Month: September 2005

Posted on George W. Bush, Hurricane Katrina

president bush was wrong!

george w. bush was wrong. he was completely and totally wrong. he didnÂ’t fully understand the implications of not implementing needed change in the system. there is no need to share blame in this case. sure, others voiced similar opinionsÂ…but no one with his political clout ever made a wrong decision like this one before.

if he had thought far enough ahead, he would have seen the positive results of doing something out of the box for once. being resistant to change is a characteristic a lot of conservatives have, so itÂ’s not surprising that bush would have this approach as well. now, because his view was ignored, we can see the effects of ignoring bushÂ’s advice in this case.

side note:
IÂ’m quite amused at the liberals (who canÂ’t find anything that president bush has done right as the head of the US government) who still want the federal government to have increased control and involvement in New Orleans. if bush has screwed everything up so completely, why do you still want him to control clean-up and recovery efforts? interesting position.

as I was saying, we should hold our president accountable for the past mistakes he has made. liberals and conservatives should agree on this.

after all, it is obvious to all baseball fans that george w. bush was wrong about not adding the wild card round to MLBÂ’s playoffs. he should apologize right away for thisÂ…and trading sammy sosa to the cubs.

what did you think I was talking about? 🙂

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Posted on Conservatives, George W. Bush, Republicans

the deconstruction of john roberts (part II)

people for the american way lists some conservative supporters. these groups generally do their homework on nominees, because abortion is an important issue to them. ann coulter disagrees with their endorsement. i generally don’t pay much attention to ann, but she makes a valid point about wanting to know more about john roberts.

the republicans have the majority and we have a president with the ability to elect a strong conservative to the court. we should be taking more advantage of being the party in power, instead of kow-towing to the democrats. this also goes for advocacy of conservative policies and programs. why are we so afraid to stand up for what we believe in? why are we considering candidates for ’08 who bear no resemblance to the reformers in the gingrich revolution?

this drives me nuts. i have yet to see an ’08 republican presidential contender committed to the issues that we believe in as strong conservatives. i mentioned gingrich before. newt’s a smart guy, with a lot of baggage. that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have good ideas on how to move this country in the right direction.

the problem with our hard-core conservatives right now is that they have recently done or said stupid things that have gotten them bad press. hopefully they can repair their images before they try to run for president. that’s the kind of president we need in the future — a proponent of all conservative values. we elected reagan, didn’t we? so it can be done. the future of our country is at stake.

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.” –Dante

previous:

the deconstruction of john roberts (part I)

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Posted on Random Musings

why the pledge of allegiance doesn’t matter

in the news not related to katrina or SCOTUS —

Federal Judge Rules Pledge Unconstitutional — U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton says that the pledge’s reference to one nation “under God” violates school children’s right to be “free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.”

i disagree with this decision, but not for the reason you would think. my faith in God is important to me, and i don’t think encouraging kids to believe in God is wrong. that’s not what the pledge does. i believe the pledge has absolutely no effect on kids. perhaps you could burn the words into a kid’s head but at that point it’s just words.

saying the pledge sounds good, but what the kids are taught totally undermines its message. the values that the pledge promotes are short-circuited by schools that teach them how bad america is, how damaging religion is, and why we should be ashamed of being the world’s greatest country. that, my friends, is the danger to our children, not the pledge of allegiance.

the pledge of allegiance is irrelevant and meaningless under these conditions. for these reasons, i see no reason to regulate its use at all.

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Posted on Democrats

the deconstruction of john roberts (part I)

women’s rights groups, gay rights groups, and leftists of all special interest persuasions oppose this nomination. according to one article in the washington post, his involvement in romer vs. evans did little to convince gay rights groups that he would rule with their side on the supreme court. the general consensus is that his role was minimal.

also worthy of note in that article is a little blurb at the end mentioning groups in the african-american community who support this nomination. why is that important? it is important because some of his critics accuse roberts, among other scathing indictments, of being racist. those who oppose the nomination are convinced that he will return women’s rights (as defined by naral, people for the american way, human rights campaign, et al.) and civil rights to the dark ages. that’s a rather outrageous allegation. i strongly disagree with that view, based on what i’ve read about him.

here’s the truth of the matter. those opposed to the nomination want to scare the heck out of their supporters about him, so they make up these crazy allegations to mobilize their little armies of fanatics. they are fanatics not because they disagree with me, but because they disagree with the views of the majority of americans in this country. i can’t say i blame them for trying this. both sides use this tactic. republicans have used this tactic for years, and most of the time it works.

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Posted on Random Musings

you won’t see these books on amazon.com

this amusing list courtesy of the usenet comedians at alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves.coffeeshop (abridged version)

the world’s thinnest books:

FRENCH WAR HEROES
by Jacques Chirac

HOW I SERVED MY COUNTRY
by Jane Fonda

MY SUPER BOWL HIGHLIGHTS
by Dan Marino

THINGS I CANNOT AFFORD
by Bill Gates

THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY
by Dennis Rodman

MY WILD YEARS
by Al Gore

A COLLECTION of MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES
by Dr . J . Kevorkian

SPOTTED OWL RECIPES
by the EPA

THE AMISH PHONE DIRECTORY

MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS
by O . J . Simpson

Posted on Iraq, Moonbats

cindy sheehan — head moonbat

the moonbats in codepink had a busy weekend, according to little green footballs. i’m tired of reading about cindy sheehan and her small band of agitators, but i have to address some things she wrote at huffington post.

cindy sheehan is still recruiting political support for her own little war. i don’t know what she hopes to achieve by continuing this campaign. bush is not going to resign or pull the troops out of iraq. his poll numbers continue to plummet, but it can’t get much worse for him than it is now. some peripheral administration flunkies may be thrown under the bus because of katrina. in fact, the aftermath of hurricane katrina may end up doing more damage to bush than sheehan’s anti-war rants could have. bush isn’t going anywhere.

sheehan doesn’t seem to know what she’s talking about when it comes to iraq. as far as the iraqi constitution is concerned, she recycles the same drivel the MSM is trying to sell. i have previously posted on this. the iraqi constitution includes rights for a number of groups, including women, at least according to the draft i read. having a different set of rules than they had under saddam will make the country more stable, not less.

to the argument that iraq needs leadership, she says that the existing leadership is a puppet government with the neo-cons pulling the strings. her point about chalabi may be valid. however, to say this would strongly imply that the election was a fraud, that all the people with the purple fingers participated in this conspiracy. if the neo-cons could pull strings, they could force agreement on the iraqi constitution and have a administration lackey whispering in the PM’s ear. that’s not what we have. like it or not, iraq is going to run itself. that’s our plan.

she goes on to make other points that i don’t have any definite opinion about either way. her solution to all of this is wrong, though.

enough about sheehan… take a break and check this out. it’s really cool… an different version of rock, paper, scissors

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Posted on Baseball, College Football, Michigan Wolverines, Ohio State Buckeyes

tennis, football, and baseball in just one post!

as we are reminded daily…you can’t always get what you want. that’s part of being a sports fan. it’s a good thing that real life interferes with sports, because being depressed for too long can’t be healthy for us.

andre agassi is one of the greatest tennis players ever. roger federer may be the best i’ve ever seen. i really wanted agassi to win, as the highly partisan crowd in new york did, and he had a good chance in that third set. he had a great run in the u.s. open…and for three sets, it was a competitive match. i’m sorry that the match ended the way it did for andre, but i hope he keeps playing. he is fun to watch.

as for my beloved ohio state buckeyes, their loss to texas doesn’t surprise me. after watching justin zwick and troy smith struggle at QB, i have decided that i don’t like either of them. try someone else. here’s what we need to do. work on the runnning game until it actually becomes a threat to the opposition. throw more long passes to holmes and ginn. continue to unleash carpenter and a.j. hawk on the opposing QBs. the weekend wasn’t a total loss, as the michigan wolverines went down in flames to notre dame.

what can i say about the new york mets? apply the sharp, pointy fork. they’re done. sure, it was somewhat impossible to climb over four teams, including three division opponents, to get the wild-card slot. i can still call the last few games a pitiful choke job, because that’s what it was. i suppose ending the season with a winning record is too much to ask. we shall see.

coming up in this here blog — my theory on why fans of ohio sports teams are so pessimistic about those teams, the radical cult-like nature of fantasy sports, and the abuse of information by televised sporting events.

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Posted on Uncategorized

9/11

today is the day to remember the victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attack. these terrorists don’t deserve tea and sympathy. they deserve death. we can’t bring back those we lost, but we can administer justice to those who are foolish enough to attack us. i really don’t have the words to express how i feel about this, so i’m simply going to link to some great posts by fellow bloggers on this subject.

that’s all i have for today. may God continue to watch over all of us and give us peace in this time of chaos.

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Posted on Random Musings

oppressed minority groups

“george bush hates midgets.” –chris rock, always the sensitive, caring type…

first of all, i would like to thank chris rock for adding another oppressed minority group to our constantly expanding list of those groups. who knows how many midgets are affected by this unfeeling government? and if they had a lobbyist, what special rights would he lobby for?

here are some other groups that should apply for victim status:

  • the cavemen in the geico commercial — who will speak for unshaven, hairy men with bad table manners? oh yeah…beer commercials.
  • smokers — yeah, sure, it’s a disgusting and fatal habit. but this is america…and no one should be prevented from having legal, disgusting, and fatal habits. that is, as long as i don’t have to breathe that air.
  • taxpayers — we give too much of our money to a government that wastes it. if a business spent money the way the government does, the free market would punish it severely.
  • drug users — they just don’t get enough credit or respect in this culture. it takes a lot of effort to be that stupid. we should reward that stupidity by legalizing drugs and creating more drug users. that’s a brilliant idea. more people on crystal meth and marijuana…that’s the key to improving productivity and success in this country.

i’m sure there are other groups i’ve forgotten. feel free to add some. what we need to remember is that our success or failure depends on us, not on washington bureaucrats or government agencies. when we grasp this, we can start taking responsibility for our own lives.

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Posted on '08 Election, Democrats, Liberals

john kerry- potential hillary challenger in ’08?

if anyone thinks that john kerry is still electable, this past election should have proved otherwise. president bush was in a very vulnerable position, and yet kerry failed to capture the country on democratic core issues like jobs, healthcare, and the economy. my uneducated view of this is that kerry’s campaign staff totally butchered his campaign. it was a brutal thing to watch. i could have run kerry’s campaign better than his people did.

the riff about vietnam was a very distracting one. getting war cred is one thing. democrats have always had the burden of proof when discussing strength and conviction in the area of foreign policy. so it’s understandable that kerry would want to use his vietnam service as proof that he had related work experience. where his campaign fell off of the tracks was when john kerry allowed vietnam to define it. vietnam is some kind of ideological struggle for people that doesn’t translate into votes for its war veterans.

the main problem kerry had is that he was never going to win enough of the “average joe” vote. he couldn’t relate to us very well at all. at the end of the day, he reeked of champagne and caviar rather than hot dogs, hamburgers and beer. he tried so hard to be a regular guy and he failed miserably because we saw through the crafted image.

throughout the whole campaign, he couldn’t even inspire his own party, which had been hijacked by hard-leftists like howard dean, michael moore, and moveon.org. the democrats were reluctant to throw their support behind kerry. i doubt there has been anything kerry has done since the election that would convince them that he’s the guy in ’08. if your own party doesn’t support you, that’s a big challenge to overcome when running for president.

john kerry shouldn’t run again. it takes away from valuable vacation time. it forces him to try to be someone he’s not. more importantly for the democrats, they have a better shot at the white house with hillary.

coming up in organized chaos, more on hillary and the expanding number of oppressed minority groups in this country.

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