NoPC Forums http://www.nopc.info/forum NoPC is a community of conservative and libertarian thought, where often any and all discussions can be had. en Wed, 14 May 2008 07:44:02 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.nopc.info/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg NoPC Forums http://www.nopc.info/forum <![CDATA[Campaigning For Obama In Gaza-Obama's ME adviser Robert Malley busy schmuck for jihad]]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28101&goto=newpost Wed, 14 May 2008 06:35:49 GMT Campaigning For Obama In Gaza

 Obama's ME adviser Robert Malley must have been very busy before he was ousted for meeting with Hamas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g



h/t seekeroftruth for link to video and story. ]]> Politics thehumanbeanAZ http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28101 For Brandon http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28100&goto=newpost Wed, 14 May 2008 04:07:39 GMT http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1


"VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.

In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.

The interview was headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother." Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom. " ]]> ilovelucy http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28100 fro Brandon http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28099&goto=newpost Wed, 14 May 2008 04:06:54 GMT http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1


"VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.

In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.

The interview was headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother." Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom. " ]]> ilovelucy http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28099 The Possible Famine http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28098&goto=newpost Wed, 14 May 2008 03:47:40 GMT What we eat is really very precious. We take food foregranted so much of the time, so I have come to realize that wasting food is rather sinful. And... What we eat is really very precious. We take food foregranted so much of the time, so I have come to realize that wasting food is rather sinful.

And I am guilty of waste, frankly.

When I read the following, and giving the corn situation, etc., it gave me pause. So, do plant a garden, think about what you buy and what you eat....

"Scientists and international organizations focused on controlling wheat stem rust have said 90 percent of world wheat lines are susceptible to Ug99. The situation is particularly critical in light of the existing worldwide wheat shortage."

link http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtri...0128_05_13.asp ]]> ilovelucy http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28098 The Death of a Mall http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28097&goto=newpost Wed, 14 May 2008 02:31:15 GMT Why do malls die? My husband and I went to Kansas City last weekend to eat out at the only place we ever really go to - in an area known as the Plaza... Why do malls die? My husband and I went to Kansas City last weekend to eat out at the only place we ever really go to - in an area known as the Plaza but this day we had time to burn so I wanted to go to a mall I went to years ago - probably at least 12 years ago when it was really spiffy and shiny.

Banister Mall.

So, I look on my trusty map and we navigated to the mall or, rather, what USED TO BE the mall.

It was like driving through Omega Man or something. Weeds grew from cracks in the asphalt, signs twisted from their posts by high winds, hung and shuddered in the breeze. The mall was dead. What was once a massive conglomeration of high end stores was now blocks of empty buildings, windows broken (or shot) out and you could feel the emptiness like a kick in your gut.

That should not have happened.

As we drove about KC, we found other malls in the same state (or close to it) of abandonment and disrepair.

What gives?

To complicate matters entire residential areas seem to be going down the same path. Homes of incredible architectural historical value (to us, anyway) are sitting in lawns that haven't seen the underside of a mower in months. Open windows, ratted curtains blowing out.

Entire buildings and homes boarded up.

Again, what gives?:(:(:( ]]> General Discussion Tiger http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28097 Rev. Wright Magazine Featured Obama on Cover with Farrakhan http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28096&goto=newpost Wed, 14 May 2008 02:28:58 GMT The Farakhan link and nation of Islam link is upon us and clearer and clearer he has been lying about NOT KNOWING... Damn Guardian - I need more... The Farakhan link and nation of Islam link is upon us and clearer and clearer he has been lying about NOT KNOWING... Damn Guardian - I need more bandwidth from the NoPC gods to fit the new names in my OBAMA FRIENDS LIST nick. :rolleyes:

Rev. Wright Magazine Featured Obama on Cover with Farrakhan

Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:41:39 pm PDT


To this day, Barack Obama continues to insist he was shocked and surprised to discover that Reverend Jeremiah Wright had bizarre racist views.


Now Tom Blumer has discovered images of Wright’s radical newsmagazine Trumpet—and look who was featured on the cover of that magazine at least three times: BizzyBlog - Attention Stanley Kurtz, Re Obama, Wright, Trumpet: I’ve Got You Covered.

Here’s one of the images, featuring pictures of Barack Obama, Rev. Wright — and Louis Farrakhan. Isn’t that cozy?


And if you think Barack Obama didn’t know he was featured on this cover, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.



For more about the deranged, hateful content of Trumpet, see: Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Trumpet’.


UPDATE at 5/13/08 5:42:49 pm:
LGF readers have identified several of the other people on this cover:
Adam Clayton Powell — 1st row, 1st from left
Shirley Chisholm — 1st row, 4th from left
O. J. Simpson attorney Johnny Cochran — 1st row, 5th from left
Rosa Parks — 1st row, 6th from left
Rapper “Common” — 2nd row, 1st from left
Is that Robert Mugabe? 2nd row, 2nd from left
Luther Vandross — 4th row, 1st from left
Ozzie Davis — 4th row, 2nd from left
Lou Rawls — 4th row, 3rd from left
Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad — 4th row, 5th from left
Notice who’s missing? Martin Luther King, Jr. ]]> Politics thehumanbeanAZ http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28096 First South Park, now the Simpsons... http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28095&goto=newpost Wed, 14 May 2008 01:29:52 GMT http://simpsonizeme.com/ http://simpsonizeme.com/ ]]> The Guardian http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28095 <![CDATA[Al's comments on religious belief...]]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28094&goto=newpost Wed, 14 May 2008 00:40:47 GMT Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.

Read more at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1 ]]> Crusades The Guardian http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28094 <![CDATA[scarlett O'Hillary RETURNS!!]]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28093&goto=newpost Tue, 13 May 2008 22:21:38 GMT Yesterday....on local news....

"I need the hard workin' folks lahk yew here in West Virginny to hep me be Presydunt and help yew with yer problims..."

Well Fiddle-E-Dee......:rotflmao:

What a fucking phony whore.... ]]> Politics Bassman http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28093 The Wee Azus Laptop http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28092&goto=newpost Tue, 13 May 2008 22:19:20 GMT This seems like a good knockaround, bare-bones little gizmo that you can stick into your backpack and not have to worry about it being stolen or... This seems like a good knockaround, bare-bones little gizmo that you can stick into your backpack and not have to worry about it being stolen or broken because it doesn't cost all that much, but can still access the Net and email and type up papers on the go using OpenOffice.

Anybody with any opinions on or experience with this gadget? ]]> Bits and Bytes polaris http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28092 <![CDATA[America's Enemies Are Using Oil To Attack It--American Left is A-OK With That]]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28091&goto=newpost Tue, 13 May 2008 22:08:44 GMT After carefully absorbing the information below, you will have no alternative but to conclude that those who want to ban drilling in ANWAR and... After carefully absorbing the information below, you will have no alternative but to conclude that those who want to ban drilling in ANWAR and offshore are the greatest traitors to your country since the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss:



OVER A BARREL

OIL NATIONS ARE RIGGING THE MARKETS TO PUNISH THE US


By ARIEL COHEN






May 11, 2008 -- As you go deeper into debt filling up your tank with $4 gas this weekend, look on the bright side - you're helping to fund countries that hate you.


From Russia to Iran to Venezuela, America's adversaries are splurging on oil windfalls, while programs directed against Uncle Sam and his allies are funded by petroleum revenues. Big bucks are allowing the oil sultans and dictators to intimidate US allies, buy politicians and academics, and purchase election outcomes.


Oil prices are going up partly because of supply and speculation - but also because these countries can decide to punish the US or limit our influence, particularly when they disagree with policies toward Iraq and Israel.


Part of the reason they can do this is that governments of the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel, and the non-cartel producers like Russia, make sure that international oil companies do not own reserves in the ground. Exxon, for instance, spent only 4 percent of its exploration budget in the Middle East last year - local governments do not allow Western companies to take control of their own destiny.


Thus, the global oil production is at the mercy of opaque and corrupt national oil companies, while the governments that own them enjoy skyrocketing oil prices and the growing, mindboggling wealth.


The revenues of the major oil producing countries have quadrupl
ed in three years. Since 9/11, oil prices have more than quintupled. This year Europe and the US will spend approximately $2 trillion on imported oil, while the world will spend close to $3 trillion.


This money recycles back to the US and the West, often in the most legitimate ways. Sovereign Investment Funds have acquired large chunks of America's financial flagships: Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Blackstone and the Carlyle Group.


A foreign government acquiring a serious stake in US corporate gems can influence US policies in the Middle East and elsewhere. The oil sheikhs can "tweak" attitudes towards extremism and terrorism, and buy access to politicians through lobbying and campaign contributions. In the future, these funds may acquire defense and technology flagships: Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin and others, or go after primary media assets, from CNN to FOX.

*However, oil revenues may be used in much more sinister ways. Money can buy nuclear weapons programs, ballistic missile arsenals, and other arms. It can also pay for terrorist armies.


Today's attempt to overthrow the pro-American government in Lebanon is bankrolled by Iran. Hezbollah is a wholly-owned Iranian subsidiary. Its chief has the official title of the "representative of Iran's Supreme Leader" in Lebanon. Iran paid for the 27,000 rockets Hezbollah has aimed at Israel.


Iran also buys Hamas weapons and popularity in Gaza. In a recent children's TV broadcast by Hamas' Al Aqsa TV, a "Hamasnik" boy is shown assassinating President George W. Bush in the Oval Office and declaring that the White House will be turned into a mosque. Money may not buy you love, but it sure pays for propaganda.


Al Jazeera, the Qatari Arabic and English language TV is a propaganda arm with global reach. Viciously anti-American, it talks to tens of millions of Arabic speaking Muslims worldwide, as well as audiences in Pakistan, India, London and Detroit.


Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Salafi-Jihadi ideology known as Wahhabism, is financing hundreds of religious seminaries (madrassahs), educating generations of US-hating and anti-Semitic Muslim extremists from Michigan to Manila. Some of them will pick up arms to fight the US and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Wahhabis deny other religions the right to exist in dignity, as a recent religious ruling (fatwa) in Saudi Arabia demonstrated. Two journalists who argued for tolerance were sentenced to death.


In the US a majority of mosques partake of Saudi and Gulf largesse. The Saudis often provide religious leaders (imams), textbooks and curricula, to Muslim communities and schools. There is little to no control as far as the content of the teachings or school books, but a Freedom House study found that these are anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-American and anti-Israel.


Despite trips by President George Bush and Vice President Cheney, Saudi Arabia refuses to increase output - and why would they? They can use it as leverage to get their way, particularly in Israel.


Riyyadh also employs an army of lobbyists and other "influencers" in Washington, London, Brussels and elsewhere around the world. These shadow mercenaries promote a benign image for the Kingdom.


They appear on TV, write newspaper and journal articles, direct university programs on Islamic or Middle Eastern studies. Saudi princes have poured tens of millions into prestigious universities, from Georgetown and Harvard to Cambridge and Edinburgh.


Former senior government officials and ambassadors are on the royal payroll influencing their colleagues in the diplomatic service. This is how the Saudi "peace plan" calling for undermining Israel through a massive influx of Palestinian "refugees" received US support at the highest levels.


This is how the Carter Center in Atlanta ended up taking millions in Gulf oil money. This is why Jimmy Carter looks like he's shilling for the Iranian-Saudi client, Hamas.

*If all this were not enough, Hugo Chavez, the socialist-fascist ruler of Venezuela, is spending billions in dollar oil subsidies to assemble an empire of dependencies in Latin America. According to evidence on a laptop taken from a dead guerilla leader in the neighboring Ecuador, Chavez supports the FARC narco-guerillas who are attempting to overthrow the democratically-elected government of President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia.

Chavez, an ally of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, provides cheap oil and loans to Daniel Ortega and his wife, the Sandinista rulers of Nicaragua. Chavez also supports leftist leaders and forces in Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay. Their intent is to deny the US influence and allies in South America, and ease the way for an Iranian-Hezbollah penetration of the Southern Cone.


Russian leaders, more anti-American today than ever, have written the book on using money and energy muscle to buy friends and influence neighbors. They made an example out of Ukraine, by cutting gas supply to it on New Year's Day for four days.


They also intimidated France and Germany into bucking the US at the Bucharest NATO summit and objecting to Georgia and Ukraine being issued a North Atlantic Treaty Association membership plan.


Russia's Gazprom has hired former German Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder as the Chairman of a pipeline consortium, and made a similar offer to former Italian Prime Minister and the top Eurocrat Romano Prodi. Vladimir Putin does brisk energy business with Silvio Berlusconi, and with the French President Nicolas Sarcozy, though both are considered pro-American.


German businessmen enthusiastically lobby Chancellor Angela Merkel on the Kremlin's behalf. Russia, some argue, has more clout today in Europe than Washington.


Finally, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and even US friend Kuwait are dumping the greenback in favor of the Euro in energy transactions. This is likely to decrease demand and increase the supply of dollars, sending the US currency into a tailspin. Weaker dollars and higher inflation may add insult to injury in the prolonged process of America's economic deterioration.


To stave it off and to combat its oil-rich adversaries, the US needs, in the short term, to expand its domestic energy sector. Increasing oil and gas production in the West, along the Pacific and Atlantic continental shelf, and in Alaska will help, and so will a coal and nuclear power build-up.


The US Congress should also abolish corn ethanol subsidy and lift tariffs on the really competitive ethanol made from sugar cane. Brazil and Africa can produce more ethanol than Iowa and Nebraska. However, in the long term, more advanced technological solutions are vital to stem the global wealth redistribution to OPEC potentates and other America-haters.


World powers have risen and fallen over major economic factors. This should never be the case of our nation. The oil potentates should know that the US will not be intimidated - or bankrupted out of existence.


Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow in International Energy Security at The Heritage Foundation and the author of The Real World, a weekly column published in The Middle East Times. ]]> Politics polaris http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28091 Colorado U. Is Looking For a Conservative Professor http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28090&goto=newpost Tue, 13 May 2008 21:19:04 GMT This guy better have a VERY thick skin and a very good sense of humour if he's to function in Pyongyang U., Western Campus....:D


CU seeks right-wing prof

By Stephanie Simon, The Wall Street Journal
Originally published 11:57 a.m., May 13, 2008
Updated 11:57 a.m., May 13, 2008



BOULDER — How liberal is the University of Colorado at Boulder?


The campus hot-dog stand sells tofu wieners. A recent pro-marijuana rally drew a crowd of 10,000, roughly a third the size of the student body. And according to one professor’s analysis of voter registration, the 800-strong faculty includes just 32 Republicans.


Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson surveys this landscape with unease. A college that champions diversity, he believes, must think beyond courses in gay literature, Chicano studies and feminist theory. “We should also talk about intellectual diversity,” he says. So over the next year, Mr. Peterson plans to raise $9 million to create an endowed chair for what is thought to be the nation’s first Professor of Conservative Thought and Policy.


Mr. Peterson’s quest has been greeted with protests from some faculty and students, who say the move is too — well, radical. “Why set aside money specifically for a conservative?” asks Curtis Bell, a teaching assistant in political science. “I’d rather see a quality academic than someone paid to have a particular perspective.”


Even some conservatives who have long pushed for balance in academia voice qualms. Among them is David Horowitz, a conservative agitator whose book “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America” includes two Boulder faculty members: an associate professor of ethnic studies who writes about the intersection of Chicano and lesbian issues, and a philosophy professor focused on feminist politics and “global gender justice.”


While he approves of efforts to bolster a conservative presence on campus, Mr. Horowitz fears that setting up a token right-winger as The Conservative at Boulder will brand the person as a curiosity, like “an animal in the zoo.”


We “fully expect this person to be integrated into the fabric of life on campus,” replies Todd Gleeson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.


Boulder is far from the only campus to recognize a leftward tilt to the ivory tower. National surveys have repeatedly shown that liberals dominate faculties at most four-year colleges. And conservative activists have grown more aggressive in demanding balance. A group called the Leadership Institute now sends field workers to scores of campuses each fall to train right-wing students to speak up. College administrators are beginning to respond.


Academics studying the trend cite Georgetown University’s recent hiring of former Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet. And Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., kicked off a conservative lecture series with a talk by the now-deceased William F. Buckley Jr.


At Boulder, long known for its lefty politics, the notion of a chair in conservative thought had kicked around campus for a decade. Then, in 2005, the college was thrust into a polarizing debate over an essay by ethnic-studies professor Ward Churchill, who argued that the bankers killed in the Twin Towers on Sept. 11 were legitimate military targets because they were “little Eichmanns” who “formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire.”


Fox News television host Bill O’Reilly seized on those comments, and Mr. Churchill swiftly became a national symbol of political extremists running amok on campuses. The university opened an investigation into his scholarship, and Mr. Churchill was fired last summer for what the school described as plagiarism and academic fraud that was unrelated to the Eichmann essay. Mr. Churchill didn’t respond to a request seeking comment. Within days, the university launched an effort to woo back donors infuriated by the affair.





Several months later, fund raising began for the chair in conservative thought. Administrators say the move had nothing to do with Mr. Churchill, but was part of an ongoing effort to address weaknesses in the curriculum — for instance, by adding language classes in Farsi and Indonesian.


“That’s what a good university does — look for an area where they don’t have depth or diversity and start investing,” Mr. Gleeson says.


Mr. Peterson — a Republican who took over as chancellor two years ago — says he would like to bring a new luminary to campus every year or two to fill the chair, for an annual salary of about $200,000. No candidates have been approached, but faculty and administrators have floated big names like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, columnist George Will and Philip Zelikow, who chaired the 9/11 Commission.


“Like Margaret Mead among the Samoans, they’re planning to study conservatives. That’s hilarious,” says Mr. Will, dryly adding that “I don’t think it would be a good fit.” Ms. Rice didn’t respond to a request seeking comment, and Mr. Zelikow declined to comment.


On campus, the chancellor’s fund-raising efforts set off a prickly debate. Faculty members demanded to know whether donors would control the appointment. (They won’t.) They asked for a chance to vote on the endowment. (They didn’t get it.) “We don’t ask the faculty if it’s OK if we create a chair in thermodynamics,” Mr. Peterson says — so why give them veto power over conservative thought? After all, he says, “It’s an intellectual pursuit.”


Ken Bickers, who chairs the political science department, says that while he supports the concept of intellectual diversity, he has reservations about the university’s strategy. He worries students will get the impression that the “conservative thought” professor speaks for all conservatives. And he resents the implication that ordinary professors don’t air conservative ideas in class. Registered as unaffiliated with any party, Mr. Bickers says he makes a point of discussing all perspectives, but because he doesn’t stick a political label on each lecture, students “don’t realize, ’Oooh, that was conservative.’”


Mr. Peterson agrees that most professors try to be fair. He adds, “I don’t know that it always happens.”


Indeed, on the lush campus, lined with flowering trees, professors tack articles slamming the Bush administration outside their offices. A humor piece posted in the philosophy department mocks the Bible. Job boards feature internships with left-wing groups and Democratic candidates.

Jack Roldan, vice chair of the College Republicans, has felt the lopsided politics keenly during his four years studying international affairs. He longed for a conservative mentor, and says he graduated last week with many questions left unanswered: When is military intervention necessary? Why does the GOP focus so much on economic policy? And what’s up with the neo-cons?


“There’s a lot more about what I’m about that I’d like to know,” Mr. Roldan says.


Other students don’t have much sympathy. They love Boulder precisely because of its liberal swagger.


Sophomore Marissa Malouff sees the campus as a sort of re-education camp. Sheltered rich kids from out-of-state might come for the snowboarding, but while they’re here they get dunked in a simmering pot of left-wing idealism. And that, in her view, is how it should be.

“They need to learn about social problems and poverty and the type of things liberal professors are likely to talk about,” says Ms. Malouff, a Democrat.


Chancellor Peterson’s response: Not to worry. He’s not trying to change the essential nature of CU-Boulder.


In fact, Mr. Peterson said it’s not imperative that the new professor of conservative thought be an actual conservative.


“We hire lots of scholars of the French language,” he says, “and they aren’t necessarily French.”






© 2006 Daily Camera and Boulder Publishing, LLC. ]]> General Discussion polaris http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28090 90% of the Media Is In the Tank For Obama: McAuliffe http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28089&goto=newpost Tue, 13 May 2008 21:02:15 GMT This guy knows all about the media being in the tank for the Democrat du Jour..... Campaign 2008 ... This guy knows all about the media being in the tank for the Democrat du Jour.....



Campaign 2008

McAuliffe says media ‘in the tank’ for Obama By Klaus Marre Posted: 05/13/08 11:43 AM [ET]

Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), said Tuesday that the former first lady is hamstrung by a biased media.



“Clearly it has been a biased media, no question about it,” McAuliffe said on Fox News. When asked how much of the mainstream media is “in the tank” for Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), who leads Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination, McAuliffe estimated that about 90 percent of the media favor Obama. “It is what it is. We’re not complaining,” he stated. “We have to deal with the hand we’re dealt with.”

McAuliffe added that “every independent study has said that this is the most biased coverage they’ve ever seen in a presidential campaign.”

He also praised Fox News, which is often viewed as a conservative media outlet, as “one of the most responsible in this presidential campaign.” ]]> Politics polaris http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28089 <![CDATA[If You Think We're on the Wrong Track Now...Wait until the leftists rule]]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28088&goto=newpost Tue, 13 May 2008 20:41:25 GMT If You Think We're on the Wrong Track Now....
By: Dennis Prager

Wait until the leftists have complete power.

Today's most widely accepted political belief is that because an unprecedentedly high percentage of Americans -- 81 percent -- believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the Republicans are headed for a major defeat this coming November.


If this is the case, it can only be because the American voter translates "headed in the wrong direction" as "because the Republicans have had their way, so it's time to let the Democrats have theirs."


That should not be the case. I count myself as one of the 81 percent who believes America is headed in the wrong direction, and that is precisely why I am voting Republican. Moreover, I suspect I am not alone among the 81 percent in ascribing the wrong track to the leftist, not the conservative, influence on American life.


But if "headed in the wrong direction" really does mean for most Americans that voting Democrat will put our country on the right track, it is hard not to conclude that America has begun the decline that has ended all great civilizations. For if the Democratic Party -- given how far left it has become -- comes to control Congress and the presidency, America's values will soon stray so far from what they have been since its founding that it is difficult to imagine ever being able to undo the change.


Given that "on the wrong track" is defined as unhappiness with the economy, with President George W. Bush, and with the war in Iraq, let's analyze all this.


First, are the 81 percent unhappy with their own economic status or with the economic direction of the country? They are obviously not the same things. But whichever it is -- and it may well be both -- why do most Americans believe the Democrats' prescriptions are going to help? Why will a huge tax increase on all Americans earning over $200,000, on capital gains for all Americans and on social security (if Barack Obama is elected) help the economy?


When have tax increases ever helped an economy? Why will America almost alone among the industrialized democracies move in the direction of higher taxes? Are all these other countries that are lowering taxes harming their economies?

More> ]]> General Discussion thehumanbeanAZ http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28088 Patrolling w/ the Sons of Iraq - Bill Ardolino of the Long War Journal http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28087&goto=newpost Tue, 13 May 2008 20:17:21 GMT *Patrolling w/ the Sons of Iraq* Posted By *Uncle Jimbo* Image: http://www.blackfive.net/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/13/picture_2.png ... Patrolling w/ the Sons of Iraq

Posted By Uncle Jimbo



Bill Ardolino of the Long War Journal is still taking a first hand look at the elements of progress in Iraq. This photo essay has him patrolling one of Baghdad's biggest markets w/ the Sons of Iraq. ]]> The Middle East thehumanbeanAZ http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28087