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Dunno. Maybe one of those two sex pots Tiger might count as a success? or is this considered a double bogey? (not a triple bogey just yet...give her a few months. Then, albatross~!)

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 19: The radio show MJ Morning show personalities Victory Martin (L) and Meredith Walusek stand near one of the entrances to where golfer Tiger Woods plans on making a statement at TPC Sawgrass on February 19, 2010 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Woods plans on speaking at the Sunset Room on the second floor of the TPC Sawgrass, home of the PGA Tour.

Yeah. That speech went over so well, didn't it? An uninspired apology likely written by a highly-paid legal team with their intent on protecting the Tiger Woods' marketability. No questions allowed from the hand-chosen crowd of non-reporter sycophants and friends who were placed in exact positions like silverware at a formal dinner…no, I wasn’t impressed. Nor were sports writers, it seems. And therapy? sex therapy? Who the fuck is he trying to kid?

Elin is having none of it I’ll wager. She got her licks in already. With a putter.

This staged event was amateur hour FAIL at the highest level.

Other than that, I could care less.

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Leftist Hugo Chávez is told to "Shut Up" by the King of Spain.

No Foolin'!

"The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to “shut up” Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

"Chavez, who called President Bush the “devil” on the floor of the United Nations last year, triggered the exchange by repeatedly referring to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a “fascist.”

"Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, “is a fascist,” Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. “Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.”

"Spain’s current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences."

That's what I like! We have to keep these Loonies on the Path^TM.

Severa has a video linked over at BMEWS. You'll have to go there to see it, now won't you?

2007 just wasn't a very good year for the Nobel committees. 

Al Gore takes the 'Peace' Prize for his "Earth Under Fire" Global Warming scare tactics,  falsely blaming mankind for Global Climate Change, and stifling any true debate.  Al is sharing his Nobel Prize with the IPCC (an agency that's not even comprised of all scientists...the IPCC is a Inter-Governmental agency that includes activist groups like Greenpeace).  Al Gore is scaring kids and convincing the easily-convinced and desirious of calamity (as long as it hampers and threatens existing economies) progressives and liberals.  Scientists who dissent from the 'Politically Correct' debate 'conclusions' are threatened. Just watch this video, where John Stossel dares to challenge the Goreacle.

Good for him! Scientists shouldn't be silenced to satisfy a fat loser...

Another Nobel 2007 recipient, Doris Lessing, says from her birdcage that the Islamofacist attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11 "wasn't all that bad". The old dear (she's 88, bless her leftist heart) compared an IRA bombing that killed 5 people to the devastation that was brought to Manhattan...

"Some Americans will think I'm crazy... but it was neither as terrible or as extraordinary as they think..." "They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," she added of Americans.

Lessing, whose novels include The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor, also branded President George W Bush "a world calamity". "Everyone is tired of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever, although you have to remember he is a member of a social class which has profited from wars." The writer also said that she "always hated Tony Blair from the beginning".

Doris has a history of far leftist views...this quote from a website lost in Global Warming krazy...

Doris Lessing, to the people who know of her work, is mainly known for being a feminist author of the 1950s and 60s, who often wrote about her experiences growing up in Southern Africa as the daughter of British colonialist farmers. For years, she was also a very strident and vocal Communist.

Fits in well with what the Nobel committees are looking for, now. "Powered-down" societies, indeed. If you want to read a book that's post-disaster, without the commie-lib-progressive takes on your way of life, read Larry Niven's Lucifer' Hammer.

 

Doris Lessing is just another leftist windbag liberal promoted by the partisan Nobel organization to a high enough perch...from which she just fell. Taking some of that golden sheen off the Nobel organization on her way down....

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Video h/t BMEWS

Yes, it's true. RFKjr grew 'hoarse' from hollerin' at the Live Earth suckerfest this last weekend, saying

"Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies...This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors."

Well, RFK is President of Waterkeeper Alliance, an Enviromental Group that wants (like everyone else) clean water. That's reasonable on the face of it. BUT, Waterkeeper Alliance has local chapters; guess where one is? Right...Nantucket Soundkeeper, his backyard program, protecting Martha's Vinyard (the Kennedy Stronghold for decades) from the ravages of...an Environmental Program that promotes Clean Energy!

Cape Wind is that program, that proposes to add some 130 Wind Turbines to the offshore Nantucket Sound, and produce enough electricity to fuel much of Cape Cod's electricity needs. A good thing, right?

Unless you're a Kennedy, or a Kerry, who, like most Liberal Politicians, find that it's OK to impose hardships on business or taxpayers, but Not in Our Backyard...from Kerry's blog...

"There is dissension on both sides of the issue. Some major environmental organizations, such as Greenpeace, have decided that the many benefits of the Cape Wind project outweigh its potential dangers. Others, such as Nantucket Soundkeeper, steadfastly oppose it as currently proposed. Virtually everyone agrees that such a project is an excellent idea..."

emboldenings mine

So, RFKjr is exposed as the hypocrite he is. Tell the rest of us to shut down our economy, but let some real Environmental Changes come around that will affect his lifestyle, then, noooo, we can't have that.

RFKjr is just another Liberal Windbag.

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For me, blogging is an aside, a stress-relief pressure-valve that gives me a chance to express (and sometimes form or hone) my opinions, play with my Photochops, post some pictures that may or may not be worth seeing, and communicate with far-away friends and relatives, to a degree. For other bloggers, it's a social-networking tool (a grown-up MySpace) where comments can drive the discourse, and are actually read and responded to (here, I check for comments every couple weeks).

For others, blogging is a paid profession. Some of my favorites are syndicated bloggers (Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom comes immediately to mind).

Nashville's WKRN News Channel 2 has a couple of paid bloggers who try to keep track of every area blogger's output, aggregating the feeds, and making comments on posts they deem worthy or useable in their own blog posts. Well and good; for the social networking types, great. Me, I could care less, as I have little enough time to read my favorite blogs (see my blogroll) and comment on those, without having to actually interact with the (basically liberal) local bloggers.

Well, a couple days ago, Adam Kleinheider posted in Volunteer Voters an ill-timed remark about troops in general and American Soldiers in particular...from today's Nashville City Paper...

“Many, many soldiers, save those at the very top of the pyramid, are pawns. They are button men for our civilian leadership,” Kleinheider stated in his blog post. “Spouting the platitudes can be useful enough to build morale and boost recruiting but at some level we must [be] honest with ourselves [and] recognize what the military is and what it isn’t — myths and fairy tales aside.”

ACK (as Kleinheider was known, before Channel 2 hired him) picked a Gawdawful time to vent on soldiers...right after Memorial Day. Steve Gill picked up on it, did some radio blurb, and now ACK is wondering if his job will be int-ack when the dust settles.

He's true to his beliefs. This, from October 2006, in defense of (GASP) John Kerry's troop-bashing:

"The Right says he is belittling the troops and the left has had enough of being called Anti-American so they are silent as well.

Thing is though, the man ain’t lying."

and

"What John Kerry said today should not have been said. It was unfortunate for a person of his position to say something of that nature.

But one thing it wasn’t was untrue."

It is untrue, ACK. And, what you said. These guys aren't pawns. Knights, more appropriate, if you have to choose a chess-piece analogy. Then, who are the Bishops? The Rooks? The King? And, when the game is over, pawns are re-used. Soldiers die permanently, and deserve, especially on (or near) Memorial Day, some respect. Not crap from a desk-sitting blogger.

(And, from my extensive Chess knowledge, pawns can become Queens when they reach the 8th rank; most of these guys don't play that game. Check your blogroll if you're interested.)

Even if ACK is a paid blogger (who is too far left for my tastes, and sucks up to liberals and metrosexuals in Nashville's blogosphere), he doesn't deserve to get fired for his opinions. Maybe a little flame applied to his posterior, but that's what other bloggers do when agitated. Good enough.

If Imus joins Howard in orbit, we then also need to get Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson together on another rocket booster...clear the airwaves completely, and start a fresh dialog...without so much 'baiting.

Send 'em To the Moon, baby~!

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Linking this to Outside the Beltway's Friday the 13th Beltway Traffic Jam

Nappy-headed hos, huh? This, from a guy who's a non sequitur away from never working again.

He insulted, with extreme prejudice, some fine young ladies from Rutgers, who themselves showed extreme dedication in ascending to the NCAA Basketball 2007 Women's National Title Game, losing to Tennessee. From the Rutger's squad:

"Unless they've given `ho' a whole new definition, that's not what I am," said Kia Vaughn, the team's sophomore center.

and

"The Rutgers university women's basketball team has made history," said Essence Carson, a junior forward. "We haven't done anything to deserve this controversy, and yet it has taken a toll on us mentally and physically."

From Head Coach C. Vivian Stringer, on her players

"...are the best this nation has to offer ... young ladies of class, distinction. They are articulate, they are gifted. They are God's representatives in every sense of the word."

They are also on a NCAA-sanctioned team that's again proved the value of sports at the College level...keeping kids out of trouble (well, mostly) and helping, with scholarships, fund the dream of higher education. But, there's other problems surfacing in this should-be-straighforward-apology-and-forgeddaboutit...Al (Tawana Brawley) Sharpton.

Imus crawled around in the dirt with this self-serving race-baiter, Al Sharpton (who himself shares a couple things in common with Imus: they are both fast-fading, and deserve much less public airtime.) Of course, Sharpton opines

“Don Imus should be fired and taken off the airwaves. This is not about insensitivity, this is about the abusive, racist, sexist use of our federally regulated airwaves.”

but then again, he says that about everyone but himself...

Imus is benched, partially, punished by MSNBC and CBS; off the air for two weeks, but Al Sharpton and other 'baits want more.

Imus should have kept his mouth shut. You can't be a 'shock jock' without knowing where the edge is, especially today, when that edge is monitored by the forces of Political Correctness more closely than the Berlin wall was watched by German snipers.

So, we get more Sharpton 'baiting, Imus hating, and discourse fading. Attacks by the self-promoting on the doddering. Makes for bad TV. I'd almost rather watch a replay of that Tennessee-Rutgers game, but I'm afraid the memories of that game are going to be somewhat supplanted...by a nappy unfair-piece.

So, so long, Imus; won't really miss you. But, this little video you came up with a couple weeks or so ago, with General Patton on the Iraq war, is a classic, and I'll just remember you for this, OK?

Enjoy the ranch...