Midweek Rambles (24 October 2007)

Workout notes 2000 yard swim, yoga. I found that my legs are actually getting a bit sore from all of the lunges and Warrior I poses.

What Warrior I is supposed to look like. No, I don’t look nearly that good!

The swimming is going ok; it is getting a bit better.

Social: this post has satellite images of the California wildfires. It is incredible.

Political: Some examples of double standards in the so-called liberal media. Talking about a candidate’s spouse/marriage(s) is outrageous, unless you are talking about the Clintons.

Summary: Tucker Carlson said he was “outraged” by a statement from Rep. Charlie Rangel critical of Rudy Giuliani’s “personal life,” adding, “I don’t think you should attack Giuliani for philandering.” But Carlson has previously asserted that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s marriage to former President Bill Clinton is “[o]f course” an issue in the 2008 presidential election, discussing the Clintons’ marriage in TV appearances, with references to Bill Clinton’s “philander[ing]” and “famous appetites.”

An American woman (e. g., Nancy Pelosi) wearing a headscarf in a Muslim country is bad, bad, bad, unless it is Laura Bush.

Barack Obama: oh no, he doesn’t always put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. Then again, neither does President Bush!

On the October 23 edition of Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, during a discussion of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) purported failure to place his hand over his heart during the national anthem at an Iowa campaign event, co-host Alan Colmes said to Fox News contributor and nationally syndicated columnist Dick Morris, “Just as long as conservatives are going after Obama, let me put up on the screen another person during the national anthem.” An on-screen image of President Bush appeared in which Bush’s hand is resting on his midsection as the national anthem is reportedly being played. [...]

As Media Matters for America documented, on his October 4 radio show, Hannity discussed an interview in which Obama said that he had stopped wearing an American flag pin on his lapel during the lead-up to the Iraq war: “[W]hy do we wear pins? Because our country was under attack. And to politicize once again the war to this extent. Well, who cares about the war? Are you proud of your country? Do you believe in America?” Media Matters noted that Hannity himself has not worn an American flag lapel pin on a number of recent occasions.

The image of President Bush shown during the program, also noted by the blog News Hounds:

Pretty stupid huh? Sure this was a cheap shot, but a well deserved one!

Other stuff:

Child Soldiers

Afghan Army

Monkeys getting into Monkey Business in Dehli, India.