RSSPoetic Justice, Nigerian Style
This should be filed in the “What Goes Around Comes Around” category or the “Poetic Justice, I can’t stop laughing” one.
Remember when we posted this?
I guess Patricia Lenine Mabel Walsh didn’t.
Exactly how much more greed could one have? Talk about water seeks its own level. Half way through the article I have lost track who has conned who. Just found the proper category, “Pigs Get Fat and Hogs Get Slaughtered.”
Hat Tip: Instapundit
See Jane Talk, See Jane Apologize, See Jane Only Want Media Attention to Shill a Book
We had previouslyposted on the antics of Hanoi Jane and at fear of giving her more publicity than she deserves in her effort to hawk her new book; however, I feel the need because Jane Fonda has waited 32 years to make what Michelle Malkin calls a non-apology. Michelle’s new article goes into great length of the MSM’s still fascination with the Jane ‘o thon apology tour.
In Jane Fonda’s upcoming 60 Minutes interview she references her one regret after talking about many things in her life that I would have assumed maybe she would have regretted as well.
It’s something that Fonda now says she regrets. “I will go to my grave regretting that. The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda’s daughter, just a woman sitting on a enemy aircraft gun, was a betrayal,” says Fonda.
In probably the most clueless Q&A of the evening the following is said:
“When you hear of this intense fury at you … 30 year later, does it hurt you?” asks Stahl.
“It makes me sad. It makes me sad, because I think that it’s ill-placed anger,” says Fonda. “I understand that I’m a lightning rod, and I know why the anger is there.”
JANE, MAYBE IF YOU ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED FOR WHAT YOU DID AND UNDERSTOOD IT WAS 100% WRONG MAYBE THERE COULD BE SOME FORGIVENESS. MAYBE IF YOU APOLOGIZED ABOUT THE MATTER WHEN YOU WERE NOT SHILLING A BOOK THAT TOO MAY BE APPRECIATED.
The truth is Jane Fonda has not changed in 30 years and never will. Please stop the apologies. Jane trust me on this one, you will never live this down because you did something so few people have; crossed a boundary of acceptable behavior that affected so many and caused so much physical and psychological pain that you will never be forgiven.
Gay Marriage, Going Nowhere, Fast
Earlier in the week we wrote on the upcoming vote on Gay marriage in Kansas, ‘Kansas Preemption On Gay Marriage’. Yesterday, the people of Kansas overwhelmingly voted against gay marriage, 70 to 29 percent. When Courts can determine the outcome of laws and not the people, the people will always take it upon themselves to right that wrong. The Kansas vote on Tuesday was just one in a long line of similar actions taken recently by voters. Jayson at PoliPundit has a list of those States and an interesting “political” take:
“…but it won’t change that pure political reality. Yet, the more states which go ahead and directly vote to ban recognition of those unions, by overwhelming, super-majorities, no less, the louder the proponents thereof continue to shout that they’re “inevitable,” and a “winning issue,” politically speaking, from their standpoint.”blockquote>
This would very much seem to be the case and is going to in turn infuriate the electorate. Initially gay activists claimed that their side was gaining momentum and it may take years, but Americans will come around. Others and myself had the notion that gaining such rights in the Courts would cause a backlash and as Citizen Smash stated … “It’s going to be Ugly“.
The continued pushing of such an overly-unpopular cause may even cause people to go against civil unions as well. The trend is obvious as seen in the latest Gallup poll. Also, there are three more states, Alabama, South Dakota and Tennessee with anti-gay marriage proposals on the ballot in 2006. This does not bode well for any Democrats that may be up far election in these states.
When the people have spoken so resoundingly there comes a point where one normally pulls back, regroups and then either formalize a new plan or discontinues. The gay marriage activists these days have come to resemble a futile and suicidal frontal assault charge out of the trenches during WWI. They would probably do well to rethink their strategy and stop their denial before the law of unintended consequences ends even the talk of civil unions.
Democracy In Action in Iraq
The skeptics of George W. Bush said that Iraq could never embrace Democracy because it was foreign to them and the Middle East. I never knew that voicing one’s opinion and wanting freedom was a foreign idea to anyone? Today, Iraq moved one step further in the process called Democracy. The transitional assemble in Iraq elected electing Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the nation’s president.
The vote was largely a formality and the role largely ceremonial, but the selection of a Kurdish president was a poignant, symbolic moment for a country where Kurds were persecuted under Saddam Hussein’s Sunni Arab regime.
Even in this historic event the MSM had been harping that no decisions had been made since the historic Iraqi Elections; they still have to provide negativism in their reporting by discussing the delays to making the decision and the formality of it.
As reported, “The vote was largely a formality and the role largely ceremonial. ”
NO, THE VOTE WAS A COMPROMISE AND A GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO MOVE THE COUNTRY FORWARD – IT IS CALLED DEMOCRACY!!!
I would further have to agree with the 1754 Blog that it must have been an amusing sight to have seen Saddam’s reaction to the news, To be a Fly on the Wall. Good thing he was no longer in the Spider Hole, I heard the cable reception wasn’t too good. Saddam would have missed it.
Don’t Worry Boston The Tunnels are Safe, Ignore the Leaks
According to a Federal Highway Administration report released yesterday, The Big Dig’s tunnels are structurally sound. So that should give everyone peace of mind, right? Well, not so fast. A funny thing happened on the way to declaring the tunnels safe. It seems that we are supposed to ignore the water in the tunnels and the too numerous to count leaks.
All told, 60 weak spots have been discovered in the tunnels’ 3-foot-thick slurry walls, two of them requiring major repair work, and there are hundreds more leaks where the tunnel walls meet the roof. In addition, about 1,200 square feet of sprayed-on fireproofing, out of roughly 1.8-million square feet total, were destroyed by water and ice, yesterday’s report said.
the report warns that ”the submerged nature of the tunnel system makes it unlikely that intrusion by water can be completely eliminated” and that ”a primary concern with these leaks is the corrosion of roof steel I-beams.”
This has to be the most amazing statement in the report, the tunnel is safe, there are leaks and the tunnels will “always be susceptible to leaks, which could pose a long-term corrosion threat to the steel beams that form the spine of the roadway.”
I know the Big Dig is in a Blue State and I’m just one of those “Red State thinking” Republicans, but how can a tunnel system be sound if as the reports states there will always be leaks, the leaks are not being addressed and these leaks will lead to the corrosion as steal support beams? That is the definition of sound?
Or have we gone back to the days of Bill Clinton and it depends how we define sound? Or are they stating that it is presently today sound but in the not too distant future this will be let’s say, “not so sound.” We have previously posted on the many calamities of the Big Dig and this situation is not going away any time soon.
One really must wonder how anyone can try to SPIN a leaky tunnel system that is overly exposed to corrosion of its metal support beams can some how be safe. I can only hope that the people responsible for this will be brought to justice, the people who looked the other way and the individuals that provided shoddy constructions are made accountable. One does wonder whether the Big Dig will actually be completed before the corrosion takes effect.
Update: Forget the corrosion down the line J. at Wizbang has some more on those safe and sound tunnels at The Big Dig. What a reassuring thought from the Turnpike Authority; its not the tunnel crumbling, just incompetent builders. Its those incompetent builders wee are worried about. Does anyone at the Federal Highway Administration want to rethink this one?
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