MSNBC  abandons GOP convention during every speech by a minority

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Don't you just LOVE Ann Romney? I am charmed!

  Another Obama Success Story: GM Suspends Volt Output Due to Slow Sales.  Again

People Who Hate Seatbelt Laws are Buying T-Shirts That Make It Look Like They're Wearing a Seatbelt

Monday August 27, 2012 - There's a trend in China where people buy t-shirts that have a black diagonal stripe across the front. That way it looks like they're wearing a seatbelt to a cop . . . and keeps them from getting tickets. And apparently some people over here are doing it too, since the t-shirts are selling on eBay and other places online.

This morning, we have spent FAR too much time discussing turtle sex. Because we can. You can follow the discussion here.

But don't count on it.

The conservative politican from Missouri who uttered controversial remarks about "legitimate rape" won't be around much longer, no matter what he says.

Good, because you paid for it.

Monday August 20, 2012 - Surely one of the most disconcerting trends in the now nearly eleven-year-old U.S. military expedition in Afghanistan has been the increase in attacks on NATO and especially American military personnel by supposed allies among the Afghan government forces.

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California’s general fund spending has dropped — but that doesn’t tell the whole story

By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee

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“While the general fund has fallen 11 percent since 2007-08, California special fund spending grew more than 47 percent over the same period, from $26.7 billion to $39.4 billion this fiscal year.

The best example of why the general fund total can be misleading is Brown’s “realignment” of nearly $6 billion in former state general fund programs to local governments. To shift those responsibilities, the state last year created new special fund accounts

The media is trying to create a sense of momentum and of inevitability about the Obama candidacy. One benighted Newsweek reporter even speculated about a possible Democratic landslide.

On Friday, I saw the real numbers. These state-by-state polls, taken by an organization I trust (after forty years of polling) show the real story. The tally is based on more than 600 likely voter interviews in each swing state within the past eight days.

The trend line is distinctly pro-Romney. Of the thirteen states studied, he improved or Obama slipped in nine states while the reverse happened in only four. To read the media, one would think that Romney had a terrible month. In fact, the exact reverse is true.

Romney is currently leading in every state McCain carried plus: Indiana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, and Colorado. If he carries these states, he’ll have 228 electoral votes of the 270 he needs to win.

To win the election, Romney would then have to carry Florida where he trails by two points, and either Virginia (behind by two) or Ohio where he’s down by only one.

If he carries all three of these states and also wins all the others where Obama is now at 50% or less – Iowa, New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey — he will get 351 electoral votes, a landslide about equal to Obama’s 363 vote tally in 2008.

The strong probability is that Romney does, in fact, carry Florida, Ohio, and Virginia and a share of the other states where Obama is below 50% of the vote.

So don’t believe the garbage being put out by the media. The attempt to portray Romney as not catching on and as dropping in the polls is ludicrous. It is, at best, the product of incompetent polling and, at worst, the result of deliberate media bias. But Romney is winning and expanding his lead each week. That’s the real story.

Just last month, NASA supporters and scientists resorted to bake sales and carwash fund-raisers to make up for robotic planetary exploration program funds slashed by President Obama. Flashback:

Scientists are trading telescopes for aprons this week to sell Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake, and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies in an effort to salvage U.S. planetary science projects.

The 2013 budget proposal submitted by the Obama administration earlier this year would cut funding for NASA‘s planetary science projects by about $300 million. While Congress is still deliberating over the federal budget, groups of scientists are planning a series of demonstrations — in the form of bake sales, car washes and other events — for Saturday (June 9) to plead their case.

Though planet-studying spacecraft usually cost millions, or even billions, of dollars, every penny helps. That’s the reasoning behind the Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale to be held by University of Central Florida students and professors who hope to sway lawmakers into providing more money for studying the solar system. It is one of nearly 20 planned demonstrations for Saturday at sites across the country, organizers said.

“We’re not asking for more of the pie, we’re asking for less of a bite out of the pie,” Laura Seward, a graduate student at the university who organized the event, said in a statement. “A strong robotic planetary exploration program is essential for a strong human planetary exploration program.”

Late tonight, the world watched and cheered as NASA oversaw the landing of the lab robot rover Curiosity on Mars. We’ve got comprehensive social media coverage of the event at Twitchy in case you missed the live landing.

As the Obama administration readies for a rush of applications from young illegal immigrants seeking work permits, a new study predicts one of the largest contingents will come from the Bay Area, perhaps more than from all of Arizona.

And while the majority of the applicants here and across the country were born in Mexico, the Bay Area also has a large number of Asian immigrant youths who are likely to benefit from the new policy.

More than 46,000 Bay Area immigrants who are younger than 31 and were brought to the country illegally when they were children could immediately qualify for two-year, renewable work permits and protection from being deported. Another 19,000 here are children younger than 15 who could benefit when they grow older, according to the estimates by the Immigration Policy Center, an advocacy and research group based in Washington, D.C.

That's about 65,000 young immigrants eligible for relief, more than the 53,000 estimated in the entire state of Arizona and the roughly 39,000 each in New Jersey and Georgia. California as a whole has about 30 percent of all potential beneficiaries.

Nationwide, the policy center joins other researchers in saying nearly 1 million could immediately qualify when the policy takes effect Aug. 15, but the center is the first to make regional estimates.

DAN FRIEDMAN:  Why I like Donald Rumsfeld:“He gives you a straight answer.”

Me, too. I gave Rumsfeld a copy of my book "American Mourning" in which I reported on him. He gave me a check for $25.

I asked him in person why he sent the money, and he replied "it's the rules." And smiled broadly.

Economic forecasting model predicts Obama will lose in near-landslide

Here's how much financial trouble Barack Obama's presidential
campaign appears to be in: He's stiffing the California city of Newport Beach
$35,000 for extra security costs incurred when the campaigner-in-chief held a
fundraiser in the oceanfront community early this year. The bill is already
nearly two months overdue. The Democratic National Committee and Secret Service
are giving the city the old "Talk to them, No, talk to them" routine that would
immediately get any real business operation on the Better Business Bureau's "Do
Not Hire Again" list.

Eat
more chicken? Rallies, protests of support
and opposition begin at
Chick-fil-A restaurants
An angry nation flips the bird to
despots, jamming
traffic, parking lots and cash registers
at Chick-fil-A
restaurants.