"The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed; our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."
- President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 Address to the Nation
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Confidence In Palin Pick -- Update Confirmation From McCain Camp
Many of the talking heads in Washington are not thrilled with Senator John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for his VP, but I have to say I think it is a very good move.
Some grouse that this removes the experience issue from McCain's quiver and that may in fact be true -- although this comparison by Red State of the Governor's record next to Obama's is somewhat devastating to the Senator.
But here is the key; In 2008 change trumps experience hands down.
The adds practically write themselves:
Pick an issue -- you want change, one team has a record of accomplishing real meaningful change. Hit the Maverick line hard, after all the press gave him the label, rub their noses in it!
Do an entire series hitting hard on energy policy, foreign policy, and the economy, but throw in education, Obama's death of aborted babies argument, you name it they can dig it up.
Gee' didn't Bill Clinton just propose this in his candidate X candidate Y scenario last week:
This type of attack would again put Obama on the defense and reduce the impact of the McCain/Bush talking point that Obama camp has been pushing so very hard.
As a matter of fact, here is another really good one that would put a huge dent in that meme:
Update --
DKK
Some grouse that this removes the experience issue from McCain's quiver and that may in fact be true -- although this comparison by Red State of the Governor's record next to Obama's is somewhat devastating to the Senator.
But here is the key; In 2008 change trumps experience hands down.
The adds practically write themselves:
Open with the Hillary statement of McCain being qualified on day one and "Obama has a speech he gave in 2002"
Voice over -- that hot lady's voice (that hasn't been Palin all along has it?)
"One team has a record of "-- fill in the issues, or "One Candidate picked a VP from outside The Washington system and she has a record of,"
Hillary's Voice over in the background slightly echo/muted --
- "Confronting and defeating corrupt political machines regardless of party affiliation." -- Show some of the many headlines of Governor Palin addressing the corruption in her own party in Alaska and McCain addressing spending and corruption in Washington (Republicans spending like drunken sailers anyone)
"And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002" while showing headlines of his ties to Rezko and the corrupt Chicago Machine and his admission to the boneheaded move that he profited from, and his picking Biden who has been in the Senate since Palin was 9.
End with the, "don't hope for change, vote for it!" line or an even stronger line about one team with a proven track record of change.
Pick an issue -- you want change, one team has a record of accomplishing real meaningful change. Hit the Maverick line hard, after all the press gave him the label, rub their noses in it!
Do an entire series hitting hard on energy policy, foreign policy, and the economy, but throw in education, Obama's death of aborted babies argument, you name it they can dig it up.
Gee' didn't Bill Clinton just propose this in his candidate X candidate Y scenario last week:
Suppose, for example, you’re a voter, and you have candidate X and you have candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything but you don’t think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that, on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver.
This is the kind of question that I predict - and this has nothing to do with what’s going on now - but I am just saying if you look at five, 10, 15 years from now, you may actually see this delivery issue become a serious issue in Democratic debates because it is so hard to figure out how to turn good intentions into real changes in the lives of the people we represent.
This type of attack would again put Obama on the defense and reduce the impact of the McCain/Bush talking point that Obama camp has been pushing so very hard.
As a matter of fact, here is another really good one that would put a huge dent in that meme:
Open with the Hillary statement of McCain being qualified on day one and "Obama has a speech he gave in 2002"
Voice over -- that hot lady's voice,
"One team has a proven record of fighting for the surge that was necessary for victory in Iraq," -- clippings or video of McCain's repeated calls for a surge.DKK
Hillary's Voice over in the background slightly echo/muted --
"And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002" then show the interview of Obama saying his policies in Iraq were not much different then the Bush administration!
"Don't hope for change, vote for it -- McCain/Palin!"
Update --
Last Sunday, 24 hours after Mr. Obama announced his running mate, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, Mr. McCain met with his senior campaign team at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Phoenix. By then, campaign advisers said, the group had long decided that Mr. McCain’s “experience versus change” argument against Mr. Obama had run its course, to the extent that it had worked at all…NYTimes via Hot Air
In any case, one campaign adviser said, Mr. McCain hated running as the wizened old hand of experience. Despite his embrace this year of President Bush and many of the administration’s policies, Mr. McCain, a campaign adviser said, still saw himself as the maverick who delighted in occasionally throwing political grenades at his own Party.
DKK
Friday, August 29, 2008
McCain Picks Palin
Instapundit has a rundown on the early reactions.
It is quite interesting to me that I have yet to hear a Republican say the dreaded line I heard over and over for the last week about Biden, "I think Hillary would have been a better choice but Biden is ...."
DKK
It is quite interesting to me that I have yet to hear a Republican say the dreaded line I heard over and over for the last week about Biden, "I think Hillary would have been a better choice but Biden is ...."
DKK
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Want To Know How An Obama Administration Would Run, Just Watch His Home State -- Illinois, The State With No Ethics, Hope OR Change!
The Illinois Legislature passed a comprehensive reform measure to bring ethics to all areas of state government. For the most part, it ends pay to pay politics, which has caused all manner of corruption in Illinois.
The governor vetoed it putting an executive order in place instead. The problem:
The executive order won’t take effect until AFTER the election, and it won’t cover state departments or branches that are not under the governor’s control.DKK
Plus, there are no penalties for breaking this order. So, the governor couild ignore his own ethics executive order and he could not be punished. Nor could anyone else. Plus, executive orders aren’t laws, they can be changed or abolished by whim.
Sweeny Report
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Biden Doesn't Compliment The Obama Brand, He Alters It -- Forced By Poll Numbers?
Obama has built up a brand. Biden does not fit that brand. He alters it.
I don't know if worldwide events influenced his selection of if poll numbers did, but he doesn't seem to fit. Just not quite right.
DKK
Update -- As if to prove my point:
I don't know if worldwide events influenced his selection of if poll numbers did, but he doesn't seem to fit. Just not quite right.
DKK
Update -- As if to prove my point:
Biden has accepted $5,133,072 in contributions from lawyers and lobbyists since 2003. Obama does not accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists.Hot Air
And he has one other weakness that hasn’t received much attention to date. One of Biden’s sons, Hunter, is a registered Washington lobbyist in a year in which Obama has been excoriating lobbyists and the culture of corruption in Washington. The younger Biden is a name partner at the firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP, and seems to have specialized in lobbying for just the kind of earmark spending by Congress that Obama has vowed to slash. Republican insiders say the party is likely to make an issue of Biden’s family lobbying ties.
Also expect to hear more about Biden’s close ties with credit card companies. His largest contributor (based on total contributions by employees) over the past five years has been MBNA, the Delaware-based bank aquired in 2005 by Bank of America than until then was the world’s largest independent credit card issuer and a major supporter of the 2005 bankruptcy bill that Biden crossed the aisle to support.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Double Down On Democrat Win -- Democrats Major Sponsor George Soros Enriched By Democrats Energy Policy
Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding.Fine, Soros can invest in evil oil, I don't have a single problem with that! I appreciate that, it reduces the cost of my gas!
As of June 30, the stake in Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based oil producer is known, made up 22 per cent of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Petrobras has since slumped 28 per cent.
Soros has increased his mining and commodities holdings, a move that accelerated in the first quarter with purchases of such companies as Cia. Vale do Rio Doce, the world's largest iron-ore producer, and Talisman Energy, a Canadian oil and gas company. In November, Petrobras announced the discovery of Tupi, a field with as much as 8 billion barrels of reserves, making it the largest find in the Americas since 1976.
"Petrobras has something that other oil companies don't have: oil - lots of it and they're going to find more," said Ricardo Kob-ayashi, equity fund manager with UBS Pactual in Rio de Janeiro.
"If you can buy now and hang on, if you have the staying power, it's great."
Tupi is part of a new deepwater offshore region known as the pre-salt that may contain as much as 50 billion barrels, according to Peter Wells, oil analyst with the UK's Neftex Petroleum Consultants.
Here's what I have a problem with:
- Soros has already been convicted in France of insider trading -- INSIDER TRADING, AKA; buying a security with info not available to the general public so that you can cash in on the security.
- Soros has invested in a Brazilian company that drills for oil off of Brazil. They have made huge discoveries in oil that no one suspected might be there! That company makes more money when the price of oil goes up and stays up.
- Soros is funding the Democrats to the tune of millions and the Democrats have dug in their heels on the "All Of The Above," energy plan because it includes drilling.
- Because of this the price of oil goes up and stays up because we aren't allowed to drill off our own shores or in many places in the US.
- Circle complete -- Money for money! International insider trading to the max! The man knows how to run an investment!
He is the perfect example of the culmination of every socialist society so far. The rich and powerful take advantage of the system for their own enrichment.
So what if you can't afford food or gas, he has important things to do with his money like getting guns off the street and electing Barack and he needs that oil to continue his good works!
Soros is the major sponsor of the nutroots who bragged that the Democratic party was theirs because they had bought and paid for it! Every time they block an all of the above energy plan they pay him dividends on that investment!
This man is really a slimy individual!
DKK
Gulfnews
Thursday, August 21, 2008
New Ice Age Prediction -- Repeat After Me, "We Really Don't Know Enough About What We Are Doing To Risk Destroying It All!"
An expert from the National Autonomous University of Mexico predicted that in about ten years the Earth will enter a "little ice age" which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.DKK
Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM, as argued earlier during a conference that teaches at the Center for Applied Sciences and Technological Development.
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Velasco Herrera described as erroneous predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), pursuant to which the planet is experiencing a gradual increase in temperature, the so-called global warming.
The models and forecasts of the IPCC "is incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity," said the specialist also in image processing and signs and prevention of natural disasters.
The phenomenon of climate change, he added, should include other kinds of factors, both internal, such as volcanoes and the very human activity, and external, such as solar activity.
Milenio (translation)
Obama Spent As Much Just In Ads As McCain Spent Total For July -- Yet Poll Numbers Dropping -- The More You Know Him...
Barack Obama spent more on advertising last month than Republican rival John McCain spent on his campaign, new Federal Election Commission filings show.
Obama spent $57.2 million in July, including $33 million on advertising. McCain spent $32.4 million, with $18.7 million going for ads.
McCain entered August with slightly more money than Obama when funds in the bank accounts of the Republican and Democratic party committees are included.
DKK
Bloomberg
Media Can't Be Bothered With That -- They Are Too Busy Diggin Up Divorce Papers Or Something!
THE OBAMA / BILL AYERS / ANNENBERG STORY has broken out into the Legacy Media now. Tom Maguire comments: "Hard to believe that with our aggressive national media covering a Presidential campaign that Obama and Daley could mange this cover-up in plain sight. Yeah, real hard."It really is amazing that the very same media that cleared the way for Obama's Senate win by suing to force the release of his opponent's sealed divorce documents just can't seem to care about the extent of Obama's ties to an unrepentent domestic terrorist.
I caution those who are excited about getting into the archives, though: It probably won't happen, and by now I'm sure that the files have been vacuumed of any seriously embarrassing matter anyway. This is Chicago.
UPDATE: What leaked out.
DKK
Instapundit
Wiki info on Barack's Senate race:
Barack Obama's backers emailed reporters about the divorce controversy, but refrained from on-the-record commentary about the divorce files.[7] On March 29, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider ruled that several of the Ryans' divorce records should be opened to the public, and ruled that a court-appointed referee would later decide which custody files should remain sealed to protect the interests of Ryan's young child.[8] The following week, on April 2, 2004, Barack Obama changed his position about the Ryans' soon-to-be-released divorce records, and called on Democrats to not inject them into the campaign.[7] The Ryan campaign characterized Obama's shift as hypocritical, because Obama's backers had been emailing reports about the divorce records prior to Judge Schnider's decision.[7]Ryan dropped out less then a week after the records were released.
And who demanded those documents to be released:
Ryan married actress Jeri Ryan in 1991; together they have a son, Alex Ryan. They divorced in 1999 in California, and the records of the divorce were sealed at their mutual request. Five years later, when Ryan's Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have the records released. Both Ryan and his wife agreed to make their divorce records public, but not make the custody records public, claiming that the custody records could be harmful to their son if released.Answers.com
DKK
Yea, But He Does A Great Motor Boat Impression! "Um, Um, bu, bu, but, um um!"
According to several Democrat political consultants presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama spent part of his Hawaiian vacation working on weaning himself from a heavy dependence on teleprompters. Even in what are staged as "town hall" events for Obama, remarks are scripted or formatted into bullet points that scroll on teleprompter screens. Obama has had several embarrassing events where the teleprompter either malfunctioned or the screens were not fully visible.DKK
"He just locks down and can't get the words out," says one political consultant. "For such a fine speaker, it's really quite remarkable that he's had issues."
Obama's troubles with unscripted moments contributed to his campaign's refusal to participate in town hall format debates or discussions with Sen. John McCain, who feels much more comfortable in the unscripted moments.
American Spectator -- Washington Prowler
Yet The Democrats Won't Let Us Drill Under The Wasteland Of The Caribou!
Urban drilling bonanza pits neighbor against neighbor
Bishop Kenneth Spears always thought gifts from God came from above. He never imagined that the gifts would be hiding under his church in Fort Worth, Texas.
"The Bible says, 'Every place the sole of your foot should tread upon, I'll give it to you,' " said Spears, of the First St. John Missionary Baptist Church. "I walked and believed that if I prayed over that ground, if I walked over that ground, something good would come of it."
In 2006, he learned that all 15 acres of the church's property are on one of the largest natural gas fields in the country, known as the Barnett Shale.
Spears' church and thousands of residents around the Fort Worth area are cashing in on a unique urban drilling bonanza.
With the development of horizontal drilling technology and with gas prices sky-high, energy companies are racing to tap into the Barnett Shale natural gas field.
The Barnett Shale is the most-productive natural gas field in such a highly populated area spanning 5,000 square miles. The drilling here is being watched closely in Louisiana and Pennsylvania, which also have natural gas fields under urban areas
Energy companies are going door to door and negotiating mineral rights with the residents who get an initial payment and monthly royalties if the Gas is found and used. Some are not at all happy about the drilling, one Fort Worth blogger says, "It's a divide and conquer strategy by going around and giving everybody enough money to keep them quiet. Hush money is what I call it." (FWCanDo.org).
Others would call it paying the owners for the minerals they own -- after all they don't have the ability to extract it themselves and it wasn't doing them any one any good where it was. Wonder if the blogger feels the same about the money we send the Canadians, Mexicans, or Saudis each year.
Yet the Democrats won't allow us to drill under the friggin caribou! Nice energy policy you got there Nancy!
DKK
CNN
"Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post Turtle'"
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher,
who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our president.
The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post Turtle'".
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was. The old rancher said, "When your driving down a country road on you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle".
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with".DKK
Flicker: DrMadjack
Via Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Knowing And Acknowledging What We Don't Know About Planetary Climate
And here's the mystery. Even allowing for the greenhouse effect Venus is hotter then it should be.
And if our current theories can't even explain what happened to our sister planet, how can we possibly be sure about the future of earth!
Janet Sumner,
Earth Scientist, Open University of England
Science Channel -- Venus Unveiled
Wow, I thought we were told we had that greenhouse global warming thing all locked up -- you know, the debate is over and all that stuff!
DKK
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
More Manufacturing Jobs Being Imported From China -- I Blame Bush!
A Washington-based brake drum manufacturer is relocating some of its machining work from China to Rockford, echoing a trend that’s becoming more common in North American factories.DKK
The KIC Group is contracting with a new local company, Rockford Automated Machining, to make raw brake drum casings once manufactured in China. Rockford Automated Machining, created by the owners of FAC Consolidated Industries, will employ about 40 people at its 840 Airport Drive location.
John Schneider, vice president of sales for KIC, said multiple factors have eroded the Asian competitive advantage — increased ocean freight charges, the rising price of raw iron ore and the strengthening of the Chinese currency against the U.S. dollar.
Business Rockford
Chinese Corporation Solar Cell Assembly Plant In The Works For Rockford
Wanxiang Group, the second-largest privately held Chinese corporation, wants to build a photovoltaic solar panel assembly plant at or near Chicago Rockford International Airport. The proposed 40,000-square-foot facility could be operational next year and employ 60 to start. President and CEO Lu Weiding signed an agreement with Rockford, Winnebago County and airport officials today to work out a development deal for the project. Wanxiang officials said they want to move fast, starting construction as soon as possible.DKK
(...)
Wanxiang Group conducted a nationwide search for the site of its assembly plant, said Janyce Fadden, president of the Rockford Area Economic Development Council.
RRStar
Beat To Heck -- Update
Hey, following tests I had a change in meds and I have been beat to heck. Hopefully I will be back to regular posting tomorrow.
DKK
DKK
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Winnebago County Stands Out Front In The Lead To Restore Gun Rights In Illinois -- Popular Revolt By Vote Possible!
Voters in Ogle County may soon join a growing number of Illinoisans who can cast a vote for president this November and, on the same ballot, decide whether their neighbor can pack a pistol.
An Ogle County Board committee approved a request from Winnebago County officials to place an advisory referendum on the November ballot asking Ogle voters whether they want to see concealed carry legislation in Illinois.
The request was one of the 101 unsolicited letters that Winnebago County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen’s office sent to every county in the state about a week ago, putting Winnebago County on the front lines of a statewide concealed carry debate.
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Representatives from other Illinois counties, including Effingham and LaSalle counties, also have looked favorably on Winnebago County’s referendum request in recent weeks.
For those not from the area, Winnebago County is the top center county on the map with Ogle directly below it. Rockford, Illinois' third largest city is in Winnebago County. To the East is Boone County which is set to take up the issue next month.
Illinois and Wisconsin are the only two states without some form of concealed carry and Winnebago County is considering a county law that would allow people to carry if they received a permit from the Sheriff, but a state law would be a far better alternative
For the history of Winnebago County's excellent leadership on the restoration of rights and the releasing the state from the death grip of Chicago see the concealed carry label here.
DKK
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