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Archive for March 22nd, 2007

I am writing this open letter to Al Qaeda to let them know the House is about to pass a bill on the funding for the Iraq war that will give Al Qaeda a date certain for the US to be out of Iraq and for Al Qaeda to free up their forces there and let them come and get us anywhere they wish to join battle in the world.

According to this Washington Post article Nancy Pelosi has managed to stack her bill with enough pork to satisfy even the most conservative of democrats.

And the Senate is on their way to doing the same thing.

The message? Stay calm, terrorists, until our pullout date and then you can do whatever you want to do because we don’t really believe you want to hurt Americans. 9/11 was sooo long ago and we’re holding no grudges against you, so let’s just sing kumbaya and roast marshmallows over the campfire while we wait.

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According to an unnamed friend in this Politico post John Edwards will suspend his campaign and might pull out of the race due to a recurrence of his wife’s cancer that was diagnosed at the end of the 2004 campaign.

A press conference is scheduled for noon Eastern time today and we’ll find out for sure.

Our prayers and good wishes go out to former Senator and Mrs. Edwards and their beautiful family.

Update: While Mrs. Edwards’ cancer has recurred and is “incurable” it is treatable and has been caught early. She could live for years.

The Edwardses have decided Senator Edwards’ presidential campaign will go on strongly, and Mrs. Edwards will be going on a trip with the Senator to the Northeast tomorrow.

We continue to pray for them and their family.

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Sister Toldjah has an interesting post up today titled Can Nancy Pull it Off?

Josephine Hearn reports this morning that the honeymoon is over for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

The California Democrat faces the first knock-down, drag-out legislative battle of her short tenure as speaker as early as Friday, when she and her leadership team move to push through a closely divided House a $124 billion emergency wartime spending bill. And on the eve of what has been building for weeks as an epic congressional showdown over the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, she still lacked the votes for victory.

Nearly all Republicans were expected to side with President Bush and oppose the bill, charging that its collection of military readiness conditions, Iraqi benchmarks and waivers amounts to “micromanagement” of the war. And the Republicans may attract the sympathies of a few conservative Democrats.

From the other side, at least a dozen liberal Democrats are attacking the measure for not doing enough to force an end to the war, despite the bill’s Aug. 31, 2008, deadline for U.S. withdrawal.

That collection of complaints presents Pelosi with a daunting political calculus. She must persuade at least 218 of the 233 House Democrats to support the legislation, even though many have strong misgivings. It’s a risky balancing act that, as of Wednesday, was proving very difficult for Pelosi to pull off, one of her top deputies conceded.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), the Democratic Caucus chairman, said that party leaders still did not have enough votes to pass the measure, but he was confident they would when the bill reaches the floor.

If Pelosi fails to muster the votes, she risks handing the minority Republicans a major victory and suffering a defeat with personal and political reverberations.

Pelosi remains confidant she will prevail. Democratic leaders “are working extremely hard to unify the caucus and pass this bill,” said Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly. “We are clearly gaining momentum every day this week.”
La Pelosi and Co. have been so desperate to have this bill pass that they’ve loaded it with pork in a last minute effort to get several anti-war Representatives to vote for it:

Go over and read the entire post.

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Go here for the MP3 or go here for the transcript.

We are all very well aware of the fact that we have an illegal-immigration problem in this country. As usual, we avoided the problem for as long as we could and when we couldn’t avoid it any longer we were told that, indeed, somewhere between 12 and 20 million people had somehow come into this country unnoticed.
It’s like we went overnight from “no problem” to a problem so big that it now defies a good solution. It’s become one of those “there are no good choices only less bad choices” that Americans are becoming all too familiar with.

We know that the overwhelming majority of illegals come across the Mexican border. Fortunately, we’ve got someone who is all too willing to tell us what we should do about it — the president of Mexico Philipe Calderon. President Calderon doesn’t think much of our border policies. He criticizes our efforts to secure the border with things such as border fencing. He says that bottle necks at U.S. checkpoints hurt Mexican commerce and force his citizens to migrate illegally in order to make a living (and of course send money back to Mexico). He apparently thinks we should do nothing except make American citizens out of his constituents. Calderon also accused U.S. officials of failing to do enough to stop the flow of drugs in to the United States. Mexican politicians gave President Bush an earful of all of this during his recent trip to Mexico.

I think its time for a little plain talk to the leaders of Mexico.

Hat Tip: Oak Leaf. <):)

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Knut, the little polar bear cub, was abandoned by his mother and is being hand-raised by his handler at a German zoo.

One self-proclaimed animal activist advocates euthanizing Knut instead of allowing him to be raised by humans because it’s not natural.

Somehow, I disagree with euthanizing him.

Hat Tip to Frost Design. <):)

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If you use Internet Explorer you will notice things that should be on the sidebar are now on the bottom of the page.

My web designer has been working on it and we have the best minds in the business trying to figure out why the template isn’t doing as it should with just the addition of a couple of words that shouldn’t have changed the sidebar.

Please check the bottom of the page for links until this problem is fixed.

Thank you.

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The saying is that when life gives you lemons you make lemonade.

How applicable it is to the birth of this site.

I will not be specific enough for you to guess what I’m actually talking about, but I believe purging one’s mind of thoughts and words that have hurt that person is one part of the path to healing.

I do not claim to be perfect—in fact, I am very imperfect in the eyes of the world and in the Eyes of God.

In the past two weeks I have endured a hurt that was almost unbearable. At the same time I’m sure my words from that hurt also hurt others. For that I am sorry.

For reasons I will not discuss here I have been separated from my former blog.

I was subsequently banned from posting comments or even allowing trackbacks from this blog to it.

So I began making lemonade. I thought about what I wanted in a new blog and one of the things I definitely did not want was name-calling of anyone, whether it be a commenter, fellow blogger, or political or public figure.

I’ve been around blogs enough in the past few years to see too much of that, and I want to try to bring us together as a people instead of keep us on opposite sides of the street as enemies.

We can have differing views without being difficult. Tonto and I do not share the same political beliefs but we have gone into this together knowing that and also have a basis of family love that will never go away, so we can argue without fighting. It’s called debate, and I won’t question his intelligence (higher than mine) and he won’t question mine. We are like brother and sister and that bond will never be broken by a simple opinion on a blog.

He has always been that big brother to me. We were raised in the same house by the same people at the same time, although I take great joy in telling you Tonto is almost a year older than I.

I asked him to blog with me and told him exactly what it was I hoped we could accomplish. He has brought me closer to my Indian roots than I have been in many moons, and I am ever so greatful to him for that.

We have determined that if anyone disagrees with us in the comments section we will be so nice to them they won’t want to be spiteful to us ever again, because we have both seen the destruction of fighting and name-calling on blogs.

This is our pledge to you and also from JD if he can find the time to blog as he is a busy man.

I’m probably more of the hot head than Tonto and certainly JD, so they may have to rein me in a few times, but I’m not too old to learn.

We will never question your intelligence or call you crazy just because you don’t happen to agree with us on politics, and we ask that you treat us the same way.

This is one reason I love the Anchoress so much. She doesn’t talk down to any of her readers and treats them all with respect even if they don’t show it to her.

Although we have never met and probably never will in our lifetimes I consider her and Kimsch from Musing Minds to be two of my best friends, along with DJ Drummond from Stolen Thunder, and Sister from Sister Toldjah and Oak Leaf who writes for Polipundit. I must also remember my good friends and former blogging partners Big Mo and Republicanpundit in my list of friends.

I guess all in all I wasn’t given lemons after all with such good friends as these.

What is past is past. With prayers from many of the above-mentioned friends and myself I have begun to heal to the point of not feeling the pain each time I think of it and I don’t think of it very often the way I did.

We welcome you to J’s Cafenette and ask you to keep coming back. Tell us what you like and tell us what you don’t like and we’ll see what we can do to fix it for you.

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