Moving to Korea

Man it's quiet around here.

I'm just popping in to let everyone (anyone?) know that I'm packing up my stuff and moving to South Korea. I'll be there for three months or a year and a half depending on how well my plan works. Website updates and link additions may be slow to nonexistent until I get settled in.

Change

If you haven’t noticed I’ve stopped posting here at Brucified. I’m in the process of moving some of my favorite posts from here to another blog in preparation of big changes to come. I’m not abandoning Brucified, so if you have a link to here or from here don’t worry; the new Brucified will be bigger, better, more anti-left-wing, anti-communist and anti-moonbat then ever.

I expect to make the change-over right after June. Until then please visit me at my main site Brucekelly.com or read my latest punditifications and rantifying at TheBlog.

Brucified –
1. Being overwhelmed by mumbo jumbo, when a simple yes or no answer would suffice. Example: "Bruce, can we use the extra computer on your desk?" "Well, if the USB port is not compatible with the 9 pin, the RCA cable could work, but it's the interface within the firewall that ultimately won't synch with the EMT."

2. Of or pertaining to being hosed or hoodwinked by a guy named Bruce. Example: “Bruce told us the software upgrade would work... no problem." "Well guess what, it DOESN'T work!" "Dude, you've been Brucified."

Pssst - wanna see my Digg Clone?

I’m sorry I haven’t posted here in over a month but I’ve been dealing with a variety of personal and professional issues. I have however found the time to put together another website… and here it is.

Tastylinks.com – I was inspired by Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs to build something more than the standard, static HTML or Blog style of website I’ve been working with over the last several years. After a bit of research I decided Drupal was the answer.

Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP and using a MySQL database to store content and settings. I am so enamored with this thing that I’m thinking about dropping Blogger and using it here. It makes an excellent blogging platform. I believe Newsbusters uses Drupal and I’m sure The Onion does.

Because of the domain name, which I’ve owned for awhile and never used, I decided to go with the links and voting modules. I have the functionality pretty much hammered down nice and flat although I still need to work on the style sheet to customize the overall appearance and I would also like to add more features to the user profiles.

I’ve designed Tastylinks as a place for webmasters and bloggers get links and promote their own content. I've had enough of the Major Media Outlets and Big Name Blogs hogging the internets. I’ve temporarily turned off email verification so you can register and get started adding your stuff right away. Check it out.

Please feel free to comment or offer suggestions, especially for topics and tagging options. I’m not sure which direction to go with categorizing the content so I’ll probably just let the folks who use it decided for me.

You can find out more about Drupal here: http://drupal.org and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal

William F. Buckley Jr. Dies

William F. Buckley Jr. dies at age 82
From The Conservative Voice

William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.

His assistant Linda Bridges said Buckley was found dead by his cook at his home in Stamford, Conn. The cause of death was unknown, but he had been ill with emphysema, she said.

Editor, columnist, novelist, debater, TV talk show star of "Firing Line," harpsichordist, trans-oceanic sailor and even a good-natured loser in a New York mayor's race, Buckley worked at a daunting pace, taking as little as 20 minutes to write a column for his magazine, the National Review.

Yet on the platform he was all handsome, reptilian languor, flexing his imposing vocabulary ever so slowly, accenting each point with an arched brow or rolling tongue and savoring an opponent's discomfort with wide-eyed glee.

"I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition," he wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1986. "I asked myself the other day, `Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?' I couldn't think of anyone."

Buckley had for years been withdrawing from public life, starting in 1990 when he stepped down as top editor of the National Review. In December 1999, he closed down "Firing Line" after a 23-year run, when guests ranged from Richard Nixon to Allen Ginsberg. "You've got to end sometime and I'd just as soon not die onstage," he told the audience.

The rest of the story is here...

Go Navy! NROL-21 hit by USS Lake Erie

The USS Lake Erie shoots down errant satellite.

The USS Lake Erie, armed with an SM-3 missile designed to knock down incoming missiles — not orbiting satellites — launched the attack at 10:26 p.m. EST, according to the Pentagon. It hit the satellite as the spacecraft traveled at more than 17,000 mph.

The use of the Navy missile amounted to an unprecedented use of components of the Pentagon's missile defense system, designed to shoot down hostile ballistic missiles in flight — not kill satellites.

The operation was so extraordinary, with such intense international publicity and political ramifications, that Defense Secretary Robert Gates — not a military commander — was to make the final decision to pull the trigger.

Read More at The Belmont Club: NROL-21 hit by USS Lake Erie

Wassup?

I’ve finished recoding my main website, brucekelly.com. This was not a redesign. In fact, I’ve done my best to keep the original design intact while converting it to a full CSS tableless layout. Not an easy trick by the way; not for me a least.

I’ve also added a couple of new pages while I was at it…
Conservative News and Iraq War News.

This reminds me of my first engine swap. I pulled a weak and worthless 307cid out of my ‘70 Chevelle coupe and replaced with a robust 350cid meany from a ’69 Pontiac LeMans. The car looked the same, but it ran like a mo’ …and I don’t mean a homo… not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I’ve also finally whipped my coin collecting site into shape. I’ve owned BKCoins.com for quite some time but I’m just now getting serious with it. This is my first liquid layout CSS design and I think it looks, and acts, pretty well. Any coin collectors out there want to give it a link?

I’ve also installed spider traps on both sites. Details at webmasterworld.com here and the final implementation here.

My apologies to my new friends at wevoteright.com, the neocon think tank and everyone else in my conservative blogosphere for not being around lately. And it’s looking like I won’t be around much for about another month either. The meat (real) world is interfering with my cyber world and I’ll be pretty busy for a bit longer. I’ll still make the time for link requests so keep them coming.

Top Conservative Blogs

I have been, and will be, busy working on brucekelly.com and some other assorted websites. I've created a page of best conservative blogs according to WeblogAwards.org. It updates every hour or so with the most recent post and a snippet of text. It's a good way to see what's up in the conservative blogosphere without having to visit each site.

I've also added lots of new links to some very good conservative web sites and I'd like to bring a couple of them to your attention...

Cross Action News - A very well done conservative Christian news aggregator. This is an excellent news service even if you're not a real christian kind of person.

The Daily Elephant - A fairly new conservative blog dedicated to social tolerance, free-markets, small government and a robust armed forces.

It also looks like and old friend (since 1937), Churchill's Parrot, has started a new blogrolling group called The Anglosphere Consortium for Anglosphere-o-philes. Man, that parrot has a way with words.

That's it. Posting here will be light for the next few weeks so check out my main site for latest from the conservative blogosphere and to get your site listed.

Martin Luther King Jr was Republican

Why Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican
By Frances Rice - National Black Republican Association

I found this On The wRite Side this morning, an excellent blog from my home state of South Carolina. I had some idea that the civil rights laws that where passed in the '60s where the results of Republican legislators and that Democrats have been taking the credit these many years, but I didn't know all this, and, shamefully, neither do most Americans.

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860's, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's. Please read the rest here.

What's Wrong With Ron Paul?

Some Thoughts on Ron Paul and the Libertarian Party
By Bruce Kelly

What's wrong with Ron Paul? In a word, nothing, that is nothing that's not wrong with the Libertarian Party. Any political party whose platform is based on doing less for the average American citizen is not going to have its candidate elected to the presidency, even if he is posing as a Republican. Libertarianism is a political philosophy, not a viable political party.

Here's an excerpt from an interesting piece written by Paul Mulshine for NJ.com

From This Ron's no Reagan

Back in November, when I first encountered his campaign staff, I wrote a column warning the candidate that he needed to get rid of the bozos running his campaign and hire some professionals. I came to that conclusion after I showed up for a press conference prior to Paul's appearance in Philadelphia.

I was shocked to find there were only two other journalists in the room. His staff had scheduled a press conference but neglected to tell the press. Worse, when the three of us tried to interview the candidate, Snyder rudely cut us off. He told us it was more important for the candidate to shmooze with donors than to keep his commitment to the press.

I have never seen such an amateurish move in my 30 years in journalism. As I noted in a column at the time, canceling a press conference is the sort of dirty trick that campaign professionals pull on the competing candidates. I've never seen a campaign manager pull such a trick on himself. And I never will again, I imagine.

As I also noted at the time, Paul had a chance to build some momentum in early November. But he needed some professionals running his campaign. Reagan certainly had them. His advisers were the very best money could buy. As for Paul, after his supporters generated $20 million in contributions, he had the money to buy the best as well.

Instead he stuck to a core of true-believer libertarian activists. And the problem with true-believer libertarians is that they turn libertarianism into an ideology. You know that old joke about the professor who asks, "Sure it works in practice. But will it work in theory?" That's the typical libertarian.

It's well worth reading the rest...

I admire Ron Paul, the crazy uncle of conservatives, he has stuck to his 200 year old libertarian philosophy in the face of negative media and personal ridicule. I had a crazy uncle myself, I liked him; he was a good man, intelligent, kind, and honest, but crazy.

Will Smith is Right

Will Smith is Right about Hitler and Journalists
By Bruce Kelly

The actor Will Smith gave an interview to the DailyRecord where he stated,

"Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’ I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’."

The quote was picked out by World Entertainment News and headlined, "Smith: 'Hitler was a good person'" and a TMZ article entitled, "Will Smith — Hitler, Schmitler; He Wasn’t That Bad"

Mr. Smith later issued this statement,

"It is an awful and disgusting lie. It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation. Adolph Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet."

First, Mr. Smith is right about Adolph Hitler. Hitler did indeed believe he was saving Germany and Europe from the evils of communism, democracy, capitalism and most importantly, the Jews. He was willing to commit so many crimes because he believed his goal was so noble; so noble that even mass murder was justified, as was the case with Stalin and Mao, and currently with Bin Laden. (more on misguided nobility here)

Will Smith is also correct about journalists and the media, or, as he put it, "an ignorant person with a pen." There is nothing in Mr. Smith's statement that even remotely implies that he believes Hitler was good. Quite simply, these journalists lied. They lied about what Mr. Smith said to create a story. They've done it before, they'll do it again.