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Open Thread: no Idiot Wind.

By: Paul Cella (Diary)  |  January 5th, 2009 at 03:42 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

The tedium of the commentary on the Middle East sort of resembles Bob Dylan’s Idiot Wind:

Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You’re an idiot, babe.
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

I myself doubt that there will ever be peace in the Middle East until Our Lord returns, and of that date I am as unsure as anything on earth.

So let this Open Thread be free of polemics on said subject.

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  • Aaron Gardner

    Leaving all past performance behind, and measuring purely in the context of who did best in this debate, it is my opinion that the best choices for the RNC Chair are Mike Duncan or Saul Anuzis.

    I have been critical of Mike Duncan here on RedState because of his past performance, but in this debate he showed that he pretty much gets what the base is saying, this isn’t to say that he is off the hook for 2008, just saying he did well in the debate.

    Saul, in my opinion was outstanding.

    best part of the debate was when Grover Norquist acknowledged the idiocy of the paultards asking questions about the freajin federal reserve.

  • William Collier Jr

    GOP may cut a deal n bailouts: treating dems like Israel treats Palestinians “kids gloves”. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Kenny Solomon

    To “my” Dolphins…………..

    Thank you for an incredible season which NOBODY expected, not even you guys would have dared to say 11-5 and a Division Title. Would have been nice if the entire team showed up yesterday, but that’s ok. Really it is.

    Hats off to The “Baldimer” Ravens for one amazing thrashing of my boys and one of the best defenses since the ’86 Giants and ’85 Bears.

    To Ed Reed of said “Baldimer” Ravens: When does your contract expire? I’d love to see you in a Dolphins uniform. You’re easily one of the best there is in the league.

    Cheers !

    • Next93

      Dear Vikings:

      Thanks for nothing!

      (Signed)

      Minnesota

      P.S.
      It would have been nice if you’d decided to leave for vacation AFTER the fourth quarter.

      • bs

        You let that twit into office, and the whole state falls apart.

    • Aaron Gardner

      Drudge has what little details are available here

      • zuiko

        “We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”

        • bs

          from Calderone:

          UPDATE: An NBC spokesperson tells Politico that Coulter was bumped for news coverage out of Washington and the Middle East, and would be welcomed back in the future. Perez Hilton will still be on the show.

          Perez Hilton. Is that a statement on the vapid nature of the Today show, or what?

          • zuiko

            “news coverage out of Washington and the Middle East, and gossip about supposedly gay celebrities.”

        • Kenny Solomon

          “like”, “you know” and “fer sure, dude”.

          And NBC wonders why their ratings are tanking faster than Chad Pennington was tossing interceptions yesterday.

        • izoneguy

          that many on Redstate would be banned from NBC as well.
          Obama is a downer. One of the biggest jerks I know works at NBC now. I gave this kid a start in the video industry back in the early 90′s.
          This guy now runs a dept. with 14 people. Hopefully it won’t be long before he gets laid off.

        • Next93

          When was the last time you heard of THAT happening, the sixteen-hundreds?

          First of many more to come, I’m sure.

          • QueenOfCups

            snark.

      • E Pluribus Unum

        then Ann Coulter just got bumped up a notch in my book.

      • George Claghorn

        That is all.

        • Jaded

          I heard her on Hannity’s radio show on the way home and she is the Queen of taking liberals to the woodshed. I will be purchasing her book in person at a book store because I love the looks of both the patrons and the store staff when purchasing such books :-)

          • QueenOfCups

            And that was exactly his reply: Makes me want to run out and buy her book.

          • 38585

            to get the heat off Obama and Rahmbo. The Dems were afraid this whole thing might seriously damper The One’s honeymoon, so they invented another crisis. Obama gets to distance himself from the machine that made him, I’m sure Blago is getting paid, Burris will be Senator of a seat that he could never have won, and Reid just wants to be liked. He’s betting that The One will ride in and save him in 2010, so he will be a lap dog until then.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Exposure to his ‘music’ actually shrinks the cerebral cortex.

  • Skanderbeg

    blahblahmumblemumbleblahblahOHYEAH

    (repeat forever)

    • Next93

      It should have read “repeat forever while making random noise with a harmonica”

      • zuiko
        • Next93

          N/t

          • Kenny Solomon

            Now before you go off on me, one of my favorite things in music is a true master of the pipes…. all types.

            ——————–

            What’s the definition of a true gentleman?

            A man who can play the bagpipes……. but doesn’t.

            ;)

            Cheers !

  • Patrick_Murdock

    These came from a recent issue of Esquire magazine.

    “I remember going to a huge waterfall on a glacier in Iceland. People were there on a rock-platform overlook to see it. They had their kids. There was a place that wasn’t sealed off, but it had a cable that stopped anybody from going past a certain point. I said to myself, You know, in the States they’d have that hurricane-fenced off, because they’re afraid somebody’s gonna fall and some lawyer’s going to appear. There, the mentality was like it was in America in the old days: If you fall, you’re stupid.”

    “We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody’s become used to saying, “Well, how do we handle it psychologically?” In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back, and you’d be left alone from then on………………………………..I don’t know if I can tell you exactly when the pussy generation started. Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life.”

    • larueladue

      Isn’t that when “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” came out? (My ex-wife bought me that book…)

      I love the quotes!

  • http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/ Brian Simpson
  • Raven

    On Fox News 5 minutes ago:
    “Because that’s the number being put out by the Obama Administration.”

  • Bob_Frazier

    Israel is bombarded by missiles for months and only when they retailiate do we see worldwide protests and outrage over violence. I guess its not outrageous when Israelis are the target. Where is the outrage?

    A Republican president becomes the first one to sieze government ownership in American Businesses (some involuntarily) and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity remain silent, as does the majority of the Republican Party leadership. That R after the name sure is powerful. Where is the outrage?

    Now we are going to tax dairy cows to save the planet. And all I want is my incandescent light bulb back. Lots more to come. Where is the outrage?

    Libertarians are always ready to complain when anybody suggests using drugs or having cardinal relations with someone other than your wife might not be the best idea. Yet liberals are taking away our choice of the car to drive, the lightbulb to use, how to use our own land, the ability to start a business, the right to say what you believe, and much more. And we don’t hear as much as a whimper. Where is the outrage?

    An election is being stolen in Minnesota, and we all know they will succeed because the republican party will do nothing. The democrats tried to steal an election in 2000, but you wouldn’t know it because the demcrats lied when they lost and the republicans chose not to defend themselves. History has been rewritten. Its madness. Where is the outrage?

    I could go on but you all know the issues and problems we face.

    What will it take for men and women of goodwill and right thinking to say NO MORE? Where is the outrage?

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • Next93

    Conservatives should be able to summon at least some outrage at these things(and more). He’s right; where is the outrage?

    It’s been 20 years since the Iron Curtain came down, and we’re handing the country over to a president who’s on record as saying that the constution is faulty because it doesn’t enumerate entitlements. The Marxists have won, and they haven’t fired a shot since 1972.

  • Next93

    The MSM hasn’t critically looked at a thing Obama has said for the last two years. You think they’re going to start two weeks before the coronation cannonizationinauguration?

  • 6eorge Jetson

    the MSM will credit Obama with saving 3 million jobs.

  • CV_Gas

    Is it legitimate to request the directors to be friends (i.e. facebook)? I know I don’t personally know them, but I feel in the spirit of this – http://www.redstate.com/bs/2008/11/30/the-left-owns-the-internet/ – it may help to spread the word…

  • bs

    Tell ‘em you’re a Redstate resident when you “friend” them. Maybe they’ll say yes. I can’t speak for them. I personally have added a few friends to Facebook that I don’t know. I tend not to do that very frequently, since I kind of operate incognito here. I always check the requester’s other friends to get a gauge on whether they’re on the level or not. In the few cases where I’ve added friends that I don’t know personally, they’ve been friends with a lot of the other RS contribs/directors, so I figured they were ok.

    But you ask a fairly simple question with some relatively deep implications. The question of privacy as it relates to political advocacy and your “persona” in the Interweb is an interesting topic. Some of us prefer to maintain a lower profile in our political doings because of who we know, who we work for, etc. Others, like many/most of my fellow contributors (not all) feel OK with being open with their online identity, for various reasons.

  • Tbone

    is not an issue on facebook. LOL