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Alyssa Zeller of Brookyln, N.Y., holds an Obama action figure doll in Denver, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. The Democratic Convention begins on Monday in Denver.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Spotted at the DNC: Black September Fashion Statement
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Design Awards
Sean sends along his nominations for best designs:
Best solicitation for soccer tickets.
Best refrigerator magnet.
Best Google advertisement.
Best T-Shirt design.
Best shopping bag.
Best public service ad.
Best updated Mona Lisa (if she visited Texas).Linked by: Sondrak. Thanks!
ACORN, the Soros-funded Vote-Fraud Consortium, is at it again
Michelle Malkin's ACORN Watch has hit the motherlode. Remember ACORN? It's the liberal front group notorious for voter registration fraud including paying for votes using crack cocaine.
Milwaukee’s election chief on Wednesday turned 32 more voter registration workers in to the district attorney’s office for possible prosecution, saying they tried to submit falsified registration cards... [bringing] to 39 the number of registration workers under scrutiny, and the number could grow... [after the Commission was notified about] questionable cards in the latest batch collected by its workers...
All of the workers targeted for investigation were paid employees of two liberal groups running voter registration drives, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Community Voters Project… [and included]
• Seventeen apparently filled out voter applications and then signed the cards themselves. That involved two to four cards in each case.
• Twelve submitted cards for individuals who later told ACORN they never filled out an application. That involved one card in each case.
• One submitted a card for a dead voter. That was the second such case; a Voters Project worker previously submitted a card for a deceased voter.
• One was apparently making up driver’s license numbers for an unknown number of voters.
• One submitted about a half-dozen applications for already-registered voters.
Just consider this "Chapter 900" of ACORN's storied and illustrious background.
Operating in at least 38 states (as well as Canada and Mexico), Acorn pushes a highly partisan agenda, and its organizers are best understood as shock troops for the AFL-CIO and even the Democratic Party...
Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn's practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.
...Given this history, it's not surprising that Acorn is so hostile to voter identification laws and other efforts to ensure fairness and accuracy at the polls.
I'll try and disguise my shock.
Linked by: Memeorandum. Thanks!
Lines o' the day: Awesomely awesome
• Ron Hart: "It takes two Americas to warehouse John Edwards’ sins."
• Allahpundit: "Top Clinton advisors tell CNN they’re outraged by how she was treated... The only way this could be more awesomely awesome is if it involved robots. As it is, I’m downright woozy at the thought of what’s in store on Tuesday night."
• Commenter Robcon at Hot Air: "[The Democratic ticket has] bigger problems..
Obama Biden
Osama Binladen."
• Ann Althouse plays Boggle™ with the candidates' names:
• Hmm. Obama Bin Biden. That's catchy!
"The dirtiest place on the planet"
A VBS video captures the city of Linfen, China...
...the dirtiest place on the planet.
Spending a day breathing the air is about the same as smoking three packs of cigarettes.
The scary part is that there are a lot of cities in China like this.
Linfen produces what any country with a billion people needs: energy.
It's a city of endless factories all spewing toxic chemicals into the air and water.
There are no clouds, just a permanent smog hovering over the cityscape.
Every day thousands of coal trucks go between Linfen and the rest of China's cities.
Then they come back empty for more.
Coal is the main source of energy in China and Linfen is the hub of coal mining.
Not only does Linfen produce huge amounts of coal, but it consumes vast amounts as well...Watch it all. And recall that China has at least 16 of the 20 most polluted cities on the planet.
While it's admirable that America continues its relentless drive toward cleaner technologies, Al Gore's plans to heavily tax the United States through his "carbon-trading" scheme will have almost no impact whatsoever until China begins to clean up its cesspool.
Can you spot the difference? (Obama-Biden Edition)
Some bumper-stickers from campaigns past:
Now see if you can spot the difference: what happens when someone shares the ticket with The One?
Biden's name is almost a mirage. Talk about playing second fiddle.Update: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air links (thanks!) and cleans up with a question that slices to the heart of the matter:
The font color was a deliberate choice by the designers. Why not both names in stark white, the better to be seen clearly? It’s almost as though the Obama campaign wants to de-emphasize Biden, which might also explain why they announced his selection in the dead of night. Are they embarrassed already by Biden, or can Obama brook no encroachment on his share of the spotlight?
Also linked by: Blogs for John McCain, Don Surber, Southcoast Today, ReverseSpin, Bluegrass, Red State, Say Anything and American Thinker's Thomas Lifson, who summarizes: The One We Have Been Waiting For breaks precedent in demoting his running mate to not just a smaller typeface, but darker, washed-out, weak-looking lettering on campaign signs. The cult of the personality may not wear as well with Americans as with North Koreans.
Hat tips: 4president.org and John Raytheon. Obama-Biden video screencaps: YouTube.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
AP writer criticizes Biden pick: Leftosphere explodes in outrage!
Uh oh. AP writer Ron Fournier dared criticize the Biden pick saying that it exuded "a lack of confidence."
The barking moonbatsphere erupted with the expected indignation. How dare the mainstream media -- and the AP no less? -- criticize a major Democratic decision. Most observers believe that such a thing hadn't occurred since '63 with JFK's Bay of Pigs debacle. The wanknuts' reactions ranged from high-pitched shrieking to overt threats of personal harm.Washington Monthly: "[His] objectivity covering the presidential race continues to look shaky... We learned not too long ago that Fournier exchanged emails with Karl Rove about Pat Tillman [and] Fournier was also one of the journalists who, at a gathering of the nation's newspaper editors, extended McCain a box of his favorite donuts [with sprinkles]." (Jeez, sprinkles? That's really crossing the line!)
FireDogLake: "ACTION: Tell AP To Remove Ron Fournier From the Presidential Beat. As recently as last year, Ron Fournier considered working for the McCain campaign. Instead he took a job as Washington bureau chief for the AP, but it looks like he's still working for McCain... It's time to crank out [letters to the editor] again. Ron Fournier must be taken off the Presidential beat. He's got an obvious conflict-of-interest." (As opposed to Barack Obama's millions in earmarks to his wife's hospital, which coincidentally tripled her salary.)
The ill-named Grasping Reality: "Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? ...Don't trust them. Don't patronize their advertisers. Don't believe them. Listen, instead, to people with substantive expertise and knowledge trying to convey that knowledge rather than the ignorant trying to score points with their owners, editors, and sources." (Like... 'Grasping Reality'?)
MyDD: "If pure Republican spin and McCain talking points are what we are to expect out of the AP under Fournier, it's going to be a long hard slog full of truth squading between now and election day." (Because that's what the AP is known for -- pure Republican spin.)
The well nigh unreadable "AMERICAblog": "I know that the Associated Press considers it a point of honor to promote someone whenever they do something incredibly biased and their impartiality is seriously compromised, but after their top presidential reporter, Ron Fournier, interviewed for a job with the McCain presidential campaign, it's simply abominable that AP would keep him on the presidential beat.." (Whew. Take a breath, Sparky. I haven't seen so many commas since ee cummings retired.)
Strand-Craft Stingray Speedboat
Autoblog:
The '63 Corvette Stingray split-window coupe may not have been quite as aerodynamic as GM would have us believe, but it does remain one of the most iconic designs of all time.So iconic, in fact, that one shipyard is considering taking it to the water to see if the shape is seaworthy...
...The blueprints call for a carbon-fiber hull and a big block engine with competition prop drives (we see two engines powering the one above).
I can see Timmy Dalton driving one of these in the next Bond flick.
Oops: Reliapundit gently reminds me that the current Bond is Daniel Craig. But of course!
Exclusive look at Obama's new campaign poster
Backstory: Obama taps Neil Kinnock for Running Mate.All-time best Biden quote (New Republic, 2001): "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran".
Linked by: Denny. Thanks!
Obama Taps Neil Kinnock for Running Mate
This is the real transcript of a Joe Biden commercial from his '88 presidential campaign.
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. (Doesn't this disqualify his running mate?)
A president has got to know the territory. (Ditto)
Joe Biden sees the presidency as a pulpit from which America sets an example for the world. He believes that developing nations once saw America as more than a place. They saw us as an idea, a goal to reach for. (This fits perfectly with Obama's world-view... that America sucks)
He knows they lost confidence in us, that they see us losing our way, our resolve, our ideals. (So even 20 years ago, Democrats were using the exact same rhetoric about how the rest of the world hates our guts)
Joe Biden thinks it's time to remind the world of what America stands for: freedom, equality, justice, opportunity. (Yes, it's high time that Joe Biden returned America to the greatness he -- I mean -- it deserves!)Biden dropped out of the 1988 campaign after videotape emerged in which he used the words and the life story of British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.
NEIL KINNOCK at Welsh Labour Party conference May 1987:
"Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand"
JOE BIDEN IN Sept 1987 during his first presidential campaign:
"Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go a university? Why is it that my wife... is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? ...Is it because they didn't work hard? My ancestors who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come after 12 hours and play football for four hours? It's because they didn't have a platform on which to stand."
The video was sent by the Dukakis campaign to officials of the New York Times. The resulting firestorm of controversy caused Biden to withdraw.
At the start of this campaign season, Biden praised Barack Obama:"[he is] the first mainstream African American [presidential candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.
Jesse Jackson was unavailable for comment.
In a videotaped exchange with a supporter last June, he said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts [in Delaware] unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
Pleased to be listening to you, Mr. Joe!
Links via Memeorandum: EIB: Oh please let it be Biden. Pajamas Media: The neophyte and the plagiarist, or Obama makes his choice. Betsys Page: Obama-Biden. Slate: The Prize Biden Moment. New Republic (2001): "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran". OTB: Tapping Biden. Linked by: Don Surber and Newsbusters. Thanks!
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