Mixed Bag of Blogging

- I’m amazed by this. There’s a strange dichotomy playing out on the
liberal side of the aisle. Some people think that Sarah Palin is going to
eventually self-destruct. They say that the pressure of running a national
campaign will eventually cause her to buckle and implode. And yet, there’s
a faction that is doing anything and everything they can to crucify her
character. Supposedly she’s a weak running mate, and yet every machine the
Democrats have is turned toward her and firing on all cylinders to destroy her.

- Robert and I were talking the other day and we brought up the shared
bloodlust we had in the days and weeks following 9/11. Neither of us was
particularly proud of our actions and desires, but at the time we felt
justified as a nation. I can now remember what caused my blood to boil at
such a high degree. It was when the foreign news stations began rolling
footage of an Arab woman dancing and chanting in the streets as destruction
rained down in New York City. That made me mad. For as much ordinance as
we dropped during “shock and awe,” I never once saw an American in the
street dancing because of the destruction we were causing.

- The candidates today put aside politics to join each other for a memorial
ceremony at Ground Zero. While they decided to play nice, the media
machine was still hard at work. I saw on at least two stations a poll
asking: ”If another terrorist attack were to occur in the United States,
who would you be more comfortable having in office…” or something to that
effect. John McCain was winning this poll by a very easy margin. Nearly
two to one. Barack Obama’s leisure-like policy of discussion with
pre-condition might be starting to worry some folks.

- You know what we haven’t heard about in a long time? Global
Warming. This big, bad evil that was supposed to have killed all of us by
now has fallen by the wayside lately. Perhaps the fanatics have realized
that the planet goes through warm and cool cycles without man’s
intervention. Or perhaps only those who believe in man-made global warming
were affected by it. I just wonder… if we had lived at the end of the last
ice age, would the global warming activists had been so vocal and
outlandish in their protest when the planet began to warm up then?

- The New York Yankees are not going to make the playoffs for the first
time since 1994, I think. To hear Yankees fans talk, you’d think that the
Bronx Bombers were the worst team in the history of baseball. So you
didn’t make it this year… so what? You’re the Yankees. Spend about 700
million more dollars on team salary next year and you’ll be unstoppable.

-Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays look like a team of destiny. And oh yeah,
the Rays’ payroll is about 1/8th of what the Yankees are paying to one-half
of their infield. There’s a math problem for you, Robert.

- Back to politics for just a moment…
Apparently, the thought going around was that if New Orleans was hit by
another hurricane, it would effectively deliver the election into the hands
of Barack Obama. Well, New Orleans was narrowly avoided, it did suffer
some flooding though, and yet, the polls show the candidates essentially
tied. I really didn’t know that weather could affect your polls numbers if
you’re a Republican. I wonder why Democrat’s aren’t affected by weather.