OK a few notes left over from tonight….
Mind you, these are in no particular order. It’s too fricking late to be that organized.
- No, Adkins, traffic was never a problem. I should tell you that it did manage to drive traffic to the site; I’ve had smaller Instalanches… (Thanks again, everyone!) and I anticipate another big day tomorrow. (No, Chuck… not from you… but from a huge number of others, who also, apparently didn’t find your ‘joke” funny. ) Actually, we’ve been having big days all this week, web traffic wise, though today was bigger. But what you need to understand is it’s not the numbers in question, but who reads you. This blog has some of the best readers in the sphere…. certainly, the smartest…. and that’s exactly why it’s lasted as long as it has.
- I notice that Err America’s Jon Elliot has apologized, and said that his comments were based on the motion of the moment. Well, I can certainly believe that. That is, after all, the core of Democratic party politics; pure emotion and no logic. But now that raises an interesting point… and it’s one that I think John Gibson brought up yesterday afternoon on his radio show; should we not be getting apologies for his reckoning of George W. Bush, Republicans in general, Karl Rove, the Iraq war, SCHIP, and the reaction to it, and so on? I mean, it seems reasonable to ask if all of his judgments are not equally suspect. Then again, these are the same people [1]that hold Che Guevara, 40 years after his death, to be a Christian influenced Romantic, when in fact he was a Marxist thug. I guess I shouldn’t get my hopes up for more a inclusive admission of error huh?
- I started getting into the second season of baseball. Now that the Yankees aren’t in the picture, I’m sure it will be entertaining.
- I notice Hillary Clinton has come down on both sides of ending the war in Iraq. Initially she said she wouldn’t be bringing the troops home, by the end of the first term. Today, she says, she’ll end the war on the first day she’s an office. Then she says within 60 days [2] of taking office she will make the arrangements to bring the troops home. So, which statement offers do we trust? Allow me to remind you of a tax cut pledge made by her husband. That is, if you believe in past being prologue.
- Speaking of the Wicked Witch of the South, Suitably Flip [3] is doing a fabulous job of tracing the Norman Hsu donations, which she was supposedly returning. Big surprise; a lot of it isn’t there yet.
- I’m sitting here looking at two bottles of pink RV antifreeze. We’re likely not going to take the camper out again this season. I know this. But I can’t seem to bring myself to use the antifreeze to winterize the RV’s systems, because of an overwhelming feeling that I would be putting an exclamation point on the end of an all too short camping season. I’ll probably get around to it on Saturday. But I don’t have to like it.
- I commented the other day about how Mrs. Fields Cookies had taken Christmas cookie gives off their “holiday ” catalog. I’m seeing reports that they have gotten so much in the way of blow back that they have reinstated Christmas. The problem on this kind of thing as with everything else, is that those of the mainstream are far more vocal, and usually far more violent than are the rest of us inside the mainstream of western culture . Which is why I have been urging those of us on the inside of the mainstream of western culture to start speaking up and be heard. The change in direction for this country will be very positive, overwhelmingly so. And this thing is just an example.
- I see JPOD is going to be the new Editor of [4] COMMENTARY. [4] Congrats to JPod but I’ll miss him at The Corner.
- My new server is up and running, alongside the old one. That makes three, if you count the one 166mhz toaster I’ve got doing printing and faxing chores. (Shrug) The new file server and the old one do serve each their own special purpose… (Apologies to Steve Martin) but they also back each other up.
Enough. I’ll catch up with you in the morning.