You'd think given all the attention that's been given to Obamassiah's, um, 'record', his campaign would have provided their surrogates with some talking points. Hell, even, 'he makes a mean bunch of scrambled eggs' would be better than what this Texas State Senator came up with, which was...nothing.

On a personal note, is anyone else unable to play Youtube videos since installing the latest update for Flash? I've seen a couple of other people reporting this problem on tech help boards but no solutions yet. Any thoughts for a computer illiterate such as myself? I forgot to mention I am on a PC and it's only a problem in Firefox. They work fine in other browsers.

Posted by: DrewM. at 08:19 AM | Comments (21)
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Not me.

And not some Democrat Union-shill that backs Hillary, either, except to the extent that he is afraid Obama will get wtfpwned in the general election.

Normally, I wouldn't quote some wanna-be Hoffa. But this excerpt was too good to skip.

But it was Obama supporters for whom Buffenbarger saved his most vitriolic contempt, and he proved that the Democratic Party’s coalition is nothing if not fragile. Channeling Howard Beale from the movie "Network," he yelled into the microphone, “Give me a break! I've got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius- driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust fund babies crowding in to hear him speak! This guy won't last a round against the Republican attack machine. He's a poet, not a fighter.”

Savor the blue on blue, morons. Savor it.

I have to say that, for the most part, I agree with Buffenbarger's assessment of Senator Obama's cult like band of followers, as well as his assessment of what will happen to Obama in November.

And as any of you regular blog readers might suspect, I just have one problem with it.

What's the dude got against poets? Am I gonna have to smack-down some Union goon with dope rhymes and bustin' iambic pentameters to get a little respect for my peeps?

Also, I did intentionally connect the word "Obama" to "nomination" to form "obamanomination" in the title because: 1) it's fun to say (try it..."o-ba-ma-nom-i-na-tion"), 2) it sounds like "abomination" and 3)BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT POETS DO!

Posted by: Jack M. at 07:35 AM | Comments (36)
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The little state that political pundits forgot had it's caucuses yesterday (yeah, I said they were a primary state in the other thread. That's why I'm not blogger of the year.).

You know who won?

Barack Obama. By a 76% to 24% margin.

You know who that benefits?

Chelsea Clinton, because she got to "work" on behalf of her mother in Maui without spending a dime of her own.

Ahh, Chels, it's nice to see that you were able to use that renowned Clinton charm and legendary Clinton retail politicking skills to convince nearly a quarter of this traditionally Democrat state to support your mom.

You must have inherited your political talents from your parents, Hillary and Janet Reno.*

And so the Hillary! beat-down goes on and on.

Aloha, Hawaii! And Mahalo!

*Credit where credit is due. I stole that joke from John McCain.

Posted by: Jack M. at 06:50 AM | Comments (10)
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Well, that was strange.

I shouldn't have posted that link in the first place. I just thought it was odd that Caruso had a hate site against him. Plus I'm sort of fascinated with the sunglasses off/sunglasses on thing.

If you read the comments to the thread, it looks like the hate-site writer came in and posted under a lot of aliases here (the bjMoP hash comes up again and again).

Sarkhanne says she's a stalker, which, you know, strikes me as a no-brainer; who else makes a single-person hate site? At least cast the net a little wider and make it the Catholics or the Jews or something. Have some ambition.

He predicted she would just keep posting here and she seems to have done so.

Anyway, I thought the link was worthwhile just for its oddness, but it seems to have opened up a big can of strange I don't need, so I shut comments down there and took down the link. I'm getting a Deb Frisch vibe which I should have seen coming.

Thanks to everyone who alerted me to the weirdness going on in the comments.

Posted by: Ace at 06:02 AM | Comments (52)
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Also from gengis comes this story about right feet in running shoes washing up in British Columbia. And, yes, it's as weird as it sounds.

The first foot was found washed ashore on Jedediah Island on Aug. 20, and six days later a second was found on Gabriola Island.

Both were in size-12 runners. No information on the size of the shoe of the third foot has been released.

When the second foot was found, an RCMP spokesman listed the odds of that happening as being a "million to one."

What the odds are for three right feet in running shoes showing up within about 40 miles of each other within six months is anyone's guess.

Ebbesmeyer said the fact they are all right feet is intriguing.

No kidding. Well, once you get past the fact that there are feet washing up on your islands! And they're still wearing shoes!

So what do you guys think? Serial killer with a lefty foot fetish? Ace has an international hobo-killing competitor with a new calling card?

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 12:01 AM | Comments (35)
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Commenter genghis points me to some interesting legal action this week.

First, the Court has declined to review the Sixth Circuit's ruling that the ACLU and others have no standing to sue the NSA over the Terrorist Surveillance Program. This is the case where District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, a Carter appointee, substituted the words "undisputedly" and "clearly" for legal reasoning while making smug pronunciation that "there are no hereditary Kings in America." I and many others took her to pieces for it while the Lefty blogosphere and the media called her "courageous" and us "racist" (it turned out she was black).

This is yet another case where the government claimed state secrets privilege and prevailed. The ACLU can't prove that it has standing without access to materials involving national security. Taylor sidestepped the issue by claiming that the plaintiffs had standing without access, but the Sixth Circuit didn't agree. The ACLU probably couldn't get the justices to agree to hear the case because there simply isn't a split among the courts when it comes to state secrets doctrine.

Second, the Court also rejected an appeal by Xavier University and 68 others involved in a contract parsing dispute with insurers who refuse to pay for flood damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. The case is noteworthy only because it should impress upon plaintiffs to chose their venue wisely; we've got a dual judicial system and choices at the very beginning of litigation may determine the outcome: The federal courts ruled that the insurance policies did not cover damage from floods. However, in similar cases, the Louisiana courts held that the language of the policies is "ambiguous" and therefore ruled against the insurers based on a state rule which requires that exceptions to coverage be "unambiguous."

Third, a federal district judge has decided to hold a reporter in contempt of court for not complying with an order to identify her sources for articles she wrote about the 2001 anthrax attacks. This is the usual story: reporter decides she can ignore court orders; judge gets pissed off; reporter loses $1,000 a day, upped by $1,000 with every passing week, until she complies.

The issue here is so-called journalistic privilege, the idea that reporters would be unable to exercise their First Amendment right to speech if courts could make them divulge their confidential sources like the rest of us. Most federal circuits have a qualified form of this privilege, but it has notably not availed reporters in several high-profile cases in the D.C. circuit, including that of Valerie Plame. Congress is considering a federal shield law right now (it's stalled in the Senate).

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 11:49 PM | Comments (6)
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Warner Bros is starting to embarrass itself about 10,000 BC, which it should have let die a quiet straight-to-DVD death. Instead, they've arranged to hook the full trailers for The Dark Knight and The Incredible Hulk onto it in a transparent ploy to get people into theaters.

If you weren't convinced that 10,000 BC was going to bomb after it got pushed twice and then overpimped on every billboard between Venice and Coney Island, I think attaching two of the most anticipated film trailer debuts of the year should just about do it. Don't get me wrong, I liked Stargate and The Patriot (and secretly Independence Day), but the rest of Emmerich's oeuvre is painful beyond words, and I don't care how well Godzilla did at the box office.

10,000 BC is in theaters March 7th.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 08:02 PM | Comments (58)
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Update: McCain wins.

I know, exit polls schmexit polls.

But a 60-40 trouncing?

From that link, very good song by The Right Brothers called "The List," listing liberals they/we can't stand.
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Posted by: Ace at 04:50 PM | Comments (91)
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"Hey, CAIR, how about you suck my dick?"

Not as eloquent as Ezra Levant, maybe, but then Americans are more direct than Canadians.

Posted by: Ace at 04:31 PM | Comments (36)
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Relax, though. It's a spoof.

Takes you a second to figure that out though.

Awful as it is, it is definitely plausible.

Thanks to dri.

Posted by: Ace at 04:04 PM | Comments (18)
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