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Interesting story about the Dick Morris of tech.
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Best dogs in the world.
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Oh la la
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Someone please make this woman an action star
Archive for December, 2007
I’ve got no data to base this on, just a gut feeling, but I think in the last few days before the Iowa caucus we could very well see voters break in favor of Sen. Clinton. Why? I think a vague sense of the unknown with Sen. Obama, coupled with some movement from the Bhutto assassination may make Sen. Clinton the “safe” choice for Iowa’s older, less liberal Democrats. Looking at caucus history, “daring” doesn’t exactly describe their past choices.
Redskins: 27
Cowboys: 6
Four straight wins, a resounding victory over the Cowboys and the Playoffs?
Dallas Cowboys had one rushing yard. One.
Redskins Playoff Appearances between Joe Gibbs retirement to his return (1993-2003): 1
Redskins Playoff Appearances since Gibbs’ return (2004-present): 2
Coincidence? Nay. Joe Gibbs.
Return of the East: 3 of the 4 teams in the NFC East are in the playoffs (Skins, Girls, and Giants)
Independents are wavering between McCain and Obama in New Hampshire. Does that translate to more independent appeal in the general election for Sen. Obama than Sen. Clinton? It’s possible.
There are two Mitt Romneys. The Mitt Romney who ran for senate and who was elected governor of Massachusetts, and the Mitt Romney of the last year or so who has recast himself as a conservative who changed his “effectively pro-choice” position in order to curry favor with the conservative vote that determines the Republican nomination. The problem for Current Mitt is that Moderate Mitt left a trail that’s pretty easy to find. Today’s revelation is that as Governor, Romney okayed funds for a Planned Parenthood clinic. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that - it’s frankly a good thing. But it doesn’t reconcile with the rhetoric of the most disingenuous candidate in presidential history.
Why teams think that you shouldn’t cover Randy Moss. I’m watching the NY Giants here just give up a touchdown to the Patriots (giving them them the lead 31-28) that wouldn’t have been wrapped up better if it were under a Christmas tree. When the Skins got walloped by them, they let Moss go, and the Giants seem to not get that it’s worth it to cover that guy. Try it, it works.
Iraq War cheerleader and all around very wrong and disingenous conservative pundit Bill Kristol gets an op-ed column in the “liberal” New York Times. That would be like Paul Krugman getting a column in the NY Post or Wall Street Journal, or someone remotely to the left of Atilla the Hun. Not gonna happen.
But the media is liberal, a vast cabal of leftists working to tear down the right. And unicorns. Lotsa unicorns.
Does anybody think that with the circular firing squad the GOP field is engaging in: Romney vs McCain vs Huckabee, that the DNC research team is probably going to send them all a canned ham to thank them for saving them work? The Dems are slugging it out too, but we’ve seen the GOPers fighting tooth and nail with data that is likely to hurt the eventual nominee down the line.
Juno: Great comic writing and not too “look at me, I’m quirky” acting (Wes Anderson, I’m looking at you and your suck movies). Not many have noted it but Allison Janey gets to bring the humor you didn’t get to see too often from the West Wing to her character. I hope Ellen Page, the star, gets more roles. Recommended.
UPDATE: I would also note that if conservatives approached the issue of abortion like Juno and Knocked Up have, they’d do a better job convincing people against abortion. But at the heart of both films is the choice of the main characters not to have an abortion. The choice.
I Am Legend: I enjoyed this as well, very reminiscient of a more sci-fi oriented Castaway. Love the integration of Bob Marley with the plot. The ending was a little too convenient, but still a nicely put together film. Recommended.
At least the Dems can’t sell us out this week. Sigh.
This statue is right next to the Capitol, though I never noticed it
before. Has a loud bell in it that I found out by accident.
With Rudy, you just need to name a price. The ethics are negotiable.
A former top federal prosecutor, Mr. Giuliani participated in two meetings between Purdue officials and the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the agency investigating the company. Giuliani Partners took on the job of monitoring security improvements at company facilities making OxyContin, an issue of concern to the D.E.A.
As a celebrity, Mr. Giuliani helped the company win several public relations battles, playing a role in an effort by Purdue to persuade an influential Pennsylvania congressman, Curt Weldon, not to blame it for OxyContin abuse.
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Dennis Lee, the Virginia state prosecutor for Tazewell County, an area hard hit by OxyContin abuse, said he was stunned several years ago to learn that Mr. Giuliani was working for Purdue. He had a favorable impression of Mr. Giuliani, he said, and a poor opinion of the company, which he said had played down and dissembled about its drug’s problem.
“I was shocked,” Mr. Lee said, “that he would basically become a mouthpiece for Purdue.”
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Jonah Goldberg is an idiot and a leading conservative. Not a coincidence.
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Need one of these for my grandma.
You know in a horror movie where the pretty girl goes to check out the dark basement and the audience yells “don’t go in there!”. It’s kind of like that.
Actress Jessica Alba, who is pregnant with her first child, is engaged to long-time boyfriend Cash Warren, Alba’s publicist said on Thursday.
Alba, 26, best known for her roles in the TV drama “Dark Angel” and “The Fantastic Four” movies, was pictured over the Christmas holiday with a huge diamond ring on her finger.
Publicist Brad Cafarelli said the couple were engaged but gave no details.
Cash Warren is clearly connected to the trilateral commission and the Bilderbergers as well as the Free Masons. That’s the only way to explain his power.
Ex-Redskin Doc Walker sums up the literal ups and downs of the Skins’ season to date in an unusually sympathetic Michael Wilbon column (Wilbon has it in for the ‘Skins).
Doc Walker, who played for Gibbs and who has covered his former coach as a member of the media, said: “I don’t want to be insensitive, but Atlanta lost one player, Michael Vick, and the entire program collapsed. Not only did the Redskins have a player die during a season, which is unthinkable, but look at all the other things that have happened that would derail most teams:
“They lost the guys who were supposed to be the right side of the offensive line, Jon Jansen and Randy Thomas, essentially for the entire season. Shawn Springs’s father is in a coma and he’s traveling back and forth to see his dad. You’ve got a free agent rookie [Stephon Heyer] starting at right guard. You’ve got the whole team flying to a funeral and playing the Bears three days later. You’ve got your franchise quarterback going down in that very game, then you’ve got the backup quarterback’s wife giving birth . . . on the eve of his first start in 10 years, then coming out and going 0 for 8 but steadying himself to win the game. It’s a movie. We can’t imagine how difficult it is to manage all that. But Joe knows how to manage in the chaos. Go all the way back to his 0-5 start in his very first season as head coach. That was so chaotic. But he believed. Even if you don’t believe initially, he does. And he just doesn’t waver.”
Win and they’re in. Win, and they’re in.
I can’t shake the feeling that the next couple weeks are going to get Mitt Romney and his campaign staff reaching for some antacid. He’s already been flailing the last couple weeks and fighting off his made-up story about his father marching with Martin Luther King, and already has Huckabee’s surge in Iowa and McCain moving up in New Hampshire to deal with. Now McCain is coming back to Iowa where he was essentially DOA. If McCain makes even a third place finish there where he historically hasn’t done well that will overshadow a Romney win and eat into his lead in New Hampshire if not completely wipe it out. If there’s no Romnementum going into Feb. 5, what the heck does he do? He polls pretty badly outside of IA, NH, and MI and is woeful nationally. Can old lantern-jaw pull out a win?
Nope, still not there yet (Iowa).
Supporters of Barack Obama living on 25th Street reported a number of racial slurs and derogatory comments had been spray painted on their property. Further, the family’s Christmas presents were all stolen from a vehicle and a garage.
Chief Lon Walker confirms the police received the report Monday morning.
“We found vandalism to the house. When we got there, we found some racial things regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama,” he said.
Yesterday the Edwards campaign apparently sent out a memo to reporters with the following:
“We know that Senator Clinton will spend the week touting her national security credentials in a move that echoes George Bush’s 2004 campaign,” Mr. Prince wrote. “We believe Democrats will not be fooled by efforts to play on their fears.”
The Edwards campaign seems to be saying that to simply discuss national security is to buy into the Bush framing of the world. Because the rhetoric of Sen. Clinton in the campaign so far is the exact opposite of the Bush doctrine. I may have some differences with her past votes and whatnot (though we must remember that Sen. Edwards also voted to authorize the Iraq War) - but Edwards seems to believe that national security won’t be on the table in this election. If that’s what they think, they’re wrong. For our entire political system for the foreseeable future we will not be able to put foreign policy on the backburner like in the past. Today’s assasination underlines that notion. In the past a political killing in Pakistan would be bad in a global sense, but happening under the current global situation it has very real ripples right here to America. This reminds me of Sen. Edwards ill-fated attempt (as I said at the time) to redefine the meaning of terrorism, especially in the middle of a political campaign.
It sucks, but that’s talk of the past. We can’t go back to it, no matter how hard we try. The next president is going to be someone who understands that national security is at the front of the American people’s minds. If Sen. Edwards is not going to accept that, he won’t win.
To put it bluntly, this will not work out well.
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday outside a large gathering of her supporters where a suicide bomber also killed at least 14, doctors and a spokesman for her party said.
While Bhutto appeared to have died from bullet wounds, it was not immediately clear if she was shot or if her wounds were caused by bomb shrapnel.
You think maybe if we didn’t keep dawdling while Al Qaeda grows stronger inside Pakistan, things would be more stable there.
Merry Christmas everyone…
Just finished watching it for the ten billionth time on Christmas Eve, and I don’t know how anybody could argue that it isn’t one of the most liberal movies ever. Take for instance this scene where George explains to Mr. Potter why the perennially inefficient building and loan serves such a grand purpose in Bedford Falls:
George: Just a minute, just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You’re right when you say my father was no business man. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I’ll never know. But neither you nor anybody else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was……Why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn’t that right, Uncle Billy? He didn’t save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter. And what’s wrong with that? Why…here, you’re all businessmen here. Doesn’t it make them better citizens? Doesn’t it make them better customers? You, you said, what’d you say just a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait! Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they’re so old and broken-down that they….do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you’re talking about…they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn’t think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they’re cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you’ll ever be!
Potter: I’m not interested in your book. I’m talking about the Building & Loan.
George: I know very well what you’re talking about. You’re talking about something you can’t get your fingers on, and it’s galling you. That’s what you’re talking about, I know. (to the Board members) Well, I’ve said too much. I….you’re the Board here. You do what you want with this thing. Just one thing more, though. This town needs this measly one-horse institution if only to have some place where people can come without crawling to Potter. Come on, Uncle Billy!
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I’m #1!
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An even better ending to the best Xmas movie of them all
