My name is Ryan Ambrose.  I’m the author, web master, bill payer, slightly overweight owner and guy who up until recently liked adding cartoon pictures to the posts on this site.  Don’t worry, I can manage it all and might even put up a picture one day.

I’ve retasked this site quite a bit since March of 2008, when it began as a reaction to the underdeserving Republican Epic Presidential Fail John McCain.  Happy to have him lose then and wish he had lost again in 2010, but he didn’t so I’m still here.  I call him the Chipmunk because he and Time both say he’s not The Maverick anymore and I’m taking their word for it.  So it wouldn’t do for such a senior Senator to be without a nickname now that he’s passed the torch to the one and only true non-has-been maverick, Lindsey Graham.

Anyway, here’s a quick overview of what it’s all about here.

• Latest purpose:  I’ve retasked this blog a couple of times now, but here’s the latest and greatest.  It is my intention to oppose liberalism, and there are only two choices available to do that:  the status quo and the creation of a real opposition party.  The status quo is not tenable because the Republicans are not a real opposition party, and the primary obstacle to them becoming one are the RINOs.  So until the day the Republicans do become a real opposition party, my primary task will be to undermine and unseat RINOs and remove as many paths to victory for them as I can.
• Mixed blog: The primary gist of this site is commentary and opinion sprinkled with large doses of offbeat humor and political dementia.  I even have a category for it:  Satire, Humor, and Dementia.  While I report and comment on news by linking to other sites that have it, this is not a news blog.  Chipmunk News is about McCain and his like, darling daughter and stuff.
• I’m not pulling this site:  On the off chance this yank site actually goes viral or gets traffic, nothing short of a court order will pull it down, or keep it down.  So don’t ask, threaten, cajole, bribe, appeal to my sense of propriety, tell me I’m insane, or show me pictures of your naked cat.
• The Feed: Get all the chipmunk news and commentary you want by subscribing to the chipmunk feed, compliments of Feedburner.  You can get your chipmunk news aggregation as I write it, without even having to come back and check first.
• Submissions: I own everything you send me, though if I use it, I will give you some link love.  This is also in my Disclaimers and Terms of Use, but I’ll put it here so you can know it before you do send me stuff.  I appreciate all submissions and will look through them as quickly as I can.  Please let me know if you would like to be publicly credited or remain anonymous in your email.  I will not publish something if I know or believe it to be false without at least saying so in the post, because I do try to uphold some standards here even I don’t know what they are half the time.
• Affiliations:  No jokes here.  I am neither affiliated with nor work for any candidate or political special interest group.  Basically, it’s me wreaking havoc on my own behalf.

Comments

If you wish to make a comment on a post, click its title to get to the comment page, or go to the comment block at the bottom.  I’ve recently changed to open commenting, so it will appear shortly if Akismet doesn’t think it’s spam.  I don’t care who you are, or if you think bad things about me, so long as you follow the rules.

I reserve the right to delete any comment without notice for any or no reason.  However, the only reasons I might do so are:

• If it has more than one link.  I don’t have a problem with you linking to something to back up a comment.  More than one is spam, though.
• If it links to things like pornography, spam sites, articles I know are libelous, sites preaching hate, or other places like those I don’t want to link.  I don’t care if you link to any other blog anywhere across the political spectrum to back up a comment, especially if it contains mavericky news about McCain.  Just like John McCain, I’m willing to reach across the aisle in order to give him all the irritation he deserves.
• If I think your comment was autoposted.  Usually, I determine this by whether or not it’s on topic, seems pre-written, or if Akismet marked it.
• You can post under a handle or alias (like comments on other blogs) or some variation of your own name.  If I think you’re impersonating someone else when you post, especially to embarrass them, I’ll delete your comment.
• You may especially NOT use The Profanity.  Only The Chipmunk John McCain may Speak The Profanity in Loud Tones and you are not worthy.
• And on a serious note, if you threaten to break the law in some way, the police are going to know about it.  That’s where the joke stops.

Generally, I don’t care if you disagree with me or think I’m a nitwit.  The first comment I ever received on this site is someone calling me an idiot, and it’s still there.  I suspect some people have thought worse about me upon seeing some of my work.

Using this blog’s content on your own sites

Excerpts (not the entirety) of any post and only the posts can be quoted on your own blogs and web sites freely.  I license the images here and cannot license them again, so you can’t use them.  If you do quote a post excerpt, remember to either credit me by name (Ryan Ambrose) or blog (YankMcCain.com), and include a link with either one.

Have a question?  I can be reached from the Contact Me page.