Evidently It’s Not Just Guns That Have a Mind of Their Own

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

The Eliot Spitzer thing has been done to death just about everywhere, and I take every bit as much glee in seeing the hypocritical bastard get his just desserts as the next guy. As I plowed through the endless torrent of media coverage on the scandal, I came across this piece in the NY Times. See if anything jumps out at you in the first sentence of the article.

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Former Token Candidate States the Obvious, Current Token Candidate Outraged

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Geraldine Ferraro said what others have been saying for months now. The only reason that Barack Obama is a serious candidate for President, much less the front-runner, is because he’s black. Shocking stuff indeed. The fact that it’s being trotted out by a woman who was on the 1984 ticket because she’s a woman on behalf of a current candidate who’s only here because she’s the wife of a philandering dirtbag is too delicious for words.

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” Geraldine Ferraro told The Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., in an interview published last Friday. “And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

Watching the commie party candidates being hoisted by their own petards gives me a perverse amount of happiness.

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Yeah, Because the Republican Party Needs This Shit Right Now

Monday, March 10th, 2008

This kind of stupidity is bad enough when the commies propose it, but the fact that this particular piece of rat shit happens to come from a Republican, especially one who seems to not have his head up his ass on other important issues, is depressing.

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that.

I know that in the world of politics being enough of a douchebag to propose something like this is worth it if the whole country knows your name, but if you’re going to piss on the First Amendment at least have the guts to go big like McCain.

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The Messiah May Not Be Interested in the Assistant Messiah Position

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Saw this article on Drudge. I’ve been observing the last two weeks of the Democratic primary with an eye on the gamesmanship of the Clinton campaign.

I made the remark to a friend of mine a couple of months ago that the genius of the Obama campaign was its lack of substance. If you’re running a campaign on charm and demographic appeal, you make damn sure that you don’t get bogged down in the details. As long as you avoid details you can be a blank slate. Frustrated voters can project upon you whatever traits, policy positions, and capabilities they need to craft you into the ideal candidate to alleviate their anxiety about the future. In other words, the genius of Obama’s early campaign was the fact that he was an answer in search of a question.

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Even More Leftist Hypocrisy

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Michelle Malkin has written an excellent report on the increasing violence of the far-left’s crusade against military recruiters. After the bombing of a military recruiting station in Times Square last week the question of the link between the rabidly anti-military rhetoric of groups like Code Pink and A.N.S.W.E.R. and violent assaults on recruiting stations and personnel. While she provides a plethora of evidence that there is indeed a connection between the two, I think it’s important to view the downplaying of the impact of rhetoric on extremists in the context of history. Specifically, given the poo-pooing of the connection as opportunistic conservative hyperbole, what were those on the Left saying about the possible connections between political rhetoric and terrorist acts following the Oklahoma City Bombing.

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Up Next, a State Plan on Breathing

Monday, March 10th, 2008

In high school I took an AP Government class as a junior. The more I learned about government, the more I hated it and became firm in my resolve that it should be as small and powerless in the everyday lives of people as possible. I knew then instinctively what I know now academically, government will never run out of reasons to take power from the people. It’s a sad commentary that in many social and political circles in this country one’s level of compassion and basic humanity is measured in the degree to which one will allow government bureaucracy to make decisions for individuals.

I keep holding out hope that the rabid collectivist frenzy will one day reach a zenith so absurd that we can point to it and say with a righteous confidence, “that shit has jumped the shark.” This morning I had an experience that has radically altered my views on this critical aspect of our social contract. As I was perusing the AP wire feed on Breitbart I came across this press release.

I’ve known for many years that aging is a reality for all of us. Until today, however, I’ve always believed that I would be forced to face the merciless ravages of time without a coherent, government approved plan. Even at the tender age of thirty-one, I can feel the cold grasp of mortality that holds on to us all with unwavering resolve. I take a great measure of comfort in the fact that, through the visionary leadership of the people and government of the great state of Pennsylvania, by the time aging becomes a primary concern for me there may be a national plan that I can look to to guide me through the valley of the shadow of death.

You may be thinking, as I was until I read the third paragraph of the press release, that this saving grace, while noble in its concept, will almost certainly be overshadowed by more pressing government concerns. Let your fears be laid to rest gentle reader, your struggle will not be forgotten.

The department is required by state and federal law to update its plan every four years.

As part of their never-ending commitment to helping our seasoned citizens, the state of Pennsylvania has launched this helpful website to provide you with tips and resources for aging more effectively.

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We Have the Internet Now, You Might Want to Watch What You Say

Friday, March 7th, 2008

It would seem that among the many trends popping up in this contentious election season is the new fad of flatly denying statements that you made in an interview with a Scottish reporter or, even better, on the campaign trail.

Obama aide Samantha Power told The Scotsman that Hillary Clinton would stop at nothing to even the Democratic Party primary race. Having made that point, she stepped straight off the political cliff:

“She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything,” Power told the newspaper, which published the remarks in Friday’s edition and released them earlier on the paper’s Web site.

Seems fair enough to me, but apparently The Messiah’s campaign felt that calling your opponent a monster might not be consistent with their soul-fixing message. Predictably, the offending staffer resigned and issued an apology. Even more predictably, the apology wasn’t exactly straight-forward.

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If Only The Homeowner Were a Terrorist, Maybe He Could Get a Little Sympathy

Friday, March 7th, 2008

The local rag has taken a break from painting anyone who doesn’t support “comprehensive immigration reform” as a virulent nationalist to breathlessly report on a tragic series of events that took place over the weekend in a an area just east of the Metroplex. The short version is that two teenage boys decided to check out the loud music coming from a nearby party around 10:30 Saturday night . They climbed over their neighbor’s fence and were in the process of sneaking past the front porch on their way through the yard when the 74-year-old homeowner fired a shot from inside the house. The bullet struck one of the boys in the arm. The other boy’s mother, who happened to be a nurse, decided to rush the wounded teenager to the hospital in her car. On the way to the hospital they were struck head-on by a drunk driver and the 41-year-old mother was killed.

The reporters writing the story gave a surprisingly even-handed account of what took place:

“We kept hearing music, so we wanted to go check it out,” Brandon said in a telephone interview from his bed at Parkland Memorial Hospital. “We walked across this dude’s yard. I heard the window blinds move, and I told Devin. … I heard gunfire, and we ran.”

Not realizing Brandon was hit, both boys darted back to Devin’s home. Brandon’s arm went numb. He looked in a bathroom mirror and saw the blood.

The boys woke Ms. Nalls, who instinctively rushed them to her pickup and headed for the hospital.

Ms. Nalls was killed minutes later in the accident, which also ruptured Brandon’s spleen. Devin suffered minor injuries and was released from the hospital Sunday.

That is, unless you count little gems like this one:

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The Blogging Gods Have a Sense of Humor

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

A whole internet full of people blogging their hearts out and sifting through a mountain of Viagra comment spam, just praying for someone to leave a legitimate comment. My first comment on the other hand… Rachel Lucas, yes the Rachel Lucas. If people are actually going to be reading this, I’m going to have to get a lot better at it.

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This is Why We Leave Reporting to the Professionals

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

By now everyone is covering the story of the bomb blast at the recruiting station in Times Square. I’m sure there will be more than enough speculation about who the responsible parties are. I won’t venture a guess this early, but whoever they are let me put my vote in for public flogging and hanging.

I understand that there are tremendous pressures in the news business. As much as I complain about the media in general and print “journalists” in particular, I do understand that, in an age of instant information and 24/7 coverage, attention to detail may occasionally suffer. That being said, I would like to think that even the AFP would be capable of better than this piece of shit. Here are a few of the more choice parts:

The explosion sparked an immediate and large police response — one of the legacies of the September 11 attacks six years ago, since when the city has been on a constant and heightened state of alert.

Surely you remember the good old days of September 10, 2001 when the police response to a bomb going off in the middle of Times Fucking Square would have been much more casual.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the blast was the result of an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or even proved fatal.

As opposed to harmless explosive devices that can warp doors, but are utterly incapable of causing injury.

The Department of Homeland Security was swift to say there was no information to suggest an imminent threat to the United States after the blast.

The White House said the explosion “doesn’t appear to be terrorism,” adding that it was closely following the investigation.

If these fuckers were as swift and decisive in fighting terrorism as they are in denying it, I’d sleep a lot better.

However, traffic was being allowed through Times Square, affectionately known as “the crossroads of the world,” and subway services, shortly suspended after the blast, were back to normal, sparing the city rush-hour chaos.

I want to get a job writing wire reports for the AFP just to see the manual they must hand out. I bet it has a whole section on awkward non sequitors.

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