Posted on Liberals, Moonbats

save the children from the liberals!

while viewing the pictures from the various anti-war rallies, i was struck by the pictures of kids passing flyers out and promoting various fringe propaganda groups. i don’t blame them for this, because it probably wasn’t their own idea. at least they are not armed with bombs like the kids in palestine. it’s just shameful that kids are used as pawns in this increasingly abrasive war of ideologies in this country. the adults are bad enough in allowing the fringe special interest groups to be associated with their cause. it only destroys any shred of credibility they have left after cindy sheehan joined the party.

it’s even more wrong when kids are taught this junk in school as a part of “tolerance”, “diversity”, or any other trendy word for teaching kids to hate america and our military. the temptation is to compare this indoctrination process to former campaigns that have taken place throughout history. i’m not going to go there. i will say that special interest groups of all kinds are negatively influencing the education system and pushing their own agendas at the expense of basic knowledge.

i don’t claim to know what the solution is to fixing the system, outside of more accountability for teachers and school choice for parents. i do believe kids were better off before sex ed, before the involvement of planned parenthood and the aclu, and before God was taken out of school. the problem in the schools is not the pledge of allegiance. there are more obvious problems than kids saying the pledge. the most glaring of them is allowing all these special interest groups and the nea to control the system. because of this, needed reforms are virtually D.O.A. once upon a time, kids grew up to be productive, useful citizens without knowing all this new junk. who knew this was possible???

just stop using kids to promote this nonsense. that’s one thing they should have learned from world history. it was wrong then. it’s still wrong today.

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Posted on Moonbats

the anti-war loons–just a cat with a ball of string

i’ve begun to rethink my position on these crazed anti-war loons. it’s a waste of time to be annoyed with them. they can destroy themselves quite easily without our help. instead, we should keep them around for the pure entertainment value they provide. anyone with the audio or lyrics for the d.c. protest march songs, please email me or leave a comment on this post. what i’ve heard already has some comedy value and is worth sharing with everybody here.

so, don’t get stressed. don’t feel the need to yell at your tv when you see cindy sheehan there. smile and remember that the truth always wins, even if we don’t see it right away.

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Posted on Moonbats

the anti-war demonstrations

michelle malkin has some great pics of the anti-war protest in d.c. this just demonstrates how extreme these people really are. california conservative has even more moonbat signs from the anti-war rally in san francisco. we shouldn’t really be surprised at the vitriolic dialogue from these misguided people. view at your own risk. for your entertainment and amusement… take a look at the tips on protesting from the daily kos. there’s something wrong about the fact that this blog is popular.

the reasonable, rational ones who are opposed to the war in iraq should take back the debate from cindy sheehan, codepink, and A.N.S.W.E.R. i know there are some out there. i have read their opinion pieces and watched them on tv. let’s have an honest debate about this. by this, i mean no name-calling and personal attacks. those opposed to the war would be more credible and more persuasive if they argued the theory instead of attacking bush, cheney and halliburton. raging against the machine only works for a short period of time. after that, it’s considered whining.

so, tell me, oh daily kos and other liberal founts of irrational wisdom…are you just blowing hot air or do you have an alternative to the current strategy in iraq? if you do, let’s hear it. i’m tired of your noise and i’m sure i’m not the only one. despite what sheehan and her willing accomplices believe, bush does not want to stay in iraq a second longer than he has to. his plan from the beginning was to allow iraq to run itself. that is the goal we are moving toward in iraq. i happen to believe that we are making progress in iraq. it may be not as fast as we would like, but we would do the iraqis a disservice if we left their country in chaos. it’s ok to disagree with this theory. just make your case without the heated rhetoric and provide a reasonable alternative. it’s more intellectually honest that way.

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Posted on Baseball

AL playoff contender breakdown (part I)

the contenders — angels, yankees, a’s, indians, white sox, red sox.

l.a. angels (of anaheim)

what i like about them:

  • vlad guerrero, garrett anderson, darin erstad
  • some quality bullpen guys like f-rod, lackey, and donnelly (even though the #s may not be as good this year)
  • more consistent than the a’s
  • they are important to my playoff scenario that excludes the yankees and white sox

what i don’t:

  • their name (little-emphasized fact: los angeles= the angels) so we have = the angels angels if accurately translated from CA’s other native language. can’t we just go back to the CALIFORNIA angels? this makes no sense. the marketing gods were drunk here.
  • their starting pitching…i don’t trust it. bartolo colon used to pitch for the indians. he was pretty good, but he never had that ACE mentality. odds are good he won’t ever get it.

yankees
(like)

  • starting pitching starting to come around and johnson beginning to earn his money
  • rivera. enough said.
  • scary hitters swinging bats.

(don’t like)

  • bullpen questionable other than rivera
  • their defense
  • derek jeter (overrated)
  • steinbrenner (evil)
  • yankee fans (delusional)

oakland a’s
(like)

  • rich harden and huston street
  • future met barry zito. there’s something attractive about a scruffy musician-type with a wicked curveball. he would be a star in NY. just steer the guy away from cashman and the bronx.

(don’t like)

  • inexperienced starting pitching
  • weak bullpen (in my opinion anyway)

look for the second part of the preview later in the week. Go TRIBE!!!!

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

ohio state wins again…and other interesting sports events

i hate regional programming with college football games. for some reason, being in south carolina means that games on in my area will rarely include ohio state. someone actually thinks that people here care more about clemson, north carolina, nc state, et. al, than teams up north somewhere. don’t they get that most of us came in here from somewhere else and may not care about those teams? while i’m ranting about things, i would like to slap the person who thought that it would be a brilliant idea to embed an audio/video ad with no mute or stop button in the scoreboard page. ok. rant over.

here’s another reason why XM rules. i actually got to listen to the ohio state game without paying a cent over my plan. the game was actually more dominant for the buckeyes than the final score. the defense was fantastic again. two fumbles in the red zone for the buckeyes prevented a similar shellacking to what usc did against oregon. thanks to wisconsin for defeating michigan.

in saturday’s baseball action —

yankees lose, the yankees lose…and the red sox tie it up in the al east. if i’m a sox fan, my team would make me very nervous. but as i’ve previously pointed out, it is good for the country for the yankees to lose and to miss the playoffs entirely. whatever has to happen for that to take place…i’m in favor of it. well…except for targeted assassinations and kidnapping randy johnson. one has to draw the line somewhere.

the mets win, as if it matters at this point. it’s nice that glavine has started pitching better. i wish he had started this process when it actually meant something. the indians and white sox win also. very impressive collapse in progress by the white sox. if it continues this way, at least they will be spared the embarrassment of imploding in the first round of the playoffs.

the AL has some great races going on right now in all divisions. i’ll write more about that later. i will get to the NL at some point, but the mets are out, so i don’t care quite as much about that.

enjoy the NFL. try not to lose any money or join the fantasy team cult.

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Posted on Random Musings

TGIF — weekend buzz

–movies–
among the movies to avoid if they are available in your area — the latest from the formerly MIA blonde airhead jenny mccarthy, dirty love. it seems that the bad movies are piling up. the reviewers are already nominating this for a razzie. wow. it might even be worse than deuce bigalow 2. also inexplicable — why they are making cheaper by the dozen 2. if i watched movies more often, it would annoy me that i had to pay so much for this junk hollywood is producing right now. i am also going to ignore corpse bride, the latest by tim burton. i liked big fish, edward scissorhands, and charlie and the chocolate factory, but generally burton’s visions of the world are too creepy for me to watch.

on my radar — oliver twist and proof. i’ve seen the musical oliver and i’ve read the dickens classic. it’s one of my favorite books. i hope that it’s at least as good as the musical.

–the other good stuff–

the attempted militarization of the jetsons–this is an interesting analysis of our modern society vs. the society of the cartoon jetsons. this guy has too much free time. don’t know who they are? link here.

perhaps you have heard the new catchphrase “stuck on stupid” by lt. general honore. there is now a stuck on stupid blog. if that wasn’t cool enough….you can now get t-shirts. God bless capitalists.

officials are miffed that a dog is actually registered to vote in new zealand. to them, i say lighten up. the dog is like a lot of americans in that he has no interest in voting.

that’s all for this post. enjoy your weekend. FYI, my email is down, so if you don’t get a response, that’s why.

Posted on Iraq, Moonbats

galloway is a loon…part II

continuing with galloway v. hitchens…and his insistence that the terrorist attacks were our fault.

hitchens responds to this lunacy:

“It’s also I think a bit much to be told that these al-Qaeda chaps, these killers and sadists and nihilists and profuse of indiscriminant explosions wouldn’t be this way if we weren’t so mean to them. “

right. just be nice to the terrorists and they will go away.

hitchens on the WMDs:

“Now, just on this point of weaponry. Um, if you have, as you do have in the case of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a regime that has used chemical and biological weapons against some of its own inhabitants in Kurdistan, against Iran, several times…On the basis of this, establishable, provable knowledge, who is going to say, well let’s give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt if he says he’s not fooling around with weapons now. What responsible leader of any democracy could face his people later if that bet turned out to be wrong? And say well I had every reason to think he was on the level. Come on! Get real! Be serious on this!”

this is exactly the point we forget when discussing the WMDs…saddam had WMDs. he used them on his own people, against iran, etc. so, to believe that saddam was on the level when he says he wasn’t trying to get WMD, well, that borders on delusional thinking. also, if saddam wasn’t going anything wrong…shouldn’t he allow the inspectors full access to his facilities to prove that the UK and the US were out to lunch with their accusations? hmm….

on his response to colin powell’s comments about his UN speech:

“I don’t give a damn about what Colin Powell thinks about anything. I never have, and I never will. I think he’s, I’ve noticed that he’s, having being for a long time, the most overrated public figure in the United States. He’s running for the nomination to most overrated man in the world. But I don’t really care…and you can’t make me.”

good one. but hitchens is wrong here. there are quite a few candidates for most overrated public figure in the US before we get to colin powell. the first of those would be our former president bill clinton. to listen to liberals talk about him, he appears somewhat similar to a god. if clinton was still our president, there would be no wars. there would be less poverty. more people would have jobs. the government would save us from evil tax cuts for the rich and the windfall into the US treasury from that extra money would find its way magically into the hands of the poor people. send me a postcard from fantasyland, foolish ones. i hear it’s nice there in the fall.

more on this in future posts.

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Posted on Moonbats

the moonbat test

i love the term moonbat, but i never knew where exactly it came from. i originally heard it from tony snow on his radio show, but apparently the term pre-dates his use. according to wikipedia, it means someone who is a conspiracy theorist. i would add, someone who is an anti-bush conspiracy theorist. for example, someone who believes that bush planned 9/11 most likely is a moonbat. read wikipedia’s good definition.

i’m not going to steal brilliant posts and claim them as my own. that’s why i’m linking to the right place for a hilarious, comprehensive riff on “you might be a moonbat if…” jeff foxworthy’s bit might be a tad dated but this one isn’t. read it, and if you identify with any of these descriptions, seek immediate help.

Posted on George W. Bush, Hurricane Katrina

the right response to hurricanes

here’s an obvious point. hurricanes happened under the current president’s administration before katrina. granted, none were as severe, but somehow florida survived without much incident. somehow they were able to handle hurricanes, due to the preparation done on the state and local levels. that’s not surprising, considering how much practice floridians have had in dealing with similar situations. however, i’m not excusing FEMA or michael brown at all for hurricane katrina even though governor blanco and mayor nagin totally dropped the ball on their end. brown probably deserved to be fired. he wasn’t really qualified to do that job.

that said, it’s worth pointing out that states like florida and texas have well-thought out plans in case of a hurricane. these plans are implemented on the state and local levels. we didn’t hear about drastic chaos until katrina. this was because cops were on the job and prepared for the scoundrel element thinking about benefiting from human suffering, and people were given instructions and some time to evacuate the area. jeb bush is a smart man. his brother should ask his advice on how to deal with hurricanes or even hire one of jeb’s people to run FEMA. the president couldn’t possibly damage himself any further by this move.

coming up in future posts…more on galloway v. hitchens.

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