looks like i got my answer

...to yesterday's question, and the answer?  Yep!  You'll note the AP spinning in their own article, arguing that it falls under the newsworthy banner, and that they were within fair use, and they were just pure as the wind-driven snow and never done nothin' wrong.  

This oughta be fun, can we say schadenfreudelicious?  I hope Brian has at least as much fun with this as I will.  The AP sounds confident in that article, but you know they're sweating a bit, and they aren't alone.  (h/t HA)

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links from around the moronosphere, weekend edition

Today's links, the first one is definitely something to note.

Sharpsville is a little place that may haunt Obama for the rest of his political career.

Nice Deb states the obvious.  Dear God don't let Minnesota elect this asshole to the Senate.

...and your little dog too!

Another funny 'shop by Slublog.

bmac and boredom, a dangerous mix.  Heh.

The Man of Substance has an independent film you may be interested in.

A Mea Culpa.

Stashiu says give Chavez what he wants.  In theory, it would work to devastating effect and end the pesky little powertripping douchebag pretty handily once and for all.  In practice...people in this country don't just get angry, they irrationally, insanely angry when their fuel costs go up, and they usually get angry at the wrong people for it, not to mention the fact that the media would be firmly in Chavez's corner and actively propagandizing in his favor in order to encourage that reaction.

A kleptocon faces a challenger, and Obama's church's new minister ain't a hell of a lot better then crazy Rev. Wright was.  Maybe IVD is er, Wright that Obama is the weaker candidate?  Maybe we've been making a mistake hoping that the Hildebeest made a modest recovery...

Eddiebear finds some funneh for baseball fans.

A good dose of FAIL.

Muslihoon on the Pakistani elections.

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of course mccain isn't going to go after obama's crazy pastor

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Allah and Captain Ed at Hotair on McCain's refusal to hammer away at Obama's crazy pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  Allah,

Update: Yeah, we’ll see about this. It’s not totally implausible: Maverick has enough trouble with evangelicals and, potentially, with Catholics via Hagee that he might be shy about going after a pastor, even one as scummy as Wright. Better to let the media handle it than give Obama an opening for the tu quoque.

Captain Ed,

Update (Ed): Makes sense to me.  Why should McCain go after Wright when Hillary’s people will do it first?  McCain can rise above the fray and talk about his own themes while Hillary and Obama fight it out in the streets.

Allah's closer to the answer, Ed has a contributing factor, but Allah is on the right track, but he has the wrong person, and the wrong political direction.  McCain is smart to keep his mouth shut and lay low on the topic of bad political alliances.

Not because of the obnoxious hater Hagee, though that could have a similar impact, but because of this, see it?  McCain still has Juan Hernandez on as an advisor.  If McCain goes after Obama for his shady political alliances, he opens himself up to defections by disgruntled conservatives who hate his RINO guts to begin with. 

All it takes is McCain to start hammering at Obama, and he'll have a handful of people going, "yeah, McCain's got plenty of room to talk with Juan Hernandez and other Open Borders/Amnesty advocates prominently on his campaign staff," and he'll have growing problems.  Immigration already nearly destroyed McCain politically once, and like the Amnesty bill itself, it could come back from the dead for round two.  Obama doesn't have to lift a finger to have that happen either. 

McCain is much better served to lay low, keep his mouth shut and ride the wave, pretend he's above the fray to woo squishy moderates and independents, let conservatives slap Obama and Rev. Wright around, and hope that they forget about the lousy company he keeps.  Most conservatives fell in line, he runs the risk of spoiling that by going after Wright.

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does snapped shot get to say, oh snap?

Possibly.  Turns out news services were possibly violating fair use when they hurriedly snatched up MySpace photos of Eliot Spitzer's hooker before she scrubbed them, and now are going to have to go back and build a fair use argument or they've engaged in copyright infringement. 

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twenty insane supervillain scheme flow charts

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This is awesome.  They even have a Roadhouse chart...I think we all know what that means...A PATRICK SWAYZE CHRISTMAS!!!!

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today's moronosphere links

Today's links!

See-Dub and Bryan celebrate 1.5 million hits at JYB!

A collection of some of the worst tattoos evah!  There are a few that are much, much worse, but those are mostly ones you don't want to link without a major content warning.

Slublog, no, I'm sure PA legislators could match this level of stupidity too.  I'm guessing Michigan could too.

Weasel finds you a future home...or a home from the future, I guess.

Mike on the utter predictability of the left.

Snapped Shot has a great Sheehanesque staged shot of angry muslims protesting the cartoons from Denmark...seriously, they still aren't over it?

Stashiu finds some funneh.

IVD again on why Obama will fold against McCain.

Three Words:  Chicken manure catapult.  Of course, chicken manure isn't a new topic at doubleplusundead.

What happens if you hold a vote...and no one shows up?

ConChrist: A new test to predict miscarriage?

Attila at Pillage Idiot has a piece by a Yale dean titled "The Problem With Capitalism", I'm amazed that our dean is bold enough to just say it. 

Cranky with some funneh.

We've all had fun with the rounds of Name! That! Party! the Spitzer scandal has given us, but this one from the AFP takes the cake.

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antichrist's tv show on the verge of cancellation?

Dear God let this be true!  I so can't stand her, actually, I'm not sure she's the Antichrist, it could be Garrison Keillor, who should be put in stocks and pelted with rotten produce and eggs for crimes against entertainment.

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liberian militiamen ate u.n. troops they killed

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This story came out in testimony during Liberian president Charles Taylor's war crimes trial. 

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nutroots whine: b-b-but, dittoheads are breaking election laws!!!!!

The Nutroots aren't too happy that Dittoheads and others are switching parties to vote tactically in the Democrat primary.  Here we have one (and I'm guessing it was more like dozens feverishly ranting) whining to a Wired blogger that the crossover voters making a strategeric vote were breaking Ohio law, on the basis that one has to believe in the priciples of the party you register with.  Basically, this is unenforceable, and even if it was,

By the way, cross over voting for purposes of affecting an election isn't limited to Republicans. A spokesman for the Ohio secretary of state's office said it always happens in presidential elections and also occurred during the 2006 gubernatorial primary election when Democratic voters crossed over to cast ballots in the Republican primary for Kenneth Blackwell because they thought he would more likely lose in a race against the Democratic candidate for governor.

Sorry Nutroots, you may want try again, this one isn't gonna go anywhere for you.

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links from around the moronosphere, slow news day edition

Today's links, seems to be a bit of a slow day.  I'll probably update this, or if you have something good, drop a comment.

Just how well do you know your political sex scandals?  Find out by taking the quiz, I'm almost ashamed to admit I got a 9/10. 

"I mean, who doesn't like Bruce Springsteen?"   Me, he's a leftist tool, and another from Eddiebear, a frog has his way with a duck. 

How about an article on horrifying food additives for lunch?  Oh, and a good stomping of some True Patriotic Dissenters.

Stash on an Afghan detainee who wants to boycott his trial.

IVD says hope the Messiah wins and make his pastor his albatross. 

geoff on mathematics in our disastrous school systems.  And yes geoff, math educators are that clueless, and people wonder why my math skills are so horrendous...

Dr. Death runs for Congress.  Why not, what the hell else was he gonna do?

Library book returned after being overdue for over a century.

Cuffy on Obama's minister, and since I got an "it's old" today, I get to do it too.  I wanted to link to the story Cuffy has a while back, but I couldn't come up with anything clever to add...I shoulda just ran with it.

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student takes tv, ir sensor, wii hardware and laptop and makes 3d vr display

A. Weasel sends this, awesome, and kinda simple, actually, as most brilliant things are.  He basically reverses the Wii system and uses IR sensors as a movement tracker and the Wiimote as static tracker.  You don't actually need that IR bar to use your Wii, just two sources of IR light.  I've heard you could even use candles if you wanted. 

He has software made for it that you can download which is neat, so really, anyone could do this if they had a Wii, a TV and a computer.  I'd love to see what could be done with this, if not with the current console systems, then with the next gen consoles, or on computers too.

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dr. lecter ditches the chianti

A worker at a winery in Australia fell into a hopper.  I know, I know, I shouldn't be making light of it, but I can't help myself but to go for the obvious Silence of the Lambs line.

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links from around the moronosphere, not as much spitzer edition

Today's links,

British MP's dragging Catholic bishop in to explain his radical fundamentalism.

Slublog enjoys the fallout from Geraldine Ferraro's political ineptness.  Bmac considers a career change.  Just remember how it works, being a Democrat strategerist entails a careful balance of rank Marxist authoritarianism, and carefully avoiding openly announcing Marxist authoritarianism as your agenda.  Use lots of PC terms and obtuse bullshit language, you'll do fine.

Weasel on Spitzer's replacement, and more catsophone.

A moronbaby is born.  Certainly prayers are in order, also, a moronbaby naming contest.  Best wishes to Russ from Winterset, Janis and the little beastie.

See-Dub on Spitzer and on conservatives and McCain.

The former bassist for Filter is now an Army Sergeant, and did a show in Kuwait with his old band before he is to go to Iraq.

Via Snapped Shot, the BBC acting like the BBC.

Stashiu on Gitmo detainees receiving additional phone privileges, and why he thinks it can be a good thing.  Stash actually worked in Gitmo, which is something to keep in mind as you read.

It's Vintage, Duh on how Spitzer really damaged Hillary's primary campaign.

Eddiebear finds some freakish Japanese experiments involving sperm whale whale sperm.

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schadenfreudelicious!

Via Hotair Headlines, I see that Spitzer railed against the GTA series because it had prostitutes in the game.  Too damn funny.  Just one question, how many wanted stars did Spitzer get?

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new additions to the blogroll

First addition today is It's Vintage, Duh, who you can usually see hanging around Hotair, he's also an AoSHQ Moron.  I linked his post on a legislative effort to ban Axe Body Spray from schools in the Links! today...almost a supportable Nanny State move...almost.   Eddiebear and Enas Yorl are of course Morons from way back, why I was so negligent about adding them to the blogroll for so long, I don't know, but it has been rectified.

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ouch! hillary probably loses spitzer as a superdelegate

I hadn't even thought of that, and if Hillary can get within range of Obama using superdelegates, this might be a problem for her, not to mention the potential embarrassment associating him could be causing, particularly with older voters.

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tommy tutone telemarketing

Reports are surfacing of people receiving telemarketing calls from the number 867-5309, apparently the call times are late at night or early in the morning.  One person picked up and got a mortgage refinancing pitch. 

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"attack of the killer tomatoes!" to be remade?

A remake, rewritten and directed from the guys who do the "Ask a Ninja" videos?  This has to mark the official beginning of the end of Hollywood, right?

Dunno, but from what I saw at the Ask a Ninja, sounds like they're going to take a movie that is apparently so bad its good, and just make a remake that's bad.  Again, here I am, commenting on movies I haven't even watched yet...

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end of an era, the f-117 officially mothballed

The F-117 was the first stealth aircraft used for combat.  59 F-117's saw service, seven were lost, mostly in crashes, one was damaged and crashed after the pilot ejected in Serbia under hostile fire.  the F-117 was able to move into heavily defended enemy territory undetected, drop its payload, then slip away again, and was proven effective in its use in Panama, Serbia and both Iraq wars. 

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links from around the moronosphere, spitzer edition!

A new feature, and a new way of doing headlines.  I think I'm gonna do all small letters for a while and see how I like it.  There are admittedly a lot of things on Spitzer, it was unavoidable, but most of them are funny. Today's links!

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