I'm Back. Maybe. Er.

I'm back. Maybe. I'm not sure if I'm going to have the time to start this Blogging thing again properly or not.

I've been posting the odd bit of political comment here. But much as I admire David Vance, who runs the place, he is far too nice to the Jew-hating Leftie (with a handful of exceptions) trolls who infest the comments with their lunatic dribblings - for example 'are Jews the new master race?' is fine by them, but telling the person who posted it to Fuck Off And Die is deeply offensive, dont'cha know.

I don't think I'll miss it. When you go and visit a site you are part of the team for and leave there more annoyed than when you arrived, it's time to wave bye-bye and part company.

So will it be more of the same over here? Well, ironically what turned out to be the final DSD post seemed to gain me not a few new pals, judging by the emails and links I received from it. Reading it back now, seems even if I do say so myself that I was remarkably prescient in my prediction as to what was going to happen to the Republican nomination and the Party itself if it went as predicted and they chose a softly-softly moderate with all the fire of a disposable barbecue in his belly. As my favourite Blogger observed, you can take the MSM to bed as often as you like during the nomination process and it might feel good while it lasts, but it absolutely will not call you in the morning once the campaign has started.

So there'll be as much political commentary as I can manage, as that was after all this Blog's original stock-in-trade. But there will also be as much family and life in general stuff as I can fit in, as I did feel guilty about ceasing the "I'm a Dad again, oh joy" Blogging venture in-between then and now, the Lulu Blog. But we went through a spate of illness, the subject herself went through a spate of being somewhat...demanding - mostly between about 1 and 4am - and all gradually fell by the wayside as these things so often do.

I'll also post the odd bit of Youtubeyness, just because I can and I like sharing music. I promise a minimum of insanely heavy metal and that the song material (or title at the very least) will be as relevant as possible to whatever's topical at the time, fair enough?

There'll also be Gaming stuff. Yes, I am still into all that strange dicerolling and character-acting business, and am writing and running those even stranger LARP thingies now. In fact tomorrow night a new game begins, and I will be playing a geriatric old character of as yet indetermined type, the only certainty in my mind as yet that he will say things like "I remember when all this was battlefields" a lot.

So, there it is. I'm back. I think. Maybe. We'll have to wait and see.

(Oh and Comments will be moderated. Complainants about freedom of speech and stuff can apply to the Diversity Officer of IDon'tGiveACrap plc, understood? Though to be honest I generally allow Nazi muppets to post however, because its just so much fun to play with them. If you do it right you can get the ones with real delusions of grandeur to spend entire days at the keyboard working themselves up into a lather by only spending a minute or two of your own time. Try it sometime, it's most rewarding.)

Hey Buddy, Can You Spare Me A Parallel?

Via the Wide Awakes, what may well be a very familiar sounding tale to those of us who grew up with Derek Hatton and the infamous Militant Tendency in the 80's. For me the antics of the 'Loony Left' Labour local Councils and their 'nuclear free zones', councillors ranting about US smart bombs which were programmed only to target black people and complete inability to spend money on anything vaguely resembling essential services, were my first introduction to the true insanity of distilled Leftism, or Moonbattery as it is known in modern parlance.

Seems out in the good old US of A the Dems are having similar issues...

"The following account is most likely playing out across the country – especially in small rural communities. My source has asked me to keep silent until after the elections are over. Tomorrow I will reveal more of this story. But for now, suffice it to say that activists Democrats are quietly taking over the party and silently eliminating duly elected local party chairs by very unscrupulous and possibly illegal means."

Its called Entryism. The British Left is fantastic at it. Hell, they dont just restrict it to local parties, they have used it to infiltrate just about every TV newsroom in Britain...

"In comes a new party volunteer that offers to help get the local party online with a new web site. The local party is delighted. Donations come in, money is spent finding a good web site developer, and the local party web site goes online.

The helpful new volunteer offers to act as web administrator. The country chair is delighted. But little by little, the new web administrator takes more and more liberties and begins to publish “news articles” that are filled with questionable inflammatory opinions. The party chair asks the new volunteer to cease these activities. But the new volunteer refuses. Then the party chair is forced to remove the new volunteer as web administrator."

Its Militant all over again, updated for the Internet age...go read the whole thing, and if like me you remember well this stuff happening in the UK twenty years ago it will send a shiver down your spine...

Returning To Blogging

I'm not sure about this. Not at all. It may be that lack of time will kick me in the teeth once again, though my Childcare NVQ is now finished and I wont be restarting till September. However this must be offset by the Homeschooling factor...

Yes, I've decided to tentatively return to Blogging. I am intending to branch things out from Politics to the whole intense experience of Homeschooling and even the roleplaying games that I like so well, though I suspect Politics will remain the man focus as always.

Why come back? Well things like Tangled Web's Talkradio show, a very ambitious venture indeed, have excited my interest in Online debate again (perhaps just because I like the sound of my own voice so much as I am sure some will suggest :). Also for reasons best known to myself I am finding both Republican and Democrat primaries in the US quite fascinating, and even bought this little gem recently.

With this in mind as most of my (former and hopefully soon returning) readers are British, I will be trying to install the Pajamas Media weekly poll widget thingy on here as well.

Me, I'd be voting for Tom Tancredo, Colorado's 'Immigration Senator'. He isnt seen as one of the four Republican frontrunners (three if you dont count the artful Newt Gingrich, who says that if he does decide to run he isnt going to start campaigning so early anyway and is consistently running second to Rudy Guiliani amongst polls of Republican voters).

I guess many people have 'make or break' issues, issues which would stop them supporting any candidate or Party if they didnt agree on those issues. For me of course domestically that issue is remaining in the European Union, and therefore I would never ever vote or campaign for a Party or candidate which advocated remaining in the EU. If, however, I lived in the United States my primary issue would be that of immigration and specifically of course illegal immigration, which means that I would never vote for McCain because of his sponsorship of what is effectively an amnesty and reward program for illegal immigrants, or for Giuliani who supports it.

I hope Gingrich steps up if Tancredo's campaing doesnt develop, but thats maybe a story for another post...

Incidentally, a part of her Literacy exercises I will be gently encouraging my little person to post on her own Blog in one form or another, to improve her typing for ICT as well if nothing else. And when I get time I will be setting up my father with his own Blog (and yes, Dangerously Subversive Grandad currently heads the Opinion Polls for the best name :), so things may well truly be a family affair from now on...

Top Republican Fundraiser Says It All

Richard A. Vigurie nails it pretty damn well.

"Congressional Republicans should quickly disassociate themselves from the failed big government policies of President Bush and set a conservative course. The White House has failed them, initiating policies that the voters have now soundly repudiated. Congressional Republicans should always remember who elected them — the conservative and independent voters back home, not the elitist (and lame duck) power brokers in the White House, on K Street, and at the Republican National Committee," he went on to say.

"At the same time, grass-roots conservatives must no longer act as an appendage of the Republican Party. We should concentrate instead on becoming a Third Force in American politics that forces both parties to the Right and sets the nation's agenda."

I wonder if Britain's 'Good Conservatives' are listening?