Most Influential Blog Awards – Rules And Nominations

Blush.  Chris, stand up guy and Pretty Fly for a Jersey Guy, blogger has awarded me this little distinction.  

There’s an award badge:

There is no actual voting, it’s just a fun way to bring recognition to other blogs and bloggers that are out there.

Here are the rules:

1. Display the award logo on your blog.

2. Link back to the person who nominated you

3. Answer 7 questions decided up by your nominator

4. Nominate ( no limit of nominations ) other bloggers for this award and link back to them.

5. Notify those bloggers of the award requirements.

Wait, there’s work involved? Let’s see, 1 and 2 are already done. 4 and 5 are easy. So on to number 3!

1. Why did you start a political blog, and when?  I started my blog in April of 09.  While attending some meetings about conservative activism in Northern Virginia, someone explained that conservatives voices were not heard as often and that it would also help formulate my thoughts better.  So I dipped my toe in and have found it be almost an obsession.  

2. If you could have dinner with any person, living or dead, who would it be?

It is hard to narrow it down to just one, but I am thinking Michelangelo.  In a college course I took I had to write a paper on how I thought he would view the world today, it was a very enjoyable paper to research and write.  

3. Do you think there is any hope of restoring the United States to a constitutional republic in your lifetime?

Sadly, no. But I do think it will happen.  I don't see the alternative.  I do think that we can make strides towards it, but it won't be complete in my lifetime.  

4. If you could choose one state for Conservatives to “take over” and reshape into a vision of America congruent with Constitutional / Conservative principles, what state would you choose and why?

Well, I just recently moved back to my home state of Connecticut.  So that is as good as place as any to start.  I think having a conservative state in deep blue New England would be vital towards moving us back to a Constitutional Republic.  

5. If you could retire anywhere, on or off the planet Earth, where would it be?

Oh boy.  I simply love living on the water.  While I love Hawaii, I think that whole 6 hours by plane to get off the island isn't something I could live with daily, I would have to go with Key West, minus the hurricanes of course.  

6. What book has influenced your life (other than the Bible or Torah) and describe how?

While this may be a strange pick for a conservative, The Drifters by James Michener.  It is a story of a group of people from very diverse backgrounds who find their way to each other during the late sixties in Spain.  The U.S. political unrest and the Vietnam War are backdrops to the story. The characters travel around and by the end figure out their places in the world.  I read it when I was 19 and had such influence on me that I started to travel and even went and lived in Israel later that year.  

7. iPhone, Droid, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone?

none of the above.  

On to my nominations:

BeccaLower.com

Marooned in Marin 

Pundit and Pundette

The Daley Gator

Nice Deb

Victory Girls

Their seven questions are:

1. How do you stay motivated to blog?  

2. Who is your personal hero and why?  

3. What is your biggest political pet peeve?  

4. I.R.S., Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Reporter Snooping, and NSA Snooping.  What do you think is the biggest scandal and why?  

5. Who is your early pick for 2016?  

6. Do you think that Hillary Clinton will make another run for the presidency?  

7. Coke or Pepsi?  

Occupy Wall Street Quote of the Day - Ah, The Irony

Apparently, they are having some theft problems at poopalooza.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.


“I had my Mac stolen — that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Now, what are the chances that she paid for that $5K computer herself?  I have this feeling it was a gift from Mommy and Daddy.  She is 18 years old and doesn't seem to have a job or classes to go to.  She can spend her time at "protesting" the dirty rich. 

I can't afford to spend almost 6 grand on a computer. 

So Nan, since you can afford a computer that is that expensive and I can't, it is only "fair" that someone else in need gets it.  After all, that is what spreading the wealth is all about.  You have more than others, so you have to share.  Even if it is taken by force. 

Dumb asses. 
H/T to Nice Deb

Remember That Emailed Death Threat to WI Lawmakers? Unions Various and Sundry

The news came that an arrest has been made to the e-mailed death threat that was sent to republican lawmakers in the Wisconsin legislator.  Sadly, not only is she young (26), but she is teacher.  Not just a teacher, but an early education teacher.  Don't remember this story? 

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and the people that support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand for it any longer. So, this is how it’s going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records.


We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process

If you and your goonies feel that it’s necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you

What is really sad is sad fact that she more than likely will not lose her credentials and will be allowed to continue to be around very young children.  She is working with pre-school aged children.  This woman has no business being around young children.  On top of the fact that she is obviously deranged, she isn't too bright to think she wouldn't be caught.  Hasn't she ever heard of IP addresses? 


H/T to Underground Conservative and Another Black Conservative. 

You can also click over to Nice Deb and read some stories on how the unions are using thug like tactics in order to get local businesses to support their viewpoints.  Although it seems that there is a blow back going on. 

What liberals refuse to see when it comes to unions is that they are not interested in helping the "average working person" they only care about power and money. 

The unions are trying to boycott Koch's businesses, but are finding out that the Koch's actually have a good working relationships with unions in the private sector.  Conservative objections to unions have to do with how they hold taxpayer hostages with their demands.  It has nothing to do with the workers themselves. 

A number of organizations are advocating a boycott of the products that come from companies owned by the Koch family. This is problematic for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it could potentially hurt the wrong people.


The Koch brothers own Georgia Pacific. It is an American consumer goods company that makes everyday products like facial tissue, napkins, paper towels, paper cups and the like. Their plants are great examples of American advanced manufacturing. Incidentally, GP makes most of its products here in America. The company’s workforce is highly unionized. In fact, 80 percent of its mills are under contract with one or more labor union. It is not inaccurate to say that these are among the best-paid manufacturing jobs in America.

Read the whole post here, it was written by the man who does the bargaining for paper workers.  There is no reliable connection to the Koch brothers and Gov. Walker of Wisconsin.  Their PAC gave him a minuscule part of the money he raised (less than 1%) for his election bid, and they have never met.  Yet, the unions are pushing unsuspecting people into boycotting Georgia Pacific products that will only end up hurting the very workers they say they are trying to protect.  People who are some of the most highly paid manufacturing workers in the country.   Yeah, boycott that company.  You will cause layoffs for people who have nothing to do with what is going on in Wisconsin and make no difference to the bank account of the Koch's.  Good idea.  Even this man goes a long way in verifying the story that the Koch brothers are not at all what they are being made out to be.  The left just may have to find another boogey man.  What the record shows is that the Koch's businesses follow the law and believe in compliance with the law.  As American citizens they have the right to exercise their rights and get involved in the political process.  Their PAC is something that is not directly tied to their businesses.  It is a personal venture that they have every legal right to do.  The political process in only a very small part of the charitiable works that they involve themselves with.  The vast majority of their money goes to medical research, hospitials, and the arts. 

This presents a dilemma and a paradox. While the Koch brothers are credited with advocating an agenda and groups that are clearly hostile to labor and labor’s agenda, the brothers’ company in practice and in general has positive and productive collective bargaining relationships with its unions

And let us not forget that if you have the audacity to follow the law and get rid of illegal workers this is what the left will do to you: