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  • 10/6/2004

    Runnin’ on empty
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 1:08 pm


    And speaking of having free time.....it’s time for a hiatus.
    I got the point and now I think it’s finally dawning
    Yeah, yeah, I got to get away

    It’s been fun…..see you in the comments sections, folks.

    We laugh a little less loud today…
    Filed under Posted by — Jay G @ 10:42 am Edit This


    Comic Rodney Dangerfield Dies at Age 82

    Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament “I don’t get no respect” a catchphrase, died Tuesday. He was 82.

    Dangerfield, who fell into a coma after undergoing heart surgery, died at 1:20 p.m., said publicist Kevin Sasaki. Dangerfield had a heart valve replaced Aug. 25 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.

    Here’s hoping you finally found the respect you were looking for, Jacob.

    Chris Matthews
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 7:26 am


    On Imus, after reciting the CBS & ABC resulte, Matthews just said that Edwards won the MSNBC “snap poll” 70-30. No, Chris, that was an online msnbc poll where the level of unemployable moveon.orgers vastly outnumbered the unemployable freepers.

    Personally, I went to bed with my wife after the debate. IMO, if you have so much free time to adhere to such party trickery, you gotta be a real loser to stay up late spamming a web-poll.

    BTW, Matthews said that Cheney won big, which is akin to Rush Limbaugh saying that Kerry won last week’s debate.

    10/5/2004

    Mr. Cheney
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 11:15 pm


    Well, now, that was quite the walkover.

    Seriously, though, the last hour was a toss-up. The first half-hour (foreign policy) showed the necessity for a mercy rule. Maybe last week’s was the same for Bush, but Edwards was out of his league, tonight.

    Update: Just flipped to C-SPAN…...wow, Sully is out in left field (and alone with the DUers and moveon.orgers). Looks like someone had a worse night than Edwards.

    Interesting happenings in GA
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 1:35 pm


    Yesterday/this morning the AJC web site had a fantasy presidential poll (online, meaning that it’s about as scientific as choosing the lineup for a tee-ball game) between Jimmy Carter and Zell Miller. The poll was pulled from the web site with no mention of why or that it was even there.

    Yes, Zell was winning.

    Putting on the heel personna
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 12:54 pm


    Uh-huh

    In more than 200 e-mails, not a single citizen-pundit thought Bush had won. Definitely a reason to pause and reflect.

    If only it were real. In a first for a presidential campaign, Democratic activists decided to fire up their computers and flood the media with their post-debate point of view, except some of them were over-eager and sent their messages before the debate had ended.




    I’ll say it because few have the guts to come forward: If a good portion these people (and their like-minded ilk) put half as much emphasis into, oh….I don’t know….maybe work as they do screwing around in internet chatrooms/comments or party-line water-carrying & trying to get their gov’t handouts via election returns, the mind wonders at the levels our national economy would attain. Someone’s gotta say it, so I may as well be the bad guy.






    H/T to Hanks

    Ugh, my paper….
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 12:52 pm


    I saw the editor of the op-ed page’s column in last weekend’s Atlanta Jazeera-Constipation & noticed that the smell of desperation was quite strong, as she was pimping the false-but-accurate draft story.

    “If you vote for Bush, your kids will be drafted!”

    Denny Wilson has the line-by-line retort.

    Keeping up….
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 12:51 pm


    Michael Moore refused to go forward with the infamous CBS docs because he didn’t feel that they were credible.


    Michael Moore, director of the movie Farenheit 9/11, said Sunday that he was given the same phony documents used by CBS News in its infamous Sept. 8 “60 Minutes” story but that he rejected them for inclusion in his film because his staff did not believe they were authentic.
    “Back when I was making Fahrenheit, I was offered the same documents that were given to CBS but I didn’t use them because we couldn’t verify them,” Moore said following a speech at the University of Central Arkansas.

    Except that he pimped the CBS ‘exclusive’ that was based on the documents.

    Later today (Wed.), the Boston Globe, the A.P. and Dan Rather all present new and damning information about how George W. Bush got moved to the front of the line to get in the Texas Air National Guard, and how he then went AWOL. I am putting every ounce of trust I have in my fellow Americans that a majority of them get this, get the injustice of it all, and get the sad, sick twisted irony of how it relates very, very much to our precious Election 2004.

    Like the war in Afghanistan (which he opposed, but later supported), it appears that history is to be rewritten on a constant basis. And that guy sat in the executive box at the DNC convention…..

    Speaking of who one hangs out with, Crank has the lowdown of the history of Kerry. It’s not pretty:

    2. The Soviet Union and its allies denounced the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. John Kerry denounced the US invasion of Grenada in 1983.

    3. The Soviets, in the 1980s, denounced Ronald Reagan as a warmonger and a threat to peace for deploying missiles in Western Europe. John Kerry, in the 1980s, denounced Ronald Reagan as a warmonger and a threat to peace for deploying missiles in Western Europe.

    4. Daniel Ortega, in the 1980s, denounced US support for the Nicaraguan contras and argued that the US should have peace talks with his regime. John Kerry, in the 1980s, denounced US support for the Nicaraguan contras and argued that the US should have peace talks with Ortega’s regime.

    5. Moammar Qaddafi argued that Reagan’s bombing of Libya was unjustified and caused excessive civilian casualties. John Kerry argued that Reagan’s bombing of Libya was unjustified and caused excessive civilian casualties.

    6. Our adversaries during and since the Cold War have argued that we were reckless and irresponsible by pursuing missile defense. John Kerry has argued that we were reckless and irresponsible by pursuing missile defense.


    Read the whole thing. How much of this have we seen covered in the MSM? When will he be asked about his record? This guy could be my president and I surely want to make sure that the appeasing peacenik nuclear-freeze guy that I remember from the 80s is no longer what makes up Kerry’s foundation.

    10/4/2004

    Great southern story
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 12:57 pm


    Great southern story

    The first time Rob got stoned. Here’s the obligatory audio reference for those who think the worst.

    Baseball ‘05
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 12:53 pm


    Might as well start now.  Olmstead notes the Expos’ move and offers a name change:



    But if Washington is to have a team again, I concur with sportswriter Michael Wilbon: rather than calling them the Senators,
    call them the Grays. Most readers will scratch their heads at that name; they may have heard of the Senators, perhaps even the Nationals, but the Greys? The Grays, as Wilbon points out, were the class of another professional league, one that died almost fifty years ago: the Negro Leagues. During the shameful decades when the National and American Leagues banned any player whose skin was too dark from playing professional baseball, the Negro Leagues provided America the opportunity to prove that they could do anything just as well as the whites could, winning roughly two-thirds of the games played between black and white teams. The Negro Leagues are where some of baseball’s greatest players learned their trade, including the home run king and last active Negro League player, Henry Aaron. Not to mention one of the great American heroes of the 20th Century, Jackie Robinson.

    The Senators were a Washington icon for the better part of 70 years. Their history is a long and honorable one. But the Grays history, if shorter, is no less honorable, and naming the Washington team the Grays would prove a valuable reminder of the service provided to all of America by the Negro Leagues, as well as creating a vital link between baseball’s past and its present.

    Let’s go, Grays.


    Setting aside the fact that Michael Wilbon makes my top 10 "annoying people" list, a local sports radio jock had the best idea to make Washington Senators fans & Homestead Grays backers happy with a compromise:  The Washington Homies

    Playing it even
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 12:51 pm


    I didn’t watch the debate (stupid rhetorical question: gee, does anyone know where I can find coverage on the web?) but from what I can tell, it appears that Kerry outpointed Bush in a substantial manner, although no knockouts, or even solid blows, were connected. From what I can gather, the Kerry supporters are delighted and the Bush backers feel as though it’s the world series & instead of closing things out it’s now a 3 games to 2 advantage.

    Thus, I feel it incumbant upon me to note that this post is now officially “outdated” and the air of desperation from the Kerry campaign should be subsided, to say the least. I won’t go so far as to say “Democrats” or the ever-present “left” (hey, it’s always good to have a boogey-man), since the “Bush is gonna draft you” stuff from the internet, CBS and NBC, along with the intellectual musings of Cameron Diaz are on par with the WV GOP flyer about the bible being banned if Kerry wins, but the official Kerry campaign shouldn’t be quite as deep in the doldrums as they should’ve been this time last week.

    Okay, that’s my bi-partisan nice guy moment for the week. Excuse me while I go throw up. :lol:

    10/1/2004

    Something to ponder over the weekend
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 8:44 pm


    I’m putting forth a scenario, one that I haven’t seen anywhere in the media (so if you have, please indulge me for thinking out loud):

    It’s 2006.
    Hillary is up for re-election.
    Rudy decides to run against her.
    Everyone knows she’s running for prez in ‘08 should Bush win.
    Does she run for re-election and risk a career-ending ass-whipping or does she decide to retire from the senate in order to, as she’d no doubt say, focus entirely on the important campaign to win back America from the Republicans?

    9/30/2004

    Make sure the ’side’ you’re talking about
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 8:46 pm


    Back in May I posted this:


    No matter what anyone spins or what commercials say, unless this changes it’s over:
    ABC News/Washington Post Poll. April 15-18, 2004. N=1,201 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3. Fieldwork by TNS Intersearch.

    “Who do you trust to do a better job handling “The U.S. campaign against terrorism”, Bush or Kerry?” Names rotated

    Bush 58
    Kerry 37
    Both 1
    Neither 3
    4/15-18/04

    However, I do expect it to change.. Where & by how much is the question. And as soon as the Kerry camp realizes this, instead of re-fighting Vietnam, the better (for them).


    The latest ABC News/WaPo has it at Bush 54%/Kerry 37%.  The latest Gallup figures chime in at Bush 61%/Kerry 34%. 

    Things could change overnight.  Things could reverse.  October surprises and scandals can make today’s news irrelevant.  But, make no mistake, this is the issue and unless erry changes it….it’s over.

    And hyping this sort of attitude doesn’t help things for the left:


    Yes, torture is a partisan issue
    The Republican Administration doesn’t mind it as long as it’s deniable.
    Rush Limbaugh likens it to fraternity hazing.
    The Republican leadership in Congress wants to legalize it. The Speaker of the House has introduced a bill that would, among other things,
    require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue new regulations to exclude from the protection of the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, any suspected terrorist – thereby allowing them to be deported or transferred to a country that may engage in torture. The provision would put the burden of proof on the person being deported or rendered to establish "by clear and convincing evidence that he or she would be tortured," would bar the courts from having jurisdiction to review the Secretary’s regulations, and would free the Secretary to deport or remove terrorist suspects to any country in the world at will – even countries other than the person’s home country or the country in which they were born. The provision would also apply retroactively.
    Democrats are against it.
    Which side are you on?

    I recall making a whimsical joke about John Walker Lindh getting beaten up (not enough) in prison a while back.  Immediately, I was criticized by one of the left’s biggest bloggers at the time, as well as none-too-few commenters, obviously sent by that source.  It appears that a broad group of people represented in the Democratic party (remember, "Democrats are against it", and "torture is a partisan issue") are under the assumption that it is still a 9/10 world, where any and all harm to all human beings under any circumstances is looked upon with disdain.  Well, that sort of attitude from a group of people who live and die by the ‘shades of gray’ credo, it is somewhat surprising that it should be explained, but here it is in a nutshell:

    I’m against torturing other people, even criminals.  Ditto for those wrongfully accused.  However, if hooking a terrorist up to a car battery by way of a set of jumper cables will result in saving the life, limb, or livelihood of a single non-terrorist (especially an American), I have two things to say:  Red is positive and black is negative.


    Apparently, looking at the polls, I’m not alone.

    Forgeries galore
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 8:26 pm


    Wizbang has the latest.


    The blogosphere is abuzz that there might be an authoritative expert by the name of David E. Hailey, Jr., Ph.D. who might have proven the CBS documents are legit.

    The Boston Globe is so excited they are getting ready to run with it.

    I hope they do. Dr. Hailey is a liar, a fraud and a charlatan.

    And I have the goods.

    He does. It’s pretty devastating. Good lord, does anyone rankt honesty, integrity and truth aboove politcs, any more?

    History began yesterday
    Filed under Posted by — RW @ 6:53 pm


    Kevin Drum plays “boo” and forwards the concept that Bush will probably institute the draft if re-elected:

    The conclusion to all this is pretty obvious: either George Bush dramatically changes his military policy in a second term or else we’re going to need a lot more teenage boots in the Middle East. A suprising number of moderates seem to be desperately pinning their hopes on the former — based on some wishful thinking that I have a hard time grasping — while conservatives are loudly blustering that the latter is just laughable — although they don’t present any particular evidence for this….[]

    []...Bottom line: You can vote for Texas bluster and a draft, or you can vote for real-world common sense and a volunteer army. It’s naive to think you can get one without the other.



    I thought it was improper form to demand that someone disprove a trumped-up hypothetical? Oh, well, if Mr. Drum is looking for someone who is pushing for mandatory service for teenagers, he needn’t look very far:


    Too many Americans these days feel a sense of entitlement, somehow not realizing that a big part of their personal success is due strictly to their good luck in being born here. National service could give that illusion a salutary nudge.
    This would, of course, be enormously difficult to manage and enormously expensive to implement. But it would be worth it. The last time anything like this happened was during World War II, and it provided a sense of national purpose that we have never since recovered.

    Speaking of improper form, I may be wrong about arguing against a negative, but I’m pretty sure that saying something that is the exact opposite of what you said earlier is usually a disqualifier.

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