* It's not about *what* anyone says any more. Creating talking points out of edited soundbites is the soup du jour for the MSM.
* Wal-Mart is the underdog? Yeah, like the Republican Majority are martyrs? When you're sitting on top of the heap, shut up with the "poor me".
* How's Georgie the CEO doing?
* It's one thing to lose the support of the people back home... it's another to demoralize the men and women in the theatre of war.
* Abortion facts... are they as bad as the screamin' meemies say?
Point to Ponder
from the PostPosted by kerry at July 21, 2005 03:58 AMThe paragraph identifying her as the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was clearly marked to show that it contained classified material at the "secret" level, two sources said. The CIA classifies as "secret" the names of officers whose identities are covert, according to former senior agency officials.
Anyone reading that paragraph should have been aware that it contained secret information, though that designation was not specifically attached to Plame's name and did not describe her status as covert, the sources said. It is a federal crime, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for a federal official to knowingly disclose the identity of a covert CIA official if the person knows the government is trying to keep it secret.
"Abortion facts... are they as bad as the screamin' meemies say?"
Screamin' meemies? That's a new one to me. Translation?
BTW, the pro-life movement routinely cites Alan Guttmacher Institute statistics. If anyone has an incentive to underestimate abortion rates, they do, yet even they report over 3500 abortions per day.
What they don't report is how many of those abortions were unwanted by the mother.
Posted by: Eric Scheidler at July 21, 2005 12:04 PMScreamin' Meemies
Individuals who;
* Value the unborn over the born.
* Are focused more on overturning Roe v Wade than easing adoption laws.
* Would rather spend millions on abstinence than protection and prevention.
* Believe birth control is a sin.
* Myopically believe in a single moral code as dictated by a single book/church.
* Try and dictate a woman's personal life choices.
* Aggressively lobby Congress for legislative change but do not pay taxes.
* Believe it's better to keep a child in the "system" than allow gays to adopt.
Okay, caracatures aside, what's the derivation of the term "meemies"?
(I have to laugh "value the unborn over the born" bit, having only two and half weeks ago raced off to the hostpital in the middle of the night with my hemorrhaging wife, terrified we were about to lose our baby, who at that point was unborn but would be delivered by emergency C-section a few hours later. I think I can pretty honestly say I don't value her less now she's been born, and in a sense value her more having gotten to know her. But we did value her before she was born, as we believe all unborn children should be valued.)
Posted by: Eric Scheidler at July 24, 2005 10:18 AMApparently it's a regional colloquialism, used in this case to describe ranters and ravers who prefer the "at" over the "to" when talking.
Posted by: kerry at July 25, 2005 03:31 AM