According to The Star, the kid claiming to be the baby-daddy is not in fact the baby-daddy, but rather a stooge being paid to play the role so that an adult producer who knocked her up can avoid real, serious stat rape charges.

Thanks to Nordbuster, who watches the Spears Sisters so you don't have to.

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Silver lining!

Now while he celebrates the coming "depopulation" of the Red States, you might realize, "Wait, he can't celebrate our deaths quite yet, because of course we would migrate to habitable areas should this happen. So no victory there."

Don't worry -- he's got that covered. We will be permitted to migrate, it seems, but as second-class citizens without voting rights.

Say what you will about the looming catastrophe facing the world as the pace of global heating and polar melting accelerates. There is a silver lining.

Look at a map of the US.

The area that will by completely inundated by the rising ocean—and not in a century but in the lifetime of my two cats—are the American southeast, including the most populated area of Texas, almost all of Florida, most of Louisiana, and half of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as goodly portions of eastern Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

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So what we see is that huge swaths of conservative America are set to face a biblical deluge in a few more presidential cycles.

Then thereÂ’s the matter of the Midwest, which climate experts say is likely to face a permanent condition of unprecedented drought, making the place largely unlivable, and certainly unfarmable.

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So again, we will see the decline and depopulation of the nation’s vast midsection—noted for its consistent conservatism. Only in the northernmost area, around the Great Lakes (which will be not so great anymore), and along the Canadian border, will there still be enough rain for farming and continued large population concentrations, but those regions, like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, are also more liberal in their politics.

Finally, in the Southwest, already parched and stiflingly hot, the rise in energy costs and the soaring temperatures will put an end to right-wing retirement communities like Phoenix, Tucson and Palm Springs. Already the Salton Sea is fading away and putting Palm Springs on notice that the good times are coming to an end. Another right-wing haven soon to be gone.

So the future political map of America is likely to look as different as the much shrunken geographical map, with much of the so-called “red” state region either gone or depopulated.

There is a poetic justice to this of course. It is conservatives who are giving us the candidates who steadfastly refuse to have the nation take steps that could slow the pace of climate change, so it is appropriate that they should bear the brunt of its impact.

The important thing is that we, on the higher ground both actually and figuratively, need to remember that, when they begin their historic migration from their doomed regions, we not give them the keys to the city. They certainly should be offered assistance in their time of need, but we need to keep a firm grip on our political systems, making sure that these guilty throngs who allowed the world to go to hell are gerrymandered into political impotence in their new homes.

There will be much work to be done to help the earth and its residents—human and non-human—survive this man-made catastrophe, and we can’t have these future refugee troglodytes, should their personal disasters still fail to make them recognize reality, mucking things up again.

It should be considered acceptable, in this stifling new world, to say, “Shut up. We told you this would happen.”

That's a whole new level of BDS, isn't it? Call it Gamma World Liberalism.

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More details soon.

Update (Slublog) - First reports coming in:

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 27 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING)

Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died Thursday from her injuries sustained in a suicide attack at a political rally for her here, reports said.

"At 6:16 p.m. she expired," Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.

A senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, confirmed that Bhutto had died, according to the report.

At least 20 people were also killed in the blast, according to witnesses.

Source: Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility [ace]: That's what a "spokesman" is supposedly saying.

A spokesperson for the al-Qaeda terrorist network has claimed responsibility for the death on Thursday of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

“We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahadeen,” Al-Qaeda’s commander and main spokesperson Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid told Adnkronos International (AKI) in a phone call from an unknown location, speaking in faltering English. Al-Yazid is the main al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan.

It is believed that the decision to kill Bhutto, who is the leader of the opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was made by al-Qaeda No. 2, the Egyptian doctor, Ayman al-Zawahiri in October.

Death squads were allegedly constituted for the mission and ultimately one cell comprising a defunct Lashkar-i-JhangviÂ’s Punjabi volunteer succeeded in killing Bhutto.

Bhutto had just addressed a pre-election rally on Thursday in the garrison town of Rawalpindi when the bomb went off.

She had come to Rawalpindi after finishing a rapid election campaign, ahead of the January polls, in Pakistan's volatile North West Frontier Province (NWFP) where she had talked about a war against terrorism and al-Qaeda.

Reports say at least 15 other people were killed in the attack and several others injured.

Thanks to muslihoon.

MORE (DrewM.) An obituary that serves as a decent Bhutto primer for those not to familiar with her life and political record.

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If your idea of "Good News" is "Surprise! You've got Ebola!"

DRJ at Patterico posted a link to The Discerning Texan, who got it from Hot Air, who linked to the primary documents at RedState. Here's the piece.

So let me get this straight: Huck "allegedly" took $25,000 in "speakers fees" to speak at John Hagee's church in San Antonio. John Hagee, a pastor who's best known outside of the evangelical community as a crusader against the Catholic Church. Now, since I'm not one of them "Mary worshiping Papists", I don't have a dog in the fight here, but I just have to wonder which denomination or group Governor Huckabee is going to offend next? Lutherans? Hell, they're practically Catholics anyway, plus they're predominantly filthy Scandi moosehumpers from an ethnic point of view. Jews? Huckabee's damn near a Democrat on all issues but guns & abortion anyway, and anti-Semitism is more of a left-wing trait in recent American politics. Pastafarians? Reformed fatboys, like reformed smokers, tend to lecture others about the evils of pasta, so why not go all the way and condemn The Flying Spaghetti Monster AKA His Noodly Goodness?

Anyway, I see in the Redstate comments where Huckabots are making excuses for both the acceptance of the filthy lucre & standing next to an anti-Catholic extremist in the pulpit last Sunday. Go & read 'em for yourself. I'm not here to add to the work already done, I just wanted to bring it to your attention. Why should Ace & Slubbo have all the fun? I want to hit the Huckapiñata too!

Oh, and as someone without much of a spiritual education, doesn't the Baptist Church believe that all non-Baptists are bound for Satan's Big Afterlife BBQ and Crawfish Boil? Or is that just the attitude I get from the majority of Baptists that I've known in my life?

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Cats and dogs living together and now this:
A university study finds that Fox News really is more fair and balanced.

Here is the original study.

If anyone needs me I will be sitting in my bunker waiting to be Left Behind.
HT:Jawas.

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Shh. Don't Tell Her Cops Don't Always Carry Tiger Tranquilizer Darts

Lawson, picketing alone, outside the zoo Wednesday afternoon, says she wishes officers had tranquilized the animal instead.

I do feel sorry for the tiger. What? It would have taken the police five, maybe ten tourists, tops, before they got the darts and rifles from the zoo handlers.

Plenty of time to save an innocent life.

Well. It's a good sign that there was just one infantile ninny out there instead of a whole crowd.

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One of my favorite commenters was a bit gloomy earlier. With Ace checking out for the day, she was left adrift in a sea of ennui. (Damn..that rhyme is poppin'!)

Fortunately, as she was about to be overcome by a riptide of despair, rescue was only a blog post away! For Carin did what so few of you have the taste or refinement to do: she called out to me to be her personal lifeguard. Her flotation device? An epic poem.

And so, leaving my new-found lover Joanie eagerly awaiting the application of more suntan lotion to her alabaster back, I proceeded to, Baywatch-style, rescue my dear Carin. Only with words, and not those red floaty thingies.

So here you go, my dear Carin. May your poem bring you safely back to shore.

more...

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This totally unscripted spontaneous footage of "Iraqi Resistance Fighters" from the Islamic Front for Iraq Resistance (JAMI) training shows beyond a doubt that the troop surge has accomplished nothing and no peace or stability is possible in Iraq unless America comes to terms with JAMI.

Whatever...

Personally I find it hard to take a group serious when it is named after children's sleepwear, but that might just be me.

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"All we are saying is give rape a chance!"

HT: HA Headlines

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I'm traveling again in ten minutes and won't be around for a while.

I'll be back to normal blogging tomorrow.

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