"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
My L.A. friend Joe Fein has been trying for some time to get the California GOP to take online New Media seriously. He’s trying again with “Why 30 Bloggers are Worth More for the CAGOP then One MSNBC.”
Joy McCann likes Joe’s message. Let’s hope California Republicans are paying attention. Otherwise, some day soon they can hold their state convention at the La Brea Tar Pits, with the rest of the extinct species.
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Changing planes here on my way to Tampa for the debate, but enough of a layover that I had time to had time to check my e-mail, and found a report on what the Conservative Action Fund is doing in the run-up to Tuesday’s special election in Anthony Weiner’s former congressional district. Here are some photos:
CAF district field manager Bill Murphy talks to an NY-9 voter.
Murphy and another CAF activist streetside in NY-9.
My friend Ali Akbar is a consultant working with CAF on the NY-9 campaign and e-mails these comments:
“Conservative Action Fund has the largest outside force inside of Weiner’s old district. . . . Our team is running into tons of disaffected Democratic voters and they’re not just complaining about Weprin — it’s Obama and jobs too. . . .Conservative Action Fund beat the DCCC and the NRCC into the district. We are proud to be making a difference and forcing Democrats to spend hundreds of thousands, maybe a million dollars or more, to keep this very blue seat in the heart of New York city.”
Click here to support CAF’s effort in NY-9.
PREVIOUSLY:
Just randomly checking the news headlines when I saw this at Fox News:
Use of Surrogate Sex Partners
Rising Among Women
Ummm. OK. Let’s see what this is about:
“More and more women are now claiming their birth right to either have an orgasm, or healthy relationship or have sexual satisfaction,” said Shai Rotem, a surrogate partner who is based in Los Angeles but practices internationally.
In his 14 years as a surrogate partner, Rotem has worked with women who have a condition called vaginismus, which makes sex painful, women in their 40s or 50s who are virgins and women who have experienced sexual trauma. . . .
Surrogate partners work with their patients to build their communication skills and self-confidence, and help them become more comfortable with physical and emotional intimacy. Rotem said sessions are well-planned and less anxiety-provoking for patients than real-world sexual encounters, where anything can happen. “[This] is way safer than meeting strange men in a bar,” he said.
Is this sort of employment going to be increased as a result of Obama’s jobs program? Will surrogate therapy be covered by ObamaCare?
Because if this blogging gig doesn’t work out . . .
by Smitty (h/t Jazz Shaw)
I really can’t comment on this in any family-friendly way.
by Smitty
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN — This is track five on Satriani’s 2006 Super Colossal release. It’s called “Ten Words,” though he never gets around to explaining what those words are. In the CD booklet, he noted that he composed this on piano on 12 September 2001, and then let it sit for a few years before recording it:
Inspired by Satriani’s work (the subject of this post), I composed a hymn Continue reading Arguably The Best Thing Written On The Subject Of 9/11 →
Front page, The Washington Times, Sept. 12, 2001
Ten years ago, I covered a press conference in D.C. and wrote an article that appeared in The Washington Times:
Coalition watches
war on drugs for
rights violations
Letter calls for grilling Bush nominee
By Robert Stacy McCain
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A broad coalition of conservative and civil liberties groups wants assurances that the Bush administration’s war on drugs will respect constitutional rights and the privacy of citizens.
Bringing together such diverse groups as the American Civil Liberties Union and the social conservative Eagle Forum, the ad-hoc Coalition for Constitutional Liberties has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to question President Bush’s top drug-policy nominee on issues of electronic surveillance and other law-enforcement tactics that they say violate citizens’ Fourth Amendment rights.
In a letter to the committee, the coalition led by the Free Congress Foundation asks that John Walters — nominated as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy by Mr. Bush — be questioned during confirmation hearings today about his views on how “drug policy drives government surveillance and invasion of privacy.”
“As a taxpayers’ group, we don’t like the idea of paying the government to abuse our rights,” Robert Fike of Americans for Tax Reform said at a press conference yesterday announcing the coalition . . .
The story went on from there, but I don’t know whatever happened to the Coalition for Constitutional Liberties and I frankly doubt anyone paid any attention to that article because it was published on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
That morning, I was awakened by my wife, handing me the phone. It was my brother Kirby calling from Georgia. “Turn on Fox News,” he said. “A plane just hit the World Trade Center. It’s a terrorist attack.”
Still half-asleep — my workday didn’t usually start until noon — I stumbled into the living room and stared at the TV showing smoke pouring out of the WTC tower, but I couldn’t believe terrorists were responsible. Maybe, I told my brother on the phone, it was some kind of accident. “No, Stacy, it’s terrorism,” Kirby insisted.
I hung up the phone still unconvinced, and was thinking about going back to bed when the second plane hit. Obviously, this was no accident, so I decided to get ready for work. While I was still in the shower, one of the WTC towers fell, and then the second, and in the meantime we learned that a third plane had hit the Pentagon.
By the time I got to the office, they were already putting the finishing touches on a special early edition of the paper and the rest of the day was lost in a blur of work. What I do remember, however, is when the TV news that night showed crowds of Muslims dancing jubilantly in the streets, celebrating this attack on America.
Those ugly little scenes are seldom mentioned nowadays, but are burned into my memory. Say what you will, I know who the enemy is.
Not so with Georgetown Law professor David Cole, who apparently decided to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9-11 by demanding that Obama pursue war-crimes charges against Bush administration officials. Donald Douglas at American Power writes:
Behold the mind of the progressive left on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. For radical progressives, it’s America that’s the problem, not the fanatical killers who continue to wage war against us.
UPDATE: Linked by Melissa Clouthier and by Duane Lester at All American Blogger — thanks! — and welcome, Instapundit readers!
Meanwhile, I just printed my boarding pass to fly to Tampa. Flying on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 doesn’t exactly thrill me.
I’m sure all those terrorism concerns are just phantoms conjured up by worry-warts and over-excited bureaucrats. But I spent Saturday night watching 9/11 documentaries and so it’s kinda creepy to think about boarding a plane in a few hours.
Nevertheless, there’s a CNN/Tea Party Express debate Monday night in Tampa, and I’m flying down Sunday to cover it.
And there’s absolutely nothing to worry about, right? Right?
Oh, yeah, we know he acts all sweet and innocent and romantic, but it’s time to wake up and smell the juvenile womanizer:
Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber has announced he’d like to make one lucky gal his wife in the near future.
“By 25 or 26 [years old], I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family,” the 17-year-old singer told Women’s Wear Daily in New York City on Thursday, when the fashion publication asked where he sees himself five years from now. . . .
“I want to be a young dad,” he said. “I want to be able to have done what I wanted to do — to be successful, to do a movie or whatever. But if the time is right, I definitely want to be married by 25.”
However, the superstar was quick to admit that although former Disney darling Selena Gomez is currently his “girlfriend right now,” marriage is not in their immediate future.
“One thing — I’m not looking to get married now,” he added.
He’s not taking you seriously, Selena. You’re his “girlfriend right now,” but he’s talking marriage and babies in the distant future, when he’s 25.
Trust me on this one, girl: Bieber’s just stringing you along. He’s a user. He’s exploiting your naïve “true love” infatuation and then, a year or two from now — after he’s taken all he wants to take — he’s gonna discard you like a used Kleenex.
Typical Canadian. They’re all like that.
by Smitty
Looking at the “Lincoln founded the GOP” kerfuffle, one is tempted to wonder if the verbal gaffes aren’t intended as a distraction.
Gunwalker and Solyndra really should be even bigger deals than they are; nothing short of a thorough investigation is enough for these scandals.
And, sure, the Lincoln gaffe is another brick in the wall of the Mainstream Media Mausoleum. After the Sarah Palin/Paul Revere history lesson, we’re reminding ourselves that, sure enough propaganda reigns in the Lefty mind, both when attempting to shred good people and cover for those who may not be so good.
In the final analysis, it is irrelevant whether the guy who won’t release his college transcripts is a dunce, or playing one at taxpayer’s expense. It doesn’t matter if this is some effort to distract attention from the real problems of how we
That’s just the beginnings of the list of things that demand our attention. BHO’s non-grasp of history? Worth noting in passing, maybe.