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Captain Ed is a father and grandfather living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, a native Californian who moved to the North Star State because of the weather. He lives with his wife Marcia, also known as the First Mate, their two dogs, and frequently watch their granddaughter Kayla, whom Captain Ed calls The Little Admiral.
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The Crows Nest
Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
If I've learned anything in four years of blogging, don't try to be out in front of the death rumors, especially with the villains of the world. Saddam died a hundred deaths before we caught him alive in his spider hole, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi almost as many before his demise last year. Osama may or may not be alive, but everyone's avoided speculating on his fate for a while now. Maybe Val at Babalu Blog will get luckier with his "Castro Is Dead" story. We all hope so. I'll wait for the announcement ....
Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring sees another case collapsing on the Haditha charges. He's called for Murtha to apologize earlier, and adds another reason to the tally.
No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
I just caught this e-mail from Glenn Reynolds about his new podcast with Richard Epstein, the author of Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the topic is important enough to make sure I carve out time for it tomorrow. Get their first and tell me what I'm missing ....
Fed Trying A 'Stealth Easing'?
The Federal Reserve seems to have conducted a quiet campaign to steady markets that started spinning out of control, according to King Banaian at SCSU Scholars. He thinks that the Fed has conducted a "stealth easing". Be sure to read his explanation and follow his lnks.
A Shameless Bit Of Sel-Promotion
Gateway Pundit and Val at Babalu Blog note a crass PR move by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela has responded to Peru's eathquake disaster with food shipments -- and with Hugo's smiling picture on the cans. He also uses the tuna-can label to undermine President Garcia of Peru, who narrowly defeated Chavez' pal Ollanto Humalla, whom the labels extol for his "solidarity" with Chavez.
Tacky beyond belief.
Bush Going After Palestinian Terror Financing?
George Bush's new orders to USAID forces them to review the executive management of all NGOs to ensure that they have no terrorist connections. Carl in Jerusalem says at Israel Matzav that the order specifically intends to target Palestinian front groups for terrorists. Let's hope he's right.
Slow Start!
Yes, I'm off to a slow start today, thanks to some scripting issues, a bad back, and an alarm clock that needs replacing. Bear with me -- I'm ramping up, I promise...
And Now, In Little League Action Last Night ...
I once played in a Little League game where we lost, 30-1, obviously before mercy rules came into being. The only comfort during that shellacking was that 13-year-olds don't have to justify their salaries for being on the field. You have to wonder what the Baltimore Orioles have to feel without that caveat today, after losing 30-3 to the Texas Rangers. Sixteen of the runs came in the last two innings .... (via TMV)
Bush Speech On Iraq
I got a couple of e-mails wondering why I haven't linked to George Bush's speech today. I liked it; I just didn't have much to add. Rush Limbaugh covered it well on his site, and Power Line also links approvingly but has nothing much more to say. Michael Goldfarb notes that the Weekly Standard had made a similar argument regarding Vietnam a year ago.
Rove Fears Me -- No, Really!
Hot Air notes the latest fundraising letter from John Edwards. No longer content to indulge his paranoia when Ann Coulter mentions him, now he wants to indulge it when Karl Rove doesn't. Has any candidate seemed this desperate before now?
Racism Or Hard Truth?
Angela Winters looks at an editorial cartoon and the controvery it has caused in Jacksonville, Florida, especially in the black community. Truth or racism? When rap artists tell young listeners not to cooperate with the police, how much responsibility do they have for the victimization that follows? Read all of the essay at The Moderate Voice.
Support Citizen Journalism
Bill Ardolino at INDC Journal reminds us that there is a reporter shortage on the front lines. The best way to solve that problem? Donate to Public Multimedia, the citizen-journalist organization that supports Bill Roggio, Bill Ardolino, and others. (And a direct donation to Michael Yon would be much appreciated as well.)
Comments (3)
Posted by Brooklyn | April 17, 2007 12:06 PM
interesting...
Republicans betrayed their principles?
a little over the top...
as we Conservatives understand humans are far from perfect, Repubicans were pretty good in comparison of what we see Democrats doing today, and some pundits were actually saying we should teach some a lesson by letting the Democrat Insanity take control (talk about betrayal).
perhaps the enabling of Nancy Pelosi, was the biggest betrayal of the Conservative agenda of all, and responsibility ultimately lies with the voters.
seems some even bought into the idea, Democrats were somewhat moderate!
LOL
this was and is absurd, as we see the ugly results today...
Democrats spending overtly, rushing to raise taxes, working to appease threats, trying to force the USA to surrender for their own political gain, ignoring their own corruption...
Bringing Gore, Plame, fired US Attorneys, etc., up the Hill for political exploitation...
it could not be more pathetic.
and Republicans cannot be blamed for the unethical efforts of the ugly DNC.
Posted by Carol_Herman | April 17, 2007 3:04 PM
Ask Bernard Goldberg to comment:
Why wasn't the FIRE ALARM BELL rung?
Why are we watching leftoid crooks hand-wringing away. Without showing you the obvious short-fall in a bunch of kids' education?
Yes. RINGING THE FIRE ALARM BELL would have brought the fire department to the campus. And, they'd have evacuted buildings. If they took gunfire? You bet, they'd have called in the PROFESSIONAL POLICE! That school would have been ringed with SWAT TEAM members, trained to deal with terrorists.
The last people on earth who will protect you, or your kids, are the academics. Till? Someone lands on their ass.
Even at Duke. Brodhead keeps his job.
Now, you go and tell me why.
See if I'm not angry enough, already.
And, PLEASE. POST the dialog from your show. I'm just not a radio listener. But I want to see this interview with my own eyes.
Posted by Carol_Herman | April 17, 2007 10:58 PM
Lessons to learn from the Virginia Tech tragedy should include the fact that Cho had a gap in time, between killing two people at 7:15 AM. And, then?
Since two hours pass; what ran through his mind?
At first did he have an escape plan?
And, only after the college did nothing to hunt him down, did he then go on to "Plan B?"
I am so saddened that a lovely lady thought it prudent to call her dorm's advisor. Mr. Clark. 22 years old. A straight A student. And, due to graduate.
HOW COME "TALK" has been trained into our kids?
You think if you called up "Dr. Freud," he'd come over to talk? TALK DOES NOT CURE INSANITY!
If somebody tried to do this to treat cancer, they'd be put in jail!
Those two hours were so critical!
Again, now that the tragedy happened, there's going to be a lot of talk. Here, this is okay. Many of us are not affected, because we don't know anyone going to Virginia Tech.
Though I did copy & paste your breaking news. And, I sent it to my son. His reaction? Sadness. And, a certain fear. Because he emailed me, "I thought this could have been Washington U." (His brother is a freshman, there.)
And, yes. There are HAIR RAISING DORM STORIES! Happening to nice kids. In more college dorms that you know!
This is being handled by people so out-of-their element, you have no idea!
We've credentialed a slew of morons. They think they have skills. But they don't!
And, in the information we will learn, ahead? You'll see this guy, Cho, attending Virginia Tech for FOUR FULL YEARS, has a truckload of stories the students KNOW! He didn't walk among them and befriend, anyone.
Yet no one in charge had a clue.
Okay. That was then. This is now.
Today, lots of people are holding clues.
Are you gonna let campuses continue with their bullshit? Training endangered people to "talk?"
Are you nuts?
IN those two hours, between attacks, this nut went to FURTHER EXTREMES. Yes. He had the chains with which to bolt the doors to the building he entered, to kill students in their classes.
True. No fire alarms were sounded, then.
But if there are "root causes" to tragedies, we will be able to avert another, IF we have more expectations than BS from administrators. And, enough of this "talking" business; as if everything were just a relationship "to solve." Hello. There's no solving a mass killer's dilemmas.
And, to pass the "solving" onto the students is stupid, too.