While on it’s surface it seems like a bloggers chainletter, in that when you get it you should likewise honor 5 blogs that make you think, as i considered it and looked at other bloggers thus awarded, I am honored to be in such company.
So, here are my 5 blog picks for the Thinking Blogger Award (see rules below):
Rosie continues on her quest to become the loudest idiot in America, and again dominates the view as the biggest bully.
She has lost it, and frankly no one can figure out why ABC and Barbara Walters lets her continue as she slowly destroys any credibility ABC and Walter’s have left. The view has turned into Rosie’s personal propaganda machine
Here is her latest unhinged and uninformed rant, followed by the Popular Mechanics rebuttal to her idiotic 911 bldg 7 conspiracy nutrootery. Psst. They used science! Try it.
Oh. And Joy Behar wins no awards for smarts with her continuing ranting about Yale and Bush….if Yale lets in idiots, do you include Howard Dean, John Kerry (who’s GPA was below Bush’s) and both Bill and Hillary Clinton?
Oh and Bush attended Havard too.
But no matter. What would April Fools be without a fool. Or two.
Recently,, Rosie O’Donnell, a co-host of ABC talk show The View, made comments on the show that renewed controversy over the collapse of World Trade Center 7.
If she had been a republican this would be a lead item, but since she is prissy DiFi from California, former Mayor of moonbat central, San Francisco, this is a back page yawn.
Senator exits MILCON following Metro exposé, vet-care scandal
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resignned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum’s ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.
As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband’s companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
Recently released this week was the report on Pat Tillman’s friendly fire death and the disinformation campaign the Army presented to immortalize him as the next “Private Ryan.” More to the point as the next Jessica Lynch.
Pat, like Jessica was used to present a tragic yet heroic tale to inspire people, until the story, Like Jessica’s unraveled and the truth was released: Pat was tragically killed by friendly fire.
First of all, friendly fire happens. It always has, and in war it always will. It is an unfortunate side effect of war that when imperfect humans are performing high stress missions in dangerous situations, mistakes will be made.
Pat was the sad recipient of such a mistake. There are numerous sites detailing his life and his heroism so I will defer to those. What concerns me is Kevin, Pat’s brother.
Keven wrote this letter which slams the war and Bush, and while I empathize for his obvious pain and anger, pissed me off in a few sections. So here is his letter with a few of my comments in line.
UPDATED: HuffPo hides the hate by deleting the post!
How people can live with such inner hatred and bitterness, I will never understand.
And the scary thing is that this is fairly mild for the HuffPo, but still, how can anyone even go there? How can you make such rude and idiotic statements? Via Hot Air:
I admit my bias shows with these stories. I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot? I know, it’s terrible. I admit it. I don’t wish anyone harm, even Tony Snow. And I do hope he recovers or at least does what he feels is best and surrounds himself with friends and family for his journey. But in the back of my head there’s Justin Timberlake’s “What goes around, goes around, comes around, comes all the way back around, ya..”…
I always publish retractions and corrections when I am wrong, and I was in my blog yesterday. I said the House bill had over 6.4 Billion in pork spending. I was wrong.
Congress has loaded up President Bush’s request for “emergency” spending on the Iraq war with more than $20 billion in “pork” for members’ districts.
Originally, Bush asked for $105 billion in emergency funding. Democratic leaders say they want to grant the request to continue funding the war despite their desire to end it.
“We have provided all of the money the president requested- and more,” boasted House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer.
It also includes $16 million to convert the old Food and Drug Administration building in southwest D.C. into more office space for the Capitol. That “emergency” expenditure comes at a time when taxpayers already shell out $600 million “more than double the original estimate” for a mammoth expansion of the Capitol, which includes 160,000 feet of new office space
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