Just in case you’ve been wondering why this ol’ Okie has been so quiet lately, it’s not because I haven’t had anything to write about — I just haven’t had any time! Here’s why . . .

Launching today, November 17th, 2009, The Kitchen Cabinet PAC is the supporting website for the recently created Conservative Womens’ Political Action Committee of the same name.

Designed to help give a strong voice to women throughout the US and its territories, commonwealths and military facilities all over the globe, The Kitchen Cabinet PAC features educational articles, national contact information (The White House, Senate and House of Representatives) and will soon offer a user-supplied nationwide directory of political and service organizations.

Arthur Baker Design (Okie’s Santa Monica based design company) worked with the PAC’s creator Sonja Eddings Brown to provide a rich user experience for KC-PAC visitors. WordPress is used for the CMS. The donation element of the site is from Blue Swarm and was originally developed for Mitt Romney’s Presidential run and now powers the donation functions for a multitude of candidate-campaigns and charities.

There’s still lots to be done, and as my regular readers will probably guess, I’m beyond stoked to have been given the opportunity to work on this important website!

Hey, what are you doin’ gawkin’ around here? Go take a peek!

When I read this with my morning coffee in hand and mouth, I think I spewed more than I ingested! Andrew Klaven, conservative book author and screenwriter who’s August 2008 Washington Post column called out the conservatives in Hollywood for “whispering” while the Loony Lefties are “shouting”, has an opinion piece in today’s Los Angeles Times called Take the Limbaugh Challenge. In it he puts forth the argument that virtually all of those folk that excoriate Rush Limbaugh have never listened to his show and therefore know not of what they speak squeal/whine about.

Whenever I interrupt a liberal’s anti-Limbaugh rant to point out that the ranter has never actually listened to the man, he always says the same thing: “I’ve heard him!”

On further questioning, it always turns out that by “heard him,” he means he’s heard the selected excerpts spoon-fed him by the distortion-mongers of the mainstream media. These excerpts are specifically designed to accomplish one thing: to make sure you never actually listen to Limbaugh’s show, never actually give him a fair chance to speak his piece to you directly.

You know these folks — shoot, that’s about all there is around this neck o’ the woods. Be it Rush, Hannity, Hewitt, Prager . . . they hate ‘em all, but they’ve never listened to them. I remember a good 17 years ago I said something to one of our friends acquaintances about really enjoying listening to Dennis Prager. “I HATE DENNIS PRAGER!!!!” spewed from her mouth in an involuntary reflex. Nope, not in Kansas Oklahoma anymore, Okie. But, back to Klavan and his challenge to LA liberals:

By lifting some typically Rushian piece of outrageous hilarity completely out of context, the distortion gang knows full well it can get you to widen your eyes and open your mouth in the universal sign of Liberal Outrage. Your scrawny chest swelling with a warm sense of completely unearned righteousness, you will turn to your second spouse and say, “I’m not a liberal, I’m a moderate, and I’m tolerant of a wide range of differing views — but this goes too far!”

There is more untruthfulness in that statement than in a speech by President Obama. Even the commas are self-deceiving. You’re not a moderate or you wouldn’t be reading this newspaper. You’re not tolerant of a wide range of views; you are tolerant of a narrow spectrum of variations on your views. And, whatever you claim, you still haven’t listened to Rush Limbaugh.

After a laundry list of typical liberal excuses for not listening to Rush, Klavan cuts to the chase with the real reason:

You’re a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward. You’re terrified of finding out he makes more sense than you do.

“Terrified” — yeah, lefties do that well. It’s in their Calvins, hardwired in their DNA most likely. Next week that space will feature those that “took the bait”.

Can’t wait!

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