"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
by Smitty
Coaxed a photo of Jimmie sporting the brass while on Twitter last night:
Also, Mr. Bise is a blogger of no mean repute. But you probably already knew that. Did I mention that his podcast also rocks hard?
Truly a superior blogger, that Bise.
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
President, Speaker Agree On Debt Deal
Agreement has $900 billion increase in debt limit, $1 trillion in spending cuts, but can it pass Congress?
Asian Shares Rise On Debt Agreement
Yen, Swiss Franc Slide On Debt Deal News
Oil Futures Up In Electronic Trading
Germany Calls For UN Security Council Meeting On Syria
Over 140 dead in Sunday’s acts of repression by Assad’s regime
POLITICS
Tea Party Support Not A Given For Perry
Lots of folks interested in his run, except he isn’t running yet
Credible Lead Surfaces 40 Years After DB Cooper’s Skyjacking
Senator Durbin Upbeat On Debt Deal
VP Charging Secret Service $2200 For Cottage They Need To Protect Him
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Dollar Gains On Debt Deal News
FDIC Closes Three Banks In Indiana, South Carolina And Virginia
HSBC Sells 195 Retail Branches To First Niagara Bank For $1 Billion
PIMCO Analyst Says US Credit Rating Still At Risk
Adobe Dives Into HTML With New Edge Software
AT&T To Throttle Big Users Of Unlimited Data
It’s Official: IE Users Are Dumb As A Box Of Hammers
Apple Has More Cash Than The Federal Government
SPORTS
Plaxico Burress Spurns Giants For Jets
Released after serving 20 months on a weapons charge, Burress signed a one-year deal with the Jets
Paul Menard Pulls Off Upset Win At Brickyard 400
Red Sox Acquire Erik Bedard From Mariners In Three-Team Deal
Verlander Falls Short In Bid For No-Hitter, But Tigers Win Anyway 3-2
No Urgency Expected When NBA Owners, Players Meet Today
Braves Acquire Steals Leader Bourn
Storen Blows Save, Steals a Win As Ankiel & Desmond Come Through In The Bottom Of The Ninth
Marquis To The Snakes, Hairston To Brewers For Prospects, But No Deal Yet For A Center Fielder
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Al Pacino’s Daughter Julie Busted For DWI
Admitted to drinking, smoking pot when stopped at DWI checkpoint
Amy Winehouse Planning To Adopt Ten-Year-Old
Kings Of Leon Rescheduling Texas Concerts
“Cowboys & Aliens” Gets Smurfed
“Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part II” Hits $1 Billion At Box Office
Angelina Jolie: I Don’t Love Acting As Much As I Did
FOREIGNERS
Libyan Rebels Battle Qaddafi Supporters In Their Ranks
Heavy Rains Add To Somali Refugees’ Misery
PRC Blames Pakistani-Trained Jihadis For Deaths In Xinjiang
Anders Breivik Not Insane, Panel Says
Israeli, Lebanese Troops Exchange Fire
British Troops’ Tours To Be Extended To One Year
BLOGS & STUFF
Verum Serum: Durbin Says “We are having the final interment of John Maynard Keynes”
NRO Corner: Reid’s In, Pelosi’s Hesitant, And The GOP Is Looking For Votes
American Power: NY Times Slurs Republicans As “Hostage-Taking Extremists”
Atlas Shrugs: Summer Camp? Anti-Semitic Indoctrination Center!
Gateway Pundit: Obama Has Chairman Of The JCS Tell Troops In Afghanistan They May Not Get Paid
Jihad Watch: NY Times Concedes Spencer, Other Anti-Jihadis Not Responsible For Norway Murders
Weasel Zippers: Congressman Keith Ellison Whines That Islam Still Misunderstood By Americans
Jane Hamsher: Bernie Sanders To Primary Obama? Don’t Make Me Laugh
Ed Morrissey: Guess What Happened To That Obama Recovery?
American Thinker: Blame The Jews And Republicans
Don Surber: The Greatest Duh On Earth
SOTD: Disappointed
Many people deserve credit for pushing TheOtherMcCain.com to an all-time traffic high in July. We’ll finish the month with something like 340,000 visits and 450,000 page-views. And this was the month when we cleared the 7-million mark.
So thanks to faithful sidekick Smitty — and also Smitty’s wife, who brought forth baby Niklas this month, providing a 9-pound surge of traffic as well as an excuse for Admiral Smith to take an R&R break from his otherwise relentless war against the Taliban Navy.
Wombat’s “Live at Five” headline roundups continue offering readers a daily Monday-Friday wake-up call, while relieving me of worries that I’ve overlooked any of the hottest breaking stories.
We are indebted to the many blogs that continue to link us regularly. According to e-Referrer.com, our Top Ten sources of traffic include Conservatives4Palin, Legal Insurrection, Memeorandum, Ace of Spades HQ, Hot Air and Instapundit. According to Wombat’s FMJRA, the bloggers who have linked us most in recent weeks include Don Surber, The Lonely Conservative, The Camp Of The Saints, Da Tech Guy, Zilla Of The Resistance, the Conservatory, Rhetorican, Troglopundit, Maggie’s Notebook, Republican Redefined, and That Mr. G Guy.
Of course, the most valuable people are always you, the readers. And the most valuable readers — at least in terms of keeping this Underpants Gnome project going from a financial angle — are the few, the proud, the tip-jar hitters. Continue reading July 2011: Best. Month. EVAH! →
by Smitty
Stacy recommends stocking up on personal lube. His wisdom is impeccable on this. The following video is not exactly safe for work, but this is sort of a bluesy take on the CJ’s immortal classic:
via Jimmie Bise, we have a Speaker Boehner slide show, the text of which I’ve extracted:
TWO-STEP APPROACH TO HOLD PRESIDENT OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE Continue reading Yeah, It’s Time For The Circle Jerks →
The media don’t much like him, but whenever he gets a chance to meet people one-on-one, he wins:
Presidential candidate Herman Cain won the straw poll at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver this weekend with 48 percent of the votes, followed by Texas Governor Rick Perry.
“How about spectacular,” Cain said to ABC News when asked how he felt about winning. . . .
Cain gave a rousing speech at the summit Sunday morning, energizing the crowd with his message about American independent energy, immigration, and fighting the establishment. . . .
On Saturday, Cain placed second in the Smart Girls Conference straw poll, losing to Rep. Michele Bachmann by only 4 votes.
And there’s news from Iowa, where Pottawattamie County GOP chairman Jeff Jorgensen tells the Des Moines Register:
“As I study the current field of Republican presidential candidates, there is only one candidate who is not a politician and is not encumbered with political concerns,” Jorgensen said in an e-mail. “This candidate has offered true capitalist, free market, common sense solutions to our problems, not political solutions. His name is Herman Cain.”
Meanwhile, my own Iowa plans are moving forward: I just spent $340 for a one-way ticket to Des Moines, leaving Wednesday.
Herman Cain’s “Common Sense Solutions” bus tour of Iowa starts Thursday, and I’m planning to be there: Ten days on the campaign trail in Iowa, all the way up to the Ames Straw Poll on Aug. 13.
Thanks to everyone who has hit the tip jar to help make this trip possible and if you haven’t hit the tip jar yet, what the heck are you waiting for?
by Smitty
Aye, and he’s a hardy lad, the World’s Youngest Blogger.
The negotiations continue in Washington. It’s OK with Harry Reid and one liberal sees it as an “unprecedented political victory” for the GOP.
Ri-iiiiiight.
That Mr. G Guy offers a suggestion for how conservatives can make their end of the bargain slightly less painful. However, he misses a lucrative opportunity to monetize this occasion.
Perhaps you have already supplied your personal lubrication needs. Yet we don’t want to neglect this chance to remind our readers that they sell everything at Amazon and, when you shop via our Amazon Associates links here, I collect a 4% sales commission on whatever you buy.
Recent items purchased by our readers include a $379 Kindle with wireless 3G and a 9.7-inch screen (that’s a $15.16 commission for me), a $549 Weber propane grill ($21.96 commission), and a $129.99 Kalos electric guitar starter kit ($5.20 commission).
We still haven’t sold any $120,000 7-carat diamond rings — or $50,000 pearl necklaces or even any $4,500 mink coats — but we continue to be hopeful that some of those “millionaires and billionaires” Obama keeps talking about will shop our Amazon Associates links to express their gratitude for our fight against higher taxes.
Of course, the simplest and most direct way for right-wing billionares to support the blog is by hitting the tip jar, but not all Tea Party extremists are flying around in corporate jets, so we’re happy to offer you a chance to get great bargains at Amazon and thereby chip in a 4% commission to help pay the bills around here.
PREVIOUSLY:
To say the very least. Jennifer Rubin used the phrase “GOP extremists,” which was enough to provoke a memorable reminder of something I try to warn people about: Never make Dan Riehl angry if you can avoid it.
He’s kinda like Dr. Banner that way.