10.15.06
I’m SURE there is something I should say about this…
but it leaves me speechless and utterly disgusted. The scary thing is that it reportedly happened in Australia, probably the most secular place on earth.
Rams turned into Ewes…
Every time I get excited about CSU football, I have to suffer through my Rams having a monumental melt-down, which is what happened on Thursday night. 21-3 at halftime. A comfortable lead, on the road. No way they could lose. Wrong!
In the recent past, it’s usually been a melt-down against the Buffs down in Boulder. This year, we finally hold off the hated Buffs, and then blow a lead against the always solid Falcons and their maddening wishbone. Makes my blood boil. Especially since I couldn’t actually watch this game, thanks to the Mountain West Conference’s less-than-savvy media strategy, which includes broadcasting MWC games on the “Mtn” network, which I’m sure gets beamed into a few dozen households somewhere.
Frustrated here in NOVA…
10.14.06
Am I the only one who’s noticed….
That the “right-wing” sites often include links to leftist sites, but the left never does that ? Go to the sites listed as part of the “unhinged contingent” on this site, and there are many links.
I think that debate and expression is good. Plus, I know that when these idiots are read, it makes my position stronger. You may not agree with me, but you will read me and say “this guy is wrong.” You will read them and think, “these friggin people are CRAZY !”
I and JEG will continue to include links to the leftist sites, because the first step in defeating the enemy is identifying the enemy.
And no no no no no, you nutjobs. I do not consider most Democrats as enemies. They are just a really wrong opposition party. Really, really wrong. Pick an issue, the Dems are wrong.
Loony Left. Alive and well.
I was laughing and crying at the same time reading this.
They neglect to mention, of course, that Ms. Miller is/was a host on Air American, which has finally proved to bankruptcy courts and the world that they are a bushel of bad ideas.
Cindy Sheehan was the leadoff scapegoat on Hannity & Colmes last night (10/13/06) as the show studiously avoided discussing any of the Republican scandals of the day: Representative Bob Ney pleading guilty to taking bribes, testimony that the House page overseer tried to stop Foley from emailing a Congressional page in 2005, or President Bush’s decision to campaign for Senator George “macacawitz” Allen (H/T Rachel Maddow) and Rep. Don “cheating choker” Sherwood next week. But radio talk show host Stephanie Miller hilariously hit right back at righties G. Gordon Liddy and Rich Lowry. She did it without being rude or malicious and she got in some great zingers about FOX News, too. With must-see video.
The context for bashing Sheehan was her claim that she is a finalist for a Nobel Peace Prize. But, Alan Colmes said during the introduction, her claim could not be confirmed.
With a smile, Miller told him, “I went to the source and then I went to AP who confirmed she was on the short list for Nobel nominees. It’s called journalism. FOX News might want to check into it sometime.”
Liddy took a predictable swipe at Sheehan and her supporters. “She has allowed her grief to addle her brain and she has been sort of pre-empted by the loonie left.”
Colmes was at the top of his game during the entire show. He told Liddy, “That’s a pretty cruel thing to say… It’s pretty meanspirited… I mean, the woman lost a son.”
Liddy said arrogantly, “I kindly attribute this foolishness that she engages in to her grief and I think I’m being kind.”
Colmes suggested to Miller that Sheehan may be a better choice for a peace prize than President Bush.
Miller replied that Sheehan, who has actively campaigned for peace, is a better candidate than Henry Kissinger. “She has the moral authority. She sacrificed something in this war. She gave her son. What did the people who are criticizing her give?”
Lowry, subbing for Sean Hannity, was completely stymied in his attempt to trap Miller with gotcha questions.
The best line of the show, one that sent me howling with laughter, was when Miller told Lowry, “Unlike some of these fake Nobel-prize winning doctors you guys have had on here during the Terri Schiavo thing, she was actually nominated by someone that was qualified.”
Miller went on to blithely out-argue Lowry and Liddy on why staying the course is not working and she was able to do it in less than 15 seconds. “Look, if someone invaded our country and said we had weapons of mass destruction and we didn’t, do you think Americans would try to kick them out? Rich, the vast majority of Iraqis want us out of their country!”
There is just too much to say. Just read it, enjoy it, bask in the absolute stupidity of the loony left.
10.11.06
Charlie Rangel said….
He was in NYC on “Tuesday, September the 9th”…. is he that damn clueless ?
Another reason Democrats can’t be trusted with national security. They can’t even remember the date, for God’s sake.
Words to send a chill up your spine….
From Fox News…. “US INTEL: No indication of terrorism”
Yeah….. ok. Not sure if the US intel community- sadly and sometiimes tragically- is the best place place to turn to for information.
For the record, at this moment I think this is probably an accident, but not exactly sure how that can happen. It’s not easy to crash into a building no matter how damaged the plane may be. But the facts aren’t in yet, and we’ll just have to see.
I guess my actual response would be “not a terrorist attack, but a lone-nut attack”. But the story is still young. If I had to guess, some private pilot wanted to take himself out and maybe a few others with him/her.
It does show a glaring hole in the net that should be over our cities, both in radar and military-response preparedness.
But it’s early at the moment. My gut tells me it’s intentional, but not an orchestrated attack… just some lone nut who wants to off himself and be forever famous.
UPDATE: And thank goodness, preliminary indications are that I am dramatically wrong, and it was just a terrible accident.
Jimmy Carter is a dangerous idiot
Ya know, I have few real qualms with my parents, predecessors… with earlier generations…. How this country elected this complete moron is just amazing to me. I would guess that very few outside the hemp-clothed, flower-haired, “Peter Paul and Mary RULE !!!” crowd would actually admit to having voted for him.
But he is still a voice, and- SURPRISE SURPRISE (Gomer Pyle lingo)- who gives him a voice ? The New York Times, of course.
We’re gonna “Fisk” this, because if you don’t it doesn’t make sense.
From Carter:
IN 1994 the North Koreans expelled inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and were threatening to process spent nuclear fuel into plutonium, giving them the ability to produce nuclear weapons.
With the risk of war on the Korean Peninsula, there was a consensus that the forces of South Korea and the United States could overwhelmingly defeat North Korea. But it was also known that North Korea could quickly launch more than 20,000 shells and missiles into nearby Seoul. The American commander in South Korea, Gen. Gary Luck, estimated that total casualties would far exceed those of the Korean War.
So they kicked out inspectors, and threatened to attack their neighbor with conventional and potentially nuclear weapons, after defying the international cries for them to de-nuke. With ya so far.
Responding to an invitation from President Kim Il-sung of North Korea, and with the approval of President Bill Clinton, I went to Pyongyang and negotiated an agreement under which North Korea would cease its nuclear program at Yongbyon and permit inspectors from the atomic agency to return to the site to assure that the spent fuel was not reprocessed. It was also agreed that direct talks would be held between the two Koreas.
The spent fuel (estimated to be adequate for a half-dozen bombs) continued to be monitored, and extensive bilateral discussions were held. The United States assured the North Koreans that there would be no military threat to them, that it would supply fuel oil to replace the lost nuclear power and that it would help build two modern atomic power plants, with their fuel rods and operation to be monitored by international inspectors.
(ever noticed it’s always about Carter ? Anytime he talks it’s “I did this, I did that.” At least Clinton came by it honestly. It does bring the “protest too much” thing to mind, though)
Communists inviting Carter to be a broker ? That’s like the cockroaches asking the exterminator to send the bread and sugar vendor to negotiate. (see earlier post) Carter is a notorious Communist sympathizer- let’s just call a spade a spade- but the Dems love the clown, yet another reason they can’t be trusted on security matters.
Inspectors coming in, they’ll be nice, THEY PROMISE ! And go back a bit… with the “risk of war” there was a “consensus” that that the US and South Korea could defeat them…. How does this make it into print ? What risk of war ? If North Korea didn’t want nukes I don’t think there would be much more than humanitarian concern, which Mr. Carter seems to be so worried about usually.
Risk of war ? The risk is the North Koreans getting nukes and attacking their neighbors- or worse, the US.
Here’s where it gets good.
But beginning in 2002, the United States branded North Korea as part of an axis of evil, threatened military action, ended the shipments of fuel oil and the construction of nuclear power plants and refused to consider further bilateral talks. In their discussions with me at this time, North Korean spokesmen seemed convinced that the American positions posed a serious danger to their country and to its political regime.
Ahhhhh… now it all makes sense. Just saying that North Koreaa is a backward-ass, nuke-wanting, repressive regime made them so. No need to mention that they have been that way since the mid-50’s, and in Carter’s (thankfully short) presidency he did nothing but Lewinsky them the whole time.
“Their discussions with me at the time.” That is an amazingly self-serving, and amazingly disturbing phrase. At what time, Mr. Carter ? In 2002, 21 years after you had left the White House ? In discussions after the president had declared that North Korea isn’t our buddy ? In discussions after many years of the NK’s being on the State Department list of sponsors of terrorism ? And you were undermining US policy ? That is aid-and-comfort, and that, sir, is treason.
Responding in its ill-advised but predictable way, Pyongyang withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, expelled atomic energy agency inspectors, resumed processing fuel rods and began developing nuclear explosive devices.
Sticks and stones may break my bones…. look. One of the reasons that these rogue nations think that they can get away with anything is because security wimps (wanted to use a different word) have been told they can by idiotic assholes like Jimmy Carter. (Some of you folks may be in the “Greatest Generation”, but you have a lot to answer for in electing this moron)
Six-nation talks finally concluded in an agreement last September that called for North Korea to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and for the United States and North Korea to respect each other’s sovereignty, exist peacefully together and take steps to normalize relations. Each side subsequently claimed that the other had violated the agreement. The United States imposed severe financial sanctions and Pyongyang adopted the deeply troubling nuclear option.
So let me get this straight…. you break the rules, so we stop sending you billions a year in aid that never made it to the people anyway. And you start building weapons that can maybe kill more people than you do through starvation and deprivation. In what parallel universe does that make sense ? But you have to love that “deeply troubling” part. He lusted in his heart, folks. And got attacked by a swimming rabbit.
One option, the most likely one, is to try to force Pyongyang’s leaders to abandon their nuclear program with military threats and a further tightening of the embargoes, increasing the suffering of its already starving people. Two important facts must be faced: Kim Jong-il and his military leaders have proven themselves almost impervious to outside pressure, and both China and South Korea have shown that they are reluctant to destabilize the regime. This approach is also more likely to stimulate further nuclear weapons activity.
Why are those people already starving ? Could it be because the leadership take aid money to build their nuclear capability, and expect to bargain for more money to increase their nuclear capability ? Destabilize the regime ? I have an idea for “nuclear weapons activity” in North Korea. Announce to the world that we are gonna bomb the shit out of everything that looks like a nuclear site in a month. Give people there time to get out. (cue gunships and machine gun batteries at the border crossings) and END North Korea.
What must be avoided is to leave a beleaguered nuclear nation convinced that it is permanently excluded from the international community, its existence threatened, its people suffering horrible deprivation and its hard-liners in total control of military and political policy.
This touchy-feely crap gets old. Who made that nation beleaguered ? Who had caused all the deprivation ? Jimmy- and this goes back to my screed on “Katie”…. serious people don’t enter their 8th decade of life being called a name of a 10-yr old, serious men don’t have such a total lack of international affairs, ex-presidents don’t spend their life sucking up to enemies of the United States.
Go build a house, and keep your peanut grin off the news. You are an embarrasment to this country. And anyone who voted for you should be ashamed of themselves.
Headline Alert !
Cockroach-eating contest bugs animal group
Ummmm….. That contest bugs everyone. McDonald’s must have been closed. YUCK !
And my homage to James Taranto at WSJ OJ….
Cockroach group first among those bugged
UPDATE: One more, Taranto tribute, since he never uses my stuff. 
Life Imitates Men In Black:
Kay: Roaches check in…
[cocks gun]
Jay: [cocks gun] … But they don’t check out.
Anyone else noticed ?
And I’ve been saying this for years…. just ask my dear Ma.
Some background. Susan Estrich, the hyper-liberal professor/lawyer/operative has a new book out called “Soulless” which is some sort of polemic against Ann Coulter, and the cover art is a direct rip-off of Ann’s book “Godless”. Of course Susan thinks that real conservatives take Ann seriously, which is just a genuflection to all the liberals who think conservatives take marching orders from Jerry Falwell and the NRA…. but that’s beside the point.
As a quick aside- and this is a bit of a ramble, I know…. How come the NRA is horrific for protecting the heart and spirit of the 2nd amendment, but the ACLU is saintly for (supposedly) protecting the 1st ? I just don’t get it. Well, actually I do, but anyway….
Am I the only one who has always thought Susan Estrich looks and sounds like a Muppet ?
UPDATE: David Gergen sounds like a Muppet too.
A Resume Submittal to Les Moonves
Mr. Moonves,
Thank you for taking the time to peruse my submission to you. In light of the recent debut of Katie Couric as your new evening news anchor, and your slipping ratings in said show, I have this proposal for you.
As Ms. Couric has been less than stellar in her performance, as evidenced by her ratings:
Five weeks into her tenure at the “CBS Evening News,” Katie Couric’s broadcast continues to slip in the ratings, falling into third place last week for the second week in a row.
With an average of 7.04 million viewers, Couric’s audience last week was the smallest she’d had since taking over the evening news anchor desk, and it’s lower than the number that tuned in for her predecessor Bob Schieffer’s last week on the air in late August, according to Nielsen Media Research.
My understanding is that she is being paid a reported $15 million a year for her services.
I would be more than happy to offer my services to your organization for a mere…. let’s say $3 million a year, which saves you $12 mil, and I can come in third as well as she can.
I look forward to a call from your office.
More GOP gutsy-ness
Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday accused former President Clinton, the husband of his potential 2008 White House rival, of failing to act in the 1990s to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
“I would remind Senator (Hillary) Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration’s policies that the framework agreement her husband’s administration negotiated was a failure,” McCain said at a news conference after a campaign appearance for Republican Senate candidate Mike Bouchard.
“The Koreans received millions and millions in energy assistance. They’ve diverted millions of dollars of food assistance to their military,” he said.
Democrats have argued President Clinton presented his successor with a framework for dealing with North Korea and the Republican fumbled the opportunity. In October 2000, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made a groundbreaking visit to Pyongyang to explore a missile deal with Chairman Kim Jong Il. There was even talk of a visit by President Clinton.
Ahhhhhhh YES ! Another “framework” that was left for the incoming administration. Again, what also seems lost at every turn (like Rose Law Firm billing records) is that they (may have) passed along a few pages of a plan, but more importantly they passed along THE DAMN PROBLEM ! This international security kick-the-can routine is silly and childish, and the American electorate know it. Dem’s can’t be trusted with security.
I’ve never been a Chris Shays fan
And probably never really will be, but Rep. Christopher Shays, the barely-Republican of Connecticut, has pulled out the sharp knives, and it’s about damn time someone put this Foley BS into perspective.
From the Hartford Courant: (emphasis mine)
When the congressional page scandal broke last month, Democrats across the country saw a chance to lambaste Republican leadership - including Diane Farrell, who called on House Speaker Dennis Hastert to step down.
But when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy came to Connecticut last week to help her campaign, Rep. Christopher Shays hit back.
“I know the speaker didn’t go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day,” said Shays, R-4th District, referring to the 1969 incident in which the Massachusetts Democrat drove a car that plunged into the water and a young campaign worker died.
“Dennis Hastert didn’t kill anybody,” he added.
HAHAHAHAHA !!!!! Yes, please, let’s make Teddy “Dewers and Drowning” Kennedy, Bob “Pave the State and Burn the Crosses” Byrd, Bill “I did not have sex with that woman” Clinton, Barney “Let’s run a gay escort service” Frank…. I could go on and on…. let’s make them the poster children of the Democratic party that they want to be.
10.10.06
Proof is in the pudding
I’ll have more on this later, but just a primer…. am I the only one that has noticed that Clinton, in all his legacy-building splendor, is going to anyone who will listen to talk about the plans he had ?
He had a plan to get Bin Laden. He had a plan to stop North Korea from developing nukes. He had a plan for everything.
Is there anything that troubles the world that Bill Clinton didn’t have a plan for ?
Here’s the truth, boys and girls. Bill Clinton had 8 years to do something, and all the plans in the world that he claims to have had don’t excuse the fact that in those 8 years he didn’t do jack-squat.
And the gloves are off
Mexico’s foreign secretary said Monday the country may take a dispute over U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to the United Nations.
Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, that a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case.
The Mexican government last week sent a diplomatic note to Washington criticizing the plan for 700 miles of new fencing along the border. President-elect Felipe Calderon also denounced the plan, but said it was a bilateral issue that should not be put before the international community.
This is why the UN is worthless. It has convinced countries that every little beef they have should be decided by the “international community”.
Guess what, you Mexican asshole…. this is our friggin country. If we want to build a fence, we’re gonna build a damn fence. This is our country, our soil, and the UN has no business whatsoever commenting on it.
This isn’t Israel you jackass. You can’t push us around like this. We should expedite building the thing, and electrify the thing now. If your people want to come here, they need to do it legally like the rest of the world.
10.09.06
Hungry, with lots of free time
I just thought this was funny…. some guy in Taiwan turned his PC into a Waffle House.
10.07.06
One more NIE thought….
Everytime I hear this “we’re creating more terrorists” stuff, I think immediately of Pat Tillman. Remember him ?
This is a guy who turned down just over a million a year to join the Army after 9/11. I know that there is some controversy about his actual war views, but it does make me wonder…. after those jackass backwards bastards hit us on 9/11, how many people in this country soon thereafter joined/re-joined the military to try and save these countries from themselves ?
More signs of the apocolypse
Isn’t there already enough suffering in the world ?
Terrell Owens has learned the importance of playing nice — at least in print.
The outspoken Dallas receiver is set to release his first children’s book in mid-November. But the book, titled “Little T Learns to Share,” will be a far cry from the tell-all book T.O. released in July.
Little T, the main character, refuses to share his football but eventually learns he can’t enjoy his new ball without friends.
10.05.06
Another short Couric moment.
She made a little slip-up. Not a bad one, but one that shows her true stripes. Here it is in it’s entirety.
We’ve gotten a lot of comments and feedback about last night’s “freeSpeech,” which featured a father whose son was killed at Columbine.
A lot of the comments were negative, like these:
Your free speech segment today was the biggest load of hogwash I have ever witnessed. How could you use an unspeakable tragedy to give a rightwing flat earth nut job a podium?
Tonite, you have some idiot who tragically lost his son at Columbine…he has my sympathy, but he does not deserve a spot on the Evening News to spout his political views.
This ultra right wing religious right drivel is a disgrace.
But we also received some positive feedback:
The Free Speech segment from the father of the Columbine student was one of the finest pieces I have ever heard on network news. My sincere appreciation goes to CBS for the courage to air it.
Thank you! As the mother of three children, I applaud your episode of Free Speech tonight. I’m sure that you will receive many e-mails denouncing your segment, but I appreciate hearing a “conservative” view in what can be a very liberal media…I live in the heartland of America (Kansas) and believe we all need a strong faith to get through difficult times.
I never thought I would hear such words on any network television station. He said all the things I have been thinking since the ‘60s.
Clearly, this struck a nerve.
We knew when we decided to put on this segment that a lot of people would disagree with it. We also knew some might even find it repugnant. (Some of you made that point loud and clear!)
But that is the very essence of what we try to do with the “freeSpeech” segment. This is a platform for our viewers to hear from a wide range of people – those who may share your views, and those who don’t.
When we approached Brian Rohrbough and asked him his thoughts about this latest school shooting, this essay was the result. We understood that people may disagree with what he said, and with what he believes. But censoring or attempting to re-shape his opinion would be antithetical to the very idea of free speech.
This is a nation built on dialogue and debate. And, most importantly, on freedom of speech. As George Washington once said, “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
We hope “freeSpeech” can add more voices to the national discussion. At the very least, last night, we got people talking.
And we hope the conversation is just beginning.
Now, it is somewhat noble that Cutie- sorry, Katie- explains a bit. And I can almost applaud her choice of email additions. But this digresses into the realm that any writer must confront…..
Katie isn’t a journalist, she’s a newsreader. She says what she is told to say, most of the time, and when she does have control, it’s slanted to the left.
Repugnant isn’t a calming word. If she had said, “Some might find it upsetting….” or disturbing, or “some might disagree”, the response would be different. Repugnant is a charged word, guaranteed to generate a response. I suppose that has worked, but I’ll never watch CBS News anyway, so it isn’t working for me.
Network news is dead, and it’s these people and these types of actions that make that an absolute lock. I know they still get ratings, but those are mostly from people with set-top Neilsen boxes that are eating dinner or watering the lawn and forget to turn the box off. I know I, personally, haven’t watched network news in a few years, at least…..
Well, not true. I did watch Tom Brokaw’s last broadcast. I’ve always liked Mr. Brokaw. But I never watched the daily stuff, just that last one.
I watch cable news, and yes, mostly Fox News. I used to watch CNN before I had access to Fox, which brings up another question…. is it any real coincidence that once FNC started kicking ass over the others that CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, etc. all went WAY left in their commentary shows ? If NBC was smart they would shut down one of their networks and not split the pie. CNN has Glenn Beck on Headline News, but that’s the only real conservative on their entire lineup. MSNBC tried Michael Savage…. come on. He’s a friggin nut-case. Thankfully he was quickly gone. No serious conservative takes Michael Savage seriously.
Fox News works because the country realizes that the networks, CNN, and MSNBC are as liberal as the day is long. And STUPID ! Miles O’Brien is using movie plots as scientific evidence, and Chris Matthews doesn’t know the difference between a text message, an instant message, and an e-mail. Katie’s staff means to say “something talked about a lot that means nothing”, and makes references to the vagina. (by the way, Katie, hun, you might want to hire a person or two that knows slang- or at least an editor)
The media has a “better than thou” attitude that they think works, because they are engrossed in the idea that the American people are sheep to be led. Of course they never hear anything else (or didn’t) until alternative media came along (talk radio, FNC, alternative mags and newspapers).
But the major media just talks to and listens to itself. The rest of us just shake our heads and wonder how much more out of touch these people can actually get. Case in point- Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, the left’s favorite attack dog lately, has about 100,000 more viewers a night than I do, and I don’t have a show. (I know, 100,000 sounds like a lot…. it’s about 1/30,000th of the population…. He names Bill O’Reilley “The Worst Person In The World” about every other day…. in reality, he should name whoever talked him into leaving SportsCenter)
From Bush’s DWI, to the Foley problems (which are turning out to not be as illegal as we thought, but still…. to borrow…. repugnant) the media gets whipped up into a frenzy, and pat themselves on the back, while the populice realize the liberal slant, and goes to other media daily, and to the other candidates in the voting booth. Liberals just can’t be trusted.
The truth about Foley came out, and he resigned immediately under pressure. The GOP doesn’t want that slime in the party.
Gerry Studds got re-elected 1/2 a dozen times. Barney Frank is still there. Clinton…. well, we all know. But in the dead of night Clinton pardoned Mel Reynolds, who had already nailed a 16-year old girl, and wanted desperately to nail her 15-year-old friend. The Dems cheered all this. No move to fire everyone who might have known. Studds got standing ovations, for the love of God !
I said this would be short….. sorry.
A little language
I don’t know who polices Cutie Katie’s website postings, but check this out. (and yes, kerfuffle is a real word)
This word causes quite a hoo-ha.
kerfuffleker-FUFF-ln. Disorder, commotion, tumult. Also written as curfuffle, kerfuffle, gefuffle . It derives from the Gaelic “cur,” meaning “twist, bend.”
When I mentioned to Katie that the “freeSpeech” from Monday night had caused a kerfuffle, she said “Is that a real word?” Yes indeedy.
Emphasis mine, of course. I think what this idiot (Greg Kandra) meant, was a variation on “bru-ha-ha”…. in popular slang, “hoo-ha” is a reference to the female genitalia. Bru-ha-ha is slang for kerfuffle, which is slang for a lotta talk about nothing.
My real point…. is 15 mil a year not enough for Katie to post her own blog. She’s not the brightest bulb in the lamp, but she can do better than this clown Greg Kandra.
