Right Wing Nation

We now have HD, with 95 additional HD channels. All I can say is, “Wow.”

Currently on the tube: Deadliest Catch, on Discovery HD.

* A&E HD
* Animal Planet HD
* Big Ten Network HD
* Biography Channel HD
* Bravo HD
* Cartoon Network
* Cinemax HD East
* Cinemax HD West
* CMT HD
* CNBC HD+
* CNN HD
* CSN Chicago HD
* CSN Mid-Atlantic HD
* CSTV HD
* Discovery Channel HD
* ESPN HD
* ESPN2 HD
* ESPNews HD
* Fox Business Network HD
* FSN Detroit HD
* FSN Prime Ticket HD
* FSN Southwest HD
* FSN West HD
* Fuel TV HD
* FX HD
* HBO HD East
* HBO HD West
* HD Theater
* HDNet
* History Channel HD
* MSG HD
* MSG PLUS HD
* MTV HD
* National Geographic Channel HD
* NBA.TV HD
* NESN HD
* NFL Network HD
* NHL Network HD
* Science Channel HD
* Sci-Fi Channel HD
* Showtime HD
* Showtime HD West
* Showtime 2 HD
* SNY HD
* Speed Channel HD
* Spike HD
* Starz Comedy HD
* Starz Edge HD
* Starz HD East
* Starz HD West
* Starz Kids & Family HD
* TBS in HD
* Tennis Channel HD
* The Movie Channel HD
* TLC HD
* TNT HD
* USA Network HD
* VERSUS HD/GOLF CHANNEL HD
* VH1 HD
* YES HD

Sometime between noon and four pm . . .

Like I said before, the “youth vote” is at best elusive, if not illusory, and again, we’re being inundated with breathlessly excited stories about how the “youth vote” is going to sweet the jug-eared jackass into office.

Thanks to Darren, here’s that “youth vote” in action:

A University of Minnesota student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall’s presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn’t see the humor in the stunt.

Max P. Sanders, 19, was charged with a felony Thursday in Hennepin County District Court after allegedly asking for a minimum of $10 in exchange for voting for the bidder’s preferred candidate. “Good luck!” Sanders wrote under the eBay handle zepdrummer612. “You’re (sic) country depends on You!”

Sanders was charged with one count of bribery, treating and soliciting under an 1893 state law that makes it a crime to offer to buy or sell a vote.

Bowled over by the idealism, aren’t you?

Andy Roth at Club for Growth did an interesting study. He looked at 162 Senate votes, and tabulated how frequently Senators voted with Harry Reid. Senators Coburn and DeMint came in at the top, voting the least frequently with the deranged Reid, at 28.4% and 29%, respectively.

Guess who came in at number three?

John McCain, who only voted with Harry Reid 32.4% of the time.

What’s most interesting about this is that some of the “real conservatives” whom pundits suggest McCain should choose for the VP slot have voted with Harry Reid significantly more frequently than McCain. Brownback, for example, voted with Reid 45.7% of the time, Sessions 43.2%, Cornyn 46.3%, and Thune, a solid conservative 50% of the time.

My suggestion for MDS sufferers is that they start looking at actual data instead of relying on their impressions, or what the pundits tell them. Deaf ears, I know, but I can try.

Raw, undisciplined, cowardly men:

In March 1775, the British First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich, declared “Suppose the colonies do abound in men, what does that signify? They are raw, undisciplined, cowardly men.” It was an opinion that resonated in the House of Commons. (David McCullough, 1776)

The following month the British army would find out just how “raw, undisciplined, and cowardly” those men were not, when they met at Lexington and Concord in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The pyrric British victory in these opening battles of the American Revolution would set the tone for things to come, and truely were “the shots heard around the world.”

Those “raw, undisciplined, and cowardly men” overcame tremendous adversities in fighting the most powerful military force of the day. Fourteen months later, on July 4, 1776, Congress approved the wording of the most sacred document in American history—the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration laid out, in detail, the infractions of the tyrant King George against the colonists of America, and declared the thirteen colonies free of British rule.

The war raged on for five more years, but in the fall of 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis was surrendering his army to the “raw, undisciplined, and cowardly” American General George Washington.

Had I seen it yesterday, I definitely would have linked it. Surely the best 4th of July article for 2008. The only thing it is missing is this:

Faced with a dwindling supply of food and ammunition, and still awaiting relief from Clinton, Cornwallis offered to surrender unconditionally on October 17. Cornwallis declined to appear at the surrender ceremony or to surrender his sword (a custom at the time) to General Washington, claiming illness and sending Charles O’Hara instead. Washington refused to accept the surrender from O’Hara, and so the deputy surrendered to Washington’s subordinate, General Benjamin Lincoln. When the British forces came out, their drummers played the march, “The Day the World Turned Upside Down.”

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HBO is replaying the John Adams mini-series starting tonight, and since this was one of the things on the hard drive of the dead DirecTiVO, I just set the box to record them.

Then I realized that today is the day we get the HD dish installed. So once that happens, I’ll set the box to record off HBO HD.

Except.

If I record something from an HD channel, then burn it to DVD, can it be played on a regular TV? Enquiring minds need to know.

As this slobbering Aussie moonbat starts to realize that she is an idiot:

I change my light globes over to those newfangled eco-friendly ones only to discover that if I accidentally smash one on the floor I’m likely to be poisoned by its toxic contents. So I seriously contemplate the meaning of changing light bulbs and wonder if we haven’t already become the sorry punchline of a very bad joke

Ya think?