A lot of people have been saying that Hurricane Earl will be an instant replay of Charley, but the current track looks a lot more like a repeat of Mitch.
It’s Working…
McGreevey has suckered the gay community into supporting him.
This is pathetic. Don’t they realize how much damage he’s doing to their cause? Do they really want to embrace a “gay” governor who (ignoring the other rampant corruption in Jersey Democrat politics in general) hired his gay lover in a highly-paid position in national and state security for which he was utterly unqualified, in the middle of a war? If they had any sense, they’d be backing away and disavowing him as rapidly and vociferously as possible. But apparently sexual orientation conquers all. Even when it’s possibly fake.
[Update on Monday morning]
Reader Scott Ferguson complains in comments that Barney Frank and the other people cited in the NY Post article aren’t representative of the gay community.
Fair enough. Please provide me with someone who is. I’d be happy to link to criticisms of McGreevey from other prominent gay activists (or even some polling data), if someone can provide some.
Boy, what a time for Andrew Sullivan to be on vacation…
It’s Working…
McGreevey has suckered the gay community into supporting him.
This is pathetic. Don’t they realize how much damage he’s doing to their cause? Do they really want to embrace a “gay” governor who (ignoring the other rampant corruption in Jersey Democrat politics in general) hired his gay lover in a highly-paid position in national and state security for which he was utterly unqualified, in the middle of a war? If they had any sense, they’d be backing away and disavowing him as rapidly and vociferously as possible. But apparently sexual orientation conquers all. Even when it’s possibly fake.
[Update on Monday morning]
Reader Scott Ferguson complains in comments that Barney Frank and the other people cited in the NY Post article aren’t representative of the gay community.
Fair enough. Please provide me with someone who is. I’d be happy to link to criticisms of McGreevey from other prominent gay activists (or even some polling data), if someone can provide some.
Boy, what a time for Andrew Sullivan to be on vacation…
It’s Working…
McGreevey has suckered the gay community into supporting him.
This is pathetic. Don’t they realize how much damage he’s doing to their cause? Do they really want to embrace a “gay” governor who (ignoring the other rampant corruption in Jersey Democrat politics in general) hired his gay lover in a highly-paid position in national and state security for which he was utterly unqualified, in the middle of a war? If they had any sense, they’d be backing away and disavowing him as rapidly and vociferously as possible. But apparently sexual orientation conquers all. Even when it’s possibly fake.
[Update on Monday morning]
Reader Scott Ferguson complains in comments that Barney Frank and the other people cited in the NY Post article aren’t representative of the gay community.
Fair enough. Please provide me with someone who is. I’d be happy to link to criticisms of McGreevey from other prominent gay activists (or even some polling data), if someone can provide some.
Boy, what a time for Andrew Sullivan to be on vacation…
Continuing To Retrench?
I’ve always been singularly unimpressed by Douglas Brinkley–he’s always seemed like a Democrat shill to me, but this affair has to really damage his credibility as a professional historian. It will be interesting to see how he manages to clarify, and validate, the current Kerry Cambodia claims. Hugh Hewitt points out, rightly, that there’s absolutely no evidence that Kerry was ever in Cambodia. Errrr…except that he says he was…
I wonder how long Kerry’s going to continue to avoid the press? I don’t know what he’s so worried about–they seem to be quite uninterested in the subject, so far.
Rogue Waves
ESA (the European one, not the Elbonian one) has some satellite data that validates sailors’ reports of
ship-killing waves.
Mariners who survived similar encounters have had remarkable stories to tell. In February 1995 the cruiser liner Queen Elizabeth II met a 29-metre high rogue wave during a hurricane in the North Atlantic that Captain Ronald Warwick described as “a great wall of water
Air Show
All weekend I’ve been hearing the sound of loud prop planes here (in Redondo Beach–still getting the house ready to rent). A quick web search reveals that there’s an air show at Hawthorne airport this weekend. At the sound of the most recent one, I went out on the balcony to see what it was. It was a Mitchell bomber, similar to the one in which my father was shot down in Italy (though it may have been a different series–I couldn’t tell at that distance).
There were only two survivors–him and one other, and his crewmate was captured behind the German lines, spending the remainder of the war in a POW camp. My father was the second one out because he was a radio gunner at the waist of the plane, and he came down in Allied territory, breaking his leg on landing. The rest of the crew didn’t have time to bail, or at least to do so and get a chute open. Reportedly, you couldn’t get him in a plane again for many years after that (though he’d gotten over it by the time I was old enough to remember). He’d flown his plane, with his crew, over to Europe (stopping at Ascension Island), but he came home on a troop ship.
It was also the aircraft type that performed the Tokyo raid after Pearl Harbor under Jimmy Doolittle’s command.
It’s only a twin engine plane. The sound of this single one made me wonder how awesome it would have been to hear whole squadrons of B-17s flying over.
Truly Cheap Access To Orbit
Via ESA (the Elbonian Space Agency).
[Thanks to Andrew Gray for the tip.]
Another Point About McGreevey
He’s not gay. He’s bi.
True (male) homosexuals don’t create children, except through artificial insemination. He can clearly get it up for a woman, even if he may prefer men.
I don’t have a “preference” myself. The word preference implies that one can go either way, just that one is better than the other. Given a choice between a man and Rosie Palms, I’ll take the latter every single time.
Misdirection
I haven’t said much about the McGreevey situation (anything, come to think of it), but it’s clear that it was a clever PR ploy to come out of the closet, allowing him to play victim in our PC culture, and misdirect us from the real issues of his corruption. To really understand the situation, and put it in its proper perpective: what if Bill Clinton had made Monica Lewinski his National Security Advisor? Actually, now that I think of it, he did come close to this, in naming Craig Livingstone as Chief of White House Security. Though I’m pretty sure he wasn’t shtupping him.
Anyway, that’s the equivalent of what McGreevey is attempting to distract us from.