So, what started all the hubbub?

Some of the reactions you see below concern the anti-war protest over the weekend.

Democracy Now!, a group that considers CNN part of the corporate media conspiracy that supports the evil aims of the current government(now that's leaning left, buddy!) advised that the anti war protest brought in somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 participants. They had no basis in fact for coming up with that number, or more precisely, that wildly exaggerated estimation. I called the bloggerators at 'Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo' that linked to D.N. out on that number, and the discussion got pretty lively, and in some cases, pretty tasteless. Considering I was outnumbered, I did the best that I could.

This is what you get from 'progressive' blog sites...

Been commenting over at some other blogs with 'other' perspectives than mine. This doesn't happen all the time, but often enough. Here's the latest...

Uhm, let's start over, right wing troll. You're stuck on stupid. That's right. You're stuck on stupid. You're spewing million gillion billions of words to justify some stupid political idology of some sort or another. Well I got news for you. Reality don't give a shit what your ideological bullshit is. Anybody who calls themselves "liberal" or "conservative" rather than simply *AMERICAN* is literally STUCK ON STUPID. I'm not going to addres syour bullshit because that's just what it is -- bullshit. All I gotta say is this: When you're interested in figuring out what's right for America and Americans rather than in scoring ideological bullshit points, I'll be happy to address any concerns you have. But right now, you're stuck on stupid, and you wouldn't listen to me anyhow so why waste my breath? - Badtux the American Penguin

Oh and this one too...

Why do any of you want to deal with this piece of filth? Why respond? You can't win an argument with a schizophrenic. You can't change the mind of a True Believer -- and I don't want to. I just want to know how to flatten them into the ground.

Update: I just now figured out that Badtux follows an offshoot of Existentialism referred to as "Excrement(It really exists! Check out Wikpedia.) Existentialism", hence the multiple references to that material, bless his heart.

"It don't mean a thang without that transcendental swing"

I came across this article from http://www.lashawnbarber.com/ this evening. The link to the article is set below. Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, advises that our level of human accomplishment for the last 1200 years or so can be tied pretty much to our relationship with God. Interesting reading. When one looks back at all the great things written in ages past, it begs the question, "what have we done lately?" That might explain why things have pretty much gone to heck in a handbag since WW I, the rise of Communism, and pretty much every breakdown in civilization one could think of. To do a 180 on Rick Warren, its what we get when we have purposeless lives, eh?

So much for Hillary playing both ends against the middle

Courtesy of Michelle Malkin's post, here's the latest. In a New York Post article here We have Sheehan going after Hillary, who's going after Bush for not putting enough Military in Iraq. Poetic justice for all involved...

Crocodile Tears

Remember when we got this story and this video? This guy, Mr. Broussard was crying his eyes out in front of Tim Russert and a national TV audience. The gov'mint had abandoned New Orleans. He was crying over a woman that died at a nursing home. The son (not Mr. Broussard, BTW) kept hearing from her mom day after day after day asking if she would be rescued. Well, come to find out she died at the nursing home on August 29th, when storm came in. How in the heck was the mom calling day after day if she had already passed away? Now, the nursing home owners are facing charges that they did not act to evacuate the nursing home. Oddly enough, the owners made it out. Why not the residents? What does Mr. Broussard have to tell Tim Russert about now? Is he crying over that? Forget about the other part of the interview where he said FEMA turned away the Red Cross (It was the locals, actually). If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say that this was part of it, but you don't have to have marching orders from the DNC to take your own shots at Bush. Too bad they don't take shots at the real problems like border control and out of control spending. Cry me a river Mr. Broussard...

UPDATE: Per Cookie Jill's request, here is the link to the most comprehensive breakdown of the Brossard breakdown, with tip of the hat to Wuzzadem.

UPDATE: NBC has now issued a correction:

"New details and interviews with the son whose mother died in the flood show that the tragedy unfolded from Saturday through Monday, Aug. 29 — not Monday through Friday, Sept. 2 as recounted by Broussard. The owners of the nursing home were indicted Tuesday for the deaths of more than 30 residents, which officials say occurred on Aug. 29."

How in the world can this guy have provided so much detail, and ALL of it wrong?

Help! Somebody? Anybody?

I'm not saying there isn't any help coming from the international community, I just haven't heard of any other country stepping up to help us like we help everyone else. If I do, I'll be sure to put up a list. Waiting...

Ah, here we go. Lots of telegrams and expressions of sympathy. The Swiss people are asking where they can donate. That's one. Jihadists expressing glee...to be expected. Debate in Vienna on whether they should donate to such a rich country. Environmental groups blaming the United States for the global warming that created the conditions for the hurricane. Netherlands, and rightfully so, wondering why we haven't got things done like they have. Anybody else want to actually help? Still waiting...

There's your trouble...

Anybody notice that with all the records being reviewed concerning Judge Roberts and his tenure in government, how much there is? No wonder we can't balance the budget or save trees...:-)

Freudian Slip at NPR?

One has to laugh. On the way to work, the newscaster at NPR advised that Judge Roberts had cleared another hurdle in the "confrontation" process with the rating he received from his peers.

Is this how the previous administration dealt with the Able Danger Project?

OK, the monkey thing might have been a cheap shot, but you do appreciate the comic irony, don't you? On a more serious note, we've got Sandy Berger stuffing documents into his socks right as the 9/11 Commission is having hearings? For his sake, I hope it was mere coincidence. We've got lawyers in the Pentagon (Clinton adminstration lawyers) that said a terror suspect, a non-citizen with a US visa, gets the same protection as a US citizen? Finally, we've got 9/11 Commission members (including Clinton administration official, Gorelick, that signed off on keeping the walls up in the first place) denying ever getting, or seeing, or being notified, or... wait! 'Yeah, we got the info on Able Danger, but...'

Gee...thanks guys, for all the hard work...and forthrightness.

This reiterates the basic problem with our intelligence capabilities concerning terror, but it also reiterates how few politicians in this country (red or blue, take your pick) have enough courage to put out the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Just a little honesty, please...

I've made a point of cruising other aspects of the blogosphere to see what's going on.

Looking at Crooks and Liars' blog, I found a reference to Senator Rick Santorum's interview on Brian Lehrer's radio show. Senator Santorum recently published a book, "It takes a family" as a counterpoint to the Hillary/liberal viewpoint on how to raise children. Crooks and liars trumpets the fact that Rick Santorum 'lost it' during the interview. Thirty minutes later, I come to the conclusion that Rick Santorum actually maintained his cool throughout. Most of the comments to Crooks and Liars on that particular item, left and right, said the same thing. During a segment discussing gay marraige, Brian Lehrer throws this bomb out.

LEHRER: It came out this month that your communications director, Robert Traynham, is gay. How long did you know that?

SANTORUM: Uh, I’ve known it for a while.

LEHRER: And if he has a boyfriend, is that the moral equivalent as, in a famous quote of yours, of bigamy, adultery, or incest or even bestiality?

SANTORUM: Well, I didn’t – number one, my famous quote did not draw moral equivalence. And in fact if you read the quote in its proper context without words inserted by a reporter, uh, who put words in my mouth that I did not say, nor did I mean –

What? You gotta be kidding. Rather than deal with issues of the day, make it personal why don't you? If anything, the fact that Mr. Santorum discounts his comm director's sexual 'orientation' as a qualifier for the job speaks volumns to his open-mindedness. Can't say the same about liberals, generally.

LEHRER: By the way, do you have lively debates with your press secretary over this? Does he try to convince you, do you try to convince him to go get cured?

SANTORUM: Uh, no, I – look, his personal life is his personal life. I don’t have lively debates with any of my staff about their personal lives. It’s their personal life, and I have lively debates about issues of, that, of public policy. And I have people on my staff that agree with me on everything and – well, not everything, but most everything – and I have those who don’t. And uh, you know, that makes for a healthy debate in the office.

So, we have a liberal talk show host trying to bait the Senator with a 'gotcha', which he didn't take, by the way. Yet a liberal blog paints Santorum as some raving loonatic.

Look, if we're going to disagree and debate, at least keep it honest. Sheesh...