I Coined a Phrase On Twitter Last Night.

Anchor Fetus.

My reasoning is that, in the current immigration fight, Democrats and the MSM (redundant, I know) profess to hate the term "anchor baby" as used to describe a baby birthed by an illegal alien woman for purposes of "anchoring" her family onto US soil (and benefits). And, of course, Democrats when speaking of abortion never use the term baby, preferring to call it a fetus. Thus, the anchor fetus. A way to describe a child born on US soil to the mother of an illegal alien, phrased in a way that a Democrat should approve of.

I used the term several times last night in various Twitter conversations, one of them being in response to radio host Mark Levin, and hey presto!

"MARK LEVIN ON ‘ANCHOR BABIES:’ THE LEFT PREFERS ‘ANCHOR FETUSES’"

(and yes, I did do a Google search to see if the term was in use prior to my Tweets last night: nope).

More Of What You Miss By Not Being On Twitter

The inimitable Todd Kincannon of Columbia, South Carolina. Todd is an attorney and Republican political operative with a startlingly non-PC gift for invective. Click the link to see what I mean.

What You Can Miss By Not Being On Twitter

After Mark Sanford won the SC-1 Congressional district race yesterday evening, Meghan McCain, the daughter of US Senator John McCain, tweeted on the race, and that grandmaster of snark, Iowahawk, noticed:



That right there is the Bikini Atoll Hydrogen Bomb of snark, folks.

Meanwhile, On Twitter...

...I was confronted with this tweet this morning:



Near as I can figure out it's about boomerang farts.

Meanwhile, On Twitter....

...we see evidence of MSM skullduggery.

Loves Piers Morgan:

"…give Piers Morgan an indefinite resident alien and Visa card. Mr. Morgan, the problem that many American gun owners have with you and your continuous discussion of gun control is that you are not an American citizen and have an accent that is distinct and clarifies that you are a foreigner. I want you to know that I agree with you 100% on enacting stricter firearm laws."

I've been busy on Twitter tying Piers Morgan to the killer like a tail on a birthday donkey. Having a blast!

Fighting the Battle For Gun Rights On Twitter

If you're not on Twitter, you're missing a lot of the battle for gun rights. There are more people on Twitter than on anyone's blog; even the most prominent blogs don't get traffic from the famous, but Twitter does. Want to take Piers Morgan to task? He's on Twitter. Most politicians are, including the President. News media? They're all there. Stupid leftist pricks like Michael Moore? He's there, too.

Through use of hashtags - - #guncontrol, for example - - you can follow Tweets from everyone contributing to that particular debate, and even join in the debate yourself. And many gun bloggers do so, and battle leftist gun grabbers to a standstill, usually. Sean Sorrentino from An NC Gun Blog, Bob Owens and Linoge from Walls of the City are prominent in the Twitter gun control wars. I join in myself on occasion, but these guys put in hours fighting the gun grabbers, usually triumphing when the gun grabber quits and blocks them.

Join in! Just keep an extra tab open on your browser for Twitter, and check the updates as often as you like. (The more people you "follow," the more Tweets you'll see, so be conservative about following at first).

You'll also usually hear breaking news on Twitter faster than you'll see it on TV, and you'll get links to stories that people don't bother blogging - - you can blog them yourself, if you choose.

Newbies to Twitter should be a bit slow to just jump in and start Tweeting total strangers, especially celebrities, because you can be "blocked" or even "spam-blocked" if you're obnoxious. Hint - - the more "followers" that you have, the less likely you are to be "spam-blocked." Fortunately, the Twitter Gulag Defense Network is there to help you network with other conservatives to avoid being "spam-blocked."

The Pope's First Tweet

Here.

Apparently he was answering a question:

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Researchers seem to think that if you curse a lot on Twitter, or Tweet the words "die," "kill," or "buy" often, you're probably a psychopath.

No, really. That's what they think:

Wald and Taghi Khoshgoftaar, a professor of engineering and computer science, used an already existing psychological formula to determine how likely someone is to be psychopathic by their writing. Using a process called data mining, they developed an algorithm that would scan the tweets of nearly 3,000 volunteers. It found that about 1.4 percent of users showed psychopathic tendencies, similar to the population as a whole, based on their Tweets and a questionnaire.

The results have limitations, the researchers said. For example, the computer program didn't recognize abbreviated versions of words, which are common on Twitter due to the 140-character limits. It also can't recognize the difference between someone using a word such as "kill" in an angry way or an off-handed joking way, such as "I could kill him for this."

Of course, that reminded me of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's restaurant:

So we were all jumping up and down, yelling "Kill! Kill!" and the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said "You're our boy!"

Keep Yer Death Threat To 140 Characters, Please

A student in Gaston County, NC, is facing punishment at school for making death threats against his biology teacher on Twitter.

Look at this interesting paragraph, though:

WSOC-TV reports a West Virginia company recently contacted local police after its social media monitoring service picked up a message where a high school student allegedly threatened to kill his biology teacher. (bold mine)

So, if you thought that you could tweet in perfect anonymity, here's yer wakeup call.

Twitter

I'm finding that I need to keep Twitter open in a separate Mozilla Firefox tab these days. What happens is that much of the blogging community seems to use it as a chatroom to pass news, and save their blogs for the more monumental sort of stuff. This results in fewer average posts per blog.

All of you out there should probably consider doing the same. News passes almost instantaneously on Twitter, much faster than blogs or even Drudge.

Give it a try.

I Do NOT...Er...Um...He Does NOT!

"How to tell if a politician really tweets."

Oh, that's easy. Just reply to the tweet and make a wild accusation, e.g., Congressman X visits glory holes at Interstate Highway Rest Areas.