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-Short Attention Span Theater-
I think he's calling him out, in the wimpiest possible manner
Obama adviser asks if Beck is "man enough" to "dialogue" about "social justice"
I don't think Mr. Beck is interested in social justice, at least not as President Obama defines the term. I'm actually not, either, although I'm interested in the kind of social justice that teaches a person to fish so that he (all shes are included in the nominative pronoun by English's grammar default) can support himself and his family if he is willing to work hard and grow in the job.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/15/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Forget Mr. Beck. Let's ask the EXPERTS! How about a "dialogue" about "social justice" with Fidel Castro? He's been at it down there for a little over 50 years. Let's see how he's doing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/15/2010 9:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Look at it this way. We are faced with a malignant enemy who is inferior to us in major ways. They are "Rage boys" from monkeyland and wear turbans and copy us but dont innovate or create anything except what they buy from us.

They burn down schools and squat. They are Moslems.

And they hate us, really really sincerely HATE us.
And they hate Jews too...for much the same reasons as they hate us. We have flush toilets and can zap your ass with a missile launched from a drone and then go back to the tent for a Beer.

It will go on for as long as the Irish bomb Belfast until we get tired enough of dragging ..it..all.. out...for ..some ...PC...piss...and decidetojustkill a whole lot of them at once and smellitcooking and glowinginthedark.

I mean, you CAN wake up one morning and decide they are all EXPENDABLE and not worth the effort of treating them as anything but BBQ. Say lets do it Wednesday as soon as we find the button box.

It IS as easy as the distance between your thumb and your finger. You just dont care if they have names anymore or if their mother loves them. Get her too.

or do you WANT this war to go on...and on....and on...until they put something really DIRTY in your kids lap?

Quit lying to yourself about "Peace". Let the EUroweenies tell you about bending over and inviting the Moslems to be your neighbors. And get some of that Hopenchange while you are at it.

And be sure to join the Happy Holidays bunch at the Mall, Chuck. Listen to Moslems tell you Jesus never died, that's all BS, he got some Jew to do it. And that flag you have, the Red, White, and Blue one. That's an oppressors flag, an Imperialist flag, lets apologise for it.

You either fight , Dwayne, or they will drop the soap on the shower floor and get you to pick it up.
Posted by: BlackBart || 03/15/2010 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Black Bart, the glowing glass option remains, or rubble so fine it's dust. But we need to give the other a fair try so we can look our grandchildren in the eye if in the end we have proved it won't work. What I'm hearing from the people on the ground is, "Give us more time, we can do this." When they stop saying that, then we can load up the bomb bays and the missile launchers with the heavy duty stuff.

Until then? There are senior Muslim religious leaders claiming six million conversions to Christianity each year; others who say there are secretly significantly more -- both outright conversions and quiet falling away from belief. Most of the residents of the Gaza Strip would leave if they were able, and the same sentiment holds throughout the Muslim world. Yes, too many would bring their pathologies with them, but they do realize things aren't right at home. Even more realize the Caliphate will not be established any time soon, and that in fact the jihadis have lost this round. They may hate us, but their god seems to have chosen us to punish them -- after all, when they venture away from home they mostly seem to get caught before they can accomplish anything useful, whereas at home they can blow up one another as long as they can find someone to make the vests and IEDs.

As for dropping the soap? We have private showers in our homes. All their soap dropping is only going to lead to pulled hamstrings as they bend over to pick it up again because there won't be anyone else there.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/15/2010 9:52 Comments || Top||

#4  So why doesn't the guy just call Glenn Beck instead of soaking up airtime on some obscure show.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/15/2010 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Using the Irish as an example... The conflict with militant Islam will continue until people stop making excuses for murder. When that stops the money stops and the terrorists will start to blow up stuff that costs a lot of money and causes terrible inconvenience rather than killing people. Than terrorism loses its romance (to losers that is) but at the same time a Democracy can make a deal with them (again I'm not sure Islam can do this because the deal they want requires total surrender and submission).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/15/2010 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Anyway what is "Social Justice"? One group believes in equality of opportunity the other of equality of outcomes. I think one is possible and in fact very healthy for a society to strive for and the other is not possible and will tank an economy and has tended to create millions of dead.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/15/2010 11:38 Comments || Top||

#7  They Bible is one thing and the Constitution is quite another. Ever hear of the concept of separation of Church and State?

Charity, when it's voluntary and motivated by genuine good will, is a noble thing. Taxes for some "community organizer's" idea of "social justice" and taken at the point of a gun are quite another...especially when the people who vote for the community organizer pay no taxes.

Can we get some clarity on that point? Is it too much to ask?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/15/2010 12:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Wow Black Bart - fabulous summary of what I've been thinking since DS/DS. Let's follow the advice of the Abbot of Citeaux " . . . God will know his own"
Posted by: Spanky Wheack7175 || 03/15/2010 12:38 Comments || Top||


#10  TW, I actually suspect that BB may be correct about conversions away from Islam. I have thought for quite some time that Islam is a hollow shell, and only the threat of death for apostasy keeps an appearance of strength and order. I did a two-part essay about all this (here and here) ages ago, and everything that I see happening in the world still convinces me that I am right. Islam is a hollow shell, and the upper echelons of their leadership know it - and that is why they react to violently.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 03/15/2010 18:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Centrist Dems to Obama: Don't campaign for us
WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Some moderate House Democrats tell Politico they are less than anxious to have U.S. President Barack Obama campaign for them.

The newspaper said interviews with close to a dozen unnamed congressional Democrats on the ballot this year show a lack of enthusiasm for Obama's help -- something that reflects the president's 46 percent approval rating in the polls.

The Democrats give a variety of reasons, the newspaper said: The president's busy schedule and a long-term practice of not bringing in outside campaigners.
Yeah...ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...that's it.
Sarah Palin doesn't have that problem ...
The uncertainty over Obama was seen in Virginia last year, Politico said. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds at first rejected Obama's help, then embraced it when polls in the final weeks of the campaign showed him far behind.

Politico said uncertainty about Obama has now evolved into a feeling among centrist Democrats that they would be better off if he didn't campaign on their behalf.
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/15/2010 16:23 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Democrats give a variety of reasons

He SUCKS, He's a DIRT BAG, He's a POS.........he doesn't listen to the people, He REALLY SUCKS..........
Posted by: armyguy || 03/15/2010 16:44 Comments || Top||

#2  How are these same Dems voting on Obamacare™? If they are voting 'no,' then publicizing that they are refusing Obama's 'help' might do them some good?
Posted by: Free Radical || 03/15/2010 21:37 Comments || Top||


New lead for Thompson over Feingold
A new poll shows Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) trailing former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) by 12 points, 51-39.

As Thompson wieghs whether to enter the race against Feingold, the polling has largely been encouraging. The latest poll, from the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, is his biggest lead yet.

Rasmussen had Thompson ahead 47-43.

Whether the polls are accurate or not, it seems pretty apparent Thompson would make this race something along the lines of a toss-up. He appears to be getting closer to running, and a significant challenge to Feingold would be a big coup for the NRSC.
Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The dhims will face more of this if they push through the health care bill without voting on it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/15/2010 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  If Tommy doesn't fish or cut bait soon about running, he may lose this edge. Either throw your hat into the ring, or step away from the ring; if you're not going to run, for heaven's sake give somebody else a chance at it.
Posted by: mom || 03/15/2010 14:15 Comments || Top||


Thousands rally at State Capitol to kill health care bill
The message that echoed across the State Capitol grounds Saturday couldn't have been simpler: "Kill the bill!"

A day after congressional Democratic leaders announced their final legislative push to enact a bill to overhaul the nation's health care system, opponents rallied to send a noisy contrary message. Rally organizers said 4,000 people attended, but Capitol police estimated the crowd at 2,000 or fewer.

Dozens of times, the crowd members, a combination of Republicans, social conservatives and Tea Partiers, chanted, "Kill the bill! Kill the bill!" urged on by a half-dozen speakers.

The headliner and clear crowd favorite was Republican Sixth District Rep. Michele Bachmann, who said Democrats "are spending us into bondage we can never dig ourselves out of."

Gazing out over the flag-waving, sign-wielding crowd, she said: "This is awesome. This is our country. We own it!"

Bachmann and other speakers urged listeners to vent their outrage to Democratic members of the state's congressional delegation in the days leading up to the final vote on the bill, potentially within a week.

Among the signs being waved was one that listed Marx, Lenin and Stalin, followed by Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Obama, Pelosi and Reid were repeatedly invoked as political villains.

"For some reason," said Second District Republican Rep. John Kline, "President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid can't hear you. I can't understand that."

Saying, "We need to start over," Kline was greeted with a roar of approval, causing him to rhetorically invoke Obama, Pelosi and Reid again: "Can you hear this?"
Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:



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Mon 2010-03-15
  Sipah-e-Sahabah Pakistain chief pegs out
Sun 2010-03-14
  Kandahar hit by suicide bombers, 30 dead
Sat 2010-03-13
  Lahorkabooms kill 49
Fri 2010-03-12
  Sipah-e-Sahabah Pakistain chief shot up, son killed
Thu 2010-03-11
  Droukdel reportedly ousted as GSPC emir
Wed 2010-03-10
  Dulmatin Confirmed Dead
Tue 2010-03-09
  Bombing kills 15, destroys spy office in Lahore
Mon 2010-03-08
  Qaeda suspect kills guard in Yemen hospital escape bid
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  Talibs Shoot It Out with Hezbis in Baghlan
Sat 2010-03-06
  Faqir Mohammad believed killed
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  Yemen says 11 Qaeda suspects arrested in Sanaa
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  Bomb attacks in Baquba kill 38, wound 48
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