Lefty vs. Lefty

I actually don't know much about The Edge's politics, although I'm guessing 15 seconds of Googling would show him to be a lefty like his buddy Bono.  I'll spare myself the 15 seconds of labor and surmise that his close association with Bono and the plans of greenishness he has for his proposed home in Malibu put him squarely in the leftist camp, which would make this story quite ironic...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/u2-guitarist-edge-loses-bid-malibu-mansion-042130878.html

A member of U2 gets opposed by a group who doesn't think his plans are leftish enough... that's great.  It reminds me of a story from a couple years ago on some island where some endangered species was eating up another endangered species and the authorities couldn't do anything to reasonably balance the populations because they couldn't shoot even a few of the predator species.

Why does The Edge want to live in Malibu?  That was my first question before I ever got into the article.  Shouldn't he be living in a hut in Mombandishuraqistan writing letters to world bankers imploring them to do something (ex. raise taxes on American gun owners) for the sake of the poor starving children there whose legs have been blown off by land mines?

Oh, yeah, I forgot... the People's Republic of California is more communist than Kruschev... the perfect place for U2 members to relax in their hot tubs...

This mom should be fired

How can some of the commenters on this story feel sorry for the mother of the child who is getting beaten up every day on the bus?  It's pretty simple... if animals attack your child constantly, don't keep throwing the child into the animals' pen:

http://www.todaystmj4.com/features/iteam/123406893.html?viewAll=1&action=quotecomment&cid=68607359&page=1#respond

As the bus pulls away we follow it.  Watching and waiting to see what happens.  Back at home the girl’s mother is fighting back tears she says she can’t believe her daughter has to go through this every day.

 

Edwards adds, “She continues to get hurt.  Why? That hurts as a parent”.

I bet it hurts!  But you just keep letting it happen?????

Planned Parenthood doesn't mess around

Now this is the way to fire somebody...

“We have a zero tolerance policy for this kind of behavior, and the employee in the video was immediately suspended from her duties this morning and was terminated this evening,” Kinsler said.


Taken from:
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/03/youtube-may-censor-planned-parenthood-sex-trafficking-expose/

Hint to those in a position to fire people at Planned Parenthood:  Don't say you "terminated" somebody when all you did was fire them.  At the very least, say you "terminated their employment".  The former is far too believable and will raise some eyebrows.

Good guys wear white

Go Steelers!  Yes, Steeler fans are spoiled as we are about to see our team in the Super Bowl for the 3rd time in 6 years.  This somewhat helps salve my football wounds after Penn State's disappointing 7-6 season.

I have not seen any word on which team gets to wear the white jerseys this year.  This could be the most overlooked factor in recent Super Bowl success.  Six straight times, the team in the white jersey has won.  The last team to win in the non-white jersey was New England in Super Bowl 38.

The white jersey winners are:

Super Bowl #   -- Team
44 -- Saints
43 -- Steelers
42 -- Giants
41 -- Colts
40 -- Steelers
39 -- Patriots

I can't wait until 2013

George Lucas is a loon... surprise!!!

http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/2011/01/18/16927446-wenn-story.html

I don't think people realize just how many failed End-of-the-World prophecies litter human history.  One failure after another, after another, after another...  Sure, some day some blind squirrel will find a nut, but that doesn't necessarily make him any less blind or looney.  Despite all the hype (the end of the Mayan calendar and so forth), don't put your money on 2012.

So dumb I shouldn't respond

The attempts to blame the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, anti-immigration, Rush Limbaugh, et al, for the massacre by Jared Loughner in Arizona are almost so dumb that it's laughable.  The older I get, the less I care to respond to outright stupidity.  But, because it's always been a modus operandi of progressives to tell a big lie so often that they think people will simply relent and believe it, it's worth a response.

Steve Sailer has a couple good postings about it on his blog, http://isteve.blogspot.com/
This quote sums it up...

The real issue isn't one maniac's psyche, of course, it's what has been revealed over the last four days about the psyches of the people who have the media bullhorn. 

At this link is an interesting psychological analysis of P. Z. Myers, who supposedly, but quite apparently not, is big on approaching things scientifically:   http://telicthoughts.com/pz-myers-a-case-study/

Finally, let me just say that I think (and my opinion on this has grown stronger over the years), that Joe Scarborough is a pansy faux-conservative.  I think he loves his job and his bosses at the ultra-left-wing MSNBC much more than the supposed principles he held as a congressman in the Republican revolution of 1994.  He kinda sorta defended Sarah Palin when some of his colleagues went after her on his show, but he also seemed to want to do a kumbya-meet-in-the-middle thing where he was just a little concerned about some of the language she used.  What the heck?  I'm no big Sarah Palin fan.  But anyone who's been accused mercilessly over and over again in the media of being a catalyst behind a mass shooting certainly has every right to defend herself.  One of Joe's buddies said something to the effect that there was too much in Palin's statement "about her".  Well.... yeah.... she wasn't exactly the one that started that dialogue.

But... Sarah Palin... I was sorry to see her wimp out and take down the picture with the targets from her web site.  If you don't know the difference between metaphorically "targeting" something for change and actually wanting to shoot the people involved, then I doubt your own mental health.  Or, at the very least, your desire to be reasonable.

You see a theme here, don't you?  On some issues, people can simply disagree, and although you might think the other side is being stupid, ignorant, unreasonable, obstinate, or whatever, you might not be able to explicitly link it to some serious psychological problem.  In this instance, however, it appears there's a case to be made.

Get 'em next year... or something

I haven't posted for a while.  I love blogging, but it seems that I love blogging when I actually have time for it even more.

Anyway - I am unhappy with Penn State ending their season with a loss to Florida in the Outback Bowl.   I never posted my prediction, which was 31-27 Penn State.  I thought it was an optimistic prediction and actually thought Penn State had maybe a 50/50 chance to win at best.  After seeing the game, and how underwhelming a team Florida is, I should have been more optimistic.  Florida's recruiting has been lights out for the past couple years after winning the national championship.  Where did all those good players go?  It took a blocked punt for a TD and 5 interceptions to beat a very average 7-5 Penn State team.  Even with all the help Penn State gave Florida, it should be remembered that Penn State was driving for the winning score when Florida got the pick-6 that went the whole way back the other way to finish the game at 37-20.  Despite scoring 37 points, Florida's offensive stats were pretty weak.

So, things ended on a little bit of a low note, but as I've been saying all season, things are only looking up for next year.  I repeat, this was the youngest (by far) team Paterno has ever had, and the most injured (the medical staff of 24 years said as much... I say as much - I've never seen anything like it).  So, things will be better next year.  How much better, we'll have to see.  The schedule is brutal (Alabama, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Nebraska).

After Matt McGloin threw those 5 interceptions (some of them about as horrible as you'd ever want to see), I said immediately that opens the QB competition back up in the Spring.  Well, I don't know... he definitely did some good things this year.  He may still be in the lead for the job.  Paul Jones is the dark horse, coming off his redshirt.  Rob Bolden is, well, just a weird story...who knows what will happen there after Joe refused to release him from Penn State.