Monday, August 6, 2007

Today's Reason to Not Like George W. Bush

As noted in this article, the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says that no person shall be deprived of property without due process of law. Despite this, Bush has signed an executive order that directs the Treasury Department to seize any and all assets of individuals who are deemed to pose a threat to the United States.

I don't know which is more annoying: Democrats who look the other way when this kind of thing is done...or Republicans who say it's necessary when you know darn well they'd be starting impeachment proceedings against any president named Clinton who suggested such a thing.

Oh, well. At least Abe seems to be okay.

• Posted at 7:20 PM · LINK

Abe Watch

It's been a while since I've checked to see if Abe Vigoda is still alive. Let's all go check together, shall we?

• Posted at 6:26 PM · LINK

Today's Video Link

This runs eight minutes but they'll be eight minutes of your life well spent. In the mid-sixties, Jim Henson and his Muppet crew did a series of highly entertaining commercials for LaChoy Canned Chow Mein. How entertaining were they? A lot of people mistook them for Stan Freberg commercials. That's how entertaining. But they weren't by Stan (whose birthday, by the way, is tomorrow). Henson did them and even performed the role of his new character, the LaChoy Dragon.

And what we have here is a sales film for that ad campaign — something they showed retailers and wholesalers, I guess, to tell them about the upcoming commercials. At the end, there are some of those funny spots but the stuff that leads up to it is pretty good, too...

• Posted at 9:32 AM · LINK

Who Said It?

Okay, here's the quote...

We’re about to enter the seventh year of this phony war…and we’re losing. None of you should believe we are winning this war. There is no evidence that we are winning this war.

Obviously, I wouldn't be quoting it and asking you to guess if it came from some Liberal Democrat since so many of them are saying it. Obviously, it has to be some Republican stalwart turning on the dominant mindset of his party. But which Republican stalwart?

• Posted at 9:00 AM · LINK