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?
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.
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.
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.
When Obama was on this supposed non-political listening tour in swing states, he actually wasn’t presenting a plan, of course.
He was promising he would have a plan.
That’s odd, isn’t it?
All Obama knows about economics is what his neo-Keynesian advisers tell him about the glorious benefits of deficit “stimulus” spending. Beyond that, he understands the politics of class warfare and scapegoating Republicans. But as far as understanding why his own policies have been the exact opposite of what was needed to put America back on a path of growth . . .
No, he doesn’t understand that at all. And likely never will.
