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"Put up or shut up"…so Dems shut up

Jack Kelly has great commentary on the 403-3 vote the House held last week calling for immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq per newfound media darling Jack Murtha’s suggestion:

Showing more backbone and more brains than they customarily do, House Republicans called for a vote on immediate withdrawal from Iraq. It failed, 404-3. Democrats who’d applauded the introduction of Murtha’s resolution whined it was dirty pool for Republicans to make them vote on his bottom line.

“It’s a trap,” a Democratic strategist told Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift. “If the party comes out for a unilateral six month withdrawal, that would become the issue for 06, and they (Republicans) would kill us again.” Democrats like to make antiwar noises for their moonbat base, but were unwilling to cast a vote that could hurt them with swing voters. They were too cowardly to be forthright cowards.

Voting in a pattern consistent with your rhetoric constitutes a trap, in the eyes of leftists like Clift. I gather that to mean that the left would like to blather on and spew platitudes of drivel without challenge, and without putting their money where their mouth is.

I guess Murtha’s taken a page out of the John Kerry political playbook: he actually did advocate immediate surrender in withdrawal from Iraq, before he didn’t!

The left is desparately looking for a horse to which it should hitch its anti-war wagon:

Fallout in academia for moonbat prof

From Town Hall:

Rebecca Beach is a freshman at Warren County Community College (WCCC) in Washington, New Jersey. Recently, she sent an email to the faculty at her school announcing the appearance of a decorated Iraq war hero named Lt. Colonel Scott Rutter. (Not to be confused with pedophile and Saddam shill Scott Ritter – Ed.) The war hero was asked to discuss America’s accomplishments in Iraq.

The simple email announcement was met with the following blistering response from part-time English Professor John Daly (jpdalyca@yahoo.com):

I am asking my students to boycott your event. I am also going to ask others to boycott it. Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby look like fascist propaganda and is [sic] extremely offensive. Your main poster “Communism killed 100,000,000″ is not only untrue, but ignores the fact that CAPITALISM has killed many more and the evidence for that can be seen in the daily news papers. The U.S. government can fly to dominate the people of Iraq in 12 hours, yet it took them five days to assist the people devastated by huricane [sic] Katrina. Racism and profits were key to their priorities. Exxon, by the way, made $9 Billion in profits this last quarter–their highest proft [sic] margin ever. Thanks to the students of WCCC and other poor and working class people who are recruited to fight and die for EXXON and other corporations who [sic] earning megaprofits from their imperialist plunders. If you want to count the number of deaths based on political systems, you can begin with the more than a million children who have died in Iraq from U.S.-imposed sanctions and war. Or the million African American people who died from lack of access to healthcare in the US over the last 10 years.

I will continue to expose your right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like your [sic] won’t dare show their face [sic] on a college campus. Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people’s needs–such freedom fighters can be counted throughout American history and they certainly will be counted again.

Prof. John Daly

I won’t even address the assertions of his moonbattery, except for one: fragging superiors. His response, issued only after the feces hit the fan, was that he was speaking “in the most metaphoric sense.” Of course he was, since the rest of his diatribe was so well-reasoned, eloquently stated, and linguistically sound!

Who among us has not committed an occasional typo, or occasionally used the wrong word? Then why am I jumping on this guy like Michael Moore on a Happy Meal? Because this schmuck is an English professor! He got his master’s degree in lunguistics! Parents are actually paying this school to teach their kids to learn from this moron, so consider this a public service announcement: Parents, if you care about your kids’ education, do NOT send your kids to Warren County Community College!

Of course, Daly’s employer isn’t much better in the rhetorical eloquence department. From their web site’s home page, which is currently dedicated to addressing the controversy of Daly’s comments:

The Board of Trustees intends to consider the welfare and rights of its students, the college community, and the public in lieu [sic] of recent events. The board will also consider personnel issues.

That’s “in light of”, geniuses (or genii?). No wonder they hired this guy Daly: he looks brilliant compared to them in terms of the written English language (which, rumor has it, is still the overwhelmingly spoken language in America).

November 22, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Using the government to stymie competition

Leave it to a liberal state like Dumbassachusetts to stifle capitalism. The irony is that the law was likely inspired by businesses, which are enterprises born of capitalism. However, some business owners would rather lobby their elected leaders to use the oppressive force of government to compensate for that which they have failed to do themselves in the marketplace: properly compete. From the AP:

There’ll be no last-minute shopping for turkeys or trimmings on Thanksgiving Day in Massachusetts.

The state has warned the upscale Whole Foods supermarket chain that it will risk criminal charges under the state’s centuries-old “blue laws” if it goes ahead with plans to open on the holiday.

The office of Attorney General Thomas Reilly issued a legal opinion after officials at a Whole Foods competitor, Shaw’s Supermarkets, wrote him a letter asking him to block the opening, The Boston Globe reported.

Criminal charges? I can see it now: a chowderhead cop shows up at Whole Foods on Thursday and barks “You’re under arrest for selling this little old lady some celery!”

OK, maybe the motivation to keep Whole Foods from opening on Thanksgiving is based on, as the story puts it, “Puritan-era blue laws”, and I am mischaracterizing the situation. Fine…then explain this:

Shaw’s, which has 200 stores in New England, complained to Reilly after some of its employees spotted a banner advertising a Thanksgiving Day opening at a Whole Foods in Bellingham.

“Besides disadvantaging competitors, a Whole Foods opening would harm consumers, due to lack of choice in the marketplace for consumers to shop and compare prices for the best deal,” Shaw’s legal department wrote to Reilly on Nov. 4.

That’s right, folks. In the twisted mind of a failed business owner, and his useful idiots in state government, allowing people to buy last-minute items on Thanksgiving Day harms said consumers!

Also, spoken like a true socialist: everyone should be equally disadvantaged. It’s not fair if I get to buy cranberry sauce from a business that chooses to be open on Thanksgiving (and pays its employees extra for working on that day)! I mean, what about those businesses that choose to be closed? That’s not right!

What do customers think?

As for consumers, Jeff Orlinski, 26, of Hingham, was irked that the local Whole Foods wouldn’t be open.

“What if you need something at the last-minute?” he asked. “What happens if your stuffing gets burned?”

Then enjoy your crunchy stuffing, sir…and thank your “enlightened” state leaders and local business flunky at Shaw’s for protecting you from fresh stuffing!

November 22, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Yours truly gets a plug on OSM

V the K of Caption This! fame brought this to my attention yesterday, since I wasn’t exactly in the state of mind to think to look for it. It seems that your humble host received a plug from none other than OSM. That’s the Open Source Media, whose mission is summed up by them as follows:

OSM’s mission is to expand the influence of weblogs by finding and promoting the best of them, providing bloggers with a forum to meet and share resources, and the chance to join a for-profit network that will give them additional leverage to pursue knowledge wherever they may find it. From academics, professionals and decorated experts, to ordinary citizens sitting around the house opining in their pajamas, our community of bloggers are among the most widely read and influential citizen journalists out there, and our roster will be expanding daily. We also plan to provide a bridge between old media and new, bringing bloggers and mainstream journalists—more and more of whom have started to blog—together in a debate-friendly forum.

I’m not harboring any delusions of grandeur just yet, nor am I insinutating that this blog is anywhere near as good as those of the big boys (and, in the case of Michelle Malkin and others, big girls). However, it’s nice to be recognized by the big leagues of the blogosphere in any capacity.

Also, I must give credit where it is due: (1) Kira Zalan, who tipped me off to the OSM’s blog carnival; and (2) everyone of you guys who contribute to the blog by way of your stopping by and by your comments. Thanks, all!

Anyway, here’s the link to their blog carnival, with the mention of this fine “establishment” mentioned about halfway down.

November 22, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Filed under "Nope…no liberal media bias"

This would be different had we not seen it from CNN before. From Drudge:

CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF CHENEY ‘X’; CONTROL ROOM STAFFER ‘LAUGHED’ WHEN X FLASHED

CNN management has launched an internal investigation into how a giant black ‘X’ mark appeared over Vice President Dick Cheney’s face — as he delivered a speech from Washington on Monday!

“We are taking this matter very, very seriously, and I can assure you no one at this network would ever deliberately place an ‘X’ over the vice president’s face,” a top CNN source, who asked not to be named at this time, said from New York.

A well-placed CNN insider claims a control room staffer “laughed” when the image appeared shortly after 11 am.

A careful review of the tape now shows a white colored ‘X’ was also transposed over Cheney’s face during the speech, it appeared for less than 1/15 of a second, creating a startling flash effect.

CNN spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg emails: “We concluded this was a technological malfunction not an issue of operator error. A portion of the switcher experienced a momentary glitch. We obviously regret that it happened and are working on the equipment to ensure it is not repeated.”

A rival network news director asks: “When has an ‘X’ ever aired on CNN before? Who had the graphic sitting in the key signal? Who generated the ‘X’?”

The vice president himself is said to have brushed off the incident, a White House source said early Tuesday morning.

Probably just an innocent Freudian slip, I’m sure.

November 22, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Thank you, friends!

Thank you all who posted your kind comments and words of comfort about the loss of my friend Monica. I appreciate them deeply. You guys are the best!

And without further adieu, back to life as usual…

November 22, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment