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The House Republicans gave the Senate Republicans a very clear idea of where their immigration bill stands in the House:
“It’s dead on arrival in the House,” said Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind. “A comprehensive bill will not pass the House. There is significant Democratic opposition and overwhelming Republican opposition.” [Source.]
Now, that seems pretty clear to me. The House Republicans get it. Seems the red hot phones in their offices have had an impact on them.
Maybe now the Senate Republicans can find their spines. But I’m not holding my breath.
In Germany, there is no freedom to free speech. An outrageous statement? Not at all. Recently, a Lutheran pastor was sent to jail for a YEAR for something he said. For something he SAID.
The Lutheran Pastor spoke out against abortion, and said the murder of 150,000 babies in Germany via abortion was comparable to the murder of thousands of Jews in Auschwitz. For that, a German court sent him to jail.
The court, which consisted of no jury and a single judge, ruled that this statement made Lerle a holocaust denier.
On 14 June, Judge Erda Erdenhofner convicted Lerle of a particular crime known as “volksverhetzungâ€, or “incitement of the peopleâ€. Ironically, volksverhetzung was an accusation that was frequently used by the Nazis to convict those with whom the regime disagreed, a slap-conviction that could be used to dispose of inconvenient people.
During his address to the court, Lerle defended himself and claimed that his statement was in no way taking away from the gravity of the sufferings of the Jews.
The German Catholic news service kreuz.net reports that the reason for the severity of the punishment is in part due to the pastor’s six previous convictions, which have seen the pastor serve two prison terms lasting eight and a half months in total. He was formerly imprisoned for calling abortionists and their aides “child murderers.†[Source]
How can Germany lay a claim to free speech when this conviction is upheld? This pastor did not deny the Holocaust. In fact, he was using it to illustrate the horror of abortion. Doesn’t matter in Germany, I guess.
The raving liberals in America who decry the “dictatorship” of Bush have no idea what dictatorships look like, let alone understand what it is like to live in one. Search the liberal blogs and you can find slanderous claims against the President and members of his administration. You can find comparisons between Bush and Hitler, usually claiming Hitler to be the better of the two. Yet none of these morons have been imprisoned for what they have to say. And they have the gall to claim to be living under a fascist regime.
Appreciate your rights. Most Americans have never known any other way. They take them for granted. This is just a glimpse of what the other side looks like, even today in so-called free countries.
GrassFire.org is running national ads asking where’s that 700 miles of border fence we paid for last year? You can see local versions of the ads at wheresthefence.com
Maybe if we treated the border fence like an earmark we could get the damn thing built.
Senator Fred Thompson has hired Andrew Dorr as his Midwest political director. Door will be responsible for Iowa, an important caucus state in the presidential election.
Dorr, 28, served as political director of Jim Nussle’s unsuccessful campaign for governor of Iowa in 2006. Nussle was nominated last week by President Bush to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Dorr started in Iowa caucus politics in 2000 as deputy Midwest political director for President Bush’s presidential campaign.
Thompson is expected to announce on July 4.
Interested in Fred, check out Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference.
Touch screen voting machines in Florida seem to have problems with not counting votes. But a Florida appeals court upheald a lower court ruling which decided to allow independent auditors to check out the machines would be “gutting the protections afforded those who own trade secrets.” Never mind the democratic process, we have to protect the trade secrets!
It all started when candidate Christine Jennings lost to Rep. Vern Buchanan by only 368 votes in a House race last year, the slimmest margin of any congressional race in the country. Irregularities in the election, particularly high undervote rates, caused Jennings to express doubts about the validity of the outcome. During the election, approximately 15 percent (or 18,000) of the total ballots cast in the district did not include a vote in the disputed race. By comparison, the absentee ballots in the same district and regular paper ballots used in neighboring districts only exhibit a 2 percent undervote rate for congressional races. The high undervote rates have been attributed to the ES&S iVotronic machines used in the 13th district. [source]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is looking into this, and congress may subpeona the company that manufactures the seemingly unreliable voting machines. I hope the voting machine company has nothing to hide and decides to willingly open up it’s software to independent auditors. If they do have something to hide, I hope the responsible parties go to jail.
It seems to me that touch screen voting machines are a good idea. Let people see a picture of the candidates, along with the name and they can select by touching the screen. With ballot measures, it can be a green “YES” button and a red “NO” button. Before the votes are submitted, display a verification screen so the voter can double check for any mistakes, and then when they finish, print out a receipt for the voter.
It looks like the Taleban is stepping up it’s efforts to regain control of Afghanistan. They’ve been firing rockets at, and burning down schools. Now they’ve decided to start attacking little girls.
A group of girls returning home from school in Afghanistan’s Logar province recently did not for a moment expect what lay ahead.
As they walked down a dirt track, insurgents sprang out of the parched farms and began firing on them.
Some of them fled into the farm, but two girls, one aged 13, the other 10, were killed in the ambush. Three of their friends were wounded. [source]
Remember folks, Islam isn’t a religion of child murdering cowards, it’s a religion of peace.
But no one has declared it. The Sun has an article describing how Iranian bombers are targeting coalition forces:
Last night an intelligence source told The Sun: “It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran — but nobody has officially declared it.
“We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us.
“It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot.â€
The Brits can only take so much. Following the kidnapping of 15 sailors, this has to get the hackles up on our ally. Except for the anti-war crowd. I’m sure they will blame either America or Great Britain for Iran’s actions.
I wonder how much more of this is going to be tolerated before Iran is hit. We have asked them to stop. Eventually, we will have to make them stop.
Hat Tip: Newsvine’s ajs
Thomas Sowell describes how multi-culturalism is limiting minorities. Another unintended consequence of liberal ideas.
INDC Journal turned me on to this video. It is from Militarytimes.com. The video is about Kaziah Hancock, an artist who paints portraits of the soldiers who sacrificed themselves for America.
The video is fantastic and Kaziah, you are wonderful. Thank you.
KSL.com has an article about a man who received a painting from this wonderful woman.
Artist Kaziah Hancock says, “I’m going to do something beautiful to remember his life and lighten up the spirits of his parents.”
In her simple home in the countryside of Utah, Kaziah Hancock is creating the gift. “What the family had to tell me about Chance’s personality is that he loved hunting and fishing, and I have an idea I want to pursue.”
Hancock’s gift to the family is sharing her gift of art. Over the last four years 320 families of fallen soldiers from around the United States have received a gift from her. “From my heart to theirs, I want to touch as many lives as I can because I appreciate them,” Hancock explains.
The only thing more beautiful than the painting is the woman who painted it. God bless Kaziah Hancock.
Bruce Bartlett has written an article on climate change, but he forgets to add all the hype and hyperbole. Instead he focuses on the history of climate change, as recorded by scholars:
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who lived from 427 B.C. to 347 B.C., wrote about major climate changes that were known in his day. In the dialogue “Timaeus,” he argued that global warming occurs at regular intervals, often leading to great floods. Said Plato: “When … the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors … are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains. But those who … live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea.”
In the dialogue “Critias,” Plato wrote about weather-related geological changes. He referred to “formidable deluges” that washed away all the topsoil, turning the land into a “skeleton of a body wasted by disease.” What were now plains had once been covered with rich soil, Plato said, and barren mountains were once covered with trees. The yearly “water from Zeus” had been lost, he went on, creating deserts where the land was once productive.
Aristotle also noted changes in the climate:
He noted that in the time of the Trojan War, the land of Argos was marshy and unarable, while that of Mycenae was temperate and fertile.
“But now the opposite is the case,” Aristotle wrote. “The land of Mycenae has become completely dry and barren, while the Argive land that was formerly barren, owing to the water, has now become fruitful.” He observed the same phenomenon elsewhere covering large regions and nations.
I wonder if the members of the Church of Global Warming would have ex-communicated these two like they are the scholars of today who disagree with their doctrine. The debate they claim to be over is being debated every day. But the zealots from the Church have a pronged attack to defend against dissent. They get the politicians in their pockets. And they try to disgrace the heretics.
Facts need not apply at the Church of Global Warming.
I read on Michelle Malkin’s site that Kit Bond (R-MO) was sitting on the fence concerning this immigration bill. I have met Kit Bond. He toured the USS Abraham Lincoln while I served aboard her. I had lunch with him and about ten other Show-Me Sailors.
So I reached out to Kit via e-mail:
Senator Bond,
It is my understanding that you are sitting on the fence concerning this immigration bill. Sir, as a registered Republican voter, I encourage you to vote against cloture. If the vote for cloture passes, Sir, I encourage you to work for the people of the United States by respecting the borders, language and culture that has made America great.
Illegal immigration is doing a great deal of damage to the USA. First things first. Secure the border. Then the nation will trust you to do what is right. But I cannot trust the Congress to do what they say they will do. You, sir, will have to show me.
Very Respectfully,
Duane Lester
I also let him know I was posting it here. I’ll let you know if I see any Washington, D.C. IP addresses show up. And I’ll post his response, if there is one. Sam Graves has yet to respond. Maybe I need to call him tomorrow.
By the way, the freshman Senator, Claire McCaskill has got her head on straight on this issue. What is Kit’s hesitation from, I wonder?
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