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Weakness invite attacks

Rush Limbaugh provides support to Sibby’s rule number one (Do not do what the Democrats say):

RUSH: We have an opportunity here, folks, with this DeLay business. There's something that I have said throughout the course of my star-studded career, be it dealing with the Soviets or any other enemy, Al-Qaeda, and it's very simple: weakness invites attack. You show weakness, especially as your enemies define it, and you are saying, "Come on and come get me." Weakness can be displayed by cutting and running in Mogadishu, Somalia. Weakness can be displayed by saying, "Oh, okay, you don't like Newt Gingrich. We'll force him out for you." Weakness can be displayed, "I want to have a new tone. I want to get along with all the Democrats. I want to consult you in how we should put together the education bill." Any time that Democrats will consider any agreement with them as weakness, they will think we are caving. I'll tell you something else, you come to grips with this, which I have been telling the Republicans for years, or they're going to bleed to death from a thousand cuts. You know, this DeLay thing, the hurricane, whatever. And, by the way, give me what is weakness in the hurricane? By not having the guts to say, "Mayor Nagin, you're incompetent. Governor Blanco, you're incompetent." That's what being weak is. By, "Okay, how about if we give you Mike Brown?" You see what good that did? "Yeah, how about if we blame FEMA? How about if we spend $250 billion Louisiana and Mary Landrieu, will that be okay?" No. They'll want 350 billion!

You cannot show weakness. You'll just invite more attack. You just can't do it. There's a lesson to be learned in this DeLay business. Now, for those of you that are feeling weak, for those of you saying, "It's over. I knew it's not going to last, Rush. I knew it was going to happen. We're just throwing it all away." I mentioned this an hour ago. I'm getting to it now, and I've got lots of stuff in this stack that when you hear about it, it's going to enrage you and you'll forget all about DeLay and you'll get refocused on what we've been focused on and that is continuing to defeat the left in this country.

Sex education in Sioux Falls

Yesterday the Argus Leader did a report on sex education in Sioux Falls. Excerpt:

A group of parents are concerned about how sex education is being taught in Sioux Falls middle schools.

Based on copies of new teacher manuals they have seen, they're opposed to sections on anatomy, oral and anal sex, masturbation and, in general, the graphic nature of the books.

I have found similar content while researching Mitchell’s "Health" curriculum. I usually get the same response from school officials that the Argus Leader provided:

Schools aren't teaching a lot of what Wornson is worried about, teachers and school administrators say. They don't teach masturbation or oral and anal sex, said Rhonda Kemmis, a health teacher at Memorial Middle School.

"We don't use all of the lessons that the curriculum prints," she said.

When it comes to sex ed - two weeks of lessons about anatomy, diseases and healthy choices in a nine-week health course - teachers don't deviate from the district lesson plans, she said. "We are mandated to follow the sex-ed guidelines verbatim."

Later in the report, Planned Parenthood added their two cents:

Kate Looby, parent of a middle school-aged child and state director of Planned Parenthood, said middle school students need information about their bodies. That information can help them make good choices about sexuality and health, she said.

"The schools have a role in that," she said. "We can't allow an entire generation of our children to go through the system without having the essential knowledge they need about their bodies," she said.

Many students don't get that information at home, and a majority of parents want age-appropriate, accurate information on contraceptives and abstinence taught in schools, she said, quoting the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.

Here are guidelines for 5 to 8 year olds that I found on the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States web site regarding masturbation:

Touching and rubbing one's own genitals to feel good is called masturbation.

Some boys and girls masturbate and others do not.

Masturbation should be done in a private place.

Here is more insight about the real agenda of Planned Parenthood in regard to sex education in the public schools:

Abstinence-only education is one of the religious right's greatest challenges to the nation's sexual health. But it is only one tactic in a broader, longer-term strategy. Since the early 1980s, the "family values" movement has won the collaboration of governments and public institutions, from Congress to local school boards, in abridging students' constitutional rights. Schools now block student access to sexual health information in class, at the school library, and through the public library's Internet portals. They violate students' free speech rights by censoring student publications of articles referring to sexuality. Abstinence-only programs often promote alarmist misinformation about sexual health and force-feed students religious ideology that condemns homosexuality, masturbation, abortion, and contraception. In doing so, they endanger students' sexual health.

Today's history lesson

From Sibby's mailbag (This also applies to those on the left who think only conservatives should be fighting in Iraq):

History Lesson

History began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer & would go to the coast & live on fish & lobster in winter.

The 2 most important events in all of history were the invention of beer & the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.

These were the foundation of modern civilization & together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into 2 distinct subgroups: Liberals & Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered it required grain & that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early human ancestors were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking & killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as "the Conservative movement."

Other men who were weaker & less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's & doing the sewing, fetching & hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as 'girleymen.'

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy & group hugs & the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat & beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, & French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting revolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men.

Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood & group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't "fair" to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat & still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, soldiers, athletes & generally anyone who works productively outside government.

Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to "govern" the producers & decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tame & created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history.

Nagin started bombed levee rumor?

From NewsMax:

Top Democrats who blasted President Bush for bungling the Hurricane Katrina crisis declined to comment on Wednesday on Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan's claim that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin gave him key evidence suggesting his city's levees may have been blown up.

NewsMax called the offices of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Sen. Barack Obama and Rep. Charlie Rangel, as well as ex-President Clinton's Harlem office, and followed up with emails detailing Farrakhan's claims about his Nagin sit-down.

Not a single Democrat was willing to say whether it was appropriate for Nagin to huddle with the racially polarizing black leader, let alone feed him info that stoked Farrakhan's levee conspiracy theory.

On Friday, Farrakhan told a rally for his upcoming Millions More March:

"We flew to Dallas, Texas - members of the Millions More Movement - where we met with Mayor Nagin . . . Mayor Nagin told us there was a 25-foot crater under the levee."

Farrakhan cautioned: "He didn't say there was a bomb. He just said there was a crater," then added: "I say they blew it [up]."

A full five days after Farrakhan cited Nagin as his source for news that not all the levee damage looked natural, Nagin himself has had nothing to say about the levee plot theory - a silence that some see as a tacit endorsement.

Two weeks ago Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said that Farrakhan's theory was gaining currency in Nagin's city.

"I was stunned in New Orleans at how many black New Orleanians would tell me with real conviction that somehow the levee breaks had been engineered," Robinson told NBC's "Meet the Press." "These are not wild-eyed people," Robinson insisted. "These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."

Mayor Nagin's office was not answering his phones Wednesday morning, with no answering machine available to leave messages.

Dan Rather still doesn’t get it

Rush Limbaugh discloses more media lies:

Dan Rather was interviewed last night at the National Press Club in Washington by former CBS News employee-reporter Marvin Kalb.

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KALB: Every now and then it even looks as if the new media is at war with the old media. I want to go back to the National Guard story of last year. I've always been astonished that even before the program ended -- it was still on -- a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, then the mainstream media joined in, and then everything shifted and the focus was on you! The focus was not on the substance of your story --

RUSH: Stop the tape! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it right there. Folks, do you realize what you have just heard? Marvin Kalb is astounded. "Then the mainstream media joined in, then everything shifted and the focus was on you. Tthe focus was not on the substance of your story." Mr. Kalb, the documents were forged! The documents were FORGED! There was no "substance" to the story! But, see, this is what Dan's continued to say, too. He says, "Why, partisan political operatives continued to make me the focus of the story." Dan, you became the focus of the story because the documents were forged! You had experts in your pre-interviews who told you that they couldn't vouch for these documents and you didn't use those in the report. But here's Marvin Kalb. He's teaching future journalists at Harvard! He can't believe that this could happen in the Internet and then he wants to know from Rather what we can do about this. "What can we do about this, Dan? You became the substance of the story, rather than the substance of your story?" There was no substance to the story! They don't, folks, get it. They literally to this day don't get it.

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Of course, as I say, there was no substance to the story. The documents were forged, but that's irrelevant to Marvin Kalb. Kalb finishes with the National Guard aspect of the whole thing sort of dropped to the side and this media focus was on you, and this was Dan Rather's reply.

RATHER: What I learned is that there are bloggers who have as much integrity as I or the most integrity-filled people I know have, and who feel that it's their mission in life to ask questions and keep on asking questions. There are other bloggers, and I'll go ahead and say it, that some of the quote, mainstream press seem to take, you know, if not delight in our dilemma, they pick up pretty quickly on those bloggers who were partisan, politically affiliated and/or had an ideological axe to grind with us, and instead of saying, "Well, they've raised these questions," for example about the documents, "are these questions true," next thing I know, they were in mainstream newspapers, and away it went.

RUSH: Because the documents were forged! (Laughing.) It's just... Folks, it is priceless to listen to a partisan political operative complain about partisan political operatives. It's just too choice. It's just too much fun to listen to a partisan ideologue, like any journalist is, sit here and complain about partisan critics with an axe to grind. What are forged documents trying to affect the outcome of an election, if not ideological and an axe to grind and partisan? But you see, to understand this you have to understand the old monopoly mentality, and that is, "Whatever they said was it. Whatever they said was gospel. Nobody questioned it. You weren't supposed to question it! You were to accept it. Their reality that they created was the reality." There have always been two realities: the one they create, and the one that is, and the one that is most often was ignored, and it was recreated to fit whatever the template or the mind-set or the news cycle of the day happened to be. How many -- this was 2005. We're almost a year now from this, and they are still talking about this in terms that they claim they don't understand how it happened and so forth.

Sheehan and the anti-American socialists

From WorldNetDaily:

Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who became an anti-war activist after her son was killed in Iraq, was arrested today during a protest in front of the White House.

Sheehan, 48, was with several dozen demonstrators who sat down on the sidewalk after marching on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Police, who took Sheehan into custody first, made arrests after warning the protesters three times they were breaking the law by failing to move along, the Associated Press reported.

As police led Sheehan to a vehicle, protesters chanted, "The whole world is watching."

The Vacaville, Calif., woman, whose son Casey was killed fighting insurgents in Iraq, launched an anti-war movement last month when she camped outside Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch and demanded to meet with the president, drawing national media attention.

The demonstration today, organized by the umbrella group United for Peace and Justice, drew several hundred demonstrators who marched around the White House chanting, "Stop the war now!"

On its website, United for Peace and Justice calls itself an "anti-American, anti-war coalition consisting of more than 800 local and national groups" that is co-chaired by "committed Socialist and longtime activist Leslie Cagan."

More hate from the left

From NewsMax:

Yesterday's anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., is being hailed as the biggest since the halcyon protest days of the Vietnam war - a claim that seems to surface every time the anti-war left gets together en-masse.

Leaving the head-count aside, however, one aspect of the protest glossed over in most media coverage is the distinct anti-American attitude and unbridled hatred that emanated from much of the crowd.

Columnist Michelle Malkin captured the flavor of the rally on her photo blog, which offers a cross section of signage from Saturday's gathering.

Some peace placard highlights:

"9/11 Was an Inside Job"

"Impeach the Fourth Reich"

"One Fuhrer was Enough"

"Stop Facism"

"F - - k the War"

"Convict and Castrate Cheney"

The anti-war movement likes to cite recent polls on the Iraq war to bolster their claim: "We're in the majority."

We suggest that the next mainstream media poll query respondents on which of the above statements best represents their opposition to the war.

George Bush a socialist?

From Andrew Sullivan:

A few years back, your correspondent noticed something a little odd about George W Bush’s conservatism. If you take Margaret Thatcher’s dictum that a socialist is someone who is very good at spending other people’s money, then President Bush is, er, a socialist.

Sure, he has cut taxes, a not-too-difficult feat when your own party controls both houses of Congress. But spending? You really have to rub your eyes, smack yourself on the forehead and pour yourself a large gin and tonic. The man can’t help himself.

Pat Buchanan also has noticed the excessive spending:

David Keene of the American Conservative Union, sponsor of a recent appreciation dinner to honor the embattled DeLay, noted that, even before Katrina, "spending was spiraling out of control" and conservatives were "losing faith" in Bush and the Republican Congress.

Even if you exclude the military and homeland security, says Keene, spending increased $300 billion between 2001 and 2005, as U.S. debt grew by $2 trillion. This translates into a permanent bite on taxpayers of $100 billion unto eternity, to pay the annual interest on that part of the national debt run up by George W. Bush alone.

Buchanan explains why this is happening:

With the passing away of the Greatest Generation and the passing from power of the Silent Generation, born in the Depression and raised in the 1940s and 1950s, the baby boomer generation, in which a "you-can-have-it all!" mindset was early embedded, now runs both parties and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

So Buchanan concludes:

When Republican leaders are saying there is no more fat in the federal budget, the proper political translation is that the Grand Old Party of Taft, Goldwater, Reagan and Helms is no more. We have become the very people we went into politics to run out of town.

This is what happens when so-called moderate Republicans compromise with the Democrats. Of course the MSM does not help by only promoting the socialist agenda. Its time the MSM and the far-left Democrats are exposed for who they are. Its time for true conservatives to have the courage to implement Sibby's rule number one: "Don't do what the Democrats say".

Limbaugh honored with award

The National Association of Broadcasters named Rush Limbaugh the Network Syndicated Personality of the Year:

PHILADELPHIA - Rush Limbaugh of Premiere Radio Networks was named the Network Syndicated Personality of the Year at last night's NAB Marconi Radio Awards Dinner & Show co-sponsored by BMI. The event was held in conjunction with The NAB Radio Show in Philadelphia.

Established in 1989, and named after inventor and Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi, the NAB Marconi Radio Awards are given to radio stations and outstanding on-air personalities to recognize excellence in radio. An independent task force selected finalists and ballots were sent to members of the NAB Marconi Radio Awards Selection Academy in August. The ballots were tabulated by RSM McGladrey.

Kidd Kraddick, host of Premiere Radio Networks' nationally syndicated "Kidd Kraddick in the Morning" show, served as the evening's emcee. The awards dinner featured a performance by BMI singer/songwriter Delbert McClinton.

The NAB Radio Show is the largest annual convention for radio. This year's show, Sep. 21 - 23 in Philadelphia, features interactive sessions, special events and exhibits. More information about The NAB Radio Show is available at www.nab.org/conventions.

The National Association of Broadcasters is a full-service trade association that promotes and protects free, over-the-air local radio and television stations' interests in Washington and around the world. NAB is the broadcaster's voice before Congress, federal agencies and the courts. NAB also serves a growing number of associate and international broadcaster members. Information about NAB can be found at www.nab.org.

Here is Limbaugh’s reaction:

LOS ANGELES, September 23, 2005 – Last night at the 2005 National Association of Broadcasters Marconi Radio Awards Dinner and Show, the radio industry’s "Oscars," Mr. Rush Limbaugh won "Network Syndicated Personality of the Year." It is the fourth time he has won this prestigious award.

Mr. Limbaugh stated, "I would like to once again thank my audience for making this possible. Their loyalty and support are unprecedented and I am grateful. And I am the first to realize that this kind of recognition doesn’t come without the help, support and partnership of each and every single radio station carrying my program. I appreciate them all and will never take them for granted. Even 18 years into this phase of my career, I am still humbled by this award."

Established in 1989, and named after inventor and Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi, the NAB Marconi Radio Awards are given to radio stations and outstanding on-air personalities to recognize excellence in radio. An independent task force selected finalists and ballots were sent to members of the NAB Marconi Radio Awards Selection Academy in August. The ballots were tabulated by RSM McGladrey.

Known as the media pundit who reshaped the political landscape with his entertaining and informative brand of conservatism, Mr. Limbaugh is also widely credited with resuscitating AM radio by many industry experts. Heard by nearly 20 million weekly listeners, "The Rush Limbaugh Show" airs on nearly 600 radio stations.

The man is truly talented. Thanks to KELO-AM 1320 for broadcasting his show.

Bad news for terrorists and Democrats

From CNN:

Oil prices fell in an unusual trading session Sunday after a weakened Hurricane Rita struck the U.S. Gulf Coast away from a major refining hub in Houston, although at least two big refineries were damaged.

November Brent crude fell 44 cents to $62 a barrel in light trading during a special session on London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE).

U.S. crude oil fell over $1 to about $63.10 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange ACCESS platform Sunday after tumbling more than $2 a barrel on Friday.

Gasoline for October delivery sank 7.56 cents to $2.01 a gallon, traders said.