Sep

30

2008

Pardon our mess

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In a long-overdue move, I’ve updated our blog software in the hope that we can cinch up some security issues we’ve experienced in the last few days. Comments and individual entry pages are down at the moment, and some images aren’t working, but I’m working to get everything back up to par as soon as possible.

Sorry for any inconvenience, especially to the other contributors.

Sep

27

2008

Deeply Disturbing (Updated)

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Call me crazy. Tell me I’m crying “Wolf”. Far more eloquent people have addressed this trend, but I find this single video is the most disturbing of all:

Obama campaign cracks down on misleading TV ads

If you are a Bush-hater and are concerned about the loss of Liberties under the Patriot Act, I would hope that this video would give cause to wonder about what we may be looking forward to in an Obama administration.

Just to drive the point home, take a moment to read Let’s not overlook Signs of Liberty.

Under the Patriot Act you are allowed to express your opposing views in public. Under the Patriot Act you are allowed to disagree with your government. Under the Patriot Act you are allowed to publish or air ads to point out the contradictions of your opponent. All of this without fear of retribution from your government.

Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. With what you know now, would Mr. Obama hold true to that oath?

Update: I was just trolling the comments over at Ace when I found a new hero, Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri. Apparently he got wind of Obama’s tactics and issued a scathing press release. Read it here.

Sep

27

2008

Change we can believe in!

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Sep

23

2008

I, Mudd

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This is just too funny not to post. And there is nothing really that needs to be added except to draw attention to the name of the Star Trek episode that inspired the comparison, and to make another; The Washington Post – their name is Mudd. (I also love the reference to ‘prat’ in that link. Seems… appropriate.)

Found this at NewsBusters, who found it at Best of the Web.

Sep

16

2008

The motive (Updated)

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Interesting article in The New York Post outlining the real reason for Obama’s trip to Iraq:

While campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

“He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview.

If true, it is a sad display of how far he’ll go to achieve his goals. Nothing, not the lives of innocent babies or our GIs will stop him.

Update: Fortunately, it appears that this is not true after all.

Sep

14

2008

Meet the Robinsons

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Over at Ace of Spades HQ, Kat-Mo posts a gem that explains this election in colloquial terms anyone can understand: likening it to a family at a backyard barbecue. One taste from the potato salad:

“Uncle Joe” Biden: He’s that uncle that married into the family. You don’t know why or to whom he was married, he’s just been around a long time. He’s kind of creepy. He has a tendency to hug all the women too long and give them that extra squeeze at the end. He’s like the persistent used car salesman that has had his teeth whitened too much and wears a bad comb over. Every time he shows up it seems like he’s trying to convince you to join him in another stupid @$$ deal that is supposed to make you rich over night. Of course, you know, his fancy car is leased and he sub-leases that condo.

Right on time, Uncle Joe is pontificating on some subject too loud and, yeah, there he goes, he just put his foot in his mouth. You can tell because your mom has that half-stunned, half-mad look on her face like she wants to clobber him with the potato salad spoon. Your dad takes him by the arm real quick and leads him over to that community organizer guy. Maybe the two of them can talk each other to death.

Sep

12

2008

An elephant not only in the room, but crashing the party

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Well, if you had any doubt that this election would be really exciting, let’s just blow that idea right out of the water right now.

Gov. Palin, in what I cannot imagine is anything short of a shot across the bow of the MSM Party, has decided to make the audacious claim that the organization al Qaeda in Iraq is really a part of al Qaeda and that it’s based in Iraq. Or, as James Taranto might say: AQWHNTDWIIIWHNTDWAQ is really a part of AQWHNTDWI and it’s based in IWHNTDWAQ.

What’s even more interesting is that The Washington Post wants to have that argument.

Sep

11

2008

The missing day

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If you check the archives, you’ll find a post on September 11th, 2003. There have been three others since on the same date each year – except for last year. The posts on September 11th last year were all done by others. I couldn’t think of anything to say, especially since the post in 2006, on the fifth anniversary, was even more deeply personal for me than the rest. I was sure something would come to me when I got to work, but when I got there Steve said to me (in a way that’s very familiar, if you know Steve), “You’ve GOT to post something – it’s September 11th.”

I eventually figured out what I wanted to do, and I need to thank Steve for giving me the idea because I don’t think I’ve ever told him what happened on this day last year.

I took the day off from posting.

If you follow this blog at all, you’re probably not too surprised by that – I do it a lot. As I’ve said before, this thing is personal for me as a kind of therapy. When I’m angry or frustrated I come here and rant, and I feel better. There is no other purpose for its being. I do not intend to change minds, and I don’t expect to. I’m not trying to make money, though on occasion I’ve accepted a little. I’m not trying to get anyone in particular elected to anything. If I change someone’s mind about an issue, or I convince them to vote for someone better than the guy they would have otherwise, it’s gravy. If I get paid by an advertiser for a time, it means I’m not paying for this myself. But if I don’t get a dime from anyone, I’ll still be here.

When you don’t see me posting, it’s good news. It means I’m feeling fine and don’t have something I’ve got to get off my chest. Nothing is eating away at me.

Except that once, on this day, last year.

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Sep

8

2008

An American Carol

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This movie couldn’t have been timed any better. It opens in theaters across the nation October 3. Help spread the word, become a caroller.

Sep

7

2008

Let the good times roll: Matthews and Olbermann demoted

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In a post I published last week after Gov. Sarah Palin’s Republican Convention speech, I wondered what the deal was that caused me to see Bob Schieffer smiling and laughing when the VP candidate took the news media to task. As it turns out, I hadn’t heard the chants of “NBC! NBC!” coming from the delegates just before that, and CBS’ Chief Washington Correspondent was obviously experiencing a little schadenfreude at the fact that his network was no longer the “MSM Bias” target of choice.

No doubt that merriment will continue for a time at CBS.

Sep

6

2008

A history lesson for “Brother X”

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Dear “Brother X”,

And I do mean “dear”, because even though you are a pathetic loser, your life is precious, and I don’t want to give up hope that someday you might learn to grow a brain.

I know you’re long gone and will never see this post, but here’s a simple response to your inane and long-winded comment (in a fairly unrelated thread) that I have summarily deleted so as not to make everyone else in the country “dumber for having read it”.

When I saw the lengthy comment, complete with bullet-point list, I decided to peruse just the first bullet-point, so as to jump to the chase. For the benefit of my readers, I will only post that much, and hope their heads are fully wrapped with duct tape so as to prevent irreparable injury:

The Republicans historically have been bitter opponents of the following Democratic initiatives:

• The 13th Amendment that abolished slavery in 1865

(For the information of those who were fortunate enough not to have read the rest of the comment, it continued much like that for several pages. Although I did not read the rest of the comment, I can feel enough brain damage that I have probably lost several years off my life expectancy. Back to “Brother X”…)

You sir, are a complete and utter moron, and I find it amazing that you were even capable of using a keyboard to tap out those words. So as not to force your brain to handle any further stress, I will provide detailed instructions as to what you need to do next.

Your computer is supplied with something called a “mouse”. It’s that little oblong thing that rolls around on the desk next to the keyboard. You’ll notice that as you move the mouse, a little arrow or a little hand (depending on the type of computer you own) moves around on your monitor screen. Move the arrow or the pointing index finger of the little hand to this long string of letters, numbers, and (what I am sure for you are) bizarre punctuation marks:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121856786326834083.html

The next thing you do will take you away from my site, and send your “web browser” (the computer program you’re using right now) to the editorial page of a famous and influential newspaper. I know you probably think that the newspaper in question is run by a bunch of money-grubbing New York crackers who do nothing but work to suppress “the brother”, but trust me, this is the truth – unlike just about everything you wrote to me.

Press the button on your mouse, or the button on the left side if you have more than one, and have a nice day.

Sep

5

2008

The Maverick

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Bill Whittle – in his first ever column for National Review – put into words something I have been thinking about since the end of the Republican convention last night.

John McCain got me to believe tonight what I never really believed about him before: he is serious about changing Washington. He is serious about getting the GOP back to basics. John McCain wants to repair the brand. Claiming to want to do something is talk. What I think will cause many to believe him is something more than talk: McCain decided to man up. It’s our fault. We lost the confidence of the American people. We said we’d be true to our principles, and we weren’t. The Democrats didn’t make us do it. We did it to ourselves.

When I heard John McCain say this, I thought to myself, “What?! Is he crazy?! He just sunk the election! He looked the American people right in the face and told them, ‘Yup, we’ve been just as corrupt as you figured out we were. But I want to change that.’ And you expect them to trust us now?”

It took until this morning before I really realized it. That was the first time in my life that I’ve ever seen an American politician flatly, bluntly, and without the slightest hedge, admit to all the mistakes of his party and ask for the vote of the American people anyway. It was a freakishly bizarre moment, like something straight out of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Like Bill, I don’t know if McCain will win. And there’s plenty of “change” that John McCain will bring that I don’t care for. But I think we believe in enough of the same things that I can support him anyway.

The future of a New Republican Party may have begun last night. At the very least, John McCain will force us to figure out who we really want to be.

Sep

5

2008

Bill O’Reilly gets Barack Obama to expose the Liberal double standard.

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Ok… I’m watching round one of the B.O. vs B.O. prize fight on Fox last night, and I’m thinking that while O’Reilly is being firm he’s not being disrespectful, and Obama, who looked a bit scared but was actually trying to answer the questions, seemed like he was holding his own – at least through the first few questions. But then it happened…

O’REILLY: But I still don’t understand — and I’m asking this as an American as well as a journalist — how threatening you feel Iran is. See, look, if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, okay, to me, they’re going to give it to Hezbollah if they can develop the technology. Why not? And so we don’t have anything to do with it. So therefore, the next president of the United States is going to have to make a decision about Iran, whether to stop them militarily. Because I don’t believe — if diplomacy works, fine. But you’ve got to have a plan b. And a lot of people are saying, look, Barack Obama’s not going to attack Iran.

OBAMA: Here’s where you and I agree. It is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon. It would be a game changer, and I’ve said that repeatedly. I’ve also said I would never take a military option off the table.

O’REILLY: But would you prepare for one?

OBAMA: Well, listen –

O’REILLY: Answer the question, Senator. Anybody can say options. Would you prepare for it?

OBAMA: Look, it is not appropriate for somebody, who is one of two people who could be the president of the United States, to start tipping their hand in terms of what their plans might be with respect to Iran.

Wh… what? No he di’nt! He didn’t just say “…it is not appropriate … to start tipping their hand” did he? There is no way I just heard him say that, because if he did he just validated the reason President Bush and the Congressional Republicans have been giving – for almost two years now – for not setting a timetable regarding withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and completely exposed as a political stunt the same timetable that he and the Democrats have been demanding.

Democrats and the anti-war left have been pointing to the President’s desire not to set a timetable – and thereby to not “tip our hand” to Al-Qaeda regarding our military plans – as proof that the President and Republicans are war-mongering fascists who want to kill as many Iraqi civilians as possible so that we can expand the American Empire and grab all the Iraqi oil for ourselves… or something like that.

But if, as Barack Obama has himself just stated on national television, it’s not appropriate tip your hand about possible or future military matters concerning Iran – a country in which we do not (currently) have troops – doesn’t it then follow that it would be equally “not appropriate” to tip our hand about possible or future military matters in Iraq?

Huh?

Hello? [echo]

[sound of crickets]

Media types? Democrats?

[more sounds of crickets]

Any answer?

[more sounds of crickets and weak, nervous whistling sound from off in the distance]

So, I guess when a Republican says that tipping our hand to the enemy is a bad thing, he or she is a lying, war-mongering Neanderthal. But when a Democrat says the exact same thing he or she is enlightened, deliberative and nuanced? Is that about right?

Here’s the vid. See for yourselves. The golden nugget comes at the 2:40 point.


Sep

4

2008

Sarah Palin is Me.

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For those of you who feel so inclined, just click the image.

Hat tip to Sue for the logo design.
Any and all proceeds from sales of these t-shirts will go to The Special Olympics.

Sep

4

2008

More Palin speech reaction: The short and the long of it

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If you’re fired up and want to read a long, insightful, and (of course) vulgar analysis of how the MSM managed to grab blowback from the jaws of blowout last night, check out Ace of Spades HQ and Ace’s followup.

If you want the shorter, cleaner, and (sorry Ace) funnier version, check out Mark Steyn at NRO.

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