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As a public servant, I feel it is my duty to make sure all hot bloggers are present and accounted for.  I therefore present to you Blonde Sagacity.  ALa and her team are cutting edge and funny and do a good job of representing the right.  I think she has visited our humble blog before since I have been to her site in the past. 

Unfortunately for you single guys, she is married and pregnant (no I’m not a stalker, she posted something about amniotic fluid).  But fortunately she is a teacher and she posted a portrait of herself on her front page.  I suppose I should bite the bullet and post a picture of myself in order to drive traffic to our site.

Update: Of course you never get over your first love.  The original conservative hot blogger and love of our lives is MoK at Six Degrees of Blondness.  If we need to be aware of other conservative hotties that blog, do tell.

Recently Watchblog, a site I write for from time to time, had a catastrophic server meltdown. The former site editor decided to take the opportunity to escape from the reservation and start his own website while preserving the original watchblog style, format and concept. He invited yours truly to join his limited stable of writers on the new site named Poliwatch. Today my first post is up. It is a new and improved version of my Top Ten Reasons Barack Obama Should Not Be President. Be sure to check it out on the new site.

Updated: And I just got ‘fired” for making the mistake of letting the owner of Watchblog know about this and for a couple of other emails that were circulating among the watchblog forum writers in regards to this. Easy come, easy go. I’ve been “fired” before, but never with such hostility, name-calling and false assumptions. Good stuff. Politics and Punditry is not for puffballs and the thin skinned.

You too can write like a loony conspiracy theorist!

Welcome to the THB Moonbat Writing Tutorial, M1. In this first lesson we will go over the style and content guidelines for writing like a true left-wing Blogger. You only need to learn a few simple rules and you can be up and howling at the moon like all your buddies!

Please read each rule carefully and complete the Sample Assignments below.

The Moonbat Stylebook:

1. Rage Against the Dying of the Light.
Emotion is a perfectly acceptable alternative to reason. In fact, in most cases it’s preferable, because you don’t need to support emotion with facts. It does not matter if you make sense, since you probably won’t. Here is a list of acceptable emotions:

Anger.
Acrimony.
Choler.
Enmity.
Fury.
Hatred.
Indignation.
Outrage.
Petulance.
Pique.
Umbrage.
Vexation.

Example: “”You and the smarmy pundits in your pocket, who bathe in the moisture of your soiled and bloodstained underwear can take that noise and shove it!” - Sean Penn, Hollywood genius.
http://www.radicalleft.net/blog/_archives/2007/3/25/2832788.html
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Sample Assignment: Fill in the appropriate words in the blanks provided: “Whenever I think of Chimpy McBushitler it makes me so __________ that I want to __________! I am__________ at the ___________ of this __________ who thinks he can get away with __________! I want to __________ his __________ing __________ until it __________!”

“___________!!!!!!!!!!!”
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2. My Name Is ‘Legion’, For We Are Many.
In the Moonbat blogosphere men of goodwill can never agree to disagree, because the opponent is always the perfect embodiment of evil on the earth. His motives are never pure and his goal is always to to destroy freedom, equality and justice. If he is not Satan (too religious for many moonbats) then he is Hitler.Example: “I submit to you that George Walker Bush is the ANTI-CHRIST. The violence and destruction that started when Bush first entered office, is likely to culminate in the apocalypse, just as predicted in the Bible, over 2,000 years ago.”
http://www.bushisantichrist.com/

Sample Assignment: Complete the following sentence: “George Bush will never shave his head because underneath his hair he is hiding the __________ of the ___________!”

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3.Tora! Tora! Tora!
Moonbat bloggers always begin on the attack and never let up. Quiet, reflective pieces are for pussies - you must always charge over the trenchtop with rhetorical bayonets drawn! Eternal attack has two major benefits - it makes you look smart and it keeps the focus on the other guy’s screw ups and not yours.Example: “I cannot recall a single day since Vulcans’ Godfather James Baker sent his thuggish henchman John Bolton to Florida’s Palm Beach County to screw up the vote count that has not been filled with horror, anger, shame — despair…”
http://evansmediausa.blog.com/1704370/

Sample Assignment: Complete the following topic sentence: “If I had to choose between eating dinner with George Bush or swimming five hundred laps in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Septic Tank, I would choose _____________!”
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4. Slip-Sliding Away
The slope is always slippery. We are always on the verge of tumbling into a fascist pit. All new security laws, supreme court rulings, or anti voter-fraud initiatives are just a thinly disguised effort to establish the coming Christianist Totalitarian Theocracy. Don’t worry when none of these predictions come true, just keep making them - that’s the cool part about the future, it can be whatever you want it to be!Example: ““The biggest threat to America today is not Communism, it’s moving America towards a fascist theocracy.”
- Frank Zappa, Crossfire, 1986 (Editor’s note: check out the date - twenty one* years ago!)”
http://www.godrex.com/?p=516

*Corrected from the original post which said “nineteen years ago” - (so much for the math skills of English Majors)

Sample Assignment: George Bush is to America what:
a. Malaria is to Africa
b. Godzilla is to Tokyo
c. Jaws is to Bathers
d. Rush is to Oxycontin
e. All of the above

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5. How Low Can You Go?
Think of the left-wing Blogosphere as Woodstock with rabies - it’s loud, it’s crowded, it’s loaded with Hippies but this time everybody’s taken the bad acid. Your voice can be easily lost in the cacaphony, so you have to work to get your share of attention. This means you must howl even louder than your neighbors. Make your wild claims wilder, make your profanity profaner! Rant and gibber, type in all caps! Provoke flame wars, make threats! There will be no consequences, until you try to get through that next job screening. But you didn’t want to work for those fascists anyway!Example: “One thing I vow here and now—you motherf**kers who want to ban birth control will never sleep. I will f**k without making children day in and out and you will know it and you won’t be able to stop it. Toss and turn, you mean, jealous motherf**kers. I’m not going to be “punished” with babies. Which makes all your efforts a failure. Some non-procreating women escaped. So give up now. You’ll never catch all of us. Give up now.” - Former John Edwards Campaign Blogger Amanda Marcotte.
http://patterico.com/2007/02/05/john-edwards-hires-amanda-marcotte-as-chief-campaign-blogger/

Sample Assignment: Essay Question: Think carefully about the statement and assignment below. Outline a response that develops and supports your own ideas. You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the given topic in the space provided on your answer sheet. If you write on any other topic, you will receive a score of zero and we will tell you to go f***k yourself.

Activists from the Philly 9/11 Truth organization confronted arch-Neo-Con and torture advocate Alan ‘Mengele’ Dershowitz at a speaking event last week, causing his fake Christian Israeli-first vulture audience to boo and throw their toys out of the pram, shortly before security were called to drag the dissenters out of the building for the crime of asking a question.The kind of people who attend these events, where media darling Neo-Cons are paid obscene amounts of cash to projectile vomit their establishment propaganda during extra-curricular hours, if not because they are forced to or they are protesting the aforementioned war whores, are fake Christians and Israeli-firsters who believe they’re all going to be raptured up into heaven when the Islamic hordes descend to destroy the earth.In reality, they have about as much in common with Jesus as with Charlie Manson, and their putrid act of cheerleading for the architects of empire makes them complicit in the global genocide that goes with it.Assignment:
Why is Alan Dershowitz such a racist, zionist piece of sh*t? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from what you have read, studied, or experienced.

This concludes THB Moonbat Writing Tutorial, M1. Please step away from your keyboard and go take your medications. Look for Module 2 in the near future. Thank you and good luck.

Can I just get a hat tip?

Meanwhile, the only person bringing up race outside of the media is Barack Obama.  In a foreshadowing of just how low Obama will stoop, on Friday Obama stated that the scary Republicans will try to make voters afraid of him and scare up votes for John McCain.  He cuts right to the age-old Democratic tactics of painting Republicans as racists who are trying to keep the black man down. . .

So now we know what the Democratic response will be should John McCain win the election this November.  It will have nothing to do with Obama’s dearth of foreign policy experience.  It will be totally unrelated to his desire to raise taxes on Americans.  It will have nothing to do with the fact that he has been on the national scene for all of four years.  And his inability to connect to working class white voters and some females will have nothing to do with it.  It will have everything to do with the terrible Republican racists in the U.S. of KKK - A.        Me, June 22, 2008

Of course, if Obama is right that voters reject “that old stuff,” then none of this should matter. You ought to be able to choose between Obama and McCain on their merits, irrespective of race. It is Obama himself who, by calling attention to his race in this way, is employing the “old stuff”: trying to take advantage of white guilt and black fear.     James Taranto  -  June 23, 2008

More proof that the wisdom of Conclub is always ahead of the curve.

Barack Hussein Obama

A privileged African-American, who has not shared the black American experience
By birth, blood and training, a Muslim, who has been a member of a Black-African church for 20 years
A socialist whose politics are rooted in Marx and whose tactics were devised by Alinsky
A master at shaping his own mythology and completely unqualified to be Commander in Chief

More of that independent blogging/researching/campaigning/politicking that we’ve talked about and that the candidates and campaigns hate so much.

But at least he’s modest:

“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” - Barack Obama

But sometimes it is hard to decipher when he is being honest (then or now):

In July of 2004, the day after his speech at the Democratic convention catapulted him into the national spotlight, Barack Obama told a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had an “absolute obligation” to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.

“The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster,” he said at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, according to an audiotape of the session. “It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective.”

So I finally broke down and created a “Facebook” page. I’m in my mid-thirties and felt like a heel/wannabe/teenager/idiot for doing so, but I think I have a good excuse. The class of ‘89 (yeah baby) is beginning to prepare and network for the upcoming twentieth high school reunion that will be taking place next summer. There has been some preliminary attempts at contacts on classmates.com but the reunion coordinator has asked us to all head on over to facebook to more easily interact with each other (and it’s is free to boot). Being a sport I cooperated and created my first “social networking” site. I’ve blogged for years and I have my own column archive site, but I’ve never participated in the whole myspace/facebook scene.

What I quickly discovered was:

a) I didn’t want mine to suck so I ended up spending several hours on multiple days making it presentable.

b) It is amazing how many people use facebook.

c) How many old friends, classmates and girlfriends keep in contact with each other. You can click on someone else’s friends and I have contacted a host of people, some of whom I haven’t spoken with in twenty years or more.

d) How many people have been looking for me. I was contacted by an old bar acquaintance within 48 hours (he is also a teacher) of signing up and found some old College Republicans as well. I also had an extensive conversation with an old 7th grade girlfriend etc. etc.

e) How desperately I need to break out my old yearbooks. I have people writing me and I don’t have a clue who they are. The names sound faintly (maybe) familiar and they are telling me all about the last fifteen years of their life, relationships and kids and I am stuck in the nod and smile phase. Dang it, what box are they in?

f) That no less than three other bloggers on this site are “clandestine” facebook whores.

By the way, did I mention that it is not as bad as I figured it could be? It has also turned out to be an easy way to keep in more steady contact with both family and friends which I guess is a good thing. My assistant manager has 167 friends on her myspace page and she thought it was pretty funny that I have a facebook page up and running. I’m at 17 friends but I’m just getting started. One of my “friends” has 222 “friends” on her page. I think she needs to get out more or something.

UPDATE: Andre kindly points out that my knowledge of lefty bloggers is limited. Touché.

From Andre’s favorite thinkers of our day

Markos personally attacks John McCain for having teeth that aren’t white enough.

I mean, they have teeth whitening products today. Just ask Chuck Norris. There’s also photoshop. No one at Camp McCain thinks this is relevant or worth fixing? Take away the highlights from his teeth, and they are literally this color …

… and seriously, that’s just gross.

For the record (from HotAir.com):

In 1968 he was offered early release, and when he refused, because others had been there longer, his captors went at him again; he suffered cracked ribs, teeth broken off at the gum line, and torture with ropes that lashed his arms behind his back and that were progressively tightened all through the night.” Source Vanity Fair, February 2007

And from John Arovosis, known as Atrios, who was concerned that McCain received a $58,000/year retirement for his service in the navy. Arovosis contacted McCain’s staff to express his anger at the veteran:

His staff responded with the classic “he was tortured for his country.” Yeah, we get it. The torture card.\

Atrios then goes on to question the fact that McCain’s staff said that he “technically” was disabled. Atrios the paranoid jumped into action:

Technically? What does that mean? Usually, it means that under the strict reading of the law, you’re covered, but in fact it’s kind of a nudge-nudge-wink-wink situation - that’s what “technically” means. It’s called parsing, which is something you do to “technically” claim something is true, when on its face it really isn’t. So is McCain “technically” disabled, and taking $58,000 a year tax free from the government, or is he actually disabled? I would imagine there are other solders who are actually disabled who could use the money. And if he is actually disabled, just how disabled is he?

Again, for the record: McCain’s pension is a set amount based on years of service and disability. As for the classification of McCain’s disability as “technical,” anyone who read the foregoing account of his torture, or who sees McCain’s inability to raise his arms above his head, or who knows his ass from a hole in the ground, understands that McCain’s spokesman is trying to offer a sound of soldierly pride. McCain the presidential candidate doesn’t want to readily admit to being “disabled.”

But pride, like simple human decency, is not something that Atrios or Kos, or apparently Andre are even aware of. BTW, I don’t normally link low-brow hate sites like the Aryan Nations, Kos, the KKK, or Atrios. But I had a feeling that readers would doubt that anyone could actually write the things I pasted above without proof.

Mind you, these are perhaps the two main leftist bloggers, each independently mocking a veteran’s torture wounds, and the campaign is less than a week old. Now you know why Hillary Clinton couldn’t get this party’s nod.

Yes folks!  In the interest of transparency and the willingness to be servants of the sheeple, I once again bring you the official minutes of the Constitution Club Conclave.  Conclaves have always been held on the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving and the first Friday in June.  They give the membership a chance to sort out the herculean task of running an expansive blog and coordinating the activities of the membership. . .  okay, okay, they give those in attendance a chance to drink and show how much they know about stuff.  Past Conclaves have been robust and others, as was the case last night, was quaint and subdued.  Two years ago before the smoking ban hit bars in Colorado, we had 10 people at our meeting.  Never has the grand triune not been in attendance.

5:45 - Damien and Eric embark on the journey to Ft. Collins.  Within minutes of actually getting into the car they were on the side of the road by DFV’s house with police lights flashing.  It appears that DFV has an aversion to stop signs.  As a cop was driving by, DFV thought it might be okay to just make a California stop by his house.  He was subsequently pulled over, harassed, given his third warning in 6 months and sent on his way.  While pulling away, DFV wonders aloud what he has to do to get a ticket?!  E just thinks he is on a lucky streak.

6:50  -  The pair arrive at the Cork in Ft. Collins.  They are immediately greeted by the hot waitress.  They get drinks at the bar.  Eric gets a 7 and 7, DFV a water and a diet coke.  For the next hour or so they discuss teaching, kids in their classes, teaching methods and other assorted boring topics that no one other than teachers would appreciate.  In between conversations, they are given the lowdown on the runnings of the bar by the aforementioned hot waitress.  They also order more drinks.  DFV gets a double gin martini dry, E orders up another 7 and 7.

7:40  -  Dave calls and says he is on his way.  He is later than hell.

8:00  -  Dave arrives.  Orders a Coors light.   Normal pleasantries are exchanged.  Almost immediately they go into a discussion the Windsor tornado.  Each comment on how quickly FEMA was available and Dave discusses how the cleanup has been very successful.  He shuns the idea of moving into a FEMA trailer.  Each agree that it would not be good to still be in it three years later.  This moves the group into the discussion of the reactive nature of the Bush Admin.  DFV, like Andre believes that Bush is the worst president in history; or at least since Carter.  War discussion takes place.  DFV and Eric eat a pepperoni and jalapeno pizza and a huge plate of nachos.  Dave eats his Coors light for dinner.  In the background, some reggae band is setting up.  A bunch of reggae guys of all colors are assembling in the bar. 

9:05  -  The band begins to play so the triune moves into an adjacent room where the band noise is less obtuse.  Almost immediately they head to the outside patio for smokes.

9:15  -  On the patio, discussion is general bar related stuff.  Since Eric’s brother owns the bar and since DFV is an attorney, the three begin to pick out the possible lawsuits.  From broken boards to remote ladders, there are no shortage of OSHA reportables.  DFV discusses why attorneys for plaintiffs are such lowlifes.  Apparently they drag shit on so that it becomes entirely too expensive for defendants to not settle.  What a racket.  E later surmises to himself that this is why tort reform, where the plaintiff pays the legal fees of defendant should he lose, would be a common sense approach to this problem. 

9:30  Back inside and the topic turns immediately to Obama and McCain.  The three have a hard time being optimistic about the elections in November.  But after further discussion, they each begin to gain some optimism.  All are irritated about Obama but acknowledge that his team can campaign and they literally out campaigned the Clinton machine.  Possible Veeps is a topic of interest.  All agree that Hillary will not be the pick for Obama.  Discussion turns to Andre’s pick of Richardson but a black and hispanic on the same ticket won’t happen.  All tend to think that McCain has more to gain with a good veep pick.  Names thrown out are Lieberman, Romney, Jindal, or some woman who’s name escapes this writer.  Obama’s only option may be Bill Nelson to try to capture Florida.  Its all about the electoral college.  More drinks.  Rockies rally to beat a hot Milwaukee team.

10:00  -  Topic turns to why McCain is such a good candidate, why the religious right will back McCain despite the doom and gloom early on, why Hillary is setting herself up for an Obama loss (another reason she can’t be on the ticket). 

10:15 - Outside to smoke.  Both conclubbers and reggae band members were taking a break.  Out on the patio, everything was alright mon!  You could smell the relaxation in the air if you catch my drift.

10:30  -  Inside for more drinks.  Trio always have a shot so this evening Damien and Eric enjoyed a blended shot of Jack, Cuervo, and something else.  Dave had a fluffy girl shot with whipped cream that he had to drink with no hands.  It was called a blow job.  Okay, Dave didn’t, but he might as well have.

10:45  - Topics included more Obama and McCain

11:00  -  Topic turns to the utter incompetence of the Republican party.  They cite the complete lack of organization at both the national and state levels.  Colorado is a complete joke.  There are no talented Republicans left in the state and this will be a problem for years to come.  Discussion turns to running campaigns and college activities of years past, why Republican Bob Shaffer will lose to Mark Udall (for Colorado’s open Senate seat), and Bill Owens.

11:35  -  Back outside to smoke.  Discussion revolves around DFV’s new girlfriend, and girlfriends past. 

11:50  -  Discussion turns to the serious business of blogging.  DFV is adamant about using names.  There is little objection but he keeps hammering the point home.  Dave discusses abandoning the left/right angle in favor of what we have been currently doing.  The additions of Jeff and Will have been stunning successes and validate the need to just have cool guys blogging cool shit.  They talk about abandoning the ‘no gurls allowed’ stance by adding a talented female like Mo K.  All think it would be a good idea.  Dave discusses picking up some writers in syndication.  Again all think this is good.  Eric is going to pick up some software and redesign the site come hell or high water.  DFV thinks E is being a contrarian but he wasn’t.  DFV just wasn’t listening.  Dave and E admonish DFV for his lack of posting.  It is inexcusable that DFV won’t post, Andre rarely posts, and Steve doesn’t even read the fucking site.

12:40  -  The Grand Triune tab out and head home.  Before they leave, Dave continues the tradition of bearing gifts and he gives E and Damien a James Monroe dollar coin.  E drives and both DFV and E are given the tour of tornado torn Windsor. 

Overall, a great night and as always, it is good to be among friends regardless of the number.  Please make any amendments to the minutes in the comment section.  As always, I will leave the minutes with a song that is reminiscent of the evening.  It is also instructive to us Republicans in this time of troubles.  Good night!

The last I heard the Colorado members of Conclub will be gathering Friday evening for their semi-annual Conclub conclave for a night of somber and sober reflection on the the societal and cultural issues of the day at a local distributor of wine, women and song. We wish you all could join us and for those of you who cannot make it in the flesh, we shall assume you at least joined us in spirit. We eagerly await E the Wise’s usual blow by blow minutes of the formal proceedings which should appear in the next day or two. Stay tuned.

Fellow ConClub members, and any reader(s) I may have. It is time I say good bye here. At least from any type of substantive contribution, certainly as a contributing member.

I tried very hard to make things work from a physical standpoint. I tried for a long time to gut it out. But after an initial phase I have been unable to make headway against the pain from typing. In fact it is getting worse, just limited typing hurts far too much. Cheating by saying little, to save on typing, and cutting-and-pasting a great deal is no solution either.

Having my wife and son help is no solution. Usually I just get them to do it when I have gotten ticked off by a comment, and I badger them to help. This makes me look even more reactionary, sorry. It is not fair to them either. They both spend way too much of their life taking care of me. I fell again this morning and am reduced to limited activity again, so they have this to deal just now too.

I also think my original poor mental skills are getting worse. After initial progress I seem to be regressing mentally. I am having more and more trouble with tense, aphasia and just plain old coherence.

I therefore do not think it fair to occupy a slot that might be filled by a person better equipped to contribute more. Do not think that I do not like and appreciate all of you. I most certainly do. I reserve the right to make a comment here and there. I will keep reading as able, so keep up the good work.

Scott McClellan is supposed to have proven what with his book? Please help me with this because recent speculation aside, I would really like a fact or two to work with. The Washington Times is kinda wondering the same thing.

Scott McClellan’s most explosive charges about the Iraq war are based not on any new evidence but rather on his reading of books and magazine articles after leaving the White House and on a period of “reflection.”

I guess if it helps float your boat you can believe this guy represents something other than a nitwit. That he along with a few other presidential appointments (out of thousands) is illustrative of something. As we know Ronald Reagan was never portrayed as a bumbling fool who let his dishonest and incompetent friends run the country while took naps and ate jelly beans. Of course no other president has been accused of doing the like either. You say Harriet and Roberto. I say Samuel and John. The road goes ever on.

I guess the idea that a president should appoint people he knows and trusts to positions of power is foolish. Yep, lesson learned.

McClellan is a gas really. He learned things he says. Good for him! I guess that is better than trying to frame your political, your geopolitical even, outlook based on what you BELIEVE a person might be thinking, or what you THINK their motivation is instead of facts. Of course you can always gain insight by reading posts that make catty jokes about a guy’s weight.

Scott is nothing more than a minor footnote.

“I was young and I probably should have spoken up,” Mr. McClellan said.

No Scott, you should have kept it shut.

As most readers know quite a few ConClub members reside in Colorado. Dave the Infidel Sage and Guru Steve live in northern Colorado. David lives in the area where it hit. I would very much like Dave and Steve to let us know they are okay. If Eric or Damien have any news please let us know ASAP.

So in an email to the membership, including the “Grand Triune,” I indicated the date of the Conclub semi-annual gathering was May 30.  Ooops.  Not a good move when one considers a certain little girl has some pre-arranged 6th grade continuation ceremony on May 30.  Can anyone say D-day?  Friday June 6 we storm Ft. Collins.  The Wise One hopes this did not throw off the schedules of the faithful.  Please let me know if it did so we can adjust further.

Thankfully, the entries for the Hatemonger horrible college student poetry competition are supposed to be bad. Because mine is assuredly so.  

The Burden I Bear

Women now wear pants

And have the right to vote

Does not excuse away

6,000 years of

 patriarchal misogyny

A pillow stained with tears

For partners Steve and transgendered Eve

Who cannot wear a ring

Or call each other

Man and wife

Infanticide is liberation

The sacrifice for equality

Upon the bloody altar of convenience

The little parasite

Deserved it

The invading horde cometh

It is their birthright

Aztlan reconquered

We stole it from them

Viva Reconquista

Free the people of

Dharfur and Tibet

And victims of polygamy

But not the Afghan

Or Iraqi

Diversity and tolerance

Is a worthy creed

We must do more, not less

The Religion of Peace

Is pissed

Suicide bombers and beheaders

Are merely misunderstood

If only we had opened

A meaningful dialogue

With them

Millions of brown people

Liberated from tyranny

My pale, pasty white skin

Is still a badge

Of shame

Sharpton and Wright

Will show us how

All wisdom, knowledge and love

Really came from

Black Africa

Drowning polar bears

Floods, famine and hurricanes

Can’t stop it by myself

Time for Big Brother

The Nanny State

My carbon footprint is too large

Neutrality escapes me

I cannot sleep

Will toss and turn

All night

My car is parked out front

Polluting the air I breath

Nasty smelling, toxic fumes

Gobbling up a

Finite resource

I must repent

For my evil ways

Seek forgiveness for the sin

Of raping my mother

The earth

The guilt I feel

For all of this

Is too much to bear

I must never mate or

Ever reproduce

Riddled with remorse I must revert

To a primal state

Live in a cave

And follow the herds

Alone, nomadically

 After a day sulking in my basement being bitter, reading the Bible, cursing immigrants and cleaning my guns, I thought I’d take a peek outside and see how the ugly street fight in the Democratic party was progressing today. Here are my findings:

The Civil War continues unabated in the Democratic party. Last night’s ‘bitter’ debate between the dark lords of chaos didn’t help at all. Dean is screaming I need a decision now! Don’t miss the sniping of the faithful in the comment section. It’s funny to watch them all referring to “Obamanits”, “Hilbots”, and “Sillary”. There are the occasional calls for unity, but a lot of bitterness is building throughout the Democratic party.

And the sudden disappearance of the puffball media when it comes to Obama the (formerly) untouchable is interesting as well. Some are decrying the guilt by association tactics while others are smearing George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson as pandering yellow journalists. The host of criticsms directed at ABC by the Obama ‘fringe’ continues well into the night and there is some complaining that Hillary could’ve told them that ‘enough is enough’ and to quit beating up on poor little Barry.  How dare they ask a tough question or expect Barack Obama to answer the allegations and various gaffes he has made along the way. Shouldn’t they just be bashing Bush or something? How dare they fail to bow before the golden calf. There is even an argument, and video, about whether Obama recently gave Hillary ‘the finger’. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s hilarious and the blood, and the bitterness, continues to flow unclotted and untreated.

It’s just too much and far to funny for us on the Right. Can someone please bring back Ferraro for another round? Or maybe she can have a joint appearance with Wright. That would be fun to watch. It’s far to easy to be a blogger these days.

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My conspicuous absence has been due to the substantial work load heaped upon this poor teacher.  April and May are hell for high school teachers so sometimes, the only time I can post is when the students are taking a test or working on some project.  So I get back from Spring break two weeks ago and the computer powers that be have installed a nifty internet filter on our network.  No Youtube, no projectplaylist, and no Conclub.  It seems we have too many undesirable words that *ahem*  trip the filter. 

I also had to file taxes last night.  Saturdays are awash in soccer.  It was so bad that I had to DVR the Masters.  I have football clinics at C.U. and C.S.U.  And to top it off, tonight I got a call and was forced to attend an Avalanche playoff game.  But hey, will all be forgiven if, like Andre, I say that some Israelis are making my computer life miserable with their high tech demands?  Hell I’m already like Guru with the internet problems.  Perhaps I can be like the Scribe and just go see some plays every night for the next four years (Andre is not the only gay guy on the site).

Easy boys, I’m just kidding.

But to make things all better, I thought I would add this nice little bit about the French nanny state trying to dictate the size of models or the content of magazines:

In the capital of high fashion and ultrathin models, conservative French legislators adopted a pioneering law on Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders with “thinspiration” and starvation tips.

The bill, approved by the lower house of Parliament, faces a Senate vote. If passed, it would take aim at any means of mass communication — including magazines and Web sites — that promote eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia with punishments of up to three years in prison and more than $70,000 in fines.

Sometimes you just need to follow a link.  Our Sage decided to give some space to a quote from Michelle Malkin regarding the Absolut Vodka ad imbroglio. Ms. Malkin’s site has no shame and Dave should follow links.

Please understand this: I seek not to defend Absolut’s stupid ad, nor the ridiculous concept of reconquista as it relates to the USA and Mexico. I do want to point out that certain extremists seek out opportunities to rabble rouse and they are not above employing propaganda based on lies. Michelle Malkin’s site is sometimes guilty of that. Lets see how this is one of those times…

“The advertising firm that created the Absolut Reconquista ad is Teran/TBWA. Teran is based in Mexico City. The company’s website boasts a pretentious statement of philosophy advocating “disruption” as a “tool for change” and “agent of growth.” (Scroll your mouse over the little buttons in the upper-right margin.) The firm advocates “overturning assumptions and prejudices that get in the way of imagining new possibilities and visionary ideas that help create a larger share of the future.”

Translation: The company advocates overturning borders that get in the way of imagining new maps of North America that help Mexico create a larger share of the continent.” - blogger Michelle Malkin

Well that seems direct and clear! Pretty darn definitive in anyone’s book. Except for just a couple of things. Teran is the Mexico City office for the US owned and New York City headquartered TBWA Worldwide. TBWA is owned by the Omnicom Group which is the largest advertising agency holding company in the world. They are located fittingly enough on Madison Ave in good old New York City. I just wanted to make sure we all are clear on the pedigree here folks; because it matters.

Disrupt or be disrupted. Disrupt or die. This is the captivating story of implementing the most powerful idea in the business today. 

Tom Peters author of In Search of Excellence

This quote is on the flash introduction to TBWA’s website. If you actually GO to their website you may peruse their ideas regarding disruption . Tom Peters is one of capitalism’s towering gurus. I am quite sure that he would be surprised to learn that his words are helping to forment reconquista through a cunning vodka ad.   (more…)

“The advertising firm that created the Absolut Reconquista ad is Teran/TBWA. Teran is based in Mexico City. The company’s website boasts a pretentious statement of philosophy advocating “disruption” as a “tool for change” and “agent of growth.” (Scroll your mouse over the little buttons in the upper-right margin.) The firm advocates “overturning assumptions and prejudices that get in the way of imagining new possibilities and visionary ideas that help create a larger share of the future.”

Translation: The company advocates overturning borders that get in the way of imagining new maps of North America that help Mexico create a larger share of the continent.” - blogger Michelle Malkin

In the last year, conclub has amassed quite a library of unposted contributions in the draft queue.  Most of these drafts come from the scattered minds of DFV (11 unposted items) and Dave (15 unposted items!).  Here and there are a smattering of things from the Beast, Wes, PG or Andre.  Just playing amateur psychologist here, these unposted items give us a unique glimpse into the organizational habits of DFV and Dave.  I thought it would be a great idea to expose these items and add a little comment of my own about their unposted significance. 

Dave has a nice collection of Infidel Babes of the Day.  Eight of his 15 drafts to be exact.  I suspect he is using the draft queue as storage which isn’t such a bad idea.  Perhaps someday he will let the viewing public see fresh faces like these two beatuies:

We can only hope.

Dave also has an interesting piece about lugging his three lovely daughters to the gun shop for a look at some Russian made SKS’s.  In it he quips, “now I am sure that the local house of carnage for sale is usually not frequented by a troop of pretty little children, and certainly not in force. But I had to go and see the battle rifles for $88.88 was true. And it was. Big crates full of them fresh from our old cold war enemy and undoubtedly a few of them responsible for the death of a Hitler henchman or two.” 

Dave also has an assortment of historical anecdotes and quotes.  An interesting read was about the leader of the Taliban.  You’ll like it too, if Dave gets around to posting it:

In 1996, as Taliban fervor increased, Omar accepted the title of “Amirul Momineen,” or “commander of the faithful,” in an emotional meeting in Kandahar where he appeared on a balcony above thousands of cheering Taliban, wrapping himself in a cloak said to belong to the Prophet Mohammad. (more…)

 Covering politics over the last couple of weeks has been more like writing for the tabloids. We’ve had accusations of ‘racial overtones’ in Hillary’s 3 a.m. commercial, Spitzer and the hooker, Geraldine as the unapolegetic ‘racist’, Obama’s “I hate Whitey” pastor, Obama lying and throwing Grandma under the bus and now the blind governor of New York chasing Olympic ’skirt’ around the desk. You never know what fresh gifts the blogging gods will deliver unto you every morning. And we shall offer our thanks in the form of incense, diatribe and thousands of words until the gods honor us once again with gifts of gaffe and gossip.

 It appears that Paterson may have had a ’sex for job’ type situation with gold medal Olympian Diane Powers.

Paterson’s Gal Tape Shocker

Dixon, 43, said Paterson, 53, was “mostly responsible” for getting her a badly needed job earlier this month with the city Department of Education in Crown Heights’ District 17….

….Paterson, a Democrat who was sworn in on Monday, admitted yesterday to having had several extramarital affairs, but contended they all ended years ago. He was informed by The Post in the morning that at least one news organization had been notified he had recently been involved with a woman from Brooklyn.

Paterson denied the claim.

But a few hours later, Dixon called The Post to say she had received a message from Paterson inquiring about whether she was talking to the press.

The first anniversary of the WordPress Constitution Club blog has arrived. After nearly five years and 32,000 posts as more of a private message board than anything, Andre, Steve, DFV, E and myself made the jump over to WordPress and began our days as a public blog. On March 10, 2007 I posted the first ‘welcome to Conclub’ post followed by the first video posting by Steve on the 11th and the first ‘real’ political opinion post by E on the 12th. Then we were off and running. 

Since then we have had nearly 313,000 visits and PGW, Wes and The Hairy Beast joined our writing staff. Just recently we have added Thom Paine and Jeff (Drowning Creek) as additional contributors to our humble blog as well. We appreciate all those who have taken an interest in our attempt to enlighten the world with our wit and wisdom, humor and analysis of current events.

Group blogs, especially good ones, are still a rarity and our little experiment with such a format has been a success while continuing to grow and evolve. Such a format has allowed us to present a constant daily stream of new information and links while still allowing us as individuals to spend quality time with our friends and families (and work) outside of Constitution Club. Overall, it has been an interesting, exciting, and occasionally surprising first year, and hopefully just the first of many. We appreciate all those who have visited and commented over the past year and we hope that you will make a visit to Constitution Club part of your daily routine.

For more about the origins of Constitution Club visit: About Conclub.

The all knowing and all wise grand council of Conclub has decided to expand and extend the number of contributors to the Constitution Club blog. Jeff, Martin, and Thompain have been extended offers to join as ‘contributors’ to Conclub. Though this does not automatically confer upon them the rank of full fledged members of the blog, this does allow them to start a thread if they so choose and expands their ability to add to our little, but growing, intellectual community. We look forward to their contributions and thank them for being both loyal readers and commentators on Constitution Club.

Lately we’ve been tying up a few loose ends in regards to the Conclub blog and DFV was kind enough to provide this description of The Constitution Club which now appears, amazingly enough, in the ‘About Conclub’ link.

The Constitution Club

First, the name Constitution Club doesn’t actually have anything to do with the Constitution, directly. It has to do with a place – a street to be precise – where the core members of our gang of bloggers first began to hash out the ideas that have since spilled over onto your computer screen.  

The year was 1993 and for a group of friends at Colorado State University, an apartment on Constitution Avenue in Ft. Collins, CO was our home base. There, we would often convene on the back porch balcony and debate various issues of the day with cheap cigars and the beverage of one’s choice, which was usually a selection of Diet Pepsi Big Gulps, single malt Scotch, or Coors Light. 

On that balcony, as we watched the traffic buzz past on Constitution Avenue, the various levels of intellect, anger, and sobriety would wax and wane — often, but not always, in proportion with one other. The debates were often heated, but only the very best arguments led to actual fisticuffs. These sessions came to be known as the Constitution Club.

Over the years, the home base would change its address, and eventually the gang graduated. But thereafter, whenever and wherever we met to drink, smoke, and tackle the issues of the day, it was known by all as the Constitution Club.  

Since then, some members have faded in and out. We’ve been lucky to add some voices from outside the CSU group, and lost some from the initial ranks. But there has always been a core group and a mutual respect. 

About five years ago, we started a website so that our divergent paths could once again cross, and of course it was christened Constitution Club. Back in the day, anyone invited to join us on the balcony considered it a privilege to participate in ConClub, and more than a few requested the invite in vain. Today, we invite you out back, to crack open a cold one, smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, and fire away with your best shot.

There isn’t a single issue that all of the ConClubbers agree on, and on many we span the entire spectrum of views. You’ll probably find a few of us with whom you agree most of the time, some others who occasionally catch your eye, and some whom you think are complete morons, threats to all that is good in the world, or a sinister combination of both.  

Welcome. 

Whatever you may think about him, or what we may be able to dig up on him, this guy sure knows how to portray himself as a martyr and hero. Lionheart is certainly being treated as such by some fairly well known blogs and bloggers throughout the web. So if any of our excellent bloggers, visitors or commentators have managed to find out some “interesting” information on him I’d like to see it.

Lionheart Interview 1/17/08 Political Vindication Radio, 1/18/08 The Gathering Storm

See When it’s a crime to blog in the West

The power of Political Correctness and the authoritarian heavy handedness that comes with it are very evident in this story. The US is moving rapidly in that direction with “free speech” now amended with speech codes, sensitivity training, the dreaded accusation of “hate speech” and a snarling social stigma for daring to say that homosexuality is wrong, Islam is not a peaceful religion, abortion is merely infanticide in the womb etc. etc.  

A Profile of Courage: An Interview with “Lionheart” the British Blogger in Hiding

Islamist rule over the UK may, alarmingly, be on its way. Today, the British police want to question and/or arrest the British blogger known as Lionheart. His crime? Turning his life around as a young school dropout and petty drug dealer and emerging as a believing Christian who opposes the drug plague in his hometown of Luton and who views the Pakistani Islamist and al-Qaeda control of the drug trade in Luton as both criminally and politically dangerous. For this, Lionheart has been charged with “stirring up racial hatred”—which is a crime in the UK.

2007 

2006

2005

The Infidel Sage’s predictions are usually a bit less elaborate than the excellent contributions of my colleagues. I may often analyze and memorize the past but rarely do I actively seek to divine the future.  As always, I reserve the right to revise or extend my remarks as new inspirations come to light.

• Constitution Club will gain three new members. One will quit. Average daily visits will peak at a new record.
• Pgwarner will continue to be cranky with all those he disagrees with. He will secretly cast his primary ballot for Ron Paul and his important, behind the scenes role as a county chairman of the Ron Paul for President committee will be brought to light. He will be shunned by the community. An “I am just your humble messenger” post will be ‘instalaunched’.  Conclub will be pleased.
• The Hairy Beast will once again begin to post on political or social issues and will have to be put on a suicide watch when the Patriots fail to make it past the first round in the playoffs.
• Andre will continue to post about once every three months, half of which will be a ‘I hate Bush’ or ‘Hooray for the gay” type of post. The members of Conclub will continue their search for a ‘progressive’ that can actually argue or logically advocate their ideology.
• DFV will join some sort of religious order that requires a strict code of chastity, poverty and abstention from alcohol. Aside from the alcohol part, there will virtually no lifestyle changes for him to make. He will come to realize that constantly playing ‘devil’s advocate’ is really not charming and actually irritating to all those around him.
• Steve will make a grand total of two ‘non-music’ related posts. It will be a new record. He will make an appearance at the next semi annual Conclub conclave where he will “slip up” and let it be known that he is now independently wealthy due to his uncanny stock predictions. Conclub will make him pick up the tab.
• Wes will remember his password to wordpress and in a sudden and shocking turnaround be banned from Conclub for posting too much.
• E will begin to feel guilty about his large family and all that they consume. The neighbors will lodge a series of complaints about the small forest of trees planted in his front yard in an attempt to ‘offset’ his carbon footprint.
• Dave will finally break down under the strain of being called a ‘fascist’ or ‘ignorant’ for the 8,000 time by some dork on a Lefty site. He will become an obsessive grower of monster pumpkins and get his picture on the front page of the local paper for his efforts. His increasingly erratic behavior and obvious need of a chaperon when in public will barely be noticed by Conclub. He will continue to be the ‘glue’ for the blog, that is until it is discovered that a dozen female former CR’s have been invited to join. A three month forced sabbatical will follow.

My latest contribution over at Watchblog is up if you are interested in checking it out. I quote The Hairy Beast so you know it can’t be that bad. (:

Exploiting Children in the Name of Climate Change

I would like to wish my old friends Andre, DFV, E and Steve a blessed and Merry Christmas. I would also like to wish our new friends Wes, PGW, and THB (and their families) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as well. I have enjoyed getting to know you all this past year.

To all our regular readers and commentators, thanks for visiting our humble blog and the Conclub bloggers wish you a happy holiday and a prosperous new year. The wordpress Constitution Club blog is less than a year old but we have seen it become, with your participation, readership and contributions, an active and intellectually stimulating forum full of humor, debate, and the occasional nugget of wisdom. It is my fervent wish that it will continue to grow and mature as it approachs its one year anniversary. Our best days are before us, not behind us.

   From the Gospel of Luke
   
8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold,^[b] an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
       14 “ Glory to God in the highest,
      And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”^[c]

15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. 17 Now when they had seen Him, they made widely^[d] known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. 18 And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds. 19 But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.

Circumcision of Jesus

   
21 And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child,^[e] His name was called JESUS, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

Jesus Presented in the Temple

   
22 Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the LORD”),^[f] 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”^[g]

Simeon Sees God’s Salvation

   
25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. 27 So he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the Child Jesus, to do for Him according to the custom of the law, 28 he took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said:
       29 “ Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace,
      According to Your word;
       30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation
       31 Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples,
       32 A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles,
      And the glory of Your people Israel.”

33 And Joseph and His mother^[h] marveled at those things which were spoken of Him. 34 Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against 35 (yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Anna Bears Witness to the Redeemer

   
36 Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; 37 and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years,^[i] who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38 And coming in that instant she gave thanks to the Lord,^[j] and spoke of Him to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

The Family Returns to Nazareth

   
39 So when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. 40 And the Child grew and became strong in spirit,^[k] filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.

I know we say that Conclub is generally way ahead of the curve but this is ridiculous!  From PGWarners ‘I am your humble messenger’ post two days ago:

Your messenger wants to know what good faith is if you do not believe in anything. Hey don’t get your messenger wrong, being the Papist I am, I realize every time his Worship opens up his multicultural mouth Holy Mother Church picks up 10,000 new converts! At this rate we will get back all the churches and cathedrals Hank the 8th stole from us.

As if on cue, Tony Blair then springs into action:

Tony Blair, who often kept his religious views private while serving as Britain’s prime minister, has converted to Catholicism, officials said Saturday.

Blair, who had long been a member of the Church of England, converted to the Catholic faith during a Mass held on Friday night at a chapel in London, the Catholic Church said.

Conclub may be the best kept secret of the blogging world.  You might want to tell your friends now so that you can say you were an original reader of such dazzling talent.

Our newest conclubber, Jeff, was curious about our choices for candidates.  This is just my gut feeling based on my vast wisdom.  Lets start with the two Dems:

Andre - John Edwards        I’m not sure if he has declared his candidate yet.  But I picture Andre being wooed by the nicely coiffed hair of the Senator from North Carolina.

Wes - Barack Obama     After having watched the