Red State Gomer

Putting the "spirit" into the Holiday Season

2004-12-15T08:49:00.000-05:00

Gomer watched the alphabet networks this AM and heard the above phrase a couple of times. Of course it was the retail stores who were depositing that "spirit". Just what "spirit" do they want to instill in the Holiday? And do the TV types really know that "holiday" means ........ well, never mind. Wait til they find out! Boy, will they be ....dispirited?

Target-Spawn of the Devil?

2004-12-14T20:47:00.000-05:00

I like to watch looney-left TV (Olberman, Chris Matthews, et al) to hear what my lefty friends will write to my local newspaper next week. The new boogeyman is Target stores. I'm thinking that Walmart must have put them up to it. Maybe with a Carl Roveian twist.

Amazing! Hyper left agrees with us gomers!

2004-12-14T20:00:00.000-05:00

Gomer likes the way this begins.
"We do not believe political statements should be disguised as news content."
Funny, they don't mention Rather, Jennings, CNN, etc. It starts to degrade immediately. Bummer.
http://www.sinclairaction.com/about_sinclair.html

"the season that dare not speak its name"

2004-12-14T14:33:00.000-05:00

Gomer agrees with Lileks:
I don't get it. There's this peculiar fear of Christmas that seems to get stronger every year, as if it's the season that dare not speak its name.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/804/5130274.html

Christmas Goat!

2004-12-14T11:16:00.000-05:00

Gomer's friend sends this touching story of sensitivity and sacrifice
Aa few days ago I had coffee with a small group of mothers who have kids in our elementary school. One of these moms talked at length about how they were having a "surrogate giving" Christmas this year at their house. She was getting a goat. Not an actual goat in her actual yard, however. The goat will be given to some third world family in her name and she will receive pictures of said goat and its lucky family. This will help the causes of world peace and eliminating poverty. Plus she will have the additional satisfaction of feeling oh-so-righteous when Christmas morning comes and she has no gifts, and her 10 year old son has almost nothing. They will all wallow happily in their capitalistic guilt and wish that everybody in the whole world could be equally disadvantaged because then we could all just get along.

As everyone else at the table hastened to admire her goodness and selflessness, I was perversely pleased to announce that at our house, in addition to sending to the troops (GASP!), we were planning to have a day of wretched excess because it's the one time during the year that we spoil our kids. Goat Mother tightened her lips in disapproval and shook her head at me like I was a pregnant teenager. The other mothers, however, all looked very relieved and admitted that they, too, had "bought too much" for their kids.

Did I mention the goat mother is a a democrat? In the arts department? Bet you might have guessed at the least the first one without any help at all.

~Rxxx
Gomer hopes that the poverty quasher's little ones don't get SAGS! (surrigate animal gifting syndrome)

Angry Liberal

2004-12-14T09:47:00.000-05:00

Gomer wonders why the newspapers and the alphabet networks aren't telling us about the angry, and whiney, leftys. Maybe ya gotta have a Newt in order to be "angry"?
from the Pasadena Weekly via Andrew Sullivan:
A liberal's final wish
Hoping all who made Bush's victory possible will someday share in his conviction, both federal and state
By Dean Opperman

Give me a break — or a big glass of vodka. We've gone from shock and awe to shuck and jive, and Captain Quagmire ran the table anyway. Now he's got the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the military and a chip on his shoulder he's calling a mandate. I don't know about you, but I'm getting a Republican haircut just to blend in. For four years it's been one big all-you-can-eat buffet for the corporations, and now they're coming back for more. Go ahead, you marvelous bastards! Rip out all the trees, pave the beaches, build 12-lane freeways, plunder the treasury, destroy our future. Cook the books, rig elections, pack the courts, hand the regulatory agencies over to fascist maniacs. Invade more countries, declare code red, invoke martial law, and keep going until your oil-sucking exploits kick off a nuclear exchange. By God (or Diebold), you've earned it. You've hoodwinked the evangelicals. You've threatened the journalists. You've built a propaganda machine and disguised it as a legitimate cable news network. You've used it to force-feed every right wing loon from Ashcroft to Zell down our throats until they began to sound normal. You've used phony government alerts to manipulate the trailer park patriots, and you've dismantled the separation of church and state to the point where the Stars and Stripes represents the anti-choice, fuel-guzzling, homophobic God of the blow-dried televangelists.
What a lovely final wish! Read on if you want to see the obligatory "Nazi" reference:
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cityBeat/columnists/guest.html

Update!
WoohBaby Maybe a spoof? WSJ thinks it's a funner.
'I'll Play Along'In the Pasadena (Calif.) Weekly, Dean Opperman has a hilarious spoof of the Angry Left--an open letter from Dean Opperman to President Bush. Opperman promises, "in the spirit of fleeting bipartisanship" to "play along" with the president's mandate:
I will overlook the fact that you've done more damage to feminism than 20 years of gangster rap, and I will ignore the fear that we will soon need Sherpa guides to reach the ruins of anything resembling such relics as an eight-hour work day. I will do my best to ignore the feeling that I've fallen into a Fellini movie by ignoring the eyes of the old TV news anchors who, caught up in TV's sudden shift to the right, seem to be trying to tell us something they aren't allowed to say on the air. I will suppress my suspicion that you are part of the same gang of psychopaths who brought us Enron, Vietnam and Dallas '63, and I will shelve my theory that the best way to make a dent in terrorism is to invade the state of Texas. And I promise not to move to Mexico, which seems pointless anyway since it appears to be moving to me.
The whole piece is wonderfully over the top, though irony-impaired Andrew Sullivan seems to have taken it seriously.
Gomer's not nuanced enough to figger it out.......

Suicidal French

2004-12-12T10:18:00.000-05:00

Gomer still prefers Freedom fries, thank you.
France in Pain
By Robert D. BlackwillSunday, December 12, 2004; Page B07
After recently spending nearly two weeks in Paris and having many conversations with old friends from France's national security elite, I conclude that intellectually, most French want the Bush administration to succeed in Iraq. But emotionally, many want it to fail.
Gomer hasn't read of too many folks in Europe saying how much they admire France or the French people. Read the rest to see why.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56430-2004Dec10.html

Say goodbye to Christmas, kids!

2004-12-12T10:02:00.000-05:00

Gomer hasn't seen too many "Christmas is too comercialized" articles in the mainstream press lately. I guess the "Lincoln Elementary School Winter Concert brought to you by K-Mart" is just around the corner.

"You see, Christmas is verboten in the public schools. I'm not sure how it happened, but I have my suspicions."
http://sptimes.com/2004/12/12/Columns/Singers_serve_up_wint.shtml

Froggie wine discounts comming from the EU?

2004-12-08T20:37:00.000-05:00

LGF hits it again. Mon dieu!

wednesday, december 08, 2004

French Winemakers Whine
French wine exports are dropping precipitously, and winemakers want a bailout from the government: French Wine Growers Protest Weak Market. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.)
Pinched by overproduction, shrinking exports, advertising restrictions, an aggressive campaign against alcohol abuse and changing drinking habits, at least 6,000 growers and winemakers staged spirited demonstrations nationwide Wednesday to press the government for help.
“We are a sector in crisis,” said Jean-Michel Lemetayer, the head of France’s main farmer union, urging the state to bail out an industry awash in a sea of Chablis and Bordeaux.
Vintners wearing black armbands marched through Bordeaux, Avignon, Angers, Macon, Nantes, Tours and other cities in key winemaking regions to urge the Agriculture Ministry to help offset their financial losses.
Protesters from vineyards that make the celebrated Cote du Rhone reds carried a mock coffin with the inscription: “Here lies the last winemaker.”
France’s wine industry, which employs about 500,000 people, says exports through Aug. 31 dropped by more than 5.5 percent in volume and 9.6 percent in value. Experts say Bordeaux was particularly hard hit, with foreign sales of its signature reds down 25 percent.
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Another reason to vote for the GOPers

2004-12-08T14:33:00.000-05:00

Lileks nails the Demos again. Gomer thinks it must really suck to be a die hard Democrat and never have any good ideas or ever win anything. Sorta like being a fan of the French Army?

Why Are Democrats Intent on Alienating Young Workers?
BY JAMES LILEKSc.2004 Newhouse News Service
More stories by James Lileks
Recently "Meet the Press" introduced America to that hot new Senate Minority Leader sensation, Harry Reid. Judging from this appearance, the Nevada solon has adopted Tom Daschle's preternatural calm, as if trying to reassure the Skittish-American community that there is one sober man interposed between them and that hootin' and hollerin' maniac in the White House. But he comes off as someone who got a grant to explain calculus to chimps, and thinks the key is speaking very slowly.Unfortunately, that makes people pay attention to what he says. "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert brought up Social Security reform. It was once the untouchable "third rail," but in the second Bush term it's going to be a balance beam on which everyone performs a variety of acrobatic maneuvers. So how about privatizing a wee bit of it, senator?"I can remember as a little boy my widowed grandmother with eight children," Reid told Russert. "She lived alone, but she felt independent because she got every month her old-age pension check. That's what this is all about. The most successful social program in the history of the world is being hijacked by Wall Street."Ah yes. Old Granny again, reanimated to drag a 19th century idea into the 21st. You could use the same granny to advocate for the return of the WPA or the reinstatement of the sarsaparilla subsidy or the Charley McCarthy Act, which froze the nation's number of frightening ventriloquist dummies at six.The proposed changes in Social Security, after all, affect the future. No one's proposing we go back in time, revoke Granny's benefits, and let Rockefeller spend her check on a pearl-handled cane so he can walk down Fifth Avenue and thrash beggars in style.We're talking about letting younger workers have control over a small portion of their government-mandated contributions.
It's funny. Read the whole article.

Gomer doesn't understand the UN

2004-12-08T13:28:00.000-05:00

Someone better tell Gomer why the Blue staters love the UN. Do the blubees even know why they support this do-nothing bunch of parking ticket scofflaws?

U.S. Angry Over U.N. Membership Policy
By GEORGE GEDDAAssociated Press WriterDecember 8, 2004, 2:04 AM ESTWASHINGTON -- Most people would say countries that tolerate slavery should be ineligible for membership on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. Same goes for those guilty of crimes against humanity. The presumption is that egregious rights violators have no business on a commission whose prime purpose is supposed to be to protect rights. But in a report last week, a U.N. panel established by Secretary-General Kofi Annan rejected the notion that there should be any standards at all for membership on the Human Rights Commission. That means Sudan need not worry about losing its seat on the 53-member commission even though the country stands accused by the United States of committing genocide in its western Darfur province.

Ho, ho, ho, ho.... Merry Christmas

2004-12-08T11:31:00.000-05:00

Gomer doesn't forget his friends. Please send Mike your Christmas greetings!
Inside the Beltway's John McCaslin writes:
Mail early Thousands of pro-Bush Americans are already sending Christmas greetings to "Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker Michael Moore.
In fact, in less than 24 hours after www.MerryChristmasMichaelMoore.com was launched, more than 2,000 season-greeters signed up to send a traditional holiday card to the liberal Hollywood movie director. "We couldn't think of a better way for the majority of America to let Michael Moore know they are thinking about him over the holidays," says site co-founder Michael Caputo. "We are shocked at the sheer volume of requests, but we've got our elves working on it day and night. "It sure seems Michael Moore will have a bit of mail this holiday season."

Dude, I'm gettin' ejakated!

2004-12-08T11:06:00.000-05:00

Gomer keeps hearing that our universities are underfunded. And they're doing such important work, educating our youths. Gomer doesn't understand Dude Studies. Must be a blue state thing.

Dude -- professor studies 'dude'
Linguist says word draws power from cool kinship
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Dude, you've got to read this.
A linguist from the University of Pittsburgh has published a scholarly paper deconstructing and deciphering the word "dude," contending it is much more than a catchall for lazy, inarticulate surfers, skaters, slackers and teenagers.
click the link to really ruin your day.

A December 7th story

2004-12-07T17:28:00.000-05:00

On December 7, 2001, the 60th anniversery of the Pearl Harbor attack, I was talking on the phone with my father and he told me something I never knew. His brother Jim, who I was named after, was born on Dec. 7 and had turned 18 on the day the Japanese attacked.
I did some research about his life and death later that night. I thought you might be interested in what I found.

Sixty three years ago today a young man celebrated his eighteenth birthday. Little did he know that that date, his birthday, would become "A day of infamy".
Six months later when he had graduated high school, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and subsequently earned his wings as one of the youngest fighter pilots in the Army Air Corps. Over the next 18 months he progressed from trainers to P-40 Warhawks and finally to the beautiful, twin engine, twin tailed P-38 Lightning fighter. During that time he also found time to marry his highschool sweetheart and, while serving in Italy escorting B-24 Liberator bombers, he learned that he was soon to be a father.
In January 1944 he had completed his tour and was waiting in Triola, Italy to return to the States when a call came out for volunteers to fly escort for another bombing raid over France. Fighters and pilots were scarce in those days. Our bomber crews were getting hammered and our fighter pilots suffered the same fate. He did not need to volunteer, but of course, he bravely did his duty.
On January 27, 1944, over Salon de Provence, France their bomber group encountered "a superior number of enemy fighters." His wingman, 2nd Lt. R. E. Hoke, wrote: "Being greatly outnumbered by enemy fighters and unable to rejoin the Squadron, we took evasive action from the enemy fighters, by losing altitude. We dropped from 24,000 feet to the deck. By this maneuver we lost the enemy fighters but encountered heavy ground gun flak. Suddenly I felt a terrific concussion. After getting my airplane under control, I looked back and the Lieutenant had disappeared from the formation."
The young Lieutenant's P-38G just "disappeared" in the great explosion as German antiaircraft gunners found their mark. His body was never recovered.
He was just 20 years old. He never held his new born daughter.
He was only one of the many tens of thousands of American heroes over the last two hundred or so years.
He was 2nd Lieutenant James G. Riley, Jr., USAAC, my Dad's older, and only, brother.
Sixty three years ago today, Pearl Harbor Day, Jim turned eighteen. His whole life was ahead of him yet he had barely two years to live. Those years he gave to his country.
Thank God for all those brave men and women.
God protect our soldiers, sailors and airmen.
May we never forget.
Uncle Jim, we miss you...........

Are these people insane?

2004-12-04T08:41:00.000-05:00

Gomer's wonderin' if the Star would be so understanding if Kofi/Kojo worked for Enron.

From the Minneapolis Star editorial page:
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Editorial: Going after Annan/A sordid move by Coleman
Published December 4, 2004
Good old Norm; it appears there's nothing he won't do for a headline, or for his GOP masters. Minnesota's junior senator made quite a splash this week with his call for the resignation of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, a splendid public servant whom the city Sen. Norm Coleman once governed has considered a semi-native son since his years at Macalester College. Even if he had never set foot in St. Paul, Annan would deserve far better than the stuff Coleman is dishing out.
The ostensible reason for seeking Annan's resignation? It was on his watch that Saddam Hussein diverted billions from the U.N.-run oil-for-food program designed to relieve the humanitarian burden on Iraqis suffering as a consequence of U.N. sanctions.
Note that no one has the slightest whiff of proof that Annan knew about, condoned or profited from this scandal. Furthermore, when the scandal surfaced, Annan appointed former Fed chairman and man of impeccable honor Paul Volcker to thoroughly investigate the matter. Volcker's report, which both he and Annan have promised will be made public, is still a work in progress.
So why is Coleman so exercised, aside from the prospect of juicy publicity? Well, he says, Annan isn't cooperating very well with Coleman's Senate subcommittee, which also seeks to investigate the matter. The United Nations hasn't provided documents the subcommittee needs.
The sanctions were imposed by the U.N. Security Council, the food-for-oil program was initiated by the Security Council, and Annan works for the Security Council. He does not work for the U.S. Senate. Moreover, Volcker has told the Senate subcommittee that it can have the documents it seeks once he is finished with them -- most likely next month. That seems about right.
Readers also should know that this isn't a new issue, and it has very little to do with the oil-for-food program. For months before the election, the right-wing constellation of blogs and talk radio was alive with incendiary rhetoric about Annan and the oil-for-food scandal, not to mention accusations that the mainstream media were soft-peddling it to protect Annan. This is really all about Annan's refusal to toe the Bush line on Iraq and the administration's generally unilateral approach to foreign affairs. The right-wingers hate Annan and saw in the food-for-oil program a possible chink in his armor. They went after it with a venomous fury. Coleman seems only too eager to aid their cause.
Numerous Star Tribune readers have pointed out -- appropriately, in our view -- that if Coleman wants to investigate scandal, he need not go as far afield as the United Nations. He could start with those really nice contracts that Vice President Dick Cheney's former firm, Halliburton, got in Iraq. He could move on to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Just this week, for instance, came accusations from the International Red Cross that treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo amounted to torture. Then the Washington Post reported a secret memo from a Pentagon investigator, written before the Abu Ghraib scandal hit the front pages, that warned the brass of widespread abuses. What brass has been held accountable?
There is so much from the last four years that Coleman could find to keep himself busy. Just about every aspect of the Iraq misadventure smells to the high heavens. But of course investigating those things would be unpleasant for those Coleman so fawningly seeks to please. What an embarrassment.© Copyright 2004 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

Herbert Meyer

2004-12-04T08:37:00.000-05:00

A lot of folks have told Gomer that the Europeans don't think too highly of my good old US of A. Maybe it's because all the producers in old Europe are comming here?

(as originally appeared in "The American Thinker")Download Printable Version
November 11, 2004by HERBERT E. MEYER
Hi. Are you nuts?
Forgive me for being so blunt, but your reaction to our reelection of President Bush has been so outrageous that I’m wondering if you have quite literally lost your minds. One of Britain’s largest newspapers ran a headline asking “How Can 59 Million Americans Be So Dumb?”, and commentators in France all seemed to use the same word – bizarre -- to explain the election’s outcome to their readers. In Germany the editors of Die Tageszeitung responded to our vote by writing that “Bush belongs at a war tribunal – not in the White House.” And on a London radio talk show last week one Jeremy Hardy described our President and those of us who voted for him as “stupid, crazy, ignorant, bellicose Christian fundamentalists.”
Of course, you are entitled to whatever views about us that you care to hold. (And lucky for you we Americans aren’t like so many of the Muslims on your own continent; as the late Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh just discovered, make one nasty crack about them and you’re likely to get six bullets pumped into your head and a knife plunged into your chest.) But before you write us off as just a bunch of sweaty, hairy-chested, Bible-thumping morons who are more likely to break their fast by dipping a Krispy Kreme into a diet cola than a biscotti into an espresso – and who inexplicably have won more Nobel prizes than all other countries combined, host 25 or 30 of the world’s finest universities and five or six of the world’s best symphonies, produce wines that win prizes at your own tasting competitions, have built the world’s most vibrant economy, are the world’s only military superpower and, so to speak in our spare time, have landed on the moon and sent our robots to Mars – may I suggest you stop frothing at the mouth long enough to consider just what are these ideas we hold that you find so silly and repugnant?
We believe that church and state should be separate, but that religion should remain at the center of life. We are a Judeo-Christian culture, which means we consider those ten things on a tablet to be commandments, not suggestions. We believe that individuals are more important than groups, that families are more important than governments, that children should be raised by their parents rather than by the State, and that marriage should take place only between a man and a woman. We believe that rights must be balanced by responsibilities, that personal freedom is a privilege we must be careful not to abuse, and that the rule of law cannot be set aside when it becomes inconvenient. We believe in economic liberty, and in the right of purposeful and industrious entrepreneurs to run their businesses – and thus create jobs – with a minimum of government interference. We recognize that other people see things differently, and we are tolerant of their views. But we believe that our country is worth defending, and if anyone decides that killing us is an okay thing to do we will go after them with everything we’ve got.
If these beliefs seem strange to you, they shouldn’t. For these are precisely the beliefs that powered Western Europe – you -- from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, on to the Enlightenment, and forward into the modern world. They are the beliefs that made Europe itself the glory of Western civilization and – not coincidentally – ignited the greatest outpouring of art, literature, music and scientific discovery the world has ever known including Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Bach, Issac Newton and Descartes.
Europe is Dying
It is your abandonment of these beliefs that has created the gap between Europe and the United States. You have ceased to be a Judeo-Christian culture, and have become instead a secular culture. And a secular culture quickly goes from being “un-religious” to anti-religious. Indeed, your hostility to the basic concepts of Judaism and Christianity has literally been written into your new European Union constitution, despite the Pope’s heroic efforts to the contrary.
Your rate of marriage is at an all-time low, and the number of abortions in Europe is at an all-time high. Indeed, your birth rates are so far below replacement levels that in 30 years or so there will be 70 million fewer Europeans alive than are alive today. Europe is literally dying. And of the children you do manage to produce, all too few will be raised in stable, two-parent households.
Your economy is stagnant because your government regulators make it just about impossible for your entrepreneurs to succeed – except by fleeing to the United States, where we welcome them and celebrate their success.
And your armed forces are a joke. With the notable exception of Great Britain, you no longer have the military strength to defend yourselves. Alas, you no longer have the will to defend yourselves.
What worries me even more than all this is your willful blindness. You refuse to see that it is you, not we Americans, who have abandoned Western Civilization. It’s worrisome because, to tell you the truth, we need each other. Western Civilization today is under siege, from radical Islam on the outside and from our own selfish hedonism within. It’s going to take all of our effort, our talent, our creativity and, above all, our will to pull through. So take a good, hard look at yourselves and see what your own future will be if you don’t change course. And please, stop sneering at America long enough to understand it. After all, Western Civilization was your gift to us, and you ought to be proud of what we Americans have made of it.
— Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council. His new video is The Siege of Western Civilization.

What if our schools are attacked!

2004-12-04T08:16:00.000-05:00

Read this and pass it on to your local police departments. Chilling!
Are plans in place if schools attacked?
Sunday, November 07, 2004
JOSEPH MYERS
It's about 8:42 in the morning, and you have just sat down at your desk with a cup of hot coffee. As the sheriff of this small rural community, you are reviewing the overnight reports from your graveyard shift deputies. It was, as usual, a relatively uneventful night.
Unbeknownst to you as you read your reports, only about five minutes before, a nondescript car with tinted windows along with two minivans just rolled into the parking lot of your local county elementary school. They stop near the school's main office, parking along the curb.
The doors suddenly fly open and out rush teams of hooded, armed men. They are carrying military load-bearing equipment, handguns, canteens, small backpacks and have rifles, M-16s and AK-47s. They rush to the doors, and immediately two of the men move directly to the front office. The men charge inward, a team of three others follows behind, and two more are hand-carrying a large kit bag between them. The hooded intruders begin to fan out through the school, several rushing down the halls toward the side door exits.
The secretary at the front desk jumps up with her mouth open, ready to scream, but she is slammed to the floor as the two men with weapons pointing shout for all to move away from their desks. One of the men grasps the microphone for school announcements. The other man rounds up those in the office - the vice principal, a student - and orders them to sit down on their hands; another hooded man comes in and begins to quick cuff them. The team with the kit bag moves to the auditorium shouting for the workers to move from the kitchen inside the room. A teacher in the hallway upon seeing armed men running toward her begins to scream, some doors open as teachers peer out. Systematically, armed men enter classrooms screaming orders while blasting air horns for the children to move to the lunchroom. It's chaos at one end of school. Rapidly, students and teachers are herded to the auditorium that doubles as the lunchroom.
An accented, angry voice comes over the intercom system: "Attention, attention teachers. You must move your students to the auditorium immediately." There are screams and confusion in the hallways; one teacher in her classroom begins to argue with one of the men; he shoots her in the head in front of her class. Another teacher, sensing the spreading danger, closes and locks her classroom door, quickly she yells to open the windows and tells the children to climb out and run away. A driver passing by sees a group of children rolling off the school's window ledges and darting across the athletic field.
The auditorium begins to fill. Armed men demand that everyone sit down on their hands; teachers are being beaten and cuffed; children are crying and wetting their clothes; others sit in silent, stunned shock. The men with the kit bag begin to unload homemade bombs. They look like military mines, plastic explosives packed with BBs and buck shot surrounded by duct tape. White milk jugs filled with jelled gasoline are brought out, too. The terrorists are booby trapping the student body.
Its now 8:47 a.m., and you receive a call from the city police, who relay that they just got a hysterical 911 call from the school. "People with guns are in the school!"
What you don't know is that this scenario is also simultaneously playing out in rural schools in Oregon, Colorado, Kentucky and Maine.
What do you do?
As you jump up, you yell a code word alert for the school; you rush to the arms room and order all deputies to move with you. What is your manpower? What deputies and police are available? What is the response time for your special weapons team? Do you have one? Your police dispatch is crying - she has two children at that school. Who do you call at the state level?
As you climb into your cruiser slinging on a flak vest, a city patrolman is at the scene. He can't tell much from outside; he does see vehicles parked at the curb. The alert teacher who sent her students through the window comes running to the patrolman and describes what she saw. As you speed to the school, cable news networks are breaking in around the United States with reports of a school under attack or seizure, first from some small-town location in Kentucky, then another state; the news is confusing.
You arrive by the field across from the school; it's 8:56. You are thinking of the need to seal the area. A state trooper cruiser speeds in. You hear the sounds of fire trucks en route. You are thinking whether you know the layout of the school; whether you know where all entry and exit points are; whether there are clandestine entry points. Finally, you remember what happened in Russia, and you can't believe this is real. Can you try to contain or control this situation? Have you prepared for this test?
I hope so. I hope, too, that the state has planned for it; that procedures, chains of command and jurisdictions are clear. I hope all first responders have thought about this and trained for it. I hope our schools have plans, alerts and procedures in place to react, not from instructions from the principal, but from good instincts and "triggering activities." I hope in terms of combat response that our police can act quickly if need be - to stop a massacre on their own without support - and they have at least practiced once for it.
Time is of the essence. Lt. Col. Joseph C. Myers, a Huntsville native, is a graduate of West Point and Tulane University. He has served in a variety of infantry and foreign area officer positions within the United States and overseas. He is an expert on terrorism and insurgency and served as chief of the South America Division at the Defense Intelligence Agency. His e-mail address is Joseph.Myers@maxwell.af.mil.
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No wonder they love the UN

2004-12-04T08:07:00.000-05:00

More stuff the networks sorta forgot to tell us.
12/2/2004: Explosives? What Explosives?
Remember those explosives that were missing from the Al Qaqaa ammo dump, where they were supposedly stored behind IAEA seals? The explosives that were the subject of mainstream media/Mohamed ElBaradei/John Kerry’s final desperate effort to manufacture an October Surprise?
The “missing explosives” that mainstream media plastered all over the front pages on November 1st and 2nd, and completely forgot about on November 3rd?
The Independent, of all places, has an article that may shed some light on why substances like this went missing before the war: Saddam ‘raided UN arms sites for suicide attacks’. (Hat tip: TowerInTheSky.)
As American forces closed in on Baghdad last year, senior members of Saddam Hussein’s government devised a plan to send suicide bombers in vehicles packed with devastating high-energy explosives that were under UN safeguards.
The disappearance of the explosive, known as HMX (high melting explosives), in mysterious circumstances at the end of the war caused a few nasty moments for President George Bush’s presidential election campaign last month.
A letter to Saddam from Dr Naji Sabri, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, five days before the fall of Baghdad, suggests taking the HMX from underground bunkers, where it had been kept under seal by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and giving it to suicide bombers.
He wrote: “It is possible to increase the explosive power of the suicide-driven cars by using the highly explosive material [HMX] which is sealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] and stored in the warehouses of the Military Industry Departments.”
The Iraqi regime took credit for several suicide bombs towards the end of the war. After the fall of Saddam, one of the worst attacks - which killed 22 UN workers and the special envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello, in August 2003 - had an explosive force that could only have come from military grade explosives.
The disappearance of 350 tons of explosives, including 191 tons of HMX, at the time of the war in April last year became a crucial issue in the last weeks of the US presidential election campaign. John Kerry portrayed the failure to secure the explosives, which could have been used to kill US soldiers, as a symbol of Mr Bush’s incompetence in Iraq.
It now appears that senior officials in the Iraqi government were discussing the removal of the HMX before the fall of Saddam. The letter from Dr Sabri, obtained by The Independent, was sent on 4 April 2003 as US tanks were advancing on Baghdad. It said that the world was getting the impression that Iraqi civilians were co-operating with American soldiers.
posted by Charles at 6:37 PM PST rss email this article

So you support the troops?

2004-11-29T13:08:00.000-05:00

Gomer hates it when folks who really, really do want us to fail in Iraq say that they "support the troops" but don't support the war. Of course they silently cheer when there is bad news about our troops. How many democrat voters have American flags on their cars or flying outside of their homes? Not many, I guess. Russ Vaughn is an American hero who tells it like it is.
Read the whole thing and send a copy to your blue state friends. It'll drive them crazy!

So you support the troops?
November 29th, 2004
Since writing the widely-published poem "Fightin' Words," I've had some emails and posted comments indicating the belief that I'm just another rightwing, media-hating nutcase with an ax to grind. Actually, I'm more of a moderately conservative nut case and I'm not against the media as a whole, just some segments.......
What the troops perceive as support is hearing you cheering not jeering when they are seriously kicking the butts of jihadi terrorists. So, on behalf of the troops you support, it's with you peace-at-any-price liberals and your synergistic media pals that I have an ax to grind. Warriors don't train endlessly and exhaustively to be withdrawn ignominiously from the battlefield before they can implement that training and achieve victory, simply because a well-intentioned but weak-willed segment of the citizenry can't abide the losses that the warriors themselves understand as necessary and sustainable.......
What warriors can't accept is the constant, backbiting hyper-criticism by puerile pundits who have no idea of what it is to be in the midst of an intense firefight. These elitist expositors, pontificating from their safe havens, have the temerity to admonish the troops for failing to adhere to the media's interpretation of the Geneva Accords and some silly, schoolboy sense of fair play they harbor. Guess what, girlie-men: in ground combat, there is little time to think about inapplicable treaties or the rules of fair play learned by gentlemen “on the playing fields of Eton.” .......
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment101st Airborne DivisionVietnam 65-66 Russ Vaughn is the Poet Laureate of The American Thinker.Russ Vaughn
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4056

Gomer figgered out pichers....a bit late

2004-11-27T20:14:00.000-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pajamahadeen Power!

2004-11-27T08:10:00.000-05:00

Lucianne.com posts this Times online(UK) link that gives a short history of the word. The PJs are changing the way the major media reports all news and it's driving them crazy. Note that TV exec Klein was just named as head of CNN. They still don't get it. Maybe they'll ask Carol Simpson for advise?http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/11/south-has-risen-again.html (Instapundit.com link)

Interesting that the story doesn't credit jim geraghty at http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp for creating the word.

November 27, 2004 Get the idea
What is...Pajamahadeen?
Oliver Kamm
LAST WEEK the veteran American news anchorman Dan Rather stepped down from his post at CBS. .......The denouement was hastened by a varied group of conservative bloggers. A blog (a contraction of weblog) is a running commentary posted on the internet about whatever takes the author’s interest..............
An uncomfortable Rather had denounced his blogging nemeses as “partisan political operatives”, but it was left to another television executive, Jonathan Klein, to inspire a resonant image appropriate to this series on buzzwords. Surveying the bloggers, he declared: “You couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances (in television news) and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.”
Given a sense of history, Klein might have realised that a considered and satisfying sneer is infuriatingly liable to be appropriated with pride by its target. Methodism and neoconservatism both started life as terms of abuse. The guys in pajamas likewise speedily adopted for themselves the felicitous collective term “Pajamahadeen”.........
Advancing from cornflakes to commentary in a single generation, the pyjama-clad are their champion.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1376524,00.html

A better gift for our troops.

2004-11-25T14:59:00.000-05:00

I'd much rather have a gift sent in my name than anything else this Christmas.
Instapundit and Ron Ford help us in our Christmas gift quandry.
HELPING THE TROOPS: Reader Ron Ford sends this very comprehensive list of support-the-troops websites -- click "read more" for the full list.
AAFES Gift Certificateshttp://www.aafes.com/docs/homefront.htmThe Army and Air Force Exchange Services is where most servicemen and women do their shopping. You can purchase gift certificates for those in Iraq and those hospitalized.
click the link and see the whole list.
http://instapundit.com/archives/019440.php

Thank God for the Harvard Health Letter!

2004-11-25T14:26:00.000-05:00

Gomer was gonna have pork hocks until he read that them Ivy dudes said that old fashoned bird and fixin's were OK.
Enjoy Thanksgiving Meals, They Can Be Good for You
2 hours, 42 minutes ago
By Charnicia E. Huggins
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Here's another reason to give thanks this holiday season: the succulent turkey, cranberry sauce and sweet potatoes included in many Thanksgiving day meals may not only look and taste good, but may also be good for you.
Yahoo! Health
Have questions about your health?Find answers here.

Thanksgiving is just one day, but people get into trouble by continuing to eat that way for a month, said Hosmer, who is also a member of the Harvard Health Letter's editorial board.
"Enjoy the Thanksgiving meal, (but) don't make it go on forever," she said.
SOURCE: Harvard Heart Letter, November 2004.

The next GOP Presidential candidate?

2004-11-25T14:19:00.000-05:00

http://www.whitehouse.gov/barney/index.html

Why do liberals hate freedom? Bush!

2004-11-25T13:18:00.000-05:00

It's sad that anyone would write what Neal Boortz has written below. It is despicable that what he writes is so true.
from Neal Boortz's web site:

The real sad thing here is that there are huge numbers of Americans who are rooting for the insurgents. They don't want to see those elections take place either. Elections in Iraq and a freely elected Iraqi government would be a huge victory for liberalism's most hated man, George W. Bush.
If you haven't considered this before, now may be the time. Many liberals and Democrats in this country would rather see the people of Iraq live under a despotic, totalitarian regime than to see Bush prevail in his goal to bring democratic processes to the Middle East.
boortz.com: Nealz Nuze Today's Nuzee

Great weight loss program!

2004-11-24T14:21:00.000-05:00

I got the flu! It hit around midnight on Tuesday. Lost a heap of weight from both ends, if you get my drift. 102 temp. Amazing how an otherwise healthy bod can wimp out in such a short time. I missed Thanksgiving with Francine's family because I didn't want to infect them. Ummmm, frozen turkey dinner....

I wonder if the blue staters really want to bankrupt Pfizer and Merck..... bummer. I think they do.

Why Arafat died?

2004-11-23T20:54:00.000-05:00

Gomer recommends against seeking medical help at French hospitals in August. November must not be all that healthy either.

from Opinionjournal.com
Why Can't Jeanny Read?Here's a rather frightening story from Versailles, France, reported in London's Guardian:
French employees will accuse a US multinational in court today of discrimination, claiming that they are being forced to speak English.
They say General Electric Medical Systems is sidelining the large proportion of its workforce who speak little or no English. It encourages them to work with company documents and instruction manuals written in English.
"The company has an American ideology which has been accepted by a lot of the French managers, who think it is chic and looks good to speak English, even to their French colleagues," Jocelyne Chabart, a secretary, said yesterday. . . .
There is a safety issue involved, [GEMS officials] add, because the company makes medical x-ray equipment. "If the technician putting the equipment together doesn't understand the instruction manual, which is in English, the results could be very dangerous," Ms Chabart said.
If Frenchmen can't read instruction manuals for medical equipment, it's probably a good idea to stay out of French hospitals. Could it be that Yasser Arafat died of illiteracy?

The reason their only choice is goin' to Canada!

2004-11-23T20:14:00.000-05:00

Gomer wondered why the bluebees didn't just start their own peoples paradise country. Brokennewz.com has the answer!

Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Blue States, Lacking Martial Spirit & Guns, Cancel Plans To Secede From U.S.
11/19/2004 - Matt Myford

Plans drawn up by the Blue States to secede from the United States were scrapped yesterday, as would-be militant separatists realized "it's kinda hard to secede when you don't own any guns."
The "Blue States" – the U.S. coastal areas and a few states in the Upper Midwest that traditionally vote Democratic – are feeling increasingly isolated and some Blue State People openly called to secede from the rest of the "God-fearin', sister-marryin', (and here's the key) gun-totin' Red States.
"When we were making fun of those Red State hicks," said a Blue Stater, "we never realized that, to secede, we'd need some firearms. They have guns and we don't. Onward, atheist soldiers, to Plan B."
According to a recent study, the only Blue State people with "decent amounts" of guns are "a couple thousand deer hunters" spread throughout rural Pennsylvania and "several hundred gang-bangers" in large California cities.
"Thanks to our liberal sensibilities," said an anonymous Blue Stater, "we're not even able to start a second revolution. It's difficult to set off another 'Shot Heard Round The World' when you lack the device that does the shooting."
Military analysts said the only serious attack that could be mounted by the Blue States (besides the hunters and hoodlums) was an advance on Virginia by the 5th Connecticut Watergun Regiment. "But I'm pretty sure the Virginians could defend themselves," said military historian Caleb Carr, "because they've heard of raincoats."
http://www.brokennewz.com/displaystory.asp_Q_storyid_E_1160bluestates

No change at CNN

2004-11-23T14:48:00.000-05:00

Jonathan Klein is the new CNN President. Gomer doesn't doubt that Jon and Mary Mapes are peerless in their "profession". That says much about the "profession". Gomer does wonder what a "crack" journalist is though.....

Two nights after the September 8 CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes used the forged memos in the hit job on Bush's National Guard service, Klein came aboard the Friday, September 10 O'Reilly Factor on FNC, hosted by Tony Snow, to defend CBS News.
The relevant portion of the session:
Jonathan Klein: "I have a lot of faith in the producer (Mary Mapes) of this segment only because I worked with her for a long time. And she is absolutely peerless, I'd say, in the profession. She is a crack journalist. .

Gomer agrees that 60 Minutes is the most careful of the alphabets. They must all be so proud.
Jon continues: It's a real integral part of the 60 Minutes process. They are probably the most careful news organization, certainly on television when it comes to the vetting sources."

read more of his inadvertant hit on his "profession".
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20041123.asp#1

Student newspaper genius!

2004-11-23T14:15:00.000-05:00

Gomer knows that blue state universities are filled with brilliance. But I just didn't realize how perceptive they really are.

The State News, MSU's Independent Voice
Printed Wednesday November 10th, 2004.
Bush supporters share common thread with fundamentalists
John Bice
In 2003, Congressman Rush Holt, D-N.J., introduced a bill requiring that a voter-verified paper ballot be produced by all-electronic voting machines to guard against election fraud or computer errors. Republican leaders blocked Holt's bill, and it never came to a vote. As a result, Americans will never know for certain who won the 2004 election. Until this problem is rectified, election results influenced by e-voting machines are suspect, and our confidence in voting - the foundation of our democracy - will remain in question.
However, accepting that Bush won the election poses an obvious question. How could such a demonstrably incompetent leader win? Or, from the headline in the British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?"
Here's an explanation.
A pre-election study by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) helps to clarify. The study found a majority of Bush supporters have beliefs that are objectively untrue while a majority of Kerry supporters hold beliefs in agreement with reality. PIPA learned, "Bush backers largely think that the president and his policies are popular internationally. Seventy-five percent believe that Iraq was providing 'substantial' aid to al-Qaeda, and 63 percent say clear evidence of this has been found." All these beliefs are unsupported.
The PIPA study also found, "Majorities of Bush supporters misperceive his positions on a range of foreign policy issues," while "a majority of Kerry supporters have accurate perceptions of Kerry positions on the same issues."
A pre-election Zogby poll explains how Bush supporters could be so radically disconnected from reality: "A whopping 86 percent of Bush voters watch the FOX Network most often for news."
In summary, the vast majority of Bush-backers obtain their news from a transparently biased pro-Bush source, which helps facilitate delusional beliefs and leads to immunity from reality-based arguments. Gee, that's nice to know. My question is this: Why wasn't this front page news everywhere in the country?
Seemingly mystified, the authors of the PIPA study ask, "why are Bush supporters clinging so tightly to beliefs that have been so visibly refuted?"
Hmm. I'll take a shot at that. In what other sphere of human activity is willful separation from reality not just tolerated, but encouraged? That's right. Religion. Faith bestows certainty of belief, often in spite of direct contrary evidence. The conviction, held by many, that Jesus literally exists in cheap wine and thin wheat wafers is distressingly revealing. Individuals capable of believing such fantasies are literally capable of believing anything.
I've previously written that belief in Heaven, Hell and the virgin birth correlate negatively with education level (from a 2003 Harris Poll). Education, especially in science, confers resistance to unsupported beliefs.
Strong support from factually unburdened Christian fundamentalists played a key role in Bush's apparent victory. Republican leaders skillfully charged their base and divided Americans through use of the three G's: God, gays, and guns. Actually, hats off to them; it's a nice trick. The use of these cultural wedge issues makes it possible to convince poor and middle class voters to support candidates who favor massive tax cuts for the rich at their expense. The general ignorance of Bush supporters (PIPA study), the sophistry and pro-Bush punditry of FOX News, and the toothless, corporate-owned mainstream press makes the GOP's job easy.
Prior to the election, polls made it clear that people around the world overwhelmingly preferred Kerry. A 2003 survey found that "Europeans believe the United States contributes the most to world instability." Without the blinders of American religious fundamentalism and the right-wing media, the world sees Bush as the dangerous radical he is. Hopefully, America won't pay too dearly for its decision to retain one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.
John Bice is an MSU staff member. He can be reached at bice@msu.edu.
Location: http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=26817
All content ©2004 The State News
http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=26817

Wadda ya bet....

2004-11-22T21:13:00.000-05:00

....the coverage of the beer-brawl gets 1000% more publicity world wide than the beheadings of innocents by Iraqi mass murderers?

Accused Of Throwing First Cup Speaks To Police
POSTED: 7:50 AM EST November 22, 2004
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Police continue to identify all of the fans involved in Friday night's brawl at The Palace of Auburn Hills, while the man accused of throwing the cup that sparked the incident speaks to Local 4.
John Green Police have identified this fan -- believed to have thrown the first beer at the Indiana Pacers' Ron Artest -- as John Green, of West Bloomfield, was caught on tape throwing his cup of beer onto Indiana Pacers player Ron Artest, Local 4 reported. The act sent Artest into a rage in the stands, where players and fans then fought during the game between the Pistons and the Pacers.
Local 4 learned that Green has a criminal history, which includes the following offenses:
2003 -- Operating under the influence of liquor/operating while visibly impaired (second offense)
1989 -- Assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder
1989 -- Escape from prison
1986 -- Carrying concealed weapons
1986 -- Uttering and publishing, which is using a false, forged, altered or counterfeit record, deed or instrument to injure or defraud.
Green initially said he had no comment to Local 4, but eventually talked with the station Monday morning outside his West Bloomfield home, saying, "I'm not going anywhere. The police know where I live. I've talked to them already."
(Hear What John Green Has To Say)
Green was identified over the weekend as "the fan in the white hat" who apparently threw the plastic cup of beer while Artest was sprawled on his back on a scorer's table, away from a scuffle on the court. Artest then jumped up and charged into the stands, throwing punches as he climbed over seats.
Green stepped aside and another person took the initial blow. The tape of Friday's fight then shows Green attacking Artest from behind.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/3938054/detail.html

This'll be in the next Michael Moore movie!

2004-11-22T14:02:00.000-05:00

Yeah, right.

Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library
BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the SunNovember 22, 2004URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/5137
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. - President Clinton's new $165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen.
The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or more for the archive and museum that opened last week.
Democrats spent much of the presidential campaign this year accusing President Bush of improperly close ties to Saudi Arabia. The case was made in Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11," in a bestselling book by Craig Unger titled "House of Bush, House of Saud," and by the Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Kerry."This administration delayed pressuring the Saudis," Mr. Kerry said on October 20. "I will insist that the Saudis crack down on charities that funnel funds to terrorists... and on anti-American and anti-Israel hate speech."The Media Fund, a Democratic group whose president is a former Clinton White House aide, Harold Ickes, spent millions airing television commercials in swing states with scripts such as, "The Saudi royal family...wealthy...powerful...corrupt. And close Bush family friends."
November 22, 2004 Edition > Section: National > Printer-Friendly Version
http://www.nysun.com/article/5137

They wonder why we don't trust them.....

2004-11-18T16:41:00.001-05:00

Excellent post and research from junkyardblog.com. The major media, every day, is giving us more reasons to turn them off and find other sources for our news. Are they really that stupid? Yup.

THE PRESS IS HIDING THE SLAUGHTERHOUSES OF FALLUJAH
In the age of mass media and instant news, if we don't see images of something how long will our memories of it last? Our troops fighting in Fallujah have reportedly discovered several slaughterhouses--places where terrorists killed innocent civilians in brutal, disgusting fashion--around the city. But have you seen any pictures of those slaughterhouses? I haven't, and I think it's important that we do. We need to see what our enemy has been doing that led to the fighting there. We need to see why the Marines needed to be sent into that hellhole. The terrorist butcheries are part of why we're fighting there.
Let's take a walk around the media, in vain search of pictures of the Fallujah slaughterhouses. Here's a story about them, but what picture accompanies it? An unflattering shot of Iraqi PM Allawi.
Here's another story, no picture.
Chicago Tribune story, no pictures.
UK Times story, no pics.
The Australian runs a story, no photos.
http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2004_11_14.html#003759

Why don't they tell us the rest of the story?

2004-11-18T15:37:00.000-05:00

Gomer wonders why the BG neglects to mention that the Demos allow their leaders to keep their positions no matter what they are charged with. The GOPers changed their rule a while back. Now they're changing it again. Aside from any merit in the allegations against Delay or the logic in protecting big wig politicians, isn't it kinda important that we know that the Demos never even had this rule?

from the Boston Globe editorial gurus. The BG is owned by the New Youk Times:
GLOBE EDITORIAL
Coddling Tom DeLay
November 18, 2004
THE HOUSE majority leader, Tom DeLay, who was cited by the House Ethics Committee for three violations this year and another in 1999, was rewarded yesterday by his fellow Republicans with a rules change that will allow him to keep his leadership position even if he is charged with a serious crime.
This shameful action, coming only 15 days after an election supposedly dominated by pledges of morality and reform, casts a cloud over the House and adds evidence -- if any were needed -- that House Speaker Dennis Hastert, sitting in a chair once occupied by Henry Clay, Sam Rayburn, and Tip O'Neill, provides no more leadership than a cardboard cutout.
DeLay said -- apparently with a straight face -- that the change was needed to protect Republicans from the Democrats' "politics of personal destruction."
Representative Henry Bonilla, who led the effort to benefit his fellow Texan, said, "This takes the power away from any partisan crackpot district attorney who may want to indict" party leaders.
Bonilla might take care about name-calling. It is true that a local Texas prosecutor has already indicted three DeLay associates on charges of illegal fund-raising for the 2002 legislative elections in Texas -- elections that gave Republicans the majority they needed to redistrict the congressional delegation, producing a swing of five more GOP congressmen from Texas.
However, one of the four admonishments of DeLay from the House's own bipartisan Ethics Committee concerned that same redistricting. And the US Supreme Court has intervened, telling lower courts to take a close look at the charges relating to that redistricting.
It should be noted that people are innocent until proven guilty, but many institutions require people to give up leadership roles if indicted.
It is also worth noting that Bonilla's own seat was made more secure by the redistricting.
It is tempting to suggest that President Bush should use some of his treasured political capital to try to straighten out his party's leadership in the House. But, while the noxious odor does affect all Republicans in Washington, the solution must come from the House membership.
Very few members of the Republican conference stood up to object yesterday, and Hastert, of course, did not insist on a vote. For now, DeLay's fund-raising prowess and his success in adding a margin of comfort to the GOP majority in the House on Nov. 2 have been valued more highly by his colleagues than the damage done by his one-man ethical infestation. But when an institution like the House loses public confidence, each member is damaged. Eventually they will have to fumigate.
© Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/11/18/coddling_tom_delay/

Well, duh!

2004-11-18T15:15:00.000-05:00

Geez. Gomer always thought that ambassadors seat sitters came from a special list of "untainted" folks who never contributed to any politician.
Drudge reports:
Nearly a third of the fundraising 'pioneers' who helped put President Bush in the White House were appointed to positions in his first term, an ASSOCIATED PRESS review finds. Contributors received ambassadorships in Europe and seats on policy-setting boards; spouses won presidential appointments; many were rewarded with stays at Camp David and trips with U.S. delegations to events like the Olympics... DEVELOPING...

BorowitzReport-Go there every day!

2004-11-15T20:17:00.000-05:00

A laugh a day keeps the therapist away.
http://www.borowitzreport.com/

The REASON

2004-11-15T11:30:00.000-05:00

This piece by the great de Borchgrave exemplifies the main REASON the USA needed to invade and conquer Iraq and Afghanistan. The Muslim presence and influence in the world is growing at an astounding pace. If the Muslims integrate into their adopted country's society, great. If they bring the extreme elements into power, not so great.

By Arnaud de Borchgrave
Published November 15, 2004
The Netherlands has long been Europe's most permissive society --
It was such Dutch tolerance, pragmatism and guilt about the country's colonial past that allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Muslim Indonesia (a Dutch colony from the 17th century until World War II) to flood into tiny Holland. Today, Muslims are a majority among children under 14 in the Netherlands' four largest cities. There are 1 million Muslims (6 percent of the population) now living in Europe's most crowded small country. Some 30,000 new Muslims arrive every year. They tend to live among themselves, with their own schools, mosques and restaurants. Most are horrified by what they view as sacrilegious in their own religion. Their imams speak no Dutch and know nothing of the Netherlands' history and culture. Western Europe as a whole gets about half a million new Muslims a year. Most make their way from sub-Sahara Africa and North Africa, illegal immigrants smuggled by boat to Spain and Italy where they are free to travel with impunity to the rest of Europe. Thus, Europe's Muslim population has doubled to 20 million in the last 10 years.
Arnaud de Borchgrave is editor at large of The Washington Times and of United Press International.
Read the entire, scary article.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20041114-103944-4700r.htm

depressed

2004-11-14T09:25:00.000-05:00

http://bocanews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=10194&category=Local%20News

Good news=no news

2004-11-14T09:17:00.000-05:00

Funny, Gomer hasn't seen this view on the Dan Rather show. Maybe Perky Katie Curic will tell us more tomorrow on the Today Show. Yeah. Right.

Foreign fighters now reviled by Fallujah residents
By Hannah AllamKnight Ridder Newspapers
SAKHLAWIYA, Iraq - The fighters came to Fallujah last year with piles of cash, strange accents and a militant vision of Islam that was at once foreign and fearsome to residents emerging from nearly 30 years of Saddam Hussein's secular regime.
Yet out of custom and necessity, tribal locals offered their Arab guests sanctuary and were repaid with promises to help keep American forces out of the town. This week, with U.S. troops battling their way through the Sunni Muslim stronghold, several Fallujah residents said it had been a grave mistake to trust the foreigners who turned their humble stand against foreign occupation into a sophisticated terror campaign.
Once admired as comrades in an anti-American struggle, foreign fighters have become reviled as the reason U.S. missiles are flattening homes and turning Iraq's City of Mosques into a killing field. Their promises of protection were unfulfilled, angry residents said, with immigrant rebels moving on to other outposts and leaving besieged locals to face a superpower alone.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/special_packages/iraq/10166880.htm

A terrible tragedy

2004-11-14T08:39:00.000-05:00

Her book should be a must read for everyone. She will be missed.
Iris Chang, the prominent Chinese American author and journalist who fueled an international protest movement against Japan with her incendiary best-selling book, "The Rape of Nanking," was found dead from an apparent self- inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said Wednesday.
Chang, 36, of San Jose was found in her car by a commuter about 9 a.m. Tuesday on a rural road south of Los Gatos, according to the Santa Clara County sheriff's office.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/11/MNGB59PKL01.DTL
more:
The late historian Stephen Ambrose described Chang as “maybe the best young historian we’ve got, because she understands that to communicate history, you’ve got to tell the story in an interesting way.”
Chang suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized during a recent trip researching her fourth book about U.S. soldiers who fought the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II, according to her former editor and agent Susan Rabiner.
Chang continued to suffer from depression after she was released from the hospital. In a note to her family, she asked to be remembered as the person she was before she became ill — “engaged with life, committed to her causes, her writing and her family,” Rabiner said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6456679/

The man across the street

2004-11-13T07:50:00.000-05:00

Another wonderful vet story, this one from Baldilocks. May we never forget.
http://www.babalublog.com/archives/001160.html

They tried to bury it, bloggers found it!

2004-11-13T07:43:00.000-05:00

Tim Blair, again, shows why the bloggosphere is our best defence against the lies or omissions of the LibMedia. Gomer likes the bloggers to read the NY Times for him. Gomer would rather send is newspaper money to the SwiftBoat Vets.

TRAIN STOPPED
While we’re waiting for CBS to conclude its investigation into Dan Rather's missing brain, perhaps someone could investigate this:
On November 4, Jodi Wilgoren of The New York Times reported details of election night television coverage that are yet to get the attention they deserve. Buried deep in a story, far from the front page, here’s what Wilgoren wrote:
"The critical moment came at 12:41 a.m. Wednesday, when, shortly after Florida had been painted red for Mr. Bush, Fox News declared that Ohio — and, very likely, the presidency — was in Republican hands.
"Howard Wolfson, a strategist who joined the [Kerry] campaign this fall, burst into the room where the brain trust was huddled and told them ‘we have 30 seconds’ to stop the other networks from following suit.
"The campaign pollster, Mark Mellman, and the renowned organizer Michael Whouley quickly dialed ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC — and all but the last refrained from calling the race through the night. Then Mr. Wolfson banged out a simple, two-line statement from Mary Beth Cahill, expressing confidence that Mr. Kerry would win Ohio once the remaining ballots were counted.
"'All through the process, what was driving our decision making was the memory of how in 2000, by allowing Florida to go for Bush, a lot of momentum was blocked,' said one person who was in the room. 'Our whole goal was stop the train from moving that way.'"
They stopped the train dead, and with it any pretense that CBS, CNN and ABC were practicing independent, objective, knowledgeable analysis and journalism. It is perfectly acceptable for networks to listen to what a campaign has to say, but not to ignore empirical evidence to favor that campaign.
Posted by Tim Blair at 09:35 PM Comments (3)
http://timblair.spleenville.com/

A billion here, a billion there....

2004-11-13T07:29:00.000-05:00

Amid the media's gushing for Arafat there was not much reportage on the fiscal relationship between the poor Palestinians and the billionaire terrorist. Not even a raised eyebrow about the quick settlement with his "wife". $22 million a year? No problem. Just send it in a piniata.

Story of Arafat's hidden billions
NEW YORK: Yasser Arafat personally controlled billions of dollars with which he ran the Palestinian Authority but no one knows their whereabouts, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-921227,curpg-1.cms

Pinata voter!

2004-11-13T07:21:00.000-05:00

No problem here. We're just bringing in Bush voters for the Ohio recount.

Border Inspectors Find Girl Sealed In Piñata
Girl Was Meticulously Sealed Inside, But Able To Breathe
Inspectors checking a car smuggler at the U.S. Mexican border found a girl hiding inside a piñata. They say they've seen all kinds of attempts to smuggle people into the country, but this was an odd case.
Vince Bond of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection says officers at the Tecate Port of Entry found the girl when they removed several piñatas from the car and one seemed much heavier than the others.
The girl -- who's about 4 or 5 years old -- was meticulously sealed inside but she was able to breathe. The girl's mother was curled up inside the car's trunk, and her brother, who's about 9, was underneath the collapsible back seat.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3914346/detail.html
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3914346/detail.html

Search your hard drive

2004-11-13T07:12:00.000-05:00

This GOOGLE site is really nifty. It uses GOOGLE to search your own hard drive for anything you've stored in E-mail, downloads, photo names or any other files lurking but hidden. Gomer uses it to find his links to his Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (VRWC) contacts. Heh, heh....
http://desktop.google.com/

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The List

2004-11-12T11:22:00.000-05:00

The list of our fallen heros. Bookmark it and visit often. May we never forget their sacrifice.
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html

Johnny Edwards in 2008?

2004-11-12T10:44:00.000-05:00

Red State Luigi sends this hint of a 2008 election non-contestant from Galleyslaves.blogspot.com:

2008 Watch: John Edwards?
So it falls to me to help Hillary Clinton's cause. Okay, quick question: How helpful was John Edwards in helping Democrats down south? Granted, Kerry lost every Southern state, but Edwards must have helped in the precincts that know him best, right? Not so fast. Galley Friend P.C. sends along this interesting data:
Edwards's home precinct, Precinct 111, Raleigh:Kerry-Edwards 362 - Bush-Cheney 847
Edwards's home county, Wake County:Kerry-Edwards 162,750 - Bush-Cheney 172,563
Edwards's home state, North Carolina:Kerry-Edwards 1,488,278 - Bush-Cheney 1,919,903
Edwards's boyhood home, Robbins, N.C.: Kerry-Edwards 13,360 - Bush-Cheney 24,420
Edwards's birthplace, Oconee Cty, S.C.:Kerry-Edwards 8,326 - Bush-Cheney 18,715
Edwards's state of birth, South Carolina:Kerry-Edwards 648,443 - Bush-Cheney 920,072
http://galleyslaves.blogspot.com/2004/11/2008-watch-john-edwards.html
I imagine his post election Homecoming Parade was a tad modest.

GOPers still doin' the Happy Dance

2004-11-12T10:40:00.000-05:00

Well, not exactly the jitter bug but lots of grinnin' Gomers out there. In this case it's my friend Ruth, a gomette, who writes:
"I'm still smiling from the election. Smiling even bigger each day when I read the continuing meltdown of the Dems and their screeches about secession, their scorn of the unteachable red states, their plans to replace McAuliffe with Dean (Dean! Gah!) and the possibility of re-running Gore and Kerry in '08. Yes, it will be a good four years."

Someone really hates us Gomers!

2004-11-12T10:20:00.000-05:00

My friend "Luigi", resident of a Rebel state, sent this link. Think about it. Someone with at least a modicum of skills decided to write this, publish it and include a link to respond to it. I guess I'd better read it for comprehension because them Northeasties is plum intellektual.

Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep. And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really? Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. contact
It goes on and on in this same enlightened vein. Read more if you wish.
http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

It's Veteran's Day

2004-11-11T15:59:00.000-05:00

How lucky we are to have this wonderful country and the brave men and women who have served with such valor.
Read it and be thankful.
http://www.thepatriette.com/archives/000566.html

Maybe Olbermann wasn't wrong!

2004-11-11T11:19:00.000-05:00

Thank God the lefties never read the right-wing blogger sites. IMAO has the entire scoop on the election. Here is CBS-level proof that we're just smarter than the Blue state emigrants. Cool.

November 11, 2004
Dude, Where's My Votes?
Man, I was so happy with our win, but then I found out that places like Democratic Underground are arguing that Bush stole the election once again. What? But what about all those votes? Well, Wikipedia even has a page up about how the election was stolen with charts and everything. Is something up? Well, I contacted my local wing of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy who patched me into the national arm of the VRWC. Then I got to talk to two people I shall refer to as Hacker1 and Hacker2. Here is the conversation:
Frank: So, did we steal the election this time?
Hacker1: Yeah, totally. We like rigged all the machines so there was no way we could lose.
Frank: Why didn't you tell me we had it in the bag? I was like totally worried about this election!
Hacker2: Sorry, dude, but we were like told not to spread it around too much.
Hacker1: Yeah, we needed everyone to act like it was close and worrisome so no one would know we like totally hacked it. That Karl Rove is smart, dude; he knows how to run things.
Hacker2: Yeah, Rove is totally evil and totally cool.
Frank: So did you hack voting everywhere?
Hacker1: Yeah, otherwise it would look weird if we only improved in the battleground states.
Read the rest to see just how evil the Rovers are.....
http://www.imao.us/archives/002338.html

Blue states are gonna get empty!

2004-11-11T08:36:00.000-05:00

The Democrat Party can't be liking this.
It seems that the Demos are moving to foreign countries in order to get away from dumb gomers like.... well, like Gomer! I bet there are lots of books that prove the French, Italians and the unnamed Central Americans are smarter and freeer than gomers in the Red states. I betcha.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=235904&page=1
Some Say U.S. No Longer Feels Like Home
With Bush's Re-Election, Foreign Countries Look Better to Them
By DEAN SCHABNER
Nov. 9, 2004 - Leora Dowling and her husband thought returning from deep in "red" America to her native New England would make them feel more comfortable, more like the people around them shared their values. Since the election, she's been contemplating another move. To Italy.
"After the election, my husband and I asked ourselves, 'How could our country be heading backward? How could so many people miss or choose to ignore the obvious failures of the Bush administration?'" the former Florida resident said.

"There is this aggressive morality that seems to me to have nothing to do with Christianity," she said. "Our fathers were mostly Unitarians, not at all holy rollers."

One such person, Kelly Ann Thomas of Houston, said she has put her house on the market and a real estate agent has been showing her properties in a Central American country. She said she did not want to say exactly where, because her agent told her he received 45 calls in one day from Americans looking to move to the same location....
I'm taking my assets out of the country and moving to Central America, where ironically, I will have more freedom to live my life without interference from a corrupt government. My husband and I will leave within four months." .
Copyright © 2004 ABC News Internet Ventures

Don't these folks read the NYT? Central America?
Gomer wonders when PEST sufferers are gonna get a vaccine.

Fat Lib wants to get noogied by Red Stater!

2004-11-10T21:27:00.000-05:00

Gomer wandered over to this site and found a pudgie PEST sufferer needing a break from graphic designing. WARNING! He will be holding his own. No noogies needed here.

http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/
Any takers?
Posted by Gene
From Wednesday's Washington Post:
"Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight," reads a recent posting on Craigslist.org, the popular nationwide bulletin board. "I would like to fight a Bush supporter to vent my anger." A joke? No, says Paul Valerio, 34, a graphic designer from Oakland, Calif., who told us yesterday that he's ready to rumble but hasn't gotten any takers yet. "I'm 6-foot-1 and 236 pounds. I think that's a heavyweight category," he said, then warned all comers: "I can hold my own." Guess all we need now to settle this is a willing red-stater and some airfare.
C'mon, you tough-talking Bush supporters. Show what you're made of. You're not scared, are you?*
*Not meant seriously.
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Moonbat alert!

2004-11-10T20:12:00.000-05:00

Warning! Please wear your trusty aluminum foil hat when reading this post. At the very least, don't visit the MSNBC site without adequate protection! (knit hat, Snickers bar)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
Gomer likes to tell his fellow gomers that he is "well rounded" so I ocassionally venture over to cable channels that few civilized humans ever roam on over to. I mosey'd over to MSNBC the last few nights to visit with Keith Olbermann. Keith is a very excitable guy. Keith thinks JF Kerry won the election and has spent the last week trying to get other moonbats to agree with him. Here's his conclusion:
Kerry won. Bush stole the election. Ralph Nader agrees with Keith. He even got a big expert to expound: Kerry, he says, is “definitely interested in running in 2008,” and the image of Gore’s political death after the 2000 re-count may have played as much of a part in his hurried concession as any realistic appraisal of his chances in reversing the election by reversing Ohio.
Gomer doesn't remember that LoveStoryWannaBee/Web pioneer Gore hurried his fingernail clawing slide from the electoral abyss. It seems to Gomer that Gore spent more time in Florida after the 2000 election than the average cancer diagnosed Canadian waited for their first cancer treatment. Whoops! It wasn't that long. (9 months)http://www.medicalpost.com/mpcontent/article.jsp?content=/content/EXTRACT/RAWART/3634/19C.html
Anyway, if you miss the X-Files, Keith is a fun visit for PEST sufferers. WEAR YOUR HAT!!!!!!!!

Florida PESTs unleashed!

2004-11-10T16:16:00.000-05:00

Gomer was readin about them hi-falutin depressed folks in Florida and wondered if they ever tried votin Republican. It's a kick ass high. Probably save them PESTs a heep of money too.

http://www.bocanews.com/
American Health Association reacts with free ‘post-election selection trauma’ counseling

More shocked John Kerry supporters on Wednesday sought psychological help with “post-election selection trauma” in South Florida, prompting the American Health Association to officially release symptoms of the disorder and open its doors for free counseling. ....
“When someone commits suicide in New York and Kerry’s loss is even slightly connected, it’s serious,” Rob Gordon, executive director of the AHA, told the Boca Raton News. “There’s a lot of older Democrats here and they outnumber Republicans and you don’t want an epidemic of suicides with the elderly. So our counseling center is now open free to those with post-election selection depression, PEST, who need to exorcise their demons.”
Asked when the Kerry-related trauma would end, Tabet said, “I think the jury’s still out on that one. I think it depends on the swing of the politics.”

Symptoms of Post-Election Selection Syndrome (PEST)
According to Florida mental health professionals, the following symptoms have been identified in John Kerry voters since Nov. 3 and are signs that one should seek help from a licensed mental health clinician. Although therapists report that patients so far have uniformly identified themselves as Kerry supporters upset over their candidate’s concession, they urge that the trauma is not necessarily unique to Democrats.
Feelings of withdrawal
Feelings of isolation
Emotional anger and bitterness
Loss of appetite
Sleeplessness
Nightmares
Pervasive moodiness, including endless sulking
Excessively worried about the direction of the country.
Source: American Health Association exclusive to Boca News.

Gomer knows a heep of folks that are this way all the time. We call 'em donkey dudes. Bummer.

We didn't win, but we sure can make maps!

2004-11-10T13:39:00.000-05:00

A desperate quest for a USA wallmap that doesn't give them nightmares.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
Hey! A couple of these look like Micheal Moore!

The left proves they're smarter...sorta.

2004-11-10T13:32:00.000-05:00

Jonah Goldberg smites one of the left's most revered IQ experts.

"The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry," writes Jane Smiley, a woman who couldn't catch a clue if you used one as a pestle and her brain pan as the mortar. Smiley's now-famous hissyfit places a great deal of emphasis on the fact that the Republican base is "ignorant" while the Democratic one is enlightened. A similar point was made by the British Daily Mirror, one of whose headlines asked, "How Can 59,054,087 People Be So DUMB?"
One might ask if the Democrats really want to place so much emphasis on "ignorance" of the base as a defining difference between the parties. By all means let's break out the number-two pencils and pit the homeschoolers, tractor drivers, and Sunday-school teachers against the voters who wouldn't have shown up at the polls lest they miss a chance to meet P-Diddy.
Read the whole thing.
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200411081212.asp

Did anyone hear the Cheering Troops?

2004-11-10T13:23:00.000-05:00

Another reason to question the accuracy of what the major media allows us to see/hear on OUR public airways. Good news about the USA drives them insane. FOX, talk radio and the bloggers are driving them insane!!!! Gomer likes it when the PBS/NPR dudettes are needin' psychic help....

from Lucianne.com
"John O'Neill: Troops in Iraq Cheered Bush Win U.S. troops stationed in Iraq were visibly heartened when they got the news that President Bush had defeated John Kerry in last week's election - but the media are refusing to report their reaction to the folks back home. That's the word from John O'Neill, whose successful mission to expose Kerry proved critical to Bush's win. It hasn't been carried on the networks, but I've talked to children of our friends," O'Neill told ABC radio host Sean Hannity on Monday, in one of his first post-election interviews. "People were cheering in Iraq and Afghanistan - our kids were - when the election results were announced." I heard none of this on the tv networks or the news papers..How many of you American's heard about the cheering."

This is too much FUN!

2004-11-10T10:34:00.000-05:00

I know the election is over but the river of drivel just keeps rollin' along.
James Atlas in NewYorkMetro.com angsts.
"New Yorkers are so sensitive. Think how worried we are about our image abroad: When I was last in Paris, the concierge at the Pont Royal was so rude to me. I don’t think people realize how many enemies we’ve made. . . . The Republican line on foreign policy is less agonized: Who gives a fuck?"
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/2004race/10351/index.html

Red States=Slave States

2004-11-09T15:30:00.000-05:00

Gomer wishes this was funny. The fact that this woman is on the payroll at NBC is stunning. The fact that she felt comfortable to say what she said ON TV is revealing. These people live in a strange world. Read her comments about red state slavery. Gomer wants to give her a noogie.
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20041109.asp#2
ABC News correspondent Carole Simpson, who through 2003 served as the anchor of World News Tonight on Sunday and who now travels the country for ABC News to talk to high schoolers about how to consume news, lashed out at how the election results reflect the triumph of the "stupid" and how the red/blue maps match the slave versus free states. She opined at a National Press Club forum shown live Monday night on C-SPAN: "I look at the election, and I'm going, 'Well, of course our kids are not bright about these things because their parents aren't.'" She also asserted that it's "really scary" to her when she hears that students consider Rush Limbaugh to be a news source. Simpson fretted that now "affirmative action's a bad word. Liberal's a bad word. Gay is a bad word. Diversity, all these words that were perfectly fine words now are these touchstones, these trigger points, and that frightens me. I think he's going after social issues."
-- In reaction to comments from Pat Buchanan: "When you tell me, 'Let the states decide,' that scares me, okay? I got a little map here [holding sheet of paper] of pre-Civil War free versus slave states. I wish you could see it in color and large. But if you look at it, the red states are all down in the South, and you have the Nebraska Territories, the New Mexico Territories, and the Kansas Territories. But the Pacific Northwest and California were not slave states. The Northeast was not. It looks like the map of 2004. "And when you say, 'Let's let the states decide,' I remember what the states decided when they had slavery.

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20041109.asp#2

Born-again Democrats?

2004-11-09T13:00:00.000-05:00

OK. You find a liberal who disagrees with Conrad!

http://gweilodiaries.com/archives2/000879.html#000879
Conrad's Tips for a New Democratic Majority:
1. Appoint Terry McAullife Party chairman for life. If McAuliffe isn't available, this guy would be great.
2. More Massachusetts liberals. Give Teddy his turn.
3. Explain to 51% of the electorate that they're stupid. They will eventually realize that you are smarter than they are and will vote as you tell them to. It has only taken them this long because they really are sooo fucking stoopid.
4. More CBS News exposes.
5. There's no such thing as too much Michael Moore.
6. A nationwide Guardian letter writing campaign.
7. Don't just legalize gay marriage, make it mandatory.
8. Can Bob Shrum run a campaign or what?
9. A federal law making rolling one's eyes a criminal offense.
10. "I'm Hillary Rodham Clinton and I'm reporting for duty."
11. Close the telepathic subliminal electioneering gap.

Fallujah "I just love my job"

2004-11-09T11:16:00.000-05:00

Gomer loves these guys. God speed, young men....

from The Belmont Club http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/11/fallujah-again-although-us-military.html

The Daily Telegraph has an atmospheric article which describes the terrible effect of networked forces on the enemy inside Fallujah.
"I got myself a real juicy target," shouted Sgt James Anyett, peering through the thermal sight of a Long Range Acquisition System (LRAS) mounted on one of Phantom's Humvees. "Prepare to copy that 89089226. Direction 202 degrees. Range 950 metres. I got five motherf****** in a building with weapons." A dozen loud booms rattle the sky and smoke rose as mortars rained down on the co-ordinates the sergeant had given. "Yeah," he yelled. "Battle Damage Assessment - nothing. Building's gone. I got my kills, I'm coming down. I just love my job."
... The insurgents, not understanding the capabilities of the LRAS, crept along rooftops and poked their heads out of windows. Even when they were more than a mile away, the soldiers of Phantom Troop had their eyes on them. Lt Jack Farley, a US Marines officer, sauntered over to compare notes with the Phantoms. "You guys get to do all the fun stuff," he said. "It's like a video game. We've taken small arms fire here all day. It just sounds like popcorn going off."

PhotoFun!

2004-11-09T10:56:00.000-05:00

The Bluies are giving Gomer too much to work with.....
http://opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110005868
Sorry BunchWe can't tell if this is parody or self-parody, though we suspect the latter--and in either case, it's hilarious. Late last week a new Web site, SorryEverybody.com, appeared on the scene. Here's its manifesto:
Some of us--hopefully most of us--are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world. As our so-called leaders redouble their efforts to screw you over, please remember that some of us--hopefully most of us--are truly, truly sorry. And we'll say we're sorry, even on the behalf of the ones who aren't.
The site features a photo gallery of sad sacks holding up signs saying things like "49% of us still hate Bush" and "Everybody, half of Ohio is really, really sorry. Don't hate us."
Already there's a metaparody, a site called WereNotSorry.com: "A majority of us went out and voted on Nov. 2nd for President Bush. There is no reason for us to apologize to the rest of the world because of our belief in Freedom and Democracy." Its photo gallery features such slogans as "Sorry we won! In your face!"

GD moral values!

2004-11-09T10:23:00.000-05:00

Interesting how something as amorphous as "moral values" in someone they've never met can be so specifically defined by the BlueStaters. A Newsweek columnist in agony. Gomer looked up the word "amorphous".

"And I wasn't alone here in New York City, where nearly 80 percent of the voters supported Kerry. Mostly, we were disgusted to discover that our fellow Americans were not our fellow Americans at all, but a bunch of strangers who cite "moral values" as the biggest issue. That made me angry. My first reaction to it was: "F*$@ you and your f*%!#@&% moral values!"
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6437005/site/Newsweek/

Watch tonight if you can!

2004-11-08T20:24:00.000-05:00

An insight into the lib mind.
A bunch of lib Media Gurus wonder about the election and decide....ON TV!! to ask Pat Buchannan what he thinks.
Amazing. Maybe I ought to ask my barber what she thinks about the mole in my yard....

Free tonight on C-SPAN @ 9:34PM tonight.
The liberal elite try to understand the election results by asking Pat Buchannan.
Great bunch of libozoos w/nutbuchannan tonight.
C-SPAN
Forum
The Media and President Bush's Second Term
National Press Club
Smithsonian Institution
Newseum
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 184346 - 11/08/2004 - 1:25 - $45.00

Broder, David, Columnist, [Washington Post]
Alter, Jonathan, Senior Editor, [Newsweek]
Simpson, Carole, Senior Correspondent, ABC, News
Williams, Juan, Senior Correspondent, NPR (National Public Radio), Morning Edition
Buchanan, Patrick, Syndicated Columnist
Bond, Frank, Producer, Newseum

Journalists discuss what’s ahead for President Bush’s second term and where the media spotlight will shine. They review media coverage of the president’s first term.

Gomer in the Red State

2004-11-08T18:13:00.000-05:00

As a, drunk with victory RedStateGomer, I know that the east/west coasties know that I'm a bigoted ignoramus. I do know that i'm a big dude but I'm not sure what a "ignoramus" is so I'm gonna put down my chaw, my trusty AK47 squirrel gun and skip my monthly noose makin' class and see what those fine folks on the intelecktual left have planned for the future.

Oops! Looks like they're try'n that lawyer thing where if they don't like what us Gomers vote for, they're gonna sue somebody. I wonder what libary books they've been readin'?
Are Concession Speeches Legally Binding? - Kerry holdouts want to know.

Now they're calling us ignorance-inducing! Is that good or bad? I dono.
Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue - The unteachable ignorance of the red states. By Jane Smiley
"The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry. I suppose the good news is that 55 million Americans have evaded the ignorance-inducing machine. But 58 million have not. (Well, almost 58 million—my relatives are not ignorant, they are just greedy and full of classic Republican feelings of superiority.)
Progressives have only one course of action now: React quickly to every outrage—red state types love to cheat and intimidate, so we have to assume the worst and call them on it every time. We have to give them more to think about than they can handle....."

Hey, this's a nice thought, but didn't they all move there 4 years ago? I sure hope my shootin' pals don't mistake 'em for bears on our huntin' trips up north.
Moving to Canada, Eh? - Let Slate help you decide if it's really for you. By Dahlia Lithwick and Alex Lithwick

This is a nifty idea. My favorite movie is Gettysburg.
Could the Blue States Secede? - Is there a legal way to opt out of the Union? By Sam Schechner

Well, if you can't get you self to leave (gotta be tough to convince the little woman) and you can't get the land to move, maybe you can feel good in knowin' that some Brits think you're an idiot. I'm not sure how good this plan is for the lefties. I guess I'm just to ignorant to understand. Brits to America: You're Idiots! - Well, 51 percent of you, anyway. By June Thomas

I bet this idea looked pretty cool on paper. Maybe if they tweak it, it'll work better next time. I just love to tweak stuff!
"Dear Limey Assholes ..." - A crazy British plot to swing Ohio to Kerry—and how it backfired. By Andy Bowers
Guardian Unlimited US elections 2004 My fellow non-Americans ...

This is a little harsh, but it's cheaper than movin' to Canada and probably as much fun.
Newsday.com:> Man commits suicide at Ground Zero>
Man commits suicide at Ground Zero
"Veal, a registered Democrat, was despondent over Bush's defeat of Sen. John Kerry. A second source said Veal, who lived in Athens, Ga., and worked for the University of Georgia, was also adamantly opposed to the war in Iraq."

Well, I'm not sure I understand them demos much more than I did before. I guess I gotta stop takin' my eggs and puttin' them in my ignorance basket.
I wonder what my neighbor's been readin' at the libary......

Ignorant or stupid?

2004-11-08T16:42:00.000-05:00

But Bob Herbert of the New York Times, though agreeing that Bush voters are ignorant, doesn't think the situation is totally hopeless:
"I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as big a role in the election's outcome as values. . . . This is scary. How do you make a rational political pitch to people who have put that part of their brain on hold? No wonder Bush won. . . . There's a fair amount of cluelessness in the ranks of the values crowd. . . . A more practical approach might be for Democrats to add teach-ins to their outreach efforts. Anything that shrinks the ranks of the clueless would be helpful."

2004-11-03T18:09:00.000-05:00

A demo friend from California sent me his E-disapointment.

In a message dated 11/3/2004 1:50:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, DougXXXX writes:
I have never been so correct in all my life. Well, the good news is that we finally get to see what results from a senseless foreign policy paid for by a deficit driven economy fed by a country full of tobacco chewing illiterates waiting to hear what Christ would have done in similar situations. Being on the wrong side of Ranch Road is nothing compared to this.

Gomer responds:
Doug pretty much has it right. I just got home from Chicago (man, all those tall, tall buildings and lots of cars!) where we attended TWO Republican celebration parties. Gomer and his buddies were VERY impressed. They had stuff in there that we didn't even know existed. They had classy music, I think it was Sinatra with some kind of polka accompaniment, and the lights were so low that I sorta groped a bunch of Republican hooters by mistake with my elbow. Heh Heh.
They had these real cool reddish plastic tubs filled with chaw and lots of us were chewin' and spittin'. One guy said he didn't chew and then put some up his nose and we all laughed. Heh Heh. In one of the classiest things I've ever seen, instead of mostly empty beer cans, they had nifty wine glasses set up all over the place for us to spit into. Classy and fun because we made it a game to see how far away we could be spittin' without missin' One guy got about ten feet but had to stop practicing because the rug was gettin' a bit moist, if you get my drift. Heh heh. They had some really nice negro waiters dressed up in civil war uniforms of some type, so we could tell them from the other negros we hired to be photographed with. One of them told me the wine glasses were made so they were supposed to look like REAL French wineglasses but were really made in Taiwan by a company owned by Carl Rove. We all got to take one home with us after the shindig. One guy was so drunk that he put his wineglass in his pocket without emptying it. Man, his wife better work hard to clean that muck out!
We all talked politics with lots of nice people from Chicago. We all agreed that the poor don't pay enough taxes and that the Ten Commandments weren't just the Ten Recommendations. The GOP State Party Chairman got pretty drunk and regaled us with really interesting stories of him and Jack Ryan swapping their wives back in the 80s in those sex clubs in NYC. Some religious folks didn't like hearing that but he calmed them down by telling them a big secret, Don't let this out yet but John Ashcroft is going to replace Ruth B-Ginsberg in a few weeks. Carl rove found a neat way to interpret the Constitution and Bush is gonna declare Marshall Law (not martial) after the Israelis bomb Iran and then he can swap her butt out. Pretty cool.
Another neat secret that a guy told me was that the draft will be reinstated the night of the Inaugural. It seems that George Sr worked out a deal with Bill Gates and the guys from Google to set up a lottery that everyone will think is on the level but just drafts guys who registered to vote using the MTV and Move On.org sites. Chaney had the guys from Haliburton lean on the Google guys to seal the deal, if you get my drift. We all really thought that was cool.
I'm not sure I'm gonna like the "Required Sunday Church" bill but someone told me you can get an exemption if you contributed to the Swift Boat guys or bought some Haliburton stock so I guess I'll be OK on that.
Anyway, we all had a great time.
Gomer
Oh, wait a minute! I almost forgot! We're gonna nuke France next year and Carl Rove is using all the old ATA Airlines planes to run back from Frogland filled with Froggy wine until they all fry. Pretty cool. Heh, heh.

GOPers = Facists!

2004-11-02T17:58:00.000-05:00

Gomer writes:
This is what a leftist friend sent me and my response. He has neither sent me any Es nor responded to any of mine since. I think he's my ex friend. It's interesting that he feels comfortable sending me "GOPers are fascists" stuff but curls up in the "I gotta call Oprah" mode when confronted with facts.
Tonight I'll be attending the most beautiful concert of the year, in Chicago. A whole ballroom at the Chicago Hyatt full of crying and whimpering democrats. If demo-chicks wore mascara, it would bleed down onto their mustaches. Ah, sweet music.....

In a message dated 10/26/2004 4:59:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, xxxx@comcast.net writes:
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. "(Bertrand Russell: Freedom, Harcourt Brace, 1940)
XXX,

Gomer responds:
XXXX,
Good to see you back alive!
I'd totally agree with Bert's suggestion that fascinating fools is a powerful motivator but it's pretty tough to muzzle anyone, particularly the unintelligent, in the USA today.
But, I would disagree that (pro-nuclear attack supporter/pacifist) Bert's advice was an accurate apprasial of the facists of his day.
Check out the Hitler/Facist-2004 Democrat rulebook.
1st. Demonize your enemy. Jews/Bush
2nd. Falsely accuse your opponent of taking away the rights/votes of the citizens in the past. Jews/Bush
3rd. Enrage your supporters with false accusations that the opponent (Jews/Bush) has hurt them in the past and will do so in the future if we don't fight them using ANY means. Even if illegal.
I had a conversation with Veronica Bailey (80ish) who manned the GOP office when it was downtown in the 80s and she said she was afraid to work there when the union thugs broke windows and threatened the volunteers, repeatedly, until they closed the office.
My political signs have been stolen twice from my front yard. I guess things never change.
From the non-violent center,
Gomer

How 'bout a bit o proof? Power Line
Campaign Violence in Arizona
Violence by Democrats against Republican campaign offices continues to spread. The Arizona Daily Sun reports:
Political motivations turned criminal Thursday night or early Friday when vandals smashed a large glass door with a section of cinder block at the Republican Party headquarters in downtown Flagstaff.
A pile of shattered glass joined egg shells filling the entryway to the GOP offices, located on Humphreys Street across from Wheeler Park. Fliers with information criticizing President Bush were stacked up outside the door.
The Flagstaff attack followed only a day after a bomb threat against the Bush-Cheney headquarters in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: the party of hate is fast becoming the party of violence.