Butterfingers. Ike Turner just emailed me to say "It happens."

This is what actually happened, according to two cops who saw it all:

A police officer saw Moran grab a woman by the back of her head and slam it into a trash can at about 1:23 a.m. in front of a nightclub called The Getaway in Columbia Heights, according to court documents.

He accidentally mistook his girlfriend's face for a gigantic wasp that was trying to sting him in the eye. So, of course, he grabbed that wasp and slammed it into the trash barrel.

Could happen to anyone.

War on Wasps.

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This is MSNBC.

You know, the guys who think conspiracy theories are crazy.

Unelss it comes from the stinking fever swamps of the left.

But one eyewitness tells MSNBC.com he thinks there may be more to the story. Thomas Duckworth, a Michigan resident and lifelong union member, said heÂ’d been at the AFP tent earlier in the day, when he noticed a man in an NRA hat. Later, he said, he saw the man deliberately loosening the ropes holding the tent up. Duckworth acknowledged that labor supporters had cheered the tentÂ’s collapse, but suggested that AFP had deliberately helped initiate the it, in order to depict their adversaries as an unruly mob.

The progressive communications group Progress Michigan also conducted an interview with Duckworth. You can find the video on their YouTube page.

via @johnekdahl

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I think maybe Roger Simon finished his play too quickly -- seems like he could have added another chapter.

The late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile is a suspect in 199 crimes recorded so far, including dozens of cases of rape, British police said Wednesday. They described the level of sexual abuse allegations against Savile as "unprecedented in the U.K."

The accusations against Savile, who died last year at age 84, grew after five women said during a TV program broadcast in October that they had been sexually abused by the presenter. The claims triggered a scandal that rocked the BBC, which has been accused of failing to report allegations against Savile while making shows praising him.

Number of rapes alleged: 31. Note the "alleged," of course. It should be noted that we have seen Accusation Panics before.

I don't think we're seeing it here.

Jimmy Savile was a big-time BBC fixture. Why of course he has a certain license to rape. First night and all that.

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Seems interesting.

He says it's neither conservative nor liberal, and I believe him, but there is hardly any question that no liberal would explore the question of what happens when a large group of people begin subverting the truth for political purposes. Well, they wouldn't explore this going on in a liberal institution. I'm sure they'd explore it in, say, the conservative movement.

And that's part of the problem right there, isn't? Liberals style themselves truth-tellers and truth-seekers, but as we're seeing yesterday and today, they embargo truths that aren't helpful to the Great Patriotic Cause of Progressivism/Marxism.

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Friends helping friends out. Isn't that nice?

uthorities in Hudson County notified ICE agents in early October that they suspected Sanchez was an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender and who may be eligible to be deported. ICE agents in New Jersey notified superiors at the Homeland Security Department because they considered it a potentially high profile arrest, and DHS instructed them not to arrest Sanchez until after the November election, one U.S. official told the AP. ICE officials complained that the delay was inappropriate, but DHS directed them several times not to act, the official said.

It was not immediately clear why federal immigration authorities would not have been notified sooner about Sanchez's status.

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Move on, nothing to see here, said everyone in the media.

The Toledo Blade reported the violence as "mostly peaceful" -- attention Jammie Wearing Fool.

I Called the "Mostly Peaceful" Thing Yesterday... but that wasn't a hard call to make. JammieWF didn't really invent "mostly peaceful" -- he just noted the media covering up every incidence of leftist violence as being "mostly peaceful."

"Mostly peaceful" is what the media says when they want to hide the fact that the left has resorted to violence, yet again.

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Remember Patrick Moran, last seen conspiring with a plant to fake hundreds of votes?

Moran and his girlfriend were fighting outside 14th St. bar The Getaway around 1:23 a.m. on Dec. 1, according to a police report, over Moran talking to another woman at the bar. Suddenly, Moran allegedly slammed his girlfriendÂ’s head into the barÂ’s metal trash can cage.

After the attack, police described Moran’s girlfriend as “bleeding heavily from her nose and also observed that her nose and right eye were extremely swollen.” One of the ambulance technicians who transported her to Howard University Hospital told police that Moran appeared to have broken her nose and given her a skull fracture under her right eye.

This is a serious attack -- broken nose, skull fracture. And yet he managed to plead down to a very minor assault, and received probation as a punishment.

Uh-huh.

I'd like some external investigation into how this plea deal came to be. Unfortunately this sweet deal was brokered in Washington, DC. Where politicians and their ilk are free to do all sorts of things.

Both the headline and article come from @iowahawkblog. It was such a fantastic headline I had to swipe it.

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The punk was identified.

And there's nothing sadder than a 55 year old punk. We understand the 17 year old punks. But to still be a punk at 55?

rowder gave an ultimatum to the man who punched him in the face: come forward and face jail time or face him in a mixed martial arts (MMA) match.

“You can come forward, I’ll press charges, you’ll go to jail,” Crowder said. “Or, since you wanted to cheap-shot me, we can host a bout in a sanctioned, legalized MMA competition.”

...

“Face me like a man,” Crowder taunted, adding that he was “easy to find.”

Yeah, the grayhair punk isn't going to do that.

Swiped from @benk84's headline thread.

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Male leggings -- "meggings" -- are now supposedly such a huge deal, sweeping both sides of the Atlantic, that you have to learn about it from the Internet.

When trendsetters speculated what would be the defining men's fashion movement to sweep New York this winter, few opted for the male legging.

But "Megging", as the male legging is known, is now all the rage in sartorial circles. Celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Russell Brand and Lenny Kravitz have all been spotted wearing leggings, while fashion stores Uniqlo, Barneys and Nordstrom are selling tights for men.

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Some New Yorkers, however, see the "megger" as an affront to masculinity. Gabriel Cru, 35, from the Bronx, said: "Men in tights? Get out of here. We don't do men in tights in New York. That's European!"

Unless you're fronting Van Halen, I don't think "meggings" are going to attract the ladies.

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If Republicans figure that Obama wants to take us off the cliff -- and if Republicans want to counter that (which they might not) -- the House could pass a bill the Senate previously passed, extending the Bush tax rates except for the richest and patching the ATM.

For a year, anyway.

If you share my policy views but think the President is not bluffing, and if you think that America cannot, under any circumstances, risk a no-bill scenario, then S. 3412 is your Option C. It does exactly what President Obama has been calling on Congress to do, it allows tax rates to increase on the rich. It just doesn’t also do other things that we know he wants to do, but which he has not been making the centerpiece of his kick-Republicans-around PR campaign. S. 3412 does not raise taxes by $1.6 trillion, but instead by $80ish B (not counting the AMT patch). It does not guarantee the President $800B – $1T over the next decade, because it tees the fight up again a year from now when the political and legislative dynamics may be different. And it does not include the debt limit increase the President is demanding in end-of-year legislation, and which if enacted now would deny Republicans a tool to demand future spending cuts.

Even more importantly, S. 3412 has passed the Senate entirely with Democratic votes and is therefore a viable legislative alternative in an endgame take-it-or-leave-it scenario. Messrs. Boehner and McConnell could, later this month, announce, “Negotiations with the President have broken down because he refused to cut spending enough. We are therefore not going to stand in the way of S. 3412 becoming law. We oppose this bill and we will both vote no. We imagine most other Republicans will do the same. But it will be brought up for a House vote, and we expect enough House Republicans will join the Democrats in voting for this policy that we will avoid an end-of-year disaster. We will oppose President Obama’s tax increases, but we will not prevent them from becoming law because we do not want to risk a recession next year. The President will get his tax increases when Democrats [and a handful or two of House Republicans] vote for them now, and we will continue to press for spending cuts and tax reform in 2013.”

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