Catching up with Friends

We’re back in the proverbial saddle today… back from Boston and in front of a keyboard and screen of a computer that hopefully has all those new-fangled functions like cut’n’paste, hyperlink, multiple windows, etc. fully operational.

We may post some thoughts on the course we took later, especially with regard to some of our newly-minted naval officers. Not good. Now that we're back we checked in at our "Friends of..." and noted the following:

KT’s exit question: If government has come in to bail-out auto manufacturers and huge lending institutions, what’s to stop them from coming to the rescue of Big Media whose circulation, ratings and ad revenues are in a seemingly irreversible slide?



(Click to enlarge. Please note: these are not absolute numbers…. these are just the changes in one calendar year. schnikeys)

Some telling numbers linked to in the piece that contend there is a vested interest in Big Media becoming a government protectorate.

And with whom would you rather be serving aboard a U.S. Navy combatant or in a foxhole: an openly gay individual or a convicted felon? Foxie has an interesting post, one in which we don’t necessarily agree but hey, she served…and we, uhhh... sort of served and thus Advantage: Foxfier, in that regard.

Also, did M.T. Suit really diss wounded servicemen and women over in Germany, as his trip over to Europe and the Middle East, billed as a Senatorial fact-finding mission, was ostensibly a campaign rally and thus off-limits to base hospitals? Read more, here.

A quick word about the Cotton Candy Kid’s roadie: We’re a little late to the game so we won’t waste too much time on a subject that has been flogged to death but his speech to the Germans was pretty standard fare for the man which means that there were one or two things in the speech that were perfectly Obamaesque and thusly mildly to moderately irritating.

“I know my country has not perfected itself.”

Never mind the implicit critiques of this country’s foreign policy made on foreign soil that are contained in that statement, what is explicit is “the city on the hill” that the Messiah envisions for all us unwashed and this notion of a “Heaven of Earth” that has been simultaneously one of the goals and theoretical underpinnings of Socialist/collectivist thought. The condescension and presumptuousness is irksome and is in direct contrast to what we see in the genuine humility (of someone who has freaking been there and not merely visited there) of John McCain.

“The Christian… imagines the better future of the human species… in the image of heavenly joy…. We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth.” - Moses Hess, A Communist Confession of Faith, 1846