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Posted at 1:11pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Obama to accept nomination in Broncos backyard... and so I weep

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

The Detroit News reports this afternoon that the Barackstar will accept the Democratic nomination for President at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver.

Mile High is the third holiest site for orange and blue fans everywhere, behind only the old Mile High (which physically shook every Sunday afternoon in the presence of number 7) and Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego where the Broncos won their first Superbowl.  

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Posted at 10:47am on Jul. 7, 2008 Will the Circle be Unbroken, Part II

By Blue Collar Muse

Last week I wrote about the plight of Nashville's Joy Ford, the country's latest victim of Eminent Domain abuse by government. Nashville's Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) has begun legal proceedings under Eminent Domain to condemn and seize Joy's business. It has prospered at the head of Music Row for almost 30 years. Now it is "blighted" and must be bulldozed to make room for $100 million dollars worth of development by a private firm in Houston, TX. I said last week, this case is every bit as bad as Kelo vs New London in 2005.

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Posted at 10:25am on Jul. 7, 2008 Toward an Understanding of the Obamian Language

A Compendium of Useful Words and Phrases for the Traveler, Student, and Businessman

By blackhedd

Here at RedState, we have more than our share of accomplished linguists, and the appearance of a new language in nature is a matter of great interest to us.

Today in America, we’re witnessing the birth of a language (“Obamian”) which borrows heavily from the grammatical structure of American English, but with a heavy influence in matters of linguistic construction from the writings of George Orwell. Like any truly distinct language, Obamian has been observed to be highly consistent in regard to vocabulary and syntax.

We’ll be watching the development of this new language closely, with the ultimate aim of producing a complete vocabulary and grammar.

For now, here’s an initial set of essential words and phrases for the traveler or businessman (pronunciation generally follows American English):

"Consistently": Whenever this word appears (typically in the formulation "My position on XYZ has consistently been..."), it signifies that a flip-flop will appear in the next sentence.

"Inartful": This term (often appearing as “I expressed myself inartfully”) is used ironically to give a subtle impression that the speaker is acknowledging a flip-flop, while in reality he's blaming journalists for it.

"Puzzling": The speaker uses this word when a mainstream press outlet calls attention to one of his flip-flops. The term signifies that the speaker is not amused, and is intended to convey a vague threat or menace.

"This isn't the person I've known for many years": This phrase signifies that the speaker is about to throw a long-trusted friend or political ally under the bus.

This is the first installment. Feel free to add additional citations or naturally-occurring formulations of actual Obamian speech in the comments.

-Francis Cianfrocca

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Posted at 8:20am on Jul. 7, 2008 How many signatures will they submit, and what then?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Today is the day.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Monday, the first day back after (what I hope was) an awesome three-day weekend, a return to the grindstone and the day power finally returned for many Grand Rapids residents after a nasty weekend storm.  But that's not what I'm talking about.  Today is the filing deadline.  

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Posted at 11:34am on Jul. 6, 2008 Yellowcake uranium found in Iraq, Saddam's legacy, Bush was right!

By Orion Blastar

It appears that when George W. Bush, the CIA, and Tony Blair said that Saddam Hussein had yellowcake uranium, which was a violation of the UN resolution after the Gulf War, and one of the reasons why the USA and UK invaded Iraq to start the war, they were speaking the truth. 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium was found recently in Iraq, that Saddam had hidden for over five years from UN weapons inspectors, and sold to Canada recently. Reported by Brain Murphy of the Associated press at ABC News. Yahoo has a copy of the story at their news site as well.

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Posted at 1:38am on Jul. 5, 2008 McCain's Economic Plan.. The McCain 3R Plan Rocks!

By jlmealer

JOHN McCAIN’S 3R ECONOMIC PLAN 2008
Abbreviated version

Republican Candidate John McCain with a progressive outlook, comes through for America with his 3R economic plan.

NUTS AND BOLTS of the plan are simple.

RETHINK REFORM REINVENT

As Americans we must Rethink our role as the new leader of industrial nations while we Reform our mindset of what best benefits not only the US Economy but the world economy. We must always keep in mind that a stronger America is a Stronger World and we MUST always make it first and foremost to own a stake in what matter most.

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Posted at 1:31pm on Jul. 3, 2008 Louisiana, Texas, and Innocence

By RollingThunder

I had not intended to comment on this, but reading a story on Fox News this morning has influenced me to comment now. Last week, The Supreme Court of The United States issued its last set of opinions from its current term. One of the opinions released was Kennedy v. Louisiana. Kennedy dealt with the issue of the appropriateness of the death penalty in a child rape case.

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Posted at 8:16am on Jul. 3, 2008 Fifteen FARC Hostages Freed

By BigGator5

Did FARC let them go? Was there a gun battle that killed many? Did the Colombian government give into the terrorist's demands?

I am happy to say that none of the above took place. In fact Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's Defence Minister has hail the rescue as "an unprecedented operation. It will go down in history for its audaciousness and effectiveness."

The Colombian military tricked FARC into handing over the hostages:

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Posted at 8:01am on Jul. 3, 2008 Initiatives and Referendums are Bad; the People Unqualified to Participate

By Blue Collar Muse

A friend sent me a link to an editorial from the Hartford (CT) Courant authored by Robert Satter. Mr. Satter is a judge trial referee in Hartford Superior Court and author of "Under the Gold Dome — An Insider's Look at the Connecticut Legislature." He is also, in my opinion, a very dangerous man. He has power and influence and is using them to undermine the foundation on which our country was built.

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Posted at 7:19am on Jul. 3, 2008 Obsolete embryo killing petition close to ballot in Michigan

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

While we're talking petitions... Most of the petition talk going around the conservative blogosphere to this point has revolved around the shady effort to rewrite the constitution, and with good reason.  There's another petition floating out there though that just announced their intentions to turn in between 500,000 and 550,000 signatures by next week's Monday deadline.

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Posted at 7:45am on Jul. 2, 2008 Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

I swear, we could talk about a shocking new detail or a major new scandal out of Detroit every day for a year and we still won't have gotten to the bottom of all of the sludge (har) in the lefty Mecca.  Today it's the Ivory Tower telling us that a member of the mainstream media has been officially caught up in the mix:


According to a report by Fox 2 reporter Scott Lewis, (Fox 2 Reporter Fanchon) Stinger accompanied Detroit developer Rayford Jackson to a meeting with city councilwoman Monica Conyers in October at Southwestern Church of God in Detroit regarding a possible sludge recycling contract with Synagro Technologies Inc.

Lewis said Stinger was not at the meeting to report the story. It's unclear why Stinger attended the meeting.

The FBI is currently investigating the City Council over the deal as one staff member was recently outed on videotape accepting payoffs.  Conyers appears to be at the center of the investigation, her longtime A-Team political consultant Sam Riddle no longer in her employ for unspecified reasons offering up tasty morsels like this, maybe the funniest heartbreaking truism I've read in months...

"The only difference between Detroit and Third World nations in terms of corruption is that there are no goats in the streets in Detroit."

Ouch.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 6:07pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Did You Even Know there is a "Black National Anthem?"

By rightwingscottie

Did you even know there was a Black National Anthem that is different from the Star Spangled Banner? A controversy is breaking out in Denver as a singer, Rene Martin, was introduced to the crowd at Mayor John Hickenlooper's State of the City address to sing the national anthem. What she sang was "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson, sometimes referred to as the Black National Anthem. Words here: http://www.black-network.com/anthem.htm

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Posted at 7:48am on Jul. 1, 2008 When the Democrats get control the voters get Detroit

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

I was born and raised in Grand Rapids.  This is my home.  I love it here.  I've had opportunities to move to Lansing, to head out to Washington, D.C., but none of that excites me.  For years I'd commute 75 minutes each way to work (back when gas was under $2 a gallon, thank heavens) and when it came time to buy my first house I didn't look anywhere else.  

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Posted at 7:35am on Jul. 1, 2008 Will the Circle be Unbroken, Part I -Eminent Domain Comes to TN

By Blue Collar Muse

What Circle? 23 Music Circle East - Nashville, TN to be precise. And broken may be the kindest way to describe what the owner of the business at that address faces. Shattered, decimated, mercilessly hounded into oblivion all come to mind to describe what Joy Ford, owner of Country International Records (CIR), is facing at the hands of Nashville's Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA).

For almost 30 years, Ford and her late husband Sherman, have operated one of the first studios on what would become Music Row at that address. While much of the rest of the Row has gone corporate with multi-million dollar facilities, CIR remains privately owned. This earns CIR the classification of an Independent label or "Indie" as it's known in the trade. Usually reserved for recent entries into the field who don't have the juice to or don't want to compete with the big boys, in the case of CIR, it's deceptive. Joy and Sherman Ford were making music, writing songs, developing artists and cutting tracks at Country International Records long before many of the current Music Row elite were born. The walls of Ford's business are filled with pictures of the legends she's personally worked with. Stars like George Jones, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Tracy Lawrence, Tim McGraw and more.

If government has anything to say about it, that won't be true much longer. Chas Sisk at The Tennessean, who has covered the story since March, reports,

Read on . . .

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Posted at 2:00pm on Jun. 30, 2008 Re: Jindal Vetoes Pay Raise

By Ben Domenech

Neil, I - like many of our readers - have enjoyed the Club for Growth blog's (and particularly their Communications Director's) evenhanded, charitable, and unbiased coverage of Gov. Bobby Jindal over the past several months. I can hardly contain my eagerness to read their nine separate posts detailing the political courage of Gov. Jindal's decision, as he now risks the success of his entire reform agenda within the state legislature on this one point, standing up to members of his own party. I am sure it will only rival their excellent coverage of his school choice plan, his total overhaul of the state ethics laws, his business tax cuts, etc.

Perhaps - bless my soul - they'll even speak about him using the same vocabulary they reserve for that magnanimous god among men, Mark Sanford. Ah, but the heart flutters as I type his name!

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