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March 31, 2008

The Real Hillary Bosnia Story

From Peggy Noonan's Getting Mrs. Clinton WSJ piece:

What struck me as the best commentary on the Bosnia story came from a poster called GI Joe who wrote in to a news blog: "Actually Mrs. Clinton was too modest. I was there and saw it all. When Mrs. Clinton got off the plane the tarmac came under mortar and machine gun fire. I was blown off my tank and exposed to enemy fire. Mrs. Clinton without regard to her own safety dragged me to safety, jumped on the tank and opened fire, killing 50 of the enemy." Soon a suicide bomber appeared, but Mrs. Clinton stopped the guards from opening fire. "She talked to the man in his own language and got him [to] surrender. She found that he had suffered terribly as a result of policies of George Bush. She defused the bomb vest herself." Then she turned to his wounds. "She stopped my bleeding and saved my life. Chelsea donated the blood."

Heh.

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March 23, 2008

Happy Easter

I hope you have a wonderful Easter. Enjoy the family you are with and think about those you can't be with.

 

This is the day the Lord has made, Alleluia. Let us be glad and rejoice in it, Alleluia.

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March 20, 2008

Vacation Time

Headed to Florida for Easter so I'll be taking a break for a few days. Looking forward to 80 degrees and sunny. Oh don't be jealous! I hope to be back blogging once I'm settled in down there. As always, thanks for taking the time to check in!

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March 18, 2008

The Cult of Cheetos

I have a love-hate relationship with commercials.  I try to ignore most of them because I find they usually cater to the lowest denominator when it comes to humor or sexual innuendo.  Some latch on to a trendy or social theme, being green for example, and play up their product as a way of being closer to that fad.  Others are just annoying because they're poorly conceived.  But then once in a while I catch a commercial that sends a message I find offensive, whether that be morally or intellectually.  These are the ones I love, because they are the ones that give me insight to the perceptions corporation and advertisers have of us as mainly consumers bust also as people.

This brings me to the Cheetos Laundromat commercial:

 

Very curious that a company associates its product with vandalism and destruction of personal property.  Hey Felicia, that's her car out there too, how about you slash her tires?

Another embodiment of the self-centered, me first society.  And as the commercial ends with the young woman standing trance-like, staring at the viewer, the phrase "join us" beckons.  The cult of me first.

Horror fans might recall a scene in Evil Dead 2 where the haunted cabin calls hero Ash to join us.  Did Cheetos get their influence from Evil Dead?  Probably not, but the message is the same isn't it?  Join us in our wicked ways, it'll be fun!

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March 17, 2008

Breaking: New Gov. Patterson Admits Affair

Really folks, you can't make this stuff up.

The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.

In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.

In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with "a woman other than my wife," beginning in 1999.

Oy!

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Happy St. Patrick's Day

But you may want to put down that beer.  As all you good Catholics know, this is Holy Week, and we really shouldn't be partying.  Though I have a feeling the bars will be full anyway.

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March 13, 2008

Spitzer's Hooker Revealed

If you haven't seen it already, The Smoking Gun has photos of Spitzer's hooker.

The NY Post has a profile.

**Update**

The NY Post also has a pictorial.

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March 12, 2008

Langone: I Know It

The New York Post is saying Spitzer has been using prostitutes for at least six years.  So what happens when you have enemies who have the funds and connections to know everything about you?  Ken Langone might know.

I know for sure, he went himself to a post office and bought $2,800 worth of mail orders to settle the hooker...  I know it.  I know someone who was standing in back of him on line.

How much could it cost to hire someone to tail him every day?  And there were probably people waiting in line to rat on Spitzer.

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March 10, 2008

Spitzer Involved in Prostitution Ring

The NY Times is reporting New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer is admitting to being involved in a prostitution ring.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.

Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He is set to make an announcement about 2:15 this afternoon at his Manhattan office.

Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.

Mr. Clean, eh?

More after the press conference.

Perhaps we should add an item to the checklist?

**Update**

NBC is reporting that he may be connected through cell phone records.

FOX News is reporting sources saying Spitzer will resign.

Around 3:13 he released a short personal statement apologizing to his family.  Nothing on a resignation.

Oh Governor, client number 9?

Karol at Alarming News has a look between the lines of Spitzer's apology.

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Barak's Spiritual Advisor

IBD has an eye opening profile of the man Barak Obama claimed was his "spiritual advisor", Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Their close relationship is especially disturbing. By any objective measure, Wright is an America-hating race-monger. He blames practically every ill on "white America," including 9/11. Just this past November, he honored bigoted Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan with a "lifetime achievement" award presented in Wright's name.

Wright gushed in a cover profile of Farrakhan in his church's magazine that his old pal Farrakhan — who has bashed whites as "blue-eyed devils" and Jews as "bloodsuckers" — should be a model for blacks because he "truly epitomized greatness."

In the '80s, the two traveled to Libya together to pay homage to terrorist Muammar Qaddafi.

Wright could have a direct line to the the potential President's ear .  A scary thought.

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March 08, 2008

I Don't Believe What I Just Read

You know when you read something so mind-boggling in its idiocy you just can't believe someone would have audacity to write it?  Not mad at first because you must have read it wrong and then you think it must be a joke and then you realize, yes this person is a complete waste.

My father pointed out what someone wrote in to the New York Daily News' Voice of the People section on March 2, 2008.

Campaign trail III

Brooklyn: Wake up, America. John McCain is no war hero. He sat out the war in a prison camp. He didn't do any fighting.

J. Montana

To that my father wrote back, however it wasn't published, "If it ever becomes necessary for me to defend my country, I hope I am in the company of  non-war heroes like John McCain."

Well said dad, well said.

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March 07, 2008

Separate but Accommodating

Is it a matter of accommodation or just being afraid of those who threaten with riots and decapitations?

Take a look at Evan Coyne Maloney's rundown of Harvard bending to Sharia law.

He quotes Mark Steyn: Forty years ago, advocating separate drinking fountains made you a racist. Today, advocating separate taxi cabs or separate swimming sessions makes you a multiculturalist.

Walking backwards with blindfolds on.

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March 06, 2008

Celebrity September 11 Conspiracy Club

Rubber Chickens abound!  The Washington Times takes a look at the growing Celebrity September 11 Conspiracy Club.  But as the article points out, there is barely a blink when one Hollywood's own spews this nonsese.  Possibly because anything that is anti Bush is ok by them.

Yet in a liberal Hollywood where to express skepticism about man-made global warming is to be labeled — with all its obvious connotations — a "denier," Miss Cotillard's insinuation that the U.S. government was complicit — by its silence, if nothing else — in the destruction of the Twin Towers and the murder of 3,000 people has elicited nary a peep in condemnation.

Where, one is compelled to ask, is the outrage on the left?

The article quotes David Horowitz explaining that believing in these conspiracy theories is an act of denial.  A conclusion I wrote about a while back in my post, Conspiracy Becomes Mainstream.  In it I wrote:  It's easier to believe your government did this because you can vote them out of power, they can be held accountable, you can scream, spit venom, and call for impeachments without fear of retribution. It is easier to sleep at night when there really aren't fanatics waiting to blow your morning flight out of the sky.

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New Feature - Top Stories

I've decided to put a section on the right called Top Stories.  This will be for links to news items that catch my eye during the day but I either haven't the time to create a new posting or I feel the link itself is enough.

I hope this will allow me to keep up with what may be going on during the day even when I am pressed for time.  And please feel free to send in any links that you find interesting.

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Bombing at Times Square Recruiting Center

Shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday, March 6, an explosive device detonated at an military recruiting center in Times Square.  There were no casualties, but the explosion was strong enough to shake the Marriott hotel four blocks away where guests on the 44th floor could feel the concussion of the blast.

The recruiting station, located on a traffic island surrounded by Broadway theaters and chain restaurants, has occasionally been the site of anti-war demonstrations, ranging from silent vigils to loud rallies.

Violence against military recruiters has been increasing lately as highlighted by Melanie Morgan.

Code Pink, an anti-war group that gave more than $600,000 to terrorists’ families in Iraq, is calling for anti-military agitators to escalate attacks on U.S. Government offices where the military work with potential recruits on their futures. The group outlines ways for followers to terrorize recruiters, shut down recruiting stations and stop people from exercising the Constitutional rights to pursue their life’s goals.

Anti-war and anarchists groups have already attacked military recruiting centers in Washington, D.C., Berkeley, Calif.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Santa Monica, Calif.; Toledo, Ohio; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Haverhill, Mass., and New York, N.Y. This is a partial list.

It wouldn't be that difficult to watch these groups take the next step from vandalism to outright terrorism.  Ecoterrorists have taken to burning and bombing so it isn't much of a step.

We live in a country with a fully volunteer military where men and women choose to serve and protect our freedoms.  Instead of being thanked for this, they're characterized by an anti-American left as murderous half-wits with so little going for them they're effectively forced to join the military.  Yet their characterizations have done little to diminish enlistment, or sway the overwhelming respect the majority of people have for those men and women serving.

**Update**  CBS is reporting that a hooded man on a bike was seen acting is a suspicion manner right before the blast.

Mayor Bloomberg had this to say, ""The fact that this appears deliberatey directed at the recruiting station insults every one of our brave men and women in uniform stationed around the world fighting to defend our freedoms and the things that we hold so dear."

Click the image for the news conference.

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March 04, 2008

Dungeon Master Gary Gygax, 1938-2008

Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D died Tuesday, March 4, 2008.

Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and one of the fathers of tabletop role-playing games, died on Tuesday at the age of 69. He had suffered from heart problems.

The news was first announced on the message board of Troll Lord Games, the publisher of Gygax's most recent works. It has since been directly confirmed by the company, which will post an announcement on its Web site later Tuesday.

I spent many hours of imagination filled fun playing D&D with some of my best friends.  Thank you Gary for giving us geeks an outlet,

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March 03, 2008

Some Peace and Quiet

My question is, do they have a handheld version?

Teenagers who hang out inside one apartment building in Jamaica, Queens are getting an earful these days.

A new security device called "The Mosquito" has been installed in the lobby of a building on 170th St. where there have been chronic problems with noisy teens.

The wall-mounted device emits a high-frequency screech that can only be heard by people aged 13 to 25. Most older people cannot hear it.

My subway ride home may be more tolerable from time to time.

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