If ya want one.

Rangers in St. Louis. I understand fans of other teams bein ho-hum about it (Drew is, and it ain't no crime).

But for the professional sportswriters and broadcasters who are butthurt that it isn't a team from NY, or Boston or Chicago?

Boo-fuckin-hoo. This is your job Gladys. Do it.

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Human Events' Jason Mattera (I think) challenges Biden on his ever-escalating demagoguery -- he keeps mentioning the threat of rape if we don't Pass This Jobs Bill now. This isn't an off-the-cuff remark; he's now said it multiple times, including his latest "I wish opponents would get raped."

This is by design, and out of desperation.

Bonus: Oh, and Bush killed some people and burned their houses to the ground. And also, rape.
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They'll tell you what they fear?

I'm not sure what they're trying to conceal here -- but they are trying to conceal something.

Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found.

The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program — the same program that has been the center of controversy surrounding the failed solar company Solyndra.

Both were changed to remove the name of a company that has received negative press attention in recent days, SunPower, and replace it with the name of another company, NRG Energy.

Generally, it is not considered correct procedure to revise old press releases retroactively on the Web. More commonly, government agencies will issue a new press release with a current date explaining any changes that have occurred.

In the April case, the Department of Energy loan programs office announced in a press release on April 12 "conditional commitment" to a $1.187 billion loan guarantee to support the California Valley Solar Ranch project, which it said was "sponsored by SunPower Corporation."

But that release was later changed on one website to say the project was "sponsored by NRG Energy." The date on the release remained "April 12, 2011."

So are they just airbrushing Sun Power out of the picture, or is there more to it?

Thanks to Drew and William Amos.

Update: It's simple. Sun Power got a $1.2 billion loan guarantee, and we might be eating that one shortly, too.

And Sun Power is very well-connected to Democrats. According to Andrew Stiles:

SunPower now carries $820 million in debt, an amount $20 million greater than its market capitalization. If SunPower was a bank, the feds would shut it down. Instead, it received a lifeline twice the size of the money sent down the Solyndra drain.

Indeed, SunPower received a $1.2 billion loan guarantee just days before the DOEÂ’s Sept. 30 deadline to approve such agreements. The company, like Solyndra, is also extremely well-connected politically.

Rep. George Miller (D., Calif.), co-chairman of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee and close confidant of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (who has Solyndra connections of her own), was a strong advocate for SunPower, which according to PAC filings contributed $15,650 to House and Senate Candidates in 2010. Of that, $14,650 went to Democrats, including $4,000 to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), $2,900 to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) and $500 to Miller himself. Oh, and the company also hired MillerÂ’s son as a lobbyist.

SunPower is currently on track to become the second embarrassing failure in the DOEÂ’s loan portfolio. It is deeply in debt, and company executives recently announced plans to lower its earnings projections for 2011 even further.

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We don't see any declarations that red seats are suddenly in jeopardy.

When PPP polled the state in March, shortly after Lingle's second term as Governor ended, only 41% of voters in the state had a favorable opinion of her to 51% with a negative one. Those poor numbers had her running 17 points behind Ed Case and 12 points behind Mazie Hirono in hypothetical head to head match ups.

The passage of time appears to have done Lingle some good though. Her favorability is up 5 points to 46% while her negatives have dropped 8 points to 43%. And with that improvement in her image has come an improvement in her standing against her potential opponents. She now trails Hirono by just 6 points at 48-42, and she actually leads Case by 2 points at 45-43.

Thanks to Charles.

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Kind of funny.

So, Conan O'Brien is making teleprompter jokes. Obviously, then, no longer a fringe thing.

I had meant to add something to that Drudge screencap, the "Flawless" headline.

Irony only works if it's clear you don't mean a word of what you're saying. Otherwise, it's confusing, as people do in fact take your words as on-the-level.

Because, I guess, I'm considered a RINO, it does happen that when I drop some ironic statement, some people start arguing with me, because it's not clear, in their minds, that I couldn't possibly have meant what I'm saying.

So, for irony to work without that sort of confusion, it has to be pretty clear that the literal interpretation is not intended.

So, with Obama: Could "Flawless" possibly mean that Obama's actually flawless?

No. Not a damn person in the entire world could think such a thing. Drudge's irony works here because it's so obvious that Obama's a failure that a headline calling him "Flawless" must be some kind of sarcasm.

Even if I put up a big headline reading "CLUTCH" under Tony Romo's picture, you wouldn't know for sure if I was goofing or not, because every once in a while Tony Romo does in fact turn in a clutch performance. You'd have to read the article link to know if this was one of the minority of times he'd actually been clutch, or one of the majority of times he was anti-clutch.

With Obama? No need for context! We all know what the headline means.

We've come an awfully long way from January 2009. When a "Flawless" headline might actually have been used by some in the media in an on-the-level, straight-serious manner.

Now, it's a gag, and an obvious one.

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Has Joe Biden ever known this experience?

Would he recommend it to a friend?

President ObamaÂ’s $447 billion jobs bill would provide roughly $30 billion in aid to state and local governments to help retain about 400,000 teachers at risk of being fired because of budget cuts, and an additional $5 billion to help local governments keep about 18,000 police officers and 7,000 firefighters on the job.

So, first off the bat, we're talking about 6:1 teachers:cops & firefighters.

And yet he mostly talks about the latter.

What if we agreed to the $5 billion for cops, but rejected the $30 billion for teachers?

Of course they wouldn't agree; the teachers unions are the liberal coalitions' most important clients.

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In Philadelphia on Tuesday, standing with Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and other officers at Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, the vice president said that one argument he’s “heard from my friends who oppose” the jobs bill is that “this is just temporary.”

“Well let me tell you, it’s not temporary when that 911 call comes in and a woman’s being raped if a cop shows up in time to prevent the rape,” he continued. “It’s not temporary to that woman.

“It’s not temporary to the guy whose store is being held up and a gun is being pointed to his head,” he continued, “if a cop shows up and he’s not killed, that’s not temporary to that store owner.

“Give me a break, ‘temporary’!” the Veep said. “I wish these guys that thought it’s temporary, I wish they had some notion what it’s like to be on the other side of a gun. Or a 200 pound man standing over you telling you to submit. Folks, it matters. It matters!”

And yet, Joe Biden's wish that we all be raped by 200 pound submission fetishists aside, the funding would, in fact, still be temporary.

Oh, and meantime, the liberal media continues to worry that the Obama Administration is too coolly rational for its own good, and not filled with enough demagogic populism.

Not a Hit With Democratic Moderates, Either: Via the sidebar, "Stimulus fatigue."

Several moderate Democrats and Republicans appear to be struggling to overcome “stimulus fatigue” setting in among voters back home and are withholding support for now — meaning the latest proposal is at risk of winning even less backing than the president’s signature economic bill, which fell nine votes shy of breaking a GOP-led filibuster last week.

“At some point — and my opinion is now — we’ve got to stop spending money we don’t have,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who caucuses with Democrats. He told POLITICO he probably would vote to block the latest proposal from even moving forward for debate.

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Really? That's the "big question"?

Verum Serum notes there's a lot of sexual assault going on at OWS.

In the video at Verum Serum, this jackass reporter, Tom Beres, prominently displays an Occupy Mutant stating his belief that no one -- no one! -- there was capable of rape, so obviously "someone brought her here" so she could cry rape.

Now that is of course always a possibility.

I don't seem to recall the media leaping to this possibility in other cases of alleged rape.

I don't remember the media being at all skeptical of Crystal Gayle Mangum, for example.

But here, we're very worried about the "damage" the "ugly" allegation could do the "work" Occupy is doing, so the She Got Bused In To Make a False Rape Charge Theory gets a full and fair hearing.

But the good news is... The Occupy movement finally got a black guy on camera! So that's something!

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Ah, the days of old, when a more humble Obama rated his performance as a "B+."

Now?

A+, baby. Do they give A++'s, or is that just something from A Christmas Story?

He does at first avoid grading himself...

Tapper: You have gotten a lot passed though, much of your agenda has been passed -- the stimulus, health care, Wall Street reform -- so we're sitting in a state right now where a majority of the voters disapprove of your handling of the economy and we're going to Virginia later, where a majority of the voters do not thing you deserve to be re-elected. We're sitting in a school, what grade would you give yourself?

Obama: Well, you know I'm not going to give myself a grade.

Tapper: Not even a midterm?

Obama: Other than "incomplete" because the work that we started is not yet done, but the fact is that the American people are rightly frustrated over what they see as a system in which responsibility is not always rewarded, where people who have done the right thing all their lives still seem to be struggling, that sense that the American dream is slipping away. I think that is something that helped get me elected but it hasn't been entirely solved yet, and in some ways it's gotten tougher for folks because of the financial crisis.

And I think most people understand that we didn't get into this problem overnight and we're not going to solve it overnight, but I think that after two-and-a-half, three years of elevated unemployment, home values declining substantially, people feeling as if everything they've worked for is still leaving them vulnerable and not having the security they've counted on, it's not surprising that people are feeling frustrated and as president of the United States, even though they don't think I caused the problem, they're still going to feel a justifiable impatience in terms of why aren't we able to get this in a better place.

What I say to the American people is that we are moving in the right direction, it is going to take time to heal all the problems that exist out there, the health care bill that we passed is absolutely the right thing to do but it's going to take awhile before it's even fully implemented, much less taken full effect, and you start seeing health care inflation stabilize.

...he later notes he got a perfect score.

I guarantee it's going to be a close election because the economy is not where it wants to be and even though I believe all the choices we've made have been the right ones, we're still going through difficult circumstances.

In Obama's mind, he has made all the right choices. He has done what liberal/socialist economic theory says he should have done.

The fact that this has only led to further pain isn't an indictment of the theory, but rather of reality, which is misbehaving. The theory holds.

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Five Muslim men, Moroccan nationals, in their twenties arrested after breaking into a courthouse -- not far from where an intelligence conference was scheduled later.

At Hot Air.

KSAT, quoting sheriff's officers, reports that surveillance video showed the men walking into the building with an item in their hands, but they did not have it when they walked out.

The officials tell KSAT that the RV contained several documents and proof the men had been traveling across the country for some time.

KENS TV quotes investigators as saying the men spoke French and had Moroccan passports. The sources said documents found inside their vehicle show that the men had allegedly been traveling around the country to high-level security facilities.

Here's something a little off:

That's their RV, apparently parked right outside the courthouse they broke into.

That's awfully conspicuous, isn't it?

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I find this baffling. Or, actually, I don't. I think I understand what happened here, and it's disqualifying for Cain.

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