Reader Tips

Reader Tips 59 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here is Jo Stafford (who passed away a couple months ago, at age 90) performing The Gentleman Is A Dope (1947, 2:45).

Nota Bene: People who are concerned about the Universe ending
when we fire up the LHC later today have nothing to worry about.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

No Shrinking Violet

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Camille Paglia, an Obama supporter, gives Palin her due:

Pow! Wham! The Republicans unleashed a doozy — one of the most stunning surprises that I have ever witnessed in my adult life. By lunchtime, Obama’s triumph of the night before had been wiped right off the national radar screen. In a bold move I would never have thought him capable of, McCain introduced Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his pick for vice president. I had heard vaguely about Palin but had never heard her speak. I nearly fell out of my chair. It was like watching a boxing match or a quarter of hard-hitting football — or one of the great light-saber duels in “Star Wars.” (Here are the two Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn, going at it with Darth Maul in “The Phantom Menace.”) This woman turned out to be a tough, scrappy fighter with a mischievous sense of humor.
[…]
Here’s one episode. My father and his visiting brother, a dapper barber by trade, were standing outside having a smoke when a great noise came from the nearby barn. A calf had escaped. Our landlady yelled, “Stop her!” as the calf came careening at full speed toward my father and uncle, who both instinctively stepped back as the calf galloped through the mud between them. Irate, our landlady trudged past them to the upper pasture, cornered the calf, and carried that massive animal back to the barn in her arms. As she walked by my father and uncle, she exclaimed in amused disgust, “Men!”
Now that’s the Sarah Palin brand of can-do, no-excuses, moose-hunting feminism — a world away from the whining, sniping, wearily ironic mode of the establishment feminism represented by Gloria Steinem, a Hillary Clinton supporter whose shameless Democratic partisanship over the past four decades has severely limited American feminism and not allowed it to become the big tent it can and should be. Sarah Palin, if her reputation survives the punishing next two months, may be breaking down those barriers. Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership.


crossposted @ Cjunk

Clickety, Click, Click$ !

Political Animal 34 Comments

Steve Janke provides the instructions;

Now look at the search results page served up when I type “stephane dion”:
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Now look to the right. The top bid for the search term “stephane dion” is JackLayton.ca, which redirects to the main NDP website.
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Very clever. Not only is the NDP ignoring Stephane Dion and the Liberals on the campaign trail, the NDP is outbidding the Liberals on keyword search bids, bringing people looking for information on “stephane dion” to their website.
Look, this won’t win the election. But owning your own search terms is considered pretty important in this field. Letting your competitors grab traffic that was heading for your site based on a search of your own product’s name is the sort of thing that makes people in this business snicker.
Update: And those rotten Dippers are grabbing Conservative traffic too! Type in “stephen harper” and there is JackLayton.ca in the sponsored links. Clever little Dippers.

Well, yes and no. Robert Jago, via email;

I checked my adwords account, those keywords have a minimum bid of $12.00. So every time you click on an NDP ad, Google bills the dippers $10.
It’s classic NDP level stupid.

Calling the SDA Nation – got an hour to kill? With just a few dozen click$ of your mouse, you can help make Jack’s ad go horribly wrong!
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Update – SDA today, MSM tomorrow. SDA gets results!

Conservative Web Presence Still Riddled With Childish Shots

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The media are falling all over themselves in faux outrage over a cartoon puffin shown crapping on Stephane Dion’s shoulder at the Conservative party website notaleader.ca. It’s been yanked, with some lame excuse about an overzealous web designer.
You know, we tried to warn you idiots.

The Conservative official said the type of voter targeted by notaleader.ca at tends to be someone between 18 and 30, who has not yet developed a loyalty to one political brand or another.
“They are anti-establishment, libertarian, web- and tech-savvy, and politically incorrect,” said the Conservative adviser. “We set out to build a website that appeals to them.”

Just more evidence that…

There exists a persistent misconception inside political/media circles that the political interweb is the domain of “tech savvy twenty-somethings”. The Conservative’s website has, in all likelihood, been influenced by this ridiculous assumption and that means it’s time to fire some of the high-priced help. If your web people haven’t even a remedial understanding of their audience demographic, they have no business being involved in your communications strategy.

Hello? Is anyone out there listening? Your web designers and your web audience are two different demographics. Just because the guys behind the scenes writing code are in their twenties, does not mean that the people searching for political content are.
Update: Good point. Flash? The web designers aren’t even good at the tech side.

Heather Mallick Lifts Her Snout From The Trough*

If Women Ran The World 179 Comments

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Just long enough to regurgitate this astonishing display of urban bigotry;

…Sarah Palin … fit of pique … the white trash vote … sexual inadequates … she isn’t even female really … Alaska hillbilly … “white trash” … trailer trash … rural, loud, proudly unlettered … toned-down version of the porn actress … overtreated hair, puffy lips … “pramface” … roughneck fuckin’ redneck … prodding his daughter … ratboy … fizzing with rage and revenge … vicious and profoundly dishonest … good fast listing… nervous wreck with deeply strange hair … the hick vote … ordinary hillbilly … racism? … racism … “rectal fissure” … tense no-hoper ladies … white female marginals …

And we’re forced to pay for this crap.
*Any offense to swine is purely unintentional. Pigs are, in fact, both intelligent and useful – traits that cannot be convincingly attributed to Ms. Mallick.

I’m Tempted To Burn My Manssiere

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Gloria Steinem – Leftogynist
“Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton’s candidacy stood for — and that Barack Obama’s still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, “Somebody stole my shoes, so I’ll amputate my legs.”
Can you feel the love, sisters?

You Could See This Coming From A Mile Off

Political Animal 25 Comments

And I’m kicking myself for not putting my prediction to a post a few days ago, when I mentioned it to someone privately.
Sarah Palin – “extremist”.
When Joe Biden channels Warren Kinsella, you know how badly she has them rattled.

How long before Biden has to step aside for
He’s in his doctor’s office at this very moment with a severe case of Palinitis
2 weeks
By the first week of October
In the waning hours of the campaign, as Hillary selflessly steps up for the sake of the nation
  
pollcode.com free polls

Will Biden join the host of growing pile of bodies under Obama’s bus? More conjecture here!
Related – The McCain-Palin campaign has already bagged and field-dressed two network “anchors”. Who cares if they’re endangered!

Blog Notes

Blogging 17 Comments

I’m facing an extremely heavy work, travel and dog show schedule for the entirety of the month of September – last week I was working into the wee hours of the morning trying to get deadline work finished, and there’s more ahead. This means my time online is limited as is my ability to follow up on your tips and emails.
While I plan to continue blogging as much as possible during this time, our usual cadre of guest bloggers have generously agreed to help out during this busy election season, and for that I thank you again!
Please help them out by staying on topic, and ignoring trolls in the comments. Things should return to normal in October.

Mike Duffy on JGL

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Duff was referring to this early election poll on John Gormley Live this morning.
(I couldn’t find an English version of the actual poll, so excuse the separtiste commentary of the link)

Conservative Party – 44%
Liberal Party – 31%
New Democratic Party – 15%
Segma is going one more than the other polling houses, calculating their own seat projection. With these numbers, Segma projects the following seat results, with the Conservatives in a majority government:
Conservative Party – 183 seats
Liberal Party – 62 seats
Bloc Québécois – 46 seats
New Democratic Party – 16 seats
Independents – 1 seat

UPDATE: “At the official outbreak of hostilities…” Automatically translated page here.

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