The Debate

Sean Hannity is a douche bag - the debate is for the candidates to go after each other...

Governor Thompson sort of has a "deer in the headlights" look in response to his question, his answer not so great...

Dr. Paul hit it on the head with his response "why didn't we declare war?"

McCain reused his drunken sailor joke, it got a better reaction this time...

"Congress spending money like John Edwards at a beauty shop." Huckabee has the line of the night so far...

Congressman Brownback gives an impassioned plea against abortion...

Is there really such a thing as "tamper proof ID card?"

Ron Paul has his Achilles heel with the Iraq war at least within the GOP...

Tancredo is looking for Jack Bauer, score. A lot better showing for him than last time.

Overall, a much better debate format from FOX than MSNBC. You could see the candidates really go after each other.

Michael Moore vs. Fred Thompson

Michael Moore challenges Law and Order actor (he hasn't declared yet) Fred Thompson to a debate. From Drudgereport

Fred Thompson responds

The McLaughlin Group

I can't belief that this show is still on. McLaughlin is still bombastic, bullying, and right about 80 percent of the time.

Ron Paul for President

Why Ron Paul? Because he's the strict constructionist candidate with the track record in Congress that doesn't make me wretch. 2008 is going to be the election that will be a milestone for the GOP. Is the idea of individual freedom dead? Is out of control government spending and intrusion into its citizens lives the wave of the future? Are Romney, Giuliani, and McCain really what the mainstream of the GOP really want? Stay tuned.
My prediction is that Congressman Paul is going to make a lot of noise over the next year.

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Graduation Day

With the $80,000 drinking binge that was your college career now in the
rear-view mirror, you're looking forward to your new adult life with hope in
your eyes and a freshly-printed diploma in your hand.

courtesy of Cracked magazine

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20 Best Nike Commercials

Parlayer has a nice compilation of Nike commercials. Here's one of my favorites that didn't make the list:

More Yoga by Models

Jewish Girl Prank Calls Parents

This is pretty funny:



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Classic Video

Why? Because what is old is new. Milton Friedman is the man whose ideas relegated Keynes to the ideological and historical dustbin. We need to keep Keynes there.

Milton Friedman:




Gore Vidal vs. William F Buckley - A discussion about the Constitutional right to assembly turns into Vidal calling Buckley a "crypto nazi" and Buckley in turn responding by calling Vidal a "queer" Hat tip "Hot Air"

Why not a Strict Constructionist for President?

The candidate labelled by Peggy Noonan as "obscure but intellectually serious" Ron Paul has hit a chord with the political junkies who pay attention to debates conducted 18 months before an election. His message, based on initial readings of an informal poll by MSNBC after the Republican debate last Thursday by supporters of the Congressman (including this blog) and others, show that a campaign run on adherence to the Constitution might have resonance for members of the party that had lost majority control in Congress in 2006. From the Ron Paul for President blog:

Paul realized a massive decrease in net negatives (a favored indicator early in the Primaries). This places Paul's negative rating the lowest among ALL CANDIDATES by far and his positive just ahead of 2nd place candidate Romney.

McCain and Giuliani both got hammered good on their positive rating 11% and 13% with Giuliani registering 5% more negatives than before the debates.

Romney seems to have helped himself improving both his positive and negative rating but these numbers indicate a coming out party for Ron Paul.

The Drudge Report had the Reagan Derby Poll that showed Congressman Paul came in 3rd place behind Romney and Giuliani after the debate. The gap between Giuliani and Paul in this vote was 2 percent (out of 102,805 votes)!

His message, and his voting record in Congress, appeal to the strict originalist that the conservative base looks for in Supreme Court nominees. Which begs this question: Why shouldn't our expectation of all branches of government be fidelity to the Constitution, especially from the Republican Party? Why isn't there more campaigning for strict constructionist Presidents and Congressman?

Take a look at some of the reaction from other conservative blogs on Ron Paul at the debate:

Ron Paul: Someone needs to be a friend to this man and tell him to go home
now.
Heading Right

Ron Paul also showed that he should depart the race as quickly as possible.
He gave one-note answers about federalism and the original intent of the
founders for every question asked of him.
Captains Quarters

Ron Paul… sigh, yes, thank you for telling us how a libertarian idealist
would do it.
National Review Online

Based on those reactions, mainstream conservative blogs weren't too impressed by the Congressman from Texas. To which I would say, "If its good enough for the Supreme Court, it should be good enough for the President!" (I give permission for the Paul campaign to use that as a blurb)

Yoga, models, and the internet

Ford Models has a youtube channel that has clips of models doing various things. Anyway, I found three that have a model doing yoga. She's cute in a goofy, nerdy, sort of way. But you can see she's very flexible. Also, as someone who is also a model and into yoga, I can tell you that the handstands are tough. Good job!

So, aside from the mental and physical benefits that yoga can deliver what else can yoga do? Why fight off two highly trained kung fu masters of course:

The MSNBC "debate"

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The questions that were asked of the candidates for the most part were dumb. Especially the ones that were read from the website politico.com

Chris Matthews was the worst choice possible as moderator. Keith Olbermann doing the post debate show? Ridiculous. Lucianne.com had quoteworthy commentary:

The democratic candidates wouldn't go on Fox because they said Brit Hume is
biased. But, they have no problem whatsoever with letting Chris Matthews host
the republican candidates who had the decency to appear on MSNBC.

Here was one of the last questions that Matthews asked last night at the Republican debate: “Would it be good for America to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House?” No bias at all. At the next debate, the moderator should ask the candidates "Would it be good for America to have Carter back living in the White House?"

Mitt Romney came across as very presidential, but he reminded me a little too much of George Hamilton: a little too polished and too slick.

Ron Paul is the dark horse candidate, a lot of his positions do not hold sway with the social conservatives of the Republican party, however, his stances appeal to the activist/internet generation. Which skews, I believe a lot more libertarian anyways. The war in Iraq would be the achilles heel for obtaining the nomination for Dr. Paul in the sense that most of the Republican party is wedded to staying in Iraq for as long as it takes. Dr. Paul's position on leaving immediately could be labeled as "cut and run" by his opponents.

No questions on nominating justices to the Supreme Court? If there were any comments about it I missed it.

Ron Paul for President

A nice primer on my pick for President in 2008:

Three of my favorite movie scenes of all time

"Glengarry Glenn Ross" with Alec Baldwin in the only non crappy role he has ever had. Now that I think about it he's pretty good on "30 Rock":



Michael Douglas in "Wall Street": "Greed is good" was the catch phrase written by hippie/director Oliver Stone that was turned into the rallying cry of the Reaganites of the 80's.




R Lee Ermey in "Full Metal Jacket": Gunnery Sergeant Ermey (he is a real life Marine) tells stories of people even today who have come up to him and tell him it would be an honor if he would choke them.

Veronica Mars

I started watching Veronica Mars when I found them filming in downtown San Diego (I thought they were going to start filming "Renegade" again) and let's be honest, she's totally my type. Witty, smart, well-written, sort of like Buffy meets Nancy Drew meets JB Fletcher. Check out the big brain on her.

Pat Buchanon is Wrong

His latest column links the VT shooter to the influx of immigrants to the United States:

What happened in Blacksburg cannot be divorced from what's been
happening to America since the immigration act brought tens of millions of
strangers to these shores, even as the old bonds of national community began to
disintegrate and dissolve in the social revolutions of the 1960s...Before 1970,
we were a people, a community, a country. Students would have said aloud of Cho:
"Who is this guy? What's the matter with him?" .

See, this is where he loses me, when he makes his point about the inherent flaw of having a "gun free zone" I'm with him. But what Pat fails to note is that one of his instructors demanded that Cho be removed from the class she taught because of the red flags he was waving (the violent imagery in his writings, for example). It's not even mentioned. Also, Cho had a record of sending threatening and harassing emails to women. So yes, the people around him were wondering what was wrong with him. No one who could do anything about it did anything about it. That was the problem.

70 Percent of Praise is Sarcastic

Report: 70 Percent Of All Praise Sarcastic

Sesame Streets

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Martin Scorsese directed "Sesame Street"? No, well fuck you. Fuck you and your mother:

Freedom to Fascism

We are on the road to complete tyranny unless the citizens of this country wake up:

And Justice for All

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