tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52458782024-03-07T10:40:06.110-08:00LangtryA shout-out for personal responsibility, and the return of moral clarity.Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-45716307244836431502007-11-20T06:47:00.000-08:002007-11-20T06:57:44.842-08:00Perhaps the most ill-chosen sports metaphor of all time ...'Bama Football coach compares team's 21-14 loss to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. I kid you not:http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/7467808?MSNHPHMASaban says 'Bama loss a 'catastrophic event'TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's latest loss has coach Nick Saban searching for ways to motivate his team.Citing the 9-11 terrorist attacks and Pearl Harbor, Saban said Monday his team must rebound like America didSharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-24936043776663031502007-10-16T09:30:00.000-07:002007-10-16T09:46:21.156-07:00Gore's Nobel No Boost to Presidential BidWell this must take the gilt off the Nobel Peace Prize for the former Veep.Despite winning the exceedingly misnamed gong, Al Gore has seen no boost in the number of people who think he ought to run for President. The Gallup Organization, which skews consistently Left in its polling, claims the following results:Asked if they would like to see the former vice president run for president in 2008, Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-66029673492938180852007-09-20T08:47:00.000-07:002007-09-20T09:11:20.247-07:00Mexico pays to educate Mexicans in the U.S.: won't do so at homeFrom the W-T-F? Department: http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_091907_education_mexican_curriculum_.ede64566.htmlSome Oregon schools adopting Mexican curriculumSome Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico's public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided free by Mexico to teach math, science and even U.S. Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-60382450784144253692007-09-19T11:46:00.000-07:002007-09-19T12:18:17.657-07:00Jesse Jackson is a race-baiting scumbagYes, I said it.Anyone who "attends" here regularly (and I really do wish you'd comment!) knows I am no fan of Senator Barack Obama. I think his candidacy is a "Cult of Personality", as his statements on both foreign policy and domestic issues betray his not being ready to assume the mantle of the President of The United States. A lesser quibble of mine is his lamentable tendency to play the Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-52404884022681380012007-08-21T07:43:00.000-07:002007-08-21T07:53:45.664-07:00If September's Vogue is 840 pages, and 727 pages are adverts ...shouldn't the magazine be sold at a discount? I love how the cover says 840 pages of fearless fashion (see here http://holycandy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/siennamiller-vogue.jpg ) ** thanks to Candy @ www.holycandy.com ** when, in fact, I'm getting exactly 113 pages of content created by something other than their advertizers (how much of that is Table of Contents, Editor's Note, and Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-18307926054637416642007-08-03T13:56:00.000-07:002007-08-03T14:14:14.794-07:00James Lileks on the Minneapolis Bridge CollapseMinneapolis Star-Tribune columnist (and eminent Blogger) James Lileks has a continuously updated column that's a must-read for anyone who is interested in the Minneapolis I-35 Bridge collapse from a local perspective. I have mixed feelings about this story: I don't, for example, believe that the United States is living on borrowed time with regards to its road and bridges infrastructure. Some Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-74229547565639860132007-07-26T09:56:00.000-07:002007-07-26T10:11:43.261-07:00A Question about "Racial Profiling"Drudge linked to an article in Yahoo! News about pressure being put on Maricopa Country, Arizona Sheriff Arpaio to end a phone hotline for reporting information about illegal immigrants. Latino "leaders" anf "faith-based" groups are angry, saying such a hotline is an exercise in "Racial Profiling". PHOENIX - Latino leaders and faith-based organizations want Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-46819729869645767132007-07-19T11:49:00.000-07:002007-07-19T12:00:37.306-07:00"It's A Different World"Granted, my blogging has been less than light lately. What brings me out of semi-retirement? The alternative universe lives in by John Forbes Kerry.Via Breitbart.com http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=3274, comes the amazing perspective of Sen. Kerry on South Vietnam post-U.S. pullout: There was never a bloodbath after the U.S. left.I kid you f**king not.Sen. John Kerry said during a C-Span appearance Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-85424524892030090432007-05-16T07:23:00.004-07:002007-05-16T07:34:58.967-07:00Fred Thompson Delivers a Lethal Smackdown to Michael Moore! Thompson to Moore from breitbarttv on VimeoOver at Wizbang I came upon the story of Fred Thompson's response to Michael Moore's challenge to a debate (a a damn shame it is that Fred doesn't have time for it ... I'd pay Barbra Streisand concert ticket prices to see Fred mop the floor with Michael!). The challenge came after Thompson wrote a rebuttal to Michael Moore's newest Mock-umentary, "Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-79082717754503453452007-03-10T10:12:00.003-08:002007-05-02T06:57:44.352-07:00Does anyone in DC remember the Marielitos?Kim Priestap has a great post over at WizBangBlog regarding a proposal to detain the Guantanamo Bay facility and replace it with a US-based detention facility at Quantico, Virginia. As Kim states:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Democrat: Bring Guantanamo Detainees to the USWhat a stunningly bad idea. James D. Moran (D-VA) wants to bring the Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-21525365742623067852007-03-05T15:59:00.003-08:002007-03-05T17:16:57.395-08:00Project(RED) is a FailureAccording to this article in Advertising Age, the celebrity-centered Project Red is a miserable failure (http://adage.com/article?article_id=115287). As author Mya Frazier notes:It's been a year since the first Red T-shirts hit Gap shelves in London, and a parade of celebrity-splashed events has followeed: Steven Spielberg smiling down from billboards in San Francisco; Christy Turlington Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-76285269136506943992007-02-18T08:02:00.000-08:002007-02-18T08:32:08.951-08:00Good News from the Anti-Celebrity FrontMy friends know that I am offended by the degree to which our culture worships celebrity, followed closely by its worship of "celebrities". Yes, there is a distinction: we take fame to be the greatest of life's achievements. If it is we ourselves who are famous, all the better, but we'll gladly follow those who have it if we ourselves aren't the possessors of its elusive charms.The hallmark of Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-22946645548317410572007-02-11T18:33:00.000-08:002007-02-11T18:58:19.753-08:00Ellen Goodman: Denying Global Warming = Denying The HolocaustI wish I could say that I was shocked by the extent to which people will politicize Global Warming into something that no longer bears any resemblance to reality.I wish I could say Ellen Goodman was an intelligent woman, and not a tool.Her latest, in the Boston Globe, is among the most astonishing examples of moral equivalence I've ever seen: in this essay, Goodman equates denying Global Warming Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1170956761583092452007-02-08T09:22:00.000-08:002007-02-18T07:58:25.172-08:00Is Barack Obama a 'Cult of Personality' phenomenon?Here in Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama has been The Celebrity Politician for a several years.I'll be honest in that I've always found some of the public regard for him to border on prejudice, and that hasn't altered with Obama's growing public profile. In fact, I think it's gotten worse: witness Joe Biden's controversial (and inherently, condescendingly biased) endorsement of Obama as a "clean, Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1128968042050726682005-10-10T10:50:00.000-07:002005-10-10T11:46:14.946-07:00HELP: My nightmare is becoming My Reality!So what's my problem? It's nothing monumental, like Bill Clinton's moved in next door and he shows up at odd hours (and little clothing) asking if I can spare a couple of eggs. No, it's far simpler, and thank heaven, far more likely to happen than that nightmare scenario.It's that my beloved New York Yankees may well end up playing my hometown favorite, the Chicago White Sox. Some might look Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1128011547184202112005-09-29T09:15:00.000-07:002005-09-29T09:34:12.623-07:00Do Democrats Have a Message?One of the most ubiquitous phrases in politics is the concept of "Message". One is either "On Message" or "Off Message", meaning that you are successfully articulating the party's unifying theme or position. But what if you haven't any "message" at all?The Denziens of D.U. might quibble with him, but Howard Fineman of Newsweek & MSNBC makes a strong case for how not having a "big idea" can Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1124807906764659062005-08-23T07:16:00.000-07:002005-08-26T13:02:56.756-07:00Conservatives can (and should) fight like LiberalsBrendan Miniter's piece in the Wall Street Journal online brings up a topic I have admittedly mixeed feelings about. The rules of political discourse have changed. The media deals in "soundbites": terse and shrill, they are designed to make the biggest point with the fewest words (not my forte, I know). Soundbites have evolved, or devolved IMO, into the verbal equivalent of smashmouth footballSharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1124737652406077122005-08-22T11:47:00.000-07:002005-08-22T12:12:36.790-07:00Christopher Hitchens on Cindy Sheehan & A.M.A.From last week comes Christopher Hitchens' assessment of "Gold Star Mom" Cindy Sheehan, courtesy of Slate. A.M.A., if you are unfamiliar, isn't the American Medical Association. Our newest acronym comes via lush extradinaire, Maureen Dowd, who unilaterally conferred upon Mother Sheehan "Absolute Moral Authority" by dint of having lost a child in Iraq. Somehow, I don't think MoDo would have Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1124488154162410622005-08-19T14:07:00.000-07:002005-08-22T11:47:20.016-07:00Can long-term addicts truly be rehabilitated?Quite frankly, I don't think so. It's entirely unrealistic to think that long-term substance abusers/adicts can be rehabilitated. Anyone who makes a lifestyle out of alcohol, drugs, or other self-abusive behaviors is an addict, and many if not most addicts move on to something else once they have stopped using. People who know addicts know what I mean. Too often they can tell therapists, the Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1115849172764404532005-05-11T15:05:00.000-07:002005-05-11T15:11:21.153-07:00What issue will be the undoing of Tony Blair?Iain Murray: "Europe Adds Headache to Blair's Post-Election Hangover"I like Tony Blair. He's young, bright, earnest and articulate in ways many of us hoped the younger "new guard" within the Clinton administration would be. I also feel oddly indebted to him: his support of the United States in our efforts to dismantle terrorism and prevent another September 11th is not to be dismissed as Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1115849127320174422005-05-11T14:39:00.000-07:002005-05-11T15:05:27.416-07:00Kyoto and it's undoing of the EUIain Murray: "Europe Adds Headache to Blair's Post-Election Hangover"I like Tony Blair. He's young, bright, earnest and articulate in ways many of us hoped the younger "new guard" within the Clinton administration would be. I also feel oddly indebted to him: his support of the United States in our efforts to dismantle terrorism and prevent another September 11th is not to be dismissed as Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1115820774600128542005-05-11T07:05:00.000-07:002005-05-11T07:12:54.606-07:00"Dave Matthews Apologizes" for $100, Alex ...Correct Response: "What was the tour bus dump onto a Chicago River architectural boat cruise!" Snarky 'Daily Double' Response: "What is his band's music!"Terry Armour: Band is Sorry for the MessDave Matthews finally comes clean.In his first public comments since his tour bus driver dumped 800 pounds of raw sewage onto a sightseeing boat on the Chicago River last August, Matthews apologized to Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1107807027061204312005-02-07T11:34:00.000-08:002005-02-07T12:22:21.373-08:00One for the "Perpetuating the Stereotype" filesYes, I am familiar with Pvt. Jessica Lynch. I have great respect for women
like Specialist Shoshanna Johnson, one of the 1st female Iraq POW's. They are a tribute to the kind of women we want fighting alongside (if not on the frontlines) the men of our Armed Forces. It must be said, however, the I have always had a great deal of reservations about women in combat.
It's not the idea that we are Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1107277862300830102005-02-01T08:59:00.000-08:002005-02-01T09:16:34.260-08:00Dems' Cynicism in the Face of Democracy's Triumph NY Post: Democrats' Depressing Denial
In this morning's online edition of the Post, the editors rightfully take Sens. Kerry & Kennedy to task for their openly cynical (if not outright derrogatory) attitude toward the Iraqi elections. In so doing, not only are they pandering to the lunatic fringe of the party, they deny the courage and commitment of the Iraqi people to exercise their newfound Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245878.post-1106766763641925322005-01-26T11:04:00.000-08:002005-01-26T11:12:43.640-08:00Oh, this is just too funny!Well, at least it is to me. You see, I don't think much of people who can't enjoy a night out (whether at the local or a nightclub) without snorting a line. From Britain's Sky News comes the most amusing story 've seen in quite a while:
WD-40 USED TO FIGHT COKE
"A new weapon is being launched in the war on drugs - WD-40.
The household lubricant, usually used for such challenges as Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533437212721794768noreply@blogger.com0