Reports of the earth's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

From DoublePlus Undead's Around the Moronosphere In 80 IQ Points.

Posted by: Ace at 09:50 AM | Comments (21)
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Interesting.

28% of Clinton supporters say they'll vote for McPain if the O-man gets nominated. 19% of the O-man's crew will go for McLame if Shrillary is nominated..

I'm thinking this is a lot higher, even on the Obama side, than the number of republican suicide voters.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 09:33 AM | Comments (25)
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Awesome raw footage of the fighting going on all around Hillary while she courageously listened to an 8 year old read a poem.

That was uploaded by BarelyPolitical.com. They seem to have done it. And they may also do the Obama Girl videos; they seem to post them all. I don't follow the Obama Girl stuff, so I don't know.

You can check them out if you're into 54DD tits, but why would you be.

Thanks to CADDaddy.

Meanwhile, ABCNews sagely headlines:

Bosnia Story May Fuel Perception of Dishonesty

Shut up really?!?!

ABCNews is officially now a MoronNewsorg.

They do remind us of this good, if obvious, quote:

"Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling," one-time supporter and Hollywood mogul David Geffen said of the Clintons in The New York Times in February 2007.

Meanwhile, Jake Tapper (who seems pretty much in the bag for Obama) finds Hillary's once asserted claim she attempted to join the Marines unlikely in the extreme, and Allah, the Eeyore of the Internet, posts lots of good stuff while worrying that this particular story is about to go away.

I don't share his worry in that regard.

What are the odds we're going to turn up further Hillary "misstatements"? What are the chances that Obama's oppo researchers will push them into the stories of friendly media contacts?

Pretty good, I'm thinking.

Another Slu-shop:

"Apocalypse November"

Posted by: Ace at 09:18 AM | Comments (31)
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Eric at Classical Values is disturbed by a new strategy used by the FBI to catch people who look at child pornography. I posted this story in the headlines last week, but today it's getting more attention in the Right side of the Blogosphere owing to a link from Himself-Himself. It raises a few questions for people who spend a lot of time on the Internet, often indiscriminately clicking hyperlinks.

The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.

Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and contained no illegal images.

A CNET News.com review of legal documents shows that courts have approved of this technique, even though it raises questions about entrapment, the problems of identifying who's using an open wireless connection--and whether anyone who clicks on a FBI link that contains no child pornography should be automatically subject to a dawn raid by federal police.

Eric seems almost beside himself at this FBI behavior and writes that it makes him want to contribute to the ACLU to find a way to prevent it. But I'm not convinced that this is impermissible on legal or moral grounds.

First, it's not entrapment. The FBI is providing a temptation for these perverts, but it's not actively encouraging them in their illegal behavior. The hyperlinks were posted to a message board and were themselves provocatively titled "here is one of my favs — 4yo hc with dad (toddler, some oral, some anal) — supercute! Haven't seen her on the board before." But there wasn't any actual solicitation to break the law, nor were individuals targeted by the FBI. This would have been a different story if the link had been emailed to offenders.

Second, the real issue here is whether clicking on a link is probable cause. As Professor Kerr writes, that's a case-specific inquiry. Merely clicking on a link is not usually going to be enough to constitute probable cause for a search warrant. But there are circumstances when it might. Fortunately, those circumstances are so limited as to not worry me. For example, the link was clearly marked as leading to illegal child pornography and was posted on a message board used for distributing such illegal material. It's pretty unlikely that someone would wander into that message board with innocent purposes and then start clicking on hyperlinks with such blatantly illegal descriptions. I concede that it's possible, but it's still not likely.

So, should we get worked up about it? I don't think so. There's no indication that the FBI or the courts have departed from the usual standard for warrants: probable cause. That the FBI has a new technique for catching child pornographers is cause for celebration as far as I'm concerned.

Which brings me to one last thing. Eric writes:

The irony is that predators who go out and commit actual crimes against real children can feel a bit safer, because the more time the police devote to seekers of fake Internet kiddie porn, the less time they'll have to go after the predators in real time.

This is not to defend kiddie porn, but are there any stats on how many kiddie porn violators have ever actually touched a child? What are the priorities? I'd hate to think that the cops are devoting most of their time to going after the easier cases, but the fact is that cases based on possession are a lot easier case to make.

It seems strange that he would juxtapose real child molesters with "fake, Internet kiddie porn." He seems to be ignoring a very real problem: Internet kiddie porn that isn't fake...real monsters abusing real children often for money, trades, or accolades on the internet. The reason we criminalize the mere possession of child pornography and not just its making is because the crime is so heinous it is necessary to strangle the demand for it in order to choke the supply.

Also, child pornographers and those who possess child pornography should be pursued by the FBI even if "the stats on how many kiddie porn violators have ever actually touched a child" show that they are not likely to actually molest a child.

Laws are not optional; neither should be their enforcement. If he thinks we shouldn't have a law against mere possession of child pornography, he should come out and say so.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 09:11 AM | Comments (98)
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I'm going to see if I can track down a copy of the written speech because it's pretty damn good. So far he's simply talked about how awful war is -- and damn eloquently, I have to say.

In political terms, it's hard to peg McCain as a "warmonger" given his personal experience with war, and the serious, adult noting of the horrors of it.

In related news, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton once read a bumper sticker reading, "War is dangerous for people and trees and other living things."

Ugh. Ending "torture" of terrorists. Closing Guantanamo. Risks of global warming have no borders.

Sometimes McCain almost lets me forget what a preening buffoon he is.

Posted by: Ace at 08:13 AM | Comments (104)
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I've been meaning to write something on Medellin v. Texas, the international law/death penalty case that was handed down yesterday. The decision (PDF) makes clear just how very lucky we are that Chief Justice Roberts made it onto the court, not that he alone should get credit. Still, this was a 6-3 decision with no BS Kennedy concurrence, which means Roberts' opinion is now binding in full on the lower courts. The case has important implications for the War on Terror. more...

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 07:21 AM | Comments (13)
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"So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?"

OUT: White Supremacy

IN: Black Supremacy

OUT: Racial hatred based on ignorance and misdirected anxiety about the economy

IN: Racial hatred based on legitimate anger

OUT: Jesus' famous three words, "Love thy enemies"

IN: Jesus' not-quite-so-famous four words, "By any means necessary"

Change you can believe in, yo.

This woman is really showing me something.

So, if I'm to understand this right, Karl Rove has been masquerading as a black woman for 40 years and also somehow managed to fake "giving birth" to Obama's children all so he could start making statements like this?

Princeton could use a man like Joel.

Ed Morrissey:

[A]fter the exposure of Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a racial demagogue, the Obamas are the last people to talk about reaching beyond their comfort zone.

Yes, being lectured about racial healing by the Obamas as if we were children in need of their instruction and moral example certainly has a decidedly fantastical quality about it. It's like being lectured by Larry Craig about proper bathroom etiquette and not crowding a guy at a urinal.

...

Perhaps this is why weÂ’ve seen so little of Michelle Obama on the campaign trail of late.

Rove also has the Fox gig.

Thanks to Liberrocky.

Also From Reverend Wright: The US government runs everything from the schoolhouse to the Ku Klux Klan.

Oh and the Romans rejected Jesus because of (wait for it) racism. "Looking down their Garlic noses" at Him.

Does anyone sort of sense that Rev. Wright pretty much lost the plot of the Bible here?

In Hot Air's Headlines.

Obama: "I Was Named After Sir Edmund Hillary, Too:" Well, that's pretty much the claim.

A reporter (forget who, think it was on Fox) said that Hillary's people were giving reporters specifics of Obama's fabulations in the wake of Hillary's Tuzla pwnag3. So we can almost certainly thank Hillary's Oppo Researchers for this one.

The Democrats are aghast that this is such a bruising and painful primary.

Can I point something out? What they're really shocked by is that they are finally seeing some truly punishing and tough media coverage, probably for the first time in their lives.

And the reason they're finally getting what Republicans have always gotten isn't that the media has suddenly decided to be nonpartisan. Quite the opposite. The MSM, like the Democrats, are split between Hillary partisans and Obama partisans so circumstances have conspired to actually force the MSM into normal, non-protective coverage of both. It's not that they're not partisans -- they are, and deeply so as usual. It's just that for the first time the partisans can't yet rally behind the Democrat and just punish the Republican. Their partisanship is still real and palpable; it just so happens the two opposite partisanships cancel each other out resulting in, good Lord, more or less neutral coverage.

And the Dems can't take it-- they can't stand neutral coverage. They need the advantage of always having the MSM protecting their candidates while going after the Republicans hammer and tong.

Recent polling suggests this ghastly state of affairs may go on for a bit.

Garlic Noses?: Um, I just sort of misread "Garlic" as "Gallic" figuring Wright had simply lumped in the Italians with the French.

As a commenter corrects me, he actually said Italians/Romans looked down their "Garlic noses" at Jesus (who, in his retelling of the story, is just another black man being redlined out of a home loan).

Garlic noses?

Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?

Posted by: Ace at 07:10 AM | Comments (93)
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Pandas arenÂ’t just adorable money making machines for zoos, they are also apparently the greatest wildlife consumers of porn and live sex shows!

Treating China's notoriously undersexed national icon to “panda porn” - or videos of other pandas having sex - is believed to have had some success. Now China has devised a new tactic to help the black-and-white animals to have more babies.

The answer is “sexercise”. Keepers are putting their charges at the Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Centre in southwestern Sichuan province through a rigorous programme with the aim of improving their mating skills.

Â…With any luck, they may begin to show an interest in sex, often seen as symptoms of anxiety. The two are then placed in the same pen in the hope that they will have sex.

Pandas with a bit more experience may also be called in to help their more innocent companions. One official said: “We arrange lovemaking between two excellent pandas in front of inexperienced pandas which have never had sex. It does work.”

LetÂ’s see, pandas live alone, are sexually inept and watch porn. In what significant way do they differ from the typical AoS moron? If they had opposable thumbs they be commenting here all day long or more likely, one of them would wind up a co-blogger.

Posted by: DrewM at 07:02 AM | Comments (16)
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Video proof that no matter how much distance you try to put between yourself and God, He always is there with you at the end.

Or maybe it's a reminder that Dylan was right when he wrote:

"Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred."

In any event, you guys figure out what to make of it. I'm gonna be busy.

After all, Allahpundit isn't going to just run out and buy one of these on his own. I think I'll use this morning to send him one.

Because I care. Not about his soul, but I hear his throwing arm could use some work.

He throws like a girl is what I'm sayin'.

Posted by: Jack M. at 06:03 AM | Comments (22)
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By day, they're armed robbers.

By night, they split atoms... with their minds.

Here we see them attempting a run of the mill robbery. They enter the building, and demand that the woman behind the counter give them all of the money in her drawer, while feigning to have guns under their coats.

Should be easy enough. This happens every day in America. Tellers and clerks are supposed to turn over the cash.

Except: They're not in a bank or liquor store.

The target of their heist? A police station. During normal working hours.

"What do you think the cops' response time is?"

-- "For this type of heist, I'd say... zero."

"Sounds good. We'll just keep it simple, then. No hot-dogging. We've only got zero seconds and we'll just have to make the most of every none of them."

Thanks to tmi3rd.

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