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For months, I displayed a Webb for Senate banner here. I gave money to Jim Webb during the primary. After he won, I thought that Virginia was exceedingly lucky to have two really good men running for Senate.

I supported Jim Webb because I believed him to be a honorable man. I really like and respect what he says in his books. I even interviewed him on Right Talk Radio a year ago. I was sad because I thought that the Republicans lost out on having a great man in the party.

I truly believed that Jim Webb would elevate the Democratic Party. I WAS WRONG! The Democratic Party has dragged Jim Webb into its slimy depths, and he does not seem to be fighting his way back. Has he stooped to fit in with the Alinsky tactics which define that party today? This is antithetical to the Scots-Irish sense of honor and fair play that Webb writes about in his book about his forebears.

I have a Democratic friend who was very happy that I was supporting Jim Webb. He is the one who tipped me off about the “macaca” incident, which, he insisted “proves” that Allen is a racist. My friend is an attorney who appears to lose all ability to sort and assess evidence when it comes to Democratic politics. He supports his argument with the book by Allen’s sister where she apparently smears Sen. Allen. I challenged my friend to prove that she is a credible source who was not motivated by envy or anger at her brothers for getting more of her father’s attention. No answer. Then, I read this:

The third is a book written in 2000 by Allen’s younger sister, Jennifer Allen Richard, which describes him as a bully when they were growing up. In a passage about one of her boyfriends, Richard writes: “My brother George welcomed him by slamming a pool cue against his head.”

Richard has since recanted, calling the pool cue story “a joke,” and the book in general “a novelization of the past.” Allen agrees.

(HT Mark Levin)

Now, we discover the holes in the stories of those who claim that Allen used the “n” word. Larry Sabato willfully misrepresented facts in his initial version.

In his books, Jim Webb challenged P.C. notions. Why won’t he challenge the use of hearsay, innuendo and wilful deception by his supporters being used to viciously smear Allen? Why is he allowing this to be the centerpiece of his campaign instead of debate on issues?

He has been kidnapped and is being held in bondage by lunatics. I still admire him, but I can’t stand the lunatics that seem to be dominating the press on his behalf.

Update:

On the other hand, I don’t think that I support Allen either. His campaign is using some former female midshipmen to smear Jim Webb over his stance concerning women at the Naval Academy.This is dirty too.

To his credit, Webb is not trumpeting the accusations of racism against Allen at his website. I would love for Jim Webb to tell the race mongers among his supporters to can it! He would reveal himself to be heads and shoulders above the usual dirt of political campaigns.

The stupidity of the Wilsonian paradigm of bringing democracy to the world, is showing its ass. The experimental subjects are running amok demonstrating that democracy in their hands will become an Oriental version of the French Terror or worse.

A nun was killed in Somalia, shot in the back by one of the brave, manly men Islam seems to produce these days. (HT Jihad Watch)

And lest you think that the particular subjects upon which the Wilsonian Democratizers are experimenting are immune from Islamaphrenia, look at this.

(AINA)—According to the website Islam Memo, one Christian was killed in Baghdad after the Pope’s speech two days ago. The speech created a wave of anger throughout the Islamic world, including Iraq. A poster has been placed in many Baghdad mosques for the previously unknown group, “Kataab Ashbal Al Islam Al Salafi,” (Islamic Salafist Boy Scout Battalions). This group threatens to kill all Christians in Iraq if the Pope does not apologize in three days in front of the whole world to Mohammed.”

Look at that goofball’s face! These people are beyond our help. They are driven only by irrationality and childish emotion. Let’s write them off and invest the savings of Chinese peasants, that we are burning through, in something with a worthwhile return.

(HT Drudge Report)

The hired help at the LA Times is refusing to follow the orders of the owner to cut staff.

I don’t follow the LA Times, though I’ve read on other blogs like Hugh Hewitt’s and Patterico’s that it is biased and loose with facts. I don’t know because I don’t read it.

But, I do own my own business. The thought of having an employee REFUSE to follow my instructions drives up my blood pressure.

I’ve often thought that the reason public corporations have such problems these days with, what seems to me, excessive executive pay as compared with results, is because the inmates are running the asylum. The actual owners whose bucks are at risk have very little say as compared to the employees.

I hope that the owner of the LA Times revises its cost-cutting measures and starts at the top with the editor. What the hell does that guy have at stake compared with the owners who are already suffering the effects of crappy management at that paper.

Andy and Conrad snuggle on the couch.

Fred and Ricky sleeping on the chair.

By filing suits like this: (HT WND)

A Broadmoor man who said he rescued more than 200 residents after commandeering a boat during the flood after Hurricane Katrina is being sued by the boat’s owner for taking it “without receiving permission.”

Mark Morice, who by the Wednesday after the storm said he “couldn’t get more than a block or two without people screaming to me for help,” took the boat “out of necessity. . . . I did it for my neighbors.”

Among them was Irving Gordon, a 93-year-old dialysis patient who Morice carried from his flooded home, placed in the boat and rescued from distress.

“I don’t know where we would be today if it weren’t for him,” Molly Gordon, Gordon’s wife of 65 years, said Friday.

The lawsuit contends that boat owner John M. Lyons Jr. suffered his own distress, in the form of “grief, mental anguish, embarrassment and suffering . . . due to the removal of the boat,” as well as its replacement costs.

E. Ronald Mills, Lyons’ Metairie lawyer, who filed the suit in 24th Judicial District Court in Jefferson Parish earlier this month, on Friday accused Morice of “hubris.”

I found information on the attorney here.

Look at these particular quotes from the attorney in the petition and to the press:

The lawsuit accuses Morice of taking the boat “solely to promote himself and his law practice.” Although he appeared in several newspapers in the storm’s aftermath, Morice said he never sought the publicity.

Mills said Morice could have been more responsible when he took the Lyons’ boat.

“If I felt I had to take the boat I would have at least left a note,” Mills said.

Could there be some envy there?

And, look at this:

In January, he received a letter from Mills noting that the Lyons had received less than half the replacement value of the boat and its motor from their insurance.

The letter asked Morice for $12,000 to “settle this matter.”

One generally doesn’t receive “replacement value”, one receives the actual value of the property that is destroyed or lost. I don’t think that they do that differently in Louisiana.

So this lawyer is trying to make up the difference between value and replacement value like this:

The lawsuit contends that boat owner John M. Lyons Jr. suffered his own distress, in the form of “grief, mental anguish, embarrassment and suffering . . . due to the removal of the boat,” as well as its replacement costs.

If he’s not entitled to more than the value, I don’t think that he can get damages for his “distress”—unless Louisiana law is totally different—which it might be since it is based on French Civil Codes.

Regardless, I think that the lawyer should be given some distress for filing such a stupid lawsuit.

I have been horrible about posting over here. Salt at The Cassandra Page has invited me to guest blog over at his place while he is gone. Perhaps committing to this will overcome my blogger’s block.

I have a post up over there now.