Glenn Beck’s Miraculous Goose Fly-Over

Behold the miracle that was prophesied, as God reveals his plan to Glenn through a wonder never before witnessed by mortal man: a flock of geese.

And by “never before witnessed,” I mean “witnessed every freaking day.”

Miller time: Republican leads Democratic opponent by 16 in NRSC poll

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Great news: Record number of Americans on public dole

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Video: Metaphor of the day!

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Breaking: Two men arrested in Amsterdam on terror charges — after boarding flight in Chicago

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Will I get my Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday?

From this morning’s :

Newspaper drivers reject tentative contract¹

By Christopher K. Hepp, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer

The drivers who deliver The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News voted overwhelmingly Sunday to reject a tentative contract agreement reached between their union, Teamsters Local 628, and Philadelphia Media Network, the newspapers’ new owner.

OK, just the lead paragraph; I think I’m OK on fair use there!

Philadelphia Newspapers LLC owned the Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, (a tabloid-style newspaper) and the website philly.com, but, as is so often the case with newspapers these days, Philadelphia Newspapers LLC went bankrupt. Philadelphia Media Network, a group composed of sixteen financial institutions, which were the main creditors for the bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers LLC, bought the company in a bankruptcy auction last April.

However, the new owners required new contracts from the various unions involved. Most of them agreed, but the workers represented by Teamsters Local 628 voted against their new contract overwhelmingly, 182-3. There are 14 separate unions involved — which sounds to me like a big part of the problem right there — and the press operators, paper handlers and operating engineers are schedled to vote today; the machinists voted against their proposed contract on Saturday.

The article mentions the big issue: the new owners have the right to walk away from the sale if new contracts with the unions are not reached by the deadline, which is tomorrow.

So, what happens now? The old owners went broke trying to make a go of the newspapers, and there’s no particular reason to think that would change. The new owners were demanding concessions, because the papers could not make money under the old rules.

Will the new owners renegotiate, or have the Teamsters just voted themselves — and all of the other employees — out of a job?
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Update: 1310 Tuesday, 31 August 2010: The pressmen’s union rejected the offered contract, 74-9. Nine unions have approved their offers, and three have rejected them, so far; there are 14 unions involved.

Another Blogosphere Bleg Submitted For Your Approval

If you’ve been around the net for any amount of time, you’ve run into baldilocks. Either you’ve seen her comments here at the HQ, you’ve followed a link to one of her essays from another site, or you’ve read hit…

For Tim Blair, A Sincere Apology

Tim Blair is a funny person! Now he’s demanding an apology from me. What will he think next?

This time he dug up an LGF post from the presidential election, in which I quoted some excerpts from Barack Obama’s autobiography about his prejudice toward white people, earlier in his life. (As with Shirley Sherrod, it’s only part of the story, because Obama has clearly moved past those prejudices.)

In Blair’s dim bulb one-liner wingnut universe, quoting Barack Obama’s own stories about his youthful attitudes toward race is exactly the same as Glenn Beck’s accusation that Obama is “a racist with a deep seated hatred of white people or white culture.” For this transgression I must beg forgiveness from the world on bended knee.

Well, I do want to apologize today for making a huge mistake.

I’d like to express my sincere and utmost regret that I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin, instead of Barack Obama.

If I could go back in time and reverse that vote, knowing what I know today, I would.

I’m sorry, Nation.

Liberal Media Propagandists Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are

Some stories are so unsurprising, the only reason to report them is to get them officially on record— like this confirmation that apparatchiks in the mainstream media heavily supported the catastrophic farce in the White House:

Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.

By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. …

President Obama received 710 such contributions worth a total of $461,898, for an average contribution of $651 from the network employees. Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain received only 39 contributions totaling $26,926, for an average donation of $709.

Ninety-six contributions by broadcast network employees to the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senate and House campaign committees totaled $217,881.

Thirty-eight contributions by broadcast network employees to the Republican National Committee and the Republican Senate and House campaign committees totaled $23,805.

There is no way an unqualified candidate with a communist/Muslim background and numerous radical associations could be made President of the United States without having been placed in that position by the establishment media. Any sort of impartial media would have reduced the Manchurian Moonbat to a laughing stock before his campaign ever got off the ground.

The good news is that with Obama’s presidency going down like the Hindenburg, he is likely to bring the left-wing liars who dominate the media with him. After passing this guy off as presidential material, how could they expect anyone to ever believe them again?

On tips from Incitatus and J.

So whadda ya know? HuffPo has minimal “standards” of decency after all

Was just about to link to a disgusting little piece published earlier today at the Huffington Post titled “$100,000 For Glenn Beck’s Sex Tape” but I see the piece has since been pulled – with the following explanation in its place:

Editor’s Note: This piece was published directly to the Huffington Post by its author. It didn’t meet our editorial standards and has been removed from the site.

I don’t recall this same “editorial standard” being used during the Bush administration years when it wasn’t uncommon to see HuffPo writers wish death on Dick Cheney and similar fates to other Bush administration officials. Maybe they’re trying to “clean it up a bit” now that President Obama himself has recommended HuffPo to the masses as a site they should read? Whatever. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

The New York Observer was kind enough to copy what was originally published at the HuffPo at its own website, which you can read here. If you’re not interested in clicking on the link, here’s the meat of what was advocated by writer Beau Friedlander:

Beck touts religion, because he says the battle for America’s soul is at stake. It is all about morality, propriety, and doing what’s right. But Beck’s conception of religion is all about control. He replaces God with an ersatz myth about self-reliance and a position of moral superiority spun in ways that magically seem to privilege the few at the expense of many (this includes the anti-Middle East / Islam thinking that led to the war in oil-rich Iraq), etc.

Glenn Beck talks about what’s right a lot. Propriety comes from the same root as property, and that does seem to be the issue. As the culture changed in the 60s, so did neighborhoods. This was the heyday of blockbusting and race-baiting. We are in similar territory with a black president right now. His successful campaign is proof positive that the counterculture prevailed over the conservative movement. And the neocons are mad as hell about that.

Glenn Beck is also a Mormon. It matters. His religion typifies the noble lie that the neocons originally set out to defend against the counterculture—Archie Bunker’s America—where a woman’s place was in the home and with baby, and an African American’s place was in a ghetto. (Mormons revere women much like Hindis do the cow, and they didn’t accept African Americans in their ranks at all till 1978—draw whatever inferences you like).

The new conservatives are true believers in the “One Right Way”, and Democrats only rarely agree on the one best way to go. But we can all agree that Fox News is a bad influence on America.

It is time to pop the tea baggers’ favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever. I am not offering the cash myself, but I will broker the deal and/or raise the money for what you bring to the table. (And it better be good.)

If you have the goods, or if you want to contribute to a slush fund to buy more takedowns (probably not tax deductible), please contact me at: glennbecksextape@gmail.com.

Friedlander has since issued an “apology” of sorts. Snippets:

The post was called “$100,000 For Glenn Beck’s Sex Tape.” It was supposed to simply make the point that the right does not hesitate to play rough with the left, and the right is far better financed. It was glib, but finally off-kilter and misdirected.

I was actually trying to mimic what I saw as the way right wingers go about these matters, and by misapprehending the way they do things, I went too far. (I offered to broker a deal for anyone who had damaging media pertaining to Glenn Beck.)

First, I owe Glenn Beck an apology. I crossed the line. On the off chance something comes in over the transom…scratch that; I’ll delete the email account. Problem solved.

I meant to tilt at a windmill in the post, and I planted my lance in the dirt.

Gotta love how he plays the “blame Republicans” game when in reality the only person he can blame is himself for his guttersnipe tactics. There’s a history of that on the left, which I’ll get to in a minute. But first, correct me if I’m wrong, but conservatives like Breitbart don’t offer up $$$ for “sex tapes” – they offer up $$ for anyone who can prove outrageous liberal assertions, like the one about the “n” word allegedly being yelled “15 times” to CBC members after the health care bill was passed in the House. We leave the obsessions with sex tapes/sexual preference allegations to liberal heroes/icons like Hustler big wig Larry Flynt and Mike Rogers, who gets his rocks off by attempting to out Republicans who he alleges are “in the closet.” Remember this the next time a liberal tells you that it’s the right who “hangs out in the swamps” to dig up whatever dirt they can on the left.

Did I mention that Friedlander was the editior-in-chief of the failed Air America liberal radio network until it folded earlier this year? I’m sure that comes as a big shock.

Beck, by the way, has responded by imploring the HuffPo and Friedlander to leave his wife alone.

Just curious: Where’s widespread liberal outrage over this? Why hasn’t Media Matters posted a play by play of when the article was first published, where all it was mentioned, and what time it was finally pulled? Oh, that’s right. None of the above give a rip when something happens that’s actually WORTH getting outraged about. They don’t give a darn when the “politics of personal destruction” that they whine incessantly about, that they claim is an exclusive trait of Republicans, hits someone on the right who they love to hate – and want to destroy.

The stench of hypocrisy is pretty overwhelming right now. Excuse me while I throw up a little bit in my mouth.

Crist finds yet another topic on which to flip-flop; Update: And another

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Overnight Open Thread

Welcome to the Monday. Navy Recruitment Commercials: USA vs Japan Japan is really into cuteness – even when it comes to their military recruiting ads. And apparently snappy uniforms, choreography and a catchy tune is what it takes to fill…

Gallup: GOP takes historic 10-point lead on generic ballot

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Moonbat Tech: Multitask Urinal

The moonbat obsession with body waste continues, as do valiant efforts by ecokooks to preserve the water that they seem to believe escapes into outer space after it swirls down the drain. Via Yanko Design:

I’m not a man so I really don’t know how comfortable you guys are going to be with this thought … peeing and washing hands in the same urinal stand! What Designer Yeongwoo Kim has done is incorporated the wash basin just above the spot you take aim to pee. The reason cited is that you’ll save a water flush cycle, coz when you rinse your hand after the job (I hope you guys do that!), the same gray water can be used to cleanse the urinal basin.

Those who want to save even more water can reverse the flow so that instead of flushing with gray water, you wash your hands with yellow water. Remember, every drop of water saved is another drop the polar bears can splash around in merrily.

On a tip from Air2air.

Onion: Man Already Knows Everything He Needs to Know About Muslims

Humorists like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and The Onion are doing a much better job than mainstream media of rooting out the truthiness of the “Ground Zero Mosque” bigotry outbreak: Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims.

SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.

Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was “perfectly happy” to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world’s second-largest religion.

“I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11,” Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam’s approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. “What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?”

“And now they want to build a mosque at Ground Zero,” continued Gentries, eliminating any distinction between the 9/11 hijackers and Muslims in general. “No, I won’t examine the accuracy of that statement, but yes, I will allow myself to be outraged by it and use it as evidence of these people’s universal callousness toward Americans who lost loved ones when the Twin Towers fell.”

“Even though I am not one of those people,” he added.

Alaska Election Officials Respond To Miller’s Vote Tampering Allegations

Earlier today the Miller campaign released a letter alleging that a Murkowski election observer had access to the state’s voter computer system and could have had access to voter information but more importantly the ability to tamper with the vote…