Dean finally announced his candidacy today (like we didn’t know he was running already?). This came the day after he got destroyed on Meet The Press.
Speaking of Destroyed, Kerry also alienated many in his party with a recent idiotic comment
Finally, we bring to you: Republicans For Sharpton (Hat tip: Blogs of War)
I’m dissapointed with the SCOTUS today. On Justice Thomas’ birthday, they appeared to ignore the 14th ammendment (well at least the four liberal justices and O’conor).. Enough has been said about it. Even though I stand to (continue) benefit from the ruling, I still don’t like affirm action in the least Even worse, MIchigan is celebrating this decision. Any victory for Michigan is automatically a bad sign. (For those of you not from the midwest, Ohio [specifically Ohio State] and Michigan have a major, major rivalry, that makes the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry look like childs play).
And in the other decision, I’ve gotta ask, who’d actually go to the library to view p0rn? I mean come on…porn at the library? Give me a break.
Let me start by saying that I’m quite dissapointed that I missed both Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton’s appearances here in Cleveland. Jesse Jackson was here for some anti-white, asian, hispanic “black networking” event on Friday, and Al came through town this morning for a “prayer breakfast”. I think someone should pray that Sharpton gets a normal haircut.
So I came across this article at Fox News’ website, which describes a Democratic candidate get-together organized by Jesse Jackson. The topic of the day was apparently affirmative action.
The Supreme court, any time now will likely hand down its verdict on the two cases before it regarding Affirm. Action, and from what I’ve read, many are expecting that the court will find some middle ground on which to base its decision (it’s probably gonna be a 5-4 vote, with O’connor being the swing vote as usual).
So what did some of the Democratic candidates have to say?
“When I’m president, we’ll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day,” said Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO). Gephardt sorts of forgets that a president can’t issue an Exec. order when something is found unconstitutional….but I guess he was playing to the audience…
Sharpton ran his mouth off at Clarence Thomas, who is more of a man than Sharpton can ever hope to be.
And this morning on NBC’s meet the Press (aside, does anyone else miss punditwatch?), Dean got his ass all but handed to him…great quotes such as “”This president has essentially pushed aside people who disagree with him, using our military might and using threats and intimidation,” he said. “In the long run, that does not work.”‘ (Go to France Dean! You’re wrong you asshat!)
And well….if you want more of Dean’s follies, you can go read the article…
Ha’aretz is an Israeli daily newspaper which is published in Hebrew, and is very far to the left (some even call it a post-Zionist paper). However, it does have a nicely made English website (link above), and one of the best things about the site is their “headlines ticker”. So let’s have some fun with it, no?
00:14 (IST) IDF: The three Fatah militants were killed when the bomb they were planting went off prematurely –This will be classified as a “work accident”…too bad
23:25 Palestinian security officials report three Palestinian militants killed in Israeli tank shelling in northern Gaza Strip –They’re terrorists damn it! Not “militants”
22:43 Bush administration wants Israel to extradite convicted Palestinian bomber to face death penalty in U.S. Really? Send this perp to Texas, it’ll get him out of the way quicker.
22:37 IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon: possibility of assassinating Yasser Arafat came up repeatedly but was rejected D’oh! Back to the wishful thinking pile
22:29 Israel`s Akim soccer team for mentally-retarded players defeats Egypt 7-0 in Ireland tournament Good for those kids. This is the kind of news I like to hear about. Good for these people
22:09 French Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy says every attack on French Jews is stain on national flag I thought Mr. ChIraq said there as no anti-semitism problem in France
22:01 U.S. Sec. of State Powell dismisses as `absolutely wrong` any suggestion that the U.S. is preparing to attack Iran D’oh!
15:15 UN chief Kofi Annan urges United States and Iran to contain row over Tehran`s nuclear program What’s that supposed to mean?
The Plain Dealer today, in its “inside politics” section (not online yet, link forthcoming), there’s a blurb saying that Ben Cohen (of Ben and Jerry’s) has endorsed Denny K. However, don’t expect a flavor called Kucinich Kream, or anything like that, ’cause Denny K. is a vegan.
What does Denny gotta say about all this? “Kucinich said Cohen’s endorsement sends a signal to progressive activists that his campaign is gaining momentum.”.
I’m just continuing to laugh at this campaign that has the chance of a snowball in hell.
Speaking of ice cream, all VRWC ice cream lovers should also take a look at Stars Spangled Ice Cream
It seems like the dems are also starting to get worried that Howard Dean may (somehow) get the parties nomination, and they’re fearful that a Bush-Dean result would make the 1972 Nixon-McGovern blow-out look competative….Ouch. This is what I’ve been saying for a while now. The dems are moving to the left, but way too far to the left, while Rove is steering GWB (and some of the GOP) to the crucial center of the spectrum.
I’ve stayed out of this whole genetically modified (GM) foods debate, because, frankly, I don’t have an opinion on it, and furthermore, for the most part, I see no current problems with it.
However, this article scared me: “Coffee without a buzz? Plants genetically modified to lose caffeine”
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! (I’m a caffeine addict–mainly for valid medical reasons, and I don’t drink decaf). But Coffee without caffine, is like…um…well, come up with your own analogy. Someone please reassure me that they’re not getting rid of caffinated coffee.
A friendly JawsBlog PSA:
All of the following individuals have moved off Blog*Spot:
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Finally, tomorrow marks the release of Treason and the launching of CoulterGeist!
This calls for a VRWC holiday!
(Hat tip to Watcher): The beloved Conservative pundit, Ann Coulter, whose name strikes fear in idiotarians everywhere, is going to be blogging starting monday (the day her soon to be best seller Treason is released) over at CoulterGeist!!!
And here’s a little snippet of the promo: “If you thought her weekly column and her books raised the ire of liberals, wait until the Left gets a load of CoulterGeist”
I think this is monday is going to be one of the few mondays I look forward to.
You’ll have to forgive me, but I’ve been under the weather today…so I spent most of the day in bed (when I wasn’t cleaning). I wasn’t feeling well yesterday either (when I got home from work), so you’ll have to forgive me.
As such, I can’t really blog right now, and I’ve also fallen behind on my email. Sigh.
I did finish reading (yet another) book today. I completed Band of Brothers, and what a great book it was! I’d highly suggest reading it. It’s a history book of sorts, but it reads like a novel–can’t get much better than that! (and, no, I haven’t seen the HBO miniseries on the book)
Speaking of books, over at Amazon’s best-sellers list, Ann Coulter’s new book: Treason (which won’t be published ’till Monday) is sitting in the number 5 spot, while HIllary’s book has dropped all the way down to number 10! (Note: Harry Potter is obviously dominating the charts, hence the reason Ann slipped from 3 to 5).
But there is some good news in the world, as Israel has killed the top Hamas terrorist in the West Bank! (He was killed while troops, apparently from YAMAM , while attempting to flee arrest). Israel had apparently been looking for this SOB for more than two years! Good work IDF.
(Perhaps you’d like to thank the troops of the IDF, for ridding the world of some more terrorists by sending ‘em pizza)
I think I’m gonna go back to bed now.
And head over to the Politiblog for a super spectacular quintuple dose of Hot Conservative Chick Day!!!!
This has been a Public Service Announcement….
Forget whatever sort of summer match the WWE is having….there’s a real fight brewing….heh.
In the blue corner, Hillary Clinton, with her book “Living History”
In the red corner, the one, the only, Ann Coulter, with her upcoming book “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism” (The book comes out on 06/24/03). [cue crowd cheering in the background]
…in the battle to see which book will be the non-fiction political best seller!
Right now, Ann has leapfrogged over Hillary in the (very insignificant/irrelevant) Amazon.com bestsellers list.
Drudge is currently reporting that many insiders are expecting Ann to top the charts (or atleast out-do Hillary) in this battle. This will be a great battle to watch…
Right now I’m predicting that Ann will emerge in the lead when her book comes out, as it will likely get a few promos from major radio hosts such as Rush, Hannity, maybe Savage and other major talk show hosts. We’ll have to wait and see…
Long day at work today…lots of crazy finance stuff, and screwy things from the gov’t, I’ll explain another time.
Today is a sad day in Cleveland as Larry Doby, the first Black to play in the AL, and a baseball all-star has passed away. He played for the Cleveland Indians, and he entered the majors just a few months after Jackie Robinson. In 1948 after helping the Indians win game 4 of the World Series a picture was snapped of Doby hugging a white teamate, a picture which ran in papers across the country, and was groundbreaking for what it portrayed (remember, segregation was still occuring). Doby was a great man and athlete and he’ll be missed. Here’s a great piece by Sports columnist Bill Livingston about Doby and here’s a better piece by PD reporter Bob Dolgan.
So last night I mentioned that I was gonna blog on John F. Kerry’s latest idiotic comments–but I didn’t get to it. Fortunately, John Hawkins of RWN has taken up the task (and done a damn good job too).
In other news, Sen. Voinovitch (R-OH) is going to have a pacemaker implanted…get well soon George! You have a big race to rev’ up for in ’04.
While we’re discussing Ohio…the arrest of an Al-queda operative in Columbus is news that strikes a bit too close to home. To further trouble things, Cleveland’s main Imam is one of the “un-named/unindicted individuals mentioned in the Sami Al-Arian indicment (very disturbing).
Hispanics are now the Largest minority group in Los Estados Unidos de America Ole! There also may be political ramifications as a result of this…ones which will favor the GOP should they play their cards right. I’ll blog on that later.
Lawrence Simon of ATS has graciously informed us that Int’l hate Israel day is coming up! (Sponsored by who else besides the UN).
That’s all for now, perhaps I’ll post later
It’s thursday! Therefore, it’s ANN COULTER DAY!!!
Ann’s latest work is titled: “You Don’t Say”
In it, Ann takes a few more shots at the NYT…she also adresses how the gov’t is actually begining to crack down on illegal immigrants (long overdue) and how the NYT and Dems are whining about it….
It’s another piece full of Ann’s greatness. What are you waiting for, go read it!
The following letter ran in the June 18th Cleveland Plain Dealer, from the treasurer of the Bay Village Democratic Club.
It is posted in its entirety here, with some comments interspursed by me (in italics and brackets).
As a resident of Bay Village, I was appalled to read in Michael Sangiacomo’s article of June 6 that Mayor Deborah Sutherland has welcomed the nationally syndicated archconservative and right-wing [redundant?] commentator Glenn Beckto host his radio talk show on July 4 from our city. Under the ruse of being a “quintessential small town” – a dubious distinction, at best, considering the source – she, with council’s blessing [it's called democracy], is allowing him to use the popular Bay Days festivities at Cahoon Park as a platform from which to spew his virulent and reactionary bigotry [idiotarian buzz words; while Beck is somewhat odd with his sense of humor, he's no bigot], . Well-known as an ultraconservative [Not] in the mold of Rush Limbaugh, [Idiotarian talking point #2: bring in Rush for no reason] he holds forth from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on WTAM-AM/1100. [So what? Rush is also on that channel]. Most recently, he has been leading a crusade against attempts to add a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. [your myopia is impressive. He hates the program b/c it expands gov't, but don't get me started]
What was the mayor thinking? Does Bay Village want to be remembered as the host of a right-wing ideologue [translation--patriotic]on Independence Day? [why not] And what of those families with young children who will be thronging the park? Do we want to expose these young people to this right-wing propaganda [lol....patriotism is now right wing propaganda....way to go Democratic party]? And has the mayor given any thought to the added police protection that may be necessary if protesters show up? [you've announced your intentions I guess...why don't you fork over the cash].
In her gushing and naive way, the mayor, as quoted in the article, may think that Bay Village is the quintessential small town [No ideas about the mayor here, so I can't comment]: “Of course we are. We’ve got American flags on the streets, white picket fences and apple pie. It’s the perfect place to hold the celebration. I think it will be wonderful.” [Do they also have apple pie too?] The reality is that Bay Village is a deeply divided town.[Far-left Democrat strategy manual: 'make up false stats and claims about division in population'] A small pocket of wealth and a larger population of struggling families – especially seniors living on a Social Security check and young marrieds trying to break even on two paychecks.[No idea about Bay Village; so I can't confirm or refute said post] And now she welcomes to town a rabid, right-wing commentator to sully our holiday [Sully your holiday? You probably hate this country....unlike Mr. Beck who loves it. Who led the "Rallies for America"? Yeah, that right-wing hate monger]. What was she thinking?
So the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood (map), has recently become the center of controversy here in Ohio. Earlier, it was over the cities attempts at an “eminent domain land grab” (long story–another can ‘o worms).
Here’s the original article from the paper: Lakewood veterans and gays poles apart on flag compromise
So Lakewood’s latest controversy is over the city’s decision to fly the “gay pride” flag at City Hall. To paraphrase the articles, the original idea was to hang the flag on the main pole below the US Flag, POW-MIA Flag and State of OH flag.. Then that idea was put on the backburner as a debate ensued as to whether the rainbow flag should be allowed to fly. Ultimately, the city decided to splurge and erected a seperate pole on which they decided to fly the flag. They’ve also said that other groups will also be able to fly their flags on said pole.
The “question of the day” today in the paper was about people’s responses to the decision.
Then Dick Feagler, a (long time) local columnist, who is usually cynical of…well, just about everything, wrote a great opinion piece today entitled: “Flagpole proliferation won’t create unity “, and to summarize his point–the American flag is the one which covers us all, and as such it should be the only flag flying.
I’m inclined to agree with Feagler (for a change), however, I’m not in total agreement. I respect the right of cities to fly the POW/MIA flag as a reminder/memorial to those members of the armed forces who are/were POWs/MIA–the public should be aware of such things. As for the state flag, eh, I”m not so big on it, but since this is a gov’t, we should fly the flag as a sign of respect. But I do believe that the US flag should fly taller than all the other flags.
As for Lakewood’s decision to erect another pole–I disagree with it. No, I’m not a bigot or a homophobe, as I actually have friends who are members of the GBLTQIA (is that the current term?) population. I don’ t care about people’s sexual orientation, as long as it doesn’t involve me, I just consider it to be none of my buisness. With that aside, I don’t see why a city should be flying such a flag. I agree with Feagler. Furthermore, I agree with the argument that’s been put forth, that this establishes a bad precident. Now anyone can argue to have their flag flown in Lakewood–from the Nazis (curse them), the UN, the hippies, “Black Power” people, anti-abortion groups, Christian groups, heck, there could even be an Islamofacist flag hanging (okay, perhaps that’s excessive, but do you get the point?).
I believe that a US gov’t agency shouldn’t be hanging flags for different interest groups–other than official national flags. By official I mean the US flag, state/city flags, or any of the Armed forces flags. I thnk that by flying one “special interest” flags, you’ve opened the door to any and all flags, and if you attempt to censor a few, a battle with emerge over First Ammendment/free speech stuff. Also, things like this divide communities, and that’s undesireable from the perspective of a civic office.
There’s another issue to adress and that is the complaint from the “gay rights” community (Anyone know the current acronym) saying that by erecting a seperate pole, they’re only showing “half support”. I disagree with that. First off, I should say that I know the activist who the Plain Dealer quoted (family friend) and let me reiterate, that my disagreement with her opinion does not mean that she’s an evil or bad person–she’s actually a very nice individual. With that aside, I think that the activists should be content with just having their flag up. Had I been in charge, I would have respectfully declined the request and explained why, while other Lakewood residents appear to harbor much more angry/passionate feelings. So they should be happy with what they have.
This’ll be interesting to watch as the whole flag controversy continues to play out in the future.
So apparently Gov. Taft is now on-board with the idea of leagalizing Concealed-carry weapons (CCW) here in the Buckeye state. A bill passed from committee to the full Senate yesterday, however, of all groups, the NRA asked for an extra day to review the text of the proposed bill!
From what I gathered from the Plain Dealer’s article, some gun-rights groups think that the rules stipulated are too strict, while the anti-gun lobby is continuing to cry. There’s also a big difference in attitudes being expressed; with lawmakers from the cities not very in favor of this while the ones from the rural areas are in support. Perhaps this may explain the differences across America on a micro-scale.
I’m hoping to be able to finally blog later tonight, but for now, I’ll just list some of the coming attractions for tonight, here at JawsBlog:
–State of Ohio is about to pass a CCW law…observations
–The “gay flag” controversy here in Cleveland
–A Letter (in the news) from a tin-foil brigade democrat
–How John F. Kerry continues to be an asshat (Hint: he just claimed we “lacked and int’l coalition”).
–Thoughts on the media, media bias, and Gore’s latest plan….(perhaps not tonight, but in the near future).
But for the interim, here’s a really dumb law in Florida which lead to the shutting down of a 6 year old’s lemonade stand
And speaking of dumb laws, a lawmaker in Annapolis, MD wants to ban kids from playing with toy guns outside–with the punishment being that ‘rents would have to pay a fine.. The cops are already refusing to enforce this really dumb assed backwards law.
That’s what this Fox News article speculates.
I’d have to go with Condi no questions asked in this race. Too bad we can’t have Rummy run…
Happy 23rd Anniversary to my parents!
Happy 21st Birthday to my good (drunk) friend Matt…who is now old enough to buy his own liquor/beer to get himself drunk. 
The backwards folk in Foggy Bottom (a.k.a State Dept) may actually be seeing things straight for the first time! Courtesy of the Ha’aretz ticker:
02:06 (IST): U.S. State Dept. spokesman: Cease-fire with Hamas must ultimately result in disbanding the group, other terror groups
Perhaps this is simply a fluke…or is this a cause for cautious optimism.
Speaking of “could this be true”:
EU considers adding Hamas political wing to terror groups list
It’s about time already…just follow through on it.
Finally, the “peace loving” UN seems to be extremely backwards, as they apparently don’t consider Hizbullah a terror group!?!?
On the other hand, AUSTRALIA, has taken another step in the right direction by banning Hizbullah and breaking with the UN pattern. Way to go Aussies!!! (via Command Post)
Update: Turns out someone is trying to stymie the EU’s efforts (on banning Hamas), and guess which country is behind this effort. You get three guesses and the first two don’t count. The dictator loving nation of weasels–France. (also via command post)
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