… at long last, with his election prediction (it’s about time, pal!) but he wouldn’t post it himself, so I’m doing it.
Here it is:
Bush will win with 322 electoral votes and a popular vote victory of 3 plus million.Would it be sacrilegious to say, “From DAG’s lips to God’s ear?”
Bush will win with 51.5%. Kerry with 47.5.
Via a link from Captain’s Quarters, I clicked on over to The Anchoress.
I have barely begun to explore her writings, but I just have to quote her here:
I have managed people. I know that if I had an employee who early into his stint had found himself needing to manage crisis situations, and who had done so imperfectly but effectively, had still brought in a spreadsheet showing growth instead of stagnation or loss, had shown a propensity for stability and a doggedness to get the job done, and had remained steadfast in the face of enormous personal disregard, name-calling, distortion and outright hate from those in surrounding offices, I’d have to take a DAMN CLOSE LOOK at anyone who might replace him, and the fact is, the new applicant would have to be pretty impressive for me to let the first employee go.Go read the whole thing.
Local friend and frequent commenter Bill has pointed out a possible
reason why his (heave) namesake, the impeached former president, is out
campaigning for John Effing Kerry, when a (heave) Kerry win would not
seem to be in the Clintons’ best interests:
Take a deep breath…I have heard that elsewhere. Bloody scary thought, eh?
“Chief Justice Hillary Rodham Clinton”.
The local Rush station (which was iffy to begin with, reception-wise)
has just changed formats, and they have referred us to (can you believe
this) the Fresno station! That’s hundreds of miles from here!
I just scanned all the way up and down the AM radio band on my best
machine–and Fresno is indeed the ONLY station that will pick up Rush!
But it’s VERY staticky.
And to add insult to injury, apparently one can no longer listen to
Rush for free at his website. Next thing to try: Hunt down a radio
station that’s broadcasting Rush via the net.
Anybody know of one offhand?
Grrrrrr………….
UPDATE: The old station’s website has been updated since I
first looked half an hour ago. Rush will be back on his old-old station
(the one with better reception, thank you) as of Monday.
So it looks like I only have to suffer through today’s broadcast with this horrible static.
Unless they’re lying. Naw, they wouldn’t do THAT to a CrankyBeach who
hasn’t had enough coffee yet despite it being nearly 10 o’clock in the
morning???
Found another new blog today, the Spear Shaker. He’s a fellow Californian, with a BA from Berserkeley, an MBA from Golden Gate, and a “PhD in BS detection.” But he’s not the least bit opinionated, oh, no, not at all. (That was a joke, for those of you in the audience who are humor-challenged.) Check him out.
… my newest blog-buddy, who has promised to post his election
prediction here momentarily. It’s none other than he who had the
highest-rated locally-produced radio show in the history of the Monterey
Bay, The Daily Rail, with your common sense conservative (trumpet
fanfare, please) … DAG! Yes, it’s really DAG, coming out of radio retirement and entering the blogosphere!
Y’all be nice to him, now…
The AP is reporting that scientists have found a way to create hypoallergenic cats.
Now, science was not my best subject, but here’s how they plan to do it:
Allerca Inc. president Simon Brodie said by 2007 the company will use RNA interference to “silence” a gene in cats that produces the irritant, which is excreted through saliva and the skin.But it’s even more insidious than that, as we see when we read further:
Scientists researching everything from cancer to crops are using RNA interference to silence genes to create drugs, gene-searching tools and even a new way of decaffeinating coffee.Ah-hah! There they go again… trying to figure out yet more ways to deprive she who is cranky of her wake-up juice!
Via Blogs for Bush comes a story of vandalism against Bush signs in, of all places, Hollister.
Where the bleep is Hollister? Well, it’s a small town less than an
hour’s drive from me. My high school played against theirs in football
(and usually beat them, but that’s beside the point). Most importantly,
it’s in California–a state not even in play in the presidential
election.
So what would drive Kerry supporters to make such a mess of a Bush sign in a state they own?
Could it be that, at the end of the day, winning California is not going to help their candidate?
We report, you decide.
Now that the London “newspaper” (and I use the term loosely) has given up on its plan to influence the American election, because it backfired in their faces big time, perhaps it’s time to revisit P.J. O’Rourke’s timeless tirade from “Holidays in Hell.”
Now, don’t get me wrong. I love the British Isles. About 99 percent of my ancestry hails from there. I’m deeply grateful to Tony Blair
for his unwavering support. Having said that, though, every country in
the world (my own included) has its share of barking moonbats, and now
and then we just need to bark back! And nobody barks better than P.J.
Warning: Strong language ahead, which has NOT been sissified! Read at your own risk!
Back in London, I was having dinner in the
Groucho Club – the week’s in-spot for what’s left of Britain’s lit glitz
and nouveau rock riche – when one more person started in on the Stars
and Stripes. Eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part
about “Your country’s never been invaded.” (This fellow had been two
during the Blitz, you see.) “You don’t know the horror, the suffering.
You think war is…”
I snapped.
“A John Wayne movie,” I said. “That’s what you were going to say,
wasn’t it? We think war is a John Wayne movie. We think life is a John
Wayne movie – with good guys and bad guys, as simple as that. Well, you
know something, Mister Limey Poofter? You’re right. And let me tell you
who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD.
“We’re the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks.
We’re three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and
descended from a stock market crash on our mother’s side. You take your
Germany, France and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn’t give
us room to park our cars. We’re the big boys, Jack, the original, giant,
economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort
coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d’Antibes. And we’ve got
a American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric
numbers go.
“You say our country’s never been invaded? You’re right, little
buddy. Because I’d like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who’d have
the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the
morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying ‘Cheerio.’ Hell can’t
hold our sock-hops. We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, fuck
longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I’d rather be a
junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen and jack of all you
Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and shit them
out before lunch.”
I never thought I’d say this… but kudos to NBC News and CNN for exposing the lies of the New York Times and CBS.
The last time CBS tried to put one over on the Great Unwashed (that would be us) and tamper with the election, it was the Pajamadeen who exposed it, within 12 hours.
This time, one of the Alphabets blew the lid off within a similar
time frame. Professional rivalry? I dunno. But who cares? Will the CBS
talking heads try and pass it off as a bunch of pajama-clad amateur
partisans this time? I wonder…
Others among the Pajamadeen have a great deal more to say. Michelle Malkin has a good round-up of links, as usual.
UPDATE: The Bear makes an excellent point:
Another aspect of the NYT story that, logically, doesn’t hold up for me is if the explosives were looted by terrorists, why haven’t they been used yet?[emphasis mine]
Just heard from a family member that another relative (who shall
remain unnamed) HATES George W. Bush, and one of the things she has
against him is that the Bushes are “rich.”
Wha-wha-whaaaaaat?
Need we even mention the gigolo who’s running against Bush? The one
whose tax rate was certainly less than mine, at a tiny fraction of the
income, and probably less even than my relative, whose own present
income level is not even a spit in the ocean compared to the gigolo’s?
Not only that… this relative is aggressively pursuing wealth herself,
aspiring to a lifestyle to which she would like to become accustomed,
and knowing that the only way to achieve that is to make lots and lots
of money.
Can you say “cognitive dissonance?”
This, folks, is what we are up against.
I think I need more coffee.
Eclectra
just got back from her 30-year high school reunion, and experienced
much the same thing as I did at mine, i.e. the women held their years
much better than the men.
In the comments to her entry, I said that at my reunion, one person
said I should get the award for having changed the least since high
school.
Well… I don’t have “then and now” photos available of anyone else, but I’ll let you folks be the judge:
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I’ve seen other writers commenting about the effort to “get out the
vote” with little regard for whether the voters have the slightest idea
what they are voting about.
I will confess… as a youngster, if I didn’t know anything about an
issue or a candidate, I would often just flip a mental coin and punch
the ballot. Nowadays, I abstain. For instance, I will not be voting for
city council members because I have not followed city politics and I
know nothing about the candidates or what they stand for (and against).
Likewise, on the usual multitude of ballot propositions, any that I have
not studied thoroughly, I will pass on.
Mallard Fillmore says it much better than I.
Right Thinking Girl points to an item in the Washington Times “Inside Politics” section from October 21:
While Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry normally accuses President Bush of being reckless in pursuit of the war on terror and relying too little on foreign allies, he earlier this week accused Mr. Bush of being “risk-averse” in that pursuit and relying too much on allies, reports Charles Hurt of The Washington Times.
As he often does, Mr. Kerry scolded Mr. Bush for cornering Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora in Afghanistan and then letting him get away — a claim disputed by Army Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S.-led war to topple the Taliban and other military leaders.
“We had him cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora,” Mr. Kerry said in Dayton, Ohio. “But you know what this president did? Just like he did with your jobs, he outsourced that job to the Afghan warlords who one week earlier weren’t even on our side.”[emphasis mine]
Bin Laden “just walked out the back door all by himself because this president ran a risk-averse policy and didn’t use the greatest troops in the world.”
The Bear is soliciting contributions to a blogburst wherein fictional heroes endorse Bush for president.
Okay. :)
 | Malcolm Reynolds here, captain of Serenity. I fought and lost a war against unification of all the planets into the Alliance. Now I hear this duh liou mahng John Kerry thinks some outfit called the United Nations can do a better job of defending freedom on the homeworld than the United States. He's wrong. I left the Alliance because of people like him. Now I live on the frontier, minding my own business and trying to fly under the Alliance radar. I have no home but Serenity, but I'm still free, and they can't take the sky from me. I believe in freedom, and so does George W. Bush. Don't let that hwoon dahn John Kerry take the sky from you. Vote for Bush. That's all for now. Serenity out. |
Juliette has posted a link to a picture that looks like an evil alien from a bad sci-fi show.
And check out the kids in the background. They cannot believe what they are seeing. Neither can I. And consider this--the kids can't even see his face! Are we sure this picture hasn't been Photoshopped?
