Stupid Fight

So Elizabeth Edwards decided that it was a nice idea to make a public call, on TV, to Ann Coulter and announce that she's from the South, and that makes her polite, so that Coulter should stop picking on her husband. I think Mrs. Edwards was very rude. I am not defending Ann Coulter. I do think that politics is a nasty business, and those who've dedicated they're lives to politics should be aware of it that and keep their whining private. Also this instigated the obligatory bravado from her husband, which is of course designed to prove that he's not a sissy who hides behind his wife's skirt. Fun stuff. Do you remember Jerry Brown accusing Bill Clinton of using Hillary's Rose Law Firm for government contracts etc., and Bill pretending it was an attack on his wife? It'll be just like that. By the way, when Hillary was using the Rose Law Firm to represent the women whom she got to sign affidavits that they hadn't slept with her husband, (who does that?) did they know to whom she was married? Was she going by Hillary Rodham at the time.

It isn't good manners to tell people that you're being polite, as you tell them how to live their lives. Nobody thinks Ann Coulter is easy to like. Is she often rude, frequently tacky, sure. So what? I don't blame anybody for not liking it, but if you're afraid of the likes of Ann Coulter, if you're afraid of the things people say to your face, should you really be in politics?

Nice Terrorists

What a nice way to help the terrorists, making felons out of teenagers who happened to pull a pretty good prank on the last day of school. At Hendrick Hudson High School, which is in New York's Westchester County, 19 students were busted for placing alarm clocks all over the school, the clocks were synchronized to ring at 9:30am, disrupting class. The grown-ups called the bomb squad, and now some of our best and brightest will have to go through their entire lives as felons. Nice. Did we not learn our lesson from the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" bomb scare in Boston? (Of course we agree the guy who did that was an adult who really should have known better, but as the long time mayor of "jerk-land" figured it just wouldn't matter.) There is no justification for letting the world know that we no longer have a sense of humor. We are Americans, and shame on us for allowing the world to believe that we are easily frightened, that fear itself is an exploitable weakness that we worry more about liability than we do the big picture.

The world is not a different place since 9/11, it just seems that way. Mostly because we have seen fit to forfeit rational judgement, to put sour-pusses in charge. There's a time to be a hard-ass and a time to giggle behind your official papers.

This was a creative way to bid farewell to their school. Nobody was in danger, no damage was done. They used a key that had been missing for a year. Is it the students fault that the adults, who didn't bother to change the locks, are so paranoid now? Of course not. These are not the people who attacked us. Ban them from graduation, make the little snots work off the bill, but to hobble their futures is to hobble the future of America. Who wants that?

Hometown

Some people of Mesa AZ where I used to live, decided it was a good idea to grab a woman and brand her face with the word "snitch" on it. Cowards. They lured this chick into an apartment, where four of them were lying in wait. This is supposed to be retaliation because she'd answered police questions about a domestic violence report, for for that the abuser and his victim had to have her punished. Cowards.

Hillary's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, have chocolate in them. I thought that Bill Clinton was allergic to chocolate. Could it be that he's never tasted Hillary's cookies?

My Bad...

Apparently the Soprano spoof the Clintons did was to announce the song chosen for her campaign. I didn't get, my bad. Did anybody else out there not get it? Might it have been more helpful to have played the song? Celine Dion recorded "You and I" which is apparently the choice. A spokesperson for the campaign said that it was picked because it won. I guess that's the same reason Hillary Rodham Clinton's oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe won over the standard toll house cookies. Because that's what people like, which is why chocolate oatmeal cookies sell so much better than the regular kind. Which do you eat more often? What kind of a person fixes a cookie contest? That would just be stupid.

More fun with No Peeky Blind Trust

So since 1993 the Clintons have had a "blind" trust, in this trust GE, whose president is Steven Kluger, Vassar roommate to Rick Lazio. He didn't run GE back then, and I don't know if the Clintons had any lobbying power there. Also they own stock in Warren Buffet's company. Did you notice that Warren Buffet gave a bunch of money to Bill Gates, right about the same time Bill Clinton piggy-backed on Gates' "Yeah, I made a lot of money, so I'm giving a bunch of it away so you'll stop nagging me about it" goodwill tour? By the by Gates and Clinton share Marc Penn, the PR guy. They may be his only clients. I've wondered who started the anti-Gates thing all those years ago.

Does anybody know why Hillary Clinton was afraid of the question about Libby being pardoned? Why were the union people so chivalrous about protecting Hillary from the question? Assuming Hillary becomes president, will America's adversaries be so chivalrous? Considering Marc Penn's union busting past, why wasn't that question asked? Do the union members know about that? Would they mind? Considering it's Hillary and all.

The Sopranos final ending was not good. It was kind of okay when the parrots did it, but it was again stupid with the Clintons doing it. Don't take that the wrong way. I know they did it because Lloyd Braun also shared that house with Lazio and Kluger. I did however think that comparing the Clintons to a mod family was a bit much, until I remembered the relationship with InfoUSA. Is it true that Nancy Pelosi's son has a "no show" job with them? Like I said, stupid.

No peeky-blind trust

Is it a blind trust even when you look? Does anybody else have a hard time believing that Hillary Clinton, with her history with Wal-Mart, didn't know that Wal-Mart was in her blind trust? The Clintons have also spent a lot of time with Rupert Murdock, is it just a "happy accident" that News Corp was also part of the "blind" trust?

Oh let's just not mind about that. Let's all pay attention to Obama. It's much less disappointing than expecting the candidates to up their game.

WIOD-Enemy of the County

Wiod is a news talk radio station serving Broward county in the state of Florida, and the county doesn't like it. WIOD has has a contract with the county to broadcast news events including serious weather information warnings etc. Well, aside from those contracts, the station also broadcasts shows, which help them meet the expenses that come from running a business. Some of those shows are conservative in nature. Imagine that, conservative talk shows on the radio, oh the humanity! Broward wants to move their contract from WIOD to another station, so that in a time of crisis, its citizens can search up and down the dial in hopes of possibly finding the emergency information they need in order to not die. That's nice. I don't think they should be allowed to do that. I realize that in a free market system, anybody can take their business anywhere, but I think this is different. I think ditech.com not wanting to advertise on the Don Imus show is fine. But for a government office to take its business someplace where they like the politics better, leans toward socialism. It is not our governments place to chose which views are allowed to be expressed.

The media is a tricky thing, it isn't like other industries, it's 24/7 with 500 channels, and that's not counting the Internet, or countless radio broadcasts. We're still learning of its power and influence. Journalists must retain to ability to report any story that they see fit. If they want to throw in an opinion, as long as it's identified as opinion that's fine too. It's to our benefit, to be reminded that there is more than one viewpoint. It's good to know that smart well-intentioned people will disagree.

No member of the government ought to be allowed to put people in harm's way just because they want to have a tantrum.