Here's how it works: For Ten Buck Fridays, congressional candidates are nominated and voted on throughout the week. The winner is announced Friday and cross-promoted amongst the supporting conservative blogs. These blogs then promote a $10 per donation money bomb for the winning candidate. Would you go to the link I've posted here and cast your vote for me? Tell your friends!
Doug Hoffman is up this week. He was in the special election in the 23rd Congressional District in New York state last year. He barely lost out to the Democrat then. Help push him over the top today.
It looks like Lisa Murkowski isn't going to fade off into the sunset. Rather, she's going to go kicking and screaming, bitterly clinging to Alaska's Senate seat as if it was her rightful sweet sixteen birthday present from her daddy. In a way, I guess it was.
This year's Republican primary in Alaska has come down to a fight between the establishment and the conservative grassroots. Unfortunately, Joe Miller and his homegrown base of conservative Alaskans are facing legal battles with well-funded special interests committed to maintaining the status quo in Washington.
With your support, Joe can continue his momentum; stave off the inevitable lawsuits, and cross the finish line with another victory for the conservative movement. Please donate 50, 75, or 100 dollars to preserve the integrity of Alaska's electoral system and ensure that the true conservative is on the ballot in November.
Help Joe return the power, land, and resources of the states to the people that live in them!
Whoever wants to donate to the fund will remain completely anonymous (As any person in their right mind would want to be). All the tape needs to do is embarrass Al Gore enough keep him away from the public eye.
And I'm not talking about "An Inconvenient Truth" either.
To Help Clarify: I'm not putting any of my own money toward this deal. I have some dryer lint, a tangled spool of fishing line and a wooden nickel partially chewed by a dog that I might part with.
Need to stop doing posts like this late at night. It seemed so much funnier then.
No matter what's been reported on Restoring Honor, it was not a protest rally. It was more of a multi-denominational call to prayer for the individual. A call for those present and to those listening if they would be the ones to stand up and be the leaders this country needs for tomorrow. So they can put together what the leaders of today are tearing apart.
Beck did walk a delicate line between preaching and asking people to look within themselves for a higher power.
I'll try to do more on this later in order to do it justice. The concept of where morals and honor come have been known to fill a book.
A couple more things and a word of before signing off:
Thanks to Jim for putting this video together.
For the 'Swimming' incident that Smitty alluded to, it happened after lunch. We were walking back to garage where the van was parked when my daughter wanted to toss a penny in a fountain. She threw one in then wanted to put her hands in the water. I looked away for one second and the next thing I knew, she was head over heels in the fountain. It was still shallow enough she could stand up in it no problem but she was soaked head to toe. I did luck out. This was one of the few times I've had a change of clothes for her. When we got back to the van, I was able to get her into dry clothes. More shaken than anything.
The road stretched out in front of me with a full cup of coffee to keep me company. I have a bag of Krispy Kreme doughnuts next to me. It takes a man at the end of his rope to despair into a bag of those. The chocolate glazed ones were tasty.
My five year old traveling companion (daughter, it's never too young to get them involved) informed me that the doughnut with rainbow sprinkles was "Yummy".
The overflow of the crowds was almost out to the Washington Monument.
Smitty and I arrived right when the rally started and couldn't crowd our way up more than halfway up along the Reflecting Pool. Those press credentials I printed out myself could only get so far.
Will be posting an update later. Meanwhile, Bob Belvedere will be posting updates today also.
I will be out of the office for some time this weekend. It's time to put on the Hunter Thompson hat and hit the road to Washington DC for the Restoring Honor Rally this Saturday. I'll leave the suitcase behind because I heard the Parks Department will be searching bags there and, well, it's always better to be safe than sorry.
Also, a big tip of the hat to Bob Belvedere over at The Camp Of The Saints for grabbing the pictures of the lovely Christina Hendricks and her work for London Fog. Thanks to the show, Mad Men, retro is making a come back.
Besides, a woman like Ms. Hendricks comes along a couple of times a lifetime. The first time for me was my wife (And maybe this way, I'll be allowed to keep this blog going a little longer).
The China Traffic Jam, which stretched into 11 days, might be over? Do you know who is a fan of China's infrastructure? Does the President of this country have a special place in his heart for totalitarian governments? I believe he does.
I've had this suspicion for some time but this only cements why the Republican Party wasn't as interested in the Tea Parties when the parties first started rolling. Why wasn't anyone from the Party there, listening, taking notes on any promising young speaker to potentially recruit for local and possibly state office. Because it threatens their status as king-maker. How else would you explain why the NRSC sending up a lawyer to Sen. Lisa Murkowski in her effort to bitter cling to her job? The one she received when her daddy gave it to her like a Ford Mustang on her sweet 16th birthday.
In any case, it's time to get a man on the scene. Who better to rattle the tip jar than Robert Stacy McCain. Have a completely independent observer on sight, reporting the facts and nothing but the facts for the public at large.
I liked what the Daily Caller did exposing the Journolist. But when they push items like blogger pay to play that can be easily debunked, it makes me wonder. Is he really providing a service that the market needs or is it a true vanity project of Tucker Carlson? Most of the anti-GOP stories are rather weak and seem to be along the lines of, "See, we bite the hand too!"
I'm don't know if Tucker is the kind of guy to carry a grudge but he did bring Robert Stacy McCain's name into the story for no better reason other than to associate Stacy with the Payola 'Scandal'. A while ago, R.S. McCain did launch Not Tucker Carlson News with about ten bucks instead of the three million dollars in seed money. Some people can't stand a smart-ass.
3. Those compiled with Net Neutrality seem to a handful of ways to make people 'Shut Up'.
Come after bloggers on copyright laws even though most of them try to promote the website they are linking to on one hand and the other is to regulate them to death by taxes and fines. If that's not a pattern of censorship-- and I'm going to be honest and call a spade a spade-- I'm not sure what is in today's world.
It's maybe something, maybe nothing but even paranoids have enemies.
One last thing: They told me that if I voted for McCain that teacher would be fired for voicing their opinions. . . And they were right. No, that's not a joke. The school teacher who wrote this song on his own time was fired because of it.
Countdown to the ACLU jumping in on the case in 5, 4, 3. . . Ah, who am I fooling?
Update: Linked back by Bob Belvedere. Thanks for linking this conglomerate of a posting consisting of a round up, Rule 5 and a Friday Night song.
Renee Ellmers is a true citizen-politician running in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District. Having worked in the health care industry all her life, she joined countless other concerned Americans at the town hall meetings last summer to protest the disastrous Obamacare legislation. And she didn’t stop there! Renee decided to join the ranks of patriotic mothers across the country who have the courage to run for office this year and fight to make sure our children have as bright a future as we were given. Renee has an uphill battle against a truly out of touch incumbent who made news not too long ago when he was caught on video assaulting a student who asked him if he supported the Obama agenda. Simple enough question, but this Democrat Congressman who’s been in Washington for 14 years turned violent rather than answer it. My point with this is that Renee is willing to answer that question. She supports a commonsense conservative agenda which will put our country back on sound fiscal footing. Please visit Renee’s website at www.reneeforcongress.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
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The US unprecedentedly subjugated itself to the United Nations Human Rights Council with a report on America's shortcomings. Then asked the council that consisted of nations such as China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Mexico, Cuba and other countries who seem to lack the drive to excel at human rights about how to improve upon that.
So without further ado, The top ten suggestion the UN Gave to the US on how to improve Human Rights in this country.*
10. "By 'Human Rights' we really mean is how is the ruling class being treated?"
9. "That Middle Class of yours is the scourge of the third world. Tax and regulate them out of existence."
8. "If a reporter starts asking pesky questions, make him disappear. If another one asks questions about the first reporter, make him disappear. And so on. The rest will learn eventually."
7. "Incumbency for life. Voting Senators out is no way to treat a person."
6. "Mass murders means mass graves. Simplify. Mass furnaces means small pile of ashes that you can scatter in the wind bury what's left of the bones."
5. "First Rule of Dictatorship: Never talk about your dictatorship."
4. "If you let more people in on the action with human sex slave trafficking, they will be less apt to report on you later and you will have the added benefit of holding something over their head for later."
3. "Political prisoners are a necessary evil."
2. "When in doubt, blame the Jews. The world's oldest scapegoat."
And the number one reason the UN gave the US on how to improve human rights in our country. . .
1. "Two words: Media Blackouts."
*The real joke of this is the fact that the UN is giving the US advice on how to improve human rights in this country.**
**And by joke I mean that the flip sight of the laughing theater mask is a crying mask.
***Changed the order of the jokes some and swapped one out for a better one after some input.
The goal of Ten Buck Friday is simple enough. At the end of the week, chip in ten dollars to the candidate of your choice or vote in the poll and donate to the winner at the end of the week. Think about it, for the price of two value meals throughout the week for lunch, you can throw a little support toward a worthy candidate.
This week has a few Gov. Palin endorsees on the list with Renee Ellmers, Sean Duffy, and Col. Allen West.
Via Ace (If Ace is Hot Air South, then this site is quickly becoming Ace of Spades South). He linked to this radio documentary about "Useful Idiots" about a week back but it's worth checking out. It's downloadable in two parts (Part I and Part II, both about twenty minutes long). Put them on the iPod and listen to them on the way into work. And tell people you're listening to the BBC. It helps to make you sound classy and know more than they do (Not to mention giving you one up over those NPR listening snobs).
Listening about the death camps in Part I wasn't shocking. What was shocking was how many people liked and approved of them. They were happy that some undesirables 'Went away'. Stalin had the ability to take the brilliant piece 'Shut Up' by Andrew Klavan to a very extreme level.
In trying to make the perfect system on Earth, utopia's always end with death camps.
If you think that a perfect society isn't what the modern Democrat Party is looking for, then listen to what Alan Grayson says here. If this doesn't chill you to the bone, I'm not sure what would.
It's nothing like how it happened in Return of the Jedi. Those Ewoks were able to get a jab or two in on an AT-ST or two but that's how movies work. Fiction where the hero who is on his quest wins in the end.
It's much more sad and pathetic when Ewoks attack in real life.
For the average person, the Journolist doesn't matter. With bills to pay and kids to feed, who the hell is Ezra Klein and what is a 'Journolist'? That's where Marisa Tomei comes in.
And as much as it may sound like it, it's not a version of the Chewbacca defense.
Marisa had her claim to fame in with her role inMy Cousin Vinnie as the girlfriend to the title character. The role where she won an Oscar.
And after that, she kind of dropped off the scene. She had a supporting role here or there but for the most part, she's been in independent films with no major studio behind it. Most notably, Cyrus.
When the rest of the nation watches movies that Hollywood makes, Hollywood watches independent movies. Sort of a farm team for potential movie talent.
Hence, why Marisa is on the cover of Shape Magazine this month. She's done her time with the smaller, independent films has a chance to move on to bigger roles. She was noticed by the movers and shakers and the time is due for another big role. A PR machine behind her is getting in gear with a puffball interview done for the magazine and a photohshopped picture on the cover.
2. Ben Adler – Newsweek, POLITICO
3. Mike Allen - POLITICO
[. . .]
51. Ezra Klein - Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect
52. Joe Klein - TIME
53. Paul Krugman – The New York Times, Princeton University
54. Lisa Lerer - POLITICO
[. . .]
84. Ben Smith - POLITICO
If you listen to the radio news updates on the hour, many of those stories are based from The Politico. The New York Times is what the alphabet networks base their nightly newscast on. Not everyone on the Journolist are daily reads for the of the news industry but a good portion of them are.
Many of the sites and news bureaus that staffed members of the Journolist are what other news bureaus based their daily reads from.
It's a long way to go for just a picture of Marisa Tomei.
Who knew at the .47 second mark, Barack Obama was such a Larry the Cable Guy fan?
It's effective because it uses what the progressive members of the US Government say as a juxtaposition with things Ronald Reagan said. I only wish they more clearly identified the members of Congress in the video.
*Most of the Republicans were following the lead of George W. Bush with the government spending. Not a defense for them but more of an indictment of not having a spine to stand up to the defacto leader of the party. W's was not a conservative. At some point, the social liberalism aspects of Compassionate Conservatism will outweigh the fiscal conservatism aspects.
**Wow, reviewing this and I noticed quite a few tangents. Where's my Ritalin?
Fascism was a historical phenomenon. That’s why I don’t like the way the word is used today. Fascists wanted a big all-powerful state that would both reach down into people’s lives at the most intimate level and support the( racially pure) masses economically through jobs, public works, and so on. That doesn’t have much relation to what american rightwingers want. They want a tiny defunded state that would use its diminished power and authority mostly for war, border patrol, prisons, repression of dirty effing hippies etc. but would leave ordinary citizens to sink or swim. Unlike the German or Italian fascists, today’s US rightwingers have nothing concrete to offer people. Just the pleasures of racism and selfishness and fear.
With the exception of the last line, she almost gets conservatism.
The war line is a bit much. A strong national defense is preferred in a world with other nations who at their morning prayers shout "Death to the US!" and trying to develop nuclear weapons.
The hippies argument I half to agree with. Not so much as what conservatism is but what any normal, rational person ought to do.
As for the "ordinary citizens to sink or swim." Well, not to put too fine a point on it but yeah. Duh. It's personal responsibility and liberty. It gives Americans the chance to succeed and, strangely enough, the chance to fail. Which is a form of success depending on how they pick themselves back up.
Anyway, is it just me or is the irony alarm going off when she's talking about a government who is all reaching into the lives of the population? If I may take a little bit of liberty with her quote "Fascists wanted a big all-powerful state that would both reach down into people’s lives at the most intimate level and support the( racially pure) masses economically through jobs, public works, and so on". It's a little bit closer to what this administration is looking to do. Case in point, making it a law for everyone to buy an FM radio.
I'm not even going to get into what Obamacare will entail.
But for an idealoge like Katha Pollitt, she can't quite square that circle.
For starters, Harry Reid can't see much of anything beyond his own political divide. Which explains how he can say what he did about Hispanics. A republican Hispanic doesn't fit into his mindset. Worlds collide with dogs and cats living together or something.
Which brings us to Marco Rubio. Who happens to be Hispanic and a Republican running for Senate in Florida.
Reid has a 'D' after his name. Sadly, he can make stupid statements like he did and still be sitting as Majority Leader in the Senate.
The main reason I would like to see McCain booted from office would be to put other Senators on notice. Maybe they would sit straighter when people came to their office with complaints about how Congress is spending other people's money. Lindsey Graham, I'm looking at you.
All too often, people talk about getting more conservative politicians into office and booting the squishes. But when push comes to shove, they're back to the LOTE (Lesser of Two Evils) vote. The old habits die hard.
Now is the chance for conservatives to put their vote where their mouth is. Vote for J.D. Hayworth and give McCain his walking papers.
It's been argued in the comments over at Spade's place about Hayworth and is he a crook or not. No more so than McCain.
So look to the larger picture. What kind of message would this send to the people in the US Senate if someone as politically safe as McCain should be out of a job? Would they write it off as a purge? Or if more 'purges' should happen, would Congress start to listen to their constituents again? If the man who is a fixture in the Senate is no longer there due to the will of the people, shouldn't that shake up the halls of Congress? No political position should ever be considered safe.
Make this year the year of the anti-incumbent. Vote Hayworth.
*I've been trying not to bogart video clips as of late. It's a bad blogging form, same as snipping entire clips of a news article from one blog then posting a courtesy link at the end, leaving nothing to click over and see. Otherwise known as 'Pulling a Chuckie Johnson'.** In this case, the video has been around so I figured it was safe to use.
"I quit when medicine was placed under State control, some years ago," said Dr. Hendricks. "Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward.
“I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the 'welfare' of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, only 'to serve.
“That a man who's willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn't."
The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.
Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.
Participation has set records for 18 straight months.
Unemployment in July may have reached 9.6 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the Aug. 6 release of last month’s rate. Unemployment was 9.5 percent in June, near levels last seen in 1983.
An average of 40.5 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that began Oct. 1, according to White House estimates.
One thing I've noticed about this administration's policies is that they all are designed to put more and more people onto the public doll. Every. Single. One.
Obamacare will burden insurance companies to the point of bankruptcy. Ushering in the single payer public option.
Cap And Trade will drive the cost of coal and oil up. Artificially causing the need for 'Green' energy products that will be tax payer subsidized for use.
It will drive the middle class to extinction with a slow bleed on the wallet. Higher costs will mean spending less money on other things like vacations, a nicer car or larger house.
All with an end game of a population at the behest of a government service. At that point, the real control happens.
It's all a bit of an abstraction on what I laid it out above. Much of it depends on a complacent election this November. Which might not happen after all.
Three years ago, when a North Dakota political blog reported that Marcela, 23 at the time, had a modeling portfolio online, the photos disappeared the next day. The existence of this lone remaining photo (posted at a North Dakota State University student forum) was brought to my attention by a source who asked my opinion as a communications professional: Is this a scandal?
Short answer: Of course not.
A scandal would be hearing about Joe Biden's daughter snorting lines of cocaine at a party. Shocking would be John Edwards stooping his whore mistress while his cancer stricken wife was on her death bed. A shockingly good scandal would be news that Barack Obama spent twenty years in a church where the pastor preached how AIDS was invented by the white man and 9/11 was perpetrated by the Jews.
A twenty three year old model in a bikini isn't a scandal by a long shot.
During my time there as a low voltage tech in Michigan, I had to install a replacement alarm system in a house where the original was stolen. Yes, it's that bad there.
The obvious pick-up should be that Katie doesn't go into any of Gov. Palin's accomplishments. No mention of Palin running against an incumbent Republican Governor and then beating him in the primary or anything else like that in Palin's impressive record.
Mooseburgers and beauty pageants are what Couric mentions.
To answer that Rand-esque question, she is the actress who will be playing the role of Dagney Taggart in the long awaited adaptation of Atlas Shrugs.
I can see her at Dagney.
I was halfway through the book when I heard that it was Angelina Jolie who wanted to play her in the movie. After that, whenever I read a line by Dagney, it was Angelina in my mind saying them. But I'm open to Taylor in the role. Too many times the name gets in the way of the movie. See Knight and Day with Tom Cruise for an example.
I shamelessly lifted this video from Donald Douglas. He tipped me off to the news of it being made into a movie. It was about Atlas Shrugs, what would you expect? It's too good not to pass by.
When the only tool in your belt is a hammer then the rest of the world's problems are nails. That's the only way I know how to explain the actions of James Harrington when he invited a white officer to his church to speak. Then had the members staged a fight in order to gauge the officer's reaction.
Sgt. Matthew Grimes was asked to give a presentation to a church audience on July 24 at Municipal Gardens, in the 1800 block of Lafayette Road.
During the presentation, an altercation broke out in the crowd, and Grimes intervened. The officer was thrown to the ground and drew his Taser, ready to stun one of the people involved, police said.
At that point, someone stepped in and told the officer that the incident had been concocted to test the reaction of the officer to the situation, police said. Grimes suffered severe back spasms after the incident and was taken to Methodist Hospital for treatment.
James Harrington, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church, said he set up the scenario to test a white officer's reaction to a fight between two black men. [Emphasis mine]
Any other person would be arrested for putting an officer in the hospital.
