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Getting back to work!

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I don’t know about you but I’ve been distracted for days and am now raring to get back to work.  We have a lot to do.   A quick trip around to other blogs reveals that things are pretty tense.   Obama may wish to govern the whole country but there sure doesn’t look like much hope of that.    People still want to know who he is, where he was born, who bought his mansion, who paid for Harvard law school, what are his relationships with Marxist radicals, how close is he to the Islamists, etc. etc., and there will be no let-up of investigations on the blogosphere.   (As I have said on many occasions, start your own blog.  Since “professional” journalists aren’t doing their jobs, you do it!)

If you think Hillary’s Whitewater and Bill’s philandering were on-going thorns in the Clintons’ sides, they were small potato issues having to do with run-of-the-mill greed and sex.  Thanks to the mainstream media’s abrogation of its duty,  Obama’s open questions go to the core of the security of our country.   Remember there was no blogosphere in the Clinton years, and not much talk radio.  

Whew, there is one good thing though, America has now proven to the world that we aren’t a racist country—what a relief!   So as we proceed to recommend reform of the Refugee Resettlement Program and to seek to curtail immigration we can do that without some black racist like Rev. Wright suggesting we have evil deep-seated bigoted hatemonger motives. 

I am also really looking forward to the waves of love coming our way from Europe and the Middle East.

Having nothing further to say (surely nothing profound), the following comment yesterday at Jake Tapper’s blog, where Tapper points out that Bill Ayers and Louis Farahkan both voted at the same polling place as Obama, gave me a good laugh.

Hey, let’s look at the bright side: If Obama wins then everything bad that happens from now on will be his fault. Yes, that’s right. Global warming. Global cooling. Hurricanes. Tidal waves. Until he pulls the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (and whatever other countries that are so-called illegally occupied) every single death will be the Messiah’s fault. Until he lets all the Gitmo prisoners go every non-event that happens there will be his fault. The economy will be his fault. Price of oil will be his fault. Endangered species will be his fault. Jobs going overseas will be his fault. Every time your car stalls it will be his fault. etc…Get the picture?

So get ready Dems. If your messiah wins, get ready to be treated like the way you’ve treated Bush supporters for the past 8 years. From now on, IT’S YOUR FAULT! (Woohoo, feeling the relief already). Dems, get ready to feel the love…

With a completely Democratically-controlled Washington, there will be no confusion about who is responsible for what happens next. 

Now, back to the piled up posts that need to be written.

Endnote:  See Steve Sailer’s analysis of what went wrong in the McCain campaign, posted yesterday at VDARE.

 

From a Smearcasting wannabe

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This made me laugh and wonder when I too might have the honor of being on this distinguished list.   Of course I would never presume to be in the company of these great patriots, but maybe in a lower tier.    See Smearcasting’s smears here.

Smearcasting documents the public writings and appearances of Islamophobic activists and pundits who intentionally and regularly spread fear, bigotry and misinformation in the media. Offering a fresh look at Islamophobia and its perpetrators in today’s media, it also provides four snapshots, or case studies, describing how Islamophobes manipulate media in order to paint Muslims with a broad, hateful brush.

If you click on the face of each “Islamophobe” you will get a description of how “hateful” each is.

Hey, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, I said this in the Salt Lake City Tribune this week, will it help me make the list?

Corcoran also objects to the number of Muslim refugees who have resettled in the United States in recent years because she worries about cultural clashes on the scale of those seen in Europe.

Note to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (their name is funny too):    using words like “Islamophobe”, “bigotry”, “fear”, “hate”……racism, xenophobia, nativism and on and on and on, doesn’t work anymore.

Reader adds to our information, we invite others to do the same

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A reader called ‘whuptdue’ has been sending comments to several of our posts lately and adding important new facts to our stories.   This is a turn of events we have been hoping for—more people adding their research.    We appreciate those of you who have already been helping us and welcome new investigators.

Judy and I have busy lives, as I am sure our readers do also, so we can’t often dig deeper.   We are grateful for your help!

Send additional facts to stories you are interested in and include links to back up your point.   We can all be investigative reporters, journalism school is not required.

And, even if you are mad as hell, don’t use foul language to make your point, or you will get the hook.  We do moderate our comments, so if there is a lag in time between writing the comment and us posting it, its because we went to bed or are off doing something else.   As a matter of fact, this weekend I’ll be away for immigration meetings in Washington, Judy will be holding down the fort.

Whuptdue has more information at the bailout story here and at the latest Minneapolis Somali murder story here.

Refugee Resettlement Watch is getting around

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I am tickled to report that Refugee Resettlement Watch just completed its best month ever.  We added 12,000 readers over the previous month putting September at over 30,000 total visitors.   In the month of September last year (our first year) we had just over 2500 readers. 

Now by big blog standards that isn’t much but our topic is a very focused one, so it makes us happy to know that so many people are beginning to learn about refugee resettlement and related legal immigration issues.

Are you frustrated on some political issue and looking for a way to get a message to the public, consider starting your own blog.   Be an investigative reporter!   The mainstream media is in its death throws and alternative media is on the rise, so join in!

My blogging pitch again! We need more focused blogs!

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Every so often, and as our readership increases (dramatically by the way in the last month), I make a pitch for more people to get into blogging.   I am not talking about one more gadfly blog where you write about what is going on in the news across a wide spectrum of issues, give your opinion and people come and yak and yak about the deeper meaning.  

We need blogs that will examine in detail a particular subject area and provide people with hard facts and information that they can then use—especially now that the mainstream media seems to have completely abandoned any concept of investigative journalism if it doesn’t fit their political world view.  

We, at RRW, aren’t perfect (I admit, it is fun to yak) and are hardly experts, but we have been trying to provide useful information on the subject of Refugee Resettlement and we hope we are succeeding.  

To make my point, nothing makes me angrier than to see bright people wasting what must be hours hashing around some fine point about who is “racist” and who isn’t.   Makes me want to shout—GET TO WORK!

Yes, please please get to work and help research needed areas in this war to save our country.  Pick a topic that interests you and begin to be an expert— likely you will, in short order, be THE expert and your brain power won’t have been wasted yakking and playing a game of one-upsmanship with other commenters all trying to say the most clever and insightful things.

And, take it from me, you don’t need to be some sort of computer techy genius to get the words on the screen.  Don’t be deterred by insecurity and talk yourself out of doing it by saying—oh, I couldn’t make a blog look nice.   The important thing is to get the information out to the world, not how fancy the site is!

P.S.  If you feel you aren’t that out-front sort of person, then become a behind-the-scenes helper to another blog you support and help provide needed research, but get to work!