"The size of a human head"

Our good friend alexthechick probably definitely won't want to watch this:



No clowns, though.

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Quote of the Day

Just why are Doinna Brazile and Peggy Noonan on TV anyway? Hobos have better insight.

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I'm in denial!

ACORN? Involved with voter fraud?  No, I simply refuse to believe it!  ACORN would never engage in voter fraud! 

Question: Why does ACORN continue getting away with this crap?

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The coming October surprise

I was hesitating putting this out there, even though I had heard it before.  But since Rob Port has broken the ice, I thought I'd go ahead and share it:

I was watching a CNN special about Sarah Palin tonight and had to chuckle a bit when they brought up the fact that the Palins’ eldest son, Track, was born eight months after his parents got married.

Got married by eloping, no less.  Cue the “shotgun wedding” jokes from the left.

This is something I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more about between October 24 and November 4.  

I don't think the problem here is that they had a shotgun wedding or eloped, but that various surrogates (including Gov. Linda Lingle at the RNC Convention) have stated that they eloped to save their parents money.  While that is probably true, it gives a false impression of why they got married.  On the other hand, it's not like they ever tried to hide their anniversary date or Track Palin's birth date. 

I have a feeling that if the media tries to play this up, it will end in much the same way as their attempt to exploit Bristol Palin's pregnancy. 

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Pride, fall, etc.

There's so much creamy, delicious goodness in this article from the UK's Telegraph about the Obama campaign's arrogance that it's hard to pick an excerpt, but here's a taste:

The Democratic strategist told The Sunday Telegraph: "They think they know best. They don't return calls. There are governors and senators calling them up with ideas. They don't get back to them.

"These are senior people from the border states and the South who know how to beat Republicans, and they're being ignored. They ignored everyone during the primaries and they came through it, so they think they can do the same again."

Mr Obama has never won an electoral contest against a strong Republican candidate. David Axelrod, his chief strategist has been hailed as a political genius for beating the Clinton machine, but Democrats now point out that he has never run a successful campaign in the heartland states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Virginia, which will decide the election. His expertise is in mobilising young, educated and black voters in urban areas.

Mark Cunningham of the New York Post summed up the private views of many: "If it suddenly seems like the Obama campaign doesn't have any idea what it's doing, maybe that's because it doesn't."

Having never read anything by Cunningham, I'm not sure what his political leanings are, though the Post is generally regarded as right-leaning, but most of the people mentioned in the article (with the exceptions of Peggy "Bullshit" Noonan and some GOP strategist) are generally the kinds of foax you'd imagine are already in the tank for Obama. And they seem to think that his campaign is flailing. They're afraid.  Like that unnamed Dem strategist, who says, "These guys are on the verge of blowing the greatest gimme in the history of American politics."  Mmmmmmm...that's tasty right there.

There's still a lot of time before November, and things could change dramatically between now and then, but being a Republican hasn't been this fun since, well, late 2004.  And if things do pan out for Palin and Whatshisname, won't it be awesome to see some of the following from the Kos Kiddies?

Ouch.  It'll be hard for them to do "compassionate head-tilts" without, you know, heads.

(Via heh-indeedpundit.)

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Iron Maiden Proves Yet Again How Useful They Are

Apparently, some sort of tourist charter company based out of England went belly up recently, stranding a shitload of tourists around the world.

Well, it appears as though the stranded tourists are starting to return to England, thanks in no small part to Bruce Dickinson, who not only is the frontman for Iron Maiden, but also a pilot.

The lead singer of Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, who works as a pilot for the UK charter airline Astraeus, flew a plane back to the UK from Sharm El Sheikh. He said people had given up leave to get a crew together for the flight.

In Alicante about 522 passengers had been stranded after three flights to Glasgow, Gatwick and Manchester were cancelled.

Many have now found their own way home, but a replacement flight was also been chartered by the CAA.

The 747 was due to pick up 33 passengers from Tenerife before boarding about 200 of those left stranded in Alicante, and fly on to Gatwick overnight.

And in tribute:

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Zogby has PALIN!/that other guy up by five in PA

Told you Obama was going to struggle here in PA, and sure enough, he is.  Obviously, it's a Zogby poll, but given the other recent polls, we do know Obama is facing the possibility of losing PA.  At the very least, he's going to have a very tight race in PA.

I don't know how Obama wins without PA, Democrats don't usually win without it.  It'd be an oddity if he did, the first time since Truman.  In any case, I really doubt he's gonna play well in Ohio either, Zogby's poll reflects that too.

Oh, and Obama's losing in Florida too.  In fact, he hasn't polled ahead of McCain at any point in Florida, he may not even be competitive there.  I'm guessing that idiotic ad sneering at McCain for not using email isn't gonna play well in the most elderly state in the union  either (Oh, and PA has the second oldest population, good job Obama campaign!).

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Bad news, guys

It looks like we've lost a very important demographic—the washed-up, has-been actress vote:

Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?

No one has the right to dictate, particularly in this country, to force your own personal views upon the populace — religious views. I think that is suppressive, oppressive, and anti-American. We are the loyal opposition. That’s the whole point of this country: freedom of speech, personal rights, personal freedom. Nor would Wonder Woman be the person to tell people how to live their lives. Worry about your own life! Worry about your own family! Don’t be telling me what I want to do with mine.

I like John McCain. But this woman — it’s anathema to me what she stands for. I think America should be very afraid. Very afraid. Separation of church and state is the one thing the creators of the Constitution did agree on — that it wasn’t to be a religious government. People should feel free to speak their minds about religion but not dictate it or put it into law.

Yes, foax, that's Lynda Carter, teevee's Wonder Woman, who has apparently lost her fucking mind and imagines that Sarah Palin is some kind of female Christian Ayatollah, ready to replace the Constitution with the Ten Commandments or some such retarded fever dream.

You can go back to obscurity now, Lynda. We'll let you know sometime in the next twenty or so years if we'd like to hear your opinion.

(h/t)

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This weekend in college football

(No, it's not old.  It's ancient.)

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This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life

Seriously.

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Saturday Stupid

The Grateful Dead, MST3K style:

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What was edited out of Palin's interview?

Mark Levin has the transcript, with the edited portions highlighted.  Guess what?  She sounds smarter in the unedited interview. 

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Pink hates Palin

“This woman hates women.”

That, of course, is alleged musician Pink talking about Gov. Sarah Palin.  I'll say what I said in HotAir's quote of the day post: "Shouldn’t she be off writing another song about how rough life was to her in high school? I mean, it’s easier than becoming an adult."

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The most important answers of tonight's Palin interview

Watch the first little bit of Gov. Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson. Note what she says in her answers to the questions on abortion and stem cell research:



She openly differs with the official McCain position on these policies, saying that those are her personal positions and she is an open book about it.

If anyone in the media ever gets around to asking her position on immigration, perhaps Sen. McCain will give her the freedom to disagree with him on this issue, as well. Because, according to (shrug) Laura Ingraham, Gov. Palin is on our side:

That sells a lot more than “my friends” and comprehensive immigration reform. And she’s not for comprehensive reform, I can tell you that right now. She’s sick to death of this immigration nonsense in the United States."

I can't find any records of this apart from Ingraham's assertion here (which you can hear for yourself if you have a membership to her site. 

(In other news, my interview went well.  I had a second interview promised to me before we left the conference room and one of the VP's called to phone interview me while I was at the airport.  Looking good!)

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Obama's EPIC FAIL

This ad released today where the Obama campaign was sneering at McCain because he doesn't do email?

Yeah, that'd be because McCain has trouble using a keyboard because of what happened to him at the Hanoi Hilton.  Smooth move, Team Obama.

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Finally, a decent Obama rap song

I know I've been linking to Jim Treacher a lot lately, but there's a reason for that.  It's because he's on fire.

(Figuratively, not literally, so please don't dial 911.)

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...and another

Liberal columnist goes to a McCain/Palin event with the intent to goof on it and the people there, but realizes that her party may well get steamrolled because of precisely that type sneering condescension, inability and refusal to understand those different then themselves.  It lost the funny for her real quick.  Heh.

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Texas Morons: Don't be morons.

If you are anywhere near Galveston, get the fuck out.

Last time a storm like this direct-hit Galveston, it was not pretty*:

The hurricane caused great loss of life with the estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals;^[2] the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of casualties of any Atlantic hurricane, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and 1998’s Hurricane Mitch. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is to date the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. By contrast, the second-deadliest storm to strike the United States, the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, caused approximately 2,500 deaths, and the deadliest storm of recent times, Hurricane Katrina, claimed the lives of approximately 1,800 people.

The news says many are still refusing to leave.  I'm not sure I, a midwesterner, can understand not fleeing the target of a category 4 hurricane but I suppose it must be similar to watching TV while the Tornado sirens are going off.  Regardless, if you are anywhere near Galveston it is time to leave.  This one is serious as shown by the pictures in the first link.  We really don't need to break the fatality record.

* - I'm not entirely certain that was the last time a Cat-4 hurricane hit Galveston directly but I have no evidence to the contrary.

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I Found One Positive Thing To Come Out Of The Hurricanes

 

Namely, watching Geraldo get knocked on his ass.

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Moron of the Day: Did Suck It

Seems mental atom-splitter Pamela Anderson isn't Governor Palin's biggest fan:

The former "Baywatch" babe was asked by an E! reporter if she she'd seen the photo of Palin, a proud hunter, with an animal fur in the background.

"I can't stand her," Anderson replied after rolling her eyes. "She can suck it!"

Oh, Pamela.  She wouldn't want to move in on your territory.  Although "it" is probably the wrong word when describing you.  After all, the cocks you have sucked are legion.  Or is that lesioned?

By the way, I would have drawn cock on her face but a) I already did that today and b) its like drawing craters on the moon. 

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