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SoCal Chris
13 years ago
That is a way cool photograph!!! Words don’t do justice. Totally awesome. I love kitties, btw. 😉
Very cool cats. Speaking of which . . . Got Palin? Yeah, like on every television station! I think that America�s elite and Palin-haters everywhere should not be so quick to dismiss or disregard the future of Sarah Palin. No other national political figure so completely fills Middle America�s vacuum of frustration and hate for the Left and Right as she does.
Middle America has been abandoned by the Left and Right, who have saddled it with a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, an unnecessary and costly war, a soaring deficit, and an overall neglect of the pocketbook issues that impact Middle America every day. Where are job creation, quality public education, affordable healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, to name a few?
Middle America is mad as hell at the Left and Right and they just might be willing to roll the dice on someone like Palin, who lacks an Ivy League education, is a working class hockey-mom with a disabled child, and who has blue-collar roots like many of the folks in Middle America. The status quo on the Left and Right have produced nothing material for Middle America, which may toss conventional wisdom into the toilet and throw the lever for Palin, figuring it has nothing to lose, and it may be right.
The Ivy League educated on the Left and Right have delivered little to nothing for Middle America, perhaps precisely because they are out of touch with the issues that someone like Palin understands personally.
However, to say that Palin is a salmon swimming upstream is an understatement. The results of a CBS News survey released Monday indicate that 66 percent of respondents do not want her to run for the White House in 2012. Seventy percent of respondents to a CNN/Opinion Research poll said she is not qualified to be president.
More difficult for Palin is the fact that the trend is not her friend�public opinion is moving in the wrong direction right now.
In the CBS survey, 43 percent of GOP respondents said Palin would have the ability to be an effective president. Only 11 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents agreed.
However, there is an opportunity for Palin among independents, where Palin�s rating is 41 percent favorable, and 48 percent unfavorable, according to Gallup.
These numbers are not great, but there is plenty of time if she can move the needle by appealing to Middle America and independents, which is where elections are won or lost.
Clearly, Palin has put the monkey on her back, especially with her resignation from Alaska�s governorship in July, a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to explain away. However, don�t put it past Palin to put lipstick on this pig and paint herself as a victim of politically motivated and baseless ethics charges that prevented her from successfully serving the people of Alaska, forcing her to do the noble thing and take the bullet by resigning.
We can say what we want about Palin, but no Republican in recent history has created such frenzied excitement across the country as she has. Just take a look at the fervor she stirs as she wheels across Middle America on her book tour.
Perhaps this is a misreading of the tea leaves, but one could argue that she creates a wee bit more excitement than Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, the two Republican front-runners for president in 2012. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman just may be queen.
Sarah might be best off waiting to run American, build up her chops in the national arena for a few years. She’s young enough to be smart, strategic and use the country’s sentiments and longing for the America we used to know to her advantage.
Steve In Tulsa
13 years ago
It is interesting that the new fascination with Vampires has come along with the Democrat majority in Washington in 2006… Movies making blood sucking look harmless and lovable while the democrats suck the blood out of the economy with anti-business taxation like Cap and Tax and Minimum Wage hike and all the other job killing inflationary activity. The democrats did not inherit this economy. They voted for it and it is their budget, policies, and threats to business that continue to exacerbate the economy.
Big Cats are cuddly too! Just like Vampires. Cuddly!
Temujin
13 years ago
If Mary Landrieu takes Reid’s sweetener of $100 Million for her vote, it will define her and the only thing left she can talk about is the haggling over the price.
I pray she has the intestinal fortitude to tell him straight up “my vote is not for sale”.
Wait, what the heck am I thinking. She is a politician. Sorry, lost my head for a moment. California has bid their vote up to 3 times that much, so I hear.
That is our money Reid is throwing around for cloture votes.
This is a travesty.
Congratulations Curt and all the FA authors, Bombs and Dollars blog listed Flopping Aces in their personal top 133 conservative sites. Their blog looks pretty interesting too, nice of them to do something like this:
As a resource to my readers and others who are interested in exploring new blogs, I have assembled my personal list of my favorite conservative blogs. I took a lot of factors into consideration, including: influence, entertainment value, information-value, frequency and regularity of updates, and personal interest.
These are my own rankings of blogs that I follow, and I know I missed some, so I apologize for those I missed, but I did the best I could. Enjoy:
Bombs And Dollars is an American foreign policy blog. Read B&D for updates on important issues like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China’s economic relations with America.
Missy, that’s great news! I’ve always said that FA was one of my favorite blogs and it was really better than most people even knew. I love coming here and have been for at least 2 years now.
Problem is I keep facebooking the articles so pretty soon the whole world will know FA!! Bombs and Dollars is good too, I signed up there.
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.
Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.
Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.
Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.
Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.
The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three SEALs — two officers and an enlisted sailor — have been identified by investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.
FoxNews.com obtained the official handwritten statement from one of the three witnesses given on Sept. 3, hours after Abed was captured and still being held at the SEAL base at Camp Baharia. He was later taken to a cell in the U.S.-operated Green Zone in Baghdad.
The SEAL told investigators he had showered after the mission, gone to the kitchen and then decided to look in on the detainee.
“I gave the detainee a glance over and then left,” the SEAL wrote. “I did not notice anything wrong with the detainee and he appeared in good health.”
Lt. Col. Holly Silkman, spokeswoman for the special operations component of U.S. Central Command, confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com that three SEALs have been charged in connection with the capture of a detainee. She said their court martial is scheduled for January.
United States Central Command declined to discuss the detainee, but a legal source told FoxNews.com that the detainee was turned over to Iraqi authorities, to whom he made the abuse complaints. He was then returned to American custody. The SEAL leader reported the charge up the chain of command, and an investigation ensued.
The source said intelligence briefings provided to the SEALs stated that “Objective Amber” planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush, and “they had been tracking this guy for some time.”
The Fallujah atrocity came to symbolize the brutality of the enemy in Iraq and the degree to which a homegrown insurgency was extending its grip over Iraq.
The four Blackwater agents were transporting supplies for a catering company when they were ambushed and killed by gunfire and grenades. Insurgents burned the bodies and dragged them through the city. They hanged two of the bodies on a bridge over the Euphrates River for the world press to photograph.
Intelligence sources identified Abed as the ringleader, but he had evaded capture until September.
The military is sensitive to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The Navy charged four SEALs with abuse in 2004 in connection with detainee treatment.
@ Missy & all….I’m so outraged I could stand on the roof and scream. Three words:
Defend our Defenders.
Missy
13 years ago
This is an outrage! I was so angry last night, couldn’t comment so just pasted it.
Remember the al Qaeda handbook that was unearthed? I think I remember reading that the vermin were trained to behave like this when captured.
Question, since these SEALs names have been publicized, does this end their career out in the field even if these charges get dropped or they win in the courts martial?
@Patvann: There must be something wrong with the counter. I was sure Larry W. had 80,000 comments all on his own….. Or did he have 80,000 words per comment? I forget?
Patvann
13 years ago
@ Mike
LOL!
I can’t go there. I KNOW what kind of hyper-posting gasbag I can be!
That is a way cool photograph!!! Words don’t do justice. Totally awesome. I love kitties, btw. 😉
Very cool cats. Speaking of which . . . Got Palin? Yeah, like on every television station! I think that America�s elite and Palin-haters everywhere should not be so quick to dismiss or disregard the future of Sarah Palin. No other national political figure so completely fills Middle America�s vacuum of frustration and hate for the Left and Right as she does.
Middle America has been abandoned by the Left and Right, who have saddled it with a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, an unnecessary and costly war, a soaring deficit, and an overall neglect of the pocketbook issues that impact Middle America every day. Where are job creation, quality public education, affordable healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, to name a few?
Middle America is mad as hell at the Left and Right and they just might be willing to roll the dice on someone like Palin, who lacks an Ivy League education, is a working class hockey-mom with a disabled child, and who has blue-collar roots like many of the folks in Middle America. The status quo on the Left and Right have produced nothing material for Middle America, which may toss conventional wisdom into the toilet and throw the lever for Palin, figuring it has nothing to lose, and it may be right.
The Ivy League educated on the Left and Right have delivered little to nothing for Middle America, perhaps precisely because they are out of touch with the issues that someone like Palin understands personally.
However, to say that Palin is a salmon swimming upstream is an understatement. The results of a CBS News survey released Monday indicate that 66 percent of respondents do not want her to run for the White House in 2012. Seventy percent of respondents to a CNN/Opinion Research poll said she is not qualified to be president.
More difficult for Palin is the fact that the trend is not her friend�public opinion is moving in the wrong direction right now.
In the CBS survey, 43 percent of GOP respondents said Palin would have the ability to be an effective president. Only 11 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents agreed.
However, there is an opportunity for Palin among independents, where Palin�s rating is 41 percent favorable, and 48 percent unfavorable, according to Gallup.
These numbers are not great, but there is plenty of time if she can move the needle by appealing to Middle America and independents, which is where elections are won or lost.
Clearly, Palin has put the monkey on her back, especially with her resignation from Alaska�s governorship in July, a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to explain away. However, don�t put it past Palin to put lipstick on this pig and paint herself as a victim of politically motivated and baseless ethics charges that prevented her from successfully serving the people of Alaska, forcing her to do the noble thing and take the bullet by resigning.
We can say what we want about Palin, but no Republican in recent history has created such frenzied excitement across the country as she has. Just take a look at the fervor she stirs as she wheels across Middle America on her book tour.
Perhaps this is a misreading of the tea leaves, but one could argue that she creates a wee bit more excitement than Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, the two Republican front-runners for president in 2012. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman just may be queen.
A. Muser
http://americanmuser.wordpress.com
Here kitty kitty kitty.
@Patvann:
Now, now, Patvann, you be nice to those kitties!
What a beautiful picture!!! Love those big cats 😉
Sarah might be best off waiting to run American, build up her chops in the national arena for a few years. She’s young enough to be smart, strategic and use the country’s sentiments and longing for the America we used to know to her advantage.
It is interesting that the new fascination with Vampires has come along with the Democrat majority in Washington in 2006… Movies making blood sucking look harmless and lovable while the democrats suck the blood out of the economy with anti-business taxation like Cap and Tax and Minimum Wage hike and all the other job killing inflationary activity. The democrats did not inherit this economy. They voted for it and it is their budget, policies, and threats to business that continue to exacerbate the economy.
Big Cats are cuddly too! Just like Vampires. Cuddly!
If Mary Landrieu takes Reid’s sweetener of $100 Million for her vote, it will define her and the only thing left she can talk about is the haggling over the price.
I pray she has the intestinal fortitude to tell him straight up “my vote is not for sale”.
Wait, what the heck am I thinking. She is a politician. Sorry, lost my head for a moment. California has bid their vote up to 3 times that much, so I hear.
That is our money Reid is throwing around for cloture votes.
This is a travesty.
My what a nice coat those cats would make!
Mike, you get those big cats out of the cross hairs of your scope! 😉
Guess the momma Cheetah is kinda like Sarah protecting her own…you REALLY don’t want to mess with her babies!
Mom and the kittens would look better if they all got some feathers.
Awwww…….mom and her cubs…..
Sweet.
“I’d rather owe ya that ten bucks than cheetah you outta it…………”
(ducks)
A cheetah is like a leopard, only not peppered.
Found this at Ace. Trust Me, This Will Make You Laugh
Congratulations Curt and all the FA authors, Bombs and Dollars blog listed Flopping Aces in their personal top 133 conservative sites. Their blog looks pretty interesting too, nice of them to do something like this:
http://bombsanddollars.com/index/2009/11/top-133-conservative-blogs/
Missy, that’s great news! I’ve always said that FA was one of my favorite blogs and it was really better than most people even knew. I love coming here and have been for at least 2 years now.
Problem is I keep facebooking the articles so pretty soon the whole world will know FA!! Bombs and Dollars is good too, I signed up there.
@Aqua: LOL! What a great “gotcha” moment!
Pffft!
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,576646,00.html
@ Missy.
I’ve been trying real hard to stay away from that topic today. So while it’s good that you post it, I can’t comment fully yet.
I’m seething over that story, Missy.
Who would be responsible for bringing charges against these men? Will we find out who is Obama’s bag boy?
I had a customer offer me a kitten the other day. I had to tell the lady, “No thanks, I have a freezer full of them.”
@ Missy & all….I’m so outraged I could stand on the roof and scream. Three words:
Defend our Defenders.
This is an outrage! I was so angry last night, couldn’t comment so just pasted it.
Remember the al Qaeda handbook that was unearthed? I think I remember reading that the vermin were trained to behave like this when captured.
Question, since these SEALs names have been publicized, does this end their career out in the field even if these charges get dropped or they win in the courts martial?
How long will it be before Obama apologizes to the terrorist?
Glenn Beck on the war situation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd-Fp_MwTHg&feature=player_embedded
Rare to have 4 kittens make it to that age.Likely only 2 will make adulthood.
Wow!
I just realized that I have the 80,000th comment!
(Odometer fetish)
@Patvann: There must be something wrong with the counter. I was sure Larry W. had 80,000 comments all on his own….. Or did he have 80,000 words per comment? I forget?
@ Mike
LOL!
I can’t go there. I KNOW what kind of hyper-posting gasbag I can be!