SOBer Thoughts (082207)
Anna at A Rose by Any Other Name has chilled on the regular blogging, but has continued the weekly “Wednesday’s Heroes” posts. The latest is here. Don’t miss them.
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One Bob nails the most disturbing (so far) aspect of the Michael Vick situation (at least as of Tuesday morning). Vick doesn’t seem even a tiny bit sorry, and if he isn’t, he shouldn’t be allowed on a football field again — even after he does his time, if that even happens.
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One Oar notes the quite widely predicted woes of municipal (i.e., taxpayer-funded) Wi-Fi systems are coming to pass.
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Pro Ecclesia notes that Hugo Chavez has declared himself President for Life (/mock surprise). Jay apparently had to go to a British paper to learn of it. My, this sure wasn’t covered much, if at all, by US Old Media.
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Return of the Conservatives didn’t ask, so I will: Shouldn’t this news publication be embarrassed that it gave well over 400 words to a story about an antiwar “rally” — that had barely a dozen people?
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RAB links to an Ohio GOP blog post, which links to a DDN editorial, which decries how the Third Frontier program is turning into P-O-R-K.
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Interested-Participant links to a story from the UK about family doctors being warned to be open on evenings and Saturdays, under threat of losing their patients. US voters should have long since lost their patience with politicians who want to impose this garbage on us.
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Dan Keeler wonders how Democratic candidates can make gaffes that (my take) make Dan Quayle’s “potatoe” episode pale in comparison and suffer no apparent negative consequences, and certainly no media ridicule. The latest: John Edwards told a questioner that he didn’t know what kind of health-care system Cuba has — even though he claims to have seen most of Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” and even though just about anyone with a pulse knows that in Fidel’s Workers’ Paradise, health care is nationalized. Here’s a previous post about a Fred Thompson column on the subject in case you need to be reminded of Cuba’s “wonderful” system.
