Forget Vampires and Werewolves, The Left and the ACLU are the New Undead!!!

Yes I said it.

Actually what caused me to come to this conclusion was posting a comment over here at Jay's to a moronic moonbat. Come to think of it, all moonbats are moronic, so I repeated myself there.

Anyway, let's compare the classic undead, such as vampires and werewolves to the american left and especially the ACLU.


Classic Undead;
Vampire;

A soulless creature that cowers at the sight of a crucifix and lives by sucking the blood of other creatures that it ambushes in the dark. Cannot be seen in a mirror's reflection.

American Left Undead;
ACLU Lawyer;

A soulless creature that cowers at the sight of a crucifix and lives by sucking money from the government suing Christians it ambushes. Refuses to be seen in any media interview, since the glaring light of truth shone upon the world through an honest question is the ACLU Lawyers equivalent of a mirror.

American Left Undead;
Liberal Whiner;

A soulless creature that cowers at the sight of a crucifix causing an immediate call to it's brethren at the ACLU and wants everyone to live in a dream world by sucking hardearned money away from those with drive to coddle those with no drive. Can usually be seen braiding pit hair in San Francisco or following Cindy Sheehan like a slavering moron.

Classic Undead;
Werewolf;

A diseased creature that appears normal during the day but changes hidiously during certain times of the month into an unrecognizable creature of destruction.

American Left Undead;
ACLU Lawyer;

A diseased creature that appears normal until they enter a courtroom, where they immediaately turn into a creature with hypnotic powers over judges that twists reality to attempt to switch the world to their dreamland version of reality, an example of which is the European Union. This version of reality is failing miserably.

American Left Undead;
Liberal Whiner:

A diseased creature that appears normal when you talk to them in polite company but readily becomes a raving madman at the mention of Bush, the Global War on Terror or Rush Limbaugh.

Classic Undead;
Zombie;

A soulless brain eating creature that wanders through the land randomly attacking people to further it's agenda of destroying people to consume their brains. Unable to think for itself.

American Left Undead;
ACLU Lawyer;

A soulless, brainless creature that wanders through the land looking for other brainless creatures to further it's agenda of of destroying the U.S. by brainwashing it's gullible inhabitants. Unable to think for itself.

American Left Undead;
Liberal Whiner;

A soulless, brainless creature that wanders through the land looking only at the liberal slanted media and believing that up is down, the palestinians and radical muslims are peaceful people and the war in Iraq is illegal. Unable to think for itself.

As you can see, just my cursory look at the New Undead has opened my eyes, and I am sure, your eyes also.

The only question remains is this;

Do we use stakes through the heart, silver bullets or beheadings to protect ourselves and our country?

I vote for silver bullets. A stake through the heart means you must get within their reach, and I am leaving the beheadings to the "peaceful radical muslims".


Now, how many more can you come up with?

XPOSTED@Kender's and Cao's

Guard Our Borders Blogburst Roundup (sorta)

Linked in the title is
Kit's post at The Wide Awakes.

Kit started the Guard Our Borders blogburst to point out why we need to secure our borders and to bring more attention to the fact that our borders are basically open.

She has a story up about 14 illegal immigrants gang-raping a woman in Florida, go rad that.

Some others in the blogroll to help save our country are:

The Mary Hunter over at his little slice of correct thinking cyber-heaven. Go read what he has to say about the idiots that opened the floodgates to the American Dream and actually have done more damage with their short-sighted goals and pandering policies. Don't be surprised when you see that the Democrats were behind this one.

Over at Cao's we get a short reminder that the mexican government publishes comic books on how to sneak into the U.S. Let me ask you, do you really want people coming here, illegally or not, who have the comprehension level it takes to read a comic book? Me either.

GMRoper over at Social Sense has a post up wondering why so many people don't seem to care about our border's security. Damned good question my friend.

Go visit more of those signed up for this blogburst. At this writing (early AM) many people haven't had time or been awake long enough to get their nickel's worth in yet.

XPOSTED@Kender's

Militant Environmentalists and Wind Power (or, Let's all go live in caves and dress in leaves and grasses)

Linked in the title is a story about environmentalists that are now fighting wind farms.

Seriously.

Apparently these wind farms are allegedly responsible for the deaths of some predatory birds that use it the land they are on as a feeding ground.

Environmentalists claim that they aren't against wind farms, but that their locations should be chosen more carefully, so as to avoid having an impact on wildlife. I am wondering just where that place may be.....Mars? Mars has wind. How about in the middle of the city? NonononononoNO......pigeons live there, and we wouldn't want any precious little pigeons getting their stupid asses whacked by a windmill now would we?

Oh wait....how about out at sea? Yeah, there is plenty of wind at sea, and peoplel have been harnessing that wind for thousands of years, so that would be ok to build wind farms at sea right? What?

WTF do you mean no, building it offshore would not only endanger seabirds but would be an eyesore to beachgoers?

OK FINE!!!!!

You know what? I give the hell up. Let's just go do what this guy here has done and be done with it.

But just know that if you bitch about one little worm losing his home I am so gonna kick your ass!!!!

XPOSTED@Kenders

Been a Little Busy

I have been a little busy with the new job and life in general but I should return shortly to my regularly scheduled rants. I am working on a full blown review of Windows Vista Build 5231 with a ton of screenshots so check back in a couple of days for that. Thanks to all the new visitors from Digg.com and everyone who linked to me based on the Kahuna post. I do write a lot of political posts but every now and then an actual tech post sneaks in.

One request before I head off to an all too short night of slumber. My brother returned to Iraq with the rest of the 101st Airborne about 3 weeks ago and as they, our coalition allies and Iraqi army and citizens prepare for the Constitutional vote on Saturday please say a prayer for their safety and continued success along the path to freedom and democracy. Thanks, talk to you soon.

Todd

KOS is a Wuss

A tip o' me tam to R'Cat.

Many people are writing about this today, after all, as Chris Muir pointed out, Kos was supposed to have taken the DLC to task, promising;

No calls for a truce will be brooked.

Wow.....a liberal calling for a no surrender fight? How very unfrenchmanlike. Frankly, most of today's liberals calling for war is almost a joke. Even the war of idea's and solutions is being lost by them, but then it is very hard to fight a war without ammunition, and even the libs realize they have nothing left but to throw their empty weapons over their shoulders as they run away.

If the libs want to take the DLC to task they had better have a better plan than the DLC has right now, which is nothing. They spew such goofy sentences as;

The right course now is neither to give the terrorists a victory by withdrawing, nor to continue Bush's failed policies.

Hhhmmm...and exactly what does that mean? Since I have your attention I will proceed to highlight some bits from the "progressive" ideas put forth by the DLC and explain just WHY those ideas are idiotic.

First bit; (emphasis mine)

First, we should formally disclaim any interest in permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq;

Sounds good huh? It will happen. Yes, we are building bases over there, but we aren't going to live in tents for the next few years while we beat back these goat-shagging sheet-heads, and the Iraqi's are gonna need bases eventually.

clearly shift the primary responsibility of defending the country to the Iraqi military (with embedded Coalition troops), and adopt a joint military strategy based on proven principles of counterinsurgency.

First off, the Dems understand proven principles of counterinsurgency? I doubt it. I know they understand the French Principle of Counterinsurgency, which is make sure the counter is clean when the insurgents come into your lil' bistro for dinner, but seriously, the next statement shows the idiocy behind their derailed train of thought;

The last point means abandoning Vietnam-style "search and destroy" missions against the insurgency, and instead focusing on progressively securing territory where reconstruction can proceed and normal civic life can resume.

Now, let us follow this convoluted line of thinking. Don't chase the "insurgents" down and kill 'em, just keep 'em out of the neighborhoods where you are rebuilding, then move on out of your "secured" territory, to "secure" more territory, and watch the "insurgents", who happen to work at blending in with the local populace, and sometimes ARE the local populace, wander back in to destroy the buildings you just finished, along with killing some civilians and maybe a soldier or a few cops.

Good plan? HELL NO!!!! You can see from the bit above that the DLC really has no clue who they are dealing with in Iraq, and have their heads firmly implanted in a place of dreams and utopian ideals. It is no coincidence that the liberals dreamland is such a ball of shit, because that is exactly where their heads actually are....up their asses.

Let us continue with this dissection of the "progressive policy of incompetence" shall we?

Paragraph two; (again, emphasis mine)

Second, we should launch a new political strategy aimed relentlessly at winning Sunni support for the new government, and at isolating jihadists.

First they want to abandon hunting terrorists, now they want to isolate them. The best, proven method of isolation for a terrorist is to isolate them in a hole in the ground, either by chasing them to the ends of the earth and keeping them penned up in a cave or by tossing them in a hole with a load of shrapnel or bullets in them. I prefer the latter method. As for gaining Sunni support for the new government, that will only come over time, as the Sunni's are (rightfully) leery of the Shia's (and after centuries of inter-tribal warfare wouldn't you be? I mean, these people have looooong memories and hold grudges that are generations removed from the offenders), and I am still not convinced that the Shia's won't decide to revive old grievances.

We still have considerable leverage among Shi'a and Kurdish leaders; we should use it to push for confidence -- building measures like the integration of communal militias into the Iraqi army and police forces; a blanket amnesty for former Baathists not implicated in atrocities; and for intensified talks with Sunnis on supplemental protocols to the proposed constitution that would ensure a viable central government and minority rights.

As I said above, I am not sure if the Shia's and Sunni's will ever completely get along. But we will see won't we?

Paragraph Three; (same disclaimer as above)

Third, we should muster all our diplomatic resources to create a more supportive international environment for the new Iraqi government. It should not be that hard to establish a UN-authorized international contact group to coordinate political support and economic assistance

This is one of my many MAJOR problems with the DLC, and in fact, the american Left, (at least those in power). They are always ready, willing and able to run to the UN whenever the first little hiccup occurs or they feel that "someone should be in charge".

They treat the world like 6 year olds, and bow to the UN as the parents of everyone. As for it not being that hard to establish a UN-authorized international contact group? It isn't that hard to get the UN to establish any group.

It's getting the UN to actually do anything, (except send pedophiles as peacekeepers, or take kickbacks and bribes), that borders on the miraculous.

So there ya' go KOS, you apparently chickened out, or got too busy rubbin' your nub, or probably realized that to take the DLC to task, (especially in a take no prisoners fashion), that you would be expected to actually have ideas that would work, and realizing that the only ideas that even have a chance of working right now are firmly considered "conservative idea's", you decided to give up and take a drubbing for talking such big shit.

S'ok though KOS, you can always get a glass belly button or a cranial-rectal-otomy and defect to the side that knows what the hell to do besides whine about it, but then, where would we get our laughs?

Banned 'Toons and a Great New Toon Campaign!!!!

With a great tip o' me well worn tam to Duncan at Parrot Check (just how does one cash one of those anyway?) who gave a hat tip to Rusty at My Pet Jawa, do I bring you today's musings.

It's funny really, that this happened across my desktop when it did, as at the time I was reading about banned cartoons. You know those old greats from when we were kids and cartoons were only on, for the most part, on saturday morning.

We would get out of bed (eventually) and scarf down some Frosted Flakes or Capt. Crunch, or any of a dozen other sugary treats just chock full of vitamins and minerals and drowning in **gasp** WHOLE MILK while sitting in front of the TV, (which most likely did NOT have a remote) and get a full days serving of sarcasm and innuendo and never once realize that we were actually getting a wonderful foundation for our adult years, (where we would need a lot of sarcasm and innuendo), while laughing madly at Bugs Bunny making a fool of Yosemite Sam or secrectly rooting for Wile E. Coyote to finally catch that annoying little bastard of a bird.

Remember this?

"Yipa yipa, andele arriba".

?

Yep. Speedy Gonzales.

This should bring back memories.

"How many lumps do ya want?"

"Oh three or four."

"BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM"

"Oh, sorry, one lump too many."

Or how about this one?

"Listen to me, I say, listen to me boy. Do ya think I'm just talking to hear my lips flap?"

and these classics;

"Goldarn Rabbit", Beepbeep", "Sufferin' succotash"

Yeah, good memories.

I was getting a bit old when the Smurfs hit the U.S. I hated the smurfs. My little sister loved the smurfs. I hated them, And that little bitch Strawberry Shortcake. And the whole Hello Kitty thing I never got either.

Give me the good old cartoons anyday of the week. Few cartoons have measured up in recent times. Ren and Stimpy, The Animaniacs, Beavis and Butthead (though I will admit they are a guy only thing for the most part), Southpark. I am probably forgetting a few, but the point is well made that few new cartoons even approach the old days.

However, a new cartoon may have come out that I completely have been ready to enjoy for many years. Unfortunately it is an ad campaign for UNicef.

UNicef, for those of you with your head under a rock, is the United Nations Childrens Fund. Being against the UN in general I am of course not enamored of UNicef, or any offshoot of that most corrupt organization.

However, is it really wise for UNicef to use funds that are supposed to go to saving children for a cartoon showing that war is bad? We all know war is bad, but also sometimes necessary. And as a fund raiser to boot?

Of course, most libs probably have a great memory of the Smurfs, and seeing them bombed into oblivion, (where they belong, BTW, I always rooted for Gargamel) will probably get them to send money to UNicef so it can be misappropiated, misspent or doled out to lawyers defending the UN's African Rape Corps.

But I say Good Riddance to the Smurfs. I am glad they got bombed. Papa Smurf, (a dirty old man that used Smurfette as a sex slave before the ACLU stepped in at NOW's urging and demanded that Papa Smurf take picture's of his debauchery to sell or share her with all the Smurfs, hey, fair is fair), is rumored to be in league with, and possibly related to OBL. Look at the facts. They both have a beard, they both wear a funny hat, they both have a huge nose, they both have followers that do as they say with a blind obedience and they both live where nobody but those followers can find them. In fact, they both live in a place that one needs their permission to enter.

So, good, bomb the Smurfs. Damned blue little bastards.

Good riddance to 'em.

While we're at it can we take out Dora the Explorer, Barney, Spongebob and all the other nitwits and please bring back some actual cartoony goodness?

That's all I want.

Bugs, Daffy, Marvin the Martian, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn and the rest.

I miss those old days.

I say kill most of the current crop of crap 'toons and bring back the classics, but it has to look legal.

Bush Finally Gets OBL

The following is a piece of speculative fiction or satire, take your pick but you had better get a freaking Mommy Note to read it. As for those moonbats who happen to miss this disclaimer, take out a loan for your therapy now because if you comment in the style of those clueless wonders over at DU, I will not pay your shrink bills and you will run crying from the computer when I am finished with you. Enough said, enjoy the piece.

After four years of hunting OBL, the President finally got his man...maybe. Seems the region of Pakistan that was hit by an earthquake recently is also the place that OBL is suspected to be hiding. The Pakistan government knows he is there, the Afghanistan government knows he is there, but more importantly the United States government knows he is there.

The President at the urging of Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and others decided to dust off the United States Earthquake Generation Machine or USEG. Since it is trials during last December were so successfully analysts predicted it would be only a matter of time before USEG became a standard option in the United States arsenal. Due to recent software refinements (i.e.: not using Microsoft products), the target zone was able to be smaller then in previous deployments of the weapon.

While the human cost will certainly be very high to Pakistan and India, this "reporter" has learned of a secret handshake agreement between the leaders of the United States, Pakistan and India. It was decided just hours before the quake that OBL and his al-Qaeda network proved to too dangerous to the entire planet and that he should be eliminated post haste.

Once the agreement was in place, an executive order was issued and the command given to the USEG team to begin planning for the seismic attack. Rumor has it that President Bush and Vice-President Cheney had to flip a coin to decide who would press the fire button. As they say, “It’s better to be lucky then good” and the President won the best of three coin flips. The Vice-President tried unsuccessfully to argue interference by the table on the final and deciding flip but was quickly overruled by the Joint Chiefs of Staff members present.

Once the weapon was fired and the 7.6 earthquake rumbled across the region spy satellites quickly zoomed in to provide a ringside seat to the destruction. While the President will surely take some major criticism for the attack, it was pointed out by the White House spokesperson Scott McClellan that often in history it is the case that many may die in pursuit of a greater goal. While most news organizations have been too shocked to comment on this turn of events there is one group that is surprisingly supportive.

Al Jazeera praised Bush for finally having a pair of testicles and compared his actions to that of the prophet Mohammad. “He saw a way to slay his enemy and did not concern himself with the cost of innocent lives. Mohammad took the same actions in his pursuit of an Islamic Empire,” said spokesperson Ali Akbar. Akbar also added, “The streets of America will run red with the blood of innocents in response to this action,” in my humble opinion this confirms that you just cannot please some people.

It remains to be seen how this will affect the United States standing in the world but I will predict that our enemies and pretend allies (yes I am talking about France and Germany) will be quite a bit more cautious in their dealings with this country.

"Kahuna" aka Homail Beta Pictures

Enjoy the pictures of the new hotmail below and welcome to all Digg users. The new hotmail is meant to compete with Gmail directly and claims to have even better spam protection. The beta is still largely private, mostly Microsoft employees, and in my humble opinion if it's going to compete with Gmail it still has a long way to go. I will say this, it is very stable and for additional email to backup a primary email it could be a good choice. Read on and comment if you feel the need.


The new Today screen is pretty bare mainly becuase I am sure it will be the last thing the development team works on.

Picture 1


The vertical design is a nice break from Gmail and the preview pane is an obvious pull from Microsoft Office directly.

Picture 2


The Menu to the right is very similar to what Gmail has already in place.

Picture 3


The Calender options are not very improved over the existing calender options in the current version of Hotmail.

Picture 4

Deconstructing Miers

As you well know by now, the blogosphere, and the Right, especially the right, have exploded in punditry and opinionated comments, posts, rants and diatribes regarding the selection of Harriet Miers by President Bush for a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States to step in for a retiring Sandra Day O'Conner.

I haven't said anything on this subject yet, because unlike some people, (and like my friend Kit pointed out about some of those people), I am not going to sound as if I have been living across the street from her family for twenty years.

I, like most of you out there, had no idea this woman existed until Bush nominated her. I had heard her name, but paid so little attention that I may as well have not heard of her at all, so as I said, I really had no idea that she existed.

Now, Time Online has a sampling of Ms. Miers writings.

Before I get to that I wish to point out that The Washington Post had it right on September the 28th when they wrote that some expected Bush to tap Miers to replace O'Conner.

Now, we have all heard that Miers was with a big law firm when they got embroiled in a ponzi scheme, (paid subscription needed for access to original article, so I linked to one of a very few bloggers that were willing to pay for it), and it makes me wonder, since she was a managing partner of the firm at the time, just how much she knew about it.

We have also heard that she donated money to Gore and The DNC, but even Reagan was a democrat once upon a time, and unlike the left, those folks in and of the Right have always shown a remarkable ability to forgive the past transgressions of those that were once a Jackass!!!

Has anyone out there even stopped amidst all of this hysteria to ponder if perhaps this leopard changed her spots, as so many have before her?

Here are some of the things that Time Online have dug up from some of the things that Miers has written;

"The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs."

I want you to pay very close attention to that last sentence.

We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs."

I don't know about any of you, but I like that sentiment.

Let us not forget this gem either;

"Punishment of wrongdoers should be swift and sure. Only then can the criminal justice system serve as an effective deterrent. Those who would choose a rule of man rather than the rule of law must not escape fitting penalty......

Now I can't decide which of these two quotes I like better.

However there is always some darkness with the light, and Harriet provides us a small glimpse into that darkness that lurks in the hearts of dems everywhere;

"We all can be active in some way to address the social issues that foster criminal behavior, such as: lack of self-esteem or hope in some segments of our society, poverty, lack of health care (particularly mental health care), lack of education, and family dysfunction."

Let me highlight a very important phrase in that quote;

"....the social issues that foster criminal behavior, such as: lack of self-esteem...."

She wrote that in 1992, when she was President of the Texas State Bar. That was after she gave money to the Asses on the left, but long before she joined Team Bush.

It is hard for me to pin down when she broke ranks with the left, but it appears that she has, and the fact of Harry Reid (D-NV) seeming to like her has me wondering what he may know that we don't.

Of course, this could be a ruse from the Left, however I doubt it. They have rarely, if ever, missed a chance to rail against Bush and frankly, even with all the education and degrees that the left brag about notwithstanding, I don't think they have the collective intelligence to pull something so spectacularly devious out of the bag on such short notice. The Left, after all, relies on division, race-baiting and diversion to accomplish their longterm goals of socialism, and have been shown to be incapable when it comes to pulling a fast one out of the hat, if I may mix metaphors. To sum that up, the left don't think very well on their feet. In fact, I believe they do their best thinking sitting down and clearing their heads, so to speak, while on the commode.

Now, I don't know if Miers is going to be confirmed, and am very interested in what the Dems will do once they have her under the gun. If they go too nice on her, and don't try to give her the grilling they tried to give Roberts, then suspicions on the Right will heighten that Bush sold us down the river or gave in to cronyism. If, however, they try to crucify her and vote against her, then I will surmise that Harry Reid was being nice, and that the Dems were trying to pull a fast one on us after all.

Where does the Right fall in all of this?

Good question.

I guess we will have to see how they vote now won't we?

XPOSTED@Cao's and Kender's

How MoveOn.org Gets It's Information Or The Blind Leading The Blind

Folks, I have to admit I get MoveOn.org newsletters and email alerts. It's certainly not because I have turned to the "Dark Side", rather I subscribe to the old adage of knowing one's enemy. Today in my spam folder of Gmail, as happens once a week like clockwork, I received the latest hot off the presses dispatch from the nut bags of MoveOn.org. Truth be told, I was eagerly awaiting this one. Seems the MoveOn.org people feel the need to launch a petition or a fundraiser anytime the President and his administration do something they don't like.

As some might guess, today's email from the far, far left was about the President's naming Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. I will post the full text of the email below and take it apart piece by piece for your amusement. Naturally the MoveOn.org text is in blue and my responses are in red.

Dear MoveOn member,

This morning, President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. Miers is a long-time political appointee, campaign counsel, personal lawyer and Bush loyalist who has never served as a judge.

The point I guess is that you have to have been a judge before to be a good Supreme Court Justice. I guess they failed to realize that the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was never a judge before his appointment to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice. Last I checked, most on the left thought he did a pretty good job so this is an invalid point to make about Miers.

Ex-FEMA Director Michael Brown taught us that vital national positions must be filled with qualified candidates, not political friends with limited experience. With such a thin public record, how can Americans know Harriet Miers' approach to critical issues like corporate power, privacy and civil rights?

Hmmm, not really sure if this comparison holds water. After all Miers is a long time lawyer so she has mostly had to interact with a few judges and might actually have a good idea of how a judge should act. Let me try my hand at a similar comparison for the sake of illustrating the warped thought process of the left. I am not a politician but I have watched and studied them for years. In fact I have even stooped to the level of a politician on that rare occasion when I have had to be less then forthcoming with the truth, Slick Willie style for those on the short bus. Following the logic of the left, I should never be a politician even though I possess the one quality that a politician can’t be without. The ability to lie to the masses with a straight face. By the way, my wife thinks I can’t lie worth a damn so I guess I am just stuck in my day job. The point is that just because someone has never held a job before does not mean that they will be a poor choice for that job. Hell, the presidency is a great example of that. Certainly, the person should be qualified for the position but all accounts Harriet Miers is an accomplished lawyer and a dedicated student of the law. By dismissing Miers out of hand because she has never been a judge is closed minded and short-sighted by those on the left and once again shows exactly how they are not open-minded unless it involves a cause or person close to their own black hearts.

Right now we urgently need more information, and we need your help to get it. In the next few hours the Internet will fill with facts, anecdotes and rumors about Harriet Miers. We need your help to sort through it all, select the relevant and important details, and let us know what you find—decentralized, grassroots research.

We've set up a simple web form where you can post facts and sources that will fill out the picture on what kind of Supreme Court justice Miers would be. We'll get your research to the media, the Senate and our partner groups. This info will also be crucial in setting MoveOn's course for this nomination. Even if you just have a few minutes to spare, it could help a lot at this crucial time.

You can post facts right now at:

http://www.political.moveon.org/judgefacts?id=6078-5284862-af3R4u65AxBKqE9wNi9MBA&t=3

Here is a quick chronology of Harriet Miers' career, courtesy of the Coalition for a Fair and Independent Judiciary, to help jump start your research.

1970—Graduated from Southern Methodist University Law School
1970-1972—Clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Joe Estes
1972-2001—Joined Texas law firm, Locke, Purnell
1985—Elected president of the Dallas Bar Association
1986-1989—Member of the State Bar board of directors
1989-1991—Elected and served one term on the Dallas City Council
1992—Elected president of the Texas State Bar
1993-1994—Worked as counsel for Bush's gubernatorial campaign
1995-2000—Appointed chairwoman of Texas Lottery Commission by Gov. George Bush
1996—Became president of Locke, Purnell, and the first woman to lead a major Texas law firm
1998—Presided over the merger of Locke, Purnell with another big Texas firm, Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, and became co-managing partner of the resulting megafirm, Locke Liddell & Sapp
2000—Represented Bush and Cheney in a lawsuit stemming from their dual residency in Texas while running in the Presidential primary
2001—Selected as staff secretary for President Bush
2003—Promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
2004—Selected as White House Counsel

This whole section cracks me up. Does MoveOn.org really believe that its mindless followers are going to do any kind of meaningful research? I seriously doubt it. The only information that is going to be collected by these far left wackos is rumors, untruths, and lies. If MoveOn.org was serious about presenting the record of Harriet Miers, they would do the normal information searches like everyone else, Google, Nexus Lexus for example, and then wait for the confirmation hearings. I suspect they really are just looking for any thing that they can pass to the Democrats in the Senate to be used against Miers. It will be interesting to see what the feeble minds of the left conjure.

There are many important questions that need to be addressed, including:

• What policies did she advocate for on the Dallas City Council?

If Dallas is like most big cities and I think it is, then she most likely was in favor of better schools, lower crime, and wise use of public tax dollars. Come on now, she was a city council member, not the leader of the ACLU.

• What was her record at the head of the scandal-ridden Texas Lottery Commission?

Her record was spotless but you can’t expect MoveOn.org to tell you that. I did a little digging on the Internet like anyone with half a brain would do and I found the following. In 1997 there was a scandal involving the company that ran the Texas lottery, Gtech, it seems that they were being investigated for a bribery scheme that involved Ben Barnes. You remember Ben Barnes don’t you? He was the former Democratic speaker of the Texas house and the guy who tried to blackmail President Bush concerning the President’s National Guard service. Here are some links to the information I found, here, here, here, and here. I might point out that while the one site tries to tie Miers to the scandal, there were no accusations leveled against Harriet Miers during her tenure at the Texas Election Commission.

• What cases did she take on while working as a corporate lawyer in private practice, and what positions did she fight for?

Why is it that groups such as MoveOn.org and the ACLU that trumpet the right to privacy completely disregard others right to privacy when it stands in the way of them getting their grubby little hands on that private information? Court cases are a matter of public record in most cases and I am sure that MoveOn.org has a membership to Nexus Lexus and other resources that would provide this information. The other reason that they are making the request here in their lovely newsletter is so that the groundwork can be laid for the violation of attorney-client privileges.

• What has she written or said in and outside of her law practice about her views on constitutional issues like privacy, the "commerce clause" or equal protection

Again, anything said or written inside her “private” law firm is going to be off-limits to anyone including the Senate. Once again the double standard of privacy rears its ugly head courtesy of MoveOn.org. I would certainly agree that any public documents are fair game regardless of who the nominee is.

• As White House councel Alberto Gonzales played a pivotal role in softening America's stance on torture. What positions has Harriet Miers advocated for in the same role?

Man they can not let the torture issue go can they? Given that the “torture” issue was settled before she started as White House Counsel it would be a fair assumption that she had little if anything to do with the White House’s position on torture.

• Has she ever publicly distanced herself from George W. Bush?

Why on Earth would this matter? Is MoveOn.org trying to say that she is incapable of forming her own thoughts and would be talking marching orders from President Bush? My oh my, that certainly sound like one of those conspiratorial theories that floats around on the Democratic Underground website. Again, I stomach wallowing in the mud with these leftist freaks because I want to keep tabs on my political if not mortal enemies. She like every other member of the Bush Administration is an independent, person capable of forming her own opinion. Contrary to the widely held belief by the left, Karl Rove does not have mind control powers and Dick Cheney is not quite the puppet master that some would have you believe.

It's important that we move quickly in answering these questions. The Bush spin machine has been prepared for this nomination for some time and is already cranking at full speed. The strategy is to move Miers through as an enigma. We need to make sure the facts about her views are known.

This kind of decentralized research may never have been tried before at this scale. But a Supreme Court nominee with a record only the president really knows is a new national challenge. If we act quickly, we can meet that challenge together.

Please pitch in by taking some time to research today, and post what you find at:

http://www.political.moveon.org/judgefacts?id=6078-5284862-af3R4u65AxBKqE9wNi9MBA&t=4

Thanks for all that you do,

–Ben, Marika, Rosalyn, Joan and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Monday, October 3rd, 2005

What can further said about this latest attempt by MoveOn.org to cloud a simple process with their left-wing propaganda, nothing I guess. We will just have to wait and see but I am sure they will flood my spam folder with more of their efforts. By the way, on a personal note to Ben, Marika (commie?), Rosalyn (Carter?), and Joan, do you not know how to use spell check before you send a mass emailing? I left all of the mistakes they made to further illustrate how devoid they are of reality. Have a great day everyone.