Link of the day

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Your high-speed California choo-choo update can wait because there is something else that takes precedence (suffice to say, it will not be good news for California's high speed rail project. Hint: it just may have something to do with the fact that some very important people realize we have no money for which to build the damn thing).

We digress...

Leslie at Temple of Mut writes eloquently and passionately in her post My STEADFAST resolve to kick elite a$$. about how to best expend resources to effect political change in the most efficient manner possible.

Instead of giving some distant group money to do the work, I might suggest you donate to pundits proven to get the conservative message across (and help promote your local efforts). Think about the websites you read daily, and consider if they have ever linked to you or provided a solid platform to spread your message. These are people who have been forced to buy server access so their blogs don’t disappear on the whim of WordPress or Google.

I assert that the money I spent with these fabulous patriots will be 1000 times for effectively used than it would be if I sent it to some central planning committee — who would then use it to hire limos that take them to deluxe resorts for conferences with elite, politically connected pundits.

Leadership and organization are extremely important but the days of dictates, fiats and top-down planning are long gone. Technology has allowed us to make end-arounds the established protocols and business-as-usual template for effecting change.

This extends to even the tea party itself where the inevitable internecine squabbles have broken out regarding policy and tactics. It's all good: no movement is without these struggles and it helps shape and define who it is we are and what we want to accomplish.

Before we are accused of rambling, please just go to the link to get the rest of the story.

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The Medium is the Message

Since we’re grading on a curve here, we are cautiously optimistic about Obama’s cabinet and advisor picks. But if us raping and pillaging brigands on the right feel this way, we got to figure our friends on the other side of the aisle might feel a little uneasy about all of Obama’s unchange-i-ness so we checked in at the nerve center of the online liberal-Left, Daily Kos and found unrestrained outrage… actually we didn’t. We found some giving of thanks… not for the troops or for this wonderful country of our but thanks that their guy won the election and for the defeat of conservative ideas because, well, they suck! OK, then.

And we did find this article from Kathleen Parker of WaPo who seems to typify the efforts of the journalisti of lowering of the bar of change to help smooth things out for the President-elect. Besides the near pathological obsession many liberals have with making sure the rest of the world “likes us”, which it is implied that that through the sheer awesomeness of Obama is guaranteed to happen, she argues that Obama’s “style” is change in and of itself and specifically with respect to the African-American community.

Again, setting aside specific policies, Obama's example could have society-altering effects, especially in the African American community. By his example, he telegraphs the following messages: Being smart is good; education is good; being a good father is essential. Being an egghead is cool.

We heard this line of reasoning during the campaign and we are not entirely disbelieving of it (recall the YouTube video of several black teens “stepping” and rapping off lines like, “because of Obama, I am going to own my own business” and “because of Obama, I am going to go to college” – sorry, no link, can’t find it.). Maybe the mere fact that a black man who exudes a somewhat detached wonkishness and nerdiness and who will be the President of the United States in a couple of months can take a wrecking ball to the notion that getting good grades is “acting white”.

If Bill Clinton can raise the bar for what constitutes as “having sex” for millions of teenagers back in the 90s, lowering the bar for Obama and “change” means he will merely have to serve as a surrogate father to millions of African-American youths who are absent their own father. For the sake of Obama’s apologists and water-carriers in the media, we wish him well.