Videos from the convention….

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/28/hot-air-tv-at-the-dnc-our-man-in-orange/

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31058_Penn_and_Teller-_World_Peace

McCain still hasn’t picked a Veep…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26438378/

Pajamas TV at the RNC…

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pajamas-tv-launches-at-rnc/

American Power:

Desperation is building on the far-left at the realization that Barack Obama’s nomination is turning out to be an unmitigated disaster for the Democratic Party’s chances in November.

Note first the letdown among “progressives” at the dreadful polling numbers for the Obama-Biden ticket this week. Chris Bowers and Tremayne, at the radical portal Open Left, express their frustration and helplessness at the fading likelihood of a post-convention bounce following this week’s events in Denver.

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/progressives-paints-mccain-as-angry.html

All American Blogger:

Meanwhile, those ever ready to use force for the common good are just as ready to proclaim their moral superiority. To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, being morally superior is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Even if you type it in all caps.

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/3561/capitalists-v-socialists-who-holds-the-moral-high-ground/

My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy:

Ok, I now know who I want for McCain’s VP: Sarah Palin. Look at these pictures I merged. Can you see either Biden or Obama or even McCain with a biker gang or a motor cycle or a real fish? McCain maybe, but the others? Heck no. Oh, she also flies airplanes and was on the cover of Vogue. The republican party is in desperate need of fresh faces. She can lead the way.

http://bamapachyderm.com/archives/2008/08/26/interesting-sites-and-locations/

Harry’s Place:

We’re thinking of publishing all of the correspondence on the UCU activists list, every day, in full, to show how dominated the list is by the issue of pushing for the illegal boycott. The list is not private: it is circulated to nearly 700 recipients. We believe that the subject is of such importance, it deserves a wider audience still.

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/08/28/ucu-boycotters-still-dont-see-the-problem/

Head over to Little Green Footballs for more really big puppets...

I have added some new blogs to the links page:

Monkey in the Middle

Monkey in the Middle is a children’s game played with 3 children and a ball. The rules are simple. 2 children throw the ball to each other and the 3rd child is between them and tries to catch it.

But there are times I feel like I’m playing it as the Monkey with the truth as the ball, and the throwers those who would distort the truth.

Here I will attempt to sort out the truth from the fiction and lies. There will be no spin or propaganda here.

Hopefully you my reader will find this site an informative one and will visit it often.

YID with LID

Head over to YID with LID and read this, this, and this.

Israel Matzav

I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me ‘ultra-Orthodox.’ Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don’t look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for twenty-six years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 4 to 24 years and one grandson. Our eldest daughter is married and our eldest son is engaged! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com

Woman Honor Thyself

“I will fill myself with Love And send that out into the world. How others treat me is their path How I react is mine.” 

Ah…about me huh?..lolz..I am obsessed with knowledge, music, dance and sports..Did I leave anything out?…Hmmm…Work on myself to be more compassionate and accepting of the Pain Factory we call “Life.”

Loveeeeeeeeeeee country rock, rock, some classical music and anything I can dance too..grinz.
Can read anything from Ayn Rand to Terry Goodkind to feminist writings to political and psychological and philosophical works.
Whew…ok thats it for now..lolz

And head over to Great Satan’s Girlfriend for Courtney’s latest on Taiwan.

American Power has an excellent discussion of neoconservatism that is certainly worth the read.  More on both these later…

Roland Dodds, of “But I Am a Liberal” warns us secular (I wont’ say moderate) conservatives against a Jindal vice-presidential ticket:

Jindal is a member of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), a group of right wing Republicans. The groups is in favor of the Marriage Amendment Act which would make gay marriage a constitutionally forbidden act, and believed the government should intervene in the Terri Shivo case. The man is a supporter of “intelligent design theories,” and has advocated that they be used as an alternative theory in public science classrooms. I can’t begin to explain how how foolish this really is, and I don’t plan to debate it here. I will say that anyone who believes spiritual beliefs should replace the scientific method in a class that is based on that very procedure is a moron, a shameless politician playing to their base of support, or a deluded individual that has little understanding of what the scientific method really entails.

Add to this Jindal’s lack of experience, and you begin to see just how utterly nonsensical it would be for McCain to pick him.  Roland’s alternative?

Lieberman.

Now, I like Lieberman a lot.  He’s extremely principled and very smart–and a great pick for national security, support of Israel, and American centrists.  But of course, it’ll never happen…McCain, sadly, will more than likely pander to the “base” which for some reason means appeasing the religious right despite their lack of anything even remotely resembling true conservatism.

Tidbits

The New Centrist gives us an interesting selection of opinions on the prisoner exchange between Israel and the terrorist group Hezbollah.

Added Bob From Brockley to my Links page.  In fact, I thought I’d done this already, but I guess I was wrong…Apparently he is blogging too much as well…

Harry’s Place has given a somewhat tepid “thank you” to my efforts at rallying the blogs around him.  Admittedly, I’m not a fan of the really, really hateful anti-Islamic sites either, but I think Harry could have been just a bit more gracious.

Much of the backing comes as a result of an item posted by Glenn Reynolds at the very popular right-of-center blog Instapundit, who linked to a “Support Harry’s Place Blogburst” set up by the conservative blog NeoConstant. Although I haven’t done a thorough review of all the blogs that have signed up, at a glance they appear to be overwhelmingly on the political right. In most cases, I have no problem with this– for the most part I welcome the support of anyone who opposes the BMI’s dishonest efforts to suggest that we deliberately misconstrued the meaning of what Al-Jazeera originally reported Sawalha as saying about the Jews in London celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary. (I hope they would all be equally supportive if, for some reason, we were being unfairly sued by Mark Steyn or Rush Limbaugh, but I live in the real world.)

However there appear to be some anti-Muslim hate sites on this list– this one, for example– whose support we can easily manage without. In fact I would be quite pleased if those blogs would remove themselves from our list of supporters. We have no more use for their support than we would for support from racist or antisemitic sites.

Colonel Robert Neville had a few things to say about Harry’s response, and managed to describe NeoConstant as “grovelling” which didn’t entirely please me.  (This because I removed Texas Fred from the list after he called illegal immigrants “wetbacks” and some site called Islam Idiot after Harry mentioned they were a hate site).  Guess you can’t please everyone.

Guess I don’t really give a damn.

And so the blogging world rumbles on…

Obama is the consumate flip-flopper–not due, I suspect, to dishonesty, but rather to naivete regarding foreign policy.  He’s just outspoken enough to say something foolish before his advisers can correct him.  Or rather, with his comment of full support for Israel’s claim to an undivided Jerusalem, just foolish enough to say something good and honest and true before his advisers have time to reel him in, like when he said

Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided

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