Open Threads

I am waiting for the outrage from liberal bloggers when they hear about the shady business dealings of Terry McAuliffe. It is not limited to Global Crossing, as this little piece points out:

“In one deal, McAuliffe and the fund officials created a partnership to buy a large block of commercial real estate in Florida. McAuliffe put up $100 for the purchase, while the pension fund put up $39 million. Yet McAuliffe got a 50-percent interest in the deal; he eventually walked away with $2.45 million from his original $100 investment. In another instance, the pension fund loaned McAuliffe more than $6 million for a real-estate development, only to find that McAuliffe was unable to make payments for nearly five years. In the end, the pension fund lost some of its money, McAuliffe moved on to his next deal, and fund officials found themselves facing the Labor Department’s questions.”

I know I will be waiting for a while, because there really is no outrage over Bush and Cheney- it is merely partisan politics. Remember, this is the party that has multiple definitions of the word ‘is.’ To prove it, Democrat flack addresses why Dems are not worried about the DNC chair’s business dealings:

A Democratic-party spokeswoman dismisses suggestions that McAuliffe’s record might damage his credibility. “First of all, Terry McAuliffe isn’t president of the United States,” says the DNC’s Jennifer Palmieiri. “He doesn’t have the responsibility or the ability to restore confidence in the markets.” Second, Palmieiri says, “We’re holding Bush to Bush’s standard – the standard he has laid out for corporate CEOs. He should follow that example. He has not been upfront with what his own situation was.” Finally, Palmieiri says, the business records of Bush’s Democratic critics are far less important than the fact that they support the Sarbanes corporate reform bill. “Whatever their business dealings are, and whatever they have done in the private sector,” Palmieiri says, “they still want to support the most responsible reforms available.”

My favorite line:

“Whatever their business dealings are, and whatever they have done in the private sector,” Palmieiri says, “they still want to support the most responsible reforms available.

Translation: It does not matter if Democrats were lying, cheating, dirtbag, screw-the-poor moneygrubbers in the past. They have now seen the light and realize that massive government intervention and a number of new layered laws can fix the problem.

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BTW- Rush had a good point today. Although Dems are trying to make hay over the Cheney-Halliburton non-story, remember who it was that made Cheney exercise his options when he did. That is right, it was the press and Democrats who made him sell then, so he would not have a conflict of interest.

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Some people are so obnoxious, thick-headed, elitist, condescending, snide, and sure of their own superior intellect that it is just painful to read their fatuous proclamations. This jackass is one of those people.

Even worse, he is teaching the next generation of Guardian hacks.

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One thing I do have to comment on for today (other than I think the Lindh sentence is fair- that is really what the justice system is all about- some av erage schmoe like me can hear the sentence and say ‘That sounds reasonable” and then I can move on and not have to hear about the despicable prick or his wacky parents for 20 years). On MSNBC today, they actually had a debate titled (with the snazzy little graphics at the bottom of the screen) “Corporate Scandals- Is President Bush part of the solution or part of the problem?” The clear implication being that Bush and Cheney have done something wrong with Harken and Halliburton. I know you lefties like to lie and fool yourselves about bias in the media, but c’mon. The only thing dumber than expecting the President being able to talk the economy sound is blaming the President for these corporate scandals. Morons everywhere, I tell ya.

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I have been uber busy the last few days. I finally completed my apartment move (I have a BED!!- No more futon), and now I am moving into my new office and getting things ready for the fall semester. I should resume daily posting, and not the sporadic weirdness (nothing for four days, then 35 posts, nothing for two days) in a week or so.

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The Libertarian Samizdata has moved to this address. They have a brand new beautiful site.

BTW- Just to let you know, I have contacted the gracious and talented Sekimori, and I should have my site re-designed and moved by Sept. 15th.

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George Michael- Alec Baldwin with Rhythym?

George Michael is a buffoon. That much we can be sure of. The NY Times is now reporting that he is also a paranoid idiot.

George Michael says he’s nervous to return to his home in the United States because of the criticism he’s received for his new song and video, “Shoot the Dog.”

I have not seen this, nor will I. I do not recall ever listening or watching anything by this simpering idiot except for some video with a bunch of hot models in various stages of undress. However, the coverage of this ‘political statement’ appears to unanimously agree that it is something akin to a Michael Moore statement with a drum beat.

“It’s been very heavily inferred that I was actually an al-Qaida sympathizer, that somehow I thought that there was something not horrific and shocking and undeserved about the attacks on September the 11th,” he said. “Americans are very reactionary right now, and I — because of that article — cannot return to America, even though my partner lives there.”

I just inferred that you were an idiot, if that helps to clear the air. Come on back, as we have plenty of room for idiots in the U.S. In fact, we adore them. How else can you explain Congress, the NY Times, Bud Selig, and all of Hollywood?

“I don’t think that there’s any real connection between what I’m saying (in the video) and the fact that I’m a gay man. But there’s a lot of connection in the press as to those two things,” Michael said.

No connection- except in the PRESS. Idiot or not?

“For some reason I don’t have a right to talk about anything because I got caught four years ago … in a Los Angeles toilet,” he said. “Somehow that eradicates all possibility that what I’m saying might be for the best, or is worthy of being discussed. I can’t fight that kind of homophobia.”

Michael was charged with lewd conduct in a Los Angeles public toilet in 1998. Soon after, he said publicly for the first time that he’s gay.

Since there is no connect to his homosexuality and his political opinions, Michael must now create one. Idiot. And puhhhleaze! A public bathroom? That is just gross- I don’t even touch public bathroom handles when avoidable, let alone being handled in a public bathroom.

Later, his career rebounded with the single and video “Outside,”

Never heard of it. Helluva rebound.

which poked fun at the police.

Mature retribution for his arrest, I am sure.

George Michael, Idiot Abroad.

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