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The Thinking Blogger
Congrats to Fausta, who won a Thinking Blogger award. She thanks me for my friendship, but the truth is that Fausta makes it easy to be her friend. She's always positive and energetic, and she epitomizes the notion of a thinking blogger. Make sure to put her on your must-read list!
Ensign Calls For Return Of MoveOn Money
NRSC chair Senator John Ensign calls for Democrats to return all campaign funds donated by MoveOn, after their despicable New York Times ad today accusing David Petraeus of treason. "If Senate Democrats are serious about moving our country forward, they will denounce this outrageous ad and return the campaign funds MoveOn.org has lavished on them as well as the donations made through MoveOn.org -- the choice is theirs." Ensign's right, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the refund ...
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.
Comments (9)
Posted by NoDonkey | September 14, 2007 1:21 PM
Disaster for the Democrats portends brighter days for America.
Conversely, Democrat success on legislation or elections, always portend darker days for this country.
When will Americans start completely reject the absolutely worthless Democrat Party?
Posted by Athingortwo | September 14, 2007 2:30 PM
I think the Cap'n mischaracterized the poll results somewhat, when it comes to Petraeus. He says "The Democrats seem to have successfully painted General David Petraeus as an administration hack".
The FoxNews poll said that 40% of Americans have that view of Petraeus, while 35% don't, and 25% don't know. The 40% number is basically the Dem percentage of the population, so they've really only convinced themselves of their own line on Petraeus. On the other hand, 60% aren't of like mind. Given that the poll results were published yesterday, they probably don't reflect a full consideration of the Petraeus testimony yet. Give it another week, let the Giuliani counter-ad to the MoveOn smear have its effect, and I would suspect that a fair number of the "don't knows" will soon report a favorable impression.
Posted by dhunter | September 14, 2007 3:14 PM
Way to go Rudi poll numbers up because he's showing some balls and taking on her thighness.
By the way like Rush said today Move-On.orgasm is a Hillery organ set up by Herself and funded by billionares.
Poll numbers will go up for those willing to show the Traitorious Rats for who they are even though they are doing a pretty good job of it themselves.
They never ran on surrender that is not why they were elected, they ran on a better idea, a new direction, they didn't say it was their idea to lose the war , but W. has said he intends to win it. The poll numbers will go up for those who chose to win.
By the way Gingrich either get in the race or shut the hell up. Your nothin but a small little pimp sitting on the sidelines squakin otherwise.
Posted by Okonkolo | September 14, 2007 4:17 PM
Cheery news from Fox (the only network not to run the Democratic response to the President's speech). That kind of says it all. A poll during testimony is notoriously short-lived. Better to see how things shake out over the next week or two. The White House released a rather gloomy Iraq report today (some of the "some progress" claims are based upon "minimal progress"), and Sunni ally Abdul Sattar Rishawi was buried today, long term effects of these hard to predict, but neither will give the President/Petreaus a boost.
Rudy could use some good news as Fred has put a dent in the front, though I am not sure how long that will last. What did you all make of Fred having no opinion of the Terri Schiavo incident, claiming he couldn't recall the details?
Posted by patrick neid | September 14, 2007 4:43 PM
go rudy......
Posted by KW64 | September 14, 2007 8:39 PM
Okonkolo says:Cheery news from Fox (the only network not to run the Democratic response to the President's speech). That kind of says it all.
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I watched the Democratic Response by Reed on Fox, I even have it on tape.
Posted by Christoph | September 14, 2007 9:40 PM
Your generals need to take a lesson from history and do some of their own PR.
My God, do you think Julius Caesar, George Patton, or Bernard Montgomery for that matter would let their governments define them? They defined themselves.
Posted by pacatrue | September 15, 2007 5:34 AM
Congressional approval ratings are an interesting beast. The main quandry is that while ratings of Congress as a whole can be at 30%, the large majority of individual members of Congress probably have much, much better support from their own consituents. It's not clear what the group rating means in the end. It doesn't seem to be a strong indicator of any actual voting behavior.
Posted by exDemo | September 15, 2007 1:39 PM
I long for the time that I can return to my Party. But it is still controlled by the Marxist thought police, who stole it in 1968 and 1972 and have kept it ever since.
It's too bad that millions of good Democrats will probably die in the NYC and LA nuclear bombings that their nominal Representatives should be seeking to oppose. But they are not, for minor and ephemeral poll ratings.
They don't even want to protect or to remember the four thousand or so civilians, who were murdered in one of their strongholds. Based onut voting patterns, about 80% of whom were Democrats. If they don't care about 3000 dead Democrats, what makes you think they would give a damn about 30,000, 300,000 or 30,000,000 million more?
It was often said derisively of politicians that they would sell thier mothers for a vote. Here are 3000 cases of evidence that this is so for this bunch of elitist, elected, leftist losers, who hide as wolves in sheep's clothing, under the name of "Democrat".