The brilliant Ramirez hits another one out of the park.
Friday, November 02, 2007
The third world does its part to fight global warming
The brilliant Ramirez hits another one out of the park.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut
Scientists have struggled to unravel a series of mysteries over the last few decades: where matter goes when it is sucked into a black hole; the structure of gravitational waves; and how this blog was named a 2007 Blog Awards Finalist.
In all seriousness, I'd like to say thanks to Kevin Aylward and the entire Wizbang gang for slogging through thousands of blogs to pick all of the finalists.
Polling begins in a few days. If you'd like to throw a pity vote my way, bookmark my site and visit every 24 hours (that's the maximum frequency that folks can vote). Your reward? On your deathbed, you'll achieve total consciousness. So you've got that going for you.
Update:
Brothers and sisters, can you spare a vote? Nominations for the 2007 Weblog Awards are now open. If you have a spare second, click on over.
Hillary's Executive Experience
Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney have pointed out that Hillary Clinton's executive experience is zip. Zilch. Nada.
She's never run a city, she's never run a state. She's never run a business. She has never met a payroll. She has never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people, much less even hundreds of people.
Actually, they're forgetting about an important part of Hillary's past. In her work as an attorney, she led a couple of associates at the Rose Law Firm. Let's recap.
Of particular interest to investigators has been Ms. Clinton's work on an option agreement that "was principally designed to further obfuscate and hide the fraudulent nature of the underlying Castle Grande transactions." Hillary claimed that her initials on the billing records were effectively a misrepresentation, that they were those of an associate, and that "it was not an area that I really know anything... about."
So when those evil Rethuglicans claim Hillary has no management experience, she can proudly rebut the charges by pointing to her executive leadership work at the Rose Law Firm.
Reference: Hillary's Top Twelve Fabrications
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Best of the October posts
Real Men of Congress Series
Suicidal Mystics with Nukes
A world without Network Neutrality
The Clintons: Trashing the Lincoln Bedroom
Unintended Consequences
Hillary's Top Twelve Fabrications
CNN reveals a 'safe house' -- and more!
The Spy with Bulging Socks
SCHIP for Dummies (and others)
The enlightened Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Sandy Berger's Reward
The Secret Chamber
The Clintons' favorite restaurant
Gone in 60 seconds: Hillary Blows Up
Hillary Clinton, blew it. Big Time.
Hillary, perhaps feeling a little overconfident, pandered on the issue of granting illegal immigrants driver's licenses. She essentially endorsed Spitzer's plan in New York. ...And, to add fuel to the fire, she bemoaned the lack of the passage of "comprehensive immigration reform" a.k.a. Amnesty.Hillary's gaffe also helps the GOP. It places our single most popular issue in the forefront of debate. When the public is given a choice between enforcing the law and granting amnesty, we win. ...It was also an unnecessary error. She could have used this moment to tack back to the center. Chris Dodd gave the answer that Hillary should have given. She may be New York's Senator, but that doesn't mean she has to reflexively endorse everything the State's Democratic Governor does. She seemed to forget this.
So, she choked. She anti-triangulated. Somewhere Bill Clinton must be "feeling her pain."
So Hillary and Spitzer want to grant drivers' licenses to illegal aliens. While that's sure to result in more bogus votes for Hillary in '08, does it mean that other law-breakers -- who are also fugitives -- can get special licenses, too?
Even the mainstream media is attacking Hillary's bizarre performance in last night's debate.
The AP: "Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday that rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's less-than-straightforward answers in a Democratic debate raise questions about her ability to assume the presidency... Obama said he was especially concerned by Clinton's response when asked if she would release her papers from her years as first lady."
Time Magazine: "He was nowhere to be found on stage, but Rudy Giuliani's campaign shrewdly rushed to declare victory after Tuesday night's Democratic debate in Philadelphia."
In addition, during last night's debate, Dennis Kucinich related the story of his kidnapping and medical examination by aliens. Well, truth be told, I dozed off during the debate, but I'm pretty sure I heard that part.
Iran's 'Human Rights' Committee: Stoning Women is Humane
Here's a news flash from Tehran: Stoning Women to Death is Humane. The Secretary General of Iran's 'Human Rights' Committee insists that the customary Iranian punishment for adultery is not torture or cruel because sometimes the "criminal" survives.
On the writ of stoning, Dr. Larijani added: Stoning is neither torture nor an incongruous punishment... stoning is not a punishment but a torture while we think the line between torture and punishment is imponderable. [Westerners] believe the punishment for adultery should not be that severe. In fact they don’t consider this atrocity as a crime at all and they wish to force this belief on us.
If we had execution as a punishment for adultery instead of stoning, they would again complain that the crime and the punishment are not in proportion with each other-but as you know in Islamic rules, stoning is in lower level than execution because in stoning the defendant has a chance to survive...
Yep, that sounds humane to me.
See: Gateway Pundit
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Real Men of Congress: Representative Unindicted Co-conspirator
Line o' the Day: An Engraved Invitation for Osama
The AP transcribes remarks from a Rudy Giuliani speech:
Do I think the mission overall in Iraq is the correct one, I think without a doubt it is... And I think the Democrats are going to change their minds about it again.
(On Iran) ...This is the world we live in. It's not this happy, romantic-like world where we'll negotiate with this one, or we'll negotiate with that one and there will be no preconditions, and we'll invite (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad to the White House, we'll invite Osama (bin Laden) to the White House... Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball.
Hillary Uncensored begins to break through the media blackout
The story has taken on a life of its own. As evidence of Hillary's campaign finance skulduggery continues to surface -- from fugitive Norman Hsu to scores of impoverished Chinese dishwashers -- the stink of her original Senate campaign still remains.
The trailer for Hillary Uncensored has become a smash hit on YouTube and Google Video. The AP's coverage was picked up by over 200 newspapers:
First came the Orwellian mash up YouTube video that portrayed Hillary Rodham Clinton as Big Brother. Then came a clip of her off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Now, a stinging 13-minute video by a bitter Clinton foe is finding its own Internet audience.
The clip, a preview of a longer film by one-time Clinton donor Peter Paul, has scored more than 1.4 million hits on Google Video and about 350,000 on YouTube during the past week. Its popularity has driven it to the top spot on Google Video over the past two weeks...
Other articles of note:
- AOL News: Leave Hillary Alone
- AP: Anti-Clinton Video Draws Web Audience
- Boston Globe: Clinton foes score new YouTube hit
- MSNBC: Oh-eight (D): Bill's free-agent role
- New York Times: The Early Word: Democratic Debate
Update on 10/31: The New York Times ad watch column features Hillary Uncensored: Fund-Raiser Reappears as Critic.
Longer than World War II
Culprits include Paul Krugman (appearing on Bill Maher's show), Bill Maher, The Stuffington Roast, some dude, some guy, some other guy, someone named Charles, and a myriad of others.
History lesson for progressives: World War II drew to an abrupt conclusion with the detonation of two nuclear weapons.
Had the bombs not gone off, tens of millions on both sides would have perished and the war would have continued for years on end.
In fact, had the bombs failed to detonate, the Allies were prepared to launch Operation Downfall, the invasion of mainland Japan. Downfall was itself split into two massive ops: Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet.
Given the suicidal defensive stands mounted by the Japanese at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, war planners assumed for a minimum of "millions for American casualties and the tens of millions for Japanese casualties."
Put simply, I don't think World War II is the best analogy for the "progressives" to use.
Read more: No Substitute for Victory.
Monday, October 29, 2007
GI Joe vs. Sgt. Fury
Red State reports that Hollywood has transformed GI Joe from a U.S. Marine into a wimpified, United Nations demi-soldier:
The popular all-American comic-book military man and action figure dating back to the 1940s is undergoing a significant transformation for the Paramount Pictures-distributed "G.I. Joe" film, which begins production in February and is scheduled for release in summer 2009... Paramount has confirmed that in the movie, the name G.I. Joe will become an acronym for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" — an international, coed task force charged with defeating bad guys. It will no longer stand for government issued, as in issued by the American government.
In a shocking exclusive, we've received spy photos of the dolls that will be sold as marketing tie-ins to the movie.
To show how far we've come, this is Sergeant Fury, a comic book commando from World War II.
Nick Fury has trained as a paratrooper, Ranger, demolitions expert and vehicle specialist. He holds an unlimited-tonnage, all-seas license as a commander of ocean-going vessels. Fury has completed... special-forces training, is a seasoned unarmed- and armed-combat expert, was a heavyweight boxer in the Army, and holds a black belt in Tae Kwan Do and a brown belt in Jiu Jitsu. He has honed his fighting skills sparring with the star-spangled Super-Soldier called Captain America, perhaps the world's finest unarmed-combat expert... Nick Fury, the oldest of three children born to an American pilot who died in battle during the final year of World War I, grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. At the start of American involvement in World War II, Fury enlisted in the Army. He underwent basic training at Fort Dix in New Jersey under the command of Sgt. Charles Bass, a stern taskmaster who singled him out as the company scapegoat. In short order, Fury proved himself to be an excellent soldier and capable leader, and rose quickly to the rank of sergeant.
I wonder about GI International Entity Joe's backstory. I don't think it involves killing scores of bad guys.
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