Friday, April 30, 2004
Where you goin', Lee?
So after cajoling and wheedling, threatening, blustering and bloviating they get a meeting with the President of the United States, in the Oval Office -- they suddenly develop a more important appointment?!?!?!?!? Methinks the word "belies" fits in here somewhere...Koppel: Pimping for Ratings? or for ANSWER?
So many questions about this... It's like Hershel's grandmother used to say, "It all depends on how ya looks at it. Tip your head to the left and close your right eye and it looks one way. Tip your head to the right and ..." Each and every one of those young men and women deserves to be a real person with a name and a face in the mind of the American people. As do the young men and women who serve in Afghanistan. And the men and women who worked in Manhattan. And does he believe that the last name he reads will be the last person to die? Godfahbid anyone else will die, but how does Ted know this, today? Koppel has said he was inspired to do this "story" by the Life magazine article toward the end of the Vietnam War. Luce's whole point in doing that Life piece was to stir the public to make America pull out. And it worked. Which makes it difficult to not impugn the same motivation to Koppel's story. It also happens to be the first day of "sweeps week." Which the exec. producer of Nightline maintains they did not know. Un huh. The very existence of his job depends on good ratings during "sweeps" and he, what, forgot? Which indicates a serious, serious underestimation of the intelligence of his audience, and the rest of us. He thinks we're TV-tards. Dork. Tonight's show won't, in itself, be big numbers. But all this buzz will make people tune in for the rest of the week just to see what goes on. Oh, and Ted? As to your "objectivity" as a "newsman?" Right there beside Baba Wawa. And Jon Stewart. More: Oh,, and Go Sinclair Broadcasting.Thursday, April 29, 2004
Western Civilization
Well -- Babs has has that Turning Point lift. She's now officially unrecognizable. While they were at it, it seems they removed that small, lonely pea she used as a brain. Look what she's doing now:Jessica, cradling her newborn, has the transfer contract placed in front of her on the hospital bedside table. At that moment, when she has to decide whether to keep her promise or her baby, tears flood out of her, dropping directly on the child.
Next week on 20/20:
The Council Has Spoken ! ! !
This week's winners are: Creating Terrorists by King of Fools , and Dubya the Dummy by Kim du Toit - Weekly Rant Full results of the vote are over at The Watcher's, along with week's entries! Lots of good reading: Go See . . . Hey, thanks for the votes, guys. I was feeling a little down, blogwise, and you've picked me back up. Spambots: byte hot bits and die!! [Thanx, Watcher!]Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Good Cover, guys
Nice to know that there's no agenda . . .
5.3.04
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Spirit of America -- The Denouement IV
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This Commemoration of one of the Greatest Moments in Art History... is only available in Ohio. Bids for this incredible little item to go to:
Spirit of America -- The Denouement III
Want your very own hand-signed Cox and Forkum political art piece? *click* Chris Muir more your speed? *click*Spirit of America -- The Denouement II
Here are some amazing and unusual offers from the Victory Alliance: Michele is offering to answer questions for doantions. *click* Profession editing for writers from a professional editor. *click* Meryl is offering answers for dollars. *click* Always wanted to take up cat-blogging? But you don't have a cat? Aww, binky, don't worry. Lawrence can help you out. He's offering cat pix for donations. *click* Hungry? Wouldja like gooood food and martinis on the Venomous Lani? *click* Ask Kevin of Wizbang a question for bux. *click* Sean is just whoring -- he'll do anything. *click* Need a blog logo? *click* /can't make it to Hawaii? Howz abouts a gourmet dinner, with vino, in Colorado? He'll come to you! *click* Is your blog a mess? A visual travesty despite your astute articulations? Blog design services from One Fine Jay! *click* BBQ at Ken's place -- NYC. *click* Challenges here: for Red Sox fans, Leftie Loonies, and even Mets fans. *click* Boobage. need I say more? *click* Got friends? Got family? Neighbors? Enemies? Here's The Spirit of America Soft Money Bundling Contest! *click* Dooo-nuts -- mmmmmmmmm *click* Remix? [music, not cocktails] *click* A work of literature of the most difficult genre; short story. *click* Ilyka is offering poetry, interviews, card reading and for $5 - you call it. brave girl... *click* A poem just for you. With Flash Animation!*click* Remember that FL newspaper that called for Rummy to be shot? Want a copy? *click* Dizzy Girl will speak to you -- no electrons, aurally. *click* Chief Wiggles will come to your area and speak to a group of your choosing. *click* Raging Dave brings out yet another of his many, many talents and will create for you your own, personallized gun belt. [excuse me, I gotta go bid... okay. I'm back] [oh. guess it's only fair to give you the link, too] *click* Okay, now yer talkin': Val Prieto will blog for you while dressed like a girl for every $30 donation, he'll wear makeup with that for every $40 donation and if you donate $200, he will shave HIS legs and post the entire agonizing process. Wait -- I do that every day. Big deal, Val. *click*Spirit of America -- The Denouement I
Look at these numbers ! Castle Argghhh! Fighting Fusileers for Freedom! $16,714.49 The Victory Coalition $13,092.44 Liberty Alliance [the Liberty alliance has a nice round number, there -- does that mean they don't have any cents?] $6,060Grand Blogger Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35,866.93
How very encouraging is that? Look around at the blogs in the links below -- you'll find an amazing variety of people on all sides of political questions, life questions, from all over the country and beyond. Ok - no moonbats, but still -- a wide variety. These people have come together, given of their time and energy, given of their precious possessions and talents, given of their humor and goodwill. All to help another amazing group of people, Marines, SeeBees, Air Force, Special Forces, and many others to improve lives and create a place where free people can prosper and grow.U.S. citizens serving abroad, civilian and military, have always been the strategic "face" of America. They are our country's front line representatives in the world's most troubled places. Increasingly, they are charged with maintaining and building peace in countries where the needs, and the challenges to stability, are enormous. The success of those serving America abroad depends, in part, on their ability to tangibly demonstrate American goodwill.
To do this effectively, resources are needed. That's where the bloggers have come in.
The three competing blogger alliances above have decided to work together toward a significant goal: we would like to raise our donation level to $50,000. This particular push will be over at midnight tonight. While you can give anytime, and I'll be leaving the link up on the side, now is a particularly good time to dig deep and join other Americans in expanding the freedoms we take for granted -- human freedom in the world.
Bloggers are offering some pretty unusual premiums and items at auction for donations. Why not meander through the links below and see if you can find yourself some further encouragement to donate. And read the blogs you find, too. That will be your lasting gift to yourself.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004
A Step Too Far . . .
Sent to me by...a package of bills passed last week by the Michigan house could allow health care providers to refuse [gay people] treatment on ethical, moral, or religious grounds unless they need emergency care. The legislation would allow health care workers and insurers to refuse for reasons of conscience to perform procedures, fill prescriptions, or cover treatment. The legislation would not apply in medical emergencies. ...Republican sponsors of the bills said they are not targeting gays and simply want to protect providers from compromising their personal convictions with respect to such things as abortion, stem cell research, cloning, and genetic testing.
Now, I may not get out enough, but isn't this already the case? Or is it the law that physicians must treat anyone and everyone who walks into their office? Cuz if that's the case, I have some lawsuits to file. [I've been fired as a patient several times because I'm not. Patient, that is. I won't wait an hour past the appointment time -- I reschedule. I won't respond quietly to being patted on the butt and told that a yeast infection is "all in my head." [true story] I won't stop asking questions when my 35 seconds are up, and I actually do research and ask 'em if they've read the literature. baaaad patient. bad. ] but that's not important, now. I am under the impression that, except for emergency treatment and clinic work, a physician is at choice around whom they treat. I also believe that it is illegal to refuse treatment to someone for the sole reason of the patient's race. I may be wrong.
The bills bar health care providers from refusing to treat anyone based on religion, race, national origin, age, or gender. But sexual orientation is not on that list.
Why would that have been included if it were already the case? And why would "sexual orientation" have been left out? Did they forget??? On a more optimistic note, saner voices are heard:
The Michigan State Medical Society also objects to the legislation. "We don't believe it's necessary," spokesman David Fox said. "Medical ethics has dictated for decades, if not centuries, that a physician isn't required to do anything that's against his or her morals."
Whoinhell needs a law to allow a physician who doesn't want to do abortions not to do them? Are there an angry mobs compelling physicians to perform procedures with which they disagree? What is the real dealio in this??
Paul A. Long, vice president for public policy for the Michigan Catholic Conference, said the bills promote the constitutional right to religious freedom. "Individual and institutional health care providers can and should maintain their mission and their services without compromising faith-based teaching," he said in a written statement.
It all depends on whose ox is being gored, don' it. Well, Paul, I've got news for you and your pals [cuz I know the Catholics aren't the only people behind this.] I hear that your Values do not include performing abortions. They might not even go so far as to allow you to treat a gay man's ingrown toenail. That's fine, you don't have to. No one's gonna make you -- this is America. Though if you can't bring yourself to tread a gay man's broken leg or a lesbian's appendicitis you might want to consider a nice career in retail handbags. But I'll be damned if I will allow you and your ilk to pass laws which, on their face, seem to be stating the obvious but underneath are laying the groundwork for discrimination based on your religious biases. These are your biases, friend. Based on >your religion. They are not Truth to the rest of us. This is America and, unless we all fall asleep at the helm, no religious group can compel anyone to abide by its tenets. Religious belief is voluntary and adherence to a code of Values is a personal matter. You might say it is between you and your god. Any behavior that conforms to religious tenets based on law reprisal or threat of violence is not worth a damn, and is certainly not religious behavior. So don't even start with me. This legislation indicates a trend that bears watching. It is not about gays, or LGBTs. It's not about marriage and the definition thereof. It is about the alarming increase in people believing that, since they think their religion is Truth all the rest of us oughta abide by it. That is just plain wrong. Don't forget -- this is how religious wars get started, and airplanes end up being flown into buildings. Think it through. -- MORE: I also don't believe that opposition to homosexuality is a "hate crime." Beating someone up is a crime. Disagreeing with him about the human condition is not.
Have some opinions? Wanna be heard?
Then go see Smash!Hugh Hewitt has offered a short guest segment (any topic) on his nationally syndicated radio program to the person who pledges to donate the most money to Spirit of America in the comments section of this post.
Hot Damn, Mister. There is even talk of Dinner with Smash and the lovely Mrs Smash, along with some other once-in-a-lifetime pieces of history from his time in the Sandbox.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!! -- What you can't get on V EBAY!!!
Things are heating up in the Battle of the Blogosphere to support the Marines creating democracy in Iraq!
The numbers:
Castle Argghhh! Fighting Fusileers for Freedom!
$14,507.49
The Victory Coalition
$10,638.44
Liberty Alliance
$4,850
Grand Blogger Total: -- $29,995.93
Howz about them apples?!
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Here's the round-up of exceptionally fine items up for auction amongst the Fusileers: She Who Will Be Obeyed has another airline ticket available! That's right -- an actual airline ticket to the vacation of your dreams [or wherever Southwest goes] G'head -- grab John's next vacation right out from under him! Bidding starts at $50 and will last until 4.28 at 10:00p CDT. Right Wingin'-it -- The Pudgy Pundit has a great deaal for all us bloggers: for every TrackBack to this post, he will make a donation to the Fighting Fusileers for Freedom. How easy is that??? Link-bomb, here we come!!! Sondra is offering up a genuine Baath Party Notecard. Yep, the real item, used for things like the all-important thank-you-for-the-lovely-torture-session notes. and if you bid reaaal well, she just might send you some of that special "cat nip" that makes her kitty sooooo mellow, dude. The Ghost of a Flea's offer of a lovely scent is over at 12n -- hurry! hurry! hurry! Aaron's Rantblog is having a veritable fire sale on fine quality Patriotic Tchotchkes! In addition to this fine merchandise, Aaron is offering you the benefit of his creative juices -- he will make you your very own Blogopoly Piece. What blogger could resist? Alert all X-philes! At Cool Blue - the Way Cool X-Files Complete Season 4 are at auction. This is a huge value, and I understand that this is where they reveal the secret . . . do do do do, do do do dooo.... Misty is offering a classic mystery book -- The Mansion of Secrets - A Kay Tracey Mystery by Frances K. Judd. It's the 1951 Books Inc. hardcover edition and it looks to be in quite good condition. verra kewl! Though he has a strange bias towrd cheeseheads, Tritcale is offering a copy of the Baen Publishing Honorverse promotional CD, with 28 science fiction books in four formats. Ok, that counts as historical to me. Special offer is open to donators of . . . well, you'll just hafta go see. Da Goddess is offering the bra seen in the most famous boobage shot in blogosphere history: it's red! And Darth VOB is covering our six with a little psy-ops subterfuge. Modesty prompts me to allow Fusileer 6 to tell you about what's hap'nen' 'round here: " e-Claire has two items up for bid - votes in the Freakin-Out Fallujah Taunt Contest and those exquisite photos on the top of her site!" [*blushes* -- thanks, John]The California Legislature: Granola-eating Surrender Monkeys
As Spain is to al-Qaida; the CA Legislature is to __________________. If you said ALF, you must live here . . .SACRAMENTO - A Senate panel approved a bill yesterday that would ban the production and sale of foie gras...
The inpetus behind this bill is the Domestic Terrorist actions taken against two chefs, Didier Jaubert and Laurent Manrique, and Junny and Guillermo Gonzalez, owners of the Sonoma Foie Gras company.
The Domestic Terrorists broke into an historic building which housed an, as yet, unopened restaurant rumored to be selling foie gras when it opened. They did the usual vandalism spray painting, tearing things up and cement in the drains, which caused flooding throughout the building, damaging unrelated businesses and the building itself. $50,000 right there.
They also took records of employees of the restaurant fromn the office. Which may not seem like much until you consider their other related action: they broke into the homes of the two owners of the restaurant, vandalizing and tearing up -- and left behind a secretly taken video of the men's children. Terrorists.
They also repeatedly broke into the Gonzalez business,once taking along a LAT reporter, and stealing ducks. The ducks died in their "care." Pro-animal -- can't even keep a duck alive. Real competent.
And just whose duck chicken shit lovely idea was it to cave in to these Domestic Terrorists? You got it: the ever obstreperous, obstructionist and essentially clueless John Burton [S D-SF.]
And as the rest of the Legislative Surrender-Monkeys have nothing better to do, they're jumping on his little bandwagon.
Our lawmakers: the Legislature of ferrets, feng shui and foie gras.
It makes a citizen so proud. *wipes tear*
The Qaddafi Look . . .
Sociopaths can be funny:"We do hope that we shall not be obliged or forced one day to go back to those days when we bomb our cars or put explosive belts around our beds and around our women . . .
Remember that scene in Blazing Saddles?
Gaddafi will stay the night in a black Bedouin tent complete with satellite dish, pitched in the grounds of a Belgian state residence.
Satellite dish... Belgium..... bwahahahahaha
Monday, April 26, 2004
Freak-Out Fallujah: The Judging
Here's where the rubber meets the road, dearies. The Judging in the Freak-Out Fallujah contest is set to begin. To give you Judges [that's you, my sweets! All of you, each and every one. ] a better shot at the voting, here are all the entries in one spot: Freak-Out Fallujah Entries Listen up,1] Go to Freak-Out Fallujah Entries. ------Read 'em all. ------------Laugh your ass off. 2] Select your favorite or favorites -- it is more than ok to have several! Really, it is. No, really. Choose more. Feel free. G'head. 3] Go to Fighting Fusileers Donation Page and donate $1 [yep; only-one-count-em-one, dollah, U.S.] for each vote you wish to make. They will send you an email receipt. 4] Forward that email receipt to Claire or SondraK with a quote of your favorite entry and/ or entries. And your mission will be accomplished. No heavy packs. No cadences. No sweat. *all entries become property of SondraK and e-Claire, anonymity guaranteed, if requested. Prohibition does not void offer, even in Delaware.
E Z - non??? Upon gathering together all the emails we receive, SondraK and I will match your donations. Yep: we'll double your money for you!! Beat that anywhere else!!
Vote early! Vote often!! Vote 'til it Hurts Sooo Goood!!!
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