Media Matters has a pretty interesting report that compares polls of liberal and conservative issues.
Are More Americans Liberal or Conservative?
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The Islamofascists are Coming!
This is an interesting article on how Conservatives tend to think that Islamic terrorists like Osama Bin Laden are somehow going to invade America and turn it into a Muslim state. I myself have noticed how frequently I have to remind conservatives that even the Nazis, the Japanese, and the Soviets were never able to build up enough resources to even attempt such a concept, and they had, you know, an army. And a navy. And an air force. Yes, I know it’s all shocking, but those sorts of things are necessary to even attempt to completely conquer a global superpower like the U.S. The terrorists are in for a long walk if they’re really going to “follow us home” as Bush insinuates.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/13/simon/index.html
Britain Allows Sell of Iced Marijuana Tea
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=060626181645.qbytv4cc&show_article=1
“If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson
“An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.” – Thomas Jefferson’s Garden book 1849
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.” -Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
Three More Years, and some time off
“Four more years” is a bit of a misnomer. Notwithstanding the question as to whether he’s really “the Decider” when he is actually in the White House, Bush has spent over a year on vacation. At 418 days, he’s set to beat Regean’s vacation time record of 436 days in the next year. One might think that excess vacation would be a trait of a non-wartime president, but Clinton took 152 days off and Carter, “the worst president ever,” took only 79 days off, about 1 week per year longer than the average American’s paid time off.
I’ve heard it been said that even when the president is “on vacation” he’s still working. That may be so, but was Bush elected President in order to work on clearing brush out of his ranch? But seriously, I think it would be truthful to question whether he is really working as president when he’s not on vacation. I take it as indicative of our never-ending campaign culture that Bush was reading to kindegardners when America were attacked on 9/11. Setting aside the fact that he continued to sit there and do nothing for 7 minutes even after he heard the words, “The country is under attack,” can it really be said he was “working” as “president” that day? Of course not, he was campaigning for women’s votes that day.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/mason/5042364.html
Jimmy Carter: Worst President?
Carter is normally seen my the Republcians as the worst president in modern history. Why? Because Radical Islam suppossedly “began” with the ousting of the Shah and the hostage crisis and this happened on his watch. Funny how the Bush Administration failing to act on reports before 9/11 allowed him to reap a second term rather than receiving any blame for that Islamic plot unfolding “on his watch.” Or was it that Carter didn’t “back the Shah.”? Actually, he did allow that brutal dictator to come to the U.S. to receive the best medical treatment that money can buy. That’s actually what caused the hostage crisis in the first place. There was also the failed mission to rescue the hostages in which 8 servicemen died, but one failed mission hardly compares to a failed war. It seems more like the real reason was Carter didn’t declare war on Iran for daring to overthrow the tyrannical dictator than the U.S. had installed over their Prime Minister because he had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian oil company (which today we call BP). Sure, the Shah was dying, but maybe Carter should have continued the suppression of Democracy in Iran and install another Big Oil puppet with the title of an ancient Persian dictator. Or maybe Eisenhower should not have allowed anti-Communist sentiment to ally with British to bring about the deposition of a democratically elected official of a foreign country for the sake of western oil companies?