tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:46:55 +0000http://gbarto.com/turkey/noreply@blogger.com (gbarto)Blogger1069125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-5957393390219498150Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:44:00 +00002008-10-04T11:46:55.090-07:00Scary thought of the day, in a Pajamas Media comments section: Chilloutyo: I think this presidential election will truly be a test of whether common sense is actually common. Oct 4, 2008 - 3:57 amhttp://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/10/scary-thought-of-day-in-pajamas-media.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-1380513774150009264Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:31:00 +00002008-09-27T20:40:28.933-07:00When Criticizing Obama is Outlawed, Only Outlaws will Criticize Obama Obama's general counsel has sent letters to a bunch of television stations saying that an NRA ad against Obama is wrong (as determined by the Washington Post) so: 1) the stations aren't required to run it 2) they're liable for the content of the ads The claim is based on a string of cases, all tangential to the matter at http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/09/when-criticizing-obama-is-outlawed-only.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-957243513277689298Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:50:00 +00002008-09-27T15:11:34.414-07:00The Debates I didn't see the debates. From what I read, a lot of people didn't. Instapundit wonders:Could it be that outside of the political-junkie crowd people just aren't that excited about this election?Or maybe, it's that people inside the political-junkie class aren't that excited. At Commentary, John Podhoretz estimates viewership at around 50 million and says:The overnight ratings aren’thttp://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/09/debates-i-didnt-see-debates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-3376360800414025889Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:51:00 +00002008-09-24T13:02:50.881-07:00Is it time to nationalize the banks? Over the last couple decades, we have had a very nice system in place: The bankers give Congress lots of money. The Congress passes laws favoring the bankers. The bankers issue credit like crazy and collect bonuses on all the interest they would have gathered if only the loans had been good. The loans go bad, the bankers leave with their bonuses and a newhttp://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/09/is-it-time-to-nationalize-banks-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-6500324116323873425Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:04:00 +00002008-09-15T23:45:39.617-07:00Did Obama negotiate to prolong the Iraq war until He could be The One who ended it? If so, forget the Logan Act... Just stare on in breathless wonder at the arrogance. But first, remember the source ain't perfect. The source for the latest rumors, Amir Taheri, has a less than perfect record on this stuff, so don't shout it from the rooftops till we know more. But, word on the street (via Instyhttp://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/09/obama-to-troops-stay-in-iraq-until-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-2353438784735864512Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:17:00 +00002008-09-14T14:27:35.481-07:00Obama: Vote for me! I can type better than John McCain! If you put this with Joe Biden's call for a man in a wheelchair to stand up, it becomes pretty clear the Democratic ticket is about as clueless and insensitive about disabilities as you can get. For the record, McCain goes through his personal e-mail with his wife. But since injuries incurred as a POW in Vietnam make it hard for him to http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/09/obama-vote-for-me-i-can-type-better.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-4247186621624498600Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:30:00 +00002008-09-10T22:47:08.548-07:00Biden and Bentsen We know that Obama's no JFK, but is Joe Biden the new Lloyd Bentsen? Bentsen, it will be remembered, decided that just because he was Dukakis' running mate didn't mean he was going to risk not having the Senate to fall back on. Now Biden has offered this:"Make no mistake about this," Biden responded. "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/09/biden-and-bentsen-we-know-that-obamas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-5183388821955045691Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:12:00 +00002008-09-09T21:37:50.148-07:00Obama didn't really call Palin a pig, but he set himself up to be accused of it. Obama tossed this out in a speech a little earlier: "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig." "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink." "We've had enough of the same old thing."Now you don't have to have studied literary symbolismhttp://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/09/obama-didnt-really-call-palin-pig-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-8550136447524981085Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:46:00 +00002008-09-01T08:54:25.658-07:00Apocalypse Not Gustav could have been worse. It wasn't. So says Brendan Loy, the Weather Nerd for PJM. I remember Brendan's commentary in the run-up to Katrina - he's solid on this stuff. He says that it was right to evacuate given the data at the time, so keep the snark at a minimum about that. But if you're watching cable news people standing in the wind acting like they're reporting from the http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/09/apocalypse-not-gustav-could-have-been.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-3756502444256642384Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:06:00 +00002008-08-31T17:15:40.693-07:00A Hopeful Sign? When Sarah Palin was announced as McCain's VP pick, a lot of the country said, "Who?" People who have been reading blogs said, "Whaddyaknow," because while she wasn't the number one name bandied she wasn't exactly absent from the discussion. Today, the new has moved on to the hurricane, which is going to be the mother of all storms and possibly destroy the world. Since this http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/08/hopeful-sign-when-sarah-palin-was.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-3966109805121529508Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:56:00 +00002008-08-30T17:16:01.383-07:00On the Palin pick: I think it's good, I like her story and I like what I've seen. What I like best is the comments I'm seeing on various blogs. It's becoming increasingly clear that the problem with Hillary wasn't that she was Hillary after all, it's that no damn woman should stand between Barack and his opportunity to make history for the Brothers. Which leads to this exchange in the comments http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/08/on-palin-pick-i-think-its-good-i-like.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-6136847431198957937Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:01:00 +00002008-08-23T23:05:51.021-07:00On the Biden Pick I frankly don't get all the fuss. I mean, if I were running as the forward-looking candidate for hope and change, the first place I'd turn for my running mate is a man who lost to Mike Dukakis 20 years ago. And there are other good things about the Biden pick: Neil Kinnock's speechwriters need the work!http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/08/on-biden-pick-i-frankly-dont-get-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-8341068471227133671Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:48:00 +00002008-08-22T22:12:21.527-07:00The LawProf blogosphere is all abuzz about the value or lack thereof of the Socratic Method. Here's one of the latest posts, with lots of links, at the Volokh Conspiracy. Having read one or two of Plato's Socrates' bits, I cannot ever recall the old philosopher assembling a crowd of people who had to answer his questions or lose the opportunity to bill people $300/hour to talk to them. Mostly, hehttp://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/08/lawprof-blogosphere-is-all-abuzz-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-7184999118842792431Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:43:00 +00002008-08-17T12:00:51.016-07:00Instapundit passes along a Knoxville News Sentinel story about two people being wrongly arrested by the Drug Task Force in his neck of the woods. One of the people had friends in law enforcement who spoke up for him. The matter was quickly sorted out and he came out okay. The other person was Patty Diane Yates:Yates wasn't so fortunate. It took authorities nine months to drop the charges against http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/08/instapundit-passes-along-knoxville-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-550174191103133275Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:47:00 +00002008-08-08T17:15:36.616-07:00This is your government, high on its drug war... Any questions? While in my bedroom upstairs, while changing and only in boxer shorts, I heard my mother-in-law scream and then heard our front door being broken open and gunshots being fired. I thought our home was being invaded. I feared for my life and fell to the floor. No one announced themselves as law enforcement. Downstairs, the officers http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/08/this-is-your-government-high-on-its.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-1201538534005792870Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:45:00 +00002008-08-05T17:35:09.051-07:00Officer Acquitted of Killing Unarmed MomLIMA, Ohio (Aug. 4) - A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black. The all-white jury found Sgt. Joseph Chavalia not guilty of misdemeanor charges of negligent homicide and negligent assault. He http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/08/officer-acquitted-of-killing-unarmed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-1476816137877117581Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:18:00 +00002008-07-28T20:28:32.779-07:00Obama Prayer Note Stolen! The other day, after Obama left a prayer in the Western Wall in Jerusalem, somebody snuck in and stole the note. Apparently, Obama asked God for a 1986 Camaro IROC-Z and ears that don't stick out. Talk about shallow. The story is here. And it's worse than my version.http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/07/obama-prayer-note-stolen-other-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-1984091213136563000Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:59:00 +00002008-07-26T10:03:48.809-07:00Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty? - Barack Obama In 1991, John and Cindy McCain adopted an orphaned girl from Bangladesh. Call it The Audacity of Action. (found at Gateway Pundit)http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/07/will-we-extend-our-hand-to-people-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-8295500517240210963Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:01:00 +00002008-07-25T22:40:57.772-07:00For all wary conservatives, the reason to support McCain... (via Powerline) Senator Obama and I also faced a decision, which amounted to a real-time test for a future commander-in-chief. America passed that test. I believe my judgment passed that test. And I believe Senator Obama's failed. We both knew the politically safe choice was to support some form of retreat. All the polls said the "surge"http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/07/for-all-wary-conservatives-reason-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-4002436263276731471Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:03:00 +00002008-07-23T17:13:44.194-07:00Instapundit links this piece on the Avanti. If ever I rode in an Avanti, I was too young to remember it. But when I was 8 or 10, I went to the Avanti museum in South Bend, Indiana when my uncle lived there. Great looking cars.http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/07/instapundit-links-this-piece-on-avanti.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-4705493692243040055Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:43:00 +00002008-07-22T12:05:45.849-07:00That's Packaging! Sometimes, when you see the way they handle packages for delivery, you wonder how anything arrives intact. Like a computer keyboard, for example... In our office, we've had a file cabinet that's leaning. We decided to prop it up with the box from a keyboard we just picked up, figuring that once crushed, the box would prop it up just the right amount. Rather than breaking down http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/07/thats-packaging-sometimes-when-you-see.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-8883534565255869659Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:53:00 +00002008-07-13T15:57:48.898-07:00Pennsylvania Democrats Use Taxpayer Money for Fundraising - Corruption Probe Underway Pennsylvania Democrats including Mike Veon were allegedly using government offices for fundraising and giving taxpayer funded bonuses to aides based on how much money they raised. Here's the story, found at Instapundit.http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/07/pennsylvania-democrats-use-taxpayer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-3253371476237107671Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:44:00 +00002008-07-08T23:51:25.863-07:00A short essay in the manner of those writers who find their every observation fascinating or Why You Should Leave the Dog Poo on the Ground The other day, when I was at my local Barnes and Noble, I stopped into the restroom. There was already someone at the urinal and I was on the edge of going into the first stall when he flushed and retreated. I stepped toward the urinal and was surprised to http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/07/short-essay-in-manner-of-those-writers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-2623020364518090847Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:20:00 +00002008-07-03T17:23:58.751-07:00Comment of the Day, over at Ann Althouse's blog:Foobarista said... If Obama refined as much oil as he does on his positions, gas would cost 80 cents a gallon...John Kerry in 2004: I was for it before I was against it. Barack Hussein Obama in 2008: I was for it before I was for it.http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/07/comment-of-day-over-at-ann-althouses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-2355706260755134445Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:47:00 +00002008-06-28T11:10:14.260-07:00Gallup (via Instapundit) reports that a majority of the people believe: 1. The government should focus on growing the economy, not income redistribution. 2. The government is doing more, not less, than it should. Ronald Reagan: 1. A rising tide lifts all boats. 2. Government isn't the solution, it's the problem. Now if only we could find a Republican who wants to win one for the Gipper.http://gbarto.com/turkey/2008/06/gallup-via-instapundit-reports-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gbarto)