I mean, except for devoting his entire life to public service and putting his life on the line time and again. Other than that, he’s completely selfish.
The CA has a traffic breakdown of the early voting locations in Memphis and Shelby County; I’ve added this information to the Google Map. The locations with more than 1,000 voters a day are indicated in red, those between 900 and 1000 are yellow, and everything else is in green.
Al Gore is in Memphis today to receive another award he hasn’t earned, and he’s brought the Gore Effect with him.
The average high for Memphis on October 28 is 69 degrees, with an average low of 46 degrees. Our record low of 30 degrees came in 1976.
Today’s high is 55 degrees (14 degrees cooler than average), and today’s low is 33 (13 degrees cooler than average, and just three degrees higher than the record).
After today, temperatures are expected to heat back up. Take a look at Tuesday compared with the rest of the week:
The Census Bureau has released the poverty rate for 2007, which edged up 0.2%. The 2007 rate of 12.5 is slightly higher than the Bush 43 average of 12.34.
If you’re in the Memphis area this weekend, come visit the Haunted Web of Horrors, a huge, 13,000 sq ft haunted house with two separate haunts — The Asylum and The Darkness. All the actors and operators are volunteers, and the ticket sales benefit Youth Villages.
That was me last week, just sitting down to get my face painted for the part of a twisted autopsy doctor in The Asylum. And below is one of me in costume for The Darkness, standing with some of the other actors:
I wish I hadn’t been triple-booked tonight, because I would have loved to confront Jackson Kibitzer/Baker at the SPJ forum on media Presidential coverage. Fortunately, Mediaverse live-blogged the event; I’m particularly interested in this excerpt:
7:30: Asked if he feels if the media invaded Joe The Plumber’s privacy by exposing his private details and whether he consented it, Baker said he invited the scrutiny because he asked a question of Obama that could have been politically advantage and the media was right to inspect his public image. Baker said that was a classic case of the media doing its job since McCain used him as a test case for his own agenda.
I’d like to have clarification on what “could have been politically advantage” means.
Still, Baker thinks Joe the Plumber — a private citizen — “invited the scrutiny” of his “private details” because he asked a question that provoked a controversial answer from a politician passing through his neighborhood?
Baker thinks the media was right to inspect Joe’s “private details” because a second politician seized upon that candidate’s gaffe to advance his own campaign?
And yet Baker thinks it “ain’t good” for the media to investigate an actual, prominent public figure who may have fathered a child with a paid campaign staffer (who apparently had no prior experience doing the job) while still married to his seriously-ill wife, may have been spotted visiting the child under the cover of night, and may have continued to lie about the whole scenario, while simultaneously being (seriously) considered for U.S. Attorney General?
Astounding.
It appears to be Kibitzer/Baker’s contention that private citizens who embarrass Democrats should be subjected to exponentially greater media scrutiny than public servants who engage in seriously unethical behavior but happen to be Democrats.
Kibitzer/Baker says “everything [I] do is boiringly ideological,” but he’s the predictably Leftist shill.
The Original Mud Puppy says, “I don’t respect commentary from anyone that refers to Barack Obama as Barry, BO, or BRCK BM.”
Since his apostles continue to have difficulty with my designation, please allow me to explain.
I started referring to the Junior Senator from Illinois exclusively as BRCK BM on February 28th, giving him the same honor the Hebrews reserved for YHWH.
Such reverence was necessary because his religious followers objected to BRCK BM’s full name being spoken or written, since using his given name was “an obvious attempt to associate him with The Great Muslim Menace.”
Hoping to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, the Democratic Presidential Candidate’s name had to be handled with extreme care and reverence. Unfortunately, it appears even this considered, controlled measure has been judged inadequate. But next to Chimpy McBu$Hitler — the commonly-accepted Leftist term for our current President — BRCK BM stands up pretty well.
Still, I fully suspect the Left will continue to preemptively reject conservative commentary no matter how we refer to BRCK BM — named, unnamed, nicknamed, This One, That One or simply The One. It’s just another excuse to ignore and/or prosecute those who disagree… until that blessed Red Dawn when The Fairness Doctrine silences us permanently.
