- Yes,I know, I didn’t comment last night as regards the Superbowl. I’m just as glad New York won. Not that I’ve ever been a Giants fan, but the last few seasons I’ve been less of a Pats fan, particularly since I follow the Bills, and for other reasons. For one…. I don’t know, but I suspect Bill Belichick will get the award for NFL anus of the decade. The man was a total jerk through the post game interviews. Not that I expected else. Anyone who could come up with some of the sideline cheats he and his boys did, can’t be very good sportsmen, anyway. Personally speaking, I’m delighted such a team lost the big game. Everyone expected a rout and what they got turned into an actual football game.
- Tom Petty’s halftime show turned into an actual halftime show, too. I was struck by the idea of everyone in the place singing along with about all the songs played. The sight… and sound… of 80,000 or so people singing along was something you’ll never get with, say, Janet Jackson. The surround sound really brought that up. Speaking of which, a buddy of mine a few days ago, remarked that Petty would never be able to top Jackson’s show… for one thing, he doesn’t have the boobs for it. Well, perhaps the point isn’t to top the show of others for audibly or physically loud, or risque, or anything. Perhaps it’s just about being honest entertainment.
- Oh, speaking of Petty, I see Hillary Clinton playing “Me, too”. Petty, for his part, isn’t endorsing anyone, saying “I’m just a guitar player, you don’t want to know what I think”. Wise, I think… and possibly wisdom instilled by the negative feedback he got when his name came up back in 2000, over George W Bush’s use of “I won’t back down”. Still, one wonders why Hillary Clinton gets away with using “American Girl”, if Petty’s remaining “neutral”. Perhaps he just doesn’t wanna fight anymore. (Shrug)
- Clinton, of course, after having decided she’s been a Pats fan her whole life, was quick to jump out in front of the Giants parade as soon as they won. OK, yeah, it’s not direct in it’s indication of how she’ll run the country. Or, maybe it is. She’ll try to play both sides against the middle, and then whatever happens, she’ll be there trying to credit herself for having the foresight on it all along…. whatever ‘it’ is.
- Boortz is running a list of the most Miserable Cities he copped from Forbes Magazine. Let’s have a look:
- Detroit, MI
- Stockton, CA
- Flint, MI
- New York City
- Philadelphia, PA
- Chicago, IL
- Los Angeles, CA
- Modesto, CA
- Charlotte, NC
- Providence, RI
Do you suppose there’s a trend, here that can be seen? Boortz nails it:
Forbes defines misery as a state of great unhappiness and emotional distress. Forbes used criteria such as unemployment, taxes, commute times, crime, pollution and weather. Now you can draw your own conclusions by looking at the list of cities above .. but with only a few exceptions from the list … I think that I’ve noticed some commonalities. Strong union presence, for instance, and liberal politicians.
In short, they’re dominated by liberal Democrats. We’ve pointed the trend out here before, and it continues. What’s amazing to me is the number of people who don’t understand the connection. It was proven (Unwittingly) with Jimmy Carter’s “Misery Index” decades ago. It’s still true. The more Democrats you have, the worse off you are. It’s pretty much that simple and that direct.
- I see Bill Quick has a list of concerns over John McCain. A fairly comprehensive one, at that. Conservative Reader has his thoughts up, as well. For my part, I’m still not convinced, either way. McCain and his followers cannot under any conditions lean on his record to help him prove his case. His record, when viewed without the current hype, is one of a hanger-on… In a very Clintonesque fashion, McCain is someone who jumped into the parade of Conservatism back in Reagan’s day because it happened to be winning, not because of any commitment to conservative principle. His actions then and since make this case quite plainly. McCain Fiengold, McCain Kennedy, and so on, and his anti-business, anti-freedom, pro enviro-nazi nonsense, much of which Quick lists… On that basis of what he’s been doing recently, alone, I’d have questions about him. Add in the historical references and I’m more than a little uneasy about the man being every bit as bad in office as either Clinton or Barrack Obama. So, what would it take to convince me? I don’t know. Frankly he’s done everything he could to damage his reputation, and it’s now to the point where I doubt it can be burnished anymore without poking holes in it. It comes down to a matter of trust… or more correctly, the lack of it. Look, he COULD, I suppose, come out and say… “Hey, I was wrong with this stuff”… as he did with his open borders nonsense… but there’s an issue of trust, here….. he’s still cozy with pro-open borders types as I’ve written here previously, having one on his staff… his “I was wrong on immigration” not withstanding. He’s clearly not changed his mind, he’s simply telling people what they want to hear. On what basis do I trust anything else he says, particularly when what he would (in theory), say now, runs directly foul of long held positions? What could he say that could be trusted?
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