Network Down…
No what’s hot tonight. Looks like the router has gone south. Will have to pick up a new one tomorrow. Grrrrrrrr…
Update: Network is still flaky. Can’t tell if it was the router or the DSL modem. And the new router isn’t connecting properly with the modem so I’m back to the old router again until I can take another run at this tomorrow night. If I have an internet Tuesday morning and there’s something to blog about I’ll blog. Otherwise ICN is still down.
August 19, 2012 at 9:23 pm
I’m betting Spud kicked it.
August 19, 2012 at 9:59 pm
This is why I like having a (not-all-that) smart phone to tether to as a detour route onto the internet super-highway whenever the cable entrance has been shut down.
August 20, 2012 at 5:58 am
With unlimited bandwidth…yeah that works. If you’re on a data plan, that doesn’t work…
August 20, 2012 at 6:45 am
Verizon keeps trying to entice me away from the unlimited usage I enjoy. While I could save a few bucks by taking a plan that tops out with more than I now use, I figure “unlimited for life” is worth hanging on to.
August 20, 2012 at 11:47 am
“Legitimate rape”, “honest rape”…can someone please explain to old conservative guys that we’re not fighting an epidemic of “fake rapes”, and that maybe they should stfu?
August 20, 2012 at 11:50 am
I think they already did.
August 20, 2012 at 11:53 am
Congressman Idiot, er, Akins is withdrawing from the race.
Human race, hopefully but apparently just the senatorial one.
Well, glass is half full.
August 20, 2012 at 11:57 am
All I can figure – and I’m giving him entirely too much credit – is that he might have been trying to say that rape/incest is a very small number out of all abortions. But..that…doesn’t indicate something unique about the act itself. Dude needs a remedial Health Class.
August 20, 2012 at 12:05 pm
He was trying to say that the ‘no exceptions’ clause is acceptable because rape victims don’t get pregnant, therefore the exception isn’t necessary. There’s a way to defend the ‘no exceptions’ absolutism on this issue. Denying reality is not one of them.
August 20, 2012 at 12:07 pm
But others have said similar things, so I guess it’s an actual strain of “thought”. I think it comes from an inability to rationally defend a hard-line view of abortion, so they default to “Well, that doesn’t really actually happen“. Uh, wrong.
August 20, 2012 at 12:10 pm
The guy who sees racial code words in his Pop-Tarts can explain this guy.
That make sense if you think about it.
August 20, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Yeah, I know: gotta work on that self-discipline.
But sometimes it’s just irresistible.
August 20, 2012 at 12:14 pm
I think he prefers Eggo Waffles.
August 20, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Lord knows what he sees in those.
Klan meetings?
August 20, 2012 at 12:23 pm
John Ashcroft singing.
August 20, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Scratch that: the idiot, er Congressman is staying in.
August 20, 2012 at 12:27 pm
I like eagles.
August 20, 2012 at 12:42 pm
I like turtles.
August 20, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Their eggs are delicious.
August 20, 2012 at 1:05 pm
There seems to be conflicting reports on whether or not whats-his-face is going to leave the race or not. At this point, I’m not sure how or why he wouldn’t. Even if he believes what he says, more recent polling has to show him at a huge disadvantage… and I wouldn’t be surprised if a more viable Republican candidate told him “Drop out, or I’ll run against you as an Independent.” He’s done. And someone really needs to make sure he knows it.
August 20, 2012 at 1:10 pm
He lost Hannity. When even Hannity can’t dream up a persecution defense for you, you’re toast.
August 20, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Democrats don’t need to create distractions, those Republicans do a great job of doing it. From the crazies to the inarticulate.
August 20, 2012 at 3:14 pm
^The Vice President with his first post on ICN.
How y’all doing, Mr. Biden?
Neither party has a monopoly on boneheads.
August 20, 2012 at 3:27 pm
The conservative Canadian is right: The Republicans are doing a fine job of digging themselves into holes without any help from the Democrats. The problem is Mitt Romney wants to talk about the economy, but the social agenda of the Tea Party keeps taking over.
He picked Ryan and talked about Medicare for a week. Now he’s dealing with a stark reminder that Ryan declared himself “the most pro-life member of Congress”; one who supports Akin’s 100% no exceptions stance on abortion.
Maybe we’ll get to prayer in school and flag-burning next week…
August 20, 2012 at 4:19 pm
See Joe,the Dems and the MSM are hoping this Akins thing will help them…the story will be over by the week after the guy drops out..funny thing is this thing may give the GOP the senate as the possible replacement candidates are Women who can easily beat the Dem.
August 20, 2012 at 4:34 pm
OT, forgive me, but whatever happened to Margaret Hoover? She used to be one of the “Culture Warriors” on O’Reilly. Haven’t seen her in months.
August 20, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Margaret Hoover moved to CNN.
August 20, 2012 at 4:55 pm
I’m fully aware that Akin stepping aside is not a win for the Dems in the MO., but that isn’t what I was talking about.
August 20, 2012 at 6:02 pm
@Erich: I’m not saying that at all. I didn’t classify Akin as one or the other either. The point is the GOP needs to be very mindful of the media. It’s quite obvious who most of them want to win.
It is interesting to see the international media covering the Akin comment but almost nothing on the Biden chains comment.
August 20, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Oh please, Outsider. Yes, they’re both gaffes, but Akin’s is much more bizarre, and could affect the balance of power in Congress if he stays in the race. It’s a bigger story.
August 20, 2012 at 6:27 pm
-and could affect the balance of power-
As opposed to being a heartbeat away…
August 20, 2012 at 6:47 pm
^ Take two completely different sets of circumstances; pretend they’re comparable; comment. Up next, “if Joe Biden had said what Akin said”.. (yes, I’ve already heard this one today).
August 20, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Your “Akins’s is much more bizarre.” No, not really.
August 20, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Legitimate rape. Yeah, that’s more bizarre.
August 20, 2012 at 7:15 pm
No argument about it being bizarre, but adopting a particular audience’s speech pattern and telling them they’ll be put “back in chains” is plenty bizarre.
August 20, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Akins holds a Master of Divinity degree from a Presbyterian seminary and has held an elective office since 1989. Anyone can have a brain fart and say the wrong thing, but it’s hard to imagine how someone with that much time in politics could use the words “legitimate” and “rape” together and not immediately realise how bad it sounds.
August 20, 2012 at 7:55 pm
It wasn’t a brain fart. That sentence came out pretty smoothly, as if from a person who held those thoughts in his brain long before he expressed them. This is in line with Ron Paul’s “honest rape”. Apparently there’s a strain of men who believe there’s a significant number of illegitimate rapes in this country.
I presume these would be the girls in short skirts who “had it coming” and “really didn’t mind”. Or something. I can’t begin to fathom how you can develop a concept of rape that divides it into “real ones” and “not real ones”, but Rep. Akin clearly has.
August 20, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Because previous proposed legislation differentiated “statutory” out from the rest, I’d assume he meant “legitimate” as “actual” or “non-statutory”. If he didn’t mean that then those words do not even make any illogical sense.
August 20, 2012 at 8:52 pm
“Margaret Hoover moved to CNN.” – Laura
Thanks, Laura. Maybe she’ll come back after a year like Imogen Lloyd Webber.
August 20, 2012 at 9:01 pm
Wayne Brady knows how to sincerely apologise and Sarah Palin knows how to sincerely accept it.
August 20, 2012 at 9:33 pm
This is in line with Ron Paul’s…
From Ari Fleischer, who interestingly RT’s GretaWire.
Ron Paul smacks Todd Akin. Says Akin is Dead wrong”. RT @gretawire: Rep. Paul on Rep. Akin’s comments: http://bit.ly/Sh0M9B
August 20, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Who’s Wayne Brady, and what did he do?
August 20, 2012 at 9:44 pm
Wayne Brady – comedian, funny guy. Had his own show and was regular on Drew Cary’s Whose Line Is It Anyway – told a bad joke about Trig Palin at Roseanne-somebody’s roast and flat-out accepted responsibility for doing so and apologised.
August 20, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Ugh, I hate those roasts. The Dean Martin ones were funny, but today’s Comedy Central version is a dozen comedians competing to see who can say the meanest, nastiest, most outrageous thing. On the last one there was a comic there whose friend had just died in a car wreck, and Amy Goodman (you’ve seen her on Red Eye) made a joke about it. I’ll never forget the look on the poor guy’s face.
August 20, 2012 at 10:00 pm
I think you mean Amy Schumer. I know this because I have her Comedy Central Mostly S ex Stuff dvr’d recording on now. Raunchy.
August 20, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Yep, Goodman is a lib columnist/host of Democracy Now. I knew the name didn’t sound right.
August 20, 2012 at 10:22 pm
She’s incredibly funny. On the other hand, you can be pretty sure it was someone just like her who p!ssed Moses off enough for him to throw those big rock tablets.
August 21, 2012 at 5:07 am
RE: Comedy Central’s Roasts
Joe is 100% correct (for the first time… ever). They used to be harmless teasing, but the desire to push the envelope has made them unwatchable. They’re no good anymore.
August 21, 2012 at 5:31 am
If you ever wondered whether polling firms play with the sample in order to get the desired results, wonder no more…