Sunday, February 26, 2006

Fame



Cindy Sheehan: Chavez Great, Bush A Terrorist
Sweetness and Light, 29 Jan 2006

Social forum wraps up in Caracas with Sheehan calling Bush a ‘terrorist’

(AFP) - The six-day World Social Forum wrapped up in Caracas with US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan calling President George W. Bush a "terrorist" during an event hosted by Venezuela’s leftist leader....

"The United States is not the American dream people imagine," she said, as a nearby speaker drew loud cheers by proclaiming: "we need a Hugo Chavez in the United States."


Friday, February 24, 2006

Money Laundering?



Money laundering through Air America Radio?
Is there a Soros in your future? Can you say, 'President Soros'? A must read:
FrontPageMagazine.com October 6, 2004
By pushing McCain-Feingold through Congress, Soros cut off the Democrats’ soft-money supply. By forming the Shadow Party, Soros offered the Democrats an alternate money spigot – one which he personally controlled. As a result the Democrats are heavily – perhaps even irretrievably – dependent on Soros. It seems reasonable to consider the possibility that McCain-Feingold, from its very inception, was a Soros power play to gain control of the Democratic Party.
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Thursday, February 23, 2006

For Love or Money?



Sugar Daddy Soros






BAILOUT
Soros, Lewis In Air America Election-Year Rescue
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney
, 22 February 2006


Could this be Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo's lucky day?
As crucial midterm congressional elections approach, can America's "progressive" leaders really afford to let an ailing liberal talk radio network die?


Apparently, the answer to the first question is yes, to the second, no, the Radio Equalizer has learned.

Through an emergency bailout plan, a coalition of wealthy liberal political activists are poised to at least temporarily save Air America Radio. On the way: as much as $8 million in sorely-needed cash to fund ongoing operations.


With particular support from San Francisco and Silicon Valley multimillionaires, the group has an unusual number of contributors from outside the Beltway.



Air America Radio: Money Pit

For Air America, it has finally come to this: secure a bailout or begin to wind down operations. As a business entity, the liberal network just isn't cutting it.
Profit? That's a theoretical concept...

Given Air America's infamous ability to burn through cash, however, would $8 million allow the network to reach November? While that alone is only enough to fund operations for three to four months, combined with other revenue sources, it may be enough.


Monday, February 20, 2006

Welcome


Welcome, Captain's Quarters readers!
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Presidents' Day

Happy Presidents' Day, President Bush!

With a little luck, Iraq will become a portal to freedom and modernity for the Middle East. If that happens, Bush will have reshaped the world forever.




Media Allies


NewsMax, February 20, 2006

Former Sen. Alan Simpson blasted the media's obsessive reporting on Dick Cheney's hunting accident on Sunday, saying reporters typically focus on nothing but "controversy, crap and confusion."

"How are we to trust [the press], after a whole week of absolute dribble, and babble, and people, you know, interviewing themselves," he told "Fox News Sunday."

Noting that Washington is filled with "good people doing good things," Simspon fumed: "You'll never find it if you just follow the Washington media. You'll never know the good. All you get is controversy, crap and confusion."



Sunday, February 19, 2006

Foreign Policy: 5 cents/squirt




Saturday, February 18, 2006

Bryant Gumbel's Racist Screed


Even the Snow is White...

Mark Caro, Pop Machine, Chicago Tribune, February 17, 2006

Sometimes there's controversy over what someone says, and sometimes there's controversy over whether what someone says SHOULD be controversial.

Case in point: Bryant Gumbel's recent race-based trashing of the Winter Olympics and the relatively little notice it has received. Only a few mainstream publications reported what he said - the Chicago Tribune was not among them - yet debate has been raging on HBO's bulletin boards since Gumbel's comments more than a week ago on his show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."


Here's what he said (as cut-and-pasted by a friend and confirmed by my watching the show; the transcript is no longer on the HBO site):


And finally tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those that don't
like 'em and won't watch 'em. In fact, I figure when Thomas Paine said, "These
are the times that try men's souls," he must have been talking about the start
of another Winter Olympics.
Because they are so trying, maybe over the next
three weeks we should all try too. Like try not to be incredulous when someone
tries to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of
skating or skiing.


So try not to laugh when
someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of
blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.
Try not to
point out that something's not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in
what's called a "kiss and cry area" while some panel of subjective judges
decides who won.


And try to blot out all
logic when announcers and sports writers pretend to care about the luge, the
skeleton, the biathlon, and all those other events they don't understand and
totally ignore for all but three weeks every four years.


Face it, these Olympics
are little more than a marketing plan to fill space and sell time during the
dreary days of February. So, if only to hasten the arrival of the day they're
done, and we can move on to March Madness, for God's sake, let the Games
begin.


I just saw the rerun of this telecast on Thursday night, and Gumbel's screed, delivered like a machine gun of scorn, followed a feel-good feature about the black players and white coach who made up the groundbreaking 1960s championship college basketball team depicted in the movie "Glory Road."


The overall impression was something akin to painting a watercolor rainbow and then spraying it with acid. No wonder Gumbel's only on cable these days.



Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Media Brats

The three broadcast network evening newscasts all led Tuesday night with the minor heart attack suffered by the victim of Vice President Cheney’s hunting accident, but all gave equal time to, for the second night in a row, obsessing over the snubbing of the White House press corps -- this time how Scott McClellan didn’t inform them of Harry Whittington’s complication.
ABC co-anchor Charles Gibson teased: “The man Vice President Cheney accidentally shot, today suffers a minor heart attack as the White House faces new questions about its silence.” NBC’s Brian Williams teased from Torino: “There are more questions tonight about who knew what and when." Elizabeth Vargas, ABC’s other anchor complained about how “today the White House, once again, chose not to tell the public about a major development in this story.” ABC reporter Martha Raddatz recited “stinging” criticism of the White House from former GOP press secretaries before she concluded by fretting about how Cheney’s “staff has still not answered detailed questions about this incident...And it's not clear they ever will."
Update: Best so far IMV on the media hissy fit, is Tony Blankley's "The shooting party."


Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Mona Rodham



Buckwheat say 'YO!'


CBSnews.com, by John McIntyre, co-founder and President of RealClearPolitics. Jan. 21, 2006

Senator Clinton's Martin Luther King Day speech was perhaps the first gaffe in the 2008 presidential race. While it would be silly to characterize this mistake as a huge issue that is going to derail her candidacy, it does provide an opportunity to take a look at Hillary's candidacy and her chances for the Democratic nomination and the Presidency.

For those unaware of Hillary's "plantation" remark, this is what she said at Al Sharpton's event to a predominantly black audience in Harlem:
"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about….."


Monday, February 13, 2006

Worse Even Than Carter?



Laura Bush: Hillary Clinton 'Out of Bounds'

NewsMax.com

First Lady Laura Bush fired back at Sen. Hillary Clinton on Saturday, calling the former first lady's recent attacks on her husband "out of bounds."
Asked about Hillary's charge that the Bush administration was one of the "the worst" presidencies in U.S. history, Mrs. Bush told ABC News: "Of course I think it's out of bounds."



Sunday, February 12, 2006

Miss Daisy



Shrillery


GOP's 'anger' strategy has Dems defensive

SacBee.com, By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer, February 9, 2006


NEW YORK (AP) - The Republican national chairman created a furor this week when he suggested Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is too "angry" to win the White House in 2008. And to hear Republicans tell it, Clinton is just one of many Democrats with an anger management problem.Former Vice President Al Gore is angry. So is Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. The party is held hostage by the "angry left."
In recent months, GOP operatives and officeholders have cast the Democrats as the anger party, long on emotion and short on ideas. Analysts say the strategy has been effective, trivializing Democrats' differences with the GOP as temperamental rather than substantive.
"Angry people are not nice people. They are people to stay away from. They explode now and then," said George Lakoff, a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His book "Don't Think of an Elephant" has become something of a Bible for Democrats trying to improve their communication with voters.
Political history is dotted with failed presidential candidates perceived by the voters as too angry - think of Howard Dean's famous scream in 2004, or Bob Dole admonishing George H.W. Bush in 1988 to "stop lying about my record." Both parties' most revered figures in recent years, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, projected optimism and hope.



The Next Cuban Crisis


Cuba ties put 'cartoonish' violence near U.S. shores
Chron.com
, By KATHLEEN PARKER


The Soviet Union's nuclear option vis-a-vis Nikita Khrushchev and a younger Fidel Castro seem suddenly quaint compared with the havoc that could result should Cuba and Iran consummate their mutual hatred of the United States.


Iran and Cuba's romance isn't new. Their courtship dates back to the late '70s, when the Ayatollah Khomeini rose to power.



Thursday, February 09, 2006

Roots

































Al Gore, Growing Up in Two Worlds


David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writers
WashintonPost.com, Sunday, October 10, 1999; Page A1

"During his early years as a senator's son in Washington, Al Gore was often the smallest one in the crowd, a pint-size boy with dark hair and freckles who lived with his prominent parents in Suite 809 atop the Fairfax Hotel along Embassy Row. If this experience made him different from you and me, to borrow F. Scott Fitzgerald's phrase, it was not from being rich, but rather from being apart. He grew up in a singularly odd world of old people and bellhops, separated from the child-filled neighborhoods of his classmates at St. Albans and further still from his summertime pals at the family farm in Tennessee."

Left Ignores Gore's Attack of America

Ben Shapiro, Human Events Online

...Congress ought to revivify sedition prosecutions. U.S. Code 18 Sec. 2388 currently governs sedition. It reads, in relevant part, "Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully makes or conveys false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies .... Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both." The only question for Al Gore is whether he has the requisite intent under this statute. It would be tough to argue that he does not, in current context. Justice Holmes' statement in Schenck v. U.S. (249 U.S. 47, 1919) should govern here: "When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right."



Mainstream Democrats




















Mainstream, like Easter Island Moai.


On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders undertake this colossal statue-building effort? Unfortunately, there is no written record (and the oral history is scant) to help tell the story of this remote land, its people, and the significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape. Source


Bullseye USA


















BUSH GIVES NEW DETAILS OF '02 QAIDA PLOT TO ATTACK LOS ANGELES...
Drudge Report, February 9, 2006

Bush has referred to the 2002 plot before. In an address last October, he said the United States and its allies had foiled at least 10 serious plots by the al-Qaida terror network in the last four years, including plans for Sept. 11-like attacks on both U.S. coasts. The White House initially would not give details of the plots but later released a fact sheet with a brief, and vague, description of each.
The president filled in details on Thursday.
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Born to Lead




Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Money Talks




McCain-Feingold, coupled with internet politics, has enabled special interest extremists to control the party. The Kennedy-Schumer-Reid folks may be making the noise, but it's the money behind them that's doing the talking, from Soros on down.



Nap Time in the Senate



Brokeback Hollywood