Fellow Conservative,
I need your immediate attention.
This is so important I didn’t even take the time to format this email.
The DCCC (the Democrat’s top campaign operation) just released the names of races they are targeting funds for in 2012 as part of their national ‘Red to Blue’ campaign to take back the majority in the House of Representatives. This may come as no surprise- but my Democrat opponent was added to the ‘Red to Blue’ program as an emerging race.
The ‘Red to Blue’ program highlights top Democratic campaigns across the country, and offers them financial, communications, grassroots, and strategic support.
The DCCC has raised over $107 million this election cycle alone- and that number is sure to grow. Those millions are being thrown into races like mine, and when you combine that with my opponent’s wealth of over $111 million- one thing is for certain- this race is going to be costly and quite a challenge.
The Democrats along with the liberal media would love to see my campaign be defeated in November. They are clearly pulling out all the stops to see our conservative values be conquered this fall, but I know that our campaign has something they don’t yet know about- YOU. Your support has carried our campaign this far- and will carry us to victory this fall.
In order to show the DCCC the strength of our campaign – I need your immediate support.
Our primary is Tuesday, and our campaign has set a goal of raising $250,000 in the next 5 days. This is a steep goal- but your donation of $25, $50, $100 or more today will ensure we reach it. Please follow this link to make a contribution today.
I took off my politically correct glasses a long time ago. I am never afraid to say what is right and stand up to the “good ol’ boys” in Washington who have mismanaged our government for too long. I am not running for Congress because I want to climb a political ladder or win a popularity contest, but I am running for re-election so I can continue to stand up for our conservative values.
Our constitutional conservative campaign cannot afford to cede a single inch of ground to President Barack Obama and my liberal opponent this summer. With our primary less than a week away- your support is needed now more than ever.
As you know, the Democrats have cherry-picked a self-funding, multi-millionaire to oppose me in my re-election to Congress. My opponent is able to pour his own millions into his campaign — but I am relying on the donations of supporters like you today.
The fastest way to make a contribution to our campaign is by donating online. Please stand with our campaign and make a donation today.
Our conservative values are on the line this election. We must do everything we can to ensure they are not defeated.
– Michele
P.S. You and I have watched in abject horror as President Obama and the Democrats have wrought havoc on our liberty and our economic prosperity over the last three and a half years. If the Democrats take back the majority in Congress, reinstall Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and re-elect a lame-duck President Obama, the damage would be incalculable. We cannot allow that! Show your support by making a contribution of $25, $50, $100 or more today.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Mitt Romney, get your hand out of my pocket!
Hahahahaha…
Ooops.
NASA did an amazing thing a few days ago, landing a big giant amazing Science Robot on the Angry Red Planet, Mars. But to get to that point, to have The Ultimate Omelette, as it were, you’ve got to break a few eggs.
Here is what an egg looks like when NASA breaks it:
It doesn’t just sit there and burn…it keeps blowing up and stuff, so you may want to watch the whole video if you missed the Fourth of July.
This is/was the Morpheus Lander.
Morpheus is a vertical test bed vehicle demonstrating new green propellant propulsion systems and autonomous landing and hazard detection technology. Designed, developed, manufactured and operated in-house by engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the Morpheus Project represents not only a vehicle to advance technologies, but also an opportunity to try out “lean development” engineering practices.
So, it’s a good thing. I’m sure they’ll get it right, eventually.
Reminds me of my youth.
AVM is now on Kindle and Nook
Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories
Snapshots from Mars
A whole bunch of photographs rom Mars have bee posted by NASA, here. I thought the following one was pretty cool because it shows how accommodating the Martians are, cleaning the dust off the lens and all.
Is Scripps News Service out of control?
If corporations are people, there is an argument that Scripps News Service should have a restraining order placed on it. The news service repeatedly took down the hourly postings by NASA, made by NASA, on the NASA YouTube channel, because they thought somehow, by mistake, that NASA was violating Scripps News Service’s rights. Later, Scripps News Service apologized, but that is not enough. No apology can undo the fact that an ongoing real time event was repeatedly disrupted by what can only be seen as a grave error.
Imagine that there is an event happening where getting certain information out to the public is vitally important. Something that a future CDC would do, or something about an ongoing weather event, and Scripps News Service or some other similar corporation blunders along and causes the deletion of vital information because it has a policy of over-reacting? Oh, and it does have a policy of over-reacting; this is not the first time Scripps News Service has done something like this.
YouTube needs to fix its Copyright Robot, the Congress and similar agencies worldwide have to fix Copyright law, and Scripps News Service needs to start wearing an ankle bracelet.
Did Pat Robertson Just Accuse ‘Atheists’ of the Oak Creek Massacre?
… and uncounted other unspecified violent attacks? Apparently so (HT Hemant)
OMG Look at this: Curiosity photographed while landing!
Curiosity landed on Mars last night (I assume you were watching). Well, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to take a picture of Curiosity with its parachute! This is so cool. Look: Continue reading OMG Look at this: Curiosity photographed while landing!
Oak Creek Wisconsin
The last time I was in Oak Creek Wisconsin, it consisted mainly of field after field after field of corn. The soil was clay-rich, most likely representing a modified Pleistocene lake-bed. Although there are surely some interesting prehistoric sites in the area, the excavation of a few hundred test pits by a crew of us failed to yield anything of interest. Now, when I look at Google Map I can see that the development for which that archaeology was being done has happened and Oak Creek is no longer fields, and is now pretty much connected directly to Milwaukee by suburban sprawl.
White guys with guns seem to be a real problem. Isn’t there something we can do about that?
At least six people were killed Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, authorities said. The suspected shooter was later killed in exchange of gunfire with police.
Police were called to the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in the suburb of Oak Creek on Sunday morning, when witnesses said several dozen people were gathering for a service.
Police in Wisconsin say one suspect has been “put down” outside a Sikh temple and they do not know if other shooters are inside the building Authorities were called to the temple Sunday morning with a report of shots fired.
Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt said the first officer to arrive encountered a man police believe was the shooter. The two exchanged gunfire, and the suspect was killed, he said.
For the last shooting, in Colorado, a lot of people took the effort to tell other people what to not say after it happened. They were not disagreeing with the comments being made, they were just saying that they knew a Magic Number that no one else seemed to know, a magic number of days after which it would be OK to speak your mind after a heart-numbing tragedy like this one.
The problem with telling people shut up until the right time has arrived (aside from the fact that the “right time” is made up and the “proper” delay is arbitrary) is that the next shooting by some white guy with guns may well happen before the Magic Number of days has passed. What do we do then?
Romney: Most out of touch ever.
You know the Obama campaign is ahead, but also running low on money. Send them something!
Live Blogging the Olympics
OK, I only have a minute to watch while I’m having lunch.
A women’s basketball game has just ended.
Americans playing Olympic basketball is like kids pulling the legs off grasshoppers.
“So, are you ready for your next game, do you have any strategy?”
“I don’t even know who we’re playing. I only need to know who the next team we’re playing is.”
“So, do you know who you’re playing next?”
“No, I don’t even know that.”
“You’ll be playing Canada.”
“OK, whatever.”
Hahaha. The American Women’s basketball team just beat whomever they were just playing (nobody can remember) by 46 points. In games between US basketball teams and anyone else at the Olympics, that would be considered close.
This year, I heard that instead of awarding the Americans the Gold Medals in a ceremony they just sent them by post a couple of weeks ago.
That reminds me, did you see the American Flag fall off the thingie yesterday when Serena Williams was getting her medal? She LOL’s through the whole National Anthem.
Which reminds me. A large number of politicians gathered in Saint Paul yesterday to unveil a new stature of Hubert Humphrey. The news kept cutting live to the event. First they cut in and Senator Klobuchar was speaking. Then, they cut in later and it was Bill Clinton. The very moment they cut in, the former President ducked and made a move towards the floor like he was being assassinated or something, and there was other strange movement on the grainy low quality TV image by people behind him. It turns out the American flag had fallen on him (it was windy). Without skipping a beat, Bill reached down, picked it up of the floor and righted it, and said…
“… which reminds me; Years ago this happened to the Senator in our state when he was giving a speech, and he set the flag up and said ‘I nearly gave my life fighting for that flag…it would be bad if it killed me now.'” or words to that effect.
Anyway, For you young folks, you need to know this: There used to be two countries that could play basketball: The US and the USSR. The USSR didn’t really play basketball, but they hated the Americans (it was mutual) and wanted to beat them at their own game so they measured everyone and found the 10,000 tallest Russians and sent them to a Gulag (which is a kind of department store but you can’t leave) and made them play basketball with each other until there were only a couple of dozen left, and that was the team that could beat the capitalist running dog Americans. And they didn’t. And that is the origin story of Olympic Basketball.
And that is exactly where the phrase “Dream Team” comes from. The US team was the Dream Team.
“…Great last minute correction, to makes sure his horse is back on his hox to get ready for Nelson’s Column..”
wut?
They just said a guy’s rain broke. They said his groom is in big trouble. He’s going to beat his groom. Is that a euphemism for something? I hope so.
OMG this horse thing is mind numbing. I’ve seen it in real life and it is not mind numbing in real life. Must be the that the color commentary is in black and white or something.
It is also funny that the American sports commenters call the buses in London “Double Decker Tourist Buses.” True, double deckers are very often tourist buses in various places around the world one finds them, but in London, those are the buses.
OK, lunch is over.
Genetics of Genius, Sunday Funnies, and Other Matters
This evening, Skeptically Speaking will have Sam Kean, author of The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Sunday Funnies are here.
And while you are over there, check out Atheism 101 and the latest crazy from our friends on the other side of the culture war that they imagine exists.
Curiosity Cam. Don't miss seven minutes of terror.
You can watch along with NASA and see briefings and stuff on Curiosity Cam. The Exploratorium also has a page with a web case and various videos.
In case you haven’t seen the Seven Minutes of Terror video, here it is:
Updates and a countdown clock will be found here on the NASA site.
Amazing news about Florine Gas and CaF2
A newly-published paper reveals how highly-reactive Fluorine Gas has been found in nature, due do a process which takes place within fluorite.
Is it appropriate to use the term "Pygmy" when speaking of…Pygmies?
