I’m going to start with something new, tonight, in the hopes I can turn you on to what Music I’m listening to at the moment. My musical taste, after my broadcast years, became somewhat eccentric; I’m usually listening to something most people of never heard of. Tonight, it’s Ira Stein & Russel Walder – Transit.
This is from a fairly early days of Windham Hill Records, back around ’78 or 79. By way of Amazon, here’s a sample.
Of course, it’s out of press these days. You’re not likely to find used copies for under about 22 bucks. At least, not that are in very good shape. I’m fairly particular about the CD’s I buy, condition-wise.
* The usual suspects are having kittens over this one:
“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.” -Ann Coulter
Gotta love it. Sorry, gang. She’s telling it like it is. The reason that humor works, is the same as any other humor that works; there’s a grain of truth at the center of it. They don’t call him The Breck Girl for nothing.
You don’t like it? Fine. That big red X in the upper right hand corner of your screen is for you. But after the kind of slurs we’ve been putting up from the Democrats for years and years, don’t come crying to me because you get some of it back. I’m not interested. Other than maybe for the laugh value.
* As for the rest of the speakers there at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the big overriding theme for all the various candidates, is how much better conservatives they’d be then John McCain. As if that was some kind of major accomplishment.
I find it amusing that he decided to use left leaning David Letterman and his show was a platform to announce his candidacy, and decided not to bother showing up at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Gee, gang, what kinda signals do you think that he’s sending, here? He knows he doesn’t stand a chance in hell of passing himself off as a conservative. Being run out of the place on a rail, seems more likely to me than him actually making any friends, there. The people at CPAC simply aren’t that stupid. If he tried to sell itself as a conservative, in that venue, he’d have “liar” to add to his resume, and the folks at CPAC will help him document it. Hardly a virtue when running for president. Unless, of course, you’re running as a Democrat. Which of course, raises the question why he doesn’t do just that; why not just let the other shoe drop, and run as a Democrat? McCain’s already made the same nutty claim the Democrats were making about the ‘wasted’ lives of our troops. Even absent the rather abysmal record you generated of late, That comment alone should disqualify you from running for any public office whatsoever, much less the powerful position you hold, and certainly it disqualifies you from the office you’re supposedly seeking. Dry up Johnboy.
As to whether or not that conference is an indicator of who will win, no. I don’t think it is. But it is most certainly an indication of who will lose. McCain.
* Alex Update: continues to do well. Again, I must thank everyone for the feedback I’ve been getting. Your thoughts your concerns and you’re well wishes are cause for this grizzled old Blogger to smile. I must say, that I’m impressed with how he personally has been dealing with all of this. After initially being scared to death of the needle, he has become Mr. Pragmatist about the whole thing. I’m really quite proud of the way he’s dealt with it. I guess it comes down to people tend to act, eventually, exactly how they’re expected to act. That’s a thought worth expanding on in other more social contexts, perhaps.
* As regards the storms in the south last night, there’s not much I can do from up here. Prayer, of course. Beyond that ….
Of course, we see the usual suspects laying claim to the idea that global warming is responsible for the storms. But isn’t it kind of odd? When storms like what was going on in the south show up, global warming gets blamed. But when a storm snows out “global warming’ Propaganda meetings, even in places where they’re used to a lot of snow, the press can’t seem to be found to report those.* Speaking of which: Jim Angle at Fox, tonight:
… a former Canadian defense minister says the answer to concerns about climate change is technology from UFOs. He’s demanding that governments worldwide use secret alien technology to replace fossil fuels and save the planet from global warming. Paul Hellyer served in the Canadian cabinet in the sixties. He tells the Ottawa Citizen that governments have alien technology they obtained from the crashes of UFOs. He says those spacecrafts were equipped with advanced fuel sources and propulsion systems that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuel within a generation.
It’s no accident of course this nutball was in the cabinet of even bigger nutball, Elliott Trudeau. This is merely another point on the long long long list of points explaining why I don’t take this “global warming” nonsense seriously. I caught Limbaugh, earlier today, mentioning that the “peace movement” of the sixties, has been pretty much renamed , the “environmental movement”. He’s got a point. These are the very same people. And it always seems to come down to blaming the United States for something. Picking the pocket of the people of the United States. Promoting world socialism. That’s really what all this boils down to.
* They finally got around to slotting Anna Nichole Smith back to mother earth, this morning. What a bloody flea circus. It’s amazing how a little money will create such a large number of hangers- on. I know, I promised I wouldn’t say anything about it. And I’m sorry she’s gone…. But the fact of the matter is she’s been gone for years. It was all over but for whom got the money, years ago. And that’s all this ever was about. I look at that group of people surrounding that grave site this morning, (after all, without on all news channels simultaneously, I could hardly miss seeing it) and I don’t see an ounce of love in the whole lot of them. Normally, I would say, that now that the woman is buried we’d see the end of the wall to wall coverage on every news channel and gossip channel going. But I know darn well that’s not going to happen. They’re gonna carry this thing for another six months at least. I’m not sure if that’s an indication of what our news organizations have become, what we as a people of become, or both. But it doesn’t paint a pretty picture in any event. You regulars, will be aware that I’ve had my mind elsewhere these last couple of days. But I came away from watching that nonsense on TV today, more than faintly disgusted.
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