Shaun Kenney

Hilarious. Or absolutely embarassing.

(h/t to TWSoMB)

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About time, though sadly some pro-abortion Catholics are intent and focused on receiving (and thereby politicizing) the Eucharist.

It’s sad, really…

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald brings up a question that is often debated but rarely as focused upon as it would be in any other organization… except Google:

Some have interpreted the ceaseless criticisms of Google’s privacy policies and its co-operation with totalitarian regimes as a sign the Don’t Be Evil goal is unattainable for a profit-driven company. At the very least, the corporate motto has encouraged the public and the press to hold Google to a higher standard.

“It really wasn’t like an elected, ordained motto,” Google’s vice-president and 20th employee, Marissa Mayer, said in an interview during her trip to Sydney last week.

“I think that ‘Don’t Be Evil’ is a very easy thing to point at when you see Google doing something that you personally don’t like; it’s a very easy thing to point out so it does get targeted a lot.”

I certainly hope that Google isn’t backpedaling from its “don’t be evil” motto — unordained or not.

In fact, as a motto it forces Google employees to seriously think of the consequences of their work. Above all else, as a user it certainly enables me to trust Google to do the right thing… depending on how Google chooses to define “evil”.

Mike Farris is heading up ParentalRights.org, an effort to protect the child-parent relationship from the long arm of the government:

Only a constitutional amendment will ensure that the courts of our nation protect the fundamental right of parents to raise their children. And only a constitutional amendment will override international law that seeks to undermine the parental role. As the only complete solution to the danger confronting the child-parent relationship, the Parental Rights Amendment will place current Supreme Court doctrine protecting parental rights into the explicit text of the Constitution. Only a constitutional amendment completely eliminates all threats to the child-parent relationship. It is the only comprehensive response to the attack on parental rights across our nation.

I have a name for such amendments. They’re called “Sky Is Blue” amendments, because while it makes perfect and total sense to most of us, to our legal system we have to spell it out in clear and precise terms that the sky is — indeed — blue.

Writing in Newsweek, columnist George Will speculates on the effects of a Bob Barr candidacy in 2008:

Shane Cory, the Libertarian Party’s executive director, knows that directing libertarians is like herding cats—almost a contradiction in terms. But he thinks his party is upwardly mobile. In 2004, its presidential candidate received just 397,265 votes, a mere .32 percent of the national popular vote. The party did best in Indiana (18,058 votes, .73 percent). But in no state was the Libertarian vote larger than the winning candidate’s margin of victory. This year, however, Cory thinks the party can far surpass its best national performance—921,299 votes (1.1 percent of the total) in 1980. It has recruited 600 down-ballot candidates around the nation (including Michael Munger, chairman of the political-science department at Duke, who is running for governor of North Carolina) and expects to have 1,500 by Election Day.

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Barr’s new party (he joined in 2006) also is handicapped by John McCain’s handiwork. One wealthy libertarian would give $1 million if the McCain-Feingold law regulating political participation did not ban contributions of more than $28,500 to national parties. Another wealthy libertarian—he is dead, so he has none of the supposedly corrupt purposes that make McCain so cross—bequeathed more than $200,000 to the party. That would fund the ballot access struggles, but it is in escrow because of McCain-Feingold. If libertarian voters cost McCain the presidency, that will be condign punishment.

I know D.J. McGuire has strong feelings that a Barr ticket helps (not hurts) McCain… but as Will explains, the elements are there for the LP to bring some heat. If certain Libertarians disenchanted with the straightjacket of McCain-Feingold decide to turn those millions into 527 money, this becomes a whole new ballgame…

DPVA gets kudos over at Democratic Central for their newly minted ED Levar Stoney.

I hope this isn’t the same Levar Stoney cited here:

Two key prosecution witnesses testifying about the tire-slashing incident at Republican Party headquarters on Election Day 2004 said yesterday they heard the five accused Milwaukeeans brag of the deed.

But defense attorneys also were able to get Levar Stoney, of Virginia, and Leshaunda Joy Williams, of New York, to admit they lied to Milwaukee Police Department interrogators shortly after the Nov. 2, 2004 incident in order to safely flee the city. Stoney and Williams both were in Milwaukee to help hype Dem turnout in the final weeks of the Kerry-Edwards presidential bid.

Both Stoney and Williams told the FBI in subsequent interviews that they heard most of the five men brag about their role in the slashing of tires on nearly 100 vehicles rented by the GOP.

Of course, all denied involvement… until the FBI got involved. See here and here for the hand-washing performed afterwards:

On election day, Simmons spoke with Mohammad, who said he was going to get an article about the tire slashing that was on the Journal Sentinel’s Web site and frame it. “Simmons stated that he interpreted this as a sort of ‘you can’t catch me’ type statement by defendant Mohammad,” the complaint reads.

Another election worker, Levar Stoney, told an FBI agent in Virginia that he had been “taunted” for dropping out of Operation Elephant Takeover but that the five defendants talked afterward about how many tires each had stabbed while Mohammad ran interference, the criminal complaint says.

What happened afterwards was a political who-shot-John, with both sides (namely, the in-state and out-of-state Democrats) pointing fingers at one another as to who performed Operation Elephant:

Prosecutors say the five defendants left the Democratic campaign office at about 3:30 a.m. the morning of the election and slashed the tires of the vans around the perimeter of a dirt parking lot to prevent the GOP efforts.

Lawyers for the five defendants, however, say the national “political operatives” are in fact slashed the tires and then, when authorities began speaking with them, pointed their fingers at the five defendants to save their political careers.

The testimony of Smith and her three out-of-state co-workers, Myesha Ward, Levar Stoney and Lashaunda Williams generally echoed previous statements of Opel Simmons III, an earlier witness and the leader of the get-out-the-vote group who told jurors of the defendants’ behavior after the alleged slashing.

But like Simmons, the witnesses all admitted to lying to police in the hours after the slashing and then changing their stories in interviews with FBI agents during the months after the election.

Let’s hope we get a committment from Mr. Stoney that this style of politicking stays in Wisconsin — not in Virginia.

Phil Chroninger is back!

I have to blog again…can you blame me? I mean, in times like these, I have to cling to my blog, because I’m just a typical small-town resident who is bitter.

One of my favorite bloggers in Virginia, to be honest.

Nicely done.

Crown Royal to be precise, which isn’t a bad choice at all.

Of course, if McCain or Obama were caught drinking hard liquor… watch out!

Bad news if true for the Camp Gilmore. Of course, delegate counts are notoriously off… and in the end, it’s not who signs up — it’s who shows up at the end of the day that wins.