Conservative Musings

Save The Debate, Ditch CNN

Save the debate, ditch CNN.  Good idea.  Even as one commenter there noted, let Rush do it instead.

Since a GOP primary is supposed to be for REPUBLICANS to choose OUR nominee, why SHOULDN’T it be partisan? By which I mean, questions asked by REPUBLICANS, with answers FOR Republicans, instead planted liberals hand-picked by clueless CNN staffers.

I say the 8 candidates should appear on a live 3 hour radio debate during the Rush Limbaugh program. CNN had 5 million viewers, and most were democrats. Rush gets 20 million listeners, and most are REPUBLICANS. And Rush will ask questions WE want answered instead of trolling for democrat talking points.

As Hugh Hewitt notes, these guys at CNN should be know as "The Most Busted Name in News".

-Colonel Steve

WHAS Drops Joe Elliott Show

The Courier-Journal reports today about WHAS dropping Joe Elliott and his 9pm-midnight show.  He's being replaced by Michael Savage's "The Savage Nation" syndicated show.

I see this as one more local show being dropped for one of the big nationals, with WHAS losing more of it's local flavor.

I agree more with some of Savage's stands on issues like illegal immigration and English as the national language.  However, what little I heard of Savage while he was on WGTK for awhile actually made me rather sick.  His on-air personality has a lot to be desired in my opinion.  Leaves me wondering how he's ranked third behind Rush and Sean Hannity.

Outside of Rush and Cards games, I rarely listen to WHAS anyway.  So my opinions won't gain them a listener anyway.

-Colonel Steve

Plants and Debates

The biggest news out of the GOP debate last night wasn't so much who "won" the debate but who lost it.  The consensus seems to be that CNN lost it by a land side. 

Brian Maloney at The Radio Equalizer reminds us of Rush's point today.  Rush told us "I told you so!" when it came to him telling the Republicans they shouldn't have agreed to do this Youtube debate.  But really, with all the "planting" that went on, it's CNN and the MSM that has lost the credibility here, not the GOP candidates.  In the long term it will be the media idiocy that will be remembered, not any answers those on stage gave.

Michelle Malkin has done a great job of tallying the list of plants in the debate forum.  The biggest catch was by Bill Bennett, who rather caught Anderson Cooper speechless with the first notice of a possible plant (HT: Allahpundit)

We can't leave this subject without Scott Ott's take on the whole evening.  Amazing how humor can sound so believable!

-Colonel Steve

History Rewritten

Only from a Clinton would you find such a brazen attempt to rewrite history.  As Jack Trapper of ABC News has noted, Bill Clinton recently has been quoted telling Iowans that he has "opposed Iraq from the beginning."

Ha.

Jack then well documents previous quotes of Bill's

On his own foundation's Web site, a 2003 speech where Clinton said, "I supported the president when he asked the Congress for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

"Clinton defends successor's push for war," says a CNN story. "Says Bush 'couldn't responsibly ignore' chance Iraq had WMDs."

This headline based on Clinton's assertion that because of any president should have a post-9/11 focus on ensuring terrorists cannot get "chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material ... That's why I supported the Iraq thing."

The former president was also doing his best -- HERE and elsewhere -- to argue to Britons that they "Trust Tony's Judgment" as he led that nation to war against Iraq.

George Orwell wrote in 1984 of the totalitarian government of Oceania rewriting history as they saw fit.  Their Ministry of Truth could learn a few things from good ol' Bill.

-Colonel Steve

One of Ron Paul's Latest Endorsements

Over the past few days, Ron Paul has received the endorsement of this Nevada business owner.  Sounds way too Bill Clinton-ish.

(HT: Below the Beltway)

-Colonel Steve

Is There A Gap In Your Thinking?

Most evangelical Christians seem to believe the young-earth theory of creation that has God creating the universe in seven 24-hour days.  Many others subscribe to variations of old-earth creation in which the "day" described in the first chapter of Genesis is a secret code for some specified "age" of time.

Most Christians have either never heard of the Gap Theory or never paid much attention to it.  The Gap Theory says that the first verse in Genesis should be considered separately from the "days" of creation that follow it. 

1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

According to this theory, the verses that follow actually refer to a re-creation of the universe after some cataclysm has left the earth "formless and void."  This allows for a very old universe as well as seven literal 24-hour days of re-creation.

A friend of mine has written a new book, "In the Beginnings: A Defense of the Biblical Gap Theory of Creation." From the back of the book:

This book takes an in-depth look at both the science and the Bible.  Its purpose is to show how the Gap Theory better fits the scientific and biblical facts.

I personally believe the Gap Theory matches biblical and scientific facts much better than either the young-earth or day-age models.  I don't always agree with Dr. Dill's analysis but his basic premise is spot on.

Is there a Gap in your thinking?  Read the book and find out.

--Red

Not Quite Batting A Thousand

There are two teams known for hurricane predictions.  The William Gray and Philip Klotzbach group at Colorado State University, and the National Hurricane Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Neither team has faired very well over the past few years.

Sure, weather predictions have come far over the past few decades.  Even with this, though, it's turned forecasting from originally not much more than a guess to now what some would call an educated guess.  It's sure not an exact science, but we sure have gotten a better feel for what's going to take place the next few days than we've ever had before.

However, these hurricane predictions do beg one question.  If we can't predict one hurricane season (June 1st thru November 30th, or 6 months time), how can we be so sure about things like the effects of global warming over decades in the future?

-Colonel Steve

A Liberal Computer?

We've heard lately that most wealthy districts are represented by Democrats.  Now we're hearing that most Apple users are Democrats as well.  This stems from the fact that most Macs are found in the graphical, educational, and media type companies, which lean politically to the left.

-Colonel Steve

Faster XP

ComputerWorld notes today that those of us still using that "old" OS on our computers just may get a boost soon.

It seems that the next Service Pack for Windows XP (SP3) actually causes XP to run FASTER than the current service pack (SP2).  The reported speed difference is like 10% faster.  Uh-oh, Vista.

One very interesting commenter puts it this way:

Devil Mountain Software, the outfit that had previously declared  Vista SP1 a Performance Dud  came to the conclusion that Windows XP SP3 Yields Performance Gains - about 10% compared to XP SP2.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that the very same tests show the outgoing operating system, XP twice as fast as Vista, the “flagship” OS.  No wonder Forrester Research says Vista’s biggest problem is XP.

And another says:

 Is Windows Vista turning out to be more like Windows Me, one of Microsoft’s greatest OS failures, than anything else?

-Colonel Steve

Amazon's eBook device

Lady Colonel has been discussing with me for awhile now on the subject of electronic books (eBooks).  She's been hoping the idea of eBooks would take off big time somewhere in the near future, for she really loves the idea.

The talk of late has been Amazon's move into this direction with it's Kindle product.  Right now, it's a hot seller.  Currently, it's out of stock with the estimated stocking date of December 17th.  Might be tough for a Christmas present.

Anyone had thoughts on eBooks in general?  Or the Kindle product?

-Colonel Steve