How To Tell It’s a Fake
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–T. Bowen.
Fun Neocon Plays–Push Two Countries Into War by Implying to One the US Has Their Back
While many have pointed out the disaster that is our response to Georgia, it’s important to note that Scheunemann is following the same strategy for Georgia that Rumsefeld attempted with Taiwan and China.
Fortunately, Rumsfeld had adult supervision with Powell sending his guys behind to clean up the mess. This time, there’s no one to clean up and the Georgian President seems to think the US will save his ass for a poor game of brinksmanship–and many of the neocons are trying to do just that.
Another 4 years of this kind of foreign policy insanity cannot happen–it has a significant chance of blowing up into something much more than just a small regional war and further provocation by these twits will end in a disaster on a far greater scale.
When the Shields Known as Children Turn On Him
Rich has the video
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Not that a junior in High School is a child, but you get the picture. Just a profile in courage that Governor is.
Last line: “What’s the matter? Does everyone down here lie to you so you assume everything is a lie?”
I actually think the Blagojevich being confused with Daley story is at worst a bit of a tall tale and not something to worry about, however, the Governor has killed irony and run back over it with his truck.
Lucky To Have a Job
That’s the way to motivate the troops.
They later went to the Democratic rally, where many of them booed Gov. Rod Blagojevich as he began speaking. Blagojevich said the union workers “have nothing to worry about. They’ll get the health care they deserve.”
He then called on AFSCME to help get a capital bill passed that will create jobs.
“They’re lucky to have a job, and they have health care,” Blagojevich said of the state workers. “They’re going to keep their jobs and keep their health care. Now, start helping us create jobs for other people and provide health care to other people.”
I generally hate comparisons of government to business because government does the things business won’t do naturally. That said, imagine a CEO saying that to his employees.
There is someone lucky to have a job and it ain’t the AFSCME members.
Big Thumbs Up for CTA
I used CTA more than I have in a long time this week and it was amazingly efficient and even clean. This isn’t to say CTA doesn’t have a ton of problems, but I have to give CTA credit for making getting around the City a great experience.
Go Mark, Go Mark
I’m shocked Frank Burns isn’t outraged:
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Creepy….
Things I Learned Over the Week
Barack Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign manager was in Springfield Tuesday night to go to Alexi Giannoulias’ party. Interesting.
Thanks John
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extra-marital affair with a novice film-maker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.
In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 42-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.
Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter’s baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.
Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby’s birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.
A former campaign aide, Andrew Young, has said he was the father of the child.
I don’t care much about his personal life, but doing it during a Presidential campaign is reckless and while it won’t have any lasting effect since he’s not the nominee, he screws up several news cycles and everyone knows the chattering class can’t stop talking about sex–unless it involves diapers.
Apparently Not Broadening Their Horizons
UPDATE 1x: In case you didn’t know — which we figured these guys knew what they were doing when they sent this out — the joke is on the IR Editor on this post. I trusted the sources and wanted to do them a favor and publicize, since they asked us to. Won’t happen again.
The bars the McCain Young Professionals will be visiting Saturday night are gay bars. This weekend will be Boystown’s annual Market Days. Market Days’ celebrations are obscene and public indecency runs rampant at Halsted and Broadway during Market Days.
IR does not endorse this activity, nor do we encourage anyone else to participate. We apologize for being so gullible in this instance.
Young Professionals for McCain, we enjoy a good laugh like anyone else, but this isn’t funny. I hope the McCain people are kidding . . . and if this is a joke on behalf of the Hillary Clinton faction that is reportedly involved in helping the McCain people, the joke is on the McCain people. Hillary’s people are NOT helping you — especially with the already wobbly and very hesitant socially-conservative base.
Carry on . . . and thanks to the gentleman who so kindly called IR to tell us what was going on. You know who you are. We owe you one.
Not such a big tent afterall.
Obama the Anti-Christ: Not So Much
According to LaHaye and Jenkins
LaHaye and Jenkins take a literal interpretation of prophecies found in the Book of Revelation. They believe the antichrist will surface on the world stage at some point, but neither see Obama in that role. “I’ve gotten a lot of questions the last few weeks asking if Obama is the antichrist,” says novelist Jenkins. “I tell everyone that I don’t think the antichrist will come out of politics, especially American politics.”
“I can see by the language he uses why people think he could be the antichrist,” adds LaHaye, “but from my reading of scripture, he doesn’t meet the criteria. There is no indication in the Bible that the antichrist will be an American.”
Of course, LaHaye and Jenkins are awful, and I mean awful, writers. Slactivist did an excellent series on just how awful here. A small sampling:
For his next trick, the Great Carpathio will require a volunteer from the audience:
“I would like to present to you all just a bit of an object lesson in leadership, followership, and may I say, chain of command. Mr. Scott M. Otterness, would you approach me, please?” The guard in the corner jerked in surprise and hurried to Carpathia. “One of my leadership techniques is my power of observation, combined with a prodigious memory,” Carpathia said.
Here’s another lesson in leadership and, er, followership: Talking about your “leadership techniques” isn’t a very good leadership technique. Particular when the skills you’re patting yourself on the back for don’t have much of anything to do with leadership and in any case aren’t really techniques. The only way I can imagine an actual human saying that last sentence above without being immediately deposed and mocked by his former followers would be if it were said ironically, in self mockery. A campaign-weary politician praising the “great city of Cleveland,” while speaking in Cincinnati, might get away with saying something like that as a joking apology. But just as he never uses contractions, Nicolae never employs irony.
“One of my leadership techniques is my power of observation,” Nicolae says, “combined with a prodigious memory.” And somehow, here in LB, the people who hear him say this are as impressed by him and he seems to be. This goes on for quite a bit.
“Mr. Otterness here was surprised because we had not been introduced, had we, sir?”
“No, sir, Mr. Carpathia, sir, we had not.”
“And yet I knew your name.”
The aging guard smiled and nodded.
One half-expects Carpathia to raise one hand with a flourish, like Jon Lovitz’s Master Thespian, crying “Leadership!” (followed by this). The impression I get is of That Guy who thinks that reading the waitress’ name off her name tag gives him license to send his steak back and tip a lousy 10 percent.
I tried to read the first book once. After 10 pages of awful prose I just gave up.