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For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno)

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.

Dan Collins

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Barney Frank blames right wing media for his tough re-election bid.

'Cuz, you know, it couldn't have a thing to do with anything he's ever done, or more specifically not done, during his Congressional tenure.  Like being the one of the chief enablers of the Fannie/Freddie swindle, or most recently, the 'financial reform" connivance.  In a just world with an informed electorate we'd be bidding good bye to bad rubbish.  God willing, we're getting there.

And, Dude!, right wing media ?!? What alternate plane of existence has he been living in?

Forget it Jake, it's Southern Massachussettes...

Rocketman

Fire Up the Warp Drive! [And, from Dan, Tony Curtis Has Died]

Not necessarily an M Class Planet, but we could find out a mere 20 years after we develop the ability to travel at light speed.  I really was born in the wrong century.

UPDATE, by Dan:

Don't want to step on this, and this is as good a place as any to announce that Tony Curtis is dead at the age of 85 86. He was a gifted actor, and helped bring an incredible set of jugs into the world, for which (and I believe I speak for most of us) I thank him. Perhaps because I was traumatized by Dr. Smith of Lost in Space, his eyelashes and ascots kind of freaked me out, but he was in a lot of great movies. Rest in peace, Mr. Curtis.

Legacy.

Naturally, John Nolte has a much more informative and considered post on this subject.

Adam Wells

Living life at 84 mph and 7000 feet. All I ask is that you don't block traffic, act like a professional, and don't act all surprised when your actions have consequences. Oh, and don't complain about the refs; trust me, they don't care if your team wins or not.

Sneak Peek at This Season’s Lib Techniques for Stealing Elections

Great article at American Thinker:

What the Democratic machine and the Star, which endorsed Rizzo, did not count on was for the intrepid Royster to challenge the election in court. In so doing, he has provided a sneak preview on how a desperate Democratic Party will attempt to neutralize the will of the people this November, and not just in Kansas City.

Royster, a retired Navy fighter pilot and all-around good citizen, asks a fundamental question: "If we won't let Somalis hijack our ships, why do we let them hijack our elections?" As many as a hundred Somalis voted, nearly all of them illegally, likely all of them for Royster's opponent, in a House district in which only 1,300 people showed up to vote.

Ooh, racisty! But it's a version of the Frankenfelon win.

Now I conjure you, go read the whole thing.

Dan Collins

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Regarding Whitman’s “heartless mistreatment” of a wise hardworking latina

Dan already linked to a post by Jim Hoft yesterday, but I thought it might be constructive to delve a little further into what some are calling this cycle's "October surprise!" in the California gubernatorial race.

The infamous Ms. Allred chose to characterize Nicky Santillan's years of employment as Meg Whitman's houskeeper, and subsequent dismissal as the "cold and heartless treatment of a hardworking Latina", which is a hyperbolic choice of words indeed; especially when you consider that she was reportedly paid 23 dollars an hour!  And although I rightfully may not understand the outlook of an illegal immigrant working in the U.S. it is hard for me to understand how Nicky would continue to work for Whitman for 9 years if she was being mistreated so.

What's not hard to understand is Whitman's reaction to learning that Nicky was here illegally, or as many of our friends on the left prefer to say euphemistically, undocumented.  She did what she had to, what was right, regardless of how dramatically Nicky describes it.

"I told her I don't have papers to work here and need her help," the worker said at a press conference in attorney Gloria Allred's office. Whitman's husband "was very angry and said, 'I told you, I told you she was going to bring us problems.' Ms. Whitman turned to him and said, 'Calm down, calm down.' "

She said Whitman's husband "yelled" at her. "I was crying for fear and intimidation. With a face full of tears, I told them, 'I believe in people. And I believe people deserve a chance. I also told them I don't wish them any harm. I just wanted their help.

She said Whitman walked her to the door and said, "I don't know what I can do, but let me see what my lawyer can do."

She said Whitman later left her a voicemail telling her she talked to her lawyer. "She said, 'I cannot help you. And don't say anything to my children. I will tell them you already have a new job ... and from now on you don't know me, and I don't know you. You have never seen me, and I have never seen you. Do you understand me?' "

"I was shocked and hurt that Ms. Whitman would treat me this way after nine years. ... She was throwing me away like a piece of garbage."

No Nicky, she was releasing you for lying to her, to all of us by extension, and because it is both criminally, as well as morally, wrong to employ illegal aliens-especially when so many of our fellow Americans are unemployed.  In Meg's own words:

"After nine years of faithful service, Nicky came to us in June 2009 and confessed that she was an illegal worker," the statement reads. "Nicky had falsified the hiring documents and personal information she provided to the employment agency that brought her to us in 2000. Nicky told me that she was admitting her deception now because she was aware that her lie might come out during the campaign. Nicky said she was concerned about hurting my family and me."

Whitman continued: "As required by law, once we learned she was an illegal worker, I immediately terminated Nicky’s employment. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I considered Nicky a friend and a part of our extended family."

Ms. Allred claims that Meg knew about Nicky's immigration status and cynically exploited her vulnerability, suggesting that Whitman was engaged in a game of "don't ask, don't tell" to exploit her while pretending that she didn't know the truth about her status.  She also claims to have some sort of "smoking gun" document that she's holding back until she needs more publicity Ms. Whitman responds to her allegation; some folks speculate that document pertains to social security notifying Whitman of Santillan's questionable status.   A spokesman for Whitman disputes that, contending that the candidate was unaware of Nicky's illegal status until she herself informed them of it in 2009.  I suppose all that remains to be seen if and when Allred chooses to produce the letter, but I for one don't understand how she would get her hands on Meg Whitman's correspondance.

I am inclined to believe Meg Whitman, and I'm certain there are some who would suspect a partisan motivation.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  You see, I distrust the motivation of long time Democrat operative and prominent California attorney Gloria Allred.  I mean, anyone who sues the Boy Scouts of America for not allowing girls to join seems a little, er, misguided.  Of course, not all of her work has been politically motivated or even "suspect" over the years, but she has tried this "October Surprise" play before, against the Governator in 2003:

This is not the first time Allred has emerged in a California governor's race. In 2003, just days before the recall election, an Allred client claimed she was the victim of sexual assault by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Those claims were later dismissed. [emphasis-ed.]

For me, nuff said.  But what do you think kind reader?

I may be wrong in the long run, and if so will be man enough to admit it.   But something smells fishy about Allred's accusations to me.  As many of our friends on the left used to repeat breathlessly during the Bush years; I question the timing ! 

The Hot Air gang has a lot of link filled posts here and here.

Rocketman

Tyler Clementi Suicide: Sex, Lies and Webcams, But Mainly Douchebags [UPDATE]

I was wondering when the story was going to turn in this direction.

Let me just first express my sympathies for the family and friends of the young man. It's truly awful what was done to him. And to the perps, who are experiencing their first brush with real-life consequences, I want to say that your behavior was unimaginably disgusting. I hope that you discover real remorse not only for the consequences to you, but for your unbelievable callowness, selfishness and viciousness. I know that that sounds like I'm cursing you out, but it's absolutely the opposite: I want you to get human.

So, what do we know? We know that Tyler Clementi was a gifted musician who got a raw deal on a freshman roomie at Rutgers, who surreptitiously streamed Clementi's sexual encounter with another young man in their dorm room via iChat, and tweeted as it was happening. Tyler Clementi was devastated by this annihilation of his privacy and wanton destruction of his future at the university, announced on Facebook that he was going to jump off the GW Bridge and apologizing for his suicide, drove there, leaving his wallet and computer in the car, and jumped off. As of yesterday late afternoon, police had recovered a body that they hadn't yet identified as his. Now the kicker:

Two Rutgers freshmen have been charged with illegally taping the 18-year-old Clementi having sex and broadcasting the images via an Internet chat program.

Steven Goldstein, chairman of the gay rights group Garden State Equality, said in a statement Wednesday that his group considers Clementi's death a hate crime.

The charged?

One of the defendants, Dharun Ravi, was Clementi's roommate, Mainardi told The Star-Ledger of Newark. The other defendant is Molly Wei. They could face up to five years in prison if they're convicted.

Ravi was bailed on $25k bond, and Wei released on her own recognizance. As their names might suggest, they are both people of color.

On September 19, Ravi tweeted: ‘Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into Molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.’

According to Greenwich Diva, Ravi and Molly Wei have been arrested and charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy. In addition, Ravi, 18, was charged with two more invasions of privacy counts for trying to arrange the airing of a second session on September 21.

[Ravi] wrote on Twitter: "Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it's happening again."

Shortly before 9 PM on September 22, his roommate posted one last time to Facebook: “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.”

If Wei did anything besides supply the computer, it's not clear from any of the articles that I've seen.

Some will chalk this up to youthful stupidity, and no doubt that was a contributing factor, here, but what's this guy's excuse?

A prominent Irvine lawyer has been charged with impersonating his next-door neighbors, and creating fake Web pages advertising sexual services from the neighbors' home.

Franklin Casco Jr., 49, pleaded not guilty in June to 10 felonies, including one count each of conspiracy and stalking, as well as four counts of identity theft. If convicted, he faces up to nine years in prison.

A second man who works at Casco's firm, Larry Lorenzo Cardenas Jr., 31, also has pleaded not guilty to the same charges.

Prosecutors say the pair committed "harassment by electronic communication,'' by pretending to be neighbors and placing ads on websites such as Myspace.com and geocites.com [sic] around April to November 2009 that invited strangers to come to the neighbors' home for sexual encounters, according to the criminal complaint.

Yeah, innocent till proven guilty, but just who was posting this crap from your computers? To add insult to injury, geocities? MySpace?

Gloria NoCred and Alan Disgrayson just make shit up, too. You know why Gloria's clients always cry on camera? Because they realize once they're on TV that they're being raped publicly by this raspy bag. Caliban Alan, when you've had your ass handed to you by freakin' Contessa Brewer, you should know it's over. Maybe MSNBC will fire Ed Schultz and put you in his slot next time he threatens to burn down Thirty Rock, or whatever the hell it is. Still, you've got to hand it to Alan's rhetorical technique during the interview: look, the issue here's not what I've indisputably done, it's what other people have putatively done. Just like King Shmear Shabizznit.

Alas, all of this leads me to James O'Keefe, who tried to pull off some kind of journalistic performance art piece involving a TV anchoress, a boat, dildos and fuzzy handcuffs. The . . . shambush or whatever the hell it was appears to have blown up in his face badly, when the anchoress (no, not the blogger!) was tipped to the scheme. Ace has the most cogent theory regarding what O'Keefe might have been up to, but . . . that presumes that O'Keefe's scheme was itself somewhat cogent.

It'll be interesting to hear O'Keefe's self-defense.

UPDATE: Any of you who are coming here---and I know there are a few---searching for the identity of Tyler's lover or looking for the video, you're part of the problem and should seek help.

Dan Collins

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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

So, let's see . . . where were we before I was so rudely interrupted?

Ah, right. Katy Perry. Don't much care, to be perfectly honest, but she's been in the news a lot over the past week for her appearance on Sesame Street in a form-fitting dress:

Call me a homophobe, or whatever, I always figured Elmo for gay, but in this photo you can see that he's struggling mightily to keep his gaze pointed above the chest. And my appreciation for the little guy grew when I found out that he'd beaten the crap out of some demented dude who started throwing punches at him at a music store. Word on the street is that he's the bag man for O the G.

Remember back in '83, when Old Man Hooper died?

He wouldn't knuckle under.

So maybe someone ought to let Katy Perry know that she's treading in some deep shit when she dons a cleavage-friendly Elmo shirt for SNL.

Capiche? And something else I don't get: it's not like her chesticles are that impressive. She's got a little bit of a derivative Bette Page thing going on, sure, but let's not delude ourselves that her funbags are the tits. I guess squeezing them together and jiggling was supposed to be edgy or something. Meh.

Then there's Katie Couric, high-paid brain-dead talking head, who thinks that we ought to have our news tsunami better filtered for us:

It's in the self interest of those same networks to support a more educated citizenry with greater digital literacy. "Be an educated consumer" when buying into the media, said Couric. That extends to actively seeking and engaging with views and perspectives that do not mesh comfortably with our own, a phenomenon that Eli Pariser described at PDF earlier this year as the "filter bubble." Living in an information bubble with like-minded people is both "limiting and dangerous to a democracy," said Couric.

That's one reason that the Knight Commission was created, and why the information needs of this democracy must be considered as technology continues to evolve as a means of collaborative news gathering, sharing and analysis.

You know what would be a really good start, Katie? Let's get rid of you. Jeebus, every TV anchor ninny thinks he's Marshall Fuckin' McLuhan. All of this babble about filtering our news for us is just a roundabout way of saying that we must get all our fruits and vegetables through a "Fairness Doctrine." And who's going to tell us what's fair? Why, people who know better than we do, of course. Net neutrality is another way of saying neutered information.

Joe Scarborough told us that if we question Obama's faith, we're haters. Screw that. Dude hasn't even bothered being baptised, Joe. More to the point, people on your show had quite a lot to say about Bush's faith back in 2004.

Meanwhile, we've got loons posing as intellectuals, talking about something called "the white brain." They can't get their facts straight, for starters, but that doesn't matter, because like the hateful douchebag King Shamir Shabazz, just saying it apparently makes it so in liberal lalangue. This one is a complete community organizer, employed by the NAACP and labor unions to help orchestrate the One Nation rally, and saying stuff that might even make the Reverend Wright hesitate. We've got Gloria Allred dragging some ninny onstage so that she can spew easily dispelled lies about a political candidate. Boxer's campaign hires undocumented workers to astroturf outside the arena where she debated Carly Fiorina. They don't even know what the signs mean.

And Alan Disgrayson? Well, what can you say? These vile, fraudulent thugs and their media enablers are way more enlightened than you, wingnut.

Dan Collins

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