Wow

by T.L. James | 11:33 am, September 1, 2008

Well…this is certainly an interesting way to handle a scandal:
Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, is pregnant and will keep the baby and marry the father, a senior aide to Sen. John McCain confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
Republican presidential candidate McCain was aware of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy before he chose her mother for his [...]

Laura Bush Warns Dems About Sexist Attacks On Palin (Video)

by Gateway Pundit | 10:40 am, September 1, 2008

Laura Bush warned the Democrats about sexist attacks against Sarah Palin.
Laura Bush warned Democrats to be “particularly careful” when attacking the Alaska governor.

Click the photo for the video:

This was good advice from the popular First Lady.

The Politico reported:

First lady Laura Bush said today that sexism aimed at Sarah Palin was a very real prospect and suggested Democrats watch what they say about the Alaska governor and John McCain’s ticketmate.

“The other side will have to be particularly careful,” Bush said in an interview on Fox News from St. Paul, “because that’s something we all looked at.”

Questioned about whether Palin may face sexism from the media in the way Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters claim she did, Bush said: “I think that’s a possibility.”

The first lady, who had been planning to speak to the GOP convention tonight before Gustav scrambled the schedule, expressed pride in Palin.

UPDATE: Laura Bush and Cindy McCain were added to the speaker’s list at the RNC Convention for Monday Night.
They will be asking for donations for hurricane victims.

He’s Ba-aack… Jeremiah Wright Spouts Off More Racist Hate Speech

by Gateway Pundit | 9:04 am, September 1, 2008

Bad news for Obama…
Reverend Wright must have escaped from his jungle hideaway in Ghana.

Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years returns to spout off more racist hate speech:
The New York Post reported:

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s fiery ex-pastor, re-emerged yesterday with a crude reference about race and sex in the White House.

“This ordinary boy [Obama] just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania legally,” Wright said, referring to Michelle Obama, in a sermon at the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston.

Wright on time.

Hat Tip BG and Joshua

Three Teen Girls Buried Alive in Honor Killing

by Gateway Pundit | 9:01 am, September 1, 2008

Three teenage girls were shot and then buried alive by their own tribe in an honor killing.
The teen girls wanted to choose their own husbands.
The Irish Times and ROP reported:

THREE TEENAGE girls have been buried alive by their tribe in a remote part of Pakistan to punish them for attempting to choose their own husbands, in an “honour” killing case.

After news of the deaths emerged, male politicians from their province Balochistan defended the killings in parliament, claiming the practice was part of “our tribal custom”.

The girls, thought to have been aged between 16 and 18, were kidnapped by a group of men from their Umrani tribe.

They were driven to a rural area and then injured by being shot. Then, while still alive, they were dragged bleeding to a pit, where they were covered with earth and stones, according to the findings of Human Rights Watch, the international campaigning group.

Officials, speaking off the record, confirmed the killings.

Once Lost Anbar Province Is Turned Over To the Iraqi Government

by Gateway Pundit | 7:36 am, September 1, 2008

This makes 11 of 18 Iraqi Provinces now under Iraqi governmental control.
–One in four Americans lost in Iraq were killed in Anbar Province.

Map of Iraq showing provinces transferred from US to Iraqi control. Iraqi forces have taken over control of Anbar, once the most explosive battlefield in Iraq, from the US military, symbolising the growing security gains in the war-torn country.
(AFP/Graphic/Gil)

The BBC reported:

The US military has handed Anbar province, once the centre of Iraq’s Sunni insurgency, to Iraqi control at a ceremony in the provincial capital.

Anbar province began a transformation in 2006 as former insurgents turned against al-Qaeda and became US allies.

More than a quarter of all US soldiers killed in Iraq have died in Anbar, which is Iraq’s biggest province.

With Anbar’s transfer Iraqi forces will control security in 11 of the country’s 18 provinces.

The government headquarters in Ramadi was draped with tribal flags for the handover ceremony, which was presided over by US, Iraqi and tribal officials.

Aswat Aliraq has more on the handover.

This is a good day to replay this famous line by Democratic Leader Harry Reid:

Thank the Lord we didn’t listen to loser Reid.

Scientists Say Non-Existent Global Warming May Make Gustav Wetter Than Usual

by Gateway Pundit | 7:03 am, September 1, 2008

Of course.
Hurricane Gustav is a result of non-existent global warming, or climate change, one or the other, according to diehard religionists.

(Weather.com)
The hurricane is wetter they say.
Uh-huh.
The AP speculated today:

The Global warming has probably made Hurricane Gustav a bit stronger and wetter, some top scientists said Sunday, but the specific connection between climate change and stronger hurricanes remains an issue of debate.

The Atlantic is seeing an increase in storms rated among the strongest. In the past four years, Hurricanes Gustav and Katrina, and six other storms have reached Category 4 or higher with sustained winds of at least 131 mph, according to research at Georgia Tech.

Six scientists contacted by The Associated Press on Sunday said this shows some effect of global warming, but they differ on the size of the effect.

“We are just seeing a lot more Categories 4 and 5 globally than we have ever seen,” said Judith Curry, chairman of Earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech. “The years 2004, 2005 and 2007 are quite high. We’re just seeing more and more.”

Measurements of the energy pumped into the air from the warm waters — essentially fuel for hurricanes — has increased dramatically since the mid 1990s, mostly in the strongest of hurricanes, according to a soon-to-be published paper in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems by Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief at National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

Leave it to the Left to politicize EVERY natural disaster.

Gustav has weakened.

Dispatches from the RNC-The Drive To Minnesota

by elpresidente | 11:01 pm, August 31, 2008

I hate the wind.

Ok, not really hate so much as dislike intensely, especially when it forces you to drive 10 miles under the speed limit through a rather boring stretch of South Dakota.

Yes–I drove (won’t be a green convention for this blogger!).

However, lest you think I shirked my blogger duties, here is a sample of what I saw along the way, which included a stop in the Black Hills of South Dakota and a visit to the Crazy Horse Monument (which likely won’t be finished in our lifetimes, but is entirely financed through–shocker–private enterprise) and, of course, Mount Rushmore:

BFE, Wyoming.

Custer, SD

Crazy Horse Monument

“Authentic,” but waaay overpriced.

A preview of how the mountain will eventually look, sometime around 2500. Just kidding (not really).

Made in Denver.

Just in time for the evening lighting ceremony.

Come on, Vogue!

All lit up.

When I was last here in 1994, there was a much smaller, old-school National Monument building and very little improvements (since the 1960s). A larger parking lot and entrance, enhanced museum, new amphitheater, and this flag-lined walkway all augmented the decidedly patriotic experience.

I’ll have video from the lighting ceremony tomorrow.

First, we watched a Mount Rushmore “Cliff Notes” video on the four Presidents represented, and then members of the audience who were veterans of our armed forces (or a representative) were invited to the stage for the nightly flag lowering, carried out with much dignity.  Our ranger narrated the Star-Spangled Banner’s first 3 verses, and sang the final verse quite beautifully.  It was clear from the tone of her voice that she was truly overcome with emotion, and this feeling permeated the audience.

On a cool night on Labor Day weekend following the week of hell (temperatures and my poor feet) that was the DNC, it was an outstanding opportunity to reflect on the greatness of our country, the eloquence of our Founding Fathers, and the immense gratitude we should have for our rights and for the ability to exercise our freedoms in a manner unmatched almost anywhere else on this rock.  Sandwiched as it was between the DNC and RNC, my visit to Mount Rushmore reinforced the necessity of an educated and engaged citizenry that is politically active and civically oriented.

But that’s not why you’re here, is it? On to the convention schwag!

RNC schwag bag–”refresh, recycle, re-use.”  Surprisingly, there wasn’t a Coke product inside.

The logo may be much-maligned, but the message is important–water is essential for convention survival!

Cool! Mac & Cheese  . . . hey–wait a minute! We are Republicans.  Where is my RNC filet mignon?

Can the Republicans weather the storm that is Hurricane Gustav?

Fellow Coloradan Brad Jones from FacetheState.com (bookmark it) arrived a little earlier in the day, and managed to snap a few photos of those protesters arrested Sunday and the arrival of the Colorado delegates. Check back in at FTS for updates throughout the RNC.

Meanwhile, Gateway Pundit details the moonbat protesters of the “RNC Welcoming Committee” raided over the weekend and arrested for possessing devices meant to “disable” delegate buses.

Same crap (literally), different city/convention.

Oh, it’s gonna be a fun week. I’ll have updates tomorrow, including more details on the reduced and mainly “procedural” first day of the RNC.

WOW!! 20,000 Turn Out to See Palin & McCain In Missouri (Video)

by Gateway Pundit | 8:45 pm, August 31, 2008

WOW!! Record crowds turn out to see SARAH PALIN and John McCain in Missouri!

Click on Photo to see Video From Missouri–

(Reuters Photo)
20,000 in Missouri rally with McCain and Palin!

WOW… Just Wow!
It looks like Missouri approved of McCain’s VP pick!

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a podium as vice presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, listens during today’s rally. (KSDK)

KMOV reported on the Missouri rally:

McCain spotlighted Palin at the suburban St. Louis rally — giving her the clean-up speaking spot on a stage erected over the ballfield’s home plate. She got an enthusiastic reception from the crowd that filled the infield bleachers and spread from the dirt base paths into the outfield grass. At various times, they chanted, “Sarah, Sarah.”

The ball team’s president said the stadium holds about 15,000 for such concert-style events. Republican consultant John Hancock, who served as master of ceremonies for the event, estimated there were about 20,000 people.

KSDK in St. Louis has video of McCain’s speech today in O’Fallon.

Bob McCarty has an excellent roundup from the rally today.

Sunday Night at the Radio!

by John Martin | 7:56 pm, August 31, 2008

And one last bizarre DNC juxtaposition.

First up, Jack Benny! A two-parter: “The Fright-Wig Murder Case” (25 January 1942); and part two (2 February 1942).

The juxtapo: At the pro-troops rally at Pioneer Monument last Sunday, it was hard not to notice this guy:

Didn’t realize it at the time, but that’s Mike Jones, destroyer of Pastor Ted Haggard and an occasional subject of D-blog “humor.” Never mentioned him in the context of the DNC, though. When worlds collide.

Latest Lib Smear: Palin Was Not Against Bridge to Nowhere

by Gateway Pundit | 3:36 pm, August 31, 2008

My, they sure are having a difficult timing attacking this pro-gun, pro-Life, conservative mother of 5 who enjoys an 80% approval rating as Governor of Alaska.

(Flickr)
The latest lib smear is that Palin did not oppose the “Bridge to Nowhere”.
The Left is already starting to lie about Sarah Palin.

But, sadly, it is the Left, once again, who is lying.
They have such a difficult time with reading comprehension.
Here is what the Anchorage Daily News reported today:

“I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere,” Palin told the cheering McCain crowd, referring to Ketchikan’s Gravina Island bridge.

But Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.

The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them “nowhere.” They’re still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin’s subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects — and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.

“I think that’s when the campaign for national office began,” said Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein on Saturday.

…McCain also claimed to have found, in Palin, “someone with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies” and “someone who has fought against corruption and the failed policies of the past” and “someone who has reached across the aisle and asked Republicans, Democrats and independents to serve in government.” On those scores, Palin can fairly claim credit, according to Alaska political leaders and others who have followed her career here.

She did fight corruption as a whistle-blower, even before an FBI investigation burst into public view. She also stood up to “party bosses,” as McCain claimed, running against Republican incumbents as an outsider — though she has yet to unseat her nemesis, Randy Ruedrich, as state party chairman.

Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said Saturday that as projected costs for the Ketchikan bridge rose to nearly $400 million, administration officials were telling Ketchikan that the project looked less likely. Local leaders shouldn’t have been surprised when Palin announced she was turning to less-costly alternatives, Leighow said. Indeed, Leighow produced a report quoting Palin, late in the governor’s race, indicating she would also consider alternatives to a bridge.

There you have it.
Sarah Palin opposed the “bridge to nowhere”.
It’s so sad to see the Left stoop to deceit in order to discredit the popular Palin.

They are having such a difficult time bashing this woman and mother.
It’s really too bad.

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