Give Bush a Brain Game

Very entertaining!

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UCLA cops assault student

UCLA is the first place I would expect a student to "stand up to" authority, so I would normally pity their police department. However, the video I just watched cannot be justified. MSNBC's account sugarcoats the incident and on CNN tonight, editor of the UCLA's student paper the Daily Bruin, Sara Taylor, gave a robotic interview that did not shed any light on the assault of the student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, unlike her article.

I saw the footage and the claims that the student was repeatedly tasered while he screamed, "I'm not fighting you; I said I'll leave" are true. The officers in the video claimed that the reason they continued to use tasers on Tabatabainejad was because he refused to stand up. A little common sense, people: the whole point of a taser is to incapacitate a person and excessive use can lead to death. By my personal count, this kid was tased at least 5 times.

One of the officers threatened to use a taser on a student that demanded their bag numbers.

Ouch - Murtha Gets the Smackdown

It isn't surprising that Hoyer won over Murtha. Murtha never had the numbers to compete with Hoyer in the first place. Hoyer, who appears to be popular with the freshman House members, beat him by almost double.

The risk Pelosi took with Murtha bothered the hell out of me. I get that she wanted to be loyal, but surely our president has served as evidence that loyalty-based decisions, although honorable, do not work in politics. She had better have a brilliant plan to try to bring unity back to the party.

All of this stuff is going to give me an ulcer. The Democrats have been handed a great gift by the American people and just cannot afford to screw this up. I have been tooting my confidence in their ability to "repair" our country on both the domestic and international fields, but the truth is I am walking around with my fingers crossed...maybe I should drag out my Rosary, too.

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O.J. Simpson's Quasi-Confession

O.J. Simpson has written a confession, um, I mean story of him killing his wife, Nicole Simpson, and her companion (which he has termed as being "hypothetical") entitled O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened. Mr. Wife-killer has paid $3.5 million by ReaganBooks and Fox is supposed to broadcast interviews done with Simpson in two one-hour segments.

Even if Simpson does not list the book as being fiction, the law of double jeopardy protects him from prosecution. Simpson has allegedly bragged about how he has come up with a plan to keep the profits from the book from going to paying the court-ordered restitution to the victims of this tragedy by "spending it quickly."

I suddenly feel the need to shower.

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President Guiliani?

So Guiliani has come clean about harboring any presidential ambitions by forming a presidential exploratory committee. The WP listed him as the No. 3 most likely choice to be the Republican frontman, and while Guiliani has the potential to clean house in his homestate, the other states of the Union will be a bit more difficult to come by. There is the general prejudice against anyone that resides above the Mason-Dixon line that he will have to face. Then there are the more obvious issues he would undoubtedly be confronted with, namely his more liberal stance on abortion and gay marriage, topics that tend to not be open for discussion here in Evangelicaland.

And another thing: leaping from Congress to the White House is difficult to do; I may be wrong, but I don't think that anyone ever went from being a mayor to president. The fact that he is not a current mayor makes it that much worse.

Words that irritate the hell out of me

Congratulate

This word irritates the hell out of me because its cousin words (graduate, graduation) use the letter d. I hate the inconsistancy; congratulate should be spelled congradulate.

Tomorrow

I don't know why, it just does.

And I've never been to Pennsylvania...

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.
The Midland
The Inland North
The South
The Northeast
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

H/T - PoliBlog

I've never been to New Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington, either.

Pelosi Endorses Murtha

I didn't see that one coming. I was really looking forward to seeing how the House would act with Pelosi as Majority Leader, but I must confess that having Murtha in her stead promises to be very interesting.

Sellouts!

I knew that Blogger was selling out to Google, and given the price tag I probably would have done the same thing. However, I am still disgusted to see that another online passtime of mine has gone the way of being sucked into another corporate giant. Let's see how long Blogger will sustain it's appeal before the monkeys in Google marketing come up with "hipper" ideas and screw it up.

DEMS TAKE SENATE!

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Courtesy of Alabama-Democrat

Hindsight

Actually, this isn't hindsight; I was asking these questions before the election. I will add more when my memory decides to work:

One of the last-minute things that I thought the Republicans would push to get support at the polls:

1.) Increase of mininum wage
I can see why they didn't do it, but given their fragile status on entering the election season, it would have been a great way to distract the masses from the scandals. I was sitting at home waiting for them to announce that they were discussing the minimum wage, which is why I was not 100% confident about the Democrats having such a sweeping victory. The first time I have heard the minimum wage issue being mentioned is by Nancy Pelosi (D-California) yesterday.

Future of the Senate Looks Dem(ocrat)

However, even thought the Virginia election is pretty much over, after living through the 2000 election fiasco, I am not going to acknowledge either side as winning until the official vote is in or (hopefully) Allen concedes.

What Happened with Rove?

I have heard the media repeatedly question why Karl Rove could not save the House and the Senate, and whether or not this meant the end of his career. I greatly admire Rove, like it or not, when it comes to political analyses he is a freaking genius. Although he was shown on television expressing confidence about the elections, his demeanor suggested otherwise. I suspect that Rove has made some suggestions prior to the election that were ignored. I really don't believe that someone with his keenness did not have something up his sleeve. If you listen to past Bush speeches and watch his actions, you can actually tell when Rove was involved and when he was not. Whenever I have seen Bush do (or say) something that seemed really off-script, the first thing I wondered was if Rove was on vacation.

Bush should have fired Rumsfeld a long time ago, but he is very loyal to his friends, so the fact that he did so yesterday was a surprise. Rove, however, deserves a medal; I will be eternally in awe of the political machine he built during the last elections.

Is It My Birthday?

The Democrats have the House and Rumsfield is gone! My family can finally stop worrying about if the Secret Service is going to hunt me down because of the comments I have made about the Bush administration!

DEMS TAKE THE HOUSE!!!!

Hussein to Hang

I am not sure what to say about this. Part of me is not surprised that they are going to hang Hussein, and another part of me can't shake the feeling that hell is really about to break loose.