Democrat Alcee Hastings has introduced a resolution authorizing war with Iran

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Sunday January 29, 2017 · 3:36 PM PST

2017/01/29 · 15:36

Here’s the text of the resolution.

www.congress.gov/…

I got nothing.

Glenn Beck Goes Full Exorcist at Ted Cruz Rally.

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Thursday April 28, 2016 · 5:43 PM PDT

2016/04/28 · 17:43

I’m just going to leave this here and slowly back away.

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The times they are a changin

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Saturday August 29, 2015 · 6:57 PM PDT

2015/08/29 · 18:57

Hi folks.

There's no much to say here, just some real purty news footage to share.

At a high school football game in Greene County TN Friday night, a young man is seen hoisting a Confederate battle flag and running through the bleachers. A second young man snatches the flag from his grip, breaking the flag pole cleanly in half. The flag bearer returns to his seat to the scorn of onlookers.

Video here:

http://wjhl.com/...

White House Doubts Chuck Todd's IT Skills

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Monday October 21, 2013 · 12:28 PM PDT

2013/10/21 · 12:28

OK, I'm kinda in a hurry but have to share this:

Via TPM:

Carney and Todd exchanged jabs at the White House daily press briefing, beginning when Todd asked who "misled" President Obama into thinking that the rollout and website launch would be smooth.
Carney said Obama was "frustrated" with the problems, which he suggested were a byproduct of higher-than-expected web traffic.

"There's no question," Carney said, "that the volumes exceeded substantially the expectations and that the testing that was done was based on —"

"If this were a volume issue," Todd interrupted, "adding a server would have fixed it in a heartbeat. That isn't the issue, right?"

"Well, I'm pretty confident ... you haven't written code in your day," Carney shot back.

Todd acknowledged that he's not a "computer science guy" but still wondered why, if the administration were dealing with "simply a traffic issue," it would be so difficult to fix.

France is Doing it Too.

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Thursday July 04, 2013 · 12:13 PM PDT

2013/07/04 · 12:13

Who wants to guess which first world country will be next revealed to have a comprehensive domestic surveillance program?

France's external intelligence agency spies on the French public's phone calls, emails and social media activity in France and abroad, the daily Le Monde said on Thursday.
It said the DGSE intercepted signals from computers and telephones in France, and between France and other countries, although not the content of phone calls, to create a map of "who is talking to whom". It said the activity was illegal.

"All of our communications are spied on," wrote Le Monde, which based its report on unnamed intelligence sources as well as remarks made publicly by intelligence officials.

"Emails, text messages, telephone records, access to Facebook and Twitter are then stored for years," it said.

The activities described are similar to those carried out by the U.S. National Security Agency, as described in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Welcome to the future. This is how the world works and nothing is going to change.

http://www.reuters.com/...

Kids "Attacked" by Rep. Etheridge were Breitbart Plants

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Monday June 14, 2010 · 11:24 PM PDT

2010/06/14 · 23:24

Breitbart.

You know, Andrew Breitbart, the dude who sponsored the heavily edited ACORN "pimp" videos by James O'Keefe which eventually brought down the organization?

The guy who introduced keynote speaker Sara Palin at the Tea Party convention in Nashville TN?

The Matt Drudge protégé who has brought us such illustrious sleezy conservative websites as Breitbart.com, bigGovernment.com, and BigJournalism.com?

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 4:10 PM PDT

2008/09/05 · 16:10

I thought I'd take the time to commemorate the deaths of some people who, though they were not famous or married to anyone famous, were all important to someone.

According to the AP,five of the named storms this past Atlantic hurricane season have resulted in fatalities.

Arthur: 5 in Belize; 2 in Honduras

Dolly: 1 in Mexico; 1 in Florida

Fay: 15 in Florida; 9 in Haiti; 3 in Dominican Republic.

Gustav: 76 in Haiti; 26 in the U.S. (19 in Louisiana, 4 in Georgia, 3 in Mississippi); 12 in Jamaica; 8 in Dominican Republic

Hanna: 137 in Haiti; 2 in Puerto Rico.

2 Goodwill Workers were shot to death in San Fransisco's Mission District, bringing the area's total number of violent deaths in the past two weeks to seven.

In Chatham Mass., a man drowned trying to rescue his ten year old daughter from treacherous ocean currents at a public beach.

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Saturday December 15, 2007 · 4:10 AM PST

2007/12/15 · 04:10

Who?

Mister Full deck himself, Ace of Spades.

The fiscal conservatives are cracking up over Huckabee. I figured they would, but here's what I didn't expect.

Not that what one blogger thinks matters that much, but if Huckabee gets the nomination, I'm voting Democratic. It's not just an idle threat; I just won't vote for him and in fact won't even vote third party or stay home. I'll vote for the Democratic candidate, even Hillary. I won't be a party to selling out everything the party is supposed to stand for to a liberal ideology. If we're going to have eight years of liberal rule, I'd rather the Democratic Party be governing, so at least they can take the blame.

And, quite frankly, Hillary is to the right of Huckabee on most issues, if only because she's politically afraid to do the kind of crap Huckabee does and dream of doing at night. She couldn't afford to be as soft as Iran as Huckabee would.

And I don't think I'm alone on this.

Ain't that freaky?

Greatest hits from the comment thread after the jump.

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Wednesday November 28, 2007 · 12:30 PM PST

2007/11/28 · 12:30

are you fucking kidding me?

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been talking for some time now about how, if she is elected president, she will ask both Democratic and Republican statesmen to hit the road on her behalf to declare that "bipartisan foreign policy is back" in post-George W. Bush America.

While Mrs. Clinton has pointed to her husband as an emissary, it has been unclear for some time which Republicans she had in mind. But in South Carolina today, speaking to a group of black ministers, Mrs. Clinton dropped a name publicly that she has hinted at privately before.

"I won’t even wait until I’m inaugurated, but as soon as I’m elected I’m going to be asking distinguished Americans of both parties — people like Colin Powell, for example, and others — who can represent our country well, including someone I know very well," Mrs. Clinton said, according to a Fox News Web report. "Because I want to send a message heard across the world. The era of cowboy diplomacy is over."

What's next? Jayson Blair for press secretary?

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Saturday May 19, 2007 · 12:14 PM PDT

2007/05/19 · 12:14

This is unexpected
FOXNews

Filmmaker Michael Moore's brilliant and uplifting new documentary, "Sicko," deals with the failings of the U.S. healthcare system, both real and perceived. But this time around, the controversial documentarian seems to be letting the subject matter do the talking, and in the process shows a new maturity.

Unlike many of his previous films ("Roger and Me," "Bowling for Columbine," "Fahrenheit 9-11"), "Sicko" works because in this one there are no confrontations. Moore smartly lets very articulate average Americans tell their personal horror stories at the hands of insurance companies. The film never talks down or baits the audience.

Outtakes from a few more early reviews below:

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Monday March 05, 2007 · 9:51 PM PST

2007/03/05 · 21:51

Here is what is needed to track all the ads on anncoulter.com. This is all visible via "view source" on her web page. I've quoted what's in the source of her web page to keep the "evidence" in tact. No fancy tools or hacking is required to get at this information. You just have to know what you're looking at.

This is a much more direct approach than trying to contact individual advertisers who often don't even know where their ads will end up when they pay for advertising.

For starters, she is likely in violation of google adsense policies. I can't stomach enough of the woman to go picking through the site to find offending content, but I bet somebody out there can do it.

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