The curtains open on another new page of blurbs..BUT don't forget to take a look backwards as you don''t want to miss a myriad of great news (well, not always for liberals)..on your BROOKLYN'S BLURBS...You give us 22 minutes..we give you the world!

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Let's Drill
There's oil in them thar hills.
by Fred Barnes
05/26/2008, Volume 013, Issue 35

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, the Mr. Magoo of American politics, stumbled onto the otetruth last week. He discovered the law of supply and demand. "We want to put [more oil] on the market to increase supply and lower prices," Reid said. "With oil and gas prices continuing to break record highs every day, much more needs to be done."

Indeed it does. But Reid won't allow it. His understanding of economics only extends to matters in which he might embarrass President Bush. The oil he wants on the market is the oil the administration is buying for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), now nearly full. Reid got his way. The administration now plans to stop oil shipments to the SPR next month.

Beyond that, Reid and his party are committed to suppressing increased oil production in this country, as they wait for that magical day when fossil fuels are no longer needed to supply the nation's energy needs.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/104oiivq.asp

My recently deceased step- dad was a merchant marine pioneer as he was aboard the Exxon S.S. Manhattan on it's maiden voyage. It was the specially outfitted ice breaker,that could mostly break through the thick Alaskan ice... back in the 70s...back then even, they were planning ways on getting oil out of Alaska...we need to drill. Anybody see any flowers growing up there???????????


HOT AIR balloon..
Obama's health plan

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Obama Furious with the Truth - again
Election 2008 piece by Sher Zieve

Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama is furious - or feigning fury - with the truth again. This time it is over a statement made by President George W. Bush. The statement made by the president to Israel’s parliament last week included chastising those who continue to call for some types of appeasement to the world’s enemies and included the warning: “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

Until the leftist Democrats again attempt a major rewrite of history, the documented facts are that current Democrat leaders, including but not limited to former US President Jimmy Carter, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Barack Hussein Obama, have each advocated sitting down to talk with our enemies - or have already done it themselves. Obama is angry that President Bush is again telling the truth - and it seems to implicate him.

Recently the arguably worst-US-president-in-history and noted anti-Semite Carter sat down “to talk” with the exiled leader of terrorist Hamas - which has vowed to destroy Israel and now publicly supports Barack Obama for POTUS - and Nancy Pelosi sat down to talk with Syria’s terrorist leader Bashar al-Assad. Both of these Democrat “leaders” were operating in a rogue manner outside of US policy towards terrorist and terrorist-sponsoring states. Obama has now joined them with his ‘If I’m elected President of the United States I’ll sit down - with NO preconditions - for a talk with the President of Iran’. And even though Obama’s statements have been widely reported and are contained in videos, he has apparently decided that he wants the American people to believe him and not their lyin’ eyes and ears. The mainstream press agrees and is tirelessly working to protect their Candidate Obama. So much for the truth.

http://americandaily.ws/index.php/article/1078

Why Hillary Won't Quit

What Does Granting Amnesty Have to Do With Funding Our Troops in Iraq?

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China holding 3 days of mourning for quake victims
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May 18, 8:51 PM (ET)

By AUDRA ANG

BEICHUAN, China (AP) - Flags flew at half-staff, public entertainment was canceled and 1.3 billion people were asked to observe three minutes of silence as China began three days of mourning Monday for the victims of the nation's massive earthquake.

Officials asked for the horns of cars, trains and ships and air raid sirens to sound as people fell silent at 2:28 p.m. - exactly one week after the quake splintered thousands of buildings and killed an estimated 50,000 people. Chinese news portal sina.com said the government had ordered all visitors to online entertainment and game pages to be redirected to Web sites dedicated to commemorating earthquake victims.

The Olympic torch relay - a potent symbol of national pride in the countdown to August's much anticipated Beijing games - was also suspended during the mourning period.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080519/D90OCVJ00.html

For Obama, McCain, a Shortlist on Running Mates

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Obama hijacked phrase from pro-Palestinian friend?
Both called Israel conflict 'constant sore' within days of each other
Posted: May 18, 2008
10:53 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein

JERUSALEM – In terming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a "constant sore" last week, did Sen. Barack Obama borrow the phraseology of a pro-Palestinian activist and harsh critic of Israel who has been described as a friend of the senator?

Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi also previously held a fundraiser for Obama. He has made repeated statements supportive of Palestinian terror.

In a much-quoted interview with the Atlantic, Obama was asked last week whether he thinks Israel is a "drag on America's reputation oversees."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64640

Remember his use of YES WE CAN?

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Battling the abortion mentality on campus
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow

Planned Parenthood and other promoters of abortion are on or near college campuses preaching their message of death. But a student pro-life group is moving to counter that.

In response to the campus prominence of Planned Parenthood, Students for Life of America is hiring field agents who will have the responsibility of forming chapters on campuses in their region. The organization will help to make sure counseling and services are available to women that will convince them to have their babies.

"We send field agents out every semester to college campuses identifying pro-life students and helping [those students] start pro-life groups on their campuses," says executive director Kristan Hawkins. She adds that currently the only message available on many campuses provides one approach – abortion.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=117316

Missouri to illegal immigrants: "Go Away."

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BROOKLY'S BLURBS TO YOUR HEALTH
Warning: Using a mobile phone while pregnant can seriously damage your baby

Study of 13,000 children exposes link between use of handsets and later behavioural problems

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Should all 'gays' move to California?

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Madame Speaker has Reality Slap her in the face in Iraq
Rick Moran
It will be hard for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to go back to her Democratic colleagues and keep declaiming on the House floor about how the surge isn't working in Iraq now that she has been there and seen for herself.

What she saw was buried in an AP report on her trip. Powerline's Paul Mirengoff:

Buried deep in this AP report, between news of a crackdown on al Qaeda in Mosul and a suicide bombing in Baqouba, is Nancy Pelosi's concession that the surge is succeeding. According to AP, the Speaker, who made a surprise visit to Iraq, "expressed confidence that expected provincial elections will promote national reconciliation." She also "welcomed Iraq's progress in passing a budget as well as oil legislation, and a bill paving the way for the provincial elections in the fall that are expected to more equitably redistribute power among local officials."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/05/madame_speaker_has_reality_sla.html

Barack Obama – Muslim apostate?

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Twenty Inconvenient Truths About Barack

When it comes to inconvenient truths about Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., there are plenty.

Herewith, twenty.

1. Obama want to become the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America even though he has no military experience. Obama has much LESS military service than President George W. Bush or former Vice President Dan Quayle; NONE.

2. Obama want to become the Chief Executive Officer of the United States of America even though he has no executive experience and is a rookie United States Senator.

3. Obama promises to unify America, but non-partisan National Journal rated him the most liberal of the 100 United States Senators and voted against the confirmation of both Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/32234.html

Clinton-Obama Grudges Linger For Some Voters


BROOKLYN'S TIME OUT FOR SPORTS: Steroid testimony sought from more than 100 baseball players: report

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City clerk suing not to wed 'gays'
Woman: 'I can't go against what it says in the Bible'

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64699

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Supreme Court upholds part of child porn law
May 19 10:53 AM US/Eastern

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court upheld criminal penalties Monday for promoting child pornography.

The court, in a 7-2 decision, brushed aside concerns that the law could apply to mainstream movies that depict adolescent sex, classic literature or innocent e-mails that describe pictures of grandchildren.

The ruling upheld part of a 2003 law that also prohibits possession of child porn. It replaced an earlier law against child pornography that the court struck down as unconstitutional.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90OPADO0&show_article=1

The Nightmare We Call Our Schools

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THE BLURBS BUSINESS BEAT:

Worst may be over for US, some economists say

A growing number of analysts are expressing confidence that the worst may be over for the US economy, even if it struggles for some time due to weak housing, tight credit and high energy costs.

The latest data suggests the world's biggest economy may have averted a calamitous downturn, and could even escape recession, by the most common definition.

"The US economy continues to labor under the averse effects of three powerful shocks: the housing slump, the credit crunch, and the spike in energy prices," says Josh Feinman, chief economist of Deutsche Bank's DB Advisors.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080518224527.4oq43vxm&show_article=1

Microsoft: New talks for alternative Yahoo deal

Exclusive: What You Can Do to Save Money, Stop Terrorism and Protect the Planet

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OBAMA TELLS TENN. GOP: LAY OFF MY WIFE
ASSOCIATED PRESS

May 19, 2008 --

WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee's Republican Party: "Lay off my wife."

Obama, his party's presidential front-runner, and his wife, Michelle, were asked in an interview aired Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America" about an online video last week by the state's GOP taking her to task for a comment some considered unpatriotic.

"The GOP, should I be the nominee, can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record," Obama said. "If they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable, the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family."

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Loose Lips---Sink Ships!

Lovely 1st Lady material ; better than Teresa Kerry would've ever been.


MPs back creation of human-animal embryos

Is Olbermann on the Verge of Another Professional Meltdown?

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Are 32,000 Scientists Enough to Question Global Warming 'Consensus?'
Marc Sheppard
The National Press Club in Washington will today release the names of as many as 32,000 American Scientists who reject not only Kyoto-style greenhouse gas limits, but the very premise of manmade global warming itself.

On Saturday, Lawrence Solomon wrote a great piece in the National Post (h/t Benny Peiser) which begged the question:

"How many scientists does it take to establish that a consensus does not exist on global warming?"

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/05/are_32000_scientists_enough_to.html

California Supreme Court Asked to Stay "Gay Marriage" Order until November Public Ballot

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PA marriage amendment in limbo
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 5/19/2008 6:00:00 AM

Pro-family activist Diane Gramley says homosexual activists in her state of Pennsylvania will use the recent decision by California's Supreme Court, which overturned a ban on same-sex nuptials, to keep a proposed marriage protection amendment from ever seeing the light of day.

Currently SB 1250, the marriage protection amendment, is languishing in a Pennsylvania Senate committee. Gramley, president of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, says the situation in her state is similar to the one in California, where last week the Supreme Court decision was announced.

According to Gramley, jurists and legislators in both states are bowing to pressure from homosexual activists, which she notes make up only about 2.9 percent of the population. Gramley says homosexual activists are also taking part in a campaign of misinformation regarding the issue.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=117808

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Transgender lobby to intimidate petitioners
Targeting supporters of pro-family referendum

A lobby for homosexuals and transgenders in Maine has announced plans to shadow individuals who will be working to collect signatures on the "YES for Marriage and Equality" pro-family referendum, which is intended to put a marriage protection plan on the 2009 election ballot.

In a report in the New England Blade this week, Betsy Smith, executive director of the Equality Maine activist organization, outlined "a plan that asks volunteers to stand with the people the [Christian Civic] League recruits to collect signatures for the petition."

"I think it is disgusting that so-called 'gay' groups plan on harassing dear Christian grandmothers who simply want to gather signatures on Primary Election Day. Shame on Equality Maine," said Michael Heath, chief of the CCL.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64486

Anglican Acceptance of both Abortion and Sanctity of Life will Allow the Creation of a Gay Church: Gene Robinson
Robinson is a huge Barry-Booster & hopes (I almost said prays but not sure who Barry or he "really" prays to)...hopes that Barry will tremendously boost so called gay rights if elected.

Obama: Iran is Just a Tiny Country

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Olbermann Says Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin Hate Our Troops

By Noel Sheppard | May 19, 2008 - 23:09 ET

It appears the New York Post's assessment that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is on the verge of another professional meltdown was quite prescient.

On Monday's "Countdown," answering to criticism that his Special Comment last Wednesday about President Bush's "panoramic and murderous deceit" was so over the top that he should be suspended, Olbermann had the unmitigated audacity to claim those offended were showing "their instinctive hatred for, and contempt for" America's troops.

His targets: conservative commentators and stalwart supporters of the United States military including radio hosts Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/19/olbermann-says-laura-ingraham-mark-levin-hate-our-troops

To contact (P)MSNBC to fire this idiot:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3303518/
My email already sent; may f/u w/ phone call Tues...

McCain attacks Obama over Iran comments

CARTOON: The king deals with his troubles

CARTOON: Mike Ramirez/ NY POST

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Late Show Top Ten

Top Ten Signs Your Teacher Is Drunk

7. Every time the bell rings, he shouts, "Last call!"



6. Students give her an apple — she makes Apple-tinis



1. Teacher knows less about the Middle East than George W. Bush

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As of 1:10 the AP is reporting Sen Edward Kennedy has a BRAIN TUMOR; no details yet avaiable.

He could use our prayers; I may not have regular updates until election night as I am officially opening up my stock trading account today in Manhattan.

Latest report says it is malignant; treatment plan yet to be decided.

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Tonight more fishing for votes & BROOKLYN'S BLURBS will bring you the breakdowns!

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Dems Await Primary Results as Obama Prepares to Pass ‘Milestone’
by FOXNews.com
Tuesday, May 20, 2008


Hillary Clinton and her supporters remained defiant Tuesday, as early signs from the Kentucky primary showed the underdog for the Democratic nomination is still able to offer an impressive showing at the polls.

Polls close in Kentucky at 7 p.m. ET. Initial results from Oregon, which also is holding its primary, aren’t expected until 11 p.m. ET.

Barack Obama appeared ready to capture a majority of pledged delegates once the results of both contests are known. But he told FOX News earlier in the day he hasn’t “declared victory.”

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/20/clinton-campaign-predicts-race-goes-on-as-dems-await-primary-results/

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Clinton wins Kentucky, NBC News projects
Victory not expected to stop Obama’s march to Democratic nomination



Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York won the Kentucky Democratic presidential primary Tuesday, according to projections by NBC News, but Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois remained poised to reach a major milestone: a majority of the elected delegates.

Clinton has vowed to continue the fight through the last primaries in early June — a determination that was cheered on by supporters from the WomenCount political action committee, who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times urging her not to give up.

But former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, a key Obama adviser, urged Democrats to unite behind Obama, bringing the marathon primary contest to an end so the party could focus on the November general election battle against the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24714065/

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Obama takes Oregon ; Clinton wins Kentucky

* Story Highlights
* Obama captures majority of pledged delegates
* Obama: "Most important part of our journey still lies ahead"
* Clinton wins Kentucky across all age, education, income groups, polls show

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/primary.wrap/index.html

As Time Runs Short, Clinton Claims Lead in Popular Vote


Oregon will be a late state due to it's mail in/bring in system...

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Kentucky and Oregon Primaries

Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in the Kentucky Democratic primary Tuesday by a margin of more than 2-to-1, underscoring the problems the Democratic front-runner still has attracting key voting groups.

http://elections.foxnews.com/

But Obama is leading in Oregon polls, and is banking on a win in the Beaver State once the results of the state’s mail-in primary are released starting at 11 p.m. ET.

VIDEO: Clinton tonight

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Geraldine Ferraro, calling Barack Obama "sexist," may not back him

Might fully one-third of the six surviving Democratic vice presidential nominees end up opposing their party's national ticket this November?

Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Gerladine Ferraro says she might not vote for the frontrunner for her party's presidential nomination, Barack Obama That possibility arose today based on comments Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic veep candidate, made to The New York Times.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, who occupied the No. 2 slot for the Democrats in 2000, months ago declared for presumptive Republican White House nominee John McCain.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/geraldine-ferra.html

This ultimate feminist, famous herself might sway many away if Barry is the victor..I admire her for holding to her principles & not just following the party line.

Muslim ex-Army 'spy' is Obama delegate

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Kentucky/MSNBC

Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won Projected winner
Hillary Clinton 243,055 62% 29 [Hillary Clinton]
Barack Obama 130,171 33% 14
Uncommitted 8,861 2%
57% of precincts reporting

Republicans | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won Projected winner
John McCain 81,528 73% 0 [Republicans]
Mike Huckabee 8,549 8% 0
Ron Paul 7,753 7% 0
Uncommitted 6,408 6%
Mitt Romney 4,934 4% 0
Rudy Giuliani 1,809 2% 0
Alan Keyes 1,025 1%
57% of precincts reporting

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21229208

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Candidates can't discount role of voter affluence, education

* Story Highlights
* Sen. Hillary Clinton is favored to win big in Kentucky (7.3 percent African-American)
* Sen. Barack Obama is the heavy favorite in Oregon (2 percent African-American)
* Obama performs strongly among more affluent Democrats

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/obama.general.election/index.html

Clinton Slams College Educated Media Elitists
Almost all of the drive-bys are Obama's cover-up squad...we need to sling it big-time (of course McCain won't) in the general..

The Myth of 'Anonymous Emails" Against Obama

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Oregon/MSNBC



Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won Projected winner
Barack Obama 258,543 58% 23 [Barack Obama]
Hillary Clinton 187,565 42% 21
55% of precincts reporting

Republicans | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won Projected winner
John McCain 201,480 86% 0 [Republicans]
Ron Paul 33,793 14% 0
51% of precincts reporting

http://faithcommunitynetwork.com/m_2720371/mpage_15/key_/tm.htm#3446454

More from Barry's so called Christian associates..hmmmm wonder who they're really aligned with?????

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Christians copy Christ killers, says Obama pastor's magazine
'George Bush, unwitting prophets of Baal distort true practice of Gospel of Jesus'
Posted: May 20, 2008
9:09 pm Eastern

JERUSALEM – White Christians are "make pretend" believers and conservative Christians emulate the people who killed Jesus, according to articles in a controversial magazine run by Sen. Barack Obama's longtime pastor that paint traditional Christianity as false and racist.

Stanley Kurtz, a National Review Online contributor, concluded after reviewing two years of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trumpet Magazine that the Trinity United Church of Christ pastor practices a black liberation theology brand of Christianity that "sees his own form of Christianity as profoundly different from Christianity as typically practiced by most American whites and blacks."

The findings raise new questions about the Christian views of Obama, a longtime Trinity member who was featured on Trumpet magazine's cover several times and last year granted an exclusive, lengthy interview to the publication.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64828

This is one that we need to get in circulation; posted on political & Christian websites & forwarded to radio talk show hosts, etc..trust me there will be more..let's trust that he will be our unworthy opponent in Nov..

Daily Kos Photoshop Depicts Michelle Obama Being Tortured by Klan Members

A grim diagnosis: Kennedy's brain cancer is worst kind

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Yesterday, an estimated 75,000 people attended a Barack Obama rally on the banks of the river . . . . after the rally, Barack feed them all with just five loaves of bread and two fishes.



The oldest serving member of Congress, former Klan member Sen. Robert Byrd, has endorsed Barack Obama for president. That’s got to make Hillary feel good . . . Even the Klan guys are going, “I’m going with the black guy.”

The New York Daily News says that Barack Obama’s biggest problem now is how to get rid of Hillary Clinton “gently.” To which Bill Clinton said, “Good luck with that. Let me know how that’s going.”



Late Night with Conan O'Brien

In a speech this past weekend, Hillary Clinton said John McCain couldn’t be more out of touch. Then she said, “If you’ll excuse me, I’m about to win the Democratic nomination.”



Barack Obama also going after John McCain. Obama accused McCain of trying to bankrupt Social Security. Not by voting against it, but by collecting it for 80 years.

Late Show Top Ten

Top Ten Surprises in the New Osama bin Laden Audio Tape

10. The tape begins with, "Jihad, Jihad, 1, 2, 3 . . . Jihad, Jihad, 1, 2, 3 . . ."



3. Background noise suggests he's clearly at a bowling alley

1. Even he can't believe Bush hasn't caught him




http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

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Report: Obama mentored by Communist Party figure
Investigations show ties to radicals who shaped him, helped launch his political career
Posted: May 22, 2008
11:40 pm Eastern



Barack Obama had extensive ties with extreme anti-American elements, including agents of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, in Hawaii and Chicago, according to two new reports released yesterday in Washington, D.C., by two experienced internal security investigators.

Investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, a former investigator with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, presented evidence Obama was mentored, while attending high school in Hawaii, by Frank Marshall Davis, an African-American poet and journalist who was also a CPUSA member.

The authors, in a separate report, document Obama's ties to radicals in Chicago who helped launch his career.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65066

Rush: Obama's Pastor Loaded With Hate

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Obama's Good Friend Rashid Khalidi
Rick Moran



This is getting to be a disturbing pattern for Barack Obama.

A radical association from his past comes to light and he minimizes the relationship. Additional information is gathered showing him to have much more extensive contact with the radical than he originally said, thus proving the candidate to be a liar.

End result? Media silence and the story is buried.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/05/obamas_good_friend_rashid_khal.html

Do we really need Barry to protect us from terrorism..wait until the general & the fun begins...this shoud not stand?

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Bush asks Americans to pay tribute to veterans with 'moment of remembrance' on Memorial Day
Saturday, May 24, 2008 09:02:50 AM

President Bush asked Americans to pay tribute to veterans by pausing on Memorial Day for "a moment of remembrance."



Bush had several suggestions for how to honor the sacrifices of those who have fought for the United States – place a flag at a veteran's grave, go to a battlefield or say a prayer. He said the moment of remembrance would be marked Monday at 3 p.m. local time.

"At that moment, Major League Baseball games will pause, the National Memorial Day parade will halt, Amtrak trains will blow their whistles and buglers in military cemeteries will play taps," he said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/article.html?mi=D90S21I01&apc=9009

Court allows partial-birth abortion in VA

German Couple Loses Custody of 7-Month-Old Son After Posting Him on eBay for $1.60

Junk Science : Global Warming's New 'Consensus'

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The Catch
Both McCain and Obama are looking at Mayor Bloomberg for V.P. because he’s rich, Jewish, and with a head for business. What’s not to like? ***

http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/47200/

A little too liberal but a great crime & terror fighter & a city CEO. He could maybe invest billions..but not sure of the law there.

VIRGINIAN EYED AS OBAMA VEEP

Cindy McCain Had $6 Million Income in 2006

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McCain picks former Reagan official to head VP search
By J. Taylor Rushing
Posted: 05/23/08 05:53 PM [ET]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has tapped a former Reagan administration official to head his campaign’s search for a vice presidential nominee.

Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) told The Hill that Arthur Culvahouse, who was Reagan’s White House counsel from March 1987 to January 1989, will be helping McCain vet candidates and develop a list.

Alexander and Culvahouse have known each other for decades and both have connections to former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.).

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/mccain-selects-former-reagan-official-to-head-vp-search-2008-05-23.html

Bush Begins Raising Money for McCain

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McCain gets frequent checkups after melanoma scare
By LIZ SIDOTI and LAURAN NEERGAARD


John McCain, seeking to become the oldest elected first-term president, gets an in-depth skin cancer check every few months because of a medical history his own dermatologist calls "remarkable" for its number of dangerous melanomas.

He now appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in generally good health, according to eight years of medical records McCain's presidential campaign made available Friday as it sought to prove that, at 71, he is healthy enough _ and not too old _ to serve as president.

The fair-skinned Republican nominee-in-waiting, who also sustained severe sun damage from his 5 1/2 years in Vietnamese prison camps, remains at risk for developing new skin cancers. He regularly has precancerous lesions and more common, easy-to-cure skin cancers removed.

http://www.townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/05/23/mccain_gets_frequent_checkups_after_melanoma_scare

Hey dems how come Sen. Byrd's not too old or NJ's liberal Frank Lautenberg "91"---is not to old to run for e-election??? has anyone seen Mama McCain? A ball of energy????


Congresswoman Waters threatens to nationalize oil industry

Next Stop [For Hil'], Supreme Court?
Even if not a Barry Supreme Court should scare any normal American!

Rescue of girls in Nigeria ignites islamic rampage

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America Must Not Forget Mary Jo Kopechne
May 23, 2008 05:00 PM EST

By John W. Lillpop

As news of Ted Kennedy's malignant tumor was made public, prominent people from all across the nation, including President Bush, Senator Robert Bird, and others, expressed shock, grief, and deep sorrow at the fate that has befallen the senator from Massachusetts.

Partisan politics have no place when an individual of Senator Kennedy's stature faces a diagnosis that usually portends death. The senator deserves all of the encouragement and respect that one would afford a member of one's own family in a similar situation.

When Senator Kennedy's days are over, the liberal media will no doubt launch a campaign to confer sainthood on the lifetime public servant. His Herculean efforts on behalf of women, minorities, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised will be chronicled over and over again.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/32344.html

BROOKLYN'S BLURBS TO YOUR HEALTH: Diabetes can be delayed with a few simple fixes

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THE BLURBS BUSINESS BEAT:

Icahn: Obama Would Be a Terrible President



Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor best known for shaking up public companies, says he is very concerned about the Democratic frontrunner, Barack Obama.

“I personally think he would be a terrible president,'' Icahn told investors in New York, according to wire reports.

Icahn thinks a President Obama would increase spending dramatically, something he says “the country can't afford right now.”

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/streettalk/icahn_obama_terrible_prez/2008/05/22/98217.html

GOP strategists mull McCain ‘blowout’


Friday's Feel Good Video: Iraq War Dad's Emotional Reunion with Daughter

CARTOON: Fly the affordable skies

CARTOON: By Mike Ramirez/ NY POST

Been away Sat. in Manhattan, spending time in Times Square & having dinner w/ my friend who I discuss stocks (I made $300 my first day & only invested a fraction of the pot)...



It was sad as we both & others we know observed only a fraction of the usual wall-to-wall sailors & marines during FLEET WEEK...but too many troops are deployed...

I always try & give a thumbs up & happy to say although way fewer in #s NYers are just as welcoming. Times Square was wall-to-wall w/ people spending $$$$..will try & update later....


To the Barry,Michelle,Pelosi,Durbin, Murtha, & Dem Party loving MSN!!!!

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The AP Maligns Our Soldiers On Memorial Day Weekend

By Warner Todd Huston | May 24, 2008 - 14:13 ET

It's a happy Memorial Day from the Associated Press as they inform that nation that a few Marines involved themselves in a "shooting spree" in Afghanistan. Yes, the AP makes it seem as if our Marines began "firing indiscriminately at vehicles and civilians" during a March 4th altercation near Nangarhar province. But, a closer read finds a far murkier story and one that seems to say that our Marines didn't go wild but that they thought they were under attack. Whether the Marines were right or wrong about being attacked is the real question at the end of the day. But whatever the case, right at the outset the AP presented the incident as if the Marines were in the wrong.

Even the headline casts the Marines actions in the negative: "Afghans appalled Marines not charged in killings." No benefit of the doubt there. In fact, the whole first half of the story explores the charges against the Marines before a single word in their defense appears.
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Afghan officials expressed outrage Saturday at the decision by the U.S. military not to charge U.S. Marines involved in a shooting spree that left 19 Afghan civilians dead in 2007.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/05/24/ap-maligns-our-soldiers-memorial-day-weekend

World War II Veterans Are Dying at Rate of More Than 1,000 a Day, Numbers Dwindling

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'Miracle' Marine Who Lost Final Battle Remembered

Saturday, May 24, 2008

The young Marine came back from the war, with his toughest fight ahead of him.

Merlin German waged that battle in the quiet of a Texas hospital, far from the dusty road in Iraq where a bomb exploded, leaving him with burns over 97 percent of his body.

No one expected him to survive.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357969,00.html

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'Now Hear This'
By Oliver North

NEW YORK -- Aboard ship, every announcement from the bridge is preceded by that phrase. Here in the Big Apple, it's Fleet Week. Set to coincide with Memorial Day weekend, it's an opportunity for the citizens of America's most populous metropolitan area to see and touch the hardware the Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps use to defend this land. More importantly, it is a chance for our countrymen to meet and actually talk with a serving member of the U.S. armed forces. Notably, nearly all of the Marines and sailors aboard the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) and a good number of the guardsmen posted here are veterans of overseas campaigns in the war against radical Islam.



Unlike the late '60s and early '70s, when veterans of Vietnam were cautioned not to wear uniforms in public, these young heroes proudly wear proof of their service on their chests. It is equally evident that the Americans who braved long lines and inclement weather to visit this display of military prowess admire the courage and commitment of those serving in uniform.

All of this is an interesting counterpoint to what the masters of the mainstream media have been telling us in this very political year. Public opinion polls show widespread disapproval for the war. The major networks and newspapers routinely carry stories about U.S. military fiascos, failures and abuses. Yet none of that is evident in the crowds of civilians thronging around the warriors visiting New York. It's something to be heeded by some who aspire to be the next commander in chief.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2008/05/23/now_hear_this

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THE PROUD, THE FEW
STRETCHED TO ITS LIMITS, OUR MILITARY NEEDS ONE MILLION MEN

May 25, 2008 -- For the American Left, there are many reasons to withdraw from Iraq: we're caught in the middle of a sectarian civil war, the Iraqi government is a perfidious ally, Iraq is a diversion from the real war against al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and so on. Some of these arguments are strategically shortsighted, others are based on false premises (such as the fact that the sectarian civil war is over in Iraq and bin Laden is in Pakistan, not Afghanistan), but at least they are more or less logically coherent. What makes almost no sense is the proposal that we turn success in Iraq into defeat so that we can "fix the military."

Fixing the "broken" military is a reliable campaign talking point for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama; the Democrats have embraced the idea that soldiers are a new constituency in their Coalition of the Victimized. Obama's victory speech after the South Carolina primary in January grouped soldiers and their families with "the mother who can't get Medicaid for her sick child," the "teacher who works another shift at Dunkin Donuts" and the "Maytag worker who is now competing with his own teenager for a $7-an-hour job at Walmart."

The fix-the-military argument was recently made at greater length by the New York Times. On May 18, the paper's editorialists noted that the efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a serious toll on the Army and Marine Corps, wearing down not only people but equipment "at an unprecedented rate." Well, the loss rates would not have been surprising to the defenders of Bastogne, the armies at Antietam, or the servicemen and women in any other major war, but it is true that US land forces have been asked to do too much with too little for too long.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05252008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_proud__the_few_112367.htm

One attack on US soil or some situation w/ Iran/Middle East & we will need to re-instill THE DRAFT...or loose our nation--- I come from fathers & grandfathers,my brothers- that served or serve now..my daughters too old but my nieces, etc. might be considered in a draft....I'm for both young men & women serving.

How to say Thanks to a Veteran

Who wins if Bobby Jindal gets tapped for veep?

Barry: Not so smart after all?

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SAME OLD [Shady Al]SHARPTON?

May 24, 2008 -- Did the Rev. Al Sharpton try to extort $500,000 from a leading rapper by threatening him with protest marches unless he paid up?



Sharpton calls the accusation "absurd," but that's exactly what Bruce Williams, former right-hand man to Dr. Dre, reportedly charges in a new book.

Who's telling the truth? Sharpton's record in that regard isn't reassuring; the allegation has a familiar ring to it - and it comes amid new questions about the rev's personal finances.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05242008/postopinion/editorials/same_old_sharpton__112339.htm

Rev. Rod Parsley withdraws McCain endorsement

Tom Harkin: McCain's Military Upbringing 'Can Be Pretty Dangerous'

Obama's latest stunning gaffes

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Late Show with David Letterman

American Airlines is now charging $15 for each first checked bag. And I said, “Hey — anything to slow down that ticket line is OK by me.”

Fifteen dollars for each checked bag. And I’m guessing we get to charge them for each canceled flight?


Late Night with Conan O'Brien

This week, Barack Obama was endorsed by 90-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd. Byrd said, “Obama will make a great president, and if he doesn’t, I won’t be around anyway.”

The city of Canton, Ohio wants to impose jail sentences on homeowners who don’t mow their lawns. Residents say this is unfair because watching grass grow is the most exciting thing to do in Canton, Ohio.


The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

“American Idol” last night . . . I never miss it. It’s nice to see a contest that actually has a winner — I’m talking to you, Democrats.


The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Congratulations to David Cook from “American Idol.” He got aan amazing 50 million votes. He got so many votes, Hillary offered him the VP spot.


You know the difference between “American Idol” and the Democratic primary? They count the votes from Florida and Michigan.


American Airlines is charging a $15 fee for checking your first bag. They’re calling it a service fee. Yeah — I believe the service is called extortion.



http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

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Reminder: Bush Won in Florida Recounts Conducted by the Media

By Brent Baker | May 25, 2008 - 19:56 ET

With HBO's 'Recount' movie (airing Sunday and Monday night at 9 PM EDT/PDT) sure to rekindle claims that Al Gore would have won if only the U.S. Supreme Court had not “stopped the counting,” a reminder that both recounts conducted by major media outlets in 2001 determined George W. Bush would have won anyway. Two stars of the film have fueled the re-writing of history with actor Kevin Spacey, who plays Gore operative Ron Klain, charging that “the Bush people were trying to stop votes from being counted and the Gore people were just trying to get votes counted” while Laura Dern, who plays Katherine Harris, recalled that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling left her “devastated because there were uncounted votes.”

The lead of an April 4, 2001 USA Today story headlined, “Newspapers' recount shows Bush prevailed,” by reporter Dennis Cauchon:

George W. Bush would have won a hand count of Florida's disputed ballots if the standard advocated by Al Gore had been used, the first full study of the ballots reveals. Bush would have won by 1,665 votes -- more than triple his official 537-vote margin -- if every dimple, hanging chad and mark on the ballots had been counted as votes, a USA TODAY/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study shows. The study is the first comprehensive review of the 61,195 "undervote" ballots that were at the center of Florida's disputed presidential election....

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/05/25/reminder-bush-won-florida-recounts-conducted-media

In my humble opinion RECOUNT is a fine drama; very well acted & better than I anticipated.

The Bush 2001 vote though was my first ever vote for a republican for president after a life-long dem (even worked on 1st Clinton-Gore campaign) & far left background***-you should see my thick govt. file, mostly redacted... (convinced by other Christians after my conversion that voting for pro-abortion, gay so called rights candidates, etc. was un-Biblical...I was happy that W was prez on 9/11...but overall he's been a failure.

RECOUNT is already on HBO ON DEMAND if you have that service.

***Part of my story is here on POST #1...have a great Memorial weekend...& on Monday PAUSE W/ THE NATION @ 3PM (Eastern)

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NYT Bashes Bush on Memorial Day, White House Strikes Back
By Noel Sheppard | May 26, 2008 - 17:31 ET



The NY SLIMES; we're on a death watch here in NYC.

It's Memorial Day, and the good folks at the New York Times thought it appropriate to not only attack the President's position on a new G.I. Bill, but also to despicably lambaste him for "[h]aving saddled the military with a botched, unwinnable war," and "having squandered soldiers’ lives and failed them in so many ways."

On Memorial Day!

Thankfully, White House press secretary Dana Perino has already issued a written statement concerning this deplorable act by the Times on a sacred day when our nation commemorates its fallen heroes.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/26/nyt-bashes-bush-memorial-day-white-house-strikes-back

Remember the Fallen


Beneath Every Flag Lies A Story

Obama, McCain to Reach Out to Veterans Today

Remember our patriots

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Supporting the Troops - And Their Children - On Memorial Day
By Dr. Paul Kengor

When it comes to “supporting the troops,” some Americans have chosen some curious means of expression. Who can forget Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) June 2005 statement from the Senate floor, comparing U.S. troops at Guantanamo to “Nazis, Soviet