Wow, caught planting questions twice in two days.

...Asked if the Clinton campaign denied Mitchell's unequivocal assertion that Hayler tried to plant a question about Clinton trying to stand up to Bush on Iraq war funding, Elliethee declined.

"I'm not going to comment on what he said," said Elleithee said, referring to Mitchell. "I'm going to discuss what our interpretation is...

Here's my recommendation to Hillary - you obviously have 5th columnists in your operation who need to be purged. Waterboarding would be an effective way to sort the loyalists from the traitors.

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Welcome to the show.

Illinois (they're in a cute little town called Champagne Champaign) upsets those formerly #1 commies at Ohio State, Wisconsin Illinois upsets Michael Michigan, Georgia slaps Auburn 45-20 (sorry pop), Va. Tech whips FSU, Colt McCoy's 6 TDs take UT past Tech, Miss. St. surprises Alabama, A&M got their ass handed to them by Missouri, Boston College is tied with Maryland (a state named after Queen Mary Maria bride of Chuck I who if I remember anything in this thread correctly now was beheaded in the uncivil war), Boise State has weird blue grass, Cincinnati beat UConn (I know, nobody cares about this one but they're 8-2 and beat Rutgers and USF), OU is kicking Baylor's ass and Navy beat U. North Texas (two colleges I was thrown out of thank you very hello).

Chaos. It's f'n' chaos.

UPDATE: Mostly my factual errors are chaos.

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Well, thatÂ’s how King Juan Carlos of Spain would have phrased it were he an Ace Of Spades moron. As it is, what he did was pretty cool.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Chavez, who called President Bush the "devil" on the floor of the United Nations last year, triggered the exchange by repeatedly referring to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a "fascist."

Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, "is a fascist," Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. "Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."

Spain's current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences.

"Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people," he said, eliciting applause from the gathered heads of state.

Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, but his microphone was off.

Spanish King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, angrily turned to Chavez and said, "Why don't you shut up?"

You may recall that Juan Carlos knows a little something about real live fascism.

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Liberrocky put together some updated banners for AoSHQ. He's asking for folks to go over and vote on them (you may have to scroll way down to find the poll). Presumably his next step will be to ask Ace.

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Thanks, everyone, for voting for this site in the Weblog awards. I really had no interest in pimping it because I didn't figure there was anyway to beat Michelle Malkin. But your votes, along with, as was speculated by Rusty Shackleford and Gateway Pundit, the votes of lots of lefties seeking to give the win to Anyone But Michelle Malkin wound up putting me narrowly ahead.

Oh: The Valour IT fundraiser for voice-activated laptops for wounded servicemen continues. A far better cause, of course.

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Gateway Pundit was there with me, and actually had a camera on him, so you can see what I did.

It's a pretty nice place. It's way up in a hill on a one-lane road of dangerous switchback after dangerous switchback, but once you get up there, it's nice. It was like Reagan's Fortress of Solitude.

Sorry about the non-blogging. I didn't get internet service in my hotel room until late yesterday and wasn't sure what to blog about anyway, having been separated from the net for almost two days. I see you guys have taken care of things.

I just saw Nonie Darwish speak, the author of Now they Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror. Among the points she made was that shari'a family law forces women to accept an even more subservient role in Muslim society than the Koran or Hadiths explicitly require, because each woman lives in the fear that her husband will, if not sufficiently happy with her, marry up to three other women, and many Muslim women are scared of this possibility.

She also noted that Islamists in America are pushing for shari'a-lite type measures, including footbaths in schools and airports, as a method of subtly asserting/imposing their culture on America. But, she said, in her thirty years in Egypt she had never seen a foot-level faucet in any Egyptian school or airport. In other words, those "pushing the envelope" (as she termed it) for greater Islamicization are actually demanding a more Islamic way of life in Minneapolis than is typically encountered in Cairo.

Last night Dinesh D'Souza spoke at a banquet type thing on the topic of atheism and religion. The speech was good, and made some decent points, but most of it was just points he made in this debate with Christopher Hitchens:

...so if you watch that, you pretty much saw the speech.

The first night -- Thursday -- Andrew Breitbart addressed some VIP college Republicans. I guess it was a select group of big college leaders. His speech was actually off-the-record, so I can't report much about it, except to say that it was about his own political awakening, the liberal media, and the soft blacklist against conservatives in Hollywood. His major point is that the media is actually far, far more important a political player than the Democratic Party itself, and, one might say (my words, not his), the Democratic Party is actually merely the Elective Office Subdivision of the greater Liberal Media Party. Harry Reid and Tom Daschle may come and go, but the liberal media is eternal. And of course this was all a preamble to a call for conservatives to become players themselves in the media, including Hollywood itself, whose storytelling through tears and very charismatic actors has more emotional and visceral impact than any twenty slanted stories by David Schuster.

In a couple of hours 24 producer Joel Surnow is speaking, and then after that John Ashcroft will give the closing address. Looking forward to that, obviously.

Oh... I should note this junket is being run by the Young American's Foundation (yaf.org), an organization dedicated to promoting conservative student activism. They actually bought the Reagan Ranch in 1998 when the liberal (duh) government of California refused to buy it and make it into a historic landmark. So private enterprise did what non-responsive government wouldn't.

It seems like a pretty cool outfit. Then again, maybe they just seem cool because they gave me a nice hotel room and airfare and surrounded me with lots of college chicks who are pretty cool once you get to know them, and by "know them," I mean steal all their used towels from the maid service.

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Via Gateway Pundit: Karl Rove says lefty netroots blogs have more dirty words than righty blogs. News Buckit backs it up, documenting an 18-to-1 advantage in left-wing vulgarity.

But wait! Guess which right-wing blog has the dirtiest language?

more...

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And by ‘sad’ I mean ‘entirely predictable’ and ‘filled with sweet, sweet schadenfreude’.

ItÂ’s only the Friday numbers (obviously) but I donÂ’t think 4th place with 2.3 million in ticket sales and only $1,050/theater was what Cruise, Redford, et al had in mind.

American Gangster, Bee Movie and the new Vince Vaughn comedy ‘Fred Claus’ all did better. In fairness, it was on the fewest screens of those movies. Gee, I wonder why more theaters didn't book it?

Maybe it'll do better tonight. After all it looks like it might be hard to see those other films and Lions for Lambs could be the only tickets available.

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We want to fly.

It isn't a flying car, or that cool cab that Bruce Willis drove (flew?).

It isn't really an ultralight.

But it flies, oh yes, it flies.

Terrafugia executives expect the prototype to be completed sometime in 2008 and the first production model to be delivered in 2009. Dietrich said once they're in the manufacturing phase, they'll slowly ramp up to full-scale production by 2011 or 2012.

Well. Always give em a few years to shake out the bugs. I'll give it a looksee in 2011.

Flying cars I want below the fold.

Maybe it's two miles. more...

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I'm reading this bizarre editorial in the local fish wrapper and can't help thinking this piece says a lot more about the headspace of this editorial writer than it does about FAU. Projection anyone? The paper has a good comedic talent in Frank Cerabino, not quite Dave Barry, but good. If Cerabino had written this I'd have never given it another thought. This guy VerSteeg though is a hardcore Bolshevik with no sense of humor at all so I'm left wondering...

...Anyone who thinks that academicians are above hiring hit men hasn't been to a faculty meeting debating federal grants or an assistant professor's tenure. This isn't a fund-raising plan. This is a Law & Order episode begging to be ripped from the headlines.

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