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Sarah Palin’s new “snuff video”

She did it just for the halibut: Sarah Palin clubs to death a fish on reality show labelled ‘a snuff video’ by animal rights group Sarah Palin is under fire for clubbing a fish to death on her new reality TV show. The Tea Party darling and her daughter Bristol, 20, were shown on a [...]

Both Ways Barracuda

From Sarah Barracuda’s book, as quoted by Politico: Remember Hillary Clinton’s famous rant, when her husband was running for president, that she wasn’t, in her words, ‘some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette’? Hillary is someone I like and admire personally in many ways, but she came across then as someone frozen [...]

TOM DELAY CONVICTED

Houston Chronicle: After almost 19 hours of deliberations, a Travis County jury today convicted former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on felony charges of political money laundering. DeLay faces two to 20 years in prison on a conspiracy charge and five to 99 years or life on a money laundering charge. DeLay remains free [...]

The most memorable campaign ads of 2010

Hotline on Call has come up with their choices for the 10 best and 10 worst campaign ads of 2010. Here are the ads that I thought were the most memorable, starting with Carly Fiorina’s “Demon Sheep” ad up above that she ran against Tom Campbell in the California GOP primary. Next, Jerry Brown shows [...]

47 Years ago today – Lee Harvey Oswald murdered on live television

On November 24, 1963 the one man who could have answered many of the unsolved mysteries of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was permanently silenced by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Police Department. Lee Harvey Oswald was 24 years old. Unlike the killing of JFK (the Zapruder film wasn’t released until [...]

Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!! Let’s dive in with a hodgepodge of unrelated news items. First up, Adam Savage from Mythbusters had a funny experience with TSA where they saw his junk but missed the razor blades: Savage was put through the full-body scanner, and while he joked that it made his penis feel small, no one [...]

PDS – Is there a cure?

Elizabeth Wurzel at Atlantic: Sarah Palin, Riot Grrrl To paraphrase Lillian Hellman, I don’t agree with a word that Sarah Palin says, including “and” and “the.” And as a liberal feminist, it drives me absolutely bonkers that Palin is the most visible working mother and female politician in America, that she is the best exemplar [...]

And the winner is . . . ABC!

Tonight’s the night. Will it be Jennifer, Kyle, or the Spawn of Evil? Will Jeralyn’s head explode? Will more innocent televisions have to die? Tune in to ABC at 9 p.m. Eastern to find out. Meanwhile: Sarah Palin Wants Christine O’Donnell on Next ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Sarah Palin was not only playing the role [...]

TSA: Tough Sh!t Asshat; a Tuesday afternoon open thread

The TSA doesn’t get it at all. Yesterday they visited Capitol Hill demonstrating to 200 Democratic and Republican Congressional Staffers just how benign their search procedures really are: TSA uproar moves to Capitol Hill The comprehensive briefing of House staff, by a TSA deputy, covered everything – the threat from Al Qaeda in the Arabian [...]