Open Threads

I have been informed by my friends that reprogramming my cable box so that CNNSI, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNNEWS, and the Fox Sports Networks no longer show up so that I don’t accidently surf through channels and hear about the G** D***** Patriots and the Steelers loss is immature and that I should get over it.

My stance is it isn’t, and I won’t. I will put them back in rotation in a couple weeks after that big game.

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Jason Soon highlights some remarks made by our Aussie Allies, and links it to Jonah Goldberg’s ‘looking for trouble essay a couple of days ago. The whole piece is about Aussie’s very own John Walker, David Hicks. Go give it a read.

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Dawson also has a brand spanking new layout. And we like what he has to say (when he says something- which hasn’t been often lately). At any rate, it looks great, and I really need to do something about my layout here.

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Workers World Online has a brand spanking new layout, and they also have this delicious op-ed by convicted murderer, degenerate rabble-rouser, and soon to be (hopefully) compost heap Mumia Abu Jamal.

At any rate, Mumia opines that War is big business.

He seems to be taking the lead of Ted Rall, but what is most offensive is that he perceives that the ONLY reason we are in Afghanistan is for oil (a dubious assertion in it’s own right). No mention of 9/11, no mention of the horrors of the Taliban, no mention of Al-Qaeda.

These people are just sickening.

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This is the clearest explanation of the status of the Camp X-Ray detainees that I have seen.

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BTW- Am I the only registered Republican who is sickened by this orgy of spending? Goodness- it is just appalling. I think I might be ripping up my elephant card and following the lead of the Samizdata folks.

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OK. The pundits all seem agog with this speech. I thought it was a luke-warm ‘O.k.’

I still think his best speech was his acceptance speech at the 2000 Republican Convention. In particular, these lines:

A time of prosperity is a test of vision. And our nation today needs vision. That is a fact … or as my opponent might call it, a “risky truth scheme.” Every one of the proposals I’ve talked about tonight, he has called a “risky scheme,” over and over again.

It is the sum of his message — the politics of the roadblock, the philosophy of the stop sign.

If my opponent had been there at the moon launch, it would have been a “risky rocket scheme.”

If he’d been there when Edison was testing the light bulb, it would have been a “risky anti-candle scheme.”

And if he’d been there when the Internet was invented well … I understand he actually was there for that.

He now leads the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But the only thing he has to offer is fear itself.

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