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Posted at 11:07pm on Jul. 9, 2008 MN Senate: CDW runs the ad Coleman should have run.
By Next93
This ad was run in Minnesota at least once. First time I saw it, I thought it was run by the Coleman campaign, but after looking on YouTube, I discovered it was run by a group calling itself the Center for Workplace Democracy, which I assume is a 527. Too bad Norm didn't have the sand to run it himself, but I should have realized that he'd never be this direct. Whoever this CDW outfit is, I like them!
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Posted at 4:57pm on Jun. 2, 2008 On Neutralizing Obama's Advantage with College Students
By Next93
It's not too much of a secret that Obama's pretty popular with the college students. According to my daughter, there doesn't appear to be a lot of reason behind this, other than Obama's "cool".
So here's how to neutralize this threat: the RNC should quitetly buy the company that makes the HALO games, and move the release date of HALO IV up to the day before the election. That will eliminate at least 50% of the votes immediately.
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Posted at 6:38pm on May 6, 2008 Harry Potter and the Ghastly Climate Change
By Next93
In one of the recent Harry Potter movies, the kids were taking a class on fortune-telling (“divination”). The teacher is a complete fraud and the class is gibberish, and in a classical satire of what I picture liberal arts classes to be like, they’re doing their best to parrot the nonsense in a way that they hope will make their instructor think that they’ve internalized it. Gazing at apparently contradictory portents in Harry’s tealeaves, Ron’s prediction is “So you’re going to be miserable, Harry, but you’re going to enjoy it”.
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Posted at 6:35pm on Apr. 25, 2008 “Humbug is a six-letter word” , or, “The sky is falling (again)”
By Next93
“Fool me once, shame on you,
Fool me twice, shame on me”
Yet another redstate post on the media’s treatment of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) (http://redstate.com/blogs/joliphant/2008/apr/23/antarctic_getting_colder...) gets turned into a debate on the “science” of global warming. One excellent question that came up was, “who is to blame for such skepticism?”
Another way to put this is: “Is this much skepticism warranted when such scientific luminaries assure us that the sky is indeed falling”?
The answer is a resounding and recent “yes”.
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Posted at 11:31pm on Mar. 27, 2008 A white, middle-aged guy's take on race relations
By Next93
This is another posting I decided to turn into a blog. I probably shouldn't, because any time a white person spouts anything other than liberal orthodoxy on race, he'll probably be tagged as a racist. I know I'm supposed to start this by presenting some kind of crededentials that prove I'm NOT a racist, but we both know that none of that will stop any potential name calling.
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Posted at 3:23pm on Mar. 27, 2008 From MY cold, dead fingers? Yeah, come to think of it.
By Next93
I'm a gun owner. The gun in question is a bolt-action WWII japanese infantry rifle that was obsolete when my father acquired it some 60-odd years ago. Lets be clear on this, this is NOT one of the finer examples of the art of gunsmithing. It's an ugly lump of pig iron with a cheap wooden stock; it looks like it started as a blunderbuss, tried to morph into a mauser, and got stuck halfway in-between. The day it was manufactured it was a testament to bad procurement practices of the Japanese High Command, and it's not improved a bit with time.
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Posted at 4:31pm on Jan. 24, 2008 In which I compare Obama to an 85 year-old white man, and find him lacking.
By Next93
Pajamas media has an excellent article about ”Barak Obama’s creepy, race-obsessed church”. I’m sure that there are going to be a lot of people who will claim that Obama’s religion is a personal thing and shouldn’t be brought into the race. My position is that the church a man chooses to attend can certainly be a political matter, rather than a religious one. I present the following story in support of that thesis.
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Posted at 7:26pm on Jan. 10, 2008 Regarding Hollywood's idea of heroes
By Next93
I realize this isn't exactly a weighty matter, but I had to vent this.
The ad for the new Rambo movie has a "textover" that reads "Heroes don't die...they just reload".
Now, I like a good action flick as much as the next guy, and I like war movies, and I like comic-book heroe movies; I can't tell you how many times I've watched Fred Frawley get shot by that sneaky sniper as the Duke watches in horror, and I even remember parts of the Spiderman movies where Kirsten Dunst wasn't on-screen (by the way, this is probably the only time in your life that you'll see Fred Frawley and Kirsten Dunst mentioned in the same paragraph).
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Posted at 6:26pm on Dec. 13, 2007 BREAKING NEWS: Dems Call for Taxes on Wealthy at Debate
By Next93
Honest to Pete, that’s the AP headline on the newsfeed at the Comcast.net home page (Comcast is my ISP). In other news, OJ *might* have done it (wink-wink), Paris Hilton is a skanky ho-bag, and Brittany Spears is acting nuts. Ho hum.
Honestly, there’s not much there that’s new, but I wanted to add my $.02 on the idea of “raising taxes on the rich”, and why I think that trying to balance the budget on the backs of the well-to-do has a couple of seriously negative effects on society at large. Not that I think Bill Gates needs me to protect him, and Lord knows that none of this is particularly ground-breaking thinking, but I just felt a need to vent.
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Posted at 10:19am on Dec. 9, 2007 It's NOT courage!
By Next93
This started out as a response to a posting elsewhere in which an ESPN commentator was rightly called on the carpet for claiming the Heisman trophy was on a par with the Medal of Honor.
I couldn't agree more with the disgust at this kind of nonsense. While we're at it, I'd like to talk about the tendancy to use the term "courage" whan talking about people with chonic, debilitating, or even fatal medical issues.
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Posted at 6:29pm on Dec. 4, 2007 Jimmy Carter calls Dick Cheney "A Disaster For America"
By Next93
This is just a quick observation.
My local cable service carries the BBC In America channel, and being both a closet anglophile and a science fiction nerd, I follow a couple of series there.
During the commercial breaks, the Beeb runs teasers for thier news programs, and in one of them a commentator is interviewing former US president Jimmy Carter, vis:
Newsie: "You're certainly not bashful in your condemnation of Dick Cheney".
Carter: "Well, he's been a disaster for America".
Every time I see this ad, I want to hurl a brick trhough the screen; not only do we have the spectacle of a former president publicly criticizing the sitting administration, not only is he doing it on a foreign news service, but this is coming from *worst* president of the 20th century!
On the other hand, if there's anyone in the world who's an expert on what it takes to be a "disaster for America", that expert would HAVE to be Jimmy Carter.
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Posted at 3:56am on Oct. 5, 2007 On the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, and a recipe for fixing NASA
By Next93
Appropriate for the 50th anniversary of Sputnik.
From Space.com:
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The Soviets beat the United States at getting a satellite, and a man, into space. Now, the Chinese may get to the moon before the U.S. can make a return visit.
Fifty years after Sputnik became the world's first artificial satellite, a new race is under way with the finish line on the moon. NASA, the former lunar champion, already is predicting defeat.
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Posted at 9:25am on Sep. 21, 2007 My (second) take on the gay marriage issue
By Next93
Apparently, my previous blog entry on this topic should have been titled "why you shouldn't blog when you're too tired to write code". Here, in a (I hope) more cogent fashions, is my $.02 on gay marriage:
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Posted at 12:34am on Sep. 21, 2007 In which I (reluctantly) endorse gay marriage
By Next93
This is going to be short, but will probably generate a lot of criticism (and more than one person will probably inform me that I'll burn in hell).
I think that outlawing gay marriage is a bad idea. Here's my reasons:
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Posted at 8:47pm on Sep. 19, 2007 Mitt just lost my vote
By Next93
I heard on Hannity today that Mitt Romney is advocating that we take Iranian president Ahadinijad into custody when he comes to the UN (next week, I think).
As repellant as I find Ahmadinijad, this a staggeringly bad idea, pretty much on a par with Obama advocating that we invade Pakistan. It would be an act of war against not only Iran but the UN itself, and would consitute a slap in the face to every diplomat in the world. It would also serve as the signal to being taking every serving State Department employee overseas hostage (and I'm not just talking about in the Arab world - we'd be lucky to get our people out of England and Australia if we pulled a stunt like this).
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