I want you to read this, GREEN Flaming SUVs: A conversation with convicted ecoterrorist Jeff Luers
This Liberal apologist piece throws nothing but softballs at this guy, who was convicted of burning 3 SUVs and got 22 years for his efforts.
But what is important here is his blind obsession with “protecting the environment from evil corporate entities.” He has drunk the kool-aid without a second thought.
Remember, these were the people who said we would run out of oil in the 90′s. That we were suffering from Global Cooling before Global Warming. That our too clean air was accelerating Global Warming, etc., etc., etc.
These nut cases have been wrong on every point they have ever made, and will only get it right once only on blind luck, rather than sound science.
These people have converted to the Church of Environmentalism, and there is nothing you can do to change their mind. All you can do is lock up the violent ones for a long time.

Judo is known as ‘the gentle art’ because it uses your opponents force against himself.
This is exactly what happened in this RNC press release, Republican Party Lets ‘Wild’ Democrats Speak for Themselves.
The ad consists of nothing more than direct quotes, from the mouths of DNC leaders such as Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid. The ad shows their hate and contempt for people not of their mindset.
Keep an eye out for it.

Senator Dick Durbin D-IL, has expressed regret that he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar yesterday.
I truly doubt the Senator is remorseful about comparing American troops at Gitmo to Nazis, Soviets and Pol Pot, but you never know.
He has uttered the words, now let us see if his heart changes. Again, I doubt it. He has been a Liberal all his life and there is no reason for him to change now.
Liberals bash America and American troops, period. These things stand against everything he stands for. If you don’t believe me, you can always look at his Web site, durbin.senate.gov.

It seems the Bush tax cuts don’t help just the wealthy. Record Number of Americans Paying No Taxes .
And these aren’t the rich that are paying no taxes, but rather the poor and middle class citizens.

“Despite the charges of critics that the tax cuts enacted in 2001, 2003 and 2004 favored the ‘rich,’ these cuts reduced the tax burden of low- and middle-income taxpayers and shifted the tax burden onto wealthier taxpayers,” states a report by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan research organization founded in 1937.
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For instance, a married couple with three children and $40,000 in income can take a $9,700 standard deduction and $15,500 in personal exemptions, bringing their taxable income down to $14,800. They would owe $1,505 in taxes.
But with three children, they would get $3,000 in child credits, leaving them with no taxes owed – and a $1,495 refund check.

It is the lower taxes that allow the lower and middle class to spend more, stimulating the economy, allowing for increased growth and in the end, more taxes generated. Just because we are not collecting taxes from these people does not mean we are not getting tax revenues. Quite the opposite, tax revenues are at an all time high and climbing. We are even catching up on the deficit, paying that off, getting closer to a balanced budget. Now all we have to do is rein in the pork-barrel spending of both Republicans and Democrats and we might be able to make some headway.
Let’s keep the tax cuts, shall we?

It seems that ONE court in this land doesn’t have their heads up their ass. Maryland Court Rules Ten Commandments Display Constitutional.
It seems that a small park passed to a Fraternal Order of Eagles that contains a Ten Commandments display is allowed to keep the display.
The court properly recognized that the Ten Commandments are the basis of modern law, and they should be displayed for all to see.
Finally.

Without admitting he is giving up, he is giving up. Bush Backs Soc. Sec. Bill Without Accounts.
Which is sad, really. I had hoped he would be able to prevail, but between the MSM lying, and the Republicans failing to push the reform necessary, it was doomed.
This will undoubtedly embolden the Dems, who if they can start eking out wins, they don’t have to be in power, they can just threaten and scare the Republicans into doing whatever the Dems want.
Sad.

Here you go. I found this and I wanted you to have it, so that you may better understand what is wrong with me. Bipolar Disorder: More Common Than Expected?

About Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is a brain disorder. It causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function, says the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Bipolar disorder is severe. It’s not the same as the normal ups and downs of life. Bipolar disorder can have extreme effects, raising suicide risk.
Like other mental illnesses, bipolar disorder is treatable. However, it needs consistent attention. In that regard, it’s like diabetes or heart disease — long-term illnesses that take a lifetime of careful management, says the NIMH.

Like a diabetic must check their blood sugar several times a day, I must analyze my emotional state several times a day as well. I must keep close watch on myself and watch for signs of manic or depression. Either can lead to dire circumstances.
Read WebMD’s “Medical Reference: What is Bipolar Disorder”.
Thanks for reading and trying to understand.

The speed in which our rights are being trampled is increasing. Supreme Court Upholds State Eminent Domain Rules.
Between this ruling, San Remo Hotel v. City and County of San Francisco, 04-340, and the next case expected to be ruled on concerning Eminent Domain, the rights of the State to condemn private property so that the land may be turned over to developers to redevelop the land and increase the tax base will be made legal.
This is a perversion of what is clearly meant by our Founding Fathers. Eminent domain was to be used for roads, parks and government buildings, not strip malls and high priced housing. Hear that high whining sound? That’s Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, et. al., spinning in their graves.
This is a travesty, and what you get when you have Liberals in the courts, who are able to “interpret” the Constitution any way they want to.
Feh.

In a related story, the TSA tells every oversight agency to stick it. TSA Secretly Gathered Data on Airline Fliers.
In direct violation of Federal law and an order from Congress, the TSA is maintaining a secret database of fliers information. In essence, the TSA has told Congress to stick it.
This just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about flying now, don’t you?

The war that the MSM is waging against the resolve of the people of the US is working. By displaying all of the deaths and the truck bomb blasts, but not the good things accomplished, they are successfully turning public opinion against the war. Poll shows dissatisfaction with Iraq war.
This war was not about WMD, but about brining a fundamental change in the middle east. AND IT IS WORKING. It is working so well that terrorists are coming from all over the world to fight in Iraq, to prevent that democracy from standing on its’ own two feet, stable and free.
Thankfully this President is not driven by polls. He does what is right and for as long as he is in office, the troops will stay until the job is done.
Despite what the Liberal MSM says, our troops are winning the war. Never forget that.

I’m not down, I don’t have to hide, I just can’t get my head around commenting today. I found an interesting article on Laffers Curve and tax cuts, but I just don’t know what to say.
Maybe tomorrow.

After installing my third plugin to stop comment spam, I am taking a leap of faith and I turned unmoderated comments back on.
Have fun!

Really stressful day today, and it’s only 10:45. The wife had an important appointment that she couldn’t keep, and I need to go in and reverify my disability. After I hide in the closet for a while, I need to go and take care of this.
Talk to you later.

Here is a disturbing piece: Your ISP as Net watchdog.

The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly shopping around the explosive idea of requiring Internet service providers to retain records of their customers’ online activities.
Data retention rules could permit police to obtain records of e-mail chatter, Web browsing or chat-room activity months after Internet providers ordinarily would have deleted the logs–that is, if logs were ever kept in the first place. No U.S. law currently mandates that such logs be kept.

This is a bad idea. Bad, bad, bad. This, if instituted, would be a major blow to the 4th amendment. Of course the courts will rule that private companies are doing it so it isn’t an issue, but when Federal law mandates it, it does become an issue. Keeping records for any post incident fishing expeditions is a clear violation of my privacy.
But then again, we are in the trot phase of trampling our freedoms. Soon violations like this will become commonplace as raindrops, as we all run to the government to “protect” us, and they say, “Sure, you just have to give up some of your freedoms that you don’t use.”
Those who surrender Liberty for Safety deserve neither.

Godwin’s Law, for those of you who are not familiar with it, is this: During a discussion, the person who calls the other party a Nazi has lost the moral high ground and has subsequently lost the argument.
Well, Senator Dick Durbin has lost this argument: Durbin Supports the Troops. I quote in its entirety because of the temporary nature of the page:

Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, took the Senate floor yesterday and likened American servicemen to Nazis (link in PDF):

When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]–I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:

On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime–Pol Pot or others–that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.

We are fighting an enemy that murdered 3,000 innocent people on American soil 3 1/2 years ago and would murder millions more if given the chance–and according to Dick Durbin, our soldiers are the Nazis.

Let me tell you this. We are NOT working people until they die, we are OT starving them to death, we are NOT cutting off fingers with wirecutters, we are NOT throwing people off of buildings for fun, and we are NOT doing a lot of things that Stalin, Pol-Pot, the Nazis, et. al, did do.
We are not engaging in these behaviors for the sake of seeing these people humiliated or whatever. We are after information from people who are actively engaged in trying to kill as many Americans as possible. Don’t think for one minute that if we released them they would not go back to their terrorist cells and take up where they left off.
We, the public, will never know about the information gleaned from these men. For each plot foiled that we see on the news, 10 or 20 more are stopped without fanfare. And that’s how it should be. Our lives should not be constantly interrupted by news of plots stopped. Why? Because it would compromise our ability to stop the next one.
These men are being treated far more humanely than they have ever had it in their lives. Three hots and a cot, call to prayer 5 times a day, respect for their religion, and all we want is information. If you don’t provide it, then you get the treatment. But not until then.
Remember that.