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We designated conservatives must be a light in the darkness, wherever we may be.

I live in a one-party neighborhood in a one-party community. All local elections are settled in the Democratic Party primary, not in the general election.  The last Republican to hold local elective office here was booted out more than 20 years ago.

Am I discouraged?

“I therefore solicit for your co-operation….”

The Designated Conservative received this “Urgent” email today.  After reading it, I must admit that this does sound serious, and the author certainly comes across as a sincere public servant……

Hot Air and Lost

WorldNetDaily posted this bit of Age of Obama/Bush Derangement Syndrome humor on their website this week (excerpt below):

It’s Your Fault, Republicans!

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She reduces her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man consults his portable GPS and replies, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.”

She rolls her eyes and says, “You must be a Republican!”

“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?”

Jimmy Fallon does Ypsilanti on Late Night

Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Ypsilanti, MI local news…. (hat tip to Ypsilanti Citizen)

Click here to view the video!

Here we see the effect of Google on television – tightly targeted comedy bits for very specific audience segments!

“Five Cent Willie“… all of the lame stuff was worth that tasteless but very funny moment…

Movie Reviews for Designated Conservative Parents

Family-friendly and kid-friendly movies with a good message are becoming ever harder to find.  “G” rated movies are a rarity, even fromWalt Disney Studios - which once defined the genre.  “PG” rated movies are hit or miss – they might be appropriate for children, or they might not.   Worse yet, today’s “PG-13″ rated movies look too much like older “R” rated films, illustrating the “ratings creep” phenomenon identified in a 2004 Harvard University study.

What is a parent to do?   We designated conservatives are here to help with our special feature on this site:  Movie reviews for kids by kids!

Click here or follow the link at the top of this page for all of the latest movie reviews from the Designated Conservative team.

 

WND Tax-Dungeon Humor – New IRS ‘Short Form’

WorldNetDaily posted this bit of tax-dungeon humor on their website this week (excerpt below):

Paperwork reduction provision

New short form for Americans to file their tax documents

This is a new short form IRS document designed to simplify tax filing for anyone making up to $200,000 a year. 

DIRECTIONS:

Fill out Section A completely by truthfully answering the questions.  Fill out Section B completely by filling in the spaces.

SECTION A:

1. How much money do you have?________________

2. When can we come and pick it up? ______________

(click here to read the rest of the form)

President Barack H. Obama, World’s Greatest Orator

This priceless piece crossed the Designated Conservative’s inbox this morning.  Once again, President Obama shows the world the change America voted for….  It almost seems to me that the President (or his Teleprompter One) actually uses an Obama-Matic (TM) Content-Free Euphemism Generator! (hat tip to NRO Online’s The Tank)

Why is it up to the British press to point these things out?  It’s remarkable how peaceful and quiet it is in our U.S. mainstream media – not a peep about Obama’s oratory stylings in Europe:

The question that flummoxed the great orator

by John Crace, The UK Guardian

Barack Obama, the World’s Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn’t exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes.

Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking …

Nick Robinson: 

“A question for you both, if I may. The prime minister has repeatedly blamed the United States of America for causing this crisis. France and Germany both blame Britain and America for causing this crisis. Who is right? And isn’t the debate about that at the heart of the debate about what to do now?” 

Brown immediately swivels to leave Obama in pole position.

There is a four-second delay before Obama starts speaking [THANKS FOR NOTHING, GORDY BABY. REMIND ME TO HANG YOU OUT TO DRY ONE DAY.] 

Barack Obama: 

“I, I, would say that, er … pause [I HAVEN'T A CLUE] … if you look at … pause [WHO IS THIS NICK ROBINSON JERK?] … the, the sources of this crisis … pause [JUST KEEP GOING, BUDDY] … the United States certainly has some accounting to do with respect to . . . pause [I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE] … a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system … pause, close eyes [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF S**T BACK HOME. HELP]. I think what is also true is that … pause [I WANT NICK ROBINSON TO DISAPPEAR] … here in Great Britain … pause [S**T, GORDY'S THE HOST, DON'T LAND HIM IN IT] … here in continental Europe …pause [DAMN IT, BLAME EVERYONE.] … around the world. We were seeing the same mismatch between the regulatory regimes that were in place and er … pause[I'VE LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT AGAIN] … the highly integrated, er, global capital markets that have emerged … pause [I'M REALLY WINGING IT NOW]. So at this point, I’m less interested in … pause [YOU] … identifying blame than fixing the problem. I think we’ve taken some very aggressive steps in the United States to do so, not just responding to the immediate crisis, ensuring banks are adequately capitalised, er, dealing with the enormous, er … pause [WHY DIDN'T I QUIT WHILE I WAS AHEAD?] … drop-off in demand and contraction that has taken place. More importantly, for the long term, making sure that we’ve got a set of, er, er, regulations that are up to the task, er, and that includes, er, a number that will be discussed at this summit. I think there’s a lot of convergence between all the parties involved about the need, for example, to focus not on the legal form that a particular financial product takes or the institution it emerges from, but rather what’s the risk involved, what’s the function of this product and how do we regulate that adequately, much more effective coordination, er, between countries so we can, er, anticipate the risks that are involved there. Dealing with the, er, problem of derivatives markets, making sure we have set up systems, er, that can reduce some of the risks there. So, I actually think … pause[FANTASTIC. I'VE LOST EVERYONE, INCLUDING MYSELF] … there’s enormous consensus that has emerged in terms of what we need to do now and, er …pause [I'M OUTTA HERE. TIME FOR THE USUAL CLOSING BOLLOCKS] … I’m a great believer in looking forwards than looking backwards.

Keith Olbermann v. Twitter

“What goes on at MSNBC is astounding, disgusting, and has been so under successive administrations.” – Dan Cooper

The following is an excerpt from an absolutely astounding post by Caleb Howe (profile) over at Redstate.com, who notes that:

“You can find both Dan and me on the Twitter, assuming you don’t have an Olbermann level of internet skill. I’m sure we’ll be tweeting about this all day.”   (read on)

New Revelations In Case of Olbermann v. Twitter

OR: Why The Internet Invented The Phrase “Epic Fail”

On Thursday, Twitter was atwitter and blogs were abuzz about Keith Olbermann’s embarrassing “Worst Person” fail, following a post by Greg Pollowitz at National Review Online highlighting the hilarity. Olbermann named Twitter his “Worst Person in the World” because he mistakenly believed he wasn’t on Twitter. He was. So I thought I’d do something that Olbermann’s entire staff consistently fails to do: research.

The incompetence that led to Keith Olbermann naming Twitter the “Worst Person in the World” is staggering. He smeared the popular service, Fox News, and a fellow liberal Democrat enemy of Fox News, all because he got an email he didn’t understand, about a technology he didn’t understand, and neither he nor his staff did a click of research.

The first lapse in research you already know about. Keith predicated his entire segment on the notion that he had no Twitter account, therefore the account in his name was fraudulent. Of course, it wasn’t true. MSNBC ran the Twitter account in Keith’s name. But believe me, this is only the beginning of an epic fail.

Did Olbermann Tweet His Anti-Twitter Screed?

I’m going to summarize up front. It’s too good to drag out. Not only is Olbermann wrong about being on Twitter, he’s twice wrong. His own show runs a very active Twitter feed. As in, in addition to the one Olbermann was on about. The person who he smeared as a fraud and a Fox News operative is not who Olbermann thinks he is. Even the email to Olbermann may not be what he thinks it is. In short, there was virtually no factual statement from Keith’s mouth when he named Twitter “Worst Person” and called the account a fraud.

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How Did This Happen?

So what started all this? An email to Olbermann with Dan Cooper’s name in it. I asked Dan if he had any theories about who might have been the source of the email. I also asked Twitter for comment on the email but haven’t heard back. Here’s what Dan had to say:

“After a week of intense detective work I believe I have discovered the identity of the person who sent the email in question to KO. I made the connection this morning. It seems to pan out, and I’m speaking as an actual, not “fake” journalist.”

“The sender of the email appears to be a young, college-age woman. This woman is a diehard Democratic activist. She is a tireless supporter of President Obama, his cabinet and staff, and of many other Democratic politicians. The young woman is an ardent fan of Keith Olbermann, of Countdown, and watches Countdown and Olbermann’s hosting of major events on MSNBC. This woman is a “follower” and fan of mine on Twitter. I admire her dedication, intelligence and youthful spunk as well. We do not know each other personally, and have never communicated outside of Twitter. It is my guess that her purpose in sending the email to Olbermann was to urge him to “follow” me, dancoopermedia, on Twitter. And that’s all there is to it. Everything else is a fever dream in Keith Olbermann’s noggin.”

The internet is not a truck. It’s, it’s a series of tubes!

Not only is Olbermann’s total lack of research and complete absence of journalistic curiosity exposed by this story, his familiarity with the internet is decidedly at question. “I‘m not on Twitter. I tried to sign up last summer and abandoned the project.” Tried to sign up? Project?! Remember the frenzy about McCain being technology illiterate? Just asking.

You know, it’s not for nothing that journolist trashed Olbermann, but I’m starting to think he wouldn’t have understood the list in the first place. Any day now we might see Olbermann’s Worst Person be: “… the gentleman from Nigeria. You, sir, have failed to return my emails. Indeed, not only have you and the Prime Minister you so recently worked for refused to deposit my 100,000 euros, you have withdrawn a great deal of my own money!”

Click here to read the whole post and view the video.

 

Day by Day is the Best Way

We all need a laugh each day, especially under Obamanation.  This Designated Conservative has become a huge fan of Chris Muir’s cartoon “Day by Day” – which can be found at http://www.daybydaycartoon.com.

Here’s a sample:

Tea Party Redux

…and another:

A wise purchase...?

Go to the website to enjoy all of Day by Day.