Now, it is not because New Year’s Eve is my anniversary, but I am deeply aggrieved that 2008 has been extended by one second. This “leap second” was added by the ultimate big brother agency, the United States Naval Observatory under the dubious claim that it had to match the time to the Earth’s slowing spin on its axis. How do you intend to spend your unplanned 2008 second?
The extra second corresponds to 6:59:59 p.m. EST (23:59:59 GMT). This is the 24th second to be added since 1972. That is almost half a minute in my lifetime alone!
When Leslie and I eloped on New Year’s eve, I agreed to a standard and constant measurement of the years that would follow. This is the ultimate bait and switch. I have been forced into additional time in marital bliss without consent. It was bad enough to be married by a guy in an office filled with pictures of Dan Quayle after waiting with two clearly unwilling teens in a shotgun marriage. Now, I find that the government is extending the year to prolong my marital status.
What makes this so frustrating is that our anniversary is already mired in numerical controversy. I insist on counting eight years of courtship — making this our 19th anniversary. Leslie insists on only counting the legally enforceable contractual years — making this our 11th anniversary. Now, we have to deal with how to count the added second.
I intend to protest tonight by celebrating New Year’s at the originally determined period. The rest of you can be shills and suckers for the USNO.
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TEACHING DEMOCRATS NEW TRICKS
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Ravens can learn to snatch fishermen’s untended lines to get fish. Worms learn not to eat harmful bacteria (as opposed to the tasty nutritious bacteria they normally feed on). Fruit fly larvae can learn to detect the scent of predators.
But liberals cannot learn that the Aug. 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.” had not a speck of what we call “useful information.”
I described the Aug. 6 PDB in detail in my 2006 book “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” The memo read like a fifth-grader’s book report that he left to the last minute and had to quickly cobble together with old information on Google. The only “warnings” of future actions by al-Qaida were completely wrong — for example, suggesting that terrorists might be planning an attack “with explosives” or preparing to attack “federal buildings in New York.”
But liberals cite the Aug. 6 PDB as if it were a clarion warning of the 9/11 attacks.
On Dec. 3 this year, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann angrily announced that the Aug. 6 PDB “could have included copies of the terrorist itineraries and the message from the future,” but if the president didn’t “act on it or perhaps did not even read it,” it wouldn’t make any difference.
In fact, if Bush had directed all members of the executive branch to drop everything and jump on the “warnings” in the Aug. 6 PDB, bomb-sniffing dogs would have been prowling the nation and police lookouts would have been stationed at federal buildings in New York City — as planes smashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
True, the title of the PDB was “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.” I have a memo on 10,000 waitresses in Los Angeles titled: “Aspiring Actresses Determined to Succeed in Hollywood.”
But liberals endlessly repeat the same falsehoods like Stalinist party members, long after normal people have learned the truth and moved on.
Another Stalinesque classic is the left’s claim that Sen. Saxby Chambliss ran an ad challenging Max Cleland’s patriotism in the 2002 Senate campaign. I’ve seen the ad. You can see it, too: It’s all over the Internet. It does not challenge Cleland’s patriotism.
The ad begins by noting that America is facing “terrorists and extremist dictators” — briefly showing pictures of them — and goes on to say that although Cleland said he “supports Bush at every opportunity,” in fact he had voted against “the president’s vital Homeland security efforts 11 times.”
Again, as I noted in “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),” Cleland voted against the establishment of a Homeland Security Department … because it didn’t allow for unionization of the work force:
OH MY GOD! THERE’S A PLANE HEADED FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!
Sorry, I’m on my break. Please call back in two hours.
GOOD POST! Everybody needs to read this.
Buddha:
“candy, and I say this in the spirit of helping, there are lots of other drug choices out there that don’t have the harsh hallucinatory side effects.”
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ROFLMAO
It took more than a second scrolling past candy’s posts.
I want my second back!
Oh, what’s the use; I’d probably end up wasting it anyway.
candy, and I say this in the spirit of helping, there are lots of other drug choices out there that don’t have the harsh hallucinatory side effects. I’m just counting the days until they start putting your boys in prison orange. You know, for the whole torture and treason thing. I plan to spend my extra second working against everything you’re paid to endorse and the debased values upon which they slither. And I don’t mean blogging either, sweetie.
Or I might relax and have a good time while your gang sweats their fate. Which is bad no matter what, I assure you. More importantly the examples of history assure you.
You never can tell. It’s New Year’s and I’m cagey that way.
From a tactical perspective, you trolls do realize you betray yours and your master’s fears when you attack like this, right? Silly trolls. Distraction only works when the audience hasn’t or isn’t being shown the trick. Who taught you about propaganda? Tsk tsk tsk.
candy gets a solid
D-
Poor tactics, weak execution in form and timing. Your attack accomplished nothing and used a lot of words to do it. Your presentation is staged and strained. It reads like a template. Poor strategic target audience selection as evidenced by line of (tangential) reasoning and word choice. It’s amateur night. It’s like you read the books and didn’t understand the words. Further lack of improvement will result in you being placed on academic probation. Spend your extra second contemplating the true nature of evil and how it’s not too late to change your life.
Candy can use her extra second to tell us everything she knows about staying on topic.
Sally,
I think Candy and others like her are paid trolls/lackies. She is trying to draw attention away from what Mike Appleton wrote under JT’s entry on torture. I have seen this same thing occur many times on this blog. If there’s an entry on the possible prosecution of the administration for war crimes, out come a million ridiculous posts trying to redirect everyone away from that subject. That’ s my opinion.
mespo,
I laughed hard about the ambulance chase!
Sally, You didn’t miss anything. I think Candy is temporarily lost in an alien blog universe while Rush is on vacation.
I just want to know what Candy’s rants have to do with this story….
Can anyone tell me if I’m missing something here?
candy
1, December 31, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I am never amazed by the propaganda emitted by these left wing bloggers like Mr. Turley. It seems they have zero regard for the truth, accuracy, or even some semblance of balance.
carol
You’re 100% right. We’re not interested in even a semblance of what you call your “truth”. Now, go away.
Comedienne Roseanne Barr, another MSNBC staple, called Israel a “NAZI state” Tuesday, while declaring “The destruction of the jews [sic] in Israel has been assured with this inhuman attack on civilians in gaza [sic].” She also liked Hamas to a bunch of street gangs while depicting Israel’s military action “equivilent to los angeles [sic] attacking and launching war on the people of watts [sic] to attempt to kill the bloods [sic] the crips [sic].” Such was actually posted at her blog Roseanne World Tuesday.
The Times ^ | 12/31/2008 | Staff
Two EMT workers in Britain were arrested after they were heard allegedly discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed at home and subsequently died. Barry Baker, 59, who lived alone, dialed 911 saying that he thought he was having a heart attack. An ambulance was sent to his house while a controller kept him talking on the line. By the time the ambulance arrived at the house in Patcham, Brighton, Baker had collapsed, but the telephone line was still open and was being recorded.
SUCH WONDERFUL HEALTH CARE IN BRITAIN. THE GOVERNMENT PAYS FOR IT ALL YOU KNOW………………IT’S FREE…….FREE…..FORGET THE QUALITY, IT’S FREE……….
A group of Arab youths opened fire Wednesday evening on a number of Israelis working at a mall in the Danish city of Odense, some 140 kilometers west of Copenhagen. The Israelis, who were operating a stall in the shopping center, were lightly wounded in their legs. There is no apparent danger to their lives. The Foreign Ministry is following the reports closely, and Israelis emissaries in Copenhagen were headed to the site.
BUT BUT BUT FIREARMS ARE ILLEGAL IN DENMARK! HOW CAN THIS BE? YOU MEAN THE CRIMINALS HAVE GUNES BUT NOT THE INNOCENT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES!
The Israel Air Force on Wednesday evening bombed a mosque in a southern Gaza Strip which Hamas had been using to store part of its rocket arsenal.
Over the last few days, Palestinian militants have been seen carrying Katyusha and Qassam rockets, as well as a large supply of other weapons, around and into the mosque.
These weapons were destroyed in the IAF strike.
Israeli aircraft pounded smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border earlier Wednesday, setting off a huge explosion in a fuel tunnel, witnesses said, as other aircraft continued hunting down Hamas terrorists.
I am never amazed by the propaganda emitted by these left wing bloggers like Mr. Turley. It seems they have zero regard for the truth, accuracy, or even some semblance of balance.
Kind of like MSNBC and the nutter crowd there.
McKinney relief ship, Israeli vessel collide
By Julia Malone, Bob Deans, Jeffry Scott
Cox Washington Bureau
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, standing beside a lightly damaged yacht, Tuesday accused the Israeli navy of ramming the vessel to halt the delivery of medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip.
But Israeli authorities said the collision was accidental. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the boat tried to outmaneuver an Israeli navy ship and crashed into it, lightly damaging both vessels. The navy then escorted the boat out into the territorial waters of Cyprus.
At an afternoon press conference in Atlanta, Israeli Ambassador Reda Mansour decried McKinney’s involvement.
“We think this is an irresponsible act by a political figure,” said Mansour.
Jonathan Peled, spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, said “the boat came very close, we called the ship to basically to turn around, we informed the ship that they wouldn’t be allowed to enter Gaza. The ship wasn’t rammed, that definitely wasn’t the truth.”
The Dignity set off from Cyprus on Monday with almost 4 tons of Cypriot-donated medical supplies, including surgical equipment and antibiotics, as well as 16 passengers from the United States, Cyprus, Britain, Australia, Ireland and elsewhere, organizers said.
HEY TURLEY, WHY NOT TRY PUTTING UP THE BALANCED REPORT!
rcampbell,
Those are questions best answered with botox and nightcreams!
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of our Lives.”
Does this make me a second older or a second younger? Or still simply my parents’ second child.
An second worth of drinking, Baby!!!!
Happy Anniversary and many happy returns of the years! We should all go with the Mayan caledar–good through 2012.
I plan on using that extra second to catch up on some much needed sleep!!