Joe Biden just can't help himself

Remember, Joe Biden always stands up for the little guy, even when he's making fun of him.  Here he is talking to Jay Leno(emphasis mine):

Let me put it this way:  I don't know — the neighborhood I grew up, even the neighborhood I live in now, which is a really nice neighborhood, I don't know many plumbers who are making $250,000 a year and worried about it.  We're kind of worried about Joe the fireman, Joe the policeman, Joe the real plumber with a license.

Not only is he okay with the troubles the Obamamedia are heaping on someone who dared to ask The One an inconvenient question, he's delighting in it. 

That's what happens when you stray off the reservation, Mr. Wurzelbacher. 

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First They Came For The Masturbating Vagrants With Metal Rods In Their Junk, And I Said Nothing

Dude.

"We didn't know what he was doing, but we knew it's not right to have your pants down in a park," says witness Jeff Niemeier.

On scene, deputies found 55-year old Larry Williamson sitting on a picnic table naked, masturbating, with a metal rod protruding from his penis.

"Fortunately there weren't any kids or families present. He has since told us he'd gone there in the past to gratify himself," Vanderburgh County Sheriff Eric Williams says.

"We saw him two or three times this past week," Niemeier says. "Just sitting at picnic tables watching children."

The picnic table where deputies found Williamson naked was only feet away from the playground. Deputies say he's been arrested twice before for public indecency and nudity and he's banned from all city parks.

A search of Williamson's car showed deputies the metal rod was just one of many props he'd taken to the park with him.

"He had a lot of unusual things in his car that we thought were suspicious in nature," Williams says.

Among those: binoculars, sex toys, male enhancement drugs, lotions, a small dog, candy and bags of cotton candy-things often used to lure children.

"We're not saying that's what was going on, but it sure does send up some red flags for us," says Williams

Andrew Sullivan was unavailable for comment.

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Well, it's 18 days until the 2008 election. Time to start thinking about 2012.

Bobby Jindal is scheduled to speak to a group of Iowa social cons shortly after the 2008 elections.  It's his first trip there.

Kill me now.

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Not so random thought

Wouldn't it be nice if the McCain campaign were to release an ad featuring the Democratic ticket/media attempts to smear Joe the Plumber and the Missouri Truth Squads?  Perhaps closing it out by saying something along the lines of: "Do we really want a presidency where no one is allowed to question the President?"

Of course, this is a moot point, seeing as how we're already in a police state under George W. Hitler's AmeriKKKa.

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"FINAL NOTICE"

God the GOP leadership is retarded.  Remember this bit of GOP fundraising genius from Joe?  Yeah, the "FINAL NOTICE" just came in.  Oh, and notice McCain's FAIL...that Campaign Finance Reform Bill wasn't as smart as you thought it was, now was it, Maverick?

No matter the result in November, the GOP leadership needs to be replaced.

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I'm shocked!

Roger Ebert gave W. 4 stars.

Seriously, is that an anti-Republican, pro-Lefty movie that he hasn't given at least 3 stars? 

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Supreme Court rules in favor of Hope, Change, mass voter fraud

Weak...

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Surprise!

The whole thing about Obama offering 95% of Americans a tax cut while increasing spending by umpty-billion bucks? Well, it turns out that the plan is kinda vague.

I know. I'm shocked about that, too.

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She wasn't coming to Washington to seek your good opinion, anyway

Peggy Noonan says that Gov. Palin is a failure because 7 weeks in Peggy Noonan (using the guise "we") has no idea what the Governor stands for.

Guess what, Peggy.  I know what she stands for, and so do millions of non-DC, non-NYC Americans of all political stripes.  And we don't even get paid to pay attention.  As someone who longs for a career in DC, it pisses me off that conservatives who are there turn their backs on conservatism when it becomes uncouth. 

You don't matter anymore, Peggy, and I think doing something memorable for the first time in 20 years has clouded your judgment.

Update:  This guy says it way better than I do. 

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Civilized political discourse

I'll leave it up to you to guess which sides the victim and the culprit in this case are supporting:

A man was ticketed for unlawful dumping after admitting to putting dog feces in his neighbor's truck for political reasons. Police Sgt. Jerry Edblad said a 19-year-old St. Cloud man told police he has found small baggies of dog feces in the back of his pickup truck for the past few weeks.

The bags of dog shit started appearing in the back of his truck after he put up a sign in his yard supporting a certain candidate.  This one sure is a real puzzler...

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Some dude ate the Denny's Pub 15 pound burger

Denny's Pub is a restaurant in Clearfield, in Central PA.  Denny's serves gigantic burgers, that's their gimmick, and they've become famous for it.  They have a 15 pound burger called the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, which is meant to be a two person challenge.  Yeah, some guy ate the entire thing by himself.  Note also that the burger weighs 15 pounds, that's not taking the bun and condiments into account, which puts the thing at about 20 pounds.

If you scroll down the first link, they've got pics with the guy who ate this thing posing with his empty...platter?  Can't really call it a plate.  Good lord.  For his effort, he won himself $400, three t-shirts and a certificate.  One of the Denny's cooks kept an eye on him for the entire duration to make sure he was playing fair.

I could see myself maybe eating one of their two pound burgers (as long as they omitted onions, which are the work of Satan, and I'd still be miserable), but fifteen is just insane.

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Adventures in Moral Equivalency

You know who's kinda like Bill Ayers?  G. Gordon Liddy.

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Serious journalism

If you're looking for some serious analysis of Sarah Palin's recent debate performance, well, you probably shouldn't be reading the Los Angeles Times:

She's a winker. She winks on rope lines and at rallies. She winked at least six times at 70 million viewers on the vice presidential debate platform opposite her rival, Sen. Joe Biden, who weighed in on the nonverbal communication scale by grinning like a nutcracker.

But it was the wink that ricocheted like a bullet across America, leaving some voters smitten, some confused and others nauseated.

A honking sound from her armpit might have generated less buzz. That would have been just weird. The wink is ambiguous, one of those rich, laden, intriguing signals of unspoken human messaging that is difficult to decipher but impossible to ignore.

It goes on in that vein for another 898 words, discussing the origins of the wink, other cultures' interpretations of the gesture, actors who have winked on television and in the movies, interpretations of winking discussed on the internets, several professors professing their thoughts on winking, mentions of other candidates who have winked in the recent past, and a Seinfeld episode where George Costanza gets squirted by a grapefruit and ends up winking a lot.

All of this "serious journalism," it should be noted, is not in the entertainment section of the paper. No, it's in the Washington section. Yeah.

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Reality, reality tv and celebrity culture

Everyone who is shocked that Joe the Plumber's home address and personal info was published, raise your hand.  Yeah.  I didn't think I'd see any hands being raised.

I'm considering how much of the position that he deserves this because he injected himself into the limelight arises from the notion that we're all just one camera away from fame.  There seems to be a growing acceptance of the notion that there is no such thing as privacy and that everyone is living life onstage.  From that point of view, digging through his personal history isn't a violation of privacy because there is no such as a private life.  Everyone is a celebrity, it's just that the show hasn't been on yet.

From time to time I teach a seminar on internet research for legal professionals.  I always start by discussing My Space and Facebook and explaining to the 45+ crowd in the room that their clients and their young associates do not comprehend privacy the way that they do.  The notion that you don't post drunken pictures of yourself because 4-5-6 years down the line some wonk in HR will find them is simply a non-issue.  Life is lived in public.  Things didn't happen until you blog it.  That is the notion of privacy that is becoming accepted. 

In that light, what's happening isn't seen as brownshirt tactics.  In fact, it is fair play.  He opened his mouth, he's now in public, he should expect this.

Now, I don't think that's a valid position and I am, frankly, horrified by the notion that all of life is an open book.  There's a difference between running someone's name through opensecrets to see if they're actually non-partisan.  Publishing a home address?  That's another.  But the accusation of fascist tactics is, literally, incomprehensible to many people.  Hey, if you google your dates, surely you're going to google this guy.  They're not being invasive jackasses, they're ferreting out the truth, man.

Welcome to the future.  We're all screwed.  

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I Know! Let's Trust Those TV Debate Analysts!

Especially Jeffrey Toobin.

He seems focused on the debate.

Thanks to David Cho

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Finally: A good reason to become a sex offender

Free signs informing kids that there is no Halloween candy at your residence.

Luckily I live in a secure building. No brats getting in here.

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They get (incomprehensible) letters

One Pauline Chavez of Huntington Beach, CA, writes the Orange County Register with the following:

Bush signs a pact with India – agreeing to sell them nuclear technology to strengthen and to encourage them to engage in nuclear trade with other countries ["India nuclear pact a good deal," Editorial, Oct. 13]. I'm sure Iran will be their first customer. Bush also took North Korea off his "axis of evil" list.

Oh, and just lately he allowed the sale of $60 billion worth of military arms to Taiwan. I guess he's trying to put all his goodies in one basket before heading on down to Crawford in January.

What? I can only guess that "Pauline" is some sort of International Woman of Mystery, and that her letter is some sort of code to a fellow spy dealing with matters of global intrigue. That, or she's a nutjob who doesn't know what she's talking about when it comes to trade with our allies.  But I like to think it's the former.  Sounds sexier.

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You'll plumb in the gulag!

The media is already doing what they can to destroy Joe the Plumber for daring to embarrass Dear Leader.  Anyone surprised?  No?

UPDATE: Of course.  DUmmies start up a thread to smear Joe the Plumber.

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Talk About Your Holistic Treatments

Heavyweight Boxer Vitali Klitscho needed to heal his hands after a rough bout against Nigerian Samuel Peter. So, how did he do it? He used his son's wet diapers.

Klitschko said he wrapped them around his hands and it helped him recover.

"Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell," the 37-year old boxer told Bild after he won back the WBC title on Saturday.

"I wrap nappies filled with my three-year-old son Max's wee around my fists," he said, adding he got the idea from his grandmother. "The nappies hold the liquid and the swelling stays down."

Klitschko said Peter should try the diaper trick as well.

Maybe so, but I'll stick to an icepack or raw steak.

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Want to win?

The head of the Moron's Union has some suggestions.  I'm not feeling the pessimism just yet, but it would be better if we could unload on Captain Bullshit.

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