Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Happy Birthday
My baby boy has turned 1 today. Considering what a tough time he had coming into the world, the rest has been easy sailing.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Numbers
If the next President serves two terms, this is how the current Supreme Court will stack up by January 20, 2017.
John Roberts 61 (has had health issues including seizures)
John Paul Stevens 96 (But a young 96)
Antonin Scalia 80 (He will be mellower by then though)
Anthony Kennedy 80 (Ironically a Dead Kennedys fan)
David Souter 77 (Still living with mom)
Clarence Thomas 68 (holographic porn created in 2015 re-envigorates him)
Ruth Ginsberg 83 (Will still have a mean left hook)
Stephen Breyer 78 (He wants to direct)
Sam Alito 66 (Still known as Scalito, but now with an AARP card)
For those Obama or Clinton supporters who suggest that they will vote for McCain to teach everybody a lesson, you can kindly go kiss my white ass.
This is ignoring the fact that since 1980, Republicans have been nominating judges for 20 of the last 28 years. getting McCain elected would make it 28 of 36 which is even better!
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Kristol Meth
So conservatives might think of John McCain as our potential TR, Mike Huckabee as our potential FDR, and Mitt Romney as our potential JFK. Support the one you prefer. But don't work yourself into a frenzy against the others. Let the best man emerge from a challenging primary process. And if there is no clear-cut winner, then the delegates at the GOP convention can turn on the fifth ballot to an obvious fallback compromise candidate, one who would be just fine with conservatives--Dick Cheney!
--William Kristol
He is the star new NY Times columnist because of insightful thoughts such as these.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Cynicism
(Full disclosure: I support John Edwards)
One of the disturbing media memes of the past several weeks is that John Edwards needs to drop out. This was said after New Hampshire when just a fraction of delegates were committed. His chance of winning was dropping, therefore he should just pack up his bags and go home.
Of course, there was no reflecting on any role the media might have played in his poor showing. Up until the end, Edwards was continually in the lead or in second place in Iowa all summer and spring long, but unless a political junkie, you would be hard pressed to know it wasn't just an Obama/Hillary fight for the nomination.
Why should Edwards get out? Assume that this will be a 40 Obama, 40 Clinton, 20 Edwards race in delegates. Isn't this the very reason that Edwards should stay in, even with no shot of winning?
The jaded press assumes that all candidates are in it just for themselves. If they aren't going to win, they need to leave.
Assume for one moment, that a candidate genuinely believes in their message a little. Being in third place with two people at the top, possibly neither having enough delegates to win due to his being forced to make a deal.
They would make concessions. Obama might go further on health care. Hillary might fight harder for worker rights. All of this possible because Edwards ignores what the media instructs him is his duty.
Keep fighting John.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Scapegoating Religion
Mickey Kaus of Slate.com and goatfucking fame weighs into the Presidential religion question with a bang.
Undernews Alert: It's hard to believe that Obama's Afrocentric church--with its troubling attack on "the pursuit of middeclassness"--isn't going to be an issue in the campaign, soon. There are already wild, inflammatory emails circulating, apparently.
Do you really want to go there Mickey? Mitt has magic underwear, Huckabee believes Jesus rode a dinosaur through Jerusulem, and Giuliani convinced that Catholic church that he accidentally fucked his cousin for 12 years without realizing it.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
The Goldberg Code
I think it's worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he's the nominee — and then imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008. Forget Hillary's inevitability. Obama has a rendezvous with destiny, or so we will be told. And if he's denied it, teeth shall be gnashed, clothes rent and prices paid.
What Jonah Goldberg is trying to dog whistle here is that the negroes will riot if Obama loses the general election, so white people may relunctantly have to vote for him so they are safe to watch episodes of Battlestar Galactica on their high definition televisions.
Friday, December 28, 2007
I Get Mail
Dear Fellow Republican:
As Oregon's only statewide elected Republican, the national Democrats have made me their top target for defeat in 2008, in an effort to expand their slim majority in the U.S. Senate. If you want the Republicans to take back our majority in 2008, I need your immediate help today to fight back against these liberal Democrats!
Dude, you are a relatively centrist Republican. Just because nobody except those who follow politics to an insane level of obsession, it's still not nice to pretend you are a mouth breather just to fool Newt Gingrich's mom into donating to your campaign.
You may have recently read that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, lead by ultra-liberal New Yorker, Chuck Schumer, has poured more coordinated money into the Oregon Senate race than any other race in the country this year. There is no doubt that Schumer and the liberal Democrats have done this in an effort to expand their majority in the Senate.
Ultra liberal? Chuck Schumer? Really? They are trying to defeat you in a sneaky bid to win an election. Who writes this shit? I mean really. It's like saying the New England Patriots are planning on throwing the ball in the end zone in a deliberate effort to score points.
But, my campaign will fight back and I need your help now more than ever to do so. Will you help my campaign to keep by making an immediate contribution of $50 or more to fight back?
In just three months, the national Democrats spent $93,000 in support of Oregon House Speaker, Jeff Merkley's campaign to defeat me. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.... As the national Democrats' top target in 2008, I know that these far-left liberals will pour millions more into this race to defeat me and expand their Senate majority.
$93,000 whole dollars were thrown against Smith so far. It's just the beginning. Pretty soon, they will use this money to run ads in a nefarious effort to win. Gordon Smith needs our help now!
My campaign is coming up on an important fundraising deadline. Monday, December 31st marks the end of the fourth quarter and we will be filing a fundraising report that the media and the liberals will scrutinize. I need your help right away to raise as much money as possible in the next few days to show the strength of our campaign organization. Please follow this link immediately to make your contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 or more before Monday, December 31st.
Those bastards! What won't they stoop to in their Jihad against Gordon Smith?
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Devil In A Red Dress
Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover’s proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons.
This plan is fifty seven years old, yet we learn about it today. Can anybody seriously argue that there was a justification for holding it secret this long other than shame? One of the reasons scoundrels like Hoover were brazen enough to dream such dreams is our governmental culture of secrecy.
The Bush administration was classifying fifteen million documents per year as it settled in. This past year it was at least twenty million, but likely much more. "The fourth branch of government" Dick Cheney has refused to co-operate with the Information Security Oversight Office. The amount of paper they stamp "Top Secret" itself is classified. A cowered congress and feckless press have done little to expose this abuse of secrecy.
Do we have to wait another fifty-seven years to declassify a Cheney memo that calls J. Edgar a visionary? I have been told the answer. But, it's classified.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
The Wisdom Of Our Journalistic Betters
Joe Klein writes:
For me, the best case for Clinton, which the Register chooses not to make, has been the quality of the positions she's taken in this campaign--especially on health insurance and global warming--and also her relatively unique mastery of national defense issues, via her service on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Obama's failure to provide a truly universal health insurance program and his lack of knowledge about the military and the intelligence community are real disadvantages he has versus Clinton.
Klein further endorsed John Bolton as the next Secretary of State due to his unique diplomatic experience. He then suggested Paul Wolfowitz as the next Secretary of Defense, before drinking himself into a stupor.
