New design underway.

Like I'm getting any traffic at the moment anyways. But still.

In response to the CT GOP twitter fiasco...

Earlier this week, CT democrats protested to twitter when they discovered that state GOP operatives have created accounts to impersonate and mock them. In addition to this juvenile behavior, they have also created websites using their opponents' names in what must clearly be a race to the bottom of the mud pit. When asked about the twitter accounts being suspended by the company after democratic protests, CT GOP chairman Chris Healy called the Democrats in question out as whiners who wish they had thought of it first, and complained that his free speech rights were being curtailed. In an effort to exercise MY free speech rights and raise the political discourse to the new Chris Healy standard, I've registered the website http://www.chrishealy.info/ My hope is that, through enough people spreading the word and linking from their sites, we can raise this site to the level of being the top google link for the phrase Chris Healy, Connecticut GOP Chair, and send a message to the republicans that the left is not to be trifled with on social media.
Update: that was me in the comment thread on CT Confidential.

Conservative Principles in Action!

Emergency Instructions

Pundit-O-Matic

Helping out the GOP brand redesign

This week the republican part released their new website, GOP.com . Their design is as follows:

If you refresh the page, you get greeted with new faces where the 'O' in 'GOP' should be. And there's all sorts of minorities in there - because the GOP is all about inclusion. I figured I should make some more appropriate images for them to throw in the rotation - free of charge, because that's how I roll.

Driving the children insane.

This is my best recollection of the exchange I had with Madisyn (my daughter's older sister - she's 8) on our way to a birthday party last night. It passes the time, and had my daughter laughing the hardest I've ever seen. Evil humor must run in the family.

Madisyn: Wanna hear a joke?

Chris: Sure.

M: Knock Knock!

C: Knock Knock, who?

M: No! You were supposed to say, "who's there!"

C: HA! that WAS a good joke, Madisyn!

M: THAT WASN'T THE JOKE.

C: Are you sure?

M: YES.

C: If you say so. Try it again.

M: OK, but this time when I say "knock knock", you say "who's there".

C: OK, but this time when I say knock knock, you say who's there, who?

M: CHRIS!

C: Sorry, I don't get it.

M:GRRRR.

M: KNOCK. KNOCK.

C: Who's there?

M: BANANA.

C: HELP! THERE'S A TALKING BANANA TRYING TO GET INTO MY HOUSE! SAVE YOURSELVES!

M: AAAAGH! You're not SUPPOSED to be scared of the banana!

C: You should have told me. If you think about it, that kinda makes it your fault this joke got all messed up.

M: Knock Knock!

C: Who's there?

M: Banana.

C: Hi, Banana! Come one in - the door's unlocked!

M: I am going to kill you.

C: I thought you said I wasn't supposed to be scared of the Banana, Madisyn.

M: Please stop.

C: Okay. Sorry.

M: You promise?

C: Sure.

M: Knock Knock!

C: Who's there?

M: Banana.

C: Banana who?

M: Knock Knock!

C: Who's there?

M: Banana.

C: Banana who?

M: Knock Knock!

C: Who's there?

M: Orange.

C: Hey Orange, if you see Banana out there, tell him I'm gonna kick his ass for knocking on my damn door over and over!

M: CHRIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!!

C: Oh, look... we're here! Good joke, Madisyn.

Conservatives attempt to expose the deep-seated liberal bias

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/05/15/cnns-john-roberts-fails-press-gore-bush-criticism-whopper#comment_form

Gore claimed that he had “waited two years after I left office to make statements that were critical, and then of the policy.” In reality, he made a significant policy speech denouncing the Bush administration’s pre-war policy towards Iraq in September 2002.

September 2002 is, depending upon the exact day, 7 or 8 months after January - the month Presidents take office. 2002 is a year after 2001 - the year Bush was inaugurated.

1 year + 8 months = 1.66 years.

Yes boys and girls: the liberal media let Al Gore off the hook for the unpardonable sin of rounding.

Funny Things...

I find it funny that if liberals reflect the views of 65% of the country and criticize a Republican President's handling of our country after several years, they are unpatriotic because they should stand by their president during wartime. However, if there's a Democratic President with a disapproval rating that's as small as the Republican's approval, it's perfectly alright to talk about secession from the union after 3 months in office, even though the very same war is underway.

I think its funny that the liberal networks have an incredibly biased stranglehold on our news coverage, yet CNN gave Conservative personality Glenn Beck his Prime time break, MSNBC hosts conservative Joe Scarborough (and formerly Michael Savage), while Fox News has no liberal shows. If it weren't for Fox News and their parent company Newscorp's holdings of The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, barrons, Marketwatch, The Weekly Standard, Fox Studios, and Fox Business channel, there's be no conservative voice to be heard. Except for almost the entirety of AM talk radio, Drudge Report, and National Review, to name a few.

I think its funny that after blasting the Democratic budget as unrealistic big spending, Republicans initially release a budget with absolutely no numbers. Then they release a budget that actually cost More than the Democrats' plan!

I think its funny that conservatives believe Americans should have the right to hoard semi-automatic weapons with armor-piercing ammo and pollute for profit without Big Government's interference, but if somebody wants to give legal protection to their love for someone with the same naughty parts, that same government needs to step in and save the day.

I think its funny that a party who claims to be the party of values would impeach a Democratic president for having an affair, despite the fact that several of the congressmen leading the charge were actively engaged in affairs themselves. its even funnier that they argued it would be wrong to impeach a Republican President for giving false evidence in his case for war, even though no democratic congressmen were giving false evidence to start wars at the time.

I think its funny that when a Democrat is president during a booming economy, it is thanks to the Republican who went before him. When a Republican is president during a faltering economy, its due to the Democrat who went before him. But when a Democrat inherits a failing economy, its congress's fault.

I think its funny that releasing documents that state we practice waterboarding after talking non-stop about waterboarding for the past year is an unconscionable risk to national security, but its alright to out an undercover CIA agent if you're mad at their spouse.

I think its funny that Bush's 2004 win with just a 2% margin of the popular vote was "a clear mandate to advance a conservative agenda over the next four years.", but Obama's win with 7% proves that America is still a center-right country.

On McCain

Did you know:

• John McCain was a P.O.W?
• John McCain's P.O.W. experience makes him uniquely qualified to lead?
• John McCain is a Maverick?

I was unaware of these important facts as well, until they were beaten into my skull on an hourly basis for the past half year. Apparently, this is all the election centers around.

I, for one, have reservations about how being a prisoner of war makes you ready to lead the country (notice how its no longer 'lead the free world'? thank dubya for that). Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the goals of most military operations is, quite simply, don't get caught. So, McCain's capture amounts to mission failure - which is the opposite of 'Mission Accomplished'... well, at least before it was put on a banner. I'm not trying to say it should be held against him, but he needs to quit waving it in everybody's face.

I also find it quite interesting that all the Republicans place so much stock in McCain's POW cred and how he trounces Obama in readiness to lead, but couldn't have given two shits about it 8 years ago when McCain ran against a reformed alcoholic who used his daddy to avoid real military service for the Republican nomination. By historical Republican priorities, Bush > McCain; seems like they're changing their system of measurement.

One of the problems I have with modern republican campaigning in general is how they use situations unwillingly thrust upon a candidate as proof of their character. John McCain did not tunnel himself into a Vietnamese prison - he was captured and placed there against his will(to be fair, he did refuse special treatment as the son of an admiral after capture), just like Bush and Giuliani were sworn into office before 9/11, and shouldn't be revered for handling the crisis, since it was part of their job description.

A good Democratic parallel is Joe Biden, whose wife and infant child died in a tragic automobile accident. If you were forced to choose either 5 years imprisonment or losing your spouse and baby, which would you choose? I don't think I'd go casket shopping. Yet despite the fact that Biden's tragedy was the greater of the two, he doesn't milk it at every available opportunity like it was an accomplishment.

I'm not trying to denigrate military service, nor do I believe its a requirement -or even a plus- for anyone who seeks the presidency; the military is run by our government, and not the other way around. So, to you POW cheerleaders: until you have evidence that McCain's room in the Hanoi Hilton was stocked with books on global economics, multinational diplomacy and constitutional law...

...shut the hell up.