Talking a good game is a hell of a lot different than playin' it, especially at the highest possible level. It absolutely blows my mind that Barack Obama supporters cannot see through his empty hype. Got this below from Flopping Aces .....and for the record, not ONE war has ever been won by negotiations, check this out........

In this earlier thread I commented on the incredible ignorant statement by Obama that FDR and Truman talked to our enemies:

The other side can label and name-call all they want, but I trust the American people to recognize that it’s not surrender to end the war in Iraq so that we can rebuild our military and go after al Qaeda’s leaders. I trust the American people to understand that it’s not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but our enemies – like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.

Its a breathtaking quote and one that should not be glossed over. Not only is he completely wrong on his history (maybe the result of 20+ years of lessons from Rev. Wright), he is basically telling us what his policy will be once gaining the White House. To sit down and discuss our differences with our enemies. Let me see. With Iran we’ve talked to them, cajoled them, placed many carrots in front of them, and begged them….results left much to be desired.

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.....new country neighbors Sugarland, LittleBigTown and Jake Owen do a fine job on the remake of the 80's hit by The Dream Academy...... "Life In A Northern Town."

    

On this day in …

* 1754, a cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "Join or die"

* 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly over the North Pole

* 1936, Italy annexed Ethiopia

* 1945, U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately

* 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved the pill Enovid as safe for birth control use

* 1961, Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters

* 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon

* 1978, the bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who had been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome

* 2006, freed by rescuers drilling round-the-clock by hand, two men walked out of an Australian mine where they had been trapped for two weeks by an earthquake. (The joy over the survival of Brant Webb and Todd Russell was tempered by the loss of Larry Knight, who died in the same rock collapse.)

* 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney pressed Iraq's leaders to do more to reduce violence and achieve political reconciliation in a visit to Baghdad that was punctuated by an explosion that shook windows at the U.S. Embassy where Cheney was visiting

    

A superb breakdown by GatewayPundit.

It's cool to let China drill 50 miles off of the Florida coast, but screw the USA.

Worst. Congress. Everrrrrrr.

Excerpt:

Nancy Pelosi chanted "Veto and Drill", "Veto and Drill" in caricaturing the threatened presidential veto of windfall oil company taxes and desire to drill in ANWR and elsewhere. But all that might sound, in fact, good to most Americans. With the world's largest reserves of coal, after creating the nuclear power industry ex nihilo, and with billions of oil still under our soil and waters, it makes no sense to produce less energy while blaming and taxing those who produce what we have, rather than drilling, digging, and saving, as we find ways to transition to the alternate energies. The problem is not just oil, but importing oil at $120 a barrel that is bankrupting us as much as it is enriching the wrong people.


If we are importing 5,000,000,000 barrels of oil each year due to Democratic politics (from the above chart produced back in 2006)-- We are paying the oil producing regimes $600,000,000,000 this year for oil.

But for some reason Democrats think taxing oil companies will fix this problem?

That is a death wish for America.

Yep, let's all Hope that we can Change the USA into a third rate country.

    

On this day in …

* 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River

* 1794, Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was executed on the guillotine during France's Reign of Terror

* 1846, the first major battle of the Mexican-American War was fought at Palo Alto, Texas, with no clear victory for either side

* 1886, Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invented the flavor syrup for Coca-Cola

* 1945, President Truman announced in a radio address that World War II had ended in Europe

* 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru

* 1970, anti-war protests took place across the United States and around the world; in New York, construction workers broke up a demonstration on Wall Street

* 1973, militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered

* 1987, Gary Hart, dogged by questions about his personal life, including his relationship with Miami model Donna Rice, withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination

* 1997, President Clinton assured Central American leaders during a summit in Costa Rica that they need not fear mass deportations of immigrants who'd sought refuge in the United States during U.S.-backed conflicts

* 2002, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Senate committee that an FBI memo from Phoenix warning that several Arabs were suspiciously training at a U.S. aviation school would not have led officials to the 9/11 hijackers even if they had followed up the warning with more vigor

* 2003, the Senate unanimously endorsed adding to NATO seven former communist nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. ALSO: A federal grand jury indicted Chinese-born California socialite Katrina Leung on charges that she had illegally taken, copied and kept secret documents obtained from an FBI agent. (A federal judge later dismissed the case against Leung, rebuking prosecutors for misconduct.) AND: A Russian-built cargo plane lost a door over Congo, hurling more than 100 Congolese soldiers and their families to their deaths

* 2006, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote to President Bush, proposing "new solutions" to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian head of state to an American president in 27 years

* 2007, bitter enemies from Northern Ireland’s bloody past joined forces atop a new Northern Ireland government

    

Back Thurs night. What happens when 2007 is up 65% over 2006?

2008 better be 70% over 2007.........been Joe busy......Pres/CEO is a nutty old schooler.

    

He's s-c-a-r-y.

Bulletin: listening to Barack Obama address an annual political dinner in Indiana, one is reminded of his eloquence, appeal, and inspiring, improbable "story"--a young African-American from Nowhere within striking distance of the Democratic nomination and the White House itself. Unfortunately, one is also reminded of his abstract and convoluted approach to pressing problems and crises, such as soaring energy and food prices.


His condemnation of oil--not only the oil industry, but the actual use of oil, as if it was some sin--is an example. Instead of calling for a crash program to develop America's massive, untapped energy reserves--including heavy oil, conventional oil that can be squeezed out of old fields by enhanced recovery methods, coal that can be burned to produce electricity (for electric cars and other purposes) and also liquified to produce fuel, and shale oil--the Candidate of Change supports pie-in-the-sky alternative energy schemes, dreams, and scams to reduce dependence on oil and create "green jobs."

If Democratic voters in Indiana and North Carolina want a frustrated academician or lifelong "community organizer" and clever demagogue as President of the United States, they will vote for the junior Senator from Illinois.

"Now is our turn ... to change the world," he shouted.

Scary.

    

On this day in …

* 1527, German troops sacked Rome, killing some 4,000 people and looting works of art and literature as part of a series of wars between the Hapsburg Empire and the French monarchy

* 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower

* 1915, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit his first major league home run in a game against the New York Yankees in New York

* 1937, the German dirigible Hindenburg burst into flames while docking in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 people

* 1941, Josef Stalin became official leader of the Soviet government

* 1954, 25-year-old British medical student Roger Bannister cracked track and field's most notorious barrier, the four-minute mile, during a meet at Oxford, England. His time: three minutes, 59.4 seconds

* 1975, President Ford broadcast an appeal to Americans to welcome the thousands of Vietnamese refugees pouring into the United States

* 1994, Paula Jones accused President Clinton with making an unwanted advance during a meeting in a hotel room in 1991, when he was governor of Arkansas. It was believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind against a sitting president. ALSO: The Channel Tunnel, a railway under the English Channel connecting Britain and France, was officially opened.

* 2007, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency by a comfortable margin over socialist opponent Segolene Royal

    

I know this is all over the place, but too good to pass up.

James Carville went off on Obama in a recent interview.
But, it's really not clear if this was a slam on Obama or Clinton when you think about it?
From Newsweek:

"The Republicans will eat him alive" is what the Clinton campaign is telling the superdelegates. Hillary is the tougher of the two, the candidate you want on your side in a knife fight, a gender reversal that prompts Carville to indulge in some ribald humor: "If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two."


hell frickin yah baby, man I hope these two stay in it until the convention.

    

On this day in …

* 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena

* 1862, Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla

* 1891, Carnegie Hall (then named "Music Hall") had its opening night in New York City

* 1893, Wall Street stock prices took a sudden drop, sparking the second worst economic crisis in U.S. history

* 1904, Cy Young pitched major league baseball's first perfect game to lead the Boston Americans to a 3-0 win over Philadelphia

* 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces landed on the Philippine island of Corregidor

* 1945, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell and five neighborhood children were killed in Lakeview, Ore., when a Japanese balloon they had found in the woods exploded. They were listed as the only known World War II civilian fatalities in the continental United States

* 1955, West Germany became a sovereign state

* 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard became America's first man in space in a brief, sub-orbital flight from Cape Canaveral

* 1980, a siege at the Iranian embassy in London by armed practitioners of that "religion pf peace" demanding the release of political prisoners in Iran ended as British commandos and police stormed the building. Nineteen hostages were rescued; two others had already been killed by their captors; four of the five hostage-takers were also killed

* 1985, President Reagan kept a promise to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl by leading a wreath-laying ceremony at the military cemetery in Bitburg

* 1996, Israel and the "Palestinians" began the final stage of their peace talks in Taba, Egypt. ALSO: The FBI released preliminary figures showing that serious crimes reported to police fell for the fourth straight year in 1995

* 2005, Tony Blair won a historic third term as Britain's prime minister, but his Labour Party suffered a sharply reduced parliamentary majority

    

On this day in …

* 1863, Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he died eight days later

* 1890, the Oklahoma Territory was organized

* 1936, "Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow

* 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi, ym"sh, troops in Italy and parts of Austria

* 1965, the Early Bird satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic

* 1994, Nelson Mandela claimed victory in the wake of South Africa's first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged defeat

* 1996, the Senate passed, 97-3, an immigration bill to tighten border controls, make it tougher for illegal aliens to get U.S. jobs and curtail legal immigrants' access to social services

* 2001, President Bush and Republican congressional leaders clinched a budget deal embracing most of the president's tax and spending goals. ALSO: Germany inaugurated its new Chancellery in Berlin amid concerns the building was too grandiose. A landslide destroyed a nine-story apartment building in China, killing at least 79 people

* 2005, Pvt. 1st Class Lynndie England, the young woman pictured in some of the most notorious Abu Ghraib pix, pleaded guilty at Fort Hood, Texas, to mistreating prisoners. (However, a judge later threw out the plea agreement; England was later convicted in a court-martial and sentenced to three years in prison.)

    

From Rush Limbaugh today:

"The Democrat superdelegates have a problem. Obama cannot win, but they are afraid to take the nomination from him because they think the black vote won't show up in November and vote Democrat. I tell them not to worry. There's a 50-year history showing that they have done far worse — destroying the black family, for example — and blacks still vote Democrat."

    

This guy is so entrepreneurial that there's no reason he should be a bum:
h/t JoshuaPundit

    

On this day in …

* 1851, the Great Exhibition opens to wide acclaim in the Crystal Palace in London. Inside the Crystal Palace, a giant glass-and-iron hall designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, more than 10,000 exhibitors set up eight miles of tables. Technological wonders from around the world were on display

* 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition was officially opened in Chicago by President Cleveland

* 1898, Commodore George Dewey gave the command "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War

* 1921, radio signals guided ships through several approaches to New York Harbor. Originally called "radio fog signals," the beacons, established by the U.S. Lighthouse Service, sent out radio signals in all directions to guide ships

* 1931, New York's 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated

* 1945, a day after Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, committed suicide, it was announced that Admiral Karl Doenitz had succeeded Hitler as leader of the Third Reich

* 1948, the People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed

* 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers

* 1963, James Whittaker of Redmond, Washington, becomes the first American to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world

* 1967, Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas. (They divorced in 1973.)

* 1971, Amtrak -- which combined and streamlined the operations of 18 intercity passenger railroads -- went into service

* 1996, Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, received a statesman's welcome at the White House, where he met with President Clinton for 45 minutes, then lashed out at Israel for keeping its borders closed to "Palestinian" workers

* 1997, after 18 years of Conservative rule, British voters give the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair, a landslide victory in British parliamentary elections

* 2001, President Bush committed the United States to building a shield against ballistic missile attack. ALSO: FBI Director Louis Freeh announced his retirement. Thomas Blanton Jr. became the second ex-Ku Klux Klansman to be convicted in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Ala., that claimed the lives of four black girls

* 2005, on what was to have been her wedding day, "runaway bride" Jennifer Wilbanks was led by Albuquerque, N.M., police to an airplane that flew her home to Georgia. ALSO: A car bombing at a Kurdish official's funeral in Tal Afar, Iraq, killed some two dozen people and wounded more than 50. Chinese computer maker Lenovo completed its purchase of IBM's personal computer division

* 2007, in only his second veto, President Bush rejected legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq in a showdown with Congress over whether the war should end or escalate. ALSO: Thousands of people protested across the country to demand a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegals

    

From Andre Pachter, interesting perspective:


Ahead of acquiring an atomic bomb, Iran is already using a weapon of mass destruction to bring down the United States--rising oil prices.

The mullahocracy is determined to keep a lid on OPEC oil production in order to maximize Tehran's profits and America's pain. Iran's anti-American ally and fellow OPEC militant, Venezuela, is aiding the effort.

Iran's nuclear standoff with the West thus serves more than one purpose. Continued defiance and stalling buys Iran bomb-building time, further establishes Iran as the leader of radical Islam, and maintains the tension that fuels the speculation in oil that helps to push prices higher.

In other words, the oil weapon is both supported by and supporting the development of nuclear weapons. Never before in history has anything like this happened.

And never before in history has a great nation--the US--been so suicidal. Although they are clearly swimming in cash, the country's big, integrated, international oil companies are avoiding risk and behaving more like bankers, lawyers and hedge fund operators than the great oil finders and developers of yesteryear. The once giant domestic oil industry seems to be on its last legs, like the coal industry, thanks to Al Gore and Company. Paralyzed by manmade global warming hysteria and environmental extremism, the country lacks the political will to drill, produce and conserve its way out of the energy crisis. It ignores the potential for massive domestic development of heavy crude and tar sands, oil shale and liquified coal, the squeezing of new oil from old fields through enhanced recovery methods. The US ignores truly awesome energy resources that can be developed right now using proven, available technologies in favor of pie-in-the-sky alternatives such as solar, wind, and so-called biofuels--an especially cruel scam aimed at raising the price of corn, soy and other agricultural crops for the benefit of a handful of incredibly rich and secretive agribusiness firms.

What is to be done?

Drill. The US needs to drill for conventional and heavy oil and gas, produce and liquify coal, extract oil from sand and shale and old oil fields, needs to do all these things as a matter of urgent national security--like the nation's life depends on it. Which is exactly the case. As Iran and Venezuela and China and Russia understand--everyone, apparently, except for America's three Presidential candidates and do-nothing Congress--energy, not environmental extremism, is the lifeblood of a country. There is a limit to what the country--any country--can withstand. And we are rapidly approaching that limit.

If the US does not act soon and act in a big way to bring down the price of oil, it is only a matter of time before we will be counting the dead across our land--not from a nuclear blast (though our Islamist enemies are certainly planning such an attack), but from ever-escalating energy and food prices.

    

....chickens.................coming home to rrrrrooooooooosssssssstttttt.

Looks a bit like Carmen Miranda, no?

h/t Ace

    

On this day in …

* 1492, Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet

* 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States

* 1798, US Navy forms

* 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million

* 1808, first practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri

* 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union

* 1889, first US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration

* 1900, Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory

* 1904, ice cream cone makes its debut. ALSO: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis as President Theodore Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key at the White House to signal the official start of the world's fair commemorating the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, albeit a year late. (The fair drew some 20 million visitors before it closed the following December.)

* 1939, The New York World's Fair, billed as a look at "the world of tomorrow," opened

* 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun

* 1970, President Richard Nixon announced the United States was sending troops into Cambodia

* 1973, President Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean

* 2001, Chandra Levy, a federal government intern, went missing. Her remains were found more than a year later in a Washington, D.C., park

* 2003, international mediators presented Israeli and Arab leaders with a new Middle East "road map," a U.S.-backed blueprint for ending 31 months of violence and establishing a Palestinian state. Mahmoud Abbas took office as Palestinian prime minister. ALSO: The U.S. Navy withdrew from its disputed Vieques bombing range in Puerto Rico, prompting celebrations by islanders

* 2005, missing Georgia woman Jennifer Wilbanks turned up in Albuquerque, N.M., originally claiming to have been abducted but then admitting she was a "runaway bride."

* 2007, British judge sentenced five al-Qaida-linked men, all British citizens, to life in prison for plotting to attack London targets, including a nightclub, power plants and shopping mall, with bombs

    

..........not sayin' that Bubba can't, but if he did professionally instead of being a kick-ass cowboy, he'd more than likely sound like this ,  this guys new tune (youtube embed video disabled by request) has a great chorus and is here.

Don't bail, they're great tunes.

    

........I don't know how many times I've used that as a subject title.....anyway, here's some fun stuff:

If you wish to learn how morally confused the Obama campaign has become, how embarrassing Obama’s associates are, and how much harm his waffling has done to race relations, try this:

Example 1: John McCain’s pastor of twenty years and spiritual advisor addresses a large white convention and declares that whites have different brains than blacks, and then begins to mimic the supposedly different ways blacks speak.

Example 2. Hillary Clinton visits a white Midwestern donor base, and is caught on tape lamenting to her constituents that she can’t reach inner-city Chicago blacks because they are bitter and cling to their church and guns, don’t like those who don’t look like them, and scapegoat immigrants.

Example 3. While explaining his embarrassing pastor’s remarks, John McCain sighs that critics don’t understand white churches, don’t understand all the good that his church does, have taken remarks (“greedy black folks”) out of context, and is now being slurred by political hacks and opportunists.

Example 4. In explaining her comments, Hillary evokes her aged grandmother’s biases, who to be fair also said that “white people” scared her too. Meanwhile, Mark Penn pontificates that the black vote usually goes to liberal candidates anyway and so is not that important to the Clinton campaign. Then to rationalize what she has said, Hillary offers that a black friend of hers—in the manner of a “typical black person”—also has stereotyped white people.

Example 5: Meanwhile Cindy McCain says on two occasions that she never really had pride in America—since it was a “mean” country—until her husband staged his political comeback.

The ghosts of Howard Cossell and Jimmy the Greek, Don Imus, and Michael Richards apparently have now all been absolved by Barack Obama. Thanks to the bar he has lowered in reacting to racism, no one will ever be disowned for their racist remarks, but always contextualized and excused. Watch what follows as a consequence of what Obama has wrought. - VDH

    

On this day in …

* 1882, the "Elektromote" -- forerunner of the trolleybus -- trialed by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin

* 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp; that same day, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, married Eva Braun and designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor. AND: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies

* 1946, former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes

* 1951, a Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government was presented with a treaty draft regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet

* 1953, the first US experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV

* 1967, after refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title

* 1970, during the Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong

* 1974, President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate

* 1975, during the Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The last U.S. citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end

* 1986, Roger Clemens sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners. ALSO: Fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library, some 400,000 books and other items damaged or destroyed

* 1991, Bangladesh cyclone struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless

* 1992, deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley, Calif., acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. King has since been arrested again and again for various traffic related violations

* 1993, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II announced that for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle

* 2004, Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production

* 2005, Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation