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COCA-COLA PROFIT FALLS AFTER DROP IN SALES…

Econ 101?

For your week-end reading enjoyment… while attempting to plant a roadside bomb near Kandahar, ten of Islamic jihad’s finest prematurely meet their maker.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,376661,00.html

Exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on July 4th, 1826.

With his dying breath, Adams is reported to have whispered, “Thomas Jefferson survives!”; a remarkable comment from his death-bed in Braintree, Mass., since Jefferson, more than 500 miles away in Monticello, VA., had died several hours earlier.

http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=195

BRUTALLY HONEST is posting an endorsement of Barack Obama by the “Marxists/Communists/Socialists For The Election Of Barack Obama To The Presidency” fan-club.

Though claiming not to support North Korea, China or Cuba, the MCSFTEOBOTTP group says that Obama will be the best choice for the interests of the proletariate.

I suppose it’s a good thing that someone is watching out for the unwashed masses.

http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2008/07/we-are-to-suppo.html

At Tuesday’s State of the City address by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, African-American songstress Rene Marie was introduced to sing The Star Spangled Banner.

Instead and without warning, Ms. Marie sang the so-called black national anthem, “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing” to a stunned audience.

Afterward, Marie defended her action by saying she wanted to express what it felt like to be a black woman in America.

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=94919&catid=339

MODERATES!  Utter that word in the company of staunch conservatives and be prepared for apoplectic stares, attacks of the vapors and the stacking of bundled faggots around the pole at which you will no doubt be burned alive.

In this highly polarized and politically charged first decade of the 21st Century, conservatives know the enemy when they see it. While they detest the liberal wing - frequently referred to as ‘lefties’ - they can at least identify common traits which they share. Both are committed to an almost pure, distilled ideology, both are minority branches of a larger whole, and both will never budge from principles which they regard as sacred and immutable. 

Like the crusaders and muslims of the 12th century - each bent on the inihilation of the other’s faith before the gates of Jerusalem - conservatives and liberals share a grudging admiration for the staunchness of their opponent’s views.

But Moderates!  From a conservative prospective, moderates are loathsome and detestable apostates, despised for their apparent spinelesss lack of principle. They are - horror of horrors! - pragmatists!  Like lepers of the Dark Ages, they are infected by a heinous disease - compromise !

Cursed by a willingness to engage the other side in dialogue and seek bipartisan - oh, that word! - solutions, moderates are frequently described as traitors, or worse.

Early in the primary season, Fred Thompson was revered, even deified as the personification of unflinching, uncompromising conservative principle.  His demise at the polls was attributed to weak-kneed, vascillating moderate republicans and cross-over moderate dems, who, to their everlasting shame, chose John McCain, the ultimate symbol of cross-the-aisle, unprincipled moderation.

Conservatives could understand Obama’s win. His victory, as they saw it, was the result of unflinching adherence to liberal principle. Reading the essays of staunch conservatives carefully, one detects a wistful, grudging admiration for the leftie triumph in the selection of the senator from Illinois.

Not so, John McCain. He has been, and will continue to be, vilified for a senate record of compromise and cooperation with the democrats.  Never mind that all legislation is the result of bipartisanship and that all presidents have curried the support of the other party, McCain is the living symbol of pragmatic and unprincipled sleeping with the enemy.

Two examples will suffice.  Even though McCain voted for the 700 hundred mile border fence legislation in 2006 and has sworn to keep border security as his first priority - positions at wide variance with Obama - he remains committed to comprehensive immigration reform. Conservatives view this as a total sell-out of principle, even though President Bush, along with most moderates, hold the same view.

On energy, John McCain is even further to the right of Obama, having called for off-shore drilling, eliminating the federal fuel tax, the construction of new refineries and nuclear power plants, and empowering states to control their own resources. Yet, he is lambasted by conservatives for not including ANWR [at least not yet] and for proposing a carbon cap and trade scheme - both moderate policies.

McCain’s greatest sin is not that these modest proposals are not steeped in conservative ideology, it is that they appeal to moderates!  He has committed the cardinal sin.

Political wonks of every stripe will continue to opine on the candidates, their positions, their records and their ideology or lack of it, right up to election day, but, with one significant difference: liberal lefties will savage John McCain and so will conservatives.

Moderation, it seems, is still no virtue.

In a move guaranteed to annoy conservative members of the GOP, John McCain and staffers met privately yesterday in Chicago with leaders of the Hispanic business and political communities.

This from Rosanna Pulido of the Illinois Minutemen Project:

He’s having his private meetings to rally Hispanics and to tell them what they want to hear. I’m outraged that he would reach out to me as a Hispanic, but not as a conservative.

And this response from Rafael Rivadeniera, Vice Chairman of the Republican Hispanic National Assembly:

This was not a secret meeting.  There was nothing he said that they wouldn’t want people to hear.

As always, secrecy is the real issue, and in this case, a closed door meeting raises the deepest suspicions among some conservatives who are already sceptical of McCain on immigration.

http://www.drudgereport.com

The on-going AOL poll - “Who Will You Vote For In November” - is currently up to 270,115 respondents and John McCain’s lead over Barack Obama has swelled to 53% [143,943] vs. 37% [100,771], with 6% undecided and 4% not voting.

Great news if you’re a McCain supporter!

Good reason to get drunk if you’re not.

http://webcenter.polls.aol.com

Given the frenzy of many to convert our energy supply to bio-fuels, there are some stark, hard lessons to be learned from the horrific flooding in Iowa.

Over one million acres of corn and two million acres of soybeans - equalling 20% of the Hawkeye State’s annual yield have been lost so far , and that number continues to rise daily… just in Iowa!

While we are facing a staggering loss of food for the nation’s belly, we may, in fact, be getting some nutrition for the brain.

It is difficult to imagine an industry - any industry - more vulnerable to the whims of nature than agriculture.  Perhaps the biofuel crowd needs to sit down with pen and pencil and do the math.

If we were already converted to a biofuel economy, what kinds of disasters might we be facing at this very moment?  Not guns or butter.  But fuel or food! Starvation or stagnation!

If Iowa today was forested with wind-generators for electricity, those devices, along with everything else destroyed so far, would now be worthless scrap. 

Meanwhile, what may be the world’s largest supply of untapped oil [and coal!] lies dormant and unharmed - free from the savage whims of Mother Nature - right under our very feet and off our coastlines.

Hysterical environmentalists constantly rant that we must not be allowed to destroy the environment, yet it would be hard to imagine how man could do greater damage to Iowa, or ANWR, or the ocean, than nature has just done to Iowans in one week, using only rain.

Food for thought.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/16/business/midwest.php

By the same 5 to 4 liberal majority that recently gave habeas corpus rights to Gitmo detainees, the Supreme Court ruled today that foreigners whose visas have run out can legally stay in the country while fighting deportation.

And there are still those who see no problem in letting Barack Obama appoint new justices for the next 4 to 8 years.

http://www.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_immigration

Today in Arlington, Virginia, presidential-hopeful Sen. John McCain, in what some are saying is a preview to his expected energy policy speech on Tuesday, called for the moratorium on off-shore drilling to be lifted.

McCain said that doing so would,

be very helpful in the short-term resolving our energy crisis.

Could it be that the senator hears the clamor to do something now!?

http://www.drudgereport.com

... Except that the Washington Time’s Joseph Curl says that the GOP may have stumbled on the one candidate who can do it… John McCain.

Curl argues two main thesis:

McCain’s very image as a ‘maverick’ republican with less than perfect conservative credentials - seen as a man who crosses the aisle - may well appeal to large numbers of independents and unhappy democrats.

Senator John McCain’s reputation as a ‘maverick’ who regularly bucks the conservative wing of his party will be a formidable obstacle for Sen. Barack Obama as he seeks to convince moderates to vote for him in November.

McCain’s real record as a solid republican and a senator with a fairly strong conservative record remains largely unknown to to voters of every stripe.

Although conservatives bristle about Mr. McCain’s proclivity to cross party lines and vote with democrats, a glance at his voting record over 25 years in the senate portrays a solid republican. For instance, he voted for every item on the republican’s Contract With America… [more]

And this,

The senator from Arizona, a staunch pro-lifer, has an American Conservative Union rating of 82, not a top-rated conservative, but certainly a solid member. As Mr. Obama regularly points out, Mr. McCain voted in line with President Bush’s wishes 95% of the time in 2007 and 100% so far this year.

All of this might be idle election year speculation or republican wishful thinking except that yesterday the left-leaning AOL daily political poll ran an article suggesting that Barack Obama might win with a ‘historic’ margin not seen since FDR vs Hoover. 

But when readers were asked to say who they would vote for in November, McCain won by 54% to 46% over Obama.

And when readers responded to the second question, who do you think will win in November?, it was McCain again by the same margin!

So far today, a similar poll is showing the same results!

After last week’s horrendous Guantanamo ruling by the Supreme Court, any thoughful American will have to think twice before hoping that John McCain loses this race.

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jun/16/maverick-mccain-bedevils-democrats/

Looks Like the Independent Senator from Connecticut is raising feathers and blood-pressures among the democrats. 

Joe Lieberman (I) Conn., who had to fight his own party last year after losing a heated primary dominated by the far-left, currently has the democratic Senate majority by the short-hairs, since they hold a 1 vote majority only when Lieberman votes with them.

Lieberman routinely votes with republicans on matters of national security and war funding.

Now, to the consternation of the liberals, Lieberman is openly and publicly attacking Barack Obama for his stands on those issues and has hinted that he would speak at the Republican Convention if asked.

The democrats must be foaming at the mouth behind the scenes. John Kerry expressed his party’s fear that Lieberman might become an “attack-dog” for the GOP.

http://www.drudgereport.com

To the countless millions of American men who get up every day and work, toil or serve to provide for their families; to the dads who went without and never complained so that their kids could have more; to the exhausted pops who dragged themselves to that little league game and the church pageant; to the men who love and respect thier children and guide them into adulthood; to the dads who will smile graciously and hug their kids for yet another shirt and tie; to the men who teach their children respect of country and of others; to the men whose highest priority is their family; to the men who won’t enjoy this day because they gave their lives that others might; to the men who ask little and give much; to the dads in every walk of life whose faith in, sacrifice for and devotion to this country and their families have made us the greatest nation on Earth…

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

Presidential candidate John McCain wasted no time in reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Gitmo detainees, calling it, “the worst decision in our nation’s history.”

He lashed out at the five liberals who were in the majority and praised the four conservatives for their firm opposition.

McCain had equally harsh words for Barack Obama who had quickly voiced approval the court’s ruling.

These are enemy combatants, these are people who are not citizens, they are not and never have been given the rights that the citizens of this country have.

Our first obligation is the safety and security of this nation and the men and women who defend it.  This decision will harm our ability to do that.

McCain used the court’s controversial decision as an example of why the next president should appoint only conservative justices.

McCain has previously drawn the ire of some conservatives for urging that Guantanimo be closed and that some interrogation techniques be banned as torture.

McCain may be a controversial candidate to some, but he is 100% correct on future appointments to the Supreme Court.

http://www.drudgereport.com 13 June 2008