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Silky Pony kicks on

The Most Disingenuous Man in America™ is turning up the volume and the left is loving it.

The enemy he sees is corporate America and corporate greed. His message seeks not to unite America but to finish what he describes as “an epic struggle” against forces that are, literally, killing America — destroying jobs, holding down wages, putting ordinary Americans out of work or denying them medical care.

Corporations don’t in any real sense actually exist. They are the legal vehicle enabling the interests of shareholders and employees to be aligned with customers, further enabling the delivery of products and services. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Big Oil is me. It’s you. It’s anybody with a mutual fund. It’s anybody that buys gas. To demonize a legal formulation is idiotic, even for a mental midget like John Edwards.

His language is over the top. He casts the challenges facing America in terms of morality and immorality. Speaking of tax policies that have encouraged companies to send jobs overseas, he says, “This is insanity — I mean complete insanity.”

The rich have an “iron-fisted grip” on democracy and won’t let go through negotiations. “Anybody who suggests that we don’t have an epic fight on our hands is living in Never-Never Land,” he says.

Isn’t Never-Never Land a giant ranch in North Carolina? Oh no, sorry. That’s Edwards’ house.

This guy would be a perfect nominee.

For the GOP.

Clinton on Clinton.

Sounds like a particularly revolting pr0n sub-genre, but it’s actually Bill talking about Hill. And guess what? He’s impressed.

“You have to have a leader who is strong and commanding and convincing enough . . . to deal with the unexpected,” he said. “There is a better than 50 percent chance that sometime in the first year or 18 months of the next presidency, something will happen that is not being discussed in this campaign. President Bush never talked about Osama bin Laden and didn’t foresee Hurricane Katrina. And if you’re not ready for that, then everything else you do can be undermined. You need a president that you trust to deal with something that we will not discuss in this campaign. . . . And I think, on this score, she’s the best of all.”

What’s that? You support your wife? Wow!!

After trying out various themes and rationales for her campaign, Hillary Clinton has settled in the final week before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary on the experience plank, arguing that she is the only one of the front-running Democratic candidates prepared to lead from the first day in office, a claim her rivals have challenged by questioning the value of her tenure as first lady

The experience plank? Are you kidding me? Her experience prior to carpetbagging the NY junior Senator’s job was confined to being somebody’s wife.

Exit question: If your accountant died, would you simply transfer your tax preparation business to his unqualified wife, based upon what she might have picked up about the AMT over dinner?

Quite.

Wordpress upgrade…again

Stand by for a few, please–Wordpress has put out (yet) another new release. Things will be crappy for a few minutes…

What Kind of World Do You Want?

That’s not just a question, that’s a website: whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com. I heard about this last night on Hannity & Colmes, when they talked to John Ondrasik from Five for Fighting, who’s put together a free CD for active duty military. Here’s the deal with that:

(Video from H&C’s segment with him here.) John Ondrasik’s a good guy. Not only did he do the free CD for the troops, he’s started the whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com project to raise money for several charities.

whatkindofWORLDdoyouwant.com is the first video community that gives back!

We are all connected to one another through our actions. Each person has the ability to make a difference. This is one of the messages of the Five For Fighting video “World.”

Tell the world what kind of world you want and raise money for charity by making and uploading a video of yourself, your friends or your family–whomever and whatever–answering the question, “What Kind Of World Do You Want?”

Or, you can raise money for charities that John Ondrasik of Five For Fighting has personally selected. Watch any clip on this site and money will go to the charity listed with that video. Please see below for the updated list of charities and contributions per views.

That’s it–just watch videos, and a dollar goes to the charity designated for the video. Here’s one for Fisher House called simply One American’s Thank You to Our Troops, just to start. Another one: Soldier’s View. There are plenty of others as well, and not just for Fisher House; there are videos designated for Augie’s Quest (ALS research), Autism Speaks, Save the Children, and the USO as well.

Of course, you can do one better and make a video as they said, but if you aren’t the video-making type (like me), just watching the videos makes a difference. Pretty simple, isn’t it? How it works:

For charity specific donations , whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com will pay $1.00 per view of the designated charity’s videos - until the number of viewings equals the amount donated less .04 per view. The .04 expense is Revver.com’s .03/view webhosting charge and California Community Foundation’s (CCF) 1% administrative expense. OVER 95% of money donated goes directly to the chosen charity!

For general donations, whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com will again distribute OVER 95% of money donated to the selected charities. This is determined primarily by the amount of views per charity. The 5% expense will include Revver.com’s .03/view webhosting cost, CCF’s 1% administrative expense and site maintenance.

Honestly, I can’t believe this hasn’t taken off yet–it’s a great idea, and so simple anyone can participate–even those of us who are broke after Christmas. Go.

Message from Fred Thompson to supporters

From Sean Hackbarth at The Fred File:

Your efforts are working. “Substance” is now airing in Iowa. We’re only $87,398 away from making sure it stays running through the caucuses. If 2200 people give $40 we make our goal. That’s doable since our average contribution today has been over $70.

This wide-open Republican race means anything can happen. “Substance” on the air could be key to success.

Your donation could make the difference, y’all. PLEASE donate!!!

Help Fred Thompson get this ad on the air

Time out from Pakistan news: Fred Thompson needs your help NOW. This ad needs to run in Iowa, like, immediately–there’s only what, a week and a half left for Iowa? Do you think Mike Huckabee would be the best person to deal with Pakistan? How about Ron Paul? Nah, me either (to say the least). Let Iowans see there’s a consistent conservative they can vote for.

PLEASE, donate whatever you possibly can.

Here’s the ad:

Self-loathing stupid Israeli moonbat of the day

Liberals are stupid. It doesn’t matter where they are. They’re just stupid.

Today’s stupid liberal joins us from Israel, where she has written a Doctoral thesis positing reasons for the low incidence of rape by IDF soldiers. The reason is that they’re racists, and see Palestinian women as beneath them.

This remarkable conclusion could only be reached by a stupid liberal. It’s pretty impressive stuff, even by the laughably low standards that stupid liberals normally follow.

The next sentence delineates the particular goals that are realized in this manner: “In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences - just as organized military rape would have done.”

So raping strengthens ethnic boundaries, and so does not raping? How does that work, Professor?

The paper further theorizes that Arab women in Judea and Samaria are not raped by IDF soldiers because the women are de-humanized in the soldiers’ eyes.

Here’s an alternative theory: The IDF don’t rape Palestinians on a widespread basis because it is comprised of average law-abiding Israelis that would consider raping anybody abhorrent. Maybe?

Go and read it, it’s pitiful.

Play Adventure Elf

This is a Christmas game I found following links from the NORAD tracker…below the fold ’cause it’s a Shockwave thing.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Merry Christmas!

Mary and Jesus

It’s Christmas all over

…at the Christmas Carnival, put together by my Cotillion sis Kat. Find all the good Christmas stuff there!

Baby Jesus

Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica

Better than watching NORAD: watching Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s. Watch it on EWTN or on the internets HERE. It’s on now!

John Kerry - Corporation Slayer

John Kerry* is sticking his nose into the ongoing negotiations between the NFL and cable companies regarding the NFL Network.

“Under the unfortunate circumstance that this matter remains unresolved, leaving 60 percent of households across the country – including thousands in Massachusetts – without access to Saturday’s game, I will ask the Senate Commerce Committee to hold hearings on how the emergence of premium sports channels are impacting the consumer,” he wrote to Goodell today in a letter released by his office.

Translation: Give your product away, or I’ll get the government to take it from you.

What a POS that man is. The NFL has made their position patently clear to the cable companies - they will only provide the channel if it is offered as part of the basic cable package. The cable companies want to leverage the NFL Network by making it part of a premium package. So the villain of the piece (if there is one) is certainly not the NFL.

In any event this is a (pending) commercial transaction between two private entities, and as such is nothing whatsoever to do with John Kerry.

*The haughty, French-looking Senator from Massachusetts.

NORAD tracking Santa

He’s in Norway now! (As of 4:50pm Central.)

Hillary Clinton: I have absolutely no idea how a market works

Demonstrating her utter lack of knowledge in the field of economics, the Hillster predicts that the oil producing countries will ‘drop their prices’ when she is elected.

“I predict to you, the oil-producing countries will drop the price of oil,” Clinton said, speaking at the Manchester YWCA. “They will once again assume, once the cost pressure is off, Americans and our political process will recede.”

Given her astonishing success in the cattle futures market, you’d think she would have a clue as to how the whole commodity business works, but evidently not.

I used to think liberals knew how the market worked, but pretended not to. Now I’m far less sure.

Do you like Huck-I-Am?

I don’t suppose Mike Huckabee has read this “Dr. Seuss” yet. ;-)

I would not pick you here or there.
I would not elect you anywhere.
I do not like your foreign plan.
I do not like it, Huck-I-am.

Read the rest here!

UPDATE:
Jim Geraghty asks,

Can a guy who’s been slammed as hard as Mike Huckabee has by Rush Limbaugh, the most popular conservative radio talk show host in the country, go on to win the Iowa caucuses? Anybody think Rush will have dropped this issue by the third of January?

Also, via Geraghty, from Steven Stark:

The good news for Mike Huckabee is that he’s doing one hell of a job of reuniting significant portions of the old Reagan coalition. The bad news is that it’s increasingly arrayed against him.

Ouch.

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