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• The Delivery Presents – Let’s Talk About Drum Circles and Dreams
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Mean Democrats Who Hate Jobs Wednesday Edition

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:10 AM PDT Remember when the smartypants pundits on the right said that Herman Cain had no chance in the Presidential race and that his campaign would just be for entertainment? Yeah, well, none of them are laughing now that Cain leads the field. In separate polls, NBC/Wall Street Journal and Public Policy Polling (via memeorandum) have Cain ahead of Mitt Romney, preferred candidate of the GOP greybeards, by four and eight points respectively. The same polls show him ahead of my friend Melissa Clouthier’s darling candidate Rick Perry by between 11 and 16 points. Rasmussen has Cain within three points of President Obama, the man whose policies Cain has attacked relentlessly while Romney and Perry have been busy slap-fighting each other. The these polls with a grain of salt, of course. As you well know, they can change quickly and one bad misstep can drop Cain’s numbers as quickly as Mitt Romney’s steadfast support for his failed government-run health care program in Massachusetts has dropped his stock. Cain is a political novice and while that has earned him a bit more slack from the voting public than other candidates have, he won’t get the second chance an experienced politician might get if he makes a big mistake. If I could, I’d give him three pieces of advice. First, his relentlessly optimistic message and affection for America is what has him in the lead right now. He’ll be tempted to give that up to attack one or more of the other candidates. I think he should resist that temptation with all his strength. Second, he should always remember that there are a lot of Republicans who want him to fail but there are many, many more people who will cheer his success. Third, while his 9-9-9 plan is good, it’s only a start. It’s time to couple it with a government spending plan that will kill the fear people have that future administrations will jack his 9 percent taxes to 20 percent. To start, he could recommend that we tie spending to a percentage of GDP — 19 percent would be good but 17 percent would be even better. And now, links! Veronique de Rugy is right. Even if, magically, government spending could stimulate the economy, human nature and the corruption inherent in politics prevents legislators from ever writing a bill that will work. Fight some small portion of the power! Bias? Like real media bias? Surely you jest! ACORN can not be killed with one blow. It will require constant vigilance for a few years, and possibly a garlic necklace and some hardwood stakes. I am a sucker for family reunion videos that involve soldiers. Bob Belvedere had some fun with Drudge Report headlines. If Hollywood made a Voltron movie based on this fan-made trailer, I’d be there on opening night. The Goddess of Tips Jars says hit mine! Seriously, that’s one serious donation goddess.

The Delivery Presents – Let’s Talk About Drum Circles and Dreams Posted: 12 Oct 2011 01:51 PM PDT I don’t think I’ve ever had a show go in an entirely different direction than I had planed as much as Episode 115 did. As I said in the first half, my intention was to mock the Occupy Whatever protests for a bunch of whinging malcontents. That’s not how it worked out, though. There are plenty of brainless, doctrinaire left-wingers whose handwritten screeds populate this Tumblr site. They are the boringly doctrinaire left-wingers who will roll to any protest that a bunch of professional rabble-rousers put together. Honestly, I could care less about them. There are a few people there, though — not an insignificant number but far from the majority — whose stories caught my attention. Those folks did what they were told to do by people they trusted and are in a very hard way now. I get their anger and fear. They played by the rules they were given. People they trusted, from guidance counselors to politicians, lied to them and here they are. That made me angry, but probably not for the reason you suspect, and the first half got a bit hot. It wasn’t all ranting, though. I did get to share a valuable bit of advice my Dad gave me when I was a young adult, and I even attempted a Conan the Barbarian impression. Okay, so maybe there was a little bit of humor. I kept the same theme into the second half and talked a bit about why Steve Jobs’ message of “find what you love then do it” works not just for corporate CEOs and geniuses but for plumbers, authors, and computer programmers. Based on the reactions from the Deliverati in the live chatroom, this is a show you won’t want to miss. [audio:http://www.takethatproductionsusa.com/podcasting/td/TD115.mp3|titles=The Delivery - Episode 115] This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Mean Democrats Who Hate Jobs Wednesday Edition Posted: 12 Oct 2011 09:56 AM PDT Last night, President Obama’s jobs bill went down to defeat thanks to a bipartisan group of mostly Republicans and a couple Democrats. I don’t doubt they saved us from calamity. There is nothing at all in the President’s plan that will create jobs for anyone but overpaid bureaucrats and rich union organizations. The administration certainly tried hard to get the President’s bill passed. He even sent out a memo that promised endless campaign trash-talk if the Senate didn’t bow to his will (via memeorandum). I don’t imagine he could have done anything else. Barack Obama does appear to be the archetype of the 60s radical in power whose only real weapons are hectoring speeches and displays of brute power. The Democrats have been scrambling for unity in the face of yet another horrible progressive economic plan, but it’s not going to help them. The defections have begun and there will be more before next year’s election. What I want to know is what bad names President Obama will call them. And now, links! Congratulations to William Jacobson on the third anniversary of his very good Legal Insurrection blog! The Occupy Whatever whinerfest has been cleared to operate in Washington, DC for four more months. Get your bottle of Febreeze handy, DC residents. You’ll need them. I wonder if we’ll hear the old Soviet national anthem worked into an OccupyWhatever protest tweet? It would fit the crowd. Nothing says “fiscal stability” like a pension board chosen to fill a racial bingo card. One my goals as a podcaster is to earn the sort of praise that Texas Trendy Chick gives her favorite talk show host here. If you doubt whether Herman Cain is a legitimate contender for the White House, you have only to note the uptick of JournoLister attacks on his campaign to assuage them. If Stacy McCain suddenly goes missing and Smitty starts blogging about a Legal Defense Tip jar fund, you’ll know what happened. Don’t look now, but another very heavy satellite is about to plummet to Earth. On second thought, maybe you had better look now. Want titanium? We can get it from the moon. We use titanium for an awful lot of things. It wouldn’t be a bad idea at all to start the program to get it from a place not run by corrupt dictators.

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