But "Victims Voice" (an Arkansas-based 527) is making sure everyone in South Carolina knows about it. more...

Posted by: Open Blog at 08:11 PM | Comments (22)
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Does Tom work here?

(Moderate content warning.)

Thanks to Temple of Jennifer.

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A video of Janet Huckabee and Ed Rollins after yesterday's debate is making the rounds. She appears to be berating him for something, or at least talking in quite an animated manner.

I don't quite see it, but it does call to mind the numerous things that she could be upset about, including his kick-in-his-teeth quote that's been such a distraction lately and that Romney has used to great effect during the debates. Janet Huckabee was briefly the topic of conversation last night and that may have something to do with it, too.

On the other hand, Georgette Mosbacher, who according to Wikipedia is on the RNC Finance Committee is shown talking to him next. She may have had something to say about his "Reagan Coalition is dead" quote which Fred Thompson entertainingly used to embarrass Huckabee at yesterday's debate.

I've tucked the video into the extended entry.

What do you think the ladies are mad about? more...

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A solid percentage of them have sex every day.

Every day? Pshaw. Sure, I guess, if you're Superman.*

More at Hot Air.

* Joke stolen from Letterman. Old Letterman. Funny Letterman.

Thanks to someone, who tells me he's "still waiting" for the "Thompson Tookie Bonanza."

Fingers crossed!!!

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I feel bad, sometimes, for picking on Professor Science, because there are some people I like and I think are sort of pretty on the level are so passionate about him. But I'm sorry: I don't get it.

I don't get the claim that he's "the only man" who can save America, "the only man" who can restore the Constitution, "the only man" who can bring limited government back in vogue.

All of this is extraordinarily fanciful. I don't mean this as a cheap line -- it's rather serious. If the man couldn't keep a handle on his own small newsletter operation, can someone explain to me how he can possibly be "the only man in America" capable of forcing the federal government into a direction that the great mass of the American public simply does not want?

Let's take the Department of Education for starters. I assume, without knowing for a fact, Professor Science wishes to abolish it. I'm copacetic with that general notion. I do not consider that to be a "deranged" or "lunatic" idea.

What I do consider deranged is the assertion by Professor Science's supporters that such a thing is possible. Wake up: It's not. The Department of Education may be an ineffective, even counterproductive, scam that hurts more than it helps and is indeed an example of the federal government's growth into areas it shouldn't venture into.

But the Department of Education is popular. Very popular. Among dopes, yes, who think that if you're against the Department of Education you're against education itself and don't want children to have an education, but those dopes, I have to say, constitute about 75% of the electorate.

This is why those "sell-out RINOs" are forced to accomodate themselves with the reality that the DoE isn't going anywhere. The best a real, serious, non-fringe candidate can hope to do is to reform this institution so it at least is not harmful to education.

Would abolishing it be preferable? Possibly. Probably, even. I would not be sad at all to see this crap department go. But it is not politically possible. You can either have a Republican who says he supports the DoE and wants it to do its job better or you can have Democrat who says he suppors the DoE and wants it do its job better. What you can't have is a Republican President who vows to abolish it, because he won't be elected. Period.

I am sick of being told that if I do not share the magical thinking of Professor Science's supporters -- "Vote for our guy and suddenly well-documented attitudes and policy preferences of the American people will change overnight, and we can do whatever we want! We just have to want it enough and be pure!"

Please. Do not indulge yourself in a political fantasy and then knock me as a "sell-out" or "neocon collectivist" because I decline to follow you into the political equivalent of Middle Earth or Narnia. I live in the real world, guys, where some things just can't be done, at least not without twenty or thirty years of furious advocacy and serious movement in public sentiment.

Reality itself is not a "neocon collectivist" construct. And I think, sometimes, that Professor Science's more fervent admirers think it is. more...

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...because they've found that Professor Science defended the newsletters for a decade, admitting he wrote them but explaining they had to be read "in context." That defense apparently became inoperative recently, so he switched to a new one.

Allah goofs that if he's lost Reason, he's lost Middle America. Middle America? Okay.

Thanks to CJ.

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After provoking anger, they've recanted.

But there you go: Reuters calls a traitor, or at the very best a "turncoat," a whistle-blower, a hero.

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Oh, dear. It's actually pretty sad.

A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister, a peer told the House of Lords.

A court annulled the British couple's union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord Alton said.

The peer - who was told of the case by a High Court judge involved - said the twins felt an "inevitable attraction".

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The former Liberal Democrat MP raised the couple's case during a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill in December.

"They were never told that they were twins," he told the Lords.

"They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation."

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Pam Hodgkins, chief executive officer of the charity Adults Affected by Adoption (NORCAP) said there had been previous cases of separated siblings being attracted to each other.

"We have a resistance, a very strong incest taboo where we are aware that someone is a biological relative," she said.

"But when we are unaware of that relationship, we are naturally drawn to people who are quite similar to ourselves.

That's pretty sad. I'm not sure I could be happy with an Ewok.

Thanks to MattM.

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Hey hey HEY NOW, drop the car keys, I'm not saying they're actually coming for you. Though it couldn't hurt to keep an eye on that blue van parked across the street.

This is just a post which encapsulates a few random items of perv news.

I have to include this headline:

Masturbators come together in Copenhagen

HOT on the heels of San Francisco and London, Copenhagen is to host a masturbate-a-thon in May which organisers hope will help break lingering taboos about self-love.

Pia Struck Madsen, a sexologist in the Danish capital, said her goal was to see men and women from all backgrounds join an event that promised "pleasure, relaxation and sexual self-discovery".

Isn't that what the internet is for?

Hey, c'mon Pia: You're just trying to get your freak on in public.

The only reason they won't drop this charade of social altruism is because there's a whole other level of difficulty in securing a permit to hold a Mass Onanism Extravaganza.

Or maybe not. It's Denmark. Could have been the exact wording on the application, for all I know.

Dude gets caught carrying ammunition in his rectum. Which is a perfectly legal activity for you and me, but not for him.

Oenophile backs out of wine-for-sex trade.

....after getting two bottles of inexpensive fortified wine, she used one to hit him in the forehead.

Bremerton police were called to the 7-Eleven convenience store at 802 Sixth Street at about 12:58 a.m. after receiving word of an assault, reports said.

There they found the 48-year-old Seattle man with two large gashes on his forehead from a bottle of Thunderbird wine.

Naked stalker pleads guilty.

A San Pedro, California, man arrested in the Newport Beach home of Nicolas Cage -- naked except for the actor's leather jacket -- pleaded guilty Thursday to felony stalking and was ordered into a drug rehabilitation program.

Transvestite comes out at own wedding.

Factory worker Dean Dudley, 35, said his vows in a suit so as not to take attention from bride Robyn Overton.

But after the ceremony at Barnsley Town Hall, he slipped into an ankle-length gown for the reception, reports The Sun.

Dean, who turns into Deanne to go clubbing with Robyn, said: "It was the first time I told my family. Their reaction was pretty good. They accepted it."

Good idea: taking an S&M vacation with a coworker
Bad idea: Billing the whole trip to your employer.

The pair who worked at a Dortmund retirement home said they had been at a further education seminar in eastern Germany, for which their employer duly paid.

But after a tip-off, the home found out the middle-aged couple had actually taken a holiday apartment used by devotees of sado-masochistic sex near the Dutch border.

It's Friday. Thank goodness.
Kick back and relax, darling morons.

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Markos Moulitsas is calling for Democrats to vote in the Republican primary in Michigan, and he thinks Mitt Romney is the man to vote for. His reasoning is that it benefits the Democrats to keep the remaining Republicans in the race.

If we can help push Mitt over the line, not only do we help keep their field fragmented, but we also pollute Romney's victory. How "legitimate" will the Mittster's victory look if liberals provide the margin of victory? Think of the hilarity that will ensue. We'll simply be adding fuel to their civil war, never a bad thing from our vantage point.

Except that you just told us that was what you were going to do, idiot. This is what they call "too clever by half." As if we needed more evidence that you are a grasping, unoriginal halfwit, you've projected your idiocy onto the rest of the country. It's very simple: if you tell them that you are trying to spoil Romney's win, there's no reason for Republicans to expect it to be "legitimate," dumbass.

Personally, I'm grateful for the help because there is a far worse candidate on the Republican side. And he's putting his Christian followers to work:

So pro-Huckabee organizers say they are focusing their entire effort on turning out evangelical church goers. They plan to call every evangelical pastor in the state over the next few days. Those ministers can't endorse any candidate from the pulpit -- but they can tell their parishioners that "it's their Christian duty," to turn out on primary day, said Glenn. "And we know who they'll be voting for."

To help drive that message home, thousands of volunteers will be dropping leaflets and waving signs in church parking lots across Michigan this Sunday. Glenn says there will also be several news conferences across the state through the January 15 vote featuring groups of pastors announcing their personal support for Huckabee, an organized wave of callers into Michigan's Christian radio stations, and phone trees targeting the state's largest churches from within.

Lovely.

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