17
Mar
A lot of people have absolutely ignored all the history of WMD’s in Iraq and made the constant claim "Bush lied, people died". Hell, some will tell you there were NEVER WMD’s in Iraq. Ever. Totally ignoring all the documentation and UN actions against Iraq because of them. They’ll tell you that the stockpiled WMD’s that the UN was assigned to monitor and protect never existed as well. Now, I’m sure they’ll tell you the chlorine gas attacks in Iraq don’t count either for some reason or another. I mean, how can you use something that never existed?
SOME people like me were saying they did exist, and were hidden or taken out of the country to somewhere else to be used at a later time……
Why is it I don’t feel any particular satisfaction having predicted this years ago?
17
Mar
So I did. It’s now non the sidebar on the Webdream blog being as it’s a social network and not a political thingy per se.
I’m not sure what exactly he’ll gain from being a Twit. According to the guys at Independent Sources, he looks silly. From what I can tell so far, I do too.
New York Times, March 16, 2007 editorial.
How can one single person take them seriously after a comment like that?
Kind of amazing considering it was just a few hours ago I was belaboring the death of paper media in an effort to combat global warming. And, how the only people affected would be the poor in need of something to keep the rain off their heads. And, obviously, the BS off their butts.
16
Mar
Sometimes I don’t know whether people should ever take media seriously. Here’s a couple of headlines from MSNBC exactly as I got them:
That’s just the pic. READ THE ARTICLE!
Man, I LOVE this guy!
My buds at Independent Sources are just flat out doing a Moonshow today. I’ll just read their stuff and comment on it I guess.
LA is offering free Wi-Fi. The LA Times, get this, sees this as a bad thing.
A wireless L.A., but with strings attached
My buddies at Independent Sources took offense, sorta, upon stumbling upon this article:
Joe Redner, whos in a runoff for a city council seat, is offering free admission to his World Famous Mons Venus strip club when patrons show their I voted sticker at the door. The cover charge is usually $20.
There is a nice irony at play. A politician allowing their constituents a chance to cop a few feels before screwing them later.
Now, before we get too carried away with this, I need to give just a little background about where I come from, which is sorta like Tampa used to be. Now, in the old days here, and I imagine in Florida as well ( more than a week ago ), one of the preferred vote buying methods was to get someone "on the fence" a little tipsy, put them in the car, and go vote. Candidates with more money would get large vans and trucks. But, the bottom line was you HAD to have a pint of whiskey. It didn’t matter if they even drank whiskey or not. They would on election day. That was an expected tradition here up until very recently. Tampa’s a little more urban than here these days, I imagine that tradition ended longer ago than here. ( two weeks or more ) It’s illegal yaknow. Vote buying. For that matter, even drinking whiskey is illegal here in most parts. However, people tend to look the other way on the law during political seasons. So, along comes this guy in Tampa who doesn’t want to spend the money it takes to get elected and offers free passes to his strip club instead. Now, for reasons I prefer not to get into, I used to drop in Mons Venus occasionally. Now, this place is hell incarnate. Sure, the babes were naked. Sure, they looked great. But, get this, you couldn’t drink anything. Not one drop. So, what you did was run accross the street to the very conveniently located liquor store, slam a couple of shots of whatever you preferred, and then run back to the beautiful naked babes awaiting you. This just pretty much wore me out. Secondly, get this, it’s SMOKE FREE. It’s a place where men ( and a lot more women than you’d expect ), go to lust and sin in excess, but only within rigid guidelines. You can sorta have sex, but you can NOT drink alcohol or smoke tobacco. No sirree.
Now, this is where I tie all this together. In order to properly "buy" an election, you MUST provide whiskey. Not Sprite, not Dr. Pepper, not Fresca. It MUST be liquor, it MUST be strong, it SHOULD be whiskey. Secondly, once the dirty deed is done, you MUST share a smoke. A good screwin is always best when you’re just a little liquored up and followed by a toke. So, although Joe Redner’s schtick is creative, my guess is it will be meaningless because it won’t even provide the basic necessities of proper vote buying. And, if all you’re allowed to do is watch, you may as well just tell Joe to give you a free month’s online subscription so you can watch them at home, with a drink in hand, and a smoke.
THEN, we’ve got proper vote buying in action. I’d even be game. ( How many absentees can Joe send out before the election? )
Hillary Clinton was laughed almost into submission about a decade ago for blaiming her husband’s problems on "the vast right wing conspiracy". He then fessed up to the entire country and she dropped it for a while.
Well, it’s back.
What’s she talking about?
Former RNC operative James Tobin was convicted of telephone harassment and appealed his conviction. The investigation arose after Democratic organizers’ phones were overwhelmed by annoying hang-up calls hindering their get-out-the-vote efforts.
James Tobin is her "vast" right wing conspiracy.
The phrase sounded stupid in 1996, and it sounds stupid now. It made her look stupid in 1996, and it will make her look stupid now. What is she hoping to gain by dredging up probably the lowest point of her political career?
But now her troops are chiming in as well:
"People think we’re paranoid when we talk about the vast right-wing conspiracy, but there is a real connection of these groups — the same names keep popping up," said Sullivan. "They are the most disgusting group of political thugs that I have ever seen."
Yeah, I think they’re sounding paranoid. Citing one guy, or a group of "same names", just doesn’t quite support the "vast" or "conspiracy" labels. Not even close. What they are citing as their "Vast conspiracy" is politics as usual. Someone really want to try to convince me, or the country as a whole, that Hillary Clinton has NEVER participated in dirty politics?
If James Tobin IS the "vast right wing conspiracy", Hillary IS the vast left wing conspiracy. Now, which is more dangerous? Which side has seen more members go to prison? Which side has had more casualties?
According to CNN, 58% of "Americans" want to see US troups to leave Iraq by 2008 or sooner.
It then goes on to state that 1,027 took the poll and it has a margin of error of +-3 percent.
I’m here to tell ya folks, and I have before, that’s complete BS.
1,000 people polled represents "America"?
Which 1,00 were they?
Tuesday’s poll found most Americans support a withdrawal from Iraq…..
"Most Americans" would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500,501 people. In their poll, it is 514.
There are 514 kids in one small school here.
But the latest survey finds Americans more receptive to having Congress take the lead, with 47 percent saying the lawmakers should be "primarily responsible" for setting war policy. Thirty-three percent said the president should be primarily responsible for setting the country’s course.
47 percent of 1,027 is even less than 500 people. That is what Nancy Pelosi is using now to attack Bush and our troops.
Who were those 500 people and why should they be allowed to speak for me, or you?
CNN won’t tell you that part, but I bet they weren’t in Kansas.
Where these people take their polls is MORE IMPORTANT than how many people they cite. Citing 500 kindergarden kids in Berkeley California or citing 500 senior citizens in Nebraska will give you completely different results. We don’t have a clue where CNN got those numbers. You can assume more scenarios than the number of people that actually responded to their poll that they claim respresents "most Americans".
It doesn’t represent me.
And, just to prove my point, according to my "official" poll, most Americans have slept with Anna Nicole Smith:
I’m still waiting on the exit polls to figure out "what went wrong".
Nancy Pelosi has assigned fifteen members to her new Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. These folks are listed below with some of their other sponsored legislations:
| Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who will chair the committee |
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| Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) |
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| Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) |
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| John B. Larson (D-Conn.) |
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| Hilda L. Solis (D-Calif.) | None related to this issue. |
| Stephanie Herseth (D-S.D.) |
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| Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) |
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| John Hall (D-N.Y.) |
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| Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) |
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| F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), the ranking minority member |
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| John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) | None related to this issue. |
| Greg Walden (R-Ore.) | None related to this issue. |
| John Sullivan (R-Okla.) | None related to this issue. |
| Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) |
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| Candice S. Miller (R-Mich.) |
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Basically, this group of people has a CURRENT history of non-ecological issues. Three bills directly show an interest in this issue. More bills show a pandering to those opposing the war in Iraq. More importantly, one bill shows an antagonism to spending any money on anything, one shows a preference to increase regulations and therefore restrict the development of alternative energy ( nuclear ), and two are more concerned about race than energy.
Yeah buddy, this bunch is going to get a lot done in the real world.
