"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
I missed this yesterday at Barbara Espinosa’s blog:
[Saturday] at sundown begins the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah.
Rosh HaShanah signifies the beginning of the Jewish New Year, as well as the beginning of the creation of the world. In addition, Rosh HaShanah begins the 10 days of repentance, leading up to Yom Kippur, the day of atonement.
Mazel tov! We’re gonna party like it’s 5773!
Longtime readers of the blog will warmly remember Barbara Espinosa, whom I first met at Right Online 2009 in Pittsburgh (“Grandma Is an Angry Mob,” American Spectator, Sept. 18, 2009). Barbara doesn’t like it when I remind people that she’s a grandmother and a widow. She thinks those descriptions might discourage romantic overtures from the kind of virile suitors she prefers. So …
The Hot-Blooded Buxom Babe of Arizona™ was also angry at me for several months this year because, while I was on the Cain Train before switching to the Santorum Express, Barbara was riding the Rick Perry Bandwagon. She’s a native Texan, after all, and her patriotic allegiance to the Lone Star Republic was expressed in enthusiastic admiration for the handsome fellow from Paint Creek, Texas, who — if he were not married — might be the kind of virile suitor Barbara prefers.
Well, when the Smilin’ Texan said adios, he endorsed Newt Gingrich, but Barbara’s enthusiastic admiration is not quite so easily transferred. Newt is definitely not the kind of virile suitor Barbara prefers, and she has applied her online research skills to begin compiling a dossier on Gingrich, which you might want to check out.
I point this out because of Erick Erickson’s claim that all Republican opposition to Gingrich is coming from Beltway establishment elites who support Mitt Romney. But Barbara is about as grassroots as you can get in the conservative movement, and is not at all shy about sharing her thoroughgoing contempt for Newt.
There are other things Barbara is not shy about sharing — that is, if you’re the kind of virile suitor she prefers.
When I first met her in Pittsburgh, I had my handsome teenage son James with me, and within an hour of our meeting, Barbara asked me if I would mind having her as my daughter-in-law.
She’s a firecracker, that Barbara.
You should read her blog, and also follow her on Twitter.
by Smitty
Barbara Espinosa is an excellent friend of this blog. She’s lovely, fun, busts Stacy McCain’s chops at a pleasant frequency, and supports any American running against a RINO with admirable aplomb.
Yet, at times, we all can use a bit of help with the modern nuance. See, when the President says “My Singular Focus” Is on Jobs.., that is best understood to read “My focus is on a singular job*”. Modern word processors can so make a mess of the order of words, with deadlines, copy/paste errors, software versions, markup bugaboos and such.
By having all attention drawn, for the gazillionth time, to jobs, the President is freed up from publicly announcing the pesky new regulations that decorate the citizens like a necklace, or a noose, depending on your viewpoint.
President Obama was supposed to travel to a trucking comany in Springfield, Virginia Tuesday to announce new fuel-efficiency standards for heavy trucks, buses, and other heavy-to-midsize vehicles, but the public event was scrapped without explanation two hours before it was supposed to begin.
My take is that the POTUS figures each page of regulation is worth about $10, and he’s just going to regulate us to solvency.
The poor President. Workin’ hard, tryin’ to fix stuff, and getting thrown under the bus by his owner. Is that a twinge of sympathy I feel in my left foot, or did a blister give way?
*Mine
by Smitty
Barbara at American Freedom, both a senior friend of this blog and a TweetDeck user, appears to have had a blast.
Her wit and charm made up for a lack of Stacy McCain, fedoras, and pudding. Follow the link to find out how close she got to Governor Rick Perry.
Meanwhile, I’m still broke down in Lewisburg, West Virginia. Any burnt offerings to the car gawdz for prompt completion of the repair would be appreciated.
A dozen candidates are seeking the Republican nomination to replace retiring Rep. John Shadegg in Arizona’s 3rd District, and regular readers know I’m 100% for Vernon Parker.
In March, our good friend Barbara Espinosa introduced me to the mayor of Paradise Valley, whose impressive resume is highlighted by the fact that he got his start in politics with the legendary Lee Atwater.
As if that weren’t all the proof you ever needed that Mayor Parker is a rock-solid conservative, he’s also been endorsed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Unfortunately, the Quayle family wants to bequeath a seat in Congress to the former vice president’s 33-year-old son Ben, whose campaign is resorting to cheap smears against Parker. Continue reading Calling Vernon Parker ‘Boy’? Quayle’s Smear Machine Backfires in AZ-3 →
Thanks to Barbara Espinosa for posting this picture:
That’s Maverick with then-Gov. Janet Napolitano at a 2004 rally against Proposition 200, which requires “individuals to provide proof of citizenship before they may register to vote or apply for public benefits in Arizona.” Prop 200 passed with 56% of the vote and yet somehow, that backstabbing crapweasel John McCain won re-election in 2004.
Attendance at Saturday’s “Stand With Arizona” rally was 7,000:
TEMPE, Ariz. — Seven-thousand people packed into Diablo Stadium in Tempe Saturday night, making sure Arizona knew there are quite a few people who said the new immigration law is just what the state needs.
It was a major event for the pro-1070 movement, a rally bringing people from across the country to Arizona. . . .
“Our economy is gonna keep building the more controversy so I say more, I’ll cause more controversy, I guarantee you in the next two months so they want to keep coming back, that’s great,” added Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Griff Jenkins of Fox News was at the Tempe rally, where he greeted a certain Arizona blogging celebrity:
Speaking of people on a first-name basis with Barbara Espinosa, guess who was on “Meet the Press” Sunday?
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Barbara Espinosa at American Freedom blog sends along these photos from the protest in Phoenix:
“We are here as indigenous peoples of this continent . . . to confront the Racist squatters on our continent who dare to call us foreigners. . . . 500 years of European crimes of trespassing, theft, murder, false borders, and Genocide do not make OUR CONTINENT a European continent!”
Smitty earlier linked to the many photos by Donald Douglas at American Power conveying similar sentiments.
What you are seeing here is an attempt to delegitimize the United States in the same way Palestinian nationalists have attempted to delegitimize Israel. Like the “Zionism is racism” argument that Palestinians use to justify their terrorism against Jews in israel, the advocates of a Mexican reconsquista proclaim that the mere desire of Americans to control their borders — to have an orderly system of immigration — is “racist.”
Furthermore, playing upon the mestizo ancestry of most of the migrants. these activists portray themselves as victims of colonial oppression — “trespassing, theft, murder,” et cetera. Being “indigenous,” they insist they have a right to reside anywhere on the continent, since “false borders” are a European imposition.
What these activists are attempting to do is to propogate a racist/nationalist myth — a sort of fascism. What else to say about their claim that, because most Mexicans have some native ancestry, that this gives them to a right to reside hundreds of miles north of the homelands of their own peoples? It’s as if the Mayan Empire had belatedly laid claim to Arizona.
The argument of La Raza strives dehumanize whites by depicting whites as genocidal racist monsters. Not to put too fine a point on it, this is a direct attack on Western civilization and an invitation to lawless savagery. If U.S. borders and immigration laws are illegitimate, then how can any other U.S. law be legitimate? If “Europeans” are automatically guilty of “trespassing, theft, murder,” then how can these “squatters” complain if they are in similarly victimized by the “indigenous peoples”?
This myth-making mythology is dangerous, and it is time that Americans wake up to the danger.
11 a.m. ET — “People’s Tax Revolt” in downtown Washington, D.C. Smitty is already on the scene. Barbara Espinosa and Pete Da Tech Guy (“Have Fedora, Will Travel“) and I are running late.
UPDATE 11:20 a.m. ET — Michelle Malkin tells how to spot a Tea Party infiltrator. More from Jimmie Bise at The Sundries Shack, Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom and Ed Morrissey Hot Air, as well as The Lonely Conservative
Update 11:48 (Smitty) On site at the rally.
Grover Norquist gave a fine chat on tax reform. Thankfully, immigration is not the topic of the day.
Update 11:58 (Smitty) Jill of Pundit & Pundette just came by with Stacy.
Jennifer McManus from NorthGeorgia912.com says hello and thanks to Dick Armey.
These are all to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy.
and then
Victoria Jackson is doing “There is a Communist in the White House”
Update 12:48 (Smitty) Stacy managed to shoot the following clip of Victoria while I was blogging:
Jeff and I managed to get our picture taken with Victoria.
‘Oh yeah?’ said Stacy, ‘I got my picture taken with Michelle Bachman.’
‘Me too,’ said Jeff.
Update 13:26
Some crowd shots. The crowd definitely filled the park to capacity today, however many thousand bodies that makes.
