Kingsmouth seems to be a slightly posher Innsmouth. Wonder if the locals are as friendly?

THURSDAY - FEB. 18
Getting Started In Hollywood – Room 8212 (11:00 a.m.)
Sponsored by: Bank of Kev Productions
Speakers: Kevin McKeever of Bank of Kev Productions and Larry O’Connor of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood
Open to all CPAC attendees

Industry veterans Kevin McKeever and Larry O’Connor show you the ins and outs of getting a career started in the world of Film/TV and Theater.

Bank of Kev Blogger Free-For-All – Room 8212 (4:00 p.m.)
Sponsored by: Bank of Kev Productions
Moderator: Kevin McKeever – Bank of Kev Productions
Speakers: Tania Gail, Doug Welch, Joy McCann, Andrew Ian Dodge, Larry O’Connor and Bruce Carroll
Open to all CPAC attendees

What happens when the Bank of Kev and a group of up and coming bloggers take over a room at CPAC? Here is where you will find out.

FRIDAY FEB. 19

What Happened at the NEA, Why Does It Matter and What Can Be Done About It? - Room 8212 (11:00 a.m.)
Sponsored by: Bank Of Kev Productions
Moderator: Kevin McKeever – Bank of Kev Productions
Speakers: Kerry Picket - Washington Times
Larry O’Connor and Patrick Courrielche of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood.
Open to all CPAC attendees

The Rant Heard Around The World A Look At The Impact Of Viral Videos – Room 8212 (4:00 p.m.)
Sponsored by: Bank Of Kev Productions
Speakers: Andrew Ian Dodge and Kevin McKeever
Open to all CPAC attendees

A look at how Dan Hannan’s rebuke of Prime Minister Gordon Brown… aka “the rant heard round the world” became an instant sensation through YouTube.

SATURDAY FEB. 20

Bank of Kev Hollywood Free-For-All @ 10:00 a.m. - Room 8212 (10:00 a.m.)
Sponsored By: Bank of Kev Productions
Speakers: Kevin McKeever, Larry O’Connor of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood.

If you missed any of the Bank of Kev panels at CPAC then this is the place to be.

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I would like to thank Bank of Kev for their kind support and using me on their panels. Furthermore it was nice to have my panel ideas used for this event. Its gonna be damn good fun.

Stay tuned for various press appearances in the lead up to CPAC.

Morality is personal. There is no such thing as collective conscience, collective kindness, collective gentleness, collective freedom. To talk of social justice, social responsibility, a new world order, may be easy and make us feel good, but it does not absolve each of us from personal responsibility.

More over @ Devil’s Kitchen

Brunswick naval air-station closes its runways today. Well done to our Congressional delegation for keeping BNAS open. Your service to our nation’s safety and mid-Coast Maine is exemplary. All those times you two Senators sold out your party and the right for perks for Maine really paid off didn’t they?

A Government tick box; approach to describing peoples ethnicity is creating resentment among white working class people and driving then towards supporting extremist groups, a report says today.

This is the bit that gets people interested in my forthcoming novel.

The year is 2034. Power lies in Europe with the bureaucrats in Brussels and London is the centre for the Western Provinces.

The Supremo Manipulator of this conglomerate of nations is Pius. With no religious connections and a diminishing hold on power the Union is sustained by nepotism, violence and musical chairs of political appointees. The disintegration of the Union is imminent.

Rob, an English tech nerd together with his accomplice David, have to use their cyborg intelligence to survive in this oppressive Euro society in the Western Provinces. The assassination of Teresa, Rob’s girlfriend, and a busload of tourists along with the murder of a Czech student at Hull European University, provide the catalyst for Rob and David’s dangerous involvement. Together with their minders, Michaela and Kiara, they head full speed into their deadly adventure. Death is catching.

With a touch of humor, a satirical political edge, characters that you come to know well and a flowing writing style take the reader through a techno-thriller deep into the 21st century. We see the ambivalence of the revolutionaries, who never intended serious action, faced with orders to destroy and kill. Europe will never be the same again …

The sponsors started bailing now its the politicians turn Bachmann & Blackburn have pulled their appearances. Palin is the only one left. Does she still think it was a good idea to blow off CPAC for Tea Party Nation? Maybe a bit of consulting of actual tea party activists might have helped her make the right decision.

Update: Even those scumbags in TPE are bailing on it.

Show your support for a fiscal restraint amendment and the declaration of health care independence here.

No doubt much of Obama’s cabinet will be in mourning for the radical communist and anti-American agitator.

I shall be responding to the State of the Union address and it will be posted on Theo’s blog as part of his new audio blog.

If you want snarky, funny remarks on Obama’s SOTU address, Ace of Spades is the place to be when he throws open the floor for comments. I’ll post the exact link when it comes up.

Link here.

Check out the Libertarian Round-up at Devil’s Kitchen.

I was in The New Yorker however the author never bothered to mention me or anyone who was with me. This is despite going on for two paragraphs about it.

The author’s response… on a live chat on New Yorker site. Make of it what you will.

“Ben McGrath: Time for another introduction: Andrew Ian Dodge was one of the “men in black” at the event in Brooklyn where Chris Cassone sang his Tea Party anthem. Andrew is from Maine, and is also a musician. I believe he wrote a song called “Cry Freedom,” and presumably he has written many others.

Andrew, as far as the lyrics go, I think you’ll find that the magazine quotes lyrics all the time, as it quotes poems and other such things, under the doctrine of fair use. (Not that I’m a legal expert, but that’s my lay understanding.) Anyway, I’d say that it’s not that I “couldn’t be bothered” to use your name, but that, at that late moment in the arc of the piece, I didn’t think it made sense to include more names, for the readers’ sake. Call it a creative decision, not unlike the kinds of creative decisions made in writing songs or speeches. Clearly I used many people’s names, so it’s not as though I was trying to slight you for political reasons. That said, I’m sorry, and here’s your belated introduction…”

Dan Hannan thinks Brown’s victory reaches across the pond.

TPP people are meeting with DCs media. Activists from all over explaning to the press who and what we are…

I want to thank Freedomworks for being such great hosts. I am now looking forward to see what all the press have to say about us.

Here is Freedomworks take on the event. The Washington Independent reports on the event.

There is a shocking lack of songs dedicated to the romance and mystery that is public transit. I’ve been through the discographies of several bands — Ted Nugent, Bruce Springsteen and AC/DC most recently — and I can find no references to the glories of riding the No. 6 Riverfront Express. In fact the only bus-related songs I can think of are: “Magic Bus,” by The Who (all links open up YouTube videos); “Bus Rider,” which was a minor hit for The Guess Who; ” Bus Stop” by the Hollies (which isn’t really about buses, but we’ll claim it anyway; and Weird Al Yankovic’s parody of “Another One Bites The Dust,” ” Another One Rides The Bus .” And let us not forget The Allman Brothers’ “Ramblin’ Man” which qualifies because of the following lyric:

My father was a gambler down in Georgia
And he wound up out in the wrong in Alabam’
I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin’ down Highway 41.

So, by my count, I’ve written the sixth-best bus song ever. Of course, I might have missed one or two others, but even so, I’m still in the Top Ten.

And the Paultards agree naturally. Like the author of the piece I used to like Ron Paul for his domestic agenda however the more I look into the guy the less I like. His loony rantings against the CIA are the stuff of conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones.

“We’re past campaign mode: I think it’s important for everyone to get some form of health care. So to offer a basic plan for everybody I think is important. It’s just a question of whether we’re going to raise taxes, we’re going to cut a half at trillion from Medicare, we’re going to affect veterans’ care. I think we can do it better.”

- Senator Elect Scott Brown, January 20th, 2010

Today in the Washington Post

Glen Beck trivializes Shoah with an over-the-top name for one of his broadcasts. I don’t care whether its some Dem claiming that the current health care system is a “holocaust” or its this twit sensationalising a show. The Holocaust is not something to be messed about with for political or personal gain. We owe to those that lost their lives and those who survived that much. Its not just any word, its a word that symbolises the deliberate execution of 6 million plus Jews and many others. Right thing people should write Beck and complain for this lapse of judgement (me@glennbeck.com).

Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe:

[Senator-elect Scott] Brown ran explicitly against Obama’s domestic agenda, above all the radical healthcare overhaul that the president has made his priority. Not long ago, such a strategy would have been dismissed as suicidal. But the harder the administration and congressional Democrats have pushed their health legislation, the more unpopular it, and they, have grown. In Boston on Sunday, it spoke volumes that Obama made not a single direct reference to the healthcare bill he champions - and that Brown promises to oppose.

Andrew Ian Dodge is a 40 something writer, consultant and rocker. His blog is Dodgeblogium (www.andrewiandodge.com) which has existed in some form or another since 2001. He reviews heavy rock for Blogcritics.com as Marty Dodge (www.martydodge.com). He can be found on twitter: lagwolf, myspace: Andrew Ian Dodge and Facebook: Andrew Ian Dodge.

Andrew married actress Kim Benson in 2007 and is busy working on writing projects with Kim including several novels and lyrics/singing for his band Growing Old Disgracefully. He has appeared on a wide variety of media from BBC World Asia, through CBS Sunday Morning to Australia’s ABC, as well as numerous new media outlets online including PJTV and SNN. He is currently Tea Party Patriots co-ordinator for Maine, advises the national movement on press issues, writes extensively on tea party movements on PJM and other outlets, is running for selectman in Harpswell. ME and in November 2009 did an 8000 mile 26 day speaking tour to local tea party groups across the US.

He is author of the forthcoming political techno thriller “And Glory”, which is part of trilogy. Early summer will see the release of his non-fiction book “Socialism Still Sucks!”sequel to “Statism Sucks!” that predicted in 2000 the future election of socialists in America and the rise of socialized medicine.

I am posting this to show the Harpswell Business Association the bits filmed in Harpswell, as I mentioned the video this evening.

I would like to thank those who kindly signed my nomination paper this evening. It was an interesting evening and I was pleased to attend. I especially enjoyed the round-table format as its a good reminder of the two panels I shall be on at next months CPAC.

I am proud to put my name to it in regards to my run for selectman. I challenge other running for office to do the same.

Here…

Here where they will be live-blogging the next 48 hours. The Washington Examiner has a Twitter feed on the subject.

I have written a piece for PJM on Brown’s victory. It should be up soon.

How can I tell? I read the Conservative blogs quite a bit and there is now a new trend of comparing UKIP to the BNP. Some go as far as to suggest something idiotic like THE ALMOST-ACCEPTABLE FACE OF THE BNP? While others like the more subtle Iain Dale are merely suggesting that they are not as libertarian as they claim because of proposed burka ban.

They want to ban the burka so now they are neo-Nazis (like the BNP)? Is this the tactic against UKIP in the next election? This is the second Tory site I can see that is slandering UKIP by calling them just a slightly more acceptable BNP. This is utter bollocks and bodes badly for the Conservative Party.

So I guess they think Sarkozy is a neo-Nazi as well since he banned the burka in France.

Its clear that Iain and Chris have no idea whatsoever about the burka. It is actually not part of Islam, but something imposted on Muslim women with the abject purpose of oppressing them. There is nothing in the Koran about the burka. I would recommend to both that they read Robert Spencer’s Infidel’s Guide to the Koran.

Surely helping to free British Muslim women from the oppression they suffer in their communities is in fact very libertarian.

If the Conservatives are going to paint the BNP & UKIP with the same brush and try convince people they are on in the same they are going to regret it. The British public are not that stupid. They realise one is a part of neo-Nazi thugs and the other is a party of people concerned about the cost of the UK’s membership in the EU (monetary & sovereign rights).

It is clear to me that this smacks of desperation and shows that CCHQ is very worried about UKIP. As I said before I can see UKIP getting a couple of seats in Parliament, alas I think that is the case for the BNP as well.