Politiks As Usual 11/12/06

John McCain Opens Exploratory Panel In Lieu Of Bid For Presidency

Gerald Levert R.I.P.

Elton John Wants Organized Religion Banned

Study: New HIV Patients Can Expect To Live Up To 24 Years

Christian Landscapers Turn Down Gay Clients

Illegal Immigrant Kills New York City Actress

Hugo Chavez: Bush Should Be Executed

Bill Clinton's Former Right-Hand Man Disses Howard Dean

Ed Bradley Dies From Leukemia

From CNN:

Ed Bradley, the longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent whose probing questions and deceptively relaxed interviewing manner graced some of that show's most notable reports, has died. He was 65.

Bradley died Thursday at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital of leukemia, according to staff members at the CBS program.

Bradley joined "60 Minutes" during the 1981-82 season after two years as White House correspondent for CBS News and three years at "CBS Reports." His reporting over the years won him a Peabody Award, 19 Emmys and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, among many others. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

His most recent Emmy was for a segment about the reopening of the 1950s racial murder case of Emmett Till in Mississippi.

Ed Bradley was all about cool and class. He made me watch "60 Minutes" because as a teen, every time I'd be lucky enough to catch him doing a feature, I knew that it was not only something that I needed to be aware of in general, but something that affected me as a Black man living in America.

Republicans Can Only Blame Themselves . . .

Karl Marx is their God and John Lennon is their Saint. Their song "Imagine" (practically a communist manifesto) is a hymn sung by their entire congregation. Their religion is individual freedom, which denies any and all boundaries. Their motivation is the will to power because power is all that's important when there is no transcendent truth governing all tribes.

The modern "liberal" is not a liberal at all, at least not in a practical sense, he is of his own creation defended by a cohesive and articulate dogma and when this is attacked he becomes contemptuous, derisive, replying with verbal formulas and sarcasm. But most Americans aren't politically astute enough to know the difference or the damage it's done to this country, much less this planet. Instead they gravitate to platitudes and recite them with the passing conviction that "freedom" in place of moral responsibility is the end that justifies the means.

When will conservatives - who really control the electorate, not the ignoramus' on the extreme Right or the lunatics on the Left - learn that the future of this country is in our hands? We are the ones willing to look at most sides of the equation. We are the ones who hold all the people's interests generally at heart. All of the cultural power belongs to the Left, while the extreme Right pollute God's will under the 'guise of moral authority.

Yet, how can a party lose when it's President is presiding over a roaring economy and the lowest unemployment in recent history?

Because Republicans just don't get. They have a great message and mission, but instead of sticking to their plan and going on the offense, they've allowed a party without a plan to make them look like sputtering idiots by consistently putting them on the defense with their lies. Never in my life have I seen something so good argued so poorly. I could write better speeches for the President. I could argue better for why we went into Iraq. I could argue better that the Democratic party have been corrupted by the immoral Left. Yet, I'm just a lowly blogger.

So now we'll get higher taxes, paralysis in Iraq, filibusters, more illegal aliens, more activist judges and Nancy Pelosi.

Thanks Republicans.

Ted Haggard's Mis-Adventures Is A Boon To Liberals

Ted Haggard is an idiot and the outing of his carnal adventures couldn't come at a better time for Godless liberals who live for moments when supposed men of cloth are exposed as hypocrites. Here he is speaking to a reporter the other day and admitting to buying meth from that hooker, but refusing to admit that he ever used it. Who the hell buys drugs but doesn’t use it?! OK, maybe Bill Clinton, but you get the point. Haggard also denied ever having homosexual love with Mike Jones, the hooker. He only admitted to getting a “massage” from him. Yeah, right.

Below is a clip from the movie "Jesus Camp" in which Haggard calls homosexuality a sin, one of many instances in which Haggard has used the pulpit to condemn gays, all the while he's the one engaged in a 3-year affair with a man. Yet, the biggest issue here and the one we should all be concerned about is Haggard's wife and kids--the ones who get talked about the least, but end up the most hurt by the ex-preacher lies. Good thing the church didn't waste any time kicking Haggard's dumb ass out.