May 9, 2008

Obama Wants to Be President of 57 States

Hey, Obama! How many states are there? Well, ummm…we’ve been to 57 with one left to go, then subtract Hawaii and Alaska…ummmm…. Unbelievable! This guy wants to be the President of the U.S. and doesn’t know how many states we have! Surely this was from exhaustion. I just called my eight year old son in here and asked him to tell me what this man just said wrong! His reaction was priceless!

Suitably Flip has a picture of Obama’s customized flag lapel pin of the 57 states of America.

Marc Aminder:

But if John McCain did this — if he mistakenly said he’d visited 57 states — the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying….

H/T: Pirate King

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Three Kids Suspended for Not Standing for Pledge? Good!!!

Let me tell you right off the bat that I fully support people’s right to free expression. I also support this country and believe it is the right and responsibility of every one of us citizens, parent and teacher alike, to instill a deep sense of patriotism and love of country in our children. After all of you don’t have a deep sense of patriotism and a solid love of country what do you have?

Leftist tendencies, that’s what. Next thing you know you’re working for the ACLU defending child pornographers and pedophiles and backing people that want to teach our children that buggery is just fine but praying is illegal.

So what caused this rant you ask?

This story here about 3 kids that were suspended for not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. These kids are future ACLU lawyers or I am a spotted dingo. At the very least they’ll be protesting at WTO meetings with masks on to hide their identities while busting out store front windows to protest capitalism.

You see, this is part of the problem in this country. We aren’t teaching these kids history and explaining to them WHY this is the greatest country in history, why they should be damned proud of it and just who they are insulting by not standing for that pledge.

They are insulting everyone who has laid down their life for this country and the ideals it was founded on.

They are insulting everyone in uniform that defends us daily, either from the islamic nut jobs in the middle east or the home grown nuts jobs on our streets.

But most of all they are insulting the very ideals we are founded on. Never mind that all of the above mentioned people fought to give those kids the freedom to not stand up, the very act of using that hard won freedom to not stand up and insult everything that flag stands for is obscene, and if that were my kid you can be sure that a serious course in American History would be enacted immediately following the ass kicking he’d get for his insulting behavior.

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The Next Right Project

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last October, Patrick Ruffini wrote a piece for Hugh Hewitt’s blog titled Information Gaps on the Right wherein Ruffini reminded us that most news outlets unsurprisingly lean leftward. He pointed out that this is one of the serious disabilities for the conservative viewpoint getting a wider hearing. Ruffini also highlighted the vast sea of paid-for bloggers that lefties like George Soros and the like are floating out there. It all amounts to the left having far longer reach than we do to set the agenda for the national debate.

And it isn’t getting any better.

The Left also seems to be developing a lead in powerful feeders mechanisms that do little more than tee up information for other blogs. ThinkProgress provides a valuable service to the left by leveraging a full-time research staff to be the first to report and frame up news stories. Their content is rarely witty and original and isn’t meant to be. It’s just meant to provide context and a prod for others to cover these stories. The research backing also means they do the legwork to connect the dots in ways that bloggers rarely do. If John McCain says something today, they’re all about telling you what he said about the same thing in March, what he said in 2003, what he said in 1999, and so on.

Of course, there are a few places we can go as conservatives to get a more conservative take on the News. There is Michelle Malkin, Powerline blog, and a host of others. Not to mention the great work we do over at Newsbusters and I should remind people to make Newsbusters a daily visit for news on the liberal slant in the media. If you want a site that drives the agenda on that subject (liberal bias in the news) then Newsbusters is the place. (disclosure: I am a writer at Newsbusters, for those who don’t already know that)

So, the general thought is that we are behind the left in getting our agenda talked about. As Matthew Sheffield of Newsbusters said:

Ruffini’s point here is very well-taken and one I’ve been trying to get a lot of conservative groups to realize: the right is so far behind when it comes to original reporting and research online. Unfortunately, it’s been a tough job trying to convince people of the great need we have on the right for focused, targeted blogs.

So, what do we do about it? We HAVE to do something, right?

Well, Ruffini, Soren Dayton, and Jon Henke have teamed up to do just that. With a new project called The Next Right. They intend to fulfill the role of furthering the agenda like so many liberal blogs already do for their side.

It’s no secret that the right operates at a severe disadvantage to the left when it comes to building online political infrastructure. People point to ActBlue and Obama’s massive fundraising advantage, but the problem cuts deeper: netroots activists on the left have built critical mass around an idea that regular people on the Internet can get their hands dirty and remix Democratic politics. They not only raise money. They recruit candidates. They fund full-time investigative journalism to ambush Republicans. They act as a party whip, creating consequences for Democrats who, in their view, don’t act like Democrats. They volunteer and flock to states with key races. The right can build all the tools it wants, but without a narrative and a rallying point for action, it will be for naught.

So, take a quick stop over at the placeholder page for The Next Right at http://thenextright.com/. Sign up for an email notification when they are ready to go live. This is something to keep our eyes on folks. We really need to address our IDD problems…. that would be information deficit disorder!

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Friday Free For All

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John Mccain Tells The Truth and Barack Obama Whines About It

Cross Posted from Wake up America

Barack obama is whining and saying that John McCain is smearing him because McCain said, “a spokesperson from Hamas said they wanted Sen. Obama. … It’s indicative of how some of our enemies view America. I guarantee you they’re not going to endorse me.”

It always amuses me how politicians accuse others of “smearing” them when the simple truth is stated.

News for Obama and Obama supporters…when the truth is told, it isn’t a smear, that is when someone lies and since a Hamas top adviser, Ahmed Yousef, told WABC radio, “We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance”, John McCain’s comment is not only the truth, it is spot on.

Bottom line here is that John McCain told the truth and will continue to do so and Barack Obama doesn’t like the truth being stated in this regards.

Tough.

He better learn to get some thicker skin if he is chosen as the Democratic nominee to go against McCain in November because I can guarantee Obama that this is nothing compared to what will be said about him.

The more the media learns, the more the conservatives will have to throw at him for the general election and that is the way politics works, whether he or his supporters like it or not.

Terrorists groups are making it known that they prefer Obama as president.

No spin needed when they are publicly stating it.

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Must not desecrate Mexican flag

You can stomp Old Glory all you like. One of Obama’s buddies did it not so long ago (See above). But trash the Mexican flag and the ACLU wants in

“A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage. Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo’s version of events but said he took the flag Monday because “white kids” might have hurt the 16-year-old. He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it.

Camelo said he was changing into gym clothes at Minico High School in Rupert when Straatman told him, “Give me the flag.” “I said, ‘What’s the problem?’” Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The Times-News of Twin Falls. “He said, ‘The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.’ He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can.”

Camelo said he then took the undamaged flag out of the garbage. He said he’s been contacted by the American Civil Liberties Union and is considering a lawsuit against Straatman.

Camelo and others brought Mexican flags to the south-central Idaho school to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the May 5 recognition of Mexico’s victory over the French army on that day in 1862. About a third of the student body is Hispanic.

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Just a small note about Google censorship. The picture above seems to have been censored from their image cache. I did a Google image search for it and could not find it — despite it being much in the news lately. In response to the search terms “Ayers” with “flag” it should have been at the top of the page. I guess it is pretty red-hot so Google seem to have done their best to keep it from our eyes.

Maybe after they read this they will restore it. They do seem to respond to criticisms I make of them. I guess they have a team monitoring all adverse mentions of them. They probably search for combinations of the terms “Google” and “evil” — as critics of Google often mock their proclaimed policy of not being evil.

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Misleading AP Headline: Comedy Daily Show Just Like O’Reilly

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press today wins first place for the most misleading headline in the MSM by saying that a study shows that Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central “The Daily Show” show is somehow “a lot like” Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor.” The Thursday May 8 report is flippantly headlined, “Study of ‘Daily Show’: It’s a lot like O’Reilly,” but the following report does not exactly confirm the headline. It appears that the AP’s distorted headline was meant to equate “The O’Reilly Factor” to comedy in order to impugn the serious character of the hit Fox show and make of it but an exercise in comedy.

The AP piece is reporting on the results of a survey of a year’s worth of Stewart’s comedy talk show to see what sort of information Stewart’s show imparts to the many young people who are thought to turn to Stewart for most of their news coverage.

The final determination is that if young people are truly understanding the jokes that Stewart tells they must be getting more news elsewhere or the topical nature of the jokes would not be understood by viewers.

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Paying Teachers NOT to Teach in NY

-By Warner Todd Huston

And for another perfect example of why teachers unions is antithetical to the welfare of the kids AND the budget of the state, we have a union that has forced the State of New York to spend $81 million dollars to pay teachers NOT to teach!

The New York Times gives us the wasteful tale of money paid for NO work.

The New Teacher Project, which estimates that the city has been paying $81 million over two years in salaries and benefits for teachers who have not been able to find permanent jobs.

Under the new free-market system, teachers who lose their jobs because of budget cuts, program curtailments or school closings are supposed to go into a reserve pool for a short time before they are hired elsewhere in the system. An overwhelming majority of more than 2,700 teachers sent into the pool in 2006 did just that.

So, these teachers are paid even if they don’t work?

This is the ultimate union job. Get paid a high salary, free health care, pension…. but not have to work AT ALL!

It doesn’t seem to occur to anyone that the solution is to fire teachers that you have no job for?

Apparently not.

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May 8, 2008

RNC Ad: Can We Ask? Yes We Can

Obama wants to change the subject from his character and judgement to issues that matter. Not that character and judgement are not issues that matter…but…he should be careful what he asks for. The RNC takes him up on his offer.

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Blog of the Day

The blog of the day is Edward Cropper.

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