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Glenn Beck, 1962

Posted: September 5th, 2010, 4:59pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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Nail, meet head.
Megan McCardle’s Review Of Half Of A Book Doesn’t Get It Half Right

Posted: September 5th, 2010, 2:16pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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Some seriously embarrassing stuff here by one of the conservatives who is supposed to be one of the deep thinkers of the right.

But then, those of us who have been paying attention for years now know that the blogger formerly known as “Jane Galt” in homage to the infamous Atlas Shrugged often says stuff that doesn’t make sense.

That’s what conservatives do.

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Why Did The Bush-Era Pentagon Ignore Child Porn Purchases By Defense Dept. Employees?

Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:24pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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I’d really like to know.

A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department — including some with the highest available security clearance — who used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But the Pentagon investigated only a handful of the cases, Defense Department records show.

The cases turned up during a 2006 ICE inquiry, called Project Flicker, which targeted overseas processing of child-porn payments. As part of the probe, ICE investigators gained access to the names and credit card information of more than 5,000 Americans who had subscribed to websites offering images of child pornography. Many of those individuals provided military email addresses or physical addresses with Army or fleet ZIP codes when they purchased the subscriptions.
PBS: God In America

Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 3:57pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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This looks pretty awesome. And since its from PBS/Frontline/American Experience it’ll be an accurate look at faith in America, and not Glenn Beck’s perversion of it.
NASA: Actually, Viking DID Find Organic Material On Mars

Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 2:59pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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We need to go.

Thirty-four years after NASA’s Viking missions to Mars sent back results interpreted to mean there was no organic material – and consequently no life – on the planet, new research has concluded that organic material was found after all.

The finding does not bring scientists closer to discovering life on Mars, researchers say, but it does open the door to a greater likelihood that life exists, or once existed, on the planet.

‘We can now say there is organic material on Mars, and that the Viking organics experiment that didn’t find any had most likely destroyed what was there during the testing,’ said Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
VIDEO: Epic David Vitter Prostitution Documentary Vid

Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 3:42pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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I think the Louisiana Dems should stay in mind come Emmy time.

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Did Chris Christie Lie About What He Knew When He Attacked Obama? Sounds Like It

Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:36pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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Bret Schundler has released a chronology of events pertaining to his firing in New Jersey, and if his version of events is to be believed, it doesn’t look good for conservative hero Chris Christie. In the document, Schundler claims that at multiple instances he told Christie not to mischaracterize the mistake, and yet Christie explains to him his plan to assail the Obama administration and bureaucracy for their own mistake.

Schundler has also released the emails, and the Daily Record explains:

The copies of the e-mails Schundler provided shed light on the storm that the discovery of the error created in Christie’s office. They show officials scrambling to craft a response for a Star-Ledger reporter who first called attention to the mistake.

“I need an answer on this,” Comella writes to officials in the state Department of Education, attaching a copy of the reporter’s questions.

A response, crafted by Alan Guenther, the department’s director of communications, asks Comella to allow Deputy Commissioner Andy Smarick to talk directly to the reporter, saying that “the real story is the major reforms in our plan that the peer reviewers praised heartily for their sensibility and boldness.”

“I know what the real story is here,” answers Comella. “I need you to put in email the explanation to her question. Thanks.”

Schundler, who has been cc’d on all the e-mails, responds, “Maria, I’ll send you something on this momentarily.”

Part of his answer read, “All we could do was confirm that we had erred — the 2008 data was not included.”

Christie knew he and his people screwed up, and made a concerted effort to make this not about the mistake his administration had made, but to cover it up with an attack against the Obama administration.

No wonder he’s a conservative hero.
VIDEO: Jan Brewer’s Debate Fail

Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 12:59pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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The idea that this woman is at the tip of the spear for conservative action against immigration makes so much more sense now.

Detail:

But it was 13 seconds or so of silence that is being talked about more than anything else.

During her opening statement, Ms. Brewer began by defending her stewardship: “I have, uh, done so much and I just cannot believe that we have changed everything since I have become your governor in the last 600 days. Arizona has been brought back from its abyss. We have cut the budget. We have balanced the budget and we are moving forward. We have done everything we could possibly do.”

At that point, she stared down at the papers in front of her, clutched her hands together, laughed nervously but struggled to come up with anything more to say. It was painful to watch.

Finally, though, she recovered and said: “We have did what was right for Arizona.”
Overwhelming Majority Still Blame Bush For Economic Problems

Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 12:48pm EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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Oh my God America, still blaming Bush? It’s like people haven’t listened to con efforts to disappear the last eight years.

Nearly two years after Barack Obama was elected president, Americans still are inclined to blame his predecessor for the nation’s current economic problems.

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, more than a third of those surveyed said George W. Bush deserved a great deal of the blame for economic woes and a third said he should get a moderate amount of it. Not quite another third called that unfair, saying he warranted not much or none of the responsibility.

The 71% saying Bush should get blamed was a modest decline from the 80% who felt that way about a year ago, in July 2009.

Miss me? Oh, hell no.
AUDIO: Tea Party Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell Has Epic Radio Fail

Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 10:34am EDT by owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

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Oh my God, this is awesome.

MP3

Not surprisingly, she shot an ad at Glenn Beck’s revival meeting.