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DOOM.
Late Democratic efforts to demonize Republican Scott Brown, to make the race into a partisan battle and to use the Kennedy name to drive Democratic voters to the polls could still work. But the advertising clutter in the race works against them, and voters often tune out late messages, which can seem desperate.
Reports that the Coakley campaign plans to counter this development by releasing a commercial showing their candidate strangling a puppy with an American flag have not been confirmed.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
A former chief United Nations weapons inspector is accused of contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, engaging in a sexual conversation and showing himself masturbating on a Web camera.
Scott Ritter of Delmar, N.Y., who served as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98 and who was an outspoken critic of the second Bush administration in the run-up to the war in Iraq, is accused of contacting what turned out to be a Barrett Township police officer posing undercover as a teen girl.
Via Ace of Spades, via Sweetness & Light, and color me unsurprised. I mean, hey: UN official.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Well. How reassuring.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — Three men were accused in an alleged conspiracy to illegally export nuclear technology to Iran, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The three suspects, a Los Angeles resident and two Iranians, violated trade sanctions imposed on Iran, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Dec. 30 charges Jiraiir Avanessian, 56, a Los Angeles resident, and Farhoud Masoumian, 42, of Tehran, with multiple violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Iranian trade embargo, including smuggling, money laundering and other crimes.
[snip]
A third man, Amirhossein Sairafi of Iran, was charged on Jan. 4 in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles for his alleged role in the scheme.
This is technically via Hot Air Headlines, but the LA Times article that it linked to somehow managed to obscure critical details. It’s a hell of a thing when the press arm of the freaking People’s Republic of China gives you better basic information than a major American newspaper…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Except that I was on TV Tropes again, looking up the A-Team
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How you get from there to Putin is just one of that site’s little ways. Come on; you know this.
Authority Song
Because you always gotta stand up to the Man. Even when they’re still not comfortable with the idea that they’re the Man now, man. Or singing for him now, for that matter.
As I’ve noted before, Pleasantville
Which is why I’m replacing Zardoz
Moe Lane
Some of us have PCs on which we would be playing our Dragon Age: Origins
Yes, yes, if I had a Xbox 360
Yes, well, we already knew that I’m strange.
Moe Lane
*Heavy mage for this one: my Elven mage (arcane warrior/spirit healer) as tank, Leiliana (bard/ranger) as DPS/lockpick/automated drone controller, Wynne (spirit healer/arcane warrior) as buffer and Morrigan (shapechanger/arcane warrior) as DPS. I expect a lot of pyrotechnics.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers.
Glenn Reynolds and Kleinheider both focused on Ford’s unwillingness to take Obama’s direction on who should be the anointed junior Senator from New York, but the real hit there took place earlier:
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‘No Negro dialect.’ Admittedly, beating up on Harry Reid is fun – at this rate, I could run against him and win, and the only times I’ve ever been in Nevada was when I’ve flown over it – but it’s a sign of just how bad the year promises to be for the Democratic party*. After all, Reid is Senate Majority Leader.
Currently.
Moe Lane
*Ford has promised that if “I am elected senator from New York, Harry Reid will not instruct me how to vote” – and you know? That’s looking like it’s going to be a really easy promise for him to make.
He’s currently on loan to the Coakley campaign from the DSCC:
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also dispatched Michael Meehan, a media consultant with ties to Massachusetts, to assist the Coakley camp with messaging.
And this is the guy that attacked a Weekly Standard reporter last night after Coakley’s lobbyist-driven fundraiser:
You think that it’s the same guy? It looks like the same guy.
BIG HT: Hot Air.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
