If this site looks a little different than our regular blog, it’s because you’ve reached the 2007 archives. Our database was getting too large, and had some “technical difficulties,” but we didn’t want to lose all of these great posts, so we’ve moved a lot of them here.
Feel free to look around a bit, but when you’re ready to the rest of us on the main (2008) blog, go to Ft. Hard Knox. Have fun, and we’ll see you when you get back!
Well, I finally did it…I crashed the site (we all knew that was going to happen, eventually!) Sorry.
Yes, the amazing Ron Goodwyne, our IT Guy got us back up to a point, but we’ve decided to take this opportunity to do some serious work on the site. Feel free to look through the archives…we’ll be back in a few days, better than ever.
The Dallas Morning News has selected the “Illegal Immigrant” for its “Texan of the Year”:
He is at the heart of a great culture war in Texas – and the nation, credited with bringing us prosperity and blamed for abusing our resources. How should we deal with this stranger among us?[…]
We can’t seem to live with him and his family, and if we can live without him, nobody’s figured out how. He’s the Illegal Immigrant, and he’s the 2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year – for better or for worse.
Okie Campaigns congratulates Senator Randy Brogden, who said:
We are charged with being good stewards of the state’s resources…Making the appropriations process completely transparent and easily accessible to our citizens is simply the right thing to do, because in reality, every dollar the Legislature appropriates belongs to the citizens.
Senator Brogden explained that the Oklahoma program is modeled on the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, introduced by Tom Coburn and Barack Obama.
According to the introduction to Oklahoma’s Open Books web site: Continue Reading »
Oompah Loompah’s in Camo?!
Oompa Loompa doompadee doo
I’ve got another story for you.
Oompa Loompa doompadah dee
If you are wise you’ll listen to me,
What do you get from when you guzzle down sweets,
Eating as much as an elephant eats?
Where are you at when you’re terribly fat?
What do you think will come of that?
Doo, doo, do-do-doo!
I don’t like the looks of this!
Oompa Loompa Doompadee Dah
If you’re not greedy you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Oompa Loompa doompadee do!
Hat-tip, OkieCampaigns
Military Members and Veterans with a valid military ID number can go to aafes.com, and download three songs for free.
Here’s John Ondrosik of Five for Fighting, to explain what this is about:
Clicky is a stats-analyzer for small to medium blogs (with traffic less than 30K daily page views). According to the “about” page:
Clicky gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. Many analyzers give good summaries, and Clicky is no different - but the similarities stop there. Clicky stands out with its refreshingly clean and simple interface, innovative features like Spy and RSS feeds, and an unrivaled per visitor level of detail. You also get real time stats, outbound link tracking, download tracking, IP tagging, custom data tracking, and much more.
It is similar to Stat Counter, or Sitemeter, but has some additional features and enhancements on familiar features, including (from the “features” page):
*If you click on the links to Clicky in this blogpost, then registering on the the same visit, Ft. Hard Knox will receive credit for referring you to the site.
(hat-tip, Eric Odom, of Conservablogs)
Jim Tankersley, of The Chicago Tribune, reports:
Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and…At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.
[…]
My colleague James Oliphant reports that Huckabee’s party was about 75 yards away from the press corps Wednesday when a pheasant jumped up and flew toward the reporters, drawing several shots. “That was too close,” he reports a cameraman saying.
[…]
Huckabee emerged happily from his hunt, three dead pheasants in tow, Oliphant reports. Asked for a metaphor to describe the hunt, he replied, “Don’t get in my way. This is what happens.”
Jose Antonio Vargas, of the Washington Post, wrote: Continue Reading »
Is there no end to how out-of-touch with reality a Congressman can be? Apparently not. Click here to watch the video. (hat-tip, LGF) Click here, or on the image below to watch the CNN video.
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What if Laura Bush starts running too? She’s got the same qualifications as Hillary, doesn’t she, and Hillary is rumored to be a shoe-in. By the same standards, Laura should also be a shoe-in, no? (hat-tip, Ross)
Red has a point. James Richardson of the RNC eCampaign addressed this issue yesterday:
Have you ever gone to an interview for a really fantastic job without your résumé?
Benazir is a former prime minister of Pakistan, who has lived much of her life since then in exhile, because of persecution by Islamic extremists, and was killed today, apparently in a suicide attack.
From Bloomberg:
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in an election-rally attack in Rawalpindi, threatening the stability of a nuclear-armed nation that is a focal point of the West’s war on terror.
At least 16 people died and more than 60 were injured in the gunfire-and-bomb attack on Bhutto’s rally, police said. The opposition leader, 54, had survived a previous attempt on her life when she returned from exile two months ago.
