Ted’s dad went home to be with the Lord early this morning. He was blessed to be at home with his wife of 59 years and two daughters as he made his journey to heaven. He had turned 87 years old on July 4th.
Therefore, we will be back to traveling again and I’ll be in the process of figuring out how and where to bring Tieki Rae back to. The services will be in southwest KS.
I look forward to returning and will see you all when I get back.
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One of the great things about Comment of the Week is that it’s FRIDAY!!
While I had plenty to choose from, Totaltransformation came in today and left this great comment on the Michael Vic/Dog Killer post.
Did you hear, Michael Vick released a statement. Here, I’ll repost it.
“To my legion of adoring fans. I am so sorry that I let you down. Not with the whole dog fighting thing, I mean regarding my abilities (or lack thereof) on the field. Between all my injuries caused by my failure to actually throw the ball (an odd thing since I am a quarterback), and my frequent confusion over whether I am the Atlanta Falcons quarterback or their running back, I haven’t played many complete seasons since I started with this team.
In addition, I know my stats have been pretty mediocre (except for yards on the ground, which are quite impressive FOR A QUARTERBACK). Also, I know that I frequently do incredibly stupid things like flipping off my fans and letting dog fights occur on my property. But can’t you forgive me? After all, it isn’t like I killed my wife.
Speaking of that, perhaps if I hung out with O.J. you guys might appreciate me more. Kind of like how when average looking girls have an ugly friend they look even better- but this would be more about morals than looks. I mean, seriously, do I have to hang out with O.J. and Pacman Jones in order to look like a half way decent and respectable quarterback? If that is what I must do, then I guess I must. As long as it doesn’t involve throwing the football, I hate doing that.
Well, I am off to the Golf Course to help O.J. find the real killers. Maybe I will get lucky and they will be responsible for all those dog fights too?!”
[The above was satire…as you could have guessed]
While I’m certain that we can all agree that what Vic is accused of is horrendous, we can also count on TT to leave a brilliant comment.
Ready to play? Here’s a guideline refresher:
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Because of the small population of our great state, Wyoming only has one US Representative, Representative Barbara Cubin. She catches so much flack from the left and local media (really one in the same) in this state that it’s disgusting. She has the same GOP values as our 2 male Senators, yet, I believe simply because she’s a female, the left go after her. After all, the demonRats are ultimately the party of hypocrisy and usually pick on who they see as most vulnerable.
Currently, Mrs. Cubin is by her husband’s side as he has been gravely ill for several months and now his condition has been declared critical. You might think that her critics could give it a rest at a time like this, but you might want to keep in mind that they are the party that has been known to celebrate personal tragedies of the opposing party.
Well, here’s an example of what I’m talking about. It’s a letter to the editor of the Casper Star Tribune. I’ll tell you this much, Representative Cubin does not miss votes that matter, so to speak. So, take what the writer is saying with a grain of salt and keep in mind that this woman wrote this attack just a few days ago, during a time when Mrs. Cubin is at her husband’s side, while he fights for his life. Nice:
Editor:
Good grief! — $165,000 a year (The Sheridan Press, Friday, June 15); $13,750 a month; $79.33 an hour (assuming 2,080 hours per year). This is what “Representative” Barbara Cubin is paid (not earns).
We, the folks in Wyoming, have one representative. For five of her seven terms she has ranked in the bottom 10 percent of all U.S. representatives in showing up to vote.
Ms. Cubin should at least show up for work, like the rest of working Wyoming is expected to do. She should be ashamed. And we should, too. Her only “performance appraisal” is provided by the voters.
KAY PEARSON, Sheridan
I cannot help but wonder if Ms. Pearson would rag on Senator Johnson regarding all the votes he’s missed? Does she think he’s a slacker?
I wonder what political party Ms. Pearson belongs to? I’ll let you find her name and who she donates to.
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Still think there aren’t any Rats in Wyoming? Guess again! Remember, it’s the Tribune gearing up for ‘08.
Check this little gem out. Written by the editorial staff at the Casper Star Tribune. Isn’t it cute how they don’t personalize it by signing on with individual names?
Star-Tribune Editorial Board
Vice presidents, once upon a time, had little to do beyond waiting for something to happen to the boss. Other than attending foreign funerals and occasionally casting a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, they rarely got into the game.
All that changed in 2000, when Dick Cheney went looking for George W. Bush’s running mate and found that the perfect candidate was (drum roll) Dick Cheney. He resigned from Texas-based Halliburton and rediscovered his Wyoming roots. From that election on, Cheney devoted himself to the task of making the executive branch answerable to no one.
The ironic twist in the latest Cheney controversy is the vice president’s contention that his office isn’t even part of the executive branch. Cheney certainly was part of the president’s team when he invoked executive privilege to hide the names of his secret energy policy advisers. But he apparently becomes a free agent when he’s asked to follow an executive order about the storage of classified data.
By declaring that his Senate powers make his office a legislative-executive hybrid, Cheney reasons that he doesn’t have to follow the rules for either branch. The backlash was predictable. Outraged Democratic lawmakers have threatened to cut funding for his office.
The effort probably won’t succeed. But this incident has inflicted further damage to Cheney’s already battered public image and makes us wonder: Whatever happened to the Dick Cheney who represented Wyoming so effectively in the U.S. House for more than a decade?
How could the man praised for his leadership as defense secretary during the first Gulf War become one of the architects of a second Gulf War that has gone horribly wrong?
Comedians used to make us laugh by suggesting Cheney, not Bush, was really running the show. But the joke isn’t funny anymore. It seems Bush either turned over many duties to his vice president, or looked the other way when Cheney grabbed them. Either way, the president can’t duck responsibility for his subordinate’s actions.
A solid reason exists for Cheney’s miserably low public approval ratings: His insistence on secrecy creates the impression he has things to hide. The vice president gets to pick most of his battles, and for the past six years they often have been about keeping information from the public.
The executive order Cheney refused to follow, by itself, is a fairly small matter that speaks more to arrogance than any potential security breach. But his laughable excuse struck a nerve with the public. Here is a man who believes he is so untouchable, he doesn’t even have to answer to the president.
The old Dick Cheney didn’t work exclusively behind the scenes. Republican fundraisers weren’t the only events that drew him out in public. Before Cheney became the Bush administration’s stealth warrior, most of us were proud that he grew up here and represented us. Even people who disagreed with his politics respected him.
There is still time for Cheney to mend his image before he leaves office in January 2009. But he needs to stop acting as though his decisions mustn’t be questioned, and accept that he has made mistakes. No matter how many times Cheney insists Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, it won’t change the fact that he wasn’t. Too many people regret the Iraq war for anyone to buy Cheney’s argument that opponents want to abet terrorism. That’s offensive and insults Cheney’s own intelligence.
Wyoming people are loyal to their own, but the vice president needs to give his neighbors a better reason to support him. He’s running out of time.
LO Freaking L! Are they the biggest bunch of whining babies you’ve heard today? Maybe they could ask Elizabeth Edwards to call and get this straightened out. I say this because this editorial is written in the style of men who could use a woman to fight their battles.
There’s still time for Cheney to mend his image before he leaves office in January 2009? Umm … does the Casper Star Tribune Editorial Board get to decide if Cheney does enough to mend his image?
Other than attending foreign funerals and occasionally casting a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, they rarely got into the game. I guess they are thinking of worthless VPs such as AlGore. Then they turn around and want him to be President? Sweet.
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Pretty stinking cute, huh? I haven’t checked at HotAir, but I do know that Allah has a soft spot for this little fella. Anyway, it turns out that Knute’s keeper isn’t going to continue making appearances for the public any longer with the cute little cub. That’s right, Knute is going solo. From FOX news:
The show is over: The Berlin Zoo’s fast-growing polar bear cub, Knut, won’t be appearing anymore with the keeper who raised him.
The zoo said Monday that it has ended 7-month-old Knut’s twice-daily public appearances with keeper Thomas Doerflein.
The playful pair have delighted audiences since Knut — then an irresistibly cute 20-pound cub — made his first public appearance in late March.
• Click here for Knut’s home page at the Berlin Zoo Web site.
Now nearing about 110 pounds, the boisterous bear, who will remain on public view, will have his enclosure all to himself.
“Mr. Doerflein’s safety counts first of all, of course,” zoo spokeswoman Regine Damm said. The zoo also has Knut’s independence in mind, she added, as it prepares the bear to “associate with other bears and not with other people.”
Born Dec. 5, Knut has been raised by Doerflein and other zoo staff since his mother rejected him and another cub that died. Knut went on public show March 23.
• Click here to visit FOXNews.com’s Natural Science Center.
Doerflein said he remains on hand for Knut, although he will no longer play in public with the growing predator.
“This doesn’t mean that I will never play with Knut again; it just means there are no fixed times anymore,” he was quoted as saying by the daily Berliner Zeitung. “I am always there for him. Knut is still a child; he needs me.”
Doerflein said, however, that he feels “burnt out” after months of frolicking with Knut, and made clear that he has not always enjoyed being a celebrity in his own right.
“That is the worst thing. People want autographs, to touch me,” he said. “When I am with my girlfriend, they invite me [for a drink]; when I say ‘no,’ they get aggressive.”
Don’t be alarmed, I’m sure this is all play 
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Stumbled on to Bryan’s post over at HotAir this morning. The picture below says it all:
The caption reads:
Senior White House staff members attend the rededication ceremony of The Islamic Center in Washington June 27, 2007. From L-R are: Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Frances Townsend, White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)
Honestly, is it just me, or does this picture make other freedom loving Americans throw up in their mouths a little?
I stated the following over at Foehammer’s in response to the women on President Bush’s staff covering their heads at a mosque:
Are you freaking kidding me?! First of all, I wouldn’t step foot in a mosque unless I was on some mission of hunting terrorist or something. Second of all, if I were to step foot in a mosque, I’d walk in pig crap and then NOT take my shoes off, but wipe my feet all over the freaking floor. Third of all, if I was with some chauvinist pig who requested I cover my head with some sort of scarf, I’d take the scarf and shove it down their freaking throat.
Yes, that sounds harsh and we are requested to respect other religions. Well, I draw the line when it comes to a radical cult that wants me dead or honor killed. I cannot express my distaste for this entire incident in words. Though I did give it one heck of a try.
I stand by it too. I had great respect for Karen Hughes, but this is disgusting.
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I first saw this over at HotAir. Makes me proud to be a Scot. This is what I’m talking about:
A HERO cabbie who took on the Glasgow Airport terror suspects told yesterday how he booted one of them in the privates.
Alex McIlveen, 45, kicked the man, whose body was in flames, so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot.
But he said last night: “He didn’t even flinch. I couldn’t believe he didn’t go down.
“A doctor told me later I’d damaged a tendon in my foot.”
The burned suspect was named last night as Khalid Ahmed, a Lebanese doctor.
He is critically ill with burns at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where he is believed to have worked
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This is the first time I’ve actually participated in such funness. If it annoys you being tagged, then thank the lovely Velvethammer . She started it. It amazed me, yet it didn’t, the things I have in common with Velvet.
The Rules:
Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of each post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
Now, the hard part … choosing 8 victims:
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Thank God. This really makes me happy and I really don’t care what the libtards think or say about it.
No surprise that Steve is also all over it at Sweetness & Light.
Bryan has it over at HotAir too.
From ABC News:
Bush Commutes Prison Term of Former White House Aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby
By THERESA COOK and JASON RYAN
July 2, 2007 —
Hours after an appeals court shot down a final appeal to keep I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby out of prison pending the appeal of his conviction, President Bush commuted his sentence.
“I respect the jury’s verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive,” Bush’s statement read. “Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend 30 months in prison.”
A federal jury found Libby guilty March 6 on charges that he’d lied to the FBI and a grand jury, and obstructed justice in the investigation into the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame, a former covert CIA operative. The appeal that was rejected Monday — the final attempt to delay the start of Libby’s sentence — cleared the way for the former aide to start serving a 2½ sentence before the end of the summer.
Libby’s attorneys had asked a federal appeals court to keep Libby out of prison until the appeal of his conviction was resolved, arguing that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald did not have the proper authority to bring the case against Libby, and that the judge in the case did not allow witnesses who were key to the defense to testify during the trial.
ABC News contacted Libby attorney William Jeffress, who said, “We continue to believe the conviction itself was unjust but are grateful for the president’s action commuting the prison sentence.”
Presidential Intervention Was Expected
There had been wide speculation that the president would pardon the former aide to the vice president, but after Libby’s conviction, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino called talk of a pardon “wildly hypothetical.”
After a ruling last month denying Libby’s first request to stay out of prison on appeal Perino said, “Scooter Libby still has the right to appeal, and therefore the president will continue not to intervene in the judicial process. The president feels terribly for Scooter, his wife and their young children, and all that they’re going through.”
But after Monday’s denial of a last-ditch appeal to keep Libby out of prison failed, the questions over a pardon or commutation intensified.
Bush’s move is not a full pardon of Libby’s sentence — originally set by federal Judge Reggie Walton as the 30 months in prison he was on track to serve, plus $250,000 in fines, and two years’ probation following the completion of the prison term. The president can issue a full pardon at a later date if he chooses to.
“He will remain on probation. The significant fines imposed by the judge will remain in effect,” Bush’s statement noted. “The consequences of his felony conviction on his former life as a lawyer, public servant and private citizen will be long-lasting.
Of the commutation, Cheney’s office released a statement saying, “The vice president supports the president’s decision.” But after Libby’s June 5 sentencing, Cheney had warm words for his former aide.
“I have always considered him to be a man of the highest intellect, judgment and personal integrity — a man fully committed to protecting the vital security interests of the United States and its citizens.”
“Speaking as friends, we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man,” Cheney said.
Not a Pardon, but Critics Slam Bush’s Move
Critics of the move were quick to respond to the news.
“First, President Bush said any person who leaked would no longer work in his administration. Nonetheless, “Scooter” Libby didn’t leave office until he was indicted and Karl Rove,” a top political adviser, “works in the White House even today,” Melanie Sloan, counsel to Valerie Plame and Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, said in a statement.
“Clearly, this is an administration that believes leaking classified information for political ends is justified and that the law is what applies to other people,” Sloan’s statement concluded.
Prosecutors had argued Libby helped lead a campaign to refute and discredit Wilson after he criticized the Bush administration’s case for war against Iraq in a blistering opinion piece in The New York Times.
In the op-ed, Wilson stated bluntly, “Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.”
The Wilsons have filed a civil suit against Cheney, Rove, Libby and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage for damages resulting from the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s name. She has since resigned from the CIA.
The sentiments in Sloan’s statement were echoed on Capitol Hill.
“As Independence Day nears, we are reminded that one of the principles our forefathers fought for was equal justice under the law. This commutation completely tramples on that principle,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., added, “Until now, it appeared that the president merely turned a blind eye to a high ranking administration leaking classified information. The president’s action today makes it clear that he condones such activity.”
Special Counsel Fitzgerald issued a statement on the president’s decision as well. “We fully recognize that the Constitution provides that commutation decisions are a matter of presidential prerogative and we do not comment on the exercise of that prerogative. We comment only on the statement in which the President termed the sentence imposed by the judge as ‘excessive.’ The sentence in this case was imposed pursuant to the laws governing sentencings which occur every day throughout this country. In this case, an experienced federal judge considered extensive argument from the parties and then imposed a sentence consistent with the applicable laws. It is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals. That principle guided the judge during both the trial and the sentencing.
Although the President’s decision eliminates Mr. Libby’s sentence of imprisonment, Mr. Libby remains convicted by a jury of serious felonies, and we will continue to seek to preserve those convictions through the appeals process.”
UPDATED: This is just a guess, but I bet the Kos kids and the DU are pooping their pants over this.
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