“I’m opposed to abortion.” - John Kerry, Oct. 1972

according to Ottawa’s Best Rock Mix 106.9 the Bear,

the chances of a baby albino raccoon being born are estimated at 1 in 750,000. To put it into human terms, a person would have a better chance of winning third prize in the 6/49 lottery which is 1 in 55,490 than a baby albino being born.

The 6/49 lottery?

Anyhow, I just saw one outside my apartment, with two other raccoons (one adult, one baby - both standard color).

Anybody who plans to vote for John Kerry because of the Iraq “quagmire” needs to watch this video. This isn’t just a dull rehash of stuff you’ve heard before; you will definitely learn something. [What a fallacy! The John Kerry of 1998-2003 is nothing like the John Kerry of 2004. -- Ed. You have point there.]

A nice companion to that, also created by GOP folks, is this rebuttal of unFairenheit 911. I especially enjoy the second bullet point of part seven.

I haven’t seen uF911, by the way. I am about to watch Bowling For Columbine, though, because I finally found a way to see it without directly passing money to Michael Moore - through a free trial of Netflix, which I highly recommend.

He is a conservative Christian, an Iowan, a Cubs fan, a Bush supporter and the author of multiple blogs. He was married in the year 2000, and a baby girl was born into his family this April.

Stretching it a bit further — he’s recently read a book by Dinesh D’Souza, and under “favorite music artists” he lists a band with a politically outspoken frontman.

Alison found his website recently, but now I notice that I’ve seen some of his writing before — he is a contributor to the Iowa Pork Forest blog. Heh!

Though NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume says black conservatives are puppets, Jack Kemp reminds us that the great Frederick Douglas was a Republican supporter. Why? Probably because Lincoln freed the slaves and Ulysses S. Grant signed an anti-Klan bill and arrested over 5,000 Klansmen.

An associate of Douglass wrote that African-Americans “will ever cherish a grateful remembrance of [Grant's] name, fame and great services.”

Whatever happened there? Maybe the spirit will return if Hillary Clinton goes head-to-head with Condoleeza Rice in 2008.

Looks like Heinz-Kerry has pulled a Cheney:

“We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics,” she told her fellow Pennsylvanians at a Sunday night reception at the Massachusetts Statehouse.

Minutes later, Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, questioned her on exactly what she meant by the term “un-American,” according to a tape of the encounter recorded by WTAE Channel 4 Action News.

Heinz Kerry said “I didn’t say that” several times to McNickle. She then turned to confer with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and others. When she faced McNickle again a short time later, he continued to question her, and she replied, “You said something I didn’t say. Now shove it.”

New: Looks like I’m not the only one referencing a Cheney gaffe - here’s another.

NY Times Public Editor Daniel Okrent says “of course it is [liberal].”

Some highlights:

if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you’ve been reading the paper with your eyes closed.

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Start with the editorial page, so thoroughly saturated in liberal theology that when it occasionally strays from that point of view the shocked yelps from the left overwhelm even the ceaseless rumble of disapproval from the right.

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for those who also believe the news pages cannot retain their credibility unless all aspects of an issue are subject to robust examination, it’s disappointing to see The Times present the social and cultural aspects of same-sex marriage in a tone that approaches cheerleading. …Every one of these articles was perfectly legitimate. Cumulatively, though, they would make a very effective ad campaign for the gay marriage cause. You wouldn’t even need the articles: run the headlines over the invariably sunny pictures of invariably happy people that ran with most of these pieces, and you’d have the makings of a life insurance commercial.

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On a topic that has produced one of the defining debates of our time, Times editors have failed to provide the three-dimensional perspective balanced journalism requires. This has not occurred because of management fiat, but because getting outside one’s own value system takes a great deal of self-questioning.

This is all I ever wanted from them - just an admission of bias, rather than a quixotic effort to cover it up and dismiss it. For once, they’ve done the right thing.

Former Ambassador Joe Wilson’s website is missing in action, both addresses - restorehonesty.com and johnkerry.com/honesty.

Websites don’t just disappear. The domain does not expire until October 22. Maybe it’s just down for repairs? Or perhaps the Kerry campaign has given up on Joe Wilson. A search of his name now produces no results.

I’m not sad to see it go, but here’s a google cache for posterity.

There are also other examples of “airbrushing” at the Kerry site.

Note: The title of this post has changed. I couldn’t resist referencing the Wilson editorial that started this whole mess.

December 30, 2003:

“One America does the work, while another America reaps the reward,” Edwards said in a speech detailing his efforts to bolster quality of life for middle-class Americans. “One America pays the taxes, while another America gets the tax breaks.”

July 24, 2004:

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards sought to rally voters in this battleground state Saturday… urging Americans to come together on “the things that unite us, not the things that divide us.”

Ok, Edwards - you first.

I just read this letter in the most recent National Review; it was also published a few days earlier in an Impromptus:

Nordlinger cited the old feminist slogan “A fetus in a woman’s womb has no more standing than a hamburger in her stomach.” That slogan would not be usable today. As we all know, thanks to the fine folks at PETA, “meat is murder,” whereas, of course, abortion is not. Interesting to note how, on our side, the positions are reversed.

These are some of the same people who proclaim the evils of Big Tobacco and in the next breath shout, “legalize marijuana!”

It’s hard to say, though, where Senator Kerry fits in. Given that he believes “life does begin at conception,” that gives a fetus more standing than a hamburger. But he also says, “that’s not a person yet.” Thus, a living human is… not a person. Is it murder if you kill a human who isn’t a person?

Ramesh asks the obvious question, “When does Kerry think personhood emerges?”

Ask me if I care.

Apparently, a new human life in Kerryworld has about as much standing as a waffle in his mouth. You can breed them, but you should never acknowledge their existence.