Blogs For Victory

An infamous performer in pornographic films:

Marilyn Chambers, 56, the onetime Ivory Snow model who became the star of the pornographic film “Behind the Green Door,” a salacious sensation that helped hard-core movies find a mass audience and a measure of public acceptance, was found dead April 12 at her home in Santa Clarita, Calif.

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office was planning to conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Foul play was not suspected.

At 19 she entered the pornography business and went on and on and on with it…and then there’s this bit:

Two years ago, Ms. Chambers told the Providence Journal that the adult-film business “chews women up and spits them out. It’s a business I’d never want my daughter to be in.”

Yes, indeed. Pity it took her that long to figure it out.

Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

No surprise, the State is governed by Democrats:

If election officials started disenfranchising minority voters at a rate of 80%, headlines would scream on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, as would civil rights leaders. And rightly so.

However, when those being disenfranchised are military voters, the media and the traditional civil rights establishment give a collective shrug. I posted a story on April 2 about the shameful behavior of the New York Election Board and the inadequate actions of the Department of Justice in protecting military voters in New York’s 20th district congressional race.

Yesterday was the deadline for the receipt of completed absentee ballots from military voters—ballots that had been mailed out too late by local election officials. The Election Board has posted a chart showing that 998 absentee ballots were sent to military voters, yet only 205 were returned in time to be counted.

There is no doubt many more would have been returned if New York had been forced to take other steps to remedy their late mailing of absentee ballots. For example, the state could have been required to pay for international express service for the return of voted ballots. That didn’t happen. The resulting low voting rate among service members can be partly attributed to the failure of state and federal officials to carry out their responsibilities to comply with and enforce the federal statute that guarantees the rights of all military personnel to vote.

Remember the rule, guys: “Count every vote” means “count every vote which helps a Democrat, even if you have to count it a dozen times”. If you’re even possibly going to vote GOP, then counting your vote falls in importance to somewhere below investigating Obama’s ties to Ayers. We can expect more and more of this as time goes on – Democrats are determined to win and they don’t care how they do it. The ultimate reason for this is that Democrats believe that if everyone was being sensible and not bitterly clinging to God and guns (you know how those service members are…they have guns and, my goodness, a lot of them pray), they’d vote Democrat…so, its ok to disenfranchise them because its in their best interest.

Its going to be a long, nasty fight to get these Democrats out of power.

If this report (PDF) is accurate. To quote:

(U//LES) The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment…

…(U//FOUO) The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.

The report goes on to note that people who hold anti-abortion opinions – ie, me – are primarily hate-orientated and thus a threat.

If this is a correct report – in other words, if this is a real DHS report – then this is the first shot of Civil War II. President Obama must investigate and if this report is found to be accurate, those who prepared it must be removed from their positions in government. We cannot tolerate that we on the right be considered potential terrorists merely for being opposed to gun control or abortion.

UPDATE: Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) stands for the Constitution.

UPDATE II: Please don’t read this subversive, right wing, hate-filled, anti-government document.

Reuters reports an increase in first time tax delinquents as a result of the current recession.

As a deep recession strips Americans of their jobs, homes and investments, the 2009 U.S. tax season promises to see a large uptick in first-time delinquent income taxpayers.

“Our calls are up 280 percent,” said Richard Boggs, founder and chief executive of Los Angeles-based Nationwide Tax Relief, a firm that helps delinquent taxpayers resolve tax issues.

“We’ve seen a huge rise in what we call the rookie delinquent taxpayer,” he said. “They are incredibly scared, and they have no idea what’s going to happen to them because, God bless them, they’ve never owed before.”

The IRS, according to the story, “vowed to show its gentler side this year.” You think? The economy aside, with so many tax delinquents in or nominated for Obama’s cabinet, it would be hypocritical for the government to say it is okay for the Secretary of Treasury to be a tax delinquent, while throwing the book at middle-class taxpayers who are late to pay their taxes.

Of course, they can always just apply for a job in the Obama administration.

Guess we can at least say she isn’t proud to be a backer of the Culture of Death:

President Barack Obama’s health secretary nominee, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, got nearly three times as much political money from an abortion doctor as she told senators.

In response to questions from the Senate Finance Committee, Sebelius wrote that she received $12,450 between 1994 and 2001 from one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers, Dr. George Tiller.

But records reviewed by The Associated Press show that Tiller gave at least $23,000 more from 2000-2002 to a political action committee that Sebelius established while state insurance commissioner to raise money for fellow Democrats.

The Health and Human Services Department said Monday that the omission was an oversight Sebelius would correct.

Omission? Yeah, whatever – seems like a lot of Democrats have a lot of omissions they have to correct these days.

I know our liberals are still all aglow with love and devotion for The One, but the rest of the world is taking the measure of the man, and its having some disturbing effects:

North Korea said on Tuesday it saw talks on ending its nuclear weapons programme as “useless” and it planned to restart a plant that makes arms-grade plutonium, state media quoted its Foreign Ministry as saying.

The comments came in response to the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemning North Korea’s long-range rocket launch nearly two weeks ago as contravening a U.N. ban, and demanding enforcement of existing sanctions against Pyongyang.

“We will actively consider building our own light-water nuclear reactor, will revive nuclear facilities and reprocess used nuclear fuel rods,” KCNA news agency quoted the ministry as saying.

Why do this? Because the North Korean leaders figure that no matter what they do, the world community as led by Obama will not take any action which would actually harm North Korea. There’s no downside to re-starting the nuke program, and the upside could be a new agreement whereby American money and supplies prop up the NK regime…until NK figures it should up the ante and does something else which will bring America to the table to sign away yet more concrete resources in return for yet more paper promises.

Now, Obama can cut the Gordian knot here by hitting the NK leadership – a aerial attack on something NK’s leaders care about would signal them that our intentions are serious, that while the new day in American foreign policy means we’re willing to talk, it doesn’t mean we’re willing to talk to people who just violated the last agreement we made. Obey the current agreement and we can talk about modifying it in a mutual manner…unilaterally renounce the agreement, and it will cost you.

Will Obama do any such thing? I doubt it – like all liberals, he has this basic ignorance which can best be characterized as a lack of understanding of the concept of Original Sin. So, we’ll either back-burner this, or come to some sort of bogus agreement…anything to get us off the hook at least through the next election cycle.

With my son having a rare genetic bone disorder, we have often utilized the expertise available at Minneapolis Shriner’s Children’s Hospital. The care there is top notch, and they are tops at what they do. Nowhere else can one find more competent care with regard to children’s orthopedic issues, burn issues, and other muscular-skeletal maladies. And most of all, treatment there is of absolutely no charge to its patients.

Bruce Thompson at American Thinker brings some bad news:

The Shriners Children’s Hospitals, which have provided free medical care to children, may be closing many of their facilities. The endowment supporting these facilities have fallen in value from $8 billion to 5 billion, with income also down sharply. Supporting current operations is reportedly drawing down the endowment further at a pace of $1 million a day, according to AP.

And if President Obama gets his wish with limiting deductions wrt charitable contributions, the future of Shrine Hospitals looks even more bleak:

The Obama administration proposal to reduce the tax deductibility of charitable donations makes the future dim for these, and many other worthy charitable endeavors, whose funding basis has been devastated.

Indeed. But it would appear that through greatly decreasing and/or eliminating charitable deductions altogether, the socialist Obama administration plans to bleed private charities dry, thereby leaving the government to step in and take up the slack; this would by necessity not only grow government, but increase its power and influence over others to the point where Big Government will be the be-all, and the end-all, womb-to-the-tomb abomination.

‘Charitable functions’ will be an exclusive function of the government, and as thus will cease to be charity, as charity itself has a voluntary component.

So, Obama voters, how do you like your ‘brave new world’ now?

Its being downplayed by the left – at their own peril:

It hasn’t taken long for Democrats to succumb to the same arrogance that helped tank Republicans last year.

Just as conservatives once mocked the online wave that helped Barack Obama surf into the White House, liberals are now heaping scorn on the tea party movement. This Web phenomenon may bring tens of thousands of small-government conservatives to tax day rallies across the country Wednesday. They Twitter. They Facebook. They blog. They mail tea bags to Congress.

It’s an outgrowth of the tax-revolt movement that has been simmering on the libertarian right for years. But the idea got new life as conservatives, upset at the scope of the Obama agenda, passed around online a clip of CNBC personality Rick Santelli railing against the president’s mortgage bailout.

I wouldn’t say that Democrats have succumbed to arrogance – they have been naturally arrogant for decades now. Their presumption is that power is theirs as a birthright and that any GOP interregnum is a mere error by the American people. To Democrats, the world has been corrected – Democrats are in charge, and Democrats will always remain in charge, as it should be. There are still plenty of liberals who are actually looking forward to strong Congressional gains in 2010 – because that is what should happen, because that is the only smart thing for the people to do, and they have now awakened from their GOP stupor. The Democrats are acting like an arrogant, out of touch ruling class because that is what they were, even when they were in the political minority…they viewed themselves as a government-in-exile.

How soon and how strong the reaction against this will be remains to be seen – but the reaction has already started, and it might end up astounding everyone next year.

This just goes to show you how little this has been reported on.

Macsmind first revealed the prescreening of solders last week.

[…] about that “surprise visit”.

It wasn’t. The visit was communicated a full 24 hours in advance and a small contingent of soldiers – not screaming hoards – were rustled into a meeting place at Camp Victory.

Got this email from a sergeant that was there.

“We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up.”

Take a look at the picture at AP and notice all the cameras are the same models? Coincidence? I think not.

It sure felt like it me… and it appears that the Department of Defense was itching to nip it the bud well before Sunday.

President Obama’s reaction to the hostage drama involving a U.S.-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia was on the mind of a U.S. Congressman visiting Johnson County today.

U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., was in the city for a news conference about his request for federal funding to help construct a new interchange at I-65 and Worthsville Road.

But Buyer made a point to talk about the rescue of U.S. Capt. Richard Phillips by Navy SEALS on Sunday.

Buyer said the U.S. Department of Defense had twice asked Obama for permission to use force against the pirates, who took Phillips from the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday and held him in a lifeboat.

“It is pretty stunning to me it had taken the president so long to say ‘OK’ to the Department of Defense to use force,” Buyer said. “Any time a captain of a U.S.-flagged vessel finds themselves in imminent danger, you shouldn’t have have had to ask that question.”

Buyer said Obama’s action during the crisis tipped the presidents’ hand at how he is going to act as commander in chief.

“He has shown the hand of appeasement,” Buyer said, “and he’s going to have to learn quickly that if he does not make these tough decisions when time is of the essence, that lives could hang in the balance.”

Obama was lucky this time that his hesitation didn’t cost an American lives. But this was a relatively small test of leadership, and Obama clearly failed to act quickly.