Whoopsie-daisy.

Geraghty also has a think piece on how some people get so unhinged as to think SWATting someone you disagree with is a reasonably good idea.

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Hopefully Twitchy will compile up my own tweets on this -- I'll start being worried about Donald Trump's conspiracy theories the moment they begin taking an interest in Rachel Maddow's.

So here's Wolf Blitzer on this important issue.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that one of their own contributors got SWATted -- fitting into a pre-existing pattern of conservatives being harassed -- CNN has as far as I know refused to run so much as a blurb about it.

But let's all band together to protect the Most Powerful Man on the Face of the Earth.

No one else counts. Not even CNN's own contributors matter to CNN.

more...

Posted by: Ace at 02:12 PM | Comments (275)
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Screw you.

Because Tom Barrett implemented parts of ACT 10 in his own city, one statewide union has decided to publicly refuse to endorse. A simple decline wasn't enough for them. They had to go the full rebuke route.

I am thinking that there are a lot more union voters out there who don't see Tom Barrett as any better than Walker because he used the same budget tools.

A DINO, if you will.

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Our nation's top prosecutor, offering his legal advice (and the advice of the IRS) to campaign supporters about how they can support his boss' campaign.

Will such free legal counsel from the AG and IRS be made available to conservative-leaning pastors, or is this just a special thing for supporters?

Will records be kept? I think we all have a right to know the specific legal advice being offered.

Do the DoJ and IRS represent one political party, or all citizens?

Based on this Very Special Briefing, it appears they represent the interests of one political party.

Agenda Item: Similarly-situated conservative-leaning pastors should band together and demand a similar briefing from high government officials. Further, they should demand a transcript of the hearing with liberal pastors, so they can compare and make certain that the same advice is being offered to all.

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Pardon me if this was already covered.

A naked man is shot by Miami Police while eating another naked manÂ’s face on the MacArthur Causeway.

As the story quickly went viral across the Internet, some have likened the attack to one by a zombie. Details of the unthinkable attack included police reporting that when they ordered the cannibal to stop, he looked up with blood on his face and growled at officers.

One cop warned drug-dealers that murder charges could be brought against anyone supplying a drug found to cause a homicide.

I don't know what to say about this, except to express my belief that we are well and truly doomed.

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It has to be on their minds, of course, so the question is rhetorical.

The real question is how seriously they're considering it.

If Ms. DeFranco [Warren's last remaining Democratic rival for the nomination] clears one more hurdle — winning 15 percent of the delegate vote at the state Democratic convention in Springfield next Saturday — she will secure a spot on the primary ballot, giving Ms. Warren, a nationally known consumer advocate, an unwanted distraction from her anticipated showdown with Senator Scott P. Brown, the Republican incumbent.

The very liberal San Francisco Chronicle ran an column ridiculing her claims:

I also believe that Warren was too smart to not know that she was 31 times more white than Native American. She's too smart to not know that the designation could help her career, while taking pressure off Harvard Law to hire a real minority. But she was not so liberal that she cared.

She isn't Cherokee at all, dude.

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Via FilmLadd, a very confused older man thinks that Walker himself tweeted Kimberlin 14,000 times, and that "'He googled you 500,000 times' on the tubes or whatever."

Note that's a hard-to-parse quote, because only the first several words are quoted; I don't know if the "tubes or whatever" is a paraphrase or just snark, referencing Ted Stevens' concept of the Internet as "all these tubes."

Posted by: Ace at 10:17 AM | Comments (253)
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Total statewide absentees (in-house early and mailed) with 6 days left to go: 113,000
2010: 230,000 issued.

Total early votes cast in Milwaukee and Madison: 21,600 (15k in Milwaukee, 6800 in Madison). Assuming every single vote is for Tom Barrett (not likely), some perspective:

Total votes cast for Democratic candidates Milwaukee and Dane counties in:
2012 recall primary: 229,000
2011 supreme court: 262,000
2010 election: 360,000 (Walker won statewide by 128k)
2008 presidential: 526,000

Total votes cast in the 2010 matchup between Barrett and Walker, wherein Barrett got 360,000 votes from the two largest cities? 2,100,000. We may not even reach that level of overall turnout, if this is the "strongest" showing we are getting in early voting. Statewide absentees are at under 6% of the total showing in 2010, and Milwaukee and Madison's share right now is at just over 1%.

Assuming every single vote that is early is for Barrett, he is between the 2011 total and the 2010 total from both counties.

So while the Democrats are focusing hard on early voting, the number so far in their strongest areas- 21,800- is under a tenth of the total vote from the recall primary and will probably beat out a tenth of the vote from Prosser V Klopp.

Republicans need to seriously vote like hell early or on election day, but the totals from the Democrats so far are a bit...low...for all the hype and worrying.

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The judge apparently took two positions: 1, Worthing simply isn't permitted to mention the Speedway Bomber, or the Speedway Bomber's pattern of harassment.

2, the fact that Kimberlin received some death threats from angry people is all chargeable to Worthing.

Plus, Worthing was representing himself, and I understand he let his irritation get the best of him.

Looking at it this way... The most important thing to judges, ahead of justice, is that your respect their authoritah.

The judge might have been strongly inclined to arrest Aaron Worthing because he felt his Peace Order had been violated.

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Happy Tuesday. I hope you had a good holiday weekend.

In the news...

The Google Street View scandal isn't what you think it is, owing to bad reporting. Journalists haven't got a clue what Google did, so you see sensationalist reporting like the Daily Mail piece that RD linked yesterday, which claims that Google "downloaded" emails, text messages, photographs and documents from unlocked wi-fi networks. That word "downloaded" is a gross mischaracterization because it implies that Google went into unlocked systems and took the data; in other words, a virtual trespass.

In fact, what Google did was simply record everything that unlocked wifi networks transmitted while the Google Street View car was in range (see also the FCC report). Those unlocked transmissions may have contained emails, text messages, photographs and documents, or they may not. But no trespass was required. The users were broadcasting that data to the world, unlocked and unprotected. If you're yelling out the window at your kids, I'm perfectly within my rights to hear you if I'm standing on the sidewalk. And that's just what Google did.

Speaking of dumb journalists, the BBC apologizes for using a logo from Halo's United Nations Space Command instead of of the actual UN logo during a broadcast about the Syrian atrocities.

Romney on the support of Birther Trump: "You know I donÂ’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they donÂ’t all agree with everything I believe in. . . . But I need to get 50.1 percent or more and I'm appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people."

Erick Erickson has more to say on SWATting.

TalkLeft's Jeralyn Merritt, a defense attorney of some repute, reviews the Zimmerman evidence and provides the "most likely scenario" for what she believes happened. It is what you think it is.

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