Things seem to be heating up considerably for the tax payer revolt Tea Parties planned for April 15 around the U.S. Today Gateway Pundit has the story about Arthur Delaney at the Huffington Post recruiting leftwingers to attend the Tea Parties as citizen reporters, taking photos, doing interviews and Twittering updates as events unfold.
Pajamas TV, founded by Roger Simon, has been recruiting conservative and libertarian citizen reporters to cover the Tea Parties for a week or so, who also are volunteering to do interviews, take photos and videos and Twitter updates.
Simon warns that the leftwing “citizen reporters” may actually combine their “reporting” with acts of provocation with the intention of disgracing the Tea Party tax revolt movement. He has worthwhile advice on how to spot the lefties. My advice as a former newspaper reporter is to obtain the name, phone number and e-mail address of anyone who wants to interview you, write it down and take their photo before you talk to them.
I also hope the local organizers are smart enough to hire a few off-duty cops as security guards for their events. A stitch in time, don’tcha know.
Well, all this attention from the left suggests that the Jell-o wrestling grudge match — nude or clothed — between budding young conservative bloggers HotMES (aka Monique Stuart) and Insert Clever S.logan Here (aka Suzanne Logan) is no longer necessary to assure press coverage of the Tea Party in Richmond, Virginia.
Suzanne and Monique each may earn points toward the decision of winner by adding me to their Blogrolls, as above, with extra points to the one who can prove she was first.
Update: Monique, aka HotMES, was first to the Blogroll and is now officially ahead on points. I wonder what Suzanne will do to try to claim the lead?
Thirteen days have passed and Clever S.logan has done nothing at all even to get into the running — just check the void where “A Conservative Lesbian” should be in her Blogroll. Meanwhile, Monique Stuart has accumulated a bajillion points per day for her alert action in putting “A Conservative Lesbian” at http://www.aconservativelesbian.com into HER Blogroll. And I have just doubled her point total for this post. I spoke too soon — now it’s tripled! With only a week until Tea Party Day on April 15, there is no way that the buxom brunette Clever S.logan can pull off a come-from-behind victory no matter how pornographic the picture that “buxom brunette” and “come-from-behind” puts in your head.
So, as official referee, I declare HotMES, aka Monique Stuart, the hot girl-on-girl conservative Jell-o wrestling match winner and NEW CHAMPEEN!!!
P.S.
My father, Hubert P. Yockey, will turn 93 on April 15. Every birthday with him is precious. Obama will be revolting for three more years.
Iowahawk has a re-post — which is not the same as a riposte — that is exceedingly timely, given North Korea’s missile launch this week, in which he announces conducting a “successful above-ground nuclear missile test explosion.”
Which reminds me, I am totally going to post a video of my father reminiscing about participating in an actual atomic bomb test in Nevada in the 1950’s — the second I have iMovie figured out — since his 93rd birthday is coming up and so far all I have to give him is his own blog, http://www.hubertpyockey.com, which I haven’t quite finished yet.
Where was I? Oh, yes, now that he has nuclear capability, Iowahawk has demands:
The aim of the Iowahawk nuclear fireworks program is clear: to contribute to defending the peace and stability all about the blogosphere, and the area around it, if the blogosphere knows what is good for it. And what is good for blogosphere is also clear: more linky-linky for Iowahawk….
Link to this post now, or be dealt a thousand-time blow of fresh nuclear Missouri M-80 retaliation! All imperialist stooge traitors of TypePad and Blogger and WordPress must now bow down before the greatness of Iowahawk and his merciless arsenal of peaceful stability rockets. Our diplomatic peace demands are clear:
* One thousand trackbacks
* 10 million pageviews
* 50 cases of OE 800
Take heed, blackhearted reactionaries of international blog non-linking, for this is your final warning! All those who foolishly refuse to contribute to peaceful blogospheric cooperation through trackbackery will taste the hot sting of Iowahawk’s radioactive weapons of singlehearted unity!
I hereby pledge linky-linky by both post and newsfeed for Iowahawk not only in recognition of his comic genius but also his perspicacity in recognizing my thoughts in 2008 about starting a blog.
Oh, I should mention that while Iowahawk is in my newsfeed (the column on the right with all the blog names and headlines in it), I have not yet figured out why his alone will not update. I tried all three of his newsfeed URLs and still no updating. However, if you click on “Iowahawk” in the newsfeed, it will take you to his home page.
I met my late life partner of over 20 years, Margaret Ardussi, in Fairfield, Iowa, in June 1984 when I came to stay in the house full of lesbians where she was renting a room. I was there to attend a World Peace Assembly of yogic flyers at Maharishi International University, now known as Maharishi University of Management.
I courted Margaret from afar when I came home and a few months later Margaret came to live with me and be my life partner in Silver Spring, Maryland. Most of the time she was alive, my life was about how to care for her, due to her multiple sclerosis, which included needing the assurance that the durable medical power-of-attorney she gave me would be respected, and that meant we could only live in the two counties out of Maryland’s 23 counties, plus Baltimore, that included “sexual orientation” as a class protected from discrimination in housing, jobs and access to public accommodations.
Then, in 2001, Gov. Parris Glendening managed to get “sexual orientation” included as a protected class under Maryland law. That meant we could be sure anywhere in the state of our ability to rent or buy a home, use public accommodations (e.g., stores, restaurants) and that I could get employment. Glendening did this to honor his gay brother after he had died of AIDS. Until we had something close to equal protection under state law, I didn’t dare move us back to the town where I grew up and my parents still lived.
Straight people do not think like this because mostly they can live anywhere they want. Heck, illegal immigrants can live anywhere they want in the U.S. AND they all have more rights than I do.
Well, on Friday, April 3, it became safe for me to move to Iowa.
That’s because Iowa’s state Supreme Court announced its unanimous decision, 7-0, that denying same-sex couples the right to marry is a violation of the equal protection clause of the state’s constitution. In about three weeks, lesbian and couple couples, including couples from out-of-state, can legally marry in Iowa.
The New York Times has the story, commentary and a pdf of the decision here. The story notes that the hurdles to change Iowa’s state constitution to ban gay marriage are very high and the soonest they all could be cleared — IF they were cleared — is 2012.
Now, I love Iowa. Iowa — specifically, Fairfield, Iowa — is my number one dream vacation spot in all the world. That’s because it has the highest concentration of yogic flyers practicing their flying technique together in North America — in the range of 1700 to 2000. (I have been a yogic flyer since 1978.) In addition, I love it that Fairfield is in Jefferson County, Iowa, which has the largest number of Sthapathya-vedically-designed and constructed homes in North America.
In addition, Iowa has one of the best facilities in the U.S. for receiving care in the revived form of the traditional medical system of India, known as Maharishi Ayur-veda.
Also, in Fairfield, Iowa, I can buy Jyotish gems on the spot — and from several jewelers, not just one. (Now you’re supposed to say, what the?)
Also, my impression over the decades from afar is that the lesbian community at the University of Iowa in Iowa City is pretty lively. Oh, and I checked a year or so ago, and learned I would be able to find excellent bassoon teachers in Iowa, too.
Another thing about Iowa — I have the intuition that the illegal immigrant victim community and the Black Liberation Theology churches that got Proposition 8 passed to re-ban gay marriage in California are just not as numerous or bold about their vendettas in Iowa as they are in California.
I also noticed during the 2008 presidential campaign — to my sorrow, at the time, since I coveted every state for McCain/Palin — how extremely blue Iowa was, and that this was by no means the first time it had worn that color to the Electoral College gala in a presidential election.
The point that I’m making is that Iowa is not the hick fly-over state that may be the stereotype in your mind, or that West and East Coast elitists are trying to purvey.
So I do not share the concerns that some conservative gay bloggers raise that this UNANIMOUS decision by the Iowa state Supreme Court will result in a backlash.
However, I must add that I think that national gay and lesbian rights groups would be very wise if they averted that danger before it can arise by saturating the state for the next four years with town meetings and ice cream socials, barbecues and picnics, all featuring lesbian and gay couples answering questions about their lives and mingling so that straight people can get to know them. It makes us real. I’ve done talks like that since 1972 or ’73. And so I know that becoming real changes everything.
Also, there’s one thing I have faith in about conservatives, which is that the majority of them find it very difficult to do evil by crushing likable, respectable people who are trying to build lives together — at least to their faces. Furthermore, conservatives are the very best people to talk to about wanting to be married, because they get marriage and the benefits it provides not just to the couple but also to society. Liberals — not so much.
Regarding gay and lesbian conservative commentary about gay marriage — to be honest, the credential I want to see first and foremost before I’m really interested in the commentator’s opinion is having, or having had, a long gay marriage. Because a long marriage develops you and teaches you things. It protects and nourishes you. It makes you safer and a better person. And it cultures in each spouse the passion and the skills to look out for another person. What equal protection in marriage means for lesbians and gays is that we would have the full panoply of legal rights — the tools to do all these things –that are afforded to opposite-sex couples. If you haven’t ever been married — don’t know how to be married — then there’s just no way for you to grasp in your gut how urgent and comprehensive and pure life-or-death right now that gay marriage is.
About some of the objections: right now the word “marriage” is used for both civil and religious marriages. To say gays and lesbians have to use a different word for our unions to respect “marriage” as a religiously-defined word — well, two things: one, there’s no way the wording for us ever will connote equality, so that is not acceptable; and two, y’all already ceded that brand to the public domain since you haven’t insisted on a different term depending on whether the ceremony was performed by a justice of the peace or a minister. Also, I notice the pretty much anyone can obtain the credential that allows them to perform marriages from the Internet in minutes in exchange for a small fee. Why doesn’t THAT require a different word?
I don’t want to hurt straight people who really are very bewildered by the concept of same-sex marriages and who want to reserve the word “marriage” for themselves. But by the same token, I don’t want to get hurt, either, and whether it is rational or not, the thought of having to use any other term than marriage for lesbians and gays feels degrading and second-class. It hurts more than I can describe. And it would be an impossible task to get state legislatures always to ensure the two types of marriages always provided the same rights and responsibilities.
Regarding “slippery slope” objections, I think they are unfounded and are used as deliberate scare tactics. You know, the “well if gays can marry, then next you’ll be able to marry a goat or a child or many spouses.” Oh, wait — isn’t there at least one religion that advocates child marriages — and has rules about sex with goats — and advocates polygamy? I’ve forgotten its name just now — darn, that’s frustrating because it’s right on the tip of my tongue. But that does mean that apparently this concern has been pre-empted and religiously approved for hundreds of years and therefore ought to be irrelevent.
Speaking of religion, there’s the objection that marriage has been defined as one man and one woman for thousands of years. Wow. Do religious people think no one else reads the Bible? Because it looks to me like polygamy was pretty much the rule in the Old Testament, rather than the exception.
In fact, my suggestion to people who want to conduct political activism to define marriage is to stop persecuting lesbians and gays and pour all your attention toward the Muslim and African immigrants who enjoy legal polygamy in their native countries and want to have it here, too. Polygamy has been around since WAY before gay marriage was an issue. We’ve just been more convenient whipping boys and scapegoats than the polygamists.
Well, here’s the deal — we want two-person marriages just like yours except ours are same-sex. We’re on your side, so draft us for the team!
In contrast, polygamists seem to have enough to point to, without falsely framing gay marriage as a wedge, when they say that their religion and culture are THE ancient form of marriage. So, if you want to get ahead of that, draft us, starting now.
Another scare tactic used against gay marriage is to ignore the constitutional separation of church and state and assert that legalizing gay marriage would force religions that do not accept gay marriage to perform them. No, it would not: we have a constitutional separation of church and state SO THAT the government may not dictate to churches in that way.
Besides polygamy, the other major threat to marriage is not gay marriage — it is the U.S. healthcare system. Really. That’s because the percentage of the population that can afford long-term nursing home care if one or both spouses require it is very small. For most people, their only recourse is Medicaid, which requires spending down assets to $2500 — a figure that hasn’t been adjusted for inflation since 1974 — and which provides few exemptions for what the community spouse (i.e., the one that isn’t in the nursing home) is allowed to keep.
So I am totally NOT kidding married couples who have a decent amount of assets — if Obama doesn’t get all your money and property — that it would be a REALLY good idea to go over your tax and estate situation with a tax attorney around age 60 to see if you would be better off divorcing and resorting to the jury-rigged assortment of legal contracts that lesbians and gays have to use now to protect their unions in most states.
Regarding my own marriage, Margaret — the love of my life, the most beautiful woman in the world to me — became paralyzed from the chest down due to her multiple sclerosis in April 1992 and died of complications of multiple sclerosis on Dec.7, 2004, under hospice care in our home with me at her side. I am a widow. I live with my father, who is almost 93, and take care of him while I am re-launching my career as a writer. I have a list of things to accomplish before even considering re-marrying. But the thought that I could live in Iowa and one day be legally married to the same-sex spouse who would be the love of the rest of my life — it makes my heart sing.
… female pubic hair and genitals, according to The Vagina Lady, whom I found by browsing recent tweets from The Bloggess.
What will the Ace of Spades lads do when they learn their macho blog name means “cunt”? NTTAWWT. (Yes! I said it! Thank Eve Ensler and The Vagina Monologues!
This is really going to take the sting out of their denunciations of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and gay marriage for me — assuming I’m not laughing so hard I can still read, that is.
Why is it that HillBuzz, a blog by centrist Democratic gay men, has the scoop on what should have been in the headlines yesterday about Obama at the G-20, instead of Obama’s iPod gift to the Queen of England and his confusion about the correct way to speak of the United Kingdom?
My first follower was Cuban Diva BFF because if you can’t get your BFF to follow you on Twitter, maybe you need to, you know, talk. Also, she was home and let me walk her through the process. I tell her that I am grateful for her in my life every single day that we talk, which is almost every single day.
My second follower was — drum roll — THE BLOGGESS!!! — who is the most awesome and funny writer ON. THE. PLANET. — because I asked her nicely. She kindly remembered my recent homage to her — soon to be available as a dramatic reading by me on YouTube, pretty much so she can watch it whenever she needs a morale boost, but I’m OK with you watching it, too, as long as you write comments that are really nice to her and e-mail it to everyone you know and random people you don’t — where was I?
Anyhoo, not long ago The Bloggess posted a screen shot of a tweet that included a startling message from Twitter, and I began to feel I might be missing something. Until then my attitude about the social networking Web sites is that they take the elementary school playground to an exponentially higher level of shunning and inclusion. (“WHAT! I friended you on Facebook and you didn’t friend me back? Now you are dead to me!”)
But the prospect of following smartasseries by The Bloggess warmed me considerably toward the Twitter gestalt. So when an e-mail came announcing a free webinar by HubSpot, I signed up, and it turned out to be quite the revelation. (Here’s a sample post from their blog.) Then, yesterday, just one day later, when I was sore annoyed that my little parody news story about Obama was not flooded with readers — although I’m grateful for everyone who came! — I joined the Twitterati to try to draw it to the attention of a wider audience. If you understand Twitter, stop laughing. It turns out to do that you have to HAVE a wider audience of followers on Twitter ALREADY.
SO — gentle readers! If you would like to follow me, I am @conservativelez, or http://twitter.com/conservativelez. I’m pretty sure that if you follow me, in the Twitter sense, I will follow you in reciprocation. But please cut me some slack while I’m figuring it out — thanks.
P.S.: One of the first persons I followed on Twitter is Robert Stacy McCain, of The Other McCain, with whom I trade shellackings, except when we take turns shellackingRoss Douthat. It appears Stacy has tweeted his followers that they should look into following me, and I thank him.
P.P.S.
Showtime recently showed a remastered “Liza with a ‘Z’,” which I saw in 1972 when it aired, then bought the album and wore it out. The song is apropos of “lez” with a “z” instead of “s” in @conservativelez:
Washington, D.C., April 1 — U.S. President Barack Obama has resigned after confessing to treason. Obama named his co-conspirators and the FBI has taken all but one into custody in undisclosed locations.
Obama told FBI investigators that his primary co-conspirators were Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. He revealed that they have spent the last 40 years devising a master plan for collapsing the U.S. economy by overwhelming it with taxes, debt and new spending programs. Obama also named as a primary co-conspirator billionaire investor George Soros, and said that it was market manipulations by Soros that began the financial meltdown in September when Obama was trailing the McCain-Palin ticket in the polls.
So far Obama has refused to name his al Quaeda handlers, who communicated with him through the Blackberry PDA he insisted on keeping after becoming president despite warnings that no such device can be kept secure.
Obama also named as co-conspirators Vice President Joseph Biden (first in line of succession to the presidency); House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (second in line of succession to the presidency); Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd; Senator Robert Byrd (who is also the Senate president pro tempore and third in line of succession to the presidency); House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank; Senior Advisor David Axelrod; his former chief campaign manager, David Plouffe; and his White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel has disappeared and is thought to have escaped to Israel disguised as a Chasidic woman.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is fourth in the order of succession to the presidency. She was sworn in as the first woman president of the United States by Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts in a small private ceremony in the FBI Building in Washington, D.C., at 7 am this morning. Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, and daughter Chelsea Clinton, witnessed the ceremony along with all the other members of the Supreme Court and a camera crew from C-SPAN.
Members of the White House press corps refused to cover Clinton’s swearing in and instead barricaded themselves in the White House press room, sobbing and smashing furniture.
Following her swearing in, President Clinton released a statement reassuring the citizens of the United States and the world that she can “hit the ground running” and “will work to reverse the destructive policies of the Obama administration.” President Clinton also said she is putting terrorists around the world on notice that “there’s a tough new sheriff in town who is determined to keep the United States safe.”
Within five minutes of the release of Clinton’s statement, all the stock markets around the world that were open began to rise sharply. Wall Street followed suit as soon as it opened for trading.
President Clinton will address the nation for one hour tonight starting at 8 pm, ET. Her speech will be carried by ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Fox News, CNN and PBS.
MSNBC will not carry the president’s speech and instead will air retrospectives on the careers of its news anchors Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, who held hands and leapt from the top floor of NBC’s headquarters in New York City around 8 am. In a tragic coincidence, they landed on CBS news anchor Katie Couric and ABC news anchor Charlie Gibson. All four were declared dead at the scene.
Update: Thank you, Stephen Gordon, and welcome, readers of The Liberty Papers!
Update: Prof. William A. Jacobson has a round-up of April Fool’s news links, including this one, at his esteemed blog, Legal Insurrection.
Update: Thank you, Lance, and welcome readers of Troglopundit.
Update: Welcome, readers of Paco Enterprises — I love the April Fool’s post there, too!
Update: Welcome, Protein Wisdom readers and thank you, Dan, king of minimalism! How’s Annette?
Update: Michelle Malkin played a great April Fool’s prank here and asked her readers to submit theirs, and I’m one of her faithful readers, so this is mine — oh, it has been picked in Romania, or some other country with a Cyrillic alphabet (I’m not making that up).
Faux conservative/twerp vérité Ross Douthat, whose collection of contemporary porn from the last 60 years is one of his own favorite column topics, is the subject of a lengthy profile today by Michael Calderone at Politico in celebration of Douthat’s replacing Bill Kristol as the token conservative on the op-ed pages of the New York Times.
The main credential recommending Douthat appears to be his unremitting fault-finding and attacks on conservatives and Republicans while stoutly insisting that he is not either a liberal, not no how, not no way.
Anyhoo, here’s how Calderone concluded his Douthat hagiography:
“I think they’ll [the New York Times] benefit from having another conservative — a social conservative,” said Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, the conservative magazine where Douthat once interned and which still publishes his movie reviews.
Lowry said he considers The Washington Post’s op-ed page to be more diverse politically than that of the Times, and he deemed it “strange, to say the least,” that there wasn’t already a writer with Douthat’s perspective “represented in the country’s most important newspaper.”
“For me,” Lowry continued, “it will fill an important hole.”
Is it just me, or is that TMI?
P.S. Robert Stacy McCain — who is keeping his Lenten vow — you’re welcome.
In this post I propose that conservative organizations and wealthy conservatives put their wallets together and provide Robert Stacy McCain with a VERY prosperous and steady income so he can focus full-time on the conservative networking and mentoring of conservative bloggers he does through his blog, The Other McCain.
I wrote it 10 days ago and held it due to concerns that my proposal would embarrass him. However, today four things came together to persuade me to publish my proposal.
First, in Andrew Breitbart’s column today published at his Web site, Big Hollywood, as “Rules for Conservative Radicals” and the Washington Times as, “Online activists on the right, unite!,” he describes the dirty tricks and skulduggery employed by Obama and the Left, including paying and scripting trolls to post on right-wing blogs and “seminar callers” (coordinated by a left-wing group and coached with talking points) to dominate conservative talk radio call-in shows.
I find the best reporting on the Obama blog trolls comes from HillBuzz, which was an early target of the practice and quickly learned the prepared blogging points and shifts of the Obama trolls assigned to bring down their blog. Click here and read comment 25, which really does seem to be from one of Obama’s paid trolls coming clean.
Reports of an Obama 2.0 organization with a war chest of $75 million in private funds to keep much of Obama’s campaign organization intact during his presidency to pressure members of Congress and destroy his enemies began to be published immediately after the election in November. An overview of Obama 2.0 from the Los Angeles Times from Jan. 13, 2009, is here.
It’s fairly obvious that we need to organize and fund a similar organization — and maybe it’s just me, but I believe it does NOT already exist as the Republican National Committee.
If there were such an organization, would we have to fight the left wing with the same evil tactics they use on us? No. While Andrew points out in his column the following:
So now that the right is vanquished and thoroughly out of power, why doesn’t it learn from its conquerors and employ similar tactics?
The answer is obvious. The right, for the most part, embraces basic Judeo-Christian ideals and would not promote nor defend the propaganda techniques that were perfected in godless communist and socialist regimes. The current political and media environment crafted by supposedly idealistic Mr. Obama resembles Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela more than John F. Kennedy’s America.
The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and other left-leaning sites benefit from the right’s belief that there are rules and decorum in political debate and civic engagement. Of course, every now and then, a curious right-winger will go in and engage in discussion at a left-wing site, but rarely under purely disingenuous and mass coordinated means.
… we conservatives can employ similar tactics without adopting the same tactics. That means, we can coordinate our message and pay our own angels — because they will be NOT be trolls — to comment on left-wing blogs and — are there any left-wing radio shows? It’s funny, I can’t think of a single one.
Oh, and by “coordinate our message,” I mean in the voluntary sense, what with conservatives being individualists and all. The difference between left-wing trolls and conservative angels will be that angels will stick to facts, educate their readers, stay courteous and appeal to the idealism of their readers, which has been perverted and appropriated by left-wing propaganda. After all, think of NYPD Blue, when Sipowicz was trying to get the most hardened criminals to confess, sometimes the most effective angle was to appeal to their better nature. (Yes, I know Sipowicz is not a real person.)
I do think that while we are fighting for the economic life of the United States that fiscal conservatism is our common ground. We can form our circular firing squads over social conservative issues again after we save the U.S. as the capitalist engine of global prosperity from Obama.
Second — you thought I forgot I was numbering my points, didn’t you? — Little Miss Attila wrote today about “A Pep Talk from R. Stacy McCain.” Just go, I’ll wait.
Third, as Little Miss Attila points out, I was dissed by Stacy on linkage — plus he wrote an exceptionally nasty diatribe against gay marriage on 3/27 KNOWING THAT GOD WILL SMITE HIM FOR THIS —
— so I don’t care if I embarrass him by proposing publicly that conservatives give him a steady income WAY into the six figures BECAUSE THAT IS JUST THE KIND OF VINDICTIVE BITCH I AM!!!
Four, I’m blog of the day at Conservative Grapevine — thank you, John Hawkins! — so this is a good time to draw attention to this cause.
OK, here’s my post I first wrote 10 days ago proposing that conservative organizations and wealthy patrons figure out how to pay Robert Stacy McCain to coordinate and train the conservative blogosphere, which was originally entitled, “When the goose is laying golden eggs, for heaven’s sake, make sure it has food and can afford its nest!”
I think I first came on Robert Stacy McCain’s blog, The Other McCain, in February through Little Miss Attila, whom I found in December or January through GayPatriot’s 2009 annual “Grand Diva Conservative Bloggress” contest, whom I found in the fall from Michelle Malkin’s blog, which I found from the National Review Online in September, which I found in early September from hunting down a reliable place to find Jonah Goldberg’s columns after I found him by Googling for “Obama is tanking” stories after I saw Sarah Palin’s luminous and galvanizing acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, which I watched because there was no way I was going to vote for Barack Obama after he piggishly refused to nominate Hillary Clinton as his running mate, although even then I would not necessarily have voted for him due to his opposition to gay marriage and his unbreakable allegiances to illegal aliens, open borders, Muslims and Black Liberation Theology, to say nothing of his alliances to people who want Israel destroyed as a nation and Jews wiped out as a religion and people.
Are you following me?
My point is that even a lesbian, die-hard liberal Democrat like me can find her way to fiscal conservatism through the network of the conservative blogosphere.
I know I’m new around here, but it looks to me like no one knows all the players — from the bigshots to newbies like me — better than Robert Stacy McCain.
It also looks to me like no one works harder than Robert Stacy McCain at every level of the conservative blogosphere to keep conservative bloggers in touch with one another. He is the goose that is laying the golden eggs, and the names of those eggs are “Sense of Community,” “Warm Feelings of Camaraderie,” “Friendship,” “Cooperation” and “Reciprocity.”
Stacy also appears to keep his eye on every sparrow and generously and selflessly not only mentors newbies but also delivers practical boosts in the form of links and traffic because there’s nothing like a taste of success early in your career to fan the embers of ambition into the passionate fire in the belly that produces real, lasting achievements. The names of those golden eggs are “Teambuilding,” “Mentoring” and “Matchmaking” and “Networking.”
In my own life, I’ve always felt that when I have a goose that is laying golden eggs for me, the way to get more eggs for longer is to make sure that that is the happiest, best fed, best housed, most prosperous goose that it is in my power to provide.
I know other people who believe the golden eggs will always come, that the goose will find a way through any amount of pressure and stress and deprivation to lay the golden eggs. And maybe she will.
But I prefer the sure thing in these situations. So I provide for the goose.
What I am proposing here is that conservative organizations that benefit from a lively, healthy, well-connected conservative blogosphere — which is all of them — put their heads together and figure out to give Robert Stacy McCain contracts to pay him to write whatever he wants at The Other McCain and continue to do what he loves to do to ensure the vibrancy and cameraderie of the conservative blogosphere. It wouldn’t hurt if some prominent conservatives who are prosperous also contribute to this cause.
I am concerned that this post will embarrass Stacy — you know, more than I’ve embarrassed him already here and here.
I didn’t tell him about it in advance. I don’t have his permission to do this. He definitely did not put me up to this.
When Virginia Woolf described in an essay what enabled her to produce her novels, and what women would need to be productive as writers and artists, the formula was very simple: “a room of one’s own and an independent income.” Indeed, “A Room of One’s Own” is the name of her essay, which was based on a speech. Read it, it is absolutely luminous and wonderful and poignant and true. But, in essence, she was saying that you need some privacy and quiet — “a room of one’s own” — to be able to write, and freedom from lack and worry over money — “an independent income” — which Woolf obtained when an aunt died and left her a small trust.
I believe we can leave it to Stacy to find his room to write, away from the claims his six children and beautiful wife have on his attention.
But just imagine how much more Stacy could accomplish if conservative organizations banded together and provided him with an income that would give him freedom from lack and worry over money. What a boon that would be for the conservative movement!
So, what say you in Right Blogistan about calling on conservative organizations and prosperous conservatives to give Stacy contracts and REAL MONEY so he can do that voodoo that he does so well?
Update, 3/31/09: Gateway Pundit has the story on Democratic dirty tricks in South Carolina.
Angie Harmon, actress, played assistant prosecutor Abbie Carmichael on "Law and Order" from 1998 to 2001.
Angie Harmon proved last week she has the biggest pair in Hollywood and today the sexist dolts at Fox News trivialize and belittle her courage in the “Entertainment” section of their Web site under their aegis for trivializing and belittling women, “Pop Tarts.”
Andrew Breitbart was just in D.C. a couple of weeks ago to talk to conservatives about Hollywood’s totalitarian liberal anti-conservative McCarthyism, which blacklists and blackballs conservatives at every level in the entertainment industry AND in every aspect of the entertainment business. They are likely to punish Harmon swiftly and viciously. THAT is why Harmon proved she has the biggest pair in Hollywood.
But not a word about THAT from the twit reporting the story for Fox.
Here’s what Fox News reported that Harmon said at the Los Angeles launch last Thursday of Latisse, a new eyelash-growing formula:
“Here’s my problem with this, I’m just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist, it’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist,” Harmon told Tarts at Thursday’s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse. “But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay … I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my President, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous.”
Speaking of dislikes, the starlet has also had enough of the double-standards in the media.
“I do think McCain would have done a better job, only because I think he has more experience. I also think if W or John McCain or Reagan would have gone and done a talk show, the backlash would have been so huge and in his face, and ‘What is our president doing? How unclassy!’ But Obama does it and no one says anything,” Harmon said.
And in spite of the scornful opinions most of her Tinseltown counterparts have shared on Gov. Sarah Palin, Harmon remains a true fan.
“I admire any kind of woman like her. My whole motto is to know what I stand for and know what I don’t stand for and have the courage to live my life accordingly and she does exactly that. The fact that this woman has made the decisions she’s made and literally lived her life according to that and takes heat for it is absolutely disgusting to me,” she added. “People cannot look at this woman. I really think they’re afraid of her and her morals, ethics and values and the fact that she hangs on them. Is she the most experienced person in the world? But she was running to be the Vice President, so we then put the most inexperienced person as the President. That didn’t make any sense to me.”
God bless Angie Harmon. I always did like her. And now, more than ever.
Update, 3/31/09: Gateway Pundit has more on “Angie Harmon proves she has the biggest pair in Hollywood.”
