Why are the Berger documents not on the front page of the NYTimes???????????
Scooter Libby was abused by them and faces jail time but Berger gets a pass because he is a Democrat????
What country do I live in? Sickening!!!!!
.............The other is that the likes of the New York Times, which delights in jeopardizing national security when doing so harms the Bush administration, are seemingly not interested in these documents, certainly not enough to splash them all over the front page. Oops! We forgot. Wrong administration. Wrong party.
In October, several top House Republicans wrote Thomas M. Davis III, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, to investigate whether there was criminal misconduct in Berger's actions and just what information was destroyed or is still missing.
Somehow we doubt that this matter will be high on the new Democratic majority's list of investigations, and we don't think those documents will be splashed across the Times' front page any time soon.
Josh did you try my above suggestion with regards to your wireless network?
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
"...the New York Times, which delights in jeopardizing national security when doing so harms the Bush administration...."
Don't get me started. The NY Times and their ilk can be summed up quite nicely: Name one of Al Qaeda's secret plots, plans or programs meant to harm the US or our allies that they've exposed. I can't think of a single one. I can, however, think of any number of our secret plots, plans or programs meant to harm Al Qaeda and their allies that the Times has not only exposed but, in fact, thwarted. There’s a word for that kind of thing, yet I’ll leave that to your imagination. Bin Laden is many things, to be sure, but one thing he is not is ambiguous. He and his comrades have been very clear: they won’t stop these carnival barbarisms that they seem to so relish in until Sharia law is established worldwide; not just in Iraq or the Middle East, but WORLDWIDE (and I never use capitalized letters). Think Talibanic Afghanistan right here at home. To them, the creation of that universal Caliphate is the goal. Not a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (and about that, here’s a good article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/14/AR2006121401367.html.
“No, imagine an even better solution from the Arab point of view -- an earthquake that tomorrow swallows Israel whole and sinks it (like Santorini, 1650 B.C.) into the Mediterranean. Does anyone imagine that the Shiites stop killing Sunnis? That al-Qaeda stops killing Americans? That Iran and Syria work any less assiduously to destabilize post-Saddam Hussein Iraq?”)
Even though the facts are staring them right in the face, there are those who refuse to believe that Bin Laden and Ahmadinejad mean what they say. When Bin Laden says that those who don’t convert to Ahl ul-Sunna are infidels and should be killed, we should trust he’s being serious; when Ahmadinejad says Israel should be wiped off the map, we should believe him, too. Still, the Times continues to operate as if the real enemy were Bush, et al. Frustrating, to say the least.
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
It must be Bush's fault that Isreal formed in the first place.
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
You guys were talking about your failing laptops in one of the other forums. So I thouht I'd mention that with your data and charts and what-not that you have stored it wouldn't be a bad idea to have an external drive to back up everything on to now and then. The little thumb drives only hold a few gig of data, so if you need more than that get a western digital passport. I say that one because most external hard drives require external power and that one does not (provided it is connected to USB 2.0 which it likely is given the laptop you have). It also is smaller than most external hard drives in size, but still with hold 60 gigs.
What do you call a person who feels bad about a feel-good movie? Probably a liberal.
I saw “The Pursuit of Happyness” last week. It will be called a conservative movie, a Republican flick, a right-wing anthem.
In fact, it already has. Washington Post movie reviewer Stephen Hunter called it “a radically conservative encomium to trying hard, to capitalism, to salesmanship, to Dean Witter, to never saying die, and to reaping the big reward.”
I’m sure it will be called worse than “radically conservative,” too.
“Happyness” is a classic overcome-the-odds journey, an underdog-wins-big story, an American dream chase. And, it’s true. It’s the story of Chris Gardner, a high-school graduate, medical supply salesman, and father, who’s determined to climb the steepest hills of San Francisco toward a better life for himself and his young son.
After spotting a man with a Ferrari in the early 80s landscape of the West Coast and finding out that man’s a stock broker, Gardner--played with an easy combo of warmth and grit by Will Smith--makes up his mind to become one, too. He takes a chance on an unpaid internship with Dean Witter. He’s in a pool of 20, out of which exactly one man will eventually be hired. It’s the very definition of big risk, big reward. He’s got a young son to care for—played by Smith’s own son, Jaden—and the “unpaid” part of this internship puts the two of them in homeless shelters and church soup kitchens for half the movie.
The real-life Chris Gardner is now a 51-year-old multi-millionaire with his own Chicago brokerage firm.
Think “Eye of the Tiger” on the corporate ladder.
He did it all with bone-grinding discipline, precious little complaining, and a belief that he could. The movie is remarkable for what it does not contain. No griping about race, even though Gardner is a black man trying to make it in a mostly white firm. No bashing of Reaganomics, even though the time period makes the movie ripe for it. No two-dimensional, evil, greedy, white executives trying to stiff the little guy. No two-dimensional black male figure leaving his kid in the dust. No government hand-outs for Gardner.
No excuses.
Gardner just gets it done, against greater odds than many of us will ever have to face. Hunter, who gave the movie a good review, describes the movie’s lessons:
It's certainly got the old man's lessons, the ones you thought were so full of hooey. Remember when he told you, "Stick to it until it's done"? What did he know?
And then there was: "Get along with your boss. He's your boss because he's earned it." What a crock.
And then, "Don't whine, don't make excuses, just do the job." Boy, that one was a bummer. What was he, a Republican or something?
And finally, worst of all, the one nobody wants to hear, it hurts so much: "Work like hell." I hate that one.
America is used to seeing those values embodied in a sports film. When a hero sticks to it to win a state championship, the values are not considered “radically conservative.” When a football player is allowed “no excuses” for not catching a game-winning pass, no one thinks he’s a Republican.
It’s mostly because this man succeeds against great odds in a business environment that the movie is “conservative.” His accomplishment is found in capitalism, not football. It’s refreshing to see that held up for recognition, glamorized just a little bit without making the white-collar hero into a money-grubbing demon.
After all, the free market is the motor that makes this country run—and run better than any other country on earth—whether liberals want to believe it or not. It offers greater opportunity to greater numbers of people than any other system every conceptualized.
Not everyone will be a Chris Gardner in our society, but the free market can offer great rewards for those willing to take great risks, and very good rewards for most of the rest of us. Upward mobility is not a myth, though many liberals would like you to believe it is.
The utter reliance and faith some liberals express for government programs requires that they believe men like Gardner are victims, and stories like his, impossible. For many people who believe that, liberalism has devolved into a way to encourage victimhood over personal responsibility, and value dependence over self-reliance.
For that reason, this movie is a pleasant surprise coming from a very liberal Hollywood. Also a pleasant surprise, the fact that Will Smith’s star power carried the movie to the top of the box office in its opening weekend. I imagine it will continue to do well.
The message and values of “The Pursuit of Happyness” are not so much “radically conservative” as they are just plain optimistically American. Americans like those kinds of values, and they like seeing them on screen—“Rocky,” “Rudy,” “Hoosiers.”
Seeing them on screen, embodied in a homeless black man gunning for a stock broking position, is different, and inspiring. Chattanooga mayor Ron Littlefield is banking on Gardner inspiring a few of the homeless of his city, whom he took to the premiere.
As far as government initiatives go, I’ll take that one over most of the liberal social programs I’ve seen in practice. Ten bucks a person for an introduction to the still-accessible American dream, or a mill or two to convince them it doesn’t exist?
Go see the movie, retell this American story, and watch your liberal friends squirm. If these are “radically conservative” values, then we should all be proud to be radicals and create work to create more of them.
Mary Katharine Ham is the managing editor for Townhall.com.
You guys were talking about your failing laptops in one of the other forums. So I thouht I'd mention that with your data and charts and what-not that you have stored it wouldn't be a bad idea to have an external drive to back up everything on to now and then. The little thumb drives only hold a few gig of data, so if you need more than that get a western digital passport. I say that one because most external hard drives require external power and that one does not (provided it is connected to USB 2.0 which it likely is given the laptop you have). It also is smaller than most external hard drives in size, but still with hold 60 gigs.
Going to purchase one soon....it is a great idea thanks!!!
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
yes they do, but not just your chart data...everything else. What happens if TCNET servers go down?
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
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