Bob Owens found this link to the senate vote on David Petraeus' confirmation.

81 - Yea
19 - Not voting

NOT. ONE. SINGLE. NAY. VOTE.

Schumer - Yea
Durbin - Yea
Feinstein - Yea
Clinton - Yea
Obama - Yea [UPDATE, tnx Alex]
Kennedy - Yea
Reid - Yea
Levin - Yea

Keep this in mind in the days to come when these jackasses start talking about "Bush's report". All those assholes voted to confirm Petraeus - ALL OF THEM.

If they believed he was going to lie or be a Bush sycophant, then why did they vote for him? These would be votes that need a lot of "explaining". That approach casts severe doubt on their "judgment" if they would knowingly vote to confirm someone they thought not qualified for the job.

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An open thread to talk about the first game of the new season.

A question about the commercials...did Adidas always have the same slogan as Alexy Vayner?

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We'll see. We've had "new Osama tapes" that turned about as new as Foghat's Slow Ride.

Bunches more from Stop the ACLU, which quotes extensively from the site this is from-- which is key, because that site is now down, probably due to heavy traffic.

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Just sort of tapping his foot against the idea of running again. Just kinda rubbing his hand on the underside of the partition of possibilities.

Sen. Larry Craig had already decided not to seek re-election before revelations that he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a Minnesota sex sting, two of the Idaho Republican's political advisers claimed Thursday.

Before news of his arrest became public last month, Craig told his former chief of staff and long time confidante Gregory Casey that he was not going to run for re-election in 2008, Casey told CNN.

"He and Suzanne had decided that he had been in Congress long enough, and it was time for him to go home," Casey said, referring to Craig's wife.

In a separate interview, Craig spokesman Dan Whiting also confirmed to CNN that Craig had already decided not to run for re-election, and originally planned to announce that publicly in September.

Neither Casey nor Whiting could say when that decision was made, but Whiting insisted it was "well before all of this broke."

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Now, Craig's spokesman sought to be more precise in his language about Craig's intentions, telling The Associated Press "the most likely scenario, by far, is that by October there will be a new senator from Idaho."

Whiting insists to CNN what he is saying is "nothing new."

"All along we have said that [Craig] expects to resign on September 30 and he and the staff are working towards that end to ensure the transition is as smooth as possible for Idaho," said Whiting. "I stated that he simply left a very, very small door slightly ajar."

However, the sources close to Craig concede they are now trying to be more clear that they do think Craig will resign, because they believe the impression was that Craig was trying to hold on to power.

Guy just can't seem to decide which way he's swinging.

Thanks to Matt.

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This is several days old by now.

But it's still worth linking. I don't like casting "they don't support the troops" on everybody who opposes the war (honestly), but I really find his attempt at political spin here rather insulting to our forces:

The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda, said to these tribes: "We have to fight al Qaeda ourselves."

Liberals try, with varying degrees of success, to impugn the president and Pentagon and every single general and colonel while claiming to "support the troops" (the grunts, the people who didn't do well in school and ended up in Iraq, as John Kerry says). Here Schumer lets the mask fall -- or perhaps just doesn't have the skill to play to both imperatives -- and simply "blames" the lessening of violence upon American fighters' incompetence.

This doesn't even make sense as a political complaint -- if Bush's "Failed Policies" have been so disastrous as to compel Sunnis to begin killing Al Qaeda and lower sectarian violence and cooperate more with the American military, isn't that incompetence disguising a great success?

Either way he's saying that what we've done in Iraq has caused this-- but he childishly decides to claim it was our failures that caused this success.

Here's the preening little ballsucker in action.

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I know that once it was learned that a league could only handle 50 participants some started making new leagues.

A reader just wrote me to say the "league" he's in has only 4 people in it.

I'm wondering if there was a big fracture here, with a bunch of leagues being created and people joining different ones. And if so, can we get those leagues abandoned to get everyone into the fewest number possible?

Let me know what leagues were created and joined apart from the first one, if you'd be so kind.

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Ian Schwartz has the vid.

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A pulmonary specialist has diagnosed the first case of a consumer with bronchiolitis obliterans, more commonly known as "popcorn workers' lung." The rare and life-threatening disease has been known to affect factory workers with long-term exposure to chemical flavorings, including diacetyl, the flavoring used to give microwaveable popcorn its buttery taste.

Although she notes that it is difficult to draw causal connections based on only one case, she claims that there is no other explanation for her patient's illness except his daily popcorn habit. Apparently, he loved the smell so much that twice-nightly he would inhale the fumes from the just opened bag.

I'm sorry he's sick, but come on, people. When you open a bag of anything, including your favorite Doritos flavor but especially something with visible fumes, point it away from your head. The chemicals, debris, and other microscopic detritus that will be expelled whenever you open a sealed bag can cause all kinds of avoidable maladies, from acne to lung irritation. This is common sense.

There's probably no reason to avoid microwaving popcorn in your kitchen yet, and it will increasingly be a moot point in the next year as popcorn manufacturers phase out diacetyl use. However...

Rose said she is concerned that the high levels of fumes measured at Watson’s home could be present anytime consumers microwave popcorn, and that these high levels — and not just the cumulative effect of exposures in the factory — could be a factor in causing the disease.

The plaintiffs bar thanks you, Dr. Rose. Our check will be in the mail.

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Authorities are alarmed by jihadist websites posting statements similar to chatter heard before 9/11.

Federal counterterrorism officials are analyzing a posting on an Islamic forum Web site that warns of "a special gift" to be given on the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, FOX News has learned.

The warning was posted Sept. 2 on a site frequented by radical groups and said in part that "there will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhattan."

As a commenter here pointed out, most of these warnings of attacks may very well be intended only to bluster and, more importantly, to fatigue law enforcement personnel as they work overtime every time one of these warnings comes to light. The real attacks may be planned for relatively chatter-free periods, when exhausted intelligence and law enforcement personnel try to get back to normal working hours and maybe take a vacation.

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Assuming it's the same person, she's got a $500 contempt of court bench warrant for failure to appear in an unlawful entry/malicious property damage charge.

I'm not a religious man and I don't pretend to know the mind of God, but at some point you have to say, along with Bill Richardson, that the need to resign is "related to the Lord."

Thanks to Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.

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