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I saw this over at Command Post:

A group called “Draft Traficant for President 2004″ communicated with the imprisoned former Ohio congressman by mail and received permission to start a campaign. They filed a signed “Statement of Candidacy” form with the Federal Election Commission this week. (More)

Granted, former Rep. James Trafficant (D-OH) is now serving time in a federal pen. I don’t think America is ready for a man who claims that he’s “just the son of a truck driver”, who wears shoe-string ties, and claims to “cut his hair with a weed-wacker” (turns out he has a tupee) to be President. The guy is a nutcase….but hey, Sharpton, Kucinich and Mosely-Braun are all in the race.

I’m gonna blog very briefly (due to time constraints) about Israel right now.

First off, House majority leader, Tom DeLay (R-TX) is heading off to the region next week. The man is great! He’s an ardent supporter of Israel, and he’s got his head on straight!

Then from the “no shit shirlock” department, comes the following article: “PA Brig.Gen.Wadyeh: ceasefire doesn’t mean Intifada will stop, permitted to use whatever means necessary”
Is anyone actually suprised by this?

The following (in Italics) is a letter from a Brandeis prof (no, not gordie) sent to an email list. I’ve added some comments, but I must note, that I’m rather tired right now, so my words won’t be as strong as they should be.

I have been concerned and active with respect to Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the years, and it is very important that we continue to send messages about it on this site.

Note: This topic relates to a prior discussion which is irellevant.

Bush was still saying two days ago that the obstacle to a Palestinian state is terrorism.

And he’s right! Duh!

He is ignoring the occupation as a cause because he thinks it serves his interests to do so.

No, because unlike you, he doesn’t have his head buried in the ground, nor does he recite Noam Chumpsky like you. The whole “occupation” thing is a bunch of BS (it’s been debunked countless times)

Now the U.S. shares with Israel literally, and not just spiritually and symbolically, the role of occupier pretending the problem is terrorism.

The fucking problem is terrorism! The Islamofacists want both countries wiped off the map. (to keep it simple).

Our nation is in a deep and desparate crisis of morality

Yeah, that’s another can of worms.

and politics

Yes, Bush is abandoning his principles too often. I don’t like the whole triangulation move.

as is Israel

Israel has economic problems–which lead to politics. But in this idiotarians mind, the fact that Likud won 40 of 120 seats in the last election is a crisis.

We at Brandeis have got to start thinking critically about our passivity in the face of the continuing situation in Israel and Palestine.

Uh, hello, most of the campus isn’t passive. Step out of your ivory tower, why don’t you.

Let us risk making connections between the occupation of these two Arab peoples.

Liberated Iraqis and palestinians? Apples and Oranges. Oh wait, the Iraqis are happy to be liberated. But yes, Mr. Professor, you protested their liberation.

If the connections are overblown and falter, let them

Wrong tense, change it to the past tense, the connection has faltered.

and let’s learn from it

No, you folks just revise history to fit your agenda.

But let us not hide behind talk of antisemitism

Yeah, that whole shtick. Hey Professor, aren’t you a part of the group of people who brought in that speaker that called Israelis “nazis” and called my friend a “Zionist Bitch” for fact checking him?

and avoid the fact that we are participating in two occupations now

Yawn…

two militarizations of situations that cry out for the opposite of what we are doing.

Oh yes, let’s leave Iraq and let the Ba’athist return. Better yet, let the Mullahs of Iran take over, that would be ingenious. Or let another terror state form under Terrorfat. Brilliant!

Our nation is adrift, following despicable leadership into a morass of violence and murder.

Thank you Dennis Kucinich. We have strong, upright leadership right now. And we’re not in a morass of violence and murder…that was Saddam. But in your eyes, we should’ve left Saddam (and the Taliban before that) alone. We should’ve “engaged in dialogue” as you folks say, to “Resolve our differences” and to co-exist. Yeah, you’re full of it.

Many of our Israeli brothers and sisters say the same.

No, very few do….read the polls.

We must all wake up and struggle against this horror.

Yes, the horror that people like you use your roles as academics to brainwash students and distort, rewrite history and fact. Get a Clue!

Okay, I’m tired, I’m off to bed.

So apparently, a Wisconsin (local) TV station decided not to run the DNC’s farce of an ad regarding the President’s SOTU (in which they cut out the part of the quotes which said “The British Gov’t has learned…”

Being the close minded idiot (that he often comes across as being), DNC Chairman Terry McAulife who said the following:

“Apparently Fox has changed its slogan from ‘We report, you decide’ to ‘we let Bush decide what we air.’”

In response, Fox spokeswoman Irena Steffen in New York said:

“You would think a man in his position would know the difference between a local affiliate and a national news network,” she said. [implying it was the station's personal decision--Ed.]

Not only that, but the Wisconsin station also put out a press release saying:

“WMSN [the station] gave the DNC the opportunity to edit the ad and include the British government’s involvement, but that request was denied

Great job Terry McAulife….just great

Emperor Misha has the pictures of the two bastards. (Warning: some may be disturbed by the images).

And to compliment this, Dr. J. has the following (beautiful) still shot of a TOW missile hitting the compound in Mosul. Wow! What a shot (in both senses of the word)! And according to LGF, the two swine died in a grubby bathroom.

And yes, there are already conspiracy theories circulating amongst the masses over at DU; Stars n’ Stripes is covering it.

Then there are also those in Iraq who want to see the bodies themselves, in vivo. (Perhaps to beat the corpses with their shoes, like they did to the Saddam statue–remember the symbolism)

This has been something that’s been on my mind for a while now. When it comes to those who are on the left-side of the political spectrum, some new terminology is needed. Just as those on the right have begun to be labled as “neo-cons”, “paleo-cons”, RINOs, etc. (there are other terms I’m not aware of, I’m sure)

It’s not right to label all those left-of-center as “liberals” and/or “democrats”…because there are so many different shades of gray within those ranks. So I think that we need some new terms to classify the different groups.

So where do we start?

There’s the group of Dems who are foriegn policy hawks, called “scoop Jackson Dems”. That makes sense I guess. But it leaves a void when it comes to domestic issues. Usually this group seems to lean more to the center on domestic issues. So what will we call them?

Then at the other end, there are those who read and revere The Nation as the “holy word”. This is also the indymedia/DU crowd. This is the Dean/Kucinich crowd, and they’re what I’d consider to be the hard-core liberals. These are also the types in academia. However, they’re self dubbed “progressives” (what kind of progress they’re seeking, is another story). So do we call ‘em “progressives”?

Next, we have the group of people who’ve been raised as Dems, and that’s really the only ideology they’re familiar with. I think that these people are more or less the “rank-and-file democrats”. They don’t lean to the far left, but they’re still left of the center. What should these people be refered to as?

This is just a thought, and it’s rather discombobulated (if you can’t tell), but I’m interested to hear what others think….

[Via The Corner]:

From Bill Clinton to Larry King:

I think the main thing I want to say to you is, people can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks…

… of biological and chemical weapons. We might have destroyed them in ’98. We tried to, but we sure as heck didn’t know it because we never got to go back in there….

Go read the rest of this snippet, and this one too

Just look at the following post from IndyMedia

A New Jersey community bans the flying of the POW-MIA flag and a Support the Troops flag and are being fined for it.

Crap! There was a lot of stuff I wanted to blog about but I’m blanking on the topics right now. Argh!

Throughout the VRWC it’s open-bar night to celebrate the deaths of Saddam’s sons. This has been a public service announcement.

Wow! What a day its been for the US Army!

For starters. Pfc. Lynch returned home today for the first time since being taken POW in Iraq (and rescued in a daring Special Forces raid–which wasn’t staged thank you very much Dennis Kucinich).

Second, in last-night’s firefight in Mosul, the 101st Airborne Division killed four (bad) Iraqis….two of whom happened to be Uday and Qusay Hussein.

The President has called these developments “good news“, but I’m waiting to hear Rummy’s remarks. (The real one, but I’d like to also hear Frank J’s Rummy remarks).

Speaking of Remarks, presidential candidate, Howard Dean is reported (via the AP) to have “shrugged off the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s two sons Tuesday, saying `the ends do not justify the means.’ He scolded Democratic rivals for backing the conflict.”

Dean…you’re an Asshat. Contrast Dean’s remarks to Liebermans (which came before the DoD confirmed the news): “it would be an act of justice and a significant step forward in a faltering effort to secure the post-Saddam Iraq.”

Back to the Army…Wow! What a day! The beer better start flowing back stateside at some Army bases…

Home from a long (although productive) day in the Lab. I really am enjoying working there. Today I ran a PCR (polymerase chain reaction–it’s a way to replicate DNA), mixed more chemicals (incl. toxic ones) and did some other good stuff.

Yeah, so I found something cool in my referral logs (besides wacky searches). No one told me that there’s an Israeli Google (in Hebrew no less!) Eizeh Yofi! I have a new website to play on.

It’s raining on and off here in Cleveland today, but when it rains, it is really coming down hard…just an observation.

I’m way behind in the blogsphere from being away all weekend (d’oh!)

Apparently, Idi Amin is either on his deathbed or he’s died already. Either way, I don’t think I’m going to be shedding any tears over that bastard’s departure from this planet.

From the Windy City, Dr. J of Idiotarian.com has received some pictures of the anti-Roadmap protest there. There were the Lebuvitchers, Starbucks, Anti-Israel fools, the whole nine yards!

Steve Silver gives a much needed Fisking to the NYT’s Chris Hedges, and one of the worst people in New Jersey Charlotte Kates.

Speaking of Fiskings and bad people, Eric Alterman is apparently (still) off his rocker (again)
Finally (for now at least).

Speaking of which, how did Jerry Springer beat out Jonah Goldberg (and other good things like Kosher Krispy Kreme) in the The Jewsweek Sizzlin’ 60 . There are other issues I have with the list. But in the list’s defense, it shows that there are indeed hot Jewish women out there (alas, none go to Brandeis)

I’m off to the grocery store…

After a 7.5 hour car ride, and traveling through 2 countries, 1 province (Ontario) and 3 states (NY, PA, OH), I’m home from my weekend in the middle of nowhere Ontario. (I was in the Muskoka region, if you know the area).

Nice weekend, quite boring though. I got bitten up not too badly by the misquitos. But I’m tired, and have work tomorrow, so I’ll blog about my trip later…

I’m leaving Thursday afternoon for the first leg of a car trip up to Canada. No, I’m not going there to buy prescription drugs, rather I’m heading up to visit my sister (who is a counselor) and drop my lil’ brother off at Camp Ramah in Canada.

I’ll be out of town (and away from the computer), ‘visiting’ our socialist neighbor to the north, ’till I get back late sunday night, which in other words, means that I will most likely not be blogging till Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Sorry I couldn’t blog tonight, but once I got home from work, mom had me take my brother to the video game store and then to dinner. Then we got home, and I had to pack my bag for the weekend (see above post)

Nevertheless, there are some topics I’m looking forward to posting on in the near future:

Jerry Springer’s Candidacy (for the interim, why don’t youi read Jonah Goldberg’s column)
Following the Democratic Nine (with an emphasis on making fun of Denny K.)
Looking into what the very-far (loony)-Left wingers are up to (like their “petition for a new foriegn policy”)
And perhaps another Fisking of Gordie…

As I mentioned above, I like making fun of Dennis Kucinich’s campaign (it’s way too easy too). So yesterday, Denny K. came out in support of gay marrages. Denny K. has also recently flip-flopped on his abortion stance, from being staunchly pro-life to now being pro-choice.

What’s the big deal? Denny’s district is a heavily religious one, and a reason he was re-elected by his district was because of his pro-life attitude. So that’s out the window, now with same-sex marriages, he’s really alienating many in his congressional district. Idiot….

yeah, I’m here in the lab right now…wasting time. We had our lab canoe/kayak trip today (we paddled 7 miles with just about no current!) So I came back to the lab, but almost no one else did, and I’ve finished all I can do for now, so I’m just killing time till it’s time for me to catch my bus.

Got a sunburn while out on the scenic Cuyahoga River (d’oh)…hopefully we have some Aloe vera at home. It was definitely a fun trip!

I hope to blog later tonight on a few random things, but I’m just killing time now

So Jerry Springer has filed the papers, he’s gonna try to run for the Senate from my state (Ohio). His first step would be to win the Democratic nomination, and his current competator for that is State Sen. Eric Fingerhut (campaign site).

The winner of the nomination will run against incumbent Senator (and former Cleveland Mayor and state Governor George Voinovitch)

I’ve blogged some thoughts on this before, and I’m planning to add some more thoughts on this tomorrow. But for the time being, in summary, I think it’s rather safe to say that Jerry doesn’t stand a chance.

Here’s letters from today’s Plain Dealer about Springer running….things don’t sound very bright

And some Brandeis alums give their input into Jerry’s candidacy….Steve Silver has some thoughts on Jerry’s candidacy, as does Lil’ B.

So today a Federal Appeals court ruled that the Clintons will have to pay for almost all of their Whitewater Legal Fees (save for $85,312), rather than having us tax payers pick up the tab.

This is a good common sense decision in my eyes. Regardliess of ones feelings about the Clinton presidency, I think that it’s safe to say that the Clintons can easily afford to pay the $3.5 million in legal fees.

I mean how much of an advance did Hillary just get for her new book? And how much is Bill making on the speaking circut these days? Plus, how much did Bill say he was getting as a result of the new tax cut? (someone want to take that and do the math and find out how much he pays in taxes, so we get a ballpark figure on his earnings).

But why should the taxpayers have to cover the Clinton’s legal fees? I mean, that idea is simply absurd! Didn’t out tax dollars already cover Ken Starr? That’s more than enough.

First, over at the Corner, someone actually sticks up for Eric Alterman (woah!)

Then the Daily Howler is now defending the Bush Administration

Who would’ve thought this would occur?

(Links via Instapundit–who isn’t a socialist)