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• The Delivery Presents – The Bonus Friday Policy Jam
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Holder Frogmarch Watch Tuesday Edition
• Beware the Howling Mob
• Why Does Our Government Hate Children and Potatoes?

The Delivery Presents – The Bonus Friday Policy Jam Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:56 AM PDT Once in a while, I get the urge (and the abundance of subject matter) to do an extra podcast during the week. I haven’t done one of these bonus Friday shows for a couple or three months and it was just time. Episode 116 is a rule-breaker, in that the show is all politics, but that’s how crazy-loose the Friday shows are! One of the big reasons I wanted to do an extra show was to clear the air about all the Herman Cain 9-9-9 stuff I’ve seen in the media and online. I freely admit that Cain’s tax reform plan needs some tweaking, and no one should expect it to stand alone from a sensible and enforceable spending plan, but it’s a good sight better than the big pile of nothing proposed by most of the other candidates. So I explain what I see good about 9-9-9 and how I believe we can repair what I don’t think will work about it and match it up to a couple of the other plans that are out there right now. Look, constructive criticism in an election is possible! In the second half I share all I know about our brand new war in Uganda, which isn’t very much. Then again, I don’t think anyone really knows why the President dropped our soldiers in the middle of a fight with orders to shoot only in self-defense, which is a considerable problem for all of us. Do not forget there is a show tonight, live and in living awesome, at 9:30 PM ET! I’ll have special need of the Deliverati this evening, as SMPMike and I may want to make a change or two to the show and I want to get your opinions so we can make the changes that make the most sense to you out there in Wonderful Listener Land. "The Delivery - Episode 116 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Holder Frogmarch Watch Tuesday Edition Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:55 AM PDT One of the big stories the MSM have yet to dig out of the Mother of All Friday News Dumps is the tale of how (and why) the administration refused to release all the Operation Fast and Furious documents Congress requested. You don’t really have to think all that hard to come up with a few reasons why the administration treated the Congressional subpoena like a cafeteria menu. I bet you could come up with a couple more once you learn there’s a very good chance the President himself knew about the operation before Eric Holder did. I wonder if there are any stretching and warmup tips we could give the Attorney General in preparation for his frogmarch from the White House? Don’t forget the live broadcast of The Delivery tonight at 9:30 P.M. ET. I’ll have a couple important questions about the show for your consideration, so be sure to show up and give your opinion. I’ll also, you know, do a good show too, and you won’t want to miss that. And now, links! That’s an awfully nice energy bill you have there, citizen. It’d be a horrible shame if anything ridiculously expensive happened to it. I am convinced that the only reason the New York Times still employs Paul Krugman is as link-bait for right-wing bloggers. The conservative smartypants crew can hate on him all they want, but Herman Cain is still climbing in the polls and not just because he has a good singing voice. R.I.P. Laura Pollán, the founder of the Ladies in White, who steadfastly and quietly fight against the tyrannical Castro Brothers and for a free and prosperous Cuba. The myth of Herbert Hoover as a small-government conservative still won’t die, no matter how hard it’s been hit by history. Chris Muir laid an entirely deserved beatdown on the Republican Party that ought to cause the people at the top of the power structure at least a little bit of concern. It is not always good to serve at the pleasure of the King, even if the King makes beautiful things that work well (via techmeme here and here). If you enjoy it when nature shows off some fireworks, you might want to block off a little bit of time next week to catch the Orionid meteor shower. It looks like October 22nd will be the best night to catch a few meteors and you’ll want to be as far from city lights as you can get (since the Orionids are not the brightest of the various meteor showers). Spaghetti and meatballs in a tomato and basil sauce? Yes, please. And with a chunk of French bread with garlic butter on it!

Beware the Howling Mob Posted: 17 Oct 2011 10:45 PM PDT In her latest book Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America (which I’ve yet to read, though it’s parked on my Wish List), Ann Coulter details how the elements of mob mentality are also the central elements of the progressive worldview. You can see these elements in action all too often on the internet where right-wing bloggers are targeted for harassment and malicious rumor mongering by progressives whose only complaint is that conservatives have a platform from which they can speak their minds. My friend Zilla has been the subject of the left-wing mob, to the point where she ingeniously erected a Troll Tollgate which allows people to yell at her to their heart’s content so long as they fill up her tip jar for the privilege. Thus far, though, Zilla’s thuggish trolls have restricted their activities to childish rants in the comment sections of her blog posts. Donald Douglas, on the other hand, has suffered that and far more. Left-wing agitators have gone after him, very personally and directly. They have dedicated a blog to his personal destruction and have attempted to get him fired on several occasions over the past three years. So far, they have failed, but their efforts have cost Donald countless hours of his time and, I will assume, some nontrivial amount of money to defend himself from the baseless attacks. And all he did was give voice to his conservative political opinions. Smitty, in a post on the subject, noted that it is not sufficient to the left that they prove their ideological opponents wrong. They must oppress. They must take away your ability to speak freely. We can complain about how unfair they are to us, but it won’t matter. They will not change. That is what they do. That is who they are. Progressivism over the decades is nothing but instance after instance of pure power politics: the rule of the howling mob, the haughty “We won”, the vicious “push back twice as hard”. Here’s the thing, though. That exercise of power requires a faceless mob. When we begin to name and shame the offenders, the power diminishes. Their mob tactics require that they remain numerous and anonymous and that the victim remain isolated. When we band together and identify them as the thugs they are, their courage runs away like water. It’s time we made the cowards run.

Why Does Our Government Hate Children and Potatoes? Posted: 17 Oct 2011 10:14 AM PDT Thanks to the Lonely Conservative for bringing this new attempt to expand the Nanny State to my attention. You say potato? The USDA says “starchy vegetable.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to limit how many starchy potatoes American schoolchildren eat each week as part of the federal school lunch program, beginning next year. I note this because, by a strange coincidence, this potato-related story also crossed my desk yesterday. Health-conscious cooks could soon be serving up a new superfood – the purple potato. Provided it is cooked without fat, it has been proved to reduce blood pressure and doesn't even make you put on weight. The deep colour of the Purple Majesty variety comes from the same compounds found in blueberries, blackberries, blackcurrants, red cabbage and aubergines. [...] Dr Joe Vinson, who led the research at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, said: 'The potato, more than perhaps any other vegetable, has an undeserved bad reputation that has led many health-conscious people to ban them from their diet. 'Mention potato and people think "fattening, high-carbs, empty calories". In reality, when prepared without frying, and served without butter, margarine, or sour cream, one potato has only 110 calories and dozens of healthful phytochemicals and vitamins. We hope our research helps to remake the potato's nutritional image.' So, just as we have a new study that shows that potatoes are good for us and that we should eat more of them, our Federal government has launched a program to take them away from children. It’s a misguided attempt by a building full of bureaucrats to manage our children’s weight through what they eat, not through what they do. I’m no UDSA expert, but it seems to me that if we let kids outside to run and plan for an hour or two a day, an extra helping of nutritious potatoes wouldn’t be very bad at all. Of course, that means school kids would be at risk of bumps and bruises, not to mention the self-esteem damaging prospects of being chosen last in a game of kick ball. It would also mean that teachers would have to educate children competently in a shorter amount of time. Most importantly, though, it would mean that federal busybodies would have less to do and we’d wonder even more than we do now why we need so many of them leeching off of our hard-earned paychecks. Hmm…maybe I’m on to something here. Well, while I’m on a roll (a potato roll, HA!), let me give you a couple of my favorite mashed potato recipes thanks to the lovely Pioneer Woman (with roasted garlic or creamy-style). I say we should enjoy our spuds and cut back the people who do better the larger they grow the government. We’d be a lott healthier and happier if we did.

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