Another reason to hate WordPress
UPDATE:
OK, so I searched around and found a fix to the problem, but it involved installing some google plugin. I hate google, so I’ll try uninstalling it to see if the fix stays.
I just updated the WordPress version running this blog and now when I create a new post, all the little icons at the top of the posting page are gone.
I can’t figure out how to get them back either.
This is as bad as Facebook making changes that make your page less usefull to you than the older version.
Punch ‘Em in the Face
Oregon congressional candidate Art Robinson goes on the loathesome Rachel Maddow show and attacks her mudslinging, underhanded interview style.
Every conservative politician or candidate should model Art Robinson’s style of rhetorical combat when facing liberal hacks like Maddow. Never be defensive, go on the offense.
No Surprise, really
From WTOP.COM:
Three dozen fall ill at Obama rally in Md.
BOWIE, Md. – About three dozen people were treated for illness during a rally featuring President Obama at Bowie State University.
Prince George’s County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady tells WTOP numerous ambulances were sent to the rally after people started fainting and became dizzy.
The problems could be related to warmer temperatures Thursday. Brady says crowds at the rally were outside and packed shoulder to shoulder.
Two people were taken to the hospital, Brady says. The rest have been treated at the scene.
Officials set up a triage area inside the gymnasium at Bowie State.
Obama was scheduled to appear in an effort to rally Maryland Democrats for incumbent Gov. Martin O’Malley prior to November’s elections.
The president still spoke despite the health issues in the audience. He implored voters to be ready to fight in the upcoming elections.
He makes me sick all the time.
Good Cop
Saw this on The Agitator’s blog. It’s an example of the way police officers should behave when confronting citizens.
No Place Like NYC
Why is there public official in the U.S. speaking with such clarity.
Bad Faith
Another great rant from Pat Condell
When You’re Holding a Hammer…
…everything looks like a nail.
Not much into country music, but this video over at Ace of Spades is pretty good:
What’s amazing is the guy who co-wrote the song got fired from his teaching job after some parents complained and the school administration caved.
Which brings up, once again, the need to completely, totally and ruthlessly purge liberals of any stripe from the ranks of government jobs, boards and elected positions. They just have to go.
As Ace says:
This is how it is going to have to be: First of all, all of the school board members here have to be run against, and run hard against, and ejected from office. And then the principal needs to be fired, and every administrator along the way.
Second: Conservatives must begin, immediately, to get liberals fired from their jobs for any political expression. Any. Political. Expression.
We have tried to reason to them that this fascism is unfair. They don’t care, they don’t get it. All they see is the upside of fascism, the “good” side, the happy side, the I-get-to-coerce-my-opponents-and-hold-them-in-terror side.
They haven’t been held in terror themselves, worried that any stray comment they make may cause them to lose their livelihood (in the worst recession since the depression, no less). They do not “behave” as conservatives are forced to stay in line because they haven’t experienced the terror of of a hostile political bloc which has seized control of all the apparatuses of government.
They must be made to be afraid. And when a certain number of them have experienced the bad side of fascism, perhaps then they will be amenable to reason.
But they won’t be until then. It’s time to start using their despicable tactics against them. Not out of vengeance — but as a teachable moment.
Fire them all.
Defund the Left
Also on Powerline Blog: Target department store apologized for donating money to a group that supports a Republican candidate in Minnesota. The contributions were critized by a group of homo activists because the candidate opposes gay marriage.
From the Star-Tribune:
Unable to extinguish a firestorm of protest among some of its customers and gay rights supporters, Target Corp. on Thursday took the unusual step of apologizing for making a political donation.
CEO Gregg Steinhafel sent a message to company leaders saying he was “genuinely sorry” that the donation had disappointed some. The message was posted on the company’s Intranet, making it available to all employees.
Minneapolis-based Target had tried for days to emphasize that the $150,000 donation to MN Forward, a pro-business group backing Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, was based solely on a tax and jobs platform. But because of Emmer’s stance against gay marriage, many perceived the donation as flying in the face of Target’s longstanding commitment to workplace equality.
Background here.
We need to fight as hard to defund the left as they fight against our organizations.
Coming…Quarter Century of Bad Decisions
The smart guys at Powerline Blog neatly sum up the disastrous impact of the Republican’s capitulation on Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination.
To get a sense of what it means, think of the three big constitutional decisions rendered by district courts in the past week or two. They are: (1) Judge Bolton’s grant of a preliminary injunction blocking key portions of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, (2) Judge Hudson’s ruling permitting the Commonwealth of Virginia to proceed with its lawsuit challenging the portion of Obamacare that requires individuals to purchase insurance, and (3) Judge Walker’s outrageous ruling that California’s Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, is unconstitutional.
If these matters reach the Supreme Court, as seems likely, I have no doubt that Kagan will side with those who challenge the Arizona immigration law and Proposition 8, and with the government in the case of Virginia’s challenge to Obama care. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg — probably less than one year’s worth of bad jurisprudence. Kagan is only 50 years old, so we can expect at least 25 years of the same sort of leftist assault on our traditional freedoms and the rights of our states.
The only way Kagan’s confirmation doesn’t become a disaster is if we are able to elect Republicans presidents pretty consistently during the next 22 years or so, starting in 2012, and thus can keep Kagan busy writing dissents.
The trouble is there’s no guarantee that the Republicans: 1. will have a presidential candidate and then president who will nominate a high caliber conservative justice; 2. that the Republicans in the Senate will fight sufficiently hard enough to keep the Democrats from blocking and/or filibustering that nomination; 3. that the usual RINO turncoats won’t join the Dems in scuttling a strong conservative nominee.
I’m getting to the point where I despise the Republicans as much as I hate the Democrats.
Another Reason to Vote Both Parties Out
Democrats have to go. That’s obvious.
But this illustrates why the Republicans have to go too.
Elena Kagan Confirmed…
The usual suspects on the GOP side of the aisle joined the Democrats to put this highly unqualified, leftist ideologue on the nation’s top court.
Five Republicans Yes votes: Collins (Maine), Snowe (Maine), Gregg (N.H), Lugar (Ind.), Graham (S.C.).
We’ve come to expect this from these clowns, but the rest of the Republicans in the Senate were not better. Simply voting no is not enough. A filibuster until the end of time, or until The Obama withdrew Kagan’s name was the proper course of action.
The Stupid Party.
Your Opinion, Votes & Voice Doesn’t Count
Increasingly, we’re being told by the mandarins running this county that our opinions and votes don’t matter.
Case in point are two recent court cases. Yesterday, a judge in California vetoed the will of 7 million Californians in deciding that a state constitutional amendment limiting marriage to men and women. The other case involved an Arizona judge putting that state’s anti-illiegal immigration law on hold.
On top of that, you have the White House Press Secretary basically telling the 70 percent or more of Missouri voters who reject ObamaCare to shut the hell up.
From the Heritage Institute:
This Tuesday voters in Missouri, by a 40-point margin, approved a ballot measure rejecting the individual mandate at the core of President Barack Obama’s health care law. Asked what the vote meant to the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs said: “Nothing.” Yesterday in San Francisco, federal judge Vaughn Walker gave the exact same weight to a California ballot measure that affirmed marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. Specifically Judge Walker overturned the California Marriage Protection Act after concluding, as a matter of fact, that the majority of Californians who voted to protect marriage were bigots who had no rational basis to define marriage on their own terms. Here are just some of the “facts” Judge Walker found:
•Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful or inferior to heterosexual relationships harm gays and lesbians.
•The campaign to pass Proposition 8 relied on stereotypes to show that same-sex relationships are inferior to opposite-sex relationships.
•The Proposition 8 campaign relied on fears that children exposed to the concept of same-sex marriage may become gay or lesbian.
•The genetic relationship between a parent and a child is not related to a child’s adjustment outcomes.
•Children do not need to be raised by a male parent and a female parent to be well-adjusted.
How did Judge Walker arrive at these “facts”? By agreeing with everything the same-sex marriage proponents’ “experts” said while ruling that the traditional marriage witness was “unreliable” and “provided no credible evidence to support any of the claimed adverse effects proponents promised to demonstrate.” In so doing, Walker not only ignored the views of millions of Californians, but by basing his decision on the 14th Amendment, he also ignored the factual determinations of every single popular vote that has been held on the issue in the past two decades. According to Judge Walker’s reasoning every single one of these Americans is a bigot whose opinion on marriage has no place under Judge Walker’s Constitution.
More often than not, the decisions to cancel the will of the electorate is not based on the Constitution, law, reason, tradition or science, but merely the opinions, largely ill-formed, of judges and lawyers.
Why bother with elections at all? Why bother with Congress and state legislatures when a small group of appointed members of the judiciary or some bureaucracy can arbitrarily oppose the will of the majority for no other reason than their own personal opinion on any given topic?
The proper corrective to all of this begins at the ballot box, starting this November, but continuing in two years. The next step is to aggressively defund the left, labor unions, bureaucrats, community groups and all the other big-government moochers.
Finally, a clean sweep of the federal judiciary is in order. We need to remove judges like the two in California and Arizona. Congress needs to enact legislation stripping the court’s authority over matters best left to the states. (And yes, Congress has the constitutional authority to limit the court’s perview.)
Why the News Is Broken
Missouri voters overwhelming (73% to 27%) reject ObamaCare in a state-wide referendum yesterday. Yet, the moron reporter and editors for KMOV St. Louis Channel 4 interviewed two voters coming out of the polls who supported government-run health care.
Incredibly, when three quarters of the people who entered that polling place voted against ObamaCare, the station couldn’t find a single person to interview.
This is partisan political advocacy masquerading as journalism and pure incompetence. Regardless of your political leanings, commonsense should compel a reporter to find at least one voice in opposition to the agenda to at least give the appearance of objectivity.
When the nightly news doesn’t even come close to portraying reality, why bother watching?
A No Vote on Kagan, Please
Republicans must vote against and even filibuster the vote on Elena Kagan for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., outlines the many excellent reasons why Kagan is unqualified for the job:
However, I have little confidence in senate Republicans to do the right thing.
We’ll see.
Happy Birthday Mr. President
Today’s allegedly The Obama’s birthday, although no one’s ever seen official proof.
From Yahoo News:
When President Obama celebrates his 49th birthday Wednesday, he won’t be surrounded by his wife and daughters, who are on summer vacation. He’ll spend the night in Chicago, where on Thursday he’ll mark the occasion with “friends” — the kind who are willing to part with $30,000 or so for the chance to see the president presented with a birthday cake.
As Rush said yesterday:
Tomorrow is Obama’s birthday, not that we’ve seen any proof of that… What? We haven’t seen any proof of that! They tell us August 4th is the birthday; we haven’t seen any proof of that! Sorry. It is what it is.
Cheez Doodle Creator Dead at 90
I read in the Richmond Times-Dispatch this afternoon that the creator of Cheez Doodles died July 27 at the age of 90.
Having spent many happy moments with orange fingers devouring those tasty snacks, I have to say, Morrie R. Yohai, was a truly great man.
Yohai developed the small tubular snack at his Old London Foods factory in the 1950s. The company already was selling Dipsy Doodles rippled corn chips, which were made with a machine that spit them out under pressure through a nozzle shaped like the letter W.
He modified that concept by changing the machine to squirt liquefied cornmeal out in a round shape that was baked and then coated with flavorings and cheddar cheese.
In 1965, Borden approached Yohai about selling the Old London company, which also made Melba Toast, ice cream cones, cheese crackers and other products. He became senior vice president of Borden’s snack food division, acquiring Wise potato chips, Drake’s cakes, Campfire Marshmallows and other products for the company.
Morrie R. Yohai, RIP.
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