Fairly Conservative

I have an amazing story that I hope to roll out in a couple of hours.

Stay tuned!

Update - 1 pm - this is taking more time than I thought! I’ll post it at 4:00pm. I promise.

Check this out from 4-Block World:

Will he or won’t he? Only his press writer knows for sure. It’s not exactly clear. I’ll give you the quote from Wisconsin Senator Ted Kanavas’ press release and then you can tell me:

“Throughout my tenure in the State Senate I have taken a consistent, common sense approach to my legislative salary. Whatever the legislative salary is at the time of my election, that salary remains constant throughout my term. I do not accept salary increases throughout the course of the term. Come election time, the voters deserve a clear understanding of the job I am seeking, how much I’ll get paid to do that job and what steps I plan to take to improve their quality of life” (sic)

I think that means not this year, but I’m open to being wrong on this one.

Is “yes” or “no” such foreign language to our elected that we never hear it or see it in writing?

Need a good hour and a half diversion? Sit back and watch the RNC debate. Six candidates lined up today to give their opinions on the future of the GOP.

Head to CSPAN.org for the details.

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Do I have a horse in this game? Nope. I’m still a little discouraged and will wait to see what shakes out. I will say all of the attention on “Barack the Magic Negro” by Chip Saltsman is one of the things a good chairman would slap down fast. Remember the bit I did about kicking out the goofballs? Saltsman should be gone. A good chair candidate in this debate wouldn’t be playing Mr. Nice Guy about Saltsman’s behavior.

Here’s the video of controversy:

Here’s the article on which the video was based:

But it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the “Magic Negro.”

The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. “He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,” reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .

I think the article is fine. I even think the video is fine when you consider it as political satire. (What did SNL just get away with for a whole election season, after all?) I don’t think it’s fine at all for a RNC chair candidate to be sending a copy of the video around as a calling card. That kind of crap needs to be called such soon if the party expects to win back any respect.

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A big grateful blogger hug to HighField for her comment.

The government program set up to issue two $40 certificates per household for the conversion to digital television maxed out. Latecomers, and I would presume that means me!, will be put on a waiting list.

Ah, America.