- [1]Been thinking about this one [2]most of the day, Billy, and I must say,I can’t say I disagree with any of it. The Dinosaur media is sinking because of one major factor: Their bias. McClatchy is just one more in a series of such. Trust me, I won’t mourn at all. By the way, it looks like the rats are jumping from other ships, too. [3]
- And while I have you [4], Billy, I’m reminded of all the twisted types on the street corners saying the world is going to end, repent, etc. I’ve come to understand that this twisted ‘environmentalism’ is just one more religion, with it’s meaning and thereby it’s conclusions twisted by twisted minds.
- Wind Turbines, suppsoedly kill birds and bats. [5] You know, it’s almost like they don’t want us using energy at all. [6]Doesn’t it make anyone wonder why?
- Speaking of which, Hey, Nancy… [7]You’re currently enjoying a 14% approval rating. Are you sure calling the vast majority of the American voters, even including 70% of members of your own party, who want us to be drilling NOW, idiots, is really the way you want to go?
- How the hell did THIS [8] happen? I wuld think data security at the Space station would need to be tighter than this. Apparently some IT heads need to roll here. Sheesh.
- Apparently, America isn’t alone, in calling Ahmadinejad ‘major threat’… Imams in his own country [9]are now doing so.
- I said I doubt it’ll change minds, that speech of Hillary Clinton’s last night? Looks like I called it [10].
[1]Outside the DNC…. well, Boortz looks out his Hotel window [11]and says:
The demonstrators … OMG! You wouldn’t let these dirty, bedraggled bums take your daughter out for lunch, but we’re supposed to listen to their grand ideas on governance?
- McCain, meanwhile is planning a huge, three state rollout [10]for his VP choice… which increasingly is looking like it’ll be Kay Bailey Hutchinson [12]. Seems a reasonable choice, and one sure to look in a number of Clinton supporters.
- Another less than savory link from Obama to a radical Islamist [13]. Jonah speaks to the idea [14]that the left simply doesn’t understand why this stuff is problematic for Obama, and the Chicago Boyz [15]take it from there.
As I have noted before, the real troubling aspect of the Obama-Ayers relationship is that Obama comes from a political subculture in which Ayers is an accepted and unremarkable individual. Looking at Ayers, one is forced to ask exactly what kind of leftist extremism would be considered unacceptable by Obama and his cohorts.
Exactly so. I have to wonder for example, if Ayers had blown up, say IRS offices, instead of the Penetgon, would the Democrats be quite so accepting of Obama’s relationship with him? Would that threshold be crossed? I have to tell you… If such a threshold exists, there is no evidence of it. But… good lord… don’t question their patriotism.
- While I agree that John McCain shouldn’t be pulling a John Kerry, by changing his middle name to ‘served in Vietnam’, (I’ve said so in these spaces several times in the past two years) I wonder a bit at the over-sensitivity displayed by some o the left about this issue… particularly those who didn’t seem to think it was a problem back in ’04. Can it be that they understand that McCain’s refferences to his service [16]are more convincing to the American people than Kerry’s were? And perhaps that difference in perception is affected by the ideas n the story above?
- I started working at this office I’m at a few months ago. I noticed what was obviously a new Hyudai that was a regular in the parking lot, here. I’ve never been much on Oriental cars, but I had to admit this one looked pretty good. Paint was all right, styling cues were all there… just seemed a nice car to drive. In the time since then, I’ve begun to notice increasing numbers of dents, scratches a broken tail light lens, and just plain abuse on this poor thing. In only a few short months, it looks like hell. It’s sad to see, really.It’s at that point I started looking around at other, similarly priced cars. They too, to a larger degree than their more expensive counterparts, regardless of their country of origin, are not well-maintained, and look like they’ve been through a life of abuse. Now, in fairness, it must be said that Hyundai, initially had quality control issues that would have crippled most car companies. Issues, as I gather it, they’ve solved for the most part; their product today is quite respectable. But, as if to prove build quality is not the point here, I don’t tend to see that among larger American cars, with larger price tags, and about whom there’ve been quality complaints for decades. American cars, Oriental cars, or German, Swedish, or whatever. It’s not the upper levels, or even the medium levels. Just the lower priced ones.I wonder a bit at what that tells us about the Human condition… things that cost us less dearly, we’re more likely to take for granted and treat it like it was a pile of crap, even though it’s really not.I wonder what lessons that holds for this election. Obama, for example, and his approach to Democrat voters, particularly Hillary Clinton supporters. Those voters he gets form the Clinton camp, he’s going to get fairly cheaply. Low cost. Similarly, John McCain, whose conservative bone fides are at least questionable, will get a whole pile of true conservative voters who, he figures will see him as the better alternative to Obama… or Clinton… and that’s certainly a fair assumption; he is a better choice.Yet, cars have a tendency to break down… even the well made ones, after a certain level of abuse, and they become less reliable. Similarly, voters have a tendency to rebel, their loyalty and dependability breaks down. One wonders if Obama and McCain are both wise enough to avoid that threshold? There’s some evdience that Obama has already gone over that line, and to a lesser degree, so has McCain.