The hills they die on #7

I attend a mega church. Our congregation has always been privy to the "The Hills we Die On". It's kind of a mission/vision statement as to the principles our church and congregation will always live up to, or die trying.

I started thinking about this in terms of democratic politics. The democrats like to fashion themselves as a big tent party, one that's inclusive of so many interest and ideas. A party that is inclusive of dissent.

However, in the next week, we'll go after the seven hills the democratic party dies on. The things that are non-negotiable to be a true democrat. The things they'll never let you address at a party convention.

Today #7 Caribou

Caribou is actually a euphemism for environmentalism and the democratic party will always put environmental issues in front of almost everything (except no.'s 1-5). You will never hear a speaker at a democratic function put an American worker in front of a seal, except at a campaign rally in OH, PA, MI.

Seriously, have you ever heard a member of the house or senate talk about changing legislation to put people in front of the environment? What about a democratic convention? Even when The Messiah speaks to working people in small towns he turns around and disrespects them as "clinging to God and guns".

The democratic party likes to say that it's out for the working guy. But ask yourself this question; if it came down to creating jobs for working stiffs and protecting a caribou in Alaska, who wins?

We have the capability to start domestic drilling here in the US. domestic drilling accomplishes a number of good things for this country. It lessons our dependence on resources from rogue nations, it strengthens our dollar, it lessons our trade imbalance, it increases US Treasury receipts, it creates good high paying, union jobs.

Yet with all these positive aspects of domestic drilling who do you think is primarily responsible for killing it? Hint, it's not republicans.

Watch the video from a month or so ago and tell me that democrats care more about the working stiff struggling to pay $4/gal for gasoline over saving some caribou in Alaska or sea otter off the San Francisco coast

In addition what party is responsible for killing our most efficient source of energy, nuclear? Again, a source of power that provides great, union jobs for the people in our society who most need them.

Do you want to know why Joe six pack votes "provincially"? Because a high school drop out and a Teamster guy like my dad can see that liberals will always put a freakin' polar bear in front of the working guy who drinks in his bar.

They still don't get it

Here's a lib who just can't get her arms around Palin Power.

Let me clue this writer in on a few pointers for liberals.

1) You might get more respect if you practice what you preach.

You care about the poor. Try giving more than $300 bucks to charity. See, liberals have turned the "conservatives have no compassion for the poor" meme into a cottage industry, while these same conservatives are actually working in homeless shelters and soup kitchens.

These same conservatives who give more than $300 to charity...while they're in college.

2) If a woman truly has choice, quit vilifying her for exercising the "life" choice.

I cannot begin to number the liberal blog posts absolutely trashing Palin for giving birth to a baby with Down Syndrome. It's disgusting.

3) You care about Joe "six pack". How about putting his interest in front of fucking caribou in Alaska.

You can read my thoughts on this here.

4) How about that democratic leadership of yours sending their kids to the very crappy schools that are good enough for the masses.

See, this jerk off can't understand why Palin Power is so rampant among conservatives. Well, because she doesn't talk about people with some modicum of common sense like they're a pack of rubes. Palin actually gives them a voice to be heard.

Imagine if we would get a government who would do the same.

You can take that back to the Arugula King.

Thought of the Day

It's apparent that someone in the media needs to ask President Bush exactly what "The Bush Doctrine" actually is.

A republican finally makes the point

I really don't know why republicans refuse to exploit the obvious. When democrats rule, every economy looks like Michigan's.

You need evidence? Just look at Michigan.

Phil Gramm makes the case.....

The Competitiveness Index created by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) identifies "16 policy variables that have a proven impact on the migration of capital -- both investment capital and human capital -- into and out of states." Its analysis shows that "generally speaking, states that spend less, especially on income transfer programs, and states that tax less, particularly on productive activities such as working or investing, experience higher growth rates than states that tax and spend more."

Ranking states by domestic migration, per-capita income growth and employment growth, ALEC found that from 1996 through 2006, Texas, Florida and Arizona were the three most successful states. Illinois, Ohio and Michigan were the three least successful.

The rewards for success were huge. Texas gained 1.7 million net new jobs, Florida gained 1.4 million and Arizona gained 600,000. While the U.S. average job growth percentage was 9.9%, Texas, Florida and Arizona had job growth of 18.5%, 21.4% and 28.9%, respectively.

Remarkably, a third of all the jobs in the U.S. in the last 10 years were created in these three states. While the population of the three highest-performing states grew twice as fast as the national average, per-capita real income still grew by $6,563 or 21.4% in Texas, Florida and Arizona. That's a $26,252 increase for a typical family of four.

By comparison, Illinois gained only 122,000 jobs, Ohio lost 62,900 and Michigan lost 318,000. Population growth in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois was only 4.2%, a third the national average, and real income per capita rose by only $3,466, just 58% of the national average. Workers in the three least successful states had to contend with a quarter-million fewer jobs rather than taking their pick of the 3.7 million new jobs that were available in the three fastest-growing states.

What's so "progressive" about a shitty economy?

More.....

Ice forms... proof of global warming

Apparently, "scientists" have found an increase in Antarctic Ice.

"The Antarctic wintertime ice extent increased...at a rate of 0.6% per decade" from 1979 to 2006, says Donald Cavalieri, a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. ... Since 1979 ... the average year-round ice extent has risen too."

Of course this evidence doesn't disprove global warming, it actually proves it.....

"The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming, experts say."

So using scientific logic, if ice melts, it proves global warming, if ice forms it proves global warming.

And these are the same people who make fun of creationists?

More.....

Biden cares about the poor?

In just one more example of liberal hypocrisy, Joe Biden released his tax returns. (HT TaxProf)

Are you kidding me?

This guy has made on average $250,000 and his charitable donations average about $400 a year.

What did he do? Give some cans to a homeless guy.

Hey, at least when he knew he was running for president he stepped up and gave a whopping $995 (.32%) of his earnings.

Whoa!!!!

I guess in Joe Biden's edition of the Bible that verse in Matthew so many democrats love to quote must have had the caveat "take care of the least of you, but only if it's with taxpayer money".

How this isn't on the front page of every newspaper is beyond me.

The quote from taxprof (which is powerful since his site is nonpolitical)

It is jarring that a couple earning over $200,000 per year would give as little as $2 per week to charity. This giving compares very unfavorably to John McCain, whose tax returns show that he gave 27.3% - 28.6% of his income to charity in 2006-2007. During the same period, the Obamas' tax returns show that they gave 5.8% - 6.1% of their income to charity.

Perhaps the Obama-Biden campaign needs a new slogan: "Change You Can Believe In (As Long As Someone Else Pays For It)"

The Palinator

See more Gina Gershon videos at Funny or Die

What would you expect from a babe that slept with BJ Clinton?

Slick Willie Houdini

From the Politico on BJ Clinton's advice....

The fact that Obama is even with or behind John McCain despite so many favorable trends for Democrats shows that there is still plenty he could learn from the master — the political Houdini who is the only Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win two terms.

Is that the same BJ Houdini who got a whopping 43% of the vote against G.H.W. Bush and an incredible 49% against a mannequin.

Was his advice to see if Ross Perot was available?

Not that I want to see democrats succeed, but they really do need to step out of the delusion that the American people love liberals and liberal politics and use Bill Clinton as proof. The fact is, the stars aligned perfectly for our first black president. Clinton was only able to achieve his success because of a third party and the fact that he ran as a southern moderate. If he were another northeastern liberal he would have been shelled too.

Now that I think about. Obama, take notes from the master. Go ahead.

Why people hate Palin

This is hilarious and from Fox news....

But I know the real reason why every single elitist media type is terrified of her. They've never met her. And by "her," I don't mean Sarah Palin. I mean "her", an actual normal woman with a bunch of kids, an average husband and no desire to watch "The L Word."

She's scary to these folks the way Wal-Mart is scary to them: Both are alien to someone who blogs about their chakras. They won't go there, because they've never been there.

To them, hating Sarah Palin is a symptom of larger bigotry against the rest of us, the normal. If they saw her at a party, they would wonder how she got in. She's the anti-Obama, the anti-New York Times, the anti-everything that Tim Robbins loves, which is why I love her — and you should too.

Tonight's waste of government resources

There will be a DUI checkpoint somewhere in Butler county this evening.

When and if I find the details, I will post them.

Fact Check

Let's let these guys elect our leader

Well we know that Europe is solidly "blue". McCain probably won't even campaign there since Obama has all their electoral votes locked up.

But exactly what is the collective wisdom of that Eurotopia.

Here's the polling from the question, "Who was responsible for the 9/11 attack".

That pretty much lines up with democrats here in the remaining 57 states Obama's campaigned in.

More at Hot Air

With friends like these...

... who needs friends....

Another lib with Palin Derangement Syndrome....

Belief in god, like getting pregnant, is a private matter between consenting adults (or one consenting adult and one or more deities) and is no one else's business. I am on record in this blog (and have not budged an inch) as not objecting to any candidate's religious views.

But I object strongly when anyone (and especially anyone with political power) tries to take their theology out in public, to inflict those private religious (or sexual) views on other people. In both sex and religion (which combine in the debates about abortion), Sarah Palin's views make me fear that the Republican party has finally lost its mind.

More.....

Equal pay for equal work

We're on Obamamania's plan to pay the same for the same job.

Let's start with his own campaign....

Non-intern female employees did better working on the Senate staffs of John McCain and Hillary Clinton during the latest public reporting period than they did working for Barack Obama, Cybercast News Service determined through an analysis of payroll data published by the Secretary of the Senate.

Both McCain and Clinton also employed more female than male staffers, while Obama employed more males than females. However, Obama's staff was more balanced between male and female staffers than either McCain's or Clinton's.

Remind again who the misogynist candidate is.....

I'm glad they vetted this

The Washington Post with a front page piece on Cindy McCain's addiction to pain killers after back surgery, from 1992.

When Cindy McCain is asked what issues she would champion as first lady, she often cites one of the most difficult periods of her life: her battle with -- and ultimate victory over -- prescription painkillers. Her struggle, she has said repeatedly, taught her valuable lessons about drug abuse that she would pass on to the nation.

That's awesome. This piece should help bring Brett Favre lovers into the republican fold.

Seriously, when will the media actually vet the democrat actually running for president.

Friday Funny

Failed Olympians you didn't see in Beijing.....

Progressive = Poverty

Don't know how I missed this, but Glenn Beck has a nice analysis of the top ten poverty stricken cities in the US. And guess what? You won't find a republican running one of them.

No matter what side of the political aisle you're on, that is nothing short of appalling. Yet if you ask people what we should do about it, you'll probably hear answers that inexplicably break down right along party lines.

Is there a perfect answer? Probably not. But what bothers me is that people stubbornly stick to their solution, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it's not working.

For example, Detroit, whose mayor has been indicted on felony charges, hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961. Buffalo has been even more stubborn. It started putting a Democrat in office back in 1954, and it hasn't stopped since.

Unfortunately, those two cities may be alone at the top of the poverty rate list, but they're not alone in their love for Democrats. Cincinnati, Ohio (third on the poverty rate list), hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1984. Cleveland, Ohio (fourth on the list), has been led by a Democrat since 1989. St. Louis, Missouri (sixth), hasn't had a Republican since 1949, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (eighth), since 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ninth), since 1952 and Newark, New Jersey (10th), since 1907.

The only two cities in the top 10 that I didn't mention (Miami, Florida, and El Paso, Texas) haven't had Republicans in office either -- just Democrats, independents or nonpartisans.

Over the past 50 years, the eight cities listed above have had Republican leadership for a combined 36 years. The rest of the time -- a combined 364 years -- they've been led by Democrats.

This is a nice lead in to a commenter who accused republicans of being "provincial".

Maybe, we red necks in fly over country see how well the democrats run our cities and we're not all that impressed about areas that look like third world countries; high crime, horrible schools, and low standard of living. And yet they want to pigeon hole conservatives as small minded.

The only thing that exceeds liberals' ignorance is their arrogance.

What's so progressive about poverty?

Will the media vet this

Now that we know that Sarah Palin borrowed a book from the public library in 1970 and never returned it, maybe the NY Times can pull one of its investigative reporters to track down a number of interesting factoids on Obamamania....

Barack Obama apparently wishes his two autobiographies to be the definitive record of his past. He has blocked efforts by others who wish to independently examine his past.

He won't allow his transcript from his undergraduate days at Columbia University to be released.

He "lost" his thesis on Soviet nuclear policy (see "Where in the World is Obama's Missing Thesis" which might provide insight regarding his seeming lack of knowledge about Soviet policy during the Kennedy years).

He won't answer questions about his days at Harvard Law School.

He "lost" his Illinois Senate records.

He will only release a simple one-page letter from his doctor on his medical condition.

More......

Of course, that wouldn't get in the way of a major media outlet reporting this important factoid about Palin.

Who will they vote for? #617

Meet the protesters at a recent Cal-Berkeley rally. In particular note Ms. Dumpster Muffin (about the 4:50 on the video).

These fine upstanding citizens were protesting the cutting down of trees on campus so the university could put up a building.

Take a wild guess and tell me, will these fine upstanding citizens vote for another 4 years of George Bush or The Messiah?

Check out more at Protestshooter.com

Never forget

From a 9 11 commemorative parade in 2002 in Loveland.

As the tragedy fades into the background, the city stopped doing the parade.

They may forget but we won't.