Don't you just love how this year is going?

Adam Kinzinger for Illinois' 11th District.

UPDATE: Whups, forgot the link to his website. Here it is.

Kinzinger represents the same brand of Baldermann Republican who will appeal to independent and swing voters. Not only is Kinzinger a member of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command with five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, he saved the life of a Milwaukee woman in 2006 by pinning to the ground her knife-wielding attacker and restraining him until police arrived.

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Two years later, he was airlifting injured soldiers from battle zones in Afghanistan.

Kinzinger is Tea Party and RedState endorsed.

Dear Sweet Jesus.

Much thanks again to awesome tipster Krukke1.

UPDATE II: The Moronettes are flushed and breathless. Bonus pic from extremely helpful commenter 'Peaches,' below the fold. more...

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Only Death's frigid embrace can release you from this torment. And Death has come. Today.

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Starfleet Commander Harry Lipmerkin has been apprehended.

Michael Patrick McManus was arrested Friday night after a federal judge signed a warrant for his arrest. The FBI says he was arrested without incident.

Also, an Out Of Control Newstalk Alert:

The pictures ignited a flurry of bloggers attempting to figure out who was parading around town as this highly-decorated war hero.

Ouch! Hate it when that happens. That's why I never travel in flurries anymore. Somebody whips out an incendiary photo and before you know it, you're going foooom like a Q-tip soaked in kerosene. Fortunately they make a cream for that now.

Video at the CDR Salamander link.

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Friday, Friday, Friday and Saturday morning too.

"Too Late to Apologize": The American Revolution as a Music Video
And hey it's better than most hit songs these days plus the Founders look good on stage. Be sure and check out BF shredding. Too bad the rest of history hasn't been covered the same way.

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I'm adding in the (And Die of Cancer) but that's obviously what he's saying.

Rajendra Pachauri, the besieged head of the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change, told the Financial Times on Wednesday that he is the victim of a "carefully orchestrated" campaign to block climate change legislation.

"I would say [there are] nefarious designs behind people trying to attack me with lies, falsehoods," he told the paper, swatting away allegations that his India-based climate institute, TERI, has benefited from decisions made by the IPCC, which he also chairs.

Climate change skeptics "are people who deny the link between smoking and cancer; they are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder," he said.

"I hope that they apply it (asbestos) to their faces every day."

Pachauri's remarks came as pressure and scrutiny are mounting against the IPCC's hallmark Fourth Assessment Report, which laid out the case for man-made climate change over a thousand sprawling pages.

The report contained misleading data about the melting rate of glaciers in the Himalayas and is riddled with citations to data furnished by activist groups, non-scientific journals and material that was never peer-reviewed.

Pachauri called the furor over errors in the assessment report "a blip that is going to pass," and reiterated his intention to remain in place as the chief of the world's most powerful climate body.

"I'm not a quitter. Some people would want me to be; some people would probably say that I should go, but I am not going to oblige them. I have no desire to leave at all," he said.

You can't spell "unaccountable" without UN.

Wow, this thing is coming apart at the seams.

Thanks to Lord Raiden.

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A new raft of stuff has come out since I posted this in the sidebar and Allah has the links.

I'll go straight to the most salacious rumor:

The New York Daily News' Liz Benjamin points to a weird letter to the editor of the Post from the State Superintendent, who flatly denies the recent Page Six story on Paterson dining (and nuzzling) with a lady who is not his wife. And supposedly the bombshell story will make the earlier adultery revelations look tame in comparison.

For what it's worth, there is a rumor that the governor and his wife are swingers.

But that's from Gawker, which is apparently libel-proof or something, so take that as the rumor it is.

None of this really matters, of course.

No one takes the job of Lieutenant Governor seriously, do they?

Improved Headline... Thanks to Uncle Facts, Summoner of Meteors.

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The IPCC made the "Himalayan glaciers melted by 2030" claim in a footnote in their 2007 report.

Their source? A 2005 World Wildlife Fund (an advocacy organization) report which mentioned the claim.

And their source? A 1999 article in pop-science magazine.

And that guy's source? A scientist who now admits he was merely "idly speculating" and had done absolutely no research whatsoever on the topic whatsoever.

So this went from a 1999 "helper quote" -- look, the guy just said this to give the writer something juicy for a nothing little article -- to accepted IPCC fact in less than ten years, with absolutely no science whatsoever supporting it.

And the IPCC now admits there was never any science behind it, but it was just the sort of thing they thought they should put in:

Dr. Murari Lal, the “scientist” who included the 2035 glacier apocalypse in the IPCC report, told Britain’s Mail on Sunday that he knew it wasn’t based on “peer-reviewed science” but “we thought we should put it in”—for political reasons.

Ah. We thought we should put it in. The alternate step three in the scientific process. Experiment, and/or just "put it in" if you feel like it.

Now, Dr. Pachauri is the railroad engineer (yes, really) heading the IPCC. He at first rejected the trashing of this ridiculous claim (which should have been obvious as crank, based simply on visual inspection and common sense) as "voodoo science." He has since been forced to retract this stupidity.

The scientist, or whatever he is, who first "idly speculated" about the Himalayan apocalypse on the telly with a journalist in 1999 is named Syed Hasnain.

Check this shit out -- and know ye how the science gets "settled."

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the self-aggrandizing old bruiser and former railroad engineer who serves as head honcho of the IPCC jet set, dismissed Mr. Raina’s research as “voodoo science.” He’s now been obliged to admit the voodoo was all on his side. But don’t worry. By 2008, Syed Hasnain’s decade-old casual chit-chat over the phone to a London journalist had become “settled science,” so Dr. Pachauri’s company TERI (The Energy & Resources Institute) approached the Carnegie Corporation for a grant to research “challenges to South Asia posed by melting Himalayan glaciers,” and was rewarded with half a million bucks. Which they promptly used to hire Syed Hasnain. In other words, professor Hasnain has landed a cushy gig researching solutions to an entirely non-existent global crisis he accidentally invented over a 15-minute phone call 10 years earlier. As they say in the glacier business, ice work if you can get it.

Well. Isn't that special.

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What if you're really into LARPing (live action role playing -- sort of like taking D&D to the next level by throwing in some sexual asphyxia while you're rolling dice) but aren't really active or athletic enough to wield a foam-rubber sword and scamper around someone's patio doing bad British accents?

How about we take all social activity and physical activity out of the whole thing, too, so you can watch it on TV? Alone, in the darkness, with no friend in the world but your lonely morbidity?

Sounds great. So here's a Mexican TV show which has turned LARPing into a game show, where you collect (and this part, I admit, gives me a throbbing nerd-on) real silver pieces as your prizes.

Asgaard. I wonder if that's how the Mexicans really spell Asgard, or if the habit of tasteless vowel-mutations to indicate fantasy (or heavy metal album titles) is now a Mexican practice as well.

Also, Scandis invent the worst music form in the world, some kind of fusion of Eurobubble synthpop and Insane Clown Posse.

Both thanks to MattM.

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Apparently it got exaggerated. And/or just made up.

The quote claiming that small-breasted women were banned from porn came from someone in the "Australia Sex Party," a, uhh, political party I guess.

The Australian censorship board says it's not true, and that they'll continue banning films that depict, pervishly, anyone who's under 18 or who appears under 18, per their longstanding practice.

Eh. I kinda knew it was bullshit.

But I had nothing to post. So, like just as with Big Media, I posted it anyway.

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Even a Washington Post blogger is taken aback by this.

Click the link for the back and forth. Here's the analysis.

Two things struck me as extraordinary about ObamaÂ’s reply.

The first was the ease with which he cast Lincoln’s plea for a bit more centrism as a call for a return to Bushism -- the “exact same proposals that were in place for the last eight years.” That’s not what she was advocating; it’s not what any Democrat who’s questioning his approach is advocating. But the president set up this strawman, and he pummeled it, rather than engaging Lincoln’s valid concerns.

The second striking thing was how easily he appeared to write off Lincoln politically. Conceding nothing, he implied that her defeat was not only a foregone conclusion, but also an acceptable price to pay for staying the course on policy.

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ObamaÂ’s answer to Lincoln suggests that he fully embraces the Plouffe strategy [which is "Pass the Bill No Matter What Because Republicans Are Going to Attack Us For It Either Way" -- ace]. I donÂ’t understand it. Independently of what anyone might think of the health-care billÂ’s merits, the publicÂ’s attitude is hardening against it; it is politically toxic, period. If Virginia and New Jersey didnÂ’t prove that, Massachusetts did. And November could prove it again. If the Dems tip-toe away from health care now, it would be embarrassing, but they would at least give the electorate time to forget the issue and focus on the DemocratsÂ’ other accomplishments -- if they can come up with some between now and November.

Still, give the president credit: No one can accuse him of bending his principles to politics. Of course, if thereÂ’s a price to be paid for that this year, he wonÂ’t be the one paying it. Blanche Lincoln, among others, will get to do that.

He's the only important one on that stage.

Obama's position is curious, in terms of politics. As Allah keeps noting, he seems determined to threaten Democrats with the political consequences of not passing a massively unpopular bill, which is like me telling you to hit the tip-jar or else I won't permit JackM. to write any more epic poems.

I don't know if he's living in a fantasy world, or he thinks that simply by repeating something enough times he can make it true (or at least true in other people's minds), or what's going on.

Either way, he's throwing people like Lincoln under that wonderful bus of his with the big wheels and and the tall clearance between undercarriage and street.

I wonder at what point office-holders in Lincoln's situation simply repudiate him.

Probably never. No one can afford to just write off half of their base.

Via Hot Air's Headlines.

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