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Oct 2007
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‘I Said You Could Shoot Them, I Didn’t Say You Could Bait Them’
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Wed 31 Oct 2007 16:44
by Kevin McGehee
72° and cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
1 comment
[Our Times]
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There’s a scene in the original two-hour pilot episode of “Firefly”—the one Fox rejected and didn’t show until they’d already canceled the series—where the crew discovers they’re being approached by a Reaver ship. Someone wonders why they’re not trying to get the hell out of there, and Mal Reynolds replies,
“If we run they have to chase us. It’s their way.“
That’s kind of how it is with the Left these days. Over at PW, guest-blogger Dan Collins has repeatedly offered up just the kind of troll-bait Lefties can’t resist. Which puts me in mind of the lawyer joke, the punchline of which I’ve borrowed for the title of this post.
Dan’s point is that by the definitions of bigotry most often used by the Left, the foulest bigots are still those on the Left—just as they are under actual standard definitions of bigotry. They can redefine the words all they want, but they’ll never be able to define their fetid swamp into the moral high ground.
But by waving the red flags of Hateful Speech™ in front of them, Dan blinds them to his point and all but forces them to bolster it with their reactions.
And really, as much fun as it may be, it’s just not cricket.
Not that anyone would ever confuse cricket with fun…
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How Is John McCain Like Hillary Clinton?
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Wed 31 Oct 2007 8:28
by Kevin McGehee
43° and partly cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
0 comments
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
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He, too, doesn’t say what he means or mean what he says.
Sen. John McCain has quietly been piling up flip-flops, including ditching his long-held support for the Law of the Sea convention and telling bloggers he now opposes the DREAM Act to legalize illegal alien students.
The sea treaty has become the latest litmus test for the 2008 Republican presidential field, and after a decade-long record of public support for it, Mr. McCain has pivoted to bring himself in line with the rest of the candidates.
“I would probably vote against it in its present form,“ he told bloggers last week during a conference call.
Republican primary voters tilt to the right, and the sea treaty is another example of Mr. McCain veering to try to align himself with them, recanting positions along the way on immigration, tax cuts and campaign-finance reform.» McCain caters to GOP voters
Heh. Leave it to John McCain to find a way to lower my already abysmal opinion of him. “Straight Talk Express” indeed.
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Her Husband Was Better At It
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Wed 31 Oct 2007 8:23
by Kevin McGehee
43° and partly cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
0 comments
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
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Roger Simon:
PHILADELPHIA—We now know something that we did not know before: When Hillary Clinton has a bad night, she really has a bad night.
In a debate against six Democratic opponents at Drexel University here Tuesday, Clinton gave the worst performance of her entire campaign.
It was not just that her answer about whether illegal immigrants should be issued drivers’ licenses was at best incomprehensible and at worst misleading.
It was that for two hours she dodged and weaved, parsed and stonewalled.
And when it was over, both the Barack Obama and John Edwards campaigns signaled that in the weeks ahead they intend to hammer home a simple message: Hillary Clinton does not say what she means or mean what she says.» Obama, Edwards attack; Clinton bombs debate
I’m not sure I agree with Roger’s first line up there. I think some of us knew, or at least suspected, that Big Mother is capable of boners that would make John Holmes and Ron Jeremy shrivel with embarrassment.
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Then Just Shut Up and DO IT
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Wed 31 Oct 2007 8:11
by Kevin McGehee
43° and partly cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
2 comments
[Here's Your Sign]
[Wackadoodle]
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The United States’ second-richest man has delivered a blunt message to the Bush administration: he wants to pay more tax.» I should pay more tax, says US billionaire Warren Buffett
Feel free, you senile old buffoon.
If you can’t stand having so damn much money, there are billions of people who’d be happy to relieve you of the burden—you don’t need a fucking change to the goddamn tax code to do it.
Somebody tell this sanctimonious coot the U.S. Treasury will accept voluntary contributions.
Update: And here’s how:
Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Credit Accounting Branch
3700 East-West Highway, Room 6D17
Hyattsville, MD 20782
H/t for the update: Don Surber.
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Slowness
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Tue 30 Oct 2007 16:20
by Kevin McGehee
66° and mostly cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
0 comments
[Asides]
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Apologies for the slowness of the site of late—one of the scripts points to a site called Enetation, which hosts the surviving comments from when I was using Blogger, which was back before they developed their own comment module, and that site is down. So, I’ve disabled the script.
Temporarily. Maybe.
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This Is Just Getting Sad
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Mon 29 Oct 2007 17:57
by Kevin McGehee
61° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
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[Nature]
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Unless a dramatic and historical flurry of activity occurs in the next 9 weeks, 2007 will rank as a historically inactive TC year for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. During the past 30 years, only 1977, 1981, and 1983 have had less activity to date (January-TODAY, Accumulated Cyclone Energy). For the period of June 1 - TODAY, only 1977 has experienced LESS tropical cyclone activity than 2007.» 2007 Yearly Tropical Cyclone Activity to Date
This time, the emphasis is in the original.
When Accu-Weather (motto: “The ‘Accu’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘Accurate’”) and the rest forecast a quiet hurricane season, maybe that’s when we need to worry.
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