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Who ya gonna call: Newsbusters!

You have to hand it to the liberal media. The American government is prosecuting its first treason case in 50 years, but the press has managed to maintain its focus on more important issues. You know, like the Mark Foley email scandal. Such dedication in the face of silly distractions is truly admirable.

Reuters reporter James Vicini took a stand for truth in his article about the Adam Gadahn:

 

Justice Department officials denied the case was timed to deflect attention from the fallout over lewd computer messages sent by a former Republican congressman to young male aides, a scandal that may help Democrats seize control of Congress in the November 7 elections.

Aside from the moonbats I haven’t found anyone that cares about the Foley Follies.

45 Posts so far for DocDave’s latest. I think we can say the reader Blogs are catching on.

Have you heard this?

McCain was also criticized for his continued use of an ethnic slur in reference to his Vietnamese captors. He told reporters, “I hate the gooks…. I will hate them as long as I live.”[7] At first, he stood by his use of the slur, saying that it was “the kindest, the kindest description I can give them.” [8] Amid heavy criticism[9], McCain later reversed his position and apologized. McCain would go on to win a few more primaries (Massachusetts, Arizona, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont), but in a two-man contest he was unable to catch up. Though he apologized for his usage of the racial slur “gook,” he had aroused the ire of Asian Americans due to the delay of an apology for such an obvious transgression.[7] It is also speculated that this is the cause of McCain losing the California and New York primaries due to their large Asian American demographic.

You can trust if McCain makes it through the primaries this will be used endlessly against him in the general election.

Just one more reason NOT to support McCain in the Republican Primary.

A Hero of our time:

A 14-year-old boy shot and killed a man who broke into his family’s home Monday and threatened to kill him and his mother, Police Chief Bryan Smith said.

Smith said the man, confronted a woman as she was carrying groceries into her home shortly before 1 p.m.  The man forced her inside and tied her and her son up. Smith said the woman was able to loosen the binding and free her son, who got his father’s revolver from a security box beneath a bed.

As the man tried to break into the room where the two were and threatened to kill them both, the teen fired a shot through the door and hit the intruder in the head, Smith said.

The Instapundit had this to say:

Not only was this tragedy averted, but if the guy had gotten away with it he almost certainly would have killed others. Not now.

Private citizens use firearms over two million times a year to defend themselves.  Of course the media doesn’t report that.  They only report the evil done with firearms, not the evil averted.

Now that I have in effect my own Blog (thanks Rob) I’ll try to highlight defensive uses of firearms.

Over the weekend Rob did a post on the AP doing a puff piece for Keith Olbermann.  Olbermann’s as moonbatty as they come and the AP apparently likes it.

In the comments Dave Miller expressed the thougght that Olbermann was upcoming and O’Reilly was shrinking. 

Well here’s the latest numbers.  I report and you decide. 

I still think that MSNBC benefitted from the Foley media event more Fox.

From Drudge:

CABLE NEWS RACE
MON. OCT., 9, 2006
VIEWERS

FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,216,000
FNC SHEP SMITH 1,437,000
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,355,000
FNC GRETA 1,057,000
CNN KING 1,026,000
CNN DOBBS 813,000
CNN COOPER 767,000
CNN BLITZER 721,000
CNN ZAHN 697,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 629,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 552,000

For reference these are the numbers that Dave linked to to make his point.
Here are the last quarters numbers to compare with.

Yesterday one of our resident liberals made the contention that the “vast majority” of the public debt was held by foreign interests, especially China.  I asked for proof and he responded with a cut and paste that was useless.

That piqued my curiosity and I decided to do some research.

From the Bureau of Public Debt we find that our “total” debt is $8.5 Trillion. 

Much of the debt though is called “intergovernmental holdings”($3.6 Trillion).  Mostly that’s an accounting gimmick to give the idea that there is a Social Security trust fund.  It’s my opinion that this is not a “debt” as it will never be redeemed.  When Social Security needs it we’ll see new taxes or cuts in benefits.  Either way this is not a foreign held debt.

This leaves $4.8 Trillion dollars held by the public.

According to the US Treasury Department the total amount held by foreigners is $2.1 Trillion.  That amounts to 44% of our debt held by the public or 25% of the “total” debt. 

The economically challenged are afraid that China owns too much of our debt.  “They can call the shots.”  Well the fact of the matter is that they only hold $332 Billion dollars of debt.  That’s 4% of our total debt.  It isn’t that scary.

Our national GDP is $12.36 Trillion.  So our total debt is 69% of income.  Our debt held by the public is 36% of our income.  And our debt owed to China is 2.6% of our income.

I don’t know about you, but if my household debt ratios were as low as that I’d be very happy.  If I had a credit card that was 2.6% of my income I wouldn’t worry about it at all. 

Plus the US economy is going to grow and grow.  It doesn’t have to save for it’s retirement.

I don’t like the debt, but it’s sure not worth the anguish that’s generated about it.  It’s part and parcel of the leftists wanting to scare everyone, including themselves.

Stupid is as stupid Does:

PARIS—Mexico’s foreign secretary said Monday the country may take a dispute over U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to the United Nations.

Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, that a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case.

The Mexican government last week sent a diplomatic note to Washington criticizing the plan for 700 miles of new fencing along the border. President-elect Felipe Calderon also denounced the plan, but said it was a bilateral issue that should not be put before the international community.

Derbez said Monday after meeting with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy that it was a “shame” U.S. immigration policy had been used for what he claimed was a short-term political gain in the lead-up to midterm elections in the U.S. in November.

He said he discussed the issue with Douste-Blazy, and planned to bring it up in meetings with his Spanish and Italian counterparts during visits to Madrid and Rome. He vowed to work on the case until the “very last day” of President Vicente Fox’s term, which ends Dec. 1.

The U.S. Senate approved the border fence bill last month and President Bush has said he will sign it into law _ despite last-minute pleas from the Mexican government for a veto.

“What should be constructed is a bridge in relations between the two countries,” Derbez said.

What a bunch of fools.  In the case of the Mexico/US border it’s the United States that has a cause of action not Mexico. 

Mexico is helping thwart our laws and our sovereignty.  It’s time to make it clear the Mexico that we will pull out of Nafta if they do not respect our borders.  It’s time to let them know that we’ll reduce the number of LEGAL immigrants from Mexico if they don’t respect our borders.  There are good people all over the world that want to immigrate to the US legally.

If you’ve ever dealt with a lawbreaker they always blame the person that caught them.  It’s never their fault.

This makes sense:

Mickey Kaus started counting the days since Congress passed the bill and wondered whether the White House had decided to simply ignore the bill to death.

Congress has not formally sent the bill to the President. That means the clock has not started for his signature. The 10-day period starts only after Congress formally prints and delivers the bill for the President to sign into law.

Why has Congress waited? The Secure Fence Act, which requires that the border barrier be constructed, is a very high priority for Republican leadership in both chambers. They and the White House want to schedule the signing for what they see as the maximum impact to the midterm elections.  My source told me that the terrorist detention and interrogation bill will be signed on October 17th, and they want this to come after that.

Expect to see this get signed somewhere between October 24th and November 1st. The White House considers this bill a front-and-center accomplishment and wants the boost to last all the way through Election Day. Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress (especially Bill Frist, I’m told) want this to get as much coverage as possible. After the signing ceremony, expect to see this bill get trumpeted in the final advertising push for all Republican incumbents running for re-election.

No one on the Hill or in the White House has missed the message from the base.

Over the summer I had given up hope to get this accomplished.  The events of May had convinced me that we were better to get no bill than an amnesty bill. 

The conservative base has something to feel good about here.

Thanks to Captain Ed, one of the finest Bloggers on the planet.

Aww:

A group of illegal immigrants who worked for Wendy’s International Inc. is suing the restaurant chain because the company fired them after discovering it had missed a deadline for joining a federal program that would have helped them attain legal status.

Between the two lawsuits, 40 illegal immigrants say they were fired after the company recently found that Boyar & Miller, the law firm Wendy’s had hired, never filed paperwork for a 2001 legalization program that allowed immigrants with employer sponsorship or an American spouse to apply for citizenship.
 
Once the discovery was made, Wendy’s was forced by law to fire the employees because of their illegal status. Immigrants in the program would have been insulated from being fired.

Olivares said he was risking deportation to speak up for himself and his former co-workers. He said he has not looked for other work because he’s afraid of being caught by the authorities.

“I’m not safe anymore,” said Olivares, who has been in the country 14 years

I’ve got news for you.  Follow the laws when y ou come to this country and you won’t have this kind of problem. 

What I don’t understand is that the illegals must have identified themselves as illegals in their court filing.  Why haven’t they been deported?

Good:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Ailing Cuban leader
Fidel Castro is believed to have terminal cancer and is unlikely to return to power, Time magazine reported, citing US government officials.

Despite remarks by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque on Wednesday that Castro “continues to recover (and) we will have him back leading the Revolution,” Time reported on its website Saturday that many US officials are now convinced that Castro has terminal cancer and will never retake the reins of the Americas’ only communist-ruled country.

Castro turned Cuba into a hellhole for the last 46 years.  The world will be a better place without him. 

I wonder though, do you suppose that they operated on him at this fine example of Cuban medical care?

Those guys think THEY had it tough.

Robert108 earlier posted Youtube’s banning of Michelle Malkin’s anti-jihad video.  Michelle responded by posting this on Youtube.  If it goes dark then we know what happened.

Jeez:

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) said through his lawyer Tuesday that he was sexually abused by a clergyman as a teenager, but accepts full responsibility for sending salacious computer messages to teenage male pages.

Attorney David Roth said Foley was molested between ages 13 and 15 by a clergyman. He declined to identify the clergyman or the church, but Foley is Roman Catholic.

Victimhood II; the Sequel. This guy has had more success than nearly anyone on the planet and he’s got to play the victim card. First he tried to get out of trouble by checking himself into rehab and now it’s a “clergyman” that made him do it.

As far as perversions Foley’s was relatively mild. It’s not that he actually physically molested these kids. (That we know of). But why doesn’t he quit playing the victim and just go away?

Update: Captain Ed has his thoughts on this matter over on Captain Quarters. Mostly I'm linking to it because I like his title.

When He Tells Us He Got Abducted By Aliens, Call Me

Maybe it's even true, but who cares? He's fifty-four years old! If he had problems, it was incumbent on him to address them some other way than by engaging in cybersex masturbation sessions between votes in the House.

Over the weekend I checked on “Kent Conrad in the news. If found an article that ran in the ContraCostaTimes. This article also ran in the GF Herald, but that’s where I saw it first.

The article talked about differences in the Conrad campaign versus the Grotberg campaign. I picked up on very interesting quote by Senator Conrad:

Conrad said his campaign strategy is simple: Do it all the time, not just in an election year.

“When I come home, I don’t just sit in the living room,” Conrad said. “I go from town to town.”

So Senator Conrad has admitted that he only comes to North Dakota to campaign. Not to do one other thing. I wonder why that is.

Well we’ve all seen the article Rob ran on the shabby little apartment that Senator Conrad claims is his residence. Here’s a picture of Senator Conrad’s official residence which amounts to a mailing address:



Here's the apartment building:



This apartment is owned by GKC apartments. On his financial disclosure form he lists this as “Conrad Brother’s Partnership.” This property is assessed at $280,900. Since this building is a sixteen-plex the value of Kent Conrad’s official residence at $17,567. That’s not much for a big important Senator.

So I got to wondering where does he REALLY live? Well that’s also on the Internet. I’m not going to give his address but his “secondary residence” is valued at $935,740. Remember though the Washington DC real estate market has exploded in recent years.

I suppose by now you’re wondering what Senator Conrad’s real residence looks like. Well thanks to friends in low places I was able to find out. (Out of respect for his privacy I smudged out the street number).



So now we know why Senator Conrad only visits North Dakota to campaign. He wouldn’t be caught dead to be seen in his stinky old Bismarck living room. It also shows why Senator Conrad has to pose in front of his grandparents former house when he pretends he’s a North Dakotan.

North Dakota should be represented by North Dakotans in Washington. Right now we have three bureaucrats in Washington that only come home to campaign.