Denver Information? Can anyone with the information write me at morontips and aceofspadeshq (both at gmail)?

A reader wants to attend but can't get the information.

This is what happens when morons try to organize.

Question: I'm starting to think the details-secret-by-email measure is kinda unnecessary. What do you think?

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Moron meetups continue this week. If you expressed interest in the comments and/or live in a particular area but never contacted the meetup coordinator, consider this a "last chance" warning.

If you are coordinating a moron event and have scheduled something for this week, please leave the date, time, and city (NOT exact location -- that should be by email) in the comments along with the associated contact address. We will add it to the list below.

SATURDAY (11/15)

Ames, IA (tailgate) -- 11:30am
email Russ from Winterset

Atlanta, GA -- 5:30pm
email the organizers

Denver, CO -- 6pm
email tony

Washington, DC (metro area) -- 7pm
email Paul

Sacramento, CA -- 7pm
email goat

Portland, OR -- 7pm
email Rasputin

Santa Monica, CA (the Los Angeles group) -- 7:30pm
email dan-O

Austin, TX (includes San Antonio group) -- 8pm
email Dave in Texas (ADDRESS CORRECTED)

Posted by: Open Blog at 11:52 AM | Comments (292)
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Gawd. Did they lower expectations like this 8 years ago?

WASHINGTON (AP) — As president-elect, Barack Obama faces a tricky task as he begins dealing ever more directly with the economic meltdown, grappling with the worst financial crisis in seven decades but not yet wielding the power to do much about it.

He won't be a participant at President Bush's global summit next week, although the 20 leaders attending are no doubt keenly interested in his views. And he may have to eventually push back against some members of his own party in Congress over details of a new plan to stimulate the economy.

He's been President elect for a day and a half, and already he faces an uphill battle with members of his own party?! What the hell more power does he need? He's got a full-up Congress and the mandate of the lovin world. Are we seriously to believe that 2 (maybe 3) Senators can thwart his awesomeness?

That'd be cool. I'm not bitching. But seriously, RLY?

At this rate by March we'll all be satisfied enough to know he actually showed up on time for cabinet meetings. It's not a honeymoon. Too soon for that nonsense. No, this is more like Pass Go, Collect $200.

Add zeroes as the mood fits.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 06:04 PM | Comments (198)
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Disloyalty will be punished and it's hard to claim that Lieberman has been loyal.

Reid, in a sternly worded statement after the 45-minute meeting, said no official decisions have been made. But an aide to the Nevada Democrat said Reid was leaning toward removing Lieberman as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions were confidential.

"While I understand that Sen. Lieberman has voted with Democrats a majority of the time, his comments and actions have raised serious concerns among many in our caucus," Reid said.

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Bouncing Lieberman from his committee post would require the approval of the Democratic caucus, which is expected to meet this month.

"I want to spend some time in the next few days thinking about what Sen. Reid and I discussed what my options are at this point," Lieberman said. "He promised me that he would do the same and we would continue these conversations."

I assume he saw this coming, but it seems that he has very little with which to hold off his triumphant former-allies.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 05:40 PM | Comments (71)
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This PJM article wonders if they'l ever crack wise about The One.

Apparently not. A Secret Informant sends me this:

U.S. comedian Bill Maher said last month that having Barack Obama as the next president would make life difficult for comics because it was not easy to find things about the president-elect to make fun of.

In fairness, Bill Maher can't find anything funny about pretty much any topic.

The LATimes assures us that Bill Maher is a professional and will rise to the challenge, despite the fact that Bill Maher himself says he won't.

Yeah, nothing funny about Obama. Can't think of a single joke.

Except of course for the zinger that my tipster sends me in his email, calling Obama The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers.

But right, there's no way professionals can come up with a joke about this... Risen God.

By the way, the tipster says he swiped that from Cold Fury, who in turn say they got it from somewhere else... oh well. New one on me.

Here's a non-comedian getting big laughs:

Yeah. The complete fusion of the Democratic Party and the Privileged Media.

Good times ahead.

Thanks to Gale.

Not Even the Onion... is game. I've meant to link this (have I done so already? I forget) since yesterday.

While funny, it's not about Obama. It's about Obama's cultists.

See, The One can't be poked fun at. His minions a bit, perhaps. But not Lord God King Obama Himself.

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Posted by: Ace at 04:49 PM | Comments (187)
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It's like prosecutors joke darkly when they convict an innocent man: Anyone can convict a guilty man. It takes real legal talent to convict the innocent.

And similarly, any nation could elect a qualified and nonterrifying black President.

America is a special country for going for the Jeremiah Wright's and Bill Ayers' most famous disciple.

We might have elected more qualified blacks to the presidency -- Colin Powell, Michael Steele, the guy who does the funny sound effects in the Police Academy movies -- but we went for the guy who would do his level best to demolish the country.

I couldn't be prouder.

Posted by: Ace at 04:11 PM | Comments (66)
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Old Look: Retro-Junkie Promqueen

New Look: Spiderman Nemesis Hobgoblin.

BTW, there once was a time, before the smack and crack, that she used to be sorta tasty.

Thanks to pajama momma.

Or... to adapt Norm MacDonald's old gag -- the Amy Winehouse Devolution:

1. Crackwhore

2. Assistant Crackwhore

3. Crackwhore in Training

4. Crackwhore's Fluffer

5. Crackwhore's Fluffer's personal assistant

6. Person relieved of all crackwhore duties whatsoever and is stationed at the door to make the cops think it's a perfectly innocent Mexican human-organ-theft operation

Posted by: Ace at 04:03 PM | Comments (89)
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Hungarian teacher, who looks not too bad, strips in front her students, down to her bra and almost gets her pants off before another teacher covers her up and leads her away.

Content warning on the video -- she doesn't get naked (quite) but it is, definitely, a striptease.

Thanks to genghis.

Posted by: Ace at 03:47 PM | Comments (33)
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Looking ahead to the coming battles.

Here's one bit of advice:

It seems to me that conservatives have a golden opportunity to offer criticism and advice in a manner that many liberals did not during the last eight years. By that I mean I hope there are no conservative versions of the Nicholson Baker Knopf-published ‘novel’ Checkpoint, the creepy documentary by Gerald Range, the attempt to name a sewer plant after an American President, or the celebrity outbursts that we have witnessed with the tired refrain of Hitler/Nazi Bush—that all have cheapened political discourse. When I hear a partisan insider like Paul Begala urging at the 11th hour that we now rally around lame-duck Bush in his last few days, I detect a sense of apprehension that no Democrats would wish conservatives to treat Obama as they did Bush for eight years.

In the future, criticism should be offered in unified pro-American tones, rather than anti-Obama screeds. When disagreements arise, they should be couched in a sense of regret rather than ebullition. There should be no conservative counterparts of Bill Maher, Michael Moore, or Al Franken.

I think that's about right.

One line of attack that is now mostly past its expiration date is Ayers/Wright. I do not say that because these matters are unimportant. I say that because Ayers and Wright were harbingers as to how Obama might actually lead. Very useful in warning the country about an unvetted Marxist candidate.

However, now he's been elected, and the country is even less interested in previews of his leadership, because they'll have tangible evidence of his leadership. Many of his policies, I expect, will be fairly decried as statist, socialist, and dissent-crushing, and the reminders about his tutelage at the hands of America-hating Marxists will serve us well, but the primary thrust changes from Who Obama Is to What Obama Does.

And, unfortunately, I think we'll have no shortage of criticism regarding the last point.

That said, I'm still pretty interested in knowing who wrote Dreams from My Father, or, as one reader called it, Bill Ayers' Dreams from Barack Obama's Father. And I'm not giving up on that Rezko land deal anytime soon -- a previous corrupt land deal turned out to be a rather big deal some years back.

It's more a matter of emphasis. Because we have crucial policies to fight for -- like stopping, somehow, the left's creepy determination to stamp out free speech on talk radio. And perhaps on the internet as well.

Ahead of a widely-expected crackdown on free speech and political dissent by the incoming Obama administration, our Dear Leader has appointed a new FCC transition czar to oversee the process.

Henry Rivera, a longtime radical leftist, lawyer and former FCC commissioner, is expected to lead the push to dismantle commercial talk radio that is favored by a number of Democratic Party senators. Rivera will play a pivotal role in preventing Obama's critics from having a public voice during Obama's tenure in office.

Rivera, who resigned from the FCC nearly a quarter-century ago during the Reagan years, believes in a doctrine of "communications policy as a civil rights issue".

Insist on extending the "fairness doctrine" to network news and tv shows. Not that I wish that, either -- but insist on its general applicability to any broadcast medium.

Posted by: Ace at 02:18 PM | Comments (352)
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On an IED planting team in Iraq. Recent upload, not sure when it happened though. Uploaded by IRAQI_TRANSLATOR_USMC, someone whose work I've posted before.

Despite the recent unpleasantness at home, we still have enemies abroad planting IEDs.

Send them to hell.

tip: Maetenloch more...

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 01:50 PM | Comments (26)
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Just like Larry Craig didn't.

What? Larry Craig did have to cop to a criminal charge, on threat of more serious charges being brought against him?

Ah, well. I'm sure there's some reason they're being treated differently.

Thanks to Ogre Gunner.

Even the Liberal Writers at SNL Get It: more...

Posted by: Ace at 01:22 PM | Comments (46)
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