DON'T Free the 'Jena 6'
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Regrettably I was working last night so I was unable to witness this for myself, though to be quite honest I don’t believe I would have felt compelled to watch the Emmys anyway – I mean, Ryan ‘OUT! Of the Closet’ Seacrest was hosting for Pete’s sake, but there was apparently this whole brouhaha over Sally ‘Flying Nun’ Field’s acceptance speech in which she criticized the Iraq War.
Big surprise! For me it was Fred Thompson, the Republican candidate I am leaning the most toward. While this is certainly far from definitive (you, not a computer program, should decide who you support in the 2008 presidential election), it is fun and should give the more apolitical American citizens a small idea where they might stand in terms of the presidential primaries.
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when september ends
Like my fathers come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when september ends
Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when september ends
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when september ends
Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began
Wake me up when september ends
Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when september ends
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when september ends
Like my father's come to pass
Twenty years has gone so fast
Wake me up when september ends
Wake me up when september ends
Wake me up when september ends
To think, there was a politically conservative comic-book superhero out there and I wasn’t aware of it. I mean, I know who Iron Man is but I never pictured him as being entrenched in politics. This combined with the mouth-watering (from the perspective of a comic-book geek/movie buff point of view) teaser trailer places the upcoming feature-film adaptation, starring Robert Downey, Jr., among the top films I want to see next summer.
Well, I was on shaky ground with former-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as the GOP presidential candidate before but now, after this interview conducted on Glenn Beck’s radio program, it is definitely looking less likely I’ll throw my support behind him. It’s not ‘John McCain’ bad, but close.
GLENN: Right. But isn't illegal immigration a crime in and of itself?
GIULIANI: No.
GLENN: Aren't you saying --
GIULIANI: Glenn --
GLENN: You're protecting criminals by saying that being treated as a criminal is unfair.
GIULIANI: Glenn, it's not a crime. I know that's very hard for people to understand, but it's not a federal crime.
GLENN: It's a misdemeanor but if you've been nailed, it is a crime. If you've been nailed, ship back and come back, it is a crime
........
GLENN: Should it be?
GIULIANI: Should it be? No, it shouldn't be because the government wouldn't be able to prosecute it. We couldn't prosecute 12 million people. We have only 2 million people in jail right now for all the crimes that are committed in the country, 2.5 million. If you were to make it a crime, you would have to take the resources of the criminal justice system and increase it by about 6. In other words, you'd have to take all the 800,000 police, and who knows how many police we would have to have.
Via Michelle Malkin
... Thuy Pham-Remmele, an immigrant from Vietnam, who said she would resign from the city council if it voted to recommend impeachment.
"I have been through war more than any of you can imagine," Pham-Remmele said.
Recounting her premature birth after her mother fell as the family was fleeing the French in 1948, she proceeded to speak of America's exit from the Vietnam War as a turning point in world opinion against the United States.
"It's the part you chose not to look at that should haunt you forever," Pham-Remmele said.
Saying she had not been home in 34 years and characterizing her decision to become a naturalized U.S. citizen as painful, Pham-Remmele said she knew the atrocities of war.
While lauding impeachment advocates' good intentions, she asked, "Do you think Congress will listen to you?"
Looking directly at the spectator gallery, Pham-Remmele said, "It is easy to be like Jane Fonda and walk with the communists … and feel good about it. If you really want to save lives, think of something more concrete."
Yes, this was meant in jest but for as much scrutiny as McCain’s campaign has been under, mostly stemming from the right rather then the left, ironically, you’d have thought he’d be smarter then this. Then you examine how his campaign has been run since the get-go and you think to yourself, ‘Man, this guy’s an idiot’. The ‘little jerk’ part was funny but adding the ‘you’re drafted’ part was cocky and biting off far more then he could chew. McCain has success, the tiniest success he has had in months, and he goes and blows it by getting greedy.
Don’t forget, the first meeting of the Marquette University College Republicans, chaired by newly-elected senior John Connors with Lucas Fuller as VP, will be held tonight at 8pm (expect it to last at least till 9pm) in the Alumni Union, Rm. 442. Plans for the new school year will discussed, including Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s re-election campaign as well as prospects for a new conservative speaker to be brought to campus.
Another piece of my childhood shrivels and dies. First Kellogg’s bans Toucan Sam and the other cereal-based cartoon characters (the Food Nazis strike again) and now this. It’s bad enough Stephen Sommers, the director of the insufferable Van Helsing and mediocre Mummy franchise, has been tapped to direct the live-action feature film based on the Mattel toy, but now it seems his identity as a symbol of American heroism and bravery will be dropped entirely.
Okay, this article has very little, if anything, to do with actual politics (Hollywood politics, yes, but not in the way many of you might be thinking it as) but I thought since this is my first post after being absent from the political rant/soap-box/blog scene for several months now I would start off slow and steady.
The title I was going to originally go with was, “Your Staunch Conservative Savior Has Returned!”, but I thought that might be over doing it … just a little bit.
In case you missed it last Wednesday, South Park parodied Hillary Clinton and the hit drama series 24. As The Hillary Project notes, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, went rather easy on her, though you can’t help but laugh at her ass being three times larger then her head.
Here is what happens when you are a presidential candidate whose campaign does not give credit where credit is due. As Michelle Malkin said, lesson learned. All I have to say is that McCain has learned a lot in the past few months.
Add one more to the list of retarded university professors.