A Question

How long before the moonbats (Keith Olbermann; Rachel Maddow; et al.) blame Conservatives and/or Tea Party activists for this?

Random Observation

Without any other comment, and from what I've seen, she's got NOTHING to be ashamed of.

RIP, Captain Phil

Having litigated ten or so cases in Alaska over the better part of a decade and a half, I've made a lot of friends in "the Great Land," and have quite an interest in goings-on there. You'll even find a link to the Anchorage Daily News to the right on this blog.

So it's unsurprising that I found myself hooked on the Discovery Channel's wonderful show, The Deadliest Catch, and the drama of crab fishing on the Bering Sea.

Sadly, word has arrived today that one of the more compelling characters on the show, Captain Phil Harris, has died. Anyone who watches the show knows of his serious health issues in the past. He's clearly a passionate man: passionate for his profession; passionate for his family; passionate for raising well his sons. His story was one of the many which makes The Deadliest Catch some of the most compelling drama on television.

More so, because it's true.

I strongly suspect that his stardom allowed him to touch many more lives than he ever thought he would.

RIP, Captain Phil.

Snowpocalypse At The Youngs

We bought our house in late April 1994.

The driveway looked a lot better in April than it did in January of 1996, when we got over a foot-and-a-half of snow. Mrs. Young was three months pregnant with Jimmy, and couldn't shovel.

I purchased our snowblower the next November, and was quite glad to have it over the last three months.

As were my neighbors.

In The WaPo?!?!?!

Today's WaPo has perhaps the most insightful article I've ever seen in the journal, one which speaks to the arrogance and condescension of the moonbat Left, peppered with unarguable examples. The core of it --- which reveals that far-Left attitudes are truly a product of Marxist analysis --- is this:

In this view, we should pay attention to conservative voters' underlying problems but disregard the policy demands they voice; these are illusory, devoid of reason or evidence. This form of liberal condescension implies that conservative masses are in the grip of false consciousness. When they express their views at town hall meetings or "tea party" gatherings, it might be politically prudent for liberals to hear them out, but there is no reason to actually listen.

Just goes to prove: even a blind squirrel sometimes finds an acorn. Gerard Alexander is the author. Truly worth a read.

Precisely!

Much has been written about Tim Tebow's participation in ad-buy during the Super Bowl by a pro-life group. Xrlq over at Damnum Absque Injuria gets it exactly right. The kicker is this:

if pregnant women are really such helpless, delicate flowers that one single, solitary ad urging them to choose Option A over Option B will compromise their ability to choose on their own, the obvious remedy would be for the pro-choicers to cough up a few mill of their own and run a competing ad urging women to abort. With the “choose life” ad focusingon one Heisman winner who clearly should not have been aborted (though this fact was anything but clear to doctors at the time), perhaps the “choose death” ad could focus on a somewhat less worthy Heisman winner, O.J. Simpson, or perhaps a more recent Heisman wannabe like Michael Vick.

Xrlq: exposing the fraud of pro-"choice." For of course, if you believe that there should be a "choice," then you have to presuppose that there are occasions where the "choice" should be exercised.

The Irony Must Be Lost

This is just too funny!

It appears that Jeff Wolinski AKA "Loudmouthed Inciter" ... er, "Loudoun Insider" is all upset because the new Chairman of the Loudoun County School Board has abolished roll call votes.

Now, Wolinski is correct on the principle: anyone who can't bear the consequences of association with his public actions is craven.

I wonder if he's considered irony of blogging under a pseudonym ... and squashing any efforts on his own cite to identify him (Jeff Wolinski, that is) with his pseudonym.

Well, He's Half Right

Apparently, President Barry has told ABC's Diane Sawyer than he'd "rather be a really good one-term President."

Well, he's half right.

JoAnn Chase NOT Running For 10th District Chairman

Apropos of comments made elsewhere, it was quite apparent at tonight's Prince William County GOP Committee meeting that JoAnn Chase will NOT be throwing her hat in the ring for 10th Congressional District Republican Chairman. She was enthusiastically supporting and working for Howie Lind.

It was quite nice renewing our acquaintance with JoAnn, who fifteen years ago was an enthusiastic member and supporter of the Prince William County Young Republicans.

Good Riddance To Bad Garbage

If this is accurate, the Virginia GOP just got stronger.

Jeff Wolinski AKA "Loudmouthed Inciter" AKA "Loudoun Insider" is reporting that Jim Rich is not running for reelection as Republican Chairman for the 10th Congressional District.

Most Republican grassroots activists know Rich as the individual who was willing to prevaricate in order to remove State Republican Chairman Pat McSweeney in 1994, at the behest of newly-elected Governor George Allen. Apparently, the rap on McSweeney at the time was that he didn't do enough to throw the nomination to Allen, and may even have supported Earle Williams, who --- as older readers may recall --- ran as the "moderate" alternative to Allen.

Those who don't know about this --- I was at the State Central Committee meeting where the "charges" were preferred --- may simply know Rich as the individual who works very hard to perpetuate his own power by phantom calls for conventions and unreasonably (i.e., before the call even is published) early filing deadlines for District Chairman.

Rich apparently says he's not running out of "family concerns."

BREAKING!

Rumor has it that Keith Olbermann, MSNBC's leading south end of a northbound horse, has suffered a stroke in the wake of the Massachusetts election returns.

The First Break In The Wall

In light of Senator-elect Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, Senator Jim Webb AKA Senator Thinskin (D-WaPo) has declared that the Senate should suspend all votes until Brown is sworn in.

Apparently, the first Democrat to see the handwriting on the wall.

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS DEAD!

AP is projecting Scott Brown as the new junior Senator from the People's Republic of Massachusetts!

BarryCare is dead!

What Will The Media's Response Be?

Just a little over three years ago, Ben Tribbett managed to interject himself effectively in the Virginia Senate race between George Allen and Jim Webb AKA Senator Thinskin (D-WaPo) by breaking the story about the former's use of the work "macaca" with regard to a functionary of the latter's campaign in following him around with a video camera. The Washington Post followed up with literally scores of stories questioning Senator Allen's "racism" in response, and it's probable that this constant drumbeat of criticism provided Senator Thinskin's margin of victory (fewer than 10,000 votes statewide).

Now, functionaries for Massachusetts Attorney General Martha (AKA "Marsha") Coakley have visited violence upon campaign functionaries who were merely filming a Coakley event.

While it's a little late for an effective drumbeat, one cannot help but wonder what the so-called "mainstream" media's response will be to this?

Maybe George Allen Should Have Tried This

It seems that a Weekly Standard reporter was roughed up by a Democrat operative while trying to ask Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley a question about health care last night.

Maybe if George Allen had called the Democrat operative who broke the "macaca" story a "stalker" --- as Coakley has --- he might have beaten Senator Thinskin (D-WaPo).

New Portrait Of Virginia's Senators

Apparently, Senators Marky Mark (left) and ThinSkin Gump (right), both D-WaPo, have released a new joint portrait, reproduced here.

H/T to Virginia Virtucon. I wish I'd thought of it. I really do.

Unmitigated Arrogance

I love good television shows, and the USA Network--- owned by Universal Studios, the same company that owns NBC --- has an abundance of them.

It's a real pity that network executives insist upon using their entertainment as a vehicle for their ideological agenda. First, it was a "green" agenda, not talked about much lately in light of the fraud scandal out of the University of East Anglia. Lately, it's been more about "I'm a character," with various stars from various shows, mentioning one unique characteristic regarding themselves. One even says (surprise!) "I'm a Democrat."

Still waiting to hear one of them identify him or herself as a Republican.

Obviously, it's their right, but some of their commentary is so absurd as to induce nausea. Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw has a vehicle, something about life along US Route 50 (which runs from Annapolis, Maryland, to Sacramento, California). What is most interesting is how it's pitched: stories about America "at its most historic time."

"Most historic time"!?!?! Who do they think they're kidding? More historic than the Revolution? Unless they believe or hope that we are in the midst of a socialist revolution --- might be some merit to this --- probably not. More historic than the Civil War? World War II? Man's --- an American's --- first landing on the Moon?

Of course, it is just ideological claptrap. However, it at least has the virtue of revealing the absurdity of its proponents.

Why Is This News?

I can think of a few reasons why a story about a Boy Scout returning a found purse containing nearly $2000 is news, and none of them speaks well of society or of the beliefs which inform the so-called "main stream" media.

Suffice it to say that Boy Scouts do this every day, and it's hardly news when a Scout is trustworthy, or helpful, or kind.

It's entirely sad that this is news at all.

This May Be The Point ...

at which reasonable men take up arms.

Yesterday, the imperial Federal government --- specifically, the Environmental Protection Agency --- declared that CO2 is a pollutant that it is entitled to regulate.

But every human being and animal emits CO2, when it exhales. The question then becomes, what aspect of our lives does the Imperial Federal Government lack the power to regulate? Your right own a pet (which emits CO2)? Your right to exercise and breath harder? Your right to engage in a little heavy breathing with your wife or girlfriend? Your right to sire or give birth to another little carbon-producer?

We now live in a totalitarian state.

School Board Member Julie Lucas Resigns

Just got a note from the News & Messenger (former known as The Pot. News) that long-time Prince William County School Board member Julie Lucas has resigned her post, effective 31 December.

That is a pity. Notwithstanding my opposition to her ambitions two years ago, she was an apparently good and effective School Board member.

Of course, I wish her the best as she leaves PWC to care for an ailing father.

UPDATE: Sadly, some in her "brain trust" --- I almost called them "sycophantic," but that would presume that their support for her was motivated by her qualifications rather than their irrational hatred of her opponent --- are still deluding themselves and trying to con the rest of us.