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by Alex Gimarc Mon., November 24, 2008 Interesting Items 11/24 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Begich 1. Begich. Alaska sent democrat Mark Begich to the US Senate as he defeated incumbent Ted Stevens (R) by over 3,000 votes. Stevens was taken down by his convictions on federal charges and his refusal to go after Begich on any relevant issue. Here’s a thumbnail sketch on Senator-Elect Begich. He is a superb politician, having been in the political business for over 20 years. He is a big spender. He has never supported a tax cut. He is a strong union supporter. He has dabbled with gay rights and is pro-choice (as was Stevens). He is tied at the hip to environmentalists, opposes the mining industry here in Alaska, and has promised to get ANWR open for oil exploration and development. He is also a policy wonk, and loves to always be doing something – which means that he will be a strong proponent of the Nanny State. Whomever runs against Begich in 2014 should be able to beat him – and beat him badly – on issues such as growing the economy, cutting taxes, liberty, smaller government, and judges – all things that were available to the Stevens campaign and things that Stevens refused to mention. 2. Pirates. Muslim Somali pirates have st arted seizing shipping traffic off the Somali coast. They are using small boats; boarding and holding oil tankers and the crews for ransom. To date, the only response was by an Indian naval ship last week that engaged and sunk a pirate boat. The disgusting p art of this entire episode is the lack of naval response by the western nations – at least what we have heard about so far. If we have an infestation of Muslim pirates off the coast of Somalia, they all need to be sent to Allah in the most direct manner possible; sooner rather than later. 3. PIO. PIO is an old aviation acronym that stands for Pilot Induced Oscillation. What happens is that an airframe makes an unexpected movement, the pilot corrects the movement, but the correction is mistimed so that it reinforces the unexpected movement rather than damps it out, quickly leading to loss of control of the airframe. Solution is normally to center the controls for a bit to allow things to settle down. Why do any of you care about PIOs? Given the interest of the new administration in correcting the effects of manmade global warming and the transfer of global warming responsibilities in the House to the pocket fascist Henry Waxman (D, CA), we may be on the verge of doing the same thing policy-wise on a national basis. Just at the point where global cooling is well underway and has been so for a couple years, the democrats and greens are now in charge in sufficient numbers to actually do something about manmade global warming, which by definition will only make things colder. Larry Niven wrote a book a couple decades ago entitled “Fallen Angels” which described the next ice age brought on by a government elected to halt the effects of manmade global warming. We may be on the verge of doing what they wrote about in 1991. As with aviation, the best solution in this regard is to center the controls and do nothing for a while. 4. Fascist. Fascism is described as an economic system that allows private ownership of property but does not allow the private use of that property, tying it up in all manner of rules, regulations and taxation. Given what we expect to see from both the Obama administration and the new democrat majority in congress, they are better described as fascist rather than socialist. Given the power of that term, Dr. Jack Wheeler has suggested that we on the right use it early and often to describe who they are, what they are doing, their serial destruction of property rights and liberty. The Clintons’ efforts to nationalize health care in 1994 was not socialization but a fascist move on the economy, not unlike what Mussolini did with the railroads in Italy in the 1930s or what the Perons did to vast swaths of the Argentinean economy in the 1940s and 1950s. If you no longer have the right to use your property the way you wish, you no longer own that property, and operate under a fascist economic regime. We are quickly hurtling down that track. 5. Autos. The gutless wonders running the Big Three US auto makers along with the head of the UAW went to congress last week begging for free money. Their Masters determined that they did not grovel sufficiently and sent them back home without any more money. The next installment of groveling happens next Wednesday. The UAW said that they would be making no more concessions; and the auto maker CEOs were told to lose the corporate jets. This episode was almost as disgusting as the failure to do something about the Somali pirates. What ought they to do? First would be to declare bankruptcy – Chapter 11 – and st art going through the process solving their current economic problem. The second thing would be to quit begging, quit groveling, and stand up and st art slinging garbage back at the pontificating bozos on Capitol Hill. Point out that the collapse of auto sales was related in no small p art to congress’ inability to do anything about domestic oil and natural gas production. Blame the spike of oil last summer squarely on congress – which has implemented a 30-year long plan to strangle oil and gas production here in the US. Then blast away at the UAW for a while. Finally they need to take a few pot shots at congressional mandates for safety and fuel efficiency as needless and unhelpful interference in the free and open marketplace. 6. Palin. Governor Sarah Palin has been making the rounds of media giving a variety of post election interviews. Up until last week, most of them went reasonably well. Last week however, viewers were treated to yet another bit of Alaskan attitude when Palin went to a turkey farm in Wasilla to pardon a turkey – something she had never done before. She did her pardon thing in the foreground while an employee in the background slaughtered a turkey. All the usual suspects were usually offended and shocked, simply shocked at the casual brutality on display. The Governor is going to have a busy year as the crash in per barrel oil prices has put the Alaska state budget in a squeeze. It was passed with the expectation that oil prices would be at or above $82/bbl. It is now below $50/bbl. The budget will be most interesting this year, and she will have an opportunity to demonstrate both fiscal conservatism and the ability to grow an economy in times of economic uncertainty elsewhere. It will be a tremendous opportunity for her political future and the state’s economic future. We will hope all is up to the task at hand. 7. Economic Education. One of the great strengths of President Reagan was his ability to continually educate the citizens of America on the things that interested him – liberty, smaller government, and economics. One of the great weaknesses of both Presidents Bush was their singular inability to continue education of the electorate on things that interested them. We are at the point where Obama took the tax cut issue away from the Republicans. It is incumbent upon all of us to educate our neighbors on the values of economics, small government and liberty. This continuing education is a process that ought to st art today and continue as long as any of us or our people holds office. 8. Obama Voters. Ed Morrssey in Hot Air Tuesday related a Zogby poll on Obama voters. I have taken the liberty of lifting the relevant p art of the post below. Why is this important? It is important because it appears that Obama voters listened to the drive-by media for all their information on Obama. And when the drive-by media gets in bed with one political p arty at the expense of straight reporting, you set the stage for one p arty rule, rampant corruption, and economic disaster like Mexico had for 70 years under the PRI. Zogby took a lot of heat for doing the poll and refused to conduct a similar poll on self-professed McCain voters.
More later – - AG Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc Mon., November 17, 2008 Interesting Items 11/17 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Sixty 1. Sixty. As of this writing, Norm Coleman (R, MN) has a 209 vote lead over Al Franken (D), with over 500 bogus democrat votes (redundant term) showing up after the polls were closed – all of them going for Franken. Saxby Chambliss (R, GA) is in a runoff early December. He won comfortably, but expect the Obamaoids to pour everything into Georgia and try to win the runoff. Up here in Alaska, during the counting of absentee, question, and early votes, Ted Stevens’ (R, AK) 3,500 vote lead has become a 1,100 or so vote deficit. There are some 40,000 ballots outstanding that will be counted by Wednesday. Stevens’ pollster wrote him off as a goner late last week. Now some conservative bloggers are really pushing hard the notion that Chambliss is the key vote against a 60 vote democrat, filibuster proof majority in the Senate. While the numbers may be accurate, I strongly disagree, as there are at least five current Republicans that will line up with democrats at the drop of a hat, and that the magic number of Republican sin the senate is not 60, but 55. Here’s why: Olympia Snowe (R, ME), Susan Collins (R, ME), Lindsey Gramnesty (R, SC), John McCain (R, AZ), Lamar Alexander (R, TN). There are others, but these are enough for now. 2. Sea Ice. University of Illinois ice observation scientists observed that the amount of sea ice growing in the Arctic in October was the fastest on record. Average sea ice coverage in the Arctic varies from 16-23 million square kilometers over the period from 1979 to today. Pro-global warming scientists announced that the rapid increase in sea ice coverage is no big deal, using the recent observations a simply a downward blip in the overall global warming bogus government orchestrated crisis. Imagine what they will do when global warming gives way to the next Little Ice Age in the second half of this century. I would not expect the Marine Mammals Service to back off on their recent listing of the polar bear as an endangered species as a result of findings this year, as they will surely make the case that manmade global cooling is killing the polar bears due to too much ice and that we need to shut down all development around the arctic to save them from the effects of decreased solar activity. Daily Tech, Fri. 3. Hansen. NASA’s highest paid data dink, and designated climatological scaremonger James Hansen was caught with his data fully cooked and pants all the way down late last week when it was discovered that NASA’s conclusion that October 2008 was the warmest in recorded history was a bogus result. It seems that Hansen’s group made a little mistake and used September’s temperature data across Russia to compute October’s global average temperature. Up here, October is the month when the temperature falls the quickest on its way to winter. So when you use warm temperatures to compute global averages in a month where the entire planet is cooling at its fastest, it will tend to jack up those averages nicely. Hansen and NASA went on to use the result as yet another example of manmade global warming, and demand instant government action to keep it from getting worse. To date, nobody has been fired. Nobody has been reprimanded. Nobody has been held to account for their actions. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen’s organization, did little more than say ‘oopsie” and recomputed their results. Ladies and Gentlemen: It ain’t oopsie when you are intentionally cooking the data to push your ideological viewpoint. Hansen is fast becoming an embarrassment to NASA. Perhaps that is the way NASA wants it. Too bad for them. London Telegraph, Sat. 4. Civilian Defense. Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama are about to give the Obama youth a real lesson in leftist, liberal views of the terms freedom and liberty. They propose a Civilian Defense Corps, with mandatory universal p articipation. This means that every single man and woman between the ages of 18-25 will get to spend three months in involuntary servitude to the Obamaoids in so-called training (indoctrination). There may even be military style barracks and uniforms. While Emanuel’s experience with this sort of thing comes out of his experience with the Israeli Defense Force, use of such a construct in the US where we are not fending off daily attacks on our home soil by Palestinian suicide bombers leads some people to st art pointing out parallels between Emanuel’s proposal and the creation of the Gestapo in Hitler’s Germany in the mid-1930s. The elimination of the draft and creation of the all-volunteer army was one of the things that got Nixon elected in a historic landslide nearly 40 years ago. The recreation of the draft with forced universal p articipation may be enough to fatally dent Obama’s youth support – and along with it the democrats youth support. 5. Prop 8. The loving, tolerant, gay and lesbian community of California took their defeat on Election Day just as those of us watching their behavior over the years had come to expect – by acting like a bunch of spoiled two year olds. Better yet, the narcissistic vermin populating the community’s most activist supporters of gay marriage all but declared war on the Mormon Church in California over the course of the last week. They have been threatening parishioners. They have been forcing people who donated money in support of Prop 8 to resign from positions in the fine arts community in California. They have sent white powder to at least two Mormon Temples. They have been calling individuals that donated in support, and promising to shut down their small businesses. Dennis Prager interviewed one such gentleman Friday, complete with the threatening voicemail phone message. I cannot think of a better way for the homosexual community to trash what little respect and tolerance the rest of us have for them than to embark on this path of intimidation, bullying, and frankly, fascist thuggery. The only thing missing is the rainbow colored brown shirts. Congratulations, people. Tell me again why your lifestyle is a Good Thing? If you are singularly unable to tolerate the choices of your neighbors and fellow citizens at the ballot box, why ought anyone else tolerate you? 6. Reversing Bush. One of the things the Obamaoids are considering is a mass rollback of all Bush administration executive orders. Appears that in the near term they plan to reprise the Begala “stroke of a pen, new law” routine the Clintonoids tried during he second half of his infestation in office. Also remember that Clinton issued a bunch of toxic Executive Orders right as he left office, things like the Roadless Forests rule and executive support for embryonic stem cell research. The Bush administration chose to unwrap these things piecemeal and in doing so, managed to stir up a hornets’ nest on each issue. They should have shown up on day one and simply repealed all the last minute EOs at a minimum and dealt with the rest of them on a case by case basis. Appears that Obama plan a wholesale repeal of a wide range of Bush EOs the first day in office. They also plan on using a 1996 law as a vehicle to overturn Bush regulations from as far back as May. Mostly targeted will be environmental and health (read abortion) related regs. This law has only been used once in the 12 years since it was passed. However, should the Obamaoids set the precedent for wholesale repeal of Bush-era EOs, rules and regulations; they set the precedent for a future conservative president to do the same to their new rules and regs. 7. Thoughts. Folks, it is going to be a tough four (or more years). Fight the political fights as best you can and never, ever give up. Here are a few Pollyanna thoughts for today:
More later – - AG Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc Mon., November 10, 2008 Interesting Items 11/10 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. National 1. National. Well, The One won a resounding victory Tuesday, with a win of over 7% larger than John McCain. The One, or Not My President (NMP) as described by Jack Wheeler, ended up with about 3.4 million more votes than Bush 43 got in 2004. There were only about a million more votes cast this year than in 2004. McCain got 4.6 million fewer votes than Bush 43 got in 2004. Post election statistics were interesting. NMP won the under 30 vote by more than 2:1. He took 20% of self-described conservatives. McCain and the Republican establishment’s vaunted moderates and independents also broke for The One at about a 60-40% split. The base numbers were relatively unchanged from 2004, with 22% of the voters self identifying as liberals; and 34% of voters self-identifying as conservative. 80% of conservatives voted for McCain. 89% of Republicans voted for McCain, while over 90% of democrats and 95% of blacks voted for NMP. Daffydd in Big Lizards ran some numbers and determined that if conservatives had voted for McCain at the same rate as liberals voted for Obama, McCain would have been elected in a very close election. Republicans lost 20 seats in the House and as of this writing, six senate seats, with three still in play. As of this time, democrats are busily committing voting fraud in the Minnesota recount, having manufactured out of thin air over 100 votes, closing the gap between Norm Coleman (R, MN) and Al Franken (D, SNL) to just over 200 votes. Inquiring minds might ask what happened. What happened is that Republicans ran a candidate that neither believed in conservatism nor the free market, capitalist economic system and was not p articularly interested nor coherent in explaining whatever it was he did believe in. This was an election about the economy and Obama. The signature event of the campaign was the financial collapse and bailout legislation a month ago. McCain’s response was to grandstand, go to DC and work for a bailout bill that was opposed by over 70% of all Americans. At that point, his 3% lead turned into a 6% deficit, which remained for the rest of the campaign. Had McCain chosen to wrap the entire mess around the scrawny, corrupt necks of the democrat congress critters who pushed Fannie and Freddy to deal in mortgages for people who could not pay for them, he very well could have won. He chose otherwise. He shut down the NC Republican P arty after they ran an ad tying Obama with Reverend Wright. As a result, he lost NC and Liddy Dole’s senate seat. Among conservatives, McCain probably was already lost when Limbaugh st arted referring to him as Yosemite Sam following the second debate. This was a well earned and richly deserved reference. McCain and his campaign after a wonderful beginning, wandered off into Nana Land, and ran a terrible campaign for the bulk of the last three months. On the other hand, Obama managed to set up a very entrepreneurial internet presence, with a mobile and quick responding web of supporters that he will use for the next four years to push his agenda. By the end of the campaign, more people thought that he was going to lower taxes than thought McCain would. The investor class, who are fixing to get everything in their portfolios turned into oatmeal, ended up breaking for Obama by a small margin. Obama essentially ran as a conservative for the last three weeks of the campaign. I think there will be many, many people surprised by what comes out of his administration and congress in the not so distant future. Wall Street celebrated his election with the largest post-election drop in history, no vote of approval, that. Gun owners are celebrating by buying everything possible before January 20. We are in for a very, very hard time. If Obama is successful, he will engineer the largest leftward move in this nation since FDR. If he is not, he will be the second Jimmy C arter. Either way, things are going to be very, very difficult for a few years economically. On the other hand, Americans have historically had a very short half life of support and adoration for self-appointed Messiahs – especially when it st arts hitting them in their pocketbooks, and Obama has already enjoyed his 6 months of fame. 2. What To Do Next? A review of what happened is instructive here, as the backbiting and finger pointing has already begun in earnest. Here are a few not so random thoughts:
3. Alaska. Voter turnout in Alaska was lower than in 2004, as it appears that independents stayed home after the presidential winner was announced. There were a number of surprises in the election. The largest was that Don Young (R) won his House seat by a comfortable margin of over 7%. In all statewide polling, he was trailing by 7-8%. While he has regained his congressional seat, he is also expected to get indicted as fallout from a number of ongoing investigations. Should that happen and he is removed from office, expect Governor Palin to appoint someone who will be able to run for election 60 days after the appointment. As of today, Senator Ted Stevens (R) sits with about a 3,500 vote lead to retain his retain his seat. There are nearly 50,000 absentee ballots left to count, with Republicans believing that they have 10,000 more of these than the democrats do. Mark Begich is making noises about the race not being over until the recount is compete. I hope to God that he will continue down this road, attempting to destroy the election process here in Alaska to secure his seat in the US Senate, as he will be remembered fondly for the six years before he is summarily tossed from office. To date, we have yet to see the DSCC / DNC election thievery lawyers in town, but given the 57 democrat majority in the US Senate, they are expected to show up in droves Real Soon Now. The legislature was mostly a push, with Republicans losing a seat in both the state senate, which is now down to a 10-10 split, and the state house. Late last week, the majority organized with all 10 democrats and three Republicans setting up a governing majority caucus. House Republicans hold a governing majority in the state house and have set up their governing majority. 4. Backstabbing. McCain campaign aides / workers, fresh off running the most inept Republican presidential campaign since Bob Dole’s in 1996, celebrated their crushing defeat by leaking a series of lies about Governor Palin. Fox News and Newsweek were the vehicles for these fraudulent personal attacks. So far, nobody from the McCain campaign – including McCain himself – were man enough or honorable enough to own up to spreading the lies or to tell his people to knock it off. It may be a good thing that McCain lost, for this is the sort of stuff that would have been coming out of the McCain WH on a daily basis against both Governor Palin and any single conservative that dared stick their head above the firing line and say something in opposition. Suggestion to all future Republican campaigns: don’t hire a single bozo connected to the McCain presidential campaign, as this is what passes for honor, honesty and integrity among that p articular pack of thieves, miscreants, and losers. 5. Halcro. We have a former state legislator, a RINO named Andrew Halcro who ran for governor against Sarah Palin and was defeated along with former democrat governor Tony Knowles in 2006. Since then, Halcro has converted himself into an anti-Palin gadfly, spending most of his time going after Palin on all manner of issues. He spent some time during the recent presidential campaign season opining about Palin on CBS. Well, he is backing town and has a talk show, three hours on weekday afternoons. Last week, he went after Joe The Plumber, discussing in excruciating detail why he couldn’t won a business as his personal finances were hosed up. Nobody asked – at least while I was listening – how he came to get that sort of access to that personal financial data of a private citizen. Note that it was Ohio government officials, all of which were Obama supporters, who misused State of Ohio databases and their official positions of public employment to dig up dirt on a private citizen and leak it to the media in an attempt to destroy his reputation, livelihood, and financial strength. Nice to see this wannabee playing along with the Bad Guys. 6. Torpedoes. Glen Reynolds’ InstaPundit cross posted an interesting little think piece Saturday about a few gifts that the outgoing administration ought to be giving the incoming Obama Imperium. Should you feel so inclined, this might be a good list to send to your local congress critter and demand immediate and comprehensive investigations st art before inauguration day. After Obama gets into office, there will be nothing done about his abuse of the law during his campaign assuming that he will fire all the federal prosecutors. Here’s the entry from Saturday’s InstaPundit:
More later – - AG Interesting Item by Alex Gimarc Mon., November 3, 2008 Interesting Items 11/03 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Stevens 1. Stevens. A DC jury found Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R) guilty of all seven counts of misreporting income and gifts to the Senate. The verdict was unexpected and may open the door for the election of Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) to the Senate. Begich went from a point of so behind to at least eight points ahead as a result of the verdict. I have heard over the weekend that the race has tightened up significantly again, mostly due to the notion that Stevens did not get a fair trial, his accuser Bill Allen lied in court and that the prosecution knew he was lying. Senator McCain and Governor Palin immediately called for Stevens to resign from the senate, prompting harsh criticism among Stevens supporters on the right here in Alaska. However, McCain and Palin are simply echoing what they both said from the beginning of this affair. They said this at the beginning and are being consistent. The Stevens legal team has chosen to attack the process, detailing problems with the trial in a 16-page letter to the US Attorney General accusing the Justice Dep artment’s Public Integrity Section of prosecutorial misconduct. I have a copy of the letter. It is a 3meg PDF and can forward it upon request. We also have a former federal prosecutor named Wev Shea, who has over the years donned the mantle of opponent to all manners of corruption, p articularly going after the legislators picked up earlier in this corruption investigation. Shea spent an hour Thursday on one of our local talk shows detailing what he thought was wrong with the way Stevens was accused, tried and convicted. As far as he is concerned, the Public Integrity Section and federal prosecutors made a deal with Bill Allen, who was the main witness against both Stevens and a number of the convicted legislators over the last couple of years. They knew he would say and do anything to protect his family members from threatened federal prosecution. And he lied on the stand during the Stevens trial, with his lawyer sitting on the front row coaching him through answers. The prosecution hid exculpatory evidence from the Stevens defense team, including Allen’s observation at the beginning that Stevens was of the frame of mind that he would pay whatever was billed. Allen’s company, Veco, didn’t bill everything the feds thought they ought to have billed, and you automatically get a discrepancy between what the goods and services were worth and what Stevens paid and reported – an automatic and manufactured corruption case. If Shea is correct, and Allen has been lying all along to protect his family – which he has publicly stated he was willing to do, this also puts into question the convictions the 3-4 state legislators that were convicted over the course of the last couple of years based on his cooperation. As a result of all this, there is a substantial sympathy movement for Stevens here in Alaska. While Begich and the DSCC continue to hammer away at corruption, convicted felon, and similar names, the notion that this was wrongly accused, tried and convicted is a powerful undercurrent. I do expect Stevens to fight this with every inch of his being until the convictions are overturned or he assumes room temperature. I do not know whether or not he will be successful. But I do know that something smells very, very fishy – and I smell rotten fish every single summer while chasing salmon on Alaskan streams. There are simply too many lawyers telling me that this was wrongly done. We will let the wheels of justice continue to grind and see what comes out of the other end. This is not over yet. 2. Begich. Recipient of this prosecutorial largess is Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D), who has been pushing the corruption card for all he is worth. Should he be successfully elected Tuesday night, he may not enjoy his single term in the Senate very much – especially if Stevens is successful getting his conviction overturned on the basis of wrongful prosecution / prosecutorial misconduct. Begich is tied at the hip to the unions, the greens and the gay / lesbian activists. While he talks the good talk, he will not be able to hide from what his p arty is on the verge of doing – raising taxes, going after the 401K, passing carbon taxes, confirming liberal activist judges, passing the unions’ Card Check legislation doing away with the secret ballot. He will be in a position from which he cannot hide. And his win will be tainted. His p arty and his personal choices will force him to be far, far more leftist than this state is willing to put up with. Note to Mr. Begich and your supporters: Be careful what you wish for. 3. Joe the Plumber. Obama supporters in the employment of the State of Ohio unleashed official computers, databases, and an array of state agency assets in an attempt to assist the media in digging up dirt on Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher. The illegal use of government assets was led by Helen Jones-Kelly, head of Ohio’s Dep artment of Jobs and Family Services. Her excuse was to do a quick background check for child support for any Ohio resident that showed up on television, the so-called famous person rule. She was unable to discuss why the information generated from state databases ended up in the hands of the drive-by media. Michelle Malkin has been al over this and has been pushing the privacy – related issues with great vigor and righteous indignation. Ed Morrissey in Hot Air Thursday made the following observation:
This, apparently, is Hope and Change for Ohio. Want to bet that’s a 57-state strategy as well? 4. Auntie. Well the media finally found Barack Obama’s Kenyan Aunt. Note that it was not American media. It was first reported in a British paper. The lady is an illegal alien from Kenya, dodging a deportation order, having lived in a Boston slum for at least a decade. Glen Reynolds wrote about this in InstaPundit Thursday and cross posted the following observations:
5. Art. Yet another example of the tolerant left happened last week. This one came from West Hollywood, CA, where a homeowner decorated his home with a hanging effigy of Governor Sarah Palin. It was a mannequin with a Palin wig, complete with noose. The leftist homeowner and the local constabulary didn’t see anything wrong about this at all, calling it performance art. Neighbors removed the effigy from the house a few days later. Imaging the outrage had the same homeowner used a black mannequin with an Obama sign on it. Why, that would be hate speech, a hate crime, and a crime against Creation itself. The double standard exists and is celebrated and encouraged by the left and the drive-by media. But don’t think that the rest of us don’t notice and aren’t motivated to do something about it when an opening presents itself. More later – - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
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