Cynical Pandering

Pathetic. This might be the most obvious showing of the GOP's complete lack of anything resembling principles in the years.

After months of accusing Michelle Obama and Hilary of tokenism now they embrace this unqualified token female. Shameful pandering that is an insult to women b/c this horrible choice is based solely on the idea that Hilary supporters are going to vote for McCain now b/c his VP has a vagina and ignore that she's a right wing hack. But apparently, it's only black women that are "tokens"?

Here is a woman who has been governor of a state with more reindeer than people for all of 20 months. Before that the mayor of a town of 9000...What a joke. If leading a governmental agency of a population of 600,000 for a little over a year and a half makes you qualified to be President that would open it up to about 20,000 mayors, County Executives, governors.

You are honestly telling me that she is the BEST and most qualified member of the GOP to be VP? Really? She's not even the best female candidate, Kay Bailey Hutchinson is infinitely more qualified than her if you must have a woman candidate. Elizabeth Dole?

Please, Executive experience. Her big ethics controversy is so freakin' quaint as to be right out of an Andy Griffith episode. Using her influence to get her sister's ex-husband fired. That is so precious and it shows how small time she is. She's so ill-equipped to be VP that only a few weeks ago she didn't have enough information to form an opinion on The Surge in Iraq.

George Bush had been an executive for years and he let 9/11 happen. So, I'm not sure the Governor card is a strong one.

Finally, can you imagine the firestorm created by Malkin, Coulter and the comments by the Right if Obama's 17 year old daughter were pregnant…OMG the double standard. And of course the absolute SILENCE about Cindy McCain. If Michele Obama were a drug addict, that would be all you'd hear about. (let me be perfectly clear, I don't think someone's family issues disqualify them and I really like Cindy McCain she is a class act and seems to have a very good heart. But the GOP has been making fun of Obama's family for 2 years, so I'm only pointing out the hypocrisy, not condemning Cindy)

Media Bias toward the GOP in this country is sickening.

Bolt is amazing

I know Phelps is getting all the love, but this guy dominated in a way that Phelps didn’t. Yes, Phelps broke lots of world records (and having 97 swimming events and relays helps) but not by this margin and he didn’t dominate like Bolt did (someone can do the math on the percentage improvement in the records and the percentage of his margin of victory). Phelps may have broken a record by a crazy 4 seconds but that’s in a 2 minute race. Oh yeah, and 2 or 3 other guys also broke the record). Bolt is sick.

Guitar Hero ...saving Rock n Roll?

I was talking with another dad at football practice last night about this very subject. The other day in the car, Iron Maiden came on the Sirius and my 10 year old pointed out that it was indeed Iron Maiden. I asked how he knew that and he said “Guitar Hero” and he recognized his voice. It was a proud moment for me. Mostly b/c, despite my efforts, most of the time he seems to believe that Lil Wayne (and his contemporaries) invented Rap and most music for that matter.



And speaking of ROCK. I bought a 3 disc set of Journey at Costco on Sunday. I’ve been rockin’ it ever since…and if “Feelin that way/Anytime” and “Wheel in the sky” don’t get your heart apumpin…you have no soul.

anyone else tired of the phelympics?

I'll give you that Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer ever. Sure. But this bullshit that he is the greatest athlete of all time must come to an end. Phelps does one thing better than anyone, but he swims. Just swims. Bo Jackson played 2 sports at a professional level and was a great track athlete. Dieon Sanders was one of the best football players of his era and a damn fine baseball player. He also ran track in college. Again, Phelps does one thing, yes he does different strokes, but that allows him opportunities to pile up medals. If track had four different racing styles, I'm sure Michael Johnson or Carl Lewis could have had another 10 or so. Imagine if there was a backwards 200M, or a sideways event. Additionally, many of Phelps medals were in relays. Again, track doesn't have so many events at such close distances.
This doesn't even bring up athletes with crazy diverse skills like Jim Thorpe or even Babe Didrickson. Jim Brown who was the greatest running back in NFL history and was supposed to be the greatest Lacrosse player of his era. So, as NBC is forced to talk about someone besides Phelps, lets restore some integrity to this discussion of ATHLETES. Phelps is the greatest swimmer, maybe the greatest Olympian, but once the hysteria subsides we'll all realize he is NOT the greatest athlete of all time.

and from Darkness...light shown again

Maybe, JUST MAYBE, rule of law is shining it’s head again after years of darkness…(I think it might have been under the drapery that Ashcroft put over the statue of Justice).



No man, no matter how much Divine Authority he believes he has, is above the law in America .

Federal judge rules Bush's aides can be subpoenaed

A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Bush's contention that senior White House advisers are immune from subpoenas, siding with Congress' power to investigate the executive branch and handing a victory to Democrats probing the dismissal of nine federal prosecutors.

WASHINGTON —

A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Bush's contention that senior White House advisers are immune from subpoenas, siding with Congress' power to investigate the executive branch and handing a victory to Democrats probing the dismissal of nine federal prosecutors.

More American media hypocrisy

i read this and it seems like another case of media hypocrisy. America choses beauty over talent every day, but we're supposed to be outraged when China does it? Paris Hilton anyone?

Why do we condemn the Chinese and spin it that they replaced the "ugly girl", when isn't it just as much the case that the girl that was to perform couldn't sing well enough and someone else with talent was used instead.

Does that make it better or worse? Not sure.

As for the "controversy" over the digital fireworks...are you freaking kidding me? it was a performance, did you realize that the ships on that screen and all the other images were not real...GASP. They were actually digital images, OMG the horror.

American media is a bunch of tools.

Where is the Bush name calling now? or Is this Bush's "Chamberlin Moment"?

Is this Bush’s “peace in our time” moment? Is bush going to defend our friends in Georgia or is he just going to say “ Russia is a bully”?

Sanctions? US Troops in Georgia ? Why doesn’t Georgia deserve half as much as Iraq , after all they are being invaded by another nation? Or does Bush still believe that Putin still has a pure soul?

I’m ask for the neo-con take on this, I don’t know that I have the answers, but consdiering all the chest thumping about freedom by the Bushies I would figure you’d have some pretty strong positions on defending our allies from Russian agression.

After all, Bush called Obama an appeaser while he stood in the Knessett, but isn't he doing just as Chamberlin did with Hitler? Again, the Neocons are the experts on that b/c they love to trot out Chamberlin about once a week to prove how tough they are about freedom (even if NONE of them ever saw a minute of combat)

what a joke

I've read this twice now:

As probable bioterrorists go, Bruce Ivins was a near perfect suspect. Among the hundreds of pages of evidence that the FBI had mounted against him (which were released last week), there were electronic records documenting Ivins' late-night sojourns in the lab, e-mails revealing a mind wracked by paranoia and an inventory of a November 2007 FBI search of his home, which turned up a paperback copy of Albert Camus's novel The Plague.

Seriously? That book's presence is some sort of proof of guilt? Any well read person might have that book, does that make everyone a terrorist? I have a book infectious diseases too, LEVEL 4 is the title, should I toss that? I also own 5 bibles, the Communist Manifesto, Milton Friedman, and dozens more. I wonder what case could be made of me (OR ANYONE) if the FBI pulled one book from me bookshelf.

Idiots

American Media's hypocrisy re: Olympic athletes

The other day MSNBC.com had a story about Chinese gymnasts and the implication was the state forced kids and families to make all kinds of sacrafices and that that it was just horrible. Forgetting of course that American kids do the exact same thing. But as I'm watching this evenings Synchronized Diving, NBC plays one of those vingettes they love to produce. In it, this America girl explains how she left home at the age of 16 to train full time in Indianapolis, how she has NO friends, how she didn't go to high school, about how her whole life is diving. NBC presented this as some noble cause for her to give up her childhood.

Yet last week, when the Chinese kids did it it was sad. Hypocrites.