To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Mel Martinez.
Crap, there’s the Spanish I couldn’t follow completely. Got the “All is possible”, though.
Also, the night’s first allusion to John Winthrop’s City on a Hill. Unfortunately, I suspect it’s now an allusion to Reagan.
(John Winthrop’s "A Modell of Christian Charity" here.)
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Mel Martinez.
Immigrants’ messages strike me differently. They risk everything for an imagined ideal.
Of course, he escaped Cuba, and he’s now espousing socialist benefits for seniors.
(Cut to LA FORGE, sweat beading on his forehead. “I am trying, captain, but these Rhetoricon Crystals vibrate to different harmonics!”)
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Mel Martinez.
What, he’s a candidate for Senator, and he gave up an existing government position to run? Well, Frank J. voted for him, so he’s got to be….from Florida.
He’s recounting a story like Arnold’s about a youth in a totalitarian society.
His parents sent him to America? Lucky he’s not some decades younger, or he would have been sent back.
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Geez, that dancing kid was a gomer, ainna?
Get the full video onto the Internet, and we’ve got a new phenomenon.
(Yes, I know, I am envious; I don’t have those suhweet moves.)
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My beautiful wife just showed her wonderful mother the obvious photoshop of Jessica Cutler in a JC T-Shirt, and my wife had to explain to her mother who this Jessica Cutler is.
We bloggers live in such an warm, insulated cacoon. A cacoon almost as soft and protective as a fresh Visualize World Hegemony t-shirt.
Note to non-blogosphere readers: Want to know who Jessica Cutler is? No, you don’t.
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Brass metaphor competition now open.
Jay Tea: Geez, that’s enough brass to equip a marching band.
Brian J.: Wow, there’s more retired brass on that stage than on the floor of a firing range.
You call it, gentle reader.
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Hey, that’s not Michael Williams.
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Good twins video. Can I get that on DVD, perhaps a special edition where I can control the angle?
Although after their performance last night, it’s not the people I would have picked to endorse the President’s intelligence. And they made no literary allusions. And they called Bon Jovi old music.
But they’re still all that and a bag of Cheetos.
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Why doesn’t the “convention jockey” get her name spelled out? Is she junior to Yohanna de la Torres, or did one of the others….
Pardon me while I go radio silent–here’s a Twins video.
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Tommy Franks (cont’d).
Bush has remained loyal to those who served (unlike some who served and came home to testify in front of Congress against them….).
The “I Choose George W. Bush” refrain is an effective speaking device.
Next 200 years of history depend on choices we make today. I’d say its the weight of the trends of the decisions we make now and in the near future, but I’d inject too many nuances into his message.
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Tommy Franks (cont’d).
He’s not naming Kerry, but he’s drawing subtle distinctions; Bush did everything to make sure that the commanders and troops had everything they needed (unlike some members of Congress)….
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Tommy Franks (cont’d).
Cool, methodical delivery. He’s not doing a Zeller, but he knows that’s not what his role is.
Hope is not a strategy. Very true.
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Tommy Franks.
Choose, and choose wisely. Sounds like the last Crusader.
Remained loyal to their country and loyal to the troops….Unlike anyone in particular?
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Wow, there’s more retired brass on that stage than on the floor of a firing range.
Introducing Tommy Franks now.
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On one hand, I don’t dig infomercials aimed at groups singled out by ethnic heritage, but I guess it’s important to extend a message of inclusiveness to some people who wouldn’t generally hear it.
On the other hand, I feel smart for knowing just enough Spanish to comprehend all the commercial. Which means I can grasp slogans, but if he’d have gone into detailed policy, I would have been lost.
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Hey, congrats to frequent reader and JC T-Shirts Darbo, who celebrated the Republican National Convention by shooting a bunch of doves yesterday. Woo!
(What do you mean “birds”?)
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Hello, chicks in tight things?
What convention have I turned on? Or what convention has turned me on?
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March to protest Venice shootings set for Sunday.
The shootings set for Saturday, because they’re not on the Sabbath, drew no objections.
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Listening to KMOX while I folded laundry, I caught a couple minutes of Charlie Brennan’s talk with Barack Obama, candidate for senator in Illinois, and I have discovered he is a
He offhandedly asserted the following:
If you factor in that health care costs for a number of Ill-annoy voters are not increasing (because they’re dead), and that insurance premiums for many employers’ plans only increase annually, it’s clear that he’s a fearmonger. Also, if you find one person in southern Ill-annoy that doesn’t interpret statistics, you’ve refuted his second point.
In the proud tradition of Al Franken, whose tome I am currently reading, this makes Barack Obama a who tells
I think I am getting this professional partisan flack thing down. Hey, coaches from the bigs, contact me at stlbrianj@hotmail.com and I will deploy the the shrill written equivalent of the tag for you.
Also, anyone can tell Barack Obama is not a politician from Wisconsin; he doesn’t even have a first name for a first name.
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While I’m (sort of) on this topic, why doesn’t the United States address the Afghan opium trade by just buying the stuff up? Presumably, farmers would be just as happy to sell their poppies to us, and that would keep them off the market, as well as depriving bad guys of a revenue source. Am I missing something here?
Just the law of supply and demand. Another purchaser on the market would only drive the price up, which would provide incentive for growers to grow more. Illicit purchasers would have to illicitly get more money, which means more crime eventually to support more expensive drug habits and more crime between the people in the industry.
Perhaps poppy farm subsidies are the answer, except poppy farmers would have incentive to take money for not growing poppies and to then grow poppies.
We’d have to chose a better solution from one of the following:
I did mention I am on the libertarian fringe of the Republican party did I not?
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