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What the heck, lets go for another round of news.

The title of Halo 3 maybe should be changed to the savior of Microsoft’s entertainment division thanks to the day it had yesterday. According to Yahoo! the game made $170 million dollars in its first day of release easily outpacing every other videogame and movie ever. Yeah, people don’t like blowing things up and killing.

The Worldwide Standard has an article that has all the links you need to see regarding the brave monks in Myanmar. Some monks have died, rights have even been more restricted, and hopefully they will win a victory for themselves and freedom. But not if China has anything to do with it.

It would seem the pillar of human rights, China, is doing all it can to financially prop up Myanmar due to Myanmar’s strategic location.

China’s relationship with Burma is the closest of any it has in Southeast Asia. It views that nation as a strategic ally, coveting the potential use of its ports on the Indian Ocean and easier access to oil from Africa and the Middle East. China has provided economic support key to keeping the dismal economy afloat, and has built roads, bridges, airport facilities, power stations, factories and telecommunications networks. It has also modernized Burma’s army, including an infusion of weaponry valued at over $1.4 billion when the junta took power.

China is a despicable regime that is at least partially responsible for propping up many regimes that destroy basic human rights. We need to call them on the mat for this horrific behavior before too long because every day that goes by with a monk living in a virtual prison is another day that humanity loses a bit of its soul.

Tree Hugger, the pathetic website that called attention to the horrible state of Zimbabwe (with regards to invasive species of plants of course, not to its brutal dictator), does it again. It is giving plaudits to Cuba for pledging to plant trees. Sure, killing unborn babies to improve your infant mortality rate is not great but planting some trees while your citizens starve is a great thing! Just imagine if liberals got their way and we all lived like Cubans; VOTE HILLARY!

Another in a long line of liberal hypocrisy about freedom of speech can be found in San Francisco right now. At Columbia it’s alright that Ahmadinejad can have possibly the biggest propaganda win in a generation but the oh so great people of San Francisco won’t let the Marines film a recruitment commercial.

Liberals are patriotic, just not patriotic of America.

Oh, and about Ahmadinejad’s propaganda. Just in case Ahmadinejad’s version of what happened at Columbia didn’t completely stick Chris Matthews is coming to the rescue! Matthews said, according to News Busters,

Didn‘t you hear him allow the fact that there was, in fact, a Holocaust?

Actually, Mr. Matthews, what he said was an obfuscation of his real feelings. Ahmadinejad said

Can you argue that researching a phenomenon is finished, forever done? Can we close the books for good on a historical event?

There are different perspectives that come to light after every research is done. Why should we stop research at all? Why should we stop the progress of science and knowledge?

You shouldn’t ask me why I’m asking questions. You should ask yourselves why you think that that’s questionable? Why do you want to stop the progress of science and research?

… There has been more research on physics than it has on the Holocaust, but we still continue to do research on physics. There is nothing wrong with doing it.

This is what man wants. They want to approach a topic from different points of view. Scientists want to do that.

Is there really a discussion about whether or not the Holocaust happened? Please, liberals, rush to this guy’s defense even more because we all know that the only reason you support this maniacs right to speak is so you get to seem sophisticated and worldly at your cocktail parties. Ahmadinejad should have had the door shut on his face.

Well, at least no one could ever accuse a liberal of advancing a cogent argument. As the blogosphere is ripe with such examples I’ll just decide upon this brilliant piece from Crooks and Liars about how privatizing Social Security is bad:

After long delays, due in part to the refusal of the White House to cooperate, …a GAO report [was released] assessing the costs to taxpayers of a 2005 White House initiative to support the President’s efforts to privatize Social Security.

The initiative included campaign-style events featuring the President and a roster of top Administration officials as well as the creation of a “Social Security Information Center” in the Department of the Treasury. The analysis shows that the White House effort cost more than $2.8 million, including more than $1.6 million for staging the events, more than $800,000 for Air Force One and Air Force Two travel, and more than $200,000 for the creation of the Treasury Department’s privatization war room and website. The $2.8 million estimate is an underestimate of the true costs, as it does not include the cost of staff time, Secret Service protection, and other expenses.

Really, is this the best that you guys can do? No mention of how retirement is too important to be left to someone looking to make money? No? Well, maybe they’ll have a better day tomorrow. At least that’s what right wing bloggers are predicting.

After ticking off a number of reasons why we are in trouble for 2008 a post at Right Wing News has this to say:

Will this situation improve significantly by election time in 2008? I expect that it will, but probably not enough to allow the GOP to go on the offensive in 2008. At best, we can hope to hold the presidency, only lose or gain a handful of seats in the House, and only lose a seat or two in the Senate.

It probably won’t be long until the bloggers on the right reprise their premortems that they invented before the elections in ‘06. Even if they are correct in their predictions I think it is totally irresponsible for them to do this because that isn’t their job. They don’t need to be cheerleaders but I think it is appropriate to try and stress our core values at all times.

After the election is over, sure, figure out what happened. But throwing in the towel even before the game is over is just rank defeatism and who wants to vote for that? Well, if this post from The Corner is correct, not many Hispanics are going to vote for the republican party either.

In an exhaustively researched survey of 145 precincts and 175,000 votes, Richard Nadler of America’s Majority Foundation concludes that when Republicans talk about enforcement-only, deportation, and criminalization of illegal immigrants, they get slammed politically.

A big part of me just wants to be reactionary and say tough. But there is a way that you can tout enforcement of immigration laws while still touching on issues that appeal to Hispanics as well. Maybe even introduce a law that would increase the amount of immigration allowed predicated on the governments ability to enforce our current immigration laws (i.e. a boarder fence that stems illegal immigration).

The conventional wisdom is that whichever party wins over the Hispanic vote will be the majority party in the future. The conventional wisdom is usually wrong but it seems quite probable that in this instant it might be right.

Here is an instance that republicans might be able to win over Hispanic voters on the immigration front. Fortunately for us most Hispanics are not liberals, they aren’t conservatives mostly either but I think it’s safe to say that their personal politics are tilted to the right. And one issue that they probably agree with most conservatives is in the area of protecting this country. So it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to appoint a man who thinks it would be grand if every person had to live under Sharia in America. But that’s what Virginia has done.

This is the same Esam Omeish whom I have debated twice on the Laura Ingraham Show. The first time, he denied that Islamic law mandates death for apostasy. The second time, he acknowledged that he’d be happy to see Sharia law come to the US.

And he’s the nominee to be on the immigration board! Heck, if Fred Thompson just came out against this it would win over a large chunk of Hispanic voters.

While I think it’s safe to say that Hispanics worry about protecting our country from terrorists it is also safe to say that liberals will cry foul at any measure aimed at accomplishing that goal. And that is what’s going to happen when more find out about a program designed to monitor terrorist’s online activities on discussion boards, chat rooms, and blogs.

I guess this is as good a time as any to explain to people that there is no way that anyone is ever going to read what you write online and then go and arrest you. Well, unless you are actually a terrorist. Do you know how much is written online everyday? Do you know how long it takes to translate writings? Agencies like the NSA try to monitor as much as they can, with help from other countries in an effort to circumvent laws limiting domestic spying, but they are limited due to the amount of activity on the Internet and the filters they use.

You dope dealing liberals need not worry about this because it is the government after all and they cannot find illegal immigrants on the streets, how are they going to find you dealing pot out of your ice cream trucks?

BigT’s Linkapalooza:
Syria strikes again.
Master Chief in real life.
State gets their own blog, government efficiency at its best no doubt.
What Hillary will do to Bill if she doesn’t win in ‘08.
The pupil becomes the master - India outsourcing to US.
Our space colonists.
New Zealand’s wikilaw experiment. BigT

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