Democrat - Scott's head asplodes

Rep. Carla Dartez, a Democrat, acknowledged that she ended a Thursday night conversation with Hazel Boykin by saying, “Talk to you later, Buckwheat.” Dartez had been thanking Boykin for driving voters to the polls…

Boykin, 75, helped desegregate restaurants and the parish school system in the 1960s. Her son, Jerome, is president of the Terrebonne Parish chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

“I’ve never had no one talk to me that way and I considered it a racial slur,” Hazel Boykin said. “I know the meaning of it, it’s just like the N-word.”

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Now this is complete bullsh*t. I and many people I know use the term with each other, based on the Eddie Murphy skit, as a diminutive or a term of some endearment. I don't know what's different in the south but I'd guarantee this Democrat have no thought whatsoever of using this as a racial insult.

Ms. Boykin needs to get over herself.

PJ Star has distorted definition of "racism"

"Moreover, many African-American women and girls cannot effectively highlight their hair with black or brown colors, and for reasons of cultural and racial pride are opposed to highlighting their hair with the hair colors natural to white women."

This is a comment posted on the PJS website in response to a Pam Adams follow-up on the Pleasant Valley School hair color kerfuffle. If this isn't terribly racist, I don't now what is. Yet the PJS has repeated deleted comments simply asking to hear from the girl's father.

Pardon me Jerry, but your double standard is showing.

From the "You Knew This Was Going to Happen" Dept.

HOUSTON - Just weeks after some 20,000 demonstrators protested what they decried as unequal justice aimed at six black teenagers in the Louisiana town of Jena, controversy is growing over the accounting and disbursing of at least $500,000 donated to pay for the teenagers' legal defense.

Parents of the "Jena 6" teens have refused to publicly account for how they are spending a large portion of the cash, estimated at up to $250,000, that resides in a bank account they control.

Michael Baisden, a nationally syndicated black radio host who is leading a major fundraising drive on behalf of the Jena 6, has declined to reveal how much he has collected. Attorneys for the first defendant to go to trial, Mychal Bell, say they have yet to receive any money from him.

Meanwhile, photos and videos are circulating across the Internet that raise questions about how the donated money is being spent. One photo shows Robert Bailey, one of the Jena 6 defendants, smiling and posing with $100 bills stuffed in his mouth. Another shows defendants Carwin Jones and Bryant Purvis modeling like rap stars at the Black Entertainment Television Hip-Hop music awards last month in Atlanta.

Check the video here

I saw this and thought of Ollie

This too...

Still my favorite heathen....

I just added your link, Ollie.

Today's Not Photo-shopped

Who knew?

Not Torture After All?

Is "waterboarding" torture? A vexing debate has raged over the question for several years now, but here's an Associated Press report from Monday that ought to settle the question once and for all:

Anti-war protesters are hoping a demonstration of waterboarding will convince a Senate committee to reject Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey (myoo-KAY'-zee).

Mukasey has repeatedly refused to say whether he considers the interrogation technique that simulates drowning a form of torture.

About 25 protesters set up the demonstration outside the Justice Department's headquarters. They poured water over the face of a volunteer as he lay on his back; he was reduced to retching coughs and tears in less than four minutes.

By the time of this demonstration, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein had already announced their support for Mukasey, which means his confirmation was assured. It is preposterous to call this procedure "torture" when people are willing to undergo it merely in order to make a futile political gesture.

From OpinionJournal.com

Todays' Rimshot

FEMA recently got in trouble for holding a "press conference" using agency employees as stand-ins for real reporters.

So what?

Network news has Democrats stand in for real reporters all the time!

Fake Racism Update

Sometime back I commented on how some recent supposed racial incidents might easily turn out to perpetrated by the supposed victims themselves, not evil caucasians.

Well, guess what.

You can look up the stories yourself but 2 more incidents of self-inflicted "racism" have surfaced.

In one, a Jewish student loudly complained to school administrators about the repeated placement of swastikas on their door.

Turns out the student was doing it. Kind of a Munchausen thing, I guess.

In another the statue of Tupac Shakur was defaced. This was loudly decried as an act of blatant racism. Who did it?

That's right, a black man.

And there's lots more out there...

Whoopsie.

Good Morning, Scott.

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