What World is Edwards In?

Democrat John Edwards Wednesday repudiated the notion that there is a "global war on terror," calling it an ideological doctrine advanced by the Bush administration that has strained American military resources and emboldened terrorists.

Is this guy sniffing too much of his hair spray? This the first sentence of this article about how John Edwards intents to "confront" terrorism. As you read through it, it is apparent that he intends to not confront terrorism but to manage it.

Let me give Mr Hair a history lesson. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor we declared "war" on the Japanese and the Germans, who had nothing to do with the bombing.

Bring us forward to the year 2000, someone attacks the US Cole. What would his Hairness call this; maybe... an act of war?

What would he call terrorist bombings in Tanzania and Kenya? What about the nuisance that occurred on 9/11/01? "An ideological doctrine"?

This is why I could really never support a Democrat for any kind of office... they can't get real and address the most serious problems because they don't even have the guts to call out evil for what it really is. How can you effectively propose a solution to any problem when you don't have the guts to even identify it.

I have my problems with the Bush Administration for a variety of reasons but on this issue... they get it.

Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watch -- yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch.

We can't stop short. If we stop now -- leaving terror camps intact and terror states unchecked -- our sense of security would be false and temporary. History has called America and our allies to action, and it is both our responsibility and our privilege to fight freedom's fight. (Applause.)

For those who don't have a memory beyond last year's American Idol winner, take a few minutes and read the 2002 State of the Union in it's entirety. Maybe Mr. Hairspray could learn a few things.

Irony can be ironic

Isn't it interesting that people most likely to ridicule people of faith are using a replica of Noah's Ark as a global warming prevention tool.

What's next, a pack of atheists getting together to help the poor because God tells us to.

That's OK because I'm sure the wood they're using for the ark didn't actually come from trees because that would mean reducing those things that help CO2 emissions.

It is day 40 of the Sheryl Crow Carbon footprint tour. I saw Sheryl on a hair coloring commercial last night. I'm sure they didn't use any electricity on the shoot. I was also wondering if the tan she has from either the tanning booth or the spray on variety is carbon neutral.

Denocrats back down

To the left, Harry Reid assumes the traditional democratic posture.

The Congressional Democrats dropped their demand for an Iraq troop pull out date.

The way I see this, the Democrats played themselves into a can't win situation. If Bush (or the subsequent administration) succeeds in installing a stable government in Iraq, the Democrats will be seen as defeatist. But even if things go badly, I believe it will be the Democrats bearing the brunt of a defeatist policy.

I would offer that history proved it was liberal defeatist policy in Vietnam and subsequent Democratic leadership that resulted in the rise of Jimmy Carter to the presidency.

After Ronald Reagan proposed that we were a can do, not an impotent, country, Republicans have been the dominant party ever since.

By the way, if you are one of those wimps in congress changing their votes what do you tell the family of the last man to die for a "mistake". You have all the courage of a rabbit and you've totally set yourself up for it.

Gun Control Lunacy

While I was in Florida, I read about a local debate as to banning guns in one community.

If you are one of those who believe that we should ban guns in schools, daycares, churches, bars, etc. are you a proponent of a gun ban in your home?

My guess is that you would probably say yes.

If you do say yes, then would you please post a sign on your home's points of entrance (front door, rear door, garage doors, etc.) indicating that your home is a gun free zone and that there are no guns within the house and no guns permitted in the home.

After you do that, give me a shout out and let me know what happens.

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Why Attend School - Return of the Conservative
Amnesty Takes - Porkopolis
You are not Alone - Ejectejecteject
Murtha's Ethic Violations - Liberally Conservative
How to Make Love to a Florida Fan - Everyday Should be Saturday

Carter the Clown

To followup on Gordon's comments. Jimmy Carter is a joke. He was a joke as a President and he's a joke as an ex-President. My question is why does anything he say get airtime? Has the guy been right about anything in his life... ever?

So Jimmy Carter calls the Bush administration "the worst in history." This from the man who wrecked the world's greatest economy and made a nuclear Iran and North Korea possible.

We didn't think we'd see the day when a president-elect of France would be more appreciative of America's role in the world than one of our own former presidents.

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: Profile In Incompetence

The Ethanol Myth

John Stossel: When everyone in politics jumps on a bandwagon like ethanol, I start to wonder if there's something wrong with it. And there is. Except for that fact that ethanol comes from corn, nothing you're told about it is true.

A simple question first. If ethanol's so good, why does it need government subsidies? Shouldn't producers be eager to make it, knowing that thrilled consumers will reward them with profits?

But consumers won't reward them, because without subsidies, ethanol would cost much more than gasoline. The claim that using ethanol will save energy is another myth.

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Q.O.T.D. II

"We're buying the Reds to win. Anything else is unacceptable."

-Cincinnati Red's owner, Bob Castellini (January 2006)

Bengals National Limelight

Why doesn't Paris Hilton just go ahead and start dating a Cincinnati Bengal? Seriously. Then we can all save time and read the daily celebrity blotter on one newspaper page.

The Bengals were a joke in the 1990s for their terrible performances on the field. Cincinnati returned to competitive respectability in the aughts, but what some of their players have done off the field is much more embarrassing than the previous decade's blunders.

SportingNews Iyer's SportingBlog: Bengals' off-field joke

Red's Malaise

I'm not as big of a baseball fan as Midas is but I will say this city really sucks when the Reds are dreadful.

On one hand, I can appreciate the ownership's patience when it comes to this team. In the past, the team has been more than willing to trade what few prospects are in the organization only to see the team end up as an also ran.

At the same time, the ownership group has to get the frustration fans have for a team that's not been in real contention since 1999 and be candid with the fans as to the plan.

Frankly, I see the big problem with this team is that the big money players have the collective hearts of a rutabaga. When these guys are just mailing it in, what do you expect the lesser players to do?

I'm not a proponent of firing Narron just for the sake of firing him only to replace him with Bob Buffoon or Dave Miley or Dave Shula or Bruce Coslett or Dick LeBoBo, etc.

I'm guessing that the team did what they could to make this year's team as competitive as possible without bringing up Homer Bailey. I believe they want to wait until mid season so the team basically extends his arbitration eligibility for a year.

None the less, it's going to be a long shitty summer once again in the city of Cincinnati.

Hopefully we'll get a couple of riots going to make it somewhat interesting.

Gordon's Back

After a few days in sunny Fl, I'm back. Only to be greeted by more of the same malaise I left behind.

I tried to make my time away a media free vacation but I couldn't help myself with the local paper.

Unfortunately, coming home, pinned on one of those Delta school buses with wings, I had to look in the back of the seat only to find a Time and a Sky Magazine. Trying to figure out which had more journalistic integrity I decided to give Time a shot.

Right on the front cover is the picture of Lord Al, media proclaimed global warming czar.

In the article, he rips the coarseness of the American debate, saying that serious discussion about serious issues has devolved to 30 second sound bites

how the American marketplace of ideas has gradually devolved into a home-shopping network of 30-second ads and mall-tested phrases, a huckster's paradise that sells simulated participation to a public that has all but lost the ability to engage.

Yet within one page is his famous cliche....

he laid out the overwhelming evidence that human activity has given the earth a raging fever, then urged the people to respond—"If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate the baby's flame retardant! If the crib's on fire, you save the baby!"

Pot, Kettle, Black

To make my ride even bumpier than a bus in air I came to this one.

He has logged countless miles in the past four years, crisscrossing the planet to present his remarkably powerful slide show and the Oscar-winning documentary that's based on it, An Inconvenient Truth, to groups of every size and description. He flies commercial most of the time to use less CO₂ and buys offsets to maintain a carbon-neutral life.

When is anyone in the media calling this crap out... Once CO2 has been released you can't take it back. You can build all the solar farms and windmills around the country but the fossil fuels burned to get this guy's ass from Buffalo to LA can't be replaced. It's the total hypocrisy around this whole issue and one of the reasons I don't take it serious.

So the moral to this story is if your trapped on a plane and you need some hard news, go with the Sky Magazine and maybe the Sky Mall Catalog if you can squeeze one from one of those sky waitresses.

Hate Crime

Mary Cayze was recently charged with stealing $9.35 from the blind owner of a convenience store inside the Hamilton County Courthouse (of all places).

She's looking at one year in jail.

Question. If you are a proponent of a hate crime should Ms. Sayze be charged with some kind of hate crime? Maybe add a couple of years to the sentence.

After all, she did target and steal money from a person who really couldn't defend themselves.

If you are an opponent of hate crimes legislation, how is this crime anymore deplorable or heinous than stealing ten dollars out of a non-blind person's wallet?

Carter Rips Bush :)

Jimmy Carter calls President Bush the "worst in history".

Yet another endorsement for a job well done (see Detroit).

I fall back on the red county/blue county comparison. "Red Counties" have lower unemployment, lower crime, better schools, and fewer people in poverty then the "Blue Counties".

You tell me, where would you rather live? If it's blue, you'll have guys like Jimmy Carter and the Detroit City council running your communities. Get the bars on your windows.

Two America Edwards

Presidential candidate, John Edwards, charged UC Davis group $55,000 for a speech about poverty.

When is the media going to get this guy is about the little guy. I'm sure he gave all the money to charity.

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Got Gas?

Can't go a day without talking gas...

Democrats, seething at the injustice of gasoline prices, have sprung to the aid of embattled motorists. So resolute are Democrats about defending the downtrodden, they are undeterred by the fact that motorists are driving more than ever. Gasoline consumption has increased 2.14 percent during the last year.

Nancy Pelosi vowed, as politicians have been doing since President Nixon set the fashion, to achieve "energy independence." Such vows are, as Soviet grain production quotas used to be, irrational reflexes that no serious person takes seriously.

George Will: Let The Market Do It's Job

Immigration "Reform"

The bipartisan immigration "reform" legislation pushed by Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Jon Kyl and others, applauded by Michael Chertoff, the secretary of Homeland Security, and Carlos Gutierrez, the secretary of Commerce, is a disaster in the making. That is not so slowly becoming abundantly clear.

It's a disaster for national security, for keeping Islamist jihadists out of the country, for exploding the costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, for preserving the rule of law, and for that quaint principle called national sovereignty.

Washington Times: Immigration debacle

Pot Candy

At least you have to give this guy credit for imagination...

It was a big enough bummer for Kenneth Affolter when he was sentenced to more than five years in prison for making pot-laced treats and soft drinks. Now he faces the wrath of a candy giant.

The Hershey Co. has sued Affolter, 40, for giving his marijuana goodies names like Stoney Rancher, Rasta Reese's and Keef Kat.

Hershey sues man who made pot candy

Q.O.T.D.

"We're buying the Reds to win. Anything else is unacceptable."

-Cincinnati Red's owner, Bob Castellini (January 2006)

Only in Cleveland

A wrong turn sent between 200 to 300 runners off course in today's Rite Aid Cleveland 10K race. So instead of running 6.1 miles some of them ran close to 9 miles. And now the results of the 10K race are in chaos.

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