The Other McCain

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California: Land of Witch Doctors

Posted on | August 13, 2010 | 6 Comments

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — “Natural” medicine is big on the Left Coast, and what’s more natural than sexual assault?

Gardena police arrested a self-described witch doctor on Wednesday on suspicion of groping at least two women or girls. Rigoberto Padilla Carranza, 53, was arrested at his Gardena business — Productos Naturales Rigo at 2210 Marine Ave., suite A, — as police served a search warrant there this afternoon, Gardena police Lt. Steve Prendergast said.
Carranza, who has a Los Angeles address, was booked on suspicion of sexual battery, he said. The alleged crimes occurred in the shop as Carranza was supposedly treating them for back pain or other maladies.

At least four more women have now made accusations against the Gardena witch doctor.

Category: California, Crime, Sex

Ron Miller Question And Answer Part 1

Posted on | August 13, 2010 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Previously, we enjoyed Ron Miller’s prepared remarks. Fine stuff. However, in my opinion, Ron hits his stride as he fields questions from the audience. All of the questions and answers are great, but if you’ve time, the first one offers greater philosophical insight. The rest are also good but focus more on current events.

Ron Miller’s three point sermon in under four minutes

Ron Miller Question One Triggers A Three Point Sermon
(a) No to collectivism/yes to individuality
(b) Free enterprise
(c) Forgiveness

Bob Knight asks about buyer’s remorse

Ron observes what he surmises is a Presidential bias in favor of the Ivory Tower over the Civil Rights tradition pertaining to policy style. This may be leading to some tension for the President’s supports.

Black candidates: will that trigger increased GOP support?

Ron has this wild idea of elected representatives as ‘servants’, as opposed to ‘leaders’. Crazy talk. Also, social media is starting to turn the tide, as more black conservatives link up.

Wiseguy blogger brings the snark

I’ll confess that “the soft bigotry of lowered ethical expectations” was a Stacy McCain riff. Ron references this post on his site in yet another outstanding reply.

There are another eight or so questions in the queue, so check back on Monday for further installments. And if you haven’t joined the Sellout reading club, you know what you need to do.

Category: Congress, Conservatism 101, Democrats, Racism, Republicans

You Got Some Problem With An Ophthalmologist?

Posted on | August 13, 2010 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Jimmie Bise links a Politico article that seems to find fault with the notion of an ophthalmologist serving in Congress. Maybe Rand Paul will be able to see past the garage in the cheek of a caterpillar’s bazooka, which is more than can be said of many in the current parade of clowns.

Image mooched from Klavan.

Category: humor

Greetings From California!

Posted on | August 13, 2010 | 10 Comments

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — My host, Ladd Ehlinger Jr., tells me that this is known as the “Porn Capital of the World,” but that’s not why I’m here or why Ladd’s here. He’s doing political ads, trying to bring to California some of the viral video magic he patented in Alabama. (See: The greatest political ad ever.)

Among other things, the topic that interests me is the same question a lot of conservatives keep asking, “What the #$%* is wrong with the California Republican Party?” (Short answer: Everything.) Some of the stories I’ve heard about the incompetent bumbling of this state’s GOP . . . well, it’s sad and tragic. This is a year when there might be hope for Republicans in California, but if the state party can’t get its act together, opportunities will be lost.

California is not lost, but Republicans in this state have got to stop playing “me too” politics. To quote Jennifer Rubin: “The opposition party must oppose.”

We have scheduled a blogger meet-up Saturday in Santa Monica — Little Miss Atilla, Joe Fein and the Rhetorican have already RSVP’d — and my schedule today will include, among other things, watching Ladd audition actresses for parts in his upcoming commercials.

EXIT QUESTION: Should Republicans write off a congressional district that went 53?% for Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006?

UPDATE: Da Tech Guy points out that “the establishment hasn’t actually led the charge in this cycle.”

UPDATE II: Dave Weigel examines the danger of dismissing “crazy” candidates.

Category: California, Congress

Quiverin’ And Quakin’ And Quaverin’ At Quayle

Posted on | August 13, 2010 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Drug cartels in Mexico vs. tax cartels in DC? Gateway Pundit (h/t) calls it the most honest ad of this political season.

You mileage may vary. Equating DC and Mexican drug gangs may be good, solid, hyper-pragmatic politics, but AZ’s Senator McCain and Quayle’s own family have helped staunch the Progressive tide how, exactly?
I’ve not seen enough Quayle material to form an opinion yet, but Gateway Pundit likes the lad.

Category: Arizona

Ava Aston: ‘I Carry You With Me’

Posted on | August 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

Her Web site is here. She sent this to me via Twitter.

Category: Music, Video

I Must Be Missing Something Here

Posted on | August 12, 2010 | 40 Comments

by Smitty

Political ByLine has a solid roundup on yet another classy outburst in the political discourse, this time from the Left, a T-shirt saying ‘[verb] tea’.

I went to their site, [URL NSFW if image clicked] and they appear to *shudder* be. . .selling stuff.

Maybe our hipsters like Young4Eyes and gg can help out here. I thought the new commandments went something like:

  1. And the Government spake all these words, saying,
  2. I am the LORD thy Government, which have brought thee out of the land of unfettered capitalism, out of the house of bondage to materialism.
  3. Thou shalt have no other Party before me.
  4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any photoshop image, or any likeness of any thing that is within the Beltway above, or that is in the flyover country beneath, or that is in the water under the edge of the map below Louisiana:
  5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to the Tea Parties, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy Government am a jealous, peevish, all-around bitchy Government, visiting the iniquity of the Founding Fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them raaaaacists that hate me;
  6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them in the SEIU that love me, and keep my commandments, and flex on command.
  7. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy Government in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. The Attorney General shall be empowered to call the bitter cling-ons in the Tea Party a ‘nation of cowards’.
  8. Remember thee Labor Day, to keep it holy.
  9. Six days shalt thou labour, and do feign doing all thy work:
  10. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy Government: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, which you are discouraged from siring, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, having gotten rid of that despicable slavery, nor thy cattle, since we’re on about loving animals, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, whom shall soon be given amnesty:
  11. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and got organized the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it for the production of new activists.
  12. Honour thy father and thy mother by making them the last fathers and mothers in your family tree: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy Government giveth thee, and then quit tearing up Gaia, you self-serving human being!
  13. Thou shalt not kill unless the victim is politically inconvenient to the Government, in which case, either be discreet or frame the opposition.
  14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Child-ery is just fine, especially if your name is Roman Polanski. Also, call it ‘lovemaking’, a much more nuanced rhetorical approach to oathbreaking.
  15. Thou shalt not steal. Only capitalists steal. Focus on re-distribution, a much more nuanced rhetorical approach to larceny.
  16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Lying is bad. Focus on constructing narratives, a much more nuanced approach to prevarication.
  17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, again, dispensed with following the era of slavery, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. See, if you covet materialistically for only yourself, you might be a capitalist. Focus on economic justice, a much more nuanced approach to avarice, and reach through the LORD thy Government.

It must be a Tea Party ruse to make the Progressives look like blasphemers. This blog is firm in its commitment not to buy this nonsense.

Update: Also blogging,
TrogloPundit
Pirate’s Cove, who has a mother lode of other links.
Ed Driscoll reviews other equally disastrous outings from the Left in this vain vein.

Update II: By Belvedere demand, I’ll exhume a similar Slashdot outing from a few years back, he said, suddenly feeling old. This is in reply to the story “Why the Coming Data Flood Won’t Drown the Internet”

This is a really old story
5 And the ISPs saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, swapping copyrighted music, filching pre-release movies, placing phone calls all about the earth as if information were a mere fluid, like the sea.
6 And it repented the ISP that Oscar winner, Nobel laureate, and all around handsome fellow Al Gore, Junior, had made man to surf on the Internet, and it grieved them at their heart.
7 And the ISPs said, we will destroy the neutral face of the Internet, (which we have implemented from the primordial swellness of Gore) from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth us that we have made them to access information in an inexpensive and convenient way.
8 But NOAA found grace in the eyes of the ISPs.
9 These are the generations of NOAA: NOAA was a tidy little bureaucracy, and perfect in its generations, and NOAA walked with the ISPs.
10 And NOAA begat three acronyms: SHEM, HAM, and JAPHETH, which are not relevant to this jape at the moment, but will be cleverly decoded later for humorous effect if need be.
11 The Internet also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with sex and violence, because it was just another show, like the news.
12 And the ISPs looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto NOAA, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth with a bolt from my wand of bogus legislation.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. If ye know not the length of the cubit, check http://www.wikipedia.org but make haste, because Moby Dick shall be sent to devour Jimmy Wales shortly after this post self-destructs.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And though shalt put one mother of a datacenter therein; such that yea, even Marc Andreesen shall be made to blush at the smoking bandwidth thereof.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring an exaflood of data upon the earth, to destroy all data, wherein is the breath of binary life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall crash like Internet Explorer.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy acronyms, and thy support contractor, and thy acronyms’ support contractors with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all data, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be stored at RAID99.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive, but they only need, say, RAID5.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them: plenty of frozen pizza and jolt.
22 Thus did NOAA; according to all that God commanded him, so did they, once they got the budget plus-up.

Category: Political Byline, Tea Party

Dear Mrs. Other McCain

Posted on | August 12, 2010 | 9 Comments

As you know, I’m actually on a plane to California now, and this was written in advance for posting while I’m offline. The whole “traveling campaign correspondent” thing is kind of fun, but it’s tough being out on the road so much. Anyway, don’t forget I love you.

Category: California, Mrs. Other McCain, Uncategorized
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