Update V (1/3/05): OK. I’m now convinced there’s no such thing as “bad publicity.” Thanks, liberals. Link, link, link!
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More blog envy from the left. A bored person who hides behind various and corny pseudonyms has spent his/her precious time running a blog devoted to me: lashawnbarberexposed.blogspot.com (Sorry, dude/dudette; no link from me.).
I kicked this disgruntled pest off my blog, so he/she started one to “comment” on my posts. I’ve known about this site for a couple of months, and I’m writing about it now because I hope other disgruntled liberals link to it, and link liberally. It’s fuel to my fire.
I knew it was only a matter of time before the seething rage (and vulgarity) of certain unnamed and unlinked-to leftists (there are many others) caused their latent lunacy to spring to life. I’m nobody, people. Find something better to do. Contribute something to the world besides anti-La Shawn rage. I assure you I’m not worth it.
Filed under: Haters, Liberals, Me, Me, Me
I’m developing a post about “The Year of the Blog,” a series of significant events in 2004 that changed the blogosphere or at least people’s perception of it.
I’m asking for reader input on this topic. What significant event(s) of importance occurred in the blogosphere in 2004? Rathergate and the presidential election rank at the top. What impact did these and other events have on the blogosphere? What impact did bloggers have on them?
Continue reading Bloggers’ and Blog Readers’ Input Needed For 2004 Round-Up
“What is your immigration status?”
Those words will now be uttered by government employees in Arizona to any suspected illegal alien seeking welfare, thanks to a judge who lifted a restraining order against voter-approved (56 percent) Proposition 200:
A federal judge on Wednesday lifted an order barring Proposition 200 from becoming law, clearing the way for state, county and municipal employees to immediately start reporting to immigration authorities suspected undocumented immigrants seeking public benefits.U.S. District Judge David Bury’s decision allowed Gov. Janet Napolitano to issue an executive order enacting the controversial voter-approved legislation Wednesday afternoon. The decision left some municipal officials across the Valley and state scrambling to prepare workers who will be required to ask all who apply for public welfare benefits for proof of citizenship. (Source)
Scramble on! It’s about time the will of the people was upheld. The costs of illegal immigration are straining Arizona.
The recount shows Bush winning Ohio by 118,457 votes over John Kerry. according to unofficial results provided to The Associated Press by the 88 counties. Lucas County, home to Toledo, was the last to finish counting.The state had earlier declared Bush the winner by 118,775 votes and plans to adjust its totals to reflect the recount later this week.
The Kerry campaign supported the recount, but said it did not expect the tally to change the election winner. Supporters of the recount, requested by two minor party candidates, said they wanted to make sure every valid vote was counted.
You think Jesse Jackson will pipe down now? Speaking of pipes, it’s the stuff in which liberals’ dreams are made.
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Links and sources:
— Blogs for Bush
— Washington Post: “Recount in Ohio Narrows Bush’s Victory Margin” — VICTORY being the operative word, in case you’re wondering. Journalists.
— New York Times: “Ohio Recount Gives a Smaller Margin to Bush_ — Notice that President Bush’s name is in the headline, not the defeated John Kerry’s.
Unrelated links: Liberal columnist is player-hating on the Power Line bloggers. And he didn’t even link to their blog in his column. Jealousy is so unbecoming. Instapundit has a round-up of readers responding to the liberal columnists’ whatchacallit envy, the same kind he’s accusing the Power Line bloggers of having.
More from Power Line. Captain Ed weighs in, as does Pejmanesque. Thomas Lifson has a column up about it already.
Mark Noonan on the failures of liberalism.
Discriminations: “If you do the math, you will find that the effect of subtracting 318 votes from Bush’s total “narrows” his winning percentage from 51.06% to 51.05%….Some narrowing.”
Filed under: Bush Good, Lunacy, Media Bias
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’ And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.’” — Revelation 21: 1-8
Reuters: Race to Bury Asia’s Dead as Toll Nears 70,000
Addendum: A reader just reminded me of Scott Ott’s disaster relief request. Here’s more donation information.
A Small Victory has more donation links.
Update: From BlackMediaWatch:
“While most mainstream media outlets both big and small provided feature coverage of the recent tsunami that rocked southeast Asia resulting in the loss of over 60,000 people, many black media outlets treated this story as nothing more than an afterthought.”
Kevin McCullough on “liberals who care.”
Inspired by Dennis Prager’s latest column, I offer a random collection of wishes for the blogosphere in 2005. Keep in mind that most of these, while self-serving, will be helpful to all conservative and Christian bloggers. 
Wish #1 — A conservative Christian blogger with traffic rivaling the Instapundit’s will emerge.
He/she will frequently link to my blog and will be a generous linker of all well-written and like-minded blogs. A right-of-center libertarian will do. A conservative blogger whose faith in Christ is written all over his/her blog would be even better.
Wish #2 — A high-profile and reasonable liberal blogger (with manners) will notice my blog and link to various posts.
Instead of popular (and civil), respected liberal bloggers taking notice (bringing new readers and more exposure), I attract the usual rambling crew of tiny tots who remind me of the mean-spirited kids in high school who disliked me for no apparent reason. But no matter how much I wish for bigger and better, all I get are small, godless, meandering leftists. Boring.
Where there’s David Horowitz, there’s fire. On the controversial former liberal-turned-conservative’s web site, FrontPage magazine, you’ll find articles with names like Reparations Buffoons On the Washington Mall and Black Crime (In Your Face). Now he’s forcing leftist academics to explain why they suppress the viewpoints of conservatives students.
Horowitz is backing a group called Students for Academic Freedom, which exposes and publicizes leftist professors who allow their anti-American bias to creep into their lectures and assignments.
What a good time to be a conservative student! That they’re shedding a complacent image and using liberal tactics against liberals is refreshing. We all have our biases, but sometimes they must be controlled and subdued. If liberal professors refuse, they’ll have to explain why. Either way, their anti-Americanism will no longer remain unchallenged.
Continue reading Academic Freedom, Hate Mail And David Horowitz
Filed under: Conservatives, Education
On this list are Definites and Maybes:
- Ambra Nykol of Nykola.com
- Bijan Bayne, a freelance travel writer (And he wrote a book!)
- Avery Tooley of Stereo Describes My Scenario
- Renee of The Other Point of View
- Lola at LJL Spins and Knits
- Demond Hunter, who recently returned home from Iraq.
- Jimmie at The Sundries Shack
- Robbie at DevilzAdvocate
- Courtney at code624.com
- Casey Lartigue, education policy expert
- “Cassandra,” currently of Villainous Company, formerly of I Love Jet Noise
- Matthew Sheffield of Ratherbiased.com
- Andrew of grumpOps
- Dave Huber of Hube’s Cube
- A couple of non-blogging blog readers and blogger spouses will also attend.
The meet-up location has changed, so everyone should’ve received an e-mail from me last week. If you can’t attend or would like to invite other bloggers, please contact me ASAP. The reservation and final count has to be confirmed by tomorrow. Bringing a spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend? Let me know.
Did I exclude you? Let me know that, too.
Update: This is interesting. There are other DC Blogger meet-ups going on. Check them out.
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My return flight from Charlotte, N.C., was supposed to touch down at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport yesterday at 1:45 p.m., but because of “labor issues,” we didn’t take off until 2:00 p.m. That meant I was over an hour behind my so-called writing schedule. You see, every half-hour increment counts. But it’s only an hour, right?
After an uneventful flight, I go down to baggage claim to retrieve my well-worn green suitcase, and I noticed it was taking longer than usual. An hour later, I started to suspect something. I can be a little dense.
As other US Airways flights arrived and hundreds of people stood around looking at each other and no luggage, it was then I remembered hearing something on the news about a sick-out.
Bankrupt US Airways late Saturday blamed more than 300 canceled flights and thousands of pieces of stranded luggage on the aftereffects of a heavy winter storm and large numbers of workers who called in sick during the crucial holiday travel period….The disruption to thousands of travelers on troubled US Airways had the carrier scrambling and caught the attention of the U.S. Transportation Department, which told the airline to quickly straighten out its operations and its labor shortages.
The company and unions say there was no organized “sick out,” but workers at the seventh-largest domestic airline are bitter about huge wage and benefit cuts the company says are needed for the airline to survive. They are also angry at how the company has been managed through two bankruptcies in two years.
Senior Transportation Department officials, clearly irritated, kept unusually close tabs on US Airways operations as the weekend progressed. (Source)
I had no idea employees at the bankrupt airline decided to teach management a lesson by delaying my flight and my stuff. Very effective.
