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If Sarah Palin Isn’t Running for President, Why Is She Releasing This Iowa Video?

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 41 Comments

New from SarahPAC:

And everyone who had previously concluded that Palin is not running in 2012 — I among them — must now ask themselves: Why is she making a such a big deal about her Iowa trip? And, while we’re asking that question, why is she giving a speech at a Sept. 3 Tea Party rally in Waukee, Iowa? Given the current large field of GOP candidates, what percentage of the vote would Palin need to win Iowa caucus Feb. 6?

These questions seem to multiply, the more I think about it. For example, if Palin used her Sept. 3 speech at Waukee to declare herself a candidate, would that secure her an invitation to the Sept. 7 Simi Valley debate? Or the Sept. 12 Tampa debate?


Category: Election 2012, Iowa, Sarah Palin

1 In 5 U.S. Web Sites Are Powered By WordPress

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

This blog, on the strength of a decision by Lead Über Design Decision/Integration Technical Engineer (LUDDITE) Robert Stacy McCain, migrated from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years back. We’re in good company, apparently. 22% of U.S. web sites are using it.

Once that call was made, a query among the other cool kids, including Jimmie Bise, led us to the hosting services of Silver Logic. This has proven an excellent relationship. I suspect I’m one of SL’s more demanding customers, knowing just enough of the technical aspects of the MySQL back end to be dangerous. It is great to be stuck halfway around the world, need a bit of specific technical support just to be able to blog at all, and get it promptly. Blogging is a mighty fine addiction, and SL has been a great resource.

Even if you’re not hooked enough to need your own hosting, keep blogging. We stand in the tradition with the pamphleteers who drove the Revolution. Now our federal government has become as odious and unrepresentative today as the British Parliament was then. If we do not apply pressure to restore life, liberty, and the pursuit of debt-free happiness to subsequent generations, who will? Barney Frank? John McCain? Nancy Pelosi? Lindsey Graham? Harry Reid?

Category: Uncategorized

Thousands Flock to Georgia ‘Job Fair’ While Obama Goes on Vacation

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 5 Comments

ABC News:

Thousands of unemployed waited overnight, camping out in their business suits and office heels and braving the tormenting heat in Atlanta to stand in line for a job fair Thursday. Authorities treated 20 people for heat exhaustion as they struggled to keep the line moving and get people moved inside.
The incredible turnout at the job fair comes on the heels of the state labor commissioner’s announcement that Georgia’s jobless rate rose.
The state unemployment rate increased to 10.1 percent in July from the 9.9 percent in June. The unemployment rate for African-Americans stands at 15.9 percent, far above the national rate of 9.1 percent.

Meanwhile, the President and First Lady flew to Martha’s Vineyard on “his and hers” jets for their 10-day vacation. Guess that’s “stimulus.”

Category: Barack Obama

Piers Morgan Really Likes Masturbation (And Really Hates Christine O’Donnell)

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 19 Comments

Making the media rounds to promote her new book Troublemaker, 2012 Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell appeared on CNN with Piers Morgan, who decided that he needed to grill O’Donnell about masturbation and whether she had “committed lust”:

What an annoying twerp. This is not only offensive, it’s boring.

There are far more interesting questions I’d like to ask Christine O’Donnell, and it has been suggested that I should interview her, but I’m probably still too angry at her — yes, I said “angry.”

It goes back to the morning of Sept. 15, the day after her triumph over RINO Mike Castle in the GOP primary. There were several of us — including O’Donnell and her campaign manager, Matt Moran — standing around the lobby of the Fairfield Inn in Dover, Delaware. And I distinctly remember telling Matt that what they needed to do, having recently reaped a bonanza of online contributions, was to come out with an attack ad hitting their Democratic opponent Chris Coons as hard as they could.

Hit him hard and hit him now, I told Matt. Make the campaign about him and his record — Coons raised taxes three time in four years — or else the Democrats would make the campaign about Christine, and we’d already seen enough of those old MTV/Maher videos to know how that would turn out.

They didn’t listen. For reasons that have never been adequately explained to me, instead the O’Donnell campaign brought in Fred Davis who took three weeks to produce the now-notorious “I’m You” ad. I defended that ad at the time, but I was still furious that the O’Donnell team had missed the opportunity to turn Coons’s tax-raising record into an ad, as I wrote on October 5:

Having some relevant experience with video production, I bet it wouldn’t take 48 hours for anyone with access to Final Cut Pro to turn those basic facts [of Coons’s record] into a hard-hitting 30-second ad. And had I been in charge of the O’Donnell campaign, saturating the Delaware TV market with that attack ad would have been Priority One. Yet here we are three weeks after the primary, and it hasn’t been done yet. So where is the attack ad making that argument?

They could have (and should have) hit Coons with a barrage of attack ads within a week of their Sept. 14 primary victory but didn’t, and as a result O’Donnell became the poster girl for an endless round of “told you so” smears on the Tea Party by the GOP Establishment.

And it also cost me a bet with John Fund.

Like I said, I’m still angry about it, and when the publicist for O’Donnell’s book caught me at Ames last week and pitched me, I went off on a three-minute rant about how O’Donnell’s campaign botched that opportunity.

“Fred F–ing Davis!” I yelled. “What the hell were they thinking?”

Maybe the explanation is in her book, but the publicist still hasn’t sent me the book, so I don’t know. However, if Christine O’Donnell wants to name names of whatever consultants or advisers told her to hire Fred Davis, I’d certainly be interested to find out, because those incompetent assclowns deserve to be exposed and humiliated for their embarrassing blunder. But I suppose she’d rather talk to George Stephanopoulos.

Category: Books, Christine O'Donnell

Meet the Real ‘Machine Gun Preacher’

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 6 Comments

His name is Sam Childers and he runs Angels of East Africa orphanage in Sudan, as well as Shekinah Fellowship Church in Pennsylvania. I assure you that if you actually knew Sam, you wouldn’t be making fun of him.

Category: Sudan

So Young, Yet Already A Troubled Youth

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

 Not even a month old yet. *sigh*

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

The Uninformed Rick Perry

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

ABC has the news of Rick Perry in New Hampshire:

When Rick Perry arrived in New Hampshire one day ago, he repeated the state’s “live free or die” motto, telling an audience, “You’ve got to love that.

What Perry may not have loved, however, is the treatment he received just 24-hours later at a meet-and-greet stop in this picturesque Seacoast town where he encountered about two-dozen protesters who shouted at him, held signs with slogans like “Another Texas idiot for sale,” and followed him into a cafe to yell some more.

Conceptual re-write of the situation:

Rick Perry: Live free or die!
Gail Mitchell: Old and busted. The new hotness: ‘Live for free or die!’
Rick Perry: Shazam!

Over at HotAir, the latest tidbit is that BHO’s team wants to run against Perry. The clear reason for this is that Bush is old and busted, but Perry can be framed as the new raaaaacist. White, male Texas Governors: only Teh One can save us from their depredations! And if you work hard enough for BHO, you may get a federal scooby snack.

It is great that the Administration has achieved such a level of transparency; would that the contents thereof were not pure hooey.

Category: Rick Perry

LIVE AT FIVE – 08.19.11

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Taliban Storm British Compound In Kabul, Six Killed

Afghan security forces carry a wounded Briton to safety

Truck bomber & splodeydope vs. Gurkha guards

World Leaders Urge Assad To Resign
Yeah, that’ll work.

Another Quake Hits Northwest Japan
Tsunami warnings issued for areas already hard hit

HP To Leave The PC Business
Kills off TouchPad, WebOS phones; looking to spin off PC division ;_;



POLITICS
Rick Perry Stokes GOP Fire In Iowa, Charms Crowds

Texas Governor Rick Perry addresses voters in Walcott, Iowa

Texas governor adds energy to MSM perceptions of the campaign

Jeers, Some Cheers As Obama Goes On Vacation (Again)




Virginia Executes Man Who Raped, Killed Woman, 88

Father, Son Arrested For Harassing Palins

US Makes Criminals Priority For Deportation

Planned Parenthood To End Abortions At Seven Sites In Arizona



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Global Markets: Stocks Slide, Gold Reaches New High
Europe Shares To Open Lower As Debt Fears Persist
Nikkei Falls 2.5% On US Recession Worry
Treasury Bonds Rise In Global Rally; Set For Fourth Weekly Gain
Pennsylvania Natural Gas Production Up 60%
NY Labor Department: Wall Street Employment Falls Slightly In June
Bank Of America Cutting 3500 Jobs
Liberty Media Drops Takeover Bid, Invests $204 Million In Barnes & Noble
US Consumer Prices Rise As Energy & Food Rebound
HP To Reinvent Company With Return To Roots
IBM Unveils Brain-Like Chip
AT&T Makes Way For Unlimited Texts, Drops $10 SMS Plan



SPORTS
Georgetown Basketball Exhibition In PRC Ends In Brawl

Hoyas head off the court after on-court brawl nearly turns into riot

Story blacked out on PRC’s internet

Teixiera Powers Yankees Past Twins 8-4

Trumbo’s Walkoff Homer Gives Angels Huge Lift

Kennedy Struggles, Snakes Fall To Phillies 4-1

Tony Stewart Struggling To Stay Eligible For Sprint Cup Chase

Rockies Release Mike Jacobs After He Tests Positive For HGH

Chipper’s Homer Lifts Minor & Braves Past Giants

Nationals Win 3-1, Take Series From Reds



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Ridley Scott To Direct New “Blade Runner” Movie

Prequel? Sequel? Reboot? Only Ridley knows for sure

Harrison Ford to return? 3D optics? All up in the air

Bravo To Delay Premiere Of “Real Housewives” In Wake Of Armstrong’s Death

“LA Ink” Cancelled, But Engagement Back On

Ipsos: Betty White America’s Favorite, Most Trusted Personality

Sarah Silverman Comedy Project Lands At NBC

Anne Hathaway’s Diet Sounds More Like An Eating Disorder

Emilio Estevez Says Brother Charlie Sheen Is A Changed Man

So Long Thongs!

Demi Lovato: Down And Out In Beverly Hills



FOREIGNERS
Thousands Hail Hazare’s Release From Prison
Activist Calls For Syrian Opposition To Unite
Gaza Rockets Leave Six Wounded In Ashdod
Youth Catechism A Perfect Guide As Young Pilgrims Go To Madrid
Pope To Meet Separately With Royal Family, Spanish PM
Turkish PM Visits Somalia To Draw Attention To Famine
Death Toll Reaches 52 In Karachi Violence
Tymoshenko’s Trial Spurs Topless Protest



BLOGS & STUFF
PJ Tatler: Mom Goads Kid To Ask Perry About Evolution (Video)
Ed Morrissey: Perry – “I Love My Country More Than I Care About Obama’s Feelings”
Michelle Malkin: Plumbing The Rest Of The Perry Record
The POH Diaries: Aliens May Kill Us If We Don’t Clean Up Our Act
Gateway Pundit: Lawless Obama Administration Halts Deportation Of Illegal Aliens
NRO Corner: Don’t Always Believe What You Hear
James Taranto: “Unleash Us”
Salem News: Cancer Patient’s Yard Sale To Pay Medical Bills Gets Shut Down
Yid With Lid: Al Qaeda Attack In Israel; Attackers Crossed Egyptian Border
Mark Krikorian: Jon Huntsman’s Political Obituary


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