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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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.”
