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7,000,000 Hits, 7-Minute Blogs

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | 33 Comments

by Smitty

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN — Fourth of July. My seventh wedding anniversary. Seven mega-hits on the blog. They managed to figure out the proxy settings so that I can put up a proper post. Woo hoo!

In this recent mobile planning meeting, we see Stacy McCain, the passenger, discuss the importance of the number seven for a revenue generating idea he has for the blog. Wombat, the driver, tries to comprehend the brilliance on display. (Caution: F-bomb at the end):

By the Power of Kindle, I’m enjoying Toll’s Six Frigates. Don’t let my squid bias put you off: this is something every American should read. The details of the politics at the Founding differ from the politics of today less than you might think. Human nature is constant, after all. Technology is the variable, and that mostly affects the time involved for events to unfold.

The Ruling Class in the United States today is as foreign to the ideal of liberty as the Brititsh Parliament was in the time of the Founders. Blogs and their readers are going to drive the emancipation of Americans from the Progressive overlords.
Happy 4th of July, all you right wing extremists!

And thanks to “A Point of View” for a wonderful extended review.

Long may Stacy and Smitty reign and rain down on enemies left and center.

I’d say “read the whole thing”, but that would be self-serving.

UPDATE (RSM): Here are the details of visitor 7,000,000, who lives in California, uses a Safari browser, and clicked onto the site at precisely 3:43:13 p.m. PDT (6:43:13 p.m. EDT):

PREVIOUSLY:

Category: Blogging, How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog

‘Considerable Further Effort’

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | 14 Comments

“Though many call it the ‘Fourth Of July,’ July 4 is properly known as Independence Day. It celebrates the independence of the United States from Great Britain — or, more accurately, the declaration of that independence, which required considerable further effort before it was actually accomplished.”
— Glenn Reynolds, “Three things you can do for liberty”

It is altogether fitting that we should celebrate the day of the Declaration, but who among us celebrates the dates of the great battles of the Revolution? How many even know the dates of Trenton, Saratoga, Brandywine, Kings Mountain and Yorktown? Wasn’t it true that the independence declared at Philadelphia was actually won by the common American soldiers who slogged through the mud and shivered in the snow and braved the British guns?

We know the names of Jefferson, Adams, Hancock and others who signed the Declaration — eloquently pledging their lives, liberty and sacred honor to the cause of independence — but independence was won by the courage and endurance of ineloquent men whose names we don’t know at all.

Probably a lot of them were named Smith. And also “Tommy Atkins.”

Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap . . .

An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!

Such are my thoughts on this Independence Day, while I sit at home with my family, and Smitty is deployed on the other side of the world, while his pregnant wife in Virginia prays for his safe return.

The next post at the blog will be datelined from Mazar-i-Sharif and will announce our 7 millionth visitor.

An’ it’s Smitty this, an’ Smitty that, an’ Smitty do or die;
An’ Smitty’s in Afghanistan — Happy Fourth of July!

Category: History

Live Free or … SPLAT!

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | 26 Comments

He wanted to make a statement:

A New York man died Sunday while participating in a ride with 550 other motorcyclists to protest the state’s mandatory helmet law.
Police said Philip A. Contos, 55, hit his brakes and his motorcycle fishtailed. Contos was sent over the handlebars of his 1983 Harley Davidson and hit his head on the pavement.
He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

That’s a pretty profound statement.

Category: Uncategorized

Gwick Nip

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

If we believe the Progressive swindle that the General Welfare + Interstate Commerce + Necessary and Proper = the Constitution, then we can boil down the next Constitutional Convention to a single Tweet.

I’m so glad that these Progressives are the smart ones, and I am the knuckle-dragger forced to rely on them to understand matters. The obfuscated Smitty approach to puzzling out why the Founders bothered with enumerating the powers of Congress, when GWICNP (pronounced ‘gwick-nip’) was all that needed to be said, clearly indicate why people like me should be whisked off to places like this.

Category: Uncategorized

E.J. Dionne Is Smarter Than You

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | 41 Comments

E.J. Dionne can read the Declaration of Independence, whereas you are too stupid to do so for yourself — but don’t worry: E.J. will tell you what it really means, in his newspaper column.

Although you are too stupid to understand the Declaration of Independence (which is why E.J. thinks you need him to tell you what it means), perhaps you are not too stupid to understand why E.J.’s newspaper column isn’t really popular or influential.

UPDATE: Here, let’s try a little experiment. See if you can understand this without E.J. Dionne’s tutelage:

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

That’s exactly 1,337 words, whereas E.J. Dionne’s column is 747 words. Most readers will find the Declaration perfectly comprehensible. E.J.’s column is equally comprehensible in declaring that all men are not created equal, and that’s why morons like us need liberal geniuses like E.J. to think for us, because we’re too stupid to think for ourselves.

Happy 4th of July!

Category: Liberals, Media Bias

How to Bankrupt a ‘Gay Pride’ Outfit

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | 6 Comments

Let me ask my fellow social conservatives a question: If you could figure out a sneaky but legal way to kneecap a left-wing organization, would you do it? And I’m not sure this is merely a hypothetical question.

2008 Madison Pride A Low-Key Affair
Madison — It was “Back To Basics” for this year’s Madison Pride with hundreds rather than thousands showing up for the 19th Annual Rally and March at the Capitol. Sunny skies and a few protesters greeted slightly over 200 people at the 11 AM rally here July 20.
Keynote speaker Congressional Tammy Baldwin reminded the crowd of the purpose of the rally. “We’re here to nurture the next generation of LGBT leaders,’ Baldwin said. “We’re here to offer hope to all LGBT people and our allies, that full equality is within our reach.”
Following the rally the crowd marched around the Capitol building. The local chapter of Dykes on Bikes added their thunder on the adjacent streets.
Most of the marchers then headed for a potluck picnic at Brittingham Park, which featured music by The Cowboy and the Frenchmen, appearances by various members of Lexi Ravyn Productions, team members from Madison LGBT sports leagues and other local talents.
Madison’s stripped-down pride celebration followed the discovery last March that Madison Pride owed thousands of dollars in unpaid bills for their 2006 and 2007 events. The board removed treasurer [NAME REDACTED] and began an investigation of the organization’s finances. No misconduct has been reported to date and no charges against [NAME REDACTED] have been filed. Organizers estimated they spent about $200 to put on this year’s event. Other area gay venues and groups – most notably Club 5, WOOF’s, A Room Of One’s Own book store and IndieQueer – sponsored parties, a boat cruise, a “Queer Spelling Bee” and other special events to fill the celebration void.

Show of hands: Who wants to pin a medal on “Name Redacted”? Because you gotta admit, that was pure genius.

Category: Gays, Wisconsin

N.Y. Post: Maid’s Rape Accusation Against IMF Chief Was Shakedown by a Hooker

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | 31 Comments

If this story is to be believed, the hotel maid was also known to turn a few tricks to help pay her bills, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn is kind of the Duke lacrosse team of international financiers.

Let it be noted that . . . er, sex industry professionals can indeed be victims of crime, but I’d hate to be the District Attorney presenting a case like this to a jury: “Yeah, she was a part-time hooker, and the defense is going to be able to show that the plaintiff told detectives a half-dozen lies, but you should believe her when she says that the wealthy and powerful Frenchman committed forcible sexual assault against her.”

I’m sure feminists will complain that this is unfair. But complaints about unfairness won’t change the fact that, if the facts are as the Post states, it would be extremely difficult to get a jury to convict DSK.

Category: Crime, New York

LIVE AT FIVE – 07.04.11

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | 1 Comment

TOP NEWS
Thaksin’s Party Wins Landslide Victory In Thailand

Yingluck Shinawatra, head of the opposition Pheu Thai party, greets supporters

Exiled PM Thaksin Shinawatra’s sister leads his party to victory over the Army-backed Democracy Party, taking 264 of 500 seats in Thailand’s Parliament
Baht, Thai Stocks Rise On News




Oil Spill Outrages Montana Residents
Broken pipeline spills an estimated 42,000 gallons into the flooded Yellowstone River

Turkey Recognizes Libyan Rebels
Offers $200 million in aid



POLITICS
Joplin Takes A Break From Recovery Work To Celebrate Independence Day

Ruins of a house in Joplin

Beth Peacock, Joplin city parks:“We want to have one day without thinking about it. Tuesday’s going to be here soon enough.”

Deadly Storms Rip Through Minnesota, Wisconsin

Obama Faces A Less Friendly Iowa

At NEA Convention, Mixed Feelings About Obama

Bare-Headed Biker In Helmet Protest Crashes, Dies

Last Draftee Finally Retires

Inmate Sues Over Lack Of Porn In Jail



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
McDonald’s UAE Forms Venture To Manufacture Biodiesel From Recycled Vegetable Oil
Stocks, Euro Rise As Greece, PRC Risks Fade
Profit-Taking May Loom As Investors Eye Economic Data
Nestle In Talks To Buy PRC Candy Maker?
Massive Fire Destroys Kentucky Shopping Center
Unpaid Taxes Total $400 Billion, But Little Will To Collect It
Eager for Sales Taxes, Governments Let Fireworks Fly
Will NASA Brain Drain Follow Last Shuttle Launch?
Google+ Faces Off Against Facebook
At Retailers, iPad Faces New Foes



SPORTS
Branyan Dinger In Seventh Gives Angels 3-2 Win

Angels manager Mike Scioscia congratulates Russell Branyan, (R)

Win clinches Freeway Series against Dodgers

Sharks Trade Heatley To Wild For Havlat

Brewers Place Three On NL All-Stars

NY Times Sells Most Of Its Shares In Red Sox

Mariano Rivera Blows Save, Mets Win In 10th Inning

All-Star Rosters Announced

All Work, No Wins For Astros’ Lyle

Dodgers’ Furcal, Blake Exchange Places On DL

Welcome Back To The Comeback, Marlins

Two-Car Draft Gives Fans A Thrill At Daytona

Blowout By Bucs Further Dims Nationals’ Optimism



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Wills & Kate Pray For The Queen, Inspire Quebec City Youths

The Duchess and Duke of Cambridge

Well-wishers outnumber protesters 5:1
And She Can Cook!

Actor Andrew Keegan Tasered, Cuffed By Cops

Tom Cruise Is 49

Actor Jack Scalia Doesn’t Know What Happened To Money His 9/11 Charities Raised

Vinny Leaves “Jersey Shore” House For Good

Chord Overstreet Not Returning To “Glee”

Maria Shriver Files For Divorce

Jason Statham: “Killer Elite” Trailer

Prince Albert, Charlene Wittstock Wed In Outdoor Mass



FOREIGNERS
PRI Claims Victory In Mexico State
Syrian Troops Pull Back From Hama
France Split On A Strauss-Kahn Return To Politics
Mladic To Boycott War Crimes Hearing
PRC Mine Floods, 23 Miners Trapped
Senator McCain: ISI Ties With Taliban, Haqqani Network Must Be Acknowledged
US Envoy To Attempt Brokering Peaceful Division Of Sudan



BLOGS & STUFF
Troglopundit: First John Lennon, Now Bill Clinton?
Legal Insurrection: Dems Getting Punchy
PowerLine: A Tale Of Two Shutdowns
Weekly Standard: Obama’s Economists Say “Stimulus” Has Cost $278K Per Job
Outside The Beltway: Tim Pawlenty, The RC Cola Of Politicians?
Don Surber: Obama Effect Hits Tom Hanks
Blackfive: The Rocket’s Red Glare Of The Occasional Sortie
Moe Lane: Friends Don’t Let Friends Invoke Reagan Badly
Rush Limbaugh: The Americans Who Risked Everything

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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