The ”Love Democratic Style” eCard on the Blue Mountain website depicted Democratic leaders wearing bondage-related clothing and suggested that family values had been thrown “out the window.” Blue Mountain is owned by AGInteractive, the online arm of American Greetings, which describes itself as “one of the world’s largest manufacturers of social expression products.” No Republican counterpart to the “Democratic-style” card was available on Blue Mountain’s website.

Wow...what a cutie, right?

Only......there’s just something about her face that seems sooooo familiar. I dunno—it’s like I’ve seen her before somewhere…

Close the book.

~What What~

Best Week Ever

(chalk it up with “macaca” as the second RACIST!!! word I’ve learned recently)

Real clowns don’t inspire most clown issues, but they are the ones who deal with the fallout.

“The only thing I can do about it is to go out and do my job, be accessible and gentle,” says Barry Lubin, whose Grandma character is a long-standing favorite at Big Apple.

“Grandma’s not really that scary,” says Lubin. “She represents someone who’s a very warm and benign character.” Still, he’s had adults tell him they’re afraid of him. “You have to be sensitive to that.”

Boazo (who else)

The nation’s largest teachers union on Tuesday urged U.S. senators to oppose an appropriations amendment that would grant money to educators who perform well, a stance that confused the amendment’s author, who was among the recipients of the letter.

“I am astonished,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on the Senate floor Tuesday about a letter from the National Education Association urging him to vote against his own amendment to the FY2007 Continuing Resolution.

Alexander said he wasn’t surprised to have received the letter—“any of our offices can make a mistake,” he said—but was surprised at NEA’s position on the amendment, which would have provided $99 million for the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF). Senate Democrats didn’t allow consideration of the measure.

The Department of Education says on its website the TIF “supports efforts to develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools” through student academic achievement and regular in-class evaluations of the teachers.

How dare the government attempt to reward quality teachers!  These socialist wankers at the NEA make me sick.  The do not give a rat’s ass about the students - it’s all about “reducing class size” to them.  In other words more teachers that will be union members to increase their revenue stream in order to be a more powerful lobby in DC and state capitals.

We just mailed in my final Jeep payment today.
(WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)

It’s been a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong four years and 4 months.

Next up:
The mortgage.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII...............

Is his hand fricken GLUED there?

DougM

NATALIE MAINES:
The thing is, it wasn’t even a political statement. It was a joke made to get cheers and applause and to entertain, and it did. But it didn’t entertain America.

What’s REALLY funny is how the left claims we Conservatives have no sense of humor.

I just don’t get it.

Let me let everyone in on a little known secret: The troops expect Congress and the President to squabble. It is part of this wonderful construct that we like to call “Democracy.” If there were no opposing viewpoint, we wouldn’t have a democracy, we would have something resembling a totalitarian state. Now don’t get me wrong, I sit firmly right of center on most issues, and there are times when I feel extremeley flabbergasted by the bozos on the left side of the aisle. But having said that, I fully recognize their importance to this construct of democracy, and most of my fellow soldiers do as well. It is the job of Congress to debate issues, just like it is my job to take the fight to the enemy.

In her article, Rosa Brooks makes some very good points, and at other times she strikes me as another elitist mainstream media jackal(I refuse to use the Acronym because an MSM to me is a Meritorious Service Medal). I would LOVE to hear what my fellow Freepers think about this article.
[ Treat servicemembers like people, not pawns. ]

(of course non FreePers can comment here)

This caught me because I’ve been meaning to toss out the alternative part to my query about abortion protesters using violent images to get out their message no matter who they assault...particularly children.

So what about anti-war protesters using graphic images of wounded and dead soldiers to further their agenda?

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