In response to my post below, Jim Riley makes a wonderful point.
You see, it seems that our friends on the far Left have taken to calling themselves "Hussein" in honor of the Moonbatic ... er, Democrat nominee for President. Lowell Feld notes this over at Ranting Kids ... er, Raising Dough ... er, Raising Kaine ... er, RK ... er, whatever.
Even the sometimes logical Ben Tribbett, who is Not Larry Sabato, is now Not Larry Hussein Sabato.
Now, I suppose there's something to be said for doing so. After all, the Democrat nominee-presumptive is quite sensitive about sharing his middle name with the late and former Maximum Leader of Iraq, so much so that he whined about people who were pointing it out. Obviously, some Democrats worry that reminder of Obama's non-English, non-typical name will cost him votes and/or support. Taking the power out of it (much as adherents to Martin Luther's reforms took on the name "Lutheran," once an insult) is a legitimate tactic.
But remember two years ago, when Virginia's Moonbatosphere was was making sport of Senator George Allen's middle name?
So let me get this straight: "Felix" is to be ridiculed, but "Hussein," surname of one of the five most bloodthirsty dictators of the last half-century, is to be celebrated?!?!?!
Liberalism. It's not just a lifestyle; it's a mental disease.
Monday, June 30, 2008
"Hussein" Fashionable?
According to Lowell Feld, some moonbats ... er, "Democrats" have started putting "Hussein" in the middle of their names.
Doubtless, it a demonstration of solidarity with the late and former Maximum Leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. After all, these are the same moonbats ... er, "Democrats," who suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome. And who has lost more to the Bush Administration than Saddam Hussein?
Oh, that's not the reason?
Could've fooled me.
Doubtless, it a demonstration of solidarity with the late and former Maximum Leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. After all, these are the same moonbats ... er, "Democrats," who suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome. And who has lost more to the Bush Administration than Saddam Hussein?
Oh, that's not the reason?
Could've fooled me.
Wesley Clark: Four-Star Moonbat
I'll vote for John McCain, with grave reservations based upon some of his positions (hostility to the First Amendment, for example), but it's clear that the moonbat Left finds little in his military record to commend him.
According to Gen. Wesley Clark, on yesterday's "Face the Nation" on CBS, John McCain's heroic record isn't that big a deal:
According to Gen. Wesley Clark, on yesterday's "Face the Nation" on CBS, John McCain's heroic record isn't that big a deal:
In the matters of national security policy making, it's a matter of understanding risk. It's a matter of gauging your opponents and it's a matter of being held accountable. John McCain's never done any of that in his official positions. I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war.
He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee and he has traveled all over the world, but he hasn't held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded .... that wasn't a wartime squadron.
According to Newsmax.com, even this was too much for moderator Bob Schieffer, who raised the issue by citing similar remarks Clark has made previously, noted that Obama hadn't had those experiences nor had he ridden in a fighter plane and been shot down. "Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president," Clark replied.
Really? Apparently, riding in a swiftboat was, however.
In a March conference call with reporters while he was still backing Hillary Rodham Clinton, Clark said: "Everybody admires John McCain's service as a fighter pilot, his courage as a prisoner of war. There's no issue there. He's a great man and an honorable man. But having served as a fighter pilot --- and I know my experience as a company commander in Vietnam --- that doesn't prepare you to be commander in chief in terms of dealing with the national strategic issues that are involved. It may give you a feeling for what the troops are going through in the process, but it doesn't give you the experience first hand of the national strategic issues."
It's utterly amazing that one would disparage that record. But when you're a moonbat who supports a guy who was, just a few years ago, a "community organizer," i.e., a professional rabble-rouser, and who has no significant legislative or executive record, you have to start by denigrating perhaps the most honorable service a man can render and which, among any but the moonbats of the far Left, makes a man --- objectively --- highly qualified for the highest office in the land.
Friday, June 27, 2008
You Can't Make This Stuff Up!
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, within two hours of the Supreme Court's ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, predicts "higher taxes to pay for extra police if his city's gun restrictions are lost."
A pretty good prediction in any Democrat administration.
A pretty good prediction in any Democrat administration.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Duh!
Perhaps the dumbest and most self-evident headline I've seen in a long time:
"HIV spikes in men who have sex with men."
Only the perversion lobby has ever suggested otherwise.
What's next? "STDs spike among the promiscuous"?
"HIV spikes in men who have sex with men."
Only the perversion lobby has ever suggested otherwise.
What's next? "STDs spike among the promiscuous"?
Heller: "...it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct"
Courtesy of SCOTUSBlog, we learn that the Supreme Court today affirmed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in District of Columbia v. Heller. In so doing, the Court affirmed that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right, exposing the dishonesty of the gun-grabbing, liberty-destroying Left.
A link to the decision is here.
Liberty and the right of revolution lives!
As I will be arguing a case before the Court on 6 October, no further commentary will be offered.
A link to the decision is here.
Liberty and the right of revolution lives!
As I will be arguing a case before the Court on 6 October, no further commentary will be offered.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
*&@$#%! Airlines!
Amazing. Utterly amazing.
If you have a few bucks laying around, and are thinking about investing in an airline, DON'T DO IT!
Just got off the phone with Ruiz, at United Airlines. It seems that United just managed to find a bag that had been misdirected.
'Course, the flight that it was supposed to arrive on arrived on time at Washington Dulles International Airport ten months ago tomorrow!!!
That's right. United will be returning a bag (my mother's) from a flight from ten months ago.
You see, last summer, the Youngs took a trip to Alaska. For reasons discussed elsewhere, my mother came along.
On the way back, her single bag was misdirected.
Now, we were pretty sure as to what happened. When we got back to Dulles, and noticed that only her bag (among the seven checked by the five of us) was missing, I noticed that we had an errant baggage claim check. There was a different name on it, and it was for a woman (in the military) traveling on to Kuwait, as was our flight.
Well, we of course reported that information when we went to the Baggage Office for United to complain.
Thus began six weeks of conversations with people on the United toll-free line. 'Cept English wasn't their first language. And they weren't in the United States. Noooo, they were in New Delhi. Yeah. In India. And we begged them to contact Kuwait, and to have someone physically look for the bag. "No can do," we were told. We begged them for the phone number of the terminal in Kuwait, so we could do that which they wouldn't. No luck. It was so bad that I seriously contemplated asking a friend from church --- a Marine officer on his way to Afghanistan --- to check for the bag when he went through Kuwait. Figuring he had better things to do --- and having been assured by United that they had, indeed, checked in Kuwait, I declined to do so.
To make a long story a bit shorter, we received a check for about $1,200.00 about six weeks later. But no bag.
And now, one day short of ten months to the day after we returned home, United has finally found.
I'm sure that my mother will be delighted.
As for me, I have little doubt anymore as to the reasons for the sad state of American airlines.
If you have a few bucks laying around, and are thinking about investing in an airline, DON'T DO IT!
Just got off the phone with Ruiz, at United Airlines. It seems that United just managed to find a bag that had been misdirected.
'Course, the flight that it was supposed to arrive on arrived on time at Washington Dulles International Airport ten months ago tomorrow!!!
That's right. United will be returning a bag (my mother's) from a flight from ten months ago.
You see, last summer, the Youngs took a trip to Alaska. For reasons discussed elsewhere, my mother came along.
On the way back, her single bag was misdirected.
Now, we were pretty sure as to what happened. When we got back to Dulles, and noticed that only her bag (among the seven checked by the five of us) was missing, I noticed that we had an errant baggage claim check. There was a different name on it, and it was for a woman (in the military) traveling on to Kuwait, as was our flight.
Well, we of course reported that information when we went to the Baggage Office for United to complain.
Thus began six weeks of conversations with people on the United toll-free line. 'Cept English wasn't their first language. And they weren't in the United States. Noooo, they were in New Delhi. Yeah. In India. And we begged them to contact Kuwait, and to have someone physically look for the bag. "No can do," we were told. We begged them for the phone number of the terminal in Kuwait, so we could do that which they wouldn't. No luck. It was so bad that I seriously contemplated asking a friend from church --- a Marine officer on his way to Afghanistan --- to check for the bag when he went through Kuwait. Figuring he had better things to do --- and having been assured by United that they had, indeed, checked in Kuwait, I declined to do so.
To make a long story a bit shorter, we received a check for about $1,200.00 about six weeks later. But no bag.
And now, one day short of ten months to the day after we returned home, United has finally found.
I'm sure that my mother will be delighted.
As for me, I have little doubt anymore as to the reasons for the sad state of American airlines.
What A Huge Surprise!
The Democrat-controlled Senate Finance Committee has voted to increase your taxes!
Another fine example of why Chuck Colgan should have been retired last year by Bob FitzSimmonds.
Another fine example of why Chuck Colgan should have been retired last year by Bob FitzSimmonds.
Tell Me Again Why We Need More Taxes?
Senator (and future Attorney General) Ken Cuccinelli gets it right again!
In Richmond for Governor Timmy's! special tax-increase ... er, "transportation" session of the General Assembly, Senator Cuccinelli has apparently noted that while Virginians of all stripes are having to reprioritize their budgets to account for increased costs for transportation, only Democrats in the government of the Commonwealth are refusing to acknowledge reality by reshuffling budget priorities to spend more for transportation, and less (well, not really less, but smaller increases) for other areas of the budget.
I invite my few readers to play the Democrats' game. Rather than reordering your families' spending priorities, I suggest that you go into your bosses' offices, and demand a raise to account for the higher costs of gasoline for your commute.
When he or she finishes laughing you out of his or her office, call your state legislators and demand that they respond similarly to Governor Timmy's! tax-increase proposals.
In Richmond for Governor Timmy's! special tax-increase ... er, "transportation" session of the General Assembly, Senator Cuccinelli has apparently noted that while Virginians of all stripes are having to reprioritize their budgets to account for increased costs for transportation, only Democrats in the government of the Commonwealth are refusing to acknowledge reality by reshuffling budget priorities to spend more for transportation, and less (well, not really less, but smaller increases) for other areas of the budget.
I invite my few readers to play the Democrats' game. Rather than reordering your families' spending priorities, I suggest that you go into your bosses' offices, and demand a raise to account for the higher costs of gasoline for your commute.
When he or she finishes laughing you out of his or her office, call your state legislators and demand that they respond similarly to Governor Timmy's! tax-increase proposals.
Announcement: The Guilty Liberal Fund
Caught a caller to the Chris Plante Show on WMAL on the way to work today.
"Theresa" describes herself as a black single woman who makes over $120,000 per year, and supports the Dalai Bama ... er, Barack Hussein Obama (since I saw another blogger referring to "John Sidney McCain" the other day, with no complaints from his fellows in the moonbatosphere, I'm pretty sure I don't want to hear any more complaints about referring to middle names). Plante queried her for the reasons for her support, and she rendered the usual talking points about "health care for all Americans." Interestingly, she conceded what few close to the Dalai Bama will: that Obama will raise taxes.
That really doesn't bother "Theresa," since she's willing to pay more.
What Plante failed to ask her was "How much extra did you send in to the Federal government last year? The year before that? How about 2005?" Better yet, Plante might have asked her how much her tax refunds were for those years.
Plante also failed to ask "Theresa" for how many people --- other than herself and her family --- was she paying for health insurance.
You see, nothing in the world prevents people from sending in more to the Federal government. And "Theresa" is certainly free to purchase health insurance for whomever she wants.
And until someone advocating those positions favors us with that information --- and the answer is substantial --- I'm really not interested in hearing how "willing" he or she is to pay more taxes, or how he or she believes that "we" should be providing health insurance to "everyone," which by the way includes those who can "afford" it but are young, and/or healthy, and/or have decided to self-insure.
Of course, what "Theresa" means by "we" is that the Federal government should seize money from the productive at the point of a gun, and redistribute it to others. What she means --- assuming that she hasn't purchased health insurance for some unfortunate outside of her immediate family --- is that she doesn't take personal responsibility for her beliefs and put them into action.
Perhaps what we need to do to put the tax advocates to their proofs is to create the "Guilty Liberal" fund, so that Liberals who find themselves paying too little in taxes can assuage their guilt by sending in more than required by law.
Maybe then they'll leave the rest of us alone.
Of course, it's been tried in Virginia --- since 2002 --- and precisely five people have contributed to it.
"Theresa" describes herself as a black single woman who makes over $120,000 per year, and supports the Dalai Bama ... er, Barack Hussein Obama (since I saw another blogger referring to "John Sidney McCain" the other day, with no complaints from his fellows in the moonbatosphere, I'm pretty sure I don't want to hear any more complaints about referring to middle names). Plante queried her for the reasons for her support, and she rendered the usual talking points about "health care for all Americans." Interestingly, she conceded what few close to the Dalai Bama will: that Obama will raise taxes.
That really doesn't bother "Theresa," since she's willing to pay more.
What Plante failed to ask her was "How much extra did you send in to the Federal government last year? The year before that? How about 2005?" Better yet, Plante might have asked her how much her tax refunds were for those years.
Plante also failed to ask "Theresa" for how many people --- other than herself and her family --- was she paying for health insurance.
You see, nothing in the world prevents people from sending in more to the Federal government. And "Theresa" is certainly free to purchase health insurance for whomever she wants.
And until someone advocating those positions favors us with that information --- and the answer is substantial --- I'm really not interested in hearing how "willing" he or she is to pay more taxes, or how he or she believes that "we" should be providing health insurance to "everyone," which by the way includes those who can "afford" it but are young, and/or healthy, and/or have decided to self-insure.
Of course, what "Theresa" means by "we" is that the Federal government should seize money from the productive at the point of a gun, and redistribute it to others. What she means --- assuming that she hasn't purchased health insurance for some unfortunate outside of her immediate family --- is that she doesn't take personal responsibility for her beliefs and put them into action.
Perhaps what we need to do to put the tax advocates to their proofs is to create the "Guilty Liberal" fund, so that Liberals who find themselves paying too little in taxes can assuage their guilt by sending in more than required by law.
Maybe then they'll leave the rest of us alone.
Of course, it's been tried in Virginia --- since 2002 --- and precisely five people have contributed to it.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Difference Between Confidence And Sanctimony
Justice Byron White [UPDATE: Always check your citations! "flatearthakitt" rightly reminds me that it was actually Potter Stewart] once famously observed that he didn't know how to define the line between pornography (legally permissible) and obscenity (subject to legal sanction), but he knew it when he saw it.
It strikes me that one could make the same observation about the distinction between self-confidence and sanctimony. Not sure I could identify precisely where the line between one and the other is, but I sure hope that this guy at least waved when he breezed past it.
It strikes me that one could make the same observation about the distinction between self-confidence and sanctimony. Not sure I could identify precisely where the line between one and the other is, but I sure hope that this guy at least waved when he breezed past it.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Does This Justify An "I Told You So"?
A few months back, I was criticized on a certain blog for joining the challenge to the credentialing of a certain individual at the 2008 Prince William County Republican Convention. I took the not unreasonable position that his attacks upon a prior Republican nominee violated his pledge of "intent to support all Republican nominees for public office in the ensuing election" when he had previously been elected as a Member of the Prince William County Republican Committee, and that any pledge made as a condition of participation and/or future membership was ab initio suspect.
Well, now he has this to say about the presumptive Republican nominee for President.
Now, I'm not thrilled with John McCain. But I believe we will at least have a country after four years of a McCain presidency. Four years of an Obama presidency [shudder] are likely to subject this nation to a wave of terrorist attacks to which the best response we might see is a chorus of "Kumbayah" and the raising of a white flag over the White House. Give Democrats control of Congress as well, and it is likely that the economy will be in a shambles from which it will take generations --- if ever --- to recover.
But I will vote for him in November, even if I will have little time during the heart of the campaign season to offer much more than rhetorical support, if that.
As he (quoting another favorably) notes in his most recent post: "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior...."
Tell me again why the individual in question can and should be trusted to fulfill his pledge of "intent to support all Republican nominees for public office in the ensuing election"?
Well, now he has this to say about the presumptive Republican nominee for President.
Now, I'm not thrilled with John McCain. But I believe we will at least have a country after four years of a McCain presidency. Four years of an Obama presidency [shudder] are likely to subject this nation to a wave of terrorist attacks to which the best response we might see is a chorus of "Kumbayah" and the raising of a white flag over the White House. Give Democrats control of Congress as well, and it is likely that the economy will be in a shambles from which it will take generations --- if ever --- to recover.
But I will vote for him in November, even if I will have little time during the heart of the campaign season to offer much more than rhetorical support, if that.
As he (quoting another favorably) notes in his most recent post: "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior...."
Tell me again why the individual in question can and should be trusted to fulfill his pledge of "intent to support all Republican nominees for public office in the ensuing election"?
Thursday, June 19, 2008
With Men Such As These....
Spent the day as a "den walker" at my youngest son's Cub Scout Day Camp today, and had occasion to chat with the young "range master" for the BB gun station. Nice fellow. Active duty Marine. Gunnery Sergeant. Off to Iraq in a few months.
Before we went on to the next station, couldn't help myself. Just had to say "Thanks. For all that you do. And [quoting Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues] be careful out there." We exchanged a knowing handshake, and parted.
With men such as these serving their nation, one cannot help but remain optimistic.
Before we went on to the next station, couldn't help myself. Just had to say "Thanks. For all that you do. And [quoting Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues] be careful out there." We exchanged a knowing handshake, and parted.
With men such as these serving their nation, one cannot help but remain optimistic.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Yuk!
A report from our local police files on indecent and perverse public sexual behavior.
Reports that one of the suspects is known by the alias "Loudoun Insider" (author of this sophomoric smear) have not been confirmed.
I fail to understand why this deserved a special e-mail report from the Potomac News/Manassas Journal-Messenger.
UPDATE: Aww, poor "Loudmouthed Inciter" doesn't like my little bon mot, and his "amen chorus" of cowardly lions and the Old Whithered Wench have chimed in by misrepresenting the content of this post, but mainly, with name-calling, declaring me a "tool." As to the last, one is tempted to observe that they know from whence they speak.
I'm wounded.
Reports that one of the suspects is known by the alias "Loudoun Insider" (author of this sophomoric smear) have not been confirmed.
I fail to understand why this deserved a special e-mail report from the Potomac News/Manassas Journal-Messenger.
UPDATE: Aww, poor "Loudmouthed Inciter" doesn't like my little bon mot, and his "amen chorus" of cowardly lions and the Old Whithered Wench have chimed in by misrepresenting the content of this post, but mainly, with name-calling, declaring me a "tool." As to the last, one is tempted to observe that they know from whence they speak.
I'm wounded.
"Dangerously Naive"
So says Bill Clinton's first CIA Director, James Woolsey, on the Dalai Bama's declaration that terrorism is a law enforcement problem.
Makes Hitlary look almost reasonable.
Makes Hitlary look almost reasonable.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
In Other News, Sun Rises In The East
It seems that Reg Weaver, National Education Association president, is recommending that the teachers' union endorse Barack Obama. This follows an unbroken string of NEA endorsements of the Democrat nominees for President.
Given Obama's opposition to educational choice, it would only be news of Weaver recommended something else.
Given Obama's opposition to educational choice, it would only be news of Weaver recommended something else.
Monday, June 16, 2008
A Business Owner Who Dares To Determine His Own Business
Oh, foresooth!
From today's WaPo, via Blacknell.net, we learn of the proprietor of a new business who actually dares to make his own determination as to what services he will provide to the public.
At least one denizen of the moonbatosphere is all in a lather because Mark Semler has decided what products he will offer in his drugstore. And because he won't offer abortifacients, condoms, and birth-control pills, the moonbat in question suggests shopping elsewhere.
I guess the irony of suggesting that a consumer exercise his right to choose against a proprietor who has also exercised his right to choose is lost on the author.
In other news in today's Washington Post, the Ruby Tuesday and Papa John's in the same shopping center will be offering neither a sushi bar nor McDonald's products at their locations.
How dare they!
From today's WaPo, via Blacknell.net, we learn of the proprietor of a new business who actually dares to make his own determination as to what services he will provide to the public.
At least one denizen of the moonbatosphere is all in a lather because Mark Semler has decided what products he will offer in his drugstore. And because he won't offer abortifacients, condoms, and birth-control pills, the moonbat in question suggests shopping elsewhere.
I guess the irony of suggesting that a consumer exercise his right to choose against a proprietor who has also exercised his right to choose is lost on the author.
In other news in today's Washington Post, the Ruby Tuesday and Papa John's in the same shopping center will be offering neither a sushi bar nor McDonald's products at their locations.
How dare they!
Far Left Situational Ethics
Once again, the boys and girls at Ranting Kids ... er, Raising Dough ... er, Raising Kaine ... er, "RK," have demonstrated that the far Left has no real beliefs, except for the commitment to more power for --- you guessed it! --- other far Lefties.
Their latest rant? John McCain is no longer a "maverick."
Well of course not. When he was a useful tool for Democrats, he was a hero.
Now that he stands in the way of a Democrat becoming President, HE MUST BE DESTROYED!!!!!
Their latest rant? John McCain is no longer a "maverick."
Well of course not. When he was a useful tool for Democrats, he was a hero.
Now that he stands in the way of a Democrat becoming President, HE MUST BE DESTROYED!!!!!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
WOW!
I was just cruising the Internet, and came across the biography of the Democrat Party's nominee for Virginia's Sixth Congressional District: Sam Rasoul.
It seems that Mr. Rasoul's biography makes reference to having visited "Palestine."
Interesting, but Mr. Rasoul doesn't appear to be old enough to have visited "Palestine," which hasn't existed since 1948. It's "Israel," Mr. Rasoul. Indeed, he has been identified as the youngest candidate for Congress in this year's cycle.
The reference itself speaks volumes about Rasoul's radical politics. And while ambivalence over Israel is about what I've come to expect from the modern Democrat Party, one wonders why those who have trashed clearly loyal Americans practicing Islam on the flimsiest of "evidence," using guilt-by-association tactics, haven't turned their attention to the actual statements of Mr. Rasoul, and their implications.
It seems that Mr. Rasoul's biography makes reference to having visited "Palestine."
Interesting, but Mr. Rasoul doesn't appear to be old enough to have visited "Palestine," which hasn't existed since 1948. It's "Israel," Mr. Rasoul. Indeed, he has been identified as the youngest candidate for Congress in this year's cycle.
The reference itself speaks volumes about Rasoul's radical politics. And while ambivalence over Israel is about what I've come to expect from the modern Democrat Party, one wonders why those who have trashed clearly loyal Americans practicing Islam on the flimsiest of "evidence," using guilt-by-association tactics, haven't turned their attention to the actual statements of Mr. Rasoul, and their implications.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
In Memoriam
There are men and women of a certain age in America for whom Jim McKay is synonymous with sports broadcasting. I am a man of that age.
He was a poet in a field in which many aspire to poetry, and few succeed.
He popularized many sports which theretofore gained little attention.
His humane coverage of the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games did perhaps more than anything to legitimize sports reporters as legitimate in his profession.
His "thrill of victory, agony of defeat" introduction of ABC's Wide World of Sports will be the defining sports introduction of his age, perhaps the defining introduction of his age.
Jim McKay, RIP.
He was a poet in a field in which many aspire to poetry, and few succeed.
He popularized many sports which theretofore gained little attention.
His humane coverage of the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games did perhaps more than anything to legitimize sports reporters as legitimate in his profession.
His "thrill of victory, agony of defeat" introduction of ABC's Wide World of Sports will be the defining sports introduction of his age, perhaps the defining introduction of his age.
Jim McKay, RIP.
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