This is Our Nation?

Forget about not having God in the public schools. Now the leftist/secularist morons are going after Santa.

Santa Claus Deemed Too 'Religious' for School Fundraiser

By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
November 30, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - A Christmas-themed event to raise money at a public elementary school in Warwick, N.Y., has been altered to accommodate a parent's complaints that the program would illegally spotlight a "religious" figure - Santa Claus.

"Breakfast With Santa" has since been changed to "Winter Wonderland Breakfast," and -- in an effort to be inclusive of all beliefs -- the bearded one will now be joined at the Dec. 9 event by Frosty the Snowman.

Organizers made the changes after one parent charged that she and others in the community were offended that the Parent Teacher Association at the Sanfordville Elementary School was sponsoring a program geared toward one religion. (complete story)

This idiot wrote a letter to protest a school fundraiser----will not leave her name----- and the school board caves in to this lunacy. Totally spineless board and a one individual can control the rights and privileges of the many. This is political correctness gone mad.

SIX SUNNIS BURNIN'.............

...........AND A PARTRIDGE (AP EDITOR) IN A PEAR TREE (HOT WATER):

It appears that AP has stuck to it's guns on the Six Sunnis Burned Alive story:

"The attempt to question the existence of the known police officer who spoke to the AP is frankly ludicrous and hints at a certain level of desperation to dispute or suppress the facts of the incident in question."

(Translation: Pull hammer back-----aim-------and fire!)

"AP reporters who have been working in Iraq throughout the conflict learned of the mosque incident through witnesses and neighborhood residents and corroborated it with a named police spokesmen and also through hospital and morgue workers."

We have conducted a thorough review of the sourcing and reporting involved and plan to move a more detailed report about the entire incident soon, with greater detail provided by multiple eye witnesses. Several of those witnesses spoke to AP on the condition that their names would not be used because they fear reprisals.

The police captain cited in our story has long been known to the AP reporters and has been interviewed in his office and by telephone on several occasions during the past two years.
He is an officer at the police station in Yarmouk, with a record of reliability and truthfulness. His full name is Jamil Gholaiem Hussein.

The AP stands by its story." (AP International Editor John Daniszewski)

Michelle Malkin has some excellent coverage on this story here.

Powerline has a Meet John Daniszewski post up.

Mary Katharine Ham at Townhall has a great post up too.

I've been trying to get to Flopping Aces (who broke all this) all morning to no avail.

Major Update: Curt at Flopping Aces has a full update and more HERE

Previous Post:

AP, MSM Caught with Lies

Global Warming Alert

Cold set to snap city record

Environment Canada says such low temperatures unusual for this time of year.

Dave Koiter bundles up to take on the task of wiping off his windshield yesterday as more snow fell on Calgary. Strong winds combined with blowing snow and frigid temperatures to create treacherous driving conditions throughout the city. (Stuart Dryden/Calgary sun) The arctic deep freeze trapping Calgary is on track to break a 110-year-old weather record today, but the bitter cold is expected to ease in the coming days.

With a forecast low of -31C today, Calgary could break the -27C record set on this day in 1896.
But factoring in the wind chill, it will feel even colder to people who have to brave the elements, said Environment Canada meteorologist Ross Macdonald.

"I wouldn't break out the shorts and go sunbathing right now," he joked. The frigid weather is expected to improve by Thursday, with a predicted high of -7C.

Certainly sounds like global warming to me.................... :)

ASSOCIATED PRESS, MSM CAUGHT WITH LIES

ASSOCIATED PRESS (WHO SUPPLYS THE WORLD WITH "NEWS") HAS BEEN EXPOSED WITH PROVIDING FALSE INFORMATION, AGAIN.

CENTCOM SENDS SCOLDING LETTER TO AP:

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Associated Press:

On Nov. 24, 2006, your organization published an article by Qais Al-Bashir about six Sunnis being burned alive in the presence of Iraqi Police officers. This news item, which is below, received an enormous amount of coverage internationally.

We at Multi-National Corps - Iraq made it known through MNC-I Press Release Number 20061125-09 and our conversations with your reporters that neither we nor Baghdad Police had any reports of such an incident after investigating it and could find no one to corroborate the story. A couple of hours ago, we learned something else very important. We can tell you definitively that the primary source of this story, police Capt. Jamil Hussein, is not a Baghdad police officer or an MOI employee. We verified this fact with the MOI through the Coalition Police Assistance Training Team.

Also, we definitely know, as we told you several weeks ago through the MNC-I Media Relations cell, that another AP-popular IP spokesman, Lt. Maithem Abdul Razzaq, supposedly of the city’s Yarmouk police station, does not work at that police station and is also not authorized to speak on behalf of the IP. The MOI has supposedly issued a warrant for his questioning.

I know we have informed you that there exists an MOI edict that no one below the level of chief is authorized to be an Iraqi Police spokesperson. An unauthorized IP spokesperson will get fired for talking to the media. While I understand the importance of a news agency to use anonymous and unauthorized sources, it is still incumbent upon them to make sure their facts are straight. Was this information verified by anyone else? If the source providing the information is lying about his name, then he ought not to be represented as an official IP spokesperson and should be listed as an anonymous source.

Unless you have a credible source to corroborate the story of the people being burned alive, we respectfully request that AP issue a retraction, or a correction at a minimum, acknowledging that the source named in the story is not who he claimed he was. MNC-I and MNF-I are always available and willing to verify events and provide as much information as possible when asked.

Very respectfully,
LT XXXXXX
XXXX X XXXXXXXXLieutenant,
U.S. NavyMNC-I Joint Operations
CenterPublic Affairs Officer

From Powerline:

Story of Sunnis Burned Alive Going Up In Smoke

THE REST OF THE BLOGOSPHERE IS ALL OVER THIS:

FLOPPING ACES ---------------------- HOT AIR
PATTERICO --------------------------- THE BELMONT CLUB
MICHELLE MALKIN ------------------ CSPT

UPDATE: Dana at Common Sense Political Thought says: "If this war has shown us anything, it is that the mainstream media are not only seen as useful pawns for spreading propaganda, but that they are apparently unable to resist the efforts of those who would so use them."

(note to Dana: Quit being so gentle on these un-patriotic / traitorist bastards.)

This is the crap we have to put up with in a 21st century media that has no boundrys in their deception and lies. We will be counting the days for the RETRACTION, AP.

Write every news media that printed this story and demand a front page retraction and apology.

Ego Boosting at its Finest

RovinsWorld selfishly nominated its Blog to the 2006 Weblog Awards along with my friend Dana at Common Sense Political Thought, (CSPT).

While I will be looking forward to a few votes from my "numerous" readers, I would suggest serious consideration for the fine work Dana, Art, Yorkshire, and company do at CSPT. Of course I nominated Dana's site under "BEST BLOG" category for the simple reason that there's no sense in not going for the TOP.

I will be posting the link for voting when it is available. That is all.

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT

Weather Officials: Snowflakes Spotted In Central Florida

Some one should alert Al Gore and the global warming nutcases' ,(the agenda drivin/grant money science community), about these pesky snowflakes.


Editors Note: RovinsWorld is now using some of the tools supplied by Technorati.com

This is our future?

People lining up a week in advance in front of stores for a friggin vidio game?

The JROTC eliminated by the SF School Board. (via Michelle Malkin)


Murtha makes his point:

In his first interview since reportedly calling a Democratic bill on lobbying and ethics "total crap," Rep. John Murtha told "Hardball" host Chris Matthews he meant it was "crap" to deal with ethics problems when there are more serious issues facing the nation such as the war in Iraq.

"It is total crap that we have to deal with an issue like this when we’ve got a war going on and we got all these other issues," Murtha said.

Scrappleface has the scoop on Murtha

Kucinich Calls for Cutting Off Iraq War Funds"That’s the only way we’re going to end this war."

Nov 15, 2006
Congressman Kucinich called Wednesday for cutting off funding of the Iraq war, as the surest way out of Iraq. His statements were made in an interview by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman.

"I want to say that there's one solution here, and it's not to engage in a debate with the President, who has taken us down a path of disaster in Iraq, but it's for Congress to assume the full power that it has under the Constitution to cut off funds. We don't need to keep indulging in this debate about what to do, because as long as we keep temporizing, the situation gets worse in Iraq.

Promises, promises Two weeks before Election Day, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada issued a statement promising Montana Senate candidate Jon Tester a seat on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee if he could defeat Republican incumbent Conrad Burns. Such a win was crucial, Mr. Reid knew, if Democrats were to retake control of Congress. And while Mr. Reid didn't say exactly when Mr. Tester would be seated in the coveted chair, his pledge assured Montana's voters that the state wouldn't lose out on much-needed funding by rejecting Mr. Burns, who during his dozen years on the Appropriations Committee delivered hundreds of millions of dollars to the state. "This is big news," boasted Montana Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat, who read Mr. Reid's promise at a press conference in Billings, Mont. "This is going to help Montana even more." Republicans who were quoted in the Billings Gazette the next day weren't buying Mr. Reid's promise. The newspaper even quoted Mr. Reid's spokesman, Jim Manley, as conceding that it would be "somewhat unusual" for a freshman senator to sit on such a lofty panel. As it was, Mr. Tester won a very close race. And yesterday, Mr. Reid announced his committee assignments for the upcoming 110th Congress. Wouldn't you know, Mr. Tester didn't make the cut. The Appropriations Committee will be chaired by Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who will be joined by Democrats Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Patty Murray of Washington, Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota, Dianne Feinstein of California, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

THIS IS OUR FUTURE?

Color Me Humble

RovinsWorld will be taking a few days off from the cycle to get some needed rest.

Congratulations to the Democratic Party for a well fought race. May God grant you all the wisdom necessary to lead your party to help in solving the serious problems facing this nation.

The people of this nation have spoken and they are asking for change and a new direction.

They have also said they are tired of the way business is conducted in Washington. Let's all hope these changes will be positive direction for America.......Still the home of the brave.

Gut Check Time

Mainstream Media Distortions
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. media coverage of Iraq was so gloomy that during a recent visit to the U.S. the prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan wondered whether the situation had deteriorated to such a degree during his absence that he should stay away.

"CNN International and [Arabic television network] al-Jazeera are equally bad in their coverage of the situation in Iraq," Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani was quoted as telling a visiting group of Americans on Monday.

"When I was in the United States recently and read the negative news in the Washington Post, New York Times and in the network TV broadcasts, I even wondered if things had gotten so bad since I had left that I shouldn't return," he said.

Economic Distortions:
As Economy Booms, Study Finds ABC, CBS and NBC Distort Reality By Hyping Hardship and Pessimism -- Media Twist Good Economy Into Bad News

These are the deceptions that have been the "playbook" for the liberal left. They will destroy this economy with their tax policys. They will not make this world safer. And they will spend the next two years going after a President that has kept this nation safe from attack. And that will be their shame, (if they do)

Vote Republican. Vote Conservative. Vote for Sanity.

Guilty!

Saddam Hussein has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging. The former Iraqi president was convicted by a Baghdad court for his role in the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail in 1982.




"Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!"


More like "Long live my bathist Sunni Bretheren" who have persecuted the Iraqi people for a generation. Saddam Hussein could care less about the Iraqi people and this is just the first trial.

From MyWay/AP

Some feared the verdicts could exacerbate the sectarian violence that has pushed the country to the brink of civil war, after a trial that stretched over nine months in 39 sessions and ended nearly 3 1/2 months ago. Clashes immediately began Sunday in north Baghdad's heavily Sunni Azamiyah district. Elsewhere in the capital, celebratory gunfire rang out.

"This government will be responsible for the consequences, with the deaths of hundreds, thousands or even hundreds of thousands, whose blood will be shed," Salih al-Mutlaq, a Sunni political leader, told the Al-Arabiya satellite television station.

Saddam and his seven co-defendants were on trial for a wave of revenge killings carried out in the city of Dujail following a 1982 assassination attempt on the former dictator. Al-Maliki's Islamic Dawa party, then an underground opposition, has claimed responsibility for organizing the attempt on Saddam's life.

In the streets of Dujail, a Tigris River city of 84,000, people celebrated and burned pictures of their former tormentor as the verdict was read.

The death sentences automatically go to a nine-judge appeals panel, which has unlimited time to review the case. If the verdicts and sentences are upheld, the executions must be carried out within 30 days.

Nov 5, 5:59 AM (ET)By JAMAL HALABY

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis on Sunday to reject the sectarian violence ripping his country apart and to "not take revenge" on U.S. forces, his chief lawyer said after the ousted leader was sentenced to death.

"The message from President Saddam to his people came during a meeting in Baghdad this morning, just before the so-called Iraqi court issued its verdict in his trial," Khalil al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Baghdad.

Was Hussein for this violence before he was against it?

More links to follow........

Update: Links: Check out Michelle Malkin, Captain's Quarters, and Art Downs at Common Sense Political Thought

Here's a teaser from Art's post:

A public hanging of Saddam Hussein would be an appropriate ending for a monster and is a form of ‘back to basics’ that might be adopted elsewhere. A certain squeamishness about public executions has denied the public the proper degree of closure. Television could provide a universality of coverage that would allow the less connected a view of how some folks pay for their misdeeds.

We have foolishly abandoned hanging. Done with a drop, it is a rather quick form of execution. As a mode of punishment, it long has carried with it a high degree of ignominy. It was once the fate of thieves. Many of aristocratic birth were executed in a more dignified manner, with axe or sword. There was a spiritual benefit to decapitation, in that the deceased was typically buried in consecrated ground and permitted a religious ceremony. For centuries, hanged felons were left to rot on the gallows until their remains fell, to be swept into a common pit with the residue of other thugs. Read the rest here

Update 2: War Ending Soon in Iraq, women, children, liberals---hardest hit.

Blogger is Having a "Kerry Moment"

Blogger was moving so slow........I was about to abandon this post......but, it appears that our troops have got a message for Mr. Kerry (Jon Carry).

(Picture credit to Drudge)

Update: It is now being reported that Kerry has posted a formal apology to all:

Statement of Senator John Kerry

As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop. I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended. It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. I don’t want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops.

Senator Kerry, may I remind you that this nation HAS NOT been attacked in five years. We know exactly what your partys "winning strategy" is----CUT and RUN. Your party has no patience for victory, and that is what our troops expect for the safety and security of this nation.

Now you may take the rest of the week off............thank you.

UPDATE: The boys a Powerline have identified the producers of the Iraq photo as the "Pride of Minn".

Kerrys Follies

(picture credit to Michelle Malkin)


"REPORTING FOR DOODY"

John Kerry is really the gift that keeps on giving.

LINKS:

Captain's Quarters , Wizbang , Michelle , Hot Air








update:John Kerry to the idiot troops fighting in Iraq-----"Don't expect an apology from me". "I apologize to no one"

Well, there you have it folks. From the mouth of some one who still thinks he should have been a President, when the "presidential" thing would have been to humbly say that he was WRONG to imply that our troops are idiots and only those that stay in school and listen to their professors of liberalized tripe will succeed in life.

John Kerry STILL thinks this is about him. This ego-centric moron, who has voted continuously against most defense measures to support our military,has single-handedly shackled the Democratic Party in the final week of these midterms.

Lynne Cheney rips Wolf Blitzer and CNN

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Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, took on CNN Friday evening during an interview with anchorman Wolf Blitzer.





Lynne Cheney is the epitomy of class and brains and beauty. Wolf and CNN took on a little more than they could chew in this interview and Lynne let 'em have it with "both barrels" (pun intended).

WB: And joining us now, the wife of the Vice President of the United States, Lynne Cheney, no stranger to CNN. Thanks very much for coming in.
LC: Thank you, Wolf, for having.
WB: And we’re going to talk about this excellent new book, Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America. This is a book that I recommend for all ages, and I see it’s already a bestseller.
LC: I’m very proud of this book. It was an effort of two years for Robin Glasser and me. And it was inspiring the whole time. It’s a story of the whole country, told by a family going on a road trip, and my grandchildren love it.
WB: I want to get to that, all that, but I want to pick your brain a little bit on news that’s happening right now, including your husband, the Vice President. He was interviewed earlier this week out in North Dakota, and he had this exchange with a radio talk show host. Listen to this:
Host: Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
DC: Well, it’s a no-brainer for me, but for a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President for Torture. We don’t torture. That’s not what we’re involved in.
WB: It made it sound, and there’s been interpretation to this effect, that he was in effect confirming that the United States used this waterboarding, this technique that has been rejected by the international community, that simulates a prisoner being drowned, if you will. And he was, in effect, supposedly confirming that the United States has been using that.
LC: Wolf, that is a mighty house you’re building on top of that molehill there, a mighty mountain. You know, this is a complete distortion. He didn’t say anything of the kind.
WB: Because of the dunking, you know, using the water and the dunking…
LC: Wolf, I understand your point. It’s kind of the point of a lot of people right now, to try to distort the administration’s position. And if you really want to talk about that, I watched the program on CNN last night, which I thought, it’s your 2006 voter program, which I thought was a terrible distortion of both the President and the Vice President’s position on many issues. It seemed almost straight out of the Democratic talking points, using phrases like domestic surveillance, when it is not domestic surveillance that anyone has talked about or ever done. It’s surveillance of terrorists. It’s people who have al Qaeda connections calling into the United States. So I think we’re in the season of distortion, and this is just one more.
WB: But there have been some cases where innocent people have been picked up, interrogated, held for long periods of time, then simply said never mind, let go. They’re let go.
LC: Well, are you sure these people are innocent?
WB: Well, they’re walking around free right now. Nobody’s arrested them.
LC: You made a point last night of a man who had a bookstore in London, where radical Islamists gathered, who was in Afghanistan when the Taliban were there, who went to Pakistan. I think that you might be a little careful before you declare this as a person with clean hands.
WB: You’re referring to the CNN Broken Government special…
LC: I certainly am.
WB: This was the one that John King reported on last night.
LC: You know, right there, right there, Wolf. Broken Government. Now what kind of stance is that? Here we are, we’re a country where we have been mightily challenged over the past six years. We’ve been through 9/11. We’ve been through Katrina. The President and the Vice President inherited a recession. We’re a country where the economy is healthy. That’s not broken. This government has acted very well. We’ve had tax cuts that are responsible for our healthy economy. We’re a country that was attacked five years ago. We haven’t been attacked since. What this government has done is effective. That’s not broken government. So you know, I shouldn’t let media bias surprise me, but I worked at CNN once. I watched the program last night…
WB: You were a co-host of Crossfire.
LC: …and I was troubled.
WB: All right. Well, that was probably the purpose, to get people to think, to get people to discuss these issues, because there are a lot of conservatives…
LC: All right, all right, Wolf. I’m here to talk about my book. But if you want to talk about distortion…
WB: We’ll talk about your book.
LC: Right. But what is CNN doing running terrorist tape of terrorists shooting Americans? I mean, I thought Duncan Hunter asked you a very good question, and you didn’t answer it. Do you want us to win?
WB: The answer, of course, is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There’s no doubt about that. You think we want terrorists to win?
LC: Then why are you running terrorist propaganda?
WB: With all due respect, with all due respect, this is not terrorist propaganda.
LC: Oh, Wolf…
WB: This is reporting the news, which is what we do. We’re not partisan…
LC: Where did you get the film?
WB: We got the film…look, this is an issue that has been widely discussed, this is an issue that we reported on extensively. We make no apologies for showing that. That was a very carefully considered decision, why we did that. And I think, and I think, of your…
LC: Well, I think it’s shocking.
WB: If you’re a serious journalist, you want to report the news. Sometimes the news is good, sometimes the news isn’t so good.
LC: But Wolf, there’s a difference between news and terrorist propaganda. Why did you give the terrorists a forum?
WB: And if you put it in context, if you put it in context, that’s what news is. We said it was propaganda. We didn’t distort where we got it. We didn’t distort anything about it. We gave it the context. Let’s talk about another issue in the news, and then we’ll get to the book. The Democrats are now complaining bitterly in this Virginia race. George Allen using novels, novels that Jim Webb, his Democratic challenger, has written, in which there are sexual references. And they’re making a big deal out of this. I want you to listen to what Jim Webb said today in responding to this very sharp attack from George Allen.
LC: Now do you promise, Wolf, that we’re going to talk about my book?
WB: I do promise.
LC: Because this seems to me a mighty long trip around the merry-go-round.
WB: I want you to respond. This is in the news today, and your name has come up, so that’s why we’re talking about it. But listen to this:
James Webb: There’s nothing that’s been in any of my novels that in my view, hasn’t been either illuminating the surroundings, or defining a character, or moving a plot. I’m a serious writer. I mean, we can go and read Lynne Cheney’s lesbian love scenes if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.
LC: You know, Jim Webb is full of baloney. I have never written anything sexually explicit. His novels are full of sexually explicit references to incest, sexually explicit references…well, you know, I just don’t want my grandchildren to turn on the television set. This morning, Imus was reading from the novels, and it’s triple X rated.
WB: Here’s what the Democratic Party put out today, the Democratic Congressional Senatorial Campaign Committee. Lynne Cheney’s book featured brothels and attempted rape. In 1981, Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynne, wrote a book called Sisters, which featured a lesbian love affair, brothels, and attempted rapes. In 1988, Lynne Cheney wrote about a Republican Vice President who dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress. Is that true?
LC: Nothing explicit. And actually, that is full of lies. It’s not…it’s just absolutely not true.
WB: But you did write a book entitled Sisters.
LC: I did write a book entitled Sisters. This description…
WB: And it did have lesbian characters.
LC: No, not necessarily. This description is a lie. I’ll stand on that.
WB: There is nothing in there about rapes and brothels?
LC: Wolf, Wolf, could we talk about a children’s book for a minute?
WB: We can talk about the children’s book. But I just wanted to…
LC: I think our segment is like 15 minutes long, and we’ve now done ten minutes, so…
WB: I just wanted to clarify what’s in the news today, give you a…
LC: Sex, lies and distortion. That’s what it is.
WB: This is an opportunity for you to explain on these sensitive issues.
LC: Wolf, I have nothing to explain. Jim Webb has a lot to explain.
WB: Well, he says he’s a serious writer and novelist, fiction writer. He was doing basically what you were doing.
LC: Jim Webb is full of baloney.
WB: We’ll leave it at that. Let’s talk a little bit about your book, Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America.
LC: You know, one of the reasons I wrote this book is because we spend so much time nowadays talking about things that are negative. And it’s not the fault of any particular segment of the society. But we have come to define news as bad news. And so our kids get a steady diet of this is wrong, the government is broken, the war isn’t working, the economy’s terrible. Even when those things aren’t true, our kids are getting a steady dose of negativity. What Robin and I wanted so much to do is to talk about what a wonderful country it is. We wanted to give our kids something positive. And I hope that’s what we’ve done in this book. It’s very, very pro-American. This is a book that’s very patriotic. There is no question about our view that this is the greatest country on the face of the Earth, and that is what we want kids to take away from it.
WB: The kids who read this book will learn a lot about the 50 states. That’s what it’s called…
LC: Yes.
WB: But a lot of the landmarks in those 50 states.
LC: Well, not just landmarks, but the vast variety and diversity of our culture. You know, we have everything from the preservation hall band in New Orleans to mariachi music in Texas, to the philharmonic in Boston. We’ve got all kinds of food. There’s a lovely little girl in this book, her name is Annie, and she writes back to her grandma again and again about the different foods she’s enjoying or not. In Boston, she says the beans are great, but she’s a little doubtful about the cod. So it’s not just about landmarks, it’s also about the kind of history and culture that I think kids will enjoy very much.
WB: And it is beautifully illustrated.
LC: Robin Glasser is a dear person, and a very talented individual. And I’m very happy to work with her.
WB: We can certainly disagree on what is news, what is serious news, but we can agree that this is a beautifully done book.
LC: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you, Wolf.
WB: How is your husband doing, because there’s always concern about his health.
LC: Well, I’m not sure why there’s always concern about his health. He’s been out on 140 campaigns. He’s raised forty-some million dollars for Republican candidates around the country. He’s been very busy. He has been serving the nation very well, as I think George Bush has been a really great leader for us during this time of some trials.
WB: We’re going to leave it right there. It was kind of you to come in.
LC: Thanks, Wolf.
WB: You came armed. I guess you knew what you wanted to do.
LC: Wolf, I am always prepared for you to ask questions that maybe aren’t quite fair, but they’re pretty tough.
WB: You did a good job.
LC: Thanks, Wolf.
WB: Thank you.

Commenter at Town Hall writes:Cheney-"An October Surprise" YeeHaaaaaaaaa! Lynn Cheney should go out and campaign for every cliffhanger republican contest-She can tell it like it is-with class and backbone. She serenely put Wolf and his "free" democratic commercial network on notice. Your lies and propaganda will not win the day! And -this one's for the obsessed Clinton people-This is how you handle an interview with someone you have no respect for. The meltdown by Clinton with Chris Wallace was an example of Clinton's paranoia with his legacy. The character of Mrs. Cheney in her interview will rally the conservatives and many independents! The media are starting to panic--their plan for being the fourth branch of government through democratic majority connections is failing-"Big Time".

Update: CNN has full vidio here

Congrats to the Redbirds

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Humor in Politics

Scott Ott at Scrappleface files a classic in Bush: GOP Will Stand Down as Democrats Stand Up

(2006-10-26) — President George Bush, at a White House news conference yesterday, assured Americans that “Republicans will pull out of Congress as soon as Democrats are ready to govern and protect our nation, and not one day sooner.” (full hilarity here)

Editors Note: Early congrats to Scrappleface for hitting the 10 million visitors mark on his site.

"Hats Off"

BREAKING NEWS!

UNITED STATES ECONOMY IS BOOMING!..........NO LINKS AVAILABLE AT MSM

ROVIN'S WORLD EXCLUSIVE...........

Rovin's World has exclusive details on the nations economy that the mainstream media has missed the past few years. With economic records falling daily, and the MSM missing/ignoring/purposely burying this news, Rovin's World, an obscure blogger from northern California has SCOOPED the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and a myriad of other "famous" publications.

When we interviewed the editor at Rovin's World, he told us he was just ecstatic to discover this incredible piece of news that so many in the media had some how missed. "I was just sitting there at my desk one morning and it hit me like a brick" said the editor. "I never dreamed that I would have a chance to post a story that got by all these "giants" of the industry".

"When I first started to write the story, I thought this must be a national security issue or something "classified". But then if that was the case, I was sure that the New York Times would have published this. But, I thought, this is NEWS that the people of this great nation have their constitutional right to know." " The nations economic strength is running a record proportions thanks to the tax cuts implemented by President Bush, tax revenues are filling the states coffers, 95% of Americans are employed and WORKING, gas prices have fallen (equal to an 81 billion tax cut) to new lows, and the stock market just keep breaking record highs, (12,000 and climbing)"

The economic health of this nation has not been here (at these numbers) in the last three decades, and the ELITE/MAINSTREAM MEDIA JUST MISSED THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ROVIN'S WORLD, AND INDEED THIS COUNTRY'S WORKING CLASS. WE JUST SCOOPED THE BIG BOYS!

(EDITORS NOTE): The editor will have economic news links available this afternoon, but he felt it was necessary to get this story posted ahead of his competition.

Previous Economic Links:

It's the Economy.....Stupid

A Promise Democrats Will Keep

It's The Economy, Stupid MSM (from CQ)

Low Jobless Rate (Scrappleface)

A Promise Democrats Will Keep

Democrat Party Pledge

Read my lips: "As a democrat, I promise to raise your taxes to slow down this run-away economic boom that George W. Bush and the Republican party have created. All this extra money belongs in government coffers and not in your pocket. As a democrat, I pledge to take this money out of your pocket and give it to the needy as I see fit. You have no right to this money. This money is not yours to keep, save, or spend. This nonsense of you having too much money in your pocket has to STOP."

Vote for me,

Signed (Pick any democrat)

Make the Tax Cuts Permanent!

It's the Economy.........stupid

George Will comments on the constant drone of economic whining despite actual near-record economic conditions.

And every election year — meaning every other year — brings an epidemic of dubious economic analysis, as members of the party out of power discern lead linings on silver clouds.

“Worst economy since Herbert Hoover,” John Kerry said in 2004, while that year’s growth (3.9 percent) was adding to America’s gross domestic product the equivalent of the GDP of Taiwan (the 19th-largest economy). Nancy Pelosi vows that if Democrats capture Congress they will “jump-start our economy.” A “jump-start ” is administered to a stalled vehicle.

But since the Bush tax cuts went into effect in 2003, the economy’s growth rate (3.5 percent) has been better than the average for the 1980s (3.1) and 1990s (3.3). Today’s unemployment rate (4.6 percent) is lower than the average for the 1990s (5.8) — lower, in fact, than the average for the past 40 years (6.0). Some stall.

Economic hypochondria, a derangement associated with affluence, is a byproduct of the welfare state: An entitlement mentality gives Americans a low pain threshold — witness their recurring hysteria about nominal rather than real gasoline prices — and a sense of being entitled to economic dynamism without the frictions and “creative destruction” that must accompany dynamism. Economic hypochondria is also bred by news media that consider the phrase “good news” an oxymoron, even as the U.S. economy, which has performed better than any other major industrial economy since 2001, drives the Dow to record highs.

The Jack No. 2 well, in deep water 170 miles southwest of New Orleans, recently discovered a field with perhaps 15 billion barrels of oil — a 50 percent increase in proven U.S. reserves. This news triggered a gusher of journalistic gloom: More oil means more woe — a reprieve for that enemy of humanity, the internal combustion engine, and more global warming, more air pollution, more highway fatalities, more suburban sprawl.

The recent 20 percent decline of the cost of a barrel of oil, from a nominal record of $78.40 (which, adjusting for inflation, was well below the 1980 peak of $92 in 2006 dollars), has produced an 81-cent decline in the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline in 70 days. For consumers, that is akin to a tax cut of more than $81 billion.

President Bush’s tax cuts were supposed to cause a cataract of red ink. In fiscal 2006, however, federal revenue as a share of GDP was 18.4 percent, slightly above the post-1962 average of 18.2. And the federal budget deficit was $247.7 billion, just 1.9 percent of the $13.1 trillion GDP. That is below the average for the 1970s (2.1), 1980s (3.0) and 1990s (2.2).

It is said that employee compensation has been stagnant. But to tickle that bad news from the statistics you must treat “compensation” as a synonym for wages and then ignore the effect of taxation on individuals’ well-being.

Kevin Hassett and Aparna Mathur of the American Enterprise Institute, writing in National Review, say annual wage growth since 2000 has been 0.6 percent, but the annual increase in real hourly compensation, including benefits — and if you do not include them, why are they called benefits ? — has been 1.3 percent. And taxes — particularly those paid by middle-class families with children — have declined substantially.

Link to full story

Gas prices are way down, the economy is strong, oh, and we haven't been attacked in over 5 years. Protect the future........vote Republican!

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters posted a similar story on the mainstream media's deception:

It's The Economy, Stupid MSM

TWELVE THOUSAND!!

The Dow is at 12,000+ with only minutes to go................hang on.


Update #1..... final close ......12011.73

Update #2 By JOE BEL BRUNO, AP Business Writer : NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average scored its first close above 12,000 Thursday as Wall Street, contending with fresh data that pointed to a weakening economy, managed to hold on to a slim advance.

Great line Joe! This nation breaks the 12,ooo barrier and you come up with "fresh data pointing to a weakening economy"......WITH NO LINKS!

We're sure which party good ol' Joe is cheering for......

Correction: Joe might have been eluding to these two paragraghs in the same story:

Trading was erratic Thursday, with the overall market struggling to sustain an advance gains after a pair of reports signaled the Federal Reserve' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Federal Reserve might have a tougher time orchestrating a soft landing of the economy. Disappointing earnings in the technology sector also weighed on stocks.

The Conference Board' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Conference Board's index of U.S. leading economic indicators rose less than forecast in September. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Fed's general economic index contracted for the first time since April 2003.

But I can't find out what this has to do with a weakening economy???? Say it ain't so Joe.......

Democratic Party Attacking Free Enterprise in America

Wal-Mart 'Has Declared War' on Dems, Union Foe Charges
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
October 16, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - Wal-Mart "has officially declared war on the Democratic Party" just three weeks before the Nov. 7 midterm elections, according to a group that wants to "change" the nation's biggest retail chain by unionizing its 1.3 million employees.

"Rather than embrace our positive vision for a better America, Wal-Mart has officially declared war on the Democratic Party, elected leaders and every American who believes we should pay workers a living wage, provide affordable health care to all, protect American jobs and keep America safe," Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com, said in a statement Friday.

Read the full story here

The very concept of free enterprise and a free market are being attacked by these unions and by association the democratic party. Paul Blank and his minions at WakeUpWalMart have no clue how a free market works in a free society. The very concept that Wal Mart created by purchasing goods in volume, and providing entry-level wages to it's workers allows consumers to purchase these goods at affordable prices.

For any institution (government, unions, or a democratic party) to force (mandate) wage scales and benefit packages upon any free market business is an assault on the free market enterprises that we have enjoyed for over two hundred years. This assault borders on socialist/communist ideals that threatens our very core values of a free market.

And don't be fooled by their intentions. The ONLY remedy for these forced polices is to stick it to you, the consumer, by paying more and getting less. The results are simple. Fewer stores, far less employment, lower tax revenues for the local community's, and yes, we will all pay more for those lost revenues.

Sure sounds UN-DEMOCRATIC to me.

Mr. Blank and his co-horts would like you to believe that these mandated wage and benefit increases are for the good of all Walmart employees. What they won't tell you is YOU (the consumer) will foot the bill. The headline suggest that Wal Mart has declared war on the unions and the democratic party. I submit to you that it has been the the other way around. The democratic party and their always faithful unions have declared war on Wal Mart, and Wal Mart (and you, the consumer) are fighting back.

Let the free market remain free. Or we all lose.