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This rattled:

(Via johnny dollar’s place, via Hot Air)

Good thing none of these people had knives with them.

Crossposted to RedState.

So, because of this:

Yeah. Morgan Freeman’s cooler than I am, too.
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Blago voluminizing shampoo. (Via AoSHQ Headlines)

No, it’s real. I have no idea what the woman on the sand at the bottom of that website represents, though: unless it’s supposed to represent the feminine company that will swim Lake Michigan to be with you and your newly-epic hair.

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PS: There is a critical lack of this on Amazon – or, indeed, non-lame Blago-themed novelty material in general – so you’re just going to have to satisfy yourself with Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption Into a National Sideshow.

So to speak.

It’s like a demented tennis match:

CIA director says Pelosi received the truth

CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth.

[snip]

Panetta, President Obama’s pick to run the clandestine agency and President Clinton’s former chief of staff, wrote in a memo to CIA employees Friday that “CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing ‘the enhanced techniques that had been employed,’” according to CIA records.

“We are an agency of high integrity, professionalism and dedication,” Panetta said in the memo. “Our task is to tell it like it is — even if that’s not what people always want to hear. Keep it up. Our national security depends on it.”

(Via Riehl World View, via AoSHQ)

…and that last statement translates to, as near as I can tell, “Go ahead and hit her again.” Add that to the apparent dismissive attitude of Panetta towards Speaker Pelosi’s allegations (I think that he referred to it as ‘noise’), and you get the feeling that the CIA is prepared to be the brick wall that the Speaker is pounding her head against for as long as the Speaker feels like pounding. That suggests that there’s a lot of paperwork still out there that can accidentally-on purpose show up when the time is right.
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As God is my witness, they are. First off, here’s a mashup via At The Point of a Gun*…

…that demonstrates that even Holy Grail can be improved with Star Trek; and then there’s this:

…from… well, I don’t actually know who. It got emailed to me. Go figure.

[UPDATE]: Duh, it was right there on the image. Luke Writes. You Read.

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*And check out this video he found, while you’re there.

Via Glenn Reynolds (who thinks that Johnson should be confirmed), TPM notes that the Dawn Johnson nomination is being stalled by Democrats Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Ben Nelson (D-NE). Apparently, the latter is in a snit-fit over “subsidies to student lending institutions” and the former is being… Arlen Specter.

Reid, of course, is doing his usual game of blaming his inadequacies on the GOP, but really, what else can he do? Personally, I don’t really know enough about the situation to pontificate about Johnson one way or the other*, but I’d appreciate it if Reid learns to take responsibility for things for a change. Not to mention learning to not be so greedy. We let him have Lugar for this one, didn’t we?

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*Although her lack of a book is actually kind of refreshing.

Crossposted to RedState.

Victor Davis Hanson* is pretty brutal about them, but then: the President deserves it, sad to say. Such promise, squandered…

Via the Anchoress**.

enaL eoM***

*Nice beard, there.

**More of a stretch.

***Worth it for the alternate Merchant of Venice.

Crossposted to etatSdeR.

Found here; autoloading link after the fold. Anyway, halfway through, in response to somebody doing the usual hand-down-the-pants nonsense about how Bush wasn’t President. You need to step on stuff like that.

I’ve also blogrolled Fausta. About time I did, really.

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[UPDATE] Welcome, Anchoress readers.

In reviewing Dan Balz’s article on Pelosi’s ongoing meltdown, Ed notes:

Balz does his best to stay within the non-judgmental vocabulary to describe Pelosi’s latest story on her complicity in the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA, but how does one objectively describe how someone has taken their credibility onto a dais and beaten it to death with a microphone?

I wish that I had written that.

Crossposted to RedState.

This is bad?

Sen. John Cornyn is worried that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is going to retire early this fall to run for Governor, but I’m missing the problem here (via Political Wire):

“My guess,” he told Texas reporters at his Senate office today, is that Hutchison will resign “this fall sometime.”

That would allow Perry to appoint an interim senator and allow a special election to take place in May 2010 instead of this November (which would happen if she resigned this spring or summer).

It seems pretty simple:

• Hutchison resigns.
• Governor Perry appoints Texas Railroad Commissioner* Michael Williams to be interim Senator.
• Williams wins the special election.

Come on, Senator Cornyn. This isn’t exactly rocket science.

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[UPDATE] Welcome, Riehl World View readers.

[Note: Google hasn't caught up yet. Her official campaign website is here.]

It’s official:

Haley Officially Enters South Carolina Governor’s Race

State Rep. Nikki Haley is adding her name to the list of Republicans hoping to become governor of South Carolina in 2010. Haley, a staunch anti-tax advocate, confirmed Thursday that she will mount a run for the seat currently held by Republican Mark Sanford, who is prevented by term limits from running for a third term.

“For more than five years I’ve sat in the statehouse and watched – sometimes in disbelief – as our state government has spent with abandon and in the process wasted taxpayer dollar after taxpayer dollar,” Haley said in a release. “I know what good government can look like. I’m running for Governor so the people of this state will know what it feels like.”

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Don’t lie. You want this:

For the ‘kids,’ of course. It’s not available at Amazon, which I find to be a stunningly bad business call; and either Hasbro or I need to have better searching criteria (might be me; no coffee yet).  I suppose that I should find out where David Willis got his.

What? No, I don’t collect action figures.  But it’s a an archaic-tech robot that transforms into a WWI biplane. I’d buy that.

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