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John Kerry Calls Military Members Dumb

by Big Dog on Oct 31, 2006 at 07:31 Posted in Political 13 Comments

This is a recording of John Kerry who says (paraphrase) that you make the best of your education, study hard and make an effort to get smart you can do well. If you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.

Basically, what he is saying is stay in school and get an education and become smart OR you will get stuck in Iraq. In other words, only dumb people go to Iraq.

I wonder if John Kerry realizes that the men and women in the armed forces volunteered to be there and that they have educations. I wonder if he knows that our military is the best educated in the history of this country, including when elitists like him served in Vietnam. We have some of America’s best and brightest in our armed forces and Kerry, a member of Congress, just called them dumb.

He dishonored the troops in Vietnam (where he served if you don’t know) and he dishonored our troops by claiming they terrorize Iraqis and now he has called them dumb. Kerry just demonstrated the liberal idea that smart elitists stay at home and the dumb hicks go off to war. Why the people of Massachusetts keep reelecting this jackass is beyond me.

Tags: Political

Adopt A Marine, or Two or Three…

by Big Dog on Oct 30, 2006 at 23:33 Posted in Military 1 Comment

Folks, I have a friend in the blogosphere (yes I really have a friend) and she has a special place in her heart for US Marines, those tough war fighters who help ensure our freedom. Over at the Coalition of the Swilling there is a little post explaining something they like to do around Christmas time.

The idea is to send an email to them (thsister-at-gmail.com ~ subj. “13 Marines of Xmas”) and get the name of a Marine (or two or three) and then to send them letters and, if you can, packages for Christmas. Our troops work long hard days not knowing if they are living their last day on this planet and they do it selflessly and in order to keep us safe and free. They ask for little in return, like respect from the very people who put them in harm’s way, but we can discuss Murtha and Kerry later.

Please consider going to the Coalition of the Willing and adopting a few Marines. I know that I am going to be sending them a few things this year and I have asked my Wide Awakes Radio gang to do this as well.

If you have a blog and would like to pass this story on I am sure they would have no objections.

Illegal Alien Smugglers Should Get Life

by Big Dog on Oct 30, 2006 at 22:51 Posted in Immigration Comments Off

Police in Arizona have broken a human trafficking ring that is responsible for smuggling ILLEGALS into this country for generations:

Police have arrested more than 40 people and broken up a family-run smuggling ring that hauled illegal immigrants from Mexico to Arizona for generations, officials said on Monday.

The operation, which began in 2001, broke up a ring that smuggled undocumented immigrants to Bowie, Arizona, southeast of Phoenix, from Agua Prieta in Mexico, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. al-Reuters

These 40 people need to be placed in jail for life. They dealt in lives and now they should get life. Any judge that allows any type of leniency should be executed by firing squad.

Our country and our laws will not be taken seriously until we start making examples of the people coming here ILLEGALLY and those who are helping them. Until we make the punishment more painful then the money they can earn, we will get more of this.

Why is it Racism?

by Big Dog on Oct 30, 2006 at 07:23 Posted in Political 2 Comments

Democratic Senate Candidate Harold Ford Jr of Tennessee has stated that he likes sports and he likes women. This is not a philosophy that i find anything wrong with and it makes him like a majority of men in the country. He went to a Playboy Superbowl party in Jacksonville last year and flirted around with the women. He has denied that he was there but recently stated that he was along with his liking women and liking sports quote. The RNC has made two ads based upon this:

A Republican ad targeting Democratic Tennessee Senate Candidate Harold Ford, Jr. has attracted the attention the media this week, and is now being called racist by the NAACP. The ad shows several actors facetiously supporting Ford. The final character is a blond woman who claims, “I met Harold at the Playboy party,” an apparent reference to Ford’s appearance at the Playboy Superbowl Party in Jacksonville, Florida last year.

Although they are not the first to call the ad racist, the NAACP has now come out to say it “is a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about African-American men and white women,” as a spokeswoman for the Washington office told the LA Times. An RNC spokesman has defended the ad and said it will run its full course.

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Several questionable ads in favor of GOP candidate Bob Corker have led to concern over the role of racism in the Tennessee Senate race between Corker and Rep. Harold Ford, Jr (D-TN). A fictional television commercial sponsored by the Republican National Committee features a white woman who says that she met Ford, who is black, at a Playboy party and then winks at the camera saying, “Harold, call me.” (both from a Huffington email)

I would like to know how this is racist and how it plays to pre-existing stereotypes. If he was there and if he was flirting around with a bunch of women does that not mean it is not a stereotype? A stereotype is a preconceived notion about a group based on existing prejudices. Though stereotypes are generally based in part on some truth they are often exaggerated and shed a bad light on the particular group. If Harold Ford Jr. was at those parties and was flirting around then no one can make the claim that the ads played on a pre-existing stereotype because Ford engaged in the behavior that the NAACP claims is an example of a racist stereotype. Ford was hanging around with a bunch of white women and as far as i am concerned that is perfectly OK. In 2006, why does anyone care about the color of people who meet, converse, date, or marry?

This is an attempt by groups to take the focus off Ford’s Playboy lifestyle by playing one of the left’s favorite weapons, the race card. I don’t really care about Ford’s lifestyle because it is his business. The ads might be effective but if they are then Ford would be better off defending his acts rather than denying them and then admitting them. He would be better off if he had just started with the liking sports and women line without all the lies in between. I do not recall anyone from these groups being upset when ads aired about the black man who was dragged to death in Texas. At that time, the NAACP and others were more than happy to portray the President and his followers as the stereotypical Southern white men who lynched black guys. The big difference, of course, is that the act in Texas was not committed by the President or any politician. It was done by people who were arrested for the crime. Harold Ford committed no crime but he did engage in behavior that was pointed out in the ads so, again, how is it racist to point it out?

As for the NAACP and any other group that thinks this is racist, Ford engaged in the behavior and he admitted that. His opponents are not racists for pointing out the behavior and it only plays to pre-existing prejudices for people who still live in the past and think it is wrong for people of different colors to get together. Perhaps these groups need to reevaluate their own feeling before they slam down the race card. Look what it did for Cynthia “Cop Socker” McKinney.

Tags: Political

The Joy of Being Retired

by Big Dog on Oct 30, 2006 at 06:56 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day I went downtown and went into a shop. I was only in there for about 5 minutes and when I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, “Come on, man, how about giving a retired person a break”? He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a “Nazi.” He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires.

So I called him a “doughnut eating Gestapo.” He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Personally, I didn’t care. I came downtown on the bus and the car that he was putting the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said “Hillary in ’08.” I try to have a little fun each day now that I’m retired. It’s important to my health.

Tags: Humor