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Well, a member of the Conservative Coalition for American Values at Purdue University turns out to be Tricorner Tea Party Babe, and she asked me to promote the organization to which she belongs, the Conservative Coalition for American Values at Purdue University.

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Posted by: Ace at 07:03 PM | Comments (9)
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Yes!!! I guess we will have him to kick around some more after all. Today Hearst newspapers named McCumber (formerly of the newspaper/now a blog Seattle P-I) as editor destroyer of not one but two newspapers in Connecticut; The Stamford Advocate and the Greenwich Time. And bonus! He’s also been named “editorial director” of Hearst’s Connecticut Newspaper Group. Now the people of Connecticut can benefit from the same high quality of deciding that I was blessed with for the last 18 years in Seattle. (Well, 10 really…he didn’t join the P-I as a decider until ’99.)

McCumber is simply a one-man cornucopia of schadenfreude. He starts in these positions on April 27th, but you might as well start the death clock for these papers using todayÂ’s date.

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Posted by: Open Blog at 05:47 PM | Add Comment
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Women, minorities hardest hit.

45 billion in profits on 442 billion in revenue, or around 10% if my slide rule ain't lying (it ain't).

Next up, Wal-Mart, with slightly tighter margins or a 3% profit of 13.4 billion on 405 billion in revenue.

Chevron (8%)
ConocoPhillips ( -7 %, ouch, bad gas)
GE (9%)
GM, Ford (more ouch)
AT&T (10%), etc.

For the life of me I cannot understand why the monster XOM doesn't just jack up the price and pull in 50 or 60% pre-tax?

It's just there for the taking Rex. Invisible hand my ass.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 04:16 PM | Comments (1)
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So, Dick won't be taking W.'s advice to keep quiet.

Excellent.

“One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort. And there are reports that show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have not been declassified.”

“I formally asked that they be declassified now. I haven't announced this up until now, I haven't talked about it, but I know specifically of reports that I read, that I saw that lay out what we learned through the interrogation process and what the consequences were for the country.”

So many layers of awesome.

Will Obama do it and risk people thinking, "maybe this wasn't such a bad idea after all". If they don't do it, then the argument becomes, "there must be something so valuable they can't talk about it". Which again means, it worked.

It seems all the Obama administration can do is ignore this or they better find some contemporaneous memos that say, "this isn't doing any good".

Either way, well played by the Dark Lord and Master. God, I miss him.

Posted by: DrewM at 02:12 PM | Comments (6)
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"The Meat and Potatoes," it calls itself.

Thanks to Cyn.

Posted by: Ace at 01:44 PM | Add Comment
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It's not so much that sin is a good thing, so much as a state intrusive enough and ambitious enough to end sin is worse danger than any drug.

Vice is making a comeback in this city once famous for 1,001 varieties of it.

A liquor store in the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad. The stores were tolerated by Saddam Hussein but shut by militiamen after his ouster in 2003.
Gone, for the most part, are nighttime curfews, religious extremists and prowling kidnappers. So, inevitably, some people are turning to illicit pleasures, or at least slightly dubious ones.

Nightclubs have reopened, and in many of them, prostitutes troll for clients. Liquor stores, once shut down by fundamentalist militiamen, have proliferated; on one block of busy Saddoun Street, there are more than 10 of them.

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“This is great,” Walid Brahim said. “We used to buy alcohol and just drink secretly in our house.”

The bar is men-only, as pretty much all respectable taverns are, but the brothers look forward to an even brighter future.

“If this security continues,” Farat Brahim said, “within a year all the waiters will be girls.”

And on the social cohesion provided by... whores:

One police detective said he would not dream of enforcing the law against prostitutes. “They’re the best sources we have,” said the detective, whose name is being withheld for his safety. “They know everything about JAM and Al Qaeda members,” he said, using the acronym for Jaish al-Mahdi or Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia.

The detective added that the only problem his men had was that neighbors got the wrong idea when detectives visited the houses where prostitutes were known to live. They really do just want to talk, he said.

“If I had my way, I’d destroy all the mosques and spread the whores around a little more,” the detective said. “At least they’re not sectarian.”

Posted by: Ace at 01:40 PM | Add Comment
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Her speech to the Log Cabin Republicans, in which she shows she's a different kind of Republican -- unlike the unappealing normal kind of Republican -- by noting she has a tattoo, wears a lot of black, and likes punk music and gays.

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Posted by: Ace at 12:45 PM | Comments (4)
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My words, but that's about what they say.

Cut a latte or two out of your annual budget and you've just done as much belt-tightening as President Barack Obama asked of his Cabinet on Monday.

The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal agencies are the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6.

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For all the trumpeting, the effort raised questions about why Obama set the bar so low, considering that $100 million amounts to:

--Less than one-quarter of the budget increase that Congress awarded to itself.

--4 percent of the military aid the United States sends to Israel.

--Less than half the cost of one F-22 fighter plane.

--7 percent of the federal subsidy for the money-losing Amtrak passenger rail system.

--1/10,000th of the government's operating budgets for Cabinet agencies, excluding the Iraq and Afghan wars and the stimulus bill.

Bonus: Even less than it's being sold as.

Obama's marching orders to the Cabinet on Monday were less than meets the eye. Many of the savings he asked them to achieve are already under way and are included in the calculation.

Posted by: Ace at 12:37 PM | Comments (1)
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They actually polled "the political class" on this too, though I don't know how it was defined.

A Tea Party Gap between the people who are supposed to be running this country and the people presuming to actually run it.

While half the nation has a favorable opinion of last Wednesday’s events, the nation’s Political Class has a much dimmer view—just 13% of the political elite offered even a somewhat favorable assessment while 81% said the opposite. Among the Political Class, not a single survey respondent said they had a Very Favorable opinion of the events while 60% shared a Very Unfavorable assessment.

One-in-four adults (25%) say they personally know someone who attended a tea party protest. That figure includes just one percent (1%) of those in the Political Class.

Posted by: Ace at 11:28 AM | Comments (2)
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From Anti-Harkonen Freedom Fighter Geoff:

tapper is making a fool of gibbs right now re the "100 million" in spending cuts - tapper quoted gibbs during omnibus debate re 8 billion in earmarks being "tiny" part of budget

Heh.

And check out the visual interpretation of Obama's "serious-business fiscal responsibility budget-hawking" at the New Ledger.

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