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Bill O’Reilly interviewed John McCain

May 15, 2008

Ever so often a contributor to one of the forums that I post at comes up with a real jewel. The following was intended in jest. However, it rings oh so true. Enjoy! 🙂

source: http://amcon.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=trs&action=display&thread=451

Last week, Bill O’Reilly interviewed John McCain on the O’Reilly Factor. Bill O’Reilly really grilled McCain about his opposition to drilling for oil in the ANWR and McCain got visually upset with the questions. Bill O’Reilly is a professional TV host and interviewer so in order for the common people to understand what John McCain was really saying in his answers, we hired an every day American Citizen (AC) to explain what he really said.

O’REILLY: You voted against ANWR drilling. You voted against ANWR.

MCCAIN: Yes, and I’ll vote against drilling if they want to drill in the Grand Canyon, and I’ll vote against it if they want to drill in the Everglades. And I will try to make it more attractive for Florida and California and other states to have drilling off of their coasts, but I’m not going to force them to because…

(AC) Even though comparing ANWR to the Grand Canyon and the Everglades is lame, I don’t want any drilling in the United States.

O’REILLY: But no one lives in ANWR.

MCCAIN: No, it’s pristine beauty.

(AC) Yes, I know it’s a frozen wasteland but to me it’s pristine frozen wasteland and I want it to stay that way. I think it’s pretty and what I think is all that matters.

O’REILLY: So what? Who sees it?

MCCAIN: Well, all I do is believe that we have to preserve some of the great natural treasures of this earth…

(AC) I don’t care, we’re not going to drill there!

O’REILLY: In the Arctic Circle?

MCCAIN: …no matter where they are, my friend. And I…

(AC) Listen jerk, didn’t you hear what I said? You’re pissing me off now by these questions. I don’t care where ANWR is located, I said no drilling!

O’REILLY: You know, a lot of people aren’t going to like that.

MCCAIN: I know a lot of people don’t like it, but I am also an environmentalist. And so was Teddy Roosevelt, my hero. And I believe that there are just some things that you have to…

(AC) I don’t care what the American people say or want; their not me. I follow the teachings of the Gormonites and its high priest, Al Gore. Teddy Roosevelt loved the outdoors and I love my frozen waste land on top of the world because that’s where I’ll be when I win the White House, on top of the world looking down at you little people.

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Appeasement by any other name.

May 15, 2008

Every time that President seems to grow a pair of brass balls he does a turnaround. One of the major concerns of the American people is Barak Obama’s willingness to appease those that simply want our collective heads on a stick. Figure it out Mister President, your “legacy” is going to be one likened to that of Jimmy Carter. A wimp administration. Not to mention that you have broken your bond with we, the people, by negotiating with a terrorist nation, thereby violating the pledge that you made after the attacks of September eleventh, namely, Iran. The state sponsor of Hezbollah. Remember them? If not then perhaps you should refresh your memory about them. Those are the very people that Obama wants to parlay with, and that, would be a disaster that will be felt worldwide.

So, what brings all this on?

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24647048

updated 26 minutes ago

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a “false political attack” with a comment about appeasing terrorists and radicals.

The Illinois senator interpreted the remark as a slam against him but the White House denied that Bush’s words were in any way directed at Obama, who has said as president he would be willing to personally meet with Iran’s leaders and those of other regimes the United States has deemed rogue.

In a speech to Israel’s Knesset, Bush said: “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

“We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

Obama responded with a statement, seizing on Bush’s remarks even as it was unclear to whom the president was referring.

“It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack,” Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. “George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”

The White House said Bush’s comment wasn’t a reference to Obama.  ~snip~

Grow some balls Mister President, brass ones preferably.

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Fly Fishing, it is an addiction indeed

May 10, 2008

I first began fly fishing some thirty one years ago. Admittedly at first, it was a challenge. I read book after book, and watched VCR film after VCR film. As soon as the Rocky Mountain News came out on the days that the Outdoors column was published, I was glued to the article, and just had to have whatever supper slam dunk fly that Bill Logan wrote about that week.
After all was said and done though. I ended up catching various sunfish from the local ponds as I perfected my madness, if not methodology. Casting on a stream was, well, things just didn’t work very well.
What was wrong? I have come to learn that the problem was one familiar to most people at some time or other. I was all gung ho! I had no patience. I beat the water to a pulp.

Fly fishing is, to me, a form of hunting. Think you can bag a bull Elk stomping all over the place? Not very likely. Or a Whitetail Buck while thrashing all over? Again, not likely. In fly fishing, you need to keep the sun in your face, least you cast shadows before you that spook the fish. It is akin to keeping the wind in your face while stalking a Mule Deer, or most other animals that are hunted.

I learned to settle down one day while casting to trout in Boulder Creek, in the oxbow ares about two miles west of the city of Boulder, Colorado. The fly I used was very much like the one pictured above, it is a gray bodied Elk Hair caddis pattern. I fell into a rhythm, and so did the fish. That day was a true lesson in catch and return fishing. Some people that were watching me while they picnicked along side the river said that they counted more than thirty fish that I returned unharmed to the water.

Since then, Sedge flies have been a favorite of mine for surface fishing, along with Adams patterns. If, however, you come to Colorado to catch fish, plan on fishing nymphs. Top water hits are the icing on the cake. Think about it though. Just how much of the cake is frosting? How much is below?

If you should happen to get bitten by the fly fishing bug, do not despair, just get another fly rod…

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Trojan Horses and Politics

May 10, 2008

Sometimes while looking around the Internet you find work that truly expresses what someone, or a lot of people know to be the truth, but were afraid, or not quite exasperated enough to actually post publicly about. Enjoy…

By Lee Duigon
May 7, 2008Do you think the Trojan horse trick would have worked if the Greeks had only built a framework of a horse, with some scaffolds in it? Would the Trojans have been fooled if they could have seen the enemy soldiers, in full armor, sitting inside the wooden skeleton?

Of course not. The Trojans may have lost the war, but they weren’t flaming stupid.

But the American people, in this year’s presidential election, are expected to haul a see-through Trojan horse into the White House. There are three Trojan horses out there: three candidates whose estimation of the voters’ intelligence is so low, they’ve hardly bothered to disguise themselves. Or maybe they’re as stupid, all three of them, as they think we are.

Consider Hillary Clinton, one of the worst politicians we have ever seen. Somehow she got away with putting on a one-woman minstrel show in front of an African-American audience: “Ah don’ feel bah no means taahred” must be the historic nadir of campaign speechifying. Now she panders to the working class, yapping about her experiences on “the night shift”—the only night shift she was ever on was in the Clinton war room, squelching bimbo eruptions—knocking back boilermakers, and pretending to chew tobacco. Obviously she has a mental image of Mrs. Ordinary America as some kind of Mammy Yokum type, clumping around in oversized boots with a corncob pipe clenched between what’s left of her teeth.

Hillary’s rival, Barack Obama, surely shares that vision. He’s the one who thinks you’re all out there “bitterly clinging” to your guns and your religion because Uncle Sam neglected to tuck you in and tell you a bedtime story.

Obama has another see-through Trojan horse. Sitting inside it with him are such frothing-at-the-mouth leftists as the Rev. Jeremiah “God d*** America” Wright and former Weathermen terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn, whose likeness was last seen gracing an FBI poster in our local post office. They expect the besotted voters to drag this horse into the White House. Then they can all climb out and bedevil America with slavery reparations, sodomite “marriage,” appeasement of Islamic suicide bombers, and more new taxes than you ever dreamed existed.

The third candidate who presumes on your stupidity is the GOP’s see-through Trojan horse, John McCain. One would think, with the torrent of hate, hysteria, and hee-haws flowing out of the Democrats’ campaigns, that all McCain has to do to win is to press a strip of duct tape over his mouth and not take it off until the morning after Election Day. But asking a senator not to blurt out tomfooleries is like asking Old Faithful not to erupt.

Who’s sitting with McCain in his see-through Trojan horse? An army of twenty or thirty million illegal aliens! Be prepared, America, to melt down those Capitol Hill switchboards several times a year, if he gets in.

It’s funny, isn’t it? If you’re a pacifist appeasement monkey and “world citizen,” you’ve got a presidential candidate. If you’re an abortionist, or just a fan of abortion, you’ve got two presidential candidates. If you’re a gay activist, you’ve got two and a half. If you’re a tree-hugging, global warming Kool-aid drinker, or an illegal alien who thinks a couple dozen American states ought to be given back to Mexico, you have three candidates. If you’re any kind of far-out fringie, you’ve got at least one horse in this race.

But if you’re just an everyday, workaday, decent conservative American, of whom there are more than any other kind of voter, you don’t have a presidential candidate.

All you’ve got is a choice among three senators who don’t think you’re smart enough to see through a see-through Trojan horse.

 

SOURCE:  http://amcon.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=basic&action=display&thread=440

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Rogue Agency plagues the good guys…

May 9, 2008

A rogue agency, whose very mission was to interfere with the rights of American citizens was, during the Clinton Days given a legitimate mission, later was merged with the good guys. You know, the F.B.I. Well, it appears that they still find it impossible to play well with others. From the folks that brought you Ruby Ridge and the holocaust at Waco we have them acting like cocaine gang bangers involved in a turf war.

Here’s what I think. Get rid of everyone of them, and turn over any duties that they are rightfully performing to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24549241

In the five years since the FBI and ATF were merged under the Justice Department to coordinate the fight against terrorism, the rival law enforcement agencies have fought each other for control, wasting time and money and causing duplication of effort, according to law enforcement sources and internal documents.

Their new boss, the attorney general, ordered them to merge their national bomb databases, but the FBI has refused. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long trained bomb-sniffing dogs; the FBI started a competing program.

At crime scenes, FBI and ATF agents have threatened to arrest one another and battled over jurisdiction and key evidence. The ATF inadvertently bought counterfeit cigarettes from the FBI — the government selling to the government — because the agencies are running parallel investigations of tobacco smuggling between Virginia and other states.

~snip~ four more pages*

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American Sovernty

May 9, 2008

Sometimes we, as Americans need to stand up, and tell the rest of the whining world to just plain go to hell. Name any other country that has done more to feed people from other countries than the United States. Name any country that has done more humanitarian work after disasters than the United States.

The following was stolen from my friend texas Fred, click the link to see the full commentary that this story generated.

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School Choice, a matter of life and death?

May 9, 2008

“This year, American taxpayers will spend more than $9,200 on the average public-school student. That’s a real increase of 69 percent over the per pupil expenditure in 1980. The total bill for a student who remains through high school will be almost $100,000. This spending would be worthwhile if it gave us the results we need to compete globally. But it hasn’t been doing so. American students still score poorly compared to students from other countries, especially in math and science. The National Assessment of Educational Progress shows 18 percent of fourth-graders and 29 percent of eighth-graders scored ‘below basic’ in mathematics last year. And far too many students drop out. At least 1 in 4 quits high school. Among minority children, the picture is even bleaker. In 2002, only 56 percent of black and 52 percent of Hispanic students graduated, compared to 78 percent of white students. The Census Bureau has found that a full-time employee with a college degree will earn more than $2 million over a lifetime. One with only a high-school diploma will earn half as much, while a dropout, obviously, will earn even less. More ominously, an independent study found dropouts die an average of nine years sooner than graduates. Our educational system is a national problem—but one that calls for local solutions. One approach is to provide school choice.” —Ed Feulner

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American Independence

May 5, 2008

Sometimes we as Americans need to just tell the whiners of the world to just plain shut the hell up. No other country has fed more people from other countries than the United States. No other country can even come close to what we Americans have done rendering humanitarian assistance after natural disasters. The following was stolen from my friend Texas Fred’s blog, pleas click the link at the bottom to see full commentary.

Here are some excerpts from articles this week that should make anyone frightened. When it comes to our national sovereignty, our safety and our food supply should be number one! But it looks like the U.N is well on its redistributive way to take what’s left of our food.According to USA Today, Surplus U.S. food supplies dry upBecause of the current economics of food, and changes in federal farm subsidy programs designed to make farmers rely more on the markets, large U.S. reserves may be gone for a long time.Could the global food crisis impact America?

 

Worldwide, food prices have risen 45% in the past nine months, posing a crisis for millions, says the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization.

 

The upshot: USDA has almost no extra food to supplement the billions in cash payments it spends to combat hunger at home and in developing nations.

 

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, in a recent meeting here with Bretton Woods Institution organizations, called for immediate and long-term measures to tackle a growing global food crisis.

The rapidly escalating crisis of food availability has reached emergency proportions,” Secretary-General Ban said April 14. He was referring to food riots taking place in different parts of the world, from Italy to Yemen and Mexico to the Philippines. Tanks were deployed in parts of Yemen April 4 after five days of protests by 1,000 people, mostly youth, angry about the rising price of food. Wheat prices have doubled since February, while rice and vegetable oil jumped 20 percent…

While international leaders gathered to find solutions to the world food crisis, analysts in the United States braced for the April 16 Consumer Price Index Report. Analysts say the U.S. is wrestling with the worst food inflation in 17 years because of sharply higher costs for wheat, corn, soybeans and milk as well as higher energy and transportation costs…“It’s hard for most Americans to even conceive of the idea that food could become scarce in this country,” said Raj Patel, a writer, activist and former policy analyst with the advocacy group Food First and analyst for the World Bank, World Trade Organization and the United Nations. “Few of us are paying attention to the close relationship between bio-fuel, grain crops and price inflation,” Mr. Patel told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman. He was appearing on her Pacifica Radio show, to push his new book, “Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.” The book is due out April 25. Competition between corn and other crops for planting acres has driven up the price of food in the U.S., as the government mandates more acreage for corn, wheat and soybeans, ingredients needed for ethanol production…

“We are studying ways to communicate to people in the U.S. that they have to change their behavior.”Americans are too complacent, believing there never would be a food shortage, which could be caused by a drought,” he said. “From my academic position, I can say that people are having a hard time finding food in America, so we have to change our thinking.”

 

This from What is Running Through Our Minds

. . .President Bush in mid-April drew $200 million from the Emerson Humanitarian Trust, named after former congressman Bill Emerson, a Missouri Republican. Bush’s action followed a desperate plea from the United Nations for food aid. Thursday, the president announced he would ask Congress for $770 million in separate, additional funding to meet international needs.But Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, at a recent food aid conference, says his agency faces tough decisions about managing the rest of the reserve in times of widespread hunger. “How far do we draw down?” he asked. “Do we take it down to zero because we need it? Do we hold some in there, because who knows what’s going to happen, for emergency purposes later?”Proudly Stolen From: Maggie’s Notebookhttp://texasfred.net/archives/1116/trackback/

 

 

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Open Letter To Environmentalists « Bob’s Bites

May 4, 2008

Open Letter To Environmentalists « Bob’s Bites

Bob found another good story here. Click the link, and read all about it!

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WATERFOWL HUNTING CHANGES IN NORTHEAST

May 4, 2008

If you hunt waterfowl in Colorado, these are “must” attend meetings.

DIVISION OF WILDLIFE TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ON STATUS OF WATERFOWL HUNTING CHANGES IN NORTHEAST

Representatives from the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) will hold five meetings in May to discuss proposed changes to waterfowl hunting in the northeast region of the state.   Potential property hunting regulation changes to affect restricted access, limited hunting through reservations, hunting hours restrictions, and mandatory check out will be discussed for the following State Wildlife Areas:  Jackson Lake, Jean K. Tool, Brush, Atwood, Overland Trail, Bravo, and Red Lion.  Potential regulation changes to allow waterfowl hunting from boats will be discussed for Jackson and Jumbo Reservoirs.
 
Please join us to share your sentiments on the proposed changes.  All meetings will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
 
May 15, 2008 – Comfort Inn, 2020 Leisure Lane, Sterling (970-522-3700)
 
May 19, 2008 – Morgan Community College, Bloedorn Lecture Hall, 820 Barlow Rd., Fort Morgan (970-542-3100)
 
May 20, 2008 – Hilton Fort Collins, 317 West Prospect Road, Fort Collins (970-482-2626)
 
May 21, 2008 – Greeley Guest House, 5401 West 9th Street, Greeley (970-353-9373)
 
May 27, 2008 – Hunter Education building, DOW headquarters, 6060 Broadway, Denver      (303-291-7234)
 
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is the state agency responsible for managing wildlife and its habitat, as well as providing wildlife related recreation. The Division is funded through hunting and fishing license fees, federal grants and Colorado Lottery proceeds through Great Outdoors Colorado.

For more information about Division of Wildlife go to: http://wildlife.state.co.us.

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