Damn

DOW up nearly 900 points.  That's nearly 11%.

Now, maybe I'm an idiot but if consumer confidence is at its lowest point ever how is the market shooting through the roof?

I just don't understand economics.

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Astrotufing for Rednecks

The Rednecks for Obama group?  Turns out the two founders have a long-standing history of donating exclusively to Democrats, and they share a headquarters with the Obama campaign in Missouri.  Hope and change, indeed.

Well played, Axelrod, well played. 

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Hope, Change, attacks on GOP campaign volunteers

Can we spray Republican campaign workers with mace?  Yes! We! Can!

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For some, the first Bill of Rights wasn't good enough

One of those "some" happens to be Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur:

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D. Toledo) whipped the crowd up before Mr. Obama took the stage yesterday telling them that America needed a Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, health care, homes, an education, and a fair playing field for business and farmers.

I've always wanted to visit France.  If Obama wins, I might not have to.  France will be coming to me!  Score. 

Marcy better watch out, she may have some high-profile, non-crazy competition in 2010.

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Abuse of posting privilege to commence in five . . . four . . . three . . .

I am in a bit of a funk due to familial medical issues, waking up to 7 inches of snow with more on the way (THIS IS YOUR FAULT GORE I KNOW IT IS), waking up an hour late due to the power going off due to aforesaid snow and work shenanigans. 

Add in the fact that the video of the "art" installation of the lynching of Sarah Palin disturbs me profoundly and that I cannot bear much more of politics as bloodsport and Alex is Not A Happy Camper.

Thus, in an attempt to cheer up both myself and y'all, I shall post Things What Make Me Happy, namely IDF babes, manatees and a random music video. 
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Clarification issued

Remember last night's post about the lynched effigy of Sarah Palin in West Hollywood? No? Well, you may have been drunk. Happens to the best of us.

Anyway, our jackbooted friend and co-blogger alexthechick left the following in the comment section:

How is that not a hate crime? Seriously, using the definitions so favored by the Left, that is a hate crime.

Well, thanks to the Los Angeles Times, I have an answer for alex (sort of):

"I'm not defending this; I'm not criticizing it. It doesn't rise to the level of hate crime," said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who said he went out to the house himself to look at the display this morning.

"Now, if there was a crime against bad taste . . . "

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Whitmore said that potential hate crimes are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. If the same display had been made of a Barack Obama-like doll, for example, authorities would have to evaluate it independently, Whitmore said.

"That adds a whole other social, historical hate aspect to the display, and that is embedded in the consciousness of the country," he said, adding he's not sure whether it would be a hate crime. "It would be ill-advised of anybody to speculate on that."

I hope that, uh, clears things up.  Let's not have anymore ill-advised speculation about this non-issue, m'kay?

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Cuffy's racist video

Comrade Cuffy, please report to sensitivity camp.

(Via Cuffy's racist hateblog.)

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Electric Stimulus!

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We Need More Lingerie Football News!

And I, your humble servant, am up to the challenge.



Courtesy: Jennifer Au/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Greatest. Caption. Evah!

Mist player Chelsie Jorgenson rubs cooking oil on teammate Natalya Snetkova before her photoshoot.

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Barney Frank (D-Bizarro World)

It's a good thing they just make politicians say "I approve this message" and not "If any of this is untrue, may God strike me down" at the end of their campaign ads.

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Hope, Change, hanging Sarah Palin in effigy

The rather fluffy story can be found here.  I'm sure that if someone did something similar with Obama and Biden, there would be plenty of "giggles."  Yeah. 

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I need your help!

I hate to hijack the blog, but here we go. 

I was wondering if anyone knew of any legislation in the 110th Congress that deals with NASA funding, Yucca Mountain (as it relates to nuclear waste), and anything to do with Social Security or retirement issues. 

I'm going to poke around Thomas later, but if anyone has any House bill numbers on anything like this, please drop it in the comments. 

Thanks!

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Obama's lawyer tries to intimidate journalism students

Hope, change, rank fascism.

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Obama Struggles in Interview

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama struggled in a live interview this morning on popular New Orleans TV station WFAK when asked to explain some statements by his running mate, Senator and village idiot Joe Biden.
 
While no video was yet available, a transcript was provided on the station website of the interview between reporter Barbara Wright and Obama.  It is reproduced below the fold.
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Sad news

Bill Kristol just announced at The Weekly Standard that Dean Barnett has passed away.  Our prayers and condolences go out to his family.

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Another station banned from Obama-Biden interviews

This time the station is in Philly.  I'm on my way to work, so I don't have time to watch it, but here it is.



Imagine if President Bush had banned every news outlet that made him look stupid. 

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The best question I've heard all day

It's wholly lifted from The Campaign Spot (link in the original):

A reader asks, "How can Obama take the oath of office to 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution' when he clearly does not believe in it and thinks it’s a flawed document, too focused on "negative liberties," instead of positive ones, and wishes to see the Supreme Court "break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution"?

Please don't sue me, Jim Geraghty.   You know it was worth repeating. 

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We may be getting Tom Delay's seat back!

There was a lot happening in Texas' 22nd District this weekend, starting with this press release from the Pete Olson campaign.  It seems that the Houston-area CBS affiliate KHOU has rejected an add from the DCCC promoting Rep. Nick Lampson:

[Friday] KHOU Channel 11 pulled a misleading television ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that falsely smeared Republican Congressional Candidate in Texas' 22^nd congressional district, Pete Olson. KHOU decided to pull the ad after it was presented with a letter, affidavit by Pete Olson and evidence proving that the DCCC knowingly ignored evidence disproving the false claims.

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"Voters are tired of these tactics by long-time politicians and their operatives," Olson said. "It's time for a change in Washington – the kind that will bring character, leadership and Conservative values back to our Capitol, and return government to the side of the people instead of the side of the party. The voters of the 22^nd district deserve better than this."

Yes, they do.  And speaking of ads, the NRCC has released a new one highlighting Rep. Lampson's misplaced priorities.

Something tells me that TV stations won't be forced to pull that ad.   But, if polls are correct, the people of Texas' 22nd District wont have to worry about Nick's tricks for much longer.  From the Houston Chronicle:

U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson, D-Stafford, trailed Republican challenger Pete Olson by 17 percentage points early last week, according to the survey by Zogby International. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Things are looking up!  Perhaps voters are starting to realize that Blue Dog Democrats talk centrist, but don't act it.

You can donate to Pete Olson's campaign here.

***Cross-posted at Down the Ticket***

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If This Were Political Satire, Not Even Jon Stewart Would Touch It

Nice to see that liberals in Philly are embracing the whole "tolerance" thing, especially when it comes to voting.

But those are just the little white lies these people allow themselves to be told, a self-induced cognitive dissonance that lets them avoid saying the unsayable: I cannot pull the lever for a black man.

Hey, some people just aren't ready yet, even the governor said so. Just like some people aren't ready yet for computers or setting the clock on the VCR.

Or, to hear Murtha tell it, some people - specifically some people in Western Pennsylvania - will never be ready. But the fact is, if you did a statewide head count of racists, you'd find just as many in eastern Pennsylvania as you would in the western part of the state.

That's why this ban on white people voting I'm proposing has got to be statewide. And I'm sorry to say, it's going to have to include all white people, even those who would vote for Obama, because you can't just let some white people vote. That would be unfair.

By this point, you either think I am joking or are calling me an elitist. I assure you I am neither. OK, maybe a little of both. But it wasn't always like this. I come from the Coal Belt, from that Alabamian hinterland between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, as per James Carville's famous formulation.

I am, in fact, just two generations out of the coal mines that blackened the lungs of my grandfather, leaving him disabled, despondent and, finally, dead at the ripe old age of 54.

So, understand that I am saying all this for the good of the country and, in fact, for the good of those hard-working white people that Hillary used to pander to.

I know those people, I come from them. They are not some shameful abstract demographic to be brushed under the rug of euphemism by Wolf Blitzer and his ilk.

I have broken kielbasa with those people. I went to school with their children. I have gone to Sunday Mass with a deer-hunter hangover with those people. They are bitter with good reason, and they are armed because they are scared. They mean well, but they are easily spooked.

Now, my first instinct is to believe this is an attempt at satire so ham handed that not even the Stewart/Colbert axis would touch it. But what if it isn't? Are liberals that crazy (I ask rhetorically)? And if true, why should it matter, since the Philly Phraud of Phast Eddie Rendell will stuff the ballot boxes so bad, no amount of "Bitter Clingers" will matter.

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Lose your cat?

Need a couch?  Gotcha covered.

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