Delegates Delegates who's got the Delegates?

I know the Repubs are trashing around trying to figure out what is happening post Limbaugh, but if you want to chuckle, go over to some of the Leftie blogs and check out the arguments between Hussein supporters and Billary supporters over who has the lead.

Which leads me to wonder..... Since the Demos love to scream about transparency, ease of the voter to approach and understand the system.. who in the world invented the mess they have now? One source says they're even, one says Hussein is ahead, the other says Billary is ahead... Who knows? But my friend Earl tells me it was designed by Demos in southern Florida.... Hanging chads optional. Dimples standard on fat cheeks....

Link to TalkLeft

News Flash!

Dr. Dobson endorses Huckabee!!

Well, that settles it for me. No doubt. Yes sir, that's it.

Anybody wanna tell McCain it's over??

You knew it would happen again.

FEBRUARY 7--One of the "Jena Six" defendants was arrested yesterday for allegedly assaulting a fellow student at a Texas high school. Bryant Purvis, 19, was busted on the misdemeanor charge following an 8:30 AM altercation at Hebron High School in Carrollton, where his family relocated from Louisiana. According to the below arrest warrant affidavit, Purvis assaulted a male student he apparently suspected of vandalizing his auto. Along with choking the 18-year-old victim, the 6' 6" Purvis allegedly slammed the teenager's head on a table.

So I guess Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will show up to express sympathy for the victim?

Link to source article

All of this is nutso stuff I don't know what happened at Jenna, but there is no doubt in my mind that the media attention apparently gave the young man the belief that he could do as he pleased rather than the understanding that he had to keep himself under control. And no, I am not saying he is guilty this time, but the siuation looks grim.

Background article Christian Science Monitor

I have got what I wanted.

I hope I will want what I have got.

Based on McCain's speech to CPAC members today I think I will, and I think the country will.

Here is a link to McCain's speech as printed on Powerline.

Am I smarter than the pundits??

Nope, don't think so. But when I read things like this from the NYTimes, I wonder.

But one of the most intriguing finding in the surveys of voters leaving the polls across the nation on Tuesday was when they arrived at their final decision.....when there was a sense that he was creating a movement that cut across racial and generational lines, there was a steady movement of Democrats toward Mr. Obama, the survey suggested. But those who reported making their decision on the last day bucked the trend, tending to vote for Mrs. Clinton, of New York.

Loooking back, I always understood that people who delay a decision are usually confused, weighing many factors. Unable to reach a decision they will almost always go with what they were previously comfortable with. In sales this meant that if you were the incumbent supplier you would push for a quick decision. If you were trying to unseat the incumbent you wanted to string things out. Let the customer get comfortable with you and your company.

Maybe the talking heads need less journalism school and more real world. Cancel that "maybe."

Editorial note: When I speak of sales I am not speaking of retail type sales, but big ticket complex sales. Marketing and advertising have a large impact on the former while specifications and relationships drive the latter.

NYT Article

I love puns

Regardless of one's age, you simply should always plan ahead:

The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married -- for the fourth time.

The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband's occupation. "He's a funeral director," she answered.

"Interesting," the newsman thought. He then asked her if she wouldn't mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living.

She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years. After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she'd first married a banker when she was in her early 20's, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40's, later on a preacher when in her 60's, and now in her 80's, a funeral director.

The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers.




Are you ready for this?




She smiled and explained, "I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go."

My thanks to Mack E!

What the Left thinks

Amongst the chatter and noise of “Super Tuesday” the CIA announced that they had actually waterboarded three terrorists. This of course was hardly news after the ABC News interview with this retired CIA employee:

In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling high-value al Qaeda targets, John Kiriakou, now retired, said the technique broke Zubaydah in less than 35 seconds. …."The next day, he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to cooperate," said Kiriakou

That our chattering class and those on the Left, consider such an effective means of obtaining information to be immoral is beyond me. But then the actions of people who claim to defend women’s rights but don’t seem to want to fight terrorists who will cheerfully hang women for raping a man is almost beyond me.

Note the “claim to defend” and “almost beyond.”

I have gradually came to the conclusion that the anti-war Left is basically willing to give lip service to certain things but when the rubber hits the road is unwilling to stand and deliver.

Women’s right’s, minority rights, freedom of speech…… rights that I, and I think most of us, hold dear, are merely things to be traded for peace, security and political power.

What the Left wants is control of our lives. They do not believe in freedom of speech, but rather your right to speak in agreement with them. So the protests against the war is not based on principle, but based on them believing they can negotiate with the terrorists. Giving up freedom of religion is not frightening to people who think that the most evil of religious type folks was Jerry Falwell.

They don’t believe that the radical Muslim terrorists really mean it when they say that all must obey Shari law because they have come to fruition in the hot house of thinking they are elite and they establish the rules for others.

I desperately hope that we can do enough to allow these people to keep themselves in blissful ignorance.

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