1500 missing? That is just an order of magnitude away from the Japan nuke disaster.

I've never heard of a tornado like that. And the last ones, in the Southeast, were ferocious.

And now 1500 missing in one town?

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I've never been more proud of him.

Oh My: He was overheard to ask the year? And still got it wrong?

Where was the TelePrompTer? This wouldn't have happened with the TelePrompTer.

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I would not hit that.

She's cute, don't get me wrong. But hit-that level?

Please.

Maybe, if she asked nicely. Maybe then I'd do it, as a goof. I'd just do it so I could tell my friends, "Check this out, this girl thinks I like her, it's a total goof."

And they'd laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

Since McCain's site is down, here's the original article.

Meh. A six, maybe a seven outside of LA.

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Full video at the Right Scoop. And the transcript, too.

Here are some choice quotes. Worth reading in full, or watching in full, but here are, I think, the best parts. And this is long. Well, there were a lot of good parts.

Bonus: 29 ovations, more than Bammy at his SOTU.

One of his biggest applause lines was aimed directly at President Obama.

“Israel will not return to the indefensible boundaries of 1967,” Netanyahu said, prompting a big standing ovation.

Later he added: “Israel on the 1967 lines would be only 9 miles wide. So much for defensible borders.”

Bammy got 25 ovations. And nine of Bammy's "ovations" were just Joe Biden jumping around like a monkey every time the words "high speed trains" were mentioned, so I don't know if they count.

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Mm-hm.

curious speculated about this a few nights ago.

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This was sort of inevitable, and it's pretty bad. China has long supported every indecent country in the world, because America has alliances with most of the decent ones.

The list of the indecent includes the terrorist state Pakistan.

China has now made it official: an attack on Pakistan (terrorist hunting) is now to be taken as an attack on China.

They have extended their own security zone to the terrorist state of Pakistan, which means China is now officially a terrorist sponsor.

It also means they're threatening to attack us if we attack a terrorist.

So, lucky us. We just found a trillion and a half dollars we thought we were in the hole for, but now we're not.

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Wanted to get paid, huh? Classy.

Someone tried to get paid by Ben Smith, who apparently decided, "But you don't have anything except creepiness and malice."

Same guy? I'm not... sure. I'se gots a guesstimation on that, though.

"Does Politico pay for exclusives? Cause I'm looking to sell. I have 122 direct messages from Sarah Palin staffer Rebecca Mansour," the person emailed, eventually sending along sample direct messages identical to a couple the Caller posted. They were forwarded from the account of one improbably named Toki de la Vega, a contributor to some pro-Palin sites, though there was a man's name attached to one of the tweets as well.

I responded with a counter-offer of lunch and "undying gratitude."

"Sorry, Ben, but it's going to take more than a happy meal and a hand shake to get me to betray someone's confidence. Only freshly printed 100 dollar bills help me get over feelings of guilt," wrote the emailer, who continued, "Would it violate some fake journalistic ethics and standards to get me in contact someone who does pay? I know that the thought of blogging about this is making your panties wet. The topics range from Chuck Hagel to Ricky Hollywood and everything else in between. It's a f***ing blogger's gold mine."

Oh, Ben Smith recontacted him today. He said he was just kidding back then.

Let me shake the Magic Plausibility 8-Ball...

HIGHLY PLAUSIBLE.

So, there you go. Toki was just kidding.

It is a blogger's gold mine, but not in the way you think, Toki.

Thanks to curious. Actually: Thanks to mrp.

Clarification: Smith did offer him lunch and "undying gratitude" to see the tweets, which isn't really all that surprising. A reporter would want to see them. To see if there's anything there.

There isn't.

And then steps in the Daily Caller, apparently the publisher of last resort for desperate creeps looking to get paid a couple hundred dollars for tawdry email hacks about nobodies and about nothing.

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Don't you know who I am?

Dave's post could probably serve for this, but I need somethin', so here's a thread about Bibi.

Hello! Of course he gets protested/heckled by some CodePink type... gee I wonder which party gave that person a pass to get inside.

Quote of the Speech: In the headline now.

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Speaking at AIPAC last night.

Tomorow in Congress I'll describe what a peace between a Palestinian state and a Jewish state could look like," he said, "but I want to ensure you of one thing: It must leave Israel with security, and therefore Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967 lines."

Is it rude to bring up "survival?"

Lines, and territory, and rights. The one right that never gets discussed, which Bibi puts right out front, one I remember first reading in Conor Cruise O'Brien's The Siege years ago, "does Israel have the right to exist?"

Cause until we answer that one, the rest of it can't be resolved.

And of course by "we" I mean the organization ostensibly representing Palestinians that Obama insists Israel must "negotiate" with, who incidentally have already answered this question, and they pretty much say "no."

video here, via Allahpundit.

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Whoopsie: I left off a candidate in the first version. Fixed now. If you voted in the first five minutes, you should re-vote.

It's been a few months since we last looked at who you guys were supporting among the GOP presidential contenders. Remember, primaries are all about persuading your fellows to vote for your candidate, unlike the general election which is about holding your nose and voting for the idiot your fellows chose instead.

I've got the declared candidates on the list, plus Bachmann and Palin. I don't believe Palin is going to run, but I figured there'd be a meltdown if I took her off the list this early. Also, Ron Paul isn't on there because every time I include him on a poll a bunch of joo-haters rush over from whatever conspiracy theorist website they're currently trolling and skew the results.

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