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Quote Of The Week

"They [politicians] all don't know better. They're doing the best they can. I gotta work with them. I gotta find the high notes with whoever and play those. It doesn't make sense to say things angry. It's not going to get heard, it's not gonna sink in, it doesn't make your opinion more valuable."

- Russell Simmons, music mogul and yoga enthusiast to Complex magazine

The Mainstreaming Of Porn . . .

. . . continues with this bit of news about porn "star"/whore Jenna Jameson getting "immortalized" by the notorious Madame Tussauds House of Wax in Vegas:

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Jenna Jameson, the adult film superstar and pop culture icon, was immortalized in wax today at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas.

Ms. Jameson, a Las Vegas native, unveiled her life-sized wax figure during a special ceremony at Madame Tussauds on the Las Vegas Strip. The partially nude, interactive figure portrays Ms. Jameson kneeling on a bearskin rug and displays all of her well-known tattoos. She also wears her original "Jenna" black leather belt with her name in rhinestones.

"This is an awesome honor," Ms. Jameson said after the unveiling, "especially since I'm making history as the first personality from the adult world to have an attraction at Madame Tussauds, and it is happening in Las Vegas, my hometown. I was so excited when asked to be part of Madame Tussauds incredible collection and even more excited to see my figure .... it looks so real!"

Like all Madame Tussauds interactive figures, visitors can pose for photographs with Ms. Jameson and when you tickle the tattoo on her right ankle, she whispers a personal message. Her attraction is displayed next to the one of Playboy Publishing founder Hugh Hefner, with whom she shares the same birth date, April 9.

So now young women everywhere can visit the House of Wax, get a touch of the whore and dream about growing up to be just like Jenna. Shouldn't be too hard just requires a lot of kneeling and lying down. Now how cool is that?

Alicia Keys Made Boyfriend Wait A Year For Sex

From Eurweb.com:

Alicia Keys is finally talking openly about her relationship with boyfriend Kerry “Krucial” Brothers, the longtime producer of her music and partner in their production company Krucial Keys.

In the new issue of Sister 2 Sister magazine, the singer/songwriter tells founder Jamie Foster Brown that she kept a lock on her goods for 12 months before moving the relationship to a sexual level.

"I made him wait a year because my body is too beautiful to be violated by someone who doesn't deserve it," she said. .

Keys, until now, has kept her relationship with Brothers on the low. They have known each other since both were teenagers frequenting New York’s underground rap Mecca, Lyricist Lounge – Keys as an aspiring singer, Brothers as a burgeoning rapper.

We live in a society that trivializes sex every chance it gets, especially in Hollywood where the likes of Paris Hilton, celebrity groupies and "Girls Gone Wild" are celebrated to such a degree that the concept of a star on the level of Alicia Keys choosing abstinence comes off as being completely foreign. So while many won't find this bit of news to be significant, in a society where young women are often pressured to grow up too fast and role models are far and few, Keys' choice is not only wise, but it shouldn't be taken for granted.

Whatever Howard Dean Says . . . Do The Exact Opposite

Surprise, surprise. Howard Dean Says Lieberman Should Dump Independent Bid.

WASHINGTON - The Democratic Party's boss says it's time for Joe to go.

Adding his voice to a chorus of other leaders, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Sunday that Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman should drop his independent bid against Ned Lamont, the anti-war candidate who knocked him off in last week's primary.

"I know how hard this is for Joe, and he is a good person, but the truth is, I lost one of these races, and I got behind my party's nominee, and I think that is what you have to do if you want to help this country," Dean said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"The way to help this country is to limit Republican power," he said.

Let's face it, if this doesn't motivate the Lieberman campaign, nothing will. After all, listening to Howard Dean talk politics is getting to be almost as silly as listening to Al Gore discuss global warming.

Sportswriter Mike Lupica Shares His Liberal Views

Usually when you read a sports column you expect to read about sports, but lately popular NY Daily News columnist Mike Lupica has been using his articles (esp. in his weekly "Shooting From The Lip" column) to give readers political insights from his obviouslywarped Left-leaning brain:

Says Liberal Mike:

Boy, the Republicans sure did get sweet on Sen. Joe Lieberman all of a sudden.

He's probably wondering where all the love was back in 2000 when the same guys stole an election from him and Gore.

All these yahoos who come rushing to defend George Bush's war in Iraq when an anti-war guy like Ned Lamont wins a primary in Connecticut - when do you suppose they'll be lined up to have their own kids go fight?

And you always have to ask why a big, tough war guy like Cheney set a world's record for draft deferments when he had the chance to go pick up a gun.

His boss kept Alabama safe when he was a young buck.

Those are the words from a "sports journalist" whose ego is so huge that he knows that he can exploit his expert opinion on sports to impart political commentary for the mostly young, white male sports nuts who read his work.

"Unabomber" Items To Be Sold Online

From Newsmax:

A federal judge has ordered personal items seized in 1996 from Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski's Montana cabin to be sold online.

U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. ruled Thursday that items belonging to Kaczynski - including books, tools, clothing and two checkbooks - should be sold at a "reasonably advertised Internet auction."

The auction will not include 100 items the government considers to be bomb-making materials, such as writings that contain diagrams and "recipes" for bombs.

U.S. Marshals Service will contract the sale with an Internet auctioneer who will bear the cost and receive no more than 10 percent of the proceeds.

The remaining revenues from the sale will be applied to the $15 million in restitution that Burrell ordered Kaczynski to pay his victims.

Kaczynski, 64, is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole for a bombing spree that lasted from 1978 to 1995. The blasts from homemade bombs killed three people and injured 23.

Kaczynski was arrested at his cabin in Lincoln, Mont., in April 1996.

Only in America folks.

Say It Ain't Over Yet Joe

From LATimes.com:

HARTFORD, Conn. — Sen. Joe Lieberman, who angered Democratic voters with his staunch support of the war in Iraq, on Tuesday narrowly lost his party's nomination to Ned Lamont, an antiwar candidate who was unknown seven months ago.

Lieberman is only the fourth incumbent senator to lose his party's nomination since 1980. He promised to run for a fourth term as an independent candidate. Looking out at his supporters Tuesday night, he beamed and raised a fist defiantly in the air.

"The old politics of polarization won today," he said. "For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand."

Joe Lieberman may have lost the battle, but it doesn't mean that he has to lose the war. Joe Lieberman must continue to fight. He must prove that the Democratic party is not beholden to the losing cause that is the extreme-Left's immoral agenda.

The Democrat party is continuing to veer in the wrong direction, serving as nothing but a litmus test for the MoveOn/Howard Dean/Michael Moore-run Left. And if you don't accept their dogma on gay marriage, abortion, Iraq or President Bush, you are deemed a "sellout" and the Left will do any and everything in its power to toss you out like yesterday's garbage.

That's why Joe Lieberman is doing the right thing by continuing to run as an independent. He must not give up. He must not let them win. He must not lose come November.

Lieberman is a far better candidate for our party and his record proves it. Ned Lamont? He's nothing but a cable guy with one thing going for him: the anti-war rage of Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and the other Martians over there. Riding that wave is what got Lamont his slim victory yesrerday, nothing else.

On the other hand Lieberman is a real Democrat who votes with his party 90% of the time. He's open to compromise. He isn't afraid to publicly criticize one of his own. He's a proven winner on free trade. He stands by his principles. He doesn't believe in filibusters. He supports women's rights and affirmative action. He wanted to get rid of Saddam Hussein, an evil dictator responsible for killing thousands of Iraqi's.

As we head to November, Joe Lieberman (already favored to win a 3-way race) needs to stick with his principles, fight for what's right and defeat the evil liberal machine. It's vital to the future of our party that he wins.

Half Of America Still Believes That Saddam Had WMD's

From YahooNews:

Do you believe in Iraqi "WMD"? Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003?

Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.

People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull.

The reality in this case is that after a 16-month, $900-million-plus investigation, the U.S. weapons hunters known as the Iraq Survey Group declared that Iraq had dismantled its chemical, biological and nuclear arms programs in 1991 under U.N. oversight. That finding in 2004 reaffirmed the work of U.N. inspectors who in 2002-03 found no trace of banned arsenals in Iraq.

Despite this, a Harris Poll released July 21 found that a full 50 percent of U.S. respondents — up from 36 percent last year — said they believe Iraq did have the forbidden arms when U.S. troops invaded in March 2003, an attack whose stated purpose was elimination of supposed WMD. Other polls also have found an enduring American faith in the WMD story.

"I'm flabbergasted," said Michael Massing, a media critic whose writings dissected the largely unquestioning U.S. news reporting on the Bush administration's shaky WMD claims in 2002-03.

"This finding just has to cause despair among those of us who hope for an informed public able to draw reasonable conclusions based on evidence," Massing said.

Of course, the shock, bewilderment and skepticism displayed within this news release shouldn't surprise anyone who understands the liberal leanings of our press. After all, you're only a member of the "informed public" if you buy into their liberal propaganda.

Al Sharpton Slams Joe Lieberman

The "Reverend" Al Sharpton, race baiter, co-conspirator in the Tawana Brawley Hoax, the sparkplug behind the riot at Freddy's Fashion Mart in Harlem several years ago, tax cheat, abortion advocate, supporter of homosexuality & gay marriage, friend to grief pimp Cindy Sheehan, general con artist and liberal has come out to denounce his supposed "friend" Joe Lieberman:

At a breakfast with ministers in Stamford on Wednesday morning, Sharpton said the Iraq war is the defining issue of our time and called Lieberman the "main cheerleader" for the Democratic caucus on the issue.

"I was disappointed that every time we came out of the huddle, it seemed like my friend Joe had the other team's uniform," said Sharpton, stressing that black voters need to come out in force for the Aug. 8 primary.

Of course, Hillary Clinton who supported the war in Iraq too, would thus be much more benefiting of Sharpton's "main cheerleader" line, but why pick on a big fish like Hillary, when you can pick on a poor sap like Joe Lieberman?

Because they're hypocrites, that's why.

Gitmo: The Side Liberals Don't Mention

The Pentagon has just recently released reports that show Military Police guards are routinely head-butted, spat upon and doused by "cocktails" of feces, urine, vomit and sperm collected in meal cups by the prisoners.

They've been repeatedly grabbed, punched or assaulted by prisoners who reach through the small "bean holes" used to deliver food and blankets through cell doors, the reports say.

Amazing testimony to the self discipline and restraint of the guards at Gitmo that a case of "humiliation" of some prisoners by a handful of them, is the only reaction.

I wonder how much outrage and sympathy for the guards that this will spark?

Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/31/06

Mel Gibson's Mouth Has Him In A Heap Of Trouble; Enters Alcohol Rehab

British Court Nixes Same-Sex Marriage

Indian Actress Makes Racist Comment About Black Africans

Don't Fall Prey To Liberals And Their Healthcare Propaganda

Charter Schools Give Students The Fighting Chance They Need

Martin Luther Queen, Jr.

Fighting For Whom?

There are a lot of people on the extreme-right who like to belittle the anti-war movement. “Cowards!” they say, “We must support our allies at all costs”. Far be it from me to be some kind of expert on the going-ons in the Middle East. And to the war-mongers, from an aesthetic standpoint it may not matter at all. But how can the sight of innocent children being killed not make you stop for a second and just think that in the grand scheme of things, have we all lost sight to our responsibility to end what has always essentially been nothing but a political chess game between a few men with no souls?

Charles Barkley Running For Governor; As A Democrat

Seems that Sir Charles political juices are flowing hard enough to make him consider running for governor of Alabama in 2010.

Former N.B.A. star Charles Barkley is thinking about running for governor of Alabama. He says he's switched from being a Republican to a Democrat and might enter the 2010 race in his home state. As for why he changed parties, Barkley says he thinks Republicans, "lost their minds."

He had a storied career, won an Olympic gold medal as part of the 1992 "Dream Team" and will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in September. But Barkley, who is now a T.V. commentator, says he believes he was put on Earth to do more. And he says he wants to help people improve their lives.

Besides his play on the basketball court Barkley's always been known for his candor so I'm not surprised that he would want to enter the world of politics,. However, considering that some of his opinions on race, self-responsibility and poverty tend to lean towards a more conservative mode of thinking I am a bit surprised that Mr. "I am not your role model" would switch parties to run as a Democrat.

Another Insane Liberal: Betty Williams

I never heard of Betty Williams until today, but apparently she won the Nobel Peace Prize way back in 1976 so I guess that makes her somewhat important. Unfortunately, in yet another case of just how much of a joke the most notorious peace prize has become, the other day Williams not only announced how much she regrets winning the award, but she also showed that she's suffering from a huge case of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

"I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Betty Williams, 64, according to the Australian newspaper. "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush."

The audience at Brisbane City Hall – mostly schoolchildren – clapped and cheered, the paper said. The event was the Earth Dialogues forum.

"I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."

Williams was awarded the prize for circulating a petition to end violence in Northern Ireland after witnessing British soldiers shoot dead a member of the Irish Republican Army. The IRA member veered on to a footpath, killing two children from one family instantly and fatally injuring a third.

The former receptionist now heads the World Centers of Compassion for Children International, a non-profit group working to create a political voice for children.

Again, the Nobel Peace Prize is a farce.

David Letterman Disses The New York Times

Last week, David Letterman had the "Top Ten Signs There's Trouble At The New York Times."
Credit: Instapundit.

10. Extensive coverage of recent fighting between the Israelis and the lesbians

9. Pages 2 through 20 are corrections of previous edition

8. Every sentence begins "So, like"

7. TV listings only for Zorro

6. Weather forecast reads "Look outside dumbass"

5. Multiple references to "President Gore"

4. Obituary includes list of people they wish were dead

3. Headlines fold over to create surprise mad magazine-type hidden message

2. Restaurant critic recently gave IHOP four stars

1. Reporting that Oprah isn't gay, but Letterman is

Fighting Liberal Terrorism: Judy Vincent

This column is dedicated to individuals who are taking it upon themselves to take a stand against the destruction of our planet being conducted by lunatic liberals.

Age: n/a

Representing: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Preamble: Judy Vincent is the mother of Scott Vincent, a Marine who died in 2004 fighting for his country in Iraq. At her son's memorial, Ms. Vincent spoke lovingly of him: "He loved his country, he loved his family and he loved God. That says a lot for a young person." Corporal Vincent first served in Afghanistan and had volunteered for a second tour in Iraq. Friends say he was destined to be a US Marine; his chosen motto for the high school yearbook was 'Semper Fi.'

Fighting Liberal Terrorism: Last year Ms. Vincent learned that Cpl. Scott Vincent's name was among 1,700 included on a T-shirtbeing sold by a man in Arizona over the Internet. The man, an obvious anti-war zealot and Bush-hater was selling shirts with an imprint on the front saying "Bush Lied" while the back reads "They Died". Upon finding out that her son's name was being exploited by a liberal lunatic, Ms. Vincent pushed for Oklahoma legislators to pass a law that makes it a misdemeanor to use a soldier's name or likeliness for advertising purposes without consent. The law goes into effect in November. The shirt vendor “has the right to voice his opinion, as we all do,” Ms. Vincent said. “But I do believe the First Amendment stops when you use a person's name or likeness to make a profit. I don't care what he thinks about the war. I do care that he's making money off my son's death.”

Status Quo: The shirt vendor, who identifies himself on his Web site as Dan Frazier, recently issued an open letter to family members who contacted him to protest the use of their loved ones' names on the shirt. While praising the bravery and sacrifices of the soldiers, and insisting he was not trying to degrade their service, he refused to stop selling the merchandise "no matter how many requests I receive."

"Every name matters, and will be retained to help underscore the horrific loss of life that has been caused by President Bush's rush to war under false pretenses," the letter states.

(Any chance the loons at the Daily Kos prepared this moronic statement for Mr. Frazier?)

The good news: Frazier said he probably would run out of the merchandise before the new legislation took effect. He said it sold poorly and he is "unlikely" to make any more.

Quote Of The Week

"I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties with the African American community. For too long, my party wrote off the African American vote, and many African Americans wrote off the Republican Party. That history has prevented us from working together when we agree on great goals."

- President George W. Bush at the NAACP's 97th annual convention in Washington

Time To Get Rid Of Cynthia McKinney

Good news coming out of Georgia. Race-baiter and cop beater Cynthia McKinney is facing a runoff in order to keep her seat in the House of Representatives.

From CNN.com:

ATLANTA, Georgia (TIME) -- Cynthia McKinney's reputation on Capitol Hill and elsewhere may have taken some shots in recent months. But in her Georgia district, the congresswoman known for testing, if not betraying, decorum enjoys solid support as she heads into the July 18 Democratic primary -- the only election that much matters in her heavily Democratic district.

The stream of controversy following McKinney spiked this spring when she was charged with punching a cop who, failing to recognize the congresswoman, physically restrained her after she bypassed Capitol security. It's not the first time security has challenged her credentials -- recurring mistakes that the African-American representative calls racist. (A jury declined to indict her after hearing witness testimony from four congressional aides.)

Getting rid of Cynthia McKinney would be a huge statement for the people of Georgia. It would send the message that they will no longer tolerate the sort of antics we've come to expect from an insane woman masking herself as a politican. The last straw being crying "racism!" after assaulting a Capitol police officer.

It is high time that we ignore efforts by liberal blacks to play the race card when they find themselves in hot water. This inappropriate playing of the race card is akin to the boy crying wolf: it reduces the visibility of actual racist incidents because Americans become desensitized to Blacks crying "Racism! Racism!" every time they find themselves in trouble. Having become an expert on crying wolf, it's time for voters to show Cynthia McKinney the door for good.

Ned Lamont: The Liberals Latest Howard Dean

Seriously. He's just Howard Dean without the scream.

WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Lieberman's bit ter primary battle is the biggest race in the country because it's a naked test of how much clout the MoveOn/Deaniac angry left holds in the Democratic Party.

It's a Democratic civil war. If they can beat Lieberman and make the Iraq war a litmus test, the angry activists hope to become kingmakers with vast clout in picking the 2008 presidential nominee.

Activists like Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the popular Daily Kos Web site, claim their mix of hot rhetoric and Internet organizing is the path to victory for Democrats.

But they have yet to notch a single win in a primary or general election. Howard Dean crashed and burned in a 2004 Internet-fueled presidential bid.

That's why the stakes are so high. If the activists can't beat Lieberman, their clout shrinks fast.

For centrist Democrats, it's vital that Lieberman win to keep the party from lurching to the left and risking a repeat of George McGovern's 49-state loss to Richard Nixon in 1972.

"This reveals a self-destructive tendency on the left of the Democratic Party, a cultish fervor," says Will Marshall, who runs a think tank linked to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.

"There's a kind of angry new breed of liberal fundamentalism that's trying to enforce a narrow orthodoxy."

For the angry activists, the worst-case scenario is that Lieberman loses the Democratic primary but wins re-election as an independent - revealing them as paper tigers.

Republicans are smiling. They say the activists hurt the whole Democratic Party by making it look too nasty and too far left.

"The liberal fringe may end up costing Democrats control of Congress this fall," said Republican pollster Jim McLaughlin.

"It's the best thing we have going for us as Republicans."