The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.
(H/T – Rock, Paper Shotgun)
Jace Hall of Crackle has actually played a demo alpha version of the current iteration of Duke Nukem Forever (start at 4:10 of the video). DNF has been in production since 1997, and has won the Vaporware of the Year award from Wired Magazine every year it was eligible between 2000 and 2007 (it was given the “lifetime” award in 2003 and not eligible in 2004).
If 3D Realms isn’t jerking our chains again, stock up on the kick-ass because you’re probably all out of gum.
It’s looking more like midnight out the windows of the bunker than morning, but let’s roll with it. Thanks to OdieO for suggesting today’s artist….
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG3Z_R9wJ-w[/youtube]
I somehow made it through the storm without a loss of power, which is good because I’m doing this on the soon-to-be-replaced desktop, and I don’t have a UPS.
Tuesday night was the unofficial beginning of the Mano a Mano Presidential Campaign. Speeches from John McCain and Barack Obama set a framework for what we can expect the respective campaigns to focus on.
Obama began his positioning by recognizing McCain as a maverick:
Because while John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party in the past, such independence has not been the hallmark of his presidential campaign.
But went on to paint McCain as “George Bush Lite”:
It’s not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush ninety-five percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year.
McCain responded by quickly pointing to his maverick status:
You will hear from my opponent’s campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release that I’m running for President Bush’s third term. You will hear every policy of the President described as the Bush-McCain policy. Why does Senator Obama believe it’s so important to repeat that idea over and over again? Because he knows it’s very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country. But the American people didn’t get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama. They know I have a long record of bipartisan problem solving. They’ve seen me put our country before any President "” before any party "”
And there’s the problem.
McCain continues to run on a platform that is neither fish nor fowl. He wants to reign in spending but supported the housing bailout. McCain recognizes the impact that ethanol has had on our food prices but is blind to the cost increases that his cap and trade plan will cause. Unlike being bi-sexual where you have twice the chance for a date, being bi-political does not increase your chances, it decreases them.
Barack Obama tipped his hand in his speech when he approved of McCain being a maverick but derided him for not being maverick enough. Obama will use McCain’s bi-political record against him. Obama cause Conservatives to sit out reminding them that McCain is the poster child for the problem within the Republican party where it has become acceptable to call yourself a Republican, and even argue that you are a Conservative, if you vote for Conservative issues 50.01% of the time. On the other hand, Obama will use McCain’s inability to be bipartisan on EVERY issue to ultimately separate him from the Hillary Democrats who are currently upset but will eventually rally to the party. After all, what better place for a group of people who feel like they’ve been victimized than back in the bosom of the Party of Victimization?
Obama doesn’t need to do much to affect the Conservatives. Simply putting McCain in a position of explaining why he isn’t President Bush will put the wedge in for them. For the Hillary Democrats the message is simple; the attached bumper sticker should sum up his argument to them:
After nearly a year of battle, Union County, South Dakota has voted to change their zoning ordinance to allow for the building of an all new oil refinery. If completed, it would be the first new refinery built in the US since 1976.
The zoning change was voted on by the citizens of Union County and won handily, 58% to 42%. Those supporting the refinery pointed to the 4,500 construction jobs and 1,800 long term jobs that the refinery will provide. However, before you get to excited, I need to tell you that not everyone is excited by the proposal of a refinery:
While conceding defeat, opponents vowed to keep fighting the controversial project on every imaginable front, pressing on with a lawsuit it filed against the county over the zoning procedures and opposing Hyperion as it applies for a bevy of state and federal permits.
If the people of Union County can rise up and vote common sense in over the objection of the greenies, why can’t we get it done at a state or federal level? Think people are fired up about this? Read the comments attached to this article. It’s clear that the opinion is running at least 9 to 1 in favor of the plant with those for being unusually intense about their opinions.
To the State who gave us the disaster known as Tom Daschle we say:
“Well Done. All is forgiven. Lead us to the promised land!”
This is not the typical “Chris Matthews is nothing but a leftist hack,” complaint. I’m really wondering if there isn’t something mentally wrong with Chris Matthews!
In this video, Chris is talking with MN Senator Amy Klobuchar who is at the Barack Obama event in St. Paul Tuesday night. Chris opens up with a crack about the Republican convention coming to town and starting with a stop at the Larry Craig bathroom. OK, Craig made his bed (so to speak), he can lie in it. But next, Matthews makes a smart ass remark about the Republicans “celebrating the bridge collapse in St. Paul.”
What the hell?
13 people died as a result of that collapse. The FTSB’s preliminary report sites the cause as gusset plates that were under designed. They’ve further stated that they would not be caught as a part of regular maintenance.
Maybe Chris will be starting a one man comedy show entitled “Katrina, If you can’t swim, have I got a storm for you!”
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