Archive for February 7, 2010
Okay — I’m for the Saints
I have no allegiance or emotional connection to either the Colts or the Saints but I want to root for someone, so I’m going with the Saints. I think it would be wonderful for New Orleans if their team won.
American Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year-Old Daughter
Joshua Tabor, a soldier at a base in Tacoma, Washington, flew into a rage after his daughter was unable to recite her ABC’s:
A U.S. soldier has been accused of ‘waterboarding’ his four-year-old daughter because she couldn’t recite the alphabet.
Joshua Tabor admitted to police that he used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.
As his daughter ‘squirmed’ to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face – upwards – three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.
Tabor, 27, admitted to investigators that his daughter was terrified of water and he had deliberately chosen the punishment.
Tea Partiers Ready for a — Violent — Revolution?
Last night during her speech at the Tea Party “convention,” Sarah Palin said the United States is “ready for another revolution.”
A few minutes ago I received this series of tweets (start reading at the bottom) from Tea Party Patriots:
The contradictory currents running through this are really something. First, Sarah Palin is now a rich woman, and she’s getting richer, yet the TPPatriots see her as their leader? Sarah Palin’s reference to a revolution was a not very thinly veiled reference to throwing Democrats, and in particular, Barack Hussein Obama, out of office. (I’ll give her the benefit of the doube — that she didn’t mean he should be killed.)
The TPPatriots want to throw pretty much anyone in power, in Washington or on Wall Street, out of office. Sarah Palin is on the side of big business. Yet she is calling for a revolution in front of a group of very angry people who want to lynch that same crowd. Sarah Palin is using the TPPatriots to further her own goals and she is so self-involved that she doesn’t realize she is stoking hatred of her own party backers. So how is this going to play out?
It’s crazy-making. Sarah Palin is walking a very thin line.
I’m Having a Heart Attack Just Posting About It
I caught a few minutes of a show on the Food Network just now called, “101 Tastiest Places to Chowdown.” They were highlighting a dish that’s served at the Vortex Bar & Grill in Atlanta. It consists of a hamburger patty topped with American cheese, topped with three fried eggs, topped with six strips of bacon, served between two grilled cheese sandwiches.
Aaaaaah!
Ringo Starr’s Son
A friend told me that Ringo Starr’s son will be playing the drums with The Who today during the half-time show at the Super Bowl.
Sarah Palin #FAIL
So Sarah Palin appears before an adoring crowd and gives a 30-minute speech filled with one-liner talking points that are so simple they could be broken down into five-word bumper stickers. Then she takes questions that were submitted and approved in advance, but she still needs to write notes to herself on the palm of her hand so she doesn’t screw-up?
And there are people out there who think she’s qualified to be president?
