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Religious Right Hypocrisy: Social Restriction and Economic Freedom

A brief comparison of two survey results; one from Networked Insights and the other is from Nielsen, clearly indicated that a lot of Americans watch morally-sick Desperate Housewives but they don’t want to talk about it at social networks. Special thanks to Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Sarah Palin’s Wardrobe Disconnect — Fashion Columnist Robin Givhan asks how a campaign can portray Gov. Sarah Palin as a no-frills hockey mom while spending a jaw-dropping sum at Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Barneys to outfit her… [See Gallery Here] By — Derek Kravitz From head to toe, every piece of clothing worn by Alaska [...]

Antithetical to her promises to cut back on wasteful government spending, new reports are surfacing about Sarah Palin. From the original post on Politico:The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August. According to financial disclosure records, the

(H/T:  The Chilling Effect).  I’ve written about the hypocrisy shown by the WWF by asking for nations to come together to stop climate change while at the same time offering a jet tour of exotic destinations around the world.  Now, from the Chilling Effect, a cartoon that does it justice. Tags: climate change, Ice, climate, wwf Related Posts WWF Continues Fear-Mongering (0) WWF:

As a community, we have a responsibility to support one another, and not root for the team whose members (at their most generous) could care less about our rights. We should call into question the leaders of LGBT advocacy organizations who choose to vote republican. If GLAAD’s goal is to "...choose staff members, and recruit board members who are the most qualified and share our passion and comm

Michelle Malkin has a great piece on the hypocrisy of liberals. I am getting sick and tired of this media and the democrats claiming that McCain is being racist, and that his supporters are being hateful. Please take a look at Malkin's recent post because it clearly depicts how despicable liberals are. While I'm not voting for McCain it makes me mad because liberals these days clearly don't know h

Ahmadinejad is one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet...he should practice what he preaches in his own country first...

Ahmadinijead is one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet...He should practice what he preaches in his own country first.

I don't have any medical insurance coverage of any kind. My employer offers no coverage options at all and the cost of individual insurance that has any real value is simply not within my financial reach. This scenario is not unusual in America today even though our country boasts the best health care in the world for its citizens...if you can pay for it. So, that is how it is and I just liv

When anti-gay Republican Senator Larry Craig was arrested in the bathroom of the Minneapolis airport for soliciting gay sex with an undercover cop, it seemed like the Republicans couldn’t get more comically hypocritical. Then, radical evangelical minister Ted Haggard was outed as having a year long affair with a crystal meth dealer and male prostitute. Then, [...]

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I think the video below speaks for itself...But first...On the selection of Sarah Palin by John McCain...I believe she is being used for effect by the Republicans and by her own ideology. You don't diss one person who is similarly unqualified and then turn around and yell haleluja over someone who is equally unquailfied unless it is not really even about that. I really don't think we would be se

Jon Stewart mocks hypocritical Republican morons — Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and ‘Toe-Sucking‘ Dick Morris    The Killer From Wasilla    Cindy McCain’s $300,000 ‘Convention’ Outfit Cindy has the price of a Scottsdale split-level hanging from her ears….[ more ] Related Posts September 6, 2008 — Sar

The Daily Show doing what it does best p@wning partisans...

One of the better online political chat forums, the aptly named nohippos.com, has an award that is given to the best example of hypocrisy. Once again, my vote goes to America’s liberal left and their number #1 propaganda machine, CNN.Hands down, the news network has shown why they aren’t nearly the respected entity they once were. If FoxNews can be called ‘cheaply conservative’, CNN can be

This shows what I hate about the conservative “right” - blatant hypocrisy.  As usual, The Daily Show highlights these … let’s say shifts of opinions, with recent videos that show them playing both sides of the issue, depending on the subject. If it was a liberal issue, they’re all over it, if the EXACT [...]

This shows what I hate about the conservative “right” - blatant hypocrisy.  As usual, The Daily Show highlights these … let’s say shifts of opinions, with recent videos that show them playing both sides of the issue, depending on the subject. If it was a liberal issue, they’re all over it, if the EXACT [...]

by Pudge Today in the same breath someone, to me, attacked Bush for violating the Constitution, and not supporting Social Security enough. Apart from the fact that the “raiding” of Social Security actually makes the S.S. Trust Fund more solvent and is a good investment (as it is guaranteed safe by the Constitution, and earns interest), and [...]

The Peoples’ Majlis yesterday rejected accepting a motion tabled by one of the MPs regarding the increasing of the income and salaries of the Civil Service, other offices of the government and government partnered companies. The motion failed to get the required bare minimum of 26 votes (as only 21 voted in favour out of the 27 who bothered turning up to the session) One would ponder, why the

In the 23 February 2008 issue of The Jakarta Post, Veronica Kusuma, a student with the film department at the Jakarta Institute of Arts (IKJ), made a very interesting opinion article regarding film censorship in Indonesia. Amongst heaps of stuff she discussed there, there was one particular point that intrigued me. In that article she reminded us about the Buruan Cium Gue (Kiss Me Quick) movie ti

Even as they vote to restrict their salaries to a below-inflation rise [and send the blogosphere into shock] - presumably to get some good headlines - they are refusing to overhaul their expenses system: MPs threw out plans to overhaul their expenses, insisting on their right to buy kitchens, televisions and sofas on the taxpayer. Plans for [...]

Will Saletan is an excellent columnist, especially in the way he constructs an argument. I found this recent column particularly convincing. I agree that we should not be using the results from Google Trends for a particular geographic region to define the standards of that community. The internet is a community unto itself and [...]

I wanted to post this the other day but was busy. This is from Rush simply topic Democratic culture of greed and hypocrisy. At the end is a link to the piece from The American Spectator “A Culture of Greed” Happy reading! RUSH: The Countrywide Six. “Christopher Dodd said he and his wife knew that Countrywide, Inc., was [...]

It was a pretty amusing read about "frugal" hydro consumption by the big-time green policy advocate, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore. According to the article published by the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research and titled "Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month," last year Gore's home "burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hou

Like ALL leftwingers, Al Gore is, first and foremost, a liar and a hypocrite;In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President's home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. "A man's commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home," said Drew Johns

Dana Milbank at the Washington Post wrote a rather humorous column about Juan McSame. Well, it seems that the self righteous Kool-Aid drinking Right Wingers at NewsBusters took issue with a line in Dana’s Column. The line in question: If John McCain keeps dancing like this, he's liable to break a hip. Well, that was not acceptable to the supporters of the former womanizing, coke

Hillary’s loss is mot Women’s Failure. The claim that some ‘Angry White Women‘ either will vote for John McCain or stay home on Election Day, sounds like disappointment devolving into hypocrisy. Writes: Connie Schultz Last week, I gave my daughter a small plaque painted with the words of a Japanese proverb. It was a mother’s gift to [...]

Muslims protest that the West allows publications to print the truth even though it may offend someone. On the other hand, Muslims have no problem with the publishing of lies that offend non-Muslims.

Now that the Democratic primaries are over, it’s election season again, which means it’s time for America’s favorite game show; Who Wants To Be a Hypocrite. It’s time to listen to the party voters explain how they aren’t party voters and how, after much soul searching and deep thought on the issues of the day, they have decided to once again vote for the party they ha

In an email promoting their petition campaign, Act for America mentioned a recent UNHRC resolution which demands censorship of Islam's critics. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCILSeventh sessionAgenda item 9RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATEDFORMS OF INTOLERANCE, FOLLOW-UP TO AND IMPLEMENTATIONOF THE DURBAN DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTIONPakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islami

"San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has blasted a proposal that would allow San Diego county clerks to decline to perform same-sex "marriages" on conscience grounds saying he is both 'shocked' and 'outraged' according to Reuters news service. Newsom was responding to an idea tabled on Wednesday by San Diego County to exempt clerks who had moral or religious objections to gay 'marriage' from officiat

(CAIR) has jumped into the fray, issuing a press release Thursday calling on McCain to "Renounce Second Bigoted Pastor." The second pastor is Rod Parsley of Ohio, who has said that America's role as a nation is to destroy Islam (word today is that McCain is also distancing his campaign from Parsley) Leaving aside for the moment Hooper's

[Sweden][Ludvika]Album: Catch 22 (V2.0.08)Genre: Melodic Death MetalYear: 2008Tracklist: 01. Don't Judge Me (02:32)02. Destroyed (04:04)03. On The Edge Of Madness (05:03)04. A Public Puppet (03:46)05. Uncontrolled (04:43)06. Turn The Page (04:06)07. Hatred (04:46)08. Another Dead End (For Another Dead Man) (03:41)09. Seeds Of The Chosen One (05:13)10. All Turns Black (04:25)11. Nowhere To Run (03:

Suecia | 1999 | Melodic Death MetalHypocrisy Destroys Wacken es un álbum en vivo de la banda sueca Hypocrisy. Fue grabado el 8 de Agosto de 1998 en "Wacken Open Air" y fue mezclado por Lars Johannson en Studio Hängballe. Fue producido por Peter Tägtgren y editado bajo Nuclear Blast el 2 de Marzo de 1999.Line Up:Peter Tägtgren − voz, guitarrasMikael Hedlund − bajoLars Szöke − bateríaMat

"Obama criticized Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for "dishonest and divisive" attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terrorists. Obama strongly responded Friday to the comments Bush made in Israel on Thursday and McCain's subsequent words. Obama told a town hall meeting, "That's the kind of hypocrisy that we've been seeing in our foreign polic

McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It. | No president in US history has abused the prestige of his office in as crude a way as Bush did yesterday. By James P. Rubin Friday, May 16, 2008 If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview [...]

Shocker!… Dems Scream Racism Over Republican Ad Then Are Busted Passing Out Bogus KKK Flyers! This is suppose to be a racist ad… Now, the Democrats and their lackeys in the media are screaming “RACISM!” The New York Times reported: Hoping to hang on to a Congressional seat in a tight special election here on Tuesday, Republicans in this [...]

Spitting Image had a sketch where then shadow cabinet members Michael Foot, Roy Hattersley, Neil Kinnock and Denis Healey sing about how "hopeless" and "p*sspoor" they are.I was reminded of this sketch when I read a post by Guido Fawkes about the Labour Party's Crewe by-election leaflet, which is also on the Crewe Labour candidate Tamisn Dunwoody's website.The website saysLocal residents are asking the question - who is Edward Timpson? Apparently he has been a candidate for 12 months, but no one in the town has heard much from him.All we know about his is he waffles lots, wants to cut the funding going to our schools, has no idea how to tackle crime and lives in a big mansion house on the other side of Tarporley. 1. Which local residents are asking this?2. What evidence to you have he waff

So we can have crosses that are representing the soldiers lost in Iraq and the War on Terror, but to show that an abortion is a loss of life is wrong. Is there a double standard here??? I am sure...

Found this on Olbermann Watch Olbermann is such a fucken moronic jackass… Deplorable Keith Olbermann attacked Rush Limbaugh for a supposed racial “insult”, dutifully parroted from one of Olby’s usual blue blog “news” sources (Think Propaganda). Krazy Keith was up in arms, making Limbaugh “worst person in the world” for his heinous, racist slur against a Hispanic [...]

By Leonard Pitts Jr.My cousin thinks Jeremiah Wright walks on water. He is a minister, my cousin, and for years, whenever I’ve visited him in Chicago, he has asked the same question: have I ever attended one of the Rev. Wright’s services? When I said no, he would lecture me on the wonderfulness of Wright, the [...]

Mark Nicholas has demonstrated the hypocrisy of the Clinton campaign in a couple of recent posts. Yesterday he showed how Terry McCauliffe took the opposite position he now takes with regards to Michigan and Florida. In 2004 Michigan Senator Carl Levin threatened to do what Michigan did this year in moving up the primary. An [...]

  “Hypocrisy (or being a hypocrite) is the act of opposing or not purporting a belief or behaviour while holding the same beliefs or behaviours at the same time, or vice versa.”  Girls….I want to share with you a message received today in reference to my private myspace page “Black Women Deserve Better” (  )   ….The responders name [...]

It is regrettable to find that a large number of educated Maldivians are falling behind in undertaking their responsibility of actively be involved in working towards bringing a brighter future to the Maldives and its people. We today have many Maldivians who have graduated and started working (either at home or abroad) or are doing further studies. But a lot of these Maldivians are

Add the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to the list of race-hustling, misleading double-speaking con men who just so happens to wear a pastor's collar. Certainly, we are all too familiar with their names. Their demagoguery is infamous. They are often deemed by the media as the leaders and spokespeople of the black community.

Jakarta Post Editorial:A bid by the Batu administration in East Java to curb prostitution by asking masseuses to wear a padlock on their pants not only serves as an insult to women but most of all exposes our hypocrisy.Requiring masseuses to wear a padlock would not curb prostitution or uphold public morality; it would only make our country an international laughingstock.We share the opinion of our minister for women's empowerment, Meutia Hatta Swasono, that this odd practice insults women and unfairly portrays masseuses as prostitutes.First, it's impossible to eliminate prostitution simply because there is always a demand, and even a growing demand, and supply.However, we act as if we can eliminate the sex industry. We declare prostitution illegal and our law enforcers close down some pla

The WTO has issued the latest ruling in its longest running trade dispute — EU banana imports. In a case brought by Ecuador the World Trade Organization ruled that the EU’s historical, formalized trade preference for bananas from its former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific rim, constitute unfair trade practices against Latin America, a decision which may allow Ecuador to issue trade sanctions against the EU. More commentary here. Also in Europe…this week in the UK a new law came into effect that will make it easier for corporations to be prosecuted and fined for manslaughter. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act lessens the burden of proof necessary and raises possible fines in cases where companies are charged with negligence. But many

The arrogance of the Muslim superiority complex. Egypt seizes German magazine over Islam portrayal Image courtesy of Mohammad Cartoons.com CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt ordered the confiscation of a special edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel about Islam on Tuesday that the government says insults the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said. Information Minister Anas el-Feki [...]

There's an amusing post on the Official Google blog by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. What it adds up to is a plea for market intervention by government authorities, which is a bit rich coming from a company that has a monopoly market share of search. Of course, this is just a bit of evil Google game-playing. If Drummond really thinks that combining Yahoo and Microsoft represents a significant threat to Google, then he could be the only man on earth who does. However, it looks hypocritical to me. Drummond says: The openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's what

President Bush gave a great speech at the Nation Museum of the United States Air Force today. The speech was largely about the Iraq war; however, Bush addressed some Democratic criticisms. The highlight came when he addressed the pace of progress made: “They got their budget passed. Sometimes it takes our Congress awhile to get its [...]

Bollywood Gossips : 'Halla Bol' is political... It's about hypocrisy: Santoshi Stats : 1 Post

As if one needed further evidence that many of my liberal brothers and sisters are hypocrites of the most incredible proportion, this wrong-headed Nation writer (redundant) comes along to theorize that the real reason that Obama is plummeting in the polls is white racism (Race does play a factor, as I've mentioned before, but it doesn't explain why people are moving away from Obama.). So, Obama goes to a racist church and it's only our own racism that wants to know why he did so (I assume he doesn't go anymore- it's his "former" church.) and if he agreed with pastor Wright's horrible lies. Take a trip with me to equivalence land. Imagine if John McCain went to pastor Fred Phelps' gay-hating (I mean real "hate" not just disagreement. And homosexuality is something frowned upon in the Bibl

BARACK OBAMA HAS NOWHERE TO GO BUT OUT Jimmy Z – This morning on local KABC radio 790am, the am host, Doug McIntyre, made a great point: During the “nappy headed ho” controversy, Barack Obama told us that Don Imus had no place on the American air waves. How then can it be acceptable that Jeremiah Wright, this racist, anti-Semitic hatemongering anti-America bigot is NoBama’s Pastor, friend and mentor for 20 years? There is no answer for this. That’s why NoBama tried so hard to rationalize what Wright says.

Wow..... Just wow.... The Story: Clinton Praises Petraeus (via The Caucus) The quote:  As critical as she is about the Bush administration’s conduct of the Iraq war, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a relatively rare shout-out to the military’s top man in Baghdad, General David Petraeus, calling him “an extraordinary leader and a wonderful advocate for our military.” The commanding general, who has been a target of antiwar opponents and liberal groups like Moveon.org, has been a strong supporter of the escalation of American troops in Iraq, a strategy that Mrs. Clinton and Senator Barack Obama have opposed. But Mrs. Clinton, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has had opportunities to talk and meet with General Petraeus about m

I was reading a post today in the Left Coaster where eriposte suggests that the Obama camp is being unfair by trying to bring up the whole Whitewater affair again. Apparently keeping with a major theme of the Clinton supporters out there, Obama is stooping to another "right wing" talking point attack line. At the end of the post, eriposte quips that the Obama supporter are so much like the GOP attack dogs that you should consider "the company they keep". One can only assume the "company" Obama is keeping in this case is the VRWC. Hmmm... I find this all to hypocritical from two different angles. First, how come it is fair for the Clinton camp to keep shoving Resko and Obama together every chance they get, but not fair for Obama to remind people that the Clintons had some serious involveme

 It seems as though Al Gore’s contrived, made-for-profit environmental crisis may be losing some steam. At least I hope so. A new national ad campaign is targeting Al Gore’s hypocrisy when it comes to saving the planet. Usually this type of ad campaign is relegated to people running for office. But in this case, Al [...]

I have been hoping that someone, somewhere amid all the punditry surrounding l'affaire Spitzer, would make this point. And maybe someone has, but I missed it. So I will make it myself, perhaps superfluously.Eliot Spitzer, we are being told by commentators both left and right, is a hypocrite. But among all the things he may be guilty of, is hypocrisy really one of them? Hypocrisy (just to define our terms, as Socrates advised) is "a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion." It's easy to remember this technical definition (and the technical part is important) if one bears in mind that hypokrinesthai is the Greek word for "to act on a stage." Pretense is the essence of hypocrisy -- playing the ro

Suecia | 2004 | Death Metal / Melodic Blackened Death MetalLa banda sueca Hypocrisy fue formada en Ludvika, Suecia en 1990 por Peter Tägtgren. The Arrival es su noveno album de estudio, editado el 16 de Febrero de 1990 a través de Nuclear Blast. Este trabajo fue grabado entre Agosto y Setiembre de 2003 en Abyss Studios, bajo la producción de Tägtgren y Michael Hedlund.Line Up:Peter Tägtgren − Voz, Guitarra Eléctrica de 7 cuerdas, TecladosLars Szöke − BateríaMichael Hedlund − bajoTracklist:1. "Born Dead Buried Alive" − 4:102. "Eraser" − 4:273. "Stillborn" − 3:244. "Slave to the Parasites" − 5:025. "New World" − 4:116. "The Abyss" − 4:247. "Dead Sky Dawning" − 4:288. "The Departure" − 5:189. "War Within" − 4:53Subido por Un4given, amigo y colaborador del blog.

Barack Obama is running his presidential campaign on the notion that since he isn't accepting any money from lobbyist that he owes nothing to the special interest groups at all. Well ladies and gentleman unless you are really naive to think that this isn't the case. First and foremost lets get the obvious out the way. My candidate of choice Hillary Clinton does accept money from PAC's as a means of fundraising, and yes she has received a lot of money from PAC's but I'm not here tonight to say whether or not that is right. My goal is to shed some light on the "perfect candidate" that is Barack Obama.I understand that Obama is talking a wonderful game right now about taking on special interest and making sure that the will of the people are heard right now and so is Hillary. I think somethin

Women business students from Effat College, Dar Al-Hekma and the College of Business Administration attend a seminar sponsored by National Commercial Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Joshua Holland points to the hypocrisy of Western government leaders and feminists who criticize Muslims countries for perceived women's rights abuses. Certainly women's rights is a key issue in many Arab countries, but to argue that Islam is mired in the 12th Century? Holland writes that is hardly the case.Is Islam Really Stuck in the 12th Century on Women's Rights? By Joshua Holland AlterNet Before 9/11/01, the media relegated stories about women in Islamic societies to page B27, below the fold. Ever since 9/12/01, those same stories have screamed from the front pages in 100-point type. The shift in discours

The lottery,stock market,horse racing to name a few all lie within what you call a gamble,they each consist of a win or loose end product and yet online gaming in the US has become so restricted by the US government to the point of being outlawed.People flock daily into convinient stores to buy lotto tickets,the stock market for stocks and bonds,horse racing venues for a winning ticket and land based casinos for slots,poker etc. in droves,most do not even bother to declare their winnings or losses on their income tax returns and yet the government made the move to restrict online gambling by making it harder for individual players to gamble in a way that in my opinion is very intrusive.In order for a US citizen to get an opportunity to gamble online he or she has to declare to their bank t

A very interesting and anticipated story (or non-story depending on whom you ask) is breaking at the New York Times regarding John McCain's history with lobbyists. A number of commentators have attacked the piece for being a little bit shallow, digging up old stories, and being based too heavily on anonymous sources. That said, for young pups like me, I wasn't aware of the "Keating Five" scandal from the early 90's, which is certainly an interesting episode from his legislative experience. The article goes on to make some veiled attacks on other possible ethical breaches, including a strongly implied affair with a lobbyist about 30 years his junior.No doubt there will be much discussion of this in the days and months to come. The most interesting Presidential race in recent history seems t

 For the sake of this post, let’s all pretend that man-made global warming exists and it not a ploy by politicians to tax and regulate us. Let’s also pretend that scientists don’t have a financial stake, in the form of grants, in this. If we pretend that there is no money for scientists to lose if they speak out against the global warming fraud, and that there is no money to be made by the government, and that Al Gore doesn’t own the company that all these people buy carbon offsets from, we can then expose these frauds for the hypocrites they are.  Even if you know, as I do, that this whole climate change trend is bullshit, we can still expose these wackos for who they are. So on second thought, I am not going to pretend anything. This is coming straight from the heart.  We all have heard about the big UN summit on global warming that is now taking place. Government officials and tree hugging activists from all over the world are meeting to tell us what WE

Starbucks Pacific Century Place, Beijing Digesting raw fish 1254 hrs. Here in the Hutong we are looking for ways to lower our carbon footprint while enjoying the conveniences of modern life. Tired of driving a car that is getting too small for the family, not wanting to own two cars, wanting a tough vehicle, and at the same [...]

The war between Google and PayPerPost continues with bloggers continuing to be caught in the middle. I recently wrote about PPP’s new RealRank alternative to Google’s PageRank and also about Google’s latest hypocrisy. Today I came across what sure smells of hypocrisy from Izea’s Founder/CEO Ted Murphy- RealRank was conceived and introduced before any of this PR upheaval. It wasn’t introduced because people lost their rank, it was introduced to solve an advertising problem. The problem is that PR and traffic have no direct correlation and for that reason it holds no value for advertisers other than SEOs. While we have some advertisers that utilize PPP for SEO that is not our core value proposition. We want advertisers who value the unique content that you create and the influence you represent, not just a link. Required in-post disclosure and no-follow tags in SocialSpark underscore our commitment to this concept. We are not selling links. We are sellin

When some claim that President Bush shouldn't have started this war, they need to look at the FACTS:a. FDR led us into World War II. b. Germany never attacked us ; Japan did.From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost an average of 112,500 per year. c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea North Korea never attacked us . From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,334 per year. d. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.Vietnam never attacked us. e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ..an average of 5,800 per year. f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us . He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions. g. In the years since terrorists at

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the East Asia crisis, which began in Thailand on July 2, 1997, and spread to Indonesia in October and to South Korea in December. Eventually, it became a global financial crisis, embroiling Russia and Latin American countries, such as Brazil, and unleashing forces that played out over the ensuing years. Argentina in 2001 may be counted as among its victims.As the World Bank's chief economist and senior vice president, I was in the middle of the conflagration and the debates about its causes and the appropriate policy responses. This summer and fall I revisited many of the affected countries, including Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, and Indonesia. It is heartwarming to see their recoveries. These countries are now growing at annual rates of 5 percent, 6 percent and in some cases even higher -- not quite as fast as in the days of the East Asia miracle but far more rapidly than many thought possible in the aftermath of the crisis.Many countries changed

There have been many times since my husband entered into the ministry field that we have endured our share of grief. There have been tremendous blessings also. Any pastor or pastor's wife, if honest, will tell you that the ministry field even though it is filled with blessing also comes with an abundance of sorrow. There are many reasons for this but I only want to tackle one of them in this posting.Ministers are held to a higher standard, which they absolutely should be, it is a biblical truth. However, ministers and their wives are still sinners saved by the grace of God Almighty alone.I heard a sermon several years ago which dealt with the sin of idolatry. The idol spoken of was that of other people's opinions. There is a John Calvin quote which has stuck with me to this day."Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols”.John CalvinOne area in which men tend to form idols is with their leaders. Leaders are to be looked up to; we all need

Samir Khan a.k.a. inshallahshaheed has pushed the envelope off the edge this time! Warning: Links CONTAIN EXTREMELY GRAPHIC images! Do NOT click on them if you are faint of heart! I can not stress that enough. Including the H/T. H/T Rusty of The Jawa Report The defeated US Army Credit: Caption above - inshallahshaheed Cute. Hahaha Being flip about a US Soldier who scribbles all over an American Flag, is all fun and games for a jihadi blogger, (who BTW resides in N. Carolina US). A dig at America, by an ungrateful P.O.S., who does not realize how good he has it. Suburban internet jihadist. Spit! When a US Soldier dissents it is a good thing to the enemy, they eat it up. BUT…When a Muslim decides against being a bloodthirsty savage jihadist, then it is off with his head. Literally. Below is an image depicting a beheading. It could be considered graphic. And it is. But tame compared to all others I’ve mentioned. . . . . Al-Ekhlas Presents:Carrying out the hukm on Murtadeen

The Democratic presidential candidates have really had me thinking about their hypocrisy lately. John Edwards is just about to take tax-payer money to fund is campaign because he hasn't raised enough money. Where is the rest of the field, I mean aren't Democrats the ones that believe everyone should have an equal playing field? Aren't they the ones that want to tax the successful to give benefits to the poor, to even out the playing field? Where are they when one of their own is in need of help? Oh, that's right, they're all hypocrites.The truth is that all they want and care about is power. They really don't care that the poor don't have medical insurance, they care that because of that they can gain more power buy the lower class depending on the government for their healthcare. They want to tell you what you can and cannot drive, what types of food you can and cannot eat, what doctors you can go to, what you can charge for any services to provide...ect. Well I for one will no

After eight years of George Bush, I sure hope we don’t have to put up with his doppleganger from the left. There’s enough of a credibility gap from government without having to put up with more of how John Edwards stretches the truth. This presidential campaign is a perfect example of how our politics is awash with money. I have raised more money up to this point than any Democratic candidate raised last time in the presidential campaign — $30 million. And, I did it without taking a dime from any Washington lobbyist or any special interest PAC. What Edwards leaves out is that over half his money is from a single source–trial lawyers. A candidate who receives such a large percentage of his contributions from a single source is in no position to take such a high moral ground. Edwards also didn’t come out too well when The Washington Post looked at how pure the candidates were on campaign finance issues. Edwards was the most secretive with regards to revealin

So Hillary Rodham (as she prefers to be called when not running for elected office) advocates talks to settle differences with Iran and has criticized the President Bush's (one man's whose testicles are not in her lock box) tough talk with respect to Iran. When it became clear that political points could be scored by attacking the war, the President and the Vice President she began echoing the "blood for oil" rants from the left wing nuts. Nevertheless she said last Saturday that Tehran would invite U.S. action if it were to disrupt oil supplies:“I will make it very clear to the Iranians that there are very serious consequences attached to their actions. . . .[a blockage of oil shipments] "would be devastating to the world economy."So when Bush fights a war in which one of the objectives is to ensure American energy security it is a horrible thing, but when madame Mao advocates it is smart, rational foreign policy? I'm sure that's how the MSM, or the PR arm of the Clinton camp

In case you were wondering whether we had a Secretary of State any more under the Bush Administration, Condoleezza Rice made another one of her occasional orchestrated photo ops, this one in Russia on Saturday Oct. 13, as she met with Russian human rights activists.In what has to be one of the most incredible examples of this administration's complete lack of self-consciousness, she was quoted as making the following statement:"In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development," Rice said. "I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma," said Rice, referring to the Russian parliament.Now, just substitute "White House" for "Kremlin" in the first l

CNBC is outdoing itself today in the hypocrisy department. Apparently Ann Coulter was on "The Big Idea" with Donnie Deutsch Monday and made some pretty offensive remarks, and folks there are shocked. First off, how they could be either shocked or surprised Ann said something incendiary is just not believable and if they really are, that kind of ignorance of your guest is inexcusable. That being said, here is where the hypocrisy comes in. Donnie has been all over the CNBC airwaves today... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Democratic presidential candidates have really had me thinking about their hypocrisy lately. John Edwards is just about to take tax-payer money to fund is campaign because he hasn't raised enough money. Where is the rest of the field, I mean aren't Democrats the ones that believe everyone should have an equal playing field? Aren't they the ones that want to tax the successful to give benefits to the poor, to even out the playing field? Where are they when one of their own is in need of help? Oh, that's right, they're all hypocrites.The truth is that all they want and care about is power. They really don't care that the poor don't have medical insurance, they care that because of that they can gain more power buy the lower class depending on the government for their healthcare. They want to tell you what you can and cannot drive, what types of food you can and cannot eat, what doctors you can go to, what you can charge for any services to provide...ect. Well I for

An issue ad. A single issue ad in the New York Times. A single issue ad in the New York Times that ran for one day. A single issue ad in the New York Times that ran for one day that many people would have never seen.But wait.....the single issue ad in the New York Times that ran for one day was destined to become one that everyone would see or hear about. Thanks to the 'manufactured outrage' that so characterizes the right wing noise machine, the ad became the topic of discussion. Not the war, not the results of the 'surge', but an ad in the New York Times.The Republicans have propped up General Petraeus as the 'Savior of Iraq' for a while now. For months were told that no decisions regarding funding or troop levels in Iraq could be made until the famous September Petraeus Reports made the scene. Well, MoveOn changed that.The conversation has turned from the ad to the substance of the ad. Did the General 'cook the books', as MoveOn puts it? Is the current strategy really workin

More by Dick Morris on his favorite target Hillary Clinton. He does a good job not just of skewering her but really exposes her for the power hungry hypocrite that she is. She has shown she will do anything to get to the office of the President. Keep in mind this is a man that was part of the inner circle of the Clinton administration. He was there; he saw it first hand and surprisingly, lived to tell of it unlike Vince Foster to name just one. Few people have been more forthcoming than Dick Morris in exposing the perfidy and calculation of the Clintons. I expect we will see and hear much more from Morris and I will keep posting it here. ~RJH DickMorris.com article link  HILLARY’S HYPOCRISYPublished on TheHill.com on September 5, 2007.The winner of the Hypocrite of the Year award goes to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Even though the year is far from over and is likely to have its fair share of hypocrisy, Mrs. Clinton’s comment on the need to compromise to achieve political a

Keith Olbermann had Special Comment on Bush’s hypocrisy in playing politics with General Petraeus’ testimony and planting a question on the MoveOn ad at Thursday’s press conference. The video is above and the transcript is under the fold.  Olbermann to Bush: ‘Your hypocrisy is so vast’ A reaction to Thursday’s press conference: the president was the one who interjected Gen. Petraeus into the political dialogue in the first place SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Anchor, ‘Countdown’ Updated: 9:59 p.m. ET Sept 20, 2007 So the President, behaving a little bit more than usual, like we would all interrupt him while he was watching his favorite cartoons on the DVR, stepped before the press conference microphone and after side-stepping most of the substantive issues like the Israeli raid on Syria, in condescending and infuriating fashion, produced a big political finish that indicates, certainly, that if it wasn’t already – the annual Republican

Olbermann to Bush Your hypocrisy is so vast Olbermann: So the President, behaving a little bit more than usual, like we would all interrupt him while he was watching his favorite cartoons on the DVR, stepped before the press conference microphone and after side-stepping most of the substantive issues like the Israeli raid on Syria, in condescending and infuriating fashion, produced a big political finish that indicates, certainly, that if it wasn’t already – the annual Republican witch-hunting season is underway. Watch Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment From 9-20-07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkuvx4HTs9A Technorati Tags: Countdown Keith Olbermann, Iraq, Surge, Impeach Bush Share This

Seems like almost every week this summer there’s been another awful example of hypocrisy in politics. The latest was Senator Larry Craig busted in a men’s room soliciting sex from an undercover officer. I have my beefs about wasting police time on this sort of thing, but what I want to bring to your attention [...]

***This post has religious undertones... reader beware***Yesterday we were out and about getting a few things and a thought occurred to me: How do I help my child forgive? I don't know if you have noticed this or not but I can hold a grudge. Shocking, I know!It's no secret that we have been slacking in the church going department. I know my kids are missing out on something important and I am partially to blame. I'd like to think that I am teaching my kids the fundamentals of life.But am I?Regardless of faith and denomination, there are some things that I think parents should teach their children. But this is all my opinion, so cut me a little slack... m'kay? ;)IMHO, one of the things that parents should teach their children is the concept forgiveness. This is where things get a little sticky for me. I have been burned so many times in my life that I am slow to forgive. It takes me a while. SOMETIMES years. So what exactly should I tell my kids?*** From a Biblical standpoint, thou

I don’t believe in God. I find religious belief to be completely and utterly baffling. I don’t even use the popular cop-out of “I’m spiritual.” I’m not spiritual. I don’t believe Jesus died to expiate my sins or rose from the dead. I don’t believe there is an afterlife. I’m not Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Pagan or Shinto. I am not religious. At all. We baptised the kids Catholic. It was part of a marriage compromise, and one that remains a bit scratchy, like a tag in a shirt you swear you’ve removed but there must still be some bit of it left, because there it is, unseen, unfindable no matter now many times you look for it, scraping away at your neck. It’s the hypocrisy. At some point they kids are going to notice that Mama never goes up for communion and, in fact, despite politely rising and sitting when everyone else does, neither kneels nor recites. And they’re going to ask why.

You've heard the saying, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." Well, one Texas politician seems to think freedom is okay for him ... but not for you and me. Earlier this year, Borris Miles was one of just a few Texas state representatives who voted against the Castle Doctrine. This new law, which takes effect in September, strengthens your right to meet force with force to protect yourself ... in your home, on the street, or anywhere else you're allowed to be. Just last week,...(read more)

Following on from Thursday’s extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council, and having had time to ’sleep on it’ and let the full ramifications of what happened sink in, Ferrari has issued a lengthy monologue in which team boss Jean Todt expresses his feelings. It makes interesting reading.It reads:"I am bitter about it: what happened yesterday is serious. On the one hand a verdict of guilt was handed down and on the other, no sanctions were imposed. I cannot understand it. During more…

When I fist saw this headline appearing on several atheist blogs, I figured that the Christian extremists involved were probably senators. As it turns out, they were members of Operation Save America, a Christian extremist group. This is a fascinating tale of hypocrisy, as the Religious Right defends regular Christian prayer in the Senate by playing the "religious tolerance" card. It appears that tolerance is only supposed to extend as far as their particular religion. Still, I think that there is a far more important story here which should not be neglected.The U.S. Senate opens every day with a prayer - I'll come back to that. However, this was the first time a Hindu chaplain was invited to give the prayer. Needless to say, this did not go over well with a trio of Christian extremists in attendance. You can see what happened here.From the coverage I've seen so far, the story appears to be the hypocrisy in how the Religious Right defends the Senate's daily (almost always Christian

An American Warning http://www.anamericanwarning.com     A Texas Sized Hypocrisy.   State Law Maker – Rep. Borris Miles can now be labeled a hypocrite. Miles, who voted against a bill that give Texas citizens a stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force, shot a man trying to steal copper wiring from the construction site of his “in progress” home.   Rep. Borris Miles told police he was fixing a leak on the second floor of the Houston house he's building Sunday night when he heard a noise downstairs and saw two men trying to steal the copper. After Miles confronted the pair, one of the men threw a pocketknife at him, Houston Police spokesman Victor Senties.   Miles shot the man in the left leg, police said and charges of aggravated robbery are pending against the wounded suspect.   Borris Miles, who is in his freshman term, is licensed to carry a concealed weapon. Borris Miles is a Democrat and voted against a bill also called the

Pundits get a lot of mileage out of using charges of hypocrisy against politicians. John Edwards, for example, cannot be truly for the poor because of his haircuts. Al Gore isn't really for the environment if he runs up an exorbitant energy bill. A quick appeal to utilitarianism can put these charges to rest once and for all. Edwards could get all the four hundred dollar haircuts he wants if the sum total of his work for the poor offsets the damage (whatever that may be) of his extravagance. Same for Gore. Look at the harm his lifestyle does to the environment and compare it to the good. If the net effect of their actions is positive, then the hypocrisy charge is invalid--if on balance, their actions truly do help the constituencies and the causes they are for they are not being hypocritical, regardless of minor offenses.

White House Hits at Clinton Hypocrisy

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