I really don't know who to root for in the Democratic race. I'm obviously with all those complaining about Obama's messianism. And I agree with my friend Peter Feld who had this excellent piece in the New York Post yesterday pointing out how candidates elected on soaring, unrealistic promises of change usually have trouble governing once they are in office (e.g. Deval Patrick, Jimmy Carter). There is a grounding and a realism to Hillary that I have found appealing. I still remember what she said in reply to Obama in some debate long ago: the day after the election later this year, everyone is going to still believe everything they did they day before, i.e. everyone isn't suddenly going to agree with Obama's liberalism. That's exactly right. Plus, I sympathize with Hillary's lunch-bucket constituency (former constituency?) more than Obama's upscale liberals. Yet the Clintons have been simply repellent on the campaign trail, and Obama has run an honorable campaign and is a genuinely likable and talented guy. So I was delighted as Obama's lead grew and grew to 17 points last night, at the same time I was cheered back in January by Hillary's puncturing of the insufferable Obama hype in New Hampshire. At this point, I guess I could welcome anything: an Obama steam-roller through Texas and Ohio that ends the House of Clinton with a bang, or a Hillary comeback that pricks the ridiculous Obama bubble and draws out the race. There's nothing to do but sit back and enjoy.
In a story about the Tiger attack at the San Fransisco Zoo, and 911 recordings that seem to indicate that a zoo employee, in another part of the zoo, having the story relayed to him over a two-way radio, seemed not to believe what he was being told:
Michael Cardoza, a personal injury lawyer hired by Sousa's parents, said Tuesday that his clients had not yet listened to the recordings.Cardoza said he was struck by how cogent the brother who made the 911 call sounded, despite his obvious terror and the initial incredulity of zoo employees.
"That is tantamount to me going up to a cop saying, 'There is a guy with a gun behind our building and he just shot somebody,' and the cop saying, 'Are you on drugs?'" Cardoza said. "Why don't you go check it out first, and then question the reliability of the people who are reporting it, especially when one of them is standing there bleeding?"
Fucking idiot. In fact, it's much closer in comparison to a prison employee running up to a prison guard, saying "Come quick" there's an inmate over there with a gun!!" In that case, the prison guard would rightly be skeptical. But a cop on the street, responding to a distressed citizen? I don't think so.
He's so blinded by dollar signs, the damn ambulance chaser can't even put together a coherent analogy. Oh, but wait. The proper analogy doesn't put the dollar signs in his pocket. Nevermind.
And funny how the reporter mentions the fact that despite his incredulousness, he did in fact call 911.
From the Dispatch:
Change of plans.The Buckeyes were scheduled to set up camp for the first two days at Tulane University's outdoor practice field, then move to the indoor facility of the New Orleans Saints' practice complex for the last run-through Saturday.
But they will work out in the Saints' indoor field today because the cold front that pushed temperatures below freezing the past two nights has included a stiff wind the Buckeyes would rather avoid.
LSU is practicing in the Superdome all week
Excuse me? LSU gets the Superdome for practice? How is that determined? Ohio State is the home team, is it not?
So LSU is going to enjoy home field advantage by virtue of geography, plus they get a whole week to practice on the field, too? Why not just play the game at LSU?
Seems to me that if you are the best player in all of college football, and the team leader to boot, then your team probably shouldn't have lost three games.
That is all.
Have you ever had so many "pot calling the kettle black" variants running thru your head that you couldn't pull one out and have it make sense? Well, that just happend to me. SO, I will just go with, "Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, Pot".
Pardon me while I go file this one away.
Last night was a pretty shocking night of college football. #1 and #2, Missouri and West Virginia, both went down in flames on the season's last night of college football. And so Ohio State, which lost it's next to last game of the season, nevertheless is poised to be No. 1 and playing for the National Championship in January.
As my father often says on the golf course, sometimes it's better to be lucky than good...........
Go Bucks!
I've updated to MT4 and just making sure that everything is smooth.
There is a new style, which I will stick with until I understand this MT4 thing, and find a new style that I like.
This is what a blockquote will look like.
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Swear to God, I'll write him in if I have to..........
Is bias in the MSM so pervasive now that they not only show bias to the D's, but they are now comfortable revealing their primary picks?
See if you can pick up the subtle bias in Hillary's favor here:
By last night, senior aides to Clinton, who represents New York, and Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, were quarreling on television, their raised voices a measure of how competitive the 2008 presidential campaign has become with more than six months until the first votes are cast.
Catch that? Clinton represents New York, while Obama is just the "junior" senator from Illinois. Why doesn't it say, "Clinton, the junior Senator from New York, and Obama, who represents Illinois......"? Only the "journalist" who wrote the article knows for sure.
The Hotline blog highlights this exhange between Barack Obama and George Stephanopolous:
STEPHANOPOULOS: You've also said that with Social Security, everything should be on the table.OBAMA: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Raising the retirement age?
OBAMA: Everything should be on the table.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Raising payroll taxes?
OBAMA: Everything should be on the table. I think we should
approach it the same way Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan did back in
1983. They came together. I don't want to lay out my preferences
beforehand, but what I know is that Social Security is solvable. It
is not as difficult a problem as we're going to have with Medicaid and
Medicare.STEPHANOPOULOS: Partial privatization?
OBAMA: Privatization is not something that I would consider....
So everything should be on the table except the stuff that I don't want to be on the table. Idiot. Why is this lightweight even being humored with support in the polls?
Can we dispense with the "Charlie-Weis-is-a-genius" talk? Forever?
Thanks so much.
Well, this being January 2 and all, let's expand that to say, best headline of this college football season:
Wolverines go down with a whimper Rout by USC exposes Michigan as pretenders in national title picture
Amen, brother, amen!
Carr was asked whether USC could beat Ohio State. Who better to ask than the coach who had lost his last two games to them both?Carr, though, wasn’t biting.
“I’ll let you be the judge,” he said.
That's just Carr's way of saying, "There's no real way to tell, because we got way lucky to be able to score as many points as we did against Ohio State. If we had played them again, the result would probably have been the same as the USC game."
How many times does OSU have to beat them for people to get that they can't beat us?
Why would you want a rematch of a game that was just played? An OSU/UM rematch is completely different than, say, an OSU/UT rematch, or God forbid, a UM/Notre Dame rematch. Each team is a different team than they were in September. Thus a rematch would be an interesting test of each team's improvements and exposed deficiencies that perhaps weren't obvious in September.
On the other hand, OSU just beat Michigan. We're both the teams we'll be on January 8. So what's the point?
And I am tired of the argument that Michigan deserves more respect than Florida because they came within 3 points of the #1 team on their home field? Don't kid yourself. If we had played Michigan again, they wouldn't have come within two touchdowns. Face it: We handed them 10 points on a silver platter. Our first turnover game them the ball on what? Our 25? Anyone recall how many yards they gained on that series? Anyone familiar with the expression "3 yards and a cloud of dust?" Well, there was no dust. Just the 3 yards. The best the "second best team in the country" could muster on that drive starting at our 25 was three points, or put another way, 1 point per yard. They scored again when we coughed the ball up on the 9 yard line. So for those 10 points, they had to gain a whole 12 yards. If we play them again, they don't score those 10 points. Suddenly, their 3 point loss is a 13 point loss in a gaime they were never really in. I think it was Pat Forde on ESPN.com that pointed out that for all Michigan's heroics, they only had one opportunity to take the lead in the second half, (it was 31-35) and they went three and out. We promptly drove the length of the field for a touchdown. Game over.
Bring on the Gators. Michigan showed a complete inability to stop us. No doubt the Gators effort will be just as futile. Then can everyone shut up about the SEC being the best conference in the nation?
I frequent an online forum that has a popular thread entitled "unique baby names." You'd have to read it to believe it. Some people really are idiots. This may be the quote to end all quotes from the thread:
My daughter's name is Lochlyn Blue. We too wanted something unique, but not too odd. I don't imagine we'll encounter many other Lochlyn's throughout her life!
Unique, but not too odd? And you think "Lochlyn Blue" hit the mark? For the love of God, people! Think before you act. And if you act before you think, at least think before you open your mouth about it.
The latest argument against the President that's currently in vogue is the idea that we didn't do enough in Afganistan. That Iraq distracted from finishing the job in Afganistan. That because we changed our focus to Iraq so quickly, that the Taliban has been able to regain a foothold in Afganistan.
So tell me this. When was the last time a significant Al Queda operative was captured or killed in Afganistan?
Many people think that Osama is dead; those who think he's still alive say he's a lot of places, but not Afganistan. We bagged some of his cohorts in Pakistan, and bodybagged more than a few in Iraq. But we haven't found any in Afganistan. Why is that? Perhaps because we satisfied our objective in Afganistan, and it is now only marginally important to the war on terror?
We went to Afganistan because it was a haven for terrorists and OSB. Now it no longer is. Sounds like Mission Accomplished to me.
Is that even possible? An Al Queda operative was in Iraq? But Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror does it? Does it?
[Update: Best of the Web agrees]
Something that really bugs me are sanctimonious prigs who cover their cars with left-wing bumperstickers. I saw one today that pious asked, "Who would Jesus bomb?"
What a stupid friggin' question. Why on earth would Jesus use a bomb when he could just wipe out every living creature on the planet (except, of course, anyone he thought was righteous enough) with a flood?
Morale of the story: Don't get all self-righteous and start throwing around stupid cliches unless you really consider what you are saying.
And while I'm on the subject, you might do will to consider what the Islamofacists believe their Allah requires of them. In their view, the question "Who would Allah bomb?" is easily answered: everyone and anyone, as long as it's in Allah's name.
In light of enemy's mindset in this regard, Jesus just might do well to start packing some heat, if he cares for his flock.
Ever notice that when you see an MSNBC.com headline like:
"Croc Hunter's" death caught on tape | Video
The video link is never what you had hoped it would be? Or is that just me?
