Following Stacy McCain’s How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog in Less Than a Year increased my traffic significantly, even though I’ve not hit the million mark yet. That’s not really the point here. What’s important is America has a voice, even the little people like me, and our voice is being heard ’round the world even while it is ignored by our elected officials in state governments and Washington, DC.
Update: Some of the new clone bots are unaware of our deep admiration of No Sheeples Here, and the Sweater Puppy Rule 5 Contest. The responsible parties have been sacked. That is all.
Rule 5 Sunday is yet another foray into loveliness with a light touch.
The Classic Liberal brings Katie Cassidy to the party, recalling that freedom is more than simple “public policy”. Dita, OTOH opined as to why free markets are free.
Carol’s Closet continues the Ladie’s Only (?) Rule 5. Starts off with Charles Krauthammer, whom I do respect, for all some may not have enjoyed the tone of recent posts with questions. She has more including Nick Gillespie, who is a spot-on chap in my estimation.
GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD has a blond with both an M-16 and a 45, which are peanut butter and chocolate and coffee, as far as I am concerened. Also, there was a special welcome for the 108th Cavalry.
Hollywood Tuna has a Christina Hendricks gallery. Props to AmPow for the tip.
POWIP has a Pat Benatar video up as a reaction to the notion of womens boxing at the 2012 Olympics.
Uncoverage is calling for a re-investigation of the death of Natalie Wood.
Fishersville Mike ran to four updates on an important Megan Fox announcement. He also found a solution for that Serbo-Croation translator problem.
Yankee Phil traces the sad descent of Lindsay Lohan, and then goes in for a brace of harpies.
Troglopundit, in a better-late-than-never move, laments the fact that he didn’t pursue a respectable career. He also deployed Gina Carano to explain that shiny new word of his.
House of Eratosthenes brings back Hot For Words, the blond incarnation, for the etymology of ‘hooligans’. We resemble that epithet. He came to the end of the alphabet, unless he has a Unicode fast one up his sleeve, in which case Freeberg has plenty of room.
Pop Crunch featured the 15 hottest mother/daughter combos in show business.
WyBlog, deeply concerned with health care reform, follows important Dutch news. Also, Jane Seymour.
Finally, welcome to Classical Liberalism, which is on the edge of what we’re doing here at Rule 5. I’m not sure which is the more interesting bit: the profile hint that the blogger is actually Dick Cheney, or the third link. Both, it would seem, should be taken about as seriously.
Rule 5 Sunday salutes all. Keep the inbox happy. Peace.
As mooched from here. Someone needs to communicate to Robert Gibbs that the Administration in general, and he in particular, have zero credibility. Do they know this, and slog forward anyway, or are they simply incapable of grasping it? The answer probably doesn’t matter.
The Post is owned by degenerate heirs of the Cox family, who have notoriously plundered and ruined the Atlanta papers. Those treacherous elitist bastards did all they could to elect President Obama, and now they’re doing everything they can to help him ram his agenda down America’s throats. The Cox newspapers are decadent and disreputable, a disgrace to any fish so unfortunate as to be wrapped in one, and we should pity any honest journalist compelled by utter desperation to seek employment there. I’d sooner go back to driving a forklift than toil to enrich those contemptible swine.
I stopped by one of the Washington D.C. area gatherings Saturday morning at Peregrine Espresso in the Eastern Market area — only to find a small gathering of five activists huddled at a small table.
Kathleen Frydl, a professor on sabbatical from Berkeley, led the discussion . . .
Seinfeld was great in the SNL cameo. The topic, thrashing Massa, was not itself terribly novel, but the delivery was smooth:
Which gives me an idea to push to PJTV . . .
Mr. Hinderaker: No coach ever went into the locker room at halftime and told his team they were doomed to defeat. No general preparing to lead troops into battle would begin by telling them their fight was futile.
“Rock, sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they’ve got and win just one for the Gipper.”
“Never take counsel of your fears,” as a great general once said, or to quote Vince Lombardi: “A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”
Let me amend Lombardi’s famous maxim by saying that so long as there is any hope of victory, a winner never even considers the possibility of defeat — or, if the thought of defeat crosses his mind, he certainly never suggests it aloud.
What is true in athletics or warfare is doubly true in politics, where the “bandwagon” mentality often leads uncommitted voters to support whichever side they perceive as more likely to win.
Mr. Hinderaker: Why do you suppose that Democratic leaders are trying to create the impression of inevitability? Why are liberals trotting out misleading polls and RINO stooges in support of their legislative monstrosity? This is all a psychological game intended to dishearten their opponents and convince wavering members of Congress that they can safely vote “yes.”
If the Democrats believed their own victory was inevitable, they would not be doing these things. Their extraordinary efforts do not indicate confidence, but doubt. If Democrats are doubtful, shouldn’t this inspire us to greater confidence? Rather than pronouncing our own efforts likely to fail, shouldn’t we be even more encouraged that we are about to inflict upon our antagonists a defeat that they will never forget?
“I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.” — Ronald Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981
Mr. Hinderaker: Perhaps you didn’t mean to be defeatist when you asked, “Does all of this activism matter?” Perhaps you have overlooked the evidence that “all of this activism” matters very, very much.
“I woke up about six months ago and realized that I had let my country down by letting these things happen.”
— Randy May, Jan. 17, 2010
When a man who has fought for freedom feels compelled to become involved in such a remarkable way, which of us should discourage him by speculating whether “all of this activism” matters?
My computer bag still contains a few scraps of confetti from the Park Plaza ballroom in Boston where we celebrated the victory of “Downtown Scotty Brown,” whose miracle in Massachusetts elected the Senate’s “41st vote” against ObamaCare. It is because of that improbable victory — “The Scott Heard ‘Round the World” — that Pelosi and the Democrats have been forced into the desperate last-ditch maneuvering of the “Slaughter Solution.”
Mr. Hinderaker: ObamaCare is losing. We are winning.
“Does all of this activism matter?” The answer is not just “yes,” but “Hell, yes!”
And I encourage everyone who can make it to Washington to meet me at 9 a.m. Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
The People’s Surge against Obamacare 2.0 Please join us in DC to lobby our congressmen to VOTE NO on Obamacare 2.0. Join us Tuesday, March 16th, beginning at 9:00am outside the Cannon House Office Building (Independence Ave. SE and New Jersey SE). We will be storming the three House Office Buildings: Cannon, Longworth and Rayburn. Our message is simple: VOTE NO on Obamacare 2.0.
It’s a poorly cobbled together collection of ill-conceived ideas foisted at the worst possible time, primarily because for once, the Dems have found a leader who won’t govern by poll, refuses to believe the polls and won’t surrender, thanks in part to advisors who assure him the polls are wrong.
But that’s not the question at all! No one supposes that Barack Obama or his aides give a damn at this point. No one is trying to persuade them of anything. It’s the Democrats in Congress who are the objects of this activism. Obama is leading them and the entire country over the cliff, and the hope is that their minimal concern for political self-interest — if not some tiny flickering spark of patriotism — will inspire them to end this lemming march into the abyss.
This is the final push. We must stand up and stand together one last time to insist on true market-oriented, patient-centered health care reform that reflects America’s values and the will of the people.
