Archive for May 9th, 2009
May 9th, 2009
 
 This post is the 2,500th since the launch of this humble little blog just 16 months ago.
 The tally of published comments now stands at 13,315 (which doesn’t include several hundred that were deleted or barred for one reason or another).Â
 I am sincerely grateful to our many Applesauce visitors (more than 35,000 a month, at last count) and especially to those brave enough to register their opinions at the risk of snarky rejoinders from me and other commenters.
May 9th, 2009
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 David Feherty (above), a golf analyst for CBS Sports, apparently has a low estimation of the morals of U.S. military personnel.
 In THIS PIECE (scroll down to the headline: “An F-List Celeb Imagines…”), Feherty says:
If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.
 Clearly, Feherty is a sick man.
May 9th, 2009
 
 My favorite kind of misled conservative male is the guy who sees everything through the prism of the western movies he watched as a boy.
 Never mind that these flicks almost invariably had no relationship to actual history or that even their trademark action scenes were beyond preposterous. The important thing is that westerns offered lessons on manhood to especially impressionable young boys.
 I, too, enjoyed this cinematic crap as a lad, but I outgrew it. Some guys, however — THIS ONE, for example — never got over their love of horse operas.  Predictably, most of them seem to have become Republicans.
 POSTSCRIPT: This stuff brings to mind my PROFILE of John Wayne, which I’ve posted here on several occasions, most recently last August.
May 9th, 2009
THISÂ isn’t going to sit well with those who hate it when government does anything right (and they’ll probably blame Obama if they catch the flu).
May 9th, 2009
This important video offers useful advice on how to organize mutual protection teams to keep you and yours safe from the you-know-who during these perilous times:
May 9th, 2009
 
 Insufferable extremist Alan Keyes, the erstwhile candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from here in Illinois, got himself arrested yesterday at the University of Notre Dame during a protest against the school’s invitation to President Obama as this year’s commencement speaker.
 When you’re done reading THIS STORY about the incident, be sure to check the comments attached thereto. Some of them are very good.
May 9th, 2009
 Republicans, desperate to find some issue that will work for them, are darkly hinting that President Obama’s closing of Guantanamo Bay will mean the release of Islamic terrorists into the American populace.
 And gullibles like THIS GUY are buying it.
 The GOPers also are pretending that we don’t have sufficiently secure prisons here in the United States to handle the transfer of the worst of the Gitmo detainees, which is NONSENSE. The government already has lots of bad terrorists behind bars on American soil.
 But then, the Republicans have nothing to sell but fear. Witness these two ridiculous ads:
 And then there’s this clever video response to the GOP fear-mongering.
