Archive for July 8th, 2007
Chuck Hagel’s Bush Derailment
Chuck Hagel (R – NE) wuss conservative extraordinaire, who’s also a danger on the Foreign Relations Committee, had one good line today on Meet the Press: ”
I think the country would like to know a little more about how Hillary and
the media would ask her how to get us out of Iraq and other questions. My
friend John McCain, the media has just written him off because he didn’t
raise as much money. John McCain is one of the most qualified candidates to
ever come along to be President of the United States. It’s a sad, sad
commentary on our system when if focuses on who can raise the most money,
not who’s the best qualified, or who has the best solutions for the future of our country.”
Other than that, Chuck Hagel derails Bush and the Republican party every chance he gets. He was anti-Iraq, anti-Libby commutation, and anti-Bush. Who needs enemies when you have self-defeatist Republicans in your party like Hagel?
Carnival Of Blogging Chicks
There’s wonderful voices worldwide, women’s voices, women’s experiences, women’s thoughts. Bringing women together worldwide is Michelle of Blogging Chicks.
The 44th Carnival of Blogging Chicks can be read here. Don’t miss these little summertime eggs of delight:
- Sing Along with Swampwitch’s Tribute to Friends.
- Talia from the Centre For Emotional Well-Being talks about her work with Jennifer to help her overcome her battle with emotional eating in Through the eyes of an emotional eater.
- In Dreaming What Ifs, Karmyn’s husband finds out there is more than he bargained for in being a True Weekend Warrior.
- LeftCoastOnlooker relives the quest for perfect creme brule.
- Beach-lit author, Julie Carobini, got tagged by another blogging chick! Stop by to read about Jesus and the enduring cross.
- Mama Duck shares “Posing for the camera & other toddler tales…
- Pamela at The Dust Will Wait says there is another reason not to do housework: It was officially 110 degrees this week and she only had enough energy left to post a few pictures!
If you happen to be of the female persuasion and you have a blog, contact Michelle. Join the ranks of Blogging Chicks, changing the Internet, one blog at a time.
Moore’s Meretricious Mores
mer·e·tri·cious /ˌmɛrɪˈtrɪʃəs/ –adjective
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alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
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based on pretense, deception, or insincerity.
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pertaining to or characteristic of a prostitute.
Origin: 1620–30 – prostitute]
Michael Moore is a career prostitute, peddling his tawdry wares to the gullible, undiscerning, and ignorant liberal whiners who lack the wherewithal to place responsibility on where it truly lies: with themselves.
Moore makes money off of his poorly devised movies characterizing people as victims without their permission, such as Sgt. Peter Damon, in Farenheit 9-11, and Sally Pipes, in Sicko .
The New York Times has published this review:
The central argument of Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko” — that the cure to the nation’s health care problems is a single-payer system — is hardly novel and is certainly worth consideration, whether or not you agree with it. But in comparing the American system with single-payer plans of other countries —Britain, France, Canada and Cuba — Mr. Moore left out the trade-offs, characterizing those countries as health care paradises.
The elisions have been noticed — and criticism is coming not just from Mr. Moore’s most bellicose and dogmatic detractors.
Kurt Loder, the film critic who is best known as the anchor of “MTV News,” wrote a scathing critique of the film for MTV’s Web site. “ ‘Sicko,’ ” he allowed, “does a real service” in portraying victims of American insurance companies — like the people who died because their only treatment options were deemed “experimental” and therefore not covered.
But the film as a whole, he concluded, is “breathtakingly meretricious,” in large part because of its characterizations of other countries’ health care systems.
National health insurance reform is necessary and needs to start with the pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital corporations, and insurances companies. Starting with investigations into these entities rather than the 300+ hate-mongering, money-wasting, futile investigations in the last six months of the Bush administration, CIA clowns, and Cheney gun supporters would make more sense, and would work miracles with the jaded voters who are disgusted with both sides of Congress.
Be Careful What You Wish For
Just a few months after her first anniversary, and Katie Couric is having days, lots of days, where she wishes she hadn’t moved to CBS.
People are very unforgiving and very resistant to change,” Couric said in an interview with New York magazine. “The biggest mistake we made is we tried new things.”
Couric’s move to CBS has been a bust so far. The evening newscast’s ratings are deep in third place, and CBS has rolled back some of the changes it made last fall to shake up the format. Couric conducts fewer interviews, an outside opinion segment was scrapped and the anchor admits she’s even dressing down a little to give her critics less ammunition.
Katie, it wouldn’t be because CBS’s liberal agenda of destroying President Bush, Republicans, and conservativism, using fabricated documents as evidence, bogus polls, and headlines that feature anti-Bush propaganda?
Oh, Katie? Your plummeting CBS ratings couldn’t be because the public doesn’t trust nor wants to watch someone who is so liberally biased?
Go ahead, continue to think it’s people set in their ways, they don’t like new things, it’s the way you dress, it’s the format, and people didn’t like the outside segment. You can always jump your shark show to 60 minutes. Oh yeah, that worked well for Dan Rather.
All that stress causing bad decisions and anger? Couric slapped a staffer?
Gore’s Green Policies: Great Ponzi Scheme
Dave Nalle has an interesting perspective comparing Al Gore to King Canute. I love when history repeats itself.
“Neither a king, nor any other mortal, can command the forces of nature no matter how great he is and how hard he tries. This is a lesson which some contemporary politicians and celebrities might want to take to heart. In particular, former Vice President Al Gore comes to mind.”
Haven’t read Blogcritics yet? Take a peek, lots of great ideas being bandied around.
Aphelion Little Hot? Take A Dip!
All this talk about global warming can get you feeling a little warmer, especially during the summer. Dr. Tony Phillips says it’s all about astronomy, Earth’s aphelion, and physics.
The eccentricity of Earth’s orbit is 1.7%. In January when we’re closest to the Sun (perihelion), the distance is 147.5 million km. In July we’re 152.6 million km away–a five million kilometer difference.”
A distant sun means less sunlight for our planet. “Averaged over the globe, sunlight falling on Earth at aphelion is about 7% less intense than it is at perihelion,” says Roy Spencer of NASA’s Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC).
Then why is it so warm outside?
Check out Earth’s Aphelion explanation.
Thanks and a tip of my sun visor to Art for this bright tidbit of knowledge!
LIve Earth Digs The Planet Deeper Into Debt
The parallels of the Live Earth Concert to the Democrats solutions and policies is mindboggling.
“We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effect of Live Earth,” he said, speaking by telephone.
What liberals say, what they do about anything they want to accomplish is in the realm of voodoo economics, anti-capitalism, pseudoscience, fantasy, and just bad fiction. How much will it cost America to offset the damages and recover from Clinton-Edwards-Pelosi-Reid-Feinstein, and even the lily-livered, non-conservative Republicans’ policies?
Think about it, won’t you?
Seven New Wonders Selected
My votes for the 7 new Wonders of the World didn’t make it. Did yours?
The Great Wall of China, Rome’s Colosseum, India’s Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll released on Saturday.
Jordan’s Petra was the seventh winner. Peru’s Machu Picchu, Brazil’s Statue of Christ Redeemer and Mexico’s Chichen Itza pyramid also made the cut.
About 100 million votes were cast by the Internet and cellphone text messages, said New7Wonders, the nonprofit organization that conducted the poll.
I voted for Stonehenge. That’s okay, I’ll keep it all to myself.
Poppy fields across the motorway.
Concert Fails To Live Up To Its Potential
Live Earth supposedly world’s largest concert was the pits, looking like a rock and roll Jerry Lewis Labor Day Weekend rather than an environmental consciousness raising celebration.
And it failed in many of the areas. In DC, only 200 showed up. One report of 50,000 people around the globe attended concerts, while another stat (sorry, I just don’t know these people and I couldn’t watch it for very long) said that a billion people were watching worldwide. I don’t think so.
UPDATE: 9 million break Internet records of Live streaming. But that’s just spin, here’s reality:
An Internet stream is when a person watches on a computer. People can stream an event more than once — by switching it on and off — so 9 million streams does not necessarily mean 9 million people watching, MSN said.
The New York hosts were falling over each other’s lines, with a steady stream of “I know,” “Yeah, I know,” “Yeah,” “I Know!!!” and the ever empassioned, “I know, he was so hot” when talking about some rocker who I didn’t recognize. One star, don’t know her, said it was so cool watching Al Gore rockin’ back stage to Bon Jovi.
Ew.
I felt sad watching a completely bald Phil Collins, methodically sing “She lets her hair down, video conference.” Surreal. Madonna, Madge as the Brits call her, was bland. It was all so bland.
It did what it said on the poster – but no more. The British leg of Live Earth started at 1.30 pm sharp with a thunderous five-minute drum fanfare by a 20-odd troupe of flailing percussionists, battering a miscellany of ethnic skinned instruments.
Led by Roger Taylor, formerly drummer with Queen, and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, their SOS pattern, hammered out in morse code, was a cute way of flagging up the Live Earth message: environmental calamity ahoy. But it couldn’t disguise the problem that regularly threatened to becalm this Wembley show.
As a concert, Live Earth was not the repeat of Aid/Live 8 it clearly wanted to be.
80, 000 Chose Live Perth Instead Of Live Earth
Rio No Go. Only half of expected crowds show, even with free tickets.
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