Pro-Obama "South Florida Sun-Sentinel" sickening
My Dear Murray Kaminsky: Frankly, I haven't noticed any particular "slant" in the national news reporting - most of which comes from wire services anyway and isn't written by Sun Sentinel staff writers. Now this may come as an enormous shock to you, but the South Florida Sun Sentinel is a corporation, not a government agency, and is as entitled to its opinion as you are. Perhaps you might have noticed that other newspapers also have editorial boards and political leanings and pull for their own favorite candidates. If this paper displeases you, there's no reason why you need to give equal attention to both sides of your brain either. If you want real right-wing bias, why, there's always Fox News and The American Spectator. Then you can soak in neofascist bile to your heart's content and leave us unmolested with your silly whining. (36 min ago | post #47)
Lieberman Defiant As McCain's Wingman
This nonsense about "intolerant " Democrats amuses me. Look, the guy embraces a war that the vast majority of his constituency rejects, and his constituency votes for someone else. This is "intolerance "? I always thought that was the gist of a free electoral choice. If Lieberman had any integrity, he would have switched parties and run as a Republican. Instead, he expectorated contempt for the voters and the organization that had supported him and made possible his career for decades and turned his back on them. If Lieberman's real concern is Israel, fine. But if the people he represents disagree that it's great to bleed ourselves white economically and sacrifice thousands of our own men and women on its behalf - or, more accurately, understand that perpetuating a disastrous war that plays into the hands of Israel's enemies - they have every democratic right to let him know it. Calling this "intolerance " is utter manure. (2 hrs ago | post #167)
Compare George W. Bush's popularity ratings to Congress'
Ah, our virtual village idiot has once again leaped like a decerebrated plague locust to the defense of his beloved simian President with the gutter approval ratings. Yes, Hey Middling America, with six solid years of a Republican majority and a Republican administration to go with it (never mind for the moment that it has been ostensibly lead by a drooling imbecile), it's all the Democrats' fault that we haven't completely polluted our Gulf coastline yet. We already know that you can't punctuate or spell; let's see if you can count the seats in congress between 2000 and 2006 and explain how the loyal opposition managed to stymie all the grand plans for world dominance the Chimp brought to Washington from his playpen in Austin. Perhaps the Republican congress was just waiting, along with its corporate wh*remasters, for the nitrates, assorted fertilizer runoffs and other industrial waste drizzling down the river systems while the Bush EPA hung out at the World Series of Poker to finish off the fisheries and kill the swimmin' areas with dinoflagelli and bacteria. That way, there wouldn't be a lot of protest by the time they started punching holes in the sea floor, since there was nothing to lose anymore. Or perhaps they were waiting for Bush's Smarter Younger Brother (comparatively speaking - which ain't much) to leave office with his shoplifting wife and the daughter he drove to dope so he wouldn't become collateral damage. Who knows? One thing the Lake Worth Lamebrain read somewhere and repeated here as if he thunk it up hisself, though: if the Democrats had half a backbone and a quarter of a brain between them, we wouldn't be here having this ridiculous conversation about the desirability of shooting ourselves in the environmental foot yet again. (2 hrs ago | post #11)
Florida's favorite lawn, but is St. Augustine's appeal fading?
Well, if I get rid of my grass, I'm going to have to move to England so my triceratops can graze on the commons. This is no big deal except that now, with the airlines charging for the extra weight and the Bush dollar hobbling around Europe like a double amputee on a wheeled trolley, I'd probably have to sleep under the elevated tracks in Camden Lock by the time I got finished paying for my relocation. (2 hrs ago | post #48)
Marlins overcome much adversity to hold off Phillies
Lou - oy, now vere iss dot cockamamie station numper? Maype you put it up here vun more time, nu? Gregg gives up the slam first, then the solo while Freddy is trying to tell the bullpen to get Nelson up. That's not the least bit far-fetched. I have only to look at the national map on the Weather Channel and see the conditions in Denver for my duodenum to clinch on me - and this when all I really wanted was another look at Kelly Cass, Jen Carfagno or Nicole Mitchell. Life's not fair. Fred: yeah, that's funny. The official team of the recession. The Marlins as the Seabiscuit for our error - er, I mean era. (2 hrs ago | post #15)
Marlins ballpark lawsuit heads back to court
Lou - picked up the "Gloom and Doom in Paradise" issue and had a smirky read. So what can I tell you - two solid decades of ethnic voting and balkanization has all but destroyed the good life down here. Corrupt cousins get to build wherever and whenever they like, to hell with the overloaded roads, schools and power lines. And it ain't solely a Cuban thing - these folks apprenticed happily at the feet of the good ole boy networks they eventually usurped. On the other hand, in addition to being an atheist, I don't believe in winter either. I only get to worship the sun year-round here, and I don't want to move out west and trade in my beloved anoles and geckos for scorpions and sidewinders. What's more, they tell me the horned toads are disappearing. What, so I can't even walk around safely barefoot out there? And to have a choice of rooting for the Astros, Diamondbacks or Rangers? Phooey! I guess I'll just suck it up and endure the financial pounding. Every time I sit out in my gazebo by the pool relaxing with a good book and sipping a pina colada, and an anole on the railing flashes his dewlap at me, I feel right at home. (15 hrs ago | post #78)
Moyer continues mastery of Marlins
Yeah, I'm afraid that Jacobs indeed seems to be of the "swing hard in case you hit it" school. I'd like to like the kid but he just won't make adjustments and discipline himself. We'll get more for him from an American League club. He might hit better if he doesn't have to bring his latest fielding blunder to the plate with him. (15 hrs ago | post #5)
Marlins overcome much adversity to hold off Phillies
I read here where it says that the Marlins have run up two consecutive 20,000-plus attendance games against the Phillies. Good heavens, might the fan base be rising from the urschleim in which it normally slumbers in response to stronger currents of destiny and fate? Nahhhh....it's a fluke. Anyway, Luis Gonzalez introduced Scott Olsen on the pregame intros as "a guy who can take a jolt" or something like that - a reference to his tiff with a police taser last year. Luis has a sick sense of humor. I like him even in his post-steroid senescent phase. (15 hrs ago | post #2)
Russian warships to patrol Arctic again
Because: you are right about the arrogance of the Bush clan. They believe wholeheartedly in the delusion that one nation, namely this one, can run the world. In pursuit of that idiotic and atavistic ideal, they have bled this economy white, slaughtered (or caused to be slaughtered in the social chaos we caused) hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq, left us limping through the war in Afghanistan on which we SHOULD have been concentrating, violated the Geneva accords and most standards of decent treatment of war prisoners to our shame worldwide, and have chipped away with malice and contempt at our civil rights here at home. I don't buy the idea that Russia is as socially or politically free a country as you represent it to be, but as someone who has visited Russia on several occasions over a 30-year period there's no doubt that it has made enormous progress for itself economically and socially during that period. Moscow and St. Petersburg are both terrific cities to travel in now, you can have wide open and very passionate arguments about politics and social policy and no one is afraid to speak their minds, and anyone who can't see what a change there has been is either blind or stupid. And of course the ice cream is terrific, something few Americans have any idea about. We're missing the point over here if we keep looking at what we think you still lack. We're missing it in even bigger ways if we keep thinking of Russia as a threat instead of as a potential partner. (Yesterday | post #16)
Moyer continues mastery of Marlins
I get back from vacation to have to watch this limp performance? Ugh. Third place and sinking fast while the Phillies and Mets find themselves and kick it into high gear; both of those teams are working on or have made trades to shore up their weak spots. And the Fish? Yeah, they've been first half over-achievers again as they were year before last, but reality has been setting in lately. Maybe instead of "You Gotta Be There" or some similarly inane slogan, Loria ought to make it "JUst Wait Till 2010! (Maybe)" and leave it in place until they either get a stadium or move to San Antonio to become the Sidewinders (my prediction of their new name; sets 'em up to be rivals for the Diamondbacks while the Pirates move to the Eastern division). Lou - got to listen to a few smidges on Wednesday; the wireless signal in our hotel kept crapping out all week. This week, we'll try again. (Yesterday | post #1)
Marlins ballpark lawsuit heads back to court
Lou: fishy only if he doesn't seem like he's aged. Speaking of not having aged, you ever read "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, the guy who originally wrote "No Country for Old Men"? A great horror movie disguised as a novel disguised as a western. You'll never look at a cowboy or an indian quite the same way again. (Monday Jul 14 | post #66)
Voo-doo doll found on Deltona commissioner's yard
Here come the martian martians.... (Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers) I guess the guy who left the doll there just wanted to hear the commissioner scream (with apologies to Zakes Mokae). (Monday Jul 14 | post #55)
Mudcats' Jesus Delgado tosses perfect inning in Futures Game
...or maybe we just need a bigger plate. (Monday Jul 14 | post #4)
NAACP activists differ with Jesse Jackson, think Obama balances...
Well, at least we know now that Obama has secretly hired Bill Cosby as an adviser on domestic affairs. Sounds a lot like the sound bites that got Bill into so much hot water with his freres some years back. In any case, conservatives are gonna have to resort to some pretty absurd mien to spin Obama's comments negatively. I'll be waiting eagerly to see if they break any new ground in rhetorical sleight-of-hand over this one. (Monday Jul 14 | post #4)
tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane, bertha
Frankly, after living in south Florida for almost fifty years, it's difficult to imagine anything getting "better organized" down here.... (Monday Jul 14 | post #230)
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