The only surprise here is that the average age is 35.

Sounds like a real dig, eh? Well, sure, except when you consider the average American is 35, overweight, depressed, and shy.

But the average American knows not the joy of You Got the Lightning Gun.

This is kinda related: The only walk-through you'll ever need. Works for every single game you've ever played.

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Confirming Gallup, and strongly suggesting that Rasmussen's level of support -- 49% of likely supporters -- is actually now too high by 2 or 3 points.

Disapproval? 40%.

Bonus Damage! Rasmussen has the generic congressional holding steady at good guys +5.

Multi-Hit Combo-Move Damage! Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants whines about biased NBC poll!

Her objection is over the earlier-reported bit that 47%, a plurality, now opposes the public option.

Liberals and progressives -- including Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and the group Health Care for America Now -- have raised questions why our poll measured whether Americans supported the "choice" of a public/government option in June, while in July and this month it removed "choice" and simply asked whether Americans favor or oppose the option.

"One can only wonder why the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll removed the concept of choice of a public option after 76% of Americans say they want that choice," said HCAN national campaign manager Richard Kirsch in a statement. "By dropping what the president proposes and what the public strongly supports - giving people a choice - from their list of questions, the NBC/Wall Street Journal pollsters misrepresent reform and raise questions about their own agenda."

Yes, the famously conservative NBC, which will soon offer a "Director's Cut" of Brian Williams' fawning, bowing interview of Barack Hussein Obama, featuring hilarious outtakes and bloopers, like when Brian Williams dressed up like a mutant from Beneath the Planet of the Apes and prayed to Obama as "My Thermonuclear Lord and Savior."

Thanks to DrewM. and AHFF Geoff.

Finish Him! Real Clear Politics average now at 52%, and that includes a stale Marist poll showing him with an unlikely 55% approval.

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Elevating the tone of the debate, leftist-style.

Oh, and do you think he's being taken out of context and really meant the GOP wants to "kill his presidency," in the sense of clipping his wings, as with Clinton?

No. He does say that -- "kill his term" -- but then free-associates into the other meaning, as in, like, kill.

Note it's dangerous for me to even report Dean's words, because the Secret Service flags stuff that even mentions these words in the same sentence.

But here's Howlin' Howard Dean, saying it to the world. To score a cheap, insane point.

HOWARD DEAN: At the end of the day, I think we will. First of all, the president is a very smart guy and he knows very well this canÂ’t work without a public option. Secondly, you know heÂ’s run into a rough patch in the Senate, mostly because of Democrats, honestly.

The Republicans, they have no interest in this Bill. TheyÂ’re using the 1994 playbook. LetÂ’s kill the bill and kill the president...... or, kill the presidentÂ’s term. Although there are sort of angry people out there I get very nervous about this stuff. I donÂ’t like it at all.

Ah. Calling opponents Nazis didn't work.

So they went to racists.

That didn't work.

So they went to fascists. (Yes, I know that's a step back from Nazis, but they're trying to see what works.)

That didn't work.

So now--

If you oppose the President, you are a murderer and would-be assassin.

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Update: Baldilocks says this is impossible in the first place, because BHO Sr. came over to America on the exact same flight her dad did in 1959.

(As if it weren't already impossible enough.)

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This is real clown-time type stuff.

The evidence? A typo on his MySpace time. Which is, um, his real birth-year of 1957; all other claims he was born in 1961 are faked. Or somethin'.

Which means he was now born in Hawaii -- now he's born in Hawaii, in this theory, not in Kenya-- but Hawaii wasn't a state then so he's not a citizen.

Incidentally, they don't say this would make him a non-citizen; they just imply it, by noting the state was just a territory at the time.

Of course anyone born in a US territory is a citizen, too. So this article hints at a new theory by which Obama is not a citizen whereas in fact it's a new, goofy new theory based on a typo that proves he is a citizen.

You've really given up all credibility and are now blatantly hit-whoring when you don't mention such an important fact, but imply -- and leave your readers to erroneously conclude -- that this would make him a non-citizen.

This is the shoddiest I've seen yet.

Did I mention this is all based on a typo on a MySpace page? Or hat they deliberately omit a key fact that scuttles the whole implication they're trying to sell?

Coming soon from World News Daily: Exclusive: 15 Year Jimmy McDougal of Juniper, Florida Claims "Coldplay? Try Coldghey"on His MySpace Page, But Just Six Months Ago He Called Chris Martin "Teh Awesome!"

Developing hard.

It Gets Sillier: We know that Obama's elementary school teachers have been interviewed. That was one of the first times I read the word "Obamessiah," as Allah snarked the MSM was praising Obama's first and second grade papers on See Spot Run.

So, Obama was in first grade when he was expected to be in first grade, based on his fake birth year of 1961.

But WND is seriously contending he was born in 1957.

That means, when he entered first grade, rather than being age six, he was actually... age ten, posing as a six year old.

A ten year old posing as a six year old.

Two questions:

How on earth could anyone mistake a ten year old for a six year old? (And, by sixth grade -- mistake someone actually in full early adulthood at age 16 for a just-entering-puberty 12-year-old?

And:

Why would someone hide their child away for four years like this?

To... establish he's a citizen?

To... put him through four hard hears of pre-school communist indoctrination?

To... make him an academic stand-out, being he was, you know, reading at fifth-grade level in first-grade?

Because the mother knew he'd one day be president?

What?

Okay, WND. You're a real news outlet.

Uh-huh.

Dramatic Reenactment: At 0:39.

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Kinda big. It's one thing to have an opposition. It's another thing to have an opposition willing to table questions about which of them should displace the existing regime, united fully on the precept that the regime must be replaced.

Optimistic news. Can't wait to see the cool, hip, handsome new ways Obama finds to undermine them.

Maybe this is the way: Iran's mullahs are now, seriously, no joking, really, we mean it this time ready to negotiate about nukes.

I wonder what on earth they might be looking for in exchange for their mere promise to chit-chat.

Panic Button? At the end of Ed's post he links this: Khamenei calls upon Muslims to put aside their bickering and arguing about 'oo killed 'oo.

And unite. Behind their leadership, presumably. Because The Mahdi is coming, but he won't come if he hears lots of arguing about whether Ahmadinejad won the election or not.

Seriously. The Mahdi's on his way but he will turn this car around if you don't knock it off.

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As Kathleen Parker put it, you hear the racist dog whistles any time a Southerner talks about a black male "stealing" the sexual innocence of pillow-bosomed voluptuous blonde naifs.

Minnesota GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty joked Monday night that MSNBC host Chris Matthews is looking for some “bromance” with President Barack Obama.

Asked to follow up on a comment he made Friday night during a speech at the second annual GOPAC conference in Chicago in which he said the “Hardball” host had a “man crush” on the president, Pawlenty explained to Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren that he “jokingly said that the only thing rising faster than the debt and deficit of the government is Chris Matthews's man crush on Barack Obama.”

“I was going to use the term, Greta, ‘bromance,’ but I thought that was a little too nuanced,” Pawlenty said.

Kathleen Parker just emailed me to say that, as a Southerner, she understands well the racio-sexual panic that sets in whenever a smooth-talking black man comes to steal our chubby wide-assed white men.

I know no one wants to hear this -- as people are still locked in to the candidates they've previously supported, mostly -- but Tim Pawlenty is sounding pretty good lately.

Sure, it's just a cheap joke. It doesn't make him presidential material. But he's been sounding a lot of pretty notes lately.

The important thing here is that he's willing to tell the media to take its sensitivities, biases, and assumptions and stick them up their collective squeaker. Which is the first test for a serious candidate.

It should be called "the John McCain test."

Thanks to AHFF Geoff.

Oh: Chris Matthews just wrote me to say this post is 1) racist and 2) very, very hot.

On Second Thought, Maybe Not: I took Pawlenty's climate-change joke to mean he was willing to call a spade a spade and call the "evidence" weak at best and nonsense at worst.

That's one of the reasons I like Palin -- she has the onions to call shenanigans on this hoax. I thought Pawlenty was showing a true maverick streak like she does.

Not so much.

n April, Mr. Pawlenty delivered the remarks that probably best reveal his views on the environment. "It looks like we should have listened to President Carter," he told the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group. "He called us to action, and we should have listened. . . . Climate change is real. Human behavior is partly and may be a lot responsible. Those who don't think so are simply not right. We should not spend time on voices that say it's not real."

So, he's not really willing to piss on the media's pieties.

Thanks to the Ghost of Lee Atwater.

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And he got 52% of voters in the election, of course. His support is 5 or so points lower among likely voters.

52% approve, a tick below his previous record-worse of 53%.

42% disapprove. I think the old record was 40%. (On Gallup, I mean.)

These are tiny changes, statistically insignificant day-to-day. However, as you can see from the graph, the trend is persistent, obvious, and significant.

Before he was bouncing around in the 54-56% range. Now he seems to be bouncing around in the 52-54% range.

What does this mean? What can I add to this?

Obama's a dickbag.

I don't know what else there is to say.

Thanks to AHFF Geoff.

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Aviation Week reports, but don't expect the information to get out further than that.

Closing Velocity has it:

Two different Thaad interceptors were launched against a single target, simulating an Army operational concept of dispatching a salvo of weapons to ensure a threat is destroyed. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and industry officials declared the flight test a success shortly after it was executed.

However, they disclosed to Aviation Week only recently that the results exceeded their expectations. Early reports from the Pentagon said the second interceptor was intentionally destroyed in flight after the first disabled the target in a hit-to-kill engagement.

“Actually, what happened on the flight test was that the first interceptor hit just as it was supposed to and the second interceptor looked at all of this debris and said, ‘OK, I’ve got another something that looks interesting,’ picked out another threat, and went out and killed it,” says Tom McGrath, Thaad vice president for prime contractor Lockheed Martin. “The second intercept hit another piece of hardware. We can’t talk about what that was, but it picked out what logically you would expect it to pick out and killed it.”

I don't know why they're being coy about that. They mean it either locked in on the heat signature of the still-hot engines, or (less likely) it locked on to a radioactive trace they put into the warhead to make it play like a nuke.

It's not as if enemies can't guess what they're talking about. And it's not as if anyone's jaw is gong to drop at news that a missile locks on heat-signatures.

They pretty much flat-out say "it locked on to something it was keyed to seek, apart from physical mass." If they wanted to hide this they should have just said the second interceptor went after the biggest remaining bit of mass, and we wouldn't be sitting here wondering what the missile was targeting apart from mass.

Closing Velocity also re-rubbishes the already-rubbished fatuous arguments against missile defense.

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"The Prince of Darkness" (as he jokingly called himself, sometimes, as a parody of hysterical liberals' reaction to anything he said) goes on to God's reward.

Thanks to the College Politco (which double-tipped me this one and the Favre story.

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Looks like the town halls are taking a toll on public support.

The question of whether or not the eventual health-care reform legislation will include a public/government option to compete with private insurers has dominated the health-care debate over the past two days.

And according to a brand-new NBC News poll, 47% of Americans -- a plurality -- oppose the public plan, versus 43% who support it. That's a shift from last month's NBC/WSJ poll, when 46% said they backed it and 44% were opposed.

Congressional liberals meanwhile are demanding that a public option be a part of any deal.

A group of left-leaning House Democrats tells POLITICO that a bill without a public option simply won’t win enough votes in their caucus — a sentiment that raises fresh questions about the prospects to enact sweeping health care reform this year.

“A bill without a public option won’t pass the House,” said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), a member of Energy & Commerce Health subcommittee. “Not only are they weakening their proposal, but they are also weakening their hand. This is legislative subtraction by subtraction.”

Gibbsy is scrambling to walk back Sebilius' walk back and blames the media for an "overreaction" to her comments.

Even folks like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann are growing dissatisfied with what they perceive as Obama's surrender on not only a public option but single payer.

Maddow:

“[W]hen you have a weekend like that, it’s no real surprise when Monday turns out to be a great day for health insurance stock prices. … We got here through a collapse of political ambition, and the resultant downgrading of expectations for this once-in-a-lifetime, stars-aligned political shot at fixing this system … [W]hy is the public option dying now? It’s dying because of a collapse of political ambition. The Democrats are too scared of their own shadow to use the majority the American people elected them to in November to actually pass something they said they favored.

I actually watcher her an Olby last night and their despair and disappointment with Obama were palpable. And tasty. I enjoyed it so much I almost watched Olbermann's rerun at 10pm. I think I'll save that ritual as a treat should the whole thing go down in flames.

Oh, a nice tall glass of schadenfreude? Yes, yes I'd love another.

UPDATE: Sebelius...We've always been at war with East Asia. What would make you think otherwise? more...

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