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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
Support The Al-Dura Petition
Roger Simon at Pajamas Media is circulating a petition to demand accountability for the discredited al-Dura report from France's Channel 2. This is, as Roger calls it, the "Father of all Fauxtography," and C-2 has never acknowledged its fault in airing the supposed murder of a Palestinian child. He wants C-2 to show all of the unedited footage of the incident in order to show that C-2 faked the murder. If they're resisting the demand, I'd say they have something to hide ....
There Goes The Undefeated Season
Notre Dame managed to get its first loss out of the way as soon as possible -- and as badly as possible. Georgia Tech came to South Bend and stomped the Irish, 33-3, in the worst home opener loss in school history. The offense fumbled twice and allowed seven sacks on Evan Sharpley, who must have longed to have Brady Quinn back on the field instead. If Charlie Weis doesn't turn this debacle around fast, he may want to start asking Ty Willingham for some career counseling ....
Would Early Primaries Allow More Donations?
Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot believes that candidates will benefit if primaries and caucuses get pushed into 2007. A loophole in campaign finance regulation appears to allow an extra $2,300 per donor for candidates if those elections are held this year. Be sure to check out Jim's analysis, and the surprising candidate that may benefit the most.
When Tom Met Jeralyn
One of the interesting aspects of politics is finding out that opponents are people, too. Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft met Rep. Tom Tancredo backstage at NBC's studios, and found him more likable than she had anticipated. Perhaps it was their mutual interest in Dog, The Bounty Hunter ...
Joe Lieberman A Right-Wing Nut?
That's what CAIR says, according to Joe Kaufman. He has a link to a CAIR official's blog post that calls Lieberman, along with John Bolton, former CIA director James Woolsey, and the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes as "extremists". Affad Shaikh also calls Dick Cheney a "fat bastard of a liar," apparently not meant as a pop-culture reference to the Austin Powers movies. (via Let Freedom Ring)
Broadband Homelessness
The Japanese have made homelessness more efficient, and more Net-friendly, too. Their Internet cafés have become homeless shelters for the struggling manual-labor sector. The problem has grown into such a problem that government intervention will shortly become a political priority.
Found My Law Firm
Power Line links twice to this story regarding an attorney at Faegre & Benson who refused to become a victim and helped capture a very dangerous man. Keith Radtke is a partner in the firm as is Power Line's John Hinderaker. Radtke is listed in satisfactory condition after getting shot in the back, but that didn't keep him from locking up his attacker in a wrestling grip until police could arrive. I don't know about you, but that's the kind of man I'd want as my counsel ....
Don't Click That YouTube E-mail
The latest in spam seems to be redirections from YouTube links in e-mail to IP addresses without domain names. They attempt to entice people by making it seem that they have been inadvertently YouTubed. I'm sure most people can see through this scam, but just in case, you've been warned ....
Rick Moran Escapes The Floods
Rick Moran has kept us up to date on his travails along the Algonquin River. Yesterday, the police showed up to get him evacuated before the river flooded his home -- but today, Rick finds that a minor miracle has taken place, and that his house survives ... at least for now. Keep Rick in your prayers, and keep checking in at Right Wing Nut House for updates.
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 ....
Comments (14)
Posted by brooklyn - hnav | August 31, 2007 10:47 AM
It is amazing to see some of the MSM outlets coverage, or lack there of, of another example of the corruption afflicting the Democrat Party.
A number of local Media Outlets actually portrayed Hillary Clinton as handling this in a responsible manner, as if the Clinton Campaign discovered this relationship with a wanted crook all by itself.
The hide the story, play it as something else, has a familiar ring, which sounds just like the old song and dance.
The Clinton Corruption lives by it's own rules, even when Sandy is stuffing his pants, and we learn Bill lied about trying to 'kill' Osama, the biased partisans in the Press cover for those associated with the former negligent Clinton Administration.
It really is incredible to consider, after all those years of vivid malfeasance, the Democrat Party wants to return the 'definition of the word is' to the White House.
Embarrassing.
Hillary Clinton promised to bring jobs to Northern New York and failed.
Ms. Rodham lied about Whitewater, hid illegally obtained FBI files, made ugly ethnic jokes about Gas Stations and Gandhi, planned to portray a sex toy for her husband as a stalker intern, continues to accept campaign donations from apparent criminals, wants to give voting rights to felons and 'take things away' from the American Public.
This is someone who bizarrely focused her expression on complaining about the Bush Tax Cuts, after thousands died in a horrid terrorist attack in NYC, instead of focusing sincerely on the dreadful loss of life.
This is a deeply troubled person, whose family is addicted to deceit, greed, and corruption.
The Clinton Folly remains a vivid sign of the problems within the modern Democrat Party.
Perhaps Mr. Hsu was trying to prepay for a pardon, and a night in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Hopefully, we will all say no to this malfeasance in Our Nation's Future.
Posted by james23 | August 31, 2007 10:53 AM
they don't call him Sleazy Ed for nothing
Posted by LuckyBogey | August 31, 2007 11:12 AM
I just heard on Rush that Hsu may have already fled the country.........
Posted by SeniorD | August 31, 2007 11:41 AM
It seems the Democrats have a propensity for snuggling up to questionable financial resources. Why not just come out and say this is another attempt by the Chinese Government to influence American politics?
Posted by Sharpshooter | August 31, 2007 12:45 PM
But the democrat promised to clean up Washington! They PROMISED!!!
Of course, Bubba and Algore promised "the most ethical administration in history", and we all know how THAT turned out (and continues to turn out).
I don;t know who's more full of s&$t; the Dem's or the gullible pansies that vote for them.
Posted by RD | August 31, 2007 1:06 PM
Clever title and straight on comments-liked them all
Posted by FedUp | August 31, 2007 1:08 PM
I hate to admit that Fast Eddie is the governor of my great state! He is a sleaze and a crook! He wants to outsource our turnpike, and at the same time wants to make another major interstate a toll road. Funny, if it doesn't support Philadelphia, then, it doesn't matter! He needs to go down in flames along with Arlen Specter and Jack Murtha... two other large blots on our state!!
Posted by FedUp | August 31, 2007 1:13 PM
I hate to admit that Fast Eddie is the governor of my great state! He is a sleaze and a crook! He wants to outsource our turnpike, and at the same time wants to make another major interstate a toll road. Funny, if it doesn't support Philadelphia, then, it doesn't matter! He needs to go down in flames along with Arlen Specter and Jack Murtha... two other large blots on our state!!
Posted by FedUp | August 31, 2007 1:13 PM
I hate to admit that Fast Eddie is the governor of my great state! He is a sleaze and a crook! He wants to outsource our turnpike, and at the same time wants to make another major interstate a toll road. Funny, if it doesn't support Philadelphia, then, it doesn't matter! He needs to go down in flames along with Arlen Specter and Jack Murtha... two other large blots on our state!!
Posted by unclesmrgol | August 31, 2007 2:46 PM
No lack of coverage in the LA Times. Hsu is front page stuff.
Posted by big G | August 31, 2007 3:25 PM
I had an interesting discussion about fast Eddie this past weekend at the Legion in my hometown in western PA. (Voter registration demographic: 2 Republicans, 380 Democrats) They were complaining how NONE of Eddie's promises in two election cycles have been kept. I asked them how they voted in 2006? Swann or Rendell? The silence was deafening. I then told them a definition of insanity: repeating the same behavior and expecting different results. I got blank stares back. BTW, I'm not one of the two Republicans.
I'm a Kennedy, turned Reagan Democrat.
Later that night, I went to another club that has electronic poker games (for amusement only-wink, wink). I commented that when Mr Rendell's Casino business gets started that they may have to "loosen" their machines to compete. That led to a story (a very loud story with accompanying profanity) about this same club applying for a slots license and being told that there were two payments needed to get a license: the upfront application fee to the state and a recurring fee per slot per month to a company in Philadelphia (not associated with any slot machine vendor or the state lottery commission). The club didn't pursue the livecnse after that. Guess who's name was dropped as one of the owners of said company? I then asked them if they had voted for governor the same way they had voted for US Representative? Blank look again. These were the same people who told me last year that they didn't care if Jack Murtha was a crook, he was their crook and they were still voting for him.
I wonder if I'll be allowed to renew my club memberships?
Posted by davod | August 31, 2007 3:30 PM
This is a scandal.
Where did he get the money and did any of it come from foreign governments.
Posted by viking01 | August 31, 2007 3:46 PM
Well if Ed Rendell has met Slick and Hillary, Albert and Tipper, Lurch and Tah-ray-za, Screamin' Howard Dean and John Edwards... and if Rendell has met Charles Manson that makes nine. So, if he's also friends with Norman "The Bag Man" Hsu then maybe Norman IS the best of that nefarious bunch of ten.
If Hsu has fled the country have 'em check at Mark Rich's place first. Maybe Johnny Huang's too!
Posted by Peter Grynch | September 7, 2007 5:09 PM
"A Boy Named Hsu", Maybe he was travelling around looking for his lost father...
My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to ma and me
Just some campaign contributions and an empty bottle of booze.
Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me "Hsu."
Well, he must o' thought that is quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk,
It seems I had to bribe my whole life through.
Some pol would giggle and I'd give 'em cash,
And some cops would bust me and take my stash,
I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named "Hsu."
Well, I grew up quick and I gave Dems loot,
I bought Bill Clinton some Cuban cheroots,
I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame.
But I made a vow to the moon and sun
That I'd help Hillary on her presidential run
And kill that man who gave me that awful name.