Bull Moose Strikes Back

Never mind Bush’s spending problems, his entitlement expansions, or his expansion of the Dept. of Education, I can live with those as long as his foreign policy remains strong.
What does chip away ay my loyalty are pictures like this:

I hope he can do what the Vikings have trouble doing: Win the big one. He needs to travel over to the Packer Hall of Fame to learn about how that is done. Perhaps the Kerry campaign can give them directions. Just ask them how to get to Lambert Field.

No Comments »

I may have to eat it on my thinking that bin Laden was killed three years ago at Tora Bora. We’ll see.

In any case it’s interesting that in Spain at this point before the elections there had been a spectacular terror attack. What have we got in the US? A couple of threatening tapes. What? Couldn’t they get anything done in the US? Sounds like Homeland Security really sucks, ha?

So, swing-staters. In two days you’ve had two big-name terrorists, or at least one and someone using bin Laden’s name, trying to intimidate you into voting for Kerry. What are you going to do?

UPDATE: A lot of folks on Team Donkey have been saying OBL is trying to use a little reverse psychology on us all.
I don’t think so. I think they think we can be pushed around like Spain. They can’t blow anything up, so they’ll try to scare us on TV.
I’m interested to find out if we are like Spain or Austrailia.

UPDATE 2: From comments:Addressing another topic, I don’t understand why you think that Bin Laden’s latest video is an endorsement for Kerry, and at the same time, complain that a Seattle paper (which I assume to be liberal leaning) didn’t mention it. To me it makes more sense that it will give some assistance to the Bush campaign.

Because they are a fucking NEWSpaper, liberal or not. And I was referring to the Adam Gadahn video not the Osama video.

In anycase, I love the Kerry supporters scrambling to spin Osama away from Kerry. I think the fact that they are directing videos at us, not bombs like they did in Spain is the strongest reason to re-elect Bush.

2 Comments »

Despite the World Series win by the Boston Red Sox, the fatwa issued on Bill Buckner remains in effect. The fatwa was issued after the spectacular collapse of the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series by Cardinal Bernard Law, then Archbishop of Boston, and is the only known fatwa issued under Islamic law by a Catholic official.

The current Archbishop of Boston, Rev. Sean Patrick O’Malley (who is thought to be Irish), stated that while time has healed all wounds, he has no authority to revoke the fatwa on Buckner’s life. “The fatwa is a divine order, even if not one recognized by the Catholic Church and the Holy Father in Rome,” O’Malley said. “Once it has been issued it cannot be revoked.”

Also disappointed by this news is Steve Bartman, the Cubs fan who is blamed by many for the Cubs’ collapse in the 2003 NLCS. While Bartman has not officially had a fatwa issued against him, it is widely believed that many Chicago Rail Authority police brandishing lead pipes are looking for him.
“I guess a Cubs World Series win might not mean life getting back to normal like I had hoped,” Bartman said in a statement provided through a proxy.

No Comments »

- Remain calm. I can’t understand why anyone would vote for Kerry and I know a lot of people can’t understand why I would vote for Bush (not wanting my wife and soon-to-be kid murdered by terrorists never seems to be an acceptable reason for them.)
That said, here is the big difference between me and the people who have drank the Kerry Flavored Kool-Aid. If Kerry wins, hell, even if the Democrats try to steal the election again and are successful this time, I’m going to get up and go to work on Wednesday. I won’t go riot. I will call President Kerry “President Kerry” not “Hitler” or “Stalin” or even “Fidel”. I won’t still be bitching about a close call in 2007. When I disagree with the president it will be for well though out reasons, not because “he’s evil”.
In short, I refuse to be what Teddy Roosevelt called a “shrill eunich.”
I’m hoping that a Bush vicotry followed by the inevitable riots will wake up some of my Democratic friends, like Alec Guiness in Bridge on the River Kwai . As I stated below in another posting, the Democrats are in a wasteland of hate. America needs two strong parties.

-The economy grew at 3.7% in the second quarter. Damned stalled economy! Oh. 3.7% is very good? Then why would Terry McCauliff say different? Oh, because he’s a lying piece of sleaze? OK, makes sense.

- A couple items from The Stranger, Seattle’s second leading weekly socialist newspaper, that are worth glancing at:

I like Dan Savage’s Savage Love column in The Onion, but he has gone absolutely hysterical. Homosexual stereotype perpetuated.

This has to approaching the line of yelling fire in a crowded theater. I’m all for protesting, but prearranging the “storming[of] Seattle’s federal offices, prisons, and property” in the case of an election not going the way you want? Vile, murdering commie Che must be smiling in hell.

And something positive: A good article on the LaRouche weridos who are always accosting me on the streets of Seattle.

- The Seattle PI this morning had nothing, (nothing!) on the terror tape shown yesterday. They did, however, have some above-the-fold stories on a bullshit Halliburton investigation and the perpetually debunked Iraqi explosives story.
The tape ran at 3:30 Pac-10 time yesterday. What’s the excuse?

-I finally went to Kerry’s website to check out his plans.
Uh. Under “Plans,” those are goals, not plans.
I am a little concerned with this. A guy who seems to blow all over the map depending on the politics of the day, who jumps on almost stories like the high explosives almost-story, without waiting for any confirmation, who’s economic and national security plans seem to be “create jobs” and “kill bin Laden” like there is a magic button to push for each is a few dead guy’s votes in Cleveland away from being POTUS. It might be a wild ride for the next four years.

- Just because the World Series is over doesn’t mean Joe Buck has to be back in the football booth this week, does it? Come on Fox, give the kid the week off. And then give him all the other weeks off.

-My pre-weekend election feeling:
Factoring out my gut: Bush wins the popular vote by 2%, flip a coin for the electoral college.

Factoring in my gut feeling about the folks I grew up with in the upper-midwest: people turn out to vote security, especially after being threatened by some guy hiding his face with a towel. Bush wins the popular vote by 4-5% gets around 295 in the electoral college.

-Finally, here is the best story ever. Best line: The dog has been trained to recognize police officers, firefighters and medical personnel as “special friends with cookies.”
I need special friends with cookies.

1 Comment »

They’re already rioting in Boston? That was fast. Burn that dump to the ground!

If Bostonians facilitate a little urban renewal, maybe I’ll think about cheering for the Cubs or the White Sox who, afterall, are more cursed than either the Red Sox until a few minutes ago.

1 Comment »

Check this out.
This is the first 14 minutes of Fahrenheit 911 with the narraration corrected by facts on screen.

1 Comment »

- So, John Kerry, were there weapons in Iraq worth worrying about, or not? I don’t care that we never found so much as a stink bomb (except for the mustard gas, sarin, etc. that we did find), but you can’t have it both ways. There are weapons there to worry about or not.

- I’d also like to know how 400 tons of explosives are looted. This isn’t a VCR in downtown L.A. Maybe while we were sitting on the border with our thumbs up our asses between the time Saddam kicked out the UN inspectors and we said the hell with it, it could’ve been moved with giant trucks? Could anything else been moved with them?

UPDATE: WTF? Russian troops moved the explosives into Syria? Kerry might have made a fatal mistake.

-ABC is holding a videotape in which a terrorist claims the next attack will dwarf 9/11. “The streets will run with blood,” and “America will mourn in silence” because they will be unable to count the number of the dead. Further claims: America has brought this on itself for electing George Bush who has made war on Islam by destroying the Taliban and making war on Al Qaeda.
ABC isn’t running it until after the election. Perhaps because they know that folks in states like Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Nevada, and yes, even parts of Minnesota don’t like being threatened by piece of shit Islamist terrorists and will vote for W. as fast as they can get to the polls.
Maybe it will help Kerry in states where he is already winning, you know, the states full of pussies, but that won’t matter.

-Looks like the curse is about an inning from being done. All supernatural sports bets are off. Does that mean I can cheer for the Packers on Sunday?

No Comments »

“Don’t give into hate, Luke. That leads to the Dark Side.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Empire Strikes Back

If hate is the path to the Dark Side, then the Democratic Party as a whole has built an eight-lane expressway one-way into Sith City. Bush headquarters have been shot up around the nation, vile lies about the sitting POTUS have been “authenticated” with bad forgeries by a top newsman on network news, swastikas have been painted on lawns that have Bush signs on them, tickets to a play and fiction book containing wild fantasies about assassinating Bush are on sale now, and today Katherine Harris and some Bush supporters were almost run down in a car by a man who said he was simply expressing his political opinion. How has the party of tolerance and open-mindedness become the party of hate? That is a question many Democrats should be asking themselves. They should wonder if the 2004 Democratic Party and the man that is running on the top of their ticket is something they want to vote for.
Continue Reading »

2 Comments »

- The Stanger, Seattle’s second leading weekly socialist tabloid, in it’s oh-so-well thought out and classy (the word scum was used) endorsment of Kerry, or rather against Bush, closed with something like this: “If Kerry doesn’t win, on Nov. 3 let’s fucking riot.” (The online edition isn’t out yet, but by Friday you should be able to read it on thestranger.com)
So, great. If Bush loses, I have to look forward to four years of riding a terrorist target to work while we treat terrorism as a “nuisanse law enforcemnet issue like prostitution.” If he wins I have to look forward to wading my way through a bunch of vegan hippies to get to work.
Be warned, smelly hippy, I’ll be carrying my whoop-ass stick that day. If you want to get in my way while I’m trying to get to work, I suggest smoking a bowl first to take the edge off.

-I’m not much for conspiracy theories, but I’ll throw this out there: Look for Bill Clinton to “inadvertantly” say something damaging to Kerry this weekend or early next week. Hilary wants to be POTUS in 2008, and she can’t do that with an incumbent Democrat in the White House.

- The election might come down to the Terminator’s ability to rally the troops in Ohio this weekend. Think about that. The future of America and the promise of democracy in the middle east may rest on the speech of an Austrian immigrant bodybuilder turned actor turned politician in Ohio.

No Comments »

On Tuesday, after I get back from my trip and hopefully a step back from the stress of this election, and with one week to go until the election, I will go into my reasons why any sane Democrats remaining should think long and hard before voting for Kerry.

For now, though, I want to ponder why the hell this race is close to begin with.

Only twice before in our history have we been where we are now, with a sitting president at war (the cold war being a war) with a force that threatens the very fabric of our country being opposed in an election by a challenger running on the platform of appeasement: 1864 and 1984. Both Lincoln and Reagan won those races in an electoral and popular landslide. I still think Bush will squeak an electoral win out with about 290-300 votes to Kerry’s 228-238 and his popular win will be in the 3-4% range, but it shouldn’t be that close. It is close enough where the dead rising and voting in Cleveland, a la Chicago, could be enough to throw the presidency to Kerry. And disengaging from Islamist forces in the middle east could be as disastrous for the US in the long run as Mondale’s plan for an arms freeze or McClellan’s plan for peace with the CSA.

When you throw in staggering GDP growth and an unemployment rate as low as the end of Clinton’s first term after the burst of the stock market bubble and the depressing effects of 9/11 it gets even more puzzling.

What, you didn’t know we had record GDP growth over the last four quarters? What, you think things are going badly in Iraq?
Here’s the problem.

Economic figures are easy enough to find and verify, even if Tom Brokaw doesn’t report them. However, the fact that a lot of Americans think Iraq is “a mess” is a travesty.

Do yourself a favor. Instead of getting your Iraq news from an American reporter who hasn’t left the green zone in months that pays an Arab reporter for information before feeding it into the New York Times, CBS anti-Bush spin machine, go to the Little Green Footballs link on the right. From there link to one of the several Iraqi blogs that are written by Iraqis. Find out what they have to say. See what is really going on in Iraq.

Still not convinced that there is a media campaign to end the Bush presidency? See how many times the minor Abu Ghraib prison scandal has been on the front page of the Times versus the oil for food scandal, a scandal which is a serious black mark on the institution to which the left and Kerry want to turn our national defense over. Think about how serious Dan Rather fraudulently reporting an AWOL charge against our commander-in-chief should be. Yet Dan Rather reports the news to us every night like nothing happened.

Do yourself a favor. Take the trouble to inform yourself of the real story.

No Comments »

Wow. The Hasselbeck nod might get him kicked out of Seattle. (Not that the people filling Seahawk Stadium every Sunday are the representitive Seattleite. A lot of them come from Kent and Tacoma.) Largent waited until he left Seattle to let his politics known. And Seattle was a lot less left when he played.

Well, now that the world knows what Kerri Stug thinks, all Bush need do is sit back and watch the votes roll in.

1 Comment »

I’ve seen Selig called a lot of things, but never a commie.
Yawn. Pissed off Yankees fans are as tiring as a BoSox fan talking about the curse. One group of lefty East Coast fans of one team bitching about another group of lefty East Coast fans’ team.

Does anyone west of Philly give a shit?

No Comments »

My wife and I are making the last pre-baby trip of our lives. The next time we fly together, we’ll be tormenting the rest of the plane with a howling baby.

Tonight, we will be flying out of the leftist bastion of the northwest (OK, one of the three), Seattle, and over the red states/areas of Eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota, then over the striped states of Minnesota and Wisconsin and landing in the outlaw city of the Daleys. From there we will proceed to the leftist bastion of the Midwest: Madison. (I’ve discovered from living in Madison and Seattle – OK, Seattle area – it is possible to love a city, yet dislike the vast majority of its residents, or at least their attitudes.)

I now think Madison is a pretender, a regular old Midwest college town that wants to think it’s different than Ann Arbor. When they wanted to build an art district in Madison, they just built it. A true lefty city like Seattle ponders, takes four or five votes, ponders some more, spends some money to study the issue, takes another vote, much like they are doing now with the much needed monorail.

Plus, Madison has Big Ten football; all Seattle has is some touchy feely Pac-10 crap.

It’s been too long since I was at Camp Randall for a game or saw Pucky Bucky in action at the Kohl Center. I’m not sure I’ll be able to reconcile the new Jumbotrons, though. What will I bitch about if not the crappy score board? I’ll find something.

1 Comment »

So Kerry wants to make the flu vaccine an election issue? Great. I think Bush could make great hay out of this if he gets the idea across that 1) it’s lawyers like Edwards that have made it not feasible to make the vaccine here in the first place (not that it really matters – vaccines can be contaminated in the US, too) and 2) this is actually a nice preview of what a socialized health system, like the one Kerry wants, would be like. Only instead of a flu shot you could be waiting to have a tumor on your testicle removed.

1 Comment »

Congratulations to the Houston Astros or the St. Louis Cardinals, the 2004 World Series Champions.

No Comments »

-Addendum to the electoral vote thing I wrote: It’s going to be a mess in Ohio. I wonder how many times Chief Wahoo will be voting in Cleveland.

-Apparently teaching (or being a stay-at-home mom) isn’t a real job, but being a billionaire heiress is.

I love hearing shit like that. I can practically feel Ohio, Iowa, and Wisconsin slipping away from Kerry. Now if only she’ll knock farming as not being a real job…

UPDATE:Terezzza eats crow.

-Michael Moore was in Seattle yesterday at the Key Arena. The radio station that we listen to at work as part of the Great Compromise had a fawning interview with him that ran this morning.

I guess I shouldn’t be, but I was stunned by the pure glee in his voice when he discussed the isolated incident of the transport unit that refused orders. “The institution that protects my freedom to make propaganda movies is showing a minor crack! YIPPEE!”

He also discussed the statistic that 1/3 of the soldiers in Iraq are voting against Bush. I have never seen that figure, the only poll of the military I’ve seen is that 4 in 5 overall support Bush (And aren’t they all in Iraq? That’s why we’re going to have a draft, right?)
Anyway, I’m not sure why that’s such a bad number for Bush. He asked to compare it to the military units in WWII, but again, produced no numbers. “Would 1/3 be against FDR?”, he asked.

Well, I don’t see why not. My grandfather, for example, was in WWII and I’d bet good money he voted against FDR. It doesn’t mean he didn’t believe in what they were doing. And if the numbers were higher for FDR than Bush among the people fighting the respective wars, I can think of a couple of other reasons: The Press and The “Loyal” Opposition and the effect on morale. Pretty much everyone was on board for WWII, today we have Ted Kennedy calling the war “concocted” and Dan Rather, well, doing what Dan Rather does.

-Why is it fear mongering for Dick Cheney to ask that Americans think about who they want in charge if terrorists get their hands on a nuke, something within the realm of possibility, but perfectly acceptable for Kerry and Edwards to tell college students they are going to be drafted and old folks their pyramid scheme payments (social security) are going to be stopped when Bush explicitly ruled out both?

-Not sure what to think about this. Either Iran is trying some reverse psychology, or they are worried about a Kerry administration ham-fisting their way into some mess with Iran that ends up as a clusterfuck all around.
Or, maybe they realize that the only time there is opposition to a war, barring a draft, is when a Republican is president, and they would not be as free to act belligerent without support from hippies.

UPDATE: No wonder that story confused me, there was a little mainstream media disinformation going on in there. If you go here you can read the full quote, in which the Iranians say they don’t care who wins the elections because they don’t think Kerry will be any better.
Again, I am confused because Kerry wants to give them nuclear fuel for “energy production,” but whatever.

No Comments »

Yet another “go fuck yourselves” going out to the “Mission Nothing Accomplished” crowd.

How long do we have to listen to these dipshits defend Saddam?

1 Comment »

What I said a little ways down about the election not being over soon enough – double it.

A lot of the sane Democrats around here (yes, there are a few) who accept that Bush indeed did win the electoral college vote in 2000 have been griping the past few years about how it is antiquated and needs to go. The president should be elected popularly, they said.

Oh, what a difference a few months make. It’s looking more and more likely that Bush will win the popular vote but the electoral race is too close to call.

Look here. Now look here.

Yeah. Why don’t we just let Ohio and Florida vote and everyone else can save their time? Well, I suppose Bush could lose Ohio if he somehow pulls in Wisconsin and then either Iowa, Minnesota, or Oregon, but I doubt they’ll be betting the farm on that.
But if Kerry pulls out Florida we can all go to bed early Nov. 2. (Hear that little brother?)

Anyway, my point is, that I’ll have another silver cloud to a Kerry victory. I can go around and watch all those Democrats eat their words on the electoral college.

For the record, no matter who wins in 2004, I think the electoral college is very important. A president that panders only to the population centers would be a disaster for the midwest (outside Chicago), the west (outside California), and to a lesser extent the southeast.

No Comments »

Wouldn’t it be nice if Jimmy Carter just stuck to doing something nice like building houses for the poor. He’s really screwed up his image in my mind over the last few years with his inane ramblings. The fact that he scolds anyone on their foreign policy is hilarious.

Anyway, today he goes on to new depths by commenting that the American Revolutionary War was “unnecessary” if only the British had given the colonies what we wanted.

Well no shit. Isn’t the entire point of the war that they weren’t giving the colonies what they needed/wanted. Here, let me try: World War II would’ve been unneccessary if the Germans and Japanese wouldn’t have invaded other countries. Wow! That was easy!

More of the same from the Democrats. Nothing is worth fighting for. You’d think a historian like Carter could look into his own party and see the lessons both Wilson and FDR had to learn before preaching peace at all costs.

No Comments »

I’d question Holmgren bringing in Jerry Rice to take over for Koren Robinson while he serves his suspension, if it wasn’t for the fact that the Seahawks are getting him for almost nothing and Holmgren has a history of bringing in cast off WRs for a Super Bowl run (Andre “Full Moon” Rison).

At least Rice can still catch the ball, something that can’t always be said for his younger soon-to-be teammates Robinson and Darrell Jackson.

Does anyone know if the Sheboygan Flash is available for workouts if Rice doesn’t pan out?

5 Comments »