Sux to be in Powder Springs right now
My old stomping grounds
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September 22, 2009
Not good
Yeah, The One is just going to piss away every young life we've given in Afghanistan.
Too intelligent to ever happen
Steven den Beste Amends the Constitution
All Sham No Wow
via Glenn
Hitler!
September 17, 2009
Oh. My. God.
We are doomed
Thanks a pantload, Glenn.
September 16, 2009
This is getting silly
I see today that Fox is all in righteous mode about The One's Facebook page and blog "keeping track of who logged on and what they wrote". Please. Facebook and blogs by their very nature keep track of who logs on and comments. If you paste on my Facebook wall, it keeps a record of it. If you comment on this blog, it keeps a record of it. It is sort of like remembering what someone said to you. How is it sinister? I just don't get it.
September 15, 2009
Sad news
Patrick Swayze is dead. Very sad news, given that he is younger than me. As a tribute, I fired up Red Dawn this morning, and it is still a powerful picture. It was probably John Milius' greatest moment.
I would pontificate at this point- but I just can't. God Bless, Mr. Swayze.
September 11, 2009
Nom nom nom
On a lighter note
Me eight years ago today
Waiting for a FedEx shipment. I should have been at work and was standing in the living room, impatient. Had Fox on for the latest blather. There had been a plane crash in Manhatten. Interesting but not compelling. Might have been a small plane or an airliner. Sad news, but no big deal.
I glance at the television. The live coverage is of the big fire at one of the Trade Centers. Terrorism, who knows? As I watch, another airliner swoops in and blam- gout of fire, debris, ohmygod my world has just changed.
I call Toni. I'm totally taken aback. Jesus Christ there are people jumping from the building- 100 stories up!! Please come home baby please come home.
Now, flames at the Pentagon. Obviously now we're under attack. Where next?
One tower collapses- oh my god how many have died?
A plane is down in Pennsylvania- was it heading for the White House? That's what they are saying.
The second tower collapses. I hold tight to my lady.
Todd Beamer- "Let's roll". Such heroism. The world has changed...
What have we lost in this eight years? We came together with mighty resolve for about a month, then the carping began. Do any of you remember what happened?
UPDATE:
September 08, 2009
Vertigo is Crap
At last, someone agrees with me- and with a lot more to back him up. Hitchcock is waaaay overrated.
Indoctrination
Oh, surely that nice man wouldn't do that
September 03, 2009
Because he's awesome
Just when you think they've gone so low
...they find a way to go lower still
UPDATE: Sick, just sick
He's watching us
One of the funniest threads I've seen in a long time. There are some extraordinarily talented folk out there...
Here we go again, or, BOHICA
Politically, we have regressed by decades; example, from The People's Cube-
The old mentality had to go. It was now America's responsibility as a lone superpower, and victim of the attacks, to repair the world misshapen by the ideological warfare. This change in thinking became known as the Bush Doctrine. Predictably, America's attempts to untwist the twisted world caused a painful and hostile reaction, especially from those who benefited from the existing deformity.
Obama has rejected that change; for that he was cheered on by a generation who grew up believing that deformity is beauty and ideological lunacy is the norm. But instead of moving forward, Mr. Obama puts America's gears in reverse and regresses to a romanticized leftist image of the past in which the U.S.A. is typecast as the archetypal reactionary villain battling the forces of progress. Only in this remake of the cult Cold War classic, America finally sees the light, feels remorseful, and surrenders - to critical acclaim from anal-retentive leftists trained to feel guilty for every joyful moment of living in a capitalist society.
Reporting on President Obama's response to the Honduran government's deportation of the would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya, the Guardian writes:
The Obama administration, conscious of the U.S.'s long history of supporting coups against Latin American leftists condemned the overthrow. The secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said Washington's top priority was to restore full democratic and constitutional order in Honduras. Zelaya's removal had "evolved into a coup," she said.
Leave it to the left-leaning Guardian writers to recognize their own ideology when they see it. At least they are honest enough to attribute Obama's position on Honduras to his outright acceptance of Cold War-era axioms and the presumption of America's guilt. Apparently for this very reason, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - who in her primary debates had promised never to give dictators a propagandistic platform by meeting with them - invited Zelaya to Washington and issued him a propagandistic platform.
I would ask the rhetorical question "Have these people no shame?" but I already know the answer. Is Ms. Clinton getting ready for the next condom-bedecked Christmas tree? Let's party like it's 1998!
September 02, 2009
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords...
Free thinking
This is a hard time.
As I mute the TV and try and concentrate, it becomes hard. My son had an accident today that I'm not fully apprised of...
Back up. I was ready to drive to Atlanta a few hours ago, but got talked out of it by my stalwart ladyfriend that is also my current wife (damn strange we have to make those distinctions these days). I hate the distance that divorce and this and that creates between individuals- the idea that my son was hurt was a gigantic impetus to drop everything and drive up to A-town, devil take the hindmost...
I'm lucky that I married a sane person.
She talked me out of doing something stupid.
What I am left with though- through the mysteries of the legal system and the vagaries of life, I am left with this- a phone call in the early morning, the news my son is in the hospital, and I can do nothing. Nothing.
My firstborn. Yeah, oldschool I guess, but- DAMN
UPDATE 9/08/09: He's fine. An extraordinary accident, but he has pulled through with the normal family doggedness, bless his heart. Near thing though... but it wasn't. W00t! win!!!!1!! as they say...