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• Announcing the Conservative Cubicle Art Project!
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – A New Look Tuesday Edition
• Mmm Mmm Mmm! Barack Strawman Perry

Announcing the Conservative Cubicle Art Project! Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:30 AM PDT Back in June, I had an idea for something I named the Conservative Cubicle Art Project. Here’s how I described it when I launched a little sneak peek back then: I like hanging pieces of art — comics, mini posters, and so on — at my desk at work, but it’s hard to find art that works. Either the art is to color-saturated that it comes out of my printer slightly soggy and wrinkled or it’s far too big and doesn’t scale down to an 8 1/2 x 11 or 11 x 17 size very well. If I wanted to buy art for my cubicle, the pickings are even more thin. Most artists make posters, which are just too big to hang in my office and the sites through which they sell them ask far too much money. What I want are pieces of art I can print at work or at home that are small enough to stick on a corkboard and that will by pretty and colorful but won’t kill my printer Today is that day. I worked with my friend and very talented artist Rachael Sinclair to come up with four pieces of art that I’d be proud to have at work or my home office. I have four of them, below the jump, and they’re all yours if you want them, in high-quality PDF format. No e-mail required, no newsletter subscription, no tricks.  You can download any or all of these for your personal use for a fee that you get to pick. If you want to have them for free, you can have them for free. Like I said, no tricks, but there is a “but”. I want to try something here. I want to see if this might just replace my planned late-year fundraiser. So here’s the deal. If you want to give me some money for them, I have a recommended price: $2 a piece or $5 for the whole set of four. Just click the tip jar in the sidebar and leave a note that the money is for the Conservative Cubicle Art Project (or CCAP, if you like acronyms!). If you think they’re worth more (and I believe they are. Rachael did a bang-up job and I will split the proceeds with her), then by all means drop more in the tip jar. If the CCAP goes really well, then I’ll just dispense with the fundraiser I had planned for next month. If not, well, I’ll have learned something and you all will have some outstanding pieces to hang on your cork boards. I hope for the former. Oh, one last thing. You can’t resell these files in any way, and if you pass them along to someone, I’d appreciate if you linked them back to this post. Now hit the jump and get some great art! 1) Citizens Wanted — modeled on the legendary (and still unfound) Ernest Shackleton advertisement but modified to suit the current political climate.     2) Farewell, Space Shuttle — Both Rachael and I are fans of the space program. She came up with the killer art idea and I found a great quote from Sir Cecil Beaton (a fashion designer, believe it or not), to do along with it.   3) Expect Problems — I claim no credit for this one, save that I showed Rachael the quote and did a little proofreading when she was done. When you download the PDF, be sure to read what’s on the box.   4) Sweet Song — Rachael and I both share a great affection for Ronald Reagan. We wanted to use one of his quotes, but not one of his usual political lines or a quote that you’ve seen in a hundred other places. I found this one and she went in a very neat direction with it.

Clearing the Browser Tabs – A New Look Tuesday Edition Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:10 AM PDT You might have noticed something a leeeeetle bit different about The Shack today. I have wanted a redesign here for a few months, but I hadn’t been able to find a template I really liked for a price I could afford. Thankfully, Solostream rode to my rescue with an offer I simply could not resist. Not only was I able to pick up one of their excellent themes, I got it for a ridiculously low price. I spent a couple or three days tweaking it almost to my liking and here we are! I hope you like it as much as I do. There are a few more tweaks yet to come; mostly they involve re-writing a few things and making some small color adjustments and they won’t interfere with how you use the site. If you see anything that looks wrong, or if there’s something you discover that’s broken, let me know so I can fix it. I’ve tested the site pretty well, but I’m sure I didn’t catch everything. I have a few things I can tackle in tonight’s episode of The Delivery, so be sure to tune in if for no other reason than to see if I can get it all in to an hour-long show! Remember, though the show starts right about 9:30 PM ET, I usually do a pre-show warmup a few minutes early. That usually involves a little music and time for everyone in the chatroom to get settled in before the real show starts. It’s a good time, so be sure to clear your schedule! Oh, and keep your eyes on The Shack. I’ll have another neat new project announcement that’ll drop between 7AM and 8 AM. You’ll be able to participate in this one and even pick up a few goodies for yourself. And now, links! Why is the President so bullheadedly determined to raise our taxes, even in the face of financial calamity? I have my theories, but I’d be interested in yours. Smitty took my post yesterday on the President’s horrible lies and took them in the direction of determined and relentless opposition. Dan Collins went to the internet and found that the President’s hands are far more dirty than he wants us all to believe. Nice job, guys. You will not be surprised to learn what is really behind the baseless “Tea Partiers are racist” meme. Nice Deb and Morgen from Verum Serum have a heck of an idea for the White House’s shiny new petition program. If you ask me (and you did, more or less when you clicked over here, yes?) we should have defunded the United Nations many years ago. I can not imagine why any free nation would pour millions of dollars into an orgainzation that sanctions rape and murder and encourages despotism. If you don’t have a lot of money, but you do have creativity and a little artistic skill, you can make a very cool set of Star Wars wooden peg dolls with a few spaceships besides. Karl Urban is going to bring back the Necromonger Vaako in the new Riddick sequel? Okay, I’m a bit more interested now.

Mmm Mmm Mmm! Barack Strawman Perry Posted: 26 Sep 2011 09:41 AM PDT In the last debate, Rick Perry trotted a giant strawman onto the debate stage in Florida, lit it on fire, and danced around it like he was an extra in a remake of The Wicker Man. I spent a couple days trying to figure out why he’d launch such a knuckle-headed attack against at least half the people who will have to vote for him in Republican primaries, but I can’t come up with one. I’m left with the conclusion that when it comes to certain important issues, Rick Perry isn’t terribly different from President Barack Obama. Here is the pertinent part of his answer to a question about illegal immigration from Thursday’s debate (video here, via memeorandum and full transcript here): I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job. But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society. I think that's what Texans wanted to do. [Emphasis mine] That is an Obama-style strawman if ever I saw one. No one has argued that we should not educate children of illegal immigrants. No one has said they can’t go to college. The issue is, as Mitt Romney pointed out in his rebuttal, whether any state ought to give them a subsidy of up to $100,000. There are plenty of side issues in play as well. Let me list just a few: What sort of job prospects those educated illegal immigrants have given that it is also against the law to hire an illegal immigrant, college-educated or not? Why do Texas taxpayers spend more money to educate someone who will then have to break the law again to use that education than on the education of the children of American citizens who have obeyed our country’s rules but don’t live in Texas? Is it fair for Texas to subsidize lawbreaking and penalize children of immigrant parents who spent many years and a lot of money to establish legal residence, and even citizenship? I’m not going to attempt to answer these questions in this post. I only bring them up to point out that their answers have nothing at all to do with the softness of your heart. There are valid intellectual arguments on both sides of these issues and an honest man would have at least acknowledged their existence even if he didn’t agree with them. Perry doesn’t like the honest route, though. He’d rather model Barack Obama’s habit of erecting the “some say…” strawman so he can beat it with the bat of his compassionate righteousness. It’s far easier to vilify those on the other side than it is to admit that they have a rational and considered argument. Rick Perry lost my vote Thursday night because of his arrogant imitation of our failed President. He said, after the debate, that we don’t need “the smoothest debater” in the White House. He’s right. What we need is someone who can spare a few minutes to think before he trashes me and a whole lot of other conservatives like me.  America has already had one thoughtless demagogue in the White House for the past three years. We don’t need to replace him with another one, even if he happens to agree with me once in a while.

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