I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

Hundreds of people showed up for a town hall meeting in Orlando to have their voices heard in the healthcare debate, but most of them never made it in the door.

The meeting hosted by Congressman Alan Grayson was held in a union hall that had a capacity of 125 people. Inside the hall the crowd was passionate, but under control. Outside, however, it was nearly a mob scene {gee. I wonder where that meme came from-ed.}.

Before the meeting even started, hundreds of people were lined up outside but only 125 could get in. People lined up outside the meeting venue were fired up and chanting.

"He picks hall with 128-seats, fills half of them before we get here," said Mike Dwyer, concerned citizen.

Seriously, are you shocked, Mr. Concerned Citizen, that a Union Backed Democrat would stack the deck at a town hall? How naive can you be?

But, at least things didn't get as rowdy as they did in NC.

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Via Boortz we find that Mother Sheehan, she of the absolute moral authority,   is heading to Martha's Vineyard to protest the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Byron York asks a good question, will anyone cover it?

It could be hilarious if they do. Especially when the union thugs show up to explain how maybe she should go back to Crawford.

They should cover it, it'll have everything a good news story needs. Crazy people (on both sides), disillusioned activists, Momma Moonbat and rich liberals on the Vineyard getting upset at a leftist protesting their messiah.

Of course, Minitru doesn't need her as a rhetorical bat to use on Bush, so I figured she'll get covered in conservative blogs, LGF (He loves her) and Foxnews might pick up on it.

It should be enough for Orville Redenbacher's grandkids to go to an Ivy League school,  if it's covered.

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Well, it must be some racist white guy who's some kind of an anti-Obama racist, right? Right?

I'm sure the critics who assumed that it was some kind of racist slur against President Obama will step up and admit that they were wrong.

Yeah.

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IMAGINE a small group of farmers tending a rice paddy some 5,000 years ago in eastern Asia or sowing seeds in a freshly cleared forest in Europe a couple of thousand years before that. It is here, a small group of scientists would have you believe, that humanity launched climate change. Long before the Industrial Revolution—indeed, long before a worldwide revolution in intensive farming, the results of which kept humanity alive—people caused unnatural exhalations of greenhouse gases that had an impact on the world’s climate.

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And I thought I was pathetic:

A stuttering Nigerian man, who says he can’t find a girlfriend, has announced that he plans to marry his pillow instead.

Get down, man!

Okeke Ikechuku told the Daily Metro that his stammer makes it difficult for him to speak to girls who laugh at him whenever he talks, Ananova reports. 

But, the 26-year-old from Lagos admits that he has needs and wants a companion to sleep with. So, Ikechuku says he will marry his pillow because he has been sleeping with it since he was 16 and has fallen in love with it.

No word on whether he'll require the pillow to always wear a case in public.

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Why?

Because MSNBC has found its new business model:

In one murder after another, the Canal Livre TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim.

Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show's host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil's Amazon region is awash in violent crime.

"The order to execute always came from the legislator and his son, who then alerted the TV crews to get to the scene before the police," state police intelligence chief Thomaz Vasconcelos charged in an interview with The Associated Press.

The killings, he said, "appear to have been committed to get rid of his rivals and increase the audience of the TV show."

Sadly, I doubt even that could meaningfully improve their ratings.  After all, he's been blowing the President for a year and that hasn't helped.

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How long until someone Twitters their death?

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A little too ironic. 

Yeah, I really do think.

Related?:  Apparently, alcohol accounts for 50 FUCKING PERCENT OF RUSSIAN DEATHS!!!!!11

Wow. 

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You probably saw this because it's been on Drudge, but if you haven't, click over and watch liberal fascism in action. I wonder if this Congressdouche knew that a camera was rolling when he uttered the money quote that should be in GOP ads against Obamacare immediately...

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

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“When I was taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital afterwards, the doctor told me I had actually done quite a good job!”

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He needs to be teaching other pedophiles how to find kids, because he's so freaking awesome at it.

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So via Eric at Classical Values we (that's the editorial "we", not the royal "We"...for now) find this lovely article.

Apparently, Arizona's state treasurer is suddenly on a "No-fly" list. He's also "buddies" with Janet Napolitano, and by "buddies", I mean they hate each other's guts.

And now the shoe is on the other fist it seems.
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His name suddenly appeared on the federal government's "No-Fly" list.
"I'm not able to do any kind of electronic boarding or get any electronic boarding passes or Web check-in," Martin said. "Anytime I fly on an airline I have to go to a counter and prove I am who I am."
When 3TV contacted Napolitano, who is now head of Homeland Security, her spokeswoman, Sara Kuban, responded by sending 3TV a statement in an e-mail.

The explanation?
 It read, "Dean Martin is a common name."

How long before they break down Jerry Lewis' door? He and Deano have been known to pal around you know, almost... conspiratorially.

Eric, in the first link, ties it all in together with the astrosurfing of "Reich Wing Hate Groups" and the DHS "The Right Wing are terrorists!" report from a few months ago in a nice, cheery post all tied up with a bow about how we're all screwed.
He also includes the sadly obligatory, "What if Ashcroft had done this?" question.
Sigh.

Nice freaking guy.
The way today is shaping up, Eli's gonna break his freaking leg in warm-ups tonight.

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I think everybody knew somebody like this in high school.

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File this under "Stuff America should have known about last year"

It's kind of long, but velly intellesting, in talking about at lest one of Tony Rezko's building not having heat for a month during a -30degree cold snap, DirectorBlue mention some other of his properties, where they are and how he got some Chicago city projects.

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Rezmar’s properties turned out to be catastrophic failures: 17 buildings ended up in foreclosure, 6 are boarded up, hundreds of apartments are vacant and require repair… and taxpayers were stuck with millions in unpaid loans.

All of these buildings were in — or just blocks away from — a single state senator’s district. A district belonging to a young, up-and-coming politician named Barack Obama.

You know, if the media had been even marginally not in the tank, we might have heard about this stuff a year ago when it would have done some good.
(h/t The Emperor) I don't read the Green Room at Hot Air nearly as much as I should.

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The snitch email, it is no mo'.  Now we need to FOIA it.

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Why is it that damn near every time a person who has to navigate the Socialized Medicine clusterfuck in another country, they usually have few good words for it? Take this guy up in Canada with the fancy title and all that who dared to speak out about the problems with CanuckCare in this article. 

The pitch for change starts Sunday with a presentation from Dr. Robert Ouellet, the Association's outgoing president.  He has called for a patient-centred system and that could mean a role for private health care delivery within the public system.

Meanwhile Dr. Robert Ouellette, the outgoing president of the CMA, says he's worried about where we're headed.  The Montreal radiologist says the system could implode if we don't make changes.

Ouellette says wait times are the big worry to both patients and those in the medical communities -- doctors, nurses and therapists.  "It is possible to have a universal system without significant wait times {how? By having unicorns manage the system? Wait times are inherent in a rationed system. I don't have a fancy degree, and even I can see this one-ed.}.  This is the goal we want to achieve in the transformation we want to implement."

Yeah, there were other people quoted int the article who still support CanuckCare as it is, but fuck them, so there you go.

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Thanks

Oh, and fuck you Alan Grayson, you fucking coward.

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Students at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have published a paper in a book titled Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress detailing how to model the spread of a zombie population and various complications in managing the spread of the infestation. They even give humans a fighting chance in some cases!

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Haha... once again I follow the "Don't Read Your Own Blog" rule too well.  Original, duplicate post below the fold.

Damn you, Eddie!
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My first thought on reading about these Russian punk rockers
was to wonder how long they'll be alive.  And, no, I'm not kidding.  Considering Putin's habit of offing all vocal opposition, it's a fair question.

Also?  Fuck you de la Rocha, et al.  That's how it's done.  Losers. 

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