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h/t: MVRWC

Go read Mark Belling’s column, he smacks the MSM with a little dose of reality, here is just a little taste.

GMTODAY.com - Greater Milwaukee Today, Online News for You!

[Dennis] Shook writes that talk radio is "smack talk" and that listening to it is akin to getting hit in the face with a pie. I guess it’s all a matter of perspective. I read his column and imagine a doddering old buggy whip manufacturer sneering at all the automobiles while wailing, "it’s all a fad!"

Guess what, old boy. It’s not a fad. The Web, radio talkers, bloggers and the rest of us party crashers aren’t going anywhere. Your monopolistic game is up. You’re dying and the wound is self-inflicted.

The whole thing is really good! 

The head Bear of the Ecosystem is calling on Bloggers to state your opinion on the Harriet Mires nomination. He will be compiling the results from the Ecosystem members and posting the poll results. You can find details here.

I oppose the Miers nomination.

I oppose the Miers nomination because we were promised by the President, that he would nominate to the high court, people in the mold of Scilla & Thomas. Ms. Mires ain’t not Scilla!

Nominees to the Supreme Court should be among the brightest Constitutional experts we have, Harriet Mires seems to have no more knowledge of the Constitution that any other lawyer that doesn’t deal with these issues, she is simply not qualified!

I would like to support my President, he is a good and decent man that believes he is doing the right thing, but Mr. President, this is wrong! When you have totally alienated your base and you get support from the Liberal leaders in Washington, that should tell you something!

h/t: Jib 

As some of you know, I run another website that has become an awesome on-line community that has over 800 members and had over 7.6 million hits last year, so we are quite a group. As with all "families" we have our spats, so I created a section of the message board called Vent, this is a place where people can yell and scream all they want. It is the only spot on the board that we allow the rare battle royal, politics is usually the culprit

This morning, one of our posters, a friend that I have known on-line for years, but is quite Liberal made a post about the number of coalition deaths in Iraq, I thought I would share it here since it is a more appropriate place. Following the comment is my response.

Web-Nuts.com > Vent: 1989 

It’s not a year.

It’s a body count.

At this writing, One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty Nine humans born in our United States are Dead. They’re Gone. Explain that to their Families.

Quote:

There have been 2,187 coalition troop deaths, 1,989 Americans, 98 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, two Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 26 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of October 21, 2005.

[Source:] http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

Hey! This is "Vent" Right? Good!

"Vent" It, Y’all! ..

Explain to one Hungarian Family , (and the World), why capturing Mr. Hussein dignified that one Hungarian’s death.

Or to 98 Brit Families, or to 13 Bulgarian Families, or..

(WoW! The deaths seem overwhelmingly American, huh?!)

As a note: In all wars, historically, the victor reaps financial gain.

Further note: Save any personal attacks.

Address 1989.

 Each of those hero’s lives are precious to us all, but some things are worth dyeing for, Democracy is worth dying for, the safety of America is worth dying for, even the defense of anti-American speech is worth dying for.

Your comment In all wars, historically, the victor reaps financial gain. is wrong and insane. How many trillions of dollars did we spend to rebuild Europe twice? We rebuilt Japan and other Pacific Rim nations, we defended and rebuilt huge parts of China and other Indonesian nations. Where was our financial gain from defending Kuwait? Did we plunder their oil? We fight for Liberation, not conquest or domination! What do we gain by freeing these nations from tyranny? We gain security! We free people from oppression, from brutality, from monsters like Saddam Hussein that has murdered his own people, not by the hundreds, or the thousands or even tens of thousands, his body count is in the hundreds of thousands and by some estimates, approaches 1 million of his own people, many by the use of chemical weapons, and this does not count tens of thousands he has killed in other countries.

Yes, in the past three plus years, we have lost almost 2,000 wonderful Americans, in that same time, there has been more than three times that number murdered in California alone, more than 2,000 a year. About 100,000 Americans have died from the flu. About 8,000 Americans have died in motorcycle accidents. Another 3,500 have died from bicycle accidents. Over 5,000 students have overdosed on alcohol. Over 4,000 babies have died from Shaken Baby Syndrome. Oh, and there was a little incident on a sunny September morning a few years ago that comes to mind…

Why do I bring up these numbers? It is not at all to trivialize the nearly 2,000 American heroes that have given their lives. I ask, what is the collective good of these other deaths? There is absolutely NONE, but what good has come from the sacrifice of our troops? Freedom! Democracy! The end of a brutal dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of his own people and has made war on his neighbors and supported terrorism around the world.

Yes, each of those lives are precious, but they were not given in vain!

I ask one question, is the world a better place with Saddam out of power and Iraq working to become a Democracy, or were they better off if Saddam were still in power instead of prison?

I followed up with:

Another thing, the huge majority of the families that have lost loved ones are PROUD of the sacrifice they have made for our nation and the world. Ask the troops if the world is a better place now. Ask them if we should cut and run like cowards before the terrorists, I don’t think you would like the answers you get!

As we near 2000 KIA’s, I expect we will hear a lot more of this. At the Badger Blog Alliance, Marcus posted a clip from LGF about the ghoulish plans the left has set up for the day we hit 2000. It must be a sad life to root against America. (Yeah, right, I can’t question their patriotism, can I?)

Now this would be a very good thing, there is no reason why the Waukesha County Board has to have 35 members, that is WAY to large!

JS Online: County Board size revisited

Voters could call for a special referendum on shrinking the Waukesha County Board under state legislation that is enjoying new momentum after the election of Dan Vrakas as county executive.

Vrakas, a state legislator from Delafield, voted in committee Thursday to advance a bill designed to make it easier for counties to change the size of their county boards.

After languishing in Madison for two years, the bill sponsored by Sen. Ted Kanavas (R-Brookfield) has been rewritten and is enjoying renewed interest.

Kanavas said he senses greater enthusiasm for the issue in the aftermath of Vrakas’ election as Waukesha County executive on a platform that included a smaller County Board.

I hope this fight continues, it is a battle that needs to be fought. First Waukesha, then it should start working it’s way around the other 72 counties. My guess is that most are much larger than they nee to be.