Archive for the 'Politics' Category

26
Jun
09

My response to Heritage Media Partners

So I was checking my student e-mail today, and I came across a gem:

Can conservative + grassroots + Christian = edgy and insightful political commentary?

Tune in and find out!

Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Conservatism strikes again!

Every Thursday at our
NEW TIME of 6:00 pm PT hosts Babe Huggett and Warner Todd Huston discuss and examine current political events, put them in historical context and follow trends to their logical conclusions through a conservative, Christian viewpoint. Scheduled guests will enjoy their own featured isegment. Phone in comments from listeners always welcome!

On tonight’s show:

Hosts Babe Huggett & Warner Todd Huston dig deep & analyze the news with their usual insightful and historical approach all the while being as politically irreverent as possible! We’re going glam tonight at our NEW TIME with the uber talented and downright gorgeous Hollywood actress and film producer,
Sharise Parviz, whose quirky characters, political satire and true conservatism has video buffs crying for more!

My response:

Subject: Please remove me from your e-mail list.

Body: I very rarely check my student e-mail address, because I have graduated college.
When I do, I don’t want to read about dying movements trying to reinvent themselves with “gorgeous actresses.” You guys really need some new ideas if you want to save conservatism.
You could try moving away from the medievalists, quasi-fascists and racists on the fringe and instead focusing on issues that matter to most Americans. For instance, actually getting spending under control. This is even more important to pay attention to when we have a hawkish, Republican president in office, but it still resonates – perhaps surprisingly – with some Democrats.
If you guys can return to being the party of Eisenhower, who rejected the military-industrial complex as dangerous to the American people, then you will be on the right track.

But that’s just this former student journalist’s opinion.
Bottom line is, please remove me from your subscription list.

Sincerely,
C. Ervin Brown
Former Editor,
The Shepherd University Picket.

14
May
09

Answer for what exactly?

Jim Cramer:

No one wants to suffer a beat-down. No one wants to be humiliated or embarrassed. I was shocked at [host Jon Stewart's] behavior. I wish he knew about my background, and I wish he knew about a lot of things that I had done, because I think he would’ve thanked me instead of attacked me…I think the attack on CNBC and the attacks on me were gravely misplaced. It was rather remarkable in that it was so clear that his goal was to just destroy me. One day he’ll answer for it.

If Cramer could provide a list of all of the great shit he’s done it would make things much easier.

13
May
09

Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket…

There is so much brilliance here that words can not describe it:

The part about the gay mafia/Gestapo is so priceless that it can virtually save our economy all by itself.

Sometimes I think I understand all of the abovie in an abstract way – but then the pure reality of their bigotry smacks me in the face.

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30
Apr
09

Incoming clusterfuck…

Justice Souter is retiring.

Washington is going to implode.

Does this mean that we get a liberal version of Scalia? Or at least Roberts?

One can dream.

UPDATE: My prediction for his replacement: Ed Rendell.

08
Apr
09

Wow…

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08
Apr
09

“These pictures which hint that he’s gay…”

Did you know that gay men like to show their affection for each other through kissing? And that they don’t find this activity embarrassing?stupidbill

I know quite a newsflash. Now the below clip contains Bill O’Reilly getting weirded out that pictures have surfaced of a gay contestant of American Idol kissing another man. I know: horror, upon horror. O’Reilly seems convinced that these pictures have doomed – DOOMED – this guy’s chances of winning on American Idol. I mean, there’s no way that a gay pop singer can succeed? America won’t stand for that. Boys kissing boys is gross. Hetro kissing is ok but what’s really awesome is two girls kissing – which Bill clearly agrees.

Honestly, the real problem is just PDA in general – yes, even lesbian kissin’ – especially if pictures of it surface on the internet. I can speak to this from personal experience. A picture of my girlfriend kissing me recently appeared on the internet and ruined my life – I’m shunned by my peers and am on the verge of failing out of grad school. If only I hadn’t allowed that unfortunate shot to be snapped!

Ladies and gentlemen, Bill O’Reilly is doing a public service to us all – kissing is gross and should be kept behind close doors.

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24
Mar
09

Still classy…

Submitted without comment:

The Roman Catholic bishop whose diocese includes the University of Notre Dame says he will boycott President Barack Obama’s commencement speech at the Catholic school because Obama’s policies on stem cell research and abortion run counter to church teaching.

Bishop John D’Arcy of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend said in a statement Tuesday that Obama’s recent decision to federally fund embryonic stem cell research “has now placed in public policy … his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life sacred.”

“While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life,” D’Arcy said.

Obama has said the decision was aimed at easing human suffering.




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