Why Right Wing Blogs Like AoSHQ Never Talk About Jihad or Sharia

Because it's true - we just *never* talk about jihad or sharia anymore.

Well according to this article at IOTW it's only because Ace and the cobs have shunned Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and sold out to the MSM.

What's the message received? If you want to move up in the caste system you better clean up your act, and that, you'll see, includes any uncomfortable remarks about Islam.

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While reading this I immediately had 2 bloggers in mind that would fit this description. The first was Ace of Spades. Ace was a Perryite who famously published a public attack towards Pamela Geller. He's  also shown that he's willing to modify his act, and the reader's behavior.

Later the finger is pointed at Weasel Zippers as the shunful blog in question but still many ewoks and morons were dissed in the process.

Now I'm not saying that certain people's garbage should be routinely molested starting this very evening because of these slurs - that would be 'wrong' - but lets just say that both garbage and natives of Endor do have mutual needs...

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These are easier to link, and to play as well.

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Results here. The winner regardless will crush the Democrat in November, though having Cruz surge through would be nice.

Haven't had a Tuesday night worth blogging about since that glorious moment a few weeks back when Governor Walker was all out of bubblegum.

Polls close at 8pm EST

I'll also be watching turnout for the Democratic side, just for the lulz.
Updates will be here:

CURRENTLY - Cruz 236k to Dewhurst 202k
EARLY VOTE TOTALS- DALLAS COUNTY: Cruz 17,053 to Dewhurst 16,780
EARLY VOTE TOTALS- TARRANT COUNTY: Cruz 19,683 Dewhurst 15,078

CURRENT COMBINED D PRIMARY VOTE: <105,000

AOSHQDD call: Cruz has won the runoff

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I don't even want to dignify this, but essentially what they're saying is that it was "unintentional," and they know this, because they asked themselves if it was intentional and they promised themselves that it wasn't.

Read down, and Stephanoplous insists the same thing about Brian Ross' eager-to-blame-the-Tea-Party "reporting," and, impliedly, also vouches for himself. He says he "doesn't think" there was a "political agenda" in Ross' false report; I assume then he "doesn't think" there was a political agenda in his own "Do tell more" posture.

CNN's ratings are down 20% July to July.

The media are dying, yes, and they deserve to. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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Nope.

It's not as if the Obama campaign spoke to its spear-carriers in the press and said, "Why aren't you covering Romney's taxes?"

And it's not like they said back, "Well, we did, but to really make it an issue we need a predicate, we need some hook to justify covering it."

And it's not as if the Obama campaign then said, "Well, fine then. Watch the skies, if you know what I mean." And because the press is dumb, they had to add "Wink." I mean, they both winked, and then said "Wink" aloud.

No, it's not like any of that happened at all, and it's not like the press will now dutifully execute the orders received from Obama Command.

Thanks to @johnekdahl.

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The balls on this guy.

"We feel comfortable in the Senate," he said. "Where the problem is, is this: Because of the Citizens United decision, Karl Rove and the Republicans are looking forward to a breakfast the day after the election. They are going to assemble 17 angry old white men for breakfast, some of them will slobber in their food, some will have scrambled eggs, some will have oatmeal, their teeth are gone. But these 17 angry old white men will say, 'Hey, we just bought America. Wasn't so bad. We still have a whole lot of money left.'"

I didn't fucking get invited. Is there bacon? I like the eggs Benedict too. Will there be Hollandaise?

Then he goes on to say he "heard" from someone he can't name that Romney is a fugitive from the IRS. But the IRS doesn't know about it yet. Just Romney himself, and Harry Reid.

Saying he had "no problem with somebody being really, really wealthy," Reid sat up in his chair a bit before stirring the pot further. A month or so ago, he said, a person who had invested with Bain Capital called his office.

"Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for 10 years," Reid recounted the person as saying.

"He didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain," said Reid. "But obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

"You guys have said his wealth is $250 million," Reid went on. "Not a chance in the world. It's a lot more than that. I mean, you do pretty well if you don't pay taxes for 10 years when you're making millions and millions of dollars."

I like how he says "I have no idea if this thing I just made up is true" but then says, "Hey, do the math, you don't pay taxes for ten years, you're sitting pretty, right?"

Prediction: The press will be far more interested in this made-up "I heard a story" claim than Obama's well-documented felonious property swap with convicted political fixer and bagman Tony Rezko.

Yeah I'm winning that one, eh?

By the way: He attributes this story to an "investor" at Bain. And you know, when someone invests in your company, naturally you share your personal income tax information with him. I mean, that's industry standard.

Harry Reid

I can smell my gray old balls from up here. They smell like Gold Bond powder and shame.

Thanks to "interested."

And because Harry Reid is such a vile creature, here now a porcupine with the hiccups.

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From @rexharrisonshat, it's got a hot beat and just makes your ass wanna shake.

Thanks to @johnekdahl for figuring out how to upload that to a host.

Battle for the Top of the Pops: "Show Some Respect" from the artist formerly known as @ChampionCapua.

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Before you jump on me: I don't really think Bill Clinton was a free-market reformer. I just said that effect. Certainly he was less left-wing that Obama or Warren, which should make an interesting evening, and produce the same kind of "Huh?" reaction my headline suggests.

So, first of all, Bill Clinton will have the opening slot, and if we know anything about Bill Clinton, it's that the man enjoys an opening slot.

Hey, Mitt Romney, you're dating that woman in Tennessee now. Did you like that joke?

Mitt Romney enjoyed that joke.

Brit Hume calls this a "distress call" from Obama. Vid at the link, here's some text:

The convention role being given Bill Clinton is proof that President Obama is in deep trouble and he and his political handlers know it.

Polls continue to show the race tied or Mr. Obama slightly ahead. But other surveys point distinctly in another direction. One out today from the Hill newspaper gives Mitt Romney an edge with voters on three key qualities: sharing their values, being a stronger leader and being more honest and trustworthy....

Add to that the Rasmussen survey in which voters by 62 percent to 30 said economic growth was more important to them than economic fairness....

Gallup reports that the number of Democrats who say they are more enthusiastic about voting this year is at 39 percent, down from 61 percent four years ago. 51 percent of Republicans, meanwhile, said they are more enthusiastic this year, that is up from 35 per cent in 2008.When you put all this together with the continuing bad news on the economy, you know why Mr. Obama is suddenly reaching out to Bill Clinton.

This is a distress call.

Even though Barack Obama says "You didn't build that," you know he's so egotistical that he credits himself 100% for his own (until now) success. As he said to his aides (from memory): You know, I could do your jobs better than you can.

But, if Obama wins, it will be due to Bill Clinton's intervention; and thus, whatever might be said of a second term, Obama didn't build that.

Once Clinton is done explaining how he pushed radicals and Marxists aside to say the era of Big Government is over, Elizabeth Warren will explain that rumors of the death of the era of Big Government have been vastly exaggerated, and in fact the era of Big Government is Bigger Than Ever.

Will she double-down on the "You didn't build that" rhetoric? Well, on one hand, she'll be speaking to a general audience which for some reason views the seventy year Soviet experiment with some degree of nonkulturny skepticism; but on the other hand, base turnout is the game these guys are playing (because "appealing to the country as a whole" went out the window sometime around the summer of 2009).

Below, a great video, totally stolen, so click on one of those links as a payment.

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From Universe Today, actors Wil Wheaton and William Shatner narrate video animation depicting NASA's upcoming seven minutes of terror Mars Science Laboratory landing at 1:30 a.m. EDT on August 6th.

Wheaton wins the hammiest narration contest, which is to say that Shatner's narration is better. more...

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I'm wary. Quantum of Solace was horrible, and a major step backwards into the Bad Years of the assembly line Pierce Brosnan movies. Then again, I think the movie was bad because there was a writer's strike; I think I remember Daniel Craig confessing it wasn't a good movie, because he and the director had to write it and they didn't know what they were doing.

Confirmed:

"On 'Quantum,' we were fucked," [Craig] said plainly. "We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writersÂ’ strike and there was nothing
we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, 'Never again,' but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not.’"

But a lot of stuff here looks cool.

A 22 year old Q? Okay. Well, fine. It's different. I'll give him a chance. No one's going to replace Desmond Llewelyn (even John Cleese failed) so might as well go in a different direction.

A couple of weeks ago, in the comments, I/whoever else was interested was discussing Ian Flemming's weird notion that the 9mm short Walther was a "real man-stopper." Well, in this clip he get back the classic PPK/s, but Q calls it (if I have this right) more of a "fashion statement," so that's something.

Oh one more movie observation: You guys see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the Fincher/English language version? Very so-so, easily missable, lots of highly objectionable content for conservatives pretty much anybody. It's one of those movies that's very smartly made and the lighting and camerawork and acting and technical skills are all first-rate but you sort of sit there thinking, "I really wish I liked this more." The plot is sort of James Patterson style upjumped trash.

But I really noticed in that movie "Hey, Daniel Craig's like a bona fide movie star." I dig him.

The other thing is that, the film being part of a scheduled series of films, it featured an extremely James Bond-esque opening credits sequence. Well, James Bond by way of Trent Reznor, the imagery very dark and weird.

And Daniel Craig appears in the sequence (or his digital avatar does, anyway), so it's the guy who plays James Bond doing a James Bond credit sequence for a film not about James Bond.

I'm linking that below (the most interesting part of the movie). The imagery is supposed to evoke the nightmares of the film's female main protagonist, and she's got a dark past which includes stays at mental hospitals, so it's a bit Geiger-esque. Led Zeppelin gave one of their very rare permissions to use one of their songs in a film; this is the Immigrant Song, redone by Trent Reznor and some other people I never heard of.

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