Why the Hell can’t you leave me alone with a nice cuppa? -Chuck Heston.

AC/DC, the great Australian rock band, actually prefers and longs for, a nice cup of tea back stage. It’s true. They’re not boozers, but perhaps surprisingly typical Australians of Scottish immigrant background teetotallers.

Hey, man I heard there was some really hot tea brewin’! Hey, there is? Aah, Ceylon Gold leaf. -A lost beatnik.

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Oklahoma Opens Its Books - Spending Transparency Website Goes Live

OkieCampaigns: “Sen. Brogdon said the program was modeled on a new federal law by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn which will allow citizens to track the use of federal dollars.”

Mashable: 12 Things To Do Online Before The End Of 2007

• Back up your files
• Buy a new computer
• Consolidate your email accounts
• Start your Diet
• Donate to a charity
• Get your finances in order
• Get your legal affairs in order
• Home safety
• Prepare your New Year’s Resolutions
• Reconnect with an old friend
• Update your Social networking profiles
• Update your resume

Katherine is a member of several conservative groups on MySpace including GOP Republicans, Hawkish Republicans, Right Thoughts, Right Action, Just Right, and College Republicans. Continue Reading »

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):

• Customizable dashboard
• Clean interface
• Visitor details
• Track custom data
• API (Application Program Interface)
• TagClouds, Data export
• Track outbound links
• Track file downloads
• Stats via RSS
• Real time stats
• FeedBurner integration
• Google Maps integration
• IP Tagging, IP Filtering
• Works with visitors who have JavaScript disabled
• Secure web site support (SSL/HTTPS)
• Full dynamic referer tracking
• Public statistics
• Affiliate system that rewards you for sharing Clicky*

Check it out!

*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)

SitRep Archive

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.

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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.

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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.

Facebook Launches Community-Driven Project to Add Foreign Language Support

Facebook is turning to their own platform and community to help translate the site into other languages. The company has launched an app called “Translations,” that is a community effort to make the site available in your language of choice.

WalMart Introduces Search Engine Marketing

Specifically with the AdSense program, WalMart wants to help unsuspecting newbie wares sellers on the internet with their advertising program.

USA Wake Up.org - Main Page

You awake each day to the Muslim muezzin call to prayer from the neighborhood mosque - as millions of Europeans already do. Liberals espouse “diversity is our strength” as Islamic enforcers cruise the cities…

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

The list is ordered by program function rather than merit so you’ll get the most out of it by browsing down this page at leisure. The pathologically impatient can consult the index below.

Tiffany is a swimsuit model and a hot blond. She is a member of “Red Blooded Americans” on MySpace which espouses a borders, language, and culture Republican philosophy. Despite the political affiliation, her interests are more within her modeling career. Continue Reading »

Neoformix has developed a free online big/small text generator. You simply put in the text you want to be “big” and the text you want to be “small,” and voila! Below is an example using “FHK” for the “Big” text, and “Ft. Hard Knox” for the “small.”

Note: The only problem with this is that it is not possible to save the resulting image directly to a file. To transfer the image to your blog, e-mail, etc., you’ll need to capture a screen print, and paste it into your photo editing software.

To create your own big/small text graphic in seconds, click here.

SitRep Archive

As fellow blogger, Gribbit, reminded us by e-mail today, Christmas is, in fact, NOT over…there are 12 days to Christmas and today is the third. (Did everyone get their three french hens?) So to honor the third day of Christmas, here is a little video. Yes, the singing is bad, but be sure to watch to the end. (hat-tip, Political Toast)

Now I’m a Southern guy, so I can appreciate a southern accent – but does that constitute electability? If so, I may have a future in presidential politics (so long as Senator Clinton doesn’t find my Kindergarten journal and coloring book). Am I the only one who thinks the ultimate sign of desperation on the campaign trail is the necessity to resort to one’s accent? At recent town hall events, namely in New Hampshire and Iowa, Democrat Presidential candidate John Edwards is attempting to garner supporters, donations, and caucus goers because he said “The last two Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, both talk like me.” It seems to me like this tactic is about as useful as a pogo-stick in quicksand. What ever happened to meaningful debates and substance

More below the fold.

Let’s review the playbook for the Democrat Presidential candidates (they’re all using the same one; I think they just give them away at MoveOn rallies) Step 1 – Blame Bush; Step 2 – Blame Bush; Step 3 – Shake things up and blame Cheney; Step 4 – “Accidentally” list endorsements who aren’t endorsing you (This one’s for you Senator Obama); Step 5 – Claim originality; Step 6 – Whip out that Southern twang (Yes, I’m talking to you too, Senator Clinton).

Oh, and John Edwards may ”sound” like Presidents Clinton and Carter, but I wonder if they get $300 haircuts too?

If Senator Edwards continues on this track I expect to see his next campaign video featuring tunes from “Gone with the Wind.”