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Hillary Rodham Clinton has won the endorsement of North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley, a surprise boost to her candidacy in a state where Barack Obama is heavily favored to win the Democratic primary.

Easley was expected to announce the endorsement Tuesday morning in Raleigh, the state capital, one week before North Carolina's primary on May 6, according to people close to the governor and to Clinton. The individuals spoke on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement was pending.

Although the RCP average still shows Obama up by 12, the PPP poll has showed her gaining from -25 to -12. Whether that indicates genuine movement that will be reflected in other polls, who knows.

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Honestly, I don't really know what this is, beyond a big documentary about life on a carrier. It's on PBS at 9 Eastern (so if you're on the east cost you just missed ten minutes).

Genghis asked me to bump this, believing some people are interested in it.

I dunno, was sort of good, but then that good old PBS liberal agenda came in...

Ah well, they can't whine about how awful it is the military bombs people every episode.

Or... can they?

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What happens to an umpire when he gets hit in the mask with a 96 MPH fastball? He falls down. Hard.

The catcher says he wasn't expecting the fastball and just missed it.

The umpire is doing fine and was released from the hospital.

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Wright reaffirms the US government is "capable" of creating AIDS and using it to infect the black community, and also Rock Hudson. The latter presumably because MacMillan & Wife was such a poor companion to Columbo.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former longtime pastor to Sen. Barack Obama (D.Ill.), said at the National Press Club on Monday that he believes the U.S. government is "capable" of having invented HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to commit genocide against people of color. Wright's statement was a modification of the claim he made in an April 2003 sermon that the U.S. government had "lied" about inventing HIV as a means of perpetrating genocide, reports CNSNews.com Staff Writer Penny Starr.

"Based on the Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything," Wright said at the National Press Club when asked if he stands by his 2003 claim. "So any time a government can put together biological warfare to kill people, and then get angry when those people use what we sold them, yes, I believe we are capable," he said.

Why are you reading this? Concentrate on the important stuff, like Barack Obama's heath care plans, and his "positive message" of ending the US Government AIDS Racial Assassination Program.

Even St. Andrew of the Sacred Heart-Ache... Now bothers to read Wright's disgusting Naziism and deems it "indefensible."

Ah, well. Same pattern with Ron Paul's toxic newsletters. He denies for a while; then suddenly confesses he is "appalled," "chagrined," "disgusted" and "in a other ways quite put-out;" then two days later he says the issue has passed and he's ready for the make-up sex.

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That last name may be new to most of you. But it's a big one.

Here's Wright praising Farrakhan.

Michelle Malkin quotes him at today's presser saying, “I do not in any way disagree with James Cone. Jim is a personal friend of mine.”

Five Feet of (Censored Canadian) Fury explains Cone's theology:

The leading theorist of Black Liberation Theology is James Cone. Overtly racist, Cone’s writings posit a black Jesus who leads African-Americans as the “chosen people.” In Cone’s cosmology, whites are “the devil,” and “all white men are responsible for white oppression.” Cone makes this point without ambiguity: “This country was founded for whites and everything that has happened in it has emerged from the white perspective,” Cone has written. “What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world.”

If whiteness stands for all that is evil, blackness symbolizes all that is good. “Black theology,” says Cone, “refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.” Small wonder that some critics have condemned black liberation theology as “racist idolatry” and “Afro-Nazism.”

More, in all of those links.

And Obama sat in this motherfucking black Nazi's church for 20 motherfucking years and heard none of this.

Right?

Riiiight.

And Even More... Richard Miniter weighs in on Wright's continued race-baiting.

Many liberals are finally acknowledging that Wright really is, um, nuts. And a racist.

But they're doing so because they know they can longer help Obama simpy try to shut the issue down. They're staging an MSM intervention, telling Obama Wright is becoming more radioactive by the minute and he needs to contrive a reason to break with him so then they can go back to insisting that Wright is a non-story.

Wright's "God" -- and hence Obama's "God" -- is a "god" explicitly conjured up to destroy the white race.

This cocksucker sat in the pews for 20 years and never got an inkling of that, huh? Never really "got" that?

But of course this isn't a story, MSM! Why if a white Republican candidate for president was a cultist in the Aryan Christian Identity movement -- in which Adolf Hitler is a latter-day prophet, and Christ himself was untainted by foul Jewish blood, instead born a perfect blonde Aryan -- I'm sure that wouldn't be a newsworthy story either.

I'm sure you'd all call it a "sideshow," call the Nazi High Priest "funny" and "witty" and full of folk Volk wisdom, and instruct the American people it's time to move on to the serious issues.

Oh: Here's Geraghty speculating about Obama's come to Jesus moment with Wright.

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They're not all scary, but most of them are. And they're all weird. Like Doom 3 weird.

And as, um, frightening as that is, that's not even really the ugliest.

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As the man said, there is No Future in England's dreaming.

Thanks to CJ.

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Now the New York Times has someone to commiserate with.

The number of strippers and strip clubs in Toronto is declining, with former dancers blaming the Internet for putting them out of work.

A 23-year-old ex-dancer identified only as Madeline told the Toronto Star she could make as much as $1,000 per night after she started working in strip clubs four years ago, but gave it up for a clothed bartending job when fewer men would pay $20 for a lap dance.

"Why would a guy go to a club and pay to sit there if he could get it all for free on his computer at home?" she asked. "The only thing we can offer the internet can't is pickpocketing, Hepatitis B, and the intoxicating scent of industrial-strength bodywash mixed with feet."

I sort of added that last line in there.

Via Conservative Belle, who covers this story I skipped: Obama's pay-off from a... ping pong magnate in exchange for earmarks in state funding.

Change, hope.

Also: Conservative Belle sends this. A 400 pound inmate sheds 100 pounds in jail and is now down to a svelte three-buck-and-change.

So he's suing. The prison doesn't feed him well enough to maintain the obesity he's grown accustomed to.

Is obesity now a right under our "Living Constitution"? Stay tuned.

I wonder if the media -- the people we trust to make decisions -- will inform us of the answer before the courts do.

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Photo Credit: Associated Slublog

I suppose it's their right to take over a convention and push new rules to get their boy Paul some delegates.

Except... as usual, this is a futile gesture which is just annoying the living fuck out of the rest of us.

For the last goddamn time: Ron Paul will not be President. Get a life, you freaks. Stop fucking with normal people just because that's all you're good at. Of course you can do this and beat normal, non-retarded people at these stupid games. Because you're unemployed, are filled with lunatic energy, and are impelled by hyper-religious resolve. And the rest of us just don't fucking care as much as you do.

But even so: Your boy ain't going to win. And he's not going to speak at the convention, either. So please just stop embarrassing yourselves.

Story at Michelle Malkin's.

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A few days ahead of schedule.

WASHINGTON - The government started depositing thousands of rebate checks in taxpayers' bank accounts on Monday, earlier than originally scheduled, with the Bush administration hoping the payments will give a jump-start to a weak economy.

Eh. Whatever. Just because I think it's dumb doesn't mean I won't take it. Dave in Texas has long recommended "never say no to free money" (like employer matching contributions to retirement plans).

But what to do with it? Not sure. What are you morons planning to do with yours? I mean, those of you who aren't students of the Wesley Snipes Tax Filing and Preparation Institute?

Show America how you're going to get this economy back on its feet in the comments. I've run some numbers if you're curious, in the extended entry. more...

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