Blogspot Authorization

Geez -- for the first time in a while, I've had stuff to rant a little about. But it's been difficult to log-on to Blogsot. I was not authorized, apparently.

Oh sure, I could have done this-ot-that... but whining about it afterwords is so much easier. (kind of like what our friends did in the pervious post -- snark!)

I really like this blogging-thing. When I had this difficulty, it made me realize that I liked it even more that I thought I did.

It's back now...

Yay :)

Katrina Briefing Tape Leak

I haven't heard the whole thing -- I admit it.

But...

From what I have heard, this is less of a gotcha for the Prez than it is for the Mayor of N.O. and the Gov of LA.

The thing that first comes to mind is, why didn't the state guys take this storm as seriously as the Fed did?

Some are saying that this is a big problem for the Prez, that it could billow into a full-fledged scandal. Maybe.

I think it shows that the Feds were far more on-the-ball and concerned about this storm than the locals were.

Lastly, I think it's important to say that nothing that anybody could have reasonably done bofore or after the storm would have made one iota of a difference with regards to the crazy-bad damge that was done to the cities hit.

By the way, wasn't there another city/population center hit is MI &/or AL? How did their state officials handle the Katrina? It seems interesting that we never seem to hear much about them.

We'll see what happens...

Offensive Cartoon?

From all I've seen, which is just the one with the bomb-turban, this kerfuffle is another case of certain someones taking themselves way too seriously. Suck it up, guys ... if yours is the one true faith, a few scribbles won't make more of a difference than a belch in a hurricane.

SOTU Address

Good speech. I liked the tough parts. Too bad he didn't hammer tax code reform & simplification... but at least he talked about medical liability reform. His 'green talk' was ok - but of course the correct answer is off-shore and ANWAR drilling (oh yeah, I said it).

The Dems are acting loopy and the folks are not buying it. But their donating constituency is loving it. More power to 'em!

Pretty soon we're going to need to identify our next Prez. candidate. I wonder who it will be?

Why aren't we Funnier?

I am a fan of woot.com. This guy Matt, who I suspect is the boss of the operation, podcasts these little tunes for each day's item. I love them. Especially the Bluetooth bits (they are addicting!!!).

This reminds me of a question I've had for quite some time.

With a very few exceptions, liberals have it all over us in terms of the funny-factor.

I often wonder why.

Is it because on the whole, conservatives lack the vile and bitterness present in so many of the really funny writers and performers of today?

Is it because the entertainment industry is so completely rife with people who just want to be loved (a Lib core value) that conservatives - even those with promise - are 'encouraged' to develop other tradecraft?

Maybe it's because we have the drive to create and build and nuture our families and community versus the constant, gluttonous internal examination that is required for truly funny bits.

In any event, it would be nice if we could have more jibes at the libs on tv, more pokes at the Dems in the paper ... but I guess we'll have to settle for parody on radio for now. (sigh)

Happy New Year

I know, I know... this poor blog has been neglected. Since I last opined so much has happened!

I have to say I am quite happy that both Roberts and Alito have been confirmed. It is as it should be. (ahhhhh)

Today is the State of the Union address... everybody's talking about this eavesdropping stuff. I wonder when everyone's going to understand that this issue is so a non-starter. I have to hand it to the radio guys out there, they are more patient and kind than I could ever be.

Adopt-A-Box

I've just volunteered to go through a box o' docs re: the Roberts confirmation.

This'll be fun!

PS. Did I mention that Hugh is my favorite radio host and occasional Con Law prof?

Comments on Recent Events...

In no particular order...

Pope John Paul II: I was honored by a blessing by His Holiness in 1980 in Chicago. A great and godly man. I wish him well.
Full disclosure: I'm a Methodist.

John Kerry on Meet the Press: What a marooon. This guy just can't make any sense at all. He is a joke, a rube, a ghost of an intelligent man.

Iraqi Election: A great and important moment in World History. My heart swells when I think on the enormity of it.

Bush Inaugural Speech: Grand. Sweeping. As large as the Montana sky. His most brilliantly delivered oratory ever. I just love this guy.

Recent Capture of our Soldier: John Adams a/k/a Lt Cody Action figure... If he loses his head, it's ok. It'll pop right back on. Is this a prank or are these guys serious? I tend to think that the website in question got hacked.

Abu Grihab Convictions: Convicted for what, exactly? I refuse to stipulate that anything close to torture occurred... cause it didn't!

Where has the time gone?

Here we are at the end of the first week of 2005. Goodness! How the time flies!

I have been absent for quite a few days now. The holidays are over and everything is settling down to normal (whatever that means).

I have yet to get my copy of Blog... but I did get me copy of a new xbox game. Well, it's not really a game - it is the next big thing in home fitness. Check it out: you are able to set up your vital statistics (multiplayer is avalable, so your hubby can use it too!). Your 'personal trainer' is Maya, and she leads you through some 500 different excercises with periodic 'how are you doing' questions. The game allows for excercise equipment like a stability ball, free weights, and a step bench, and you have your choice of music, too. It's called Yourself!Fitness, and I think it's pretty cool.

Our Soldier

Here's my two cents with regards to the American soldier who was videotaped killing an Iraqi he happened upon during a security sweep.

There's been hints and whiffs of a war crime being committed here. That something out-of-bounds occured and should be addressed by an official body of the US.

Frankly, I agree. The full might and scrutiny of the United States of America should be applied to this obvious traitorous behavior. The full scorn and disgust of the American people should be felt by the singlular perpitraitor of this heinous act...

Who is the traitor? What is the act? What is the war crime? It is the network producer who released the content of this all-too-common tragedy of warfare. This short-sighted, weak excuse for a professional should be expelled from patriotic American scociety to live in France (or some other appropriate nation).

The decision to release that content comes from the same idiocy that interrupted regular programming to air a special report announcing the death of Arafat. Only this decision is much, much worse. It gives to our enemies propaganda to incite and inflame a population already restless. It further endangers our people over there and over here. And it does this to the exclusion of anything good or beneficial to our own people.

It begs the question, "Idiot, what are you doing?" And the answer, "People have a right to know..." is phoney baloney and they know it. (where that sentiment true, our airwaves would be filled with more of the good stuff, too) So, again, "Idiot, what are you doing?"

The frustration is endless. This soldier must live with the righteous - albeit still - stains of his actions from not only that day, but all the other days. Forever. He did nothing wrong. Period. In fact, if he didn't act the way he did, I would be hard-pressed as his commander to trust him in battle.

Our guy was totally justified in his actions. The video guys were totally unjustified by their actions. The video guys need to go... and their replacements would be very wise to learn from their predecessors' collosal and dangerous derth of judgement.

Ten Days

Well, it's been 10 days since my last blog entry.

Things are settling down now that the election is over. The lefty nutburgers are fading once again into the woodwork, although I think it will take a little while longer to punch themselves out.

I think the swan song of these guys was Lawrence O'Donnell's blurt about "a serious discussion of cessation on the next 20 years." Democrats tried that already once and it didn't quite work out. Do they want to go for 0 for 2?

Wouldn't it be great if these whiners took all that tantrum-energy and focused it on solving something - I mean really solving a national ill. One thing - just one! Now, they would have to do it all on their own (no taxes or whatnot).

With the Soros-level money men, movie stars and singers' millions, they could end poverty in the Appalachian Mountains. They could enrich the Arts programs in inner city schools. They could go a long way to improving the culture of violence and exploitation that plague young minority men in the population centers of America. They could do so many valueable things...

But they won't. They'll just rant and whine and spin tales of paranoia and conspiracy.

"Kerry never communicated is person..."

I have heard again and again that the reason Kerry lost is because he did not effectively communicate who he is as a person. That he never introduced himself to Americans.

I reject this as supremely absurd and beyond riduculous.

The reality is that he did effectively communicate his personhood. He effectively broadcast his policies, ideals, personality, etc. Americans saw, understood, and decided who shall be President of the United States based on the full disclosure of Kerry on Kerry.

The decision was: No, thank you. Period.

No amount of revelations or communications would have changed the outcome (untruths and malicious manipulations notwithstanding). Kerry came, was seen, and was rejected precisely because he is who he is and what he believes. There's nothing underhanded or mean about that rejection. It is a reality of a presidential election. One (or more) guy loses - and there's nothing wrong with that.

A great sigh of contentment

What a night!

I can't say how happy I am to see Kerry's call to concede the contest to President Bush. Do you think he had a moment of clarity where he saw that there was no place for him in the Oval Office? Do you think he got a call from Bill after Ted left late last night? Do we really care?

I'm glad it's finally over, but I think there's some spanking to do. Namely, the MSM, exit pollsters, all those singers, actors, and sundry performers, and finally, the MoveOn guys et al. These guys have manipulated, cajoled, and perhaps even cheated some.

And George W. Bush beat them all, with a little help from us.

Yay!

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Memo to Osama

To: Osama Bin Laden
Third Cave on the Left
Iran

From: Christina Botteri
Last house on the left
California

RE: VIDEOTAPE SUBMISSION

Dear Osama:

Your repetition bores me.

A very sincere up yours,

Christina Botteri

An Interesting Analogy

After reviewing the headlines regarding the bogus "munitions are gone" story and subsequent MSM rebuttals, something struck me...

The uncoordinated, yet unmistakable relationship between the likes of 60 Minutes/New York Times and the DNC/Democrat Elites is very much the same as the uncoordinated, yet unmistakable relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Queda.

...Not if we win?!?!?

Thanks again, Drudge.

Elizabeth Edwards, courtesy of CSPAN, was caught on tape saying another evil thing. (the "Cheney family is ashamed of their daughter" was the first that broke through my radar)

This is a giant, steaming, black, tarry, lump of yuk for the Dems. Once again, shoing the true nature of the they have become.

I remain repulsed. My mom, who was so turned off by her first remark, says that I am "looking at it wrong." I said, "How else do you look at it? What would a smart lady like that be doing saying something so obviously ... well, threatning?"

Yikes! I am left shaking my head... I really wonder if this exchange will get any airtime. It should.

Radio Kerry

Through a series of small circumstances, I happened to hear the Democrat response to the President's radio address this morning. (too bad I didn't get to hear the President -- but thanks to the wonder of technology, I'll go get it here in a minute.)

I've been meaning to post on this for a couple of days, but am only now getting to it...

So, Kerry seems to be working double-time to undo the damage his wife Theresa did by saying that Mrs. Bush never had a real job, and then in some ways making it worse by saying she forgot that Mrs. Bush was a teacher and librarian (raising kids was notably absent from the job history -- oops!).

The subject of his radio address was written to address women... talking about how he will "fight" to close the so-called "wage gap," how raising the minimun wage to $7/hr will lift women and children out of poverty, filling grocery carts is hard, blah, blah, blah...

Is this an attempt to make up for his wife's collosal gaffe? Or is this an attempt to persuade all those Security "health-care-doesn't-matter-if-you're-killed-by-a-car-bomb" Moms that he's a better candidate?

I think that the former may be more true, because in this address he didn't mention his tough-talk on Iraq. If so, do we really want a President who must actively and publically clean up his wife's mistakes?! Do we really want a naturalized (is she?) billionairess in the White House shooting off her mouth every day because she so stinkin' rich she doesn't have to give a fig what anybody thinks? Do we really want to have to create a new Federal Department of Keeping Theresa Heinz-Kerry's Foot Out of Her Mouth (or, FDOKTHKFOHM).

Oh sure, it would be funny for a few weeks, but then it will become a national embarassment. Honestly, if President(gak!) Kerry has to run around apologizing for his gouche wife, how can he effectively lead? Do we really want that?

I think not.

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PS. I want my elephant back!

Kerry to declare early?!

I saw this on Drudge. I swear, the wrongness here is so vast that I don't even know where to begin... bah!

This is a huge gamble for Democrats. If they step in, declare victory and name a national security staff before the dust settles, they will be seen as interlopers attempting a coup d'etat... with a pledge to defend his claim?! Are you kidding me???

This is a new low in thuggery with the American Left... even if it's, "If we don't win, were gonna sue!" or "If we don't win, we'll say we did and make the prove it!" -- they are both doomsday scenarios, from a civil standpoint.

The Left is more willing to hijack our nation instead of taking it like men in the face of defeat.

What kind of message does that send our people? Our kids? Our allies? Our enemies?

I really hope this story gets some legs, because it is another keen insight in to the very heart and character of the rulers of today's Democrat Party.

<250 words: Bush v. Kerry

New Hugh Hewitt symposium question:
"In 250 words or less, why vote for Bush and what's wrong with Kerry?"

What’s right about Bush?

He promised a tax cut to all Americans and all Americans now pay fewer taxes.
He promised to raise standards in our schools and passed the No Child Left Behind Act.
He promised that those who harbor terrorists are just as guilty and will be captured or killed accordingly, and Saddam Hussein in sitting a jail cell, and 75% of the largest terror network in the world are dead or jailed.
He promised to promote a culture of life and passed the partial-birth abortion ban.
He promised to help seniors with their prescription drugs, and the Medicare Supplemental Drug Bill for Seniors was passed.
He promised free elections for Afghanistan, and Afghanistan has completed it’s first free election ever.

What’s wrong with Kerry?

He wants a government-run health plan that doesn’t have anything to do with the government.
Before using force, he wants to pass a truth standard/global test, but says it won’t amount to a veto.
He warns that Bush will re-instate the Draft, but wants to expand our Armed forces by 40,000.
He pledges not to raise taxes, but will “roll-back tax cuts” the moment he reaches office.
He wants to fix Social Security by not doing anything.
He wants to protect us from nuclear weapons by exporting nuclear technologies.
After two decades of never taking a leadership role in government, he wants to be the leader of the free world.

One man is a man of his word and one man is a man of just words.