If you are seeing this post -- great.  BlogDrive has been non-responsive to server issues for approximately one month now.  I and many others are subscribers (i.e., paying bloggers) and a bunch of free bloggers are not happy about the lack of reliability and responsiveness to our concerns. 

Meanwhile, I can neither see my posts nor post on the "help" board --- yet I CAN post. 

If you can read this, send an email (they haven't responded to mine) to the sluggards at BlogDrive and tell them I expect a refund.  And that I'm going away mad.

 to Blogs of War for this hilarious video ....

Oh, come on.  Think of it as a vicarious experience.  The video, that is.

Sigh.

If you are seeing this post -- great.  BlogDrive has been non-responsive to server issues for approximately one month now.  I and many others are subscribers (i.e., paying bloggers) and a bunch of free bloggers are not happy about the lack of reliability and responsiveness to our concerns. 

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I've spent most of the evening surfing liberal blogs -- simply to get an idea how some folks react to winning.  I must admit, even in victory, the majority are still lambasting GWB (aka BDS).  Go figure.

You'd think most left-wingers would be as giddy as children on Christmas Eve.  But no, I'm amazed at the raw, angry, continued bashing of GWB.  Golly -- if I hadn't stayed up and seen it for my own weary eyes, I'd swear most of these moonbat bloggers LOST! 

On that thought -- maybe they did.  The majority of Democrats who won Tuesday were at best moderates and social conservatives.  Blue dog Democrats, they're called.  Not exactly what many would have wanted, I suspect. 

It's going to be interesting to see if hardline libs (Pelosi, Kennedy, Reid, Murtha, Rangel, et al) can "house train" these to-the-left-of-center pups in just two years. 

Your paying subscribers want to know -- why are we experiencing so many outages?  If you cannot respond to trouble reports --- the very least you could offer is an "ALERT" when servers are down.  And the help forums?   They're (obviously) "fun" for social networking, but what about those who need technical support?

If you agree, readers --- blog AND email your concerns! 

You gotta hand it to Ann Coulter (better hand it to her before she hands you yours --) she knows how to predict and to analyze with wit and wisdom while bring out the beast in her targets. 

[Bold is my emphasis; my comments are in blue.]

History was made this week! For the first time in four election cycles, Democrats are not attacking the Diebold Corp. the day after the election, accusing it of rigging its voting machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.

That's because Bush doesn't own stock in Dibold.

So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least they don't have their finger on the atom bomb yet.

Let's wait to see if the libs siddle up to Chavez or one of those alphabet tyrants .... 

Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the impeachment of President Bush. They just won an election by pretending to be against all three.

I'll hold judgment for 100 days ....

Jon Tester, Bob Casey Jr., Heath Shuler, possibly Jim Webb -- I've never seen so much raw testosterone in my life. The smell of sweaty jockstraps from the "new Democrats" is overwhelming.

We may need a task force to watch for fanny-slaps and high-fives when these guys break huddle  ... errrr, caucus.

Having predicted this paltry Democrat win, my next prediction is how long it will take all these new "gun totin' Democrats" to be fitted for leotards.

Joe Namath made a second career wearing panty hose. If these folks are one-termers, more power to them.  But I digress.   So how long will it take for these "conservative-to-moderate" democrats to move to the left?

Now that they've won their elections and don't have to deal with the hicks anymore, Tester can cut lose the infernal buzz cut, Casey can start taking "Emily's List" money, and Webb can go back to writing more incestuously homoerotic fiction ... and just in time for Christmas!

If Allen calls for a re-count, Webb will have time to finish a final draft .... Forget that.  Allen may toss in the towel tonight.

But according to the media, this week's election results are a mandate for pulling out of Iraq (except in Connecticut where pro-war Joe Lieberman walloped anti-war "Ned the Red" Lamont).

OKOKOK.  Let's more on to a few historical realities.

In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" -- especially in the sixth year.

In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.

Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office.

But in the middle of what the media tell us is a massively unpopular war, the Democrats picked up about 30 House seats and five to six Senate seats in a sixth-year election, with lots of seats still too close to call. Only for half-brights with absolutely no concept of yesterday is this a "tsunami" -- as MSNBC calls it -- rather than the death throes of a dying party.

During eight years of Clinton -- the man Democrats tell us was the greatest campaigner ever, a political genius, a heartthrob, Elvis! -- Republicans picked up a total of 49 House seats and nine Senate seats in two midterm elections. Also, when Clinton won the presidency in 1992, his party actually lost 10 seats in the House -- only the second time in the 20th century that a party won the White House but lost seats in the House.

Meanwhile, the Democrats' epic victory this week, about which songs will be sung for generations, means that in two midterm elections Democrats were only able to pick up about 30 seats in the House and four seats in the Senate -- and that's assuming they pick up every seat that is currently too close to call. (The Democrats' total gain is less than this week's gain because Bush won six House and two Senate seats in the first midterm election.)

Yeah, but who's keep score?  Eh?

So however you cut it, this midterm proves that the Iraq war is at least more popular than Bill Clinton was.

Guess that puts a damper on the rumored House bill to proclaim November 8 "National Reclamation Day."

In a choice between Republicans' "Stay until we win" Iraq policy or the Democrats' "Stay, leave ... stay for a while then leave ... redeploy and then come back ... leave and stay ... cut and run ... win, lose or draw policy," I guess Americans prefer the Republican policy.

The Democrats say we need a "new direction" in Iraq. Yeah, it's called "reverse." Democrats keep talking about a new military strategy in Iraq. How exactly is cut-and-run a new strategy? The French have been doing it for years. The Democrats are calling their new plan for Iraq "Operation Somalia."

The Democrats certainly have their work cut out for them. They have only two years to release as many terrorists as possible and lock up as many Republicans  as they can. Republicans better get that body armor for the troops the Democrats are always carping about -- and fast. The troops are going to need it for their backs. 

Points well taken.  Hopefully Dims will accept the fact that GWB is the Commander-in-Chief and, as such, will make final decisions concerning a military presence in Iraq.  Best that they make their recommendations and move on to other issues for which they sense a mandate. 

And you can punch that into your Diebold, deary.

On a brighter note -- it appears that moderates (Dems and Repubs) were the true mid-term winners last night.  This could be a good omen .... the President should be able to make progress on several fronts.  Extremists (especially the far right -- with the exception of a few libs) are in the minority. 

Will moderates be strong enough to buck the extremists?  We'll watch closely.

I want to see how Pelosi performs in the next "100 Hours" (her reference, not mine) and see how she will drain the "GOP Swamp."  We'll know then (in a few hundred hours or so) if she and other extremists actually  "heard" the call for change.   For the record -- this independent doesn't think they did.

It ain't all about Bush, by the way .... Pelosi may also need to be reminded that voters expressed less "agreement" with politicians than they did with the President.  An even more watchful reality is that ACORN takes credit for registering several hundred thousand immigrant and homeless " special interest" voters for this mid-term election -- with an agenda of it's own.  Uh huh.  These include the voters without proper ID's, false addresses and who rise from the dead to vote.

I'm also keeping that list (posted in the previous post) handy .... Remember to remember

when your taxes go up,
when the economy flounders,
when gas prices skyrocket again,
when the job rate plummets,
as illegal immigrants continue to sap local resources,
as new "endowment" programs drain even more resources,
when Islamic extremists continue to threaten,
as nuclear proliferation comes closer to home,
as diplomacy meets reality,
when national security is compromised, 
as our troops continue to "do things" you've never heard about,
when the gun-control issue rears it's invasive head,
when free trade gets railroaded (again) by unions,
as mainstream media flows even more yellow,
as global posturing turns away from Israel,
as the "swing vote" comes from illegal immigrants and deceased registrants,
as partisan vendettas reach new heights and lows --

In case you didn't read this list (i.e., watermarks in the dimmie floodgate), of course. 
 

Gonna vote?  It's your choice. 

And, no -- you won't get a sudden "burst" of truth from the liberal media.  You never have.  The talking heads have been too busy telling you how bad things are.  They won't let up until 2008.  And if liberals win in 2008, expect it to continue.

And if you are still buying their crap --  stay home.  You deserve what you get. 

But if you DO stay home tomorrow and let critics continue to pour kool-aid on your cornflakes -- don't expect too many to listen for the next couple of years as you bitch and whine --

when your taxes go up,
when the economy flounders,
when gas prices skyrocket again,
when the job rate plummets,
as illegal immigrants continue to sap local resources,
as new "endowment" programs drain even more resources,
when Islamic extremists continue to threaten,
as nuclear proliferation comes closer to home,
as diplomacy meets reality,
when national security is compromised, 
as our troops continue to "do things" you've never heard about,
when the gun-control issue rears it's invasive head,
when free trade gets railroaded (again) by unions,
as mainstream media flows even more yellow,
as global posturing turns away from Israel,
as the "swing vote" comes from illegal immigrants and deceased registrants,
as partisan vendettas reach new heights and lows --

It's your choice.  Get off your whiny butts and vote.  Stand your ground --- rise above the hype and distractions or stay home and fume for the next two years -- and beyond.   

Me?  I  voted early. Here's one reason why.

So what's it gonna be?

From the gallows he pleads -- not for mercy, but .....

Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis on Sunday to reject the sectarian violence ripping his country apart and to "not take revenge" on US invaders, his chief lawyer said after the ousted leader was sentenced to death.

Awfully nice of him to think of his nation now. 

Hey -- if his plea will lessen the violence, keep the buzzard in a cage until the Iraqi government gets on its feet.

Then hang him.

source:  The JP.

We miss you, Roy.  And Gene.  And Tom.  And Tex.  And Buck.  And Wild Bill.  And Lash.  And Paladin.  And Matt.  And Rowdy.  And Audie.  And even Flash of sci-fi fame ... With Clark and his super-cronies .... .

And if you don't recognize those names, explaining wouldn't help you remember.

It's the birthday of the "King of the Cowboys," Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio (1911). When he was 18 he moved with his mother and father to California, where he earned money by harvesting fruit and working as a cowhand. He started playing guitar and singing in small theaters and on the radio in the 1930s. He met Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer, and they started the Sons of the Pioneers. The band made appearances in several motion pictures.

Rogers's first screen name was "Dick Weston." He changed it to Roy Rogers just before he got his first big break, replacing Gene Autry in the movie Under Western Stars (1938). The movie was a hit, and it launched Rogers's steady film career as a singing cowboy.

So much for cowboys of the 20th century and before -- those heroes of yester-year. 

Did you know that Ross Perot is a member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame?  Yep.  He sure is.  That scrawny little guy with the irritating voice is right up there with Roy and Gene and Hoppy and Clayton and all the others. 

NOTE: I didn't vote for him in THAT election, either!

H. Ross Perot, founder of Electronic Data Processing, Presidential candidate, National Cowboy Hall of Fame Inductee, trained horses and did rope tricks as a teenager. When Iranians arrested some of his employees, Perot organized a rescue. He became a billionaire when he sold EDP to General Motors. He made another huge chunk of money when GM paid him to get off the Board of Directors and quit asking embarrassing questions. His independent Presidential campaign in 1992 created panic among Republicans, Democrats, and news media.

And now into the 21st century rides another breed of cowboy ..... Reagan, Luke (Skywalker),Tom Selleck, Rambo, Clint, General (stuck-on-stupid) Honore and of course, this guy ...

Mosey on up to the comment bar, buckaroos, and name your own favorite cowboy (or cowgirl) ....

Yeeeee hawwwww. 

 [Oooops.  Lost my composure there for a second.]

Flashback:  Several years ago, I volunteered to join a  "real" cattle herd in Wyoming.  I have photos somewhere.  Don't make me prove it. 

Been there -- done that, by golly.  Ain't doing it again, either.  The pain (in muscles I never knew I had) in my posterior and legs was so severe, I had to hole up in a desolate motel for two days before I could climb into the jeep and drive home.  

Every time I recall that venture, I limp (similar to Gabby Hayes -- sans the beard) until the memory fades ..... 

Favorite sign at the Army - Air Force football game.

The score?

Military 1 - Kerry 0