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A little shout-out

This one is for Rusty, William Teach, and for Little Miss Atilla, just because:

And for Cranky Neocon, and not just because of this, because he answered my javascript bleg:

Cotillion

Just a few quick notes about The Cotillion:

First, I need to thank Jody from Steal the Bandwagon and Janette from Common Sense Runs Wild–they’re just as much to credit for this as I have been credited with. Please go show your appreciation to them! They also have all of this posted at their sites.

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for your blessing; you are, of course, our inspiration! :wink:

We have a hub site for all this madness; please consider adding it to your blogrolls and check back there for carnival updates and whatever else we might do there. It’s still sorta under construction, so pardon the MESS. Hey, it’s Blogger, but Cotillion member and design goddess Tammy is going in there to work some magic!

Finally, the biggest props go to the blogging goddesses who bravely signed on to this, sight unseen. I heart y’all! (And yes, there are still a few who will be with us next week.)

UPDATE: Welcome, readers of Michelle Malkin and NRO! I hope you find our group of women as wonderful as I do!

Presenting…The Cotillion!

Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Inaugural of the Cotillion!

The Cotillion

Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a woman of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith

And I was ’round when Emperor Misha
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Ace
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game *

We ladies have gathered together for the presentation of these dazzling darlings of the blogosphere, and yes, proper etiquette dictates that you shall kindly direct your devoted attention to each of these fine young women! Please, gentlemen callers, remove your hats indoors in their presence! I do declare!

So, on to the lovely ladies! (No, no, not on them…oh, nevermind. Bless your hearts.)

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank

Laziness, indeed. Florida Cracker finds a bit of (well, unsurprising) journalistic laziness in a “would-be moving” story in the Houston Chronic(le). Nice try there, buddy boy, but no cigar.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals
and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. Norman Tebbit

Girl on the Right

how silly unions are

Blue Man Group

The campaign of fear now being waged against genetic modification is based largely on fantasy and a complete lack of respect for science and logic. Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder, Greenpeace (!)

Ilyka Damen takes on food moonbats and their irrational opposition to genetically-modified foods. Hey, weren’t those wackos freaking out in the 70’s and 80’s about worldwide famine and doom? Now they oppose a viable solution to starvation, apparently because someone might turn a profit (the horror!) in the process. Go figure, eh?

You might be a bad driver if…you see more middle fingers than a manicurist.

Kellipundit finds proof that Rhode Island drivers are, as she suspected, the worst in the country. (Left-turns on red are practically legal, it seems.) Fortunately for all of us, she’s only got a few weeks left there to make it out of there in one piece.

Promiscuity turns sex into a sport, like arm-wrestling. Mason Cooley

You know how at certain blogs (I’ll leave names out of it), it seems like every other day there’s yet another “NSFW” picture of some model or starlet? Never fear, SondraK is here to even things out. “Just because.” Here’s another for y’all from me, “just because” fair is fair. This post, however, is perfectly safe, unless your work can’t tolerate moonbat humor. ;-)

Good is a point of view, Anakin.
And the Jedi point of view is not the only valid one. *

Little Miss Attilla writes a great review of Revenge of the Sith that’s made me actually think about going to see it, where I really didn’t care to before. Rather than the usual “this is what happened” review, she writes of the psychological and philosophical story in the movie, that of the transformation from good to evil. I can already see the clumsy lefty undertones. (Typical Hollywood.)

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,… *

Mamamontezz’ post shows yet another stupid activist judge, yet this one didn’t make the kind of ruling you might expect. This time, it’s about a judge in Indianapolis who has ruled that some parents cannot teach their nine year-old child their religious beliefs. Ugh. Idiot!

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he hath chosen
for his own inheritance. [Psalms 33:12]

Merri muses upon the immeasurable blessings our children have as Americans, particularly in contrast with the children in Afghanistan and Iraq, where their lives are in grave danger every day. While we spend our time thinking about trivial things, those brave children stumble across live weapons and (as I noted here) are used as props for terrorists.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. [Euripides]

Stacy, a.k.a. Not a Desperate Housewife, writes about the importance of personal responsibility, and what can happen when caution is thrown to the wind. Even though we always have the right to our safety and to “say no,” acting responsibly is always the wise choice.

With this, my fair ladies and gentlemen callers, I bid you adieu and affectionately request that you direct your faithful attention to two other groups of lovely ladies, courtesy of the charming and talented Miss Jody and Miss Janette!
It has been my greatest pleasure to (cough) entertain (cough) you!

Traffic Jam

Continuing the Dance

What is the Cotillion?

First and foremost, it is a celebration of the diverse voice that is the conservative woman. Not just one person can speak for us, and no one person should have that obligation. There are so many of us here and willing to share our thoughts and our ideas that it seems a shame that woman in the blogosphere have been outshined by the men.

Name five women in the top twenty of the Ecosystem. Can you do it?

Last February, Kevin Drum could only name three in the top thirty. Once again, the boys seem to have a headstart on this “blog” thing, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t show them a thing or two. This isn’t about making it an “us” versus “them” thing either, it’s just about celebrating and highlighting some of the best female writers that shine.

Our intention is to be able to give the reader a wonderful place to start their journey into the feminine side of the blogosphere. And to show everyone that although we may not have the “links” of an Instapundit, we certainly have enough opinions to make up for it.

We hope to stick around, not take ourselves too seriously and maybe just enlighten everyone about who the conservative woman really is…

And so the dance begins.

It is my pleasure to present:

Rightwingsparkle sparkles with “Understanding Christian Conservatives 101“. Since they can be a difficult lot to sometimes figure out, she uses her patience and wit to explain it to those who may not quite get it:

You don’t know or understand Christians (or those of deep faith from other religions) too well, or you wouldn’t dismiss our concerns on social issues. The idea of Arlen Spector as head of the judiciary committee doesn’t bother you a bit, yet it horrifies us. Another ‘moderate’ supreme court judge seems fine to you. Good God! Look what the moderate ones have brought us so far. If all you seem to care about are the economic issues, then we become the Republicans the democrats imagine us to be, greedy and self involved.

sisu reveals “La Petite Illusion” saying that “Old European eyes could use a new pair of lenses”:

I have told my American friends that the region in this world that has seen the most transformation and change is Central and Eastern Europe — without shedding a drop of blood. So don’t preach to us,” snipped the head-in-the-sand, history-challenged German ambassador to the U.S., Wolfgang Ischinger in a New Yorker interview recently…Meanwhile, in less nuanced parts of the world, some prefer to believe their own eyes.

Kate of small dead animals says that “I concede” (but I don’t really think she does) in this great “must read” post:

So, to my fellow moderate, mainstream, compromising Liberal Canadian citizens so tolerant of the mischievious ways of our political masters - today I concede.
You win. I lose. You are right. I was wrong. You were always right, and I was always wrong. Having broken the shackles of black and white, I’m ready to venture into this brave new ethical world of “Grey” and work with you. I can’t say I understand it, but nonetheless - it’s time to adapt.

The American Princess tells us “Why I do this“, her lofty goals and ideals put most of us bloggers to shame, but maybe this is why she does “this” so well:

This is no meager argument about judicial activism, Howard Dean, or the 2006 elections, though, as a scholar of foreign relations and government, an experienced political activist, and a news junkie, that composes a susbstantial part of the output, this is about something much, much deeper. It is about supporting the spread of democratic ideals, the promotion of free-market
economics, the protection of true free speech, including the freedom of religion, and a deep-seeded concern for the sanctity and dignity of human life, even in its most innocent forms.

The Anchoress examines the tensions of Muslims and Americans here and abroad in “Oh, Yeah this is Recent Hate” answering the question posed by an Arabic writer: Why do you American hate the Muslims so much?

America “hates” so many Muslims that it allows its sons and daughters to die to liberate millions of them from tyranny and oppression, but we “hate” them? America “hates” Muslims as they build schools and hospitals for them?

Fausta keeper of The Bad Hair Blog blogs about Star Wars much, N.J. taxes, a little Venezuela and alot of Spain. What did you expect her to choose just one wonderful post to highlight? Did she expect me to choose for her? Never, dahling, as everyone knows: a lady is entitled to many many opinions. An exerpt from the “Sith“:

Hey! Chewy’s back! But, in the Planet of the Apes?

Denita of Who Tends the Fires writes beautifully about our “Beautiful Freedoms“:

I was not told when I must wake or get out of bed, my only obligation is to attend to the needs of my son and husband. My clothing is my own style, not something I’m expected to wear or die for the crime of showing too much skin. My computer is connected to a mind-bending floodgate of information that I can read of my own free will; the only thing my family is expected to do is pay for the facilities once a month. I need not fear having my door kicked in for the crime of reading whatever I wanted, or the crime of expressing my opinions in a public forum.

Beth from Yeah, Right, Whatever is truly a lady. She not only gives screamingly funny and true observations at Walmart, she also can tan with the best of them:

Let’s look at this logically, for just a moment. Human beings survived for millennia in a mostly agrarian society before the invention of sun screen. So… there must be something in our anatomy that protects us (and there’s also a reason why people in climates closer to the equator have darker skin- more protection). But… that’s not to say that it’s healthy to coat yourself with Crisco™ and intentionally cook yourself for the sake of beauty.

Oh, but the party is not over yet…

Janette of Common Sense Runs Wild presents:

Beth of My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy hosts a wonderful bunch of ladies as well. Go on over and say hello to:

–Jody from Steal the Bandwagon

More Cotillion!

All too often in the blogosphere the following annoying question comes up: “Where are the female bloggers?” Beth of My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Jody of Steal the Bandwagon and I asked the following ladies to join us in the very special project of answering that question. The participants were invited based solely on our enjoyment of their blogs. Traffic and linkage played no role in our decision as to who to include, we simply enjoy their work and we thought that you may too.

Our purpose is to raise the visibility of some great female bloggers in hopes that we never have to deal with a certain annoying question again.

A Mom and Her Blog taking on a tough subject that should concern everyone in the blogosphere: Tammy presents How Screwed Up Is This? She highlights the problem of repeat violent criminal offenders and the current epidemic of violence against children. She also suggests a solution.

This is no way to treat a lady: Carol, the Lady of the blog at An American Housewife is appalled by the treatment of Laura Bush during her recent trip to Jerusalem. She also marvels at the graciousness of another real lady in Laura Bush Gets Heckled.

This lady is a bitch: Raven at And Rightly So! Embraces the former slur, Bitch. After reading her reasoning I’ll be proud for you to call me one too.

So far we’ve had a Mom, a Lady and a Bitch, let’s toss things up a little and bring in a Jane Novak the Docile Pupil of a Monkey Monk. No really. Some pissy Yemenis are on the case of Jane at Armies of Liberation. Go and be awed by the power of a woman in the blogosphere enraging the right people around the world.

We’re waiting for her to write that book: Proving that conservative bloggers have not forgotten Terri Schiavo, Crystal boils down the entire problem with the Terri’s case in One Finder of Fact .

A braver woman than I: Darleen admits to trolling the “leftist blogs for snorts and chuckles.” My first thought was better her than me–there’s usually not a long enough shower in the world to wash off that stench. After reading her post How Do They Do It? –Some Answers I have to say I’m glad she’s willing to take one for the team.

A simple tootsie in the country but a goddess in the blogosphere: e-Claire gives the President some excellent advice on how to deal with Amnesty International in Hey, Dubya –Don’t Feed the Moonbats.

Proving that girls don’t always like surprises (and men can like them even less): Christina at Feisty Repartee proves that women generally hit what they’re aiming for in Date From Hell.

A woman not afraid of a fight: Sadie submits a post taking on the arguments as to why there’s a lack of women in the upper tiers of the blogosphere. Screw Diversity is an attempt to head off affirmative action in the Ecosystem.

The other two-thirds of The Cotillion’s debut: Beth and Jody

–Janette from Common Sense Runs Wild

An Update From Mosul

Michael Yon has posted his latest from Mosul; a heart-wrenching account of the evil that men do in the name of God:

During the month of May in Mosul, there have been so many terrorist attacks killing women and children–often when no American or Iraqi Forces have been in the area– that they are barely news. It happened again on Saturday. This time by radio controlled IED.

Children. Imagine your child–no, don’t. There’s no limits, no taboos on the conduct of these filthy swine terrorists. And they expect US to show THEM respect? Sorry, but you can flush every last Koran on Earth and it STILL doesn’t measure up to one of their sick beheadings, using children as shields so they can detonate themselves, faking surrender–it’s sickening. And people act shocked by the LIES of prisoners at Gitmo, when they claim Koran desecration? Where’s the shock and disgust at what the terrorists do?

These monsters MUST be defeated. That’s why our troops are sacrificing so much, and sometimes all. Godspeed to our men and women fighting these hateful vermin; may our troops send them straight to hell where they belong. God bless them for every single one they send to hell. I’m tired of being politically correct about it.

F.E.T.E.!

My thanks

It is, of course, Memorial Day.

On this day, we honor those who have given all for duty, honor, and country, and we thank those who have and still are serving our country.

Let’s do something more.

Please find an organization through America Supports You, or one of the buttons on the sidebar, or one of the following and “give till it hurts” or volunteer some time. Do something this Memorial Day and give back to those who give so much for us.

Here are just a few of the organizations worth supporting:

Organizations: (listed alphabetically)

Any Soldier™ - www.AnySoldier.com
Marty Horn
SFC, USA MP, Retired
President

Want to send your support to a soldier in harm’s way, but have no idea of what to send, who to send it to, or how to send it? Any Soldier™ gives individuals and groups everything they need to really do more then just put a magnet on their car. AnySoldier.com currently lists over 3,500 military contacts in the war who get your mail and pass on to the soldiers around them. Any Soldier Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization making a real difference, with your help. Presently, Any Soldier™ is supporting 90,403 male service members and 22, 566 female service members.

Homes For Our Troops - http://homesforourtroops.org
Victoria Mosier
Administrative Director
vlmosier@homesforourtroops.org
Office 508-823-3300

Homes for Our Troops assists injured veterans and their immediate
families by building new or adapting existing homes for handicapped
accessibility for our American heroes. We accept and welcome financial contributions as well as in kind donations of labor and building materials. Please visit the website to sign up! With your help we can accomplish our mission. Please feel free to contact us by phone, email us to share your thoughts, or request assistance. We hope that you will visit www.homesforourtroops.org often to see the progress we are making in the aid to our military and their families. Thank you.

Soldiers’ Angels - www.soldiersangels.org
Don MacKay
Director of Operations
soldiersangels@gmail.com (address your email to Don)

The mission of Soldiers’ Angels is to facilitate the “adoption” of a U.S. Soldier. You get your own soldier, they get an “angel”. We ask that you write to your soldier at least once a week and send a care package at least once a month. You can adopt one soldier or a whole group. Please visit our website to see all of our special projects, some of which are: Wounded Soldiers Project (you can write the wounded), Operation Top Knot (reach out to families who had or will have babies born while their soldier is deployed), Family Outreach Team (support for family members who have a soldier deployed), and the Letter Writing Team (where you can specify how many soldiers’ addresses you want to receive, on which days of the week). Soldiers’ Angels will be receiving the names of 3,000 newly deployed soldiers this week (we got 9,000 during the third deploy) and we need angels!! This is very gratifying work! Please join today to adopt a U.S. Soldier!

Armed Forces Relief Trust - www.afrtrust.org

Armed Forces Relief Trust
Department 6055
Washington DC 20042-6055

The mission of the Armed Forces Relief Trust is to assist the military aid societies by providing a single vehicle to accept donations that will benefit the men and women of our Armed Forces and their families. Examples of such assistance may include payment for a soldier’s airfare to fly home for his father’s funeral, a special reading program for a sailor’s daughter, special medical attention for a pilot’s expectant spouse, or college tuition for a soldier’s child.

Last year, the four emergency assistance programs disbursed more than $109 million in interest-free loans and grants to 145,000 individuals and families in need. But in order to meet our troops needs today, the Armed Forces Relief Trust is depending on the public’s support.

Who Do We Honor? at Vince Aut Morire - it’s a great post, and a he has a new Memorial Day-inspired banner up.

Blackfive and The Mudville Gazette are of course, must-reads. Start at the linked posts, but read everything from the last few days at their sites.

ADDING: These must-read posts at Castle Argghhh!

How about surfing the Milbloggers?

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Fetus Spears vs. Fetus Garner

Fetus Spears is already a little white trash bastard! BWAHAHAHAHAA!!!

Here’s a quiz for you

Via Nickie Goomba, who dared to tread the dirty waters of the (real) Huffington Post… :shock:

Danielle Crittenden:

My fellow–sister?–blogger Erica Jong took issue this week with Mrs. Bush’s visit to the Middle East. Like many women on the left, Jong seems to feel that living under the Bush administration is comparable to living under a regime run by mullahs. Maybe it’s even worse: “Of course women in the Middle East need the vote, an end to domestic violence and free access to contraception. But so do we. Odd that it is always easier to proselytize for feminism abroad while ignoring deteriorating women’s rights at home.”

Myself, I’ve never understood why women’s groups weren’t out front cheering the wars against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Were there ever more feminist wars than these? You’d think the National Organization for Women would be egging the administration on to Saudi Arabia and Iran. But no, and for the same reason that organized feminists have refused to applaud George Bush’s historic appointments of women to positions of high office, including most recently his nomination of two women, one of them black, to appellate judgeships. Bush is a Republican. The organized feminists are Democrats. It’s as simple as that.

Still, I wouldn’t think the feminist worldview could be quite SO simple as to equate the oppression of women who live under repressive and murderous regimes in the Islamic world with the condition of women in the United States. For HP bloggers and readers who have trouble telling the difference, I’ve prepared the following quiz:

Nickie has the quiz. You didn’t think I was going to make you go over to that other site, did you?

Scoring below the fold:

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It’s coming…

Tuesday
May 31, 2005

The Debut

The Cotillion

Here, Here, and Here.

:wink:

Memorial Day Letter

From my daughter (age 6):

Dear Military,

I hope you and other people will be OK when you fight. I am happy that you fight for us and I am sad that some other people who fought died and if they were your friends I am very very sorry for you. Thank you for being good to us and fighting for us to keep us safe, and for being so nice to everybody in the world that you fight for.

Love,
Sydney

Yes, I’m proud of her–she thought of this all by herself! (OK, I did fix a little bit of spelling.)
So I’ll let her speak for both of us in saying thank you for your sacrifices, and may God bless you and bless the souls of those who have given everything for us.

Sending this one to Milbloggers at the Mudville Gazette…

Memorial Day

“… From these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain …”

– Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Dirge for Two Veterans
–Walt Whitman

THE last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath,
On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking,
Down a new-made double grave.

Lo, the moon ascending,
Up from the east the silvery round moon,
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon,
Immense and silent moon.

I see a sad procession,
And I hear the sound of coming full-key’d bugles,
All the channels of the city streets they’re flooding,
As with voices and with tears.

I hear the great drums pounding,
And the small drums steady whirring,
And every blow of the great convulsive drums,
Strikes me through and through.

For the son is brought with the father,
(In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
Two veterans son and father dropt together,
And the double grave awaits them.)

Now nearer blow the bugles,
And the drums strike more convulsive,
And the daylight o’er the pavement quite has faded,
And the strong dead-march enwraps me.

In the eastern sky up-buoying,
The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin’d,
(’Tis some mother’s large transparent face,
In heaven brighter growing.)

O strong dead-march you please me!
O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!
O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!
What I have I also give you.

The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives you love.

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What a whiner!

Yet ANOTHER reason why I can’t stand ~~NASCAR~~ (I am an idiot, I know it’s not NASCAR–thanks for the reminder*): whiny bitches like this guy. Go on a diet, whiny bitch!
You don’t see 200-pounders racing thoroughbreds, either, and no one is crying about it! :roll:

H/T - Jennifer

[* I still can't stand NASCAR, though.]

Dog-blogging

I know I’ve been REALLY thin on content lately…I blame THIS. I’ve spent way too much time on it lately!

Speaking of “THIS“, the Carnival of the Dogs is up at Mickey’s Musings!

And also speaking of THIS, you MUST vote for Luke (my mother’s Golden Retriever–the best animal ever) and for Bama Bear!

I just watched the Crufts 2005 Dog Show (again) on Animal Planet. Note to dog show judges: It’s time to pick another dog, don’t you think?

Yes, I am obsessed with getting a dog. I NEED a fence and maybe a couple more years for my daughter before I get one, though. (Plus I can’t make up my mind, anyway!)

I’ve got things to do, stuff to work on for Tuesday, an interview to do (who’s the wiseass who asked me “cuffs or rope,” anyway?) AND I’m dog-tired, so go check out the Carnival of the Dogs and then go vote!