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Thursday, September 30, 2004


Biting My Tongue

Here’s your chance to comment on the first Presidential debate.

Tell me what you think about the issues raised, the soundbites used, or anything else involving the debate in the comments section below.

Let’s keep it on topic, people. If you want to raise another issue, then e-mail us.

Posted by Drumwaster at 05:28 PM | (1) Trackbacks
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004


More Silencing of Dissent

Don’t know how many people here read Men’s Health, but some time ago, they hired Ted F’ing Rall to do a monthly “cartoon” for the magazine. This was after 9/11 of course and his mocking of the 9/11 victims. I sent off a letter saying if Ted Rall was still there, I personally would not renew again.

Seems that they received a few letters like that.

I won’t miss the vile bastard...although I don’t know much about his replacement.

Posted by Drumwaster at 06:10 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Asshats |

It’s after 5pm here…

By John Kerry’s watch, it’s 10am.

The Great Pumpkin isn’t flipping or flopping here...he’s lying. And badly…

He could’ve given some slippery “logical” reason why he said he voted for the $87billion, then voted against it, but he chose to LIE again. You know, you just know, if Bush did this, the media would be over it.

It may be nothing but a small whoops! moment, but this guy is full of em’.

In addition, how this orange doofus expects to win Wisconsin when he refers to “Lambert Field” is beyond me, but it’s kind of nice we’re getting this much attention.

Posted by Drumwaster at 03:17 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Kerry’s Voting Record

I received this from Drum last night, since he cannot have a partisian opinion until after election day, he wondered if I had a few comments to make, and what do you know?  I do.

First off a little background.  The list below comes from the Political Junkies Handbook, which complies a bipartisian list of organizations and how many times a candidate votes in line with what that organization advocates.  The candidate in this case is John Kerry (as if you couldn’t tell that from the title of the post).  The number after each organization name represents the percentage of times said candidate voted in-line with that particular organization or interest group.  As you will see the list contains very few surprises.

Name of Group And Kerry’s Lifetime Rating and The Group’s Mission:

American Conservative Union: 5—Conservative Causes

The ACU is the oldest conservative lobbying group in the country, among the many things which the group lobbies for are lower taxes, less regulation of small business, and a strong national defense.  And to answer the unasked questiion, yes I am a member.

Now to break it down.  5% of the time Kerry voted the ACU’s way, 95% of the time he did not.  Keep in mind this is a lifetime rating, and not a snapshot of one year, such as the statistics released by the National Journal frequently bandied about the right side of the blogosphere.  Now does this rating prove John Kerry to be one of the most liberal members of the US Senate?  In and of itself, no. 

The next organization, the ADA, could prove that with it’s lifetime rating of Kerry, but they’re About page is, well, nebulous on just what they do.

Americans for Democratic Action: 92—Liberal Causes

Like I said the ADA says very little about just what it does on it’s About page.  Other than they, “...lobby through coalition partnerships, through direct advocacy, and through the media.” And that their lobbying philiosphy is based on, “democratic action.” Okay, fine.  Now what the means exactly, I have no idea.  Since all interest groups are based on “democratic action.” They also say they, “...continually strive[s] to push for democratic and progressive values and ideals in American policy.” As I said, somewhat nebulous. 

Some more analysis and the rest of the list is below the fold.


Posted by Kevin at 01:51 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Tuesday, September 28, 2004


An interesting point of view

Remember the ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth about all the military deaths in Iraq, and how it was a “quagmire”? The question that a reporter asked “Does the claims that Allawi makes show him to be living in the same fantasy land as President Bush?”

Remember all that?

Well, quagmire this

This makes Allawi’s claim that “15 out of 18 Iraqi provinces could have elections tomorrow” sound a lot more realistic, doesn’t it?

Posted by Drumwaster at 10:56 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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They Just Don’t Learn

CBS News done went and pulled a stupid.  Again:

Three weeks after he denounced the internet as being “filled with rumors,” the embattled CBS anchor ran a story on his Tuesday “Evening News” program hoping to stir up fear of an impending military draft.

In a story that was a textbook example of slipshod reporting, CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger used debunked internet hoax emails and an unlabeled interest group member to scare elderly “Evening” viewers into believing that the U.S. government is poised to resume the draft.

Now, to be fair there are US Congressmen and Senators attempting to introduce legislation to bring back the draft.  Here’s the kicker though, they are all Democrats.  The President has said he doesn’t want the draft brought back.  The SecDef is dead set against it and the Congressional leadership has pretty much pronounced the last rites on those bills.  Hell, even the bill’s sponsors admit there is almost zero chance of them passing, let alone getting voted on.  Of course all of that is left out by CBS News.

And people ask me why I haven’t watched a network news broadcast for 5 years.  Well, there you go.

Posted by Kevin at 09:25 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: What Liberal Media? |

Well DUH





You Should Vote For Bush

George Bush

(You May Want to Hide This From Your Left-y Blogger Friends)




Posted by Kevin at 03:18 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Internet quizzes |

What liberal media?, Part 5,347,297

JimK just freakin’ nails it.

It is exactly the same “logic” that is used when the same economic numbers exist (unemployment, GDP growth, per capita income, etc.), but the proponent completely reverses the defining adjectives used (id est, 5.6% unemployment in 1996 = “good”, 5.6% unemployment in 2004 = “worst economy since Hoover").

I know, I know… What liberal media?

Posted by Drumwaster at 11:53 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: What Liberal Media? |

Have you ever heard of M.C. Escher?

He was kind of an odd duck, who delighted in designing building, objects, and landscapes that were physically impossible to exist in a standard three-dimensional universe, making more than one person cross-eyed as they tried to figure it out.

Your eyes would follow the lines of the structure out along a straight line, only to discover that you weren’t looking at what you thought you were. He was a gifted artist, too, managing to create regular tilings on a geometric plane with irregular shapes, such as fish, lizards, birds, etc.

Well, some scientists decided to put his drawings into a computer 3-D modelling program, and the results into a 3-D printer. (Yes, they do exist.)

The results of those efforts can be seen here, and they are just as eye-bending, until you see the perspective picture, and it suddenly snaps into “normal” (or about as normal as anything Escher did can be).

Posted by Drumwaster at 07:32 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Technology |

Monday, September 27, 2004


Why does everyone hate George?

Not Bush, but Lucas…

Sure, I may be a positive polly on this one (like sports as well), but I don’t quite get the bruhaha over the Star Wars Trilogy. I know they’re the special edition versions and I know the pristine orginal versions can only be found on dusty video tapes or laser disc. But my point would be, who cares?

He envisioned it, he created it and he wrote it. Did he tinker around too much with Episode IV? Perhaps, but when I saw it in the theater seven years ago, it was fantastic. I didn’t care about a digital Jabba slogging around, it didn’t matter to me. Making Greedo shoot first? A little much, but I don’t see how that changed the entire character of Han Solo as some people would like to believe. He still shot him, flipped the bartender a coin and still says “Sorry about the mess.” Still the same smuggler everyone loves.

I’m sure it’s hard to resist, I know, this was my lone birthday present, but I couldn’t imagine not having them. Even if they’re the special editions..

Posted by Drumwaster at 05:41 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Kerry’s Grand Plan

Kerry Campaign Manager, Mary Beth Cahill on NPR:

Cahill: “Well actually, I think that some of the people who have done the most with this around the world are the Irish and the French, and that if we could draw them into this, helping us train Iraqi nationals, that would be a huge step in the right direction. But they won’t do it so long as we have the leadership that we have right now.”

Yes, of course.  All we need are the Irish then all of our problems in Iraq will be solved.

As for the french?

Somebody better get Mary Beth a subscription to the Financial Times.

French and German government officials say they will not significantly increase military assistance in Iraq even if John Kerry, the Democratic presidential challenger, is elected on November 2.

I have no idea how many times I have asked this question up to his point but I am going to ask it again.  Is anyone running this campaign?

Posted by Kevin at 05:32 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Just curious

I’m curious to find out how often you visit this site. Whether you check several times a day, whether you check once a day (and the scroll through the stories from the previous day), whether you check only when there is a new entry (as reported by BlogRoll or an RSS feed program), or whether you usually visit through a link on one of your daily reads elsewhere, I’d like to know.

I’m also a little curious how geographically scattered my readership actually is.

So, if you wouldn’t mind, just drop a quick line in the comments section - nothing fancy, and I’m not looking for information you don’t want to share, just approximately where you live (county level would be fine in most cases) and how often you usually stop by.

If you don’t want to answer, that’s fine too. I’m just curious, that’s all.

Posted by Drumwaster at 12:06 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Weirdness |

Iraq and Afghanistan

There has been good news out of Afghanistan within the last couple weeks.  This can be compared to the bad news that seems to stream out of Iraq.  Why is that?  We have 10 soldiers in Iraq for every one we have in Afghanistan.....why aren’t we able to get the peace process started?

Well....let’s discuss.


Posted by John Cross at 09:16 AM | (0) Trackbacks
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Found in the comments

...to this thread comes a detailed explanation from Ric Locke regarding Bush’s Texas ANG service. I occasionally dealt with Reserve pilots who were just looking to “mark time” in an active-duty unit, and whose names or faces I never bothered to remember, because I was never going to see them again.

I’ve recreated the whole thing below…


Posted by Drumwaster at 06:34 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Essays |

Sunday, September 26, 2004


Hilarious parody

From Loyal Reader Darren comes this song parody.

I don’t know how they did it, but the voice is dead on…

Ain’t nobody can sing it quite like Frankie.

Posted by Drumwaster at 01:50 PM | (1) Trackbacks
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