Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

…is at www.rightsided.org. We’ve still some heavy lifting, but with some help from the good folks at Blogspot, the archives will find their way there as well.

Take care, and I’ll see you there.

Good morning!

The end of this Blogger blog as it now looks and feels is at hand, though ‘t will be reborn anew at the same address. I have to import a bunch of stuff, add a few links, etc., so I shall do that now. I also have to get the new site hooked up to this URL. I might be gone a day, I might be gone for the weekend.

Either way, you can access this version always at rightsided.blogspot.com, and I’ll keep doing at least the PRE-FACE here every morning until the new look is reachable.

Just in case, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. (For those of you who practice other faiths, or even no faith at all, I hope the holiday I celebrate is a great Saturday for you.)

I’ll see you soon. The URL for the new blog will be the same as this one: www.rightsided.org.

Oh, and please bear with me!

Their press conference seemed mainly to address what now looks a lot like a suicide bomber with stuff strapped to his belly at lunchtime in Mosul, but the press “demanded to know.” His reaction to the accusations is news, so no one can be faulted.

Reuters (linked) seems to believe he looked “subdued.” I think he looked saddened and busy, which are what one would think he would be.

What could have been done to prevent this bombing? Probably nothing, but let’s ask Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton anyway.

Those in either denial or refusal over the results of last month’s Presidential election are planning to turn their back on the President as his inauguration goes passed.

I mentioned this briefly on November 28, noting: “It is not likely, after the ferocity we’ve seen from the ABB crowd this year, that it will be limited to that. Or hollering. Or public urination. Or…”

Well, Nathan Feitzer at GOP Insight.com posts a letter he’s sent to the organizers of this back-turning sub-protesters who “simply can’t accept the truth” about the greatness of Bush’s Presidency. He then lists accomplishments, and the list is long.

And here we had be taught that deNial was an Egyptian river. It looks like it will be on the parade route in DC, exposing its back.

King County will announce its results today (Wednesday), but AP reported Tuesday night that Democrat Christine Gregoire had defeated Republican Dino Rossi by eight votes according to preliminary recount data.

King County Democrats kept “finding ballots” somewhere, and they always seemed to push Gregoire ahead as need be.

Hire Al Gore’s attorneys to straighten it out. We already have judges deciding our laws, why not give them control of our elections? Yeah, the Washing Supreme Court is also scheduled to hear a case concerning 730 “discovered” ballots in King County which are evidently not part of the total.

King County (Seattle) is a Democrat County, Gregoire seems to be a nice enough lady, and this one has been scribbled on the wall. Perhaps by thieves rather than by prophets.

We’ve the new column by Barbara J. Stock, What is a Prophet?, is now live on the web site of the Rightsided Newsletters. In it, she looks at the startling prophesies, gleaned she said from the Virgin Mary.

Read the column at the RSN site: HERE.

Good morning!

I’m still waiting on Omar to create my database, which is due by tomorrow night at 7p. (That’s the end of the 24-48 he gave me.) I suspect I’ll have to contact him with the digital Ouija. Once I get the database, I’ll have to install. After that…

Well, I’ve been able to blog surreptitiously with Wordpress. My brother had a mySQL database laying around, and he installed the software in his space. We’ve been having fun with that, and I can at least get started getting things together. A fellow blogger friend has given me the name of someone to contact who knows his Wordpress.

When I get to the new digs, and it looks like next week ’til that happens, I’ll write an obituary for my blogger days, but I will compose it entirely in anagrams.

Betsy Newmark calls it:

Bill at INDC and Jim Geraghty just rip Newsweek a new one for going to Wonkette for a quote about Rathergate. They show how the MSM just really doesn’t get the blogosphere. Newsweek thinks that a Sex in the City-type blogger like Wonkette says and knows more about the political blogging phenomenon than serious bloggers who are doing analysis that runs rings around so much of the usual suspects in the MSM.

This was to be expected. If Wonkette is what she’s been described, the she’s a sarcastic potty mouth who has captured some imaginations in the MSM. It’s a nihilistic style, then, which they kinda dig, and it takes one nowhere.

The pulse of the blogosphere cannot be detected in an intellectual bloodless corpse.

The losers of last month’s election will be having their counter-inaugural balls, and such, planned for the President’s inauguration January 20.

Organizer Shahid Buttar says that their theme will be: “Bush is corrupt and illegitimate.”

It’s a shame I’ll have to miss it. Maybe Michael Moore will shoot some vid and spice it up with lies and hyperbole.

The Washington Post reports that it will purchase the online Teenybopper fashion magazine Slate from Microsoft.

This could confuse the kiddies who were used to the slate.msm.com address, but Microsoft promised that they would keep pushing the Slate content on the MSN home page.

This quote is from a representative of the anti-Bush crowd, made last August:

‘’If I ever have a gun, I will shoot him between the eyes.'’

That was a young woman named Catherine M. Guertin, who plead guilty Monday to two counts of threatening the President of the United States.

Ms. Guertin also said of the President: “I want him gone.” Although no background was given for her statements, I doubt they were part of her doctoral thesis.

We have the new column by Doug Hagin, Merry Christmas, live at the web site of the Rightsided Newsletter. You can read it: HERE.

The Senate Republicans have released their committee assignments for the next term, and Redstate.org has them, first for the “A” Committees: Agriculture; Appropriations; Environment and Public Works; Finance; Foreign Relations; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Homeland Security and Government Affairs; and Intelligence.

At least three of those committees – Agriculture; Environment and Public Works; and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions – should be abolished as beyond Congressional purview.

No Charlie Cook fix this week:

Charlie Cook’s “Off to the Races” will not publish on December 21 and December 28. It will return Tuesday, January 4, 2005.

We will survive.

The parents of fallen Marine Lance Corporal Justin Ellsworth want to get a glimpse of his thoughts prior to his death in the Al Anbar province of Iraq last month, but Yahoo is stubbornly sticking to its uniform privacy policy and refusing to give his password.

One would think that the next of kin of the deceased, who would inherit his other property, would also get his password. That’s the “clinical” way of looking at the condundrum, but no matter, an exception could be made for a special circumstance. Corporal Ellsworth was killed by a roadside bomb. His parents are grieving at the loss of their son. They want to feel close to their son, and this is one way.

What Yahoo has done is thoughtless. Perhaps they hadn’t planned for such exigencies, but now would be a fine time for them to revise and refine their policy. And allow grieving military parents to grieve with memories.

Yahoo has no children to lay down their lives for our country, as Yahoo is barren.

It will be light for a while. I’ve got a host – my first – at Digital Space, and I’m awaiting the mySQL database so I can install WordPress. I’ve got to get everything going and the domain transferred and blah, blah, blah.

It will be a new universe.

Should I do trackback?

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, seemingly wearing heavy makeup, debated incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich Monday as they prepare for their rematch after the first match was declared void (Putin-infested). Yushchekno accused Yanukovich of cheating in their first go-around, while Yanukovich called on the winner to set-up a unity government. (Unity governments traditionally include all political parties, and since Yanukovich is set to lose…)

Meanwhile, Nikita Demosthenes has available for download an mp3 of the pro-Yushchenko Ukrainian rap song: “Razom Nas Bahato.” The link is on the upper-righthand of the blog, and the rap sounds like grassroots Democracy.

LaShawn Barber, whom we know best from her LaShawn Barber’s Corner, has an article posted in Monday’s NRO concerning the important role played by the smaller bloggers in the busting of Dan Rather. On her own blog, LaShawn writes:

The idea came to me after I was overwhelmed with envy while reading stories about blogs like Power Line and Little Green Footballs. (No offense, guys!). While I didn’t do much besides link to other bloggers, many others investigated and interviewed people, but they weren’t getting calls from the media.

The blogosphere is a big place populated by some brilliant people.

Right Wing News offers their “3rd Annual Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States: The 2004 Edition.”

Eric Lindholm wonders where’s Krugman.

I wonder why they insist on the existence of Ted Rall.

We’ve the latest piece of prose from my friend Jim McCaffrey. His weekly Notes from a Padded Cell can, for now, be found exclusively on the web site of the Rightsided Newsletter, and I’ll once again call it a must-read for conservatives who want to cut through the bull droppings and euphemisms.

A sample:

Miss Congeniality – To Americans who fret and fuss over what the U.N., the crooked leaders of other nations, and their miscreants-in-the-street think of America and its President, some advice: Drop the “valley girl”, self-consciousness, and quit obsessing over what others think of us, or what we’ve done to bruise their tender sensibilities. We are not in some kind of global popularity contest. It’s not about us, or the “imperialism”, which they falsely claim that we are practicing. It’s about the cowardice, corruption, or intrinsic evil of our enemies, their supporters, and those who enable them through their passivity.
We don’t “give peace a chance”, when an organized global psychosis has set out to destroy us.
And the Muslim-in-the-street is not exactly in a position to pass learned judgment on us either, what with they being the Neanderthal, goon, products of dark, backward, brutal and oppressive tyranny. It’s not our job to reshape America enough to make these nut-bags happy. Rather it’s our responsibility to spotlight what is wrong with them, and to promote change in their decrepit societies!

I’m not marketing this; rather, I love his stuff.

You can read it in full: HERE.

We shan’t see the headline: Defensive President Stammers Through Press Conference. He was at ease, in control, and assured. [text]

What lesson has he learned from Kerik-gate? “The lesson learned is, continue to vet. And ask good questions.” (I called it Kerik-gate with full facetiousness; the press did not.) The President explained that the White House began asking him questions and he withdrew his name.

At one point, fairly early in the 55-minute shindig, the President referred to “the interminable press conference… I mean, press party.” He did mean the party.

He explained that it is Congress who makes laws. He has to work with Congress, which he is looking forward to doing. He never vetoed a spending bill in his first term because Congress did what he had asked: “[H]ow could you veto a series of appropriations bills if the Congress has done what you’ve asked them to do?”

Rumsfeld? “I asked him to stay on because I understand the nature of the job of the Secretary of Defense, and I believe he’s doing a really fine job.”

But what about Signature-gate? “Listen… I know Secretary Rumsfeld’s heart. … He’s a caring fellow. Sometimes perhaps is demeanor is rough and gruff, but beneath that rough and gruff, no-nonsense demeanor is a good human being who cares deeply about the military, and deeply about the grief that war causes.”

There was even a bit for the supporters of the erstwhile President Clinton:

Cox Broadcasting’s Bob Deans: Your predecessor said once it [the Palestinian-Israeli conflict] was like going to the dentist without getting your gums numbed. I’m wondering what great —

President Bush: Guy had a way with words.

Those who believe this President should be insecure, defensive, and apologetic — given their opinion of his policies and disfavor amongst “the people” – can only hate him more after today’s performance. For the rest of us, it should be awfully good to recognize that he is the man entrusted with the high office he holds.

Lisa Montgomery murdered Bobbi Jo Stinnett and cut her child from her womb. She and evidently clueless husband showed the child to her husband’s minister, the Reverend Mike Wheatly. The topic of Rev. Wheatley’s sermon Sunday, written weeks ago, was fortuitous:

[M]y sermon was [called] “A Baby Changed Everything.” And it was really meant to be about Jesus Christ. And you could correlate, I suppose, this situation because the sermon had been written — I wrote it two weeks ago. So the fact that it kind of tied in with what was going on in Melvern [Kansas] was totally coincidental, and that was definitely the Lord.

In attributing the correlation to the Lord, Rev. Wheatley was reflecting a school of Christian though which has Jesus Christ influencing certain events in ways which reflect his love and lead to the furtherance of his will. (That’s definitely a non-theologian’s phrasing.) I agree with that school.

We have the latest column by Dustin Hawkins, Of Race and Politics, live on the Rightsided Newsletter web site.

Check it out on the RSN site HERE.

Good morning!