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Oh Wow:
MSNBC boasted that on election night they would present a “special live edition of Countdown” at 10:00 pm. But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way to the bonus Hour of Spin. Keith wasn’t there! After a live update (not from Olby but from Lawrence O’Donnell) A-Mess-NBC (“the place for politics”) proceeded to rerun the 8:00 pm showing.
via Olbermann Watch – MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Where in the World Was Keith Olbermann?.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that he was somewhere in central park, sodomizing a small boy. But that’s just a rumor…. and we don’t report unfounded rumors around here…. much.
Others: Weekly Standard, Townhall.com and National Review Online
I have held off blogging until the bitter end.
But…..
It’s time.
The Republican Party won big in New Jersey and in Virginia.
Hoffman? No so much.
Of course, the Little Green Screwballs are celebrating; king Chucky especially. They should, they slandered Hoffman enough.
Is there blame to be handed out? Oh sure; There is plenty. The dimwitted fools in the G.O.P. who picked a liberal dyke-looking dolt, who was more interested in connecting with the “Community”, than sticking up for TRUE Conservative principles. Ol’ Newt Gingrich ought be blamed for being suckered into believing that fat bitch’s bogus lies and tall tales of Conservatism.
My friends, this is not a time to be sad. We should rejoice for the fact that we made our voices heard — loud and clear in Washington D.C. —- that President Barack Obama’s idea of open ended socialism is simply not going to stand. New Jersey and Virginia’s wins mean that the tide is changing, America has realized the mistake of putting a Socialist, Neo-Liberal in the White House. I predict a HUGE sea change in Congress come 2010 and maybe, possibly a stunning defeat to the Democrats come 2012. I could be wrong on that one; please, do not hold me to it.
Now for the part that I do not like having to write. The part where I have to answer the question; why did Hoffman lose? That is not a simple question to answer; because there is not one answer, but rather many answers. I wish I were paid to make these statements, but then it wouldn’t be a fun hobby, would it?
For starters, Hoffman was unknown, I had never heard of the guy before this race. Secondly, Hoffman entered the race after the other two had already started; the momentum had not had the time to build for a decisive win. Thirdly; let us not fool ourselves folks, Hoffman was, before the Conservative Netroots go involved, was the spoiler in the race. If the Conservative bloggers had not got involved, Hoffman would be have been just another small time, independent candidate. Fourthly; Let’s also be quite honest — the dude was a absolute geek. He reminded me of someone that I gave a wedgie to in school. Frankly, the guy was not Ronald Reagan. He was more like the crazy guy, who tinkered out in his garage. He was like the guy, that everyone liked, but secretly; they really wondered about him privately.Which, to a point —- describes yours truly, but I digress.
One thing we should know, this is not a time to mourn. But a time to rejoice. We may have lost the small battle in NY-23. But we’ve won a much larger battle.
Two outta three ain’t bad.
It seems that the Blogger excitable Chucky and his friends over at Little Green Screwballs are promoting a false story that was reported and then updated by the New York Daily News.
The initial story said:
It’s getting ugly out there.
I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O’Neill called it “voter intimidation”) by Doug Hoffman supporters.
“We’ve gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters,” said O’Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party’s GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.
“Apparently, there’s some woman claiming to be a commissioner,” O’Neill continued. “Commissioner of what, I don’t know. She’s from Texas, I think, and she won’t leave.”“This is not the way we roll in the North Country.”
In public no less…:
UPDATE II: While I was working on the first update, about 10 p.m., the phone rang here at the National Desk in Watertown. It was Dave Weigel of the Washington Independent, asking about our plans for a bit of post-deadline socializing. And I freaking lost it.
Some of my friends may remember my newsroom blowup in 2007, when I cussed out Ken Hanner and kicked a steel door open on my way out of the Washington Times. Persuaded to reconsider, I eventually quit on good terms in January 2008.
OK, I’m hell on deadline. And my own shortcomings and sins are so glaringly obvious that it’s hard for me to blame anyone else for my problems. I goof off and procrastinate when opportunity affords. But when deadline hits, I get kind of crazy. So this was all my fault. Mea culpa.
Still, sometimes, I get that Rodney Dangerfield don’t-get-no-respect feeling and, under pressure, I can be even more of a total jerk than usual. Think of General Patton slapping that shell-shock case in Sicily.
So I had a screaming conniption. Impatient by nature, what I wanted to do at that moment in time was to finish the update, so that readers would have context in which to interpret the video. What I did not want to do was to answer the phone and have to think about the questions that Dave Weigel was asking about our post-deadline party plans.
Present at the time in the smoke-filled hotel room that is the National Desk were Ali Akbar, Kerry Picket and Hooah Mac. Surely, one of them would do me the favor of taking the phone and dealing with Weigel’s questions. Uh . . . no. Because nobody owes me any favors.
And I freaking lost it. At one point in the two-minute rant that ensued, I was quite literally frothing at the mouth. A lifetime of personal frustration exploded upon friends who were innocent. For this unseemly tantrum, I apologize to all who were forced to witness it. Mea culpa.
However, next time I ask someone to please answer the phone while I’m on deadline — I pray to God — just answer the phone. That Jekyll-and-Hyde horror show was more frightening to me than it was to you, my victims. My wife will bake you brownies to compensate, and will never let me live it down.
via The Other McCain: NY23: Hoffman is asked to react to Limbaugh’s Dede ‘bestiality’ comment.
You know, we really need to get that guy on the patch and maybe even some Prozac. It could only help. What? Why are you looking me like that for? I’m as calm as cucumber, the sharpest spoon in the drawer, The —- okay, I’ll stop while I’m ahead. 😉
Oh, this is almost too funny to believe!
This comes via the BBC:
Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.
The militants were armed with AK-46s but were taken by surprise – police found the remains of pudding they had made to eat when the bear attacked.
It is thought to be the first such incident since Muslim separatists took up arms against Indian rule in 1989.
[…]
The dead have been identified as Mohammad Amin alias Qaiser, and Bashir Ahmed alias Saifullah.
News of the attack emerged when their injured comrade went to a nearby village
“Word spread in the village that Qaiser had been killed by the bear,” another police officer said.
A joint party of the police and army personnel went into the forest and collected the bodies of the two militants.
Police say they also recovered two AK-46 rifles and some ammunition from the hideout.
Can you just imagine that little scene for a minute? Those guys sitting in the cave; talking all about Terrorism and how that Muslims must dominate the world. —- “Allah Akbar! We Muslims must fight, we mus ——- Aaaaahhh! Bear! Run for your lives!”
Oh Man, that’s pee in the pants funny!
I guess the true moral of this story is; if you want to get your Jihad on, don’t do it in a bear cave. Because the last time I checked, Bears are not Muslim — just usually hungry.
Others covering this rather funny story: The Jawa Report and JammieWearingFool
Nice redesign job over at the left coast rebel
This is just asinine: (H/T HotAir)
The sick part is that Socialist Liberals think that this is funny. For the record; Glenn is MARRIED with with four children.
Update: I just wanted to add this thought; that if some Conservative media website had produced something of this Nature, insinuated that possibly someone in the Liberal media should die — like say Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow — as nice as that idea might sound — or maybe even the Ladies on the View —– except Elizabeth, of course —- The outrage in the liberal Blogosphere and in the MSM would be deafening. This shows you, the double standard in the Liberal comedy and media department. A liberal can mock a Conservative, like Glenn Beck and it is fine. But you let a Conservative do the same thing and it’s considered a federal crime.
You know what to do, light the damn phones up:
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This has to stop. Tell the Onion that they need to take this video down!
This comes via Conservatives 4 Palin:
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Probably the greatest song recorded by one of the greatest voices in the Christian music world —- the late Keith Green. I try not insert myself into these postings. Because I just do not feel that it is right; however here I feel an exception is needed. I believe if Christians were HALF as sincere and intense as this guy was. Christianity would be a much better place.
Last Days Ministries carries on the vision of Keith.
Lyrics:
Do you see, do you see, all the people sinking down,
Don’t you care, don’t you care, are you gonna let them drown,
How can you be so numb, not to care if they come,
You close your eyes and pretend the job’s done.
Oh Bless me Lord, bless me Lord, you know it’s all I ever hear,
No one aches, no one hurts, no one even sheds one tear,
But He cries, He weeps, He bleeds, and He cares for your needs,
And you just lay back and keep soaking it in, oh, can’t you see it’s such sin?
Cause He brings people to your door,
And you turn them away, as you smile and say,
God bless you, be at peace, and all Heaven just weeps,
Cause Jesus came to your door, you’ve left Him out on the streets.
Open up, open up, and give yourself away,
You’ve seen the need, you hear the cry, so how can you delay,
God’s calling and you’re the one, but like Jonah you run,
He’s told you to speak, but you keep holding it in,
Oh, can’t you see it’s such sin?
The world is sleeping in the dark,
That the church can’t fight, cause it’s asleep in the light,
How can you be so dead, when you’ve been so well fed,
Jesus rose from the grave, and you, you can’t even get out of bed,
Oh, Jesus rose from the dead, come on, get out of your bed.
How can you be so numb, not to care if they come,
You close your eyes and pretend the job’s done,
You close your eyes and pretend the job’s done,
Don’t close your eyes, don’t pretend the job’s done.
Come away, come away, come away with Me, My love,
Come away, from this mess, come away with Me, My love.
For the record, Glenn is ranting about this article by Frank Rich. The part that made me lean back in the chair and let out a belly laugh, was the crack about Republicans eating themselves. “Yep, This big old fatty has got plenty of room!” — Classic. I am quite the fatty myself and I loved that.
Anyhow, if Frank Rich and people like him freak out over this movement. What will they do come 2010 or even 2012 for that matter? 😮 😯 It is to truly wonder.
Update: I found the entire clip…:
Disclaimer: The posting of this commentator’s videos should NOT be taken as an endorsement of any and all controversial viewpoints that this person might harbor.
This is “Magic Power” live in Baltimore:
I would post a link to the band’s website. But it looks like it is down at the moment. 🙁
It appears that Think Communist Progress has a problem with Doug Hoffman taking the 9/12 pledge, which was inspired by Glenn Beck.
Seems that these Communist tools and Chucky the Lizard King (but again, I repeat myself…) at Little Green Screwballs has a problem with this pledge.
What is that Pledge?
This:
1. America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson
The 12 Values
* Honesty
* Reverence
* Hope
* Thrift
* Humility
* Charity
* Sincerity
* Moderation
* Hard Work
* Courage
* Personal Responsibility
* Gratitude
What further proof that we need that Communist Socialist Liberal Democrats are an enemy to America and its founding principles? None, I would say.Yes, and this does include Chucky the lizard king and his screwball friends.
I think this would be a good time to donate to the Hoffman Campaign!
Others: Stop The ACLU
The graphs that I posted earlier gave the indication of how bad things are going to be. This confirms it:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she’s prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that’s what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a “critical milestone,” may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.
In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.
Yet at this point, Democrats have dumped any pretense of genuine bipartisan “reform” and moved into the realm of pure power politics as they race against the unpopularity of their own agenda. The goal is to ram through whatever income-redistribution scheme they can claim to be “universal coverage.” The result will be destructive on every level—for the health-care system, for the country’s fiscal condition, and ultimately for American freedom and prosperity.
As much as I hate repeating myself. Elections have consequences; as do running moderate Republican Candidates. This is one of them. Statism. Welcome to it.
Others: Confederate Yankee, Bloomberg, Verum Serum, Gateway Pundit, Power Line, Betsy’s Page, Wake up America, Fausta’s Blog and NewsBusters.org (via Memeorandum)
This comes via Reason.TV:
Ayn Rand’s Books and Some about her:
I have not really promoted it that heavily; mainly because I have not really thought about it.
But your help is requested…
Here’s the e-mail that I received:
Subject: An Affront to All that is Good and Pure in the World
I’m talking about the marines.
Team Marines is leading Team Army by a lousy few thousand dollars. This simply must not stand.
First, let me thank all of you who have posted on behalf of Team Army. Second, I apologize for the lack of commo and cooordination (blame my scout background) as I just received the email list yesterday and am recovering from the flu.
So, here are some assets to use in posting about Valour-IT for Team Army:
Team Army donation page: Click Here
Ballad of Captain Z video: Click Here(you can get the embed codes on that page).
Cox & Forkum Carton: attached to this email (we have permission to use but it would also be nice to link to them – Click here ).
If you have any assets you want to share, email me and I’ll send them to the group.Thanks!Go ARMY!Matt
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“BlackFive”
Yeah, what he said! 😀
Seriously folks, it is going for a very good cause… So, if you would, Click here and give what you can.
Unreal.
This comes Via A.I.M.:
Quote:
A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by Robert W. McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, an organization which has come under scrutiny for its links to the Obama Administration and dedication to the transformation and control of the private media in the U.S.
In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, “Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle,” McChesney declared, “Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.”
In the video, which captures Wright’s appearance at a September 17, 2009, anniversary celebration of Monthly Review, Wright said that while the “corporate media” provide a “binary lens” of the world, in such terms as “communist versus Christian,” Monthly Review offers what it calls “no-nonsense Marxism.”
He added: “You dispel all the negative images we have been programmed to conjure up with just the mention of that word socialism or Marxism.”
He called America “land of the greed and home of the slave.”
Unbelievable…..and we elected this bastard’s best friend. B. Hussein Obama.
Others: Breitbart.tv, Townhall.com, Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs and Don Surber
Think again…
This comes via the Tax Prof:
Q & O chimes in:
So when you hear that all this new spending, which will indeed raise the deficit, won’t raise your taxes by a single “dime”, you can believe it if you wish. But that doesn’t mean it is true. And it certainly doesn’t mean Democrats can keep that promise. Because if they do, they’re simply kicking the same can down the road that Republicans have for years (and no, I’m not advocating massive tax increases, I’m just providing a little reality check to counter the nonsense the politicians continue to spout). The alternative to the tax rates above is to cut spending – drastically. If you see that on the horizon you’re the only one because Congress just raised the debt ceiling – again.
Where this means anything to me, is this. Not only would they have to raise taxes on the very wealthy. They would have to raise on people who are middle class and poor as well. So, as many Conservative Bloggers have pointed out in the past; when a Nation engages in statism and enacts those sort of policies —- everyone pays. From the very wealthy, to the extremely poor. You also pay with the loss of your liberty; what which is something that the statist socialist liberal Democrats find to be a quaint idea, that needs to be modernized.
Not a very big surprise… But it’s news.
Looks like the libtards over at little green screwballs are having a hissy fit over the fact that Hoffman took the 9/12 pledge.
Which reminds me why I just LOVE the picture here:
Little Chucky hates being ignored
Others: Stop The ACLU, The Jawa Report, American Power
Update: SuperLady links in. Thanks Pamela! 😀
This written piece is part political commentary and part rebuttal to a blog entry posted at The Moderate Voice by Joe Gandelman. Now to be fair; Joe is a friend of mine. Joe has linked to my blog a few times, when I have sent him e-mail pitifully begging for linkage in the past.
However, I feel that I must respond to this Blog entry; because quite frankly, Joe fails to know the difference between a Conservative and a Republican. Joe also fails to realize what moderate politics has gotten us here in the past twenty years.
First off, allow me to quote to you what Joe has written:
“Whether its called a “purge,” “purification,” or making sure that candidates are “real” conservatives and “real” Republicans, the bottom line is that it now appears that moderates in the Republican party — already a nearly vanished species — have a future about as bright as VHS video tapes.
So now the question is going to become: which party can piece together a winning coalition? And what will the elements of that coalition be in this highly fluid, changing ideological environment dominated by the left and right?
The Republicans have been peeling off a good chunk of independent voters, although some argue the growth of independent voters under George Bush was partially due to disgruntled Republicans (moderates and conservatives) straying from the GOP. But that’s almost irrelevant to the central political question which is: which party can put together a winning coalition?
Moderates and centrists aren’t beloved by powerful portions of either political party. So it’s now seemingly a race to see which party offends them most, and which party offends them the least because — for now at least — it’s unlikely that liberals alone or conservatives alone will win elections or congressional majorities. And branding moderates and centrists as closet liberals, closet Republicans, radicals, reactionaries or wishy washy doesn’t exactly win their heart.”
To be totally fair to Joe, he does make the very valid point that neither of the political parties in America have much use for the moderates within their ranks. There is a reason for this and I will explain that. There are many examples of what moderate politics has gotten us in the past; on both sides of the political fence. These are not just examples of Democrats, but also of Republicans as well.
Here are my examples of moderate politics and how it has hurt or at least impeded America’s standing:
What troubles me troubles me the most about this article is the indirect insinuation by Joe that those of us, who identify ourselves as Conservatives are engaging in some sort extremist behavior; because we happen to think that if one calls themselves a “Conservative” or a “Republican”, and that person desires to run for office; that one should actually adhere to those said principles and not sell out ones principles to win a popularity contest, or to win in the endorsement of some two-bit socialist organization.
My question to Joe and also to the White House; is this —– is that not this very tactics that were taken by the late Senator Joseph McCarthy; who engaged in a sort of “Thought Police” towards those who were of the mindset that Communism or as it now called, socialism; was the great alternative to American capitalism? I ask this in all seriousness, since when did disagreeing with political and ideological mindset become extremism?
The truth is my friends, is that the White House is engaging in the tactics of Saul Alinsky. That is to diminish and discredit those who are in opposition to the policies and politics of the socialists. What disturbs me is the fact that there are some Conservatives, who are engaging in the same tactics as the left —- in the name of Liberty. I am quite sorry but, utilizing “Rules for Conservative radicals” makes us no better than the liberal left. We simply have to arm ourselves with the honest truth; believe me, it will shine forth. There is no need to mimic the left. We are better than that; we should act like it.
I wrote this simply as a reminder that Conservatism is not abnormal, no matter what the liberal left or even the moderate left says.
Update: Smitty @ The Other McCain links in and writes:
Where I was waiting for Pat at PBL’s analysis to go is a consideration of the NetRoots and Joe Lieberman in 2006.
One could say that Joe Lieberman was an opportunist or one could say that he was Democrat who was not drinking the kool-aid. 😀
Including public option, if need be.
This is from my debit card statement:
| 11/02/2009 | POINT OF SALE PURCHASE KROGER (redacted) MI | Debit | Price $38.53 | Account Total $92.95 |
Want to know what that is from? That from my medication that I take for A.D.H.D. If it had not been for the various donations that I have received in the last few days and in the past. You know who would be stuck paying for my medication? My Parents. For what it is worth; that price is from Kroger’s. I went there because where I was going before went up. So, like I have written before; I am not to wild on the idea of a “Public Option”, but this paying out of pocket for medication is getting pretty old.
On a happier note; check out this drag racing video, that I posted here a while back.
Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.
The militants had made their hideout in a cave which was actually the bear’s den, said police officer Farooq Ahmed.
for treatment.
