This flag proudly flies from a standard on my house and there has been a flag on that standard since the day I moved in in 1997.

Michelle has more flag pictures at her site.

Don Surber shows how Donald Trump achieves his “fabulous” hair.

This is how you get a Shih Tzu to look just like a Furby: (below the fold)
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I was checking through my referrers and found that one was the NY Times from a search on their site. The search terms were “Cynthia McKinney recent arrest” and my post below was the number one result. Strange.

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Watch the trailer. Never forget.

via Expose the Left.

NSFW: there is a teeny tiny bit of full frontal male nudity…

The Blackberry Helmet

Courtesy of the Rick Mercer Report on CBC in Canada.

Caught a glimpse of “This Week” this morning. In their memorial section at the end of the show they did a little bit on Caspar Weinberger’s life – two lines worth actually. Two lines: that he oversaw the largest “peacetime” military buildup in history, and that he was prosecuted for his role in Iran/Contra.

Ahh yes, that nasty “peacetime” military buildup under Ronald Reagan that cost America so many billions. I guess there’s no need to mention that whole Cold War thing. Now that the decades long fear of Soviet attack is safely behind us, we can now call that era one of “peace”. Forget that it was precisely because of that military buildup that we now have the luxury of cozying up with our comfy peacetime historical revisionism.

That is how the liberal mainstream press sums up your life’s accomplishments (failures) when you hold the wrong (conservative) beliefs.

It’s [tag]Daylight Saving Time[/tag] again. This is the first time that ALL of Indiana will spring ahead with the rest of the midwest. Hawaii and Arizona (and Puerto Rico) do not observe Daylight Saving Time.

Next year the dates for Daylight Saving Time are changing. “Spring Ahead” will be the second Sunday in March (March 11, 2007) instead of the first Sunday in April and “Fall Back” will be the first Sunday in November (November 4, 2007) instead of the last Sunday in October.

It’s also a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors so add some 9 volt batteries to your shopping list this weekend.

Apparently the case against me may be referred for prosecution. Therefore, I have been advised by my attorneys not to discuss the facts of this case.

However, let me be clear. This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black, congresswoman.

I deeply regret that this incident occured and I am certain, that after a full review of the facts, I will be exonerated.

She was surrounded by people bearing signs. I couldn’t read them very well, but one or two said “Is Cynthia a Target?” I think one said “recognize our congresspeople”.

Allah has posted the video at Michelle’s

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Cynthia [tag]McKinney[/tag], through her lawyer, has said, “just a victim of being in Congress while black.”

WSBTV has her original statement that she was going to put on her website, but didn’t.

Sadly, there are only 14 black women Members of Congress. And surely our faces are distinguishable. But why my face is continually unrecognizable can only be answered by these offending police officers. Capitol Hill Police are given face recognition instructions as a part of their official training. Capitol Hill Police are required to recognize, greet, and distinguish Members of Congress as a part of their official role and responsibilities. In fact, according to the US Capitol Police, their mission is to protect and support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities. The US Capitol Police mission statement makes no distinction about selective application of its mission depending upon whether a Member of Congress is black, woman, or has a new hairstyle.

But, honestly, this incident is not about wearing a Congressional pin or changing my hairstyle.

It is true that I have changed my hairstyle. It is true that at the time I was not wearing my pin. But many Members of Congress aren’t wearing their pins today. Just in the last hour at least 8 Members of Congress have been spotted speaking from the well of the House without their pins and even more have been seen on the Hill today not wearing their Congressional pin. How many of them were stopped by Capitol Hill Police? Do I have to contact the police every time I change my hairstyle? How do we account for the fact that when I wore my braids every day for 11 years, I still faced this problem, primarily from certain white police officers.

Keep playing that race card Cynthia – soon it won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on. And high time for that too.

Story at No Agenda.

If members aren’t supposed to have to go through the metal detectors shouldn’t they all be wearing their ID prominently?

There are 435 members of the House, 100 members of the Senate. That’s a lot of people. Add in all the other people that have to go through security and how can you expect those responsible for security to recognize each and every one? Especially since any of the House Members may be replaced at two year intervals (as [tag]McKinney[/tag] herself was).

McKinney may think that everyone should recognize her, but frankly, most Americans probably couldn’t pick her out of a group photo.

Security should mean [tag]Security[/tag]. It shouldn’t matter whether or not someone is “recognized”. ID should have to be presented each and every time. Sure it’s a hassle for members of congress, but they should follow the same security measures as everyone else.

Update: Kim Priestap at Wizbang! has more and a quote from Tim Dees at Officer.com which mentions some of the same things that I did.

Some critics of the conduct of the police in this incident have declared that the officers of the Capitol Police should simply know what their protectees look like. There are 535 Members of Congress, and 435 of them get reshuffled every two years. Each one of these Members has a complement of staffers, and then there are the lobbyists, other government employees, and constituents that come through the Capitol on business. This makes for an unmanageable number of faces to memorize (especially if they change their appearance, as Ms. McKinney did), and the reason that Members are given those little pins to wear. Most Members don’t seem to regard the wearing of these as a burden. Ms. McKinney refuses to wear hers.