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Today’s chapter of "Fun with Dean"

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: any time that Howie “The Scream” Dean opens his cakehole, it’s like Christmas comes early. The latest from the walking talking RNC campaign ad, from CNS News (hat tip Kanaka Girl):

America is about to revisit one of the most turbulent decades in its history, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told a religious conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. “We’re about to enter the ’60s again,” Dean said, but he was not referring to the Vietnam War or racial tensions.

Dean said he is looking for “the age of enlightenment led by religious figures who want to greet Americans with a moral, uplifting vision.”

“The problem is when we hit that ’60s spot again, which I am optimistic we’re about to hit, we have to make sure that we don’t make the same mistakes,” Dean added.

Nicely done, Howie. In an election year when your party is trying to shed its aptly earned image of being a party full of 1960′s hippy retreads soft on (and actually hostile to) defense, you cast your party in the very light it is trying to avoid! Apparently, it eventually dawned on him that his longing for the good old days might go over about as well as Monica Lewinsky at the Clintons on Christmas morning:

Later in his speech Tuesday, Dean appeared to backtrack. “I’m not asking to go back to the ’60s; we made some mistakes in the ’60s,” he said.

Actually, yeah…you are asking to go back to the ’60s. See your prior comment about being “optimistic of hitting the ’60s” again, Mr. Kerry…er, Dean. Continuing:

Dean’s comments Tuesday came at a religious gathering convened in the nation’s capital to discuss ways of eliminating poverty.
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“I came in the wrong door when I first got here,” Dean said. “I came in the back, and everybody was talking about praising the Lord, and I thought, ‘I am home. Finally, a group of people who want to praise the Lord and help their fellow man just like Jesus did and just like Jesus taught.’ Thank you so much for doing that for me.”

A couple of thoughts about this:

1. Howie knew who Jesus was? I’m impressed! He must have boned up on his Christianity 101 before addressing the locals, so as to avoid that “My favorite book of the New Testament is Job” kind of gaffe again. Otherwise, someone might get the impression that Howie isn’t being very honest about his Biblical ignorance. Being ignorant of the Bible is no big deal, unless one says something like “If you know much about the Bible—which I do”, right?

2. “Finally, a group of people who want to praise the Lord and help their fellow man just like Jesus did and just like Jesus taught”?? Just what does that mean? People of other churches don’t want to praise the Lord or help their fellow man? That is definitely news to me!

Considering that nearly every church is such a place and contains lots of people just like that, and considering that he must have had a great deal of trouble finding such a place before, then one can conclude that he is unfamiliar with the concept of church and has likely never stepped into one before, correct?

3. I’m not slamming the guy for not going to church, but if he’s going to pretend to be able to relate with us churchgoing rubes (which, make no mistake, is exactly how he sees us), it kind of helps to have at least a little bit of knowledge of the subject matter. Otherwise, people just might think you’re an arrogant elitist who underestimates the intelligence of your audience…and that kind of arrogance and condescension is just soooooooo atypical of liberals, isn’t it?

June 28, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Russia to hunt down hostage killers?

Thanks to WMD Maker for passing this on to me. This article may address the question in my prior post about whether or not Russia will respond to their innocents being decapitated by Islamofascists. From MSNBC:

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s special services to hunt down and “destroy” the killers of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, the Kremlin said.

Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Federal Security Service — the main successor to the Soviet KGB — later said that everything would be done to ensure that the killers “do not escape from responsibility,” the Interfax news agency reported.

“The president has ordered the special forces to take all necessary measures to find and destroy the criminals who killed Russian diplomats in Iraq,” the Kremlin press service said in a brief statement.

So while the moonbats were getting more excited than Cindy Sheehan in a room full of cameras at the notion of Russia blaming the “occupation”, they no doubt will be more disappointed than Bill Clinton with male interns when they find out the Russkies may be planning some old fashioned justice, KGB style.

June 28, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

NYT exposes program suggested by…the NYT!

Like Kerry, I guess they were for it before they were against it? From Newsbusters:

The editorial entitled “Finances of Terror” began:

“Organizing the hijacking of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took significant sums of money. The cost of these plots suggests that putting Osama bin Laden and other international terrorists out of business will require more than diplomatic coalitions and military action. Washington and its allies must also disable the financial networks used by terrorists.”

Now that sounds like a great idea. The article wisely continued:

“The Bush administration is preparing new laws to help track terrorists through their money-laundering activity and is readying an executive order freezing the assets of known terrorists. Much more is needed, including stricter regulations, the recruitment of specialized investigators and greater cooperation with foreign banking authorities. There must also must be closer coordination among America’s law enforcement, national security and financial regulatory agencies.”

Interesting isn’t it? The article strongly but accurately concluded: “If America is going to wage a new kind of war against terrorism, it must act on all fronts, including the financial one.”

Hmmm. So, what we have here is a news organization that thirteen days after the country was attacked made a variety of wise and insightful suggestions for programs the White House should impose concerning international banking activities to try to prevent further attacks. Yet, roughly four years and nine months after making such a recommendation, which it appears the White House took quite seriously, the same news organization felt that it was in the public’s interest – as well as the terrorists’ – to know the details of said program.

I guess that’s one way for an MSM outlet to cover some news: suggest a plan or policy, then blow the lid off of it when it happens.

June 28, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

AP shills for Gore’s global "warming"

AP headline: “Scientists OK Gore’s movie for accuracy.” The implication is that all (or nearly all) scientists think Gore’s apocalyptic faux-film is based on real science, and hardly any scientist disagrees. Excerpt:

The nation’s top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.

The former vice president’s movie — replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets — mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book (a whopping 19, huh? – Ed.) and answered questions from The Associated Press.

Uh, yeah…about that:

AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”

In the interest of full disclosure, the AP should release the names of the “more than 100 top climate researchers” they attempted to contact to review “An Inconvenient Truth.” AP should also name all 19 scientists who gave Gore “five stars for accuracy.” AP claims 19 scientists viewed Gore’s movie, but it only quotes five of them in its article. AP should also release the names of the so-called scientific “skeptics” they claim to have contacted.

The AP article quotes Robert Correll, the chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group. It appears from the article that Correll has a personal relationship with Gore, having viewed the film at a private screening at the invitation of the former Vice President. In addition, Correll’s reported links as an “affiliate” of a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm that provides “expert testimony” in trials and his reported sponsorship by the left-leaning Packard Foundation, were not disclosed by AP. See http://www.junkscience.com/feb06.htm

The AP also chose to ignore Gore’s reliance on the now-discredited “hockey stick” by Dr. Michael Mann, which claims that temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere remained relatively stable over 900 years, then spiked upward in the 20th century, and that the 1990’s were the warmest decade in at least 1000 years. Last week’s National Academy of Sciences report dispelled Mann’s often cited claims by reaffirming the existence of both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. See Senator Inhofe’s statement on the broken “Hockey Stick.” (http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=257697 )

Gore’s claim that global warming is causing the snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro to disappear has also been debunked by scientific reports. For example, a 2004 study in the journal Nature makes clear that Kilimanjaro is experiencing less snowfall because there’s less moisture in the air due to deforestation around Kilimanjaro.

There are samplings of actual scientists who disagree with GoreCo’s junk science Chicken Littlery, and they list facts to back them up. But this was interesting:

Gore’s film also cites a review of scientific literature by the journal Science which claimed 100% consensus on global warming, but Lindzen pointed out the study was flat out incorrect.

“…A study in the journal Science by the social scientist Nancy Oreskes claimed that a search of the ISI Web of Knowledge Database for the years 1993 to 2003 under the key words “global climate change” produced 928 articles, all of whose abstracts supported what she referred to as the consensus view. A British social scientist, Benny Peiser, checked her procedure and found that only 913 of the 928 articles had abstracts at all, and that only 13 of the remaining 913 explicitly endorsed the so-called consensus view. Several actually opposed it.”- Lindzen wrote in an op-ed in the June 26, 2006 Wall Street Journal.

So 13 out of 928 articles endorsed the “consensus” view? Yep, sounds like true “consensus” to me! And nope…no liberal media bias!

My friends, I apologize if I appear to be beating this global “warming” sham to death. After all, pro-Chicken Little forces aren’t going to change their minds, and we pro-reality forces aren’t going to change ours. After all, global warming is not really an environmental issue…it’s actually a political issue.

June 28, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Flag desecration amendment fails in Senate

From Newsmax:

A constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration died in a Senate cliffhanger Tuesday, a single vote short of the support needed to send it to the states for ratification and four months before voters elect a new Congress.

The 66-34 tally in favor of the amendment was one less than the two-thirds required. The House surpassed that threshold last year, 286-130.

Roll call here.

I’ve mentioned this before, so I’ll keep this short. I think the amendment’s defeat is a good thing. While I detest and am grossly offended by some leftist ingrate’s burning of the American flag, I would say that burning the flag is no less constitutional than burning a magazine. This banning is not the role of the federal government. If some smelly pinko wants to burn the flag, he should be free to do so.

Then he shouldn’t be surprised if he receives a patriotic asskicking afterwards!

June 28, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment