31
Oct
France?
aka, "Jacques Chirac doesnt’ like black people."
They’ve got issues brewing there that pale compared to ours.
It couldn’t happen to a better "leader" than Jacques.
31
Oct
Some people are already making comments that Alito is a bad choice. Those people are a hand full of the usual suspects. My bet is Alito gets about the same treatment Roberts got. He seems to be of the highest ethics and has TONS of written opinions.
I am surprised. I was expecting a woman.
However, I should have realized that by pandering to the gender issue only, Bush got burned in a big way, which was exactly what he was trying NOT to do. I guess Bush figured that if he’s gonna get a fight no matter what, he may as well use that fight to solidify those "fer em" instead of trying to win support from those "agin em". I think he picked a bad time to realize those agin em, will always be agin em.
Keep those fer ya very close. Keep those again ya even closer. But that doesn’t mean you have to pander to them. This time Bush went for substance over gender. The difference in reactions couldn’t be any more obvious.
31
Oct
Found this in the Washington Post:
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is known for his sarcastic, world-weary and at times dark sense of humor. He once quipped to an aide that he planned to stay as Vice President Cheney’s top adviser until "I get indicted or something."
And, what I think is just as good:
He (Libby) adheres to a favorite Cheney maxim that the vice president credits to the late Sam Rayburn, a longtime House speaker: "You never get in trouble for something you don’t say."
The man is plum near psychic if you ask me.
Now, on to the meat of the post. I’m going to go on record as saying I think he’s gonna get off IF the charges are as I understand them. I don’t know the ins and outs or the nitty gritty. But, if it’s in regards to the original intent of the grand jury of outing Valerie Plame, that part’s a joke. As it’s been noted in the media ( that means it MUST be true ), if Plame and the CIA were concerned over her covert identity, she wouldn’t have stuck her husband in the spotlight of doing battle with the President of the United States over federal policy now would she? Who WOULDN’T have asked how Joe Wilson wound up in that position?
Once it’s said and done, the CIA and Joe Wilson will be begging the special prosecution to drop this mess.
Ward Churchill ( yup, him again ), wants us to believe everything he says, and nothing anyone says about him. However, his PR for an appearance at Shoreline Community College give us this image of Churchill:
However, this is the REAL Churchill:
Wonder why he felt he needed to omit the gun? ( Assuming he’s in control of his own PR. )
Maybe because it’s a communist made AK-47?
Maybe because they were our enemy at the time?
Maybe because he’s accused of siding with the enemy now and denied it?
Thanks to Little Green Footballs for the heads-up.
Other blogs on Ward Churchill, AK-47.
27
Oct
I hate to see this, but I sure saw it coming.
She wasn’t a political animal fit or prepared to fight the political fight. But, from what I have seen of her, she’s a class act.
I never joined the ranks of the "disappointed". I could tell she was a class act from the get-go. I’m kind of disappointed she’s caved to the pressure. However, wooing members of the Senate can be an incredibly compromising process. I could tell over the last few days she wasn’t willing to go that route, or, her heart wasn’t into doing what it took to get it done.
She’s still a class act. Hopefully Bush’s next nominee will have her moral standards. But, it’ll take someone with the political willpower to get it done.
And, for what it’s worth, not being a judge was NOT an issue with me. Having legal sense trumps experience IMO. Rheinquist being only the most recent example. If Bush’s next nominee has no judge experience, that’s FINE with me.
OK, George, listen to me here, nominate Janice Rogers Brown and acknowledge she’s the popular candidate, just to shut EVERYONE up. Then, let them squirm when she makes decisions they don’t like. No judge is a pre-programmed robot. They will ALL have opinions that slip outside the labels they’ve been given. Miers is no different from Rogers-Brown or Roberts in that matter.
26
Oct
Michelle Malkin et al clued me on a conspiracy against Condi Rice:
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See a difference there? There is a lot of speculation about why USA Today chose to do this. Some implying it’s political, some racial. Me, I don’t have a clue. Here’s the headline that accompanied the pic:
If I had to speculate anything at all, it would be that they wanted to give her an appearance of steely determination. However, the first picture does that better I think. The second pic just gives her the impression of, well, having her picture doctored.
We’re all waiting with anxious breath for USA Today’s explanation.
In the meantime, some people ( read Independent Sources ), are amusing us with their ideas of why and how Condi got doctored.
However, IMO, Bad Astronomy touched on what is happening here.
Notice who’s missing? Now, Zod would look normally look a LOT more sinister than Condi Rice. That is, until USA Today ran that pic. Now, to put it in total perspective, Zod is apparently running AGAINST Condi. As much as Condi denies it, we know better. Zod knows better. Apparently, USA Today knows better as well and are doing something about it. They’re out to make Zod look more personable than Condi. I’m not buying it. I don’t even know what party Zod belongs to. And, as I’ve always said, stick with the demon you know before trusting the angel you don’t.
And from what I’ve seen and heard, Zod is no angel. Don’t let USA Today convince you otherwise.
26
Oct
I’m always late to the dance:
Why today?
On October 26, 1996, intersex activists from Intersex Society of North America (carrying the sign "Hermaphrodites With Attitude") and our allies from Transexual Menace held the first public intersex demonstration in Boston, where American Academy of Pediatrics was holding its annual conference.
And finally, for those that don’t know:
Intersex refers to a series of medical conditions in which a child’s genetic sex (chromosomes) and phenotypic sex (genital appearance) do not match, or are somehow different from the "standard" male or female. About one in 2,000 babies are born visibly intersexed, while some others are detected later. The current medical protocol calls for the surgical "reconstruction" of these different but healthy bodies to make them "normal," but this practice has become increasingly controversial as adults who went through the treatment report being physically, emotionally, and sexually harmed by such procedures.
So people, get and celebrate Intersex Awareness Day! I am by attending a Def Leppard show tonight.
25
Oct
Galloway goes on the offensive, again, by stating:
"I have not made a penny out of oil deals with Iraq, or indeed any other kind of deal,"
Yeah George, but your wife did.
Galloway also had this to say in another article:
I hope you get your wish.
And how does lying George explain all this?
Gotta prove that in court George. Before too long all that bombastic rhetoric’s gonna bite Galloway. And when it does, I’ll be leading the cheering section.
24
Oct
The Dow Jones showed a gain of 169.78 today following the announcement of Ben Bernanke. That’s the second best showing for 2005.
I think that’s a pretty good sign.
24
Oct
Ironically, as I was typing my rant on Dr. Kambon and other blacks encouraging repression and violence, Rosa Parks died.
She knew how to get it done. She didn’t condone violence either.
I hope the difference is obvious.
