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What's Wrong With This Sarah Palin Event Video?

Funny, especially considering the Left's suggesting that Sarah Palin's appeal is all about sexuality, or that she only appeals to the bitter clingers. The video is from The Roanoke Times. The first person in line slept over, she looks to be Chinese and says she's never done anything like it before. And the rest of the crowd seems to skew young and female. But don't let the facts get in the way of the MSM narrative. These people look just the same as Obama supporters, not what the media would suggest Palin's support is limited to.

NIH Director: New Mammogram Guidelines Will Cost Lives

Dueling talking points between a former NIH Director and a Democrat. The problem with Wasserman-Schultz's defense was pointed out by Senator Coburn on the Senate floor last night. The health care bill leaves hundreds of questions and issues open to such broad interpretation, government bureaucrats will be making the real decisions that matter behind closed doors.

The proposed health care bill will remove transparency as well as the democratic process when it comes to government making decisions on what health care Americans can access, when they can access it, and how much it's worth. If that isn't government control, then nothing is.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer.

Dr. Bernadine Healy says the directive would save money but not lives.

The recommendation, released last week by an independent panel, recommends that women not routinely undergo mammograms until age 50. Longtime guidelines have said women should have regular mammogram screening after age 40.

Healy says that if the new guidelines are followed, more women will die of breast cancer.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Democratic lawmaker who has been treated for breast cancer says worries that the proposed health care overhaul would limit cancer screenings are overblown.

The lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, says fears that mammograms wouldn't be covered are misplaced and that Republicans "have a different interpretation" of what the proposed law actually prescribes.

Update: Caught, No Charges - Eggs Thrown At Palin Book Signing?

Update: Another report before egg throwing I believe.

Palin leaves Borders; organizers say all books signed

Via Twitter - here is Adrienne's blog.

I wanted 2 charge him but it would've taken long. I decided 2 Sarah would've dropped it--maybe--& I am 2 exhausted & my feet are screaming!

Cops caught egg thrower. who said he was sorry, was protesting & wanted 2 hit Sarah. I just finished w/cops--chose not 2 press charges.

Adrienne is known to many of us on line and is a  major Palin fan. She went to her book signing today. Her recent tweet from there suggests to me the Progressives have decided to start targeting these events. Either that, or it was a genuine head case. Of course, that assumes there's much of a difference between the two.

Crazy man just walked in, thru eggs at a stack of Sarah's books, said 'sorry I missed her!' & left. He got eggs all over my suit clothes.

Sarah Palin Appeal: What It Is And What It Isn't?

Via Dan at GP:

If, in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 election, you had asked me to put together a broad-based panel on reviving the right, I would surely have chosen to include David Frum. Yeah, I know he had been strongly critical of John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, but, at the time, he seemed to have based his objections on rational arguments, notably her lack of experience on the national stage.

Climate Scientists Suppressed Conflicting Reports?

If this email below from the hacked and leaked climate change fiasco is accurate, then potentially as many as 450 conflicting reports were kept from the public scientific debate on climate change.

“From: Phil Jones
To: “Michael E. Mann”
Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
Date: Thu Jul 8 16:30:16 2004

I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

Cheers
Phil”

Archdiocese of Chicago: We Discriminate Against Whites, Not Blacks, Silly!

h/t Jim in email. See anything strange in how the Archdiocese of Chicago defended itself against charges of racial discrimination against blacks? In effect, it amounts to, we can't possibly discriminate against blacks because we discriminate against whites! What a heavenly defense.

Still reeling from a television news segment alleging racial discrimination in the settlement process for victims of clergy sexual abuse, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago unveiled a report on Friday showing no evidence of such discrimination. The archdiocese's report produced by Chicago law firm Pugh, Jones, Johnson & Quandt, found that the average settlement for African-American claimants is more than 28 percent higher than settlements with white claimants; 19 percent higher than the average.

"It has never been an archdiocesan practice to compile statistics about abuse claims based on race or ethnicity," the archdiocese said in a statement. "However, it felt compelled to do so when these allegations were made."

Some Priceless Prose From Berkeley

Tigerhawk weighs in on the Berkeley protests here, with links. But no one seems to have included a few gems from the original source article. They deserve to be highlighted. The world view of the protesters tells us this will happen, again - and likely get worse; the university's weak response will be partly to blame for it; and no amount of reasoning will help.

Who led the protest and what do you suppose her preferences are for the Middle East? Don't be surprised if the same mindset, perhaps among others, helps to contribute to violent protest on behalf of the Palestinians here one day.

"We decided it was necessary to take action," said Andi Walden, a Middle Eastern studies and political science major. "A lot of people have been saying, 'Whose university? Our university.' So we decided to put that into action."

How did the administration respond in thought? They're "disappointed". My, however will these students cope with such a strong scolding? And how much does it do to tell them to do it, again?

Janet Gilmore, a spokeswoman for the university, said employees on campus "share the frustration" of the occupiers, but "at the same time we're disappointed that they had taken this action."

Finally, what was achieved? Well, nothing, really. But it was a great success!

"There was no negotiating going on," UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said. "They had an all-or-nothing stance, and the university had neither the ability nor the inclination to give them what they were demanding, and not under these conditions."

After she was led from Wheeler Hall to wild cheers from onlookers, doctoral student Ianna Owen, 23, said, "I feel like we really mobilized people."

She said she would continue to address the fee hikes issue and was not disappointed the group's demands were not met.

"Not all gains are material," she said.

Liz Cheney Attack: Greg Sargent's Dumbest Ever Post?

It's always too good to pass up when a progressive gets pwned by their own post. Such is the case with this Greg Sargent post at Plumline. They must count on people not clicking their links. Sargent's silly smear attempt aimed at Liz Cheney is based upon her alleged lack of understanding of what the folks in a small town actually think as regards some terrorists to be moved from Guantanamo. He claims they are desperate to have thejm as they need the prison jobs.

Small Town To Liz Cheney: We Want Gitmo Detainees, Not Your Fearmongering

Seems that the good people of Standish just don’t have Liz Cheney’s understanding of the nature of the threat.

So, what gem should I pick up from the official in the article that Plumline links as an example of her being out of touch? I'll take this one, thank you very much!

"There are other possibilities out there," Winslow said. "We want to keep it open ... Personally, I think they should probably leave the Gitmo detainees at Guantanamo Bay. But if the Obama administration is determined to move them and it's not going to happen here, it's not the end of the world. We must move forward."

A true progressive genius Greg Sargent, wouldn't you say? 

Filibuster: All 40 GOP Senators

Pardon me for prefacing this news with a quote by the equivalent of a dear leader for some of my friends on the Right:

And if that means the Democrats or the Republicans are destroyed along the way, well, good. Good

Yeah, brilliant strategist, that Beck. Because both parties are the same, right? Anyway, this should get interesting:

This Saturday’s Senate vote on National health care for America looks likely to turn into a long, drawn-out bloodbath as all 40 of the Republicans in the chamber have vowed to filibuster the bill.

Latest On NY - 23 Controversy

You can check out the latest on the NY - 23 voting machine virus issue at TCOTReport.

A couple articles you might want to read through: here and here

As far as I can tell, it all comes down to the word "virus" in quotes in one report. If someone involved said it, we need to know if it was said and what as meant by it. Until that's explained, one would think there might be an equal protections argument. That would be if a virus of some type kept someone's vote from being counted.