Archive for July, 2009

Should Michael Vick Get To Play Football?

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He paid his debt to society, and today Michael Vick becomes free to pursue his career again.


Freedom will allow Vick to step up his efforts to resume his pro football career. Vick hopes to soon meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who has said he would review Vick’s status after Vick completed his sentence.

 

Goodell has said he wants to sit down with Vick, but it’s unclear when that face-to-face meeting will take place.


How much remorse does he have to show? And how can he make himself believable?…

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 20, 2009 • 17 Comments »

Car Dealer Offers Free AK-47 With New Truck To Anger Liberals

Buy a new truck at Max Motors in Butler, MO, and get an AK-47.  At the Max Motors website there’s an animated character wielding a gun against the backdrop of a waving American flag.  After all, what could be more American?

 

Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors, is upgrading an earlier sales gimmick in which he offered new truck buyers to choose between a $250 gas voucher or a gun voucher. The website says the dealer is giving away guns again “due to popular demand.”

 

“Muller calls the initial deal an overwhelming success,” Business Insider reports. “He …

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 19, 2009 • 62 Comments »

US Soldier Held By Taliban Identified

Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, ID, is seen in an online video saying he’s “scared I won’t be able to go home.”

 

Afghans in contact with the Taliban told the AP that the soldier was held by a Taliban group led by a commander called Maulvi Sangin, who operates in the area where the American went missing. They said the fighters initially planned to smuggle the soldier across the border into Pakistan but ruled that out because of U.S. missile strikes and Pakistani bombing attacks against militant targets in the area. Instead, they decided to move him …

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 19, 2009 • 11 Comments »

The Extreme Rhetoric Of SC Senator Jim DeMint

South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint claims that the Democratic health care plan is “D-Day for freedom in America.”


“”This health care issue Is D-Day for freedom in America… If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

 

DeMint also says since he can’t persuade his colleagues to do the right thing, “I am just going to have to create pain.”  But even more disturbing is his acquiescence to G. Gordon Liddy that Obama’s policies are comparable to the National Socialism of Hitler’s Germany.


LIDDY: But there’s something else that I …

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 19, 2009 • 44 Comments »

Free Republic Founder Calls For Peaceful Overthrow Of US Government

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Jim Robinson of Free Republic, a site that features some of the nastiest comments about liberals, is calling for removal of the president, vice president and members of Congress. (h/t NewsPolitics)

 

Our Founders established that when our government becomes destructive of our rights then it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

We have reached the point where the …

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 19, 2009 • 46 Comments »

Another GOPer Uses Racist Comments Vs. Obama

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Atwater, CA councilman Gary Frago continues the trend of using racial comments and imagery to criticize the president.  Think Progress has links to a slew of examples of such unconsciousness. The Merced Sun-Star obtained 7 e-mails sent between October 2008 and February 2009 to city workers and other prominent citizens racially deriding President Obama, the First Lady and blacks in general.


Some compared Obama to O.J. Simpson while others suggested that “nigger rigs” should now be called “presidential solutions.”

 

Perhaps the most overboard e-mail was sent on Jan. 15. It read: “Breaking News Playboy just offered Sarah Palin …

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 18, 2009 • 89 Comments »

Zell Miller: Keep Obama In His Chair With “Gorilla Glue”

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“Give ‘em hell Zell”, who refuses to stop calling himself a Democrat, spoke to the largely conservative gathering of the American Legislative Exchange Council and complained about the “globe-trotting president.”  (Of course, they’d prefer Obama spend 447 days at a western ranch if he could, right?)

 

Obama, “our globe-trotting president,” Miller said, “needs to stop and take a break and quit gallivanting all around. I think (chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel ought to get some Gorilla Glue and put it in that chair in the Oval Office and say ‘Sit here awhile.’”

 

Apparently, there really is such a …

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 18, 2009 • 62 Comments »

Coulter: Liberals Want To Be Black, Since Blacks Are “Certified Victims”

Even Glenn Beck had a hard time swallowing this Coulterism.  Liberals want to be black, she reasons, because “they’re the original certified victims.”  Why, being black even “trumps being an insect.” (h/t Crooks and Liars)


Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 18, 2009 • 238 Comments »

Friday Night: The Free For All!

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 17, 2009 • 13 Comments »

RIP Walter Cronkite

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Walter Cronkite is dead  at age 92.  He anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981.  Tom Wicker reviewed Cronkite’s 1997 autobiography with highlights of his remarkable career.


When John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas in 1963, Walter Cronkite stayed on the air for the Columbia Broadcasting System for countless hours. His performance that weekend helped pull together a nation stricken with grief and was a signal event in television’s evolution into the national nervous system.

 

When Mr. Cronkite came back from Vietnam after the Tet offensive of 1968, he concluded on national television that …

Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan July 17, 2009 • 46 Comments »

On Friday’s Radio Show…

It’s the Friday Night Free-For-All with…


John Derbyshire of National Review Online

• Liberal comedian Katie Halper

• Republican commentator David Webb

Read more » Posted in Radio Show by Joel July 17, 2009 • 9 Comments »