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**Nic: That was the most awesome Sam Adams impression EVER!!
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You may have heard that the phones are off the hook in many Congressional offices in D.C.? Apparently some of your representatives and their staffers are tired of hearing how much you don’t like the Porkulus bill.
So now Erick Erickson @ RedState is offering this little gift to concerned citizens:
RedState is launching CapWiz today in partnership with Human Events.
If you go here: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/02/12/call-congress-redstate-human-events-make-it-easy/
you can follow the link, plug in your zip code, and it will take you to your member of Congress’s local office phone number. (Bypass the busy signal in Washington.)
CapWiz makes it very easy to send emails, faxes, letters, and make phone calls to members of Congress from the web.
It is offered at no charge to right of center activists.
Jonah is especially funny today. What can I say, I’m a sucker for Star Trek references:
Moreover, many actually believed Obama’s own hype. This was the moment for this, that and the other thing. This was the time when we, as Americans, were going to have our cake and eat it too. Future generations were going to look back and remember how Republicans and Democrats, cats and dogs, Klingons and Romulans came together and marched to the sunny uplands of history, where shopping carts have no wobbly wheels; airplane food is free, delicious, and filling; and we get all of our energy from 100 percent renewable Loch Ness Monster poop.
How could anyone do this?
Erick Erickson @ RedState wrote an inspiring piece the other day. If you follow politics and you’re a little (or a lot) discouraged, take a few minutes to read it and cheer yourself up.
They are up by 3 with two minutes to go. I am very excited right now. (I’m a Patriots fan, but I always root against the Steelers. And the Cowboys.)
What does Las Vegas Culinary union Local 226 have to do with the plans to move Las Vegas City Hall from its present location to a site 6 blocks south? And why did Culinary chief D. Taylor recently meet with Mayor Goodman?
Vin Suprynowicz has the shakedown details.
Every House Republican plus eleven Democrats voted no.
The $953.3. billion (plus interest) bill passed 244 – 188.
And it’s not gonna stimulate squat because it’s pork-full of handouts to Democratic political-interest groups. And massive social spending.
(Obama supporters and voters: Here is your Thank You, tied up in big red trillion dollar bow.)
Notably, the infrastructure bailout part of the plan – the big “job creation” portion – is vastly smaller than was advertised. There’s just $30 billion in highway-related projects, plus another $40 billion for (future) broadband and electric-grid projects.
I wish I had that many.
Thanks to all two readers who have sent concerned emails asking if I am ok.
I am fine and just very busy with two new projects that are leaving me with very little time for browsing the blogosphere and offering my three cents here on E!!
The first project – RFC Radio – is the brain child of my All American Media business partner and dear friend Andrew Riley. Ideally, he would do all the work and I would reap the benefits. Alas, he says he needs me to help with the To Dos. And check his spelling. And help make Duane feel guilty for missing our conference call last week. (there, I did it)
The second project is Nevada News Platoon. Apparently, in a fit of extreme congeniality during which I hallucinated that I have spare time and that I am independently wealthy and do not need to paid for my work, I agreed to be the volunteer editor of this soon-to-launched grassroots news and blog site.
The gist is that we will cover news and politics in Nevada from an openly conservative and/or libertarian perspective. We will not advocate for political parties, but we will unapologetically promote free-market, small government policies. And provide valuable information to Nevada citizens who would like to Do Something about the current sad state of affairs.
February 5th is the “soft launch” (that’s New Media talk for all you greenies) and then the ”hard launch” and related fanfare will be sometime in March.
If anyone wants to help, here’s what I need from the conservative and/or libertarian citizens, activists, bloggers, writers, media-gurus, and leaders in Nevada (choose the one that fits):
- Commit to visiting the News Platoon site weekly and signing up for our news briefs
- Comment on our blog posts and stories so we know what you think
- Forward select Platoon news items to help spread the word (at your discretion)
- Send me news tips and story ideas (now and on an ongoing basis)
- Keep me informed of all your interesting political and business activitites (this is your opportunity to share info or expertise that only you have and maybe shed light on things for the public)
- Write letters to the editor (me) when you are upset about something going on in NV
- Refer bloggers and citizen journalists to me as potential contributors
- Tell anyone who’s not reading us that they Should Be
I think that about covers it.
Oh - and if anyone figures out how to squeeze more hours out of the day, please let me know.
My apologies to all those who dropped by over the last few days and found Nothingness.
“FYI” I am trying out this new template/theme while my other/original theme is improved. (Or maybe I’ll like this one and will stay with it.)(What do you think?)
I’ll have some new posts up at lunch.
A faithful reader (aka The Venerable Mr. Crum) recently mentioned that I haven’t been providing my recent Ladyblog posts for your (his) convenience. Here they are:
Condi Signs with William Morris, Wants to Help U.S. Children Become Global Citizens
He’s Too Sexy for These Shirts
Vanity, Maybe Thy Name Really IS Woman (or At Least, This One)
I Will Remember to Relate Everything to Women. I Will Remember…
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A loyal reader sent this interesting little story tidbit along. She searched it out because her “eagle eye” husband spotted Beau Biden in some camera shots of THE Obama-Biden Express (train ride) the other day.
No two ways about it, this is pretty special treatment.
The aforementioned reader writes:
“The only person I know who’s gotten to come home early from a deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan is a friend from church: his wife (also Air Force) was diagnosed with breast cancer a month or so before he was due to come back and they brought him home early.
Soldiers are missing the birth of their kids and Beau Biden gets to come home for a “special assignment” at the Pentagon?”
Almost forgot to post this! If you live in Nevada and want your name added to to the coalition letter below, email your name and location to chuck@chuckmuth.com
Chuck will see that the names get added and the letter is delivered!
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****************************************************** TO: Nevada Board of Examiners
(DATE)
As concerned citizens who live in Nevada, we are writing today to oppose the use of taxpayer funds to defend Bob Loux, the outgoing director of the Agency for Nuclear Projects, as well as protest what appears to be two sets of rules regarding prosecutions which apparently are being followed by Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.
Last month, General Cortez Masto sought the indictment of Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki despite no reports of wrong-doing and against clear evidence by a legislative audit that no money was missing from the college savings program he administered. Yet the Attorney General is now requesting $20,000 to defend a man who has admitted to overspending his budget and bilking Nevada taxpayers for the singular purpose of enriching himself and his staff.
General Cortez Masto says Mr. Loux did this in “good faith,” claiming he gave himself and his staff those unauthorized pay raises in accordance with a policy established by former Gov. Kenny Guinn despite the fact that there is no evidence of this whatsoever. Indeed, we don’t believe Gov. Guinn has ever even been asked about Mr. Loux’s claim, let alone verified it.
The people of this state should not foot the bill for the legal defense of Bob Loux or any other state employee who admits to committing malfeasance in office and violates our trust. As such, and on behalf of the people and organizations represented below, we respectfully ask that you deny General Cortez Masto’s request to have the taxpayers of this state pay for the legal defense of Bob Loux.
Respectfully,
(Add your name/organization here…) Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach |
I agree with every word of this post called “Why I Hate Inaugurations” by the always thoughtful Joe Carter. Here’s most of it:
I cannot bear to watch the religious fervor, the tears and chants and beaming visages, for the promotion of a man or woman to a secular office. We do not live in a monarchy; we do not crown queens and kings in American.
Lest we forget, the President of the United States is the servant of the American people. (Despite what actors like Ashton Kutcher think, we do not serve him.) There is something unseemly, and dare I say, almost un-American, about making such a spectacle about a public servant taking office.
Transition ceremonies should be dignified, graceful, and modest – the exact opposite of all that Inauguration ceremonies have become. For this one, President Bush even declared a state of emergency for the entire city of DC so that taxpayer money could be diverted from the FEMA budget for this spectacle. This disgraceful action by our outgoing President barely raised a shrug from the populace. We no longer question our kings.
Many of our fellow citizens have lost all sense of decorum and perspective about this event. The transition of Presidential power from one man to another does not mark a significant transition in the culture of America. Our worries, fears, and concerns do not abate because there is a different man in the White House. Our dreams, hopes, and happiness do not increase because of who occupies the Oval Office. This change in government does not portend a change in human nature or the hearts of our fellow citizens. America — all that is good and bad about us — remains the same.
Fortunately, the unseemly pageantry of the Inauguration will be over by tomorrow, allowing us to move on to what truly matters in our country. Perhaps then all of us, even those of us in DC, can move beyond the deification of the political to focus once again on what truly matters.
Garden State Patriot helps us remember Reagan’s first inaugural address.
Take away quote: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
So says the Toronto Star.
“I don’t know why I was turned back,” Ayers said. “I got off the plane like everyone else and I was asked to come over to the other side. The border guards reviewed some stuff and said I wasn’t going to be allowed into Canada. To me it seems quite bureaucratic and not at all interesting … If it were me I would have let me in. I couldn’t possibly be a threat to Canada.”
Agree: because Canada is already a socialist nation so Ayers-like covert bombing ops are not really necessary.
Ricardo Montalban passed away yesterday at the age of 88.
I remember him most fondly as the delightfully maniacal Khan in my favorite Star Trek movie: Star Trek II ~ The Wrath of Kahn. In particular I always loved his intense and quasi-Shakespearean delivery of these famous lines from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (uttered to Kirk, of course):
“No, no, you can’t get away…
To the last, I will grapple with thee!
From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee!
For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!”
Nevadans may remember when Judge Elizabeth Halverson was found guilty of gross misconduct and removed from the bench by the Nevada Discipline Commission?
You can read the sequel in the Las Vegas Review Journal:
Halverson’s husband recently tried to beat her to death with a frying pan and has plead out his case to the tune of 3 to 10 years in jail.
Quite a pair, these two.
I love little quizzes and tests. And I love logic and critical thinking exercises.
I got 15 out of 15 on this logic quiz.
Report in when done!
My eyes began to glaze over and my brain began to atrophy a short time into this, so I did some skimming in order to keep my synapses firing.
At each break and dot divider I thought, “whew, it’s over” – but then I scrolled down and, to my horror, there was more.
Bono’s penning is bad. REALLY bad. Like a bad writer trying to be all writery and write like (what he thinks makes) a great writer. Or something like that. It sure makes me feel better about all the crap I wrote in high school third grade.
And/but Bono is a grown man and ought to know better.
And why didn’t the editors, well, edit…? Or just nix it? (I guess if you’re the NYT you don’t say “no” to Bono.)
Hat Tip: John Schwenkler who called it “Absurdity, in Three Parts”
Not much posting today because I was busy prep’ing for my KLAS Channel 8 interview re: Governor Gibbon’s State of the State speech next week, Nevada policy issues, and the role of blogging, citizen journalism and new media in politics. Clips will be televised next week in the days leading up to the speech.
I’m too tired right now to repeat what I said on camera, but I’ll sum it up for you sometime before next week’s event. Right now, I’m going to have drinks and dinner with Andrew and the Venerable Mr. Crum.
Cheers!
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Politics
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LadyBlog is looking for diamonds in the rough — ladies who might not drive as much traffic as the big names, but who are every bit as informative, forward thinking, thoughtful and entertaining. Conservatism will be a qualifying factor for the political blogger but will not necessarily make or break the selection process for the other categories. And, yes — you must be female to qualify.
If you know of an outstanding female blogger who fits the above criteria, please follow the links below to nominate their blog. After they receive your initial nominations, Culture11‘s Ladybloggers will pick the top 10 in each category, and readers will get to vote on the top pick.
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My friend over at Blue Collar Muse has made the Finalists list for the 2008 Weblog Awards in the category of Best Conservative Blog. It is well deserved, and I am just delighted for him.
When added to the joy of being married to the dazzling and intelligent Much Younger Trophy Wife, BCM’s cup surely overfloweth.
“[R]eligion, or the duty which we owe to our creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and this is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.”
–Virginia Bill of Rights, Article 16
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E!! will be off for the next few days and then (probably) posting only sporadically through Jan. 3rd.
Great post, Paul. I’m grateful Nevada has both already, but 26 states do not.
