Nice Try, Lefties -- Judge Does Not Allow Loonies To Protest West Point Graduation

Leftist groups in New York's Hudson Valley are collectively mourning the failure of their attempt to infiltrate this year's West Point Cadet graduation ceremony.

The Leader of the Socialist "Orange County Democratic Alliance," Michael Sussman, tried to take his annual demonstration to the actual ceremony to protest the War on Terror, but a judge said he and his groups (which include the local Leftist "Raging Grannies," "Code Pink" and "Women in Black") had every right to demonstrate outside the US Military Academy gates as the routinely do, but they cannot shove their signs in the faces of proud parents watching their sons and daughters graduate.

Although Sussman and friends will continue to throw tantrums about this ruling, their attempt had little to do with protesting war as it would have to feed his huge ego and that of every protesting-type there so they could tell their friends they protested war on real, live military ground. If it was more about the war, then they would have been happy with their annual picketing on the nearby streets in the Village of Highland Falls. People would see them and they would get their story in the local fishwrapper and they could all go home to listen to Grateful Dead music.

These people in the renegade "Democratic Alliance" are the farthest Left of the local Orange County, New York Democratic party and have been anti-military, anti-America and anti-capitalism since they formed a few years before the War on Terror -- shortly after a failed bid by Sussman to take over the county committee leadership. Since then, this "Alliance" has merely been a vehicle to keep Sussman's name in the local news to ready for his next attempted ascension.

In truth, I strongly support other people's right to demonstrate or voice opposition to myself or the government, but in a responsible and sincere manner. They are out there every year to protest West Point outside the grounds, but interrupting a graduation ceremony that our best and brightest American youth worked hard for with chants of "Hell No, We Won't Go" or "No Justice, No Peace" is more childish, annoying and irresponsible than honest.

To All "Global Warming" Alarmists:

Yes, we know it's getting warmer in Antarctica, causing some of its ice to break away. ore and Company would want you to believe.

Unfortunately, I may still have to keep reminding people of this.

Jerry Falwell Dead at 73

The man best known for leading the Moral Majority movement in response to the radical Leftist subculture that was infiltrating America in the 60s and beyond, Rev. Jerry Falwell, died today at age 73.

Falwell took on the thankless job of standing up for those with strong religious beliefs. Although I am not one of his biggest fans, I respect what he tried to do: give a voice for the common church-going person who somehow lost theirs over the years. In hindsight, Americans may soon realize how much he was needed in our country during a time of man made turmoil.

Something that Falwell's death does bring out is the reprehensible attitudes of those on the Left: many of their advocacy sites (most notably Democratic Underground) have Socialist posters and administrators reveling in this man's passing. Some rank-and-file posters have gone as far as wishing death upon the rest of the clergyman's family. Although these actions are reprehensible, they do not surprise me coming from the so-called "tolerant" Left. I refuse to link to these disgusting sites, as I only read them for comic relief and these bottom-feeding creatures do not deserve as much attention as I had given them already. This is just another difference between the Right and Left: how many of us were popping champagne corks when Molly Ivins died? None. In one of the great Tammy Bruce's books, she documents Lefties celebrating and rejoicing when Ronald Reagan died. Today saw no improvement in the sensitivities of the self-proclaimed sensitive ones.

...And these are the people who think they should do the thinking for you.

Can the U.N. be Serious? Zimbabwe? A Shining Example of Economic Development?

We all know how irrelevant the United Nations has become over the years, and it gets worse: It had just put Zimbabwe in charge of its task force overseeing worldwide economic progress. In a 26-21 vote, the Commission on Sustainable Development has chosen the most corrupt, economically backward country in Africa -- and that's among a plethora of competition -- as chair.

This committee switches its directorship by rotating through different refions arounf the world per term; this time it's Africa's turn. Why would its members allow this position to be held by a minnion of Robert Mugabe, a totalitarian dictator and known torturer whose economic plan relied on the strategy of stealing all of the land from every white person in the country and gave it to "the people" (read: Ol' Bobby comandeered the good land for his government and allowed squatters to take over) effectively kicking caucasian land owners out. Since then, the farmland has deteriorated into virtually nothing and Zimbabwe's infrastructure is now so poor that the country will be duct-taping roadways and pipelines as national policy soon. We might have predicted this and interfered long before Mugabe singlehandedly dropped his country into the Fourth World had it not been for our leaders' PC mindset when it comes to African nations.

Zimbabwe's people are suffering either from manipulated poverty or torture and the U.N. has officially endorsed the Mugabe policies by allowing this government to oversee worldwide economic growth. Although some can dismiss this move as as irrelevant as the U.N. itself, we must also remember that there are people in America and the rest of the globe who still see the international coffee-clutch as the prototype for a potential World Government. It should be a warning.

Obama Campaign: "We're Not in Kansas Anymore -- If We Were, Our Guy Would Hopefully Have Been More Accurate!"

How much more are Barack Obama's handlers going to let this man expose himself out of a legitimate Presidential Candidacy? Starting with his aligning himself with race-baiters Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton while pandering to them and their followers during the Don Imus situation, he has continues to prove how he is not ready to take on the job as CEO of the United States of America and De Facto Leader of the Free World.

Obama's most recent flub may be considered by mainstream media liberals afraid of critiquing their candidate of color (despite their treatment of Alan Keyes over the past two presidential elections), but it was more than that: pure carelessness. Candidate Obama, at a Richmond fund raiser, talked about the "10,000" deaths in the Kansas tornadoes when, in fact, there were only twelve.

If you think it was just a mis-statement that can be overlooked, then you are sadly mistaken: this smacks of the Leftist Elite's normal attitude toward the mid west -- or the often-heard "flyover territory." Leftists have long held disdain for the mostly-Republican states between the East and West Coasts (examples are easy to find through both new and old media). They are also truly out-of-touch with the true working classes there that the party had claimed to represent since the 1900s. Obama showed a dismissive attitude toward that hurricane-ravaged area by glazing over it in his fundraiser speech (again, on the East Coast). What separates the likes of him, John Kerry and Al Gore from master politicians like Bill and Hillary Clinton from the rest of the Leftist Democratic leaders is what got the Slickster elected: the ability to give the illusion that they actually care about everyone in the country. The Clintons were masters (just ask Dick Morris, who was a major force behind the triangulation strategy).

Although the media loves Obama and are trying to guilt voters into selecting him (by now you must have heard the phrase on Big Media outlets: "Is America READY for a black president?" -- thus implying we are small-minded unless we blindly vote Obama's way), Obama seems to be doing his best to keep up with John Kerry instead of the cruising front-runner, Hillary Clinton.

News Liberals Afraid of Murdoch

Not surprisingly, the News Corp offer for Dow Jones and Company story has taken off like a lightning rod over the past few days. We already know the Bancroft family isn't for this move, and it's not surprising that the Ottoway patriarch, James, is upset over the potential future of his Liberal newspaper mini-empire. he even wrote an open letter urging the Dow Jones Company not to sell to the much-maligned Murdoch. Ottaway even went do far as to accuse the News Corp founder of bias and pandering, which is the staple of its biggest publication, the Left-Wing Times-Herald Record of he Hudson Valley.

How far to the Left is Ottaway's "jewel?" In this blog, I discussed how the Record has been a PR pamphlet for Leftist former New Paltz Mayor Jason West, who became the darling of the newsroom when he decided to use his little village to promote himself through officiating illegal gay marriages (I still maintain he cared little for the gays' actual cause and more for hid own vanity). One of their "Golden Boy" Columnists, Oliver Mackson, praised the notorious Communist Junius Scales (the big tribute column is no longer available on the internet). An all-time classic headline was one promoting a post-election day editorial masked as a news story called "Roe v. GOP," implying that a Republican victory meant that the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion would immediately be overturned and, therefore, voters need to be talked down to for putting those meanies in office again (article unavailable). Their editorial page skews so far to the Left that the late Syndicated Columnist Molly Ivins looked as moderate as a moderator while moderating.

In truth, what Ottaway is really upset about is not an alleged bias to the right when News Corp takes over, he's more upset that the Record and other newspapers will be forced to take a more balanced approach to news and more Left-wing propaganda machines will be put out of commission. I guess ol' James might want to take the money earned from higher stock value and buy the "Daily Worker."

Race-Baiting Crybabies Say Refs Are Racist For Calling Fouls On Black Players!

Yes, you read the headline right: the Professional Sports League that bends over backwards to attract urban black fans and became a profiteer in the hip-hop culture and its market is being accused of racism by a some "professor" from the University of Pennsylvania (which apparently means he thinks he knows more about how basketball is played than league officials). He says referees call a disproportionate amount of fouls on black players than white players.

According to the New York Times, a publication that never saw a phony discrimination story it didn't print, Justin Wolfers and an assistant claim that the outcome of a game is: "noticeably affected by the racial composition of the refereeing crew." The study's main focal point is given in this excerpt: "black players receive around 0.12-0.20 more fouls per 48 minutes played (an increase of 2½-4½ percent) when the number of white referees officiating a game increases from zero to three." The problem, according to the NBA, is that Wolfers only documented foul calls as made by a three-official team and not each individual official. This shows that the Professor set out to find racism in the NBA rather than do something more important with his degree. Wolfers conveniently used the "referee tandem" standard to prove his point rather than the individual.

Any fan, however, can also see the other major flaws in Wolfer's argument:

• Although he acknowledges that black players make up the vast majority of NBA players, the study conveniently forgets to take in the personality and other variables and how much more subject the majority race is to them. (A majority in any group would be more prone to a higher probability of more volatile personalities and foul-prone players)
• Bench players may be sent in just to foul other teams' superstars toward the end of a game, a process known as "giving fouls." With a black majority of players, it only stands to reason that more would go out and foul other players on the coach's orders.
  
• The study was taken for 13 years through the 2004, when Eastern European players made up more of the white NBA population. These men play a more disciplined style and are generally less foul-prone. Many more were outside shooters as opposed to inside presences (More Eastern European Power Forwards and Centers came into the league in the latter years of the study.

This "study" is nothing more than a waste of time and tax dollars -- just another example of the publicly-funded Academia racket.

Chavez Watch: Looking to Swallow Up More Venezuealan Businesses

Psycho Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez continues his rampage through his country's business community. Now, he's threatening to engulf the nation's banks and its largest steel maker into his growing Socialist government.

After that, I guess he'll go for the candy stores and taco stands. After all, stealing from hard-working citizens makes a guy hungry.

Self-Promoter out as Mayor of New Paltz

Despite the major local newspaper serving as his personal PR Firm, Jason West lost his bid for re-election as Mayor of the Village of New Paltz. You might remember his two flashes of fame: being elected Mayor four years ago as a Green Party representative and his using that power to officiate gay marriages illegaly. In a borderline Hippie area like New Paltz he would sound like the Dream Shepherd, but from Village Election Day 2003, he showed hos true colors.

It is also worth mentioning, being a former resident of New Paltz and student at its Ultra-Liberal College, I could not help but notice the significanc of the fact that the Village Elections were moved to May 1st -- International Socialism Day.

Four years ago, Jason West became the first Mayoral candidate in the village to bring in a national political party to a village that for years never had its potential leaders do this. In addition, West won by both a fluke and with electioneering: Most of the voters who were actually village residents split their votes between then-incumbent Tom Nyquist and his challenger, who were symbolic for two split factions within the town. West and his cohorts "drove" to victory by caravaning the local Dorm-living College students in the polling places after convincing that naive lot of wannabe Che Guevaras that voting for him was the best way to show up the well-hated-on-Leftist-campuses President Bush. The kids ate it up and took the free rides to vote West in.

As soon as he took office thanks to a "mandate" of non-village "residents," one of West's first moves was to try to give himself a raise (typical of the mentality of the Left). After much controversy, he managed to hike the pay over 200% plus benefits; he wanted much more. With the blessing of the local media, he became a do-little mayor when it came to his own village. He did, however, work hard in promoting himself by trying to turn New Paltz into the Gay Marriage Capital of the World. The only problem was, although he officiated some "weddings," they were nto really unions because they were illegal. West milked the controversy for all he could, but paid little attention to his constituents. He mugged for the national media, who gave him all sorts of attention for his "sensitivity" and "kindness" to the gay community -- the very gay community he was merely using to boost his own ego and status. West even would up being one of People Magazine's Most Beautiful People -- or something like that. Although the mainstream press was enamoured with him, the local region wasn't impressed -- except for the local fishwrapper, The Times-Herald Record, which did many puff pieces about their hero.

Soon, West's ego even turned his closest allies against him. Some went as far as helping his challenger, a local businessman and Liberal who called West out on many important issues.

Still, West's arrogance still led him to believe he had the college students in his back pocket, even claiming he might win by a landslide. When it didn't turn out that way, West and the Record had to believe something went wrong.

New Paltz, for all its Ultra-Liberal leanings, is a nice little village with a beautiful and prosperous downtown area. Ot needs a mayor who will care about it and its people rather than his or her own ego. Let's hope the residents now have one.

Socialist Chavez Steals Oil

Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez continues his assault on enterprise in his own country, "celebrating" International Socialism Day by taking control of oil businesses. Chavez is still trying to prove his Anti-U.S. agenda and Socialist system is superior to actual free world. Is it working? Ask some of their baseball players our Major Leagues, who have to build a virtual fortress to keep in-country invaders out of their homes in the fledgling dictatorship.

RIP Tom Poston

This man was finny in everything he did -- from Mr. Bickley to George Utley to a small role as a Seinfeld guest. Rest in peace, Tom

Who's Anti-Immigrant?

Of course we're a nation full of immigrants. That's the idea behind the United States. This country was founded on the principles of coming here to make a better life for oneself and one's family. It is rare in the U.S. to find a citizen who is "anti-immigrant. Having said that, however, there are responsibilities to becoming an American: among those are the obligation to be a contributing member of society and to enter legally like most of our ancestors did. Unfortunately, illegal immigrants sneak in by the thousands -- many a drain on our tax money, schools and medical systems. Many refuse to work or learn the English language and instead take advantage of the benefits of U.S. citizenry without taking the proper steps to become an American.

Today, May 1, Leftists and illegals across the nation marched in protest what they believe is our audacity to make illegal aliens enter here legally. Imagine that -- wanting people to move in legally instead of sneaking in. Now, these Lefties want illegals to be granted free citizenship just for being here already. Today's protests were very much like last years on this day -- International Socialism Day (not a coincidence) -- with screaming Che worshippers, illegals and other assorted rabble waving foreign flags and cursing out America in languages other than English. Also the same was the treatment by Big Media, which constantly (as instructed) referred to these displays as "Pro-Immigration Rallies" -- apparently as opposed ro "Anti-Immigration." I doubt for the second straight year it was just laziness not to call these pro-illegal immigration rallies. The implication here is that if you are on the "wrong" non-PC side of the issue, then you are "Anti-Immigrant." Even local radio station newscasts (yes, some still do that) like WHUD in the Hudson Valley had anchors following the same protocol. Adding the proper term "illegal" would add accuracy but take away from the set agenda. The PC Though Police will stop at nothing to get the rest of us to submit, even subliminally. It is up to us not to let them.

Seriously, we should not be fooled by the Leftists' attempts to control our language and media. Every thoughtful American welcomes immigrants -- as long as they assimilate into our culture and become proud, contributing citizens, not enter here illegally and become burdens to society.

Back

That was a very long hiatus... I was working on a special project and unable to blog for some time. We are now, however, back in business.

Yes, They DO Exist

Despite the efforts of the Democrat Party's Hard Left to stop fighting a war on terror, the news you may not hear in the mainstream media is that terrorists do exist among us on our home soil.

Federal Investigators charged Abdul Tawala Allishtari with financing a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Neighbors were interviewed on the local TV Channel, News 12, saying they never suspected the man to be a villian of any sort. I guess it is true -- it's always the quiet ones you have to watch out for.

While the Hard Left has tried extrememly hard to stop U.S. Intelligence from locating these people at all costs (you might rememebr the Clinton Administration heavily cutting defense and intelligence budget and taking the Jamie Gorelick suggestion that the FBI and CIA should never share information), they want you to look the other way and not give in to suspicions of terrorist activities. Lefites seem to think this is a way of "ratting people out" and the average American should be discouraged from informing the government of any possible traitorous activities. The result: more American money goes to terrorists. There are more Allishtaris out there, and we shuold be vigilant in keeping their own land safe. It is all of our duties as Americans to protect ourselves, our families and our naighbors.

Currently, Allishtari is on trial and could face 95 years in prison. Democrats in Congress are still trying to fight a plan to step up the War on Terror and are trying to wield their newfound Congressional power to implement their plans for appeasement and to "cut and run," which would make life more dangerous within our borders. Allishtari is only one of many.

Controversial Blogger out at Edwards Campaign

It looks like Amanda Marcotte did not take well to her 15 minutes of fame. She is one of the two controversial bloggers who were brought under scrutiny by the Catholic League after its leadership took the fledgling John Edwards campaign to task over statements made in their private blogs. Although I tend to agree with the Catholic League on their describing of her speech as "anti-Catholic" -- and I would have to add quite closed-minded on her part -- Marcotte still has the right to express these opinions. The criticism of the Marcotte situation must be directed toward the Edwards campaign for not backing who they had hired to blog for them enough and Marcotte herself for not accepting the potential consequences of her freedom of speech.

The Edwards campaign showed they will potentially be no match for the big boys -- Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama and Al Gore -- for the 2008 Presidential nomination. Although it was a smart move to hire experienced bloggers such as Marcotte to their staff to work the New Media for them, Edwards and company should have already known who they signed on and what they were getting into. I don't believe the hiring powers of the Edwards "campaign" had little idea of Marcotte's blog, "Pandagon (cute, don't you think?)," and what she had blatantly stood for and against. She had literally mocked and insulted the Catholic Church on the site and clearly placed her name next to those opinions. I must disclose that I am a recent Catholic convert, but not easily offended, and do not agree with these points and find some of them bordering on repulsive. With Edwards' campaign bosses hiring her. they effectively backed her writing talents and New Media skills. When the criticism from the Catholic League came out in the media, Team Edwards bailed on her and only issued a seemingly half-hearted vote of confidence hoping it would go away. The Catholic League, however, persisted and Marcotte subsequently resigned. One would suspect that the Edwards campaign lost what little spine it had and couldn't handle substantially -- not symbolically -- backing their decision to hire her.

Marcotte's handling of the situation was not exactly what one would call "taking the high road." In a spiteful fashion, she fired at the Catholic League and the "Right Wing" in her blog, blaming them for her ouster and saying they wanted to silence her. She resorted to name-calling, much like that of a spoiled child whose candy was taken away from her for being a bad girl. Although her blog generally shows fine writing skills and a decent ability to capture readers with her posts, she lost any resemblance of class she may have had by directing her spite the wrong way. What Marcotte learned was that her opinions are easy to display strongly when she has a "safe" audience of like-minded people (in which the case here are the current wild-eyed Left neoLibs). She did not realize the potential consequences of possibly having to intelligently defend those beliefs when stepping out of the virtual world and into a real one -- with opinions and philosophies different from their own. Her recent anger-filled Pandagon posts show her immaturity, but maybe she will wind up learning from this experience. The Edwards campaign seemed to provide little help as Marcotte could not handle the pressure of actual criticism.

Marcotte is young and will likely land on her feet. Although I am diametrically opposed to most of her viewpoints I hope she will come back from being kicked down because I share something of a common bond with her on this: While I was on the air, I had to deal with criticism of my own commentary (it was easier for me because I started on the radio, where I heard immediate feedback from callers on all sides of the fence). I had some people who were out to get me -- including one local newspaper "columnist" who fabricated rumors of me supporting an anti-Semitic point of view (I have also been typically mislabeld "racist, sexist and homoist" by those who disagreed with me). Comapring me with murderers, however, hurt me and hit hard for a about a week or two until I realized two things: 1) I had to learn how to "suck it up" because everyone is not going to love me -- and some will choose to hate me without knowing me, and 2) My listenership went up every time I was part of some sort of controversy. Marcotte is already realizing the latter. She will grow from this and do well long after next spring, when the John Edwards campaign becomes an inevitable afterthought.

FEMA Does Well in Florida -- Test #2 is Ahead in Upstate, NY

After the recent Tornadoes that ravaged parts of Florida last week, reports show that FEMA did well and seems to be back in order after its mismanagement of the Post-Katrina relief efforts, resulting in the subsequent firing of Michael Brown.

Is FEMA back to proper form? That question may be answered with another disaster happening now in upstate New York, where reports of 100 inches of snow or higher have hit the region near Lake Ontario. Performance in the second national weather disaster in as many weeks should show the country if FEMA is in the form necessary to respond well to such emergencies.

It must be noted, however, that FEMA can not do its job to its optimum level without the help of state and local emergency workers and leaders. After Hurricane Katrina, Michael Brown seemed to be more the fall guy than anything else after having to sort through the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and clean up worse messes caused by the incompetent Karen Blanco state administration and the corrupt "leadership" of Ray Nagin and the New Orleans City Council. Thus, it can be said that this is also the first major test of the leadership of new New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer. The former Attorney General spent the last few years campaigning for the state's top seat by getting himself in the newspapers through the populist tactic of prosecuting businesses on a number of corruption charges -- some of them justified while others were questionable. Spitzer needs to show leadership here or he will lose any confidence gifted to him by the People of New York and the Republicans, who did little to support his unknown challenger, John Faso, in the 2007 election.

Crybabies Force Snckers Ad to be Pulled

The Politically Correct Thought Police do it again. This time, some Gay and Lesbian groups were in a tizzy over a harmless Snickers commercial, so they pressured Masterfoods, a subsidiary of Mars Inc, to pull the ad.

You might remember the spot being played during the Super Bowl, where two macho mechanics shared a Snickers bar and would up inadvertently kissing. Quickly, they break away and, dumbfounded, they rip their own chest hair off to do something "manly." To me, it was hilarious. Sure enough, however, the company caught a lot of flack about it by the special interests. I guess Mars should have known that having a sense of humor was outlawed in some parts of the country back in the 1990s. GLAAD President Niel Giuliano issued a statement saying: "That Snickers, Mars and the NFL would promote and endorse this kind of prejudice is simply inexcusable."

Was there really prejudice in this commercial? If one watches the spot with an unbiased eye, the spot was about two men who made a social "faux pas" while eating candy and didn't know how to deal with it. Neither of these men were gay, so they wanted to prove it to each other (and, rather comically, to themselves). They (and here's where the comedy lies, folks) tried to act macho with each other by stupidly ripping hair off of their chests in an effort to prove their manliness. I don't see any true anti-gay message here, as the characters were only doing a variation of what has been done on many sitcoms: they tried to play through an awkward moment.

Did this one silly commercial inspire the violence and hatred toward gay people as GLAAD and like groupthinkers would like you to believe? I didn't hear of any reports. It's merely a case of some special interests demanding to the public: "Hey, YOU'RE not allowed to laugh at THAT!" "That's Offensive to me and a fringe minority of people, so NOBODY will be allowed to see it again!"

What did the vast majority of Americans think about the spot? A quote from Misterfood spokesperson Alice Nathanson told MSNBC: “Feedback from our target consumers has been positive. In addition, many media and Web site commentators of this year’s Super Bowl commercial line-up ranked the commercial among this year’s top 10 best."

I understand the need for Americans to understand and be accepting of people's differences, but to force a certain way of thinking down everyone's throat is the work of old forms of dictatorships, socialism and Nazism. If Americans, from we citizens to businesses to the nation's leaders continue to kowtow to the intolerant few, then this nation will have officially slid away from what made it great. Unfortunately, it seems we may be too late.