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Ahh, been busy with stuff, so it\’s another edition of linky love….lots of stuff I find interesting, had some snarky comment about but never got around to writing about.  Enjoy.

And as many of you probably already knew, but some are just hearing about, I\’ve agreed to be Senator Gerlach\’s campaign manager for his re-election campaign.  Things promise to ramp up quickly, in fact, we already have some pretty ambitious goals in mind.  Now the job will definitely be lots of fun, and it\’s exciting to be paired with one of the better campaigners in Minnesota politics, but it\’s also a job I\’m determined to do well, and that takes time.  Out of necessity I may very well have to reduce or outright stop blogging for awhile, depending on how things go.  I\’ll play it by ear for now.

And now onto the linkiness….

Let\’s look at some of the items that Obama has made a big production of mulling over…and which order they took place in….1) White House dog 2) Reinforcing troops in Afghanistan 3) Nuclear Defense plans.  Interesting set of priorities there.

RNC raises $11 million but only $2 million of that makes it through Steele\’s hands into the RNC elections warchest.  By comparison, the DNC raised $13 million.  Keep in mind, that enthusiasm and momentum favor Republicans by far, yet the DNC claims victory in fundraising.  Can we get rid of Steele yet?

Black Tea Party members are attacked by opponents and called all sorts of racially charged names….yet it\’s the Tea Party that is racist??

White House has no idea how to create more jobs, but at least they\’re all over what the next new tax is going to be….Value Added Tax…the puns just write themselves at this point.

Scientists prove that parallel universes really exist…you realize what this means right?  Somewhere there is a parallel universe in which France hasn\’t surrendered….that\’s a little eerie isn\’t it?

Really, at this point, why would anyone ever even consider attending Duke??  According to new policies, the minute you enroll you\’re automatically officially guilty of rape.  You\’d think the school that\’s still wiping egg off it\’s face from the lacrosse rape hoax would be smarter than this.

Pot. Kettle.  MN AG Lori Swanson defended federalism when Bush was in office, now when Obama is in office she attacks it….on exactly the same issue.

I\’ve gone relatively easy on Lori Swanson, because when it comes to Second Amendment rights she has acted very favorably here in MN.  A Democrat whose pro-firearm is rare enough, it\’s worth encouraging.  But on an issue like this, one can\’t really bite their tongue.

Someone finally runs the iPad through the most critical test for any new technological toy…can it be used in the bathroom.  The iPad fails.

Reid has supposedly promised Spector chairmanship of the Judiciary committee.  Well sure, that\’s an easy promise to make, because if either of them gets re-elected it probably means hell froze over and who is chair of the Judiciary committee is probably the last of anyone\’s worries.

I preferred it more when the world was scared of the US because our President was a cowboy, rather than today when the world is mocking the US by jokingly referring to our President as a \”cowboy\”.

Ten inconvenient truths about ObamaCare….wow this bill sounds better and better the more I read.

In this day of deficit spending, you hear a lot of people complaining about public sector employees and their pay/benefits on the taxpayer dime.  Predictably you\’ll then have public sector employees claim they aren\’t paid near as much as the private sector…have pity.  Well, consider that myth blown.

Shocker news of the day : Tea Party activists more in tune with reality than members of Congress.

Scientists discover a giant lizard with two penises (or would that be penii??).  Lizard announces plans to return to golf shortly.

Napolitano says those full body scanners are okay because they don\’t see everything….well that\’s a ringing endorsement for a device meant to find hidden items.

Heh, good news for us, bad news for all global warming kooks.  The gulf stream is not slowing down.  Perhaps it just looks like is was slowing down relative to the rate of bullshit coming out of Al Gore\’s mouth??

History Channel recently showed a special entitled \”The Real Face of Jesus\”…basically the image on the Shroud of Turin is a 2-D representation of a 3-D face…and it\’s not a perfect 2-D image because it wasn\’t tight against the face it laid upon.  So they did a big production trying to interpret what a 3-D view of the face that caused the image of the Shroud of Turin looked like.  One of the things they learned is that the face looks longer and older on the cloth than it does in real life. Really was a spectacular special to watch….end result is a face that looked sort of like the traditional image of Jesus but not quite….looked like a quite normal, albeit definitely Jewish, face.  Very interesting.

The ULTIMATE debunking of the Tea Party crowd as a hate-mongering rabid bunch of crazies….what was Letterman thinking?

Someone actually chronicled the worst Biden gaffes….the enormity of that task is mind-boggling….I would have that they would tackle something easier, like world peace, or the meaning of life, or finding extraterrestrial life.

An equally daunting task it chronicling all Obama\’s expired campaign promises.

Liberals want to cry about supposed hatred and threats of violence coming from the Tea Party crowd.  Fact is the liberals have been endorsing hatred and real violence for all eight years of President Bush.

Half of US households don\’t pay income taxes….but their vote counts the same as yours.

A device which allows you to \”feel\” physical sensations in internet conversations…yeah, you know exactly where this is going.

Poor Democrats…their favorables have hit an all-time low.

The difference between nerd, dork, dweeb and geek explained via venn diagram.  You\’re welcome

A cure for skin cancer??? More of this please!!

Two-Thirds of Americans think we are overtaxed….in other news, one-third of Americans are masochists.

Those that want to see ObamaCare repealed has risen to 58%.  Pelosi, Reid and Obama claimed the public would love it once they passed it….instead it\’s getting more unpopular the more the public finds out about it.