Hope from the Cabin

HOPE NOT FEAR: Saw this commercial from the Log Cabin Republicans tonight and it seems just right to me.
DKK

Cigarillos No more

On the subject of the next generation of conservatives comes this from Instipundit regarding the Protest Warriors:
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<>HERE'S AN INTERESTING NEWSWEEK INTERVIEW with Kfir Alfia of ProtestWarrior.com. Excerpt:

I think the punch we pack with our style is very powerful. That's why we've attracted a lot of college students and high-school students who are hungry for an outlet to do exactly this. They look like the type of person you would find at the antiwar protests, but that doesn’t mean they share the same ideology. Part of the appeal of the left up until now has been, "Look, forget ideology, we’re cool. We’re here to have fun." That really struck a chord with a younger generation. I think that's changing, and I think we’re part of evidence.

I guess this is just another sign that the left is losing its teen spirit, something that's been discussed before.

UPDATE: Michael Ubaldi emails:

Alfia has a point about image and iconography. The stereotype that righties are old guys in suits smoking cigarillos made from $100 bills has been spoon-fed for decades; just open a thesaurus and look up "conservative." But just give a quick look around: who's calling for Third Worlders to be given the same rights we enjoy? Protest Warriors, Sabine Herold's Liberté Cherie, Conservative Punk, adjuncts to Daneshjoo; all friends of the right. I don't think Bruce Springsteen and friends understand how silly and hypocritical they look by talking about love and peace while flipping the bird to Iraqis and Afghans.

Besides mocking the left, Protest Warrior offers a chance for young adults to be part of real protests for real progress.

Indeed.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here's an older interview of Alfia from when Protest Warrior was just getting started. Best bit: "And since the Republican party is sure to continue its tradition of weak, pathetic, uninspiring ads, it's time for the grassroots to pick up the slack."

Choose or Lose - with more and more guys conservatives like this guy will they do?

Implosion 101 Peeking Too Soon!

For Kerry the arrogance and unending belief in the rightness of his destiny as President didn't carry over to the new media. I don't doubt that if the media had their way the election would be over and they would have won! They oh so want their power back and they see Kerry as a means to this end (see Media Contradictions!)

Unfortunately the bottom line is that because of the blogsphere and talk radio the old media was forced to take a peek at Kerry because of the claims he made and the reality of the Swifties!

Need some proof - try this:

KERRY'S PLAN: "THE MEDIA WON'T HAVE THE NERVE" (LittleGreenfootballs.com)

The source may be unidentified, but events have confirmed this August 10 story at the American Spectator, outlining Kerry’s plan to deal with the allegations from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: Command Confidence. (Hat tip: M. Simon.)

According to a Kerry campaign source, senior campaign advisers tasked two Washington-based campaign staffers to vet the recently published Unfit for Command.

“The purpose was to compare what that book had with what we had on file from Senator Kerry,” says the campaign source, who said that the research project developed more than 75 instances where Kerry’s recollections, previous remarks, or writings conflicted with the book’s reporting.

“We took some of the most glaring examples, like the Christmas in Cambodia story, and presented them to senior staff, and we assume that those things were put in front of Senator Kerry,” says the source. “We haven’t heard a word about it. All we were told is that it was being taken care of.”

The campaign source said that the book was not considered a “serious” problem for the campaign, because, “the media wouldn’t have the nerve to come at us with this kind of stuff,” says the source. “The senior staff believes the media is committed to seeing us win this thing, and that the convention inoculated us from these kinds of stories. The senior guys really think we don’t have a problem here.” Saturday, August 28, 2004

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BREAKING NEWS: The Sky Is NOT Falling

From Slings and Arrows:

Whether the protestors in New York like it or not, peace is breaking out all over:

The chilling sights and sounds of war fill newspapers and television screens worldwide, but war itself is in decline, peace researchers report.

In fact, the number killed in battle has fallen to its lowest point in the post-World War II period, dipping below 20,000 a year by one measure. Peacemaking missions, meantime, are growing in number.

''International engagement is blossoming,'' said American scholar Monty G. Marshall. ''There's been an enormous amount of activity to try to end these conflicts.''

For months the battle reports and casualty tolls from Iraq and Afghanistan have put war in the headlines, but Swedish and Canadian non-governmental groups tracking armed conflict globally find a general decline in numbers from peaks in the 1990s.

Well, peace isn't breaking out everywhere.

Wow, maybe the protests are working....er.....okay so the protests haven't liberated 50 million people - or saved a continent - or ....well actually I can't think of anything the protests have accomplished except for emboldened those who want to end our way of life or kill us in the process!
DKK

Internet Turns 35!

NEW YORK (AP) - Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way for exchanging data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress.

University researchers are experimenting with ways to increase its capacity and speed. Programmers are trying to imbue Web pages with intelligence. And work is underway to re-engineer the network to reduce spam and security troubles.

All the while threats loom: Critics warn that commercial, legal and political pressures could hinder the types of innovations that made the Internet what it is today.......

Why it sure has aged very well hasn't it!
DKK

THE BOOS THAT ROCKED THE VOTE

Drudge Report:

THE BOOS THAT ROCKED THE VOTE: KERRY DAUGHTERS RECEIVE RUDE AWAKENING AT MTV AWARDS
Sun Aug 29 2004 23:36:31 ET

MTV, ROLLING STONE and the rock and roll establishment -- past and present -- have cast their vote, and their man is John Kerry.

So on Sunday night when John Kerry's daughters were announced to speak at the annual MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS, the MTV youth were expected to welcome his daughter's as pop culture princesses.

Instead, in an era of the unexpected, the daughters of the Democratic candidate were met with a resounding wall of boos at the filming in Miami.

From the moment Alexandra and Vanessa started speaking, the boos outweighed anything close to cheers, and the reaction turned worse when the daughters asked the VIACOM youth to vote for their father. So shocked by the reaction, the taller of the two daughters tried to 'shhhhhh' her peers to no avail.

Developing...

See my update on MTV's Choose or Lose for MTV's future dilemma.
DKK

Muslim "Hate Crimes"

By Michelle Malkin · August 29, 2004 08:42 AM

Daniel Pipes had a good piece earlier this week on a Muslim hoax crime. In a follow-up post on his blog, he notes that there have been at least four other instances in which American Muslims "won themselves vast sympathy as victims of 'hate crimes,' only to have it turn out that they were actually the perps."
DKK

Geraldo's Urgency

Why is it that Geraldo makes every story sound like it is the most important breaking news ever released?
DKK

Com Log 082904 Response to Jr.

Okay, Mr. M. Moore Jr.

First off I would like to thank you for your good wishes. I wish I could say I was healthy, but no such thing. My V-8 mind is running on only 4 or 5 of the cylinders, but I'm trying and that is better then the 2 or 3 that were firing last week.

Just so you know, I did have a reply to your first post including links to the comments and everything – but the blogspot server crashed as I was posting. Of course I had saved it on Word, but cut it to paste it to the blogspot and I ended up having to do everything from memory – surprised I hit all the points at all. Hope you weren’t too upset, I’ll try better here. Here is a link to the comments I am responding to.

Glad I could help with the lesson on Iran’s Government.

You are correct; President Bush didn’t get the majority of the popular vote – that is why the Electoral College is around. We all know how our Presidents are elected – it wasn’t something that was a surprise to Al Gore and he ran his campaign accordingly. There have been three other elections since the Civil War like this – the difference is in this one the losing party decided it would be better to try and take advantage of our system in order to sow discord.

Our Founding Fathers were perhaps the most insightful and prescient group of people ever assembled – they set up a Representative Republic. Our nation is a true union of states and as such our elections for Federal Office are done on a statewide basis. Our Constitution gives all powers to the States that aren’t specifically given to the Fed’s. They believed the States were closer to the people and that as such they should have the ability to make many of the policies of the nation. As a matter of fact our Senators were originally appointed by the legislators of each state – that is right, they were there to represent the states as an extension of the people, not the people directly.

They also feared what would happen if one state became too powerful – it is reflected in many areas such as the Electoral College, the equal number of Senators from each state as well as the requirement that the President and VP be from different states. I am not sure where you live, but can you imagine what would happen if every election was decided by JUST the voters in New York or JUST California? That is what could happen if we decided to go the route of European Democracy and scrapped many of the ideas of a Representative Republic. BTW, this is one of the reasons European nations have turned to purely socialistic societies – the purchasing of power via handouts. It also paralyzes them in the face of threats such as terrorism and aggression.

Okay, enough government – how about your charge of minority voters being “disenfranchised” as they say. Well according to Peter Kirsanow, a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights no such thing occurred. He states, “No, absolutely not. This kind of rhetoric has been trafficked in for the last going-on-four years now by a number of individuals. It's kind of surprising that a presidential candidate would actually do the same. But, as you may recall, before the polls were even closed in Florida during the 2000 election, activists had descended upon the state and already were proclaiming that voters were being disenfranchised, harassed, intimidated. In fact, some people were saying that dogs and hoses were being used on black voters and that tens of thousands were either being obstructed from going to the polls or otherwise harassed. There was a six-month investigation by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission . . . also an investigation by the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. . . . There was absolutely no truth to any of those allegations . . . not one person who was intimidated . . . (or) had their vote stolen. There was no disenfranchisement . . . no truth to any of those allegations.

Errors happen in all elections. People make mistakes, fraud occurs, but for a group of people to proclaim an election was stolen is simply irresponsible and wrong. Our system worked as it was intended to. You might disagree, but that is why we have another election in 4 years. Remember the 1960 election when Nixon lost to Kennedy? Amazingly close, HUGE (now confirmed) voter fraud in Texas and Chicago. Did Nixon and the Republicans chose to divide the nation and harp on this for 4 or more years? No, because unlike the Democrats of today they put the needs of the nation ahead of their petty party politics. For a party that is supposed to be accepting they sure have a hard time accepting that they lost - and don't tell me they didn't because if that were the case Gore would be in the White House right now, it just didn't happen.

And if you want to know where this irresponsible and untrue rhetoric leads - Qadhafi's son stated that he couldn't believe Bush was lecturing Arab states on Democracy when half of the US doesn't believe he was elected. Direct evidence that the behavior of "Lie-N-Hype 9/11" wack-o's empowers our enemies.

The Enviro Wack-o’s, well you admit that there are scientists that are now “…refuting the hypothesis that the burning of fossil fuels is leading to the green house effect and warming the planet. The vast majority of scientists today are on the side of global warming.” By your logic Columbus should have never left Europe because most scientists believed the planet was flat! By the way, this is the line that is often used by the Old Media and the UN – but they never seem to give a count of this “majority”.

Our entire lifestyle is based on the burning of fossil fuels. No one wants to ignore what might happen, but radicalism is not the answer – particularly when there is now science that disputes that warming is even occurring, or at least outside the norm for the earth's lengthly climate history. I do find it very interesting that the ALL POWERFUL HUMAN (as enviro’s portray us to be) can’t even manage to kill bacteria without it evolving and adapting to become a super bug but at the same time we are supposed to be accidentally destroying the world just by our very existence.

Imagine your doctor telling you that in order to save your life we needed to sew your mouth shut, after all you might die in 150 years or more because you seem to be gaining weight! No, a diet change or modification in your lifestyle won't work - your gonna die! Of course none of the scales show an increase in weight, but the majority of your friends say yep you must be gaining weight, and your Doctor says your feet are bigger! Okay, so your only 120 lbs and you've weighed 210 a few years ago! Doesn't matter, it is that eating that is killing you! Sounds radical.

BTW, name a government program that has ever worked to save energy or lives? How about Clinton's failed hybrid auto program....nope, it didn't even work. The market works which is why the Japanese have produced hybrids. Unfortunately they are money losers. A more realistic technology is fuel cells - hmmmm, didn't Bush propose funding their development? Why yes he did - but I thought he didn't care about the environment?

Interesting how many of the world’s Glaciers (just one article but check out, accumulation zone, glacier - search stats as well) are actually growing in size despite the will of the “majority of scientists.”

Haliburton – well, your beloved Billie (as you put it) gave Haliburton no bid contracts during most of his administration. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE OF THE FEW COMPANIES WHO CAN DO THE JOB. I suppose they could have had ties to the Clintons too. To try and compare a legitimate business to the crimes of Saddam – in violation of numerous UN resolutions is an amazing stretch for you to make.

And yes, Clinton lied – no argument can change that. You say “even under oath” like this was less of a crime….that was done purely as means to undermine our judicial system - he was accused of doing what Kobe did, and he settled the case for CASH! I would like you to provide one bit of evidence that the President lied and before you go off finding quotes on WMD’s please remember the definition of a lie (Webster’s) tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive. The key is intent passing on information you believe to be true does not make you a liar. Remember Mr.’s. Kerry, Chirac, Clinton, Schroeder, Putin, Blix, and others ALL believed Saddam had weapons and was not upholding his obligations under the agreement he signed in 1991. Allowing him to thumb his nose at his obligations for 10 years was another diplomatic coup of the Clintons (yes that was sarcastic). See A Litany of Leftist Lies to learn that all you thought you knew about Iraq isn't all there is to know about Iraq and real story.
DKK


PS - again I would extend an offer to allow you to place a liberal outlook here on a regular basis.

Doing Half The Peoples Business!

What is really causing the tone and divisiveness in Washington and around the country? Could it be the divisive policies of the Democrats? When did being elected to represent a district or state change to being elected to represent a party. Aren't these people elected to do "The Peoples Business?" Or was it really just 1/2 the peoples business?

CORE To Edwards: Stop Blocking Black Judges (Captains Quarters)

The Congress on Racial Equality plans to run advertising in John Edwards' home state of North Carolina challenging him to stop blocking the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the federal appellate bench:

California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown is among a half dozen of Bush's nominees to the appeals court who've been blocked in the Senate by Democrats. The Senate confirms all judicial appointments. Her nomination is opposed by groups including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

But the more conservative Congress of Racial Equality says Brown is a role model who deserves the promotion, and is challenging Edwards, a senator from North Carolina, on his home turf. The ad also names Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a fellow Senate Judiciary Committee member who has helped block Bush's judicial nominees.

Senator Edwards wanted to get back to the issues, but he can't be happy about having to defend his position on Brown's nomination when under attack by CORE and Niger Innis. Tying him to Ted Kennedy also damages the Kerry/Edwards attempt to portray themselves as the true centrists in this campaign. While analysts have already debated whether Edwards will enable Kerry to make a dent in what had been a strong Republican state in the past, pointing out Edwards' (and Kerry's) obstinacy on judicial nominations will only make a North Carolina win that much less likely.

DKK

World War Update 082904 French/Jazeera

Two French reporters were kidnapped by Islamists who are demanding that France end it's ban on head scarves in French Schools or they will behead the journalists.

Al Jazeera has a tape of the demands, but really Al Jazerra is nothing more then a tool of the terrorists and Alphabet City has some great insight into how the network hampers investigation into these acts.

Now on the sensitivity scale France has to be right up there with Mr. Kerry, don't they? Did this sensitivity help or protect them? Not one bit - just like giving Czechlaslovakia to Hitler didn't help.

This is a World War and the sooner we decide we aren't going to accept these barbaric actions the sooner we can put an end to them.

Will France cave in to the demands? This assault on their high minded nuanced secular lifestyle should be a wake up call.
DKK

Mother of All Backlashes

Okay, this isn't what you were thinking, but as the inevitable endorsements of Kerry come in from the editorial pages of newspapers around the world we will see the acceleration of the flight from the Old Media. Despite being called the Mainstream Media they prove over and over that they are not in touch with mainstream America.

Here is a great line from the Kerry endorsement from the Seattle Times Endorsment:

Certainly, the man now in office forgot some of the things he said so fetchingly four years ago

Hello Seattle, your alarm is still set for 9/10!
DKK

Throw Me A Bone!

Who would you trust to walk your dog: www.AKC.org

George Bush 51%

John Kerry 37%

I agree completely and being a dog lover I just imagine Kerry as the type of person that sees a dog as property not as a loving being, after all a baby isn't even worth his time. But then again Kerry's dogs can fly(see VC, the flying dog!)
DKK

Olympic Finals

Missed much of the games and missed getting updates here because of the Doc's but here are the medal finals: Athens Olympics

The US lead with a total of 103 medals with The Russian Federation next with 92 total - China was second in Golds and third overall with 63 (Gold-US 35, China 32, Russia 27).

Most importantly is that no matter where your from and win or lose they were great games successfully executed - thank you Greece!

On the NBC coverage front (of what I was able to see) I loved the diving and swimming commentary but thought the gymnastics commentary was really lacking. Somewhere along the line they made the decision to assume we knew what was what - and maybe we do on some things, but most of us only watch every 4 years and as we all know memory fades.

Health Update 082904 Same old Same old

Hey, had follow up Doc appointment yesterday - same old same old - no changes in the past 6 months. Start back on Meds on September 1, 2004, but will be able to get some bloggin' in starting today (I hope).

Anyway, thanks to MM Junior and everyone else who sent me notes. BTW, I think I will start calling MM Junior Junior or Jr today. Oh, and I would like to make you an offer Jr, if you want to have a liberal update and write a blog on a weekly basis - or when you can I will publish them here! Just let me know.

Also I will reply to your comments later today.

Thanks again everyone!
DKK

After the War - It's About the Future!

I have said before that it isn't what Kerry did in Vietnam - it may actually have been respectable service (though fabricated and exaggerated.) It is about what he did after he returned. I remember the protestors and their anti-American actions. The more I learn about Kerry and his leadership roll in those actions the more it makes me ill and scares the crap out of me. That a political party has become so completely bankrupt as to nominate this man as their candidate for the Presidency is, in my opinion, tantamount to agreeing to shred our nations future before it is even written.

I honestly don't believe most Democrats know who John Kerry is but having seen the Moore, McAuliffe, Clinton, Durbin (what a Dick) and Pelosi show dominate the scene for the first 6 months of the year I don't know if there is any hope for their party at all.

More on this from PoliPundit:

A Must-Read Piece

As we all know, John Kerry is both a traitor and an opportunist. When he came back from his alleged "tour of duty," he smeared his fellow Vietnam veterans in a brazen attempt to make a name for himself and further his political ambitions.

This article tells you how that behavior affected Paul Galanti. If there is any Kerry voter out there reading this blog, I really recommend you read this article. When you are done, ask yourself how you could even think of voting for this man.

P.S. When I heard the tapes of Kerry's Senate testimony, his pronunciation of Genghis Khan struck me as rather odd, but humorous nonetheless and indicative of a prep school elitist. Little did I know that for one man, hearing that pronunciation of the 12th century warrior's name must have been an extremely painful experience.

From Implosion 101:

The key here is that all of us can dismiss what happened in the fog of war - but what Kerry did when he returned was in the fog of treason, opportunism, or stupidity. None of these are traits that make a good President.

Implosion 101 lesson - An implosion like this is the direct result of one thing and only one thing, running a campaign based on, "anybody but Bush," and the wack-o's like Moore.

DKK

World War Update 082404 Russian Planes

Two Russian passenger planes have crashed (dropped off of radar) almost simultaneously after leaving the same airport.

My Way News:

In Washington, a senior U.S. State Department official said, "We are obviously concerned by the news. We're following developments closely and trying to determine the facts."

The U.S. Homeland Security Department was monitoring the situation but was not implementing any additional security measures in the United States, spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said.

The crash comes only days before Sunday's presidential election in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Pro-Russian President Akhmad Kadyrov was killed by a bombing in May.

A series of deadly explosions in recent years has claimed hundreds of lives in blasts that have been blamed mostly on Chechen separatist rebels.

The sad part is that there are people who just refuse to believe this is a World War! When hundreds of thousands are dead and our economy has stopped in it's tracks them it will be too late.
DKK

How -weird Update - Sane/Insane

From Slings And Arrows:

In a moment of clarity (which I am sure will be short-lived) Howard Dean actually said something that made sense:

Every day that goes by without action to stop the Sudan genocide is a day that the anti-Iraq war position so widely held in the rest of the world appears to be based less on principle and more on politics. And every day that goes by is a day in which George Bush's contempt for the international community, which I have denounced every day for two years, becomes more difficult to criticize.

I doubt he will ever come around to saying something to the effect of "uh, maybe I was wrong," but at least this is something.

Unfortunatly his fantasy world closed back in on him and left him in that Democartic LaLa Land as he accused the President of breaking the law with the Swifties. Calling How-weird your prescription is ready!
DKK

Waste Not Update - Actions Stink!

CHICAGO (CBS 2) Rock star Dave Matthews and his tour bus driver are facing a filthy lawsuit.

The Illinois Attorney General's office says they're responsible for dumping up to 100-gallons of raw human waste from a tour bus onto the Kinzie Street Bridge earlier this month.

The nasty mess rained down on passengers aboard a sightseeing boat two weeks ago.

The suit charges both the band and the bus driver with violating state water pollution laws, as well as common law public nuisance laws.

A spokesman for the band says all of its tour buses were parked at the time of the incident.

That's gonna hurt with the Greenie Lefties that make up a good portion of their fan base.
DKK

Implosion 101 Update 082404 Drudge

Yesterday I pointed out in Implosion 101 that this had turned the corner and Kerry's counter attack was a failed arrogant argument.

Drudge has these updates along with an amazing story about Kerry's outreach call to a Swiftie.

FLASH: 'SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH' RAISED $1,764,000 IN DONATIONS ON WEBSITE IN PAST 2 WEEKS, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE...

Kerry's campaign now says is possible first Purple Heart was awarded for unintentional self-inflicted wound...

Kerry received Purple Heart for wounds suffered on 12/2/68...

In Kerry's own journal written 9 days later, he writes he and his crew, quote, 'hadn't been shot at yet'... Developing...

The support for the Swifties is wonderful! The Swifties have had to fight Old Media as well as Kerry/Edwards the whole time.

The call lasted 10 minutes, sources tell DRUDGE.

KERRY: "Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?"

BRANT: "You should know what you said when you came back, the impact it had on the young sailors and how it was disrespectful of our guys that were killed over there."

[Brant had two men killed in battle.]

KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."

Kerry then asked if he could meet Brant ["You were one of the best"] -- man to man -- face to face.

Brant declined the invite, explaining that Kerry was obviously not prepared to correct the record on exactly what happened during Vietnam and what happened when Kerry came back.

The arrogance in his statements proves that he just doesn't get it at all. It shows that he feels that he can say and do anything because he is elite! The Dem's have never understood the meaning of "Providing aid and comfort to the enemy."
DKK