Month: July 2004

Pre Go-to-sleep Question.

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Does anybody know what the hell this animal is? I’ve been staring at it all evening and I still can’t figure it out. Shoot, if it’s a fake I don’t even know what it’s supposed to be a fake of.

Get your Obama speech text here…

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Just accessed the Obama speech (text here: BugMeNot says charles / cfish@earthlink.net cannedtuna). Good speech. Very good speech, in fact. Disagreement without fear and disapproval without hatred; a clean speech, and one much more about why he thinks that Sen. Kerry is good than why he thinks President Bush is bad (in fact, he never … Read more

Democrats Embrace Failed Foreign Policy

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I’ll admit that I couldn’t stomach actually watching Jimmy Carter speak to the Convention. Reading his words in text later was bad enough. I see that Democrats have rediscovered foreign policy–it is unfortunate that they have learned so many of the wrong lessons. The most sickening thing from Carter is found in this passage: We … Read more

Re-re-inventing

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/political snark on/ There’s an adage in campaigning that notes: It’s better to get out there and define yourself before your opponent does. I thought about that when I saw this headline on FoxNews GOP: Dems Reinventing Kerry Re-re-inventing him, they mean. After the millions of dollars Bush has spent re-inventing Kerry’s record (Oh, keep … Read more

Anti-Americanism Petri Dish: II

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This is a follow-up to the discussion on how American corporations can directly influence anti-American sentiments through their dealings with the governments of unstable countries. The example used was ExxonMobil’s extraction of oil off the shore of Equatorial Guinea. Most of the discussion was based on a report aired on 60 Minutes.

Although Exxon declined an invitation to be interviewed for the 60 Minutes segment, apparently they did send a written response to some questions. They don’t get into specifics (and I’ve scoured their site for information on ROI that might shed some light on whether they took Equatorial Guinea to the cleaners, but to no avail), but they do make this declaration:

ExxonMobil is firmly committed to honest and ethical behavior. We pledge to be a good corporate citizen in all the places we operate worldwide. We maintain the highest ethical standards, obey all applicable laws and regulations, and respect local and national cultures.

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Convention moments that I wished I’d seen #1

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From The National Debate: Later Brokaw freaked out Jon Stewart by saying nothing at all when Stewart, appearing in the NBC sky box said “I saw Teresa Kerry kill a hobo with her bare hands”. If this is going to be his last DNC seems like Brokaw is determined to have fun. Jon Stewart’s good … Read more

Of things that were.

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A brief break from work to remember the important things: If … we prefer to meet danger with a light heart but without laborious training, and with a courage which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the better for it? … . For we are lovers of the … Read more

Never say that bloggers lack chutzpah.

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(Crossported to Redstate) Jeff Jarvis is casually taking the concept of the modern political convention, disassembling it to its component parts and redesigning it into a shape more aesthetically pleasing to him – and he hopes, the country at large. He’s discussing it in terms of the Democrats, but, really, it’d work for either party. … Read more

Pledge #2

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This is one that everyone can play: the Commissar is calling for people to disagree with a blogger that they respect. Sounds like a plan: I’ll start by disagreeing with… the Commissar, actually. Those were not nice things that you said about the Left in the process, Commissar; not very nice, not particularly fair and … Read more