Blogs For Victory

Really does mean having a steady aim:

A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.

Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones met with one of the students to talk about the incident.

“Apparently, his intent was to rape and murder us all,” said student Charles Bailey.

Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door.

“They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.

Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.

That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.

The student then ran to the room where the second gunman, identified by police as 23-year-old Calvin Lavant, was holding the women.

“Apparently the guy was getting ready to rape his girlfriend. So he told the girls to get down and he started shooting. The guy jumped out of the window,” said Bailey.

A neighbor heard the shots and heard someone running nearby.

“And I heard someone say, ‘Someone help me. Call the police. Somebody call the police,’” said a neighbor.

The neighbor said she believes it was Lavant, who was found dead near his apartment, only one building away.

Bailey said he is just thankful one student risked his life to keep others alive.

“I think all of us are really cognizant of the fact that we could have all been killed,” said Bailey.

I’ll bet it was the criminal – desperately looking for a way out after coming up snake eyes in the crime lottery. Armed people are free people – and safe people.

Powerline has the disgusting video of people going through a market clearing out all Israeli products. The action takes place, apparently, just down the road from Paris’ holocaust memorial, on the site where 65,000 French Jews were deported to death camps. “Never Again” has turned into “As Soon as We Get the Chance”.

Are we seriously going to let this fool get away with this statement?

“We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits don’t matter and waste is not our problem,” [Obama] said. “We can no longer afford to leave the hard choices for the next budget, the next administration — or the next generation.”

Need we be reminded…

Mr. Obama’s budget predicted total deficits for the next decade of nearly $7 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office analysis of his plan put the figure at nearly $9.3 trillion, or a third higher.

Here’s an interesting look at the deficit… from the Bush years through the projections of the next ten.

Excellent advice from a rightwing extremist to the current occupant of the White House:

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. – Calvin Coolidge

…well, quite honestly, against their own:

This afternoon, more than 1,000 students, parents, and concerned citizens gathered across from city hall to rally in support of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program. A number of prominent D.C. leaders spoke, including former mayor Anthony Williams and former councilmember Kevin Chavous. But the most moving speeches were from the parents and students participating in the scholarship program. High-school student Carlos Battle spoke about how he was personally working to redefine the image of the black teen in Washington, D.C. — and how the Opportunity Scholarship program was giving him a chance to fulfill his dream. A father of a scholarship student pointed out the hypocrisy of Congress bailing out failing corporations but taking scholarships away from D.C. students.

Indeed. If you follow the link, you’ll see a picture of the demonstrators and you’ll note that they are overwhelmingly black. This is natural – Washington, DC is a heavily African-American city. So African-American is the city that it wracked up an astonishing 93% of its votes for Obama last November. The oddity? It is Obama and his Democrats who are – at the behest of corrupt educationist unions – pulling the plug on this very popular and exceptionally effective program. I wonder if anyone in the crowd – almost certainly ardent Democrats to nearly a man and woman – put two and two together?

Its got to be hard – here is the political party (now led by one of your own!) which has spent decades telling you they care about you and what they are doing is screwing you over. And to add insult to injury, it is this mostly black area which is being screwed over at the behest of mostly-white elites! Nothing so clearly demonstrates that the Democrats are the party of the powerful than their cynical and cruel disregard for this long-suffering community – a community which has poured out its blood and treasure, and is now told to take a hike…but please keep voting 90%+ Democrat.

2010 and beyond will be the battle between the people and the powerful and it is to be hoped that, at long last, African-Americans will come to understand that they have been used. Their “leaders” are mostly the choice of rich, white liberals and the policies put forward are for the benefit of rich, white liberals and their favored black individuals and groups…the average black man or woman means nothing to these Democrats, or to those alleged black leaders. It is time for all people who are ignored by the powerful to band together and take our country back.

Still growing out there:

The United States now has 642 cases of the new H1N1 flu, with two deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

CDC officials have said they expect the new swine flu to spread to all 50 states, to cause severe disease and some deaths, although most cases have been mild.

Mexico has confirmed 42 deaths and said it was impossible to get samples from about 70 more people who died of flu-like illness recently. Globally, more than 1,600 cases have been reported in 23 countries.

We have a critical case here in Las Vegas now, too. I’m glad the panic is dying down, but this is going to be a problem and the worst of it may very well be yet to come.

You expected something different?

With the ethics troubles of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) continuing to make headlines — and headaches for Democratic leaders — Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday again deferred any action on the matter to the House ethics investigators.

“I’ve historically said and continue to believe the ethics committee should, in fact, look at any specific allegations of rules violations that have occurred,” Hoyer told reporters at his weekly press conference.

And I’m sure that cracker-jack ethics committee is right on this.

Keeping in mind that there is no love lost between Hoyer and Murtha we can still see that Democrats circle the wagon when one of their own is in trouble. The only thing which will possibly move House Democrats to force Murtha out is if a poll comes out showing Murtha would be defeated next year – as we saw with the Jefferson case, even an indictment isn’t sufficient for Democrats to call one of their own to account. This from the party which called for Republican Foley’s head because he wrote a few dirty e-mails! I love the stench of hypocrisy in the morning.

From NRO’s The Corner:

…The British Home Secretary thinks that by making public the ban on Michael Savage she’s “naming and shaming” him. But she’s shaming only herself and her country. This kind of stuff is very weird from a senior cabinet minister of a G7 nation:

“I think it’s important that people understand the sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have here, the fact that it’s a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won’t be welcome in this country,” Ms Smith told GMTV.

“Coming to this country is a privilege. If you can’t live by the rules that we live by, the standards and the values that we live by, we should exclude you from this country and, what’s more, now we will make public those people that we have excluded.”

How many members of King Abdullah’s entourage at the G20 summit the other week live by Jacqui Smith’s “standards and values”? Come to that, how many British subjects live by the “standards and values” of the countries they visit and trade with? The idea of ideological enforcement at the border is repugnant to a free society…

Flicking through the radio dial I have, from time to time, come across Savage’s show – usually much to my regret. Perhaps long-term listening would put a different perspective on it, but what I’ve gleaned is a clear lack of understanding of the issues facing our nation coupled with a bullying attitude towards callers who disagree. I’m a big fan of hard-hitting polemics – I like it very much when people go at it with gusto…provided one doesn’t slide down in to the gutter and, especially, provided one doesn’t lose a good sense of humor about the whole thing. People like Medved, Rush and Ingraham manage to finesse this very well…Savage doesn’t.

Be that as it may, Savage has a show which has attained a level of popularity and thus he’s not likely to be going away any time soon – and all banning him from Britain does is simultaneously grant him massive, new publicity as well as violate the very concept of freedom. As long as Savage isn’t actively inciting people to criminal acts, he should be allowed to say whatever he pleases without let or hindrance…and as long as his advertisers are willing to shell out for spots on his show there is no reason for anyone to in any way, shape or form attempt to boot him out of the public square.

He is what he is – and I pray he’ll learn to gentle his tongue, but it is not my business to do it for him. Britain has placed a stain upon its honor as well as upon its tradition of free speech.

If he thought this about the minimal government of his time, imagine how fast he’d raise a new Continental Army against our current monstrosity:

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

Which is bad news for all, but really bad news for those public-sector employees – especially in the US – who have funded the Democrat party for decades on the promise that they would be taken care of, lavishly, forever:

All around the world, pension tension is growing. You’re only beginning to see what I’ve been predicting for a long time. It’s one huge mess. Here is a small sampling of global pension tension:

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* Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier said on Monday the state is terminating its investment agreement with Dallas-based private equity firm Aldus Capital LLC, after it was caught up in the criminal and civil probe of the New York State pension fund.

* Teacher pension tsunami is expected across Pennsylvania. A bubble in the number of teachers expected to retire in the next decade and a 30 percent drop in the total value of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System’s (PSERS) assets last year in the souring economy means districts contribute more to the teachers’ retirement fund.

* Minnesota teachers are asking state lawmakers for a $223 million bailout for their pension fund. The Education Minnesota teachers’ union, their retirement association and other groups are asking the state Legislature for between $207 million and $223 million over four years to put their pension fund on sound footing.

* The protracted economic downturn has chewed up nearly a quarter of the value of Ohio’s five public pension plans, forcing their leaders to more seriously consider unpopular options such as dialing back cost-of-living increases and even raising retirement ages.

And that is just a sample of the sample, as it were. Lesson to be learned: You can’t spend your way into wealth. No, really – I’m not kidding: you have to earn wealth, not just have it showered upon you by a government which has to steal it from others. Eventually, the Piper has to be paid.

The economic bow is over-stretched. To be sure we, the people, played a large role in this with our irresponsible credit card borrowing (Me? Guilty.) and our housing speculations – but the primary culprit has been a government essentially commanding us to produce less and less wealth and rely ever more on government hand outs and crazy-quilt investment plans which are based, ultimately, on the productivity of slaves in China and sweated labor elsewhere in the Third World. We have to re-trench – we have to cut spending until revenues significantly exceed spending and thus start to pay off the debt we’ve wracked up. Meanwhile, we have to do everything in our power to encourage Americans to make, mine and grow things.

There is really no other way out of this mess – fiscal hocus-pocus by Obama and his Democrats might put a temporary healthy sheen on the economy, but that is like putting lipstick on a corpse. We need new life, and the only way we’re going to get that is by working hard and sacrificing.