NADA - New American Dark Ages

No political party has monopoly on morals

No political party has monopoly on morals By Leonard Pitts

So, anybody up for a chat about family values?

The term has been a registered trademark of the GOP — the self-styled Morals Party — for years, a bludgeon against Democrats who, by implication, oppose families and have no values. Like most political language, it’s a code, intended to be understood by those with ears to hear. “Family values” means the pol in question has God on speed dial and can be counted upon to oppose gun control, the so-called “homosexual agenda” and abortion, while pushing schools to teach, as Tina Fey once put it, that Adam and Eve rode to church on dinosaurs. …

Now Foley is in seclusion, sending his representatives out with roughly an explanation a day: Foley is a drunk, Foley was molested as a teenager, Foley is gay. Of them all, that last would-be clarification is the most vexing, playing as it does to the conservative predilection for conflating homosexuality and child molestation — as if Foley’s actions would be one iota less execrable if the pages were girls. Meantime, his party has its knickers in a knot over whether Speaker Dennis Hastert will survive this scandal.

I am preoccupied by different questions: what should we make of the fact that members of the Morals Party have behaved with such an appalling lack of same? How could our self-appointed decency police have been so inert while one of their members practiced perversion against children? Isn’t protecting children a family value?

I make no case for Democratic moral superiority. The Monica Lewinsky, Gary Condit, and Barney Frank scandals are too fresh in memory for anyone to suggest that with a straight face. But at least the Democrats had the good taste not to sell themselves as The Morals Party, never claimed to have God on speed dial.

One feels sorry for those who bought what the GOP was selling. One hopes they will be less gullible in the future.

And the Morals Party? There is no such thing.

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This Week’s Deep Thinker – WTF?

ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor

Democrats, Media, ACLU The Real Terrorist Threat

INSTEAD OF being united to fight the war on terror and the war in Iraq, the Democratic politicians, the far-left news media and the ACLU are doing everything they can to keep our country in disarray. Just because they don’t like President Bush, they do everything they can to hurt our country.

Democratic politicians, far-left news media and the ACLU are the biggest terrorists in this country. They may not be killing Americans and American soldiers directly, but indirectly they are.

Foreign terrorists don’t have to come here to attack us, the above named organizations are doing it for them. Our country is safer in spite of them. They oppose the Bush administration on everything he tries to do to protect our country.

John Kerry claimed he had a plan for everything. If he and the Democrat politicians care about our country why don’t they come up with those plans as Democratic proposals to help our county and get credit as their ideas. Everything from the Democrats is negative, never anything positive.

LOUIS GALLEGOS
Albuquerque

I don’t mean to be negative, but I’m positive Gallegos is a divider, not a uniter — and an idiot, to boot.

Here’s an idea: stop equating those who won’t kiss the president’s ass with the terrorists. mjh

book

I Wrote A Book!

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I have just turned in the last chapters of my book on Windows Vista. I’m not elated or even relieved, but I am reasonably happy and proud of the intense concentration I put into this project over the past two months, which seem to have flown by. I wrote over 100,000 words and took over 200 screen captures. In the process, I installed at least 4 Builds (versions) more than a dozen times.

Which is not to say I’m done, just at the end of a big phase. Now, I begin “author review,” in which I’ll graciously accept the comments of two or more editors. Of course, I’ve already worked with the best editor — Mer has read every word and contributed considerably to the book.

In this final phase, I also have to compare my text and figures to the latest build, Release Candidate 2. I want to be as current as possible, though the final version — the RTM (Release to Manufacture) — comes right around my deadline.

Three weeks from now, I can return to the blogosphere and ignoring the clock and calendar a little bit. mjh

NADA - New American Dark Ages

Aggressive Incompetence

I hope you got to see Speaker Denny Hastert’s news conference. Several times during the news conference, Hastert insinuated that Democrats are behind the furor over the Foley scandal. He concluded his damage control with a litany of great Republican achievements — topped by tax cuts — versus Democrats’ lack of plan (so he says). ‘Maybe they’ve got other tactics,’ he concluded.

You know, I don’t mind doddering old men who can’t find their own asses with two hands — I plan to be one, someday. Everyone experiences moments of incompetence. What I can’t stand is an incompetent being belligerent. To be inept and attack others is scandalous — albeit the Rovian Way and the Path of Duhbya. I hope the fall is a mighty one, though I’m sure these fools will blame everyone but themselves. mjh

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broken record

Bush hits Democrats on national security By NEDRA PICKLER , Associated Press writer

Bush persisted with the strategy that has brought Republican victory in the last two elections — campaigning on national security with some tax talk thrown in.

“If the other bunch gets elected, they’re going to raise your taxes,” Bush charged during a breakfast fundraiser for Rep. Rick Renzi at the posh Camelback Inn near Phoenix.

Worse yet, Bush said, some Democrats are putting national security at risk ….

“[V]ote Republican for the safety of the United States of America,” Bush said to applause from the donors who together gave $450,000 to see him speak ….

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." — Sam Adams