Someone recently posted two inflammatory rants, without any substantive underpinning, including in each a laundry list of insults and snide remarks directed at conservatives and "rightwingers." Nothing in either article invited any "debate" as they were nothing more than an individual ventilating his/her spleen by spouting opinions disparaging of others. This someone then took offense when some, including me, replied in kind, blacklisting me and apparently a few others for alleged "person...

I watched Obama's speech last night (prime time, I was home).  I thought it was an excellent speech, well-delivered.  I felt a certain degree of pride that a Black American was delivering such a speech, in acceptance of his nomination as a major party's candidate for President, on the anniversary of MLK's 'I have a dream' speech.  As an orator, he's an impressive guy.  I was especially impressed at his challenge to fathers in his own ethnic community to take greater responsib...

I spotted this artful summation of the substantive differences between Democrats & Republicans today (the article title is just a tease, ha!) From Peggy Noonan's DNC blog: Democrats in the end speak most of, and seem to hold the most sympathy for, the beset-upon single mother without medical coverage for her children, and the soldier back from the war who needs more help with post-traumatic stress disorder. They express the most sympathy for the needy, the yearning, the marginalized a...

I wondered after reading the linked article.  But that would be ascribing way too much Machiavelli to Jackson & Obama.  Interesting notion, though.

How frickin' stupid do Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel and Hilldog think we are?  Apparently pretty frickin' stupid. I despair for our despotic future with "leaders" like these.  More like snakes than leaders.  I's regusted, I tell ya.

Bob Novak has finally broken his silence and revealed that noone gave him Valerie Plame's name. His primary source, who remains unnamed, apparently made an inadvertent & passsing reference to Wilson's wife having had a role in his getting the Niger assignment during the course of a lengthy interview that covered a number of other subjects. Novak picked up on the comment, looked up Wilson's wife's name in Who's Who (there's tight cover, for ya), called the CIA & asked if she worked there, was...

I was listening to various radio outlets today and could not believe my ears when several of the hourly newscasts actually led with a story about how much hot water Scott McClellan was in today over the White House "delaying" the announcement of Cheney's hunting fiasco for... 24 HOURS . 24 hours . My God, Jim... the Federation could fall apart over something like this. The mind boggles.

The latest thoroughly predictable development from the left: After publicly demanding an investigation into the government's collective unpreparedness for Katrina just 2 weeks ago ( Link ), Reid today, through his spokesperson, questioned just why the government is so damned prepared for Rita all of a sudden and called for an independent commission to find out ( Link ). Maybe there was more to that stroke than they're letting on. Just a thought. Cheers, Daiwa

"He..Hello? Is this the CIA?" "Oh, good. May I speak to someone in the Covert Agent Identification Section, please?" "Yes, the Covert Agent Identification Section." "You don't? Are you certain about that? There's this fella's wife who I'm told is a CIA employee and I really need to know if she's a secret agent in case someone asks me a question about her husband. I'm pretty sure she works there and I figured you folks would know." "No, I just know her husband's name is Wilson...

While the drooling media types who can't stop the tingling in their legs were ' awed ' by the quickness of his reflexes (as was POTUS himself) when he swatted that fly, it gave me the creeps.  Nothing before has so graphically demonstrated BO's detached arrogance and narcissism.  Watch the clip and decide for yourself. 

I just saw a commercial, a straight-out commercial, for FINRA .  Slick, obviously expensive, in terms both of production and air-time. WTF are they doing spending my money on commercials?  Are we really at the point where government agencies can lobby us in this way, with our own effin' money? Where is FINRA's IG, for cryin' out loud? EDIT:  DOH!  How dumb am I?  Pretty dumb.  FINRA's private (sort of).  NEVERMIND. But wait - they are advertising...

All I can say is he came up with this in a wet dream.

I laughed my ass off at this juicy little attempt by MSNBC to be 'fair & balanced.' This woman actually came at this from the perspective that Palin has a problem with Letterman , and she wanted to know why.  From a guy, no less, who had interviewed Palin. Was this lady an extra in Clueless?  Is that the resume jewel that the talent-spotters at MSNBC picked up on?  I thought about posting this in the humor section, then decided it was more sad than funny. If you ha...

Lead story on HuffPo today.  BIG BOLD RED CAPS - they're shocked, I tell you, shocked. Apparently, someone was taking notes when Robert Reich said stimulus money shouldn't go to help southern white construction workers.

BO, circa February 2009: "You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime."