Take time to watch this video and see if you agree with what the man is saying. It’s a valid point from my prospective. What say you?

Dennis Prager Q & A At University of Denver

At some point this stuff is going to hit critical mass. Get a grip America, or you will slide into oblivion.

City wants to nip tobacco use in the butt

ZONATION: Thanks Hot Air!

You really need to watch this video folks. Zo is right on target per usual.
YouTube Link 

Chaos, Confusion, and Civil War

Post-journalism Victor Davis Hanson

We have seen it all the last two years: Weeping journalists on election night; a journalist openly promising to help make Obama successful  (”Yeah, it is my job.”); film takes of journalists cheering an Obama speech; the savaging of Sarah Palin and the hands-off treatment of Biden; soft-ball interviews and long puff-pieces on Obama as the young cool crusader;comparisons to JFK’s Camelot, and on and on.

In the 3rd book of his history, Thucydides has some insightful thoughts about destroying institutions in times of zealotry—and then regretting their absence when there is a need for refuge for them. The mainstream press should have learned that lesson, once they blew up their credibility in the past election by morphing into the Team Obama  press agency.
There will come a time in the year ahead when either Obama’s unexamined past will come back to haunt him, or his inexperience and tentativeness in foreign affairs will be embarrassingly apparent, or his European-socialist agenda for domestic programs simply won’t work. And as public opinion falls, what will MSNBC, the New York Times, the editors of Newsweek, a Chris Matthews or the  anchors at the major networks say?
Not much—since they will have one of two non-choices: (1) either they will begin scrambling to offer supposed disinterested criticism, which will be met with the public’s, “Why should we begin believing you now?” or “Why didn’t you tell this before?”, or  (2), They can continue as state-sanctioned megaphones of the Obama administration in the manner that they did during the campaign. They will lose either way and remain without credibility.
In short, we live now in the Age of Post-Journalism. All that was before is now over, as  this generation of journalists voluntarily destroyed the hallowed notion of objectivity and they will have no idea quite  how to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.

Let’s just say nothing would surprise me at this point in American history. We’ve got a lot to deal with in the short term and politics sure isn’t helping matters much. Either way we’ll all be dealing with the same problems in the long run.

Election Night Broadcast at Hot Air!

Thanks for voting America, catch ya later……………..

You just jumped off the cliff!

H/T to Flopping Aces for the link.

H/T to Velvet Hammer for the following video link.

Nice job Scarlett!

Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling

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Video courtesy of Flopping Aces. Click on the pic.

IstCav sent me this video link.It pertains to the lawsuit filed in Federal Court regarding Obamas failure to produce proof that he is a natural born citizen of the USA.

October Surprise

The YouTube link is HERE

Illusion or Reality has taken on a whole new meaning for this Old Dog lately. I sometimes wonder if this isn’t the final episode of the Twilight Zone or something, but then again, I seem to be waking up in the real world every day so that’s out. It has it’s surreal moments to say the least.

The Liberal Left likes to paint those of us that are Conservative in nature as racists and bigots, they are mistaken. Give me the chance to vote for a Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams or a Micheal Steele and see what you get for a response.

I like the way machosauceproduction explains his view of politics in the following video:

Nice job!With a H/T to newsjunkie_ky  at LGF for the link

The Danger is Not Fully Appreciated
by J. R. Nyquist
Weekly Column Published: 09.12.2008

“Perhaps the United States is under financial attack. We know that the country is being encircled through maneuvers in Latin America. At the same time, the U.S. is being isolated from its European allies, financially hobbled by a combination of its own blunders and poorly understood market manipulations. There is continuity in Russian grand strategy, from the rise of Gorbachev to the incursion into Georgia. Russia’s hidden hand should not be underestimated. The advent of Boris Yeltsin was not a period of democracy and genuine liberalization. It was, instead, a period of deception and false promise.

The strategic danger is not fully appreciated, even now.
The link is HERE

H/T to LGF for the heads up on this one.

LEBANON, Va. — “That’s not change,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.

“You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it’s still a pig.”

And an empty suit always looks the same Barry, you are no exception to the rule regardless of what your teleprompter is telling you to say.

Heh, I like bacon and this guy has no idea where it comes from in the first place.

That empty suit needs a pressing IMO….

A poem contributed by Russ Vaughn.

She’s running against old Scranton Joe,
Whose blue-collar pedigree we all know,
Because mainstream media says it’s true,
Though facts don’t quite support that view.
Joe says himself he’s middle class,
But the MSM considers that crass;
Middle Class? That’s so demeaning,
Got to be blue collar, leftist leaning.

She’s running against a rock-hard bias,
Of Mainstream Media, oh so pious,
Who ignored John Edwards secret screwing,
But pounce upon a teen’s wrongdoing.
A double standard? Oh you bet,
But folks you ain’t seen nothing yet;
These vultures we know will not pause,
To destroy this girl for their liberal cause.

She’s running against a dubious deal,
Dealt by our media so surreal,
The one’s should keep us all informed,
So twisted now, by hate malformed.
No longer do we get the news,
But extreme opinions, liberal views.
With hateful words, a teen they’ve trussed,
While Edward’s sins are undiscussed.

She’s running against the New York Times,
Godmother of journalistic crimes.
She’s conservative, so she doesn’t fit?
Be ready for their murderous hit.
If they don’t get her, she’s still toast,
For a backstab hit by the Washington Post;
And if they can’t kill her with their slimes,
There’s the West Coast hitters, the L.A. Times.

She’s running against some heavy odds, some think she’s not up to it,
I think she’s favored by the gods, and the libs are about to screw it.

Posted at Old War Dogs HERE!

Empty suits always have something to hide…………

Hat tip to Flopping Aces for the link.

Video Link HERE>

As Rurik would say, “Socialism really bores me”…………

These are the latest headlines about the conflict from Drudge:

Georgia ‘overrun’ by Russian troops; full-scale ground invasion begins…
Ultimatum…
US military surprised by speed, timing…
McCain condemnation upstages White House…

And this:

Bush warns Russia to pull back in Georgia

For a little background from somebody that truly understands that part of the world, read this from Rurik at Talon:

“Georgia is a republic with close ties to the United States, and it exists in a very rough neighborhood, in which it has made a number of serious enemies. This has always been true for Georgia, for at least a couple thousand years. It has also been true for just as long, that Georgia and their rulers have often been indiscreet and have often brought about their own undoing by provoking larger neighbors.”

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George has put together several good books on the history of aviation in the former USSR. He knows his airplanes and also understands the culture and mechanics behind the “curtains” that have driven Russia to it’s current position on the world stage.

My good friend Russ Vaughn at Old War Dogs posted this and I thought I’d pass it along. I share his sentiments about Nancy Pelosi. She really bugs me.

Madame Savior of the Planet
Contributed by Russ Vaughn

I’ll suffer no challenge from any Republican fool,
For I’m Madam Speaker with divine right to rule.
It was by liberal colleagues that I was appointed;
But it was by God, Himself, that I was anointed.
So scoff all you want at my frozen-faced smile,
And eyes that your headlights pick up for a mile;
With scalpel and botox I’ve made myself fair,
But the hormones do create some coarse facial hair.

Thomas Sowell: A Dangerous Demagoguery

July 3rd, 2008 by Exspider

Dangerous demagoguery

Barack Obama says that he wants to “heal” the country while at the same time promoting the idea that all sorts of people are victims for whom he will fight. [snip]
More….

Now that’s somebody I could vote for. I mean Dr. Sowell of course…………..

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Let there be light.

June 23rd, 2008 by Exspider

H/T to Mary Lamb for the link!

Rep. Poe can see the light at least.

Click on the image for the YouTube video.

Dick Durbin acting like a hapless fool in the background is the best part of the video.

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Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling

June 21st, 2008 by Exspider

Are these just words?

H/T to Flopping Aces for the link.

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So How Do You Fix It?

June 9th, 2008 by Exspider

Can we fix it is probably a better question.

Dumb Or Ill-informed

What assumptions do congressmen make about the American people? Do they assume that we’re dumb or ill-informed about the energy problems we are experiencing? Every time there has been a huge spike in gasoline prices, Congress hauls oil company executives before their committees to accuse them of greed, obscene profits and price-fixing. One federal investigation after another of supposed oil company misconduct turns up nothing to substantiate congressional allegations. Unfortunately, the congressional hearings make front page news and lead the evening television news, but the results of federal investigations that follow are only casually mentioned deep in the body of newspapers and get little or no time on the evening television news. If news media people had an ounce of integrity, they would highlight the federal investigation findings that undermine congressional charges of oil company misconduct and they would question the congressmen who made those charges.

Americans might prefer heroes-and-villains explanations to problems to reality-based explanations. A politically satisfying explanation for today’s $4 a gallon price, when it was less than $2 a gallon a couple of years ago, is because oil company executives have all of a sudden become greedy in their pursuit of “obscene” profits. As such, congressmen, as our heroes, should call these greedy men on the carpet and take sanctions against them in the forms of windfall profits tax, price controls and other measures to take away their ill-gotten gains — never mind the effects of the 1980 windfall profits tax. According to the Congressional Research Service, the 1980 windfall profits tax had the effect of decreasing domestic production by 3 percent to 6 percent, thereby increasing American dependence on foreign oil sources by 8 percent to 16 percent.

Controlling the price of anything is very difficult and it can only be accomplished through the force of government, mostly by restricting supply. The U.S. Congress is a major player in oil supply restriction, and OPEC nations must be laughing all the way to the bank. Congress has banned energy exploration in 85 percent of our coastal waters. Ironically, China, in conjunction with Cuba, is drilling for oil nearer to our coastline than U.S. oil companies are permitted.

According to “We don’t have to take $4 gas prices — we can drill,” written by Sterling Burnett in the Houston Chronicle (5/21/08), “It is estimated that beneath America’s coast lies enough oil to fuel 60 million cars in the United States for 60 years and enough natural gas to heat 60 million homes for 160 years. … If allowed access to American oil reserves in Alaska and off our coastline, American oil companies could increase our country’s reserves an estimated fivefold, taking the United States from 11th place to fourth among the countries with proven oil reserves.”

You say, “What about the environmental impact?” Contrary to the hysterical claims made by environmental extremists, caribou and other wildlife have expanded and flourished in and around Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, unaffected by the oil and gas development. What’s more, Burnett points out that the “two leading environmental groups, the Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy, have allowed oil and gas production on several of their most important and unique nature preserves.”

Environmentalists come to their senses when non-drilling philosophy costs them something. It’s two-faced hypocrisy. At times I’ve suggested that the best way to get oil exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve is to give the land to environmentalists. You can bet they wouldn’t sit on billions of dollars of oil and gas.

The true villain in our having to cough up $60, $70 or $80 to fill our gas tanks is the U.S. Congress caught in the grip of environmental extremists. But if reality is too difficult to swallow, we can continue to blame and support the congressional attack on oil executives, turn food into oil and think of other crackpot “solutions.”

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