“I’m Tired” by Robert A. Hall

From http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/03/another-marines-view.html

I’ll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years.

I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.

An Agent of Cynicism Peter Wehner

From http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/an-agent-of-cynicism-15097

In the matter of just 50 days, a fissure has widened into a split; the split has become a gap; and the gap is becoming a gulf. I have in mind the extraordinary contradiction between what President Obama says and what he does.

Consider a partial list, starting with earmarks. During the campaign, Obama said, “the truth is, our earmark system — what’s called pork-barrel spending in Washington — is fraught with abuse.  It badly needs reform — which is why I didn’t request a single earmark last year, why I’ve released all my previous requests for the public to see, why I’ve pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I am President of the United States.” And as ABC’s Jake Tapper pointed out, after John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, Obama criticized her for having been of two minds on earmarks. “When you have been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark person,” Obama said, “that is not change, come on. I mean, words mean something.”

Genuine Shock: New York Times Runs Obama Editorial, Refuses to Run McCain’s

From the Anti-idiotarian Rotweiler

The following is John McCain’s editorial, as published on the Drudge Report

Once again, bloggers are the ones bringing the real news..and I find it sad that I, as an Australian, have a better understanding of the spirit of the US First Amendment than the American press ever will.

Whether you like John McCain or not, this is not about his campaign or his policies…this is about freedom of speech and about teaching the MSM the same lesson over and over again..if you dont have the guts to tell the truth..we will tell it for you.

As I understand it, Americans consider the First Amendment an inviolable right. Whether you agree with the Senator or not, in fairness, here is his editorial.

The DRUDGE REPORT presents the McCain editorial in its submitted form:

In January 2007, when General David Petraeus took command in Iraq, he called the situation “hard” but not “hopeless.” Today, 18 months later, violence has fallen by up to 80% to the lowest levels in four years, and Sunni and Shiite terrorists are reeling from a string of defeats. The situation now is full of hope, but considerable hard work remains to consolidate our fragile gains.

Another Story the MSM won’t cover

From Michelle Malkin

What the child rapist, saved today by Supreme Court liberals, did to his 8-year-old stepdaughter

Anthony Kennedy and the leftists on the Supreme Court ruled this morning that what child rapist Patrick Kennedy did to his 8-year-old stepdaughter is a crime that should not be punishable by death.

The MSM will tiptoe around what child rapist Patrick Kennedy actually did.

Vote for Obama or You’re a Racist

From Confederate Yankee via Bookworm Room via Politicalpartypoop

I can’t say it any better;

It’s becoming increasingly clear what the Democratic campaign strategy is going to be this election season: Vote for Obama or you’re a racist. I’m not sure I think too much of this approach to bullying the American electorate into selecting a candidate. Aside from the fact that, if you’re a Republican, it’s always a mistake to let your adversary define you, it also seems to me to free people from certain otherwise laudatory restraints.

As for me, because I’m preemptively being defined as a racist (since I most certainly won’t vote for Obama), I’ve decided to step up to the plate and embrace that definition. From here on in, I’ve got my mantra.

When I vote against Obama on November 4, 2008:

Clint Eastwood the Last Real Man

June 06, 2008. Clint Eastwood is steaming mad. MediaTakeOut.com told you a few weeks ago that director Spike Lee criticized Clint for not using African American actors in his movie Flags Of Our Fathers. Well now Clint is going hard at Spike. Here’s what he said in a recent interview:

On Spike Lee:

[Spike] was complaining when I did Bird [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker]. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that’s why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else.” As for Flags of Our Fathers, he says, yes, there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, “but they didn’t raise the flag. The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go, ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.”

On why he doesn’t have to include Black actors in his new film Changeling – set in Los Angeles during the Depression

“What are you going to do, you gonna tell a f*ckin’ story about that?” he growls. “Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I’m not in that game. I’m playing it the way I read it historically, and that’s the way it is. When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like Bird, I use 90% black people.”

On what he thinks Spike should do:

“A guy like him should shut his face.”

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/clint_eastwood_tells_spike_lee_to_shut_his_face

Socialized Medicine

This is the kind of shit all you socialist medical care hopefuls can look forward too if you, Obammy and Shrillary have your way. It amazes me that the same people who have been screaming about losing their “rights” under Bush would lock step support the complete erosion of personal liberty and freedom via complete government intrusion into your personal life that comes with Socialized Medicine. Pay attention to Canada and the UK, Mikey fatass liar Moore isn’t going to tell you that anything is wrong, you have to find it yourself.

The Real Obama

Ken Blackwell – Columnist for the New York Sun

It’s an amazing time to be alive in America. We’re in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first front-running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.

We won’t truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won’t arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.

Got Mom Too, bastard. Where is NOW’s outrage?

Still Evil in Basra

—Gabriel Malor

A few weeks ago I read Drew’s post about the teenager in Basra named Rand who was killed by her own father for merely talking to a British soldier. The murder was an act of absolute evil that was not just condoned by a”face” culture but demanded by it. Pride and shame cultures are not dependent on fact or truth, only the feelings and perceptions of privileged individuals (in this case Muslim men). And so when pride demands death, “everyone knows that sometimes it is impossible not to carry out an ‘honour killing’.“

The story doesn’t end there. At the time, the girl’s mother, Leila, divorced from her monster husband, was fleeing from reprisals for denouncing the murder. She had been hiding in safehouses established by women’s rights movements in Basra where they had plotted an escape for her to Jordan. She didn’t make it. Leila was gunned down on the way to meet her contact.

Two men ran from their homes to help. They rushed Leila to hospital and a passing taxi took the other two [who were helping her escape]. But Leila died at 3.20pm, despite several operations to save her. As she lay in her own hospital bed receiving treatment, Mariam said that she heard someone saying that Leila had been shot in the head. But there were other mutterings that were clearly audible. ‘I could hear people talking on the corridors and the only thing that they had to say was that Leila was wrong for defending her daughter’s mistakes and that her death was God’s punishment.’In that minute I just had complete hatred in my heart for those who had killed her.’

Mother and daughter were killed because of a stupid honor culture. Keep it in mind the next time some snob tells you that we must learn to respect other cultures.

The War we Cannot Lose – the other one

By Robert J. Caldwell

San Diego Union-Tribune
May 25, 2008

Recent events leave no doubt about just how desperate a battle Mexico is fighting to take down it’s rapacious drug-trafficking cartels and stop the escalation of drug-war violence. No American should imagine that this battle being waged on our doorstep doesn’t involve vital U.S. national interests inextricably entwined with those of our neighbor Mexico.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón has made the fight against the drug cartels and organized crime his top national priority, as well he should. Losing to the narco-traffickers’ violent syndicates would risk making Mexico a failed state, with disastrous consequences for Mexico’s economic development and political reforms. Simply put, Mexico’s modernization cannot succeed without the rule of law against which the cartels wage unrelenting war.