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Kerry Says Iraq to Become Another Lebanon?

Let's have a history lesson

During a press conference this afternoon in Colorado, John Kerry said that because of Bush policies in Iraq, he anticipated having to deal with a “Lebanon” if he takes office in January. Lebanon of course has been embroiled in strife for well over 20 years now. Though what Kerry may have failed to mention is that Lebanon’s democratic Christian government collapsed when Israelis pulled out under UN pressure in the 1980’s, leaving only Syrian troops, Syrian- and Iranian-sponsored terrorist groups in charge. The result has been decades of bloodshed, chaos and poverty in what was once a prosperous and developing democracy.

"I don’t know what I'm going to find on January 20 the way the president's going”, Kerry told reporters. “If the president just does more of the same every day and it continues to deteriorate, I may be handed Lebanon, figuratively speaking."

The irony is that if the US were to follow Kerry’s lead- which is essentially to follow the lead of the UN (i.e. France, Germany, Russia, China and other Oil-For-Fooders), we would be pulling out of Iraq without completing the most fundamental anti-terrorist part of our mission, instead leaving the country in the hands of Syrian and Iranian terrorists invading from all points. That is, essentially another Lebanon.

Later in his speech Mr. Kerry argued he would support US generals in whatever decisions they needed to make with regard to troops in Iraq, but in an interview with Chris Matthews just last January 06 of this year, Kerry answered when asked if he was “one of the anti-war candidates” - “I am, yeah.”

I don't really think Kerry is a flip-flopper. I think he thinks he is a master of dialectics. Nevertheless I'm sure most thinking people would agree delusions of clever deceit are not the same as flip-flopping even if the latter makes for great airplay. Kerry has always been anti-war, anti-American military (adjectival specification needed), essentially a genuine “carpe diem” anti-American. The only times he has pretended otherwise were when the public was watching and the spin-profit ratio had been diminished significantly such as during the first iteration of the Gulf War back in 1991 (to some extent), 9/11 and of course Mr. Saddam Part deux (to a greater extent). But trying to be a good politician by sounding hawkish isn't even really one of his strong suits. To me, that is far worse than being a confused Senator from Massachusetts whose claim to fame is flip-flopping.

Relatively recently in its long history, Lebanon became the hotbed of terrorist activity sponsored by Syria and Iran precisely because the democracies of the world had pulled out when pressured by the agenda-driven UN. What happened next was the result of those Western democracies giving heed to the “global test”.

And what about the UN applying any pressure to Syria to leave the region? Well, it’s been 20-plus years and counting, and we're still waiting. Yet, Spaceman-Spiff Kerry thinks that, by reason, this is not the fault of the terrorists who maim and kill and tear things up. Rather, Senator Kerry seems to say a strong, long-term stabilizing presence by the Free World creates Lebanons, not the retreat of such democracies or their failure to show up altogether.

If this is a war on terrorism, it would certainly seem judging by the participating players that Iraq is one of the places to be, Mr. Kerry.

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CAMPAIGN VIOLENCE REFORM

Brown Shirted Thugs Seem to Support Dictatorship in America

Ransack GOP Headquarters, assault and vandalize across the country

As it seems, this segment (Planet Moronia) has begun the tradition of being a two-parter. This time however, we are leaving the debate of the debate in favor of the debate over whether the US should have free elections or only nominate and support candidates the most violent party approves of (like a quasi-dictatorship). I must preface this and say that I am willing to bet that most Democrats are horrified by these acts of violence aimed specifically against the volunteers of the Republican or any other political party in the United States. However, the Democrat leadership has thus far shown little interest in joining with other Americans in condemning it. 

Here’s the rundown:

Protestors whom we saw earlier this year protesting against Bush and against the Republicans’ right to speak "in public” in New York weren’t finished after Bush’s nomination.

Since then we have seen campaign volunteer intimidation, violence and theft across the country using a level of thuggery heretofore unprecedented in a land that depends on free elections between at least two parties to survive.

Just today and yesterday protesters stormed Republican Party campaign headquarters in West Allis, WI, Orlando and Miami FL and Westmorland County, PA.

I e-mailed Chris Lato, the communications director of the Wisconsin Republican Party about today’s break-in at their West Allis headquarters, where protesters belligerently stormed the offices with bullhorns, intimidating campaign operatives and committing acts of petty vandalism along the way. While he declined to say if charges had been pressed or were planned, he did say that charges had been filed and protesters were arrested in both the Orlando and Pennsylvania incidents. “It is my understanding that protestors were arrested after things turned violent in Florida and Pennsylvania.”

No news reports of the Pennsylvania headquarter assault could be found, however I did find a statement at the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania official website by Republican State Committee Chairman Alan Novak who called it “an outrage of the highest order. There is no place for violence, threats or disorderly conduct in campaigns," exclaimed Novak. “With similar events happening across the nation, it is clear that some think this kind of action is condoned. I demand that Chairman Rooney (of the Pennsylvania DNC) call to a halt any and all threatening protests and that he urge affiliated third party groups to do the same."

The statement also indicated that another assault had occurred in Tennessee when the local Bush-Cheney campaign office was fired upon, shattering several windows and causing property damage. It was too late in the evening to call contacts in the Davidson County Young Republicans for comment. Nor was there any word yet on their website about the incident.  

Not to say Democrat hopeful John Kerry wants to be a dictator. But it would help if his campaign weren’t being so reticent to condemn the 1^st Amendment-suppressing activities of those Kerry supporters actively involved in these attacks. Similar to the Nazi brown shirts in the German 1920’s who rioted and crashed the political offices of their opposition during election years, the radical left Kerry-Gestapo has deployed their storm troopers to silence their constitutionally-protected legitimate major political opposition (and we know they only got worse once they actually gained power in the 1930's). The only possible intended result of such a strategy of intimidation is to create a situation where one party runs unopposed, its opposition too afraid for life and limb to oppose it.

So where is Jimmy Carter on this one, folks? My bet is that just like the idiologically obsessed ACLU, he's a bit selective.

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Tint-Bias at the Veep Debate?

Who’s Lookin’ at Hue, Kid?

Unaltered VP Debate Stills from Last Night C/O MSNBC

I noticed this last night during the VP debate: something er, rather, peculiar in paradise. During the split-screen shots when it was most noticable, it appeared to me the tint on the Silk Pony (John Redwards) was red and youthful, while the tint on Cheney's plump visage was well quite, ill and a ralphy green in its presentation. At first I thought it was me being Rather-shy until I saw the yellow timer lights side-by-side light up- and only one of them was yellow. While the middle light for Cheney unmistakably was yellow, the one before Edwards was as red as Christmas. So too, their skin hues. As I watched further I noticed that when Cheney was included in an Edwards wide-shot, he suddenly regained his health and vigor. Cheney's chair also seemed to bear a grey chromatic warmer than that of the chair assigned the unfortunate task of holding Redwards' derrière.

While there is no doubt the excuse might be it was that the shots were simply by different camaras that they happend to rush out and buy at Wal-Mart because the really expensive ones they normally use broke before the flight to Cleveland during an illegal profiling incident by airline security, I personally am left asking what the video guys were smoking in the control room. Aren't they supposed to be "professionals", able to wow us with their visual flutter?  

There are so many jokes here, I can hardly contain myself. I was going to lead with “Some off-color remarks, if you will about a visible difference between the candidates’ camera shots,” or “Truly in this show, the “Silk Pony” was a horse of a different color.” But I think it best to get right to the matter that may in fact be a bit more serious, albeit not altogether shocking considering the MSM.

Anyone know who ran the camera pool for this debate?

UPDATE

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BLOGSITE UPDATE

Blogbat Announces Move to New Cyber Digs

New Look, More to Come

I decided to make some minor changes to this blog, as those of you who are frequent flyers have noticed - though Xanga seems to have trouble with it, which to any of you should come as no surprise. The above new banner was obviously put through the Xanga blender when I uploaded it.

I don’t plan to spend much time trying to fix it however. The other news is that I will hopefully soon be departing from Xanga and its poor service and limited features and moving the fun and excitement to my own domain and a respected host, both of which have already been introduced to each other. I’m getting everything all ready to move in, in fact, which is where most of my “blog time” is going right now. There will also be a completely new look. More to come on that, along with the domain name and other good stuff as the date approaches.

UPDATE: Fixed the banner. It should show up properly now and suffice as a very modest teaser...

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Horse-Drawn Carriage-Makers of the World Unite…After Tea, Of Course

Truly elitism and out-moded haberdashery come in all shapes and sizes and usually come when a person or a group think they have whatever it is they do all wrapped up and figured out and as such have finally earned the right to be lazy and self-indulgent. And traditionally this balance is eventually upset when somebody comes along whom the old guard accuses of going off as half-cocked amatures, and shakes things up by outdoing and beating their elders at their own game. First comes denial of the upstart’s very existence, followed by a denial of the upstart's credentials. After that we can usually witness the general denial of the upstart’s right to exist, ending with a denial the old guard was bested by that upstart, which usually happens as the former is being carried out the door.

So what do Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne and the Blogosphere have in common?

Well first off, both are upstarts doing something which only before had been the exclusive right of the most elite of “professionals” in their business. Yet both also have managed to show their sneering predecessors a thing or two about how things should be done, by doing it right.

When Dan Rather assumed he could pass off a story of questionable accuracy with forged documents coming from Texas anti-Bush partisans to boot, he thought he was safe as he had always been. So even today goes the hope of Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw. Then along comes this young pup of an outlet, its members doing their homework and getting it right and we find the old guard, the king as it were, all this time really did have no clothes.

So what did those media elites have to say when this upstart they had previously tried to ignore bested them? Nothing factual of course, just some drivel about some ambiguous cloud of legions of people using common sense out there gathering facts and doing their homework and that the American viewing public should for some reason fear them. But the only reason the American people would fear such a thing is by the fact they have become unused to fact-gathering and quite used to spin, which they fear by virtue of saturation.

And then you have today the historic event that won the Ansari X prize for the team at Scaled Composites, which created SpaceShipOne. When those in the know at NASA and the big aerospace industry assumed they could pass off creative mediocrity and pat each other on the back for it, they thought they were, well, as safe as they had always been. Then along comes this young pup of a group, its members doing their homework and getting it right and we find the old guard, the king as it were, all this time really did have no clothes.

And once again, it’s déjà vu all over again!

So just what on earth did those space-elites have to say when this, another fine example of an upstart which they had desperately tried to ignore bested them? Not a whole lot publicly. But when Mike Fincke, who is sharing a space station with fellow orbiter, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka found out about today’s crowning flight of SpaceShipOne, which took place on the forty seventh anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, he offered something that left some room for interpretation. According the Associated Press account, Fincke is quoted as saying, “’Fantastic’…adding that it was great to learn that for a while he and Padalka were not ‘the only ones off the planet.’" A seeming jab at the perceived amateurishness of Rutan’s space project? If so, it would seem to mirror perhaps that now waging war currently underway between the Old and New Media. This sense was further hinted at in the post-flight statement by Rutan during his news conference shortly before formally being awarded the Dallas-based Ansari family’s Ansari X Prize: “The big guys, the Boeings, the Lockheeds and the nay-saying people at Houston ... I think they are looking at each other now and saying, `We're screwed.’"

There is little doubt those “nay-sayers” will try to scare the American people with some drivel about some ambiguous cloud of forward-thinking pioneers using common sense and doing their homework and why Americans should hold doubts. But clearly in light of the past forty years, the only reason the American people would even be presently doubtful of such a thing as space travel is because they have become unused to anything else.

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TALKING POINT LEMONS

Malfunctioning Liberalism

Kerry to Sawyer on The $87US Billion: Articulation Malfunction

Democrap Candidate John Freak Kerry today during his interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC’s Good Morning America blamed his most famous gaffe made last spring  about "voting for the 87 billion before (he) voted against it" on an “inarticulate moment”, saying it was late at night and he was “very tired”. Today's sound bite was played on the Rush Limbaugh Show which swiftly (if I dare mention "swift" in the same sentence with "Kerry") pointed out that the Democrat presidential hopeful also had actually made the claim about “the 87 billion” during an early day speech to veterans on 16 March and not late at night, as Mr. Kerry claimed he had to Sawyer. Mr. Limbaugh of course quipped that it appeared the real “inarticulate moment” was more likely made this morning in the Good Morning Viet-nam America interview. You can read more about it care of a Washington Post article. Meanwhile the DNC official website is comparing rather somewhat strangely “The Bush Record vs. the Kerry Plan”. Wouldn’t an "apples & apples" comparison be between the Bush Record and the Kerry Record? It must surely be just another articulation malfunction, this time on the part of the DNC web master.

This just weeks after CBS News and Dan Rather said they had suffered a “memo malfunction” which Rather blamed on partisans and Republican political operatives (and bloggers in bedclothes) Never mind the Rather ties to the DNC via his daughter, his own involvement and participation in the DNC and its fundraising events or the involvement of his producer, Ms. Mapes (aka Miss Prism), about whom her own father went forward to denounce as a radical, agenda-driven partisan. And let us not forget the partisanship of the "source", about whom Rather felt it unnecessary to share those details of the years-old, politically-driven feud Burkett had running with the Bush administration. And then there was Lt Col. Jerry Killian's secretary who was an outspoken Kerry supporter – a partisan in the eyes of normal people. I guess Dan’s definition of “partisan” only applies to non-Democrat conservatives, moderates or anybody else who points out the fact those Microsoft Word-produced documents with the Times New Roman font were forgeries. I'm certainly glad that unlike the Pajamahadeen, CBS "always" shows due diligence. Dan Rather, give us a break. Better to type in stylish pajamas than be caught in the kings new clothes.

A year for CBS indeed. Of course last week CBS was fined $550,000US by the FCC for the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” that started it all for the sinking network.

You can also read how DNC-Tool, the Pro-Abortion National Education Association is having a serious education malfunction at Beautiful Atrocities today. 

And now Republicans couldn’t have asked for a better early Christmas gift: The collapse of the Kerry campaign and total loss of credibility with the Democrat Party and the demise of one of the DNC chief talking point war machines: CBS News.

ROCKETS RED GLARE

SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Private Manned Mission to Space

Today’s 29 September flight marked a watershed in history, as SpaceShipOne breached the barrier of space and then glided back to earth in a flight costing astronomically less than missions by the US Government agency NASA. The historic flight has been compared by some in importance to the first flight of an airplane by Orville and Wilber Wright in 1903.

The second flight is scheduled for 4 October where they plan to claim the coveted Ansari X Prize, which will be awarded to the first team to launch a manned vehicle into space and turn around and re-launch it within two weeks. More info can be found on Space.com.

In related news, earlier this week, Virgin Group announced a partnership with Scaled Composites- group behind SpaceShipOne- to build a commercial tourist space vehicle. The new venture under the name of Virgin Galactic will officially begin taking its premium passengers into space in 2005. Virgin’s flamboyant CEO Sir Richard Branson was excited about the deal, telling the press in a statement, ”We’ve always had a dream of developing a space tourism business and Paul Allen’s (a major funder) vision, combined with Burt Rutan’s (creator of SpaceShipOne) technological brilliance, have brought that dream a step closer to reality.”

But many are asking why shoot a space vehicle up into space? How does it benefit the future of the human race and what is the significance of this day. The answer of course being quite simple for those who know, however. It is my birthday.

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That slogan is catching on where I live. Here someone proudly tells it like it is, on a bumper sticker this owner happily and giddily obtained from Blogbat.

A locally popular item that has been making its rounds since the famed Zell Miller speech at the Republican National Convention earlier this month in which Zell listed all of the vital military programs currently in use today in the War on Islamofascism - military programs that Kerry has been voting against since he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984.

In Zell’s colorful and passionate speech, he posited, “This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?”

Because of their popularity I’ve decided to make them available to my online visitors as well, through Pay Pal. Orders will be processed and sent the next business day after the transaction is complete. These are a great statement of vitally important truth, especially vital in their timeliness so close to Election Day.

A BLOGBAT EXCLUSIVE*

A Document was found today indicating some collusion between CBS, Dan Rather and the Democrat National Committee.

The document seems to mention by name the primary actors (and I do mean “actors“) in the Bush National Guard Document Forgery Scandal, in which CBS has long contended their innocence maintaining they were in the right and that, as Dan Rather put it, "it's about the Bush administration, stupid". CBS is set today to admit it wasn’t (right or “unimpeachable“) and may face a flurry of federal investigations by the FCC, FTC, FEC, SEC, AARP and the S.O.L.

Below is a copy of the document in JPEG format.

To download in PDF format click here

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