Sunday, October 12, 2008

Insane Rage

The press keeps trying to tell us that McCain voters are gripped with insane rage. No,. many of them are mad. Not insane.

Michelle Malkin documents what insane rage looks like.

Stuff like this really turns me off from even listening to the left. I still do, but it’s hard to take anything they have to say seriously anymore. 

A Favorite Jazz Song

Black Coffee, sung by Julie London. This song got me really into that era of music. It’s a perfect torch song and Julie London is one of my favorite torch singers. 

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Musical Interlude: Sarah Vaughn

One of my favorite singers, and one of the top three greatest jazz singers ever. Sarah Vaughn, circa 1955

The Future of America?

What worries me about a Democrat victory in November is the US becoming as neutered as European countries. For instance:

A gardener who fenced off his allotment with barbed wire after being targeted by thieves has been ordered to take it down – in case intruders scratch themselves.

Bill Malcolm erected the 3ft fence after thieves struck three times in just four months, stealing tools worth around £300 from his shed and ransacking his vegetable patch.

But Bromsgrove district council has ordered the 61-year-old to remove the waist-high fence on health and safety grounds.

Mr Malcolm, who has grown potatoes, onions, beetroot and asparagus on two patches at the Round Hill allotments in Marlbrook, Worcestershire, for the past eight years, said: ‘It’s an absolutely ridiculous situation.

‘All I wanted was to protect my property but the wire had to go in case a thief scratched himself.

The Democrats love stateism, and they love this kind of twisted PC logic. It was rampant during the Clinton era. Especially the first 4 years when they had the majority. The British government is run by their version of the Democrats, the Labor party. And they have done a horrible job, systematically ruining the country since they go into power. I would really hate to see that happen here. But it just might. 

Message to the Left

What caused the crash. A very reasoned and smart letter.

It’s government that’s the problem. And all this talk of more regulation is not the answer.

Ouch of the Day

Obama tells Acorn he will bring them in to help shape his agenda before he is inaugurated. And now he pretends he barely knows them. Right.

He was their lawyer, he worked for them, donated vasy sums of money to them and they endorse him. Now they are trying to steal the election for him.

ACORN threatens and intimidates people, uses voter fraud and has pushed for the very things which caused the housing market collapse. And Obama wants them to shape his agenda. In fact, perhaps they already are.

UPDATE: This may be worse

Friday, October 10, 2008

Cartoon Campaign Ads

One from the Republicans in the 50s

One from the Democrats in 1960

Gee, I wish today’s ads were as cheerful as these. I get sick of all the attack ads. 

Over the Top?

Last nights South Park was pretty funny to me, but I’m used to the shock humor they use. They took it pretty far by having Steven Speilberg and George Lucas as a couple of rapists who keep assaulting their characters, especially Indiana Jones. You can see it here.

Obviously Parker and Stone are fans, and they hate what those two directors have done to their work over the years. They did another episode where they had done even more re-editing of their films and ruined them.

Personally, I enjoyed the last Indiana movie, even though it was full of absurd escapes and dubious CGI (first of all, there are no prairie dogs in Nevada). But apparently, a lot of people really hated it and felt betrayed. If I were Lucas I would listen to my fans and try to stop pissing them off. He seems to be rubbing his lameness in their faces. 

Publishing Deal Announcement

Publisher Weekly has an article up today about the new Humanoids deal with Devil’s Due Publishing. My book TRIGS is listed at the bottom of the article. 

70% of CEOs Prefer McCain

Because they think Obama would be disastrous for business. And you know what that would do to job creation and the economy.

Over 70 percent of CEOs fear an Obama presidency will be a disaster
Chief Executive magazine’s most recent polling of 751 CEOs shows that GOP presidential candidate John McCain is the preferred choice for CEOs. According to the poll, which is featured on the cover of Chief Executive’s most recent issue, by a four-to-one margin, CEOs support Senator John McCain over Senator Barack Obama. Moreover, 74 percent of the executives say they fear that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country.
“The stakes for this presidential election are higher than they’ve ever been in recent memory,” said Edward M. Kopko, CEO and Publisher of Chief Executive magazine. “We’ve been experiencing consecutive job losses for nine months now. There’s no doubt that reviving the job market will be a top priority for the incoming president. And job creating CEOs repeatedly tell us that McCain’s policies are far more conducive to a more positive employment environment than Obama’s.”