Valin Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Good news of the day.... The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from former Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) — all but ensuring he will serve out his 13-year sentence for corruption charges. Jefferson — who served in the House for 18 years — lost his reelection bid in 2008 after allegations of bribery plagued his campaign. Federal investigators famously found almost $100,000 in his freezer after federal agents had videotaped him accepting the money in a briefcase in 2005. He was found convicted of 11 of 16 corruption counts in 2009. His 13-year sentence was the longest ever set for a Congressman. He began serving it earlier this year. Blatant Racism! Jim Crow all over again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheo Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 Jamie Foxx Gives “Honor to God and Our Lord and Savior....... Click to see who his Lord and Savior is. He is getting reamed on FB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Jamie Foxx Gives “Honor to God and Our Lord and Savior....... Click to see who his Lord and Savior is. He is getting reamed on FB. Good! Stupidity should. The would be understandable if this was 2008, but last time I checked it was 2012. I live in a minority area, I have been asking people how they are better off after 4 years of Obama...blank stare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgWnnJptGs&feature=plcp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQZxpMfsgY H/T Instapundit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheo Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 Quote of the day... Ari Fleischer: "The only way GOP should give up tax pledge is if Democrats pledge to cut entitlements. Compromise applies to both parties-not just Republicans." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 There are heroes in the world today. This woman was one of them: Mexico's fearless woman mayor begged for her little girl's life before she was abducted by drug gang, tortured and executed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238577/Maria-Santos-Gorrostieta-executed-surviving-assassination-attempts.html?ICO=most_read_module By Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 06:15 EST, 26 November 2012 | UPDATED: 13:50 EST, 26 November 2012 The woman mayor who was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug gang pleaded with her attackers for her young daughter’s life, it emerged today. Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who had already survived two assassination attempts, was driving the child to school at around 8.30am when she was ambushed by a car in the city of Morelia. The 36-year-old was hauled from her vehicle and physically assaulted as horrified witnesses watched, according to newspaper El Universal. They described how she begged for her child to be left alone and then appeared to get into her abductors’ car willingly. The little girl was left wailing as her mother was driven away on Monday November 12. For the next week, her frantic family waited by the phone for a ransom call that never came. Gorrostieta’s body…stabbed, burned, battered and bound at wrist and ankle…would finally be found eight days on, dumped by a roadside in San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township. She left behind her daughter and two sons as well as her second husband Nereo Delgado Patinoran. Hailed as a heroine of the 21st century, her death has prompted much soul-searching in a country ravaged by violence. The decision to withdraw her security team in November last year – and her police escort in January – has come under particular scrutiny. Gorrostieta was elected as mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan, west of Mexico City, in 2008. Almost immediately, she received threats. The first assassination attempt came in October 2009 when the car she was travelling in with her first husband Jose Sanchez came under fire from gunmen in the town of El Limone. The attack claimed his life but Gorrostieta lived. She battled back from her injuries in the face of overwhelming tragedy, but she was not destined to know peace. The next attempt on her life was just three months later, when a masked group, carrying assault rifles, ambushed her on the road between Michoacan and Guerreo state. The van she was traveling in, was peppered by 30 bullets. Three hit her. This time her wounds were more severe, leaving multiple scars and forcing her to wear a colostomy bag. She was left in constant pain. When some doubted that she had been shot, Gorrostieta bared the scars that riddled her flesh and swore she would never give in. In a statement to the public made at the time, the devout Catholic said: “At another stage in my life, perhaps I would have resigned from what I have, my position, my responsibilities as the leader of my Tiquicheo. But today, no. It is not possible for me to surrender when I have three children , whom I have to educate by setting an example, and also because of the memory of the man of my life, the father of my three little ones, the one who was able to teach me the value of things and to fight for them. Although he is no longer with us, he continues to be the light that guides my decisions.” She added: “I struggle day to day to erase from my mind the images of the horror I lived, and that others who did not deserve or expect it also suffered. I wanted to show them my wounded, mutilated, humiliated body, because I’m not ashamed of it, because it is the product of the great misfortunes that have scarred my life, that of my children and my family. Despite my own safety and that of my family, what occupies my mind is my responsibility towards my people, the children, the women, the elderly and the men who break their souls every day without rest to find a piece of bread for their children. Freedom brings with it responsibilities and I don’t dare fall behind. My long road is not yet finished - the footprint that we leave behind in our country depends on the battle that we lose and the loyalty we put into it.” After her ordeal she remarried and ran for a seat in Mexico's Congress of the Union, but failed to gain the backing she needed. She remarried and dropped out of the public eye. But it was still almost inevitable that she would eventually pay for her bravery with her life… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheo Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 I'm with Chuck. Chuck Woolery @chuckwoolery I don't know about the rest of you but I have had all of the federal rescuing I can handle for one life time. Take the cliff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheo Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 Powerful stuff @SrWoodchuck RIP Maria “At another stage in my life, perhaps I would have resigned from what I have, my position, my responsibilities as the leader of my Tiquicheo. But today, no. It is not possible for me to surrender when I have three children , whom I have to educate by setting an example, and also because of the memory of the man of my life, the father of my three little ones, the one who was able to teach me the value of things and to fight for them. Although he is no longer with us, he continues to be the light that guides my decisions.” She added: “I struggle day to day to erase from my mind the images of the horror I lived, and that others who did not deserve or expect it also suffered. I wanted to show them my wounded, mutilated, humiliated body, because I’m not ashamed of it, because it is the product of the great misfortunes that have scarred my life, that of my children and my family. Despite my own safety and that of my family, what occupies my mind is my responsibility towards my people, the children, the women, the elderly and the men who break their souls every day without rest to find a piece of bread for their children. Freedom brings with it responsibilities and I don’t dare fall behind. My long road is not yet finished - the footprint that we leave behind in our country depends on the battle that we lose and the loyalty we put into it.” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Powerful and heartbreaking. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Eric Boehlert goes after 16-year-old conservative Bethany Bowra, gets pwned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheo Posted November 27, 2012 Author Share Posted November 27, 2012 That is quote of the day.. Freedom brings with it responsibilities and I don’t dare fall behind. My long road is not yet finished - the footprint that we leave behind in our country depends on the battle that we lose and the loyalty we put into it.” Maria Santos Gorrostieta 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Eric Boehlert goes after 16-year-old conservative Bethany Bowra, gets pwned Next Generation Voters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 OH BOY!!! Its Tingle Time Again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestVirginiaRebel Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I don't watch it anyway, so his message must be working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Great post @ Sultan Knish: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/11/dont-give-up.html Saturday, November 24, 2012 Don't Give Up Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog The difference between victory and defeat often comes down to morale. You've seen it in baseball games and wars. It's that faint sense of air leaking out of the balloon. A weariness and malaise that kicks in when one side decides it can't win and doesn't want to be here anymore. November 2012 was not a defeat. It was a loss in a close election that rattled the Democrats by showing just how much of the country had turned on their savior. It was a rebuke to Obama's mismanagement of the country and the economy over the last four years. Or it would have been if the Republican Party had not reacted to its loss by screaming and wailing in despair... The country did not repudiate us. The majority of Americans did not pledge allegiance to some rotten post-American country. The majority stayed home. And that is damning, but it's also comforting because these are the people we have to win over. They don't believe in Obama, but they don't believe in us either. They don't believe in politics because it isn't relevant to their lives. Right now we can still fight and win, but the window is closing on that. If we accept the premise that change is no longer possible, then it really will be all over. Defeat is a teacher. How we behave in defeat shows what we are made of. It shows whether we have what it takes to win. If we fail the tests of defeat, then we shall never be worthy of victory. Kipling said it best in his famous poem, "If". "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/And treat those two impostors just the same/If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken/Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools/Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken/And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools." The question is can we do that? Will we bend down and do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Just saw drudges headline. NO MORE BUSHES. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Just saw drudges headline. NO MORE BUSHES. That is all. I was talking to a guy the other day and he pointed something out...Since the end of WWII everytime Republicans have won the Presidency there has been either a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket....just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 French Media Ignores MASSIVE PROTEST Against Radical Islam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ_goXHZlPE&feature=plcp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Welcome to 1937 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 So the question of the day is,,,Just how stupid is NY Times Crack Reporter David Carr? Well thank goodness the Times has fact checkers and gatekeepers, so that thanks to them Readers of the Times can be assured of getting All The News That's Fit To Print....or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 So the question of the day is,,,Just how stupid is NY Times Crack Reporter David Carr? Well thank goodness the Times has fact checkers and gatekeepers, so that thanks to them Readers of the Times can be assured of getting All The News That's Fit To Print....or something. The beat goes on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Christian Radio Show Host Wants Gays Tortured Bruce Carroll November 27, 2012. Aw crap…. I incorrectly spelled “Muslim” in the headline. (Snip) It’s unfortunate that Advocate Magazine is too busy printing hatred of fellow Americans instead of focusing on systematic anti-gay actions by Islamic regimes in Egypt and Iran that prefer their gays on the end of ropes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 It always pays to say thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 So the question of the day is,,,Just how stupid is NY Times Crack Reporter David Carr? Well thank goodness the Times has fact checkers and gatekeepers, so that thanks to them Readers of the Times can be assured of getting All The News That's Fit To Print....or something. The beat goes on... Or......the beatings continue......until morale improves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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