KATU: The Saxton News Network

Is anyone else getting a little tired of KATU's constant whoring out to their former employee, Ron Saxton?

This guy couldn't make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without KATU stepping in to call him a culinary genius. They give him favorable quotes, camera shots, etc over the other candidates.

In the link above, notice how they take a story about Mannix and give Saxton a mention that is evidence of a stunningly biased position. Even the Oregonian would be miffed at the editorializing of the KATU people.

In a story about Oregon Right to Life endorsing Mannix, nobody cares that Oregonians for Food and Shelter endorsed Saxton. It isn't relevant and its place in that story indicates to me that KATU has devolved into SNN: The Saxton News Network. All Saxton. All the Time.

Ace in the Hole? Right to Life Endorses Mannix

Oregon Pro-Life Group Endorses Republican Kevin Mannix for GovernorSalem, OR
(LifeNews.com) -- As it has done in the past Oregon Right to Life
announced its endorsement of pro-life Republican candidate Kevin Mannix for
governor. The group's political action committee made the decision to
back Mannix on Thursday for May's gubernatorial primary. "Kevin has been
fighting for protective legislation for innocent unborn children and their
mothers for many years," ORTL director Gayle Atteberry said. Mannix faces
attorney Ron Saxton and state Sen. Jason Atkinson and several lesser-known
candidates in the primary. He is an attorney and former state lawmaker and
chairman of the Republican party who has received the group's endorsement for
governor before. Pro-life advocates have a difficult time winning election
statewide in a state that is predominantly pro-abortion and tends to support
Democratic candidates.

Is this the ace in the hole for the Mannix campaign in the primary election? Mannix received the sole endorsement from the very influential organization, arguably the "kingmaker" in the Republican primary.

Perhaps this will quiet those who have in recent days been asking why Mannix doesn't just drop out of the race?

PS: Sorry it has been a while between postings, but all this mudslinging just drains me sometimes, and I didn't feel like writing. This brought me back because of how important it is. I think Mannix had it anyway after Jason Atkinson's Lars interview, and with Saxton's liberalism and posturing, but I think this seals the deal.

Reinhard On for Saxton?

In David Reinhard's Oregonian column yesterday, we saw the latest in a string of what might be called the "Rongasm." Yes, the Rongasm is when people just get the shakes and shudders over the hope that Ron Saxton will ride in on a white horse and save the GOP from electing a principled conservative, the notion that Ron Saxton is whatever you want him to be. Well he isn't. He tries to be, but that is just it - that is who Ron Saxton really is...a guy who tries to be all things to all people, and ends up exposing himself as an unelectable flip flopper.

The Rongasm phenomenon will turn out to be a phony. He won't win, and if he did, he wont win the general, and if he did, he would be a disaster for Oregon and for the Republican Party. A guy with his record of failure in leadership, of waffling on every major issue, a wannabee in the truest sense of the word, is not who we need at the helm during the storm. A Saxton administration would be so frought with negativity, from aimless position switching to outright scandal, that Oregon would be damaged and the GOP would be sequestered away for a decade or more.

I have to disagree with Reinhard here, as I did when he downplayed the Goldschmidt revelations, saying that Goldschmidt was a private citizen, and attacking the messenger for putting the story out about Goldschmidt's rape of a friend's daughter in the 70's. I thought it was very relevant because Goldschmidt was still pulling the strings of Kulongoski, and Randall Edwards, and, if left unchecked, would have held the light switch for all the PGE customers. His character is most definitely relevant today. As is the character of those who helped him try to bilk money out of Oregonians in the Texas Pacific buyout of Portland General Electric.

Enter Ron Saxton, champion enabler of the Goldschmidt corruption.

So Dave, it is an issue. And it is relevant to talk about it in terms of Ron Saxton.

So as much as the downtown Portland elitist crowd might want Ron Saxton to win and give them a Democrat they can call their own, he will not win. Rongasms are a temporary phenomenon whose time will end in May 2006.

Big Fat Lie, Ron

Today on Lars' show, a caller asked if Ron had ever been an attorney for Goldschmidt. Saxton's very carefully worded answer...

"I have never been Neil Goldschmidt's lawyer."

No, but he WAS Diana Goldschmidt's lawyer....from the Oregonian, Nov 30 2003:

Diana Goldschmidt, wife of former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt, one of three
Northwesterners that Texas Pacific said it would name to PGE's board, is a
member of the council.At the Oct. 29 council meeting, Diana Goldschmidt did not
know about the potential PGE deal, said her attorney, Ron Saxton. The day after
the meeting, Saxton said, Neil Goldschmidt was approached by Texas Pacific to
help with the deal. The buyout firm has said that it would name him chairman of
PGE's board if the acquisition closes.

Ron Saxton represented Diana Goldshmidt after she steered state funds to Texas Pacific, who was going to hire her husband to be on its board, and did hire her husband to steer the deal through. Saxton, who HAD been the city's lawyer (the lawyer for the other side, in other words) until the day the Goldschmidts spent state money to ingratiate themselves. Anyway, all of their property is owned jointly, I assume, being they are married. Their interests are intertwined. So if you represent Diana, you represent Neil.

So Saxton can pull a "oral sex isn't sex so I did not have sex with that woman, miss lewinsky" hair splitting parsing of words, but he DID represent the Goldschmidts. Period. He should have said that instead of appearing to be clean and pure.

Oh, and he wants us to believe (based on the above comments in the WhOregonian) that Neil Goldschidt had no idea Texas Pacific would hire him if he got this deal through. And we are supposed to believe that Diana and the other Goldschmidt stooges on the Oregon Investment Council (that invested state funds for you, the taxpayer, to enlarge Neil's kingdom, in Texas Pacific) had not been coached, but rather just picked a comapny out of the clear blue sky to invest in, and then the next day the TxPac executives just thought, "hey, what about the husband of that gal on the investment council...maybe he would be good to run our company!" Bulls**t, Ron Saxton. Bulls**t. It may be good lawyering, but you were willing to sell Oregon up the river to help the Goldschmidts get away with stealing from us. So stick your governor's race where the sun don't Schein.

So I am calling his comments on Lars a lie of deliberate omission. And I am calling his putting saving the Goldschmidts butts over the interest of the Oregon taxpayer shameful.

And I am calling that Lars is way out of line here endorsing this slug and while Jason has lost my vote, Lars might too.

We just call them how we see them here, folks.

Atkinson: Huh?

My contact at the central committee meeting also told me that on Friday night, there was a dinner where Mannix and Atkinson spoke.

At that dinner, Atkinson spoke about having first spoken to the committee about 10 years earlier when he nominated his father for Vice Chairman of the Party.

He said that afterward, he was approached by a group who was supporting a candidate for party Treasurer that he didn't know much about, and asked him to give the nominating speech for him as well because he did such a good job. That candidate was Kevin Mannix.

He then said that it was an ironic honor that he now shared that stage 10 years later as a candidate for Governor alongisde Kevin Mannix.

PROBLEM: according to my source, Perry Atkinson ran for Vice Chair, and Jason Atkinson gave his nominating speech, in 1997. Kevin Mannix was not a candidate that year for any office in the Republican Party. In fact, my source says that Kevin Mannix was still a Democrat until 1998. So it didn't happen.

I thought maybe he made a simple mistake. So I asked if Kevin ran for Treasurer the following time it was open. My source said no, Kevin Mannix never ran for party treasurer. He ran for vice chair in 1999, but Jason Atkinson never gave a nominating speech for him then either. This was confirmed by the official minutes of the meetings in question.

My problem is, this isn't the sort of thing that you can just forget. You might forget if it was the difference between running for Secretary or Treasurer, but Mannix didn't run for anything that year. And when he did run, Jason Atkinson didn't give his nominating speech.

So, what gives? Maybe some of you close to Atkinson can explain?

Illegal Immigration: The Mannix Plan

Today I listened to Lars' show and some issues came up that compelled me to blog. So here goes.

Atkinson came out in favor of the Bush plan, including a guest worker program. Immediately the phone lines and emails lit up, as did Lars, with people upset about what appears to be an amnesty program (allows illegals to stay in this country and apply for legal status). Atkinson then left the show for some other engagement.

The Atkinson campaign has since been in overdrive doing damage control on their blogs. You can click the links at right to see those. No, I don't think that Atkinson really wants to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. It was just a rookie mistake to make that comment on Lars, so I give him some grace on that.

During the show, though, Mannix referenced his work over the weekend at the Republican central committee. So I have done some research on the matter, and have some stuff to report:

The Oregon Republican Party sent out a proposed resolution on illegal immigration to its members in the official call for the meeting. Mannix believed that the resolution was both weak and offensive (picked the most incidiary language to take a weak position). He then brought a substitute resolution to the committee by getting permission from another delegate to speak by proxy (he is no longer a member of the committee).

He then fought for and got passed a resolution that is much stronger. He condemned the carousels of sinformation, the law prohibiting our officials from asking another's status, and even favored compelling state workers to assist with immigration enforcement.

Well, I can keep blabbering on but instead I will let you read it. I didn't get an electronic copy of the original resolution so I don't have it. Suffice it to say I read the paper version and it sucked.

Resolution by the Oregon Republican Party calling for government leaders
to Provide Security and Opportunity by Securing America’s Borders and
Enforcing the Immigration Laws of the United States and Oregon

WHEREAS, The United States of America is a nation of immigrants
who have come to our shores seeking freedom and opportunity, and who have worked hard to make this country great, and;

WHEREAS, the United States stands as a beacon of hope to the people of the world,
and;

WHEREAS, immigration law is principally the responsibility of
our federal government, but immigration activity has a significant effect on the
governments of the various states, and;

WHEREAS, legal immigrants endure a long, difficult process for the privilege of earning legal residency and citizenship, and;

WHEREAS, past programs have allowed agricultural and other businesses to meet legitimate needs in a legal manner, and;

WHEREAS, in recent years the federal government has failed to adequately enforce immigration laws and protect our borders, and as a result millions of illegal immigrants live within our borders without supervision, and;

WHEREAS, the government of the State of Oregon has not only failed to cooperate with the federal government in the enforcement of immigration laws, but has actually encouraged illegal immigration by soliciting them to enroll in taxpayer funded benefit programs, and;

WHEREAS, the stream of illegal immigrants into our country and state has been accompanied by a flood of dangerous illegal drugs, most notably methamphetamine, which has destroyed many lives and scourged our communities, and;

WHEREAS, failure to enforce immigration laws results in a lack of respect for all laws generally, and has left us exposed to the entry of terrorists and criminals from
other lands, and;

WHEREAS, the influx of illegal immigrants has made it difficult, or in some cases impossible, for civil authorities to provide adequate public services, seen most notably in the critical areas of health care and education, and;

WHEREAS, the practice of illegal immigration harms the migrants themselves, as they are unable to fully participate in American society, and are often exploited in housing and working environments for fear of contacting civil authorities for assistance, and;

WHEREAS, illegal immigration harms the country of the immigrants’ origin by draining their native lands of the labor and talent necessary to foster economic opportunity in their home country, thereby weakening such nations and the surrounding region,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the Oregon Republican Party
Calls upon the President and the Congress of the United States to take whatever actions are necessary to fully protect America’s borders and fully enforce our immigration laws, and,

Calls upon the Governor and Legislature of the State of Oregon to repeal laws which prevent public authorities from fully cooperating with federal immigration authorities, and to enact laws which instead require full cooperation in the enforcement of immigration laws and,

Ø Immediately cease any and all outreach programs that encourage illegal immigration, such as the Mexican Consulate’s “Carousel of Information,” which deliberately seek to enroll illegal immigrants in taxpayer supported programs
and,

Ø Enact a policy that requires a waiting period of one year of legal Oregon residency before any person in Oregon may qualify for taxpayer funded subsistence or assistance, to the extent possible under the Constitutions of the United States and
Oregon

Calls upon all government leaders and law enforcement officials to vigorously pursue companies and individuals who knowingly hire illegal immigrants to exploit their status as such and,

Calls upon the President and the Congress of the United States to enact a fair and
comprehensive program that respects legal immigrants by not rewarding those who
have come illegally, yet allows those that would respect our laws to come to the
United States temporarily for the purpose of providing valuable labor, under
careful limitations designed to ensure that such employment does not unfairly
undermine work opportunities for American citizens and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oregon Republican Party salutes the hard work, determination, and dedication of legal immigrants to Oregon, who have made great and lasting contributions to the culture, health, strength, and vitality of
Oregon.

Adopted this 28th Day of January, 2006, in the city of Salem, Oregon

I say, kudos. Mannix gained even more respect in my book. He is a man of action, which is what I appreciate about him. He doesn't just have an opinion and promise to have that opinion if we elect him. Moreover, he doesn't just vote right. He has a record of actually being willing and able to make things happen. This resolution, I was told, was not easily passed. It took some work, but he was able to get it done with only one dissenting vote.

Mannix has this ability to get people who don't agree to come to support his point of view. I remember that when he was my legislator (though I didn't vote for him - I was an R even then, though I liked much of what he said and did), he passed a lot of legislation even though he was a Democrat in a Republican dominated legislature. When they didn't play ball, he made it happen with signature drives and got good laws on the books (like Ballot Measure 11).

I also liked how he didn't let Saxton get away with calling himself a conservative Republican. I think that Jason Atkinson was hiding behind the "11th commandment." You can speak ill of a fellow Republican if his rhetoric doesn't match his record. And in Saxton's case, I think my 12th commandment applies - don't let a fake Republican get away with distorting and eggagerating his record. Atkinson should not have just left the heavy lifting to Mannix. They should have BOTH confronted Saxton's on his record of flip flopping and liberalism.

Saxton came back with "I was a Republican when Mannix was a Democrat." That is sandbox quality playground fighting. Frankly, Ron, Kevin Mannix was a better Republican than you were even when he was a Democrat. At least he has stopped supporting them, you never have.

I moved closer today to making my final decision and suporting Kevin Mannix. He laid out the most comprehensive plan, today adding that his plan would require illegals to go home, apply for legal status, then when granted, come here to work temporarily, and without bringing their whole family here to get free benefits, then when the work was done they would be required to go home. No other candidate has been that forceful or articulate on the issue.

So again, I am closer to my final decision, even earlier than I thought I would be, to support Mannix. But the sticker isn't on my bumper just yet.

Same garbage, different campaign

This story about Kevin Mannix's supposed campaign finance issues seems like deja vu all over again.

Didn't we get the same tripe from Bill Bradbury (Oregon's most partisan and corrupt political official) in the 2002 campaign against Gordon Smith? Yes we did.

And people clamored and said that Gordon couldn't win with this sort of millstone around his neck, particularly in a Democrat state, against a Democrat with statewide name recognition. Now, a few people are saying the same thing about Kevin Mannix. Sadly, some refuse to learn from history, where if they did they would note that Smith won that election by over 200,000 votes, with over 20,000 going to Constitution party candidate Lon Mabon and nearly 30,000 going to the Libertarian candidate, most of which would have gone Smith's way had it been a 2 way race.

This demonstrates, I believe, that the notion that debt is a major campaign issue is a flawed premise. Voters care more about what a candidate believes, what he or she has accomplished in the past, and the likelihood that they can get things done in the future that correspond to the voters' interests. Other voters are concerned with name ID, or looks, or some other intangible.

So can we put this notion to bed? What do you say, folks? Maybe we can stop being complicit with the Oregonian, Bill Bradbury, and this idiot Ernie Delmazzo that hates Kevin because he represents employers in workers' compensation cases (the complainant is an "injured workers advocate") and has since Mannix was in the legislature? The guy went so far as to have an anti-Mannix website in 2002.

As far as Bradbury goes, before anyone gets the idea that he might just be doing his job and be tempted to give him the benfit of the doubt, please note that Bradbury has time to pounce on this campaign finance complaint, which says at worst that Mannix reported the money in the wrong category, but he has no time to investigate a complaint made almost a year ago where the Oregon Republican Party delivered evidence of 2 million dollars worth of campaign finance violations by Oregon Democrats. This man is a disgrace and should be arrested for the official misconduct he has perpetrated on the people of Oregon to favor his own personal political causes, such as using his office to oppose ballot measures and committing outright fraud to disenfranchise thousands of Nader voters or other petitioners.

And we can bet that if he was in charge of the federal election laws, nothing would be done about Defazio's violation either.

So get over this debt thing. My sense is that Mannix will be the nominee, and if this is the worst anyone can throw at him, he will win handily. His foes had better start preparing something substantive or be prepared to lose in May and November. I think I am a somewhat typical voter and I frankly dont care how much debt he has. He doesn't ask me about mine, and I don't care about his. Anyone who has campaigned knows that in your second race you will likely have old debts, but you spend what comes in on your current race and pretend the debts aren't there until afterward. Kevin is a lawyer with an active, statewide specialty practice and years of name ID and accomplishment and, I would imagine, assets. He could probably walk down to the bank and wipe that debt out if it would hamper his chances. So get over it. Focus on the issues and not the distractions.

Roosevelt on Immigration

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in
good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to
discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and
nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who
says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We
have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag,
which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it
excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for
but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for
but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

From Urbanlegends:

Theodore Roosevelt indeed wrote these words, but not in 1907 while he was still president. The passages were culled from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died.

"Americanization" was a favorite theme of Roosevelt's during his later years, when he railed repeatedly against "hyphenated Americans" and the prospect of a nation "brought to ruins" by a "tangle of squabbling nationalities."

He advocated the compulsory learning of English by every naturalized citizen. "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country," he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918. "English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools."

He also insisted, on more than one occasion, that America has no room for what he called "fifty-fifty allegiance." In a speech made in 1917 he said, "It is our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided allegiance to the one flag which floats over all of us."

Adding insult to injustice

This is pathetic.

Now that Bradbury and Hardy Myers jihad against the evil Doyles has been successful, Bradbury wants to add a beautiful touch of state agency otherworldy kookiness to it.

He wants Doyle, who is in jail, to pay his $127,000 fine.

Well I am sorry, but you can't have your cake and eat it too. Maybe if you wanted the money you shouldn't have locked him up.

As I said earlier (http://radicallyright.blogspot.com/2005/10/now-we-can-sleep-easy.html), what the Doyles did was wrong. But his sentence, and now this, is over the top.

If you think it isn't political, note that Bradbury was handed, gift wrapped, a stack of papers detailing the Democrats' misreporting of OVER 2 MILLION DOLLARS in the same election cycle as Doyle was operating in, and NOTHING happened.

Nothing. No fines. No jail. No justice.

Illegal Aliens getting help from Oregon AGAIN!

As our good friend, the ubiquitous professional illegal alien sympathizer (as Daniel so rightly ousted her as) Gabriella Rico of the Statesman Journal pointed out in the paper today, the Bureau of Labor and Industries is going after a company in Salem for failing to pay wages to its workers.

How can a company get away with such skullduggery? What would posses them to think they could do this? This article excerpt might be a clue:

The workers, mostly immigrants from Mexico, said they are owed between $1,700
and $8,000 in back pay, according to four of the workers who spoke (Spanish) with the Statesman Journal.

Is the state going after the company for hiring illegals?

Nope.

Are they trying to ascertain whether these workers have the legal right to work in the United States?

Nope.

They are trying to get the money for the illegal aliens!!! Incredible!

Now, you might say "but the state can't use state resources to find out if they are criminal aliens or not, under the onerous ORS 181.850! It says

(1) No law enforcement agency of the State of Oregon or of any political
subdivision of the state shall use agency moneys, equipment or personnel for the
purpose of detecting or apprehending persons whose only violation of law is that
they are persons of foreign citizenship present in the United States in
violation of federal immigration laws."

But you would be wrong.

Look at the last line:

(4) For purposes of subsection (1) of this section, the Bureau of Labor and
Industries is not a law enforcement agency.

That's right - BOLI is the ONLY state agency that can and is charged with the duty to ensure that the workers in question are legally authorized to work in this country, and if they are not, to report them forthwith. Of course, a cursory check of the department's mission statement http://oregon.gov/BOLI/about_us.shtml will show that part of the mission to be notably absent from the agency's perception of its charge.

Contact labor commissioner Dan Gardner's office and demand to know what the agency is doing to first determine if the "workers" are violating the law by working in this country. If not, go get them their money. If so, send them home for Christmas early.

Love the irony...

As Rep. Billy Dalto and Sen Westlund are joining with liberal dummocrats to raise taxes from people who earn it and give to those who didn't, this quote's irony was so rich I had to share:

Three state workers taking a smoke break outside the Department of Revenue on
Tuesday said the initiative is unfair.

Employees of Oregon's IRS think that the taxes are unfair. Poetic. Even better, the sterling example of the state agency mindset:

"So the majority of the voters are nonsmokers, and they're going to pass a
tax that affects a minority of people?" said Tonya Harbison of Salem.

"It's getting infuriating," Darren Gavin said. "They're causing me to waste
more money on a habit that I have trouble kicking. My opinion is, if they're
going to do it on smokers, they should also do it on drinkers."

"You're isolating a minority group that is easy to tax politically; that's what you have done," said Robert South, a pipe smoker.

By the way, none of the 3 is a registered Republican voter. In case you were wondering.

Now, my question is, by the logic of dipsticks like our Republicrat friend, if 60 cents will cover 1/3 of the uninsured, why not simply increase it by $1.80 a pack and cover ALL of the uninsured? By their logic, isn't it GREEDY and INSENSITIVE to let 2/3 of the uninsured languish in healthcare pergatory while smokers go on polluting the environment with their dastardly habit? Obviously, they just don't care about people, or they would not stop short with this initiative and only cover 1/3 of the people.

Or maybe there is something else going on here? Maybe they know that the economics involved will mean fewer smokers buying cigarettes in Oregon (either from quitting or from buying elsewhere, like the Internet)? Or maybe they just hate poor, uninsured people more than they hate smokers? Who can tell?

Well, there is some evidence in the article of Rep Dalto's high minded stupidity, so I think we can rule out economic knowledge:

"I think in the long run, it benefits the economy," Dalto said

On the economic argument, he thinks that this will cut down on the number of people getting uncompensated care from the emergency room. Mark my words: it won't. But let's put that aside for a minute, leaving the practical question, and asking the philosophical:

Is it right for one person to take money out of another person's pocket and give it to someone else who did not earn it?

Larceny: the unlawful taking and carrying away of personal property with the
intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently.

See also: Dalto, at Westlund.

That is the fundamental question. Is it right to take people's property because you CAN? Because you get a lot of voters to tyrannize the minority, it is ok to pick their pockets, because it is politically feasible?

It is wrong, and you people know it. You make an ideological question into a practical one. It doesn't matter if you are taking the money form smokers to pay for health care of to pay for snickers bars or Christmas presents for your kids. The REASON you are taking the money is irrelevant. The fact that you are taking what doesn't belong to you at the point of a gun makes you a thief. Ok, a benevolent theif, but a theif nonetheless.

Sadly, Dalto is the best we can hope for in a Democrat district. But to the voters of Westlund's Deschutes county, WAKE UP!

Oregon 8th in states most likely to change which party holds the Governor's seat

From the Washington Post's Friday Line:

8. Oregon -- Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D): Kulongoski is in a world of hurt politically as he attempts to beat back a serious primary challenge from a handful of candidates, including popular former Gov. John Kitzhaber. Kitzhaber has given decidedly mixed signals about the race -- as he did in 2001 when Senate Democrats wooed him to challenge Sen. Gordon Smith (R) only to see him bow out. A recent poll showed Kitzhaber with a 29 to 27 percent lead over Kulongoski. Republicans have a stable of candidates of their own, with 2002 nominee Kevin Mannix leading the field currently thanks to a large name-recognition edge. (Previous ranking: N/A.)


(Kind of funny that they think that because Dems want Kitzhaber back, that somehow he is "popular." That's kind of like asking which kind of shoe polish do you like to eat - black or brown?).

One of the best quotes ever:

"Go tell your wife that you love her, but you hate the way she cleans house, and you will sleep alone tonight." -Oliver North on Hannity and Colmes, Nov. 22 2005, spoken to some whiny liberal congressman as an illustration of why saying you are "for the troops" and then disparaging their mission is not a tenable position.

It is out and out TREASON what the left is doing in this country. Dissent is fine, until it gives aid and comfort to the enemy! Then it is legally treason. And that is a big deal, punishable by death. You cannot propose surrender. You cannot equate American soldiers with Pol Pot's killing fields, Stalin, and Hitler.

Round them up and throw them in Gitmo. Dissent is fine, but for US Congressmen to be spouting comments that give aid and comfort to the people who are shooting at us and blowing our stuff up and killing our citizens is out and out treason. That kind of irresponsibility is not allowed to hide behind "free speech." Free speech carries responsibility (eg, you can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theater is the classic legal example), and what the liberals are doing is totally unacceptable

NY Times Cuts Patriotism from Marine's Letter

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Friday, Nov. 4, 2005 4:06 p.m. EST

Times Cuts Patriotism from Marine's Letter

The New York Times cut patriotic comments from a letter written by a U.S. Marine before he was killed in Iraq.

The family of Cpl. Jeffrey Starr slammed the Times for selectively excerpting the letter he wrote to his girlfriend, intending for her to read it in the event of his death.

A November 2 Times story about soldiers killed while serving multiple tours of duty mentioned 22-year-old Starr, who was serving his third tour of duty when he died, and included this excerpt from his letter:

"I kind of predicted this ... A third time just seemed like I’m pushing my
chances.”

In fact, the letter read in its entirety (emphasis added):
"I kind of predicted this, that is why I’m writing this in November. A third time
just seemed like I’m pushing my chances. I don’t regret going, everybody dies
but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem
confusing why we are in Iraq, it’s not to me. I’m here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark.”

Starr’s mother Shellie told the New York Post that the "part of the letter about freedom and dying for it was much more important for him than what they wrote from the letter.”

-END-

Check out the new quotation

I had to "preempt" my Ronaldus Maximus quote for the John Stuart Mill quote above. All the words written on the war to date do not match the simple and timeless elegance and the power of Mill's statement.

Liberals who have a kneejerk anti-war reaction should be shamed by it, but of course they wont be. That requires the capacity for shame, which liberals have long abandoned. It is the lack of capacity for shame that allows them to daily tear down their country in a grab for political power, or side with the mongrels who would repay their kindness by cutting their unbelieving throat while shrieking "allah akbar!"

There are things worth fighting for, like the system that gives you the right to dissent, and allows you the poor judgment to forget when that dissent should be suspended.

Where would you live?

For both of the liberals that actually think instead of react, let me ask you to think about this:

Looking at Paris burning, ask where you would rather live: A permissive society that is incapable of taking a stand against criminal behavior, or a conservative society that holds people who act in this manner accountable for their actions? Paris, or say, Cheyenne?

If this happened in my neighborhood, with rioters burning cars and putting other people's lives in danger, I would shoot them, and so would my neighbors. And the innocent loss of life would be over immediately, not 13 or 15 days later.

Now ask yourself: does this change your view of Paris' courageous stand against tyranny in Iraq...oh wait, they didn't do that. Instead, they were financially supporting the dictator that threw dissenters into industrial plastic shredders and cut the tongues out of women who spoke out against the systematic rape of themselves and their daughters.

Does this change your view? Do you now see the need for good people, even if you are the LAST country on earth with the testicular fortitude to stand up for what is right, to uproot evil and no longer sit back and go along to get along?

Do you now see why I and my fellow bloggers are so adamant about controlling the cultural imperialism that has taken our country over through illegal immigation?

You reap the benefits of people like me who would defend this country with our guns and our lives while you sip chardonnay and criticize people like me as unsophisticated.

This proves once again that radical Islam is the world's cancer. Like any cancer, chemicals or radiation would be a great way to irradicate it. Let it metasticise, and the whole organism, in this case the world, will die.

Liberals: Please think, and in so doing, grow up.

Raceball has been very very good to me...

I saw this article a year or two ago, and I kept it. I can't credit the article cuz it was emailed to me without it.

But now that people are making a big deal over the fact that the Astros have no black players (which is all white with me, as long as they aren't discriminating), I think it would be good to reprint the article here.

The idea that sports should be based on anything other than performance is really, really, really, really dumb. And the suggestion that the Astros might not have black players because they are racist is even stupider. It just works out that way. Duh.

Anyway, here is the article:

Raceball: A Full Contact Sport

Last October, a group of “civil
rights advocates” met with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue to “discuss” (read:
threaten him about) the lack of black head coaches in the NFL. The purpose of
the “meeting” (read: intervention) was to come up with “solutions” (demands) to
the apparent under representation of minorities in the ranks of the NFL head
coaches.

So, why aren’t other under represented groups in sports
making similar demands? Where is the white civil rights advocacy demanding that
white people be allowed greater “access” to the player ranks in the National
Basketball Association? Why, for example, are whites generally limited to
coaching jobs in the NBA?

Or, even keeping it in the same sport;
why not more Asian NFL players? Certainly, there are good Asian players out
there, why haven’t they been given “opportunities” to play professional
football?

Because of the heroic acts of players such as Jackie
Robinson and teams like the Harlem Globetrotters, sports teams realized in the
middle of the last century that if they wanted the best teams, they would have
to destroy the race barrier. As that barrier fell, and sports became more
competitive, race ceased to be a consideration for placement on a team.

These civil rights advocates, though, want race to be reconsidered
as a means to determine who can and cannot be on a team, and in what capacity
they may serve. This type of racism is unacceptable in this day and age, and
more Americans in high position should have the courage to fight these race
alligators whose policies will drag their people to the bottom of the
swamp.

One might ask why there aren’t more people willing to stand
up and fight them. The reason is it is easier not to. It is easier to pay Jesse
Jackson money and send him on his way than to attempt to engage him in finding
solutions to problems he knows don’t exist.

Look around at other
countries. How many black players are there in Japanese professional baseball?
How many black soccer players are there in Brazil? Black hockey players in
Canada? Black bocce players in Italy? Black polo payers in Britain?
The point is that for all the grief American companies and sports
teams and social clubs take from the self-appointed racial hall monitors,
America remains the most integrated, open, and free society the Earth has ever
known. That is because we are a great nation, the most tolerant country on the
planet, and a society that has moved on from its troubled yesterday to a
brighter today. The only people that America has disenfranchised are those that
attempt to make a living telling racial minorities that they cannot succeed in
“racist” America, and thereby sentence them to a life of mediocrity. But then
again, a look at Jesse Jackson’s tax returns show that America has room for even
him to make millions.

Now we can sleep easy....

For a number of reasons, I have held off on commenting on this issue, but I have to say something.

Well, we can all rest easy now that Dan Doyle is behind bars now. Boy do I feel feel much safer knowing that the attempted cop killers in Hubbard are out, and weren't even booked, but a guy who signed a paper wrong will be spending 10 months in jail.

This is an outrage.

Dan Doyle is a threat to nobody. The money in question was given to him by donors. He didn't use taxpayer money in an illegitimate fashion. He just used money that was GIVEN to him for personal stuff instead of political stuff.

Was there a quid pro quo? Nope. He wasn't even accused of doing any special favors for anyone in return for this money. All he did was misreport where the money went.

It's wrong, and he should be punished, but 10 MONTHS IN JAIL? While we let illegals and methheads (and, apparently, people who assault police officers) run free, we will be spending tens of thousands of dollars to keep Dan Doyle locked up? This is an outrage.

He lost his position, was publically drug through the mud, and will have fines to pay. That is a fitting sentence. Putting the man in jail is just to rub political salt in his wounds and make an example of him.

Want proof? Not long after Doyle resigned, the Oregon Republican Party had a press conference and detailed their findings that the Democrats misreported OVER 2 MILLION DOLLARS (compared to Doyle's 145K). They submitted all of their findings to the Secretary of State. What happened? NOTHING.

NOTHING!!!!

And nothing will be done. The Doyle incident was afforded several front page articles in the Statesman Journal, I think it was 3 in the first week alone. The Dems? None. Not one, since the announcement. No follow up. Nobody going to jail, no investigation done. Nothing.

Wink and nod if you like if he was your political foe, but remember, injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

The Southwest Conference on Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and Crime

From the Maricopa County Attorney's Office:

Please help us spread the word to your members about a large conference on illegal immigration the Maricopa County Attorney's Office will be holding this Nov. 3-5, 2005, in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Southwest Conference on Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and Crime will discuss the impact of illegal immigration and propose solutions. The conference will feature many well-known experts and commentators representing a wide spectrum of viewpoints from the left to the right, including:

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas,

U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado,

U.S. Rep. JD Hayworth of Arizona

U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona

Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies

Stephen Moore and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal,

John Leo of U.S. News & World Report,

Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Arizona,

and many other notable speakers.

Our office is the fifth largest district attorney's office in the country, and prosecutes two out of three felonies committed in Arizona. Arizona sees a disproportionate share of illegal immigration. Last year there were more arrests of illegal immigrants in Arizona than in all other border states combined. (Los Angeles Times, 3-13-2005). And according to the Pew Hispanic Center, Arizona has the highest per capital number of illegal immigrants.

The conference is open to all, and promises to be one of the largest, most comprehensive and interesting conferences on illegal immigration. Lawyers and law enforcement will receive CLE and POST credit for attending. For more information and to register, go to http://immigrationconference.com. Please consider announcing the conference at your next scheduled meeting and emailing it to your members. Contact Tim LaSota at 602-506-5789 or lasotat@mcao.maricopa.gov for more information.

I'm sure Sherrif Joe (Arpaio) will swing by as well. I'm sure his politically incorrect but factually correct comments on the border problem and its spawn will be very entertai...i mean...informative. If you can, GO.

The other Justice Roberts

Gullyborg has a great, exclusive article with Jack Roberts, who is mulling a run for Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

It would be nice to have someone there who, when you call them a "justice," you don't feel dirty.

Click the link above to read the interview, and get a glimmer of hope that our state might one day not be filled with morons at the highest levels.

DA's: Measure 11 lowers crime rate significantly (or, why Kevin Mannix is electable)

The Op-Ed in the Eugene Red Guard, by Democrat DA Josh Marquis (Clatsop) and Republican DA Doug Harcleroad (Lane), expresses their belief that Measure 11, Kevin Mannix's mandatory minimum sentencing law passed in 1996, is to credit for the drop in Oregon's crime rate.

As longtime prosecutors in Oregon, we have watched as the violent crime rate has
plummeted over the last 10 years. Last year, USA Today rated each state's
improvements in public health. Oregon was applauded for its reductions in
violent crimes.

We believe much of that reduction can be attributed to Oregon voters passing and then reaffirming Measure 11, which ensures that those who commit the worst of violent felonies and sexual offenses against children actually go to prison, usually for six to eight years. Does anyone believe that the violent rape of a child deserves
anything less than eight years in prison?

What the Opinion doesn't mention is that violent crime, since BM11 was passed, is actually down 40%. I believe this will be a campaign issue in the Governor's race, and is a reason why, with the Meth epidemic staring us in the face, Kevin Mannixm with the most credibility and a record of real solutions to problems that work, is our best candidate for governor.

PERS proposal might not pay off (or why Ron Saxton is not electable)

The Statesman Journal has vetted Ron Saxton's ever-changing PERS proposal, and discovered that Jack Roberts was correct in his analysis. Even if it was legal (which it isn't), it is not going to realize the savings he hoped for.

One would think that if Saxton was going to make the PERS issue the major (read: only) plank in his campaign for 5 years, and if he was really serious about it, he would do at least the same scrutiny of the plan that Steve Law of the Statesman Journal did...namely, a simple phone call to the PERS actuary. As the article reported:

"If you fire them and move them into a new plan and they start to earn
benefits under a new plan, it is going to cost more," Stonewall said.

Saxton said his threat to terminate PERS should bring unions to the
bargaining table. If not, he could submit a constitutional amendment to voters
that would dissolve PERS, Saxton said.

Hartman said it was not so simple, because the U.S. Constitution guarantees
workers' contract rights cannot be disregarded. (and remember, Saxton is a LAWYER. I guess the Goldschmidts never had any Constitutional Contract Rights work for him to do).

Tricia Smith, a lobbyist for classified school employees, said that
Hallmark's analysis indicates Saxton should look elsewhere to put more money
into school classrooms.

"I think what it means is that Mr. Saxton should know what he's
talking about before he speaks, if he wants people to take him seriously as a candidate," Smith said. (well that would seem to be a good idea).

Saxton's response to getting caught with his pants down? Blame Mannix and Kulongoski:

Saxton criticized his leading GOP rival, Mannix, and top Democratic rival,
Gov. Ted Kulongoski, for being too timid to suggest major PERS reforms.

With one small problem: As usual, Mannix does have a plan:

Mannix, who retains strong voter support among the many public employees in
the Salem area, said that he would prefer to offer incentives to older workers
to switch to a 401(k)-style plan. One example, he said, would be offering them
health insurance if they retire before they are eligible for Medicare.

Mannix agreed with Saxton that guaranteed pensions should be eliminated in
the public sector, but he wants to shift to 401(k)s gradually. "I would favor it as a system for new employees," he said.

And he added the quote of the day:

"The earlier proposal by Mr. Saxton is not only unfortunate, but it will be unsuccessful, and I think it's a warning to all of us to be very careful about coming up with simplistic solutions to complex problems," Mannix said.

And that is why I think that Mannix is the most electable candidate. His solutions are real world, based on reality, and he can get them done. Saxton has, I think, shown us why he never proposes solutions to problems, but rather continues to speak in ephemeral generalities about "leadership" and "getting back on track." This proves again why he isn't the guy to get it done, and why we should be suspicious of any candidate who proposes that we trust them to fix problems based on a plan to be named later, after the election.

That approach will give us an "emperor with no clothes", and we don't need another one of those. Trading an ineffective embarassing democrat for an ineffective embarassing republican is not a trade I care to make. Demand a plan. Demand innovation. Demand reality.

DHS Worker arrested for Meth

From the Statesman Journal:

Salem

DHS worker on leave after arrest on drug, endangerment charges

October 6, 2005

An employee at the state Department of Human Services is on paid administrative leave after being arrested on child-endangerment and drug-possession charges, officials said.
Jacqueline M. Garvin, 33, was placed on paid leave Wednesday from her job as a quality-assurance analyst, said Patricia Feeny, a DHS spokeswoman. (Well, doesn't that explain a lot about DHS's level of quality)

Salem police arrested Garvin on Monday after finding drug paraphernalia (likely syringes) and a substance thought to be methamphetamine in her home, Lt. Dave Okada said. Officers searched Garvin's home, 549 Tryon St. NE, after receiving a drug-house complaint, Okada said.

Three children, ages 9, 4 and 3, were taken into protective custody, (by DHS!) Okada said. He did not know whether Garvin was the mother or guardian. Feeny declined to comment about the investigation.

Garvin posted bail Tuesday. She will remain on paid administrative leave pending a personnel investigation, Feeny said.

-- Shawn Day

Well, it's a good thing they didn't find a Bible in the house, or she would never see her kids again. DHS caseworkers have a pretty bad record of anti-religious discrimination.

Howard Dean Doesn't Think Executive Privledge Includes Playing "Hide the Salami"

I'm serious. He actually said that.

On MSNBC's Harboiled with Chris Matthews show tonight, Dean said that in regards to whether the President's executive privledge protects him from releasing documents between he and his attorney, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, that "certainly the president can claim executive privilege", but then he qualified that, making sure that the President knows that "with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called. "

This shows that our laws are indeed born of a "living, breathing document," because we learn all the time what the boundaries of executive privledge really are. I seem to recall in the 90's, "hide the salami" was an executive privledge that applied to White House interns and Arkansas state employees.

But wait...the luncay didn't stop there.

Howard Dean also said that "women appear to be worse off under this constitution than they were under Saddam Hussein. " The women who were forced to perform sex "under" Hussein might disagree with you, Howie. That statement is just as inflammatory and immoral as saying that Cambodians were better off under Pol Pot. It is insane to think that women, who were butchered and beaten, had their eyes burned out and their tongues cut out in front of their children, or were systematically raped under the Hussein regime, are somehow worse off now that nobody is torturing them. The only woman who was better off with Hussein in power was Jaques Chirac.

But wait! There's more!

He went on to give an example of the "culture of corruption" that exists in the Republican Party, vis a vis the Valerie Plame incident. "And then you have the issues of revealing what may be national security secrets, which Karl Rove and Scooter Libby are accused of.

Yeah, that Valerie Plame sure is a super spy. Nobody would think to check Vanity Fair for her picture. (Confidential to Valerie: When they said to maintain your "cover", they didn't mean maintain a magazine cover). And don't think you are going to play the chronology card...she leaked her own cover in 1997. And her lawyer gave out their address.

But it gets even kookier!


MATTHEWS: Back that up, Dr. Dean. What other examples can you point to — or any examples can you point to where the Republicans in power right now, in the White House or in Congress, have gone after somebody and tried to discredit them?

DEAN: Oh, I think there are numbers of them, not just Valerie Plame, but look at what they did to John Kerry with the Swift Boat ads. (EXPOSED HIM AS TH FRAUD HE IS?) Certainly they — certainly tried to marginalize me during the presidential campaign. I think they would have done that —

MATTHEWS: Well, you helped a little, didn't you? (that is freaking hilarious. EEaaahhh!!)

DEAN: I don't really think so. I think the press probably helped some. But —

MATTHEWS: I mean, the Dean scream was good material, like the ride in the tank was good material for the Republicans when they went after Mike Dukakis.

DEAN: Well, as you know very well, based on Diane Sawyer's report on ABC, (crack investigative journalism…did Howard Dean scream, or was it a right wing plot) that didn't exactly happen the way it was shown on television 700 times that week. But leaving that aside, I think it's very clear.

How exactly DID it happen, Howard? I saw it and heard it plain as day. First, you lost to phoneybaloney Kerry in Iowa, then came out that night and said you were going to go to all of these other places, and then yelled "eeeeeeeyyyyyaaaaaaahhhhh!" I don't think you can blame that on Republicans or their secret clandestine right-wing microphones.

Ft. Clatsop burns in a jealous rage over 200 year old love triangle

I wonder...did Sacajeweah's husband finally catch up to the Corps of Discovery?

http://katu.com/stories/80139.html

Police should be looking for a 200 year old Native American man with 2 scorched sticks.

Lars endorsement: Kiss of Death?

Jack Bog thinks it makes Atkinson the "far right" candidate, and his comment posters seem to think so also (for what its worth, of course):

http://bojack.org/mt-arc/002370.html

No judgment on the validity of the argument, just posted here for the good of the order, for discussion's sake.

Jon Stewart hates democracy

Headline got your attention, didn't it? It's just as dumb as the idea that Bill Bennet is a racist, which Stewart helped promote tonight.

After the show tonight, which featured Charles Shumer (D-Neverland) as a guest, Jon Stewart closed with a truncated version of Bill Bennet's comments on his radio show Monday...

Here is the quote that Stewart ran:

“I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.”

Here is the quote in context: A caller calls up and posits the notion that Social Security revenues are down (a bullcrap premise...spending of it is up) perhaps because 30 million babies have been aborted. This leads to a discussion about abortion and its effects on demographics. An excerpt from the transcript starts below:

BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well --

CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.

BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

Only with your Kooky Left Wing Delogicator can you translate that when a conservative says that something is "an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do" that somehow he is in favor of doing it. And only an absolute @$$wipe with no brain would suggest that Bill Bennett is in favor of abortion or genocide. But you know what? Someone is....

"Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease. Those
vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the
spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of
this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents."

No, Bill Bennett didn't say that. That was Margaret Sanger, the founder of the Americal Birth Control League, which she later named the more PR friendly Planned Parenthood.

In 1929, 10 years before Sanger created the Negro Project, the ABCL laid the groundwork for a clinic in Harlem, a largely black section of New York City. It was the dawn of the Great Depression, and for blacks that meant double the misery. Blacks faced harsher conditions of desperation and privation because of widespread racial prejudice and discrimination. From the ABCL’s perspective, Harlem was the ideal place for this "experimental clinic," which officially opened on November 21, 1930. Many blacks looked to escape their adverse circumstances and therefore did not recognize the eugenic undercurrent of the clinic. The clinic relied on the generosity of private foundations to remain in business. In addition to being thought of as "inferior" and disproportionately represented in the underclass, according to the clinic’s own files used to justify its "work," blacks in Harlem:

were segregated in an over-populated area (224,760 of 330,000 of greater New York’s population lived in Harlem during the late 1920s and 1930s);

comprised 12 percent of New York City’s population, but accounted for 18.4 percent of New York City’s unemployment;

had an infant mortality rate of 101 per 1000 births, compared to 56 among
whites;

had a death rate from tuberculosis–237 per 100,000–that was highest
in central Harlem, out of all of New York City.

Although the clinic served whites as well as blacks, it "was established for the benefit of the colored people." Sanger wrote this in a letter to Dr. W. E. Burghardt DuBois, one of the day’s most influential blacks. A sociologist and author, he helped found the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 to
improve the living conditions of black Americans.

But of course, Planned Parenthood doesn't really believe all of that stuff today, right? I mean, they don't believe in eugenics and creating a master race and eliminating the inferior peoples who "breed like weeds", right? They don't condone their founder, who said such marvelous and inspiring words such as

"Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an
invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan..." (Margaret
Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)

Well, here are some statistics.

-- Since 1973, more than twice as many blacks have died from abortion than from heart disease, cancer, accidents, violent crimes and AIDS combined;
-- Blacks make up about 12 percent of the population in the United States but account for 32 percent of the abortions; and
-- About 1,450 black infants are aborted every day in this country.
-- 3 in 5 black pregnancies end in abortion.
-- Every 3 days, more blacks are killed by abortion than have been killed by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire history.

Planned Parenthood is the top provider of abortion "services" in America. So, ask yourself: if the stated goal of Planned Parenthood's founder was to stop blacks and other "constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents" from breeding, would you say that they are accomplishing their goal?

An analysis by the Cybercast News Service compared the location of Planned
Parenthood abortion clinics with population data from the U.S. Census in 2000.
The results appear to bolster the charge that the organization targets black
communities. Planned Parenthood does not provide a comprehensive list of the
organization's clinics that perform abortions. However, the locations of 160
Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are available from the website
of Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP) International, a subdivision of the aggressively pro-life American Life League.Using the Census information, the percentage of the black population in each community where a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic existed was compared to the percentage of the black population statewide.

In nearly two-thirds (62.5 percent) of the comparisons, the communities with a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic had a higher percentage of blacks than the state did as a whole. In Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts and Ohio, the communities
containing all of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinics had much higher black
populations than their respective states, while Idaho, Kentucky, North Dakota,
Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming -- all of which have low black populations --
have none of the organization's abortion facilities.

So, when 3 of every 5 black women that get pregnant abort their babies, would Margaret Sanger and her organization (which has made over $4 billion off of aborting black babies) be a) ecstatic over her results or b) think it is just a good start, but be eager to come up with a strategy to get the other 2/5?

Back when Jesse Jackson was a Christian, he recognized the problem:

"Abortion is black genocide," Jackson said in 1977. "What happens to the mind of
a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life
of a baby without a pang of conscience?" he asked. Later in that speech, Jackson
wondered how America might be affected 20 or 30 years down the road.

Well, now we know. In addition to all of the other social ills, the pull of being pro "black genocide", for those who aspire to high office in the Democrat Party, is great enough to make a man like Jackson switch his position on the matter. But a high 5 to him for not aborting his love child(ren?). But I digress.

When Bill Bennett brought up the truth of a hypothetical genocide in that aborting all the black babies would reduce the crime rate (an undeniable demographic fact) , he was denounced as a racist, even though he immediately denounced the notion as "morally reprehensible" and later "monstrous". When Planned Parenthood actually carries out a black genocide, they are lauded by the very liberals that condemn Bennett.

Still not convinced? Dr. Calrence Gamble (as in, Proctor & Gamble) was the southern director of the embryonic (pun intended) Planned Parenthood.

Gamble wrote a memorandum in November 1939 entitled "Suggestions for the Negro Project," in which he recognized that "black leaders might regard birth control as an extermination plot." He suggested black leaders to be placed in positions where it would appear they were in charge. Yet Sanger’s reply reflects Gamble’s ambivalence about having blacks in authoritative positions:

I note that you doubt it worthwhile to employ a full-time Negro physician. It seems to me from my experience … that, while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors, they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table, which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. Theydo not do this with white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and … knowledge, which … will have far-reaching results among the colored people.

Another project director lamented:

I wonder if Southern Darkies (!) can ever be entrusted with … a clinic.
Our experience causes us to doubt their ability to work except under white
supervision.

Sanger knew blacks were religious people–and how useful ministers would be to her project. She wrote in the same letter:

The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the
Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want
word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the
minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of
their more rebellious members.

Fast forward to today, where Klanparenthood.org points out the results of this twisted racist ideology:

Every three days, more African-Americans are killed by abortion than
have been killed by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire history, and Planned
Parenthood operates the nation's largest chain of abortion clinics and almost 80 percent of its facilities are located in minority
neighborhoods.

And so it goes: hypothetical yet immediately condemned genocide is proof of the evils of conservatism. Conversely, a regularly practiced and politically convenient genocide is proof of the virtues of liberalism. Someone must have set my Kooky Left Wing Delogicator to "stun," friends, because I am much shaken by the absurd evil of it all.

Jon Stewart, Arianna Huffington, and every other wack job liberal that published this obvious hit piece on Bennett, who has done more in real actions to help poor blacks in America in his work in education and drug prevention than all of these liberals' good intentions combinied, should be condemned for their hypocrisy. So it seems, the road to genocide is paved with malicious manipulation.

Credit for the quotes and some of the other content in this article goes to:
http://blackgenocide.org
Cybercast News Service
http://www.klanparenthood.com/

Mannix Comes on Strong on Immigration

Mannix just called in to Lars on the "arousal of sinformation"...er..."carousel of information" and I think gave the most comprehensive answer to the problem yet...not only do we need to stop giving out government cookies to illegals, we need to require proof of residency for anyone seeking to extort the Oregon taxpayer for "freebies." This is regardless of what state or foreign country one is from.

He went on to say that it is crazy that local and state officials are prevented by state law from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement, and he woudl change that as governor. In addition, he said, if the feds wont take care of their own problem, then Oregon's laws should be changed to fix the problem ourselves.

He also said that he would require proof of citizenship to vote, which the R's in the House of Reps passed only to get blocked by the Dems in the Senate and the Governor. Who the hell can possibly make a case that illegals should be able to vote? I guarantee if we started importing hardcore conservative illegals, they would shut down the illegal voting so fast you would drop all 3 of your ballots.

El Carousel de Bullcrap

If you want to know what the post about the "Carousel of Information" is about, check out Daniel's piece of outstanding reporting on it. Sombreros off to Daniel for standing up for America and the rights of people who didn't cut in line to get to America.

Saxton's Hypocrisy

Saxton was just on Lars talking about the "carnival of information" illegal immigration enhancement program run by the state government in collusion with the Mexican consulate.

He spoke of how he would not encourage our laws to be broken, and yet, he enabled "Kneel" Goldschmidt to rape the state of Oregon as his attorney. If you think that is unfair, how do you explain the collusion in the PGE / Texas Pacific scandal, where Ron was representing the city then switched sides the day that Goldschmidt decided to ingratiate himself with Texas Pacific's money?

Or how Ron suggested that the way to solve the PERS problem was to fire all of the state employees and then rehire them under the new plan, which is a violation of contract law? He is a lawyer, he had to know that.

The state under the influence of the Goldschmidt machine was a "carnival of corruption" for the past 2 decades. And being that Saxton was one of the carneys in that carnival, he has no standing to talk about the rule of law.

Cindy Lied, Poor People Died

Utilizing my Left Wing Logicator, I was able to figure out that based on left wing logic, Cindy Sheehan was responsible for the murder of poor African Americans in Washington DC today.

While police officers were called away from their normal duties patrolling the urban utopia of Washington DC today, no doubt there were untold crimes perpetrated against the poor, mostly African American population of Washington DC.

And what were they tasked with? Hauling away the self aggrandizing woman we refer to politely as Cindy Sheehan, and somewhat less politely as "that disgusting woman who would exploit her own late son to fight for a cause he would be horrified to know he was being used to support."

That's right, DC & Capitol police had to help be props in Cindy Al-Sheehan's Mobile Masquerade Ball. This is the second highest form of exploitation, second only of course to using your own heroic son's death in a cause he believed in to foment the Anti-American hatred that got him murdered.

I am not quite sure, but the guy in the picture behind Ms. Al-Sheehan with the clenched fist in the air seems to be either chanting "Death to America" or "Allah Akbar", but I couldn't make it out over the crackling sounds of the American flag burning. Or maybe that was the sound of Casey Sheehan's tears hitting the ground from such a lofty distance high above.

Atkinson's New Website

Jason Atkinson's new website is up and running. Kudos for the fresh look and the sense you get of something new on the horizon.

My only complaint is that everything is in generalities, but I trust that he will be giving us some specifics soon about what his platform is. "We need a new leader" with no plan given on how to do that is a specialty already taken by Ron Saxton ,who I am quite sure Jason does not want to (nor will be) be associated with.

I am sure that Jason will have his platform up there soon, and it will be impressive. I think Mannix will come out with some great ideas too, he is good at doing that on the fly. Saxton will likely give us more of the same - like Gullyborg mentioned regarding Atkinson's recent speech, some people want to hold office just to hold office, and I think Saxton is one of those people, while Atkinson and Mannix have actual ideas they want to use to actually change the real world.

Atkinson should answer...

Before it becomes a scandal, Atkinson should clarify his campaign finance reports....
He reported with the Secretary of State that he raised $1,600 for his Governor’s race. Then he reported an additional $25,000 a few days later – (you’re required to report every 48 hours.) Atkinson on Monday the 12th told the media he raised $80,000.
What gives? Did he raise it or not? If he raises 80K and didn't report it, that violated state election laws. If he didn’t raise it but claims he did, that would be dishonest, and I don't think he would intentionally do something dishonest. But this needs to be addressed before someone else gets a hold of it and makes one of these "made-to-order" psedoscandals out of it, like the ones people are trying to spout about Kevin's finances.