Michelle had some really great posts this week dedicated to the troops:
Here are two of them:
What do you call these troops, William Arkin?
“Amenities International”: An Arkin video smackdown
I was not going to talk about the Edwards Blogger affair, because it is really ugly, but for those of you curious, here is Michelles Roundup of the story. If you have been on the net at all this past week, no doubt you heard something about a blogger fight around his campaign.
The Pandagonization of John Edwards is complete
The John Edwards roundup of blogger reaction to Edwards picking a religious bigot as his Blog Mistress is the best I found on the web. Tread carefully though, you who are sensitive, lefty bloggers tend to spew the worst profanity laced ugliness I have ever witnessed in print. I suppose this is how the majority of them talk? Or at least participate on the internet.
I experienced this first hand on the Mothering Web site during the time I participated in the current events chat room around President Bushs second election. The profanity was disgusting, and the daily abuse of conservatives was applauded and defended by the moderators. I was told by the site moderator that Mothering was “concerned” about the way conservatives were being treated, but when I tried to write a post skewering the left the way many of them daily poked and prodded the righties on the board, I was permanently banned from the site.
Here is a link to the post that got me banned from Mothering. I was UCMom and if you go into the archives of the site, I’m still there with my name title BANNED! Leftists are really funny people. Tolerance and diversity is a religion to them, but they get very very uncomfortable around people who are politically different. I suppose it is because they know deep in their hearts that socialism and collectivism leads to slavery, but they are so die hard devoted to their world view that to consider they are wrong is simply unthinkable.
Anyway, being a part of that chat room was a total education. I really enjoyed getting to know the other conservative parents though and rub shoulders with other crunchy cons.
Jenny Hatch