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Boy George jailed for 15 months, will miss seminal event in American (and world) history.

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. . .try a T-Shirt emblazened with a realtime CNN headline.

It’s fast, relatively inexpensive, and. . .useless.  Unless you catch the right headline, of course, like  “Area metrosexual kills six in fit of masturbatory rage.”

Now that’s worth wearing on your sunken chest.

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I know this is about a week old, but a quick remark:

A few hateful voices, documented by American citizens with full context provided, in NO WAY proves systemic racism among the international marxist left / jihad propagandist axis.

A few “hateful” voices, documented by the international marxist left / jihad propagandist axis with little to no context, absolutely proves systemic racism among American citizens (specifically in the grubby Sarah Palin crowd).

Which scenario was excused by “enlightened” progressives, and which was condemned?

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Throw in an avalanche of comment troll swarms,  a nicely edited national interview by an “impartial” journalist, and the random Michael Moorish al Jazeera agitprop video (progressive’s racist Ark of the Covenant), and you’ve made yerself a fine little “truth” campaign!

Nothing like unverifiable, spontaneous critiques to sway public dissent.

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The Day The Earth Stood Stil gets hammered oh so bluntly.

Keanu’s Klaatu wants a meeting with the UN to discuss mankind changing its ecologically devastating behaviour. Instead he ends up on the run with Jennifer Connelly, forced to stop off at various product placement opportunities to chew over exposition. He is driven around in a nice silver Honda, encountering LG phones and finally, in a note of utter capitulation, meets an alien sleeper agent in McDonald’s. Why not set the whole film in McDonald’s? The Day McDonald’s Stood Still. In fact, why not make the alien spacecraft an enormous floating Big Mac. The bun could flap away like a mouth, delivering platitudes about being a carbon-neural intergalactic burger while we all boil to death.

The combination of greenwash and pansy-waisted Ivy League liberalism reaches retching point about midway through the film when Jennifer Connelly takes Keanu/Klaatu was he cast because of the similarity in names? to meet John Cleese. John Cleese is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who listens to Bach. Despite hacking into all human communications, the aliens have never heard of Bach – but then iTunes is pretty good at protecting copyright.

Heh, DRM.

A few minutes in the donnish atmosphere of Cleese’s beautiful home goes some way to convincing Klaatu that maybe humanity is not so bad after all. All that’s missing is a scene where Klaatu leafs through a copy of the ‘New Yorker’ and goes hey, we don’t have refined prose like this in on my planet. The clincher is when John Cleese says to Jennifer Connelly, “Change his mind. Not with reason but with yourself.” And you wonder if she is going to have to shag Klaatu to save us all.

Delightful.

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And considers dropping “job bank” for 3,000 idled workers.

Somebody is still footing a $150 million per year bill for this (assuming an avg $50k per year compensation including all benefits)?  And to think just two years ago there were 15,000 workers in this disposition. . .

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Mark Halperin lets a little honesty slip:

Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election.

“It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war,” Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.”

Also covered by Jake Tapper, as if there’s some kind of newfound feeling of guilt now that the damage has been done.

Exit question:  Is it really accurate to imply the media was pushing for an actual war to sell papers? Or did the press occupy a relatively safe position, knowing that an anti-Saddam Hussein stance was easily justifiable considering Iraq’s violation of more than a dozen UN Security Council resolutions?  Doesn’t seem to me like that counts as the press taking an unreasonable position. . .

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Correction:   Should have said ‘favored Obama,’ but I was overcome by the enticing prospect of more refundable tax credits.  And unicorns.  But mostly refundables.

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You. Don’t. Say.

College campuses-hotbeds of controversial, anti-establishment thought.

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Another Palin (Klan) rally. Video here.

And the greatest hits:

“I’m afraid if he wins, the black [sic] will take over. He’s not a Christian! This is a Christian nation! What is our country gonna end up like?”

“He seems like a sheep – or a wolf in sheep’s clothing to be honest with you. And I believe Palin – she’s filled with the Holy Spirit, and I believe she’s gonna bring honesty and integrity to the White House.”

“He’s related to a known terrorist, for one.”

“He is friends with a terrorist of this country!”

“He must support terrorists! You know, uh, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. And that to me is Obama.”

“Just the whole, Muslim thing, and everything, and everybody’s still kinda – a lot of people have forgotten about 9/11, but… I dunno, it’s just kinda… a little unnerving.”

“Obama and his wife, I’m concerned that they could be anti-white. That he might hide that.”

“I don’t like the fact that he thinks us white people are trash… because we’re not!”

These people really have a feel for the issues.

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Drudge flashes the leaked Obama/DemPress talking points for tonight. Get ‘em before Drudge yanks the page. Got yours, Zac?

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What possible reason would SNL edit a skit video after it’s already been aired?  I’m not saying it hasn’t been done before (examples?) but why now?

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Laying the groundwork to broadcast the hideous HopenChange children’s singing video nonstop.  Right now, it’s just looping a two-minute ad.

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Can anybody answer?

What part of his work experience suggests he might be qualified to be President?

Why is it more important to vote on issues rather than on his actual voting record?

What is a substantial bipartisan coalition he’s led or participated in during his private years, his time in the state legislature, and as senator from Illinois?

When did he vote against his own party with any measure of risk to his credibility or career?

What possible reason why he would send lawyers out to threaten media outlets airing controversial ads, when his own campaign airs similarly controversial ads?

Why did Obama oppose rape kits?

Oops! Sorry, that last one was supposed to be posted in the comments of LATimes blog, Jake Tapper’s blog, Slate, Salon, MSNBC forum, CNNi, WaPo user section, NYT frontpage, Time.com, Andrew Sullivan’s blog, HuffPo, FireDogLake, DailyKos, et al.

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They say it’s not a cult, but I’m not too sure.

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Obama seems to have found the sweet spot of demagoguery, spin, and polling.

Now, it’s McCain’s Katrina all of a sudden.

Plus, ABC provides another uncritical platform for getting the O’s message out.

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This morning while I was running some errands, I tuned into some AM hate talk radio and caught an Obama ad attacking McCain’s position on stem cell research.  McCain’s against stem cell research, you say?  Traitorous, Bible thumpin’ bastard!   He’ll drive us all back into the Stone Age!  (listen to the ad here).

Popular factcheck websites redflagged this ad weeks ago as being completely false.  I can maybe see how the Obama Ohio media campaign is a few hours or even days behind, but running this ad weeks later is libelous and intentionally misleading.  Somebody in Ohio could also have checked McCain’s website:

Addressing the Moral Concerns of Advanced Technology

As president, John McCain will strongly support funding for promising research programs, including amniotic fluid and adult stem cell research and other types of scientific study that do not involve the use of human embryos.

Where federal funds are used for stem cell research, Senator McCain believes clear lines should be drawn that reflect a refusal to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles for the sake of scientific progress, and that any such research should be subject to strict federal guidelines.

Not only does the ad lie about McCain’s position, IIRC McCain actually broke ranks with the President and took the opposite position of many congressional Republicans.  Today, all we hear is McSame this, McSame that, but his voting record clearly shows 1) no such automatic party loyalty and 2) his commitment to continuing the different types of stem cell research.   Where has Obama broken ranks with his party?

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There are similar gripes coming from the hyperactive left about McCain’s insistence on airing ads that falsely claim Obama will raise taxes on Americans making over $42,000 per year.  Their cried ring true–Obama has never voted on a law that would raise taxes on such people. But this situation (perhaps simplistically) highlights a key difference between liberals and conservatives.   To rationalize support for Obama,  liberal voters are likely concerned more about what a candidate will do versus what they’ve already done on the record. The past is irrelevant–what does the candidate intend to do in the future?  Conversely, conservatives may be interested more in voting records, accomplishments to predict what the candidate will do.  McCain’s tax ad insinuated that Obama would raise taxes on everybody–and many, many Obamabots have cried foul. But the attack ad is based on actual actions Obama had taken in Congress when he voted on specific budget resolutions concerning tax law.  If somebody votes for “A” twice in a row in Congress, one would logically expect that somebody to vote for “A” again when given the opportunity.

Well, unless that somebody flip-flops.

That is not a deceitful and intentionally misleading assertion.  That is simple observation.

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Political Punch tries so hard to nail Palin on an environmental flip-flop. By quoting Newsmax!

“I think you are a cynic (Charlie Brown Gibson)” Palin said, “because show me where I’ve said there’s absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change. I have not said that. I have said that my belief is there is a cyclical nature of our planet — warming trends, cooling trends — I’m not going to argue scientists because I believe in science and have such a great respect for what they are telling us. I’m not going to disagree with the point that they make that man’s activities can be attributed to changes.”

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Show me?

Ok, Gov. Palin:

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, December 4, 2007: “I’m not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity, but I’m not going to put my head in the sand and pretend there aren’t changes.”

Some pretty vague pragmatism here. . .Wonder if the next bit of “proof” has a more compelling nugget:

Interview with Newsmax, August 28, 2008: “A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.”

Wait, where’s the “absolute proof” part? Did I miss it? I guess it’s hiding after the period. This really may be her position, but this particular statement is devoid of anything “absolute” that would support Tapper’s “gotcha”.

More here.

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David Spade is the father of Playboy Playmate Jillian Grace’s baby.  And probably countless others.

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Michael Totten’s website subject to a massive DoS attack soon after his last post accusing Russia of instigating the recent military action.

Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is ‘fighting back’ against “smears” by threatening TV station owners who run anti-Obama ads.

The critiques are apparently a little too close to the truth.

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Scrubbing the net clean. . .  Consigning Biden’s previous praise for McCain to the memory hole.

This is information warfare at its highest level.

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A Democratic icon when times require, a racist throwaway to the “radical right” when not.

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Attention John McCain:  Newsweek has FACT-CHECKED your ass!  Everybody knows proper inflation of your manufacturer-recommended replacement tires:

• increases fuel economy
• increases tire life
• reduces risk of accidents, and
• ensures proper tire performance

It is our time, sir.   So suck it.

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From Glenn McCoy.

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