Ryan S. of Jokers to the Right has hit one year! Also, he has updated his URL. No more Blogspot for him. Congratulations, Ryan!

Does my heart good to see a guy his age with his head already screwed on straight.

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One of the loudest screeds from the Left these days is that because so many troops are "preoccupied" in Iraq, there are not enough soldiers to help its own citizens in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. James S. Robbins proves this charge false in his NRO article from Friday.

Do you know what percentage of active duty soldiers, reserves and national guardsman are deployed in Iraq?

10.2%. Yes, you heard that right.

So where are the rest? 751,000 (74.2 percent) are in the U.S. About half are active duty, and half Guard and Reserve. The Guard is the real issue of course — the Left wants you to believe that the country has been denuded of its citizen soldiers, and that Louisiana has suffered inordinately because Guardsmen and women who would have been available to be mobilized by the state to stop looting and aid in reconstruction are instead risking their lives in Iraq.

Not hardly. According to Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, 75 percent of the Army and Air National Guard are available nationwide. In addition, the federal government has agreed since the conflict in Iraq started not to mobilize more than 50 percent of Guard assets in any given state, in order to leave sufficient resources for governors to respond to emergencies.

Hat Tip to OpinionJournal.com's Best of the Web (3rd item down)

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The way the Left is reacting in the wake of Katrina may be the most appalling behavior I've witnessed out of them...ever. To politicize the freaking weather of all things is in and of itself ridiculous enough, but to stoop to the kind of crap they were spewing this weekend is beyond the pale.

And we all know why Democrats are so quick to use this tragedy to direct their fire at the President. As H-Bomb at ABP explains:

Though it is controversial to say so, the political Left in America has been waiting anxiously for Hurricane Katrina to come along for quite a while (almost four years, to be exact) and now that she has come, they can hardly contain their glee.

Oh, I donÂ’t mean that the Left has been waiting for a hurricane, per se. Actually, they always figured it would come in the form of another terror strike: the moment when they would finally change the average American's point of reference. They desperately need Americans to forget about 9-11. They desperately want Katrina, not 9-11, to be the defining moment of the Bush presidency.

Even Hillary is calling for a "Katrina Commission" to investigate how this happened. You know how it happened. New Orleans has been a city below sea-level since it's inception. Louisiana is located in the heart of hurricane country. The State and local officials have had forever to come up with a contingency plan for something like this. They chose to ignore the problem. FEMA and Homeland Security could be doing a LOT better, true. But that pinhead Mayor Ray Nagin has a lot of balls throwing blame around when he sat idly by and did NOTHING to evacuate those who needed help the most. What a bunch of crap.

I agree with H-Bomb, that non-partisan Americans aren't going to fall for this. Even ABC couldn't manipulate the results of its own poll enough to come to a different conclusion.

If you need a better example of the treachery of the American political Left, you'll never be convinced.

Understand, these are also the same people who giggle amongst themselves every time an Armed Service man or woman is killed in Iraq. These are the people who want the Afghan elections in mid-September to fail. These are the people who hope the Iraqi constitution is voted down. These are the people who promised us they would just leave if we re-elected George W. Bush; they would move to Canada or Europe. (Talk about your broken campaign promises.) These are the people who, for partisan gain, have hoped against all hope for another terror strike in the United States.

Yes, we lost a lot of Americans as a result of Hurricane Katrina. But IÂ’m not talking about her victims. IÂ’m talking about the political Left who was singing in the rain and dancing on the corpses because they thought they could score political points.

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Jimmy Stewart You scored 16% Tough, 9% Roguish, 57% Friendly, and 19% Charming!

You are the fun and friendly boy next door, the classic nice guy who still manages to get the girl most of the time. You're every nice girl's dreamboat, open and kind, nutty and charming, even a little mischievous at times, but always a real stand up guy. You're dependable and forthright, and women are drawn to your reliability, even as they're dazzled by your sense of adventure and fun. You try to be tough when you need to be, and will gladly stand up for any damsel in distress, but you'd rather catch a girl with a little bit of flair. Your leading ladies include Jean Arthur and Donna Reed, those sweet girl-next-door types. Find out what kind of classic dame you'd make by taking the Classic Dames Test.

h/t: once again, Margi Lowry

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I am: A pair of AA batteries for a Walkman® When someone doesn't have an office door they can close, headphones are the next best thing.

h/t: Margi Lowry

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1 Yes, yes I see it! You are cute and you make things have power! Nice digs, BTW. Oh, and you know -- once a Munuvian, always a Munuvian -- so YAY!

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2 Thanks!

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Dubya tapped #s 41 and 42 to raise private funds for disaster relief for the Gulf Coast.

Now don't get me wrong, whatever their efforts yield is terrific for those in need. But am I the only one who gets creeped out seeing these two together. Clinton most definitely benefits from this association, and I have no doubt that he plays it up to the hilt. As I said once before in a previous post, it's like Bill is becoming the Tom Hagen of the Bush family. Yech.

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Bush chooses Roberts to succeed Rehnquist as Chief Justice!

Wow. More than unexpected, but I like this. A lot. Despite some doubts from the Right, a thorough investigation into Roberts' history has shown him to be almost a clone of William Rehnquist - and even Ann Coulter has been kind of quiet lately about his Conservative chops.

The most interesting thing now is watching how this plays out. No doubt O'Conner will stay on until another Associate Justice in confirmed - because technically her spot will now still be open. But the Bush Administration must move on this fast - two sets of confirmation hearings will give the Left too much to juggle.

Having already done the research, they should already have someone in mind.

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1 Can you imagine how ugly things are going to get? When it rains, it pours; what a time

Posted by: NYgirl at September 05, 2005 08:09 PM (JEAUq)

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Fellowhip of the Ring, Book One, Chapter Two is posted.

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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court died last night at his home in Arlington, VA. While this isn't a complete surprise, it was a little unexpected. Despite suffering from thyroid cancer, the old man seemed determined to tough it out as best he could. Many thought he would retire after this session, fueling speculation that his vacancy would be the first for President Bush to fill. I count myself among those who expected him to hang up the robe.

But when asked by reporters about his possible retirement, he wryly told them, "That's for me to know, and you to find out." Well, it would seem he likely knew he had weeks to live at that point and would probably not see the next session in October. It wouldn't surprise me if he had confided this to the President, who he knew could be trusted with this information - which could have had an influence on Bush's choice of Roberts.

Rehnquist will certainly be listed among the top Chief Justices in the history of the Court. How ironic that just as he passes away, a new Associate Justice is about to be confirmed and sworn in who clerked under him.

Now Bush will have two more nominations to make - a new Chief (from the ranks of the current Associates) and a new Associate. My money is on Scalia for Chief. And I hope whoever his successor is, he keeps the golden stripes on the Chief Justice's sleeves - a tradition that Rehnquist started. But there'll be plenty of time to speculate over that. In fact the Liberal special interest groups may now attempt an eleventh-hour ramping up of their opposition to Roberts during the hearings because of this turn of events.

For now, let us honor the man who served his country so well. R.I.P.

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Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Chapter One is posted.

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"Must Love Dogs" - Critics panned it, I liked it (and so did just about everyone else I talked to who saw it)

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This is just too funny. Apparently for years now, some vertically-challenged actor has been claiming on his resume that he played on Oompa Loompa in the original "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory". The 57-year old Ezzy Dame, however, was "outed" by an actor who really did play an Oompa Loompa named Rusty Goffe.

Dame later confessed to the ruse:

“I never intended to harm anyone or my community by this little white lie. It was a little white lie that became my haunted nightmare.”

h/t: The Museum of Hoaxes

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1 On Saturday, Sept 24th of this year, RightMarch, Protest Warrior, Move America Forward,Free Republic will be Counter Protesting the left in our Nations Capitol. Answer Internatioal and ACLU lawyers will be at the event. We would love for youre group to join, as we a send a message to the left.. That they no longer own the street!!!

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2 this site sucks balls like oompaloompas!

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I don't know about you but this would be more than enough to keep me away.

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Today in the Chicago Tribune, lovable old Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) lays out "what's at stake" in the hearings on John Roberts that begin today. You know Durbin, the guy who compared our soldiers down in Gitmo to Nazis, Stalinists and the Khmer Rouge?

Anyway, he writes that his biggest concern in these hearings is to determine where Roberts stands on the commerce clause of the Constitution, specifically as it relates to things like environmental laws, civil rights laws and the Constitutionally elusive "right to privacy" established in 1965 and acknowledged by "Roe".

I found one sentence in particular, however, to be an interesting choice of words on Durbin's part:

"Does [Roberts] believe that Congress has the power to pass laws that protect the most vulnerable, no matter where they live?"

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Looky here, if you scroll down far enough on MSNBC.com you can actually find this story: U.S. Payrolls Expand, Jobless Rate Falls.

It seems the unemployment rate is now down to 4.9%, with 169,000 jobs added in August. What, no "the increase in jobs exceeded analysts expectations" commentary? If it fell short of expectations, you can bet your bottom dollar that would be part of the headline.

But wait. The article sets the tone for next month, when the job growth numbers will undoubtably slow because of Katrina. And you just know the MSM will be ALL.OVER.THAT. And guess whose gonna get the blame? Hmm. Let me think...

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Interesting headline, huh? Lefty actor/director George Clooney tells the British News/Telegraph that television news in the U.S. should be viewed with a critical eye - something Conservatives have said for...well for as long as there's been television.

What's this? Has Clooney stopped drinking the kool-aid? It can't be!

It isn't. Here's the actual quote:

Now, with the onset of cable television and "130 different channels", the quality of news was "fractured", with each network, like Fox, playing to audiences with "specific belief patterns".

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Arthur Chrenkoff has a round-up of the worst quotes about Hurricane Katrina uttered by the American Left, European scoundrels and jihadist savages.

I think the worst ones are from Moonbat bloggers whose typing fingers seem to be disconnected from their brains (not to mention their hearts). A-holes.

h/t: Conservative Grapevine

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"Yeah, in WWII some crazy bitch used to camp outside Hyde Park and root for the Nazis. I put two bullets right between her eyes from 200 yards and I'm still a damn good shot, if you catch my meaning, Mr. President..."

See more good captions at Caption This!

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Freakin' Sweet!!

h/t: Groovy Vic

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It didn't take long. Now the infamous Mrs. Sheehan is reportedly set to protest the Blue Angel air show in Maine.

"Bruce Gagnon of Maine Veterans for Peace says Cindy Sheehan will be the featured guest at a protest outside the Brunswick Naval Air Station on September tenth."

Oh, and she's also saying that she plans to spend every August in Crawford doing the same schtick. Lovely.

hat tips to: Best of the Web and Drudge

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