I swear, American media, when you aren't incessantly slanting towards one political ideology or the other, you can't even get your facts correct. Fresh off the heels of the entire American media (both the left-slanting and right-slanting) prematurely reporting the death of the Ft. Hood (alleged) killer who then miraculously turned up alive, this afternoon we get widespread media reports about how Tiger Woods is in "serious condition" (i.e. potentially life-threatening injuries) following an early morning car accident. Turns out, he had some facial lacerations, nothing serious at all, and was released from the hospital this evening. Of course, all the talk going forward nationwide is going to be what the hell happened -- why was he out at driving at 2:30 a.m. -- and why was he driving over fire hydrants and trees. But that's not my focus nor my point tonight. Shame on you, Amercan media, yet again. I repeat: Not only do you have an utter inability to cover the news with any pretense of objectivity (which is what every REAL journalist constantly strives to accomplish) -- you idiots can't even get your most basic facts straight! VERY PATHETIC STUFF.
Well, let's see, they might start by putting the kibosh on all of these ultra-liberal, massive expansions of the federal government such as the public option health care bill, and the Cap'n Trade, and the proposed 2nd Stimulus. And they might also have thought about making the first stimulus a serious stimulus, rather than one mostly laiden with pork and having no connection whatsoever to stimulating the economy. They might just start in those places. Is THIS the reason why Obama has waited 3 months to reach a decision on the military's plea for more troops in Afghanistan, i.e. has he been waiting until he gets some leftist dems to call for more new taxes right before he announces that he will send more troops there? Sorry, folks, but the level of insanity I see from this dem party, without one ounce of leadership or common sense, very much reminds me of the W Years. As I've often said, hardly change we can believe in, just more of the same.
How many of these awards shows have I seen where a couple of ladies are grinding or kissing or doing all sort of sexually provocative things. Hardly an eyelash is batted. But when this Adam Lambert does the same thing with a bunch of male performers and kisses one of them, STOP EVERYTHING! CAN'T HAVE THAT! Please. Grow up, America. If you're going to rant and rave about this, then rant and rave every time the ladies engage in this kind of stuff on TV. Otherwise, you have no credibility with me. My own view: I'm not offended by any of it. I don't think any of this sort of stuff should be viewed by young kids, but as an adult, I have no problem with any of it. But if you do, I can respect that, but only if you're calling it out every time it happens, regardless of the sex of the folks involved.
(Link regarding Lieberman's opposition to the Senate's Reid health care bill is set forth below). Like Lieberman, I would also like to see a health care reform bill, and I've even tried to tell my liberal and progressive friends that I'd even be open to a new federal government entitlement to help those who can't afford health insurance obtain it. But I draw a line in the sand (like Lieberman) at a public option, which I'm convinced is intended and will probably ultimately result in almost virtual control of the health insurance industry by the federal government (i.e., a single payer system or something very, very close to the same). I do not want that. I do not want to see the federal government in the health insurance business. The radical progressives very much want it, which says a lot right there. Am I open to a federal government entitlement that helps pay for health care coverage for those who can't afford it? Yes, as already stated above. But I cannot accept the federal government starting its own health insurance agency. Just can't do it. Even if I'm wrong about a public option eventually resulting in a virtual single payer system, I have other concerns: I trust our federal government to run something like a health insurance agency about as much I trust my ability to heave Mark Mangino for a world-record shot-put toss. Boot the public option, and a lot of my opposition evaporates. I hope Lieberman sticks to his guns in the same way.
...of a massive monstrosity of an ultra-liberal bill that no one's read or digested, and containing a public option unpopular in the country and intended to ultimately arrive at a single payer system, and without any bipartisan support whatsoever, what might I do? Well, I might make sure that such vote occurs well into the evening hours of a Saturday night, when the media is largely asleep and most of the nation is focused upon the college football games. I might do that. But then again, that would make me a chickenshit, now wouldn't it? Or a democrat. Same difference, in my estimation. 
I thought this was a great pic, as it now sits atop Politico.com's main page. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman. Conservatives hate these guys because they are not conservative. Liberals hate these guys because they are not liberal. Such is the way that conservatives and liberals roll. I generally like all three of these guys for consistently exhibiting an independence of thought that often eschews doctrinaire thinking and the desire to have one's viewpoints neatly and mindlessly align on a vertical totem pole of conservative or liberal ideology. For the record, I did think McCain was too old and tired to be running for president in 2008, and I did not vote him (nor Obama). At any rate, the linked story below explains an interesting rift that's developing between the three of them as McCain strongly criticizes the efforts of Graham and Lieberman in working on a cap and trade bill that might garner a measure of GOP support and make it through the Senate. By the way, since the Senate is set to vote on the Harry Reid health care monstrosity at 8 p.m. Saturday night, maybe the Senate dems could try to ram through the ole cap and trade at 9 p.m.? You know, sort of kill two pieces of America with one stone? Heck, maybe a little second stimulus at 10 p.m.? The trifecta!
Meantime, no one (inside the beltway or otherwise) has had any chance to meaningfully digest anything close to the totality of this massive bill. Sorry, folks, as much as I distrust the repubs and the conservatives, the dems in control in Washington are truly a pathetic, scary bunch. I fear very much the havoc that their massive ultra-liberal, progressive, huge government ram-rodded pieces of legislation are going to perpetrate upon our economy, our future, not to mention the America that so many of us have grown to know and love during the course of our lives. Never before in my life, until gazing upon the radical progressive strain that now controls our federal government like an Iron Curtain, have I ever felt so hopeless as an American. It's getting to the point where neither your voice nor mine means much of anything. Regardless of popular dissent towards these massive pieces of non-sensical crap legislation, the dems really just don't care. They don't care that they are about to pass one of the most radical, sweeping pieces of legislation in American history without so much as any opposite party support (save one or two stragglers, possibly). The wisest of politicians I've noted during my lifetime (on both sides of the aisle) have always said that you don't pass radical, groundbreaking legislation like this without even so much as a significant minority of opposing party votes in your favor. The phrase I've coined in this space before: Scary Days. And unfortunately, they just get even scarier come Saturday night, I suspect. And for all of my radical progressive and garden variety liberal readers of this space who blissfully go about their lives without ever questioning their government now that the dems are in office: You frankly make me sick. Not one ounce of free thought in your mind -- You might as well just start wearing a T-Shirt in public proclaiming that "I am a Left-Wing Dittohead, I thinks not for myself." Scary Days.
University of Kansas head football coach Mark Mangino faces allegations of improper verbal and physical abuse of current and former players (first link below). As I commented elsewhere (second link below), I just really hope there was no flatulence involved.
And for that, I have to laugh tonight. She coming out with a book, she's on Oprah, she's doing photo ops with Barbara Walters, she has Hillary Clinton saying that she'd love to meet Palin. The Radical Progressives must be a stewin' tonight (!) and pondering their next hateful false rumor to concoct and spread about Palin.
Drudge headlines tonight with the "story" that "Obama Bows to Japanese Emperor"!!! Anyone recall when NBC news anchor Brian Williams took a bow before Obama (second pic above)? So what's good for the goose is good for the gander, I suppose? BTW, while I don't think it's the best journalistic practice for a newsperson to ever take a bow before a politician (or anyone else for that matter), I have to say that I couldn't give a rat's behind about Obama's bow today. Who cares? You know, folks, I can't even imagine the daily mentally tortured existence that it must take to inhabit the far right or far left and to concern oneself with this type of silliness. Life's too short.
He's warning us about federal government power and control getting too big! Stop the presses! This from the same fool who lied to us about the pretense to invade a sovereign country (Iraq) that he knew had no WMD's, and a goof who embraced big government spending like it was going out of style. Here's a question for all of you readers: What exactly did we do to deserve idiots like Bush as our president, backed with (the old phrase for 45 RPM Record B-Sides -- "time to play B-sides", as BOC so famously said, but I digress) Obama as the successor (the most radical in either direction president in American history). What did we do to deserve such a$$-clowns? What did we do? It's absolutely pathetic. Well, at least I never voted for either one of their sorry a$$es. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever vote for another dem or repub anytime soon. I think for myself, I am Independent, I eschew the doctrinaire thinking of these two extremist BS parties. They don't represent me. And they don't represent you. Join the Rager Revolution!
In the days to come, look for an allegedly "moderate" bill to come out of Senate majority leader Harry Reid and his minions -- a bill with no public option or a somewhat watered down one (perhaps with state opt-out rights or a "trigger"), and a bill which will be able to get 60 votes in the Senate. Then, such bill will go to conference committee, where dems will "merge" it with the House's massive Pelosi bill and its much more "robust" public option. Look for such "merger" to be little more than making the Senate-passed Reid bill look much more like the Pelosi bill, i.e. taking the Reid bill and driving it very far to the left. Once that process is complete, as best as I can tell, the only vote that would be needed to pass the "merged" bill in the Senate would be a vote that only requires 50 or 51 votes -- and not 60. I don't know folks, but I think we can see this one coming up Main Street from these sneaks. You had to know, with all of the immense power that the radical progressives now wield in Washington, Congress and all across the spectrum of our federal government, that they would probably find a way to ram-rod their massive ultra-liberal health care legislation through Congress. I still hope they fail in this endeavor, because most Americans do not want this. We want reform and change to the health insurance system, but we do not want this. That is, most of us do not want health care legislation that is designed to (and will likely ultimately result in) total federal government control of the health insurance industry. What a nightmare.
...(subject obviously to Senate passage) (not to mention a day that saw a truly pathetic and embarrassing performance by my University of Missouri football team against the mighty Baylor Bears), I find that just trying to get back to a few of the simple pleasures can help one put a few things in perspective. And so it was tonight that I was motivated to road-trip it the closest White Castle restaurant to the Kansas City metro area. That would be the one in Wentzville, Missouri, about three hours east of Kansas City (although I was driving from Columbia, not KC). You'll find that very few of life's worries and concerns cannot be placed on a temporary backburner when one has a nice, greasy White Castle Crave Case (30 sliders with cheese) available to shove into one's piehole. 30 Pack of Stones, 30 Pack of Sliders. What health care bill, by the way? And what's a Baylor?
...When it's not incessantly slanted to one political side or the other in an effort at pure political advocacy, then it's just plain wrong on the facts that it reports. For hours today, all of the media, including Fox News (which has sort of become a new catchphrase of mine), reported that the suspect in the Fort Hood massacre was dead. Turns out, as revealed in the military's presser a few hours ago, that the reports of said suspect's demise were greatly exaggerated. Imagine that. WTF American media? I repeat: WTF? And I don't really care if your source for the suspect's death was the military itself (which it probably was) -- that's a cop out. Where was your confirmation? In addition, am I such a stickler so as to expect that you would make damn sure that a person has actually kicked the bucket before you report it as fact, regardless of what the military told you? This is a pathetic day for American journalism. But any more, aren't they all?
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