Yankees vs. Red Sox
My desktop for this weekend:
Dear Dad:
I came across this ad in Popular Mechanics—it’s a back issue but maybe the company’s still in business. I know you’re using a hearing aid already, but maybe you could check this out. It might stop your head noises.
And if—God forbid—you ever need an artificial limb, Buchstein’s Fibre Limb is “soothing to your stump.”
They just don’t write slogans like that anymore.
Mrs. Obama=Mrs. Kerry?
Remember what an embarrassment Madame Heinz-Kerry was to the Democratic candidate? She was a rich foreigner who really didn’t understand America, but that didn’t keep her from criticizing it whenever John forgot to muzzle her.
Is Mrs. Obama cut from the same cloth? She was born in this country, as a member of a presumed disadvantaged group, and yet this woman (a Harvard-educated millionaire) just recently pronounced that for the first time in her adult life she is “really proud” to be an American.
Madame Obama is 44 years old. I don’t know her birthday, but let’s assume we’re talking about 01/01/1982 and after. She was an adult during:
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
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The way we came together after 9/11 (that lasted about 2 weeks, but still…)
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The flood of private aid towards those people devastated by the 2004 tsunami
In addition to the big things, I’m even more proud of my country in the little things, which are easy to take for granted:
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I’m proud that the poorest of our poor have cars, microwave ovens, and cable televion. And that the number one health problem of our poor is obesity.
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I’m proud that our traitorous leftist citizens need not fear arrest, and that they can pretend that they are truly “speaking truth to power,” God bless them.
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I’m proud that we are the oldest continuous democracy in the world. (Didn’t know that? Thank your high school history teacher.)
I’m sure you’ve got more, big and little. Add your thoughts in the comments.
Dirty Harry vs. His Mom
Dirty Harry is the primary blogger at Libertas. I’ve told you about that site–it’s the place to go for news about Hollywood if you actually have a problem with the political views of George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, et al.
Anyway, Dirty Harry has his own blog here, and he’s debating his own mother about the relative merits of John McCain vs. Barack Hussein Obama.
It’s kind of interesting, but I bring it up mainly because I joined in the conversation in the comments here. Let me know what you think.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Romney
It was just a gut call. I can’t get excited about either Republican candidate. I voted based on the degree of contempt each candidate has displayed towards conservatives. It wasn’t McCain’s amnesty bill that made me vote against him, but his implication that anyone who opposed it was a racist.
I happen to believe that catering to law-breakers is a bad idea. If that’s racist, I don’t really understand what that word means.
I could only think of two reasons to vote for McCain over Romney:
He’s more likely to win in the general election in November
I think that’s a weak reason to vote for anyone. We’re talking about an election that’s nine months away. No one knows what the state of the world will be then—or even who the Democratic candidate will be. When you get into who would match up better against whom, you’re venturing into the field of game theory, presupposing perfectly rational opponents. My opponents are Democrats. Enough said.
John McCain is stronger on the war.
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This is harder, but here goes:
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He was right about the surge. He’s wrong about closing Guantanamo. We should not be placed in the position of having to either release our prisoners of war or giving them lawyers and trying them criminally.
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McCain has also called for our prisoners of war to have 5th amendment rights. The Supreme Court has ruled that anyone who has 5th amendment protections should also be treated in accordance with the Miranda ruling. So every prisoner taken would have to be informed of the right to remain silent, and provided an attorney–at the taxpayers expense–during questioning.
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Wrong.
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McCain is a man I admire personally. I will vote for him in November. But we should not fool ourselves about his positions.
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He has made it clear that he doesn’t care about economics or cultural issues. He’s running on the Iraq war. Yet I question whether a candidate who has stated that one of his primary foreign policy objectives is to re-establish America’s popularity with France and Germany is on the right page in the broader conflict against Islamists everywhere.
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All that said, I understand why fellow Republicans voted for him. I’ll vote for him too, come November. But let’s understand what kind of administration he’d have.
Just the FAQs
Cracked.com (yeah, I read “Cracked.” What?) recently posted a list called 12 Website FAQs We Suspect Aren’t Asked That Frequently.
It includes this gem of a question from Aeroflot’s website:
Question:
Is it possible apropos of epidemic of the bird’s flu to transport shell parakeets by Aeroflot from Moscow to Kaliningrad? The parrots will be bought in Moscow. The reference for export is available; also, there is a sanction of the main veterinary of Kaliningrad. What documents are required else?
How oddly… specific.
Giving scandal
Last Sunday, Archbishop George Niederauer of the Diocese of San Francisco gave Communion to two members of the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” at the mass he was celebrating at Most Holy Redeemer parish. (Story here.)
The “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, whose motto is “go and sin some more” and describes itself as a “leading-edge order of queer nuns,” planned to hold regular bingo games at Most Holy Redeemer Parish until Catholic activists reported the plans to the press. A local homosexual newspaper, the San Francisco Bay Times, reported that the events at the parish included sexually explicit activities. Prizes included porn DVDs and “sex toys” the paper said.
A statement by Archbishop Niederauer sent to LifeSiteNews.com by Archdiocesan communications director Maurice Healy says that the Archbishop did not notice any “mock religious garb.”
Well, here are the pictures. Do you notice the mock religious garb?
If he didn’t notice that one of them was dressed as a nun, what did he notice? Regardless of any “mock religious garb,” are these men dressed appropriately for church? Are they demonstrating an appropriate humility when they approach the priest to receive the Body of Christ?
The Archbishop should remember that he was called to be in San Francisco, not of San Francisco.
Something fishy at Columbia
Why did Columbia University refuse to provide police with video that could show the person who hung a noose on the door of a black professor? (I know: that sentence is way too long.)
I have no idea who hung that noose. It seems to me, though, that quite often the police should start their investigation by finding out where the victim was when the incident occurred.
Neat pictures…
It’s tricky for me to scale these down to display here properly. Check out the full-size photos on Snopes (where they’ve been pronounced genuine).
Sled dog encounters a wild polar bear:
This bear could kill this dog in a second!
What’s going on here?
They’re friends now!
Don’t try this with your neighborhood polar bear.
Obama Statement on Jena 6
Today I stand with those who stand for justice in Jena. The thousands of Americans from every race and region who have descended on this small Louisiana town carry forth the legacy of all those who sat at lunch counters and took freedom rides to strike a blow against injustice wherever it may exist.
Obama went on to state that he would not rest until all people, regardless of race, could beat up white males without fear of reprisal.
