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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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OpenCongress Web Widget
Ever wanted to announce your support or opposition to Congressional legislation? OpenCongress now has a web widget that allows bloggers to do exactly that. Take a look at this, and check out how easily you can build your own.
Maybe They're Flotation Devices?
The Australian Navy foots the bill for breast augmentations. The Labour Party would like to know why, and probably so would most of the voters in Australia.
The Thinking Blogger
Congrats to Fausta, who won a Thinking Blogger award. She thanks me for my friendship, but the truth is that Fausta makes it easy to be her friend. She's always positive and energetic, and she epitomizes the notion of a thinking blogger. Make sure to put her on your must-read list!
Ensign Calls For Return Of MoveOn Money
NRSC chair Senator John Ensign calls for Democrats to return all campaign funds donated by MoveOn, after their despicable New York Times ad today accusing David Petraeus of treason. "If Senate Democrats are serious about moving our country forward, they will denounce this outrageous ad and return the campaign funds MoveOn.org has lavished on them as well as the donations made through MoveOn.org -- the choice is theirs." Ensign's right, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the refund ...
Support The Al-Dura Petition
Roger Simon at Pajamas Media is circulating a petition to demand accountability for the discredited al-Dura report from France's Channel 2. This is, as Roger calls it, the "Father of all Fauxtography," and C-2 has never acknowledged its fault in airing the supposed murder of a Palestinian child. He wants C-2 to show all of the unedited footage of the incident in order to show that C-2 faked the murder. If they're resisting the demand, I'd say they have something to hide ....
There Goes The Undefeated Season
Notre Dame managed to get its first loss out of the way as soon as possible -- and as badly as possible. Georgia Tech came to South Bend and stomped the Irish, 33-3, in the worst home opener loss in school history. The offense fumbled twice and allowed seven sacks on Evan Sharpley, who must have longed to have Brady Quinn back on the field instead. If Charlie Weis doesn't turn this debacle around fast, he may want to start asking Ty Willingham for some career counseling ....
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!
Comments (38)
Posted by Eric | September 11, 2007 4:58 PM
It's so hard to believe that Ohioians would keep electing this a-hole. He destroyed Cleveland and he just keeps getting elected.
Posted by Keemo | September 11, 2007 5:00 PM
I just hope that man keeps on talking, and that sites such as this one keep on reporting his words to the public. Citizens of this great country need to understand just exactly what a leftist Liberal stands for...
Posted by docjim505 | September 11, 2007 5:07 PM
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Democratic presidential candidate and no stranger to contrarian views, was the sole congressman Tuesday to vote against the House's Sept. 11 commemoration resolution.
Ai-yi-yi!
Yeah, Kookinich has definintely been eating too many paint chips.
Posted by Scrapiron | September 11, 2007 5:17 PM
Don't worry about the head idiot. Worry about the million that have voted for him in the past. They are walking the streets of Ohio acting normal. Democrats are more dangerous to America than all the terrorist combined.
Posted by unclesmrgol | September 11, 2007 5:32 PM
Not only did he have tea with Assad, he went on Syrian television and did a campaign speech, badmouthing Bush and talking about how the surge was a mistake.
Like the Dixie Chicks, no class at all.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut | September 11, 2007 5:40 PM
"Too bad that Kucinich has made a career of failing to meet expectations."
Oh, he's met expectations, Ed - Our expectations for him are lower than whale sh*t, and he meets them every time.
unclesmrgol wrote: "Like the Dixie Chicks, no class at all."
Let me fix that for ya', unc: Like the Dixie Twits, but with less class. ;-p
Posted by Shoprat | September 11, 2007 5:46 PM
I wonder how much bacon the guy brings home for them to keep electing him. He makes Nancy and Hillary sound intelligent and that is saying something.
Posted by crossdotcurve | September 11, 2007 5:57 PM
Uh....we're still waiting for the Skirt-chasing abortion-defender-for-hire to show up and read his cue cards...
Posted by Howard C | September 11, 2007 6:02 PM
"Democrats are more dangerous to America than all the terrorist combined."
I hope this is just a sarcastic remark, referencing the recent crazy lib tirade from Olberman. If not, I weep for the future of the Republican party.
Posted by ahem | September 11, 2007 6:48 PM
What a sad little stain on the collective boxer shorts he is.
Posted by Eric | September 11, 2007 6:50 PM
Shoprat says:
I wonder how much bacon the guy brings home for them to keep electing him. He makes Nancy and Hillary sound intelligent and that is saying something.
Eric says:
I used to live near his district. It's an area that has been in decline for nearly 35 years. Dennis was the mayor of Cleveland and he bankrupted the city. It was and is the largest US city to have declared bankrupcy.
It's a real Dem stronghold. Tremendous unemployment. No hope. Miserable area. People like Dennis have managed to thrive through his connection to organized crime which owns the city.
Posted by Bennett | September 11, 2007 6:51 PM
The Congressman did the right thing. He isn't worthy of having his name included in remembrance of the 9/11 dead.
Posted by Reed Lyons | September 11, 2007 7:06 PM
I find it hard to fathom this and other individual representatives of "the people".
I am "retired" from the military a victim of the cold war and find that so many ignorant **repletive deletive** idiota have no idea of what is going around amongst them.
Perhaps we should remember Prime Minister Chamberlain who promised us Peace in our time. I fear it will not be so if this is the caliber of fools we elect to office.
For those who voted against him my greatest fear as that he has many who probably sympathize with him, but; were afraid to voice their opinion rather than to take any stand.
Reed
Posted by Veritas | September 11, 2007 7:11 PM
"On the anniversary of the worst attack on the US, one might expect our politicians to take it seriously".
Now watch this drive.
Posted by WestPack | September 11, 2007 7:26 PM
Re the Comment by Bennett:
"The Congressman did the right thing. He isn't worthy of having his name included in remembrance of the 9/11 dead."
Sir, upon reflection you have this POS pegged correctly.
I wouldn't p___ on the best part of him and I would hope the good people of Cleveland would put him out to pasture next election. He can then drink white wine and wack off. With that thought I will leave this thread.
Posted by Eric | September 11, 2007 7:53 PM
I went to Cleveland.com to read the story from The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Following the story are the comments.
Yikes...Dennis better not dare go back to Cleveland any time soon. They are ready to linch him. Ironically, Dennis has no intention of going to Cleveland anytime soon. He will go from Syria to the west coast and then on to Hawaii.
People in Cleveland are using the "L" word. The Logan act. Wouldn't it be great if Cleveland actually managed to get him out of office on the Logan act!
Posted by IOpian | September 11, 2007 8:30 PM
What is really getting my ire is that when it comes to the law and government officials there is one standard where some insignificant nuanced statute is blown far out of proportion as with the Libby case but another standard when it comes to the violation of the Logan Act and Treason, as defined in the Constitution itself, is flippantly disregarded.
Posted by Tom W. | September 11, 2007 8:37 PM
Is there a brutal dictatorship in the world that Denny doesn't support?
Red China, Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela...
But since he's a vegan, he's moral.
Weird how knuckle-dragging, racist conservatives support freedom and individual rights, while sweet-natured and enlightened liberals like to see citizens silenced, beaten, imprisoned, and murdered by their own governments.
I'm just too simpleminded to grok such a nuanced position.
Posted by unclesmrgol | September 11, 2007 8:46 PM
moveon.org ought to double down on Kucinich. He's bought every nuance of their ad.
Posted by T A M N Y , T . D . | September 11, 2007 9:05 PM
Along with the frightfully inept JOHN EDWARDS , Dennis Kucinich represents the lowest depths of the Democratic Party ' s cesspool . Actually , Kucinich is not only a kick - in - the - teeth to Americans of a patriotic bent , he is an insult to the legacy of Democrats like HENRY JACKSON , SAM NUNN , PAT MOYNIHAN and HUBERT HUMPHREY , exemplars of the era when sensible folk prevented the Party of Jackson , Polk , ( Grover ) Cleveland , F . D . R . and Kennedy from devolving into a haven for appeasers and
collectivists , Soviet apologists and tax hikers . Voters in Cleveland owe it to the Republic to terminate the tenure of this cretin .
Shan ' t hold my breath , though !
Posted by Zhombre | September 11, 2007 9:18 PM
Go to the MEMRI website and you can see a clip of Kucinich the evil garden gnome giving an interview on Syrian television and heaping praise on that paragon of democracy and progress, Bashar Assad.
Posted by me | September 11, 2007 9:21 PM
"He says that the war has weakened America.."
Hmmm....3000+ dead American soldiers, the military in a hopeless quagmire, Bin Laden alive and kicking and Al-Quada stronger than ever, trillions of dollars in debt with a divided US population...it's pretty clear the war HAS weakened America.
"..that Iraq didn't have WMD.."
that's clearly correct
"and that we're continuing the war based on a lie."
Again, absolutely correct.
"However, what he doesn't explain what that has to do with remembering the real victims of the real attacks on 9/11, which is what the resolution proposed."
Fair enough. I can't speak for Kucinich but I believe he's protesting not the honoring of the victims but the dancing on their graves by the entire Republican Party and many, many Democrats who use this anniversary to advance their own political agendas.
I think that what he's objecting to.
Posted by jeff | September 11, 2007 9:25 PM
America's George Galloway.
Posted by Dave | September 11, 2007 9:43 PM
Did somebody say 'Kucinich'?
INCOMING MESSAGE FROM THE BIG GIANT HEAD:
Library of Congress:Space Preservation Act of 2001
Nanoo-Nanoo, Mork out.
Posted by red | September 11, 2007 10:00 PM
--- protesting not the honoring of the victims but the dancing on their graves by the entire Republican Party and many, many Democrats who use this anniversary to advance their own political agendas.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nice to hear from the emotionally constricted who's personnally inadequacies don't allow them to relate to their fellow citizens or their grief after this attack. Compassionate liberal? Your compassion remains inside your head, your heart is untouchable. I guess you have to hate in order to feel.
Posted by Keemo | September 12, 2007 7:53 AM
"He says that the war has weakened America.."
Hmmm....3000+ dead American soldiers, the military in a hopeless quagmire, Bin Laden alive and kicking and Al-Quada stronger than ever, trillions of dollars in debt with a divided US population...it's pretty clear the war HAS weakened America.
Posted by me | September 11, 2007 9:21 PM
Could you really be this stupid? American soldiers, along with Iraqi soldiers, have killed more AQ terrorists (in Iraq alone) in the past 3 months than we have lost in the entire war. This is what happens in a war; warriors fight to kill or capture the enemy; the winner is usually the one who remains standing when the dust settles.
Definition of quagmire: A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.
That word (term) would apply to any military confrontation we have ever faced, or will ever face in the future.
OBL alive & kicking; AQ stronger than ever.
Dumb and dumber comes to mind with this mindless statement. Provide your evidence of this. AQ is getting their collective asses kicked around the world; or haven't you noticed. AQ only gets stronger when the world sticks their heads in the sand and makes believe that AQ isn't a threat to all populations. The world is awake and watching very closely. OBL alive and kicking; what because he discovered dye for his beard and managed to get his 1999 video camera fixed.
A divided population.
The American population is divided because of the Democrats radical move towards Communism under the rule of George Soros. The Iraqi war could end tomorrow and the American population would remain divided. Attacks against "freedom of religion"; attacks against "freedom of speech"; "attacks against our military"; the destruction of our moral teachings in our public school systems; on and on... All of these "dividing" mechanisms are at the hands of the modern day Democratic Party. Divided we are, divided we will remain until the day comes when true Americans take back their party from the hands of Soros and the other Communist trash currently in control of a once great party.
Posted by Artie Curtis | September 12, 2007 8:23 AM
Are the people in his Ohio district really that stupid or are politics there really that crooked, or a combination of the two?
I DO NOT understand how these anti-American nut cases keep getting elected.
And as to Osama being alive and kicking, is that why he's making videos begging us to leave Iraq? That's not the image of a victorious warrior. That's the image of a beaten man. But he has high hopes in the democrats.
Posted by Mike | September 12, 2007 8:36 AM
"Kucinich claims that he can't vote for a remembrance resolution because of the Iraq war. He says that the war has weakened America, that Iraq didn't have WMD, and that we're continuing the war based on a lie. However, what he doesn't explain what that has to do with remembering the real victims of the real attacks on 9/11, which is what the resolution proposed."
Easy one--typical Dem hypocrisy: Iraq has no connection to 9/11, unless they say it does.
Kucinich used to seem like a charming but harmless eccentric, a kind of Bernie Sanders for the tinfoil-hat crowd. Now he is actively undermining US foreign policy, and during a war no less. It's appalling.
Posted by Jazz | September 12, 2007 8:37 AM
Kucinich is a loon. The only thing that keeps him in the spotlight in terms of national politics is his sole, solid campaign stance of wanting to get us out of Iraq. (Though I fear he might go over the edge in the other direction and want to do so in a too rapid, dangerous, precipitious manner.) Beyond that, most of his public statements make me question at least his common sense, if not his sanity.
I do wonder, however, how nobody has ever seemed to bring his name up in the tired old "trophy wife" discussion. Have you ever seen the Mrs? Talk about disproportionately hot.
Posted by Captain Ed | September 12, 2007 8:54 AM
Wouldn't just about any woman without a beard qualify as "disproportionally hot" to Dennis Kucinich?
All joking aside, this is his first marriage, I believe, which gets him a general pass on the trophy-wife smear.
Posted by FedUp | September 12, 2007 11:21 AM
I think Dennis the dim should consider taking up residence in another country! I am ashamed that he is 'representing' us. Syria?? Where is what's left of his tiny mind? He should be removed from his seat in congress and sent home - NO pension... NO benefits... Just, GO HOME!
Posted by David M | September 12, 2007 1:16 PM
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Posted by Ken Oglesby | September 12, 2007 2:28 PM
This person's appearance on Syrian television was sedition at the least and quite likely treason,considering we are at war.
WHY is he not being investigated and charged?
Other than the general Republican spinelessness we have become accustomed to,does anyone know?
Posted by Bill | September 12, 2007 3:52 PM
Would anyone expect anything less from,"Dennis the Menace"?
I watched from Lakewood, Ohio as Dennis Kucinich performed his drive to pauperize the city of Cleveland when he was mayor. Now Lakewood is in Dennis' district. What a shame!
I'd rather listen to Sen. George Voinovich who brought Cleveland out of default as mayor after Dennis. George truly has Class!
Posted by gaffo | September 12, 2007 9:34 PM
Come on Captain - stop with the BS, you say:
"However, what he doesn't explain what that has to do with remembering the real victims of the real attacks on 9/11, which is what the resolution proposed."
maybe this?
"and honoring those who have fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. ...."
Maybe he, like me, thinks that the whole foundation of Iraqnam from day one was an unconstitutional act and an attack upon the fundamental principles of what America stand for: the Rule of Law.
Hard to honour those who are undermining the Rule of Law by participating in an illegal war/occupation.
Maybe had that Resolution (not not the ones Bush violated - but the one you are talking about) NOT included Iraq in it and simply stayed with the victims of 911 and/or the legal war Afghanistan - Kusinich would have voted for it.
Try asking him.
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