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the other side of the story

See-Dubya sends this along, he has been following the the story of terrorist operative Abu Omar since 2005, and the he has an update on the Omar story today.  Be sure to read it and get to know who and what Abu Omar is, and his role as a major terrorist operative in Europe, and his efforts to recruit jihadis for the upcoming invasion of Iraq.

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nah, they don't get it

Ed at Hotair got to listen in on the NRCC conference call after the loss in Mississippi.  I have to say, I'm not really encouraged by it.  I can't tell if they really get why they aren't getting funds and support and losing elections, or if they're just saying whatever they think will keep conservatives from walking away from the GOP and letting Rome burn.

Okay, I had some tiny glimmer hope that the GOP elite was starting to get it, then I saw this and realized,

The GOP totally doesn't get it.

The money quote, from MSNBC, "He" would be referring to Rep. Tom Cole, who is chair of the NRCC, and held the NRCC conference,

He then spoke of the need to "re-brand" the party in the likeness of McCain, which may be a tall order, since many rank-and-file conservatives have reviled McCain for years for his transgressions against party orthodoxy.

Okay, how pitiful is it that MSNBC of all places has a better understanding of what the problem is than the NRCC?

Let Rome burn.

Slublog piles on.

HA has the MSNBC piece linked in Headlines with a quote from one of our braindead GOPers,

This is the floor.  We're below the floor.

Yeah, and you guys are grabbing shovels.  Worthless.

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19 year old college freshman elected mayor of a city in oklahoma

In the city of Muskogee, which has a population of 38,000.  It'll be interesting to see where this goes.  So the question is, is this a serious thing, as in, is this student the real deal, or was the other candidate that bad?  A city of 38,000 is too much city for people to goof around and vote for the kid running as a goof.

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this is just pitiful

Some church in Georgia is trying to get people to join their congregation by offering up free raffle tickets for a $500 gas card if they attend some revival.  This Catholic Yankee wouldn't go to a revival for anything less than chance at seven figures, he prefers his mass on the quietly reverent side.  And no, that isn't a knock on those that do.  I just find much of the evangelical style too much, unless its a televangelist on TBN, then its fucking hilarious.  Might explain part of my strong dislike of Huckabee. 

Still, when you're trying to get people in the door with gimmicks like this, you've got problems.  Shouldn't the church community, worship and good works be enough?

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okay, *now* we're doomed

***Hi all, be sure to check out some of the good stuff some of us other morons have posted too in the daily Moronosphere linkfest.

Is it losing three House seats in traditionally GOP districts that has me declaring Game Over?  That has Allah looking for glue to huff like a blogging Patrick Tribett, but no, that isn't it.  What has me declaring its all over?  The GOP released its official campaign clothing line.  Now, you're going, okay, its just t-shirts, hats, pins, and maybe hoodies, right?  Wrong.  How do I know we're doomed? 

Here's why, the official GOP clothing line has, I regret to inform you, revived one of the most regrettable fashion trends in world history, the bane of good taste itself, the dreaded Zubaz pants.

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one zombie that needs to be put down, now

...before it infects others and spreads the stupidity.  I'm talking about the Assault Weapons Ban.  Bob Owens at CY looks Fast Eddie Rendell's revisionist history of the Assault Weapons Ban, then goes on to show what a shameless liar Eddie is.  Bob calls the AWB a zombie because since the law has been allowed to die, fascists in the media, in our legislatures and in capitals who want to undermine our liberties have been trying to revive it and claim it was wildly effective by lying about what it did.  Bob puts the lie to that too, it wasn't effective, nor would it ever be effective, unless the hands you wanted to keep firearms out of were responsible citizens. 

Fast Eddie and the assorted vermin of the Soviet of Philly's political class are going to resort to any lie, any distortion, any bending or breaking of the law they can in order to undermine Pennsylvania's current gun laws.  Philly has been trying for years to try and undermine our gun rights on a state level, they want PA to be a fascist hellhole with no 2nd Amendment rights like New York, DC, California or Massachusetts. 

The Philly area hates and resents that the rest of PA refuses to allow their Second Amendment rights to be undermined.  That is what is going on here, let it be known to Rendell, Nutter, the Philly PD chief, and the Brady/VPC jackboots, those of us who live here in non-Philly PA aren't going to submit to your fascist machinations.  Give up or secede to New Jersey.

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Heh.

Some filthy baseball parks...maybe check if the one you visit is on there.

I agree, this is fucking awesome.

Shoebox at the Eggman's smacks down the "Hey, Europe pays like $7-$8 for a gallon of gas, we totally can do that too!" rationalization for our poor energy policy.

Government seems pull the in the dumbest among us like a magnet.

GTFO!

I'm curious to see what happens with Jewish voters and supporters on the Democrat side, if they worry about Obama's crazy Anti-Semite, Anti-Israel church.

Slublog seems pretty impressed with the Evangelical Manifesto, which is an attempt by various evangelicals to separate themselves from politics.  Catholics had to do this a few decades ago, in large part because of Marxist populist priests and sisters in Latin America and to a lesser extent, Africa.  The church is still trying to reign some of them in, but overall its been successful.

A good question about bumper stickers, what do you do if your car breaks down, and you have to borrow a leftie family members car with a ZOMG!! CHIMPEACH NAO!!1!eleventy!1 bumper sticker on it?  I'd say painter's tape, throw it on when you have to drive the thing, then remove it later so not to hurt any leftie feelings. Back into where you park to hide it until your pimpmobile is repaired.

Dear God let Hillary throw the convention into chaos.

Congress remains worthless, film at 11.

British judges ditching the powdered wigs?  Lame.

The Fourth Fleet has South American Marxist thugs a bit nervous.

Ah, someone else has a plagiarist.  Hey,  did you come out of retirement, Barrett?

Afghans ditching poppies for wheat to cash in on grain price spikes?

Giant bull!

Where there's a movie, there's the Wilhelm scream.

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huckabee on top of mccain's vp shortlist?

Seriously, if McCain picks Huck, I'm done.  I'm already not voting for McCain, but I could in theory be convinced to do it.  If its Huckabee, there is zero chance I'll ever be talked into voting for McCain, zero.  No, it doesn't particularly bother me that I'm in a swing state and possibly contributing to the Dems taking the state, McCain doesn't seem too bothered by it either.

I know I've been harsh on McCain of late, I do want to make it clear that I understand and respect those that are gonna get behind him, or even actively support him.  As long as they can respect my choice, I'm fine with it.  I just can't bring myself to support McCain.

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the new wpa

Our leadership in DC and state capitals are absolutely worthless when it comes to energy policy, instead of freeing up the market and/or making wise investments in energy production, our political class is turning our energy grid into a 21st century New WPA. 

The federal government threw $16.6 billion in subsidies and grants at energy producers in 2007, which was double the amount handed out eight years ago.  The WSJ has an editorial up on the absolute mind-numbing idiocy of these green energy proposals.  Here's a comparison of how much money goes to different energy sources, done by the independent US Energy Information Administration,

For electricity generation, the EIA concludes that solar energy is subsidized to the tune of $24.34 per megawatt hour, wind $23.37 and "clean coal" $29.81. By contrast, normal coal receives 44 cents, natural gas a mere quarter, hydroelectric about 67 cents and nuclear power $1.59.

And don't think they forgot the ethanol,

The same study also looked at federal subsidies for non-electrical energy production, such as for fuel. It found that ethanol and biofuels receive $5.72 per British thermal unit of energy produced. That compares to $2.82 for solar and $1.35 for refined coal, but only three cents per BTU for natural gas and other petroleum liquids.

And of course, the amount of tax dollars the green energy money sinks are going to take in is going to increase as politicians jump on the bandwagon and start pounding the podium demanding more funds for green energy before The Global Warming Destroys Us All^TM.  I guarantee they won't even go for the good, sensible choice like the nuclear reactors, they'll go for the stupid choices like solar panels and windmills, which are the ditch digging tasks of the New WPA. 

All the new green energy jobs that Obama, Hillary and to a lesser extent McCain are promising to create are frauds, meant to convince the masses that increased demands for energy are being met, and done so in an environmentally clean fashion.  The green energy madness isn't confined to Washington DC either, you can probably find it in your own state capital too.

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If you haven't already, do drop by PJM's and offer your condolences and prayers. 

Jane from the Jawas has a post up at her personal site with a note sent by that Yemeni journalist that the Yemeni government is going after.  Take a look, and you can go here to sign the petition.

Francase is looking for suggestions for cheap airfare.

Actually, this is true.  I know there are artists who probably have gone beyond around eight years and still done great original work, but there's always exceptions to the rule.

FAIL

Interesting, the kid that played the young Forrest Gump enlisted with the Army, and is finished with his service this summer.

This is just too damn funneh.

This is still the early stages of the media campaigning for Obama, just wait till the actual election gets underway.

More from the dumbass We Are Change Truthers, this time with the Secret Service and the NYPD.  

Heh.

Hillary's game and maybe some helpful things for McCain.  Rush might be coming around to McCain, I'm not there yet, not even close at this point.

Good news, Patti Bader-Patton won $250K in the America's Favorite Mom special, and that'll be going to Soldiers' Angels.

The Hamptons cup count.

Brian at Snapped Shot has found his new hook, drop in every once in a while to check out the Daily Dictator series.

Yep, not only is the right not going to serve the GOP, it already isn't, look how bad off McCain is in funds and volunteers.  I really hope this Next Right project takes off.

Sacrilicious toast.

Making lemonade.

Spencer Tunick still talking hippies and hipster retards into undressing for his stupid photos.

So where will Obama get his gravitas VP choice, if at all?  I'm guessing if he goes the gravitas route, he'll go with Richardson(who I guess the media would argue has gravitas) to try and take out any chance of McCain courting the Hispanic vote.

Bumper stickers, and what they say about you.

The GOP elite:  EPIC FAIL DEFINED

geoff says Take THAT Malor!  Story not safe for alexthechick.

Scandi Commandoes gone commando?

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happy mother's day

I've got nothin' clever to say, so here's a screenshot from Mommie Dearest,

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hugh hefner wants miley cyrus to pose for playboy

Hey Mr. Hefner, why don't you have a seat over there?

Yes, I know Hefner said when she turns 18, but seriously, asking her that is just creepy as hell.

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al sharpton owes about one and a half million in back taxes and penalties

Saw this at Wyatt's and had to comment. That Sharpton is defiant in refusing to pay his taxes isn't new, the amount, however, is something else.  Sharpton is already spinning and demagoguing, calling it an effort by the government to silence him for doing...whatever the hell he does,

Now a U.S. attorney is investigating Mr. Sharpton's nonprofit group, a probe that an undeterred Mr. Sharpton brushes off as the kind of annoyance that civil rights figures have come to expect from the government.

"Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop," he told the AP. "I think that that is why they try to intimidate us."

Jackass. 

Sharpton has been delinquent in paying both state taxes to New York and his federal taxes.  This is some serious change,

Mr. Sharpton's own debts include $365,558 owed in New York City income tax and $931,397 in unpaid federal income tax, according to a lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service last spring. His for-profit company, Rev. Al Communications, owes the state another $175,962 in delinquent taxes.

Keep that in mind next time Sharpton or one of his National Action Network tools calls for tax increases, soaking the rich and government programs like socialist medicine. 

This ought to be interesting, if Sharpton really does owe one and a half million and is delinquent in paying his taxes, he's got to be prosecuted, but are they going to to do it as aggressively they should?  Sharpton has been defiant in the face of these debts, and has largely gotten a pass.  Let's hope they finally hold him accountable for his tax evasion.

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the media swoons under the spell of terrorist thugs

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why not?

Might as well, he's lost a lot of conservatives at this stage anyway.  Honestly, I could live with his "solutions" to "global warming" if they didn't involve growth of government and government power.  But as we all know, McCain fancies himself Teddy Roosevelt, so its no surprise he's on a crusade to protect the environment by increasing state power. 

McCain still better be careful, he's already going to face shortages in funds and volunteers.  Most people are going to cave and vote for the ratbastard, but every time he does this, he loses small donors and volunteers.  While I think he's got this in a walk, shit happens and he might need base support, and he might discover that it isn't there for him when he needs it.

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yes we can!

...have an advisor who has regular contact with Hamas.  Yes we can!  Can we associate with terrorists, crackpots and radicals and be arrogant enough to think we can get away with it?  Yes we can!  Can we associate with Marxists, and be stupid enough to think no one will notice?  Yes we can!

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dueling cable news channels

Notice the difference between the two.  FNC had an employee tell McCain in front of the camera that she was supporting him, and was promptly shitcanned.  Lanny Davis goes to CNN to try and defend Hillary on the clearly pro-Obama panel, takes abuse from Anderson Cooper and is shut out of the discussion soon after.  Its entertaining to watch as Democrats get treated like Republicans by their own, but its also interesting to see the different reactions, FNC freaks out and cans the PA, while CNN doesn't seem to care what happened with Davis and Cooper.

(H/T Hotair)

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