John Hawkins of Right Wing News polled conservative bloggers (yours truly included) on their early choices for the field of GOP candidates for President in next year’s election. Anyone who reads this blog even once knows who my choices are, but the poll makes it obvious for whom I DIDN’T vote. A lot of candidates drew goose eggs.
Category: Bloggers
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Yon vs. Yon
Last year, while Michael Yon was battling with Blackfive and most of us Milblog fucks, I kind of stayed out of. Like the Japanese while King Kong and Godzilla battled it out, I focused on staying out of the way of falling debris. But for some reason, Yon kicked at the ant hill again last week, accusing Jim Hanson of not being in combat…he started it with sending accusatory emails, then it spilled out on to the pages of Blackfive.
If I remember correctly, Yon hadn’t been in combat as a member of the military and banked his reputation on a few weeks at Camp Mackall, too, so what’s the big deal? So I sold off a good portion of my Michael Yon stock, but kept my public mouth shut.
I got an email last weekend from our buddy, WOTN who asked me how to screen shot like the pros, so I sent him instructions. Well, here’s the result.
I guess Yon had decided to attack CJ Grisham, a real combat veteran, on Facebook for CJ’s public admissions to PTS. That kind of goes beYONd the pale. So my portfolio is now Yon-free.
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Interview with Thomas Sowell at RWN
If you’re a fan of Thomas Sowell like I have been for the last two decades, there’s an interview that John Hawkins of Right Wing News did with him recently that you must read. Here’s a sample;
John Hawkins: Now, in recent years we started to hear more people calling to get rid of the Federal Reserve. Good idea, bad idea? What are your thoughts?
Thomas Sowell: Good idea.
John Hawkins: Good idea? What do you think we should replace it with? What do you think we should do?
Thomas Sowell: Well it’s like when you remove a cancer what do you replace it with?
While I’m linking stuff, our buddy Zombie sent the latest post by Zombie at Pajama Media entitled “Human Rights Imperialism: Leftist Satire or Moral Collapse?”
The Guardian recently published a wicked satire of moral relativism, a Swiftian send-up entitled “End human rights imperialism now” with the classic sub-heading “Groups such as Human Rights Watch have lost their way by imposing western, ‘universal’ standards on developing countries.” Brilliant! Hahahahaha! I didn’t know the Guardian had branched out into humor.
But about five minutes after my laughter subsided, a horrible suspicion dawned on me: Could it be that the author was serious?
Two good posts from two great blogger friends.
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Yes, I am still in mourning.
Seriously, Old Yeller getting shot was party time compared to my house Sunday night. I went to bed at 8pm in the fetal position with tears on the pillow. I woke up still weeping. Bambi’s mom getting shot? That was a trip to Disney World compared to the epic bedshitting on Sunday. I’d rather be tea bagged by the homeless guy with the Golden Voice than go through that again.
I tried (I really tried) to focus on pitchers and catchers reporting in a few weeks. Nope, as Bush the Elder might say “Not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent at this juncture.”
Finding a little solace in Fitzy, but honestly, not much.
Totally NSFW warning.
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When bloggers run out of interesting stuff
ROS sent us this link to some moron named Jose who just ran out of stuff to write about so he tells his readers how the parents of one of the doctors working on Gabreille Giffords are far right wing nuts;
That’s because Lemole’s mom and pop, heart surgeon Gerald Lemole and his wife, Emily, live in a $7.1 million house on The Island. They also own a more modest $3.5 million house, also in Palm Beach.
And while Michael is saving the life of the moderate Democratic congresswoman, Gerald and Emily are more into the far, far Right — including Tea Party goofball Christine O’Donnell!
Got that? Aren’t you outraged? How can we allow this heart surgeon to continue to save the life of our Gabby?
Usually, when I run out of shit to write about, I just go quiet.
Like today.
But ROS wants you to read the comments, so that the bandwidth isn’t a complete loss.
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Choi and Dicksmith on their honeymoon
I didn’t even know they got married, but TSO says this news article at The Sniper’s joint is Dan Choi and Richard Allen Smith on their honeymoon in Australia.
See, that’s why I spent the extra 10 bucks for the seat belt on mine.