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Apparently those in the national media tend to pout when they are called out on their sins of ommission… Must be why they’re being so conspicuously quiet now that the rug has also been pulled back to reveal their sins of commission in the run-up (and on-going cheerleading) for the Iraq War.
Unfortunately, while our nation may eventually recover its sullied reputation on the world stage, all our brave GIs who’ve sacrificed so much won’t find much solace even if the media realizes once again it ought to be the Fourth Estate (keeping a check and a balance on the three official branches of government) instead of zombie-like stenographers… McCain barbecue sauce and flowers for mum or not.
One of our kids’ favorite books is “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown. They love looking for the mouse and they always whisper “hush” right along with the little old lady. Their favorite page is the blank one that reads “Goodnight nobody.”
And so it was with rather loud laughter that I just noticed … “Goodnight Bush.”
This is so wrong on so many levels:
Wife of founder of Ozarks Minutemen pleads guilty to fake rape claim
[Angela] Wilburn is the wife of Brian Wilburn, who helped form the Ozarks Minutemen. [...]
Angela Wilburn told investigators that three Hispanic men broke into her mobile home and that one of the men sexually assaulted her in the hallway, then shot her in the knee with a handgun.
She soon retracted her story and said she heard a noise, and grabbed her husband’s gun. She told police the gun went off as she reached for a flashlight.
By the time Angela Wilburn made the admission, Greene County deputies had already spent more than 100 man-hours investigating the fictitious attack.
The sheriff’s department said in December it would seek restitution from Angela Wilburn for the wasted time. [...]
There is the obvious problem that a woman with this many … ahem … “issues” related to paranoid fantasies probably shouldn’t be allowed near a gun in the first place, at least not one that doesn’t have a trigger lock on it.
But there are more subtle indications that this woman has lost her bearings. Indeed, maybe I missed that day in 2nd grade geography but I’ve always had the impression that the Ozarks — including Greene County, Missouri — did not meet any international borders and are instead in the middle of the country.
Speaking of borders, most estimates indicate that at least half of illegal immigrants are not from Latin America. Inexplicably, the rabidly anti-immigrant forces always seem to forget that a whole bunch of illegal immigrants fly over any walls we put up using these things called commercial jets and that they arrive here on a legal visa and simply stay past their time.
These same forgetful people also seem to forget that there’s no wall on our northern, more Caucasian Canadian border… Not that race would ever have anything to do with their rhetoric and their false police reports. Nope. Never.
(h/t Kos)
Count Rachel Ray as the latest victim to Big Brother the uber-partisan, wild-eyed rantings of the Cult of Malkin. Obviously, not enough EVOO in their diets…
Shame on Dunkin Donuts for falling prey to such mind-numbing, bile-spewing dunceness from the likes of knee-knocking fraidy cat hyperpartisan Michelle Malkin (who once stalked a 12-year-old disabled boy because she was so afraid that he may have been a secret agent for KAOS intent on destroying apple pie … or something).
I wonder if Fail Blog would cover this 30 minute empty-calorie meal from the Kooky Conservative perspective — failure to possess any shred of common sense let alone capacity to put things in perspective — or the Gotta Make the Donuts perspective — failure to anticipate that a fringed paisley scarf on a perky brunette talkshow/cooking show host might send a handful of conservative pundit crackers into spasms of oversensitive, overhyped, over politically correct pantsuit-wetting.
Who’s more moronic? Michelle Malkin for promoting such blatant idiocy or the people who treat her like a goddess of goop by buying into this bollix (and thus allowing her to earn a living pimping such propaganda)?
Daily Herald reporter John Patterson writes that he just received a robocall targeting Melissa Bean, but it was with a 217 area code number.
Nevermind that the call apparently tried to mislead citizens by tsk-tsking the Congressional recess before a vote on military pay (implying our soldiers would somehow have to go unpaid in the interim — wholly untrue, the vote is for future pay).
Mr. Patterson’s surprise wasn’t over the implied fallacy, it was over the 217 area code since it covers central Illinois and doesn’t even come close to Melissa Bean’s 8th district…
Oddly enough, Melissa Bean is sponsoring legislation that would require full disclosure listing exactly who is calling on Caller ID. If it were law, Mr. Patterson would know [who] that someone that called him is.
In light of that sponsorship conservative partisans, who typically claim they favor responsibility and honesty, have been railing against her ever since … replete with slimey over-the-top essays comparing this soccer mom Member of Congress to a brutal dictator in their feigned rage. (And with crackers like that poisoning the well it’s little wonder the American people by and large are rejecting such venomous rhetoric.)
(Disclosure: I’ve done some work for past Bean campaigns. Who knows if I will again this cycle. She’s a great person and seems to be coming into her own as a legislator.)
A good thing to see this week of Remembrance Day…
US Rep. Bill Foster on remembering our GIs and their families. He wants to take Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn’s Illinois program national.
Living up to our responsibility and debt to those who defend our rights and our nation is walking the walk, not just talking the talk, when it comes to “supporting our troops” … something those opposed to the Modern GI Bill would do well to remember.
To borrow a phrase from a friend who spoke yesterday during one of the nation’s countless Memorial Day ceremonies: our vets don’t want to be held up as heroes, they want to be held tight as family and friends.
All these humble men and women ask is that we remember them in our prayers and thoughts, not idly lionize them with jingoism and cliches.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
– John F. Kennedy
God bless our troops and their families.
The other post was getting too long to keep updating but there are two more interesting developments.
First, for those who enjoy Inside Baseball, Prairie State Blue blogger ‘bored now’ notes the manner in which the Kirk campaign went “ballistic” over Dan Seals’ overly successful gas station PR event and analyzes why this may be so (O-b-a-m-a…). It’s as good a breakdown of the raw numbers as any to date.
Second, in an irony of ironies, the Lincolnshire police chief tells the Pioneer Press that the last car to pull up for the discounted gas during the Seals event was full of (drumroll please) … Mark Kirk staffers.
Obviously this means that not all Kirk supporters thought it was a “stupid” idea or were so concerned about this legal activity being somehow portrayed as “illegal” (some of the more tame epithets Kirk’s partisans have used to smear Dan Seals).
No word on whether or not they were in a clown car.
…Couldn’t resist.
Check out Team America and friends carrying water (or should I say “carrying gas”) over at Rich’s place while trying to spin his best baloney about Dan Seals gas price promo at a Lincolnshire station the 10th district.
Two points while TA and Co try to come up with more hollow rants opposing Seals..
- First, despite TA’s willful, partisan-induced ignorance, Mark Kirk also “gives away” things of value and material benefit to voters. There are plenty of Kirk for Congress shirts and caps on parade routes, and folks who go to his events are treated to free goodies like cookies, pop, etc.
All politicians give away items of value.
All.
- Second, a Republican in neighboring Indiana gave away gas for free — yes, for free — just last month.
Republican Luke Puckett, also a challenger just like Dan Seals, pumped free gas a month ago in South Bend while bending drivers’ ears about his plans to drill for oil in pristine natural areas of California and Alaska. (Wouldn’t weening our nation off what Pres. Bush calls an “addiction” to oil be smarter in the long run? Even if we destroyed God’s Creation to get at a few more barrels of oil, even those rigs will eventually run dry — and then what?)
John McCain had to write his own jokes for this YouTube piece.
I wonder why the national press following his campaign doesn’t pick up on this more… (Could you pass that sweet BBQ sauce … and a beer?)
And his ideas are different than Pres. Bush’s failed conservative policies how?
Someone pass the ribs basket while we wait for the not-so-liberal media to report on the many shady deals McCain’s chief campaigner and lifelong lobbyist Charlie Black has under his belt…
Is McCain’s chief Charlie Black a…
(a) Lobbyist to the Dictator Stars?
(b) Lobbyist Cashing in on Taxpayer-funded Pork?
(c) Lobbyist with ties to Fake Astroturfing PR Efforts?
Congrats John McCain — thanks to the lobbyists you’ve hired to run your Double Talk Express your “maverick judgment” is going the way of those used wetnaps from your Sedona Resort BBQ For the Media… and it’s unlikely any SNL sketches are going to help.
