A spokesmoron for Americans United for Change can only repeat "red herring" over and over again as Neil Cavuto asks her about all the non-stimulative pork in the "stimulus."

"A fish barrier sounds to me like a dam"? Swing and a miss, retard.

Big: A FoxNews Opinion Dynamics poll says the public favors tax cuts over new spending as far as stimulus by 50% to 29%.

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This particular trial involving one of the bastards accused of helping to plan the bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors and wounded 50 more.

The decision throws into some disarray the administration's efforts to buy time to review individual detainee cases as part of its plan to close the U.S. military prison at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba. The Pentagon may now be forced to temporarily withdraw the charges against Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen of Yemeni descent.

No 120 day suspension for you, Obama!

Spokesdork Robert Gibbs, who makes Scott McLellan sound like Kenneth Branagh in Henry V, offers up the White House response:

We just learned of the ruling here . . . and we are consulting with the Pentagon and the Department of Justice to explore our options in that case," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. Asked at a news briefing whether the decision would hamper the administration's ability to evaluate the cases of Guantanamo detainees, Gibbs replied: "No. Not at all."

Ability unhampered. Evaluate away!

tipped by Gabriel Hussein Malor. I'm doing the legal jobs that other Americans on the west coast just won't do for another 2 hours.

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Sure would be nice if this cat became interested in elective office.

Thanks to CJ.

And Speaking of the Super Bowl: This pro-life ad was rejected by NBC for airing during the Super Bowl:

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You can't make this crap up (sorry, it's a NY Times link)

President Obama fired a warning shot at Wall Street on Thursday, branding bankers “shameful” for giving themselves $18.4 billion in bonuses as the economy was spinning out of control and the government was spending billions to bail out many of the nation’s most prominent financial firms.

Speaking from the Oval Office with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner by his side, Mr. Obama lashed out at the industry over a report, compiled by the New York State comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, which found that over all, financial executives received the same level of bonuses as they had in 2004, when times were more flush.

It was a pointed and unusual flash of anger — if a premeditated one — from the president, and it suggested that he intended to use his platform to take a hard line against excesses in executive compensation.

This is one of the most annoying parts of bailout mania (and there are a lot of them). Normally I'd be all over this type of populist crap but when they've already gotten hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars and may be in line for even more, it's kind of hard to defend them.

Still, it's a little too much to listen to Obama blather on about 'shameful' behavior sitting next to Geithner. Of course, it's rather impolite to note this so the MSM won't bother doing that.

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59-0.

Buh-bye Blago, you'll be missed.

Wow, now they are just rubbing salt in the wound. The Senate is voting to prohibit Blago from ever holding office in the state again. Ouch.

Now he doesn't have an office to trade in his criminal case. I wonder if he has any names he'd like to name.

Senator Rolland Burris only comment was, "I'm still Senator, right?" Technically, I may have made that up.

Thanks to Slu for the heads up on the vote and of course "The Blago Skull". Damn I'm going to miss that.

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...if the "stimulus" bill looks a lot like the one that just passed the house.

No link. On Cavuto about twenty minutes ago.

Good sign.

On the other hand he's talking pussy-shit like this, so perhaps this is just a weak bluff.

Nuanced Pussy-Shit: Dan Riehl points out I was unfair in characterizing McConnell's comments. Further on, he says this, too:

"Rather, the party has failed to effectively communicate conservative ideas like limited government, school vouchers and increased domestic energy production, he said.

"America is diverse, the two major parties should be too," he said. "But this doesn't mean turning our backs on common-sense conservatism, and it certainly doesn't mean tailoring our positions to suit particular groups. Our principles are universal -- they apply to everyone.""

More: Dan Riehl has more of McConnell's remarks that the media forgot to report.

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Not really a giggle-type story, which it might have been had he been utterly thwarted. He stabbed the hell out of her.

A JEALOUS lover wanted to cut off his ex-girlfriend's breasts to "reclaim" the breast implants that he had paid for.

Armed with a knife and lurking in the dark, Thomas Lee Rowley waited in ambush to reclaim what he thought was rightfully his: his former girlfriendÂ’s breast implants that Rowley paid for.

As his former girlfriend stepped outside the back door of her motherÂ’s house in Hesperia, Rowley, 28, stabbed her six times in the head and torso.

ThatÂ’s the picture painted by Deputy District Attorney David Foy on the first day of testimony in RowleyÂ’s trial for attempted murder of ex-girl friend, Shanon Perry, 26, on July 25, 2006.

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“I’m gonna cut ’em out and get em back”, [the man's former roommate] testified that Rowley told him.

The breast implants were punctured during the attack and were eventually repaired.

And then there's this. From Durban, South Africa.

Indictments are to be served on five men in April, accused of gunning down three pub patrons after an argument over the size of their penises, the Durban Magistrate's Court heard on Thursday.

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At the time of the shootings, police said the argument began when a patron of Indian descent made a comment about the size of a white patron's genitals while both were at the pub's urinals.

An officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity at the time said: "The white man went to the toilet and an Indian guy followed him. While in the urinal, the Indian man told the white man that his penis was bigger than his (the white man's).

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The three patrons were then shot dead. The two police officers suspected of involvement were later suspended.

Gandhi did that too. That's why he got kicked out of South Africa. (No, not really.)

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Apparently so. Once an operator, always an operator.

President Obama’s choice to run the Justice Department has assured senior Republican senators that he won’t prosecute intelligence officers or political appointees who were involved in the Bush administration’s policy of “enhanced interrogations.”

Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican from Missouri and the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in an interview with The Washington Times that he will support Eric H. Holder Jr.’s nomination for Attorney General because Mr. Holder assured him privately that Mr. Obama’s Justice Department will not prosecute former Bush officials involved in the interrogations program.

Mr. HolderÂ’s promise apparently was key to moving his nomination forward. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 17-2 to favorably recommend Holder for the post. He is likely to be confirmed by the Senate soon.

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