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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Getting on the record

I would like to see Giuliani replace Ashcroft.

Posted by JimK at 02:14 AM on November 10, 2004
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Categories: Politics

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

I think it’s finally happened

I thought for sure it would be moments after the election was called. I would look up at the screen and just be absolutely fed up with politics.

It never came. It might be here now. I’m so fed up with ridiculousness on both sides. I’m not taking a break...just expressing my frustration.

Don’t be surprised if you see a lot of frivolous posts in the near future.

Posted by JimK at 11:39 PM on November 09, 2004
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Categories: Personal

Blade said it, and it’s true…

Wow. Well, hell, more power to ya, dipshit. Clearly you have no idea why your ideals have been losing ground, and this kind of behavior is only going to make it worse, so you fight on, brother! Or sister. Whatever you are. You keep spewing that hate.

Make sure you do it a LOT starting about six months before any major elections.

Posted by JimK at 08:50 AM on November 09, 2004
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Categories: The Stupidity Of Man, Politics

An appeal to my fellow conservatives…

Before I hit the sack, I read. Usually Sci-Fi, sometimes other things. Tonight (this morning for you normals) it was crappy Star Trek novels. Ham-fisted preachy platitudes and all, one of them led me to this thought about the gay marriage divide. That and something I read over at Paratrooper’s site earlier tonight.

Let’s start thinking practically and strategically about this whole gay marriage issue. Right now we are enjoying a majority in the nation and in our various chambers of government. But that will not always be the case, because Americans do one thing predictably: we rebel.

We are natural born rebels, and we attract rebels from other nations to become Americans. The fastest way to make sure an American does something is to tell them they can’t. And so I believe that the harder we squeeze the minority left the faster the rebellion that we enjoyed so much will turn on us and we’ll find ourselves out of the game. The question is, how to prevent that? By being what we claim to be; the big tent group. Moderate Republicans, conservative Democrats, Libertarians...we’re so close to each other it’s ridiculous. We need to pick a label (who cares which one!), stop fighting each other and start fighting to have that big tent we hear so much about. I think we can use the gay marriage issue not as a morality play, not as a divisive issue...but as a strategic issue that will build an alliance.

Think about it. Practically. Forget political correctness. Forget religious morality. I want you to set aside all of that, and think about the realities of the past 30 years. Who has been more vocal than gay rights groups? Tough to think of anyone, isn’t it? Who is more organized? More passionate about their cause? Hard to come up with anyone else, right? What if we could have that power working for us? Championing causes that we all agreed on, truly conservative causes. Lower taxes, smart foreign policy, tough crime laws, strong defense, etc. Can you imagine that alliance?

All we have to do is say yes to absolutely legally equal rights of union. I will bet money that gay people on the whole will accept a civil union law that does not include the term “marriage.” And if we can do this, we’ve made a valuable ally. The victory would be exponentially wonderful: we make an ally of a group of people who just want to be treated fairly, and we take away a base of power from the people whom we all believe cannot intelligently or safely run this country.

Once more, I don’t care about the religious aspects of this. I want you to think about it as a strategic political alliance. Doesn’t it make sense to make an ally instead of an enemy?

We can do this. All you have to do as an individual is convince one person this is a good idea. The trick is, each person convinces one. Just one. And tell them to convince one person. Individual by individual, we can begin a grassroots effort that will truly shake things up and help to keep this majority we’re currently enjoying.

Just one person. That doesn’t seem very overwhelming, does it?

Posted by JimK at 05:32 AM on November 09, 2004
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Categories: Things To Ponder, Politics

Monday, November 08, 2004

Editorial on how Moore helped Bush

It makes a good case.

I get special joy — I must get over this — in contemplating the hell Michael Moore might go through if he dwelled on the possibility that he contributed to the Bush victory by so unmistakably signaling his elitist attitudes.

No you don’t. Don’t ever feel like you have to get over gloating when it comes to the likes of Moore and his merry band of sychophants. Regular people? Yes. Don’t gloat over them and rub it in. Moore-ons? Feel free to dance a jig and sing the “You’re a big fat loser” song.

If there was such a song. Go ahead and write one, then sing it at them.

Why do I believe it’s OK to gloat and point and laugh at Moore-ons? Simple. Because they have been the most hateful, vile, despicable voices in the midst of a whirlwind of despicable campaigning on both sides. They take the political and make it personal. They take joy in being hateful. They are not worth reason and civility. They have attacked and tried to demoralize everyone from moderate Democrats to the military to Bush voters. And they refuse to accept any point of view that isn’t their own. Look around you. Even after the election, who are the most hateful and vitriolic of the left? Moore fans. They have no interest in working with the majority. They want to subjugate the world to their point of view.

For all those reasons and more, I do not believe they are worth hiding your schadenfraude. And that goes triple for the Prince of Lies himself.

Posted by JimK at 12:08 AM on November 08, 2004
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Categories: Michael Moore(on), Politics

Sunday, November 07, 2004

Uhh. Errm. WTF?

OK, this is one of the strangest things I have ever seen programmed in Flash. I get the point and it’s a valid one, but damn...that’s odd.

I should say, it’s not the strangest thing I have seen in Flash. That honor is reserved for Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Dumb as hell and still makes me smile, no matter what form it takes.

Hat Tip: Right on Red (what a bad-ass blog name!)

Posted by JimK at 11:37 PM on November 07, 2004
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Categories: Humor, Politics

Bush to make me regret voting for him, says aide

Asshole.

President Bush will renew a quest in his second term for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage as essential to a “hopeful and decent” society, his top political aide said on Sunday.

Bush’s call for a constitutional ban on gay marriages failed last year in Congress, but his position was seen as a key factor motivating Christian conservatives concerned about “moral values” to turn out in large numbers and help supply Bush with a winning margin in last week’s election.

“If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal, and the ideal is that marriage ought to be, and should be, a union of a man and a woman,” Bush political aide Karl Rove told “Fox News Sunday.”

Rove said Bush would “absolutely” push the Republican-controlled Congress for a constitutional amendment, which he said was needed to avert the aims of “activist judges” who would permit gay marriages.

HEY, ASSHOLES: WE ELECTED YOU TO FIGHT TERRORISTS AND LOWER TAXES. Get on that and leave the fucking Constitution alone.

Posted by JimK at 10:20 PM on November 07, 2004
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Categories: The Stupidity Of Man, Politics

Mixed Martial Arts makes a statement

If you watched Smackdown this week, you saw legitimate Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle put in a kimura on television. The unedited event took about two minutes, during which Kurt tried to shoot, or fight unscripted, a contestant in the new Tough Enough challenge named Daniel Puder. Puder is an MMA fighter. Kurt was unable to take the kid down until Puder chose to go down to the ground, where he wrapped Kurt in a half guard and grabbed the armlock. The ref on the scene thought fast, counted a pinfall on Puder (which did not exist, Kurt was mere moments from legitimately and really having to tap out to this kid) in order to save face and salvage the segment.

Pro wrestlers like to think they’re tough, but what was demonstrated, even in the edited version that aired on TV, was that a young, green MMA fighter, someone who probably can’t quite hang with the top level UFC guys, can spank a gold medalist Greco-Roman freestyle wrestler with no submission training. Kurt Angle is fast and tough, and was one of the best Greco-Roman freestyle guys to ever wrestle at 220 pounds. Puder locked him up with little to no effort.

And they told Kurt to shoot. “Shooting” in wrestling means do it for real. And the kid embarrassed one of the best pros (and most well respected amateurs) in the business. See the video here. (9.46MB, DivX, right click, save as)

My favorite part is after, you can tell Kurt is pissed. The next day it was reported that Angle was livid at having been put in that situation. I hope they aren’t pissed at the kid, he was just reacting as he’s been trained to do.

Posted by JimK at 03:26 AM on November 07, 2004
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Categories: Entertainment, Combat Sports

Saturday, November 06, 2004

Brokaw backhandedly compliments bloggers

Via Daily Pundit, here’s a little money quote from Brokaw.

For the TV media, it was a brutal election year, with everything recast in the fires of the Internet, especially network news. His rival at CBS News was dismantled by needle-nosed bloggers and Fox News aced the networks in the ratings on convention coverage. Mr. Brokaw said the blogs had altered everything.

“I think that they’re big,” he said. “I think they have changed it. Exactly what their role is going to be is still to be determined. There’s still a certain amount of hubris at this point, but I do think that they’re now a fixed part of this universe. The danger is always that you have newspapers without editors, and there will be a shakeout process, people will learn who they can trust, who’s reliable, who’s got real insights and who’s just self-indulgent—it’s very much like the traditional business.”

When will he learn that bloggers have more editors than any newspaper on earth?

They’re called readers, and you can’t put anything over on them because for each topic about which we choose to write, someone, somwhere knows a hell of a lot more on that very subject and is just dying to share their knowledge.

Posted by JimK at 10:31 PM on November 06, 2004
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Categories: The Blogosphere, The Fourth Estate

Bring the funny!

Via Ace of Spades and Tim Blair, I bring you the Sorry Everybody Photoshop project. Their site seems to be unresponsive most of the time, but luckily Ace and Tim saved some choice images. I have chosen my favorite, and prepared my own version and a blank for you to have at.