This arose, I believe, in the context of the Seattle P-I refusing to run a picture of men sought for questioning by the FBI, because, of course, they were Muslim, and the Seattle P-I decided that that meant they should not be shown in a newspaper.

And in reaction to that, this lipstick-wearing whore-rouged bitch-boy wrote the following:

"I understand that people have a hard time with the concept that we get to decide what is news and what isn't, and what is fair and what isn't."

How's the Deciding business going, David?

Seems as though we've Decided to fire you from your self-appointed role as news censor. Seems like, ultimately, you don't really get to Decide what is news and what is fair after all.

Seems that maybe your customers -- or more accurately, your non-customers-- get to do some Decidin' of their own.

Thanks to Senator, Adviser E. Buzz Miller for reminding us of this.

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An entirely unrelated pic. I just dig dinosaurs.
And comets. And dinosaurs with that "Hruhh??!?" kinda look.
Has nothing at all to do with the story. Seriously.

A Seattle P-I reporter was quoted as saying, "Hruhh??!?"

s the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on its last legs?

Quoting an unnamed source, KING TV reported Thursday night that the newspaper's owner, The Hearst Corp., planned to put the P-I up for sale soon, setting the stage for its closure in the next few months.

The P-I's managing editor said he knew of no such plans. A Hearst spokesman in New York did not return calls, pages or e-mails.

Executives at The Seattle Times, which has partnered for 25 years with Hearst and the P-I in a federally sanctioned joint-operating agreement (JOA), said they did not know if the report was true.

"I'm stunned," Times Publisher Frank Blethen said in a newsroom hallway, declining further comment.

Read on. The Times is in trouble, too. And the extinction of its chief rival may not even be enough to save the Seattle Times.

Several P-I reporters, who asked not to be named, said they were worried and sad about the possibility of their paper closing.

Very, very sad.

Thanks to Genghis.

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His hair will be missed.

In a dramatic display of anger and solidarity over a political scandal that has made Illinois a national laughingstock, lawmakers on Friday voted 114-1 to impeach disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

It's the first time in the state's history that the Illinois House has voted to impeach its governor The impeachment proceedings will now move to the Illinois Senate for trial. It is unclear when that will begin. The one lawmaker voting against impeachment was Rep. Milton Patterson, a Chicago Demorcrat who represents the South Side. Rep Elga Jefferies, also a Chicago Democrat, voted present.

More [ace]: Burris amends his previous declaration he'd had no contact with Blago's representatives about the Senate seat to say, oh yeah, by the way, I had some contact with Blago's representatives about the Senate seat.

Burris also contacted a Blago aide to get his nephew a state job.

Shockingly, Barack Obama took money from the same cat who paid former Commerce Secretary designate Bill Richardson for favors.

At the press conference where he was named to the Commerce spot December 3, Richardson said to Obama, “The catchphrases of your economic plan - investment, public-private partnership - that is the Department of Commerce.”

This column explored Richardson’s use of “public-private partnership” a month ago, and argued that the term is often a euphemism for corporate welfare, and always an invitation for corrupt pay-to-play deals. In at least one case, we now know, federal investigators have the same suspicion.

CDR Financial Products Inc. (formerly named Chambers, Dunhill, Rubin & Co., although there never was a Chambers or Dunhill) in 2004 won $1.5 million in contracts from New MexicoÂ’s government while the firm and its president David Rubin donated at least $110,000 to Governor Richardson and his various campaign committees.

At a high-dollar, star-studded Obama fundraiser in Los Angeles over the summer, Rubin also cut a $28,500 check to Obama and other Democrats—not the sort of small-dollar donor Obama typically bragged about when rejecting federal matching funds and the spending limits that go along with them.

The Examiner also mentions this correction:

That $20,000 contribution that I said went from Blago to Bill Richardson? Reverse the direction and you've got it. Bill Richardson gave Blago the $20K two days after both were re-elected, not the other way around.

It's amazing to me that Barack Obama was part of this cesspool for years and yet never got dirty. Truly, he is The One.

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Do something! Do something! If you can't do something smart, do something stupid, but do something!

New Gallup polling shows that 53% of Americans favor and 36% oppose Congress' passing a new $775 billion stimulus package of the type President-elect Barack Obama described in his Thursday speech on the economy. There is even higher support for specific elements it could include, such as major new government spending for infrastructure, income tax cuts, and tax incentives for businesses.

Michelle Malkin gives a shout-out to President Bush, saying he "pre-socialized" the economy for Obama. Indeed. It makes it politically difficult to advance the point that this is unwise and socialistic when our outgoing head of the party was pretty keen on a lot of this.

Presidents always have a self-interested incentive to spend now and put off bad economic times, even if doing so cripples the future economy. The difference now is that the media and one party is cheering wildly the notion that we shall run deficits up into the stratosphere, even if, as it may likely turn out, every one dollar of improvement in current economic performance results in, say, a three or four dollar loss of future economic performance.

Doesn't matter. The One cannot be allowed to fail, and if that means hamstringing the economy for 20 years, he must have at least a sluggishly growing economy by 2012.

And he'll also want a friendly Congress throughout this period, so if we have to spend a trillion more on bike paths and homeopathic remedies for the homeless to get some positive numbers by 2010, so be it.

Thanks to Warden.

VDH: Quoted at Instapundit:

For just one week we should ban the verb “stimulate” and the noun “stimulus” — and substitute instead the more honest “borrow,” or “print,” or “debt”; as in “The government plans to borrow another $1 trillion for the economy,” or “The administration today decided to print another $300 billion in cash.” Or “Congress met to consider a $1 trillion debt program.” But as it is now, the euphemisms only take us ever more distant from reality, as trillions of dollars are bandied about as if they were mere five and tens in the government wallet.

That's a good point, and not just for snark value. The public is naive about the economy. There may indeed be lots of Americans who assume, quite wrongly, that the US is sitting on a huge pile of wealth, squirreled away in Fort Knox and the warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark, we have prudently set aside for moments just like these.

It is the media's job to remind them that this is not the case.

The government cannot spend "its" money. It can take money from citizens and from future citizens, but it has little of "its" money to spend at all.

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FRIDAY!!!

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To get you going feel free to contemplate this...

Blinded by the sun, John Favara ran over and killed the 12-year-old son of his neighbour in New York when the boy rode his mini-motorbike into the street on March 18, 1980.

To his great misfortune, the neighbour was John Gotti, who was soon to become the Godfather of the American Mafia. Four months later Mr Favara vanished.

...His body was never found, and prosecutors now believe that they know why. Almost 30 years later, an informant cited in court papers in an impending Mafia trial says that Mr Favara was murdered and disposed of in a barrel of acid. Charles Carneglia, the defendant, allegedly told the informant that acid was “the best method to use to avoid detection”.

Now, I'm not saying if you don't vote for Ace as the Best Conservative Blog in this year's Weblog Awards that's going to happen to you. I'm just asking, why take the chance?

You can vote once a day, everyday through the 13th. As of this posting Ace is in 2nd place to a Canadian blog. I really don't know how you people can let that happen and call yourselves Morons. Do you want the hobos laughing at you? No, I didn't think so. Vote!

Below the fold, a list of friends of the HQ that Gabe put together for your consideration as well. more...

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Happy New Year bitches.

Two top al Qaeda officials are believed dead following a New Year's Day drone attack in northern Pakistan, ABC News has confirmed. U.S. officials said Fahid Mohammed Ali Msalam and Sheikh Ahmed Salem Swedan, both on the FBI's most wanted terrorists list, were killed in the CIA strike.

Msalam, who also went by the alias Usama al-Kini, and Swedan were both from Kenya and were indicted in the Aug. 7, 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and for conspiring to kill U.S. citizens.

...John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer and ABC News consultant, described Msalam as "probably the single most prominent African member of al Qaeda" and a leader who known as a "logistics whiz."

"He was very important in al Qaeda's ability to coordinate and plan very complicated terrorist operations," said Kiriakou, adding that the U.S. government had been looking for him "for a very long time."

As the saying goes, you can run but you'll just die tired. Buh-bye.

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The very, very important business of introducing bills for consideration by Congress has been going on this week. Aside from the symbolic first ten bills I blogged about yesterday, the Dems have been busy on their social agenda.

Up first is the "Prevention First Act" (PDF), a pet project of Harry Reid for the past few years. This will increase funding for Planned Parenthood, require insurers to provide contraceptive and other reproduction-related coverage, provide "Plan B" morning-after pills for emergency rooms, and require that all sex-education programs which receive federal funding include information about contraception.

On the Republican side of the aisle, Senator McCain introduced a bill to establish a United States Boxing Commission (PDF). Says the Senator: "Let there be no doubt, however, of the very basic and pressing need in professional boxing for a Federal boxing commission." Without one, "the sport remains at risk."

Dammit.

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Today I received one of the wildest photos I've ever seen, courtesy of Pocono Joe. There is no link or story, and due to its size I've tucked it below the fold. It's regarding the boom crane operater for the Burj Dubai building, the tallest building in the world and currently under construction.

I dunno' anything about BCS football games, so for a refreshing change of pace, here's the caption above the photo:

"Babu Sassi, a fearless young man from southern India is the cult hero of Dubai's army of construction workers. Known as the "Indian on the top of the world", Babi is the crane operator at the world's tallest building — the 819-meter (2,687 ft) Burj Dubai. His office, the cramped crane cab perched
on top of the Burj, is also his home — apparently it takes too long to come
down to the ground each day to make it worthwhile. When the building is
completed, its elevators will be the world's fastest."

"Stories about his daily dalliance with death are discussed in revered terms
by Dubai's workers. Some say he has been up there for more than a year,
others whisper that he's paid 30,000 dirhams ($8,16 a month compared with
the average wage of 800 dirhams a month. All agree he's worth it."

Pic down yonder. Seriously, go look at it.

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