And at 50% -- 50-46%.

Margin of error +/- 4%, so still in the MoE. But almost sorta out of it.

Connecticut Really Doesn't Like Jobs: 54% to 43%, Blumenthal well ahead of McMahon.

Posted by: Ace at 09:29 AM | Comments (101)
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Metaphor.

(No this isn't the vid I wanted to upload.)

Thanks to Rees Dansie.

Posted by: Ace at 09:11 AM | Comments (105)
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This thread had been "how do I embed this dirty bastard" but now I'm going with Eyeblast or somethin' so I'm changing it.

Thanks for the help. I'll get this big bastard up soon. It's pretty good. (It's just a silly thing, Ewok-ish, not like breaking news video or anything like that.)

Posted by: Ace at 08:09 AM | Comments (137)
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Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani has confessed to his role in the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania which killed over 200 people. He had been held an interrogated at Gitmo and during the interrogations there identified a person who provided him with explosives. Now that person has been barred from testifying by a federal judge.

"The court has not reached this conclusion lightly," Kaplan wrote. "It is acutely aware of the perilous nature of the world in which we live. But the Constitution is the rock upon which our nation rests. We must follow it not when it is convenient, but when fear and danger beckon in a different direction."

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He was smiling and conversing with his lawyers at the defense table after the judge ruled.

The judge issued his written three-page ruling after a hearing three weeks ago in which the witness, Hussein Abebe, testified about his dealings with authorities.

"The government has failed to prove that Abebe's testimony is sufficiently attenuated from Ghailani's coerced statements to permit its receipt in evidence," Kaplan wrote.

The defense had asked the judge to exclude Abebe's testimony on the grounds that it would be the product of statements made by Ghailani to the CIA under duress.

On that point, Kaplan said, "Abebe was identified and located as a close and direct result of statements made by Ghailani while he was held by the CIA. The government has elected not to litigate the details of Ghailani's treatment while in CIA custody. It has sought to make this unnecessary by asking the court to assume in deciding this motion that everything Ghailani said while in CIA custody was coerced."

The trial is being delayed while the government considers an appeal.

Andy McCarthy wrote about the case this morning before the judge's decision was issued and he was spot on.

The Obama administration has made Ghailani its test case to prove that the civilian criminal-justice system works perfectly well in wartime against enemy combatants — to show that we don’t need military commissions or other alternatives specially tailored to address the peculiarities of terrorism cases. The administration figured Ghailani was a safe bet. After all, the embassy-bombing case had already been successfully prosecuted once: In 2001, prior to 9/11, four jihadists were tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment (although the jury voted to spare the two death-penalty defendants).

Yet, to prove its political point that there is no downside in vesting Ghailani — a Tanzanian national whose only connection to the United States is his decision to make war on it — with all the constitutional rights of an American citizen, the Justice Department has had to slash its case. DOJ is also finding that even more critical evidence may be suppressed by the trial judge. In short, the slam dunk has become a horse race, one the government could actually lose.

So now what will the administration do? If they can't try Ghailani in civilian court or worse yet, he is ordered freed, will the government simply say too bad and ship him back to Gitmo? Or will they let a confessed mass murdering terrorist go free simply because they wanted to make some point about how smart they are and how stupid those Bush fools were?

Of course, the left will say if Bush hadn't 'tortured' this guy none of this would be a problem. They will simply ignore the fact that Ghaliani and his ilk aren't criminals but terrorist scum waging war against America. Car thieves and murderers get due process, not terrorists. Not until now anyway. Thanks Obama!

I think Eric Holder can forget about his dream of trying Khalid Ssheikh Mohammed in civilian court.

Posted by: DrewM at 08:03 AM | Comments (98)
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Funny. The only problem is.... well, I think it gets a bit too tough about unemployment. In the ad, it's "Democrats" talking up Funemployment, but still, I think anyone unemployed might have some reservations about the light tone here.

Still, if you can get past that, it's funny. Darkly funny. more...

Posted by: Ace at 06:52 AM | Comments (72)
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I wish I could buy gold by the ton. But that would require a high-security vault, armed henchmen to guard it, and so on. Genteel poverty is so much less of a headache.

I know that you meant to turn this turd into a tea-rose, but alas, it still smells of shit.

Who runs Foreclosure Town? more...

Posted by: Monty at 06:39 AM | Comments (96)
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R.E.C.O.V.E.R.Y. S.U.M.M.E.R. - catch the fever.

...The overall September consumer filing total of 130,329 was 4.4 percent more than the 124,790 consumer filings recorded in September 2009. The September total also represented a 3.3 percent increase from the August 2010 total of 127,028 consumer filings...

Now hiring: bankruptcy court judges and clerks.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 05:57 AM | Comments (62)
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Humpday!

Brought to you by bold Democrats running on their record of accomplishment.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 05:08 AM | Comments (109)
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Pretty darn good vid by Ben Howe: more...

Posted by: Ace at 08:30 PM | Comments (117)
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Another day at the dentist so I'm just just waiting for the vicodin to kick in. Well actually that's just known as Tuesday.

So in the meantime... How Bout Some Hayseed Dixie?

So Hayseed Dixie is a group that started out as bluegrass AC/DC tribute band but have branched out into other bands/genres and their own material. Bluegrass - what can't it cover?

Here's the video put them on the map and got them their first appearance on AoSHQ:

And here's one of their original AC/DC covers:

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