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Posted by: Ace at 09:14 AM | Comments (388)
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Yeah. No one saw this coming.

The founder of the grassroots organization Dogs Against Romney called the Romney campaign “desperate” for dredging up the revelations that President Obama ate dog meat as a child in Indonesia.

“It seems desperate for the Romney campaign to bring up something that happened to Obama when he was 10 years old, not preparing his own meals, in a country where eating dog meat probably isn’t all that unusual as if it compares in any way to Romney, as a 36-year old adult, in America, making the conscious decision to strap his family pet to the roof of a car for a 12-hour drive, and leaving it up there even after it got sick.”

Scott Crider, who writes his site in the voice of a dog, Rusty, said Romney was “desperate to divert attention from what Romney did.”

Silly, Infantile, Absurd Manufactured-Outrage Partisan Jibes

Only we on the Left are allowed to indulge in them. more...

Posted by: Ace at 08:32 AM | Comments (343)
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We can't possibly win this, if the best scenario thatt the right-leaning, cook-the-books gonzo Republican wingnut NYT/CBS pollster can only juice us into is a tie.

O! All is lost. All is lost.

Obama's so golden they should just inject him inside Cadbury Eggs.

Obama and Romney each have 46% support among registered voters in the CBS/New York Times survey, released this morning. Last month, the president had a 3-point lead over Romney, when he was still battling Rick Santorum.

The latest poll comes on the heels of a Pew Research Center survey, which showed Obama's lead narrowing to 4 percentage points, and one by Gallup that showed Romney slightly ahead.

You know what? America just can't wait to vote for Obama again. It's just like Clinton in 96, when the economy had been growing for four years and now the unemployment rate is dropping sharply, and America's all like, "Oh man, we're havin' such a good ride right now, there's no way we wanna end this party."

Sure, I Believe You When You Say That Nothing Unfortunate Will Transpire In My Mouth, This Time

I believe everything you say. I'm what you call a gen-U-ine idiot!

Oh! This Is Just Wonderful News!!! This will pad Obama's Margin of Victory even further!

U.S. factory decline suggests economy losing steam

See, our economy already had so much steam to begin with it's prudent and useful to let some out, so our overheating engine of runaway growth doesn't explode from running too damn hot.

Now things are just absolutely perfect. Obama wins by 14 points.

Plus, if the stars weren't already aligning enough in Obama's favor, now comes this wonderful, humanizing meme about him eating a f@#&ing dog.

How can we beat this? The guy takes the term "omnivore" seriously.

Romney's campaign manager noted this picture -- which Axelrod had tweeted as "How loving pet owners transport their dogs" -- as, "in hindsight," a "chilling photo."

Pictured: A loving dog owner checks his beloved pet's
neck muscles for tenderness and marbling.

Oh, by the way: This f'n' guy, who is Obama 2012's campaign secretary or something, had this awesome response to that:

What's the next attack @EricFerhn and the RNC will surface on a 6-10 year old?

Posted by: Ace at 07:07 AM | Comments (399)
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Drew and BenK are the real chefs of this post.

I think that means they volunteer to be judges, right? Eh? No? OK, I'll do it.

So let's go:

Any short poetry, doesn't have to be a traditional AOSHQ haiku thing. All current events are in play. Though dogmeat seems to be the Chef's Choice this morning.

so much depends
upon

a leg of Irish Setter

glazed with honey mustard

beside the three-bean salad

Contest Prizes:
1) Glory, hearty slaps on the back, and the adoration of tens of Morons
2) Imaginary Merchandise We'll Make Up Later

Posted by: LauraW at 06:33 AM | Comments (306)
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Happy Wednesday.

If you haven't seen it yet (I hadn't), the Agitator compiled the mostly-leftist law-bloggers who say the Zimmerman indictment is a piece of crap. It's not my area of expertise, but these people seem quite confident about the extracrapitudinosity of the charging document.

TPM, a leftist site but go with it, has a chart documenting Romney's favorability surge. The same thing will explain Romney's surge against Obama, sure to be documented in the next few national polls.

Honestly, it's stupid that Romney's surges are surprising to anyone. Last week Romney was barely supported by a majority---if that---of Republicans, about half of whom spent the past year hating on him. So it should have been no surprise at all that he wasn't carrying away the polls. As his support firms up among Republicans, it's no freakin' wonder that his numbers stack up better against Obama. No. Freakin'. Wonder. Unless you're a fool.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:54 AM | Comments (472)
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No link yet. Just posted on NationalJournal though. NBC will have its own poll out tomorrow. Each poll since Monday makes the CNN Obama +9 poll look more and more laughable and it is safe to say Romney is getting his unity bounce.
Ya'll can go back to sleep now.

Posted by: CAC at 02:51 AM | Comments (25)
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USA: The Least Racist Country in the World

If you were to poll the average American, they would likely rank the US as one of the most racist countries on Earth due to of course slavery, Jim Crow laws, Rodney King, OJ, and everything else that we're rhetorically beaten up with ad nauseum. But as any American who has ever lived abroad well knows - the opposite is actually true: We're the least racist country in the world.

But the Left and the MSM are obsessed with race and continually dwell on racial relations in the US. So it's not hard to come away from the media and educational system convinced that we're irredeemably racist and xenophobic. Now of course we're not without any sin but unlike nearly every other country in the world we are quite willing to air our dirty laundry publicly and positively delight in critiquing ourselves.

So it's nice to see Dennis Prager point this all out:

In light of the tragic killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin -- and the manufactured hysteria surrounding it -- one thing needs to be stated as clearly and as often as possible: The United States is the least racist and least xenophobic country in the world. Foreigners of every race, ethnicity, and religion know this. Most Americans suspect this. Most black Americans and the entire left deny this.

Black Africans know this. That is why so many seek to live in the United States. Decades ago, the number of black Africans who had immigrated to the United States had already surpassed the number of black Africans who were forcibly shipped to America as slaves.

And members of other races and nationalities know this. Even Muslim and Arab writers have noted that nowhere in the Arab or larger Muslim world does an Arab or any other Muslim have the individual rights, liberty, and dignity that a Muslim living in America has.

Europeans - in particular the Germans and the French - love to smugly lecture Americans over how awfully we treat blacks here but are blind to the motes in their own eyes.

And when any of these people come here - from anywhere, speaking any language, looking like a member of any race -- they are accepted as Americans the moment they identify as such. He or she will be regarded as fully American. This is not true elsewhere. A third-generation Turkish-German, whose German is indistinguishable from the German spoken by an indigenous German, will still be regarded by most Germans as a Turk. The same holds true elsewhere in Europe.

But just start asking them why it is that 3rd generation Turks in Deutschland can't ever be German or how come no Arabs happen to live in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and after a little hemming and hawing and throat clearing you'll start hearing raw talk that would make even a jaded Klansman raise an eyebrow.

But of course we - with our own black president, judges, cabinet members, and congressmen and myriad other minorities integrated into our society - are the racist ones.

Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:22 PM | Comments (694)
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Again, courtesy of the notoriously right-wing DailyKos/SEIU/PublicPolicyPolling.

District 21 is worrisome, with John Lehman (D) at 46% and Van Wanggaard (R-inc) at 48%, so Wisconsin Republicans need to keep their obvious engagement and momentum going. However, the rest range from cautiously hopeful to cakewalks for the Republicans:
SD-23
Kristin Dexter (D): 41
Terry Moulton (R-inc): 51
SD-29
Donna Seidel (D): 37
Jerry Petrowski (R): 51
SD-13
Lori Compas (D): 40
Scott Fitzgerald (R-inc): 54

Kos goes onto his usual bit about fighting the Democratic lull, which Tom Jensen explained rather bluntly:

When we polled Wisconsin in February, we asked a question about whether Wisconsin voters generally think the state should have recall elections. Around 10% of voters who disapprove of Scott Walker also said that they don't believe in recall elections. That means for a politician to get recalled they have to be really unpopular—even if 51 or 52% of voters disapprove of you, there are enough that don't believe in recalls that you can still survive. I think Walker—and the state senators at risk—probably need to have somewhere in the range of 54-55% of voters unhappy with them to get removed from office. That's a tough bar for Democrats to reach.
We saw in almost all the recalls last summer—whether it was Democratic or Republican Senators being targeted—that most undecided voters moved against the recalls in the closing stretch.

One thing we saw in all these state senate polls is a much more GOP-friendly electorate than 2008. That suggests to me that Democratic voters are suffering from recall fatigue— this has been going on for so long and we are now so far removed from the protests in early 2011 that the passion Democratic voters have for coming out and removing these folks from office just isn't what it was a year ago. It's possible those folks could be reenergized by the campaign over the next couple months but right now Democratic interest in these elections isn't what it needs to be.

Now, after enjoying the good news, here are my concerns.

1- Republicans think they have this "in the bag" and don't vote. To the morons and other readers living in Wisconsin, you have absolutely no excuse to miss voting in the recall to defend Governor Walker. None.

2- Republican turnout needs to be strong in the primary as well, as a show of strength and force. Discounting the Democratic hooligans, over 710,000 legit Republican voters voted in the Presidential primary. The Democratic turnout will be massive in the fight between Falk and Barrett. Topping or approaching their turnout will definitely show which side has more bite than bark.

3- Dane County. I don't think I need to explain this one at all.

4- Fundraising for the Republicans facing recall, all of them. If you haven't yet, donate for pete's sakes. Defeating every attempted recall all in the same night is looking more and more likely, we need to make them overwhelming.

5- A late night on June 5th.

Well, #5 doesn't concern me at all, because we at AOSHQ are ready. All day, all night coverage of the results will be available immediately following the closure of the polls, including direct reporting of results from a particular county that seems to take an awful long time reporting its results to CNN and the AP. I will also continue to track the polling and whispers I hear out of the Badger State, so keep your pudding and alcohol at the ready in the weeks ahead.

Posted by: CAC at 04:53 PM | Comments (295)
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The left continues to push the story of the Romneys traveling on vacation with the dog in a crate on the roof of their car for fundraising. They made a special screen for it.

I don't know why this is horrifying. Ever drive with a dog in the car? What is the first thing he does, and in fact the only thing he wants to do?

Stick his head out the window and feel the air rushing by.

This is well-nigh universal. Dogs dig this.

Anyway, if that's a story, why isn't young Barry Sotero's enjoyment of Dog, the Other Other White Meat?

With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy).

How could you, Mr. President?

How could you?

Dogs Are For Petting

Not for appetizers.

Posted by: Ace at 03:48 PM | Comments (377)
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Dark Shadows.

I want to ask "Why do a Dark Shadows movie if it isn't a Dark Shadows movie, but just some kind of goofy parody which can be done under any name?"

But that's a dumb question. The name itself is why they're bothering with this non-remake remake of a barely-remembered soap opera.

I saw The Killer Elite, the new one. It was an odd thing-- it was a completely different story. In fact, it wasn't even based on the book The Killer Elite, but an entirely different book, "The Feathermen," about shadowy British ex-commando types who did crimes and stuff.

Why was it called The Killer Elite? I'm not 100% sure but I believe they just made this movie, figuring it would be called The Feathermen, then they heard the title "The Killer Elite" was available, so they bought it, and slapped it on a completely unrelated movie.

(The new Killer Elite, or really, "The Feathermen," wasn't half-bad. Odd. Different. I liked that it wasn't exactly like every other movie. Beyond that, it was so-so.)

They did that with the oddly titled, multiply-coloned "Bad Lieutenant 2: Port of Call: New Orleans." Apparently that was just a completely free-standing film with no connection to Bad Lieutenant, but they bought the title and slapped it on to it.

(A fake sequel to a movie hardly anyone remembers.)

So, here's a vampire comedy. It's called Dark Shadows, for no good reason. more...

Posted by: Ace at 03:36 PM | Comments (99)
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