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Going For the Big Time, Soon
Hello my wonderful readers, my posts have been scant lately because I’m working on setting up an independent blog.
My experiment here at WordPress.com has proven to be successful enough to prompt me to take a chance on my own site. The new site should be ready to go in a few days weeks.
I’ll keep you posted.
Out.
Not Pretty: Alec Baldwin Analyzes Auto Industry
We can only hope that Alec Baldwin never gets into a serious position of power. In an article that reads like a water cooler politics conversation, Baldwin blames automakers’ resistance to stupid environmental regulations for their current plight:
they spent billions of dollars attempting to bribe the Congress to avoid putting in seat belts and air bags, installing catalytic converters and reaching more ambitious fuel efficiency standards. For the most part, they succeeded. [emphasis mine]
Obviously, the industry did not succeed in it’s resistance to seat belts, airbags and catalytic converters. So, now we know that Baldwin has only green on the mind. More:
I feel horribly for every single man and woman who will suffer as the result of this heartbreaking turn of events. I was the voice of Chevy Tahoe TV spots for five years in the early 90’s. I drove a Tahoe then and loved it. Now, I drive a Prius.
LOL. Yeah, I’m sure he feel sooo “horribly” for them. So now we know that Baldwin drives an ugly fish-like car… er, I mean a Prius. And, finally, we get to the heart of Baldwin’s water cooler screed:
Let energy conservation and fuel efficiency rule the day. Let the carmakers go under.
So here we have Baldwin, who feels “horribly” for all those people “who will suffer” advocating for automakers to go under for the sole reason that they resisted idiotic environmental regulations. Nice.
Of course we all know that those people “who will suffer” would be the unions, who are the real reason US automakers are in the mess they are in. Unions are unsustainable in a free market, which is why they always attempt to regulate the market in their favor, etc. Automakers would be wise to abandon an impossible situation.
Baldwin’s popularity declined by 2% this week. If his acting is as lame as his attempts at political writing, that might explain it.
Thomas Sowell Hits “Torture” Home Run
If ever there was a column to read about the idiotic “torture” debate in America, this is it.
Sowell brilliantly explains the moral confusion amongst liberals who refuse to grow up:
Whatever the verbal fencing over the meaning of the word “torture,” there is a fundamental difference between simply inflicting pain on innocent people for the sheer pleasure of it– which is what our terrorist enemies do– and getting life-saving information out of the terrorists by whatever means are necessary.
The left has long confused physical parallels with moral parallels. But when a criminal shoots at a policeman and the policeman shoots back, physical equivalence is not moral equivalence. And what American intelligence agents have done to captured terrorists is not even physical equivalence.
I recommend that everyone read his column, it brings amazing clarity to “torture” issue that few other commentaries have.
Hatin’ Cheney: He Sure Gets Their Goat
Cheney is B-a-a-a-D!
Say what you will about Cheney, but the top left bloggers really REALLY hate him with a passion. They’ve recently devoted lots of webspace to their rage:
HuffPo’s Borowitz spews out lame satire at Cheney, saying the Former VP is To Travel Around Country In Sound Truck. Groan.
DailyKos’ David Swanson verbosely explains the Three Worst Reasons to Delay Putting Cheney in Prison. Like all morally confused liberals, Swanson is SO for “enforcing laws.” Of course, laws only apply to liberal causes, they can be skirted with “empathy” when laws cause “social injustice.” Aside from that, it’s doubtful that any laws were actually broken, and there will never be prosecutions b/c top Democrats would be dragged down, too.
The fringe leftists at Democratic Underground indulge in ancient Cheney-based fantasy claiming Cheney Confirms Iran-Contra Cover-Up; says Cheney:
“I went through the Iran-contra hearings and watched the way administration officials ran for cover and left the little guys out to dry. And I was bound and determined that wasn’t going to happen this time.”
Because he used the word “cover,” he has now admitted a “cover-up”? Oy.
The ever-excitable Andrew Sullivan has another go at Cheney, implying that Cheney betrayed his oath of office by supporting harsh interrogation of deranged psychopaths bent on killing Americans. Says Sully, “Is Cheney’s ultimate defense is that he didn’t understand the oath he took?” Go ahead and believe that Sullivan, you’re already a lost cause.
ThinkProgress works it over hard, trying to make Cheney look bad because he’d choose Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell. Who in their right mind would choose Powell the Backstabber?
Greg Sargent at Plumb Line gets himself all excited when he finds out White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney. The report supposedly says it’s “difficult to determine conclusively whether interrogations have provided information critical to interdicting specific imminent attacks.” Just because it’s difficult, doesn’t mean it’s impossible, duh. Another secret the White House will give to the terrorists for free. How quaint.
Josh Marshall at TPM is so hot and bothered he decided to share a Dick Cheney Deep Thought, “Megalomania is a hard drug to kick.” Save it for twitter, Marshall.
Heather at Crooks and Liars thinks she really has something in taking advantage of Cheney and Limbaugh’s negative poll numbers. Take a look-see at Mary Matalin: Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh Exemplify Conservatism. Heather seems to think that Republican policies have been rejected by a large portion of the electorate. Yep. That would be the self-identified “Democrats.” Brilliant like a stone light bulb.
Hilzoy at Political Animal gets dramatically offended by Cheney and decries, “How Dare He?”
Dick Cheney forfeited the right to lecture anyone on their willingness to sacrifice American lives the day he decided to deceive us into an unnecessary war.
Please stop with your Superior Moral SuperForce, Hilzoy, you’re making the chickens nervous.
HuffPo: How DARE Amazon Mispronounce the Name of The One
HuffPo gets wacky with it (as of 9:32 AM 5/8/2009):
The NERVE!
Here we have the implication that Amazon does not worship (as everyone should for their own good) the Left’s One True Living God With Glistening Pecs: Emperor Obama. How could Amazon NOT consider the EXTREME IMPORTANCE of ensuring the Great One’s name is pronounced correctly? Only those who harbor RAAACIST HATRED would overlook such a detail.
It’s clear that Amazon is on the Angry Left’s hit list, especially after the GLBT book delisting debacle. HuffPo links to a NYT article and even the article acknowledges another instance of the Kindle mispronouncing:
Kindle owners in Boston, however, may want to avoid the sports pages for now. The Kindle pronounces “Celtics” with an initial hard “c.”
This must mean that Amazon harbors deep antipathy toward the Boston Celtics too!
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos debunks the idea that there’s anything amiss:
When asked about the error in pronouncing the president’s name, Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive of Amazon.com, said, with his trademark laugh, “that’s unfortunate.”
The next day, an Amazon spokesman, Andrew Herdener, wrote in an e-mail message that Nuance Communications, the Massachusetts-based company that licenses its text-to-speech engine to Amazon for the Kindle, had added the correct pronunciation of the president’s name.
Once again, the Angry Left harms their credibility.
Jonathan Addler: Jenny McCarthy Is A “Bimbo”
Goes without saying that Jonathan Addler needs some better manners:
Oprah Winfrey has decided to promote the career — and by extension, the dangerous and lunatic ravings — of professional-bimbo-turned-anti-vaccine-activist Jenny McCarthy.
Why Addler thinks it couth to call McCarthy a bimbo is beyond me and beneath respect. This is the kind of snark that gives the right a bad name.
Get a clue Addler, please stop this kind of behavior.
Top 20 Most Influential Conservative Blogs
At long last I have assembled a list of top conservative blogs. It’s based on Technorati, Alexa, and Wikio rankings plus my well-honed intuition. It is subject to change if I happen to discover another blog and/or the rankings change.
- Michelle Malkin – About
- The Corner – National Review
- Hot Air – About
- NewsBusters – Media Research Center | About
- American Thinker – About
- Power Line – John H. Hinderaker
- Red State – Erick Erickson | About
- The Volokh Conspiracy – Eugene Volokh
- Instapundit – Glenn Reynolds
- Gateway Pundit – Unknown Identity
- Marginal Revolution – Tyler Cowen | Alex Tabarrok
- Big Hollywood – About
- Ace of Spades HQ – About
- Reason Magazine/Hit & Run – About
- Weekly Standard/The Blog – Michael Goldfarb
- Jihad Watch – Robert Spencer
- Atlas Shrugs – Pamela Geller
- The Jawa Report – Rusty Shackleford
- Stop The ACLU – About
- Right Wing News – About
Ten Worthy Mentions
Liberal Trolls On Twitter Dishonor Jack Kemp
Taking a moment here to immortalize the small minority of base liberals on Twitter who revel in the death of a conservative.
First we have this jem, a combo ReTweet of two snipes at Jack Kemp:
The trolls feel quite justified in being base because, as they say, the conservatives did it first:
I’m sure some base minority of conservatvies did say awful things about Kennedy and Wellstone, yet any sane person knows that if someone wrongs you it does not give you just cause to wrong them.
Trolls will be trolls, great examples of How Not to Be Human.
