Category: Politics

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Two Strong Quotes

Here are two of the strongest I have heard in a little while… let me know what you think

The first one is from a Op-Ed piece by Roger Cohen titled “Why Obama Should Visit A Mosque“. Read it if you get a chance, really a good a piece.

“Fear-mongering about Islam is a global industry. It thrives on ignorance. Obama has a unique power to break the cycle, not least by emboldening moderate Muslims to denounce terror. Nothing would do more in the long run for the security of the world.”

Even though I am pretty much against the widespread use of “right to bear arms” which certainly does not have the same meaning today as it did back when it was first adopted and certainly in light of the Supreme Court upholding that right, what can you do. But here is a strong quote that certainly drives home the point. This is from one from a pro-second amendment rally prior to the ruling handed down by the Supreme Court.

“If guns kill people, then do pens misspell words?”

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Spelling is Hard?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9SXZWlIfhQ

So I’m on a Fox News rampage over here but leave it to the next work to tell its viewers that “soldiers” and “monkey” are very difficult words to spell. The lady in the center first didn’t know there was a ‘d’ in soldiers followed by stating the following:

“This [viewer suggestion] was ‘Teach children how to use a dictionary. That is how they will learn to spell.’ But here’s the problem… Do they even sell hardcore dictionaries anymore? Like all on the computer…” — Gretchen Carlson

Courtesy of The Guardian, here are the 100 most difficult of the commonly used words to spell: (go figure how that makes any sense.)

orange, foreign, rhinoceros, properly, vomit, tambourine, tournament, tourist, heaven, engine, exquisite, opposite, advertisement, gnarled, rigid, risen, sinister, spinach, video, vinegar, tie, wheelie, quiet, science, crier, pliers, soldier, Monday, mongrel, monkey, courage, magic, manage, palace, four, journey, gnash, gnaw, gnome, ghastly, guard, miracle, miserable, pigeon, pity, prison, month, mother, nothing, once, smother, son, sponge, tongue, wonder, almost, both, comb, ghost, gross, most, only, post, programme, deny, reply, July, obey, caterpillar, chapel, damage, dragon, fabulous, family, famished, garage, glacier, habit, hazard, hexagonal, imagine, panic, radish, miaow, powder, cauliflower, plant, pyjamas, raft, rather, salami, task, vast, kiosk, kiwi, machine, encourage, somersault, swollen, souvenir

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McCain: Back To Prohibition!

In what has to be the greatest slip of the tounge of the 2008 Presidential Elections – or possibly in the history of Presidential Elections in the United States, John McCain vowed “to veto every single beer.”

“I will use the veto as needed. I will veto every single beer — bill with earmarks,” he said, as rumblings from the crowd could be heard. “And every single bill that we have come across my desk I will make them famous. I will veto them, you will know their names.”

CNN has the video here. Maybe the tough times of the economy and his failing numbers within his own party and failure to capitalize on a divided Democratic Primary process is getting to him that alcohol is the only thing on his mind.

McCain Beer Veto

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Fox News: All Racist Network

Edit on 6/10/08: Maybe Fox News isn’t that bad at all… Ha, who am I kidding. But in a surprising move, they did cancel the show of the woman who I talk about below… (link)

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I know I say this everytime I link something from them but are the people at Fox News really this racist? Are they really this ignorant and gonna continue to spit out lie after lie and one racist comment after another?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xScZN2-Z_Sg

Terrorist Fist Bump? Is there even such a thing? Of course there is… at Fox News!

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If Politics Was A Sport…

Got this from a friend earlier today…

Some in the media are declaring the series over because the Boston Celtics have won four of the six games played so far. But I don’t understand why, with a series this close and hotly contested, anyone would want to shut it down before we play a seventh game and have all the results in. As anybody who follows the NBA knows, a seven-game series would be good for the league, and the added competition would make the eventual victor, whomever it might be, a stronger opponent against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals….

Yes, Boston has won four games and Detroit only two. But it’s hard to imagine a more arbitrary and undemocratic way to determine this series’s outcome than “games won.” It is, after all, a bedrock value of the game of basketball that all points must be counted. But how can that be the case when every point beyond the winning point is ignored? There are literally dozens of layups, jumpers, free throws, and (yes, even) dunks that our opponents want to say don’t count for anything at all. We call on the NBA to do the right thing and fully count all of the baskets that were made throughout the course of this series.

Once you abandon the artificial four-games-to-two framework that the media has tried to impose on the series, a very different picture emerges, with the Celtics leading by a mere 549 points to 539. Yes that’s right, the margin between the two teams is less than one percent — a tie, for all intents and purposes. This is probably the closest Conference Finals in NBA history, though I will thank you not to check on that.