Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Fred on Sarah

Good speech. When you hear how McCain could have gone home after the fire on his ship, but instead volunteered to join another ship where he ended up becoming a POW, then compare that to Kerry’s story, where he got out of combat with three purple hearts from minor flesh wounds. No comparison. Kerry tried to get out of combat as fast as possible. McCain got out of it by being tortured for 5 years by the North Vietnamese.

When you compare McCain’s vast experience and add to it his history, it blows Obama away.

Outrage Dujour

I didn’t want to take sides in this election, but it’s almost impossible now. The Democrats have just done something beyond the pale, worse than what they’ve done over the weekend through their proxies.

The Politico has received an opposition research file from the Alaska Democrats. You can read it in PDF here.

In the file, the Democrats have released Sarah Palin’s social security number minus the last four digits. Also tied to the information are her various home addresses.

This goes way beyond the sick, nasty telling of vicious lies, which is par for the course in leftie land these days. No, this is a criminal invasion of privacy, from the very people who claim Republicans are the only snoops. (Let’s not forget Carnivore, the program which the Clinton administration authorized the FBI to read everyone’s email.) Of course, once again, it’s faceless proxies doing this, not the campaign. As far as we know.

Democrat “opposition research” operatives did this against Michael Steele, also.

This is worse than Watergate. Nixon bugged the office of some Democrats, he didn’t spread vicious lies about them and their kids, then release all their personal information for everyone to see.

Ben Smith of Politico objected to Red State’s characterization of it coming from Democrats, but please, This is something that deserves a criminal investigation. And Dems were outraged over the Plame business.

When I said they were scared of her, I was making an understatement, They are clearly trying to destroy her. And people only do that kind of thing when they are terrified.

[via Red State]

Steaks 101

All you need to know about cooking steaks. Some very useful information,. I knew the cooking stuff, but the part about different aging methods was new to me. I always wondered what they meant by aged steaks. I didn’t know beef was aged for months in the preferred method. 

Cross Section of You

Some very well done anatomy cut away sheets, revealing what’s behind our skin. Very informative, if a little creepy at times. 

Quote of the Day

“Sarah Palin got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla than Joe Biden got running for President.”

Mike Huckabee on Fox News

[via Polipundit]

RIP: Don LaFontaine

You’ve heard his voice lots of times in commercials and TV shows. He passed today, age 68.I always loved the sound of his voice. 

Weak Defense of the Day

Obama is reeling, it seems. When asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper how his experience stacks up to Sarah Palin’s executive experience, here’s his reply.

In an interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing with weather-related situations compares to Palin’s executive experience running the state of Alaska and as the small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,” Obama responded.

Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska which has 25,000 employees, and a $9 billion budget. Her experience is vastly more relevant. Especially since a campaign is run by a “campaign manager”, not the candidate. The candidate just sets general policy, unless he’s run by his handlers. Everything we’ve seen from Obama suggests he likes to sit back and not get too involved in things.

What’s hilarious is Obama seems to be defending himself against Palin in interviews this week. And from what I have seen, not too convincingly. 

We Won

The Iraq war is winding down. We agreed to a troop withdrawl timetable and we just handed the Anbar province over to the Iraqis.

You would think this was good news, but thousands of people are violently protesting “the war” at the Republican Convention this week. Like the Global Warming crowd, they seem to be unaware of the redundancy of their actions. The war is over. The only reason we’re still there is we have troop commitments to be there until everything is handed over.

Bush said from the beginning, we will hand back the country to the Iraqis when they want us to leave. They asked and so we are.

Democrats said we would be there indefinitely. That it was “a quagmire.” An unwinnable war. Harry Reid and Joe Biden each claimed the war was lost at different points.

They also claimed the war was for oil. That we were there to kill a lot of Iraqis and steal their treasure, but instead, the first big oil contract went to the Chinese.

You don’t hear them admitting they were wrong now, do you? Bush may have managed to leave office with a relatively peaceful Iraq.

The press hasn’t had a lot to say about this. They don’t like talking about good news, especially when they said for years it would never come to this.

Well, it has. One wonders if any other Dem issue might fizzle soon. I suspect Sarah Palin will be the next thing they’ll regret going crazy over. 

Monday, September 01, 2008

Chrome

Understanding Comics creator did a comic for Google, which reveals their new upcoming web browser called Chrome.

UPDATE: The browser is available now, and I am playing with it. It lacks my favorite Firefox extensions, but it runs pretty nice. And all the sites I’ve visited look good. I’m sure they will have plenty of add ons later

Obama’s Sincereity?

This sounds awfully noble of him to make the following statement.

“I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits,” Obama said. “And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.”

Sounds good. But there’s no getting around that he has been part of the Chicago political machine which plays dirty, vicious politics. And Obama sat by when Hillary was viciously attacked during the primaries, until enough damage was done. Then he stepped in with similar grand statements. Some people (like me) wondered if part of his campaign wasn’t involved in the attacks on Palin’s family, in some fashion. Obama also had a response to that assertion.

“I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us,” he said. “Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired.”

OK, fine. But again, he waited a couple of days to react. Long enough for it to gather a lot of steam on the internet. And let’s not forget something, the Daily Kos and other radical sites had representatives in force at the DNC Convention where they had meetings with the campaign to plot strategy. They are not just sitting idly on the sidelines.

Of course, there is no “proof” of a connection. It’s an old political game to get proxies to do the dirty work for you so you can deny it later.

But this is one of the lowest attack in recent memory. It shouldn’t be forgotten. And they are still at it if you read the comments in that Politico article. Watch how that call Republicans hypocrites and haters while spewing bile for 40 yards. Some of these people are trying to out do Linda Blair.

UPDATE: Busted! Red State has been able to come to the same conclusion, but they have plenty of evidence it was Obama using Kos as proxies.