Bad Economy? WHERE?

Dodd over at Ipse Dixit points out some good news on the economy… one point of many….:

“Ford Motor Company announced plans today to invest $73 million at their Louisville truck plant, almost doubling the size of their stamping plant. The expansion will allow them to cut costs by crafting more of their own parts right here in Kentucky. This expansion is in addition to last year’s $50 million expansion of the plant’s paint shop, overhaul of the body shop, and chassis line renovation.

Meanwhile, Stephanie Cutter, a spokeshairdo for John F’in Kerry who often repeats the candidate’s charge that vast numbers of American jobs are being exported overseas under President Bush, today described the American economy as ‘the worst since the Depression.’

I’d like to say I’m shocked by this article over at Random Observations, but I can’t honestly do that.

“Showing their usual commitment to democracy, freedom, and human rights, France has now teamed up, militarily, with the Communist Chinese in China’s bid to use displays of military force to intimidate any of those belligerant Taiwanese who might wish to remain a free, democratic nation.”

Daily Newsbrief: Who is John Kerry – the China Connection examines the questions about Kerry’s China connections… points I’ve broought up here previously…  Joe gets into some detail, though. Read it.

Reuters is reporting:

“DUBAI (Reuters) – An Islamist web site published a statement Monday purporting to come from an al Qaeda-linked group vowing revenge on the United States and its allies over Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

The group, which aligns itself to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network, had claimed this month’s train bombings in Spain. There was no means of verifying the statement. “

Anyone have any further questions about the connections between the PLO/Hamas, and al Qaeda?

Sean over at Everything I Know Is Wrong links over to walter Willams, who makes some excellent points about quotes from: Democrats on WMD’s. Example, John Kerry:

“In January 2003, Kerry added, ‘Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. … He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. … And now he is miscalculating America’s response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction. So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.'”

Like, I’m supposed to feel sorry for Sheikh Ahmed Yassin?
Please. Show me where this scum’s grave is so I can pee on it.
Once they get done scraping his butt up off the sidewalk, that is.

Forget about making nice with these bloodthirsty idiots, or trying to appease them. 
This is how you make peace with them; Kill them.

No questions, no discussions, no ‘peace’ talks. No negotiations.

You kill them.

Period.

Sharon is correct in this action, because peace isn’t what’s on their minds. Never has been, never wil be.
What will bring peace to the region? The death of the Islamic terrorists.

And as for the reaction of the PLO and it’s suporters being trumpeted in the news media, how the PLO is going to respond with more killing… tell me if that’s not something they’d be doing anyway… that it’s not something they’ve been doing all along. What more can they possibly do to us? They’ve killed on the order of 500 people since 9/11/2000…

And by the way, where is the other old terrorist, Arifat?

Yes, I saw the Richard Clarke bit on CBS last night.
First, thought what else can you expect from CBS?

I have several more thoughts but Hindrocket over at Powerline says them far better in
Power Line: Richard Clarke, Fraud.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: CBS has a financial stake in the book. Details are just now coming out about this.
CBS’ owner, Viacom Inc., also owns Simon & Schuster, who published Clarke’s book.

Do the words ‘conflict of interest’ mean anything to you?

Gee.

C-SPAN: Vote 2004

No vid online, but the text is up.
Here are his flat-out lies in black and white.

Can we elect a traitor?

Rochester,NY–

It’s been about a year now, since President Bush gave the order to invade Iraq, based on UN resolutions. By the info we had then, it was the correct thing to do on many levels. And since then, it has been show all the more to have been the correct action. As time has gone on, it’s becoming clear how Saddam Hussein abused the United Nation’s oil-for-food program.

Just within the last few weeks, The New York Times posted an article on how..,

“Saddam Hussein’s government systematically extracted billions of dollars in kickbacks from companies doing business with Iraq, funneling most of the illicit funds through a network of foreign bank accounts in violation of United Nations sanctions.”

The evidence that’s now coming to light from The Iraqi Governing Council pretty much confirms, and in fact goes well beyond the report by the U.S. General Accounting Office, which told us that Saddam and his thugs had used the Oil for food program to steal several billion dollars between 1997 the present… money that could have made the Iraqi people rich many times over, particularly in contrast to the condition we found them in one year ago.

Of greater import, however, is the picture that we’re exposing behind the more obvious fraud committed by Saddam and Company.  Now that they’re out from under the thumb of Saddam, Iraq’s Oil Ministry has been telling us by way f the meticulous documentation kept for Saddam, a list of names of companies and individuals world-wide, that also benefited financially by means of Iraqi oil, under Saddam’s rule. They did so by getting oil… lots of it; at far below market prices.

On this is are French and German names, such as Charles Pasqua, the former French Foreign Minister, as well as Russian names, among them being higher-ups with Putin’s office. Worse, the names on the list also include many within the UN itself… up to and including Kofi Anan’s number 2 man Benon V. Sevan, who according to UN records I’ve found, was in charge of the oil-for-food program. All in all, according to Iraqi newspaper reports, about 270 former Cabinet officials, legislators, political activists and journalists in about 46 countries are involved in the scam.

Tish Durkin recently summed it all up for us, in the National Journal:

“Through regular but vague accounting practices, the members of the Security Council are kept apprised of how much money has been earned through the program, and how much has been allocated to each sector,” she wrote.

“But they do not know how much has been spent, or on what. Incredibly, the oil-for-food program has never been audited. Yes: one madman, 10 agencies, 15 independently self-interested Security Council members, more than 50 billion smackers, zero audits,”

As a result of all of this, several questions spring into view, from the American point of view, not only on the world stage but on the domestic side as well given the election cycle in progress just now.

If the reports are true, that the whole thing was crooked… (And given Kofi Anan’s call for an independent audit, we have no reason to think they’re not)…

* What else can we not trust the UN on, at least as regards Iraq? For that matter what CAN we trust the UN on going forward?

*If by the UN’s action and stupidity, some folks with UN authority benefit from the oil for food program continuing, wouldn’t they be motivated to arrange for the continuance of the program….

* Say, for example, UN teams not finding WMD in Iraq that did exist so as to continue the oil-for food program so as to maximize their profits from the scam.

* Could they even gone so far as to having what WMD did exist, moved out to say, Syria, after the gig was up, to cover their butts….

*Is it possible, based on this new informaiton, that our intel on Iraq wasn’t so far off after all?

* And let’s consider John Kerry’s position, in light of all of this.

“I’m an internationalist,” Kerry told The Harvard Crimson 10 months after returning home from Vietnam. “I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.” —

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37068

“I’ve met with foreign leaders who can’t go out and say this publicly,” he said. “But, boy, they look at you and say: ‘You’ve got to win this. You’ve got to beat this guy. We need a new policy.’ Things like that.”

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040312-120719-7926r.htm

“I believed a year ago and I believe now that we had to hold Saddam Hussein accountable and that the United States needed to lead in that effort,” he said in explaining his vote. “But this administration did it in the worst possible way–without the United Nations, without our allies, without a legitimate plan to win the peace.”

http://www.cfr.org/pub6577/bernard_gwertzman/kerry_calls_for_un_control_of_iraq.php

It’s clear Kerry wants to place the United States, and the world under the total control of what has revealed itself as a corrupted body. I think we all know by now what foreign leaders Kerry was talking about; the ones benefiting from the “Oil for Food” scam. France and Germany and Russia.

Remember, if all this sounds extreme, so is the money. Think about the raw numbers of dollars we’re dealing with here… Between 10 and 40 billion so far.  There seems to me many directions this corruption that we are only now finding, could have gone. Indeed, I doubt we’ll find it all.

And then there’s the laugh-a-minute Hans Blix still trying to sell his story to a press eager to have him justify their leftist politics. Is Blix just part of a cover, to which our own leftist press is an unwitting party?

Our course is clear; The US should shut off all funding to the UN.

Now. All of it…

At least, until such time as the UN can give an accounting of itself in the matter.  And John Kerry should be explaining to us why he wants the United States controlled by a group demonstrably corrupted.

Have you noticed he’s not once mentioned the oil-for-food scam?

Shouldn’t be too hard for you to figure out why.

Let’s end this on a positive note:

“America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.” –President George W. Bush

Bit’s Latest Bit is up. In it, I examine the implications of the Oil for Food scandal in some detail. This is the group Kerry would have us bowing to?

John Venlet over at Improved Clinch raises some of the same questions about Sullivan and Sullivan’s favorite subject, that I’ve been asking…

I then wondered what Sullivan would have individuals with religious leanings, or secular leanings, teach their children.  Would Sullivan require all parents to teach their children that sex with either a man or a woman is just a matter of what feels best to you?  Would Sullivan desire to have sex education classes in public schools teach that having sex is simply a matter of pleasure?  It really doesn’t matter what type of orifice you choose to fill, or not fill, boys and girls, do what feels good to you.  C’mon kids, get out there and rut around, homosexuality happens in the animal kingdom more than you know.  Well animals eat their young, too.

Blogs for Bush reports and links to stories saying:

“John Kerry’s campaign has backed off their earlier denials that Kerry was not present for the VVAW meeting in Kansas City, November 1971, where the ‘Phoenix Project’ was brought to debate and a vote”

Can’t wait to see the liberal spin on this one.

UPDATE

Aldaynet comments on this story saying that was HE a part of a group planning to….

…. kill US Senators in an act of terrorism i would damn sure remember it, even 30 years later, this wishy washy excuse is a sham, hell the reason he quit the Vietnam Veterans Against the War was because of this plan! and the real question is why a young John Kerry didn’t report this failed plot to authorities? If this is picked up by mainstream media and used by Bush/Cheney it will destroy Kerry’s presidential bid. And the best part is it was all exposed by a Kerry campaign worker!

The Miami Herald is running a story that struck my funny bone:

“The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday overruled its staff and declared that an expletive uttered by rock star Bono on NBC last year was both indecent and profane. The agency made it clear that virtually any use of the F-word was inappropriate for over-the-air radio and television.
…

“The ‘F-word’ is one of the most vulgar, graphic and explicit descriptions of sexual activity in the English language,” the commission said Thursday. “The fact that the use of this word may have been unintentional is irrelevant; it still has the same effect of exposing children to indecent language.””

What’s funny of course… Does this mean they’re going to fine John F’ing Kerry?

The Command Post – A Newsblog Collective is celebrating their birthday… one year, this weekend.

Drop by and see if they give you any cake.

Larry Kudlow says in NRO today what I’ve been saying for months:

With rising home prices, family net worth has surpassed the record reached in early 2000. The same holds for the market value of all U.S. mutual funds. This is an impressive set of prosperity achievements. Meanwhile, the American economy is flourishing, even while anti-war old Europe is stuck in recession. Spurred by a strong dose of supply-side tax cuts and easy interest rates, consumer spending, business investment, housing, and exports are all rising rapidly.
And despite what the media says, more Americans are working than ever before, according to the Labor Department’s household survey. The unemployment rate has fallen from 6.3 percent to 5.6 percent as small business start-ups, the self-employed, and independent contractors are responding to lower taxes.

On the economy, Kerry’s the true Herbert Hoover candidate. His pledges to raise taxes and tariffs are the exact Hooveresque mistakes that turned a mild recession into a deep depression in the 1930s.

Kudlow’s point as regards Kerry’s reliance on the UN is well taken, particularly in light of the Oil-For-Food corruption.