Thursday, October 15, 2009

News Roundup

So, the MainStream Media has been busy lynching Rush Limbaugh over some supposedly racist comments Rush made. Although I am not a big Rush fan, his treatment by the MSM just illustrates they have absolutely no credibility left.

The MSM simply took unverified quotes from Wikiquotes and an unsourced book and spread the lies throughout the nation. They should be sued and they should lose big. Their lame excuses for not doing their due diligence are typical of today's liberal left wing media.

Conservatives have long known that it is the Dimocrats who are the biggest racists, but for those who need a refresher, here are some Dim quotes from redstate.com:

10. Democrat Fritz Hollings of South Carolina thinks being from Africa makes you a cannibal: “You’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”

9. Howard Dean(former DNC Chair) reaches out: “I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.”

8. California Democrat Diane Watson thinks interracial marriage is icky: “He’s married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn’t want to be black.”

7. Howard Dean thinks service positions are for minorities, not big fancy white people: “You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? … Only if they had the hotel staff in here.”

6. Joe Biden explains why southern Democrats should vote for him: “My state was a slave state.”

5. “Conscience of the Senate” and former Klansman Robert Byrd on equal opportunity: “I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

4. Hillary Clinton does an impression (complete with accent) of an African-American man who didn’t know what Emily’s List was: “She’s supportin’ all these people. She’s supportin’ Sen. Dianne Feinstein . She’s supported Sen. Barbara Boxer . . . She supported everybody. Why won’t she support me?”

3. Democratic Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin denies that white people might live in New Orleans: “I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.””

2. Democrat Steny Hoyer reviews Michael Steele’s career: “[He has] a career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party.”

1. Then Senator Joe Biden fills us in on who works at convenience stores: “You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent … I’m not joking.”

In other news...........

Michele Bachman (R-MN) lets us in on this tidbit about ACORN via rightsoup.com:

"one way the banks could satisfy their requirement under the Community Reinvestment Act is they could partner with ACORN. So a bank could either make a cash donation to ACORN, they could give equipment donations or they could work with ACORN to provide these loans to people who are poor credit risks. One bank that did that was the Citizens Bank of Massachusetts. They put it in a partnership with ACORN. Minnesota Bank, Northeast Bank of Minnesota donated $2,000 to ACORN. New York Bank. We’ll put all of this information up on our website at MicheleBachmann.com. But this is huge. Here you have the federal government demanding that banks lower their lending standards. And as a threat to these banks the federal government says we’re putting you out of business unless you make these bad loans. But one way you can satisfy your Community Reinvestment Act rating, because you have to get a certain score, one way you could satisfy your score, give money to ACORN. Work with ACORN. You work with ACORN, you’re good with us, says the federal government. This is so bad. But the dots are connecting…

…Banks had to figure out some way to satisfy the federal government’s demands and so if they, you know, if they were nervous about making loans to very to people with very shaky credit, one thing they could also do is give money to ACORN. So it’s a form of payola. So the banks, in order to be in compliance with the federal government, would give payoff money, so to speak, to ACORN in order to stay in the good graces with the federal government. I mean, what else would you call that but a payola? "

And, in other news.....

From AFP:  "China has detected deadly nerve gas at its border with North Korea and suspects an accidental release inside the secretive state, a Japanese news report said Friday.

The Chinese military is strengthening its surveillance activities after detecting the highly virulent sarin gas in November last year and in February in Liaoning province, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported, citing anonymous sources from the Chinese military."

Yes, the North Koreans have an estimated 5,000 tons of chemical and biological weapons. If those 10k plus artillery pieces aimed at Seoul are loaded with sarin, the South will not be too happy about that.

As I say, Obama has a lot on his plate and the Dimocrats continue to just fizzle out. We have many potential problems of a very serious nature and we have a rank amatuer in the White House to deal with them.

Auf Wiedersehen

Monday, October 12, 2009

The Quayle Vice Presidential Museum (Huh?)


I'm sure most people know about the various Presidential libraries/museums out there, but what about the Vice Presidents?


Well, believe it or not, there is a Vice Presidential museum. It is located in Huntington, Indiana, which was the hometown of James Danforth Quayle. Dan Quayle, as you may recall, was the 44th Vice President under George H. W. Bush. (1989-1993)


The Quayle Vice Presidential museum opened on June 17, 1993 and in early 2002 the name was changed to The Dan Quayle Center, home of the United States Vice Presidential Museum. The upper floor of the museum houses the Quayle collection, while the lower floor has artifacts of one sort or another from all 47 Vice Presidents.


The above photo was taken of a 1780's newspaper on display at the museum. It lists the first Presidential and Congressional salaries. Note that the Senators and Representatives got a whopping 6 dollars per day. Of course, even this is excessive pay for the current crop of worthless legislators we have in Congress, on both sides of the aisle. (Also, the VP salary was only one fifth that of the President)

This next photo is of some of the main floor exhibits. The Quayle exhibit has many excellent artifacts, including this shirt worn by young Dan, as well as his dog chewed law degree.

The small gift shop has some nice, reasonably priced, items but does not include Mr. Potatoe Head toys or any Dick Cheney autographed miniature water boards. (sorry lefties, you'll just have to keep waiting for those)



Some of us remember all too well the pounding that 'ol Dan took at the hands of the media for a few minor gaffes. However, the Vice President was not the goofball he has been portrayed as. Here is some boiler plate bio:



"In 1976, Quayle was elected by a margin to the House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th congressional district, defeating eight-term incumbent Democrat J. Edward Roush. He won reelection in 1978 by the greatest percentage margin ever achieved to that date in the northeast Indiana district. In 1980, at age 33, Quayle became the youngest person ever elected to the Senate from the state of Indiana, defeating three-term incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh. Making Indiana political history again, Quayle was reelected to the Senate in 1986 with the largest margin ever achieved to that date by a candidate in a statewide Indiana race. His 1986 victory was notable because several other Republican Senators elected in 1980 were not returned to office."


Dan Quayle has written three books, Standing Firm, The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong and Worth Fighting for. Standing Firm was a best seller. He currently runs a division of Cerebus Capital Management, is President of Quayle and Associates and is an Honorary Trustee Emeritus of the Hudson Institute.


Daniel Johns is the museum's Executive Director and Maddie Shaw is his Administrative Assistant. The museum conducts educational outreach to students in Indiana and several neighboring states. The museum staff is friendly and personable.



If you have an interest in U.S. and Presidential history, it is well worth a visit. Who knew?




http://www.quaylemuseum.org/ for more info on this nifty museum.