Posted as a Professional Courtesy by Smoky Joe, JD, in Defense of Freedom
Woman scrounges parts from Dumpster to build home smaller than a parking space. Saves money and gives to family and friends. Via. Bad for the GNP. Bad for America.
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July 30, 2007
Tillman Executed on orders from Above?
Posted by Joseph McPatriot
Those who hate us for our freedom will stop at nothing to slander our leaders.
The notion that the U.S. government gave orders for Army top brass to execute Pat Tillman in cold blood is the most damaging indictment of the Iraq war since it began, trumping the lies about weapons of mass destruction tenfold, but if the establishment media continue to soft-peddle and steam-valve one of the biggest stories of the century its impact will be completely diluted.
Via.
July 15, 2007
Tom Free Associates over the Miscellaneous
Posted by Dr. Amrit Chadwallah 
Everything is miscellaneous? A meditation by Tom Matrullo. That Matrullo should write his own book. Perhaps he has, and now strews it into the ether, page by page.
George Will and Conrad Black
Posted by The Happy Tutor
During the past three decades, Will -- who chose to become a syndicated Washington Post columnist in the early 1970s rather than continue as a speech writer for Sen. Jesse Helms -- has been fond of commenting on the moral failures of black people while depicting programs for equity as ripoff artistry. In February 1991, for instance, he wrote: "The rickety structure of affirmative action, quotas and the rest of the racial spoils system depends on victimology -- winning for certain groups the lucrative status of victim."
The article details Will's connection to Conrad Black, and the hefty fees Will's pocketed.
Conrad Black as an Intellectual Force of Conservatism
Posted in the Public Interest by Smoky Joe, JD, in Defense of Freedom
Following his fall from grace with Hollinger in late 2003, Christopher Grimes and John Lloyd wrote in the London Financial Times that Black was a more effective as a conservative political advocate than a businessman. "Yet Conrad Black's business ambitions probably always ran second to his urge to be an intellectual force of conservatism. He did not want to simply own newspapers. He wanted to use them to help to reshape the political culture of his native Canada, and to influence that of the United States, Britain and Israel", they wrote.
Personally, I always found him an inspiring figure. He did a lot for my career as think tank thinker. All in a good cause.
Conrad Black and Friends - The Hudson Connection
Posted by The Happy Tutor
Small world. Richard Perle and Conrad Black were together on the Board of Hudson, as well as entwined in business deals. See The Curse of Black's Perle in Slate. See also this, based on a report by a committee of Hollinger International's Board.
Conrad M. Black ran a "corporate kleptocracy" for his own benefit at Hollinger International, the publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers, and the board of directors failed in its responsibilities to monitor what he was doing, a committee of that board concluded in a report filed on Monday in federal court in Chicago and made available today....
The report was particularly critical of the audit committee of the board, which it said had not performed its duties to monitor what was going on. But the report saved its harshest criticism for Richard Perle, the former Reagan administration official and current member of a Pentagon advisory board. It said it did not consider Mr. Perle to have been an independent director and called on him to return $5.4 million in pay he received after "putting his own interests above those of Hollinger's shareholders."
Greasing the corporate/governmental kleptocracy, of course, is a bit of philanthropy.
...the committee said large Hollinger donations to "pet charities" of various directors, including Mr. Kissinger and Robert Strauss, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, "without the restraint of sound corporate governance controls, raises questions regarding the independence of those directors."
A third figure mentioned in the report, is Marie Josee-Kravis, another Hudson Institute Board Member.
It said Mr. Thompson and two other members of the audit committee, Richard D. Burt, a former United States ambassador to Germany, and Marie-Josée Kravis, the wife of the financier Henry Kravis, "failed to respond critically to the repeated demands for noncompete payments even though they should all have known these payments were highly unusual from the numerous boards on which they had served."
Now, back to Hudson's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal. Instead of attacking root causes, like corruption in high places, Bill Schambra would have us look to Hudson for guidance on civic morality and good citizenship. I hope when he writes this stuff that Bill at least closes the door. The stench must distract him. Better to go out by the Dumpster and write while sitting on a sack of garbage.
Michael Moore Blitzes Wolf Blitzer
Posted by Joseph McPatriot
The man is a communist. No wonder he loves Cuba. His whole site is Un-American.
Beating on Think Tank Thinkers in Wealth Bondage
Posted in the Public Interest by Smoky Joe, JD, in Defense of Freedom
Phil, you win, ok? Now lay off. You think it is easy being a think tank thinker who once had real ability? Do you consider how much it takes out of an educated person to write nonsense year in and year out about "public virtue" to amuse someone like Conrad Black or Candidia Cruikshanks? Perverting every virtue, pandering to every vice -- do you think it takes no toll? Enough. You have made your point. Have mercy. What has virtue got to do with it? You know as well as I do that this is all about wealth and power. Am I the only hypocrite in Washington, DC? Satire hurts, ok? You may call it spanking to correct vices, or surgery to heal the body politic, but these wounds to my self-esteem may never heal. I am seriously considering leaving my post at The Cruikshanks Center for Philanthropy and Civic Comity and entering a Buddhist Monastery. Well, maybe that would be best. In the interests of fairness, Phil, you may have saved me just in time. I was beginning to believe my own bullshit. Thank you, then, for all you have done for America and for me. Yes, it hurt, but I am the better for it. God Bless you!
Conrad Black to Jail? Candidia Is Shaking in her Boots
Posted by Candidia Cruikshanks, CEO of Wealth Bondage
It appears that my esteemed colleague, Conrad Black, now on his way to prison, is on leave from the Board at The Hudson Institute, home of the Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal. A bit scary to me. If they can bring Conrad down, might I be next? If well informed bloggers like Albert Ruesga start asking too many questions about Wealth Bondage Philanthropy Think Tanks, it could mean curtains for The Cruikshanks Center for Philanthropy and Civic Comity. Sean, will you interview me? I have to start building my resume in case I have to get an honest job. Take me at my word Sean: It is all about philanthropy and civic renewal. I want to save the world, Sweetie. Really, I do.
July 14, 2007
Repeal the Dynasty Tax!
Posted by Missy Proctor, WB '03 
Go Billionaires for Bush! Why should I have to pay a stupid Dynasty Tax when poor people don't?
Update: Well, excellent! It seems that the NYPD may have been spying on the Billionaires for Bush, since they were not supportive of Daddy's Democracy. I mean satire is like some kind of Terrorist Act, right? It scares Daddy. He says that if people keep satirizing the Powers that Be, he is going to have to take drastic action to protect his controlling interests. We are talking about real money here, people. Daddy is not going to give it up without a fight and go to jail like Conrad Black.
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