Wednesday is Poetry to Kick Ass By Day: Robert Burns
My beloved Caps are in a slump. Tonight they were listless and slow, and lost in a shootout to a shitty team...again. Clearly, they need some poetry to stir their blood, and who better to do it than Robert Burns?
Besides, annika and I both missed his birthday last month...January 25.
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It was just before midnight Eastern when I posted that. Yeah, I futzed with the time stamp a bit, but what's ten minutes?
Posted by: Victor at February 07, 2007 08:41 AM (1oGDT)
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Kyle, my deepest apologies for deleting your comment! I accidentally double-posted my comment, then selected yours when I went to delete the double comment.
I gotta stop going to hockey and baseball games in the middle of the week.
Nahhh.
Posted by: Victor at February 07, 2007 08:45 AM (1oGDT)
Posted by: annika at February 07, 2007 08:57 AM (JBltT)
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Go, Robert Burns! http://www.burnsheritagepark.com/ My dad was stationed on a submarine tender (USS Holland) in Dunoon, Scotland from '77 to '79. My goal is to have a cottage there someday and split my time between Dunoon and San Diego. My husband says, "There's nothing to do in Scotland."
Posted by: Joules at February 07, 2007 10:35 PM (u4CYb)
The Second Annual AJFF: Elizabeth Taylor, Part One
As promised, we begin our tour of Elizabeth Taylor in the 60s. I might just as easily have called it Elizabeth Taylor, the Richard Burton years. She and Richard were the Brangelina of their day, and they made nine movies together during that decade.
Taylor and Burton began their affair during the filming of Cleopatra, while they were both married to someone else. Today we'll take a look at their second movie together, released the same year as Cleopatra.
The V.I.P.s, 1963
A movie poster for The V.I.P.s promises:
ELIZABETH TAYLOR... and RICHARD BURTON... in a story about... that exciting chemistry: man and woman! The emotions... are measured... in megatons!
The copy is deceptive, because V.I.Ps is really an ensemble film. If you count up all the Academy Awards owned by members of the cast, the total comes to six. Taylor won two, Maggie Smith won two, Margaret Rutherford won one (for The V.I.P.s) and Orson Welles won an honorary Oscar. That's not to mention Richard Burton's seven Oscar nominations (he never won).
Despite its dream-team cast, the movie is not another Ishtar. There are some really good performances, most notably Louis Jourdan's as Elizabeth Taylor's paramour.
Taylor does what she can with a script that assigned her the least interesting character. Her performance is subtle, and as usual she conveys as much with her eyes and a tilt of the head as she does with her lines. But Jourdan's character is the one we get to know best. It's a love triangle story. Jourdan is the playboy gambler who has stolen Elizabeth Taylor away from her rich husband, Richard Burton. Interestingly, at that time, Burton was in the process of stealing Taylor away from Eddie Fisher.
The other plot lines involve Rod Taylor as a charming but unlucky Australian businessman and Maggie Smith plays his girl Friday, who's secretly in love with him. Orson Welles plays a characature of a film director, who tries various schemes in order to dodge the onerous British tax system. Welles's storyline is intended to be comic relief, but ends up being totally forgettable. Welles was in the middle of his second European exile, and perhaps he needed the money.
Since the movie centers loosely around a transatlantic airline flight, it's fun to see a romanticized version of passenger air service, Fifties style. In the movie, BOAC assigns a special guy just to take care of the first class passengers. When the flight is delayed, they all get luxury suites in the BOAC hotel, and a car to pick them up in the morning. Nice.
But even back then, there were nasty flight attendants. Here's how Margaret Rutherford as a disheveled, pill popping duchess dealt with one impudent stewardess:
Duchess: Conductress... Conductress!
Stewardess: (coolly) Did someone call something?
Duchess: Yes dear, I did. Will you please put this thing in the hold.
Stewardess: In the hold?
Duchess: Well, wherever you do put luggage that isn't wanted on the voyage.
Stewardess: If you had wanted this with your other luggage, you should've thought of that earlier, shouldn't you've?
Duchess: (regally) If that is a question to me personally, yes. If it is a general comment on human behaviour, it is an extremely unoriginal one, and hardly worth making. Kindly dispose of this hatbox.
Stewardess: But I have no room.
Duchess: Well then, you must make room, mustn't you dear.
Rutherford's character has some really funny lines, but giving her an Academy Award for that tiny part reminds me of Jack Palance's Oscar.
Maggie Smith, whom I love, and whom you probably know best as Professor McGonagall of Gryffindor House, is wasted in The V.I.P.s. If you want to see how wonderful an actress she is, do rent The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie right away.
I gave The V.I.P.s a 3 out of 5 on the Neflix scale: "liked it." Put it on your movie watching queue only if you're a serious ET/RB fan, which I hope you will be by the end of this film festival. But before I leave you, I want you to look at the chair in this next screencap closely.
Strawman is probably the only one who may recognize it as a Poul Kjærholm design (at least a knockoff). When I was in Denmark last summer, I had the pleasure of seeing a Kjærholm exhibit at the Louisiana museum on the east coast of Sjælland. I totally want that chair.
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you can get a facsimile of it at Ikea, I'm not shittin you.
Posted by: kyle8 at February 07, 2007 04:54 AM (lw6jc)
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BTW I always thought Taylor was an underated actress. In the sense that she was more the "super star" and object of tabloids than just a person plying a trade. But in certain rolls she was excellent. She was also a great beauty. Far better looking to me than the many blond bimboes who were all the rage in the fifties and sixties.
Posted by: kyle8 at February 07, 2007 04:57 AM (lw6jc)
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"Brangelina of their day", I have a hard time seeing Richard Burton as a mimbo. Maybe Liz was the 60's version of AJ, but she never reached her level of steamy sexuality/freak. No, Larry Fortenski is the Brad Pitt iteration.
Why would I want a chair, that doesn't look comfortable to sit in?
Posted by: Casca at February 07, 2007 07:34 AM (Y7t14)
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Casca,
Because you sit on your ass not your eyes, but you knew that, right?
Posted by: strawman at February 07, 2007 12:35 PM (9ySL4)
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I heard you did something else with your ass straw.
Posted by: kyle8 at February 07, 2007 06:59 PM (yB636)
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kYLE,
rEALLY? SOunds like you have been sitting in too many public toilets waiting for that knock on the door that you pine for.
Posted by: strawman at February 08, 2007 08:01 AM (9ySL4)
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Ms. Annika,
How wonderful of you to remember the Gipper. My favorite guy too, although for quite different reasons I'm sure. Be sure to enjoy a jelly belly today in his honor.
Over and out,
X
Posted by: Major X at February 06, 2007 08:40 PM (N155d)
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Yes, and Yes! He is defintiely the hero of us all.
Although I doubt that many of you received a Judgeship from him, as did I.
I also doubt that many of you were privileged to write a Thousand dollar check for the first Fifty Thousand seed money for his presidential campaign.
I, on the other hand, had the pleasure of both, in that very order.
Who woulda thunk it? A great man, really not appreciated in his own time.
Reminds me of our current President, MY President, George W. Bush.
Posted by: shelly at February 06, 2007 10:32 PM (SLFj+)
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Whoops - may I also mention that my jelly belly will come from a jar personally handed to me by then Governor Reagan, bearing his seal and name?
The jar is the same, the jelly bellies are constantly replenished due to hungry grandchildren.
But the feeling is still there.
Remember to spill them out before choosing one; this is known as "Reagan Jellybean etiquette".
Posted by: shelly at February 06, 2007 10:36 PM (SLFj+)
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"A great man, really not appreciated in his own time."
I can't tell if you're referring to Reagan or yourself in that sentence, Shelly!
I too have a jar of jelly bellies purchased at the Reagan Library on my desk.
Posted by: annika at February 07, 2007 02:59 AM (JBltT)
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In a way it is quite disturbing and saddening. Why? well I listened to Reagan's keynote speech again given at the Republican convention in 1964. Thats over forty years ago. and the problems he was addressing were the exact same problems we have now, only now they are worse. It really seems that no progress has been made. Or damn little.
Posted by: kyle8 at February 07, 2007 05:00 AM (lw6jc)
An astronaut drove 900 miles and donned a disguise to confront a woman she believed was her rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot, police said. She was arrested Monday and charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts.
U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, 43, who flew last July on a shuttle mission to the international space station, was also charged with attempted vehicle burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery. She was denied bail.
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Police said Nowak drove from her home in Houston to the Orlando International Airport to confront Colleen Shipman.
Nowak believed Shipman was romantically involved with Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein, a pilot during space shuttle Discovery's trip to the space station last December, police said.
Nowak told police that her relationship with Oefelein was "more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship," according to an arrest affidavit. Police officers recovered a love letter to Oefelein in her car.
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When she found out that Shipman was flying to Orlando from Houston, Nowak decided to confront her, according to the arrest affidavit. Nowak raced from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to urinate, authorities said.
Astronauts wear diapers during launch and re-entry.
Dressed in a wig and a trench coat, Nowak boarded an airport bus that Shipman took to her car in an airport parking lot. Shipman told police she noticed someone following her, hurried inside the car and locked the doors, according to the arrest affidavit.
Nowak rapped on the window, tried to open the car door and asked for a ride. Shipman refused but rolled down the car window a few inches when Nowak started crying. Nowak then sprayed a chemical into Shipman's car, the affidavit said.
Shipman drove to the parking lot booth, and the police were called.
During a check of the parking lot, an officer followed Nowak and watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said.
Inside Nowak's vehicle, which was parked at a nearby motel, authorities uncovered a pepper spray package, an unused BB-gun cartridge, latex gloves and e-mails between Shipman and Oefelein. They also found a letter "that indicated how much Mrs. Nowak loved Mr. Oefelein," an opened package for a buck knife, Shipman's home address and hand written directions to the address, the arrest affidavit said.
Police said Nowak told them that she only wanted to scare Shipman into talking to her about her relationship with Oefelein and didn't want to harm her physically.
"If you were just going to talk to someone, I don't know that you would need a wig, a trench coat, an air cartridge BB gun and pepper spray," said Sgt. Barbara Jones, a spokeswoman for the Orlando Police Department. "It's just really a very sad case. ... Now she ends up finding herself on the other side of the law with some very serious charges."
If convicted of attempted kidnapping, Nowak could face a maximum of life in prison.
Her first mistake was going to Nick Nolte's stylist before the arrest.
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I tried to track back this one, but kept getting "Error 500, Bugger."
Clearly that "alien life form" has more power than I realized.
Posted by: NOTR at February 05, 2007 10:29 PM (GCLgj)
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The government, and military is riddled with these crazy bitches. Bizarre behavior, but sounds like she walks with a simple assault plea, don'tcha think?
Posted by: Casca at February 05, 2007 10:54 PM (2gORp)
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How would you like to be in a tight situation with this one at the controls?
Posted by: Leonard at February 06, 2007 08:58 AM (0Co69)
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I saw this articlel today and heard about it to. I guess some people do a lot with diapers! I am not sure whether this report incident goes in my blog but might qualify because she might have ruined the rest of her astronaut flight career.
Posted by: dreric1kansas at February 06, 2007 09:21 AM (QEc94)
Posted by: shelly at February 06, 2007 09:35 AM (SLFj+)
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Wow...what a slammin' hottie! I'd like a photo of the other chick to see what this astronaut had to choose from.
Then perhaps the two could "space joust" for his affections. The first one to knock the other into outer space wins his love.
That would be cool...
Posted by: Billy at February 06, 2007 09:59 AM (SLFj+)
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A girl like this, when she's not putting your cat in the microwave, is a total blast: passionate, excited, totally into you, generally makes life exciting, and totally experimental in bed. Unfortunately, even very bright and passionate people, can have a totally obsessive side that comes out when, as here, they get dumped, cheated on, or see things coming to a close. I confess, I have a slight preference for these slightly nutty drama queens; they make life interesting, and if you're lucking you get in the news and your "social value" will rise tremendously when her emails about missing your "talented fingers" or whatnot gets known to the public.
Posted by: Roach at February 06, 2007 10:01 AM (1BjlW)
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Thanks for sharing Roach. Billy, you need to get out more. She's a skankly affirmative action manling. From the mugshot, it appears that she didn't use the diaper to go number 2.
This story is getting even better. Turns out she is married to someone else. This is the byproduct of sexual repression in the military. It turned the Navy into a bunch of hypocrits.
Posted by: Casca at February 06, 2007 10:19 AM (Y7t14)
Posted by: The Law Fairy at February 06, 2007 01:14 PM (XUsiG)
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Many jokes with "open the pod bay doors, Hal" as the punch line are floating through my mind.
Posted by: annika at February 06, 2007 01:29 PM (zAOEU)
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you should hear the Talk radio stations here in Houston. Its all they can talk about. So many people calling in to say "I know her, she seemed normal to me" Well, duh! thats what you always hear about serial killers too.
Posted by: kyle8 at February 07, 2007 05:02 AM (lw6jc)
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Dammit, it just came to me... Astronut. Soon it will be ubiquitous.
Posted by: Casca at February 07, 2007 07:36 AM (Y7t14)
Posted by: annika at February 07, 2007 08:24 AM (0VTwC)
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Believe me, I thought of it as soon as I heard the story. Medved is reading my mind again.
Posted by: Casca at February 07, 2007 10:37 AM (Y7t14)
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Casca,
Uh...that was sarcasm on my part. Sorry for the subtlety of wit...
Posted by: Billy at February 07, 2007 09:16 PM (SLFj+)
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I work for one of the prime contractors and can tell you these are some of the nuttiest bastards I have ever met! Nothing that Nowak did..nothing in the slightest surprised me..but then, NASA is trying to hold onto it's GLORY DAYS....they are all pissed because I had the balls to tell them robotic missions were much less expensive.....wonder if I'll get mine!.....Frankie
Posted by: Frankie at February 08, 2007 03:13 AM (vPggd)
Rudy Is In
You may have sensed that I am a fan of Rudy Giuliani. While I haven't yet decided who I'm going to support, Rudy definitely makes the short list. And it's a very short list. I've already done the math on him, and nobody has yet debunked my theory. In fact, I'm the only one I've ever heard talking about the New York factor.
In a nutshell, my theory is this: People say Rudy is vulnerable on social issues, meaning he won't win the Red States. But people forget that he has a serious shot at winning New York, even against Hillary. And if Rudy wins NY's 31 electoral votes, he can pretty much thumb his nose at the South and still win the presidency. And I say, if he wins NY, he'll probably get NJ, and possibly PA and CT, too. Let me tell you, that's a scenario that scares the hell out of a lot of people. That's why no one's talking about it.
Now that Rudy's all but announced, you're going to hear a lot of people repeating the same mantra: "He's too liberal to win the nomination." Don't you believe it. The media wants you to believe it, because they know how formidable he really is. They've seen the polling. The "three-G"* conservatives want you to believe it too, because Rudy gives them nightmares.
But before you give in to the anti-hype, read this article in City Journal, entitled "Yes, Rudy Giuliani Is a Conservative". You may not come away completely convinced, but at least you'll know he's not the antichrist, as some want you to believe.
He cleaned up New York when the rest of the world had written it off. Ask any New Yorker. Pre-Giuliani, you took your life into your hands walking in the park after dark, or just riding the subway. Broadway was a shithole. There used to be certain neighborhoods where nobody wanted to live, that are now impossible to afford. New York had a genuine Renaissance in the 1990's and it was thanks to Rudy Giuliani. New Yorkers won't forget this.
Of course Rudy led that Renaissance in the face of withering criticism from the left. He made enemies, and as his tenure was winding down, his enemies seemed to have gotten to him. The Diallo shooting didn't help, either. But then came 9/11, and people saw again that this man was a courageous, principled and born leader. Flawed yes, but that's only a reminder that he's human like all of us. Rudy's personal problems are not going to dissuade New Yorkers from supporting him. They voted overwhelmingly for Clinton too.
Don't forget also that Giuliani is an amazing speaker. He gave the best speech at the 2004 Republican Convention. His style is spontaneous, populist, and deceptively effective. While Zell Miller fired up the base and Schwarzenegger won over the pundits, Rudy's speech was the most articulate defense of the War on Terror that has ever been given to a national audience.
Giuliani has also positioned himself well, by staying out of the administration. To move forward, he will need to come up with an approach to the Iraq mess that navigates the gulf between his unequivocal support for the War and the subsequent truth that Bush and Company have fucked it all up. On that issue he may lose ground to McCain, who has also been unwavering in his belief the Iraq was the right thing to do, while at the same time he's never thought we were doing it right.
In a sense, all Republican candidates except for Hagel are hamstrung by the success or failure of the President's Surge plan. No pro-war Republican will be elected on a victory platform if victory isn't within sight. Mark my words, if the Surge fails to show progress within the next 12 months, we will have a Democratic president in 2009. I think McCain and Giuliani have the best chance of convincing independent voters to stay the course in Iraq, but ultimately I think they'd lose to a cut-and-run Democrat if we don't start winning soon.
Finally, back to Giuliani's social liberal weaknesses. To those who don't like Rudy because he's pro gay marriage, I say where have you been? Gay marriage is here. It's a reality. The only way to put that genie back in the bottle is by a Constitutional Amendment, and good luck with that one. Same goes for abortion, and I'm about as far to the right on the abortion issue as it is possible to be. Rudy does worry me about gun rights, but he made a good first step at winning my confidence two days ago when he said:
I think those are the kinds of justices I would appoint - Scalia, Alito and Roberts. If you can find anybody as good as that, you are very, very fortunate.
I'll keep watching. But as it stands now, Rudy should be the front-runner and I'm skeptical of any polls that don't have him at or near the top. His opponents in both parties will be gunning for him now. Rudy's never been shy about fighting back, so it should be a very interesting campaign whatever happens.
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He's my first choice as well. I think you make a good defense of his positives, but I'm looking forward to hearing from those on the Right who oppose him as well as those on the Left. (Straw and I have had some pretty good debates whether he did more harm than good in NYC.) Regardless, he'll be formidable. Those who write him off are fooling themselves.
So, let the debate begin...
Posted by: blu at February 05, 2007 10:57 PM (duPNB)
Posted by: Casca at February 05, 2007 10:57 PM (2gORp)
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Casca, please elaborate for those of us born in the latter part of the 20th century.
Not calling you ancient....I'm just sayin'.....
Posted by: blu at February 05, 2007 11:00 PM (duPNB)
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Unfortunately, Rudy has too many skeletons in his closet and a really crazy ex that's too willing to talk. The Dems will only be too glad to dredge it all out during a campaign, which will definitely hurt him making Rudy to not a viable candidate.
Posted by: michele at February 05, 2007 11:05 PM (vMvlg)
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Good gawd, you slithy little fuck, I don't remember Dewey. I am able to read history though. However, for those of you who are too lazy to do so. Dewey was a NY prosecutor who "cleaned up" NYC. He's most famous as the fellow in the headline held up by Truman in 1948 that read, "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN". Of course, that's not what happened.
Anni, you've been on campus too long. Rudy will have to say a lot of things to nail down the base. The party whores will be onboard early. If he hasn't got the base by September, Newt will be in the race, and will take it away from him. The lightweights notwithstanding, we've got a pretty good bench. The VP choice will be Ken Blackwell from Ohio. He's much cleaner than Osama Obama.
Posted by: Casca at February 06, 2007 12:18 AM (2gORp)
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One of the many reasons to vote for Rudy is his master smackdowns of the self-important leftist press. Douche Gregory, Terry Moran and that hideous, foul, decrepit, syphilitic snatch-breathed crone Helen Thomas are going to be smacked like pinatas!
Also, his longstanding beatdowns of that vile dike Rosie O’ Donuts made living here truly magnificent. He used to call her “pumpkin head” due to her size 12 empty, ugly squash.
Posted by: Radical Redneck at February 06, 2007 12:37 AM (UoESY)
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Casca's right; Dewey's image holding up the paper (I'm pretty sure it was the Chicago Tribune) saying that he won was premature; the votes came in for Truman late (Mayor Daley was still printing them at press time).
Newt's my guy so far; Rudy can win, but can he get the nomination?
I do remember that time, but vaguely. I remember sitting with Truman at a dinner for Jack Kennedy in Washington, D.C. in the early 60's and chatting a bit about the steel seizure cases (look 'em up, kiddies) and his feeling about the Dewey election. Also, his recognition of Israel in '48 was galactic.
He was one hell of a guy, even if he was a Democrat.
Posted by: shelly at February 06, 2007 07:03 AM (SLFj+)
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OK, Methusala, I know you've forgotten more than I'll ever know, but it was Truman holding up the Trib. Truman was the typical thug Democrat machine politician who had greatness thrust upon him. To be kind, he didn't understand the world. He shutdown the OSS leaving us blind going into the Cold War. Failed at shaping the post-war world, and created the scenario that got us knocked on our collective asses in Korea by gutting the military to spend the "peace dividend" after WWII. Few could have done worse. That he and Marshall are lionized is a tribute to American leftist media dominance from the Depression to the Reagan Revolution.
Posted by: Casca at February 06, 2007 07:34 AM (Y7t14)
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Your trackback thingy is not working, so this is in lieu of a trackback.
I like Rudy, and won’t be horribly disappointed if he becomes our next President — I definitely prefer him to Hillary/Obama/Edwards. Nor do I think he’s too “liberal” for our Party’s nomination. In fact, I think Rudy would be a nice move back towards the center on many issues.
But I won't vote for him nor support his campaign, as I have a set-in-stone principal where I won't cast a vote for POTUS for any man or woman has not served in our country's military.
If you want the power to send our young men and women into war, you damned well better had been willing to volunteer yourself.
As a crusty old veteran, that's just how I feel about it.
Posted by: Robbie at February 06, 2007 08:45 AM (foLp3)
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I heard the Giuliani speak on the step by step process he used to clean up New York and the corrupt bureaucracy that allowed it to happen. He had the guts to clear the Mafia out of the fish market and waste hauling when everyone said he would be a dead man if he tried. It was a very impressive speech about his miraculous accomplishments.
I could support Rudy.
Posted by: Jake at February 06, 2007 08:47 AM (V6rxT)
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Damn, Casca, you are absolutely right. What was I thnking?
Posted by: shelly at February 06, 2007 09:43 AM (SLFj+)
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Who's this Robbie guy? I like the way he thinks. I was in the library last night, and saw a chicklette in blue coveralls wearing the rank of a Coast Guard Lt. Do they count? Not in my book. The inner Marine always takes over. I almost asked her WTF she was doing "in the ville" in a work uniform. But I come from the generation when the avaitors weren't allowed to wear their flightsuits through the gate.
Posted by: Casca at February 06, 2007 10:07 AM (Y7t14)
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"Dewey was a NY prosecutor who "cleaned up" NYC. He's most famous as the fellow in the headline held up by Truman in 1948 that read, "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN". "
C'mon Casca. I expected something better than that - everybody has seen that fucking photo and knows the eventual outcome. BFD. I thought there was something in Dewey's political philosophy that you remember - having lived through it and all - that reminded you of Rudy. Instead, I get the usual profane, though humorous, bromide that shows you can use Wikipedia.
BTW, Newt? Really?! Any of you fucking dopes who think Newt has a snow ball's chance in hell of getting the nomination or winning really need to lay off the crack pipe. Newt is an opp researchers dream, whose negatives rival Hillary's. The man loves hearing himself talk and has left a paper/video trail that leaves him no chance at being anything but a talking head. Even suggesting Newt shows absolutely no understanding of modern day politics.
I love watching Newt on TV. He's smart and interesting. But he has zero chance of being President.
Right now, Rudy is the best choice because the only real alternatives are an egotistical old crank, who thinks the 1st amend is optional or an articulate Mormon, who seems to have a penchant for being on both sides of issues.
Posted by: blu at February 06, 2007 10:59 AM (duPNB)
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And here we have a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Posted by: Casca at February 06, 2007 12:32 PM (Y7t14)
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i should do a post with one line summaries of the two dozen or so candidates in the ring as of today.
my line on Newt would be something like: i like him, but forget it.
Posted by: annika at February 06, 2007 01:35 PM (zAOEU)
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I didn't think you could make a case for him, Casca.
Plagerizing famous quotes is funny though. Stick to that - cuz you are pretty funny...really - and leave the political analysis to the smart people.
Maybe, you can be the site Jester.
Anni, good take on Newt.
Posted by: blu at February 06, 2007 02:58 PM (duPNB)
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My but you're petulant today. Ah, but that's you everyday. My reason for not responding to your screed is that only a fool argues with a jackass. This you do daily. I shall not partake.
I'm sure that you're very smot, at least compared to the others on the short bus, but attribution isn't required when quoting Shakespeare in this instance, ya stupid fuck. Now educate me some more.
Posted by: Casca at February 06, 2007 03:49 PM (2gORp)
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I can't help it...it's too easy. I don't mind ya taking cheap shots at Straw and Will, but I'm not your bitch so no freebies, Grandpa. You get friskie with me, I beat you down just like the Lefties. Besides, I just want you to make a case for your opinion. I don't mind having my mind changed by good thinking. Wasn'tlooking for an argument -just a friendly exchange of ideas.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Posted by: blu at February 06, 2007 04:02 PM (duPNB)
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Blu,
Maybe tomorrow I will find time to laugh about Rudy. Right now I am finishing up a late night and delivering a Prada display to Macy's for a 9pm til 6am set-up. He is not, as I have said before, presidential material. Haivng the UN nearby does not give him foreign policy cred. From afar much about him may be appealing to you law and order types who munch on the constitution when the going gets tough, and his couple of heartfelt moments at ground zero were, like anytime a polition is moved to being real, glimses of a part of his character that he never shows and actually seems to abhor in himself.
Later.
Posted by: strawman at February 06, 2007 06:11 PM (9ySL4)
Cold Blast Pushes Global Warming Off The Front Page
The words "Global" and "Warming" were conspicuously absent from tonight's NBC Nightly News, I'm here to tell you.
The good news, if there is any, about what's being called the Midwest Cold Blast, or alternately, the Cold Snap, is that we won't be lectured about Global Warming again for at least another week.
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Posted by: John Hughes at February 05, 2007 10:19 PM (gdtKg)
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There continue to be news articles about Global Warming, so I don't see your connection. Only the lowest IQs would think a cold snap might somehow reduce the likelihood of continued GW. But this kind of response is what you were looking for, eh cheri? Any comments on Chirac's latest drive?
Posted by: will at February 06, 2007 10:05 AM (GzvlQ)
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Ya know, if there could be a three way prez ticket, and the spiritual leader of Tibet joined the two you mentioned, we could see bumper stickers like;
Obama Biden Lama
Posted by: will at February 03, 2007 05:26 AM (h7Ciu)
