Broken by Clint W. Taylor on Hot Air.

Strangely, he seems to have had the story earlier (from a NYT reporter), but the Times just sat on it and didn't publish until later.

Score one for the blogosophere, then.

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If they sell to Those Who Shall Not Be Named again, the CoE might just be forced to "revisit" the issue again.

The Church of England

Get with the pogrom!

Update: And yet the CoE wants to ban the St. George's Cross (England proper's red-cross-on-white-field emblem) because it's "offensive" to Muslims.

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If he'd only been found with fireworks and pornography, he'd be a full-fledged member of the Ace of Spades Lifestyle (TM):

A bear cub drew a crowd of spectators at a Lake Tahoe neighborhood as it munched on barbecue-chicken-and-jalapeno pizza in the back seat of a vintage red Buick convertible.

It also apparently washed it down with a swig of a Jack Daniel's mixer, an Absolut vodka and tonic, and a beer taken from a cooler, the vehicle's owner said.

About 30 people watched the cub lumber around a parking lot in upper Kingbury Grade on Sunday before it homed in on the Buick and the spicy pizza on the floor.

The bruin was unfazed by the car's horn the blew nonstop as the cub pressed the seat into the steering wheel.

"The bear was loping along in the parking lot and then decides to get inside the car," said resident Jerry Patterson.

"People were screaming at him, the horn was going off, but he was completely unaware. He did what he wanted to do and the people didn't matter."

That's hot.

Thanks to TusharD.

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He knows the moonbats are in control.

And Hillary! has announced she won't support Lieberman if he runs as an independent.

On the other hand, Boxer, Salazar, and Biden will campaign for Lieberman.

Primary challenges are nothing new, but usually the establishment feels required to support the incumbent. He'll probably win anyway, and if he does and you supported his rival, he'll be far less willing to support the party.

They're running that risk with Lieberman. Lieberman claims he won't vote with the Republicans for control of the Senate, but I can't imagine he's happy with his fellow Democrats at this point.

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The reporter who exposed the program, and now claims everyone knew about it, wrote a couple of years ago about the US' utter lack of capabilities in financial-monitoring.

Powerline makes a lot of good points, apart from the "liar, liar" one.

For one thing: If the Times is now claiming "everyone knew," shouldn't they run a correction correcting the original article's multiple references to the program being a "closely-held secret"?

For another: Bush was hit with Lichtblau's old article, which suggested incompetency on his part in this area. And yet the Bush people didn't leak the secrets of the program for their political advantage.

Gee, maybe they thought that national security concerns trumped petty political advantage, eh?

Too bad the Al Qaeda Intelligence Service doesn't feel the same way.

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Beauty and the bitch.

Sprueil's got it too. BTW, he has one of those mechanical monkey-heads. Seriously.

The left will predictably claim that O'Donnell is a right-wing shill. Which is nonsense. She leans left, but she does attempt to play it kinda-sorta straight. I think her biggest problem with Cindy Sheehan is that her methods alienate persuadable independents. Thus, while she could be an asset to the left, she's a bit of of an albatross.

That's her real problem with Sheehan. Not with her actual politics. Just her self-serving lunacy.

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A man awakes one day to find he's obsessed with boobies and pooter.

You'd think medical science could do something about this scourge...

A skiing accident left Alexander Laing with severe damage to the frontal lobes of his brain. He has become reckless in his sexual behaviour, losing his inhibitions. His stepmother Deryth, 72, tells BECKY SHEAVES how his family has coped:

An army skiing accident left Alexander Laing, 31, with severe damage to the frontal lobes of his brain. This area controls social and moral judgment, and Alexander, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, has become reckless in his sexual behaviour, losing his inhibitions. Here, his stepmother Deryth, 72, tells BECKY SHEAVES how his worried family has coped.

When I saw Alexander after the accident, I was aghast. He was in intensive care, unconscious and covered in tubes. It was awful. But the Army doctor reassured my husband, Tony, and me that when he woke up he'd be the same as he'd always been.

If only that had been true. Instead, six years later, we have learned what brain injury can do to a fit, confident young man who had his whole life ahead of him.

Alexander made a fantastic physical recovery, but the damage to his brain has had an extraordinary effect on his sexual behaviour — he has completely lost his inhibitions.

This sounds like a superhero's origin story. Or like Office Space, except a lot dirtier.

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He got himself a computer, but soon ran up a £600 bill looking at internet pornography. Then he attacked one of the other patients — a recovering stroke victim — who had, he said, been rude to him.

The police were called and Alexander was thrown out of the hostel and put up in a hotel. As he now confesses, he was like 'a dog on heat' and went on a rampage through the hotel completely naked, looking for sex. Again the police were called. This time, he spent the night in a cell.

Alexander then lived with us, but we couldn't cope. He would walk through the house naked and aroused.

Roy says he experienced a similar "freak accident," which his doctors termed "puberty."

Thanks to Tushar for the link.

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SondraK's got the screen shot. Clicking on it goes to the vid. The inapprorpriate touching occurs about 5/6ths of the way through the running length.

Ned Lamont For Senate

For the children.

Joe Lieberman For Senate

His vow to you, the voter: He won't cop a feel off anyone under 16 years old.

Lighten Up, Francis Update: Ummm, no, I don't really think that Ned Lamont decided to feel up a six year old while parading down the street.

It's a joke, for crying out loud.

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...the secret of Coca-Cola's formula.

This is worthy of arrest and prosecution.

Revealing the SWIFT program-- not so much.

Thanks to Dale.

Quoteth Canuck:

those guys should be given the pulitzer prize

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Funny.

Based on a post by Yourish.

Thanks to a commenter.

The Wuzzadem Treatment: Ted Stevens' attempt to explain the mysteries of the human brain.

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