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.
The Libertarian Samizdata has moved
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.
George Michael- Alec Baldwin with
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.
Paging Ted Barlow (who has
Paging Ted Barlow (who has been all atwitter about Harken lately).
Read this. Oh yeah, and could someone tell me why the Democrats never brought this up during the election?
I can tell you why. Because McAullife and Daschle learned from Morris and Clinton (and by proxy, Hitler). Just repeat a lie often enough…
And no one from here better send Ted nasty emails. He is wrong on this issue, but otherwise is a damned good lefty and he runs a damned good blog.
Bravenet appears to be down
Bravenet appears to be down again, so the page will be loading slowly.
John Fund on the true-blue
John Fund on the true-blue conservative and American Hero John McCain:
President Bush is making the Democratic Senate’s refusal to vote on many of his judicial nominees a major campaign issue this fall. Eminently qualified nominees such as Miguel Estrada and Mike McConnell were nominated 14 months ago and have yet to receive even a hearing. But a fellow Republican is undermining Mr. Bush’s effort to showcase vacancies that the Judicial Conference of the United States calls “judicial emergencies.” Sen. John McCain of Arizona is blocking action on even those few nominees the Democrats are willing to confirm.
Mr. McCain has placed a “personal privilege” hold on all Bush nominees–executive as well as judicial. He says he’ll lift his hold only if Mr. Bush appoints Ellen Weintraub, an election lawyer, to a Democratic vacancy on the bipartisan Federal Election Commission. Mr. McCain is furious at the FEC for a series of 4-2 votes that he feels improperly interpret the McCain-Feingold law by giving candidates more “flexibility.” Democrat Karl Sandstrom, whose term has expired, sided with the three Republican appointees against two Democratic commissioners. Ever since those votes Mr. McCain has joined Democrats in mau-mauing the commission, going so far as to threaten to introduce legislation abolishing it.
Self-centered, self-aggrandizing, immature, childish, back-stabbing, hot-tempered, ill-mannered, prick. My Words. Fund is more eloquent:
It’s understandable that Sen. McCain is protective of his campaign finance legislation. And it’s hardly surprising that he’d try to exert his influence on the FEC. But Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, says it is flat-out wrong for him to be “punishing the judicial branch of government for the sins of one FEC commissioner.” For him to hijack the presidential nominating process when several vacancies have been unfilled for over a year, and at a time when the federal government needs all hands on deck to fight a war on terrorism, carries traditional senatorial pique to new heights of self-aggrandizement.
Oops. Did I say self-aggrandizing yesterday and again today? So did Fund. I guess we agree.
Media Bias, Take 200020238366: Opinion
Media Bias, Take 200020238366:
Opinion Journal yesterday, and now Rush Limbaugh (god it hurts quoting him- everyone will imediately dismiss it) today, both point out how the media has ‘mainstreamed’ Larry Klayman and Judicial Watch. It is true that Klayman has always descrbied himself and his group as conservative, but why the disparity in the media descriptions. Why is he now just a member of a watchdog group, when before when he attacked anything Democrats did he was a Clinton Hater, etc?
Don’t believe it? Go google Judicial+Watch+Conservative+Clinton .
The first article that appears is this one with this phrase describing Klayman:
He is a frequent guest and dependable Clinton-basher on CNN and other networks, including a network linked to the conservative Free Congress Foundation.
Others report in more detail.
From yesterday’s Opinion Journal:
Ideology: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
In May 2000, the Associated Press published a dispatch about a Judicial Watch lawsuit against Bill Clinton. The dispatch twice referred to Judicial Watch as a “conservative group.”
Yesterday the AP published a dispatch on a threatened Judicial Watch lawsuit against Dick Cheney. The dispatch makes no reference to the group’s ideology, calling it only “a Washington-based watchdog group.”
From Limbaugh’s Website Today:
Klayman heads a group called Judicial Watch, and all through the nineties he constantly sued the Clinton administration. We did some research, and just to give you a sample, check out the way AP has described Klayman’s group in the past:
November 28th, 2000 – “Larry Klayman, chairman and general counsel for Judicial Watch Inc., said the conservative legal firm…”
October 28th, 1998 – “Larry Klayman of the conservative group Judicial Watch…”
December 4th, 1997 – “Larry Klayman, head of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch…”
September 14th, 1996 -Headline: “Conservative Group Sues First Lady in FBI Files Controversy.”
Now, let’s get back to his suit against the vice president. Note this AP headline and excerpt from Wednesday:
July 11, 2002 – Group Called Judicial Watch Sues Vice President Cheney.
“Judicial Watch, which describes itself as a nonpartisan group, has also sued for access to records of the Cheney-led energy task force…”
Now folks, every time Klayman’s name came up in the nineties, Judicial Watch was described as a conservative watchdog group.
Limbaugh Haters- He is right on this one. He goes on:
Just to prove my point further, I went to the Judicial Watch web site and found the following press release from this past February.
For immediate release: Judicial Watch Investigating Democratic National Committee Chair’s Link To Bankrupt Global Crossing. DNC’s Terry McAuliffe turned $100,000 investment into $18 million. (Company’s accounting practices questioned)
Did Peter Jennings, Robin Roberts, Judy Woodruff, or any of the others report this? No! They didn’t report it, and had they, they would have called this a conservative watchdog extremist group in Washington. But Klayman sues Cheney and all of a sudden he’s legit. Go figure.
Mainstream Media- They Report, They Decide.