Call me crazy, but I prefer our military heros be with their units defending our cause of freedom as opposed to wasting time defending the act of capturing undocumented migrants illegal aliens.

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Howard Dean: The Republican Gift that Keeps on Givin’ - Part II

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that his party would wield the Terri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections. What a charming thought… using the memory of a woman starved to death by court order for political purposes.

“We’re going to use Terri Schiavo later on,” Dean said of the brain-damaged Floridian who died last month amid a swarm of political controversy after her feeding tube was removed.

Well, it is the party that relies heavily on dead voters… maybe a campaign built around a dead woman will appeal to those voters. Frankly, I think it’s disgusting that a major party leader would not only use it as a campaign issue, but proudly display the strategy a full year before the next national elections as something to get excited over.

“This is going to be an issue in 2006, and it’s going to be an issue in 2008,” Dean told about 200 people at a gay rights group’s breakfast in West Hollywood, “because we’re going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, ‘Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not? Or is that going to be up to your loved ones?‘”

Loved ones??? If I remember correctly, Terri Schiavo’s loved ones were the ones denied the ability to care for her, while a judge ordered her starvation and dehydration at the request of a man who had committed adultery on her while starting an entirely new life, with two children, with another woman. Dean’s once again showing how out of touch his party is from reality.

Perhaps the better question in this case would be, “Do you want a person who’s violated one of the most sacred promises to you (to love, honor and cherish you in sickness and in health) to be able to get a judge to order your starvation and dehydration while your own blood relatives, the very parents that gave you life, plead with all they have to prevent the imposition of such a horrible death sentence on you?”

Although many Democrats voted for the measure, Dean said it provided an opportunity to showcase Republican “intrusiveness” in the lives of Americans.

Another winning strategy… “And let’s not forget to throw in the added measure of hypocrisy… that while many in our party supported the measure, let’s call it “Republican intrusiveness” and hope Democrat voters are too stupid to understand the truth.”

Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said Dean’s “outrageous remarks help underscore why Dean is the leader of the minority party.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

Thank you DNC for the gift that keeps on givin’…..

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Definition of Irony 2

The headline reads: Toothpaste cancer alert

The source: This is London

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Pat Sajak Gets It…

This is a must read.

Following up on the story of Patrick Haab, the Army Special-Ops officer who detained seven undocumented migrants illegal aliens, several new facts have become evident.

First, he says he acted in self-defense, drawing his weapon on the undocumented migrants illegal aliens because “his military training took over when he saw the men coming out of the bushes.” Even Haab says his actions were based on the fact he thought they were going to attack him and not because he assumed they were illegals. In fact, Haab said he had no idea that the men were undocumented immigrants illegal aliens at the time he drew his pistol from a holster he often wears.

Patrick said the 911 dispatcher told him to use his best judgment. He said he gave a second gun, a Derringer that he kept in his car, to another motorist who was also stopped at the rest stop. Patrick said the other motorist knew Spanish and confirmed that the men had crossed the border illegally.

Bottom line. How can you fault Haab for thinking he was about to be attacked? He was near the U.S.-Mexico border, walking his black lab (similar to those used by Border Patrol agents), when seven undocumented immigrants illegal aliens come out of the bushes toward him?

Patrick said repeatedly that he did not threaten the immigrants.”I never patted any subjects down,” he said. “I never pulled the (gun’s) hammer back.”

With the knowledge you have now, go back and read the shoddy reporting job of the first article, which conveniently leaves out crucial information and details, in an attempt to keep with the theme that Patrick Haab is a renegade vigilante hell-bent on denying the rights of innocent folks. Is it the journalist’s attempt at trashing the military? Or is he making a personal statement on illegal immigration? Maybe it’s simply bad journalism?

One might think the first two are ridiculous assertions, until you read the headline of this latest article that appears to present a very different story than the original:

GI: I held migrants in self-defense - Accused vigilante says he feared 7 men were
going to attack him

[my emphasis added]

How many other times would you hear someone who “feared 7 men” attacking them called a “vigilante” instead of victim?

News is no longer about “reporting the facts” so much as it is “projecting the journalist’s commentary on the situation”.

Patrick Haab a vigilante hero.

Today is the day liberals rejoice in the formal, non-violent transfer of wealth.

But this year may be different. Liberals have finally found a stealthy, soak-the-rich tax increase they don’t like–and, better yet on this annual tax-payment day, their revelation may make tax reform possible. A piece in the WSJ (hat tip: Michelle):

In the waning days of the LBJ Presidency, Joseph Barr became Treasury Secretary for all of 30 days on a recess appointment. On January 19, 1969, he created a political sensation by telling the Joint Economic Committee that in 1967, 21 millionaires had managed to pay no income tax at all. This was deemed an outrage, and Congress spent the next decade designing federal tax policy in Quixote-like pursuit of those 21 millionaires.

The AMT was one result, and like many soak-the-rich schemes it captured only a small number of taxpayers at first. But because it wasn’t indexed for inflation, and because prosperity has lifted the incomes of so many Americans, the AMT has begun to pinch millions and now threatens the middle class. As the nearby chart shows, on present trend the AMT will hit an estimated 3.8 million taxpayers this
year, 20.5 million in 2006, and 34 million by the end of this decade. By 2009, the AMT will collect more revenue than the regular income tax.

Especially, er, rich, is the fact that the AMT is biting hardest in the most liberal, high-tax states. That’s because the AMT doesn’t allow deductions for state and local taxes the way the regular code does. So middle-class taxpayers in New York, California and other states with high income-tax rates are getting hit sooner than people in, say, Florida or Wyoming. It is the ultimate blue-state tax.

This helps to explain why people who normally thrill to higher tax rates are suddenly up in arms. Liberal newspapers are now denouncing the AMT as a “tax increase” and blaming the White House for not doing more to stop it. “The AMT needs to be fixed,” moans Senator Barbara Boxer’s spokesman, in what has to be a tax-reform first. “We need to address the AMT, which is trickling down to catch more and more middle-class families in New York,” says Empire State Senator Chuck Schumer, another Saul on the road to Tarrytown.

Liberals finally want to call for a tax cut when they find themselves with no loopholes through which to escape. “Who knows, this entire AMT experience might even induce liberals to reconsider the wisdom of soak-the-rich tax policy.

At least we can dream.

Happy April 15th.”

Update: Maybe the dream will become reality…

Apparently political correctness is a player when it comes to reporting corporate scandals. The same MSM that had an “Enron Story of the Day” has all but ignored a $30 Billion scandal at the second-largest financial institution in the U.S. And why aren’t the Democrats crying foul about the scandal or its lack of coverage?

Just to put the scandal in perspective, the Enron accounting errors were in the neighborhood of $567 Million. Fannie Mae has admitted acounting errors of $11 Billion. Add to that the lost value in FNM’s stock price of about 27% and you have another $15+ Billion.

So why aren’t we hearing Peter Jennings leading with his “Fannie Mae Story of the Day”? Why isn’t “corrupt big business” the top story anymore? Why aren’t the “Ethics-concerned” Democrats calling for a full government investigation?

There are several possible reasons.

First, Newsweek reporter, Charles Gasparino attributes the lack of “Enron-style” coverage to Fannie Mae being a “politically correct” company.

“Well, Fannie Mae is a very politically corrupt — it may be politically corrupt, but it’s a politically correct company. I mean, they do all the things that, let’s face it, liberal journalists like, like put home mortgages out there for poor people. And so right now, beating up on Fannie Mae is kind of politically incorrect.”

So Fannie Mae isn’t really considered “big business” that the Left loves to demonize, despite being the second largest financial institution in the country. It’s not evil like energy companies that provide resources for lighting and heating our homes and driving our cars. It’s not evil because it’s partially financed by our friend, the federal government, and because it provides financial products and services to low-, moderate-, and middle-income families…. coincidentally whose new homes wouldn’t be warm or lighted if not for evil oil companies.

But is the story really being ignored by MSM?

Just doing a LexisNexis search produced 3,017 hits for “Enron” � 1,385 hits on CNN alone. During that nine-month time period, Enron disclosed that it had overstated its earnings by $567 million since 1997. A similar LexisNexis search was performed for the term “Fannie Mae” for those same media, from June 1, 2004, to March 1, 2005, again during the time the story was breaking. This search discovered a paltry 37 matches. Through those nine months, Fannie Mae was asked by its regulator to revamp its accounting practices, key executives resigned and about $11 billion in accounting errors were revealed.

Of course it is. And see where MSM networks like seeBS are focusing their time?

But there may be another reason MSM isn’t putting the full force of investigative journalism behind this one. You see, the embarrassed CEO that stepped down from Fannie Mae when the news hit…. is a Democrat. Maybe that’s why, in the midst of this breaking scandal, we’re not hearing reports of Raines’ golden parachute that allowed him to resign in shame and walk away with $30 Million… some of which is funded by the federal government, aka your tax dollars. Just think of all the “low-, moderate-, and middle-income families” that could’ve been provided housing with just part of that $30 Million.

Then there’s the reasons the Congressional Democrats who have been recently on the “Ethics prowl” aren’t calling for an all-out Enron-style investigation:

[John] Kerry confidant James Johnson ran Fannie Mae in the 1990s. Current CEO Raines ran the Office of Management and Budget under Clinton. Jamie Gorelick, the former Clinton deputy attorney general and 9/11 commission member, was vice chairman of Fannie Mae until last summer.

So it’s no wonder MSM deems this story unnewsworthy. It’s only a scandal some 15+ times larger than Enron, involving the second-largest financial institution that’s partially financed with tax dollars that’s been run by folks who financially support Democrats, are closely aligned with Democrat Presidential nominees, served in the Cabinet of a Democrat administration or hold top Democrat positions on Commissions important to national security.

I mean, where’s the news in that?

Florida State Senator Mandy Dawson (D) is under investigation for soliciting support from nine lobbyists to pay for a trip to South Africa for her and a male companion. Even more stunning than the fact that she serves on the Ethics Committee is the language she used in her solicitation letter… acknowledging that her request was improper and instructing donors to work around the rules.

I need to raise funds to help defray the cost. As a longtime supporter of mine, I am asking if you would consider helping to sponsor my trip. I would like to request $2,500, if at all possible. Due to ethics regulations, the check should be made out to the Florida Caucus of Black State Legislators.

Obviously she knew that Florida law prohibits legislators from soliciting “gifts” from lobbyists “for the personal benefit of the Senator or any member of the Senator’s immediate family.” The law also bars legislators from taking gifts worth more than $100 from lobbyists, committees of continuous existence, or principals. So she simply asked them to give the money to the Black Caucus so they could effectively launder the money for her.

The trip took place in 2 months ago, and since there’s an investigation pending, I won’t comment on the fact that she remains a Florida Senator because of this incident….

However, upon further investigation, I found this tidbit:

Florida Sen. Mandy Dawson has made headlines for all the wrong reasons before. In 2002 she was arrested and charged with prescription drug fraud.

She was re-elected on 11/02/2004.

I bet Florida voters would also be curious to know that according to www.publicdata.com, Muriel A. “Mandy” Dawson was also convicted in 1984 for violating statute 832.05(2)(a) by passing worthless checks.

How on earth does this woman continue to hold elective office?

Feel free to contact her and let her know that you support her right as a criminal to hold elected office as long as she wears a (D) next to her name…

Email: dawson.mandy.web@flsenate.gov

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Update: Ethics Panel Reprimands Fla. State Senator - It was only the third time in 30 years the Senate has disciplined one of its members for an ethics violation. In addition, the article includes another fraud of Dawson previously unreported: “In 2002, she misrepresented her educational background in an official biography.”

Sgt. Patrick Haab is an American Hero. He served in Iraq last year and is currently planning to deploy to Afghanistan in the coming days. But there’s just one problem now… he’s in jail. He’s been arrested doing what he’s trained to do, protect America.

Apparently Haab came across some illegal immigrants along the Arizona-Mexico border and detained them until Border Patrol agents showed up to do their job.

Eleanor Eisenberg, executive director of the ACLU of Arizona, said she is concerned about private citizens acting as border agents.

Of course she is. I wouldn’t expect the ACLU to take up the fight of a brave American soldier detained for protecting our country from those who don’t have the decency or respect for our immigration laws. It’s no surprise they’d be more concerned with the criminals’ well-being.

“Groups that are down along the border don’t have a right to act as if they are the Border Patrol, and they don’t have the right to detain migrants,” she said.

And Mexican nationals don’t have the right to act as if they don’t have to obtain proper documentation to come to our country! As for calling them “migrants” - it’s just a way of sanitizing the truth that they are ILLEGAL immigrants.

“You don’t go around pulling guns on people,” [Maricopa County Sheriff Joe] Arpaio said. “Being illegal is not a serious crime. You can’t go to jail for being an illegal alien. . . . You can only be deported.”

I’m a big fan of Arpaio’s style, and while I don’t agree with his criticism of Haab, maybe he has a point… Maybe being an illegal alien, in this day and age of terrorism threats, should be considered a “serious crime”.

Joe Brigman, a Border Patrol spokesman in Yuma, where the seven undocumented immigrants were being held Tuesday afternoon, said the situation with Haab could have been avoided with “a simple phone call.”

ORRRRRRRRRRRRR….. it could’ve been prevented by having the seven undocumented immigrants illegal aliens staying in their own country until such time as they decided to abide by our immigration laws and follow the appropriate process.

Let’s stop looking at the criminals as victims and get our priorities straight. If you don’t care enough about our laws to legally enter our country, why would we expect you to respect our other laws once you’re here?

Mexican authorities are still worried about violence, and on Sunday the National Commission on Human Rights urged Fox to pressure the United States to stop the Minuteman Project.

Maybe if Vicente Fox would care enough about Human Rights to fix his crappy country, people wouldn’t be rushing to get into ours. If people are worried about violence on the border, instead of pressuring the U.S. who’s simply trying to protect our geographical integrity, why not ask the people committing the crime of illegal entry to STOP? Why doesn’t Bush put pressure on Mexico to stop the illegal immigration?

This would be like the police telling the victim of a home invasion that it’s his responsibility to allow easier access to the burglars so they don’t get hurt committing the crime, instead of going to the one source that could prevent all of this… the criminals!

Sgt. Patrick Haab is an American Hero. How about some damn respect and the benefit of the doubt to the one party involved that is in this country LEGALLY? How about taking up the defense of a man who’s sworn duty it is to protect us, including the morons at the ACLU, and who’s dedicated his every waking moment to defending our nation at home and abroad.

Is that too much to ask in this warped, politically correct world? Political correctness and pandering will be the death of us all.

By now you may have heard about the t-shirt this moron was trying to sell called the “DeLay Suicide T-shirt“

Now he has posted on his website an “apology“. Well, it’s not so much an apology as a “damn, I look like a complete jackass, so I better put something up to stop bringing attention to my idiocy”.

Earlier today, I came to my own conclusion that the Tom DeLay suicide shirt was in poor taste and could legitimately cause offense to people who have had to deal with suicide in their own families. I decided to pull the shirt from the web site.

Before I was able to take the shirt down, however, Drudge had posted it on his site, and I was immediately inundated with hate mail. As I’ve posted on my web site, www.goodwinart.com, I unreservedly apologize to anyone I offended with the shirt. I made a mistake. Someone pointed out to me today that, by admitting I was wrong, I’ve shown a great deal more character than Mr. DeLay himself, who, it seems, can never admit to any wrongdoing.

For the record, I do not wish Tom DeLay dead, and of course I never expected him to heed the shirt’s request. I just want him to resign. I will be putting another anti-Tom DeLay shirt up for sale; this one, however, will not mention suicide.

Sincerely, Christopher Goodwin

First of all, whoever pointed out that you have character is just as much of a jackass as you are, Mr. Goodwin. You see, despite your semi-mea culpa, you still seem to have an entry on your blog from last year showing your true colors:

March 7: John Ashcroft is still in the hospital with a case of pancreatitis. We all wish him a recovery but not, certainly, a speedy one, given the fact that his condition is known to be a very painful one indeed.

Yeah, there’s some character.

I also find it ironic that you’re peddling shirts on the same site that say “Bush is Vile”, then proceed to post some of your absolutely crappy “art” which includes the piece entitled, “I Just Came All Over the Face of: George W. Bush“.

Democrats are the “party of peace” like radical Islam is the “religion of peace“

Others
Michelle Malkin has got more on the unhinged liberals.

Fair and Balanced… The idiot Chris Goodwin alerted me (thanks for reading my blog) to a conservative shop peddling “suicide shirts” for certain liberals and asked that I direct my “moral outrage” to this fellow. Apparently, Aaron posted his suicide shirts in response to Goodwin, calling Goodwin’s work “amateurish”. While I agree Goodwin seems to lack the basic art skills of a 3 year old, I also think Aaron goes too far with his “Deep Six” campaign, in which he depicts certain liberals pictures on tombstones. This is a stupid move in that he has crossed the line of merely editorializing and commenting on Goodwin’s work and instead, created his own reprehensible stuff. I don’t condone it at all, but it was better artwork. Feel free to contact Aaron with your comments.