Archive for March, 2007

Senate Iraq Bill as Bloated at House Version

Filed under Politics, War

Dean Barnett had fun with the Senate Democrats’ Iraq emergency funding bill. It’s as bad as the House Democrats’ version. You can read it yourself at The Victory Caucus and find so much pork even Emerill Lagasse would puke.
“Your Democratic Congress at Work”

Save and Share:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Thompson Talk with Gillespie

News of Fred Thompson talking “politics in general” with GOP bigwig Ed Gillespie should have Thompson fans twittering with joy:
The actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee was spotted having lunch today at the see-and-be-seen Mayflower hotel restaurant with GOP Party guru Ed Gillespie, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee who has advised […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Onion News Network Immigration Expose

Here’s a hard-hitting report from the new Onion News Network.

That poor ex-Lucent exec. I’m so mad I look like Lou Dobbs.
[via Hot Air]

Save and Share:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

The Ironic Social Media

Filed under Tech

David All noticed something about the social media wave crashing upon the internet:
In fact, in some ways, it’s the antithesis of what it means to be “social.”
Asynchronous socializing. Time-shifted socializing. Detatched socializing. Disconnected socializing. Individualized socializing. (Help me out with more euphemisms/buzzwords.)
Web technologies like MySpace, Facebook, Digg, your favorite forum and e-mail list, even weblogs […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

See if Cats Can Fly

Filed under Politics

It’s all about being good stewards of the earth on the latest HamNation.

Save and Share:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Sen. Hagel Talks of Bush’s Impeachment

Senator Chuck Hagel, in his quest to maybe, sort of, win the GOP Presidential nomination by ticking off as many Republicans as possible, brought up the possible impeachment of President Bush if he doesn’t bend to Congress’ will.
On Sunday, Hagel said he was bothered by Bush’s apparent disregard of congressional sentiment on Iraq, such as […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Don’t Underestimate Terrorists

The Tamil Tigers are one of the few non-Muslim terrorist groups to use suicide bombing as a tactic. They’ve now moved to airstrikes:
Tamil rebels launched their first airstrike in the nearly quarter-decade conflict with Sri Lanka’s government, using two small planes to bomb an air base outside the capital and killing at least three officers, […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Huffington Calls for Gonzales’ Impeachment

Filed under Politics, Law

The Bush bashing Left needs to impeach someone, anyone. The Democratic Congress has no stomach to go after President Bush himself; they don’t even have the guts to stop the Iraq War they oppose by cutting off funding. The Scooter Libby trial didn’t prove Vice President Cheney was the evil genius behind Valarie Plame’s outing. […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Chavez Sends Venezuela Down Road to Serfdom

Expect a collapse in Venezuela’s economy and increased misery for its poor–the people Hugo Chavez claims to want to help. These will be a result of Chavez creating “collective property.”
Vowing to undermine capitalism’s continued influence in Venezuela during his television and radio program “Hello President,” Chavez said state-financed cooperatives would operate under a new concept […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Final Four Success

Filed under Sports

For the first time since I’ve filled out NCAA tournament brackets I got the Final Four right. Sorry, but it’s on Facebook so you can’t see it unless you’re a member; you’ll have to take my word for it. I’m surprised because after filling it out I saw too many top seeds making the national […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

One Bitchin’ Poll

Filed under Weblogging

Vote on Dr. Helen’s poll on the blogosphere being “just a big bitchfest.”
A few of my previous posts would argue in the affirmative.

Save and Share:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

McGee/Jackson’s Rules of Engagement

Filed under Wisconsin

Note: This is more of that Wisconsin weblogging I don’t do. Enjoy.
A man with a knife charges at Milwaukee police. The police shoot killing him. Michael McGee/Jackson’s response: “Any time a person has a knife, they should never be shot.”

Further rules of engagement from McGee/Jackson include:

If a gun is pointed at a policeman they must […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

When Ann Coulter Didn’t Shriek

Filed under Ann Coulter

Once upon a time Ann Coulter wasn’t constantly on the war path looking to sell books and Brand Ann. She could sound intelligent, firm, argumentative, yet reasonable. I’d like to see that Ann Coulter again.
[via Dave Kopel]

Save and Share:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Blog Summit Caused by Intellectual Laziness

Interesting and critical reaction I expected from my post bashing next month’s Wisconsin Blog Summit. What I didn’t expect was not being considered a Wisconsin weblogger. That’s what Jay Bullock insinuates. What a strange argument. I don’t write much about Wisconsin? Someone needs to go through my Wisconsin category, and that doesn’t count the posts […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark

Tancredo Raises $1 Million

When Rep. Tom Tancredo decided to run for President I wrote him off as a protest candidate with one message: anti-immigration. With news that his Presidential exploratory committee has raised over $1 million it means Tancredo probably will formally run for President. What impresses me is Tancredo raised his cash pretty much under the radar […]

Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • NewsVine
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Fark