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• Shock: Man Who Once Railed Against Iraq War for Diverting Us from the Real War in Afghanistan Now Says It's Time to Abandon the War in Afghanistan for a Real War To Be Determined Later

  And remember what they say, as they once said of Walter Cronkite: When you'e lost Keith Olbermann, you've lost Keith Olbermann. Plus whatever desperate fan he's finger-banging in a hotel room this week. And of course he can't just call...' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:07pm EST
  

• Overnight Open Thread (Mætenloch)

  Good evening and congratulations - you have already gotten through 20% of the week. M-4s Getting a Makeover? According to this report the Army wants to spend a few hundred million dollars on upgrades for its 400,000 M-4 assault rifles.... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• Oh Dear: Obama Makes a Commercial About Kids That Somehow Manages to Star Himself

  You know how these feel-good videos usually go: It's the kid featured as having his fantasies fulfilled. It's the kid whose face beams as Mean Joe Greene tosses him his jersey. Not in the age of Obama. As they say... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:38pm EST
  

• MNF Thread: Patriots v. Saints

  Whoa! Thanks for a commenter for alerting me. I almost never watch football anymore.* * Well, I sure don't watch the Giants any more. I guess it's Game of the Week stuff for me now. PS, thank you, NFL Network,...' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:14pm EST
  

• As I Was Saying: A New Heretic Begins Spouting Blasphemies

  Not a scientist, but apparently a science columnist on the "green" beat. As I said, this is too rotten and stinking to be ignored much longer. Allah quotes the head of the IPCC of course acting as a denier and... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:13pm EST
  

• Mark Steyn: The Chicago Machine Politics of International Climate "Science"

  That's not actually Steyn's phrase or headline; he borrowed it from James Lewis (and I tarted it up a little too). Steyn uses it to describe the utter corruption of the peer-review process of climate "science" -- essentially, the Climate... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:27pm EST
  

• CBO: Insurance Premiums Will Increase by 10% Under ObamaCareGallup: Near-Majority Opposes ObamaCare

  Above-the-Post Update: The CBO says the the curve will in fact be bent -- upwards. Individual insurance premiums would increase by an average of 10 percent or more, according to an analysis of the Senate healthcare bill. The long-awaited report... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:36pm EST
  

• Obama's Ego Stroking Will Preempt "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

  It was just a scraggly, stunted Obama until the media kids went to work on it and made it beautiful. Photoshop by Slublog (open tag busted by friendly neighborhood TB) All networks, including FOX, will carry the President's primetime... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:19pm EST
  

• Re-Posts: CRU Admits They Threw Away (??!) Old Data; Agrees to Release All Data... That They Haven't Yet Thrown Away

  The most important outcome of this is the pressure to actually release data and methodologies, something other scientists generally due without facing criminal charges for FOIA evasions. In case you've been as away as I have this Thanksgiving weekend, here...' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:12pm EST
  

• Minaret Ban Reaction: Swiss "Justice" Minister...The People Can Not Be Trusted

  Laura blogged about this yesterday (and I share her mixed reaction to the news). Now the fallout is beginning. So concerned is the government by the decision that Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer Schlumpf, watching the results come in on... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  

• Seattle Area Police Shooting Update: Suspect Not In Surrounded House

  Still at large. The suspect in the slaying of four police officers gunned down in a coffee shop was not found Monday in the Seattle home where he was thought to have been holed up overnight, likely wounded from his... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• Honduras Holds Presidential Election...Chavez And Obama Hit Hardest

  The brave people of Honduras looked a want to be socialist dictator in the eye and said no. Actually, they said, "Hell NO!" A conservative rancher named Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo took the Honduran presidency in elections Sunday, five months... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:32am EST
  

• Top Headline Comments 11-30-09

  If you're just joining us after a long weekend, scroll down for some big stories that broke late last night....' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:26am EST
  

• Suspected Police Assassin is Cornered by Police

  Apparently, they tracked Maurice Clemmons to a house in east Seattle around 8:00pm last night, but they haven't moved on him yet. My friend @redhk, who lives a few blocks away from the scene, says the police helicopters hovered all...' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

• CRU agrees to release all data

  Although that was quick, this obviously won't be including any raw that went into the dumpster. ...n a statement welcomed by climate change sceptics, the university said it would make all the data accessible as soon as possible, once...' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:39am EST
  

• Overnight Open Thread (Mætenloch)

  Hope everyone had a good T-Day weekend. And now we return you to your regularly scheduled program of drudgery, drinking, and last-minute desperation shopping. A Tour of the Airbus A-380, the Largest Passenger Jet in the World Returning a little... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• WHOA: Suspected Police Assassin Was Pardoned by Gov. Huckabee in 2000

  Huckabee's chickens coming home to roost: Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing of four Lakewood police officers this morning, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:18pm EST
  

• Breaking: 4 Police Officers Shot Dead Near McChord AFB

  Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman says they were targeted in an ambush at a coffee shop. Troyer told The News Tribune in Tacoma that the officers were sitting in the coffee shop with their computers when the shooter came in Sunday... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:11pm EST
  

• NFL Open Thread

  Bunch of meh games except for tomorrow night's showdown in NOLA. The Steelers & Ravens would have been a good one but Big Ben is out, so it's lost some luster.... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:47pm EST
  

• Smart Power(tm) Breakthrough: Iran To Eliminate Expand Nuclear Program

  I don't know about you but I'm starting to miss some of that old fashion Dumb Power right about now. Iran’s Government today announced plans to build ten new uranium enrichment plants and said work would start within two months.... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  

• ClimateGate gets real legs - London Times reports on CRU's thrown away raw data

  Hey, this bag is empty, where did that kitteh run off to?SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:25am EST
  

• Swiss Voters Ban Minarets

  This does not apply to existing minarets (there are only four in all of Switzerland). It blocks the building of new ones. Supporters of a ban argued minarets are a symbol of an Islamic claim to power. "The Islamic religion..." [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:39am EST
  

• Google "explains" how images of Michelle Obama as a monkey come up in searches

  Of course, its all algorithms blah, blah, blah and they screen out offensive stuff ASAP blah, blah, blah. Trust the priesthood. Trust the priesthood. Trust the priesthood. Curiously, no "explanation" is offered how an image search for "George Bush" has... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:39am EST
  

• Overnight Open Thread - Caturday Edition (Mætenloch)

  Welcome to another edition of CatSaturday. It's been such a boring day that I decided to go ahead and put the ONT up early before the sub-morons got restless and started breaking blog furniture. Super Cute Kitteh... [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• College Football Open Thread. [krakatoa]

  VT Cheer-fu is strong. UPDATE: Now with improved tags!... [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:24pm EST
  

• A Trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon we're talking about real money. [krakatoa]

  h/t Hussein the Plumber, Cato Institute's Michael Cannon estimates the cost of ObabamaCare to be 6.5 Trillion dollars. He comes to this by dispensing with the largest of the gimmicks being employed to keep the true cost hidden: Offsetting the... [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:11pm EST
  

• Google joins ClimateGate (dis)information fray? [krakatoa]

  Kate at Small Dead Animals notices a peculiar thing when searching Google for things like "climategate", "climate hack", or "climate emails". It used to be, up until yesterday, when beginning to type those queries the drop-down helper would show the... [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:34pm EST
  

• The "Chicago Machine Politics" of International Science

  Steyn on the nonsense of the "peer-review" claim. The most amusing part of Ed Begley Jr's spat with Stuart Varney was his grey brow-forward, in your face insistence that "peer-review" is what makes it Science!™ and not mucky opinion-nonsense from... [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:27am EST
  

• Phil Jones: damn this cooling we need it to warm up!

  The whole email exchange at this link is worth a read. It starts out at the bottom with our illustrious "science czar" John Holdren being CC:'d on the Sulphur Dioxide "plume stacks" cooling scheme that has been floating around, then...' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:45am EST
  

• Overnight Open Thread - TGIF (Mætenloch)

  Welcome to turkey leftover Friday all. RiffTrax Highlights for Twilight RiffTrax are MP3 tracks that you play in-sync with your favorite movies. They're written and performed by the crew of Mystery Science Theater 3000 minus Joel. Here's some of their...' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• East Anglia climate scientist: emails displayed "tribalism", IPCC may have "run its course"

  Burn the witch!...The tribalism that some of the leaked emails display is something more usually associated with social organization within primitive cultures; it is not attractive when we find it at work inside science. [ed: monkeys flinging poo] It is... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:55pm EST
  

• Pelosi: we ballooned the deficit and you got nothing for it

  But she's confident American's will accept blowing it even higher if congress made some jobs...."The American people have an anger about the growth of the deficit because they're not getting anything for it .."So naturally, they'll trust the same crew... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:15pm EST
  

• Candace Kita and Co's USO Thanksgiving. [dri]

  Candace Kita, Kathryn Le, Alana Curry, Lena Yada, and Blythe Matsui display their favorite blog. On November 24th, 2009, actress, model, and AoSHQ friend Candace Kita helped organize a special Thanksgiving treat for our men and women in uniform... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:14pm EST
  

• Anti-prosperity "Progressive" Governance in New York

  It leads to a California-style budget disaster: Without a budget deal, New York will be left with just $36 million in the bank by the end of December, according to current projections. And the money will last that long, officials... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  

• Sweet Fancy Moses.

  World's tallest model, 'Eve.' She's nearly seven feet tall. Lovely as she is, I wonder about her dating life. That cannot be so easy. Reinforcing this concern, they like to photograph her with douchey-looking guys. Showcasing her prowess at douche-jousting... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:17pm EST
  

• Top Headline Comments 11-27-09

  Friday!!!... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:27am EST
  

• Former Democratic Contender for President and DNC Chair Howard Dean: Kill ObamaCare, the "Republicans are Right"

  Was this covered? If so, sorry. Dean attacks the bill mostly from the left -- he wants single-payer stuff from the jump -- but in his final analysis, he says this bill is worse than the status quo.... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:23am EST
  

• Overnight Open Thread - Turkey Day Edition (Mætenloch)

  Happy Thanksgiving all. I hope everyone had some good food and good times with friends and family. Personally I've always found that I could love my family a lot more along with some rum and coke. Whiskey if certain branches...' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• War Porn: Instant Gunship

  The Marines don't want to specifically buy AC-130 gunships. They have a lot of KC-130J tankers -- the same basic plane as the "Spooky" -- so they're arming up their tankers on the fly to turn them into gunships as... [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:42pm EST
  

• HARRY.REAM.ME.TXT: The Leaked Emails of AoSHQ

  I just got word that our emails, too, had been hacked. Possibly by a "whistleblower." Since they're all coming out, I guess the only option I have is to "get in front of the story" and disclose them myself. Note...' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:13pm EST
  

• And Thanks for Belligerent, Brainless Trolls

  The other day Dave in Texas referenced the Jefferson Quote Caper. If you've never read it, it's worth a read. It's maximum pwnage of a troll, the best pwning of a troll I've ever witnessed. (Well... maybe Dave's Antarctica Now... [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:11pm EST
  

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  Bellies full and crowded by kin, I hope. I'd like to thank everyone for making this site what it is. I often kind of hate my job, until I realize what a kind of bizarrely awesome job it is....' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  

• Couple Crashes White House State Dinner. [dri]

  Tareq Salahi and his wife Michaele slipped through White House security last Tuesday night to attend an official state dinner they were not invited to. The couple then brazenly shared chick peas and Granache wine with President Obama, the First... [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:47am EST
  

• Happy Thanksgiving + Football Today

  NFL games today so don't forget to make your picks. Green Bay and Detroit first up today, the Oakland and Dallas. Oh yeah, Huckleberry reminded me there's a game tonight on the NFL network, Giant and Broncos. Remember if you...' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:25am EST
  

• Global Warming Scandal spreads to Middle Earth? [krakatoa]

  UPDATE5[PA] Drudge picks up the Aussie MP resignations story UPDATE4[PA] We have curious allies: Alex Jones's PrisonPlanet runs a piece bashing Al Gore for photoshop deceptions and declaring global warming a crock. UPDATE3[PA] Aussie politics in turmoil over Liberal party...' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• Overnight Open Thread - Thanksgiving Eve Edition (Mætenloch)

  Good evening morons! I hope all of you are ready for Turkey Day and visiting family. And just to get to get you in the mood for it, here's a little family-time video. Good times, good times. Some Classic Carol... [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• Funny Email Exchange

  This guy David cracks me up by responding to his angry emailer's request for uncompensated work with a combination of ridicule and humor, but mostly polite language. I like how Simon walks the tightrope between outrage and begging, danging the... [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:18pm EST
  

• Of Course: ClimateGate File Was Leaked to BBC In October... And Of Course They Failed to Report Their Scoop

  Leftists and the media. There's an Elvis Costello song, "Hand in Hand," which, like many of his songs, seems superficially sweet, but is dark. I won't ask you to apologize You don't have to forgive me But if I'm gonna...' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:34pm EST
  

• You Know It's Thanksgiving When You Start Hearing Christmas Songs

  Started off by Secundus, with some suggestions by Hutch, and then finally written into the whole song by GrimJack. The 12 Days Of Obamas (pronounced like Christmas at the end, you see -- Oba-Mass).... [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:51pm EST
  

• You Know What I Want for Christmas? A Historic Prime-Time Interview at the White House of Lord Barack Obama by Queen Oprah

  And my prayers have been answered. An interview with the New Jesus on Old Jesus' birthday! Honestly, people, I just can't get enough President Prime-Time. It's unbelievable -- I don't know what the hell I used to watch on the...' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:42pm EST