Project Vote Smart

Ten points on use of current Internet technologies, maybe a "4" on information. It appears only national-level candidates are listed, and its inferred non-partisanness is in question. Who would post a site of candidates in an objective apples-to-apples comparison? Is there one person left who doesn't have a political preference?

Project Vote Smart

Our zip code showed Democrat candidates with stated positions, where the Republican candidates had inferred positions. So all candidates' offices were asked to state their positions and only the Dems replied? Again, all inferred.

And we are always suspicious of products or services that tell you that you are "smart" if you use them.

The site did nothing for this tea partying hat-maker as we know how we'll vote in the national races. Where we could use some help is in the State and Local races. That is where we turn to our local tea party site:

Cincinnati Tea Party

Again - cool on the use of AJAX technologies.

Found at IOTW.

The Redistribution of History

D - for Desperate.

Remember when we were "shooting up cops" after Obama was elected?

Those were some crazy days for us right-wingers!



Luckily, the Tea Party movement gave us a more respectable outlet for our emotions and we stopped 'humping our right wing extremist legs'!

This dweeb started what is now one of the top 2-3 liberal progressive communist blogs. He speaks with the voice of thousands of Americans who, for example, oppose Bush wiretaps of International calls and equally support Obama's wiretaps of Domestic calls.

As the Waco Kid would say: "You know. Morons."

They are the envy party as we are the tea party. They are the takers, and we the makers. They re-write history, and we'll be making it on November 2nd.

U/T: Naked Emperor News

PS: I want to be reincarnated as a bully. The tolerance/PC crap that has infiltrated our schools has led to a serious lack of ass-whoopings, which in turn has led to a serious surplus of.... you know... Morons.

Nov 2 Trailer

Remember November: The Final Act from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.

U/T: Republican Governors Association, via IOTW

Election Primer UPDATED

Will this be the scene on Air Force One as it flees to India 2 days after this election?



Bob reminds us of our mission on Tuesday, and beyond:



UPDATED 11.5:

Oh man did we call it! Found at IOTW:

Neighborhood Watch

Our Neighborhood just got a bit bigger.

The new reality - you now have two duties on election day: 1) Vote, and 2) Report Fraud.



How do you report fraud? Try the new mobile app from Freedom Speaks. Here is the link at the Apple website, but you can get this for other mobile devices too.

Video found at IOTW.

Biden Is Right!

Joe Bite Me said this today:

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

Too bad nobody listens to this guy anymore.

Here was our idea back in 2008 - inspired by Joe and his ilk. It was their vision that led to our vision. It was their policies that incentivized our hat.

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The Dear Leader Speaks

Our Dear Leader, Barack Obama, sent us an email today!

Imagine our surprise - we didn't know he was back from vacation!

Karl --

We all have a choice to make in the next seven days.

It's not just a choice to vote, or a choice to knock on one more door, make one more call, talk to one more voter.

Together, the choice we must make is to continue what we started.

The outcome of this election will determine not just who holds power in the halls of Congress. The decision we make in this election is going to set the direction of this country for years to come.

I need you fired up in Ushanka.us.

Karl, I need you to give it everything you got. And I need your help to power our work until we reach that finish line.

Organizing for America is running the most ambitious get-out-the-vote program ever attempted in an election like this. Every dollar you can give today will be put right to work to get our message out, to provide the tools our volunteers need.

And every donation will be doubled because it will be matched by another supporter who is giving what he or she can afford.

He continues, but we're too busy looking for a job to read it.

Or knock on one more door.

Or make one more call.

Or talk to one more voter.

And just like Bite Me, he over-prices his Hope & Change with the request for $3.

Sir, you are asking too much!

Pics found at Doug Ross.

Tuesday Afternoon Cigar

We anticipated next week's Revolution with a CAO Brazilia and volume 2 of The Gulag Archipelago.

Page 155:

There was a famous incantation repeated over and over again: "In the new social structure there can be no place for the discipline of the stick on which serfdom was based, nor the discipline of starvation on which capitalism is based."

And there you are - the Archipelago managed miraculously to combine the one and the other.

Solzhenitsyn lists the similarities and differences between Serfdom vs. Gulag life:

Similarities:

"they were forms of social organization for the forced and pitiless exploitation of the unpaid labor of millions of slaves."

"just as a serf had not chosen his slave's fate, since he was not to blame for his birth, neither did the prisoner choose his; he also go into the Archipelago by pure fate."

Differences:

"The serfs did not work longer than from sunrise to sunset. The zeks [prisoners] started work in darkness and ended in darkness."

"For the serfs Sundays were sacred; and the twelve sacred Orthodox holidays as well."

"The serfs lived in permanent huts."

"The serf on "barshchina," or forced labor, had his own horse, his own wooden plow..."

"The serfs were slaves, but they had full bellies."

"The serfs lived in families."

"In the life of one serf there was hardly ever more than one move..."

"...the entire situation of the serfs was alleviated by the fact that the estate owner had necessarily to be merciful to them: they were work money; their work brought him wealth."

Only one benefit the prisoner had over the serf:

"the prisoner might land in the Archipelago even as a juvenile of twelve to fifteen but not from the very day of birth!"

Sanatorium UPDATED X2 & BUMPED

[original posted 10.23 at 9:05am]

History repeats itself. And so do I.

English Russia has posted current photos of the old NKVD Sanatorium built in Kislovodsk in 1933. If you'll recall, 1933 was several years into the Stalin Administration. Mass housing was necessary then because the country was suffering from an unexpected spike in internal conspiracies from a grossly underestimated number of internal enemies.

Maybe you remember headlines like: "Prison populations higher than expected"?

Further, many suffered from impure thoughts of selfish individuality, personal responsibility and faith. It was necessary for a compassionate government to house these unfortunates in places such as the Kislovodsk Sanatorium where they could get the help they desperately needed. Luckily, Soviet citizens had such a compassionate government.

Soon, this same level of compassion will help those of us who have suffered for so long. Who have been unable to afford the therapy we need because the greedy insurance companies priced such help out of our reach.

If we cannot make the transition to Hope and Change that is so necessary to overcome these difficult times of inequity and uncertainty, we will soon have a peaceful place to go for help.

Waivers for early admission will be available for:

Tea Party attendees
Loving Parents
Chrysler Bond Holders and Dealers
Right Wing Extremists
and Glenn Beck.

Soon, Comrades, we will have our own Kislovodsk Sanatorium. See you there!

UPDATED 10.25:

How does this start?

Here is some fine print we found on the bottom of page A6 in today's WSJ. Story by The Canadian Press: Pediatricians urged to screen new moms for depression, which can slow babies developmentally.

Some questions off the top of our Ushanka - Rather than the event of becoming a mother as the reason for being depressed:

What if that new mom is depressed because her new baby is born with 10's of thousands of dollars of shared national debt?

What if that new mom is depressed because her child will not have the same life and career options she had?

What if that new mom is depressed because the nation's current leadership turns a blind eye to criminal behavior?

Will that new mom qualify for a concealed weapons license to protect her new baby if she is deemed 'depressed'?

Will she be smeared with 'a history of depression' when she chooses to act on behalf of her fellow moms and runs for office?

Will the American Academy of Pediatrics publish a report soon on the effects of depression in women who abort their children? They are moms too, right?

What are the real motivations behind this report?

UPDATED & BUMPED 10.26:

Kyle-Anne Shiver writes at Pajamas Media: Dems Playing Soviet-Style Insanity Card. (Found through James Taranto's Best of the Web at WSJ: The Politics of Sanity.)

The theme keeps re-appearing, or maybe our mind just tells us that it is...

Regarding Jon Stewart's naming choice for his coming march in DC, "Restoring Sanity", a march in response to Glenn Beck's recent gathering "Restoring Honor":

It might behoove a sentient American to ponder whether Jon Stewart considers qualities like cheerfulness, religiosity, a penchant for cleanliness, and a love of American liberty — which were on ample display during Beck’s rally — to be signs of mental illness.

It would seem so and that puts Jon Stewart right in the same league with the old Soviet regime and the way they treated their own dissidents. The Soviets were infamous for declaring any vocal dissident “insane,” putting them in psychiatric “hospitals,” turning the shock therapy machines to full voltage, and throwing away the keys.

James Taranto suggests this concern is "overwrought" which begs the question: What does James think about Ushanka.us and our lovely Commie Obama hat? James suggests ignoring entertainment media and looking instead to academia:

One frequently encounters examples of researchers using their intellectual authority to brand disfavored (read conservative) political views as pathological or primitive. A prime example appeared on the New York Times's op-ed page yesterday.

Authors Peter Liberman and David Pizarro, professors of political science and psychology, respectively, attribute conservative political views to "the emotion of disgust"

The Emotion of Disgust. Yep, we feel that every now and then. Mostly now.

Both agree on the very recent and relevant NPR firing of Juan Williams after he expressed a very common feeling when seeing Muslims on his flights. The NPR CEO suggested Juan Williams should keep his feelings about Muslims 'between him and his psychiatrist.' She may have apologized for those remarks, but like all liberals who claim to mis-speak or be taken out of context, their most candid statements seem to express the same elitist traits that we've seen in some of the most lethal dictators.

These accusations of insanity on the political right seem to be gaining in momentum as a rout of the Democrats is expected in next week's election. For over a month now they've heard how they are going to lose big (but not why).

Any psychiatrist will tell you the emotional strain of discovering you were so wrong in your assessment of Obama and his ability to govern and provide you with free stuff can lead to angry and hateful outbursts. Add to this strain the flailing sensation of trying to smear and discourage your political opponents with little or no success, and you have a large segment of the population in need of a quiet, padded room and a jacket with a little extra in the sleeve.

We'd suggest there is nothing to worry about if these comments end next week. If they continue, however...

U/T: Shiver. We added her blog, Common Sense Regained, to our blogroll.

WHY?

Ah, that dreaded question, "Why?". It requires critical thought, and critical thought is absent on the left.

We are posting headlines daily to Ushanka.us that demonstrate the media's bias-induced ignorance as to how - 4+ weeks before the election - they know the Democrats will lose big. Yet not one story addresses the "Why?".

Instead we get:
The Party In Power Always Loses the Midterm
Voters Have Lost Interest
It Is An Anti-Incumbancy Mood
Race Expected To Play Part in Democrat Defeat
Blah Blah Blah

So another dilemma has developed: dropping circulation rates of America's newspapers. We ask: Why?

Sure, the Internet is taking its toll, giving ad buyers more options. But has that ever been a reason a subscriber calls to cancel? Ever?

And if not, Why?

In truth, the MSM has encouraged liberalism at every turn. And when liberalism finally occurred, subscribers were out of work and were cutting their subscriptions and other frivolous expenses to make rent.

MSM - you brought this on yourselves because you cannot ask "Why?". It is that simple.

Image above taken from Media Life Magazine story.