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Return of the Moonbats?

I was working on a piece in my head this morning after hearing about the Democrat’s response to the latest pick by President Bush for the Supreme Court. I noticed that it was every bit a vitriolic as I’d come to know and expect whenever Conservatism was put in use. It was annoying, but familiar.

My birthday present to myself

As if Bush nominating Judge Alito weren’t enough of a birthday present to me, I got myself another birthday present.

You’ll see tomorrow. :wink:

(Today isn’t my birthday, BTW.)

Annoying Typepad Crap

OK, I know I’m not a Typepad blogger, but I do guest-blog on a few, including two who have left Typepad due to annoying crap. But…I’m fed up with Typepad’s trackback problem.

After Googling around for some answers, I landed here, where this blogger has been emailing them to get answers for a while now. So I followed suit, and filed a support ticket with Typepad.

The response (received quickly, I should note):

Hi Beth,

Thank you for your note and we apologize for the problem.

We appreciate your providing the error message that you
received. This helps us a great deal in determining if an
overly zealous anti-spam filter is causing the problem. We
are looking into the cause of this error message now so
thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Thanks,
Laura

Here’s what you need to do. Send trackbacks to Typepad blogs using the Wizbang or Haloscan trackback pingers, and COPY THE ERROR MESSAGE. Don’t send them from within your blog software (i.e. WordPress, MT, Typepad). Send the error message to Typepad! Maybe if enough people do this, the problem will get solved faster. Who knows–it’s worth a try.

Y’know, it’s shi’ite like this–bullshi’ite software issues–that make blogging sometimes a LOT more trouble than it’s worth, and when it even affects those who don’t USE Typepad, it’s inexcusable.

Deep Thoughts for a Monday

Yes, I still work here. Look, I’m linking to crap.

Via Portia Rediscovered by the way of Blogizdat (Just Think About It) comes a MASSIVE list of DEEP THOUGHTS by Jack Handy.

You’re welcome.

COALITION OF THE THRILLIN’

Forget about all that chillin’ and illin’ business now, we’re (almost) all in the Judge Samuel Alito…

It’s ALITO! Bush nominates Samuel Alito!

Oh, HELL YES!!!

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will nominate Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, rebounding from a stinging rebuke over his first choice by tapping a conservative federal judge to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a moderate.

Bush plans to announce the nomination at 8 a.m. EST, two senior Republican officials said Monday.

…
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to preview Bush’s remarks, said Alito was virtually certain to get the nod from the moment Miers backed out. The 55-year-old jurist was Bush’s favorite choice of the judges in the last set of deliberations but he settled instead on someone outside what he calls the “judicial monastery,” the officials said.

YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!! My FAVORITE one!

Suck it, Harry Reid! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

h/t Jay; banner from Blogs for Bush

UPDATE:

Underneath Their Robes looks underneath Alito’s robe
US News on Judge Alito, via Simon Dodd
ACSBlog’s Alito profile
SCOTUSblog’s Alito profile
Confirm Them has Bush and Alito’s statements
Initial apoplectic reactions from the left at Confirm Them…HA!

Can we call this the
Coalition of the Thrillin’?

Bloodthirsty Evil Terror of Hostility

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Your Monster Profile

Cursed Demon

You Feast On: Pie

You Lurk Around In: The Hearts of Men

You Especially Like to Torment: Hicks

What’s Your Monster Name?

Shut up, it’s Halloween! :mrgreen:

This is news? It is if a Christian dies.

Checking out the thousands of links in the RSS reader, I come across this story at The Huffington Post. No need to follow the link, though, cause I’ve captured the whole thing in the picture in the link below.

I honestly can’t see what the interest the HuffPo readers would have….other than laughing “the stupid fundie who deserved to fry.” I can’t even conceive of *why* somebody could find this amusing, just that some people do.

Perhaps, it’s because it’s a Christian dying? You think?

UPDATE: There are three pages of comments. Guess what? All jokes. Depravation, I believe, is the word.

gone daddy gone

I’ve been writing a small book about how I’ve gotten MacStansbury.org to where it is now. Trust me, it’s been decades in the making. And after several months of posting, I’ve built it into something that’s rather ok, I think.

What I’ve been seeing is a lot of the names that have been around for years, the most recent being Michele Catalano from ASV, hanging up the jersey forever. You’d expect me to say, “NOOOOOO!!!!! Stay! You’ve GOT to keep going, for the sake of your fans!!!!” But, I’m not.

I had that very thing happen to me when a friend of mine decided to stop. She was just not enjoying it anymore, and she deleted the whole thing. At first, I thought it was really dumb, because of how we couldn’t go back and read her old stuff again. But it was because that part of her life was no longer public.

That’s how it goes. We want to be popular, to get an audience, to add to the conversation. And then we don’t. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

There will always be people who come along to take your place. Personally, I took in Larry and Brett just so I’d keep the .org going. That’s why Beth took me in, and gave Jody a home after she decided to burn the wagon.

What’s funny is, right now, my two favorite reads are from a brand new lawyer and an expert hooker. Go figure.

Someday, when I hang it up, I just hope that somebody remembers me for more than “that guy who linked to crap all the time.” I hope they remember that I was John Stansbury, committed Christian, caring human being, war veteran, writer, blog-commenter without peer, and world-class comedian.

And sex-object. That’s more of a wish than something that’s gonna come true, however. The rest will, I hope.

Don’t worry, nobody from Team Bamapachyderm’s going anywhere. Just wanted to tell you all that things are going to be okay in the blogosphere. It’s all going to be alright.

Loyalty Over Debate: The Folly of Jonathan Alter

I found this hysterical Newsweek piece by Jonathan Alter (via The Anchoress–which you must read) where he makes the tired assertion that, in a nutshell, “debate” or “dissent” is patriotic, and more to the point, what he calls “disloyalty” is punished by the White House.

Bullshi’ite.

Disagreement with policy isn’t “disloyalty,” and they (Bush and the “inner circle”) don’t call it that. They call it disagreement with policy. Just because someone disagrees doesn’t mean that opinion MUST be part of policy, PERIOD. It does not mean their right to speak is being crushed, it simply means that their opinion isn’t theirs. SO WHAT?

In the DU-worthy article, Alter implies that while we are trying to spread democracy abroad, Bush is crushing it at home. That’s the most ridiculous tripe I’ve read recently in the “mainstream” (ha!) media. It sounds like something you’d read in an hysterical, petulantly demanding blog like the Daily Kos.

Normally (when in a blog) I would just ignore it, but Newsweek is read by all kinds of people who take whatever they read in news magazines as fact. You know, the barely-interested “unwashed masses.” Make that uninvolved masses. This is one of those times I feel particularly powerless as a blogger; they–the uninterested masses–don’t read the other side of the story on blogs. I think of my sister–she’s on “my side” regarding Bush, but simply isn’t into politics at all like we political bloggers and blog-readers are. Even my mother, who is far more politically informed than my sister. If she were to read it (although she doesn’t regularly read Newsweek), she would be demoralized, would have unnecessary and unwarranted doubt planted in her mind–would think everyone is anti-Bush, antiwar (in other words, having the mindset of the left–and the paleocons like Pat Buchanan), and that the Bush administration is malevolently suppressing disagreement.

This is their tactic, though–when Bush (or whomever) doesn’t subscribe to their view, they call it “crushing dissent” or “fascism” or whatever. It’s pure bullshi’ite. They can’t imagine that people would GENUINELY believe them to be wrong, or would simply disregard a certain view as wrong. Rather, Bush doesn’t agree so he crushes dissent, destroys democracy. It’s total nonsense, and I’m sick of them hijacking the terminology to suit their needs.

They can’t get their way, so rather than understanding the obvious explanation that their way isn’t acceptable to those making policy–and for that matter, to most Americans–they scream that they are being repressed, thinking that will help their cause. Destroy those in power, because their own questionable agenda can’t stand on its own merits.

I am totally fed up with this crap in the “mainstream” media (scare quotes definitely intentional). This propaganda being fed to the casual observer with no balance from the other side (with RARE exception) needs to be called out for what it is, and nothing less.

He-Man Lebowski!

He’s not The Dude, he’s He-Man!

♥ to Dizzy Girl, finder of many more wonderful things!

Firefox vs. IE

Sorry to you IE users–I just got a heads-up that everything was looking kinda stupid in IE (a line through everything and that last post pushing into the sidebar). Thanks, Janette, for letting me know!

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some damn consistency between browsers? Arrrrrghhhh.

Weekend Reading Assignment

See also the WLWOTPCFCD post for trackbacks and the Comments post

Military/Support the Troops:

Janette (Common Sense Runs Wild) and SondraK have the story of Army Sgt. Walt Gaya who was injured in Iraq, and as an Argentinian citizen, is now having trouble getting his US citizenship because he was severely injured “just eight days before he was to be sworn in as a U.S. citizen in a ceremony in Iraq.” Janette has details on whom to write/call/email to get this US soldier some help!
New site for Milbloggers and milblog readers: Milblogging.com. If you’re a milblogger, get your site listed there! You can make a list of favorites (pick me!), sorta like a blogroll. I found some blogs there yesterday that I hadn’t seen before, and you can sort them by gender (I’m looking at you, SHoP), location, branch of service, etc.–and yes, retirees and family members are listed there, too. (I was also told via email that on the “to-do” list is a blog feed function of some kind.)
Join the Marines! Well, sort of. Holly Aho is running the USMC team for the Project Valour-IT fundraising competition and wants lots of people on the team. If you can help by spreading the word, go on over and enlist your services with Holly.
Blackfive’s post about ~~“the 2000th Soldier”~~ SSG George T. Alexander made a leftard cry. Awwwww, the truth hurts, doesn’t it?
More about SSG George Alexander here, here, here, here, here, and more. (Read about the man–not a number–before you party like it’s ~~1999~~ 2000, you bastard leftards.)

The Plame Game:

The more I read, the more disgusted I am about the whole thing. Of course, if Scooter Libby DID lie under oath or obstruct justice, that was unquestionably wrong. How, though, the BDS sufferers (to include Joe Wilson) think this is an indictment of President Bush or the war is beyond me. I can’t believe how intellectually dishonest these people are, and yet they think Bush is dishonest? HA! Too bad the left-winger morons can’t be indicted for being moronic, filthy, lying liars. Just keep repeating the meme for years, eventually it’ll stick, regardless of the truth. As Steven Hayes says here in The Weekly Standard,

But the antiwar agitators are not nearly as dumb as their slogans make them sound. They appear to understand that a scandal-hungry news media, the ongoing difficulties in Iraq, and a weary American public provide an environment hospitable to even their most outrageous claims.

For stuff you’ll never read in the “mainstream” press or the lying leftard blogosphere, read follow the links from Jeff Goldstein’s posts here and here (much of it at The Corner), especially Stephen Hayes’ article (not the same article as the one linked above) and this at the Weekly Standard’s foreign policy blog. Going through all of it will take some time, but it’s worth it if you want to understand the issue from the non-moonbat perspective.

UPDATE: Via the Anchoress’ Random Hits, JunkYardBlog has the appalling story of the man responsible for the forged Iraq/Niger documents.

It locks in several important Iraq-related threads and thoughts as facts: The French are our enemies, the UN is corrupt, and Joseph Wilson isn’t operating in good faith and never was.

The Media, The Left, and America

Just read this: The Art of the Painless Coup, at The Anchoress.

Funny/miscellaneous stuff:

Found at Milblogging.com: Love from the Latrine. Hilarious!
The Darth Side: Memoirs from a Monster (Darth Vader’s blog!)
The Guy’s Guide to Geek Girls (I’m lookin’ at you, MacStansbury!)
Stereograms! I love these things. Shut up.
Ahem. I’m sure I could NEVER be a part of this online group. I’m much too sweet and passive. ;-)
Throw your cameras in the air, wave them like you just don’t care
Halloween games!
NOT FUNNY: MRE = Meals Ready for eBay? Scumbags!

UPDATE: basil moved to WordPress! w00t! Open trackback party at basil’s!

Comments

The other day Mac (you know, the one whose name isn’t “Beth”) emailed me and said:

I’ve noticed one thing.
You sure get the trackbacks, but not the commenters.

NO CRAP. What the fark is up with that? Are y’all just into the inline trackbacks or something? I’ve got maybe ten regular commenters here, and almost nobody interacts with the other commenters. I don’t get it. I mean I’d hate it if the threads started looking like LGF comment threads, but damn! Do y’all not comment because ~~I’m~~ we’re so right about everything that you have nothing to say? :mrgreen:

(Sidenote: I finally got registered to comment there! w00t! I caught registration being open!)

Still on strike (w/updates)

Since Beth is just a link-stealing….link-stealer, I’ve decided to go on a link-strike. Far too long have I been down-trodden and stuff. I will continue to strike until these demands are met:

1. People stop calling me Beth. Or Jody. Or gay. That last one would be Vinnie, and I don’t see it changing anytime soon.
2. That dang TTLB thing would pick up one ONE ONE link back to the .org. According to Mr. Bear, this site’s never linked.
3. I would like to, just once, get to wear a shirt around the MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Offices and Trailer Park. It’s getting cold.

I’ll issue more demands as I see fit. If my demands are met, then I’ll get back to linking to stuff like these funny kiddie videos.

UPDATE: Stop calling me JoBeth, or NO Monty Python vs. Scooter Libby for you!

UPDATE 2: Still, none of my demands have been met, so no The Apprentice, Washington Edition for you, either!!!!!

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