38 degrees north and the traitor Gray Whore

As this weekend we see the truly effective results of Jimmy Carter's awesome diplomatic efforts in North Korea, there is another story behind the story that I missed last July. While we contemplate asking Mr. Peanut to go back to North Korea and give us the benefit of his extensive diplomatic acumen, it appears that The Beloved Leader has allies in New York at the Times. Seems that the gray suited porno king of North Korea was dumping tens of millions of high quality counterfeit $100 bills into the world banking system. And The New York Times reported this as a "banking dispute", never giving any of the details. Captain Ed has his read on the story here as it relates to the North Koreans' incursion into the DMZ and the apparent ramp up to a nuclear test in the DPRK. Seems that the NYT's good buddy will only come back to the bargaining table when we apologize for trying to stop him from wrecking the world economy and the dollar. Well, that's why we have Jimmy Carter. He's always ready willing and able to travel on a moments notice anywhere in the world to apologize or bad mouth anything that America does or doesn't do. And the NYT is more than happy to over report his success...and under report anything that DPRK does. Really makes you wonder where the loyalties of Mr.. Peanut and the NYT truly reside.

The Democrat scary mask

I was reading the WSJ Opinion page this morning about "Getting Beyond Foley". The writer makes a number of points about the Foley imbroglio including the seemingly Republican habit of agreeing with the lefties. I always flinch and hold my breath whenever a Repub goes on to agree with a lefty. It means nothing good for the country will come of it. And I agree with the writer that the Repubs seem to want to weaken themselves by agreeing to throw people under the bus. The writer goes on to comment that there are bigger issues facing the nation that need to be addressed in this election. And I agree. He goes on to say that nomination and confirmation of judges is critical. And I agree. But I also worked hard for Bush/Cheney in 2004 with the scary Democrat specter being held out. That we needed to get constructionist judges confirmed. And with all my work, I get: Harriet Miers. All that being said, the writer misses a very big point in all this: The Republicans haven't got a single clue as to how to fight. They never have. I'm reading David Horowitz's book "The Art of Political War" for the third time. And again, I'm sorely impressed how inept the Repubs are in all this. The last time I read the book was at the start of the Tom DeLay disaster. I had just read the section on the Newt Gingrich political assassination the day Tom DeLay stood on front of the cameras to intone that he would "not stoop to the tactics of my opponents". And I looked at the screen and thought "then you're finished." And he was.
And now and again, the Repubs are befuddled and are again letting the left frame and determine the battle.
And the best that the Repubs can come up with :"It will be worse under the Dems!!!"
Not a real attractive or convincing campaign slogan.
And this on No Left Turns on a link from Powerline .

Whoops!

Oh,oh...seems that ABC made a huge, huge mistake: they mistakenly revealed the truth about the Foley disaster. Seems that the IM's were with an OVER 18 year old male who USED to be a page. NOT A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD. Hmmm... But, ABC had reported on Tueday that the IM's were exchanged with a young man "under the age of 18". But, in a posting on ABCNEWS.com, the IM screen name of the now 21, then 18 tear old was not redacted. And an organization called Passionate America revealed the error. The Drudge Report investigated and found that the messages were indeed exchanged with the former page who was over 18 at the time. And the story has already hit the internet according to Google News. And ABC is dancing hard and fast! And Patty Wetterling may not perhaps be getting as many calls as she'd hoped for interviews now that it's revealed that the ex page in question was NOT seventeen but eighteen. Now, Foley's IM's are still, well, strange at least. But the Dems are now going to be in the crosshairs. And the bloggers over an Ms. Underestimated have a number of other links about the breaking maelstrom. And Foley is still, well...
Seems that this story is going to get wider and deeper and longer. And I suspect that the Dems may very well be taking a huge hit on this in the not to distant future.
Stay tuned...

Captain Renault and Nancy Pelosi: Both shocked, shocked!

Seems that in the rush to see's who can pile on Rep. Foley, the left wing had best stop trying to run the bases too fast. Recently I remarked to a holier than thou lefty acquaintance of mine who remarked on all the right wing ethical lapses that he best remember that our ethical lapses resign and then go to trial and to jail if found guilty. I then said your ethical lapses stay on in office and then run for office, usually President.
Investors Business Daily well points out that the Democrats support and tolerate Rep. Foley's behavior...that is unless a Republican does it:

"In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.

Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.

In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank (news, bio, voting record), also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.

What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him -- a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."

In 2001, President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)"

The fact that the timing of this disclosure doesn't even come close to passing the smell test speaks volumes about the one who released it. The information is months to over a year old. So, whoever hung on to it was putting other young people at risk just to gain a political gotcha. That's the real story here.

Clinton, Chris Wallace and a very inconvenient truth

As the ripples of the Clinton temper tantrum still course through America, it seems that Zippergate Willy still can't quite outrun the truth. Robert Novak shines the hard light of truth on our ex, disbarred president and his hissy fit:
The next morning on CBS's "The Early Show" the CIA head of the bin Laden unit under the Slickmeister put the lie again to the ex-Presidential felon.
Michael Scheuer told the morning audience "the al Qaeda leader "is alive today" because Clinton and his top lieutenants refused to kill him. "It's just an incredible kind of situation," said Scheuer, "for the American people over the weekend to hear their former president mislead them." Scheuer goes on to say that Clinton had "8-10" chances to kill bin Laden. And that while Bush had one opportunity at Tora Bora, at least he )Bush) had troops on the ground.
Scheuer tells, in response to Mr. Slickie's saying there was no evidence to bin Laden being behind the bombing of the USS Cole , "To claim that the CIA could not verify that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the USS Cole, said Scheuer, "the former president seems able to deny facts with impunity." "
Read the article and see the details that you won't be seeing anytime soon in Aljazeera Minneapolis.

37 years, one small step, one giant leap...and one small word

It was the summer of 1969. I was downstairs watching a breaking news story (as were another 500 million of my dearest friends worldwide). Nah, it was history in the making. It was the culmination of centuries of wondering and longing. It was a commitment to a dead president. It was emblematic of what America was about (and could be again). It was race won by America. It was Neil Armstrong sliding down the handrails of the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module). Telling us he was about to step off the LEM. Then uttering the first words by man on another terrestrial sphere "That's one step for man. One giant leap for mankind." As much as I was enthralled by this history making spectacle, I thought "Did I hear him right?" As did many others. He didn't say "That's one small step for 'a' man." And even Mr. Armstrong says that he meant to put the article "a" in front of man. And has been concerned for four decades that he muffed his line.
Well, it appears that indeed he did say "a man". And that an Australian researcher has found the missing "a". Peter Ford, a computer expert, fed the sound recording through a sound analysis using high tech software and found an acoustic wave where the "a" should be. Mr. Ford's analysis indicates that Mr. Armstrong spoke the word too fast for it to be picked up and heard on the transmission or recording media used at the time.
NASA is reviewing the evidence.

Lies, Damn Lies and the Star Tribune

Campaign season and autumn are upon us. So expect falling leaves and extreme left wing bias at the Star Tribune to be abundant in wholesale quantities.
I've noticed in the past week that Prairie Pravda has provided hit pieces on Mark Kennedy, Michelle Bachman, Tim Pawlenty (to name a few) and today we have the consistently predictable Lori "I know the truth. And it only comes from the DNC!" Sturdevant. Today she strikes a blow for the DFL Truth in Campaign Literature and All Things Campaign Related Squad.
Well, I'm waiting for some real truth in advertising from those students of Karl Marx on the Editorial Board at Izvestia Minneapolis by giving us the full, complete and real story on Keith Ellison. So far, all we've heard is that they've found a suitable substitute for sex by the way they're drooling over the notoriety of electing the first Muslim to Congress, his background be damned. And us along with him if elected.
But again, as I once read "Why are so amazed when fig trees bear figs?" And I'm amazed that the Stribune is radically and forever biased?
P.S. And a HT to Scott Johnson at Powerline for his article "Keith Ellison for Dummies".