The View From the Sinister Side of Life
September 18th, 2008
I’m off to Cincinnati to watch the Brewers lose, and also to drink lots of beer at their Oktoberfest. I’ll return you to my regularly-scheduled pinko commie rantings on Monday.
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September 18th, 2008
Fucking bullpen can’t fucking hold a four fucking run lead with two fucking outs in the bottom of the fucking ninth. [UPDATE: And nobody fucking on.]
Fucking sucks.
[ Note: As of this writing, they haven't officially lost yet, but it's only a matter of time. UPDATE: Yep, they lost in 12. Box ]
Categories: MLB/MiLB, Sour Grapes, Sports | 3 Comments
September 18th, 2008
McCain may have gotten de Rothschild, but Obama just picked up Wick Allison (former publisher of National Review):
Liberalism always seemed to me to be a system of “oughts.” We ought to do this or that because it’s the right thing to do, regardless of whether it works or not. It is a doctrine based on intentions, not results, on feeling good rather than doing good.
But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask.
Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world “safe for democracy.” It is John McCain who says America’s job is to “defeat evil,” a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth.
This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.
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September 18th, 2008
See RCP. The DNC bump and the RNC bump (really more of a Palin Bump) are pretty much over, and we’re right back where we were before either convention started, with the trend running slightly Democratic yet again.
Note to Mr. Dawntreader: So much for your “New Surge.”
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