Schwarzenneggar has the cred. He’s an immigrant, he’s self-made, and he’s a Republican. Anything he says, I can agree with.
I do not, however, want to amend the Constitution for him.
To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Schwarzenneggar has the cred. He’s an immigrant, he’s self-made, and he’s a Republican. Anything he says, I can agree with.
I do not, however, want to amend the Constitution for him.
Michael Steele could be the first black president. Where can I send my donation for 2012/2016?
Rod Paige gave a fair speech with, um, vanilla platitudes, and then we cut to a video set in St. Louis.
Although I’m not a fan of federal education spending or St. Louis City schools, the video piqued my attention.
Some of those condemned buildings looked neat, and I’ll bet they are inexpensive.
I bet William Lacy Clay, Jr., would like suburban investors coming into his secure district. I was going to call myself a “whitebread” investor, but I am above using racial epithets, even on myself.
Wow, Hasselbeck fumbled a couple times, huh? She looked a little dazed in the pocket and couldn’t read the field. She certainly didn’t elevate the play of her receivers.
Man, I can’t wait for football season.
I’m sorry. Like most of Madison Square Garden, my attention wandered there for a moment.
Who got the most medals at the Olympics? Why, the European Union, of course:
And he warned our athletes will have to fly the EU flag as well as the Union Jack at Beijing in 2008.
That would mean 800m and 1500m champion Kelly Holmes and boxing sensation Amir Khan would be battling for Brussels as much as Britain.
Mr Prodi turned the Athens games into a political football, boasting that our bag of 30 medals helped the EU trounce America and China.
Why stop there? Why not go all out and say:
It’s true. Check out these medal totals, which I gleaned from the official Olympic site:
| Culture | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Country Total |
| The West | United States | 35 | 39 | 29 | 103 |
| Russia | 27 | 27 | 38 | 92 | |
| Australia | 17 | 16 | 16 | 49 | |
| Germany | 14 | 16 | 18 | 48 | |
| France | 11 | 9 | 13 | 33 | |
| Italy | 10 | 11 | 11 | 32 | |
| Great Britain | 9 | 9 | 12 | 30 | |
| Cuba | 9 | 7 | 11 | 27 | |
| Ukraine | 9 | 5 | 9 | 23 | |
| Hungary | 8 | 6 | 3 | 17 | |
| Romania | 8 | 5 | 6 | 19 | |
| Greece | 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 | |
| Norway | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |
| Netherlands | 4 | 9 | 9 | 22 | |
| Brazil | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
| Sweden | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| Spain | 3 | 11 | 5 | 19 | |
| Canada | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | |
| Turkey | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | |
| Poland | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | |
| New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
| Belarus | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 | |
| Austria | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |
| Slovakia | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Georgia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 1 | 9 | 12 | |
| Jamaica | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Denmark | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | |
| Argentina | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | |
| Chile | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Czech Republic | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | |
| South Africa | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
| Croatia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
| Lithuania | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| Belgium | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| Bahamas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Israel | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Dominican Rep | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Latvia | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Mexico | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Portugal | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Finland | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Serbia/Montenegro | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Estonia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Paraguay | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Trinidad/Tobago | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals | 223 | 236 | 260 | 719 | |
| The East | China | 32 | 17 | 14 | 63 |
| Japan | 16 | 9 | 12 | 37 | |
| Korea | 9 | 12 | 9 | 30 | |
| Chinese Taipei | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| DPR Korea | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| India | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Thailand | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | |
| Totals | 62 | 47 | 42 | 151 | |
| Islam | Kazakhstan | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
| U Arab Emirate | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| I. R. Iran | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Syrian Arab Rep | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Uzbekistan | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Totals | 9 | 9 | 17 | 35 | |
| Africa | Eritrea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Kenya | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |
| Ethiopia | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Morocco | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Totals | 7 | 9 | 8 | 24 | |
Oh, yeah, we trounced those other cultures, ainna? The West! Birthplace of democracy, Enlightenment (nirvana notwithstanding), capitalism, and sports which require expensive equipment and training to excel.
What, Mr Prodi, you think it’s unsophisticated to extrapolate that far? Then shut your soon-to-be even-more-irrelevant yap and allow your Worthless Pact satellite countries to enjoy a bit of harmless nationalism on the fields of sport and recognize the Olympics for what they are: games.
Of course, as such, I suppose it’s only natural that a EUcrat would see the Olympics as nothing but a continuation of EU diplomacy by other means.
(Link seen originally on blogoSFERICS.)
Bill Frist brags about the new Medicare drug benefit, throwing red meat to his tribe, the Socialist Seniors of America, and then says the Republicans are a party for smaller government.
I keep expecting a cut to a concerned Geordi La Forge in engineering, brainstorming to how he can refactor the Rhetoricon Crystals to prevent the impending space-time rip caused by the paradox.
VodkaPundit can only liquor himself up enough to live blog a single speech? Pah.
I am the hardest drinking man in blogbusiness!
The blogger pin-up Erika Herald talks about faith-based initiatives.
I am all in favor of them. Instead of government-funded programs, not as government-funded programs. They’re effective because they have extensive contact with the people they serve, and because people serve to salve their souls, not to maintain six figure salaries and to keep themselves in conference-in-exotic-locale tans.
Detective McDonald is warming to his speech and is doing well, too.
Who the heck is Dana Glover?
What, was Danny busy?
George P. Bush, one of the little brown ones, does well enough. Diversity in the GOP? Hell, there’s diversity in the Bush family, for crying out loud.
When he cuts to Spanish at the end, it reminds me of watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture dubbed in Spanish during a high school Spanish class. A stream of Spanish dialog until someone refers to a character by name, when the original actor’s voice breaks in with the very American pronunciation, “Spock.”
Cut away to the Bush twins, facing each other, leaning closer….
Oh, yes.
Now, if their grandmother would get out from between them. She’s ruining the effect.
Elizabeth Dole goes into the wilderness and returns with some meat for her tribe.
How family values is Liddy? Her husband was senator from Kansas, and now she’s senator from North Carolina. Ladies and gentlemen, the Doles slept in separate beds in separate states. Either that, or Liddy is a carpetbagger.
But she’s our carpetbagger, so that makes it all right?
Next time you send me a complimentary, personalized photo of the Johnsey twins, please remember to include the supplemental dartboard.
Thanks.
An attorney has sued over use of so-called as an adjective modifying his profession and his practice thereof:
Elderly Schenectady (NY) lawyer Romolo Versaci has filed a $100,000 defamation suit against Diane C. Richie, an unemployed social worker and widow with two children. Versaci claims — and Richie admits — that she called him a “so-called attorney” on a SchenectadyNY.info message board. …
I wonder if I can get in on some of the action.
Where did these guys learn how to write?
“America today has used all its force, as well as the help of others, to fight Islam under the so-called war on terror, which is nothing but a vicious crusade against Muslims,” the statement said.
Oh, we can guess.
Ann Althouse doesn’t care for the Rubes in Paradise theme I touched on I mentioned last night–except she’s talking about the extra condescending, non-Republican sponsored asides provided by media commentators.
McCain rocks. My wife is done with her Dance Dance Revolution on the den television for the night. I am watching Giuliani on cable. T1 passes in a pinch, but it’s not cable television yet.
Good night.
The mission was necessary, achieveable, and noble.
Was?
Boo to you, Michael Moore.
I would like to point out that I personally supported McCain before Bush in 2000. I think he’s crazy enough to carried the war to the terrorists in 2001 and beyond. Also, McCain as president, there would have been no McCain-Feingold. There, I said it.