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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...It’s a new year, and instead of rehashing 2009 yet again, I thought we should worry about what’s going to happen now, in 2010. So I decided to do a blogosphere round-up and see what everyone’s predictions for 2010 will be.
Me? I think we will see more and more Americans — Republicans, Independents, and Democrats — become disillusioned with Obama. Most Americans will simply realize that he’s a socialist hell-bent on expanding government and stealing power. They’ll see the corruption that’s saturated every part of his administration. They’ll be sick of Obama — with the help of Congress — ignoring the will of the American people and continuing to pass massively unpopular, harmful, socialist legislation. As for liberals, they’ll be pissed because Obama isn’t doing enough for them. He hasn’t pulled out of Afghanistan, Gitmo isn’t closed, gay marriage isn’t passed… and so on.
Yet Congress will continue to pass unpopular legislation. They’ll probably pass Obamacare. Amnesty will resurface. And don’t be surprised if we see a few more spending bills to “save the economy” float up, too. And Americans will hate them just as much as they’ve hated everything else that Democrats have done this year. Tea Parties will grow stronger and larger in numbers, although there might be some fracturing in the movement as leaders try to emerge and start having a more substantial impact on politics.
Harry Reid will almost certainly be voted out of office. Nancy Pelosi might lose her role as Speaker. Republicans will take back the House and Democrats will have heavy losses in the Senate, as well. We’ll probably also see a few more Blue Dogs either retire or switch parties.
Democrats will not be satisfied with killing school choice in DC alone, and will start targeting voucher programs across the country.
Janet Napolitano will probably not lose her job right away. But if she keeps fumbling the way she has been, and if we see more terrorist attacks this year, Obama will probably have no choice. Oh, he won’t fire her right away. Over time, though, he’ll throw her under the bus just like everyone else in order to make it seem like he’s taking the war on terrorism seriously.
Global warming will lose more and more steam as more and more people realize that the entire thing was made up and lacks any kind of scientific validity.
Americans will realize that they were tricked and manipulated, and that change is overrated. The media will furrow even further up Obama’s butt in an attempt to save him, but won’t be able to cover up for him anymore.
Here’s what the rest of the blogosphere is predicting.
William Teach from Pirate’s Cove:
The GOP will come close to retaking the House and Senate, but, will blow it on regaining full control.
Pelosi will be dumped from her leadership position.
Reid will lose re-election.
Obama will essentially become a lame duck by June, as his ratings sink to 20%.
American’s will be out demonstrating in massive force week after week after week, after ObamaCare is signed into law, to the point that even the media will turn against Barry.
Leaders around the world will continue to make Obama look bad.
Those are the easy ones. Harder. Iran will announce they have the bomb, and Israel will nail them immediately.
It will be a much below average temperature year, 3-4 degrees below.
Napolitano will be the first to go, follow by Geithner.
Obama will be totally grey by May.
Morgan Freeberg from House of Eratosthenes:
1. Obama’s popularity to dip some more, especially among the extreme left, over gay-marriage, the Nobel speech, the public option thing.
2. Janet Napolitano will head home to spend more time with her family. It will become a popular figure of speech to say “this is so bad Janet Napolitano would say it’s perfect.”
3. GOP will become more fractured over is the earth burning up…is Sarah Palin stupid…is profiling wrong…
4. Speaking of Palin, she will stump for five GOP candidates, four of them will win, everyone will talk about the one who didn’t.
5. Morgan and his gal will go out to a nice restaurant with Cassy and her guy.
6. Oprah will have lots and lots and lots of farewell tours, just like Barbra.
7. We’re going to have some kind of environmental action, as Obama seeks to repair relations with His base.
8. Lots and lots of new jobs that don’t actually produce anything…”green” jobs…career bureaucrats…union hacks.
9. Some new bailout plan will be passed, for institutions of higher learning, and for newspapers.
10. Lots of scandal plaguing democrats and Republicans. All the Republicans will be forced to step down, all the democrats will survive.
11. Gold will pass $1750 an ounce.
12. A new reality teevee show is introduced, revolving around the family of the “Balloon Boy.” Yes, there is an injunction or parole condition that checks this, but they’ll get around it somehow.
13. Hooters loses a lawsuit and has to hire male waitresses in all their restaurants.
14. A new “health craze” is going to emerge, by way of a new book, that revolves around not-overthinking things. This has actually been going on for quite some time now, but in 2010 it will become overt and in-your-face. It will be something like what the running craze was in the 1970’s. Emotions will become much more important. Self-centeredness will become the new currency. “Mood rings,” in some form or fashion, will come back in style.
15. The Government will commission some software designer to come up with adware that pops up reminders to computer users that they need to work harder at leaving a smaller carbon footprint. It will be illegal to sell computers that don’t have this installed, or to try to remove it. The Commerce Clause will be cited as the constitutional authority for this kind of regulation.
16. Speaking of constitutionally questionable regulation, someone will be fined and jailed for failing to buy health insurance, and only the bloggers will talk about it. Keith Olbermann and Andrew Sullivan will make fun of us. Then Sarah Palin will put up a Facebook entry mentioning it, and they’ll make fun of her too.
17. 2010 will be all carbon, all the time. The democrats will understand they have squandered all the politcal capital they ever had, and more, passing ObamaCare, and they’ll see the climate “crisis” as the one way they can get more.
18. Iraq could go in either direction. But if it is neutralized as a safe haven for terrorists, Obama will get the credit, and if it turns into a meat grinder it’ll all be Bush’s fault.
19. Iran will chug merrily along building nuclear weapons. This won’t work out to a horrible climax just yet, they’re going to be biding their time throughout 2010.
20. Those scooters people use when they’re genuinely handicapped — or just plain fat and lazy. They’re going to start putting chemical toilets into them. Just like that guy’s easy-chair in “Idiocracy.”
21. Voice recognition software will be built into keyboards. It will become as common as webcams, so everyone has it. And they’ll use it. You’ll walk into a coffee shop and the cacaphony of people “typing” will completely overwhelm you.
22. There will be some kind of successful court action that is the first step to getting “IN GOD WE TRUST” off of our money.
23. There will be some kind of congressional action making it illegal for anyone under a certain age to enter a national park, accompanied by an adult or not. Because of this, Boy Scouts will no longer do any hiking or camping, and will become an urban sing-a-long.
24. Womens’ fashions will become awful yet one more time. No bare legs, no elegant dresses, no skirts of any kind. Baggy sweat pants will be all the rage, even at formal occasions. Any woman not wearing a frumpy sweat shirt will be hissed at by other women, and said to be “dick-whipped” by her boyfriend or husband.
25. Speaking of which, they’ll make a Wonder Woman movie and she’ll be wearing ugly overalls. The story will be like one half of “Thelma & Louise,” crossed with “Erin Brockovich.” She’ll stop a mega-corporate conglomerate led by some evil man that is conspiring to (somehow) make a zillion dollars overnight by dumping toxic sludge into a river making all the adorable woodland creatures sick. Her sexuality is no longer a mystery and they make sure it’s clearly established that she’s a lesiban every ten minutes.
26. Oh, and ditto for Tomb Raider. She, too, will stop some middle-aged white guy who wears nice suits in the middle of the night from dumping toxic sludge into the river killing all the woodland creatures, and she’ll be out-and-proud gay.
27. Foreclosures will plateau out and then they will spike again as the interest rate goes up and up and up.
28. The occult will become popular, as people feel a need to believe in something, and feel stigmatized from believing in anything else.
29. Geneology will make a comeback. Look for a remake of “Roots.” Google will release a web-based app that will store and organize the results of personal research.
30. Watching movies at work will become commonplace, as employment fulfills less and less of a practical purpose.
31. Delivery services will become “clouded,” just like “cloud computing,” meaning there will be companies in the business of providing the delivery of groceries, bottled water, hot coffee drinks, etc. provided by other companies. And then we’ll be on the fast track to becoming the bloated floating egg-humans in Wall-E.
32. The “bonus czar” will absolutely, positively be reviewing “executive bonuses” for all firms, whether they received bailout money or not, be they publicly traded or not. And then the definition of “executive” will trickle down. ANd then it will be salaries, not bonuses. The government will be wanting to review resumes of network engineers and systems analysts to see if they’re worth their salt, before it’s done.
33. We’re going to try out France’s failed program of forcing everyone to work 30 hours or less per week, in an effort to force companies to hire more people.
34. The U.S. Mint will issue yet *another* awkward dollar-coin with a woman’s image on the face of it…and, just like the last three, it will be unpopular, awkward, refuse to work in vending machines the way it’s supposed to. It will be recalled and the feminists will complain. Bitterly. Again.
35. There’ll be some crisis in the middle east, gas will get more expensive, and then they’ll advertise it by the liter to make it look affordable.
36. Obama will put a solar panel on the White House. Welcome back, Carter.
37. They’ll make another Superman movie, and this time he’ll — all together now — ACTUALLY FIGHT SOMEBODY.
38. The Atlas Shrugged movie, on the other hand, will see another year come & go without getting made.
39. A talented young black guy who looks kind of like a white girl will appear on the scene and will be vigorously promoted as “The Next Michael Jackson.”
40. Secretary of State Clinton will resign, and start writing a tell-all. She’ll be responsible for starting a whole new wave of feminism, to be informally known as “Our Turn” feminism or “We’ve Waited Long Enough” feminism. It’ll have all the paranoia of all the previous waves of feminism.
41. Timothy Geithner, adieu.
42. Modesty Blaise movie.
43. They’re going to breed an even smaller dog. It’ll be informally known as a “pocket puppy.” They’ll make special sweaters for stupid girls and women who can tuck several pocket dogs away along the length of their arms. And she will have music wherever she goes…
44. Because the people who make Saturday morning cartoons absolutely loathe parents, these forms of entertainment will become even louder and more headache-inducing.
45. It will become fashionable to remake period classics, like Of Mice and Men, and Tale of Two Cities, for the present time, just like that fad of remaking Shakespeare plays for the present during the early 2000’s. In this version of Grapes of Wrath, look for the Depression to be George W. Bush’s fault. Tom Joad will be played by Ice Cube.
46. “Obama” will become a popular slang term to describe a manager who is constantly giving wonderful speeches and organizing “summits” but never actually doing anything to improve any situation besides spending lots of money.
47. Apple will come out with a new device that can store as much music as an iPod, but clip in place behind the ear so you can’t tell if someone’s listening to you or rocking out.
48. Employers will be forbidden from discriminating against people who can’t show up on time.
49. Cable television companies will be required to make sure no more than 50% of their channels are in English because that’s racist.
50. California to become our first bankrupt state. To be followed by New York.
Since being psychic and making predictions for 2010 requires absolutely zero talent or skill, I’ve decided to give it a try… and because Cassy asked me to. J Here are a few of my predictions:
In Foreign Affairs:
1. Barack Obama, being the appeaser-in-chief that he is, will authorize his representatives in Afghanistan to negotiate with “the more moderate Taliban” (I know – an oxymoron) ending the war quickly, getting his left-wing base in line, just in time for his re-election bid.
2. Israel, tired of Iran’s brazen in-your-face attitude over nukes, will go it alone and attack Iran facilities, destroying the crud out of them. Barack Obama however will condemn Israel and will be viewed by all thinking people of supporting Iran.
In Election 2010:
1. The Democrats lose their majority in the House, and Republicans pick up about 5-7 Senate seats in Election 2010.
2. Following in his democratic predecessor Tom Daschle’s footsteps, Harry Reid will be one of those Democrats ousted from the Senate. Rejoice!
3. Marco Rubio – conservative (R) – will defeat Governor Charlie Crist – RINO who supported Obama’s porkulus – in the Florida GOP primary race. Marco will go on to win in November, replacing retiring Senator Mel Martinez.
4. Carly Fiorini will absolutely defeat Barbara, the obnoxious Keebler Elf, Boxer in a delicious upset in the California Senate race… Ok, so maybe that is wishful thinking but IT COULD HAPPEN PEOPLE!
In Oddities:
1. Rahm Emmanuel, replacing an injured Hollywood B-List Celeb, will win the coveted “Dancing with the Stars 2010” with his partner Edyta.
2. Michelle Obama will still have horrible fashion sense and embarrass us all at numerous events and functions throughout the year.
Jill from Pundit and Pundette:
2008: Obama enthralls.
2009: Obama bores and annoys.
2010: Obama enrages.
The first year of Obama has highlighted the contrast between socialism and liberty. In 2010 the nature of the conflict will become clearer to more Americans and the battle lines will be more clearly drawn.
Several more Obama czars and cabinet members will reveal themselves as evil clowns who despise everything that’s good. Jennings will go.
Our enemies will be further emboldened by our appeaser-in-chief and Americans will feel less and less safe. Obama will respond with a terrorism summit (though he’ll call it something else, like “Coming Together for a Secure America”). All ideas will be welcome except any that would be effective against terrorism. He’ll sling his jacket over his chair and roll his sleeves up a few inches. Then he’ll hit the campaign trail to recharge his ego. (It will later be revealed that some of the summiteers were actually terrorists.)
Incompetence will out. The polls will show a steady drop in American confidence in Obama’s ability to handle national security or the economy. Come August, Democrats running for re-election will be throwing him under the bus.
Some selected predictions from writers at the National Review:
JOHN DERBYSHIRE
Looking over last year’s predictions, I seem to have batted not quite .500, which actually isn’t bad as these things go, but chastening none the less. Thus chastened, I’m a little less fertile of predictions this year, but here are a handful.Immigration. Barack Obama’s illegal-immigrant aunt, Zeituni Onyango, will not be deported. (Copied that one from last year, too.)
Politics: The GOP will make good, though not great, gains in the midterms. They will immediately embark on a strategy guaranteed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Go Stupid Party!
The Presidency: Michelle Obama will slip by her minders and say something outrageous. The MSM will not report it. Persons who refer to it will be denounced as racists.
JONAH GOLDBERG
Gay rights and immigration will stay off the president’s agenda as the White House tries to claw back to the center in anticipation of the 2010 elections.Rubio beats Crist in what has become a major nationalized election. The Frank Rich crowd will insist that this time it’s really, really, for honest, true that Rubio’s win spells the doom of the GOP as a mainstream party.
… Harry Reid loses re-election bid, calls results an “evil lie, bought and paid for by the insurance companies.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg will retire for health reasons. This will create enormous problems for Obama, as the base will demand someone even more liberal than Sotomayor, while the times will require someone more moderate. Obama will go with his gut and name a very, very, liberal nominee.
The GOP will not take back the House. But it will be very, very close.
HEATHER MAC DONALD
Democrats will hound the banks to increase their lending, especially home loans, to credit-poor minorities.Unchastened by the messy health-care fight and measly global-warming balance sheet, Obama will push for an illegal-alien amnesty. It will pass. Amnesty opponents won’t marshal the same fervor as they did in defeating the Bush-McCain-Kennedy amnesty.
JOHN J. MILLER
Republicans will gain four or five Senate seats — most likely in Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Marco Rubio will defeat Charlie Crist in the Florida GOP primary and go on to a general-election victory. By the end of the year, polls will suggest that several Republican presidential candidates can defeat Barack Obama in 2012.The newspaper industry will continue its slow decline, with at least two major American dailies — on par with the late Rocky Mountain News — ceasing to publish. Journalists employed by non-profit institutions and funded by philanthropic dollars will play an important role in the 2010 elections. A reporter not affiliated with the mainstream media will break a new climate-change data scandal.
Fidel Castro will die.
Unemployment numbers will fall in the spring of 2010, due to temporary hiring of census workers. A family member predicts a “W” shaped recession, though.
The MSM will continue to prop up and strenuously defend Barack Obama because they have no choice; they shot their wad of credibility in getting him elected, so he will continue to be the most brilliant and gifted politician ever to sit in the Oval Office, albeit one who is hampered by poor advisors, a corrupt congress and the past and continued existence of George W. Bush.
Terrorism will be on the rise throughout 2010.
Within the press and the DC Beltway, blame for this will not fall -as one might expect- on the president who has scraped, bowed and apologized the world over on behalf of America, dissed its allies and made a big show of “talking” and “reaching out” to people who have admitted that they make distinctions based on what they perceive to be “strong” and “weak” horse-nations. Within the press and the DC Beltway -with few exceptions- blame for any terror attacks will either be shared with the Bush administration or will fall exclusively at the feet of George W. Bush. It simply must be, you understand.
Michelle Obama’s approval ratings will out-poll her husband’s.
IF that happens, Hillary Clinton will resign as Secretary of State and take up a humanitarian post as she begins to weigh another run for the presidency. She will be encouraged in this by polls indicating that many Dems, most Independents and even some Republicans would prefer her presidency to Obama’s.
Also, if that happens: Barack Obama will find that he rather likes being a bit of a hawk on terrorism -that going hawk wins him the approval of a majority of Americans and outweighs the sneers of the far-left- and that since every difficulty can be safely blamed on Bush, his political risk is almost nil.
Just in time for the 2010 election, the Illegal Immigration issue will heat up. A.N.S.W.E.R. will break out the Mexican flags and get the parades going, again, and many Americans on the right will become utterly inflamed again. The issue will be used to split and discourage the right, as it did in 2006, and then the flags will be packed away once more. Whether anything will ever actually be done to reform the INS is up for grabs, but I can predict with certainty that no one will take seriously my suggestion that a sort of “Ellis Island West” be created along the California/Arizona/New Mexico borders in order to help get peaceful, productive but undocumented workers onto the tax rolls, streamline the immigration process and enhance border security at the same time. I don’t know what to do about the Canadian border, though. Or Montauk. Good thing no one listens to me, anyway.
Tabitha Hale from Pink Elephant Pundit:
Well I think that if the GOP is going to do anything they’ll get their crap together and embrace the grassroots again. And not in a stupid “let’s throw a tea party at the RNC and tell them to quit throwing a hissy fit” sort of way. I think that we’ll see more bloggers, activists, and citizen reporters come to the forefront, and that the new media will continue to fill the void left by idiot mainstream reporters. I think that some form of health care reform will pass. And that it could quite possibly serve as a catalyst for and even larger backlash.
And… I predict a whole bunch more emails like the ones I posted yesterday will be sent in the process.
I think it is a given that the Republicans will make significant gains in both the side of Congress. The opposition party historically does well in midterm elections and there are certainly some reasons to think the effect will be particularly strong this time. However, I think regaining control of either house is unlikely–Democrats made too many gains in 2006 and 2008 for it to reverse itself in one election cycle.
1) The Democrats will continue their Bataan march toward a passable healthcare bill, and will duly lose the house next year because of it. No public option, no Federal funding of abortion either–or it doesn’t get through reconciliation. But we won’t be in a position to repeal this not-completely defanged monster until we take the Senate as well, and that probably won’t occur until 2012 (when we’ll also have the Presidency, in all likelihood).
2) Hillary will find a way to leave the Obama Administration, probably over some trumped-up issue that will gain her some distance from the White House. She and Sarah Palin will continue flirting with the idea of running in 2012, but in Palin’s case she’ll be dealing with the curse/blessing of…
3) Dick Cheney’s completed book—which will make Liz Cheney much more available for political office, and political life in general, more interesting. (I think Liz should run–perhaps with Sarah. Though the talent pool is about to drastically open up.)
4) There will be more terror attacks on American soil;
5) Iran will complete a nuclear device;
6) Americans will notice those two things, and start doing a slow burn. Obama will keep trying to “pivot,” but it will largely be “too little, too late.”
7) Andrew Breitbart will achieve world domination;
8 ) Michelle Obama will have a “come to Jesus” discussion with her fashion advisors;
9) We will not gain much ground in the “necessary” war, Afghanistan. But Iraq will continue to be an embarrassing success.
10) Barack Obama will continue to be an embarrassing failure, and people like me will stop longing for the days of Bill Clinton, and begin missing . . . Jimmy Carter.
Missing him bad.
Thanks to all bloggers who participated and made predictions for the crazy ride we surely will have this year!
What are your predictions for the new year?
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This is me with our little Christmas tree, now a little bit mangled thanks to our rottweiler, Ripley.
Here is the picture we used for our Christmas card, sent to our family and friends. (And yes, I did put reindeer antlers on Ripley’s head. Maybe I’ll be the next Rachel Lucas with the dog blogging!)
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yet again, we have complaints about the lack of “gender diversity”, to quote the feminists, in the blogosphere. This crap gets so old, but for some reason, it continually gets brought up. I guess there’s some kind of silent conspiracy against women bloggers. This is obvious because more women use Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace then men do, so clearly there should be more women blogging, too. Or something.
If you spend any time looking at social media demographics, there’s one stat you see over and over: women dominate the space. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter — all are more popular with women than men.
So it was a bit jarring this week to see that 67% of bloggers are male, according to the newest installment of the Technorati State of the Blogosphere report.
Admittedly, this isn’t a new stat. In least year’s report, Technorati’s survey put the male blogger ratio at 66%. But compared to the other mainstream social media activities, it seems bizarrely guy-heavy.
What’s the deal? Why is blogging a boys club at a time when women are such a powerful force in creating social media content?
Well, that’s a complicated question with a simple answer.
First of all, women like social networking sites more than men for a very obvious reason: women are inherently more social than men. Yes, men bond with their friends just as much as women do, but in very different ways. Whereas women will sit with their girlfriends and just talk for hours about their jobs, boyfriends, husbands, children, and so on, men will not. Men do not typically have those kind of relationships in their lives. So it’s only natural that women would be the ones drawn more towards social networking sites. Women can go onto Facebook and catch up with the people in their lives, and men just don’t do that. They might log on and send a quick what’s up to their buddies, but that’s about it. Women want to share pictures, play games, message back and forth. Social networking is another method of bonding with the people you care about, and let’s face it: men just don’t have as high of a priority on bonding as women do.
Second, women aren’t nearly as aggressive as men, nor are they as thick-skinned. This isn’t to say that no women are aggressive or thick-skinned, but I’m just talking in generalities here. Women tend to start blogging and then realize that it is a tough, tough world out here. You say something someone doesn’t like, and they don’t dispute your point calmly and politely with rational, well thought-out replies. They attack you, personally. They call you fat, ugly, stupid. They’ll call you a whore or a bitch or a slut. And these are the mild insults. A lot of women have no clue what they’re getting into when they start blogging. And when they see how rough it is, they quickly get out, because to them it’s not worth it.
Every conservative female blogger I know gets this kind of abuse, and it’s often sexualized. We all get it. It’s a fact of life when it comes to blogging. Michelle Malkin had to move because her family was threatened by a blogger who published her personal information — address, phone number, everything. There is nothing that is off-limits when it comes to blogging, and anything can be held against you. Anything can be used as leverage against you to make you quit, to make you give up. And frankly, there are not many women who are as tough as Michelle is, who would be able to keep going. For many women, it wouldn’t be worth it.
A lot of women also don’t like the competition factor. Men tend to be more competitive by nature, and there are plenty of women out there who just don’t want to have to fight for readers and advertising. Again, in order to make it as a blogger, you’ve gotta be tough. Some women can take it. Others simply can’t.
Now, here’s the thing. I don’t want there to be more female bloggers. I like the fact that I’m a minority in the blogosphere. It’s a huge selling point for me. I’m not afraid at all to say it. With so few women bloggers, it automatically makes me stand out, and that’s a good thing. Throw in the fact that I’m… ahem… well-endowed, shall we say?, and not bad-looking and it’s even more of a plus. Men don’t get those benefits. A great looking male blogger is not going to attract much traffic, because readership online is mostly male, at least when it comes to politics. A great looking woman, however, who can write well and is not afraid to take shots and shoot back is going to be very attractive to their male readers. It makes you stand out, and if the blogosphere suddenly becomes crowded with female bloggers, then I’ve just lost my edge. I’m a conservative. That means I’m a capitalist, baby, and when it comes to my being successful in the blogosphere, there is always going to be a level of competitiveness there. Competition is part of succeeding. There are thousands of bloggers out there, just as talented as I am, ready to work just as hard as I do if not harder. I have to be able to give myself that edge somehow, to enable myself to be successful. Being a young, conservative, attractive woman certainly does give me an edge. I’m not about to complain about being one of the few female political bloggers out there. I personally hope that doesn’t change. With that said, there are some fantastic female bloggers out there that I look up to and admire. Michelle Malkin immediately comes to mind, along with other amazing women like Mary Katharine Ham, Melissa Clouthier, EM Zanotti, Katie Favazza, Ericka Andersen, Amanda Carpenter… the list could go on and on. There are a lot of great, talented female bloggers and there are certainly no men trying to hold us back. There is no invisible barrier keeping women from being successful as bloggers.
And frankly, the people who think otherwise are just trying to find another way to exploit their status as the liberal-beloved “victim”. They need to get over it and start taking some personal responsibility for their blogging careers.
But then, that goes against everything liberalism stands for, doesn’t it?
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I’m going to be on the Rick Moran show tonight at 8:00pm Eastern time, along with Stacy McCain, Dan Riehl, and Jimmy Bise. We’ll be discussing Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, health care, and other issues of the day. Be sure to tune in!
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Just wanted to write a quick note explaining the weird intermittent blogging going on lately. I have had a lot of life issues going on lately — good life issues, but it has gotten in the way of sitting down for a few hours and getting some decent blogging action going. As you all know, I moved to North Carolina at the end of June. I just got a job about a month ago — the job market here is just as bad as it is everywhere else, despite people saying that Jacksonville, NC is a “recession-proof” area thanks to the military presence here. Yeah, it’s not. Anyway, I had to go out of town for eight days for job training. Matt and I also spent two consecutive weekends away from home, visiting friends first in Cary, NC and then in Reading, PA. We also started the process a few weeks ago of trying to buy a home. We’re both sick of renting. So, for the past few weeks we have spent most, if not all, of our spare time house-hunting. Between working all day Monday – Friday, house-hunting immediately after work, going out of town on weekends, and then only coming home later at night, I have frankly not had the energy to get much blogging done.
I’m sure you all understand. I’m honestly doing the best I can to get as much work in here for you guys in between everything I’ve got going on in my hectic life, and so I’m hoping you’ll just bear with me for the next month or two until things settle down a little bit. Like I said, I really am doing the best I can and I will do my best to get as much blogging done here as possible.
Thanks, as always, for reading!
Cassy
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