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pictures of stinky hippies and other asylum escapees

Katie of The Resplendent Mango has pictures of the freak show.

Stinky hippie update

Highly recommended:

Right Thinking Girl has been busy watching the circus on the streets of NYC during the RNC…

They started as a trickle. A sign here or there. One sign said, “Tim McVeigh. Eric Rudolph. George W. Bush.”
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Green Hats (people calling themselves Lawyer Observer; they stand around with video cameras in their hands and then hand over the tapes to the ACLU who looks it over and tries to find a lawsuit) were all over the place and a few people dressed in the most hideous clothes I’d ever seen arrived calling themselves the “medical squad” and demanded that police let them through.
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*100 arrests and 125 pending at the WTC lockup

*NYPD arrested large group of “rowdy”demonstrators 16th in the vicinity of Union Square Park

*NYPD reported that a group of 500 demonstrators on 17th Street were heading to MSG with the intent to storm the check points.

*Bomb threat to MSG. A caller called the mayor’s office to report that a man with an arrest warrant was planning the attack.

Thanks, RTG, for the updates!

PLEASE BEAR WITH ME!

As you probably noticed (could you NOT notice?!) if you’ve been here before, I’m finally getting rid of that awful template. So for now, it’s back to being a work in progress!

A letter to a first-time voter

The following is an excerpt from a letter that my uncle Wayne sent to his granddaughter Drew (my cousin’s daughter) today, as she will be voting for the first time this year. If you want me to send you the whole thing (I have his permission, of course), email me (spam will get you shot!) and I’ll send you the whole thing. He says the more people that read it, the better!

In the military, just as in civilian life, a person develops a reputation with those he works and lives with. It is particularly important in a military context because your life might well depend on the person you are called to share a fox hole with. Norman Hapke, a graduate of Annapolis, defined a military reputation as:

“…the collective judgment about one’s abilities, character, and judgment by his peers, superiors, and subordinates. More honest and accurate than laudatory adjectives on a fitness report or hyperbole in a medal citation, it is the true measure of a man by the people who know him best.”

By that criterion, what do the Swift Boat Veterans who served with Kerry in Vietnam have to say about Kerry’s reputation? By my count, 263 officers and enlisted men in the Coastal Command where Kerry served have come forward. —254 out of 263 consider and have judged Kerry as Unfit for Command, including Kerry’s entire chain of command still living!

Alabama Common Sense

Drew, let’s give all of that a dose of old fashioned Alabama common sense. Kerry served with each of those 263 men and now he has gone on to be a famous Senator who is also the Democratic presidential nominee with a 50% chance of being the next president. Now, if Kerry had done all that he claimed, was an OK guy and warrior’s warrior, and really genuinely earned all of those medals as claimed, ordinarily, the men he served with would be eager and even enthusiastic to support him because it would indirectly reflect favorably on them. And, additionally, it carries a flattering, heady, intoxicating, ego-boosting, vicarious rub-off that, you can be a big buddy of the next president of the United States, maybe even spend a night in the Lincoln bedroom, if you support Kerry.

Would it not be reasonable from what you understand of human nature to suppose that at least 90% would be for him in those circumstances, rather than a paltry 4%?

Finally, other than having revealed some very serious character flaws and integrity gaps, what Kerry did 36 years ago in Vietnam should not be an issue in this election. But what Kerry did when he got back home should be an issue—falsely and publicly vilifying the 2,500,000 servicemen who had and were serving honorably by accusing them of horrific war crimes “reminiscent of Genghis Khan”. — demeaning the uniform by throwing away his own medals he now brags about. And, even more importantly, how Kerry has voted as a US Senator, about which, for good reason, he has acted like a deaf-mute.

But if Kerry is banking his presidential bid on his four month service record from more than three decades ago, I have to conclude that Kerry has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Nana and I will be voting for George W. Bush.

New York Daily News - Home - In among the anarchists

New York Daily News - Home - In among the anarchists

A reporter goes underground and infiltrates the anarchists.

Stupid anarchists’ protest action

August 31st Republican National Convention - Direct Action Information

Well today is the day that “regime change begins,” according to idiotic protestors. August 31 “A31″ is the “Day of Non-Violent (yeah right) Civil Disobedience & Direct Action to Confront the Bush Administration’s Unjust Policies at Home and Abroad.”

Here’s a list of participants as listed on the A31 website (this looks like a circus):

A31 Street Party
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
War Resisters League
Youth Bloc
Don’t Just Vote, Take Action
Green Bloc
True Security Cluster
Radical Queers
Radical Faeries
Bike Bloc
M27 Coaltion
School of the Americas Watch
Philly Cluster/Stop the Detentions
Greene Dragon
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Billionaires for Bush
People’s Olympics
Chalk Bloc
CODE PINK
Prometheus Radio Project
Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane
Houston Global Awareness
Reclaim the Media
The Tejas Bloc
Subway Action
Man-and-Woman In Black Bloc/ Defend Johnny Cash
Save Our Civil Liberties

(And no, I didn’t make that list up.)

In a nutshell, their plan is to go to various locations in NYC and harass delegates AT THEIR HOTELS! and people at government or corporate entities. Their listed protest locations (I’m not providing links for the crazy trolls, you’ll have to get them yourselves):
RNC Attendee Hotels
War Profiteers
Miltary & Government Offices
RNC Corporate Sponsors
RNC Events/Calendar

What a bunch of silly idiots.
Where are hackers when you need them????

In Memory Of The Fallen

In Memory Of The Fallen

This is a new blog “to honor the memory of our fighting men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice.”

If you have a friend or loved one who has died while serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, or elsewhere during this war, speak up and your tribute or other information will be posted.

This site is being run by “The Smoke Eater” of Right Wing Nut Jobs Unite!

This is TOO funny

Cooper for President

Just so y’all know, I actually do check out the links on your blogs (this one’s on Sworn Enemy’s list). Somehow I missed this one before, but I found it now…and I’m still laughing as I write this. This link takes you to the No Shi’ite Sherlock page first because it’s about “ten lines of liberal bullshi’ite,” but DO check out the rest.

Thank God George Bush is our President

Excerpted from Rudy Giuliani’s speech tonight:

On September 11, this city and our nation faced the worst attack in our history.

On that day, we had to confront reality. For me, standing below the north tower and looking up and seeing the flames of hell and then realizing that I was actually seeing a man — a human being — jumping from the 101st or 102nd floor drove home to me that we were facing something beyond anything we had ever faced before.

We had to concentrate all of our energy, faith and hope to get through those first hours and days. And I will always remember that moment as we escaped the building we were trapped in at 75 Barclay Street and realized that things outside might be even worse than they were inside the building.

We did the best we could to communicate a message of calm and hope, as we stood on the pavement seeing a massive cloud rushing through the cavernous streets of lower Manhattan.

Our people were so brave in their response.

At the time, we believed we would be attacked many more times that day and in the days that followed. Spontaneously, I grabbed the arm of then Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and said to Bernie, “Thank God George Bush is our President.”

And I say it again tonight,
“Thank God George Bush is our President.”

Photo posted by Hello

THE IRANIAN: Iranians of the day

THE IRANIAN: Iranians of the day

Look who made THIS list!

Quite possibly…

Fansite

…the most farked up guy on the internet.

(Although the Michael Moore stuff is kind of funny, if incongruous with the rest of the content.)

Hat tip to Art the Libertarian.

JOHN KERRY’S THE NEW SOLDIER

JOHN KERRY’S THE NEW SOLDIER

GO HERE NOW!!!!

Don’t do anything else right now. Just go.

Awesome.

The Cranky Neocon has The Neoconukkah Song…

So, do you like this?
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JFK / MLK

Here’s the exact quote:

“I remember well April, 1968 - I was serving in Vietnam — a place of violence — when the news reports brought home to me and my crewmates the violence back home - and the tragic news that one of the bullets flying that terrible spring took the life of that unabashedly maladjusted citizen.”

And from JohnKerry.com:

Feb 1966
Formally enlists in U.S. Navy

Feb 1968
Deployed to Western Pacific aboard the USS Gridley and requests duty in Vietnam

Nov 1968
Reports for duty in Vietnam

To my friend Pat at Kerry Haters–Thumbs up to your diligence at ensuring none of us (informal) “Kerry haters” spread false information (the facts alone are more than enough), but I DO think this is yet another example of his self-centered, serial embellishment of the facts, and this neurosis should be pointed out. I’m standing by this.

A postscript–
Another bone I have to pick is that he and his people rant and hyperventilate about people talking about what happened or didn’t happen 35 years ago, but he brings it up at every single opportunity himself–even where it’s completely irrelevant to the topic at hand–in this one case, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s OK for HIM to talk about it, but no one else can refer to it. See also: Swift Veterans for Truth.

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