Lefty blogger Right Wing Snarkle likes to refer to my site as Paranoid Bedwetter. The impetus for this half-hearted attempt at satire was the recent post Unintended Consequences, a tale of a dirty bomb inspired by, of all things, a New York Times op-ed.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
The ACLU's new video: Bed-wetters Among Us
Lefty blogger Right Wing Snarkle likes to refer to my site as Paranoid Bedwetter. The impetus for this half-hearted attempt at satire was the recent post Unintended Consequences, a tale of a dirty bomb inspired by, of all things, a New York Times op-ed.
AP throws a curveball in 'Name that Party'
Pick out an AP article that references some disgraced political figure and count how many paragraphs it takes for the crack AP pro journalist author to name the political affiliation of the culprit.
Today's entry is submitted by the AP's Mike Robinson. Entitled, Ex-Gov. Ryan Ordered to Prison by Nov. 7, it begins:
Former Gov. George Ryan was ordered Friday to start serving a 6 1/2-year prison sentence in less than two weeks, but his lawyers held out hope they could keep him out of prison pending a U.S. Supreme Court appeal.
U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer set a Nov. 7 surrender date for Ryan and co-defendant Larry Warner to report to prison.
Within hours, his attorneys asked the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an extension of his bond that would keep him free while they take the case to the nation's highest court....
Sixteen paragraphs. No mention of political affiliation, despite the fact that Ryan "was convicted in April 2006 of steering state contracts to friends, using tax dollars to run his campaigns and covering up drivers license bribery... [his] conviction capped one of Illinois' biggest political scandals ever, bringing with it nine years of investigations and trials that wrecked Ryan's career and sent dozens of others to jail."
In short, I'm not sure what to make of the AP's curveball in the "Name that Party" game. Are they trying to level the playing field? Or do they just consider Ryan a kindred spirit? Either way, it's a trend we should monitor.
Line o' the Day: Dead on Arrival
Mitch McConnell finally starts to show some GOP spine. Click on over to Macsmind and watch the video.
Friday, October 26, 2007
The Heat's on Hillary. And, no, it's not Global Warming.
My Google News Alerts went nuts this evening, spilling out a series of messages on Hillary Clinton's ill-fated fundraising techniques. The alerts relate to what some experts call "the largest election law fraud in history."
Douglas Cogan, a businessman-turned-associate producer and researcher for the film, said he's made it his mission to expose what he calls "the greatest campaign finance fraud that ever has been committed... the Clintons think they are truly above the law," Cogan said. "My country has never seen anyone like Hillary Rodham Clinton."
..."My interest in supporting Hillary Clinton was specifically to hire Bill Clinton," Paul told FOXNews.com in a telephone interview, noting that Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign "concocted" the whole idea of [a gala] fundraiser.
Paul said he believed that in exchange for organizing the gala, "I had accomplished the hiring of the president of the United States to work with me when he left the White House."The gala cost $1.2 million, which was under-reported to the Federal Election Commission and led to the arrest of Clinton's then-Senate campaign fundraising chief, David Rosen..."
The Cleveland Leader.
Fox News.
MMD Newswire.
All are pointing to the new video evidence of Hillary's fund-raising "prowess." The video that's getting all of the attention is called Hillary Uncensored. The trailer has been viewed over one million times:
Put simply, Hillary's in deep, deep trouble.
Line o' the Day: the Frivolous Party
Paul Mirengoff, writing at Powerline:
[Democratic] debate centers around a resolution [that labels] the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization. There's no genuine dispute that the IRGC fits this description, and none of the serious Democratic candidates denies it. Moreover, unlike the question of whether Turkey committed genocide 90 years ago, the status of the IRGC is relevant to today's world. Finally, unlike Turkey, Iran is an enemy of the U.S., not its ally.
Accordingly, Hillary Clinton voted for the resolution. That vote has produced harsh criticism from Barack Obama (even though he skipped the vote), John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, and Bill Richardson. They argue that the designation of the IRGC as terrorists could embolden Bush to take unilateral military action against Iran.
...Even so, it's difficult to blame Obama and the others from seizing upon Hillary's vote. The Democratic base is so stridently pacifist and so paranoid about Bush that even a non-issue like this one has the potential to generate heat. Clinton certainly sees this danger. According to the Post, she has "flooded Iowa with a mailer that included a lengthy letter from the candidate explaining why she supported [the IRGC] measure."
It's not easy being a semi-serious figure seeking the nomination of a frivolous party.
USA Today's Favorite Viral Videos
USA Today's Technology Guide offers their favorite viral videos.
Based on recent traffic patterns, the trailer for Hillary Uncensored has to be moving up in the standings.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Google Trends: Hillary Clinton versus the World
Google Trends is a tool that can rank the popularity of various search terms. For example, I wanted to compare the number of times that folks searched for Hillary Clinton versus Barack Obama. The results show that Hillary truly is separating herself from B. Hussein Obama (Obama in blue, Hillary in red):
Hillary versus Mitt Romney shows a clear win for the cattle futures trader from Arkansas:
Hillary versus the Devil -- the Devil has had a traditional advantage over the Chappaqua Chipmunk; however, in recent days, Hillary's made quite a run at demon status:
Hillary versus Rush Limbaugh -- Rush makes a startling comeback and edges Hillary in October:
Hillary versus Spiderman -- Spidey kicks the crap out of Puff Mommy:
Finally, when Hillary goes up against American Idol, she gets absolutely destroyed.
I wonder if Simon Cowell ever thought about running for President?
A marriage of convenience
Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard describes a WOR interview with author Sally Bedell Smith. Smith's recent book on the Clintons -- "For Love of Politics" -- paints a startling picture of a relationship that is less a marriage than it is a business partnership.
On Bill's extra-marital affairs: ...[Hillary's reaction] was that he couldn't be that insane... if she heard that he sort of gone out and had a fling on the road, she could have believed that in a heartbeat. But it was the fact that it was in the Oval Office, you know, adjacent to the Oval Office that it lasted for, as it turned out, eighteen months, which is an astonishing length of time...On Hillary staying with Bill after the affair and the lies: ...After he'd appeared before the Grand Jury... he did admit that he had lied to the American public for seven months. And, at that moment, it was worldwide humiliation. [One of their good friends said,] "Look, she was not about to divorce him for doing something that he had been doing for their whole married life, the only difference being the magnitude..."
On Hillary's calculations in staying with Bill: ...it was far more to Hillary Clinton's advantage to stay with Bill Clinton because she was already thinking about her own political ambitions. One of her top advisors [said]... that she fought the impeachment so hard and was such a chief strategist during that whole period [because she] saw her own presidential ambitions go down the drain...On Hillary's reluctance to divorce Bill: ...if they'd gotten a divorce then, she wouldn't have had a, really, a chance in the Senate...
Good thing she's not a cold, calculating, carpet-bagging opportunist. I might get the wrong impression of her.
'Iran to give crushing response to possible attacks'
The Islamic Republic News Agency:
Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi here on Wednesday warned against any possible military attack against Iran, promising that Iran's response would be crushing."Any country or power which invades Iran will face a crushing response. We will defend our security and our country in the strongest way in case of any possible military attack," he added... "US is well aware that it might be easy to start such an action against Iran but ending that would not be then in the hands of US officials. Such action will definitely end up in US collapse..."
In related news, the "Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution" Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khameini stated:
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces said at a graduation ceremony at Shahid Sattari Air Force Academy that feeling security and peace of mind is pre-requisite for material and spiritual progress of every nation and thanks God the Iranian nation enjoys such a feeling owing to the vigilant and powerful military power.The Supreme Leader paid tribute to late Commander of Air Force Major General Sattari who died in an air crash and martyred commanders of the armed forces who sacrificed their lives during eight-year imposed war (1980-1988)... Ayatollah Khamenei recommended the army personnel to follow the martyrs as their own model... [he] advised the army personnel to develop faith and piety...
If the U.S. military attacks Iran, there will be no shortage of martyrs in the Iranian armed forces.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Real Men of Congress
Line o' the Day: Terrorists are Cruel, Thoughtless
Amnesty International:
Arbitrary detentions and torture or other ill treatment of detainees by Hamas forces are now widespread and the initial improvements in the security situation which followed Hamas’ takeover are fast being eroded.
Terrorists don't respect human rights? I'll alert the media, you call Geraldo.
Big trouble in little Chinatown
Commenter jpm100 offers his take on Hillary's bogus Chinatown donors:
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Suicidal Mystics with Nukes
According to 'Twelver' Shi'a Mulims, Imam Hujjat al-Mahdī ( المهدى) is the twelfth Imam and the Mahdi, the ultimate savior of mankind. Twelver Shi'as believe that Muhammad was born in 868 and has been hidden by God (referred to as occultation) to later emerge to fulfill his mission.
The expansion [of the city of Qom] is driven by an apocalyptic vision: that Shiite Islam's long-hidden 12th Imam, or Mahdi, will soon emerge -- possibly at the mosque of Jamkaran -- to inaugurate the end of the world. The man who provided $20 million to prepare the shrine for that moment, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has reportedly told his cabinet that he expects the Mahdi to arrive within the next two years.
As God promised, the oppressors will have their noses rubbed in the dirt. Now they are fulfilling this promise by themselves... Let it be known that in whatever we do, I see the hand of God and the hidden imam at every moment.
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