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Suicide jumper’s note begs 0bama: “Take care of my family.”

Sure, why not? It’s not like he’ll have anything else to do.

Back in February, when Georgia held its presidential primary on Super Tuesday, I voted for Mitt Romney because Fred Thompson had withdrawn.

I hereby rescind that vote.

Former Mitt Romney

I’d call this unbelievable but it really isn’t. H/t Jeff G.

Update: More change we can believe in: Republican HQ Manager’s Home Shot Up Over McCain Signs and Mugger Mutilates Victim Over McCain

Before this election campaign is over, the only word that won’t be read as a “code word” for race will be “race.” Unless it’s a NASCAR race, of course.

The “socialist” label that Sen. John McCain

More to the point, will enough people care?

So Barack 0bama was a member of an extremist political party established by the Democratic Socialists for America, the Chicago New Party, and they cheered

Rude and distracted drivers in Coweta County—longtime readers of The McGehee Zone may already know about the tailgating and center-line crossing that goes on around here—have sent three rural mail

...nope, it’s September 15, not April 1. So, my question about this is, when did The Penguin become the CEO of Google?

Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the

Must be seen to be believed. H/t: Jawa Report.

Via Poor Schmuck—who was one of my first blogroll links, back in 2002—we find an alternately entertaining (for the answers) and maddening (when we think about what the questions must have been)

Whose? Well, that depends.

The Palin-haters are in full-throated howl with innuendo as the main course, thoroughly seasoned with their insane preconceived notions of what kind of person could

Barack 0bama just keeps on healing division.

Jim Martin, one of the Democratic candidates vying to face U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, said Wednesday he voted for John Edwards after his runoff opponent

He claims he supports Barack 0bama, but with comments like this, I suspect a game is afoot.

Asked by Michael Dwyer, film correspondent of The Irish Times, if he was looking forward to “regime

...with breaking broken news: Tony Snow, long a favorite reporter and commentator among those who like to see the usual leftward media slant at least slightly counter-balanced, has died.

Jeff

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Nuisance wants to run for Governor in 2010. Check out the comments on the article—I think Phil Angelides had a better chance, and he was running against Der Guffernator.

Democrats in Congress want to nationalize oil refineries.

House Democrats responded to President’s Bush’s call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera

Yesterday, as you may have heard, was Earth Day.

Also known among edutainment TV watchers as Junk Science Day.

Ted Turner desperately needs an asylum.

Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century.

So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and

These damn animal-rights wackos are really getting on my nerves.

A local environmental group has vowed to stop construction of a new Coweta elementary school, claiming the work will destroy the

“Turn out your lights for one hour.” That’s “Earth Hour.”

Chris and I observe “Earth Hour” several hours in a row every single night. But do we get credit for it? Noooo-o-o-o-o!

How many California Democrats do you suppose wish they could have Jerry Brown back?

State Attorney General Jerry Brown waxed nostalgic about his former days as governor on Saturday…

» Brown hints at

...when they murder their officers.

H/t Instapundit.

You’ve undoubtedly heard the brouhaha about Barack 0bama’s pastor.

Mrs. Bill Clinton and her camp would rather wait until 0bama is the only challenger between her and clinching the nomination,

Sic semper tyrannis. Whenever the homefront gets troublesome, they make threatening noises against a neighbor.

Warning that Colombia could spark a war, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent tanks

In a comment thread on this post about a multiracial (but not black, or even partially black) actor on “Saturday Night Live” playing Barack 0bama in political skits, PW guest-blogger Dan Collins

The mayor of Chattanooga isn’t willing to part with the Tennessee River (let alone a certain distillery in Lynchburg), but he has offered a small compromise:

The city of Chattanooga, facing a

Blinding Flash of the Obvious Alert:

ABC News’ Kevin Chupka reports: While campaigning in Wisconsin today, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told a crowd, gathered at the University of Wisconsin,

People have been saying $#!t like this for a while now, and I’m sick of it.

If Barack 0bama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris

If you haven’t already heard about this, the current drought conditions in most of Georgia have caused some of our lawmakers to rediscover an old surveying error that resulted in Georgia’s northern

Anti-GOMLP commenter Samir seems to think so.

He’s offended by the fourth plank in the GOMLP’s provisional platform:

You want to kill me and everyone else who doesn’t share your belief in the

...‘cause that might explain the weather we had. Like in Maryland:

It snowed, but they still came.  A heavy snowfall blanketed a global warming protest outside the State House in Annapolis this

Other than noting that the case against him remains to be presented in a court of law, you will never see this blog defending anyone who’s thrown in with al Qaeda—regardless of which U.S. political

Received in my e-mail this morning:

Listen ! if ur goin through a mental disorder than keep it to yourself do’nt include others in it . We all respect all the prophets cz they were sent to make

Has there been a law passed recently, or a policy adopted or something, requiring that people who submit letters to the editor of a daily newspaper of any size, have to have some kind of diagnosable

Giving Nancy Pelosi the benefit of the doubt about this…

“They like this war. They want this war to continue,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters.

...we must nevertheless address this:

“I shouldn’t

Leaders of the antiwar group Code Pink, frustrated by the ineffectiveness of Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, yesterday said they are mobilizing a campaign for regime change within the party in

Do you suppose he just wants her assurance she’ll get us out of Iraq right away?

ROCHESTER, N.H. A man is holding at least one person hostage at the presidential campaign office for Sen. Hillary

Encouraged by the warm wishes here by somebody‘s blogstalker, I went ahead and quit procrastinating on putting a new self-portrait in the sidebar. As you can see, my countenance is as uproariously

House Republicans on Tuesday prevented Democratic leaders from blocking a resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.

The vote to table the privileged resolution, offered by Ohio Democrat

I mean, it’s not like they’re still going to be around four years from now, right?

Statesboro—For a week now, the shuttle buses have been pulling up to the City Hall steps in this South Georgia

In an off-the-wall (even for him) column last week, titled “Who re-started the Cold War?” Pat Buchanan discovered that Russian Premier Vladimir Putin’s anti-Americanism is America’s

Baltimore—A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for

The United States’ second-richest man has delivered a blunt message to the Bush administration: he wants to pay more tax.

» I should pay more tax, says US billionaire Warren Buffett

Feel free, you

Bithead DavidL highlights more evidence that the left-of-centers are obsessed with the victim-group identity of those who disdain victimhood. My comment:

Their obsession with other people’s sexual

Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, predicted Thursday that nearly a quarter of Republican women would defect from the GOP if the New York

She’s finally taken the hint.

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney seems to have ended any notions of running again for state office in Georgia and has registered to vote in California

From No Pasaran by way of Dan Collins at PW:

He’s coming to save the universe!

More kangaroos should be slaughtered and eaten to help save the world from global warming, environmental activists say.

The controversial call to cut down on beef and serve more of the national

...and the Religious Right be the friend of the Clintons.

Religious conservative leaders say they don’t expect to win if they carry through with preparations to run their own presidential candidate

Iran and Venezuela cemented an alliance aimed at countering the United States while the Iranian president reached out to a new ally in Bolivia and declared that together, “no one can defeat us.”

»

Shuster: “But you weren’t appreciative enough to know the name of this young man. He was 18 years old who was killed, and yet you can say chapter and verse about what’s going on with the New York

Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich was the only member of Congress on Monday night to vote against a symbolic resolution to recognize September 11 as a day of remembrance, extend sympathies

I grew up in California’s Central Valley. I know how much difference an additional 39 inches of sea level would make.

Children born today could live in a different kind of Central Valley in their

A well-known antiwar leader has gone public with the transcript of a private conference call that shows peace activists are exasperated with the Democratic congressional leadership and at a loss for

...once the heat wave breaks, but I draw the line at this. So, sorry, Ms. Goodman, but that maleness thing you’re complaining about, you’re just going to have to put up with it.

Rosenbaum, a highly regarded pediatric ophthalmologist who had been regularly harassed by animal-rights activists for his research work with cats and rhesus monkeys at the Jules Stein Eye Institute

Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s

...but it’s just the sound of MoveOn.org/Truthout/miscellaneous “anti-war” leftist wackos’ heads exploding.

I’ve always thought that the best way to counter the conspiracy theorist is to have them

...what does this predict?

The number of U.S. citizens who moved to Canada last year hit a 30-year high, with a 20 percent increase over the previous year and almost double the number who moved in

Inspired by this and this, I commented this. Which resulted in this.

In a word, “Heh.”

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he will investigate a threatening letter sent by the leader of an EPA-member group, vowing to “destroy” the career of a climate skeptic.

During

After hearing from the leading Democratic candidates this week, liberal voters say they want a president who will give every American health care, limit outsourcing and make it easier for poor

They’re the last two years in which Democrats held legitimate majorities in both houses of Congress.

Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.

This 14%

In keeping with this (see first update), I tried un-muting my sound just a couple of minutes ago, and whatever the trouble was two weeks ago, it’s fixed itself somehow.

As I type this, Pete

CBS 2 has learned New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leaving the Republican party and has announced he is currently unaffiliated with a political party.

The move will clearly begin advancing

At Riverwalk Records, the all-vinyl record store just down the street from the state Capitol, the black “US Out of Vt.!” T-shirts are among the hottest sellers.

But to some people in Vermont, the

I would now rather be represented in the Senate by a Democrat, than see Ted Stevens returned for yet another interminable term as the Senate’s senior Republican.

Of the numerous black and white

A Pakistani man being held in Guantanamo Bay is claiming he was tortured and his family hounded by U.S. authorities. According to the Associated Press—the father of Majid Khan claims his son was

It’s been a long time since I found something to post about by reading Instapundit, but today it happened.

Tom Maguire wonders why Jodi Kantor’s front-page NYT piece on Barack 0bama’s pastor, Rev.

Lawmakers are poised to make it official: No more idiots, lunatics or imbeciles—in California’s law books.

Not everyone is a genius, perhaps, but pending legislation would ensure that nobody is a

Seeing the link for this New York Times story on Drudge just crystallized something for me. From the article:

Every morning, representatives from a cluster of antiwar groups gather for a conference

...and if there’s anything to this, they’re right.

The Weekly Standard has now learned of a second, more stunning error in Tenet’s book (which is due to appear in bookstores tomorrow). According to

Now it’s going to be fart-free beef.

Barmy Euro MPs are demanding new laws to stop cows and sheep parping.

Their call came after the UN said livestock emissions were a bigger threat to the planet

Anti-war activists celebrated the absence of military recruiters at a job fair at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

About 75 anti-war activists rallied in front of the campus bookstore

The think tank that generated headlines by reporting that Al Gore’s Nashville mansion uses about 20 times as much energy as the average home, has been bombarded by hate messages ever since.

Nicole

Jeff Goldstein has a couple of posts up about one of his best serious themes, and one in which I have long held an interest: identitarianism, or the replacement of individual identity with that of a

Run, Al. Oh please run.

New York Sen. Hillary Mrs. Bill Clinton holds a solid advantage with Californians likely to vote in the Feb. 5 Democratic presidential primary, but an old friend could

I would not be the least bit surprised if this guy also fervently disbelieves that a bunch of backward Ay-rabs could have possibly hatched a plot to bring down the World Trade Center.

Are you saying

Nobody ever tells me these things.

Today was EATAPETA Day—Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA—and I had no idea about it until a few minutes ago.

Fortunately, I eat an animal every day, just in case. And

A soldier honoured for his military valour in Afghanistan is wondering why strangers attacked and beat him in his hometown bar this past weekend.

“This wasn’t two guys on the ice dropping gloves

This guy makes apt comparisons of latter-day environmental apocalypticism and its counterparts in antiquity. Meanwhile the apocalyptics are in all-out jihad mode.

There seems to be no shortage of

Jeff Goldstein has a post about the recent maliciously political “outing” of Marine Cpl. Matt Sanchez for conduct prior to his joining the Marine Corps. In it he excerpts a comment he posted

Sen. John McCain’s campaign is mounting a stealth effort to change Republican presidential nomination rules in California to allow independents to vote in the Feb. 5 primary, party and campaign

PETA also reminds Gore that his critics love to question whether he practices what he preaches and suggests that by going vegetarian, he could cut down on his contribution to global warming and

An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent

“I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs,” Edwards told the site. “I think he would

...because we were, you know.

“I believe that is one of the principal reasons why political leaders around the world have not yet taken action,” Gore said. “There are many reasons, but one of the

That money should be donated instead toward the 9/11 memorial or some such worthy anti-terrorist cause.

A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to

With opponents like Johnnie, does the GOP need friends?

There are other emerging fissures, as well. The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal

You’ve probably seen mud flaps on trucks with odd sayings or even an outline of a buxom, naked woman. Well, in Arizona, some Democrats in the state legislature wanted to ban any splash guards with

The National Football League refused to run a recruitment ad for the U.S. Border Patrol in last week’s Super Bowl program, saying it was “controversial” because it mentioned duties such as fighting

So soon after she equated global-warming unbelievers to Holocaust deniers, I’d really like to know what she thinks of this.

In a bizarre attack, a well-known author and Holocaust scholar was dragged

I’d really hate to think that’s the effect it would have.

No stranger to electoral intrigue, Mr. Sharpton was quick to offer a political motive: That Mr. Biden was drawing distinctions between Mr.

Oh, who are you gonna believe anyway—him or a bunch of racist facts?

Jesse Jackson last week visited Boise State University — the small Idaho school fresh off a big upset of Oklahoma in the Fiesta

And deservedly so.

An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of

I can understand banning someone for posing a risk to the security of the flight—but for possibly (not even demonstrably, but possibly) offending other passengers?

An airline passenger barred from a

Prince Charles, criticised for booking a trans-Atlantic flight to collect an environmental award, has cancelled a ski trip to Switzerland to reduce greenhouse gases, a palace source said on

And to think some people considered Bush a threat to freedom.

The ethics bill before the Senate not only cracks down on lawmakers, but also subjects politically active ministers and neighborhood

And in more weather-related news, The Weather Channel’s resident global-warming fascist, Dr. Heidi Cullen, puts her channel in danger of being removed from the TV tuner here at Yippee-Ki-Yay!

World

Do people still wonder why I’ve stopped trying to blog about most breaking news stories?

Most of the blogosphere seems to be interested in reacting to headlines without waiting for more information

House Democrats tried to unveil their lobbying reform package today, but their press conference was drowned out by chants from anti-war activists who want Congress to stop funding the Iraq war

The next time you beat your keyboard in frustration, think of a day where it may be able to sue you for assault. Within 50 years we might even find ourselves standing next to the next generation of

The official stationery of the U.S. House of Representatives has yellowed with age, but the angry words of the letter still leap from the page.

Then-Congressman Mervyn Dymally sent the missive to

A Republican state lawmaker is seeking to strip U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s name off a DeKalb County road, saying she “has brought embarrassment to the state of Georgia.”

State Rep. Len Walker’s

...so it should be no surprise that they’ve joined the latest group to be so branded: global warming skeptics.

Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United

Jimmy “Miserable Failure” Carter, a man whose mother used to wish she’d stayed a virgin.

Former President Jimmy Crater faced new criticism Friday over his controversial book on Palestinian lands

...despite all the ointments and pills that were supposed to clear it up.

Over at The Indepundit I chimed in on a satirical post by Citizen Smash, and the follow-up by ChrisG (December 7, 2006—10:22

Violence erupted at a Michigan law school Thursday when protestors tried to block a speech by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo.

Police were called after protestors pulled a fire alarm prior to the

Baker too. And the special welcome I’ll give them is similar to that described here.

The pastor at Anchorage First Free Methodist Church was mystified. Why was the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals chastising him? No animals are harmed in the church’s

...before this claim is debunked?

Iran’s Arabic language television station broadcast footage it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian

Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S.

If somebody said something like this about Charley Rangel, somehow I don’t think he’d accept a “no offense” excuse.

A Democratic congressman from New York says he wasn’t trying to insult Mississippi

I once won finished second in a caption contest with the words in the title of this post, but it’s also pretty darned good advice.

The Durbinator, on the other hand, has always been an asshat of the

Spectator.org’s “Prowler” writes,

Kerry’s gaffe and why he attempted to make the joke in the first place reveals the greatest weakness the Democrat Party has going into the final week of the

...‘cause I’m starting to wonder if they’re, like, related or something.

First, my apologies to anyone who checks the properties on that image and sees how I’ve recast Luckovich’s name (and doesn’t

John F’n Kerry, the gift that keeps on giving. Are there any top Democrats we can’t say that about?

Republicans are trying a seemingly successful technique found in Democratic campaign playbooks,

Drew Brees wants no part of his mother’s political aspirations.

The NFL quarterback and Westlake High School graduate has told Mina Brees, an Austin attorney, to stop using his picture in TV

”...because five years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still a free man!”

As late as 1992—after decades at the top of the list of Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals—it was not known for certain whether

“This project is much needed; it should have been built 20 years ago,” said Jim Cooper, an Elk Grove city councilman.

» Bee:   Price of road project soars

And yet, in the same article, there’s also

Hal Turner, when you advocate assassinating 267 members of Congress, you are sowing the wind. Consult your Bible for what happens afterward.

If you want to know which Hollyweirdo should be allowed to preach to us lowbrows about respect for the environment, check this out. They show off their hybrids on the ground, but punch holes in the

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday called Israel’s leaders a “group of terrorists” and threatened any country that supports the Jewish state.

“You imposed a group of terrorists ... on

Good ol’ Darth Rove—he put his fingers almost together and told Kim, “This isn’t the nuclear weapon you’re trying to develop. You don’t want to join the nuclear club. You’d really rather your

People betray their country for several different reasons, most commonly money or ideology. While many traitors live deeply troubled lives, and a touch of megalomania and messianic fervor often

Years ago one of two California serial killers evaded police and wound up in Canada, where he was arrested for some gun-related offense. California, of course, sought extradition so they could put

...if you’re under attack by Democrats.

Wal-Mart, under attack by a group that wants to unionize its workers, is fighting back — and the attackers don’t like it one bit. Wal-Mart has engaged in

That’s Alec “I’ll leave the country if Bush is elected/the Republicans retain control of Congress/Bush is re-elected” Baldwin, demanding that he be allowed to cross the police barricade at the scene

Get a load of this:

A U.S. based environmental magazine that both former Vice President Al Gore and PBS newsman Bill Moyers, for his October 11th global warming edition of “Moyers on America” titled

...there is a reason why I’ve taken to calling Turner “Red Ted.”

The Foley Fallout Festival reminds me more, with each passing day, of how many bloggers were panicked by inaccurate exit poll reporting on Election Day 2004.

Remember that? The word was leaking out

Those poor terrorists! Now they’re being victimized by a new and even more horrible form of torture. (Emphasis added.)

Critics worry about detainees at Guantanamo Bay getting mistreated. But now we

If people are willing to (1) put their faith in Senators at all, and (2) believe the way the drive-by media report what Senators say, then maybe they deserve to hand this nation’s leadership back to

Whoo-hoo! It’s Monday!

...if you smoke cigarettes, according to Howlin’ Al.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming:

You’ve already read about how CBS’s “Survivor” racially segregated game has been desegregated. You may even have already heard comment about this paragraph in the story:

The two new tribes competed

Billionaire liberal financier George Soros, who spent millions of his fortune trying to oust President Bush in 2004, yesterday said he hopes to stay out of politics from now on.

“In the future, I’d

If he weren’t in such dire straits right now, Democrat gubernatorial nominee Mark Taylor might not like the idea of a bunch of alleged racist bigots trying to help him win the election.

They helped

...er, I mean skate.

The judge in the CIA leak case ruled Thursday that if Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald feels that admitting certain classified documents at the upcoming trial of I Lewis

There’s a train wreck a-comin’!

The Venezuelan leader, an outspoken critic of U.S. President George W. Bush, was reacting to a television report investigating a theory that the Twin Towers were

Human-induced climate change – not natural variability — is the driving force behind higher ocean temperatures in hurricane spawning regions of the world, scientists from eight major research

Limbaugh had a caller today who insisted that 9/11 was an inside job.

There are people so bumfuzzled by the notion of people half a world away conspiring to kill them, that they’d honestly rather

Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq — even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.

» CBS News: Opinions & Asides

The best you’d be able to do in your present condition, anyway, is waddle.

Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday he hadn’t rule out making a second bid for the White House, though he said it was

Democrats in Florida’s 15th Congressional District have nominated a U.S. House candidate who calls the official 9/11 story “hogwash.”

Retired Air Force officer Dr. Bob Bowman — who headed up a

This week in his speech before the national convention of the American Legion, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made an unconscionable faux pas. He defended our present policy in Iraq and our