{"id":296,"date":"2007-04-15T05:20:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T10:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/reading-assignment\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T18:23:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T23:23:18","slug":"reading-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Reading assignment and miscellaneous stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a busy weekend.\u00c2\u00a0Something happened thirty years ago today and my wife is fairly angry that I don&#8217;t remember what it was. Hope I figure it out soon so I can get pancakes for breakfast. So while I get my brain housing group soaked in RBC, get smarter and stuff at these blogs;<\/p>\n<p>If you read nothing else this weekend read Andrew Walden&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2007\/04\/learning_from_george_mcgovern.html\" target=\"_blank\">Learning from George McGovern and Earl Browder<\/a>&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The American Thinker<\/a>. Excellent.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you&#8217;ve got an hour or so, read this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejectejecteject.com\/archives\/000140.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eject! Eject! Eject!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and every time\u00c2\u00a0you need an uncommon\u00c2\u00a0dose of common sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2007\/04\/the_real_story_.html\">Blackfive<\/a> discovers why the Iraqi Parliament was vulnerable to attack this past week.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you still think that Liberalism hasn&#8217;t become a religious faith, read <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/006859.html#comments\" target=\"_blank\">Samhita&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>anal<\/strong>ysis&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; notice the emphasis on the first half of the word &#8211; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/crotchetyoldbastard.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/unhinged_dilutional_racist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crotchety Old Bastard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/222720.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ace Of Spades<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/entry\/22875\/\" target=\"_blank\">Protein Wisdom<\/a>) of the Duke University cluster. Please be prepared to take a shower afterwards.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, if <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=3040402&#038;page=1&#038;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\" target=\"_blank\">Sharpton &#8220;brought down&#8221; Imus<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0Imus&#8217; fall\u00c2\u00a0couldn&#8217;t have started very far from the bottom. And who believes anyone on this planet would waste even a nanosecond of their life to locate contact information so they could\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/local\/local_story_104002437.html\" target=\"_blank\">threaten Al Sharpton<\/a>? I figure he&#8217;ll choke on his own bile soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss Sharpton&#8217;s stammering defense of his inability to apologize for his misdeeds in the Tawana Brawley case (oddly enough, it echoes the post from Samhita mentioned above) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/fns\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday<\/a> when it gets rebroadcast this afternoon. While waiting, read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,266114,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sharpton&#8217;s attack on the entire German Army<\/a>. I guess Imus gave him the courage to run to every open mic he sees. If there&#8217;s a reason Imus deserved to be fired, it was for kissing Sharpton&#8217;s ring more than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Curt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floppingaces.net\/2007\/04\/14\/don-imus-fired-because-he-was\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flopping Aces<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0, via\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/screwloosechange.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/some-things-you-may-not-have-caught.html\" target=\"_blank\">Screw Loose Change<\/a>, discovers the REAL reason Imus was fired.<\/p>\n<p>El Presidente at <a href=\"http:\/\/slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/on-denvers-weather-and-global.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slapstick Politics<\/a> asks why we should trust climate experts on Global Warming when they can&#8217;t get the weekend weather right.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a busy weekend.\u00c2\u00a0Something happened thirty years ago today and my wife is fairly angry that &hellip; <a title=\"Reading assignment and miscellaneous stuff\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=296\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading assignment and miscellaneous stuff<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-media","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}