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After decades of attacking the so-called religious right, the Dim-O-Cracks are hopping aboard the “we love the Lord more than you love the Lord” mantra? Oh, well. Anything to win, I suppose.
My friend Lincoln Davis who chairs our campaign says there are, there’s one big difference between us and misfortunate Republicans when it comes to our faith: he said that Republicans fear the Lord; he said Democrats fear AND love the Lord.
It’s so nice to see the Donks hop on the God Squad. It would be even nicer if it was some type of sincere demonstration of faith instead of the usual Clintonesque say-whatever-we-think-will-get-us-elected political jockeying. The next time I hear some dimwitted Tennessee leftist complain about Bushitler’s Theocratic Monarchy, I am going to be forced to remind them that Harold Gotti Jr. says they better FEAR and LOVE the Lord, or they’ll be lookin’ down the barrel of Uncle John’s shotgun before they can say hallelujah.
There was Michael Berg. Berg, as you may recall had a real cool son named Nick who was murdered in Iraq. Nick Berg was a telecommunications expert and an entrepeneur who went there to help rebuild the infrastructure. While there, he was abducted and murdered by Iraqi terrorists.
I knew nothing about Nick except that he apparently was nothing like his insane father Michael - one of those souls so committed to “peace” and “social justice” that he subscribes to Communism.
After his son’s murder, he penned this lunacy for the Guardian. Note how the terrorists are actually better than George Bush because they had a chance to look into his eyes before cutting his son’s head off.
People ask me why I focus on putting the blame for my son’s tragic and atrocious end on the Bush administration. They ask: “Don’t you blame the five men who killed him?” I have answered that I blame them no more or less than the Bush administration, but I am wrong: I am sure, knowing my son, that somewhere during their association with him these men became aware of what an extraordinary man my son was. I take comfort that when they did the awful thing they did, they weren’t quite as in to it as they might have been. I am sure that they came to admire him.
I am sure that the one who wielded the knife felt Nick’s breath on his hand and knew that he had a real human being there. I am sure that the others looked into my son’s eyes and got at least a glimmer of what the rest of the world sees. And I am sure that these murderers, for just a brief moment, did not like what they were doing.
George Bush never looked into my son’s eyes. George Bush doesn’t know my son, and he is the worse for it.
So why am I rehashing this old news? Well, it appears that it’s relevant again.
If the Democratic party doesn’t offer enough high grade batsh*t crazy, you can vote the Green Party candidate, Michael Berg.
At a recent political debate at Brandywine High School, Michael Berg tried to speak.
Berg, the father of Nicholas Berg (have we already forgotten who he was?), went to the stage and asked out loud where his seat was.
The forum moderator ignored his question and continued to call the debate to order.
Mr. Berg repeated his question and the forum moderator told him that he and other third-party candidates for office were not invited to attend the forum.
A rumbling began from all corners of the auditorium. Shocked at the disrespect this candidate was receiving, I raised my voice and said, “Michael, just grab a chair!” And that is what he did.
Michael Berg, after putting a bumper sticker across his mouth, was escorted from the forum by a New Castle County police officer. When the moderator stated that if the audience members could not show the other candidates the respect deserved, that they too could leave.
Hmmmm. Let’s see, I’m a lawyer, I drive a car that screams “pretentious a$$wipe” and I’m French. I wonder if there is anything else I could do to really drive the point home…
It’s been a crazy few weeks. Ever since MKH lost her bet (for which she has yet to pay up… wink wink…), it seems like I’ve been on the road and more out-of-touch than usual. But, weep no more, Football Friday freaks, the picks you use to bet against are back.
This week, we’ll make it quick and get straight to it. First, my beloved Large Orange, who are, inexplicably, 6-1 at this stage in the season, will hammer the South Carolina Gamecocks, 39-17.
Why the confidence, which flies in the face of any Fulmer team taking on Steve Superior? Simple, we’re on the road. We don’t play worth a crap at home, which is why we lost to Florida and why we’ll probably lose to LSU. We play well when we don’t have to deal with our own weak home field, with its octogenarian-filled stadium, which has become about as intimidating as Carson-Newman Stadium in Jefferson City.
We play well on the road because at most other SEC stadiums, there are fans who actually make noise and get involved in the game - at Tennessee, the fans are too busy changing their depends or talking on their cell phones to be bothered with the game.
Elsewhere in the NCAA….
Florida 44, Georgia 14 - Georgia is horrible. Sorry, MKH.
Nebraska 34, Okie St 21 - Vinnie’s boys will bring the hammer down.
Georgia Tech 30, Miami State Correctional Facility 12 - Miami’s only hope in this one is that another bench-clearing brawl will end the game early.
Kentucky 1, Mississippi St. 0 - Only a Randy Sanders-guided offense could figure out a way to only score one point against the hapless Bulldawgs.
In the big leagues, the Mighty Titans continue their winning streak. I was proud of them for knocking off the Redskins, I just haven’t had time to call them and tell them. This week, the winning streak continues against the Texas Texans, Titans win 22-19. Elsewhere…
Steelers 31 Oakland 17 - The Raiders are just what the doctor ordered for the ailing Steelers. Last week’s Pitt/Atl game was one of the best games I’ve seen in years. It was also one of the only games I’ve actually been able to sit down and watch in years.
Colts 29 Broncos 17 - Peyton just has the Broncos’ number.
Vikings 33 Patsies 27 - I don’t think the Pats will be able to knock off the Vikings in the dome, but it should be a good game. I’m glad it’s a night game so I can watch it.
Carolina 26 Dallas 20 - Just who the hell is Tony Romo? And as long as Jerry Jones’ personnel decisions result in Terrell Owens being a loser, I’m all for ‘em.
That’s it for this week. I’m seriously considering live-blogging the South Carolina game Saturday night since I’ll be home watching it anyway, so stand by for announcements regarding this potentially exciting non-event!
CABAZON, Calif. — Four firefighters were killed yesterday when a fast-moving arson fire fed by Santa Ana winds charged through the rugged, wild terrain of Riverside County, destroying homes and forcing hundreds of residents to flee.
The Esperanza fire burned more than 10,000 acres near Cabazon, 90 miles east of Los Angeles and about 20 miles northwest of Palm Springs.
Fueled by dry wood, high temperatures, and winds gusting to more than 30 miles per hour, the blaze burned out of control despite the efforts of more than 700 firefighters . The fire was reported about 1:10 a.m.
“This is an arson fire . . . A deliberately set arson fire that leads to the death of anyone constitutes murder,” Chief John Hawkins told reporters. Hawkins is head of the Riverside County Fire Department, which is part of the state’s fire agency.
The county will offer a $100,000 reward to find the arsonist, officials said.
Regarding the arsonist(s), California officials are stating that this is now a murder investigation. And, as is the case with murderers in California, the murderer(s) in question will receive the harshest punishment possible under California law - nine months in prison and one year probation, followed by a 12:00 curfew and no television for six weeks.
Anyhoo, Mrs. Holmes and I are running in the Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday morning at the crack of dawn in the damn rain. But, it’s for a good cause, so I’m not weaseling out, I promise….
I was supposed to spend most of October training for the race, but instead of training, I wound up eating a lot of fatty foods and drinking a lot of vodka. It will undoubtedly take several hours to reach the finish line.
If you’d like to donate to Knoxville’s chapter and support the fight against breast cancer, you can do it here. I’d post a link to our “official” donation page, but that would blow this whole Preston Taylor Holmes thing, now wouldn’t it. You can also find your local race and donate locally here.
For those of you real life people who have donated and helped us pass our goal, thanks!
UPDATE:
Race update… The rain held off. There were a ton of people down there and (despite my cantankerous demeanor) it was a fun event. Once we got out of the massive pack of people at the starting line, the Mrs. and I actually ran the whole thing, which is why I’m in such discomfort right now.
Let’s just say that when you find yourself jogging past cancer survivors, people wearing signs that said In Memory Of So-and-So and a guy with an artificial leg, you’re humbled pretty quick. In addition to the exercise, it was a good reminder of what’s important in life.
Whenever they get the photo gallery up, I’ll post a link, provided I’m not in any of the pictures, of course.
In Ford’s own words, he told interviewer George Stephanopoulos a couple of Sundays ago, “I’ve never been to a Playboy mansion party.”
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In a September interview on WVLZ-AM in East Tennessee, Ford was asked by a listener about the party and he said, “Yeah, when I was at the Super Bowl one year, I believe I was at a party that, that Hugh Hefner or somebody from Playboy may have been at. … I was at a party where I learned later … that Hugh Hefner may have been there.” A transcript of the interview on The Voice radio show was released by the Tennessee Republican Party.
If this is Corker’s ace in the hole, the GOP is in trouble. Even if he did attend a party where sweet-assed bunnies were hopping about.
The first Republican commercial to mention the party began airing Oct. 3 by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. It played off a Ford campaign commercial, filmed in Ford’s Memphis church, by saying, “So what kind of man parties with Playboy playmates in lingerie, then films commercials from a church pew?”
The latest commercial to feature the Playboy party began running last Friday by the Republican National Committee. This ad takes shots at some of Ford’s most liberal votes in Congress and includes a woman, presumably an actress, saying, “I met Harold at the Playboy party.”
Hell, knowing that Ford may have attended a Playboy party and that “he likes football and he likes girls” makes me like him a little bit more. Still not enough to vote for him, but at least we share the same affection for football and girls. In the unlikely event that Ford is elected, we’ll know that we have at least one heterosexual in the Senate. Oh well, I’ll probably still vote for Corker when I early vote on Friday.
Kelvin Moxley provides this link to the original Ford Jr. interview. If you’re in the Knoxville area, you should tune into Lloyd & Kelvin on 1180 am when you can (I believe they’re on in the mornings before Basilio’s show). I’ve tuned in many times and it’s good stuff.
All week I’ve been reading in disparate sources from Drudge to US News and World Report about Bush, Rove and Cheney being overly confident about the midterm elections. Even Republican strategists are increasingly concerned because the White House doesn’t have a plan if they lose. This lack of planning shouldn’t surprise anyone, but if you really think about it a creepy, crawly feeling grows in your gut.
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Here are some questions: Are these guys simply narcissistic idiots Rove-ing around in some never-never land bubble or do they know something we don’t? Have they planned a grab bag nose punch of an October/November surprise? Or have Diebold, ES&S, and local state secretaries assured them that they will do “whatever it takes” to get a Republican Congress elected again?
Well? What about that, eh? The Democrats can only lose by Rethug malfeasance. Just like 2000.
Damn, as a Neocon, sometimes I scare myself.
So what is their next move? You guess it. Take to the streets!
Therefore we should all be on alert. If for whatever reason we don’t win back Congress in November the only real answer will be to take to the streets.
Kids, they’re not screwing around. We’re talking open revolt.
We must keep them down. When you see Boobs, Not Bombs on your lilly-white suburban street, please, shoot first, throw up later.
As the election draws near, Talal Arimah has been dragged into the ugly political mudslinging.
Help this upright candidate fight back against the political smear machine and stand tall.
(Yes, I feel like a 14 yr. old with all the d*ck jokes. But you know what? It’s not something we guys ever mature out of. We just stop telling them when you’re around.)
Still all up in the big city - Mrs. Holmes has headed back down south to continue rearing the kids. It was an excellent weekend away and much needed break for us, but it’s back to harsh reality now.
Our Daily Disgrace of a statewide newspaper making treasonous and amoral editorials is par for the course. And ordinarily, I let a majority of their garbage slide since no one reads it anyway. But today they’re praising the ChiComs for having “cooler heads” in dealing with the NorK problem and and I just can’t take it:
Cooler heads take lead on North Korea China plays a key role in dispute, and the United States must be flexible
A glimmer of optimism has shown through in the nuclear crisis with North Korea.
China signaled on Friday that it is willing to do more to impose sanctions on its belligerent neighbor if North Korea, the United States and South Korea will demonstrate “coolheadedness” and “adhere to peaceful dialogue.”
[...] China’s velvet-gloved approach of voting to impose U.N. sanctions, while insisting the U.S.-backed sanctions be watered down, appears to have made the difference in Kim’s stance.
In a meeting with a visiting Chinese envoy on Friday, Kim also raised the possibility the country would return to arms talks if Washington agrees to drop financial sanctions.
First off, let’s concede that China and Russia tacitly approve of transferring nuclear and missile technology to the NorKs. Having the NorK’s head screwball threatening everyone is a nice distraction from their innumerable human rights abuses.
But “cooler heads”?
Kim Jong-Il just let off a nuclear bomb. What you’re saying is the equivalent of handing over your purse to a man who puts a gun in your face in hopes that he won’t come back next week demanding more. The only difference is the man putting the gun in your face in this scenario has an ocean between us and instead of a gun he’s working on nuclear tipped ICBMs.
These overtures should prove a critical test for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the White House — now is not the time to play hardball.
I’m dying to hear when exactly is the right time to play hardball. After Kim Jong-Il attacks South Korea? Japan? Los Angeles?
Maybe if he launched an ICBM into the Kyoto Forest that would send The Tennessean off the rails.
Another thing for Washington to think about: If sanctions fail because they are not enforced, the only alternatives left may be the bilateral talks it has stubbornly avoided, or military action. Americans fed up with a war in Iraq are unlikely to support the latter.
Yeehaw! An endorsement for unilateral cowboy diplomacy.
I am unconvinced, despite their best efforts, that China will be able to hammer and sickle any of their good table manners into Rice’s thick American skull after only spending a few days in such a heady, tolerant, and compromising climate.
If she orders US troops to open fire in the lobby of 1100 Broadway, I’ll know the re-education took. If she slaps the Koran out of the first Muslims hands she sees at the airport, I will recognize the headway the ChiComs made. And if she gives a loaded pistol to a 5 year-old who’s stomping his foot because his Mommy won’t enter multi-lateral talks with his friends to take him to the movies, consider me swayed.
UPDATE: Last week I mentioned that the Tennessean had already endorsed Harold Ford, Jr. for Senate. I omitted that they also only endorsed Democrats for every office available. I apologize for that oversight.
UPDATE 2: They still have not written about Prince Harold’s ill-fated bum rush of Corker’s campaign stop that made national headlines.
UPDATE 3: As Iran is watching everything going on with the NorKs, today they are saying:
“Iran’s position is that you cannot use the policy of ‘carrot and stick’ at the same time because it is an incompetent policy and it will result in failure.”
The AP goes on to note: “France, Britain and Germany are drafting a Security Council resolution on sanctions and have been discussing it with the United States, which wants tougher measures. Russia and China, which can veto a resolution, are wary of imposing penalties.”
BOLD PREDICTION - The Tennessean will endorse a bold new “candy and roses” policy towards Iran that’s sure to win over the Islamic hardliners. Preferably delivered at a Ramadan celebration in the Oval Office as the President bows to Mecca.
I was going to sit this one out. Me, of all people.
I wanted Ed Bryant to beat Corker in the primary and feel that the underhanded candidate Van Hilleary was running at the request of Corker to split the conservative vote. I still feel that way.
But thanks to the Reverend Harold Gotti, Jr., I’ll be spending this sunny Saturday afternoon to go early vote for his opponent.
I can choose to hold my nose for 5 minutes and pull the lever for Corker or be forced to hold my nose for six years while the stench of the Ford Crime Family’s corruption makes it’s way through the Senate.
Those of us who don’t live in Memphis have never been able to register a vote against the kleptocratic thugocracy that has reigned in the Mud City for the last 40 years. For me, that changed today.
Here’s a quick roundup of linkage before I get on a winged girder-bird this afternoon departing for the Windy City.
T-Man takes CNN to the woodshed for showing a video of a sniper killing a U.S. soldier in broad daylight. CNN has been in the camp of the enemy since the very beginning. This is simply the latest, and most offensive, example of their hatred for America.
John Hawkins has an interview with Bob Corker. Still don’t know if I’m going to hold my nose and vote. I’ll keep you posted, because I know you just can’t bear the suspense.
Apparently Rush “Country Club Republican” Limbaugh has been bumbling about the blogosphere as of late. Since I haven’t tuned into Rush in the last few years, I have no idea what was said, other than that he just doesn’t get it. No big surprise there. Ali Bubba has more: ¡Reynoldistas unidos!
There’s plenty more out there - just hit the Six Meat blogrolls for the best stuff. I leave you with this warning - I will be out of town for the next 5 days or so - blogging will either be lighter or heavier. That much I can promise to you, dear reader.
Over the last three years, I have found myself increasingly in the racial minority within the IT world. As long as I’ve been in technology the programming department has always been a diverse pool of geeks from every creed, race and color. But lately, it has been difficult to find a co-worker who will join me for a burger.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy and appreciate the diversity. But sometimes I look enviously down the hall at the marketing department where all the white kids went because frankly, there is a ton of eye candy there.
No, my real gripe with the demographically rich IT groups is that, no matter how bright they are (and they are), Internationals just don’t get it.
As evidence, I offer these two unaltered screenshots of code produced by people whose first language isn’t English.
I’m sure it was
Yes, choose your Langauge from the handy Drop Down List
I think I’ll start a scrapbook, it might make a good book someday.
I’m not one to go around blathering about personal matters, but the Holmes family is pullin’ up stakes. We’ve received an offer on our humble home that we’re just not going to be able to pass up.
This means heading into a rental of some sort while we spend the next 7-9 months looking for a new house.
Do any of you fine Knoxville-area folks know of any good online resources (besides the Knoxville News-Sentinel’s classifieds, which I’ve already started scouring) for finding quality homes/condos/duplexes for rent? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Feel free to e-mail me at preston-at-sixmeatbuffet.com with any info.
I spent the last few days in Hotlanta at a work-related conference. Therefore, I haven’t been very tuned-in to the hurly-burly of modern current-events and political whatzits. I would have popped in and posted something like “light blogging ahead” or “really busy”, but what do you care? Hell, we’re all busy. I’ll leave such pronouncements to more important bloggers, on whose words you hang daily.
Additionally, as long as this blog continues to be an unpaid internship, and as long as I am fortunate enough to have such excellent co-bloggers, I just don’t see the buffet climbing much higher on the ol’ priority list these days. Especially with all the crap going on in real-life right now.
That doesn’t mean I’m not going to try though.
While in Atlanta, we did get to have dinner & drinks at Turner Field. We had the run of the stadium, but as it was raining pretty hard, nobody really wanted to run the bases. It was nice to see some of my old favorite offensive Native American stereotypes in the Braves museum though. Made me long for the good ol’ days when everyone had thicker skin. Photos after the jump.
While it is true that in general the Democrats are better on many sexual and social issues, there’s also that sexual identity politics thing, which I don’t like too much. And I just don’t see sex as the leading issue in American politics. At least, I don’t think it should be. In this regard, the Foley scandal has caused me to be more disgusted with the Democrats than the Republicans, for I think their exploitation of the scandal is cheap demagoguery at its absolute worst. It might be revenge for Monica Lewinsky, but at least that involved actual sex (as opposed to cyber raunch), and it also involved perjury. Ordinary voters, though, seem to think Foley/Masturgate is actually an important reason to vote the Republicans out.
That people can be so stupid astounds me. I mean, it’s not as if there aren’t plenty of reasons to vote the Republicans out, but a single congressman talking dirty to street-wise pages? For which he’s already out on his ass?
Please.
Anyway, back to my point. I have long been disgusted with the Republicans — so much so that I’m almost tired of holding my nose when I go to the polls. Yet I plan to vote for them again, despite my disgust.
What is it that makes my ability to hold my nose in spite of my longstanding, seasoned disgust so apparently special? The way people are acting, you’d almost think there’s something new to be disgusted about. To me, it’s the same old disgust. I don’t like the war on drugs, the culture war, the endless politicization of genitalia, the pork, the refusal to stop the hemorrhage at the borders, but I don’t see anything new other than the Foley scandal (which, contrarian as it sounds, only heightens my disgust at the Democrats).
Maybe the problem is too much disgust, for too long. Is that an argument for voting Democrat? Why? I don’t think any Republican voter is dumb enough to believe Democrats will be less disgusting, so the idea must be that it’s time to change the disgust channel to a different kind of disgust program.
I don’t think it’s a good solution or a good program. Let’s assume the nation is now steeped in Bush Disgust. The man has been president for nearly two terms, many mistakes were made, and many problems remain unsolved.
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Sorry, but that’s old disgust. Bush will be out in two years, and I’m tired of being disgusted with Republicans, but I’ll hold my nose forever before I return to the Clinton Disgust Channel.
At a recent fund-raiser, the elder Bush put it quite well:
At the fund-raiser, [George H.W.] Bush said he would “hate to think what life would be like” if Republicans lost control of Congress.
“It is more than party vs. party,” Bush said. “It is the idea that if we have some of these wild Democrats in charge of these committees, it will be a ghastly thing for our country. They just have a very different view of looking at the United States of America. They will be pushing for all kinds of crazy legislation; they will be issuing subpoenas.”
I remember all too well the phenomenon of what he calls “these committees” and “crazy legislation.”
And that’s the rub. The Democrats that will gain seats are likely not to be centrists. As the Parties have become polarized, the far Left has become downright spooky. I can live with a swing back towards the center, but for the love of all that’s holy, let’s keep San Francisco politics in San Francisco.
