A Warm Welcome to a New Co-Blogger

You may have seen the first post by my new co-blogger Conservative Chick With a Bone to Pick. She's going to be the smart counterpoint to the drivel I usually write.  She's talented and I know you'll see some excellent content.

Back when I owned my own business, I could write a bunch of posts. Hell, I was the friggin boss, who was gonna stop me, right? But then I wasn't working for myself anymore and couldn't write them and writing on a cell phone five years ago wasn't nearly as easy as it is today...but I digress.

Please welcome her and feel free to comment. I know it will take a while to gain back an audience but if you read this, come back and read again tomorrow...and the next day.

What's Keeping Me From Blogging

The main things taking up my time are coaching baseball and a large consulting project I'm currently involved with.

On the baseball end, it's tournaments every weekend in places as wide ranging as southern Maryland, Rehoboth, DE and all over Pennsylvania where the bitter people who cling to guns and religion live. It's a blast but takes all me time.

On the consulting end, I'm currently involved in a major site remediation effort which can can be viewed daily by clicking here.

Think Progress Caught Being Lazy Again

It's getting to the point that each and every Think Regress Progress post must be fact-checked to be sure they even did one iota of investigation or lifted a finger to click onto Google and check the facts. There's this thing called a phone, Amanda. Use it before printing lies and save yourself the embarrassment.

Anyway, Michael Goldfarb breaks it down:

Well, it isn't true. Think Progress provides the video, but at no point does McHenry indicate that the "security guard" is an American soldier. In fact, if Amanda had bothered to call McHenry's office, she would have learned that the security guard was one of the foreign contractors so reviled by the left--an individual who in any other circumstance Amanda would likely label a "mercenary."

He then goes on to show the text of the statement from Rep. McHenry and tears down any legitimacy blogger Amanda had left after the McCain/plagiarism kerfuffle.

Now, McHenry probably should not have labeled the man "two bit" but next to our military men and women, every contractor seems "two bit". Of course Amanda wouldn't have a clue about that as she would rather demean our troops than actually talk to any of them. Perhaps she should try it sometime and she'll discover that many are highly educated and can carry on an intelligent conversation with anyone, including a hyper-educated liberal who thinks she's smarter than anyone else.

Props to Goldfarb for his backhand slam at Markos "Screw Them" Moulitsas as well.

Saint Patty's Day Links

Terry features a BBC piece on the key players in the run-up to the Iraq war and finds the Beeb's memory lacking.

Tailrank is a nice site for breaking news. I highly recommend it.

To mark the day Maggie's Farmer Bird Dog links to a corned beef and cabbage recipe. Us Micks love that in between sips of stout.

Irishblogs is a site to find...well, Irish Blogs.

Alright all, I'm going to do what all good micks do on St. Patty's Day (and most other days).

Rick Moran goes on (and on...) about capitalism and conservatives.

Alright all, I'm going to do what all good Micks do on St. Patty's Day (and most others it seems).

Lazy Blogging Linkfest

It's Saturday, it's raining and long posts are for weekdays. Here's a few good read:

Karl Rove smacks Pelosi and Reid upside the head over taxes the current do-nothing Congress.

Spanish King tells Hugo Chavez to "shut up". King Juan Carlos is my new hero.

Eliot Spitzer is obeying his Democratic party betters by backing down on license plan.

Now this just creeps me the hell out.

Good, let the bastards kill each other. It saves us the cost of ammo.