tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88632582008-08-17T12:00:51.000-07:00TurkeyBlog2gbartonoreply@blogger.comBlogger1056125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-71849991188427924312008-08-17T09:43:00.000-07:002008-08-17T12:00:51.016-07:00Instapundit passes along a Knoxville News Sentinel story about two people being wrongly arrested by the Drug Task Force in his neck of the woods. One of the people had friends in law enforcement who spoke up for him. The matter was quickly sorted out and he came out okay. The other person was Patty Diane Yates:Yates wasn't so fortunate. It took authorities nine months to drop the charges against gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-5501741911031332752008-08-08T16:47:00.000-07:002008-08-08T17:15:36.616-07:00This is your government, high on its drug war... Any questions? While in my bedroom upstairs, while changing and only in boxer shorts, I heard my mother-in-law scream and then heard our front door being broken open and gunshots being fired. I thought our home was being invaded. I feared for my life and fell to the floor. No one announced themselves as law enforcement. Downstairs, the officers gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-12015385340057928702008-08-05T16:45:00.000-07:002008-08-05T17:35:09.051-07:00Officer Acquitted of Killing Unarmed MomLIMA, Ohio (Aug. 4) - A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black. The all-white jury found Sgt. Joseph Chavalia not guilty of misdemeanor charges of negligent homicide and negligent assault. He gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-14768161378771175812008-07-28T20:18:00.001-07:002008-07-28T20:28:32.779-07:00Obama Prayer Note Stolen! The other day, after Obama left a prayer in the Western Wall in Jerusalem, somebody snuck in and stole the note. Apparently, Obama asked God for a 1986 Camaro IROC-Z and ears that don't stick out. Talk about shallow. The story is here. And it's worse than my version.gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-19840912131365630002008-07-26T09:59:00.000-07:002008-07-26T10:03:48.809-07:00Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty? - Barack Obama In 1991, John and Cindy McCain adopted an orphaned girl from Bangladesh. Call it The Audacity of Action. (found at Gateway Pundit)gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-82955005172402109632008-07-25T22:01:00.000-07:002008-07-25T22:40:57.772-07:00For all wary conservatives, the reason to support McCain... (via Powerline) Senator Obama and I also faced a decision, which amounted to a real-time test for a future commander-in-chief. America passed that test. I believe my judgment passed that test. And I believe Senator Obama's failed. We both knew the politically safe choice was to support some form of retreat. All the polls said the "surge"gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-40024362632767314712008-07-23T17:03:00.000-07:002008-07-23T17:13:44.194-07:00Instapundit links this piece on the Avanti. If ever I rode in an Avanti, I was too young to remember it. But when I was 8 or 10, I went to the Avanti museum in South Bend, Indiana when my uncle lived there. Great looking cars.gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-47054936922430400552008-07-22T11:43:00.000-07:002008-07-22T12:05:45.849-07:00That's Packaging! Sometimes, when you see the way they handle packages for delivery, you wonder how anything arrives intact. Like a computer keyboard, for example... In our office, we've had a file cabinet that's leaning. We decided to prop it up with the box from a keyboard we just picked up, figuring that once crushed, the box would prop it up just the right amount. Rather than breaking down gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-88835345652558696592008-07-13T15:53:00.000-07:002008-07-13T15:57:48.898-07:00Pennsylvania Democrats Use Taxpayer Money for Fundraising - Corruption Probe Underway Pennsylvania Democrats including Mike Veon were allegedly using government offices for fundraising and giving taxpayer funded bonuses to aides based on how much money they raised. Here's the story, found at Instapundit.gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-32533714762371076712008-07-08T23:44:00.000-07:002008-07-08T23:51:25.863-07:00A short essay in the manner of those writers who find their every observation fascinating or Why You Should Leave the Dog Poo on the Ground The other day, when I was at my local Barnes and Noble, I stopped into the restroom. There was already someone at the urinal and I was on the edge of going into the first stall when he flushed and retreated. I stepped toward the urinal and was surprised to gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-26230203645180908472008-07-03T17:20:00.000-07:002008-07-03T17:23:58.751-07:00Comment of the Day, over at Ann Althouse's blog:Foobarista said... If Obama refined as much oil as he does on his positions, gas would cost 80 cents a gallon...John Kerry in 2004: I was for it before I was against it. Barack Hussein Obama in 2008: I was for it before I was for it.gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-23557062607551344452008-06-28T10:47:00.000-07:002008-06-28T11:10:14.260-07:00Gallup (via Instapundit) reports that a majority of the people believe: 1. The government should focus on growing the economy, not income redistribution. 2. The government is doing more, not less, than it should. Ronald Reagan: 1. A rising tide lifts all boats. 2. Government isn't the solution, it's the problem. Now if only we could find a Republican who wants to win one for the Gipper.gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-6169632004643052802008-06-22T11:03:00.000-07:002008-06-22T11:43:35.109-07:00Instapundit points to this story about housing costs in San Francisco and the exodus of the middle class. Says the article, San Francisco has gotten too expensive for all but the rich to live there. I think that if you want to live in SF and can afford to, that's fine. And if you can't afford to live in SF, well, that's how life goes. What I find interesting, though, is that the leftist rich of gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-90299777584299851302008-06-15T23:37:00.000-07:002008-06-15T23:48:19.122-07:00You mean there are legal immigrants too? To hear the media cover immigration, you'd get the sense that the United States has slammed the door in the faces of a world that wants to come here, so if there are illegal immigrants here, what could you expect? What you could expect, of course, is that those illegal immigrants would try to come here legally. Here's another angle on illegal gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-19464426228814745562008-06-08T22:51:00.000-07:002008-06-08T23:05:59.801-07:00Mickey Kaus flags a snooty Timesman whining that his Starbucks experience isn't special enough:Rewards are nice, but recognition is better. So if I'm one of Starbucks's best customers, I want to have elite status, as I do on American Airlines. I want shorter lines, better freebies... - Ron Lieber, NYTSome years ago, I lived in Tours for about a month. On my second day there, I found a café where gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-61889571932369381252008-06-07T09:27:00.000-07:002008-06-07T09:29:44.470-07:00In which we channel Rodney Dangerfield: I get no respect. When I was a kid, my folks said us kids liked the packaging better than the presents so they gave my sister a cardboard box - and me a plastic bag. (if confused, look at the warning label on the closest plastic bag to hand)gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-37360465319125085142008-06-05T11:20:00.000-07:002008-06-05T12:08:21.327-07:00Precisely:It is Rush, not me, who has repeatedly mused that he would prefer to see Republicans lose this election if McCain were nominated. So who is the advocate of "surrender" here? And since Obama has pledged early and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq, it’s not just an election that Limbaugh equably contemplates losing – it is a war. - David FrumRobert Heinlein said you should always vote gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-37371536545557918662008-05-29T08:25:00.000-07:002008-05-29T10:43:55.491-07:00How not to deal with a child with Asperger's Joanne Jacobs has a write-up on a novel new method for classroom discipline: peer humiliation meets Survivor:Five-year-old Alex Barton was voted out of kindergarten class by his fellow students in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Before the vote, his teacher told classmates to say what they didn’t like about Alex: He was labeled “disgusting” and “annoying.” gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-65449547827301528192008-05-28T21:26:00.000-07:002008-05-28T21:31:35.236-07:00Obama's Memorial Day speech summarized: If we had better government programs, our soldiers would stop clinging to their guns and vote for me.gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-43395690826435654792008-05-28T20:53:00.000-07:002008-05-28T21:20:43.328-07:00On Obama's Memorial Day Remarks I don't care that Obama said Buchenwald instead of Auschwitz. I don't care that it was a great uncle, not an uncle or a grandfather or whatever. I don't care that Obama seemed to think Memorial Day was for veterans in general, not soldiers who gave their lives for their country. But it bothers me a lot that that given an opportunity to talk about a relative - gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-79390046532145263492008-05-23T06:51:00.000-07:002008-05-23T07:59:44.347-07:00Fog and Damp in Santa Cruz Mountains Morning after Summit Fire Stepping out on the front porch this morning, I was immediately hit by the smell of smoke. But according to the radio, it's good news this morning: low clouds, cool fog, damp air, light winds. The fire is now back to 3100 acres, 20% contained. That from KCBS radio. The view above is from 6:50 this morning. Mostly it's fog; not gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-4366547489601464182008-05-22T13:18:00.000-07:002008-05-22T13:30:29.539-07:00Fires in Santa Cruz Mountains Here's the latest from the Merc. When I arrived at work this morning, a colleague asked about the Summit Road fire. However, Summit's a long road stretching into the next county, and so far the fire looks to be well south of us. Coming out this morning, we noticed a little "fog" to the south, but that's pretty common when moisture blows in off the ocean. I suppose gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-88694203795024754592008-05-20T21:23:00.000-07:002008-05-20T21:38:52.510-07:00Instapundit has a nice round-up of links for the Kentucky primary. Methinks the Dems have a problem. The problem isn't that Hillary won't drop out. The problem is that a) the voters won't make her, and b) some of them seem pretty intent on waving a great big finger in the face of the media and the Dem establishment about it. And I don't think this would be such a problem except that the Obama gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-86216137458993251192008-05-16T19:20:00.000-07:002008-05-16T19:55:37.195-07:00Here, in two paragraphs, is why I will be voting for McCain this November. Taken from his remarks to the NRA: Senator Obama has said, if elected, he will withdraw Americans from Iraq quickly no matter what the situation on the ground is and no matter what U.S. military commanders advise. But if we withdraw prematurely from Iraq, al Qaeda in Iraq will survive, proclaim victory and continue to gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-69600599345621791172008-05-14T18:30:00.000-07:002008-05-14T18:49:57.225-07:00AOL Home page Headline: Edwards Makes His Choice He Supports a Former Rival I'm just wondering how often a former presidential candidate has managed to support someone who wasn't a former rival. Did someone think he'd endorse Ron Paul? Of course, with all the acrimony in the Democrat party these days, maybe it is something novel for one Democrat to support another. :P The story is here, but gbartonoreply@blogger.com