Month: March 2007

There’s a new recipe being served up at the JR Shin-Koiwa Station in Tokyo – Rat Curry.

I never thought I’d say this, but I wish the Bush Administration would act more like the Clinton Administration did.

Rather than accepting resignations and then whimpering to the press about the dysfunctionality within the Justice Department over the recent firings of US Attorneys, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be fighting back. He should be calling this what it is. It’s a stunt being pulled by the Democrats to do what they’ve always wanted to do – get Bush. Why else would the press reports on the story be mentioning Harriet Miers and Karl Rove?

The American people want bipartisan governance. The problem is, they thought electing Democrats to a majority was the answer. They were wrong.

The lead singer of the rock band Boston was found dead today. Brad Delp, the voice behind hits like “More Than a Feeling”, “Long Time” and “Don’t Look Back”, was just 55 years old.

I grew up on this music. I wore out my copy of their first album and the “Don’t Look Back” album. Needless to say, I’m bummed.

Rest in peace, Brad.

UPDATE: It was a suicide.

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This is unbelievable.

Who knows what this man is thinking.

Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel, the Senate Republican most outspoken in opposition to President Bush’s March 2003 decision to invade Iraq, is expected to announce Monday that he will make a bid for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

Just how many Republican votes does he think he’ll get?

Chuck Hagel, a narcissistically delusional RHINO.

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Presidential Race, 2008, Politics, Election, Hagel, RHINO

Congressman David Obey (D-Wis.) became a little too transparent during a meet up with a woman who questioned him about the vote on the war supplemental.

“We’re trying to use the supplemental to end the war,” Obey said. “You can’t end the war if you’re going against the supplemental. It’s time these idiot liberals understood that.”

The unidentified woman told Obey she was the mother of a Marine who had been deployed to Iraq who was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder and wasn’t receiving adequate treatment from military hospitals. She then asked why Obey was not cutting off funding for the war.

Obey responded that the Washington Post has been running numerous stories on the inadequacies of military hospitals and that Congress is holding hearings on the topic, adding that the supplemental spending bill includes extra money for military healthcare.

A few moments later he grew angry and began attacking liberal groups for failing to understand how the supplemental bill, of which he is a sponsor, would affect the war.

“The liberal groups are jumping around without knowing what the hell is in the bill,” he bellowed. “You don’t have to cut off funds for an activity that doesn’t exist.”

“The language we have in the resolution ends the authority for the war,” he added. “It makes it illegal to proceed with the war. You don’t have to de-fund something if the war doesn’t exist.”

The problem with the Democrats is their lack of candor. When the cameras and mics are live they don’t answer questions directly, they pander, they spin. It’s only when they’re caught off guard that we really hear what they believe.

This rant from Obey also shows that the Dems are still hopelessly fractured as a group, despite all the talk of working together “for the American people”.

Video

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2008, Politics, Election, Iraq

I’m pretty much bogged down in ‘day job’ stuff today, so don’t expect much here. The world is still obsessed with the Libby thing anyway. Oh, and there’s that new proposal from the Democrats. Actually, it’s not that new. They just want to set a time table for withdrawal from Iraq. Sounds more like a timetable for failure to me. Whatever.

If something is irresistibly bloggable and I’ve got the free time then you can expect a comment here. Otherwise, I’ll get back to you tomorrow.

The Rev. Hillary’s Tin Ear.

It may not be Hillary’s fault that her voice sounds like it was fashioned from metal, but it is her fault that she sounds like a car alarm when she’s handed a microphone. It is her fault that she panders — badly — to her audiences.

Her performance last weekend in Selma revealed more than atonality. Like a warped bell, Hillary Clinton rings untrue.

Kathleen Parker is spot on.

Then go live with your brothers and sisters in moonbatsville.

More than 30 Vermont towns passed resolutions on Tuesday seeking to impeach President Bush, while at least 16 towns in the tiny New England state called on Washington to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.

Known for picturesque autumn foliage, colonial inns, maple sugar and old-fashion dairy farms, Vermont is in the vanguard of a grass-roots protest movement to impeach Bush over his handling of the unpopular Iraq war.

“We’re putting impeachment on the table,” said James Leas, a Vermont lawyer who helped to draft the resolutions and is tracking the votes. “The people in all these towns are voting to get this process started and bring the troops home now.”

The resolutions passed on Vermont’s annual town meeting day — a colonial era tradition where citizens debate issues of the day big and small — are symbolic and cannot force Congress to impeach Bush, but they “may help instigate further discussions in the legislature,” said state Rep. David Zuckerman.

I like what one commenter had to say about this.

Vermont does a great service to the rest of the country by absorbing all of the useless hippies, tree hugging granola nuts, earth worshipers and other useless societal rejects and sequestering them from decent society. At least our children are safe from these reality challenged invalids as long as they are kept in that place. Thank God there is good skiing in New Hampshire so no one has to expose themselves to the incipient brain rotting disease these people seem to be suffering from.

Heh.

Think it will solve problems? Hillary and many of her Democratic Party co-conspirators believe it’s the answer for America. Yet, in many cases, socialized medicine makes a bigger mess of an already messed up system. Look no further than the U.K.

A hospital has apologised to a heart patient who said he was woken at 3am and asked to leave his bed to make way for an emergency admission.

Father-of-six Mohammed Khan said he was forced to lie on a trolley in a crowded patient waiting room for four hours before being moved to a chair.

A spokeswoman for the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust said: “We are sorry Mr Khan had to wait in our medical assessment unit overnight and into the following day while we made every effort to find a ward bed for him.

“Unfortunately, this is a result of the severe pressure both of our major hospitals are currently experiencing and it is sometimes necessary to use temporary overnight accommodation before we can find space on a ward.

She added the main cause was the high levels of delays in the transfer of patients in the trust.

“We currently have 208 beds unavailable for new admissions because they are being used by patients who no longer need them but cannot be moved until their ongoing care needs have been resolved.

“This is creating unacceptable delays and distress for new patients.”

She added the trust was holding talks with the local authority partners and the Welsh assembly government to find solutions to the situation.

Universal healthcare will guarantee the efficiency of the Postal Service with all the compassion of the IRS. Kinda gives you the goose bumps, doesn’t it?