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.
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by La Shawn on December 30, 2004
in Bloggers
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?
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“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.
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Associated Press:
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.”
by La Shawn on December 29, 2004
in Faith
“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.
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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.
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by La Shawn on December 27, 2004
in Bloggers
On this list are Definites and Maybes:
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.
by La Shawn on December 27, 2004
in General
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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.
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by La Shawn on December 24, 2004
in Faith
Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”
But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”
Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
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The infant in this photograph is premature, only 25 weeks old. Weighing only 8.6 ounces, this human being is a living, breathing miracle. If her mother had been raped or impregnated by a close relative, she could have had her killed legally in the United States.
When liberals lecture the rest of us about helping “the weak and the downtrodden,” they’re referring to increased funding for social programs, not unborn life. Real charitable. Who could be more weak than a growing baby dependent on his mother for protection and sustenance?
Why does such a profane and perverse “right to choose” trump that? This is the result of backward and muddled thinking in our post-modern times, but so exquisitely human! Back in the day people were killing babies; today we’re still killing babies. People will always kill babies. The reasons vary. Sometimes it’s population control or child sacrifice to the gods, etc. Today women cry, “Our bodies, our decision!”
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by La Shawn on December 22, 2004
in Bloggers
I’d planned to do an announcement post at least twice a month, but I kept forgetting. Here a few happenings and interesting posts around the blogosphere. Leave a comment or e-mail me if you have an announcement or link you’d like to share. This post will be updated throughout the day.
- Jeff Harrell of Shape of Days interviews author Steven Vincent, who’s written about his trips to Iraq. Also see Chrenkoff’s interview.
- Buck comes up with a creative way to confront the war on Christmas.
- I never got to know Steven Den Beste of USS Clueless fame, but I can relate to his reaction to not-so-nice e-mails and other pitfalls of being a blogger.
- BLOGGERS WANTED!
- Are you HaloScan users having trouble trackbacking to my posts? Word Press and HaloScan seem to be incompatible. Try Simpletracks instead.
- The Watcher’s Council is looking for a watcher.
- Michelle Malkin on Christians in the crossfire.
- Every time I visit fellow Conservative Brotherhood pal Avery Tooley’s blog, it’s looks different. I wish I had those skills. I actually have to pay someone to design my site.
- Blogsister Ambra Nykol is amassing a fine body of work with her column in Seaspot magazine.
- Carnival of the Vanities is up at Ravenwood’s Universe.
- Daddypundit on the true meaning of Christmas.
- Interesting article about bloggers. Not bad.
- Stacy Harp has left Blog*Spot. Check out her new place, MediaSoul
Update: Two readers trying to comment have been redirected to the FBI’s web site. Has this happened to others? I don’t know what’s going on!
The lastest announcement:
From Rick: “Some might call this announcement a tad trite in the grand scheme of things but I’d like to honor my little brother by announcing how proud we are that he was promoted to E5 in the Coast Guard Reserve and by having some fun at his expense in this post on my own blog.”
To readers waiting for my Christmas-is-not-pagan post, here it is: Merry Christmas!
Seriously, I’ll try to have it done sometime tomorrow. If not, I’ll do a “Hope you had fun celebrating the non-pagan Christmas holiday” post after I return. I will probably take a blogging break Thursday through Sunday. As a teaser, think Christian liberty, a Savior who’s come into the world, the traditions of men…things along that line.
Meanwhile, I have no idea why so many searches for Jesus Was A Liberal are showing up in my referrers log. Someone in the media must be talking/writing about it again. For the benefit of those who’ve never perused my archives, I’ll re-rerun the post, dated August 6, 2004:
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by La Shawn on December 21, 2004
in BC Wisdom
If you believe the mainstream media (MSM), they do. The inference I get from MSM is that traditional values are repressive and stifling. People prefer to live life as if there were no consequences to behavior.
For instance, if someone is poor and unmarried and gets pregnant for the fifth or sixth time, unless they were raped, it is definitely their fault and should be their sole responsibility. But not in paternalistic, welfare-state America. When consequences inevitably smack people in the face, we’re all hit by flying debris.
It doesn’t take a particularly insightful person to see that the lack of traditional values is the problem when it comes to most of society’s ills. Star Parker tackles this and other issues in her latest column, writing about the alarming statistics of AIDS among black Americans. Lack of traditional values, in a sense, causes AIDS. Those are my words, not Parker’s. Controversial? Probably. But I believe it.
AIDS is now the No. 1 cause of death among African-Americans between the ages of 25 and 44.
Joseph Lowery, the former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, once said, “When America gets a cold, black America gets pneumonia.”
The “cold” that America has in this case is the ongoing politicization of our society and the breakdown of the traditional values that have been the glue that has held together the American family and our society. The symptoms of this “cold” are obvious: skyrocketing divorce rates and illegitimacy rates, declining test scores that result from a politicized and bureaucratized public-school system and politicization of our legal system that reflects the detachment of law from its moral foundations.
Whether we are talking about breakdown in family, education or law, the symptoms of this cold are more intense and protracted in the black community than in other communities. But it’s important to retain perspective that black social problems are symptomatic of a national problem. Irresponsible sexual behavior has no racial boundaries. The rate of out-of-wedlock births among whites today exceeds the rate among blacks 40 years ago.
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“The election was a mandate for conservative leadership in Washington,” said Congressman Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Study Committee.
Yes, but will conservatives accept the mandate and get things done? It’s not a matter of whether the Democrats will try to gum up the works. They will. Do conservatives have the courage to do what’s right? These people are used to wheeling and dealing to get things done, so yes, compromises are inevitable. At least one senator is trying to make sure that caving in to Democrats won’t happen too frequently.
Note that I’m using the word “conservative,” which is much more important than “Republican.” According to the USAToday:
Exit polls indicate social conservatives voted in about the same proportion as in 2000. But Pence and others credit them with President Bush’s margin of victory over Democrat John Kerry and say the election was a referendum on conservative values.
“It’s a new day,” Pence said, “and a new Congress.”
For conservative Republicans, it’s also a new chance to enact their agenda — whether it jibes with the president’s or not. Sometimes they agree with Bush, as on the need to drill for oil in the Arctic and revive a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. But sometimes they don’t, as in their call to repeal campaign-finance changes and limit the new Medicare prescription drug benefit to needy seniors.
Mr. Pence, that sounds so promising, but I won’t believe it until I see it.
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