Faint Mumblings, Jumbled, Ricochet About

Posted on | January 23, 2010 | 27 Comments

by Smitty

I don’t want to sound jumpy, but I sort of get the impression that something significant may have happenend in the land of Oldsmobile Delmont submarines. I’m just saying.

Update:

Whoops!  How one overlooks Valley of the Shadow without total loss of Internet cred is unclear; hopefully a prominent update papers over the Fail.  VotS has passed the 500 post milestone, and also looks down the road to the 2010/2012 elections, where the light at the end of the tunnel is a Tea Party Express bus chugging along with the speedometer up around ‘all ahead full-tilt boogy’.

Couple of cogent DTG observations with which I’m in full concurrance:

A: There is none. He is exactly the same only louder.
Q: What is the difference between Robert Stacy McCain when he is making a political point and when you are in a bar with him while he is holding court and having a few?

…and…

Stacy and I have a lot in common although I’m perhaps the more restrained version.

Robert Stacy McCain: even Elton John looks an introvert in comparison.

‘Our Small Is Their Large’

• Da Tech Guy, who may have beaten Bob Belvedere’s ludicrous number of linkages record for a single week.
• American Glob made a valiant effort to track Da Tech Guy and RSM in motion.
• Left Coast Rebel was on the team.
• Bob Belvedere remains a huge supporter. Go TCOTS! I varied the URL, but I couldn’t find ‘Bosstown’ I and II.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Scott Brown: Nice Guy

• Da Tech Guy: “It’s not every day you get to ask Rudolph Giuliani questions concerning a political race but if you are a Sicilian in the north end you fit in like a glove.” Hanging around with RSM will tend to have these side-effects.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Rudy Giuliani and Scott Brown Hit the North End

• American Glob prints a Stacy McCain photo that brings a character from the Red Green show to mind. I’ll have to do some YouTube follow-up.
• Obi’s Sister can spell the ‘M’ word.
• Political Byline liked the interview clips.
• Scared Monkeys gleefully echos Barney Frank’s fearful prognosis on ObamaCare.
• GMs Place thinks that Coakley was a Republican plant. It takes more brains than I credit the GOP possessing to have achieved such.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Some Things You Really Have to See to Believe

• Da Tech Guy allows that Martha Coakley is “a handsome woman”. Full concur. Policies, not so much, but credit where due.
• The Blanque:

I was informed at work yesterday that, should the Senate pass the Obama Health Care plan, my employer would dump our current plan and adopt the Fed’s plan–leaving me and the members of my unit paying 40% more for health coverage. Sorry folks–me and my mates are barely scraping by as it is; I can’t afford that kind of hit. I’ve already noticed a little looseness around my waistline–and it ain’t because I’m doing more sit-ups in the morning.

• I just finished my first week of P90X.
• The Lonely Conservative: “I do believe hell has frozen over.” No, it’s just Anthropogenic Global Warming doing what it can.
• Gateway Pundit links and points to additional photos.
• Ruby Slippers Blog links and has interesting Fleming and Hayes linkage, too.
• Voting Female: “SEIU flips Obama the Purple Finger of Fate”
• Paco Enterprises linked us.
• American Power wondered aloud “‘What the Heck is Really Going on Here in Massachusetts Below the Radar?'”
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Are Democrats Planning to Steal the Massacusetts Election for Coakley?
If the numbers were close, the Dems would have afforded themselves the benefit of the benefit of the doubt.

• The Lonely Conservative: ” Every voter in Massachusetts who rejects tyranny has to vote – this is not the time to sit one out!”
• Ruby Slippers Blog: “Democrats don’t nailbite they call in the Cavalry.” RSB missed the “No cruelty to horses” memo, and subsequent de-commissioning of the cavalry. Next week, they will outlaw war. Again.
• Rhetorican offers a hat tip.
• Bob Belvedere keeps on linking.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Massachusetts Senate: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Vote Brown

• Da Tech Guy gets his Schoolhouse Rock on.
• No Sheeples Here noted us in her roundup.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

If Coakley’s Lost Taylor Marsh. . .

• The Lonely Conservative: “Scott Brown has run a pretty positive campaign.”
• The Nose on Your Face: Bill Buckner?
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Snow Is Falling in Massachusetts

• The Lonely Conservative: “Michael Moynihan was blown away by the fact that people in Massachusetts (of all places) are holding signs with quotes from Hayek. Hayek! Not only Hayek, but Ayn Rand.”
• Da Tech Guy: “Martha Coakley says her voter turnout effort will win her the day.” In some other election, perhaps.
• Quick Daily Hits: “With every passing election (some national, some local), we all become a little more aware of the trickery and manipulative schemes employed by the election thieves…”

Michael Moynihan Doesn’t Link Here Often Enough, But . . .

• Da Tech Guy: World’s Greatest Family?
• Instapundit: “Nothing like this in Mass since JFK.”
• Hot Air, where RSM links himself.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

VIDEO: Vietnam Vet Drives 1,600 Miles to Volunteer for Scott Brown Campaign

• Makes My Brain Itch had the stomach to review some left-of-center commentary.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Massachusetts Democrats for Brown?
Polls, Robocalls, Snow, and Other Distractions in Massachusetts
Tuesday Night Ace-a-Palooza in Boston?

• The Lonely Conservative: “Everything I’ve read and heard about the Massachusetts Senate election leaves me saying ‘Wow!'”
• A Conservative Lesbian links us in a thoughtful Reichtstag Fire piece that is well worth your time:

Ever since Obama was elected I’ve had the feeling that the organizing principle of his agenda is to destroy America as a capitalist democratic republic in slow motion with such a barrage of debt bombs, government intrusion, weakening of our military, dissolution of border enforcement, stagnation, confusion and fear that Congress would cede its powers to him as president and voters, driven mad with fear and desperation, would agree to trade their liberty and the American dream for the security of Leftist chains — “chains you can believe in.”

• Rightofcourse has us in a roundup.
• Bob Belvedere captions Da Tech Guy masterfully.

Livestreaming from Southie

So It Goes In Shreveport: ” If you missed his Live Streaming event last night, well…you really missed…well, something. Yeah. Just check the comments at the post (linked) and you’ll get the idea.”

Ubervu Twitter feed.

ELECTION DAY IN MASSACHUSETTS

• The Lonely Conservative: ” Martha Coakley’s going to need all the vote fraud she can get to pull off a win tonight.” I should probably feel bad for reviewing all of these posts so gleefully.
• Political Byline knuckles under and links us. Keep practicing, boss. It gets fun.
• Quick Daily Hits: “Massachusetts Senate Race Forcing Democrats to Consider Ignoring the Will of the People — Can We Stop an Act of Congressional Desperation?”
• That’s Right: ” feel really good people. I really do. There’s no exit polling so I can’t tell you why I feel that way, except that I’ve been here for 36 hours now and there’s just something about the energy on our side that gives me such great hope.”
• Scared Monkeys: “The significance of this election is like nothing I have seen in my lifetime. In the balance of this Senate election is the future of Obamacare and the Obama Administration.”
• Da Tech Guy: “Poll workers said the voters were enthusiastic, they hadn’t seen anything like it before in a state where the results of National elections are a given.”
• Carol’s Closet was just a little bit tense about Stacy’s dramatic pacing.
• Political Byline: “Okay, I did one, ya happy now?” Oh, so it’s about making us happy, Patrick? Well, we need a pizza, some wings, a large-ish bottle of soda, maybe some chips. Adding ice cream to the list might sound greedy. So we’ll forbear.
• Saber Point picks us up.
• Left Coast Rebel also noted this blog as a major election info site.
• Donald Doublas gave the linky-love.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

LIVE Video: Scott Brown HQ; UPDATE: BROWN WINS! BROWN WINS!

• Right Wing News hosted Stacy’s basking in Ayla Brown’s glow.
• Obi’s Sister. Wow, that MJK ‘shop…
• The Lonely Conservative: “I have to go do the Snoopy dance!!”
• Ruby Slippers Blog: “WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO”
• Scared Monkeys: “Howard Dean on MSNBC told Rachel Maddow that people are tired of the ‘the partisan bickering’ in Washington. I second the comment by Jammie Wearing Fool, ‘No, Howie, they’re tired of the Democrats.'”
• Rightofcourse:

As John Stewart pointed out yesterday on The Daily Show, the Democrats brought this on themselves when they changed the procedure for filling a vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts. They did this in an attempt to prevent the seat from ever being filled by a Republican.

• Nuke Gingrich: “Even a last-minute campaign swing by President Obama himself did nothing to stem the tide.”
• The Sundries Shack: “By the way, tomorrow is President Obama’s first anniversary in office.”
• Da Tech Guy: “All I need is that job and the week will be complete.” Somebody should hire him.
• South Texian: “Scott Brown is arguably the first politician to be elected to federal office with substantial support from the Tea Party Movement. And in traditionally Democratic Massachusetts, no less!”
• World Dailey News linked the clip.
• Haemet

Moreover, anyone who has been conscious during the past few weeks has felt the positive energy that has radiated from the Brown campaign: the relentlessly positive ads, despite Coakley’s mudslinging; the energy of the counter-protest (described by the Boston Police as “the nicest protestors we’ve ever had”); and the enthusiasm of the victory party. Anger? Just because we’re on fire, doesn’t mean we are angry.

• The Reaganite Republican Resistance keeps the links coming.
• The Indentured Servant Girl: “the crowd is chanting ‘Kerry is Next’…that should make Kerry and Pelosi both pop their Botox.”
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

VIDEO: Massachusetts Democrat Who Voted for Scott Brown

• The Jones Family: Scott Brown is “more liberal than Olympia Snowe”. But even Oly has ears, and occasionally lets them hear.

‘Downfall’ in Massachusetts
Among the better examples of the form. What a strange world we live in, where a monster of old is used to poke fun at people in this way.

• Pub Secrets likes it.
• The Classic Liberal was sure to link.
• Obi’s Sister wishes the POTUS a happy anniversary.
• Political Byline adds that it’s from the Democratic HQ.
• The Camp of the Saints hat tips it.

The Brewing Headgear Controversy
As Stacy spends time with Ayla Brown, the question arises: Fedora or a fed? That is the nearly palindromic question.

• The Camp of the Saints noted that RSM is a lucky bastard, based upon interview opportunities.
• Saber Point “McCain is taking his role as a reporter seriously – note the fedora with a press card stuck in the hat band. I dig it!”
• The Daley Gator questions Stacy’s taste in hats.
• In any case, Fischersville Mike adminishes Stacy to give up his keys.
• American Power noted that Ayla Brown is quite a tower of American Power. With the proper footware on the lady, Dustbury might be a total loss.
• Bob Belvedere is counted among the fans.
• Marth Coakley, if nothing else, needs saluting lessons.

Flip Side of the Brown Coin

• The Lonely Conservative quotes me. Thank you!
• Amused Cynic noted the 10th Amendment angle.

Hannah Giles Showed Up at Last Night’s Celebration in Boston . . .

• Da Tech Guy, and here.
• Moe Lane and I will commisserate, in our Old Fart depression, at CPAC.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

All Politics News Breakfast Is Local

• Da Tech Guy, and here.
• Dustbury: “‘Dead-tree’ as an adjective in this context is probably accurate, but that word ‘dead,’ even though it properly modifies ‘tree,’ tends to ooze over the entire phrase, giving the impression of imminent extinction.”
• Ed Driscoll links us while quoting Lionel Chetwynd observing that the lesson of Massachusetts is that ‘all politics is local only during times of domestic tranquility, but at truly defining moments, all politics is ideological.’
• Kynikos links us in a thoughtful post: “Obama’s Act II, Same Script, Same Scapegoat?”
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Ace of Spades Came to Boston Unprepared for Last Night’s Celebration
This is a mildly disturbing clip. It is purely sophomoric, NSFW dude humor. While not terribly evil, it is 1:41 of your life that will be completely obliterated if you watch the thing. Following some of the links, then, one arrives at Bedtime for Bonehead’s instant classic, which see, as embedding this source is proving too ‘interesting’.

• Peace of Work in Progress, who hat-tipped the pudding reference, and reveals it’s sort of a scam.
• Little Miss Attila had commentary from the gynosphere.
• The Lonely Conservative links us.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Good Morning

• Cold Fury is all for higher speed limits.
• Dustbury notes:

Your average German, however, has had some serious driver training, as distinguished from the standard American variety, in which basically you promise to learn how to parallel-park some day; you run 114 mph through Meth Valley and you’re going to get an object lesson in Advanced Darwinism, and not the good kind, either.

Da Tech Guy feels like he lost a week. In this dramatization, Steve McQueen represents Stacy and Da Tech Guy in a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 Fastback, chasing ‘the story’ in a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum:

Guess Who’s a Neo-Confederate
Faux News Tea-Bagger Extremist?

• The Daley Gator digs the title, or the FMJRA.
• The Lonely Conservative quotes Chris Matthews in totally sober or purely blotto moment, hard to tell which.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

CPAC 2010: Glenn Beck Will Be Closing Keynote Speaker Feb. 20 in D.C.

• Without Adjectives seems excited about Beck at CPAC. Excitement expressed as pure nouns, of course.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Why Isn’t Everybody Blogging About the Ayla Brown Bikini Photo Scandal?

• The Daley Gator has them.
• Da Tech Guy mentions “The Girl with the Curious Hand”.
• A Conservative Shemale also the bikini story.
• The Pirate’s Cove contrasts the hypocrisy at work beautifully.
• The mighty Bob Belvedere knows what to do with bikini pics.

Conor and Andy Want Some Pudding

• Piece of Work in Progress: “Stacy’s also a bit of a Native American coyote/prankster character, as you might have guessed from his writing, and his having slapped a Martha Coakley sticker on Ace’s back.”
• The Classic Liberal publishes a lexicon, and links us.

David S. Bernstein: Progressive Genius!

• Piece of Work in Progress gives us the linky love.

Not Since the Collapse of Culture 11 . . .

• The Camp of the Saints plays the Hindenberg card. That’s gonna leave a (Bis)marck.

Planned Parenthood’s Federal Bailout

• Piece of Work in Progress links us, and says thanks for touting his book. I’m halfway done, but seem to get trapped in vast posts rather than doing any reading these days.
• Da Tech Guy offers comment on planned parenthood.
• Ubervu Twitter feed.

Floggin LGF:

• Paco Enterprises noted the small victory.
• The Reagnaite Republican Resistance also picked us up.

Other FMJRA Outings:

• No Sheeples Here offeres a Copious Chronicle Cavalcade, for those favoring alliteration over backronyms, and also features Snark Infested Waters.
• A Conservative Shemale
• Adrienne’s Catholic Corner
• Fishersville Mike
• And So It Goes In Shreveport
• Blogprof: Wed, Thu, Fri
• The Reaganite Republican Resistance
• Ruby Slippers Blog
• World Daily News

Miscellaneous Shouts:

• Bob Belvedere noted our technical challenges. It was imporant that I go bald before trying this self-hosting approach. Stacy’s blood pressure has been, shall we say, ‘elevated’ at times. We appear to have moved beyond the turbulence, and let those not be famous last words, oh Lord.
  Belvedere also picked up Stacy’s AmSpec post.
• Boom Boom Boom offered a little bow for the Mako Snark pointer.
• At the Point of a Gun linked “Don’t Overthink It“, as well as saying something vaguely positive about James Cameron.
• Apropos tip jar rattling, Political Byline mooched a Woody Wookpecker from somewhere.
• Haemet notes that Stacy videoed March for Life’s conference

Apologies in advance for omissions. None are intentional. This post is at the manageability limit. In fact, it may be properly called ‘ungovernable’. Rule 5 Sunday will also be outrageous. Side effects of success.

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