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• Respect I, Because I Is Providers Pertinent Information!
• Day of Rage Becomes Day of Slightly Delayed Pedestrians
• Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Baseball, Obama, and Buffett.

Respect I, Because I Is Providers Pertinent Information! Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:10 AM PDT I just got an e-mail from someone who works for a candidate running for a state Congressional Office. Here are the opening two sentences. I have edited the details that would give you the ideneity of the candidate or the sender because I really don’t want to embarrass either of them. Your Blog is providers pertinent information to the community. Visiting your website was a joy to know there are a few out there that promote conservative Value and ethos.  I am working on the [Candidate's Name] Campaign as he is running in [Congressional district] against [Incumbent] for the Primary.  I invite you to interview him for publishing in your blog. Now I’m a forgiving guy. I make my share of spelling and grammar mistakes. If a typo or two slips into an e-mail or you botch the spelling of “received”, well, that happens. This, however, is bad. It shouldn’t have gone out, no matter if the candidate is a long-shot with no campaign budget at all. Political campaigns don’t have control over quite a lot, but they can always manage their social media contacts. Every one of those contacts — e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, or telephone — needs to be professional (though not necessarily deadly serious) I have no doubt that whoever sent me this e-mail is (probably) young, and very earnest. He or she is probably new at this. My guess is this is his or her first shot as running media for a campaign and he or she wants to make a good impression. This didn’t do it. Not only is the grammar horrible, but it reads like the kind of blast-mail a poor new media person would send to several different blogs all at once. I get no sense that the person who sent this to me spend any time on The Shack except to find my address. I trashed the e-mail. I don’t have a ton of interest in talking to this person’s candidate, but I could be persuaded otherwise if he or she sent me a better e-mail. The next one should be more kind to the English language and give me some indication that the writer knows what I’m doing here. Heck, I bet with a little investigation, the campaign might even discover I have a podcast!

Day of Rage Becomes Day of Slightly Delayed Pedestrians Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:33 PM PDT The rage still burns brightly on the streets of Manhattan tonight as young progressives mount their third day or protest against the great evil that is corporate America. Well, okay, it’s not so much “rage” as it is a sort of annoyed milling about and as for “brightly”, I’ve seen better from one of those old penlight flashlights with a half-dead battery in it. Protesters complaining about the unchecked power of the financial industry staged noisy demonstrations that slowed pedestrian traffic on Wall Street for a third day on Monday, vowing to continue “for as long as it takes” to achieve vague demands. Up to 150 protesters near the New York Stock Exchange held up signs saying “we must end corporate tyranny and corruption” and “debt is slavery”. The protesters claimed up to 350 demonstrators had come and gone throughout the morning. Here are two things to note about this left-wing protest. First, they started preparing for it three months ago and expected to draw between 20,000 and 90,000 people on Saturday. They drew about a thousand. That is sad by any measure. You can get more people out of their houses in New York City if you put a lobster truck on the corner. You can’t get a good drum circle going with less than 2,000 Second, well look at what their “march” produced. They managed to slightly inconvenience some people going to work or out to grab a bite to eat. They couldn’t generate enough heat to get a good, loud drum circle going. If you gave me 50 people, I could pick one evil corporation and make it darned difficult to get into its building and I don’t even own a Che t-shirt! These poor schmucks couldn’t clog the revolving door or chain themselves to something in the lobby? They shame the long tradition of whack-a-doodle hippie protest. The sad plight of the Starbucks-swilling, iPhone-toting left-wingers whose idea of a protest is to mill about aimlessly on a crowded sidewalk ought to cheer us conservatives. It, more than anything I’ve seen this month, tells me that progressivism is in its final throes. To be sure, it can still twitch mightily, but its power is nearly gone. Its day is done. We should get about burying it as deeply as we can so that it will never rise to vex humanity again.

Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Baseball, Obama, and Buffett. Posted: 19 Sep 2011 11:19 AM PDT There are a couple posts over at Ending Spending of which I’m particularly proud. I’d like it if you clicked over there and left a nice comment or two, if you’ve the mind to do so. It’s easy to make light of “waste, fraud, and abuse” but when you look at how much money our government simply throws away or lets fall into the pockets of thieves, it adds up to…well…click the link and see what you could buy if you had that kind of money. The President rolled out his “Buffet Tax” with the usual fusillade of class warfare, rank dishonesty, and hoary pseudo-socialist talking points. I debunked the plan this morning, before I even saw it, because I knew what would be in it. Yes, he’s become that predictable.

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