Cindy Sheehan is Now Officially A Criminal

Grief pimp and raging lunatic Cindy Sheehan now has a criminal record. Sheehan and her crew were each ordered to pay $75 in fines and court costs, but Sheehan's lawyer said he plans to appeal the verdict.

From LATimes.com:

"We weren't demonstrating," Sheehan told reporters after the trial. All the defendants contended they were trying to deliver petitions to the White House calling for an end to the war in Iraq on Sept. 26, but found no one willing to accept them.

"Our petitions were rejected like every request I have made of the president has been rejected," Sheehan said.

Sheehan, 48, of Berkeley, Calif., has tried repeatedly to meet with
President since her 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq last year. She spent several weeks near the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch this summer, and plans to return there Thanksgiving week.

"I absolutely believe he has an obligation to meet with me," Sheehan said.

I don't know if it's old age or what, but Cindy Sheehan seems to keep forgetting that President Bush has already met with her. And that fair and balanced media we all read and love conveniently seems to be doing the same thing. Than too, by saying that what she was doing wasn't "protesting", Sheehan seems to be backtracking from the comments she made to the media a week before she went down to D.C.:

"I'm going to go to Washington, D.C. and I'm going to give a speech at the White House, and after I do, I'm going to tie myself to the fence and refuse to leave until they agree to bring our troops home. And I'll probably get arrested, and when I get out, I'll go back and do the same thing."

Sounds like a protest to me.

Another example of liberals and their problems with selective memory.

Bush Lied? Even Google Knows The Truth

Got this from Michelle Malkin's site c/o Bryan Preston.

The link to the search is:
http://www.google.com/search?q=clinton+iraq+1998

Nice work!

Baseball Finally Gets Serious About Steroids

From the Associated Press:

A formal announcement was planned for later today, a baseball official told the AP. Under the agreement, a player testing positive for the first time would receive a 50-game suspension. The second positive test would bring a 100-game suspension. The third positive test would bring a lifetime ban, with the player having the right to apply for reinstatement after two years and an arbitrator being able to review reinstatement decision.

Baseball's current steroid penalties are a 10-day suspension for a first offense, 30 days for a second offense, and 60 days for a third. The earliest a player could be banned for life is a fifth offense. The sport's second new steroids agreement in 10 months came after lengthy negotiations prompted by urging from Congress -- including the threat of legislation that would require higher penalties and stricter testing standards. Representatives of the owners and players were on Capitol Hill today to meet with House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va.

He's one of a handful of lawmakers who have introduced steroids bills -- and it was his panel that held the March 17 hearing with Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco. At that hearing, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr were scolded for what congressmen called a weak penalty system for drug testing.

Credit for this legitimate steroid policy finally being enacted, a policy that finally gets tough with players using illegal and life-threatening substances should go to 3 people: 1) Senator John McCain, who's been threatening baseball with steroid legislation for awhile now; 2) Commissioner Bud Selig, who's been wanting a tougher steroid policy forever, but has had to fight with the Players Association for years now to get them to step up and 3) former major leaguer Jose Canseco, whose controversial book "Juiced" shamed baseball to the point of national ridicule and worldwide embarassment.

With this new policy in effect, baseball is finally letting all the cheaters know that the sport isn't going to be taken advantage of anymore. By taking away the one thing, money, that means the most to professional athletes, baseball is taking on a stance that's long been needed. For Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro, Pudge Rodriquez and all the other cheaters who have gotten away with abusing the game, this new policy will keep them and future wannabe cheaters out, while restoring some integrity to the game I love.

GOP Says "No" To Iraq Exit Timetable

In a flawed and desperate attempt to piggyback their constant second-guessing about a war they all said "yes" to, Democrat senators tried to pass a resolution calling for a timetable to end the war in Iraq.

From CNN.com:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday easily defeated a Democratic effort to pressure President Bush to outline a timetable for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. It then overwhelmingly endorsed a weaker statement calling on the administration to explain its Iraq policy.

Senators also overwhelmingly voted to endorse the Bush administration's military tribunals for prosecuting suspected foreign terrorists held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but to allow detainees to appeal their status and punishments to a federal court.

On the question of a timetable for troop withdrawal, senators rejected the Democrats' measure by 58-40. Democratic leaders had advanced the timetable measure in the wake of declining public support for a conflict that has claimed more than 2,000 U.S. lives and cost more than $200 billion.

Republicans countered with their own non-binding alternative. It urged that 2006 "should be a period of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty," with Iraqi forces taking the lead in providing security to create the conditions for the phased redeployment of United States forces.

On a 79-19 vote, the Senate approved that GOP-sponsored proposal, which did not call for the president to put forth a withdrawal timetable unlike the Democratic proposal.

"They want an exit strategy, a cut-and-run exit strategy. What we are for is a successful strategy," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee.

Excellent job by the GOP!

Setting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq is incredibly stupid. Al Qaeda has already shown that they have the patience to wait and plan. This loony attempt by Democrats is nothing but the chest beating antics of politicians trying to take advantage of the President's low poll ratings, not looking out for our troops.

John Edwards Tells Troops They're Fighting For Nothing

John Edwards is still flip-flopping.

From Mediainfo.com:

It was an op-ed opening with a rare, "I was wrong."

The author was former senator and candidate for vice president, John Edward, writing in Sunday's Washington Post."Almost three years ago we went into Iraq to remove what we were told -- and what many of us believed and argued -- was a threat to America," Edward related. "But in fact we now know that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction when our forces invaded Iraq in 2003. The intelligence was deeply flawed and, in some cases, manipulated to fit a political agenda.

"It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002. I take responsibility for that mistake. It has been hard to say these words because those who didn't make a mistake -- the men and women of our armed forces and their families -- have performed heroically and paid a dear price."

The world desperately needs moral leadership from America, and the foundation for moral leadership is telling the truth...."America's leaders -- all of us -- need to accept the responsibility we each carry for how we got to this place. More than 2,000 Americans have lost their lives in this war, and more than 150,000 are fighting there today. They and their families deserve honesty from our country's leaders. And they also deserve a clear plan for a way out."

Is it any wonder that John Edwards is a former lawyer? After all, aren't attorneys trained experts in the art of lies and manipulation? Wasn't Edwards the same guy who used his own dead son to catapult his career into politics?

Is there any wonder that the American public didn't buy his act last year when Edwards was picked by master flip-flopper John Kerry to help win an election? Kerry picked Edwards last year with the hope that the former lawyer would con voters in the southern states to vote against Bush. Obviously it didn't work as Edwards made such an impression on the public that Dick Cheney couldn't even remember metting him and Bush ended up winning in a landslide.

As a former senator John Edwards has nothing to lose by making comments that greatly disrespect the efforts of our troops in Iraq. Then too, his political capital was shredded last year by an American voter too smart to buy the car salesman tactics of a former lawyer. It's about time people stop listening to this loser.