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Oct 2007
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Good Dog
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Tue 23 Oct 2007 8:25
by Kevin McGehee
72° and rain
in Coweta County, GA
0 comments
[Yee-haw!]
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A 38-year-old woman said she was jogging during the late afternoon on Oct. 12 when a young man walking in the opposite direction passed her. The man then turned around and shoved her against a tree, where he groped her and tried to put a hand up her shirt, the woman told police.
Then the woman’s 120-pound yellow Labrador retriever, Jack, intervened. He chomped down on the attacker’s thigh, prompting the man to run away in the direction of the playground, a police report says.» Yellow Lab saves jogger from attack
Too bad Jack isn’t a Rottweiler. They’d be gathering up his stools for burial.
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Big Mother ‘Brocking’ Drudge?
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Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:08
by Kevin McGehee
67° and cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
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[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[Media Ochre]
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—As Senator Barack Obama prepared to give a major speech on Iraq one morning a few weeks ago, a flashing red-siren alert went up on the Drudge Report Web site. It read, “Queen of the Quarter: Hillary Crushes Obama in Surprise Fund-Raising Surge,“ and, “$27 Million, Sources Tell Drudge Report.“
Within minutes, the Drudge site had injected Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fund-raising success into the day’s political news on the Internet and cable television. It did not halt coverage of Mr. Obama’s speech or his criticism of her vote to authorize the war in 2002, but along the front lines of the campaign—the hourly, intensely fought effort to capture the news cycle or deny ownership of it to the other side—it was a telling assault.
Mrs. Clinton’s aides declined to discuss how the Drudge Report got access to her latest fund-raising figures nearly 20 minutes before the official announcement went to supporters. But it was a prime example of a development that has surprised much of the political world: Mrs. Clinton is learning to play nice with the Drudge Report and the powerful, elusive and conservative-leaning man behind it.
That man, Matt Drudge, came to national prominence a decade ago as a nemesis of the Clintons who used the Web to peddle, gleefully, the latest news and rumor generated by the Monica Lewinsky scandal.» Clinton Finds Way to Play Along With Drudge
David Brock, now head of MediaMatters.org, used to write for American Spectator as part of the notorious “Arkansas Project.“ He wrote a book about Big Mother and suddenly renounced all of his previous work. Now he heads up an organization that purports to try to balance the “right wing” tilt of the Establishment Media.
Perhaps Big Mother hopes to co-opt Matt Drudge the same way.
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Wasn’t Me
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Sun 21 Oct 2007 17:27
by Kevin McGehee
78° and fair
in Coweta County, GA
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[Asides]
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Somebody got here from this Yahoo! search, which had me wondering at first whether someone out there was hoping for good news.
And although this was the next hit after the ones pointing to The McGehee Zone, that McGehee didn’t fall off a roof.
So, I dunno. If there was somebody out there named McGehee who fell off a roof and died, my condolences to his family and friends.
And I’ll be extra vigilant while on roofs.
Creepy.
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Halloween? Friday the 13th? Nightmare on Elm Street?
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Sun 21 Oct 2007 11:32
by Kevin McGehee
66° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
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[Alaska]
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
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Pikers.
Sen. Ted Stevens raised slightly more than $463,000 in campaign donations between July and September.
The third-quarter contributions were more than Stevens raised in any quarter since 2002, Stevens’ campaign manager, Tim McKeever, said.
More than 59 percent of the donations, nearly $304,000, came from individuals, according to Stevens’ report to the Federal Election Commission. Some $142,000 came from Political Action Committees and $16,000 from joint fundraising committees.
The campaign returned $5,700 from Home Depot, Oshkosh Truck Corp., and Jim Jansen of Lynden Air Cargo to resolve filing errors, McKeever said.
As of Sept. 30, the Stevens for Senate Committee had nearly $1.1 million cash on hand.
Stevens, 83, announced in November that he would seek re-election to the seat he’s held in Congress since 1968.» Stevens loading up his war chest
I think he wants to break Strom Thurmond’s record, and get re-elected at age 101.
Nothing short of the Grim Reaper will stop him. Alaskans, regardless of party, live in deathly fear of the consequences to their state should his seniority be lost. I think they engage in voodoo rites in hopes of rendering him immortal.
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This Will Probably Do More Damage Than Any of the Other Stories
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Sun 21 Oct 2007 11:18
by Kevin McGehee
66° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
3 comments
[Our Times]
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
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As the “first pet” of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed “chilly” Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea. So where is Socks today?
Once the presidency was over, there was no room for Socks any more. After years of loyal service at the White House, the black and white cat was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, who also had an embarrassing clean-up role in the saga of his relationship with the intern Monica Lewinsky.
Some believe the abandoned pet could now come between Hillary Clinton and her ambition to return to the White House as America’s first woman president.
Clinton has been boosting her prospects in the past week with some homespun references to her gender as part of a series of events with the theme Women Changing America, during which she chatted girlfriend-to-girlfriend and mom-to-mom with female voters.
The softening of Clinton’s image seems to be working. Her chief strategist, Mark Penn, predicts that up to a quarter of Republican women will vote for her. She leads Democratic rivals in the polls by 26 points and is scooping up more donations to her war chest from Wall Street and defence contractors than any candidate from either party—an unmistakable indicator of who they think will win in 2008.
Clinton’s treatment of Socks cuts to the heart of the questions about her candidacy. Is she too cold and calculating to win the presidency? Or does it signify political invincibility by showing she is willing to deploy every weapon to get what she wants?
“In the annals of human evil, off-loading a pet is nowhere near the top of the list,“ writes Caitlin Flanagan in the current issue of The Atlantic magazine. “But neither is it dead last, and it is especially galling when said pet has been deployed for years as an all-purpose character reference.“ » Ouch! Hillary Clinton’s softer image is clawed over dumped cat
It’s kind of sad that Americans might care more about how Big Mother treats the cat than the help—or the law of the land—but such is life. They didn’t get Al Capone for ordering the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, though seven human beings were snuffed out. What they got him for was tax evasion—that is, failing to render unto Uncle his share of Big Al’s blood-stained samolians.
Justice, like gold, is where you find it.
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Remember When Minor Off-Year Elections Used to Be Bellwethers for the Next Big One?
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Sun 21 Oct 2007 11:07
by Kevin McGehee
64° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
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[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[Media Ochre]
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In years past, as the Establishment Media cover the preliminaries of upcoming major elections, especially presidential elections, they would often seize upon some hole-in-the-wall by-election and hold it up to the world as a sample of Things to Come.
But only if it went the Democrats’ way.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal became the nation’s youngest governor and the first nonwhite to hold post in Louisiana since Reconstruction when he carried more than half the vote to defeat 11 opponents.
Jindal, the Republican 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, had 53 percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday’s election outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff.» Jindal Wins Louisiana Governor’s Race
So is this a precursor to the outcome of the 2008 election, and thus destined to be encouraging news for Republicans?
Damned if a Democrat victory way down yonder wouldn’t have been shouted from the rooftops.
Note also that Jindal, “the first nonwhite” to be elected governor in Louisiana, is a Republican. That may also tend to mute the coverage of this outcome.
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Remind Me Not to Buy Anything Complicated from SanDisk Ever Again
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Sat 20 Oct 2007 12:02
by Kevin McGehee
69° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
2 comments
[Asides]
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First I had to wait until it was possible again to order the replacement transfer cable for my .mp3 player. Then the damned site kept having fatal errors during the checkout process, resulting in my having to press “Submit” a dozen times or so before I finally got an order confirmation page.
I’m not sure what the worst-case scenario is here, getting a dozen cables because all those “error” orders actually took—or not getting one, with the result that I give up on this .mp3 player and spring for a better one.
On second thought, I do know what would be the worst-case scenario: all those errors enabled my credit-card information to be captured, and we’re going to end up with a charge for a new Bugatti.
Like I said: remind me never again to buy anything from SanDisk that has actual misplaceable components.
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I Could Devote an Entire Blog to These Stories
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Sat 20 Oct 2007 9:22
by Kevin McGehee
49° and fair
in Coweta County, GA
2 comments
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[Media Ochre]
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...but I don’t do “single issue” blogs.
NEW YORK—Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.
And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes.
All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular presidential candidate—Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.
At this point in the presidential campaign cycle, Clinton has raised more money than any candidate in history. Those dishwashers, waiters and street stall hawkers are part of the reason.» An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton
After presenting these suspicious facts, the reporters then begin spinning them into a puff piece on how Big Mother is raking in all this cash by “appeal[ing] to the hopes and dreams of people now consigned to the margins.“
I suppose it may be another example of this effect, where the politically correct spin has to be included in a transparent attempt to distract readers from underlying facts adverse to Teh Narrative™, but that only emphasizes the corrosive grip of that narrative on the Establishment Media.
There used to be a blog dedicated to exposing Big Mother’s history, but it was started too soon and seems to have dropped from the radar just when its time has come.
Update: My mistake—here it is, and still churning away.
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