September 2005 – Page 2 – The Powers That Be

The “Bill Clinton for First Lady” movement: Bubba to stain yet another office?

Somebody is already excited about the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency, but not for anything specifically concerning Queen Carpetbagger, but rather her husband. Check out BillForFirstLady.com and find out how you, too, can help Bill Clinton become the first male First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt.

We’ll find out soon enough if this could be a reality. Thanks to a potential challenge from Al Gore, not to mention John Kerry, Hillary will have to move more outwardly to the left and torque up her “for the common good” talk. She did that last year at a fundraiser in San Francisco, and for the first time in decades, Hillary managed to arouse a man– unfortunately, that man was Karl Marx.

How would America embrace Bill Clinton as First Lady? Better than the pasty former comedian Bill Maher treats the current one. Maher must have been going for a door prize, because he was the millionth sniveling lib to use the words “Bush” and “Hitler” in the same sentence, using a comparison involving Laura Bush and Hitler’s dog (Adolph’s beloved pet was a female German Shepherd named “Blondi“– between the two of them, they had a ball).

Oh yes, while at the Bill for First Lady site, also be sure to check out the “Republicans suck t-shirt hall of fame“. There’s also a preview of some Hillary campaign slogans of the future. Here’s one:

I think I’m going to be ill

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"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's…what the hell is that?"

Frequent commenter Ken has an interesting idea for those of us who routinely gather here ’round the ol’ blogger cooler– form our own group of super heroes. Could be interesting. I haven’t done that since I created the “Stupor-Friends“, the democrat band not-so-super heroes. Here’s part of Ken’s proposal:

I’m inviting Earl to help me form a super-hero group known as the “Powers Rangers”. We will swoop down to protect truth, justice and the American way! I’ll have to consult with Doug as to how he’ll finance us, and get estimates on the cost of capes.

I have only one request, Ken. As for costumes, no capes or tights on a group called the “Powers Rangers” please. Not unless we plan to hold our “secret meetings” at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village and use our ability to fly almost exclusively so as to be on time for the 10 p.m. performance of “Rent” at the Broadway Theater.

Other than that, I’m all for the idea. Let’s discuss it over baked Alaska and a non-fat mochaccino latte .

We won’t be the first, though.

The superhero duo of Kerry/Edwards did their best to protect Tax’em City in 2003

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“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…what the hell is that?”

I’m inviting Earl to help me form a super-hero group known as the “Powers Rangers”. We will swoop down to protect truth, justice and the American way! I’ll have to consult with Doug as to how he’ll finance us, and get estimates on the cost of capes.

Other than that, I’m all for the idea. Let’s discuss it over baked Alaska and a non-fat mochaccino latte .

We won’t be the first, though.

The superhero duo of Kerry/Edwards did their best to protect Tax’em City in 2003

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Cindy Sheehan arrested for squatting on the sidewalk, gets a hand from police

Cindy Sheehan has been arrested for sitting on a DC sidewalk. Not dramatic, but it got her arrested and enshrined into the pantheon of activists who’ve managed to be put into cuffs.

Some of the rather loud and obnoxious speakers at the antiwar rallies spoke out against the war in Iraq, and still others took to the podium to talk, unimpeded, and said whatever they wanted about whomever they wished. This freedom to prattle incessently is, somehow, supposed to demonstrate the sheer oppression of the Bush administration.

The protesters were free to do whatever they wanted…except sit on a sidewalk.

The message from DC police is clear. Protesters are like dog poop. If one is sitting on the sidewalk, you’d better pick it up quick or you’ll be ticketed.

The photo below shows an officer reaching in and trying to remove Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who were stowing away so they could get in Sheehan’s mug shot.

Worst case scenario: “We’ve got a gun! No, wait… oh my God!”

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New column: Save the planet — Homeschool

It’s Monday, which means it’s time for another column. Today’s topic revolves around some schools that are closing on certain days, or taking every Friday off in one instance, to conserve fuel, and, of course, money.

After reading about those schools, it occurred to me that homeschoolers should be the new darlings of the environmental activists. School buses burn hundreds of millions of gallons of gas per year, and they’re not required by the homeschooled.

Should homeschoolers turn their educational preference into an environmental movement instead of an educational one in order to get some “help” from the government? There are, of course, other factors to consider. Read “Homeschool and save the planet!” to find out what they are.

“Public schooling, or saving the environment? So, what’ll it be, punk?”

Here’s some early feedback:

Jeff M. writes:

You just don’t get it. Maybe if there was enough funding for public schools in the first place, this wouldn’t be a problem. Teachers wouldn’t have history textbooks that were 20 years old. They also would not on their meager salaries have to dig into their own pockets to buy materials for students when there is not enough in the district.

Lets face the truth; Conservatives do not want public schools funded because many teachers are liberal and that would mean helping the enemy.

We can spend billions a day in Iraq for people who were dancing in the street on 9/11 but supporting education is a waste of money.

Jodi H. addresses the final sentence in Jeff’s letter, along with a line in my column:

…with this quote :”Whether you’re for homeschooling or not, you have to admit that there’s something seriously wrong with the public system when the solution to an energy problem is to stop educating our children. ”

You forgot one thing. The public schools stopped educating our children a long time ago.

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Photos from today's anti-war protest, and counter-protest, in DC

From Chris Christner’s blog: A couple pages of pictures of the protesters, and a couple pages of pictures of the counter-protesters.

Little known factoid: The American flag with the “peace” sign on it, that the girl is wearing in the first picture, was sewn by the great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Betsy Ross after smoking a jib at Woodstock, dropping the feared “brown acid” against all advice, and then borrowing some thread from Grace Slick and needle from David Crosby.
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Photos from today’s anti-war protest, and counter-protest, in DC

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Hillary's stark warning on abortion — "If abortions are outlawed, only outlaws will be allowed to screw around with my husband"

In a videotaped message on her senate campaign website, Hillary Clinton warns that if President Bush’s Supreme Court appointees succeed in overturning the federal right to an abortion, state governments would likely implement a reverse of China’s one child policy that would instead force women to have five children.

“It would go in the direction that I saw in my travels, where, you know, in China they mandated you could only have one child. And in some places, like Romania during the Communist era, they mandated that you must have five children.”

So, repealing Roe/Wade would be like Romania during the commie era, “forcing” women to have kids against their will? If abortions are illegal, and you don’t want to break the law, and you don’t want five kids, don’t have unprotected sex five times. Oh, that’s too simple for us impulsive rank-and-file idiots, though.

Promoting personal responsibility would be Kryptonite to the likes of Hillary Clinton if it ever caught on, which is why liberals must constantly run with the assumption that everybody is rock stupid, never even offering personal responsibility as an option. This approach would fail, if there weren’t so damn many people proving them right all the time.

That said, I still agree with Steve Forbes on this issue. The pro-life answer doesn’t have as much to do with Roe/Wade staying or going as it does in simply changing peoples’ hearts and minds.

Changing hearts and minds. Hillary Clinton can do neither, because she has no heart, and she seems certain that we don’t have minds.

In related news…

When it comes to shucking out kids left and right, Hillary should have a chat with the “progressives” in Great Britain. Many of them are bypassing sex in favor– excuse me, favour– of “instant pregnancies” through in-vitro-fertilization. Seems the Brits are wanting to have sex with each other less and less. I knew the bad teeth thing would catch up to them.
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Hillary’s stark warning on abortion — “If abortions are outlawed, only outlaws will be allowed to screw around with my husband”

“It would go in the direction that I saw in my travels, where, you know, in China they mandated you could only have one child. And in some places, like Romania during the Communist era, they mandated that you must have five children.”

That said, I still agree with Steve Forbes on this issue. The pro-life answer doesn’t have as much to do with Roe/Wade staying or going as it does in simply changing peoples’ hearts and minds.

Changing hearts and minds. Hillary Clinton can do neither, because she has no heart, and she seems certain that we don’t have minds.

In related news…

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Georgia, Kentucky schools close to conserve gas — bowling and bingo night still on

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue asked the state to take two early snow days and cancel classes on Monday and Tuesday to conserve fuel. In Jackson, Kentucky, schools will get every Friday off in order to conserve fuel.

All I can say is that, as politicians and Whitney Houston songs say, “children are our future”. This country needs people like these kids to become inventors, entrepreneurs, and genius of all sorts, so they can come up with a more efficient, cleaner, economical fuel source, independent from foreign sources. Reducing their education is hardly going to help solve the problem.

What a typical government reaction. You know there’s something seriously wrong with the current system when the active response to an energy crisis is to stop educating our children.

Of course, these are the same people who take money from cigarette taxes, invest it in tobacco stocks, and use the dividends to buy ads to tell us not to smoke. Whuh…?

In this instance, it looks like the home schoolers had it right all along. No bus required. Wake up, and you’re at school.

Conservatives should turn home schooling into an environmental issue. How about some money earmarked for public schools instead going to help pay for some of the supplies and other essentials of the home schooling family? After all, they’re helping to “save the planet”, right? It’s an idea even Al Gore should stand behind. He won’t, but he should.
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