Leading man in his youth, funny man in his later years. Leslie Nielsen has died at age 84. May he rest in peace.
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Gateway Pundit: NYT to publish Wikileaks document dump tonight.
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…as the FCC considers repurposing the TV spectrum for wireless broadband.
Wi-fi for everyone? But at what price?
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…on what would have been his 70th birthday…
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The Hill: Homeland Security “seizes” website domain names.
Next time you hear a Hollywood figure brag about how Hollywood brings about social change, ask them how they like this sort of change. Because this is – in large part – the federal government doing the bidding of big media companies.
Whatever happened to sending a cease and desist letter with your own attorney?
Gawker sure is lucky it reached an understanding with Harper Collins attorneys over Sarah Palin’s book content, isn’t it?
I expect the Electronic Frontier Foundation – at the least – to challenge these new DHS powers in court soon.
(Fill in your own ‘They told me that if I voted for McCain’™ line here)
UPDATE: Related content at Instapundit: Copyright infringement is a weapon of mass bottom line destruction, Prof! Isn’t it obvious?
Seriously now, this is an old-fashioned case of elites looking out for each other, but they’re usually a little more subtle about it. Ask General Electric (the owners of MSNBC). They know.
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I don’t mean to make light of people in need, but this particular family is needy in the “blogger tip jar” sense of the word.
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Bring it, Comrade Martinez: How Allen West’s victory in Florida led to a left-wing terrorist threat.
Almost makes you wonder if MSNBC is in fact bent on unleashing “revolution”, aka TheViolentUprisingAgainstAmericanInstitutionsTo ImmanentizeTheEschatonByForceSinceVotersAren’tFallingForOurLiesAnymoreAndIt’sHarderToStealElectionsNow.
Anyway, Comrade Martinez is what we Spanish-speakers would generally refer to as idiota…
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I suppose POTUS won’t be able to open his mouth much for a few days, but it’s ok. No one listens to him anyway.
So here’s to a speedy recovery, Mr. President…
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Atlas Shrugs: 15-year-old British girl arrested over Koran burning video.
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Woops, Oliver! All out of kryptonite!
Old news, I know. But instances of Palin Derangement Syndrome always make for fun posts…
Via Jim Treacher.
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Gizmodo: How Ma Bell shelved the future for 60 years: “Why would company management bury such an important and commercially valuable discovery? What were they afraid of?”
Just another reason why monopolies are bad. Competition encourages innovation…
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LAT: “The narcos rule our lives.”
I do hear things are pretty bad across Mexico with the ongoing cartel wars, but some areas are worse than others…
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I know I haven’t been blogging much in the last 5 days or so, but things at work revved up given that this week is a short week.
Thanks to those of you who enjoy this blog or link to it on a regular basis. Have a great holiday. I know me and Dr. Wife will, as we gratefully reminisce about how much we’ve been blessed this year.
Hey, why not enjoy some Bacon Jam with your Turkey left overs on Friday? Bet you it’s a more than adequate substitute for cranberry sauce…
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The Nation Hearts the TSA: The Nation, that left wing bastion of principled, anti-Bush, civil libertarianism, attacks principled, civil libertarianism.
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Much like Olbermann was…
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And even reveals HAL’s sexual orientation!
Now, that’s thorough…
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…Senator Jay Rockefeller, for these memorable words: “There’s a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: ‘Out. Off. End. Goodbye.’ It would be a big favor to political discourse.”
I think I have an idea of where that bug exactly is.
I’d like to believe the above was said in a moment of exasperation, but coming from Senator Rockefeller, you have to take it seriously whenever he talks about shutting down media outlets:
Regardless, it was a stupid thing to say. The Senator must know that the FCC does not have any such power. First of all, both Fox and MSNBC are cable channels. They don’t need the venerable FCC broadcast license to transmit their content. Second, the FCC can’t pull the plug on any station on the basis of the opinions expressed therein. Freedom of Speech and so on.
Third, how a muzzled press would favor our political discourse is beyond me. On the other hand, it’s easy to see how it would favor many a legislator on the Hill…
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Longing for monarchy at Think Progress.
As I’ve said before, it seems a cult of personality is de rigueur when immanentizing the eschaton…
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American Power: Fresno State Student Body Prez is illegal alien.
He may not be in the U.S. legally, but he’s eligible for in-state tuition…
California dreaming…
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The answer lies with copyright law…
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Gizmodo: 100 Naked Citizens: 100 Leaked Body Scans.
The system failed…
There’s video at the link. Next time you board a plane, you just might be heading towards 15 minutes of unintended fame…
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Howard Kurtz: Vicious Infighting at NBC News or “How Olbermann Got Nearly Fired”.
Via THR. Plus this amusing bit: “The Daily Beast says that several of NBC’s big stars, including Tom Brokaw, were concerned that Olbermann has damaged MSNBC’s reputation for political independence.”
It’s a little late to be concerned about that…
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How do you say “Fake But Accurate” in Mandarin Chinese?
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Former President Bill Clinton to make a cameo appearance in The Hangover 2?
Does Hillary know? How would this affect her 2012 nomination challenge, assuming one occurs?
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I bet you spirits at Firedoglake et al. are shattered as well. You know what this means? This show ain’t getting canceled anytime soon.
The Left is going to need a bigger Sorosphere…
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Mediaite: Where In the World Is Obama’s Mojo?: “One of the main selling points of an Obama presidency was that he would restore America’s reputation around the world, which had been allegedly tarnished by President Bush…South Korea, China and other foreign leaders not only rebuffed Obama’s economic propositions, but even publicly questioned Obama’s spending habits. What has happened to our inspirational, Nobel Peace Prize-winning, rock star President?“
There was never any mojo. If you want to put it in rock star terms, you got Milli Vanilli-ed.
Plus this: “When Obama appeared on The Daily Show and humorlessly altered his campaign slogan to ‘yes we can . . . but it’s not going to happen overnight’ we should have realized the problem is deeper than anyone might have expected.”
That was your first clue that there was something seriously wrong with this White House? Seriously? What ever happened to the so-called reality-based community? I guess a cult of personality is de rigueur when immanentizing the eschaton…
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Poor salesmanship: White House secretly grants 111 Obamacare waivers to different companies and labor unions.
Specifically, the waivers exempt an approved organization from the no-annual-or-lifetime-limits requirement of Section 2711 of the Public Health Services Act that was added to the Act by the Obamacare bill. One of the most onerous provisions of the legislation, no doubt.
It was never about care. It was about control. And evidently some have to be controlled more than others.
UPDATE: Lots more on the topic at Michelle Malkin’s page (via Prof. Douglas, who links. Thanks!)
MORE: Linked at David Horowitz’s NewsReal headlines. Thanks!
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From all over the world, eh? The law of unintended consequences strikes again. Though it’s hard to understand how anyone couldn’t have foreseen this result. Heck, even illegal alien-friendly California doesn’t make getting a driver’s license that easy.
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Ezra Klein purports to explain how Joe Lieberman helped Dems lose the election.
It didn’t seem to me as if they needed any help, but summarily dismissing Ezra’s piece based on its thesis and title alone would be a mistake. There is something else here: an attempt to uphold one of the Leftie Narratives du jour: “We lost because we weren’t liberal enough” (and its corollary “Liberalism fails when it doesn’t spend enough”).
To sum up, Klein says that Lieberman and other moderate Democrats (i.e., Dems who are not liberal enough*) prevented the Obamacare bill from extending Medicare benefits to younger Americans (currently, only those 65 and older are eligible). And that the resulting failure to expand the welfare state pissed off so many people that Dems just didn’t have a chance at the polls…or not. Thing is, Ezra can’t seem to make up his mind: (More …)
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“In many states, including California, texting or emailing while driving could get you a fine. If you’re a Disney employee, it may also get you fired.”
I worked for a Disney contractor over the summer and until a few weeks ago, before I left California. They do have a lot of rules, but they seemed to me like the nicest of people. Not sure how they would enforce this one…
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The trailer for Rockstar’s new game, L.A. Noire, and its incredible facial animations.
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WaPo: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012.
Crazy talk. Nothing Obama does at this point will make him a great president. That opportunity is gone.
In fact, it was never there at all. He is too inexperienced at executive or leadership anything to be a great president. That’s why even loyal machine Democrats ask themselves “How did we elect this guy?”
UPDATE: Related content from Ed Driscoll.
Plus, word among Senate Dems is Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing, says Joe Scarborough.
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Calling for revolution one day. Condemning resistance the next. Only on MSNBC, the network that is “not a political”, but a “news operation”.
Well, they wouldn’t be much of a Mini-Ministry of Truth otherwise, would they? It’s not a double standard. It’s The Party line.
You do realize, Comrade Maddow, that you just increased gun sales by several thousands – and took all but one political opponent out of commission, right?
See? You can’t trust these people with either your freedoms OR the economy…
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Researcher discovers new lizard species…on restaurant menu.
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Rap battle that is:
These animated news videos are probably familiar to you by now. They’re from Next Media, the same company that created that famous Tiger Woods animation. They are a Taiwanese company which was profiled by Wired magazine fairly recently.
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Or at least that’s the word on the street…
UPDATE: Related: Maddow beats Olby in his triumphant return from suspension.
Plus, NBC-U’s re-organization claims another suit as Comcast prepares to take over. Here’s looking at you, Phil Griffin!
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