An endangered species

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  1. Flanders

    Flanders Well-Known Member

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    I’m happy to report that the Tea party might be responsible for putting RINO on the endangered species list.

    I knew that RINO Richard Lugar is in trouble in Indiana. Lugar never saw a UN treaty he would not ratify. Michelle Malkin reminds us that RINO Orrin Hatch is also hanging on by his fingernails. In addition to his other sins, Hatch was instrumental in confirming Ruth Ginsberg for Bill Clinton.

    The RINO herd can be thinned considerably should those two wizened senators go down. RINO hunters can then focus on stragglers like Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. Knock-off four or 5 RINO and you’ll see how fast the rest will don their elephant suits.

    Malkin also cites Ted Cruz as a good one for the US Senate. He sounds good to me compared to the characters who have been roosting in that nest of traitors for decades. You can learn a bit about Cruz in this article:


    Up From Big Government Conservatism
    By W. James Antle, III on 2.15.12 @ 6:09AM
    Ted Cruz and the constitutional conservative generation of Republicans.

    http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/15/up-from-big-government-conserv

    I can only hope Tea party replacements will stay true to Tea party goals after they get to Washington.

    Here’s MM’s great piece:


    A Tea Party Senate Takeover
    Michelle Malkin
    Feb 15, 2012

    The tea party isn't dead. It's just looking down ballot. While fiscal conservatives remain split over the GOP presidential candidates, grassroots activists are coalescing around a stellar slate of limited-government candidates looking to reinforce and reenergize the right in Washington.

    And in the spirit of the modern-day tea party movement, no entrenched incumbent -- Democrat or Republican -- is safe.

    Utah was Ground Zero for the movement's first major electoral upset. In April 2009, this column first reported on a Salt Lake City tea party protest of 2,000 Utahans who repeatedly booed GOP Sens. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch for supporting the $700 billion TARP bank bailout. In May 2010, the three-term, 76-year-old Bennett got the boot at the GOP state convention. Young conservative lawyer Mike Lee, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, went on to win the seat.

    Now, young conservative entrepreneur and renowned state pension reformer Dan Liljenquist is taking on Utah's other big government Republican barnacle, 77-year-old Hatch. Liljenquist excelled in the private sector as a global management consultant and business strategist; he also helmed a privately owned call center company that grew from two to 1,500 employees since its 1995 founding. Liljenquist was elected to the Utah Senate in 2008, where he spearheaded state pension and Medicaid reforms that earned him the non-partisan Governing magazine's 2011 "Public Official of the Year" award.

    The 36-year, six-term Hatch was first elected in 1976 on an anti-entrenched incumbent platform. Hatch's campaign line then against his opponent Frank Moss: "What do you call a Senator who's served in office for 18 years? You call him home." Now, Hatch is clinging to power after almost four decades in government -- and vainly attempting to claim the tea party mantle to stave off Liljenquist's David vs. Goliath primary challenge.

    Hatch co-sponsored the $6 billion national service boondoggle and dedicated it to his good friend Teddy Kennedy, with whom he also joined hands to create the ever-expanding SCHIP health care entitlement. He slobbered over corruptocrat Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, supported tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner from Day One, lavished praise on Joe Biden's manhood, and embraced and defended Attorney General Eric Holder's nomination because, he said, "I like Barack Obama, and I want to help him if I can."

    In Indiana, another aging liberal Republican dinosaur is fighting for his political life by masquerading as a tea party standard-bearer. The six-term 79-year-old Sen. Dick Lugar -- who prides himself on being Obama's favorite Republican -- hasn't lived in his home state since 1977. He supported the Obama stimulus law, job-killing environmental mandates and the taxpayer bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the auto and banking industry bailouts.

    Richard Mourdock, Indiana's former state treasurer, offers a fresh alternative with widespread support from both grassroots activists and local and state GOP officials. While others hedged their bets, Mourdock took the federal auto bailout head on, lodging a court complaint against the Chrysler bailout to expose its illegal abuse of shareholders and punitive impact on Indiana citizens. He was elected to the treasurer's office in 2006, a tough year for Republicans, and was re-elected handily in 2010. Before politics, he worked in the private sector for 30 years managing businesses in the energy, environmental and construction industries. He's never had a Beltway zip code.

    In Texas, young attorney Ted Cruz is making waves in the GOP race to replace retiring GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The former Texas solicitor general is a 10th Amendment scholar who doesn't just speak the tea party's language. Cruz has put constitutional conservatism into action, winning many of the 40 cases he has argued in front of the Supreme Court. Cruz isn't afraid to challenge the GOP establishment. In 2008, he successfully battled the Bush administration and meddling globalists all the way to the high court to prevent international law from superseding American sovereignty.

    The GOP needs just four seats to take control of the Senate. With inspired and inspiring free-market candidates like Dan Liljenquist, Richard Mourdock and Ted Cruz, 2012 bodes well for the tea party footprint on Capitol Hill. Remember: Entrenched incumbency is the disease. Fresh blood is the cure.

    Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.

    http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/02/15/a_tea_party_senate_takeover
     
  2. CoolWalker

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    Yawn...boring.
     
  3. Flanders

    Flanders Well-Known Member

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    TRIPLE WOW!

    I always have a jug or two of champagne handy for special occasions. Tonight a cork gets pulled:

    Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
    By Edward D. Murphy emurphy@mainetoday.com
    Staff Writer

    Citing bitter and unbreakable partisanship in Congress, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, announced this afternoon that she has decided not to run for re-election after 33 years in Congress.

    In a statement issued by her campaign, Snowe said that both she and her husband, former Gov. John R. McKernan, are in good health and she is certain she would have won re-election.

    But Snowe cited frustation over "an atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies" that have taken over Washington. She said she didn't expect that polarization to improve in the next six years, which would have been the length of her new term.

    In her statement, she said, "As I enter a new chapter, I see a vital need for the political center in order for our democracy to flourish and to find solutions that unite rather than divide us. It is time for change in the way we govern, and I believe there are unique opportunities to build support for that change from outside the United States Senate.

    "I intend to help give voice to my fellow citizens who believe, as I do, that we must return to an era of civility in government driven by a common purpose to fulfill the promise that is unique to America."??

    http://www.pressherald.com/news/Snowe-not-running-for-re-election.html?cmpid=breaking-news-box
     
  4. waltky

    waltky Well-Known Member

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    The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports on the threat to elephants in Kenya...
    :omfg:
    African elephant poaching threatens wildlife future
    14 January 2013 - Three elephant corpses lay piled on top of one another under the scorching Kenyan sun.
    See also:

    S African woman gored by rhino after posing for photo
    15 January 2013 : A 24-year-old woman was seriously injured by a rhino moments after posing for a photograph with it, South Africa's Beeld newspaper reports.
     
  5. waltky

    waltky Well-Known Member

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    Around five tonnes of seized ivory were burned in Gabon last year...
    :eekeyes:
    Poaching boom sees thousands of elephants killed in Gabon
    6 February 2013 - More than 11,000 elephants have been killed by ivory poachers in Gabon since 2004 according to new research.
     
  6. waltky

    waltky Well-Known Member

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    Great apes bein' lost to illegal wildlife trade...
    :eekeyes:
    Chimps, gorillas, other apes being lost to trade
    Mar 26,`13 -- The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife - clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction - is also threatening the survival of great apes, a new U.N. report says.
     
  7. reedak

    reedak Well-Known Member

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    Will our Granny, who is allergic to rice and fish, put the white people of America and Europe on the endangered species list? :oldman:

    http://www.politicalforum.com/immigration/192355-white-people-becoming-minority-usa.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/curre...ow-surpass-whites-us-births-census-shows.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/united-states/223167-non-whites-future-america.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/curre...-look-forward-whites-become-minority-u-s.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/latest-world-news/279808-whites-will-no-longer-majority-us-2043-a.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...-government-killed-white-culture-america.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/education/211913-deteriorating-school-districts-white-flight.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...54531-you-old-white-people-your-duty-die.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...0-will-america-better-worse-when-happens.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/opinion-polls/278836-how-small-should-white-minority.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/279696-joy-whites-become-minority-u-s-2043-a.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/293937-trump-immigration-let-white-europeans.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/race-relations/242056-will-white-race-survive.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/western-europe/252459-islamic-states-will-future.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/unite...ght-whites-likely-below-50-births-2012-a.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/race-...if-white-people-bred-out-total-existence.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/western-europe/235069-muslim-demographics-europe.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/united-states/190593-mexican-immigrants-ruining-america.html

    http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...nority-someday-should-american-concerned.html
     
  8. gabriel1

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    me too, it will guarantee dems the house and white house for the next 100 years!! lol
     
  9. waltky

    waltky Well-Known Member

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    reedak wrote: Will our Granny, who is allergic to rice and fish, put the white people of America and Europe on the endangered species list?

    Granny says, "Dat's right...
    :grandma:
    ... purt soon white folks gonna inna minority...

    ... an' den other folks gonna be in charge...

    ... an' den all hell gonna break loose...

    ... an' ever'thin' gonna go to hell inna breadbasket.
    :eekeyes:
     
  10. reedak

    reedak Well-Known Member

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    Grandpa says, "Dat's right...
    :oldman:
    ... purt soon white folks gonna inna minority...

    ... an' den other folks gonna be in charge...

    ... an' den all hell gonna break loose...

    ... an' ever'thin' gonna go to hell inna breadbasket

    ... filled not with bread and butter

    ... but with soul food, taco, sushi, curry,

    ... shark's fin soup, bird's nest soup, rice and fish. :hungry:


    What Do African Eat Nowadays?
    http://www.wackyarchives.com/bizarre/what-do-african-eat-nowadays.html

    What Is Soul Food?
    http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-soul-food.htm

    Mexican cuisine
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_cuisine
     

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