Lotta Fall out there. Whole lotta leaves.

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Are you ready?

No, are you really ready?

Because this is the ne plus ultra of trolling.

This is the big one, boys.

This is the big one.

Are you ready?

No, you think you are but I know you're not. It's like when your dad asked if you were Ready for Highway Driving Practice. You said you were but you knew you were kind of afraid of merging at 50 mph.

And you should be afraid of this, too.

Here. Enjoy the awful.

I'll take that awful silence as awful silence. A commenter dropped this into a comment but I didn't notice his name and I'm frankly not sure he would want, or should receive, any credit for this.

In other news, this happened and it's awful.

Obama actually said this and it's awful.

DrewMTips thinks the House GOP Leadership is awful. But then, Drew thinks everything is awful. But then, he's right about that.

Salon is awful but you knew that.

The chief of the Boston University Medical Center's facial and reconstructive surgery department says that John Kerry's cosmetic surgery is awful.

"He's been a little over-injected, I would say. It gives him an expressionless lower part of his face, and nothing was done on top. To say he looks Frankenstein-ian is not inaccurate," Spiegel said. "Tell him we can fix him, if he wants to get in touch."

Clever deployment of negations is not awful at all.

I added a new wrinkle to the podcast: awful impressions.

No animals today, but if you listen to this, first you're going to think it's awful, but then you might think it's not inaccurate to say it's not awful at all.

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Posted by: Ace at 04:38 PM | Comments (271)
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Bumped. (See what I did there?)
But there's new content below.

Dave had to get a tune-up on one of his bionic parts this week, so I'm standing in for him on the weekend football postin'.

Clemson (3) defeated NC State Thursday night 26-14.

Here's the rest of week 4's Top 10 action (AP rankings, all times EDT):

Colorado State at No. 1 Alabama (7:00pm)
No. 2 Oregon is idle
Florida A&M at No. 4 Ohio State (12:00pm)
No. 23 Arizona State at No. 5 Stanford (7:00pm)
Auburn at No. 6 LSU (7:45pm)
Florida International at No. 7 Louisville (12:00pm)
Bethune-Cookman at No. 8 Florida State (6:00pm)
North Texas at No. 9 Georgia (12:21pm)

Complete schedule here.
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Posted by: andy at 12:35 PM | Comments (146)
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Uhhh...

I don't understand. You have to read the article. I could digest it but I couldn't, because I don't understand it.

But Jonah Goldberg is calling the Defund strategy a "long con."

And not in a good way. As in in a con on conservative voters.

Actually, at the end of the podcast, Gabe and Drew had a long argument of Defund vs. Delay, and it was informative.

What it informed me of, chiefly, is that I don't know what's going on and should probably not opine any further until I do.

One thing discussed was @drewmtips' new plan: To pass a law demanding that ObamaCare be executed to the letter. I thought, though, that all laws were supposed to be executed to the letter. I thought that was assumed.

But there is a tension here. We say "Let It Burn," but isn't the real "Let It Burn" position speeding ObamaCare on its way?

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Posted by: Ace at 04:03 PM | Comments (164)
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Well no, not exactly, but there were two more defections.

There had been an earlier one, so it was down to a Gang of Seven. I should have known that so I'll pretend I did. Now it's a gang of five.

The most recent defectors quit over the President's arrogation of the power to enforce or ignore the law as he sees fit. They decided it would be mental to give him more laws he could enforce or ignore per his Executive Whim.

Posted by: Ace at 03:33 PM | Comments (98)
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Prior to that, Twitchy found some other vile things he tweeted at people (mostly women). He was serial offender.

Thanks to Mike D. for sending me the tip.

Corrected: Earlier and in this post I misinformed people that Brauer was the Communications Director for the California Democrat Party.

This is incorrect. He was the Communications chair (a volunteer position, it turns out) for the Sacramento area Democratic Party. I incorrectly thought "Sacramento" would mean the state party. It didn't, and still doesn't.

I apologize for this error.

The problem with errors like this is that they let Ted Cruz off the hook.

Posted by: Ace at 02:53 PM | Comments (152)
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That's a rough translation from the original Gibbering of Lunatics. The original quote was even crazier.

Throughout a 50-minute interview on Thursday in her second-floor Capitol office, where the late Speaker Tip OÂ’Neill used to receive supplicants, Pelosi was sharply derisive about the scorn Republicans have for this president.

“You know why it is,” she said. “You know why it is. He’s brilliant, … he thinks in a strategic way in how to get something done … and he’s completely eloquent. That’s a package that they don’t like.”…

Then she added a line that she has used before, that drives Republicans batty: “He has been … open, practically apolitical, certainly nonpartisan, in terms of welcoming every idea and solution. I think that’s one of the reasons the Republicans want to take him down politically, because they know he is a nonpartisan president, and that’s something very hard for them to cope with.”

"Doesn't she look tired to you?" asked the Doctor.

Someone's been poppin' Molly, I think.

I'll direct you to Hot Air for that video as well as his take on this... whatever this is. I hesitate to call it a "claim." It's more like a random collection of words on Boggle score sheet.

But I have to steal something. I hate linking Politico but whatever.

The 'meh' of a salesman

Barack Obama has still never really sold the American people on anything but himself.

For Obama supporters, the question has become frustrating and frequent: how can the man and the team who made a freshman senator the countryÂ’s first black president, and kept people with him despite Great Depression-level unemployment, have failed to truly turn public opinion around on a single difficult issue?

Twice, they turned Candidate Obama into a movement. But they havenÂ’t been able to turn President Obama into more than an inclination.

The question couldnÂ’t be more pressing...

“It’s profound, is what it is,” said Paul Begala...

It is now September 2013, shading into October. We are five years into this man's two terms as president.

Politico has just noticed.

Oh, and speaking of non-partisan.

With Washington facing a potential government shutdown, President Obama traveled to the heartland Friday and delivered a combative rebuke of congressional Republicans for “trying to mess with me” instead of governing responsibly.

Obama railed at length against Republican lawmakers, whom he accused of “holding the economy hostage” by threatening not to fund the government and not to raise the government’s debt limit.

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Obama at times sought to belittle GOP lawmakers. “The most basic constitutional duty Congress has is to pass a budget,” said the president, a former constitutional law lecturer. “That’s Congress 101."

What? Did he just even...?

Thanks to Zach for that last one.

Posted by: Ace at 02:22 PM | Comments (142)
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See, there's nothing wrong with these insipid, vicious, and yet effeminate and ineffectual death-wishes. Grown men reduced to spitting out curses like an old Gypsy crone.

That little AVI? He calls himself a #TwitterCop. I don't know if this is some kind of real moderation position afforded him by Twitter, or his own self-aggrandizement to call himself a policeman regarding the tweets of others.

But anyone who cannot restrain himself from such pathetic speech has mental and emotional troubles, and anyone engaging in such vile hissing who thinks he's fit to judge the speech of others is outright delusional.

By the way: I've been doing this for almost ten years. Many of you-all have been commenting on the 'net since there was such a thing (or shortly after it began).

How come we-all are able to avoid saying this shit? What kind of pathetic emotional wreck do you have to be to give public venting to your nasty little cowardly hate-gnome?

And to involve someone's children?

Especially if you're not just a "#TwitterCop," whatever that is, but Communications Director for the largest Democratic Party in America.

Are they just hiring basket cases over there? Don't answer that; I think we all know the answer.

And the Democratic Party has no problem with this speech. It doesn't condemn the rhetoric for what it is-- hateful, despicable, unmanly, the hissing of an impotent at at world outside his control. A sign of emotional and psychological degradation, in other words.

No, it condemns the speech only to the extent that it might provoke some sympathy for bad actors like Ted Cruz.

Pathetic little sniveling impotent bitches.

Update: Lot of That Goin' Round Lately Huh? AP buries another incidence of the Love and Caring of the Diseased Left.

Update: Amanda Carpenter is a staffer working for Ted Cruz, @guybenson is kind enough to inform me.

Posted by: Ace at 12:23 PM | Comments (380)
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We have managed to book a great band, but they're only available in Hoboken, on October 4th between 6pm and 9pm.
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Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:10 AM | Comments (56)
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What?

Well he's on board now, he says.

He says, "the House has listened to the American people, and now it's time for the United States Senate to listen as well." Which may be a hidden slap at Cruz but it's also, on the surface, a perfectly routine demand to make at Harry Reid. Well-crafted.

Meanwhile, Peter King, who grabbed every headline he could after 9/11, accuses Ted Cruz of grabbing headlines, and says the loss on this Defund issue in the Senate will prove that Cruz is a fraud.

“I hope people will get the message this guy is bad for the party,” King continued. "The issues are too important, they're too serious - they require real conservative solutions - not cheap headline hunting schemes."

I'm sure I could name a less serious guy than Peter King but it would take a few minutes of thought.

I can only say buck-passing or "Burden Shifting" so many times. Burden Shifting You Guys.

You know, Ted Cruz does grab a lot of headlines. Sometimes he rubs me the wrong way. That said, look: At some point you have to do something besides mark time.

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Posted by: Ace at 11:23 AM | Comments (372)
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