12/28/2005

I Made a Mistake...

...for some reason, I chose last week to put Google Ads on my website...

this morning when I tried to remove them, my sidebar moved to the bottom of my site...

Apparently my 'techie-ness' is more limited than I realized...


DR

Washington Times: Centrist Democrats hit anti-Bush tactics

I think it's a classic case of poll watching...that favorite past time of the left...

The Clinton White House didn't make a move without first consulting the polls...

Kerry waffles daily...sometimes hourly...with the polls...

The article in this morning's Washington Times quotes Michael O'Hanlon, a national-security analyst at the Brookings Institution who advises Democrats on defense issues, as stating: "I think when you suggest that civil liberties are just as much at risk today as the country is from terrorism, you've gone too far if you leave that impression. I don't believe that's true"...

But - truthfully - I think his comments are based on this part of the article: Recent polls say 56 percent of Americans approve of the job Mr. Bush is doing to protect the country from another terrorist attack...

Otherwise...why would he wait until NOW to give his opinion that is contrary to the DNC leadership?

Why not last week when all the tempest was brewing?

I mean, don't get me wrong...it's a good thing that Mr. O'Hanlon came out with this stuff...but, I think it is a lot of "too little, too late"...

DR

12/23/2005

So...When The Truth Doesn't Work...How Hysterical Will The Left Become In Its Lies, Slander, And False Accusations??

FrontPage Magazine's article today by Michael P. Tremoglie "A Warrantless Attack" points out the extreme measures that the hysterical left is taking lately...

The latest attack on the President is disgraceful...their accusations that he "broke the law"...that he is "grabbing for power"...all false..

The jurisprudence involved with electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence collection - and the fact the warrantless searches by law enforcement are not uncommon and legal - would indicate that Bush’s assertion of authority is correct. (my emphasis)The Judicial Branch and the Legislative Branch of the federal government have always acknowledged that the Executive Branch has authority to act in the interest of national security – especially when foreign threats are involved.

These facts do not lend any credibility to the hysterical pronouncements by Democrats and other political enemies of the president that he is usurping power. The facts certainly do not justify the attitude of the mainstream media.

When a journalist asked President Bush a question implying that he asserted unchecked powers with his approval of electronic surveillance that reporter revealed his ignorance for all the world to see.

The president’s political enemies are either ignorant or blatantly mischaracterizing crucial aspects of American law. One would not expect journalists to know much, however, one would expect that Senators and Congressional Representatives know the law. (my emphasis)

It seems the only thing that is really warrantless about this affair is the criticism of the president by those more concerned about obtaining power than protecting the people...(my emphasis)

and there you have it...

These liberals...these phonies...these shameless, corrupt, power-hungry maggots would rather expose national security measures in their overt and very public uncloaking of their real intent...their only interest is getting their 'power' back...

THEIR ONLY INTEREST IS PRESERVING THEIR OWN 'POWER'

AND THESE DISGUSTING ATTEMPTS TO DISCREDIT THE PRESIDENT IN A TIME OF WAR ARE GOING TO BACKFIRE ON EACH ONE OF THEM...

because, you see, we know them for who they are...

we recognize a louse when we see one...and the liberal's despicable betrayal of the American people in their self-serving atrocities will come back to haunt them...and not in the way they expect...

DR

12/21/2005

NRO: Clinton Claimed Authority to Order No-Warrant Searches

Byron York reported yesterday: In a little-remembered debate from 1994, the Clinton administration argued that the president has "inherent authority" to order physical searches — including break-ins at the homes of U.S. citizens — for foreign intelligence purposes without any warrant or permission from any outside body. Even after the administration ultimately agreed with Congress's decision to place the authority to pre-approve such searches in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, President Clinton still maintained that he had sufficient authority to order such searches on his own....

"The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes," Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on July 14, 1994, "and that the President may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the Attorney General."

"It is important to understand," Gorelick continued, "that the rules and methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities."


YOU remember who Jamie Gorlick is...

She was Bill Clinton's Attorney General that created the walls...the obstructive walls that prevented the CIA and the FBI from communicating to each other...SHE'S the one that SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WITNESS RATHER THAN A 9-11 COMMISSION MEMBER!...

but...I digress...that's another story all together...

The point is...CLINTON CLAIMED AUTHORITY TO ORDER PHYSICAL SEARCHES, INCLUDING BREAK-IN'S OF AMERICAN CITIZEN'S HOMES WITHOUT A WARRANT OR PERMISSION!!!!!!!!!!

Hey liberals...SHUT-TF-UP!!!!!!!!

DR

President Bush Has Done Nothing Different From Bill Clinton...OR...Jimmah Carter

EXECUTIVE ORDER 12949, titled FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PHYSICAL SEARCHES, signed February 9, 1995 by WILLIAM J. CLINTON...

EO (EXECUTIVE ORDER) 12139, titled EXERCISE OF CERTAIN AUTHORITY RESPECTING ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE, signed 23 May 1979 by Jimmy Carter...

so tell me...what is the difference???

I'll tell you...THERE IS NONE!!

The liberals are working sooooooooo hard to uncover anything....ANYTHING...that will get the media howling and people hounding George W. Bush...

I am telling you this...

It is too damn bad that we can't focus the terrorists ON THEM!

When the terrorists are alerted to change their tactics by these idiots revealing how we are monitoring them...it is just too damn bad that we can't say - there - go there and attack THOSE NINNIES that worked so hard to allow you to get into this country without any interference!!!

These people are jeopardizing the security of this country with their actions...

It's just too damn bad that we can't mark their houses and their families as targets...because after working so hard to make it their apparent 'dream-come-true'...they truly deserve it...

DR

12/19/2005

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE OVER THIS???

NewsMax reports today:

During the 1990s, President Bill Clinton ordered the National Security Agency to use its super-secret Echelon surveillance program to monitor the personal telephone calls and private email of employees who worked for foreign companies in a bid to boost U.S. trade, NewsMax.com has learned....

Clinton monitored personal telephone calls???

Where is the MSM rage over this???

In 2000, former Clinton CIA director James Woolsey set off a firestorm of protest in Europe when he told the French newspaper Le Figaro that he was ordered by Clinton in 1993 to transform Echelon into a tool for gathering economic intelligence.

"We have a triple and limited objective," the former intelligence chief told the French paper. "To look out for companies which are breaking US or UN sanctions; to trace 'dual' technologies, i.e., for civil and military use, and to track corruption in international business."

As NewsMax reported exclusively on Sunday, Echelon had been used by the Clinton administration to monitor millions of personal phone calls, private emails and even ATM transactions inside the U.S. - all without a court order.

The massive invasion of privacy was justified by Echelon's defenders as an indispensable national security tool in the war on terror.

But Clinton officials also utilized the program in ways that had nothing to do with national security - such as conducting economic espionage against foreign businesses.

In his comments to Le Figaro, Woolsey defended the program, declaring flatly: "Spying on Europe is justified."

"I can tell you that five years ago, several European countries were giving substantial bribes to export business more easily. I hope that's no longer the case."

During hearings in 2000 on the surveillance flap, Woolsey told Congress that in 1993 alone, U.S. firms obtained contracts worth $6.5 billion with the help of timely intelligence information.

There is a double standard in the so-called "reporting" that comes from the Main Stream Media...and...

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THEIR GAME

THE MSM IS SABOTAGING THIS COUNTRY WITH THEIR ACTIONS...AND THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADS UP THEIR GANG!

DR

Some Things We Take For Granted...

After being without internet service for almost 2 days, let me tell you...something that used to be considered by some people to be a 'luxury'...has now become part of my everyday life...

Isn't it strange how something like the internet...especially when we are WITHOUT IT...how something like that can drive a person crazy until we get back on???

I am no longer going to take my internet connection for granted...oh no, no, no, no...

I am going to be thankful every single day from here on for my connection to the world-wide-internet...for it has truly become a part of how I operate and navigate in this world we live in today...

DR

Hey Liberals...Tolerate THIS



Sacred Cowburgers offers this rendition of the season's "Just Say Merry Christmas"...

He has put this on the public domain and offers the image to anyone that wishes to make a button or flyer to promote the idea...

DR

12/16/2005

Profiling?



thanks to Sacred Cowburgers for our morning laugh...

only problem is...there IS some kernel of truth in this!

DR

12/15/2005

A Collection of Thoughts...




Frank Galasso



December 15, 2005 - Iraq




The OLD ballot...from Joe-ks





A vote was cast...in a FREE Iraq!

DR

IRAQ VOTE IS A SUCCESS

Oh, don't bother to check the MSM headlines...they are all scouring around for some terrorist who is willing to blow himself up in order to disrupt this historic event...

President Bush yesterday stated "We are living through a watershed moment in the story of freedom," he said in the culmination of four major speeches laying out his strategy for victory. "Iraqis will go to the polls to choose a government that will be the only constitutional democracy in the Arab world."

The President also slammed his critics: "Some of the most irresponsible comments about manipulating intelligence have come from politicians who saw the same intelligence we saw, and then voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein," he said. "These charges are pure politics."

"Whatever our differences in Washington, our men and women in uniform deserve to know that once our politicians vote to send them into harm's way, our support will be with them in good days and bad." (my emphasis)

Okay...Libs...get this straight...we are going to win this war - with or without you...

We are going to continue to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - EVEN IN THE DARKEST HOUR

Because, unlike YOU, we are not fair weather friends...

We are steadfast...

We stand for something...

WE STAND FOR FREEDOM!

We have morals...we have ethics...and we are not going to lie and try to re-write history to fit our agenda...

WE are not worried about appeasing the enemy with a weak-assed objective of protecting our own hides to the detrement of the rest of the world!

Our men and women in the military deserve better than what you Liberals have been dishing up...WE deserve better than that...

And none of your grousing...none of your shrill hystrionics...none of your lies are going to shake our confidence in the fact that Iraq WILL be a democracy....and Iraq will be a democracy because of the blood, sweat and tears that our Military shed...

And ONLY THEN will they come home...because the mission will truly have been accomplished..

DR

12/14/2005

Bill Clinton's Legacy...?

We all have heard how ex-president William Jefferson Clinton has been struggling with his "legacy"...

It is my opinion that this is it....

make no mistake...our young people are listening...watching...and emulating the actions of their elders...

DR

12/13/2005

The Voting In Iraq Has Begun!

I just heard a woman...a woman with a purple finger because she just voted...say on FoxNews say "Anyone that does not support the United States...that doesn't support President Bush...they can go to hell!"

AMEN!

Iraq The Model bogspot is keeping us updated with the good news...

DR

Tookie Williams is Dead...I Am Grieving For The Loss of Life

Oh, no...don't misunderstand...

I am not grieving for Williams death...I am grieving for the four innocent people that he murdered...you know...the ones that the insane liberal left NEVER mention...

Williams' death will occur nearly 27 years after he brutally murdered Albert Owens, a 7-Eleven clerk in Whittier, and three members of the Yang family — Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang, and their daughter, Yee-Chen Lin — at the Brookhaven Motel in Los Angeles....

Unlike the peaceful, painless demise awaiting Williams, the deaths of his victims were horrific: He shot each of them at close range with a 12-gauge shotgun, shattering their bodies so that they died in agony. Their suffering amused him...

"You should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him," Williams bragged after killing Albert Owens. According to the district attorney's summary of the evidence, "Williams then made gurgling or growling noises and laughed hysterically about Owens's death."

Of course, you don't hear Hollywood or any of the libs talking about that...

You can find pictures all over the internet of Williams...

I can't even find one of any of his four victims...

So, today, I am mourning...for the victims...for their families...for their children...and for their grandchildren who will never know them...

I heard someone today on a radio show...a caller...that explained the death penalty like this:

"..it gives the families of the victims the chance to move on...otherwise, our society would be filled with people seeking vengeance..."

I paraphrased it...but that makes sense to me...

Today...vengeance was served to Stanley "Tookie" Williams...

And now, hopefully, after 27 long years...hopefully, the families can move on...

DR

12/12/2005

Mudville Gazette's Dawn Patrol

Mudville Gazette has a roundup of information on the War on Terror and other topics - from the MilBlogs, other blogs, and the mainstream media...

This is definitely worth reading...and bookmarking so that you can check back on a regular basis...

DR

12/10/2005

Support Our Troops - Especially NOW

If you want to do something to support our troops, you can:

Send an email at Thank A Soldier Week - I have put the video on my blog...

Send a package at USO Care Packages

Thank the Troops for your Freedom

Order an ornament and support the troops


You can Adopt a Platoon

Help our troops send dog tags to their kids

Operation-Support-Our-Troops has wristbands, magnets, bumper stickers, with all proceeds going towards sending packages to our Troops

Send phone cards to our Troops so they can stay in touch with their families

There are MANY, MANY ways to show your support for our Troops - especially during the holiday season...the Christmas season...when they are so far away from their loved ones...

Don't just sit there thinking about it...DO SOMETHING!

DO SOMETHING TODAY!

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AND THEIR FAMILIES THEY LEFT BEHIND!

DR

"White Flag" Waving Liberals...

For those of you that have not seen it, here is the GOP video "Retreat and Defeat"

It is definitely worth watching...

DR

12/06/2005

From Grayhawk: A Brief History of a Long War (Iraq, 1990-2003)

This History of the Iraq War is a brilliant piece by Grayhawk...a MUST read for everyone and anyone that thinks they know why we are fighting this war...

You don't need to look all over for the history to create the timeline, Grayhawk has already done all of the work for us...and for that I am grateful...

Take the time to read each segment and check back to his blog regularly for updates...

It is extremely important that we all learn the history...the REAL history of how our brave men and women ended over in the Middle East fighting for the survival of our world as we know it...

DR

ABC...WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON ANYWAY???

Our job is to "Inform the American public..."

Is that what they are going to hide behind???

ABC had an "exclusive"...a "scoop"...and they revealed to the enemies of the United States of America the following headline:

EXCLUSIVE: Sources Tell ABC News Top Al Qaeda Figures Held in Secret CIA Prisons...

This is irresponsible journalism!!!!

Do these people hate our president so much that they are willing to jeopardize the future of this nation by their actions???

I am telling you...heads need to roll...

This is nothing more than what we have been seeing from the left...treason...

Treason!

Go look it up:

trea·son ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trzn)n.

Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.

A betrayal of trust or confidence.

THIS MUST BE STOPPED!

DR

Liberals Defend Saddam Hussein While Accusing U.S. Soldiers

It is a disgusting scene that we are watching...

Liberals defending - or completely ignoring - a documented murderous monster while accusing our own of horrible deeds...

Lyndon Johnson's Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, is now on Saddam's defense team...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D) likening American interrogators and Gitmo military staff to Nazis, Soviet gulag operators and genocidal maniac Pol Pot...

John Kerry calling our soldiers "terrorists"...

...and nary a serious word about all of the details of torture...horrible, criminal, unending torture...under the hands of Saddam Hussein...

Our liberals would rather defend a known murderer...

Our liberals would rather accuse our own men and women that make up our military of crimes...torture...with nothing to back up their wild-eyed accusations...

It is a melt-down...it is a sad, unethical, unpatriotic scene we are witnessing...

and - YES - I am calling them unpatriotic...

and why not?

Their accusations fly with no backup...they endanger our finest that are fighting to preserve their ability to open their mouths and say whatever happens to fall out...

If I were a Democrat, I think I would be scrambling to find another party....

At the very least...I think that I would be re-registering as an Independent...

Disgusting...

DR

John Kerry: U.S. Soldiers ARE Terrorists

So there was John Kerry on Sunday's Face the Nation...and it was 1970 all over again...



In accusations about American troops reminiscent of what the young John Kerry said to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971, the senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee told CBS "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer there was no reason for U.S. soldiers to continue "terrorizing" Iraqi children.

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the – of – the historical customs, religious customs," Kerry said Sunday. "Whether you like it or not ... Iraqis should be doing that."

I want to hear from the U.S. Soldiers Kerry is accusing of this!

I want to hear it from THEM that they are TERRORIZING KIDS AND CHILDREN...WOMEN...IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT!

What kind of freak would go on national television...knowing FULL WELL that our enemies monitor each and every 'conversation' that is televised about the war in Iraq...

What kind of monster would go on national television and accuse soldiers that are in active combat of such things!

DR