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It will be attending Harvard in the Fall.

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The above photo is SCOAMF's election platform. I think Chris Matthews just got a tingle. Any questions?

So here's a pop quiz. Can you name three government agencies that have lost more money than JP Morgan? Hmmm? Here's Your Answer. So where's the outrage against these government agencies Democrats? MSM? Crickets? Oh look, a squirrel!

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A second bout of plagiarism?

Guys, timing. Let's wait a couple of weeks to make sure Elizabeth Warren is in fact the candidate.

Then hit her on the new stuff.

No, seriously, there's a second candidate running. If you beat the hell out of this moron hard enough, you'll knock her stupid high-cheekboned ass out of the race.

Thank Goodness! Looks like this one's not quite fully baked -- Amazon lists the publication date of Warren's book months ahead of the book she supposedly plagiarized.

Looks like we'll have to find out exactly which came first, or if they both cribbed fro m a third as-of-yet unknown book.

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There's a line in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption about prisoners and homosexuality. Something like, "Most prisoners are straight when they get out of prison, but they're not as straight as when they went in."

Something like that.

Well, Jon Lovitz may protest that he's a Democratic Obama-supporter, but let's just say after three and half years of this horrific maladministration, his straight-ticket leanings aren't as straight as they once were.

And while we're noting his political sense, we should probably remember he's a pretty funny guy. His roast of Bob Saget was hilarious.

Meanwhile, comic/MMA announcer Joe Rogan seems to have reached a Tipping Point on Obama. From his Twitter stream:

I know it sounds crazy, but I'm starting to believe that Obama wasn't born in America [ink to Breitbart.com omitted]

For those going nuts over my last tweet, it's due to what Obama's own literary agent wrote in 1991 - "Born in Kenya" http://pic.twitter.com/7VjLfgNX

By the way, I wouldn't care if Obama was born on the moon if he was a good president and wasn't butchering the constitution.

Amazing how passionate people are about a debate over which patch of dirt the king of america was squeezed out on.

That's still America, big silly. When your publicist writes you were born in a 3rd world country I think you would complain.

Meanwhile, a guy who blogs at Comedy Central's "Indecision 2012" site, or whatever, ranked on conservatives for not being funny on Twitter.

Brad Thor, joking about "Obama in History," made the reasonably funny callback-joke:

He celebrated the first Thanksgiving w/ Elizabeth Warren's ancestors who brought him maize.

Not bad. Calls back yesterday's news, makes an unexpected connection between the thing you're talking about and the thing you were talking about yesterday.

Well, here's the Professor of Comedy Gonzalo R. Cordova on that:

What does that story have to do with the other story. If you want to make fun of Elizabeth Warren, just make fun of Elizabeth Warren. You're diluting the joke by roping Obama into it.

He's not "diluting" the joke. The surprise cameo by Elizabeth Warren is the joke.

Okay, so, obviously this guy isn't terribly funny, right?

You don't know. You don't even know.

The Daily Caller writes a post funnier than Doctor Hilarious', of course, and then does something really awful:

They link his comedy stylings, from YouTube.

Friends, I don't even want to make fun of him because I'd feel bad about it. It's like Blair's comedian cousin on Facts of Life, the one with cerebral palsy. You're not really supposed to think it's funny; you're supposed to think it's heroic.

So that's what I'll say: It's heroic.

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Reuters: Did White House "spin" tip a Covert Op?

White House efforts to soft-pedal the danger from a new "underwear bomb" plot emanating from Yemen may have inadvertently broken the news they needed most to contain.

At about 5:45 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 7, just before the evening newscasts, John Brennan, President Barack Obama's top White House adviser on counter-terrorism, held a small, private teleconference to brief former counter-terrorism advisers who have become frequent commentators on TV news shows.

According to five people familiar with the call, Brennan stressed that the plot was never a threat to the U.S. public or air safety because Washington had "inside control" over it.

This was immediately interpreted, correctly, as meaning there was a double-agent somewhere in the cell.

As was obvious from the White House's words.

The next day's headlines were filled with news of a U.S. spy planted inside Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), who had acquired the latest, non-metallic model of the underwear bomb and handed it over to U.S. authorities.

At stake was an operation that could not have been more sensitive — the successful penetration by Western spies of AQAP, al Qaeda's most creative and lethal affiliate. As a result of leaks, the undercover operation had to be shut down.

The White House is incompetent. There was no reason to out a double agent -- even for the crassest, most cynical of political reasons.

They could simply have said, "We got him." That itself is reassuring -- that you caught a would-be terrorist. What extra benefit is there to reassuring the public, "And you weren't in any danger because we've got a DOUBLE AGENT, yo!"?

But for the sake of a completely illusory need to appease critics, they outed a critical double agent. One who could have continued providing intelligence for years to come.

But that's business as usual for these sad little men. They also told secrets about SEAL tactics, just to peacock around after the bin Ladin raid, as if they were the heroes.

A New York Times reporter was stopped by an officer who wanted to "rip his lungs out" over the detailed reporting he did on the bin Ladin raid.

But, he revealed at a counter terrorism expo this week, the info came directly and officially from the White House, not some garbage can digging operation. “I said to him, ‘Sir, that information came officially to us from the podium at the White House,’” Shanker said.

He added, “Your civilian leaders make choices about describing missions, perhaps for their own partisan political ends, perhaps to show the nation that their tax dollars are being spent well, but that’s the way it is.”

Shanker, an acclaimed Pentagon reporter and author, said he had a little advice for the unidentified officer: If you make general, “this is part of your new world.”

Not for much longer.

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In boxing, you can hit your opponent, but you must both be standing.

In wrestling, you can grapple to the ground, but you can't hit your opponent. (Okay I think Greco-Roman wrestling allows an open-hand slap or something.)

In MMA, of course, you can grapple your opponent to the ground, and then punch the shit out of him. "Ground and pound," they call it.

That's what this witness obviously means by "MMA style."

The witness said he was inside his home, about 30 feet away from the incident, when he heard a “commotion coming from the walkway” behind his residence. He said he had seen a “a black male, wearing a dark colored ‘hoodie’ on top of a white or Hispanic male who was yelling for help.” The black male “was mounted on the white or Hispanic male and throwing punches ‘MMA (mixed martial arts) style.’” The witness said he called out that he was dialing 911, then heard a pop and saw the black male “laid out on the grass.”

That's not such a horrible thing -- that's what really happens in brawls (and that's why MMA sells itself as real fighting, not the more artificial sport forms of boxing and wresting). I mean, that doesn't prove Trayvon was an awful person or anything. Brawls can get dangerous.

But it certainly does explain why Zimmerman could be legally "in fear of great bodily harm." When someone is pounding your head into hard pavement, you don't know when the next slam will knock you unconscious. You cannot carefully calibrate how much "Life" you have left in your Health Meter, like it's a video game.

At that point, you can have a perfectly legitimate fear you're about to be killed.

And yet this scumbag attorney, who grinned through her whole press conference like she was debuting a new low-carb Tiramisu miracle recipe that won't go straight to your thighs, is prosecuting this man for Murder 2, knowing she cannot possibly get a lawful conviction.

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Yes, that was my first thought as well.

Joe Biden is senile and not fit to serve one heartbeat away from the Presidency.

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How on earth can the prosecutor maintain a murder 2 charge in the face of obvious reasonable doubt?

And it's at least reasonable doubt. It could be clear and convincing evidence that he's telling the truth.

Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin said that Zimmerman had a bloody face and nose, according to police reports made public today.

The reports also note that two witness accounts appear to back up Zimmerman's version of what happened when they describe a man on his back with another person wearing a hoodie straddling him and throwing punches.

In addition, Trayvon Martin's father told an investigator after listening to 911 tapes that captured a man's voice frantically callling for help that it was not his son calling for help.

The new information is part of a trove of documents released by the Florida State Attorney today in the case against Zimmerman, who is charged with second degree murder for the Feb. 26 killing of Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American male.

Hey, remember ABC's earlier scoop that Zimmerman had no visible injuries?

What no visible injuries look like

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Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com:

Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey.

Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the Pow Wow Chow cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan. . . .

The two recipes, "Cold Omelets with Crab Meat" and "Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing," appear in an article titled “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat,” written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News . . . .

Leahy goes on to say that particular recipe is a word-for-word copy, with one exception: "Ms. Warren says, 'Let cook until firm and lightly brown . . .' and Mr. Franey says 'Let cook until firm and lightly browned . . . ."

Oh, my. When people are willing to lie that easily for little or no reason, they'll lie about anything. Someone should start reviewing her academic papers.

One more thing: Didn't anyone consider the threshold question before that book was published? Cherokees ate cold omelets with crab meat?

I thought Cherokees ate Italian crab bruschetta.

Thanks to @JammieWF.

Added: From commenter "Albie Damned":

Remember that scene in Dances With Wolves where Kevin Costner's character sat down with the Indians to a meal of Quenelles de Brochet with Seafood Risotto and Lobster Foam, paired with a nice bottle of slightly chilled Meursault-Perrières?

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