Tag: politics

Lou Dobbs leaves CNN

The Video: (Transcript here)

The Story via the ol’ Grey Lady’s Media Decoder:

Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately.

Sitting before an image of an American flag on his television set, he said “some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem solving as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of our day.”

Believe or not; I actually admire Lou Dobbs for his decision to speak out on the issue that everyday Americans like me care about. Believe it or not, it was a line from one of Lou Dobbs’s shows that gave me my original inspiration to begin Blogging. One night, Lou Dobbs responding to the liberal accusation that he was a Republican, responded with a line that really made me think. —- “I am a Populist.” ——  Thus was given me the inspiration to name my original blog. Now, as time went on and the 2008 election cycle began, way back in 2006; my views began to shift more toward the right, and I found myself highly disagreeing with the far left.

In December of 2007, Russian hackers were sniffing around my blog, after a stupid move in my part to make a rather idiotic setup change and because of some incredibly lousy hosting — and maybe because of a dumb error or two on my part, my Blog was hacked to heck and back! Two years worth of writing; gone, just like that. Well, by the time the ruskies got me, my political ideology had shifted much to the right of the center —-much so even more now, and I decided to make change. I dumped the old domain name, that had by then not actually fit me at all. Thus Political Byline was born on Blogspot.com. It initially was more about News. But as I went along, I began to actually write from a right of center standpoint.  From there, I got my own hosting, after Google, who owns Blogspot decided to selectively enforce its rules on hate speech; they claimed it was an error, I took zero chances and with a little help from a Friend, I was able to raise enough to pay for some hosting. That little deal didn’t work out, as I was told one thing and given another. I am now at a excellent hosting service and get it for a excellent price. I also am running on some of the best servers in the business. I am truly blessed with this service and I do not take it for granted for one minute.

Anyhow, the rumor mill is that Dobbs will end up either on Fox News or over Fox Business Network. Which would be a good thing, as Dobbs agrees with Fox News’s ideology. I’d prefer watching him over Sean Hannity any day of the week.

DC sniper John Allen Muhammad has been executed

I remember this story, like it was yesterday:

He was happy to watch the sniper die.

“I feel better. I think I can breathe better,” Nelson Rivera said as he watched the execution of convicted killer John Allen Muhammad. “I’m glad he’s gone because he’s not going to hurt anyone else.”

Rivera’s wife Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, was one of Muhammad’s 10 victims in a three-week killing spree in the Washington, D.C., area in October 2002. She was gunned down as she vacuumed her van at a Maryland gas station in 2002.

Muhammad taunted police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands.

He was put to death at the Greenville Correctional Center in Virginia Tuesday night as the victims’ families sat behind glass while watching, separated from the rest of the 27 witnesses.

The execution came hours after Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denied a last-minute clemency request and a day after the

Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case.

Muhammad was declared dead at 9:11 p.m.

via Families of DC sniper victims celebrate John Allen Muhammad’s execution.

I, like many others, were glued to the television, for me it was CNN, watching as this story played out. I, like many others, were still raw after 9/11. CNN never did put the terrorist connection on it. Even though the killer admitted that his motives were of a Islamic terrorist sort. What makes me so damned angry, is the fact that the Liberal media likes to paint this bastard as some sort of a victim of war. The common excuse is that he was driven crazy by the first gulf war. Sorry, I do not buy that idiotic bunch of tripe at all. I know many people who served in that first gulf war; one man personally, while he did have a nasty cough, that he could not shake. He never killed anyone, at all. The sad fact is; that the Ft. Hood shooting and this case are two peas out of the same damned pod, and the idiotic liberal media just will not put the two together. Because they fear a backlash from the Muslim community.

As much as I know, that it will most likely get me attacked for saying this, I happen to agree with this guy here:

I will simply end with this; this is one black man, that I am extremely glad to see is dead. One terrorist down, many millions more to go.

Barry's Ft. Hood Speech

I was not going to even waste my bandwidth on it. But seeing everyone else is; I guess I will do also.

Marc Ambinder is basically masturbating over this speech.  I found it very well executed; but devoid of any real emotion. I also have found out, via a very reliable source that the President was over forty minutes LATE in arriving to give this speech; which leads me to believe that he felt obligated to give the damned thing. In order words, he really does not give a flying leap about these people at all, he is just doing it, because he has to.

Anyhow, here is the speech:

It also appears that not every person on the left, that heard it, was impressed.

Bear in mind that the same person, that gave this speech, is the same person who said this during the campaign: (H/T Macsmind)

Just words…..Just Speeches….

Mao-Worshiping communist Anita Dunn to step down at end of the month

This little tip comes via Amanda Carpenter on Twitter:

White House communications director Anita Dunn will step down from her post at the end of the month and Dan Pfeiffer, her deputy, will take over, according to sources familiar with the move.

Dunn, a longtime Democratic media consultant, took over the job on an interim basis earlier this year when Ellen Moran abruptly left the post to take a job at the Commerce Department. Dunn will remain as a consultant to the White House on the communications and strategic ends.

via The Fix – Dunn leaving White House, Pfeiffer takes over.

From what I read she will be staying on as an consultant on the outside. But at least she is out of the White House. Of course, she will be close to the White House and the Administration; so, I do not think that we should remove her totally from the radar screen. What is more important is the fact that President Obama has surrounded himself with this sort of people; straight up Marxists who hate this Country and it’s founding principles. That alone should be enough to alarm anyone. But we do not live in society anymore; where people actually care about whom or what surrounds our President. We just elect them and then go back to our normal lives.

This is not to say that President George W. Bush was any better; Bush surrounded himself with yes men and with warmongering Wilsonian Conservatives — Commonly known as Neo-Conservatives. These people urged President Bush to go to war with a Country that had zero to do directly with 9/11. They proceeded to basically drive his Presidency square into the ground. When it was over with, the Nation, including Conservatives; just wanted him out.

That is the problem with a Country such as ours; the office of the Presidency is a difficult one to fill. Because there are two types of leaders; those who surround themselves with people who will tell them the things that they want to hear and those who surround themselves with people that tell them the things that they NEED to hear. Unfortunately, this President and the one before him have chosen the latter of those to types of people —- and we are a worse off Nation because of it too.

Crowder exposes some seriously dumb people

This comes via AllahPundit over HotAir.com of whom I have not linked to in a few days. Having your blog hits go from 722 to oh, like 6,567 in like a day; has the sort of an effect, I guess.   I mean, I wanted fame; but not like that.

Anyhow, this video is funny and spookier than crap at the same time. This is California… So, we must grade them on the curve —- of course, in California’s case, that curve is more like the side of a mountain.

Not everyone likes the "new" GOP

An interesting read here.

Money Quote:

For some reason it does not say that Eisenhower said that his appointment of liberal justices Warren and Brennan were his “two biggest mistakes.” According to Warren, Eisenhower told him prior to Brown, “These [Southerners] are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit alongside some big overgrown Negroes.”

Opposing activist judges like the ones Eisenhower regrettably nominated continues to elect Republicans to this day. In fact “Courts”—unlike immigration or affirmative action—are one of the six defining issues for the Party on GOP.com.

How about Lincoln? Nowhere does GOP.com even mention that he saved the Union and won the Civil War—or for that matter that he believed he had, “no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.” Instead, his accomplishments are reduced to his support for the abolition of Slavery.

Save Ronald Reagan, the only heroic Republicans are ones who base their career solely on uplifting African Americans.

The new GOP.com also provides an extended timeline of the Republican Party’s greatest accomplishments. Below are every single of one of the Party’s pre-1960 actions:

Republicans Established the Transcontinental Railroad

Republicans Passed the Land-Grant College Act

The Highest Point in Washington, DC [This refers to the addition of the Freedom Statue atop the Capital, however, they somehow made this entry about the Emancipation of Slavery in DC]

The First Hispanic Governor was a Republican Republicans Freed the Slaves

Republicans Passed the 14th Amendment

Republicans Established the Buffalo Soldiers

Republicans Established Howard University
Memorial Day

Republicans Passed the 15th Amendment

Republican Opposition to Plessy v. Ferguson

The First African-American Senator was a Republican

Republicans Outlawed the Ku Klux Klan

Yellowstone National Park

Republicans Passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act

A Republican Wrote the 19th Amendment

A Former Slave Chaired the 1884 Republican National Convention

First Women Mayors in the United States

A Republican President Appointed the First Jewish Cabinet Secretary [Only true, if you exclude Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin]

Republicans Passed the Indian Citizenship Act

The First Hispanic U.S. Senator was a Republican

The First Asian-American U.S. Senator was a Republican

The Republican Party First Called for Ending Racial Segregation in the Military

A Republican Integrated the University of Mississippi

A Republican Wrote the Brown v. Board of Education decision [Again, Earl Warren, the first Judicial Activist]

Republicans Established the Federal Highway System

Republicans Passed the 1957 Civil Rights Act

Republicans Ended Racial Segregation in Little Rock.

So, of the Republicans 28 greatest accomplishments during its first 100 years, only five do not involve helping women or minorities.

Trust Busting? Peaceful resolution of the Korean War? The Taft-Hartley Act—or for that matter, the 1924 Immigration Act? All are deemed unimportant.

Interestingly enough, just as none of the post-1960 Republican heroes are minorities, none of the nine post-1957 accomplishments of the GOP involved uplifting blacks?

What happened? Those evil Southern Democrats, whom the GOP.com derides, started voting for the GOP because they were fed up with the increasingly liberal Democrats. Beginning with the Dixiecrat walk out to support Strom Thurmond—who later became a Republican—in 1948, the South slowly left the Democrats and eventually voted en bloc for Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush.

In fact, many major Southern Democratic politicians—starting with Thurmond but continuing on through Mills E. Godwin, Jesse Helms, Phil Graham, Richard Shelby, and Virgil Goode—switched parties.

If someone attended the Five Minutes University on postwar electoral politics, the lesson would be: “Southerners voted Democratic. Blacks voted Republican. They switched parties.”

If they spent a few more minutes, they’d learn that because Southerners and then working class ethnic whites who were upset with the left wing racial, feminist, and cultural policies left the Democratic Party, the New Deal Coalition that kept the GOP out of power for nearly forty years collapsed and the Republicans dominated politics from 1968 until the election of Obama.

In the process, the GOP became less attractive to minorities, while the Democrats became the party of Willie Horton and Jeremiah Wright.

I hate to say it; but he is right.

Interesting: Possible Jew-Baiting behind Washington Times Shake up?

R.S. McCain has more.

Excellent Money Quote of the Month:

Having friends on both sides of the paleocon/neocon schism, I’m kind of an odd hawk-dove hybrid — a Zionist paleo? — and wish there were some sort of fusionist middle ground or, at least, that the two sides would stop anathematizing each other. Decades of this Manichean either/or game gets tiresome.

I could not have put that any better, if I tried.

I figure if I am going to get all this insane amount of traffic, I might as well steer it toward those who were kind to me, when I was a nobody idiot with an opinion. As opposed to being a somewhat well-known idiot with an opinion. NTTAWWT.

Why I pulled the post on Cao

Quite frankly, I did not want my server to crash. Plus, I know how the left likes to play the whole McCarthyism game with those who they find offensive.

So to stop the madness. I pulled it.

Quite frankly, I find all this head-exploding nonsense to be quite humorous.

But hey, I made Andrew Sullivan. So, I’m doing something right… 😀