I want to thank everyone who has so generously donated to the Confederate Yankee Blog Drive. Your donations mean a lot, when combined with my expected advertising from Pajamas Media, it brings me very close to being able to afford a "brand" laptop to work from very soon.

As Confederate Yankee expects to be doing some more investigative journalism (now in progress) and blogging from "on the road" in our second year (which starts after our Nov. 5 "blogiversary" this upcoming Saturday), this is a welcome addition to our blogging toolkit.

Thanks so much to those of you who have given from your hearts so far.

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The Anchoress is one of my favorite reads a a fellow blogger, and in my opinion, this piece may be her best yet, putting this intellectually dishonest turd from Jonathan Alter into perspective.

And before you ask, yes, I've to my own reaction to Alter's steaming pile, which I'll post sometime later in the week.

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Sorry for the light posting. I'm now starring in a production of "Fun with Migraines."

I hope to be back tonight...

Update: See what a lack of sleep can do?

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I want to start out by thanking everyone who has generously donated to what I should probably call the "Buy Bob a new computer once he jump starts a charity (if needed)so he can sleep every now and then" fund. I plan to run this drive periodically until my Nov. 5 first "blogiversary," but thought it might help if I had a specific target in mind.
For that, I turn to you.
I'm looking for a notebook computer as my replacement computer, for a couple of reasons, the primary reason being I'd like to be capable of mobile computing, especially as I might have the opportunity to do some on-location blogging in the not-too distant future. But while I'm comfy in my desktop knowledge, I can hardly claim to be anything approaching an expert on notebooks, with my only real experience coming from work-issued Thinkpads at several of my last jobs. I liked them, but they are all I know. What are my other options? I know I'd like:

• something with a quiet keyboard.
• something wireless.
• something rugged.
• enough "horsepower" to run multiple applications at once, including some memory hogs.
• to burn CDs and DVDs here and there.
• long service life.

P.S. -- That "Santa's Slays" movie in my last Blog Drive post? I actually watched it, well, subjected myself to it, last night. Let's just say it was everything you would expect in a holiday-themed horror/comedy starring a professional wrestler.

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I'd like to thank those of you who have so generously donated to the Confederate Yankee Blog Drive so far. As you know, proceeds with go to a new PC so that I can turn this aging Dell (circa 2001, we've liberated two countries and had elections there since then) over to my wife and daughter for their web -surfing and educational game-playing needs, and then have a dedicated 'puter to blog with. As it is, I'm having to share computer time, and that leads me to writing until 1-2 AM (like now), which wipes me out and lowers the quality of my output as well. I wants to write good for you.

Besides, if you don't, I'll slip this onto your Amazon Wish List:

You don't want to know the "plot":

Santa ([Former Pro Wrestler Bill] Goldberg) is actually Satan, who 1,000 years ago lost a curling match to an angel...

Bill Goldberg. Acting. Look, I hate to do this, but daddy needs a computer...

So help a blogger out, will ya?

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As you know, we're trying to raise funds so that we can replace an aging Dimension L733R computer that is on it's last legs. I want to thank each and every one of you who has donated to the Confederate Yankee Blog Drive so far.

Unfortunately, I'd like to do what us conservatives are always accused of doing anyway: I'd like to misappropriate these funds.

WTF?

Yes, "where are those funds?" No, not campaign contributions, but something far more insidious. I hope Ronnie Earle doesn't find out.

After church this morning, my wife and I were discussing a mission she volunteers for called the Hope Chest (part of my volunteering is working on its web site, which isn't ready yet). Think of Hope Chest kind of like a Goodwill, before Goodwill had buildings and was operating out of private homes and garages, and you won't be far off.

Anyhow, were trying to do some fundraising for the Hope Chest for the holiday season, and we're waiting on our appropriations committee to get funds for supplies we need for the drive. Well, someone in the process is dragging their feed and we might not get funded in time, so I'd like to take the money you guys have graciously donated for a replacement PC and use it for the Hope Chest. Yes, I'm evil like that.

I will get reimbursed by the church, and I'll put that money directly back into the Confederate Yankee Blog Drive computer fund in a few weeks.

If anyone who has donated has a problem with this please let me know.

Thanks for every dime. It will get spend on a PC, jut not as quickly as I thought.

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Update:

You guys are just wrong...

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1 I actually like fishsticks...um, ok, I have 31 cents and a blob of lint in my pocket. Oh, and a pink pony tail holder. Not enough? What about for the handcuffs?

Posted by: Theresa at October 21, 2005 11:17 AM (RzGwM)

2 Funny, Phin looks as if he is enjoying the bondage . . .

Posted by: oddybobo at October 21, 2005 12:07 PM (6Gm0j)

3 "fillet o' phin"...new at Burger King.

Posted by: Josh at October 21, 2005 01:30 PM (S6Wcf)

4 Sniff sniff. Evildoers.

Posted by: sadie at October 22, 2005 02:31 AM (xV63t)

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...And now comes the hard part... what Ace calls "the shaking of the cyber cup."

While I'd love not to do it, this little slice of the blogosphere has to be cobbled together somewhere, and for the past year, that has occurred on a battle-weary Dell Dimension L733R, circa 2001, which has seen far better days. My wife and I, and our increasingly computer-savvy daughter, all jockey for time on this single and rapidly-aging desktop PC.

Yes, shamefully, I don't have a full-loaded WiFi-enabled laptop with 22' chrome rims. I'm an embarassment to pajama pundits everywhere.

So please consider this:

Over to the right are a Paypal donation buttons for this site.

If each of you frequent readers could see your way click over and donate a couple of bucks or three, it would go a long way towards getting a dedicated Confederate Yankified computer (sorry, no General Lee-type paint scheme, unless you guys go really nuts), which will give me more time to research and write quality posts to keep you entertained.

Is that a good "bang for your buck," or what?

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Seriously.

And I'll do it for less than $25 million dollars.

And I'll even stay on to write (with appropriate salary and benefits, of course).

Deal?

(h/t Glenn)

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I don't often do this, but LawHawk is on a bit of a roll. Go read and just keep scrolling.

And thanks to my brother Phin for filling in while I was out playing in the woods this weekend with the wife and kid. Like him, I ate some pig too, but mine was right out of the hardwood-fired pit with some fresh apple cider, so I think I win.

Update: Greg has a very interesting post here that I woul direct you to. Those of us on the center-right should read it and reflect upon it.

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With C.Y. away on a brief vacation this weekend I'm upholding my obligatory familial commitment and keeping his blog from going to sleep. Plus I get to poke a lot more people with a sharp stick here than I do at my humble abode on the blogidoxiweb.

There's been a lot of hullabaloo made regarding the comments made by President Regan's education secretary. The Maximum Leader of Naked Villainy puts the comment Bennet made into context. I'm still trying to figure out why the White House made a statement and why many liberals don't feel the Bush has done enough to admonish Bennet. After all the current administration had as much to do with the appointment of Bennet as Clinton did and nobody's demanding they condemn his statements.

The Brady Bunch has also been getting quite a bit of media attention and discussion in the blogidohexitagon. One of their advertisements is warning European travelers that with the new law passed in Florida they could be shot due to upsetting someone while driving their car (road rage). If somebody in Florida legally uses deadly force you shouldn't have been driving through their yard in the first place. I guess leaving the part about being on your property makes the argument a bit more interesting.

There has been quite a bit of discussion on many blogs I regularly read regarding Intelligent Design(ID). I haven't weighed in on the topic. Proponents of ID say it's as valid as evolution and opponents say it's a back door method of teaching religion. Both sides point to the lack of scientific proof of the other's theory. With all the arguing back and forth I'm starting to think it really was the Flying Spaghetti Monster's doings, anybody else want to be a Pastafarian?

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