Did You Hear What They Said?

Welcome back, True Believers!

It's time for another edition of:




Remember, it's not hate-speech...THEY ACTUALLY SAID IT!

THE LEFT

"If you want to understand the Left, the best place to start is with an understanding of hysteria. Leading leftists either use hysteria as a political tactic or are actually hysterics. Take almost any subject the Left discusses and you will find hysteria... America neglects its poor, beats up its gays, oppresses its women, fouls its environment, ignores its children's educations, denies blacks their votes, and invades other countries for corporate profits: These are common accusations of the Left. No event is free of leftist hysteria. On the third day after Katrina, civil rights activist Randall Robinson reported that blacks in New Orleans were resorting to cannibalism. Indeed, most of the news media coverage bordered on the hysterical. Not to mention the hysterical predictions of 10,000-plus dead in New Orleans... [T]he irony in all of this is that the Left sees itself as the side that thinks intellectually and non-emotionally. And that is hysterical." —Dennis Prager

"Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, I hope the House will refrain from directly appropriating any funds from the public treasury to either the state of Louisiana or the city of New Orleans. The head of the FBI in New Orleans just this past year described the state's public corruption as 'epidemic, endemic and entrenched.' Over the last 30 years, a long list of Louisiana politicians have been convicted of crimes; the list includes a governor, an attorney general, an elections commissioner, an agriculture commissioner, three successive insurance commissioners, a congressman, a federal judge, a State Senate president, six other state legislators, and a host of appointed officials, local sheriffs, city councilmen and parish police jurors. I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid." —Rep. Tom Tancredo

"There [is] no point-person for the Democrats who can help Democratic supporters easily understand their agenda. Part of that is there is no point-person. Another part of that is there is no agenda. Until the Democrats can clearly define an alternative future under their control, the only future they will continue to face is: Republicans in power." —Rich Galen

"The solution to poverty...doesn't lie in a collective movement. It lies in the will and discipline of individual people who dedicate themselves to living moral lives, striving to improve their circumstances, and providing greater opportunities for their children." —Mark Goldblatt

"Poor blacks do not need to be 'mobilized' to turn even more responsibility for their lives over to others. They need to go to school and take care of their families."--Star Parker

"Study after study shows that alterations in norms and values are at the heart of economic and behavioral troubles. That's why so much research boils down to the old rule: If you want to avoid poverty, finish high school, don't have kids in your teens, and get married." —John Leo

"When government tries to be all things to all people, it fails at the essentials." —Former House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich

CONGRESSMAN TOM DELAY

"It is well to remember that an indictment is not a conviction. An indictment is a tool the government and its representatives too often use to intimidate and persecute citizens against whom it may have a grudge." —Lyn Nofziger

"It's interesting to think that many of those who are gleeful over the unproven charges against DeLay have spent the past few years arguing strenuously that it would be better if Saddam Hussein were still in power." —James Taranto

SUPREME COURT

"It is my belief that there are 'absolutes' in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be 'absolutes'." —Justice Hugo L. Black

"And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothingto fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything tofear from its union with either of the other departments."
-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 78, 1788)

"Some 41 of 107 Justices and nine of 17 Chief Justices never previously sat on a court and some of them, like Chief Justices John Marshall, Robert Brooke Taney (for most of his decisions), Salmon P. Chase, Charles Evans Hughes and William H. Rehnquist, have been topnotch. Thus, a lack of judicial experience is not automatically a disqualifier."--E. Ralph Hostetter

"We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land—nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution." —Daniel Webster

"Any philosophy that does not confine judges to the original understanding inevitably makes the Constitution the plaything of willful judges." —Robert Bork

"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution,which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all." --George Washington

TAXES

"Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation ratherthan to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass throughso many new hands."
-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to James Madison, 1784)

"The income tax is not an example of a good idea gone bad. It was bad from the beginning, and it just keeps getting worse." —Chris Edwards

DEMOCRACY

"[T]he flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread overtoo much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble enginesof despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these enginesand all who work them."
-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Adams, 12 September 1821)

"Allowing Americans to vote has never led to créches being torn down across America. It's never led to prayer being purged from every public school in the nation. It's never led to gay marriage. It's never led to returning slaves who had escaped to free states to their slavemasters. And it's never led to 30 million dead babies. We've gone from a representative democracy to a monarchy, and the most appalling thing is—even conservatives just hope like the dickens the next king is a good one." —Ann Coulter

PRESIDENT BUSH

"But Bush, for good or ill, believes in himself as the real Third Way deal: It's a remarkable achievement to get damned day in and day out as the new Hitler when 90 percent of the time you're Tony Blair with a ranch."--MARK STEYN


IRAQ

"Iraq is a great American success story. You know, free Iraq... it's done. Free Afghanistan... it's done. Democrats have been driving around with free Tibet stickers for fifty years, and it's no nearer than it was when they stuck them on their 1962 Volvos."—Mark Steyn


FAITH

"No where in the scripture has God ever assured anyone, baptized or not, of a carefree, no conflict existence... When (not if) the trials come, we can be certain that they will reveal our courage, call, commitment and convictions... Regardless of how disheartening the difficulties can be, they should not send us into a tailspin. Rather, they should bring out the best in the believer. They can, if played correctly, bring us back to the biblical basics of faith, hope and love." —Doug Giles


HILLARY CLINTON AND HER HUSBAND

"With Jamie Gorelick working from the 'inside' and Sandy Berger on the 'outside,' the 9-11 commission was capably prevented from identifying the culpability of the Clinton White House in leaving America vulnerable to attack. More than four years after leaving office, the Clinton political machine continues to seriously endanger the interests of the nation. Yet Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats remain steadfastly unaware of any 'culture of corruption' here. And America has only begun to pay the price." —Christopher Adamo


"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04


And finally, our MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION:

Who said the following about Hillary Clinton?

"I think she is a political animal who believes she has to be a war hawk to keep up with the big boys."


A) Rush Limbaugh
B) Tom DeLay
C) Cindy Sheehan
D) Helen Thomas

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C) Cindy Sheehan

Have a Great Day!

Did You Hear What They Said?

That's right, True Believers! It's time for another rollicking edition of:



Remember, it's not a "hit piece"....it's a DIRECT QUOTE!

GOVERNMENT

"Like so many other things in Washington, the word 'hearing' in the U.S. Senate has absolutely nothing to do with the act of listening. It has everything to do with talking." —Rich Galen

"The worst failures of the past two weeks have been big government failures. The biggest successes, by contrast, have come out of this country's incredibly vibrant, amazingly diverse and fantastically generous civil society. Sooner or later, it will be impossible not to draw political lessons from that paradox." —Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum

"A republican form of government presupposes self-government—the capacity of citizens to govern themselves according to reason—and does not, if it intends to survive, champion them as 'victims' when they don't."--George Neumayr

"the Democrats are hoping to boost their party's sagging power and are threatening a filibuster if things don't go their way. Once again, they are prepared to make their case at the expense of what is right for the country."-- Mark Alexander

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have." —President Gerald Ford

"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex—but Congress can." —Cullen Hightower

"As we hear calls for a 'compassionate' response to the victims of this [hurricane] tragedy, it is important to remember that you can't be compassionate with other people's money. This difference is as simple as the difference between my reaching into my pocket for money to help someone in need and my reaching into your pocket for the same purpose. The former is charity—the latter is not." —Michael Tanner

"The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood." —President Grover Cleveland

CINDY SHEEHAN

"Speaking in front of more than 500 supporters in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Ms. Sheehan, speaking of Senator Clinton, said, "She knows that the war is a lie but she is waiting for the right time to say it."

Then, as the crowd cheered, she issued a challenge to Senator Clinton, saying, "You say it or you are losing your job."-- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/19/politics/19sheehan.html

"Cindy Sheehan, originally a sympathetic figure, is now merely a pathetic one, and we're inclined to ignore her totally, except that we keep remembering all those Angry Left types who, a few short weeks ago, were declaring that she had 'absolute moral authority' and was going to transform American politics. If thinking about that doesn't give you a good, deep, soul-cleansing laugh, nothing will." —James Taranto

DEMOCRATS

"When the Democrats say something is "un-American," they usually mean something very American that they don't want in America anymore. Repeatedly during the presidential campaign the Democrats declared their independence from America -- and then were surprised when ordinary Americans went to the polls to give it to them."--George Neumayr

"There's such a broad ignorance or contempt for constitutional principles among the American people that any politician who bore truth faith and allegiance to the Constitution would commit political suicide." —Walter Williams

INSIGHT

"Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering." —Sextus Propertius

"Today's out-of-wedlock black births and single-parent households are triple what they were in the '40s and '50s. The collapse of the black family took off when big government programs, particularly welfare, were launched, compliments of black and white liberals, after the civil-rights movement." —Star Parker

AND FINALLY....OUR MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION:

Who said the following:

''The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.''

a) Winston Churchill
b) Karl Marx
c) Golda Meir
d) David Horowitz

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Have great day!

You Mean It WASN'T Bush's Fault???

I came across this article on MSNBC.com about design flaws in the levees surrounding New Orleans dating back to the 1990's......BEFORE George W. Bush was President.

Here's the link: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9532037/

Here's the story:

New Orleans levee reported weak in 1990s Records: Construction firm alerted engineers, but no action was taken

By Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit

NBC News
Updated: 11:40 a.m. ET Sept. 30, 2005

WASHINGTON - The thin gray line of concrete floodwalls erected along drainage canals was supposed to protect New Orleans. But when Katrina hit, portions of the walls came tumbling down, flooding the city.

Experts are just now beginning to probe why those floodwalls failed. They want to determine whether the storm surge from Katrina poured over them, or whether the walls collapsed because of a possible flaw.

“This is fairly typical of some of the failures we've seen,” says Professor Ivor van Heerden, a hurricane expert at Louisiana State University who has examined the wreckage. “These walls underwent catastrophic structural failure.”

But why?

NBC News has obtained what may be a key clue, hidden in long forgotten legal documents. They reveal that when the floodwall on the 17th Street Canal was built a decade ago, there were major construction problems — problems brought to the attention of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

A 1998 ruling, by an administrative judge for the Corps' Board of Contract Appeals, shows that the contractor, Pittman Construction, told the Corps that the soil and the foundation for the walls were “not of sufficient strength, rigidity and stability” to build on.

“That's incredibly damning evidence,” says van Heerden, “I mean, really, incredibly damning.”

Pittman won the contract in 1993. There already was an earthen levee made of soil. Embedded in that was a thin metal wall called sheet piling. The contractor was hired to pour concrete on top of all that to form the flood wall.

But the 1998 documents — filed as part of a legal dispute over costs — indicate the contractor complained about “weakness” of the soil and “the lack of structural integrity of the existing sheet pile around which the concrete was poured.” The ruling also referenced the “flimsiness” of the sheet piling.

NBC showed the findings to engineering experts.

“That type of issue about the strength of the soils, of course, bears directly on the performance of a floodwall,” says retired LSU oceonography and engineering professor Joe Suhayda.

“I think it is very significant,” adds Robert G. Bea, a former Corps engineer and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who is part of a National Science Foundation inquiry into the failure of flood controls. “It begins to explain some things that I couldn't explain based on the information that I've had.”

The construction company said as a result of these problems the walls were shifting and “out of tolerance,” meaning they did not meet some design specifications. Nevertheless, the Army Corps of Engineers accepted the work.

“It seems to me that the authorities really should have questioned whether these walls were safe,” says van Heerden.

The judge, in her ruling, blamed the contractor for the construction errors and turned down Pittman's request for more funds.

Pittman Construction is now out of business. (A firm called CR Pittman Construction, also based in New Orleans, is a separate company.)

In a statement, the Corps of Engineers tells NBC:

"The records on the Pittman contract appeal will undoubtedly be part of any thorough investigation to determine the cause of the levee breaches in New Orleans. The Corps is preserving evidence that could be used in the investigation. The exact composition and structure of the team responsible for a potential investigation has not been determined at this time."

So if this was going on before President Bush took office, the blame would then be on...........