What an X-hole

Ace is on a name search. He has narrowed it to four and you can help him select here.

I know Ace gave up on having a name with X in it, but I missed the inital suggestion period. He is so good at ripping people a new one, especially "he who will not be named" I thought I would suggest X-hole anyway.

Doubt it has a chance, but go help him out anyway.
DKK

Clarification - I love Ace and his blog - which is why I didn't call him an Ace hole!
DKK

My Constitution Trumps Your Little Rules!

David Limbaugh has a great analysis of the bottom line in the judicial confirmations war!

The Constitution trumps any little Senate Rule and the Dem's don't get that, and they never will because they don't believe in the people and their ability to make their own decisions! Just like they don't believe that the second amendment lets people bear arms, despite it's language, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Most everyone has concentrated on the political aspects of the battle, but David Limbaugh hit's it on the head with this one. He points out that the Dem's are politicking:

The reason we're even talking about a so-called " nuclear option" is that Democrat leaders remain in denial about their consistent drubbing at the ballot box. They won't accept that the public has rejected their message.
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This whole flap is not that complicated. Republicans won the presidential and congressional elections. The Republican president is therefore entitled under the Constitution to appoint judges, with the Senate having the right to pass on the competency and character of the nominees.

But the bottom line is:

The Senate does not have coequal authority with the president on judicial appointments as the advice-and-consent function was not intended to confer veto power on the Senate.
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Democrats can talk until they're blue in the face about Republicans tinkering with the system by invoking a Senate rule change. But in the first place, it is just that: a Senate rule change, and as I said, the change is only necessary to correct the Democrats' abuses and usurpations of power.

The reason Democrats are filibustering judicial nominees is that they refuse to play by the rules and allow the duly elected president and Congress to exercise their constitutional authority. No one's asking them to lie down or forfeit their minority rights, merely not to break the rules to obstruct the majority.

Under our system, the people elect the president and Congress, and those two branches set policy for the government. The judiciary was never intended to be a policy-making branch. Yet Democrats, for decades have been willfully violating the Constitution by using the courts to make laws and set policy -- often in derogation of the policies already set by the other two political branches.

In an astonishing demonstration of chutzpah, Democrats have been complaining about Republicans threatening the independence of the judiciary when Republicans say they want to take action to force the judiciary to revert to its non-political, independent role. Democrats haven't respected the independence of the judiciary since before the Warren court era of judicial hyper-activism.

It is laughable that they demand an independent judiciary when what they really want is a judiciary they handpick for the express purpose of implementing policy they can't otherwise achieve through the political branches of government. They see the judiciary as both a high-powered vehicle to thwart the democratic will of the people and as a weapon for their side to use in the Culture War. They view the judiciary as a catalyst for social change, an instrument to supplant traditional values with secular relativism, and all the hedonism and licentiousness it entails.

That's why they seek to divert attention from the real issues involved in the judicial nominations debate and demonize the messengers...

Great analysis, read the whole thing.
DKK

Try Try Again!

"If at first you don't succeed.................






Keep on sucking till you do succeed!"
Martha c. 1986
DKK

Entertainment Trek - The Yellow Shirt Love Fest

Wow - people really love the Capital One "Yellow Shirt" commercial that I mentioned here - Screaming Like a Little Girl.

I have gotten more hits from searches for that commercial lately! Unfortunately I still don't have an online version I can link to. I did what everybody else did and googled it but only found one pay site that might have it online.

While I am on the subject of commercials I saw a new Geico commercial that included Speed Racer. It was very clever and well done - one of the best Geico commercials yet! The bridge is out and she (don't know anyone's name in the cartoon because I always hated it) is letting him know that the bridge is out, but good news ..... yea, you know she saved a lot of money on her car insurance! Good commercial, unfortunately, as I said, I have always hated Speed Racer! So much so that I don't remember it even being around before I was a young adult but it had to be because with such poor quality it has to be old, right? I think it was among the first Japanese imports and I was always amazed that the mouths moved like a bad Kung Fu movie, not really matching the words (that and the HUGE eyes us "round eyes" have).

Now those Stay Free pad commercials have to stop - I don't want to ever know that women get uncomfortable when their pads turn wet and sticky! OOOooowww - I eat dinner with the TV on and while not squeamish normally - as a gay man that is just waaaayyyy tooooo much info!

Last one - ever wonder if one of Ice Cube's (real name O'Shea Jackson) old girlfriends gave him his nick name? Perhaps because his dangly bits were small - small as a mouse. On the USA Network commercial for his new movie he introduces himself, "Hey, M'icecube." Yep, mice cubes! (Lets see someone Google that one - "Ice Cube's small cubes!")
DKK

Update: More on the Yellow Shirt ads here!

Fox News Watch Trek - on a Roll Today

(But I'm not - oops I forgot part of my posting)

Today's Fox News Watch held three quotes about religion that made this episode a stand out in media punditry.

All are paraphrased as I didn't write them down:

1. Hey, the liberal media just doesn't understand that the ten commandments aren't a voluntary initiative - Cal describing the media failure to understand that the Pope is in fact Catholic.
2. Jim made a comment that was the best of the show but Crap - I forgot this one but I will fill it in after I watch the repeat of the show or see the transcript.
3. Even Hollywood atheists can have their prayers answered! Jim describing the success of the NBC production Revelations.

I know I should have written them down then I wouldn't have forgotten the best one! Sorry, I will fill it in later!
DKK

Common Sense Trek - An Ongoing Series

Let's face it - I am often amazed how some of the people I have met in my life have survived to adulthood. With these people I can't help but wonder if they grew up without electricity in their home and lived without traffic nearby as these daily challenges clearly are more their mental abilities would seem to allow. Exposure to challenges such as these on a daily basis would have prevented them from reaching maturity - survival of the fittest and all.

I have never been a person to pull punches. I call them as I see them and often not very diplomatic. A good friend says I should get my own, "Common Sense Court" along the lines of the judge shows on TV - only, according to him, I would be beyond brutal.

Anyway I am starting a series of posts, beginning with this one, on things that should be common sense but seem to elude many Americans.

Throughout my life I have had an unwritten list of common sense items, many of which have been forgotten over the years. As such I would like your help rebuilding my list! I will promote those I like from the comments to the front page along with a link to your blog so give me your best!

Common Sense.

1. If you want to ensure the legality of an election you must know who is voting (require an ID to vote)
2. A nation must control it's boarder, that is what makes it a nation and why it is called a boarder
   
3. Punishment for a crime should be hard, that is why it is called punishment!
4. A minority party is deluding itself by claiming that the majority party is, "out of the mainstream."
5. For some strange reason a pro-American bias is now considered rightwing, it's not, it's just American.
6. Continued comparison of people to Hitler reduces the impact of Hitler's crimes (oh and it makes us ignore those doing the comparisons - the same applies to the terms crooks and liars!)
7. Every pie thrown at a conservative should be treated as if it contained some type of chemical or acid. It isn't just a harmless prank or an expression of free speech!
   
8. If you drink coffee while driving chances are good you will spill! Spilling coffee on your cooter (BTW, is that spelled like hooters or couter?) is going to hurt - coffee is hot, always has been always will be! If it weren't hot you would complain to the manager!

I will be keeping an archive here - Common Sense Archive.
DKK

Common Sense Archive

Common Sense.

1. If you want to ensure the legality of an election you must know who is voting (require an ID to vote)
2. A nation must control it's boarder, that is what makes it a nation and why it is called a boarder
   
3. Punishment for a crime should be hard, that is why it is called punishment!
4. A minority party is deluding itself by claiming that the majority party is, "out of the mainstream."
5. For some strange reason a pro-American bias is now considered rightwing, it's not it is just American.
6. Continued comparison of people to Hitler reduces the impact of Hitler's crimes (oh and it makes us ignore those doing the comparisons - the same applies to the terms crooks and liars!)
7. Every pie thrown at a conservative should be treated as if it contained some type of chemical or acid. It isn't just a harmless prank or an expression of free speech!
   
8. If you drink coffee while driving chances are good you will spill! Spilling coffee on your couter (BTW, is that spelled couter or like hooter?) is going to hurt - coffee is hot, always has been always will be! If it weren't hot you would complain to the manager!

DKK

The Good Thing About Pain

The good thing about pain is when it goes away, even for a couple of days. Other then that and pain letting you know your alive I can't think of many good things about it (aside from the obvious pain warnings of a hot stove but that isn't the kind of pain I am discussing here).

Spent yesterday puking and napping - not the flu but a reaction to something. Not sure what but I have been extra dizzy lately.

And when I say puking I mean violently throwing up! Luckily it started early enough that I had only had water and a bit of coffee. Kept it from being too bad. 3rd time this year - treatment and management had kept that symptom limited to just once or twice a year.

Strangely enough I learned how Yogi's can control their breathing, after all they can breath through any orifice, even a straw sticking out of their punjana, right Eddy? While I was trying to control the pain and nausea I actively regulate my breathing. As I would begin to doze off I would actually stop breathing and I would wake and have to start myself breathing again. This went on for about an hour or so. Sounds strange but because I was actively controlling this autonomic function it wasn't ready to kick in automatically (as in autonomic) either because of the illness and pain or because of exhaustion - one way or another it wasn't ready to kick in as I fell asleep. It feels really strange and scary to have to remind yourself to breath!

But enough about that....pain and chronic illness do challenge one's positive attitude. Was it Ben Franklin who said that one can only appreciate health, wealth, and sleep when they have been interrupted?
DKK

Regaining The Offense

Republicans have to get back on offense and force a REAL fillibuster - you know, the Mr. Smith performance just like the Dem's are running in their ads! Should the Democrats actually be able to pull that off then use the constitutional option, but one way or another force this issue!

That is the only path to victory against an opponent who has no ideas of their own, which is the current state of the Democratic Party.

It is a strategy that the Dem's have played well since the policy of personal destruction was founded by the Clinton team. They are going to stonewall and delay everything in hopes that momentum will be lost. In the process they can frame the arguments and they can play up every fabricated scandal about every Republican you can imagine.

I fear the shift is beginning! Republican majorities were enhanced in great part to end the obstructionist tactics of the past 4 years, but the Dem's could actually win despite losing!

Dem's can smell the weakness of the Republican Senate Leadership! When a party fails to act because they fear the loss of it's majority then that majority is already lost!

Frist dropped the ball by not pushing the judicial nominations and enforcing the constitutional option! Yes, ANWR was important, but the leadership should have made the obstructionist issue front and center from the start of the Senate's term. The President has been pushing since his reelection for his agenda, now he needs the Senate leadership to prioritize and take action!

Some may put some of the blame on Delay and the House, but as near as I can tell Delay is still sticking to his agenda and doing his best to ignore the mud that is being flung at him! And as near as I can tell this issue would have never gotten the level of attention it has if the Senate had done what we elected them to do - confront the obstructionist by confirming the President's judicial nominations!

It is now imperative that the Republicans regain the offensive!

The judicial nomination issue has to be forced NOW!

Arguments need to be on point, the failed UN is the issue, not the successful Mr. Bolton!

Tax reform, Social Security reform, and the rest of the President's agenda will be lost if these strategic changes aren't implemented NOW! And that means action must be taken - being on offense means action - defense is inaction and delay!
DKK

Entertainment Trek - Screaming Like a Girl!

Okay, I have given my opinion on the Lexus commercial and a few others early in my bloggin so I thought I would give my input on another.

David Spade stars in the new Capital One "NO" commercials. I wasn't a big fan of them and they got old really quick - however when they hired the intern they began to improve.

The horn incident made me laugh!

The "bright yellow shirt" where the intern runs down the aisle screaming like a little girl made me laugh so hard I almost wet myself! (I can't find them online yet.....so no link)

So, although I don't like the newest Lexus commercials at all, and despite the fact that I had tired of the Capital One NO commercials....

I LOVE the two recent mishap installations of the series.

Oh, by the way, watched half the Desperate Housewives episode - just don't have any shows that I have to make it a point to see each week except South Park - to see how they were going to handle the gay issue. So far so good, but it sure wasn't a major storyline yet - they made it more of a passing mention.
DKK

UPDATE: More on the Yellow Shirt ads here!

Wow - It wasn't just a day

Okay, that Doc appointment knocked me back a few days - regular bloggin should start up later today (Monday).
DKK

Doc Day

Hey, Doc appointment day. For some of us who are disabled that can be a full day effort so blogging may be light.

Check out the links, especially the new Forced Outing Watch list!
DKK

Ass Biting On Demand!

"This is another example of where we just don't get it," says a Democratic pollster in New York. "We knew the Pope was dying. We knew we had an opportunity, and we just ignore it and go ahead and act like the Democrats all those Red Staters think we are. We attack the Republicans for trying to save the Schiavo woman, and we ignore the Pope's passing. Somehow I know this is just going to come back and bite us in the ass."

Well, who am I to let down a Democratic Pollster - especially one willing to talk to The American Spectator's Prowler.

Her Catholicism notwithstanding, Pelosi was especially adamant about pressing ahead with the political agenda, according to a House leadership staffer. "This wasn't counter-intuitive," says the staffer. "This was just being stupid and stubborn. It's another example of where we are going wrong as a party."

It is all about Nancy boy (Blows-me) Pelosi and Harry ass Reid's agenda, damn those Catholics...

President Bush devoted his weekly radio address to praising the John Paul II, recalling the Pope's heroic charge for freedom and devotion to the culture of life.

Democrats around the country were said to be angry that Reid and Pelosi wasted an opportunity to show the party's faithful side to a nation that clearly would spend the weekend focused on the death of the Pope, and not judges.

But the Democrats just couldn't! They had to push ahead with their agenda despite this once in a lifetime event.

Democrats have been patting themselves on the back lately that they have figured out how to better communicate with Red State America. You wouldn't have known it on Friday and Saturday, when congressional minority leaders, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi refused to adapt the party's weekly radio address to the breaking news that Pope John Paul II was on his death bed.

"We had a plan in place for a national radio address that would have highlighted the Pope's stand on social justice and equality for all," says a Democratic National Committee staffer. "They wouldn't do it. They said it would look like pandering, that it wasn't helpful

They really don't get it.
DKK

Gay Threat Level Lowered - High (Orange)

Hey, according to Orbit Mr. Rogers bought ad space on his site.

Good - maybe I will finally be encouraged to see what nobody (that I know) is talking about! LOL, I have stopped there once now and found it unentertaining, messy and - actually boring.

Now lowering the threat level was a difficult decision considering it was noted that Mike Rogers has attacked Log Cabin Republicans for supporting Social Security reform. Here is what he said:

Mike Rogers is criticizing Log Cabin Republican director Patrick Guerriero for “getting into bed with” USA Next - the folks behind the anti-gay AARP ad.

Shame on Gurriero for hopping into bed with USA Next. By doing so, The President of Log Cabin has sold out EVERY gay man and lesbian in America.

Ahmmmm… no. This is blatant deception on Rogers’ part - which is easy for him to do, as most of his readers are easily led and know little about critical thinking and doing their own research.

Rogers is implying that Log Cabin and USA Next are partners in something, when that is completely untrue. Log Cabin, rightly, has signed on to the president’s Social Security restructuring plan. Why? Because it is good for gay people - or at the very least, it’s much better than the current system.

Shame on Mike Rogers for NOT supporting a plan that would allow gay Americans to pass on their retirement plans to whomever they choose. Shame on Mike Rogers for (I assume) supporting the current system that discriminates against gay and lesbian Americans. By getting into bed with those that support the status quo, Mike Rogers has sold out EVERY gay man and lesbian in America.

I couldn't agree more and said so before here!

In addition he pulled a trackback Orbit put on his site. That isn't how a blog is supposed to work is it?
DKK

Danger To The South

CIA director Porter Goss wasn't kidding when he put Mexico in with Venezuela, Haiti, Bolivia and Nicaragua as the most unstable countries in the hemisphere.

So begins The American Thinker's analysis of the political outlook for the upcoming Mexican elections this year.

As a substitute for reform, Fox encouraged Mexicans to skip over the border to the U.S., to take up life as illegal aliens - and send dollars back to Mexico

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The danger on our southern boarder is hard to ignore, why has an administration that I have praised for addressing issues and not, "kicking the can down the road," (like virtually every issue during the eight years of Clinton) not properly addressed this issue?

Could it be the plight of those already here,

The poverty, the exploitation by the migrant rackets, the permanent underclass status, the ease with which aliens can lose everything they've worked to build if they are apprehended by law enforcement is heartbreaking. These people are helpless.

Understandably concerning and worth addressing, but not valid for ignoring the boarder issue and those who are still streaming across the boarder aren't helped by being trapped in this same hell!

Earlier I posted that perhaps there was something we didn't know about the southern boarder and our war on terror efforts, perhaps a cooperative Fox is better then a Chavez look alliance.

For the U.S., there's a potential Hugo Chavez on its border, one who's already talking about an oil alliance with Venezuela. Oil supplier number three teaming up with oil supplier number four to stick it to the gringos sounds like $105 a barrel oil already. For Latin America, there's one more demagogue ready to retard the region's growth by destroying Latin America's largest economy. The danger is obvious to everyone.

DKK

The Power of Faith

Charles Krauthammer has the definative analysis of the Pope's impact on the world:

I am not much of a believer, but I find it hard not to suspect some providential hand at play when the white smoke went up at the Vatican 27 years ago and the Polish cardinal was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Precisely at the moment that the West most desperately needed it, we were sent a champion. It is hard to remember now how dark those days were.

DKK

Pope John Paul II Has Died At Age 84

The Pope Is Near Death!

This Pope has been one of the most significant figures in the history of man!

I'm not Catholic, but I don't think anyone can deny this man's greatness!
DKK
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Bumped

Gay Threat Level - Change - Severe (Red)

Wow, that didn't last long - There are warnings of a Gay Radical attack, as such the threat level has been raised to Severe (Red):

Gay Orbit

Mike Rogers believes that my little banner on the right is a violent call to action. He emailed me to say so. Nothing could be further from the truth. When I use a word like terrorize, I mean it exactly as I stated here:

ter·ror·ize
tr.v. ter·ror·ized, ter·ror·iz·ing, ter·ror·iz·es
To fill or overpower with terror; terrify.
To coerce by intimidation or fear. See Synonyms at frighten.

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terror·i·zation (-r–zshn) n.
terror·izer n.

He goes on to implore people to only Email Mr. Rogers

So, this is NOT a violent call to action. Gay people have had enough violence done to them over the decades. We certainly don’t need to be doing it to each other. And Mike Rogers doesn’t deserve to be physically injured any more than you or me.

I agree - as I stated before I reserve the use of the word Terrorist, but I can't argue with the defination! Mike Rogers outings and threats are designed to Terrorize those he targets and it is disgusting.

Therefore, let me be absolutely clear: as it states in the banner, the “call to action” is clearly to email Mike Rogers and register your disgust at his outing campaign. As well, the story that led up to this call to action has been so thoroughly reported in the blogosphere and elsewhere that anyone who believes this is a call to violence clearly has been sleeping through it. There is nothing - absolutely nothing - intended to imply a violent response. It’s not a call to violence, no matter how Mike Rogers wants to portray it that way. Is it a little shocking and attention grabbing? Sure. But it’s that way for a reason. I want you to notice it. I want you to e-mail him and register your disgust at his tactics.

Here is his contact info if you care to share your disgust! As always logical and thoughtful arguments please!

comments@blogactive.com
kevinp@blogactive.com
editor@blogactive.com
tips@blogactive.com
alicek@blogactive.com
webmaster@blogactive.com

DKK

DU Insane Rants - A Challenge

In my previous post - If you can't throw an election throw a fit - I compared the Democratic Underground (DU) to the insane:

...a day at DU is like walking into a shrill and painful sounding psycho ward. The one where the constant painful cries of, "I AM Napoleon and my empire HAS been stolen," echo off of the bare cement walls until your ears hurt and you are forced to turn away in sorry disgust.

Here is a challenge - come up with other commonly known insane rants from folklore, movies, books that would apply to the current rants at DU. (election stolen, war is illegal, Bush undermined the UN.....hahahah that one made me laugh.....)
DKK

BTW, I would like to apologize to the insane for the painful comparison!