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Heading to Cole High Command at an undisclosed location, so posting will be light today. On the upside, there will be plenty of photos of Jack Russell puppies in the near future. Also, been a while since we have had a pet pic, so here you go:
See you all this evening.
I just finished watching the TCU/Boise State Bowl game, which actually turned out to be much better than it looked like it was going to be at first, even considering you had to listen to Lou Holtz slur and suck on his dentures for three hours. At any rate, at some point they were babbling on about something and one of them mentioned that Notre Dame will be in a bowl game tomorrow.
Full Stop.
Notre Dame is in a bowl game? Why? How? Notre Dame has been the worst major football program in the nation for how many years running, and they are still going to a bowl game with a 6-6 record? And it will be televised?
Say what you want about Caroline Kennedy- she is better at what she does than Notre Dame is at football. At least the Kennedy legacy is still intact.
I saw this on CNN yesterday, and forgot about it until someone mentioned it in the comments. Roland Martin deserves a damned medal for this response to the question as to whether Obama’s picks are diverse enough (it started specifically with a special report featuring Kim Gandy from NOW claiming there are not enough women):
ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: This is the most utterly useless conversations that exists every four years, because folks always do this, Republicans and Democrats.
I actually got an e-mail from somebody who complained that there were not enough dark-skinned African-Americans. Obama was only choosing light-skinned African-Americans. That’s how crazy this conversation is. How many women should he choose? Should it be 10 out of the 20? Should it be 50 percent, as opposed to 25 percent?
It is a ridiculous conversation. The focus of any of these groups, whether you’re women, African-American, Hispanic, whether you’re progressive, should be, what are the policies that are going to be initiated?
When President Bush, when he first made his appointments, you had Colin Powell, who obviously was secretary of state. But one of the things people never talked about, there were four African-Americans who were in the number-two positions at the various departments, they were the ones who operated as the chief operating officers. And so, this whole notion that you should only look at those folks it’s a policy position.
Look at Melanie Barnes. She’s over — when it comes to domestic policy. You got people in critical jobs. It’s not always just about the cabinet level jobs.
I honestly do not know how Democrats win as often as they do. With all the infighting and elbowing and whining and kicking and screaming, the fact that Clinton was elected twice and now Obama in the past 20 years just shows how bad the Republicans are. Otherwise, no party this fractious and petty and short-sighted could ever win anything, especially when they willingly feed a media environment that just LOVES this kind of BS story.
And yes, I am fully aware that I will get ten huffy emails saying I just can’t handle dissent and blah blah blah. Go air it in the damned grievances below. I’m cranky today.
After the crazy outrage over Rick Warren, I fear this is going to have a predictable outcome:
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is asking many of the Bush administration’s 250 Pentagon political appointees to remain on the job until the incoming Obama administration finds replacements — a move designed to prevent a leadership vacuum with U.S. troops engaged in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The unusual request by Mr. Gates, whom President-elect Barack Obama has asked to continue in his Cabinet post, ensures that key policy positions will not be left to “acting” subordinates as typically occurs when political appointees are directed to resign during a presidential transition.
I am almost afraid to check my usual left-wing sites, because I am terrified I am going to see another idiot chorus of “OBAMA LIED! THAT’S NOT CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN! OBAMA IS JUST ANOTHER BUSH.”
Unless someone can explain to me how it is responsible for us to run two wars while hundreds of key personnel positions remain vacant, I am going to say this is a responsible thing to do, and will not partake in this round of the vapors. I hope I am wrong about the response from certain quarters of the Democratic party, or wrong that these positions need to be filled. Right now, I am full on fed up with the whining.
This Nate Silver post eviscerating John Lott is pretty damned funny:
This possibility appears not to have crossed Lott’s mind. Faced with two alternatives…
1. The Canvassing Board somehow determined that this was a Franken ballot;
2. The Star Tribune screwed up.…Lott took Occam’s Razor and cut himself with it, and concluded that the former must be true, using it as his primary piece of evidence to allege the recount was slanted in Al Franken’s favor.
LIEBERAL MEDIA! Presumably, this is the same John Lott who is responsible for all the gun research we hear quoted all the time in NRO and elsewhere.
Tomorrow is Festivus, so we will begin the day with an airing of grievances, and tomorrow afternoon we will engage in feats of strength. Since we can not wrestle the head of the household, maybe feats will require reading everything on the front page of the Corner or something.
I am open for suggestions.