All I can say is that every day is email triage. I want to read and reply to every tip sent to me, but I literally can't. If I spent all day just on emails, I could manage it, but that would preclude blogging and looking for news on many sites poaching stories from Hot Air.

Like today -- big day. Four full pages of emails, 50 emails a page. 200 of them.

Even on a slow day it's 2 pages, often three.

I'm really sorry. About half -- maybe 45%, maybe 55% -- of my 67,000 tips and emails have simply never even been read. When I get to blogging late, as has been my wont lately, I have pages of emails already waiting for me. I try to get to the early emails later at night, when I feel less frantic about having to get stories up, but I still don't get to much more than half.

Again, my apologies.

Damnit: Sorry, it looks like someone's email showed through there for about half an hour. I uploaded the wrong crop.

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A job? As a creepy pedophilish Womb Raider?

Nice work, I guess, if you can get it.

Palin's Tax Records

03 Oct 2008 05:50 pm

They've been released - on time on a Friday afternoon. Good for McCain and Palin. More transparency, please. And have at 'em, tax bloggers.

Now, when are we going to get some record of Trig's birth and parentage from the hospital or the doctor? It's been over a month now and still nada. Some basic record confirming Palin's eight-month special needs pregnancy, amiocentesis, labor and birth would be immensely easy to find and release - even off the record - to news organizations. And yet the McCainiacs refuse to even go near it and demonize anyone who dares ask for something that must be extremely well documented and easily found. They have stated on the record that Sarah Palin is Trig's biological mother. But they refuse to provide one iota of confirming evidence.

I mean: what's the problem here? Why is this so hard?

And no, I haven't let the basic issue of accountability and transparency go. Never. It's my job.

Not for long, buddy. Not for long.

Little bonus:

Pure Bile

03 Oct 2008 06:38 pm

McCain goes almost 100 percent negative. If that doesn't do something to the polls in the next week, what has he got left? The answer, I'm afraid, is nothing but his fathomless narcissism and vanity.

Narcissism and vanity, huh? He's such a good writer. Not only is he cogent, he's insightful too.

Andrew Sullivan, who not only is angry that Sarah Palin is capable of having Barack Obama's baby whereas he cannot, but who actually imagines himself to be an avatar of Christ on a Cross, and indeed has attempted in the last five years to create not only a Party of Andrew but a Church of Andrew as well, thinks that McCain has nothing but fathomless narcissism. And vanity, too.

You know, when Sullivan got cautioned and went on a hissy-strike I kind of felt bad for maybe having had a role in gotten him fired.

Not anymore. When he is fired -- which he will be -- I will take delight in it.

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Just joshing with our occasional allies on the right. But, c'mon, what's a law and order guy like me supposed to think when confronted with the following tidbit buried deep within a story about British police snipers gunning down members of a notorious gang of bank robbers?

Adrian Johnson, 28, one of Nunes's key lieutenants, had a plasma TV in every room in his flat, a Brocock converted pistol in his garage and a shoebox containing £8,000 cash by his bed. In his defence he claimed to be a cannabis dealer.

I dunno who is representing this dude, but I have a pretty good feeling the folks over at Reason are about to start a legal defense fund.

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On the plus side, we're not the only ones this executive has been [deleted because you saw this joke coming six miles beyond the actual horizon, and I refuse to do the cheap stuff.].

Eh, fuck that: Barney has a Fannie buddy.

Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney FrankÂ’s efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s.

So did FrankÂ’s partner, a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of the agencyÂ’s push to relax lending restrictions.

Now that Fannie Mae is at the epicenter of a financial meltdown that threatens the U.S. economy, some are raising new questions about Frank's relationship with Herb Moses, who was FannieÂ’s assistant director for product initiatives. Moses worked at the government-sponsored enterprise from 1991 to 1998, while Frank was on the House Banking Committee, which had jurisdiction over Fannie.

Both Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal in 1992 that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest. Critics, however, remain skeptical.

"ItÂ’s absolutely a conflict," said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute. "He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane?

Does the fucking press do NO SCRUTINIZING OR DIGGING even into the most basic facts about Democrats whatsoever?

Why is this just coming out now? At Fox Fucking News, of course.

Why?

Why is it I fucking know the exact time Sarah Palin had amniotic fluid leakage and I'm just finding this out now?

Thanks to Christopher.

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Except he lost worse than he did here. more...

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From And I Still Persist.

Says it's good.

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Iowahawk, hilarious.

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We had a bad vid yesterday. Old news now, but here's the good vid. more...

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Swiping Allah's headline, pretty much, so here's the link.

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Another one.

When Biden claimed that Pakistan could hit Israel with a missile, I turned to someone and said, "What?" But you know -- I wasn't sure. It sounded bunk to me -- that's the range of a full ICBM -- but who knows. Maybe Slow Joe had learned something from his thirty six years of experience that I didn't.

Dave from Garfield Ridge similarly turned to his gf and said, "What?"

Well, there's another one. Not even close.

Israel is over 2000 miles from Pakistan. Pakistan's longest range missile can make 1000 miles.

Not even close.

But remember, Sarah Palin is the chucklehead here.

I want to stress -- these are not lies. Lies are conscious falsehoods told to advance one's position. These are simply the moronic ramblings of a man who is too fucking stupid to even glean the most elementary information from his day-in, day-out 36 year long job.

Lies would be evidence of a lack of integrity, which is reason for worry, but hey, we're used to it.

These are simply the ramblings of a senile old fool who was a bit of an imbecile even when his mind wasn't deteriorating.

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