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Dhimmicraticks Debate? What debate?

Posted by roadmaster on Monday, April 30, 2007 8:55:31 AM
Star Parker has a lot of cred with me, and always hits the nail on the head.  But then again, I'm a racist, bigotted, homophobic conservative.  What do I know?

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2007/04/30/first_debate_of_democrats_hillary_loses

roadmaster writes: Monday, April, 30, 2007 8:43 AM
Empty suits/empty heads
I missed the dhimmicraticks debate because I had to scoop out my cats' litter box that evening. From the sound bites I've seen, it looks like my endeavor produced more valuable results than their exercise in futility.

We learned nothing we didn't already know; that these people will stand on their heads and turn themselves inside out to avoid stating their actual beliefs: socialism/good, capitalism and free markets/bad; nanny state/good, personal responsibility/bad; appeasement & cowardice/good, confronting evil/bad; reactive law enforcement/good, proactive military/bad; anti-American United Nations/good, strong national security/bad; MSNBC, CNN, CBS/good, Fox News, Bush, reality/bad.

Hillary was consistent, with her insincere facade, attempting to pander to all-satisfying few. Edwards was vane and silly, also consistent. Gravel was an idiot. Obama opened his suit to reveal that there is actually nothing there; a high school freshman could have done better. Richardson was a total disappointment, losing any credibility he ever had.

These people need to shed themselves of the fools telling them they're the smartest people in the room and walk out into the real world.

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Government interference in free market

Posted by roadmaster on Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:17:59 AM
Excellent piece on how Rep. Barney "My Boy Lollipop" Frank got a bill passed in congress intended to regulate "excessive" compensation packages paid to top corporate CEO's

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TomBorelli/2007/04/28/just_say_no_to_barney_frank%e2%80%99s_say_on_pay

roadmaster writes: Saturday, April, 28, 2007 8:08 AM
U.S. one-day individual tax haul
at record by Wed. $48.7 billion dollars. Hmmmmm? How did that happen? Must be from the confiscatory tax rates and government interference in the free market. Oh, wait a minute. Didn't tax cuts in the 1920's, 1960's, and 1980's produce more tax revenue? Gosh, I wonder if the tax cuts in 2001 are having the same effect.

Whenever democraps try to force their discredited and mindless socialist equality, like dictating CEO compensation, we always get unintended consequences, as Dr. Borelli so learnedly illustrates in his excellent essay.

Typical liberal insanity! Keep doing the same things again and again, hoping for a different result. The fact that Barney can get this garbage passed is proof of just how poorly our education system teaches basic economics and how easy it is manipulate the misplaced envy of the ignorant working class.

I say BRAVO! to anyone who can pull down $13 million a year. Sounds like the epitome of the American Dream to me. Wish I had the experience and knowledge to command such a package, but I don't. My ingrained work ethic instructs that had a board of directors hired me for that kind of money, and I didn't produce, I shouldn't be surprised if they gave me my walking papers.

Back to reality, the company I quit a while back because their wage was below average and not commiserate with my qualifications, has just given all their drivers a $2.50 an hour raise, across the board. Hmmmm? Wonder what happened there. Hope Barney doesn't hear about it.

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Fred Thompson on sports

Posted by roadmaster on Saturday, April 28, 2007 6:46:53 AM
I like Fred a lot and hope he gets into the Republican field before long.  I think his values and ideas are a good counter to Rudy, who I like very much for his leadership against Islamofaciism, but not his liberal social views.

Fred has submitted an essay to Town Hall almost everyday this week on various subjects, and today, since it's the weekend I guess, his piece is about the criminal thugs that seem to abound in professional sports and comments on their crazy antics, on the field and off. 

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FredThompson/2007/04/28/the_nfl_backdraft

roadmaster writes: Saturday, April, 28, 2007 6:25 AM
Watch a grade school game
You'll see the same showboating and celebration, AFTER EVERY PLAY!!! It's disgusting. If most of these little kids would conserve the energy wasted on these shenanigans and channel it into the game, they just might be more successful.

My Dad taught us boys from an early age about a little thing called sportsmanship, and it sure didn't include all the antics we have to put up with nowadays, notably taunting. He found it to be especially obnoxious and explained it with a war analogy; if you've just defeated your "enemy" in a battle and you've got him on the run, why would you want rub his nose in it? That only serves to pizz him off and inspire him to fight back harder.

The sports playing field used to be where you attempted to dominate with superior speed, skill, brains and strategy. Why would you surrender your advantage by stupidly showboating, thereby incurring the fury and wrath of a vanquished foe.

To this day, Tom Landry is one of my heroes because he had CLASS and demanded very high standards of behavior from his players. Any outstanding play executed by one of his teams would be followed by a courteous, polite return of the ball to the referee with an attitude of, "No big deal, that's what I'm being paid to do."

I predicted when the NFL threw out the Landry inspired rules against celebrating and taunting, the quality of the game would diminish, and naturally, the quality of the players.

But that's what happens when thuggish, churlish antics are celebrated by music, movies, video games and now sports. We are becoming a base society and a declining culture. Dad would still be disgusted, and saddened.

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10 Differences between cons and libs

Posted by roadmaster on Friday, April 27, 2007 1:12:37 PM
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2007/04/27/10_differences_between_conservatives_and_liberals

Ken in TN in his 11:38 posting stated how he was a moderate democrat who worked behind the scenes with the other side to get things accomplished, while the ideologues battled it out in front of the cameras.  This is a hot thread developing under this column and a lot of fun if you have the time to follow it.  Pay attention to how liberals cut and paste, or throw up a link to a loony left website because they're unable to argue their own points and have to call in reinforcements.

roadmaster writes: Friday, April, 27, 2007 12:58 PM
Ken in TN
Enjoyed your post but I would say you are the rare exception rather than the rule. Most of the liberals I know fall into the "screaming past one another" catagory you describe. They are Myna birds, parroting the party talking points, which are based in half truths, innuendo and false assumptions, concentrating on the minutiae and ignoring the big picture. They make incredible leaps bridging unrelated points and are incapable of a give and take because they deny fact or even reality, which has to be the common ground for any conversation.

Liberals, in general, are incapable of rational debate because they simply aren't rational. They base their beliefs on incorrect or flawed "truths" that are reached by feelings, rather than logic, wishful thinking not actual results. They exist in a "what if" or "if only" fantasy world, refusing to evolve beyond childish narcissism and petulance.

The foremost "feeling" amongst liberals is a venomous hatred of Bush, attributing him with evil genius status in one breath and incredible stupidity the next. I have a sure fire method for determining who is most effective at hitting lib sore points and therefore worthy of my attention; those who are targets of the most invective and shrill slander must be getting too close to their liberal, godless centers.

That stellar list would include Cheney, Limbaugh, Bennett, Coulter, O'Reilly and many more. These are the people who are skilled at pointing out the idiocy (no word is more appropriate) which dominates the current crop of dhimmicraticks. They aren't worthy of being called Democrats, a once noble political party from the past.

The fact of the matter is, many lifelong Democrats are changing their party affiliation to Independent, for the same reason I changed from Republican - we are mostly conservative, not moderate, but reasonable. We are the Moms and Dad, Grammas and Grampas, workers, leaders, members of the VFW and NRA who believe in American exceptionalism and that we are still far and away, the best country God ever gave mankind.

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SCOTUS votes for life

Posted by roadmaster on Friday, April 27, 2007 10:10:11 AM
Matt Barbers column of the Supreme Court decision last week and a comment by liberalgoodman prompted me to respond, as this is a very sore subject for me:  http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MattBarber/2007/04/27/life_takes_a_baby_step_in_a_culture_of_death

liberalgoodman writes: Friday, April, 27, 2007 8:16 AM
Not a person
A blastula with dozens of cells is not a person.

roadmaster writes: Friday, April, 27, 2007 9:57 AM
libgoodman
So when does "personhood" begin? If it isn't at the moment of conception or after the fertilized human egg attaches to the wall of the uterus, is it sometime during the first trimester, when the fetus looks just like a tiny person at 8 weeks? Is it during the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, when millions and billions of cells continue to divide and grow into, if not a little person, it sure is an amazing resemblance to a one?

Partial birth abortion is so brutal and cruel, people like you have to deny the baby is a person, much less human, to justify this ghastly procedure. Most liberals I know are completely sympathetic to animals, yet they endorse the bloody and traumatic execution of one of their own kind, simply for personal convenience and embrace the final solution for pizz poor promiscuity planning. Wouldn't it make more sense to plan not to be promiscuous in the first place? Oh, I forget. If it feels good, do it, and if you get caught, this form of murder is acceptable.

We are the only animals who have sex for sex' sake, and that's what we've become, animals. If we can kill our offspring without conscience, what's next? Eating our young?

When you can reduce the most vulnerable of us to that level, you diminish all of us.

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For your information

Posted by roadmaster on Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:45:29 PM
As a young soldier coming under fire for the first time, I called out for Mommy, but am proud to report that my sphincter control was excellent.
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Why didn't the victims at Virginia Tech fight back?

Posted by roadmaster on Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:25:53 PM
Because the first thing that happens when the human animal is attacked by a predator is the triggering of the fight or flight part of their reptilian brains, and the conflict between those choices freezes the prey like a deer in the headlights.

No one knows what their reaction to danger will be and that includes soldiers.  Even after basic and advanced infantry training, that instant when a soldier comes under fire for the first time, two things happen almost simultaneously: calling out for "Mommy" and filling one's pants with poop.  The next thing that follows in a properly trained soldier is anger, at being a baby with poopy pants, turning into fury towards that which caused the other two.  Soldier is now ready to lock and load, select target and engage enemy, within seconds.

Civilians don't undergo this type of conditioning and seldom make it past the frozen with fear stage in a frightening scenario like was created by this murderous little puke, nor can they be expected to.  Because our society has eliminated most of the everyday threats and dangers faced by people in less developed countries, as a whole we no longer feel a need for self-defense.   

I can't speak towards concealed carry courses in other states, but the one I attended here in AZ was excellent, very thorough in hammering home the serious consequences and ultimate responsibility that come from making the wrong choices while defending oneself.  I wouldn't recommend anyone obtain a gun without training in it's function and handling and most important, the proper etiquette for firearms.  Like most Westerners, mine started at age four under the tutelage of my Dad, a WWII veteran who understood completely about kill or be killed, and an ultimate source of wisdom on the human animal as prey and predator.

Everyone has a choice in their own survival - to be either the lion, or the antelope.  Never a fair fight, for certain.  Especially for the "Bambis" of the world.
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Who reads books nowadays

Posted by roadmaster on Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:04:40 AM
Kathleen Parker's column yesterday on America's death march to illiteracy developed into an excellent thread of posters, almost all positive with good suggestions on how we can tackle this problem.

roadmaster writes: Wednesday, April, 25, 2007 11:07 AM
Excellent posts
Pamela and especially QParker's.

I know for a fact that the school that I graduated from in the 60's has declined in the quality of it's graduates. They certainly couldn't pass the English and History courses I had to work hard at in those days. Today's professors and teachers were the D students in my time, who elected to seek education degrees which by the 70's, had been diminished to a position lower that the perennial refuge for boneheads and jocks, the PE major.

After gaining a teaching certificate, these underachievers then passed their mediocrity on to their students, who then became the next generation of even dumber educators. Ignorance only produces more ignorance; laziness has created the illiterate dolts who cancel out your ballot.

Everyone no doubt has seen this 1895 8th grade final exam from Salinas, KS:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a385e7b435ce6.htm

Many college students may have passed this test in the 60's but I doubt very few professors could pass it today. Schools in the 1800's were primarily taught by young women who had passed the 8th grade, thereby qualifying them to be teachers with higher academic standards than today's college graduates have to meet by 8 or 10 more years of so-called education.

An 8th grade diploma today is useless, other than to bestow unearned and undeserved self-esteem to graduates, who are so dumb, they don't even know what they don't know. I maintain the same can be said of HS or university degrees. Ask any of them about Martin Luther or Luther Burbank and I will wager you'll get a blank stare.

They'll know who Lex Luther is, though.
And when the thread concentrated on the importance of reading and how parents and teachers can stimulate this lost pleasure, I posted this:

roadmaster writes: Wednesday, April, 25, 2007 4:08 PM
Reading is no longer fundamental
A 20 years ago, while attending my 20th high school class reunion, I toured the school's library, a place I'd spent so many enjoyable hours. I started pulling books from the selves that I remembered reading (I used to read 1-2 books per week) and found that most of them hadn't been checked out since the 60's and my name was the last listed. Some of them, I was the ONLY person to ever check them out, meaning the librarian, Mrs. Elliot, who read every single book she added to the stacks, and myself, were the only people who ever read that book.

Pathetic, and what a waste. This year is my 40th reunion and if I get a chance to go back, how much can I wager that those books are still there, dusty and undisturbed since the last time I pulled it out of the shelf? In addition to most of the classics, this included all of the best sellers of the era. No light airy tomes, either. I was a serious reader.

Funny story about Mrs. Elliot. At age 9, my reading and comprehension tested at 12.4 grade level, so by this time I was reading books out of the adult section. This wonderful old lady noticed me among the "big" books one day and fetched me back to the childrens section, informing me I was out of my area.

I protested that I had already read all of the kiddie books so she started pulling books at random to see if I had, in fact checked them out. After a dozen or so, all with my name in them, she held one out to me. "Aha!" she exclaimed, "You didn't read this one!"

"Nah, that one looked dumb, only for babies," I told her. With that (damn smartalecky kid) she escorted me back into the adult stacks, grabbed a thick book at random, thrust is at me and ordered me to read it out loud, which I did without hesitation.

"That's pretty good," she admitted. "Oh, I read this one already," was my response and opened the inside cover to show her where she had checked it out to me. We had a good laugh together and she promised to start looking up from her desk to see who she was signing books out to after that.

Throughout the rest of my school years, Mrs. Elliot made me one of her "pets" and whenever she'd get an especially good book in for the library, she'd recommend it to me, after she had enjoyed it, of course.

I wonder what librarians do now days, other than making sure the perverts have a connection for their porn.





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Give 'em hooey Harry and Nanny State Pelosi

Posted by roadmaster on Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:38:14 AM
Austin Bay had an excellent article about Harry "Seek to Retreat" Reid and his idiotic statement last week that the war in Iraq is lost.  Here's my post:
roadmaster writes: Wednesday, April, 25, 2007 8:00 AM
Dingy Harry-bought and paid for
Reid and Pelosi are merely spewing the words supplied to them by George Soro$, who has bought and paid for the dhimmicraticks in the most under reported political scandal of modern times. They are simply witless pawns in a blatant effort to undermine our government and install socialist/Marxist ideology. Their collective lust for power has overridden loyalty and decency at the expense of our military and security, hiding behind the unconstitutional McCain/Feingold travesty.

Bush has given us many reasons for disappointment, but my greatest distress came when he knowingly signed this assault on free speech and gave enemies within cover to overthrow that which they cannot honestly and openly win at the ballot box.

As long as repubicans keep their mouths shut and allow false statements and half-truths to proliferate, they will. When liars are unchecked, lies abound.

Thank God, their nemesis, Dick Cheney, stepped up and said what had to be said, and proves once again why the biggest targets of the loony left are the people who speak the truth.

Harry thinks history will record him as a great Senator and opposition leader, but I predict he and Nancy will be shown for the corrupt, dangerous fools they were while real men of integrity protected our civilization. They need to resign and/or be charged with treason and sedition.

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Finally made the plunge

Posted by roadmaster on Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:28:48 AM
After much urging from friends and family, I've finally taken the plunge and created my own blog.  Hopefully my business will pick up and I won't have time to mess with it, but I plan on copying my daily posts under various columns to this site so as to consolidate my musings, some of which people tell me aren't half bad.

Hope you enjoy and participate with me in logical and rational discussion of issues, counter balancing the unbalanced loony leftists, who are nearly as dangerous to our great country as the Islamofacists.
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