Obob's World: The First Love Child

GOP hope via Rove

2006-11-11T21:28:00.000-05:00

Before you count the legendary Rove out, he brought some very interesting statistics to the table after Tuesday's "thumpin'"

Rove is famous for his political statistics, and his team has come up with an array of figures to contend that the Republicans' loss of 29 seats in the House and six in the Senate is not so out of whack with the historic norms. In all sixth year midterms, the President's party has lost an average of 29 House seats and 3 Senate seats, according to these figures. In all sixth-year midterms since World War II, the loss was an average of 31 House and 6 Senate seats. And in all wartime midterms since 1860, the average loss was 32 House and 5 Senate seat.

and

the party has calculated that the winner received 51 percent or less in 35 contests, and that 23 races were decided by two percentage points or fewer, 18 races were decided by fewer than 5,000 votes, 15 races were decided by fewer than 4,000 votes, 10 races were decided by fewer than 3,000 votes, eight were decided by fewer than 2,000 votes and five races were decided by fewer than 1,000 votes.

Hill won by a couple in Indiana's 9th while Carson by a few thousand in the 7th. Look at Webb beating Allen. So my little elephants, if you want it, you gotta earn it. And give the Democrats enough slack, let the hard Left think this is their Congress and Senate. Entitlement is not only a theme of the Democrats, it is their undoing. (This is the part where I give my sinister laugh as I roast children on an open fire. I got the recipe Karl Rove himself.)

Another Drudge Gem

2006-10-11T06:27:00.000-04:00

I watched this and it makes you believe in Hollywood again:

The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained an exclusive copy of a "scary" campaign advertisement created by Hollywood producer and director David Zucker that was intended to be used by GOP organizations in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign.

However, the advertisement was deemed "too hot" by GOP strategists all across Washington, DC who have refused to use it!

How about this do describe the bar

2006-09-02T17:20:00.000-04:00

Mickey's Irish Pub from intakeweekly.com

Overall: Mickey's is the mullet of pubs: All business in the front with its classic wood-and-brass bar area, and all party in the back's super-spacious annex

How about this description of a bar? Funny part it's true. If you're ever on the northside of Indy, my-in-laws own this place and I've worked there off and on since 92, go there. The food is good, the staff is friendly(can be rude if the girls are pissed for some reason) and the regulars oustanding. In the era of strip malls and subdivisions, it's as close to a neighborhood bar as you can get.

What Men Want

2006-08-14T23:01:00.000-04:00

The first is Jennifer Love Hewit laying on Soldier Field. This is your typical sex-bomb. Not gonna fib, she ain't hard on the eyes. Plus she is laying on the turf of the Mecca of football. I must make my hajj.

This is Dr. Libby Haight O'Connell, she is the Chief Historian for the History Channel. If you have watched any of the brilliant special on the American Revolution she has brought the words "sexy" and "smart" to a level not seen recent memory.
Before certain forces, forbin or shew, can get this to my wife, let me say this. I am blessed to be married to a woman whose eyes and smile create a perfect beauty not seen since da Vinci was working and breathing. I still lose my train of thought when I see her everyday, thus she thinks I cannot not multitask. It's not that, my virtual memory gets chewed and nothing else processes. She is a damn good nurse with a sharp wit and savvy business sense, I am out of my league to be with her. Plus she is loving mother of three children destined for something for the ages.

Map of SW Asia

2006-06-17T23:27:00.000-04:00

One of my favorite websites is RealClearPolitics.com. A collection of various op-eds, news items and assorted wonk prizes. I read an article from the ArmedForcesJournal.com on Middle East borders.
As we know, the Euros carved up and created the national borders of the Mid East and Africa, love Rwanda. Whether they were drunk, bored or self amused, we are paying the price today along with the current residents. The article creates new borders with brillant and short descriptions why. I really recommend you read this and learn a little.

Blood borders
How a better Middle East would look
By Ralph Peters

International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war.

The most arbitrary and distorted borders in the world are in Africa and the Middle East. Drawn by self-interested Europeans (who have had sufficient trouble defining their own frontiers), Africa's borders continue to provoke the deaths of millions of local inhabitants. But the unjust borders in the Middle East — to borrow from Churchill — generate more trouble than can be consumed locally.

While the Middle East has far more problems than dysfunctional borders alone — from cultural stagnation through scandalous inequality to deadly religious extremism — the greatest taboo in striving to understand the region's comprehensive failure isn't Islam but the awful-but-sacrosanct international boundaries worshipped by our own diplomats.

and I love this

Correcting borders to reflect the will of the people may be impossible. For now. But given time — and the inevitable attendant bloodshed — new and natural borders will emerge. Babylon has fallen more than once.

somebody won, old school

2006-05-24T22:37:00.000-04:00

the grey haired guy won american idol. Life goes on. What bugs the piss outta me is a statement made by ryan seacrest,

More than 63 million votes were cast, “more than any president in the history of our country has received,” Seacrest said.

Correct me if I am wrong, but can't you vote more than once? Reminds me of the old saying in the days of political machines, "Vote early and often!" Heck, my grandfather has been dead for over thirteen years and he probably voted for a daly in the last election again in Chicago. And don't get me wrong, judging by the democratic opposition of the Voter ID Law, they wouldn't mind that in the 06 elections. Sam Giacana did it for JFK in 1960 Chicago.

In 1960 Giancana was involved in talks with Allen W. Dulles, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), about the possibility of murdering Fidel Castro. It is claimed that during the 1960 presidential election Giancana used his influence in Illinois to help John F. Kennedy defeat Richard Nixon. The two men, at that time, shared the same girlfriend, Judith Campbell Exner.

That was in the First Ward to help JFK.

Lazy Ramadi

2006-05-19T05:52:00.000-04:00

little drunk kennedy is steve the pirate from dodgeball movie

2006-05-06T14:21:00.000-04:00

Alan Tudyk (Steve the Pirate)

mayo resident

dean does not believe in the urban poor ... or

2006-04-20T21:39:00.000-04:00

I believe Howard Dean is a liberal racist in denial. In the Indy Star he wishes the Indiana Voter ID Law would be repealed. Why?

Dean said the law imposes a burden on people to obtain the documents such as
birth certificates needed to get a photo ID.

So I am correct to believe people are smart enough to vote democrat in his eyes, but incapable of acquiring an ID. Better yet, he does not believe urban people, que the "disenfranchisement" rhetoric, are intelligent or responsible enough to keep an ID. This racist rhetoric of the left/democratic party is tragic beyond scope. Am I to believe the mighty democrats who brought the Civil Rights Act of 1964, only because LBJ had to give initial credit to a Republican Senator, thinks Blacks are lazy and cattle to be herded to the polls.
Yes

Rolling Stone covers of 1986

2006-04-19T06:00:00.000-04:00

Every time I think of Heuy Lewis, I think of the a grisly scene from the wonderfully disturbing American Pyscho
Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Patrick Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
[raises axe above head]
Patrick Bateman: Hey Paul!
[he bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him]
Patrick Bateman: TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!

next in the mideast?

2006-04-09T12:24:00.000-04:00

the rumor of the US using nukes on Mahmoud Ahmedinejad aka Mr. Wonderful and his band of Islamofacist thugs is brought by the Telegraph again. True or not, a preview delievered by us or them:

... I'd rather it would be them on the recieving end of the mushroom clouds.

and they said it was only a movie

2006-04-09T12:15:00.000-04:00

Memorable Quotes from
Night of the Lepus (1972)
Officer Lopez: Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!

paris is a hoot

2006-04-04T21:30:00.000-04:00

Adidas Samba ... the offical football boot of French looters!

reuters v cnn

2006-04-02T08:39:00.000-04:00

Look at the difference between the two stories of the rally in New Orleans for the upcoming election. The major players there are Jackson, Sharpton and Cosby.
First look at the story by CNN:

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Hundreds of protesters led by the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton rallied Saturday, saying the city's election plans will disenfranchise voters displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

The system of mail-in voting set up for the April 22 election for mayor and other positions in the largely black city will make it difficult for voters living elsewhere to cast a ballot, Jackson and other activists said.

"We want the Voting Rights Act," Jackson said at a news conference before the rally. Black leaders have argued city elections could violate the landmark 1965 law designed to ensure voter equality.

The city election could have a broad effect nationwide, Sharpton said: "What happens in New Orleans will affect voting rights all over the United States."

Then the version by Reuters

Bill Cosby tells New Orleans blacks to reject crime
By Russell McCulley
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Entertainer Bill Cosby urged New Orleans' black population on Saturday to cleanse itself of a culture of crime as it rebuilds from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina last year.

Cosby, whose criticism of some aspects of modern African-American culture has stirred controversy in recent years, told a rally headed by black leaders that the city needed to look at the "wound" it had before Katrina struck.

"It's painful, but we can't cleanse ourselves unless we look at the wound," Cosby told the rally of about 2,000 people in front of the city's convention center.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you had the highest murder rate, unto each other. You were dealing drugs to each other. You were impregnating our 13-, 12-, 11-year-old children," he said.

"What kind of a village is that?"

Of course I'll go with Cosby because he is actually progressive and seeks a change to improve the African American life in the US. He may scold people, but he has made his bones. No disrespect to either Jackson or Sharpton, they take care of that on thier own, but they would rather complain that tell it like it is or needs to be done in the real world.

But I'll really support you if you approve of the Voter ID Act. Not only was this one of the most corrupt states in politics, but now a chance to manipulate the votes. What if someone votes who has no desire to move back, that is a disinfranchisement of the those laft behind or are eager new residents.

random thoughts thanks to reuters

2006-04-01T20:44:00.000-05:00

security was really tight during spring break in cancun this week. Rumor has the Bush twins were coming

glad to see Ms. Carroll home, tragically, she has met the enemy. Hopefully she can express to others in her circle of the media what we are up aganist in Iraq

a very subtle hint what iran may look like should they pursue nukes. Very subtle

don't you love ignorance? If you really believe in your heart that Bush is a nazi, then you should read a book. Read something on the policies of the Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Hussian, Mao, Castro ... if you still think Bush is this evil then. You might as well get off the planet because you offer nothing productive to the human race. Really, you offer nothing to help me or anyone else make this a better planet.

finally, the French are a mess, I'm surprised the army hasn't surrendered yet.

Belushi

2006-03-30T20:07:00.000-05:00

one of my alltime favorite actors, some great pictures

from the hand of God to the butt of jokes

2006-03-27T22:41:00.000-05:00

Imagine going from scoring one of the most infamous goals in World Cup history verses the Brits ...

To be being a coked out freak with the tattoo of a dead commie on your arm
Ladies and Gentlemen, diego maradona!

Did you know this jackass supports hugo chavez of Venezuela?

Kinda bored

2006-03-19T14:03:00.000-05:00

on the verge of an angry rant, so I let terry tate, office linebacker express my feelings

Pie

2006-03-16T06:07:00.000-05:00

Since my boy was born, I have looked foward to my favorite spring activity with a newborn, not eating them as my students my swear. But placing one of my baby sized kids on my chest and falling asleep wwatching Cubs games. Yes CPS may come to my house for allowing my children to grow up Cubs fans, but at least they will never like the pack.
Looking at the Sun Times this morning, the Cubs have another "prospect." A kid names named Felix Pie. Comments made:
Cubs veteran Juan Pierre has seen enough of Pie, 21.

''If he was 30 years old, I would still be impressed,'' said Pierre, whose
contract expires after this season, meaning he might be keeping a spot warm in
center field for Pie. ''He's just one of those kids who has that instinct.
Everybody sees it and knows he is going to be special. It's just a matter of him
being consistent and being able to bring those five tools to the game every
night. And he can. He will be a superstar in the league.''
Pie (pronounced
Pee-ay) is the future for the Cubs. He has speed, he has power, he can hit for
average, he can field his position and he has an arm that makes grizzled
baseball men such as Von Joshua drop their jaws in disbelief.

And from Bill Mitchell's Minor League Report:

At 6-2 and 165 pounds, Pie's body will undoubtedly fill out as he matures.
Martinez concurred, stating, "He's a very strong kid. He looks thin, but I know
he's going to put on 10 to 20 pounds and he's going to still run."
Natural skills, good baseball instincts, self-confidence, physical ability ... Pie has
all of the necessary skills. Yet, this wise, five-tool talent knows what he
needs to do to continue his success in baseball.

Now if the Invalid Twins could stay healthy, we could make a run.

Slobo ... dead

2006-03-11T11:03:00.000-05:00

Well, Hell just picked up another resident. I hope satan has a healthy lesson plan for him. But tragically, he seemed to be an agent of the evil one. I like this description of the tyrant, thanks to of all places, rotten.com :

One of these little Hitlers had the funny name of Slobodan Milosevic, which
seems like it ought to be a vaudevillian evil landlord. In actuality, he was
indeed an evil landlord; he just wasn't very funny. (But then, neither was
vaudeville.)

Classic real life Simpsons

2006-03-09T19:46:00.000-05:00

Pain Chart

2006-02-26T10:22:00.000-05:00

I find this amusing, though helpful. There is a very fun scene in Scrubs when they point out the archaic nature of these pain charts and their usefullness.

are you friggin kidding me?

2006-02-14T22:10:00.000-05:00

Reality is slipping rapidily for the left. Lawerence O'Donnell is a blithering idiot when he implies Cheney was drunk. Boy, MSNBC sure knows how to pick'em. No wonder they are dead last in the ratings for the cable news camps:

The L.A. Times is edging closer to the most likely reason for the 18 hour delay
in reporting that the Vice President of the United States shot someone:

"This was a hunting accident," said Gilbert San Miguel, chief deputy of
the Kenedy County Sheriff's Office. "There was no alcohol or misconduct."

How do we know there was no alcohol? Cheney refused to talk to local
authorities until the next day. No point in giving him a breathalyzer then.
Every lawyer I've talked to assumes Cheney was too drunk to talk to the cops
after the shooting. The next question for the White House should be: Was
Cheney drunk?

I have never gone hunting with ultra-rich Republicans on a
Saturday afternoon, but I have seen them tailgating at Ivy League
football games, so it's hard for me to believe that any of their Saturday
lunches are alcohol free.

As opposed to ultra-rich democrats who drive women into the water and drown them when they are drunk.
By the way, how's West Wing doing?

Great Bumpersticker

2006-02-14T06:19:00.000-05:00

Quality

2006-02-13T22:49:00.000-05:00

I don't what is more embarrassing, VP Cheney the triggerman or Gregory of NBC sounding like a teenage school girl in heat. When you actually watch the video for the first time, it throws you off. These hacks are professional journalists, not some sixth grader upset about no recess. Listening to the batch of agenda driven baboons really makes look at the news given to us by the Big Three. Frankly, Crondike's "That the way it is" and the NYT "News that fit to print" lines seem like old USSR Pravda propaganda. Here's the classic clip with a link.
I watch Gregory on MSNBC and different news shows, but Christ, who gave this sanctimonious prick the privilege to report to you the truth if he can't stay objective on a hunting accident. Mad props to Expose the Left for the clip. I can't tell if the guy in the background is in love with him or wondering if the meds ran out.

take a look see

2006-02-12T13:03:00.000-05:00

Even though this is speculative, this little picture offers a visual idea of Iran and its brillant desire to pursue nukes. Click on the picture to better the view.

Hitch winning friends

2006-02-11T14:10:00.000-05:00

This charming piece about a Hitchens encounter speaks in volumes. For an atheist, he makes me laugh. Plus he offers a unique way to put up with the anit-war/anti Bush hacks. From the NY Daily News:
Hitchens is eager to Iraq 'n' roll
Leave it to pro-war pundit Christopher Hitchens to rile up a crowd of New York liberals.
The catcalls started almost from the moment the prickly Brit began defending the Iraq adventure during Wednesday night's squabble at the Ethical Culture Society.
"Make zoo noises!" Hitchens taunted. "Bear in mind, if you had been listened to, Bosnia would part of greater Serbia, Afghanistan would be run by the Taliban, and Saddam Hussein would still be in charge of Iraq."
For good measure, he added: "British intelligence was quite right to say that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium in Niger. That you can look up."
To which a peacenik screamed: "F- you!"
"Shut up," Hitchens retorted. "You're rude and silly. And ugly."
Afterward, a deeply satisfied Hitchens smoked a cigarette. "I know how to hurt their feelings because I know what they're going through. ... I have a real relish for inflicting pain on them."

Dead Sexy, Dead Career

2006-02-05T14:44:00.000-05:00

Tipping Point

2006-02-05T13:08:00.000-05:00

The riots of Muslim extremists in Europe, throw in the attacks on Denmark's and Norway's embassies, could be the tipping point for Europe. If there are deaths related to these protests, the Euros could freak out and start passing various legislation to curtail Muslim rights.
How? Different building codes for mosques to limits on gathering in public. If they further this with travelling restrictions and then some questionable wiretaps, sounds like a little Jim Crow with Hoover's old FBI.
But common sense would dictate the Euros sould be safer. All the cameras the British have placed on every street corner in London caught thier bombers. But the open borders are quite the quandry.
Van Gogh's kin who was stabbed to death with the note though the knife into his chest. The fall riots in Paris. Look to the Spanish Inquistion, the pograms and of course the Holocaust, and Europe's religious sensitivity is quite historic. Beware Muslims, they are really not that warm and fuzzy.
Here are the cartoons that this ruckus was started by from WorldNetDaily:

Although this is one nutjob, the attack on the freedom of speech by these facists is summed by this party guy:

So in the end, are the Euros allowed to attack the Muslim extremists with legal discrimination? Or do they wait for all hell to really break loose? Are the basic rights brough forth by Locke and enhanced by Jefferson to be cemented in law?
This is going to be more fun than an outted politico to watch.

developing story

2006-02-04T17:06:00.000-05:00

Cheer for Big Ben

2006-01-31T18:44:00.000-05:00

It's like a train wreck, I can't avert my eyes

2006-01-30T20:58:00.000-05:00

If my wife ever wants me to roll over in bed, all she has to say is Rachel Ray. She may quirky and cute, but she is birth control to me. Then why am I posting these pictures of her?

Carson's possible competition

2006-01-29T09:53:00.000-05:00

Recently I wrote that Rep Carson will have little, actually no competition in the upcoming election for her district. The "Queen", dubbed by Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson who is a good man, may have a couple GOPers after her.
Matthew Tully from the Star this Sunday has mentioned two possible candidates, former City-County Councilman Ron Franklin or Eric Dickerson, a local businessman not the upright running back. Dickerson does own a car dealership, which gives the moral equivalence of most of the members of either House on the Hill. No I take that back, it may give him more scruples than the majority of the Beltway residents, including the press.
One tidbit, they are both black. This would break the past strategy of the recent cannon fodder sent to their political demise by the GOP. Another tidbit in relation to Franklin:

This has some people buzzing, because Franklin last made news in 2001, when he
pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal recklessness, related to his
firing a handgun in public.

I find nothing wrong with this, unless you are on the wrong end of gravity. This actually led to the death of several residents of Kuwait at the end of the First Gulf War. This culturally insensitive charge clearly is a slam towards the freedom of expression shown in the recent Hamas victory.
Stay tuned kiddies, this could get fun

please do

2006-01-28T20:20:00.000-05:00

Cindy Sheehan Considering Senate Run
Saturday, January 28, 2006

CARACAS, Venezuela - Cindy Sheehan, the peace
activist who set up camp near President Bush's Texas ranch last summer, said
Saturday she is considering running against Sen. Dianne Feinstein to
protest what she called the California lawmaker's support for the war in Iraq.
"She voted for the war. She
continues to vote for the funding. She won't call for an immediate withdrawal of
the troops," Sheehan told The Associated Press in an interview while attending
the World Social
Forum in Venezuela along with thousands of other anti-war and
anti-globalization activists.

I can see how this unfolds

Cindy gets her signatures, there are that many naive people in Cali
Cindy runs a "grassroots" campaign with the integrity rich support of leaders from Venezuela and Cuba.
Cindy gets her tail handed to her in the primaries, Feistein says "It was a noble effort, but the more sane moonbats voted for me."
Cindy runs on a Socialist ticket
Cindy gets a few votes on election, says the system is flawed. Finally has the month long couch trip she had needed before being exploited by the media, the left and anyone else with no shame

Better Written Than I

2006-01-28T09:44:00.000-05:00

There has been quite a bit written by the a journalist of question named joel stein. He wrote a rather inflammatory piece calling out our troops and his lack of support for thier courage. I'm not going to call him names or belittle as much as he has done upon himself already, I've seen more mature articles written from confiscated notes in my classroom. But I read the great and wise Ben Stein's piece from the American Spectator, compliments of my morning read. Here is a profound summary that echos the sentiment of the vast majority of Americans.

Do I support men and women who are fighting Nazis who call themselves insurgents
or Islamic militants? Do I support men and women who offer up their lives to
fight the very same terrorists who killed three thousand totally guiltless
Americans on 9/11? Do I support the troops who have more moral decency in their
toes than I do or anyone I know does in our whole bodies? I support them, pray
for them, am humbled just to be on the same planet with them. With every morning
I wake up, every meal I eat, every walk I take in freedom, every night I sleep
in peace, I ask God to look after the men and women who guard the ramparts of
this blessed island of peace and decency called America. Without them, we would
be nothing. Without them, Joel Stein would have his head sawed off. Saints in
armor is what I call them and what they are. They are God's gifts to a wayward
world.

I now have a link to his website.

Turn out the lights, party's over

2006-01-27T19:35:00.000-05:00

I may seem rather ... negative towards the ingrates that infest the democratic party. And currently, the ingrates are either:
selfrightous windbags: ted "two drink minimum kennedy or joe "my voice sounds better than yours Judge Alito" biden
the "You see that flash of light in the corner of your eye? That's your career dissipation light. It just went into high gear." reps: harry reid or dick durbin.
Then there are the tragic souls who lives are shattered by an event, they never recover and try to live in the past, john kerry. The jfk wanna be in kerry is screaming alike a little girl for a filibuster on Alito. With no respect for decorum nor tradition, look up how polite the Republicans were to Justice Ginsburg, they want to block his nomination with a futile filibuster to get some street cred with the hard core left who have also infested the party and set it back a for a few national elections.
This little piece by abcnews.com is very foreboding tot eh winds of change about to sweep the democrats. Two of my favorite bits are

Long-smoldering Democratic dissension flared openly Friday as liberals sought support for a last-minute filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito against the advice of leaders worried about a backlash in the 2006 elections.

and

Reid announced he would side with Alito's critics on Monday, though on Thursday he had made clear his unhappiness with their strategy. "There has been adequate time for people to debate," he had said Thursday. "I hope this matter will be resolved without too much more talking."

That first spells the doom for the democrats should they follow through with this highly recommended suicide maneuver. The second shows a shocking amount of fear resonating through reid's voice.
All praise the mighty god of pride and may kerry and kennedy continue to lay prostrate in humility.

Larry the Cable Guy is Wise

2006-01-27T10:26:00.000-05:00

Yes he has the treasonous stars & bars on his hat, but his quote is probably what most of America thinks:

So you're not going to be sharing a pup tent up at Brokeback Mountain anytime soon? Even if the fishing's good up there?
Naw, I'm not going to go, because my a - -less chaps are still at the dry cleaners . . . You know, Hollywood cracks me up. They can't understand why people aren't going to movies anymore. . . . It's like, you know what? Maybe you don't need to have movies shoving gay themes down everybody's throat.
There's still a lot of people that have a family structure -- that are Mom and Dad; they're trying to raise kids, and they have a moral fiber behind them and they don't want to hear that crap, and that's still a majority of America. . . . they don't agree with that stuff.
I could care less who's gay: I don't care. If you want to be gay, God bless you. I'd rather hang out with a gay guy than Ted Kennedy any day.

Thanks to a great interview from Indy Star reporter Nick Crews. I will always support gay rights, but he hits the general American electoral dead on. Look at recent referendums in states like Missouri on gay rights. As wrong as they are, most people outside of Cape Cod agree with the Cable Guy on whom to hang out with.

Time To Go To Church

2006-01-26T23:06:00.000-05:00

That' s it, everyone out of the pool. It is officially the end of the civilzation. Johnnie Cochran is having a school named after him .

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles has renamed a public school after Johnnie Cochran, the
late criminal defense lawyer who helped clear “Trial of the Century” murder
defendant O.J. Simpson.

School district officials voted unanimously for
the name change Tuesday, saying Cochran, who attended the former Mt. Vernon
Middle School as a boy, was an “extraordinary, superb lawyer with movie-star
celebrity status.”

But the sister of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown
Simpson, whom the former star football player and actor was charged with
stabbing and slashing to death, said she was stunned by the move.

Next, the F. Lee Bailey Driving School will open in a strip mall near you.

Carson runs for 6th

2006-01-24T19:16:00.000-05:00

U.S. Rep. Julia Carson plans to announce Wednesday she is seeking a sixth term in Congress.

The Indianapolis Democrat is one of 32 House members across the country who won in 2004 with less than 55 percent of the vote.
But Carson is not expected to be targeted by the Republican Party this year. No Democrat or Republican has filed to challenge her yet. The filing deadline is Feb. 17.
Carson, 67, has been dogged by health problems that caused her to miss nearly a third of House votes in 2004. But her attendance record improved to 93 percent last year, close to the average for the delegation.
Carson has voted with her party an average of 96 percent since 2001 and with President Bush and average of 20 percent, according to Congressional Quarterly.
Carson said she is "confident in my ability to represent Indiana in the United States Congress" and continues to believe "in the basic principles of our democracy: freedom and justice for all."
-- Maureen Groppe, Star Washington Bureau

Why will she run pretty much unopposed and has won 5 terms? These questions haunt the Indiana GOP.
I'll answer: When the state GOP plans thier celebration party by the miracle they would possibly defeat Carson, it's in a nice hotel or such.
Last election, Carson had her celebration party in her garage. Think about it. I may not agree with her, except her scolding of the city council on the failure to protect gay rights, but she is a very savy politico. The locals love her, unless you consistantly pull the other lever.

Fan withdraws threat of lawsuit

2006-01-23T20:03:00.000-05:00

Showing common sense and a little manhood, Michael Axelrod will not sue the Davis':

In a joint statement released Monday, Michael Axelrod and the Davises said: "It's clear that the episode at the United Center last week, and its aftermath, evolved from some misunderstandings. This has produced regrets from all parties involved. Common sense strongly suggests that we collectively put this episode behind us and move on. That's what the Davises and Michael Axelrod plan to do, and we hope everyone else will, as well."

I'm glad to see this is over, next time he'll mind his manners and be more respectful of a woman with her child.

Spoon always quoted this before coming after me ...

2006-01-22T22:48:00.000-05:00

Memorable Quotes from
Billy Jack (1971)
[Billy Jack is surrounded by Posner's thugs]
Mr. Posner: You really think those Green Beret Karate tricks are gonna help you against all these boys?
Billy Jack: Well, it doesn't look to me like I really have any choice now, does it?
Mr. Posner: [laughing] That's right, you don't.
Billy Jack: You know what I think I'm gonna do then? Just for the hell of it?
Mr. Posner: Tell me.
Billy Jack: I'm gonna take this right foot, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face...
[points to Posner's right cheek]
Billy Jack: ...and you wanna know something? There's not a damn thing you're gonna be able to do about it.
Mr. Posner: Really?
Billy Jack: Really.
[kicks Posner's right cheek, sending him to the ground]

Setting the Tone

2006-01-21T11:44:00.000-05:00

I really like what Karl Rove had to say about the democrats and Republicans in a recent speech. First he stated the obvious:

"At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views on national security," Rove said. "Republicans have a post-9/11 worldview and many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. That doesn't make them unpatriotic -- not at all. But it does make them wrong -- deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong."

I think what really irked the dems about this statement is he is right. No one says the dems aren't patrioitc, but thier party ideology and rethirc does not show any solutions for portecting America. I loved it when kerry pointed out how unsecure our waterfronts are, brillant.
Also,

Rove referred only indirectly to the corruption issue, warning Republicans against becoming complacent in power. "The GOP's progress during the last four decades is a stunning political achievement," he said. "But it is also a cautionary tale of what happens to a dominant party -- in this case the Democrat Party -- when its thinking becomes ossified, when its energy begins to drain, when an entitlement mentality takes over, and when political power becomes an end in itself rather than a means to achieve the common good."

The Republicans have to realize the democrats are petty and shrill lot who will stoop to any low to push thier agenda, the Alito hearings are a prime example. And power can be a lethal selfinflicted wound if not kept in check.
I do hope the Republicans are serious about purging the ranks as Mehlman hinted in his quote:

Calling for the vigorous prosecution of any wrongdoing, Mehlman sought to insulate his party from the spreading scandal involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the indictment of former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and the guilty plea of former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.). "If Republicans are guilty of illegal or inappropriate behavior," Mehlman said, "then they should pay the price and they should suffer the consequences."

AD was right to go into the stands

2006-01-21T10:35:00.000-05:00

Antonio Davis of the dreaded New York Knickerbockers has been suspended for 5 games because he went into the stands to protect his wife. That is the jist of it. Some second rate Bulls fan of a Chicago democrat fundraiser shot off his mouth,

Michael Axelrod is the son of David Axelrod, a well-known Democratic political
consultant who has worked with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and U.S. Sen.
Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

a woman got in his face and he forgot his role. The role of a man is to curb yourself when a woman with her child asks to watch your language, he did not. He acted in manner AD thought was threatening to his wife, so he approached him. They do not owe him an apology, they do not need to send money to a charity on his behalf, the second rate schmuck, Axelrod, needs to be a man and say it's done and walk away remembering the lesson.
When AD played for the Pacers back in the 90 he was what he still is, a class act. He was one of my favorite players and like many of the Pacer Nation, regretted his departure. So when this little pipsqueak shoots of his mouth, enough to cause his wife to get in his face, then Axelrod cries like a little girl, I still have his back. I remember when Vernon Maxwell went into the stand s and struck a player for making rude comments about his dead child, the fan deserved far worse.
So my point is, it takes the son of a prominant democrat to point out our lack of accoutablilty. Of course the democrats are a party that lacks accountablilty, look to its fabled icon, slick willy.

2006-01-18T22:37:00.000-05:00

Amazing the power of a tiny one

2006-01-17T23:08:00.000-05:00

Not just a day off

2006-01-16T11:35:00.000-05:00

Although his "I Have A Dream" speech is considered a high point of his crusade, remember the prize and far we still have to go.

Did Anybody Ask Her About the Alito Hearings?

2006-01-15T14:02:00.000-05:00

Merry Belated Christmas Hitch

2006-01-15T13:54:00.000-05:00

Galloway loses respect with cat charade
By Richard Alleyne and Lucy Shaw
(Filed: 14/01/2006)
George Galloway plumbed new depths when he pretended to be a cat as part of a task set for him during his appearance on the television show Celebrity Big Brother.

The Repect Party MP, who last year lambasted the United States Senate over the war in Iraq, crouched on all fours, purring and licking imaginary milk from the hands of the actress Rula Lenska.

George Galloway pretends to be a cat while Rula Lenska strokes him
She then rubbed the "cream" from his "whiskers" and stroked his head and behind his ears before he put his head on her lap.

Mr Galloway, 51, faced an immediate backlash from residents of his Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, east London, who voted for him last May.

He further angered conservative Muslims, who make up the bulk of his support, when he told his housemates, including glamour models, entertainers and minor pop stars, that his favourite pursuits were sex and sunbathing.

James Sibthorp, 47, who runs a cab company in the constituency, said: "It is an insult to local people that we've got our MP acting like a fool pretending to be a cat. I hope he stays in there even longer so that people realise who they have voted for - a self-publicist with a big ego."

Monir Ali, 50, a tailor, said: "I think a lot of people are regretting voting for him. A man of his importance should not be on a programme like that."

Hilary Armstrong, the Labour Party's chief whip, who visited the area yesterday, said the cat incident had made her "cringe".
She said that Mr Galloway had missed vital votes and debates, particularly on the Crossrail scheme and renovation of a hospital, which would affect his constituents.

John Biggs, a member of the Greater London Authority Assembly, said: "Big Brother is full of media people with failing careers making one desperate throw to get back on the stage. Does that apply to George? I'll leave that up to viewers."

Ron McKay, Mr Galloway's spokesman, said he wished the cat episode "had not happened" and claimed that the MP had been misled by the programme makers. Rob Hoveman, the MP's parliamentary assistant, said: "It is outrageous that they have censored his views. He is going to have to work hard to win back credibility."

The show's producer Peter Bazalgette denied that Mr Galloway was being censored.

He said that broadcasting rules on political balance meant that Mr Galloway's thoughts on the Iraq war and poverty in his constituency could be aired only on the daily highlights programme if "countervailing views" were screened as well.

A spokesman said: "He was aware prior to the show that as a broadcaster we are regulated by strict guidelines. He was aware that this was not an opportunity for him to get on his soapbox."

Can't Stop Shaking My Head

2006-01-12T23:00:00.002-05:00

These jokers are embarrassing, thier treatment of Alito sickens the average American and panders to the liberal base. First you have a man who should be guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

The other is attempting Pai Mei's five point palm-exploding heart technique.

Gospel

2006-01-12T22:47:00.000-05:00

Peter Gibbons: Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
Office Space

Just some good old boys ...

2006-01-10T19:37:00.000-05:00

Kennedy is looking for lost bottle of Scotch and Biden trying to look like he may yell out at any minute, "I'm outta order, the whole system is outta order! Did that look good for my 08 spots?"
Round 1 Alito v Kennedy

KENNEDY: Now, in 1985, in your job application to the Justice Department, you wrote, "I believe very strongly in the supremacy of the elected branches of government." Those are your words, am I right?
ALITO: They are and that's a very inapt phrase.
KENNEDY: Excuse me?
ALITO: It's an inapt phrase, and I certainly didn't mean that literally at the time, and I wouldn't say that today.
The branches of government are equal. They have different responsibilities, but they are all equal and no branch is supreme to the other branches.
KENNEDY: So you've changed your mind?
ALITO: No, I haven't changed my mind, Senator, but the phrasing there is very misleading and incorrect.
What I was getting at is the fact that our Constitution gives the judiciary a particular role and there are instances in which it can override the judgments that are made by Congress and by the executive. But for the most part, our Constitution leaves it to the elected branches of government to make the policy decisions for our country.
KENNEDY: All right. I want to move on.

Damn, he just worked the old sot.

Then the worldly Biden from Delaware

BIDEN: But I should tell you now, I want to talk to you about, again, the real world here and, kind of, the effects test.

And so for me, Judge, where I still remaining somewhat puzzled is on whether or not you, whether it's applying the unitary executive standard and what you mean by that or whether it is the assertions made relative to how to look at discrimination cases, which are difficult, you seem to come down -- I'm not associating myself with the studies done -- I don't know enough to know whether they're correct or not -- by Cass Sunstein and others; I don't disagree with them.

So he really doesn't know enough, but enough to try and "cut" him? Please, Alito's from Jersey, Biden has been in the Beltway so long, he's forgotten that there are people in the flyover states. His continual posturing to make the feeble attempt to attack Alito is as frightening as his arrogance. Pathetic.

Who's Who of the Abramoff Clan

2006-01-08T22:50:00.000-05:00

I do not condone the Republicans and the Abramoff lovefest, but apparantly ol Jack played both sides of the aisle if you know what I mean? Nudge nudge, wink wink?
See if you can find a Senator from your state! You won't hear about him/her in the news!

Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least $22,500
Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least $6,500

I like knowing my Junior Senator from Indy can hold his own!
Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least $1,250
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least $2,000
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least $20,250
Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least $21,765
Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least $7,500
Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least $12,950
Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least $8,000
Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least $7,500
Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least $14,792
Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least $79,300
Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least $14,000
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least $2,000
Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least $1,250
Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least $45,750
Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least $9,000
Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least $2,000
Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least $14,250
Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least $3,300
John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least $98,550
Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least $28,000
Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least $4,000
Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least $6,000
Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least $29,830
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least $14,891
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least $10,550
Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least $78,991
Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least $20,168
Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least $5,200
Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least $7,500
Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least $2,300
Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least $3,500
Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least $68,941
John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least $4,000
Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least $4,500
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least $4,300
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least $29,550
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least $6,250
Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least $6,250

If they won't drop it ...

2006-01-08T14:33:00.000-05:00

bug bug for the fun of it!

2006-01-08T12:09:00.000-05:00

I would have to say, the most frustrating piece of news recently, is the whole bugging fiasco. Let me get this straight: bad guys are using electroinic equipment, e-mail to cell phones, to plot the destruction of my family. And some democrats and liberals who have thier panties in a bind because they feel unsafe? Really?
What kind of flipping moron really buys into the crap we have to play ball? We should be setting the rules of the game not allowing the terrorists to do so. A friendly reminder the 36% who feel the NSA should not be allowed to intercept phone calls of suspected terrorists, who do you really care about? The rights of someone who wants to kill your family or your family? If you have to even think about it, either use a condom at all times or you should have in the first. And before I get a comment saying how insensitive I am, bugger off, your opinion right matters little. But unlike the child murderers in countless carbombings, I will always support your right to it. Yes they are more than willing to kill "soft" targets, innocents.
An example of our success by Mark Steyn of the Sunt Times in U.S. shouldn't have to do tap dance over bugging:

This isn't a hypothetical situation. Consider Iyman Faris, a naturalized American citizen also known as Mohammad Rauf and nailed by U.S. intelligence through the interception of foreign-U.S. communications. He was convicted in 2003 for doing the legwork on an al Qaida scheme to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. A "hardworking truck driver," he was introduced to Osama bin Laden while enjoying a well-earned vacation at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in 2000. At the request of bin Laden's aides, he researched the terrorist possibilities of "ultralight" aircraft. In 2002, he was commissioned by al Qaida to return to America and procure the materials for severing suspension-bridge cables and derailing trains.

funny guy, funny guy

2006-01-06T21:23:00.000-05:00

One of my more inspirational and endearing charaters to grace the vast wasteland known as telelvision, is the belved Dr. Cox of Scrubs. John C. McGinely is one of the best flippin charater actors out there, see him in Watch It. I'll post that another day. But Dr. Cox makes me is the shit to say the least, I actually get teaching tips on classroom management from him. You know, the daily yappin' with the kids. Here are few, go to the memorable quotes on thier imdb website:

Dr. Cox: [in response to something J.D. just said] Oh, my God; I care so little, I almost passed out.

[Dr. Cox and the pregnant Jordan are walking through towards a Nurses' Station]
Dr. Cox: Yes, hello? Could we please get my hormonal, extremely annoying ex-wife's amnio underway?
Jordan: Wow, I can't wait to write that down in the baby journal.
[Dr. Cox grunts]
Jordan: Could you be a bigger ass right now?
Dr. Cox: Could you *have* a bigger ass right now?

[Dr. Cox looks up towards the ceiling]
Dr. Cox: Now, I know you say you love us all equally. But you don't, do ya? I'm onto you, Big Man.

[about J.D]
Dr. Cox: Uh, Carla. Carla, have you, uh, have you seen Newbie?
Carla: Oh, he got off your leash?
Dr. Cox: [laughing] Give me a break. The kid's like... he's like a... have you ever seen a drunk baby?
[Carla stares at him]
Dr. Cox: Eh, it's a long story involving my son, a rum cake, and a low counter. Suffice to say, it turns out that, at first, it's... it's endearing to watch them bounce off of the walls, but man... you take your eyes off them for one second...
[hits the table]
Dr. Cox: ... and bam! They got a bucket on their head, and they're plowing right through your brand new flat screen TV.
[whispering remorsefully]
Dr. Cox: God save me, it was barely out of the box.
[Carla continues to stare at him]
Dr. Cox: The point is... Newbie is my drunk baby.

Dr. Cox: Oh, gosh, Shannon, thank you so much for clarifying my point by repeating it word for word. And now, in a reciprocal gesture, can I be included in the planning of your coming-out party?
J.D.: Is that a gay joke?
Dr. Cox: No, it's a cotillion joke. My God, Newbie, it's been two furiously frustrating years - how is it possible that you still don't get me? I would never compare you to the gays. I like the gays - I like their music, I like their sense of style, I especially like what they've done with Halloween - but our thing is that you are a little girl. That's who you are. But that's really not fair...

Congrats Urlacher

2006-01-06T19:28:00.000-05:00

Brian Urlacher went from being the one of the most overrated athletes in the NFL to Defensive MVP. Woody Hayes was right, people are fickle.

Where are the educators of America?

2006-01-04T13:10:00.000-05:00

The title of post may sound a little antagonistic, but really? I have been a teacher for a few years and
I am thoroughly amazed the education class in our country is not constantly attacking the Taliban and Islamofascist movement. Throughout history, totalitarian regimes butchered educators of all levels. Why do you think so many teachings of Confucius don't exist, previous dynasties burned them and killed the teachers. The Nazis burned books and sent teachers in oppressed countries to the infamous concentration camps. Al qaeda terrorists killed teachers in Iraq and little girls in Indonesia. Recently, the headmaster of a school in Afghanistan was beheaded in front of his family! He had girls at his school. Malim Abdul Habib was a teacher, a father, and a husband. But in eyes of every tyrant that has existed, he was a dangerous man. He allowed boys and girls to learn, to become thinkers and to possibly improve his country.
I am not an alarmist, just stating facts. Please remember and value this as you return to your classroom or your daily job, we are at war once again with people who hate freedom.
The picture you see is a Taliban troop transporter and a US missile helping those cowards meet Allah sooner, I do not think there will be 72 virgins waiting for them. Click the picture to get an enlarged view.

The Multimedia Bears

2006-01-03T14:17:00.000-05:00

The Bears forum I got to often is a great resource of information and chatter. The guys on the sight are phenoms at tracking down Bears related facts and opinions. A couple videos the boys provided really sum up how Bears' fans feel this year.
This one is on the lethal defense another on Urlacher, who should be defensive MVP hands down this year.
And an enlightening picture of the boy wonder Orton
By the way, check out this classic SNL Da Bears skit

Finally, the drop kick has returned!

2006-01-02T10:48:00.000-05:00

The mighty Doug Flutie has finally proven to be a real "old school" playa! I remember watching him complete the legendary Hail Mary pass versus Miami in my Grandpa Don's basement eons ago. But he completed a drop kick Sunday, the first time since 1941. The ex-Bear completed the kick last done by a Bear, oddly enough. Plus, how often can you hear some one refer to the offensive line as "giddy?"

''The offensive line was giddy, they were coming up to the line saying, 'Watch this! watch this!' " Holliday said.

All in all, if this is how Flutie ends his career, well done. If I find it online, I'll post it.

Chairman Mao would be proud

2006-01-02T10:26:00.000-05:00

Like many people, I was not iniatially thrilled about China getting the Olympic nod. But then I thought about it, what does the Olympics bring, besides revenue? Journalists. Yes, the little critters that poke and prod and ask questions that matter, unless they work for certain tabloid shows, the Today show is included in that clump. Now we remember the massacre in Tienaman Square, see picture, and how the Chinese government tried to suppress as many facts as possible; it'll be a lot harder to suppress facts with "capitalist renegade" journalists in the countryside. Throw in the chance a couple gonzo wannabes will be jailed for not following thier state directed protocal, and a one bull has entered the China shop.
All this time, another bull has been pacing outside the shop waiting to get in and make itself known, he could be from rural China, the southern provinces(site of current masssacre) or a very restless student body yearning for real freedom. A great article by Joshua Muldavin mentions this "other" bull pacing and getting very pissed to say the least.
So lets see how this develops, the Kyoto Treaty ducking Chinese are going to learn if they want to be a player, they better respect the game.

Well, at least there's support groups

2006-01-01T09:09:00.000-05:00

from the Sun Times:

GAME TIME: The Los Angeles Times recently did a story on the Madden NFL video game and the way it has turned into an obsession for many NFL players. Sales over the last 15 years have topped $1.5 billion, and since 2001, it's the top-selling video game in the country. Players are so fond of it, some brought complaints to John Madden while he toured the NFL on "Monday Night Football'' or directly to the company that makes the game. Michael Vick can't understand why he's not the fastest player in the game instead of Randy Moss. Corey Dillon thinks his overall rating is too low. Michael Clayton wants his tackling number higher, just in case he ever has to make a tackle during the game. But the best response of all came from Steelers running back Jerome Bettis.
"I had to quit cold turkey three years ago," Bettis told the newspaper. "I was up all night, all day. I just realized that, hey, I've got to do some other things with my time. It can be an addiction, man."

A Little Game

2005-12-31T22:55:00.000-05:00

What does one pine for what the other has not explained for its wherabouts?

A Clue

To a new year

2005-12-31T22:08:00.000-05:00

Almost the Year's Last Post

2005-12-31T15:18:00.000-05:00

One of my favorite blogs is powerline.com; smart, insightful, and took down Dan Rather with the truth, see his and mapes favorite site link. They provide a link that I found on realclearpoltics.com, realclearpoltics.com another phenom of a website(my morning read.) From mrc.org, there is a list of 2005's media highlights to amuse and befuddle yourself. I read it and reread pats, very disturbing the lack of objectivity of those entrusted to provide us with honest news and commentay. Here is one segment on Ted Turner I found scary, he is a tycoon and considered a brillant man:

Ted Turner: "I am absolutely convinced that the North Koreans are absolutely sincere. There’s really no reason for them to cheat [on nukes]....I looked them right in the eyes. And they looked like they meant the truth. You know, just because somebody’s done something wrong in the past doesn’t mean they can’t do right in the future or the present. That happens all the, all the time."
Wolf Blitzer: "But this is one of the most despotic regimes and Kim Jong-Il is one of the worst men on Earth. Isn’t that a fair assessment?"
Turner: "Well, I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look — in the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much different than most other people."
Blitzer: "But, look at the way, look at the way he’s, look at the way he’s treating his own people."
Turner: "Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but–"
Blitzer: "A lot of those people are starving."
Turner: "I didn’t see any, I didn’t see any brutality...."
— Exchange on CNN’s The Situation Room, Sept. 19.

The Tick is Immortal

2005-12-31T15:05:00.000-05:00

I was watching Bravo's Heros, Villians and Vixans, and coming in at #16, the Tick. Very cool the Big Blue guy gets some props from an "artsy" station like Bravo. Of course it was a jury of his peers, few of them at that.

May not be positive, but funny

2005-12-30T10:32:00.000-05:00

from the Trib's website:

Arrested development in Green Bay
December 29, 2005
"Well, at least the Packers' fans brought their `A' game Sunday against the Bears. Peace on Earth? How about disturbing the peace.According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Sunday at Lambeau Field was the busiest of the year for public safety officials and a high-water mark for the season with 25 fans arrested and 60 ejected. The totals eclipsed the Nov. 21 meeting of the Packers and Vikings, when police made 15 arrests and 52 people were ejected.
Sunday's arrests included possession of marijuana, underage drinking, unlawful conduct at a public event and resisting an officer. The newspaper reported that four were arrested for possession of marijuana while entering the stadium, four for underage drinking and 17 for unlawful conduct at a public event, four of whom also were arrested for resisting an officer.
The reasons the 60 people were ejected included: smoking in prohibited areas, urinating in inappropriate places, being highly intoxicated and disorderly and disrupting the fans around them. "
At least there were no acts of random bestiality...

Year in Review

2005-12-29T07:44:00.000-05:00

It is that time of year, when various critics, pundits, and innocent civilians create their "best of" lists for the past year. So, being a rather intelligent, observant, and modest individual I am, here are my list of the best of 2005:

Best Movie: Magnificent Seven, I've watched this numerous times and continue to be amazed of the transformation of Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece to the Old West can be as effective. The casting is perfect from Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Yul Brenner, and Eli Wallach (who looked Mexican!)
Best Record: Richard Cheese and Lounge Aganist the Machine APERITIF FOR DESTRUCTION, timeless, every song he does is immediately Richard's forever. His searing duet with Steven Hawking makes me cry everytime.
Best Book: The Art of War by Sun Tzu, I use this everyday in the classroom, very effective in education and influencing children.
Best Media Moment: after Katrina watching Lisa Daniels of MSNBC scream like a drunken harpy, "Who do we blame? Who do we blame?" Yes ladies and gentlemen, the next Katie Couric
Best Sports Moment: Charles Harris of the Chicago Bears intercepting Favra last Sunday for he Bears to win and clinch the Norse
Best Real Life Moment: any time with my wife, sappy but true
Best Reality TV Moment: hard to say, not my genre, but it would have to be Willy has been melting down on Celebrity Biggest Loser.
Best Moment to Witness in History: the evolution of Democracy in the Middle East. Years from now people will look back at this year ranking near 1989 as the year of impact. We will look at the spouting democracies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (still a looong way to go), the Cedar Revolution of Lebanon, and the strides in Iraq. People will look back and vilify GW, curse the democrats who attacked him at every step(except the nutjobs on the left) and most of all, we will remember the exceptionally brave men and women who fought and died for our country.

You may have read at my blog and held your nose in disgust for my thoughts like smelling the diaper blowout my daughter had yesterday, both were rather epic. But the soldiers and their families mentioned above are part of a long line of courageous souls who make sure people like me don't get arrested, tortured, and butchered, that goes for all of us Americans. By the way, it also goes for a hell of a lot of people in the world.

Trouble on the Horizon

2005-12-28T09:01:00.000-05:00

Some things are constant, buying gas/doing laundry are a necessary evil, the Kennedys are an overrated clan, and there is always some nutjob running a country somewhere. One of the current darlings with an ideology and nukes on the way, is in Iran, party guy Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Above Right
First, it was not a real election. For a country that has currently banned western music to goon squads aganist student free speech groups, it keeps things "real."
Second, the charming fellow on the right who looks rather polite, has publicy desired the eradication of Israel of the map, appartently he missed the UN mandatroy first year ruler class on how not to draw the ire of a very lethal Israeli military. read Lancing the Boil
"Europe’s policy about Iran’s nuclear program can best be summed up as “Hurry up, sane and Western Israel, and take out this awful thing — so we can damn you Zionist aggressors for doing so in our morning papers.”
The last is the growing desire for freedom of expression in a Islamicfascist thoecracy, I like what my favorite intoxicated writer, My Man Hitch in Will Iran's Meddling Come At a Cost? has to say with clarity
"Millions of Iranians have satellite dishes and relatives in the West; there is a
large and restive Kurdish minority that has been much encouraged by developments
in Iraq; feminist and other dissident movements are extensive. It is sometimes
argued that such groups do not want to be seen or painted as agents of the U.S.
government. Very well, then, here is a great project for American human-rights
and pro-disarmament and "civil society" groups to undertake. Whatever the case,
it cannot be that such a despotic and arrogant regime feels that it can meddle
everywhere without any cost to itself."

I told my students a couple weeks ago, and I really think it will happen, Israeli jets will fly through Iraq, bomb a few "mosques," thus eliminate the Iranian threat, for a few days.
By the way, this Time Person of We Like Because We're Smart and Know What's Best for You has claimed the Holocaust is a "myth", enough said!

Bears Win

2005-12-25T21:25:00.000-05:00

The friggin Chicago Bears have swept the Packers, won the Norse, and clinched the number two seed(no wildcard!) Not bad for a team predicted #32 in league by Sports Illustrated. More babbling to come ...

Merry Christmas

2005-12-23T16:48:00.000-05:00

Good Advice

2005-12-22T11:57:00.000-05:00

I would like to extend some very good advice to any unintelligent reporter. Judging by the tone and language of Colts President Bill Polian today, be respectful. Tony Dungy's son, Jim, died this morning. The cause has not been revealed, nor should it matter. Dungy is a very respected coach in the league and his son's death should be handled as well. I hope those in the sports media are smart when they ask questions and search for answers. It is a pretty good bet knowing the passion of the men on the team and on its staff, the league wide as well, would blackball any dumb reporter. Our prayers are with his family with this tragedy.

Bears going to the Pro Bowl

2005-12-21T21:24:00.000-05:00

Brian Urlacher
Olin Kreutz
Mike Brown
Nathan Vasher
Lance Briggs
Tommie Harris

Huh? Dirty Republican ohhhh, oops, thanks drudge

2005-12-20T21:32:00.000-05:00

This is from Drudge:

CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SECRET SEARCH ON AMERICANS -- WITHOUT COURT ORDERCARTER EXECUTIVE ORDER: 'ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE' WITHOUT COURT ORDER Bill Clinton Signed Executive Order that allowed Attorney General to do searches without court approvalClinton, February 9, 1995: "The Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order"Jimmy Carter Signed Executive Order on May 23, 1979: "Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order." WASH POST, July 15, 1994: Extend not only to searches of the homes of U.S. citizens but also -- in the delicate words of a Justice Department official -- to "places where you wouldn't find or would be unlikely to find information involving a U.S. citizen... would allow the government to use classified electronic surveillance techniques, such as infrared sensors to observe people inside their homes, without a court order."Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick, the Clinton administration believes the president "has inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches for foreign intelligence purposes."Secret searches and wiretaps of Aldrich Ames's office and home in June and October 1993, both without a federal warrant.END

And this is from Byron York of National Review:

In her testimony, Gorelick made clear that the president believed he had the power to order warrantless searches for the purpose of gathering intelligence, even if there was no reason to believe that the search might uncover evidence of a crime. "Intelligence is often long range, its exact targets are more difficult to identify, and its focus is less precise," Gorelick said. "Information gathering for policy making and prevention, rather than prosecution, are its primary focus."

Bears Win, Let's Sweep the pack

2005-12-19T16:43:00.000-05:00

GW is good

2005-12-18T22:51:00.000-05:00

I just finished reading President Bush's speech from tonight, busy watching the Bear's game, and it was polite and polished. What amazes me is how polite and repectful he is to the anti-war movement, and gets spit at back in response. I can already the little children shooting venom back at the President,

I also want to speak to those of you who did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq: I have heard your disagreement, and I know how deeply it is felt. Yet now there are only two options before our country — victory or defeat. And the need for victory is larger than any president or political party, because the security of our people is in the balance. I do not expect you to support everything I do, but tonight I have a request: Do not give in to despair, and do not give up on this fight for freedom.

but he is right and they know it, we leave, we lose. And the blood of thousands will be on the hands of those who forced us to leave early, to bad they would never admit it.

This May Offend Some People

2005-12-18T15:45:00.000-05:00

Despite my Libertarian leanings, I have no problem with Bush okaying wire taps post 9/11. I am a law abiding citizen who favors torture to save my children and friends overseas. I know there are very evil scumbags who like to see my wife in a burka and my daughters never educated. Think about it, these wiretaps would offend three groups of people:

The "We Hate Bush Because we Lost" crowd: this is made up of democrats unable to cope with the fact they ran two crap campaigns and got beat by team Bush/Cheney/Rove. GW could produce loads of evidence for his being necessary, but they'll complain. Why, jealous, bad upbringing, or think communism could actually work..
The "Terrorists" crowd: pretty much the bad guys. They love to see us tear each other down to help their cause. Your average terrorist is smart enough to know we actually have rights and respect mankind. Your run of the mill terrorist cares little except for thier objective, our demise, and appreciates any help along the way. Favorite movie would of course be Fahrenheit 9/11.
The "Yes, that happens to be aluminum foil on my head" crowd: your nutjob who thinks the fluoride in the water is there to keep you pacified, black helicopters are watching their everystep , and we never landed on the moon. Actually, their coded Star Trek laced conversations would be quite entertaining. "Ensign Smith to Ensign Gakori, the Klingon is aganist the wall and his phaser is set for love."

Funny Commercials

2005-12-18T15:33:00.000-05:00

Right now, one of my favorite commercials would have to be the new Peyton Manning "D-Caff, D-Caff!" chanting to the waitress. But the best is in the end of the commercial when he mooches the apron of a server. Think about how many times he has had that done to him for a jersey.
The other commercial is the Miller Lite in court versus Bud Light series. The sublty of the young lawyer in jeans with a tweed jacket versus the older suit wearing stiffs is standard. But the best is when he brings in Flavor Flav and Gene Simmons as "experts." Even the "tastes great," "less filling" routine was nice tip to the old days.

Dastardly Fellow

2005-12-17T11:58:00.000-05:00

forbin10 is a packers fan

just about sums it up

2005-12-16T13:34:00.000-05:00

Although I am trying to become a better writer and provide some original thought. I read pieces like David Hanson's Lancing the Boil and really sums up the view of many Americans. In fact op-eds like this keep me rather humble. By the way, a new "silent majority" may be lurking in 06:

For some time, a large number of Americans have lived in an alternate universe where everything is supposedly going to hell. If you get up in the morning to read the New York Times or Washington Post, watch John Murtha or Howard Dean on the morning talk shows, listen to National Public Radio at noon, and go to bed reading Newsweek it surely seems that the administration is incommunicado (cf. “the bubble”), the war is lost (“unwinnable”), the Great Depression is back (“jobless recovery”), and America about as popular as Nazi Germany abroad (“alone and isolated”).
But in the real adult world, the economy is red-hot, not mired in joblessness or relegating millions to poverty. Unemployment is low, so are interest rates. Growth is high, as is consumer spending and confidence. Our Katrina was hardly as lethal as the Tsunami or Pakistani earthquake. Thousands of Arabs are not rioting in Dearborn. American elderly don’t roast and die in the thousands in their apartments as was true in France. Nor do American cities, like some in China, lose their entire water supply to a toxic spill. Americans did not just vote to reject their own Constitution as in some European countries.
The military isn’t broken. Unlike after Vietnam when the Russians, Iranians, Cambodians, and Nicaraguans all soon tried to press their luck at our expense, most of our adversaries don’t believe the U.S. military is losing in Iraq, much less that it is wise now to take it on. Instead, the general impression is that our veteran and battle-hardened forces are even more lethal than was true of the 1990s — and engaging successfully in an almost impossible war.
Nor are we creating new hordes of terrorists in Iraq — as if a young male Middle Eastern fundamentalist first hates the United States only on news that it is in Iraq crafting a new Marshall Plan of $87 billion and offering a long-oppressed people democracy after taking out Saddam Hussein. Even al Jazeera cannot turn truth into untruth forever.
Instead, the apprentice jihadist is trying to win his certification as master terrorist by trying his luck against the U.S. Marines abroad rather than on another World Trade Center at home — and failing quite unlike September 11.
Like it or not, wars are usually won or lost when one side feels its losses are too high to continue. We have suffered terribly in losing 2,100 dead in Iraq; a vastly smaller enemy in contrast may have experienced tens of thousands of terrorists killed, and is finding its safe havens and money drying up. Panic about Iraq abounds in both the American media and the periodic fatwas of Dr. Zawahiri — but not in the U. S. government or armed forces.
The world does not hate the United States. Of course, it envies us. Precisely because it is privately impressed by our unparalleled success, it judges America by a utopian measure in which anything less than perfection is written off as failure. We risk everything, our critics abroad almost nothing. So the hope for our failures naturally gives reinforcement to the bleak reality of their inaction.
The Europeans expect our protection. The Mexicans risk their lives to get here. Indians and Japanese want closer relations. The old commonwealth appreciates our strength in defense of the West. Even the hostile Iranians, North Koreans, Cubans, Venezuelans, Chinese, and radical Islamists — despite the saber-rattling rhetoric — wonder whether we are naïve and idealistic rather than cruel and calculating. All this we rarely consider when we read of anti-Americanism in our major newspapers or hear another angry (and usually well-off) professor or journalist recite our sins.
Al Zarqawi is in a classical paradox: He can’t defeat the American or Iraqi security forces or stop the elections. So he must dream up ever more macabre violence to gain notoriety — from beheading Americans on the television to mass murdering Shiites to blowing up third-party Jordanians. But such lashing out only further weakens his cause and makes the efforts of his enemies on the battlefield easier, as his Sunni base starts to see that this psychopath really can take his supporters all down with him.
The Palestine problem is not even worse off after Iraq. Actually, it is far better with the isolated and disgraced Arafat gone, the fence slowly inching ahead, the worst radical Islamic terrorists on the West Bank in paradise, Israel out of Gaza, and the world gradually accepting its diplomatic presence. The real hopeless mess was 1992-2000 when a well-meaning Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, and Dennis Ross still deluded themselves that a criminal gang leader like Yasser Arafat was a legitimate head of state or that you could start to end an endless war by giving his thugs thousands of M-16s.
The European way is not the answer, as we see from the farcical negotiations over Iran’s time bomb. Struggling with a small military, unsustainable entitlement promises, little real economic growth, high unemployment, falling birth rates, angry unassimilated minorities, and a suicidal policy of estrangement from its benefactor the United States, Europeans show already an 11th-hour change of heart as we see in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and soon in France.
Europe’s policy about Iran’s nuclear program can best be summed up as “Hurry up, sane and Western Israel, and take out this awful thing — so we can damn you Zionist aggressors for doing so in our morning papers.”
The administration did not prove nearly as inept in the Iraqi reconstruction as the rhetoric of its opposition was empty. The government’s chief lapse was not claiming the moral high ground for a necessary war against a fascist mass murderer — an inexplicable silence now largely addressed by George Bush’s new muscular public defense of the war. In contrast, we can sadly recall all the alternative advice of past critics across the spectrum: invade Iraq in 1998, but get out right now; trisect Iraq; attack Syria or Iran; retreat to the Shiite south; put in hundreds of thousands of more troops; or delay the elections.
Donald Rumsfeld’s supposed gaffe of evoking “Old Europe” is trumped tenfold and almost daily by slurs that depict Abu Ghraib as worse than Saddam, Guantanamo as the work of Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot, Bush as the world’s greatest terrorist, the effort to democratize Iraq as unwinnable, and American troops terrorizing Iraqi women and children.
Most Americans may grumble after reading the latest demonization in the press of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld, but they are hardly ready to turn over a complex Middle East to something like a President John Kerry, Vice President Barbara Boxer, Secretary of State Howard Dean, National Security Advisor Nancy Pelosi, and Secretary of Defense John Murtha — with a kitchen cabinet of Jimmy Carter and Sandy Berger.
So at year’s end, what then is happening at home and abroad?
For the last three years we have seen a carbuncle swell as the old Vietnam War opposition rematerialized, with Michael Moore, the Hollywood elite, and Cindy Sheehan scaring the daylights out of the Democratic establishment that either pandered to or triangulated around their crazy rhetoric. The size of the Islamicist/Baathist insurrection caught the United States for a time off guard, as was true also of the sudden vehement slurs from our erstwhile allies in Europe, Canada, and Asia. Few anticipated that the turmoil in Iraq would force the Syrians out of Lebanon, the Libyans to give up their WMDs, and the Egyptians to hold elections — and that all the killing, acrimony, and furor over these developments would begin to engulf the Middle East and threaten the old order.
In the face of that growing ulcer of discontent, we quietly kept on killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy. All that is finally lancing the boil, here and abroad — and what was in there all along is now slowly oozing out, making the cure seem almost as gross as the malady.

Thanks

2005-12-12T20:53:00.000-05:00

By the way, thanks to my brother for his plumbing advice

In Install, Therefore I Am

2005-12-11T22:14:00.000-05:00

Bears Lose

2005-12-11T21:06:00.000-05:00

I know this may not be a pro-Bear photo, but I do like the Bus and this is football weather, not on a carpet indoors.

Condi Rocks

2005-12-11T11:50:00.000-05:00

I just read Sec. of State Condi Rice's Washington Post piece and I realize how good she is. She shows a respect for history and an understanding of the present. Whether or not she wants to be President is up to her, but I feel pretty darn good she is in Bush's ear.

Consider one example: For the first time since the Peace of Westphalia in
1648, the prospect of violent conflict between great powers is becoming ever
more unthinkable. Major states are increasingly competing in peace, not
preparing for war. To advance this remarkable trend, the United States is
transforming our partnerships with nations such as Japan and Russia, with
the European Union, and especially with China and India. Together we are
building a more lasting and durable form of global stability: a balance of
power that favors freedom.

As Truman once said, "The world is not static, and the status quo is not
sacred." In times of extraordinary change such as ours, when the costs of
inaction outweigh the risks of action, doing nothing is not an option.

After all, who truly believes, after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that
the status quo in the Middle East was stable, beneficial and worth defending?
How could it have been prudent to preserve the state of affairs in a region that
was incubating and exporting terrorism; where the proliferation of deadly
weapons was getting worse, not better; where authoritarian regimes were
projecting their failures onto innocent nations and peoples; where Lebanon
suffered under the boot heel of Syrian occupation; where a corrupt Palestinian
Authority cared more for its own preservation than for its people's aspirations;
and where a tyrant such as Saddam Hussein was free to slaughter his citizens,
destabilize his neighbors and undermine the hope of peace between Israelis and
Palestinians? It is sheer fantasy to assume that the Middle East was just peachy
before America disrupted its alleged stability.

But my favorite quote is now under my blog title for a reason, because it now will resonate from the Sunni Triangle to the southern provinces of China.

"Unlike tyranny, democracy by its very nature is never imposed. Citizens of
conviction must choose it -- and not just in one election. The work of democracy
is a daily process to build the institutions of democracy: the rule of law, an
independent judiciary, free media and property rights, among others"

Clinton and Truth: still unknown to each other

2005-12-10T18:49:00.000-05:00

The ever so narcsistic President Clinton has once again been supportive of the Bush Adminsitration on many levels, not really. Thanks to Jim Kouri at National Ledger, he reminded us of the Clinton/Gore vanity project and their disdain for Bush in his dropping Kyoto.
Problems with Kyoto:

The former president omitted to mention that many American economists advised US leader to not sign a global warming agreement that either hurt the US economically or that exempted developing nations – like China, India and Brazil, the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions – from emission cuts. As President Bush noted when he rejected the treaty early in his administration, Kyoto violated both of these provisions and thus would not garner Senate ratification and did not merit his support. Senator John Kerry who ran against Bush in 2004 cited the same reasons for rejecting Kyoto.

While Clinton indulged in his usual rhetorical denigration of Bush and his policies, he neglected to mention the fact that Russia's president also opposed Kyoto.

"The Kyoto protocol places significant limitations on the economic growth of Russia," said Andrei Illarionov, who advises President Vladimir Putin on economic issues. "Of course, in its current form, this protocol cannot be ratified,"

Clinton also failed to tell his audience of UN delegates and internationalists that his own Democrat Party opposed Kyoto when the Dems joined the GOP Senators and voted against the protocol by a resounding 95-0. The US Senate told Clinton, "[We} could not support any global warming pact that did not bind developing countries along with developed countries."

No US Senate will ever implement a protocol that so unfairly forces the US to reduce production and energy consumption while allowing polluters like Brazil, India, and particularly China to carry on relatively unaffected.

Not surprising is the fact that some US Senators understood Clinton was acting more out of self-interest than out of concern for the environment and so felt little guilt in opposing the Clinton Administration on Kyoto.

According to the November 1992 edition of the Enron corporate newsletter, "To The Point," the company looked forward to dealing with the incoming Clinton administration. The newsletter noted, "Senator [Al] Gore has been an avid proponent of a strong global warming policy that would lower greenhouse gas emissions."

And the Enron communiqué noted that Clinton and Gore's support of restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions "should provide a real opportunity for natural gas."

Enron stood to benefit from any government restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions because the company had ownership or financial stake in numerous natural gas and wind power technologies, which produce little or no greenhouse gas emissions.

While the Democrats have had success with linking President Bush to Enron, it was Clinton whom Enron had in its pocket. And Enron wanted Kyoto. In fact, Clinton's statement's on December 9, 2005 is a paraphrase of Enron executive Jeff Keeler's 2001 statement in the Amicus Journal, "You can do something meaningful on carbon without collapsing the economy or causing an energy crisis. We believed that before the Bush announcement [to not sign Kyoto]. We believe it now."

Even Clinton's friend British Prime Minister Tony Blair knew something was rotten in Denmark when Bill kept pushing Kyoto. Announcing that he would be "brutally honest" on the subject of the Kyoto Protocol and its future, Blair stated, "My thinking has changed in the past three or four years ... No country is going to cut its growth." Nations like China and India, picked to be this century's superpowers and notably not covered by the protocol, were "not going to start negotiating another treaty like Kyoto."

And his last paragraph is dead on:

As with most of today's liberals, Bill Clinton cares more for the goals of internationalists and less about the goals of his own country. He also displays a clear penchant for building himself up by tearing others down, a sure sign of immaturity. Like so many of his ilk today, while in other countries, he has no shame in criticizing -- even lying about -- his own country. But then again, Bill Clinton never had shame about anything.

The Tailspin Will Be Televised

2005-12-10T18:40:00.000-05:00

I am quite sure the alleged democratic leadership is having an epic hissy fit on this ad. But alas, these are their exact words coming from their mouths.

What is the Barret Report?

2005-12-10T16:59:00.000-05:00

This is a wonderful question and should get a real response. But like the Able Danger findings and 9/11 Commission's lack of desire to mention Able, you may not hear about it. A great piece at Townhall.com by Tony Snow describes the various misadventures of the inept Clinton Adminostration, yes to star struck democrats, their idol is very false.

Like most independent counsels, Barrett didn't set out on such a mission. He was assigned the duty of looking into whether former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros committed tax fraud in trying to cover up payments to a former mistress.
Yet, as published reports have indicated, he soon discovered that he was onto something much bigger. He found unsettling evidence that Justice Department officials were actively interfering with the probe and even conducting surveillance of Barrett and his office. Worse, there were indications that Team Clinton was using key players at the IRS and Justice to harass, frighten and threaten people who somehow got in the former president's way.
The pattern was set early on, when the White House sicced the FBI on Billy Dale, who had served as the director of the White House Travel Office since the days of John F. Kennedy. They mounted a baseless probe of Dale's finances, while chasing after his daughter, his sister and others. Dale was guilty of holding a job coveted by presidential pal Harry Thomasson. But rather than simply firing Dale, the Clinton White House chose to destroy him.
By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance.
Democrats know this. Using provisions in the independent-counsel statute that permit people named in a report to review the allegations against them and file rebuttals, attorneys close to the Clintons have spent the better part of five years reviewing every jot and tittle of the charges arrayed against their clients and friends.

The article goes into what detail it can, but until it is completely revealed, we won't know the truth unless Congress makes the effort.

2005-12-09T19:05:00.000-05:00

The 2006 World Cup Draw has been done, maybe the US could escape Group E:

Group A
Germany, Costa Rica, Poland, & Ecuador

Group B
England, Paraguay, Trinidad & Tobago, & Sweden

Group C
Argentina, Ivory Coast, Serbia & Montenegro, & Netherlands

Group D
Mexico, Iran, Angola, & Portugal

Group E
Italy, Ghana, United States, & Czech Republic

Group F
Brazil, Croatia, Australia, & Japan

Group G
France, Switzerland, South Korea, & Togo

Group H
Spain, Ukraine, Tunisia, & Saudi Arabia

54 years ago today, the sleeping dragon awoke

2005-12-07T23:09:00.000-05:00

What a great movie

2005-12-06T20:37:00.000-05:00

I just finshed watching Repo Man with the esteemed Emilio Estevez, and his role of Otto is a classic. Being a good quote-filled movie of the 80s, they did exist more than often, here are some of my favorites I got from
the Greatest Website in the World

Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
Otto: That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.
Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.

Debbi: Duke, let's go do some crimes. Duke: Yeah. Let's go get sushi and not pay.

Kevin: There's fuckin' room to move as a fry cook. I could be manager in two years. King. God.

Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
Miller: I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?...

J. Frank Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?
Parnell: Not at all. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.

[Regarding tree-shaped air fresheners] Miller: Find one in every car. You'll see.

Bud: A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.
Miller: The life of a repo man is always intense.

And this is their leadership?

2005-12-06T19:45:00.000-05:00

I could go on piling on Dean for his juvenile comments on
his cheerful outlook for American success in Iraq. But ... aww heck, what a moron.
Please remember this was once the governor of Vermont. Vermont, maple syrup is their major export! We are supposed to take him seriously, he wanted an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. I have more awareness of consequence than the head of the DNC, and I'm a measly Social Studies teacher. Now some may comment, well if your so smart, why don't you be a politician. Honestly, I'm in the trenches trying to keep my kids afloat.
Another poster child for political narcissism, john kerry, Is now saying we're the terrorists. Wow, talk about a person we would want as Commander-in-Chief.

Kerry on CBS Face the Nation- And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be
going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and
children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the of the historical
customs, religious customs.

Well, it could be worse, at least we know they have started the suicidal rhetoric this early before the 06 midterm election.

Brown laying the proverbial wood on farve

2005-12-04T20:52:00.000-05:00

Briggs is a pure headhunter

2005-12-04T20:43:00.000-05:00

Bears beat packers, physically also

2005-12-04T20:41:00.000-05:00

This doesn't even show the shot on farve from Mike Brown, strong safety!

missing remotes found stuck under ottoman

2005-12-03T20:40:00.000-05:00

Wrigley

2005-12-03T19:59:00.000-05:00

Maybe I went to far, oh well

2005-12-03T11:12:00.000-05:00

In my classroom, I pick on three things: the klan, the nazis, and the packers. Reason being the first two are ignorant groups of people who use hate and violence to exist and are friggin' morons. Now the last of the trio, the evil packers, are obviously not a backward hate group, like moveon.org. But I did refer to them as "illiterate" yesterday. Something to the effect, wouldn't know what tot do if a book was thrown to them. Obviously I am having fun, the students know this, I'm waiting for a parent Monday morning tot have fun with.
Moving on , the Bears do play the drooling mouth breathing packers on Sunday and it is must win. Farve will come after them with shotgun formations and two to three step drops to keep the ferocious defense line at bay. But he has had our number far to often, time to turn the corners and get a huge win for Papa Halas.

Thank You Rosa

2005-12-01T23:03:00.000-05:00

brave woman in real times
brave woman who will stand the test of time

I have this picture on my classroom door. When my students ask who she is, even the African Americans, I tell them who she is. They know what she did, but they also observe she doesn't look that menacing, little do they know the real power of civil disobedience.

Christmas comes early for the GOP

2005-11-30T19:17:00.000-05:00

Rep. Pelosi has endorsed Rep. Murtha's plan for early exit of Iraq:
“We should follow the lead of Congressman John Murtha, who has put forth a plan to make America safer, to make our military stronger, and to make Iraq more stable. That is what the American people and our troops deserve.”

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Que in the wonderful photo above, this will provide the GOP with the full ammo to attack again, and will win in 06.

the Rachel Ray we didn't know, hubba hubba

2005-11-28T23:11:00.000-05:00

Not only whould have voted for Bush, but she's from Indy

2005-11-28T23:05:00.000-05:00

Like George W. Bush, for one. 50 thinks the president is "incredible ... a
gangsta." "I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much
of me I see in him," 50 told GQ. If the rapper's felony conviction didn't
prevent him from voting, 50 said he would have voted for Bush.

50 article
thanks drudge
by the way, that is Vivica A. Fox, ex-Arlington H.S.