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But She Rejects the Hitler-Nazi Implication.

Since the post I made about former FBI Agent and FBI Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley publishing a photograph of her Minnesota congressional GOP opponent in the uniform of an enemy of the United States, Ms. Rowley has since issued an apology that was brow-beaten out of her web master. Seems, her webmaster is so young that he had never heard of Hitler or the Nazis, so when he used the uniform of “Hogan’s Hero’s” Colonel Klink as a replacement for Colonel/Congressman John Kline’s United States Marine Corps uniform, he was thinking that Colonel Klink was a fictitious TV character. In reality, as Ms. Rowley pointed out in her webmaster’s apology, Colonel Klink was not a Nazi, but wore the uniform of the Luftwaffe, not the SS or the Gestapo. Ms. Rowley emphasised that she in no way invoked Godwin’s Law, as she never mentioned the name of the despotic German dictator nor of his Nazi party, therefore she cannot be considered the loser. She remains in the race.

President George Bush gives his State of the Union speech tonight, but it is the confirmation of Justice Samuel Alito which will really make not only his day, but will make his legacy. Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts are the crowning glories of the presidency of George W. Bush. President Bush, if he were to do nothing more for the next three plus years, has extended his presidency’s influence far into the future of this nation with these two outstanding choices. Of Samuel Alito who was confirmed today, President George W. Bush said, “America is fortunate that this good and humble man is willing to serve.”

From Our Loving Friends - The Gay self-Haters.

According to James Joyner at “Outside the Beltway”, “Michael Rogers at BlogActive, which bills itself as ‘Real Truth, Direct Action, threatened last night to ‘out’ a married Republican Senator as homosexual if he voted to confirm Judge Alito.”

Joyner writes that the “BlogActive” site published this warning to the unnamed Senator: “Tomorrow you will decide if your political position is worth more than doing what is right for others like you. … Your fake marriage, by the way, will NOT protect you from the truth being told on this blog.”

Therefore, expect today to hear the name of a married Republican Senator slandered as a “homosexual”. What if no Republican Senator is outed today? Was Michael Rogers’ threat naught but idle bombast, not worth the spittle required to utter it? Or was it because Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island was the only Republican to vote No?

The real question is … who is truly more sick, demented and repugnant; a closeted homosexual, or a liberal Democrat self-hating gay? The legal question is … is blackmail of a United States Senator legal? If so, perhaps “BlogActive” will be getting a not so friendly visit from the FBI.

The Democrat Fixation with Nazis Continues.

The MSM’s most favored whistle-blower, Coleen Rowley, has tooted the whistle once again, this time on Congressman John Kline, her GOP opponent in the upcoming Minnesota Congressional election. Rowley, who is running on the election platform of being an advocate of “ethical decision-making,” made the “ethical decision” to publish a never-before-seen photograph of John Kline as a Nazi military officer. According to “Pioneer Press” at TwinCities.com, the image was posted at her campaign website, “Coleen Rowley for U. S. Congress”.

This is the greatest whistle-blower coup of her whistle-blowing career, as neither the CIA nor U.S. Military Intelligence had even an inkling that their man, John Kline, a 25-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and currently serving in the U.S. Congress, is also a Nazi veteran. Ever observant whistle-blower Rowley became suspicious of John Kline when she read a “City Pages” newspaper story revealing his title preference; he wants to be addressed as “Colonel Kline”, rather than “Congressman Kline.” Add that most unusual quirk with the fact that Kline supported the replacement of Ulysses S. Grant’s portrait on $50 bills with one of Ronald Reagan, and it was a “no-brainer” for natural-born sleuth Rowley. The rest is “one more Nazi unmasked” history.

The most troubling facet of this stunning discovery by former FBI whiste-blower Coleen Rowley is that Colonel Kline was a military adviser to both Presidents Carter and Reagan and it was he, serving as a Marine Corps officer, who carried the nuclear “football” – the package containing launch codes for a nuclear attack. In today’s “Minneapolis Star Tribune” newspaper, Rowley describes John Kline as an incompetent, leaving the reader to ponder if Ms. Rowley had that vital information, but neglected to whistle-blow it during her FBI stint, when Colonel Kline was playing with the nation’s nuclear football.

Ruffles and Flourishes to “Michelle Malkin”. The Nazi image of Congressman John Kline is from “Associated Press”. The screenshot of Rowley’s web site is from “Minnesota Democrats Exposed” who has been busy blogging about Rowley’s unbelievable discovery writing, “This is unreal. Representative John Kline proudly served in the U.S. Marines for 25 years.” Indeed, who knew?

Linked at “Outside the Beltway”, WizBang Blog and “Mudville Gazette”.

“And THAT is MY Opinion…” has the most descriptive blog posting of the Dems’ dilemma: It Must Really Suck To Be A Democrat. HA! There is a picture of this snickering dog, appropriately named, “Laughing at Lefties”, and the reasons for laughing are:

• Senate to Decide on Ending Alito Debate
• Efforts to Block Alito Vote Not Gaining Steam
• Republican-led Senate defeats bid to stop Alito
• Discussion at Democratic Underground -
  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/

DU is on Def Con 5, they are imploding… They aren’t letting *lurkers* in to watch the slaughter, so much for Liberal *openness*…

No one has threatened suicide, yet, but many are threatening to leave the Dem party, register as Independents or, just not vote…

Josh Trevina over at “Spot-On” has quite an insightful post on the bloggers who have been invited to Holland, all expenses paid by Holland.com. (See “Going Dutch to A-Dam”.) Trevina himself was amongst the bloggers who were flown to Scotland for Live 8 last summer, and now he is pondering if he should have taken the free travel and lodging from the event organizers, and whether that affected his writing. Affected his writing? How could it not have!

But you have to give it to Adam over at “Slice”, the pizza blog, who is himself one of the Netherlands 25. He holds nothing back in his post “Slice Going to Amsterdam”:

“Late next month, I’ll be going to Amsterdam. Full disclosure: The trip is part of a junket for bloggers put together by Holland.com, the web presence of the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions. Holland.com is paying for the flight as well as five nights in a hotel near the city center, and an Amsterdam public-transport pass.”

“Slice” too pondered the ethics of accepting a junket a la Jack Abramoff and came through with a most tortured explanation of his decision to go. See, Holland.com is attempting to attract foreign tourists which in no way has anything to do with pizza, the subject of the “Slice” blog. Now, if “Slice” had been offered an all expense paid trip to Chicago to review deep dish pizza pies, he would have had to decline as that would clearly be a conflict of pizza interests, and besides he hates deep dish pizza.

What Next For Cindy Sheehan and Her Lust For the Spotlight?

Taking a page out of Senator John Kerry’s playbook on how to make pronouncements to the Left with the greatest impact - from anyplace that is NOT America, Mrs. Sheehan went south to Harry Belafonte’s most favored nation, Venezuela, to announce her political plans for the future. On advice from California’s other Senator, Barbara Boxer, Cindy may very well give California Senator Diane Feinstein her comeuppance by challenging Feinstein for the Senate seat she now holds.

America’s most beloved anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan spoke about the U.S. war in Iraq at - “where else but” - the 6th World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday, January 28, 2006. At that Socialist spot on Socialist foreign soil is where she announced her intentions to possibly run against United States Senator Diane Feinstein, according to “The Associated Press”. Although Sheehan has not yet named the Illuminati who will be supporting her, everyone knows that Senator Boxer will be 100% behind Mother Sheehan’s bid, even though it will put her at risk of losing her Senate ranking as “The Dumbest Solon in History”.

Scott Ott at ScrappleFace is “reporting” that Howard Dean, chairman of the DNC, has selected Cindy Sheehan and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to deliver the Democrats’ response to the President’s State of the Union speech, saying “Our choice of Cindy and Hugo demonstrates our commitment to diversity, and personifies our platform for the future,” … “Plus, they’re among the few well-known progressives who didn’t vote to support the war in Iraq while publicly attacking the Bush administration for its policy toward Iraq.”

Linked at “Dr. Sanity” and Michelle Malkin. The image of the “not-at-all” strange bedfellows, Sheehan and Chavez, was originally uploaded by flap.

As I wander happily about the blogosphere, checking out the blogs of some friends, I chance upon this cute as can be chimpanzee on ice at Pettifog’s. Gun-Ho is ice-skating in the Animal Academy Show in Seoul, South Korea, and as it is quite cold there in the far north, he is snugly in his fur-lined parka. And speaking of Pettifog’s blog, I do declare that it is quite a creative one. There are more themes to choose from than I have ever encountered - a dozen! I especially like this explanation, with which I feel simpatico:

You have landed at a web log controlled by an untrained - out of control - “blogger” in curiosity mode who changes things daily in order to learn more “stuff”.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

What do “some” bloggers have in common with Armstrong Williams, Doug Bandow and Jack Abramoff, all of whom have been mercilessly condemned by bloggers? Twenty-five bloggers are on their way to Holland, eh … “going Dutch” … as they describe it, to tiptoe amongst the tulips, but are they really? I report, you decide.

Here’s the “going Dutch” deal at “Bloggers In Amsterdam”, and the 25 “going Dutch” bloggers. Here is the “nitty-gritty” on “going Dutch” to Holland from the sugar daddy, Holland.com.

One has to ponder if the Dutch folks at Holland.com, who are in fact paying for the trip, do not know the real meaning of the phrase “going Dutch”? And they probably believe that a junket is a pudding too, as “MediaPost Publications” headlines the story “Bloggers Get Amsterdam Junket”.

USING TICKETS AND HOTEL STAYS normally reserved for the travel press, the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions is sending a group of 25 bloggers on a free trip to Amsterdam.

The promotion, “Bloggers in Amsterdam,” was arranged through the BlogAds Network. Invited bloggers–including CityRag, AmericaBlog, TalkLeft, Slice NY, and Jossip–will stay for five nights in a five-star hotel.

The bloggers must agree to be interviewed by the tourism board, and provide the board with free ad space on their blogs; the board will use that space to highlight the trip. Each ad unit will be customized for the site on which it is hosted, featuring the bloggers themselves, and linking directly to their interviews with the tourism boards. The bloggers won’t be required to write any blog posts about the trip.

Ruffles and Flourishes to “Beltway Blogroll”.

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.

• — I felt that my body was totally out of shape, so I got my doctor’s permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.
• — A reporter interviewing a 104-year-old woman asked: “What is the best thing about being 104?” She simply replied, “No peer pressure.“
• — The nice thing about being senile is you can hide your own Easter eggs.
• — Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, “How old was your husband?” “98,” she replied. “Two years older than I am.” “So you’re 96,” the undertaker commented. She responded, “Hardly worth going home, is it?“
• — I’ve sure gotten old! I’ve had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I’m half blind, can’t hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, have poor circulation and hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. I can’t remember if I’m 85 or 92 and all my friends have died. Thank God that I still have my driver’s license.
• — A 97-year-old man goes into his doctor’s office and says, “Doc, I want my sex drive lowered.” “Sir,” replied the doctor, “at 97, don’t you think your sex drive is all in your head?” “You’re damned right it is!” replied the old man. “That’s why I want it lowered!“
• — An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and told her preacher that she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart. “Wal-Mart?” the preacher exclaimed. “Why Wal-Mart?” “Then I’ll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week.”
• — My memory’s not as sharp as it used to be Also, my memory’s not as sharp as it used to be.
• — Know how to prevent sagging? Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.
• — I’ve still got it, but nobody wants to see it.
• — I’m getting into swing dancing. Not on purpose. Some parts of my body are just prone to swinging.
• — It’s scary when you start making the same noises as your coffeemaker.
• — The good news is that even as we get older, guys still look at our boobs. The bad news is they have to squat down first.
• — These days about half the stuff in my shopping cart says, “For fast relief.”
• — I’ve tried to find a suitable exercise video for women my age, but they haven’t made one called “Buns of Putty.”
• — Don’t think of it as getting hot flashes. Think of it as your inner child playing with matches.
• — Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up!
• — Remember: You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing.
• — Now, I think you’re supposed to send this to 5 or 6, maybe 10. Oh heck, send it to a bunch of your elderly friends if you can remember who they are.

Ruffles and Flourishes to my friend Lynette Anderson. I guess I should think about having my ashes scattered over the Home Depot parking lot. More Senility Fun!