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Reports Say Silky Pony Will Be Indicted

on charges of having used campaign funds illegally to pay off his wackjob mistress to keep quiet the "love child" thing when his now-dead wife was in remission for her cancer, not.

Earlier this week, I posted about Adult Baby threatening to off himself if his SSI check were taken away. Edwards' friends put it out that he will take matters into his own hands rather than go to jail (and it will be our fault, just as Strauss-Kahn's troubles are, according to Henri-Bernard Levy and his French fellow travelers). Which would be a terrible waste of an expensive haircut.

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Jerome Corsi Going the Extra Mile on Birth Certificate

Corsi's book about Obama's birth certificate and other documentation has done pretty good business at Amazon and elsewhere, among the so-called Birthers. Recently, he's done analysis on the document produced by the administration, and suggested that it is a forgery consisting of numerous layers.

Some analysts have claimed that the layering of the document is the result of the way the OCR software processed the information in order to post it at the White House web site, but Corsi's breakdown suggests that there are "artifacts" that are inexplicable, except as the by-products of forgery.

I feel no particular need to plump down either way, because I'm not a documents expert, except to say that the Dems, as always, are quite willing to establish more very dangerous precedents in order to keep this guy in office, just as they were willing to do so to get him there. I agree with Jeff Goldstein's points, though, when he says that it's mission accomplished for the MSM and the Obama camp that the stigma of even asking questions is enough that most pundits won't even pose them, for fear of being labeled nuts. But Corsi's apparently so confident in his assessment that he's planning to sue the administration on grounds of forgery of official documents.

This morning, Pat Dollard has the story. Corsi gave an interview to a talk radio guy on a Clear Channel station that was subsequently scrubbed from the audio archives. A listener had recorded it, and posted it on YouTube.

Meanwhile, a Hawaiian judge has subpoenaed Deb Frisch lookalike Loretta Fuddy, Director of the Hawaii Health Department, to produce the original 1961 typewritten certificate in compliance with the state's open records law.

Say what you like about Corsi, he's willing to walk the walk.

Da TechGuy has an excellent post up about Civility NOW! The Democrats always want to stop time at the high-water marks for their policies, and thanks to liberal courts and the MSM, the trends have generally gone in their favor. Any analogies to "Climate Change" are purely coincidental, but The Debate Is Over, because they say so. Historical revisionism was good when it supported their ideologies, but is bad when it doesn't. Here, I could launch into a long screed about credentialing and The Academy and peer review, but I will spare you. For the moment.

While Obama's DOJ lapdogs go after "oil speculators," so that Obama knows whose asses to kick for the results of his ruinous energy policies:

Members of the House of Representatives considerably outperform the stock market in their personal investments, according to a new academic study.

Four university researchers examined 16,000 common stock transactions made by approximately 300 House representatives from 1985 to 2001, and found what they call "significant positive abnormal returns," with portfolios based on congressional trades beating the market by about 6 percent annually.

What's their secret? The report speculates, but does not conclude, it could have something to do with the ability members of Congress have to trade on non-public information or to vote their own pocketbooks -- or both.

A study of senators by the same team of researchers five years ago found members of the higher chamber even better at beating the market -- outperforming it by about 10 percent, an amount the academics said was "both economically large and statistically significant."

Do tell. I know that you are shocked! SHOCKED! to find that our public servants, who have a hard time scraping by on their measly salaries, do so well with their investments by virtue of the information their offices provide them. Of course, Obama's policies of distorting the markets in favor of friendly donors and against hostile ones create all kinds of new possibilities in these regards, as for instance in the Toyota recall debacle.

So I'm sure that it will come as a complete surprise to you also that, according to a Washington Times piece, many of the major recipients of "Stimulus" funds are also enormous tax cheats:

One construction company that won multiple awards of money under President Obama’s 2009 stimulus program was delinquent on its federal tax bill to the tune of $700,000, even as a company executive was blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars at casinos.

Yet another company failed to pay taxes, entered into a payment plan with the Internal Revenue Service, and then repeatedly defaulted on that agreement - and still won stimulus contracts worth more than $1 million, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday.

All told, government investigators found that during the period they examined, one out of every six stimulus contract or grant dollars went to a known tax cheat, according to Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who, along with several colleagues, requested the GAO review.

The review found that at least 3,700 stimulus recipients owed a total of more than $757 million in taxes, but were awarded $24 billion in stimulus money.

The logical response, of course, is to hire ever greater numbers of IRS agents with ever greater power to root all this corruption out, because it was essential that all this money be spent pronto to pull the nation out of the recession in which it was then mired, and is presently mired, but without which we all would have been DOOMED.

Will anyone who opted to award money to cheats, not having checked their backgrounds, be punished for so doing? That's just crazy talk.

Don't worry, though: none of this stuff is political.

In case you missed Bibi Netanyahu giving Obama a hiding (racist, I know) and Andrea Mitchell sniveling over it, here you go. She's got some more sniveling to do, now.

Dan Collins

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That Was Awkward

Apparently, these billboards have been popping up across the country.  I'm generally a fan of clever responses to laughable behavior, and while I give him credit for having the stones to go big or go home, Camping's prediction falls in the laughable behavior category.  The sheer hubris required to disregard plainly written scripture while simultaneously performing hermeneutic gymnastics that would make Shawn Johnson dizzy....  Well, let's just say it makes even an 89 year old man fair game for mockery.

I do, however, feel sorry for most of his followers; many of whom may well be too young or naive to remember "1994?"  I don't, however, feel sorry for anyone who falls for this business about October 21.  There is no excuse this time, and anyone who spends their life savings or racks up stupid amounts of debt (a completely irresponsible thing for a Christian to do in anticipation of dying anyway) will deserve all the mockery I can muster.  I've got 5 months to practice on Democrats.

Maybe he and Obama can share a slogan:  "I mean it this time."

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.

More Donkey Kong Rape Allegations

Details at Ace's.

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PattyAnn Could Use a Lot of Prayer

PattyAnn was one of my first intarweb friends, a frequent commenter at AoSHQ (from where I got the news, in the sidebar) and at Protein Wisdom. She donated to me a couple of times when I blegged.

I'm sorry that I didn't know this, but she had some complex surgery awhile back, and there are now life-threatening complications. So please spare a prayer or several for PattyAnn.

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I Haz Pets Goat

Not a PhotoShopped image.

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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Bernard Henri-Levy Continues Right-Blog Charm Arrogance Offensive

Just a few day ago, prolific French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy posted at Iowahawk's place. Today, he has taken to the pages of Ace of Spades in support of beleaguered former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

These are not easy times for Strauss-Kahn, sequestered on Riker's Island while he awaits trial on charges of sexual assault against a maid at the New York hotel he inhabited while in town on "personal business," which appears to have included trying to put the moves on the conciergess, one of the desk clerkesses, and finally the maid, on whose outfit, it is rumored, has been identified the sperm of Strauss-Kahn.

Ah, but truly, what man can resist the charms of the maid in uniform? Especially when one has reduced her to a state of deshabille, and made her to sniff the undergarments?

Well, it probably wasn't quite like that, but it was apparently beyond his control.*

* Disclaimer: Even randy old French goats are presumed not guilty before their trial and sentencing in an American court of law. Batteries not included. Some restrictions may apply. This blog does not certify that the woman in the picture is an actual French maid, nor does it make any claim regarding the likelihood that the scent of one's underclothes, whatever their brand may be, will cause a French maid, actual or feigned, to remove her brazierre. Readers are encouraged to congratulate Stacy on the graduations of two of his children and to hit the tip jar. Early termination fees may apply. May not be available in all localities.

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New Whatevermageddon Watch

Crapture 2011 was probably worse than Charlie Sheen's Winning Tour. Y2K was an enormous bust. Global warming catastrophe scenarios have not materialized.

I realize that this is all very disappointing to Jemmy Wolly.

Fortunately, we have Yogimageddon to worry about:

The dangerous supervolcano that once destroyed much of what’s now the USA is much bigger than vulcanologists previously thought.

That’s the disturbing information confirmed by an important new study published in the prestigious journal of Geophysical Research Letters.

Mind you, that's a prestigious journal.

What you see in the artist's rendering above is the earth preparing to take an enormous shart.

The volcano has been producing ominous warning signs the past several years and an area near what used to be a large lake is now sealed off to the public.

The lake boiled away and all the fish died. Since that time sulfuric fumaroles have opened in the earth and the ground has become so hot shoes melt into it.

I would say the melting shoes is a warning sign.

A survey in 2009 conducted by scientists gathered past seismic wave data from earthquakes in the region to create a 3D image of the subterranean hotspot. The actual ancient caldera, now mostly a shallow impression in the ground, spans across three states: Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

All experts agree that if another massive eruption occurs the concussion, lava, superheated gas and ash fall would effectively destroy almost half of the US and be the greatest single catastrophe in recorded world history.

That would be kind of a drag, I must say.

So, in case you were looking for something new and different to worry about, have at it.

Dan Collins

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Kloppenburg Loses to Prosser, Again; Now Can Packers Fans Finally Bask?

I want my damn basking.

The last time the Pack won a Super Bowl was in 1996. Fifteen years between wins might not seem like a lot to fans of some other NFL teams that I could name, but it's long enough.

I'm not greedy, not a Yankees fan.

A lot of things need to go right for a team to win the Championship, the Lombardi Trophy. Considering the number of things that went wrong, injury-wise, for the Packers during the course of the season, and the string of must-win victories that they had to put together to go from the NFC's 6th seed to the win over the Steelers, their achievement verged on miraculous.

In a normal year, that would have meant a lot of basking in the glow of the reflected glory of the home team for a lot of fans. Whether that's rational or not is a matter for psychologists and liberals to ponder, but I don't give a rat's ass. I'm a fan.

There's no guarantee that there's even going to be a season this time around. So the whole business with the Madison protests and Kloppie's ridiculous behavior in the wake of her loss really threw an unwelcome wet blanket over what should have been Polka Time in Wisconsin. What a drag. What desperation. What stupidity.

Prosser's victory has now been certified by the State Board of Elections. That won't necessarily prevent JoAnn "My 300-Vote Victory Is Secure, But Your 7000-Vote Victory Needs Recounting" Kloppenburg from trying to drag the election into court, as though the protests and the recount haven't cost Wisconsin taxpayers enough. If you're a lib, nothing's ever enough.

And all it was about, after all, was the issue of whether the State would have to continue automatically to transfer money out of State workers' paychecks to their unions, so that they could buy more legislators to impose more taxes. Screw them.

I really hope that the players and owners can get an agreement before they kill the damn Golden Goose of all of us goofballs who are passionate about professional football. Now, 'scuse me while I bask, and don't piss me off with this crap anymore.

What? You mean my basking is interrupted AGAIN?

State election officials ordered July 12 recall elections on Monday for three Republican state senators, setting the stage for what could be an unprecedented summer of recall elections.

The Government Accountability Board, which runs state elections, voted unanimously to schedule the recall elections against Sens. Dan Kapanke of LaCrosse, Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac and Luther Olsen of Ripon.

Next week it will consider recall petitions against six other senators. In all, citizens are seeking to recall nine senators - six Republicans and three Democrats - for their stances on the fight over Gov. Scott Walker's plan to greatly limit the ability of public employees to engage in labor negotiations.

The elections would be held July 12. If more than one candidate challenges a senator, the July 12 election would be treated as a primary, with a general election Aug. 9. The elections could be halted or delayed with legal action.

The effort to recall so many lawmakers is unparalleled in Wisconsin and the nation. Recall elections against Wisconsin lawmakers have been held just four times since voters amended the state constitution to allow recalls in 1926.

On Monday, the Republicans successfully struck some of the signatures from the recall petitions against them as invalid, but not enough to prevent the elections. About 15,000 signatures for each senator were needed to hold recall elections, and in each case more than 21,000 valid signatures were gathered.

The Republicans also argued the groups gathering signatures against them improperly filed paperwork to launch the petition drive. The board rejected that argument.

In the recall campaign against Kapanke, one form listed Patrick Scheller as the petitioner, while another form named only recall treasurer Peter Larson. Republicans argued both forms had to include the same name, but the board disagreed, saying it was clear the forms were filed by the same group because they were filed together.

By ordering the recall elections Monday, the accountability board signaled it would do the same for the other three Republicans next week, when it considers those efforts. That's because Republicans have tried to stop all the recall elections using the same argument about how the paperwork was filed.

Democrats have made different arguments to try to halt the recall elections against them. They claim those gathering signatures lied to many voters about the purpose of their petitions and say as a result all of them should be thrown out.

Republicans say the elections against the Democrats should be ordered because the Democrats have not identified enough invalid signatures to halt them.

Holy fucking shit. Fuck you, you fucking fuckers.

School choice is morally wrong?

I'm going to fuck you fucking fuckers up so fucking bad you won't know what the fuck fucked you.

The decision to fire a teacher for viewing porn at school has cost a Middleton school board about $300,000 in legal fees.

The union representing the teacher filed a grievance after the seventh-grade teacher at Glacier Creek Middle School was dismissed.

I'm fucking serious.

Related: Governor Walker to sign Voter ID law on Wednesday:

Critics said the bill is an attempt to suppress the votes of students, seniors and minorities and seeks to fix a problem that isn’t there. Only 20 cases of voter fraud have been prosecuted by the state Department of Justice and Milwaukee County district attorney’s office linked to the November 2008 presidential election. None of those involved people voting using someone else’s name at the polls.

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau said about 20 percent of Wisconsin residents do not have the type of identification required under the bill. A 2005 UW-Milwaukee study found that as many as 55 percent of black men and 46 percent of Latino men did not have a state driver’s license. It’s not known what percentage of those groups have other acceptable forms of photo ID.

“This is a shameful day,” Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, said. “It is the day that democracy died.”

Fitzgerald and other GOP senators tried to hold a news conference after the vote, but left after protesters began to question them about the bill. Protesters then took the podium and spoke until Democrats arrived to talk to reporters.

Soon after the vote, opponents hinted that lawsuits would be filed over it.

“Ultimately, this will cost Wisconsin not only our fair and clean elections, but also millions of additional tax dollars when a court rules against them for damages for denying legal voters the right to vote,” said Scot Ross of One Wisconsin Now.

Yeah, they care about saving money.

The issue of how many cases of identity fraud in voting have been prosecuted in Milwaukee County is a complete red herring. All it proves is that it's hard to get the goods on someone who uses someone else's name.

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