It's Comin' Around Mr. Kennedy

Okay I have officially added Robert Kennedy Jr. to my Personal CRAP LIST. I realize I probably should have added the whole family en masse a few years ago but I try to hold off and only put those people who have done or said something so singularly STUPID that it defies imagination and forces me to just pretend they don't exist and go about my daily life. So now RFK Jr. has planted himself there with this garbage article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/afor-they-that-sow-the-_b_6396.html

In this article Mr. Kennedy proceeds to blame hurricane Katrina on Haley Barbour (the governor of Mississippi) because he was against classifying CO2 emissions as pollution. He even goes on to suggest that perhaps the hurricane turned and hit Mississippi hardest because of Mr Barbour's political leanings. Now I realize I need to give the man some room to be ironic or whatever but NOT FREAKING TODAY WHILE NEW ORLEANS IS 10 FEET UNDER WATER AND THE MISSISSIPPI COAST LINE LOOKS LIKE A WARZONE. PICK A DIFFERENT DANG DAY YOU IDIOT!!!

I am just going to start making an environmental issue about removing all blithering idiots so that we won't have to listen to people like this horrible waste of air (which by the way...under his standard...makes him a POLLUTER).

LoydRight

Who matters?

With the recent flap over Pat Robertson's ignorant comment about assassinating a Venezuelan leader, I came across a fun fact - who gets more viewers, the 700 Club, or CNN?

Drum roll...read below, provided by National Review -

"According to Nielsen Media Research, The 700 Club, aired each weekday, has averaged 863,000 viewers in the last year. While that is not enough to call it a popular program, it is still a significant audience. It is, for example, more than the average primetime audience for CNN last month — 713,000 viewers — or MSNBC, which averaged 280,000 viewers in prime time. It is also greater than the viewership of CNBC and Headline News."

This is just a great example of how little some of the so-called mainstream media matters today. I think of the 700 club's audience of being a fairly marginal swipe of conservative america, and yet they have more viewers than the former cable news network of record. Also please note how thoroughly old Pat trounces MSNBC.

Times have changed, my friends.

RMR

More young blacks ready to embrace GOP

The Boston Globe has an interesting piece about young African Americans and the GOP. I think a deliberate effort to reach out to African Americans by the Republicans is more than good strategy - it's the right thing to do. If we just assume that the Dem's are going to get 90% of their vote anyway and just write them off, we're just playing right into the incorrect stereotype that we don't care about minorities. Conservative policies are right for African Americans just as much as they are right for everyone else and we should be going out and saying so. Kudos to Mehlman and the RNC.

Compare the content of this article to the content of the cartoon David just put up and you'll see why the pendulum keeps swinging our way.

RMR

Republicians for WHO???

goats: comic strip from August / 08 / 2003

'Able Danger' Stopped From Informing FBI

This story is about a military intelligence unit was forbidden from communicating info about Mohammed Atta and Al Qaeda to the FBI because of a wall preventing the sharing of information in 2000 and early 2001.

Who was president then and whose policy was it? Hmmm.

The article goes on to point out that info from this intelligence group was either not sought or not received by the 9/11 commission. Interesting how the person that set up the wall of separation was on the committee.

More later on this...

RMR

Noonan on Bush

Take a bit to read Peggy Noonan in WSJ. Peggy doesn't always get it right, but always says it very prettily. In this case, she's right on both counts - a beautifully written explanation of Bush's enduring popularity with the base.

RMR

The Dogs of War (literally)

The LA Times story Servants -- and Weapons -- of War kind of misses the point a little - Islamic terrorists are willing to go against their own religion's dictates to use dogs as homicide bombers? Maybe their objection to us isn't so religious...or maybe they are running out of volunteers and are looking around for another plan. Probably both.

RMR

Keith E. Whittington on Supreme Court

Click here to read Whittington's total debunk of the leftie argument that the President should seek a "balanced court". What a dumb position. Shouldn't the president try to find men and women who will interpret the constitution correctly? Why appoint someone that you think will get it wrong, as the author says?

Here's a great quote - "when John F. Kennedy was pondering a vacancy on the Warren Court, should he have thought that what the Court really needed was a justice who would have been willing to dissent from Brown v. Board of Education? "

Of course not! There are a few other great questions like this in the article. In any case (deep breath) BUSH WON THE ELECTION! He GETS TO PICK THE JUSTICES! Read your Alexander Hamilton on this one, the Senate was never contemplated to have a role in CHOOSING the candidate, just in making sure that Presidents didn't pack the court with hacks that weren't qualified - like if Reagan had tried to put Cap Weinberger in, or Clinton installing Bill Richardson or something, purely political appointments.

This whole argument is ridiculous maneuvering by Democrats to blunt the harm of their poor election performances over the last decade.

RMR

Stossel right again.

Click here to read ABC guy John Stossel's take on the Davis Bacon Act, an antique law that drives up the pay (and thus the cost) for every worker on government construction jobs. As usual, his logical questions totally skewer the union's argument. By arbitrarily setting wages instead of letting the market set them, the result is that younger, more inexperienced workers never get a foot in the door. He has a great example of a housing project in Chicago not hiring any of the residents to work in the construction because the pay was too high for the skill level of those that lived there. With pay based on the market, at least some of these young men would have gotten hired and had a chance to learn skills because they were cheaper to higher.

Anyway, love Stossel's stuff always. Give it a read.

RMR

Democrats' new strategy: Almost winning

I absolutely could not have said this better. Just go and read it.

Democrats' new strategy: Almost winning

RMR