Team Obama is out with another one of its annoying "show your support for Obama by doing something really ridiculous" stunts.

This time it's an E-Card that women can use to announce to their mother's they intend to sleep with every man in the US military.

Is that $18,000 for a year? For a lifetime? What? Also note the card says "to help pay for" birth control. So that's not the total? What's the actual cost?

Since you can get birth control pills for like $9/month, $18,000 worth of them would be good for over 160 years. That's....a lot of sex.

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Yesterday Ace blogged about the upcoming anti-fracking movie Matt Damon is staring in and it's problems keep the good guys and bad guys straight.

Well, it turns out there are some interesting money folks behind the movie. Namely the people that run the United Arab Emirates.

Now I wonder, why in the world would some of the world's largest exporters of oil have an interest in demonizing domestic oil production in the US? Oh right, they want to shut down a major source of product not under their control thereby weakening their cartel's ability to control supply and pricing.

Huh.

Matt Damon: Useful idiot for the biggest of Big Oil.

Posted by: DrewM at 07:12 AM | Comments (173)
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Oh. My.

The drunken brawler's campaign is sniping back with attacks on West over the circumstances surrounding his retirement from the Army. Yeah, good luck with that one.

Related: I'm going to start focusing on House races in the next few weeks. Back in 2010 we did a bunch of profiles on candidates leading up to the "Be the Wave" effort. It's obvoiusly a little diffferent this time but there are now seats to defend and maybe even a couple to pick up. If you have a good race in your area, leave it (and some links to news/websites, etc) in the comments or email me at DrewMtips AT Gmail DOT COM. Please only mention competitive races. You know, John Boehner is going to win and whoever is running against Stenny Hoyer is going to lose so let's skip those.

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• Netanyahu To Speak With American Leader Today
  
  
• Campbell Soup Shutting Down Sacramento Plant
  
  
• Obama Admin Caught Deleting State Dept Memo After Benghazi Attack
  
  
• Poll Shows Romney Winning The Libertarian Vote. Suck It Reason
  
  
• Obama Admin Quadrupled Warrantless Wiretaps
  
  
• Fred Savage Remembers The Princess Bride 25 Year Later
  
  
• Apparently This Concept Free Speech Does Not Mean What We Think It Means
  
  
• Democrats Darkening Mia Love's Image In Ads
  
  
• Freedom Of Expression, Without Expression
  
  
• France Institutes 75% Super Tax
  
  
• Why Aircraft Carriers Sail On
  
  
• Netanyahu's Speech To The UN
  
  
• The Great Bacon Scare Was B.S.
  
  
• Real Disposable Income Has First Drop Since November 2011, Savings Rate Tumbles
  
  
• As School Kids Go Hungry, Moochelle Chows Down
  
  
• Is MSNBC Editing Videos Again
  
  
• South African Mine Strikes Getting Worse
  
  
• American Incomes Have Fallen $3,040 During Obama Recovery
  
  
• SNL Finally Gets Around To Mocking Obama And It's Still Not Funny
  
  
• Israels Red Line Vague No Longer
  
  
• 2012 May Be The Worst Non-Recession, Non-Depression Year In The History Of The United States
  
  

Bleg: Can you take off work on election day? If so, you should volunteer to either be a poll watcher or work in the phone banks. Each polling place is allowed to have a poll watcher from each party. They tend to serve two purposes.

If you are in a heavily Democrat area, then your main job will be to prevent fraud. Make sure they judge of elections(supposedly neutral, but often not) is following the election law rules. Normally, your county committee will give you a phone number to call if you see fraud. They have lawyers standing by to deal with any situation.

The other job is to work a strike list. A strike list is three identical pieces of perforated paper. On each piece of paper is a voters name, party ID and phone number. You cross off the voters name from your list as they come in. Then aat a designated time, a Republican volunteer will come in and take one of the three pieces of paper back to a call center where a phone bank is busy calling up people who haven't voted. The Republican volunteer will come back for the other pieces of paper again later in the day.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, then please contact your local Republican committee and let them know. This is how we get out the vote. This is how we will prevent fraud in heavily Democratic areas. Make sure you do everything you can to ensure a Romney victory.

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Happy Friday.

Communications intercepted just after the Benghazi attack show that members of the radical militia Ansar al-Sharia bragged about it to Al Qaeda in North Africa. They were not gloating about any dumb YouTube video.

Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party leader in China will face criminal charges for corruption, abuse of power, bribetaking, and improper relations with women.

I'm not sure I linked this yesterday: incomes in red states are rising nine times faster than incomes in blue states. Coincidence, I'm sure.

79 percent of Americans believe that everyone should pay at least some income tax. Oh, but Romney saying so was just a career-ender, hmmm?

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Famous Robots

I was pleasantly surprised to be able to get most of these without having to think too hard. How many can you name?

(Answers below the fold)

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Not a hack, but an accident.

A lot of articles have a "Tweet this" button above them. If you hit it, I think it uses whatever account you have open to tweet out the article.

So, that is actually probably what happened. I think that because when you hit "Tweet this" it sends out the same tweet that the DCBOEE did ("Really, Scott Brown?" or whatever).

I assume this would have been done accidentally, or the person who hit "Tweet this" thought it would be tweeted out of her private twitter account.

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Praise Allah we have captured the infidel and ceased his lies and slanders.

The future must not and will not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam, Allah be praised.

According to TMZ, the guyÂ’s probation report is sealed. Question for criminal defense attorneys: Is there any way to force it to be unsealed, or is that at the discretion of one or both of the parties? ThereÂ’s a public interest at this point, I think, in knowing why theyÂ’re sending him back to prison. Did he commit a serious crime that we donÂ’t know about, or are they using a technicality to punish him for blasphemy?

Anyone want to bet he'll be released on condition he stops slandering The Prophet of Islam and removes the video?

And if that happens -- who can argue this isn't precisely what it obviously is?

Meanwhile... The FBI still hasn't been to the scene of the crime in Benghazi.

Via @iowahawkblog

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The DC Board of Elections and Ethics is responsible for, context clues inform me, elections and ethics in DC.

Their Twitter account posted a link to the liberal blog Talking Point Memo, getting all mad that Scott Brown dared to bring up Elizabeth Warren's non-existent Indian heritage.

They claim they were hacked.

Someone went to the trouble, you see, of hacking their account, and only posted a short tweet directing people to Talking Points Memo.

See, that's what hackers do. They invest hours to crack your password, then post brief political tweets linking people to liberal blogs.

"Somebody must have hacked into our account and posted that," Raper added. "Anybody who had worked here previously who had access to the Twitter account could have posted it or either someone posted it by accident."

The agency has since changed the account's password.

Yup. That's what I call Classic Hacker Behavior. Runninrebel agrees: "Whenever I commit a felony I like to do it for no real reason other than to share information of little importance. "

SD Tom adds:

The "hacker" didn't change their Twitter account password too after all that time and effort to crack the original password? So they were able to just jump onto their Twitter account and immediately change their password then? Really?

Like I said, a classic hack.

Thanks to Gabe.

Your Mouth

...may have been hacked by an Unknown User's penis. That's the best explanation I can provide, given the information available to me.

No, I'm not going to check my own penis. I have ruled my penis out as a suspect.

An impartial source has corroborated my penis' alibi. Who? None of your business, Ms. Noseypants.

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So... I'm not getting the PS3 I actually asked for, huh?

Also, the worst death scene ever put in a movie. It's from the Turks, of course. more...

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