With all of the controversy surrounding The New Yorker magazine cover cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama being portrayed as terrorists, let's not lose sight of why the magazine chose to lampoon the Obama's in this matter.
In a recent Newsweek poll, 26% of voters think that Barack Obama was raised Muslim. In addition, 12% believe that Obama is currently a practicing Muslim.
There is simply no evidence that Barack Obama has ever practiced any faith beyond Christian.
The conservative media continues to extend every effort to perpetuate this complete lack of cognitive reasoning.
Letting the facts distort the truth would be bad for ratings.
14 July, 2008
All Star Break
We're at the halfway mark of this years baseball season, and the Tampa Bay Rays are beginning to fade. In fact, they may have succumb to the Fischer curse, since they've lost seven consecutive games after I bliggity-blogged about them last week.
Keep the faith, Rays. Plenty of ball to be played.
My Twins are hanging tight in the AL Central, boasting a league best record since the beginning of June. Twins Skipper, Ron Gardenhire, has got to be the most underrated Manager in recent memory. At least since former Twins Manager, Tom Kelly (World Series titles in 1987 and 1991).
I'm off to Cleveland today for an all company team building retreat and group hug. Hopefully I'll have time to visit the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame while I'm there this week.
After all; it's only rock n' roll, and I like it, I like it.
Yes I do.
Keep the faith, Rays. Plenty of ball to be played.
My Twins are hanging tight in the AL Central, boasting a league best record since the beginning of June. Twins Skipper, Ron Gardenhire, has got to be the most underrated Manager in recent memory. At least since former Twins Manager, Tom Kelly (World Series titles in 1987 and 1991).
I'm off to Cleveland today for an all company team building retreat and group hug. Hopefully I'll have time to visit the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame while I'm there this week.
After all; it's only rock n' roll, and I like it, I like it.
Yes I do.
13 July, 2008
Vacant Rhetoric Of A Do Nothing Congress
Democrats ushered in the 110th Congress shortly after the 2006 mid-term elections with a promise of sweeping changes and an end to the Iraq war.
Since then, our Democrat majority has handed President Bush nearly 350-million-dollars to fund the war, troop surges and all.
This bit of musing and curiosity has nothing to do with the validity, or lack thereof, of the war.
It's more of a commentary about the ease of getting elected with a clever bumper sticker. The real work is in the Beltway trenches.
And this is where our current Congress is failing us.
Since then, our Democrat majority has handed President Bush nearly 350-million-dollars to fund the war, troop surges and all.
This bit of musing and curiosity has nothing to do with the validity, or lack thereof, of the war.
It's more of a commentary about the ease of getting elected with a clever bumper sticker. The real work is in the Beltway trenches.
And this is where our current Congress is failing us.
12 July, 2008
Tony Snow Remembered
So sad to hear the news that conservative commentator and former Bush (43) White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow, has died.
Snow was a throw-back conservative that was a steward to the now long abandoned Republican principles of limited government and preservation of individual liberty.
An amiable and folksy gentlemen, reminiscent - to me, at least - of President Reagan, Snow was the kind of guy that you would disagree with entirely and even if he told you to go to hell (which he would not), you'd still walk away from the conversation feeling good.
Such a shame that we lose Tony Snow and Tim Russert in such quick succession, and at such a young age.
It just doesn't seem fair.
Especially when DICK Cheney's pacemaker keeps on ticking.
Snow was a throw-back conservative that was a steward to the now long abandoned Republican principles of limited government and preservation of individual liberty.
An amiable and folksy gentlemen, reminiscent - to me, at least - of President Reagan, Snow was the kind of guy that you would disagree with entirely and even if he told you to go to hell (which he would not), you'd still walk away from the conversation feeling good.
Such a shame that we lose Tony Snow and Tim Russert in such quick succession, and at such a young age.
It just doesn't seem fair.
Especially when DICK Cheney's pacemaker keeps on ticking.
11 July, 2008
Stop Your Whining
Recently I was explaining to my thirteen-year-old daughter the urgency of our nations current economic recession. For a visual aid to explain the devaluation of the United States Dollar, as compared to global currency, I showed her a fifty dollar bill and told her that ten years ago it was worth one hundred dollars.
Brilliant. Or so I thought.
As it turns out, I was just being cynical. I'm just one cry baby in a country full of whiners.
Former Texas Senator and John McCain Presidential campaign economic advisor, Phil Gramm, said in an interview last week that the real problem is you, me and the rest of the negative projecting American saps.
It's all about attitude, folks. Stop complaining about the price of gas.
Is the tank half empty, or half full?
Brilliant. Or so I thought.
As it turns out, I was just being cynical. I'm just one cry baby in a country full of whiners.
Former Texas Senator and John McCain Presidential campaign economic advisor, Phil Gramm, said in an interview last week that the real problem is you, me and the rest of the negative projecting American saps.
It's all about attitude, folks. Stop complaining about the price of gas.
Is the tank half empty, or half full?
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