Recap:

Whatev's. If you care about this horror show, it's on MSNBC. Even Obama's fellative allies in the media say this speech will be empty of anything new andentirely useless.

Meanwhile, Detroit looms as a backdrop, a facts-on-the-ground indictment of ObamaNomics. Major Garrett writes:

ObamaÂ’s 2011 speech described a Detroit that can only be described as a myth wrapped in a wish inside a dream.

“This is a city that’s been to heck and back,” Obama said. “And while there are still a lot of challenges here, I see a city that’s coming back.”

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She also sent an email to Filner complaining the treatment -- establishing contemporaneous documentary evidence of the event.

This happened during the period when Filner was a colleague and close ally of War on Women Field Marshal Nancy Pelosi.

According to KPBS Laura Fink, was Filner’s deputy campaign manager when the alleged incident took place at a fundraising event in 2005. Fink told KPBS that then-Congressman Filner patted her “posterior” while making a crude joke at the fundraiser.

KPBS reported that Fink said she sent an email to Filner’s personal account and documented the incident, demanding an apology. Fink told KPBS that a few days later, Filner mumbled to her, “I’m sorry” but added that she did not understand what happened.

I like that. "I know your tiny woman-brain thinks I patted your buttocks, but that is only because you are a stupid, confused pre-whore who can't understand very basic things that happen around her and to her own body. Obviously I have a great deal of respect for the Gender of Feebleminds and Sex-Retards."

Now, I know what you're thinking. You're saying to yourself, "Ace, that's all well and good, but I'm as certain as the sun is bright that distinguished Fake Feminist organizations such as Emily's List as well as other high-ranking officers in the War on Women have come out to denounce Filner and win this hill for the Army of Gender Respect."

Well once again, you are totally, completely wrong, and seriously, it's just getting embarrassing. Maybe you should mutter to yourself a little less and read a bunch more.

A spokeswoman for Emily’s List, a group that works to elect women supportive of abortion rights, argued the difference between Filner’s — or Weiner’s or Spitzer’s for that matter — behavior and that of Republican gaffe-prone men has to do with the legislative priorities of the GOP.

“The difference is that Republicans’ words and personal actions are backed up by an actual party legislative agenda that hurts women — this stuff goes from infuriating and outrageous to genuinely frightening when they’re trying to back it up with real live laws that roll back the clock to a time when women were treated as second class citizens,” Emily’s List Communications Director Jess McIntosh said. “Akin only mattered because Republicans had already tried to redefine rape in legislation — the Republicans gaffing all over the place when it comes to women are not outliers. They are reflective of their party’s actual agenda.”

Top California Democratic women — from Sen. Barbara Boxer to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — have hedged on explicitly calling on Filner to step down but made their disapproval with his behavior clear.

Pelosi told a reporter on Thursday to not identify Filner “as my former colleague” and said at her weekly press conference, “What goes on in San Diego is up to the people of San Diego…my colleagues who do represent San Diego have made their statements on the subject.”

What happens in DC stays in DC. It's like Vegas, except corrupt.

The War on Women

It's calling from... inside the House!

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Happy Wednesday.

The broadcast nets gave more than three times the coverage to Wendy Davis for her 10-hour filibuster than to Kermit Gosnell's entire 53 day trial for killing people and keeping trophies of dead babies.

The judge has refused to dismiss the defamation suit filed by climate alarmist Michael "hockey stick" Mann against National Review.

There are some good suggestions and some very bad suggestions for fixing law school.

A second woman has come forward to accuse San Diego mayor Bob "I'm a Hugger" Filner.

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I have had it.

Delaware state officials have told Congress that they likely destroyed the computer records that would show when and how often they accessed Christine O'DonnellÂ’s personal tax records and acknowledged that a newspaper article was used as the sole justification for snooping into the former GOP Senate candidateÂ’s tax history.

The revelations to Sen. Chuck GrassleyÂ’s office came Tuesday as the Treasury DepartmentÂ’s inspector general for tax administration, the governmentÂ’s chief watchdog for the Internal Revenue Service, formally reopened its investigation into the matter by re-interviewing Ms. O'Donnell.

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Mr. GrassleyÂ’s staff was told that a Delaware state investigator asked for and received permission from his boss on a Saturday to access Ms. O'DonnellÂ’s tax records based on a local newspaper article about a civil lien. The lien, it turned, out was issued erroneously.

Mr. Grassley said he was concerned that a simple newspaper article that alleged no criminal wrongdoing could be used to pierce one of AmericaÂ’s most protected privacies, tax information.

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Some good news. Maybe we get to leave this POS planet.

Einstein famously postulated that, as Dr. White put it, “thou shalt not exceed the speed of light,” essentially setting a galactic speed limit. But in 1994, a Mexican physicist, Miguel Alcubierre, theorized that faster-than-light speeds were possible in a way that did not contradict Einstein, though Dr. Alcubierre did not suggest anyone could actually construct the engine that could accomplish that.

His theory involved harnessing the expansion and contraction of space itself. Under Dr. Alcubierre’s hypothesis, a ship still couldn’t exceed light speed in a local region of space. But a theoretical propulsion system he sketched out manipulated space-time by generating a so-called “warp bubble” that would expand space on one side of a spacecraft and contract it on another.

“In this way, the spaceship will be pushed away from the Earth and pulled towards a distant star by space-time itself,” Dr. Alcubierre wrote. Dr. White has likened it to stepping onto a moving walkway at an airport.

But Dr. Alcubierre’s paper was purely theoretical, and suggested insurmountable hurdles. Among other things, it depended on large amounts of a little understood or observed type of “exotic matter” that violates typical physical laws.

Dr. White believes that advances he and others have made render warp speed less implausible. Among other things, he has redesigned the theoretical warp-traveling spacecraft — and in particular a ring around it that is key to its propulsion system — in a way that he believes will greatly reduce the energy requirements.

He is quick to offer up his own caveats, however, saying his warp research is akin to a university science project that is just trying to prove that a microscopic warp bubble can be detected in a lab. ”We’re not bolting this to a spacecraft,” he said of the warp technology.

Dr. Alcubierre, meanwhile, doesn't believe this project will succeed at all, and in fact seems to think the method of transportation he argued was plausible is in fact implausible.

He's got a weird take: If you create a "front" of contracting spacetime in front of your vehicle, moving faster than the speed of light, well, you can never shut it off, because there is no signal/method of creation that can ever reach that front -- any energy or signal you're employing to control the front can only move at the speed of light, so the front will always be out of the grasp of your ship's controls.

In fact, that's the easier case to understand; he goes on to say that not only could you never have a signal/means of manipulation fast enough to turn the front off, you could also never have one fast enough to even turn it on.

Then again, he's a White Hispanic so, you know.

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George Zimmerman: History's Greatest Monster

The Crime Spree Continues: Zimmerman Assaults, Drags Innocent Family From Their Car

And left his vehicle without permission. Again.

Zimmerman Profiled Black Men For No Good Reason

Well other than they matched the description given by one of the burglary victims. And descriptions are racist.

And no women were ever profiled by Zimmerman. Because sexism.

Zimmerman Put out Family's Fire Brutally and Without Warning

Why does he want these innocent people to starve in the cold? Is there no limit to his cruelty?

Zimmerman Called 911 on a 'Suspicious' 7-Year Old Black Boy

What kind of depraved racist does a thing like that. Don't believe it? Well here's the original police record of his disgusting complaint:

Compl advd s43 is walking alone & is not supervised on busy street // Compl concerned for well-being

What If George Zimmerman Were Black?

Yes what would happen if a black man shot a white kid in AmeriKKKa?

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via @clayranck

Buzzfeed identifies Weiner's accuser, who wanted to remain anonymous.

Swiped from Hot Air, which reminds readers of Kristen Powers' 2011 assessment of former-brief-boyfriend Weiner as "sociopathic." He's definitely compulsive, given to junkie-like cravings. It's pretty astonishing that after being forced to resign from Congress for sending out pictures of his penis to a few too many women, he was sending out pictures of his penis again almost immediately after.

I think that's like junkie behavior, right? What does a junkie do after his intoxication causes him to do something horrible that causes him a catastrophe? Well, he returns to the crack pipe, even harder.

Heather MacDonald deems Obama's Big Huge Race Speech empty of everything except cowardice.

Bill O'Reilly sounded some similar notes last night, accusing the media and black leadership of doing everything possible to avoid the black community's actual problems in order to focus on the one convenient scapegoat, White Oppressors.

Allen West discussed it too.

Greg Gutfeld earlier today had a good term for that sort of talk: "Hatefacts." What you're saying is a fact, but it's a Hate Fact, because the dominant cultural gatekeepers don't want to hear it and will call it "hate" to get you to shut up about your impolitic truth-telling.

Okay, today actually was sort of exhausting. I don't know why -- it would seem like it was all easy content, just dick-jokes and "Here's what's on TV," but for some reason it was pretty tiring.

Rick Tempest out.*

Bonus! @rdbrewer4 sends this under the slugline Husband Records Wife's Temper Tantrum, Files for Divorce. I haven't watched it yet, but it must be good.

* For those of you who were wondering -- now do you get why I called myself Rick Tempest? I just thought it was a fun, ridiculous, obviously made-up name, something you'd see in a bad detective novel or, well, an Anthony Weiner Jerk Circle.

I didn't know I'd get topped by Anthony Weiner's "Carlos Danger," though. Or "Sydney Leathers."

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Did I say "retired"? The White House seems to be playing cutesy games with his actual status to keep him from rendering testimony to Congress.

But here's what he said at a security forum.

The former head of U.S. forces in Africa, General Carter Ham, told the Aspen Security Forum that it quickly became clear the assault on the American consulate in Benghazi last year was a terrorist attack and not a spontaneous demonstration.

“It became apparent to all of us quickly that this was not a demonstration, this was a violent attack,” Ham said. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton initially had portrayed the embassy attack as a response to an inflammatory internet video.

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Asked if it was a terrorist attack, Ham said the intelligence left no doubt that it was.

“I don’t know if that was my first reaction, but pretty quickly as we started to gain understanding within the hours after the initiation of the attack, yes.”

Meanwhile, Obama's approval has dropped to a very low 41%, per a McClatchky poll. The lowest mark he ever scored on that poll was 39%, back in September 2011. We can do better.

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Just trying to get something up. On a different topic, I mean.

Mark and Dana Michelle Gerstle told friends they do not want to talk publicly about Zimmerman for fear they will be accused of portraying him as a hero — and face a backlash from those who consider he got away with murder. 'They are very grateful to Zimmerman for what he did, but they do not want to get involved,' said a friend, who asked not to be named.

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