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Atlanta Winter Storm Damage
This is just a spoof picture but it reminds me of how funny it sounds to someone like myself raised in North Dakota to hear all the wailing and moaning coming from the south whenever they have a few minutes of winter weather.
I am still amazed to this day that every time there is a little rain here in California they call it a STORM! Where I come from, running in the farm house and yelling "Theres a storm a comin pa!" will get you a very red behind if its not true. You would never use the word storm unless there was already cows and pigs flying up in the sky. You better hope Dorothy's house and the Wicked Witch are still up in the sky when pa gets to the back porch! If you just managed to get from the barn to the house by leaning at a 45 degree angle into the wind it is then acceptable to say "Little windy today" as you crawl in the door. Anything more than that will get you the stare that could kill from Grandpa. CP
8:28:12 PM 
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While Americans and Iraqis cheered when Saddam Hussein was dragged from his spider hole in December, there were, obviously, a few notable exceptions. While Saddam loyalists and anti-American Arabs pouted in gloom and doom, back in the U.S. an anti-American poetry hit parade, entitled “My America,” was held shortly after Saddam’s capture. It was the grand finale of San Francisco State University’s fall semester.
Even as TV screens showed the captured Hitler of the Middle East in all his pathetic, unkempt glory, the anti-war show on campus continued. As a part of the Creative Writing Department curriculum, more than a hundred and fifty SFSU students were forced to attend this collective primary delusion presented as a poetry reading. Unfortunately, the weakness of the poets’ political intellect was matched by the weakness of their writing. From the lighted stage of the huge auditorium they groaned about American ‘war atrocities’:
3:53:18 PM
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Who needs California? Gays can tie knot in N.Y. town!
Can you say anarchy?
There will be a new one of these pop up everyday. Then there will be two a day. Then there will be ten a day. and then.........? Poor California! We come up with a sure fire way to increase tourism and balance the budget and right away everyone wants in on the act! CP
4:07:54 AM
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The liberal use of "general welfare"
Quite literaly, as it turns out. Liberals argue that the reference to "provide...for the...general welfare" means any laws for any reason; and thus Congress and the Federal government have no limits.
The Founding Fathers, however, encountered the same fallacies during the ratification debates and dispensed with such nonsense in Federalist number 41:
It has been urged and echoed, that the power ``to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,'' amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare. No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction. Had no other enumeration or definition of the powers of the Congress been found in the Constitution, than the general expressions just cited, the authors of the objection might have had some color for it; though it would have been difficult to find a reason for so awkward a form of describing an authority to legislate in all possible cases. A power to destroy the freedom of the press, the trial by jury, or even to regulate the course of descents, or the forms of conveyances, must be very singularly expressed by the terms ``to raise money for the general welfare. ''
In other words, if what liberals maintain is true then the Constitution specifying the powers of Congress would have consisted of merely that phrase, as all other words concering the powers of Congress would have been redundant. [Reality Hammer]
3:59:50 AM
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2/27/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir
3:45:14 AM
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Kerry vs. Carter
"Democratic front-runner John Kerry toured an abandoned steel mill today and heard first-hand about the hardships of being laid off as he highlighted job losses in a key 'Super Tuesday' state since President Bush took office," Reuters reports from Struthers, Ohio:
"That's tough man," the Massachusetts senator said after Randy Velk, an unemployed ironworker explained how he was struggling to pay for the prescription drugs he needs for diabetes.
Kerry, exchanging his navy topcoat and black dress shoes for a brown corduroy jacket and duck boots, visited the shuttered Youngstown Sheet and Tube Works--a rusted-out shell of corrugated iron and broken glass--with Velk and four workers who were recently locked out of their manufacturing jobs.
"That's exactly what we're going to change," Kerry told Velk. "Nobody in America should be in fear for their health."
So Kerry's going to reverse the Bush administration policies that led to the closing of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Works? Well, uh, no. As this Ohio State University syllabus notes, the facility closed in 1977--when, if we remember right, a member of Kerry's party was in the White House. [WSJ]
3:38:37 AM
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If She Were Republican, This Would Be Hate Speech--XVI
Rep. Corinne Brown of Florida, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, threw a racist tantrum yesterday, the Associated Press reports. She called President Bush's Haiti policy "racist" and his administration "a bunch of white men":
Her outburst was directed at Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. Noriega, a Mexican-American, is the State Department's top official for Latin America. . . .
Brown sat directly across the table from Noriega and yelled into a microphone. Her comments sent a hush over the hourlong meeting, which was attended by about 30 people, including several members of Congress and Bush administration officials.
Noriega later told Brown: "As a Mexican-American, I deeply resent being called a racist and branded a white man," according to three participants.
Brown then told him "you all look alike to me," the participants said.
Noriega told Brown he would relay her comments about "white men" to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
3:20:00 AM
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The trouble with Rover
But the transmission that uploaded the utility was a partial failure: Only one of the utility program's two parts was received successfully. The second part was not received, and so in accordance with the communications protocol it was scheduled for retransmission on sol 19.
Thus was the fuse lit on a software hand grenade.
3:05:56 AM
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