Perjurer Clinton lies again

Clinton on FOX -- Part I

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Clinton on FOX -- Part II

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Can we really believe the scripted antics of this perjurer? The fact remains, he could have had Osama bin Laden when he was in the Sudan but he declined because he didn't want to have to deal with the Sudanese government.

Now, like the immature idiot he is and in true Clinton fashion, he is blaming everyone else but himself.

This guy needs psychotheraopy.

[COLUMN] Islam behaving unreasonably in light of pope’s speech

I am extremely disappointed in Pope Benedict XVI. Not because of his comments about Islam and Muhammad, which were irrefutable. I am disappointed that he let violent Islamic mobs force him to apologize when he had done nothing requiring repentance.

The pope gave an intellectually stimulating lecture Sept. 12 in Germany at the University of Regensburg titled, “Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections.”

The speech was part of Benedict’s continuation of Pope John Paul II’s efforts to bridge the gap between reason and faith, which has grown since the Enlightenment.

In the speech, Benedict criticized religious movements that ignore reason calling them a threat to Christianity. He cited movements such as the Reformation, liberal 19th and 20th century theology, and today’s “cultural pluralism,” which wants to “return to the simple message of the New Testament” without regard to reason.

Conversely, he said reason without faith is equally as bad.

“Reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of cultures,” he said.

To illustrate his point, the pope read a quotation from Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus, who, in a 1391 debate with an educated Muslim, said, “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith that he preached. … God is not pleased by blood — and not acting reasonably is contrary to God’s nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats. To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.” )


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Pope's Sept. 12 remarks worth reading in entirety

Faith, Reason and the University
Memories and Reflections

Your Eminences, Your Magnificences, Your Excellencies,
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a moving experience for me to be back gain in the university and to be able once again to give a lecture at this podium. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at the Freisinger Hochschule, I began teaching at the University of Bonn. That was in 1959, in the days of the old university made up of ordinary professors. The various chairs had neither assistants nor secretaries, but in recompense there was much direct contact with students and in particular among the professors themselves. We would meet before and after lessons in the rooms of the teaching staff. There was a lively exchange with historians, philosophers, philologists and, naturally, between the two theological faculties. Once a semester there was a dies academicus, when professors from every faculty appeared before the students of the entire university, making possible a genuine experience of universitas—something that you too, Magnificent Rector, just mentioned—the experience, in other words, of the fact that despite our specializations which at times make it difficult to communicate with each other, we made up a whole, working in everything on the basis of a single rationality with its various aspects and sharing responsibility for the right use of reason—this reality became a lived experience. The university was also very proud of its two theological faculties. It was clear that, by inquiring about the reasonableness of faith, they too carried out a work which is necessarily part of the "whole" of the universitas scientiarum, even if not everyone could share the faith which theologians seek to correlate with reason as a whole. This profound sense of coherence within the universe of reason was not troubled, even when it was once reported that a colleague had said there was something odd about our university: it had two faculties devoted to something that did not exist: God. That even in the face of such radical scepticism it is still necessary and reasonable to raise the question of God through the use of reason, and to do so in the context of the tradition of the Christian faith: this, within the university as a whole, was accepted without question.

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Different president, same sentiment

"Roosevelt has no more use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriage license."

—Joseph G. Cannon, Republican
40th Speaker of the House (1903-1911)

And they were in the same party. Too bad politicians today don't call them like they see them.

[COLUMN] Constitution being ignored

This painting by Howard Chandler Christy hangs in the east stairway in the House wing of the United States Capitol.On Sept. 17, 1787, 39 men in Philadelphia affixed their signatures to the greatest political document ever conceived: The Constitution of the United States of America.

The document, which the states ratified on June 21, 1788, is the real American Revolution of which the war with Great Britain was just the beginning.

It is a limiting document in that it sets out specifically what the government can do. If the Constitution does not specifically enumerate a particular action, then the government cannot legally do it, or at least that is how it is supposed to work.

Unfortunately, Americans are ignorant about the Constitution. Schools do not properly teach the Constitution and an American Bar Association poll last year showed that only 55 percent of adults queried could identify the three branches of the U.S. government.

Unfortunately, after more than a century of misguided court rulings and dubious interpretations of the Constitution, many Americans find themselves confused by the nature of the Constitution.



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Rosie O'Donnell Should Just Shut Up Part II

Thanks to Happy Hooligan for finding this video on You Tube. It is a clip of Rosie O'Donnell's idiocy. Seeing is believing.

If the video does not appear above, the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIoDTzvEdGw

Rosie O'Donnell Should Just Shut Up

“Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have a separation of church and state. We’re a democracy.”

I am flabbergasted. Of all the stupid things that have come out of Ms. O'Donnell's mouth, this has to be the most ignorant. If one is going to enter the arena of public debate, one should at least attempt to become a little knowledgeable about a subject before opening one's mouth.

Rosie, dear, stick to meaningless daytime talk-show flotsam, please, because you are just embarrassing yourself.

Drug testing going too far

Here is a perfect example of the slippery-slope theory of encroaching government regulations.

Remember when schools first began random drug testing of athletes? It caused a furor then, but of course it has been happening so long, it is expected behavior. As soon as that happens, the thugs want to take it to the next step.

A school district in El Dorado, Kan., is going to randomly drug test not only those participating in extracurricular activities, but those pupils who attend sporting events, clubs, field trips, driver education and even school plays.

Those who do not sign consent forms cannot go to games, school dances, join a club or even park a car on school property.

Why not just end the facade? Why not just have weekly drug tests of all pupils and get it over with. That is, after all, where the anti-drug thugs are wanting to take this country. Heck, let's take it to the private sector as well. Every time an employee clocks in, they can leave a urine sample.

This is how we lose liberties. They are taken one step at a time and as soon as we get used to the loss of a little bit of liberty, they take the next step. It is time for Americans to stand tall and put an end to the continual erosion of our rights.

Boehner's comments unworthy of a congressional 'leader'

In backing a frightening White House plan to create military tribunals for terrorist suspects (thus eliminating appeals and the necessity to show evidence of guilt) House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) attacked those who are opposed to such unconstitutional behavior by the government.

“I listen to my Democratic friends, and I wonder if they are more interested in protecting the terrorists than protecting the American people,” Boehner told reporters Tuesday.

How typical. When someone expresses opposition to unconstitutional behavior, they must obviously be opposed to Americans, or at least according to Bush, Boehner and the GOP's mindless minions.

In reality, it is the opposite. By supporting unconstitutional measures, it is Boehner and the Bush administration who are the real threats to Americans. Protecting the American people means protecting the restraints on government that exist in the Constitution.

There is no greater threat to America today than those who choose to ignore the Constitution under the pretext of protecting Americans.

[COLUMN] Terrorists have won the Global War on Terrorism

(AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova/FILE)

Smoke billows from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo. In one of the most horrifying attacks ever against the United States, terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows that brought down the twin 110-story towers. Monday will mark the fifth anniversary of the attacks.The terrorists have won the Global War on Terrorism.

Yes, you read that right. Monday marks the fifth anniversary of President Bush’s ill-fated, ill-considered, amorphous War on Terror. And we have lost.

Don’t be too concerned, though, for we lost that war before we even knew it was a war. After all, how can you wage war against a military tactic? That is about as ludicrous as waging a War on Pincers Movements.

Despite that, I know we lost the War on Terror because I can’t board an airplane without removing some of my clothing.

I know we lost the War on Terror because I can’t bring a tube of toothpaste onto an airplane.

I know we lost the War on Terror because I can’t make a telephone call without wondering if some jackbooted government thug is listening.



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Anti-smoking freaks go too far

This in from our friends across the pond. British censors are editing 57-year-old "Tom and Jerry" cartoons to remove scenes in which Tom (the cat for those of you unfamiliar with the cartoon) is smoking. Apparently, the Brits fear that a 50-year-old cartoon of a cat smoking will lead young British children down the path to smoking.

The ban came after someone complained that in two episodes -- Texas Tom and Tennis Chumps -- Tom rolled and lit a cigarette to impress a lady cat and a dog smoked a cigar while playing tennis.

In response, Turner Broadcasting said that it would voluntarily edit out scenes of smoking from around 1,700 Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Tom And Jerry, Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones. A Turner spokesman said, "We recognise that it is not suitable for cartoons aimed at children to portray smoking in a cool context."

Somehow, though, while deleting the smoking scenes the British censors, and Turner Broadcasting, missed all the violence between the cat and the mouse that was the center of nearly every episode.

I guess it is OK to teach kids to run over each other with lawn mowers, drop one another in vats of acid, hit each other with anvils, or blow each other up with dynamite so long as they are not smoking as they do so.

[COLUMN] GOP deserves to lose in November

(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.: The next Speaker of the House?I recall telling a friend after the election of 1994, when the Republican Party took control of the Congress, that the smell of liberty was in the air.

Now, with two months left before this year’s General Election, it is becoming increasingly clear that Republicans might lose control of the Congress. While I will lament that loss, I can’t say they didn’t deserve it.

Coming to power on the allure of the “Contract With America,” the Republicans swept into the Congress with much promise. They possessed energy, drive and a mind for reform.

The Republicans acted on the Contract, a list of 10 promises to the American electorate, in the first 100 days of the new Congress. Of the 302 roll call votes in the House of Representatives on issues related to the Contract, 299 of them passed.

Unfortunately, as often happens, Washington corrupts good intentions. Twelve years later, the conservatives have lost control of the Republican Party. Liberals and, even worse, moderates — people without convictions or a guiding philosophy who constantly contradict themselves depending on the situation of the day — now dominate the GOP.

Much of the blame rests on the president.



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