Repeat After Me (Again!): “There IS no Recession”
April 30, 2008
Economy Grows in First Quarter
So…are Barack the Wonder Boy, and Mrs. Bill, lying, or are they just ignorant of definitions? Hmmm…
The Very Definition of “Must-See TV”
April 29, 2008
Mrs. Bill is now, officially, desperate. She’s dodged him for years, but with her hopes slim-to-none (despite rising poll numbers), the news has just broken:
Yee-HAW!!!!!!!
Jeremiah Wright: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
April 29, 2008
Jeremiah Wright is the political equivalent of the Jelly-of-the-Month Club.
Barack Obama has a massive problem on his hands, a massive problem. He has to find a way to explain how for 20 years, he voluntarily chose to associate with this man, a pastor who misquotes Scripture, lies from the pulpit, and stirs up racial division. Obama didn’t invite Wright to his presidential announcement because he knew Wright was a problem, but Wright keeps on blathering his nonsense with no apology. The reason this matters is because we need to know what kind of judgment a president has, and we know so little about Obama, and have been able to watch him on the public stage for such a short time, we have to look at things like this to determine what kind of judgments he makes. And the judgment to belong to this church, under this pastor’s teaching, when there were other churches (black, white, and racially-mixed, right there in Chicago) which he could have been part of, call into question his judgment. It’s not, I repeat, that Obama believes all this tripe, but that he chose to affiliate with it. Therein lies the problem, and therein lies the issue, that for those of us who believe that Barack Obama is a poor choice for president due to his radical left-wing political viewpoints, Jeremiah Wright is the gift that just keeps on giving…
As Annoyed as I Can Be
April 29, 2008
Relax…this is not a political commentary about James Dobson or Jeremiah Wright; rather, it’s a link to a site where you can find
A Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever
Here’s the set-up:
An online poll conducted in the ’90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about people’s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners. The song is not new, but it recently resurfaced on Dial “M” for Musicology.
Amazingly, this “most unwanted music” contains little dissonance — that would have been too easy. For the most part, they seem to have tried to assemble these elements in a listenable way.
Komar & Melamid and David Soldier’s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more. It’s actually a fascinating listen, worthwhile for the opera rapping alone. (We didn’t think that was possible either.)
You can listen to, and actually download, the entire nearly-22-minute production. Not that you’d want to. But if you’re really in a mood to be annoyed, I gotta tell ya, these guys hit one out of the park…
Messiah Junior He Ain’t
April 25, 2008
In addition to being the least-qualified nominee (presuming what seems to be the obvious) in the history of American presidential politics, Barack Obama just looks less and less attractive the closer one looks.
Distractions Point Up Obama’s Weaknesses
Of course, the reason for this is that the fawning press, who’d make him out to be Messiah Junior, had given him a free pass for so long that once these questions could not be ignored, and they began to return insufficient answers, his fall from grace was both predictable and imminent. Krauthammer’s piece cuts with deadly effectiveness to the core of why this man simply cannot be elected our next president.
Once again, the most liberal member of the United States Senate proves that, well, he’s just another politician.
AmeriKa Comes to Texas
April 23, 2008
We don’t do this in a free country.
It’s a disgrace that the state of Texas has pulled over 400 children away from their parents because of the allegations of one person, and more likely, because of the fact that these people follow a weird and aberrant religion. I don’t abide some of the ridiculous religious views of this sect, but to seize these children from their parents in this fashion is wrong, anti-American, shades of Waco. Martin Niemoller’s haunting words, regarding the Nazis in Germany, ought to be our marching orders as patriots:
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
The state of Texas has overstepped its authority by a country mile. Sad that the response has been pretty minimal. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance; most Americans appear to be asleep at the switch.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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