The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Alyssa Milano Re-Tweeted This, So . . .

Posted on | August 17, 2010 | 36 Comments

. . . I take that as a hint she wants me to blog about it:

Top 10 Reasons I Did Not RT Your DM Request
This article is not meant to offend anyone, but I am sure it will. If you have ever been asked to retweet links for someone, at least I think you can sympathize. I have spent hours defending my right to say no to a retweet request. At some point I realized it’s time to just lay it out for everyone so you know where I am coming from. . . .

The author, Susan Elaine Cooper, then goes on to list ten important reasons why people don’t get re-Tweeted, none of which are, “Because I’m Alyssa Freaking Milano and You’re Just a Creepy Old Blogger.”

Which means there’s still hope.

I’ll have to discuss strategic Twitterology with Dan Collins, who is in charge of the Let’s Get Alyssa to Re-Tweet Stacy Just So He’ll Finally Shut Up About It campaign.

Remember, this all started with Mickey Kaus, back when Alyssa had fewer than 400,000 followers. She’s now closing in on 1 million followers, many of whom are following her in anticipation of the glorious moment when I’ll finally get that coveted RT from . . . 

AMERICA’S TWEETHEART!

Category: Alyssa Milano Should Re-Tweet Me, Celebrities, Piece of Work in Progress

Obama’s Hollywood Disaster

Posted on | August 17, 2010 | 35 Comments

ROSSYLYN, Va. — Just as I predicted, President Obama’s Hollywood fundraiser produced a traffic catastrophe in Los Angeles:

While I was in Los Angeles yesterday, I got a call from my friend Joe Fein, who told me he wouldn’t be able to make it to an event featuring Pamela Geller, author of The Post-American Presidency, that he had hoped to attend.
“They’ve shut down Olympic Boulevard!” Joe said in outraged tones, explaining that the major east-west thoroughfare had been closed to allow President Obama’s motorcade to proceed from Los Angeles International Airport to a fundraising dinner with Nancy Pelosi at the home of one of the president’s liberal Hollywood friends.

It turned out that Evan Sayet was right in advising that my trip from the San Fernando Valley down the 405 to LAX would not be delayed by the presidential visit, but pity those Angelenos who were trying to travel east-to-west or vice-versa:

Someone apparently decided that Obama’s $30,000-a-plate dinner at the house of “West Wing” producer John Wells necessitated shutting down most of the major east-west through streets in Los Angeles. . . .
If the President was unable to get to John Wells’ house without causing this level of disruption, then perhaps he should have done his fundraising somewhere else . . .

A reporter for the Los Angeles Times quoted one reader’s comment:

“I was an Obama supporter, but … was stopped by police from crossing Olympic to get home … during my daily dog walk. . . . I’ve lost all belief in his judgment. Can he really think he’s more important than the tens of thousands of people trying to get home to their families?“

Yes He Can!

UPDATE: Joe Fein, who has been trying to get the dysfunctional California GOP to fight for votes in L.A., says Obama’s Mother Of All Traffic Jams has made his job easier.

UPDATE II: Smile and say, “Charles Johnson!”

Professor Donald Douglas has more on last night’s L.A. event with Pamela Geller. I was very impressed with the turnout. Among the 250 or so in attendance was a woman named Rita who, when I asked her last name, became fearful: “Don’t put my last name in there. I’m in the entertainment business. You do that” — i.e., identify yourself as a Republican in Hollywood — “and you’re blacklisted.”

BTW, to explain the Rosslyn dateline on this post: I’m blogging from the offices of The American Spectator, whence I’ve come to spend a few hours because my wife can’t pick me up until this afternoon. Let me suggest that you should subscribe today, because sooner or later I’m going to file another expense report and . . . well, talk about a nightmare!

Thanks to all those who’ve contributed to the Shoe Leather Fund to help keep me traveling during this campaign year. My current plans are to visit Delaware next, before taking a trip down South. And thanks, of course, to Mrs. Other McCain for putting up with my vagabond existence. I should point out that my lovely bride recently got her own Twitter account. She doesn’t Tweet much, although she did suggest she’s looking forward to my homecoming, IYKWIMAITYD.

UPDATE III: Obama’s departure was no less disastrous than his arrival, a Twitter friend informs me:

Obama arrived in rush hour traffic, and he left this morning in it, too. Everyone in my office was late to work this morning.

And in the comments, our California friend Jehuda the Rhetorican says:

It is very likely POTUS saved or created thousands of GOP voters through the traffic jams he unleashed last night. . . . I was in one of them. Not fun.

“Fun”? Whoever said Hope and Change would be fun?

UPDATE IV: Wow, they’re really angry out there:

One man, who did not want to give his name, said it had taken his wife four hours to drive home from Brentwood. Another man trying to walk west on 6th Street to his office shouted at the officers blocking his way and told them he wished he had voted for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Obama’s opponent in the 2008 presidential race.

Heh.

Category: American Power, Atlas Shrugs, Barack Obama, California, Hollywood, Mrs. Other McCain, Shoe Leather Fund, Valley of the Shadow

Ron Miller Question And Answer Part 3

Posted on | August 17, 2010 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

This is the concluding entry in the series of posts supporting Ron Miller, and his excellent book, Sellout. Here are the concluding bits of Q&A, plus a couple of bonus Bob Knight clips from the event.

The most controversial issue: abortion

Hammering churches for supporting our national shame.

Bob Knight asks a puzzling follow-up to abortion

Abortion as a ‘sacrament’, alongside the need to expand the client base.

Ron Miller reacts to Harry Reid on Hispanics and ‘Authentic Blacks’

In reacting to the ‘bringing home the bacon’ over principle, Ron really gets at how incumbency is among the most subtle evils of our current political situation.

Media collusion

We’re learning about collusion between Democrats and media. Midterms and low turnout might be a major motivator for attempts to stir people up via the race card.

Previously:

Bonus Bob Knight testimonials

In support of Ron Miller:

A jolly plug for your humble blog:

Robert Knight is a Senior Fellow at the Americal Civil Rights Union, which, for a quick glance, appears to be what you thought the ACLU was supposed to be. Go, Bob!

In conclusion, this blog wishes Ron Miller all the best in his service to Christ and country, and looks forward to future opportunities to hang out.

Category: Racism, Religion, Republicans
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Pamela Geller Goes Hollywood

Posted on | August 17, 2010 | 47 Comments

LOS ANGELES — Frankly, I didn’t think it could happen, and blogged to that effect. But when I stopped by for a cup of coffee with Evan Sayet, he told me that it was entirely possible to attend the Pamela Geller/Robert Spencer event at 7 p.m. and still make it to LAX in time to catch the red-eye flight back east. So I did.

Pamela Geller and America’s Favorite Funny Man, Evan Sayet.

Donald Douglas will file this photo under “Rule 5.”

America’s Favorite Funny Man kills ’em.

Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller on stage at the Skirball Cultural Center.

Here you can see the full-house crowd for Monday’s event, sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.

Pamela Geller was in an especially good mood, considering the latest news about the Ground Zero Mosque. And she was laughing about the fact that Charles Johnson was going totally berserk:

Something about a “dish best served cold,” y’know. Hey, CJ, is Harry Reid a “hateblogger,” too?

Well, my flight starts boarding in five minutes. Goodbye, Hollywood — I’m going home!

Category: American Power, Atlas Shrugs, California, Evan Sayet, New York

If There Was Ever A Time To Avoid Triumphalism. . .

Posted on | August 16, 2010 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Even Allahpundit sounds chipper about the polling. Look, people:

  • The election is weeks away yet. The Tea Party is always in danger of being hoisted on its own retards* (the GOP).
  • Even in the case of a GOP win, the prize is a stinking debt diaper. Expect Sir Golf-a-lot to do exactly that, and point fingers in two years.

Victory in November affords the Tea Party the chance to step up to the plate and affect the 2012 election.
Victory in 2012 means that there is an even chance to restore some form of Federalist restraint on DC.
Kick some tail in November, but keep in mind: it’s merely the beginning.

Update: Even PowerLine seems a tad giddy. Watch out for the judo throw, people.

*I say that in love of the pun on ‘petard’ more than detrimentally about true Republicans, and mean no relation to anyone born with special needs whatsoever.

Category: Blogging, Republicans

Yet Another New Testament Hijacking

Posted on | August 16, 2010 | 40 Comments

by Smitty

Frank Schaeffer, “a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/ fundamentalist childhood” in the PuffHo, in a post entitled At Last [A] Book That Asks: What Would Jesus Do About “Illegal” Immigrants? concerning the recent release: Neighbor: Christian Encounters With ‘Illegal’ Immigration by Ben Daniels. FS opines:

Using a blend of travel narrative, interviews and biblical scholarship, Daniel tackles the controversial issues that surround undocumented migration in the United States by taking the reader to the spiritual, legal, and geographical front lines of the immigration debate. The political becomes personal. The result of this journey is the best book (so far) that encourages actual Christians and anyone else with a heart, to meet undocumented migrants as neighbors and as friends. (Study questions are included.)

I care about America and (as a Christian) I also care about Jesus’ reputation. So I hope for all our sakes (both morally- and economically- speaking) that this book becomes a best seller.

Read more

Category: Immigration, Religion

The Blogging Equivalent Of Being Whisked Off To The Cornfield

Posted on | August 16, 2010 | 58 Comments

by Smitty

#UPDATE `wp_comments` 
 SET    `comment_approved` = 0 
 WHERE   comment_author='gg';

#522 row(s) affected. ( Query took 0.1370 sec )

So, that was a trifle drastic. I had hoped an earlier comment hint I left about opening his own shop on Blogger would have been enough. Then there was this email from Stacy:

GG has just gotten too damned annoying, jumping on every new post to add distracting crap, sometimes tying up posts with lengthy and irrelevant nonsense. Compare and contrast GG to Y4E — an outspoken liberal, but always on-topic and concise.
Therefore, all future comments from GG should be marked as spam and/or sent to trash. Please feel free to put up a post this evening (suggested title simply “GG Is Banned”) explaining my executive decision, and quote this e-mail. I try to be inclusive within reason, but there are limits to my patience when it comes to trolls. If GG wants to create the “GG blog,” fine. But hijacking our bandwith with purposeful distractions is unacceptable.
— RSM

gg, your posts are not gone-gone: if you’re interested in the content, let me know. I can package it up and send it to you with just a tiny bit of Stupid Question Language (SQL).

Also, note that there is no chip on the shoulder. You’re welcome to comment in the accepted internet fashion.

But those three lines of SQL can also be re-run in cases of future post-jacking.

If I could only re-write this to handle Progressives. . .

Category: Blogging

VIDEO: Ronald Reagan Still Kicks Butt

Posted on | August 16, 2010 | 11 Comments

Ace is right. This is 31 flavors of pure awesomeness:

Category: Conservatism 101, Video
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