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October 30, 2008

Friday, October 31

• And what's more, there ain't no Obama Claus! Promises, promises!
  
• Nigel Farndale, ethical journalist, strikes again. Brit Reporter rummages through Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet "There are several big black polo shirts on hangers and, in his medicine cabinet, cold remedies and bottles of Listerine and Drakkar aftershave, but no painkillers." [HT: media blog]
  
• Going all in from Norway: Annette Obrestad is poker's hottest female star, and a multimillionaire —even though she's still too young for Vegas.
  
• Unqualified Reservations: Did Barack Obama go to Columbia? "What is the chance that a budding young politician of undeniable talent and promise spends his junior and senior years at Columbia, and no one remembers him?"
  
• Archaeologists report finding oldest Hebrew text Untranslated but probably kvetching.
  
• The distinguished Thomas Sowell viaThe Smallest Minority "When people ask me why am I going to vote for McCain rather than Obama it's because I prefer disaster to catastrophe."
  
• Worst bookstore in San Francisco: Forever After Books - Haight-Ashbury - San Francisco, CA 94117
  "Yes, this is a very BAD bookstore. But it's SO bad it's really quite good. You just have to stop thinking of it as a bookstore and start thinking of it as a privileged peek inside the curious pathology of a couple of old-time Haight residents."
  
• Whores lag behind media in support for Dems: "Based on the prostitutes' voter registration cards, they're destined to become Obama girls in November. That's because 78 percent of them registered as Democrats" - Majority of Allegheny prostitutes are on the Democratic side
  
• A metrosexual nation mourns: Condé Nast Folds Men'€™s Vogue
  
• NOAA: U.S. breaks or ties 115 cold and sets 63 new snowfall records ｫ Watts Up With That?
  
• And so say we all; I have never in my life been so ready for an election season to be over and done with. I can hardly wait for the Messiah to be sworn in so unicorns will start farting rainbows on the front lawn of my gold house and I can run them over with my rocket car on the way to my governmentally-guaranteed middle class job. -View From The Porch: Bitterer.
  
• Belmont Club - The excluded middle "When the one side adopts an dogmatic position and refuses to budge, the non-ideological camp will often resignedly let itself be led thinking it not worth the candle to destroy the nation to advance the party. The problem will not occur to the side which places the party above the nation, and who may in fact, hate the nation." -
  

Pumpkin Eaters of the Deep

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Page of the Day: The Classic Bleat by LILEKS (James) Serving America Rants Done Right Since the Year Dot.

"Once you start to believe in the dark shadowy forces, you're done with the world. You're done engaging it, you're done enjoying it. There's no point. It's a sham, a shell, a shiny facade erected by the Jews / Bilderburgers / Trilateral Commission/ Council on Foreign Relations / Project for a New American Century / Masons / Knights Templar / Illuminati / Federal Reserve / Rockefeller-Royal Family Nexus / Bush Crime Syndicate / League of Grim Intent, and all you can do is post on the internet and call talk radio to argue with the hosts who think we're free people."

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October 29, 2008

Thursday, October 30

Gas Prices in Des Moines

• John Edwards and the Case of the Missing Wedding Ring
  
• The Obamathon - "A dour documentary designed to undermine an eastern bloc country, circa 1974. Ten minutes into the thing, I was expecting a bunch of fat babushkas in headscarves fighting over the last loaf of stale bread. By the time it was over, I had boiled and eaten a neighbor's dog."
  
• Old hag blathers. Dick Cheney to lead soldiers in the streets.Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss 'Will Spark the Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run in the Streets'
  
• It's... It's...Disaster Girl! Collect the whole set.
  
• Money-Pits R Us. Web 2.0's Biggest $inkholes
  
• Obama and the Politics of Crowds - WSJ.com "A leader does not have to say much, or be much. The crowd is left to its most powerful possession -- its imagination."
  
• Does Embedding with the Taliban Make You a Traitor? | Danger Room from Wired.com
  
• The credit crisis as Antarctic expedition on Vimeo
  
• Please do your best to celebrate: it's National Candy Corn Day - neo-neocon
  
• Gender Traitors! Webutante: Two Democratic Women Dramatically Defect to McCain/Palin and Tell Why
  
• Library Ghosts: Western wraiths from Washington to Wyoming are highlighted in this fourth segment of a five-part overview of library ghosts.
  
• Jules Crittenden goes commando in Why I'm Voting For Obama

  It's time we all reached down deep, some maybe deeper than than others, to Save the Children. It's Obama as the Sally Struthers of our national conscience. It's more than that. He's the guy on our big national speedboat with lots of babes in bikinis.

  
  
• It's about time! Correction issued today by the New York Times: "She is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, not Ginsberg. The Times has misspelled her name at least two dozen times since 1980; this is the first correction the paper has published."
  
• 'My brave new voice..' Scott Adams on Persistence
  
• WHISTLEBLOWER REWARD: $200,000 For Khalidi/Obama/Ayers Tape
  
• Was it something she said? Confederate Yankee: Huffington Post Writer Stabs Ex-Lover 220 Times, Commits Suicide "Burger, upset at the disintegration of her relationship and disgusted with the U.S. during the past several years, sometimes talked of moving to Panama or Mexico to start again." (Grisly report with the above excised is HERE.)
  
• Huffpo seems to softball the story with: Off The Bus: A Tribute to Carol Anne Burger "The circumstances of her death remain unclear; police believe she may have taken her own life after learning that her roommate - and former partner - had been found dead."
  
• Well, not that unclear: Police: Ex-lover killed woman in rage "Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then took pains to hide her crime, police said Wednesday."
  
• Smackdown in Syria: Twilight Struggle
  
• The Rosett Report The Democratic People's Republic of America

  "As a preview of life in a socialist America, Barack Obama's half-hour Infomercial Wednesday evening wasn't half bad. It had its pricey origins in a broken promise about practicing restraint with money. With a mood-molding musical soundtrack, it featured a peerless leader moving among the common folk. He listened to the sad stories of their gray and difficult lives in a land of scarcity. He did this in his shirt sleeves."

  
  
• The Anchoress "All of these “narrowing” polls are proving one beautiful thing, definitively: that America actually is more post-racial than most realize."
  
• But wait. There's more! Not available in stores.The O-Infomercial "If people buy the super absorbent car sponge, with bonus wax applicator, for $19.95, they may buy this horrid stuff."
  
• Sarah Palin masks and candy corn top the charts.Halloween as an Economic Stimulus - Portfolio.com
  
• Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate - first October Snow in over 70 years ｫ Watts Up With That?
  

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October 28, 2008

Wednesday, October 29

Page of the Day: Sippican Cottage

Let me tell you about the blade.... You think that you're smart. You think that you can put your hand near the blade, as long as you don't push your hand right in it. It doesn't work that way.... You have to avoid putting yourself in the position where your hand will be drawn into the blade and there's nothing you can do to stop it. There was no danger, really; you were maimed without danger announcing itself first. It was there all along in a way you'll never "get" until it's too late." - From Politics

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Rev. Wright's Home Courtesy Poor Black Parishioners.
Via the invaluable Brutally Honest.

Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango The aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

• No Regrets: "Europe and America will meet such fates as they choose. However long they've lived in liberty; however ancient their constitutional guarantees, they can choose unfreedom in a moment. One day they may decide they have a right to choose dependency; to choose slavery. No regrets now. -Belmont Club They stand there like a stone
  
• World Is `Drowning in Oil' (Again)
  
• On that videotape the LA Times is holding because "it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” ninme observed, "It’s a strange source who, when he wants to keep a video from being released, gives it not to a bank vault or large magnet but to a national newspaper."
  
• Okay, here's the plan.... "Obama’s plan is to redeploy soldiers from one war to another without changing general troop levels in the region and without bringing anyone home. Or as he calls it “change."
  
• HillBuzz sez: John McCain will win Pennsylvania.
  
• Victor HansonThe pattern repeats: In 1996 Obama goes to court, challenges the petition signatures of mostly African-American voters, and gets all his rivals eliminated from the ballot and so de facto runs unopposed.
  
• Tsunami alert: "There is a silent, angry wave building that is fed up with the DC/NY Political Industrial Complex (which includes the dying liberal media, the elitist talking heads, the lobbyists and power brokers, the hyper-partisans and the politicians)." - The Strata-Sphere -McCain's Internal Polls Looking VERY Good
  
• Oddities of our age: It's odd that someone would vote against John McCain because the present value of their house declined. It's even more odd that voters pre-occupied with wealth accumulation would favor a candidate who promises to redistribute their money. -Power Line - Fools and their money
  
• Democrat Speechwriter Wendy Button So Long, Democrats "I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that."
  
• Undecided voters may already have decided, study suggests U.S. undecided voters, on average, reported feeling slightly warmer toward Obama than McCain, but they implicitly showed a slight preference for McCain over Obama.
  
• Who has ever advocated government "spreading the wealth" besides intellectual elites?
  
• The only problem with the Obama martini is that once you make it, the government takes most of it and gives it to others.

Red Star Over Obama

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We want our people to be obedient...

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Tuesday, October 28

Page of the Day: Jaded Heaven
"Wild forays into rambling farce, swaggering opinion and villainous stories, sprinkled with a ribald lagniappe of jolly smut."

• 4 Rules for Babes (Make that 5): "There are only four hard core rules for women who want to maintain a good, long term relationship. Don’t lie, don’t be an endless nag, never withhold the goods to manipulate a situation and never, ever lose that shared sense of humor that won your heart in the very beginning. Not screwing other guys helps, too." Flies And Honey @ Jaded Haven

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• More great MSM news! Washington Post’s Credit Ratings Downgraded to ‘Negative’
  
• Non-paper papers happen: Christian Science Monitor Discontinuing Daily Print Publication
  
• Coming to America: European-Style Political Economy
  
• George F. Will: The Good Bad News "Inflation is down? The economy might be slowing. The economy is growing? Inflation might be coming. Either way, woe."
  
• How about a Nuclear Zeppelin ? Ah, non merci.
  
• Okay. How about a $300 bottle of beer? Ah, non merci.
  
• Roger Kimball holds the line:People tell me that all the ducks are lining up in a row for Obama. To which I say: "Fine. But are the voters?"€
  
• Stuff White People Like - Hummus "When it comes to food, all white people are either allergic to/or have stopped eating everything you consider delicious."
  
• New Nukes Needed Now!
  
• America is a Melting Pot, Not a Dumping Ground
  
• Obama the 'Magic Negro' - March 2007 "Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him."
  
• Not-So-Magical Negro Pessimistic and Subdued, Ohio Independents Weigh Their Choices "The expressed reservations about Obama were mostly about inexperience but it was difficult not to conclude that some of the views of Obama were affected by his race, although that was mostly just below the surface."
  
• The Big Steal, 2008"The assumption that only Americans will decide the results of America's elections was old-fashioned...."

• Jules Crittenden observes the brave new AndrogeNazi "the lad's wearing lipstick and eyeliner. Not that there's anything wrong with that."
  
• L.A. Times axes 75. Editorial "sooperbrains" responsible for demise of paper absent from list.
  
• MidnightBlue: Obama Lawyer to Student - 'I'll be watching you'
  
• Crying out for a bumper sticker: Don Surber "Vote Democrat, open wallet. Repeat."
  
• Cardinal Egan Archdiocese of New York"This an untouched photograph of a being that has been within its mother for 20 weeks. Please do me the favor of looking at it carefully."
  
  
  "Do me a favor. Look at the photograph again. Look and decide with honesty and decency what the Lord expects of you and me as the horror of “legalized” abortion continues to erode the honor of our nation. Look, and do not absolve yourself if you refuse to act."

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October 27, 2008

Monday, October 27

• More good news about newspapers: Circulation at both Seattle dailies circling the drain.
  
• Barack - 'Take a day off for me.'Maybe Obama IS an Economy-Destroying Communist ( "I kid, I kid.")
  
Toxic Combo - Where failing to kill all the lawyers leads: "A relatively new phenomenon is the President/FirstLady lawyer/lawyer combo." -neo-neocon

• Philadelphia Inquirer Headline: "White people shouldn't be allowed to vote"
  
• Hanged White Woman? That's Cool:Gay West Hollywood hangs Palin in effigy

  "I know if we had done it with Barack Obama, people would've probably thrown things through our windows," Morrisette said. "The image of a hanged black man is a lot more intense than the image of a hanged white woman -- for our country -- in the history of our country."

  Video of proud partners at the link
• More Good News New York Times to become, if it is not already, a six-figure newspaper: "Daily circ at The New York Times fell 3.5% to 1,000,665 copies."

• "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." H. L. Mencken
  
• Recession? BRING IT ON!

  We have raised a generation, maybe two generations, of selfish, whining crybabies – both in and out of Government – whose primary business is trying to take money from others without providing any meaningful long term service to society. They need to be brought to their knees and shown the facts of life.

• IP notes "SIX ALABAMA COUNTIES have more registered voters than voting-age people."
  
• RED ALERT: Early voting shows polls off 18% in California!
  
• Goodbye to All That: Sense of Events: What has NATO done for us?
  
• Burn, baby, burn!: New York Times (NYT) Running On Fumes "The company has only $46 million of cash. It appears to be burning more than it is taking in--and plugging the hole with debt."
  
• The economy of motor scotters: "It is much cheaper to run than a car. In fact, it takes only half a litre of fuel to get from your house to the scene of your first fatal accident."
  
• “If I had my life to live over again, I’d do it all differently. I’d make better decisions. I’d work in Japanese tentacle porn.”
  
• TEFLON CANDIDATE: Top 10 Obama Facts That Media Would Never Let McCain Get Away With
  
• She had me at "Hello." Sarah Palin for President
  
• Slave States of the 21st Century:Indentured servitude in Dubai
  
• Saving Money is for Economic Girlie Men: 5 Reasons Why The United States Government Wants You to Remain a Broke Debt Hamster.
  
• Poem: Mexixo "I have seen the future: / Feral peons in filthy tanktops, sullen,"
  
• If you love old types of type check Smashing Magazine's Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase
  

Poor James and the Swamp Crows "OBAMA, NO MERCI BEAUCOUP"

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October 26, 2008

Sunday, October 26

Available now @ ExUrban League

• The Parable of the City

  The walls are ancient, massive, and seemingly impenetrable. Built over centuries, stone by stone, they allowed those who lived within them to largely forget their existence. Their security was a given, their maintenance deemed unnecessary, the once-white radiance which glimmered from afar now pockmarked and pummeled, the mortar crumbling but unnoticed by those thus protected. The ramparts stand lightly guarded now, for few found the siege of small hideous men a threat — and many envied their crazed passions from atop the high walls, where sanctuary seemed like slavery and chaos freedom.

  Those few who sounded the alarm went unheeded, for the massive stones which tumbled and thundered to earth were lightly regarded, the trembling of the ground at their impact ignored lest it disturb the revelry within. The city has been infiltrated, not with shock troops but with trollops, its defenders lying naked in the embrace of whores. The breach is imminent — yet the city sleeps, its shops shuttered, its currency squandered, its treasury depleted, its armies far abroad fighting fearlessly a war no one notices for a cause long forgotten. - Return to the Monastery | The Doctor Is In

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• Planning ahead: Weapons: The Venezuelan AK-47 Factory Manufacturing equipment has been shipped, and production of Venezuelan made AK-103s is expected to begin next year.
  
• Sense of Events: Once More Unto The Breaches, Dear Friends "It is important to remember that the cultural icon of Israel is Masada--a lone "city" on the hill where a handful of Zealots stood against elite Roman Legionaires. Olive Branches? That crop is tilled by the enemy and they want everything and give nothing in return."
  
• The Sinking of the MSM Titanic -Best Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir ... Ever.
  

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October 24, 2008

Saturday, October 25

• William Ayers: From cop-killer to cop-caller
  
• David Warren, Messianic pretensions:

  "Faith, hope, and charity" are Christ's things. They apply, properly, outside time -- to a "futurity" that is not of this world. They must not be applied to any earthly utopia. A Caesar who appropriates otherworldly virtues, is riding upon very dangerous illusions. Follow him into dreamland, and you'll be lucky to wake up.

  
  
• Green Report: Newark NJ Star-Ledger cuts newsroom staff by nearly half. Trees reported dancing in Northeast.
  
• "€˜Hit a Jew Day"
  
• First, right attitude: "Recalling a run-in 25 years ago with a group accused of voter registration irregularities, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says protesters scattered when he warned them to leave his home in one minute or "I'll kill all of you." - Inhofe recounts run-in with ACORN Next, right action.

• Two important and revealing essays by James Kalb: The Tyrannical Logic of Liberalism

  "Advanced liberal society is reproducing the error of socialism—the attempt to administer and radically alter things that are too complex to be known, grasped, and controlled—but on a far grander scale. The socialists tried to simplify and rationalize economics, while today’s liberals are trying to do the same with human relations generally. The latter involve much more subtle, complicated, and fundamental aspects of human life. Why expect the results to be better?"

• The Tyranny of Tolerance

  "Just as Marie Antoinette played shepherdess at the Petit Trianon, yuppies can spend their extra dollars on ecotourism and free-range chickens."

  Both essays are adapted from Kalb's new book The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command
  
• Mark Steyn "The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it. Why can’t the government sort out my health care? Why can’t they pick up my mortgage?"
  
• Now you know why you never liked frozen peas and carrots: "Many years ago, when I was working the night shift at a produce freezing plant, we had to pick bits of reptile, insect, and amphibian out of the frozen vegetables." - bioephemera : Lawn mowers, lizards, & longitudinal cross-sections
  
• And then what? "All the leading Democrats want to repeal the Bush tax cuts, as they apply to households making more than $250,000 per year. The trouble, according to Miller, is that you can repeal them only once." -The Claremont Institute - Reforming Big Government
  
• Belmont Club - No way out "It is useless to discuss how to reduce the size of government, it may be useful to speculate on what to do if it crashes."
  
• The Tipping Point Webutante's Parable: Obama's Redistribution of Wealth 101 for Dummies
  
• Comment of the week @ Federalist Paupers "We may be seeing a slight whiskey recession, but the fundamentals of the American alcohol economy are strong."
  
• Kevin Kelly: "Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism.... is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet."
  
• Not your average RV: Globecruiser Yours for $670,000. Plus $800 to fill the tank. (By ActionMobile)
  
• Political intimidation in Charlotte, NC
  

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October 23, 2008

Friday, October 24

Role of the "Undecided"/"Lying" voter in the coming All-American Autofornication Festival:

• The Obama Effect: Decreased Investment, Increased Unemployment
• Why the New York Times is a junk bond: "According to the geniuses at the Times, the governor of Alaska is self-evidently and grossly unqualified to be vice president of the United States, but a pop singer is obviously qualified to be lecturing the world about African civil wars and developmental economics."
• In even less important news, I note that Andrew Sullivan is, with bated breath, continuing his unabated campaign to be the designated First Lewinsky of an Obama Administration. One would think at this point, his appointment is in the teabag.
• Hyper-perverted SF Columnist Mark ("O the Lightworker") Morford spools one out that goes twice around the bowl with When history spanks.
• Terminators on order via SITIS - an Army plan to "develop a software/hardware suit that would enable a multi-robot team, together with a human operator, to search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject."
• Who says there's no good news about magazines? BREAKING: Radar Folds; Web Site Sold to AMI Goodbye and good riddance to this chunk of glossy crap. Global Hellos: In international airport arrival gates I’ve seen Maoris rub noses, Japanese bow, and Italian men lightly pound each other on the chest and arms with their fists.
• Barack Obama as Ozymandias.

  "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

  Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

  The lone and level sands stretch far away."

• Post-boomers: The stealth right A commenter at neoneocon observes, "The thing is, like gay people in the bad old days, we've developed ways of picking up the "€œtells" and we all find each other and know each other -- eventually."
• This just in! Sarah Palin Supersizes Fries
• Rush:

  I think it's classic that yesterday Standard & Poors officially proclaimed the New York Times as "junk" on the day they endorsed The Messiah: the Lord Barack Obama, the Most Merciful. Number two, why is the New York Times junk? Why is their advertising revenue down? Why are their pages down? Why is their circulation down? It's because they're no longer the New York Times; they are the public relations department for the Barack Obama campaign and the Democrat Party.

• South Korea wearies of 'Spreading the wealth north'Millions suffer food crisis in North Korea: UN The food shortage warning comes as the North has ratcheted up its hostile rhetoric against South Korea and its president amid fraying ties.
• Paul McCartney's ex wearies of not having enough wealth to spread.Heather Mills has spent almost half of her $59.2 million divorce settlement in just seven months.
• Send O money or else! Obama has $605 million. Seeks more. More. More. Better give it to him. Or have a B in the face.
• Don Surber discovers alternate energy source: "Maybe unicorns on treadmills can produce our electricity someday."
• It's all about A Woman's Right to Shoes
• Dan Quayle Redux On the stump recently, Sen. Biden declared he had "three words" for what the nation needs: "J-O-B-S."
• Our crap-drenched colleges: College Green? Bah Humbug. (Originals)

Via nime

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October 22, 2008

Thursday, October 23

• CARPE DIEM: GAS FALLS BELOW $2 PER GALLON IN TEXAS! and The Greenback Hits At Two-Year High
  
• First we kill 25 million Americans... Ayers' Weathermen planned "re-education", genocide Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States.
  
• 50 Pussies Missing in the Purrmuda Triangle
  
• Kirk to Sulu: "Like, who cares? Be gay. Don't be gay. That's up to you George." ( Video HERE )
  
• Democrats Strike Gold in Alaska Imagine for a moment that Gov. Sarah Palin was a liberal, pro-choice Democrat but that everything else about her life and career was the same. If she was Sen. Barack Obama's nominee for vice president, what would her media coverage be like?
  
• Treacher: Biden Clarifies Earlier Remarks on His Dread of an Obama Administration

  "Because I gotta tell ya, when this great man, this fantastic young African-American kid who I'm proud to call my closest friend, when he becomes president, the American people need to know that you are all gonna be grabbin' your ankles every April 15 for the rest of your probably-shortened lives. I mean, the taxes, they're gonna be unbelievable. Holy f***. So we'll need your help with that. You're gonna have to pay 'em. There's no way we can repel a full-scale nationwide tax revolt without resorting to nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, at least in the scenarios they've shown me, so we're countin' on you to do the right thing."

  
  
• The Daily Gut defines Obama: "Seriously, the man isn't a presidential candidate – he's a really hot chick."
  
• Daphne says adieu to the GOP and many right-wing blogging sites: "Obama & Company have reduced these people to the equivalent of the monkey house at the zoo, poo flinging and outraged screams seem to be the order of the day."
  
• Cloud Culture @ The Technium While there is only One Machine, there are many cloud computers. Each is a collective of computers acting as one computer. The Machine is the mega-cloud of all clouds.
  
• Dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan (among others) William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire
  
• Breaking, that is. Obama told the estimated crowd of 35,000. "I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here."
  
• CNN headline - Palin: God will do the right thing on election day. What she actually said: "€œTo me, it [religion] motivates us, makes us work that much harder. And it also strengthens my faith because I know at the end of the day putting this in God's hands, the right thing for America will be done, at the end of the day on Nov. 4." (Via Surber)
  
• The Good News: Slowly but surely, scientists are getting closer to developing a drug that will allow people to eliminate unpleasant memories. The Bad News: It will not be available by November 5, 2008.
  
• Drive them fast to their tombs: As the shouting from the trail and the frantic spinning from the anchor desks intensify, the audience is voting with their remotes. All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008.
  

Transcript HERE

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Wednesday, October 22

• Department of Plan Ahead: Man Builds Lamborghini Countach In Basement, Has To Dig It Out When Complete
  
• They call it "bgC3" also known as "Bill Gates' mysterious new company."
  
• Donald Sensing: "A funny thing happened on the way to the global-warming apocalypse: the earth started to get colder. Now the number of credentialed scientists debunking the notion of anthropogenic global warming is rising faster than the global temperature ever did."
  
• Argggggghhhhhh! Everything I think and feel nowadays is colored by the election lens and it's clogging my brain ports! A comment from HERE.
  
• You can say that again: "We're right on the cusp between the matter-dominated and dark energy-dominated epochs," said Egan. Theorists Tackle Universe's 'Coincidence Problem'
  
• Fewer people yearn to eat piping-hot steamed insects: Lobster prices tumble with demand
  
• Heating up. Israel: Hamas And Hezbollah Plan Final Battle "In the West Bank, Palestinian radicals have encouraged the greater use of gasoline bombs...."
  
• The Idea-to-Drug Gap Mean time? 24 years.
  
• Trick or Delete: Techdirt: AOL To Nuke Users' Content On Halloween
  
• A Decade of Internet Superstars: Where in the world is Mahir Cagri: "I KISS YOU !!!!!"?
  
• The homeless days of Captain Kirk "The only comfort came from my dog, who sat in the passenger seat and gave me perspective on everything.”
  
• The real value of free software: Linux Kernel Worth $1.4 Billion
  
• The Pentagon - Where spending is faster than counting. DoD Spending Growth Outpaces Auditors
  
• Zzzzzzzzzz.... Catching up on to the facts about sleep
  
• When Walt Disney went to war.
  
• Managing by the Numbers It sucks. But you knew that, right? IBM doesn't.
  
• Subduction Zones: 5 Most Dangerous U.S. Earthquake Hot Spots Beyond California My own area tops the list and is as the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
  
• Huge Field of Dinosaur Tracks Found Seems to be mostly mothers walking around with babies.
  
• Who are left-wing haters to point fingers at John McCain?
  
• An ungrateful nation..... Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen.
  

Who's that knocking on my window?

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October 21, 2008

Tuesday, October 21

• "Socialist" is the new "Black" Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist publishes the contents of his drool cup.
  
• Fewtril no.258 "Social justice in our lifetime is possible. All we need is a mob to lynch those who propose it."
  
• Belmont Club Operation Grand Slam "If conservatives now realize that their political enemies are not simply out to win an election cycle but to effectively destroy them, the only surprising thing is that they were surprised."
  
• If it's dead it's Democrat: Dead goldfish offered the vote in Illinois Yes, sent by "Women's Voices, Women Vote". Yes, that's part of ACORN. [HT: Massive Dustbury linkfest. ]
  
• Biden: Obama Ready for Armageddon Showdown He Will Provoke

  "There will be a point -- maybe one week, maybe two weeks after the inauguration -- when the opinion polls will look bad. Really horribly bad. Despite our best efforts, a couple of mid-size cities will inevitably be vaporized. People will be complaining. 'Why are you nationalizing the Safeway?' 'When is Omaha going to stop glowing?' 'Why do the Chinese soldiers keep asking for my papers?' When this happens, we will need you to keep supporting us because, trust me, you really won't want to be observed not supporting us."

  
  
• Falling Gas Prices: A Tax Cut of Massive Proportions
  
• Jeremiah 14:14 "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart."
  
• The Fourth Checkraise: "Ozone hole" seems to have vanished into, well, a memory hole....
  
• Turned On, Plugged In, Online, & Dumb: Student Failure Despite the Techno Revolution
  
• neo-neocon Kipling bears repeating: The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
  

• Powell Sound & Fury Signifies... Nothing:Kausfiles "My guess isn't that the Powell endorsement will fade quickly. My guess is it's already faded..."
  
• Sense of Events: Quote of the day "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set" - Lin Yutang
  
• Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 "It must be right, because the answer came from a computer."
  
• It ain't me, babe. I Work on Wall St., But I'm Not To Blame
  
• Strange Weather on Alien Planets Explained Human role strangely lacking.
  
• Nicki Fellenzer doesn't "care if you're a black racist, a white racist, an oriental racist or a plaid racist. Sometimes a bitch is a bitch."
  
• Deepak Chopra's blathering books have nothing to do with knowing God, but with being God.
  
• We will get fooled again. Get Ready for the New New Deal
  
• The Hyped Panic Over 'War of the Worlds' Less than met the ear.
  
• Swarms of suicide boaters What war with Iran in the Gulf could be like.
  
• Avon to Introduce Bond Girl 007 Fragrance

  The scent is a sexy cocktail of velvety florals, cool freshness and warm woods. It features top notes of velvety white peach and orange blossom followed by mid-notes of jasmine, calypso orchid and freesia. The drydown consists of amber, cashmere wood and patchouli. Bond Girl 007 is housed in a sleek, seductive bottle reminiscent of a woman's body.

Pull pin and get away.

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October 20, 2008

Monday, October 20

YUM! Lattice-Top Bacon Apple Pie

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Elsewhere....

• Toy Soldiers:They came, they saw, then left the Afghan war without a single mission More than 100 soldiers from the elite Kommando Spezialkrafte regiment, or KSK, are set to leave the war-torn country after their foreign minister revealed they had never left their bases on an operation
• Question of the day: How would you like to meet this heinous, creepy bitch in a dark alley?
• James Bowman notes that "whenever the charge of "hate" is raised in a political context, nine times out of ten, the person who raises it is the one doing the hating."
• Ass-talking sweeping the pinhead pundits: Morgan: "Can anyone prove to me Sarah Palin is a dimwit? Because if you can’t…and you haven’t met her personally…you people who say she is one, are pretty much talking out your asses."
• MIT Study: Internet Rife With Hypocrisy, Lies “Much to our amazement, we found that the vast majority of what people said online was in fact completely false,” said lead researcher Dr. Albert Clarke.
• Orson Scott Card asks reporters "Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?" But answer comes there none.
• Two Harvard boffins agree Nuke terror harder to do than flying airplanes into skyscrapers so don't worry.
• Infiltration in Iraq continues Iraqi forces detain seven Iranian agents in Iraq - The Long War Journal
• Small war gets ready to lift off in Somalia An Armada Masses Off the Horn of Africa
• Metaphor for Undecided Voter? Horse gets head stuck in tree
• The vanished Musings & Migraines post about Obama from January, 2005:

  When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the livingroom of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were launching him--introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread. His "bright eyes and easy smile" struck me as contrived and calculated--maybe because I was supporting another candidate. Since then, I've never heard him say anything new or earthshaking, or support anything that would require the courage of his convictions.

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• Treacher shows you The sprawling skyscraper where Barack Obama and William Ayers worked together for years but never laid eyes on each other
• "Did you know the Annenberg Challenge was funded by a Republican and included many Republican leaders?" "Well, how about that. Did you know the planes used on 9/11 weren't built by terrorists?"
• Big Daddy Roth's furturistic hot rod is back from the dead. iowahawk: Viva El Orbitron!
• National Post: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof - Watts Up With That?
• Iran busts ‘spy pigeons’ near nuclear site "Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings...."
• "The most sophisticated demagogue is the one who publicly expresses the wish to engage in a rational debate with the people: even the clever can be tempted to feel he is speaking personally of them, whilst the stupid are absolutely sure." - The Joy of Curmudgeonry: Fewtril no.260
• Why hasn’t Obama put McCain away? The answer to the voters' apparent hesitancy is simply that citizens still have no idea who Barack Obama is.
• Beth Snyder Bulik actually sticks to the facts in Pallin' Around With Palin in Pennsylvania - Advertising Age - Campaign Trail
• The Pilate Effect "Perhaps the worst feature of Pontius Pilate's leadership is the way he asks the crowd to tell him what he should do. He is truly a man without a personal grasp of absolute values ('Truth, what is that?') and such a leader causes his followers to begin to doubt the very existence of these values."
• Joe the Dumber Biden: "We’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
• America the Weak "Add in Sen. Joe Biden - with his track record of calling every major foreign-policy crisis wrong for 35 years - as vice president and de facto secretary of State, and we'd face a formula for strategic disaster."
• Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Rethinking Public Opinion
• "Transformational figure" to leave America poorer, markedly less free, and less powerful.
• One Cosmos: Obama and the Emperor's New Empty Suit He will not "lure" you toward the good by his intrinsic authority, but compel you "share" and "spread around" the fruits of your labor with his purely earthly power.
• Saint Augustine: "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
• Don't Forget the Undecided Voters Neither Obama nor McCain garners majority support, and 15% of voters remain undecided.
• A little-used therapeutic tool The Doctor Will Insult You Now

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Not About Race. Right.

"Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race," Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail. "OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with. I was also unaware of his dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia. I guess he also regrets Reagan and Bush makinghim a four-starand secretary of state and appointing his son to head the FCC. Yes, let's hear it for transformational figures." - Powell endorses Obama

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October 19, 2008

How about a nice hot cup of cute?

• Our Amazing Shrinking Air Force: In which costs will continue to rise and numbers of new planes will continue to shrink amid an overall force structure on a steady decline to irrelevance.
• Big Surprise: Colin Powell confirms he is no race traitor. Albatrosses for Obama
• What's in a Poll? Gallup has proven, beyond any doubt, the polls have no idea what is happening.
• Scamology 101 Obama's campaign has followed the classic "volleyball dynamics" that characterize most basic scams---bump, set, and spike.
• The Imminent Collapse Of Global Markets Is No Reason To Skimp On Four-Season Gutter Protection
• NATO vs. The Pirates of Somalia: Shoot On Sight, Shoot To Kill "The third option is to go ashore and kill or capture all the pirates...."
• Wide World of Sports:Ferret Legging (aka Stuffing a Ferret Down Your Pants) The current world record is held by a Yorkshireman called Reg Mellor, who kept two ferrets down his trousers for five hours and twenty six minutes back in 1981.

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October 18, 2008

Hedge Fund Manager to Everybody Else: Goodbye and F---- You

I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America.... I will no longer manage money for other people or institutions. I have enough of my own wealth to manage.

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A new low in disgusting political advertisements. But it won't last. There will a new "new low" along any day now. Depend upon it. HT: Ken Wheaton @Advertising Age - Campaign Trail

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Re-educating Rapists the Old-Fashioned Way: Woman walks through market holding severed head of man who tried to rape her

'She put the head on parade,' said Mr Bharose. 'She walked right through all the crowds who were buying their vegetables, holding the head up high. 'All her clothes were covered in blood, but as far as she was concerned that didn't matter. She just wanted to make a point and she definitely succeeded in doing that.

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The Uses of Disenchantment:

The circumstances may vary, but maybe human folly is constant. That is paradoxically encouraging in its way because it implies that human virtue, courage and endurance can be counted on to ride to the rescue. The Greatest Generation always exists for those who are forced to assume that mantle. Inspiration has always been the handmaiden of necessity and perhaps renewal is often forced upon society by collapse. -Belmont Club ｻ A blast from the past

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And the coveted ScrappleFace Editorial Board Endorsement Goes to... Barack Obama!

According to friends (who he calls ‘Obam-associates’) , Barack Obama is so cool… The only reason he doesn’t smoke very often is that the flame on his cigarette keeps going out.

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Urban Primitives:

"The over-urbanized are the willing clients of the nanny state. They are loathe to take responsibility for anything; they assume when anything goes wrong, some specialist or expert will fix it. Even when they have children they expect “child-care facilities”. They are salaried people; few have ever taken a risk on their own dime. Their taxes are lifted from them at source.... They think of the city and the government as something that was always there -- as a second nature. They are defenceless when primary nature reasserts itself (as we saw, poignantly, in New Orleans). Like isolated and primitive peoples elsewhere, they develop superstitions -- “urban myths” -- that account for the mysterious provision of their public services, and they worship their “rainmaking” urban political gods. Their lives are regulated by principles of “political correctness” bound in on every side by taboo." - David Warren

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"Have we replaced the electoral college with the editorial college?"

The Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for newspaper endorsements, picking up 17 more papers in the past day, - Treacher: Why hasn't McCain conceded yet

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October 16, 2008

Ah, er, about that "loss of species everyday" meme that's been going around... Hundreds of New Species Found off Tasmania - National Geographic

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YUM!

Jaswinder Singh, 45, was found by police making kebabs at Pappu Sweet Center and Catering in Wolverhampton in August in a kitchen where a dead man was lying on a sofa. As well the corpse, the policeman discovered another man smoking and spitting repeatedly on the floor, while in a room near the kitchen, a defrosting chicken, oozing blood and juices, was covered with flies. - File under Restaurants from Hell

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Right now,

a typesetter is laying down the words Dewey Wins! Right now, Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democrat nominee. Right now, George Washington is refusing a crown. Right now, Barack Obama is training ACORN workers. Right now, Margaret Sanger is preaching eugenics. Right now, a Pole is made Pope. Right now, Nero is watching Rome burn. Right now, Peter, that city’s first Bishop, is being crucified and turned upside down. - Presumption, Illusions & Reality The Anchoress

Right now.

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Midori-san, the blogging houseplant:

If houseplants could blog, what would they say? To find out, Kamakura-based IT company KAYAC Co., Ltd. has developed a sophisticated botanical interface system that lets plants post their thoughts online. A succulent Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerii) named “Midori-san” is now using the system to blog daily from its home at bowls Donburi Cafe in Kamakura.

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O don't know nothing about nobody:

"The thing I find so amazing, however, is how easily Barack Obama denies the persons with whom his ties are deep, meaningful and long-standing. How easily does Obama abandon his friends! Is there no such thing as loyalty in that crowd? Perhaps it’s a natural lack. -baldilocks: The Other Peter Principle

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We know a lot about very little:

"96% of all matter and energy in our universe is some unknown variety we call dark. It is clear that "dark" is a euphemism for ignorance.  We really have no idea what the bulk of the universe is made of.  We find a similar state of ignorance if we probe deeply into the cell, the brain, or even the earth.  We don'€™t know nothin'€™. -Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

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Joe (The Plumber) Wurzelbacher gets it:

"Well, I mean, quite honestly, why should they be penalized for being successful. I mean, that's what you're telling me. That's what it sounds like you're saying. That's wrong. Because you're successful, you have to pay more than everybody else? We all live in this country. It's a basic right. And Obama wants to take that basic right and penalize me for it, is what it comes down to. That's a very socialist view and it's incredibly wrong. I mean, $250,000 now. What if he decides, well you know $150,000, you're pretty rich too. Let's go ahead and lower it again. You know it's a slippery slope. When's it going to stop?" - Campaign Spot

He's right. You've got to look at the starting point and then ramp it out for five or ten years.

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October 15, 2008

Smash Shack Because sometimes...you just need to break something!

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More from Surveying the Abyss @ The Doctor Is In

For years we have tolerated incompetence, corruption, dishonesty — and yes, greed — in government while looking the other way. On those rare occasions when politicians have made principled stands, we have rewarded them with a firestorm of political assault, full-throated media ridicule and criticism, and enormous financial pressure from lobbyists pouring money into the pockets of those who purport to represent the people. We have elected a government of the people, in the most literal and disgraceful sense: we have elected, and kept in office, those who share our desire for self-gratification and materialistic acquisition at the expense of character, moral integrity, honesty, and prudence. The cesspool which is our current Congress is what we have reaped by our own actions — or perhaps more accurately, by our inaction. We have elected those politicians who are like us in every way — and we hate them for it. They are, after all, created in our own image.

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October 14, 2008

Ringo Starr gives you the warning. He's got no time for fan mail.

Ringo who?

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$15 bucks for F The Economy @ Rumplo, A Place for T-shirts

It'll be cheaper by Christmas.

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October 13, 2008

NOW HEAR THIS! Note to everybody who can't stop moaning that it's all over and we're going to end up in Room 101 with rat-cages strapped to our faces

"What you're feeling right now is not natural. It's the result of prolonged exposure to harmful radiation from a highly toxic, media-infected presidential campaign. Symptoms may include nausea, sweating, constant checking of poll results, dizziness, fever, irritation at glaring double standards, coughing, Googling, loss of appetite, bewilderment at a world seemingly gone mad, vaginal dryness, and Drudge." - Treacher

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900-Pound Giant Squid Joins Cast Of 'The View'

"Like many past hosts, who have come from such diverse backgrounds as law, stand-up comedy, and local news, the squid was a virtual unknown before joining the cast. Plucking it from relative obscurity, producers discovered the squid 26,000 feet below sea level in the Mariana Trench and said to themselves, 'This is the perspective the show has been lacking.'

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You must remember this.... :

"Technology unguided by strategy, intellectual integrity and purpose doesn't guarantee anything but the faster eventuation of stupidity." - Belmont Club ｻ Man and machine

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The Redistributionist Obama: "When you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

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"Even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height."

The Dow Jones industrials gained more than 900 points in a stunning rebound from days of big losses to close at 936.42.

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"With today's award to Paul Krugman,

the Nobel as gone to an economist who died a decade ago. The person alive to receive the award is merely a public intellectual, a person operating in the same domain as Oprah Winfrey. And even as a public intellectual, the prize is inappropriate, because never before has a scientist operating in the capacity of a public intellectual so abused and debased the science he purports to represent. Krugman's New York Times column drawing on economics is the equivalent of 2006's Nobelists in Physics, astromers Mather and Smoot, doing a column on astrology -- and then, in that column, telling lies about astronomy." - The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid

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Wordplay and Wordsmithing -- Excellent Headline of the Day: The audacity of empotence by Exurban League

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Current confirmation that our contemporary culture is garbage: Jeff Koons exhibit @ Versailles 2008

New Hoover Convertibles, in the Antichambre du Grand Couvert

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October 12, 2008

Ole! A dumber and poorer California coming right up:

"California provides a glimpse of what such changes might mean for America’s economic future. The Center for Public Policy and Higher Education predicts that unless the rate of college matriculation among “underrepresented” minorities (that is, Hispanics) immediately rises, the state will face an 11 percent drop in per capita income by 2020." -Honesty from the Left on Hispanic Immigration by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 8 October 2008

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It's Just This Simple: A continuing series.

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October 11, 2008

Don't worry. Be happy. Things can always get worse....

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Days of Future Past:

"JUNE 15, 2027: A startling revelation comes in the form of Obama's postpresidential autobiography, Cutting Backdoor: He admits that the decision to keep troops in Iraq was forced upon him by the Bilderberg Group, a secret society of world leaders who control the global economy. The book explains how Bilderberg's leadership concluded that the U.S. would not be prepared for a post-oil society for at least forty years; the only solution was to establish an American presence in the Middle East that provided unlimited access to petroleum, thereby staving off worldwide economic collapse. Three months after the book's release, Obama disappears in a mysterious boating mishap." - A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century - Esquire

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"On like a pot of neck bones:"

My frothing at the mouth family member isn't alone in her belief that something wicked this way comes, and it isn't just the conservatives, or the liberals, it's a bipartisan epidemic of temporary insanity. Both sides are firing up the mudslinger, sharpening their tongues, they are as we say in certain circles, Mother Fucking each other. Both candidates are getting a little rough, McCain pulled the "liar liar pants on fire" card at some Republican Rally, Obama fired back with the "I know what you did 20 years ago" defense, the press picked up the ball, and now as my Okie cousins like to say, it's on like a pot of neck bones. - Is that the mark of the Beast or just a mole?

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October 10, 2008

Sterilizations Skyrocket as Economy Crumbles

“I first considered sterilization when the stock market was getting hammered and big banks were failing all across the country,” said 23-year-old Zack Cox of Ballard. “But what really sealed the deal for me was when Congress passed that absolutely insane bailout package. I realized that the only way to avoid having my children, and my grand children, and my great-grand children saddled with the bill for the reckless, irresponsible economic blunders of today was to ensure that I never have any children to begin with.”

....In just the past week since Congress passed the $700+ billion Wall Street bailout, Seattle Reproductive Medicine (SRM) has performed over nine thousand tubal ligations, thirteen thousand vasectomies, and seventeen castrations. Hundreds of these were for couples that had been working with SRM for years in attempts to get pregnant, but abruptly changed course after last week’s bailout.

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Advertising. Nothing Left Untouched.

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IsLaMI cIhAD ate my blogroll:Sense of Events: Blogrolling.com hacked

I'll have to rebuild over time.

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October 9, 2008

Because the male children of the American Elites have no dicks:

Human Vs. Zombie Tag A Growing Trend On College Campuses, Having Sex Declining

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ACORN Files Voting Rights Suit on Behalf of Imaginary-Americans

"Whether we are obituary notices, hallucinatory giant rabbits, or strings of random keyboard strokes, it's time for the chimera community to stand up and claim our rights as citizens," said ASDFG. "We will no longer be silent and invisible. Okay, maybe invisible." - iowahawk

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October 8, 2008

Fools rush in where fools have been before:

FolioMag.com

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Prayers for Dean Barnett:

Omnipotent and eternal God, the everlasting Salvation of those who believe, hear us on behalf of Thy sick servant, Dean Barnett, for whom we beg the aid of Thy pitying mercy, that, with his bodily health restored, he may give thanks to Thee in Thy church. Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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We'd suggested sending in an Iranian Rosa Parks, but she'd just be hung.

"Iran's hardline Islamic government encourages gender separation, and last year backed a proposal to create a womens' bicycle which covered the rider's legs and upper body. A women-only taxi service, with female drivers, has been launched in the country's main cities and buses and underground trains are segregated." - Women's car with electronic parking aids unveiled in Iran

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Buy? Not Just Yet: Captain Capitalism sez The Stock Market is About Where It Should Be

"You should not be loading up on stocks now, because you’d be paying the historically average price of a stock which is $16 in stock price for each $1 in earnings. You’re not getting a deal, you’re paying retail. People should wait for the market to REALLY go on sale, and with a recession guaranteed, it’s almost a surety it will. You laugh at Cramer suggesting a 7,700 Dow, just like my big time former employers laughed at me when I said there was a housing bubble (and an Asian currency crisis and a Dotcom Bubble), but you might just want to (for a change) listen."

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What's for dinner? How about SWEET AND SAUCY GRILLED SALMON?

Recipe by Alaska Fisherman Sarah Palin Wasilla, Alaska

HT: Ninme

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Virtual Memories- Pet: noun or verb?

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Flying Rule of Thumb: Three mistakes equals one crash.

"Events may now be driven by forces that are beyond short term human control, as if some dynamical system boundary into nonlinear response has been crossed.  In that chaotic environment, Presidential leads don't switch on things like "who won the debate" any more than the financial meltdown is responding to bailout packages. They respond to a combination of things which we don't understand, though we pretend to. So we pull back on the stick and stomp on the rudder pedals but the crate just has a mind of its own." - Belmont Club » The second debate

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Brokow's got questions. Surber's got answers:

"Tom, listen to me. And yourself. You just admonished my worthy opponent for speaking longer than you want. And then you break the rules by asking another question instead of allowing these good people who waited in line to be part of this audience to ask their questions. And only a Washington-based journalist would ask about "a date certain." Setting a deadline to grapple with such a long-term problem is a recipe for a disaster. In one word, no. In two words, hell no." -Don Surber Just ask me

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Two Sharp Points:

"If this financial crisis "proves" that capitalism and free markets just don't work, isn't the generally lower standard of living in nations with other systems a far more conclusive proof that other systems are much worse? Second, as the example of Zimbabwe amply demonstrates, it is not the zeroes in the end that matter but what those zeroes can buy. If the financial crisis makes everything cheaper the same percentage as my net worth goes down, I am no worse off than I used to be. " -The Fourth Checkraise: Purchasing power

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Sign O' The Times

From EU Referendum: God help us!

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Clown Cars in the Center Ring Too

"The whole election has become a surreal freak show; it's like watching a German game show with dancing monkeys and talking sausages and accordion music and sternly pursed lips. It's freaking me out! -Rachel Lucas

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October 7, 2008

Darfur has all the luck:

Sudan hit by Apollo Asteroid TC3 is estimated to be only two to five meters in diameter but exploded with the force of a one kiloton nuclear device. Asteroids of this size hit the Earth every few months according JPL scientists.

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How McCain can win election tonight:

"Promise the American people that if he is elected, he will appoint Rudy Giulliani as Attorney General and his first order of business will be to investigate, indict and prosecute all those involved in any wrong doing in the sub-prime mortgage debacle, from Wall Street, to K Street to Main Street." -The Anchoress

Will McCain be this smart? As LBJ once said, "I don't want to hold out any hopes for you I don't hold out for myself."

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GADE (Googles Against Drunk Emailing) says "Don't drink and email."

"When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?" - Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

Hummm, I wonder what other bits of your personal behavior the passionate butt-insky prigs at Google are going to try to "help" you with.

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Today's "I'm Writing As Bad As I Can" Award Goes to Paul Tharp at the New York Post:

"The seismic jolt sent through global stock markets yesterday has ratcheted up the pressure on Fed chief Ben Bernanke, New York Federal Reserve Bank President Tim Geithner and SEC chief Chris Cox - three pivotal players who had hoped for a period of post-rescue bill calm in order to surgically attack the time bombs still ticking on their watches. Pulling the trigger first was Bernanke...." - BEN BERNANKE, TIM GEITHNER, AND CHRIS COX LEAD FIGHT TO SAVE MARKET - New York Post HT: Virtual Memories

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Low class politics:

"The political class isn't attracting the best talent in the nation. It's not even attracting the second-best." -Instapundit.com -

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October 6, 2008

SNL Skit YouTube Banned Available: Pat Dollard @ Young Americans Puts It Up: It Is Here! The Banned SNL Skit Cannot Hide From Louie"

It gets put up, it gets yanked, put up, yanked.

Yank this, bitches...

HT: Malkin

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"Suckers on a Grand Scale:"

"Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof--of which history offers so many examples--that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. If people are in need of religion, why don't they just turn to the genuine article?" -Paul Johnson, The Nonsense of Global Warming - Forbes.com

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Rabbi Daniel Jackson on the view from Israel:

"From this side of the big pond, the US appears to be suffering from gout and totally self absorbed ignoring Iranian-Syrian-North Korean nuclear deals and Russian fleet deployments--as if they do not exist. The US election has become reduced to a variation of a "You ain't prejudiced, baby?" pick up ploy while Congress is frantic over reelections and Bush is reading retirement flyers." - Sense of Events: We ARE Meshuga

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Valuable Lies of the MSM:

"The fact that the MSM continues to publish the lie about Palin's stance on matters such as the rape kit is unlikely to be due to either stupidity or ignorance. The rape kit allegation has been mentioned to me quite prominently by the women I know; it seems to strike a special chord and to provoke tremendous outrage. Even if the MSM knows it's a lie, it's just too valuable a lie for the MSM to give up." -neo-neocon Palin's women problem

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"Love's the Only Engine of Survival" Leonard Cohen's Brave New World Anthem The Future

Give me back my broken knife,
my mirrored room, my secret life.
It's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture.
Give me absolute control
over every living soul,
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!

Give me crack and anal sex.
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture.
Give me back the Berlin Wall.
give me Stalin and St Paul.
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions.
Won't be nothing,
Nothing you can measure anymore.
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold,
and it has overturned
the order of the soul.
When they said REPENT REPENT,
I wonder what they meant.
When they said REPENT REPENT,
I wonder what they meant,
When they said REPENT REPENT,
I wonder what they meant.

You don't know me from the wind.
You never will, you never did.
I'm the little Jew
who wrote the Bible.
I've seen the nations rise and fall.
I've heard their stories, heard them all,
but love's the only engine of survival.
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further.
And now the wheels of heaven stop.
You feel the devil's RIDING crop.
Get ready for the future:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code.
Your private life will suddenly explode.
There'll be phantoms.
There'll be fires on the road,
and a white man dancing.
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down,
her features covered by her fallen gown,
and all your lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson,
and the white man dancin'.

Give me back the Berlin Wall.
Give me Stalin and St Paul.
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima.
Destroy another fetus now.
We don't like children anyhow.
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide ...

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October 5, 2008

No point value

neo-neocon Politics as Scrabble

"Fifty-nine percent of those polled want to turn in their Congressional tiles and pick some new ones. Of course, when you do that, sometimes you get an even worse hand. But if the tiles you're holding are bad enough -- all vowels, for example - you're willing to get rid of them and take your chances. I suppose that's part of what makes some people want to vote for Obama. Especially those who see him as that magical blank tile that can be anything you want it to be."

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Either the greatest or the worst sandwich filling since the invention of, well, peanut butter. The P.B. Slice We report. You deride.

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"People spewing crap

that makes no sense, bucking tradition just so they can brag about doing it…showing off for each other. End times. They’re a-comin’. If frogs wuz raining down out of the sky, the signs wouldn’t be clearer." -House of Eratosthenes

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Professors of Depravity:

"So I guess academia naturally goes to the lowest ethical level. Professors should be expected to support moral monsters and tyrants. Most of the tyrants of the 20th century had a lot of professors behind them. - The Dartmouth Review: TDR Exclusive Interview: Peter Kreeft

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DIDN'T YOU EVER NOTICE... ...there is no female equivalent of male bonding.

Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin With all this extra baggage a female candidate has to bear, the chances of finding a woman whom other women won't hate seem skinnier than last year's jeans. But don't despair, if all else fails, we could just do what we always do and just vote in some guy. It's worked so well for us in the past.

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"Hit 'em again. Hit 'em again. Harder. Harder."

"The Associated Press is wrong,” Palin said. “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn't been talked about, and I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy's living room.” -Palin

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Boss Bombs at Obama Bash Line short for [Free] Springsteen tickets at Eastern Michigan University "Springsteen will be the headliner at an Obama rally at Oestrike Stadium."

"... because chumps like us, baby we were born to bomb."

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Time to thank God, yet again, that you live in America:

Female fan's kiss ends music concert in Kuwait Al-Adwani also said Sunday that the fan's behavior broke controls on public entertainment, which were imposed by influential Muslim fundamentalists after they failed in 1997 to ban concerts altogether. Concerts have to be licensed by the government, and monitors from the Information Ministry watch the crowd to make sure nobody stands up to dance.

HT: The Hemmerdinger Report

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Doug Ross is begging the RNC to run this ad: Complete story board at the link.

Can the RNC possibly be that smart?

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October 4, 2008

One minute of Wow!:

Vianeo-neocon, "€œCaught"€ in mid-air

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Global Labor and Politics: Who "sent" Obama?

Thus, we have one possible answer to the question: Who "sent" Obama? It was the Ayers family, including Tom, John, Bill and Bernardine Dohrn. It is highly unlikely that a 30-something second year lawyer would have been plucked from relative obscurity out of a left wing law firm to head up something as visible and important in Chicago as the Annenberg Challenge by Bill Ayers if Ayers had not already known Obama very well. One possibility is that Obama proved himself to the Ayers's in the battle for local school control when he was at the DCP in the 80s.

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by Ray Van Dune

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Walking the Walk vs. Talking, talking, talking... When It Comes To Charity, It's Not Even Close. The Palins Are Almost 12X As Charitable As the Bidens when measured by charitable contributions as a percent of Adjusted Grosss Income in 2006 and 2007:

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How's that independence from France thing working out?: BBC: Guineans mark '50 years of poverty' [HT: Chicago Boyz ]

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Sun gets a small zit:

Speckwatch « Watts Up With That? The question now is: how long will the sunspeck last? Longevity has not been a virtue for similarly sized sunspecks this year.

"There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There'€™s a flag-pole rag and the wind won'€™t stop."
-- Sting, King of Pain

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Big Bangs All the Way Down:

Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth: Scientific American

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October 3, 2008

World's Cutest Octopus: The "Dumbo."

Grimpoteuthis

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SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.

I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.

I AM WORKING WITH MR. CHRISTOPHER DODD, MILLIONAIRE SENATOR, WHO WILL BE MY REPLACEMENT AS MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY IN JANUARY. AS A SENATOR, YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS LEADER OF THE AMERICAN BANKING DEREGULATION MOVEMENT IN THE NINETIES. THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% SAFE.

THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT URGENCY. WE NEED A BLANK CHECK. WE NEED THE FUNDS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE CANNOT DIRECTLY TRANSFER THESE FUNDS IN THE NAMES OF OUR CLOSE FRIENDS BECAUSE WE ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER SURVEILLANCE.

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What This Family Needs is a $700K Emergency Loan

"Sure, we could sit around all day and argue the petty details, like whether or not it was a good idea to spend $600,000 on a 4-bedroom rambler in Renton on our family income of $35,000, or whether we should have given you children credit cards to buy lottery tickets."

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Pit Bulls - An Appreciation:

"Kill them all. I am a dog owner and a dog lover, and as such, I say again, KILL THEM ALL. All current Pit Bull rescues or shelters or tenements should immediately be converted to crematoriums." - The Dipso Chronicles: First Installment of "Let's Get Rid Of"

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Metaphor of the day:

"Sarah Palin saved John McCain again Thursday night. She is the political equivalent of cardiac paddles: Clear! Zap! We've got a beat! -Declarations - WSJ.com

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Slam-bam I'm feelin' alright

Troubles take a hike in the blink of an eye

Don't need to psychoanalyze or have a stiff drink

All she's gotta do is just give me that wink

Here's lookin' at you: Final: 69.9 million viewers -- Palin-Biden the most-watched vp debate ever

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Unchanging Forever:

"Alternative weeklies (such as our our Eye Weekly) are the most conservative form of all media, in the sense of there never is any dissent or change. Across the continent, all these independent weeklies are totally interchangable in that the "alternative" weekly of one city is identical to that of any other city, with the same scathingly left-wing columns, avant-garde comic strips and articles about local bands named Crank Shaft or Gutbucket." -The Fourth Checkraise: But does he shop at Brooks Brothers?

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The Cowboy Way:

"Being a cowboy is the pinnacle of evolution. Once you’re at cowboy, there’s nowhere to go but down. Cowboys don’t look for fights, but they don’t run away from them either. They do what they have to do, when they have to do it. And they usually have to do it alone, because everyone wants Black Bart’s gang out of town, but no one wants to walk down the street alongside the sheriff and get shot doing it. " -Cowboys and Secret Agents by Bill Whittle on National Review Online

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We're Number One! Seattle tops the Forbes list of Hardest Places To Sell A Home -Forbes.com

Philadelphia has had by far the steepest increase in home sales, with transactions more than doubling from the same time the previous year. Seattle marks the other end of the sales spectrum, having seen its transaction numbers drop by 43.7% from the previous year.

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Door. Ass. Bang. NYT Maureen Dowd Kicked Off McCain's Campaign Plane: He's 'Dismissive of 1st Amendment'

Or just dismissive of bitter, unfunny columnists in clown hats.

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Working Men:

"They'd all smoke all the time around flammable things and never cause a fire. They'd drink themselves blind after work, but never miss the following day. They were late if they weren't 30 minutes early, too. They always carried a newspaper. If someone brought them a phone while they were working (It's for you.) there was someone dead on the other end of the line." -Sippican Cottage: It's (Still) Coming

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The Army Sea-Smurfs Coming soon to a home town near you, the CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced “sea-smurf”)

“We’ve been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home ... and depending on where an event occurred, you’re going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones.” -Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

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October 2, 2008

Malkin: SARAH ROCKS!

Prediction: Watch for a whole new, severe strain of Palin Derangement Syndrome to begin tonight. They hated her before tonight. They are going to pour on more unfathomable hate at a level we have never seen before. Sarah, we're praying for you.

And so say we all.

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It's baaack! The Obama Youth - Junior Fraternity Regiment which was pulled off of YouTube by the "owner" after getting a bit too much attention, has been reposted by another user. We'll see how long this lasts. Watch and be amazed.

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I've only got about 15 left to go. I'd better get busy: Types of Skills Everyone Should Know – Video – Top 100 Important Skills - Popular Mechanics

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Ifill clears Ifill:

WASHINGTON - As expected, a blue ribbon panel from the Ifill Center for Media Ethics cleared award-winning political journalist Gwen Ifill of all charge today, ending a lengthy 20 minute investigation into "ethics" charges that most observers believe were motivated by politics and racism. Ifill, like dynamic groundbreaking President-in-Waiting Barack Obama, is Black. The complete exoneration clears the way for Ifill to moderate the Vice Presidential debate tonight between respected Senate veteran Joe Biden and former beauty pageant loser Sarah Palin. -iowahawk

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NYT Circulation - The Starbucks Factor

Speaking of starving the weeds, the New York Times has a circulation of 1,077,256 from info I found on the web (fortunately declining). I noticed that my local Starbucks (central valley California) carried the NYT. So I enquired with management who said they were required to purchase 10 copies a day it was part of Starbucks image I was told. We have four Starbucks and it was the same in all. If all US Starbucks stores are forced to carry 10 copies and there are 11,434 Starbucks in the US that alone represents 10.6% of the NYT circulation. If all stores world wide (16,226) were forced to carry the NYT it would represent 15.1% of their circulation. I don't normally agree with secondary boycotts, but if those who want to impact left wing media would write Starbuck about there policy, it might make a difference. I take my business elsewhere. - From a comment on a previous item

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Greatest Mug Shot. Ever.

Udderly Confused: [Bumped because of new mugshot]

(Middletown, OH) -- Saturday night, people in the 3100 block of Wilbraham Road called police to report a woman wearing a cow costume was chasing kids, and blocking traffic. Michele Allen also allegedly urinated on the porch of one neighbor.

When officers arrived, they told her to go home. But later that night, they found her again, in the 2400 block of Verity, standing in traffic. This time, officers say, Allen smelled of alcohol and swore at them. [Additional details: Despite having two nights to sober up, Allen was in a foul mood Monday, yelling at jailers. "She was challenging people to 'suck her udders,'" Hoffman said. "I'm not joking."] She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Allen plead guilty, Monday morning, in Middletown Municipal Court, and sentenced to a month in jail. - The Big One

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The Dish

Obama worship: I don't care if it rains or freezes / As long as I've got my Plastic Jesus

On Biden: I think Team Sarah is petrified.

How to defeat the MSM:Starve the weeds, feed the flowers.

No Remote Fast Enough: Channel 073-00 on the Dish Network is now labeled OBAMA. The channel plays his two-minute ad laying out his economic plan on a loop, over and over. -Politico.com

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The Poetry of Panic:

And other parables.

American Thinker: Clowns in the Cockpit

Capitalism: the worst system except for all the others

Six Social Policy Myths: Most of these people believe similar things and think in similar ways. They were educated in the same kinds of degree courses, reading the same books and internalising the same basic theories and perspectives. They interact regularly at seminars and conferences where they reaffirm the core ideas they share. They referee each other’s writings, award each other research contracts, and evaluate each other’s job applications. They often live in the same neighbourhoods, send their children to the same schools, and read the same newspapers and periodicals. Collectively, they ‘know’ what our society is like, and they ‘know’ what needs to be done to improve it.

Kevin Kelly -- Narrow Gates of Inevitability My death is inevitable, but how I die is not.

WaMu moolah: CEO Alan Fishman may make $19 million for 17 days' work

Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road It is worth noting that 90% or more of what the Federal Government does today is forbidden it by the Constitution.

The Little Death: Secular humanists often have no backup plan beyond the government saving their sorry backsides.... Fear is a big city menace, a symptom of the disease of liberalism.

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October 1, 2008

Happy Halloween

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