Blogs For Victory

From Pajamas Media:

Is the GOP dead? Well, that’s what you would conclude from pundits on MSNBC or writing for the New York Times, but not if you have been following grassroots and online activists burning up blogs and conference calls since the November election. The newly elected GOP chairman, Michael Steele, has given fellow Republicans a challenge: it is time to beat the Democrats in the online world.

Since taking the helm of the Republican National Committee at the end of January, Chairman Steele has been popping up in new and old media taking issue with the stimulus bill and the Obama administration’s tax troubled appointees. But behind the scenes he has been partnering with Saul Anuzis, former Michigan GOP chair and former opponent in the race for RNC chairman, to invigorate the GOP online activists.

Last Friday, the RNC held the GOP Tech Summit at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., which brought together bloggers, politicos, and activists to discuss ideas ranging from social networking to online fundraising. The forum was also broadcast online so that those who were interested from all over the country could view and submit their comments. Attendees even got a surprise visit from Chairman Steele and Newt Gingrich. Followers of the discussion were then given action items and deadlines on proposals to be given to Chairman Steele. GOP Tech Summit on the RNC website has now over 2,000 ongoing contributors who are busy discussing lessons learned and strategy.

One thing I did immediately note upon signing up at SarahPAC is that she’s clearly going to do the Obama thing as regards New Media – and that, in and of itself, delighted me. We can beat these clowns on the left, and at their own game. And doing so would be oh, so sweet.

As for me, I’ve been rumbling from the get-go in the Obama Error – even in my congratulatory post, I fired me first warning shots. And now, its just more and more fun as Obama exhibits the reasons why we opposed him – from his manifest inexperience to his socialistic policies, Obama is being all we expected, and I’ve never seen the conservative base this fired up.

From CNN:

Barbour, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Obama’s recent travel is an indication that the new president is already running for reelection.

“He’s going to those places for a reason,” Barbour said on CNN’s State of the Union. “I mean David Axelrod, who’s his campaign consultant/manager/guru really is one of the brightest, most capable people in American politics. And so this is what we’ve become accustomed to, the perpetual campaign.”

In the last few weeks, the president has visited Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and Colorado — all states that voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election but flipped to the Democrat’s side in 2008. Obama has also visited Arizona — the home state of his former rival, Sen. John McCain, and a state he’d like to turn blue in 2012.

The White House has said the president specifically visited those states because they are among the hardest hit by the nations sputtering economy and home foreclosure crisis.

Obama isn’t very good at being President, but he is superlative out on the stump, reading from a teleprompter…so, his handlers have decided that the best thing Obama can do is go read speeches. We can expect Obama to pretty much do nothing else between now and November of 2012. What he would do after that, if he’s re-elected, Lord only knows.

As for the staff lying – it is an obvious lie to say that Obama is only visiting States which are hard hit by the mortgage meltdown…California (Obama by 24 points), Alabama (McCain by 22 points), Hawaii (Obama by 45 points), Kansas (McCain by 16 points), Illinois (Obama by 25 points), Alaska (McCain by 22 points), Idaho (McCain by 25 points) and Oregon (Obama by 16 points) have also been very hard hit by the mortgage meltdown – the commonality between these not-visited States is that if Obama loses any that he won in 2012 then he’s toast, while its next to impossible for him to win those States he lost…so, why bother going?

Face it, Obama and his minders only care about you if you are part of the 2012 re-election campaign. And thus Obama’s staff has lied…it isn’t the first time, and we can almost rely upon it that its not even in the last 100 times it’ll happen.

Other than the Brokeback Mountain, Joker dead guy, I don’t know anything about who or what has been nominated. Seems that movies in 2008 were pretty much a run of worse crap than usual.

Have at it, if you have a mind.

Jerry Pournelle’s suggestion:

The best way out of this mess is the German Economic Miracle way: suspend regulations. All regulations. Make it easy to start new companies. Let ingenuity work to allocate capital. Of course we won’t do that.

He’s right – we won’t, but think how much fun this would be, if we did. You see, liberals are of the opinion that without strict regulation, we won’t know what to do and we’ll make a hash of things. This liberal thinking changes completely when the subject turns to abortion and pornography, of course – but if we’re waiting for logic and common sense from liberals, we’ll be waiting a long time. Meanwhile, taking all regulations off the economy just might scare liberals to death – they’d be instantly worried that Robber Barons would force people to accept a dollar a 14 hour day to work at dumping toxic waste from the gun factory into the soy milk supply.

Seems all that illegal Chinese money did what it was intended – got Hillary to be a willing stooge of her ChiCom paymasters:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged China to keep investing its substantial foreign-exchange reserves in U.S. Treasury securities, arguing “we are truly going to rise or fall together.”

China is the biggest foreign holder of U.S. debt, which helped finance the spending binge the United States went on before the current economic crisis. Some experts have expressed concern that China’s substantial holding of U.S. debt gives it increased leverage in dealings with Washington because any halt in Chinese purchases would make it more difficult to finance the government bailout and stimulus packages.

I like that MSM bias, too – we went on a “spending binge” under President Bush, but what we’re doing under Obama is “stimulus package”. Someone got a way to differentiate between “binge” and “package”? Ah, well…

Anyways: it was announced earlier that Hillary had taken China’s horrific human rights record off the table…so, we’re officially unconcerned with forced abortions, torture, slave labor…but we don’t want the Chinese to buy our bonds, lest we be forced to print money to pay for Obama’s asinine economic policies. And when China decides to, say, move on Taiwan, just what will Hillary do? Get tough with the people who have the receipts for her illegal campaign contributions? Demand the largest holder of US debt back off?

Its going to be a loooong four years.

This is the stuff of Tom Clancy novels, but the sad part about it, it is also the stuff of real life.

For some time, now, I have been keeping in personal contact with an associate of a man whom he believes was assassinated in Iraq. By his request, I’ve been keeping the story under wraps for quite some time now, but that time is finally over.

THE death of an American arms dealer in Iraq has led to one of the most intricate and far-reaching inquiries into corruption among US military officers in Iraq. Some suspect that he was killed because he was a whistleblower who knew too much.When Dale Stoffel, 43, was gunned down on his way into Baghdad at the height of the insurgency in Iraq, his murder appeared all too predictable. He was an adventurer who seemed to have met his end at the hands of jihadists while engaged in one of the riskiest businesses on the planet.

However, it has emerged that Stoffel had complained to US authorities about a multi-million-dollar contracting office where two senior American officers had worked. The two officers are now under investigation.

Stoffel’s death in 2004, along with that of Joseph Wemple, 49, his friend and colleague, had all the hallmarks of an assassination. His black BMW was found with the bonnet smashed and windscreen shattered in a grim part of the Iraqi capital near the banks of the Tigris.

David Stoffel, his younger brother, who worked with him at his company Wye Oak Technology, said: “Joe [Wemple] was shot once through the eye at long distance while driving at 90mph. My brother was shot six times, in the front, the back, the shoulders and the head.”

Shortly afterwards, a rambling tape from an unknown jihadist group called him a “CIA shadow director” and “close friend of George Bush”.

“It was exactly like you see in the movies, with the guy in the black and white headscarf,” David Stoffel said. “I think it was a setup.” Since his brother’s murder he has received several death threats, warning him to stay away from Iraq.

Dale Stoffel had the swagger of a soldier of fortune. “This is what I was born for,” he used to say. He knew how to lay his hands on weapons from former Soviet bloc countries and saw the opportunity for rich spoils in Iraq. He had reckoned without the huge scale of corruption, not just among Iraqis but at the heart of the US military, which was securing a $125 billion reconstruction effort.

“We didn’t mind not winning contracts – it was not having the possibility of winning contracts that was the problem,” said David Stoffel. “These people were taking bribes just to put names on the bidders’ list.”

Dale Stoffel’s whistleblowing and line of work earned him many enemies in Iraq, including prominent Iraqis and Middle Eastern contractors with whom he had done business. There is no suggestion that the two US officers were involved in his killing.

Stoffel had passed on hair-raising stories to Stuart Bowen, the special inspector-general for Iraq reconstruction, about pizza boxes stuffed with tens of thousands of US banknotes being delivered to American contracting offices in the guise of takeaway food.

There were dead drops for cash in paper sacks all over the green zone, from which the Americans ruled Iraq, and Stoffel claimed he had been swindled out of $25m owed to Wye Oak for refitting Saddam Hussein’s tanks and armoured vehicles so they could be used by the new Iraqi army.

Stoffel made sure his complaints were heard at the highest level. Before his death he sent an e-mail to a senior assistant of General David Petraeus, the US commander, pleading for tighter controls. “If we proceed down the road we are currently on, there will be serious legal issues that will land us all in jail,” he warned.

Read the entire story. And a watered down version of the story at the New York Times.

Suffice it to say that this is merely the beginning of a scandal that will not only touch high ranking officers in the military, but elected officials in high office, as well.

This story, as they say, is developing.

Stay tuned

***UPDATE***

This just in from my source:

A new letter was written to the Senate Democratic
Policy Committee…and just yesterday they removed
access on their web site to the hearing in which
they accused his (Dale’s) family of treasonous actions. No
response…the other hearings
are still there…just gone…no retraction…
no appology…

let’s just erase the page amd maybe no one will
notice it is gone even though it was there for four
months…and quoted all over the web.

As I stated before, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Stay tuned.

Seems the spirit of rebellion is spreading:

Hundreds of people turned out on a cold and windy Saturday morning for an anti-tax protest outside U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore’s office in Overland Park.

The rally, which was promoted by Americans for Prosperity’s Kansas chapter and other groups, was directed at Moore for his vote for the $787 billion stimulus package.

Just imagine how angry people will be when the actual Obama plan makes a mess of everything…this flame of liberty could end up becoming a wildfire of freedom spreading across the country in 2010 and 2012.

The odd thing is that with Obama being the semi-socialist we all feared he would be, he’s actually setting up a situation where we really will get change we can believe in…it just won’t be from him.

UPDATE: Revolt of the Kulaks

From the Book of Matthew, Chapter 5:

¹¹Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

¹²Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Blessed are you, Biship Naumann:

Denver, Colo., Feb 20, 2009 (CNA).- In a startling defense of legal abortion supporter Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Catholics United has attacked Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, accusing him being more interested in trying to score political points against the governor than in crafting effective abortion policy within the reality of politics.

The salvo from Catholics United comes as advisors to President Obama have told the press that he has decided on Sebelius as his next secretary of Health and Human Services nominee.

Kathleen Sebelius, who professes to be Catholic, has a problematic record on abortion.

In the Spring of 2008, Archbishop Naumann met with Gov. Sebelius to ensure that she understood the gravity of her position. After meeting with her, Archbishop Naumann asked her to stop receiving Communion.

As Archbishop Naumann explained to CNA, he requested that Gov. Sebelius stop receiving Communion because of her “30-year history of advocating and acting in support of legalized abortion.”

The Thursday statement by Catholics United, which is mostly dedicated to rebuffing the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, marks the first time that the organization has targeted a specific Catholic bishop by name.

Catholics United is but a front for the democrat party, pure and simple. Their website states:

Catholics United is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the message of justice and the common good found at the heart of the Catholic Social Tradition. 

Apparently, to C.U., the lives of pre-born babies do not figure into their vision of “justice and the common good.”

Hypocrites.

It is my hope that, like Bishop Naumann, more bishops take their role as shepherds of the flock seriously, and fearlessly speak out against Catholics who abandon the sacredness of life in their lust for power.

Ouch.

Today marks the one-month anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration. In his brief time in office, the president has overseen three massive new spending initiatives — the $787 billion stimulus bill, the trillion-dollar financial stability initiative and, most recently, the $275 billion mortgage assistance program.

That’s a lot of activity, and a ton of money, but so far the reaction to the new administration’s programs has been decidedly negative. Investors, among others, have panned the plans; the stock market is off nearly 10% from the day before the inauguration, or more than 800 points on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

I was quite heartened to hear that the illegal muckety-mucks from Mexico were unsuccessful in their lawsuit against a south-Texas rancher who allegedly held them under gunpoint until the border patrol could pick them up. Quite, heartened, until I read this:

MALDEF and its attorneys lost track of three of the plaintiffs entirely, Hardy said. The organization hired nine attorneys for the illegal aliens. Three were from big commercial firms in New York City.

The group also flew a psychologist to Arizona from Chicago to testify that the illegal aliens suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“We don’t know where they’re getting their money, but it’s a lot,” Hardy said. “They dropped $19,000 on the psychologist for his examination and $150 an hour to show up for trial.”

He continued, “We tore him up pretty good, though. We tore up all of the other witnesses, too.”

The rancher was held liable for limited damages involving assault and emotional distress. Two illegal aliens were given $1,000 plus $10,000 in punitive damages each. Two more received $7,500, plus $20,000 in punitive damages each.[$77,000 total–ed]

“It’s interesting since most of them don’t speak English, but they claim that Roger, who has almost no command of Spanish, was able to use full sentences like, ‘If you go, my dog is hungry, and he’s hungry for your butt,'” Hardy said. “Roger couldn’t put that sentence together.”

And these scum-sucking illegals didn’t get enough:

He said the judge left out one part of instruction to the jury that should have been included, and it will be the basis of their appeal.

“The law is skeptical of infliction of emotional distress because everybody gets their feelings hurt at times,” he said. “So one of the requirements was that whatever is done must be so severe that the average person would be physically disabled by the distress – suffer a complete mental breakdown. The judge wouldn’t put that in the instruction. That’s straight Arizona law.”

Now before anyone goes off half-cocked that I’m just another WASP against immigration, know this: I am totally FOR immigration, as are most of my like-minded brethren. It’s ILLEGAL immigration and total disregard for our sovereignty and our laws with which I take umbrage. If I were the rancher, I’d counter-sue every one of those illegal a**-hats (not to mention their scum-sucking, bottom-dwelling a**hat lawyers and MALDEF) for tresspassing and/or accessory to illegal trespass, time away from work, and emotional distress.

Also, two of the plaintiffs received $1,400, and two were awarded $1 each for assault. The term “assault” is legally applied when a person has simply put someone in fear of a harmful contact. According to the attorney, Barnett did carry a gun, but the judge did not include their self-defense argument in the instructions to the jury – another basis for appeal.

All together, the illegals received only $77,804 of the $32 million they requested – and Hardy believes that award will be thrown out in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

With the “9th Circus” hearing that case, I wouldn’t be so certain of that..

Many of the aliens are residents of Michoacan, Mexico. Four live in Illinois, one resides in Georgia and another in Michigan. All of the plaintiffs currently living in the U.S. listed pseudonyms in the lawsuit due to “fear of adverse action based on immigration status.”

Ten of the illegal alien plaintiffs didn’t show up to the trial, but the remaining six said they were given permission to re-enter the United States and testify against Barnett.

“That was a shocker to me. All the ones who testified said that they were here legally and that their attorneys had done the paperwork,” Hardy said. “There’s nothing like your government backing you.

Indeed.