Coulter Should Dump the Tough Guy Act on Jew Statement

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Coulter_Jewish_reply/2007/10/17/41664.html?s=al&promo_code=3B91-1

I didn't want to misstate Ms. Coulter's response to her "perfected Jew" comment, so I have attached it for you to decide.

Back Tracking
Ms. Coulter continues to show her ignorance by now saying the perfected Jew comment she made was in the context of Catholic teachings.

The host asked her twice if she meant that Christians believe that Jews need to be perfected. Both times she replied yes. There was no missing context, no misunderstanding; she simply showed her inability again to say when she is wrong and try to get the facts right and instead lies about where she's coming from.

But as with Congressman Stark who said the military was killing soldiers for the amusement of the president, Ms. Coulter also stands by her statement and makes things worse by playing a Catholic card to defend herself (she is not a Catholic, by the way).

I mentioned the Catholic issue, which during twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD, the Roman Catholic church decided unofficially the church needed to blame the Jews for Christ's crucifiction. Antisemitism was a political issue officially, not a religious one and had nothing to do with Christ; it had to do with antisemitic Europeans finding a reason to displace and remove Jews from the areas they lived in. But what Ms. Coulter states is that she was talking to the interviewer in the context of Catholicism and the blame game.

No, she wasn't. She states emphatically the perfection idea is believed by Christians--in addition to being asked twice to clarify her stupid comments, she repeated herself.

Just Say You're Wrong, Dammit!
I feel as if am the only person who is constantly apologizing for things I do wrong. I know that's not true, however, I overdue it many times because it's difficult to distinguish the fine line between being right and being loved.

But when it comes to factual issues, I try to clean my mess up as quickly as possible. Anne can't do that probably because she has so much invested in being right. That's a terrible position to be in if you're in the least bit human.

Just say you're wrong, Anne, and stop the hrumphing for a while, will ya? Go have lunch, get your hair done (please) and back off. That's right. One of your elders is batting you down. You're not helping the Republican party.

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Ellen! Get a Grip!

The facts, as I understand them, are these (per dog agency's attorney):

Ellen must have read the contract because no one would sign a contract without reading it, unless it's Paris Hilton who has her own personal people to read "things like that";

Somehow the agency found out that Ellen gave the pup to another family and asked that she come down and fill out the papers so the new family could adopt the little cutie pie;

Ellen's people wouldn't fill out the papers; they asked Ellen again. No go.

Ellen's people then sent unfortunate emails which contain pretty threatening language if the agency didn't just forget the contract;

The agency repossessed the dog.

THEN, Ellen goes off on national TV about this situation? That's way too much power for anyone to have. All they had to do was fill in the paperwork. Come on. That's the crazy attitude that causes all kinds of unpleasantness. Just fill in the paperwork.

If those facts are true, I'm really sorry because I like Ellen. If it isn't, I'd like to know the Ellen's side, wouldn't you?

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The Dems Overreach Again as Stark Makes Outrageous Comments

They always do. Now we're seeing what these Bay area Democrats are really all about.

Congressman Stark
Pete Stark, a congressman from somewhere in the SF Bay area, made the ridiculous statement on the House floor that young men and women are getting their heads blown off for the amusement of the president. Of course, those comments had nothing to do with what was before him, the Dem's inability to override the SCHIP veto ("...denying healthcare for children...") , the usual third world rhetoric they use when they talk down to poor folks. Nevermind that these children's parents make between 70 and 80 grand a year. The president was right about this. It is precisely that type of expenditure that Republicans want stopped. If people on that income cannot provide healthcare for their families, I suggest they sell an asset...if it's really that important to them. Or, go to the state.

BTW, insurance for children is very cheap by virtue of their youth and health. These insurance pools of young people is another scam. Think about it. Major Medical insurance with a $500 deductable is what all that's needed for young people. Most people are being nickled and dimed to death by these ridiculous policies.

Once Again, Being a Democrat Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
When asked to retract his statement, Stark simply continued his diatribe in the news media and made things worse by adding more vitriol.

Naturally, today's craven patriotic Democrats are allowing him (and many, many others) to make outrageous accusations about their colleagues who were also, just like them, duly elected by the people with no demands that he pull his stupid remarks back.

These people are so badly afflicted with Bush Hatred Syndrome, they can't remember how democracy actually works. That's what hatred does to people, I guess.

Do You Really Want America to Look Like San Francisco?
Leftism and socialism can be seen in its practical application in San Francisco. If we want our country run like their city, electing these leftist Democrats is the ticket. Like Gavin Newsome...there are so many of them. What was once a fabulous city has turned into a cesspool.

Speaking of cities, I don't know how anything can get done in D.C. with this cacophony of outrage even when the votes weren't there to begin with. The president frontloaded this bill, by telling the American people what the particulars of the bill were. The president has the right to veto any legislation, as the Congress has the right to try to get the votes to override his veto. Just like the vote on the war, just like the votes for stopping funding for the war--not enough votes for your side, Pete. Guess Stark didn't get the memo on how laws get made.

Congressman Stark, along with all the rest of the Bay area activists are setting up the Democrat Party for a drastic fall. I doubt even Mrs. Clinton can save them...even though she's trying to convince America of her moderate views. I think the media is missing it, the polls are missing it, everyone is missing it. The extremists will kill their party's hopes of winning a national election, especially with the excessive examples we've seen as a result of them having won regional elections.

This hateful rhetoric on both sides will not produce the results either wants. It never does. This has occurred in our recent history when each party nominated the extreme Goldwater and the extreme McGovern in answer to their loudest, angriest members. It didn't work then and it won't work now. Americans hate this.

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Anne Coulter is Incorrect

I'm guessing the Far Right's Golden Girl With a Snake for a Tongue, Anne Coulter, is not all that popular among the true Republican Party faithful, i.e., the Republican Party centrists. Why? She keeps doing the same thing over and over again and no one really, truly benefits except...Anne Coulter.

Remember how she howled at George the Junior about the Harriet Meirs nomination...in a time of war...when the president was hanging on to public opinion by a thread? Great benefit. She and the rest of her pals should have let this issue be. Harriet Meirs wasn't a threat. The Far Right was out to prove a point about abortion, one more time...to the detriment of the party and the country at war. That's what's wrong with the Far Right. They have a lousy sense of timing.

Anne Coulter just can't help herself. She slipped when she stated, "...we Republicans(Conservatives/Christians/Perfect People) just want the Jews to be perfected, that's all..."

Perfected: isn't that an odd word? Not exactly on the tip of one's tongue. Who does she think she's talking to?

I'm writing to say that Anne Coulter is dead wrong. In other words, she's not correct that Christians (Conservatives/Perfect People) just want to perfect (the verb) Jews, as if only those darned, preferably Orthodox Jews would convert to Christianity they'd feel sooo much better--like Anne obviously does every time she perfects a Jew! Not to mention the extra jewels you get in your crown in heaven when you convert a Jew.

Actually, Anne needs to get her hip, usually denim-clad personhood to a Bible study.

Red Meat for the Base
I've been a Republican for hundreds of years and I don't recall ONCE needing the type of rhetoric Coulter's too red lips spittle through to get me inspired. Who needs Coulter when you've got the New York Times, Chris Matthews and CNN to get you as mad as a beauty salon patron whose tinted blonde hair keeps coming out yellow not ash, no matter what...once a brownette, always a brownette...or maybe a 40 volume peroxide is needed? It's an art, you know. Take it from one who knows: that is one mad woman.

Looking inward, as I so often do, I've wondered when we Republicans started talking so offensively, so much like Democrats. There was a time we held the high ground. We wouldn't say fudge if we had a mouthful. We were, well, wonderful.

That changed. The Goldwater-Johnson election was embarassing to a bunch of us, but most of us got snookered by the "extreme" tongues of the Right Wing of the Republican Party, and we nominated the most feared man in America, according to Democrats...and lost the election. We GOPers really knew how to pick 'em.

Republicans either stayed home that year or held their noses and voted for Barry Goldwater, who was a tremendously devisive individual. I think Barry thought he was the Cold War's Thomas Paine. He did like to go over a bit, rhetorically speaking. We abused Republicans ate it up.

As I recall, my terminally Republican mother actually didn't vote, a transgression my more-terminally Republican father took personally. (He thought like RR: speak no evil of fellow Republicans.) We got trounced.

The masterful Democrats, remarkable in the art of distortion, had taken it all in and in one 60-second spot TV advertisement called, The Daisy Girl (top right video), the gullible American people--in the middle of the Cold War, for God's sake--witnessed the dramatic black and white close-up that changed the political landscape forever: a precious, little blonde girl counts and pulls petals off a daisy..and most people know the rest. So much for the fortunes of Goldwater, and unfortunately, the Republican Party.

Then came the Silent Majority thought up by another headline grabber who in name of Christ, snookered the party again. One preacher after another came out for family values. We done got religion! Whether we wanted it or not.

Out came the anti gay message, anti everything message. Politics got mixed up with religion. The Silent Majority got their wish with Richard Nixon, which is a big joke, because Nixon, THEIR candidate was an embarassment (the man who would "end" the war in Vietnam, while Kissinger and the Viet Cong drank French champagne for four years during their so called peace talks. It was obscene, reminiscent of today's Dems who want to abandon and surrender Iraq.).

Thanks much to the political agenda of Hollywood from whom Americans have been served thousands of movies depicting the utter depravity of all Republicans, who in most scripts were always in power, we've been painted by the broadest of liberal brushes--village idiot to corporate killer to Satan. (Nothing offensive about that.) It wasn't until George Bush the Elder fought back for the first time in years with the Willie Horton ad that the Dems began understanding mowing over us wouldn't be so darned easy. I remember how they demonized the Republicans for doing the things they'd been pulling for decades. It was, I have to admit, sweet irony, especially when Bush the Elder won the election.

Such retorts and other insults over the years brought out Anne Coulter. She's an angry activist who seems to be unwilling to admit when she is wrong or that what she says might genuinely offend. In other words, Ms. Coulter comes off to many as graceless, unable to sustain a good argument because of her constant preoccupation with being heard and right. It's too bad she's allowed herself to become a charachature because she once had a cogent message before she got full of herself.

Her glib, lawyer tongue and Coulter's desperate need to be right, someone who seems to want vengence for the treatment of her boss, Clarence Thomas, no matter what, is offensive to many Republicans, with whom she may not be familiar. They're the ones who consistently give money to the Republican Election Committees and the Party, and give the president the benefit of the doubt when he's in a fight for the Republic's very life with the Dems. She should have supported the president in this horrible time of war. That's when old Anne lost me for good.

Debate and Facts
Many Republicans don't like confrontational identity debates. Anyone with a ripple of experience with Republicans remembers we don't like "scenes." I don't know; maybe it's just an emotional handicap many of us suffer,likely a result from too much time spent at the country club. By definition, a middle of the road Republican would rather go through vacinnations for rabies than raise his voice. It is sad. We cowered so long (Hoover,and the guilt, you know), like the beaten wife who's afraid her husband (FDR was in office for 16 years!) will kill the kids, and finally the Mrs. blew and her rage burst out like lava. (Then he kills the kids.)


Coulter Has Certainly Crossed My Line
I still hold out hope for more civil politics, although now political debates seem more like channel-rotating skirmishes of political pundits doing--let's face it--informal job interviews. They have a pretty good chance of making it with the next administration, after all--at least 50-50. In reality, not a lot ever gets accomplished except it semms people just get madder and our Republic continues sifting away in misinformation, as if no one cares about the Republic.

Only a Converted Jew is a Perfected Jew?
If Coulter insists on proselytizing a bunch of Jews, I suggest she bring a great big Angel with her--check with Gabriel's secretary; he might be free that week. God didn't call the Jews His Chosen People just to get ratings from the guys in Hollywood or even the Diaspored.

Get thee to a Bible study, Miss Coulter. Then get a researcher. And an editor couldn't hoit.*

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*And if you find one, let me know. Cuz God knows I'm not poifict.

Memorial for My Nephew

Our family suffered a terrible loss on Friday evening. My brother's only son, John Robert Layman, Jr., was electrocuted on the roof of a house he was restoring. We don't really know much except that the city of Kansas City hasn't released him to the family.

John was only twelve years younger than I. He was always a good-looking kid who had his grandfather's and father's athleticism. He was a close-to-turning-pro soccer player who gave a shot at the Los Angeles team back in the day. John could make his body do anything he wanted it to. He was pretty darned good.

Besides my brother, John leaves his mother, Marilyn (my dear, sweet sister-in-law), and his two beloved sisters, Ann and Marian.

There will be a memorial service at 10:00 am, Saturday, at Newcomers in Kansas City.

LaRaza and Aztlan: Your Friends Who Want "Their" Country Back

Nevermind that the United States of America paid them a rather large sum for the land they didn't seem to want at the time. Now a couple of the Latino "advocacy" ("idiocy") groups want it back...and you and me out. What's changed? Numbers and solidarity, mostly. Next thing we know, Putin will want Alaska back!

LaRaza Subterranean Invasion
Although these illogical folks insist the translation of their name actually means The Community, The Peoples, and my favorite--The Cosmic; actually, LaRaza does means The Race.

LaRaza says Latinos are not a race. I didn't see anything about their Indian DNA. I'm European and Native American (my great grandmother, Isabelle Bennett, was half Miami Indian). Does that make me a LaRaza member prospect? Now since the Indian blood came into my European family in the early 1880s, I probably have as much right to form a group as these folks. After all, weren't my people invaded too?

Meanwhile, LaRaza has put Kansas City on notice that because the city has a park board member who is also a member of The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, the group will pull out of their contract to hold their annual convention there. They claim it is offensive. They are outrageously demanding that the city fire the board member. They also claim the NAACP is thinking of not convening in KC for the same reason, although the source was unable to get NAACP to return his calls. I pray NAACP doesn't react at all.

If both conventions pull out, there is a likely loss of $15.2 million in revenue to the city. The KC Convention Bureau doesn't seem to know how they're going to respond. They speak as if they're in "negotiations" with this hate group, which is the biggest crime of all. The only leverage the city seems to have is a $70,000 cancellation penalty for LaRaza. What with all their federal funds, LaRaza should be able to quickly give away such a piddly amount.

BTW, it is estimated that the Latino population in Kansas City will replace the African-American population as the largest minority, according to the University of Missouri. Guess that's why all the politicians are panicking. Again, another American city's politicians just can't seem to do what's right by their current constituents. What a betrayal. And it's become these political season's Outrage Du Jour.

Aztlan
Aztlan (Aztlain) make no bones about their intention to "reconquer" the U.S. They are dangerous radicals who need to be exposed much more than they have been by our dilatory mainstream media. They are a racist, violent, obnoxious organization who have no regard for Anglos, Blacks, Asians, whomever. The idea that my tax dollars go to the salaries of the irresponsible, radical professors who are the spokesmen for these hate groups drives me crazy. I only hope there are no federal funds going to the organization itself. But you know there is! Isn't there always?

Lose Your Old Ideas and Join the Party, Get Legal.
And don't blame me and mine because you're not legal.

Immigrants, illegal and legal, confound their own misery by not acculturating. Most Americans don't beat their chests about their racial heritage. It doesn't matter! Isn't that what being an American is about: moving away from the old and on to the new?

Why, oh, why must these groups continue to act and react in the same old third world way, not understanding it is precisely this carrying-over of their tiresome, third world political reactions (victimhood, oppression-based reality, mob/mass/folks against the man) and customs that keep them from feeling good about where they think they should be in the American scheme of things. I wonder if the leaders of said groups are simply disappointed, bitter newcomers whose naive expectations of America's largess were great and the results were low. I think many third world immigrants have the idea there's a huge pot of gold awaiting them as soon as they come across the border. Like it's magic.

Too little is said about how hard most (all cultures, races, beliefs) Americans work, how much education we've had and what it takes to become successful in the New World. Too little is mentioned about the general good nature of most Americans who have engaged in a quiet acceptance of the flow of illegals for decades. None of us want to send people away, split up their families, none of us. But some of us have to do the right thing by the rest of the country, which is insist that the state and federal governments live up to their end of the contract they have made with the us, the people who elected them. Thus, we must expect our officials to enforce the laws they themselves made, or change the law. For that reason, I am a strong supporter of enforcement of current laws and building fences.

We brought this on ourselves. We had a chance in the mid-eighties finally get this under control, but then people were called racists if they talked too aggressively about illegals. Too politically incorrect. The only person in America who had the guts to talk about it was Pete Wilson with his Prop 187. Does anyone remember that the proposition passed? Then it was knocked down by one of the liberal judges who run our lives out here in the Ninth Judicial District by the very liberal judges appointed by the people who are screaming loudest today about immigration. Where were they then? And where were the Republicans when it came to realizing we had to force businesses to not hire illegals. Period. Neither side had the political will to jump on that third rail.

Now we have sanctuary cities. I believe that any American city which responds to the illegal immigration problem by providing sanctuary should be cut off from federal funds as they are clearly out of contractural compliance. Again, all our elected officials--local and federal--have to do is simply enforce the laws on the books, ignore the special interest groups which try to make us feel guilty and do the job they are bound to by law, the Constitution and the oaths they publicly and willingly swore to. It really, really isn't that hard.

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