Vocal Minority

A Thank You and Explanation for the Long Silence

To my few fans who read my blog regularly: thanks for your devotion.

Unfortunately, I have just not had the time or, admittedly, the desire, to post a lot these days. Truthfully, it's not the quality of my fans, but it is the quantity. It's a little hard to justify investing the time posting thoughts and opinions, especially when oftentimes a great deal of research and fact-finding is involved. This blog gets only a hundred or so hits daily on a good day, and in this huge cyberworld that's not a whole lot. I realize there are so many other blogs that do what I try to do. They do it much better, and for a significantly greater audience. I guess I've gotten tired reinventing the wheel. 

It's not that I haven't engaged people in politics. I have actually spent lots of time stirring up discussion and debate on my VM Facebook page, rather than here. I'm on FB all the time, and it's so quick, easy, and convenient these days to just click that "share on Facebook" button that most websites have now.

So ... from time to time I will still post here, but I'm just not able to invest the time and effort needed to run a blog that's different and/or better than the other political blogs that are out there. For now. Thanks again for your continued support, and come visit me here and on Facebook from time to time.

Keep fighting the good fight. Go Romney/Ryan 2012!!!

-ETR

The Charlotte Freak Show

This pretty much sums it up for me: The Charlotte Freak Show.

Useful NY Times On-line Page

Yes, I'm about to compliment the NY Times.  A Facebook friend, actually a fellow Rutgers grad and erstwhile NJ Democrat Congressional candidate, Ed Potosnak, posted this. It's a really handy research tool.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/06/us/politics/convention-word-counts.html

Liberal Hypocrisy: Voter ID Required Anywhere Near DNC

Twitchy informs us that ID is needed to attend the DNC, which starts today in Charlotte. How racist! How bigoted! How suppressive! How disenfranchising!

The convention site declares:

Please complete the following form regarding your organization’s primary contact information and the authorized designee(s) to whom your 2012 Democratic National Convention credentials can be issued.

Authorized Pickup
All pickup persons must have a state-issued ID that matches the name submitted below.

Oh, that's not all. You need an ID even if you're merely near the convention, not necessarily attending it:

From Charlottein2012.com

Pedestrians walking to their home or business that falls into a restricted area will be required to provide identification when the road is closed. Passenger (as opposed to commercial) vehicles attempting to enter streets with restricted vehicle access must go through a vehicle checkpoint.

What type of identification is required?
A standard issued government ID is requested.

More at the Blaze.

This, incidentally, isn't the first time ID was required to attend a Democrat event. The party that has called the idea of voter ID racist, suppressive, even akin to rape! has required ID for events featuring President Hope&Change and even Mrs. Hope&Change.