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Captain Ed is a father and grandfather living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, a native Californian who moved to the North Star State because of the weather. He lives with his wife Marcia, also known as the First Mate, their two dogs, and frequently watch their granddaughter Kayla, whom Captain Ed calls The Little Admiral.
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Would Early Primaries Allow More Donations?
Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot believes that candidates will benefit if primaries and caucuses get pushed into 2007. A loophole in campaign finance regulation appears to allow an extra $2,300 per donor for candidates if those elections are held this year. Be sure to check out Jim's analysis, and the surprising candidate that may benefit the most.
When Tom Met Jeralyn
One of the interesting aspects of politics is finding out that opponents are people, too. Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft met Rep. Tom Tancredo backstage at NBC's studios, and found him more likable than she had anticipated. Perhaps it was their mutual interest in Dog, The Bounty Hunter ...
Joe Lieberman A Right-Wing Nut?
That's what CAIR says, according to Joe Kaufman. He has a link to a CAIR official's blog post that calls Lieberman, along with John Bolton, former CIA director James Woolsey, and the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes as "extremists". Affad Shaikh also calls Dick Cheney a "fat bastard of a liar," apparently not meant as a pop-culture reference to the Austin Powers movies. (via Let Freedom Ring)
Broadband Homelessness
The Japanese have made homelessness more efficient, and more Net-friendly, too. Their Internet cafés have become homeless shelters for the struggling manual-labor sector. The problem has grown into such a problem that government intervention will shortly become a political priority.
Found My Law Firm
Power Line links twice to this story regarding an attorney at Faegre & Benson who refused to become a victim and helped capture a very dangerous man. Keith Radtke is a partner in the firm as is Power Line's John Hinderaker. Radtke is listed in satisfactory condition after getting shot in the back, but that didn't keep him from locking up his attacker in a wrestling grip until police could arrive. I don't know about you, but that's the kind of man I'd want as my counsel ....
Don't Click That YouTube E-mail
The latest in spam seems to be redirections from YouTube links in e-mail to IP addresses without domain names. They attempt to entice people by making it seem that they have been inadvertently YouTubed. I'm sure most people can see through this scam, but just in case, you've been warned ....
Rick Moran Escapes The Floods
Rick Moran has kept us up to date on his travails along the Algonquin River. Yesterday, the police showed up to get him evacuated before the river flooded his home -- but today, Rick finds that a minor miracle has taken place, and that his house survives ... at least for now. Keep Rick in your prayers, and keep checking in at Right Wing Nut House for updates.
Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
If I've learned anything in four years of blogging, don't try to be out in front of the death rumors, especially with the villains of the world. Saddam died a hundred deaths before we caught him alive in his spider hole, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi almost as many before his demise last year. Osama may or may not be alive, but everyone's avoided speculating on his fate for a while now. Maybe Val at Babalu Blog will get luckier with his "Castro Is Dead" story. We all hope so. I'll wait for the announcement ....
Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring sees another case collapsing on the Haditha charges. He's called for Murtha to apologize earlier, and adds another reason to the tally.
No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
I just caught this e-mail from Glenn Reynolds about his new podcast with Richard Epstein, the author of Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the topic is important enough to make sure I carve out time for it tomorrow. Get their first and tell me what I'm missing ....
Fed Trying A 'Stealth Easing'?
The Federal Reserve seems to have conducted a quiet campaign to steady markets that started spinning out of control, according to King Banaian at SCSU Scholars. He thinks that the Fed has conducted a "stealth easing". Be sure to read his explanation and follow his lnks.
A Shameless Bit Of Sel-Promotion
Gateway Pundit and Val at Babalu Blog note a crass PR move by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela has responded to Peru's eathquake disaster with food shipments -- and with Hugo's smiling picture on the cans. He also uses the tuna-can label to undermine President Garcia of Peru, who narrowly defeated Chavez' pal Ollanto Humalla, whom the labels extol for his "solidarity" with Chavez.
Tacky beyond belief.
Comments (16)
Posted by michael ledeen | June 26, 2007 8:43 AM
you mean a shot OF whatever she's drinking. as well you should, it's inside-the-beltway home brew, fermented in the basements of georgetown town houses. very heady, if you know what i mean...
Posted by swabjockey05 | June 26, 2007 9:21 AM
He was elected twice…does that matter to these people?
Can you imagine the Confirmation Hearings? I almost hope it happens...just to be able to witness that circus.
Posted by Tom | June 26, 2007 9:39 AM
Ugh. Quinn is nauseating. Even down to her little dig at Cheney's "ever-expanding" family.
A truly slimy worm, she is.
Posted by biomom | June 26, 2007 9:47 AM
I feel 100% confident that both Bush and Cheney will still be in office in late January, 2009. What frustrates these beltway types is the fact that they have no control over this no matter how much influence they think they have. They don't mention it, but the recent Gallup survey that had congress at 14% and the presidency at 25% had trust in the media at 21%.
Posted by Andrew X | June 26, 2007 10:01 AM
I am TOTALLY against this absurd reality that we are into the 2008 race up to our chests.... right now, and have been since 18 months in advance. It's absurd, obnoxious, and entirely a creation of the media-ocracy.
BUT, I do see one advantage vis a vis the administration. While I never for a moment worried about impeachment per se of either one (won't happen, end of story), I did worry about attempts and serious efforts to impeach, which though unsuccessful, could be quite debilitating and obnoxious for us all to suffer through.
However, the front loading of this race has ruled this out. Quinn is nuts, as are the dwindling number of serious Democrats still drooling over "Chimpeachment" or whatever. The fact is, they will get zero traction, because there is universal agreement that it would be a waste of time. In one very short year, the conventions will be over, the nominees set, and Bush and Cheney all but irrelevant.
This might not be the case if we had a "normal" electoral schedule, one just gearing up say, in the fall. But t'ain't so.
So Bush and Cheney are secure. The adults have better things to concern themselves with, such as the present and future, not poltical masturbatory self-gratification of Bush (Cheney) Derangement Syndrome.
Posted by t | June 26, 2007 11:50 AM
Captain Ed,
Republicans and conservatives should make a stand for the Vice President. For every office a conservative runs for, feature him prominently in all advertisements.
Cheney is a great saint whose winning and effective policies have brought great results everywhere. He is for the Defense of Marriage Act and is the proud grandparent of a gay coupling. Who knew lesbians could procreate by themselves? This is what happens when government gets out of the way.
And Iraq is a great success that shows how givernment getting IN the way can bring peace and prosperity everywhere.
Plus, featuring Cheney will give conservatives some moral standing when they demand that the Democratic VP in 2009 conduct all his activities in total secrecy, which I know you will all do. If the Democratic (oops! sorry, I mean democrat) Vice President keeps records of who he meets with or things like that, demand that he or she destroy such records.
A great liberal writer said it best, politics is best practiced in the dark. We can go further, of course, and say governments work best when practiced in the dark. I heart Cheney.
Posted by t | June 26, 2007 12:06 PM
Captain Ed,
Republicans and conservatives should make a stand for the Vice President. For every office a conservative runs for, feature him prominently in all advertisements.
Cheney is a great saint whose winning and effective policies have brought great results everywhere. He is for the Defense of Marriage Act and is the proud grandparent of a gay coupling. Who knew lesbians could procreate by themselves? This is what happens when government gets out of the way.
And Iraq is a great success that shows how givernment getting IN the way can bring peace and prosperity everywhere.
Plus, featuring Cheney will give conservatives some moral standing when they demand that the Democratic VP in 2009 conduct all his activities in total secrecy, which I know you will all do. If the Democratic (oops! sorry, I mean democrat) Vice President keeps records of who he meets with or things like that, demand that he or she destroy such records.
A great liberal writer said it best, politics is best practiced in the dark. We can go further, of course, and say governments work best when practiced in the dark. I heart Cheney.
Posted by tomjfrombfflo | June 26, 2007 12:09 PM
Captain Ed,
Republicans and conservatives should make a stand for the Vice President. For every office a conservative runs for, feature him prominently in all advertisements.
Cheney is a great saint whose winning and effective policies have brought great results everywhere. He is for the Defense of Marriage Act and is the proud grandparent of a gay coupling. Who knew lesbians could procreate by themselves? This is what happens when government gets out of the way.
And Iraq is a great success that shows how government getting IN the way can bring peace and prosperity everywhere.
Plus, featuring Cheney will give conservatives some moral standing when they demand that the Democratic VP in 2009 conduct all his activities in total secrecy, which I know you will all do.
If the Democratic (oops! sorry, I mean democrat) Vice President keeps records of who he meets with or things like that, demand that he or she destroy such records.
A great liberal writer said it best, politics is best practiced in the dark. We can go further, of course, and say governments work best when practiced in the dark. I heart Cheney.
Posted by tomjfrombfflo | June 26, 2007 12:18 PM
dear Captain Ed
please allow me to apologize for the multiple posts above. I have no idea why it happened.
The sarcasm was intentional. I wonder what you would think of a Democratic Vice President who conducted his office in total secrecy as this one does.
Posted by markg8 | June 26, 2007 12:54 PM
Why wouldn't Ol' Fred wanna be Veep for a year and a half? It's the closest he's ever gonna get to the White House. And who knows, without Cheney to serve as the fire to Bush's frying pan impeachment just might forward and Ol' Fred might become president for a month or two.
Posted by Andrew X | June 26, 2007 1:17 PM
markg8 -
See post from 10:01am.
But have fun strokin' away in dreamland....
Posted by dave rywall | June 26, 2007 3:30 PM
It's kind of amusing that Repubs choose to see this Cheney's part of the executive/not part of the executive bullsh** as Democratic meddling and nitpicking.
Why aren't you all pissed off? As we speak, people are compiling video clip after video clip of Cheney claiming to be part of the executive branch.
I don't understand why you're not looking at this objectively and aren't furious about the bigger picture: you have a vice president who wishes to operate in secrecy without any checks on record keeping.
Posted by Ray | June 26, 2007 4:22 PM
That Cheney has survived many years of exposure to the democratic "slime machine" speaks volumes. This man has served his country honorably in a variety of roles.
We will always owe him a debt of gratitude.
Posted by Del Dolemonte | June 26, 2007 5:15 PM
"As we speak, people are compiling video clip after video clip of Cheney claiming to be part of the executive branch."
Go get 'em, sheetrock!
Posted by Del Dolemonte | June 26, 2007 10:18 PM
By the way, Sally Quinn actually was hired to host the CBS version of the "Today Show" many years ago. Do the research.
Posted by dave rywall | June 27, 2007 3:39 PM
Well, well, here's the Dick himself claiming he's part of the executive.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/27/cheney-vp-is-an-important-part-of-executive-branch/
But hey, Dell, and anyone else not upset by your arrogant VP - - keep drinking your delicious kool-aid.
What flavour is it again?
Head in the Sand Punch?
Or is it Sweet Party Blinders?
Deeee-licious.