dajafi wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Ron Paul?

No man with two first names has ever been elected President of the United States.

It will probably take about five minutes for me to be proven completely wrong about this.

"Franklin Pierce" is both two first names and two last names.

For that matter so is "Abraham Lincoln," though I doubt there were too many people named "Lincoln" before Abe. And both Roosevelts, I guess.

And Bill Clinton is kind of two first names. Thomas Jefferson...

The hell with this--it's not like I have all night here

An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.

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Plame worked as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations and was assigned to the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) in January 2002 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The employment history indicates that while she was assigned to CPD, Plame, "engaged in temporary duty travel overseas on official business." The report says, "she traveled at least seven times to more than ten times." When overseas Plame traveled undercover, "sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias -- but always using cover -- whether official or non-official (NOC) -- with no ostensible relationship to the CIA."

President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness. Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!"

dsp wrote:Hilary is a bitch. I despise the GOP, but I'd vote for whoever they shell out of over her. Ron Paul holla.

Phan Paul wrote:If you were ever tempted to support Hillary's Presidential campaign, this should end it.

Based on this, her campaign should be over.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/action/spotlight/

Bill O'Reilly: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have. In that regard, Pat Buchanan is right. So I say you've got to cap with a number.

John McCain: In America today we've got a very strong economy and low unemployment, so we need addition farm workers, including by the way agriculture, but there may come a time where we have an economic downturn, and we don't need so many.

O'Reilly: But in this bill, you guys have got to cap it. Because estimation is 12 million, there may be 20 [million]. You don't know, I don't know. We've got to cap it.

McCain: We do, we do. I agree with you

Disco Stu wrote:I don't know if the fact that Bill just said that and admitted his obvious racism and hatred towards people not like him, but the fact that McCain agreed is mind boggling as well.

Disco Stu wrote:What's next, "Help! Mom, a black man moved in next door!"? (written by dsp)

As the mother of two young children, Fretwell knows the power of that image. "The bears, the penguins are very much tugging at my kids' hearts now," she said. "I've got a lot of thinking to do about how to get at those warm and fuzzies."

Finding an equally compelling symbol for unfettered capitalism won't be easy.

"I'm thinking we put the polar bear in a business suit," Jackson said. "Maybe he's taking a limo to work on Wall Street."

Fretwell's book — "The Sky's Not Falling! Why It's OK to Chill About Global Warming!" — will be released in September. That will put it on bookshelves at about the same time as the Scholastic book, which is co-written by Laurie David, a liberal activist and the producer of Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth."

Jackson plans an initial run of no more than 10,000 copies, about his financial break-even point. But he's hoping the book will catch the eye of a conservative talk-show host — Sean Hannity, maybe, or Rush Limbaugh — "and we'll sell out in the blink of an eye," he said.

If "The Sky's Not Falling!" takes off, Jackson hopes to launch a line of nonfiction books for children presenting a conservative take on other topics. In the meantime, he's overseeing final edits for "Joey Gonzalez, Great American," a bilingual story about a third-grader whose teacher tells him his last name is a sign that he's less capable.

"It's a little bit harder for minorities to learn," the teacher tells him. "Don't worry, Joey…. There's a special way to help minorities get ahead. It's called affirmative action."

Joey stands up to the teacher, telling her that his ancestors, Spanish explorers, "didn't come all the way over here to be minorities." They didn't need special help, and he doesn't either: "Great Americans don't cheat."

Jackson doesn't have children, but he suspects plenty of parents share his values. One day, he'd like to offer them a whole conservative library so they can put aside the picture books about socialist fish and gay penguins and snuggle up with a bedtime story about the right to bear arms.

Joey stands up to the teacher, telling her that his ancestors, Spanish explorers, "didn't come all the way over here to be minorities."

pacino wrote:great post tomatopie(I don't think I've said this before), but somehow I doubt that the 70% of the country that wants 12 million people deported tomorrow would agree with any of it. The majority is unreasonable and unrealistic on this issue. Many see it as 'taking our jobs' or some fraud crime issue or even take the Bill O'Reilly school of thought that filthy liberals want to 'change the complexion' of America.