Monday, February 28, 2005

Straight To Video

The latest hilarious hijinks at the U.N. are an indication that:

Kofi Annan needs videocassette sales kickbacks to maintain his meager NYC lifestyle and Central Park condominium.

Who needs oil bribes when you can get child pornography?

Mr. Annan has grown weary of picking his teeth with the finger bones of slaughtered baby Darfur refugees after a dinner of corn-fed Iowa beef at Ruth's Chris steakhouse and needs another hobby.

Kiddie porn, rape and child prostitution will make 'em all forget about 'Oil-for-Food.'

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LINKS OF INTEREST

It's Dowdy-Doody Time: Maureen Dowd-Moonbat Charge Of The Day on VIDEO! Hat tip Lorie!

Lorie: Putin Thinks Bush Fired The Rathergate Reporters I have written before about how dangerous the consequences of inaccurate and misleading reporting can be, especially in relation to foreign countries.

Misunderestimate Dean? Leave aside for a moment the fact that "say what you want about..." is political speak for, "look, I know the guy is a jackass, but..." "Misunderestimating" Dean would be impossible.

John Hawkins: just because

Reich--Keep Wal-Mart, But Regulate

Robert Reich has a column in the Times today. As Aaron mentioned in an email to me, it starts out pretty good, but inevitably (this is Reich, after all) goes off the tracks.


But isn't Wal-Mart really being punished for our sins? After all, it's not as if Wal-Mart's founder, Sam Walton, and his successors created the world's largest retailer by putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to shop there.

Not sure exactly what "sins" we're committing (from the context I suspect it's the sin of wanting inexpensive products), but I agree that it's silly to demonize Wal-Mart.

The fact is, today's economy offers us a Faustian bargain: it can give consumers deals largely because it hammers workers and communities.

As the old song says, it ain't necessarily so. In fact, today's economy delivers deals because it wrings unnecessary costs out of the system. As it happens, the business that I started last year is focused on this effort. But I am not trying to do it by cutting pay, but by getting workers to be more efficient. If, through technogical improvements, I can boost productivity by (say) 20%, then I can pay my workers (say) 10% more per hour and still increase my profits.

Reich descends into self-parody after that, with a panoply of suggestions that would reduce productivity and increase costs. As usual, it is sold to us on the basis that it wouldn't cost all that much:

A requirement that companies with more than 50 employees offer their workers affordable health insurance, for example, might increase slightly the price of their goods and services.

These provisions might end up costing me some money, but the citizen in me thinks they are worth the price.

The citizen in Mr Reich may feel that way, but the consumer in him probably doesn't agree.

More Dire News from the Middle East

Yet another event in the Middle East is showing Bush's failed policy. After Syria hands over Saddam Hussein's half brother to the Iraqis; the entire pro-Syrian (read: pro-terrorist/Hezbollah) government RESIGNS.

Freedom is on the march. I will never let any of my family and friends that are Bush Haters live this down. I don't want to hear any of the "WE" nonsense in 30 years from liberals like they do now with Reagan's policy with the Soviets.

Breakfast with Howie

We're the warm, sweet Vermont syrup to their flat, lying, nefarious pancakes! EEEEWWWWWWWEEEEERRRRRAAGHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Chris Rock’s Monologue Part II

...they never made tank-tops in the first place.

But then Mall Security found half a million former Banana Republic employees and shoppers dead in the store room.

All the people in the Gap Catalogue and the actors in the Gap commecials decided that they new what it was like to actually work in the Gap. Then they started going around the mall and telling everyone what they thought about operation Banana Republic Liberation.

Nothing was worse, however, than when all the posurs and commercial actors decided to come together and celebrate themselves and not make one mention about the fact that the Gap helped 8 million Banana Republic employees buy stock in their own company and hire a brand new Board of Directors.

KER-PLOP

If you didn't watch the Oscars last night (we watched Carnivale), Jordan Golson has posted everything you'll want to know, including transcripts and video clips. Video of Chris Rock's monologue: A lot of people like to bash Bush. I'm not gonna bash Bush here tonight. I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, I think Bush is a genius. I thought Bush did some things this year, you, nobody in this room could do.Nobody in this room could pull off ok? Cause Bush basically reapplied for his job this year. ... He started a war, that's cool, support the troops, he started a war. Now just imagine you worked at the Gap.(Laughter) You're $70 trillion behind on your register, and then you start a war with the Banana Republic...(Laughter) 'cause you say they got toxic tank-tops over there.(Laughter) You have the war. People are dying. A thousand Gap employees dead, that's right, bleeding all over the khakis.(Laughter)You finally take over Banana Republic and find out, they never made tank-tops in the first place.(Laughter-Applause) I watched the 13-minutes-plus video of Chris Rock and I thought he flopped. But that's just me. Over night ratings: 2005 30.1 RATING/43 SHARE

START THE PRESS!

To launch their second year, Hard Case Crime is publishing a New Book by Stephen King Stephen King, master of surprise and strange twists, is taking his writing in a new direction: pulp fiction. The Colorado Kid, a paperback with a lurid, 1940s-style cover featuring a languid brunette ... comes out in October from publisher Hard Case Crime. The story: A man is found dead on an island off the coast of Maine. A local newspaperman and graduate student in forensics try to identify the man. The more they learn, the more baffling the mystery becomes. (The sexy brunette on the cover is a young newspaper intern learning the ropes.) Hat tip Rodger J!

Sunday, February 27, 2005

LINKS OF INTEREST

According to DJ Drummond: There is a lot of talk right now about the Democrats being at a crossroads. ... The same is true of the Republican Party.

John Hawkins is now strictly a blogger/writer: The timing may not have worked out exactly as I wanted, but that's life. I'm going to be doing what I want to do, when I want to do it, and that is a beautiful thing that's worth taking a risk for...

Dean Exodus: Black Dem Switches Parties Kelley, who is African-American, was too polite to say so, but a highly placed elected official in Maryland confided in me that Howard Dean himself had a hand in the party switch.

Ahhh... Memories Europe is safe because you are a weak-willed, disarmed, defeated people who have are in the strange position of not needing a military only because America has served as your defacto army for 50 years. A man after my own heart

HOW WAS THIS FRAUD EVER HIRED?

original artwork drawn by the late artist Thomas E. Mails	Art signed by Prof. Ward Churchill

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill sits in his home near Boulder, Colo., during an interview Feb. 8, 2005. Officials at the university are poring over the writings of Chuchill who likened some Sept. 11, 2001, victims to Nazi's to determine whether he should be fired, but his lawyer said Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, he hasn't been told of any official inquiry. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) Thanks to reader likwidshoe, you can watch the entire newscast in which Churchill assaults the reporter.

IS OLD EUROPE BURNING?

A protester holds a sign reading 'No Bush, you're not welcome, we don't want your massacres any more. No more complicity from Europe and Belgium' during a demonstration near the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. Thousands of protesters were expected to rally against US policy in Iraq again on Wednesday(AFP/File/Herwig Vergult)	George Pumphrey, a Washington D.C. native, and resident of Berlin, participates with a poster in an anti-Bush protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005. As part of his visit to Europe, U.S. President George W. Bush will meet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Mainz on Wednesday, Feb. 23. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

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T-shirts are being sold as some 500 people demonstrate, in Brussels, to protest against the arrival of US President George W. Bush coming for a three-day visit to Belgium. Bush was to call for a fresh start to US-Europe ties after bitter divisions over Iraq and urge leaders here to work with him on Iran, Syria and the Middle East peace process.(AFP/Belga/Jacques Collet)

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Protesters hold up a sign as U.S. President George W. Bush addresses a crowd of thousands gathered in Bratislava's Hviezdoslavovo Square, February 24, 2005. Bush, on a fence-mending tour of Europe, will also meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Bratislava today. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

It's difficult to know what motivates these people, whether hatred/envy of the U.S or delusions of superiority. Both? However, they must be truly ignorant of their own history, past and present, if they can accuse the U.S. and Bush of such atrocities. For years now, as I've been reading about Europe's ever-increasing vile displays of anti-Semitism, I've felt as though I had been thrust into the late 1930s. These protesters could better use their time, energies and passions if they cleaned up their own backyards. Then I read Steyn's column and felt a twinge of pity for them ... just a twinge, though, and a very short-lived one at that.

TODAY IN HISTORY: A turning point in the history of the Third Reich today in 1933 when the German Reichstag is set on fire. Discovering a Dutch Communist member called Marinus van der Lubbe in the vicinity of the fire, the authorities soon act to suppress most of the human rights in Germany at that time. Although whether van der Lubbe was responsible or the Nazis themselves set the fire, one fact is inescapable - the Nazi Party would rule Germany unchallenged from that point on until 1945.

U.S. can sit back and watch Europe implode

Even more remarkably, aside from sticking to his guns in the wider world, the president also found time to cast his eye upon Europe's internal affairs. As he told his audience in Brussels, in the first speech of his tour, ''We must reject anti-Semitism in all forms and we must condemn violence such as that seen in the Netherlands.''
The Euro-bigwigs shuffled their feet and stared coldly into their mistresses' decolletage. They knew Bush wasn't talking about anti-Semitism in Nebraska, but about France, where for three years there's been a sustained campaign of synagogue burning and cemetery desecration, and Germany, where the Berlin police advise Jewish residents not to go out in public wearing any identifying marks of their faith.
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Until the shape of the new Europe begins to emerge, there's no point picking fights with the terminally ill. The old Europe is dying, and Mr. Bush did the diplomatic equivalent of the Oscar night lifetime-achievement tribute at which the current stars salute a once glamorous old-timer whose fading aura is no threat to them. The 21st century is being built elsewhere.

ALL THAT IS OSCAR

Will Chris Rock? ROCK SWEARS IT'S GOOD, CLEAN FUNNY CHRIS Rock promised not to use curse words, but he insisted on creative control over his stand-up Oscar performance tonight. "He wanted autonomy and they gave it to him." ... But some of his jokes have leaked out, including this presidential zinger: "Bush is not stupid. All you people who say that are wrong. You can't be an idiot and get to be president. You gotta give the guy a little credit. Anyone that's smart enough to get that far has got to be just acting dumb."

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OH, GOODIE BAGS PRESENTERS at tonight's Academy Awards will each get a choice gift basket worth several thousand dollars, including a $4,000 shopping spree from Aussie beauty company Jurlique; suites for two at the luxe Bellagio in Las Vegas; a spa getaway at the Bellagio; and dinner for two at the resort's ritzy Sensi restaurant followed by dessert at the new Jean-Philippe patisserie. Also in the goodie bag are brand-new Sprint PCS IP-A790 global phones, which A-Listers can use to stay in touch in 130 countries around the world.

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Saturday, February 26, 2005

Friedman on the Tipping Point

Tom Friedman has another gem in the NY Times for Sunday.


Thanks to eight million Iraqis defying "you vote, you die" terrorist threats, Iraq has been reframed from a story about Iraqi "insurgents" trying to liberate their country from American occupiers and their Iraqi "stooges" to a story of the overwhelming Iraqi majority trying to build a democracy, with U.S. help, against the wishes of Iraqi Baathist-fascists and jihadists.

In Lebanon, the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which Syria is widely suspected of having had a hand in, has reframed that drama. A month ago, Lebanon was the story of a tiny Christian minority trying to resist the Syrian occupation, which had the tacit support of the pro-Syrian Lebanese government and a cadre of Lebanese politicians who had sold their souls to Damascus. After the Hariri murder, Lebanese just snapped. Lebanon became the story of a broad majority of Lebanese Christians, Muslims and Druse no longer willing to remain silent, but instead telling the Syrians, and their Lebanese puppet president, to "go home." Lebanon went from a country where few dared whisper "When will Syria leave?" to a country where nearly everyone was shouting it, and Syria was having to answer.

The Israel-Palestine drama has gone from how Ariel Sharon will use any means possible to sustain Israel's hold on Gaza, which he once said was indispensable for the security of the Jewish state, to being about how Mr. Sharon will use any means possible to evacuate Gaza - with its huge Palestinian population - which he now says is necessary for saving Israel as a Jewish state. The issue for the Palestinians is no longer about how they resist the Israeli occupation in Gaza, but whether they build a decent mini-state there - a Dubai on the Mediterranean. Because if they do, it will fundamentally reshape the Israeli debate about whether the Palestinians can be handed most of the West Bank.

Read it all. Friedman's really on top of his game with this one.

I Was on the Tammy Bruce Show!

I am so giddy, I called into the show and was put on immediately. The discussion was about Condi and I totally rocked it! WooHoo!

Condi 2008

Ahhh, John Hawkins at Right Wing News found the precise picture on the cover of the WaPo this week that had me all excited (Nod to ABP). I couldn't find it on the internet so I had to post other pictures of Ms. Thang. But this is THE one:




We need to get behind this woman in a big way. Her election in 2008 would be literally a REVOLUTION for America and the Republican party. And don't you listen to those white conservatives already talking her qualifications down like here. You don't need a president that agrees with everything. The president needs to be a rallying point that will allow the legislature to represent the people. President Bush is the perfect example with illegal immigration. Publicly, he is not the "build a wall" conservative, but if he received a bill that the people wanted--he would sign it because he knows who his base is. This is not Clintonianism Triangulation, its understanding what the Chief Executive is.

If you want to support learn more about Condi, check out these sites:

• Rice 2008



• Americans for Condi



• Condi for Prez



• Condi for President Yahoo Group



• Dr. Rice's White House Biography



• Condi for President 2008



• Stop Hillary, Draft Condi

Dr. Condeleeza Rice is my pick in 2008.