"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
Some clever sadistic person decided to combine an actual campaign ad for the VA-1 Democratic candidate with a few of her more . . . eh, interesting photos:
You may be saying to yourself, “That is so cruel. It is so wrong.” But it is certainly not the most wrong video out there. You got no idea how wrong a video can be.
If you click this link, don’t say you weren’t warned to have industrial-strength brain-bleach handy. It cannot be unseen.
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Obama Vetoes Bill That Would Have Made Foreclosures Easier
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Senate Panel Finds Afghan Contractor Guards Rife With Criminals, Taliban
Apparently not easy to find Afghans who haven’t done drugs, worked with the Taliban, or thought about working with the Taliban :facepalm:
Rangel, Waters To Face Ethics Panel Hearings – After The Election
Gee, what a surprise.
Pentagon: Elements Of Pakistan’s ISI Supporting Terrorists
The enemy of my enemy is…hey, what are you doing over there?
Mario Vargas Llosa Wins 2010 Nobel Prize For Literature
Unusually, he’s a libertarian and not some kind of commie pinko
POLITICS
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Chamber Of Commerce Antes Up $10 Million For GOP Senate Candidates
Criticized for allegedly using foreign money; evidently that’s only okay for the Democrats
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Also, that wetness on your back? Rain.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Stocks Close Mixed, Mostly Lower On Job Fears
IMF Head Urges Chinese To Let Yuan Rise
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SPORTS
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The fix is in.
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This will end well, I’m sure
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WARNING: This video is filled with profanity. What it documents — including pedophilia-themed Twitter attacks against children of a Tea Party supporter — involves a network of “progressive” activists apparently organized by Neal Rauhauser, whose firm, Progressive PST, has been hired by many Democratic candidates.
UPDATE: Wow, Greg W. Howard posted this video on his blog two weeks ago, and I didn’t see it until today? Man, I’ve got to start paying closer attention . . .
UPDATE II: Much of the information in the video was collected at the “Swift Read” site of conservative Catholic blogger Patrick Read, who says that he and others have stored page caches of the material.
The video says the purpose is to “illustrate that Neal Rauhauser was soliciting some of the worst provocateurs he could find in an effort to deliberately elicit angered responses from the Tea Party.” It features screen captures of Tweets by several activists alleged to have been part of Rauhauser’s network. Conservative blogger Greg W. Howard was especially targeted for Twitter harassment. (Warning: Extremely graphic language.) Continue reading BUSTED! Video Documents Role of Democrat Consultant Neal Rauhauser in Smear Campaign Against Tea Party →
Smitty linked this morning to the latest scandal involving a Democratic dildo — there are lots of phony wienersuckers in Congress, including Barney Frank — but now Krystal Ball’s disgrace has become a blogospheric sensation. We quote an eminent political prognosticator:
Krystal Ball For Congress
Paid for by the Committee of Dudes With Horny Dick-Noses.
Yeah, that’s from Ace of Spades. The good news is that there was zero chance that phony wienersucker could be elected to Congress even before these photos became public. Republican Rep. Rob Wittman is a lead-pipe cinch for re-election in Virginia’s 1st District. But Krystal reminds us that Democrats are always victims:
“Of course, it’s embarrassing, but more than that I’m — I’m pretty angry about it. I think this is incredibly sexist.”
— Krystal Ball, Democrat who sucks phony wieners
Hey, lady, after all the sexist attacks your party has made against Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and Christine O’Donnell, why don’t you shut your mouth — or at least put it to good use?
VOTE DEMOCRAT
Phony Wieners, Real Suckers
UPDATE: Dan “Chubby Chaser” Collins informs us that Krystal’s just about 50 pounds shy of perfection.
A press release from the Tea Party-backed candidate who is challenging John Barrow in southeast Georgia’s 12th District:
Vidalia, GA — A billboard campaign for Republican Congressional Candidate Ray McKinney warns voters not to stay home on election day – or else Incumbent Democrat John Barrow and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi get to keep their jobs.
“Vote Ray McKinney on Nov. 2 or they keep their jobs,” the billboards read.
Under the words are McKinney’s campaign logo next to pictures of Barrow and Pelosi.
The first billboard went up in Sandersville over the weekend. More are expected soon throughout the 12th Congressional District.
“This message serves two purposes,” McKinney said. “First, it reminds Georgians that, if they do not vote, decisions will get made without their input. Second, I want voters to remember that so many Americans and so many Georgians are out of work, Nancy Pelosi and John Barrow haven’t done anything to remedy that and they might just get to keep their jobs anyway.”
You ought to give $20 to Ray McKinney because he has got John Barrow running scared in GA-12. Barrow has refused to say whether he would vote to keep Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, and just yesterday the incumbent backed out of a scheduled debate with McKinney:
Democratic U.S. Rep. John Barrow is skipping Sunday’s televised debate with Republican Ray McKinney.
The Atlanta event, sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club, is due to be aired live on Georgia Public Television. . . .
“He’s a smart politician — I’ll give him credit for that,” McKinney said. “He knows he has high name identification. He doesn’t want to take the risk of having to answer questions.
“He should have to answer to his constituents. Instead, he’s just doing things like mailings, which he can control.”
[Regina] Thomas, a former state senator, who [challenged Barrow in the Democratic primary and] also is not endorsing Barrow, said she’s not surprised.
“It’s typical Barrow.” she said. “It’s what he’s been doing for … years. He’s taking voters for granted and doesn’t want to answer for his voting record. It’s an insult to the district.”
While refusing to debate on TV, Barrow did show up this week at a candidate forum in Milledgeville, where Ray laid out his common-sense conservative message:
“You can’t legislate a job,” says McKinney, “but you can legislate a company out of business.”
You can read my previous coverage of Georgia’s 12th District race for The American Spectator:
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey interviewed Ray in April:
I also interviewed Ray in April:
This is a good candidate who’s running a strong campaign in a very competitive district. Republicans won the 12th district in 2002. Barrow was re-elected by just 900 votes in the 2006 mid-term election. In a district where 44% of the population is black, the bitter Democratic primary campaign against Regina Turner — a former state senator who was backed by MoveOn.org and progressive bloggers — showed just how weak Barrow’s support is within the black community.
GA-12 is clearly a winnable district for the GOP this year, but Ray’s campaign is being ignored by the NRCC because they’re concentrating all their effort on neighboring GA-8. So if you want Ray to beat John Barrow, the grassroots are going to have to get behind him. You can follow Ray on Facebook, and just $20 from you will make a difference, folks. What do you say?
One of Instapundit’s savvy readers writes:
The latest surge higher in the Dow is folks betting on a Bernanke “put” . . . that the Fed will debase the dollar so much that prices will rise in nominal terms. Stocks aren’t going up in gold or Euro terms.
You don’t have to be a “gold bug” or an anti-Fed fanatic to understand how the inflationary policy of the Federal Reserve has been reflected in stock prices. Inflation isn’t caused by scarcity, it’s caused by the devaluation of currency, and Ben Bernanke’s policy for the past two years has dramatically devalued the dollar, as the rising gold price shows:
This just goes to show that you can’t hide inflation. The price of gold has gained $153 per ounce — an increase of 12.8% — since May. (You should have listened to Glenn Beck!)
In the spring of 2009, I talked to a friend of mine who’s a private-sector economist. Because he works for an investment firm, he isn’t authorized to issue public analyses, but when I asked him what was going on with the economy, my friend said, “They’re trying to re-inflate the bubble.”
We haven’t seen inflation in consumer prices simply because deflationary pressures have been so strong since the collapse of the housing bubble. Home values have plummeted, foreclosures have skyrocketed and the unemployment rate is at a 30-year high.
So ask yourself, “Who got bailed out?” Wall Street, that’s who. Goldman Sachs and other “too big to fail” companies have made out like bandits in the past two years.
Now ask yourself, “Who did the stimulus help?” Government employees, that’s who. The main focus of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid stimulus package was transferring money to state and local governments to prevent them from having to lay off public-sector employees.
And look: Here’s another bank bailout!
Big business is already sitting on piles of cash. Wall Street investment firms and government-employee pension funds are doing OK in the current environment, and all the economic pain is being felt by private-sector employees and small businesses. The inflationary policy of the Fed, combined with the Democrats’ bailout-and-stimulus policy, therefore amounts to a transfer of wealth from the majority of Americans to the special-interest groups which influence economic policy in Washington.
The government expects to bribe the dispossessed with chump-change “benefits” — food stamps and unemployment checks — so as to avert a political backlash. Fortunately, Americans aren’t that stupid.
The average voter may not be aware of all these economic policy details, but he has a gut hunch that a swindle is being perpetrated. We are now less than four weeks from the Day of Reckoning depicted in this awesome Ace of Spades video:
Q. Why do environmentalists support population control?
A thoroughly dishonest and disgusting “climate change” ad:
Jill Stanek points out the dishonesty:
But the thing is they don’t like children to begin with. They think children are the problem. They push for people not to have children. They push to kill preborn children.
Save the baby humans!
“My wife never committed tax fraud”
Kinda catchy, don’t you think? I just made that one up. Moe Lane has his own slogan for the case against Patrice Tierney, wife of a Massachusetts Democrat, but I think simpler is better when it comes to campaign slogans. Another one that might work: “My brother-in-law isn’t a federal fugitive.”
The wife of US Representative John F. Tierney pleaded guilty today in US District Court in Boston to four counts of aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns for her brother, who is a federal fugitive indicted on illegal gambling charges. . . .
Prosecutors say Patrice Tierney managed a Massachusetts bank account for her brother, Robert Eremian, that received more than $7 million in illegal gambling profits and that she provided information to his tax preparer that mischaracterized his profits as commissions. Eremian and another brother, Daniel Eremian, were recently charged with racketeering, money laundering, operating an illegal gambling business, filing false tax returns, and other charges in connection with running an illegal gambling business in the United States from the Caribbean island of Antigua. . . .
John Tierney’s re-election slogan? “Married to the Mob.”
Tierney’s Republican challenger Bill Hudak is a lawyer and small business owner who, as Da Tech Guy says, started running for Congress before the Scott Brown victory called everybody’s attention to the potential weakness of Massachusetts Democrats. Hudak sees that voters are getting tired of the same old thing:
My opponent, John Tierney, is a direct cause of this gridlock, with a 14-year record of voting 98 percent of the time with the far left liberal wing of the Democratic Party. He is one of the most uncompromising partisans in Washington.
Let’s talk about the Massachusetts 6th District. Continue reading MA-6: Bill Hudak Has a New Slogan →