THE Conservative Thread: Country First!

[dcentity2000]

Guys, I'm going to leave you be

Peace



Rich::

 

[What the Heck]

You know, I'm not sure? Doves COULD be part of the pigeon family.

What I know for sure was that it was a dove that carried the olive branch back to Noah after the floods receded. Kinda holy, in some ways, as well as being a sign of peace.



Rich::

Only because they didn't have shotguns back then!

(For our friends from the left, who are showing a remarkable lack of a sense of humor this election, that was a joke. I'll say something later that isn't a joke and we can compare the 2).

 

[njzieglers]

Thinking of doves makes me sad. It always reminds me of my dad telling me about driving into work one day, and seeing a dove that had died and its partner trying to wake it up.

He went on to say that doves mate for life, and that dove was now destined to be alone.



I am such a girl.

You know, because they mate for life, the suicide rate for male doves is the highest of any bird. It was probably a male.

 

[basas]

Hey, did anyone see this?

<<John McCain has taken a slight lead over Barack Obama, 48-45 percent, according to the latest Gallup Daily Tracking poll out Sunday. It is the largest advantage for McCain, though still within the 2-point margin of error, since May.

The 48 percent also registers the largest raw number McCain has received in the poll since Gallup started its daily tracking of the two presidential candidates in March...............>>

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/0...es-mccain-largest-margin-since-ma-over-obama/

 

[Pete's Mom]

That is actually quite a sad story



Rich::

Actually..

Do doves mate for life?
Like domestic pigeons, doves mate or bond for life, until one of the partners dies. Then the survivor will seek another mate.

http://www.flatratewebsites.com/sites/ada/faq.html

 

[SwedishMeatball]

You know, because they mate for life, the suicide rate for male doves is the highest of any bird. It was probably a male.

I don't want to show my blonde, but do birds really commit suicide??

 

[loco4dis]

Hey, did anyone see this?

<<John McCain has taken a slight lead over Barack Obama, 48-45 percent, according to the latest Gallup Daily Tracking poll out Sunday. It is the largest advantage for McCain, though still within the 2-point margin of error, since May.

The 48 percent also registers the largest raw number McCain has received in the poll since Gallup started its daily tracking of the two presidential candidates in March...............>>

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/0...es-mccain-largest-margin-since-ma-over-obama/

I did see it, and 48-45 is OUTSIDE the margin of error.

 

[What the Heck]

I don't want to show my blonde, but do birds really commit suicide??

Of course. Thats why you have to keep the guns away from them!

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Of course. Thats why you have to keep the guns away from them!

 

[basas]

I did see it, and 48-45 is OUTSIDE the margin of error.

I think it's considered inside the margin of error because either Obama's 45 or McCain's 48 can be +/- 2. In other words, Obama could have 47% and McCain could have 46%, which would put Obama ahead. On the other hand, it could also be Obama 43% and McCain 50% (wishful thinking, most likely). Nevertheless, it's nice to see McCain up top!

 

[PlainJane]

You know, because they mate for life, the suicide rate for male doves is the highest of any bird. It was probably a male.

Actually..

Do doves mate for life?
Like domestic pigeons, doves mate or bond for life, until one of the partners dies. Then the survivor will seek another mate.

http://www.flatratewebsites.com/sites/ada/faq.html

That makes me feel better.

 

[agentpleakley]

Heather Wilson gave one of the opening speeches at the rally. She mentioned Biden (who had mocked Palin's home state) and said, "this coming from a guy whose own home state is the size of an Alaska park." It was cute.

Then, the Duvall family gave a speech. Someone on stage said, "What is wrong with our current congress?!" I just about died laughing when this old vet standing behind me yelled, "NANCY PELOSI!!"

That was the correct answer, wasn't it?

Today's thing that makes you go hmmmm......

Why is it that every liberal protest constist of a bongo, tamborine, and unbathed/unshaved people?

I never saw a liberal protest that DIDN'T have these 3 elements, (and I've seen a lot of protests).

Bongo, Tambourine, Unbathed people ...... sounds like Matthew McConaughey

 

[*disgal*]

Forgive me, but both the donkey and the elephant are rubbish mascots. The donkey is an *** and the elephant is big, slow and produces record amounts of dung.

Rich::

so true, so true

 

[Tink & Goofy]

When I saw this I couldn't help but think: I know kung fu! *said in keanu reeves voice*

 

[SwedishMeatball]

This is from By The Fault, run by a democratic blogger.

A Comment Worth Highlighting

There’s a weird pattern at work here.

We Democrats claim to be “the party of the people” - hell, our name even *says* it - but when you get right down to it, we don’t seem to *respect* the people we claim to represent. We talk about healthcare. We talk about a living wage. We talk about jobs. But when it comes time to pick a candidate, what do we do? We set about insulting the very people whose interests we claim to represent. All you have to do is take a good look at the smear campaign against Palin to see how this happens. The mutual [word removed] society that is PB 1.0 criticizes her because:

1) of her accent (now there’s a winner)
2) of her hunting (news flash - millions of rural and not-so-rural Americans subsistence hunt in the winter. People who think food is magically created by elves living under the counters at Whole Foods just don’t get that)
3) She can’t be a good mother and VP (congratulations on insulting every working mother in America - most of whom aren’t trying to ascend the career ladder, but are working in offices, supermarkets, and factories just trying to keep food on the table)
4) Her daughter’s pregnant (this one’s been done to death)!
5) She grew up in some small town in the middle of NOWHERE!
6) She went to some freaking COW COLLEGE in IDAHO!
7) She was a SPORTS REPORTER (Olbermann, anyone?)

etc, etc, etc, etc.

So, when men and women all over America (who don’t post to DU or KOS) look at Sarah Palin, what do they see?

They see *themselves*. They see a working mom, with a special-needs kid and a minor family crisis, who is still managing to keep it all together. They look at her husband and what do they see? Well, judging from the live blogging on The Confluence, about 52% of them see a “hunk”, but I personally lack the toolkit to appreciate that. Hunkiness aside, they see a hard-working blue-collar guy who loves his family and (gasp!) changes diapers. They see an Alaskan fisherman, and as anybody who has been watching the History Channel or Discovery Channel for the last few years knows, that’s one of the toughest, most dangerous jobs there is. They see an oil field worker (which is a pretty damned tough job, too, especially in Alaska) who gave up a good job when his wife went into state politics, lest *somebody* accuse her of a conflict of interest. They see a union member (remember them?). They see a father standing with his daughter in a difficult situation.


They see a working class family that’s about to send its oldest off to war, because that’s what working class families do in this country when there’s a war (whether they happen to agree with it or not).

They see one of their own.

And what do they see when they look at Obama? Contrary to what he claims, they don’t see someone with “a funny name” - too many of them have Slovak, Hungarian, Norwegian, Greek, or Italian names for that to matter much. Most of them don’t really care about his race ,either (they might have 30 years ago, but not any more). A few might, but they’re a very small percentage. *All* of them resent being told that that’s going to affect their vote. What they actually see is yet another Merlot-sipping, prep school grad who never worked a day in his life, who talks down to them, and who thinks he’s *entitled* to their vote because he went to Harvard. They see someone who equivocates and prevaricates. They wonder if he’ll do that when he has to make a tough call and their kids’ lives are on the line.

They see John Kerry.

When Bill Clinton said “I feel your pain” and “I’ll be with you ’til the last dog dies”, they believed him. They believed him because they heard that Arkansas twang and they saw how the New York Times made fun of it. They saw how Sally Quinn mocked him (just as she mocked Sarah Palin) and lamented that he wasn’t throwing good parties (as if the primary function of the POTUS was to provide free entertainment for Sally and her privileged BFFs). They saw that, underneath the Yale JD and the Rhodes scholarship, he was just a blue-collar kid from Hope, Arkansas who worked his *** off to get where he was. They saw he was one of them.

They saw Harry Truman.

That’s why we’re going to lose this time around. We’re running John Kerry instead of Harry Truman. And afterwards, we’ll sit around our little committee meetings, we’ll wring our hands, and we’ll ask why. And we’ll reread “What’s the Matter With Kansas” and we’ll decide it’s all *their* fault. “Those people” just don’t know what’s good for them.

 

[amyhughes]

Wow, that was a great read. And it's nice to see someone get past the party line and focus on the reality of identifying with your candidate.

 

[Magic Mom]

This is from By The Fault, run by a democratic blogger.

A Comment Worth Highlighting

Very good. Its rings so true.

 

[DISUNC]

Obama Slips and calls himself a MUSLIM!

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim faith."

The three words -- immediately corrected -- were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," when he was trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim.

But illustrating the difficulty of preventing false rumors about his faith from spreading, anti-Obama groups within one hour of the interview had sliced it out of context and were sending it around via email. They also were blogging about it.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/

 

[winkers]

Does anyone else have Prince's "When Doves Cry" in their head??

Yes!!

That song always reminds me of a dance recital I was at several years ago......there was a group of 5 year olds dancing to it!

 

[transparant]

Obama Slips and calls himself a MUSLIM!



http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/

Oops.