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It is rather amazing how many CPAC blogger films I still have to upload but we are getting near the home stretch nearly a month after the fact:
However the field guide is really less about CPAC and more about getting to know your favorite bloggers so that’s ok. Matthias’ blog is here.
Technically what SteveChris does is a podcast rather than a blog but I thought it was a good fit. This was filmed at his home studio just before I appeared on his podcast to debate/discuss the existence of God.
As soon as the podcast is up I’ll let you know and link to it. We had a pleasant but spirited discussion on God, sin, gay marriage, planned parenthood, why God lets bad things happen and the nature of sin and morality.
If planned parenthood opens in Fitchburg we will be on the opposite sides of the protests but for today we were just two guys talking about philosophy.
Update: I don’t know where I got “steve” from
Let’s take a peek around the blogroll and see what we can see:
Dan Collins notes a double standard on gaffes:
But despite all of the available evidence that so easily destroys the meta-narrative of Obama’s brilliance, we still have yet to see him get the same treatment that Gerald Ford, Reagan, Quayle, or G.W. Bush did; where are all of the jokes about his educated idiocy? About Hirohito signing the surrender aboard the Missouri? About him listing the 57 states? No one seems to see the humor in any of this.
This reminds me a bit of why I think Obamacare is such a priority for this administration.
On the left side of the aisle Dissenting Justice takes issue with John Sheehan and his opinion of Gay Soldiers in the Dutch army:
Sheehan’s comments are absolutely bankrupt. 23 of the 26 NATO members allow out gays and lesbians to serve in the military. Only the US, Turkey and Portugal do not. Under Sheehan’s “logic,” NATO itself is ineffective due to the presence of gay soldiers.
There is no question however that the Dutch certainly didn’t cover themselves with glory in Bosnia. I’ve given my opinion on gays in the military here.
And Finally Peg at What if notes that both the administrations dealings with Israel and her showing in the North American Bridge association championships leave much to be desired:
his kind of excessive and weirdly paternalistic attitude to the state of Israel, directed so clearly from the top, seems to come out of a kind of unexamined personal animus. The long record that Obama has of friendship with virulent enemies of Israel has not gone unnoticed.
As the old saying goes; only time will tell. Let’s hope that the rest of the time this week is kinder to my bridge performance, too!
Hey Peg, at least you never played with a partner who liked to bluff when bidding. It really changes the game.
I just finished reading Steve Eggleston’s post here concerning what constitutes when a bill passes and when not:
Allow me to translate that for you – as of right now, the ONLY court-acceptable evidence that an “enrolled bill” actually passed Congress, or was even introduced into either House of Congress, is the signatures of the Speaker of the House and the Vice President (or presumably the Senate President Pro Tempore) on said “enrolled bill”. That’s right – a troka of the Speaker, Vice President and President have had the power to unilaterally enact law regardless of the other 534 members of Congress and indeed the Constitution for the last 118 years.
I turned on Rush he is pointing out what I’ve said before. Once the Senate bill is “deemed” passed nothing else matters. The president will sign it and anything else you do won’t mean spit.
Take a Bow Steve.
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