31 May 2009
What do the Russians think of us now?
Not that the Pravda is any bastion of truth but this is worth reading, especially since if the Russians are on thing, they are experienced in what Communism does.
American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper.
Let me know what you think? I thought it interesting they used the word Communism, not socialism to describe the U.S. slide.
29 May 2009
Hope and Change Friday

Congressional Democrats and Justice appointees continue assault on the voting process.
case in point...remember these guys? Does this look like voter intimidation to you? Obama appointees say no.
Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as "the most blatant form of voter intimidation" that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago. READ THE REST at Powerline.
OPPORTUNITY 2; Will Congress choose to fight for Military members right to vote. The body is controlled by Democrats, will they choose to do the right thing even it if costs them votes?...we will watch closely.
Among those who have studied the issue of military voting, there seems to be little disagreement that there is a problem. While there's no agreement as to precisely many how many members of the military are denied the right to vote, the number is significant. One recent estimate by the Congressional Research Service says that at least one-quarter of the absentee ballots requested by members of the Armed Services are not ultimately counted.
The Military Voting Protection Act (MVP) has been introduced in the House and the Senate. It was introduced in the House by Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
The measure provides for the express shipping of their completed absentee ballots, with tracking of ballots while in transit. The aim of the bill is to ensure that the ballots of these troops overseas are delivered to the appropriate state election officials by the jurisdiction’s statutory deadline, while safeguarding voter privacy and ballot secrecy.
The MVP Act actually passed the Senate on a voice vote last year - indicating that it was regarded as non-controversial. Nevertheless, the bill failed to pass the House. Congressional sources say that House leaders blocked the bill due to the opposition of unionized postal workers. Supporters are hopeful that the bill will sail through more smoothly this year, as the updated version does not rely on private express mail services, but instead requires that ballots be delivered via express mail within the US Postal Service. READ THE REST of this article
Another reason to hate unions...and congressman in their pockets. Congress and the administration saw fit to send MILLIONS of dollars to ACORN a supposed non partisan group that only helps Democrats get elected but so far has denied assurance of this basic right for those fighting for it. Shameful.
Friday Funnies

First my excuses for not blogging much lately, vacation, military duty, work, family, graduations, facebook...not necessarily in that order! Hat tip to Wolf Howling
27 May 2009
Military Victories in Afghanistan this week
#tcot #hhrs #war #gwot #oco
U.S., Afghan Forces Kill 84, Detain 14 in Combat Operations
WASHINGTON, May 26, 2009 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed 84 militants and detained 14 more in recent operations throughout Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported. Afghan and coalition forces killed 13 enemy fighters today in an ongoing operation in Logar province’s Kharwar district. The joint forces were searching a compound when they spotted several groups of armed fighters closing in. An initial coalition airstrike killed four, and a follow-up airstrike killed nine more, military officials said.
In operations Monday:
-- Afghan and coalition forces killed eight militants in Oruzgan province’s Deh Rawood district after the men attacked the joint reconnaissance patrol with machinegun and large-caliber munitions fire. The joint force returned fire with small-arms and mortar fire, killing all eight insurgents. Three Afghan policemen and two coalition troops were wounded in the attack but are in stable condition at a coalition medical facility, officials said. MORE
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WASHINGTON, May 27, 2009 – Afghan and coalition forces killed five suspects and detained 10 during operations throughout Afghanistan today.
Combined forces conducting operations in northern Khost province saw a vehicle turn abruptly toward a security element. Afghan forces used verbal commands and gestures in an attempt to stop the vehicle. When the driver continued approaching, Afghan forces fired warning shots, but the driver was undeterred.
After exhausting all nonlethal measures, Afghan and coalition forces engaged the vehicle, killing the driver who was the only occupant. MORE
26 May 2009
Rocky Mountain Alliance Radio - Colorado
#hhrs #gop #redco
Tune in tonight at 8:30 PM local Mountain time for the 28th edition of Rocky Mountain Alliance Blog Talk Radio. Guests for tonight’s show are:
Longtime GOP political consultant Patrick Davis to dissect the state of play in Colorado’s major statewide races for 2010, as fields of Republicans seek to challenge Governor Bill Ritter and appointed U.S. Senator Michael Bennet.
Jessica Corry from the Independence Institute, to talk about the ongoing budget controversies at the University of Colorado and possibly the increasing attention on the drug legalization debate.
If you miss the live show, you can go back and download the podcast, or just use the handy widget on my sidebar.
25 May 2009
22 May 2009
Friday Funny with Steven Crowder
Steven makes a few incorrect statements about Waterboarding here, it isn't just a few seconds and it was done hundreds of times to 3 subjects prior to 2004 and lives were saved because of it. I also don't agree with making too much light of it, it is torturous to go through I am sure, and I personally think it is a mistake to use it at all. But it is also a mistake to politicize national defense and make more of this than we should as the left does... but this is hilarious, he's got Pelosi nailed.
21 May 2009
News Flash Guantanamo has bad people in it., Amercans don't want them here.

After campaigning on the promise to close Guantanamo the administration has once again reversed course on an important issue after receiving more information. The Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp is a prison operated by Joint Task Force Guantánamo since 1987 in Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, which is on the shore of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. I bet if you asked most leftists if the Bush adminstration built Guantamao, they's say yes.
Daily briefs and threat assessments have a tendency to change minds if the minds are actually open. It at least makes the hearer more vigilant. At times I doubt any politician (especially left leaning) mind is still open to change, but perhaps I am wrong about this...or perhaps it is because the American people are screaming "not in my backyard" on this issue and Democrats politicians do follow the changing winds if they do anything.
“I don’t doubt that the President–and I think he’ll say this tomorrow–that we’ve made some hasty decisions that are now going to take some time to unwind. And closing Guantanamo Bay obviously is one of those decisions” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:
What Obama is finding out is that the Bush administration was not so crazy after all. Cheney was not so blood thirsty, not so war-mongering and whatever other propaganda slogan the left has been saying for years.
There are people out there with the idea that we (human beings in non-Muslim free societies) need to be brutally destroyed, and murdered at all costs. These are...bad people. Like Hitler, like Stalin, like Dahmer, like so many others, these bad people, these demons still exist and still get others to follow their twisted view. Many things in the world are getting better, but these types of people who are given to hate, murder and destruction of all they despise are still present and they are legion.
The fact that we are in danger is not politically expedient to the Democrats because since the 1960's they always taking the position of their far left socialist constituents; that anti-American position states that those of us on the right and those of us in the military enjoy and profit from war, we like torture and we are as bad as Hitler, as Pol Pot..(always using the Hitler thing). It is what our enemies have always said about us, and it is what the left inside this country has been parroting for them for 60 years or more. It is propaganda and it is a lie.
But facts are stubborn things and the fact that the world didn't suddenly get safe because Obama is now in charge may actually be getting through to some people. The attacks on 9.11 didn't happen because Bush was inept, he had just become president, they happened because of a decade of cuts in defense spending, a corrupt and inept CIA organization allowed to continue to spiral downward (for the previous 8 years) and more importantly a complete willful ignorance that there are groups of bad people who want to kill us and our children and we need to stay vigilant.
Guantanamo bay prison facility is as far as prison's go, a nice place to be. Any maximum security facility inside the US is far worse, far more restricting and far more depressing. People are not being tortured in Guantanamo, high value are being questioned and occasionally being made to feel uncomfortable. 99.9% of the time they are being treated with respect and dignity because that kind of interrogation works best.
Closing Guantanamo was a political ploy to placate the far left propaganda smear machine who actually believes the US military are thugs, the CIA could care less about human beings and that the US is as bad as any rogue regime ever. Perhaps cooler heads will prevail, one can hope.
Bringing more international terrorists to Colorado's SuperMax prison is a bad idea. We already have an Islamic hate problem in American prisons, it is prime recruitment and planning ground.
Revelation; Bad People at Guantanamo
18 May 2009
Vacation Return
Back from a vacation/active duty/Hawaii visit. Yes, I got to go to Hawaii, on the Navy's nickel because I worked while I was there, and yes it was awesome, see your Navy Recruiter.
I missed two of Steven Crowder's weekly comedy videos whilst gone and should post them. The first one on National Prayer Day is priceless.
Crowder on the RedEye
12 May 2009
RMA Blog Talk Radio Tonight at 8:30: Candidates Ken Buck, Scott Gessler
07 May 2009
Enough Already with the Swine Flu Hysteria and Media Obsession, Please
Last week, columnist Jay Ambrose did a fine job swatting down the swine flu hysteria. The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens chipped in with the swine-flu hysteria contest winner a couple days ago:
Of course the winner of the contest is Mr. Biden, since he lacks even the excuse of a self-interested motive. But standing right behind the vice president is a legion of heavily credentialed panic proliferators.Has anyone ever heard of the Boy Who Cried Wolf? This graphic makes a telling point:
These are the people whose terrifying forecasts you last heard during the avian flu panic of 2005 (deaths to date: 257, according to the World Health Organization) and the SARS panic of 2002-2003 (774 deaths). By contrast, garden-variety flus typically kill upwards of 30,000 Americans a year.
You might also have a vague memory of the "mad cow" panic that gripped the world in the 1990s. In his 1997 book "Deadly Feasts," Richard Rhodes warned that the human variant of mad cow, known as vCJD, might kill as many as 500,000 people a year in Britain alone. So far, total confirmed cases world-wide run to around 150.

It's probably an exaggeration. The green sliver is probably too big, but the creators had to make it visible to complete the effect.
Not to pick on the Boulder Daily Camera, but this story is just one example of how the hysteria contagion is about as disturbing as the spread of the H1N1 strain itself.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming...
06 May 2009
Sine Die
It sounds like a garbled threat, or possibly a song from the High Mass. Sine die means neither, but it is cause for high celebration: The Colorado state legislature is adjourned for 2009, at least for the regular session. (I'm hearing insiders say that the Governor very well may call a special session in the summer.)
In one sense, it's a shame to see the legislature walk away from its responsibility: Democrats have kicked the state's fiscal problems a little ways down the road. But then again, the majority Democrats aren't likely to grow a sense of responsibility any time soon.
So staunch the bleeding while there's still time. Because, in fact, Democrats are now openly touting a recent state supreme court decision to say they can raise capital gains (and who knows what other kinds of) taxes -- spitting on the state constitution's plain language that requires a vote of the people to approve tax hikes.
While the legislature is out of session for now, the high court continues to wreak havoc. That's why Clear the Bench Colorado is deserving of our support. We'd also do well to clear most of the benches in the state house and senate, too.
Sine die has come, just not quite soon enough.
Senator Jim DeMint Sets Up a Great Framework for Rebuilding the GOP
If there is anyone currently in the U.S. Senate of whom I would consider myself a fan, Jim DeMint of South Carolina would be on that short list. I understood where he was coming from but found it a little disconcerting when he said: "I would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who really believe in principles of limited government, free markets, free people, than to have 60 that don't have a set of beliefs."
What a great relief then to see Senator DeMint's excellent column in yesterday's Wall Street Journal -- what I consider an opportunity to revise and extend his remark. His rhetoric is blunt, and his analysis is clear:
In the wake of two successive electoral defeats and the likelihood of a 60-vote Democrat majority in the Senate, what does it even mean to be a Republican today? Moderate Republicans are right to remind conservatives that they cannot build a center-right coalition without the center part. And conservatives are right to remind moderates that Republicans only succeed when we rally around clear principles.Electoral defeat can do a lot to focus the mind. My first impression? I like the idea of the three bolded statements as the strong tent poles of the GOP. Candidates for office -- and particularly those at the national level (President, Senate, Congress) -- should be able to subscribe to those, leaving room for respectful, measured disagreement and debate.
The real mistake is that Republicans became more concerned with staying in D.C. than reforming it....
To win back the trust of the American people, we must be a "big tent" party. But big tents need strong poles, and the strongest pole of our party -- the organizing principle and the crucial alternative to the Democrats -- must be freedom. The federal government is too big, takes too much of our money, and makes too many of our decisions. If Republicans can't agree on that, elections are the least of our problems....
Freedom will mean different things to different Republicans, but it can tether a diverse coalition to inalienable principles. Republicans can welcome a vigorous debate about legalized abortion or same-sex marriage; but we should be able to agree that social policies should be set through a democratic process, not by unelected judges. Our party benefits from national-security debates; but Republicans can start from the premise that the U.S. is an exceptional nation and force for good in history. We can argue about how to rein in the federal Leviathan; but we should agree that centralized government infringes on individual liberty and that problems are best solved by the people or the government closest to them. [emphases added]
DeMint goes on to refresh our memories that a successful national party is built on the principles of federalism similar to the way our own Constitution is. While Republicans nationwide agree to these three broad statements, the flavor they may take in different regions and states will look somewhat different.
Under this banner one can be a strong conservative (whether on fiscal issues, social issues, or both) and work constructively as part of a broader coalition. I for one plan to remain a strong voice from my position on the Right side of the spectrum, because coalition-building does not mean capitulation. The tent is big, but it does have strong poles and clear edges. On the other hand, persistent persuasion does not equate with isolation.
Of course, this also presumes that our Republican elected officials in Washington live up to the three main principles. Too many have fallen short -- especially on the third -- but Senator Jim DeMint is one of the faithful few. No politician is perfect, but he has walked the walk. That's why I pay attention (and bring attention) to what he wrote in the Journal yesterday.
05 May 2009
"Conservativism Is Not a Dirty Word" Event at University of Denver, May 9
- When? Saturday, May 9, 10 AM to noon
- Where? Lindsay Auditorium, Sturm Hall, University of Denver
- What? Panel discussion, followed by Q & A
- Who? The panel features Republican National Committeeman and former state senator Mark Hillman, Aurora city councilman and likely U.S. Senate candidate Ryan Frazier, talk radio host and assertiveness trainer Karen Kataline, past chairman of the Colorado Republican Business Coalition Jim Noon, Step 13 founder Bob Cote, and yours truly
For more information, contact: Jan Bonnett, DWRC 303-815-8950 or jan@janbonnett.net; Kevin Poyner, DU College Republicans 719-337-3026 or kpoyner@du.edu. Hope to see you there!
RMA Blog Talk Radio at 8:30 Tonight: Blue Collar Muse and More ...
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01 May 2009
Arvada in the News - Colorado
Arvada, my home town is in the local news this week twice which is unusual. One is a funny story about a cowboy ticketed for drunk horse riding.
The other is not so funny. FTS investigation: Arvada redevelopment project sits mostly vacant, costing taxpayers nearly $800,000
Here it comes public (socialist) health care
This should scare the hell out of you.
Vacation time and guest bloggers
I am outta here for a couple weeks, a little vacation, a little Active Duty for the Navy but probably no blogging. However, in my absence fellow Rocky Mountain Alliance member and PPC writer Michael from Slapstick Politics will be guest blogging...thanks!
Friday's Funny from Steven Crowder a comprehensive list of liberals we can respect.




