Photo by Mike's America
Play the audio: Proud to Be An American, by Lee Greenwood
July starts off with a bang. In this post, I recounted memories of a White House 4th of July.
Mike's America in July also saw another in a series of posts regarding former liberals whose political and world views have been altered, not just by September 11th, but also by the increasingly dangerous defeatist rhetoric embraced by their once great party. Neo-neocon had a series of very well written and thoughtful posts on the subject, along with inciteful comments from readers who share her transformative view.
Not to jump ahead, but in August we had a similar revelation, this time from The Quietest. From a latino background, he embraced revolutionary socialism until he went to work and live in the Brazilian favela, where real poverty exists, not the phony cars/cellphone/cable style of American poverty. He writes:
If you agitate all through college for "social justice" (without ever stopping to think what that even means), and then move directly onto K Street in Washington when you graduate, or go directly into law school and onto the do-gooder busybody groups, you will never be forced to deal with the reality. Nobody in the favela is clamoring for socialist revolution; no, the educated children of the wealthy who have never been in a favela do that. Nobody in the favela wants revolution, they want JOBS, and no pampered rich college kid from the US is going to give that to them by calling Bush a fascist...
I learned conservatism not because I was taught that way in school or at home, but while watching my most cherished leftist ideals and principles sink into (and contribute to) the impoverished swamp of the Brazilian favela as I volunteered there. So I ask my leftist friends, am I a "racist" now? Am I "anti-worker?" Screw you.
The London Bombings
One of the nail bombs prepared for more London bombings.
July also brought another painful reality check with the horrific London bombings. While the Defeaticrats and their media allies were still practicing denial over the reality of war, with phrases in the New York Times and Boston Globe such as "so-called war on terror" those confronted with a nail bomb on a bus or train learned the truth the hard way.
Of course this has yet to sink in with the lamestream media, whose message makers never take public transportation. They were too busy in July asking whether our action in Iraq was to blame for the London bombings and terrorism in general. Australian Prime Minister held a joint press conference with British PM Blair at #10 Downing Street and answered that question this way:
Prime Minister Howard: Can I remind you that the murder of 88 Australians in Bali took place before the operation in Iraq; and could I remind you that the 11 September occurred before the operation in Iraq; can I also remind you that the very first occasion that Bin Laden specifically referred to Australia was in the context of Australia's involvement in liberating the people of East Timor. Are people, by implication, suggesting that we shouldn't have done that? When a group claimed responsibility on the website for the attacks on 7 July, they talked about British policy, not just in Iraq, but in Afghanistan. Are people suggesting we shouldn't be in Afghanistan?
Saudis fund Jihad propaganda in American Mosques
Throughout the year, but with special significance following the London bombings is the state sponsorship of Jihad propaganda that litters mosques and Islamic centers for education in the United States.
I also posted on the Saudi Arabia Accountability Act introduced in congress to demand an end to this behavior. This is one issue that demands a thorough follow-up in the new year.
Dick Durbin Gitmo Slander FALSE? Isn't it funny how outrageous charges are made and blown out of all proportion, but then when their veracity is determined, the fact that they may not be true is rarely reported? So too in this case.
Meanwhile in July, Senator Kennedy (Defeaticrat-MA) went to visit the troops at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and his own Massachusetts constituents who are stationed there had some not so nice words for him regarding his accusations against their character. That too hardly made a blip in the lamestream media.
And while we're on the subject of Democrat crassness, the award for July certainly must go to Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Catherine Baker Knoll. Uninvited, she crashed the funeral of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich, a Marine killed in Iraq. Not only does she crash the funeral but she hands out her business card like campaign literature and has the affrontery to tell the grieving family that the Pennsylvania government is "against this war." And if you look at the photo of her in this article, you'll notice she is conducing a television interview outside the funeral home.
And the media reaction was to question the political motivations of the family that complained. Five paragraphs went into discussing their activity in the Republican Party. The fact that Knolls was a Democrat at all was limited to one identifying "(D)" after her name.
Plame Wilson Rove Niger Uranium: Lies, Lies and More Lies!
Much of July was busy with stories about the Plame affair. Another of the biggest non-story, no scandal frauds that has ever been so willingly propagated by the American media.
Funny how the very same media that breathlessly stood watch at the courthouse in Washington, hoping to see Karl Rove indicted, paid for a friend of the court brief describing how no crime was committed in the outing of non-covert CIA desk jockey Plame.
And when it comes to the big lie about Iraq/Uranium/Niger and Bush's "lie" in the State of the Union speech, I posted the relevant excerpt from the British Butler Review (equivalent of our Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Iraq:
499. We conclude that, on the basis of the intelligence assessments at the time, covering both Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the statements on Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Africa in the Government's dossier, and by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons, were well-founded. By extension, we conclude also that the statement in President Bush's State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that: "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" was well-founded.
Find me one moonbat who has read the British Butler Review and win a prize! While you're at it, find one that has also read the Duelfer Report and double your money!
Taxpayer funds for the Left's Anti-America, Anti-Christian Religion
Your tax dollars at work!
Funny how tax dollars can be used to fund, house or promote "art" such as this obviously political statement above displayed on state property in California. And somehow, an artist displaying their own aborted fetus, or blatantly anti-Christian art is ok. But should a Republican, or a Christian church wish to use tax payer funds or facilities and the answer is NO WAY! Propagating the left's anti-religion is viewed somehow as enlightening?
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