Blogging Live from the Draft

11:04 am EST April 29th, 2006 | Sports | 12 Comments

I don’t have a cameraphone so you’re gonna have to take my word for it, but I’m blogging to you live from The Radio City Music Hall at the 2006 NFL draft. The big story in the crowd is Houston passing up Reggie Bush. There’s an overrepresentitive amount of Jets fans begging to draft him.

Where I’m Going This Weekend

7:04 pm EST April 28th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

Oh yes, I’m a fan (my team doesn’t even pick in the first round!)

Topic: Redskins

The Anthem

2:04 pm EST April 28th, 2006 | Politics | 72 Comments

I think it’s seriously screwy to suggest that the anthem of our country is somehow robbed of its authenticity if its in another language. The only important issue is – do the concepts remain the same, do the values hold true? That’s all that matters. You could translate the national anthem into Klingon, if it still says that the flag was still there? Mission accomplished.

By the way, I recommend that all Americans once in their live experience Fourth of July along the Charles River in Boston. The Star Spangled Banner punctuated with actual cannons is not a sight to be missed.

Rove Spin Watch

2:04 pm EST April 28th, 2006 | Politics | Comments Off

Factcheck has a checklist of what to watch out for should an indictment come for Karl Rove.

America Is Losing The War On Terror

2:04 pm EST April 28th, 2006 | Politics | 69 Comments

The problem starts with the commander-in-chief

Terrorists killed more than 14,500 people in 11,000 attacks across the globe last year, the U.S. State Department said in its annual report on terrorism.

Fifty-six of those killed were Americans, the report said. Three thousand of the deaths were attributable to 360 suicide bombings. There were 25,000 people wounded and 35,000 people kidnapped, the report said.

More Americans have died as a result of terrorism under George W. Bush than any other President in American history.

When Blogs Disappear

2:04 pm EST April 28th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

I was also taken down by the denial of service attack that took out Instapundit and a bunch of other blogs…

Topic: Site Stuff

Are They Serious?

1:04 am EST April 28th, 2006 | Politics | 21 Comments

I keep seeing the press, pulling for their man Bush as public opinion pulls him down further into the morass (the supposedly odious Bill Clinton never had sub-40 second term approval numbers like Bush does) and seriously wondering if appointing a new chief of staff and press secretary will do the task of rejuvenating a failed presidency.

Are they serious?

The Bush mistake is a product not of meaningless staffing, but of policy failure. The war of choice that has kiled over 2,400 of our people and let a terrorist killer of 3,000 run free, the negligent response to a natural disaster that killed 1,200, the decision to privatize one of the strongest and most worthwhile social programs our nation has, cutting taxes for oil tycoons who bring home millions while the rest of the unwashed masses pays through the nose at the pump while the next generation is given massive deficits to pay.

It is such a clear sign that the Beltway press corpse is a dumb, dumb beast that they think giving Tony Snow a job can change any of that.

Questions Swirl

12:04 am EST April 28th, 2006 | Politics | 31 Comments

Of course, in no time if this pans out, we’ll hear how Rove was simply not in the inner circle, not a major player in the White House, just not a figure of consequence…

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case, is expected to decide in the next two to three weeks whether to bring perjury charges against Karl Rove, the powerful adviser to President Bush, lawyers involved in the case said Thursday.

With the completion of Mr. Rove’s fifth appearance before the grand jury on Wednesday, Mr. Fitzgerald is now believed to have assembled all of the facts necessary to determine whether to seek an indictment of Mr. Rove or drop the case.

I’m no expert on any of the whole Plame thing, but five times in front of a grand jury having to clarify your story and go over stories again and again… it sure doesn’t sound good. My guess: perjury, obstruction of justice. Who knows, though?

Hate On Display

5:04 pm EST April 27th, 2006 | News | 38 Comments

White teens accused of brutal racist attack

Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a 16-year-old Hispanic boy who they believed had tried to kiss a 12-year-old white girl at a party, authorities said.

The attackers forced the boy out of the house party, beat him and sodomized him with a metal pipe, shouting epithets “associated with being Hispanic,” said Lt. John Martin with the Harris County Sheriff’s Department.

They then poured bleach over the boy, apparently to destroy DNA evidence and left him for dead, authorities said. He wasn’t discovered until Sunday, a day after the attack.

Topic: Racism

Facts Are Stubborn Things

2:04 pm EST April 27th, 2006 | Politics | 3 Comments

The facts on the Matt Drudge initiated blogger book pissing match

As of this morning, for Reynolds An Army of Davids (February 2006), Bookscan reports 1716 retail sales and 2609 discount sales, for a total of 4325.

As of this morning, for Armstrong and Kos s Crashing the Gate (March 2006), Bookscan reports 2598 retail sales and 1804 discount sales, for a total of 4402.

In other words, despite the fact that it s been available for four fewer weeks, Kos and Armstrong s book has now clocked Bookscan sales in excess of Reynolds . Notably, several hundred more full-price sales. This is leaving aside the fact that Kos and Armstrong s book is currently at #40 on Amazon, whereas Reynolds is at #801.

And Glenn Greenwald’s book is currently #1 on Amazon.

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