Over the past 50 years or so some fairly important stuff seems to have ummm....gone missing.

• Wright Bros patent
• Lincoln Civil war dispatches
• Whatever Sandy Burglar took
• etc, etc

OT/UPDATE: Palin attorney vows legal action against defamers. Read the last paragraph, that's where the rubber meets the road and legal action is promised.

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Update/Breaking: Former NFL QB Steve McNair found shot to death at a Nashville residence. A woman was also found shot to death at the scene. She's been "tentatively" identified but police haven't officially released her name yet. Not many details yet, but what there are you can read about at CNN or elsewhere.

Thanks to "Dr. Carlo Lombardi" in the comments.

Note: Before anyone goes off half-cocked in the comments, please read the disclaimer below the vid & the fold. However, even if the incident isnÂ’t exactly what it might seem to be at first glance, itÂ’s still worth watching and Rick Monday deserves kudos for his actions. If nothing else, Monday also served in the Marine Corps and has apparently done some additional good deeds on behalf of veteransÂ’ organizations over the years.

PS: If you haven't watched the vid dri posted in the Top Headlines called "Train vs. Tornado" yet, you don't know what you're missing. Freaky it is.
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Posted by: Open Blog at 12:20 PM | Add Comment
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Slow Joe, always looking for a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, says violence could chase the US out of Iraq.

Way to create a self fulfilling prophesy Joe. Why not just cut to the chase and FedEx AQ and Iran all the DoD's plans and contingencies while you're at it? Maybe invite some Basji's over to gang rape your family as a "gesture of neighborliness"? Yea, that'll surely calm them right down and get'em seeing things our way.

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Send us your stories and pics if'n ya want to, morontips at gmail dot com. The news desk is open this weekend, I'll do a round up later.

Also, the Norks couldn't get the big one up so they fired off seven small ones to celebrate our Independence Day, nice of em.

Have a great day morons, and be safe.

UPDATE: From the Pittsburgh PA Tea Party, via Josh L.

UPDATE2: I know some of these are going on this evening too, no rush. I'll post the roundup tomorrow afternoon. Already have a bunch from several readers, thanks! more...

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 05:40 AM | Add Comment
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Happy Fourth to you all. Don't nobody set yourself on fire today. And be careful driving, there are drunks about. Otherwise, have a blast.

I'm gonna go teach my nieces to set firecrackers behind dad and drink beer like good Americans. (Just kidding, they're too young for firecrackers.)

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Obviously, Sarah Palin has a plan. If she were the sort of person who could be swayed by some moron on a blog, my opinion of her would go down a notch. I just wanted to get my thoughts out there now so that I can look back in a year or two and either say "I 'effing nailed it", or "WOW, I didn't see THAT coming".

I'm not sure if I agree with all the "game over, man! GAME OVER!" rhetoric. It's one thing to say that "Sarah Palin can never regain credibility after resigning", but - and please don't take this as criticism towards my gracious bloghost Ace - a blogger who jealously guards his anonymity isn't exactly the right person to tell me about how Sarah Palin should just suck it up and take all the unhinged criticism from cretins like Andrew Sullivan as "part of the job".

The extremely vitriolic nature of the criticism directed towards the Palin family is a valid issue. The costs to the taxpayers of Alaska because of all these manufactured ethics complaints is a valid issue. A governor resigning to avoid "phoning it in" while they campaign for higher office is an honorable act.

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Ancient Mongolian overnight proverb: "The wise man eats his baked chicken with the light on so he can tell if it is not fully cooked. Thus he avoids the dual humiliation of the trash can and the porcelain throne."

Meanwhile in North Korea, state-run TV has apparently run its first ever beer commercial.

"The advertisement, which lasted nearly three minutes after a news program on Thursday, showed a grinning Korean man with sweat on his face holding a glass of beer, with a caption that read, "Taedong River Beer is the pride of Pyongyang."

The commercial said the beer relieves stress and improves health and longevity. It also showed images of a pub it said was in the capital of Pyongyang, filled with people drinking.

The commercial assured viewers of the beer's quality and nutritional value, saying it was made of rice and contained protein and vitamin B2.

That's exactly the same thing I've always told all my ex-girlfriends. Maybe there's hope for this Kim Jong Il chap after all.

Now I'm off to eat a hearty meal of saltines and Sprite. But I'll leave you with the beer commercial below the fold.

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Posted by: Open Blog at 05:28 PM | Comments (12)
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Early reports said "British Embassy staff", which has been clarified to mean Iranian nationals working for the embassy.

So of course Obama, these are still people you can deal with!

Ace is right. Psychotic, but right. We gotta nail these bastards.

Oh, ok, not that right, this right. Obama needs them more than they need him, because he can't sell the already ordained "these idiots can have the bomb" decision to the American public.

Of course this is aimed at Britain, and the rest of the western democracies who are willing to meddle and criticize the election bullshit (not the US! We loves us the Islamic Republic of Iran, yessirree).

I'll bet Obama is just trying to make sure our embassy staff doesn't get captured again and held for another 444 days. Shrewd of him, thinking like that. Who the heck wants to be another Jimmy Carter?

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 04:45 PM | Comments (1)
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She says the endless frivolous ethics complaints had cost her a half million dollars and a lot of her gubernatorial attention, and also that as a lame duck, she couldn't be as strong a governor as Alaska needed. That last part is very strange; obviously every politician becomes a lame duck at some point, but they don't resign from office due to that fact.

And a true lame duck period usually begins in the last year of an executive's last term, not halfway through it. Even if Palin had decided not to seek reelection, she could serve for another year before announcing that fact -- and so during this time she wouldn't be perceived as a lame duck at all.

I don't really get that rationale at all.

Krauthammer guesses this is because she's sick of the constant harassment and attacks; Juan Williams guesses it's a coming scandal.

If she did this because she was sick of the attacks and especially sick of the attacks on her children -- that's a darned good reason and I empathize with it completely in human terms.

In political terms, though, it's going to hard to run for a higher, far more important executive post when you resigned your last one a little more than halfway through your first term.

Obviously, the new rap on her would be How do you know she won't resign if the opposition just gets nasty enough to spur her into quitting?, which is sort of a darned hard question to answer. For me, anyway.

I can understand her decision as a human being, but am having hard time accepting it in terms of political leadership I can have confidence in.

If she wants to just spend time with her family and pull them out of the political spotlight and spare them the relentless attacks of the vicious left -- that's a great reason to resign from office. Pretty much the best reason there is.

But that reason puts her out of the 2012 race, because her kids are still going to be savaged by the media and left in 2012. As Krauthammer says, if this is her reason for quitting, she can run again... but only when the kids are adults (or near adulthood, anyway), which keeps her out of any races until 2016 or 2020, more likely.

On the other hand, some are still holding out hope for the very dubious 2012 gambit.

The nutroots is pushing rumors about a coming scandal. I will simply repeat their claims rather than give them any hits. They are claiming that she diverted materials and maybe labor from the construction of a Wasilla sports complex to her home, and that many of the same features are in both. (A sports complex has the same sort of windows one would find in a private home? Really?) And they claim that there is a federal investigation, and coming indictments.

The left kinda makes shit up, so, you know. But that's their claim.

Not every politician is willing to put personal ambition ahead of everything. It's laudable if, as is most likely, she just decided that her family and life were more important than serving an ungrateful public and exposing her family to a nasty, classless press.

But, for better or worse, that is what the job of president (or governor, or vice president entails), and if she's just not willing to put up with this crap anymore -- well, that is completely understandable, but it also is a decision that would seem to disqualify her from office, at least in the near term.

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Not to make too light of the situation--I realize they're worried--but the quotes from the article amused me and I think they will most of you, too:

"There is no greater fear than the fear of the unknown and nobody knows. You can cut the tension with a knife," Peeler said. "People are locking their doors, even in broad daylight."

The Fourth of July is a busy weekend, with thousands of people expected to attend fireworks displays in several communities.

"You want to live a normal life," Phillips said as she stood outside a grocery store. "But you just can't."

The sheriff reminded people they have a right to protect themselves and advised salesmen and others to avoid knocking on strangers' doors with so many on heightened alert.

"People are going to start shooting at shadows," Blanton said.

Hope they catch this bastard so people can go back to leaving their doors unlocked.

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