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DNC implodes, names Dean new DNC chief

The party that has been losing elections on a regular basis for the last 10+ years has named Howard Dean as its new chief. Most conservatives and libertarians are absolutely thrilled with the pick, as are most liberals. The difference is, the libs that are happy now will likely not be thrilled after 2006 and 2008 elections.

Dean said the following during his acceptance speech:

We cannot run 18-state presidential campaigns and expect to win. People will vote for Democratic candidates in Texas and Utah and West Virginia if we knock on their door, introduce ourselves and tell them what we believe. That’s what organization allows us to do.

Sure, Howard! The best way to woo voters in Bush Country, Mormon Country, and Mountain Country is to tell the citizens of those states what your party wants:

"MORE BLOOD FOR OIL!"

While I’m dishing out credit to Tom at the Donegal Express for his literary eloquence mixed with sound political observation skills, I hope he doesn’t mind that I post this entry from his blog here. If you do mind, Tom, let me know and I’ll drop it…otherwise, I’ll take the risk that my readers will go to your site more often than mine! Heck, I check it out nearly every day, so why shouldn’t everyone?

Rick Mercier, an editor at the Free Lance-Star wrote this up about the genocide in Sudan:

But you can bet that a resolution with any teeth to it will meet firm resistance in the council — much of it from veto-wielding permanent members Russia and China. France may also play an obstructionist role.

As this sorry spectacle unfolds in the coming days and weeks, it will be useful to remind ourselves that these three countries not only are blocking meaningful action against the Sudanese government, they’ve actually aided and abetted Khartoum in its cleansing of certain ethnic groups from Darfur.

Here’s how:

—China: The Chinese have been Sudan’s principal arms supplier over the past decade, furnishing Khartoum with copious amounts of tanks, fighter jets, helicopters, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

China also is heavily invested in Sudan’s oil industry, and depends on the country’s oil fields to supply the Chinese industrial dragon with a sizeable portion of the energy it needs to keep growing. Needless to say, Sudan’s weapons purchases are funded largely by the revenues generated by this oil extraction.

—Russia: According to a report issued in November by Amnesty International, the Sudanese government imported four MiG fighter jets from Russia in December 2003 and January 2004. Khartoum was expected to have imported 12 new Russian MiGs by the end of last year. This purchase coincided with the use of MiGs against civilians in Darfur.

When I met with refugees from Darfur in September, a number of them told me that their villages had been attacked by MiGs in late 2003 and early last year. Human-rights groups also have cited the use of MiGs in raids on Darfur villages.

The Russians also have ties to Sudan’s oil industry. Last summer, as the crisis in Darfur was continuing to worsen, a Russian company inked a deal to build an oil pipeline in Sudan.

—France: The Amnesty report found that the French have sold large quantities of bombs, grenades, ammunition and other military items to Sudan in recent years. The French corporation Total holds the rights to an oil concession in southern Sudan.

The United States must confront these forces of complicity and greed by pushing hard for a tough resolution on Darfur.

Well, smack my mouth and call me Sally! Who would have thought the French would be giving weapons to blood-soaked dictators in exchange for oil? I mean, I never heard of such a thing. Say it ain’t so, France! We all look up to you, paragon of moral virtue that you are. I mean, you wouldn’t use your influence in the UN to protect some cozy little oil deal with the scum of the earth, right? I mean, your opposition to the war in Iraq, that was pure principle, right? Right?

My bad. Apparently, they’re big on “blood for oil”.

Whenever anything big in the world happens, look at where the usual suspects show up. Maybe we just need to realize they’re not going to be rooting for the good guys.

Let’s see if some lib can come along and defend the Chinese and the Euros for being cozy with Sudan while ignoring the genocide there…the way the UN and the Clinton Administration turned a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide. Seems that as long as it’s black Africans getting slaughtered in acts of genocide, the world’s liberals (who supposedly care about the plights, real and imagined, of the world’s black population) don’t seem to give a rat’s rectum about it! So next time you hear a liberal accuse conservatives or libertarians of being anti-black, tell him/her/it that he/she/it is simply the pot calling the kettle…well…black!

February 12, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Another blog victory! Eason Jordan quits CNN!

Just as the blogosphere brought down CBS (aka “See? B.S.!”) and Dan Rather with the forged memo story, it has claimed another deserving victim: Eason Jordan. Regular visitors to my blog have been treated to updates to the Eason Jordan saga.

I was going to reference the article by the Associated Press, but I think instead I will rely on the hilarious (yet quite astute) commentary from fellow blogger Tom at the Donegal Express…especially the part about the “Saddam Plus Gold Deluxe” package:

New York (AP)- CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amid a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq. Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy.

This is to differentiate from the time it was “fairly tarnished” when Eason admitted the Baghdad Office lied about what was happening in Iraq. This time, the lies uttered were all his.

“I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise,” Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN.

Translation: This was all supposed to be off the record!

After several management restructurings at CNN, Jordan actually had no current operational responsibility over network programming. But he was CNN’s chief fix-it man overseas, arranging coverage in dangerous or hard-to-reach parts of the world.

He was really good at it, too. He’d just promise whatever rapists and thugs he had to deal with the “Saddam Plus Gold Deluxe” package.

CNN’s global newsgathering infrastructure is chiefly the result of Jordan’s work, said Jim Walton, chief of the CNN News Group.

Question of the Day: Is this praise, or blame? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Now, guys like Tom and I can’t quite take credit for the downfall of Rather, Jordan, etc. But speaking for myself (since Tom’s more than capable of expressing himself eloquently! ), I take pride in knowing that I am a spoke in the overall massive wheel of new media that will result in further MSM decline! Mwwwaaaaahahahahahaha!

February 12, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | 1 Comment