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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Accentuate the Positive Thursday Edition Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:10 AM PDT I’ve always liked Jeb Bush and I agree with Rob Long that it’s truly unfortunate his last name will prevent him from ever attaining the Presidency. I think he would have made a very good Chief Executive. His advice for the 2012 candidates is worth studying carefully. It’s a fairly simple strategy — criticize less and talk about plans, success, and optimism a lot more — but it will be tough to execute, at least in the early months of the primaries. I’ve been on the Optimism Bandwagon for a while now, and I honestly believe that it is the winning message for the Republican Party next year. The American public is quite aware that things are bad. They’re also aware that Barack Obama is one of the main reasons that is so. It won’t benefit any candidate to hammer that point any harder than they already have. Consider that dead horse sufficiently pummeled. What I think the country really wants is a message heavy on faith in Americans and love for America along with a real (and simple!) plan for how our next President will pry the federal government off our throats. Whoever does that first, and keeps it up longest, wins. It’s that simple. And now, links! Darn it, modern feminism can find a way to ruin anything. To borrow a popular political phrase, the debate on education spending is over. Big, expensive, centrally-controlled education systems have failed. It’s time to get rid of it and find out what we did in the past that did work. The problem with progressive politicians like Kathleen Kennedy Townsend who quote Bible verses to push their policies is that they really don’t understand what they’re quoting. One day, if he wants to be, Marco Rubio will be President of the United States. Go ahead and mark this post so that in eight or twelve years you can link back to it and shower me with praise for my foresight. Oh, no! Tea Party terrorists in Waco! Someone call Janet Reno! Part of being a good blogger is knowing when to treat a writer seriously and when to bury their smug condescension in a mountain of snark. ACORN may have suffered a mortal would thanks to James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, but it is far from dead and it’s still out there using the same old thug tactics that made it the darling of the Democratic Party for so many years. I’m pretty sure that scaring the children of England into believing that guns shouldn’t even be seen is not exactly a genius move. This is genius. Facebook and Ticketmaster are developing a means by which, when you buy tickets to an event, you can tag the location of your seat so that your friends can see where your seats are and and buy tickets near them. Whose music shall reign supreme: Handel or Haydn? My money is on George Frideric. I’ve never been to either Disney theme park, but I very much want to go. This article on Splash Mountain at Disneyland makes that want all the more acute. On a related note, it’s a shame that Disney has not fully released Song of the South. It had one of the best songs of any Disney movie and a couple of the most memorable characters. R.I.P. Mike Flanagan. He was one of the all-time great pitchers of his era and a Baltimore Orioles legend.

The Delivery Presents – Earth Was Shaking, Media Was Faking, and I Was Making It… Posted: 24 Aug 2011 11:25 AM PDT I am quite proud of the fact that I didn’t make a single cheesy earthquake pun during Episode 108. Oh, I could have, believe me. But I didn’t. On the other hand, I did recount what it feels like to have a building constructed during the first Eisenhower administration buck up and down under your feet like you were walking on an overinflated Moon Bounce, so that’s something. I do admit, I butchered the mentions of seismic waves (the side to side waves were S-waves and the up and down were surface waves), for which my Amateur Science Geek card will probably be suspended. On the other hand, on how many non-science podcasts will you get a mention of seismic waves? Okay, serious stuff. I talked up a book on the show called Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind by Dr. Tim Groseclose (note, if you buy the book through the link, Amazon tosses me a cut of the price). I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say, as I did in the show, that the book might be the most important one you’ll read all year. Dr. Groseclose put some hard numbers to what we conservatives have said about the MSM and their biases for a long time. He packed a lot of information in a relatively short book, but that’s okay. My guess is that you’ll read the book two or three times to get everything from it that you can. I got a lot more mileage out of my second half subject (social media and educational institutions) than I thought I would. I know that the subject seems boring, but I bet if you brainstormed a few ways you could get your favorite library or museum involved with social media, you’d come up with several better than the ones I concocted on the fly during the show. Like I said, social media is inexpensive. It only takes work and a little imagination. We can provide those, right? The Delivery - Episode 108 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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