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I REPEAT: TOTUS ONE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED.

A truck carrying President Obama’s podium, teleprompter and audio equipment was stolen in Richmond, Va., a local news outlet reports.

Sources tell WWBT/NBC12 that around $200,000 of presidential equipment was stolen from a Richmond Marriott hotel location in advance of Wednesday’s presidential visit to Chesterfield, Va.

President Obama had no comment. (more…)

Heh.  I thought that this was Harry Belafonte.  Guess I’m not trying to make money off of a Commie tonight after all.

And if Chubby Checker was a Commie, don’t tell me.  I’m still bleary-eyed from trying to find a way to record Skype calls on my iPad (yup, it’s been reset and is now working again); I don’t need more complications in my life.

Limbo Rock, Chubby Checker

But I’m sure that Barack Obama means well.

Isn’t this just the cutest thing?

If the video doesn’t load, Breitbart TV pulled the relevant quote:

“My plan says we’re going to put teachers back in the classrooms, construction workers back to work… Tax cuts for small businesses, tax cuts for hiring veterans, tax cuts if you give your worker a raise. That’s my plan. Then you got [the Republican's] plan which is ‘let’s have dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance’… So far I’m feeling better about my plan.”

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IF YOU PLAYED THIS GAME! WAY BACK WHEN! THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER!  I AM NOT KIDDING!

YES, BEARDED SIMCITY GUY WAS MY FAVORITE!  WHY ARE YOU ASKING!

And before anyone points out that Detroit does not actually have any zombies, let me note that at this point it does not matter:

The war to keep the lights on in Detroit is a serious one. Thieves, antiquated equipment and a lack of funding have made it impossible for city officials to catch up to the problem.

City officials estimate 15-20 percent of the 88,000 lights in the Motor City are not working, and they acknowledge that figure could be as high as 50 percent in some neighborhoods. Providing lighting to the city costs $10.7 million annually.

The city is already in a post-apocalyptic scenario: it merely needs to have its leadership accept that.

So here’s my plan. (more…)

It really and truly is.

The host is Steve Harvey, for those of you wondering what happened to Richard Dawson (what happened is that he’s, well, almost ninety at this point). I refuse to spoil this video by describing it; let’s just say Harvey doesn’t approve too much of hand-baskets as a means of transportation…

I apologize for spoiling your morning coffee like this.

You know, when this video from Reason.tv came out, I invoked the 48 Hour Rule as a matter of course. For those who don’t know, the 48 Hour Rule is one of those useful rules of thumb that people come up with to make sure that they don’t get burned on a story; if something sounds too good to be true, or too bad to be true, or even just too much to be true, it’ll probably be debunked pretty quickly. 48 hours is usually enough time to establish that. And I was optimistically certain that this was the case, here: surely the LA school system hadn’t really employed somebody calling for the expulsion of the Jews.

“I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government, they need to be run out of this country.” – Patricia McAllister

I know. I am charmingly naive. (more…)

I had a rather rude and pointed draft post here originally about how Daily News owner and real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman is not very happy with the way that President Barack Obama is mishandling the country these days.  Unfortunately, it was also a rather tedious and pedantic post, which took far too long to get to the point that if Zuckerman is really unhappy then he and his paper had better stop supporting and endorsing Democrats* and start supporting and endorsing Republicans.  But lo! – it’s so much easier just to write that out, and be done with it.

Although the other version had bullet points.  Bullet points are my weakness.  I REGRET NOTHING.

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*Including Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who frankly is not keeping the Crazy People away from the productive class the way that she promised the productive class that she would.

I’m in a thoroughly rotten mood, so we’ll pick up thing again tomorrow.

I got this Rep. Darrell Issa appearance wrt Operation Fast & Furious on Face the Nation via email today, and it’s worth watching:

Extra points, by the way, for CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson pointing out that the biggest problem here is that we don’t know what we don’t know. I have found that there’s a pretty close correlation between the group of people who didn’t recognize the clarity of Rumsfeld’s now-famous formulation, and the group of people who cannot be relied upon to come in out of the rain; it’s refreshing to see a CBS reporter demonstrate an acceptable level of cognitive awareness. (more…)