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Tweet If you haven’t yet read this, at Just Say No Deal, you must.  (Hat tip:  Lots of people and blog sites, which is why you may already have read it.)

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Tweet Bear with me here, because I’m thinking out loud. It all started with the fact that today’s Chronicle had a sad, sad story that began like this: Expectant mother, fetus shot dead in Oakland Kennah Wilson, 18, was eagerly anticipating the birth of her daughter this fall. She was going to name her baby [...]

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Tweet From the San Francisco Chronicle (with the emphasis all theirs): Worth noting: Democrats had good reason to be nervous going into the Denver convention – and the problem looked to be bigger than just the bruised feelings between the Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton camps. Recent polls of California voters show that going [...]

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Tweet We in America have become very introverted in the last few weeks, obsessively (and probably appropriately) focusing on our own upcoming elections.  As we focus on those elections, it’s useful to remember what’s still out there: Hardline female ‘preachers of hate’ are radicalising Muslim women at one of Britain’s top mosques. The Saudi Arabian [...]

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Tweet IBD has an excellent editorial that neatly summarizes Palin’s many political virtues. And while I’m on the subject of IBD editorials, catch this one cutting Obama’s pedestrian speech even further down to size.

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Tweet To me, the first good thing about the Palin nomination is that it highlights Obama’s inexperience.  You can just hear him going around the house muttering, “I know you are, but what am I?  I know you are, but what am I?  I know you are, but what am I?” To date, Obama has [...]

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Tweet Because I’d like to see traffic driven to the new Bloggers for John McCain website, to which I am a contributor, I’ll just print a little bit here of the post I did there regarding the Sarah Palin pick.  If you like the post, you can read the rest here: The more I think [...]

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Tweet I’m a bit slow going today, since I was up very, very early, to drive fairly far to a day of soccer in the hot sun.  As a Bay Area wuss who likes the weather cool, I feel somewhat depleted.  I’m working on reigniting my energy level, especially since I have some posting to [...]

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Tweet As I noted in my post about Obama’s acceptance speech, even my husband was put off by the pre-speech video, which he found artificial, pretentious and uninspiring.  Turns out his instincts were good, because they showed the wrong video.  This was the one they meant to show: Hat tip: Hot Air

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Tweet The Watchers’ votes have been counted and the results are in.*  Again, there’s a slight summer slump, with fewer nominations and even fewer votes, but we expect that to resolve itself soon.  By the way, there is an opening at the Watcher’s Council.  If you’re interested, read the rules here and submit yourself for [...]

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Tweet I’m not naming names, but my career as a soccer mom has me hanging with one of the most powerful women in America.  Strange world.

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Tweet Palin gave a great speech.  What’s really funny is that it’s chock full of “I did this and I did this and I did this,” which is appropriate, not boastful, considering that she’s trying to explaining to her potential future employers  — the American people — why she should be hired for the job.  [...]

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Tweet It looked in the beginning as if the McCain campaign group was doing nothing at all.  They were just dormant, though, ready to explode.  They came up with a series of great ads that highlighted the creepy personality cult building around Obama.  They timed the VP announcement perfectly to suck the air out of [...]

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Tweet Information or disinformation? It’s hard to tell right now.  The AP article expresses surprise that McCain would pick a neophyte for a VP when he’s been attacking Obama for being a neophyte.  Apparently the AP reporter is confused about the difference between being a VP (a good place for on-the-job training) and being President [...]

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Tweet My husband had TiVo’d the speech, so we started watching it.  Poor guy, he’d like to support Obama, but he had a real problem with the absence of a “there there.”  He was disgusted by the video’s reference to corporate “fat cats,” which he said sounded dated and artificial.  My take was that it [...]

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Tweet Much has been made today — and deservedly so — of the fact that the Obama campaign has tried to shut down both Stanley Kurtz’s investigations into his work on Chicago’s Annenberg Challenge with Bill Ayers and to silence any discussion about the results of those investigations.  When the Obama campaign heard that Kurtz [...]

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Tweet As you know, Terry Trippany is the new Watcher of Weasels.  He’s currently finalizing the Weasel’s permanent home, although it still needs a teeny bit more tweaking.  Nevertheless, he’s still compiled this week’s Watcher’s nominations, and it’s very good reading (as always): Council 1. The Glittering Eye – The 2008 Beijing Olympics 2. Soccer [...]

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Tweet Unlike Hillary’s speech, Bill’s attempts to focus on Obama, rather than on generic Democratic goals.  Bill has a problem, though — the object of his praise has no record on which to run.  The best that Bill can do is create what amounts to a report card for a good student:  he’s a nice [...]

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Tweet We weren’t looking for it, but Mr. Bookworm accidentally stumbled across Hillary’s speech on TV.  I listened to a little and then, put off by her frenetic delivery, read the rest.  I have just a few of comments, since I don’t think it merits more than a few. Hillary is not an inspired speaker, [...]

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Tweet I don’t have actual knowledge here.  I’m just wondering. The lede from the AP is that the number of uninsured dropped by more than a million people last year: The number of people without health insurance fell by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, [...]

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Tweet Interestingly, when I was in high school, I fell in love with the newly-released movie musical Grease. As someone who has always loved musicals, and who has a weakness for pop music with strong melody lines, it was right up my alley.  When I hear the songs now, I still enjoy them.  That’s why [...]

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Tweet Once again, a writer for the MSM leads with a sentence that implies that there is no causative relationship between two obviously related facts.  This from the San Francisco Chronicle: California home sales surged last month even while prices plunged a record amount, as buyers snapped up bargains among the state’s hundreds of thousands [...]

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Tweet I can’t stand the sight of blood.  It was no fun, therefore, when I sliced the tip of my thumb off while preparing a roast for the slow cooker (or, to be more accurate, preparing the onions to go into the slow cooker with the roast).  It turned out not to be a serious [...]

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Tweet Was I the only one who found it hysterically funny that Nancy Pelosi, after building a political career on the cult of victimhood — especially women’s victimhood — is now snapping at all those well-trained victimized women to give it up and get with the program? “I think that women, we have to get [...]

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Tweet This video has a habit of disappearing off of YouTube, so watch it while you can:

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