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Watch this Jib-Jab-style send-up of Michael Mann and climate-change-fraud at the CRU, then send the link to everyone you know. Mash here

The final paragraph: The U.S. political process must stop its infantile wrangling and show cause for the world to believe that it will defend the financial integrity of the country, before discussion of U.S. default — which will otherwise become audible, soon — spooks the whole world.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For the first time in Top Chef history, a non-competitor has been awarded the prize of Top Chef. In recognition of the intensely delicious and most excellent dishes Mr. Obama has from time to time considered cooking, we hereby declare him Top Chef Las Vegas. Our French culinary colleagues have endorsed our recognition by awarding Mr. Obama four Michelin stars, on a scale of three. Prizes to be awarded to Mr. Obama include $125,000 in cash, a brand new Toyota Prius, a year's supply of the Glad family of food storage products, and rights of consortium with...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - - FBI agents from the Washington, D.C. field office have raided a building in downtown Orlando. The building raided is the Colonial Bank building on Pine Street. The FBI is working with the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program which was established by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. FOX 35 has a crew at the scene. Check back for updates.

In a resignation letter released to several newspapers, Mr Purnell called on Gordon Brown to step aside for the good of the Labour Party, saying that his continued leadership makes a Conservative victory more, not less, likely. The senior Blairite's departure follows the loss of four ministers from Mr Brown's Cabinet in the past three days, amid reports of backbenchers collecting signatures demanding his removal. It is a massive blow to Mr Brown and comes after two other Cabinet ministers walked out earlier this week.

[snip] Final paragraph: All must agree that the die is cast and a hard judgment made. Otherwise progressive politics will be dragged down at a general election in May 2010 that could lead to a much bigger defeat than Labour suffered in 1979. That might bring a chance for other parties to take it forward, as the Liberal Democrats are trying to do in this election. But they are not placed to enter government. Labour has a year left before an election; its current leader would waste it. It is time to cut him loose.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eyewitness News has learned of Orlando's first confirmed case of swine flu. According to the chief medical officer for Adventist Health System, Loran Hauck, the case was diagnosed Tuesday morning. "A case was diagnosed here in Orlando today on a tourist from Mexico who came to Disney attractions two days ago to visit," Hauck wrote in an email obtained by Eyewitness News. No further details have been released, but Eyewitness News is working to learn specifically what days the tourist was at the parks and which park the tourist went to. Details about the tourist, beyond being...

Q: What are the latest cardboard shipment figures telling us about our economy? A: The patient is still sick — and no sign of recovery has shown up in the box numbers so far. According to the Fibre Box Association, shipments fell 3.5 percent in the second quarter of last year, compared with a year earlier. Then they fell 3.3 percent in the third quarter. After that, the bottom fell out: Shipments fell 9.9 percent in the fourth quarter compared with a year earlier. This year corrugated box shipments have fallen, on a year-over-year basis, 5.1 percent in January and...

The chief executive of financial bookmaker IG Group has called the recent stock market gains a "false rally" and predicted the FTSE 100 and Dow Jones will tumble almost 30pc. Tim Howkins said he expects there to be further gloomy economic news around the world, causing the blue-chip index to fall to as low as 2,800 and Wall Street's leading index to crash to 5,700. The FTSE 100 is now at 3898.8 and the Dow Jones is at 7810.2 "Those falls would be pretty apocalyptic from where the markets are now," he said. "But the world is getting worse rather...

UK to remain in deflation trap until 2012, economists warn Britain will be mired in a deflation trap for years despite the radical efforts of the Bank of England to pump extra cash into the economy, economists have warned. By Edmund Conway Last Updated: 10:26PM GMT 21 Mar 2009 The forecast, by a team at BNP Paribas, states that prices in Britain will keep falling for at least another two-and-a-half years, as Britain suffers an apparently intractable bout of debt deflation. The warning comes only days before official figures confirm this Tuesday that the Retail Price Index has dipped...

I've been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we'd see such a thing in our country - not yet anyway - but I sense what's occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places. I can't help but observe that even some conservatives are caught in the moment as their attempts at explaining their support for Barack Obama are unpersuasive and even illogical. And the pull appears to be rather strong. Ken Adelman, Doug...

I've received phone calls in the last hour from two economists I respect, one of them Larry Lindsey, the other in a position where he'd prefer not to be named. Both have government experience, neither is alarmist by nature, and they say this: The huge European bank Fortis is apparently about to fail. The ripple effect on the American banking system could be disastrous, with bank runs, liquidity crises, and stock sell offs possible Monday. Wachovia may well fail next week. As Larry put it, this really will be 1933 soon if we don't move rapidly to stabilize the banking...

Just heard live. JP Morgan investor call tonight 9:30

The McCain Campaign and the Times   [Byron York] Top McCain campaign officials have just finished a conference call to unveil a new ad, called "Chicago Machine," which highlights ties between Barack Obama and Tony Rezko, William Daley, Emil Jones, and Rod Blagojevich.  The ad, the officials say, will air nationally and "across the depth and breadth of the battleground states." Among other topics covered in the call, campaign officials Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt were asked about a story in the New York Times concerning Davis' role in an advocacy group that included Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Davis defended...

THE CONSERVATIVE ELITES ATTACK! In today's New York Times, David Brooks launches a critique of Sarah Palin, essentially concluding that her populist appeal is dangerous and ill-conceived. He yearns for the day when "conservatism was once a frankly elitist movement," one that stressed "classical education, hard-earned knowledged, experience, and prudence." Brooks, like a handful of other conservative intellectuals, believes Palin "compensates for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness." Well, at the risk of appearing brash, let me say that I am glad to see my old friend finally pushed to the point where he has to make...

The 'unique look' of the McCain ads is great branding. Yes, it's a must-see 30 sec spot.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama's advantage over John McCain has been shrinking since the start of the Republican National Convention, and is now down to just two percentage points -- 47% to 45% -- too close to call. This is according to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Wednesday through Friday, Sept. 3-5.

BARACK OBAMAWhile We're on the Subject Bomb-Builders...A little while back, I sat down with the producers of the anti-Obama documentary “Hype.” Today they’re releasing a section dealing with William Ayers on YouTube. It includes my comment, “[Obama] had to talk about what a decent fellow he is and what a good professor, how he’s worked on education policy. Well, you know, Hamas has a widows and orphans fund, but that doesn’t change the fact that their day job is creating widows and orphans.” 08/27 04:03 PM

Feast of the Most Precious Blood - July 1st, 2008 First Solemn High Mass of Fr. Jared McCambridge, FSSP Airtimes: Tue 07/01/08 8:00 AM ET & 5 AM PT LIVE Tue 7/01/08 7:00 PM ET & 4 PM PT Encore Wed 7/02/08 12:00 AM ET & 9 PM PT (Tue) Encore

Some of you may be aware of my recent thread about Bible translation preferences. On that thread that I was introduced to a freeware Bible study program called eSword. It is available here at no cost (Windows only). It comes with the King James Version and Strongs built in, but seems to be unbelievably expandable.For instance, I have added to mine: The Douay-Rheims Challoner BibleHaydock's Commentaries (in a rough "0.2" work-in-progress form)The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1899The Catechism of the Catholic ChurchThe Baltimore CatechismSumma Theologicae...and probably is still more out there that I've yet to find. I'm focusing on public domain...