Three questions, in descending order of seriousness
1) Did you actually read or watch Obama's speech on race? Because no matter what your political affiliation or your opinion on the candidate(s) of either party, you owe it to yourself -- as an American and a citizen and a human being -- to do so. I'll save you a Google search: The text is here. Get on it.
2) How's y'all's NCAA tourney brackets doing? I made my picks with bold ignorance this year, instead of heartfelt and learned consideration as I normally do (because we watch a ton of games thanks to the miracle of TiVo, but this year haven't really had the time), so I'm expecting a much better outcome than my usual horrific flameout. And also I decided to forego my annual pick of Oral Roberts (har) in the first round. Well, but that basically ensures they'll go to the final four, since this is the one year I skipped the joke. Dammit.
3) Would you guys eat at a restaurant called The Knife and Peach? I dreamed it, complete with logo (a circle etched in glass, featuring a ridiculously sharp chef's knife and a peach, with the restaurant name in Copperplate font below it), a Google search (the whole page, with "the knife and peach" in the search field and a page full of results, including citysearch and yelp reviews, a couple of blog links, etc.), and an episode of No Reservations in which Anthony Bourdain and his local fixer were going to dine there with some chef friends of his. I could actually hear him say "The Knife and Peach."
2) How's y'all's NCAA tourney brackets doing? I made my picks with bold ignorance this year, instead of heartfelt and learned consideration as I normally do (because we watch a ton of games thanks to the miracle of TiVo, but this year haven't really had the time), so I'm expecting a much better outcome than my usual horrific flameout. And also I decided to forego my annual pick of Oral Roberts (har) in the first round. Well, but that basically ensures they'll go to the final four, since this is the one year I skipped the joke. Dammit.
3) Would you guys eat at a restaurant called The Knife and Peach? I dreamed it, complete with logo (a circle etched in glass, featuring a ridiculously sharp chef's knife and a peach, with the restaurant name in Copperplate font below it), a Google search (the whole page, with "the knife and peach" in the search field and a page full of results, including citysearch and yelp reviews, a couple of blog links, etc.), and an episode of No Reservations in which Anthony Bourdain and his local fixer were going to dine there with some chef friends of his. I could actually hear him say "The Knife and Peach."
Labels: balls o'clock a.m., deportivo, rare earnestness, they ain't takin the TEE-vee, things that are great
posted by Gleemonex at 11:16 AM
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I read/listened to Obama's speech and was very heartened to hear his words. I am afraid (it's the cynic in me) though that the "most of America" that he believes feels the way we do, doesn't really. I hope that's not the case, but I'm afraid it is.
My bracket on the other hand, is doing great. I got all but 2 games right yesterday. Baylor was a fizzle and USC/Kansas St. was a tossup anyway. I didn't have either winner going beyond the next round anyway, so my bracket's in good shape.
Finally, I have issues with the knife. It seems sort of violent. I'd probably eat there, but I also have this image of "The Peach Pit" from 90210 which kind of skews the dream for me.
Dude. What are all you fools doin, picking a bunch of Baptists to win games in a basketball tournament? (I was the only one in my pick 'em group to call that one correctly). heh.
And what, you mean the Only Club in Los Angeles, Peach Pit After Dark?
It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this residential election: the first viable woman
candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first front-running freedom fighter over 70.
The next president of America will be a first. We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.
The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.
Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts. Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate.
He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record.
Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.
Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial "beauty."
Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy
Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks.
Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.
Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago.
Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on "the rich." How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes.
His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.
Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing.
His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francis co values, not Middle America values.
The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches.
His vision of "bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers.
Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs.
But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president.
Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.
It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.
Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun
Once again, I'm sure this will will all be blamed on a white supremacist conspiracy created by Clinton, Bush or Chaney to discredit O'Bama. Might as well just ignore facts and worship the black savior!
Clearly you didn't read or listen to the speech.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I did listen to him speak. It was an excellent message and I believe he was sincere...although, I am in agreement with the earlier response...
"Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics."
Denney,
if you jerked off in a hankerchief there would be more going on there than the cut and paste you put on this blog.
glee,
1. read half of it, got bored and watched Silver Spoons marathon or somesuch..no shit.
2. Bracket is good. Did not see the upsets from Friday, but was damn near perfect the day before. 14 of 16 sweets left.
3. Something about a restaurant..yada, yada...Bourdain rulz life.
What's a college boy like you doing selling meat door to door? You would make a great US Senator.
I'm sure your business degree and education affords you psychic knowledge on difficult subjects.
I posted that comment because I wanted you to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way...
So, how's your wife and my kids?
Denney,
Outing and owning you will be a pleasure, as I rulz the internets!
As far as your comments to my business, let me ask you something. Does Whole Foods deliver door to door in your town? I'm guessing not. Without getting into details that require an IQ prerequisite you obviously lack, I will say this. Not only am I making a nice living, but so are my employees. This is called capitalism and it works. Something you locksteppers use to espouse, along with with less government is good, and protecting American jobs is priority one.
So go jerk off again to your Toby Keef pop-up picture book for neo-con dummies, and leave the independent thinking to us.
By the way, wasn't it you saying that you didn't want anyone to know your identity in Decatur because it might hurt your business? Dude, thats fucked up.
(apologies to glee for the trolling the other day, I had the flu.)
Fucking Duke. Every year this lil soft spot in my heart (or noggin) wills me to keep clicking their name further and further into my bracket. And every year, they fuck me over. Christian Laettner, why can't I break free from your magical spell?
Hey, and what's with all the comment pissing? You've really fired them up, Gleeness.
DUKE. aaaaaaaaaagh! Now that Redick's gone, I felt OK not picking them into at least the final four -- but even so, they fucked my brackets going out when they did.
Oh, and you can't break free of Christian Laettner either? None of us can. He has a certain hold on all of us ...
[I love that I got my first hater! It's teh awesome.]
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