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Posted at 3:23pm on Nov. 28, 2006 And on this, Kos and I agree...

You Want Me To Do What?

By Clayton

Break out your pocketbooks, folks! The NRSC is in need!

When you're right, you're right (DailyKos). This is one helluva funny email:

From: "Senator Elizabeth Dole"
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006
Subject: Recovering from our Post-election debt

Help us Retire our Debt!

You have already done so much these past two years to help us protect our Republican Senate Majority - Thank you!

But right now, the NRSC is being buried under an avalanche of post-campaign debt... We need to address this problem at once in order to wipe-out our debt and make sure we have the funds to start 2007 with the maximum strength possible.

Please make an online donation right now to help the NRSC retire our 2006 campaign debt and set the stage for a GOP comeback over the next two years.

More of the bleg below the fold...

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Posted at 10:47am on Oct. 3, 2006 This is the Title of the article

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By Clayton

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Posted at 11:08pm on Sep. 7, 2006 3,000 People Still Die

Liberals can't change every scene in "The Path to 9/11"

By Clayton

As reported earlier today, the Democratic Leadership of the United States Senate sent a threatening letter to the Walt Disney Company. For what effect - and to what end - we will have to wait and see. We already know that Disney/ABC have made 'minor' changes in the program, to placate the liberal masses. Indeed, Americablog seems nearly giddy at the thought of a Democrat controlled House 'pulling Disney's broadcast license'. Kos quotes Americablog, but doesn't add any more commentary (smartly so). Conservative blogs are remembering the ruckus over "The Reagans", when CBS moved the controversial series to Showtime in order to quiet the conservative backlash.

Redstate readers, of course, will see the many problems with this:

1. The program is a dramatization and as such is subject to artistic license. You know, like the film coming out next year that shows President Bush being assassinated. Or Cindy Sheehan's book where she fantasizes about murdering babies.

2. The scene in question appears to be derived from real events. When you actually pick up that 9/11 report and read it, the most interesting things can be found.

3. And perhaps the Senate Democrats already know this, but ABC owns only 10 of their affiliates, out of hundreds across the country. Do they plan to rattle their sabres at the hundreds of independent station owners and conglomerates? (Answer: No, because they need to buy a lot of cheap advertising time on those same stations over the next 60 days).

4. Finally, the Chairman of Disney is former Senate Democrat George Mitchell. The largest shareholder is Steve Jobs, an unabashed liberal. Now, I don't question that the company is tens of thousands of people, but it seems like those two folks could place a few phone calls and have this whole matter solved - if it were really an issue of a broadcaster trying to manipulate an election.

5. What happens when the party in power starts to use these kinds of threats? What would the reaction have if the Republicans had threatened CBS in the wake of the Rathergate scandal? Calm heads on both sides of the aisle can see the wicked dangers here.

In short, ABC made some changes and bowed to public pressue. But at the end, nearly 3,000 people still die. That's one scene the liberals will never be able to rewrite.

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Posted at 10:15am on Aug. 21, 2006 Redstate On the Go

Welcome Redstatemobile.com to the family

By Clayton

Editors Note: The day RedState Mobile launched, we experienced some tech difficulties. I wanted to remind everyone that this is out there in the wild now. So, if you've got your Treo, Blackberry, Q, or other handheld device, check out RedStateMobile.com. Thanks, Erick.

We heard you. I want my Redstate on-the-go. Sure, many of you with the latest devices can pull up redstate.com and get a pretty good user experience, but what of those bored, tired souls who just want a good headline fix?

RedStatemobile.com.

It's currently in beta, and subject to some changes, but it's a fast-loading, headline driven fix for your commute, meeting, or lunch break. It's got the Redstate Network sites, as well as top stories from around the globe and right here in the US. Each headline displays a summary, and you can click on over to the original article.

Redstate. News. Politics. Sports. Even a built-in Google Search box. I've made it my mobile homepage. You can too.

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Posted at 9:57pm on Aug. 13, 2006 Latest Castro Photos Not Quite Ducky

More evidence of a bad photoshop job?

By Clayton

So, there's plenty of fisking of the Castro photos going on: you can get started at CigarEnvy or Fools-r-Us.

But via The Amazing Retecool we get a link to the another photo above right, with Castro holding the Donald Duck comic. Now, my first instinct is to perform the same analysis as on the photos provided by the Cuban Government. If the comic photo is a Photoshop job, it's done a whole lot better than the one from Jubentud Rebelde. I don't speak a word of Dutch, so I have no clue whether it's a joke or something unearthed from the archives.

Anyone care to help us out here?

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Posted at 5:08pm on Aug. 12, 2006 Recommend Away

You asked for it

By Clayton

It's ugly, but it's there. The recommend button is back on the right column. I'll try and style it up over the next hour, but I'm not making promises.

Thanks for your patience. "My Comments" and "Recent Comments" are in the works. Hang tight.

Important Update: I was in such a hurry to post this, I forgot to give credit where it is due. This module was provided to me by the guys at Advomatic. They developed it when converting Wesley Clark's blog from Scoop to Drupal. They also proactively reached out to me last week to offer help and fellowship in the Drupal community. Despite the philosophical differences, they are interested in helping us succeed. Thanks guys!

Another Update (by Erick): "New" is now text instead of the pretty graphic I really lived a lot. So, have fun searching for new comments now by text. Sigh.

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Posted at 8:01am on Aug. 11, 2006 Redstate 2.0 Features

By Clayton

I've got family obligations during the day today that I can't miss... But I wanted to dash off a quick note about some of the things you're asking for.

Overwhemingly, you have told us that you miss the recent comments, recommended diaries, and "my comments" portions of the site. And the good news is... they're coming! I've actually been working on those since before the launch.

I've spent most of my time this week optimizing the site for the increase in traffic, and complexity of launching the additional sites. Now that we've passed that milepost, you can look forward to your favorite features coming back soon - and more! We're talking days and weeks here, not months and years. In fact, the administrators can already see the recommended and recent comments blocks.

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Posted at 6:24pm on Aug. 10, 2006 A preview of tomorrow...

Claytons surprise site tomorrow

By Clayton

We heard you. Hill staffers. Agency workers. Bored to tears in that committee meeting. Waiting for a train during rush hour.

Not even the directors knew that I was working on this site. Tomorrow, I'll present (in beta form), the final site for our relaunch week. It's really not that hard to figure out if you try.

So, go ahead and wait for an orange line train that's not so packed. You'll be fine.

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Posted at 2:57pm on Aug. 9, 2006 Redstate Downtime

By Clayton

Just a quick apology for the downtime this afternoon. We're still in the midst of optimizing the site and server, and unfortunately we had a series of events that made the site very unstable.

It looks as though we're back strong, so please carry on.

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