Friday, March 28, 2008

Clinton’s Bosnia Lies Dissected

Talking Points Memo, a liberal blog ironically named after the Clintons’ habit of issuing talking points to their minions during news cycles, has done an excellent job showing the many times Hillary told the same lie about Bosnia. It then shows how she tried to deflect the press when caught in a lie.

Will someone please stick a fork in her? She’s done.

It’s Freakin’ Snowing!

Only a few more days until April and it’s snowing outside here in Washington. It very rarely snows in the Portland area where I live, I am told, but it is now. I’ve actually seen it snow about 5 times this year. And that’s supposed to be very unusual. A friend in Vermont told me he has 18 inches of snow in his backyard this morning.

So much for Global Warming.Someone needs to retract Al Gore’s Nobel Prize. Oh, wait...that’s right. Frauds get Nobel Prizes. It’s not unusual, as Tom Jones would say.

Someone tell the Earth Hour people they’re full of it. OK, I just did.

UPDATE: Man-Bear-Pig hunter Al Gore had this to say.

Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man - among them, Vice President Dick Cheney - are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat.

The former vice president and former presidential candidate talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday, March 30, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Spoken like a true ideologue. 

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Gennifer Flowers on the Election

The stuff at the end about Bill’s description of Hillary’s love life is priceless (if not tasteless). 

Fitna

They tried to ban it all over Europe and in the US. Here’s the film about radical Islam many tried to stop you from seeing.

UPDATE: Fixed link

CO$ Terror Tactics

As part of an apparent intimidation strategy to suppress freedom of speech, CO$ sent a goon over to some kid’s house who they identified as an Anonymous protester.

A little more than a week ago, Jonathan (he asked his last name not be repeated again), who’d joined a Facebook group called “I Support Anonymous” and attended their protests, answered a knock at the door of his parents’ L.A.-area home, where he lives while attending community college. A mustachioed man in a suit and claiming to be from the law firm of Latham and Watkins was holding a “file” and asked to speak to Jonathan’s parents by name, he recently told Radar. He told the mystery man his parents weren’t available and offered to take the package for them. “No,” the man said. “I can’t legally give this to you.” Jonathan shrugged and told him to come back later. That’s when things got weird.

Later a friend of the family came over and said Mr. Mustachio was hanging out in front of the house and had asked her if she was Jonathan’s mom. When she said no, he waited until Jonathan’s parents did arrive, then handed them the file and said, “This is a courtesy letter. No charges are being filed yet. But your son may be involved in terrorist activity.” And then he left. Inside the package was a letter accusing Jonathan of terrorism and a DVD copy of the YouTube video, he says.

This is how they roll. But stuff like this is bound to make their detractors even more emboldened. They’re fighting a rising tide. 

Ouch of the Day

A black Lt Colonel in ths US Air Force writes an open letter to the Democrats to call them out on their racial hypocrisy. Rather than excerpting it here, you should read the whole thing here. It’s brutally accurate and utterly damning. The Democrats are not the friends of black people and never have been. If anything, they have actively held back blacks by trying to keep them dependent on government handouts designed to discourage their independence. In many ways, they remind me of the way Michael Jackson endeavored to keep his brothers poor as documented in that Jackson article I posted the other day. They use similar tactics. On one hand promising them the world, on the other keeping them poor and dependent on Democrat largess.

They’ve done a great job tricking some people into believing their schemes. An Obama win might prolong to mass delusion. But if Hillary wins the nomination somehow, that may be over for good. 

South Park Site

South Park Studios has put all the South Park episodes online for free viewing. Other sites were doing it badly so they decided to to it right.

If you haven’t seen it, last night’s episode “Major Boobage” was one of the funniest ever. It’s especially hilarious if you’ve watched that early 80s movie Heavy Metal.It had me in stitches. 

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

American Idol Top 10

Last night was a pretty good night, except one of the most praised performances was another swipe, Methinks a leading contestant is going to get outed as a plagiarist.

This week the contestants were to sing a song that came out the year they were born. Ramiele Malubay sang 1987’s “Alone” by Heart. And she proved she can’t belt it out as well as Nancy Wilson. Paula said it was because she had the flu, but I don’t think that will save her. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t clever or original either. It also doesn’t help that she was first. A kiss of death spot. Not safe.

Jason Castro did 1987’s “Fragile” by Sting. It was a solid, but uninspired performance. The fact that parts of it were in Spanish might win him extra votes. I’d give him an iffy safe. But I thought it was ho hum.

Syesha Mercado handled 1987’s “If I Were Your Woman” by Stephanie Mills. Very good performance. One of her best. The judges loved it. Definitely safe.

My man Chikezie sang 1985’s “If Only For One Night” by Luther Vandross. It was a homage to Vandross and I personally liked it. I think he’s the heir apparent to the Vandross throne since his style is similar. But the judges chided him for not being himself. So I think he’ll be in the bottom three, even though it was solid.

Brooke White did 1983’s “Every Breath You Take” by The Police. I liked it, but wasn’t blown away. The judges more or less liked it. She’s safe another week. Even though she screwed up the beginning of the song.

Michael Johns rocked 1978’s “We Are the Champions” by Queen. It was one of his best performances yet. Queen songs suit him. He’s definitely safe. But he needs to do more of this kind of thing. He needs to pick more power songs.

Carly Smithson took on 1983’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler. I liked it. Her voice is similar to Bonnie Tyler’s tone (if not as raspy). I think it was a good cover, but Simon and Randy were not into it. Iffy safe.

David Archuleta sang 1990’s “You’re the Voice” by David Foster with Jeff Pescetto. Zzzzzz. What a crap tune. It’s another trite message song. It seems his psycho stage dad is feeding him songs to sing. Simon alluded to it in his critique. I was unimpressed and I think his dad may end up sinking his chances of winning if David keeps following his advice. It wasn’t even that greatly sung. But the girls in the audience ate it up, so he’s safe.

Kristy Lee Cook took on 1984’s “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood. It was a very smart choice because it will win her a lot of points with people moved by patriotic songs, but she also sang it very well. I can see her getting gigs now at baseball games and state fairs. All those KLC haters are probably grinding their teeth because they know she is umpire safe. Besides, she was second to last. Almost the pimp spot.

Ok, now we come to the swipe artist, David Cook in the pimp spot. This time he stole Chris Cornell’s version of 1983’s “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson. The judges all praised him for his originality and star power. I smell a scandal brewing. Idol may have to recant some of their praise when people call him out on the internet. Wait and see. Did he do a good job? Sure. It was a very good swipe. But I think Cook is in for a beating in the court of public opinion. We shall see.

UPDATE: So poor Chikezie got the axe. His performance wasn’t even that bad. But boh Randy and Simon pretty much dissed it and I guess we’re at that point where the less popular people will be let go now. Ramiele wasn’t even in the bottom three, which means she must have a fan base. 

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Tonya Harding Option

What lengths would Hillary go to win the nomination? Take a wild guess.

What will she have to do to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, in order to eke out her improbable victory?

She will have to “break his back,” the official said. She will have to destroy Obama, make Obama completely unacceptable.

“Her securing the nomination is certainly possible - but it will require exercising the ‘Tonya Harding option.’” the official said. “Is that really what we Democrats want?”

If she does that, then McCain will win by default. I wouldn’t put it past her. 

Children of the Secret State

You really need to watch this documentary about North Korea, filmed by people who snuck inside to show the horrible conditions there. They call it the last Stalinist state. Hopefully, they’re right. But this is where leftism takes you when thy get too much power. Another example is Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Followed by Castro’s Cuba.

And I highly recommend this video series I posted the other day if you missed it. A couple journalists went to North Korea and were shown around, and even the dog and pony show they saw was scary.