When one of the topics you like to write about is current events and there are several major stories happening at once it's kind of hard to rationalize a complete lack of posting about them. I apologize to the few of you who ever see the front page of this site. If you came here seeking my take on the stories of the day, you have found this site wanting. Those of you who only see the post on this site you find when googling for the one picture of an actress I've ever posted (and it's not even a nude photo) well you'll likely never see this post so I really don't care.

So here's my drive by commentary on the stories of the day.

RE: Cindy Sheehan.

I am sorry for your loss. I find your politics less than appealing, irrational and quite possibly dangerouos. Some of your statements are downright offensive. Nonetheless, I wish you the best.

RE: The media covering Cindy Sheehan.

You people are pond scum. You cheerfully trumpet Sheehan's every word in the belief that it advances your political cause. If the White House made any effort at using the death of a soldier to further a political objective you would be sounding a nonstop call for resignations and impeachments.

RE: Able Danger

Do you think the fact that Bill Clinton was making statements about how serious a threat he believed bin Laden to be and that but for lack of proof beyond an unreasonable doubt that bin Laden was behind the bombing of the USS Cole he would have taken action against him had any thing to do with knowing that whatever tiny shred of credibility the 9/11 Commission had was about to evaporate? Do you think that once the world understands that the intelligence failures that may have made 9/11 possible are the result of his policies while president that his position in the pantheon of former presidents as being slightly better that Jimmy Carter will be in jeopardy?

When the Able Danger dust settles, do you think there is any possibility of real intelligence reform? Reform that with turn the established institutionalism of the current intelligence system inside out and make it work again?

RE: Air America

A rich manipulative liberal ripped off taxpayers for his own benefit, and he's not even in congress! And as we saw in the case of Dan Rather and the forged memos and Eason “the military is gunning us down” Jordan, the liberal media have circled the wagons and lowered the Cone of Silence.™ We should expect anything more?

As for the scandal itself, it just goes to prove the left's firm belief that anything is O.K. in the name of the cause.

RE: Kelo v New London

I have read several accounts that the town of New London is going try to collect back rent from property owners for the time they held up the theft of their property in the courts. Leaving aside the questions of morality and legality, how colossally stupid does the town government have to be to try something like this on the heals of a SCOTUS ruling that started a wave of public outrage over abuse of eminent domain.

And speaking of that wave of outrage, the Open Source Amendment Project Petition is still active but signatures are barely trickling in. I've lost count of how many press releases I have sent to bloggers and news outlets to no avail. I'll be writing a new one soon and starting another round. It turns out that starting grass roots movement from a 70 hits a day blog is quite a challenge.

RE: Judge Roberts The Democrats and their overlords in the loony left seem to be getting desperate. This makes me think I may like him as a Supreme Court Justice. I do not doubt that he will be confirmed. I think even Ted Kennedy understands this. I just hope he turns out to be the judicial conservative that Teddy and the left fear.

RE: Border Security

What is it going to take to wake up the government to the fact that we need to not only stop, but reverse the flow of illegal aliens? I fear that it is going to take a tragedy on the scale of 9/11 because there is too much at stake for politicians. What is at stake? Well, the Democrats want to loosen voter registration and basic ID standards to the point where illegals can vote because they believe they will vote Democrat. The Republican's don't want to crack down because they are desperately trying to court the Hispanic vote. Both sides don't want to do anything that will deprive contributers of a ready supply of cheap labor.

Did I miss anything? I hope I have made up for being silent for so long.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 03:28 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment