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I blame Bush and Ashcroft. If it weren’t for the Patriot Act, this wouldn’t be happening. Or maybe it’s Cheney and Halliburton.
Heh.
LOL
Well, it’s back to Poser and Bryce for me then!
Just saw Dick Morris on Fox. He feels strongly this Al Qaqqa (and Bull) story story will blow up in Kerry’s face (npi).
He feels there’s a real stink when you consider all the elements here: the U.N. (IAEA), NY Times, and the already tainted CBS (I did not know until now that they were initially planning to break this “story” on Sunday night…NEXT Sunday night!!). All of those questionable sources, together with Kerry’s campaign rushing him into “Makeup” before the ink was dry in the Times (as Morris put it, “rushing into the “Bear Trap”) will unravel all week, not unlike Rathergate.
I hope he’s right although this story is not as much of a slam dunk as the prior CBS debacle. One thing I do know: for this to happen, the Blogosphere must rise to the occasion.
Roger, pick up the gauntlet and make us proud.
By the way, sorry to change the topic, but semi-desperate times require…
The National Review Online “Battlegrounds” page has a great link today that offers some valuable insight in regards to the Republican ground game in Ohio.
“Theorizing about the OH ground game” gives some background on the formidable GOP GOTV program. I’ve read elsewhere that the RNC made a firm rule that the state committees wouldn’t receive a dime unless they complied with the standard GOTV rulebook.
After reading this, understand that there are similar BC04 GOTV organizations in every state. Not all of them will be equally effective, but they’re there.
Excerpt:
I know that many readers remain puzzled about BushÔøΩs actions regarding Ohio. They find it downright peculiar that Bush has been avoiding the state. My running un-weighted average of the reputable polls indicates that Bush is only up 1.5%, with a MOE of 1.5%. This begs the obvious question: do Bush and Rove know something that the rest of us do not?
I believe the answer to this question is, ÔøΩYes, they do.ÔøΩ I believe that they are convinced that they are ahead in Ohio, and I believe that this conviction is an accurate one. In this post, I shall defend my position.
Solid stuff.
HCB is of course a terrible thing
but it is, as noted, a rare ailment, confined to those exceptional bloggers, like our host, Glenn Reynolds, and others, who are at the very top of the game.
But as a physician I want to call attention to the (somewhat) less serious but much more widespread essential cerebral blogosis, or ECB which afflicts millions who are not, properly speaking, “bloggers,” but are rather consumers of the product the bloggers produce.
The symptoms of this condition include sleeplessness (which the victim tries in vain to alleviate by frequent returns to the laptop to read “updates”), heightened irritability (often progressing to actual yelling at laptop screens or monitors), neglect of proper diet and exercise, and — in extreme cases &mdash a tendency to converse solely in strings of characters, e.g.,
“IIRC, Darling, ANTPTFAPOI, YMSADWYM, AHOSA?”
(“If I recall correctly, Darling, and not to put too fine a point on it, you mentioned something about dinner with your mother, an hour or so ago?”)
Finally, as the news cycle shortens to an interval which approaches the clock speed of the fastest available processors, we can anticipate that ECB cases will worsen, and evolve generally into advanced HCB…
But fortunately, John Kerry has a plan.
Jamie Irons
Dr Irons explains what has happened to me–my wife arose from our bed at 11:00 PM last nite while I was delivering some brilliant invective about the most recent contretemps as reported by our esteemed blog host. She peered over my shoulder and said something to the effect: WTF are you doing (or words to that effect). I proudly showed her my riposte–alas, she shook her head and said something that sounded like “get thee to a nunnery….” Needless to say, the great dane and I shared the guest bed last nite–but DAMN it was a great post.
OT, maybe, but ó is it time for another flip-flop panic? According to Instapundit, Bush is still up in the polls and LEADING in the early voting to date…
Sorry… source is Hugh Hewitt
Jamie…LOL!
Vanderleun does capture the essence of the intensity and that occurs whether you post blog entries or comments. Actually that intensity occurs if use Poser or Bryce too. But I digress. (But, believe me, there are parallels.)
It’s when you get in the zone and the world disappears. All that matters is what’s in front of your eyes and you focus like a laser.
But the beam bounces off and hits you back, right between the eyes, when the phone rings or a voice from the distance asks ‘what’s for dinner?’
If you can snap out of your trance, you’ll live another day. If you can’t, you explode.
No, it’s not fatal…yet. Just a slow death of the mind. You find you’re always at the computer, even when you’re walking down the aisle of the grocery store with the talking points of the day’s news cycle bouncing around your brain.
You can’t wait to get back online to see if Roger has posted on it yet, whatever today’s ‘it’ is, or if the Kerry spike has dropped off Rasmussen.
That in itself is not the real disease though. You are in mortal danger when your thoughts only traverse little loop-de-loops. Once that happens you’re trapped forever.
OT but sheesh. This is a comment I lifted from Hedgehog:
And (from Drudge) Democrats begin suing in Florida; Charge discrimination in voting law.
This election better not be close.
ì…he predicted that with the legal strategies in play, the outcome of this election will not be finally decided until December.î
This is utterly disgraceful. It will severely hurt our economy and embolden the terrorists. We will almost certainly suffer a severe recession. These people are vile and disgusting. The Democrat Party of Terry McAuliffe is a political organization of low lifes. Anyone with even a minimum sense of moral values can no longer support these morally challenged individuals. Is the national Democrat Party as evil as the Nazis or the Communists? No, that would be an exaggeration. But they are, however, only a few steps below in the ranks of pure evil.
One more point needs to be added: John Kerry is not another Adolph Hitler or Joseph Stalin. He does not seem capable of torturing and murdering his way to power. Still, Kerry is more than willing to lie and damage the country. LBJ and Nixon were deeply flawed men—but even they had their limits. John Kerry will only stop at physically harming other human beings. This is simply not good enough. Kerry is still too vile to govern our nation.
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Essential cerebral blogosis eh? perhaps I too am a sufferer of this subtle scourge. After reading about FCC’s Chairman Michael Powell ambush by Howard Stern I went to the Department of State Travel Warning page and this is the result.
Lem, Heh. But who heeds warnings
On the other hand if we didn’t also get rewards from being so blog-obsessed, we’d be, well, not blog-obsessed.
I watched Chris Matthews tonite and Debra Saunders was on. That was a reward because it was nice to see her on tv. I liked her. She’s pleasant and seems to have just the right touch of an ironic sense of humor.
But the reward is the fact that she writes for the San Francisco Chronicle plies its wares across the country from me. If it weren’t for the bloggers and their links I wouldn’t even know who she was, let alone have read as many of her pieces as I have.
That’s sweet.
Another tie-in to tv. I don’t remember ever seeing Tucker Eskew though I probably have. He works for the Bush campaign and shows up to do battle with DNC mouths.
He just started a blog recently and my reward was reading his statement of the campaign’s feeling when Kerry picked up on the NYTimes story:
That’s sweet times two!
Honestly, Kerry, keep reminding Americans that Iraq was a very nasty place with dangerous weapons and they’ll gladly vote…for Bush.
So these sweet rewards are very very addictive. I really don’t care anymore if my head explodes.