Double Shot O’ T-Paw

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by Smitty

Via The Lonely Conservative, a fine, humorous, positive clip of the sort which should inform more political speech:

Meanwhile, the Insta-visionary also had T-Paw on for some slightly more detailed Q&A, starting with a 2012 presidential statement that falls well short of the full Sherman.

I like his call for fortitude from leaders, but insist that it be echoed by the people to be meaningful.
He calls for a balanced budget amendment. Let’s be radical and delegate to the states all of the collection of taxes. Spending what is collected, and not being able to collect it, will be the forcing function that brings Leviathan to heel.
Pawlenty comes out as a strong Tea Party proponent, understanding the willingness of some to scuttle the GOP outright. Bring it on, T-Paw!

Alyssa Milano in Lingerie
UPDATE: ‘#GoKings’ Raises $29,374 for Children’s Hospital in NHL Hashtag Battle

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Just because we can:

Obviously, there is no need to justify Alyssa Milano in lingerie. But I was noticing it’s kind of been a bit too much all-politics-all-the-time here and I figured the readers might be getting bored. However, it’s also for a good cause, because look what Alyssa just Tweeted:

So go Tweet “#GoKings” (until 9 pm. PT, which is midnight ET) and help raise money for a good cause. I think you’ll find it easier to do if you’ll Tweet with both hands.

UPDATE: OMG! OMG! OMG!

UPDATE II: Shortly after 11:20 p.m. ET, guess who joined in? Only the world’s most famous hockey mom, that’s who!

Pretty cool, huh? Here’s the story of the NHL hashtag battle:

When the two clubs meet Saturday at the Pepsi Center in Denver, fans will be encouraged to log onto their club’s corresponding Twitter Page and tweet information with the hashtag “#GoKings” or “#GoAvs.” For every tweet with those hashtags during the game, $1 will be donated to that team’s cancer-related charity of choice. The contest will begin at the opening puck drop (6 p.m. PT) and conclude at the game’s final buzzer. The Kings will donate to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and the Avalanche and Kroenke Sports Charities will donate to local cancer organizations involved with their Hockey Fights Cancer initiative.

It’s now past midnight, so it’s over. According to the LA Kings (who won the game 6-4), they raised $29,374 while the Avalanche raised $13,876. That’s a lot of Tweets! I know I spent half the night just mindlessly refreshing my feed, killing time with some slot games on my phone, and waiting to see if any other unexpected celebrities were going to crash the hashtag. It isn’t every day you see Alyssa Milano and Sarah Palin inadvertently teaming up on the timeline, but both fanbases really stepped up tonight for a great cause.

BUMPED: New Dennis Campaign Clip, Plus, Next House Located For Nancy

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by Smitty

Update: It looks like FilmLadd strikes again, this time reprising A Few Good Men. Before anyone gets all nitpicky about the smoking materials, your attention is drawn to this link, which implies that Nancy is OK with a blunt, as long as no one is dressed in S&M garb, not that I have personal experience of either, mind you.

Possibly I should feel bad about ripping the record of the Speaker of the House so badly on Twitter:

Indeed, as her car runs out of gas, and the battleship runs aground, and there are no rabbits remaining in the hat, and the other shoe drops, and the hotel is sold off of her end of Pennsylvania Avenue, and she’s forced to mortgage the property, and even sell it to some Chinese player, this Helpy Helperblog would like to suggest a consolation prize: Continue reading BUMPED: New Dennis Campaign Clip, Plus, Next House Located For Nancy →

Poll: Sean Bielat 63%, Barney Frank 31%

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OK, it’s merely an unscientific online poll at the Web site of the New Bedford Standard-Times, but that won’t reduce the shock factor for Democratic Party operatives when they see the headline via their Google alerts. Sometimes you just want to mess with their minds, for the pure outrageous hell of it.

In more serious news, Fleming and Hayes have photos of Barney Frank’s latest full-color mailer, the sentiment of which they sum up: “Vote for Barney Frank, he picks the nation’s pocket and brings it back to Massachusetts.”

That might actually be a winning argument, if only it were true. But the fact is that rich “blue” states like Massachusetts are net losers in the D.C. pork game, paying more in taxes than they receive in federal benefits. In 2005, Massachusetts got 82 cents in federal spending for every dollar in federal taxes, but Barney’s only interested in what’s good for Barney:

GOP challenger Sean Bielat slammed U.S. Rep. Barney Frank yesterday for grabbing more than $40,000 in campaign cash from banks that received federal bailouts — despite the congressman’s own pledge to refuse that dough.
“The rules never apply to Barney — even Barney’s own rules,” said Bielat, whose surging campaign prompted Frank to pump $200,000 of his own cash into his run.
The Herald reported yesterday that Frank accepted $40,000 from bank executives and other special interests that cashed in on the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Read the whole thing. Barney complains to ABC News that he’s the victim of a “flood of right-wing money“:

If Bielat can beat Barney, there are no safe seats for Democrats.

BYE-BYE, BARNEY!

Friendly Murray’s Jocular Rejoinder Available

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by Smitty

Blogging can be rewarding, as I discovered. Thursday there was a post at RetireJimMoran.com about “Gentleman” Jim denigrating military service. So I wrote the most scathing post possible, as did a bazillion other blogs, circulated it, as one does, and Friday the story was on the local news. While Patrick Murray is doing all the hard work of actually running for office, and gets both the credit and the napalm showers for all of the tough votes awaiting in the next Congress, it’s a blast to feel like a tiny voice in the chorus attempting to punt an odious Congressman.
After the campaign event last night, Patrick Murray had this to say about the ‘Public Service’ story:

PATRICK MURRAY for U.S. CONGRESS
Later, we can wonder why VA-8 tolerated atrocious represntation by Jim Moran for so long.

And now, on with our regularly scheduled FMJRA
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On the Seavey-Rittelmeyer Affair

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“[H]er often brutal-sounding philosophy really is, when you dig through the layers, a brutal philosophy, genuinely aimed at hurting people, which has spillover effects in practice in everyday life, as one perhaps should have anticipated, but who thinks people are being serious when they praise cruelty, especially if people are about 5’4″ and look like harmless librarians?”
— Todd Seavey, Oct. 18, 2010

Earlier this week, the entire blogosphere enjoyed a laugh at the expense of Todd Seavey or Helen Rittlemeyer, depending on who you thought got the worst of that infamous episode when Seavey decided that a C-SPAN panel discussion hosted by Jonah Goldberg provided the perfect occasion to disparage his ex-girlfriend.

As I consider the Amazing Miss Rittelmeyer a friend, and have only the slightest acquaintance with Seavey, I naturally think that Seavey might as well have poured gasoline on himself and struck a match, so complete was his self-immolation.

But he actually self-immolated before he even met her, I think. He posted an online personal ad so pompous as to make Jackie Mackie Paisley Passey seem modest by comparison. Continue reading On the Seavey-Rittelmeyer Affair →