31
Aug
Does anyone really need to guess?
“I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said. “To just have it planned at the same time, that it (hurricane Gustav) would actually be on its way to New Orleans for Day One of the Republican convention, up in the Twin Cities, at the top of the Mississippi River.”
Whatever Michael Moore’s motivations are in life sure aren’t working very well. His first couple of bitter rants I kind of ignored. But, he just can’t stop. He has truly turned into one of the most vile and bitter human beings our society has to offer. No wonder about the only place you’ll find him is on Keith Olbermann any more.
I really think someone needs to just drop him off in downtown New Orleans this afternoon and let him contemplate exactly what it is that brings him so much glee.
Sheez
UPDATED: I guess Michael Moore got his cue from Don Fowler, former Democrat National Committee Chief:
“That just demonstrates that God is on our side…”
29
Aug
Now, my peeps here know how I feel about Condi Rice. So, I think, smarting from the Obama/Hillary dustup, Anderson Cooper decided to try and turn the wheels on McCain by planting the seed of discontent in folks like me over McCain “snubbing” Condi in the manner of Obama snubbing Clinton. Two serious differences here that should have been blatantly obvious to Cooper:
- Condi never showed any interest at all by attempting to run for president.
- Condi flat out said she was not interested in pursuing politics of any sort after she serves her time in DC. She’d rather be the NFL commissioner.
Bottom line, it was never an option. Now, the media put a lot into the “vetting” process. Some people claim that Condi was never even vetted ala Clinton never being vetted. Who the hell would see a need to “vet” either one?
I would have loved to have seen Condi on the ticket. However, as I posted a long time ago, I knew it was never an option. She’s just too smart to put up with dictators and political thugs for more than her time demands. In order to run for office, she’d have to knock her IQ down another notch or two. I just don’t see her ever doing that, or having a need to. Think I’m stretching the sarcasm a bit? Check out the comments on Cooper’s post. Check out how many of those people think Alaska has a population of 8,500. Check out how many of those people are basing their “informed” decision based on the fact she has never done anything but be a mayor of a small town. Check out how many think she’s never been out of the country before. Then, check this out:
Palin in Kuwait
That’s not Alaska, that’s Kuwait. Finding that pic took about five seconds. When people make up their mind, they’re not going to spend that five seconds to validate their opinion. It’s just made up and that’s that. In their mind, she has never been to Kuwait, the pictures don’t mean a thing. In their mind, either Alaska has 8,000 or so citizens, or she’s never been governor. Facts are irrelevent. They’ve made up their mind.
Alaska has 300,000 or so citizens, state employees, and a budget that makes most states look simple. Senators have small staffs, no real budget to manage, and are directly responsible for no one citizen. So yeah, the comments on Cooper’s post are sad. Real sad. Really about the only “support” most gave was she was not Joe Biden.
Condi’s too smart for politics. That is the ugly side of democracy. And, given her abilities, I don’t blame her.
Just a personal note to Anderson Cooper. I make it a point to challenge all statements made on my blog. If I get overwhelmed with comments, I close them until I can catch up. Sure, I’m biased, but not in what either party is usually offering me today. I can not understand how a “professional” like Cooper and others can honestly look at the tripe being thrown into their domain and just let it sit there. There are some incredibly stupid comments that are there for eternity testifying the level of intellect that is the Anderson Cooper reader. I couldn’t live with that. I don’t live with that. Someone says something wrong here, I correct it. If it’s right, I acknowledge it. If it’s intentionally inflamatory, I delete it. But, what I am not going to do is make the other readers here feel stupid by letting the quality level drop to sub-zero. You better think here. If not, CNN’s more than happy to accept it.
Immediately after it became known that Sarah Palin would be John McCain’s running mate, CNN ran a poll asking people if they had supported Hillary Clinton if they would now consider McCain/Palin. Approximately 41% at the last I saw it said yes. That’s enough to turn this election into a washout for Obama. So, CNN immediately changed their poll.
The new poll now asks who is the stronger VP candidate, Biden or Palin. So far, 69% are favoring Biden. So, I guess CNN will let this one ride for a while. However, this begs the question for me. What exactly are people looking for in Obama’s “change”? There’s no “change” with Biden. Biden’s been a DC insider forever. So, I’m perplexed that 69% of the people voting in this poll ever considered Obama in regards to any of the other primary candidates. He had by far the least experience and age and therefore was not the strongest candidate.
But, if I did all that thinking, I’d be doing exactly what CNN wants. And that is, forgetting about the poll they yanked. In the big picture, that’s the only one that mattered.
Due to not really being terribly glued to the tv over this election, I gotta admit I have been fairly clueless to guessing VP picks. The media throws so many names out so fast, then criticizes the names they threw out themselves, and then writes off the names they threw out themselves. So, the whole thing is pretty much a waste of my time. However, the three top dogs that I expected to be in the mix, Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney, and Time Pawlenty, all stated they were not going to be the VP. My personal suggestion, Condi Rice, never seemed to get any traction. However, over the night, another name has exploded to the front. There are very valid reasons to expect this person is making some kind of move. You just don’t fly from Alaska to DC overnight for chucks and giggles. This is sorta what they look like:
That folks, could be our next Vice President.
Now, granted, that pic is a little dated.
Sarah Palin has some things definitely going for her that I like:
- She’s apparently tough as nails. She got her position by taking out well established heirarchy.
- She was a star athlete in high school. Played basketball. Without going into too much detail, I’ve had a thing with basketball players in the past. Let’s just say they know how to handle the ball and run a lot.
- She’s a hunter. Now, Obama claims he shot a gun once. Biden I trust with a gun a lot less than Cheney. Both would prefer to just outlaw them completely. Palin hunts moose. Nuff said?
- She’s pro-life. Now, this is an issue that I really don’t think belongs on the federal level at all, and, I’m pro-choice. But, it will re-assure conservative Republicans that McCain won’t sell them out on the issue. And, since neither ticket can actually do anything tangible about the issue, being pro-life just makes my guy more electible. I think he knows that.
- She’s pro-education. Her father has been a life-long educator.
- She’s apparently incredibly politically savvy. She took out a very popular governor, and it wasn’t all that close by the time she got through.
- She’s anti-oil in the right way. She doesn’t seem to see any logic in punishing an existing industry for supplying a product the US demands, and has helped them become more efficient. She however, has strongly pushed alternative energies and has forced existing oil policies to be more greenhouse efficient.
- She flies her own airplane. That’s just cool.
- She was a sportscaster. That’s just cool.
- She was the one who effectively scuttled “The Bridge To Nowhere”, I’m sure that should appeal to some. I like pork tho.
- She publicly demanded that Ted Stevens come clean well before he was indicted. That along with strong ethics reforms in Alaskan state government have earned her a ton of respect with ethics advocates.
- She led the effort to ban gay marriages in Alaska, then forced legislation to allow partner benefits.
The list is huge. And, amazing in a lot of aspects when you consider she’s only 42.
Now, the major upside to Sarah Palin is white-light bright obvious.
- She’s a babe with balls that would make any man nervous.
- This should appeal to the femi-nazi Hillary supporters who felt cheated and abandoned with the Joe Biden pick. ( as they should have )
- There will be a certain segment of the population that will ponder the prospect of seeing her face, and supporting package, for the next four to eight years versus the mugshot of Obama/Biden.
- She appeals to the NRA, who is already anti-Obama/Biden and only moreso with Biden on the ticket. A questionable endorsement of McCain now becomes a slam dunk with enthusiasm.
- All the bogus “hunter” groups supposedly not excited with McCain will need to just shut down. I am quite certain Sarah has taken down more game than all those guys combined.
- Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will have a real difficult time claiming they are the only people concerned with ethics as both McCain and Palin will have a history of attacking ethical issues while neither Obama or Biden will be able to make the same claim.
- Whereas Biden will struggle with his previous endorsements of McCain and stong criticisms of Obama, I seriously doubt you’ll find anywhere that Palin has ever endorsed Obama. And, from reading her history, criticized McCain.
- Her effort to ban same sex marriages will appeal to conservatives, but her forcing the state to provide benefits will moot the gay rights people, as neither Obama nor Biden have any history of supporting them at all.
- This will shatter the biased perception of the Republican Party.
I could go on a lot more but I think my opinion of Sarah Palin as Vice President are more than obvious. Some are saying it’s a done deal. I only hope so. This actually has gotten me pretty excited for the first time since it became obvious that Condi wouldn’t honor my wishes and run.
ONE HOUR UPDATE: IT IS PALIN!
Excellent! Slam Dunk! ( Had to get a basketball metaphor in there! )
He just sealed the deal.
Now, all McCain has to do is do what he does best, smile and let Obama and Biden keep digging their own holes.
This to me is one of the biggest legal travesties I’ve witnessed in a long time. Jose Luis Nazario served his country in the marines. He saw basically hand to hand combat. He got shot at. He shot at others. He did all the things normally expected during live combat in a war where the other guy’s intention is to kill him. He survived.
Then, he came home and things got tough.
Nazario was charged with voluntary manslaughter, assault with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
That “crime” was serving in the US Marine Corps.
The real crime in my opinion was committed by the State of California ( where else would anyone expect this to happen? ). In this state it would be called something along the lines of corruption of justice, and something along the lines of criminal coercion. To wit:
The message I think whoever the idiot was that instigated this lawsuit is trying to send is if you commit what would have been a civilian crime while serving in the military anywhere on Earth, California is gonna prosecute you. They’re gonna lose, but they’re gonna wreck your life in the process. If you live in California and wanna join the military, best not to return there.
That folks, is just extortion pure and simple.
I think Mr. Nazario has a case for suing the hell out of the state of California. How many legitimate lawsuits are filed by states against individuals where there is no victim, no evidence, no willing accuser, and no witness?
The jury even wept when the verdict was rendered. They knew how incredibly bogus this personal legal vendetta was.
Californians, you all have a serious problem going on. What you just witnessed in Riverside is BIG BROTHER
Has anyone asked what would happen if the California attorney generals decided your political views are no longer acceptable to them?
What happened to Jose needs to induce outrage and protests all over San Francisco and the usual places in California that love to be outraged. But, since the victim was a military person, you won’t hear a peep.
28
Aug
I have never really figured Dick Morris out. I like that. I like that a lot. A lot of people have been scratching their heads over Obama’s campaign so far. To the average guy who doesn’t get caught up in hysteria or hype, it’s been very puzzling. It’s not to me. And, apparently it’s not to Dick Morris either:
……This pattern of shooting at the decoy, not the duck, gives McCain a bold strategic opportunity. He can nullify the impact of the entire Democratic convention simply by distancing himself from Bush.
Now, Dick goes on to list a LONG list of MAJOR differences between McCain and Bush. That’s not even the whole list. You can’t get much different within the same party as Bush and McCain right now. That’s where the deception is occurring. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary, and now Obama have based their current political position on trashing Bush mercilessly.
As I’ve noted here before, what are they going to do next? Bush is not running for anything. The more they trash Bush, the easier the ride is for McCain. The logic is simple: Republicans know the difference between Bush and McCain. Nothing Obama or Biden says will mean anyhing to about half the people that will vote. Now, the real shocker will come when they realize that a good majority of Obama’s core already know this as well. They were cheering McCcain when he trashed Bush in 2000. They were cheering McCain when he bucked Bush very visibly on several key issues. They cheered McCain when he teamed up with Russ Feingold to clean up campaign finance in DC. Now, they are being hammered to death that the man they cheered for being so different from Bush over the last eight years, is, in their candidates’ minds, the same thing as Bush. And, the man more likely to agree with and priase Bush on many key issues, Joe Biden, is the “change” they’ve been promised.
Go figure that one.
Better yet, go try to sell it.
Best advice for Obama, attack McCain, not the windmill.
Best advice for whoever might read this, read the rest of Dick Morris’s piece, it’s spot-on.
Clearly invigorated by the wave of popular support behind her efforts to clean up the Republicn Party, Nancy Pelosi has apparently set her eyes on her own party finally. To this end, she replaced John Edwards‘ speech at the Democrat National Convention with Bill Clinton.
Got this scoop via email ( sender shall remain anonymous ):
2008 Democrat National Convention
Schedule of Events
- 7:00 pm OPENING FLAG BURNING
- 7:15 pm PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE U.N.
- 7:20 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST
- 7:25 pm NONRELIGIOUS PRAYER AND WORSHIP – Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton
- 7:45 pm CEREMONIAL TREE HUGGING – Darryl Hannah
- 7:55 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST
- 8:00 pm HOW I INVENTED THE INTERNET - Al Gore
- 8:15 pm GAY WEDDING PLANNING - Rosie O’Donnell
- 8:35 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST
- 8:40 pm OUR TROOPS ARE WAR CRIMINALS – John Kerry
- 9.00 pm MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR SADDAM AND HIS SONS – Cindy Sheehan and Susan Sarandon
- 10:00 pm ANSWERING MACHINE ETIQUETTE – Alec Baldwin
- 11:00 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST
- 11:05 pm COLLECTION FOR THE OSAMA BIN LADEN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT FUND – Barbara Streisand
- 11:15 pm FREE THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY – Sean Penn
- 11:30 pm OVAL OFFICE AFFAIRS – William Jefferson Clinton
- 11:45 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST
- 11:50 pm HOW GEORGE BUSH BROUGHT DOWN THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS -Howard Dean
- 12:15 am TRUTH IN BROADCASTING AWARD – Presented to Dan Rather by Michael Moore
- 12:25 am Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST
- 12:30 am REMOTE SATELLITE ADDRESS – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- 12:45 am NOMINATION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA – Nancy Pelosi
- 1:00 am Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST
- 1:05 am CORONATION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
- 1:30 am Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST
- 1:35 am Bill Clinton asks Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home
27
Aug
Got this via email, I’ve sort of touched on this in the past. No need “Scoping” it, I’ve left off the part that goes over the top:
In the event you’ve missed this – worse forgotten it, a gentle reminder!!
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality That they imagine that America can suffer defeat Without any inconvenience to themselves.
Pause a moment, reflect back.
These events are actual events from history. They really happened !!!
Do you remember?
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
Muslim male extremists bet ween the ages of 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980′s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
10. In 1998 , the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the
other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:Muslim male extremists between the of 17 and 40.
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by — you guessed it–:
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
No, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us,
Airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people… Absolutely No Profiling!
They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss.
But leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 Alone lest they be guilty of profiling
It then goes on to explain the rise of the Anti-Christ in the book of Revelations.
And then, points out that Barack Obama was raised a Muslim, and is still considered one by his family. That’s going a little too far. The book of Revelations also explains that the anti-Christ will not rise to power through political means. So, the entire point of the email becomes moot because the original intent of the list is being mis-used.
The original intent was pointing out how inane it is for people to be so sensitive to profiling. That part is still true.
And, no matter how politically sensitive some people will act regarding whether or not our government is allowed to do the obvious or not, I can bet you if a group of Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40 get on the same airplane together, a whole bunch of other people will be keeping a very close eye on them. Regardless of political “correctness” ( read stupidity ), a very wise old saying trumps all political issues:
One bitten, twice shy.
26
Aug
Now, I’m gonna state right-out that I’m not watching the Democrat convention. Now, before people get too long-winded here, I most likely won’t watch the Republican convention either. There’s just not really much point in either this year, as most years. However, what I do like to watch is the reaction to the convention. After day one at the Democrat convention, two things stuck out:
CNN, which is usually more favorable ( read horribly biased ) toward the Democrat Party, had these two headline opinions running together:
OK, now, some people think you have to dig real deep to get the meaning of any article. But, my experience, in the real world, is the opposite. People form an opinion based on their initial reaction, then either reinforce or debunk that reaction by reading, or watching, the article. If they choose not to, they are left with the initial opinion. That, I think, is the biggest problem the US faces politically. The media knows this, and the people in general don’t care enough to dig deeper.
In this case, the impression is the only person who thinks Michelle Obama did good was her daughter. That’s very sad. And, the only person important enough to merit an opinion on the front page of CNN, the “Ferris Bueller actor”, is unimpressed.
The reality is a lot of people think Michelle performed to expectations. The reality is the “Ferris Bueller actor” has a long history being a member of the Republican Party.
Not to worry though, because of the third opinion given much lower on the CNN page:
How do you rate Michelle Obama’s convention speech?
Thumbs up_____ 33% 5918 Thumbs down___ 12% 2192 Didn’t watch it__ 55% 10047 Total Votes: 18157
Guess I’m not alone.
However, the intent of this post is to point out that it seems odd to me that CNN would subtly be trashing Obama during his coronation. That leads to one of several conclusions:
- The never got over losing Hillary Clinton.
- They’re desperate to create five word blubs to fit their headline into neat little columns which leads to no ability to elaborate what the story actually means.
- They’re just sloppy.
Frankly, in this case, I think it’s all the above.
