Weekend open thread

Got some errands to run and some plans for most of the day so blogging will be light – enjoy your Saturday. I’ll be back later

20 Responses to "Weekend open thread"

sanity says:

March 10, 2007 at 10:45 am

Bill Maher Says Republicans â€˜Love Ronald Reagan in a Way That’s Just Gay’

The Republican Party, besides Rudy Giuliani, Bush likes to dress up. He likes to be a cowboy, or Iceman from “Top Gun.” And they have something very gay, excuse me, going on with Ronald Reagan. I mean, they love Ronald Reagan in a way that’s just gay. I’m sorry. But, I think they want to put him on a stamp so that they can lick his backside.

Link

Ok I can expect same outrage coming from the same groups, including GLAAD, the Democrat party, Dean calling for democrats to denounce Maher and the media to be all over this….

[crickets chirping]

On Ronald Reagan ending the cold war, Maher says:

Hah. Come onâ€¦He played a part. That is so ridiculous. That infuriates me. To say this man came in in act five at the very end, and he won the Cold War. You know what? Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, everybody played a part in winning the Cold War.

Newsbusters points out something that is obviously lost on Maher:

Absolutely amazing. Harry Truman left office in 1953, and JFK in 1963. The Cold War ended in 1989, and Maher thinks they played a part 36 and 26 years before respectively.
Lorica says:

March 10, 2007 at 4:25 pm

I am off to see “300”. Wish me luck. – Lorica
Justin says:

March 10, 2007 at 6:49 pm

Ha, check this out . . . a place to bitch and moan about your co-workers. I can’t stand the people who take the elevator ONE FLOOR when they are totally physically able to walk it!
stackja says:

March 10, 2007 at 7:29 pm

The decay started with the 1960 Dems politics and media. I have not noticed any change since then. Probably because I stopped paying attention.
geezer says:

March 10, 2007 at 9:58 pm

“I will not spend my money, time or however many heartbeats left in my life on idiot liberals. I will not buy their movies, listen to their music, visit their websites or watch them on TV any longer than the time it takes to change the channel. Life is far too short and precious to waste it in the company of fools.”

sign here ______________________________ and date here___________________
forest hunter says:

March 11, 2007 at 12:24 am

I’m in geezer………..have been for nearly five years now.
forest hunter says:

March 11, 2007 at 12:46 am

I realize the following might come off as preaching to the choir here but for those truly willing and able to make a difference, I encourage you all to do so, if you love America.

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.” “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.” “From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.” “The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.”

“During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage”

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore’s territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…” Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say good-bye to the USA in fewer than five years. Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
Marshall Art says:

March 11, 2007 at 4:22 am

Two good books I received as incentive to subscribe to Human Events, “The Politically Incorrect Guide To Islam (and the Crusades)” by Robert Spencer, and “America Alone” by Mark Steyn. (I was going to subscribe anyway, and I had intended on getting the books anyway, so it was a great deal.) I finished Spencer’s book and it was a great read. I got more details about things I already knew, but he makes great points about Western head-in-the-sand perceptions. Also doing as much is Steyn in his book, which I’m now reading. He begins speaking about demographics, particularly the birth rates for different countries and groups. America is one of the few, and by that we’re talking maybe two others besides us, that is at least at a rate of sustainability, while most of Europe is at such a low rate that some, like Spain at 1.1 birth per woman, will just plain die out in a few generations. It’s also noteworthy that such a low replacement rate puts an incredible strain on the socialist welfare programs that depend on more people to continue funding them. We’re seeing it with Social Security already. Most troubling is that the countries with the highest replacement birth rates are almost all Muslim, with many as high as around 6-7 births per woman. Hmmm. What’s wrong with this picture? They won’t really need to kill us off. They just have to wait it out. Thank you abortion rights proponents for adding to the problem.
Great White Rat says:

March 11, 2007 at 8:04 am

**** GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE ****

There’s been a lot of talk about the documentary produced by the UK station Channel4 debunking the GW hysteria. The full-length feed of this is now available on Google video here.
Great White Rat says:

March 11, 2007 at 8:09 am

“I will not spend my money, time or however many heartbeats left in my life on idiot liberals. I will not buy their movies, listen to their music, visit their websites or watch them on TV any longer than the time it takes to change the channel. Life is far too short and precious to waste it in the company of fools.”

sign here __Great White Rat_______
date here __11 March 2007________

Happy to join you, geezer, although, like forest hunter, I’ve been doing this for some time already.
benning says:

March 11, 2007 at 9:26 am

“I will not spend my money, time or however many heartbeats left in my life on idiot liberals. I will not buy their movies, listen to their music, visit their websites or watch them on TV any longer than the time it takes to change the channel. Life is far too short and precious to waste it in the company of fools.”

sign here: benning
date here: 11 March 2007

Like Great White Rat and forest hunter, geezer, I’ve been following this for a long time. Why shoudl I put my hard-earned pennies into their pockets? Hmmmph!
benning says:

March 11, 2007 at 9:55 am

By the way, I’ve copied this and posted it on my blog. I hope that gets some responses, either there or right here. Nice job, geezer!
Baklava says:

March 11, 2007 at 11:14 am

Hillary will fire 500,000 people if she takes office. Good economics for sure.
CZ says:

March 11, 2007 at 12:41 pm

I feel really great today. I mean really, really great!

The time clock changed, for the better. The snow is all but gone. It will be in the 50’s today and very sunny. I will wash my car, clean the garage and go for a long ride on the bike (it started up yesterday woo-hoo!!)

But the best news I had? This morning, on FNS with Chris Wallace, Ex-Senator Fred Thomson all but declared he is running for the high office.

In my mind I always thought Fred had better things to do with his life. But leading this country seems to be something he is seriously considering. Whoever got to him and convinced him to consider running, thank you from the bottom of my conservative heart!

When pressed on where he stands on the hot issues Fred batted 1000. He did not blink.

A true conservative comes forward and he is more than electable!!!!

Fred is the best chance we have for another Ronaldus Magnus Maximus.

LINK 1

LINK 2
CZ says:

March 11, 2007 at 12:47 pm

LINK
Lorica says:

March 11, 2007 at 5:26 pm

Amen to that CZ, that is good news. I think Fred Thompson is a wonderful man who has a great deal to give to this country.

300 last night was excellent. It was more sexual than I thought it would be, which didn’t make me happy. I found it interesting to have this movie at this time in our political environment. In a very general sense I could see the Spartans as todays conservatives, and the Persians as liberals. The King of the Spartans, Leonidas, only desire to live as free men, and to preserve Sparta and her traditions. King Xerxes of Persia desired to have control over the whole world. Anyway it is pretty interesting. I know it is a movie and highly embellished, but it really was an interesting commentary in todays politics. Or even in the War on Terror, We American’s stand almost alone, against the evil and destruction of terrorism. We might be few, but we are definately mighty. – Lorica
Baklava says:

March 12, 2007 at 11:33 am

After the movie “The Great Global Warming Swindle” (I hope I got that right) which is an hour long and can be found on google and I can’t remember which poster here linked it so I’m sorry about that – – –

there is now this article.

Instead of debate it’s death threats and name calling. As any of us here could’ve guessed.
Baklava says:

March 12, 2007 at 11:34 am

Here’s a review of the movie, “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.
Baklava says:

March 12, 2007 at 12:20 pm

The percentage increase of military active duty deaths is 0% (ZERO percent for those of you in Rio Linda) from either 1980 or 1981 versus 2004 (during Iraq War)

This is UNBELIEVABLE but seemingly true.

Here is an excerpt:

It turns out, at least by my preliminary calculations (having done the math rather quickly, and with pencil and paper) that our active forces in the last Iraqi war year reported on the chart, 2004 (1,711,916), constituted about 79% of the number serving under Carter in 1980 (2,159,630) . And the ratio of deaths of active forces in 2004 (1887) compared to the number in 1980 (2392) is also approximately 79%.

This was surprising even to me. But the fact is that, statistically speaking, the increase in military deaths of active forces due to the Iraq conflict represents an increase of essentially zero, rather modest for a war.

Of course, I would imagine that, but for the Iraq war, the death rate for active military in 2004 might indeed have been lower than in 1980, rather than virtually identical. That seems intuitively true, although one can never be sure. But the statistics do clearly point out the relatively low rate of military deaths in this war.

Commenter Rosen points out the percentage of deaths due to accident in the early 80s, but fails to acknowledge that about a third of US combat deaths in 2004 were also due to accident. He (and often the MSM) lumps together accidental deaths and combat deaths when it suits his purposes. In addition, he talks of casualties rather than deaths (apples to oranges) in order to be able to discuss a larger figure (note, by the way, that in the year 1983, 11.6% of US military casualties were inflicted by terrorist attack: the Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 American servicemen)
Baklava says:

March 12, 2007 at 5:57 pm

Say Anything has a piece about a North Pole Expedition called off due to extreme temperatures.

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