Saturday, July 31, 2010

Tebow Or Not Tebow

[Posted by Jake]

It's no secret that Tim Tebow annoys the self-righteous left and their media lap dogs. As a young man of great character, charisma and achievement, he personifies a young generation too savvy to settle for a sad and cynical world view. How can the condescending elites justify their overreaching agenda when quality people like Tim Tebow contradict their very essence?

Tebow just signed a 5 year/$11.25 million rookie contract with the Denver Broncos. He also signed a lucrative deal to represent Jockey brands. So what does the Associated Press report? They blithely announce that Tebow is endorsing "tighty whities". Funny, I don't remember any lame, racially-tinged underwear jokes when Michael Jordan signed on to pitch Hanes.

You would think a story of a deserving young man receiving his just rewards would almost write itself. He stayed loyal to his university, sticking it out for four years and getting his diploma. He never raped a groupie, been arrested for illegal drug or alcohol use, or copped a celebrity attitude.

No, his unforgiveable sin was having the courage to promote chastity and religious faith to his peers, and expressing gratitude that his parents didn't abort him as recommended by their doctors. For those high crimes, the liberal hate machine will twist and ridicule his every move. What they fail to realize is that every negative word secures a firmer place for Tim Tebow in America's heart.

Friday, July 30, 2010

New Faces, New Places

Lots going on in Birdland over the last 24 hours. First and foremost, is the hiring of new manager Buck Showalter. Showalter was probably choice 1a for me; I liked Eric Wedge a lot but evidently Andy MacPhail and I were the only ones. Reportedly, Peter Angelos liked Showalter a lot and the lengthy negotiation with him was in part to define Buck's role and how he would work with MacPhail.

It's probably a good thing for Showalter to take over before the end of this miserable season. Showalter and his staffs have a pretty good track record of talent evaluation and development and the more time Buck has to evaluate the big league roster and the September call-ups, the better.

Shortly after the Showalter announcement, the Orioles traded 3B Miguel Tejada to the Padres for a pitching prospect. Tejada was considered (correctly) expendable with Josh Bell sitting in Norfolk and garnered the team a fair, but not great, pitching prospect in Wynn Pelzer. Pelzer projects as a reliever but that's decent value for old man Tejada.

By the way, can the current regime come to an end soon enough? From the Baltimore Sun, Brian Matusz talks about the quick hook he received in Thursday's game:

"I was little bit shocked because it was so soon, and my first few innings I was so effective,” Matusz said. “Things were going so well. I still felt pretty good at that point. I was a little upset. Obviously nobody likes coming out of the game, especially when you have good stuff and that’s how I felt. Juan obviously felt that it was a game that we had, we had the lead at the time, and I wasn’t capable of finishing the job, so that was the move he decided to make and obviously I wanted to stay in there and keep going. But if I don’t like it I need to stop walking guys and pitch better.”


Hi there. Out of character for me but I'm about to curse...

Matusz is being just about as diplomatic as he can here but he's absolutely correct. Sure, if he didn't walk those guys, this problem takes care of itself. But Samuel (and Showalter) need to leave these kids in the game for experience, struggles be damned. Wins and losses mean fuck all for 2010. Samuel is managing for a win over the Royals at the expense of valuable innings for a potential future ace? What a cock. I have no doubt that this has at least a little to do with the Showalter announcement and the fact that Samuel is out for himself for these last four games.

From Samuel:

Samuel said after the game that Matusz has become a “major concern,” though he still expects the lefty to make his next start.



“My mindset with these guys is I just didn’t want to put them in position where they could lose the ball game and you end up overexposing these guys,” Samuel said. “We’ve seen it so many times where some young guys come up and they can’t find the plate. Like I said, if I can remove these guys earlier than late, I’m going to do it just so I can protect them. He was throwing the ball so good. We just think he lost focus there for one minute and we didn’t want to leave him out there any longer.”

Major concern? Douchebag, you are not going to be the manager by the time Matusz starts again. It's no longer your concern at all.

And then you show your ignorance by worrying about Matusz "losing" the game. You are managing the worst team in baseball. Matusz is smart enough to realize that even moral victories count at this point. He didn't want to come out. He didn't care if he "lost". He wanted to battle through it. That kid is ten times smarter than you and your slavish reliance on meaningless stats like pitcher "wins" and "losses". Especially on a team that is 30+ games out of first! You prick. You were protecting no one.

Tuesday can't come soon enough...

Bill Does Maury

Barbara Walters claimed President Obama's appearance on her show "The View" was the first time a sitting president appeared on a daytime talk show.

Not so, says Jimmy Kimmel, and he has the proof:

Are You Talkin' to Me?

My neice and nephews go to Targetmaster with their dad and some friends.



Thanks for sharing, Bob.

Loving Maura

Meet Vince and Nancy Lowry, the luckiest parents in the world. My print column is up.

Getting Serious

Peggy Noonan has surprisingly good advice for both Republians and the Tea Partiers.
For those candidates who are themselves Tea Party, and who identify more with a rebellion than an organization, some advice: Get conservative, quick. Which is another way of saying: Get serious. Conservatives are not fringe and haven't been accused of being fringe since they got themselves a president, in 1980. He (Ronald Reagan) cared about reality, about the facts of the world, and bothered to know them. He bothered to think about them. He respected process, or rather respected the reality of it and learned to master it.

He also tried to put his arms around those who disagreed with him; he loved his foes into submission by showing regard for them. "Come walk with me," he said, in 1984. And they did. And they got a new name, Reagan Democrats. Some of them wear it proudly, still. Here's something that sounds corny but is true: Only love makes great political movements. Movements based on resentment, anger and public rage always fade, they rise and fall, they never stay. If you came to play, get serious.

2010 UDC Update meeting at IFLA

Colleagues who are going to be at 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Open access to knowledge - promoting sustainable progress" in Gothenburg (Sweden) are cordially invited to join us at our traditional UDC Update Session on Friday 13 August 2010, 13:00-14.00, Room R2.

2010 UDC Update meeting at IFLA

Colleagues who are going to be at 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Open access to knowledge - promoting sustainable progress" in Gothenburg (Sweden) are cordially invited to join us at our traditional UDC Update Session on Friday 13 August 2010, 13:00-14.00, Room R2.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Great Idea for a Wedding Guest Book - An Engravable Picture Frame

When I was looking for a wedding guest book I wanted to go for something different and unique.
So this bride was thrilled when I found this unique wedding guest book idea!
Many of us brides take engagement pictures and would LOVE to display them in a beautiful way. This guest book shows off your beautiful pictures and serves as a guest book! They are engraved photo mats and pictures frames from I do Engravables. The idea is to have your guest sign your photo mat with an engraving scribe and you get to keep it as a real keepsake picture frame. I thought it was such a creative idea and something that I will actually display in our home.



What do you guys think? Any cool guest book ideas you want to share? Just comment below.

Gambling and Jobs

One quibble with today's excellent editorial on the gamble of depending on gambling revenue.
Maybe it’s the ultimate irony that the state’s new economic blockbuster sits on the very hallowed ground where ships rolled off the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. on the Chester waterfront.



People still enter that luminous locale in search of their fortune.

 But they’re not going to work.

They’re going to gamble.

Actually, a lot of people ARE going to work. More than 1,000 people are employed by Harrah's, with 500 new jobs just created by table games. Ship building is definitely a more romantic calling than dealing cards and taking people's money but those jobs are gone. Better these jobs, than no jobs. Right?

The Natural

Welcome to the big leagues, Dominic Brown.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Provogue Blogger Template

Provogue is a three column blogger template with sidebar to its right and post section to left.The theme is designed by web2feel and converted by me to blogger.The design is gorgeous and it looks damn proffessional.Top menu links are ready for you.Seo for title has been done and it supports all blog features and is compatible with all browsers.There are two menu widgets for you.One is linklist and other is page widget you can add links from your layout.I hope you will like his template for sure.Special feature in the templates is the featured section and tabbed content navigation widget in sidebar.

Other blogger templates you may like are Warpack and BrandNew Folio.






Hacks Installed In Template Or You Can




Features Of The Template



  • Featured Section

  • Tabber Widget

  • Fixed Width Template

  • Three Column Blogger Template

  • Right Sidebar

  • Menu And Submneu Links

  • Compatible With Mozilla, Chrome and IE7



I request you to Please Back Up your blogger template and all blogger widgets to your desktop or just copy paste all sidebar widgets codes to notepad and save to your desktop for further use in this template.

Installation



  • Using Tabber Widget In Sidebar

  • Go to Design > Page Elements . You will see the structure in sidebar like image below.First three Add a Gadget elements are for three tabs of tabber, then comes the sidebar gadget.



    There are three Add a Gadget.

    First Add a Gadget for Tab1
    Second Add a Gadget for Tab2
    Third Add a Gadget for Tab3

    So you can add your three widgets in first three Add a Gadget widget to show them up in tabber.

    And now how to edit the title text of three widgets of tabber.

    Go to blogger edit/html and press ctrl+F and search for


    <ul class='tabsnav'>
    <li class='fea'><a href='#Tabber1'> Tab 1 </a></li>
    <li class='rec'><a href=' #Tabber2'> Tab 2 </a></li>
    <li class='pop'><a href='#Tabber3'> Tab 3 </a></li>
    </ul>


    Now you can change the red text with your three titles you want for three widgets of tabber.

  • Using Featured Section

  • In blogger Design >Edit/html, you will find the below codes for featured section.Just edit them as i told below.


    <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
    <div id='slidearea'>
    <div class='widgets' id='tabzine'>


    <div class='tabdiv'>
    <span class='tabshadow'/>


    <div class='videoid' id='feature-98'>
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    <div class='featpost'>
    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, ... </a> </p>
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    </div>


    <div class='videoid' id='feature-56'>
    <img alt='' class='slidim' height='300' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfmc4NSYXEJZCyngjQzvJjuD-gfRwW1MjueNlNZZNTixgx712Wiw1fcxn0iGe0OeM3QuiOnzlmMilmR_eF9wJjg0jfWbkzFB-eOz-CJFsmGItKqqNa_G18BL9tj6PSxV8g8ArdBAXD_Msg/s1600/2.jpg' width='1000'/>
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    <div class='videoid' id='feature-54'>
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    <div class='featpost'>
    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, nec placerat elit nisl in quam. Etiam augue pede, molestie eget, rhoncus at, convallis ut, ... </a> </p>
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    <div class='videoid' id='feature-52'>
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    <div class='featpost'>
    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, nec placerat elit nisl in quam. Etiam augue pede, molestie eget, rhoncus at, convallis ut, ... </a> </p>
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    <div class='videoid' id='feature-50'>
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    <div class='featpost'>
    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, nec placerat elit nisl in quam. Etiam augue pede, molestie eget, rhoncus at, convallis ut, ... </a> </p>
    </div>
    </div>

    </div>


    <ul id='tabnav'>

    <li>
    <a class='listab' href='#feature-98'>
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    </a>
    </li>

    <li>
    <a class='listab' href='#feature-56'>
    <img alt='' class='boximage' height='80' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgb8Q9Z7s5mdOr8XCG4kXl9rviZY1snxfPOne4IUp9qGs9n0tTAPQstnPcPfdEq1CZ-ZvhkKbeUiIOOV04AgRNJUYWqMWzGFc0wIzsaWjgMAOl0kNq_mBCjCyADU9DO_jhLPw14EPieVl/s400/7.jpg' width='180'/>
    </a>
    </li>

    <li>
    <a class='listab' href='#feature-54'>
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    </a>
    </li>

    <li>
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    <img alt='' class='boximage' height='80' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC401yILTEdlEFoVJCO_7m9t5Aq9UIN3AdI2KIrfJAx2063yY_ZWPY0wY5WA_JL062LHJhAKhVTBPlTU1x0Yin_FVyxUPGa8FTdrbX7Y4MLsxYiE5YfcLo1K9d0DLLRG7BzGoY-RnHQImn/s400/9.jpg' width='180'/>
    </a>
    </li>

    <li>
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    </a>
    </li>

    </ul>


    </div>
    </div>
    </b:if>


    Just there are 5 posts in featured section.You can edit the red highlated image link with your image of size close to 1000 by 300 and bold Text POST-LINK to your post url and at last the green text with post summary you want to show up.

    Similarly you can do for next four posts of featured section following the first one which you edited as i showed you above.

    After editing the four posts as i said you will get codes for 5 thumbnail of your featured posts.I have highlated the image link again with red you can change that also with your thumbnail image of size 180 by 80.


If you still have any problems , Leave your comments below.

Provogue Blogger Template

Provogue is a three column blogger template with sidebar to its right and post section to left.The theme is designed by web2feel and converted by me to blogger.The design is gorgeous and it looks damn proffessional.Top menu links are ready for you.Seo for title has been done and it supports all blog features and is compatible with all browsers.There are two menu widgets for you.One is linklist and other is page widget you can add links from your layout.I hope you will like his template for sure.Special feature in the templates is the featured section and tabbed content navigation widget in sidebar.

Other blogger templates you may like are Warpack and BrandNew Folio.






Hacks Installed In Template Or You Can




Features Of The Template



  • Featured Section

  • Tabber Widget

  • Fixed Width Template

  • Three Column Blogger Template

  • Right Sidebar

  • Menu And Submneu Links

  • Compatible With Mozilla, Chrome and IE7



I request you to Please Back Up your blogger template and all blogger widgets to your desktop or just copy paste all sidebar widgets codes to notepad and save to your desktop for further use in this template.

Installation



  • Using Tabber Widget In Sidebar

  • Go to Design > Page Elements . You will see the structure in sidebar like image below.First three Add a Gadget elements are for three tabs of tabber, then comes the sidebar gadget.



    There are three Add a Gadget.

    First Add a Gadget for Tab1
    Second Add a Gadget for Tab2
    Third Add a Gadget for Tab3

    So you can add your three widgets in first three Add a Gadget widget to show them up in tabber.

    And now how to edit the title text of three widgets of tabber.

    Go to blogger edit/html and press ctrl+F and search for


    <ul class='tabsnav'>
    <li class='fea'><a href='#Tabber1'> Tab 1 </a></li>
    <li class='rec'><a href=' #Tabber2'> Tab 2 </a></li>
    <li class='pop'><a href='#Tabber3'> Tab 3 </a></li>
    </ul>


    Now you can change the red text with your three titles you want for three widgets of tabber.

  • Using Featured Section

  • In blogger Design >Edit/html, you will find the below codes for featured section.Just edit them as i told below.


    <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
    <div id='slidearea'>
    <div class='widgets' id='tabzine'>


    <div class='tabdiv'>
    <span class='tabshadow'/>


    <div class='videoid' id='feature-98'>
    <img alt='' class='slidim' height='300' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgierIuUkzrH_VqexYAuJp24cnHBm57KHVOHODdXN6MqFuRkAkuCbi1XvoM2eoVMYqX_6bEkbWSYR2DE7AoGyqinft1AG1O3d3ny3JzssdgDwSwczT3e0f_kmZM6_Cd9IZTaRhTU20AHSCi/s1600/1.jpg' width='1000'/>
    <div class='featpost'>
    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, ... </a> </p>
    </div>
    </div>


    <div class='videoid' id='feature-56'>
    <img alt='' class='slidim' height='300' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfmc4NSYXEJZCyngjQzvJjuD-gfRwW1MjueNlNZZNTixgx712Wiw1fcxn0iGe0OeM3QuiOnzlmMilmR_eF9wJjg0jfWbkzFB-eOz-CJFsmGItKqqNa_G18BL9tj6PSxV8g8ArdBAXD_Msg/s1600/2.jpg' width='1000'/>
    <div class='featpost'>
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    </div>
    </div>

    <div class='videoid' id='feature-54'>
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    <div class='featpost'>
    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, nec placerat elit nisl in quam. Etiam augue pede, molestie eget, rhoncus at, convallis ut, ... </a> </p>
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    </div>

    <div class='videoid' id='feature-52'>
    <img alt='' class='slidim' height='300' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4kJJR90AjI_hdT08UwakoO_fHJecMQgMnt1CyleyOwGvqi8kkDm0Dh_MmVxsaPf-a0SL7LTh3P8J5-31477kBAYecjcu4ZACx0FWtRdHESkD7lgoa7CE00SUt3w85CV6LMvzKqQKNDd2/s1600/4.jpg' width='1000'/>
    <div class='featpost'>
    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, nec placerat elit nisl in quam. Etiam augue pede, molestie eget, rhoncus at, convallis ut, ... </a> </p>
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    <div class='videoid' id='feature-50'>
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    <div class='featpost'>
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    </div>
    </div>

    </div>


    <ul id='tabnav'>

    <li>
    <a class='listab' href='#feature-98'>
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    </div>
    </div>
    </b:if>


    Just there are 5 posts in featured section.You can edit the red highlated image link with your image of size close to 1000 by 300 and bold Text POST-LINK to your post url and at last the green text with post summary you want to show up.

    Similarly you can do for next four posts of featured section following the first one which you edited as i showed you above.

    After editing the four posts as i said you will get codes for 5 thumbnail of your featured posts.I have highlated the image link again with red you can change that also with your thumbnail image of size 180 by 80.


If you still have any problems , Leave your comments below.

Provogue Blogger Template

Provogue is a three column blogger template with sidebar to its right and post section to left.The theme is designed by web2feel and converted by me to blogger.The design is gorgeous and it looks damn proffessional.Top menu links are ready for you.Seo for title has been done and it supports all blog features and is compatible with all browsers.There are two menu widgets for you.One is linklist and other is page widget you can add links from your layout.I hope you will like his template for sure.Special feature in the templates is the featured section and tabbed content navigation widget in sidebar.

Other blogger templates you may like are Warpack and BrandNew Folio.






Hacks Installed In Template Or You Can




Features Of The Template



  • Featured Section

  • Tabber Widget

  • Fixed Width Template

  • Three Column Blogger Template

  • Right Sidebar

  • Menu And Submneu Links

  • Compatible With Mozilla, Chrome and IE7



I request you to Please Back Up your blogger template and all blogger widgets to your desktop or just copy paste all sidebar widgets codes to notepad and save to your desktop for further use in this template.

Installation



  • Using Tabber Widget In Sidebar

  • Go to Design > Page Elements . You will see the structure in sidebar like image below.First three Add a Gadget elements are for three tabs of tabber, then comes the sidebar gadget.



    There are three Add a Gadget.

    First Add a Gadget for Tab1
    Second Add a Gadget for Tab2
    Third Add a Gadget for Tab3

    So you can add your three widgets in first three Add a Gadget widget to show them up in tabber.

    And now how to edit the title text of three widgets of tabber.

    Go to blogger edit/html and press ctrl+F and search for


    <ul class='tabsnav'>
    <li class='fea'><a href='#Tabber1'> Tab 1 </a></li>
    <li class='rec'><a href=' #Tabber2'> Tab 2 </a></li>
    <li class='pop'><a href='#Tabber3'> Tab 3 </a></li>
    </ul>


    Now you can change the red text with your three titles you want for three widgets of tabber.

  • Using Featured Section

  • In blogger Design >Edit/html, you will find the below codes for featured section.Just edit them as i told below.


    <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
    <div id='slidearea'>
    <div class='widgets' id='tabzine'>


    <div class='tabdiv'>
    <span class='tabshadow'/>


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    <div class='featpost'>
    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, ... </a> </p>
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    </div>


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    <p><a href='POST-LINK'>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. Aliquam sit amet felis. Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, nec placerat elit nisl in quam. Etiam augue pede, molestie eget, rhoncus at, convallis ut, ... </a> </p>
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    <div class='videoid' id='feature-50'>
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    </div>
    </b:if>


    Just there are 5 posts in featured section.You can edit the red highlated image link with your image of size close to 1000 by 300 and bold Text POST-LINK to your post url and at last the green text with post summary you want to show up.

    Similarly you can do for next four posts of featured section following the first one which you edited as i showed you above.

    After editing the four posts as i said you will get codes for 5 thumbnail of your featured posts.I have highlated the image link again with red you can change that also with your thumbnail image of size 180 by 80.


If you still have any problems , Leave your comments below.

Back to Basics

Why not a well-regulated citizen militia in Chester? My print column is up.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Ouch!

Sorry Charlie

Charlie Rangel, America's chief tax writer, is in trouble" for ethics violations that have to do with not paying his own taxes.

Here's Charlie in happier, sleepier times.

Lauren Merkin Bag Sample Sale - August 10 to August 14

I  LOVE Lauren Merkin Bags & Clutches and I heard there is a sample sale!!!

Enjoy!


The Voice of Reason

On ReasonTV, Arthur Brooks explains the divide between those 70 percent of Americans who believe in the free enterprise system and the 30 percent of Americans who believe in more government-forced income redistribution.



Some people might call Brooks "evil."

Another Gun Law?

Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland believes he has the answer to help end gun violence in Chester: Pass an ordinance that requires gun owners to report lost or stolen guns.

Yep, that oughta' do it.

Monday, July 26, 2010

E.J. Shilly Shallies Past the Liberal Grave Yard

WaPo's E.J. Dionne attempts to rally the troops in the progressive mainstream media apparently believing that the best defense is a good offense.

Dionne writes:
The smearing of Shirley Sherrod ought to be a turning point in American politics. This is not, as the now trivialized phrase has it, a "teachable moment." It is a time for action.
Action for Dionne is writing another predictable and lame attack on the conservative forces of darkness. But just to be clear, Mrs. Sherrod was not "smeared." A clip of her speech to the NAACP was posted on Andrew Breitbart's web site and the clip showed her admitting that her own racial attitudes figured into how much help she would give a white farmer who was in financial trouble. She was not smeared, she was taken out of context. Something that is done by the media every day when it selectively pulls the juiciest or most controversial quote from a speech or statement and runs from there. However, in Mrs. Sherrod's case, her wonderful liberal bosses were so concerned with racial politics and their own jobs they threw her under the bus. They were the ones who smeared her by, in effect, calling her an intolerable black racist, publicly firing her and then patting themselves on the back for doing so.

Dionne:
The mainstream media and the Obama administration alike must stop cowering before a right wing that has persistently forced its own propaganda to be accepted as news by persuading traditional journalists that "fairness" requires treating extremist rants as "one side of the story."

Right. The mainstream media and the Obama administration must stop cowering and start forcing its own propaganda to be accepted as news. Life was so much easier for the liberals in the mainstream press before the inception of FOX News.

Dionne:
And there can be no more shilly-shallying about the fact that racial backlash politics is becoming an important component of the campaign against President Obama, and against progressives in this year's election.

This is Dionne's way of taking a page of his fellow liberal Spencer Ackerman's playbook. Pick a conservative, "Fred Barnes or Karl Rove, who cares and call them racist." Thanks to Ackerman and his fellow "Journolists," what is becoming an important component of the campaign against progressives is their disgusting willingness to smear their opponents as racist for partisan political advantage. A word to the wise: When you whip your opponents with the race lash, expect a back-lash.

The administration's response to the doctored video pushed by right-wing hit man Andrew Breitbart was shameful.

It wasn't "doctored." It was selectively quoted from. Again, something the left and the mainstream media, does all the time. Breitbart, it should be remembered, is not a journalist. He's a conservative activist. He is a spin meister, who tries to help his side and hurt the opposition. Journalists and even pundits, should attempt to live up to a higher standard of fairness. Dionne is failing to do so here and below.
The obsession with "protecting" the president turned out to be the least protective approach of all.
The first reaction of the Obama team was not to question, let alone challenge, the video. Instead, it assumed that whatever narrative Fox News might create mattered more than anything else, including the possible innocence of a human being outside the president's inner circle. She could be sacrificed without a thought.

Finally, E.J. gets something right. "Whatever the narrative FOX News might create..." for it hadn't created any narrative - or even aired the story - before the President's men trashed and then canned Sherrod. Few bosses in America would have been dumb and rash enough to fire an employee based on such a charge without talking to the employee first and investigating the matter further.
Obama complained on ABC's "Good Morning America" that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack "jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles." But it's his own apparatus that turned "this media culture" into a false god.

So Obama throws Vilsack under the bus and blames "the media culture." Dionne makes no mention of the role White House staffers played in this fiasco. On the day of the firing, Obama advisor Jim Messina reportedly bragged about the speed with which the White House fired Sherrod. But never mind because...
... the Obama team was reacting to a reality: the bludgeoning of mainstream journalism into looking timorously over its right shoulder and believing that "balance" demands taking seriously whatever sludge the far right is pumping into the political waters.

Oh, that's an unfortunate metaphor. It might remind people how hapless and slowly the Obama team reacted to the BP disaster in the gulf. Where's Dionne's liberal editor when you need him.
This goes way back. Al Gore never actually said he "invented the Internet," but you could be forgiven for not knowing this because the mainstream media kept reporting he had.

Yes, you'll be forgiven for not knowing what Al Gore never said. Dumb mainstream media.
(Skipping down... Dionne criticizes his newspaper's ombudsman for taking it to task for not reporting on the New Black Panthers voter intimidation story and the Justice Department controversial handling of the case.)
Never mind that this is a story about a tiny group of crackpots who stopped no one from voting.

How does Dionne know this? Because a spokesman for the Obama Justice Department say so. Dionne goes on to trash DOJ whistleblower J. Christian Adams for his claim that the department was "motivated by a lawless hostility toward equal enforcement of the law." And why shouldn't he be believed? Because he is a "Republican activist" who was a Florida poll watcher in 2004 for the Bush campaign. Not only that but, wrote Dionne, he was "involved in a controversy over whether a black couple could cast a ballot."

You got that. Here's Dionne doing exactly what he claims to be so offended by when it is done by a conservative activist like Breitbart. He suggests Adams has bad racial motives. Any questioning of a black couple's right to vote is tantamount to racism. Never mind, that the couple in question wasn't registered to vote where they showed up to vote and that they were offered a provisional ballot, as required by law, and they refused to take it.

Having trashed and dismissed Adams for essentially being a right-wing Republican racist. He acts as if Adams is the lone DOJ lawyer who questioned the dropping of the Black Panther case. He is not. Adams quit his job rather than be silenced. Other DOJ lawyers were ordered not to talk about the case, told to refuse to comply with subpoenas issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and/or transferred.

Bartle Bull, a long-time Democrat, a former political adviser to Robert F. Kennedy who travelled south in the 1960s to protect the voting rights of black voters in the 1960s was a poll watcher in Philadelphia on that faithful day in 2008. He saw and heard what the two New Black Panther Party thugs were doing at the polls that day.

"I find it deeply offensive," Bull said. "I know people who died over these issues, like Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. If we can't defend their legacy, it's shameful to us and this administration." 

He says the Obama administration's actions amount to protecting the New Black Panthers. 

"If Americans can't vote honestly, and the government doesn't protect their right to vote, we don't live in a democracy. Last year Obama complained when the government in Afghanistan did not run the election properly. What about Pennsylvania?"
Bull has already testified before the Civil Rights Commission, and the commissioners also want to hear from Christopher Coates, the former chief of the Justice Department's voting section who has since been transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina. But the commission claims the Justice Department is blocking Coates from testifying about why the case was dropped.
 
Bull said that in 2008, one of the Black Panthers turned to him and said "now you will know what it means to be ruled by the black man, cracker." 

The result of the Justice Department action, or lack of it, he said, is that "these guys now think it's safe for them to bully voters and citizens. And that's why the Department of Justice must stand up."

What does Dionne have to say about Bull's comments? Nothing. Why? I suspect because he can't spin them to be the ravings of a right-wing racist. Instead, Dionne pretends they were never made.

The reason the New Black Panther case made the news is because it's newsworthy. So is the firing of Shirley Sherrod. Andrew Breitbart didn't fire her. But he cleverly and cynically set a trap for the NAACP and the Obama Administration to fall into and that's just what the numbskulls did.

Poor Dionne, suddenly he and his friends in the "mainstream" (read: liberal) media can't control the narrative of every story that comes down the pike. They don't get to decide what gets covered and what doesn't; what's a story and what isn't.
His idea of action is to write a column accusing conservatives of bad faith, bad politics and race baiting. Spencer "Call them racist" Ackerman was more succinct. No shilly-shallier, he.

Romantic Real New York Wedding Inspiration by New York Photographer Levi Stolove

I was so excited when I saw these beautiful pictures from New York wedding photographer Levi Stolove of this June New York Wedding that I had to share!
The outdoor wedding took place in the brides parent's home and had a beautiful "homemade kinda feel", says Jen, the bride. The wedding was decorated with paper lanterns, handmade origami, wild flowers and vintage jars. The result, a romantic wedding spent with family and friends. What more can a girl ask for.























The details:
Dress by Carmen Marc Valvo
Grooms Suit by Jill Sander
Cupcakes and Cookies by  www.onegirlcookies.com/
Cake topper by Melabo
Photography by levistoloveweddings.com
Shoes by Nicole Farhi 


Sunday, July 25, 2010

Condi, Aretha and the Pip Squeaks

Neat story about former Sec. of State Condi Rice and Aretha Franklin, a good Democrat, joining up to raise money for charity and make a little music in Philadelphia. Of course, a couple of lefty losers are trying to gin up outrage because of Condi's work in the Bush administration and her unapologetic support for tough interrogation techniques that, according to top intelligence officials, actually saved American lives.

According to the story:
Sebastian Doggart, a human-rights activist in New York and documentarian of American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi , argues that Rice was a principal player in the Bush interrogation program, and has urged the Philadelphia Orchestra to not perform with her.

Rice and other senior Bush officials reviewed and approved CIA use of harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, on detainees at secret prisons, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report declassified in 2009.

Doggart called the concert an attempt at a "restoration" of Rice's image.

Steven Jewell, a Stanford alumnus, has organized a petition asking the university to investigate "whether to be involved in a torture program on leave from the university is compatible with her duties as a university professor."

"Torture is a crime against humanity, and to have her treated by a cultural organization as if she is just simply an artist, without the context of her involvement in crimes against humanity, is reprehensible," he said.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. The good news is, Aretha is giving these idiots no R-E-S-P-E-C-T. The show will go on, as it should.

The Voice of Evil

Unemployment, magical thinking and a crippling sense of entitlement. My print column is up.

From the comments KiBiK writes:
"First- BEN STEIN was a speechwriter for Richard M. NIxon, the liar, who had to resign the presidency. He is a lying sellout. So is Gil Spencer for suggesting that unemployed people are leeches of the state. He says that Corbett's statements that people out of work don't want to work were "obviously true". That is an EVIL thing to say. It is NOT true. As usual Gil blames the victim and ignores real numbers and real wages. Gil, I don't just think you are mistaken or confused any more. You know the truth and still you lie. You are evil.

For all the people who have tried so long to find a decent job and given up I apologize for Gil's lies and the pain he's causing you. And to Gil I say: I'm sure Satan has a wonderful place waiting for you among his staff of corporate MBAs."

As Charles Krauthammer has pointed out: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

KiBik is a nice example. He also proves some liberals can't read or don't bother. The key word here is "some." Read the column to find out if KiBiK's characterization of it is accurate or simply hysterical nonsense.

UPDATE: More liberal crackpottery from my old friend Karl Kofoed who e-mails:
Dear Gil,

Ben Stein (speechwriter for the admitted traitor Richard M. Nixon) is
a paid propagandist for corporate America. Clearly you are vying for
his job...

... After reading your column, it is now clear that reasoning with you is
pointless. You are evil itself, and you have become a propagandist
for intolerance which is anti-Christ. This was posted on an opinion
blog. It applies to people like you.

"Wealth should be seen less for its own qualities than for the human
misery it stands for. The large rooms of which you are so proud are
in fact your shame. They are big enough to hold parties, and also big
enough to shut out the voice of the poor. The poor man cries before
your house, and you pay no attention. There is your brother, naked,
crying, and you stand there in a dilemma over a choice of carpets."
-- St Ambrose of Milan

Karl Kofoed
Evil itself? Anti-Christ? Bueller?

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Blogger Hack To Increase Your Comment Count For All Posts

Hi friends today i am going to make you learn a hack for blogger which you can use for fun in your blog.I am sure some will love it for sure but use it for fun only in your blog.Its funny hack for blogger comments count, as with it you can increase your comment count for all blogger posts with any fixed count you want.Got confused :) no need to worry, i will explain you.Suppose your blog post have have 0 comments, i will make it possible to readers to show 1000 comments or any number you want, so cant wait to implement it.I think i should proceed to the tutorial so that all of you can enjoy this funny hack in your blogger.

You can also check the demo for this hack here as you will see the comments count to be 9760 here for all posts or more.

1. Sign in into your blogger account and go to Design > Edit HTML

2. Look out for </b:skin> tag

3. Add the following code before it


a.comment-link:before{content:"76";}


4. Now save the template and view your blog

Hurray now your post having 0 comments will show up 760 comments.Its really fun.

You can change 76 to any number you want.Try using it and have fun.

Blogger Hack To Increase Your Comment Count For All Posts

Hi friends today i am going to make you learn a hack for blogger which you can use for fun in your blog.I am sure some will love it for sure but use it for fun only in your blog.Its funny hack for blogger comments count, as with it you can increase your comment count for all blogger posts with any fixed count you want.Got confused :) no need to worry, i will explain you.Suppose your blog post have have 0 comments, i will make it possible to readers to show 1000 comments or any number you want, so cant wait to implement it.I think i should proceed to the tutorial so that all of you can enjoy this funny hack in your blogger.

You can also check the demo for this hack here as you will see the comments count to be 9760 here for all posts or more.

1. Sign in into your blogger account and go to Design > Edit HTML

2. Look out for </b:skin> tag

3. Add the following code before it


a.comment-link:before{content:"76";}


4. Now save the template and view your blog

Hurray now your post having 0 comments will show up 760 comments.Its really fun.

You can change 76 to any number you want.Try using it and have fun.

Blogger Hack To Increase Your Comment Count For All Posts

Hi friends today i am going to make you learn a hack for blogger which you can use for fun in your blog.I am sure some will love it for sure but use it for fun only in your blog.Its funny hack for blogger comments count, as with it you can increase your comment count for all blogger posts with any fixed count you want.Got confused :) no need to worry, i will explain you.Suppose your blog post have have 0 comments, i will make it possible to readers to show 1000 comments or any number you want, so cant wait to implement it.I think i should proceed to the tutorial so that all of you can enjoy this funny hack in your blogger.

You can also check the demo for this hack here as you will see the comments count to be 9760 here for all posts or more.

1. Sign in into your blogger account and go to Design > Edit HTML

2. Look out for </b:skin> tag

3. Add the following code before it


a.comment-link:before{content:"76";}


4. Now save the template and view your blog

Hurray now your post having 0 comments will show up 760 comments.Its really fun.

You can change 76 to any number you want.Try using it and have fun.

Sherrodrama

[Posted by Jake]

A tumultuous week for the Obama administration as they showed us "racists" that they are just as confused as we are. The controversial NAACP speech by Ms Sherrod that was initially condemned, then later applauded, proved to be quite challenging to the White House spin meisters. Their quick strike strategy, designed to prevent the Breitbart/Beck/Fox commentators from enjoying multiple news cycles of documented liberal hypocrisy, really blew up in their face. With all the subsequent finger-pointing and psycho-babble, it seems like some obvious questions are being overlooked.

First, why should Ms Sherrod's supposed journey of self-discovery and reconciliation, on the taxpayer's dime no less, be so universally cheered? She chose to work in a field where she got paid to provide a service, not to pass judgment on her customers. It is not uncommon in anyone's occupation to meet people who are difficult and might offer opinions that conflict with your personal values. But it's not about us. It's about having pride in your work and doing the best job you can. Just because Ms Sherrod fancies herself some sort of transformational figure as she embraces her victim pathology is no reason for us to absolve her of unprofessional conduct.

Second, under the same circumstances, would a young, white male have gotten a similiar reinstatement, promotion and apology from the President that this woman received? Of course not. Politically-correct preferential treatment is so ingrained in our society that it was almost predictable that Ms Sherrod's reputation would be rehabilitated as soon as pictures of her, a maternal black woman, were publicly disseminated.

Finally, why has there been so little critical analysis of Obama's suspect rush to judgment in this case, just like his previous inappropriate interference in the Massachusetts police matter, better known as the "beer summit"? Who can forget the insipid admission, "I could have calibrated my words differently."? In both instances, the President's oversensitivity to his black constituency magnified minor incidents into major firestorms. Is it too much to expect thoughtful leadership on matters that could potentially polarize our nation?

The revelations about the liberal Journolists, the continued demagoguery against the Tea Party, and the Administration's frantic overreactions to anything racial, demonstrate a deteriorating civility and discretion. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Unfortunately, it is Obama himself who is leading the parade to the asylum.

Hit and Run

Friday, July 23, 2010

Meet Designer, Michelle Rahn, for an afternoon of Bridal Decadence at The Carlyle Hotel

This is an awesome opportunity to meet the Wedding Designer Michelle Rahn!

On August 27th-28th, Michelle Rahn will be debuting her new collection at Manhattan’s storied Carlyle Hotel, where brides will have the opportunity to meet with the designer herself, shop our collection of gorgeous gowns and accessories, and even work hand in hand with Michelle to design a completely custom one-of-a-kind gown if they wish. All the while, brides can enjoy the private and luxurious Carlyle suite where they can share a truly couture trousseau experience with friends and family.
Enjoy!

Around The Oriole Blog-O-Sphere: Meltdown Edition

Go get 'em, Wiggy!

*****

Dan at Camden Crazies makes me feel a bit better about Brian Matusz:

The 1.49 WHIP is high but most of that is all the hits he’s allowed (1.11 hits per inning pitched), and that’s based on a .332 Batting Average On Balls In Play that isn’t likely to continue at that level and has less to do with Matusz’s pitching than his defense and poor luck. Additionally, I’m not sure how a 123:54 strike-out to walk ratio is “clearly indicative of a problem”. At 2.27, it’s better than league average (~2.07), and his individual K and BB rates are also better than average.

And while he's at it, Dan give Stan "The Fan" Charles a good fisking and I can always get behind that.


*****

 Tony Pente's article at Oriole Hangout is up and pretty much sums up the failures of the Angelos regime over the past couple of decades.

I have to say that I was a bit disappointed. It all seemed like covered ground and it was kind of advertised as having new revelations. It was all lightly fleshed out items of whisperings I have heard before. But it is well written and makes for a one-stop shop for all things Angelos.

*****

Eutaw Street Hooligans express Oriole fandom in terms of Bill Withers.

*****

Camden Depot looks at the "mortgaged future" of 1996 and fisks and refutes some guy writing in Cumberland. Go crawdaddy.

Quick quote I wholeheartedly agree with:

I am certain it is true that this is a mind blowingly silly statement (especially after the writer already said the system was ignored for at least a decade prior to the deals in '96, which is very true).

 Word.

*****

Roar from 34 gives us the latest installment of Solo Shots, a series examining Oriole players who hit exactly one home run during their career, with a closer look at Bob Hale.

*****

The Loss Column knows that it is all about next year for the Orioles but wonders if 2011 will be a make ir break year for the MacPhail regime.

*****

Patrick Smith at Bugs & Cranks takes a swipe at ESPN's Mike Greenberg for taking a swipe at the Baltimore Orioles.

*****

Finally, rumor has it that the Orioles are fielding calls regarding OF Corey Patterson. Obviously, you move Patterson for anything that might resemble a viable future bullpen arm and count your blessings that you were able to sell high.

The Most Laissez-Faire Chase of a Fan on the Field in Baseball History

This is really a brilliant strategy by the police and OPACY security. It's like when I throw the ball to my dog during fetch and she will not bring it back to me because the game she wants to play is nit fetch but the game of  "watch my 2-legged chubby friend chase me around the yard". But if I don't participate, eventually she gets bored with the idea and comes back to me anyway. That's basically what they let this kid do.



Race, Race, Race; Spin, Spin, Spin; Shake Your Fisty, Shake Your Fisty

David Harsyani on the Sherrod mess: This is NOT a teachable moment.
Let me suggest one lesson the nation might take from the Breitbart/Sherrod story: Let's take a breather from any more national dialoguing on the issue of race. Please.

After all, can anyone recall the last productive conversation on the topic? Whenever we hear about race in politics these days, it's typically being wielded as a weapon to smear entire political movements, de-legitimatize a genuine national debate, and ratchet up anger over imaginary slights.

Healthcare and Guns

What do Donald Berwick and gun control zealots have in common? Read this and find out.

UPDATE: The WSJ's Dan Henninger provides a few of Dr. Berwick's greatest hits.
"I cannot believe that the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do."

"You cap your health care budget, and you make the political and economic choices you need to make to keep affordability within reach."

"Please don't put your faith in market forces. It's a popular idea: that Adam Smith's invisible hand would do a better job of designing care than leaders with plans can."

"The unaided human mind, and the acts of the individual, cannot assure excellence. Health care is a system, and its performance is a systemic property."

"And it's important also to make health a human right because the main health determinants are not health care but sanitation, nutrition, housing, social justice, employment, and the like."
No wonder the president didn't want to subject him to questioning by the U.S. Senate.

Natural Born Texters

Here's why the "E" in E-mail stands for "evidence." Scroll down. Nobody's lol-ing anymore.

Spare the Sherrod, Spoil the Presidency

My print column on the Shirley Sherrod fiasco is up. Here's Walter Shapiro's take, which is much more critical of the Obama Administration and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Shapiro:
Forget the cloying talk by Vilsack and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs about this being another "teachable moment" (a challenge: find two other words in the English language that as convincingly signal saccharine insincerity.) In fact, many of the enduring lessons from Sherrod's political ordeal have nothing to do with racial justice or an irresponsible media culture. This was bureaucratic bungling at epic "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" levels.

Meanwhile, in an interview with ABC, President Obama accepts little of the responsibility for his administration's ridiculous handling of the matter.
“I've told my team and I told my agencies that we have to make sure that we're focusing on doing the right thing instead of what looks to be politically necessary at that very moment.  We have to take our time and, and think these issues through.”

Good idea.

Mr. Obama should also remember that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is not HIS agency. It is a department of the U.S. government. He is OUR president. We are not HIS subjects. More buffoonery like this and there is a good chance WE will not elect him to another term of office in 2012.

UPDATE: WaPo's Howie Kurtz notices the same thing I did. Sherrod blamed FOX for running with the story but other news outlets ran with it too.

Kurtz:
... for all the chatter -- some of it from Sherrod herself -- that she was done in by Fox News, the network didn't touch the story until her forced resignation was made public Monday evening, with the exception of brief comments by O'Reilly. After a news meeting Monday afternoon, an e-mail directive was sent to the news staff in which Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said: "Let's take our time and get the facts straight on this story. Can we get confirmation and comments from Sherrod before going on-air. Let's make sure we do this right."


What's In a Name?

Phillies were Happless. Now they're Moyerless. And still hapless.

Gun Buy Backs Don't Work

Chester officials are going to try a gun buy back program to help reduce violence in the city.

But these things haven't proven big successes wherever else they've been tried. According to a 2008, USA Today story:
Gun buyback programs from Miami to the San Francisco Bay are coming under fire by critics who question whether the bucks are reducing the big bangs.

"It's like trying to drain the Pacific with a bucket," says Alex Tabarrok, research director at the Independent Institute, a think tank in Oakland. "More guns are going to flow in."

Tabarrok and others complain the programs are feel-good events that do not reduce gun crimes and are abused by gun dealers seeking to unload junk merchandise at a good price. None of the guns are turned in by criminals, Tabarrok says, and many don't even fire.

"It presents an opportunity for politicians to grandstand," he says. "This is not about being pro-gun or anti-gun. It's about which policies actually work."
I hope Chester has some better ideas than this up it's sleeve.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Imaginary New Black Panthers?


WaPo's Eugene Robinson claims the right wing is using racial fear to smear the Obama Administration.

Robinson writes:
Before Sherrod, the cause celebre of the "You Must Fear Obama" campaign involved something called the New Black Panther Party. Never heard of it? That's because it's a tiny group that exists mainly in the fevered imaginations of its few members.
This is an imaginary group?



Meet CNN's imaginary friends. And National Geographic's too. They sure have wild imaginations.

Another Fine Race Mess