Link of the day

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RightKlik over at Left Coast Rebel has a Republican primary straw poll but it's not the type you think. You are not voting for who you like the most but rather who you like the least. Yes, we're going Survivor here and voting people off GOP Island! And talk about a target rich environment!


Get ye over there and join in the fun, here.

We'll check back in and redirect as necessary during the winnowing process.


buh-bye, Newt.





* As Reagan/Goldwater conservatives merely squatting in that half-way house that is today's Republican Party, we got a a kick out of that logo. Besides, as far as the chosen symbols go with respect to our personal preferences, 4 out of 5 is pretty damn good.

Follower blog post of the day

Our opportunity to show some gratitude and show off the blog work of one of our followers.


Leslie at Temple of Mut has a few words on rising fuel prices (which have far-reaching effects on just about everything else we use/purchase in our daily lives), seemingly bogus poll results circulating around California showing that Californians are open to tax increases in order to shore up the state's budget deficit and the potentiality of bar keeps mixing iodide in their beer to get out ahead of Japan's radioactive cloud heading our way.

We asked Sarah, the beer director at The Neighborhood if there was indeed any naturally ocurring iodide in beer. She gave a skeptical look and informed us that it was highly doubtful. Perhaps, but who are we to take any chances?

The rest of Leslie's thoughts, here.

Not of us

So, you still think that epic American Spectator piece by Angelo Codevilla regarding the gap between the ruling class and the country class was a tad hyperbolic and representative of overheated rhetoric?

First, check this out. Rasmussen reports:

Eighty-six percent (86%) of voters nationwide say there should be “limits on what the federal government can do.” A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only nine percent (9%) believe the federal government should be allowed to do most anything in this country.

86%! That's comforting. But isn't it a little disconcerting, still, to know that nearly one in 10 people in this country are fine with totalitarianism if it comes to that? Who would those people be?

But, of course!

These views are overwhelming shared across virtually all partisan and demographic lines.

The only exception is America’s Political Class. By a 54% to 43% margin, the Political Class believes the federal government should be allowed to do most anything. Mainstream voters reject that view by a 94% to three percent (3%) margin.

94 to 3. Much better.

Go to the link and find out more about just how wide this gap is.

Stay ungovernable, friends.




Addendum #1: Liberated from the comment section as we were on the same wave length but were not capable of the verbal turn. Our pal KT, finishes our thought:

Your last line begs to be rewritten in the tone of The Most Interesting Man in the World.

"I don't always get politically involved, but when I do, I prefer to join Tea Parties. Stay ungovernable, my friends."

H/T: Hot Air

Calling B.S.

So, what's bugging us today?

An Associated Press-Univision Poll has found that big majorities of Latinos consider illegal immigrants a boon to the United States and condemn Arizona's new law targeting undocumented people. That is a sharp contrast to how non-Latinos view the smoldering issue of immigration.

The poll, taken earlier this month, found that 74% of Latinos said the illegal immigrants in the U.S. mostly contribute to society. Just 35% of non-Latinos agreed.

Some 67% of Latinos said they oppose the Arizona law, compared with 20% of non-Latinos. The law allows local police to demand citizenship papers from suspected illegal immigrants and to detain them if they cannot produce the documents.

If this AP-Uni poll truly wanted an honest assessment of the Arizona law with respect to ethnicity, they would've broken down the polling along the lines of latinos that are here legally from those that are not (as well as for the non-latinos just so everyone knows we are playing this straight up). It's a legit critique and we believe it would more fairly represent the feelings of U.S. citizens of latino descent.

And Univision is a large Spanish-language media conglomerate here in the states so they might just have an agenda, especially considering we are left to assume that the wording of the question mirrors that of the last sentence of the pull quote which is not reflective of the letter or intent of the law (text of which can be found here).

This poll is bogus.

Unlikely to....... Likely?

Perhaps that campaign trip, err…. Senatorial fact-finding mission to the Middle East and Europe wasn’t such a hot idea afterall.

A new USA Today /Gallup national poll shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain 47%-44% among registered voters. However, when the sample is reduced to only those likely to vote, McCain jumps to a 49%-45% lead.

And we’ll use our highly unscientific and purely anecdotal poll results divining to suggest the lead may be even greater as McCain supporters, being the cranky lot we are, will be getting up early on November 4th anyway so we may as well take our collective grumpy arses down to the polling place. We’re counting on more than just a few M.T. Suit supporters, however, to completely forget that Tuesday is voting day as getting their buzz on takes priority.

Story here.

So, What's a Few Points Between Friends?

Gallup’s daily running poll has Obama and McCain neck and neck. L.A. Times/Rasmussen poll has Obama with a 12 point edge.

We don’t have enough information to draw any airtight conclusions, however, using the standards that are applied to the current state of journalism these days and knowing what we know about the players involved, we will conject that one of these polls is “projecting” just a tad, dontcha think?