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Some Republican Senators in Congress want Africans to catch AIDS and die.

This comes via Cernig over at NewsHoggers, It seems that we have some Republicans who are so damn self righteous that they would rather people in Africa to die of AIDS, so, they can say, “I prevented run-away spending”, than they would like to see their party improve their image.

From McClatchy Washington Bureau, we have the substance of why these senators are against this Bill:

In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the seven senators — Coburn, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and David Vitter of Louisiana — criticized the bills’ increased spending over the next five years from $15 billion to $50 billion, the expansion of AIDS funding to countries such as China and India and the inclusion of funding for agricultural-assistance and poverty-alleviation programs.

"The bills’ support would allow morally questionable activities, including advocating with host governments to change gender norms and policies and promoting activities that could include needle distribution to drug users," the senators wrote.

McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., support the legislation and said they were pushing for a compromise. Reid has been reluctant to move the legislation forward until an agreement is struck, and this week Democratic leaders focused blame for the delay on the seven senators.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, supports expanding the program, and the White House has pressed lawmakers for the legislation’s passage.

"President Bush himself talks to members of Congress about it to make sure that they know how important he thinks it is that they pass this bill because of all the good work that it’s doing," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Wednesday. "And I think that members of Congress recognize that, as well. I think we’re just working on these details. There have been some concerns, but I think that we’re able to address them."

The bills are backed by a wide range of humanitarian groups. Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently pressed McConnell to convince the Republican senators who’ve balked to pass the legislation.

"With the quick passage of this legislation, the United States could send a strong signal of its continuing global health leadership that will leverage support from other G-8 nations," Tutu wrote in a letter to McConnell. "That is why I am so deeply troubled by the impasse in the U.S. Senate regarding this legislation. I see signs that global determination to keep the promises made on AIDS, TB and malaria is waning, and I know that passage of this legislation, prior to the G-8, is crucial to regaining momentum."

Ya know, I’m just going to call this, for what it is, and that is blatant stupidity. For all the things that I have criticized President Bush for, this was not one of them. This is where I and the people who call themselves Nationalists, disagree. I believe in reigning in on spending and in spending money to foreign countries. But on humanitarian issues, I make an exception. AIDS is a terrible disease, and anything our Government can do to prevent it’s spread, should be pursued to the best of our abilities.   

Not only this, the Republican Party has a serious image problem, that is really in need of fixing, at let me just say, this is doing absolutely nothing to fix it. I mean, if the Republicans want to repair their highly tarnished image, which was all but destroyed by the actions of a Neo-Conservative Administration. This is really going to set the party back, very far back.

More Neo-Conservative Imperialism

My friends, this is what happens, when you elect a President for all the wrong reasons.

The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week.

The document, which ended up in e-mail limbo, without official status, was the E.P.A.’s answer to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that required it to determine whether greenhouse gases represent a danger to health or the environment, the officials said. – White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail – NYTimes.com

This my friends is a classic example of being so blinded by your personal ideology, that you refuse to listen to those, who might just know a little more about the said subject that yourself.

An Example:

Both documents, as prepared by the E.P.A., “showed that the Clean Air Act can work for certain sectors of the economy, to reduce greenhouse gases,” one of the senior E.P.A. officials said. “That’s not what the administration wants to show. They want to show that the Clean Air Act can’t work.”

The Bush administration’s climate-change policies have been evolving over the past two years. It now accepts the work of government scientists studying global warming, such as last week’s review forecasting more drenching rains, parching droughts and intense hurricanes as global temperatures warm (www.climatescience.gov).

But no administration decisions have supported the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act or other environmental laws.

This is where I will give John McCain, his first and possibly only pass on this Blog. At least John McCain realizes that there is a problem with Global Warming, although his solutions to the problem, fall far short of the solutions purposed by the Democrats in congress and by the EPA.

This sort of willful blindness to the problems that we are facing as a Nation, and by the World as a whole, is what will put the Republican Party in the minority for a long time to come.

Others: Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, TPMMuckraker, The Volokh Conspiracy, Balloon Juice and The Impolitic

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Jaw dropping cool Obama Video.

I know the most of you have heard the song, “Black President”, by NAS.

Well, here is supporter made video for it. Note, this is not the official Video. This was made by someone with Video Editing software.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzQgAdhWT1E&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]

I hate to say it, but John McCain doesn’t have a prayer in hell in winning this election.If this video is indication of the desire for change in this country, and If the current polls are any indication, I do not look for a Conservative to be in the White House for a very long time. Thanks to Bush and his Neo-Conservative idiotic nonsense, Conservativism is being run to the rat holes.

Thank you George W. Bush, you bastard.

Others: The Moderate Voice, The Other McCain, Top of the Ticket, Hot Air, Salon, Reason Magazine, Think Progress, The Corner, TIME.com, Slog, The Swamp, Donklephant, Mercury Rising, Patterico’s Pontifications, Daily Kos, Marc Ambinder, American Street, RADAMISTO, Wonkette, Commentary, MyDD, Spin Cycle, The Talent Show, TPM Election Central, Boston Globe, Martini Revolution, Real Clear Politics and Eschaton and more via Memeorandum

From the Dept. of "Ya Think?"

A new report says what Keith Olbermann and many other “Liberal” media types said long ago…

This should be enough cause to Conservatives to NEVER, EVER pick a Neo-Conservative for a Presidential candidate.

Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.

The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration.

“Many qualified candidates” were rejected for the department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, “constituted misconduct and also violated the department’s policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”– Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department – NYTimes.com

Now, I’m just waiting for some person from some Conservative Blog to come here and tell me I’m wrong.

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Blogs 4 Borders! 06/23/08

It’s time for the Blogs 4 Borders VBlog.

In this weeks edition…

The Other War: As Mexico melts down are we next?

100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders. When will the madness end?

John Monti’s false accusers take a second bite at the apple, we report and tell you what you can do to help!

Download for your ipod here.

As mentioned in the final story our friend John Monti is facing yet another bogus legal challenge (learn more here) and he could use our support. Make sure to join his Facebook group and hit the tip jar!

If you’d like to sponsor a show contact us here.

This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs
For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border
security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join find out how right here.

Speaking of Illegal Immigration, check out what our feckless
Government is doing, instead of deporting the Criminal Illegal
Immigrants, they’re deporting Catholic Priests, and Protestant pastors: (via WorldnetDaily.com)

U.S. immigration authorities have stepped up
deportations, but rather than pursue illegal aliens, they have chosen
to evict America’s church ministers from the country instead.

Honesty could cost Christian pastor Keith Thomas his citizenship
because he cooperated with immigration officials, disclosing two minor
marijuana convictions he incurred when he was a young man in England 33
years ago.

Thomas, 53, is working without pay, fearing deportation from the
U.S. and separation from his family. He was denied a green card based
on convictions that were expunged in 1982. Thomas told WND he has
documentation to prove his clean record since the 1975 conviction and
that he has always been truthful with officials, but he doesn’t
understand why people who enter the country illegally are allowed to
stay when he is facing the citizenship battle of his life.

“They’ve let 12 million illegals into the country, yet somebody has
been doing some good, paying taxes, came in legally and has been
married to an American for 27 years and has two American kids, and
they’re going to kick him out?” Thomas asked. “I told the truth. Nobody
called me out on my past. If I had not even owned up to my record, the
government would not have been able to find any of it.”

Nice… your Tax dollars at work!

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Memo to Self Righteous Idiot James Dobson: Will you please shut the hell up!?!??!

Go Read.

I won’t quote it here, because of my Boycott of the AP. But I will say this, If Dobson spent as much time trying to lead others to Christ, as he did sticking his idiotic self-righteous nose into politics, he might be doing something.

He is, as far as I am concerned, a classic textbook example of a Self Righteous, White, Christian pig.

Others:
Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, The Carpetbagger Report, Political Punch, Jonathan Martin’s Blogs, Wonkette, Liberal Values, Talk To Action, The Reaction, Babalu Blog and LewRockwell.com Blog

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More Blantant Neo-Conservative Stupidity…

David Brooks proves the depth of his blatant stupidity…

The arguments floating around the op-ed pages and seminar rooms were overwhelmingly against the idea of a surge — a mere 20,000 additional troops would not make a difference. The U.S. presence provoked violence, rather than diminishing it. The more the U.S. did, the less the Iraqis would step up to do. Iraq was in the middle of a civil war, and it was insanity to put American troops in the middle of it.

When President Bush consulted his own generals, the story was much the same. Almost every top general, including Abizaid, Schoomaker and Casey, were against the surge. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was against it, according to recent reports. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki called for a smaller U.S. presence, not a bigger one.

In these circumstances, it’s amazing that George Bush decided on the surge. And looking back, one thing is clear: Every personal trait that led Bush to make a hash of the first years of the war led him to make a successful decision when it came to this crucial call. – The Bush Paradox by DAVID BROOKS (via New York Times)

Here’s the problem with that ol’ Davie Boy. The move to the “surge” was made about 5 years too damn late. Not even to mention the multiple moving of the goal posts for the very reason of this war. This is just another rather lame attempt to justify this unconstitutional war.

Others: Commentary, Martini Revolution, GINA COBB, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Pundit, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Betsy’s Page, Connecting.the.Dots and The Mahablog (via Memeorandum)

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Sorry Feith, A screw up, is a screw up!

Douglass Feith attempts to justify a screw up.

Everyone now knows that the CIA’s intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was deeply flawed. (It was a diplomatic and political disaster that Rice and all the other top Bush administration officials relied on erroneous intelligence – though they did so in good faith.) Rice deserves credit for stressing here the gaps and uncertainties in U.S. intelligence – The Corner on National Review Online

The only thing rice deserves credit for is knowingly disseminating bad (some say false, but I digress…) intelligence to the American people.

In other words, A screw up, is a screw up, is a screw up. There is NO justifying it at all. Period.

Others:
Think Progress, The Washington Independent, Sadly, No! and Attackerman

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Anti-Obama attack Ad.

John McCain’s flunky Michael Goldfarb says that there’s no Conservative 527’s?

Well, exactly do you call, this?

If that isn’t a 527 attack ad, can someone please explain to me, what is?

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Francis H. Powers Staten Island G.O.P. Candidate Dies

This via the Corner:

This comes via the NYT:

The candidate endorsed by Republican leaders to run for a Congressional seat being vacated by Representative Vito J. Fossella died on Sunday morning at his home in Staten Island, party leaders said.

The candidate, Francis H. Powers, a board member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was a retired Wall Street executive and an active contributor to Republican candidates. Mr. Powers, 67, died in his sleep of natural causes, family members said.

“As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family,” Mr. Powers’s son, Brian, said in a statement. “We would appreciate privacy at this time as we make the necessary arrangements.”

Mr. Powers had been selected to run in the November election to succeed Mr. Fossella, who has held the seat since 1997 but who decided not to run for re-election after a personal scandal emerged. Mr. Fossella is the only Republican representing New York City in Congress.

And of course…:

National Democratic leaders have made it clear that they view winning the seat, which has been in Republican hands for 28 years, as a priority. Earlier this month, Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, visited New York to say his party would do “whatever is necessary to win this campaign.”

I wonder what that would be? Maybe like make up lies and smear people and publish pamphlets with false info on them?

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