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Sunday, October 29, 2006

HOLLYWOOD LOVES BILL CLINTON, RIGHT…...?

Well, up to a point, anyhow.

It’s time for Bill’s 60th birthday party, and the ROLLING STONES were scheduled to be the entertainment.

The idea was to combine the party with a fundraiser (what a surprise!) for the Clinton’s charitable foundation. And prices started at $60,000.00 for the absolute minimum package (bad concert seats and no brunch), rising in steps up to the max of $500,000.00.

Posted by Earl on 10/29 at 11:05 AM
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Friday, October 27, 2006

IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT YOU GET TO ACTUALLY SEE THE RESULTS OF A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT…...

But, Europe right now is your opportunity…...

I refer to the question of the form “What would happen if we were more “MULTICULTURAL”; if we didn’t “force” people who come to America to assimilate; if we allowed (or even helped) them to “celebrate their differences” from boring old us…..?”

Well, the experiment has been run, and the results are becoming plain:

Posted by Earl on 10/27 at 03:36 PM
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IS THE SLOPE SLIPPERY…....?

I guess you’ll have to judge for yourself, but THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY has a fascinating analysis of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent decision mandating that the legislature, at a minimum, pass some kind of same-sex civil unions. The interesting thing in his post is that he digs up the quotes from supporters of hate crime laws, anti-discrimination laws, domestic partnership legislation and the like—and many of them rejected out of hand the suggestion that there was ANY connection between this type of legislation and anything resembling “gay marriage”.

Yet the New Jersey Supreme Court’s equal protection argument begins by citing such non-same-sex-marriage, non-civil-union gay rights laws (citations omitted):

READ THE WHOLE THING

Something to remember, in other disputes as well, when someone derides you for making a “slippery slope” argument. Sometimes it’s pretty slick!

Hat Tip: Stanley Kurtz at THE CORNER

Posted by Earl on 10/27 at 03:27 PM
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

IF YOU’RE NOT A “CERTAIN AGE”, YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND…...

You probably don’t understand why I loved Ronald Reagan and miss him so much.

Not only because I used to watch him on GE Theater, but because he was so “real”.....yes, he was an actor, but he was a real man in ways that so many politicians these days are not.

You can get a flavor of it in THIS VIDEO CLIP.

This is the man who stood for the right and against the Soviet Union when he was virtually alone in his convictions, and under constant daily assault from a hostile press and political class in Washington, D.C. We could use a few more like him today.

UPDATE: That clip has been dug out because of an event at the Connecticut debate among the three Senate candidates. As Senator Joe Lieberman was giving his closing statement, heckling broke out from the crowd. The moderator tries to quiet things down…..the Senator does (I’m afraid) his usual thing, and the heckler keeps right on. Finally, the Republican challenger, a guy who is a distant third in this race, with his support in single digits, gets up and makes his statement.

GOOD STUFF!

Hat Tip: Brother Victor

Posted by Earl on 10/26 at 08:32 AM
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Sunday, October 22, 2006

SO…....HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE IN THE U.S. SHARE YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME? ARE YOU UNIQUE?

You can check it out right here:

HowManyOfMe.com

There is:
1
person with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

But, understand that the technology is not yet mature - some names that DO exist in the real world do NOT exist in its database. But, it’s fun, anyhow.

Posted by Earl on 10/22 at 07:39 AM
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Friday, October 20, 2006

MY LATEST NOMINEE FOR THE OUTSTANDING MORAL COURAGE AWARD…...

Is Juan Williams, who commentates for both NPR and Fox News, and who recently wrote a challenging book: ENOUGH, subtitled The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It.

Called “Cosby’s Bulldog” by some, and “Uncle Tom” by others, Williams gathers a mass of evidence indicating that much of the devastation of the black community is self-inflicted, owing much to the embrace of victimhood, the counter-productive messages of the “black leadership”, and the failure to take advantage of opportunities that other minorities use to sieze the American Dream.

Posted by Earl on 10/20 at 06:05 PM
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AMERICA IS SCHIZOPHRENIC…..

If an assailant had shot Tammy Skinner in the stomach on the day she was to give birth, killing her baby, he could have been prosecuted.

Because she shot herself earlier this year, however, General District Court Judge James A. Moore decided Monday that she can’t be tried for producing a miscarriage or abortion, and he dismissed the felony charge.

If we were not schizophrenic, a baby would have the right to life regardless of its location, or who its assailant was. In the future, people will look back at this time and shake their heads at how an entire generation could have waffled on the most important right enumerated in our Constitution.

READ THE WHOLE MISERABLE THING

Posted by Earl on 10/20 at 05:53 PM
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