A New Low

Is it really any wonder why the Republican Party is quickly becoming yesterday's news as quickly as John McCain is relegating himself to the storage bin of presidential history?

If you'll recall, Republicans spent the last several years and - still today! - demonizing Ivy-league educated, latte-sipping, Prius driving, Birkenstock-wearing, long-haired, pinko-Commie, terrorist sympathizing, America-hating, gay-loving, religion-hating, big government, anti-military, pot smoking, lazy, good-for-nothing liberal Democrats as the cause of all that is wrong in the world as well as this country today.

Whenever there's a need to rattle the ol' cage, there's nothing like a Democrat to scapegoat, right?

However, you'd think that when they start having problems with their own base, they'd start looking inward, no?

Well, guess again...

On the right is a letter sent from the RNC treasurer to a Republican and fundamentalist activist in Indiana. The text version is after the jump.

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Dear Ms. Luidhardt,

I don't want to believe that you've abandoned the Republican Party, but I have to ask... Have you given up?

Our records show that we have not yet received your Republican National Committee membership renewal for the critical 2008 presidential election year.

As the Treasurer of the RNC, I know our Party's success depends directly on grassroots leaders like you.

So I am surprised and concerned especially because I know how generously you supported President Bush and the RNC in the past. You helped to advance our vision for America and elect Republicans at all levels of government.

Ms. Luidhardt, I know other things come up, and perhaps you've just been delayed in renewing your membership. If that's the case, I understand.

But we've not heard from you this year - - and I hope you haven't deserted our Party.

Your generous financial assistance and active involvement are more important than ever as we work to elect a new Republican president and Congress.

Did you notice how only 11 words into this fund raising letter, Ms. Luidhardt herself, a Republican and fundamental activist, is already being accused of abandoning the Republican Party? And how shortly thereafter they ask, "Have you given up?"

On the one hand, I'm surprised Republicans would word a letter this way to a constituent. I suppose whomever is managing their fund raising operations thinks that if scaring people into voting for Republicans by demonizing Democrats worked so well in 2004, then perhaps demonizing Republicans into sending them money, lest they feel guilty that they've "abandoned the Party", will work just as well too!

And yet, on the other hand, no...no, I'm NOT surprised at all.

I don't know about you but I'll place a wager that after Ms. Luidhardt read that piece of crap request for money wrapped in a classic case of Republican Projectionism, she crumpled it up into a ball, tossed it into the garbage, and walked away muttering under her breath, "No, I didn't abandon you."

"YOU abandoned ME!!"

Edjumakashun N I-ul 5!

From the FAQ at WriteInBush.com:

What about "term limits"

The important thing to understand about so-called "term limits" is that they are man's law, not God's Law. The God who parted the Red Sea is surely not worried about so-called "term limits". When you vote your faith you let Almighty God take care of the details.

Presidential term limits are not in the Bible. And they were not in our Constitution until added by an activist congress in 1951

Since the Bible means nothing to me and, unlike the Constitution, doesn't represent me, this is the kind of stuff that scares people like me into believing that religion has no place in government whatsoever.

So Who's Going To Answer For This Mistake Of Global Proportions?

Army study: Iraq occupation was understaffed

I don't feel like being harassed by the AP but you need to read this. There are people responsible for the deaths of over 4000 of our soldiers due to poor planning and an improper mindset; people who threw logic and calls for vastly more troops to the wind and throughout this debacle, would let anyone and everyone to the side that didn't kowtow to their mindset.

Fuckers. Fuckin' fuckers!

Changing The Conspiracy To Fit The Smear

Hey..."Darlin" - you got a second? I want to ask you something about this Obama birth certificate conspiracy theory you're so obsessed with. Ya see, back on the 21st of June, you put up a post comparing Barack Obama's Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth to one belonging to Patricia Decosta and immediately, all your flying monkeys began screeching in unison about the lack of a seal on Obama's certificate.

"It's a fake! It's a fake!", you all yelled. However, at least one person seemed to notice what appeared to be the indentation of a seal made, possibly, on the reverse of the document. You can see two brief posts I put up on it here and here.

"Nope, that’s ridiculous. There is nothing there. The seal would show up in a photocopy or a scan. It shouldn't be this hard." you said...



Today, you seemed to have changed your tune when you realized that perhaps someone was onto something. Either that, or you realized that either you might be wrong, there might be less to this story than you thought, or you simply didn't want to be wrong and as such, you moved the goalposts just a little bit.



You seemed so sure at the time it was first raised that this simply was not possible. So sure, you were, that you had finally caught Obama red-handed trying to reach the highest governmental office our country affords it's citizens without the proper birth-right to do so.

What caused you to, um, rattle it down a notch?

Monica Crowley, Peddler Of Turds

Hi there. I don't watch the Laura Ingraham show but I came across a story on Media Matters that features a transcript of a conversation you apparently had with a caller that dealt with the idea that Barack Obama is using the appearance of being black to provide cover for his true Muslim roots and using the appearance of being black as a tool to inject allegations of racism against anyone who questions him.

According to the transcript, you seemed to forward the idea, as a fact, that Obama is not really black but is instead Arab, all despite your own admission that you haven't done the research and you can't verify it.

CROWLEY: [laughs] I am Monica Crowley, in for Laura Ingraham. 800-876-4123. MonicaMemo.com. Well, Barack Hussein Obama can certainly go from being a Black Panther to a Norman Rockwell painting in the blink of an eye, can't he? Last week, he was all about Kansas. This week, he is all about Jeremiah Wright.

All right, let's hit the phones straight away. 800-876-4123. And say hello to Tim listening on News Talk 710 in Denver. Hiya, Tim.

CALLER: Hi, Monica. You know, the deception of who Obama is goes right down to his three names. I never even -- it never even dawned onto me until I started thinking about it. Barack Hussein Obama. Now, why would somebody born in Hawaii be named those three names? The fact is, he's not really African-American. He's Arab. Forty-three percent Arab, 6 percent African negro, and half white. And that is the biggest fraud being perpetrated on us all, is --

CROWLEY: You know, Tim. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Finish your thought.

CALLER: Well, it's just proof the media is in the tank for this guy.

CROWLEY: You know, I -- it is so interesting that you called, Tim, because a couple of weeks ago, I read that genealogy that you're referring to, and I have no idea, because I haven't done the research myself or really looked into it, but I know what you're talking about. It was a guy, Kenneth Lamb, who went to Africa, actually, he went to Kenya, he looked at all of the government records, and he is claiming -- and the percentages you put out there is what he is claiming -- that Barack Obama -- you know, if you're born Christian in Africa, you're given a Christian name. If you're born Arab in Africa, and there are a lot of Arab Africans, you're given an Arab name. Hence, Barack Hussein Obama.

Now, he was not born in Africa, but the father was from Kenya, the father was from Africa. And according to this genealogy -- and again, because I haven't done the research, I can't verify this -- but according to this guy Kenneth Lamb, Barack Obama is not black African, he is Arab African. And yet, this guy is campaigning as black and painting anybody who dares to criticize him as a racist. I mean, that is -- it is the biggest con I think I've ever seen.

Through your own admission, since you haven't done any research and since you cannot verify this claim, how do you purport this to be a big con? That's like me purporting you to be a peddler of whisper campaigns, very similar to the likes of various other smears, including the one that Obama is a Muslim.

However, the only difference between you alleging this big con and my alleging that you take part in whisper campaigns is that you admitted you didn't do the research on your end whereas I just presented you with the research on my end.

If you could provide a plausible explanation or more detailed opinion on how you manage to think this is a big con despite not going out and actually doing the research yourself?

By the way, I heard the moon is made out of cheese and that it's not actually American Cheese, but Arab cheese. You might want to pass that on to your listeners as I'm sure they'd be grateful for your informing them of this huge con so that the next time they gaze at the big white circle in the night sky, they'll be sure to shake their fists at it.

No Hot Water? Blame Obama. Get A Flat? Blame Obama. 3 Sexual Assaults In N. Philly? Yep....

Blame Obama.

Check this:

PHILADELPHIA - June 27, 2008 (WPVI) -- There have been three assaults in three days in the same general area in North Philadelphia.

There's big trouble in the 39th District on the city's north side.

All three of the sexual attacks took place after midnight and the victims were women who lived alone.

The latest incident was 2:15 a.m. Thursday in the 1500 block of West Indiana Avenue. A 19-year-old female was startled in her room when she found an unknown man standing by her bed fondling her.

The article then continues to document the three separate assaults, what leads the police have or don't have, how DNA might tie this to an assault from last August, and it ends with a call for tips or information from the public.

Then you have the comments. There's only three but the first one is all that matters.

It's only going to get worse when Obama gets elected.

I replied by asking what Obama has to do with this, although I don't expect any type of logical response. But then I clicked on the commenters name and seems he's somewhat of a serial Obama-blamer.

He has left 5 identical comments on 5 different stories:

Police find hand grenade in home
Home invasion in Delaware County
"Kill cops" rant lands man in jail
Operation Saturation takes effect
and today's piece, Three assaults in three days.

So there you have it. Everything is going to get worse once Obama gets elected.

If you're writing something down and your pen runs dry, blame Obama. If your grande skim, caramel-mocha, double shot latte, with an extra shot of caramel that you had your friend give you a discount on since you recycled your last cup somehow is a little too hot, blame Obama.

And if you're such a moron that you spend your day trolling Channel 6 articles that deal with violence and/or just to post that it's all gonna get worse once Obama gets elected?

Well then that's definitely Obama's fault too!

Flying Monkeys

First off, talk about reading comprehension. This freeper writes his post as if I'm the originator of the initial image displayed here.

As I said:

Larry Johnson of the No Sense blog is continuing his hysterical jihad against Barack Obama, this time by going after his birth certificate.

They're comparing it another person's Hawaiian certificate of live birth and pointing out the lack of an embossed seal on Obama's certificate that is clearly present on this other person's certificate.

However, cruising the comments section, I came across a comment thread:

It was there that I found the image with the arrow, moron. However, let me put the image up again just to show, a second time, what I saw. I further lightened the second image so I could add the trace around the edge:




I know it's dark and hard to see but in the second image, I roughly outlined what I see. But that's not what's important, ultimately. This is:

I'm not saying this is the be-all, say-all and I don't even like to get involved in these stupid little conspiracy theories but it looks to me like the original comments about there being something there were onto something because from my eyes, I see, at the very least, a double circular border on the image that closely matches the double circular border on the lower image.

Ultimately, I could care less. This is a non-issue to begin with and I posted on it more for entertainment value for my regular readers who've been following my own jihad against Larry Johnson.

Lastly, you'd think the freepers would have something better to do than post about my blog. I guess there just aren't any journalists who've pissed them off enough lately, prompting them to suggest they alert sexual predators to the locations of the daycare centers that said journalists send their children to and so they link me instead.

Just sayin'....

Dobson Criticizes Obama On Religion; Gets Absolutely Slammed

I can proudly say that at least 90%+ of the comments on this CNN article are slamming Dobson for being a hypocrite.

Obama's Birth Certificate And The Missing Seal

(Seems I've caught the attention of the FREEPERS! How fitting, considering the regular crowd over at Larry's house.)

Larry Johnson of the No Sense blog is continuing his hysterical jihad against Barack Obama, this time by going after his birth certificate.

They're comparing it another person's Hawaiian certificate of live birth and pointing out the lack of an embossed seal on Obama's certificate that is clearly present on this other person's certificate.

However, cruising the comments section, I came across a comment thread:

If they color xeroxed the birth certificate, blocked out the number and then scanned it, it might explain why there are no folds or creases.

But it still doesn’t explain the lack of a signature or seal.

There is a fold at the level of the state seal if you see an enhanced image.

You can also see the embossed seal on an enhanced image.
Here is a link of the enhanced image.

http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=21950791pe2.jpg

That linked image is this:


If you look closely, you can see what looks like a vague circular outline.

However, it didn't receive quite the logical response:

Comment by mahaska | 2008-06-22 02:36:04

Dude you need an eye exam and soon.

And this:

Comment by Dr No | 2008-06-22 15:48:25

Do yourself a favor and go here…

http://www.lenscrafters.com

Well, I looked at it too and I thought perhaps there is something there. I downloaded the original file and opened it in Microsoft Office Picture Manager and by adjusting the brightness and contrast heavily, this is what I ended up with, with the seal from the certificate they're comparing it to below it:



I'm not saying this is the be-all, say-all and I don't even like to get involved in these stupid little conspiracy theories but it looks to me like the original comments about there being something there were onto something because from my eyes, I see, at the very least, a double circular border on the image that closely matches the double circular border on the lower image.

DNA Pioneer Dies

Yahoo

BERKELEY, Calif. - Gunther Stent, who helped pioneer the field of molecular biology as one of the first scientists to confirm the structure of DNA, has died. He was 84.

...

Watson and Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953. As a biochemist at UC Berkeley, Stent performed experiments with bacterial viruses that confirmed Watson and Crick's results a year later.

Too bad the article completely misidentified the real pioneer of DNA, Rosalind Franklin.

In the late nineteenth century, a German biochemist found the nucleic acids, long-chain polymers of nucleotides, were made up of sugar, phosphoric acid, and several nitrogen-containing bases. Later it was found that the sugar in nucleic acid can be ribose or deoxyribose, giving two forms: RNA and DNA. In 1943, American Oswald Avery proved that DNA carries genetic information. He even suggested DNA might actually be the gene. Most people at the time thought the gene would be protein, not nucleic acid, but by the late 1940s, DNA was largely accepted as the genetic molecule. Scientists still needed to figure out this molecule's structure to be sure, and to understand how it worked.

In 1948, Linus Pauling discovered that many proteins take the shape of an alpha helix, spiraled like a spring coil. In 1950, biochemist Erwin Chargaff found that the arrangement of nitrogen bases in DNA varied widely, but the amount of certain bases always occurred in a one-to-one ratio. These discoveries were an important foundation for the later description of DNA.

In the early 1950s, the race to discover DNA was on. At Cambridge University, graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson (b. 1928) had become interested, impressed especially by Pauling's work. Meanwhile at King's College in London, Maurice Wilkins (b. 1916) and Rosalind Franklin were also studying DNA. The Cambridge team's approach was to make physical models to narrow down the possibilities and eventually create an accurate picture of the molecule. The King's team took an experimental approach, looking particularly at x-ray diffraction images of DNA.

In 1951, Watson attended a lecture by Franklin on her work to date. She had found that DNA can exist in two forms, depending on the relative humidity in the surrounding air. This had helped her deduce that the phosphate part of the molecule was on the outside. Watson returned to Cambridge with a rather muddy recollection of the facts Franklin had presented, though clearly critical of her lecture style and personal appearance. Based on this information, Watson and Crick made a failed model. It caused the head of their unit to tell them to stop DNA research. But the subject just kept coming up.

Franklin, working mostly alone, found that her x-ray diffractions showed that the "wet" form of DNA (in the higher humidity) had all the characteristics of a helix. She suspected that all DNA was helical but did not want to announce this finding until she had sufficient evidence on the other form as well. Wilkins was frustrated. In January, 1953, he showed Franklin's results to Watson, apparently without her knowledge or consent. Crick later admitted, "I'm afraid we always used to adopt -- let's say, a patronizing attitude towards her."

Watson and Crick took a crucial conceptual step, suggesting the molecule was made of two chains of nucleotides, each in a helix as Franklin had found, but one going up and the other going down. Crick had just learned of Chargaff's findings about base pairs in the summer of 1952. He added that to the model, so that matching base pairs interlocked in the middle of the double helix to keep the distance between the chains constant.

Watson and Crick showed that each strand of the DNA molecule was a template for the other. During cell division the two strands separate and on each strand a new "other half" is built, just like the one before. This way DNA can reproduce itself without changing its structure -- except for occasional errors, or mutations.

The structure so perfectly fit the experimental data that it was almost immediately accepted. DNA's discovery has been called the most important biological work of the last 100 years, and the field it opened may be the scientific frontier for the next 100. By 1962, when Watson, Crick, and Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine, Franklin had died. The Nobel Prize only goes to living recipients, and can only be shared among three winners. Were she alive, would she have been included in the prize?

Who Loves America More?

Update John over at Americablog pulls out a great comment from a reader:

Nothing in America had earned the adult John McCain's love in the 31 years before he was shot down? Nothing? Not winning the Second World War? Not our regular and orderly transitions of power based on the rule of law? Not freeing millions of Jews from the Nazi's? Not the fact that we feed and defend the world? Not that we lead in science and technology research? Not even when McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy? Not even McCain's grandfather and father who were admirals in the United States Navy taught him to love America? Nothing?

Not even the fact that McCain was able to use his fathers position as an Admiral in the Navy to guarantee he became a naval aviator even though he had graduated 4th from the bottom at the USNA?

Not the fact that we saved the entire world from the Japanese Empire had made John McCain at the age of 31 love his country in his entire adult life?

How sad. I certainly don't want this self-serving blind pessimist as commander in chief of the USA.

Bill O'Reilly: Show The Whole Moyers Clip

Here's the entire confrontation from a different angle. Watch it until the end and see just how O'Reilly's owner gets pwned the exact same way he tries to do to others with his ambush interview tactics.

No Quarter Comment Of The Day

Terrorist Fist Bump

Can I call it?



Or can I mutha-fuckin' call it?

Larry Johnson ain't got nothing on me! NOTHING!

Newt Gingrich: Administration Should've Let More Attacks Through To Keep People In Place

And people wonder where conspiracy theories like "They knew!" and "They let it happen!" come from:

During an appearance at a Long Island bookstore last month, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was asked by a member of the audience why the United States has not been hit again since 9/11.

"I honestly don't know," Gingrich replied. "I would have expected another attack. I was very, very worried ... when we had the sniper attacks, because the sniper attacks were psychologically so frightening. ... I was amazed that the bad guys didn't figure out how to send ten or twelve sniper teams."

"This is ... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration," Gingrich continued. "The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger. And therefore, the better they've done at making sure there isn't an attack, the easier it is to say, 'Well, there never was going to be an attack anyway.' And it's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us."

Obama Whitey Video Watch Continues, Day 13

Comment by Phillybits | 2008-05-29 13:15:20

Who cares about this. I want to see the whitey video.

Larry - where is it? It’s been almost two weeks since you shocked the blogosphere with such an outstanding revelation about the existence of said tape and still we wait.

WHERE IS THE VIDEO, LARRY?

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RESPONSE FROM LARRY JOHNSON–YOU, MY FRIEND, ARE AN IMBECILE. GO BACK AND READ THE PIECE. I WAS TOLD BY FOUR SOURCES THAT FOLKS SURROUNDING ROVE HAVE THE VIDEOTAPE AND ARE HANGING ON TO IT UNTIL OCTOBER. WHAT IS IT ABOUT OCTOBER YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. JESUS SAVE US FROM MORONS LIKE YOU.

Unnamed sources, four of them, tell Larry about the tape.
Unnamed folks surrounding Karl Rove have the tape and are using it for fundraising.
Unnamed billionaire Republican offers a million dollars to anyone to get the tape to unseat John McCain.

BUT WAIT 'TIL OCTOBER, I TELL YA! YOU JUST WAIT! OH YEAH! OCTOBER, BABY! YEAH CUZ THAT'S WHEN THE WORLD WILL SEE OBAMA'S DARK SIDE
HIS FASCISTISLAMICMUSLIMAPOSTATECHRISTIANHERETICMARXIST
RADICALBLACKTHEOLOGYVIEWS
KILLWHITEYDIEDIEDIEYARGHTALKLIKEAPIRATE!!!!!

But really, I'm the moron....

While Malkin Goes Jihad On Dunkin' Donuts, Her Comrades Smear WWII Vets And Downplay Significance Of Nazi Slave Labor Camps

I have nothing to say to this except go read it and see for yourself.

Here, here (in response to this here) and finally, here.

Sick fucks.

Michelle Malkin Uncovers Jihadistic Plot by Dunkin' Donuts And Co-Conspirator, Rachael Ray

Who else besides Michelle Malkin can possibly manufacture outrage towards a very popular and famous doughnut company by including references to terrorism?

It’s refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists. Too many of them bend over backwards in the direction of anti-American political correctness. Naturally, liberal commentators on the Internet are now up in arms over Dunkin Donut’s decision to yank the ad and mock anyone who expresses concern over the keffiyeh’s symbolism.

It’s just a scarf, the clueless keffiyeh-wearers scoff. Would they say the same of fashion designers who marketed modified Klan-style hoods in Burberry plaid as the next big thing? Fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence—unintentionally or not–they matter. Ignorance is no longer an excuse. In post-9/11 America, vigilance must never go out of style.

So what's this?



It seems to be neither in style or excusable.

Michelle Obama Video Watch

It's been almost 1 week since Larry Johnson at No Quarter proclaimed there was a purported video making the rounds of conservative circles featuring none other than Michelle Obama railing against whitey in church.

This video is being used for variety of reasons, including fundraising by Karl Rove, is being sought out with a million dollar prize to unseat John McCain's presidential aspirations, as well as show how unelectable, radical, and out-of-touch with America Barack Obama is.

As such, I've added a "Michelle Obama video watch" clock over there to the right and towards the top. I'll be leaving this counter up to count the passage of time since LJ announced said video without ever having produced said video, thus creating an eruption of hysterical proportions both on his site, in his comments, and on his follower's sites as well.

If the video happens to be true, then I'll update with that information. However, if I were Larry Johnson, I'd be crossing my fingers on that one.

Clinton Removes The Goalposts, Puts Blackmail On The Table

In a move that could foreshadow a public push from the Hillary forces to get Barack Obama to invite her on the ticket, Hillary's top campaign fundraising official said in an interview that there's a "risk" that Hillary's political and financial supporters won't get behind Obama in time for him to win in November if she's passed over for the veep slot.

Click on through to TPM for the rest of the story.

So much for Hillary also enthusiastically stumping for Obama when he wins the nomination and she's not on the ticket.