Links and Minifeatures 01 30 Monday

Carnivals:



Carnival of Personal Finance. Recommended: Personal Finance Advice, No Credit Needed, and Especially Recommended: Old Niu's Blog. Learning to overcome greed and fear is critical for long term success.



Carnival of Debt Reduction



RINO Sightings Recommended: Classical Values



Strate-Sphere hosts a Carnival of the Chillin, regarding the Alito nomination. Recommended: The American Thinker



Carnival of The Capitalists. Recommended: The Entrepreneurial Mind

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I emailed several companies I'm thinking of advertising with last Wednesday. Google and Yahoo and BlogAds were both back same day. Microsoft is still ignoring me - likely my ad budget for the first month isn't rich enough to interest them. And Pajamas Media finally asked, "What!?" at 11:27 today. I responded, then got a further response indicating to me that Pajamas Media is way behind the power curve. I'm not going out of my way to yank their chains, so I'm not going to post the actual back and forth emails (at least not unless some Pajamas minion decides to nuke me, which they shouldn't as I'm trying to help them), but these people desperately need to hire somebody with customer service and business experience.



If someone with Pajamas Media wants to contact me, I'll be happy to forward the emails and annotate what I can see that you need to do, pronto. Barring some quick and notable improvements, it looks like I'm going to be spending my money elsewhere.



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I've added a category for Personal Finance, Economics, and Business sites over to the right. Please let me know if you're on my roll and you feel you belong there.



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US primary care about to collapse, physicians warn. Is anybody surprised by this?



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Looks like John got flushed again, this time in his attempt to filibuster Alito. Senate Moves Alito Close to Confirmation . The Vote was 72-25 for cloture, indicating that even many of those who are voting against him voted for cloture of debate. Bully for them. Maybe they have actually decided to act like mature adults.



Kossacks heads explode. Don't worry, it's not an essential item for them. It's happened before without damage - other than to the structure of the Donkey party.



HT to Politburo Diktat, who waded into the Minds of Morass so we don't have to. Except that I had to go sample, and found the following spectacular example (obscenities replaced with ****)

Which Do I ******* Want? (none / 0)



Women have been told to hold our mud for years and years and years. Our issues have been repeatedly pushed to the back burner while our leadership and fellow Democrats told us our day would one day come. Well, guess what not only did our day never come, it has been morphed out of existence. What we have instead is a party that has compromised our rights of choice away so much that women and young girls are already dying, they are being imprisoned and no new doctors have been trained to perform abortions. What does that mean? That the abortion providers today are in their 60s and 70s, ready to retire but with no one to take their place.



I want a party that ******* stands up and gives women a glimmer of hope that they ******* care if we live or die. I want a party that quits telling women, YOUR day will come SOMEDAY.



I don't give a rip what anyone says to me anymore. I will not vote for another Democrat until they put the rights of women front and center. I have seen what happens when we wait. I've seen abortion wards, the results of illegal abortions, I've heard it in the halls of my high school, the screams of grief when one of our friends died trying to self abort.



I've heard those screams, I've heard the screams of the parents at the funeral of a sixteen year old without a choice. It's a sound I'll never forget, it's a sound that drives me, it's a sound that makes me livid, it's a sound that haunts me, it's a sound that fills me with hate, it's a sound every single Democrat should live with for the rest of their ******* lives.



That's what waiting and hoping has done for women. The only answer for us is to show up at the polling places with no intention of voting. When we show up in the thousands maybe the leadership of this party will take note, maybe they will see the result of denying us the right to our bodies and the ******* RIGHT TO LIVE.



For all of you who call us names for saying we are abandoning or deserting this party, let me just say that it has become obvious to many women that the only thing of value we have to give this party is our vote. None of you can say you have given more to this party than I have. None of you can say you are more loyal, or have loved this party more than I have. None of you can give women the promise that this is the end of the apathy towards women, none of you can tell us we will be respected and protected by this party at long last.



I'm a proud liberal without the brackets. I've been a liberal since I was in high school 40 years ago. It isn't a label for me as in 'liberal,' it's a way of life for me, it's who I am inside, it's what gives me strength because I know I'm on the right side. My party can't say the same.



A line has been drawn in the sand for us, by us. What we know for sure is something we've always known, if we withhold what we value the most, the vote we fought for for far longer than we should have had to, that is what will win us a place at the table.



The shame is not ours, it's yours who will not listen, it's this partys, it's everyone who keeps telling us what to do, that's what's right for the party is right for us. We don't believe you because we have no reason to. And that is the real shame of it all.



Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. Susan B. Anthony

So many errors of logic in there that my brain hurts just trying to find where to start. So I'm not going to.



Michelle Malkin livebloged Senator "The T is for Tantrum" Kennedy's screed. I needed two ibuprofen just to read it.



Money quote:

And that is what we are doing (voice quavering) with this nominee. HE FAILED TO DEMONSTRATE before this Judiciary Committee that he was committed to the continued march for progress...

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Somebody buy him a dozen extra strong super large C-clamps to keep his head from exploding, stat.





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Speaking of fundamental disconnects from reality, I wonder if Bill Clinton is trying to sabotage Hillary's presidential run? As reported by John Leo:

Bill Clinton thinks terrorism is an overrated threat. Last fall he said terrorism is less important than global warming. That was at the Clinton Global Initiative, his personal New York version of Davos, the annual big-think fiesta in Switzerland for world leaders and Hollywood stars.



Last week at the real Davos, Clinton demoted the terrorism threat from No.2 to No.3, behind economic inequality around the world as well as global warming. Most informed people think that climate change is very ominous and that poverty is of course a serious problem. But Clinton does not seem to think the possibility of New York or Washington disappearing in a nuclear blast is a very big deal.

We elected this gladhanding used car salesman president twice. I never really appreciated how lucky we were that the damage he did wasn't worse.



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LGF notes a Telegraph report that Iran may have infiltrated the IAEA.



Words fail. Oh. My. That ticking you hear is a countdown.



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I love it when life becomes harder for thieves: Tiny tags enlisted to identify property!